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Movie Review C U Soon: Experimental entertainer and well executed
Sep 1, 2020, 09:49 AM IST
Lockdown has had its upside, too. It has triggered off a whole new breed of cinema. Call it the Lockdown Movie if you will, but a series of well-executed efforts -- films as well as web series – have emerged in these past months that experiment and at the same time entertain.
These projects have all been shot within four walls with limited resources but plenty of creativity, and define what could be the new normal for cinematic entertainment for now.
C U Soon, new-age Malayalam maverick Mahesh Narayanan's second feature film, slots itself in the category. Shot entirely on an iPhone in 18 days during lockdown, the film is a thriller that works up the tension quietly but surely in 98 minutes. In generic terms, the film would remind you of the 2018 Hollywood hit, Searching, or the recent web series, The Gone Game. Narayanan's film, however, operates with its own plot and original execution.
Narayanan tells his story utilising screens. Faces in chat rooms as seen on laptop screens are the commonest frames used, besides WhatsApp chats and video clips. A lot of the action is depicted as if captured on webcam and cellphone camera. Portions of the narrative unfold using CCTV footage, and lockdown family unions across continents take place via con-call to push key plot points of the story. Characters talk into phone cameras a lot, when they are not on video calls.
The film opens with Jimmy (Roshan Mathew), an Indian professional in the Middle East, finding Anu (Darshana Rajendran) on a dating app. It doesn't take long for Jimmy to fall in love with her and, though he is yet to meet her, he is soon introducing Anu to his mother via video con-call.
We get a fair idea early on that all is not right in Anu's life. Matter gets twisted for Jimmy when she sends him a video suicide note. Soon afterwards, the police take him into custody. That's where Jimmy's cousin Kevin (Fahadh Faasil), a cyber security expert, must use his hacking skills to dig into data on Anu to unravel her truth.
For Narayanan, his technical team, and the cast, the big challenge must obviously have been to set up and sustain audience interest in a narrative that unfolds almost entirely through mid-shots and close-up frames of the protagonists. It helps in a way that, creatively speaking, the film is literally a one-man show. Director Narayan has scripted and screenplayed the project, besides editing and cranking the camera. His multiple roles could perhaps be attributed to lockdown compulsions, but it does let the film have an overall congruence of syntax. For a film that might come across as a very different experience to many viewers owing to its format, that is surely an advantage.
Assured writing facilitates good storytelling, and it also helps the film's protagonists come alive. For Roshan Mathew's Jimmy and Darshana Rajendran's Anu, individual character arcs are admirably developed despite the film's constraint of time and space. Both actors are impressive in their roles.
The winning act, though, comes from Fahadh Faasil as Kevin. Over the years, Faasil, counted among Kerala's most acclaimed actors, has proved his versatility with films such as Chaappa Kurishu, 22 Female Kottayam, Amen, North 24 Kaatham, Artist, and Kumbalangi Nights. Faasil's challenge in C U Soon lay in defining the entire flow of drama and suspense, particularly in the second half, through sheer facial expressions and without too much of action or dialogues.
Good actors, when cast intelligently, thrive in well-penned scripts, and C U Soon offers that advantage to its cast. The film's biggest triumph lies in the fact that even if you don't follow the Malayalam language (I don't) and watch what unfolds aided by subtitles, you tend to forget that fact after a while. That is a mark of creative success in cinema.
C U Soon
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« Reply #300 on: Aug 09, 2017, 02:15 pm »
(This is mostly for clarification, since I think I confused just about everybody with Aaron's recent actions.)
Aaron, Rooms 28-29
With Aaron's wound freshly dressed by Luis as cleanly and comfortably as possible, he sets about to the task of constructing an attachment for his Dungeon Pig hoof peg foot (try to say that five times fast).
He scrapes away the meat and skin from the hoof, cleaning it as well as he can with water and sanitizing with a bit of fire (away from the vines, of course). He strips some of the skin off of the Id Pig, hoping to use it to create leather components for his peg foot, but the skin is too soft and has too much fleshy gunk on it to use without hours of careful scraping.
Abandoning this idea (but keeping the skin, just in case), Aaron looks for bits of wood he can use to create a sort of splint connecting the sides of the leg bone to a sort of pouch made of a section of his blanket (which is becoming less and less of a blanket and more and more of just loose fabric). The wooden planks extend up a bit to another strip of blanket, which Aaron uses to tie the peg foot to his stump leg.
He tests out his new peg foot, making sure it can bear his weight and that it's not too painful to put pressure on that leg.
« Last Edit: Aug 09, 2017, 02:18 pm by Bobo »
Mister Kent
It/It/Its
Chorden, Room 2 > Room 149:
Chorden felt a bit of fear well up in his underbelly at the offer, yet he couldn't refuse. Besides, making this trip could give him a better idea of the layout of this domain. It could even allow him to rejoin with the others if the chance arose. With a slight nod to his captor, Chorden agreed to the escort.
"Yes, by all means lead the way..."
Quote from: ZigZagaroo on Aug 09, 2017, 01:51 pm
Torgos Zooth fills the room with his light, and in a second you are in the Reptile Archives. You find yourself in a room surrounded by piles of parchment--a maddening number of unsorted scrolls.
"Here, my tiny friend! The Archives!" Torgos announces. "Err, I believe this is Linneax Gruel's chamber--she really is the most agreeable of the librarian mummies. Where can she have gone?" He paces the room and steps lightly over some random scrolls. "My Mistress will certainly want to know about this!"
"To the North you will find memorials to the Nyctocaust, a dread period in the Reptile Empire's history. Perhaps you'll find some clues there that will lead you toward dragons, or the King himself..."
The moon-man looks around quietly before continuing. "If you, er, go exploring about the Archives, would you be so kind...that is to say..."
He lowers his tone. "I have reason to believe that my sons are being held somewhere in the Archives," he admits nervously. "Er, the Medusa has her reasons, I'm sure. I think it's to keep me loyal, but she has no fear of that! No, no. I'd...just really like to know where they are, and that they're all right. And if you could bring them to me safely, I will award you my most prized possessions!" The large-faced man's tiny eyes well up with tears, but he composes himself.
"A-ha! Glorious day in the Maze to you! I pray to all the Gods-That-Remain that you find your dragons. My office is within the Medusa's private Almery," he notes, and points Eastward. "I'm sure we will cross paths again soon!"
Aaron, Room 28:
You find additional materials in (Room 34), which turns out to be a basic gardening shed with all the necessary implements for the gardening trade. Trying to steady yourself on this makeshift prosthetic is bearable but still unpleasant. This recovery will take a great while.
From your inspection of the vines, you see that fire harms them more than anything, even being severed. So it serves to reason that even severed, the life magic that infuses the vines remains intact. However, it is unknown how long this animating effect will last on the statues after separated from the main plant.
@cuteapoot: 1d20+2 = (10)+2 = 12 > Constitution
@cuteapoot: 1d20+2 Nature = (13)+2 = 15
@cuteapoot: 1d20+4 Arcana = (18)+4 = 22
« Last Edit: Aug 09, 2017, 05:32 pm by Mister Kent »
A Bad Idea
Lai Shan, lvl 3 Shadow Monk
Lai Shan/Seth/Sharis, with Ashen, Room 27:
Immediately, she beamed a friendly smile. "I'm glad you'll have us Ms. Torn, I'm very excited to be here! Everything I've seen in here so far has been far beyond my wildest imagination. I would love to see more!"
[OOC: Lai Shan rolling Insight to discern Chronia's possible intent: 1d20+2 = (13)+2 = 15]
Quote from: A Bad Idea on Aug 06, 2017, 10:47 am
Lai Shan:
Chronia is slightly taken aback by your enthusiasm, but returns your smile. "Oh...okay. That's a little weird. Most people are sobbing messes by the time they reach the center of the Maze. Still, it's nice that you're not like that. I mean, I'm glad." She smiles a little nervously.
To your keen and experienced eye, you see the woman bare, and not just physically. She seems lonely and eager to entertain visitors, and she's more than a little tipsy. She searches your face and each of your party members' faces. For every smile she sees, her own grin brightens.
As she enters her room, she chucks the candle stub in a wooden bucket with similar melted candles. "Come inside," she urges you.
Chronia Torn's huge room is a warm cocoon of rotting silk and reflected light from chandeliers 50-feet up. Everything is beautiful and bright and falling apart. You see screens made from stacked glass and polished bricks of semiprecious stone. The floor is pale quartz sand, inch-deep over the rotted remains of granite flags. There are low lumps of abraded stone and the remains of sculpture, the only art to last.
Chronia takes a seat on a small couch near the center of the room. Beyond her is a small spherical structure to the Northwest, where Fracture-of-the-Bone resides. The back of the room is guarded by two large figures. Two sinewy men with blue-black skin stand at attention, 7-feet tall from shoulders to toes. Upon their shoulders sit 2-foot tall hourglasses containing red-quart sand. They are armed with a long khopesh in each hand.
"Tell me everything about everything," Chronia says as she sits, and offers you all cushioned stools close to her couch. Not too close, however. She drinks straight from a bottle of dark red wine.
Ashen introduces your group as her saviors. She especially notes the fact that Sharis the Triton personally protects her, and two of the other adventurers are a gob with magic and a felinoid-hybrid. She is quite proud of these facts. Chronia doesn't seem as interested in that.
"A lot has changed, Priestess," Chronia sighs wearily. "The Triarchy is no more. All your accumulated power holds no currency here."
Quote from: Mister Kent on Aug 06, 2017, 06:34 pm
Lai Shan, room 27
Lai Shan puts a finger to her chin and tilts her head quizzically, feigning ignorance.
"I'm afraid there's not much to say, my lady. Our world is awfully dull. To be truthful, it is the reason we ventured into this maze in search of adventure."
She takes a moment to glance around the room. She makes a mental note of the hourglasses' current volume of sand, so that she could reference it later.
"However, Sharis here might have tales to tell from deep beneath the tides. Why, his entire odyssey is ascribed onto his very body!" Lai Shan claimed excitedly, trying her best to sell up the decorated ocean man.
Lai Shan/Sharis/Seth, Room 27:
Quote from: A Bad Idea on Aug 09, 2017, 04:36 pm
Chronia Torn pouts and takes another drink. "Oh poo, that's no fun," she sulks. "You sound just like this one, back in the day. 'No, Mistress, there is nothing worthy of you outside! Stay in this palace and we'll bring you everything you need!', isn't that right?" She points at Ashen Chanterelle.
Chronia barely conceals her wounded look. "You never knew what I needed," she tells Ashen bitterly. "None of you did. We three were just figureheads to you."
Chronia is more enthused about this potentially juicy tale. "Oh, the triton!" she says with fascination. "I've always been told the tritons were the vanguard of the Triarchy! Did you know that?" She giggles. "Tell me everything about everything! What is your name? Where are you from? What are you doing in this godforsaken Maze?"
Fracture-of-the-Bone ambles up to Chronia's couch and nibbles at her fingers.
Aaron, room 28
Wincing, Aaron turns to Yoshiko.
"It would--ah--appear--hnng--that severing a vine does not immediately kill it, nor does it nullify the magic; however, I do believe the magic would fade over time. Perhaps if we can extract the roots and preserve the plant, our new--er--friend can come with us."
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Sharis: room 27
Sharis pounds his chest, letting out a laugh that seems to emanate from his entire body.
"HA! But only a few of the triton's mightiest deeds lie etched upon my skin! But indeed, Lai Shan, the Triton have many great tales to share to the few who remain who do not know them!"
He turns to face their host as she addresses him.
"The Triton served as the vanguard to the Triarchy? Ah, the Lady Torn must be speaking of the Three Sirens! I had never considered them to be one and the same. A translation lost on the tides I suppose! It seems you already know some of the glory of the Triton, but what, do you know-"
Sharis strikes a Herculean pose, flexing his body.
"Of the Ahlorsath? Would you hear of Pylorus, he who stole the power of the storms, and shared a portion of it with all Tritons to follow? Would you hear of Reflyn, she who singlehandedly hunted and slew the mighty Red Kraken? Or perhaps Koralas, who pulled the Blue Dragon, who plagued the ships of land walkers, out of the sky so that his brothers and arms could slay the beast?"
With every new story, he changes poses, flexing, emphasizing a different tattoo. He strikes one last pose, both arms to his side, emphasizing his abs, and the ornate tattoo decorating them.
"Or perhaps the best to start with, is the first to bare the name? Primaris Ahlorsath, who swam deeper into the seas than any before him, alone, and found the ancient caverns for which the Triton would rebuild our civilization after the earliest of the armageddons to reach the sea floor."
He relaxes his posture, but stands proud.
"I am Sharis Ahlorsath, a proud warrior of the Ahlorsath line, defender of the Triton Kingdom deep at the sea floor. As part of our duties, I have traveled to the surface world, scouring the lands for scourges to uproot, dark treasures to gather to protect the land walkers from their own greed and avarice, and deeds of might and valor that my descendants to follow shall bear my own visage upon their bodies in reverent remembrance."
Sharis gestures to Ashen.
"The Fair Lady has told me in this maze lie the 3 goddesses themselves, and the mighty medusa who reigns here. So truly, what greater deed could there be, than to rediscover goddesses long since lost to time, and to best the warden who holds them?"
History check: `1d20+1` = (20)+1 = 21
Religion Check with advantage because the Triton are SUPER intense about their heritage:
`1d20+1` = (2)+1 = 3
`1d20+1` = (16)+1 = 17
Minions, assemble!
Jiisuri
Poi?
Yoshiko Room 28
"Hmnnn... guess there's no 'elping it."
Yoshiko observed trail of vines from the Boyfriend.
"In that case I'd like you t'elp me find his roots and pull em out. Transfer em t'say... a pot o' dirt. Should be some with th'gardening tools there."
ZigZagaroo
Chorden, Room 149
It took a moment for Chorden's eyes to readjust from the sudden brightening light. Opening them he was almost astounded to find himself in a room filled with scrolls laying all across the floors. Such a vast collection of knowledge would surely be worth admiration to most, yet Chorden couldn't help but find himself unimpressed by it's condition.
"Tsk.. You'd think a mass of knowledge such as this would be better organized." Chorden uttered in disdain, perhaps irritated that somewhere in these archives, the history of his kin is being left in such a state of disarray."Reed manages to keep her library more organized than this, and she's merely one Elf."
However, Chorden was curious to see the contents held within these vast scrolls. He reached down for a scroll, opening it to skim through it's contents to understand what it held. He continued to skim through as many scrolls as he could before focusing his attention back on Torgos Zooth...
Investigation roll for the contents of the scrolls:
1d20+1 = (12)+1 = 13
"Perfect",Chorden said to himself, now having a clear idea on where to search. However, he couldn't help but try to recall his memory of the Reptile Empire. Perhaps he heard tales of the empire, with the company of his clan years ago.
History roll on the Reptile Empire:
1d20-1 = (3)-1 = 2
Nevertheless there was no time to reflect on the past, for his task had been laid before him. Yet before he could march into the Nyctocaust, he stopped in his tracks as Torgos spoke out to him...
Such emotional ties were the last thing Chorden wanted to deal with in this strange domain. With his small size how could he protect anyone from any starving beast that could come along? Any attempt he could make to save a life would mean certain death for him. Yet even so, he couldn't force himself to reject his request. Not only had he brought him to the archives to begin with, but now he makes the promise of a reward to come. Though regardless of such a promise, Chorden knew he owed him for taking him this far.
He began walking towards the Nyctocaust, stopping midway to turn back to Torgos,"You expect far too much from a creature of my stature, it would have been wiser to seek out one of the others to help your sons....But...I-I'll see what I can do..."
Perception roll for the Nyctocaust
Chorden, Room 149:
Torgos Zooth vanishes into light. "Find me in the Almery if you find out about my sons, small one. Good luck on your search." His words echo behind him, leaving you with the mess of scrolls.
You paw through random scrolls, finding mostly dry or irrelevant sounding diatribes. Included in your search are:
A clinical denial of social indicators and their correlation to scale-shape
An index to a library of the political analysis of recreational basking times
A letter debating "Dwarf Analysis", a new paradigm
Fiddling with the first scroll, the one labeled as a document refuting scale-shape and its alleged relation to certain socio-behavioral markers in lizardfolk, you find additional writing in the margins! This is in fact a cleverly hidden scroll of the Stone to Flesh spell!
In (Room 151), you find two automated weaving machines producing and unproducing the same tapestry. The handle on each enchanted weaver slowly clicks round, notch by notch. One makes, the other unpicks. When the cloth reaches its end, the process simply repeats back the other way. The pictographs reveal that the tapestry is a record of The Nyctocaust. A cursed event that, due to its nature, can never be forgotten, or fully recorded. This endlessly destroyed and recreated tapestry is the only record that exists.
Right now, only one moment in a grand scene is depicted: a rain of burning books. At the rate the weavers are working, the next scene in the illustrated tapestry will not be revealed until tomorrow.
The memorial continues in the dark room to the East. Over the doorway (where hangs a heavy black curtain instead of a door) there is a warning in many known languages, from Common and Reptilian to even languages you cannot recognize. "BRING NO LIGHT INSIDE" the entry warns.
The scrolls Chorden acquired he found had very little value to him and his quest. He had not the time nor the interest to read about such menial topics. However, as he skimmed through the first scroll once more he noticed traces of writing hidden within the margins. Examining the hidden text he speculated that this scroll must had some affiliation to the arcane. Even though such a transcript had very little use to him, surely Aaron would put it to good use. Once Chorden rejoins the others, he'll be sure to remember to let him inspect it.
As Chorden trudged along through the archives, he stopped for a moment to witness the workings of the weaving machines before him. The imagery of burning books constantly flashed before him as the tapestry shifted from existence to non-existence. Such an image brought him back to the memories of the library, to Lady Reed, which in turn gave way to such disconcerting thoughts. He knew that if his quest didn't end in death, then failure would be the most likely outcome. Though as he watched the tapestry continuously reform and dissolve, treading along the Archives he couldn't help but ask himself,"Once we leave...will there even be a home to return to?..."
Finally he made his way to a darkened doorway, decorated with large black curtains, marked with a warning,"BRING NO LIGHT INSIDE". Suffice it to say Chorden was put at unease by such an entrance into the unknown, yet he couldn't allow such a disturbance to dissuade him now. His dark vision would guide him through the room just fine, what he needed to be wary of was whatever traps or creatures that could be lying in wait. As he began his journey into the dreadful darkness, one other important question lingered in the back of his mind...
"...Why is there a letter on "Dwarf Analysis" in the Reptile Archives?"
Perception roll:
1d20+7 = (6)+7 = 13
« Last Edit: Aug 10, 2017, 09:06 pm by ZigZagaroo »
Sharis/Lai Shan/Seth, with Ashen, Room 27:
Sharis:
Chronia grows increasingly excited as you tell your tales. With every flex her expression dances between curiosity, surprise, and delight. She is well drunk by now. Her breath falls from her lips like cold mist, and she wipes her lips.
"You're truly just as amazing a Triton as I would've believed," she commends you. "I'm so glad to hear the Tritons devote themselves to heroism, and to noble goals. I think it suits them, and...well as penance goes it should alleviate their guilt in the eyes of history." She smiles. "We don't all get that chance. I hope you do get to make up for your people's mistakes..."
"And to be sure, the rescue of the famous Three Goddesses would be such a feat, worthy of your great power. But there are a number of problems, and I doubt your quest will end how you think it will end."
Ashen begins to protest, but a clearly annoyed Chronia motions for her to be silent, so she obeys. "Enough of you, Priestess," Chronia hisses.
"My sisters and I have pretty strange relationships with the world around us. I'm sure you felt something when I left my room. I can hardly travel the Maze without disrupting the flow of time. Zamia, beloved by all, and Charity, the ender of strife, have similar situations. And even if we did make it back outside, I only fear everything would start back up again. The Triarchy, reborn?" She spits. "No, we're better than that now."
"Also, you really think you can kill Psathyrella Medusae, anyway?" She looks worried for you. "Oh, sweet hero. Armies have tried. Gods have fallen in the attempt. No, don't underestimate Ella. That's always the first and last mistake."
"But...perhaps you won't leave empty handed? I have something to grant a noble warrior, in return for a favor. It is said my tears have an affect craved by mortals. Have you heard of the Tears of Time?"
The hourglass men observe the room calmly.
Beyond them on the far North wall is a half-shattered glass curio cabinet stuffed with aged books and knick-knacks.
Aaron/Sovereign, Room 5:
As you rest, your mind begins to stir with images of flashing blades in the dark. You see yourself duelling a great opponent, their face in shadow, their blade quick as lightning. In the final moments of the duel, something shifts, as if the ground moves or gravity tilts. You only see blood and blackness, and in your heart know that you've lost this battle. Was it through failure of your own training, or your opponent's trickery? The familiar face of Sir Grace stands somewhere in the night, calling out to you, waiting for you to join him in death.
You skirt the shadow room where you lost your foot, and enter (Room 6), where lies the corpse of an old man. You go West to the room where Sovereign is resting.
First you see two skeletons on the floor, wearing garments similar to the old man in the previous room. You see 3 stone thrones against the North wall (with space for a 4th). Each throne has an inscription on the chair-back and slots in the right armrest.
The West wall has a large inscription stretching from the ceiling to the floor.
"Here sit the Four Sons of Chronia ~
Sanguifluus, whose kingdom is Winter, ever-long and ruinous
Semotus, the Autumn's Lord, promising bounty and decay
Silvaticus, Lord of Summer, whose rule is passionate flame
Subfoetens, Prince of Spring, whose reign is yet to come"
The first throne bears this inscription on its back:
"You'd like to spend the night with me
But if you spend all day with me,
We'll sleep together."
The second throne says:
"I am a heavy burden
But anyone will take me from you."
The third throne says:
"My clock keeps years
Not minutes."
On the south side of the room, three knights kneel in silent vigil over the empty thrones. Each knight's armor is a different color: green, gold, and shiny chrome. Each of the knights hold a sword in their hand, and each of the three swords have different patterned hilts. The green knight holds a sword with a hilt of rust-colored metal etched like grapevines, the pommel resembling a bunch of grapes. The gold knight's sword hilt is gold-plated with a pommel shaped like a little crown. The chrome knight's sword hilt is an ashen pewter color, shaped like a tree.
Beyond the warnings and the heavy black curtain, you find an eternally dark sculpture memorial to the worst event in Reptile Empire history. Creatures with lesser vision than yours would have to navigate this exhibit by touch. The walls and even floor are covered in a gigantic raised-relief mural of skeletons and death, embossed scenes of horror and the last days of the Empire's capital city, Nyctopolis. The whole room resonates a creepy calm.
During the decline of the Reptile Empire, likely in the last days of their war with the Triarchy, an attack was launched on Nyctopolis that burned the tallest towers and killed the city's guardian dragons. You find the engraved images of several dragon skulls in the floor, forming almost a flower pattern. There is an image depicting a king, perhaps ruler of the reptiles.
In the far end of the room, scratching quietly at the floor, you see a creature like a moving statue.
Two hands joined together, the creature runs its fingers along the raised imagery. As one hand touches the floor, the other scrapes its fingertips along the bare ceiling 12-feet above. It quietly begins to move your way...
Chorden stood paralyzed with fear, unable to comprehend the twisted form that crawled towards him. As the disturbing hands drew ever closer, terror quickly grabbed full hold of Chorden's mind, too much to allow any rational thought. Unable to think of the possible consequences of his actions, he quickly grabbed hold of his blowgun and shakingly loaded a single dart. With a swift gust of panicked breath, the dart bursts out of it's holding's, heading towards the creature...
Dexterity roll:
@ZigZagaroo 1d20+3 = (4)+3 = 7
In such a state of fear, Chorden could hardly keep his aim steady, as his uncontrollably shook with his blowgun in hand. The dart had completely flew past it's intended target, supposedly striking somewhere on the carved mural.
Chorden, Room 150-151:
Almost as soon as you raise your blowgun the hand-golem scrambles forwards. Like a bouncer, it shoves you out through the black curtain into the weaving room. For as long as it remains in the memorial sculpture it will deny you access.
Leaning against the wall near the first weaving machine, a darkly hooded figure in a black-and-white bird mask watches with arms folded. Two others in bird masks enter the room from the South.
'Not too smart-oku," the hooded figure says. "It's rather poor taste to fire a weapon in a war memorial, innit? Unless your goal was to get a rise out of the Curator. If so, you've succeeded-oku! He gets real touchy when works of art are at risk-oku!"
The two other bird-masked people wear matching leather armor, but one is very tall and one is very short, almost as short as you. They chirp and coo idly as they wait for further instructions from their boss.
"Well, you'll have to do-oku," the leader bird sighs, without waiting for your response. "You're gonna play lookout for us, see, while we do a quick job." The trio of birds move back South to the messy scroll room (Room 149). Kicking aside scrolls, they clear a space next to the East wall. From their backpacks they prepare chisels and hand-drills.
"S'a room back here with no door-oku," the leader explains. "Just keep an eye out, shorty. If that Curator peeks out, or anyone else, let us know-oku!"
Luis/Yoshiko, with Boyfriend:
You sit in the darkness of the quiet garden room, formerly home to a sextet of hand-carved memorial statues, now home to only one. The boyfriend statue paces the room to protect you while you recuperate from your recent ordeal.
When your rest is over, you realize that the walls and floor are blooming with new vines. In the spaces where Aaron had burned the life-giving vines, twice as many have grown in their place. The vines seem to scatter to other rooms Southward, having their origin at some point North of you.
The Id Pig's carcass is gone, having been quietly taken away by some unknown predator. There are no drag marks to indicate where it might have gone, but several disturbed flagstones hint that the body may have been dragged underneath the floor.
Q-Bit
Is this your strongest machine?
Truman, with the Oku, Room 10:
Agrimony chirps nervously. "Don't know the sound! But I'm sure it's not good-oku!" She and Yarrow try to help you heft Tutsan to the next room. Tutsan remains silent but sounds like he's trying to speak. His body is rigid as a statue, his hand tightly clutching the stone chess bishop like a man possessed.
You reach the Northeast door opening to a stark white room with a 6-inch wide black line running straight across to the North wall. As you reach the entryway, a cluster of sinuous figures appears from the Northwest door in the room you are fleeing.
A trio of lithe machete-wielding female reptilians emerge, their bulging chameleon eyes rolling around to survey the room. "You there! Halt!" the boldest (and shortest) chameleon woman shouts at you, pointing a delicate clawed finger. As she moves, her many bracelets jangle, the telltale sound you heard from the other room. "I, Nadzikambia of the Neonate Empire Wilderness Bureau, claim this Maze as a Lizardfolk Heritage Site! Its treasures belong to us, by ancient rights!" She flicks her curly tongue to show you she means business.
While she talks, the other two chameleon women (one with a rusted holy symbol at her neck) case the room, searching for valuables but finding only junky toy-things. Noting the relative uniqueness and craftsmanship of the oversized chess set, the lizard-girls begin throwing pieces into a large bag.
The lead lizard points at the chess piece in Tutsan's hand. "Come on, give us the goods, warm-blood!"
Truman sighs. Out of the frying pan, into another frying pan. At least there wasn't any fire. Yet.
Truman motions for the still-conscious Oku to set Tutsan down, gently,
on the floor.
"Would you please put down your weapons first? This place is enough of a deathtrap without us civilized peoples at each other's throats. Besides, if you kill us, I can't tell you about the one who means to destroy this place."
Truman, Room 10:
Truman motions for the still-conscious Oku to set Tutsan down, gently, on the floor.
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Agrimony and Yarrow gently set Tutsan down and he begins to chirp something like words.
Nadzikambia, chameleon adventuress and Agent of N.E.W.B., grows impatient waiting for the poor catatonic Oku to hand over the stone bishop. "Well I didn't really care about it before, but now I won't leave without it, warm-bloods!" She motions for her girls to lower their weapons, and she sheathes her machete.
She looks at you pointedly. "Are you the keeper of these birds, mammal? What do you know of anyone looking to destroy this place? Ain't no one can destroy the Maze save the Medusa herself, if she so chooses."
Yoshiko winced as she patched up her wound. She grumbled.
"Damn scatterbrained bear leavin' whilst I was speakin'..."
Expending 2 out of 3 hit dice
@Jiisuri: 1d8 hitdice1 = (2) = 2
current hp: 5+2+5=12
She stood back up after the pain from had subsided a little more.
"Oi, twinklemutt, do me a favor an 'elp m'sniff up th'source o' th' vines woul'dya?"
She began to trace the vines coming from her boyfriend towards their source Northwards.
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@Jiisuri: 1d20+4 = (12)+4 = 16
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One last cursory glance around the room revealed no items of particular value. Disappointed, Lai Shan returned her attention back to Chronia just in time to catch her warning about the Medusa.
"If you say she's that powerful, we'll definitely heed your advice. But power in excess often forgoes guile, and the plenty of us are gifted with wits sharper than any blade. There's no need to slay what can instead be outsmarted!"
Lai Shan crossed her legs in her seat, as if to punctuate her boast.
"Tell us about this favor, yeah?"
Aaron, Room 5
As Aaron studies the room, its riddles, and the three knights with their swords, a small hoot echoes out of the folds of his hood.
"I see," he mutters, listening to the tiny thoughts beaming from his familiar's mind into his own. "So these three knights all came from the sword wounds on the body in that other room..."
Limping from knight to knight, Aaron grumbles to himself and makes a lot of "hmmm...." sounds before turning to the golden knight.
"Um... will you allow me to borrow your sword so I can put it in that throne?" he gestures to the first throne. "Or is there something I have to do first?"
All of you feel a sudden pang of hunger twisting in your stomach, like you haven't eaten in a few days. There doesn't look like much edible food in this place. A pitcher of honey and a half-eaten bowl of nuts sit on the nearest low table.
Fracture-of-the-Bone nibbles at Chronia's wrist while she speaks, drawing a little blood with its fangs. She winces, bites her lip, and tries to stay focused on the conversation at hand.
Chronia has a hopeful look. "Yes, maybe you won't have to kill her."
"I so rarely get to leave this chamber, there are a number of things you could do to get on my good side. First, I don't know if you've noticed, but I am naked." She stands and turns around fully, her only ornaments being gold and amber jewelry. "Mortal clothing can only last seconds on my skin before it's rotted away. I hear the Reptile Empire had the particular knowledge of magical weaving. Perhaps this knowledge survives in their Archive? If you were to obtain some clothing of such divine quality that it would withstand my natural entropy, I'll gladly shed a Tear for you."
"Or, if you like, you could hunt for some information for me. There's a certain...someone in the Maze who used to leave me love letters daily. It was one of my very few joys in existence." She sighs.
"I don't know what I would've done to upset her, but I've sent letters with no reply. I'm just curious, is all. If she's really done with me, then she's as fickle as they all say. Maybe her steward Torgos would know the truth--he's always been honest with me. His office is East in the Almery."
Luis/Yoshiko, Rooms 28+:
Yoshiko:
The vines run along the North wall but actually lead you to the shed in the West, which seems overrun with greenery. There is a crack in the West wall here, loose bricks that can be removed with enough force.
You feel refreshed after your rest, getting up in time to see Yoshiko and her Boyfriend wander towards the source of the vines. The bacon smell has cleared the air.
The golden knight clutches the golden sword close to his chest. With his other hand, palm facing you, he gestures for you to remain at a distance.
You rouse from rest in time to see Aaron approaching the knight in gold armor, who holds the crown sword.
Chorden, with Oku, Room 149:
The leader, identifying himself as Black Medick directs the other two as they begin to drill through the scroll room's East wall to obtain what's inside. The big and little thieves are named Great Mullein and Dark Mullein. When the hole they create is large enough for Great Mullein, the little thief jumps in. The hole is big enough for you as well.
"Be on the lookout," Black Medick reminds you as he and Dark Mullein peer into the hole after their friend. "We don't want trouble with that Curator, or any o' them lizard-mummies what run this place. We saw you talkin' with the moon-man Zooth, so don't get any ideas about squealing to him!"
Yoshiko Room 28+
Yoshiko tiptoed and tapped on her Boyfriend's shoulder and pointed to the loose bricks.
"Mind 'elpin' me remove these, love?"
Yoshiko will assist Boyfriend in removal of the bricks if he decides he wants to do that.
Yoshiko, Room 34:
Boyfriend looks at you, looks at the wall, nods, gets to work. He pulls large hunks of brick out and hands you some pieces, not sure of what to do with them. The chamber beyond looks like a torch-lit mausoleum. Vines cascade from the walls and ceilings here, resembling beaded curtains.
Dechado
He didn't even have the chance to ask Aaron if he wanted any help walking with the improvised limb done out of the hooves of the pig.
But the bugbear seemed too happy and excited to test his new prosthetic, despite the obvious pain he was in.
Luis couldn't think of anything to say that would make Aaron stop. What would he be able to do anyway? In the strife against the statues, he barely managed to hold his friend's weight.
And that was before he felt that crack on his shoulder. Which was now pulsating. Definitely something was really hurt. Or broken...
Absent Minded, he didn't realize he was being guided into the room by Stone Boyfriend. When he came back to it, he moved his head around, not really knowing how he had gotten here in the first place.
"Er... Thanks" He commented, assuming the statue could even talk or understand "[Thank you]" he tried in Sylvan this time.
Luis was not sure if the statue had understood Common or Sylvan. All he did was start walking around the room, keeping an eye on the wolf. He seemed to... Be protecting Luis?
"[I still don't know if you understand me but... I apologize for the rumble back there]" Sparkly sighed as he examined the statue's body "[You got hurt, didn't you? We could have tried a different approach... None of us were expecting things like these to happen. We just used to take smaller missions, at least compared to this...]"
After that, he didn't say anything else, and tried to relax. There was nothing more that could be done at the moment. He felt really guilty about the recent fight. He was supposed to keep everyone and anything from harm. Yet he had used his powers to destroy one of them. He looked at Monomythica's spiritual weapons... He let out a groan before calling them off, both Pencil and Book vanished slowly.
"You're dissapointed in me, aren't you?" He pretended Monomythica could hear his thoughts "I wouldn't blame you..."
Hit die Rolls
3d8 = (8+5+6) = 19
10/25 HP + 19 HP = 29/25 HP = 25/25 HP
Despite his wounded shoulder, Luis is back to full health!
Luis had not noticed, but when he randomly sniffed the air, the smell of roasted pig seemed to be gone...
He stood up to examine where he had last seen the corpse-
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-But was promptly interrupted.
"It's Luis... My name is Luis..." He sighed, wasn't really in the mood to argue right now.
He stopped and looked back again at where the pig should have been... The place was now covered in new flora.
This made Luis smile for some reason. Perhaps this place had a chance to recover itself despite what Aaron and him had done.
Forgetting completely about the animal that had once laid there, he continued his way, following cat, and her love.
Wait, what? Love?
What in the world had she been doing here?
Luis stood behind them awkwardly, as he couldn't really help with the bricks because of his injured shoulder.
So he just looked and sniffed around, to see what else he could find, and maybe be helpful to cat and her... Lover (?). He hated that feeling of uselessness.
Luis' perception roll
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Aaron takes a step back, holding up a hand in a "please don't get angry" gesture.
"Hoh boy," he sighs, "I really don't want any trouble. Been in enough already today." He winces, shifting his weight. "So let's start here: do you understand me?"
(Aaron tries each language he knows--Common, Goblin, Elven, and Dwarven--until he either gets a response or runs out of languages.)
Luis & Yoshiko, Room 28/34:
When you sniff the air, you catch a faint trace of the roast Id Pig, and suspect it was dragged off East somewhere. You also notice a new scent wafting from the hole that Yoshiko's Boyfriend created. It's the scent of votive candles, usually lit graveside. You remember back in the Temple of Monomythica, the Altar of Unfinished Quests always had these candles lit in memorial to those who left on quests to prove their worth, but never returned.
Aaron & Sovereign, Room 5:
You're in the middle of asking the knight in Dwarvish when it responds. It then says the same single word in Elvish, Common, and Goblin: "OURS." The other two knights repeat the word, and hold their swords tightly.
Yoshiko room 28-34
"Oi, mutt. Y'comin' or wot?"
Yoshiko signalled for her boyfriend to enter first before helping her in.
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Digital Biscuit 2015
Filed under: Talking Movies,Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 5:35 pm
Tags: Amelie, Be Kind Rewind, Big Eyes, Birch Hamilton, Bow Street, Bruno Delbonnel, Charles Spence, Damini Kumar, Dark Shadows, David Chase, Dearbhla Walsh, Digital Biscuit 2015, Epagogix, Esio Trott, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Franklin Leonard, Genevieve Dexter, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, HBO, Hexicam Aerials, IFI, Inherent Vice, Irish Film Board, Is the Man who is Tall Happy?, James Cagney, James Gandolfini, Joaquin Phoenix, Johan Knattrup, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Kino Play, Lasse Andersen, Lizzie Gillett, Mads Damsbo, Marie Schmidt Olesen, Michel Gondry, Mike Cockayne, Neil Jordan, New Danish Screen, New Jersey, Nick Meaney, Noam Chomsky, Oculus Rift, Oxford University, Paul Thomas Anderson, Roald Dahl, Science Gallery, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, Skammekrogen, The Age of Stupid, The Black List, The Doghouse, The Green Hornet, The Hardy Bucks, The Public Enemy, The Rockford Files, The Science of Sleep, The Sopranos, Thomas Pynchon, William Wellman
The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland today announced the full line-up for the third annual Digital Biscuit, which will feature a talk by writer/producer David Chase: creator of The Sopranos.
Inspired by William Wellman’s 1931 James Cagney classic The Public Enemy and his own early years in New Jersey (which he’d previously touched on in The Rockford Files), Chase created the HBO series The Sopranos, the most financially successful series in the history of cable television. Chase will join Digital Biscuit as headline speaker to discuss his career as a director, writer and producer par excellence. Speaking about his forthcoming visit, David Chase said: “I’m delighted to come to Ireland, a place of great storytelling tradition, and look forward to exploring the future of stories at Digital Biscuit.” Chase joins Michel Gondry; director, screenwriter and producer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Bruno Delbonnel; cinematographer for Amelie, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Big Eyes; and Franklin Leonard; Film Executive and founder of screenwriting event The Black List; in this year’s line up of Digital Biscuit speakers.
Digital Biscuit is an international film and technology forum that aims to foster innovation and collaboration in film and television production, and will take over Dublin’s Science Gallery from 28th–30th of January. Speaking about Digital Biscuit, SDGI director, Birch Hamilton said “Making a movie is one of the biggest creative collaborations between people that exists today. To truly be creative is to make connections with the people and world around us. With Digital Biscuit we are trying to enable the Irish film industry to improve its global position as a centre of creative and technological excellence. It is our hope that through Digital Biscuit groundbreaking new works will be made and new relationships formed between people in different disciplines. We are fortunate to have a global Brain Trust of leading experts in film, technology, finance, games, augmented reality, animation, software and hardware that have guided us in what I think is a really exciting line up for 2015.” That Brain Trust, entertainment industry leaders who act as ambassadors for Digital Biscuit, includes Damini Kumar (European Ambassador for Creativity & Innovation), Marie Schmidt Olesen (Commissioning Editor, New Danish Screen), and Nick Meaney (CEO at Epagogix).
Guests at the Digital Biscuit launch today included Emmy and BAFTA award-winning director, Dearbhla Walsh (Roald Dahl’s Esio Trott), and Mads Damsbo and Lasse Andersen; who brought their innovative virtual reality experience The Doghouse from Denmark for a sneak preview ahead of its Irish Premiere at Digital Biscuit later this month. The launch also featured the latest Hexicam Aerials drone camera. Combining robots, remote control, and HD video, it is an extraordinary new piece of technology, which shoots in full HD whilst in flight. The three-day event will kick off with a special screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s psychedelic surf noir Inherent Vice at the IFI (28 Jan, 8pm). Digital Biscuit is delighted to present the Irish Premiere of Is the Man who is Tall Happy?; an animated conversation with Noam Chomsky, directed by Michel Gondry (29 Jan, 6.30pm, IFI). Digital Biscuit will present a bigger than ever Kino Play programme of events and live demonstrations, including first-person virtual reality film for Oculus Rift – The Doghouse, a self taping booth from Bow Street, and an Irish Film Board and Oxford University collaboration on a multi-sensory film and food experiment; led by Charles Spence,experimental psychology scientist at Oxford University.
One of the most exciting events at Digital Biscuit will be 20 minute first-person virtual reality film installation for Oculus virtual reality headset, The Doghouse. The project uses this gaming technology to allow one story to be told from five different points of view at the same time. Sitting around a dinner table set for five people, you get a view inside the character, via a virtual reality headset, to see and hear what the actor experiences, sees and hears. The film was originally seen in 2014 at the Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre as part of FOKUS video art festival. Digital Biscuit will be the first time that the film is shown in Ireland and its second European outing. Birch Hamilton said “We’re particularly thrilled to present this preview of The Doghouse, which until now has only been seen in Denmark and Switzerland. It’s like an advanced role playing game, and is an exciting development in the future of the moving image and technology.” The multi point-of-view film installation will be accessible at points over the three-day event. Producer Mads Damsbo and director Johan Knattrup will give talks about the project. The Science Gallery exhibition spaces will play host to many such demos of the latest must-have technology for the film and moving image industry.
For more information on the full programme and to book, visit www.digitalbiscuit.ie
Digital Biscuit | Speakers |
Writer, director and producer David Chase (The Sopranos); Writer, director and producer Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind); Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel (Amélie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Big Eyes); Writer, director and novelist Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, The Borgias); Genevieve Dexter (IP financing expert and founder of Serious Lunch); Lizzie Gillett (Producer of climate change blockbuster, The Age Of Stupid); Franklin Leonard (Film Executive and founder of The Black List); Triona Campbell (Director of beActive Entertainment); Bobby Boermans (Creative Director of 2C Films); Sophia Stuart (Digital strategist, director and writer); Mads Damsbo & Johan Knattrup Jenson (Producer and Director of The Dog House – 20min virtual reality multi point-of-view film installation for Oculus Rift); Harry McCann (Founder of the Digital Youth Council); Prof. Charles Spence (Head of Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Oxford University); Mike Cockayne (Director, Writer & Producer of The Hardy Bucks); Dr Brian Vaughan (Lecturer in Digital Media, DIT); Shimmy Marcus (Creative director, Bow Street); Eibhlin Curley (Assistant Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office Dublin); Casting director Maureen Hughes (The Butcher Boy, Love / Hate); Director and animator Anitti Haikala (Niko & The Way To The Stars, Little Brother, Big Trouble); VFX artist Glen Southern (Penny Dreadful); Cinematographer Owen McPolin (Penny Dreadful, Da Vinci’s Demons); VFX supervisor and producer Thomas Horton (Da Vinci’s Demons, The King’s Speech); Supervising visual colourist Peter Doyle (Edge Of Tomorrow, Big Eyes, Inside Llewyn Davis); Vocal coach Gerry Grennell (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Heart of The Sea, Thor: The Dark World). John Maguire (Film Critic, Sunday Business Post); Gavin Burke (Film Critic, Entertainment.ie); Karlin Lillington (Technology Journalist, The Irish Times); Andrew Kavanagh (CEO & Founder, Kavaleer Productions); Damini Kumar, (European Ambassador for Creativity & Innovation); Production designer Tom Conroy (Legend, The Vikings, The Tudors); Previsualisation Vincent Aupetit (Gravity, Thor: The Dark World); Donald Clarke (Chief Film Correspondent, The Irish Times); Tara Brady (Film Critic, The Irish Times).
Find out more at http://www.digitalbiscuit.ie/#!speakers/cee5
Tags: Alan Taylor, Arnaud Desplechin, Birch Hamilton, Brian Kirk, Carlos Velasco, Christian Fonnesbech, Ciaran Donnelly, Cloud Chamber, Conor Horgan, Delivery Man, Digital Biscuit 2014, Epagogix, Game of Thrones, IFI, Jack Reynor, KinoPlay Area, Lars Von Trier, Mad Men, Maurice Sweeney, Neurosketch, Nick Meaney, Nymphomaniac, Paddy Breathnach, Philip Einstein Lipski, Science Gallery, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, Song of the Sea, Steve Woods, The Paccar Theatre, The Secret of Kells, The Tudors, Thor: The Dark World, Tom Moore, Transformers 4, Trinity College Dublin, Vikings, What Richard Did
The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) officially launched Digital Biscuit 2014 at their Annual Meeting for Irish Directors in Dublin on November 21st last.
The inaugural Digital Biscuit 2013 proved a resounding success with both the industry and the public with over 4,000 attendees over the 3 day period. Digital Biscuit 2014 places creatives at its core while also serving as a digital expo for new technologies. The 2014 event promises a varied and packed programme: amidst cutting-edge presentations and product unveilings, representatives from the creative industries will deliver talks, discussions and seminars on matters that are crucial to production today, with an aim to not only inspire but also enable and spur on productivity. Digital Biscuit takes place at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin from January 22nd to 24th 2014 with tickets now available on www.digitalbiscuit.ie. Those in attendance at the AGM of SDGI last week included Irish directors Conor Horgan, Maurice Sweeney, Paddy Breathnach, Steve Woods and Brian Kirk. Irish Film Board representatives were also present and special guest, acclaimed French director, Arnaud Desplechin – fresh from a retrospective of films at the IFI’s French Film Festival.
“The aim is to make directors and people generally aware of the most up to date digital technologies in film making and indeed TV production” says Ciaran Donnelly, Chairman of SDGI and director of The Tudors and Vikings. “The aim of Digital Biscuit is to improve the production capabilities of our most talented creators from the simplest ideas to the highest budgets”. At Digital Biscuit 2014 The Paccar Theatre in the Science Gallery will host screenings, presentations, and panel discussions. This ticket-only area will host talks from exciting global talent and creatives including: Carlos Velasco (CEO, Neurosketch), Christian Fonnesbech (Director, Cloud Chamber), Jack Reynor (Actor, What Richard Did, Delivery Man and Transformers: Age of Extinction), Nick Meaney (CEO, Epagogix), Philip Einstein Lipski (Lars Von Trier Collaborator for Nymphomaniac). The Secret of Kells director, Tom Moore, will be giving the audience an exclusive sneak peek into the making of his upcoming feature Song of The Sea.
This year’s Honorary Guest Director is Alan Taylor, who has clocked up credits on Mad Men, and then Game of Thrones, and most recently turned to cinematic fantasy with the massive hit Thor: The Dark World. As Honorary Guest Director, Taylor will engage in an informal conversation about his work and career. Meanwhile directors, writers, photographers, producers, editors, directors of photography, students and members of the public once again will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the bustling displays and demonstrations of new technologies in the KinoPlay Area, which is aimed at enhancing the production process and market for their creators. “We look forward to Digital Biscuit being once again a dynamic hub of national and global industry leaders, concentrated on enabling creativity by focusing on Ireland’s capabilities as a creative and technological leader in innovative film and television production” commented Birch Hamilton, Digital Biscuit’s Executive Director.
Tickets are on sale now on www.digitalbiscuit.ie. Workshop access requires registration on www.digitalbiscuit.ie with a registration fee of five euro, guaranteeing pass holders a place. The printable pass ticket pass is required on the day and will be the only way to gain entry to the workshops. Non ticket/pass holders can still enjoy the KinoPlay area and atmosphere of Digital Biscuit. All information on Digital Biscuit 2014, including information on partners, speakers, and the schedule will be available on www.digitalbiscuit.ie.
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Trick or treat: scary movies to watch this halloween
Katherine McLaughlin
Ideas for those who like a fright on halloween, whether you're watching with friends, loved ones or on your own
We round up some of the best scary movies to watch at Halloween, with pals, with your significant other, or all on your lonesome…
Green Room (2016)
When punk band the Ain't Rights are asked to play at a neo-Nazi bar, they relish the chance to wind the punters up by opening with Dead Kennedy's 'Nazi Punks F**K Off', but it's after they've finished playing that the real trouble begins. Locked backstage after witnessing a murder, the group are forced to make controversial decisions in order to save their lives. Director Jeremy Saulnier doesn't waste a second in his taught sophomore film. It's gleefully gory and features Patrick Stewart as a softly spoken white supremacist.
Monster Squad (1987)
A beloved 80s treasure which sees a group of close-knit friends come up against a mummy, Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. It plays out like a scarier version of The Goonies with the kids going on a mad adventure across their suburban town in order to save the world. Shane Black and Fred Dekker's creation is a fun and incredibly sweet love letter to old-school horror and Universal Studios monsters that is extremely quotable.
Nina Forever (2015)
The Blaine Brothers' examination of grief reaches deep down into the pit of loneliness and despair with an insightfulness that is almost overwhelming as it shrewdly connects death and desire. It's a raw and funny look at the residue of past relationships, which takes the form of squelchy and sarcastic corpse Nina (Fiona O' Shaughnessy) who appears between her ex-boyfriend and his new lover at the most awkward of moments. It features music from Amanda Palmer which adds to its haunting ambience.
An homage to Lovecraftian horror that sees a young American head abroad to Italy in the desperate search for a new life and new love. Much of the film is spent observing two potential lovers, Evan and the mysterious Louise, getting to know one another, recalling Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise in its casual chats and stunning backdrop. When the disturbing stuff kicks in, it's squishy and gross, yet the film retains its allure thanks to Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson's beautiful visuals and strong characterisation.
Mike Flanagan has crafted a finely tuned and tense home invasion horror that sees deaf writer Maddie (played by co-writer Kate Siegel) ward off danger and a cruel intruder in brutal fashion. It's made even more chilling and suspenseful as the audience hears creaking around the house before Maddie, as she unsuspectingly taps away on her keyboard. But it turns out her lack of hearing is in fact her superpower, as she uses loud noises to protect herself from harm in a particularly effective and ear-piercing smoke alarm sequence.
Ava's Possessions (2015)
In Jordan Galland's amusing and perceptive debut feature, we meet a young woman who is in recovery after being possessed. She attends Possession Anonymous meetings and has to beg the forgiveness of anyone she hurt while under the influence of a demon. It takes inspiration from films such as Beetlejuice, Repulsion and The Exorcist and plays out as moving metaphor for the aftermath of drug and alcohol addiction, with a strong handle on the surreal nature of being ostracised from your friends and family.
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7TH INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC COMPETITION 2018: AND THE WINNER IS … SEBASTIAN ANDRONE-NAKANISHI!
The Romanian composer Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi is the winner of the 7th International Film Music Competition, which took place at Tonhalle Maag on 4 October 2018 during the 14th Zurich Film Festival. Androne-Nakanishi received the Golden Eye ‘Best International Film Music 2018’ endowed with a 10 000 Swiss franc cash prize.
The award ceremony took place during a film music concert. Under the baton of Frank Strobel, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra world-premiered the compositions of the five finalists and performed pieces from thrillers like “Mission: Impossible”, “Kill Bill”, “Se7en” oder “Basic Instinct“. Sandra Studer took the audience through the evening.
The five finalists were
Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi (Romania)
Baptiste Cathelin (Canada)
Antoine Duchêne (France)
Juan J. Ochoa (Spain)
Lente Verelst (Belgium)
The shortlisted five were chosen in a first round from 304 participants from 44 countries. Entrants were asked to write a symphony orchestra score for Steve Cutts’s four-minute short film HAPPINESS.
The members of the jury were
Cliff Martinez (president) – film composer
Christine Aufderhaar – film composer
Sabine Gisiger – film director
Frank Strobel – conductor of the award concert
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Abortion an essential service as New Zealand locks down
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As New Zealand goes into lockdown for four weeks in order to halt the spread of Covid-19, only essential services are permitted to remain open.
An essential business is defined as those “businesses that are essential to the provision of the necessities of life.”
According to the Abortion Services website, “abortion care will remain open as an essential service during the increased threat levels of COVID-19.”
The Women’s Clinic, located in Palmerston North, Masterton and Invercargill, is “offering telehealth and courier of abortion medication” to women where possible. Surgical abortion up to 15 weeks is also being provided at their facilities.
The innovation is a pet project for notorious abortionist, Dr Simon Snook.
Sending abortion medication to women through a courier service contravenes the Standards of Care for Women Requesting Abortion, a document produced by the abortion industry.
Standard 9.8.1 of the document states “In accordance with New Zealand law both mifepristone and misoprostol must be given within a licensed institution but the woman may go home to complete her abortion.”
However, last Wednesday, Parliament hastily passed legislation that requires abortion to be regulated as a standard health service. In doing so, the requirement to take the abortion pills at a facility may have been removed. This protocol was developed to protect women and if removed, shows a lack of care for their safety in the abortion process.
The new legislation does away with the Abortion Legislation Committee, facility licenses, and gestational limits.
Family Life International has yet to confirm that the regulations around home abortions have changed because of the new legislation.
Auckland Medical Aid Centre (AMAC), a private abortion centre, notes on their website that the “having safe procedures to protect our staff and patients during COVID-19 is our priority.”
Family Planning have ceased their face-to-face clinics, due to infection control requirements. However, their Tauranga abortion clinic which provides the drugs for an early medical abortion is still operational. The organisation is offering phone consultations and will provide prescriptions for emergency contraception and the contraceptive pill – both of which can act as abortifacients.
Most abortions in New Zealand are performed in public hospitals. While elective services have been cancelled in order to free beds and staff for Covid-19 patients, as an essential service, abortions will continue. However, the level of abortion access in public hospitals during the Covid-19 lockdown is yet to be confirmed.
It is hypocritical of the government to be working so hard to protect human lives from the Coronavirus, while still allowing the barbaric destruction of human lives in the womb.
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By: Lance Benzel
September 4, 2016 – Updated: September 4, 2016 at 11:22 pm
Original Article Published on the Gazette.com
When Linda Fitzwater’s son couldn’t chase the “demons” from his thoughts, he tried to burn them out – by setting fire to his apartment building.
But as the former Marine stood for graduation at 4th Judicial District Mental Health Court, his voices were quiet, his delusions at bay, and a tearful Fitzwater had more hope for her son than at any point since his life-changing schizophrenia diagnosis in 2004.
“I believe this saved my son’s life,” she said after the Aug. 29 ceremony, where she wiped her eyes and applauded as he joined the ranks of 11 new graduates.
There was also cause to mourn, she said, because the court that wrote a new chapter in her son’s battle with mental illness was officially shutting down after four years.
“I’m just so sad to see that this program is ending. It’s something that works.”
Last week’s graduation marked the final meeting of El Paso County’s Mental Health Court, which offered severely mentally ill defendants the chance to avoid jail and prison if they chose to go on medication and attend weekly interventions with a judge, attorneys, probation officers and mental health professionals focused on getting them treatment, housing and employment.
Over the past four years, the court accepted 50 people and produced 20 graduates – a niche audience deemed too small to sustain.
“Too many resources, and too much manpower, for not enough people,” the court’s founder, Judge Deborah Grohs, said she was told by Chief Judge Gilbert Martinez. Grohs said Martinez informed her in March that she wouldn’t receive required letters of support from him or District Attorney Dan May in her bid to renew a $350,000 federal grant that kept the program running.
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Toyota raises overall Thai auto sales growth to 12 percent
Toyota Motor Corp on July 25 forecast that overall vehicle sales in Thailand will rise 12 percent against the previous year, much higher than the 3 percent estimated in January.
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Bangkok (VNA) – Toyota Motor Corp on July 25 forecast that overall vehicle sales in Thailand will rise 12 percent against the previous year, much higher than the 3 percent estimated in January.
Toyota Motor Thailand President Michinoby Sugata said at a press conference that besides favourable economic conditions, new models and various marketing activities introduced by carmakers have played a big role in stimulating the Thai auto market.
The Japanese automaker is controlling one third of the Thai vehicle market.
Sugata said that during January-June, overall vehicle sales rose 19 percent from the same time last year, with those of Toyota jumping 26 percent.
“Market growth for the first half was beyond expectation”, he said, expecting brighter outlook for the auto market.
Toyota now hopes to sell 315,000 vehicles, out of overall 980,000 units expected to be sold in the market in 2018. It maintains its export target of 300,000 vehicles, matching last year.
Sugata also said that import tariffs under consideration in the United States for vehicles and parts should have limited impact on Thai auto exports as under 10 percent go to that country.
However, if other countries introduce protection measures, there will definitely be an impact, he added.
In Southeast Asia, Toyota aims to sell 3.5 million vehicles this year, having sold 1.71 million in January-June. Last year, it sold 3.36 million vehicles across the region.-VNA
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Roth, Joseph | Article about Roth, Joseph by The Free Dictionary
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Roth, Joseph or Józef
(yō`zĕf rōt), 1894–1939, Austrian novelist, essayist, journalist, and publisherb. Brody, Galicia. An outspoken critic of Hitler and militarism, he moved to Paris in 1933. Roth became one of Europe's leading journalists in the era between the World Wars. His novels, though basically conservative, reflect political awareness and skepticism. They include Hotel Savoy (1924, tr. 1986), Rebellion (1924, tr. 1999), and Die Flucht ohne Ende (1927; tr. Flight without End, 1930, 1977). His best-known novels are Hiob (1930; tr. Job, 1933), concerning the struggle of Eastern European Jews, and Radetzkymarsch (1932; tr. The Radetzky March, 1933, 1974, 1985), an ironic multigenerational portrait of the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is generally considered his masterpiece. Roth's Collected Stories and a collection of his essays on Berlin (1920–33) were published in English in 2002, his Parisian essays (1925–39) in 2004.
See M. Hofmann, ed., Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters (2012); studies by C. Mathew (1984), S. Rosenfeld (2002), and V. Weidermann (2016).
Born Sept. 2, 1894, in Schwabendorf bei Brody, now in the Ukrainian SSR; died May 27, 1939, in Paris. Austrian writer.
Roth studied philosophy and Germanic languages and cultures in Vienna. He fought in World War I from 1916 to 1918, later becoming a journalist and attacking fascism from a standpoint of bourgeois humanism. In 1933 he emigrated to France.
Roth wrote antimilitarist realistic and satirical novels about postwar Europe, including Hotel Savoy (1924; Russian translation, 1925), The Rebellion (1924; Russian translation, 1925), Zipper and His Father (1927; Russian translation, Zipper and Son, 1929), and Right and Left (1929). In his best novel, Radetsky’s March (1932; Russian translation, 1939), and its sequel The Tomb of the Capuchins (1938), Roth depicted the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The essay “Flight Without End” (1926) and the novel Job (1930) were devoted to the life of Jews after the war. White Russian émigrés in Europe were depicted in the novels Tarabas, a Guest on Earth (1934) and Confession of a Murderer (1936). The novel The False Weight (1937) reflected Roth’s dual attitude toward the USSR: while recognizing the historic importance of the October Revolution of 1917, he rejected revolutionary methods of struggle.
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BP Chargemaster and the Polar charging network brought together as BP pulse
By John Wood2020-12-07T15:30:00+00:00
BP has brought together two of its brands – the electric vehicle charging company BP Chargemaster and the public charging network Polar – under a new brand called BP pulse.
A single website is now available for both new and existing EV customers, with the BP Chargemaster and Polar websites having been replaced by BPpulse.co.uk.
The company said that as BP pulse, it will continue to grow its public charging network across the UK, while improving access and functionality for electric vehicle drivers. In the UK, BP aims to more than double its current number of publicly available charging points on the BP pulse network from around 7,000 today to 16,000 by 2030.
The subscription scheme will continue to operate, enabling access to BP pulse public charge points at a low-cost tariff and for £7.85 a month. BP pulse members will still be able to access existing and new charge points with their RFID card or key fob,
The previous Polar Plus and Polar Instant smartphone apps were recently consolidated into a single BP Chargemaster app, which has also been rebranded to BP pulse. All users will be able to start and stop charges within the app, manage their account and plan their journeys with the live map.
Throughout November, all the 50kW Ultracharge units were upgraded with a new contactless payment terminal and improved software. BP pulse will continue to install its 50kW and 150kW rapid chargers across the country on the public charging network, all with contactless access available, including Apple, Google and Samsung Pay.
Matteo de Renzi, UK CEO of BP pulse, said: “As BP pulse, we continue to offer customers convenient charging solutions at home, on the go and for businesses. We are focused on making EV charging fast and convenient, and having recently become the UK’s largest ultra-fast public charging operator, this remains the priority for expansion, with a target of 700 ultra-fast chargers available by 2025 and 1,400 by 2030.”
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Shell trials latest Kärcher automated car wash equipment at several sites
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Gulf Retail’s award-winning Oomph forecourt loyalty platform is being warmly appreciated by grass roots organisations including local charities.
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Asda claims it is cheapest fuel retailer
By John Wood 2013-07-12T00:00:00+01:00
Asda has launched a prime time TV advertising campaign, shown during Coronation Street on ITV and backed up online, claiming that it has the lowest fuel prices of any retailer.
Quoting ‘Experian All Star card’ as its source it claims, based on a comparison of weekly national average prices from 29 May 2011 to 22 June 2013, that ‘week in, week out’, Asda consistently had the lowest fuel prices of any fuel retailer.
It adds that it is using a “comparison of weekly national average petrol prices and weekly national average diesel prices at Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Esso, Jet, Shell, Murco, BP, Texaco, Total and Asda across Great Britain. Prices independently checked and validated every week. Average prices may exclude the effect of promotional discounts linked to individual purchases.”
Arthur Renshaw, UK and Ireland manager of Experian Catalist, which monitors daily transactions at petrol stations accepting the Allstar fuel cards, said his company would not officially endorse such claims by any company.
However, any company subscribing to its data was free to carry out its own interpretation of the figures, and that company would then have to justify its interpretation were there to be a challenge to any claims it made.
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On behalf of a well renowned import, export and trade firm Adira Employment is recruiting for various positions listed below. The organization is committed to the task of exporting different agricultural products and importing electrical materials, construction materials and steel. Present, promote and sell products/services using solid arguments to existing and prospective customers Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships Reach out to customer leads through cold calling Expedite the resolution of customer problems and complaints to maximize satisfaction Achieve agreed upon sales targets and outcomes within schedule Coordinate sales effort with team members and other departments Qualification BA/Diploma in business management, accounting and finance, economics, IT or any other business related field with 2 years’ work experience in a business organization as sales Ability to actively seek out new sales opportunities...
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International Planned Parenthood Federation Liaison Office to the AU & UNECA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Country: Ethiopia Organization: International Planned Parenthood Federation Closing date: 21 Jan 2021 JOB PURPOSE The post holder will coordinate the IPPFARO/AU Joint Programme that supports the AUC Country Technical Assistance Framework. The incumbent will also provide support to Member States in developing and implementing their Country Acceleration Strategies under the African Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment 2019-2023 (APAYE). S/he will be responsible to mainstream adolescents and young people’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR) into the priorities of AU Member States. As an IPPFAR seconded staff member to the AUC, the post holder will provide technical support to the Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology’s Youth Division and will roll out the AY-SRHR throughout the implementation cycles of programmes and projects, from formulation to closing, including but not limited to planning, implementation, partnerships,...
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Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe Organization: TechnoServe Closing date: 28 Feb 2021 TechnoServe is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty. A nonprofit organization operating in 29 countries, we work with enterprising men and women in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. By linking people to information, capital, and markets, we have helped millions to create lasting prosperity for their families and communities. Founded over 50 years ago, TechnoServe has been named the #1 nonprofit for fighting poverty by the ImpactMatters charity rating agency. Summary: The Sr. Analyst for MEL is an exciting new role to support innovation in monitoring and evaluation of specific interventions, assisting with strategic and technical oversight for our coffee practice in Africa. The Sr. Analyst for MEL will manage farmer training attendance monitoring and...
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Growing the Green Economy
Growing the Green Economy – Long dismissed by mainstream media, visionary entrepreneurs, environmentalists, scientist and professionals have been creating an economy that thrives in harmony with the earth and social well-being. With insight and clarity, this show looks at the green economy that already exists and is growing by leaps and bounds! (~ 54 minutes)
The Money Fix — provided by Ethical Markets; on PBS stations and affiliates around the US for free download from www.epstv.com. Directed and produced by Alan Rosenblith (see full version at www.themoneyfix.org) and edited for TV by Hazel Henderson, this feature-length documentary explores our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar and examines economic patterning in both the human and the natural worlds. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. The film documents alternative money systems which help solve economic problems for the communities in which they operate.
Introduction to Ethical Markets
The Money Fix – Provided by The Money Fix, Hazel Henderson discusses the current ineffective methods of measuring true wealth and the inappropriate use of money, giving examples like the false Nobel Prize in Economics. (~ 9 minutes)
Green Transition Scoreboard(r) Explained – scripted and narrated by Hazel
Henderson, Ethical Markets Media (c) 2014
814 – “The Future of Energy” with NASA Chief Scientist, Dennis Bushnell, Langley, VA
In this program, Hazel Henderson and NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell review all the issues around the increasing global shift from polluting fossil fuels and their effect on climate to economies. They discuss today’s harvesting of solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and oceans, as well as the cost savings from more efficient buildings, batteries electric vehicles and charging stations, smarter cities and urban design, public transport and the future of decentralized energy, especially in developing countries. Both Henderson and Bushnell agree that there is ample renewable energy from our Sun for all existing and foreseen human societies’ needs. The issues concern the politics of incumbent interests and the re-design of green infrastructure so as to utilize and scale up all our existing renewable technologies now available, as tracked in the Green Transition Scoreboard ®.
Ethical Markets: The Non-money Economy – Over 50% of all production of goods and services in all countries is ignored because it is unpaid. A look at this “love economy” – raising children, caring for families, the elderly and sick, volunteering – is estimated at over $16 trillion worldwide missing from global GNP. (~ 27 minutes)
Health and Wellness – Preventive approaches to health now competing with the current over-priced, over-prescribing, interventionist medical-industrial complex costing 16% of US GDP. This is twice what other rich countries pay with no better outcomes. A look at reforms and alternative health options. (~ 27 minutes)
Investing In Your Community – Some of your safest, best investments are right outside your door! A look at successful community investing in growing, vibrant local economies, affordable housing, new small businesses and re-development. (~ 27 minutes)
Clean Food – Surveys the explosive growth of organic agriculture in the face of consumer fears of tainted and imported foods. Locally-grown, fresh, organic food, free of pesticides, farmers’ markets and local contract agriculture are seen as the future. (~ 27 minutes)
EM the TV series
Socialy Responsible Investing – Covers the worldwide boom in ethical investing ($2.3 trillion in the USA alone). Social and environmental costs (pollution, outsourcing, stagnate wages) of maximizing profits to shareholders has given way to concerns for all stakeholders and new “triple bottom line” accounting for people, planet and profits. (~ 27 minutes)
Transformation Of Work – Views rapid changes in workplaces, outsourcing, automation and self-employment, focusing on employee-owned companies (11,000 in the USA) and the prospects for democratizing capital-ownership. (~ 27 minutes)
Woman Owned Businesses – In the USA, 50% of all private companies are owned and managed by women and employ 19 million Americans. Women’s goals differ from those of men: women rate profit-maximizing below other community, family and personal values. We meet many women business leaders, bankers and entrepreneurs. (~ 27 minutes)
Global Corporate Citizenship – More ethical “corporate citizenship” now seen as a must by many leaders and critics. Best practices of corporations in consumer and environmental protection, human and workplace rights. (~ 27 minutes)
Shareholder Advocacy – Interviews with activist-shareholders pushing their companies to be more socially and environmentally responsible. Corporate managers are responding as active investors join with employees, unions, environmentalists and many other stakeholders to push for higher ethical standards. (~ 27 minutes)
Fair Trade – “Free trade” has turned into a free-for-all based on cutting prices, cutting corners on safety, quality and the environment – as well as outsourcing of production and jobs to lowest-wage countries. Fair trade labels on products growing to ensure consumers that small organic producers of coffee, teas, chocolate and many other foods get fair prices. (~ 27 minutes)
Renewable Energy – Renewable energy: solar, wind, biofuels, hydrogen, ocean power are the best route beyond fossil fuels to energy independence. A look at the technologies and the leaders in this “green revolution.” (~ 27 minutes)
Green Building and Design – The revolution in building, architecture, product design is leading to the explosive growth of energy-efficient, less polluting, safer and healthier workplaces and homes. (~ 27 minutes)
Redefining Success – Changing scorecards of countries’ “progress” beyond money and Gross National Product (GDP) to new indicators of Quality of Life and Gross National Happiness. (~ 27 minutes)
Show #6— “Should Banks Be Public Utilities?
Leland Lehrman, Fund Balance, LLC
Leland Lerhman, principal, Fund Balance, is an investor with deep ecological understanding and visionary proposals for correcting the failing financial models. These derived from obsolete economics now harming both humans and our planet. Leland and Hazel are both advisors to the Public Banking Institute founded by lawyer Ellen Brown, author of The Web of Debt. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
414 – ““Financing the Green Transition to the Coming Solar Age” – Peter Lynch
“Financing the Green Transition to the Coming Solar Age”
Peter Lynch – Private Investor and Financial/Technology Advisor to Investors; former senior editor, Photovoltaic Insider Report; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
793 – Artificial Intelligence: What Happens As Machines Take Over?
In this program, Hazel Henderson and NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell discuss the new alarms raised by Bill Gates, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Space-Ex and Tesla’s founder Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking that intelligent machines like IBM’s Watson may soon outsmart humans. These computer pioneers believe this could pose existential danger to human civilization – because they may not share human values and may cause us great harm. Bushnell cites all the areas where computers are already smarter and more efficient than humans: in law, medicine, accounting and will be needed in NASA’s space program. Henderson worries about the societal impacts as ever more sectors of modern economies are digitized, now displacing white collar jobs beyond earlier manufacturing automation since the 1960s. While futurists envisioned “leisure societies,” shorter work weeks, guaranteed basic incomes and flowering of culture, art and human potentials – what we got was unemployment, stagnant wages and longer work hours.
Rise of the Benefit Corporation – Marcello Palazzi 804
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Marcello Palazzi, MBA, president of the Progressio Foundation in Holland, his latest work in transition management by promoting the new business charter: the Benefit Corporation, which certifies companies which focus beyond profitability to service and benefit society. This new model is now legally chartered in 30 states in the USA, also in Latin America and Europe. The founders of Certified B Corporations Jay Coen Gilbert, Andrew Kassoy and Bart Houlahan recently were awarded a coveted prized by the Aspen Institute. Palazzi and Henderson explore examples of B Corporations, which include Ethical Markets Media. This new socially responsible business model is enjoying rapid growth and includes several publicly traded corporations. These examples are further case studies in positive transition management. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
Show #7— “The Politics of Money”
Christopher Lindstrom, Slow Money
Christopher Lindstrom and Hazel discuss their longtime, often shared efforts to reform the money-creation process. They both promote the many local, complementary currencies now in circulation in hundreds of cities around the world. Chris was a key actor in launching “Berkshares,” the successful currency of the Schumacher Society developed by Susan Witt in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
415 – “Nurturing Sustainable Local Communities Worldwide” – Interview with Steven Lovink
“Nurturing Sustainable Local Communities Worldwide” – Interview with Steven Lovink – Founder/CEO, Planet2025 Network and Power of One; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
720 – Asia’s Challenges to Western Economies
In this program, Hazel Henderson and Asian Markets Sustainability Analyst Matthew McGarvey, both China experts, review the new challenges China poses to Western economies as well as from other emerging economies in Asia. Western economists misunderstand the restructuring in China from exports toward domestic goals and shifting from polluting coal to wind, solar and the “circular economy” and their “Green GDP.” The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIG) led by China has attracted members like Britain and other European countries, as well as the IMF. Yet, the US Congress refused to join and is now out in the cold. The rush to new mega-trade deals in Asia and the need for new rules and metrics are explored.
Trends Toward Sustainability in Brazil – Thais Corral 805
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with award-winning civic leader Thais Corral, co-author of Leadership Is Global, the current crises and transitions occurring in her country Brazil. Brazil has all the resources and capital assets it needs to make the transition to sustainability, including human, social and intellectual capital with advanced infrastructure and industries, and the planet’s primary storehouse of natural capital. However, Brazil’s active democracy needs to shake off the obsolete fossil-fueled industrial model still imposed by foreign investors and traditional financial models. Thais Corral points to Brazil’s rich civic society traditions, participatory politics, its optimistic people and their open flexibility in embracing change as their best resource in transition management. This civic genius is the “software” that may prove to be Brazil’s unique export to the world and its struggle for domestic reforms offer lessons for other countries. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
Building the Woman’s World Banking Movement – interview with Michaela Walsh; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013. Michaela Walsh is Founding President of Women’s World Bank http://www.swwb.org/, expanding economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge and markets. She discusses transforming finance through women’s banking with Hazel Henderson.
Show #8— “Cooperation Beats Competition”
Terry Mollner, Trusteeship Institute, Inc.
Terry Mollner, a leader in co-founding the Calvert Group of socially responsible mutual funds also spent time in India following the exemplary life of Mahatma Gandhi. He also serves on the board of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, now owned by Unilever. Terry got this giant multinational to sign a path breaking agreement to preserve Ben and Jerry’s social mission. Terry and Hazel agree that the next stage of finance is full recognition of the primacy of the global commons and hence placing the common good above all else if we are to preserve our common future. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
416 – “Fostering Homegrown Reliable Economies” – Stuart Valentine
“Fostering Homegrown Reliable Economies”
Stuart Valentine – Principal, Centerpoint Investment Strategies, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
794 – Transitioning Economies Towards New Values
In this program, Hazel Henderson and Asian Markets Sustainability Analyst Matthew McGarvey, who has lived in China, Vietnam and regularly visits Asia, discuss trends toward new values beyond Western GDP-measured economic growth. Asian economics’ models tend toward the Chinese view that “markets are good servants but bad masters.” Government rule-setting and oversight are favored and often authoritarian. Matt McGarvey recounts his personal journey from growing up in America’s heartland to learning Chinese and working in Beijing, and his experiences in Vietnam and other Asian countries.
The Personal Journey of Brazilian Leader Thais Corral 806
In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with award-winning civic leader, recognized in Brazil by the UN, Thais Corral, co-author of Leadership Is Global, her personal story. Thais and her family came to Brazil from Spain, bringing their entrepreneurial skills and creativity. Thais, a lifelong learner, spent years studying in Italy, other European countries, and the USA at the University of Chicago and Harvard. She innovated 400 radio programs broadcasted to empower women across Brazil and became a co-founder of the global Women’s Environment Development Organization (WEDO) with US Congresswoman Bella Abzug. Thais then founded the learning and leadership programs at Sinal do Vale, a large estate 30 minutes from Rio De Janeiro’s mains airport, where participants learn all the tools of transition management first hand. Ethical Markets is partnering with Thais in this new educational program since Thais is a member of our global Advisory Board. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
China’s New Development – interview with Zhouying Jin, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
Show #9— “Reforming Housing, Fannie and Freddie”
Sarah Stranahan, New Economy Network
Longtime community-development specialist, housing expert and investor Sarah Stranahan tells Hazel how the struggling US housing market can be revived by adopting viable policies pioneered during the New Deal. Millions of homeowners were saved from foreclosure then, and the US Treasury can do the same by following these policies and revitalizing Fannie and Freddie – owned by US taxpayers already! “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
417 – “Permaculture, Eco-forests Developing Green Economies” – Terry Mock
“Permaculture, Eco-forests Developing Green Economies”
Terry Mock – Co-founder, Champion Tree Project International and the Sustainable Land Development Initiative; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
786 – Privacy in the New Media Age: Part I
– In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with law professor Jon L. Mills, former speaker in Florida’s House of Representatives, his current book, Privacy in the New Media Age. The Internet, social media, blogs, “citizen-journalists” and global news distribution pose thorny issues in all countries. While the USA favors free speech over individual rights to privacy, European countries are protecting people’s “right to be left alone” and the deletion of old records of individual behavior which may jeopardize their future employment. While Facebook and Twitter facilitated the grassroots protests and rebellions of the “Arab Spring,” these social media also helped police to track down the dissidents and their prosecution. Prof. Mills points out that technological innovations always outrun the pace of law and public responses. Different rules apply in many countries and global agreements may take decades.
The Evolution of Sustainability Accounting – Alice Tepper Marlin 807
In this program, Hazel Henderson interviews her longtime associate Alice Tepper-Marlin, president-emeritus of SAI International and key founder of the pioneering transition management example: the socially responsible investment movement. They reminisce on the evolution of this form of accounting which screened portfolios and companies for their ethical, social and environmental performance. Tepper-Marlin founded the pioneer group, the Council on Economic Priorities (CFP) in the 1960s and Henderson became a board member, along with famed economist Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers (1999). Tepper-Marlin recounts the first study by CEP of pollution in 24 pulp and paper companies and how the companies stalled at first but eventually provided data. CEP’s consumer guide, Shopping for a Better World, sold over 1 million copies and catapulted CEP into creating this new branch of accounting and securities analysis – and Tepper-Marlin into widespread media recognition. Another successful model of positive transition management! Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
Finance Should Serve Society – interview with Steve Waddell, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
Banking for the Common Good – interview with Mary Houghton, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013. Mary Houghton is the co-founder of ShoreBank, once the largest and oldest community development bank in the US. She shares her transforming finance views on community banking with Hazel Henderson.
418 – Promo – “Green Banking and Investing” – Interview with Ken La Roe
“Green Banking and Investing” – Interview with Ken La Roe – Founder, CEO and Chairman, First Green Bank, Florida; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
788 – Robots Taking Over: What Will Humans Do?
In this program, Hazel Henderson and NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell explore the advance of automation as ever more sectors of industrial societies are digitized: from manufacturing to retailing, accounting, healthcare, education, legal services and even finance. Driverless vehicles will end jobs in trucking, taxis, which offer millions of entry-level opportunities. Fly-by-wire airplanes have caused the deskilling of pilots, some of whom have been confused when computerized navigation systems have failed – causing crashes. Can computerized systems be programmed with human values: empathy, compassion and ethics? Can a driverless car pass an ethical test of judgment: swerving to avoid hitting a group of people at the expense of colliding with a single person? Bushnell points out how much more efficient computers are at many tasks than humans. Henderson looks at the macro-effects: how can economies maintain aggregate demand to buy all the new productivity’s goods and services? How can people obtain purchasing power if not from jobs? They discuss alternatives emerging: worker-owned companies, cooperative enterprises and guaranteed basic incomes now enacted in Brazil, Mexico and proposed in Switzerland, Europe and the USA.
13. The Future: Toward Full-Spectrum Accounting – Alice Tepper Marlin 808
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Alice Tepper-Marlin, president-emeritus of SAI International and founder of 10-Squared, the future of accounting for ethical, social and environmental performance of portfolios, companies and governments. This important tool of transition management is full-spectrum accounting, a multi-disciplinary method. This goes beyond the earlier money-based models evaluating life-cycle costs and recognizing 6 kinds of capital: financial, built facilities, intellectual, social, human and natural capital. These broader metrics are now promulgated globally by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and in the USA by Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB), chaired by Michael Bloomberg. At last, the obsolete models in traditional economics permitting social and environmental costs to be “externalized” is exposed as irresponsible. Tepper-Marlin describes her latest venture 10-Squared, another transition management innovation and management tool for companies to achieve better social and environmental performance goals. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
Escaping the Web of Debt – interview with Ellen Brown, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
The Green Economy — A Wide Shot – interview with Gregory Wendt; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013. This is a wide-ranging discussion of the green movement today and transforming finance with Hazel Henderson.
419 – “Green Banking and Investing” – Interview with Ken La Roe
“Green Banking and Investing” – Interview with Ken La Roe – Founder, CEO and Chairman, First Green Bank, Florida; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 201
787 – Privacy in the New Media Age Versus the First Amendment: Part II
– In this program, Hazel Henderson continues discussing with Professor Jon L. Mills his current book, Privacy in the New Media Age. The conversation focuses on the USA and how the Constitution favors free speech and press in the First Amendment over individual rights to privacy. Mills cites many examples of how individuals are harmed in today’s social media, by false statements by bloggers, ubiquitous cameras in public places, tracking individuals’ movements via their cellphones and GPS. They explore data-collecting by government and by corporations selling users’ personal data to advertisers, as well as snooping by drones. Again, these new technologies and media have outrun the law and public awareness and in some cases even dubious rulings by the Supreme Court.
809- Responsible Investors Transforming Finance
Hazel Henderson discusses the evolution of the ethical, responsible, green investment movement with British pioneer investor Tessa Tennant. Tennant founded the first green UK mutual fund as well as the Social Investment Forum. She reviews the early obstacles, as she founded ASRIA, the first such group in Asia. An inspiring personal story! © 2016 Ethical Markets
Responsible Investors
Finance is a Global Commons interview with Leo Burke, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
399 – Promo -“Nurturing Sustainable Local Communities Worldwide”
425 – Beyond Economics to Earth Systems Science – Interview with Michael Grunwald
“Beyond Economics to Earth Systems Science” – Interview with Michael Grunwald – TIME, Time.com, Senior National Correspondent; author, The New New Deal (2012); Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
792 – Reforming Business Education for Sustainable Economies
– In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Linda Crompton, MA, MBA, pioneering Canadian bank president and mutual fund innovator, how business courses need to catch up with changes in today’s finance and business. They review the urgent need to reform curricula at business schools in North America and Europe. Many still are teaching from obsolete textbooks with faulty assumptions that still permit companies, financiers and governments to “externalize” the social and environmental impacts from their balance sheets and pass on the costs to taxpayers, citizens and the environment.
810 – The Future of Finance: Sustainability or Collapse?
Hazel Henderson and UK investment pioneer Tessa Tennant look at the new consensus emerging in 2015 for the global transition from fossil fuels to clean, green, sustainable economies. Tennant serves on the British Green Investment Bank. Now that 195 countries have signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the COP21 Climate Accords, this transition is accelerating worldwide. © 2016 Ethical Markets
Steering Capital Toward Sustainability interview with John Fullerton, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
398 – Promo – “Green Banking and Investing”
Interview with Ken La Roe – Founder, CEO and Chairman, First Green Bank, Florida; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
420 – Transition to the Green Economy – Michael Grunwald
“Transition to the Green Economy” – Interview with Michael Grunwald – TIME, Time.com, Senior National Correspondent; author, The New New Deal (2012); Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
791 – The Future of Business Education
In this program, Hazel Henderson explores innovative courses with Dr. Allison Roberts, Chair of the Business Administration Department, Flagler College. They critique the values underlying much traditional business education which still teach with obsolete textbooks and assumptions that self-interest competition is “human nature”. Old courses still assume the impacts of business activities harming others and their environmental costs can be “externalized” from company balance sheets. Dr. Roberts, whose doctorate is in health and labor economics, has designed a more scientific curriculum, taking account of social and technological changes that have changed the global economy. Dr. Roberts teaches broader analyses and strategies for business success and new scorecards so that her students can prosper in the 21st century while contributing to more sustainable societies
821 – Empowering Our Personal and Professional Journeys
In this program Hazel Henderson explores with Dr. Monica Sharma, author of Radical Transformational Leadership (2018) her personal story growing up in India. How she practiced medicine there and grew to understand the importance for human health of looking at her patients’ life circumstances and their environments. Dr. Sharma became a leader in many United Nations health initiatives and her leadership style can inspire and empower many others.
Greening of Pension Funds interview with Bryan Martel, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
400 – Promo – “Permaculture, Eco-forests Developing Green Economies”
422 – Investing in Desert-Greening
“Investing in Desert Greening” — Discussion with Dennis Bushnell, chief
scientist, NASA Langley; Carl Hodges, founder, Seawater Foundation, and
Hazel Henderson, president, Ethical Markets Media; Ethical Markets
Transforming Finance Series 2014
Rising Sea Levels Worldwide Part 1 – John Englander 796
In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with John Englander, geologist and oceans expert, author of Rising Tide on Main Street, the steady rise of global oceans due to global atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The Earth’s temperature continues rising as fossil fuels are burned, oceans absorb additional CO2, glaciers and ice sheets at the planet’s poles are melting. Englander studies coastlines and show visual evidence of the effects on the World’s 20 most vulnerable cities: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, San Diego, as well as Shanghai, London, Bangkok and low-lying countries Holland, the Philippines and many small island sates. In some areas, land is also sinking, and in others tectonic plates cause the land under, for example Los Angeles, to rise. Since 2015, 195 countries have agreed to address these largely human-caused effects with transition management strategies: investments in adaptation, sea walls, more and higher levees, relocation of humans settlements and shifting to renewable energy. Timeframes for action are reviewed. Transition management begins with realistic views of global change. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
823 – “Your Money or Your Life”
with author Vicki Robin
In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with author Vicki Robin how the financial markets have changed since her book “Your Money or Your Life”, originally co-authored with Joe Dominguez, was first published in 1993. This perennial best-seller was updated again by Vicki Robin in 2018 and found a new audience of half a million millennial followers. Vicki describes how investing has changed to focus more locally and personal growth an achievements. Vick’s new fame includes interviews in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the cover of Money Magazine.
Private Financing of Green Companies – interview with Karl Kleissner, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
401 – Promo – “Financing the Green Transition to the Coming Solar Age”
423 – “Making Ethical Investing the New Norm”
“Making Ethical Investing the New Norm” — Discussion with MARIANA BOZESAN, Founder & General Manager of AQAL Capital GmbH, and GARVIN JABUSCH, cofounder and chief investment officer of Green Alpha ® Advisors, and Hazel Henderson, president, Ethical Markets Media; Ethical Markets
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with John Englander, geologist and oceans expert, author of Rising Tide on Main Street, all the sensible, realistic ways that humans can practice transition management: by mitigating and adapting to rising sea levels. The world’s oceans will continue their steady rise – even if fossil fuel burning were to cease immediately. The long-term processes set in motion by rising global temperatures, melting glaciers and polar ice sheets are altering risk-analyses models in finance, insurance and business. Transition management strategies and options are discussed, from changing real estate values; building codes; reinforcing urban infrastructure; siting of essential transport and communications networks, as well as how investments will be affected and where new opportunities lie in shifting beyond fossil fuels to low-carbon, cleaner green economies. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
“Greening The Global Food System”
“Blessing the Hands That Feed Us”
In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with author Vicki Robin the unsustainable global food system and reforms needed, described in her book “Blessing the Hands That Feed Us”. Vicki describes how locally-grown organic foods are a growing segment worldwide and offer better nutrition as well as more secure livelihoods for farmers. Opportunities are discussed on all the ways our unsustainable global agro-chemical industrial complex with its narrow mono-culture crops in global trade are feeding perilously on the planet’s 3% of freshwater. Meanwhile all the hundreds of salt tolerant food plants that grow in 22 countries on desert lands can be added, along with many other overlooked native plants, as well as all the startups in plant-protein foods offering better nutrition for the growing vegetarian consumer markets.
Financing Clean Development – interview with Graciela Chichilnisky, “Transforming Finance” — an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010
402 – Promo – “Healthy Foods, Healthy Lifestyles: Paths to Happiness”
“Healthy Foods, Healthy Lifestyles: Paths to Happiness”
Martin Ping – Executive Director, Hawthorne Valley Association, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
424 – “Rating the Rating Agencies”
“Rating the Rating Agencies” — Discussion with Claudine Schneider, Congresswoman, US House of Representatives (R-RI), 1980-1990,Lawrence Bloom, FRICS, Co-Founder & Chairman, B.e Energy, and Hazel Henderson, president, Ethical Markets Media; Ethical Markets
Common Good Capitalism – Terry Mollner 798
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses transition management strategies and the likely next stage of capitalism with Terry Mollner, author of Common Good Capitalism: It’s Next! and board member of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, now owned by global food giant Unilever. Terry describes the saga of this negotiation with Ben and Jerry’s shareholders, their effort to remain independent and how their social mission was recognized and began to change Unilever. Terry points to the current wave of mega-mergers in our global economy, where brands in food, air travel, communications and many other sectors end up cooperating as duopolies. In this world beyond competition companies can reach a new level: changing their goals and business models so as to place top priority on cooperatively serving the common good with competitive profit-seeking taking second place. How to square this with anti-trust conventions will be key. These startling views will be hotly debated as human populations and economies learn transition management strategies as tools to develop further on our small finite planet. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
825 “Reintegrating, Finance, Sustainability, and the Quality of Life” with Paul Ellis, Principal, Paul Ellis Consulting and Podcasts
In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with Paul Ellis, veteran financial adviser and consultant, how his practice evolved into broader concerns for our common future. Paul had discovered the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators (2000) which Hazel and the Calvert group developed. Later, in 2015 Paul found the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Paul and Hazel had never meet until this show. They discuss how their mutual goals became aligned in their respective efforts to reform mainstream finance and its narrow focus on obsolete economics and short-term profits. Now both work in a new partnership to promote the SDGs!
Show #1— “Taming the Global Casino”
Ben Bingham, 3 Sisters Sustainable Management, LLC
Downsizing and reforming global capital markets with pioneer asset manager Benjamin Bingham on financial transactions tax to curb excessive speculation and high-frequency trading, closing tax havens, raising capital reserves, breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and more. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
403 – Promo – “Strengthening Locally Owned Independent Finance”
“Strengthening Locally Owned Independent Finance”
David Rose – Founder and CEO, Unified Field Corporation; Creator, Unified Field Bank™, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
425 – “How Adam Smith and Charles Darwin Got Hijacked” – Discussion with Kim Ann
“How Adam Smith and Charles Darwin Got Hijacked” – Discussion with Kim Ann
Curtin, author, CEO, The Wall Street Coach, and Hazel Henderson, president,
Ethical Markets Media; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2014
Competition, Creativity and Cooperation – Terry Mollner 799
In this program, Hazel Henderson with Terry Mollner, author of Common Good Capitalism: It’s Next! examine his hopeful view of transition management. Mollner explains how capitalism can evolve from today’s global completion for resources and markets and the toll this takes on our societies and planetary ecosystems. Competition and human creativity have brought us to this stage. Both agree on today’s wider perception, scientific discoveries, new communications tools, satellites observing our effects on the Earth which make it evident that cooperation must now be the framework for all our actions. This is in line with Charles Darwin’s view that humanity’s success in evolving for millennia is based on our genius for cooperating. Nature’s transition management is driven by adaptation to environmental stresses. Darwin’s conviction saw our further development would lead to more altruism as we recognize our inter-dependence on each other and all lifeforms on our planetary home. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
826 -“Steering Our Societies from GDP to SDGs” with financial advisor and podcaster Paul Ellis of Paul Ellis Consulting
In this program, Hazel Henderson and Paul Ellis discuss their respective and complementary work in reforming mainstream finance and economic textbooks. They share how these obsolete models and metrics had been steering societies toward greater environmental despoliation and unanticipated social problems.
Money-based Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was never intended to be a measure of human progress, while over averaged macroeconomic indicators of inflation, unemployment, savings, etc. were like flying over a country at 50,000 feet! Both Hazel and Paul rejoiced in 2015 when 195 member countries of the United Nations launched their Sustainable Development goals (SDGs). At last, these 17 Goals, ratified by all sectors, systemically based in metrics of empirical sciences, can now steer the world’s countries away from the cliff edge toward knowledge-richer, inclusive sustainable societies for our common human future.
Show #2—“Bypassing Wall Street”
Katherine Collins, Honeybee Capital
Holding stock-markets to higher ethical standards, regulation and oversight for accountability. Why successful asset manager Katherine Collins sought a more ethically satisfying life beyond Wall Street after her degree at Harvard Divinity School. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
404 – Promo – “Fostering Homegrown Reliable Economies”
426 – “Transforming Wall Street” – Discussion with Kim Ann Curtin, author, CEO,
“Transforming Wall Street” – Discussion with Kim Ann Curtin, author, CEO,
The Wall Street Coach, and Hazel Henderson, president, Ethical Markets
Media; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2014
Global system Change Part 1 – Frank Dixon 800
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses a range of global challenges and transition management strategies with Frank Dixon (Harvard MBA), former head of global research with the famed, pioneering social auditing firm Innovest. They discuss the ways in which global geopolitics is evolving in response to the systemic changes to our planet’s ecosystems due to human activities. As water shortages, drought, floods and climate disruption effect more countries and populations, decision-makers in business government and civic society are seeing that all these problems are inter-linked. Frank Dixon’s book, Global System Change, maps these global issues and connects the dots. At the same time, Henderson points to the same new awareness by over 190 member countries of the United Nations in their 2015 agreement on the 17 issues addressed in their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is now evidence that humans are accepting responsibility for the changes created by unsustainable industrial development and moving toward integrated policies. These realistic approaches to transition management can lead to cleaner, healthier, more equitable societies on which our survival may depend. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
Show #3—“Daring to Care—Prosperously!”
Susan Davis, Capital Missions Company
Legendary banker Susan Davis describes her winning philosophy, KINS, based on strategies of generosity, win-win deals, connecting investors around conscious capitalism and growing fairer, greener economies worldwide as described in her autobiography, The Trojan Horse of Love. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
409 – “Daring to Care: Growing the Love Economy” – Interview with Louis Böhtlingk
“Daring to Care: Growing the Love Economy” – Interview with Louis Böhtlingk – Founder, Care First World; author, Dare to Care; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
785 – Reforming Capital Markets and Corporate Governance
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Linda Crompton, MA, MBA, pioneering Canadian bank president and mutual fund innovator, what reforms still are needed in capital markets. They review the challenges and progress over the past decades as ethical, green investing began to go mainstream which now in the USA alone comprises $6.57 trillion or 18% of total investments. Future expansion is expected as accounting reforms expose real risks such as water shortages and climate change excluded in traditional financial models
Achieving Global Sustainability and Real Prosperity Part 2 – Frank Dixon 801
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Frank Dixon, MBA, author of Global System Change, the massive transition now underway to innovate and build societies powered by renewable energy and resources. All are based on more cooperative sharing models. This transition management is driven by new paradigms beyond traditional economics which are multi-disciplinary. They are based on new understanding of human behavior and the integrated science of Earth systems with information from 120 orbiting observation satellites. They discuss how all this new knowledge is seeping into financial models and steering investments in more sustainable production and ways of organizing human settlements and regenerating ecosystems. All these new transition management methods require redefining growth and prosperity and reshaping our political systems, mass media and lifestyles. These changes ae underway at every level from individuals and communities to nations, corporations and international organizations. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
Show #4—“The Future of Socially Responsible Investing”
Amy Domini, Domini Social Investments
Industry icon Amy Domini, author of the landmark book Socially Responsible Investing, Making a Difference and Making Money. Amy created the Domini Social 400 Index which regularly outperforms conventional benchmarks and founded Domini Social Investments. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
410 – “Recognizing the Power and Purpose of Non-profits” – Interview with Linda Crompton
“Recognizing the Power and Purpose of Non-profits” – Interview with Linda Crompton – Principal, Crompton Consulting, LLC; former president of BoardSource (the national center for non-profit boards); Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013
790 – The Future of Education
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Dr. William Abare, President, Flagler College, how education is changing. They explore the growing challenges to education: costs rising faster than inflation; students bearing $1.2 trillion in loans while facing disruptive technological changes and job markets shifting globally. Traditional colleges are challenged by massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as Khan Academy, backed by Bill Gates, and other start-ups now funded by Silicon Valley capitalists, with millions of students learning free online. How can the benefits of campus-based education be extended to include more student and help counter growing inequality?
Beyond Blood Stained Gems: New Science & Standards – Frank Dixon 802
In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with Frank Dixon, MBA, author of Global System Change, the damaging effects of the global gem mining industry, now a case study in transition management. This industry has been the focus of many NGO critics since diamond mining is not only dangerous and polluting, but has helped fuel armed conflicts in many African countries. Several UN resolutions have addressed the need to stop the flow of these “blood diamonds” and the global diamond cartel has responded with the Kimberley Certification which only certifies their diamonds are “conflict-free”. This ignores the much larger problems of miners’ injuries, deaths, low wages and the pollution of water supplies and air in mining areas and communities. Beyond these hazards is the fact that this gem mining industry is now obsolete and unnecessary, since science now produces identical gems in laboratories in many countries without human and environmental damage. Thus Dixon examines Ethical Markets transition management tool: its global standard, EthicMark® GEMS which certifies only gems not mined from the Earth. Dixon asks Henderson how this better standard was developed and how it can challenge this obsolete mining industry by this market-based transition to reform: EthicMark® GEMS can create a healthier new industry and many thousands of new jobs while saving lives, human misery and the environment – an illustration of positive transition management. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
Show #5— “Transition to a Global Green Economy”
Alisa Gravitz, President, Green America
Alisa Gravitz took her Harvard MBA into uncharted waters in co-founding Green America and the National Green Pages. Her latest innovation is CREW, a business-to-business barter site. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
413 – “Healthy Foods, Healthy Lifestyles- Paths to Happiness” – Martin Ping
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Linda Crompton, MA, MBA, pioneering Canadian bank president and mutual fund innovator, what reforms still are needed in capital markets. They review the challenges and progress over the past decades as ethical, green investing began to go mainstream which now in the USA alone comprises $6.57 trillion or 18% of total investments. Future expansion is expected as accounting reforms expose real risks such as water shortages and climate change excluded in traditional financial models.
Evolution of Corporate Responsibility and Accountability – Marcello Palazzi 803
In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Marcello Palazzi, MBA, president of the Progressio Foundation in Holland, their experiences in developing these new standards for transition management: corporate social performance and auditing over the past 30 years. Palazzi recounts his path in business and how he came to realize that standards for environmental, social responsibility were rising as the effects of corporate activities disrupted communities and ecosystems. Henderson’s experiences came from a civic organization she co-founded, Citizens for Clean Air, in the USA and how this led to her lifelong work as a science policy advisor in Washington and with the Calvert Social Investment Fund. Both had focused on aspects of transition management, developing new accounting models and metrics. These are now globally accepted by such organizations as the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB). Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015
REFORMING INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
Why Reform Global Finance? – Financial crises, booms, busts and bubbles signal the need to overhaul the global financial system. What kind of reforms can re-direct economic development toward equity and sustainability? (~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Reforming The World Bank – Examines the structure and workings of the World Bank and why it is under attack from all quarters. Reforms and proposed actions. (~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Reforming The IMF – The IMF is in crisis – few countries want its loans and the onerous restrictions and “conditionalities” imposed. The future of the IMF will require massive reform. (~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Visions For A Better Future – Discusses the many researchers and think tanks offering alternative paths to more just and humane forms of development.(~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Getting From Here To There – Reviews what can be done today to forge new paths to human development and ecological sustainability. (~ 27 minutes). From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
The Story of Citizens United v. FEC — provided by StoryofStuff.org; Annie Leonard brings her unique insight to the world of corporate influence on American politics.
Provided by www.MoneyAsDebt.net Money as Debt – This is a must see video that sparks great conversations in any group who views it.
Debt-gov’t, corporate, & household has reached astronomical proportions. Where does all this money come from? How could there BE that much money to lend? The answer is… there isn’t. Today, MONEY IS DEBT. If there were NO DEBT there would be NO MONEY! If this is puzzling to you, you are not alone. Very few people understand, even though all of us are effected. This fast-paced and highly entertaining animated feature explans today’s magical perverse DEBT-MONEY SYSTEM (~ 47 minutes)
REFORMING THE ECONOMY – These and dozens more videos picked by Hazel Henderson and the Ethical Markets team which explore how the US and global economy have faltered and offering creative solutions moving forward.
Re-Inventing Money provided by Zeitfilm.de; Dr. Margrit Kennedy makes the case for complementary currencies.
Money for the Future provided by Zeitfilm.de; Bernard Lietaer offers systemic solutions for the financial crises.
Berkshares — provided by WCBV TV Boston; BerkShares board member, Will Conklin, describes how when money is spent at local stores the multiplier effect on the local economy is much deeper and wider than money spent at chains or on the internet. The film visits Berkshire Bank and Tom’s Toys to explore the topic.
Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy” provided by Chris Bedford Films and the Schumacher Society; Sincere appreciation goes to Chris Bedford who made this film as a labor of love, telling the story of rebuilding a local economy using strategies from community land trusts to the nation’s most successful local currency – Berkshares. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.
The Organic Opportunity provided by Chris Bedford Films; Chris Bedford tells the story of Woodbury County, Iowa, first in the US to promote local organic agriculture as economic development by offering tax rebates to farmers transitioning to organic agriculture, mandating purchase of locally grown organic food by county institutions and offering no-cost loans and free building lots to farmers relocating to the county to farm organically. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.
Money Innovation Explores varied money systems such as complementary currencies and local currencies
World Trade & Finance with Dee Hock and Oscar Motomura, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
The Link Between Human Rights and Responsibilities with Dr. Don Beck, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
RETHINKING GLOBALIZATION a series produced by Hazel Henderson with guests Dee Hock, Oscar Motomura and Don Beck
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS – With the collapse of global financial norms, these videos demonstrate the creative ways in which communities are facing the challenges of producing and consuming sustainably.
Bank of North Dakota – provided by Prairie Public Television and the Public Banking Institute; During the early 1900s, North Dakota was dependent on agriculture. To diversify the economy, North Dakota created the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, largely credited for making North Dakota the only state with a large budget surplus. This film discusses the bank’s history and plans for the future.
Move Your Money provided by MoveYourMoney.info; introduces the compelling movement to move individual bank accounts from the “too big to fail” institutions into community banks and credit unions
Ellen Brown – Financial meltdown: Why it happened, How it can be reversed provided by Democracy for America; Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, explains the roots of the current economic crisis and a way out. Brown’s articles are regularly posted at www.ethicalmarkets.com. Her presentation begins about 11 1/2 minutes into the video. Worth the wait!
Navajo Green provided by LivingOnEarth; shows effort and enthusiasm to bring green jobs to Navajo communities by adopting green job legislation, complimenting a way of life valued by many indigenous peoples.
BerkShares Local Currency on BBC provided by the E.F. Schumacher Society and the BBC; BerkShares local currency supports the community, economy, ecology, and sustainability of the southern Berkshire region of Massachusetts. Launched by the E. F. Schumacher Society, BerkShares create consumer awareness about the consequences of spending practices, supports local businesses, facilitates the development of import replacing industries, and serves as a model for other regions.
Creating Alternative Futures – A 13-part series of fast-paced conversations featuring speakers such as Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Fritjo Capra, Jean Houston and Oscar Motomura aired on PBS stations, all moderated by Hazel Henderson.
Worth Quoting TV seriesCommentaries and dialogues, many with Hazel Henderson, which stand the test of time, including a rare interview with Aurelio Peccei, late founder of the Club of Rome; also Barbara Marx Hubbard, Fritjof Capra, Frank Bracho, James Robertson, Frederick Hayek and others.
Piano Player Stairs provided by Thefuntheory.com; To save energy, to improve health, to promote our innate creativity, something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better.
“What Would the Founding Fathers Do? — provided by FairElectionsNow.org; In 1776 the Founding Fathers threw off the yoke of British tyranny. Now they’re back to throw off the yoke of British Petroleum — and the other peddlers of influence who have befouled our fair democracy by pushing Congress to pass the Fair Elections Now Act. Learn more at FairElectionsNow.org.
Comedy – Shows and videos which allow us to laugh as we learn
Seven Steps to a New Millennium – Hazel Henderson and Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Human Social Potential, discuss possibilities for humans as we extend our space program.
Empowering Women’s Visions – Hazel Henderson and Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of The Hunger of Eve, discuss women as visionary leaders and why they are important for our changing world.
Classic Talk – Commentaries and dialogues, many with Hazel Henderson, which stand the test of time, including a rare interview with Aurelio Peccei, late founder of the Club of Rome; also Barbara Marx Hubbard, Fritjof Capra, Frank Bracho, James Robertson, Frederick Hayek and others.
Ecoliteracy and System Thinking – Hazel Henderson and Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life, examine the educational movement to teach “ecoliteracy,” an understanding of ecosystems as humanity’s life-support system, and how this leads to systems thinking.
Redefining Cultural Values – Hazel
Henderson and Frank Bracho, former Venezuelan Ambassador to India,
author of Globalization and Petroleum: Salvation or Perdition, discuss
the importance of culture in development.
Roger Doudna in Conversation with Hazel Henderson
Minds for History – A conference in May, 1989, discussing humanity’s future with Nobelists Murray Gell-Mann and Czeslaw Milosz, Richard Falk, Harvey Cox, Hazel Henderson and jazz musician Billy Taylor.
Moving to Sustainable Consumption Patterns
Strategies for Sustainable Economies – Hazel
Henderson in conversation with James Robertson, British author of
Power, Money and Sex and The Future of Work, about globalization,
out-sourcing, automation and new forms of development.
Classic Talk
Money Innovation
Creating Alternative Futures
Dialogues with Hazel Henderson
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GLOBAL CITIZENS : CREATIVE SOLUTIONS
Insights from The Green
International Financial Reform
Mercado Ético – Ethical Markets in Brazil
REFORMING THE ECONOMY – picked by Hazel Henderson and the Ethical Markets team
Rethinking Globalization
Social Entreprenuer
The Power Of Yin
Worth Quoting TV series
Green Energy and Technologies
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Subprime Crisis-Provided by Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Vera Productions; John Bird and John Fortune brilliantly and accurately describe the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview. {@9 min}
Classic Talk – Shows and videos which have stood the test of time.
Know Your Lawn – Provided by Sundance Channel, this editorial by Simran Sethi, host of the Ethical Markets TV series, explains the environmental damage caused by lawn maintenance and offers alternatives. (1 ½ min)
Greening Your Game – Provided by Sundance Channel, this editorial by Simran Sethi, host of the Ethical Markets TV series, connects sports and the environment, particularly how sustainable management can make even golf sensitive to the environment. (1 ½ min)
Five Disaster Waiting to Happen – Provided by The Green on Sundance Channel, Simran Sethi, host of the Ethical Markets TV series, addresses the peril of rising oceans on major urban centers. (2 ½ min)
Eco-Friendly Products – Provided by Sundance Channel, this editorial by Simran Sethi, host of the Ethical Markets TV series, offers alternatives to the “paper or plastic” conundrum – how about neither? (1 min)
A Crude Awakening – Provided by The Green on Sundance Channel, Simran Sethi, host of the Ethical Markets TV series, addresses the US dependence on oil from drivng our cars to filling our water bottles. (3 min)
Car Culture – Provided by Sundance Channel, this editorial by Simran Sethi, host of the Ethical Markets TV series, encourages smart growth built around communities, not cars. (1 ½ min)
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Fuel tax policy damaging forecourt and haulage industry
The Government’s current fuel tax policies could directly result in the Treasury missing out on up to £1.2 billion tax revenue as well as jeopardising the UK’s important and petrol forecourt and haulage industries, according to RMI Petrol.
With the growing number of high performance cars, trucks and vans on the road, diesel has overtaken petrol with a 55% share of UK road fuels, hitting a recent high of 133.38 pence per litre on February 1, which exceeded the previous record high of 133.25ppl in July 2008. This further widens the gap in diesel prices between the UK and the near Continent, for example diesel prices in Luxembourg were 30% lower at the end of January.
In 2010, the Port of Dover and the Eurotunnel combined saw over 3.3 million truck movements. Technological and design efficiencies have resulted in many HGV’s being fitted with enlarged tanks ranging from 500 to as much as 1,500 litre capacity to take advantage of the low duty rates and prices prevailing in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. As an example, Scania has recently launched its new “R”-series offering 1500 litre tanks on the 4 x 2 tractor range. At an average 8.0mpg, this gives the haulier a range of over 2,500 miles – equivalent to two round trips from Dover to Edinburgh.
RMI Petrol believes that with 50% of this traffic inbound, over 1.5 million trucks fill their tanks with cheaper diesel at truck stops on the near Continent before crossing to the UK. Assuming an average of 1,000 litres per vehicle, UK forecourts and truckstops will miss out on gross margin accruing from 1.5 billion litres of fuel sales and ancillary shop items. The Treasury could be missing out on approximately £1.2 billion in tax revenue from duty and VAT at 80ppl.
With foreign trucks paying no vehicle exercise duty, no road toll charges, minimal VAT on fuel and significantly lower fuel costs they become an attractive alternative to UK hauliers who are left unable to compete.
Brian Madderson, chairman of RMI Petrol said:
“This is another example of a Government own-goal. Its fuel tax policies are directly contributing to a reduced tax opportunity for the Treasury and misery for hauliers and forecourt owners alike, including our important motorway service operators.
“We strongly urge the Government to re-assess their fuel tax policies, in particular the planned duty escalator in April which would increase prices by a further 5.0ppl. This action must be taken to put a halt on the number of businesses in these industries going bust and to stop the gift of economic and fiscal competitive advantage to our European friends.”
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New report reveals Scotland has more native woodland than was thought
Rural Economy and Tourism Secretary, Fergus Ewing, has welcomed a new report that shows that Scotland has more native woodland than previously reported.
Published as official statistics by the National Forest Inventory (NFI), the study into Woodland Ecological Condition is the largest and most in-depth assessment of the ecological condition of any habitat in Great Britain.
It reveals that in Scotland 442,611 hectares are now classified as native woodland, more than had previously been thought – and that the majority of this is North East and West Scotland.
This figure is up 131,458 hectares on the previous estimate reported in the 2014 Native Woodland Survey of Scotland assessment, and is set to increase as Scotland continues to meet its target for native woodland planting set out in the Biodiversity Route Map to 2020 and our Bonn Challenge commitment. In 2019 Scotland planted 4,436 hectares of native woodland.
The statistics reveal that over 430,000 ha of these native woodlands are in overall ‘favourable’ or ‘intermediate’ condition. They also show that Scotland’s non-native woodlands make an ecological contribution, with less than 6% in ‘unfavourable’ ecological condition.
Mr Ewing said;
“This is the first report of its kind and we welcome it as a positive step forward in woodland management. These statistics provide a reliable indication of woodland ecological condition across all woodland types in Scotland.
“They show that Scotland has even more native woodland than previously thought, and that almost all of our forests are making a real contribution in terms of environmental benefits.
“Importantly they provide us with a measure of how our forests and woodlands are becoming more resilient to future climate challenges – by developing those ecological conditions and processes found naturally in native woodlands. When compared to the challenging benchmark of ancient semi-natural woodland, this shows which of the native woodland benefits modern forestry possess.
“This is valuable information that will help to shape and deliver more strategic, cost-effective policies and management interventions that will help Scotland to improve the quality of its woodlands for biodiversity, for visitors, and all those who benefit from Scotland’s forests, while still delivering timber for our expanding construction industry.”
Stuart Goodall, Chief Executive of Confor, welcomed the report and said;
“This is an important piece of work which provides vital baseline data to inform the success of woodland policies and incentives in delivering for biodiversity in the future.
“It shows that all kinds of woodland can deliver for biodiversity - including productive forests. This is especially true for modern forestry when judged against the challenging benchmark of an ancient semi-natural woodland.
“Furthermore, the survey demonstrates that the active management of a forest for wood production delivers higher biodiversity as well as a renewable supply of wood to help sustain an industry that benefits climate change mitigation, jobs and the economy - at minimal cost to the public purse.
"Confor is preparing an in-depth report exploring the relationship between woodland management practices and timber production, and the biodiversity in our forest habitats. This is due to be released in April and will help to inform ongoing policy and research in tackling the nature emergency.”
On 1st April 2019, the devolution of forestry to Scottish Ministers was completed. With the new arrangements, Forestry Commission Scotland was replaced by a new Scottish Government agency called Scottish Forestry.
Scottish Forestry is responsible for delivering Scottish Ministers’ forestry policy, regulation, grants incentives, technical forestry advice and new cross border arrangements.
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The benchmark for the initial reports was set as the expected condition that would be found in an ancient semi-natural woodland in good condition. Only general comparisons can be made, in terms of woodland area figures, against previous detailed surveys such as the NWSS and HAP assessment.
Many woodland variables can be used as indicators of ecological condition, including age class structure, capacity to support invertebrate and vertebrate life, threats to health and regenerative status.
These factors have been assessed using an agreed, qualitative scoring system, based on current best available scientific evidence and expert opinion, to calculate the condition for each stand as either ‘favourable’, ‘intermediate’ or ‘unfavourable’.
The reports also gives non-native woodlands an overall ‘intermediate’ ecological score, highlighting that while they have a positive value for biodiversity in Scotland, positive management could improve their contribution further.
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I’m worried about having a smaller team size than 12.
While competition teams in Chiv liked the team size of 6, I’m worried about it for this game. Competition teams had luxuries, like the ability to pause the game and wait for a new person to join and to find good replacements when they couldn’t.
Players fighting 2v1 have a massive advantage, and I don’t think people should have it much without doing something to get it. In an 11v12 or 15v16 setting, only one matchup will be at a disadvantage and in the chaos of target switching and players coming out of spawn, it won’t feel as bad.
In a 5v6, being down a guy is too much of a problem. If you compound that with the fact that Chiv players are going to be joining this game in groups, it will be hard to get public matches going at all. The unstacked team will have constant quitters.
I’ve played a lot of Overwatch recently, which is 6v6. It even has the luxury of grouping players by their skill ranking. I’ve got like 200 hours or more and I can say for sure it player like hammered poop most of the time. Almost every game is wildly unmatched and a team that has a quitter for even thirty seconds will lose its match, every time. It is usually the worse team that loses the player.
If staying alive due to the use of abilities is the biggest problem in larger games, I’m sure there is a fun way to space them out more.
The combat in Mirage without the abilities, right now at this early stage, is great. It is really fun. The magic is cool on top of it, but I don’t think it is necessary to come out of the spawn with abilities charged - if that’s a problem for larger groups playing.
I’m sure this game will still be fun for a lot of people at 6v6, so I’m not totally down on it. I could even see comp matches staying 6v6. For the casual player, you need that large group size so that you can jump in and get lost, so you can be social, and so that imbalanced in the match making can be glossed over.
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I agree with most of this, but I feel like I remember reading something that said the game is being balanced around 6v6, but there will be servers with (x)/32. Maybe I’m wrong, I just remember reading that somewhere.
Something that a lot of people forget is that 2v1 should naturally be in favor of the 2 people. Theoretically, the 2 players in the 2v1 situation should win 100% of the time in C:MW assuming the players do it correctly. 2v1s will still be very possible in this game, but the 1 player will have a lot a much harder time doing so. Personally, I’m ok with this. In C:MW the amount of times reverses would go through parries made 2v1s incredibly RNG-based.
But yeah, I wouldn’t want all official servers to be (x)/6, that seems too low for just a normal server.
Thanks for being an alpha-tester that actually provides feedback instead of uninstalling immediately.
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Well, I don’t really think you can compare overwatch to mirage at all.
You can’t parry in overwatch.
There are stunlocks.
Ultimates are retarded and kills you in less than a second most of the time.
It has a Rock, Paper, Scissors system. For example a Winston on full health will never be able to beat a Roadhog on full health, meanwhile a Genji on full health vs a Winston on full health will most likely end up dead as well.
Meanwhile in Chivalry you can beat a knight as an archer, or a man at arms, or a vanguard, and vice versa.
Overwatch is heavily team based and relies on a good team comp, if you queue with 4 pals and the two randoms pick characters who doesn’t benefit the team or they simply can’t fill their role you will lose, even if it’s a 6v6 because there’s no real carry potential in overwatch.
That said… I wouldn’t mind there being some 8v8 or 12v12 pubs, though it might get a bit spammy with the amount of abilities flying across the battlefield.
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6v6 works well due to the map size and the general dynamics of the ranged attacks, if people create non official servers with larger numbers thats fine but bit of a non skilled range spam fest. I was pretty dubious about 6v6 but after playing it for a while it works very well, large numbers dont add anything to the game. I agree some people can carry the game, but its all such fast furious action, rejoining quickly I dont see it as an issue, or need to rage quit because you died.
Just wanted to add to your point about leavers. In Overwatch, the penalty for leaving a quickplay match is almost non-existant. There is nothing they have done to discourage players leaving a match. I think after leaving 10 or something within the span of a few days, they reduce your XP gain to 50% or something. It’s literally the shittiest penalty you can imagine. So long as Torn Banana devs add some kind of penalties for leaving a match, (I’m talking about matchmaking btw, not a normal server) I don’t see that the problems will be as bad. Even in Overwatch quickplay, I only get a leaver(s) every 1 in 5 games or so. I almost never get a leaver in competitive because there is actually a meaningful penalty: losing ranking. Quickplay and competitive in Overwatch are a bit shit atm too, their system is really bad and often results in unfair matches. So long as Torn Banana delivers a fair matchmaking system, that will also lessen the amount of people that leave. When people get steam-rolled in OW, they don’t feel like playing anymore so they just leave.
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@wizardish said in Team Size - Worried about 6v6:
You can’t make people stay by punishing them. Take me for example. If I’m having a really bad time in OW, I’ll just quit the round, even Comp. If they gave me a week long ban for a single instance of quitting, I’d be on the Rocket League or Path of Exile in seconds.
In Comp Rocket League, I don’t think I’ve ever raged quit, or even raged. I think they comp scene is relaxing, but I’ve played with people that get really mad. They won’t take the leaver penalty. They just ASK in goal or drive circles. They’re reading reddit and listening to Pandora until the round is over.
All leaver penalties do is make people mad so they post on forums. No one is going to ‘try hard’ because of a leaver penalty. They have to be having fun to try hard, in general.
That’s the problem with 6v6. One leaver - the game is over. Two great players on one team? Game is over. One afk guy on one team? Game is over. The other 5 will get destroyed.
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It will be interesting to see what will happen with the whole matchmaking code, that is a lot of work and obviously there are higher priorities at the moment. Emulating a system similar to Dota would be nice, but adjusted for the fact that the games are a much lower commitment, since you wont be playing for up to an hour per game.
I got that 75% exp loss in overwatch quick play a while back. Though it was when I solo queued and ended up in matches where the team I joined was steamrolled or when the team I was on had 3 hanzos and bullshit like that. The problem with overwatch is that I can be on the front lines with Zarya and got 28-7 and we still can’t get the objective.
I doubt there will be as much leaving in mirage because you can actually carry even if your team mates are shite.
But I agree that there should be some leaver penalty in the competitive scene:
Bans: Are quite iffy and as cakebread mentioned if people get a weeklong ban, or something along those lines, they play another game meanwhile. I could see 1 day, max 3 day bans happen though during extreme cases.
Major Rank Drops: I think it’s better, people play comp to increase their rank, when they leave a set amount of games their ranks could drop significantly.
EXP gain reducements: Again same as the previous, people want to rank up and want to get better, if they leave a lot they could get a significant EXP penalty for it.
One way to fix the leaver issue could be a separate bandaid comp queue, which people could choose to join if they so wish. Meaning if a team in comp have been reduced so it’s a 5v6 instead of a 6v6, someone who decided to try a bandaid queue could join that team. The difference is that this player wouldn’t lose EXP even if the team lost, due to the fact that his team has been underperforming for some time, and would get a slightly lower EXP boost if he wins than the rest of the team, due to the fact that the person wasn’t there all game. Theoretically it could help with the leaver problem, though I’ve never seen a system like it, so who knows?
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There is always a posibility that with a high demand bigger teamsizes can be maybe looked at and keep 6v6 in competitve. This is something that proberly only the future can tell and the majority of the community. In the past I was also worried about only 6v6 but after playing some games that use this format I actually feel it’s a great balanced team size specially in competitive games.
About the penalties I think for casual there shouldn’t really be penalties it only annoys players and it’s just too hard to balance it out imo. For competitive there should be one, because it’s a lot more important there to have a full team. The person that leaves should lose all exp made in that game and get a penalty to their rank or have a heavy reduced exp gain for the next 5 games or something. I also like Xylvion idea about the bandaid.
Also after playing a decent amount of Overwatch has happend more than once when we had a 5v6 or even 4v6 and we still won, so it isn’t really impossible. It’s ofc a lot harder but with some teamwork even against far superior players it’s still possible to win. The issue is most of the times by the people themself they think we are losing too hard or someone left and just give up in their mind. Btw Overwatch might have the worst matchmaking system that I have ever seen it just doesn’t make sense at all why put a rank 7 with guys that are rank +100 or even +200 ? Just doesn’t make sense to me it’s like their matchmaking is non existent and it just puts random players in free spots.
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Man charged with pointing laser at police helicopter
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Posted: Jun 10, 2020 / 05:41 PM PDT / Updated: Jun 10, 2020 / 06:21 PM PDT
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A Lemon Grove man was charged Wednesday with aiming a laser pointer beam at a San Diego police helicopter during a police protest last weekend in Hillcrest.
Rudy Alvarez, 24, is accused of shining the laser at the SDPD chopper around 8:30 p.m. June 6 near the area of 500 University Avenue, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Over the next hour, he allegedly pointed the laser at the aircraft “multiple times” as he marched with protesters through downtown San Diego.
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He was spotted around 9:45 p.m. near 600 G Street, wearing clothing that matched a description provided by officers in the helicopter, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which said investigators found a “high-powered gray metal laser pointer” in his pants pocket when they took him into custody.
“Aiming a laser pointer at or near an aircraft could cause distraction or blindness to a pilot and the consequences could be devastating,” said U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer. “We support the constitutional rights of free speech and assembly, but it is our duty to protect the public and law enforcement from danger.”
Alvarez was arraigned on Wednesday and is due back in court June 23.
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Radical Mapuche Struggle: Ancestral resistance against the State and capital
Analysis, Apr 6th
The fight for autonomy of the mapuche peoples in Chile has much to teach us, argues Contra Toda Autoridad in this article, originally written for Issue 4 of the collective’s journal and translated by Avalanche.
Contra Toda Autoridad tries to establish points of connection with the radical and anti-state expressions in the historical struggle of the mapuche . Unveiling some differences with their struggle strategies and marking some distances as anti-authoritarians, the text emphasises above all the continuity of a long lasting struggle in which the fights for autonomy and recuperation of territory develop trough resistance and offensive against the statist and capitalists interests in mapuche territories.
“Each individuality, group, tribe or original people have their own ways of resisting this system. However they have the same enemy who represses and oppresses them and the ultimate goal of their struggles is to live freely and autonomously.”
– Compañero Carlos Gutiérrez Quiduleo
Brief journey on a path of resistance
It is well known that the struggle of the Mapuche people has lasted hundreds of years. Even before fighting the Spanish conquistadors, they had already halted the advance of the Incan empire by preventing its advance towards the south of the territory now called Chile and forcing it to maintain its position in the central zone of ‘Chile’.
Also known are the battles and clashes with the Spanish conquistadors, where for more than a hundred years a war was fought that put in check the ambitions of the conquistadors to dominate the territory without any major obstacles, forcing them, after periods marked by extermination and captivity, to establish a border that allowed the Mapuche to maintain their territory south of the Bio Bio River. Once the Chilean State was created, the oppression in Mapuche territory was intensified in what the history of the powerful hypocritically calls the ‘pacification of the Araucanía’, which was in fact a mass ethnic and cultural extermination that deepened the dispossession by delivering Mapuche lands to German settlers with the aim of ‘civilizing’ the lands of the ‘savages’.
In recent decades, the logic of dispossession has intensified following the implementation of neoliberal economic policies imposed by the dictatorship, delivering ancestral Mapuche lands to forestry and hydroelectric
companies, clearing forests, flooding lands, planting pines that kill the native ecosystem and installing pulp processing plants that devastate the territory.
Dispossession, repression and resistance against the State and Capital.
With the arrival of democracy, the commercialization logic intensified, but as was the case in centuries past, Mapuche resistance returned to emerge with organizational proposals and direct actions that led towards
the autonomy of the Mapuche people through the reclamation and defense of their ancestral territory. This objective has been realized in recent decades via the cooperation between communities as well as direct action against diverse targets, such as incendiary attacks against the infrastructure of forestry companies, landowners, holiday homes of politicians, churches etc that are part of the interests of the capitalists and the Chilean state present in the area.
The movement that we call the ‘Mapuche Struggle’ is very heterogeneous. Existing within it simultaneously we find communities and groups that have been assimilated by the Chilean institutional path, discourses of
victimhood, communities in conflict, armed resistance groups, military political organizations, anti-capitalist/revolutionary proposals, ideas of national liberation etc. In the midst of this diversity the Chilean State seeks to solidify the resolution of the conflict via the institutional path, by projecting an image of respect for diversity by putting Mapuche people alongside the authorities during political speeches, inserting the Mapuche language (the Mapuzungun) in State buildings and school texts, appointing people of Mapuche origin to political posts in the ‘conflict zone’, etc.
Alongside this, a policy of intense repression has been underway for years against the Mapuche communities in struggle that have not surrendered to the impositions and offers from the State. They are attacked by the State with continuous raids, assaults on children, imprisonment, murders, torture, special prosecutors, surveillance, wiretapping, use of undercover witnesses, use of informants in exchange for benefits, militarized police, paramilitary groups and the whole range of counterinsurgency techniques that are at the disposal of the well resourced State and Capital.
Recovering the experiences of a struggle without truce.
In spite of all their repressive machinations, the State has failed to stop the most radical expressions of the Mapuche struggle, making us aware of the differences that separate us from any victimized or ethnocentric positions that do not pay attention to the existence of other tendencies in the war against State and Capital. Once certain distances are assumed, we can recover the permanent action against State and capitalist
interests and see how, despite the repression, this action continues and even extends and intensifies, surpassing all the anti-subversive policies deployed in the Mapuche area with hundreds of men deployed
and millions of pesos spent on human and technical resources for repression.
We can learn many lessons from studying the continuous radical Mapuche struggle, elements of which could undoubtedly contribute to the insurrectionary struggle against all authority. Its rhythm of war is already an
example to follow, intensifying and diversifying the combat, on the one hand against the centuries of dispossession that still continue, and on the other hand in response to the repressive assaults.
For example, in April 2016 while the State, its public prosecutors, police and intelligence agencies were still celebrating and boasting following the arrest of a group of communeros accused of participating in an incendiary attack where two landowners died (2015), Mapuche resistance groups carried out various incendiary attacks in defiance of the authorities, demonstrating that imprisonment is not synonymous with defeat and that the struggle continues and intensifies.
Something also important to consider is that this continuous action despite the arrests and murders of Mapuche comuneros, the raids and endless harassment of communities, and even the betrayal of Mapuches who
ended up collaborating with the State, does not necessarily have anything to do with a military professionalization of the Mapuche – although the authorities try to present it this way. On the contrary, it is individuals and collectives that with ingenuity and decisiveness take an active part in the radical struggle without giving truce to the enemy in a war that begins within the same communities that have made advances in reclaiming territory and resisting the police onslaughts.
Their attitude in the struggle, their rhythm of war, are an example for us. Bringing the war everywhere from our position of continual confrontation is something that is undoubtedly feared by authority. How much stronger we would be if more compañerxs had this attitude of breaking from their own routine and comfort, to unleash their rage against domination, to return the blows of the enemy and to give everything to
the permanent insurrection against power.
We have the experience close to us and the desire and conviction within us.
In the forests, fields and cities …To spread the war against domination!
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Super Gene
SUPER GENE Chapter 960
Chapter 960: Father, Don’t Cry
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Han Sen took out the gourd and placed it in his hand. It was previously gold, but now it was dim and dirty-looking. Cracks had manifested across its surface, giving it the appearance of dried, distressed mud.
Its heartbeat, however, was growing stronger and stronger. Han Sen believed something would soon emerge.
“Is this it? Is whatever’s inside it finally going to reveal itself?” Han Sen was shocked.
He was glad that whatever was inside was finally going to come out of the gourd, but he couldn’t help but wonder whether it would be a good thing or a bad thing.
As the gourd vibrated, the mud-like shell began to flake away.
“If you’ve just stolen my holy bottle, you better be giving me something good in return! And by good, I’m expecting something like a super weapon. So, how about one of those? I’m not being greedy, but something that’ll give me the leg-up and enable me to slay troublesome spirit emperors would be pretty sweet. But you know, I wouldn’t say no to armor, either. After all, everyone should use protection, lest an unfortunate accident occur. Armor that’d make me invincible would be decent enough, so there’s no need to go any stronger than that. I do need to remain modest. So, Buddha, Taoist, God, Jesus, and even you Mohammed. Athena, all of you, I’m asking all of you; please, pretty pretty please, fulfill this wish of mine!” Han Sen then proceeded to ramble even more, praying to any and all deities or religious figures he could think of.
Han Sen had invested much in nurturing the gourd. The gourd had just taken the holy bottle he fancied, and that was in addition to the Cog Gear that was created by Moment Queen. If nothing good emerged, he was going to explode with anger.
Watching the shell of the gourd peel off inch by inch, Han Sen’s heart began to beat faster. Each thump was almost painful.
Katcha!
The shell collapsed into a mound of mud-flakes, as something new rolled into Han Sen’s hand.
Examining it, Han Sen was in disbelief.
It was a thumb-sized female doll. Its eyes were big and black, the same color as the doll’s hair. It was a chubby little thing, but most curious of all was what the doll was holding. The doll was holding another gourd.
As Han Sen stood there, frozen and unsure of what to think, the doll started to grow. It expanded to the size of an ordinary baby.
It was alive. The chubby hand of the doll grabbed Han Sen’s arm, and with its cheeks, the baby rubbed her face against Han Sen’s. Then, she said, “Daddy, Daddy!”
Han Sen wanted to shoot himself. He had sacrificed so much to the gourd, and all he had received in return was a baby.
“My six Cog Gears, my holy bottle…” Han Sen’s spirits hit rock-bottom.
The baby grabbed Han Sen’s neck and used her other hand to stroke his head, saying, “Father, don’t cry.”
Han Sen looked at her and placed her down on a table, wishing he could exchange the baby for the weapons he so sorely wanted.
After he observed her for a while, the baby’s mouth began to drop as tears welled-up in her pretty, sparkling eyes.
“Don’t cry! Don’t cry!” Han Sen was starting to get a headache, but he wasn’t going to bully and disregard the feelings of a baby.
“Father, hug!” The baby looked pitiful as she stared up at Han Sen.
Han Sen sighed and picked the baby up.
This immediately brought the baby joy, and with her hands, she grabbed Han Sen’s neck, shouting, “Daddy! Daddy!”
“What are you?” Han Sen used his dongxuan aura to examine the baby, and didn’t notice much of interest. Had it not emerged from the gourd, he’d have assumed she was a natural human baby.
Whatever she was, she wasn’t a creature and she wasn’t a spirit.
“Geno Seeds can grow humans? But what do I need a baby for?” Han Sen’s depression was sinking in, and it wasn’t going anywhere else in the immediate future.
Thinking something was wrong, though, he kept on examining the baby.
“Strange. Where is it?” Han Sen looked around on the floor and there was nothing.
“I thought she was holding a gourd. Where did it go?” Han Sen’s confusion was only getting worse.
Han Sen kept searching, but he was unable to find out where it had gone. What he did find, though, was a seedling on the ground.
The sprout was coming out of a rock, and like the picture-perfect image of a young plant, it had two cute little leaves.
Han Sen squatted for a better look.
He had seen this before; it was a six-item Gear Tree.
Han Sen observed the little tree and saw that the ground around it was wet, as if someone had just watered the plant.
“These are the tears of the baby.” Han Sen looked at her, and noticed the tears that still remained on her face. They must have dropped to the ground, soaking the plant.
Han Sen wasn’t prone to dripping sweat, so the only explanation was it being the tears of the baby.
He smiled and said, “Don’t cry. I love you!”
Han Sen then used his finger to wipe the tears from her face and then throw them on the ground deliberately.
What happened, a second later, made Han Sen freeze. Where the tears fell, the rock cracked as another young plant sprouted through it.
The little leaves were green like jade, and they did indeed look like another six-item Gear Tree.
“D*mn; one of her tears is equal to one of these trees. Haha, I’m rich!” Han Sen almost jumped in joy.
He gave her a kiss on the cheek and then said, “My good little daughter…”
But still, despite that revelation, Han Sen was unable to find the gourd she had been holding when she first appeared. After scouring the entire palace, he was unable to find it.
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UPDATED: Everyone’s Favorite Vegetable, Frozen Pizza
Can you spot the veggie on the plastic foam plate? <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37141125@N07/4066363965/">Ellie Strikes Weird</a>/Flickr
[See update below.]
Congress is in the process of figuring next year’s agriculture budget, and the food industry is using the occasion as an opportunity to bully the USDA as it rolls out new rules for the National School Lunch Program. According to the New York Times, Big Food has already dropped a cool $5.6 million lobbying to kibosh the new rules.
Why does the industry care about school lunches? Because school cafeterias get less than a dollar a day per student in federal funding to spend on ingredients (about two-thirds of the maximum $2.94 outlay per lunch goes to overhead and labor), and many public schools lack cooking facilities altogether. So cafeterias often outsource cooking to massive entities that know how to squeeze a profit by selling lots of dirt-cheap food—companies like meat giant Tyson and its infamous heat-and-serve “Dinosaur Shaped Chicken Nuggets,” and Conagra and its frozen pizzas.
In January, the USDA came out with new guidelines governing what can go on kids’ plates. Mandated by a 2004 act of Congress ordering USDA to align school lunches with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the rules (PDF) impose two new criteria that have drawn the ire of the food industry.
First, they rewrote the requirements around vegetable and fruit servings. Before, cafeterias were required to serve at least one vegetable per day, and the definition was expansive: Tater Tots and French fries, for example, counted. Now, they limit the amount of potatoes and other “starchy vegetables” to no more than one cup (two servings) per week—and require schools to serve at least one serving per week of dark green and red/orange vegetables. Second, they no longer allow the two ounces of tomato paste that lacquer a typical frozen pizza to count as a vegetable.
To Big Food and its friends on the Hill, none of this would do. Back in October, by a unanimous vote, the Senate slapped an amendment on its ag appropriations bill that will rescind the limit on potatoes. This, despite a major recent Harvard study finding that regular consumption of potatoes in all their forms, fried and not, contributes heavily to unhealthy weight gain.
And now, reports Politico‘s David Rogers, Conagra and fellow frozen-pizza behemoth Schwan are arraying their lobbying might against the new tomato-paste rule. Rogers writes:
A June letter from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, for example, celebrates the virtues of tomato paste in language that closely mirrors the arguments made by Schwan, a privately owned giant based in Marshall, Minn. And both Schwan and ConAgra have quietly helped to finance the “Coalition for Sustainable School Meals Programs” which maintains a red-white-blue—and yes green—website with the heading “Fix the Reg.”
According to Rogers, the House version of the ag-spending bill will likely contain a provision nixing the rule change, and preserving frozen pepperoni pizza’s status as a fruit/vegetable serving, so long as it harbors a bit of tomato paste. Between the Senate’s amendemnt and this coming move from the House, school cafeterias will remain profitable places to move cheap corporate French fries and pizza, and train a new generation to regard such dubious fare as every-day food.
In my recent post on food and Occupy Wall Street, I showed how the food system, like the financial system, is both in desperate need of reform and utterly trapped under the heel of industry influence. The gutting of the USDA’s new lunch guidelines provides yet another example.
UPDATE: I wrote this post before the House came out with its spending bill late Monday afternoon. It turns out, it’s even worse than I thought. Associated Press:
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Hello Friends Today we will tell you the reports of Karan Johar Net Worth, Property, Bikes Collection, Luxury cars, and Movies. All the Reports are taken from various media Portals and online Sources.
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His real name is karan kumar Johar. He is the most popular Indian film Producer, screenwriter, designer, TV host and bollywood actor. Johar was born on 25 May 1972 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. He is the father of twins a baby girl and a baby boy. He is the son of the most popular producer “Yash Johar”.
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The estimated Karan Johar Net Worth is around $200 million in 2020 which is equal to 14,66,47,60,000.00 Indian Rupee. Many reports have revealed that he charges Rs. 30 crore to direct a film and Rs. 2 crore per brand endorsement. It is an approximate figures, taken from various Internet Sources. The main source of earning is from his film producer career.
He has recently donated Rs. 5 crores to the Indian Army. He is also in the list of highest tax payers in the film industry.
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From the reports of zeenews we have came to know that Karn earn about Rs 24-25 crores from Baahubali film.
Karan Johar has invested 400 crores and now he gets good rate of return.
Income in 2019 Rs. 1220 crores
Income in 2018 Rs. 25.9 crores
Income in 2016 Rs. 75 crores
Brand endorsement Rs. 2 Crore
Movie Direction Career Rs. 30 Crores
Personal Investments Rs. 400 Crore
Luxury Cars Rs. 8 – 9 Crore
Per Month income $666,666
Per Week income $153,846
He is unmarried but he has too surrogate twins kids baby Yash (son) and baby Roohi (Daughter).
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil in 2016
Karan has done his school in Greenlaws High School and graduation from HR College of Commerce. He was fond of working in the film industry since childhood. His deam was to become a Direct but his father wanted him to become an actor.
Karan Johar started his director career with his debut movie as a director was “kuch kuch hota hai”.
Actual Name Karan Kumar Johar
Profession Film Director, designer
Age 48 years old (2020)
Birth Date 25 May 1972
Birth Place Mumbai, India
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He has many luxury cars the worth of which is between 8 – 9 Crore. He is fond of cars. His car collection includes a BMW745, BMW760, and a Mercedes S class.
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Kratika Sengar is an Indian television actress and model. She was born in 1986 Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Her father’s name is Vedant Sengar and her mother’s name is Kalpana Sengar Vedant. She also has a younger brother. Whose name is Anuraag Sengar Vedant, who is 6 years younger. Kratika used to be shy in childhood.
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Full Name Kratika Sengar Vedant
Nickname Chinki, Kartu
Profession TV Actress and model
Date of Birth 3 July 1986
Zodiac sign Cancer
Birthplace Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Hometown Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Kratika Sengar height is 5’5″ and weight is 55 kg.
Height 165 cm, 5’ 5” (approx.)
Weight 55 kg (approx.)
Figure Measurements 34-26-36 (approx.)
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Kratika Sengar age is 34 years. Kratika Sengar birthday is on 3 July.
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For her early education or study she went to Methodist High School in Kanpur. Later, she came to Delhi for her higher education where she graduated in Mass Communication from Amity University in Noida. During her college days, Kratika used to stay in Paying Gust (PG) in New Friends Colony. She said that she did not live her college life much better because she was away from her family. She were very close to her family.
School Methodist High School, Kanpur
University Amity University, Noida
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Kratika Sengar was born in 1986 Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Her father’s name is Vedant Sengar and her mother’s name is Kalpana Sengar Vedant. She also has a younger brother. Whose name is Anuraag Sengar Vedant, who is 6 years younger. Kratika used to be shy in childhood. She was a Decent Student and basketball player during school time.
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After completing her Higher Study, Kritika came to Mumbai. She started his career by working in a client servicing department in an advertisement agency and she has also worked in Hungama TV for some time. When Kratika was in Mumbai, one of her seniors was doing an internship with Balaji Television. Her senior asked Kritika to audition for serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. She auditioned for Balaji Telefilms and got selected. Balaji offered him a small role.
In 2007, Kratika started her acting career playing the role of Saanjhi in Balaji’s hit show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Before getting her big break in 2009, Kratika did several short rolls. She played the role of Prerna Junior in Kasautii Zindagii Kay. Apart from this, she played the role of Naina in Kya Dil Mein Hai. And also appeared in reality show Lux Kaun Jeetega Bollywood ka ticket.
Her big break came in 2009 when he got the role of Rani Laxmibai in Jhansi Ki Rani. Her performance in this show gave him a lot of popularity. The show ended in 2011. Kratika’s success did not end only after the Rani of Jhansi came to an end, her career continued to touch new heights every day. He also worked in two very successful shows, namely Punar vivah and Kasam Tere Pyaar Ki.
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In the show Punarvah in her role of a single mother opposite Gurmeet Chaudhary on Zee TV, Kratika got a lot of operation and also received a lot of awards for her performance. Her role as Tanu along with Sharad Malhotra in the serial Kasam Tere Pyaar Ki is also being appreciated a lot. Kratika appeared in the lead role in many more shows such as Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil, Aahat, Ek Veer Ki Ardas… Veera and Service Wali Bahu. Kratika believes that her professional and career life is going very well and she is very happy in her career life.
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Vivo Y20 with triple camera launched in India for Rs 12,990
New Delhi: Chinese smartphone maker Vivo on Wednesday launched an affordable Vivo Y20 device with AI triple camera setup and a 5000mAh battery for Rs 12,990 in India. The smartphone will be available for purchase starting August 28 in two colours – obsidian black and dawn white.
“Vivo’s youthful Y series has always been about offering a wide spectrum of products with innovative features that meets the specific requirements across the different price range,” Nipun Marya, Director Brand Strategy, Vivo India, said in a statement.
The smartphone comes with a 6.51-inch Halo iView display which features an aspect ratio of 20:9 and HD+ (1600 x 720) resolution.
The device is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 processor coupled with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. The device also has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner that claims to unlock the phone in just 0.22 seconds.
The smartphone packs a massive 5,000mAh battery with 18W FlashCharge technology that may last up to 16 hours with HD-movie streaming and 11 hours of resource-intensive games, the company said.
The smartphone houses a 13MP main camera, 2MP Bokeh camera and a Macro camera. At the front, the smartphone features an 8MP camera for selfies.
In addition, the smartphone maker also announced Y20i smartphone with a 5000mAh battery, fast side-mounted fingerprint scanner and AI triple macro camera for Rs 11,490. The Y20i will be available on sale starting September 3 at partner retail stores, the company said.
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20 Unforgettable Quotes from Fictional Lady Bosses
Did you know that women make up 47% of the workforce and that 39% of managers in 2015 were women? However, only 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women and there is still a 21% wage gap. Compared to past decades, women are making progress in leadership roles, but it’s not always easy.
These talented female leaders have gotten where they are today by hard work, persistence, and intelligence. And though we’d like to see more lady bosses running companies, in recent years it has been encouraging to see leading ladies step up to support each other and offer insight into the challenges they’ve faced and their paths to success.
The prevalence of strong women isn’t just increasing in the office, it’s also increasing in Hollywood. From 2014 to 2015, there was an 6% increase in female leads in the top grossing movies. These leading ladies are inspiring in their own right, as they remind us to be strong, brave, and innovative.
On screen, female leaders display themselves in a variety of different ways. Some, like Miranda Priestly of The Devil Wears Prada, are icy while others, like Leslie Knope of Parks and Rec, are quirky and compassionate. Though some of these leadership styles work better than others, all these women show strength and confidence that many of us aspire to.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we created this visual on unforgettable quotes from our favorite fictional lady bosses.
Which lady boss do you relate to most? Are you like Miranda Bailey, who is full of tough love, but also compassion? Or do you have an inner Paris Geller — cutthroat and unapologetic? Whichever is the case, make sure you embrace your inner (and outer!) lady boss so you can really shine.
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Mon., May 26, 2008 – Acclaimed mathematician David Mumford announced today that he is donating proceeds from the prestigious Wolf Prize, awarded Sunday at a ceremony at the Israeli Knesset, for the benefit of equal opportunities for Palestinian students. Professor Mumford is donating half his share of the prize to an Israeli human rights NGO, Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, which protects the rights of Palestinian students to access education and half to Birzeit University in the West Bank.
Professor Mumford was given his award by Israeli President Shimon Peres at Sunday’s ceremony, in recognition of his groundbreaking theoretical work in algebraic geometry. He is a University Professor at Brown University’s Division of Applied Mathematics.
According to Professor Mumford, mathematics is flourishing today as a vibrant international community, because scholars are free to travel, talk and learn from each other anywhere in the world. "Here is my own experience", says Mumford: "the work for which I have received this prize owes more than I can say to sharing ideas when I was young with Jun-Ichi Igusa from Japan, C. S. Seshadri from India, Alexander Grothendieck, a stateless person — and many others. It was startling and moving when, as a young man, I received a letter from Seshadri, from halfway around the world, telling me that his and Narasimhan’s work had led them to the same results as mine".
"Mathematics in Israel flourishes today on this high international plane. Its lifeblood is the free exchange of ideas with scholars visiting, teaching, learning from each other, traveling everywhere in the world. But this is not so in occupied Palestine where education struggles to continue and travel is greatly limited".
"Therefore I have decided to donate my part of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics to the cause of helping the University community in occupied Palestine survive and flourish. Its existence determines how the next generation will grow up and specifically whether potential mathematicians there will have the opportunity to join the international community that nourished me. For this reason, I am giving half of my prize to the Israeli human rights NGO Gisha which works to further The Right to Education and Freedom of Movement and half to Birzeit University directly."
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The Greater Sydney Commission today announced the appointment of new Chief Executive, Elizabeth Mildwater.
Chief Commissioner, Geoff Roberts AM, said Ms Mildwater, currently Deputy Secretary, Greater Sydney, at Transport for NSW, would join the Commission in an ongoing capacity in January 2021, concluding a formal public recruitment process.
“Elizabeth brings great strategic thinking and knowledge of Greater Sydney, with a deep understanding of how our metropolis moves, its growth and how infrastructure and growth must be coordinated.
“Elizabeth is well-known to many of us at the Commission through her work at Transport, where she focused on integrated transport services for Greater Sydney, encouragement of public transport, walking and cycling, zero emission buses and keeping people moving during COVID,” Mr Roberts said.
“She also was a key partner with the Commission in establishing the Greater Sydney Women’s Safety Charter and prior to Transport she led the Australian Programs for Save the Children Australia, improving the lives of the country’s most marginalised children and young people” he said.
“Elizabeth’s appointment is another major step in the Commission’s evolution through the stages of plan-making, implementation and now setting new priorities that will underpin the imminent review of the Greater Sydney Region Plan,” the Chief Commissioner said.
“In the past three months we also have recruited new Economic and Environment Commissioners and been tasked by the Premier to lead the accelerated delivery of four key economic and innovation precincts across Greater Sydney and coordinate a business and jobs strategy for the Central Coast.
Ms Mildwater said today, “Having worked around the world, and returning to Sydney in 2016, I appreciate better just how great Sydney is and how much greater still it can be. I look forward to being a part of Greater Sydney’s future planning and success.”
“I am passionate about achieving the ‘greater good for Greater Sydney’ through innovation, hard work and many seemingly small steps. This is a very exciting time to be joining the Greater Sydney Commission and working with Geoff, the Commissioners, the GSC team and our partners across all levels of government, industry and the community,” Ms Mildwater said.
Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tim Reardon, welcomed Ms Mildwater to her new role.
“I have worked with Elizabeth on my leadership team in a previous role and I am very pleased that she will bring both her great knowledge of our city and her leadership skills to the Commission and the Department of Premier and Cabinet more broadly,” Mr Reardon said.
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Ms Mildwater joins the Commission after four years at Transport for NSW as Deputy Secretary Greater Sydney, and previously Deputy Secretary People and Corporate Services, Deputy Secretary Customer Technology and Services.
Before that she was Director of Australian Programs for Save the Children Australia, Group General Manager, Victoria for Transurban Group and held legal counsel roles with several energy industry corporations
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The Walking Dead: 3.10 – “Home”
February 18, 2013 Michelle L. Mattock 1 Comment
Last week marked the return of AMC’s The Walking Dead from their mid-season hiatus. It focused mainly on Rick’s return to the prison and him losing his shit. Well, that continued this week with Rick is still long gone mentally and seeing hallucinations of his dead wife. When we start, Rick goes out beyond the gate of the prison to stand with Lori. His mental break has been rather public and here, again, he makes no attempt to hide it…
The governor wants Andrea to take over Woodbury. Now, I would love nothing more than to see a good old-fashioned Andrea fight between her and the Gov. She never used to even trust the people in her own group! All of a sudden she is this trusting, obedient lady. I am not yet over that. The Governor then goes to Milton and tells him to keep tabs on Andrea. How that works, I’m not sure. I could snap Milton in half. And his poker face is laughable. My hope is that Andrea is going to come to her senses when she realizes that her friends are in trouble. OR better yet, when she realizes Michonne is with her friends, alive, and they are all in trouble.
MEANWHILE. BACK AT THE PRISON: Michonne actually has something to add about Glenn’s plan. Oh yes… he has a plan. He wants to go to Woodbury with Michonne and make a stand for the group’s sake. As I mentioned in last week’s review, Glenn should take over the group. Oh wait! That is currently happening! The group needs to find out how the walkers are getting into the tombs, and Maggie is lying in bed. She is unwilling to speak to Glenn… not exactly sure why. I guess she is upset that Glenn is upset about what happened to her, but I have no idea why that is pissing her off. The man with the awesome mustache, Axel, is pretty keen on Carol. I wonder if Daryl will come back all jealous! “That’s my mousey, scrawny she-man!”
The good man in Daryl goes to help a few stranded folks, of course against Merle’s wishes. Daryl crushing the walker’s head by shutting the trunk on it… just the most atrocious thing I have ever seen. Outstandingly grotesque.
Daryl turns his weapon on Merle, who was trying to take from the mother and baby they just saved. I mean… that man is putrid. Daryl and Merle get into a spat, which actually leads to a bit of back story between the two. Daryl says to Merle “You lost your hand ‘cause you’re a simple-minded piece of shit.” It then comes to light that the brothers Dixon were abused as children by their father, Merle left, leaving Daryl to continued abuse, which resulted in scars all over his back. So when Daryl had to walk away and was saying that Merle was the one leaving him… again… Merle seemingly realized who he needed to be, which is a good brother to the only family he has left.
While Glenn is gone looking for the breach, Rick claims to Hershel that he’s got “stuff” outside the prison gates, and that he needs to stay there. He explains to Hershel that he saw Lori and she was on the phone earlier, along with Shane, and the rest of the group that had been killed. He explains that there must be a reason and although it does not make sense now, it will in time so he refuses to come back inside the prison.
During a tender moment between Carol and Axel, a bullet rips through Axel’s head and so begins the Governor’s attack on the prison.
The Governor’s crew smashes an armored truck full of walkers through the gates and onto the prison grounds and released its contents. While Glenn extracts Hershel, we get to see not only Michonne swinging her Katana, but Daryl and Merle’s arrival just in time to save Rick as well. This all out assault resulted in only one death from our prison group – Axel, who then acted as a human shield to keep Carol alive during the firefight. The Governor also suffered only one casualty when Maggie picked off the sniper who somehow got into the guard tower.
This episode was much better than last week’s, in my opinion. I love the development of characters that have been around since the beginning, like how we are just finding out about Merle and Daryl’s past. The action in this episode was a big part of what was missing from last week. There was the scene between the Dixon brothers resulting in Daryl turning a weapon on his brother. It was very exciting! And then, of course, the end of the episode, when the whole group had to grab a gun and try to stay alive. Honestly, when Daryl showed up just as Rick was about to become zombie chow, my heart skipped a beat! And then, Michonne’s beautiful Katana work made me cheer out loud. This was a great episode. I was still slightly annoyed with the Woodbury situation, making Milton look important and Andrea unlikable, but I have a feeling that will change.
Overall, I would give this episode a 4/5. This may be generous because the last episode disappointed me so much, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
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William Maullace says:
I think The Gov lost 2 people, there was a black gentleman behind him that got shot behind the truck driver side door at one point
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Gambian Police Deny Detaining Canadian Man who Filmed them At Work
Gambia’s police department have categorically denied detaining a Canadian national.
A certain Alhagie Sowe ran into trouble with police at the Farato-Jamburr Junction December last year after he filmed the personnel at work.
A Canadian, a curious Sowe is reported to have met the police and grilled them over their road marking.
Apparently growing uneasy over Alhagie’s behaviour, police asked he leave before apprehending him on the spot for failing to adhere to their advice and for filming them while at work.
A court action followed with the hearing stalling over the coronavirus pandemic.
However, reports surfaced recently alleging Sowe was still in police custody with his travel documents seized prompting police into issuing a communique to repudiate the claims.
Below is a full text of the police report
“It has come to the notice of the Inspector General of Police that information is circulating on social media that One Alhagie Sowe is currently missing and held under Police custody. The information went further to state that his travel documents have been confiscated by the Gambian Police Authorities thereby preventing him from traveling.
“We wish to make it clear that Alagie Sowe is not in Police custody. Furthermore, none of his documents are with the Police.
“Sometime around December 2019, officers at Farato Police Station were on a road marking exercise (Painting Zebra Crossing point at Farato- Jamburr Junction). The exercise was part of our proactive initiatives to ensure road safety, as well as a respond to the needs of the community of Farato who through community policing efforts, purchased paints while the Police provided man power to mark zebra crossing at hotspots for accidents. During the exercise and of course for safety reasons traffic had to be diverted for a period of time.
“Drivers and other road users were using the diversion as indicated by an officer giving signals. It was during this moment that a gentleman who later came to be known as Alhagie Sowe found officers carrying out this exercise.
“He first questioned the reason for the diversion ànd was told, a road marking exercise was ongoing. He further questioned the authority for such exercise on the road. The Police officers maintained that they were on a lawful exercise and he was accordingly adviced to go about his lawful business. Mr Sowe who seemed not satisfied then stopped his vehicle, started filming, and taking pictures. After several attempts to make him stop, he refused to heed to police advice.
“Mr Sowe was then arrested and charged with Obstructing a Police Officer, Contrary to laws of the Gambia.
“Subsequently, he was arraigned before the Brikama Magistrates Court where he took his plea of not guilty. He was admitted to bail in the sum of D25,000 with one Gambian surety who should produce his original biometric ID card which must be deposited at the court. Additionally the court ordered that the accused should submit all his travel documents to the Registrar of the court pending the final determination of the case. Furthermore, the surety must swear to an affidavit of means in the large sum.
“This was done and the matter was adjourned for hearing on subsequent dates. As the trial proceeds, the Prosecution opened their case and called in three witnesses who all testified. At the close of the case of the Prosecution, the defence made a No Case to answer submission, to which the Prosecution replied.
“The matter was then adjourned for rulings which could not be delivered due to the Coronavirus Pandemic as Courts have temporarily suspended sittings.
“We wish to once again clarify that Alagie Sowe is not held under Police custody as his case is a subject of litigation before the subordinate court.”
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Granger looked at the saliva covered key with disgust, but fortunately there was a washbasin near the bed, and there was soap as well. He thoroughly washed the key, noting not only how small it was, but how thin it was as well. He put it into his jacket pocket, then glanced over at Cochrane’s dead body on the bed. He felt real sadness over the loss of Cochrane, but there was much to be done, so mourning would have to wait. He straightened his uniform into shape and opened the door to the room. Jackson was standing there, anxious to go back in, so Granger merely had to motion for him to enter. “He is dead,” Granger said simply.
“That is a shame, my lord,” Jackson said. “I think he was too far gone for me to save, even if we’d gotten here earlier. They say he’s been in this room for nigh on two weeks.”
“It is unfortunate,” Granger agreed, trying to sound solemn. “We must quickly go through Cochrane’s things. I must make sure that any of his papers are retrieved before the Swedes have a chance to pilfer through them.” They may have already done that, but he guessed they would have left Cochrane well enough alone. “He handed me a key before he died, so presumably whatever it unlocks is in here.”
“Of course, my lord,” Jackson said. Granger found Cochrane’s sea chest in the corner of the room, and that seemed to be Cochrane’s only possession. He thought that perhaps the key was to that chest, but it was much too small for the large trunk, and in any event, it was already open. They went through everything, tossing out Cochrane’s clothes as they did, but found nothing of any significance. The only item of interest was a leather letter case, but it was empty with the exception of a letter Cochrane had started to write to his father.
“We must look through his clothing,” Granger said, frustrated. Granger and Jackson then went back through each piece of clothing they’d previously haphazardly tossed out of the trunk, taking time to fold it and put it back in as they did. They carefully felt each garment for anything that may be sewed into the lining.
Granger forced himself to proceed in a slow and methodical way, which Jackson mirrored. Internally he was near panic, and was beginning to worry that the key to this mystery, the key that was literally in his pocket, would open a lock that had long been disposed of. Jackson got to Cochrane’s great coat, the one he’d use for the harsh winters, and froze. “There is something in here.”
Granger took the coat from Jackson and felt what Jackson had felt: there was a large flat object inside the coat. “Do you have any scissors, or a knife?”
“A scalpel, my lord,” Jackson said, and fumbled through his own bag until he found the instrument. “Shall I do it?”
“I suspect you’re much more adept with that instrument than I am,” Granger said with a grin. Jackson gently cut the lining as little as he could, and then fished the object out of the coat. He looked at it curiously, even as he handed it to Granger. It was made of metal, and was some three inches thick, ten inches long, and four inches wide.
“There’s another one in the other panel, my lord,” Jackson said, and removed the twin case. Granger held the two items in his hands, observing that they were the same weight and the same size. He noted what an excellent design this was. The cases were bulky, but enclosed as they were in a lined great coat, even on a slim man like Cochrane they were probably not visible. Further, having two made them less obvious, since there was one on each side, thus one side of the coat did not bulge out whereas the other did.
“That was good work,” Granger said. He was trying to decide how to spirit the cases back to Valiant when Jackson came to his rescue.
“I can put them in my bag, my lord, and take them back to the ship for you,” Jackson offered.
“Thank you,” Granger replied without hesitation. Jackson owed Granger his life, and Granger knew the man wouldn’t betray him. “I’ll retrieve them from you when I return. See that they remain safely stowed.”
“Aye aye, my lord,” he said, and made to put the items in his bag.
“And doctor,” Granger said, getting his attention, “you must reveal nothing about these boxes, not even the fact that we found them.”
“Of course, my lord,” Jackson said. “You have my word on it.”
“Then I know you will take that secret to the grave with you,” Granger said. They exited the room, then went down the perilously steep staircase to find the aide waiting for him. “Mr. Cochrane is dead.”
“I am sorry, my lord,” the aide said. “The doctors did everything they could.”
“Sir, I am sure they provided him with excellent care, but gaol fever is not easy to cure,” Jackson said soothingly. “This was not your fault.”
Jackson had said ‘your’ in reference to those in charge here. “It was not,” Granger affirmed, and that seemed to relax the aide. “Doctor, I would like you to go back to the ship and send some men back to collect Mr. Cochrane’s sea chest for transmittal back to his family. I will have to talk to the governor about a burial plot for him here.”
“Aye aye, my lord,” Jackson said, and scurried off to the harbor front to make his way back to Valiant.
“My lord, I would be honored if you would allow me to make arrangements for a funeral and burial,” the young aide said earnestly. That prompted Granger to really notice him for the first time. He looked quite young, probably only seventeen or eighteen, with a slim body and a pretty face, with dark brown hair flowing thickly from his head down to just above his shoulders. Having Granger staring at him so intently made the young man squirm nervously.
“I fear I have been most rude, as I don’t even know your name,” Granger said.
The man blushed and eyed him with what was either hero worship or lust, or perhaps both. “Andres von Galen, my lord,” he said.
“Well Mr. von Galen, I would appreciate that very much. If you have any questions, you may contact me directly,” Granger said, letting the slightest hint of sultriness into his voice.
“I would not want to bother you, my lord,” he said shyly.
“I think it would be interesting to spend time with you, so there would be no bother at all,” Granger said, and clearly used a more seductive tone this time.
“I think Your Lordship may be right,” he said with a shy smile. Granger glanced down and saw a noticeable tent growing in von Galen’s trousers. The young man turned bright red with embarrassment, while Granger simply smiled, raised an eyebrow, and then winked at him. “I must take you to see the governor,” he stammered.
He led Granger over to the town hall and into a nicely appointed sitting room, then exited. He returned shortly and handed Granger a glass of wine. “Thank you,” Granger said, allowing his fingers to graze over von Galen’s as he took the wine.
“My pleasure, my lord,” von Galen said. “The governor will be with you shortly.”
No sooner had he finished his sentence than von Rajalin entered, carrying a sealed packet. As soon as he entered, von Galen left. “I am sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Cochrane, my lord. Please accept my condolences.”
“Thank you, Your Excellency,” Granger said. “I appreciate your kindness in rushing me to his side. I was able to comfort him in his final moments.”
Von Rajalin merely nodded, as he had seen death, and knew there was no need to dwell on it. “Mr. Cochrane entrusted these papers to me, to give to you should you arrive.”
Granger took the packet from him and noted that it was quite large. “I am guessing there are numerous letters in here, and after those sent by my wife, the most important will be those from my government, asking me to account for my actions since arriving in the Baltic.”
Von Rajalin laughed. “I suspect they will be pleased. I just learned two days ago of your stunning defeat of the Russian ships off Kronstadt. My felicitations.”
“His Imperial Majesty does not share your sentiments,” Granger joked.
“His Imperial Majesty thinks he is the autocrat of the world, and not just of Russia,” von Rajalin said with a frown.
“I am not sure he is different from most monarchs in that regard,” Granger replied.
“Alas, you are correct, especially as regards my king. I am hoping that we manage to stay out of dire straits with the wars raging all around us, but I fear we will not be able to,” he said sadly.
“I had heard there was talk of peace, so I can only hope that our diplomats can come to an agreement,” Granger said, which may have sounded like a platitude, but was in fact an event he fervently hoped for.
“We can hope,” von Rajalin said. “I must beg your pardon for offering a course of action, but I had sketched out a plan for your visit over the next few days.”
“Thank you for being so organized,” Granger said. He was desperate to return to his ship and see what was in those cases Cochrane had brought with him, and almost as anxious to read the communiques in the packet he was holding. The last thing he wanted to do was spend his time meeting Swedish Burghers and their fat wives.
“If I were in your position, I would be most anxious to return to my ship and pore over my dispatches, so that is what I propose for today,” von Rajalin said.
“Your Excellency, that is one of the most thoughtful things anyone has ever done for me,” Granger said sincerely, so glad that von Rajalin had understood what he needed.
“I have often been in your situation,” he replied. “Tomorrow, I would like you to come ashore in the morning and I will give you a tour of our city. My weather experts promise me sunshine, at least, and that is a rarity. We should take advantage of that.”
“Then I will plan to arrive an hour after dawn, if that meets with Your Excellency’s approval,” Granger said.
“Perfect,” von Rajalin replied. “I will probably keep you here for the day, and as we are known to enjoy our suppers, and they sometimes last late into the night, I will prepare a room should you wish to stay and not return to your ship.”
“Thank you,” Granger replied.
“I am unsure as to whether or not you will permit your men shore leave, but the townspeople would welcome them as long as they have money to spend,” he said, making Granger chuckle.
“I have been lucky with prize money, and my men have shared in that bounty,” Granger said with a smile. “Would it be acceptable for us to limit the leave to parties of fifty at a time?”
“I think that would be manageable,” von Rajalin said.
“I will also have a few marines ashore to help keep order, if that is acceptable,” Granger offered. Von Rajalin nodded his assent.
“My aide is planning Mr. Cochrane’s funeral and making burial arrangements for him,” von Rajalin said. “I thought we could have that ceremony the day after tomorrow.”
“Mr. von Galen is most helpful, Your Excellency,” Granger said.
“He has served me only briefly, but he has served me well,” von Rajalin said. “I will have him escort you back to your ship, and I will see you tomorrow.” He stood up, as did Granger, and then guided Granger out of the sitting room where von Galen was there to guide him down to the waterfront.
“The governor’s barge will take you back to your ship, and I will be here to meet you in the morning,” von Galen said, as he led Granger over to a nicely appointed pinnace. “His Excellency had expected that you would bring two or three officers with you.”
“I will look forward to that,” Granger said, and shook his hand, allowing his fingers to linger as he did. He almost laughed when von Galen blushed, then entered the boat for the brief trip to Valiant.
Valiant welcomed Granger back in her time-honored way, with Weston there waiting for orders. “Welcome back, my lord.”
“Thank you, Mr. Weston,” Granger said. “I am committed to spend the day ashore tomorrow, and I must choose a few officers to join me. Please alert Major Treadway, Lord Kingsdale, and Mr. Genarro that they are the lucky members of my entourage. I must be ashore an hour after dawn.”
“I will let those gentlemen know they will be busy tomorrow, my lord,” he said with a grin.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Cochrane died shortly after I arrived,” Granger said sadly.
“The doctor had informed us, my lord,” Weston said. “Most unfortunate.”
“Indeed,” Granger agreed somberly. “We will have a funeral for him in a few days. In the meantime, the governor has agreed that our men may have shore leave in parties of no more than fifty men at a time. I will leave it to you to coordinate that, and to work with Major Treadway to ensure that there are marines ashore to make sure our men behave themselves.”
“Aye aye, my lord,” Weston said. Granger merely nodded, and entered his sanctuary, glad to finally be able to address the urgent matters he knew waited for him.
“Let me take that coat,” Winkler said, helping Granger with his outer garment.
“Please send for Doctor Jackson,” Granger said, and saw the worried look on Winkler’s face. “I am fine, but he carried some things back here for me.”
“Of course, my lord,” Winkler said.
“After I meet with the doctor, I would like my dinner, and I only want to be disturbed if it is an important matter,” Granger continued, piling directives on his overworked but organized steward. “Tomorrow, I’ll be ashore for the whole day, and will probably spend the night there.”
“Aye aye, my lord,” Winker said, and scurried off to attend to his directions.
Granger could have gone in his office to work, but he opted instead to sit at his dining room table, where the sunlight would make reading easier. He had just sat down and unsealed his packet when Jackson arrived, carrying his bag. Granger was concerned lest the crew see him enter with his instruments and conclude that Granger was ill, but the alternative was to just carry the boxes out in the open, so Jackson had obviously made the correct decision. “Here are the boxes, my lord,” Jackson said, handing them to Granger.
“Thank you, Doctor,” Granger said, and was surprised when Jackson continued to stand in front of him.
“I was wondering, my lord, if you would mind if I went ashore and talked with some of my Swedish colleagues?” Jackson asked.
“Certainly,” Granger replied. “You may remain ashore for the next two nights if that suits.”
“Thank you, my lord,” he said, and left. Winkler took that opportunity to come in with his dinner and laid out the food.
“Thank you, Winkler,” Granger said politely.
“I will see that you are not disturbed, my lord,” and left the room.
Granger took the key out from his jacket and lined it up with the first box. It was a very snug fit, and Granger had a hard time getting it in. He took a bite of his dinner, a delicious meal of some sort of Baltic fish in a butter sauce. Inspired, Granger dipped the key in the sauce, and the butter lubricated it enough so that it slid right in. The boxes were entirely smooth, with the only thing making them appear to be different than a slab of metal was the keyhole, and even that was almost hidden. Granger turned the key and heard a click, and the flat end of the box lifted up on its own. Granger paused to study the contraption. Normally the lid of the box would be visible as a seam, but in this case, it had been built into the edge of the box and was almost invisible.
He opened the box and found a stack of papers, most of which looked as if they were commercial in nature. Underneath these papers was a layer of square canvas containers. Granger took one out and squeezed it in his hand and it crinkled, arousing his curiosity. He took his knife and sliced off a bit of fish and ate it, then used the knife to slit open the canvas. Precious stones spilled out all over his table. Granger hastily scooped them up, noting that this packet appeared to contain rubies. He used his knife to slice a small piece of one of the other packets and found this one contained diamonds. As the other ones felt similar, he assumed they were packed full of precious stones. Presumably it was easier to transmit large amounts of money in the form of gems as opposed to gold, as these would take up less space. Granger wondered how Daventry was supposed to convert these into cash. This moment reminded him of going through the chests they’d retrieved in Rhodes, only then he’d had Daventry there to help him interpret things, whereas here he was on his own.
There was a sealed envelope addressed to Daventry, while the rest of the papers appeared to be bills of exchange. Granger normally would not open someone else’s mail, but he decided that in this situation, it was merited. He put all the gems and notes back in the boxes, sealed up one of them, and laid out the letter and read it while he finished eating his dinner. Granger was not surprised to find the letter written in Pitt’s own hand, although as there was no signature, so he only knew that because he was familiar with the Prime Minister’s handwriting.
When you departed for the Baltic, we did not have the necessary financial arrangements in place for you to help those who are friendly to the interests of our government. Enclosed you will find gems and bank drafts, guaranteed by His Majesty’s Government, along with a letter of introduction from the chairman of Hope & Co. Bank. You will seek out the gentleman who is in charge of Hope’s correspondent branch in St. Petersburg, Mr. Henri Labouchere, who will then act as your agent in liquidating the gemstones and redeeming the government drafts. Mr. Labouchere is responsible for obtaining the best price for said gemstones and drafts, and his performance in this task is guaranteed by Hope & Co. You are responsible for how those funds are spent, so I will task you to take good care of His Majesty’s funds, and to expect your expenditures to be fully audited upon completion of your mission.
Granger was familiar with Hope and his bank, and knew that they were closely allied to Barings Bank. He also knew that both Hope and Baring were involved with the Guild. Granger wondered if the détente they had established with that entity was still in force.
Granger stared at the letter and pondered its meaning. Without these documents and gems, Daventry’s mission to Russia was nothing more than an exercise in futility. Daventry could pledge his own funds, but this Mr. Labouchere would be unlikely to give him as much as he needed based on his own holdings, and he was even more unlikely to give Daventry a fair deal. Then again, without this communique from Pitt, would Daventry even know to seek out Labouchere? Granger shook his head at the idiocy of these ministers who had sent Daventry off to fight a battle without weapons. It was absolutely vital that these boxes and this information get to Daventry.
Granger began to ponder what the government had intended, then remembered the packet he had received. He finished his dinner, then put the letter in the box and closed it up, like the other one, and put both of them in his safe, then took his packet of information to his gallery where he could enjoy the albeit fading sunlight.
He sorted through the letters and pulled out those from Caroline and Spencer. He read Caroline’s first.
Dearest George,
I encountered Mr. Angus Cochrane at Court and he offered to take my letters directly to you. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to have a private courier, so I can pour my thoughts out on paper without worrying that they will be read by those with bad intentions.
Everyone here is quite healthy with the exception of my father, who has developed a persistent cough. The doctors fear he has contracted some form of cancer, but we cannot know for sure. That has seemingly galvanized him into worrying about posterity, and he has decided that Alexander is to be his heir. Without even talking to me about it, he asked the King to allow his peerage to descend through the female line, and upon my death, to descend to Alexander. I am vexed at him for doing this without even discussing it with me, but my anger is offset by seeing the horrible condition of his health. I am even more angry that he did not bother to talk to you about it, which he admitted when I cornered him, and I truly am sorry about his behavior. I hope that in the end you are not as angry as I am, and that you will see this as a positive event for Alexander. As our second son, he will inherit my father’s title, which will give him both money and a seat in the Lords.
I am so glad you sent Cavendish here. He has been a wonderful source of strength for me, and has been terrific with the children, who adore him. Charlotte mispronounced ‘Frederick” and called him ‘Freck’, and that has stuck as his nickname. The children call him Uncle Freck, which is appropriate as I feel that he is the brother I never had. His father refused to speak to him on his return to England, but I think once he realized that Cavendish was established here and had no need of His Grace’s support, the Duke must have given up on that strategy. Cavendish has told me they have had chilly but civil conversations, and even that trifling a change in the Duke of Portland’s attitude has considerably improved Cavendish’s mood and outlook.
Your actions in the Baltic have transformed the Guild from being one of your sworn enemies into one of your biggest cheerleaders. Evidently the way you brilliantly saved those merchant ships off Denmark and the other much larger group in your engagement with the Russian frigates caused their change of heart. Those cargos were evidently quite valuable, and as we know, nothing motivates that group more than money. I will never trust those people entirely, but I am told that they are quite influential in Russia, and if you should encounter members of that association, at this point it is more likely they will try to help you than to hurt you.
Another transformation in your favor is the opinion of Lord Whitworth, who was smarting from having you, Daventry, and Cavendish call him out for his disastrous agreement with Denmark. Of course, he was influential enough to have the issues with that swept under the rug, and I did not press the issue, nor did Cavendish, which seemed to have placated him. I saw him at Carlton House and he told me that you were performing marvelously, but he was concerned that you were perhaps too successful, and that you would antagonize the Tsar to the detriment of our hope for a rapprochement with him. I ran into Lord Grenville a few days later and he said much the same thing.
I had occasion to ask Lord Spencer about it as well, but he was noncommittal at best. He has been preoccupied with the government, which continues to teeter on the edge of dissolution with no sign of compromise between Mr. Pitt and the King on Catholic Emancipation. He has also been preoccupied with his sisters, who continue to cause him problems. I think Lady Spencer would be happy to be rid of both of them. The Duchess of Devonshire is blind in one eye and has lost most of her beauty, but that has not stopped her from losing money at the tables. She gambles almost as obsessively as her sister, Lady Bessborough, although it is hard to feel badly toward that poor woman, who is stuck in a marriage to Lord Bessborough, who does nothing but abuse her. Davina has played with both of them often, and it is my understanding that she has been the fortunate recipient of many of their runs of bad luck. The Duchess of Devonshire is to marry her eldest daughter off to Lord Morpeth next year. We will have to hope that her marriage is happier than that of her mother and her aunt.
Your parents are much the same, but the big news is about Bertie. I remember you sharing your discussion with Lord Chartley when you were arriving in Calcutta, where Chartley described Lord Wellesley as ‘having the blatant ambition and insatiable greed typical of Irish peers’ and Bertie had responded that he should thus become an Irish peer. He is to get his wish. He is to be created the Baron Blakeney, although I forget the exact Irish County that peerage is associated with. Evidently his ventures in India have been quite successful, and John Company pressed the government to reward him for doing their dirty work so well and so profitably.
I fear that I have saved all the sad news for the end of my letter, so I promise to try and structure things in a better way in the future so I do not leave you with unhappy thoughts. The King has shown no signs of improvement, and if anything, is rumored to be worse. It is very difficult to get clear answers regarding his condition, as the Palace has all but put an iron ring around him and only the most loyal are allowed access to him. Your father speaks of him in vague and placating terms, which I find patronizing, especially since we are all on the same team as it were, but I have opted to save all my annoyance for my own father, so I have not called him on it.
I happened upon Lady Daventry a couple of months ago, before she retired to Northumberland, and she was quite obviously with child. I was quite stunned by that, as she is not attractive, she is not known to have lovers, and she and her husband detest each other. I wondered if perhaps it was a divine conception, but I learned that she and Lord Daventry had since reached a rapprochement, and things had thawed enough for them to conceive a child. She informed me that Lord Daventry had asked that you be the godfather of their child, and that you had consented, which was quite the surprise to me. She also asked me to stand as the child’s godmother, which I agreed to do.
I subsequently learned that Lady Daventry had a healthy baby boy, whom she named Robert Charles George Daventry, but she died of complications after his birth. Her family attempted to step in and stand as parents to the child, but Lady Daventry left explicit instructions on how her estate was to be handled in the event of her death, and she was quite clear that we are to be his surrogate parents. So to that end, I had the baby transported here and have set him up in the nursery.
I cannot say that I grieved when I heard of her death, and I cannot imagine that Daventry will feel any grief either, but it has left me with a feeling of emptiness. Robert is quite animated for a baby, and if that continues, he will have much the same charm as his father.
There is much talk about the possibility of peace with France, and I do hope that happens soon. You have not been gone nearly as long as in the past, yet it feels like an eternity. I miss you so much, George. I long for your return.
Granger digested Caroline’s letter on only a perfunctory level, having learned that his family was well and that there were no new knives out for him in London. He decided to ponder all that she had said later and picked up Spencer’s letter.
I am unclear exactly how successful you’ve been with your ultimate mission of getting Lord Daventry to St. Petersburg, as the last I heard you had dished up two Russian frigates and were the unhappy guest of the King of Sweden. Your conduct in capturing those frigates and saving that convoy, along with your actions prior to that, were nothing less than I would expect from you. You performed admirably.
There is some concern that you have been a bit too successful, and that any future victories over Russian forces will only serve to antagonize the Tsar. I will share with you that I am not personally convinced of that, as I think His Imperial Majesty is most mercurial and unstable, but Lord Grenville disagrees. You are therefore instructed to avoid further aggressive action against Russian forces, but please note that this does not preclude you from taking any defensive action you deem appropriate. You should also refrain from taking aggressive action against forces of His Most Danish Majesty and His Most Swedish Majesty. You should continue to treat Prussia as a hostile nation, as His Majesty is still incensed over the Prussian invasion of Hannover.
Your revised orders are as follows: You are to do everything within your power to ensure that Mr. Angus Cochrane can deliver important dispatches to Lord Daventry. If Lord Daventry is still aboard Valiant, you are to follow his directives on where he would like to be landed. Once you have completed those tasks, Valiant should exit the Baltic and return home without delay. We are confident that Valiant will meet with no Danish interference traversing the Sound.
Please accept my fervent hopes for your safe voyage home.
Spencer.
Granger tossed Spencer’s letter on top of Caroline’s, and since he was alone, he allowed himself the luxury of sighing out loud.
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Despite the cold, George’s situation is heating up. Thanks for the quick key chapter. Great job!
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Man this is a great series!
impunity 2,147
The plot has definitely thickened. Caroline's news is intriguing. We learn the origins of the Blakeney Baronny. Looking forward to Daventry's reaction to the news about his wife and son. Hopefully George finds him soon.
Thanks, hon! And early chapter is a delightful treat. Although it does mean we could be waiting until next weekend for the next one.
rjo 1,022
When I was 14 yo I started a love of history which has never ended. One of the things which have drawn me to this saga and the CAP saga is the historical background in which these stories are set. Mark, your talents and characters bring these times to life. I have been drawn in and hope never to leave. From the first CAP story with Jeff JP and Stef watch the event of November 22, 1962 to the first day our brave navel hero first went to sea you have forced us to love and care about them. I was hoping that George would be able to return home safe and sound but again his mission and his honor draws him into harms way. We as readers know the future and know what is to come. The death of the Tsar and Nelson's great victory and his death, the battle of Waterloo and the kings 10 year illness and death. All that is before us. And only you know how George will play his part. Again a wonderful chapter and a wonderful story. Thank you so much!! Bob
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Canuk 4,264
Mr von Galen...I suspect a little warmth just when its needed! (He says getting directly to the heart of the chapter!)
How could we not suspect that a key proffered by a dying man would not lead our hero into dangerous territory!
Excellent read, as ever!
pickuptoy 571
I really liked this chapter. The letters from home made me feel a lot better about Granger's trip and most likely him staying longer that cold ass region and going to aide Daventry in his endeavor. The Tsar should be dead by the time he gets back in that direction. Keep up the great work. Look forward to chapter 28.
Daddydavek 24,379
The news about Granger's standing with the guild was one bit of encouraging news.
centexhairysub 6,472
Well, that tears it; you know with Granger's sense of duty that he is now bound for Russia. This will put him in the middle of maelstrom not of his own making. But he will do what needs to be done to protect his men, his government, and Daventry; not necessarily in that order.
Have to say, there was something about this chapter. While your writing is always first rate; this one was exceptional. The chapter flowed and was just about as perfect as it can get.
While I hate to hear about Caroline's father, never liked the man; his decision will make George and Caroline more influential and his part of the family more secure. Glad to hear about Bertie as well, hope this means he might be coming back to England soon, maybe bringing someone else as well???
It will be mixed news that Granger carries to Daventry; but you know that the child is safe under Caroline's care.
Just loved this so much.
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On Benjie Bernal's "New Year's Eve sa Purok Tres"
Tamia Reodica | Oct 9, 2020
Heights' second regular folio explores noise and its various forms. While it can be deafening, distracting, and disruptive, it can also manifest as something good or even nostalgic. This kind of noise is what Benjie Bernal conveys in his photo essay, “New Year's Eve sa Purok Tres.”
After some time into 2020, Bernal was browsing through his library of photographs when he stumbled upon some that he took during New Year’s Eve. It was only then that he realized how vividly they told a story. Stringing together different photographs that weave sentimentality into its technical elements, he immortalizes the narrative of a lively and carefree New Year’s Eve on the streets of Nueva Ecija.
Inspired by the likes of photographers Omar Gonzalez, Matt Day, and Denae and Andrew, Bernal finds value in the idea of documentation for sentimentality and study. Prompted by these artists’ pursuit of documenting daily life, New Year sa Purok Tres came about as he casually photographed the celebration he spent at his mother's home province. His documentation also has a sort of candidness that is reminiscent of photographers Steve Curry and Vivian Maier, who are renowned for the quality of humanness in their work and also influence him. Yet even with the influences that emanate from Bernal’s photographs, his work distinguishes itself as it tells a simple story: this is what it is like to spend New Year’s Eve in Bernal’s very own province—an experience that he can portray uniquely.
While stories such as that of “New Year sa Purok Tres” are open to interpretation, Bernal shares that using technicalities in taking photographs can correlate with how a viewer emotionally responds. With his background in photography, he applies some techniques to express his own emotions and to convey his narrative creatively. For instance, Bernal uses layering through the deliberate framing of the subjects in a way that shows their relationship. One can tell at a single glance that the people in the pictures are part of a close community. Bernal also plays with the way light appears through smoke, as well as shadows to show the presence of people without directly placing them in the photograph.
“New Year sa Purok Tres” thoughtfully captures the jolly noise of a community celebrating New Year’s Eve, a special yet ordinary part of life that lives forever through Bernal’s photo essay. Looking at the pictures, you can hear the festivities—the laughter, the shouts, the fireworks—and the warm welcoming of another year.
To see Bernal’s work in full, among other published works in the Heights 67.2 folio, click here: bit.ly/HeightsTomo67-2
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Narrowcasting: What Digital Marketers Need to Know
2018 promises to be a big year for digital platforms that facilitate more intimate communication.
Part social network, part messaging app, these channels allow people to send messages to individuals or small groups of friends, as text, images, or video. Snapchat, Instagram Stories, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp are all great examples, and they represent a growing share of consumers’ social media usage.
The growth of platforms that facilitate communication among small groups, referred to as “narrowcasting,” is a distinct shift in how most brands and organizations use social media. In the past, social media use has focused on using digital technology to broadcast information to large groups of followers. But as people’s use of narrowcasting social channels grows, brands will need to participate to stay relevant. This will require that marketers adopt new, creative approaches to content that fit within their overall digital strategy.
Trends in Narrowcasting Content
Last week, I discussed narrowcasting with marketers at a PRSA National Capital Chapter workshop. In preparing for the workshop, I reviewed narrowcasting content for stand-out tactics among brands, organizations, and Federal agencies, to identify commonalities in the content tactics used. Here are four types of content I found used frequently, or used with great success, across Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram Stories:
1. Audience engagement. In this type of content, organizations actively engage with their followers, such as by asking followers to submit content to be featured on the brand’s channel, or asking followers to vote or take another type of action.
In the example below, @DogsofInstagram asked its followers to share photos and videos of their dogs enjoying summer. It shared a selection of the images on its Story. This tactic helps DogsofInstagram create new content, and gives exposure to the dogs featured, which is a big deal, because DogsofInstagram has 4.1M followers.
2. Customer service and sales. The private nature of narrowcasting makes it a good channel for customer service, and automated chatbots can make that easier to execute.
In 2016, Birchbox enabled its followers on Snapchat to call them using the phone feature and ask any questions they might have. The brand received 30 calls in the hour, mostly from non-subscribers, which was a great opportunity to explain the benefits of subscription.
3. Information sharing. Information-sharing uses storytelling to convey information, behind-the-scenes content, messaging, etc., to followers. This type of content was particularly well-used by organizations and Federal agencies.
In the example below, the U.S. Department of the Interior shows several national parks’ efforts to protect turtles, providing more information about turtle behavior and the parks in the process through Snapchat posts.
3. Advertising and paid. Whether you’re looking to grow brand awareness, send traffic to your website, generate video views, or another objective, narrowcasting platforms offer a number of paid solutions.
Below are examples of advertising on narrowcasting platforms (from left to right): Instagram Stories, Facebook Messenger, and Snapchat filters.
Getting Started with Narrowcasting
There’s a lot to think about when considering how to integrate narrowcasting tactics into your digital efforts:
Will narrowcasting tactics help you reach your target audience? These channels are largely used by a younger, digitally savvy audience – is this who you need to reach?
How can narrowcasting tactics help you reach your overall communications objective? Think about how you can structure your efforts in a way that moves you closer to those objectives, and consider how your existing channels can support the tactics.
Do you have the resources to do narrowcasting well? Do you have enough staff time? Do you have, or can you make, the right assets?
How will you measure your success? Measurement is extremely important in understanding whether you’re making an impact, but narrowcasting tactics often don’t offer robust metrics. You can get creative with it, but it will be a challenge.
Participating in narrowcasting is likely to become a necessary part of brands’ social media footprint. But by understanding what content works, and how to harness this trend as a part of your overall digital strategy, content marketers will be able to better ensure success.
Emily Zeigenfuse, M.P.H.
Senior Digital Strategist
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Black Book of the American Left
The Series Explained
Volume III
Volume IV
Volume V
Volume VI
Volume VII
Volume VIII
Volume IX
Uncivil Wars
Indoctrination U
One Party Classroom
Reforming Our Universities
Radicals – The Book
Hating Whitey and Other Radical Pursuits
The Politics of Bad Faith
Radical Son
Party of Defeat
The Shadow Party
Destructive Generation
Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win
Big Agenda
The Art of Political War and Other Radical Pursuits
How to Beat the Democrats
Take No Prisoners
Dark Agenda
Radical Son A Generational Odyssey
Hating Whitey
Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
Horowitz Memoirs
Mortality and Faith
A Cracking of the Heart
The Life and Work of David Horowitz by Jamie Glazov
Big Agenda Reviews
Big Agenda Matters
A shorter version of this review appeared earlier at The Daily Caller.
“Conservatives were justifiably worried that America’s decline was reaching a point of no return,” writes David Horowitz. After the recent election, many breathed a sign of relief, but as the author of Big Agenda sees it, “one battle is over, but there are many more to come.” To prevail, the combatants must want to win, but as the author notes that has not always been the case with Republicans.
In 2012, for example, Mitt Romney possessed strategic intelligence on his opponent yet failed to deploy it and duly lost the election. In 2016, Romney blasted fellow Republican Donald Trump as “a phony, a fraud,” a charge the openly fraudulent Clinton gleefully used in her attack ads. Veterans of the Bush White House announced that they would vote for Clinton, and somebody named Evan McMullin launched a presidential run in Utah, as Big Agenda notes, “in the hopes of blocking a Trump majority in the Electoral College.”
In the six years they controlled both houses of Congress, the Republicans failed to conduct an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. They threatened to defund the Obama agenda then wound up funding it. Likewise, they failed to investigate Huma Abedin, a Muslim Brotherhood acolyte joined at the hip to Hillary Clinton.
These and other examples of the Republicans’ ineptitude, “failure of nerve” and “cowardice” prompt Horowitz to wonder what they failed to understand about the perils of the nation, and “the destructive agendas of the left that threaten its future.” Here the author draws on his vast experience.
The progressive movement operates on “almost religious convictions,” which is why members move in lockstep, and demonize anyone outside their ranks. The movement divides society into “oppressor” groups such as whites, males, Christians and heterosexuals and victim or “oppressed” groups such as “people of color” and the LGBT squads. For Horowitz this is “the old Marxist wine in new bottles,” with similar results of division and dissention.
“Progressives dream of a world of political correctness and politically enforced equality, where everybody is taken care of by taxing the rich until there are no more rich,
universities and schools admit no ideas that are hurtful or offending, environments have no pollution, countries have no borders, and nations have no armies. Progressives are so enthralled by their dreams of a heaven on earth that they see those who oppose their dreams as evil, which is why they hate them.” But as the author shows, progressives amount to more than utopianism and demonology.
With Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as their bible, they have built a vast power base in government bureaucracies, government employee unions, and educational institutions in particular. Horowitz cites Janet Napolitano, the former Arizona governor and Department of Homeland Security boss under Obama. As president of the University of California Napolitano deems unacceptable “microagressions” statements such as “America is the land of opportunity” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.” At the same time, as the author observes, UC Berkeley hosts a Center for Race and Gender that includes “Islamophobia Studies,” all funded by California taxpayers.
This movement commands almost total control over the Democratic Party and is too powerful for leaders to deviate from the path. For their part, Republicans are afraid of being called “obstructionists” and stigmatized as heartless, racist, or xenophobic. That fear leaves them ill-equipped for conflict with the interlocking directorate of progressive power. But as the author shows, it is possible to take it on and win.
Horowitz charts government union threats and thuggery against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. Yet Walker “demonstrated the will to stand up to them” and prevailed.
In similar style, Hillary Clinton charged that supporters of Donald Trump were “irredeemable,” a veritable “basket of deplorables.” Trump supporters were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic— you name it.”
Trump fired back that “Hillary has tremendous hatred in her heart,” and as Horowitz notes, “never had any Republican dared to characterize a Democratic opponent in such damning moral terms to a national audience.” Trump continued to defy political correctness in brawling style, and he won. It will take that kind of defiance to “save America,” as the Big Agenda subtitle says.
“The strategy is to expose their hypocrisy and turn their firepower against them,” Horowitz explains, “to focus on the races, genders, ethnicities, and classes who suffer because of their policies and under their rule. The strategy is to go for the jugular.”
To turn around the battles conservatives have been losing for so long, “they must begin every confrontation by punching progressives in the mouth.” The attack must take away progressives’ “moral superiority and smugness.” Let this reviewer volunteer an example of how that could be done.
In the Sessions hearings, Senator Richard Blumenthal, (D-CT) charged that David Horowitz, who wasn’t there, made “apparently racist” statements, which he did not. When dealing with Blumenthal, conservatives should always point out that he is a liar who said he served in Vietnam but did not. But it’s not just about rhetoric.
The focus must be the Democrat’s “monopoly control of the inner cities of America and its responsibility for the misery and suffering inside them.” Education vouchers will break control of teacher unions, who now confine captive students in schools that don’t teach. For the author “it is unconscionable that K– 12 children should be indoctrinated— at taxpayers’ expense— in the anti-American prejudices of the political left.”
The IRS “must be investigated and reformed to prevent Democrats from using it to suppress the opinions of their political opponents.” The author calls for prosecution of those IRS officials “who participated in the effort to prevent conservative think tanks and advocacy groups from tax exemptions available to their liberal adversaries.”
In the author’s view, the term “undocumented” substituted for “illegal” signified that America’s laws deserve no respect and that “American citizenship as a set of
commitments and obligations (and not merely rights and privileges) is meaningless.” Further, “the erasure of the American republic is the core agenda of the Democratic
Party.” Sanctuary cities, are “seditious threats to the safety of all Americans,” and elected officials who break the law “need to be removed from office and prosecuted.”
In the concluding “Battle Plan” for the first 100 days, Big Agenda calls for nixing amnesty, restoring Guantanamo, replacing Obamacare, a step toward the imposition of government monopoly health care, which Democrats advertise as “single payer” and the “public option.” The conservative battle plan challenges EPA overreach and calls for countermanding previous executive orders.
In similar style, left-wing Justice Department officials should be fired, U.S. immigration laws enforced, and illegals with criminal records deported. On this issue President Trump can take guidance from a Democrat, the late Barbara Jordan, the first African American elected to Congress from Texas after Reconstruction.
“Deportation is crucial,” Jordan contended. “Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. The top priorities for detention and removal, of course, are criminal aliens. But for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.”
After the election, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry ganged up on Israel at the UN. It therefore makes perfect sense that the author’s battle plan calls for relocation of America’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. “It is time to stand up for our one staunch ally in the Middle East,” he writes, “and recognize that there can be no peace as long as Palestinians support terror and deny Israel’s right to exist.”
Those on the front lines could use more guidance about how best to roll back government employee unions. Likewise, the outgoing president has politicized the “intelligence community,” as the tide of fake news confirms. Some of the toughest battles will behind the scenes and allies there, like those abroad, will need all the help they can get.
As with all books by David Horowitz, Big Agenda delivers more than it promises.
Here followers of Bernie Sanders can learn that “socialism is theft.” As the author knows, democratic capitalist society is not a utopia but the arrangement that best promotes opportunity, guards individual rights, and of course preserves liberty, which is what America is all about. But after the eight years of a counterrevolutionary president, can America be saved?
The author believes that the movement galvanized by Donald Trump can stop the progressive juggernaut and change the American future, but only if adopts the strategy of his campaign: “Be on offense; take no prisoners; stay on the attack.” What matters “is not what we say but what we do.” The stakes are high and “along with Reagan, we must fight to defend liberty in order to bequeath it to the next generation.”
Readers might recall that in the early going President Reagan fired the air traffic controllers of PATCO, a government employee union. Even Soviet officials got the message that Reagan would back up his words with action. In that spirit, this reviewer suggests another part of the battle plan for the first 100 days.
In 2009 at Ford Hood, U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan, a self-proclaimed “Soldier of Allah,” gunned down 13 unarmed American soldiers, including private Francheska Velez, 21, pregnant and preparing to go home. President Obama called this “workplace violence,” not even “gun violence.” The mass murderer Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 but the president did not carry out the sentence. Neither would Hillary Clinton, had she been elected president.
During his first 100 days President Donald Trump, as commander in chief of U.S. armed forces, should carry out that death sentence. The president should keep this promise: “I am going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.” He should keep his promise to “knock the hell out of ISIS,” and every 9/11, instead of waiting to be attacked, the president should bust up some terrorist operation in a manner visible by the dawn’s early light.
Likewise, if a small boat ignores the call to stay away from a U.S. warship, authorize Navy gunners to blow it out of the water. That will avoid attacks such as the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Such decisive actions will send a message to radical Islamic terrorists, and all adversaries at home and abroad, that President Trump means business.
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A Universal Aspiration
Excerpt from Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion by David Horowitz
All the totalitarian movements of modernity have been inspired by the same fantasy of a world made right and finally brought into harmony with itself. This utopian delusion is not restricted to aspiring commissars or religious fanatics. In one form or another, it is the ideal of every believer in a universal progress, including those who would be dismayed to think of themselves in such destructive company.
The desire to make things better is an impulse essential to our humanity. But taken beyond the limits of what is humanly possible, the same hope is transformed into a destructive passion, until it becomes a desire to annihilate whatever stands in the way of the beautiful idea. Nihilism is thus the practical extreme of the radical project. Consequently, the fantasy of a redeemed future has repeatedly led to catastrophic results as progressive radicals pursue their impossible schemes. It is an enduring irony of the human condition that the urgency to make the world “a better place” is also the chief source of the suffering that human beings have inflicted on each other from the beginning of time.
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WSJ: Notable and Quotable – “What it Means to be a Conservative”
The Weekly Standard: “A Good Fight”
WND: “A Life Transformed”
The Blaze: “The Horrific Story That Prompted David Horowitz’s Conservative Transformation
Daily Caller: “How the American Left Lost Its Nerve”
NRO: “A Witness”
Reviews: Volume II
Review: The Black Book of the American Left, Volume II by Janice Flamengo, PJ Media
On Horowitz’s New Book: Progressives – Paul Hollander
The Black Book of the American Left: Volume 2 — The Progressives – Barbara Kay
David Horowitz Exposes Why Progressives Must Lie: Spyridon Mitsotakis
Understanding Today’s Campus Left
Reviews: Volume III
‘The Great Betrayal’ Defends Those Who Won’t Defend Themselves
Reviews: Volume IV
Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews by David Horowitz–Review by Lee Bender
Review of Volume IV – Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews
Review: David Horowitz, The Black Book of the American Left: Volume IV: Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews
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Review of Culture Wars: Volume V by Barbara Kay
Review of Volume V: Culture Wars by Jay Nordlinger
Reviews: Volume VI
America’s Real Racists: Review of “Progressive Racism” by John Perazzo
Review of Progressive Racism (Volume VI) by Mark Tapson
Reviews: Volume VII
Black Book Matters: A Review of Volume VII by Lloyd Billingsley
Review of The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama by Barbara Kay
Review of The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama by Richard Baehr
Reviews: Volume VIII
The Left in the Universities: A Review by Mark Bauerlein
The Ideological Hijacking of the University and the Betrayal of its Traditional Mission
Reviews: Volume IX
Destructive Legacy of the Left: A Review by Barbara Kay
David Horowitz’s Curtain Call?: Review of “Ruling Ideas” by Richard Kirk
The Left’s Ruling Ideas: A Review of Volume IX by Mark Tapson
Inside the Mind of the Left: A Review of Volume IX by Michael Ledeen
David Horowitz Explains the Ruling Ideas of the Left: A Review by Richard Baehr
David Horowitz Discusses the Project
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Is Edwards’ conduit to Hunter working for Obama, too?
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 5:25 pm on August 11, 2008
The John Edwards scandal may have just landed flat onto Barack Obama, regardless of whether Edwards is his running mate or just a bad memory. Jake Tapper at ABC notices that Fred Baron, the man who sent money to both Edwards’ mistress and the supposed father of her child, has been raising money for Barack Obama as well. One has to wonder whether his duties at Team Obama are anywhere near as extensive:
The Dallas Morning News over the weekend profiled Fred Baron, the chairman of Sen. John Edwards’ campaign finance committees in both his 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns.
Baron also, as you may know, has been paying significant lumps of cash to Edwards’ former mistress Rielle Hunter, and others involved in the scandal.
Baron claims Edwards knew nothing about it, and Edwards told ABC News Friday the same.
The article states that Baron is currently “raising money for nominee-to-be Barack Obama.”
Well, that certainly raises a few questions. Baron’s largesse towards Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young supposedly never came to the attention of John Edwards, but the implications seem rather obvious. While Edwards denied the affair and the paternity of Hunter’s child, money went to both of the two people who could claim first-person knowledge of the affair through the Edwards campaign. That seems extremely curious, especially given the late-night visit of Edwards to Hunter’s hotel room in Los Angeles last month — when he would have at least been curious how she managed to support herself over the last several months while hiding out from the press.
Now we have Baron raising money for Obama as well. Did Obama and his team know about Baron’s arrangement with Hunter, too? And if Baron knew about the affair, did he let his new boss in on the old boss’ secret, especially when Edwards vied for the second slot on the national ticket, or when Obama and Edwards appeared together?
It seems unlikely that Baron would have let Obama pick Edwards knowing that this explosive situation was ripe for exposure. If Baron told Obama about it, why didn’t Obama cut ties with Edwards before the end of July, when Edwards let himself get cornered by the National Enquirer at the hotel in the middle of the night?
Tapper asked the Obama campaign for some clarification on Baron and his status on Team Obama. Unsurprisingly, the campaign seems a little slow to respond.
Retreat?
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Politico: Pelosi adviser stirred up opposition to Medicare for All after election
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:41 pm on April 2, 2019
What? Nancy Pelosi plays both sides against the middle while thinking strategically? The deuce you say. Politico’s Adam Cancryn reports that Pelosi apparently tried heading off newly-elected “Democratic socialists” shortly after the midterm elections by having her adviser stir up opposition to the Medicare for All proposal:
A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used a private meeting to encourage health policy groups to raise public concerns about “Medicare for All“ just weeks after Democrats recaptured the House majority, multiple people familiar with the session told POLITICO.
Wendell Primus, Pelosi’s senior health policy adviser and a long respected voice on health and domestic policy, told the roughly two dozen attendees at the Nov. 30 gathering that House Democratic leadership worried the progressives’ push for Medicare for All risked diverting attention from the party’s core health agenda — the agenda that won them the House and would likely animate Democratic voters right into 2020. …
Some of those six sources interpreted it as a request for data and economic analysis, but others saw it as a harder-edged invitation to discredit the idea, or at least amplify its risks.
“It came across as, we need this so we can get on with our agenda,” according to a person in the room. “Can you help us point out the problems?”
Pelosi’s press flack later claimed to Politico that Primus just wanted to gather facts on the proposal. He “absolutely did not ask for any kind of one-sided analysis” of the proposal, Henry Connelly insisted. “No one has anything to fear from good faith research on Medicare for All.”
Actually, they do, and that might be why Pelosi and Primus wanted to head off too much discussion of M4A. Estimates of its costs run over $30 trillion in the first ten years, a figure reached by the Right (Mercatus Center) and the Left (Urban Institute), and only escalate from that point. No one has proposed any way to fund Medicare’s existing unfunded liabilities, let alone the additional costs of expanding it into a national single-payer system. An attempt by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to argue that her proposed “billionaires’ tax” would cover it got ripped by the Washington Post’s fact checkers in January, which noted that the revenue would cover only 2.2% of M4A’s projected first-decade cost — and only by using static tax analysis.
Pelosi wants to work on achievable health-care reform rather than go The Full Socialist. That was apparent as soon as Congress reconvened after the midterms, which is why Politico’s take on Primus’ work probably hits pretty close to the mark. Pelosi doesn’t want to lose her slender House majority by handing off the policy agenda to Ocasio-Cortez and making suburban voters nervous all over again about the direction of the Democratic Party. Corralling AOC’s fact-free socialist cheerleading is a smart move … but whether Pelosi can corral that from the Democratic presidential contenders is another matter altogether.
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Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates three different projects in Bengaluru
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Corona virus: 35 cases of re-infection reported in Bengaluru
In the northern and central region of the country, cases of corona infection are increasing rapidly and the government is busy dealing with them.
Meanwhile Karnataka the capital of Bengaluru The disturbing news has come out.
Seven hospitals here have reported new cases of re-infection with Corona. The great thing is that the number of such cases is 35, not one or two. This has made experts worried.
Cases reported in seven out of 28 hospitals
New Indian Express According to the officials of seven hospitals out of total 28 government and private hospitals treating corona patients in Bengaluru, so far 35 cases of re-infection have been caught in them.
Similarly, no such data is available in 17 hospitals. Apart from this, four hospitals have not responded to this.
Such a number of cases of re-infection have created dilemma in front of medical experts.
Severe symptoms of infection
Officials of the Jayanagar General Hospital said that they had about 10 such cases. He had severe symptoms again in the infection and needed to be put on oxygen support. In such a situation, he was referred to the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD).
Most of these patients complained of shortness of breath, cough, fever, severe lung infection and severe muscle pain.
Genome sequencing is required to confirm such cases – Dr. Sachin
Dr Sachin D, consultant for Interventional Pulmonology at Manipal Hospitals, said that seven such cases had come to his notice. He developed extremely severe new symptoms with a worsening radiological condition. He was treated accordingly.
He said that the patients recovered soon after treatment. However, genomic studies are required to confirm such cases.
Inadequate immune response may cause re-infection – Dr. Sachin
Dr. Sachin stated that during the first-time infection, patients are at risk of being re-infected due to insufficient immune response, decreased immunity or muten strain. The first patient later came in contact with someone and got infected.
Genomic study confirmed re-infection- Dr. Nagraj
RGICD Director Dr. Naragaz said that samples of patients were sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, for genomic study to find out the cause of recurrence.
Ramaiya Memorial Hospital was confirmed by two health workers. He was twice infected with the infection. However, his symptoms were not visible.
Similarly, three cases have been reported by Pristine Hospital and Research Center and five by Victoria Hospital.
This is the state of infection in India and Bengaluru
India In the past day, 43,082 new cases of infection were reported and 492 patients died. With this in the country Number of total infected 93,09,787, while 1,35,715 people have died so far.
Similarly, the number of infected in Bengaluru has increased to 3,84,559. Of these, 4,251 patients have died so far and 3,61,071 patients have recovered after treatment.
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Kate Holgate, 2020 Women of the Year
By: Ashley L. Clark March 13, 2020 Comments Off on Kate Holgate, 2020 Women of the Year
Creative Director & Vice President
Stoltz Marketing Group
Kate Holgate, 2020 Women of the Year honoree.
Whether she’s in the boardroom, in the classroom or on the sidelines of an elementary school basketball court, Kate Holgate puts passion and perseverance into all that she does.
After earning her bachelor’s degree in graphic design at the University of Idaho in 2001, Holgate started her journey with Stoltz Marketing Group as a graphic designer. As she honed her skills and branched out into multidisciplinary projects, she was promoted through the ranks.
Holgate is now the creative director and vice president of Stoltz Marketing Group and continues to show her leadership skills in and out of the office. She prides herself on continuing the legacy of the company’s founder, Ken Stoltz, by creating a warm company culture that is considerate and inclusive of her employees’ personal lives.
“We definitely invest in making sure people are happy and healthy,” Holgate said.
Through her years at Stoltz, Holgate and her team have been honored with many awards, including a Gold Regional ADDY award with the American Advertising Federation in 2009, a Typography Annual award with Communication Arts in 2012 and a bronze Telly Award in 2018. Holgate has also had her hand in helping the Stoltz team claim multiple awards with The Rockies through the Boise Advertising Federation.
In addition to her professional achievements, Holgate has volunteered her time and skills to multiple nonprofit and civic organizations, such as the Brian Ellis Memorial Foundation, the Ben Towne Foundation and the Boise Public Library Foundation.
Holgate is also responsible for starting the first nonprofit, pro bono program at Stoltz called “100 Hours,” in which the Stoltz team unanimously chooses a deserving organization to receive 100 hours of marketing support.
“When you have a gift to share, I think it’s really important to use it toward causes that really help others,” Holgate said. “My mom was a huge volunteer, and I want to pass that (mentality) onto my children.”
Holgate has volunteered much of her time to coaching her children’s basketball teams at Roosevelt Elementary School and the local YMCA.
Recently, Holgate expanded her teaching and mentorship scope to include Boise State students as an adjunct professor for a marketing course.
Click on the cover to view the digital edition of the 2020 Women of the Year publication.
Holgate accredits much of her influence and inspiration to her parents: her father for his determination and her mother for demonstrating compassion. Before Holgate’s mother lost her battle to cancer, she inspired Holgate to prioritize empathy and kindness. This has become apparent in Holgate’s professional career, volunteer work and in her motherhood.
“In addition to all of her accomplishments listed above, she is most proud of her role as a mom to her two amazing children, Grace and James,” wrote Tracy Hitchcock, director of business development at Stoltz, in a letter of recommendation.
Through it all, Holgate focuses on maintaining a positive work-life balance with the unwavering support of her husband and her family.
1:39 pm Fri, March 13, 2020 Idaho Business Review
Ashley L. Clark
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Director Spike Lee. Picture: Instagram/officialspikelee
Spike Lee has blasted US President Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and says people who follow his health advice will die.
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“It takes place in the present, but goes back to Vietnam. It reinforces the repetition of history and asks us, ‘When are we going to learn from it? When are we going to wake up?'”
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McCain caused a lot of pain today
Largely because of John McCain, a huge number of Americans are considerably poorer today. Like, me.
My wife and I have balanced investments in stocks and bonds, so we aren't down as much as the 7% to 9% drop in the equity markets. Still, we've lost a bunch of money.
And if the House Republicans don't get their act together soon, putting the country before politics, it's likely that even more financial blood will be on their hands.
Those Republicans voted against the bailout by more than 2 to 1. McCain said at last week's debate that he likely would vote for the bailout. He made a big deal out of coming to Washington to show what a great leader he is.
Yet he couldn't bring along members of his own party, and he sat mute during the White House meeting on the bailout proposal.
Pretty crappy leadership.
The differing reactions of Obama and McCain to the House vote say a lot about what sort of president each would be. Obama called for calm and patience, while McCain made partisan attacks.
This is just what we saw at the first presidential debate: Obama's firm crispness, McCain's sarcastic snippiness.
Economist Paul Krugman wrote about the readiness of the two men to take a 3 am economic crisis call.
So what do we know about the readiness of the two men most likely to end up taking that call? Well, Barack Obama seems well informed and sensible about matters economic and financial. John McCain, on the other hand, scares me.
Krugman describes how McCain has flipped and flopped his way to his current whatever non-stand on the bailout bill.
The real revelation of the last few weeks, however, has been just how erratic Mr. McCain's views on economics are. At any given moment, he seems to have very strong opinions — but a few days later, he goes off in a completely different direction.
Early on, Obama laid out principles that the bailout plan should adhere to. I haven't seen anything like that from McCain. He just meanders in the direction that seems most apt to score political points for him and shore up his faltering poll numbers.
I don't like losing money. But I can get some satisfaction from the fact that today's historic drop in the Dow shows up the incompetence of McCain and his Republican cronies in the House.
The day's loss knocked out approximately $1.2 trillion in market value, the first post-$1 trillion day ever, according to a drop in the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000, the broadest measure of the stock market.
The bailout price is $700 billion, at most (probably much less, since the government would recoup a good share of the cost when the housing market rebounds).
McCain admits that he doesn't know much about economics. His failed leadership on the bailout plan demonstrates this.
Memo to Senator McCain: $1.2 trillion is more than $700 billion.
[Update: It took me a while to understand Rep. Barney Frank's comment about today's bailout vote being "one of the truly great coincidences in the history of numerology."
But now I see what he meant about "the number of deeply offended Republicans who put feeling over country turned out to be exactly the number you would need to reverse the vote."
Frank is referring to the absurd GOP claim that Nancy Pelosi's floor speech before the vote, where she properly castigated eight years of Bushonomics, caused the bailout plan to fail.
Cleverly (almost too clever for me), Frank points out that it would indeed be a remarkable coincidence if the number of Republicans offended by Pelosi's remarks was exactly the margin by which the plan was defeated. That's what would need to have happened to be able to pin the blame, however loosely, on Pelosi.]
Posted at 03:24 PM in Current affairs | Permalink | Comments (14)
Tina Fey nails Sarah Palin again
I love it. And I'm scared by it.
With eerie accuracy, Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey shows us what a Palin vice-presidency would be like.
Yikes! Too real!
Message: vote Obama-Biden.
Posted at 10:27 AM in Current affairs | Permalink | Comments (2)
No debate: Obama won the debate
There's been endless post-game discussion about who won last night's presidential debate, most of it meaningless.
Wow, no big surprise. Republican spinmeisters claim that McCain kicked Obama's butt, while their Democratic counterparts spin the opposite way.
Much more persuasive is what polls and focus groups say. Almost universally, Obama won. And on McCain's home field, foreign policy – which was the focus of the debate.
Daily Kos has a good summary of polling results. Conclusion:
The focus groups picked up soft, but important data on the debate, and the snap polls show an Obama win. Focus groups pick up the "likeability" piece, which polls do not. Obama won that going away.
A CBS News poll had Obama winning 39-24, with 37 percent calling it a draw. Significantly, more independent voters saw Obama as the winner.
A CNN/Opinion Research poll had Obama on top 51-38. He even had an edge on national security, supposedly McCain's strength.
FiveThirtyEight analyzes why voters thought Obama won.
McCain's essential problem is that his fundamental strength – his experience -- is specifically not viewed by voters as carrying over to the economy. And the economy is pretty much all that voters care about these days.
MediaCurves found that independents gave Obama higher marks on every issue area: financial recovery plan, economic plans, government spending, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, likelihood of another 9-11 attack, and who won the debate.
Today's Gallup Daily poll has Obama up nationally 49% to 45%. At the moment FiveThirtyEight gives him a 79% chance of becoming president.
It'll be interesting to see how these numbers change over the next week. My prediction: Obama is going to increase his lead.
And after Sarah Palin embarrasses herself next Thursday in the vice-presidential debate, Obama and Biden are going to move further ahead.
Posted at 09:49 PM in Current affairs | Permalink | Comments (6)
McCain screws up bailout plan
Having just watched some interviews on CNN about what went on in the White House "summit" meeting this afternoon, it seems clear that John McCain has screwed things up big-time with his political grandstanding.
Hopefully voters will remember this come November. Once again, McCain showed that he's a Me First, Country Second guy.
Rather than letting negotiations over the financial bailout plan proceed without interjection of presidential politics, McCain swooped into Washington at the last minute in an obvious attempt to save his campaign – not the national economy.
This morning, lawmakers seemed to be near a deal on the bailout. Now, it's being reported that House Republicans threw a monkey wrench into the White House meeting by coming up with an alternative plan linked to John McCain.
Chris Dodd, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, said that when McCain spoke at the meeting Dodd couldn't understand what he was saying, what he was for and against. So much for the Straight Talk express.
Earlier in the day Dodd and his House colleague, Barney Frank, announced that there was bipartisan agreement on a set of principles for the bailout. But after McCain shows up, the agreement evaporates.
I agree with Paul Begala, a CNN analyst. He suspects that House Republicans are gumming up the bailout works so McCain can pretend to unstick them in the next few days. Potentially this could allow McCain to chicken out of tomorrow's presidential debate, untruthfully claiming that he's needed in Washington to broker a deal.
Actually, of course, McCain is a big reason why House Republicans aren't supporting the otherwise bipartisan bailout. Our economy is being put at further risk in a vain attempt to shore up McCain's sinking poll numbers.
I'm not a big fan of the bailout. But something needs to be done, and the changes being proposed to Bush's original plan make it more palatable. I'm also open to the possibility that House Republicans have some good ideas that need to also be considered.
For example, CNN reported that one notion is to use private funds, rather than public, for the bailout. After all, supposedly there's a good chance that eventually the distressed assets to be bought up will be worth more than what'll be paid for them.
If that's the case, why not make it possible for private investors to bet on that possibility, rather than putting taxpayer dollars at risk?
What irks me is that McCain isn't showing any genuine leadership on this issue. He's just trying to score some political points with the aid of House Republicans, who likely will balk at a deal for another day or two until they emerge from a meeting with McCain and proclaim "What a great leader! He brought us on board!"
This newest McCain fiasco serves to demonstrate that he'd be a disastrous president. George Will, a conservative, is sour on McCain:
Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.
… Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.
It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?
No. That's why we've got to elect Barack Obama.
Vegan food and porn: Aunt Mary’s serves it up
Only in Oregon … Aunt Mary's is a terrific vegan/vegetarian restaurant where you can also shop for porn and browse a vibrator museum.
We hadn't been to the coast for quite a while, so when some healthy-eating Indiana relatives came to visit last week I fired up Google. It didn't take long for me to realize that there was only one place we should eat in Lincoln City.
Some Happy Cow reviews sealed the deal. Such as:
This place is best described as eclectic with no boundaries. Kind of a cross between Grandma's house, and the creepy guy next door. Nestled among the small shops in Lincoln City near the beach is a vegetarian restaurant that you won't forget.
We are both vegans, and for some reason, everyone in Lincoln City seems to crinkle their nose when they say "vegan", and not a single store carries vegan soy cheese. This place was a pleasant surprise, and we really enjoyed our visit. Now the disclaimer - be ready to keep an open mind and walk in with a sense of humor.
Although you may find an occasional adult toy displayed amongst the embroidery and nun dolls, the "vibrator museum" is just another joke to keep things light. As long as you avoid the back room labeled "filthy", and leave your kids outside as you get take-out, you'll have a great time. We ordered the Mexi Wrap and a Taco Salad, and it was the best meal we've had during our entire vacation. The host/waiter/chef was very nice and washed his hands twice that we counted. Very clean, gracious, and fun.
Well, a couple of corrections are in order. "Occasional" doesn't do justice to the wonderfully vast array of sex toys and adult gag gifts. And don't avoid the back room – dash to it!
That's where Aunt Mary keeps her best stuff.
A fine collection of hand-blown glass pipes with an appropriate "don't ask" (what they're for, I assume) sign on top of the display case. A large collection of porn videos, helpfully categorized by sexual predilection and what turns you on. Leather wear, with enough studs and chains to spice up either the bedroom or your Harley Davidson.
Then there's the food. Excellent, though the service can be a bit slow.
We were the only diners in the place, arriving right at the noon opening time, and we still spent an hour ordering, waiting, and eating. Not a problem, given how much there is to ogle in Aunt Mary's, but if you're in a rush head to McDonalds and skip the porn.
Inspecting the menu, I was tempted to order a Fuck Me, That's Good but decided to forego the grilled cheese sandwich with pineapple for a humus wrap (yes, vegan porn proprietors can spell; I've always thought "hummus" was right, but both are correct).
My wrap was grilled to perfection and filled with crisp vegetables. Someone else got a Fuck Me, That's Good and said that the name was right on.
Philosophically, I find a lot to like about Aunt Mary's. Yesterday I mused on my other blog about how craziness can be a dose of sanity.
The older I get, the more appealing a little craziness appears to me. I'm not talking about whacked out psychosis, but something milder – in the immoral, illogical, illicit, or ill-understandable sphere of strangeness.
Stuff that soothes a person's far out! soul, while making others question why he or she is marching out of the beat of the ordinary.
I wasn't consciously thinking of Aunt Mary's when I wrote those words, but I'm sure last Friday's visit to this unique Oregon coast establishment helped put me in that frame of mind.
Back in the '70s, I remember when rentable porn videos were clearly visible behind the counter of a highly respectable downtown Salem store (Future Shop) that featured VCRs and other new-at-that-time technology. Nobody thought anything of it.
American society is a lot more uptight now, and I don't think we're the better for the change.
Though Oregon is laudably looser and quirkier than most of the rest of the country (a vegan strip club opened this year in Portland), we still tend to segregate "kinkiness," which really is just another flavor of normal, as what happens on the other side of town.
It's nice to be able to drive down the main drag of Lincoln City, park, and get your fill of both healthy vegetarian food and other sorts of earthy delights.
An Oregon Coast Today article has more info about Aunt Mary's. Being someone who orders a nonfat vanilla latte and then dumps half and half into it, I resonated with Mary's eating attitude:
She's also been perfecting her recipes for vegan baked goods like cakes and muffins; these, she says, shouldn't be central to a weight-loss regimen.
"They're not healthy at all. They're not low cal. But they're very delicious. I always say that they're best served warm with butter. There's no fat in them. That's what makes the butter so good," she said.
Posted at 02:30 PM in Recreation | Permalink | Comments (2)
Making sense of the $700 billion bailout
I can balance our checkbook. And that's how I like it: balanced. Where I know how much money we have, and that amount isn't less than the checks we've written.
Pretty simple. But somehow all those geniuses on Wall Street and in government can't figure out how to do the same thing.
They're used to spending more than they have. Under George Bush, we've had massive federal budget deficits. Not surprisingly, this charge it attitude has been reflected in the financial markets, where "take the money today and don't worry about tomorrow" has been the watchword.
This week's TIME magazine explains the monetary madness clearly in "The Price of Greed: How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street."
But it doesn't pinpoint who is at the root of the problem. Recently my daughter told me about an article her Republican friends are throwing in her face. It's by Republican strategist Michael Reagan, and claims that Democrats are to blame.
Not true, according to a much more believable Daily Kos post, "Three Times is Enemy Action."
Yes, some Democrats were complicit in fostering deregulation during the Clinton years. The impetus for letting greed run wild, though, came from Republicans like Phil Gramm, one of John McCain's policy advisors.
So here we are, fellow American taxpayers, being asked to trade "cash for trash," as Paul Krugman puts it.
Some skeptics are calling Henry Paulson's $700 billion rescue plan for the U.S. financial system "cash for trash." Others are calling the proposed legislation the Authorization for Use of Financial Force, after the Authorization for Use of Military Force, the infamous bill that gave the Bush administration the green light to invade Iraq.
There's justice in the gibes. Everyone agrees that something major must be done. But Mr. Paulson is demanding extraordinary power for himself — and for his successor — to deploy taxpayers' money on behalf of a plan that, as far as I can see, doesn't make sense.
It sure doesn't.
A local Salem columnist got it right today when he said that Bush's proposed bailout privatizes profits and socializes risks. Meaning, all those financial types who screwed up get to keep their bonuses and high-paid jobs, while the bad mortgages and other debt they embraced gets foisted off on the public.
I've asked Bush for my own bailout, since I've made plenty of screwups with my money over the years. So did this Business Week guy in "Dude, where's my bailout?"
Fortunately, there's some pushback. It's obvious, and deeply rankling, that Bush is trying to play his usual B.S. game of scaring us silly (Saddam! Mushroom cloud!) in order to get a blank check for whatever crazy scheme he wants Congress to buy off on.
CNN has a poll on its home page that asks whether people agree with the $700 billion bailout. So far 208,000 votes have been cast, 68% (including mine) saying "no."A Washington Post story finds almost universal opposition among ordinary folks to Bush's rewarding irresponsibility. Americans are mad as hell.
Senate Democrats seem to be on the right track. They want the public to have an ownership stake in the companies that are being bailed out by taxpayer dollars.
Sure, why not? Then we can fire the idiots who got us into this mess, cancel their severance packages, and get some real social benefits out of the socialization of the financial sector. Since we're headed toward becoming the United States of France, let's go all the way and really embrace the goodies sound public policies can bring us.
Like, a decent health care system. It's crazy that Bush has resisted government getting more involved in assuring that Americans have access to affordable health care, but he's willing to spend hundreds of billions in a giveaway to Wall Street.
Obama, smartly, is starting to hammer away on the connection between health care and the Bush-McCain love of financial deregulation.
If you think the mortgage market is screwed up after eight years of Bush's whatever attitude, imagine what will happen if McCain gets to carry out his plan to bring the same laissez faire approach to the nation's health care system.
Any bailout plan has to be structured around a central core of outrage. The screw-ups have to get screwed, or they'll just keep on screwing up – knowing that there's no downside to failure if you're part of a big financial institution.
In an interview economist Dean Baker tells it like it is.
Well, we've been knowing since six years. The basic story was, we had a housing bubble, which, again, these people are supposed to be smart. They're paid tens of millions of dollars. They should have recognized the housing bubble. They should have recognized that house prices would fall, as they have been. And what that meant was, you made a loan on a house for $250,000, $300,000, $400,000, that house price was likely to fall. So if you did that with zero down, as many of them did, plus having mortgages, you know, the predatory mortgages, the subprime mortgages that have got them in particular trouble, these were guaranteed to go bad in many cases.
They acted as though house prices would just keep going up forever, and they could just keep, you know, going along these lines. They leveraged themselves to the hilt. The investment banks, like Lehman and Bear Stearns, leveraged themselves to a ratio of thirty-to-one. In other words, if they had $10 billion in capital, they had loans on the order of $300 billion. I mean, this was just asking for disaster.
And, you know, again, it did collapse. It was totally predictable it would collapse. You know, I didn't know when, didn't know exactly who, but it was totally predictable. And now they're running to us and asking us for handouts. Think of what we do to welfare people, when they—you know, everything they have to go through to get, you know, a $500-a-month check, and these people want billions, no questions asked. Unbelievable.
Yes. Unbelievable.
Dear Pres. Bush, I need a bailout too
Dear President Bush,
I've been reading about how you want Congress to bail out financial firms that made some wrong choices. This is wonderful news.
Because I assume you'll also be open to bailing me out of some stupid things I've done in my life. Next week you want Congress to fork over $700 billion or so of taxpayer dollars to "buy up toxic mortgage-related securities."
I'm pleased to inform you that for only a pittance more you can buy up some additional toxic monetary decisions. This would do a lot to get an important sector of the economy back on track.
Namely, the part centered on me – which, from my perspective, looks pretty damn crucial.
Since your $700 billion bailout plan is just three pages long, I don't like I need to provide much documentation for my own proposal.
The following should be sufficient. The IRS has my address. I'll be watching our mailbox for the Treasury check.
My wife may be sending in her own bailout request, so be sure to allow for this when you raise the nation's debt ceiling to $11.315 trillion. I'd think that $11.31500000000000001 trillion should be adequate.
Brian Hines' toxic monetary decision bailout request:
-- buying that Karmann Ghia back in the 70s. Looked cool but ran like shit. Cost me a lot of time and money to keep fixing it. $3,000
-- not finishing my Ph.D. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Could have earned much more over the years with it though. $200,000
-- highlighting first pages of books before I'd read much of them. That's kept me from selling many boring books at used book stores when the buyer saw my yellow marks. $75
-- failing to buy and hold Microsoft, Apple, and Google stock back when they were super cheap and just getting off the ground. $1,400,000
-- thinking that because a bag of dog treats said the cheese flavor had been taste-tested with many breeds, the family pet would like them. Turned out to be a total waste. $6
Total: $1,603,081
This is, of course, just a smattering of the stupid financial decisions I've made in my life. But I agree with Joe Biden that paying taxes is patriotic.
Since I'm not asking to be bailed out of so many wrong-headed monetary moves, thereby foregoing a substantial amount of Treasury income, this comes to the same thing as a patriotic tax increase.
Country first! That's my motto.
I look forward to finding this request included in a forthcoming legislative proposal. I don't consider it an earmark, but rather a sensible recognition that crucial sectors of our economy have to be insulated from the consequences of poor choices.
In this regard, I stand with Barack Obama (and likely a majority of the Democratic Congress that will need to approve your proposal). "Main Street" needs to be helped along with Wall Street.
Mainly, I'm interested in helping the address on our street where we live. Hope you agree.
Brian Hines
Tango loosens up Salem (and me)
There's a lot of reasons to like Argentine Tango. And dancing in general. Letting go, embracing your inner whatever, freely flowing – what's not to like?
Last night Laurel and I went to our first class being offered by the Argentine Tango Salem community. We took up Argentine Tango in 2006, but never felt comfortable dancing what we'd learned (a blog post sample of our initial Tango journey is here, here, and here).
So we're making a fresh start.
Laurel likes American Tango more than Argentine, a style we took up last year. But I'm intrigued by the unique spontaneity and intimacy of Argentine Tango, in part because it appeals to my Tai Chi soul.
Both arts are founded on what Tai Chi calls "listening skills."
You've got to shut off your mental chatter and get attuned to what's going on with people in the room. This centrally means your partner. Also, those close to you. Most importantly, yourself.
Elizabeth Wartluft is teaching the Tango class. One of the first things she did was ask us students, "What's the job of the leader?"
People threw out answers. "Lead!" "Not bump into other dancers." "Protect the follower." I didn't say anything. Then Elizabeth said, "What else?"
Instantly "Interpret the music" popped into my mind. I almost blurted the thought out. Then I wondered whether I should let someone else answer. Or whether this was the best answer. I hesitated.
In a few seconds Elizabeth answered her own question, when nobody else did, with "Interpret the music!" (or words to that effect) Right away I said to myself, "Geez, why didn't you follow your instinct and speak out?"
For me, that moment was the most instructive part of the class. I'd frozen myself with over-thinking.
That's a no-no for both leaders and followers. In dancing you've got to go with what you feel. A leader has to be decisive in his leading; a follower has to be confident in her following (usually men lead and women follow, but not always).
Most of the rest of the class was aimed at learning basic leading and following skills, including feeling comfortable maneuvering in a crowded room – since Argentine Tango often is danced in close quarters.
Elizabeth had us play some dancing games, one of which gave me an "uh-oh" worry at the beginning. We were supposed to walk around randomly on the dance floor by ourselves when she said "solo," then link up with someone next to us when she said "couple."
I knew that in Argentina, men often dance with each other. But this isn't on my list of favorite things to do. To me, two women dancing together looks perfectly natural (and often hot!). Two men, though … not the same.
So I'd spend my solo time hoping that when the "couple" signal came, I'd be standing next to a female. At first that happened, in part because I was angling to make it so.
Then I started to relax into a whatever mode. A few times I grabbed a guy and led him around. At least once another guy looked at me and I said "go ahead and lead." He did. I felt fine with it.
Salem is sort of an uptight town, compared to Portland and Eugene – which have thriving Tango communities. I'm expecting that as Tango takes off here, this will help produce a looser vibe.
It did for me last night. I'm looking forward to more.
Posted at 12:27 PM in Tango/Dance | Permalink | Comments (0)
McCain – Palin supporters, help me out
I'm for Obama and Biden. So is my wife. As is my daughter. Along with just about everybody else I know.
So it's difficult for me to understand how the other side thinks. Being a warm and fuzzy progressive, I thought I'd reach out in this post and try to touch some McCain – Palin supporters.
What leads you to believe that the Republican ticket is best for the United States? Which policies favored by McCain, and not by Obama, would get this country back on track?
Please, be reality-based. Your opinions need to be backed up by facts.
For example, McCain keeps saying that Obama wants to raise taxes on most Americans. That isn't true. His tax plan would lower taxes on lower and middle income people more than McCain's plan would. The lies being spread about Obama's tax policies are just that: lies.
I can understand why someone would simply like McCain more than Obama. "Like" is a subjective preference. I'd never try to talk someone out of liking something, so long as it didn't hurt other people.
But here's how I see this election: this country is at a crossroads. Sure, that's said every four years at presidential election time. But it seems more true this time around.
Huge investment firms are going under. Today the stock market dropped more than 500 points. Yet McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound. I don't see how someone with this attitude will be able to fix our economic problems.
Help me out, McCain supporters. Tell me how more tax cuts for the wealthy and continuing massive budget deficits are going to turn things around.
Recently Jon Stewart said on his The Daily Show something like, "So the only people who can fix the problems caused by eight years of a Republican president, and six out of eight years of Republicans controlling Congress, are…Republicans?"
Again, I don't get it. Where's the evidence that McCain and Palin, who are strong supporters of almost every George Bush policy, are going to be independent mavericks?
There's a lot I don't like about McCain and Palin. McCain is running a dishonorable, sleazy campaign. He got nailed in an Obama ad today for surrendering his honor in order to try to win the presidency.
Palin keeps repeating her Bridge to Nowhere lie, even after the truth has come out that she favored the bridge and continues to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for Alaska. And she's for killing wolves from airplanes, a despicable act that my animal-loving soul abhors.
So it'd be tough for me to change my mind and vote for McCain and Palin. I just don't see any good reasons to do so. And neither do most of the people that I talk to.
But who knows? Maybe someone will leave a comment to this post that offers up a cogent, fact-based, persuasive reason why they should lead this country.
I'm waiting.
McCain surrenders his honor
It's a sad turn of events. John McCain used to be all about honor and country. Now he's all about me, me, me – having demonstrated that he's willing to lie his way to gain the presidency.
I've lost all respect for the guy. As should the voters.
Fortunately, people are starting to wake up from the dream of "McCain, independent maverick." Alarm clocks are buzzing all over the place.
"McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions" The New York Times nails him:
Harsh advertisements and negative attacks are a staple of presidential campaigns, but Senator John McCain has drawn an avalanche of criticism this week from Democrats, independent groups and even some Republicans for regularly stretching the truth in attacking Senator Barack Obama's record and positions.
"John McCain's ads are LIES. Here's the video proof." A You Tube video documents his falsities:
"Why McCain is going so negative, so often" Jonathan Martin explains:
McCain's tactics are drawing the scorn of many in the media and organizations tasked with fact-checking the truthfulness of campaigns. In recent weeks, Team McCain has been described as dishonorable, disingenuous and downright cynical.. McCain seems to have made a choice that many politicians succumb to but that he had always promised to avoid — he appears ready to do whatever it takes to win, even it if soils his reputation.
"The two faces of John McCain" Old one: proud warrior. New one: lying politician.
And that is the contradiction now confronted by the national press corps, whose members desperately wish to believe in the old McCain they adored rather than the new McCain who nauseates them. Some pretend that what they see is not really happening, or doesn't matter; others wrinkle their noses but cannot quite muster indignation; and a few, very few, realize that the campaign is being debased by the man who once denounced this ugly style of politics and promised reform.
"Obama aide: McCain campaign 'sleaziest' in modern history" That's for sure. Tell it like it is.
"We will take no lectures from John McCain, who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. "His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking."
"McCain wrong on Palin earmarks" The Los Angeles Times does some fact-checking and lie exposing.
John McCain got it wrong Friday when he asserted that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had not requested any earmarks, the spending directives lawmakers insert in spending bills that McCain has vowed to eliminate. Palin, in fact, requested $198 million in federal earmarks in February, including such expenses as $487,000 to fight obesity in Alaska and $4 million to develop recreational trails.
After eight years of George Bush, Americans are tired of being lied to. Yet here comes John McCain, doing more of the same.
What I find amazing is that this is the same John McCain who was so fond of claiming (falsely) that Barack Obama is willing to lose a war in order to win an election. And now McCain is showing that he is willing to lose his honor in order to win the presidency.
There's only one thing for both Obama and voters to do: release some righteous rage. Refuse to play Karl Rove's games again. Stand up for truth, justice, and the American way.
Not John McCain's lying way.
Cheer up: new poll shows Obama lead
It's been kind of a dispiriting week for progressives, having to watch the polls move in McCain's direction. But here's some good news: a new Daily Kos-sponsored tracking poll that has Obama ahead 47% to 45%.
Indeed, it feels like the post convention McCain momentum is running down. After all, you can only lie for so long until the bad karma catches up. And the non-critical national media are starting to wake up, thankfully.
It'll be interesting to see how Sarah Palin performs when she isn't simply reading her stump speech over and over.
Pretty amazing, really. Here's this supposed model of feminist independence standing next to McCain like a robot, reciting what she's been told to say, refusing to answer questions (until tonight, when ABC has an interview with her).
This is showing American voters how ill-prepared she is. McCain claims she's ready to take over as president, but his campaign doesn't think she's even ready for a press conference.
The "internal" numbers in the Daily Kos poll are encouraging. Take a look. Obama is leading McCain by four to eighteen points in every part of the country but the south. Good luck on winning a national election with that sort of support.
Women favor Obama by nine points. And I suspect that gap will only grow as they learn about McCain's and Palin's anti-choice positions.
Bottom line: the sky isn't falling, Obama supporters. He and Biden are poised for a bounce-back.
Obama, you need to get fired up
Today I was planning to rant about McCain's Sarah Palin lies – since she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it – but realized that actually I'm more pissed off at Obama.
So this rant's for you, Barack.
First off, you're my man. That's why it hurts so much to see you acting like a weenie. It killed me to watch you interviewed on MSNBC yesterday, whiffing the softball questions Keith Olbermann threw at you. Such as:
OLBERMANN: And Governor Palin hired a lobbyist to get earmarks to the tune of $27 million for a 6,000-person town which is — in its own scope, is kind of a neat trick, but it does seem to counterbalance the basic platform of the Republican Party.
You said that they're not telling the truth here, but when the stuff is a gross distortion, whether it's about their own positions or yours, or facts in your history or whatever, what can you do about it? And why do people hesitate to use the word "lie" about these things?
OBAMA: Well, look, we have been very clear about the fact that this argument John McCain and Sarah Palin are making, that they are agents of change, just won't fly. It defies their history and their background. And we saw it in the convention that they wouldn't talk about the basic issues that are really going to make a difference in the lives of middle class families.
So you know, I'm happy to have legitimate policy debates with them on where we want to take health care, what we want to do about energy, what we want to do about education, what are we going to do about the war in Iraq.
But you know, for them to run an ad that basically doesn't present an accurate record of their positions on issues I think should raise some questions about how they would approach an administration.
Jesus! Just say, "Yes, McCain and Palin are lying. That's unfortunate. The American people deserve better."
Over on the Huffington Post, Drew Westen does a good job analyzing what the Obama campaign is doing wrong. In short, lots. This is right on:
But McCain shouldn't have gotten a 10-point bump from his uncivil convention, and this election shouldn't be close. What happened in one short week was both completely predictable and completely avoidable. Just hours after a Democratic Convention that reignited Democratic enthusiasm and started to swing those swing voters who just weren't sure about Obama, the Obama campaign had forgotten everything it should have learned from its success of Denver--most importantly that you never drop your gloves, and that you never let the other side control the narratives--and had returned to the same failed strategies that gave us Presidents Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry, strategies Democratic consultants have passed from generation to generation like a family heirloom laced with hemlock.
It's starting to drive me nuts, this be nice strategy that doesn't work against Republican toughness. Voters don't want a smiley-face president. Obama has to show that he's got the fire in his belly to take this country in a new direction and to face up to foreign policy challenges.
Except for flashes during his Mile High stadium speech, I haven't seen this from Obama. Both he and Biden keep talking about how much they respect McCain, without getting the same in return.
Last week I saw Biden on CNN, speaking live at a campaign event. Here's a chance for him to make the most of a few minutes of air time on a major cable news channel. And he blows it.
Speaking extemporaneously, he starts talking about how he and McCain are such good friends. Not just casual Senate buddies, but really good friends. Then he tells a warm and fuzzy story about travelling to Greece, or somewhere, with McCain.
Eventually he gets around to talking about how even though McCain is a great guy, his policies suck. By this time all of Biden's sweet talking about the Republican candidate has diluted his differences with him.
Once again, just like in 2004, the Democrats are assuming that being right on the issues will make up for turning the other cheek on baseless Rove'ian attacks. Well, it didn't work for Kerry, and it won't work for Obama.
Obama frequently says, "The Republicans can't govern, but they sure know how to run a campaign." Well dude, if you admire their campaigning ability so much (as you should), why can't you learn from them?
I'm not quite at worried as Adam McKay, who says "We're Gonna Frickin' Lose this Thing." But it seriously bothers me to see Obama acting so calm and collected while McCain and Palin roast him.
Richard Cohen asks, "Too cool to fight?"
It is true that on the stump, Obama goes on the attack. But those are fragments -- maybe 15 seconds on the evening news. It is with extended interviews, such as the Sunday shows, that we get to visit with the man -- and that man, for all his splendid virtues, seems to lack fight. Maybe he's worried about how America would receive an angry black man or maybe he's just too cool to ever get hot, but the end result is that we have little insight into his passions: What, above all, does he care about? The answer, at least to the Sunday TV viewer, was nothing much.
Show us, Barack. Show us what you care about, and how much you're willing to fight for this country.
Right now it looks like you and Biden are willing to hand McCain and Palin the keys to the White House, preferring to say that you didn't descend to their level rather than ascend to the leadership the United States needs.
Not acceptable. Not at all. You can keep sending me your almost-daily requests for more money. But until I see some fire from your campaign, my Visa card is staying in my wallet.
Firefox, forgive me. I’m in love with Chrome.
Early in 2005 I converted to Firefox. And got a Firefox cap.
Ever since, I've been faithful to my web browser, aside from the rare times I need to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (such as to perform a Windows update).
When I heard about Google's Chrome, at first I vowed to avert my eyes. I'd remain true to Firefox no matter how pretty and enticing Chrome was.
That promise lasted just a few days. During which time Firefox did its usual memory-consuming thing after I'd opened many tabs, even though I'm using version 3.0.1.
Result: drastic computer slowdown. Or Firefox lockup. Can't remember the exact irritation.
Whatever it was, it drew me to download Chrome last week. I've been a happy Chrome camper ever since, pretty much.
Chrome copied in my Firefox bookmarks just fine. However, I use a password manager, RoboForm, and right now it won't work with Chrome. So I've been having to use Firefox to retrieve my passwords.
Plus, inexplicably Chrome doesn't have a master password feature. This is a major blunder. Who wants their passwords sitting out in the open, accessible to anyone who fires up Chrome on their computer?
Hopefully this feature omission will be fixed soon. Because otherwise I've been pleased with Chrome.
I've had jillions of web page tabs open on my laptop with nary a problem. Occasionally there will be a problem with a site, but Chrome does a good job of shutting down the offending tab. As the Chrome comic book points out, this is a significant benefit of the new browser: one bad web site doesn't crash the entire program.
I like the bookmarks bar. Nine of my favorite web sites are just an easy always-visible click away.
At first I thought it was strange that Chrome wouldn't allow bookmarks to be displayed in a sidebar, like Firefox does, but now I don't miss that feature.
The lack of a search engine text box also was immediately apparent. However, typing words into the URL bar brings up Google. Some want a separate search box, along with other features, but I don't see the need.
Chrome seems faster than Firefox. I haven't done any actual speed tests – this is just my impression. I had trouble printing out an Adobe Reader file at first, but the second time it printed fine.
I'm confident Google will iron out Chrome's problems. A few days ago its web browser market share had already reached over one percent. Likely it will climb steadily.
I appreciate how Firefox became an alternative to the behemoth that is Microsoft. But Chrome is a worthy evolutionary successor to Firefox.
Posted at 08:31 PM in Home life | Permalink | Comments (2)
Enquirer story on Palin affair lacks juicy details
Hey, I just spent $3.49 on a copy of the September 15 National Enquirer so you don't have to. I was curious if the print story had more details about Sarah Palin's alleged affair.
Here's what it says on this subject (leaving out other salacious gossip about her daughter's pregnancy and such):
Sarah Palin is hoping to unite America as John McCain's vice president, but her own family is divided in a vicious war that is exposing her darkest secrets and threatens to destroy her political career.
One of the incredible charges that has emerged from the family feud is that the Alaska governor had an affair with her husband's business partner.
…Another incredible allegation emerging from the family war is that Palin, a mother of five, had an affair with a former business associate of her fisherman husband, Todd.
"Todd discovered the affair and quickly dissolved his friendship and his business associations with the guy," charges an enemy. "Many people in Alaska are talking about the rumor and say Todd swept it under the rug."
The reporter's email address ([email protected]) is included with the story, so maybe more revelations about Palin will emerge.
I've heard from quite a few people after first writing about the alleged affair. Many of the comments and emails reflect the sort of thoughtful analysis that we've come to expect from right-wingers. For example:
You're a brain dead socialist and should be ashamed of yourself. Go back to pot farming and leave them alone.
don't know how but I stumbled on to your web-site.
You are one of the dumbest SOB's I have ever witnessed!
You are some sick people and very ignorant if you think this affair is veritas.
Well, l'm interested in the truth. If Sarah Palin had an affair, that's worth knowing. If she didn't, that also should come out.
Unlike a lot of Republicans, judging from the speeches I heard at their recent convention, I'm ready and willing to charge course with the wind of reality. The National Enquirer deserves respect, because they were right about the John Edwards affair and got the goods on O.J. Simpson before other media did.
Plus, it's obvious that Sarah Palin can't be trusted. Like most politicians, she's a pro at fudging the truth. Or even outright lying.
Take a look below at a You Tube video – an ABC investigative report on Troopergate. Listen to the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner who was fired by Sarah Palin. He says, "I'd like to see the truth, that's all."
When you hear Palin's deceptive comments at the end of the video, it's obvious that no matter how many denials are issued about her alleged affair, you can't trust what Palin says.
Update on Sarah Palin’s alleged affair
The Palin soap opera continues to unfold. Did she or didn't she have an affair? New facts (and guesses) came out today.
The National Enquirer hasn't gone beyond its teasing that Palin had some sort of affair. And almost certainly it won't, until the print edition is on newsstands (they're in the fine capitalist business of making money, after all).
So the identity of Palin's purported lover is still a mystery. However, an Alaskan blogger says that Sarah Palin had a relationship with her husband's business partner.
My sources in Alaska say the incident occurred in mid 1990s, right around the time she became mayor of Wasilla. Todd Palin's partner in a Polaris snowmachine dealership in Wasilla, Brad Hanson Hampton, and Sarah were reportedly flirtatious and but never consummated the relationship.
When I read that, I thought the story might amount to nothing. After all, I could easily imagine the National Enquirer teasing readers with a "Sarah Palin affair!" headline – which turns out to be some heavy flirting.
No big deal. But the next paragraph casts doubt on how innocent the relationship was.
When Todd found out, he reportedly dissolved the partnership and sold the dealership. Hampton [or Hanson] is now a member of the Palmer City Council. He was married at the time of the reported flirtation.
Selling a business is a pretty big deal. Seems like you'd need a pretty good reason to do that.
Now the tale gets even more interesting. Andrew Sullivan reports that Todd Palin's former business partner has filed an emergency motion to seal his divorce papers. It was denied by the court.
This guy's name is Scott Richter, though, not Brad Hanson (or Hampton). A Google search reveals that Todd Palin and Scott Richter did own property together. So there's some sort of connection between them.
A comment to another blog post has a theory about why there's a rush to seal the divorce papers.
Rumor from Alaska is that this refers to an affair the wife, Debbie, [Scott Richter's ex-wife] had with one of Palin's advisers. Todd Palin got him fired. Since the order was denied, this will be public soon.
Bottom line: there's more evidence that something is fishy, affair-wise, in the Palin family. It might take until next week to find out what role, if any, Sarah plays in all this.
There's now speculation – shakily founded (but that's what speculation is all about) – that Scott Richter could be Trig Palin's real father. Well, at least the marvelously unqualified Sarah Palin has stirred up McCain's presidential campaign.
I'm hoping she'll stir it right down the electability drain. After all, even if she didn't have an affair, there's other juicy shocking revelations about her that voters need to consider.
Watch for the new issue of the National Enquirer at your supermarket checkout lane. I'll probably be doing some daily shopping.
National Enquirer alleges Sarah Palin affair
Ooh, ooh! Please let it be true!
National Enquirer cover:
"Sarah Palin's DARK SECRETS!
Affair that nearly ruined her career"
Well, it won't be nearly, if this turns out to be true. The Enquirer had the goods on John Edwards way before anyone else did.
Naturally the McCain campaign is calling the story a "vicious lie." That's always the first response, so I don't give the denial much credence.
I like the National Enquirer's response:
"The National Enquirer's coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin's extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor's daughter revealed her pregnancy. Following our John Edwards' exclusives, our political reporting has obviously proven to be more detail-oriented than the McCain campaign's vetting process. Despite the McCain camp's attempts to control press coverage they find unfavorable, The Enquirer will continue to pursue news on both sides of the political spectrum."
We'll just have to wait and see how this turns out. The Enquirer pays its sources, and Palin has made quite a few enemies in Alaska.
I suspect we haven't seen the end of the shocking revelations about Sarah Palin. Stay tuned.
Posted at 03:42 PM in Current affairs | Permalink | Comments (112)
Palin baby conspiracy theories
Ah, just the thing to liven up a Labor Day. The blogosphere is buzzing with the notion that Sarah Palin's recently born child isn't really hers.
This possibility took a hit when it was announced that her 17 year old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant – since some speculated that the baby was Bristol's.
Portland blogger Jack Bogdanski is on the story. His first post today was "Another web page connected to the Sarah Palin scandal disappears."
This is curious. If there's nothing to the not-Sarah's-baby speculation, why would photos of her pregnancy and the baby's birth be disappearing?
Bogdanski's follow up post was "More fun and games with Miss Congeniality."
When we left the saga of Sarah Palin and her supposed fifth child, Trig, early this morning, only one of two things could have been true: Either Palin was not the boy's mother and was faking the pregnancy, or she recklessly endangered the life of the child by waiting almost a full day between her water breaking and arriving at a hospital -- choosing to fly eight hours or more from Dallas to Anchorage after her water broke.
Either way, this story doesn't put Palin in a flattering light. If she faked the pregnancy, obviously her candidacy is over, because she's a liar. If she recklessly endangered her child, this casts even more doubt on her judgment and capacity to be a heartbeat away from serving as President of the United States.
The comments to Jack's second post are well worth reading. One at the beginning raises a question that I also thought of.
I don't consider the latest wrinkle a slamdunk refutation of the claim that Sarah Palin is Trig's mother.
A copy of her pregnancy test results or receipts for prenatal care would be more persuasive.
There are still too many holes and loose ends.
Other commenters debate the propriety of a pregnant woman who is leaking amniotic fluid and having contractions then giving a speech in Texas and flying on a plane back to Alaska – without going to a hospital to have her condition checked.
An Anchorage Daily News story said:
Still, a Sacramento, Calif., obstetrician who is active in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said when a pregnant woman's water breaks, she should go right to the hospital because of the risk of infection. That's true even if the amniotic fluid simply leaks out, said Dr. Laurie Gregg.
Here's another blogger's take on the subject. There may be nothing to this story but Palin's poor judgment (the baby was known to have Down's Syndrome, so you'd think this would have made her more careful about her pregnancy).
However, I agree with the commenter who said "too many holes and loose ends." I suspect this story will hang around for a while.
And if it doesn't, bloggers can turn to Palin's hiring an attorney for her Troopergate investigation. Not exactly a great beginning to a vice-presidential candidacy.
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BREAKING: ‘Alan Alanson’ sentenced to 9 months
Alan Colley, known to Hampstead hoax followers as “Alan Alanson”, was sentenced to nine months in prison at Newcastle Crown Court earlier today. Colley/Alanson also received a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO), which will remain in place until a further order supersedes it.
Colley had originally faced charges of Harassment 4, “harassment putting people in fear of violence”, but at his 9 May hearing he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of malicious communication—”sending an electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety”.
As “Alan Alanson”, Colley posted a slew of malicious and threatening posts on Facebook, many directed at the parents in the Hampstead case. His posts were notable, as well, for their anti-Semitic bent. Colley also posted as “Alan Boyes”, but that account appeared to be for the benefit of his non-conspiranoid friends and family members.
While Colley could seem almost amiable at times, striking up near-civil conversations in the comments section of this blog, he showed his true colours in the days immediately following his November 2016 arrest:
Maybe it’s just us, but it seems just a bit unwise to give a “no comment” interview to the plod, then be led away effing and blinding, only to blurt out the nature and details of one’s offence in a crowded (and well-CCTV’d) custody suite.
Despite his many claims that he was a devout Christian, Colley was fond of making threatening allusions to shooting people in the head, as in this November 2017 post:
Hoaxtead Research’s interest in the case
Colley’s case was of particular interest to us, as EC had been scheduled as a witness at his trial, having provided police with some small pieces of evidence in the lead-up to his arrest.
So we were surprised in February this year when he posted in the comments section that he had not been charged:
Just thought I’d pop by and say hello sports fans… Out of ten, ‘how much does it piss you off that I have not been charged’?
Was this wishful thinking on Colley’s part? Or an attempt to goad EC into contradicting him? Hard to say. However, he followed up with two more before calling it a night:
Oh you do mind/remember me Kazza, you should?
Why do you feel/think you need to censor my posts… are you yellow ? are you frightened of what I might say… Karen Irving, do you deny being El Coyote? be careful before you answer… Because there are folk busying to link you to such a handle… Will check in later to see if you have gained some fortitude.
Colley had apparently not been keeping up, as EC’s identity had been well known for at least a year by this time. However, it again seemed unwise of him to attempt to contact a person who he must have known was a witness in his case.
As “Alan Alanson”, Colley had forged online relationships with Hampstead hoax pushers such as Angela Power-Disney, Jake Clarke, Kristie Sue Costa, and others.
His sentence comes in the wake of a slew of stern sentences related to child sex abuse hoaxes, and may reflect a growing understanding of the damage which can be done by false allegations of sexual abuse, especially when they are amplified online.
16/08/2019 in Breaking news. Tags: Alan Alanson, Alan Colley, Criminal Behaviour Order, guilty, malicious communications, Newcastle Crown Court, sentencing
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407 thoughts on “BREAKING: ‘Alan Alanson’ sentenced to 9 months”
Elementary Penguin says:
Ooh, so he got a Rupert! Thanks for sharing, EC 🙂
I hope this sends out a message to all the other people who every day are still doing exactly what Alanson did. Everyone from Inverness to Oldcastle to Brighton to Kincorth should take note. I wonder who’ll be next.
The Office Tapir says:
So this worked out well for him, then:
If I LMAO does it mean I’m a horrible person?
If so, I think you’re one of many. 😂
Oh sorry, EC – just seen you already quoted that in your post. Oh well, consider it a visual aid 🤭
Great! Angela’s take on this will naturally be entirely opposite to the truth after she picks it up from here as she usually does.
Thanks for the news EC.
Good news! Another moron who talked his way into prison. Not many of them left now.
Yet another new Praterson channel? 💤
Let’s see how quickly we can get this one taken down 🤭
This one goes out to JP…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2yK92qEi4igYLOAr3EFn8w/videos
Have reported both videos that are on there (the one below for the description), as well as the channel name.
Well, slap my arse and call me Susan – that was quick! 😃
Danny Royce says:
Oh Christ, Ramola D and David Noakes. Kill me now 🤮
Semolina Pilchard says:
Noakes @ 2:25 – “The Data Protection Act is yet another piece of European legislation that takes away our rights” 😖
OK, I’m pretty sure I won’t make it to the end of this.
Bacov Thenet says:
Pavement Taster the bandwidth waster must be apoplectic. Meanwhile well done EP et al for cutting of this loathsome,pointless twat off from both of his viewers.
Not a problem–I’m glad you had the screenshot, as I couldn’t lay hands on it in my morass of unsorted files. 🙂
At 16:35 Noakes says that the punishment for treason is death and goes off on one about all the people that should be “hung by the neck until dead” 🙄
Abe Christie: “…once I return…” 🤔
Thanks, BT 🙂
Well done. Paterson seems to be getting quite vicious in his posts. It’s still a mystery to me why those who follow John Wanoa are absolutely fixated on the Hampstead matter and have woven it into the mix.
I had no idea Alanson had been charged but his behavior, or at least the posts about his arrest seem a bit fictional to me and like a case of false bravado.
Odd that they don’t take even police warnings seriously.
It must be very taxing for the father to have to endlessly pursue these attackers. Bizarre how they cannot spare a thought for the children in this case. They’re all approaching those difficult teen years.
He was arrested and charged nearly three years ago. It’s been a slow process.
This is a more recent post, announcing his guilty plea:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/alanson-pleads-guilty-to-malicious-communications
Not convinced by this David Noakes and his attachment to the Fruit loop Brigade.
He can’t be that silly seeing he amassed a reputed £8M fortune from his quack “cure” and purchased planes which he could fly and luxury cars.
If these fake cancer cure grifters are such humane types why don’t they just give away their “cure”?
Noakes is doing his partner’s case no good. He plead guilty in court and he gives the appearance of mocking his light sentence as he now claims he is the victim.
I hope French authorities are taking note. Whatever Thyer says in court has to be seriously questioned.
I expect Noakes’ victims- those who had side effects and believed his rubbish -have a case for suing him in a civil court for damages.
I reckon he’s trying to create confusion in an attempt to delay and stop anyone pursuing his money.
When you have dingbats like Ramola D to promote you it’s easy to portray yourself as some sort of crackpot rather than a cold and manipulating con artist ripping off desperate people.
Christ, he’s got another one back up already 🙄
He’ll never learn…
Yes he / she is an Exceptional Elementary Penguin.
Paterson needs a good hobby. He’s getting far too angry which I expect is out of sheer frustration that EC is not upset about being called fat or purple / red haired or even, a lesbian !
Why does he think being called a lesbian is an insult ? . It was an insult dodgy blokes use to hurl at ladies who gave then the cold shoulder in the 1960/80s if they dared rebuff their “gentlemanly” advances.
Besides we know he could never afford a wood-chipper seeing he lives on “the social”.
Can we pass the hat around and buy him a ticket to return post-haste?
Sad, but not surprised to see the usual suspects are following it (Neelu’s dancing the line as usual,, she already has a court order regarding the Hampstead case, following a person breaking it is skirting dangerously close to the edge…imho)
From someone on Guernsey, four years ago:
“As someone who has had face to face dealings with David Noakes. It is my opinion that that he does actually belive much of the bonkers conspiracy theory stuff he spouts”
From that same comment thread:
“There seems to be an increasing cross-over between GcMAF grifters and the stalkers and stoners of the broader ‘truther’ community — people who have moved on from denying any one specific official account (9/11, Sandy Hook) to a general philosophy of *everything* is a Gubblement Lie.”
Aww, does Praterson think Mark Zuckerberg owns YouTube? Bless
And two of those are John himself, subbing his own channel. The sad twat
He does realise that they can IP block, or if they really wanted to, could contact his ISP and get his net access removed- sure there are ways around it, but his ‘technical expertise’ seems rather um poor, shall we say…
LOL, didn’t notice that
Yes, I’ll look forward to hearing her views on the matter. 😉
Yes, the field is definitely narrowing, isn’t it?
That has got to be some sort of land speed record, EP! Well done!
Well, I gave her the link to this post (via a YT thread) within minutes of EC putting it up, so she’s aware of it 🙂
Yes, I fear he is distraught that I have never responded to any of the hundreds of emails he has sent me. Sadly, I cannot reciprocate his devotion, as my heart belongs to another, but I can certainly understand his frustration. I hope that one day he will be able to move on.
Also, if he has several hundred channels, why does he need to keep making new ones? He seems oblivious to the fact that “Date joined: August 16th, 2019” is clearly displayed on his ‘About’ page 😆
Well if he’s desperate, Kaley Einav has a thing for him.
New Matt Taylor channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmP8UJgEIDZYWG6jE4GGhzg/videos
Major F Earmonger retd says:
We must all pull together in these challenging times and ensure the seizure and safe repatriiation to Blighty of this evil monsters ill gotten spoon collection as our great nation faces its deepest ever national kitchen utensil crisis since Uri Geller was fannying about with them in the 1970`s.
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Sam Best says:
Last night I had a dream / nightmare that featured Lee Cant briefly. Maybe it was because of my medication, some similar to what Lord Wanoa is currently on.
We and 100s of others were in some bizarre huge factory filled with zillions of mechanic parts and Cant was pontificating on how to fix something but he had it all wrong.
You will be pleased to know I gave him a good telling off and he looked quite stunned and was silent.
If I start to dream about Paterson that’s it- back to the doctor for different melds.
In the rest of the dream I was at a beach where 1000s of people had gathered to watch Megan Markle and Hilary Clinton go swimming together.
No more late night snacks or reading the MailOnline just before bed for me. What if I start having wet dreams about Neelu?.
He visibly shudders.
Why do this lot even want to be on YT if the hate Zuckerberg so much and think it’s owned by “the Joos”.
And not a single view of the dozens of videos. Why does he bother?
Finally another Andy walk ‘n’ whinge:
No dogs today, though. Apparently the missus already took ’em out earlier this morning… and spotted a wild boar that looked like Rick Coll. Or something.
Good to see another idiot come up short against the majesty of the law.
News from Glastonbury – Araya Soma has gone to ground completely as far as I can see. All her facebook profiles are now gone and she’s keeping a low profile in Glastonbury too. Can’t post it here, but if I were her, I’d be looking at a different way of making money. She was placing herself as the big name in the anti-5g group in town, which is full of the usual stoners and conspiracy nuts. But an acquaintance of mine wrote to all the local councillors with screen shots of some of her facebook posts – the ones praising Hitler etc. and her own gang then realised what a liability she is. Also a bit of a blow (no doubt) was when she was openly ridiculed on our local facebook noticeboard (which tbh is for the very thick-skinned only)… and what was lovely to see was by the tone and information in the posts, it was pretty clear that she’d been checked out here on Hoaxtead!
Good of Praterson to share his secret crush and sexual fantasy with us but the phrase “too much information” springs to mind:
The customary Hampstead bullshit comes at 11:43.
And the inevitable Hoaxtead rant comes at 15:22, followed by a death threat to everyone associated with the blog and a rant about the “assassination attempt” on Praterson 😆
“Which is why I chose to do what I do”…basically walk around the streets or sit at home sucking on his roll-ups boring the tits of everyone with his endless waffle. Pillock.
There’s a really vile death threat towards the end too.
Will make a lowlights video of this one.
Ooh, someone’s getting sweaty palms 🤭
😆😂🤣
Have reported this one from Praterson (here plagiarising Hope Tart) for hate speech:
UK Callum says:
This just in. Turns out it was me 🤭
🙄🤦♂️🤪
Haha, good to hear, PA!
As it always does with him.
Grandma Parsley Semtex says:
3:47 – “It’s plain for anyone that’s got an inkling of arse”
@Sam, well done for giving him a good telling off. 😆 Btw, don’t eat after 6pm & only read the MailOnline in the afternoon for fear of ….well…..Neelu! 🙃
@Susan/aka EL, he never will return as we all know, he is what in the olden days we would call, not pc days sorry, a big girl’s blouse.
He’s a zombie! 🧟♂️
naqsej says:
I can well believe that someone can believe this stuff and amass a lot of ££ as well. Noakes was clever or lucky in his choice of con. The combination of an easy product -none of the cost of research, testing, approved production methods – plus a desperate customer base willing to try anything, leads to a licence to print money. Combine that with the narcissm which is immune to the wickedness of his actions or the pain he’s causing. Such a person could easily be persuaded that there’s a magic loophole that only clever people like him know. And that lawyers who tell him it’s not true are just protecting themselves. It would be hard for him to believe they are professionals with his interests at heart because that’s a mindset completely alien to him – he thinks only of himself and so believes everyone else is the same. Such people are easy to con as they only see things from their point of view – look at Sabine’s former friend, Elizabeth Watson.
Arse and house are homonyms in the Derbyshire dialect though it still doesn’t make sense so I offer this linguistic snippet solely for entertainment.
Call me naive, call me slow or even call me Ethel but is there much difference between John Wanoa, Andy Devine and John Paterson threatening mass murder by lynching all manner of people (those who disagree with them) and this case?:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/man-texts-mass-shooting-threats
” 25-Year-Old Man Was Arrested After Allegedly Texting His Ex-Girlfriend That He Wanted To Commit A Mass Shooting”
Wow, how much bullshit can you cram into one paragraph?!
Aww, poor old Praterson’s been having one of his meltdowns on Abe Christie’s page.
(The comments below were directed at Flo, Kilrush and ‘George Dufort’, lol.)
L.B. Beck says:
I think I’ve worked out who Praterson’s California contact is who’s gonna terminate us all. It’s his second favourite Austrian:
Sad Muppet says:
As an old boss of mine would say “Empty barrels make the most noise”.
One year? Meh, that’s probably as they have better thing to do – like deal with real child molesters etc. Don’t worry…..they’ll get to you Angie……..trust me on this.
OOOOH Zombies go for the brain. Don’t worry Angie, you’re safe.
Apologies – have corrected the date in the video description. The live feed that this is taken from went out this morning.
Bonne chance avec ça, Neelu 😆
Elementary Lenguin? 🤭
Hmm. I keg to differ.
(Sorry Sam, if you’re watching)
Noakes was clever or lucky in his choice of con.
Cons, plural. Noakes was simultaneously pimping a second Secret Cure for Cancer Suppressed by Big Pharma, something called Sodium dichloroacetate or DCA.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120814114309/http://dcashop.eu/info/
However, DCA did not lend itself so well as a cure for autism and CFS and umpteen other conditions, so Noakes eventually found GcMAF to be more profitable.
Such people are easy to con as they only see things from their point of view
Truthers are such easy prey.
Princess Fairy-Poo keeps whinging about “assassination attempts” while exulting in the company of Praterson and his incessant claims to be a multiple murderer leading an international team of assassins. It’s almost as if she tries to be a nauseating piece of trash.
Hahaha, slip of the finger! 🤭
Well now, here’s an interesting development…
Everyone needs a goal, I suppose.
No response yet on his Facebook page but I kinda wish I hadn’t looked now…
“and record the calls”
I hope this conversation-taping lady is not too hung up about her own right to privacy, because otherwise she would look like a hypocritical piece of garbage, no wait.
A href=”https://everydayconcerned.net/2019/06/13/biomedical-researcher-lynda-thyer-traumatized-by-extradition-threat-narrowly-escapes-kidnap-attempt-as-natural-remedy-gcmaf-effective-in-cancer-treatment-is-demonized-by-mhra-and-pharmaceutical-estab/”>Secret Surveillance and Profound Invasion of Privacy
This crowd haven’t really reached the “object-permanence” state of development… if Lynda Thyer is not directly in their field of view, that means she doesn’t exist any more.
An attitude crystalised by a number of calls in which she’s insisted on the receptionist giving her their name whilst point blank refusing to give them hers.
Just asked TN which video he got taken down and it turns out it was the one about Sandy Hook being fake. I remember the one he means. It seems YT are a bit twitchy after the whole Alex Jones debacle 🙂
I’m not too sure.
Arnie is married to a Kennedy ie: one of the Illuminati Freemason Elite Reptile Shape-Shifting Mob. Another member of the Hollywood Elite.
I guarantee it will be revealed his phone-number is recorded in the little black book owned by Mrs Eloise Frobisher who lives just two blocks from the late Jeffrey Epstein’s NY house who despite never even hearing of the late billionaire, this will prove Arnie is connected to the Lolita Express and is known to be have been in LA one day when the plane flew over.
Arnie is one of “them” although he could have course seduced Prattleon into revealing the inner secrets of Lord Wanoa’s plans for World Domination.
Ghost of Julius Streicher says:
It’s pleasing to see Johnny is now restraining his anti-Semitic attacks after so many complaints about his racism.
As Prattleon has said many times :
“I’m not in the least bit antisemitic and that is a vile attack. I do not hate Jews. I just hate all Israelis and those other Joos who live everywhere else. It’s terrible to accuse me of racism just because I point out that every Joo on the planet thinks and acts alike and the vast majority are Lesbian Drag Queens with funny colored hair who should lose a bit of bloody weight. How can that be racism?”.
“This is as bad as falsely accusing me of issuing death threats when all I want to do is arbitrarily lynch a few (100) of my critics and feed their limp bodies into a wood-chipper (feet first) to provide fertilizer for our soil. I’m sure Andy Devine will back me up on this”.
“Indeed as I said to Andy just the other day- I’m very liberal minded and even read the far left wing newspaper Der Stürmer which provides all the facts and figures I need about the Jewish World Plot to force everyone on the planet to celebrate Rosh Hashanah and eat apples and honey and open a high fee account at a Rotshchild Bank”.
“And Andy like me has complained that someone seems to be nicking out daily copy of Der Stürmer as the last one I received was in 1942.”
Angie will be most upset that it’s now been revealed that Tommy Robinson’s go-to Iman “Sheikh” Mohammad Tawhidi who constantly claims in interviews that all Mosques should be pulled down and says Robinson is correct saying that Muslims plan to set up Sharia Law systems in the West (as promoted by John Wanoa and believed by Neelu) is a complete fake who never passed any exams and has tried to pass himself off as the leader of the South Australian Muslim community when Australia’s peak Muslim bodies have all pronounced his as bogus.
Possibly just another con-artist but these creeps can be dangerous. The awful Sydney Lindt Cafe Sydney siege killer who murdered two innocents passed himself as as a desperate political refugee Iman from Iran when in fact he had fled Tehran after ripping off a travel agency he worked at for a small fortune.
http://guerillawire.org/politics/tommy-robinsons-go-to-imam-isnt/
“Tommy Robinson’s Go-To Imam ISN’T ”
Mind you he was exposed previously on the excellent Oz ABC TV show Media Watch which really shows up the paucity of “research” that Robinson and supporters (Angie) “research”.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/fake-sheikh-of-shock/9972660
” ‘Fake’ Sheikh of shock”
7:50 – “I would safely say that Smut Clyde, the Office Tapir, Elementary Penguin, Danny Royce, El Coyote are all one and the same person. I think all these accounts are Karen.”
😆😂🤣🤪
Dammit, I always suspected that Karen was me and now it’s been verified by a – cough cough – reliable source 😆
And Smutty too, who has his own successful blog. He’s me too!
I must say I’m immensely flattered 😃
By the way, it’s interesting to see Babs sucking up to the mentally unhinged jungle-dwelling anti-Semite, racist and serial liar Tom Cahill. Nothing creepy or desperate there, then 🙄
That’s quite an achievement to be running two excellent blogs with completely different styles. Fair play to you, Smutty… er, EC… er, me. Fuck, I think I need a lie-down.
Wilfred Hyde Park says:
Aww, it’s not fair. It was my turn to be Karen this week 😦
So now I’m Smut, Karen, Karen’s daughter, Karen’s husband, Karen’s son, Danielle la Verite, Christine Sands, Yannis Emmanouel, Sheva Burton, a Scotsman called Dom, a Mancunian called Danny, a “Brummie nonce”, the Hampstead dad, an old lady from Hounslow and a university lecturer from Medway.
Mine’s a Scotch, please, with a vodka-and-Xanax chaser.
Uhh?.. are you sure? It’s in my diary this week to be EC and I’ve worked for ages on my look :
overweight.. check
red/purple haired..check
lesbian..take my word for it
Drag queen / Transgender..check
Jewish..could be
Gorgeous..of course
Eww, too much (fake) information at 0:11 and 5:05 🤮
I think they are on to us. Only a matter of time before they discover I am actually me.
Does she not get that me commenting in French was meant as a jokey reference to Neelu’s request for people to call the French government? Is she really that stupid?
No just one broken neck bone which a doctor said is not that unusual in much older males.
23? Pffft. Bloody amateur:
Stop it, you’re killing me 😆😂🤣
You’re one of the few people Babs says is real, lol. She took a few liberties with estimating your age, though 😆
@Babs
Va te faire foutre!
Und fahr’ in die Hölle!
SP, Moorzy doesn’t appreciate that even if (very, very big if) Krusty became king in the UK, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t a British subject so UK laws wouldn’t apply to him then?
I didn’t intend to comment here today but having seen the video EP cites (and part 2 is up now), I hadn’t heard of the Belinda who made that video previously but I thought it ironic that she referred to people to visit this blog as being “obsessive”.
Please don’t take the piss out of Araya, she’ll have nothing left to drink.
Danny de la Royce says:
Mainstream media when it suits them, eh 🙄
By the way, anyone know what this Elvis mystery is that she refers to? 🤔
Good spot, CAW!
Fact-checking isn’t the fruitloops forte, I’m afraid. I mean, yesterday Praterson was blaming Zuckerberg for taking down his YT videos. I don’t think he’s quite worked out that YouTube and Facebook are two different things yet.
If only, mate 🍷 🍷 🍷 😖 🤮
I see that since I commented (very recently) EP has linked part 2 of the Belinda video. Ghost, I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody thinks that really is your picture. There are some folk who take things literally, don’t seem to get a joke.
In regard to the notion that EC is a woman of many parts, or should there be many IDs, I did come across a conspiracy theory in the looniverse where some folk believe people “play” multiple real life people. Bill Hicks (whomsoever he is or was) is also Alex Jones is one such suggestion made out there in YouTubeland and the late Princess Diana faked her death and is either Yvonne Rothschild or Elton John’s husband (depending on which conspiracy theorist is myth-making that day).
They’ll probably say the facts are faked, SP.
Abe comes back. Policeman appears. “Hollow hollow”. (I’ll get me parka….)
He’s not really come to grips with this Christianity thing has he…..
“Siri, give me an example of a rhetorical question.”
I hope they DO think it’s my picture. It’s how I would like to be seen. Glamour and class.
EC may be a woman of many parts but I am also a man of many of many parts.
Sadly most of them are beyond their use by date and in urgent need of repair.
I love that. Even if it is a bit deep for me.
Really good film from one of my favourite directors. Highly recommended.
Brilliant ! If only she knew I am a figment of my own imagination.
# I’ve been taking liberties with my age for decades.
Yes..Elvis didn’t die sitting on the toilet scoffing a peanut butter sandwich but faked his death and is living in Israel with JFK, Michael Jackson and now Jeffrey Epstein.
Little known fact: Elvis wore an Chai necklace in honour of his mother who was (for Pete’s sake don’t tell Paterson) a Joo.
# although some say he is actually working at Gracelands as a caretaker.
info@geneva-academy.ch
Princess Cockwomble wants you to liberate Lynda Thyer by emailing or ringing the receptionist at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Which is “a postgraduate joint center (between the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) located in Geneva, Switzerland.”
It’s a teaching / research college.
Posted by Angie under the second Babs video. Any idea what she’s babbling about…?
Monsieur Royce says:
“Eccentric but knowledgeable” 😆
Danné Roycée says:
Le Tapir du Bureau says:
Good luck with sucking up to Babs, Angie. This is what she thinks of you:
Well, this is awkward.
tomrebelresearchde says:
Ciccada 3301 is a Crypto-Community/Tribe that puts out very elaborate puzzles, some say for pure entertainment, others say to recruit crypto talent. Thomas Schoenberger seems to be a componist who tends to use some of the mathematics involved in crypto in his compositions. Both have been linked via a bunch of conspiracy theories. Schoenberger seems to be a complex, multi-facetted character as artists often seem to be. Some people state he is a troll. I have not yet looked into him. Ciccada on the other hand is fascinating and you can find good info on them on Wikipedia and on Brainscratch.
🙄🙄🙄
Well, this is awkward:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/in-the-presence-of-genius
In any event, the broken hyoid bone is still evidence of death – it’s just (leaving Epstein’s age out of it) more likely to be evidence of death by strangulation. So a broken hyoid bone doesn’t mean he’s not dead, it means at the most that he’s dead a different way.
To be fair, I think “assassination” means something different to her than it does to most people and the dictionary. “Assassination” in Neelu-speak means “bring a legal process to bear”. So you can be assassinated by receiving a parking ticket or a notice that your street’s going to closed for repairs. Just as “treason” means “do something Neelu disapproves of”.
Also, don’t you have to be someone important or prominent for it to be an assassination rather than just murder?
I think the problem is how obviously hopeless they are. The definition of threat to kill is: made a threat to kill another person, intending that someone (not necessarily the intended victim) would fear that the defendant intended to carry out the threat.
I find it impossible to believe that any of these intend to do anything which involves more effort than typing or yelling. We’ve seen (outside the RCJ) what happens when John Paterson encounters actual physical violence rather than talking about it.
That said someone who didn’t know them better might take it seriously, so they are at risk to some extent. But if I were defending them I would present my client as the chief exhibit.
anowlcalledsage says:
“Goth Look”? I am now personally hurt by that suggestion having just returned from traveling 900 miles to see The Cure. Boo Babs! Boo to you!!!
But isn’t there a difference between, say, US and UK definitions? I know in the US they use the test of whether they believe whether there is an actual intention by the perp to kill, which is why so many “death threats” don’t result in any American police action, whilst the UK police will intervene and interview on whether the victim thinks there is a threat but an actual prosecution will rely on the man on the Clapham Omnibus interpretation?
Great choice, mate. I’m a big fan and saw them on the Cure in Orange Tour in ’87 😍🎵🍊
I found Alan’s supposed rant in the police station hilarious. I bet he was on his best behaviour and wouldn’t dare raise his voice to a copper.
Lol, nice video. Just a shame that Paterson hasn’t got the sense to let this be a warning to him to quit with his death threats
Well done UKC
Damn, can you imagine how insulting Paterson could be if he was antisemitic
I see that mad old bat Heather Brown’s been ranting away on Babs’s videos
🙄💤💤💤
tdf says:
As a general comment, and not just this court case, I cannot understand where the claimed viewing figure of 4 million derived from regarding the original footage of the kids talking to camera. The number of true believers in the hoax seems to be in the region of a few dozen.
So this numptie is trying to determine the Hoaxtead EOB? She has added “ELINT traffic analyst” to her repertoire of dress-up games? Feckin amateurs.
“Learning from others’ misfortunes” does not seem to be one of this gang’s fortes.
Thanks, BT. 🙂
Does he even know what a residential school was? Could he name a single location of one? Does he know when the last one was closed down?
I know, I know, expecting facts from these numpties is a lot to ask. 🙄
The mind boggles.
Well done, TN! And I hear Dunny is none too pleased about it. 🙂
I only wish I were clever enough to run Smutty’s blog.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if there were someplace where you could just punch in your questions and find out the answer almost instantaneously? For instance, I would love to know just how many Canadians actually speak French.
Oh, wait. Maybe I will ask the Goofle.
tappity-tappity-tap
Hang on just a cotton-pickin’ minute, I think we’ve hit pay dirt!
French is the mother tongue of about 7.2 million Canadians (20.6 percent of the Canadian population, second to English at 56 percent) according to Census Canada 2016.[1] Most native speakers of the French language in Canada live in Quebec, where French is the official and majority language. 77 percent of Quebec’s population are native francophones, and 95 percent of the population speak French as their first or second language.[2] Additionally, about one million native francophones live in other provinces, forming a sizeable minority in New Brunswick, which is officially a bilingual province, where about one-third of the population are francophone. There are also French-speaking communities in Manitoba and Ontario, where francophones make up about 4 percent of the population,[3] as well as significantly smaller communities in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan – around 1–2 percent.[3] Many of these communities are supported by French-language institutions.
Or as we way back in my Canajun homeland, “Take off, ya hoser!”
I only wish I had the energy and inspiration to post there.
Remember Leonardo Edwards? The bleach-enema scammer whose infant son was taken into custody because his idea of “treating life-threatening diarrhea in an infant” is “pump bleach up his butt”, and who responded by going through the legal steps for return of custody catching the next plane to Portugal?
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/parents-of-snatched-baby-promote-toxic-cure-all/
I see he has a new grift now, in addition to “selling industrial bleach as a health panacea at a huge mark-up” and “whoring for donations through a GoFundMe appeal to support his life-style“… he’s joined the Sovereign Citizen business, spells his name with extra colons, and sells copies of the Quantum Grammar book to would-be scammers who want to learn the secret incantations that win every court-case (Judges hate it!).
This has caused some strife with other scammers who reckon that they have exclusive rights to rip off would-be scammers.
Edwards has not returned to the UK to wield the quantum-grammar powers and win court cases and regain custody of his no-longer-infant son, so it’s almost as if he knows the book is total shite.
Aww, it seems Angie’s not happy. If only we’d tried to warn her about Heather. Oh wait – we did. Repeatedly. But she called us lying trolls and blocked us 🙄
“2. The subject children have been named repeatedly on the internet. Their photographs and film clips in which they feature have been published and re-published widely. Filmed police interviews of the children have been uploaded on to publicly accessible websites; so, too, intensely personal information relating to both children. As at 10 March 2015, more than 4 million people worldwide had viewed online material relating to this case.”
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2015/26.html&query=ZC14C00315&method=Boolean
“How Hampstead satanic abuse cult allegations came to be online and viewed by four million people worldwide”
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/crime-court/timeline-how-fantasy-hampstead-satanic-abuse-cult-allegations-came-to-be-online-1-4001668
“The judge said that four million people had viewed material about the case online, many of whom had ‘a sexual interest in children’. Several of those implicated had received menacing emails and phone calls at all hours of the day or night.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11483750/Evil-mother-tortured-children-into-telling-police-their-father-was-leader-of-Satanic-sex-cult.html
No but he knows how to copy and paste Hope Girl’s hissy fits and pass them off as his own 😀
Indeed. He’s put up a video today in which he rants about “YouTube censorship” an vowed to find an alternative platform. Sound familiar? 😀
Yes indeed. And in two separate videos yesterday Babs uttered the immortal line, “Something like that anyway but I can’t be arsed to check.” But hey, she’s a trooper and a little ‘blockage’ like that wasn’t going to stop her from speaking with authority on a range of topics and slinging mud at random people. Noooo
Wow. Just jaw-dropping! Thanks for sharing, SC
Nurse! Mr. Paterson’s having another one of his turns…
Paragraph 2 of Mrs Justice Anna Pauffley’s judgment following her March 2015 fact-finding hearing reads:
This number, I believe, was derived from viewing estimates found on YouTube, the Change.org petitions set up by Sabine McNeill, and Vid.me. There may have been other sources of which I’m not aware.
Obviously, every person who viewed the videos did not instantly become a full-scale promoter of the hoax. The great majority would have seen the videos and been horrified, but not everyone would have believed that what the children were saying was true; and of those who did believe what they said, only a few would have bothered to become “activists”. Even on the fabled never-ending David Icke Forum discussion group, the true believers were really a small core, while others might have accepted some parts of the story, and still others thought the whole thing was bunkum.
That said, whenever there has been a revival of the videos, for example by Thomas “Giant Honking Nostrils of Doom” Dunn, we notice small resurgences in those who claim to believe in the hoax. It seems to have reached the status of urban legend, with few bothering to look closely enough to determine that they have been fed a load of nonsense.
Meanwhile, over on ShitBoot…
Nostrilsofdoom? Wasn’t he that French philosopher bloke who used to predict the future?
If memory serves, some of the original Henry Curteis uploads of the Hampstead videos had view counts in the millions before we got them taken down.
Calm down, dear…
Julian & Christine – a modern romance
Angie promoting Devine’s drunken Hampstead rant, the one with all the head-swaying, slurred speech and death threats:
The only person who talked of any of that was Chris Fay, oh and may be a bit of Bill Maloney too, She`s not great with dates? she`s not great with the truth either, how come no one else saw the said picture? even Chris Fay said he didn`t know where it went. Angela, you`re full of shit, So Angie you didn`t think of telling anyone when you actually saw the picture, you just happen to mention it now.
I would think that real pedophiles would find those videos irresistible – two angelic looking kids talking about sex and often in an excitable and enthusiastic manner (knowing that had to please that brute Christie who would slap them if they got it wrong).
From my limited reading about “pedos”, there can be quite a bit of fantasy involved in the belief pre-pubescent kids actually want sex with their abuser.
And not a single one of the hoax promoters gives a thought to the children’s right to privacy. Pleasing that as they become teenagers, looks rapidly change and it’s often hard to recognise a 15 yr old from when they were 9.
So I guess that means she’s not on Julian Assange’s visiting list at Belmarsh?
Of course judges do hate it, because: it’s so time consuming (though less so now that it’s so recognisable); it’s hard to resist jumping across the bench, grabbling the defendant by the lapels and asking how can you be so stupid; and there’s always the nagging fear that the defendant might have a defence which they’re doing so much to conceal that you’ll miss it. I had a fotler trying to prevent the prosecution offering no evidence and the court dismissing all the charges against him, and then he tried to judicially review the court for finding him not guilty.
Attack of the Flowerpot Men! Trouble is they always crumbled when Little Weed told them what to do.
I was wondering if Tom’s proud of his nostrils since he points the camera up ’em in almost every other video. I’m just grateful he’s not afflicted with nose hair.
Sooooooooo does that mean she has a Sword of Steam (possibly a Russell Hobbs Iron?) or is it just a hilt due to water and fire cancelling each other out? I’m so confused and that’s before we get to grammar and general rules of the English language.
Maybe that’s what he’s trying to show us: “Look, Ma, no nose hair!”
In cartographic circles this self-filming angle is known as the ‘sinusoidal projection’.
This just in:
I only hope Mr. Assange can cope with the 30-day wait until the next love letter 😮
But it involves 16th century maths. Ergo: SATANIC!
Who knows? Let’s hope someone leaks said list, if only for the irony value 🤭
They’re just such a massive waste of everyone’s time and energy.
Fotler? 🤔
Poor little fellers. I wonder if they made it to San Francisco in the end.
Yes, much like she didn’t think of reporting alleged videos of Ella participating in child sexual abuse…until she was in a spat with Team Ella on the HRes Facebook group, and needed a weapon against them.
Martin Jury says:
Multiple reports from me already.
“Fat Purple Haired Dyke….” Oh dear… Now I’m no expert on UK law but I’m pretty sure that’s libellous, criminal and an invitation to the men in the white coats to make return visit with their rubber walled van.
Freeman On The Land-er
Ironically, an extra colon is probably what you need if someone gives you enemas with bleach.
Aww, Andy’s not happy with us in his latest video ‘Exposing How The Darkside Work And How To Deal With Them !!’ 🤭
“They should be imprisoned for impersonating” 😆
He’s saying John Paterson was punched in the temple. I could have sworn it was in the street outside Southwark Crown Court.
Aww, he didn’t like my drinking game 🤭
Using the Freedom of Information Act I have managed to track down footage of the Jew hater’s assault. It clearly identifies the mystery assailant.
Praterson now reckons he’s having us tracked down by “all intelligence agencies” 😂
I think more than a little weed is involved.
Ay oop, his chief arselicker’s just turned up:
I’ve reported Andy’s video at two points so far.
By the way, little tip in case you didn’t know – if you report different parts of the same video, do it from different accounts/channels. If you use the same channel to report it twice, the second one overrides the first.
Hang on a minute. I thought WE were the intelligence agencies?
Yep – we’re tracking ourselves. Didn’t you get the memo?
😆🤣😂
I’m dying here 😂
Aww, Praterson’s still not a happy camper, it seems…
Word salad anyone? 🤪
ArthurWankspittle says:
If you don’t know already, “Abel Danger” is the handle and website of of Field McConnell, conspiracy theorist and general all round right wing nut job. Big hat – no cattle as our American cousins say.
It seems that Sasha Stone has made a really terrifying film about 5G called ‘5G Apocalypse – The Extinction Event. It starts with Mark Steele saying the 5G rollout is a weapons system. The way he describes the development of the generations and what’s to come I found myself waiting for him to announce that 5G will become self-aware at some point, in which case we can expect a terminator….or something. Anyway, David Icke makes an appearance. Mark Steele does his thing to save Gateshead. Then someone called Thomas Joseph Brown appears and he’s apparently ‘Director of Sciences – New Earth University fellow’. I have to say that description piqued my interest so I went off to look at the New Earth University website. First thing to come up was an advert for Jim Humble’s (bleach man himself!) book. Jim is also a ‘fellow’.
The faculty at the New Earth University will be interesting to some of you as Sir John Walsh of Brannagh (now also using the title ‘Dr’) is on it. There’s a smattering of real Phd’s in there alongside some dubious ones and I enjoyed reading about people’s specialisms. There’s the usual wellness and woo stuff in there as well as some more (probably Glastonbury friendly) topics about energy and the like. (Some of the faculty have done Ted Talks so who am I to judge!) While wellness and woo predominates I came away disappointed not to find courses in Defence Against the Dark Arts or Mandrake potting. Closest thing was ‘vibrational testing’. I’ll leave that to your imaginations.
Second helping…?
To be fair they seem to have rumbled our hidden agenda behind 5G.
Since at some point all internet traffic will be routed (at least partially) through 5G networks, the only way that Neelu, Devine and the walk-into-lamposts man can be certain that they will not be effected by this terrible directed weapon system is to perform a precautionary disconnect, smash their routers and never use the internet again.
Of course. if they do that, the rest of us will be able to enjoy fast connectivity without having to endure these nutcases.
Lots of Freeman-on-the-Land scamming there:
“UCC: How to Own Your Strawman by Bibi Bacchus, NEU School of Natural Law Faculty. Learn from this inspiring, eye-opening 40-min. film gifted by Sacha Stone introducing Bibi explaining the basics of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) – how to kill and then own “your strawman.” 25,000 + people have studied this …”
Ghost of Sacha Stone says:
I’m not too sure I like your tone as I am a former student of the NewEarth Uni and received First Class Honours in ‘Own Your Own Strawman’.
You make it sound questionable?. Did you make it past third grade? I did. I am indeed, one of the 25,000. They’re going to make a TV series about us and I’ve just received the synopsis: The Disappeared : “25000 people suddenly disappear and the re-appear 10 years later having not aged a minute but seemingly have had their brains re-arranged spouting all sorts of New Age Claptrap leaving family members puzzled” : a script by former Warwick University Chancellor Angela Power D’Isigny (for it is she) Ben Affleck & Matt Damon, creators of the Oscar winning movie ‘Good Will Hunting’ (although Damon & Affleck played very minor roles and were deemed “co-writers” even though they just worked in the studio canteen.)
My Strawman:
## apologies..a mix-up: that’s just a snap of me on the way home from the pub.
The next course I plan to major in is “Why Do Vegetables Need Friends?”. This is one of those questions that have vexed me all my life. Kept me awake at times & on other occasions I’ve woken up with start after a nightmare where I’m being chased by giant carrots yelling “won’t someone think of the vegetables ! ..oh the humanity ” (especially after a late night snack of cabbage soup).
I cave in Andy..guilty on breaching your copyright. You can have my £1Million Pound Note. Contact the Lord Wanoa Bank c/ A Council Car Park somewhere in Auckland.
“we need more men like you”. What layabouts that make videos everyday a’moaning and a’groaning and making no sense and boring us all witless?.
We entered with Alan Alanson going to prison – haven’t any of the hoaxers reacted? Took them all of a month to forget all about Sabine …
Not a word! Poor Alan, how quickly his efforts have been forgotten.
OH oh, look out, Pratterson’s got ‘BillnBen’ ex SAS out after us…
Ex Seed And Soil
Both experienced Sappers!!!
Woodchippers at the ready!!!!
He lost his train of thought.
I think he’s dropped a Clanger.
Blimey Slacha, I’m reading the New Earth University handbook and it says you should lie down while I test your vibrations. As Sir John would no doubt say “Trust me, I’m a doctor.”
Who’s Alan?
Mr :Bonkers: says:
Patersons natural talent for colliding with things could have launched a career on the telly or assisting medical students studying the long term effects of post concussion syndrome.The man is truly wasted simply joining words together randomly on YouTube at his ripe old age.Sad.
I informed Angela, Kaley, Matt, Praterson and Devine and asked them for their thoughts, to no avail.
Not even Alanson’s on-off blood brother Arthur Kaoutal has said anything.
Meanwhile, Alanson’s old mucker Malcolm Ogilvy, who traditionally posts 5-7 posts about the Hampstead dad a day, hasn’t mentioned him once since Alanson’s sentence was announced. Read into that what you will 🙂
I’ve genuinely lost count of how many identities Heather Brown’s attributed to me in the last 24 hours. I’m Steve Keys now, apparently. And she also seems to think Steve’s a copper 😆
And how’s this for irony…?
Heather’s been naming, attacking and slandering Steve Keys’ wife again:
Lowest of the low. Still, at least this time she hasn’t threatened to have his parents’ café burnt down with them and his wife inside.
Is ‘Shiva’s Revenge’ another name for Delhi-Belly?
Devine’s question-dodging antics show no sign of letting up, I see.
Babs @ 4:23 – “I wish you’d stop bullying Andy Devine. Can’t you see this man’s vulnerable?” 😆
LOL, I’ll bear that in mind next time he names a protected witness and his children and threatens to have him and everyone who defends him put through a woodchipper by gangsters or hanged from the nearest lamppost. Bless ‘im 🙄
Andy really is proving himself once again to be a despicable onanist in every sense. I see that he hasn’t taken up my suggestion that he get a soap box and get down to the Marina to spout his bollocks to all the holiday makers, surely the much wider audience he so obviously craves. “Manic Street Preacher “…Oh the irony! I reckon he is shitting bricks because after what happened to Sabine and now Alanson he must know that if a certain father has made formal complaints about him then a return to the UK may not be beneficial or easy!
EP. Don’t let up on this bastard. You have him by the balls and he hates it. Shove his 200 year old plastic royal seal right up him!
I see Praterson’s re-uploaded four more old videos. More opportunities to report him, hehe. I’ve reported his death threat at 8:04 in this one for starters:
For I concur.
Same end result- s..t goes everywhere…
I see Kaley’s on particularly bizarre form:
The “people are guilty until proven innocent” stuff at 44:45, 48:24 and 49:20 are particularly idiotic.
Would any of you like to contribute to this worthy crowdfunding campaign? We only need £6.4 billion a month. Form an orderly queue 🤪
Nope. Not common at all, Angie.
By the way, Daily Star – great source
The silly deluded bint has realised that in any sensible live debate she would be absolutely destroyed.She should just crawl back up Devines orrifice.
That didn’t happen in the UK, btw. It was South Africa. Angie forgot to mention that – or as usual, couldn’t be arsed to actually read the article before posting it and commenting on it.
So if we accuse Kaley (or any of the Mob) of something then she’s automatically guilty? Riiight…I think she may regret that she shared that belief.
Call me naive, call me simple, call me Alice Bracegirdle-Smythe if you must (the name I use at the Bridge Club) but seeing David Noakes made a few ££million quid from GcMAF why can’t he fund a trial of 20 cancer patients under the gaze of accredited cancer specialists and prove his concoction works and at the same time save his partner-in-crime from a French jail?
No, thought not.
Angie believes if she can conjure up any old newspaper article of abuse it somehow justifies all her claims of which she has no proof.
Anyway she better watch out- there’s a new Sheriff in Town called Kaley who has a new method of deciding guilt.
King John…..The nominee and stand out for the best actor award….!
I got all confused by the title and thought Danny had asked her to go and LIVE with him. Lots of head scratching and thinking ‘won’t his wife mind?’
I thought the man who challenged Andy had some good points but he wasn’t articulate enough and not calm enough to stay the course. The threats at the end were awful. Who is he?
I’ve been out of the loop on this one and thought I better catch up so I sat down to watch John Wanoa this afternoon. I think he’s been on a Stanley Unwin course. Do they offer that at the New Earth University?
LOL, I thought that at first too 😀
Am i right in thinking he’s one of the Pendragons, or did I dream that?
And yes, I wasn’t impressed by the threats either, especially to Devine’s dogs. If those two are gonna have a barney, at least leave the doggies out of it 😮
LOL, good luck with that, Angie 😆
🙄🤦♂️🙄
Another Kenya snoozefest from Angie, if you can bear it:
And if that weren’t enough, she’s followed that up with a stats analysis snoozefest.
(Sorry, I can’t link it, as she starts it with an attack on the Hampstead dad.)
On the bright side, though, she says she’s had severe depression for the last few days.
6:56 – “Research is not my lane.”
No shit, Angie 😆
Wow, she’s up to .25 million views in her first year? We’ll have to get on our bicycles, she’s catching up…if she keeps going at that rate, in another seven years she will be where we are now!
At 10:50 she pleads for someone to give her a part-time job 😀
Next up, Devine…
Meanwhile, Wanoa’s looking and sounding really ill:
I see Kaley Einav’s taken down all her videos or set them to private:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFOWB-cRbLgcCXXZtw42iOQ/videos
I’m well pissed off. I actually watched all three John Wanoa videos and was going to treat her to my opinion.
Sneak preview of David Noakes’ next appearance (with support group) in Southwark Crown Court:
The court had to be cleared owing to the roars of ribald laughter which greeted the appearance in the witness-box of the twelve red-bearded dwarfs all in a heap. Their names were read out amid growing uproar. The names appeared to be: Sophus Barkayo-Tong, Amaninter Axling, Farjole Merrybody, Guttergorm Guttergormpton, Badly Oronparser, Churm Rincewind, Cleveland Zackhouse, Molonay Tubilderborst, Edeledel Edel, Scorpion de Rooftrouser, Listenis Younghaupt, Frums Gillygottle.
Cocklecarrot: Are these genuine names?
A Dwarf; No, m’worship.
Cocklecarrot: Then what’s your name?
Dwarf: Bogus, m’ludship.
Cocklecarrot: No, your real name.
Dwarf: My real name is Bogus, your excellency.
(At this point the court had to be cleared)
Devine reads a Neelu Berry screed very badly (Linda Thyer, Crown and Lord Bishops, Equity Lawyer, Swiss Indo, all the usual stuff). Then we get one of Neelu’s phone calls to the RCJ where she’s demanding that they allow Noakes appeal and stop Thyer’s extradition. The admin officer who answers the phone stands for no nonsense but then rather meanly passes her on to a team leader who gives her far too much information before realising and telling her to to email in.
Neelu then rings and asks to speak to Dominic Raab. Thyer and Noakes are now “whistleblowers” – another Humpty Dumpty word with Neelu – whistleblower = criminal. She gets a bit distracted by geography. “Are we still in the commonwealth? Does that include Europe, is Europe in the Commonwealth?” Having rung the wrong person in the wrong department she gets cross with them for not having the right information. Then she rings the foreign office and same again, Linda Thyer has been kidnapped and disappeared and that is the sanest thing she says. She is a witness of the assassination of 2 million people and a qualified pharmacist (sounds like a confession).
Then she rings someone else “you’re through to the British Consulate in Paris.” “Is that in France?” This receptionist sternly says she can’t share details with any old nutter who rings up and that’s that.
Then Andy Devine says he’s surprised that Linda Thyer wasn’t released after all that.
where she’s demanding that they allow Noakes appeal and stop Thyer’s extradition
There is no Noakes appeal. The hearing for confiscating his proceeds of fraud has been postponed due to his insistence on dispensing with legal counsel and not bothering to prepare himself… after that comes his extradition hearing. Thyer has been extradited, so there is naught for the RCJ to do there.
LOL, go to 1:51 – 5:11
Dunny & Chrestman have been moaning about their YT strikes and flailing round wildly trying to work out what they were for 🙂
Great work T. Niedermeier, who’s manage to get two strikes against these pr*cks in the last week
👍🎯🥂
Another name for the list of people Angie’s fallen out with 🤦♂️
Anyone have a spare bridge they need guarding?
Or a field they need guarding from crows?
“CALL TO ACTION : GcMAF Awareness Day – 11th SEPT 2019”
Warning, ranty gobshite alert.
Thanks, Smut.
I was going to share that link you posted on Twitter to that old site showing David Noake’s previous attempts to promote another fake cancer cure before GcMAF (the one where you asked why he’d stopped and whether it was because it wasn’t profitable enough), but I can’t seem to find it. Would you mind posting it here for people to see?
Question of the day: can God get hanged for treason? 😂
Brilliant. Thanks, mate 👍
22:04 – “Don’t fall for all the global warming, climate change or anthropogenic climate change bullshit”
Yeah, don’t believe in global warming or climate change, folks. But do believe in chemtrails 🙄
Crane would prefer people to concentrate their concerns on the *real* threats to the environment, i.e. chemtrails, 5G mobile telephony, and immigration destroying the homogeneity of white countries.
What is it Kaley and her cronies always say about channels that have no content? 🤭
Not directly to do with the blog, but I’ve had a call from a number withheld company saying that they’d been in touch with people in my road earlier this year (not with me they hadn’t) about funding for works and that the government would be releasing the funds this time next year and would I be interested. I said I wouldn’t do business with a company with a withheld number and discontinued the call. He rang back and I said I didn’t want to seem rude but I wouldn’t do business with a company that withheld its number. Am I being overly cautious? I don’t want to be discourteous to genuine people.
I had a look at an old BBC article (from around November last year) and if I read it correctly Mr Noakes no longer claims that gc-maf cures cancer. I posted under the video asking people to be vigilant (I didn’t exactly put it like that). Unfortunately, people who believe in unproven conspiracies will probably think the BBC are part of “them”.
Smut, I always wonder why the people who believe in chem trails don’t take into account that “they” or “the elite” or whatever they like to name the powers that be breathe the same air as we lesser mortals.
Sorry, link to the BBC article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-46308221
Certainly not being over-cautious. I would never discuss business from an undisclosed phone number and I had this problem 5 years ago dealing with a car insurance company trying to beat me down in price for a write-off after an accident.
Each time they rang from an undisclosed number and were trying to beat me down on the payout- each time I made them ring back on a recognizable number so I would have a record of the call- each time they got the huff and inferring I was being unreasonable- each time I told them basically to piss off. I got what I wanted in the end and my records of their calls became a complaint with the insurance regulator which ordered them to apologise and cease calling from undisclosed phone numbers.
Jeezuz H Christ- all because Julian Assange won’t take her calls.
Who IS this bloke?. He’s always pontificating from a field somewhere. What’s that all about?
I guess she was..something she accuses everyone else of : triggered !!!😂😂😂
With you 100%, CAW. I don’t even allow withheld numbers to call my landline.
Well said about the contradictory nature of the chemtrail conspiracy. This video makes the same point (and applies the principle to other conspiracies too):
This is a good one too:
Still rambling on with his nonsense but wow- very slow. His lost his aggression but still believes if you put it in writing (but not briefly ie: 100 pages) it makes it real.
Poor old thing. he & Andy won’t be leading any Revolution.
You can also run the number through sites such as WhoCallsMe to see if the number’s been reported by other people, who often leave quite detailed descriptions of their experiences with the number in question. I usually just type the number into Google and several SCM-type sites come up linking to info’ on it.
“I’m a Private Investigator for the Crown and Lord Bishops”. Nutter.
How could Noakes appeal a case he plead guilty to and has served the sentence?.
I’ve never in a lifetime of meeting nutters, one who thinks you can ring a court and get a case acted upon.
And because the Queen ate Princess Diana, natch.
Well, he may not know much about medicine but he’s out standing in his field.
I’ll get me coat.
It’s been speculated that he may be on chlorpromazine 🤔
LOL:
It’s all a government conspiracy, apparently…
I don’t think the bible has a single reference to a steam iron which presumably is what she means by a sword of fire and water. Nor to the royal family, if it comes to that .
Yeah, because the government hasn’t anything else to do right now.
Isn’t one of the things about 5G that it causes cancer? So what’s his problem if he has a cure?
Yes, 25,000 people wanted to gloat. They are all waiting with bated breath for the DPP to lay charges now. (Good thing they aren’t literally holding their breath, though.)
That’s what he sounds like to me. Even more slurry than usual.
Angie – still determined to dig herself a massive hole 🤦♂️
Another slice of psychotic butt-hurt from John Prattle-On 🙄
That’s not a new video, btw. It’s the same one (the phone call to the police about his assault) that he’s uploaded numerous times already to various channels 💤
Interesting that at 6:33 he describes the assault as “a punch in the face”. I wonder when he changed his mind and decided that it was “a punch in the temple, which is attempted murder” 🤔
Wow, how’s this for a coinkydink…? 🎯
Great minds think alike and all that 😀
I’ve lost track of the number of versions of that story he’s told: he’s named multiple assailants (some imaginary); he’s got up and chased the guy, beaten him up, or maybe not; he’s described the punch as nothing serious, a punch in the face, a punch to the temple, and a death blow; and he’s said he went home afterwards because he saw no need to see a doctor, and that he had to go to the hospital for treatment. If I had to guess, I’d suggest this might be related to the police’s reluctance to pursue the matter in court.
WTF, lol…?
https://angelascaches.org/rev-pike-where-are-you-and-compte-de-poher
Boom! 😃
Angela is really a nasty cow, she’s trying to gain more viewers imho now that her PayPal has been shut down, obviously her ‘undeclared’ income has gone down then so.
And make it snappy- don’t linger and let the grass grow under your feet.
I hope you’re all ready for a good laugh ‘cos this is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in ages.
Here’s Tom Dunn talking to Caspar McCloud who lives in the USA but apparently grew up in Manchester.
When Caspar speaks there’s no trace of a Manchester accent. In fact I thought he was South African and had probably lived in Liverpool or Birmingham for a while. But no, he claims to be English. He doesn’t know how to pronounce ‘Savile’ properly though, which is odd and a bit of a red flag.
But heck, Caspar can’t be telling lies. He was famous! He was touted as the next Jimi Hendrix!
https://www.casparmccloudmusic.com/about-2/
Was he famous? Is he English?
https://www.rebeccameiser.com/Meiser_040208.html
Oh crap! Tom does the interview and notices nothing odd because…er…I have no idea because how couldn’t you spot this scammer at 50 paces? Tom seems to think all is ok though. Do they give awards for gullible?
“was touted as the “next Jimi Hendrix” by the legendary Ahmet Ertegun, CEO, and Founder of Atlantic Records.”..indeed he was but what Ahmet said at the end of that sentence was.. “ie: career dead and over by age 27”
Having a spot of insomnia here and thought I’d watch Caspar and Dunny…first thought was OMIGOD THE HAIR!!! But that was before Caspar started talking. I nearly ruptured something laughing…he looks like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush. And what in the name of all that’s holy is that accent supposed to be? How does anybody actually believe this person about…well, anything? I thought my respect for Dunny could descend no further. I was wrong.
Oh FFS : “we can prove some of these things actually ‘appened” with “‘appened” a distinct Lennonesque Liverpool pronunciation but he’s from Cleveland, USA? LOL.
Bloody hell, this has gotta be King Johns sister surely…..?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7381313/Maori-group-makes-claim-valuable-piece-land-Australia.html
He’s also appears to be wearing one of Tere Joyce’s discarded wigs.
“Lady Crown is an ancestor of Paramount Chief Te Pahi, Maori King Hongi Hika, Queen Turikatuku III and Maori King Te Ruki Kawiti”
Oh Daily Fail, don’t ever change. Don’t hire literate staff, that would ruin everything.
Let’s say that she’s plagiarising from the same tradition of conmanship.
https://scontent.fpmr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/68476438_1390837901069110_5862182204972466176_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQnmskWAf7bLA-EiPTdxuSAogtuc_xdoQl422ZW6bk_PMSdxdzgrse40KNjCpc-v5s0&_nc_ht=scontent.fpmr1-1.fna&oh=b76d56abdf5346d5f3a5cacac4411c58&oe=5E1411DE
Needless to say she’s a FotL grifter as well.
And believe me – Ertegun knew what he was talking about. I don’t know if you’re familiar with him – and apologies if I’m teaching Grandmother to suck eggs – but he was one of the people behind not only Atlantic records but also its subsidiary Stax, which was arguably the most influential and important label in the history of soul music, creating as it did that legendary sound generated by the stable of talent that included Otis Redding, Wilson Picket, Booker T and the MGs, Arthur Conley, The Bar-Kays, Sam & Dave, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, the Staple Singers and many more. I was going to recommend a book called ‘Ahmet Ertegun and the Godfathers of Soul’ or something like that. I read it years ago but it doesn’t appear to be in print any more. But dare I say it, the Blues Brothers movie is also a great love letter to Stax, featuring as it does several songs from the label, with their band made up primarily of former Stax musicians 🙂
And while I’m on on, I consider this one of the greatest live performances of all time:
There’s a lot of homophobia from hot-diggety man and then from the Duncemeister himself, starting at 31:34. I’ve reported it anyway – I always try to grab opportunities to shut Dunny up when they present themselves 🤭
35:13 – We’ve all been brainwashed by George Harrison, apparently 🙄🤦♂️🤪
I’ve left them a comment. Let me know if you think I should tweak anything:
Hilariously ironic lyric at 48:19 🤭
For I concur 👍
Andy is either gonna cream his jeans or explode with rage over this Moani usurper/clone/wannabe. Is it gonna be Kings Law/Bench or Queens Law/Bench which comes out on top? Strap your selves in for a bumpy ride folks.
Before she became Lady Crown, invented a genealogy and acquired a facial tat in emulation of her newly-acquired ancestress, she was Jennifer Holt-Alexander.
https://alfgrumblemp.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/a-tip-for-australias-aboriginals-get-your-land-claims-in-ahead-of-the-maori-takeover/
Her pre-scamming career was as “Head Lice Removal Specialist”. https://nomorenitz.wordpress.com/info/
Nothing obsessive there, then:
Well, after having looked into him, i have come to the conclusion that he is not gullible, he just does not give a fuck. He has a long history of working with criminals and hoaxsters. Among them APD of course, but also racist hatepreacher Coach Dave who was driven out of his coaching job by a citizens initiative, SRA scammer par exellence “Honeybee aka Moneybee” Melissa Zacharia who scammed concerned “pseudochristians” off of 20.000 Dollars for a groundbreaking “documentary” about SRA that she never delivered. She also took footage from a mexican drug cartel murder and claimed it was a satanic snuff film. She then used this illegal footage to get another 10.000 via Gofundme for a “Memorial Film”. Researching her court records, i found out that she herself has been convicted of child abuse and neglect. Dunn will sell her as a heroic fighter for the good, nevertheless.
The same goes for L.A.. Marzulli who bought the corpse of a “demon fairy” from some guy in Mexico, heavily monetizing it and using it as proof for the coming apocalypse and the existence of demons and angels. Later it turned out that the demon fairy was the crude work of a makeshift taxidermist. And the list goes on and on. Long debunked fake SRA victim Karly Franz Noel: he had her on of course, and his idiotic followers believed every word. Karly has changed her narrative in the meantime, she is a secret clone now, and enslaved author and songwriter who wrote most of Lady Gagas songs without being compensated. I could continue this list for hours, but just to give you one last example, he made a “documentary” about a guy called David Arthur, who of course was a gay/trans/drug-addict/criminal/pedophile, got infected with HIV and was miraculously cured on his deathbed after he found the lord. Dunn regularly states that all gay people are pedophiles by nature. In one of his latest videos “Are you ready for legion” he advertises tutorial courses he holds for exorcism. Of course these are free, except for the cost of the printed material you get. wink wink .He states that in in some cases these exorcisms wear down on all participants, may cause fatigue and other injuries, even serious harm. But never mind, because everything is better than having demons amongst us. Exorcising adolescents a speciality. I reported him for damgerous conduct and scamming and would appreciate if you did the same. In his latest video “Good boys” he tries to contain himself, yet it is full of homophobic slurs and states that gay and trans people are only waiting to become pedophiles and go after your children, should they not already be after them right now. Of course he is also extremly anti-abortion and calls the abortions either “satanic child sacrifice” or “baby holocaust”. Whoever does not agree with him is blatantly called a Nazi. This is something i am especially disgusted by, because he shares most of their worldviews, especially regarding his homophobic and antisemitic slurs. He and “Call for an uprising” to a large part led me to reconsider my religous worldviews and explore other paradigms.
In “The story of David Arthur” you can learn more about the miracle healing of this guy. It is full of hatespeech. I just found another video where L.A. Marzulli. claims his house burnt down during the california fires and asks for donations. Isn’t it funny how it is always gods good people who get their equipment stolen multiple times like APD or get their house burnt down. Makes you question your faith, doesn’t it ?
They are either related, she’s been inspired by Lord Wanoa or been breathing in the same FOTL Chem Trail because..it’s always about a Council Car Park !
Is that why I took up playing the sitar?
Must be love.
Are all those little bottles in the background Anti-Lice Solution?.
Just taken an opportunity to report Matt Taylor’s latest channel. In his latest video he gives out the name and address of a fellow troll and makes a remark that he hopes he was anally raped in prison.
At 39:25 he names and attacks the Hampstead dad (and hilariously claims he’s MKD and says he’s gonna report the dad to the police for it 😂).
Ooh, good question. Do you find that you’re chansmoking and chanting Hare Krishna more than usual too? 🤔
Batshit, even by Neelu’s standards:
Taylor must fast be approaching the threshold for prosecution…
5 Penalties for concealing offences or giving false information.
(2) Where a person causes any wasteful employment of the police by knowingly making to any person a false report tending to show that an offence has been committed, or to give rise to apprehension for the safety of any persons or property, or tending to show that he has information material to any police inquiry, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for not more than six months or to a fine of not more than level 4 on the standard scale or to both.
That joke is at the very minimum 17 years old, and I suspect the only reason the original can’t be found on Google is that it was on CompuServe forums in the 1990s!
Yes, i thought it rang a bell. I bet Neelu thinks it’s real though, lol.
Yes, at a good rate of speed, too.
Hi – How can I find his (youtube ?) channel ? The only ones I can find have been taken down !
He’s panicked and taken that video down, by the way. But I managed to get a backup copy just in time, which will be forwarded to Sussex Police. He watches this page like a hawk and when he gets wind that we’re gonna report one of his videos to YouTube and/or the authorities, he gets cold feet and takes it down. I should think he wouldn’t want his anti-abuse mates to hear his rant about how he hopes someone got anally raped either. But he may have to suck it up, as I’m putting a highlights vid together as we speak 🙂
He posted those videos of himself reporting that protected witness to police and even said in them that he acknowledged that he was on a suppression order forbidding him from naming him.
This really is endless harassment and a case of making that victim fearful as he wouldn’t know from day to day whether Taylor is going to falsely accuse him or not. The man has children to look after- children who really have been through an awful experience of being tortured into making false allegations.
This mob won’t let it drop. They are a danger to the father and his children. We don’t what deranged person could pick up on these allegations and think they should mete out punishment.
Day after day it’s a battle on here to get their attacking and illegal videos that name people taken down.
More of them must go to jail and be dealt with harshly. I now believe McNeil deserves her lengthy sentence as her campaign has spread far and wide. Her lack of remorse has painted her as a martyr to her followers (not that they really give a stuff about Sabine) and they have taken up where she left off.
“The money won’t be going into John Wanoa’s pocket”..oh yes it will as Wanoa has said many times that the “seed money” can be spent on his living expenses while he sets up his imaginary corporation and he has filmed himself spending it on living expenses at Hong Kong airport etc.
I don’t whether these Wanoa fools are so thick they believe this hogwash or just scammers like Wanoa.
# That Daily Mail article about the Maoris making a claim on a Sydney suburb with the flag and so many similarities to Wanoa but far more organised makes me think they were at this far longer than Wanoa and he has simply nicked their idea and tried to make it his own. The head woman, whatever her FOTL stuff does seem like she may genuinely be related to former Maori “royalty”.
Wanoa’s work history reeks of a man who has tried numerous attempts to make money and he appears to have failed in each venture like his chauffeured car business and as a real estate agent. He’s been booted out of genuine Maori Land Right’s groups as a troublemaker.
He’s a man with a deteriorating mental state who has desperately latched on to a land right’s battle but instead of a few acres in Sydney wants all of Britain. And note: they both even have a car park claim?. But they appear to be reasonably sane (reading their previous Lice Removal prospectus).
I reckon Lord John has hoovered up all their information and it’s come out all garbled as the King’s Park bench Law.
Is Wanoa just another plagiarist like Icke albeit 10 times nuttier?
He remembers riding horses in Manchester! Last time anyone did that was in the Peterloo Massacre.
The head woman, whatever her FOTL stuff does seem like she may genuinely be related to former Maori “royalty”.
Unless, of course, she made it all up. It is a recent addition to her artistic practice. The Daily Fail are not going to waste time investigating someone’s claim to a chiefly genealogy, when they don’t even know the difference between “ancestor” and “descendant”.
PMSL @ 47:20 😂
Rather an apt motto – it’s from Ovid and means “we are all heading for the grave”. “tendimus huc omnes, haec est domus ultima” or “Hither we all make our way; this is our final home”.
One thing I’m sure is true, he will be back – day after tomorrow most likely.
I’m typing this with Matt Taylor warbling in the background. I think he’s channelling the late Ian Drury – sounds like him and quite as funny too, especially when he was talking about the King’s Flag.
Yes, I was wondering how he managed that.
Did you find yourself wanting to hit him with a rhythm stick?
Perhaps Paterson has a MK-ULTRA split personality, so one of his alters regularly threatens to kill anyone who disagrees with him (and in fact claims credit for deaths he imagines to have already occurred), while another is terrified that he is the one threatened with death.
Alternatively, the feckin gutless chickenshit has at most one personality, and it’s absolute garbage.
You may have hit on something. Let’s see what we have here. (1) A person who threatens people with murder. (2) A person who claims he is going to be murdered. All consistent with him being the person who attacked himself.
And am I the only one who thinks that his threat to “counter attack” his imaginary attackers and his proclamation that “these people will be dealt with” is a little sinister? We already know he is mentally unstable.
The Voices have informed praterson of the real identity & address of his imaginary persecutor; told him that he would be acting in justifiable self-defense; and advised him to operate undercover.
Obviously he is more likely to walk under a bus or into a lamppost than he to injure anyone else, but if I were in the UK, I would keep the constabulary informed of his clearly-stated intentions.
Yes I’m only assuming she may have been related to Maori royalty because she presents herself as sane but then again, she is claiming to own half a Sydney suburb in a scheme that is likely to be laughed out of court.
My royal roots however can be easily proved as I still have photos of myself with my late Aunt Marie Antoinette at my 5th birthday party when she famously declared to the assembled guests..”let them eat cake”.
Doubtful he has gone into seclusion.
He seems to get a thrill out of threatening people with instant mulching.
I’ll see his “tendimus huc omnes”, and raise him a “haud ullis labentia ventis”–“yielding under no winds”.
It's All Over Rover says:
Do you think Prattleon and Kaley’s decision to go underground has anything to do with this ?. Looks like the End Of The Road for King’s Park Bench Law although Lord Wanoa is predicting islands will rise from the sea and he has generously proclaimed Andy will have one of those islands (Personally I’d prefer one already inhabited and with good infrastructure- Tahiti would be nice) and others will sink. I’m hoping it’s not the one I’m on- Australia although it’s really a continent and as Queen Nefertiti of Ratehi has announced she owns most of western Sidney (yes she spells it at way such is her attachment to the area) I reckon I’m safe here.
# doesn’t look like anyone has informed Matt Taylor.
And while you’re at it, tell him from me he can “basia culos meos”.
OK, listen up pig people 😃
Where’s the original video?
I might go up there to the Supreme Court myself. I’d like to get a complement slip with a stamp on it. I don’t want to be left out.
Breaking: Hilary Clinton once said she likes pizza 😮
(And a bunch of tinfoil hat wearers are freaking out.)
Good luck with that, Angie 🙄🤦♂️🤪
Hoaxtard fruitloopery alert 🤪
Semolina, this is the sort of thing that irritates me the most about this hoax. If people want to waste their money on John Wanoa’s scam it’s up to them – they’ve been warned but looks like they’ll have to learn the hard way. I’d probably heard of the hoax in a minor way when it was first in the news but heard about it again circa the time of Mrs McNeill’s trial. I don’t know anyone involved in the Hampstead accusations mess personally (well I live a long way away from there) but it saddens me that some years down the line from the original events innocent parties are still being targeted. It will be different children there largely now (children being at primary school for about 6 years from ages 5-11, maybe earlier if there is a nursery class, which many schools do have now) and I would imagine there have been staff changes at the school also, so nasty trolls are having a go at people who weren’t even at the school back in the day. People deserve some peace to go about their everyday lives.
I love Podcasts – listen to them in the car or on public transport – and this a current favourite series : ‘Con Artists’.
Today I listened to this one: Anna Anderson Pt. 1: The False Anastasia
What I like about this series is that the presenter also delves into the psychology of conning and with this latest one the similarities in the mindsets between the matters we discuss here and the fake Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov are revealing and well worth a listen.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/parcast/con-artists
# I’m not referring to any single person of course when I mention fake royalty and I would never be so rude to but for some reason the name HRH Grand Duke Wanoa of the British Isles and All Her Dominions ( except for the Australian State of Victoria) comes to mind.
## Another series I have lined up : ‘Conned’ https://connedcast.com/
You can almost imagine Barnett shaking with excitement seeing she has accused every Australian ex-Prime Minister of Satanist Baby Eating including Paul Keating now that the famous photo has appeared of his NY based daughter Katherine Keating emerging from Jeffrey Epsteins’ house and being farewelled by Prince Andrew.
Manna from Heaven for the Devil Fruitloop Brigade.
I like “The Paranoid Strain” (explaining conspiracies) podcast and have recently started listening to Tuesday Money The Elephant Lounge. She covers a variety of matter. She’s recently done the loonier fringe of some fans of a deceased pop singer (think of a documentary that was screened earlier in the year) and is currently covering propaganda.
Aside: I love that film. It has nothing to do with satanism – a woefully underrated satire of (and the clue is in its name) Society. Appears occasionally on The Horror Channel.
But you can tell that man is a Satanist. He’s sweaty in a vest!
LOL, Barbara ‘Babs’ Collier is claiming that she and Edgar ‘Eddieisacock’ John are going to Greece to visit Andy Devine in the next few months.
Can’t they be put on a terrorist watch list or something? 🙄
For I concur:
🤪🤪🤪
Another new Praterson channel to take down:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqnWEutxpL-KGC7vTxwKPXw/videos
Bring it on 🙂
Kaley Einav (aka UmbrellaGrape Solutions) is back and has put up two new videos. At 9:33 in the first one she goes into a Hampstead rant, including naming the boy in the case.
I see she ends the video with another denial about hers, Praterson’s and Devine’s death threats. There’s a tonne of screenshots, videos and sound clips that prove otherwise!
In the second video she just giggles hysterically for 9 minutes. Whether she’s taken something she shouldn’t have or not taken something she should have is anybody’s guess.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
She’s set both videos to private now, lol.
I shouldn’t be surprised… It has been mentioned many times before that a lot of the people involved in the hoax seem to have a dis-proportionally large number of convicted pedophiles in their groups ( business associates that were involved ‘in the trade’) others staying at hoax supporters houses before going on the run…
And now a ‘pedohunter group’ that their ‘head of security has multiple breaches himself….
Unfortunately their actions can actually result in offenders going free, as they don’t follow the rules on obtaining inadmissible evidence- and may indeed cause the complete collapse of existing investigations
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/coffs-coast-pedo-hunter-poses-as-girl-on-dating-sites-to-confront-paedophiles-20161207-gt5o98.html
“He said the man might be compromising police operations that are already under way or putting himself in danger.”
“I have concerns over mistaken identities, people using other people’s social media accounts, identity theft and fraud … all these could mean an innocent person is publicly humiliated,” he said.”
“East, who is serving a 12-month suspended sentence for a home invasion, said he started posing as an underage girl while “mucking around” on Tinder one night.”
Right- kiddie fiddlers bad, home invasions good- have I got that right Cameron???
They should be banned under law. The fact someone could use another person’s identity never ocurred to me. So dangerous and very suspect.
He was obviously in GMPs mounted unit.
I would expect that anyone planning on committing a crime deliberately would not use their real name….
king john, pratterson, neelu, sabine, abe….
Anyone with any brains that is…
There were a few fake Mouse accounts made by people trying to discredit the Mouse.
Rufus Fook’s been on again…
’tis true. I have hatched a diabolical plan to make a mint smuggling endangered avians and fennel the proceeds into my secret account in no thyme at all.
Before she went private she responded to a post accusing her of being a hypocrite when she attacks Hampstead residents and the ‘protected witness and more importantly- the children- and actually denied she ever had.
Weird or what?.
Fuck off, Neelu 🙄
Go team! 🤭🎯😂
That might be one of the screenshots in my video of her Hampstead rant uploaded earlier. There’s a screenshot of a very insightful comment by a certain Andy Best in there too 🙂
Well, he said he’d be back. And he is 💤
Ooh, the little liar! It was him who started the “Flo is Ogilvy” rumour, with me and numerous other Hoaxtead associates repeatedly trying to tell him that was incorrect. And did he listen? Nope. He blocked us, branded us trolls… and then blamed US for starting the rumour 😂
I’ve never even heard of this bloke who he says is working with us. What the hell has our HR department been up to?
This still gives me a giggle:
Well. I don’t use the “F” word in normal conversation. I blame it on my Catholic upbringing. I may occasionally use the asterisksed “***” for emphasis in written conversation but that is merely literary shorthand for a hard Paddington stare.
However, I think the real take away from this missive from Neelu is that rumours involving her and Edward Ellis are wide of the mark!
👍 🎯 👌
Certain hoaxers (Devine and Kaley in particular) have been banging on about this very topic recently. So this video is well timed and should go a long way towards redressing the balance. Thanks, EC 👍
It has often crossed my mind that most of the people we come across are fairly stupid. A reasonably intelligent person with evil intent might be able to fly completely under the radar. Benjamin Field very nearly got away with his first murder and was only caught because he failed to kill his second victim before she got wise to him.
🙄 🤦♂️ 🤪
Silly Neelu. It only works if you write “I hereby order…”
How rumours spread and become “fact” via misinformed media.
The article linked to claims a “pedophile ring was exposed”. In fact the article only mentions “suspected” rather than a real ring being exposed but I remember this claim because it all turned out to be no more than the sort of people we deal with on here, calling the cops and claiming they heard about a “pedo ring” much like the Hampstead hoax.
The claims fizzled out into nothing and the police quietly dropped the claim just as the media has been hyperventilating over a convicted sex offender suspect (with police assistance) who was cleared as having nothing to do with the William Tyrell case in the Coroner’s Court on Friday.
I find the whole entrapment matter very questionable as it seems to me that it is encouraging pretty sad cases to take action when they may normally never do anything in their lives to break the law. It is of course a “fantasy” crime they are committing- despite my thoughts it IS a crime on the books but is it right?.
How many busted this way have previous convictions?.
The blokes busted must be pretty dense to think a 13 year old girl / boy wants to meet up with them and in real life, how many 13 year olds are out there trying to meet up with older blokes?. It must be pretty rare.
Most child abuse cases..over 90%- happen within the family or involve a family friend. It’s all illegal, awful and distasteful but these ghastly vigilantes fuel the notion there are “pedophile rings” behind every bush.
The very fact that the general public seem ignorant to the reals facts and figures re child abuse demonstrates that vigilantes divert attention away from where most child abuse cases happen.
And how ethical is for middle aged men like this bozo to be on the internet all day pretending to be a 13 year old enticing some desperado to send him nude photos?
It really is a thought crime as this dickhead doesn’t seem to realize that it isn’t illegal to be a pedophile- what’s illegal is acting upon those desires. There is the danger it may prevent real pedophiles who seek help as they fear exposure.
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Some London-based crime fiction & crime-related events coming up in June…
Fancy a break from the tennis? Or the rain? (The two so often arrive together here.)
London Review Bookshop World Literature Weekend, taking place 17-19 June, is the only UK festival to specialise in literature in translation. On the crime front there are two events that may be of interest:
Crime Fiction: Reading Scars - Behind crime fiction's gripping narratives, there often lies a more incisive portrayal of a society than can be found in more obvious commentaries; and it offers a way to confront ideas of good and evil in a shades-of-grey world, where simple moral certainties aren't so easy to find. Karin Alvtegen's psychological crime thrillers include Missing, which in 2001 won the Glass Key, the premier Nordic crime writing award, and Shadow and Betrayal. Håkan Nesser is also a Glass Key winner; his latest book to be translated into English is The Inspector and Silence, starring his detective Van Veeteren. The event will be chaired by Jakob Stourgaard-Nielson, Lecturer in Scandinavian Literature at UCL.
For Catalonia: Place of a Language, three very different writers come together to talk about how a besieged language can offer refuge, and how place, history and identity are knitted into that language. One of the authors taking part in this event is Teresa Solana, the award-winning author of two comic noirs, Not So Perfect Crime and A Short Cut to Paradise. Solana writes in Catalan and translates them into Spanish, and her novels are a blend of humour, merciless satire and detective thriller. Joining Solana on the panel is Ramon Llull Prize-winning novelist Najat El Hatchmi and Carles Casajuana, author and Ambassador of Spain to the UK. Barcelona-based literary translator Peter Bush is chair. This event takes place Friday 17 June at 2pm in the Stevenson Room at the British Museum.
Here’s a link and here’s the programme to download. Download WLW 2011 Final Programme [email]
Moving on, after hours on Friday 24 June, you could join in with an investigation at the National History Museum at 1900 where a body has been found in the museum’s garden. The NHM says:
Its identity is unknown and the killer remains at large. We need your help. Join us to put your detective skills to the test as a crime scene officer. At this unique, immersive evening event, you'll meet 3 of the Museum's forensic experts. Learn how they use their knowledge to assist the police and solve crimes. Find out tricks of their trade so that you can comb the crime scene, collect the evidence and process the clues. Then take your evidence to trial where real barristers, police officers and a judge will demonstrate just how important forensic evidence is to a verdict.
collecting insect evidence in the garden crime scene with scientists Martin Hall and Cameron Richards, and 100s of live maggots
fingerprint collection and identification workshop
victim identification masterclass in the Attenborough Studio with Heather Bonney - learn how to identify sex, age and height by studying skeletal remains
a mock court case in the Museum's Flett theatre.
That is surely a most unusual way to unwind on a Friday evening. What a cracker! Follow the link for more details and booking.
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Case Histories BBC1 – Episodes 1 & 2 At the opposite end of the spectrum on TV at the moment, Case Histories is proving a delight. Humour comes in unexpected places, sometimes unintended I suspect. In episode 1 I burst into fits of giggles when the sisters buried their dog. This was a funeral so unlike the one they held for their late father (but given the story, it can be understood). So much emotion. Phil Davis deserves a mention for some superb acting while guesting in these episodes, as does young lady Millie Innes, playing Brodie’s daughter (who can be found on twitter @Milliecinnes). Edinburgh is getting...
CWA National Crime Writing Week 13-19 June 2011 The CWA's National Crime Writing Week starts tomorrow. There are lots of events up and down the country. Go here to find out more and find out what's on near you.
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Small bowel varices secondary to chronic superior mesenteric vein thrombosis in a patient with heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation: a case report
Maria C. Garcia1,
Golo Ahlenstiel2,
Hema Mahajan3 &
David van der Poorten2
Bleeding ectopic small bowel varices pose a clinical dilemma for the physician, given their diagnostic obscurity and the lack of evidence-based medicine to guide therapy. They often occur in the context of portal hypertension, secondary to either liver disease or extrahepatic causes. Rarely is their presence associated with chronic superior mesenteric vein thrombosis and hereditary coagulopathies.
A 74-year-old white woman, with a heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation and no underlying liver disease or portal hypertension, presented over the course of 13 months for recurrent episodes of melena and per rectal bleeding. An initial endoscopy showed a clean-based chronic gastric ulcer, while colonoscopies showed multiple, non-bleeding angioectasias which were treated with argon plasma coagulation. Subsequent video capsule endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy revealed red wale marks overlying engorged submucosal veins in her distal ileum, consistent with ectopic varices. A chronic superior mesenteric vein thrombus, found via computed tomography venogram, was the cause of the ileal varices. She underwent curative surgical resection of the affected bowel, with no re-bleeding episodes 17 months post-surgery, despite needing lifelong anticoagulation for recurrent venous thromboembolisms.
Clinicians should consider ectopic varices in patients who present with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, even in the absence of portal hypertension or liver disease. In those with a known thrombophilia, patients should be screened for splanchnic thrombosis, which may precipitate ectopic varices.
Ectopic varices are dilated portosystemic collateral vessels occurring in mucosa outside the gastroesophageal region. Although they account for less than 5% of variceal bleeds, their diagnostic obscurity and high risk of rupture portends considerable mortality. Most commonly, ectopic varices are caused by portal hypertension in the context of pre-existing liver disease (such as cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma); albeit, other etiologies independent from portal hypertension do exist [1].
Small bowel varices secondary to mesenteric vein thrombosis are an exceptionally rare phenomenon, with only 15 documented cases in the English literature. Rarer still, is the link between inherited coagulation disorders and the development of small bowel varices [2]. Here we present the first case report of ileal varices caused by chronic superior mesenteric vein (SMV) thrombosis secondary to a heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation.
A 74-year-old white woman was admitted to hospital with a 3-month history of progressive dyspnea and lethargy. Imaging studies showed the presence of multiple bilateral pulmonary emboli in the context of a right lower limb deep vein thrombosis. Incidentally, baseline laboratory testing revealed severe iron deficiency anemia with hemoglobin (Hb) of 55g/L and ferritin of 10μg/L. She denied any prior history of melena or per rectal bleeding, but admitted a 2-year history of bloating, upper abdominal pain and chronic diarrhea. Besides four prior episodes of deep vein thrombosis in the context of a known heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation, her past medical history was otherwise unremarkable. Specifically, she had no history of liver disease, cirrhosis or portal hypertension. Her regular medications included an angiotensin II blocker for hypertension, a statin for dyslipidemia, allopurinol for gout and 100mg of aspirin. On physical examination, she was slightly tachycardic (heart rate 105), tachypneic (respiratory rate 26 breaths per minute) and saturating at 96% on room air. Her blood pressure was normotensive at 117/85mmHg, and she was afebrile.
An endoscopy revealed a large, clean-based 1.5cm chronic gastric ulcer on the lesser curvature of her stomach scattered diverticuli were noted within her sigmoid colon during colonoscopy. There was no evidence of Helicobacter pylori on biopsy or urease testing and no bleeding was identified at either procedure. She was discharged on high-dose pantoprazole, and warfarin was recommenced for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis. Her international normalized ratio (INR) was monitored and maintained between 2 and 3 (with good patient compliance).
Despite repeat gastroscopy showing resolution of her gastric ulcer, over the next 9 months she represented four times for symptomatic melena and per rectal bleeding, which required at least one unit of packed red blood cells for three of her presentations (Hb <70g/L). Repeat colonoscopies showed multiple, non-bleeding angioectasias which were treated with argon plasma coagulation. Subsequently, rapid active bleeding was demonstrated in her distal ileum with a technetium-99m red blood cell scan, which was concordant with subsequent findings of engorged submucosal veins with red wale marks on capsule endoscopy (Figs. 1a and 1b) and double balloon enteroscopy.
Video capsule endoscopy showing (a) prominent submucosal vessels in the distal ileum and (b) red wale markings in the distal ileum
Further investigation with a computed tomography (CT) venogram showed obscuration of her superior mesenteric vein (SMV) with surrounding collaterals, suggestive of chronic thrombosis. A surgical opinion was sought regarding therapeutic options, and the patient underwent an elective small bowel resection of 15cm of the distal ileum. At operation, marked varices were noted on her bowel wall, as well as thickened mesentery, which was consistent with SMV thrombosis. Histopathological findings were in keeping with a vascular lesion, as tortuous and collapsed venules and veins were present within the submucosa and muscularis propria (Figs. 2a and 2b).
a Abnormal tortuous vessels (arrows) in submucosa, extending into muscularis propria (hematoxylin-eosin, ×2); and b tortuous vessel (arrow) extending into muscularis propria (hematoxylin-eosin, ×4)
Her protracted admissions were compounded by the necessity of anticoagulation therapy, given her history of recurrent VTEs. Seventeen months post-surgery, however, she has not experienced any further episodes of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and her Hb and iron studies have normalized, despite needing lifelong anticoagulation with warfarin.
Ectopic varices are rare causes of GI bleeding, comprising 1 to 5% of variceal bleeds and 1 to 2% of obscure GI bleeding. Although two-thirds of ectopic varices are located in the small intestine, only 7 to 12% of bleeding arises from the jejunum or ileum [3, 4]. As such, bleeding ectopic varices distal to the ligament of Treitz can pose a diagnostic dilemma for the clinician.
The majority of patients with ectopic varices have portal hypertension in the context of cirrhosis or portal vein thrombosis [5]. It is generally uncommon for ectopic varices to be caused by localized portal hypertension in the absence of liver disease. Other less common etiologies include: familial varices, adhesions from prior surgery, pancreatic tumors and mesenteric vein thrombosis [6]. There are only 15 documented cases in the literature reporting small bowel varices secondary to SMV thrombosis, of which three are caused by inherited coagulopathies [2, 7, 8]. Although there is a clear link between inherited thrombophilia and small bowel varices, our case report is the first to describe SMV thrombosis in the context of a ‘heterozygous’ Factor V Leiden mutation.
The Factor V Leiden mutation is the most prevalent cause of inherited thrombophilia in whites and occurs in 5 to 12% of the general population. The substitution of arginine for glutamine at position 506 alters the activated protein C cleavage site on Factor V and results in a 10- to 20-fold slower inactivation of Factor Va. Heterozygous carriers have a threefold to sevenfold risk of VTE compared to non-carriers; heterozygous carriers have a 10% chance of developing a VTE within their lifetime, and have a 1.41 odds ratio for developing recurrent VTEs. Typically, mesenteric vein thrombosis in the context of heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation presents as an acute abdomen, rather than an indolent course [9, 10]. Although unusual, it should be noted that heterozygous carriers are at risk of developing chronic SMV thrombosis and, as such, ectopic varices.
The final diagnosis and etiology in our patient was confirmed by video capsule endoscopy, double balloon enteroscopy and CT venogram. Capsule endoscopy is a relatively non-invasive test, capable of capturing two to six frames per second of small bowel mucosa. Images are not visualized in real-time; however, the pitfalls of this are easily mitigated by double balloon enteroscopy. Diagnostic yields in obscure GI bleeding for capsule endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy are 62 and 56%, respectively, and when used in combination result in significantly higher diagnostic yields of 75% [11]. Chronic SMV thrombosis can be differentiated from an acute occlusion by the presence of extensive venous collaterals and/or the inability to visualize the SMV on CT [12].
Due to the infrequency of bleeding ectopic varices, optimal treatment is currently dictated by case reports and small retrospective case series. Several interventional modalities exist for treating ectopic varices; however, when used as monotherapy they are associated with re-bleeding. Moderate re-bleeding rates of 16 to 37% have been reported for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) [13] and whilst balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) seems promising (with re-bleeding rates of 5% at 24 months) [14], there generally is a paucity of long-term follow up beyond a year in the literature [15]. Both TIPS and BRTO are unique interventions associated with limitations and risks [16]; notably, they may not provide adequate variceal decompression, and there is the potential that varices at other sites not treated with sclerosant may bleed [17].
Endoscopic techniques and interventional radiology are recommended first and second line therapy (respectively) for bleeding ectopic varices, with a view for surgery if bleeding is unamenable to treatment and the patient has favorable liver function [6]. Given that BRTO is not an available treatment modality at our institution, and the localized nature of the small bowel varices, surgery seemed a potential recourse for our patient. Variceal bleeding was successfully resolved via resection of the affected bowel, with no complications or re-bleeding 17 months post-surgery.
In conclusion, ectopic varices are an important differential for patients with obscure GI bleeding, even when there is no history of liver disease or portal hypertension. Although uncommon, Factor V Leiden heterozygous carriers are at risk of developing chronic SMV thrombosis and consequential ectopic varices. In instances where TIPS or BRTO are not feasible, surgery should be considered a viable option for treating localized ectopic varices in patients with no history of liver disease or other comorbidities.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
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The authors would like to thank the patient for consenting to the publication of this manuscript.
Sydney Medical School, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Maria C. Garcia
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
Golo Ahlenstiel & David van der Poorten
Department of Anatomical Pathology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
Hema Mahajan
Golo Ahlenstiel
David van der Poorten
Correspondence to David van der Poorten.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests and did not receive any funding related to this case. MG is a medical student and unpaid, GA, HM and DVDP are staff specialists in a public hospital paid a salary. There are no grants or other funding to declare.
MG was the principle author of the manuscript and performed all relevant literature searches. GA provided the pill-cam images, was involved in the conception of the study and provided critical review of the manuscript; HM provided the histopathology images, interpretation and critically reviewed the manuscript. The patient was under the care of DVDP; DVDP conceived the paper, directed literature searches and was responsible for overall supervision of the project and manuscript. HM, GA and DVDP critically reviewed and contributed to the authorship of the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Garcia, M.C., Ahlenstiel, G., Mahajan, H. et al. Small bowel varices secondary to chronic superior mesenteric vein thrombosis in a patient with heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation: a case report. J Med Case Reports 9, 210 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0705-6
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JOE SOLO ACCEPTS INTERNATIONAL VANGUARD AWARD FROM YOUNG ARTIST ACADEMY
Hollywood, CA, July 18, 2019 — Joe Solo, multi-platinum record producer and CEO of Joe Solo Music+Entertainment, Inc. and founder of the Music Success Workshop, accepted The Young Artist Academy’s™ INTERNATIONAL VANGUARD AWARD at this year’s historic 40th Anniversary Award Show. The show was hosted last Sunday, July 14, 2019 at Avalon Theater in Hollywood, California. Solo was chosen for this award for his international strides in record producing and mentorship of 1000’s of aspiring artists worldwide.
The Young Artist Academy™ officially states: “We are pleased to recognize someone very influential in the music industry. Multi-Platinum record producer Joe Solo is forever tied to the discovery, creation, and continued success of Music’s biggest stars. His discovery of Macy Gray and collaborations with Fergie and Will.i.am and artists such as Shiny Toy Guns and Rami Jaffee from the Foo Fighters/Wallflowers to Michael Jackson music director are a few of his credits. As a record producer of nearly 30 years, he holds credits in literally thousands of international TV, movie, and commercial song placements. As a coach and a mentor of aspiring musicians, his Music Success Workshop helps aspiring artists learn how to breakthrough in the music industry. For his dedication to the creation of musicians, and to the universal Art of Music, the Young Artist Academy™ is honored to have presented the 2019 International Vanguard Award to music legend, Joe Solo.”
“It’s an incredible honor to be recognized for one’s work by the Youth Artist Academy,” states Solo. “It was a personal treasured moment to have such a wonderful opportunity to inspire young, talented dreamers to stay committed to their vision of success in music and entertainment.”
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Chris Hayes: What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump – The New York Times
“… In this view, crime is not defined by a specific offense. Crime is defined by who commits it. If a young black man grabs a white woman by the crotch, he’s a thug and deserves to be roughed up by police officers. But if Donald Trump grabs a white woman by the crotch in a nightclub (as he’s accused of doing, and denies), it’s locker-room high jinks.
This view is also expressed by many of the president’s staff members, supporters and prominent allies. During the same week that the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, repeatedly vouched for Rob Porter’s integrity, Mr. Kelly also mused that hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants who did not fill out the paperwork for DACA protections had refused to “get off their asses.”
A political movement that rails against “immigrant crime” while defending alleged abusers and child molesters is one that has stopped pretending to have any universalist aspirations.”
Full text: The NYT
What Mr. Hayes describes is no other than a modern interpretation of society as organised by birthright; what I like to call birthright ideology. That used to mean hierarchical organisation in the aristocratic form. Royals above nobles, nobles above commoners, the bourgeoisie above the working class and so forth. That positioning (also the model of classical patriarchy and backbone of Abrahamic religions) was, shall we say, deterministic. It even dictated whether your word was “true” or not in a court of law. Just ask William Garrow. The Enlightenment and revolutions of the 18th century were supposed to have changed all that, but various sectors of society still operate on those terms – hence Trump’s appeal to the religious despite his actions.
28 comments on “Chris Hayes: What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump – The New York Times”
I’m starting to feel like ‘conservatism’ is just a whitewash for white Christian privilege.
Indeed. The problem is for quite a while that group has been mislabelled; for the most part pretending it was a matter of ideas or actions.
it is just a whitewash. Conservatives have no interest in anyone else. They are no more than Klan in nice suits.
I’m watching in total bemusement as they sabotage all the weapons they’ve been using for decades to hold on to power. From “fiscal conservatism” to “family values”, it’s all out the window. I wonder what happens next?
hard to figure what is next. We have GOP leaders telling Trump that if he tries to fire Mueller, that’s the beginning of the end of his presidency. After trump is done, it’ll be curious on what the wannabee nazis who came out from under their rocks will do.
foolsmusings, you are just starting to believe that conservatives are nothing more than extremist white Christians? Whoa, catch up man.
No need to catch up, it was meant to be tongue in cheek thanks.
I always wondered about that disconnect. Now I understand better. Hugs
Up until the Trump phenomena they worked rather cleverly at hiding or justifying their proposed hierarchical model (including opposition to anti-discrimination bills), but now it’s become impossible to hide it 🙂
Not only is it impossible to hide it, but for the most part they are glorying in their power and influence. I mean Tony Perkins from the Family (Not!) Research Council openly writes on the internet how he is at the White House multiple times a week and how he personally wrote the Trump “No Transgender Military Service Members” Executive order, which thankfully was struck down by the court.
Catholic Heritage Foundation brags how they are the ones picking all the Federal Judges for Trump and he is just rubber stamping whoever they pick out.
It’s a disaster an unmitigated disaster. Now we find out that Bannon lead Cambridge Analytica had a Russian on staff who literally stole the Facebook data.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
The Facebook story is huge in Europe. I hope it has some serious consequences.
Tony Perkins might think this whole thing is good for him, but as Ireland and Australia have shown with the referendums, the days of people like him having any influence are numbered. His crowd can’t fool the young people anymore (as they did for so long.) This whole new generation of young people is just not entertaining the Perkins style garbage 😉
Well written and argued article in the NYT. My blood is boiling with so much hatred and rage at Trump that I’m losing the ability to put it to words. I hope this bubble bursts soon. I can’t take much more of it.
Something good may come out of all of this. The world has a unique opportunity to re-examine how we do and see things. The #metoo movement and the Parkland kids are two amazing examples of what the future can become if people keep pushing.
I agree. J.R.R. Tolkien of Lord of the Rings fame coined a term “U-catastrophe”. It means, “From out of great horror and chaos comes an unexpected and powerful wave of goodness, light and healing.” I’m paraphrasing that, but you get the drift. I’m encouraged by the same things you mentioned, and also by the voter turnouts we’ve had here in the past few special elections that were held. I’m hoping for a U-catastrophe to come soon.
What do you guys think of this. It really scares me. Hugs
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/andrew-sullivan-reviews-two-books-on-whether-trump-can-be-impeached/
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I had to look that one up. Very correct. Hugs
Just read about the CA whistleblower. I assume he has hard proof because the knowledge about the connection has been floating around online for quite a while. I learned about it some months ago and I’m not exactly up there with the latest news.
There is a whole pattern of abuse that’s slowly being exposed and it goes beyond Trump, or even the underlying white privilege to how we view capitalism itself. Interesting times.
keithnoback
It has an enduring appeal.
“I may be ‘——‘, but at least I am not one of those ‘——‘”
And that’s well illustrated by the successive anti-immigrant campaigns in America. Anti-Chinese, anti-Irish, anti-Italian…
Trump is running the government from the White House Palace. He is destroying all our institions, convincing ppl that the fBI, Justice Department and Intellegence services are rotten and can’t be trusted. This is what authoritarians do they eleminate all competition and then run everything out of the palace.
Helll he is sending Ivanka Trump to South Korea to negotiate with the South Koreans and North Koreans in place of a Secretary of State, which we no longer have one of those either. This is literally running our country out of the White House Palace.
I cannot adequately describe how revolted I am with Trump AND the people who support him. Mere words are inadequate to describe my level of revulsion. And unless Robert Mueller has the goods I will live in this tension for another 3 years, and have to bear going through another Trump campaign.
I think that this phenomenon is more widespread than just Trump and his supporters (religious or otherwise). Hillary Clinton recently made some disparaging remarks stereotyping Trump supporters in India. Those remarks basically boil down Trump supporters to a backwards enemy that needs to be treated as inferior. To be fair, those same people make similar statements (off-camera) about Clinton and other political enemies.
Hypocrisy doesn’t seem to be in short supply these days. Trump can get away with it because our institutions have covered for it in the past. He’s just the latest person to benefit from it.
Thinking errors (and hypocrisy) are definitely present everywhere we look; but I think what’s important to identify is whether the argument rests on X (identity) or Y (action). There’s a tendency in some parts of the right to make policies which affect people based on their identities. Antisemitism, racism, homophobia, sexism, all the weight placed on the X. So the defence of systems that reinforce discriminatory hierarchies, as done by all the people who oppose any policies to level the playing field, is a way of cementing people into place. Disallowing progress, acceptance or social mobility.
That Trump is a foul pest is well rehearsed. What still seems to be missing is a réalisation that if this is to change at the next election (not the predictable mid-term swing-back but the race for the Whitehouse in 2019/20) is a deep and thorough analysis of how he got there. Bin the conspiracy theories and admit that the Democrats did not run a great campaign. They assumed they would win. Hilary was the only person, in my view, who could not beat this man. The legacy therefore falls to ALL Americans who voted and those who didn’t when they could have. And the Democrats have a chance to find the right person, the person with charisma, decency, powerful oratory and a clean back-room to sweep this man or whomever the Republicans field should he decide not to run again, out of the way and restore some dignity, decorum and decency to the White House. Until there is a collective responsibility taken on the offended side we will remain hearts in mouths waiting for the next chapter in an endless horror show. So instead of constantly spitting and throwing rock at a person who could not care less I would like to see energy put into understanding where the fault lay and really trying to find that phoenix. Where is Michelle Obama, please because she would be unbeatable.
Quite right too. It’s virtually impossible for someone who has a s much money as Frump to be guilty of a crime, any crime. Their money ( or someone else’s) is deemed an adequate defence. Obviously Russian money works just as well as anyone else’s.
Absolutely true. A person walks into a grocery store and steals a chicken, they’re detained on the spot. A banker pays himself millions using client money while he’s running the bank into the ground and he retires in Bermuda.
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OUTDOORS NM
Colorado's Calling - Is it Worth the Trip?
A Taylor River cutthroat.
As the debate over the health of New Mexico’s premier trout stream, the San Juan river, heightened recently, a colleague urged me to see how other tail water fisheries, like those found in our neighboring state of Colorado, stacked up against our own.
He mentioned in particular the monster trout living in the Taylor River below the dam as some of the biggest and most colorful he'd ever seen, feeding upon a steady diet of lake shrimp and small midges, year round.
So I headed north into the towering Rockies just to see just what kind of fishing these legendary tail waters like the Taylor River, the Frying Pan and the South Platte below Eleven Mile Reservoir might produce.
An early July trip to the Taylor River revealed just under a half mile of public water below the dam and then a long stretch of gorgeous, private water before turning public again for several more miles.
This is a beautiful river with plenty of boulders, towering cliffs and big pines surrounding it. There were lots of pull off areas along the road providing easy access to the river and plenty of camping and lots of company.
We had arrived during the tail end of the runoff season as the water was just coming down. Rafters were still running it and the campgrounds were pretty packed and fairly expensive.
A helpful campground host suggested we head up to the lake where we could camp at large if we were on a budget.
Climbing out of the canyon we discovered an awesome lake and expansive countryside, truly impressive scenery.
Near the far end of the lake we found a Forest Service campground called River’s End situated on a butte overlooking the river as it enters the reservoir.
Taylor Reservoir. The dam and canyon through which the river runs is in the upper right hand corner of the lake.
We elected to camp here for the night for a reasonable fee and my fishing partner on this trip, Glenn F. May, had good luck down on the river, picking up some nice trout in the waning light of the day.
Meanwhile I was busy chatting up the neighbors, the Davis brothers and their friend Carroll “The Mayor” Rainwater, who warned me that we would see the temperature drop into the teens that night and to bundle up.
From left to right: Charles "Bud" Davis, 69, of Jackson, Mo., Eddie Davis, 62, of Patterson, Mo., Carroll Rainwater, 67, of Greenville, Mo., and Raymond Davis, 65, of Imperial, Mo.
They weren’t lying.
Summer’s a short and often illusionary season up in the high country of Colorado and I ended up cloaking myself in every piece of clothing I'd brought on this trip.
Never leave the knit cap at home, even if it is July.
The following day Mr. May headed downstream to fish some of the water we passed on the way in while I explored the upper river above the lake, some side streams and a bit of the surrounding backcountry.
Taylor Reservoir with the River's End campground on the far end of the lake.
I couldn’t help but marvel at the number of ATV’s running about up here and the giant, fifth wheel trailers parked right at streamside or in communal gatherings upon some grassy knoll.
Kind of reminded me of Labor Day at Elephant Butte, people and machinery everywhere, tearing up the territory and having a hoot of a good time.
I realized there was so much country to explore here that our short two-night trip couldn’t do it justice and decided to hit the tail water below the dam to see what all that hype was about.
Below the spillway I found some very well outfitted anglers, spaced out at regular intervals along the stream bank.
None of them seemed very busy at the time.
Glenn F.May surveys the Taylor River's short but sweet tailwater section below the dam in Colorado this past July.
So this was it, under a half mile of water comprised of a fairly narrow, straight stretch that crossed under the roadway, bounced off a big rock wall, formed a big deep pool and then tumbled over a long, rocky run before hitting private property.
I parked in one of the paved pull-offs by the roadside and walked up onto the bridge where upon looking over the guardrail I could see the faintly, undulating forms of some very big trout in the current down below.
I walked back down to the streamside below the bridge and pushed through the dense, streamside willows to watch a lone angler standing atop a rock by the head of the big pool.
Looking back in the tail of the deep, clear pool I noticed shadows against the streambed, dozens of them. Upon donning my polarized sunglasses, the shadows suddenly became trout, big ones, all stacked up like they were waiting for a bus.
The shadows are trout and plenty of them.
Check this out, I said to myself.
Back in Gunnison I had stopped at one of the better sporting goods stores I've been in recently, Gene Taylor’s, where we found a store crammed full of outdoor gear, you name it and they had it.
And their fishing conditions board stated that the usual fare for the Taylor included tiny Mysis shrimp and Baetis emergers.
So I tied up an RS2 like we use on the San Juan with a little shrimp imitation I had picked up somewhere and got to fishing for those suckers at the back of the pool.
Funny thing is the first fish I caught on the San Juan was with one of these little shrimps.
One of the clerks at Abe’s fly shop had recommended it, said they’d switched to a different outlet at the dam that brought water and shrimp out from the bottom of the lake.
I was fishing with May then too and I hooked and lost that first fish in the run just above the cable pool.
I was amazed at the power and agility of that fish and remember looking about into the gray stillness of that snowy day and realized there was no one around I could crow about it to.
So it was with confidence I tied on that shrimp on the Taylor’s tail water but after an hour of work and numerous different fly combinations I gave up in frustration on the small stuff.
I instead slipped on a #12 green bodied, red headed, Stimulator and slapped that puppy on the water with a vengeance.
And damn, if one of those big browns didn’t break off from the pack on the bottom and head up to the surface for a look see.
I tensed as I watched the trout head straight for my fly and then it opened wide and sipped it down.
I set the hook and hung on for the ride.
The guy on the rock wasn’t too pleased when I waded over to him a short time later with the fish in tow and asked him to take my picture.
He hadn’t been having much luck either and only grudgingly agree to take it.
The automatic lens opening on my little camera jammed while I had the fish in hand but at least we got half the photo, even if it is little fuzzy.
It was amazing how deeply colored this brown trout was from eating all those shrimp, it’s tail a bright, eye catching red.
I kept fishing and ended up crossing over to the far bank where no one was venturing and climbed up and over a treacherously steep, rocky slope to get at the tail end the deep pool.
But I had no luck until I worked my way up to just above the bridge where I floated my stimulator downstream into the shaded water underneath it.
I never saw the fish take the fly. The line simply grew tight, trembled slightly and then began weave back and forth, straining mightly against the current.
I knew if I didn’t change my position, it would only be a matter of time before the fish broke me off.
That’s when the lady fishing below me on the downstream side of the bridge waved at me to come on down.
I splashed my way under the bridge and managed to reel up the trout, a beautiful, fat cutthroat which the lady was kind enough to photograph for me.
I fished some more in the rocky run below the big pool and managed to hook and fight another fat brown before I lost it in the fast water.
I decided to call it an afternoon and went looking for Mr. May.
I had a good time fishing the Taylor’s tailwater but it was a little like playing dodge ball in a walk-in closet, too many people and not enough room.
Heading downstream I admired the long stretch of private water marked by regularly, spaced rock and log cairns linked by a single strand of steel cable from which “No Trespassing” signs dangled.
It was kind of depressing to see all that gorgeous water and not a soul fishing it.
I thought of donning my camoflage, hooded sweatshirt and sneaking down the embankment to fish a pool in the shadow of the highway, unseen by passing motorists.
But I’d have to have someone drop me off first, I thought.
Then I figured I might be able to fish for maybe 30 minutes before the “authorities” could respond if someone had seen me.
By then my ride could return to wisk me away undetected, right?
Not a bad idea, I thought.
Then a big burly, sheriff’s deputy in a huge, SUV rolled by and I thought better of it.
May reported the fishing in the lower stretches of the river to be slow as the water was still running a little high and the wading a bit treacherous.
But the water down here looked great and certainly warranted further inspection, just not on this trip.
I envy those would live in this area, people who could drive up here after work during the week to leisurely fish the river, all of it, as time and conditions permitted.
That night we arrived back at the campground to find our neighbors had set aside some of their fish fry for us.
Wrapped in tinfoil we found delicately baked trout swimming in onions and red and yellow peppers.
Another tinfoil package contained crispy, fish strips coated in “Andy’s “ breading, a really tasty coating with just the right combination of spices.
These guys were accomplished fishermen, excellent cooks and epitomized hospitality.
Eddie Davis puts out a call on one of the Davis brother's homemade turkey calls, fashioned from a leg bone.
The following morning after May had peeled out to try his luck on the stretch below the dam, I remained behind to sample some of the Davis's brothers breakfast fixins.
They served up perfectly fried bacon, nice and crispy, and "candied" scambled eggs, featuring chunks of red pepper and onions. They even had steaming hot, baked biscuits and some of the finest white, gravy I've ever had, just like my Dad’s.
Now I've been a cook most of my life, even made a living at it for many years, and when I say I'm impressed with someone's cooking, that's saying something.
So if you're lucky enough to ever encounter these guys up on the lake, they’ve been going there for years, don't pass up their offer of a plate.
I was curious about their generosity and asked about their upbringing.
I was told they had grown up poor, so poor in fact that their folks weren't even aware the Great Depression was over until sometime in the late fifties.
Then they’d crack a grin and tell another story about life growing up in the rural country of Missouri where they hunted, fished and lived a humble life.
Eddie Davis' turkey calls feature artwork by his son Will and are reminiscent of the kind of scrimshaw work done by whaling sailors of old. His calls can be had by contacting him at csdavis2007@windstream.net
Turns out the Davis Brothers all teach Sunday school and they practice what they preach. No smoking, no drinking and no swearing. And that's not something they went on about, it's something I had to learn later from one of their wive's.
This a great group of guys and well worth hanging out with, in fact, they made the trip down to this river much more memorable than the fishing down below the dam.
Rock on gentlemen!
Stay tuned for our next installment on fishing some of Colorado's tailwaters including the Frying Pan River and the South Fork of the Platte below Eleven Mile Reservoir.
Jude Duran Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery
Former San Juan River fishing guide, Jude Duran, 29, of Flora Vista, has pleaded guilty to robbing a Montrose, Colorado bank in May 2008 of about $7,000 and now faces a maximum 20 year prison term when sentenced in January.
Duran pled guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Edward W. Nottingham in Denver on Oct. 8, 2008, according to US Attorney’s Office spokesman, Jeff Dorschner.
Duran is being held at the federal prison in Littleton, Co. and is scheduled for sentencing before Nottingham on Jan. 9, 2009.
Duran is expected to seek leniency due to his mental health issues and his wife’s declining medical condition, according to the plea agreement in the case.
Duran’s wife, Donna, suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and Duran has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, according to court records in the case.
The plea agreement indicates that under sentencing guidelines used in federal cases Duran could conceivably be looking at anywhere between a 4 to 13 year prison term, however, the judge retains the ultimate discretion in sentencing and it remains to be seen how he rules.
The plea agreement spells out facts in the case including the following:
“On May 13,2008, the defendant (Duran) drove to Montrose, Colorado from his home in Flora Vista, New Mexico, arriving at approximately 9 a.m..
The defendant had recently acquired a handgun from a private party, for the purpose of committing a bank robbery.
Upon arriving in Montrose, he stole a Colorado license plate from a vehicle in a parking lot and, placed it on his vehicle after removing his New Mexico plate.
He then drove to the north side of Montrose on Highway 50, and placed a 911 call from a phone booth, and requested help in a disguised voice.
He then drove south to the Vectra Bank on Highway 550, where he donned rubber surgical gloves and disguised himself with a balaclava and sun glasses.
On entering the bank he pointed the handgun at the employees in the lobby and approached one of the teller windows.
He then placed a white bag on the counter and instructed the teller to put the money in it from both the top and bottom drawers and 'no dye pack".
Although the defendant contests this, a personal banker seated at a desk near the teller area, reported that the defendant pointed the handgun at her and directed her to move away from the desk, stating that, "it's not worth it".
The defendant then took the bag of money and left the bank, where he was observed by customers of a nearby business, who provided police with a description of the vehicle.
After replacing his New Mexico license plate, the defendant drove south out of Montrose, where he was stopped by Sheriff"s deputies.
While waiting for them to approach his vehicle, the defendant dropped the money and the handgun on the roadside.
He was released after his license and plates were cleared through the dispatch center.
After returning to retrieve the money and gun, he was stopped again, and this time arrested.
The defendant gave a full confession to both the Montrose Police detectives and the F.B.I.
The deposits of the Vectra Bank are insured by the F .D.I.C. The amount taken by the defendant and recovered was $7131.90. “
See the entire plea agreement and other courts records in the case here .
See related stories about the case including Duran's reasoning behind the crime, here .
Before his arrest, Duran, an Albuquerque native, was a popular and well known, independent San Juan River guide who’d gained notoriety for his support of the use of multiple fly rigs on the blue ribbon, trout stream below Navajo Dam.
Such rigs have since been banned on the San Juan River at the request of a coalition of guides and fly shops who claimed the rigs caused needless death and injury to trout in the legendary trout fishery.
See related story about the two fly rule and Jude Duran's involvement here .
Those interested in financially assisting Duran's wife can find more information here .
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What's Next? Intelligence Community IT Day RECAP
CIADEFENSEDefense & AerospaceFBIGSADHSInformation TechnologyNATIONAL COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CENTERNSAProfessional ServicesSTATE
AFCEA held its first Intelligence Community IT Day on February 28, 2019. The U.S. Government's Intel Agencies discussed some of their top solution priorities relating to Cloud, Cyber, Information Assurance, Robotics Process Automation technologies.
The panels included the following speakers:
John Sherman, CIO of the Intelligence Community, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Ellen E. McCarthy, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, State Department
Dr. Darin Johnson, Computer Systems Researcher, National Security Agency
Susan W. Kalweit, Director of the Analysis Directorate, NGA
Jason Miller, Federal News Network
Gordon Bitko, CIO, FBI
David Bottom, CIO, Intelligence & Analysis Office, DHS
Karl S. Mathias, CIO and Assistant Director, U.S. Marshals Service
Jerry Cronin, Cyber Chief Information Security Officer USTRANSCOM
Diana Parr, Strategist for Cybersecurity Operations, NSA
Jean H. Schaffer, CISO & Chief, Cyber and Enterprise Ops, DIA
Colonel Patrick C. Williams, Commander, 2d Weather Group, 557th Weather Wing, USAF
Edward Burrows, Robotic Process Automation Program Manager, GSA
Christine Gex, Innovation and RPA Lead, DASA-FIM
Steven J. Strandberg, Manager - Digital Finance & Strategy, Verizon Enterprise Solutions - Digital Finance Acceleration Office (DFAO)
Erica Thomas, OUSD Comptroller, RPA and Contract Pay Lead, OSD
John Sherman, CIO of the Intelligence Community, delivered the Opening Keynote address for this event stressing the importance of intelligence integration, transparency, and innovation as key goals. IC Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE), a six year IT modernization effort for the Intelligence Community, represents one of the key efforts of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in achieving its mission of intelligence integration. Sherman discussed the importance of continuing modernization efforts to stay ahead of our adversaries. Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning represents a key component to this modernization.
Ellen McCarthy with the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) discussed Intelligence Driven IT Priorities. With under 300 personnel, INR is one of the most productive all source intelligence offices as well as one of the oldest performing independent analysis to support foreign policy. Currently, one of the Bureau's main goals is to achieve intelligence at the speed of news. McCarthy indicated that although the Bureau's analysts are unrivaled subject matter experts on their countries or coverage areas, there is an increasing need for technologists to support its mission.
Susan Kalweit with the NGA and Darin Johnson with the NSA led the Automated Intelligence Panel. Kalweit discussed the Human Machine Team and the utilization of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to take over roles currently performed by analysts to free up time to focus on other areas of research. An emphasis on learning and additional training in areas like AI/ML was cited as a key to success in achieving mission goals.
CIOs from the USMS, FBI, and DHS comprised the "Ask the CIO Live" Keynote Panel. Karl Mathias (USMS CIO) explained the agency's primary responsibilities include capturing fugitives as well as the transportation of prisoners. Modernization efforts include mobile platforms to aid in identify management. Mathias stated they are in the process of re-organizing with the addition of a new CTO who is currently developing a technology roadmap. Gordon Bitko (FBI CIO) discussed the fact that we live in a data driven world. Since the Boston bombing to the Las Vegas shooting FBI agents/analysts had 20 times the amount of data to go through. Data modernization, improving understanding/digital literacy, leveraging Cloud Smart technologies are key areas of development in addressing the exponential growth in data. For DHS, developing their mobile strategy and cloud migration are areas of focus.
The Cyber Deterrence and Cyber Threats Panel included Jerry Cronin (USTRANSCOM), Diana Parr (NSA), Jean Schaffer (DIA), and Col Patrick Williams (USAF). Cronin explained that 90% of transportation support of military operations comes from commercial companies and discussed the challenges of addressing cybersecurity requirements associated with these contracts. Parr addressed cyber threats we are facing from Russia, Iran, North Korea and Iran and the importance of signals intelligence and information assurance in combating these threats. Schaffer indicated there is a lack of cybersecurity skills in their workforce and the importance of training. Williams discussed the role of the 2d Weather Group and its support to both government agencies and international organizations (i.e. NATO) in providing weather data. Williams explained how this data is utilized for planning purposes associated with operations as timing can play a crucial role. In an effort to secure this data, Mission Defense Teams are in place to stave off hackers.
The final panel of the day covered Robotic Process Automation and consisted of Ed Burrows (GSA), Christine Gex (Army), Steven Strandberg (Verizon Enterprise Solutions), and Erica Thomas (OSD). Burrows served as the moderator for this panel. The goal of Robotic Process Automation is to automate routine tasks freeing up resources to focus on high-value tasks. RPA is currently only being applied to back office duties, however the next phase will be more customer facing. RPA has a very good return on investment as bots are considerably cheaper than traditional IT services. Additionally, with manual processes you are dealing with a percentage of error. This is eliminated with the use of bots. One of the keys to success discussed when it comes to implementing RPA is the importance of partnering with the CIO shops and getting leadership support.
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JAGA COMMUNITY SERVICES | Vita Boost Juice Machine
The following terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) together with any and all associated JaGa Community Services Forms (“Services Form”), which shall be taken, construed and form part of a legally-binding agreement (“Agreement”) between Red Ideas Sdn. Bhd. (201301019072) (1048902-M) (“JaGaSolution”), and the party named as the Committee in the Services Forms (the “Committee”), and governs the latter’s participation in the JaGa Community Services Program (“JaGa Community Services”) and Vita Boost Juice Machine (“Vita Boost Juice Machine”) at the property specified in the same form (“Property”).
As its business evolves, JaGaSolution may modify or make changes to these Terms and Conditions, from time to time, and in its sole discretion by posting any such changes online (http://jagaapp.com/terms/) or by sending an email to the address provided to JaGaSolution in the applicable JaGa Services Form. The revised Terms and Conditions shall become effective as of the date it is uploaded on the website (http://jagaapp.com/), unless JaGaSolution specifies a different effective date.
This Agreement including the Terms and Conditions shall become effective upon an authorised representative of the Committee signing the first JaGa Services Form for its participation in the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine. If the Committee continues to participate in the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine following JaGaSolution’s posting of the revised Terms and Conditions on its website, the Committee: (a) agrees to be bound by the revised Terms and Conditions under this Agreement; (b) acknowledges and agrees that it has independently evaluated the desirability of participating in the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine and is not relying on any representation, guarantee or statement other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement; and (c) represents and warrants that it is lawfully able to enter into this Agreement and shall remain in compliance with the same. If this Agreement is being agreed to by a company or other entity, then the person agreeing to this Agreement on behalf of the Committee represents and warrants that he or she is authorised and lawfully able to bind the Committee to this Agreement. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions (including any revised Terms and Conditions), your only recourse is to stop your participating in the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine, after which the provisions of this Agreement shall apply in consequence of such termination.
2. JaGa Community Services Program
2.1 The JaGa Community Services is an exclusively curated suite of out-of-home and outdoor community enhancement services offered to residents, tenants and third-party guests with authorised access (“Users”) to the private communities using the JaGaSolution Platform, with potentially attractive revenue-sharing opportunities to eligible participating communities.
2.2 Vita Boost Juice Machine
The Vita Boost Juice Machine is an on-premise automated vending machine dispensing fresh juices that JaGaSolution is offering in collaboration with Vita Boost Sdn. Bhd. (“Vita Boost”), in the form of automated juice machine placed at the Property, to provide Users with a fast, convenient, economical, hygienically, and almost instantly high quality freshly squeezed juice with 100% natural without any addition of sugar and water. Vita Boost Juice Machine provides Users of the Property and the Committee with a highly-desirable amenity, allowing Users to conveniently able to get their daily “5 a day” anytime at Ringgit Malaysia Seven* (RM7.00*) only per cup. *subject to changes
2.3 Implementation of Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property
To participate and roll out the Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property, the Committee must complete and execute the applicable JaGa Services Form, specifying the details of the Vita Boost Juice Machine to be deployed and installed at the Property, including, inter alia, any or all of the following:
(a) the number of Vita Boost Juice Machine to be placed at the Property;
(b) the location for the placement of the Vita Boost Juice Machine;
(c) the term for the implementation of Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property under this Agreement; and
(d) any other arrangements agreed to between the Parties in relation to implementation of Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property.
2.4 The Committee may extend or add the Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property, subject to the availability of the Vita Boost Juice Machine, from time to time, by executing additional JaGa Services Forms, which shall contain other terms and conditions applicable to the new or additional arrangements with respect to Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property.
2.5 The Committee shall at their best effort to keep the Vita Boost Juice Machine free from vandalism and/or damages.
3. Delivery, Deployment and Installation
3.1 JaGaSolution shall arrange for the deployment and installation of Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property within the agreed time frame, if any, specified in the relevant JaGa Services Form between the Parties.
3.2 Unless otherwise agreed to by the Parties in contrary to any JaGa Services Form, the Vita Boost Juice Machine specified in the JaGa Services Form to be installed at the Property shall be fully borne by Vita Boost or its third party service providers, with no additional costs to the Committee.
3.3 The Parties agree that in the course of deploying and installing the Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property, Vita Boost and/or JaGaSolution shall retain the right to use its own contractors to carry out such installation works without requiring the prior approval of the Committee, provided always that reasonable notice of the same shall be given to the Committee before carrying out any such work at the Property.
4. Right of Access to Property
4.1 The Committee grants Vita Boost authorised employees, representatives and crews the right of access to the Property every day during the Term of this Agreement to carry out manual cleaning and sanitizing the machine with medical alcohol; and to refill fresh fruits and filter off the afresh fruits including public holidays.
4.2 The Committee grants to JaGaSolution and its authorised employees, agents, consultants, contractors and third-party service providers (including the authorised representatives and agents of Vita Boost), the right of access to the Property at any reasonable time during the Term of this Agreement to carry out repairs and alterations of the Vita Boost Juice Machine, and to perform any other activities incidental or ancillary to the operation of the Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property, provided that JaGaSolution shall notify the Committee at least one (1) Business Day prior to the commencement of any of the foregoing activities described above.
4.3 The Parties agree to promptly come up with other appropriate arrangements if they anticipate that any repairs or maintenance work to be conducted under Clause 4.2 may potentially impede normal traffic flow in and out of the Property or otherwise cause undue disturbance to the Users of the Property.
5. Electric Power Supply
5.1 The Committee shall arrange for and provide a continuous supply of electrical power to the Vita Boost Juice Machine deployed and installed at the Property under this Agreement that requires an electrical power source to function and operate, and shall be responsible for the costs of all electrical power used in the operation and maintenance of all such Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property under this Agreement.
5.2 The Parties acknowledge and agree that JaGaSolution shall not be responsible for any interruption to the electrical power supply to any Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property, which may affect the use and/or purchase of the Vita Boost Juice Machine by Users at the Property.
6. Maintenance of Vita Boost Juice Machine
6.1 JaGaSolution shall in its sole discretion, and at its own cost and expense:
(a) render (or otherwise cause Vita Boost to render) any repair or maintenance work on defective, inoperable or faulty Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property under this Agreement; and
(b) replace any Vita Boost Juice Machine, whether in part or as a whole, that remains inoperable or otherwise rendered unusable despite the best attempts made to repair them under Clause 6.1(a) above;
PROVIDED ALWAYS, the Committee is not responsible, whether directly or indirectly, for any damage or harm caused to the Vita Boost Juice Machine deployed and installed at the Property.
6.2 The Parties agree that the Committee shall use reasonable efforts to ensure that:
(a) the Vita Boost Juice Machine deployed and installed at the Property shall not be removed, defaced or otherwise damaged by Users of the Property, or any third party having access to the Property; and
(b) the Vita Boost Juice Machine deployed and installed at the Property shall not be improperly used, damaged or otherwise succumb to any circumstance under the control of the Committee or its agents, which may render them inoperable or inaccessible to Users at the Property.
7. Production of Vita Boost Juice Machine
All Vita Boost Juice Machine specified in a JaGa Services Form to be deployed and installed at the Property under this Agreement shall be provided by JaGaSolution and/or Vita Boost at no cost to the Committee. Unless otherwise agreed to between the Parties in the relevant JaGa Services Form, a minimum of forty-five (45) days shall be required prior to the commencement date specified in the relevant JaGa Services Form for the production of the requested Vita Boost Juice Machine to be deployed and installed at the Property. For the avoidance of doubt, Clause 7 provides only for the production of all requested Vita Boost Juice Machine and does not include the deployment and installation of the Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property.
8.1 The Committee acknowledges and agrees that any and all intellectual property rights which subsist in or arise in connection with the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine pursuant to the JaGa Services Form between the Parties or otherwise in accordance with this Agreement, belong exclusively to JaGaSolution, its affiliates and licensors, and/or Vita Boost, or their respective licensors, as the case may be.
8.2 The Committee further agree that JaGaSolution may, during the Term of this Agreement and after its termination or expiry, include the names of the Property and/or the Committee (including any trade name, trademark, service mark and logo) with respect to the Vita Boost Juice Machine deployed and installed at
the Property on JaGaSolution’s customer list and in its marketing materials, web site and/or sales presentations solely for its business development and marketing purposes only.
9. Representations and Warranties
9.1 The Committee represents and warrants:
(a) that it has the full legal authority, right or power enter into this Agreement and to execute any associated JaGa Services Form and to be bound by these Terms and Conditions;
(b) that all information and material provided to JaGaSolution in the JaGa Services Form for its participation in the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine under this Agreement is correct, accurate, not misleading and current;
(c) that it is legally authorised to act on behalf of the Users of the Property for the purposes of this Agreement and any arrangements contemplated within or in conjunction with it; and
(d) that it has complied and will continue to comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations (including without limitation any relevant data protection or privacy laws).
9.2 The Committee agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless JaGaSolution, its affiliates, subsidiaries, and their respective employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, contractors, representatives and service providers (collectively, the “JaGaSolution Indemnitees”) from all claims, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and disbursements) that may arise from or are a result from the Committee’s breach of Clause 9.1 or otherwise in contravention to any provision of this Agreement.
The JaGa Community Services and Vita Boost Juice Machine are provided by JaGaSolution and its affiliate or licensors on an “as is” and “as availabe” basis, without any warranty, representation or guarantee of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including without limitation, any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular use or purpose, non-infringement, title, compatibility, security, accessibility and accuracy. JaGaSolution does not warrant, endorse, guarantee or assume responsibility for any Vita Boost Juice Machine deployed and installed at the Property by Vita Boost under this Agreement including without limitation, any material, information, product or service advertised or offered in relation to the Vita Boost Juice Machine. Without limiting any of the foregoing and to the fullest extent permitted by law, JaGaSolution and its affiliates or licensors shall have no obligation, liability and/or responsibility in connection with the deployment, installation, operation and maintenance including inter alia, any claims, damages, losses, expenses, costs or liabilities whatsoever resulting from or arising directly or indirectly from the consumption of the juices of any Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property under this Agreement.
In no event shall JaGaSolution, its affiliates, licensors and third party service providers be liable under any legal or equitable theory, including breach of contract, tort (including negligence, product liability and strict liability), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, to the Committee for any special, indirect, incidental, exemplary, punitive or consequential loss or damages, including without limitation: (i) any loss of business or profits, (ii) loss or depletion of goodwill or reputation (iii) loss of use or corruption of data (being data lost or corrupted in the course of transmission via the Committee’s systems or over the internet through no fault of JaGaSolution), (iv) costs of procuring any substitute goods or services and/or (v) any business or operational disruption or work stoppage experienced at the property, arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, any JaGa Services Form ,the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine, regardless of whether JaGaSolution has been apprised or advised of the possibility of any of the foregoing. Under no circumstances and to the greatest extent permitted by law shall JaGaSolution and its affiliates or licensors be liable to the Committee or any third party for an amount greater than the amount paid to the
Committee under this Agreement in the six (6) months preceding any claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement to which such liability may arise. The foregoing limitation of liability (i) will not in any way limit the Committee’s payment obligations, if any, under this Agreement or any JaGa Services Form, (ii) is cumulative and not per incident; and (iii) shall apply even if any remedy in this Agreement fails its essential purpose or regardless of the theory or basis of liability (including breach of contract or tort).
The Committee agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the JaGaSolution Indemnitees and any applicable third party service providers including, but not limited to, for and from any claims, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and disbursements) resulting from or arising out of:
(a) any acts or omissions, or breach of this Agreement by the Committee (including any representations and warranties set forth above in Clause 9; and/or
(b) any violation of any applicable laws, rules, regulations, industry guidelines or policies with respect to the JaGa Community Services or Vita Boost Juice Machine at the Property.
13. No Exclusivity
This Agreement including any associated JaGa Services Form(s) is non-exclusive and shall not prevent JaGaSolution from entering into similar agreements with third parties, including other partners within the same geographic location as the Property to implement the JaGa Community Services.
14. Non-Solicitation
The Committee agrees not to contact or communicate with Vita Boost for the deployment and installation of any Vita Boost Juice Machine or otherwise to any other juice machine operators without first obtaining the express written consent of JaGaSolution.
15.1 The Committee acknowledges that it may receive during the course of this Agreement, whether directly or indirectly, information, material and data from JaGaSolution and/or Vita Boost, that relates to the JaGa Community Services, Vita Boost Juice Machine, JaGa Services Forms, marketing and promotion plans and/or otherwise any other information reasonably intended to be kept confidentially, whether any of the foregoing is marked as “Confidential” or not (“Confidential Information”). The Committee agrees:
(a) not to disclose, use, transmit, inform or otherwise make available to any entity, person or body of the Confidential Information, except to the extent necessary to performing its obligations under this Agreement;
(b) to restrict access to the Confidential Information to employees, officers, advisors, agents and other representatives who have demonstrated a specific need to have access to any Confidential Information to carry out its obligations under this Agreement; (
c) to protect such Confidential Information from unauthorised use and disclosure to the same extent that it protects its own Confidential Information, but in any event, using no less than a reasonable degree of care; and
(d) shall forthwith report to or notify JaGaSolution of any actual or suspected breach of Clause 15 and shall take all reasonable steps to promptly cease, prevent, control and/or remedy such breaches.
15.2 The confidentiality obligations in this Clause 15 shall not apply to any information, material or data which:
(a) at the time of disclosure, is or becomes generally available to the public;
(b) was disclosed to the Committee on a non-confidential basis from a third party without violation of any contractual or legal obligation by such third party to JaGaSolution;
(c) was independently developed by the Committee without use, access or knowledge of the JaGaSolution’s Confidential Information;
(d) received by the Committee from JaGaSolution that has been approved for disclosure; and/or
(e) is required to be disclosed by any applicable law or regulation.
16.1 Unless terminated earlier, this Agreement shall begin on the Commencement Date specified in the applicable JaGa Services Form for the Vita Boost Juice Machine and shall continue for the term set out in the same (the “Term”).
16.2 A Party may terminate this Agreement or a JaGa Services Form by giving the other Party thirty (30) days written notice, after which the following events shall take place:
(a) each Party shall cease using each other’s corporate name and logo, and cease to make any reference to the JaGa Community Services and the Vita Boost Juice Machine;
(b) JaGaSolution after giving reasonable prior written notice to the Committee or in accordance with other written arrangement between the Parties, shall organise for the prompt removal of all Vita Boost Juice Machine deployed and installed at the Property; and
(d) Clauses 14, 15 and 16 shall survive termination and remain in effect.
16.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, these Terms and Conditions shall continue in effect so long as there remain an active JaGa Services Form between the Parties for any JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine implemented at the Property. Upon the expiration or termination of this Agreement, or in relation to any terminated or completed JaGa Services Form, any provisions of the Agreement which are intended or reasonably expected to survive, shall so survive such termination or expiry as the case may be.
17.1 This Agreement, including these Terms and Conditions and all associated JaGa Services Form(s), constitute the entire agreement of the parties and supersedes any and all prior oral or written agreements or understandings between the Parties with respect to the JaGa Community Services and/or Vita Boost Juice Machine.
17.2 Any notice given by one Party to the other under this Agreement shall be sufficiently served or made if sent by email, post or facsimile transmission to the address set out in the relevant JaGa Services Form. The Committee shall be deemed to have received such notice of any updates made to these Terms and Conditions within two (2) business days of the notice being sent by e-mail or made available on our website (http://jagaapp.com/terms/).
17.3 The Parties to this Agreement are independent contractors and nothing in any JaGa Services Form shall create, or be deemed to create, a partnership, joint venture or relationship of principal and agent between JaGaSolution and the Committee.
17.4 A waiver by any Party of the obligations of the other Party under this Agreement will not prevent the subsequent enforcement of that party’s rights and will not be treated as a waiver of any kind.
17.5 The Parties’ rights and obligations will bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors, heirs, executors and joint administrators and permitted assigns.
17.6 If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid and/or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining provisions will continue in full force without being impaired and/or invalidated in any way.
17.7 The Committee may not assign this Agreement without the prior written consent of JaGaSolution. JaGaSolution may freely assign this Agreement in connection with any corporate reorganization, share purchase, merger, or sale of all or substantially all of the business and assets associated with the subject matter of the Agreement.
17.8 Neither termination nor expiry of this Agreement will affect the accrued rights and liabilities of the Parties at the time of termination or expiry. All indemnities given by the Committee will survive termination or expiry of this Agreement and termination or expiry will not affect the Committee’s obligations to comply with the provisions of this Agreement.
17.9 This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Malaysia, and the Parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Malaysia and/or Asian International Arbitration Centre, Kuala Lumpur.
JaGaSolution Committee Agreement
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Mary Evelyn Atkinson was a prolific children’s writer, most active between the 1930s to 1950s. She is best known for her Locketts series, which is a camping-and-tramping series featuring the Lockett family. It ran to 14 titles. The much shorter Fricka series can just about be counted a pony series – it is certainly not as pony-orientated as most. Horseshoes and Handlebars, probably the easiest to find of her books, is more overtly pony-orientated.
M E Atkinson has not met with unqualified critical approval over the years. Alison Haymonds, who has written numerous scholarly articles about the pony book genre, says '[she] produced indifferent pony stories, lured, perhaps, by the deceptive simplicity of the genre.' (International Companion Encyclopaedia of Children’s Literature, Pony Books). M E Atkinson’s stories mostly, as did the majority of books of the time, featured middle class children. Owen Dudley Edwards (British Children’s Fiction in the Second World War) said: 'Atkinson was openly anti-lower-class' (not it must be said, a trait she was alone in holding at the time.) Of her Nest of the Scarecrow he says: 'We are invited to sneer at the much more hard working girl, her education, and even her grasp of religious beliefs, while admiring the utterly self-centred groups of privileged factionists dominating the story!'
Her Lockett series obviously does nothing for him: perhaps rather unfairly, he castigates her for ignoring the war: '[the] slightly smug little Lockitts [qv] cycle their adventure-hungry way through England’s green lanes utterly indifferent either to wartime privations or to skyborne death.' Publishers were not necessarily eager to publish books which mentioned the war: Arthur Ransome said: 'The evacuee story won’t do. My publishers would have a fit. They say: "Steer clear of the war at all costs."' (quoted by Tig Thomas, A Rational Diet, Folly 53) and authors who may well have been immersed in it themselves, sometimes preferred to write about the world they hoped would exist after the World War. Josephine Pullein-Thompson, who was a telephone engineer during the war, wrote her first solo novel on the roof of the telephone exchange. '... I decided to leave the War out of the book. I was fifteen when it started, and after four years it began to look as though we would win and everything would change... So I tried to place Six Ponies in the future, but really it was set in the England of the 1930s.” (Interview, Jane Badger, 2007)
There is a glimmer of hope on the critical horizon: in Where Texts and Children Meet, Eve Bearne and Victor Watson, talking of the camping and tramping genre of children’s fiction, do give her a bit more credit: her Lockett family books 'rose above the limitations of the subject matter.'
I have only read two of her books (a Locketts and a Fricka) and must admit I was not gripped by either. In view of Owen Dudley Edward’s spitting loathing, I must try again, and see if I too can be driven to fury by her; or whether I will find her what I suspect she was aiming at: a comfortable escapist read.
Horseshoes and Handlebars, Riders and Raids and Unexpected Adventure are easy to find in their CBC printings; a bit less so in the original. Castaway Camp is very easy and cheap to find as a paperback: it’s expensive as a hardback. Hunter’s Moon is reasonably easy to find as a CBC, but pricey as the original printing. Where There’s a Will is expensive. The trickiest is The Barnstormers: very difficult to find, and very expensive.
Alison Haymonds, Pony Books, in International Companion Encyclopaedia of Children’s Literature
Owen Dudley Edwards: British Children’s Fiction in the Second World War
Eve Bearne & Victor Watson: Where Texts and Children Meet
Thanks to Ivan Tammas for help with the photographs.
Books Of Atkinson, M E
Castaway Camp
Horseshoes and Handlebars
Hunter’s Moon
Riders and Raids
Short stories: M E Atkinson
Steeple Folly
The Barnstormers
Unexpected Adventure
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In Dubai, a robot sways to oriental music
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Big bets on big ideas
Big bets on big ideas – by philanthropists ‘Problem first, tool second’ is a maxim that is common among philanthropists, but far from common in the startup world.
We celebrate the fast growing entrepreneurial culture, but too many startups are ‘noddy projects’, built on exploiting little more than convenience or alacrity; often led by people with scant knowledge or experience of management or about the sector which they aim to enter and its customers.
Many fewer are the enterprises that start by identifying major needs or opportunities and building a business to fulfil them. Among these are the Young Foundation in the UK, which has long supported social enterprises, and Village Capital in New York, which has raised funds and then used them to bring experts to bear on major world problems.
But also there are individuals who have made millions and then sought to use their wealth to attack these problems, such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Do their approaches tell us anything about how we could address bigger issues and address them better?
What is common to most of them is that they aim to use the high level of their own expertise with which they have achieved their own success, and do so in wider, more beneficial fields where the returns are not necessarily financial.
Soon after Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder, and his wife began their philanthropy five years go, they partnered with a charity research organisation called Give Well, that identifies projects that ‘provide outsize human benefits for the dollars invested’, through which they gave substantial sums, inter alia to a programme for distributing mosquito nets to reduce malaria, and to a programme that gives cash directly to poor people in Kenya and Uganda. More recently they have chosen to fund projects that mitigate potential global catastrophes, like an epidemic of a deadly disease, biological warfare and the dangers posed by artificial intelligence.
‘Tech people tend to be more interested in early-stage startups’, said one expert, ‘they typically support disruptive new ideas, get more involved in their giving and show a willingness to move quickly to another approach when one fails.’
Zuckerberg and his wife (who is a doctor) chose to invest funds in efforts to build basic tools to help the whole scientific community to make breakthroughs in research. A substantial sum went to create a new research institute in San Francisco – the ‘Biohub’, whose first project was to map all the cells in the body and set up a rapid strike force to tackle outbreaks of infectious diseases like Ebola and Zika viruses.
And they aim to advocate for more private money for this purpose, and will ‘likely take ownership stakes in for-profit companies doing promising work.’ Their multipronged approach – gifts, VC investments in businesses with social missions, and policy advocacy is described as ‘giving them maximum flexibility’.
Pierre Omidyar , founder of the eBay online auction and retail site, was an early pioneer of this concept. His philanthropic organisation focused on efforts to bring financial services to underserved populations. It financed a non-profit that makes microloans in Africa, Asia and Haiti; and it has invested in a peer-to-peer lender and in a company that provides insurance to low-income people in emerging markets. He participates in an advocacy group that partners with governments and others to encourage the distribution of money digitally instead of through cash handouts. ‘We have a motto here: problem first, tool second’, said the managing partner of his Foundation – an approach ‘widely adopted by the region’s philanthropists’.
The Omidyar Foundation which focuses on early-stage projects, also takes board seats and provides networking opportunities and training to the organisations it finances. ‘Half of the organisations report that our non-monetary assistance is as valuable as our monetary assistance’, says the managing partner.
Measuring success ‘is a bit of a fool’s errand’, he has said; but proactive, they are. At all events, principles like that of focusing on underfunded yet highly effective charities seem to remain paramount. So far we have rarely seen comparable individuals or organisations in the for-profit field.
Source: New York Times, 8.11.2016
John Whatmore, January, 2017
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Roslyn Packer Theatre, August 8
Richard Roxburgh and Cate Blanchett in The Present. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti
Chekhov famously said that if there’s a gun on stage, then eventually it must be used. In his latest Chekhov adaptation, The Present, Andrew Upton wastes no time, starting the tragicomedy with a bang.
In fact, Upton has the characters pull the trigger several times before the play’s dramatic conclusion – just some of the fireworks, emotional and literal, that punctuate and power this blisteringly brilliant Sydney Theatre Company production.
Upton has adapted a number of classic Russian plays with considerable success – Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard, Maxim Gorky’s Philistines and Children of the Sun, and Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard – but The Present is arguably his best yet.
Written around 1878, Chekhov’s sprawling, untitled first play – often called Platonov after its central character – would run around five hours in its original form but Upton has condensed it to a gripping three hours including interval.
He has updated the action from pre-revolutionary Russia to the mid-1990s, post-Perestroika, another period of great change and disillusionment. Instead of the main protagonists being 20-something as Chekhov had them, they are in their 40s, intensifying their feelings of yearning, regret and frustration.
The play is set in the country house of Anna Petrovna (Cate Blanchett), the widow of an older, powerful General, where a group of friends and acquaintances gather to celebrate her 40th birthday. Among them are local doctor Nikolai (Toby Schmitz), Anna’s stepson, the slightly nerdy, awkward Sergei (Chris Ryan) and his brittle new wife Sophia (Jacqueline McKenzie), a doctor who has recently returned from working overseas.
Anna has also invited two powerful landowners (David Downer and Martin Jacobs) hoping one of them might marry her, securing her land and fortune.
Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie, Chris Ryan, Eamon Farren, Brandon McClelland, Martin Jacobs and Cate Blanchett. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti
At the heart of the play is Mikhail Platonov (Richard Roxburgh), who has not fulfilled his brilliant promise as a young intellectual and is now a womanising schoolteacher.
Mikhail brings his sweet but gauche wife (Susan Prior) and baby son. However, his roving eye soon alights on Sophia, a former flame, and Nikolai’s gorgeous girlfriend Maria (Anna Bamford) – though it’s clear his heart belongs to Anna.
Irish director John Crowley helms a superbly paced production on Alice Babidge’s impressive, almost-naturalistic set, which moves from a verandah outside the dacha to a small balloon-festooned summerhouse to a night scene in swirling mist, and back to the dacha for the morning after, this time inside. It’s brilliantly lit by Nick Schlieper with a powerful sound design by Stefan Gregory who uses music by The Clash and Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart to punctuate scenes.
Together Upton, Crowley and the magnificent cast nail the Chekhovian balance between laughter and tears as the characters struggle to deal with life in the here-and-now.
The first of the four acts is a slow burn as the guests arrive. Tensions and animosities simmer beneath the desultory chat, with conversations cutting across each other, all of which is performed with a convincingly spontaneous feel. Then, in the aftermath of lunch, the play suddenly explodes into shattering life.
Roxburgh gives one of the performances of his career as Mikhail, capturing his wit and charisma but also his world-weary vulnerability and self-loathing. Blanchett is equally virtuosic as Anna, moving from bored containment to drunken abandon. Both draw on deep, uninhibited emotional reserves and the chemistry between them is electric.
But it’s a genuine ensemble piece with superb performances from the entire 13-strong cast (which also includes Eamon Farren, Brandon McClelland and Andrew Buchanan). As Upton prepares to leave STC at the end of the year, The Present is a thrilling parting gift.
The Present plays at the Roslyn Packer Theatre until September 19. It is sold out but $20 Suncorp tickets are released at 9am each Tuesday for performances during the following week. They are available online at http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au in person or by calling 02 9250 1929.
A version of this review ran in the Sunday Telegraph on August 16
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A Fallen Drummer
Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. While it is observed as a U.S Holiday, I am taking the opportunity to commemorate the life of the British soldier and drummer who was murdered in London last week by Islamic Extremists. Lee Rigby, a member of the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was victimized in a fanatical display of human brutality that will never be truly understood by most people. While CNN and The Huffington Post will explore the issue from a legal, moral, and ideological perspective, I want to memorialize Rigby by showcasing his musical gift.
Military bands were historically the first marching bands. These days marching bands mainly perform at sporting events and parades as a form of entertainment. Marching drummers possess a proficiency that is frequently lost amidst the exploitation of celebrity musicians. However, anyone who appreciates music as an art form would view these players as top contenders on the musical hierarchy. They play with extraordinary precision and utmost articulation, while performing many of their parts on the move and in unison. The style encompasses rudimentary concepts that are applied to create complex rhythmic phrases usually consisting of strokes and rolls executed very quickly. Tricks and flare are also very common, especially in modern day marching bands to enhance entertainment value. Marching Band scholars develop technique and coordination over many years of militant focus in order to master the stylistic attributes and demeanor associated with their role. The drummers use an underhand technique, referred to as “traditional grip” that allows for an easier reach while marching. These days, traditional grip is commonly used in jazz drumming, a style that incorporates many of the same rudimental applications.
(Traditional grip used by marching drummer)
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is an infantry regiment of the British Army. While drumming is only a small part of their operation, it maintains an important role in the infantry’s legacy. The band will march on but a valued member sadly will not. Pictures, videos, and information about Lee Rigby as a drummer are difficult to find right now due to the high volume of internet content specifically related to the murder. I would love to hear Rigby play and hope at some point videos showcasing his talent will be available. Surely, we will hear a lot more about the fallen soldier in weeks to come. A Croatian Drum Camp has already announced they will dedicate this year’s program to Rigby, adding topics such as tolerance, harmony, and respect for human life to it’s curriculum.
In the meantime, we will remember this event for its atrocity and celebrate the patriotic musician it took from the world.
I couldn’t find many videos on the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers but here’s one of a Swiss Drum Corp to exemplify the complexity, precision, and sheer brilliance that goes into this style of drumming.
Posted by Jon Ardito on May 27, 2013 in Culture, Drums and tagged Dead drummers, drummer rigby, lee rigby, London attack, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, soldier, Woolwich attack.
Fascinating. Your words regarding the drumming…complexity, precision, sheer brilliance…says it all. And how compassionate of you to remember and celebrate the talent of that unfortunate soldier.
Ryan O'Dowd says:
Love this blog! As a writer myself, I’m always drawn to creative spirits like Jon, and his ability to tell compelling stories in a dynamic, linguistically profound fashion. Well-written, insightful and inspiring. I think I speak for your entire following when I implore you, Jon, to keep these pieces coming.
What a timely message to commemorate not only the life of this soldier, but to recognize his talents and efforts as well. You truly have a gift for the written word and couldn’t have chose a better subject to discuss. Rock on.
Mitch Beer says:
Good blog about an often overlooked musical entity,military marching bands. Certianly marching bands were incredibly critical in American battle history, as their rhythms and parts were used to signal different formations and attack patterns. The death of Lee Rigby is definitely a sad and disturbing event, but this is a great piece about a soldier who deserves our thoughts on Memorial Day. Thanks Jon!
Sean Burke says:
Great blog post! Agree that the precision and uniformity of military bands are second to none. While Rigby’s death was a terrible tragedy, it’s nice to read such a thoughtful piece about his passion from the perspective of a fellow drummer. Well done!
I’m so tired of hearing about the perpetrators of hate crimes in mainstream media and knowing they derive satisfaction in their infamy. So glad to hear about the victims and see there are people who can utilize mediums like blogs to send positive vibes out about the many heroes like Lee Rigby! He, and others, like the brave responders in Boston, and the boyfriends who died shielding their girlfriends in a Colorado movie theater, are the people we should commemorate with the written and spoken word. I’m really glad to know this about Mr. Rigby. Thanks Jon!
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Distribution of different forms of phosphorus in calcareous soils from middle and south of Iraq
E.A Makttoof J.K. Kassim K.H Khuzale
Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Agriculture Sciences, 2020, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 293-303
10.33794/qjas.2020.167078
A survey of the chemical way to determine the amount of different phosphorus forms in calcareous soils was carried out on 22 calcareous soils fertilized for many years with phosphate fertilizers from central and southern Iraq. Extraction methods were developed by combining the technique of individual traditional methods of different forms with sequentially extraction technology. Soil samples were collected from surface (0-30 cm) and subsurface (30-60 cm) horizons. Forms of soluble, ready available, organic and total phosphorus were extracted independently and in addition to the successive extraction were carried out according to Jiang and Gu (1989) method. The amount of soluble and available phosphorus extracted were low and ranged from 0.17 to 2.12 mg kg-1 and 7.28 and 34.3 mg kg-1 respectively. Organic phosphorus was medium and the values ranged 30.9 and 93.1 mg kg-1 while the total phosphorus content was high and the values ranged between 206.9 and 570.6 mg kg-1. The quantities of phosphorus extracted sequentially by chemical extracts and the possibility of diagnosing different forms of phosphorus associated with calcium Ca2-P, Ca8-P and Ca10-P (apatite) in addition to P associated with OM and free iron and aluminum oxides. The average values of Ca2-P, Ca8-P, Fe-P and occluded (O-P) extracted were nearly similar and the values were 20.47, 25.28, 25.4, and 26.23 mg kg-1 respectively while the Ca10-P was much higher (194.54 mg kg-1) than the other forms.
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(2020). Distribution of different forms of phosphorus in calcareous soils from middle and south of Iraq. Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Agriculture Sciences, 10(1), 293-303. doi: 10.33794/qjas.2020.167078
E.A Makttoof; J.K. Kassim; K.H Khuzale. "Distribution of different forms of phosphorus in calcareous soils from middle and south of Iraq". Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Agriculture Sciences, 10, 1, 2020, 293-303. doi: 10.33794/qjas.2020.167078
(2020). 'Distribution of different forms of phosphorus in calcareous soils from middle and south of Iraq', Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Agriculture Sciences, 10(1), pp. 293-303. doi: 10.33794/qjas.2020.167078
Distribution of different forms of phosphorus in calcareous soils from middle and south of Iraq. Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Agriculture Sciences, 2020; 10(1): 293-303. doi: 10.33794/qjas.2020.167078
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For me one of the most underrated games on F95zone. Story and character developement are amazing. And the storytelling is top notch. But: you have to give the game it’s time, the beginning is “not what it looks like” (some reviewers on F95zone were already falling for that because they thought it’s another ordinary game like many others…). For me one of the games you can’t get out of your head anymore.
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Original review from January 4, 2021 on F95zone for game version Ch6.2:
I have played quite a number of games here on F95. Fortunately, there were many good games among them, some were even great.
Well, then there are a few games that stick in your mind. And even though the game is not finished yet, I already know this is one of them. The story, the characters, and especially the storytelling are fantastic! Rarely have I been so immersed in a game as I am here.
Technically and especially graphically the game is on a very good level, but can’t quite reach the top titles. For a “newcomer” in this business, however, it is still remarkable, and you notice a clear increase in quality as the game progresses. Only mediocre: the animations, but they serve their “purpose” in the sexy moments. No music/audio effects in the original game (well, there is a solution for that…).
You have to make decisions in the game, and they have consequences. The writing is top notch, only a few spellings are there. Also the updates are regular and come with good amount of content.
All in all, that would be a grade of probably 4 to 4.5. But really, I have to give this a 5 star rating, the game is way too good for less then that.
Finally, a small note for newcomers to the game:
Don’t be fooled by the beginning! (as it happened to a reviewer before me). At first glance this seems to be one of the usual games like many here on F95 – but that changes fundamentally in the game and the further you play the more all the plots and the behavior of characters fit together.
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by Monnet, Jean
Published 1978 by Doubleday in Garden City, N.Y .
Monnet, Jean, 1888-,
Statesmen -- Europe -- Biography,
Economists -- Europe -- Biography
Statement Jean Monnet ; introd. by George W. Ball ; translated from the French by Richard Mayne.
LC Classifications D413.M56 A3313 1978b
Pagination 544 p., [8] leaves of plates :
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As part of the 2015 Calgary Biennial, LIDS has slacked off once again by creating a custom risographed letterhead for official correspondence with festival organisers. Watch for other lazy contributions to the event, coming soon. Like in March, maybe.
From the Calgary Biennial website:
Atlas Sighed: The 2014–15 Calgary Biennial is a guerrilla exhibition of contemporary art. Comprising numerous infiltrations into public space, this endeavour appropriates commercial vernaculars of the urban landscape in order to challenge conservative status quos.
Working monumentally and secretly, the following artists will be taking over billboards, bus shelters, telephone poles, newspapers, alleyways, administrative offices, cellphones, and the sky itself to realize this project: Dick Averns, Brittney Bear Hat, Steven Beckly, Victoria Braun, Bogdan Cheta, Alannah Clamp, CONSULTANCY GROUP, the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society, Natalie Lauchlan, Yvonne Mullock and Mia Rushton, Sans façon, Dan Zimmerman, and others.
The Biennial will be dispersed throughout Calgary and its suburbs from December 1, 2014 through to March 31, 2015 with support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Pattison Outdoor, and anonymous sponsors. A number of conversations and public events will be held as part of this exhibition. Additional details will be released throughout the next few months.
Public Issue 50: The Retreat, edited by Sarah Blacker, Imre Szeman, and Heather Zwicker has just come out and includes the text “Retreating in/from Art Institutions” by curator Heather Anderson, which discusses several LIDS projects. More info here: http://www.publicjournal.ca/50-the-retreat/ From the intro:
The question of why the practice of retreat is important, of why it is different from forms of self-alienation, and of why (what might seem like) passivity could be a positive form of agency, remains open. However, the notion and the act of retreat, withdrawal or exodus could be a necessary ground for politics and the politics of aesthetics today, since the productive process of cooperative constitution at the core of the social also owes its potential and validity to the act of spontaneous refusal. Politics and art are projects of infinite creative production triggered by a force that always starts from choice—choosing to do or not to do—and propelled forward by local affections and joyful passions. In retreat, consciousness produces itself by stating the full presence of the present-being without witness and without stage, sensing a homo- or homeo- (‘similar’ or ‘common’ or ‘shared’ in Greek, belonging to humus or the ‘earth’, rather than to homo-, ‘human’, as in Latin) enriched by the love of a collective intelligence yet to be regained. In The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes states, “there is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.” This issue of PUBLIC generates new ways of retreating ahead of the limits, aporias, problems, and crises of a century caught between imaginative and conceptual fertility and sterility—not to effect some questionable escape, but to allow for the generation of new spaces of openness, freedom, and possibility.
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LIDS’ DO MORE WITH MORE/DO LESS WITH LESS poster is featured on the cover and as a pull-out poster in Issue 37-1 of Fuse Magazine. The Ladies’ Invitational Deadbeat Society’s limited edition DO LESS WITH LESS / DO MORE WITH MORE cross-stitch-pattern poster was printed at the Alberta Printmakers’ Society in June 2012. The slogan on the posters was inspired by a discussion that took place as part of Artivistic’s Promiscuous Infrastructures project at Centre des arts actuels Skol in Montreal, about how artists and non-profit arts organizations negotiate the constant pressure to do more with less. With this poster reissue for FUSE, LIDS proposes that we resist the capitalist logic of constant acceleration, productivity and austerity budgets by reasserting a realistic level of production within our means. Use LIDS’s handy pullout pattern to stitch a banner for your own office and hang in the orientation of your choice!
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May 14, 2013 December 14, 2014 | nburisch
BOOK LAUNCH NEWS, MAY 2013
LIDS and friends will be converging in Toronto at the end of May for a performance by Wednesday AND an official BBQ book launch with our feminist pals! Join us on Sunday May 26th at 3pm at the Feminist Art Gallery for the launch of our new publication.
BOOK ALERT! MARCH 2013
Our new publication documenting the Incredisensual Panty Raid Laff Along is now available through local LIDS distributors near you! This handy volume gathers together materials produced during the residency: photographs, texts, recollections, and ephemera. Designed by Olya Zarapina, this publication also features 3 new texts by feminist scholars Jennifer Kennedy, Mireille Perron, and Amy Fung.
Sixty of the books are covered in limited edition dust jackets/posters that we printed at the Alberta Printmakers’ Society in June 2012. The slogan on the posters: “Do More With More, Do Less With Less,” was inspired by a discussion about how non-profit arts organizations negotiate the increasing pressure to participate in business-based models and the “cultural industry.” A PDF excerpt of the publication, with an edited transcript of one of our Sunday Tea n’ Chats discussions, The Value Of Our (Collective) Work is available as a free sneak preview. For details about how to purchase, please contact your local LIDS rep (Calgary/London/Toronto/Montreal), or send us a message at invitationalsociety(at)gmail(dot)com.
A copy of the publication has also made its way into Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden’s Book Swap… project, currently on display as part of the exhibition Brother, Can You Spare a Stack at the Center for Book Arts in New York.
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BOOK REVIEW: Afterlife by Marcus Sakey Thomas & Mercer, 2017 Curious about fiction portraying parallel universes, time travel and life after death, I looked forward to reading Afterlife. Sakey has many fans from his previous books. The online reviews of Afterlife were mostly positive. The book itself Sakey’s prose was solid, a well-crafted book full of…
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While discussing post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction with an academic writer, he asked if I’d read any of John Wyndham’s works. I had not. My friend recommended The Day of the Triffids. This book was considered one of the earliest books published in the genre. What I learned In 1925 Wyndham began writing short stories. In…
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March brought a surprise: My book Shelter of Leaves is a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year finalist for science fiction! Foreword Reviews writes, “These finalists represent the best books published in 2016, and submitted to Foreword Reviews for award consideration, and were narrowed down by Foreword’s editors from over 2,200 individual titles across 65 categories.” Finalists will…
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“I’ll draw another mental map and build a city entirely with ice-covered pink stones…” On February 3, I wrote a blog post for the San Diego Book Review, entitled “Triggering a Map of the Imagination.” Check out the excerpt below and let me know what you think! I ride in the cozy car world of dashboard…
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“…stories were always with me, floating through my mind, collecting.” On October 28, I wrote a blog post for the San Diego Book Review, entitled “Writing: Early On.” Check out the excerpt below and let me know what you think! My father, a jovial, patient man, made paintings, mostly watercolors and pen and ink drawings. He…
Names: Clues to Character
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Names are important. In my novel, Shelter of Leaves, names carry meaning. The first paragraph below is an excerpt from the deleted prologue. Beside her swimming pool, Elaine closed her eyes against the sun. She imagined a drifting boat flanked by trees; crimson, marigold and burnt sienna leaves spun to the ground. Brilliant leaves signaled…
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Flannery O’Connor in Mystery and Manners said: “The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it’s well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world, no matter how limited his particular scene.” A symptom list of PTSD will give a reader…
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Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize winning essayist, in answer to a question from the audience about what is needed to become a writer, gave an answer, obvious, yet profound. It surprised me. She replied that the writer has to do more than live out in the world. In a firm voice she declared, “Our minds…
I’ve been thinking about writer’s block. Grateful I don’t have it now, yet in the early writing days I was plagued by my harsh critic. My own expectations were sky high, the need to sound writerly came out sounding stilted. A too tight pair of designer jeans. When our clothes are too tight we don’t…
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The term “platform” is on everyone’s lips. Startups that hope for high financing rates are using it to promote their business idea – a successful platform promises power, influence and high profits. But what characterizes platforms and their business model? With the following information we will give you an overview. We encounter the term “platform” far more often in everyday language than we realize: “We have offered him a platform to spread his ideas”, “There is a platform from which we can see the valley”, “Renault and Nissan use the same platform for their cars” or “Your train is arriving on platform 7”.
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Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Standards in Egg Industry
Christine Grillo
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Today there is good news for the 280 million hens involved in egg production.
United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production. This legislation, if enacted, would make history as the first federal law addressing the treatment of animals on farms, whose need for protection has escalated dramatically with the onset of the CAFO era.
The proposed legislation would raise standards for egg-layers considerably and comprehensively. One of the key actions of the bill would be to phase out conventional housing for hens, also known as “battery cages,” by implementing more humane environments. The legislation would also mandate that egg cartons be clearly labeled regarding production methods (“eggs from caged hens,” “eggs from hens in enriched cages,” “eggs from cage-free hens,” and “eggs from free-range hens”). Other humane measures would be affected as well, legislating practices involving euthanasia, forced-molting, and ammonia levels in the henhouses. The Humane Society’s press release provides further details.
CLF director Robert S. Lawrence, MD, says this about the curious partnering of UEP and the Humane Society: “This agreement is the outcome of the HSUS strategy of addressing the inhumane treatment of animals on factory farms through state ballot initiatives. The passage of Proposition 2 in California, approved by 63 percent of voters in 2008, bans battery cages, veal crates, and sow gestation crates effective January 1, 2015. The threat of similar successes in Washington and Oregon brought the UEP to the bargaining table. Now the challenge is to work on the pork industry.”
Dr. Lawrence helped to author the 2008 Pew Commission report, “Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America,” which examines the costs—to human health, to animal welfare, and to the environment—of the agro-industrial complex. Robert Martin, executive director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, says this in the report:“The present system of producing food animals in the United States is not sustainable and presents an unacceptable level of risk to public health and damage to the environment, as well as unnecessary harm to the animals we raise for food.”
The agreement between UEP and the Humane Society is especially gratifying, considering the hard row hoed by the Pew Commission in putting together the report. “There have been some serious obstacles to the Commission completing its review and approving consensus recommendations,” Martin wrote in the introduction.
Today, however, is a day for celebration. Says Martin, “There is no doubt in my mind that the release of the Pew Commission report helped in this cause.”
Read more by Christine Grillo
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Christine joined the CLF in 2011 and writes about food system thinking—the intersection of food systems and public health.
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The Autumnal #4
The Autumnal
After Kat learns of an old tragedy that brought Comfort Notch to its knees, the bitter, burn-scarred Carol Ravintzky finally tells the tale of the terrible death of Clementine Biddle.
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Following the death of her estranged mother, Kat Somerville and her daughter, Sybil, flee a difficult life in Chicago for the quaint--and possibly pernicious--town of Comfort Notch, New Hampshire. From NY Times best-selling author, Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, Trollhunters, The Living Dead), and rising star Chris Shehan, comes a haunting vision of America's prettiest autumn.
I Walk With Monsters
In Jacey’s past is the Important Man who took away her brother. Now Jacey has David, who sometimes transforms into a terrifying beast. Together, they’ve found a way to live--and to hunt, sniffing out men who prey on the vulnerable. But Jacey and David are about to run into the Important Man again. From Paul Cornell (Wolverine, Doctor Who, Elementary) and Sally Cantirino (Last Song, We Have To
The Picture of Everything Else
As the 20th century dawns, art promises to change the world...and steep it in blood. A rash of impossible killings sweep through Paris, tearing the rich and beautiful apart in their beds. When two art thieves stumble upon the portraits of the victims damaged in the exact same manner they died, it appears the man who once painted the immortal portrait of Dorian Gray has returned—with darker plans
An Unkindness of Ravens
Writer Dan Panosian (Slots) and artist Marianna Ignazzi present a supernatural mystery, where not all the witches burned during the Salem Witch Trials -- and the ones that survived did so together, protecting the ancient secrets entrusted to them for generations. They call themselves the Ravens. Wilma is the new girl in school, and she plans to go completely unnoticed -- except that she bears an e
Stillwater by Zdarsky & Pérez
Nobody dies. In the town of Stillwater, that’s not just a promise. It’s a threat. Join superstar writer CHIP ZDARSKY (Daredevil, THE WHITE TREES) and Eisner Award-winning artist RAMÓN K. PÉREZ (Tales of Sand, Jane) as they dive into a world of horror and intrigue in this new Skybound original series. Collects STILLWATER #1-6
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Everyone's favorite version of the X-Men from the '90s is back! When Baron Kelly charges the Clear Mountain Project and it's mysterious new director with "mutant rehabilitation," it's up to the X-Men to investigate! PLUS: Free Range Sentinels?!?
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Everyone’s favorite version of the X-Men from the ’90s is back! When Baron Kelly charges the Clear Mountain Project and it’s mysterious new director with “mutant rehabilitation,” it’s up to the X-Men to investigate! PLUS: Free Range Sentinels?!?
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The X-Men of the 90s are back! Continuing from the hit Secret Wars series starring the X-Men of a more EXTREME decade. With Cassandra Nova defeated, the X-Men have taken in all the young mutants she had rounded up and are officially reopening the Xavier School for Gifted Children...but being responsible won't stop them from having crazy adventures! Especially when Omega Red shows up with the (Form
Spinning out of the universe-shattering events of Secret Wars, comes a new twist on the X-Men classic that’s a whole hell of a lot hotter than you remember. 5 years ago a band of demons rose up out of the fiery depths and turned Manhattan into Hell on Earth. The X-Men fought to vanquish the demon horde and…the X-Men failed. Welcome back to the Inferno. On this the fifth anniversary of Manhatta
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Ten years since the fall of Cameron Hodge and his fascist regime. Ten years that Havok and Wolfsbane have labored to rebuild Genosha. But their work may be for naught, as a plague has spread across their nation, infecting mutants and threatening their race with extinction. With the country quarantined and seemingly abandoned by the rest of the world, including the X-Men, old friends may become new
Spider-Island (2015)
The Spider-Queen has turned Manhattan into an island of Spider-Madness and Peter Parker has lost. With Spider-Man defeated and captive, does Flash Thompson, A.K.A. Venom stand a chance?
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Throwback of the House: The Pickle Stretcher Salad Is Not Funny
by Robin Wheeler
Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia Commons
No one can beat a joke dead into the dirt like I can. Since last week's meat-stretching edition of Throwback, my brain has been on a giant innuendo feedback loop. You know what cracked me up? Pickle Stretcher!
Oh, the hilarity of the Pickle Stretcher Salad recipe in 1969's Salads Cookbook! Over 500 salad recipes, and not a one contains fresh vegetables!
That's an exaggeration. I'm sure some of the recipes are more in line with the fresh vegetable concoctions that mean "salad" to us. There's a lot more gelatin than produce in this book, though. Jell-O's official website claims that congealed salads became popular around 1930. Gelatin's relatively cheap, and even though it's not brimming with nutritional goodness, it can make a little bit of food go further during depressed economic times.
If you're in such bad financial shape that you need to make pickles go further, you probably shouldn't be spending your time making fancy gelatin molds.
Gisela Francisco, Wikimedia Commons
In this case, take lemon gelatin and fill it with chopped dill pickles and green olives. The recipe's creator claims that it "makes a tart relish for meat."
I went to two stores and couldn't find lemon Jell-O. I think it's getting the pseudoephedrine treatment, being kept behind the counter not because it's inherently bad, but because very bad things can be made from it.
I substituted lime, which Jell-O created just for congealed salads.
Robin Wheeler
The Pickle Stretcher Salad gave me the most visceral reaction I have ever had to a food-like item. I love olives, dill pickles and just about anything limey, but combining the three left me with a shiver that wouldn't stop traveling my spine. One bite, and I'm sure I will never, ever forget the texture of slime and crunchy, the taste of ammonia and acid.
From now on, when penis-enlargement-based humor enters my radar, the flavor of this salad will pour from my memory as punishment. This salad has sucked the joy from my life.
Heh. "Sucked."
Robin Wheeler writes the blog Poppy Mom. After years of making and eating fancy food, Robin is sick of it all. She's returning to the basics: recipes that haven't surfaced in three decades. She reports on the results for Gut Check every Tuesday.
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Review: The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
Title: The Falling Woman*
Author: Pat Murphy
Overview: When Diane’s father passes away, she reaches out to her estranged mother, Elizabeth, a renowned archaeologist on a dig in Mexico. Diane arrives at camp unannounced and not having seen her mother for over 15 years. Elizabeth is less than thrilled. The longer Diane stays, the more she worries that Elizabeth may be as crazy as her father claimed. Elizabeth walks for hours on end speaking in Mayan to figures only she sees. Maybe it’s the jungle or maybe crazy is catching, but Diane starts to see the ancient Mayans, too
Character Development: It was interesting to see how Elizabeth adapted to Diane’s presence, especially as the end drew closer and the Mayan presences began to threaten her. I thought Elizabeth grew into a more fully fleshed character at that point, willing to be vulnerable. Diane, I thought, was largely static, but showed some strength of character, particularly in the last third of the book.
Plot: The plot was slow-going and was, at times, lost in the descriptions of Mayan history. It wasn’t overwhelming, but Murphy did her homework and it showed, especially when it came to the calendar. The plot picked up a lot about two-thirds of the way through and the Mayans were an interesting and compelling presence. It was a bit sad to see the mother-daughter interplays and parallels.
The story did lean a bit on on the heavy-handed side with it’s lectures on cultural relativism (note: not moral relativism, per se). Murphy lightened up on it after a while, but it was present.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Falling-Woman-Pat-Murphy/dp/0312854064
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*There is a scheduled reprint upcoming and the review copy was obtained via Netgalley.com prior to its release.
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged Anthropology, Archeology, Book Review, Books, Diane Butler, Elizabeth Butler, fiction, Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman.
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MPG has reviewed the 2016 MacBook Pro, having purchased the most bad-ass configuration and found it falling short of expectations in every way relevant to real world pro photographer usage*. While it has a few marginal plusses, it is not a pro machine and its $5000 price (with AppleCare and dongles and taxes) delivers more hassles with no better performance than its 'bulletproof' 2013 predecessor (a little better or a little worse, depending). It is the first Mac so far that I have returned with no regrets whatsoever.
* Who the heck needs a $5000 or even $3000 laptop other than a professional? So why does Apple build a non-professional dilettante machine?
Here is another professional viewpoint, from a film-maker’s perspective:
The New MacBook Pro: The Complete Filmmaker Review
None of this is an accident; Phil Schiller is a Marketing Bozo (see Guy Kawasaki for what that means), and Tim Cook can’t get his messaging straight, evidence that he is clueless about professional needs. He is the CEO, so the buck stops with him.
“I think if you're looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?” — Tim Cook
“Some folks in the media have raised the question about whether we’re committed to desktops,” Cook wrote. “If there’s any doubt about that with our teams, let me be very clear: we have great desktops in our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that.” — Tim Cook.
Somehow, these two quote do not inspire confidence or hope. Mr. Cook, which one is it, pray tell? Or don’t you know? And a roadmap is a piece of paper (so to speak), not a team of motivated engineers working right now looking to re-invent “great”.
And... what is the roadmap? So much secrecy Mr. Cook, and pros despise not knowing if Apple will hang them out to dry one more time. Final Cut Pro was properly abandoned by most pros, who were hung out to dry there. Hardware is the nail in the coffin, so I hope Mr Cook doesn’t think a thinner iMac with a touchbar and touchscreen and soldered-on memory and SSD and a better FaceTime camera is the ticket.
Tim Cook’s quotes are actually very clear messaging, that is, meta messaging as in “I don’t have a clue what professionals need or want”. As in that’s why you (professionals) are frustrated/pissed off/baffled/infuriated by what Apple has done or not done for 3-4 years now. Including Apple Core Rot, a shameful show of incompetence in software development. Three years now: the 2016 MacBook Pro, the Mac Pro that never was “pro” and has seen zero changes, and these quotes tell a plenty clear story: neglect and irrelevance. And my 14-year-old thinks iPhones kind of suck. Nice combination for steady decline, and worth thinking about as an Apple investor (I’m not). But... there is always a potential turnaround story, that is, a return to visionary thinking coupled to eyes-wide-open thinking about pro needs, to anchor the whole lineup.
The iPhone... it was a work of genius and vision at its initial debut, but when its essential elements are considered, it has not improved and instead is devolving away from the core elements that made it great: it’s getting very complex to use, a software problem. A “pretty face” in a new iPhone is all we get now; the software gets buggier and harder to use and still cannot customize away all the visual and actual crapware.
What also worries me: Jony Ive might feel the need to express his creative side for desktop machines—a worst case scenario for pro users, perhaps!
BTW, Apple has NEVER contacted MPG, and that is weird in itself, if only because I don’t think Apple does its homework with all the pros out there that just might know something useful. I invite Mr. Cook to lunch with me, at my expense, as just one voice that can offer a perspective. But maybe Apple has no comittment to understanding professional needs, having enough internal 20-something-year-old focus groups to figure out just how big a (nearly useless) touchbar and too-large touchpad should be. But at least talk to film-makers and pro photographers, if not MPG and so many other professionals out there. Here’s a simple fact that ought to change: the web sites that get favor are those that get the pre-release Macs for cheerleader reviews. Go Apple, you rock!
Ira W writes:
I'm returning my 2016 MBP as well. I have a Photoshop action that I typically run on all of my images that sets up a variety of curves to add contrast and color and calls a few tools within the Camera Raw Filter.
On my new 2016 MBP it takes *longer* to run than on the 2013 MBP it was supposed to replace. I wound up getting a 2015 refurb instead which runs the action faster -- 17 seconds with the 2015 model where it takes 21-22 seconds with the 2016 model. That's a 25% slowdown! I suspect it's either due to Sierra or (as you've suggested) bad GPU drivers.
I waited for 10.12.2 to come out but it didn't help performance at all. In fact, it may even have made things slightly worse.
MPG: good independent confirmation of the test results in the MPG review of the Apple 2016 MacBook Pro. The 2015 model looks like the one to have for Photoshop users, and the 2015 model also has a fast SSD. But anyone with a 2013/2014/2015 model should just stick with it barring some *specific* known and tested gain with the 2016 model.
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Don H writes:
I certainly share your pain with the general direction Apple is taking, and run into many of the same usability hassles. But barring some sort of massive corporate intervention at Apple things will likely get worse with each passing year.
As I’ve mentioned in previous emails, I keep some older machines around running earlier versions of OS X, both for legacy applications as well as for last-known-working versions of iTunes, etc. The machines and earlier versions of Mac OS were certainly great when they came out, and are still pretty damned good today - for the tasks that they were designed to do.
However, the world doesn’t stand still and we get some fresh improvements and a lot of disappointments from Apple and the tech world in general. It’s a very difficult balance to work with, as you well know. But let’s assume the worst and Apple goes all-in across their product line towards the iOS model of functional restrictions, app lockdown, denial of downgrades, and eventually a 100% dependence on a ‘cloud' connection. Furthermore, their hardware continues to whittle down functionality to the point where only a super-iPad, iPhone, and Watch remain, and they further their practice of requiring all new software across the board with each product release - take it or leave it.
What would you do under such a scenario? Would you freeze your tech career to a certain point in time, or abandon it altogether? Certainly you can continue your photography with older equipment. It might not benefit from the latest CPUs (such that they are these days) or storage interface, but it’s still feasible until the hardware dies.
I’m not asking out of snark, because these are questions I ask of myself. I know of someone who worked in the automotive field his whole life and simply stopped buying new cars when they could no longer be maintained without a diagnostic computer. That was a threshold that pushed past his personal priorities, and he’s fine with running older models until he can no longer drive. (He also happens to be a car collector.)
I’d be curious to hear your long-term plans (without getting too maudlin) in an essay, and I bet others would too. These endless papercuts just seem to keep getting worse.
MPG: I (Lloyd) am more or less locked into new technology because I have to cover the latest camera gear (and computers here on this site). So my choices are not “free” in that, for example, I must use a version of Photoshop/ACR supporting the latest cameras. So far that has not been a problem, but it might be that if I chose to simply “sit” on one model Mac Pro with some OS version, I might be forced out of it just because of software support. At present, I could live with my current Mac Pro and iMac 5K and (ugghh) macOS Sierra more or less indefinitely—but the camera support issue would likely become a problem before the hardware reached EOL.
Windows is not an appealing option for numerous reasons =, with huge 'costs' going far beyond hardware and software (deep into experience, know how, habits, etc). Linux is good for servers, but problematic otherwise.
That said, I am not that pessimistic. I do believe that Apple will indeed deliver some very good desktops. While they might be compromised in various ways like the 2016 MacBook Pro, it seems unlikely that Apple will screw the pooch on the iMac or Mac Pro—a bridge too far—yet. So I think we professional users have at least a 5 year lease on computing life, if only with the current models and current macOS.
Mark A writes:
My comments here.
To which I linked in a comment to this article https://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/12/tim-cook-promises-great-desktops-in-our-roadmap-after-a-desktop-free-2016/
I even offered Tim to help him. The lack of attention to detail is worrisome. The hardware is mostly lovely (setting soldered components aside), the software is not.
The lack of attention to creature comforts tells me nobody at Apple really cares or they'd have a software czar at the top of the house. I'd do it if they'd let me have the freedom across the spectrum from macOS to iOS to apps.
Here's one of my more annoying little creature comforts: I start every week on Mondays never Sundays. That's an anachronism I never understood, perhaps it's a Judeo Christian thing. In any case, in Calendar (and in Google Calendar since I use iCloud only for things Google can't or won't host properly like Notes and Reminders), I have weeks set to start on Monday. Not a single other stupid pop-up calendar they have supports anything other than Sunday weeks. This forces me to rethink on the fly how weeks "look" to select the right day. Little creature comforts add up to respect and thoughtfulness. I have a long, long list that I've been keeping as I got my first iPhone a few weeks ago, giving up the productivity of my museum-piece Blackberry. Some days, I'm exasperated enough to not bother writing down the next thing...
MPG: a spot-on expression of how the little things are big things. Part of my dismay (a large part) is indeed the disrespect Apple shows users, the reasons being arrogance or ignorance I don’t know at this point.
Kevin D writes:
Are we finally at the point to say goodbye to Apple the phone company?
Tim Cook is making Sculley look like a visionary, the Watch is a pointless product, and in the new MBP, making a product thinner and losing battery life in the process sounds like a clueless post mortem.
Ask any pro if they would prefer if Apple thickened the MBP by the amount they slimmed it in order to add battery life and more RAM capacity, and you would hear a resounding yes.
If they don’t want to work on PCs anymore, fine…sell it off to someone who does want to serve the market with intelligence and care. [MPG: see Reader Comment: Apple Pro Division?]
In your view, when is enough enough, and time for serious photographers to seek greener pastures???
Speaking as someone who at age 61 owned a Lisa, have bought hundreds of Macs over the years in my companies, was an Apple VAR and developer, and generally felt good about Apple and their solutions, it looks like they stopped giving a shit about pro users some time ago. Dropping Aperture for my operation was a blow, as I have over 400TB of images in that system. That to me said, we do not care about you or your business…none of this stuff make cash like the phones do…OK, say I, why not just dump it all??
Or, are we waiting to Apple to revamp Macs using its own chips, and revitalize the market??
Where do you sit in all this?
MPG: see also, now 3 years old, Reader Comments on Apple Core Rot. A trend once in motion stays in motion, until it ends. And there are no signs of ending.
First it was pro software: Aperture (discontinued), then Final Cut Pro (pros have abandonded it in droves due the contempt Apple showed for pro users by having no compatibility across releases). Then small 'cuts', like the random destruction of iPhoto features that worked well, now morphed into a problematic Photos.app (it won’t even allow dragging an image to Photoshop, for starters), the utter destruction of Disk Utility leaving pros with RAID hung out to dry, and for 4 years now, the steady increase in in bugs in macOS coupled to arbitrary and idiotic eye candy changes and performance problems. Most recently, Apple Mail is just barely usable due to performance problems (impacting me negatively every day). All of which (and much more) shows disrespect not just to pro users, but anyone with actual work to do.
Apple’s actions are inciting a hollowing-out of the core user base, the loyal core user base and it will come back to haunt Apple. The inflection point was 2013. A course correction is increasingly difficult without corporate trauma, but not impossible.
Now comes the hardware onslaught. It’s not that the 2016 MacBook Pro is a bad machine; it is very good in many respects. It’s not that the touchbar cannot be useful; it’s that it substitutes proven useful design for a gimmick. On a hardware level, the 2016 MacBook Pro disrespects Pro users in multiple ways and for that reason it makes me queasy as to what’s coming down the pike, particularly with Tim Cook (surely a master manager, but showing no signs of vision of any kind, let alone insight into the pro market), Phil Schiller (a marketing bozo prone whose words are for the gullible and uninformed) and Craig Federighi (incompetent as far as I can tell, the person whose mission seems to be to destroy macOS). Nothing is going to get better with these people in charge.
Still, it’s like the United States: deeply flawed but no better country on earth. That’s where I stand with Apple, at least for the next year or two.
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Arizona HOA Wants to Fine Residents Over Social Media Rants
Social media has ushered in a new dimension of airing neighborhood gripes and gossip. One homeowners association in the Phoenix metro area has had enough. But the residents are viewing the move as a form of censorship and believe the HOA is overstepping its boundaries.
A homeowners association in a Gilbert, Ariz., neighborhood is reportedly threatening to fine residents up to $250 per day over negative comments they make on social media. About 11 residents in the Val Vista Lakes community told The Arizona Republic that they had received letters this month from the HOA’s attorney.
The administrator of the community’s Facebook page has also been asked to delete any “disparaging, speculative, or defaming comments” and remove comments that “in any way negatively impact specific individuals in the association or on the board.”
Residents who fail to comply will lose facility privileges—access to the community’s sandy beach and sports courts, for example—and face fines of up to $250 per day.
An HOA attorney in Phoenix told The Arizona Republic that the fines are likely to be unenforceable. “I think it’s outside the scope of what an association has the power to govern,” says Jon Dessaules, who specializes in HOA disputes but is not involved in this matter. HOA regulations are supposed to be regulations on a property and not behavior, he adds.
The controversy over the social media comments ignited last fall in the lead up to the HOA’s board election. Residents debated about individual candidates and how the board members spent money.
Keith Faber, a former board member who had participated in the debating, says he received a letter from the HOA attorney about his remarks. The letter stated: “The comments you have posted specifically defame and negatively impact others in the community. The Association demands that you cease posting any disparaging, speculative, or defaming comments that negatively impact specific individuals in the Association or on the Board.”
Ashley Nardecchia, the administrator of the community Facebook page, says the online group is mostly filled with posts about community events, lost dogs, and other questions among neighbors. She did change the group setting recently to “private” and also added a description saying the group has no affiliation with the HOA or management. But she does not agree with the move to “censor all 600-and-however-many members of the Facebook page that I’m an admin on,” she told The Arizona Republic. “I really do love this community. That is why I’m fighting this fight. If they get away with this, what’s next?”
The HOA board did not respond to The Arizona Republic’s request for comment.
“Gilbert HOA Board May Fine Val Vista Lakes Residents $250 Per Day Over Critical Social Media Posts,” AZCentral.com (Jan. 23, 2020)
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Jack Johnson fears the World Cup could mess up his live performances
Seamus DuffTuesday 11 Feb 2014 12:00 am
Jack Johnson will headline a new music festival in Devon (Picture: Universal)
Jack Johnson fears the World Cup will ruin his live performances when he hits the festival circuit this summer.
The Better Together singer is concerned a football defeat for England would have a bad impact on his audience.
‘Every time I think I have crowds figured out, I get thrown off. The energy of a festival crowd has to do with so many variables: the weather, what bands played before you, if the crowd’s team is doing well in the World Cup,’ the 38-year-old said.
‘We just try to have as much fun as we possibly can on stage and it usually works!’ he added.
The American singer-songwriter has been announced as one of the headliners for the new festival Somersault, which will take place from July 17-21 in Castle Hill, north Devon. This will be his only British festival date this year.
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A theoretical and methodological critique of the principle of relative constancy
Michel Dupagne
This article revisits the theoretical assumptions of the principle of relative constancy (PRC). This principle, or hypothesis, holds that consumers spend a constant fraction of their income on mass media over time (constancy assumption), although they are expected to alter their spending patterns within mass media categories in response to the introduction of new mass media products or services (functional equivalence assumption). But application of demand theory to the PRC reveals that whereas the functional equivalence assumption can be phrased in economic terms, there is no such validation for the constancy assumption. That assumption was found to be inconsistent with the Engel law/curve in that this traditional microeconomic model of consumer choice does not posit, as does the PRC, a proportional relationship between expenditures on mass media and income. Furthermore, the empirical literature reviewed here suggests mixed support for the PRC, casting more doubts on the validity of the PRC as a theoretically grounded, empirically determined hypothesis. The article identifies and discusses five methodological factors that may explain why PRC studies offer conflicting evidence. Finally, it proposes a series of theoretical and methodological recommendations for conducting future research on consumer mass media expenditures.
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Dupagne, M. (1997). A theoretical and methodological critique of the principle of relative constancy. Communication Theory, 7(1), 53-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1997.tb00142.x
A theoretical and methodological critique of the principle of relative constancy. / Dupagne, Michel.
In: Communication Theory, Vol. 7, No. 1, 02.1997, p. 53-76.
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Randomized trial of a peer resistance skill-building game for hispanic early adolescent girls
Anne E. Norris, Charles Hughes, Michael Hecht, Nilda Peragallo, David Nickerson
Background : Adolescents can use peer resistance skills to avoid being pressured into risky behavior, such as early sexual behavior. Avatar-based virtual reality technology offers a novel way to help build these skills. Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of an avatar-based virtual reality peer resistance skill building game (DRAMA-RAMA), to explore the impact of game play on peer resistance self-efficacy, and to assess how positively the game was perceived. Methods: Forty-four low-income early adolescent Hispanic girls were assigned randomly to either the intervention (DRAMA-RAMA) or attention control game (Wii Dancing With the Stars) condition. All participants were offered a five-session curriculum that included peer resistance skill content before playing their respective game for 15 minutes, once a week, for 2 weeks. Participants completed electronic surveys at baseline, after game play, and at 2 months to assess demographics, peer resistance self-efficacy, and sexual behavior. They also completed a paper-pencil game experience questionnaire immediately after game play. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t test, chi-square, and analyses of covariance. Results: Separate analyses of covariance showed a significant game effect at posttest for the peer resistance self-efficacy measure (F = 4.21, p < .05), but not at follow-up (F = 0.01, p = .92). DRAMA-RAMA was rated as positively as the Wii Dancing With the Stars (p > .26). Discussion: This randomized control trial provides preliminary support for the hypothesis that playing an avatar-based virtual reality technology game can strengthen peer resistance skills, and early adolescent Hispanic girls will have a positive response to this game.
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Norris, A. E., Hughes, C., Hecht, M., Peragallo, N., & Nickerson, D. (2013). Randomized trial of a peer resistance skill-building game for hispanic early adolescent girls. Nursing research, 62(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0b013e318276138f
Randomized trial of a peer resistance skill-building game for hispanic early adolescent girls. / Norris, Anne E.; Hughes, Charles; Hecht, Michael; Peragallo, Nilda; Nickerson, David.
In: Nursing research, Vol. 62, No. 1, 01.2013, p. 25-35.
Norris, AE, Hughes, C, Hecht, M, Peragallo, N & Nickerson, D 2013, 'Randomized trial of a peer resistance skill-building game for hispanic early adolescent girls', Nursing research, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0b013e318276138f
Norris AE, Hughes C, Hecht M, Peragallo N, Nickerson D. Randomized trial of a peer resistance skill-building game for hispanic early adolescent girls. Nursing research. 2013 Jan;62(1):25-35. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0b013e318276138f
Norris, Anne E. ; Hughes, Charles ; Hecht, Michael ; Peragallo, Nilda ; Nickerson, David. / Randomized trial of a peer resistance skill-building game for hispanic early adolescent girls. In: Nursing research. 2013 ; Vol. 62, No. 1. pp. 25-35.
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abstract = "Background : Adolescents can use peer resistance skills to avoid being pressured into risky behavior, such as early sexual behavior. Avatar-based virtual reality technology offers a novel way to help build these skills. Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of an avatar-based virtual reality peer resistance skill building game (DRAMA-RAMA), to explore the impact of game play on peer resistance self-efficacy, and to assess how positively the game was perceived. Methods: Forty-four low-income early adolescent Hispanic girls were assigned randomly to either the intervention (DRAMA-RAMA) or attention control game (Wii Dancing With the Stars) condition. All participants were offered a five-session curriculum that included peer resistance skill content before playing their respective game for 15 minutes, once a week, for 2 weeks. Participants completed electronic surveys at baseline, after game play, and at 2 months to assess demographics, peer resistance self-efficacy, and sexual behavior. They also completed a paper-pencil game experience questionnaire immediately after game play. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t test, chi-square, and analyses of covariance. Results: Separate analyses of covariance showed a significant game effect at posttest for the peer resistance self-efficacy measure (F = 4.21, p < .05), but not at follow-up (F = 0.01, p = .92). DRAMA-RAMA was rated as positively as the Wii Dancing With the Stars (p > .26). Discussion: This randomized control trial provides preliminary support for the hypothesis that playing an avatar-based virtual reality technology game can strengthen peer resistance skills, and early adolescent Hispanic girls will have a positive response to this game.",
keywords = "adolescence, Hispanic Americans, peer group",
author = "Norris, {Anne E.} and Charles Hughes and Michael Hecht and Nilda Peragallo and David Nickerson",
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journal = "Nursing Research",
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N2 - Background : Adolescents can use peer resistance skills to avoid being pressured into risky behavior, such as early sexual behavior. Avatar-based virtual reality technology offers a novel way to help build these skills. Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of an avatar-based virtual reality peer resistance skill building game (DRAMA-RAMA), to explore the impact of game play on peer resistance self-efficacy, and to assess how positively the game was perceived. Methods: Forty-four low-income early adolescent Hispanic girls were assigned randomly to either the intervention (DRAMA-RAMA) or attention control game (Wii Dancing With the Stars) condition. All participants were offered a five-session curriculum that included peer resistance skill content before playing their respective game for 15 minutes, once a week, for 2 weeks. Participants completed electronic surveys at baseline, after game play, and at 2 months to assess demographics, peer resistance self-efficacy, and sexual behavior. They also completed a paper-pencil game experience questionnaire immediately after game play. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t test, chi-square, and analyses of covariance. Results: Separate analyses of covariance showed a significant game effect at posttest for the peer resistance self-efficacy measure (F = 4.21, p < .05), but not at follow-up (F = 0.01, p = .92). DRAMA-RAMA was rated as positively as the Wii Dancing With the Stars (p > .26). Discussion: This randomized control trial provides preliminary support for the hypothesis that playing an avatar-based virtual reality technology game can strengthen peer resistance skills, and early adolescent Hispanic girls will have a positive response to this game.
AB - Background : Adolescents can use peer resistance skills to avoid being pressured into risky behavior, such as early sexual behavior. Avatar-based virtual reality technology offers a novel way to help build these skills. Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of an avatar-based virtual reality peer resistance skill building game (DRAMA-RAMA), to explore the impact of game play on peer resistance self-efficacy, and to assess how positively the game was perceived. Methods: Forty-four low-income early adolescent Hispanic girls were assigned randomly to either the intervention (DRAMA-RAMA) or attention control game (Wii Dancing With the Stars) condition. All participants were offered a five-session curriculum that included peer resistance skill content before playing their respective game for 15 minutes, once a week, for 2 weeks. Participants completed electronic surveys at baseline, after game play, and at 2 months to assess demographics, peer resistance self-efficacy, and sexual behavior. They also completed a paper-pencil game experience questionnaire immediately after game play. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t test, chi-square, and analyses of covariance. Results: Separate analyses of covariance showed a significant game effect at posttest for the peer resistance self-efficacy measure (F = 4.21, p < .05), but not at follow-up (F = 0.01, p = .92). DRAMA-RAMA was rated as positively as the Wii Dancing With the Stars (p > .26). Discussion: This randomized control trial provides preliminary support for the hypothesis that playing an avatar-based virtual reality technology game can strengthen peer resistance skills, and early adolescent Hispanic girls will have a positive response to this game.
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The cement industry is literally the building block of a nation. A country’s cement output is considered one of the primary indicators of its level of economic development. In a recent development Holcim, one of the world’s leading cement makers is restructuring its Indian subsidiaries, an exercise that will see Ambuja Cements becoming its flagship company. ACC, another large Indian cement producer controlled by Holcim, will be majority-owned by Ambuja at the conclusion of a complex reorganisation. While Ambuja will become the flagship entity for Holcim’s India operations with ACC as a subsidiary, both will continue to operate as listed entities with their existing brands and separate go-to-market strategies.
In a complex rearrangement, Holcim Group has consolidate its holding in ACC through Ambuja Cements by a two step process
Holcim Ltd was founded as “Aargauische Portlandcementfabrik Holderbank-Wildegg” in Switzerland in 1912. What started in 1912 in the Swiss village of Holderbank, is today a global company employing some 80,000 people, with production sites in around 70 countries. Holcim’s core businesses include the manufacture and distribution of cement, and the production, processing, and distribution of aggregates (crushed stone, gravel and sand), ready-mix concrete and asphalt. The company also offers consulting, research, trading, engineering, and other services.
Ambuja Cements Ltd. (ACL) is one of the leading cement manufacturing companies in India. The Company, initially called Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd., was founded by Narotam Sekhsaria in 1983 with a partner, Suresh Neotia. The Company commenced cement production in 1986. Holcim acquired management control of ACL in 2006. Holcim today holds a little over 50% equity in ACL.
ACC was formed in 1936 when ten existing cement companies came together under one umbrella in a historic merger – the country’s first notable merger at a time when the term mergers and acquisitions were not even coined. ACC’s operations are spread throughout the country with 17 modern cement factories, more than 40 Ready mix concrete plants, 21 sales offices, and several zonal offices. It has a workforce of about 9,000 persons and a countrywide distribution network of over 9,000 dealers. Holcim today holds little over 50% equity in ACC.
In a complex rearrangement, Holcim Group has decided to consolidate its holding in ACC through Ambuja Cements by a two-step process. As a first step, Ambuja Cements will acquire 24 percent stake in Holcim India (HIPL) from Holderind Investments, Mauritius, for Rs 3,500 crore. This will be followed by the merger of Holcim India into Ambuja in an all-stock merger.
At present Holcim has a controlling stake in both ACC and Ambuja. The Swiss major directly owns 40.79 per cent stake in Ambuja and another 9.76 percent through Holcim India (HIPL). Holcim has 0.29 per cent in ACC directly and 50.01 percent through HIPL. Post these transactions, Holcim will have 61.39 per cent stake in Ambuja and 0.29 per cent stake in ACC directly. Also, Ambuja will have 50 per cent stake in ACC. ACC now becomes only a step-down subsidiary of Holcim
The complex structure can be better understood through the diagram, which shows the pre and posts reorganisation structures.
Firstly Ambuja will pay Rs. 3500 crores consideration for acquiring stakes in Holcim India.
For the merger of Ambuja and Holcim India, the merger swap has been fixed at one Ambuja share for 7.4 Holcim India shares, translating into an implied swap ratio of 6.6 Ambuja shares for every ACC share. Based on the swap ratio, Ambuja will issue 58.4 crore new equity shares of the company to Holcim as a consideration for the merger. Post merger, the expanded capital base of Ambuja (after the cancellation of the shares held by Holcim India in Ambuja and issuance of new shares) will increase 28 percent to 197.75 crore shares. Holcim will then own 61.39 percent of Ambuja which, in turn, will own 50.01 percent in ACC.
The total deal size will work out to be Rs.14,500 crore if the stock and cash component are taken into account.
Synergies:
The transaction will allow Ambuja and ACC to capitalise on the prevailing Holcim Group platform. Also, it will promote greater co-operation between the group companies, and unlock significant synergies over time.
Cost Savings:
The consolidation will lead to a saving of at least Rs 600 crore per annum by way of synergy.
There will be a lot of saving in the logistic cost, sharing of the production facility and sharing backend operations.
Retaining brands:
The production and marketing departments of Ambuja Cements and ACC would continue to be operated independently.
Both brands and managements will be retained separately as there is a large value in both brands.
Who gains, who loses:
According to Onne Van Der Weijde, Managing Director, Ambuja, the deal is aimed at creating opportunities for value creation and improving the financial structure by reinvesting into the business. It claims a more efficient capital structure will be created as a result, and the deal will be EPS accretive from year one itself.
The reinvesting of cash lowers the dilution for minority shareholders of Ambuja. An India Management Committee structure will also seek to drive increased collaboration and synergies between Ambuja and ACC. Also, the deal, which will aim to combine the Ambuja and ACC best practices into competitive advantages and synergies, will be equally beneficial to both entities. The consolidation will result in a more balanced pan-India footprint with 58 million tons per annum capacity.
However, some market participants believe Holcim is going for such a complex ownership structure because it wants to extract money from its Indian subsidiaries. ACC and Ambuja together have close to Rs 6,500 crore of surplus cash on their books.
The deal will result in Holcim cashing out by selling its stake in its wholly owned financial holding company Holcim India Pvt Ltd (HIPL). Ambuja is expected to buy out Holcim’s stake in its subsidiary for Rs 3500 crore and issues 58.4 crore new shares of itself. Now HIPL holds 50.1% stake of ACC. This means that Ambuja is paying Holcim to buy its stake in ACC.
Minority shareholders say Rs 3,500 crore is paid out of Ambuja Cements to Holcim, which is effectively Holcim taking an indirect dividend without losing control of both Ambuja Cements and ACC. Holcim gets Rs 3,500 crore and 10.85 per cent additional shares in Ambuja Cements while giving away 19.42 per cent beneficial interest of ACC. Minority shareholders of Ambuja are indirectly paying for the shares of Holcim in ACC.
Regulatory hurdles:
Holcim has more control of the company and gets Rs 3,500 crore in cash as well. It is unfair to minority shareholders, as it’s mostly the promoters of Ambuja who would cash out rather than the minority shareholders. The deal (share purchase in Holcim India), being a related-party transaction, would have required the approval of a majority of minority shareholders if the Companies Bill had come into effect. One has seen an increase in the number of such transactions in recent times. However, a merger of Holcim India with Ambuja will require the approval of court and shareholders. Non-promoter shareholders would play an important role and could effectively block it. Also, the minority shareholders and institutional investors will have their chance to fight back when the deal comes for their approval. Institutional investors prevented Satyam computers from merging Maytas. Will they do something similar with Holcim needs to be seen?
Way Forward:
After paying for the transaction Ambuja Cements would still have Rs.300-400 crore on its balance sheet. This intra-group move will bring substantial synergy in the logistics and supply chain operations of the company, accruing benefits of up to Rs.900 crore over two years post-completion of the transaction. Over the next two years, Ambuja will invest Rs 3,000 crore to enhance its holding in ACC by 10 percentage points without triggering a mandatory open offer.
Definitely, the structure used is complex. One needs to capture principal intention behind the deal though there are some synergies. It is the payout for Holcim’ of Rs 3500 crores by giving exit to Holderind Investments, Mauritius, and it involved foreign exchange outgo. So to that extent, less cash is available for expansion or dividend declaration to Ambuja. No doubt market has taken a negative view by selling shares of both the companies post-deal announcement.
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5 things we want to see from Xiaomi in 2021
2 weeks ago Dhruv Bhutani
Xiaomi did great in 2020, but it’ll need to up its game in 2021 to hold its own against the competition.
Credit: Ryan-Thomas Shaw / Android Authority
2020 was a great year for Xiaomi. Not only did it breakthrough into the third-place globally for smartphone shipments, but overseas sales now contribute 55% to the company’s bottom line. This bodes very well for the brand’s global strategy entering 2021.
Xiaomi also took a much stronger focus on the premium end of the market. Stellar phones like the Mi 10, Mi 10 Pro, and the Mi 10T, made its devices legitimate competition for current incumbents like Samsung. In fact, while the South Korean manufacturer inched towards the value flagship segment with its own excellent Galaxy S20 FE, Xiaomi took a sure step towards the premium.
In India, Xiaomi is distancing itself from being just an entry-level segment player by spinning off Redmi into its own entity. Meanwhile, Poco, yet another Xiaomi subsidiary, reinvented itself as a separate brand.
Suffice it to say that the brand had a lot going on for it in 2020, and this paid dividends in its growing market share. However, maintaining momentum is equally important. Strong competition is bound to bring its own challenges. Here’s what we want to see from Xiaomi in 2021.
Read our other 2021 wishlists:
1. A more cohesive brand identity
Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority
In 2020, Xiaomi distanced itself from the budget player image it had inadvertently cultivated over the years. While the Redmi series remains the bread and butter of the brand, Xiaomi released a series of hits in the Mi 10 series of phones. However, it’s a long way to the top. Especially in India, the manufacturer has its work cut out for it.
Unlike European markets, Xiaomi’s budget phones in India and China ship with an ever-increasing loadout of third party apps. Now, I get the reasoning for this. Pre-loaded apps and interstitial ads help offset hardware costs and allow them to hit those appealing price points.
With the average selling price of smartphones in India hovering around Rs. 11,500 in India, this is the experience that most Xiaomi buyers are used to. However, it sets a bad precedent for higher-end Xiaomi phones that do not have any ads. While positive consumer sentiment for the Mi 10 series suggests that Xiaomi is gradually changing mindsets, it could do a much better job of conveying the right message for its high-end smartphones. This is necessary if it wants to truly stand out against brands like OnePlus.
Read more: Can phone-makers dial the rebranding down a bit?
This brings me to Poco. Despite being spun off into its own entity, the brand has issued a curious mix of rebranded Redmi products and the one-off original design. This mixed-signaling does little to build brand confidence. It is also detrimental to building a unique brand identity. Poco needs a series of original hits backed by its unique flavor of ad-free MIUI to have an impact.
Elsewhere, the Redmi K series has languished in India with no new release since the K20 Pro in 2019. Incidentally, the Chinese Redmi K30 Pro got rebranded to the Poco F2 Pro. This brings us back to the lack of a well-differentiated brand identity. Definite room for improvement there.
2. A leaner portfolio
Tying into the entire issue of mixed signaling is Xiaomi’s constant rehashing of phones with minor variations. The company released as many as eight variants in the Redmi 9 series in 2020 and added another this week. Sure, some of them were more alike than others, but a cluttered product portfolio does not help the customer.
A leaner portfolio with a more focused approach towards product differentiation would serve the brand well going into 2021.
3. Reduced bloatware
Xiaomi’s Redmi lineup has been extremely successful on the back of its exceptional value proposition. However, a common thread amongst the hardware line-up is the presence of just a bit too much bloat. This problem is exacerbated in markets like India. There, the company doubles down on the third-party additions and incessant advertising.
When notification spam gets detrimental to the user experience, it might be time to reconsider the brand strategy.
Software partnerships and associated advertising are essential to hitting the rock-bottom prices Xiaomi achieves with the Redmi line-up. However, when the pop-ups get to a point that they are detrimental to the user experience, perhaps it is time to reconsider the strategy.
Read more: How to remove ads from MIUI
The company has taken steps towards allowing most of these apps to be removed. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t mind a one-click switch to remove pre-loaded applications. It might be expecting too much from the brand to offer a slightly higher priced SKU without the advertisements. An in-software purchase that offers a clean slate might be the solution it’s looking for.
4. Expand the ecosystem
Xiaomi has a formidable ecosystem portfolio of products in China. From instant translators to keyboards, and even rice cookers, the company has made investments into hundreds of portfolio brands. That has allowed it to cultivate an array of products that would surprise you. If you’re curious about some of the more ‘out there’ products, we’ve got a list of some of the most interesting products made by Xiaomi.
In India, the company is already the largest smart television vendor. It has even dipped its toes into the competitive value laptop segment. Elsewhere, the company’s Mi Band portfolio has long been a fast seller. In the US, the company has a select offering of audio products, streaming boxes, and more.
Going forward, I’d like to see more of the company’s ecosystem portfolio available globally. Xiaomi has already dabbled in the crowdfunding model for products like the Mi Robot Vacuum Mop P. The Share Save platform was also an interesting foray towards making products available to a wider audience.
Bringing this to global markets could be an effective way to test the waters before a widespread category launch. In fact, with brands like Huawei increasing their focus on an ecosystem beyond just phones, a wider release of these products could help Xiaomi get a leg up on the competition in 2021.
5. Foldable future
Xiaomi has long been rumored to be working on not one, but three different foldable devices. Among them is the canceled Mi Mix Alpha which had a unique take on foldables with its wrap-around screen. There also was an early prototype shown off way back in 2019, and a bevy of patents. It is clear that the company has been dabbling in a range of foldable smartphones.
Between Samsung, Motorola, and Huawei doubling down on a foldable future, it is only a matter of time that we see Xiaomi enter the mix.
A recent rumor suggests that Xiaomi is finally getting ready to enter the market with not just one, but all three varieties of foldable phones — in-folding, out-folding, and a clamshell.
While it remains to be seen if Xiaomi will try to commoditize foldable smartphones as it has with its well-priced flagships, the phones would be a clear fit in its upward trajectory into the premium segment.
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How the US should have responded to covid-19… For next time?
Posted on March 10, 2020 by Jonathan Andreas — 1 Comment
If you are scared of the coronavirus and you want to travel somewhere in the world to escape it, ironically, you might want to book a ticket to the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan because Taiwan has demonstrated a way to effectively prevent the pandemic.
Taiwan is a capitalist democratic island nation (colored orange on the map) just off the coast of China (colored purple). Taiwan is completely independent of the communist Chinese dictatorship based in Beijing. Oddly both Taiwan and China insist in claiming that they are one unified country due to their shared history and cultural ties, and they are very economically integrated these days, but they have completely different political and economic systems.
Both nations are Chinese linguistically, culturally, and historically, and given their closeness and asymmetrical sizes, Taiwan has a lot of interchange with China (as predicted by the gravity model of globalization). Taiwan had more than one visitor from China for every ten Taiwanese residents just last year alone! Taiwan is simply flooded with Chinese people and probably the number of trips that Taiwanese people make to China every year is over 10% of the Taiwanese population too. Heck, 3.7% of Taiwan’s population even has residency in China.
Taiwan is very densely populated with more people than the continent of Australia all crammed into an island that is about the size (and climate) of Florida, but unlike Florida, most of Taiwan is uninhabitable because Taiwan is full of steep, cold mountain ranges.
So if there is one nation in the world outside of China that should have the worst odds for getting the corona virus, it is Taiwan. It’s people live in one the highest population densities in the world and per capita it probably has more visitors to and from China of any independent nation in the world.
But Taiwan has only 45 corona virus cases total so far. That is only about half the number in Australia and about a fifth the number in the Netherlands. All three nations are of comparable size and levels of economic development, so given Taiwan’s much higher risk of exposure, they must be doing something right.
Stanford Health Policy researcher Jason Wang wrote a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association about Taiwan’s success and Kelsey Piper intervened him:
The most important thing about crisis management is to prepare for the next crisis. [Taiwan] started to do that. [in 2004, after the last SARS epidemic] They set up a command center, the National Health Command Center, and integrated different agencies.
It was a 24/7 command center. There’s the media room, there’s the data room where the data from different local governments could come in, there’s a place for people to rest, so you could actually sleep there. And so you get data analysts there, you have different experts there, you have people talking to the media, the information center, people managing logistics.
The lesson for the US is… We need to test people for Covid-19, and refer that data back to [a] command center so we have real-time reporting for action…
when there were only a very few cases reported in China, [Taiwanese health authorities] already went onto every airplane that came from Wuhan. Health officials came on the airplane and checked people for symptoms.
Here in the US and elsewhere, we’re now seeing community spread [people getting the virus with no international travel and no links to known cases, implying they were exposed locally by an unknown source]… And so now we’re trying to see, “Oh how many people should we test?” [Now] you really need to have a very large capacity [whereas] in the beginning [it would have been easier].
… They were testing on December 31. As soon as they heard there were suspicious cases of a new type of virus, they were nervous. They were like, “Oh, we wonder if this is SARS again.” And so they were proactive. I think that’s the way we ought to treat these kinds of epidemics. It’s okay to be overly cautious… You can relax afterward, if it turns out to be nothing. But when you don’t know what something is and how serious it is, you want to be very cautious…
The [public didn’t panic because the] government very quickly began hosting a press conference every day, sometimes more than once a day. They would tell people we’ve identified one case and then we’ve identified two cases, and they were all travelers from Wuhan.
…So we knew which ones were imported cases and which ones were domestic cases that were contracted from the traveler. You could track everybody. So then you’re not that nervous because you can say, “Oh yeah, she got it because it’s her husband. He’s case number 10, and she’s case number 11.” So you will know [for each case in Taiwan, how they contracted the virus]…
I think the US has enormous capacity that’s currently not being used. We have big tech companies that really could do a lot, right? We ought to get the big companies together. get the governors together, get the federal government agencies to work with each other, and try to find innovative ways to think about how to best do this. We’ve got the smartest people here in the US because they come from everywhere. But right now those are untapped resources. They’re not working together. And the federal government, the agencies, they need to collaborate a little more closely.
If you are able to pull the data together from all the states, and the federal government agencies are working together, then the big tech companies can help predict the next hot spot. So that’s what you want to do — you want to predict the next hot spot. And then just work on it…
We need to educate the public, communicate with the public a lot more… Because… If you ask [people where] there have been cases [near] their community, they say, “Oh, maybe, I don’t really know.” So you really need to have people be more knowledgeable — and look, it’s quite possible. For example, text people, and say, “There have been three cases where you live.” It’s quite possible, right? We all have phones, right? If there is some burglary, a fire, or something like that, I get a message, I get Amber alerts and all that.
Well, why can’t we create some alert system like that where you say, “Look, there’s been a hot spot in this mall. Try not to go there”?…
I wrote the article, so that other people could look at the list of 124 [action items that were elements of Taiwan’s response] and say maybe we could do these three or four.
And maybe, they should share with other people what other strategies work. This is a global epidemic. We all live in a global village. And we need to be more proactive because you can’t just be like, “Ah, we’re safe, we’re in the United States.”
Extensive testing has been essential to Taiwan’s success in limiting the spread according to Stanford Professor Jason Wang who said, “The authorities in Taiwan …also proactively find new cases by retesting those who tested negative,” and Kolas Yataka explained that the financing of testing, healthcare, and quarantine are provided for free to encourage testing by preventing financial burdens due to the illness:
“Taiwan’s health insurance lets everyone not be afraid to go to the hospital. If you suspect you have coronavirus, you won’t have to worry that you can’t afford the hospital visit to get tested… You can get a free test, and if you’re forced to be isolated, during the 14 days, we pay for your food, lodging and medical care,” Kolas said. “So no one would avoid seeing the doctor because they can’t pay for health care.”
In contrast, the news media in America is full of stories about the high cost of getting a coronavirus test. A man in my home town of Newton, Kansas was reported today to have been charged nearly $1,000 for the test and others have been billed over $3,000. Given that half of American adults said that they postponed or skipped medical care last year due to cost, many Americans might hide from testing because they are afraid that a doctor visit will cause financial ruin.
As Yascha Mounk observed, the only measure that has been effective against the coronavirus has been social distancing and there are two ways that can work. Taiwan put extreme effort into screening and testing so that they haven’t needed extreme social distancing so far. They had just isolated 2,291 people (as of March 1) while the individuals were tested until they could be cleared. The contacts of the few people who tested positive were aggressively investigated. Because America has failed at testing efficiently we don’t know who has the virus. So whereas Taiwan has limited the spread to very few cases and thereby limited social distancing, America will probably need extreme social distancing.
As a Homeland Security expert advises in The Atlantic, extreme social distancing will disrupt nearly everything:
If Americans conclude that life will continue mostly as normal, they may be wrong. The United States is far less prepared than other democratic nations experiencing outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. Low case counts so far may reflect not an absence of the pathogen but a woeful lack of testing. Disruptions are almost certain to multiply in the weeks to come.
China’s government has been ruthless in stopping the virus. In contrast, Taiwan is a free democracy, not an autocratic dictatorship like China, so its success in limiting the spread of the pandemic is a model that other free democracies like the US could emulate. It helps that they have a expert team of public health professionals running their pandemic response rather than a Vice President Pence (who is patently unqualified in health). In contrast, Trump disbanded America’s pandemic response team. And even if Taiwan did appoint their Vice President to manage the crisis, he’d probably do well because he has a doctorate in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University!
The Trump administration took the unusual step of declaring the public health meetings about the coronavirus classified which meant that many scientists were barred because they lacked security clearance and the public cannot legally learn anything about what they decided in the meetings. That is the opposite of Taiwan’s communication approach.
I’ll give you one more hint about Taiwan’s success. Taiwan didn’t achieve it’s pandemic success by keeping Mexicans out. Today Trump tweeted that the wall is an integral part of his coronavirus crisis strategy. Trump’s ongoing obsession with travel restrictions has been a distraction from the hard work of pandemic preparation that he should have been doing all along. Rather than investing in early preparation like Taiwan did, he tried to slash the CDC budget by 16% in the middle of the epidemic.
Taiwan has succeeded without closing schools and other extreme social distancing measures. Here is a video of schools reopening after their long winter holiday. Note that Taiwanese people have been wearing facemasks routinely in public for decades, mainly due to a myth that they filter out pollution, and the covid-19 risk undoubted increases that tendency, but it is pretty normal behavior for Taiwan.
Italy has had the worst response to the epidemic so far. Italy went from only having three cases three weeks ago to the second most outside of China today and the virus continues to grow exponentially there and has paralyzed the country.
The US is probably going to look a lot more like Italy than like Taiwan partly because the US is:
severely lagging in its testing capacity. As of March 8, only 1,700 Americans had been checked for the virus — a number that pales in comparison to the 50,000 who have been tested in Italy or the 23,000 tested in the UK, according to an analysis by Business Insider…
“Looking at all the signs, and there are many, it would be shocking to me if [the USA] didn’t have large numbers of cases undetected, silently transmitting in the community, in multiple countries and regions,” said Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University global expert.
If cases more than double every week — like they appear to being doing now in Italy — the US may soon be facing its own crisis.
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RISING INDIE/ALTERNATIVE SINGER-SONGWRITER, SKIPPY, DROPS NEW HIT SINGLE “SUICIDE LETTER”
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The hit single, “Suicide Letter” is Skippy’s 4th release of the year. It’s an unbelievably real song that takes listeners into the dark reality of the everyday struggle he faces mentally. His smooth vocals allows the audience to feel the pain in his voice as they submerge themselves deeper into the song. The realism and accuracy of the lyrics in this song has managed to strike listeners all over the world deep in their hearts and allows them to feel every word in which the song encompasses.
When asked about how the song came about, this is what Skippy had to say, “I wrote this song about a month ago when I was in an extremely dark place mentally. The song was supposed to literally be a goodbye to all my fans and family. I attempted to overdose 2 days after writing this, but by the grace of God as well as my fans, I’m still able to be here today. And I’m forever thankful for that.”
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Rock, Basel-Stadt – ASBEST (German for asbestos) is a fiber that is part of the structure yet still unwanted. As soon as you try to remove ASBEST it becomes harmful.... Read Biography
ASBEST (German for asbestos) is a fiber that is part of the structure yet still unwanted. As soon as you try to remove ASBEST it becomes harmful. ASBEST is the inherent contradic- tion within the system.
ASBEST is a three-piece from Basel, Switzerland. It was founded in November of 2016 and consists of singer and guitarist Robyn Trachsel, bassist Judith Breitinger and drummer Jan Häfele. The band plays a potpourri of styles, which all do have a certain aggressiveness to them. Post punk, noise rock and shoegaze are the foundations of their sound. On one hand this mixture is a reaction of anger or even despair to whats happening in these contemporary times. On the other hand it also reflects on Trachsel’s experiences as a transwoman in a cis- and heteronormative society. Urgency and ennui are written in ca- pital letters.
ASBEST already had the pleasure of doing support shows for the following international acts: SPECTRES (UK), LAMBS (IT), LASTER (NL), ADELAIDA (CHL) and SOVIET SOVIET (IT)
ASBEST released their first, four-song EP „INTERSTATES“ on 02.09.2017. The band will record their debut album at the Malthouse Studios in Bristol (UK) in the first half of 2018.
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Contents 60
Make, do and mend
Finding your own path is the boldest way to make good ideas happen. So why do so few trust their gut? This issue catches up with business owners, innovators and cultural figures creating new ways to work as they go.
No one is better placed to offer valuable advice on tricky projects and ambitious, world-changing actions than the people at the sharp end – precisely the kind of individuals giving the benefit of their hard-won experience here.
Sichuan was one of China’s poorest provinces until investment from Beijing and abroad brought boom times to its capital. Chengdu and its ‘pambassadors’ went on a global sales offensive.
His cosmopolitan background and bullish enthusiasm for the EU have made Poland’s foreign minister a key voice in European politics. Now Radek Sikorski is urging Europe to learn the hard lessons of its own history.
Europe briefing
We get to grips with the Belgian PM's colourful sense of style. Plus a Q&A with European Commissioner Karel de Gucht and news from Lisbon and Liechtenstein.
Americas briefing
Tourism in the Caribbean and trade links between the Middle East and Latin America.
Asia briefing
New flights from Tokyo to Yangon, why the French are lighting up Cambodia, and Japan gets creative.
Africa/Middle East briefing
The lavish motorcade of Kenya's president, the new jet-set of Nigeria, and an old banknote for West Africa returns.
Oceania briefing
Canberra celebrates its centenary, New Zealand gets building and Tonga gets broadcasting (in Chinese).
Algeria's plans to fence off the Sahara, Poland's new arms contract and other military news.
We meet the Finnish ambassador to Italy and find out why Peru is setting up shop in the Middle East.
Time to open wide
OK, so the Olympics were a soft-power triumph for the UK. But now what? Over the following pages we explore how Britain can harness that post-games optimism and meet some of the people who can help the country do just that.
Homely heroine
Harumi Kurihara is an unlikely celebrity, a down-to-earth housewife at heart who has hit the big time with her cookbooks, TV shows and chain of cafés and restaurants. Meet Japan’s unassuming answer to Martha Stewart.
Wasabi, beer, olive oil, iron ore and wool: certainly the worst possible ingredients for a cocktail but, it turns out, the perfect recipe for business success. Here we profile five companies that between them have made these elements their own, from a knitwear company in Scotland to a mining start-up in Australia.
China heads to Australia on the hunt for arable land and Germany goes back to boat-building basics.
Once a gritty, working-class neighbourhood, Ostiense still has its warehouses and factories but they’re now being converted into museums and spaces for small, creative businesses.
Renewal process
Having seen its film business nosedive thanks to the digital onslaught, Japan’s Fujifilm has found another lucrative avenue – skincare.
The ideas factory
Great art transforms thought with ideas and emotions. But that effortless feeling as a bold new work hits the page, store or screen, is down to some very real individuals who link inspiration to industry. Here are a few of our favourites.
Printed perfection
Whether it be picture-laden coffee table tomes or volumes on aesthetic theory, Germany produces some of the finest art books in the world – and that’s not limited to Taschen. Monocle went to Berlin to pore over a buoyant publishing industry.
Books, films and music to make a date for.
Media/Art market briefing
A magazine printing concept, Jim Marshall speakers and other media and art news.
Monocle meets five creative businesses and entrepreneurs who have gone their own way, and we ask them how, and why, they did it.
2012 offered many architectural talking points, from Renzo Piano’s pointy Shard in London to K2S’s small but perfectly formed wooden Chapel of Silence in Helsinki; 2013 promises even more. Here are seven projects completing this year that will steal the headlines.
We’ve been busy transferring more than five years’ worth of magazine, film and radio content to our new website. The result: a sharper, more handsome and informative experience. Come and visit us at monocle.com.
Brands, products, designers and retailers on our radar this month.
Light fantastic
Hidden behind discreet fences away from the downtown hubbub, chef Fernando Trocca’s home has been transformed by Alejandro Sticotti into a modernist masterpiece filled with sunshine, greenery and pine.
The city, slicker
For business meetings in the middle of the Pacific, Monocle suggests a few looks from the US East Coast via Marunouchi.
Principles of style
We ask two fashion buyers what they look for when selecting brands for their shop and for their top picks for this season and beyond.
Her dark materials
Take the rough with the smooth and add warm textured knits and bright tactile jerseys to your wardrobe. And don’t forget some bangle jangle too.
Whether it’s airlines or artisan wines, when it comes to inspiring new ventures, staying true to an idea is key. We’ve searched hotels, restaurants, business hubs and remote islands to learn lessons from those achieving success by doing things their own way.
New Oyster Cult
When the owners of The Oyster Inn moved to New Zealand they never intended to open a restaurant, let alone a hotel. Two years on, they are the proprietors of a local institution and a winning brand.
Inventory No. 60
The passing of the festive season for another year doesn’t mean that gifts and alcohol should be shunned until December. Make a present to yourself of, say, some unique kitchenware or organic soap, kick back with a glass of something warming and wish yourself a very merry February.
Monocle travel guide
With stunning interiors and furnishings by up-and-coming Brazilian designers competing with floor-to-ceiling views of the rainforest, guests staying at Brazil’s Botanique Hotel and Spa may find it takes a while to discover the further charms São Paulo’s nature-nuzzling hideaway has to offer.
Pacific fleet: Fiji Airways
The Fijian national carrier returns to its roots this year with a change of name that harks back to its pioneering days. But the airline’s fleet upgrade shows that its focus is also very much on the future.
With its well-preserved streets and redbrick housing, the Junction is home to small shops and galleries and a new generation of residents.
Food briefing
An update on all things food-related, such as a kitchen garden in Melbourne and a sushi taxi in Japan.
Tom Kerridge’s seasonal, locally sourced cooking has won him two Michelin stars. Not bad for a country pub, now a mecca for foodies.
Ara Güler
Turkish photographer Ara Güler has always found eating a bit of a distraction but he found time to sit down for a meal with Monocle.
The new year unfolds but the same problems exist for those wanting to start afresh: obstacles to immigration and barriers to business development, writes Tyler Brûlé.
Expo 60: Class act
Central Saint Martins is flying the flag for art and design education in the UK, despite short-sighted government policies. Monocle goes back to school.
São Paulo / Global
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Set among 700 acres of endangered Mata-Atlantica rainforest in the Mantiqueira Mountains is the Botanique hotel, a game-changer in Brazil’s hospitality industry. Designed by local architect Cândida Tablet, the hotel on the edge of São Paulo state was conceptualised by entrepreneur Ricardo Sembler and his wife Fernanda. After eight years of construction and fine-tuning, the result is a spectacular lodge of six suites and 11 private villas that blend in with their natural surroundings.
High windows offer dramatic views of the valley and walls of yellow-ochre boulders from the local river soar up to ceilings crafted from jacaranda wood. Striking interiors, curated by Adelia Borges, champion customisation over designer labels and combine handcrafted pieces from more than 100 emerging Brazilian designers with household names like Sergio Rodrigues. Each of the guests at Botanique is overseen by an “experience curator”, a Brazilian version of a concierge who takes care of everything from arranging check-in and airport transfers to booking massages and organising special meals.
Botanique Hotel and Spa, São Paulo
Schloss Elmau, Germany
Shiori, London
Eki Marché, Osaka
River Resort, Laos
Food is as important as the rest of the hotel’s features, and chef Gabriel Briode makes it just as remarkable as the private cinema or the library of unique Portuguese-language tomes. His ingredients are sourced from on-site gardens and served with Brazilian wines from Serra Gaúcha and Rio Grande do Sul.
If you do overindulge, worry not; there’s a fully equipped gym or, if you prefer outdoor exertion, there are capoeira classes and Olympic-standard horses for hire. After a day of dodging flying kicks and galloping through the mountains, you’ll be glad to hit one of the eight treatment rooms in the 900 sq m on-site spa.
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Schloss Elmau
In the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, the spa-hotel Schloss Elmau is also a cultural retreat. Aside from the regular concerts hosted in the custom-built hall, the hotel boasts a bookshop and two libraries. “On holiday, the one thing you want to do is read,” says owner Dietmar Müller Elmau. The libraries have shelves in Indian apple tree, German oak and American cherry and tables in teak; each nook has reading chairs and chaise longues from Müller Elmau’s travels. Illustrious guests include authors Ian McEwan and Tomas Sedlacek, who come here to write.
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When Umu opened in 2004, it was among London’s first kaiseki restaurants; last December, one of its former head chefs, Takashi Takagi, opened a rival. The 16-seat Shiori in Bayswater, designed by Edo Construction, specialises in the decorative Kyoto style of kaiseki cuisine. The menu offers sushi lunch and a set dinner tasting menu that changes daily, based on the freshest ingredients that day. Kyoto is known for the subtle, delicate flavours of honed dashi (stock), in contrast to brasher-tasting Tokyo staples that western palates are used to. So, whatever you do, don’t ask for extra soy sauce.
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Eki Marché
Prime locations and heavy foot-traffic have given Japan’s rail companies the chance to open lucrative shopping centres and food halls in every major station. Central Japan Railway, which operates the bullet train between Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka, reported retail revenues of ¥196.6bn (€1.8bn) in 2011. Now West Japan Railway is joining the fray with Eki Marché, a new shopping and eating development in Osaka Station designed by Nomura Kougei. With 82 outlets ranging from bento shops and take-out takoyaki to popular homeware store Croissant Croissant, it’s the biggest ekinaka (inside-station) in the west of Japan. “We selected the shops we wanted and negotiated with them one by one,” says director Hiroki Ishida, who is hoping Eki Marché will attract station users who might not have planned to shop. With 800,000 people using Osaka Station daily, there shouldn’t be a shortage of customers.
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River Resort
The owners of the River Resort near Pakse in southern Laos had a love affair with Japan, evident in the architectural style of the 14 riverfront villa rooms, Lao massage pavilion and restaurant, and in the lush gardens and infinity pool. When resort partner David Drabkin found the 7-acre plot he knew it was the right place, near to Wat Phou temple and the fabled 4,000 Islands Mekong riverine archipelago. It was a “labour of love and angst”, he says. Pakse airport in Laos is close, or take a scenic three-hour drive from northeast Thailand. The slog is worth it.
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COUNT NEFARIA
Publication Date: 6th Feb 2020
Written By: Monolith.
Image Work: Douglas Mangum.
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Count Luchino Nefaria hails from a long line of European royalty. An Italian citizen, he also had holdings in Monte Carlo, America and many other countries. Nefaria was raised to believe in his own natural superiority to the common people, due to his wealth and pedigree. Therefore, it was only natural that he turn to crime, not for the money but to exert his dominance over others. He began as a financer for a European branch of the Maggia crime families, and also showed great interest in supporting scientific advances. His money, strategic acumen and access to high-tech resources easily guided Nefaria to become the head of his own branch of the Maggia. At its height, the Nefaria family of the Maggia was the most powerful and feared criminal organization in the world, and Count Nefaria was sometimes mistaken as head of the entire Maggia tree of crime families.
Nefaria desired a son and heir to pass his legacy onto in time. However, his wife Renata died in childbirth, leaving him with only a daughter. A chauvinist at heart, Nefaria was disappointed that Gulietta was his only heir, and now he had no wife to raise her. Although he was renowned throughout the criminal underworld, in the public eye Count Nefaria was seen as a legitimate financier. Still, he foresaw the day when his criminal activities might be uncovered, so he concocted a scheme to address both his concerns. Nefaria approached Byron Frost, a Wall Street financier who helped launder the Maggia's money and was in his debt. Nefaria gave his daughter to Frost to raise, just one more asset for him to hold until it accumulated enough value. As "Whitney Frost," Nefaria hoped Giuletta would develop unassailable legitimate connections and background over her life. When the time was right, he could then reclaim his daughter and exploit her good name for the benefit of the Maggia. [Iron Man (1st series) #8]
Despite Nefaria's interest in science and technology, the Maggia was still a largely traditional gang of mobsters. Therefore, they soon became outclassed due to the rise of the super-heroes. The Avengers in particular started interrupting Maggia operations in New York. After punishing his subordinates for their failures, Nefaria decided to address the Avengers problem. He made a public spectacle of transporting his entire family castle stone by stone from Europe to the New Jersey palisades, and announced a massive charity event to benefit the less fortunate. Count Nefaria invited the Avengers to attend the event as his guests in order to drive up donations and support. Naturally, the heroes could not refuse.
Once the Avengers were at his castle, Nefaria subjected them to time dilation rays, which left them in a trance and unaware of the passage of time. He then used realistic images of the Avengers to demand the United States surrender to their authority. The Avengers were branded as traitors to America and, by the time Nefaria released them with apologies about the charity event being delayed, the heroes were public enemy #1. Rick Jones and the Teen Brigade had been waiting for the Avengers at Nefaria castle, and the count threw them into the dungeon once they got suspicious. When they couldn't get a hold of the Brigade, Captain America and the Avengers connected their current problems to Nefaria and returned to the castle. The Brigadiers were freed by the Avengers and Captain America tricked Count Nefaria into confessing in the presence of an American general. Nefaria's criminal enterprise was uncovered and he was deported back to Europe to face the Maggia for his failure. [Avengers (1st series) #13]
As he once predicted, Nefaria's public veneer of legitimacy had fallen, and now he was recognized as a criminal. Around this time, Byron Frost passed away. Whitney Frost was now in her 20's, an innocent socialite engaged to a high profile lawyer named Roger Vale, with dreams of Congress. Count Nefaria revealed himself to his daughter, with a recorded statement from Byron Frost unveiling that her entire life had been a lie. Whitney was crushed by the revelations and rejected her criminal father. Nefaria gave her time to adjust to her new circumstances, for he knew her "respectable" peers would not accept her if they knew the truth. Sure enough, Roger ended his engagement with Whitney when she told him what had happened, in order to maintain his own image. Distraught and with nowhere else to go, the Countess Gulietta Nefaria returned to her father and began training to join the Maggia at his side. [Iron Man (1st series) #8]
In order to seek revenge on the Avengers, Count Nefaria financed a dream engine which allowed him to manipulate the subconscious minds of others. Styling himself as the Dream Maker, or Dream Master, Nefaria planned to strike at his foes from afar. By drawing his victim into a dream scenario, Nefaria hoped to get his victim to drop their guard, unaware that if they died in their dreams they would die for real. The Dream Master targeted Iron Man first, making the Avenger face a parade of former foes attacking him when he fell asleep. Nefaria made sure to reinforce that this was a dream repeatedly in the scenario. However, he hadn't counted on Iron Man's fighting spirit, and the Armored Avenger refused to relax or give up even in a dream. Iron Man defeated all his imaginary foes, and the feedback destroyed Nefaria's machinery and nearly did him in as well. [Tales of Suspense #67]
Count Nefaria changed tactics, and decided to come at Iron Man from a different angle. Tony Stark's ne'er-do-well cousin Morgan Stark was deeply in debt to Nefaria's casino in Monte Carlo. To repay what he owed, Morgan was recruited by Nefaria in a scheme to discredit Stark and drive him mad. Nefaria and Morgan used a visio-projector to make Stark believe he saw alien spacecraft and airships, but the vessels disappeared whenever he brought them to someone else's attention. Nefaria intended to damage Stark's public image and deprive him of lucrative military contracts, weakening both Stark and the U.S. government. Miraculously, however, an actual alien invasion took place during one of Morgan's image shows. Iron Man fought off the invaders and Morgan was forced by circumstances into backing up the Avenger's account, vindicating Tony Stark and ending Nefaria's scheme. [Tales of Suspense #68]
Nefaria's control of the Maggia had weakened considerably following his various defeats. He decided to make a daring gambit in order to recoup his losses and reestablish his superiority among the crime family. Nefaria recruited a team of super-villain enforcers including Unicorn, Porcupine, Eel, Plant-Man and Scarecrow. His agents used Nefaria's image technology to lure out the outlaw heroes the X-Men and capture them. Next, Nefaria cast an impenetrable crystalline dome around Washington D.C., taking the nation's capital hostage. As he previously did with the Avengers, Nefaria used images of the X-Men to deliver his demand for one hundred million dollars to Congress. If the ransom was not paid, "the X-Men" would extract all the oxygen in the dome in three hours. Nefaria boasted to the captive X-Men what he had done in their name and suggested they serve him for real, now that their reputation was tarnished.
The X-Men freed themselves from Nefaria's dungeon but, at the telepathic direction of Professor Xavier, they accepted Nefaria's offer for employment. Count Nefaria accepted these new servants, but made a point of telling them the controls for the dome were programmed for his touch alone, and could not be shut down otherwise. Nefaria sent the X-Men through the dome to pick up the ransom, but Unicorn and the villains double-crossed him and tried to steal the briefcase of certificates from the X-Men. Marvel Girl escaped the villains and the National Guard to bring Nefaria the money. She tried to force him to drop the dome before handing over the briefcase, but instead Nefaria only stopped the oxygen-extraction effect, set on a timer to restart if he didn't escape unmolested. Professor X arrived and used his telepathy to divine how to shut down the dome, however, and so Nefaria fled. When Count Nefaria reached his escape yacht, he discovered Xavier had used Nefaria's own image technology to create a false briefcase. The count had no ransom and was soon picked up by the harbor patrol, with Washington safe and the X-Men's reputation restored. [X-Men (1st series) #22-23] Count Nefaria was sent to prison. As he intended, Whitney Frost assumed his place as head of the Nefaria family in the Maggia, under the alias of "Big M." [Tales of Suspense #97, Iron Man (1st series) #8]
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IMARK Group announces BLUE HAWK, North America’s largest HVACR wholesale distributor, as founding member
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Both IMARK Electrical and IMARK Plumbing share BLUE HAWK’s long history as member-owned cooperatives.
NCBA CLUSA member IMARK Group has announce the addition of BLUE HAWK, also an NCBA CLUSA member, as a founding member along with IMARK Electrical and IMARK Plumbing. BLUE HAWK is the largest Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) wholesale distribution entity in North America with 216 members, 1,441 locations across 49 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and aggregate sales exceeding $7 billion.
Lance Rantala, CEO of BLUE HAWK, announced the board’s and membership’s decision to become a member-owner of IMARK Group during their co-op’s annual conference in San Diego on May 8.
“Since our founding in 2005, we have been committed to helping independent HVACR wholesalers thrive and completely embrace a fully transparent business model,” Rantala said. “So, it was an easy decision to come together with IMARK Electrical and IMARK Plumbing, whom both have had a long history as member-owned cooperatives.”
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Bob Powers, chairperson of IMARK Group said, “Having an industry leadership position in our first three verticals bodes well as we continue to grow. We are confident that other likeminded member-owned, financially transparent groups will find our model and governance one that respects the culture of each vertical while driving synergies that improve our market position and profitability.”
IMARK Group is a multi-vertical member-owned, member-governed and financially transparent group with volume exceeding $25 billion in support of the trades. In addition to 216 BLUE HAWK HVACR distributors, IMARK Electrical and IMARK Plumbing have 800 and 650 members, respectively.
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Rupa Huq Quizzes PM on Homes in Ealing and Acton with Unsafe Cladding
Homeowners unable to get safety validation for their tower blocks
Rupa Huq, the MP for Ealing Central and Acton has demanded answers from the Prime Minister on the “living nightmare” for residents trying to get hold of a safety validation for the tower blocks that they live in in Parliament.
She evoked memories of the nearby Grenfell fire disaster at Prime Minister’s Questions this week, asking Boris Johnson about rules that were brought in post-Grenfell to avoid a repeat of the disaster which killed 72 people in 2017.
Leaseholders currently have to pay for and produce an “external wall system” (EWS1) safety certificate if they want to sell their home or obtain a new mortgage, which most high-rise blocks do not have.
Flat owners face years of being unable to move or re-mortgage because of a lack of specialist building inspectors, while dangerous cladding remains on their property. Under the Government’s Waking Watch scheme, guards have to continually patrol high-rise blocks that have been deemed a fire risk with residents left to foot bill.
Affected blocks in Acton include Issigonis House and Morris House off the Vale, as well as newbuilds like Chaplin House in South Acton and even the luxury private building The Curve, near Ealing Broadway.
“When 72 Londoners burned to death at Grenfell because of a cladding defect we all said never again, but for hundreds of thousands the living nightmare of Waking Watch and the non-existent EWS1 form continues,” Huq said.
“So will the Prime Minister commit that no leaseholder anywhere should foot the bill for what’s no fault of their own? [Will he] end this neo-feudal absurdity of [leasehold] once and for all?”
Mr Johnson did not answer directly, but instead blamed mortgage companies.
“Mortgage companies should realise that [EWS1 forms] are not necessary for buildings under 18 metres,” the Prime Minister responded. “It’s absolutely vital that they understand that while we get on with the work of removing cladding from all the buildings we can.”
Yet more than three years after disaster struck at Grenfell, Government data from October revealed that almost half of high-rise buildings fitted with Grenfell cladding still have some in place. It has missed its target of removing all ACM [aluminium composite material] cladding by June of this year.
An Acton-based resident who wrote to Huq explained the emotional impact this was having on leaseholders: “We have no idea how much the remediation works will cost, who will pay for them, when works will start and how long they will take. [...] We are unable to sell our home, as no prospective purchaser is able to get a mortgage. We are unsure if we can re-mortgage either.”
“We are truly stuck, and this fiasco is severely affecting people's finances, health and family lives. We are unable to make any plans as we will potentially lose all our savings and also have to take out a loan in order to pay the remediation works bill, with all of our hard work to build our future essentially going to waste.”
Many leaseholders in the UK find themselves in a similar position. It is thought that up to 1.5million modern flats, 6% of England’s homes, are un-mortgageable because they cannot prove their walls are safe.
After the debate, Dr Huq commented, “The Prime Minister’s non-answer to my question was a disgrace. A double digit number of constituents have written to me to express their concern about being trapped in dangerous housing, unable to move.
“The developers responsible for the cladding (often impossible to track down) and the Government have all passed the buck. Unless the Government steps up and takes responsibility, the burden will continue to fall on residents who are left with anxiety, costs and ultimately, an unsafe home. Indeed we are the only nation on earth who has the bizarre system of leasehold, which should be scrapped immediately. The Government has held reviews but no action has been forthcoming.”
Meanwhile, on 17 November, the House of Lords approved an amendment to the Fire Safety Bill which will prevent building owners passing on the cost of remedial work in that legislation to leaseholders and tenants.
Amendment 13, introduced by Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Pinnock, will be reviewed when the Bill returns to the House of Commons.
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Atlanta Braves Trade for Anthony Swarzak, Send Arodys Vizcaino, Jesse Biddle to Mariners
Bryan Zarpentine
Posted on May 20, 2019, by Bryan Zarpentine
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In an effort to shake up their struggling bullpen, the Atlanta Braves completed a trade on Monday. The Braves acquired reliever Anthony Swarzak and close to $2 million in cash from Seattle in exchange for Arodys Vizcaino and Jesse Biddle. The move appears to be a somewhat desperate attempt by Atlanta to fix a bullpen that has held the team back this season.
Swarzak was more or less a throw-in piece of the Robinson Cano trade between the Mets and the Mariners this past winter. He struggled in his only season with the Mets last year and has been only slightly better in Seattle this year. In 15 appearances, he’s 2-2 with a 5.27 ERA and 1.61 WHIP. However, he’s just two years removed from posting a 2.33 ERA with the White Sox and Brewers in 2017, so the Braves have some level of hope that he can turn things around.
Finding consistency has been virtually impossible for Atlanta’s bullpen this season. They’ve run through relievers both young and old in search of some answers but finding few. A.J. Minter was expected to be a key reliever this season, but he owns a 9.82 ERA. Veterans Jonny Venters and Jerry Blevins have been largely ineffective as well. Josh Tomlin has also failed to contribute much. On top of that, Vizcaino was lost to a season-ending shoulder injury in mid-April.
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On the bright side, Luke Jackson has stepped forward as the team’s de-facto closer. Dan Winkler is also giving them some semblance of stability late in games with a 1.46 ERA. But other than that, it’s tough to find anyone reliable in Atlanta’s bullpen these days. The hope is that Swarzak can regain the form he had in 2017 as part of a team that’s built to win the short-term rather than a rebuilding club like the Mariners.
The other bright spot for the Braves is that they didn’t give up much to get Swarzak. Biddle had already been designated for assignment, making him free to anyone on waivers. Vizcaino, meanwhile, wasn’t going to help them in 2019 after his shoulder injury. The former closer is also in line to be a free agent this winter, so there was no guarantee he would have stayed in Atlanta anyway.
As for the Mariners, they had little need for Swarzak this season, especially since he was pitching so poorly. There are five members of Seattle’s bullpen with an ERA currently under 4.00, so the Mariners are in good shape. They can also monitor Vizcaino during his rehab in case they want to re-sign him this winter once he’s recovered from his shoulder surgery.
Seattle will also have the option of adding Biddle to their bullpen. Despite being out of minor league options, Biddle is under team control through 2023, which makes him the most valuable player in this trade. He’s struggled to the tune of a 5.40 ERA this season. But the lefty was 6-1 with a 3.11 ERA in 60 games for the Braves last season. With less pressure on them to compete in 2017, the Mariners can be a little more patient with Biddle in hopes that he can turn things around and help them in the long run.
For the Braves, this trade is all about taking a chance on Swarzak. Odds are, he won’t turn their bullpen around, but he has enough of a track record to be worth the small risk. Meanwhile, in classic Mariners fashion, they seized on an opportunity to make a trade that won’t affect them short-term but gives them a player who could be useful over the long haul.
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Whether you’re more a Kristy, a Mary Anne, a Claudia, a Dawn, or a Stacey, this news will be so welcome. Netflix’s popular adaptation of Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club will return for a second season. The show will hit the streaming service in early 2021.
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“I love how Kristy evolves in her new family,” she said. “I always have really loved Mary Anne and Dawn—as their parents get closer, how that kind of changes their relationship.”
The series continues to endure not just for nostalgic adults, but it’s still relevant and timely with today’s middle schoolers experiencing so many of the same issues and challenges the babysitters do.
Naia Cucukov, one of the producers of the show at Walden Media, noted that the work Ann M. Martin did in creating such an honest look at tween and teen girlhood has helped make the transition to modernity in the show’s Netflix adaptation make sense.
“It’s dealing with issues that kids today are dealing with, taking things like the worst parents that step further, talking about same-sex couples, talking about just the things that are just a given in our modern world that I think back then weren’t at all in the popular conversation,” she said in an interview here at Book Riot. “At the same time, we are trying to make a more kind of inclusive landscape for our girls. Stoneybrook is going to feel a little bit more like modern times. I think that it’s going to feel like a very diverse, really fully fleshed out place, and then that’s going to include some of our girls as well.”
And indeed, the show’s inclusivity in both the main characters and supporting cast feels true to today’s world.
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Bruno Senna added to Sky’s F1 team
March 6, 2014 March 21, 2014 David Nelson5 Comments
Bruno Senna will be part of Sky Sports F1’s team for the upcoming season, it has been confirmed. He will be present at seven races, whilst also appearing in special programming celebrating the life of Ayrton Senna.
Senna, who raced in Formula 1 between 2010 and 2012, will be at Malaysia, China, Hungary, Singapore, Russia, USA and Brazil. As well as being a guest on The F1 Show, Senna will offer analysis on the Sky Pad and be in the commentary box with David Croft, presumably for practice at those races. Speaking to the Sky Sports website, Senna said: “I’ve worked with Sky Sports F1 from the other side of the microphone, and always been impressed with their dedication and creativity so I’m delighted to be joining the team. I’m particularly excited to get my hands on the touchscreen technology and I hope to reveal a few tricks of the trade but also show just how skilled these drivers are. The 2014 rules and regulations, driver changes and new circuits we’re seeing this year promise for a fascinating season with everything to drive for – I can’t wait to start.”
Martin Turner, Sky Sports F1’s Executive Producer, added: “We got to know Bruno in the paddock when he was driving, and I’m thrilled he’s joining us – he’ll make a brilliant addition to our team. His passion for the intricacies of F1 and knowledge as a recent F1 driver who’s driven these tracks and raced these teams will make for fascinating viewing. With Anthony Davidson and Bruno manning the touchscreen and offering insight this season, we’ll bring our viewers a unique perspective on what it’s like to line up on the grid and race wheel to wheel with Hamilton, Vettel, Raikkonen and co.”
The morale of this lesson is not to read too much into anyone within broadcasting claims to have ‘very exciting news‘ or ‘literally bursting‘ to tell people. Don’t get me wrong, Senna’s a good signing, and I can see their logic considering he is a recent driver in a more ‘current’ formula of Formula 1, plus it allows them to rotate a bit more. But another driver to add to the line-up means that we now have five drivers, potentially six if you include Karun Chandhok. I would have preferred a former team personnel to add a bit of variety, instead of the ‘talking heads’ with drivers. It seems like both BBC and Sky are going down the route of adding former drivers to the line-up. Yes, the drivers of course are the main focus, but there is more than them that makes Formula 1 what it is. Like I say, its good news, nothing more, nothing less.
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On the ex-team personnel thing other than Mark Priestley I’m not really sure who would be a good choice. Whilst with any ex-pro in sports broadcasting they will ever rarely say anything to upset their mates (or team they are ambassador for!).
I do wonder with ex-personnel unless you get someone who has retired completely/is financially fairly secure would they risk ruining their future career prospects by ‘burning their bridges.
What might be good though is to get some of the better F1 journos (I know they are few and far between) involved occasionally. A tech feature with Ted and say Sam Collins (from Racecar Engineering) would be superb.
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California Congresswoman Who Once Questioned Mask-Wearing Catches COVID-19
Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), who once expressed skepticism about the mask mandate in Orange County last spring, has tested positive for COVID-19.
Although she does not show any symptoms, the 65-year-old Korean American politician learned she had been in contact with someone positive with the virus, Steel’s statement said via Associated Press.
“At the advice of the Attending Physician, and to protect the health of my colleagues, I will be quarantining,” Steel said via Los Angeles Times.
Danielle Stewart, Steel’s deputy chief of staff and communications director, did not give many details about the representative’s positive result, but she said they had gone through the proper procedures.
“We’ve done the appropriate contact tracing. There’s a lot going on at the Capitol at the moment,” Stewart said.
In May, Steel questioned the effectiveness of mask-wearing during a public county supervisors meeting and “pushed back hard against” statements from health care officials, according to Voice of OC.
Two months later in July, after the number of COVID-19 cases resurged, she switched her stance and tweeted about needing to wear a mask to save lives and flatten the curve.
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Chemonics International – We’re one of the world’s leading partners in international development, because where Chemonics works, development works. From our founding in 1975, we have worked in more than 150 countries to help our clients, partners and beneficiaries take on the world’s toughest challenges. Today, we re-imagine global supply chains to deliver essential medicines to the right place at the right time. Our global network of more than 4,000 specialists share an unwavering resolve to work better, driven by a conviction that the world must be better.
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Chemonics International, a leading international organization based in Washington, D.C., seeks State Team Leads for offices in Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States for the USAID funded Strategic HIV/AIDS Response Program (SHARP) Task Order 01 activity in Nigeria. This activity aims to identify and support proven interventions through the improvement of service delivery and strengthening health systems with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) in Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara States.
The objectives of the activity include:
Targeted and efficient HIV and TB case identification and linkage to care and treatment;
Enrollment of patients on HIV/AIDS therapy with adequate adherence and minimal loss to follow-up;
Successfully suppress HIV viral load; and
Increase GON capacity to expand, coordinate and finance HIV/AIDS and TB services. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.
Provide leadership and support the Chief of Party with clinical and technical direction to reduce HIV incidences and AIDS-related mortality by increasing access to and the use of treatment and prevention services for all populations, as well as by strengthening Ministry of Health governance
Supervise clinical teams, technical specialists, and staff while working closely with other project staff and Chemonics home office staff
Use surveillance data to inform programming for activities that permit it to achieve epidemic controls for all genders, ages, and risk groups
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Norma Lowney
Norma Lowney is a post-primary teacher, dramatherapist and theatre-maker based in Limerick. Norma is a PhD candidate at Mary Immaculate College, her interests include building a creative school community and creativity for wellbeing. Norma trained with Narrative 4 Ireland in 2018 and now works (when she finds the time) as a mentor, helping newly trained facilitators run their first Story Exchange.
Paula Coakley
Paula is a post-primary teacher of English, recently relocated from Limerick to Co. Kerry, She has been working on programmes in Narrative 4 for four years. Outside of school, she is a busy Mum and wife, who has an interest in broadcasting and singing. She says of Narrative 4, “it helps my students feel connected to each other and their wider community, and gives them a sense of shared experience and simply, being heard.”
Richard Hannafin
Richard Hannafin works in the field of Art Education for the last 10 years. I am primarily based in a probation project in Limerick city where I teach young people from 15 – 25 years of age. I also work with a homeless charity in a social care capacity. He has facilitated Story Exchanges with N4 since 2017. One project called Boy’s Stories brough boys and men from Limerick’s regeneration areas together to tell stories about masculinity. ‘People are my power.’
Sarah O Connor
Sarah is a secondary school teacher of Irish, History and English in Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh in Limerick city. She became involved in Narrative 4 in 2019 when she trained as a facilitator. She has since become a mentor; helping newly trained facilitators to deliver their first project.
Sheila Richardson
Sheila is an Artist, Visual Arts Lecturer and Art Psychotherapist based in Limerick. She is passionate about the power of the arts to facilitate individual and collective transformation.
She works with a diverse range of marginalised groups. She founded, with James Lawlor, the Girls Stories Project at N4 in 2017, a support group for young migrant women new to Limerick city.
Girls Stories
Traveller and Roma Community: Youth Worker Training Programme.
A Narrative for Limerick
Empathy Education in Limerick Regeneration Primary Schools
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Narrative 4 Global Summit
Is Empathy Failing Us? (The Examiner)
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Isabel May
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Multi-Love
On May 26th, Unknown Mortal Orchestra will release Multi-Love, their third album. Led by New Zealand ex-pat/singer Ruban Nielson, the trio is now based out of Portland. Their first two records hinted at a fondness for 80s funk, but the band couldn’t escape the trappings of contemporary indie rock– reverb drenched guitars and lo-fi production. This is not a slight, but a testament to how impressive their transformation is on Multi-Love, which sees the trio fully embracing their love for boogie, funk, and R&B.
The album opens with the title track “Multi-Love”, a song centered around an ascending plunky riff played on an electric piano. It shifts abruptly to the typical UMO drum beat, laid-back, funky, and in the pocket. At his best, drummer Riley Geare’s playing conjures The Meters’ Joseph Modeliste, with a tip of the hat to Zigaboo on nearly every drum fill. Without question, Modeliste is the group’s strongest musician and the most vital to the UMO sound. Lyrically speaking, there are nods to the hyper-sexualized funk of the 80’s – think Kool And The Gang, or Prince: “Multi-Love got me on my knee, we were one, then become three”. The Prince worship comes to a head on “Ur Life One Night”. Like a lost track from Purple Rain (right down to the millennial misspelling), “Ur Life” embraces the electro-boogie that The Revolution ushered into the mainstream on their 1984 album. The song is spacious, unsettling, and just as catchy as anything The Purple One recorded in his prime.
Multi-Love is rooted in funk, but there are many moments where UMO veer from the path. Take “Keep Checking My Phone”, which begins with a trumpet/guitar hook before jumping to a “Sympthy For The Devil”-esque percussive drum loop. The essence of the song is still electro/boogie, but it’s more in line with the funk that existed as an after-effect (think Hot Stuff, not Beggars Banquet). Like their former tourmates Foxygen, UMO lift pieces from the best moments of their favourite songs from the past, reconditioning them into ideas that feel exciting and new.
On Multi-Love, UMO have made a full metamorphosis into an entirely different universe, coming out with their greatest set of songs to date.
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