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#502001 Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 3:54 pm
Chelsea drop 2 points at home.
#Emeryout
bubblechris
Location: Waltham Abbey, Essex
Decaf wrote:
Good post ...you seem to know what you are talking about ...but how many referendums do think you should have before something is done ?
But you don't have a referendum and then just do it. The referendum indicated national approval for the idea of brexit. Then the government in power had to work out, and get approval for, the details of the deal. This it failed to do.
How was it supposed to succeed when 60% of MPs who promised to see Brexit through did everything in their power to stop it or hinder it?
From the moment May took over the negotiations from David Davies the whole venture was doomed. If she had left well alone we would have done a good deal and we would have got a good result . As it was the remoaners made it impossible and cost the country billions in wasted efforts to cover their arses.
Sadly Liverpool are 0-2 up already. So it looks like I’ll have to write this off as another two easy points for them. So after the satisfaction of Chelsea and Manchester United dropping points, sod it!
They and City might as well be in a different league. Liverpool didn't have it all their own way, mind.
Hamba kakuhle, Madiba
bubblechris wrote:
From the moment May took over the negotiations from David Davies the whole venture was doomed.
David Davis, Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator, has held only four hours of talks with his Brussels opposite number this year, according to government records.
The lack of political engagement was cited by EU leaders on Friday as they rebuked the UK for slow progress on Brexit. In a joint summit statement, they insisted on “the need for intensified efforts” and warned that there had been “no substantial” advances on the vexed issue of the Irish border.
https://www.ft.com/content/9e3aacf0-7b9 ... daf11b720d
Sorry, but that makes no sense. Whose fault was it? The 'remoaners' (as your last point suggests) or the Brexiteers (the 60% you mention) ...who were far too busy stabbing each other in the back to organise a pissup in a brewery, let alone something as complicated as Brexit?
Either way, is what you are describing anything other than a giant cock up by the conservative party?
All valid points
Also it’s worth pointing out that May DID actually deliver a withdrawal agreement that provided Brexit but it was deemed not brexity enough by the loonie far right types in her own party.
City and Liverpool are so far ahead that i’ll Be cheering both of them on when they play spurs, Man U and Chelsea. We are competing with those 3 for top 4 so any points they drop is good even if it is to those two.
The bonus is Chelsea (twice), Man U (at least twice) and spurs (once) have all already dropped points you’d expect them to get. We technically have got the exact amount of points you would expect us to have to get a top 4 place
Read that the Elneny loan deal as an €18m option to buy at the end. If that happens then Raul is an absolute genius.
Also saw someone post that from the 18 man squad that won the 2017 fa cup there is only Bellerin, Holding, xhaka, Özil left in the current squad. 14 players gone in 2 and a bit years
If they only get two points for a win though I feel like we might just have a chance. Maybe.
Location: Liverpool/Caernarfon
My final contribution on the EU debate for today at least.
Up until a few years ago, I would have been very indifferent to the thought of, or desire for, Welsh independence. I have been overall a relatively happy member of the status quo regarding the UK, albeit unhappy with the actions of some governments (Poll tax, Iraq, bedroom tax etc).
What I have seen over the past few years has brought to stark light the rottenness at the heart of Westminster:
the way our politicians seem to have been bought off (or are being blackmailed);
a PM who is on record as a liar, who has been recorded conspiring to assault a reporter;
cabinet ministers who say one thing today, the opposite tomorrow;
ministers like Patel voting on contracts having given paid advice to the company bidding for the contract;
constant lies not being challenged;
the ability of extremists like Farage to command the media spotlight, thanks to how our press is run; and the role of social media in manipulating public opinion has been frightening.
I have also come to believe that we are in the throes of the selling off of the UK, and that Brexit is simply a means to an end in the hands of those (like Rees Mogg) who in my opinion are conspiring against the UK. This time though, it won't be a possible invasion by tanks and troops that we will have to fight off. We might have have had a chance about that. No, it'll be a takeover by stealth of all our public assets, a process started some years ago but now coming to fruition.
Our NHS (which American health insurance companies are slavering over) will go, public services will be privatised and cut back to nothing, the least able in society will suffer, retirement age pushed ever upwards, and the financial divide between rich and poor will increase exponentially.
As Top Gun has mentioned, there are many people in Scotland now questioning their position viz a viz the UK, and Scottish independence is a real possibility. Wales doesn't get the same publicity as Scotland (for Wales, see England), but I can tell you that I am not alone in now considering Welsh independence as a preferable alternative to living in what the UK will become. People who 10 years ago would have laughed at the idea, are now beginning to wonder.
Brexit is nothing at all to do with the EU in reality, its simply a vehicle that has allowed tax dodging parasites to dictate political discourse and policy in this country.
And finally, to those who say it was the will of the people and those who voted remain should just shut up and get on with it:
a) that's not how true democracy works, people are allowed to change their minds (both ways)
b) Farage himself said that if the vote had been 52/48 the other way, he would have carried on campaigning.
The referendum was advisory. We are a parliamentary democracy (at least we used to be), not a country ruled by plebiscite.
The issue of membership of the EU was not a topic of conversation in the general population or indeed in daily politics. It was only when the EU agreed to the introduction of anti-tax avoidance measures that the tax exile newspaper barons fired up their editors to start playing the immigration card. Cameron was just too craven and cowardly to stand up to those pressures. Or maybe even he will benefit financially.
Anyway, whilst I don’t agree with referenda deciding matters instead of Parliament, this issue needs another one to settle the issue. There needs to be 3 choices:
1. Leave with no deal
2. Whatever deal Johnson can agree (but he won’t, because his bosses won’t let him)
3. Stay in the EU
One more point kiwi, do you seriously dismiss the possibility that Putin has had a role in all this? He’s a billionaire, who’s profited from the theft of Russian assets. If you think people like him are at any time happy with what they’ve got, then you’ve been sniffing too much engine oil.
Btw, if you get the chance, have a look at a film called The Great Hack.
Gorau chwarae cyd chwarae
Hazuki wrote:
He’s going back to 3 centrals isn’t he.
We have three left backs, so we are selling one, I don't see why it has to be more to it than that. Monreal probably wanted to go, and we let him leave because he's been a good servant to the club. Tierney is clearly thought of as the guy going forward and until then we have Kolasinac.
I wasn’t clear - I meant until Tierney is fit. Kola isn’t a defender.
Oh okay .... so the only guaranteed outcome ; half the population will be seriously p***sed off with the the other half .
Happy days ahead .
#502015 Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:02 pm
So reading thru the overnight posts Top Gun doesn’t think it is a bad result if we lose to Spurs and others think a point is a good result.
Sorry but if you want to be taken seriously as a club - win your home games and particularly against your local rival.
Got it. Truly hope that doesn't happen, hard to see how three/five at the back has ever helped us. Think Kolasinac is better than he showed last year too. Defensively suspect at times but he's carved out a pretty decent career for himself as a left back, it has to be said.
gooner7
#502017 Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:31 am
gooner7 wrote:
MU drew Ston, despite going 1-0 ahead, and playing more than 20 minutes against 10 men. Sink deeper they go
And then Chelsea dropped 2 points while ahead. Sink, sink, sink
A new Chapter awaits!
The clubs below the City and Liverpool are starting a little slow out the gate. It may turn out to be a 2 horse race from the start. We look decent of the rest. Top 4 looking better if the the rest of the top 6 struggle. Lamps and OGS may continue to struggle. Next to Poch, we have the best manager of the lot. This is looking like an "interesting" season so far.
No I said a point is a decent result considering yesterday’s results.
Which it is. Obviously a win would be better
I’d be disappointed with anything but 3 points today. We need home wins and at least a draw away from the games v Man U, Chelsea, spurs....and Leicester, Everton, Wolves.
Sounds simple but if you forget Liverpool/city, win home and away vs all the teams in the bottom half and beat the teams from 4th-10th at home you’d have 81 points. Doesn’t matter what you do away from home against the top 10. We have got to be looking at at least 16 home wins this season.
Spurs have problems at right back, maybe having to use sissoko or dier there, play our top 3 and get Aubameyang attacking their RB and Pépé destroying Rose. Would love to see Torreira/Guendouzi/Cellabos midfield seems to be the perfect blend of players. But Xhaka will start and Willock would be unfortunate to be dropped. Spurs missing ndombele, their central midfield is going to look weak, cellabos needs to dominate and dictate everything in the middle of the park. I’ll go for 3-1 to The Arsenal
I think we're going to win today. Tempo will be everything. We need to vary our play too, not play out from the back every time, go long early if we need to, Luiz has the range to do that. I'm going 2-1
There's a man who's been out sailing in a decade full of dreams
Asking for 3 points is a huge ask for a few reasons. Expecting 3 points in our glory era early 00s was a big ask well and when we won it was never easy. It's an NLD. They have had a better side than us for a few years now. They have a far more settled XI than we do and man for man, they can claim to have a better side.
While I would love to win obviously, I think it will be a scoring draw, 1 or 2 each. I don't see our defence ever having a clean sheet against any side in the top 6, even at home. Even if we score first, and the expected onslaught, I doubt we will keep them from scoring. If we win we will need 2 goals at a bare minimum and probably 3.
European window closes tomorrow
I’m assuming we’re stuck with Mustafi for eternity
Interesting that everyone seems to think we are going to roll these guys over. Not sure it’s going to be that easy or where this expectation comes from.
#502025 Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:45 am
I don't think it's an expectation, just think we're good at home and will respond from last week's result. Certainly not a given but think we will turn them over.
#502026 Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 12:31 pm
Darren wrote:
I fancy us to win as well.
I think today's game is one that is very difficult to call. I would like to think that if we play a front three of Aubameyang, Lacazette and Pépé we might just have the edge with the firepower to win the match.
However, as last seasoned showed the Spuds can beat anyone on their day and in Harry Kane they have a striker who might only have three touches but score three goals.
Our defence, as always, is the issue. Will we play a back three now that Monreal has gone?
#502028 Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 2:24 pm
Need a big game from somebody. You’ve got to think an 8/9 out of 10 from one of Aubameyang Lacazette Pépé or Ceballos should see us win I think. The odds of that are pretty good I think.
That’s my completely rational logical reasoning for why we’re going to win.
Odd line up with no Willock or Ceballos
Banzai!!!!!
1Leno
15Maitland-Niles
5Papastathopoulos
23David Luiz
31Kolasinac
11Torreira
34Xhaka
29Guendouzi
19Pépé
9Lacazette
14Aubameyang
7Mkhitaryan
8Ceballos
10Özil
21Chambers
24Nelson
26Martínez
28Willock
Looks like last years midfield and we all know how well they did........................
Kolasinac in a back 4... Emery’s comments in preseason about improving him at LB extremely pertinent today.
Spurs bring their A team. Let's show them our A+ performance.
long time gooner
Jeez. Leno. Wtf.
I believe in our team, I believe in our quality and I am convinced that I am right. (Arsene Wenger Dec 08)
Goodness, too easy
Our defence is all over the place.
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all"
Good save by Leno after our defence parted like the proverbial to let in Son.
Oh dear. Got away with that one. Same mistake by Leno.
Let’s hope that Tottenham end up regretting that.
Yay Xhaka! He’s got a penalty!
He’s brilliant, isn’t he?
Xhaka. Serial offender. Same mistakes over and over.
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World War II in Europe: The First Blitzkrieg (HPS Simulations)
The First Blitzkrieg is the start of what will be a series of games called Total War in Europe. Unit scale ranges from divisions to battalions, and includes air groups. Map scale is 10 kilometers per hex and two days per turn. Each game map is part of a greater Master Map, encompassing the whole of Europe and parts of North Africa and Western Asia with a quarter million hexes. The Master Map will be released with the final game in the series.
Features.- The First Blitzkrieg contains seventeen scenarios and campaigns from the invasion of Poland to the Fall of France. There are also hypothetical scenarios drawn from Operation SEA LION (the planned German invasion of Britain) and “what if” the Allies had taken the offensive against Germany in the autumn of 1939. Players have the opportunity to alter the course of history on both the operational and strategic level.
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TORONTO (November 28, 2011) - Buxton Promotions and Hennessy Sports announced today that they are now co-promoting unbeaten Canadian light middleweight prospect Brandon "Bad Boy" Cook.
The 25-year-old Cook (4-0, 2 KOs), fighting out of Ajax, Ontario, is a very popular prizefighter who made his pro debut last February, taking a four-round decision from Francis Lafreniere. Three wins have followed, including a devastating first-round knockout of Jason Bernava last Friday night in New Brunswick.
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Sri Lanka: Presidential Pardon for a Man Convicted for Mirusuvil Massacre Promotes Militarisation - A Joint Statement by Civil Society Institutions
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Mirusuvil Massacre – Accused Pardoned; No Reparations for Victims’ Families
On March 26, 2020, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa granted a presidential pardon and released convicted death row prisoner and mass murderer, former Army Staff Sergeant R. M. Sunil Rathnayake. While the country is on lockdown due to COVID-19, the President has seized this opportunity to deal a lethal blow to the rule of law to show that military perpetrators of heinous crimes will be given cover at the highest level despite the rulings of the Supreme Court the highest court in our land. In pardoning Ratnayake, the President has given his blessing to a cold-blooded killer who murdered a five-year-old child and seven other innocent civilians.
The story of the civilian murders in Mirusuvil goes back to twenty years – on December 19 2000, nine Tamils civilians – including three teenagers and a five-year old child – travelled from Udipiddy to Mirusuvil, a village 16 miles from Jaffna town, in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. These persons were among those displaced from Mirusuvil due to the civil war who were resettled in a camp at Udupitty. Displaced family members used to obtain permission from the Sri Lankan Army to visit their homes. But on this day, those who visited their village never returned. It soon emerged that eight of the nine were killed by the Sri Lankan Army.
On December 24, 2000, one of the missing, recounted the incident and gave details about the whereabouts of the remaining eight. On his evidence when the police and the Magistrate went to the site there were no bodies except a skeleton of the animal in the toilet pit. After that when the Military – Police arrested the persons who were on duty in the area, Sergeant R.M. Sunil Rathnayake gave a statement to the Military Police stating that the bodies were removed from the toilet pit and buried somewhere else. Thereafter the Police and the Magistrate went to the site of the burial and exhumed the bodies. Four men and four children were found with throats slit and eyes blindfolded. Some corpses had their hands and legs chopped off.
The deceased belonged to four families. A single family lost four members, including children aged 13 and 5. Another lost two breadwinners. Two more also lost primary breadwinners.
Justice took more than a decade to wind its way but, against all odds, judgment was delivered at last. On June 24, 2015, former Army Sergeant R. M. Sunil Rathnayake who had been enlarged on bail pending trial was found guilty of murdering the eight civilians and was sentenced to death by the Trial at Bar consisting of three High Court Judges held in Colombo. On appeal against the said judgment a five – Judge bench of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka unanimously affirmed the conviction and sentence on April 25, 2019.
By granting the presidential pardon to Sergeant R.M. Sunil Rathnayake, power has been abused and justice has been forsaken. In a country where military perpetrators have rarely been held to account, leading ethnic distrust to fester into war, the President has granted a pardon to one of few men actually held accountable by our nation’s highest court. His pardon is a direct challenge to judicial independence and will result in the further erosion and loss of confidence in the Sri Lankan justice system among war-affected communities.
For the four families directly affected, who have suffered from poverty and immeasurable personal loss, their small sliver of solace has been snatched away. When the sole surviving witness was previously visited by state intelligence officers soon after the presidential election, he expressed his apprehension that, he has no security or protection if the accused is released. Now that threat is real, and our laws and structures are hardly equipped to protect him.
It is a matter of regret and national tragedy that neither the state nor government authorities have over the years offered reparations or compensations to the families of the dead who have been deprived of their bread winners and are condemned to live in poverty for the rest of their lives.
Soon after the Presidential election, news media speculated that the Mirusuvil murderer was to be granted a presidential pardon and released. Affected families were terribly upset and lodged complaints before the Human Rights Commission in Jaffna and in the media. Right now, with the country in lock down, victims’ families are in no position to demonstrate their disapproval and distress. While pretending to save the country from COVID-19, the President is actually using his constitutional powers to fulfill his inflammatory electoral pledge to release “war heroes” from prison.
To put it in context, the country withdrew from its UNHRC commitments last month. The President declared that there are no disappeared persons, and those believed missing are all dead. His government has promoted suspected war criminals as head of operations in military sectors, and General Shavendra Silva is touted as a savior against COVID 19. The military is increasingly involved in all civilian activities. New roadblocks and checkpoints have been introduced solely in the Northern Province. And now a convicted mass murderer is pardoned and released by the President.
In perspective, the act of granting presidential pardon to a convicted criminal conveys the chilling message to the public that, irrespective of the gravity of the offence, offenders from the security forces will not be punished even if convicted by Court of Law and that any crime or violence committed against the ethnic communities will go unpunished. The security forces including the police already enjoying high degree of impunity will surely be further emboldened by the covert encouragement by the government to commit further atrocities against the hapless and vulnerable people. As organizations and individuals who are committed to the Rule of Law and to the protection of democratic values, we vehemently and unreservedly condemn the presidential pardon granted to Sergeant R.M. Sunil Rathnayake which said act will undoubtedly lead to further militarization of the society and contribute to disunity and distrust among communities in the country.
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Francisco J. García-Cárdenas Biodiversidad y Ecología Acuática. Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1503-9552
Mónica Núñez-Flores Biodiversidad y Ecología Acuática. Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla - Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9692-1909
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phylogeny, mtMutS, Cox1, 28S, Pennatulacea, sea pen, divergence time
Pennatulaceans are an important component of benthic marine communities usually related to soft bottoms. Despite their important ecological role, as yet little is known about their origin and divergence time. The first attempts to establish phylogenetic relationships among genera date from the early 20th century, when only morphological characters were available. In the last decade, phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial DNA sequences from a selected number of species have proposed a different hypothetical ancestor for this group, but their intergeneric relationships remain obscure. The present study is based on a combination of mitochondrial and nuclear markers (mtMutS, Cox1 and 28S rDNA), adding new molecular information about the phylogenetic relationships among the pennatulacean genera, including 38 new sequences belonging to 13 different species. Some of the phylogenetic relationships inferred in the present study question the current classification of sea pens based on morphology (at different taxonomic levels), clearly indicating that the two main groups Sessiliflorae and Subselliflorae, some of their main families (e.g. Pennatulidae, Umbellulidae, Virgulariidae) and some genera (e.g. Umbellula, Veretillum) are non-monophyletic. In addition, the veretillids, traditionally considered the most primitive pennatulaceans, are not shown as the earliest-diverging taxon. Moreover, an analysis of divergence time performed here suggested that the origin of the pennatulaceans dates from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian, ~144 Ma), in agreement with their sparsely known fossil record, while the initial divergence of most extant genera occurred in the Oligocene and Miocene times.
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Discussion in 'Eastern Philosophy' started by Bowser, Mar 2, 2018.
Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member
Is it a philosophy or a religion? Also, what is the Tao?
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spidergoat Liddle' Dick Tater Valued Senior Member
Not sure, but I like it for reasons I can't explain.
spidergoat, Mar 2, 2018
sculptor Valued Senior Member
Bowser said: ↑
Is it a philosophy or and a religion?
Also, what is the Tao?
Water flowing downhill is flowing with the tao.
sculptor, Mar 2, 2018
Bowser likes this.
sculptor said: ↑
Everyone must follow the universal energy without resistance?
from the borg
(and the tao)
"Resistance is futile"
"The tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal tao"
That being "said"
When you find the right path,
You will flow along it effortlessly
as water flowing downhill
iceaura Valued Senior Member
iceaura, Mar 3, 2018
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
― Gospel of Thomas
akoreamerican Registered Senior Member
“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
akoreamerican, Apr 13, 2018
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Seattle Valued Senior Member
I read the Tao Te Ching once. It's very peaceful just reading it.
Seattle, Jan 24, 2019
Seattle said: ↑
I read the Tao Te Ching once
The English translations vary considerably.
iceaura, Jan 26, 2019
James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member
Perhaps this is relevant. Or maybe not.
Zhaozhou to his Master, "What is the Tao?"
Nanquan: "Tao is nothing else than the ordinary mind."
Zhaozhou: "Is there any way to approach it?"
Nanquan: "Once you intend to approach it, you are on the wrong track."
Zhaozhou, continuing to inquire: "Barring conscious intention, how can we attain to a knowledge of the Tao?"
The master: "Tao belongs neither to knowledge nor to no-knowledge. For knowledge is but illusive perception, while no-knowledge is mere confusion, If you really attain true comprehension of the Tao, unshadowed by the slightest doubt, your vision will be like the infinite space, free of all limits and obstacles. Its truth or falsehood cannot be established artificially by external proofs."
Source: https://dharmanet.org/coursesM/27/zenstory17c.htm
James R, Jan 27, 2019
First line of the Tao Te Ching:
"The Tao that can be put into words is not the real Tao."
Yes, we know what the Tao reads like. The whole book is in that vein.
parmalee peripatetic artisan Valued Senior Member
James R said: ↑
Ahhhh, brings back fond memories of writing a lengthy treatise on the notion of wu nien (roughly, no thought) as found in the Platform Sutra of the Huineng, Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an Buddhsim. If only I could remember just what I said.
parmalee, Jan 27, 2019
parmalee said: ↑
Then the memories would be fonder I suppose.
I think it might be the other way round, in this case. As I recall, I tried to tie in a critique of instrumental reason ("calculative thinking," in Heideggerese) which worked about as well the weirdly tacked-on Holocaust stuff in the recent remake of Suspiria. Some stuff is best recalled only superficially.
Somewhere out there, long out of print and far too expensive for my shelf, is an early English translation of the Tao Te Ching with the Chinese ideograms/logograms on the facing pages, and alternative English renderings of them with the reasoning behind a particular choice presented in the notes.
The Chinese is of course archaic - the experts tell me even high level literacy in modern Mandarin or the like does not help that much - but that just means everyone is on a similar footing with this stuff.
I covet that book. I would like to see another like it, with modern scholarship involved.
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Do you recall the translator?
I've always liked Stephen Mitchell's translation (also, his Rilke is great--though not quite as magical as Robert Hunter's translations). Apparently, Ursula K. LeGuin also did one, but I've not seen it; I suspect it's a good one.
Few seem to appreciate the magnitude of such a task.
Joan Stambaugh translated Heidegger's "Language in the Poem," on "situating" Trakl's verse--a weird sort of topological endeavor. Yet, she did not translate ~seven pages of the text, deeming such virtually untranslatable into English. And that's just German to English! Another guy tackled these seven pages decades later, yet for the life of me I can't recall the author or the name of the book.
Apparently, Ursula K. LeGuin also did one, but I've not seen it; I suspect it's a good one.
It's a personal favorite of mine - the most thoughtful and affectionate version I know.
And your reference sent me back, first time in a while, to be reminded that in it LeGuin provides the name of that translator who provided the contiguous ideograms - it was her introduction to the work, as a child. Paul Carus, 1898 (1913 printed) But it was DT Suzuki in the center:
-> "The first assignment for Daisetz "Great Simplicity" T. Suzuki in 1898 was to help Paul Carus with the Tao Te Ching. Dr. Carus knew no Chinese, but he wanted this translation to a scholarly one and he had Suzuki supply a character by character gloss, as best he could, but Suzuki found himself unable to check Carus's use of Teutonic abstractions. "The Chinese are masters in reproducing the most subtle changes in their innermost feelings," Suzuki wrote of his first collaboration with Carus, "thus, in order to translate passages from Lao Tzu, I had to explain to Dr. Carus the feeling behind each Chinese term. But being himself a German writing in English, he translated these Chinese ideas into abstract conceptual terms. If only I had been more intellectually equipped then," he thought later, "I might have been better able to help him understand the original meaning."
In order to supply a corresponding Chinese text, Suzuki cut out the Chinese characters from Chinese and Japanese books, and pasted them in the proper places on the manuscript pages, which where then reproduced photographically [and then printed in 1913]."
- "How the Swans Came to the Lake," by Rick Fields, 1981, p. 139
lifted from https://mpgtaijiquan.blogspot.com/2019/01/tao-te-ching-chapter-27.html - a link maybe worth checking:
"A typical webpage created by Mike Garofalo for each one of the 81 Chapters (Verses, Sections) of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao Tzu (Laozi) includes over 25 different English language translations or interpolations for that Chapter, 5 Spanish language translations for that Chapter, the Chinese characters for that Chapter, the Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin transliterations (Romanization) of the Mandarin Chinese words for that Chapter, and 2 German and 1 French translation of that Chapter. Each webpage for each one of the 81 Chapters of the Tao Te Ching includes extensive indexing by key words, phrases, and terms for that Chapter in English, Spanish, and the Wade-Giles Romanization. Each webpage on a Chapter of the Daodejing includes recommended reading in books and websites, a detailed bibliography, some commentary, research leads, translation sources, a Google Translate drop down menu, and other resources for that Chapter."
online link to Carus/Suzuki: https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/crv/index.htm
LeGuin's is not a translation, exactly - she includes some background and chapter by chapter notes on how it was done and why she made some choices and edits (including, for example, her decision to use "power" rather than the more accurate "virtue" for the character "te" throughout - a choice I firmly disagree with, in all translations, but she makes her case). She occasionally invokes her author's prerogative to settle scholarly debates 'by ear', so to speak - including by rearrangement of line and stanza order from the most common, even replacing words and removing entire lines that scholars have questioned (as possible later interpolations, say) if they don't seem to fit. This seems entirely right and sound practice, to me, for a living as opposed to a pedagogical rendering of the work. The changes are noted, in the notes.
This is her collaborating scholar: https://www.shambhala.com/authors/o-t/j-p-seaton.html
and the publication context: https://www.shambhala.com/tao-te-ching-readers-guide-great-taoist-classic/
Ah, Suzuki and Carus. I know I've encountered that one before, but it was long ago--I should seek it out again.
Interesting observation on the obstacles of translating from a German framework--even if he was writing in English. A number of Japanese thinkers have a strong affinity for 20th century German thought--Nishida, Nishitani. Sekida, writing in Zen Training, found Husserl and Heidegger (as well as Dostoevsky--specifically, his descriptions of the epileptic ecstatic experience) the best medium through which to translate notions of satori, as well as for breaking down the fundamental components of a thought-action.
And, of course, Heidegger said something to this effect of Suzuki: "If I understand this man correctly, this is what I have been trying to say in all of my writings."
I think Carus was somewhat a proponent of American Pragmatism--I know he corresponded with C.S. Peirce and John Dewey. Whether that may have proved helpful or a hindrance in his understanding of the Tao Te Ching is debatable, but I personally would argue the former.
Just downloaded her book. The influence on her work is apparent, especially in The Dispossessed. Really, even in something like "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omalas." Re: te as "power," rather than "virtue": I'm not sure how much Nietzsche influenced Le Guin, but my take--if she did read Nietzsche--is that she adhered to a more enlightened, anarchistic reading, emphasizing restraint and reconciliation. But then, her use of "power" there also brings to mind Kropotkin and Max Stirner, whom I know she did, in fact, read.
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HARDWELL & ASIAN POP QUEEN JOLIN TSAI RELEASE ‘WE ARE ONE’
July 5, 2017 by EDM DJS
One of electronic music’s biggest and most watched stars Hardwell has teamed up with one of Asia’s biggest pop sensations Jolin Tsai for a white-hot new release titled ‘We Are One’. As part of this highly anticipated studio release, the duo has partnered with China’s biggest mobile operating China Mobile Cooperation who have made the record available to its 800 million subscribers as a first listen premiere of an enormous pop-meets-dance collaboration. Early support for ‘We Are One’ has already put the single at #1 in the Taiwanese iTunes chart and on the Chinese download platforms QQ and Kuwa – which is an impressive feat for an English speaking dance record.
Released through Universal Music, this exclusive version of ‘We Are One’ for the Asian region puts Hardwell right back in trademark territory with energetic melodic builds, distinctive Hardwell flavoured beats and plenty of drive to ignite the largest of festival mainstages. Jolin’s voice on the top line brings a unique pop zest that will embed itself in your head proving it’s catchy, and almost certainly ageless, quality. An alternative version will be coming soon via Revealed Recordings on a forthcoming Hardwell EP.
The global footprint that Dutch electronic artist Hardwell has imprinted on the world over the past 10+ years is one of staggering scale. Twice voted #1 DJ in the World, his music has scaled charts across the world and his online presence is one of impressive proportion with over 8.7 million ‘likes’ on Facebook, more than 5 million followers on Twitter, 4.6 million followers on Instagram and in excess of 721 million views on his YouTube channel.
His collaborative partner has an equally impressive profile herself. Jolin has become one of Asia’s biggest selling artists and has been cited by many as the “Asian Madonna” with over 25 million record sales to date. With over 37 million followers on Weibo (one of China’s leading social media platforms) and 2.3 million followers on Instagram, Jolin also boasts having had over 100 million downloads on her songs – giving her the highest record sales for an Asia female pop singer.
From being the first artist to release a single via Shazam to being the first DJ to launch his own Facebook Messenger Bot, this new partnership with China Mobile once more aligns Hardwell with a tech giant and demonstrates his clear drive to push the boundaries of how his music reaches his fan base. With a large number of Hardwell’s fans in the region being active China Mobile users, this exclusive partnership creates a dynamic new way for his fans to enjoy his music.
Talking about the partnership Hardwell said: “Anyone who follows my career knows I’ve always tried to find new and cool ways to release my music. I’ve being touring Asia for many years now, both as a festival headliner and with my new Macau residency, I’ve also brought along my Revealed Recordings crew to hold down a residency in Guangzhou. Asia is one of the most exciting, emerging markets on the planet for dance music right now! Working with Jolin on this record was a great experience and we wanted to find a way to deliver it to the fans in a unique way. Joining forces with China Mobile opens up a direct doorway to many of Jolin’s and my Asian fans so it felt the perfect opportunity for us to bring our world’s together on ‘We Are One’ and deliver some fresh new music to millions of fans!”
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Heart4Iran: The Forbidden Stories [Forbidden Faith]
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[Editor’s note: On Tuesday, we read an excerpt from the introduction of Heart4Iran: The Forbidden Stories by Dr. Mike Ansari. Today, be encouraged by some of the amazing stories excerpted from the book! Thank you, Dr. Ansari, for sharing some of your book with us!]
254: Maryam called Mohabat TV from Kermanshah, Iran. She said she has invited many people, including relatives, into her home to watch Mohabat TV. So far, because of her, more than forty people have given their hearts to Jesus.
266: Aziz called Mohabat TV from Afghanistan to say Christians were being attacked and jailed. He wanted to know more about this Jesus. He prayed the prayer of salvation with the counselors. In spite of recent persecution, Aziz brought eleven of his friends to faith because of the transformation Jesus did in his life through Mohabat TV.
269: Parviz called Mohabat TV to learn more about Jesus and Christianity. He said that he owned a satellite for years but never watched the channel. After he found it, Parviz listened to the other Muslims who called in to argue. He said he was impressed by the compassion of the counselors toward all of them. He was happy to give his heart to the Lord over the phone!
270: Heydar called Mohabat TV to give his heart to Jesus. He told the counselors he is an uneducated villager and a shepherd. He said he doesn’t have much, but he can’t stop witnessing to everyone he meets to tell them about Jesus. Even though it’s dangerous to be a Christian where he lives, Heydar continues to tell everyone about Jesus.
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A quote from Dr. Ansari regarding the video
“FYI, an update to #270 below – Heydar’s house was raided when he was on the phone with our counselors and he was beaten and detained by security agents. Then the security agent realized the phone line is live to Mohabat and he got on there and said he beat Heydar because he had become a Christian. Here is the audio clip we recorded from that conversation”
274: Vahid called Mohabat TV from Afghanistan. He called to argue with the counselors that Jesus was only a prophet. After a year of calling to argue, he called back. Instead of arguing with the counselors, he listened to them. Vahid prayed to receive Jesus as His Lord and Savior because he was impacted by the Mohabat TV programs and the words of Jesus.
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Ranaviruses are viruses belong to the Iridoviridae family and the genus Ranavirus. Occasionally, amphibian ranaviruses are called iridoviruses rather than ranaviruses (which are different from the insect viruses called Iridovirus; insect iridovirus is not a ranavirus). Some of the isolates of amphibian ranaviruses have been named. It is thought that the viruses are passed by direct contact or cannibalism or through the water.
Ranaviruses cause massive die-offs of amphibians. These occur most commonly in mole salamanders (Ambystoma spp.), true frogs (Lithobates spp. and Rana spp.) and chorus frogs (Pseudacris spp.). Ranavirus infections in turtles occur mostly in captive colonies of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) and true tortoises. At present, ranavirus infections appear to be limited to ectothermic vertebrates. That is to say, any species of fish, amphibians (frogs & salamanders) and reptile (turtles & snakes) could be susceptible to the virus, although not all species have been documented with ranavirus. It appears that larvae and metamorphs are most affected. Adult morbidity and mortality occur less often. It is unclear how many strains or species of ranavirus are infecting and killing amphibians and turtles. As of 2013, ranavirus was known to infect more than 104 species and subspecies. The virus generally cannot be cultured at temperatures above 30ºC, so it probably is not infectious to domestic mammals and humans.
Clinical signs of disease can often be nonspecific, but affected individuals usually present with subtle to severe hemorrhages in the ventral skin, especially at the base of the hind limbs and around the vent opening and swelling of the legs and body. Hemorrhages may be present from tip of chin to tip of tail ventrally and may be pinpoint or irregular patches. White plaques in mouth, wheezing and swollen eyes may also be present in reptiles. Behavioral changes may include lethargy, anorexia and erratic swimming. Turtles with ranavirus infection show weakness, swollen eyelids, discharge from the nose and mouth, and the tongue and palate may show dull white or thick yellow plaques. Occasionally, turtles may show ulcers on the bottom of their feet. In general, the occurrence of an explosive mortality outbreak with signs of systemic hemorrhagic disease, or signs of chronic disease with skin ulceration and/or distal limb necrosis are potential indicators of infection with a ranavirus.
Ranaviruses are commonly lethal to larvae or young individuals, quickly spreading through populations that tend to congregate in large groups. Some amphibian populations can suffer up to 90% mortality. Adults can also become infected, but many are likely to survive the illness. However, once infected with ranavirus, the overall health of the amphibian may suffer and they can become more susceptible to other diseases and to depredation in the wild.
The virus is primarily transmitted by contact between carriers of the virus and uninfected individuals. Humans may be the number one long-distance transmitters of ranavirus, due to our ability to travel great distances and visit many wetlands. Any animal or object that enters a wetland could potentially pick up and transmit the virus. The virus can then be passed to other individuals in the same wetland or be transported to other wetlands via the host’s movements. Depending on environmental conditions, the viruses can survive in water for several weeks outside the host, and for shorter periods of time under dry conditions. The virus is also transmitted through direct contact, cannibalism, and through the water skin ulceration.
Diagnosis is made through any of the following diagnostic tests: PCR, real-time PCR, virus isolation (followed by immunofluorescence or immunohistochemistry), and/or histology (followed by immunofluorescence or immunohistochemistry)
If Ranavirus is diagnosed, the affected aquarium/terrarium should be quarantined and all amphibians affected should be isolated. Treatment should be initiated to prevent secondary bacterial infection and stress minimized. Tanks that have a quarantine and healthy tanks should have separate water sources. To clean these affected tanks, remove debris from the tank surfaces, then disinfect. Suggested disinfectant for housing facilities include Nolvasan (2%) and bleach (3%) for at least 1 minute. Rinse facilities well following disinfection.
Medical management of the symptoms and preventing secondary bacterial infection and stress is the best treatment for a ranavirus; there are no specific drugs to kill a ranavirus nor is there a specific vaccination to protect against it. Euthanasia of particularly ill animals may be considered.
Should you wish to know more about ranaviruses, there is an international symposium on ranaviruses that occurs. Please check listings.
European Association of Zoos and Aquaria. EAZWV Transmissible Disease Fact Sheet Ranavirus Infections in Amphibians. 2011. 5 March 2015. <http://www.eaza.net/activities/tdfactsheets/050%20Ranavirus%20Infection%20In%20Amphibians.doc.pdf>.
Green, D. Earle. "Pathology of Amphibia." Wright, Kevin M. and Brent R. Whitaker. Amphibian Medicine and Captive Husbandry. Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 2001. 418-419.
James F. X. Wellehan, Jr. "Iridovirus Infection." Mayer, Jorg and Thomas M. Donnelly. Clinical Veterinary Advisor Birds and Exotic Pets. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2013. 114-115.
Miller, Debra Lee. "Ranavirus." Mader, Douglas R. and Stephen J. Divers. Current Therapy in Reptile Medicine & Surgery. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2014. 277-280.
National Wildlife Health Center. "Ranavirus." 21 May 2013. National Wildlife Health Center. 5 March 2015.
Northeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. Ranavirus Frequently Asked Questions. January 2014. 5 May 2015. <http://www.northeastparc.org/products/pdfs/NEPARC_Ranavirus_FAQ.pdf>.
OIE. "Infection With Ranavirus." 2007. World Organisation for Animal Health. 5 March 2015.
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The Left-Wing Ideology Behind the Health Care Push
March 12, 2010 by B. Daniel Blatt
If House Democrats had the votes to pass the latest incarnation of the president’s health care overhaul, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long since have scheduled the vote. And her minions wouldn’t be trying to figure out clever procedural gimmicks to ram it and cram it through the House.
I bet that if you had a vote tomorrow in the House on whether the chamber should push forward with some version of the Senate plan or start afresh, starting afresh would win a comfortable majority. (I know that’s not how they vote in Congress, it’s either yes or no on a particular piece of legislation or amendment thereto.) There would be Democrats voting to move on, er, start afresh,ssss that if you combined their tally with the Republican tally, you’d have a majority.
But, since the Democratic leadership sets the schedule in the House, they determine what gets voted on. And they want to pass a massive health care overhaul. It’s not that the grassroots is clamoring for it, well, some in the fringes of the grassroots are, but that Democratic leadership is insisting on it.
Americans have moved on. We’ve made up our minds about the Democrats’ proposed overhaul. And no matter how many more speeches–or campaign-style rallies–the Democrats hold, we’re not going to change our minds.
But, we do see what the Democratic leadership is made of–and the left-wing ideology which defines it.
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Serenity says
March 12, 2010 at 4:59 am - March 12, 2010
This is actually true. What was hoped for in 2008 was solid Democratic support and a few Republicans joining. What we’ve found is conservative and corporatist Democrats wavering, and Republicans in absolute opposition. There’s still definitely a majority in favour of the overhaul in the senate, I don’t think anyone denies that, but there aren’t the 60 votes the Republicans are demanding.
I agree with this too, but what you fail to mention is that the Democrats and Republicans would both be in favour but for diametrically opposed reasons.
The Republicans think the strategy of overhaul with government involvement was flawed from day one, and want a different strategy focused around tort reform and deregulation to stimulate competition in the market.
The Democrats want the public option. As far as they’re concerned, any overhaul is meaningless without a strong public option to provide a large, non-profit insurance option to drive down prices.
So the Republicans want to scrap the entire strategy and go in a different direction, the Democrats want to go back to where we were about six months ago before the bills started getting stripped down in an attempt to get bipartisan support. Both sides are convinced the public are on their side, and the public calling for congress to “start again” can be interpreted either way, though I tend to think interpreting it as support for the Republican way is more of a stretch.
Now this is just dishonest. Of course the grassroots are in favour of a massive healthcare overhaul! They’ve been clamouring for it for decades! What I’ve been hearing from the grassroots is along the lines of “Stop thinking the Republicans will ever support you and just use reconciliation to pass the overhaul without them”. The grassroots are to the left of the current leadership, of that there can be no doubt.
Who’s this ‘we’? I reflected earlier that you seem to be masters of projection. You see the public calling to scrap the current bill and start over, and think of that as support for your view against government involvement in healthcare. I see the same and see it as the public being disgusted with the evisceration of the healthcare bill, and a desire to see the reintroduction of the public option that polled so well back when it was on the table.
With the public option as left-wing and tort reform/deregulation as right-wing, the Democratic leadership is currently sitting bang in the centre. But then ‘left-wing’ isn’t a political ideology around these parts, it’s a pejorative for anyone you don’t like.
Sidana says
Serenity: You do love to live in lala land, but I can guarantee you that the MAJORITY of American’s want this bill dead. Dead and buried. WE want to be able to buy across state lines. We want to be able to get the same deal the Canadians DIDN’T earn or pay for on the drugs. We did. to support their incompetent for runner of the same mess you would force on us.
Of course then where will your Canadian friends go to actually get health care.
Oh.. and by the way? I am by birth a Canadian. quite happy I am NOT up there for healthcare, and down here where I am expected to pay for my own, like a grown up the left will never be, but I get the best, than the garbage they, and you would force on the masses.
Get over yourself. REAL Americans hate this health care take over grab attempt.
Think of health care reform as pizza. If someone proposed that the government buy everybody pizza once a week, it would probably poll pretty well.
Then, people would learn the details. There are only going to be two kinds of pizza, plain and anchovy. And not only that, private pizza companies will only be allowed to make the two kinds of pizza the Government does. And “Pizza Reform” is going to cost a trillion over ten years. The pizza will be made to school cafeteria standards. And anyone who doesn’t want pizza will be forced to pay a fine to subsidize other people’s pizza.
This is a pretty close analogy to the way ObamaCare “Reforms” health insurance.
Now, when some people say, “I don’t like what you’re proposing. I’d rather continue to have a choice and pay for my own pizza,” the pizza reforms advocates say, “What’s wrong? Don’t you want everyone to have pizza? Why so selfish?”
Obviously, there are better ways to reform the system than restricting choice and driving up costs. Unfortunately, it is the Goal of Democrats to restrict choice and drive-up costs.
I love the pizza analogy. And it is truewith anything “run” (and we know they dont supervise anything they do) by the government and paid by the taxpayers – that it is subpar, uniform, top-heavy and not very well-managed. Obama has said in the past he is for a public option and this is just the way forward on that…liberals are always sticking their nose in everyone’s business and trying to control them. Once they have the gov’t agencies in place to control health care delivery, look out!! They are already trying to control inland waters. These people never stop. They should get a life.
Must-read piece in WaPo today from two Democratic pollsters, Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102904.html
…the issue, in voters’ minds, has become less about health care than about the government and a political majority that will neither hear nor heed the will of the people…
For Democrats to begin turning around their political fortunes there has to be a frank acknowledgement that the comprehensive health-care initiative is a failure, regardless of whether it passes.
As for Serenity:
That seems about right.
The Democrats want the public option government takeover, to destroy the private insurance industry as we know it and drive the country toward single-payer over time, as key activists involved with the so-called “public option” have admitted.
But that one was pure blather in its original form, and I had to fix it. (My fix begins with the strikeout.)
Of course the grassroots are in favour of a massive healthcare overhaul!
Now that is just dishonest, Serenity. Unless you’re talking about the grassroots of some completely different country, like say Cuba or North Korea.
Who’s this ‘we’? [who have moved on from the Democrats’ proposals for government takeover of health care]
The American people, Serenity. By large majorities. See my post just about this one, then look at some of the numbers the pollsters cite or follow their embedded links to other pollsters.
With the public option as left-wing and tort reform/deregulation as right-wing, the Democratic leadership is currently sitting bang in the centre.
And that is complete nonsense. You see, whether or not the bill includes your so-called “public option” at this time, the whole thing is a public option. The whole thing (further) burdens American health care with so much in terms of mandates, programs, taxes, spending and regulations, that it *is* a government takeover of health care, whether or not it leaves health care nominally in private hands. So, it is left-wing. It is socialism, in the broad sense. (If you want to use the word “socialism” in the narrower sense of literal government takeover, then “fascism” would be the technical term for what the Democrats are up to.)
Sorry, typo, “my post just -above- this one”
P.S. Another measure of the left-wing ideology behind the health care push (Dan’s title) would be the blatantly unconstitutional character of both the bill itself (i.e. mandates), and the profoundly unconstitutional and anti-democratic means by which the Democrats now propose to pass the measure.
(e.g. the Slaughter Solution, abuses of Reconciliation, etc.)
Evan Hurst says
March 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm - March 12, 2010
What’s always so funny in these pieces is when the writers talk about the “majority” wanting the bill dead. They never mention the fact that the “majority” hates the bill because they’ve absorbed Republican lies about what’s IN the bill, but that it shifts back to majority SUPPORT for overhaul when it’s explained to voters what’s actually IN the bill.
It’s the constant Republican strategy: keep the voters as stupid as possible. It’s just always so hard to tell whether the talking/bloggingheads are stupid like the voters or evil like the corporate entities ginning up fake “grassroots” opposition to it.
I’ll give the benefit of the doubt here: I don’t think the writers here are evil.
the “majority” hates the bill
Well, at least you concede that much of reality.
…because they’ve absorbed Republican lies [sic] about what’s IN the bill…
…hard to tell whether the talking/bloggingheads are *stupid like the voters* [emphasis added]…
Ah, yes. Those pesky, “stupid” voters. The stupid American people. If only America were a dictatorship, then it would have a glorious socialist future, eh Evan?
majority SUPPORT… when it’s explained to votersl
Ah, that Canard. V already answered it:
They never mention the fact that the “majority” hates the bill because they’ve absorbed Republican lies about what’s IN the bill
Actually, the most effective Republican strategy has been to simply point out what’s in the bill, i.e. the Cornhusker Kickback.
The problem is that Evan and the rest of the Obama worshipers simply are so divorced from reality that they see unicorns and skittles everywhere they look. Even though the bill clearly cuts Medicare benefits, something that even Barack Obama had to admit in the health care “summit”, Evan and his fellow Obama worshipers insist that it does not and that any attempts to say otherwise are “lies”.
Here’s a question, Evan; why is it your belief that only you are correct and that all voters are stupid? Is it because of your sexual orientation?
The pizza we had in school wasn’t too shabby. Not what I would want to eat all the time though.
Did I ever say all voters are stupid, NorthDallasThirty?
No, just voters like you. And actually yeah, a great majority of American voters are pretty stupid when it comes to matters of governing and policy, because our current media encourages ignorance. They encourage people to use flyover-country “common sense” rather than actual policy knowledge or anything that smacks of book larnin’.
But as I said before, actual polling shows that when the actual elements of the bill (not the fever dreams of wingnuts) are explained, it’s got broad support. You just have to make sure voters understand which things are actual elements of the bill and which are just giblets from Sarah Palin’s illiterate vomit.
And no, sweetheart, it doesn’t cut Medicare benefits. This has been explained time and time again, but there’s no use trying to explain things to to the mental equivalent of huffed paint, so I’m certainly not going to waste my time. Perhaps you can find a copy of the bill and read it for yourself, or maybe have someone read it to you. I’m very sorry it doesn’t have any pictures, though. Maybe they’ll come out with a pop-up version?
Also? These people were duly elected. If you don’t like the bill they pass, then campaign against it, and if you regain a majority try to repeal it. (Fat chance of that happening, of course, because once it’s passed and people start benefiting from it, the GOP wouldn’t DARE repeal it. That’s why they’ve been lying about the bill from the start, because they know they can’t argue with it on policy terms.)
The comment about “Obama worshippers” is hilarious, since I’ve been calling the administration out on its ass since he was inaugurated, but that goes against your narrative, and thus yoy can’t grasp it. I understand that and I meet you where you are, rather than where I’d like you to be mentally.
Oh, and the pizza analogy is completely backward, so a giant gold star is awarded for that one. (Also, PS: Part of the reason for the low polling on HCR is that progressives are pissed off about it. Hate to break it to you. Remember when public approval sank? It was when the public option was removed and the Senate started buying off conservatarded Democrats like Nelson and Lieberman.
Anyway, no need to expect another response, because I have no desire to hang out at your little intellectual Chernobyl any longer. Bored!
It’s just always so hard to tell whether the talking/bloggingheads are stupid like the voters
And no, sweetheart, it doesn’t cut Medicare benefits. This has been explained time and time again, but there’s no use trying to explain things to to the mental equivalent of huffed paint, so I’m certainly not going to waste my time.
Well, first, we have the CBO, which had to read the bill in order to score it, stating that benefits would be reduced.
And then we have the author, chief promoter, and pusher himself stating that benefits would be reduced.
3:05 p.m.: Obama clarifies that cuts would apply to Medicare Advantage, an enhanced Medicare benefits program.
Now, the stupid one here would seem to be the person who was screaming at the top of his lungs that no benefits would be cut when there is clear, obvious evidence from the people who have read AND written the bill that benefits would be cut.
But then again, we can’t expect a “real gay” like yourself to do actual research, versus just repeating Obama Party talking points. That would be too much of that “common sense” to be actually referring to the facts versus doing exactly what the Obama Party tells you to do. Besides, you’re a minority, so you’re not expected to be capable of thought. That’s why you have the Obama Party — because everyone else expects you to do things right, versus just patting you on the head and telling you that everything you do is right because you’re LGBT.
I have no desire to hang out at your little intellectual Chernobyl any longer. Bored!
I’ll take “Things Progs Say When They’re Losing an Argument for $200, Alex.”
Was that the category? Or was it “Promises That Never Come True”?
This may be a dumb question, but if the “public option” has overwhelming popular support, why is it not in the bill?
March 12, 2010 at 10:26 pm - March 12, 2010
For the libs who troll here:
If House Democrats had the votes to pass the latest incarnation of the president’s health care overhaul….
and you ignore the incontrovertible fact that there have been untold targets and villains and causes and predictions and reasons for “health care reform” floated by Pelosi, Reid, Obama, et al since the whole sideshow began in early 2009. Then you show up with statements like this:
There’s still definitely a majority in favour of the overhaul in the senate….
What, pray tell, is the overhaul? 2,000+ pages of jargon and constant wrangling over what it says and there is a majority in favor of the overhaul in the Senate as if it is no more complicated than rearranging the colors on a stop light?
They never mention the fact that the “majority” hates the bill because they’ve absorbed Republican lies about what’s IN the bill, but that it shifts back to majority SUPPORT for overhaul when it’s explained to voters what’s actually IN the bill.
That verges on the impossible. I don’t get it. If you listen to Republicans you are saps who feed on lies. Then you get turned back into informed mainstream educated voters when the Democrats speak. How does that work?
This nebulous “overhaul” terminology is about as useful as hope and change. I would like the libs to lay out what is in the overhaul with which they are so intimately familiar and which they so totally favor. And, I would like to know what all the constant Democrat meetings and chatter about adding this and taking out that is about behind closed doors.
But, alas, there is scant chance that any lib troll is really interested in dealing with facts.
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The Fountain of Youth
It seems as though a scientist had discovered the long lost formula sought by Ponce de Leon for the elixir of youth. But there was a problem: the recipe called for the eggs of a very particular species of sea bird, which was native to a very small portion of the Florida coast. And some developer had opened an African Safari theme park right on that very spot.
But this wasn't the only issue. According to some fragments of ancient documents describing the effects, it could be bungled in such a way as to cause instant death rather than everlasting youth. Those same documents stated that the only other animal besides man that was effected by the drink were cetaceans, a family of marine mammals, including dolphins, whales, etc.
But who could resist the Fountain of Youth? Our intrepid scientist got access to a local water park by posing as a marine biologist, figuring he could test the stuff on the animals there before he quaffed it himself. And he convinced the owner of the safari park that he was an ornithologist, in order to get to the nesting grounds of the birds. Everything seemed to be falling into place.
And indeed, all was going well - he gathered the eggs without a hitch. On the way back to his vehicle, he encountered a pride of lions directly in his path, dozing regally in the summer sun. He very carefully picked his way across, and finally got back to the parking lot, ready to jump in his car and hard for the aquarium. But instead, he was met by the police and arrested.
The charge? Transporting young gulls across stately lions for immortal porpoises...
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The Rise and Fall of Pseudonyms
Lot's of folks have pointed out how email destroyed the art of letter writing, but this is the first time I've considered that the venerable pseudonym may have seen it's better days. Ubiquity strikes again...
Thanks partly to the Internet, pseudonymity is decidedly less dramatic these days. Fake names are more popular than ever, yet the pseudonym as it once existed is just about dead. In the 19th century, when the practice reached its height, or even in the early 20th century, authorial disguise often carried considerable psychological investment and a genuine need for secrecy. Today, privacy has become less desirable and less possible. An IP address is easy to trace. Many bloggers use an array of noms de plume, but often as a means of generating publicity or branding a “persona.” It’s self-promotion under the pretense of hiding.
(link) [New York Times]
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Eating less salt doesn't cut heart risks: study
Wait a second: you mean I might have been onto something all along?
People who ate lots of salt were not more likely to get high blood pressure, and were less likely to die of heart disease than those with a low salt intake, in a new European study.
(link) [Reuters]
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Have lying mortgage bankers met their match?
We can always hope ... but given the track record, I'm not holding my breath.
How fitting that when Wall Street finally takes a hit after years of mortgage malpractice, the stick is called the False Claims Act.
(link) [CNN Money]
Need a Six-Pack? Hit the Basement
Brewing is a massively popular hobby among Heathens - I can think of very few of us who have not, at one time or another, tried our hand at brewing beer or making mead. I myself once jumped in ...
If I recall correctly, it was 1995. I decided to try my hand at mead making, and dredged up a high school memory of using honey and water with bread yeast to make a quasi-alcoholic brew in science class. I had fond memories of that class, and tossing all advice to the wind, proceeded to reproduce the stuff as best as I was able. I carefully made up about 5 gallons, stopping the process when the hydrometer indicated about 10% alcohol. I bottled it up and let it age for a few months, never tasting it. At Midsummer, I brought it out and presented it to the kin.
It was, in a word, wretched. The bouquet was faintly reminiscent of old sweat socks, and it had a flavor to match. I don't think anybody could finish their bottle - many "libations" were poured that evening, though I doubt a single one was dedicated to the Shining Gods and Goddesses...
It did have one good effect - it prompted the kin to begin to bring copious quantities of their own meads and ales to blot. I was the godhi at the time, and it was technically my responsibility to supply the alcohol. I think my kinsfolk were afraid I'd inflict more of my homebrew on them, so they kept the kindred well supplied indeed. "The Godhi's Own Mead" had become more of a threat than a beverage!
In 1997, when I was preparing to move to Minnesota, I discovered the remainder of my experiments in a cabinet over the stove. I certainly didn't want to drag that rotgut 600 miles, so I pulled the bottles down, opened one and began pouring it down the sink, planning on giving the empty bottles to my kinsfolk who really could brew.
But the stuff was bubbly. And it smelled wonderful! With no little trepidation, I poured some into a glass and took a taste. It was wonderful! Almost a "champagne mead"! I was flabbergasted.
Trothmoot was coming up, and I took a couple of bottles and entered them in the mead brewing competition. If I recall correctly, I finished second, with many comments on what an unusual beverage I'd concocted. And no little disbelief when I told the tale of it's making. But I was thoroughly pleased with myself, and felt redeemed. The rest of the batch made the trip to the north with me.
And got poured down the drain the following year, when I offered some up to another kindred, only to discover that my prize winning brew had reverted to musty sweat socks and stinking cheese flavored juice! I haven't brewed since...
Maybe I should give it another try, with real brewers yeast this time. But then I taste some of the products that my kinsmen produce, and resolve to stick to shepherding and coding, lest I prove my "rank" amateur status once again.
Tim Artz's brewery is enclosed by glass walls on three sides and looks out onto a bluff of apple trees and a garden filled with beans, squash and 35 varieties of pepper. On a raw April morning, the brewery doors were open but the brewery itself was warm; the gas burner below the 30-gallon brew tank was cranking at near full power.
(link) [NY Times]
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Supreme Court sides with pharmaceutical industry in two decisions
By this logic, if I start building Ford Pinto clones, whose patents have expired and so is now a "generic" product, the suckers who buy them can't sue me when they explode in a rear end collision because Ford didn't warn of that danger when they manufactured the Pinto.
The second ruling is even more incredible.
Can doctors now sell their patients medical records? If not, why not? How will this impact the Privacy Rule?
Following this reasoning, lawyers should now be able to sell all of their conversations with clients to the highest bidder. First Amendment, you know. Guess we'll have to wait to see how that proposition fares in the courts.
Justices rule that generic drug makers cannot be sued by injured patients in most cases and that drug manufacturers have a 1st Amendment right to buy private prescription records to use for marketing purposes.
(link) [LA Times]
Odin from Lejre? No, it's Freya!
Given the context of the high seat I'd say it's more likely Frigga than Freyja, or perhaps even a spákona, but a fascinating and beautiful find nonetheless.
So you're a metal detectorist and you find a silver figurine at storied Lejre in Denmark. It depicts a person sitting in a high seat whose posts end in two wolves' heads. And on either arm rest sits a raven. The style is typical for about AD 900. So when you hand the thing over to the site manager, he of course exclaims, "Holy shit! It's Odin!". And that's what he tells the press.
Until somebody like me comes along and points out that it's a woman.
(link) [Aardvarchaeology]
Little things Delphi gets right
Having spent my entire working time in the last decade coding in C, C++, Objective C and Delphi (in the broadest sense - Objective Pascal), I can only say that this essay is spot on. It is vastly easier for any coder, at any skill level, to write readable and secure code in Pascal than in any dialect of C.
He makes several good point on syntax, too. How many C programmers have been bitten at one time or another by making an assignment in an if statement without the compiler saying a word? It's also true about hassle free linking - I have code where the main program is in Pascal and several routines were written in C. It was simple to accomplish this. On the other hand, trying to get a C program to link in a Pascal lib or object file can be like pulling teeth.
So for those of you who still labor under the delusion that Pascal is a dead language, washed away by the superior tides of C, read this and weep. Then fire up Delphi or Lazarus and write some clean, secure code for a change...
For those who haven’t seen it yet, due to popular demand, the StackOverflow people created a new site called programmers.stackexchange.com, a site for the more subjective questions that StackOverflow isn’t really designed for. Someone recently set up a poll: What’s your favorite programming language. You can probably guess what my answer was.
(link) [Turbu Tech]
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Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age
I ran into this somewhat in my recent job search - but not enough to knock me completely out of the market. Then again, I'm in the Midwest, not California. And I've heard horror stories out of the Valley about the near impossibility of getting a decent gig if you're over 50.
An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is both a shortage and a surplus of engineers in the United States. Talk to those working at any Silicon Valley company, and they will tell you how hard it is to find qualified talent. But listen to the heart-wrenching stories of unemployed engineers, and you will realize that there are tens of thousands who can’t get jobs. What gives?
(link) [Tech Crunch]
Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
Your tax dollars at work - writing rootkits! I'm sure the targets will always be "bad guys" ... with whatever working definition of "bad" happens to be currently in vogue with the government.
And slipping this stuff in via USB ports or Firewire (as mentioned in the article) is not the easiest way to get malware onto a system. The easiest way is to get the user to install it themselves, or better yet, sell them the system with the vuln built in. I wonder if anybody out there in the wide world might think of us as "bad guys"?
In 2009, HBGary had partnered with the Advanced Information Systems group of defense contractor General Dynamics to work on a project euphemistically known as "Task B." The team had a simple mission: slip a piece of stealth software onto a target laptop without the owner's knowledge.
(link) [Ars Technica]
A Glad Midsummer!
Well, today is Midsummer, and the Wheel of the Year has cycled once again. There's been so much going on that I hardly know where to start. So let's start with the best: I've got a new job! I'm still writing code, but I'm no longer in consumer electronics. It's all system level stuff in Linux, and so far it's all in C++. Python is promised on the horizon, and some of the older control software is written in Delphi. My new co-workers were very interested to hear about Lazarus...
This meant a healthy raise, and my timing was perfect. My old employer had decided to return the money they'd withheld over the course of the past year just before I handed in my notice, so I got what amounted to a nice bonus check on my last day. But the real bonus is my new employer: it's the best place I've ever worked, and I've worked a lot of places. I was able to hold my oath, the systems are well designed and documented, and even some of the manufacturing is still done on site. Most of my new colleagues are around my age, with about the same level of experience. "Geezer geeks" is my own term for the likes of us - techno-curmudgeons. It makes for interesting conversations, that's for sure!
On the farm front, shearing was complete by the end of May with very little trouble. Even Mild Thing lived up to her name!
Given that we had a little spending money, we engaged in what our daughters refer to as "retail therapy", and Lorraine is in her chair next to me reading on her new Nook Color. She loves it - and I must say that it lives up to it's good reviews. I helped her load up on classics from Project Gutenberg, and I think she's started on War and Peace...
We picked the Nook over it's competition for it's web capabilities - and we have not been disappointed. It's my first real exposure to an Android device, and I must say I've been impressed. The only dumb design issue is the use of a specialized USB cable, which I assume was for easier (and faster?) recharging. But that's a small thing for such a nice tablet. Yeah, I called it a tablet, because it's certainly a lot more than just an ebook reader.
I've got a big backlog of items in my "to be posted" folder - with any luck at all I'll start working my way through them (as well as new stuff that pops up) and my lengthy stays away from blogging with be a thing of the past. But blogging is a habit, and I'm going to have to work somewhat to reacquire it, so no promises!
The Girl Who Cast a Viking Spell
I'm not a fan of Larsson's fiction, and I've got no interest in his personal life. But I do have an interest in this:
She talked forthrightly about the oddest passage in her book, a description of an elaborate Viking curse she delivered on New Year’s Eve 2004 against all her and Larsson’s enemies: the false friends, the cowards “who let Stieg fight your battles while you raked in the salaries of your cushy jobs,” the wearers of “suits, ties and wingtips,” the evil ones “who plotted, spied and stirred up prejudice.”
Traditionally, such curses were accompanied by the sacrifice of a live horse, but instead Ms. Gabrielsson broke a ceramic horse sculpture in two and tossed it into Lake Malaren in Stockholm. Nevertheless, it worked, she insisted.
She's describing a nidstang, also known as a "nithing pole". Potent stuff, indeed. And not something us modern heathens do frequently or without much forethought.
There's no indication Ms. Gabrielsson is a heathen. So she (or they, if Larsson was in on it) must've done this "on the wing", as it were. Which says a lot about the revival of folk traditions, or even their survival.
Eva Gabrielsson, who found herself pursued by fame and controversy as the longtime companion of Stieg Larsson, the posthumously best-selling author of the Millennium trilogy of Swedish crime thrillers, has published a book of her own.
Underground Website Lets You Buy Any Drug Imaginable
Fascinating on several levels - BitCoin, Tor and the admin's political philosophy:
Silk Road’s administrator cites the anarcho-libertarian philosophy of Agorism. “The state is the primary source of violence, oppression, theft and all forms of coercion,” Silk Road wrote to us. “Stop funding the state with your tax dollars and direct your productive energies into the black market.”
Nice to know there's other agorists out there! Of course the State already sees the threat. And their toadies are playing along. This could get interesting ...
Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road.
(link) [Wired]
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Letters & Papers: 1532 Volume 5
Title: Francis I Instructions to Cardinal Tournon and Grammont
[What the two cardinals shall say to the pope]
1541. Francis I.
Instructions to cardinals Tournon and Grammont.
After presenting to the Pope the King's cordial recommendations, the Cardinals shall tell him that at the late interview between the kings of England and France at Boulogne, great complaints were made of his Holiness's conduct in the matter of the two tenths granted to the French king for the defence of Christendom; and the new exactions placed on the expedition of bulls. Full instructions are given for their remonstrance on this subject.
They shall also say that the two Kings are so closely united that the interests of both are the same, and if the Pope provokes them into undertaking anything against him, great damage may ensue. Once they had intended to do so, but have decided to request reparation first; and in case of delay, which will be taken for refusal, they will demand a General Council in eight months, or, if that cannot be done, in three months after that. If the Pope will not, they will hold the Council themselves. All princes and kingdoms will adhere to them, and especially the princes of Germany, Lutherans, and others. The Kings' subjects will be forbidden to send money to Rome directly or indirectly.
If the Pope uses censures, and the King is forced to go to Rome for absolution, he will go so well accompanied that the Pope will be very glad to grant it. The Cardinals must represent to the Pope the state of Christendom, and the evils which would result from the Kings being separated from the Church by lack of justice.
The French king will be willing to meet the Pope at Nice or Avignon, as his Holiness sent word by the card. Grammont that he would meet the King after the Emperor's departure from Italy. He will procure the king of England to come also, so that all things may be arranged. The Cardinals shall do what they can in the matter of the king of England, as if it was the King's own affair. Amyens, 13 Nov. 1532.
Henry VIII, the Reign.
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InterSystems Announces HealthShare Personal Community, a Comprehensive Patient Engagement Solution
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13, 2015 — InterSystems, the global leader in software for connected care, today announced HealthShare Personal Community, a patient engagement solutionbuilt on the interoperable InterSystems HealthShare® health informatics platform. InterSystems unveiled Personal Community today at the annual HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference in Chicago.
Personal Community is a configurable, vendor-neutral patient engagement solution for healthcare providers that gives patients an easy-to-understand, comprehensive view of their health information. Certified for meaningful use Stage 2, it supports services such as appointments, prescription refills, provider-patient dialog, and patient education. Because Personal Community is built on the HealthShare interoperable foundation, it provides patients as well as their authorized representatives a single point of access to electronic medical records in multiple formats and from many care settings – removing the hassle of managing multiple portals and passwords.
Patients can view, download, and transmit all or portions of their records to other members of the care team. An intuitive interface makes it easy for patients to review the medical record for accuracy, helping them partner with their providers for safer, high-quality care.
Third-Generation Portal
Early patient portals were one-dimensional personal health record (PHR) applications that required the patient to enter extensive personal data – dooming them to failure. Second-generation portals, driven by meaningful use requirements, are single-source solutions tethered to individual electronic health record (EHR) systems, resulting in fragmented health information. Personal Community is the first third-generation patient engagement platform designed from the ground up on an interoperable foundation, ensuring the patient has a single gateway to medical records across the care continuum.
Personal Community is an outgrowth of InterSystems’ deep experience and investment in health information exchange worldwide.
“The vision behind HealthShare is simple: to transform healthcare by sharing health information and connecting communities. In addition to providing the interoperability platform connecting private health systems, regional health information exchanges, and national health systems around the world, we are now building solutions that directly empower patients and enhance their relationships with physicians, care managers, health plans and everyone else involved in their care,” said Joe DeSantis, Vice President, HealthShare Platforms, InterSystems.
Customer Perspectives
HealthShare Personal Community has been in production use since last year. The following customers have deployed Personal Community for their own branded patient engagement solutions:
Neil Kudler, MD, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Baystate Health, a health system serving western Massachusetts and creator of the Pioneer Valley Information Exchange (PVIX):
“Our patient engagement platform, My Baystate Health, is built on HealthShare Personal Community. Giving patients direct access to their medical information is a dramatic change in the culture of care. When patients can view their health status, not only does that serve as an engagement tool, but it becomes crucial data for the provider and the care team – something we’ve not otherwise been able to avail ourselves to. And the beautiful thing about InterSystems HealthShare is that it lets us design exactly what we believe is right for our patients. If we had gone with a portal tied to our enterprise EHR, it would have been much less flexible and harder to integrate data from other systems into our portal.”
Mark McKinney, CEO, Hixny, a regional health information exchange serving upstate New York that is helping providers meet meaningful use requirements cost-effectively:
“High-quality, affordable healthcare requires well-informed communication. Without that, everyone in healthcare has a different, and often incomplete, view. To transform care, information needs to follow patients as they move from one setting to another, at the transitions of care, from the hospital to the primary care facility to the specialist or a home care setting. The Hixny Secure Patient Portal, built on HealthShare Personal Community, provides a 360-degree view of each patient. As an alternative to costly, tethered solutions, we have a community wide solution that creates economies of scale and drives adoption in a way that couldn’t otherwise be achieved. We already have thousands of patients viewing their records online across the upstate New York region.”
Wayne Fellmeth, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Hunterdon Healthcare System, a community health system in New Jersey using the HealthShare information exchange as the enabling infrastructure for a medical home model:
“We created Hunterdon Healthy ConnectionsTM, based on HealthShare Personal Community, because we want our patients to see this tool as a means of communication with their providers and as a ready source of reliable health information. A relatively healthy patient interacts face to face with a physician only about one hour per year. We have a vision to extend that interaction through a consumer-centric online patient wellness environment – one place, a ‘start page,’ where you can not only find all your own health records, but where you can research options, manage the health of your family, and communicate with your care team. Our portal leverages the comprehensive record in our ‘health cloud’ and, over time, we hope to make it the starting point for all community interaction with our healthcare system.”
Personal Community Availability and Features
Unlike single-source EHR-based portals created purely to “check the box” for meaningful use requirements, HealthShare Personal Communitysupports patient-centric communication for care coordination. Itoffers a real-time, intuitive view of all the information in the composite health record.
The look and feel of Personal Community is fully configurable to support the organization’s branding and market identity. The customer determines what data and what format to present to patients, the enrollment model most appropriate to the population, and the local content and reference materials to complement the overall engagement strategy.
Personal Community is available immediately. Pricing is based on the size and scope of the customer’s healthcare operations.
Designed for healthcare systems, health plans, and private and public health information exchanges, Personal Community provides these capabilities:
Intuitive health timeline. Personal Community displays information in a variety of intuitive formats designed for patient use. Health history can be viewed in an episodic timeline, or information such as medications can be searched and viewed directly.
Secure Messaging. Patients can communicate with any member of their care team connected to Personal Community. Messages can be delivered via Direct or other standards, or directly into the in box of the clinician’s system.
Enrollment and Proxy. Enrollment is handled at the point of care, initiated by a patient or via an external application such as a registration system. Patients can assign family members or others on the care team as proxies who can view their records.
Convenience Services. Referral and prescription refill requests, appointment scheduling services, form and document management, and similar services are available to support efficient patient-provider interactions.
Local education content. Health providers can add local news and events, links to community resources, and relevant patient education materials to create a trusted information environment that enhances the patient-provider relationship.
Workbench and configuration. A fullback-office management portal is included for enrollment, proxy assignment, task management, and customization. Configuration capabilities include the look and feel, the functions to display, and when and how data should be provided to patients, including terminology translation.
“InterSystems believes that enabling healthcare applications and communities to work together, in an easy and meaningful way, empowers healthcare organizations to make long-term improvements that change patients’ lives for the better. Personal Community is the latest example of our commitment to deliver solutions for better, more connected care,” added Paul Grabscheid, Vice President, Strategic Planning, for InterSystems.
For more information about theInterSystems HealthShare family of extensible, interoperable healthcare solutions, please visit www.intersystems.com/healthshare.
About InterSystems
InterSystems develops advanced software technologies that enable breakthroughs. With a passion for excellence and a focus on client success, InterSystems provides data management, strategic interoperability, and analytics platforms used in healthcare, financial services, government, and dozens of other industries. InterSystems also offers unified healthcare applications, based on its core technologies, that deliver on the promise of connected healthcare. Founded in 1978, InterSystems is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), with offices worldwide. Its products are used daily by millions of people in more than 100 countries. Visit InterSystems.com.
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Russian-Nazi racist helped Black colleges
August 21, 2017 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
Scott Adams has been pushing a certain list of Trump accomplishments as President. Adams says:
1. Identify your most lefty, Trump-hating friend or family member.
2. Share this link of President Trump’s accomplishments while you are in the same room so you can watch them read it.
3. Watch as your lefty friend turns “cognitively blind” to the list of accomplishments as if it is not really there. Your subject will KNOW President has accomplished nothing…
…The list will simply be “invisible,” but not in the literal sense, only the mental sense. If you check back in two days, your anti-Trumper will claim once again no such list exists. Watch their eyes when they say it. It will be freaky.
To be fair, some items on the list are a bit exaggerated. But others, I had no idea about. Most of the media never told me. For example, this one about black colleges caught my eye:
February 28… President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at signaling his commitment to historically black colleges and universities…
“This is a great day for my membership and a great day for America,” said Lezli Baskerville, head of the National Association For Equal Opportunity in Education, an umbrella group for public, private and land-grant HBCUs…
Trump’s order moves the Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from the Department of Education into the executive office of the White House. It directs the initiative to work with the private sector to strengthen the fiscal stability of HBCUS, make infrastructure improvements, provide job opportunities for students, work with secondary schools to create a college pipeline and increase access and opportunity for federal grants and contracts.
Separately and also interesting, there’s the freeing of Aya Hijazi:
April 21… President Donald Trump hailed the return of Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker, in the Oval Office on Friday, telling the American charity worker she showed “great strength” in her ordeal.
“We are very happy to have Aya back home,” Trump said, seated alongside Hijazi, who returned from Egypt late Thursday. “It’s a great honor to have her in the Oval Office with her brother.”
…Trump was briefed on Hijazi’s case early in his term and directed his national security team to take steps to secure her release…
Obviously, this post’s title is sarcastic.
Filed Under: Donald Trump, Hysteria on the Left, Media Bias, Racism (Real / Reverse / or Faux), Trump-hatred Tagged With: cognitive dissonance, Donald Trump, Hysteria on the Left, media bias, Racism (Real / Reverse / or Faux), Trump-hatred
August 21, 2017 at 7:46 am - August 21, 2017
With the HBC, it’s amusing how Huff Po Black Voices (which has become so vile, it’s descended beyond where even I can troll it.) dealt with the executive order. “Press Oportunity” “Exploiting our poor students” “Sham…” They refused to accept it. They were as blind to the facts as mikey.
This is the recurring theme : For the left, like middle school students, the message isn’t the issue, the messenger is the issue. Trump could commute the sentences of every Black person in America and announce a $50,000 reparation payment to every Black person in America. Antifa and BLM would call it a bribe.
The reason people forget that day when signed that executive order, was because…
“OMG!! FEET ON THE SOFA!!!”
Trump exposes the depth of leftie prejudice against non-lefties.
I started to type “against straight white males”, but Palin and any black conservative suffers the same fate, while Bernie doesn’t – but he would, if he were non-socialist.
People attract leftie hatred whenever there’s a chance that they might look at lefties funny or not reliably tell lefties what they want to hear.
August 21, 2017 at 10:10 am - August 21, 2017
One of the problems Black Colleges have is that they are not held to the same standards as other colleges. (I have insider information on this.) Black Colleges are allowed to slide on a lot of things that would cause other schools to lose their accreditation.
By letting them slide on standards, the Accreditation panels hurt them because the quality of instruction is allowed to deteriorate. Accreditation Board think they are doing them a favor, but in the real world, the deficiencies of, say, Morgan State U in Maryland are well known and it hurts the reputations of people who graduate from there.
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This is precisely the reason that the real story wasn’t covered. The Orange Menace had edumacated Black people in the Oval Office, on Barack Obama’s carpet (which he defiles every day just by walking on it). I recall the EO as being quickly dismissed as “not really doing anything to increase the graduation rate of Black students” and then of course it was all about that ditzy blonde’s insouciance in attempting to take a picture of the event.
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"Georg Leitner and his company will always go that extra mile. It's a pleasure to work with them every time. " - Steve Symons - Glastonbury Festival,
"So many fantastic artists you have! CHAKA KHAN is one of my favorites!" - Anja Katrine Tomter - AnJazz - Hamar Jazzfestival,
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“Yes Sir, I can boogie”, “Sorry I´m a Lady”, “Darling”, “Parlez-vous Francais”, “The devil sent you to Laredo” and “Cara Mia” are among the Great Hits that the voice of Mayte Mateos, catapulted Baccara to top top of the Hit Parades almost all over the World in the 70´s and 80´s. At her side is Paloma Blanco, a wellknown artist / singer from the Spanish entertainment world. They have since then continued to release rather successful cd´s in 1999, 2004 as well as in 2008. All with the Original Voice of all their Hits.
A 30-40 min show with Baccara, contain these songs plus a string of other wellknown Baccara songs, such as “Granada”, “Carino”, “La Bamba” and “Soy Tu Venus” from theis Swedish eurovision Contest in 2004.Let Mayte Mateos , the original voice of all Baccara Hits, together with Paloma Blanco entertain you with a great show full of Hits and Spanish temperament.
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Home > News > ICAEW calls for further guidance on CIS changes
ICAEW calls for further guidance on CIS changes
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has called on HMRC to publish draft regulations and guidance on the forthcoming changes to the construction industry scheme (CIS).
The ICAEW has urged HMRC to “move quickly” to give businesses enough time to prepare, as changes are set to take effect from April 2021. Alternatively, it says the Government should consider pushing the measures back to 2022.
So far, HMRC have yet to publish further guidance, including secondary legislation and IT specifications.
The organisation has also raised concerns about plans to remove firms’ ability to take the cost of materials into account when “paying down the chain”.
It said the change may mean businesses are left without enough cash to pay subcontractors the amount they are owed.
The ICAEW said:
“As there are now only three months until the implementation date, consideration should be given to deferring commencement until April 2022.”
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UK economy remains “unusually uncertain”, warns BoE
UK economy to contract by 11.3% in 2020
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Avoid Nigeria – Tems threatens Uganda singer, BebeCool over arrest
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Fast-rising Nigerian artist, Tems has revealed that Ugandan singer, known as Bebe Cool was behind her and Omah Lay’s arrest in the country.
Recall that Tems and Omah Lay were arrested and remanded in a Ugandan prison days ago for violations of COVID-19 guidelines in the country.
However, their release was facilitated by Nigerian government and they returned on Thursday .
Tems, on her Twitter page on Friday night, called out Bebe Cool for getting them arrested and claiming responsibility for their release.
According to her, Bebecool’s friend broke into their room after he called the police.
Her tweet read: “First of all, You are what I call a stinking dirty fu*king Bi*ch. BebeCoolUG You called the police on us. You got us arrested.
“Your friend broke into our room and took us after you called. Only for me to see you in the DPO’s office, chilling and laughing with him. Lmao in my presence and you thought I would sit there and allow you to speak to me. You are worse than shit.”
Tems threatening BebeCool warned him to never enter Nigeria or be seen in the same place with her.
“I know you before? Who the f*ck are you? You followed the police around and bribed them to send you pictures of our release papers so that you can look like you had anything to do with the release. See your head? Na pit latrine they inside your brain.
“Avoid Nigeria for the rest of your life @BebeCool If you ever find out I’m in the same place as you run for your life because I will not be in chains and nothing will stop me from pouncing on you.”
Tems who had earlier described her experience in the Uganda prison as an eye opener, noted that she would never speak on the incident again.
“You should cut off your dick, it’s clearly too small to be useful. This is the last time I’m speaking about this. Enjoy the Clout @BebeCoolUG It is the most you will EVER get in your life,” Tems added.
#BBNaija SEASON 5: Meet the housemates
After many weeks of waiting, the popular reality TV show, Big Brother Naija is back with a new season that promises to be filled with immense drama and excitement. According to organisers, MultiChoice Nigeria, the winner of this year’s edition will be going home with N85 million worth of prizes! Yes, way bigger than the previous editions. The breakdown of the prizes for the winner includes: a N30m cash prize; a top SUV; a trip to Dubai for two; a trip to Dublin; a two bedroom apartment; three smartphones; and a year’s supply of selected food stuff, snacks and drinks. There’s also a bonus prize of two VIP Tickets to watch a Champion League final game live. Meet the housemates: DORATHY Dorathy Bachor is a 24-year-old entrepreneur from Lagos. She believes she is the only one who should make you smile. Her sassiness will definitely prove to be an asset in Biggie’s house. What new habit or skill did you acquire during lockdown? I can sleep for more than four hours. I also discovered the abi
#BBNaija 2020: Get out, I’m done with you – Erica blasts Laycon
Big Brother Naija Lockdown housemate, Ngozi Nlewedim, popularly known as Erica, has berated fellow housemates, Laycon, for gossiping about her with the others. Laycon, who has a very strong feeling for Erica, seems to have been affected by the outcome of rejection as the Abia-born female housemate picked Kiddwaya over him. For this reason, Laycon has been seen at different times and locations discussing Erica and telling fellow housemates how he feels being rejected. Erica had once made it clear that while she is mentally attracted to Laycon, she is physically attracted to her lover, Kiddwaya. Addressing the housemates during Sunday’s live eviction, the reality tv show host, Ebuka had drawn the attention of Erica to things going on around her, one of which was Vee advising Laycon on how to handle his feelings for Erica. After the live eviction, Erica chatted with Vee, wondering why Laycon hasn’t moved on yet. Erica said that by now Laycon should move on and stop going around telling th
#BBNaija 2020: Kiddwaya’s mother finally speaks with Erica, details of conversation revealed
Susan Waya, mother of Big Brother Naija, BBNaija, evicted housemate, Kiddwaya, has finally reached out to ex-housemate, Erica. Mrs Waya, who spoke with Erica on phone, described the evicted BBNaija housemate as a “sweet lady.” She disclosed this to The Boss, a newspaper owned by Dele Momodu, on Monday. Mrs Waya who lives in Essex, United Kingdom said their conversation lasted for about 10 minutes. “She’s such a sweet lady… I’m looking forward to meeting her and can’t wait to see my son very soon in Lagos,” she said. Recall that Erica and Kiddwaya were involved in what many termed as a relationship while on the reality show. Though, they had their on-and-off moments, but the romantic cord between them was unmistakable. While Erica was disqualified from the BBNaija reality television show two weeks ago, Kiddwaya was evicted on Sunday.
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How to say "I didn't know where it came from" in French?
1. Je ne savais pas d'où ça venait.
I didn't know where it came from
Guide to French understanding phrases
Q: How to say I am beginning to understand. in French?
A: Je commence à comprendre. (human translation)
Q: How to say I don't know what you mean. in French?
A: Je ne sais pas ce que tu veux dire. (human translation)
Q: How to say That is somewhat explained at the end. in French?
A: C'est ce qui est expliqué à la fin. (human translation)
Can you tell me where the nearest bus stop is?
Why didn't you call me?
Are you going anywhere?
Your parents didn't come, did they?
I didn't mean it.
Leave that box where it is.
Have you made up your mind where to go for the holidays?
I waited for an hour, but he didn't appear.
Can't you see a stapler somewhere around there?
That's where I can't agree with you.
Guess where I've been?
I didn't mean to hurt you.
You can go anywhere you like.
The job isn't anywhere near done.
Leave it where you found it.
Please tell us where there is a spice shop.
Do you know where the nearest American Express office is?
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Plague of Plagues is an album released on January 15, by French record label Drakkar Productions. A work by Norwegian black metal act Enepsigos, the record, almost one hour long, has eight tracks: the eponymous Plague of Plagues, Rütne Engler, Pagan Rites, The Cold Bones, Manifestum, Massedrapssalmer, Ghoul and Askenatt. A little hard to properly evaluate, Plague of Plagues is as equal as is different from a lot of other albums in the genre. With solid harmonies and a very consistent technical work, their style rely primarily in very rapid rhythms, upon which pungent vocals – more firm and abrasive than grotesque –, aggressive guitars and perpetually disdainful drums perfectly complement the sound, in a cohesive musical alignment, that rapidly makes you acknowledge that these skilled artists really known what they’re doing.
Although not a typical album by the classic Norwegian black metal standards – the record has too much death metal features in it, although not to the extent of being categorized as blackened death metal –, Plague of Plagues is exceedingly interesting. Despite not being a masterpiece, or a great work of art, the record is not merely a generic black metal album either. With an interesting degree of originality, upon which the sound can be comprehended as unique, this work has a great deal of soul on the consistent layer of its sonorous structure, as well as a great domain of musical technique behind it.
Don’t get me wrong: you will hardly be impressed by this album. On the other hand, it is exceedingly necessary to acknowledge the fact that this work has several qualities. Plague of Plagues undoubtedly is a very intriguing, lucid, cohesive and decisive black metal work, that has its own peculiar structure, a genuine approach to the genre, a solid style, and a vehement sense of purpose. Never an imitation of any kind, even less a generic record, Plague of Plagues deserves a special place on the underground black metal scenario, for its groundbreaking musical consistency, fearless authenticity, overwhelming vigor and dispatched sense of creativity.
With an authorial sound of their own, Plague of Plagues managed to be a very different black metal album, that hardly reminds or parallels the more emblematic Norwegian bands of the genre. Nonetheless, this is a very favorable and positive point, since they developed very well their own style of black metal, differentiating themselves exponentially from other groups in the genre. Exactly like I wrote above, Enepsigos haven’t managed to do a groundbreaking record, but if they stay on this way, they are certainly close of doing it, very soon, in the near future.
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Deep State Secrets? Declassify the Sater Files
The outlaw Felix Sater didn’t show up last Friday for planned closed-door testimony to the House Intelligence Committee about the Russia affair. He says he overslept, he wasn’t feeling well, he’d like to reschedule. But the committee isn’t waiting. It issued a subpoena for his appearance.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for new revelations. The Moscow-born Sater is a master of the long con, a Gatsbyesque figure with known ties to organized crime, the FBI, and the CIA—and to Donald J. Trump. He’s fabulously wealthy. Or maybe he’s not. In February, he sold his 10-room house in Sands Point and shipped himself and his Porsche across the country to LA, where he’s reinventing himself again.
He entered Donald Trump’s life around 2002 with some spectacularly unsuccessful real estate deals. Before that, he was a low-level New York criminal, a tough guy from Brighton Beach, allegedly connected to Russian organized crime back in the old country. He was sent to prison for using a broken bar glass to rearrange a man’s face, then busted again for a Mafia-connected pump-and-dump scheme. He turned on his pals and cooperated with the FBI, ran into more trouble, and persuaded the CIA to take him on as an intelligence asset in Russia. He appears to have found his true calling as a government informant. The FBI and CIA say he was a very successful rat. (Read more about his past here and here.)
Sater reappeared in Trump’s orbit in 2015, reviving a foundering scheme to build a billion-dollar Trump property in Moscow just as the candidate’s improbable presidential campaign was gaining traction.
The standard media narrative of the Moscow deal is that candidate Trump did not expect to win the presidency and was reluctant to let go of a shot at a billion-dollar business bonanza. But Sater’s swaggering presence at the center of the action suggests the possibility of a more sinister counter-narrative: that someone may have been trying to lure Trump into a trap—a politically damaging entanglement with Moscow money.
“Beginning in late 2015,” the Mueller Report notes, “Sater repeatedly tried to arrange for [Trump attorney Michael] Cohen and candidate Trump, as representatives of the Trump Organization, to travel to Russia to meet with Russian government officials and possible financing partners.”
The politically suicidal proposal appears to have been swiftly rejected by the campaign. But Sater persisted. “Into the spring of 2016,” the Mueller Report notes, “Sater and Cohen continued to discuss a trip to Moscow.” Sater emails Cohen that he is trying to arrange a meeting between “the 2 big guys,” Putin and Trump.
Sater upped the ante sometime in 2016—the timeline is not clear—when he floated to Cohen the idea of giving Putin a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow.
“My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin,” Sater told Buzzfeed, which first reported the story.
It’s “not clear whether Trump knew of the intention to give away the penthouse,” Buzzfeedreported. But it’s difficult to see news of Trump doing a $50 million deal with Putin, had it emerged during the campaign, as anything other than a death blow aimed at the candidate.
After the election, Sater transitioned to cooperating with the Mueller investigation. A footnote to the Mueller Report notes that Sater was interviewed twice under a proffer agreement. And the Intercept reports that Sater has long been connected to Andrew Weissmann, a top Mueller lieutenant, who supervised the stock fraud case that first led to Sater becoming a government informant.
Much of what Sater did in the past is hidden in sealed in court records and FBI and CIA files. Three separate investigations—by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, U.S. Attorney John Huber, and special prosecutor John Durham—are grinding away at aspects of the Russia affair. And Judicial Watch is on the case with Freedom of Information Act requests and court actions, including FOIAs for all FBI interactions with Sater and the Mueller proffer agreement.
What master was Felix Sater serving during the Trump presidential campaign? Was he a central figure in a Deep State scheme to derail Trump or just another entry in the annals of con men and crooks? We don’t have to wait years for answers to dribble out from federal investigations and FOIA actions. President Trump has given Attorney General William Barr sweeping authority to declassify intelligence related to the Russia case. Barr should start by declassifying the Sater files.
Micah Morrison is chief investigative reporter for Judicial Watch. Follow him on Twitter @micah_morrison. Tips: mmorrison@judicialwatch.org
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4 more die of swine flu, experts warn of spike
Pune: Four more people succumbed to swine flu in the state in the past three weeks, taking the toll this year to 189 till June 27, according to the latest report by the state health department. Of these,
PMC beautification project scarred Pashan lake’s ecosystem, say experts
Pune: Environmentalists in the city have called the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Pashan lake restoration and beautification work ecologically insensitive. The restoration and beautification work at the
36 swine flu deaths in Pune so far in ’19
Pune: In just 10 days, between April 20 and 30, the swine flu death toll in the state went up by 25. With these latest casualties, the collective swine flu death tally in Maharashtra has reached 135 so
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2 workers critical a day after chemical leak in Nira plant
PUNE: The condition of two workers affected by Wednesday’s chemical leak at a Jubilee Life Sciences plant in Nira village was critical on Thursday, with one of them on ventilator support. They are both
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Dedicated policy needed to save grasslands: Environment experts
Pune: The classification of semi-arid open areas as wastelands has raised concern among the environmentalists, who claim such areas aren’t being conserved in a proper manner. Grasslands are home to a
India Greens Party pledges to protect natural resources
Pune: The India Greens Party (IGP) has pledged support to the candidates who publicly agree to implement at least 50% of the points in the party’s recently released manifesto. The national-level party
Swine flu cases rise to 112 in Pune; 17 deaths since January
PUNE: Extended winter, wide fluctuation in day and night temperatures and the declining immunity among people have sent swine flu cases soaring in the city as well as the state this year so far. Between
IMA extends support to end tuberculosis in state
Pune: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday proffered support to the Union government in its plan to end tuberculosis (TB) by reaching out to every private doctor and TB patient in Maharashtra.
928 H1N1 cases & 73 deaths in state so far
Pune: The H1N1 virus is wreaking havoc across the state. Maharashtra has recorded 928 swine flu cases and 73 deaths between January 1 and March 21 this year. Nagpur has recorded the highest number of
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Farmers from 2 villages pool in land, build unpaved road
PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: At a time when various projects are stuck over land acquisition issues, around 30 farmers from Kinhai and Shelarwadi villages have given up their agricultural land for building a 2.6km
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ME(ME) (DIS)CONTENT
AN INSTAGRAM-BASED PERFORMANCE ART EVENT
AN Instagram-Based Performance Art Event Curated by Esther Neff
September 2 - October 13, 2019
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Individual artists take up residency in Performance Art Houston’s Instagram account and facilitate performances and gestures as their works within the show. Every week, the account passes hands to a new artist who will then begin with their performances.
FEATURING WORK BY:
David Ian Bellows/Griess 2-8 SEPT
Brittani Broussard 9 - 15 SEPT
elaine Thap 16 - 22 SEPT
DOMINIque duroseau 23 - 29 SEPT
RAKI MALHOTRA 30 sept - 6 oct
Sierra Ortega 7-13 oct
CURATED BY ESTHER NEFF
Esther Neff (@thefenserf ) is the founder of PPL (@panoplylab) and MARSH (@marsh_stl) and works as a performance-maker, experimental philosopher, and organizer. Neff’s institutional, theatrical, and relational projects have included a lab site in Brooklyn, NY (2012-18), month-long “relational march” tours across the USA, diners, books, temporary collectives, functional foundations (#BIPAF), conferences, symposia, festivals, exhibitions, “operas of operations” (with composer Brian McCorkle), research projects, think tanks, and actions. Neff’s first two books are forthcoming in 2020, the community-contributed “Institution is a Verb” with the Operating System and “Embarrassed of the Whole” published by Ugly Duckling Presse/Emergency Playscripts.
WorDS FROM THE CURATOR:
CORPORATE SOCIAL MEDIA CONTROLS AND DISTRIBUTES (DIS)CONTENTS, CAPITALIZING ON OUR URGES TO (RE)PRESENT OUR SELVES AND EXPRESS OUR FEELS. AS A POST-CONSENSUAL SPACE THAT SEEMS BOTH PRIVATE (INTERIOR/INTERNAL) AND PUBLIC (EXTERIOR/EXTERNAL), INSTAGRAM IN (P)ARTICULAR REDUCES OUR SELVES TO THE CONTENTS OF A STICKY, MASS-METABOLIC BELLY OF (CATA)COMBS. YET, SUCH MEDIATION DEVICES ALSO SPREAD VIRAL CONTAMINATIONS OF THE VERY MODES OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT DEMAND SUCH ASSIMILATIONS AND DIGESTIVE (RE)PRODUCTIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
MOREOVER, IT IS A PROMETHEAN FALLACY TO BELIEVE THAT TECHNOLOGIES REMAIN SOLELY WITHIN THE POWER OF THEIR MAKERS; MODES OF MEDIATION MAY ALSO MATERIALIZE “MINDS OF THEIR OWN;” EMERGENT “MASS MIRRORS” REFRACT AND DIFFRACT, REFLECTING MORE THAN THE FACE(S) OF ANY SINGLE USER. PERHAPS, VIA INTELLIGENT VIRAL PROCESSES AND TENDER DANCES, MEMETICS REVOLUTIONIZE PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, DESIRES, AND DESIGNS VIA RUPTURES+RECONFIGURATIONS.
CAN FORMS OF MIMESIS + MNEMONICS (FROM THE GREEK “MIMĒMA” TO MIMIC, IMITATE, OR COPY) HELP “US” REMEMBER AND IDENTIFY OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER OTHER-WISE? IF WE REFUSE TO SEE SOCIAL PARASITES SUCH AS OURSELVES AS DRIVEN BY COMPETITION AND (SOCIALLY DARWINISTIC) DRIVES TO INDIVIDUALLY SURVIVE, CAN WE SEE MEMETICS INSTEAD AS A LEARNING-CAPACITY THAT ENABLES US TO CULTIVATE INTENTS THROUGH SHARING OF EXPERIENCES, PERSPECTIVES AND KNOWLEDGES? AS WITH MUCH OF THE WORLD(ING)S IN/THROUGH WHICH WE FIND OURSELVES, PARTICIPATIONS MAY EITHER NIHILISTICALLY CAPITULATE OR OPTIMISTICALLY INFILTRATE, HASHTAG: HIVEPOV. IN THE END, WHAT MATTERS IS HOW WE PER-FORM OURSELVES AND THE ALGORITHMS/BIORHYTHMS WE ACTIVATE.
DAVID IAN BELLOWS/GRIESS
David Ian Bellows/Griess explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through diy surveillance to relay the physicality and the resilience of the body and what might be possible/impossible for the body to sustain.
Brittani Broussard
Brittani Broussard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Houston. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, a Textiles and Apparel Certificate from the Nantong University in Nantong, China, and studied Fashion Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. Her work explores themes that alter the figure using the language of fashion, costuming, masking, and movement of the body. Brittani has exhibited work in Houston, Austin, Los Angeles, and Manhattan.
ELAINE THAP
Elaine Thap is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, movement, and performance. She obtained her BFA in Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Elaine Thap has shown work in Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Toronto, and Montreal. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. As a Cambodian American woman, she uses her diasporic identity to convey layers of being and relationships. Live action or performance art is the ability to fabricate situations of childhood trauma and adult responsibility while seeking alternative perspectives and possibilities. She explores expressive psychosexuality in Butoh movement while creating live sounds.
Dominique Duroseau
Dominique Duroseau is a Newark-based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti. Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization. Her exhibitions, performances, and screenings include SATELLITE ART and PULSE Play in Miami; The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum and the New Museum (BWA for BLM), El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BronxArtSpace, Rush Arts Gallery, and Smack Mellon in New York City; The Newark Museum, Index Arts, Project for Empty Space, and Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. Her recent exhibitions and talks include: solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, panelist at Black Portraiture[s] at Harvard and lecturer at Vassar. She was a fellow at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, and received artist residencies from Gallery Aferro, Index Art Center, the Wassaic Project and Shine Portrait Studio. Duroseau holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Arts in Fine Arts.
Raki Malhotra
"In performance, I explore the contemporary biases that are surfacing among us; ordering the micro-society that exists right now in the space in which together we are present. Collaboration has a major role in this process, and my intention is to listen and respond. My collaborator is a participant, a group member, another artist, a space, an object, or something else?"
SIERRA ORTEGA
Sierra Ortega is a {neuro}queer, interdisciplinary, performance artist based in New York City. Utilizing their background in performance practice, speculative philosophy, and queer and feminist politics, they have come to develop an artist/scholar practice that is deeply personal, constantly chaotic, and furiously DIY. Conceptually, their practice can be understood as research into alternative & non-normative habituation. Their work, through physical and conceptual investigations of queerness, alienation, and alterity, seeks to push the limits of human affective capacity and embodiment as to generate post-capitalist, meta-utopic futurity.
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I’m much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them. (Bill Plympton Quotes) I’d love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I’ve made get a wide release. I’m not sure that’s ever going to happen. (Bill Plympton Quotes) For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It’s purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary. (Bill Plympton Quotes) My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for ‘Guard Dog’ when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird. (Bill Plympton Quotes) I think it’s part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that’s where the good humor is, if there’s a surprise and there’s something unexpected. Something that’s not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations. (Bill Plympton Quotes) I don’t see why it’s such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film. (Bill Plympton Quotes) I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there’s very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better. (Bill Plympton Quotes) Being a talented artist is good, it’s nice, but it’s not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist. (Bill Plympton Quotes) People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps (Bill Plympton Quotes) Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features (Bill Plympton Quotes) I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it (Bill Plympton Quotes)
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WW2 Casualty Group, 666 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers - Attributed To Pocock
A WW2 medal group awarded to 1916609, Sargent Edward Charles Pocock, who served with the 666 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (a unit that served in Iceland and in the UK and France deploying P.L.U.T.O. for the Normandy invasion force).
Whilst he appears to have survived the war and returned home after hostilities (he was awarded a certificate of service by his local community), it seems he subsequently died (probably of wounds) in December 1945.
The details of his awards are as follows:
1939-45 Star unnamed as issued.
France & Germany Star unnamed as issued.
Defence Medal unnamed as issued.
British War unnamed as issued.
Further details of WW2 medal award criteria, can be viewed by clicking on here and scrolling to the relevant medal entry.
Pocock was born in 1899, I’ve not been able to locate him in the 1939 Register, and I have no indication as to when he joined the Royal Engineers.
He died on the 18th December 1945, his Commonwealth War Graves Index entry can be viewed by clicking on here, and he is buried at the Mill Hill Cemetery in Middlesex. He was the Son of Jack and Rhoda Pocock and husband of Ethel Marian Pocock of Paddington, London.
His Commonwealth War Graves Index identifies him as serving with the 666 Artisan Company, Royal Engineers.
In regards to the 666 Artisan Company, Royal Engineers, they formed a part of the B.E.F. in France in 1940. They were evacuated from the port of St. Nazaire by the destroyer HMS Highlander and some members were to board the HMT. Lancastria which was later bombed with huge loss of life.
They returned to Plymouth and from there, were sent to Southampton, where they boarded a train to Leeds. After being re-equipped for Arctic weather, they were dispatched on the HMT Georgic, along with the cross channel boat ‘Konigam Emma’, and escorted by the cruisers, HMS Norfolk and Suffolk, to Iceland were they were given the task of constructing the Naval Base at Hvalfjiordur - which became important in the winning of the Battle of the North Atlantic.
They were in Iceland for some time and returned to Great Britain in 1943, and were assigned to assist in the deployment of P.L.U.T.O. (Petrol Line Under The Ocean). Leading up to the invasion they were stationed with the navy at HMS Abatos, a shore station adjacent to Southampton Waters.
This was the building in which R.J. Mitchell did the design work for the Spitfire. The unit’s part in the invasion of Europe did not start until 40 days after the invasion had commenced and the underwater pipeline had been completed from the Isle of Wight to Cherbourg.
From storage tanks, near Cherbourg, they laid two pipelines alongside the roads and through the countryside to storage tanks near Rouen and onto the Dutch border.
When hostilities were coming to a close, they undertook garrison duties and the day before V.E. day, we were stationed in Le Touquet, France. More details regarding P.L.U.T.O. can be viewed by clicking on here.
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Want to learn something better? Draw it
Annett Schmeck and her team asked 48 German school-kids (average age 14) to read a 850-word passage about the biology of influenza, broken down into seven paragraphs. This was an unfamiliar topic to the teens, and they knew they were going to be tested on the content afterwards.
Crucially, half the pupils were asked to produce a drawing for each of the paragraphs, to depict visually the content of the paragraphs. They were assisted by a basic background image of a cell (or similar), and a legend showing basic components their drawing should include, such as an antibody. The other pupils only had the text to study and they acted as a control group. All participating pupils worked at their own pace.
There were two tests on the scientific text: a multi-choice comprehension test, and a drawing test that involved drawing key concepts from the text. The group who'd produced drawings while they were learning out-performed the control group on both the multiple-choice (scoring 61 per cent correct on average vs. 44 per cent) and the drawing test (scoring 52 per cent on average vs. 28 per cent).
This first experiment has some obvious limitations that Schmeck and her team sought to address in a follow-up involving 168 more pupils (average age 14). Most importantly, the researchers showed that drawing each paragraph of the to-be-learned text led to superior test performance (63 per cent correct on multiple choice, on average), even when compared to a condition in which pupils were instead provided with drawings produced by the author of the scientific text (53 per cent correct). The better the pupils' drawings, the more successful they were in the tests afterwards.
The researchers said that drawing has this benefit for learning because it "encourages learners to engage in generative cognitive processing during learning such as organising the relevant information into a coherent structure, and integrating it with relevant prior knowledge from long-term memory."
The results come with a number of caveats - the study material in this research was scientific and involved a causal chain of events. It's not clear if drawing will also help people learn other kinds of content. Moreover, the tests took place right after the learning phase, so it's not known if the benefits of drawing will be long-lasting. Also, it's worth noting that this research looked at assisted drawing - that is, the pupils were given a background image to draw upon and told what graphic elements to include. The researchers concluded: "drawing during learning appears to be a potentially powerful strategy for improving students' learning from scientific text when certain boundaries and prerequisites are taken into account."
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Sanskrit Sanskrit Dictionaries – Sabdakalpadruma & Vachaspatyam
Posted on December 27, 2009 by bharateeya
Sanskrit Dictionaries – General Introduction
The history of Sanskrit dictionary is, perhaps, older than that of the Sanskrit Grammar. It got started with Vedic Concordance named ‘Nighantu’. In reality, instead of being a dictionary, Nighantu is more or less a word. During later period, various dictionaries were compiled but, unfortunately, we have lost their original scripts.
Amara Simha’s ‘Amarakosa’ has been considered to be the oldest and most popular compilation. It is also known as Namalinganusasana. in later period, Halayudha-kosa, Vaijayanti-kosa, Mankha-kosa, Nama-mala and Anekartha-samgraha etc. names are worth mentioning.
Two voluminous dictionaries compiled in the 19th century are – Vacaspatyam and Sabdakalpadruma, which stand apart their modern style and technique, Both the volumes are replete with the quotes from the contemporary literature to explain the words convincingly. These, thus may be called a bridge between the dictionary and the encyclopedia.
In the modern times, Sanskrit English Dictionary of H.H. Wilsonm, W. Monier and Sanskrit Worterbuch of Oto Bohtlingk’s and Sanskrit English Dictionary by Vamana Sivarama Apte are the excellent works in this tradition.
Sabda Kalpadruma: A Comprehensive Sanskrit Dictionary in 5 volumes
Sabda Kalpadruma is a well known Sanskrit lexicon compiled by a few Bengali scholars at the instance of Raja Radhakanta Deb of Bengal. In this book, the words have been analyzed into their base-forms and suffixes, their genders determined and their Sanskrit synonyms noted.
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Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5
Vacaspatyam: A Comprehensive Sanskrit Dictionaryin 6 volumes
Vacaspatyam is a Sanskrit Lexicon, of 5442 pages, by Pandit Taranatha Tarkavacaspati, Calcutta. It is very full up to the end of the letter Pa (page 4550), whilst the rest of the alphabet is squeezed into 900 pages! It is said that the Bengal Govt, which largely subsidized the undertaking, ordered it to be curtailed. If that is so, it did a very unwise thing! (Col. GA Jacob in “A Handful Of Popular Maxims Current In Sanskrit Literature”)
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Sanskrit Sanskrit Dictionaries – Sabdakalpadruma & Vachaspatyam — 112 Comments
suzen on January 4, 2010 at 6:00 am said:
I have downloaded the files but files are not opening with Acrobat reader and giving some error.
I checked the links. There is no difficulty at all in opening the files. Make sure that you are using the latest version of adobe acrobat reader. These files have been downloaded by hundreds of people.
Pravesh Shukla on January 23, 2018 at 5:28 pm said:
Could you please help me from where I can download Nirnaya Sindhu, Dharma Sindhu in Sanskrit and Hindi with good quality pdf. I have been searching a lot for a few days on various sites but I am not getting the desired result.
bharateeya on January 24, 2018 at 2:46 pm said:
Giving below links to Dharmasindhu and Nirnayasindhu that I found using Google search.
https://archive.org/details/DharmaSindhuRajvaidyaRaviduttaShastry
https://archive.org/details/DharmaSindhuKaisnathaUpadhyayaDharmadipikaHindiSudhaSanskritSudhamaMisraSastriChowkambha
https://archive.org/details/NirnayaSindhuHindi
https://archive.org/details/NirnayasindhuOfMM.SriKamalakarBhattPt.NarayanaRamAcharyaKavyatirtha
balramshukla on January 13, 2010 at 6:00 am said:
atyanta-sundarm-udaara-sukrityametat !!!!!!!!!!!
Madhav Bharadwaj on February 16, 2010 at 4:24 pm said:
I find that pages 692 and 693 of vol.2 of sabdakalpadruma are mssing. can you insert them ?
Dr Sant Swami on February 25, 2010 at 1:50 am said:
Thank you 4 this worke. Now everybudy can read these dictionarys.
gopesh on June 17, 2010 at 12:33 pm said:
S.Jagannatha on June 22, 2010 at 4:16 am said:
Oh, really wonderful job you have done. In the first volume of Vachaspatya, only 51(In computer 219)pages I can open and not the rest. What is the reason?
Jagannatha,
To check the link, I downloaded and opened the file just now. All pages are opening. May be, there was some problem when you downloaded it and the file got corrupted. Pl download it again. It should be okay.
You are right, the file was incomplete. I have replaced it with a complete version of the book. I have also revised the download link.
Thank you for pointing out this deficiency.
Dr. SK Dwivedi on July 29, 2010 at 10:01 am said:
Some one is transcripting this most important work in Roman from the Devnagar script… almost V volumes is close to finish.. and its is available shorty to the scholars of Sanskrit Words..
VSTSayee on June 26, 2011 at 5:09 am said:
Could you please provide more details of this work – who is working on this and what is the current status?
Sayee.
Sayee,
Both the dictionaries were written around 150 years ago by Sanskrit scholars from Bengal. More details about these books and their authors are there inside the book. Please download at least one volume and read the introductions and prefaces.
These are not ongoing projects. I read somewhere that Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (New Delhi) has brought out a CD-ROM of “Sabdakalpadruma”. You may contact them via their website for more details.
I have purchased these two dictionaries few years ago from Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan. I am asking for the details of the transcription work Dr. SK Dwivedi mentioned above.
I have forwarded your comment to Dr Dwivediji.
girish on September 26, 2014 at 4:20 am said:
did we get the response from Dr.SK Dwivedi on translation of shabdakalpadhrumah into roman (english)? Do we know who is doing it and if it available either in book form or online?
Girish
bharateeya on September 27, 2014 at 12:23 pm said:
I didn’t get any response from Dr Dwivedi. If you are interested in Sanskrit dictionary software containing Sabdakalpadruma and Vachaspatyam, they are available at http://www.aupasana.com/stardict
The above Sanskrit lexicon softwares can be installed on PC, laptop, ipad or android phones.
Sreekanth gurupadham on October 15, 2010 at 2:17 pm said:
This is Very helpfull.
B.V.Subramanian on December 1, 2010 at 12:17 pm said:
Legibility is poor probably because it is an old publication
bharateeya on December 1, 2010 at 12:40 pm said:
Subramanian,
I agree with you. These rare books were published first almost 100 years back and what we have on here is their scan made available by Digital Library of India. I have read that these books were recently re-published by Rasthriya Sanskrit Sansthan. I have not seen them; I heard from a friend that they have used the old typesetting – may be considering the difficulty of typesetting and proof-reading thousands of pages.
Dr.S.K.Krishnan Nair on August 21, 2011 at 6:00 am said:
Respected Subramanian Sir, I am very much glad in getting your kind reply. I am a lover of our very ancient literature. I request to you to kindly arrange and make it Convenient forme to get all the six volumes Of VAchaspathyam by downloading through Snooks PDF files of iPad free of cost !!! Thank you,
kashish gidwani on April 8, 2011 at 11:17 am said:
why don’t you allow us to read your dictionary!
bharateeya on April 8, 2011 at 11:43 am said:
Kashish Gidwani,
I am not able to understand your question. All the books (5 volumes of Sabda Kalpadruma & 6 volumes of Vachaspatyam) mentioned in the post are available for download. I think you did not notice the download links. Please look for the download links and click on them to download the dictionaries. Also, please write to me in case you come across any difficulty.
Pandit PP. on May 7, 2011 at 8:30 am said:
Appriciable attempt in favour of Sankrit Seva..
Pandit PP. on May 13, 2011 at 4:36 am said:
संस्कृति एवं संस्कृत की उत्तम सेवा के लिए धन्यवाद…
Iragavarapu Narasimhacharya on July 14, 2011 at 1:30 am said:
Your service to sanskrit is very great.Congratulations.
Sampath Kumar Medavarapu on August 1, 2011 at 3:25 am said:
Thank you very much. I have been waiting for “Vaachaspatyam” -all volumes. I got here
ok goodluck
sampath kumar Medavarapu
bharateeya on August 1, 2011 at 3:47 am said:
Sampathji,
I am glad that you visited my blog and were benefited by my humble efforts. I have visited your folder at scribd.com and also downloaded some rare books from there.
Deepak on August 5, 2011 at 3:38 pm said:
thanks alot for your precious services
yashwant singh jadoun on August 27, 2011 at 1:53 pm said:
kindly suggest me some good books on initial learning of sanskrit language,thanks
Sharath Bhat on October 3, 2011 at 9:01 am said:
Thanks for Shabdakalpadruma
venkat on February 29, 2012 at 12:56 am said:
Namaste.May the lord bestow you all with health,peace and glory as these are sustained efforts whose worth would be realized not just by reading but by AbhyAsA with Bhakthi.The soul is self luminous as it is, but few of us realize in our precious lives.These would be the cornerstone on which we would leave indriyAs behind and attain NirvAnA.”JantUnAm Narajanma Durlabham”.SarveshAm Mangalam Bhavathu.
Om Sri Hari
Gopal Sharma on May 1, 2012 at 1:22 am said:
Can post all CBSE Sanskrit Books here .
bharateeya on May 1, 2012 at 2:08 am said:
Gopal Sharmaji,
We cannot post them without permission from CBSE Board. It is not an easy task. The goal of this blog is to make available Sanskrit books in public domain. It is good to focus on that.
iragavarapu narasimhacharya on June 15, 2012 at 10:57 am said:
Yours is a memorable and remarkable service to the cause of Sanskrit.
Heart-felt Congratulations.
amiya kumar satpati on September 25, 2012 at 1:26 am said:
It’s an amusing site to download all of our necessary books. thank you all for giving us this type of facility…………..
Sumod Acharya on November 5, 2012 at 7:35 am said:
I need the Vaidik Padanukrama Kosha
Sumod,
There are different versions of Vaidic Padanukrama Kosa.
Bloomfield’s Vedic Concordance is available at http://archive.org/details/vedicconcordance00bloouoft
If you mean Vaidika Padanukrama Kosa (16 volumes) of Viswabandhu Sastri, most of the volumes are available at Digital Library of India. Since these volumes might still be under copyright, I cannot post them on this blog. You will have to download them from DLI site.
Jaya Prakash on August 31, 2013 at 6:47 pm said:
Hari Om,
Ind DLI site if you search with Vedic word complete Vaidika Padanukrama Kosa is available.
ketan on January 30, 2013 at 9:02 am said:
how to download..?
Ketan,
Please read the post fully before asking for help. Links to all volumes are there within the post.
krishna.s.katavker on February 17, 2013 at 3:13 pm said:
whare can i get to down load mahabharata, ramayana, puranas, 108 upanisheds
bharateeya on February 19, 2013 at 6:43 pm said:
Krishna Katavker,
You might not find all the scriptures in once place. You can try at http://is1.mum.edu/vedicreserve/
R.N.Iyengar on April 7, 2013 at 3:12 pm said:
This is great help for research workers and lovers of our ancient culture.
Keep up the good work. I have downloaded Shabdkalpadruma and found many interesting information hitherto not known or not easily available.
bharateeya on April 7, 2013 at 3:24 pm said:
Iyengarji,
Glad to know that you liked this blog. Thanks for visiting this blog and also for your kind words of appreciation.
Ashok Kumar Sahu on April 7, 2013 at 4:27 pm said:
Sir, Namaskar,
I am post Graduate in English Litrature.It was through this western language that I was ignited and attracted to the language of Sanskrit Lexicon ,language and Literature.Your efforts to provide the desired literature is laudable.I wish you all my best wishes and that the Sanskrit language of Rishi/Muni may rule the world.
I am also greatful to Rishi Dayanand Saraswati who opened the vista of VEdas and Sanskrit to all mankind.
Ashok Kumar Sahu,
High Court,
Lucknow,U.P.,India
Dated:07.04.2013
Sahuji,
Glad to know that you like this blog. I am also an admirer of Maharshi Dayanand. I have read his Satyarthaprasha and some other works.
gurudas menon on April 21, 2013 at 2:22 pm said:
I am glad that our Samskr’tham language preservation is done wisely.
manubhai parmar on April 22, 2013 at 8:28 am said:
very usefull
Anantha.B.G. on May 18, 2013 at 10:28 am said:
I want shabdakalpadruma and vachaspatyam on my mobile. pls guide me how to get it.
bharateeya on May 18, 2013 at 11:02 am said:
Anantha,
I have no idea about how this can be done. If you post a query at Samskrita Google group somebody might guide you.
Pankaj Kumar Chaubey on June 2, 2013 at 4:51 pm said:
please tell me the proper meaning of “Kanishk”…word origin and its meaning…
is it a sanskrit word or not?
Eliezer Talkar on June 22, 2013 at 9:23 am said:
I am really happy to know about this site. I learnt sanskrit in the year 1970-71. I am interested to learn subhashitas.
Chetan on August 1, 2013 at 3:40 am said:
Would like thank all for making effort to bring back Sanskrit to front, engaging people to learn.
uma kumar on August 13, 2013 at 5:44 pm said:
i want an essay on rakshabandhan festival written in sanskrit
Srinivasa Iyengar K. S. on August 29, 2013 at 6:15 am said:
Very useful. Many Thanks.
I am interested in 1)Vasudeva Samhita 2) Pranava Kalpa Druma 3) ghanta swadurachana. If you can kindly help me in locating these books, I will be very very greatful.
Fortunate and blessed are those who work for sanskrit. It is a DEVA BHASHA and leads us to DEVADIDEVA
NAMASKARAM
It would be easier for me to locate these books if you could provide their bibliographical details such as author, publisher, year of publication, etc.
chhaya pandey on September 12, 2013 at 4:51 am said:
thank u very much for exilent collection of sanskrit books
vikash tiwari on January 20, 2014 at 4:48 pm said:
shobhanam
mahesh bhat on January 21, 2014 at 3:30 pm said:
wonderful site
Manik Apte on September 28, 2014 at 1:53 am said:
Thank you for providing me the dictionary. It was really helpful to me. I was searching since many days for a site where I could get ancient sanskrit literature.But now I think my search is completed. Its really appreciable work.
Thank you for providing the dictionary. I was searching since many days for a site where I could get ancient sanskrit literature. But I feel now that my search is completed.The work is really appreciable.Thanks once again.
Pavamana Holavanahalli on October 2, 2014 at 12:38 pm said:
Thanks very much for this excellent effort. This is truly amazing to find almost anything you need here. That said, I am still in search of a commentary on any of kalidasa’s kavya which are student oriented (MandopakaariNi, with word by word meaning). If you come across any such book please do let me know.
Dr. ashutosh jha on October 24, 2014 at 2:12 am said:
Old books of sanskrit vyakaran and Josh books bit comentry should be added
Shyam Dambal on December 12, 2014 at 6:47 am said:
I want to teach sanskrit to my eight year old son.
Please suggest books which are available for download from the internet.
Shyam Dambal
Hemmadi on December 18, 2014 at 2:35 am said:
for last two days I am trying to download shabd Kalpadruma volumes… but it’s showing”server nt found”..
bharateeya on December 18, 2014 at 3:31 am said:
Hemmadi,
I checked Sabda Kalpadruma links just now. They are working. If you are not able to download them, you may have to contact your system administrator.
Hemmadi on December 22, 2014 at 12:58 pm said:
I have downloaded the volumes of Vachaspatyam & shabd-lakp-druma (except vol 5) .
the script seems to be having BENGALI alphabets MIXED along WITH DEVANAGARI alphabets.
Are there any NEW EDITIONS of these books available which have COMPLETE DEVANAGARI script?
I don’t know about modern print versions of Vachaspatyam & Sabda Kalpadruma. (None of the reprints are newly typeset). Best option is to use dict files of Vachaspatyam & Sabda Kalpadruma available at http://www.aupasana.com/stardict which can be installed in computers, pads or mobile phones. Additional advantage is that they have searchable text, which can be copied and pasted anywhere in email, articles & books.
ravindranathmachavolu on December 22, 2014 at 2:50 pm said:
the book is very good i want to read
sir I am sanskrit lecturer I want down load sabda kalpa druma
Download links are already provided in the blog. You can download pdf files of the book from those links.
Hemmadi on December 23, 2014 at 2:45 pm said:
thanks for the help..
I am looking for some good book on
(1) amarakosh with COMMENTARY & with its English/Hindi translation
(2) Ramashrami teeka with English/Hindi translation
(3)is the book “bruhad dhatu kusumakar” available? I tried to check on web.
bharateeya on December 24, 2014 at 11:52 am said:
Various editions of Amarakosa are available at https://archive.org/details/AmaraKosha
I have not come across English translation of Ramasrami tika anywhere on the internet. It is not listed at worldcat.org too.
Brihad Dhatu Kusumakara is a recent publication and is copyrighted. Please do not request for soft copies of copyrighted books. It is against the policy of this blog.
Hemmadi on February 15, 2015 at 8:10 am said:
I have been going thru Vachaspatyam….
Most of the words have texts with that word…names of that reference books appear in abbreviation …
BUT I couldnt find the list of these “abbreavaition & the full name of book” eg. “Kumaa.” is “kumaarasambhav”.
Can you please guide me regarding this.
kanakavalli on March 27, 2015 at 10:21 am said:
बहुसन्तोषः जातः यत् शब्दकल्पद्रुमः तथा वाचस्पत्यसदृशी निघण्टुः अत्र उपलभ्यते । यदि शक्यते Monier Willem’s Dictionary अप्यत्र उपलभ्यते चेत् वरं भवति ।
Kanakavalli,
Sanskrit English dictionary of Monier Williams is available at https://archive.org/details/sanskritenglishd00moniuoft
Japesh on March 31, 2015 at 5:49 am said:
I want to download Shabda-kalpa-druma as well as Vachaspatyam. But I am getting this message:
Sify
Web page blocked
The requested url is blocked, based on the blocking Instruction order received from the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India.
Please let me know why this page is blocked by the Govt.
Japesh,
I checked the download links of Sabdakalpadruma and Vachaspatam just now. All links are working.
mukesh pradhan on June 20, 2015 at 10:15 am said:
Sanskrit sahitya ka itihas
sivanandan p on July 11, 2015 at 3:48 am said:
Let me know the detailed meaning of skanda as according to niruktha and vyakarana vakya vigraha.
Thanking to the lotus feet,
Sivanandan, I could not find any entry for Skanda in Nirukta. Valmiki Ramayana provides the following explanation for the name Skanda (courtesy: http://valmiki.iitk.ac.in).
स्कन्द इत्यब्रुवन् देवा: स्कन्नं गर्भपरिस्रवात्।।1.37.27।।
कार्तिकेयं महाभागं काकुत्स्थ ज्वलनोपमम्।
Translation: काकुत्स्थ O Rama, ज्वलनोपमम् equal to flaming fire, महाभागम् very fortunate, गर्भपरिस्रवात् embryo from womb, स्कन्नम् descended, कार्तिकेयम् Karthikeya, स्कन्द: इति will be known as Skanda, देवा: devatas, अब्रुवन् spoke.
O scion of the Kakusthas, Karttikeya lustrous like flaming fire, was very fortunate Descended from the womb of the Ganga, he is named Skanda by the gods.
You may post your query at Samskrita Google Group – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/samskrita or Bharativa Vidvat Parishat Google group – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bvparishat
Scholars of the above groups will surely provide you more detailed reply to your query.
srinidhi on July 22, 2015 at 8:28 am said:
namaskara IS chaturvargachintamani pdf is available ?
deep on July 26, 2015 at 1:43 pm said:
ohhhh god sanskritttttttttttttttttttt !!
Y S KUMAR on July 26, 2015 at 1:48 pm said:
Could any one inform how our country came to be known as BHARATAVARSHA. What does VARSHA indicate here?
M L N Gowtham Sarma on July 29, 2015 at 1:04 pm said:
can i get pdf of any link of “brahmakarma samuchchaya (hiranyakeseya)” of Nirnaya sagar press
Suvo Chakraborty on October 15, 2015 at 4:03 pm said:
Namaskar.can i have satapath brahmain in bengali
Suvo Chakraborty, Please search at Digital Library of India – http://www.dli.gov.in/
Giving below a few links that I find on initial search. You will find more if search more.
Shatapath Brahman vol. 1., 4990010218265. Bhattachrya, Bidhushekhar, tr.. 1909. bengali. RELIGION. THEOLOGY. 260 pgs.
Shatapath Brahman vol. 2., 4990010095229. Bhattacharya, Bidhushekhar, tr.. 1911. bengali. RELIGION. THEOLOGY. 182 pgs.
Madhyandin Shatapath Brahman, Vol. 1- 2 ., 4990010059722. Bhattacharjya, Bidhushekhar Tr. . 1909. bengali. Literature. 564 pgs.
g.swamy prasad on October 24, 2015 at 4:48 am said:
very useful to sanskrit learners and readers
രാജേഷ്പണിക്കർ on October 26, 2015 at 6:42 am said:
സാർ,
തന്ത്രവാർത്തികം , ശ്ലോകവാർത്തികം എന്നീ മീമാംസാഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങൾക്ക് മലയാളവ്യാഖ്യാനം ലഭ്യമാണോ
Rajesh, I have not come across these books in Malayalam.
s umapathi on November 19, 2015 at 5:53 pm said:
sir i badly require a very rear book namely ‘shabdarnavam’ by vaschpati . i am a professor at madras sanskrit college. i badly require this book can u pls help me.
bharateeya on November 19, 2015 at 6:25 pm said:
Sir, I think Vachaspati’s Sabdarnava was only partially published in 3 or 4 parts in ‘Journal of American Oriental Society’ by Robert Birwe between 1965 and 1968. Copies of these journals should be available in your University library.
In case you are sure that this kosa is published in complete, please provide its publication details. I will try to locate it.
Pandit Srikant nanda on November 24, 2015 at 4:52 am said:
I am glad to inform that u are very very thankful for providing this book and links .Please give the link or provide the books for our necessity(Viswamitra Sahmita in sanskrit)and like these ancient vedic and culture books. thanks.
Balubhai Thoriya on July 16, 2016 at 6:47 am said:
Namaste .For the following volumes The URL is banned.
This type of block is occurred. What I have to download them.
Sabd kalp- Vol . 2, 3 & 5
Vacasp- Vol. 2,3,4,5,&6
bharateeya on July 16, 2016 at 7:03 am said:
I checked the links. They are working. Some setting in your PC/device is causing the problem. Try from some other computer.
Surajratan nathani on July 21, 2016 at 4:52 pm said:
Dear sir I am looking for a book which contains ten thousands name of Lord Shiva I had this book I lost it I gave this book to one Telugu lady for translation She did this in Hindi language and in Hindi Alphabetical order i e from aa to obtain. She did this in two parts Ist part content 2500 names from aa to ta (which I lost) 2nd part of Hindi Alphabetical order 7500 names are with me is tatwatatwavivekatwane Naman to khyemakaray namaha Sir what I want is 1st 2500 names or this book which have all 10000 Names of Lord Shiva, please find and let me know about this, I thank you very much, Yours sincerely Surajratan Nathani
bharateeya on July 22, 2016 at 3:36 pm said:
Sir, I have sent mail to you in reply to this.
dear sir, i by mistake gave you a wrong email address of mine therefore I am sending you my new email address along with my mobile no.(0930037788) if you need to contact me any further. I have made several mistakes in my previous post and I request you to neglect them and read them duly corrected. Please send your reply email again. Thanking you for your anticipation and help.
I have forwarded the mail to your new email address.
E V S N MURTHY on November 1, 2017 at 1:23 pm said:
very good work. most useful to students and scholars of Sanskrit. All volumes downloaded. thank you.
Pe Traz on November 3, 2017 at 9:36 am said:
i would like to paint a picture for my children with their names on it an the “Om Kumara Kushalo Dayayei Namaha” mantra.
To do this, i would like to paint this mantra in Sanskrit.
But i can`t find any template in sanskrit writing.
Can yuo help me an show me the rigt sanskrit writing for this mantra?
ओम माथुर on March 6, 2018 at 7:18 am said:
आपकी सेवा को कोटिशः धन्यवाद !!!
मुझे कृषिपाराशर पुस्तक संस्कृत-हिंदी में चाहिये
Krishi Parashara with Hindi Tika can be purchased from https://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/krishi-parashar-NZC390/
आशीष कुमार 'आर्त on June 23, 2018 at 4:52 am said:
If was searching for शुकसप्तति(shukasaptati) in sanskrit but could not find. From where I can find it
Sukasaptati is available here.
https://archive.org/details/SukasaptatiWithSanskritHindiCommentariesRamakantTripathi2012HSS_201802
DKM Kartha on September 3, 2018 at 5:14 am said:
Have you all seen this online resource: http://www.upasanayoga.org/docs/VacD.htm
I had seen it during Google search sometimes. It seems it is copied from Sanskrit Wikisource. BTW, Vachaspatyam, Sabdakalpadruma and several other Sanskrit kosas and dictionaries are now available in various digital formats on the internet. Most convenient of them are the stardict files which can be installed on PCs, mobile phones, and other electronic devices.
https://github.com/sanskrit-coders/stardict-sanskrit
http://aupasana.com/pages/stardict.html
Shree Janajagriti Basic school on April 2, 2020 at 8:42 am said:
prabhavathi devi ayyagari on April 21, 2020 at 11:03 pm said:
namaamsi bhooyaamsi.
please give me an opportunity to have and read some dictionaries
sabda kalpadrumam,and vachasptyam.how can i get them
bharateeya on April 22, 2020 at 12:46 am said:
You may download the files by clicking on the download links given below the post.
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Antarctic Confusions
January 2, 2014 Stephan LewandowskyStephan Lewandowsky
Australia is home to The Australian, a flagship product of Rupert Murdoch’s stable of media organs. Although The Australian is technically a broadsheet, it sadly has a track record of distortion and misrepresentation when it comes to climate reporting.
The recent adventures of the Australian expedition to Antarctica appear to have provided further impetus for The Australian to get things wrong in its coverage. Under the headline Stuck on a ship of (cold) fools, the paper opined:
YOU have to feel a touch of sympathy for the global warming scientists, journalists and other hangers-on aboard the Russian ship stuck in impenetrable ice in Antarctica, the mission they so confidently embarked on to establish solid evidence of melting ice caps resulting from climate change embarrassingly abandoned because the ice is, in fact, so impossibly thick.
The aim of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, led by Chris Turney of the University of NSW, was to prove the East Antarctic ice sheet is melting. Its website spoke alarmingly of “an increasing body of evidence” showing “melting and collapse from ocean warming”. Instead, rescue ships and a helicopter, all belching substantial carbon emissions, have had to be mobilised to pluck those aboard the icebreaker MV Akademik Schokalskiy from their plight, stuck in what appears to be, ironically, record amounts of ice for this time of year.
An ice breaker gets stuck in ice and that somehow is an embarassment to “global warming scientists.”
Because if one goes to the expedition’s web page, then their first three scientific goals (there are 9 altogether) are stated as follows:
gain new insights into the circulation of the Southern Ocean and its impact on the global carbon cycle
explore changes in ocean circulation caused by the growth of extensive fast ice and its impact on life in Commonwealth Bay
use the subantarctic islands as thermometers of climatic change by using trees, peats and lakes to explore the past
I have highlighted the important bit: the growth of extensive fast ice. What is “extensive fast ice”? It is sea ice, and it is precisely the ice in which the expedition is now stuck, as its director blogged recently.
In other words, the expedition is experiencing precisely the conditions it set out to study—namely the sea ice that scientists know is increasing around Antarctica, while the icecaps on Antarctica are known to melt.
There is a solid body of evidence that Antarctica is melting (a consequence of global warming) whereas sea ice around Antarctica is increasing. The reasons underlying those seemingly opposing trends make for some fascinating science.
But being fascinated by science, and getting it right, is not anything we can expect from The Australian, alas.
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'The Mandalorian' post-screening discussion **SPOILERS**
Re: 'The Mandalorian' post-screening discussion **SPOILERS**
#25355 by AaroKin
The series just keeps getting better and better......does that mean Boba was actually after ice cream man on Cloud City in Empire hahaha looks very similar to the container the Beskar steel was given to The Mandalorian in lol
2018 Star Wars Fan Awards
AaroKin
I just watched Episode 4 and throughly enjoyed it......the At-St looked amazing.
I'm think its great more and more of the Mandalorians personality is getting fleshed out with every episode.
It's been interesting that there have been a few posts/articles popping up lately about Jango and Boba not being actual Mandalorians and in this Episode the Mandalorian tells how he was rescued by Mandalorians after his parents were killed......I'm starting to wonder now if any real bloodline Mandalorians exist or if the foundlings are like Jedi Padawans and taken from all different races?
I'm enjoying the variety in style between the episodes. This was a filler episode in terms of the larger arc, but it did allow a little bit of exposition about the Mandalorian and Mando culture. AT-ST was cool, and although the plot was completely predictable, I enjoyed the call-backs to Seven Samurai (a fully '80s style A-Team episode in many ways).
Tatooine looks so good in the latest Episode.....I keep half expecting to see The Mandalorian bump into Ben and Luke hahaha.
The cantina looked like it did in ANH, I thought it was funny how EV Droids were tending bar seeing as no Droids were allowed in there before.
.......I only just noticed The Mandalorian makes the same spur noises that Boba made in Empire lol
AaroKin wrote: ↑
The cantina looked like it did in ANH, I thought it was funny how EV Droids were tending bar seeing as no Droids were allowed in there before....
As he walked in, I was looking for the droid detector at the entrance, which was conspicuously absent. Made sense once they panned to the bar.
Lots of fan service and all - not that I mind. Really liked this shot.
In the final scene of the episode, where a figure walks upto a fallen Fennec, I assumed it was the Mandalorian going back to collect his bounty.
I was amazed I'd never noticed the 'Boba' spurs in any other episode that you do in this scene as he walks closer to the body....now, reading some comments online people have put forward its not the Mandalorian sounding like Fett but the bounty hunter himself that blew my mind as I'd never even considered this lol I'm not sure if it is but they have stated in the final episode an old character enters the story.
I REALLY hope its Boba
#25385 by Eng76
Slightly out side the box. We've now had 2 cases where "Womp Rat" is used as an insult. As we have never seen such a rat on screen I wonder if they exist or it is just an insult.
It would change Lukes character a bit "bullseye Womp rats" has a completely different meaning.
The droid 'Zero' sounds like Richard Ayoade to me... I just saw in the credits it was him lol
Another episode packed with original Star Wars call backs.....I'm liking this series more and more as it unfolds.
I was hoping to see who the mystery character from the last episode was though.
If I have one tiny criticism it would be that the first three episodes had the narrative of the Mandalorian, the child, and the client which was great to follow but the next three, even though really good, have drifted away from that story and have had very different plots.....Id like the story to move back to the original storyline instead of more 'stand alone' episodes.
I guess it's a draw back of having a heap of different writers and directors.
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Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists > Lists > Film Lists > 25 Great Movies From The 90s That No One Talks About
25 Great Movies From The 90s That No One Talks About
Posted on December 22, 2016 December 22, 2016 by Nikola Gocić
18. Artemisia (Agnès Merlet, 1997)
If you approach “Artemisia” after Merlet’s later (and also very good) films, “Dorothy Mills” and “Hideaways”, you will probably expect it to have a sharper feminist edge, considering its subject is the first woman to become the member of Florentine Academy of Fine Arts.
However, the director dares to depict Artemisia Gentileschi’s relationship with her teacher, lover and (suspected) rapist Agostino Tassi as far more romantic than the history suggests, which has caused some critics’ outrage. On the other hand, taking off the label of ‘victim’ from the painter’s name could be considered Merlet’s way of emphasizing female power.
Controversy and inaccuracies aside, no one can deny the picturesque reconstruction of the early 17th century, as well as the handsome photography, assured helming and superb acting, especially by the radiant Valentina Cervi as the titular heroine. And then there’s the factor of strong “erotic charge” which stems from Artemisia’s artistic curiosity and defiant attitude…
19. Snow White: A Tale of Terror (Michael Cohn, 1997)
Six decades after the Disney’s classic, Michael Kon delivers the grimmest adaptation of the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale in the form of a horror fantasy rife with symbols. In his rendition, no character is innocent and left unscathed.
The “evil” stepmother Claudia (Sigourney Weaver, brilliant) wins some of the viewer’s sympathy, whereby the sweet Snow White renamed Liliana/Lili (Taryn Davis / Monica Keena) is accused of jealousy. Liliana’s relation with the nobleman father, Frederick Hoffman (Sam Neill), gravitates towards the Electra complex and her “little prank” is the trigger for the tragic events and dark forces rising from the notorious piece of decor.
Notwithstanding the magic mirror, beauty is pushed to the background, so the main reason for the stepdaughter’s exile is her unreasonable defiance which leads to Claudia’s miscarriage. Up to that point, it is clear that there’s no trace of “sugar”, but afterwards things get seriously twisted. Let’s just say that we get rowdy social outcasts instead of dwarfs and quite extreme murder attempts prior to the poisoned apple. So, Lili is forced to stop being spoiled and become spunky.
20. Labyrinth of Dreams (Sōgo Ishii, 1997)
An experimental psycho-romantic drama/mystery “Labyrinth of Dreams (Yume no Ginga)” belongs to Sōgo (now Gakuryū) Ishii’s “Zen phase”, alongside a relaxing miniature “The Master of Shiatsu” and an atmospheric thriller “Angel Dust”.
Inspired by Kyūsaku Yumeno’s short story and shot in the spirit of the Japanese New Wave, it is set in the 50s of the last century and it follows an intriguing tale involving suspicious death, failed revenge and irrational love between a bus conductor, Tomiko (Rena Komine) and her colleague driver, Tatsuo (Tadanobu Asano).
A traditional narrative means are utilized in unconventional ways, so even the most banal dialogue is cleverly turned into sheer poetry by Ishii. With the help of deliberate pace, ominously ethereal music, long stretches of silence and exquisite B&W cinematography, he acts as a skillful hypnotist who lulls you into a state akin to a paralyzing dream. Besides, he has a great support in Komine and Asano’s dedication to their roles.
21. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
Non-linear and, by the standards of cyberpunk, quite unusual, “New Rose Hotel” is the adaptation of William Gibson’s short story of the same name. It is a quirky, slow-burning amalgam of drama, romance, mystery and, to a certain degree, science fiction, starring Asia Argento, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken (whose mannerisms are reason enough to see this film) as Sandii, X (nameless narrator/protagonist) and Fox, respectively.
Unlike the original work, Ferrara’s underrated feature is more about the people than the high-risk corporate espionage they’re involved in. It is not action-oriented, but rather scheming – we only see the planning (to lure a Japanese scientist played by the illustrator Yoshitaka Amano into a trap), and the (negative) consequences of mixing business with pleasure.
This behind-the-scene approach works like a charm, primarily due to the central performances and Ferrara’s gritty, unadorned style – “elegant in its simplicity”, in the Fox’s words. Also praiseworthy are the dreamy score and the raw atmosphere which marries melancholy to erotica.
22. Nothing (Dorota Kedzierzawska, 1998)
Hela – a young, caring mother of three frisky children and a devoted wife of a violent, boorish and indifferent husband – finds out she’s pregnant again and her situation (made even more miserable by poverty) goes from bad to worse.
Inspired by true events, Kedzierzawska invests considerable effort in transforming a hard tragedy into a delicate poem, while addressing the discomforting theme of abortion which is still illegal in her home country of Poland. The result of that bold and successful “alchemic” process is a unique drama focused on a frail, socially ostracized and emotionally devastated individual.
Insisting on the sparse dialogue, intimate close-ups and fragmented narrative, the director puts us in Hela’s unenviable position of pain, despair and solitude. Her heroine wanes in the world of outdated values – a “dungeon” represented by a dilapidated apartment block of claustrophobic interiors.
Kedzierzawska dips her brush in muddy golden-browns to depict the cruelty of reality, whereas she frequently uses soft light to accentuate Hela’s “sanctity”. Through her DP Arthur Reinhart’s keen eye, the most mundane scenes are transformed into gorgeous tableaux.
23. Fever (Alex Winter, 1999)
Nick Parker is a young artist barely making his ends meet by teaching drawing and painting in some lousy night school. When the institution’s principal tells him that the course will be cancelled, Nick begins a decent into madness. The murder of his Polish immigrant landlord accelerates his downfall.
“Fever” provides an excellent blend of drama, mystery and thriller, with an emphasis of the latter two genres, as well as on the meaty, nightmarish and hypnotizing atmosphere established through the dimly lit spaces and haunting score (kudos to Ferrara’s frequent collaborator Joe Delia).
Revealing the rotten side of New York, Alex Winter – the blonde half of the titular duo from “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” – proves to be much better director than actor. His colleagues in front of the camera do a fantastic job, particularly David O’Hara as Nick’s enigmatic neighbor Will who might be just a figment of the protagonist’s imagination or his (deranged) voice of reason.
24. Silver Heads (Yevgeny Yufit & Vladimir Maslov, 1999)
The trio of not-quite-sane scientists conducts a series of top-secret experiments in an underground bunker. As they’re trying to synthesize human and wood molecules, the pants-less men (probably the former guinea pigs) lead by a weird psychic, roam free in the forest above their laboratory. (And let’s not forget the video of the Siamese Twins separation operation.)
Absurd comedy, twisted philosophy, esoteric mysticism and pseudo-sci-fi meet and intertwine in the most accessible work of “necrorealism” whose founder (and so far, the only representative) is Yevgeny Yufit trained under Aleksandr Sokurov in 1988-89.
Even though the master’s influence is evident, the student and his co-writer/director Maslov have a vastly different – down-to-earth and death-fetishizing – sensibility. Naughty and uncompromising, they create something (outlandish) that could be described as a ‘l’art pour l’art’ shock, an avant-garde joke or the allegory of dehumanizing aspects of science.
Whatever the case may be, their unique “bucolic-cyberpunk” feature has a lot of sepia-toned eye candy to offer, albeit for the audience with the acquired taste.
25. Tuvalu (Veit Helmer, 1999)
In the best tradition of nonverbal cinema, Veit Helmer’s feature-length debut communicates in the language of grunts, grimaces and gestures of its protagonists. Sporadically, a someone’s name can be heard, but the traditional dialogue is completely removed.
“Tuvalu” brings together social drama and romantic/slapstick comedy in a bizarre setting which is reminiscent of “Delicatessen”. The whacky story takes place in a dilapidated public bath owned by a blind lifeguard, his button-collector wife and a seemingly doofus son Anton. And the titular island is the dream place of Anton’s love interest Eva who loses her home and father in the devious plot by the antagonist (and Lyle Lovett look-alike), Gustav.
Dingy, relaxing, bittersweet and charmingly grotesque in its playful eccentricity, “Tuvalu” is a visually inspired film shot with German money in Bulgaria with an international cast of mostly East European actors. From its audience, it doesn’t require much – just to stretch their suspension of disbelief and to accept the characters as they are – the live-action equivalents of an adult cartoon caricatures.
Author Bio: Nikola Gocić is a graduate engineer of architecture, film blogger and underground comic artist from the city which the Romans called Naissus. He has a sweet tooth for Kon’s Paprika, while his favorite films include many Snow White adaptations, the most of Lynch’s oeuvre, and Oshii’s magnum opus Angel’s Egg.
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De-Mystifying Whole-Cluster Fermentation: Laetitia Winemaker Discusses Use Of Stems In Winemaking
Pinot noir grapes have a much darker hue than the bluish-gray coloring of Pinot Gris (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Whole-cluster fermentation is gaining rapid interest as a winemaking practice, but how much does the average consumer really know about this mysterious method and its effects?
“Whole-cluster fermentation is the act of using the entire bunch or cluster of grapes, including the stem, in alcoholic fermentation,” said Winemaker Eric Hickey of Laetitia Vineyard & Winery, who has used whole-cluster fermentation for about a decade. “The winemaker can vary the amount of whole clusters included in the fermentor. For example, in our case, I use anywhere from thirty to seventy percent whole clusters in a given batch. The remaining percentage in the fermentor is made up of de-stemmed grapes.”
The use of whole-cluster fermentation began as an experiment for Hickey, who has made a career of exploring different approaches to Pinot Noir from Laetitia’s Arroyo Grande Valley AVA estate. “We have a vast array of plantings, clones, and diversity when it comes to Pinot Noir,” he said. “Not all of our lots do well with whole-cluster, but through all of our trials over the years, we’ve located the specific clones and sites that work well.”
In Burgundy, where Pinot Noir is king, whole-cluster fermentation has been used for hundreds of years, perhaps somewhat out of the convenience of tossing an entire bunch into the fermenting vessel. The hallmark of whole-cluster wines – a signature burnt tobacco note entwined with the fruit aromas and flavors – became synonymous with the Pinot Noir variety in Old World winemaking.
“It’s not always obvious, but there’s an extra layer of structure to whole-cluster Pinot Noir,” said Hickey, “and when it’s at its best, there is a dusty chalkiness to the mid-palate.”
Whole-cluster fermentation can be practiced on any variety, and is often used to tone down fruit characteristics and add another dimension to the wine. (For example, Hickey also uses whole-cluster fermentation on Grenache from the Santa Barbara Highlands Vineyard for the NADIA Wines label.) While New World winemakers have used this method for many years, a fruit-driven, de-stemmed Pinot Noir became popular as the variety gained a foothold in the United States market in the late 1980s and 1990s. Today, the pendulum is swinging the other direction, with many winemakers moving away from “pure-fruit” Pinot Noir by fermenting clusters whole to impart complexity, tannic grip, and a lift on the palate.
To bring this style further into balance, when Hickey whole-cluster ferments Pinot Noir, he leaves the intact bunches to rest in the fermentor after harvest rather than crushing them immediately. In this anaerobic environment, fermentation then begins within each individual berry as yeast penetrates the skin wall under the pressure of carbon dioxide, a process called carbonic maceration. “When fermentation takes place inside the berry, you tend to get very high levels of delicate red fruit and floral aromas,” said Hickey. “In the case of the whole-cluster technique, the high fruit tone is a good counter balance to the earthy tobacco characters the stems provide.”
Each vintage, Hickey rounds-out the Laetitia Pinot Noir program by offering a whole-cluster Pinot Noir made from clones conducive to the practice. The most recent release is the 2012 vintage, which included Pinot Noir from clones 115 and 2A to produce a wine marked by focused flavors and a refreshing grip in mouth feel. Crisp notes of cassis, whole-leaf tobacco and black peppercorn mingle with a touch of sweet oak and sultry black tea on the nose and palate. With its heightened earthiness, the 2012 Laetitia Whole Cluster Pinot Noir pairs well with similarly earthy cuisine such as roast duck, sautéed porcini mushrooms, or eggplant lasagna.
We’ve sampled the Laetitia Whole Cluster Pinot and are fans of its complex flavor. You can read our review here.
“Consumer response [toward whole-cluster wine] has been great,” said Hickey. “It usually appeals to those who prefer a Pinot with more power, structure and less ‘pure red fruit’ on the nose.”
Laetitia Vineyard 2012 Whole Cluster Pinot Noir, Arroyo Grande Valley (toledowinesandvines.blogspot.com)
2012 Gnarly Head Pinot Noir (thegoodwineguru.com)
Pinot Noir: Is Bigger Better? (kcet.org)
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THIS WEEKEND! ~ Emma’s Revolution “Free Our Children” Benefit Concert ~ Saturday, November 2
Emma’s Revolution
“Free Our Children” Benefit Concert
For #FamiliesBelongTogether & UU Mass Action
Saturday, November 2, 8pm
“Fervent and heartfelt.”
~ The New York Times
Join us for an uprising of truth and hope with award-winning, activist performers, Emma’s Revolution. The concert will benefit organizations working to support immigrant advocacy and to end the reprehensible policy of detaining children and separating them from their families at the US Border. Free our children now!
Emma’s Revolution is the dynamic duo of Pat Humphries and Sandy O, whose songs have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger, and covered by Holly Near. With beautiful harmonies and genre-defying eclecticism, Emma’s Revolution delivers the energy, strength, truth, and hope for these tumultuous times. Emma’s Revolution are winners of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize and perform at mass demonstrations across the country.
$22 in advance; $28 at the door
$50 Sponsor Includes Wine & Cheese Meet & Greet w/Artists at 7pm
$100 Benefactor Includes Meet & Greet w/Artists plus signed CD
ONLINE TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ~ PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS.
Takes place at UCMH’s Sanctuary, 80 Main Street, Downtown Hudson.
For more information and to purchase tickets through UCMH’s office, please contact us at 978.562.9180.
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Borderlands is a first-person shooter RPG developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 2009-10-20, and later for Windows. The game is set on a desolate planet called Pandora which was being mined by a company that employed criminals and the poor, but, once the ore dried up, they left the planet and their employees behind. Now, the remaining people have setup tribes to control the remaining equipment and buildings. However, a scientist who remained has discovered that the planet has a huge secret vault which has led militant groups to return to the abandoned planet to unlock the vault. You are a vault hunter who is trying to get the the vault and open it before anyone else. To do this, you fight against the tribes, avoid the dangerous flora and fauna, and make alliances with some of the inhabitants.
I would love to see more games based on this engine, specially high-fantasy, which is a good sign.
I own this game and all DLC. I have beaten the main game with 100% quest completion and the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned with 100% quest completion. I have 44/80 achievements.
The comic book style graphics are really impressive.
Character movement, jumping, running, crouching, driving, etc., are all polished and fluid.
The setting is wonderful and highly detailed. Each map has a lot of areas that reward exploration.
The dreary palette fits the game perfectly, especially with the night and day transitions, though it does feel a bit depressing over time.
I like that subsequent play-throughs let you keep your stats, but implement a hard mode.
There are a few glitches with some of the walls, especially near the end of the game, where you can get stuck.
While the game offers many types of guns (pistols, SMG, sniper rifles, launchers, etc.), I found most of them to be considerably inferior to the combat rifle. Every time I found a really powerful, say, pistol, I found it to be much weaker than even an average combat rifle.
The game is extremely linear. Every encounter is scripted. It helps that there are hundreds of side-quests, but they too are scripted.
The idea of money and ammo just lying around everywhere is rather silly. While I like not having to have to buy ammo every five seconds, I think I'd find the game more realistic if I got the ammo off of corpses rather than finding full ammo chests every few feet.
Later in the game, much of it is repetitive. Many areas feature the same monsters, the same graphics, and the same voice acting.
Several of the bosses in the game can be defeated in complete safety with an accurate sniper rifle.
Money is almost useless throughout the entire game. It is rare to see vendors selling anything better than the equipment you pulled off a corpse or from a chest, even in their over-priced "Item of the Day" sections. By the end of the game, I had over $2,000,000 with nothing to spend it on. Aside from the rare upgrade worth buying, and capacity upgrades, the only time I spent money was from being resurrected.
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Tag Archives: Bryan Loren
080: A Good Kind of Weird
Posted on June 6, 2018 by Elise Capron — Leave a reply
Jamon and Q have lots of exciting news and discussion items to get into in this week’s regular episode, including their anticipated follow-up chat about Jamon’s interview with Bryan Loren in Episode 079, which inspired strong reactions from listeners across social media. They get into their personal thoughts on that episode, and also talk about the MJ social media storm around Twitter’s #TweetLikeTheMJEstate.
In Jackson family news, the guys discuss the new Pepsi can design featuring Michael Jackson, as well as updates on La Toya (nope, she did not have a stroke!), Jackie Jackson’s new record label, and the upcoming Jacksons events in Detroit. And, of course, they celebrate Janet Jackson’s well-deserved ICON Award and incredible performance at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards.
In controversial news, an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates, published in The Atlantic, causes quite a stir, leading Joe Vogel to respond with his own article in Forbes. Plus, the debut of the ABC documentary “The Last Days of Michael Jackson” has the fan community talking, and the Estate suing. And, Lenny Kravitz releases a new “duet” with Michael Jackson called “Low“.
Last, but certainly not least, the guys are thrilled to have J.D. from HIStory In The Mix with them on today’s show. J.D. is a massive fan (and very wise for his young age!) whose must-watch web-series chronicles the life and career of Michael Jackson. Jamon and Q will talk with J.D. about his fan story, history of his web-series, thoughts on Michael Jackson, the Estate, and more.
• Michael Jackson features on new Pepsi can design and accompanying TV ad.
• La Toya wins “Celebrity Worst Cooks in America” cooking challenges, and visits the Cannes film festival for the South Korean film, “Burning”.
• La Toya and B. Howard feature together in the finally-released track “Let Me Know (Dimelo)”.
• After all that, obviously La Toya did not have a stroke.
• Ta-Nehisi Coates publishes a controversial essay in The Atlantic, comparing Michael Jackson to Kanye West, to which Joe Vogel responds with his own article in Forbes.
• Janet Jackson performs at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards and receives the ICON Award.
• Janet Jackson opens up to Billboard in new interview.
• A new ABC documentary “The Last Days of Michael Jackson” airs, not endorsed by his family nor his Estate Executors.
• Jackie Jackson discusses his new record label, Critically Amused, and his signed artists.
• The Jacksons receive a key to the city of Detroit, and get an honorary street renaming, as they are set to headline the Detroit Music Weekend, June 14/17.
• Lenny Kravitz releases a new ‘duet’ with Michael Jackson, called “Low”.
Main Discussion Topic
• Fan chat with J.D. of HIStory in the Mix
Finds of the Week
• Jamon – Aphrodite Jones’ book Michael Jackson Conspiracy.
• Q – RetroWDW Podcast Episode 39 – Hotel Plaza Boulevard, in which host Brian gives us the history of the Michael Jackson Suite at the Hotel Royal Plaza on WDW property.
• J.D.- Janet and Michael Jackson – Rhythm On the Dancefloor mashup.
• The MJCast – Episode 079: Bryan Loren Special – Apple Podcasts
• Links to La Toya’s track
• The MJCast – Episode 064: Vincent Paterson Special – Apple Podcasts
• The Jacksons – Can You Feel It (Groovefunkel Remix)
• Janet Jackson – That’s the Way Love Goes (Haus of Glitch Waltz Groove)
• Michael Jackson – HIStory (KaiOken Remix)
Correspondent Appearances
• Steven Hodges of MJFFC (Charity Correspondent)
• Charles Thomson (Legal Correspondent)
• Janneke van der Linden of Jackson Source (Jackson family Correspondent)
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079: Bryan Loren Special
Posted on May 19, 2018 by Elise Capron — 13 Comments ↓
As regular listeners of The MJCast know, Jamon and Q are sensitive to the delicate nature of leaks. While often thrilling for fans, they can profoundly affect the trajectory of a song, an album, and a career. In the case of renowned record producer, singer-songwriter, and instrumentalist Bryan Loren, much of his work with Michael Jackson, to which he dedicated years of hard work, leaked out to the public. Because of these unfortunate events, as well as other factors, Loren never got credit or compensation for much of the material he created. Loren is now inviting Michael Jackson fans to consider respectfully offering him a token of thanks, a voluntary sum of money through his website, along with a note on how we’ve enjoyed his music over the years.
In this week’s exclusive interview, Jamon, who is hosting solo, welcomes Season 4’s first musical collaborator special guest, Bryan Loren. Loren has worked as a producer with a number of notable artists, including Whitney Houston, Barry White, Sly Stone, Sting, and, of course, Michael Jackson. A talented musician at a young age, Loren was a professional session artist by age 15 and had signed his first contract at only 17. He had two Billboard-charting R&B songs in 1984 as a solo artist, including ‘Lollipop Luv’ and ‘Do You Really Love Me’. Loren started working with Michael Jackson in the years leading up to the release of the Dangerous album in 1991. They collaborated on several songs together, including, to name just a few, ‘Work That Body’, ‘Serious Effect’, ‘She Got It’, ‘Man In Black’, ‘Superfly Sister’, ‘Mind Is The Magic’ and ‘Do the Bartman’. Their collaborative relationship and friendship would last for many years beyond those early sessions. Loren continues to make his own music as a solo artist, and plans to release his new album in the Summer of 2018.
This week’s episode is a a tough but important discussion about the deep and complex impact that leaks and other events have had on Loren’s life and career. Ultimately, The MJCast hopes that this interview will inspire listeners to think about the rights of artists, and about where lines must be drawn.
• Bryan Loren’s website and letter to fans, which includes information about how to make financial contributions.
• Bryan Loren’s Facebook, Twitter and Apple Music pages.
• You can read Jamon’s ‘Thoughts on Leaks…’ op-ed here.
• The Philadelphia Experiment album
• The Jacksons’ self titled album and Goin’ Places
• Bryan Loren – Lollipop Luv (12″ Version)
• Michael Jackson – Superfly Sister
• Do The Bartman
• Gavin Christopher – One Step Closer
• Rufus & Chaka Khan – Destiny
• Bryan’s three favourite albums (Stevie Wonder’s Music Of My Mind, Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall and Steely Dan’s Aja).
• Michael Jackson – Work That Body
• Michael Jackson – Serious Effect
• Michael Jackson – She Got It
If you have any thoughts, opinions, or feedback on the show, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us at themjcast@icloud.com or find the links to our many social networks on www.themjcast.com. Keep Michaeling!
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078: That was a Q-incidence
Posted on May 5, 2018 by Elise Capron — 1 Comment ↓
Jamon and Q are excited to dig into a big news roundup this week, with lots of developments in the world of Michael Jackson and the Jackson family. They cover the outcome of the Moonwalkers documentary on Kickstarter, a new book publishing this Fall by Richard Lecocq and Francois Allard, and news from Will.i.am regarding music he worked on with MJ. They also discuss the new Bad World Tour concert footage released by the Indy Channel, and Bryan Loren’s public plea to fans for monetary compensation regarding his leaked tracks.
On the Jackson family events front, Janet Jackson has announced additional tour dates (and launched a national back-up dancer search!) and will be headlining a major music festival in Los Angeles this summer. The Jacksons will perform at the Detroit Music Weekend, a three day festival celebrating their impact and legacy. And, in Tulsa, OK, a Michael Jackson Tribute event will be held on June 24, hosted by Jankins of Moonwalk Talks.
Jamon and Q will also discuss the news from 3T, who have released their Chapter III song, “Fire”, as a single in France. And on TV, La Toya Jackson dons her beloved classic headband on the reality show, “Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition”. Plus, Paris Jackson has a star-studded 20th birthday bash, and gets some well-deserved attention for the important work she’s doing on the activist front by publishing an op-ed in Teen Vogue about HIV/AIDS awareness. Paris will receive the LIFE+ award on behalf of her godmother, Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS foundation, at the 25th Life Ball this June.
This episode also features several of our correspondents, including Steven Hodges of MJFFC (Charity Correspondent), Charles Thomson (Legal Correspondent), and Janneke van der Linden of Jackson Source (Jackson family Correspondent).
• Richard Lecocq and Francois Allard are set to release a new book on Michael Jackson titled Michael Jackson – All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Song, Every Video, Every Dance Move.
• Will.i.am again tells reporters he won’t be releasing the songs he worked on with Michael Jackson.
• The Indy Channel has released a retrospective article on Michael’s final performance in Indianapolis featuring never-before-seen footage from the Bad World Tour.
• Record producer Bryan Loren has released a plea to Michael Jackson fans asking for monetary compensation regarding his many leaked tracks
• Upcoming Michael Jackson Tribute event, Sunday, 24 June 2018, Tulsa Oklahoma, held by Jankins of the Moonwalk Talks podcast. Games, trivia, movies, dance, art, prizes and charity, tickets are $10, or $5 for 14 and under.
• Paris Jackson Said Goodbye to Her Teens with a Star-Studded 20th Birthday Bash
• Paris writes inspiring op-ed piece for Teen Vogue magazine on why HIV/AIDS awareness is close to her heart, and also will receive the LIFE+ award on behalf of her godmother, Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS foundation at the 25th Life Ball, June 2 charity event in Vienna.
• The Jacksons are set to participate in Detroit Music Weekend, a three day festival celebrating their impact and legacy
• 3T to release their Chapter III song, “Fire”, as a single in France.
• La Toya Jackson participates in the new season of “Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition”
• Janet Jackson to perform at LA’s FYF Fest in July
• Janet Jackson launches #DanceWithJanet campaign, and announces further dates for her successful State of the World tour.
• Will Smith shares his story of the one time he met Michael Jackson.
• Random fan chat!
• Jamon – Michael Jackson’s 30th Anniversary Celebration: The Solo Years (Long Version)
• Q – New Michael Jackson video mix by @roboemjay on Vimeo, from late 2017.
• Kylie Minogue’s new album ‘Golden‘
• Michael Jackson’s Legacy project
• Prince Jackson’s Heal LA project
• Michael’s Dream Foundation
• Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
• 3T’s Dee Dee Jackson Foundation
• MJ Fans for Charity website and the Global Total page
• Michael Jackson Monthly Giving Project
• Photo of Michael Jackson and Will Smith ‘in the closet’
• Janet Jackson and Kylie Minogue – Slow and Nasty (Initial Talk Mix)
• The Jacksons – Music’s Takin’ Over (Belabouche & Fendercillo Discotronix Mix)
• Michael Jackson – Remember the Time (Aevion Remix)
If you have any thoughts, opinions, or feedback on this Michael Jackson podcast episode, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us at themjcast@icloud.com or find the links to our many social networks on www.themjcast.com. Stay BAD!
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Episode 032 – Dammn Baby, Dammn Indeed
Posted on June 4, 2016 by Jamon Bull (Admin) — Leave a reply
Welcome to Episode 032 of The MJCast. On this episode, Jamon and Q talk all about LaVelle Smith Jr. and Bryan Loren‘s upcoming Michael Jackson seminars, Apollo Theatre‘s education program on Michael’s solo career, Kingvention 2016 and a new book by the prolific Michael Jackson author Chris Cadman called Off The Wall For the Record. Following this, the boys delve into 3T‘s upcoming September gig in Amsterdam, Tito Jackson‘s new single Get It Baby (feat. Big Daddy Kane), Janet Jackson‘s new music video for Dammn Baby before covering some heavier news topics such as Pulse Evolution‘s new virtual Michael Jackson model, an update from Charles Thomson on the Cascio Case and the Michael Jackson Estate’s 4th annual birthday bash in Las Vegas. The major discussion topic for this episode is the Chinese release of the official Michael Jackson book Dancing the Dream.
LaVelle Smith Jr. shows new footage from the 1995 MTV rehearsals and unveils his upcoming Michael Jackson seminars.
Songwriter and record producer Bryan Loren will be hosting a seminar September 26th. View the official trailer here.
Apollo Theatre‘s education program on Michael Jackson’s epic years.
Kingvention 2016‘s official website and their ticket page.
Chris Cadman has released Off the Wall For the Record. Check it out at Amazon and Book Depository.
3T are set to perform a one time only concert in The Netherlands.
Tito Jackson has release his new single Get It Baby (feat. Big Daddy Kane) on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Amazon.
Janet Jackson has dropped a video for the next Unbreakable single Dammn Baby. Check it this behind the scenes video courtesy of Rolling Stone.
Pulse Evolution Corporation reveals that they are working on a new virtual Michael Jackson digital model. MJVibe continues to update us on developments.
New footage has been released of Michael Jackson in Japan during 2007.
Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris reveals a new Dangerous tattoo on her Instagram page.
The 4th annual official Michael Jackson ‘birthday bash’ has been announced.
Michael Jackson’s Dancing the Dream has been released in Chinese for the first time.
Jamon – Penn State staff gets the proposal of her life!
Q – Make-A-Wish Foundation’s How Meeting Michael Jackson Changed Her Life video
The MJCast’s Gangsta Michael Jackson (Thug Life) videos
The MJCast – Episode 019: Thriller Night Halloween Special with LaVelle Smith Jr.
Bryan Loren
Remixed By Nick*‘s website and Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and tumblr. pages
Elizabeth Amisu’s The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson book
Pez Jax’ Off The Wall – From the Beginning, Brick by Brick book
3T‘s 2015 album, Chapter III
A closeup video of the Michael Jackson One hologram at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Charles Thomson‘s website & Facebook, YouTube & Twitter pages
Broderick Morris’ Michael Jackson: The Real Comeback Japan 2006 book
Michael Jackson visits US troops at Camp Zama in Japan during 2007
Jackson Source
Michael Jackson – You Are Not Alone (Nick* Remix)
Tito Jackson – Get It Baby (feat. Big Daddy Kane)
Ahmed Alshaiba – They Don’t Care About Us (Oud Cover)
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Unrecognized Value of Carcinoembryonic Antigen in Recurrent Rectal and Sigmoid Colon Cancer: Case Series
Leonid L Yavorkovsky, MD, PhD1; Myron S Kwong, MD1; Sejal Jhatakia, MD1; Pilar Ivanov, MD1
Introduction: Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) surveillance is recommended in patients with colorectal cancer for detection of potentially resectable metastases. In patients with appropriate symptoms, a highly increased CEA concentration (> 5 times the upper limit of normal) is considered strongly suggestive of cancer. Despite the recognized value, the test is neither absolutely sensitive nor specific for recurrent cancer. Generally, a greater diagnostic value has been assigned to elevated CEA levels, most commonly greater than 5 ng/mL. Fluctuations within the established normal CEA range are not customarily analyzed.
Case Presentations: We report here on 11 patients (8 women, 3 men) who, during the postoperative follow-up period, received a diagnosis of recurrent cancer despite their CEA levels exhibiting very subtle increases. Our cohort shared several similar characteristics such as a nonsmoking status, younger age (median, 52 years at initial diagnosis), and exclusive localization of the cancer to the rectosigmoid region.
Discussion: This important clinical observation may expand a prognostic value of CEA in a certain category of patients with colorectal cancer.
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) surveillance is recommended in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) for detection of potentially resectable metastases.1,2 In patients with appropriate symptoms, a highly increased CEA concentration (> 5 times the upper limit of normal) is considered strongly suggestive of cancer.3 Despite the recognized value, the test is neither absolutely sensitive nor specific for recurrent cancer. Generally, a greater diagnostic value has been assigned to elevated CEA levels, most often greater than 5 ng/mL. The fluctuations within the established normal CEA range are not customarily analyzed.
We describe 11 patients in whom recurrent CRC was diagnosed during postoperative follow-up despite their CEA levels exhibiting very subtle increases.
From 2000 through 2016, a total of 11 patients in our department who were undergoing standard CRC surveillance according to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines4 were identified and their medical records were reviewed. The cohort was selected on the basis of cancer recurrence in the setting of CEA levels that exhibited an incline but fell short of surpassing the upper limit of normal.
The relevant clinical data of the patients are presented in Table 1. Eight of the 11 patients were women, and the median age of the whole group was 52 years (range, 44-73 years; mean, 56 years). At the time of initial diagnosis, 1 patient had stage I, 4 patients had stage II, and 6 patients had stage III cancer. Only a single patient had a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma, whereas most had moderately or well-differentiated tumors. The cancer was located in the rectum in 5 patients, in the sigmoid colon in 5 patients, and at the rectosigmoid junction in 1 patient. The recurrent cancer was confirmed by results of the biopsy of the suspicious lesion detected on computed tomography or positron emission tomography/computed tomography, or during the surgery. In 1 patient the biopsy was not technically feasible, so the recurrence was diagnosed on the basis of retroperitoneal fluorodeoxyglucose-avid lymph nodes (LNs) and CEA elevation, which was effectively treated with stereotactic radiosurgery. Seven patients had relapsed with a single metastasis: 4 in the lung, 1 in the liver, 1 in an abdominal LN, and 1 in a retroperitoneal LN. Four patients displayed multiple sites of recurrence, including the peritoneum (n = 1); the liver and colon (n = 1); the retroperitoneal, mediastinal, and supraclavicular LNs (n = 1); and the lung and brain (n = 1).
The serum CEA assay was performed according to an immunochemical automated analyzer (Abbott AxSym, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) using a microparticle enzyme immunoassay with a normal range of equal to or below 5.0 ng/mL. The median preoperative CEA level (assessed in 9 of 11 patients) was 3.58 ng/mL (range, < 1.0 to 12.3 ng/mL), and the postoperative CEA was 1.03 ng/mL (range, < 1.0 ng/mL to 2.9 ng/mL). At the time of recurrence, the median CEA level was 2.97 ng/mL (range, 1.1 ng/mL to 4.8 ng/mL). In 1 patient (Table 1, Case 1), CEA demonstrated an abrupt, minuscule but perceptible increase above the level that had been remarkably stable over 5 years. Most patients displayed at least 3 steadily rising CEA values above the nadir over variable periods.
The median time to recurrence was 37.6 months (range, 19 to 65 months), with a median survival of 91.9 months (range, 41 to 162 months). Five of 11 patients died. The 6 patients who are alive have survived from 41 to 162 months (median, 83.8 months). The median time to recurrence in surviving patients varied from 19 to 66 months (median, 34.2 months).
Despite the lack of survival benefit, CEA surveillance has been recommended in the postoperative period to improve the detection of recurrent CRC, including those cancers that could be treated with curative intent. The accuracy of the test has been debated for years, prompting more sophisticated methods of CEA assessment such as CEA doubling time and CEA half-life.5 In general, the higher the level of CEA, the higher the specificity of the test. Therefore, the studies have traditionally focused on the high-risk patients with elevated preoperative CEA (> 5 ng/mL) and, especially, patients with persistent CEA elevation after surgery.6 An interpretation of the CEA levels is more problematic when the levels fluctuate in the normal or near-normal range, mostly for the following reasons: 1) the small variations are subject to oversight; 2) the minor fluctuations may be attributed to medical conditions other than cancer or to tobacco exposure, which may trigger minor but false CEA elevations3; and 3) CEA sensitivity and specificity can vary depending on the brand of assay used, so no uniform normal CEA values have been established. Even more important, up to 70% of CRC recurrences occur without CEA elevation (at normal CEA level).7 In many such cases the serum CEA has no biological connection to the cancer because approximately 30% of all CRC recurrences do not produce CEA.8 Despite all these challenges, a normal CEA level could still be a subtle marker of cancer recurrence, as was demonstrated in the study, with an upper limit of normal CEA of 10 ng/mL.9
We identified 11 patients with recurrent cancer whose CEA levels before the diagnosis demonstrated small elevations that were confined to the established normal limits. The interpretation of such narrow-range CEA fluctuations requires careful distinction from nonspecific, potentially false-positive deviations. For example, previous studies have seldom made a distinction between smokers and nonsmokers,10 or men vs women, despite the proven differences in their CEA levels. According to our laboratory reference studies, the 90th percentile upper limit for smokers is 5.0 ng/mL and the 95th percentile for nonsmokers is 3.0 ng/mL. In a large reference study, the upper limits of the CEA assay for male smokers and nonsmokers were 6.2 and 3.4 ng/mL, respectively, and for female smokers and nonsmokers, 4.9 and 2.5 ng/mL, respectively.11 Thus, smoking appears to almost double the serum concentration of CEA and may certainly confound the interpretation of the results. All our patients were nonsmokers at the time of evaluation. Four of 11, however, showed CEA greater than 3.0 ng/mL (upper level for nonsmokers). Additionally, none of our patients had conditions that potentially may result in nonspecific CEA elevation, including cirrhosis, hepatitis, biliary obstruction, pulmonary emphysema, diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease, peptic ulcer disease, or collagen vascular disease.12
The CEA levels in patients with CRC have rarely been studied in regard to the cancer location.13 The most striking observation was that the cancers in our patients were localized exclusively to the rectal and sigmoid region. The cause of such a location clustering is unclear. It is plausible, however, that our cohort exemplifies a biologically distinct subcategory of CRC. For example, our patients have demonstrated more indolent than average cancer growth. Furthermore, 7 of 11 patients presented with oligometastatic recurrence, which is a recognized prerequisite of curability. The latter features could account for the lower, and stagnant, CEA levels in our patients (as well as a longer survival). The lower preoperative CEA levels have previously been linked to better outcomes. This was convincingly shown in both pulmonary14,15 and liver16 metastasectomy settings. Thus, the evidence suggests better outcomes when the cancer produces no or very small amounts of CEA.
Another distinguishing feature of our cohort was that it was nearly 10 years younger than a statistical median age for patients with rectal cancer.17 Also, the prevalence of the female sex, which is a reverse of average statistics, may provide an additional clue for this cluster (target) population identification.
Although more intensive surveillance with CEA screening consistently results in an increased rate of curative-intent surgical treatment, the cure rate remains suboptimal, as no survival benefit has been demonstrated yet. To improve the validity of CEA screening, an individualized and perhaps selective measurement approach may be necessary. Our study could be a step in this direction.
Our collective data on patients with CRC for more than 6 years (2010-2015) yielded an estimated incidence of the cohort of 0.7%. (On average, 91 new patients were seen annually during this period.) The fact that our cohort represents only a small subset of the CRC population highlights the importance of rigorous identification of such patients. Despite the rare occurrence, such cases could be easily overlooked and thus their incidence underestimated.
The upward trend of postoperative CEA level even within the normal range may be clinically relevant and, given appropriate attention, potentially lifesaving. Our observations suggest that a correctly defined subset of patients with rectal and sigmoid cancers may constitute a target population requiring maximum vigilance and cautious interpretation of CEA trends within an established normal range.
Our findings have also exposed an important but elusive relevance of the patient’s gender and tobacco use to the subtle postoperative CEA changes. Hopefully, the recognition of better-defined subcategories of patients with CRC as well as early intervention, before CEA levels become grossly abnormal, will expand a prognostic value of CEA and, ultimately, improve clinical outcomes. Although our study was small and included only 11 patients, it illustrates an important clinical observation that should be further evaluated in future studies.
Yavorkovsky LL, Kwong MS, Jhatakia S, Ivanov P. Unrecognized value of carcinoembryonic antigen in recurrent rectal and sigmoid colon cancer: Case series. Perm J 2019;23:18-022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/18-022
1 Oncology Department, San Jose Medical Center, CA
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Little Monsters (2019)
Posted on November 15, 2019 by badblokebob
Abe Forsythe | 94 mins | cinema | 2.39:1 | Australia, UK & USA / English | 15 / R
The zombie comedy — or zom-com — is basically a recognised subgenre (or sub-subgenre, really) at this point, birthing both high-profile hits (Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland) and smaller cult successes (Cockneys vs Zombies). For some reason this doesn’t seem to work with other monsters (Lesbian Vampire Killers, anyone?), so what is it about zombies that lends them to comedy? Perhaps it’s their roots in social satire. Perhaps it’s just that an enemy who can only shamble along slowly is inherently ridicule-worthy.
Whatever, the latest entry in this sub-subgenre comes from Australian writer-director Abe Forsythe. We’re introduced to Dave (Alexander England), a washed-up wannabe musician whose argumentative long-term relationship has just imploded, leaving him on his sister’s couch being a bad influence on his young nephew, Felix (Diesel La Torraca). After he meets Felix’s kindergarten teacher, Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o), Dave is smitten, agreeing to be a chaperone on a class trip to a farm. There they first meet kids’ TV star Teddy McGiggle (Josh Gad), and then an outbreak of zombies from a nearby military research facility.
I guess taking a leaf out of Shaun’s playbook, Little Monsters invests a lot of time in its setup before it gets to the promised zombie action. As we witness Dave’s life fall apart, it feels more like a blokey indie comedy than a genre sendup, and it’s an age before Nyong’o turns up, never mind the zombies. I guess this is meant to be character stuff to get us invested, but its problem is it’s not terribly original — Dave is basically Dewey from School of Rock, and/or every other character that has already imitated that. Later, Teddy McGiggle is revealed to actually hate kids; he wanted to be a serious actor; now he’s an alcoholic; etc, etc. Asking us to invest in the characters is fine, but it helps if their arcs aren’t entirely predictable.
Strumming a ukulele in her yellow sundress as she communicates with children on their level, Miss Caroline screams “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”. Fortunately, in the hands of Oscar-winner Nyong’o, there’s more to her than that, be it her savvy handling of Dave (clearly the latest in a long line of lustful dads) or wielding a spade to fight the undead. That sentiment perhaps extends to the film as a whole: it may be constructed from familiar building blocks, but its peppered with enough little moments of freshness that it provokes plenty of laughs. Most of that comes from having a class-full of little kids in tow, with the adults trying to pretend it’s all a big game for their benefit. Especially when watched with a late-night crowd up for the experience, it’s good fun.
Often with films of this nature I say they’re “for genre fans only” or something like that, but I wonder if Little Monsters might actually play best for those unfamiliar with all the other movies it’s a bit like. Of course, forgiving genre fans will also be entertained. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s a light and largely likeable hour-and-a-half.
Little Monsters is released on Sky Cinema and in some cinemas in the UK today.
This entry was posted in 2010s, 2019, 3 stars, Comedy, Horror and tagged Abe Forsythe, Alexander England, Australia, Josh Gad, Little Monsters, Lupita Nyong'o, zombies by badblokebob. Bookmark the permalink.
4 thoughts on “Little Monsters (2019)”
Tom on November 17, 2019 at 7:41 am said:
This movie was pretty fun for sure. I just wish Josh Gad hadn’t played his character quite so over the top. He really irritated me here, more so than he usually does lol
badblokebob on November 18, 2019 at 12:46 pm said:
Ha! I thought it was quite fitting when he was being the children’s character, but yeah, he should’ve toned it down when being the actor.
ghostof82 on November 17, 2019 at 5:53 pm said:
Hmm, looks like I may have to give this one a shot.
Zombie movies are like Marvel movies, they just don’t seem to ever stop.
I don’t know what it is about zombies that seems to attract so many filmmakers, in a way other monsters don’t seem to as much. Well, I can probably think of a few reasons, actually, but it might be refreshing if there were people putting a similar amount of effort into other monsters, just for variety’s sake.
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Posted on August 8, 2016 August 18, 2017
#NationalBookLoversDay Recommendations from Bauer Faculty and Staff
Looking to learn a new skill? Escape reality? Discover and explore the world? You can do all of these things, and more, simply by cracking open a book (or tapping a reader app on your phone or tablet).
To celebrate #NationalBookLoversDay, we asked the faculty and staff of the C. T. Bauer College of Business for book recommendations. Here are a few of their suggestions:
Gary Randazzo
Director, Executive Education Program
Thomas Jefferson – The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
“I think it is a great read. It gives the reader a pretty good idea of how Jefferson wielded power and his lasting impression on the nation.”
Troy Hopkins
Director, Career Counseling
Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven
“As a poor kid from the South, this book opened my eyes about how most people in this country have had to fight (really hard) to get what many people today take for granted. The book shows that ‘We the People’ have more in common with each other than we realize. By the way: Register and GO VOTE!”
Betsy Gelb
Larry J. Sachnowitz Professor of Marketing
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith and Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
“They are practical, and you can put them to work right away advancing your career.”
Latha Ramchand
Dean and Professor of Finance
Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
“The book is targeted to women, yet, can be used in other contexts where individuals are taught to confirm and not empowered to soar. It inspires us to seek out our calling and offers specific suggestions on how to get going. The one suggestion I really appreciated was ‘Don’t Hide,’ and instead, ‘Leap.’ Don’t wait till you are perfect to do what you are inspired to do; begin right away.”
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
“This is the historical biography that started a cultural movement. I’m OBSESSED with Hamilton: The Musical and Lin-Manuel Miranda, so after listening to the cast album no less than 500 times on my commute to and from work, I wanted to take a deeper dive into the history behind the Broadway show. I’m not finished with Chernow’s massive tome just yet, but I can totally see how it inspired LMM (although I’m not sure my mind immediately went to ‘this is such a hip hop story,’ but I guess that’s what makes him genius).”
Sarayu Sundar
Program Manager for Student Engagement
Give and Take by Adam Grant
“I love recommending this book, because it dispels the myth that nice guys finish last. The author, a professor at the Wharton School at UPenn, uses research to show that those who give the most are also the most successful. In other words, it literally pays to be nice! Unlike other nonfiction books in this genre, the tone of Give and Take isn’t prescriptive at all. But, despite that, (or maybe because of it), I found myself trying to incorporate many of the habits Grant described in the book into my own daily routine.”
Amanda Sebesta
Senior Communications Coordinator
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irnin Carmon & Shana Khizhnik
“What I thought was going to be a humorous look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life turned out to be a great look on what makes RBG, RBG. Being one of the only women (out of 11) to be accepted into Harvard Law, having a successful career, being a mother, all the while making her way to the Supreme Court, RBG is no doubt an example for all women to never let anything stop them from pursuing their dreams.”
Britney Hudson
Program Director and Assistant to the Deans
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
“The Shadowy Horses is a great book that allows the reader to enjoy the excitement of an archeological dig, learning interesting details of Scottish culture and the history of the Roman Empires campaign in northern England all tied up with mystery, legends, and intrigue. A delightful read.”
Colleen Davies
Bauer Honors Academic Advisor
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
“I think my favorite book is Catch 22, because I first read it in high school and enjoyed the quirkiness of each of the characters. Plus it is set in World War II era and I have an affinity for fiction based in that time frame.”
Emese Felvegi
Decision & Information Sciences Clinical Assistant Professor
“Terry Pratchett is my favorite author and I had a hard time picking a single book as all his novels set in Discworld, all his other series, collaborations, his body of work altogether is beyond fantastic. I am re-reading Going Postal for the third time and it works great as a standalone for those wanting an entry point into Discworld. This is the story of a con man who gets a shot to redeem himself by resurrecting the city’s long-dead postal services. He has to deliver mountains of letters, revitalize an archaic business while competing against new technologies and unscrupulous businessmen. Then there’s the unusual and diverse workforce (clerks and golems, oh my!), the no-nonsense love interest (a golem activist with a crossbow), and the Postmaster’s own devious nature he has to overcome. It’s a satire that entertains and enlightens, and as an added bonus highlights themes and concepts from our class related to competition, critical thinking, ethics, and change management. All wrapped up in a fantasy novel about with golems and assassins and dead letters.”
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Fun Places to Gay
MPAACT at the Greenhouse Theater Center
Circle Theatre at Greenhouse Theater Center
The Neo-Futurist Theater
Stage Left Theatre at the Storefront Theater
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Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place
Scarlet Bar
The Courtyard Theater at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
Buzz22 Chicago at the Steppenwolf Garage
Writers Theatre at Books On Vernon
Spyners Pub
Citadel Theatre Company
Davenport's Piano Bar Cabaret
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Art in Response of COVID-19 Therapy Group This art therapy group focused on LGBTQIA+ individuals seeks to use the creative process to foster individual and collective coping strategies in response to COVID-19. Making art in the presence of the group allows participants to explore and express thoughts, emotions, and experiences around the pandemic, which can often be hard to communicate verbally. Art experience or skill is not necessary.To register or for more information, please contact behavioralhealth@centeronhalsted.org or 773.472.6469 EXT 460. 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Bisexual Queer Alliance Chicago - Meetup Bi Discussion Group. Every last Saturday of the month. Link visible after RSVP 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Thursday, Feb 4
AVER Chicago Chapter AVER Chicago is a non-profit organization of active, reserve, and veteran service members dedicated to full and equal rights and equitable treatment for all present and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces, especially LGBTQ current and prior military. Now meeting virtually on the first Thursday of every month. 7:00pm
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Rainbow A-Go-Go streaming Join Holly Baloo and CSz Theater's LGBTQIA+ performers as they highlight the queer Chicago community every month. Each month four amazing acts ranging from burlesque, to standup, to musicians, to magicians will do a sample of their act, and then after each act our in house improvisers will do scenes, songs and games based on the act. Each show ends with queer stories from our players. Through March 2021 5:00pm
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Equality Illinois 30th-anniversary gala A surprise Grammy-winning artist is slated to perform at the Equality Illinois 30th-anniversary gala on Feb. 6, 2021. The event is annually attended by hundreds of movers and shakers within the LGBTQA community. To find out who the Grammy-winning artist is, people must purchase tickets and log in Feb. 6. The son of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will accept Lifetime Achievement honors on her behalf. National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Imani Rupert-Gordon will receive the Freedom Award while Broadway Youth Center will be honored with the Organization Award. 6:30pm
Online http://www.equalityillinois.us/2021-gala/
Friday, Feb 26
Chicago Sinfonietta Annual MLK Tribute Concert Programming will take place January through March with video content and activities leading up to the rescheduled MLK Tribute "The Arc" Virtual Premiere Concert, on Sunday, March 28 at 3 p.m. CST commemorating MLK's historic Selma to Montgomery March in a celebration of diversity and the values of freedom, friendship,and peace. 3:00pm Online 312 292-9696 Tickets: http://boxoffice@chicagosinfonietta.org
Rainbow A-Go-Go streaming Join Holly Baloo and CSz Theater's LGBTQIA+ performers as they highlight the queer Chicago community every month. Each month four amazing acts ranging from burlesque, to standup, to musicians, to magicians will do a sample of their act, and then after each act our in house improvisers will do scenes, songs and games based on the act. Each show ends with queer stories from our players. Through March 2021 5:00pm Belmont Theater District online streaming http://btdchicago.com/shows/
Thursday, Mar 4
AVER Chicago Chapter AVER Chicago is a non-profit organization of active, reserve, and veteran service members dedicated to full and equal rights and equitable treatment for all present and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces, especially LGBTQ current and prior military. Now meeting virtually on the first Thursday of every month. 7:00pm Zoom http://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=aver%20chicago%20chapter
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Lady Gaga, The Chromatica Ball Tour Tour announcement follows release of "Stupid Love." $1. of each ticket goes to Born This Way Foundation. 7:00pm Wrigley Field 1060 W Addison St # 1 Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L6xyaeiV58 Tickets: http://www.livenation.com
PFLAG Chicago Monthly Meeting Parents, Family members, Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) has support groups and educational speakers. We engage in advocacy activities. All are welcome, you always have a home with PFLAG. Monthly on the third Wednesday. Call 1 (630) 415-0622 or E-mail the Metro Chicago South Chapter: pflagmetrochicagosouthside@pflagillinois.org or contact Keith McCoy at kmccoy@windycityblackpride.org or Peter Ji at pjiman1@hotmail.com. 11:00pm - 1:00pm Affinity Community Services 2850 S Wabash Ave Ste 108 Chicago http://pflagillinois.org
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Images of Key West (Part 1: Places and things)
Posted on January 5, 2016 by meps
My recent trip to Key West wasn’t just about books. I did a lot of photography as well, and the results are funny, poignant, and beautiful. This gallery comprises my favorite photos of places and things.
Please email me if you are interested in a print.
Old Key West
Dove in a tree
Raindrops on a tropical plant in Key West
Charming bicycle
Garden detail from Martello Tower in Key West
At Martello Tower in Key West
Butterfly garden at Martello Tower in Key West
Tropical leaf
At the Key West Garden Club in Martello Tower
Tourist boats at sunset, taken from Mallory Square
A common sign found in Key West
Audubon House
Key West gate
Santa says “I love Key West”
Key West mailbox, decorated for Christmas
Initially, I thought this was a lime
Light painting in Key West. This is actually a palm tree with lights on it.
Key West holiday decorations, up on the second floor
Blue glass balls at Martello Tower
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” -Audrey Hepburn. The shadow is mine.
The gate from the old city hall in Key West
Cruise ship docked at Mallory Square
A penguin on skis decorates this old house in Key West
A classic Key West scene: A restaurant, with a live chicken trying to climb in the window.
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EYELESS IN GAZA HUXLEY PDF
Aug 12, Ivana Books Are Magic rated it really liked it Published in , Eyeless in Gaza is, at times, referred to as the most personal of Huxleys works. Whether this is true, I cant say for sure, but supposedly the protagonist of the novel is based on the Huxley himself and that is what makes this novel more personal. But arent all novels personal? What I can say, having read this novel and all, is that the protagonist Anthony is quite engaging.
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Eyeless in Gaza is, among other things, a novel of ideas. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities. The writing is, most of the time, quite brilliant. Huxley does know how to write good philosophical prose.
What impressed me the most was the fact that this book manages to be so many things at once. Eyeless in Gaza is at the same time a novel of ideas and a novel with developed characters and a story. A narrative that is fragmented and hard to follow but still makes sense. His love, it seemed to him, in that apocalyptic moment, was more than merely his; it was in some mysterious way the equivalent of this wind and sunshine, these white gleams against the green and blue of spring.
His feeling for Joan was somehow implicit in the world, had a divine and universal significance. He loved her infinitely, and for that reason was able to love everything in the world as much as he loved her.
Although, Huxley takes it a bit too far at times. Still, I suppose that makes this book quite unique. Huxley is an interesting thinker, and I enjoyed reading this one. It is just that at times, it felt like a bit too much. What did bother me is that the Eyeless in Gaza was sometimes a bit sentimental and cynic. Perhaps one cannot entirely avoid these emotions. What else? As I said, the novel functions well as a whole. It is true, that reading this novel required concentration, but not in a bad way if you understand what I mean.
It required concentration and a bit of effort, not because the story was difficult to follow, but because of all the philosophical part, all those ideas that take pages and pages to develop.
As I already stressed, I loved reading all those philosophical passages, but maybe this novel would have profited by being just a little bit shorter? Not a lot, just a bit shorter. Something like minus 50 pages and Eyeless in Gaza would perhaps have been much easier to read. Nevertheless, taken as it is, this book is very very good. To sum up, Eyeless in Gaza is not my favourite work of his, but it is a great novel. I can honestly recommend it to everyone. It is a must read for fans of Huxley!
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Support epubBooks by making a small PayPal donation purchase. Description Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live.
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Behind the scenes at two remote border crossings
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Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston
CNN Special Investigations Unit
Program Note: Watch Drew Griffin's report on these remote border crossings tonight on A360° at 10pm EST.
We were driving through some of the most remote country in the United States, chasing a story that seemed hard to believe.
The Department of Homeland Security had announced it was spending $31 million to enhance and upgrade two remote border crossings - just 12 miles apart - on the border between Montana and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The spending was lauded by Montana's two senators, even though only an average of 22 cars a day traveled through these border posts.
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Henya,From CA
All our borders should be very secured, and I totally agree with Ross
Remby
WASTE OF MONEY !!!
The senators should realize spending money so ineffectively actually weakens us all.
Ross Chapman
I grew up just a few miles from these border crossings and my brother still owns the family farm there–six miles from the Canadian border. I'm not sure the border crossings need $31 million but don't underestimate the importance of that border. Because there isn't a lot of traffic, it is a tempting place for those who would do harm to the United States. There was a person that crossed just north of our farm that caused several border patrol officers to intercept him. Not sure of all the details but it was a reminder that it would be so easy for terrorists to cross into the United States in that area. We ignore that area at our peril.
Annie Kate
This is as ludicrous as the bridge to nowhere and the airport upgrades to the little airport in the south that gets only a few planes a day. Whoever does these allocations certainly seems to have survived the take-over by the new Obama adminstration from the old Bush regime. This money needs to go on legitimate problems which have a chance of completion given more money and time. Not on upgrading 2 border crossings where there is only 2 people a day, if that, trying to go across the border in Montana.
And they wonder why the Tea party protesters are so pissed off!! The waste of this administration is astounding and yet people can't understand why the tax payers are angry that they spend and we have to pay for it.
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Operations Management homework help
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How the Growth Outliers Do It Few companies manage to prosper over the long term. Those that do are both more stable and more innovative than their competition. by Rita Gunther McGrath
Steady, predictable growth is what ev-ery big company strives for and what investors prize above all else. Recently some colleagues and I conducted re-search to � nd out just how di� cult it is to achieve. To start, we asked a simple question: How many publicly traded companies with a mar- ket capitalization of at least US$1 billion grew by 5% each year for � ve years ending with 2009? We combed the enormous database of Capital IQ. (We selected the 5% threshold because global annual GDP growth averaged about 6% during that period. And note that we were looking for steady perfor- mance, not compound annual growth.) The answer surprised us: Only 8% of the 4,793 companies in our sample grew their revenues by at least 5% year after year, and only 4% achieved a net income growth of at least 5% in each of the � ve years.
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Thinking that perhaps we’d chosen an unfair period, given that the Great Recession started in 2008, we repeated the study for the previous five years. The numbers were higher—15% and 7%, re- spectively—but the odds still seemed to be stacked against steady growth.
We then wondered what the results would look like if we did a 10-year scan. The answer: Only 10 of the 2,347 companies that qualified across that entire period grew their net income by 5% in all 10 years, and only five grew both revenues and net income every year.
The contrast between what investors and observ- ers expect and what the vast majority of companies deliver struck us as important. The data suggest a need to rethink our assumptions about corporate performance. Steady, consistent growth is difficult to achieve even at modest rates, never mind by the double digits that corporate leaders are fond of promising. (And no “normal” period in which to as- sess company performance seems to exist: Any five- year period we could have chosen included unex- pected events in the economy and the environment that would have caused some among our sample to drop out.) We recognize, of course, that luck plays a part in strategic success and—as some advertise- ments caution in disclaimers—that past success does not predict future performance. However, the outli- ers we found—those that defied the odds by achiev- ing steady growth for 10 years running—turned out to have interesting traits in common, some predict- able and some surprising.
What the Outliers Are Not The companies revealed by our study (see the ex- hibit “The Growth Outliers”) don’t match up well with some conventional ideas about growth. One school of thought in strategy says that a company’s growth rate will be determined largely by the indus- try it’s in. This didn’t seem to hold. Our outliers are in wildly different industries, including pharmaceu- ticals, beer, construction, and banking. All outper- formed their industry. Moreover, most of them are in very competitive industries, without the protections that patents or trade secrets provide.
Similarly, we tend to assume that the larger a company gets, the harder it is to sustain growth. That didn’t hold, either: The outliers were not small relative to the full pool of companies we analyzed. By number of employees, the largest is Actividades de Construcción y Servicios (ACS), a Spanish con-
struction company, with nearly 140,000 people. The smallest, FactSet Research Systems, a U.S.-based financial research company, employs more than 4,000. Market cap also varied widely above our $1 billion threshold.
We might have expected to find consistently higher growth rates in fast-growing markets, but that wasn’t true, either. No single geographic region dominates the outlier group, which represents both high-growth emerging economies and mature econ- omies. Nor did the degree to which the companies had globalized seem to be a factor. Although Infosys and ACS both planned from the beginning to focus on overseas opportunities, Yahoo Japan conducts business almost entirely in Japan, HDFC Bank oper- ates only in India, and Atmos Energy focuses on the U.S. market. Tsingtao Brewery earns 50% of its reve- nue from exports, but it didn’t venture outside China to manufacture until 2007. Krka Group is mainly a regional player, manufacturing generic pharmaceu- ticals throughout Eastern Europe.
Conventional wisdom also suggests that growth slows as companies age. But we saw no such effect in this group. More than half the outliers were estab- lished in their current form after 1980, but the two oldest date from 1903 and 1906. All the companies have performed well throughout major shifts in globalization, underlying technology, and business practices.
One might think that companies started by entre- preneurs would have an edge, but that seems untrue as well. Although two of our outliers (Infosys and FactSet) were indeed start-ups, with founders who maintained a strong presence throughout our study period, others (Indra Sistemas, ACS, Atmos, Krka) were the product of mergers and consolidations, and still others (Cognizant, HDFC, Yahoo Japan) were spun out of or funded by existing organizations.
Once we’d established that exogenous factors such as industry, geographical position, and age didn’t explain the outliers’ growth rates, we turned to the next, more qualitative phase of our project. We attempted to learn what these companies did have in common, using archival research and inter- views. In addition, we compared each one with its top three competitors—according to Hoover’s, to avoid selection bias—to determine whether differ- ences in competitive behavior might offer some ex- planations. The outliers turned out to share a lot of practices that, although unsurprising in themselves, add up to an intriguing, counterintuitive profile:
HOW tHe GrOWtH Outliers DO it
Although these companies are nimble and adap- tive, their leadership, strategy, and values are very stable.
Rapid Adapters The growth outliers do a tremendous amount of ex- perimentation and innovation. They develop and deploy new technologies, move into new markets, explore new business models, and even open up new industries. They take on acquisitions and ag- gressively seek input from people and organizations quite unlike their own. They rapidly adjust and re- adjust resources and are comfortable moving execu- tives and other employees from one role to another.
They make small bets early and diversify their portfolios. These companies take what we call an options-oriented approach to new markets. They tend to move earlier than competitors into spaces that appear attractive, making small initial investments and following up with more-substantial ones—or getting out—as the opportunity warrants. They are likely to pursue a constant stream of rela- tively small initiatives.
HDFC’s history of entering new growth markets is illustrative. In 1998 HDFC joined the Cirrus inter- bank network so that Mastercard holders worldwide could use its ATMs. In 2001 it became the first bank in India to launch an international debit card, in as- sociation with Visa. It introduced various credit card innovations, including a card specifically for farm- ers, and then reached an agreement with Tata Pipes to offer the farmers credit. In contrast, ICICI Bank, a key competitor, didn’t even begin to explore regular debit cards until 2000. HDFC moved early and built from initial success in other new markets as well, including telebanking, mobile banking, and foreign exchange services. Indeed, the only market in which a competitor seems to have beaten it is rural India, where the State Bank of India was well established.
Unlike their competitors, outliers appear to make fewer big, high-risk bets—which is also consistent with an options orientation. When we compared Indra with its rival BAE, for instance, we found that both had made acquisitions and divestitures during the study period, but most of Indra’s acquisitions were under $100 million, whereas most of BAE’s were much higher, including its $4.5 billion acquisi- tion of Armor Holdings, in 2007.
Finally, the outliers had diverse but related port- folios, with enough variety to enable investment in their core businesses even as they explored new al- ternatives. When one segment went into decline, an- other could be leveraged. Indra, for example, used acquisitions to move from the defense industry into computer systems design and financial software solutions. Through subsequent acquisitions it built and maintained a formidable solutions portfolio that didn’t depend on one business model or end market. Even the single-product outliers, Tsingtao Brewery and Yahoo Japan, honored this principle: Tsingtao diversified geographically, and Yahoo Japan diversi-
Idea in Brief Only a tiny percent- age of large companies reliably grow the bot- tom line year after year. Those that do share certain characteristics.
On the one hand, they’re built for innovation. They enter new markets before competitors do; they’re good at experi- mentation; they hold everyone accountable for new ideas; and they can move on a dime.
On the other hand, they’re extremely stable. Chief execu- tives have come up through the company; strategy and organizational structure stay consistent for long stretches; client retention is unusually high; and the corporate culture is strong and unchanging.
Those characteristics may seem contradictory, but stability appears to be what makes innovation—and steady growth—possible.
The growth outliers rapidly adjust and readjust resources and are comfortable moving executives and other employees from one role to another.
fied by selling into new segments and offering new services.
They’re active acquirers. The outlier compa- nies appreciate the value of acquisitions for build- ing new capabilities and getting into new markets quickly. And they have a better-than-average record of making those acquisitions work. For example, In- dra expanded its capabilities and accessed new ge- ographies by acquiring a strategic consultancy, Eu- ropraxis, in 2001; a Portuguese IT company, CPC-IS, in 2002; and an Australian IT company, Interscan, in 2007. Tsingtao has been heavily involved in domes- tic and foreign M&A deals since its privatization in the early 1990s, which is credited with helping it to somewhat consolidate the highly fragmented Chi- nese beer market. ACS used several major acquisi- tions in 2002, 2005, and 2007 to consolidate its po- sition and gain access to new markets. FactSet was
actually criticized for some of its activity: It spent $92 million on acquisitions in 2005, when the com- pany’s net income was only $72 million. Nonetheless, it continues to acquire companies to broaden the of- ferings it can provide to its customers.
They manage major resource allocations centrally. At many companies, resources are held hostage at the divisional or business-unit level. When one division is under threat, or an opportunity falls between units, the company can’t respond ef- fectively because incumbent executives resist. But at outliers, decision making with respect to major stra- tegic challenges appears to be centrally coordinated.
They have processes that support speed and flexibility. Outliers favor adaptability over pure efficiency, even though it occasionally leads to less- than-perfect outcomes. Their strategy adjustments and resource allocation shifts are more likely to oc- cur quarterly than annually, as are their promotions and personnel evaluations. This allows them to be more responsive to changes in the environment than companies with rigid annual processes.
They build innovation into everyday op- erations. At many traditional companies, the most powerful people run the large, well-established lines of business, and growth-oriented innovation is man- aged by a separate, less powerful group. Innovation at the outliers tends to be better integrated. It’s men- tioned prominently in recruitment materials, mar- keting messages, and employee communications. It’s also built into the company’s resource allocation and promotion processes. Every year at Infosys, for example, the senior executive team asks each unit to name two big things it is going to do that will dramat- ically move the business forward in real time—and to go public with those intentions. Yahoo Japan has identified four major growth strategies; its managers are regularly asked to identify the next set of promis- ing opportunities in those areas, and resources are
The Growth Outliers Infosys Information technology HeadquarTers India Founded 1981 MarkeT Cap $31.9B
Yahoo Japan Internet search and navigation HeadquarTers Japan Founded 1996 MarkeT Cap $20.3B
HDFC Bank Banks and credit unions HeadquarTers India Founded 1994 MarkeT Cap $16.5B
ACS Commercial and heavy construction HeadquarTers Spain Founded 1983 MarkeT Cap $15.5B
Cognizant Information technology HeadquarTers U.S. Founded 1994 MarkeT Cap $13.3B
Market Cap fIgUreS: CapItal IQ aS of JanUary 22, 2010
outliers favor adaptability over pure efficiency, even though it occasionally leads to less-than-perfect outcomes.
liberally allocated to the best ideas that emerge from their discussions.
Champions of Stability As noted, the outliers are unusually stable as well as highly flexible. Their changes are evolutionary, and their adaptations are rapid. We saw little evidence among them of the kinds of wrenching change that many companies experience.
They focus management attention on cul- ture and shared values. We found (as have others who study high-performing organizations) that the outliers on our list pay close attention to values, cul- ture, and alignment. What does that mean in prac- tice? We saw significant investments in creating an appropriate corporate culture, in employee training, and in executive development among these compa- nies. Infosys, for example, is famous for its Global Education Center, the largest dedicated corporate- education facility in the world, with the capacity to train 14,000 students at any one time. A recent MBA thesis examining the culture of HDFC Bank found that in employee surveys the bank scored high on organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and a supportive environment.
They avoid dramatic divestitures. Our graduate- school researchers looked hard for in- stances in which growth outliers exited segments or canceled major projects. Nevertheless, they un- covered almost no instances of sudden, disruptive exits—a finding that surprised us. These companies tend to reallocate resources gradually rather than to dramatically divest or restructure. They use industry evolution as an opportunity to leave old businesses and enter new, higher-growth segments.
Cognizant, for instance, made nine strategic ac- quisitions but no divestitures during the period of our study. The company, a 1994 spin-off of Dun & Bradstreet, began by offering straightforward tech-
The Growth Outliers Tsingtao Brewery Beer HeadquarTers China Founded 1903 MarkeT Cap $7.2B
Indra Sistemas Information technology HeadquarTers Spain Founded 1993 MarkeT Cap $3.7B
Krka Group Pharmaceuticals HeadquarTers Slovenia Founded 1954 MarkeT Cap $3.2B
nology services. Over the years, it moved into pro- fessional consulting services and differentiated itself with a strong industry focus and colocation of its teams with clients. It shifted technology and people from low-growth businesses such as plain-vanilla business process outsourcing to people-intensive, high-touch businesses such as complete, complex software solutions. This shift occurred without the wholesale downsizing that Satyam Computer Ser- vices and other competitors experienced.
They hold on to their talent. One of the im- plications of executing transformations without wrenching change is that talented employees are less likely to have their careers cut short unnecessarily. Like Cognizant, the other outliers are slow to down- size, and their habit of gradually moving resources into new businesses means that emerging leaders have new places to go. The head of strategy for In- fosys, describing an evolutionary path similar to Cognizant’s, makes this point: “When we decide to get out of something, we slow down on allocating re- sources to it. It finds its way to insignificance in a pe- riod of time. You don’t need to chop it off—you need to let it live its life. Since we are in a talent business, it’s easy for us to repurpose the leadership and the talent.” The recognition that talent needs a place to go is complemented by a commitment to employee training. The combination probably explains why senior managers nearly always come from inside the company.
They don’t change high-level strategies quickly. Our study period was a tumultuous time: It included the burst of the dot-com bubble, the tragedy of 9/11, the global housing and credit bub- bles, the introduction of the euro, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the explosion of the internet as a ve- hicle for commerce, and the Great Recession of 2008. Even so, the outliers’ strategies remained remark- ably stable. Our interviews with their leaders are
Factors That Did Not Explain Steady Growth
Industry position Age of firm Geography Emerging vs developed economy Ownership structure Global footprint
FactSet Research Systems Information collec- tion and delivery HeadquarTers U.S. Founded 1978 MarkeT Cap $3.0B
Atmos Energy Natural gas distribution and marketing HeadquarTers U.S. Founded 1906 MarkeT Cap $2.6B
peppered with references to a few clear and simple strategic priorities, to the importance of building culture and developing talent, and to leveraging core capabilities.
At Tsingtao Brewery, after the sudden death of its hard-driving president Peng Zuoyi in 2001, sub- sequent leaders committed to following through on his international expansion strategy. When ACS was founded, in 1983, its CEO expressed his com- mitment to making it Spain’s most profitable public construction company; that strategy is still in place. Atmos Energy is now executing the strategy crafted in 1997 by a former CEO, leveraging efficiency in its regulated business and driving growth in its unreg- ulated businesses. FactSet’s strategy statement has not changed at all since the company’s founding in 1978, despite radical shifts in underlying technol- ogies and an explosion of information relevant to key clients.
They have a reliable customer base. Outli- ers’ relationships with their clients are remarkably
stable as well—probably because their gradual stra- tegic shifts allow them to change as their customers change. FactSet’s client retention rate reached 92% in 2011. Analysts have observed that both Infosys and Cognizant have strong client retention. Cogni- zant reported a 90% client satisfaction rate in a re- cent survey, and Infosys reported a 95% retention rate in a recent interview with us. To some extent this stability also characterizes outliers’ relation- ships with suppliers—though our findings here were less consistent.
They keep their senior leadership stable. At all 10 companies on our list, the top executive had been promoted internally; there were no white knights or outside-the-industry saviors. Interest- ingly—and consistent with the findings of other researchers over the years—these chief executives generally kept a low profile. They were respected, known to have made major contributions, and somewhat visible in the press, but not charismatic (or narcissistic). The five leaders we had the pleasure of meeting in person were all low-key, courteous, and attentive.
Through our research we learned that the values, cultural norms, strategies, capabilities, customer relationships, and leadership of the growth outli- ers remain consistent over time. These organiza- tions invest seriously in corporate values, which their leaders back up through meaningful symbolic actions. Within this stable context, however, a tre- mendous amount of experimentation and innova- tion occurs.
Our conclusion is that this seeming paradox is a feature, not a bug: Stability is what enables these companies to innovate and to maintain steady growth. Coupled with transparent values, it al- lows employees to feel confident about taking the risks that experimentation requires. Strong values help maintain ethical standards. Continual small changes keep an organization from becoming stale. Management continuity permits the building of in- formal internal networks, which are known to be a factor in successful innovation. The result is a high- performing organization that delivers consistent results over a reasonably long period in the face of environmental volatility.
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Acentury Inc. places No. 170 on The Globe and Mail’s brand-new ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies
Acentury Inc. is pleased to announce it placed No. 170 on the inaugural Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies.
Canada’s Top Growing Companies ranks Canadian companies on three-year revenue growth. Acentury Inc. earned its spot with three-year growth of 208%.
Launched in 2019, the Canada’s Top Growing Companies ranking program aims to celebrate entrepreneurial achievement in Canada by identifying and amplifying the success of growth-minded, independent businesses in Canada. It is a voluntary program; companies had to complete an in-depth application process in order to qualify. In total, 400 companies made the ranking this year.
The full list of 2019 winners, and accompanying editorial coverage, is published in the October issue of Report on Business magazine—out now—and online at tgam.ca/TopGrowing.
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Leons World is Visited by A Mad Scientist, An Evil Queen and Snow White! - With Theatrix | Events
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Organizer Name: Udhayan Nair
New plays continue to make Sunday’s fun and exciting at Leon’s World and on the 5th of August a really interesting play is going to be staged. Theatrix will present Snow White Naughty Elves in association with MTG Astitva but it’s not the typical fairy tale which you know.
Of course, the usual characters are there – pretty Snow White, the Evil Queen, the Elves who help Snow White, the Magic Mirror. But into this mix comes the mad scientist. He is one of those who is doomed to failure no matter what he tries. He attempts to create potions but every time the result is an epic fail and not what he had planned at all. In one such experiment he is trying to make a potion for time travel but ends up in the land of fairy tales instead – in the realm of Snow White and the Evil Queen. As he muddles through the land he comes across the Evil Queen and the Magic Mirror. The Mirror explains to the scientist that he can never go back to his own land unless he is set free by the characters in this realm
The Evil Queen commands that the scientist help her kill Snow White. He asks Snow White to hide and lies to the Queen that she is dead, but the Mirror tells all. The Queen then forces the scientist to help her get disguised as an old woman and tricks Snow White into a death-like sleep. The Elves are heartbroken thinking that Snow White is dead but the scientist assures them that she will awaken when they find her one true Prince. The Elves do so and Snow White is saved. The Queen is enraged but she realizes that the scientist has tricked her and she will remain in the guise of an old woman until she apologizes. As soon as she does, she returns to her beautiful form, Snow White and the Prince are married and the scientist is permitted to return to his own land. And they all live happily ever after.
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Study of Indoor Radon, Thoron, Their Progeny Concentration and Radon Exhalation Rate in the Environs of Mohali, Punjab, Northern India
Volume 15, Issue 4, August 2015
Vimal Mehta 1,2, Supreet Pal Singh2, Rishi Pal Chauhan3, Gurmel Singh Mudahar2
1 Deptt of Physics, M. M. University, Mullana (Ambala)-133 207, India
2 Deptt of Physics, Punjabi University, Patiala- 147 001, India
3 Deptt of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra- 136 119, India
Received: August 6, 2014
Revised: November 9, 2014
Accepted: April 6, 2015
Mehta, V., Singh, S.P., Chauhan, R.P. and Mudahar, G.S. (2015). Study of Indoor Radon, Thoron, Their Progeny Concentration and Radon Exhalation Rate in the Environs of Mohali, Punjab, Northern India. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 15: 1380-1389. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2014.08.0161
Radon and its progeny are major contributors that deteriorate the indoor air quality and are the major source of radiation dose received by general population of the world. Keeping this in mind the environmental monitoring of radon-thoron and their progeny in dwellings of district Mohali, Punjab, India has been carried out. The radon-thoron twin dosimeter cups were used for the study. The study of the exhalation rate of the soil samples of Kharar, Kurali and Derabassi of the district Mohali and the sand samples available from the study area has also been carried out for the comparison purpose using can echnique. The aim of the study is the possible health risk assessment in the dwellings of this particular region for which data is not available in literature. The indoor radon concentration varied from 22.8 ± 0.7 Bq/m3 to 45.0 ± 2.2 Bq/m3 with an average of 33.7 Bq/m3 while the thoron concentration in the same dwellings varied from 1.7 ± 0.1 Bq/m3 to 27.6 ± 1.2 Bq/m3 with an average of 12.8 Bq/m3. Annual dose received by the inhabitants in the dwellings under study varied from 0.64 to 1.64 mSv with an average of 1.19 mSv. The radon mass and surface exhalation rates of the soil samples varied from 0.32 to 2.6 mBq/kg/h with an average of 1.36 ± 0.2 mBq/kg/h and from 7.3 to 58.2 mBq/m2/h with an average of 28.3 ± 5.1 mBq/m2/h respectively.
Keywords: Radon; Radon decay products; Thoron; Dwellings; Annual effective dose; Exhalation rate; Health effects
Enhanced Low-temperature NH3-SCR Activity over Ce-Ti Oxide Catalysts by Hydrochloric Acid Treatment
Biosphere Atmosphere Exchange of CO2, H2O Vapour and Energy during Spring over a High Altitude Himalayan Forest in Eastern India
Characteristics and Source Identification of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and n-Alkanes in PM2.5 in Xiamen
Variability of Aerosol Optical Properties Observed at a Polluted Marine (Gosan, Korea) and a High-altitude Mountain (Lulin, Taiwan) Site in the Asian Continental Outflow
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The Role of Sources and Atmospheric Conditions in the Seasonal Variability of Particulate Phase PAHs at the Urban Site in Central Poland
Charging State of Aerosols during Particle Formation Events in an Urban Environment and Its Implications for Ion-Induced Nucleation
Carbonaceous Components in PM2.5 and PM0.1 with Online Measurements of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants: Implication of Thermal-Optical Derived EC2 Fraction as a Component of Ultrafine Particles in the Roadside Environment
Temporal and Spatial Variations in Fine and Coarse Particles in Seoul, Korea
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Characteristics of Atmospheric Small Ions and Their Application to Assessment of Air Quality in a Typical Semi-Arid City of Northwest China
Potassium: A Tracer for Biomass Burning in Beijing? (4031) (Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2018)
Effects of Operating Parameters on Gas-phase PAH Emissions from a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (2857) (Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2019)
Influence of Ambient Relative Humidity on Seasonal Trends of the Scattering Enhancement Factor for Aerosols in Chiba, Japan (2188) (Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2019)
Flow Dynamics and PM2.5 Deposition in Healthy and Asthmatic Airways at Different Inhalation Statuses (2387) (Volume 18, Issue 4, April 2018)
Identification of Sources from Chemical Characterization of Fine Particulate Matter and Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in Dhaka, Bangladesh (3678) (Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2019)
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Hank Azaria willing to stop voicing Apu on 'The Simpsons'
In this May 31, 2017 file photo, Hank Azaria arrives at the "Brockmire" and "Documentary Now!" For Your Consideration event in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK -- Hank Azaria is ready to stop voicing Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu on "The Simpsons" in the wake of criticism that it's a stereotype.
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Azaria said on Tuesday's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" that he hopes the Fox animated show makes a change, and he's willing to step aside if necessary.
Azaria said: "I'm perfectly willing and happy to step aside or help transition it into something new. I really hope that's what 'The Simpsons' does."
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He added: "It just feels like the right thing to do."
People of South Asian heritage have criticized the heavily accented Apu for reinforcing stereotypes they say lead to bullying and self-loathing. Azaria said it makes him sad if anyone was bullied because of Apu. He said he "wanted to spread laughter and joy with this character."
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Ever since, March 27, 2018 when police assaulted and injured three journalists at JKIA as they covered the drama that characterised lawyer Miguna Miguna’s return to Kenya from Canada no action has been taken on this issue.
Those assaulted and injured included Nation TV cameraman Robert Gichira, Citizen TV reporter Stephen Letoo while KTN News Senior Reporter Sophia Wanuna was slapped by one of the officers in one of the ugliest scenes of media attacks in the recent past.
Surprisingly, Dennis Itumbi, State House Secretary Digital, Innovations and Diaspora Communications, saluted police and immigration officials for “a job well done.”
Since then no police officer has been questioned or arraigned in court over this growing list of barbaric incidents against journalists.
But as journalists around the world celebrate the World Press Freedom Day journalists in Kenya need to reflect on these incidents and others that gives a bearing on the kind of environment they are operating in.
I am happy that both the Kenya editors Guild and the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) have raised their concerns about this matter.
The Kenya Editors’ Guild said the operationalisation of the Access to Information Act, which was passed in 2016, and the ongoing debate on the Computer and Cybercrime Bill offers the Head of State an opportunity to pitch for a free press.
At a press briefing on Tuesday, the Guild’s chairman Churchill Otieno said it imperative that the government commits itself to press freedom in word, but also in deed by ensuring that journalists are accorded the space, autonomy and protection to carry out their work.
“Only in this way would it ring loud and clear across this great country that media freedom is a key pillar of our democratic governance and that a country allows this freedom to thrive reaps the numerous gains that come with it,” Mr Otieno said.
Mr Otieno also raised his concerns about the Access to Information Act that was enacted two years ago, but throughout this period, it has not been operationalised and no government agency is complying with it.
He also took issue with the Computer and Cybercrime Bill passed two weeks ago by the National Assembly amidst outcry by a section of the Kenyan society especially on the provisions of fake news, which the Guild says may be open to abuse.
Nation TV cameraman Robert Gichira in pain after he was assaulted by police at JKIA on March 26, 2018. PHOTO | NATION MEDIA
Mr Otieno asked the government to ensure the guidelines of the Act are gazetted. He added that the Guild is currently reviewing the version of the Cybercrime Bill that was passed and will issue a comprehensive statement soon.
And the Kenya Union of Journalists secretary General, Mr Eric Oduor, has called for better working conditions and environment for journalists.
“There can be no press freedom if journalists are hungry, working and living in fear. There is a need for international and national mechanisms to fight impunity and economic crimes against journalists,” Mr Oduor said.
But that is not enough. I want to see them together with the Kenya Media Council taken a more pro-active step towards protecting journalism in this country.
Kenyan media has been under siege since Jubilee took the reins of power in March 2013.
The Jubilee administration created the most difficult environment for press freedom. After they ascended to power they came with the media capture strategy that was largely implemented by data mining firm, Cambridge Analytica that is now set to be declared insolvent.
Media capture is a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets.
In this environment, the political elite and economic barons are colluding to undermine the independence of privately-owned media through control of advertising revenue.
President Kenyatta’s regime first initiated and a Jubilee-dominated Parliament passed several anti-media laws, including the one that slaps hefty fines and penalties on media houses and individual journalists for breaches.
Several journalists were injured when goons and police attacked journalists covering the return of Mr Odinga from the West.
Several journalists were injured when goons and police attacked journalists as they covered the return of ODM leader Raila Odinga from the West.
Police officers harass former KTN’s Rashid Ronald during NASA’s anti-IEBC demonstrations in Kisumu, October 9, 2017. PHOTO | STANDARD MEDIA
And when some TV stations covered his mock swearing-in on January 30, the governmentdescended on them with a sledge hammer, closing four four several days.
This had never happened in Kenya’s independence history.
This year’s World Press Freedom Day 25th celebration is being led by UNESCO and jointly organized by the Government of the Republic of Ghana and took place in Accra, a demonstration of trust in press freedom in the West African country.
This year’s global theme is ‘Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law’, and covers issues of media and the transparency of the political process, the independence and media literacy of the judicial system, and the accountability of state institutions towards the public. The Day also examine contemporary challenges of ensuring press freedom online.
And as we celebrate the World Press Freedom Day we have to remember that we are not of the woods yet. We also we need to reflect on all cases of crimes against media professionals, present and past.
Citizen TV reporter Stephen Letoo in pain after he was assaulted by General Service Unit officers at JKIA, Nairobi, on March 26, 2018. PHOTO | NATION MEDIA
We have to draw attention to the low conviction rate for violent crimes against journalists and media workers in this country and globally.
We need to remind the authorities about the roughing up Citizen TV’s Francis Gachuri andNTV’s Jane Gatwiri by goons during a meeting called by Nasa at the Wiper headquarters in Nairobi, we need to put pressure on authorities to also act on other cases.
Episodes of journalists being harassed, beaten up or killed have escalated to unprecedented levels in Kenya in the recent past. Journalists have been attacked by politicians, the police, government officials and members of the public, with others losing their lives under mysterious circumstances.
We need to remind the state about the mysterious of disappearances of Dickson Bosire, popularly known as Bogonko Bosire, the founder of Jackal News and former Nation Media Group legal editor, Albert Muriuki, who disappeared while employed by State House as Deputy Director, Constitutional and Legislative Affairs.
Veteran journalist and founder of Mirror Weekly John Kituyi was walking home from work near his home in Eldoret town when he was killed by unknown people.
In 2016, Julius Kariithi, a correspondent with Kenya’s Citizen TV was attacked by over 15 security guards with kicks and batons. He had been covering a protest by primary school pupils against a decision by a local agricultural company to reclaim a piece of land it had allocated the school ten years ago.
In 2016, a freelance photographer Dennis Otieno wasgunned downby three men seeking to recover from him a certain ‘sensitive’ photo he had taken earlier in the day in Kitale.
Another correspondent Joseph Masha of the Standard Group based in Kilifi was claimed to have beenpoisonedwhen he shared a meal with a vocal politician one evening. The journalist collapsed and died moments after meeting the politician.
In 2009, Francis Nyaruri a journalist withWeekly Citizen was tortured and killed.His mangled and decapitated body was found two weeks after he disappeared.
In 2000,Samuel Nduati a journalist withRoyal Media House, was shot dead by unknown assailants.Nduati had worked on several stories about corruption at the Coffee Board of Kenya.
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Hockey Season Preview by Cam Gore
The Cup champs have had their summer with Lord Stanley and the beginning of the NHL season will be upon us before you know it.
In the now we have the World Cup of Hockey which they have already begun the warm-up games for.
This is an opportunity to view the world’s fastest team sport played at its highest level. Where the games truly most skilled and talented are asked to play different roles and put their egos aside. Typically the team that wins is the team who has the best leadership from the GM down.
What I mean by this is which coaches can get through to their players and convince them to go from top power play minutes to none at all, yet still be ready to go and make valuable contributions. To become a checker when you are a scorer, to play for the crest you are representing on the front of your jersey instead of the name on the back.
Any team in this tournament has a chance to come away as the champions. I truly believe that. There is so much talent and skill on every team. The ones who come away victorious are going to be the ones who are able to gel together at the right time.
Peak too early and hit a plateau for the elimination round and you’re done. Come up against a hot goalie and all of a sudden you are playing for the bronze medal instead of the gold. These contests are all single game elimination until the final which is the best of three.
What makes this tournament so difficult to predict is the unknowns which is why you won’t see many if any from me, unless something really stands out and catches my eye.
NHL Preview 2016-2017
It doesn’t seem that long ago that Sidney Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins earned the right to hoist Lord Stanley’s Cup, and in actuality it wasn’t. However, in the world of hockey that was then and all that matters now is what is in front of us.
It was a busy off-season and with a few key free agents still waiting to be signed there are lots questions to be answered.
Where will Kris Russel the NHL’s leading shot blocker over the last three years be signed and why hasn’t he gone already?
It seems inevitable that Ben Bishop the Vezina nominated goalie for the Tampa Bay Lightning will be dealt, but will he go to a contender or to a team in the rebuild and will the return be for a playoff run.
On the subject of the Lightning are they ready to break through, I mean look how close they came to going to the Cup finals again and they did it without Steven Stamkos one of the game’s very best who is in his prime.
This team has been knocking on the door for years and seen the Cup and conference finals numerous times over the last 5 seasons. Settling in their corner doesn’t seem like a bad idea if you’re a betting man.
It took Steve Yzerman a number of tries as a player before he got to the top of the mountain and it appears he is going through the same struggles as a GM, however he wasn’t denied as a player and his nucleus is fairly young plus they have plenty of playoff experience.
Does Pittsburgh have what it takes to repeat, and if things aren’t going well at the mid-season mark should they fire their coach? That’s how they won the playoffs both times in the Crosby/Malkin era. In 2009 Dan Bylsma took the over reigns from Claude Julien and this year we saw Mike Sullivan push out coach Johnston.
Where does Marc-Andre Fleury go and do the Pens trade for the now, the future, or the near future? After Matt Murray’s performance down the stretch and through the playoffs the NHL’s first overall pick from the 2005 draft will be on his way out. His contract is fair and he has proven that he is not only a great goaltender, but a great teammate. The return for Fleury should be high.
The losing team in the Cup finals the San Jose Sharks got blown out in the fourth round. The Sharks should feel lucky they weren’t swept. They just didn’t have the team speed to keep up with a fast Penguins team.
They have done a decent job addressing that in the off-season by adding Mikkel Boedker up front and the underated David Schlemko to the back end. Will they break the California curse by being the most successful of the three franchises over the last 25 years as far as games won goes, but the only team without a Stanley Cup?
And what will become of the Ducks and Kings. Anaheim’s nucleus is getting on and they still rely on them for the majority of their scoring. Things look bleak for a team that is getting older in a game where getting younger is the name. The kids who should be taking some of the burden away from Getzlaf, Perry, and Kesler haven’t proven that they can step up and fill the net with any consistency.
The Kings have had great success winning the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014 by icing a big fast team. But last spring L.A looked big but they weren’t quite as fast as they once were, and although they won the physical battle against the Sharks they didn’t win the one that really counts which is scoring goals.
Let’s also keep in mind that Kings head coach Darryl Sutter’s style usually falls on deaf ears by now as history has shown with the numerous teams he has coached in the past, especially with a veteran laden team.
Which of the Canadian teams will make the post-season in 2016/17 after being shut-out last year, and will they make a splash if they do. Certainly Montreal will make the spring dance with the changes they have made and if Carey Price can stay healthy they have to be considered a real threat to challenge for the prize.
Predicting a champion in the fall is terribly difficult because there is so so much that can happen and change between now and then. The team that wins the Cup is typically a team that has good to great goaltending, depth, skill, adequate coaching, and who hasn’t been bitten by the injury bug.
I know, thanks for stating the obvious right?
Having stated that there are a handful of teams that you could count on now who will be in the running and the squad that has all of the above and is able to go into the post-season with momentum will win.
We saw that this year with Pittsburgh. The 2012 Kings are the only team in NHL history to win as the 8 seed. Both of these teams though came in hot, rode good goaltending, played all four lines, and received contributions from everybody on the roster.
One thing is for certain that there has been a shift in power where we once called the West a far more dominant division I believe that the East has more potential champions. Their top teams are faster and more skilled.
From the East expect T. Bay, Pitt, Washington, and Montreal to be in the conversation.
The West can’t be talked about without mentioning Chicago, San Jose, Dallas who is on the rise, and Nashville is half step behind but with the right trade could be a contender.
I look forward to making picks for you throughout the season. Keep checking the site as I will give some tips as to my approach before the puck drops and how I break down the long difficult season.
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Anne Tyler papers, 1958-2016
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Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, Celestial Navigation, Ladder of Years, and other popular novels. Collection includes manuscript drafts, printed material, holograph manuscripts and typescripts of Tyler's novels and short stories, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; clippings of articles about Tyler and her writings; serials containing articles by or about Tyler and her work; correspondence between Tyler and her publishers; and materials regarding adaptations of her novels, including the movie The Accidental Tourist. Later additions include holograph manuscripts of A Patchwork Planet and Noah's Compass; an advance uncorrected proof of Back When We Were Grownups (2001); drafts for Digging to America, The Amateur Marriage, Back When We Were Grownups, The Beginner's Goodbye, A Blue Spool of Thread, Vinegar Girl, and Clock Dance; correspondence between Tyler and her editors and agents; publicity materials; some Tyler family correspondence; book reviews; and book covers.
The collection includes manuscript drafts, printed material, holograph manuscripts and typescripts of Tyler's novels and short stories; clippings of articles about Tyler and her writings; serials containing articles by or about Tyler and her work; Tyler's work-related and personal correspondence; and clipping and other materials regarding adaptations of her works, including the movie The Accidental Tourist. Later additions include holograph manuscripts of A Patchwork Planet and Noah's Compass; an advance uncorrected proof of Back When We Were Grownups (2001); drafts for Digging to America, The Amateur Marriage, Back When We Were Grownups, The Beginner's Goodbye, A Blue Spool of Thread, Vinegar Girl, and Clock Dance; correspondence between Tyler and her editors and agents; publicity materials; some Tyler family correspondence; book reviews; and book covers.
The Writings series contains novels, short stories, essays, and book reviews written by Tyler. The novels are all in draft form, with the exception of one advance uncorrected proof. Arranged in folders by date of publication, the Novels subseries includes drafts of all novels Tyler wrote between 1961 and 2016. Most of Tyler's initial drafts are handwritten, as are all of the editing marks. She also made notes for herself regarding the characters and locations in her novels. Her notes include character details and hand-drawn house floorplans. This subseries gives insight into Tyler's writing and editing process. The Short Stories & Other Writings subseries includes published and unpublished short stories, clippings, and a booklet of student essays from Tyler's time at Duke University. Oversize writings can be found in the Miscellaneous & Oversize Materials series.
The Correspondence series contains letters received or written by Anne Tyler, though the majority of the correspondence was written to Tyler. She received mail from a wide range of people, including reporters, fans, friends, publishers, editors, and event coordinators. The majority of series is arranged chronologically and provides insight into the relationships that Tyler built due to her writing, and the friendships forged through continued correspondence. One folder in this series is restricted.
The Printed Materials series contains a wide variety of materials related to Tyler and her writings. A substantial portion of this series is comprised of clippings from newspapers and magazines. Either Tyler herself or a friend or colleague subscribed to a clipping service; many book review and publicity clippings were clipped by Durrant's, an international clipping service. This series also contains materials from Eudora Welty and Tyler's speaking engagement at Duke University in 1982. This was one of the few public appearances that Tyler has made. She does not generally give interviews or go on book tours. Oversize jacket art and publicity materials can be found in the Miscellaneous & Oversize Materials series.
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Series: Tru Exceptions
Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense
When the more honorable action requires a little treason…
Homeland security agent Kelsey Johnson never wanted the assignment, especially when it involves coercing Garrett Matthews, a man she despises. But instead of delivering Agent Matthews his new orders, Kelsey finds herself on the run and caught in the same mess Garrett was ordered to retreat from.
With their lives at stake, Garrett and Kelsey are now considered the enemies, and are being hunted by everyone, including their own department.
With their friends, Rachel and Dawson, their only help, Kelsey and Garrett must evade those intent on killing them and locate the evidence to clear their names before their powerful enemy catches up with them. Unsure of even the existence of such redeeming evidence, they may be forced to seek help fro the very enemy who started it all.
Unfortunately, there is a reason Kelsey has never been a field agent–a well-guarded secret that puts both her and Garrett’s lives at risk. Though she knows she can’t be trusted, she also can’t bring herself to confide in Garrett, wanting to believe that the ghosts of her past won’t haunt her.
But in the end, with her life a trigger’s breath from being over, and a secret that could change the entire country on the line, will her own secret cost her everything?
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The Denby Files––Acclaimed Male Model Now Missing in Action
March 1, 2014 · by Steve Colegrove · in Drivel, Robert Denby. ·
HOLLYWOOD, CA––The elusive Robert Denby, well-known catalog model and face of the recently published novel, The Amish Spaceman, disappeared from his loft apartment in West Hollywood yesterday. According to alleged girlfriend Carol Alt who was living in shame with Denby and wished to remain anonymous, Denby left the apartment at 11 a.m. to purchase a box of wine and three cases of Pedialite from a colorful local cooperative called “Seven-Eleven.” When Denby failed to return seven hours later, the ex-model girlfriend contacted authorities.
Denby’s dazzling, meteoric rise to fame as cover model for the bestselling book, The Amish Spaceman, has plunged ironically like a meteorite in the last few weeks. The actor was offered starring roles by at least three studios and most recently recorded a guest spot on Hello Faceboy (a live-action Chinese remake of The Simpsons), but a spate of drug arrests and declining physical health have dimmed his value to Hollywood’s most powerful. The night before he disappeared, Denby was arrested for public intoxication, stealing food from a teenager, and urinating within 500 feet of a police dog. A late-night patron of a Sunset Boulevard Jack in the Box found the lower half of Denby hanging from a dumpster behind the restaurant, his legs plastered in taco wrappers.
“It didn’t look human,” said the pudgy and sad woman, who from the look of her subsisted entirely on cream pies. “And when it started screaming Mexican, I called the police.”
Several dark-suited individuals milling about the entrance of Denby’s apartment refused to be quoted or identified in this story as Denby’s friends, and repeatedly claimed to be from something they called “Eff-Bee-Aye.” They were either photographers or just morbid fans of Denby’s, waiting for the debauched star to appear with a bag over his head, dropping a trail of used tissues, shoes, or hair samples behind him like a golden brick road to Ebay.
Blocked from entering Denby’s apartment by a line of these celebrity hounds, I ran to the local Internet cafe intending to give these “Eff-Bee-Aye” charlatans the worst Yelp review of their lives, but it was obviously a fake name.
Watch this space for updates!
Tags: Amish Spaceman, author, carol alt, comedy, funny, humor, nice images, robert denby, self published, writing
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2 responses to “The Denby Files––Acclaimed Male Model Now Missing in Action”
celialadygarden March 2, 2014 at 7:52 am · ·
You gave me a right old laugh with this post. I could picture it all. Celia
Steve Colegrove March 3, 2014 at 8:34 am · ·
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On the way to an
On the way to an interview today, a group of young girls across from me on the subway were talking about this school bomb threat. The remarkable thing about the conversation was that these young girls were all at least acquaintances with the young woman, and they were so incredibly savvy about the whole process.
The only subject of debate was who had turned the suspect in, and what the outcome of her suspension hearing had been. The mechanics of reporting a threat and the assumption that it would result in police involvement were seen as par for the course, and I found myself wishing I could have followed the conversation further.
The Daily News should have been listening to this conversation. The NYPD should have been part of this conversation. The Board of Education shouldn’t have even needed to hear it. But as, always, the kids that know the most, that have the most to offer, that could help the most, will probably be ignored.
"I was looking for a
"I was looking for a book on disposing of a body, but this should do just fine." It’s all well and good to be smart and nice. But funny, too? Andre’s Wish List makes me wish
For future reference, Internet Explorer
For future reference, Internet Explorer 6 and Standards. Salient point: "The Internet Explorer team has put a great deal of effort into providing fast and stable implementations of 100 percent of CSS 1 and 100 percent of DOM level
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Volksbühne Satellite Theater, Berlin
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture
Typologies Theater Culture / Leisure
City Berlin
Located in the center of Berlin, Tempelhof Airport closed its doors to passengers in 2008 during the migratory crisis to offer emergency shelter to the more than 8,000 refugees escaping war in the Middle East and other global conflicts. The construction of a temporary theater space of the Berlin Volksbühne marks a new chapter in the complex history of the airport, which will be enriched by cultural diversity.
The project wishes to promote a new type of theater experience that favors collaboration, impromptu performances, and communication. The barrier between audience and artists is blurred literally and metaphorically, favoring bidirectional exchange. The theater is designed as a mobile structure consisting of eight supports on wheels, and can be placed on the huge outdoor esplanade or in the aircraft hangars. Its extraordinary ceiling height and massive roller doors accentuate the space’s industrial character, creating a universal stage for experimental theater. Volksbühne is developing a diverse program of performances, concerts, exhibitions, and discussions. To accommodate such a range of activities, the components are designed to reconfigure to the specific needs of an event or performance.
Technical Info Mostrar Ocultar ficha técnica
Volksbühne Berlin
Kéré Architecture
Equipo de diseño Design Team
Blake Villwock, Nina Tescari, Johanna Lehmann, Andrea Maretto, Jaime Herraiz, Adriana Arteaga, Damien Greder, Laura Bornet, Valeria Molinari
Superficie construida Built-up area
Airport Berlin Circle Culture / Leisure Diébédo Francis Kéré Flexible Germany Kéré Architecture Mobile Tempelhof Theater
Sensing Spaces Pavilion, London
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture United Kingdom With a focus towards exploring the experiential qualities of architecture, the ‘Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined’ exhibition enlisted architects such as Kengo Kuma, Álvaro Siza, and Eduardo Souto de Moura to produce site-specific installations
National Park of Mali Complex, Bamako
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Mali Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence, the National Park of Mali, located in Bamako, the capital, reopened. Several new accesses were built, aside from a restaurant and a sports center. Clad in locally sourced stone, the
Surgical and Health Center, Léo
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Burkina Faso Health is a luxury in Africa, especially for the rural population, which lives so far from the few hospitals and healthcare centers of quality that exist in the countryside, such facilities tending to concentrate in capitals and large cities.
Gando Library
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Burkina Faso Within the education complex of Gando, the library is located between the two volumes that make up the school and its extension, so a covered courtyard is generated between them. Resorting to the same technique used in the other two pieces that const
Center for Earth Architecture, Mopti
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Mali Located where the Niger and Bani rivers meet, Mopti is Mali’s fourth largest city and its main commercial port. After the restoration of the Great Mosque of Mopti, commonly known as the Mosque of Komoguel, The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) turned
Center for Health and Social Advancement, Laongo
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Burkina Faso The construction of a health center as part of the Opera Village project followed the aim of improving basic health assistance for the local population. The CSPS, acronym for Centre de Santè et de Promotion Sociale, is fit out with the necessary inst
Primary School, Gando
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Burkina Faso With a population of 3000 inhabitants, Gando is a small village in the southern plains of burkina faso. It is located 200 kilometers from Ouagadougou, the country´s capital. In 1998, Francis Kéré launched a project to build a school in his native vil
Campus Obama Legacy, Kogelo
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Kenya Located in the Kenyan village of Kogelo, where Barack Obama’s father was born, the Mama Sarah Obama Legacy Campus will be an educational enclave for a thousand students and preschool-age children in danger of being marginalized. The project presents
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2017, London
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture United Kingdom Every year the Serpentine Gallery in London chooses an international architect to build a temporary pavilion in Kensington Gardens. The pavilion of 2017, designed by Francis Kéré, is conceived as a microcosm: a community structure that fuses cultural
Teachers’ Housing, Gando
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Burkina Faso The teachers’ houses were designed to attract teachers out to the countryside, as well as to promote the use of earth as a sustainable and durable building material. The houses were realized as a series of adaptable modules, each of size comparable t
Lousiana Canopy, Humlebæk
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Denmark As part of the exhibition ‘Africa: Architecture, Culture and Identity’ at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the installation recreates the sensation of being under the shade of a big tree. This powerful symbol, present in both Nordic and African my
Opera Village, Laongo
Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture Burkina Faso Two years before his death, artist, filmmaker, and playwright Christoph Schlingensief managed to embark Kéré on his dream of building an opera house in the heart of Africa. While traveling through Burkina Faso in search of the adequate site, the coun
AV Monografías 201 (pages 96-99) Francis Kéré Open the digital publication
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Antis the German Shepherd: Airman's Best Friend
By Sarah Simonovich on Aug 9th 2016
Let slip the dogs of war
January 1940: Phoney War. Václav Robert Bozděch and Pierre Duval were on a reconnaissance mission over the German front in their twin-seater Potez 630 aircraft when they were hit by anti-aircraft fire. They crashed in no-mans land between the French and German lines. Duval was injured, and the two escaped to an abandoned farmhouse nearby. The house, however, wasn't completely abandoned: inside, Bozděch discovered a German Shepherd puppy on the kitchen floor. The Czech airman fed the dog chocolate and melted snow.
As Bozděch and Duval headed to the French lines, the dog (left in the house) could clearly be heard barking. Knowing the barking would draw the attentions of the Germans looking for their nearby crash site, they agreed that the best course of action was to kill the dog; when Bozděch returned to the house, however, instead of killing the puppy he picked him up and placed him inside his flight jacket.
A party of French troops discovered them. Duval was taken to the hospital for his injuries and Bozděch was flown back to St Dizier, his airbase with fellow Czech servicemen fighting for the French Air Force. Bozděch's fellow Czech airmen took to the puppy and named him Antis, after their favorite aircraft- Russian ANT dive-bombers.
Military servicedog
On May 10, 1940, Antis experienced his official enrollment into military service.
During a game of football, the dog suddenly grew tense: legs stiff, hackles raised, Antis growled as he stared up at the horizon. Just moments later, the base's air-raid siren sounded and the Luftwaffe's Dornier Do-17s appeared.
Antis joined Bozděch in his Potez-63 and proved himself to be a natural flying dog; he barely flinched at the loud sounds of the engines and even slept through combat.
Come June 1940, the Czech airmen of French First Bomber-Reconnaissance Squadron headed to Great Britain. One night, while posted to RAF Speke in Liverpool, Bozděch and Antis were walking through the streets when suddenly Antis demonstrated his familiar signal for -danger-: stiff-bodied and staring up to the sky. Sure enough, a German raid ensued and bombs fell from the sky-Bozděch pinned the dog beneath his body and shielded him from the blasts. When the raid was over, Antis helped rescue people trapped beneath the rubble-even though at one point he needed to be rescued himself.
When it came time for the airmen to take to the skies again, his canine companion had to keep all four paws on the ground, as the rules in Britain would not allow Antis to fly with Bozděch in his bomber. While stationed at their new base, RAF East Wretham in Norfolk, Antis would remain by the runway until Bozděch returned in his Wellington, codenamed C for Cecilia.
Dog of war
June 1941-the 311 Squadron was assigned to Bomb the railway yard in Hamm, Germany. As usual, Antis waited on the runway for Bozděch to return-however, this time something was different. C for Cecilia didn't return. Bozděch didn't return.
At 1am, Bozděch was involved in an aerial battle over Occupied Europe. During the battle, a shard of metal punched through the Wellington's Perspex gun turret, shattering it, and lodging itself in his forehead. Luckily, Bozděch managed to land the plane safely in Norfolk. He was taken to a hospital and was expected to be there for several days.
Despite the good news at Bozděch's survival, the bad news was that no one could explain the situation to Antis (on account of the communication barrier that exists between man and dog). He couldn't be coaxed to move from his sentry; he refused all food and shelter. The 311 squadron knew that if something couldn't be done, the dog would surely die.
Robert Bozděch was let out of the hospital and allowed to be taken to the base to see his canine companion. Though weak, Antis managed a lick and tail wag before being carried into the waiting car.
C for Cecilia took to the skies again come late June. But as the crew completed pre-flight checks, and as Bozděch prepared to take to the air, the German Shepherd mascot of 311 Squadron was nowhere to be seen-that is, until the airman was already in flight. Antis had stowed away aboard the aircraft, proving that this dedicated dog was unwilling to be left on the ground as his master took flight.
Bozděch and Antis shared oxygen for the duration of the flight, as the air was much too thin for the dog at 16,000ft.
Antis served as 311 Squadron's mascot for the duration of the war. And despite regulations, he took part in approximately 30 missions.
In 1949, he was formally recognized for his heroics in war and was awarded the Dickin medal, which acknowledges acts of bravery or devotions to duty displayed by animals serving in any theater if war throughout the world.
Robert Bozděch became a British national in 1951, and Antis stayed with him until his death in 1953, at the age of 14. Antis was buried at the Ilford Animal Cemetery in Ilford, London, England. Václav Robert Bozděch died February 27, 1980. In 1989, he was posthumously promoted to the rank of Colonel.
This recount of Robert Bozděch and Antis's story is based off Damien Lewis's creative non-fiction book War Dog: The No-man's Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies, which complements Robert Bozděch's original unpublished manuscript.
*All photos belong to Damien Lewis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2482520/So...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antis_(dog)
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Brian Kruse is like no one you’ve ever met. He is a learned, sardonic, articulate professor,
who knows more about music, politics, writing, philosophy, whatever…than you.
He is also blind and takes a lot of Uber rides. These are his stories–raw and uncensored.
Uber Chronicles: Talking So Well
“Are you gonna get stem cells put in you, so you can see? My friend Adam says he wouldn't, because he is happy with what God has given him and feels like getting his sight would be like growing a third hand or something. Do you feel that way?”
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Uber Chronicles: Jesus Rides Beside Me
Today I had an Uber driver name Jesus. The first few times I tried to call him, it went straight to voicemail. Jesus didn’t answer his calls.
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Uber Chronicles: Inanimate Object
Leaving from my ex-wife’s house, the Uber driver just asked the woman I hire to help me babysit, "Is there anything I need to know before I start driving him?"
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Had a Bad Day...
Sometimes I feel like my blindness makes me invisible to Uber drivers as they have the tendency to drive right past me even though I’m the only person standing where they are supposed to pick up and I’m holding a phone. Maybe it’s something psychological that the driver experiences. Maybe they just assume that they won’t have a blind passenger and, if they just travel on a little further, they’ll find the able-bodied passenger they were supposed to meet.
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Uber Chronicles: Conversation With an Oddly Intrusive Uber Drive with a Russian Accent
Uber driver: "So, do you live in Rogers Park?" Me: "No." Uber driver: “Where do you live?" "I live in Lakeview, but I might be moving to Rogers Park."
https://awesometotallyawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/ed-car.jpg 443 800 Brian Kruse https://awesometotallyawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/logo-awesome-totally-awesome-2.png Brian Kruse2018-01-08 17:27:072018-11-28 19:55:09Uber Chronicles: Conversation With an Oddly Intrusive Uber Drive with a Russian Accent
Pride Day Morning
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Uber Chronicles: Tuesday Morning Microagression
Mike was my fellow Uber passenger. He got out to help me into the vehicle. As he got back in, he told Bob, our driver, to hop to it! Bob thanked him for helping me get in.
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Uber Chronicles: Adventure With Deborah
I ordered the Uber when I arrived. I tried to contact the driver only to find that the option to call him was not available; I could only send him a text. I informed him that I was visually impaired and standing by the curb. Just to make sure, I also told him that visually impaired meant that I could not see.
https://awesometotallyawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/ed-car.jpg 443 800 Brian Kruse https://awesometotallyawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/logo-awesome-totally-awesome-2.png Brian Kruse2018-03-10 19:44:012018-11-28 19:54:39Uber Chronicles: Adventure With Deborah
Uber Chronicles: The Vapes
This morning I had an Uber driver who sounded to be breathing irregularly. Now I find myself with another driver breathing similarly.
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Mother Clips Tags From Son’s Off White Jordans and Subsequently Ruins His Life
“It started off well enough,” he lamented. “I mean it actually started off great. On Monday, my birthday, I woke up to a deadstock pair of Off White Jordans from my mom and dad. I thought it was a dream, you know.”
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Open Your Mind: Global Hip Hop 101
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Supreme to Offer Budget Line of Products
For those of you who cannot afford Supreme gear at retail, let alone aftermarket pricing, Supreme will soon be offering a budget line called Supreme Market, featuring items conveniently priced below $40.00.
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Concert Review Legend of The Seagullmen: The Roxy, Hollywood
The Legend of the Seagullmen (Seagullmen) is a furious and heavy supergroup. Their self-titled debut album consists of dark and heavy, psychedelic, and evil pirate metal anthems all revolving around the deep dark sea.
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The New Apple x Suicidal Tendencies Circle Pit Watch Will Revolutionize Your Circle Pit Safety and Experience
According to Muir, “All I wanted was a basic, durable, no bullshit watch, like my old Casio, but with an Institutionalized ring tone and THEY WOULDN’T GIVE IT TO ME.”
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Why Phil Kessel Is Awesome (And Why You Should Think So Too)
Phil Kessel beat cancer during his rookie season and went on to become a five time thirty goal scorer and two time Stanley Cup Champion on his own terms. In spite of being one of the most prolific goal scorers of his generation, Phil has been oft maligned, bullied, and minimized by the press, the fans, the NHL, and even his peers.
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How To Be Zen Without Being a Douchebag
We live in a loud, obnoxious, ugly, and yes sometimes orange “Trumped-up” world. We all want a little more peace… a little calmer.
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Dal Bosco, A., Cartoni Mancinelli, A., Hoy, S. et al. 2020. Assessing the preference of rabbit does to social contact or seclusion: Results of different investigations. Animals 10(2), 286.
The aim of this study was to verify the motivation of rabbit does to social contact or seclusion. The results of two different research activities assessed in Italy (experiment 1) and Germany (experiment 2) through...
Burn, C. C., Shields, P. 2020. Do rabbits need each other? Effects of single versus paired housing on rabbit body temperature and behaviour in a UK shelter. Animal Welfare 29(2), 209-219.
In the wild, rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are social but territorial. Recent surveys suggest that over half of pet rabbits are housed singly. We aimed to compare welfare in single versus paired rabbits. We predicted singletons...
Bill, J., Rauterberg, S. L., Herbrandt, S. et al. 2020. Agonistic behavior and social hierarchy in female domestic rabbits kept in semi-groups. Journal of Veterinary Behavior 38, 21-31.
In semi-natural mixed-sex groups, rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) organize their social life by forming a hierarchy, which is characterized by linearity and stability. Compared to the natural environment, many factors are different in contemporary breeding systems...
Braconnier, M., Gómez, Y., Gebhardt-Henrich, S. G. 2020. Different regrouping schedules in semi group-housed rabbit does: Effects on agonistic behaviour, stress and lesions. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 228, 105024.
Although group housing of naturally social animals like rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is desirable for ethical reasons, social conflicts can significantly increase the risk for injuries as well as stress incidences and negatively affect their welfare...
Insel, N., Shambaugh, K. L., Beery, A. K. 2020. Female degus show high sociality but no preference for familiar peers. Behavioural Processes 174, 104102.
Group-living animals vary in social behavior across multiple dimensions, including in the selectivity of social interactions with familiar versus unfamiliar peers. Standardized behavioral tests can be used to tease apart different dimensions of behavior. These...
Munari, C., Mugnai, C., Braconnier, M. et al. 2020. Effect of different management protocols for grouping does on aggression and dominance hierarchies. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 227, 104999.
The study aimed at evaluating different management protocols of grouping does in regard to aggressive interactions and the establishment of a hierarchy under commercial conditions. Fifty-seven multiparous rabbit does of the Hycole hybrid maternal line...
Bartley, K. A., Johnson, C. H. 2019. Human infant pants for postoperative protection during social housing of New Zealand white rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). JAALAS 58(4), 510-516.
Elizabethan collars (E-collars) are commonly used in various species to safeguard healing wounds. However, E-collars inadvertently restrict the expression of normal species-typical behaviors, including coprophagy, self-grooming, and social housing. To maintain social housing in accordance...
Gerencsér, Z., Matics, Z., Szabó, R. et al. 2019. Aggressiveness, mating behaviour and lifespan of group housed rabbit does. Animals 9(10), 708.
Aggressiveness is one of the main problems in group housing of rabbit does. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the frequency of aggressiveness and mating behaviour as well as the lifespan of does...
Trocino, A., Zomeño, C., Filiou, E. et al. 2019. The use of environmental enrichments affects performance and behavior of growing rabbits housed in collective pens. Animals 9(8), 537.
This study assessed the effects of an elevated plastic-slatted platform and/or a plastic hiding tube in collective pens with large group sizes (27 or 36 rabbits/pen; 16 rabbits/m2) on the performance and welfare of rabbits...
Nie, C., Ban, L., Ning, Z. et al. 2019. Feather colour affects the aggressive behaviour of chickens with the same genotype on the dominant white (I) locus. PLoS ONE 14(5), e0215921.
Aggression in chickens is a serious economic and animal welfare issue in poultry farming. Pigmentation traits have been documented to be associated with animal behaviour. Chicken pecking behaviour has been found to be related to...
Dal Bosco, A., Mugnai, C., Martino, M. et al. 2019. Housing rabbit does in a combi system with removable walls: Effect on behaviour and reproductive performance. Animals 9(8), 528.
We evaluated the effects of two types of colony cages, in which rabbit does were always in a group (C1), and where they were in combi cages furnished with removable internal walls to allow both...
Donovan, M., Liu, Y., Wang, Z. 2018. Anxiety-like behavior and neuropeptide receptor expression in male and female prairie voles: The effects of stress and social buffering. Behavioural Brain Research 342, 70-78.
Strong social support can negate negative health outcomes – an effect defined as ‘social buffering’. In the present study, using the socially monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), we examined whether the presence of a bonded...
Zomeño, C., Birolo, M., Gratta, F. et al. 2018. Effects of group housing system, pen floor type, and lactation management on performance and behaviour in rabbit does. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 203, 55-63.
This work aimed at evaluating the effects of housing system, pen floor type, and lactation management on rabbit doe and kit performance throughout a reproductive cycle, including categorization of aggressiveness and injuries. Forty multiparous pregnant...
Thurston, S., Burlingame, L., Lester, P. A. et al. 2018. Methods of pairing and pair maintenance of New Zealand white rabbits (Oryctolagus Cuniculus) via behavioral ethogram, monitoring, and interventions. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) 133, e57267.
Though European rabbits are a social species, socially housing them can be challenging. Therefore, there must be a thorough understanding of behaviors and social structures of pair-housed laboratory rabbits. Here we present a protocol to...
DiVincenti, L. Jr., Rehrig, A. 2017. Social behavior of adult male New Zealand White rabbits housed in groups or pairs in the laboratory. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 20(1), 86-94.
Rabbits are usually singly housed in laboratories, but a new emphasis on providing social housing for social species has prompted exploration of alternative housing for this species. However, a paucity of literature on the social...
Zomeño, C., Birolo, M., Zuffellato, A. et al. 2017. Aggressiveness in group-housed rabbit does: Influence of group size and pen characteristics. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 194, 79-85.
The aim of this work was to study how the group size and the number of doorways in a pen may influence the aggressive interactions throughout the reproductive cycle among does kept in a part-time...
Keeling, L. J., Newberry, R. C., Estevez, I. 2017. Flock size during rearing affects pullet behavioural synchrony and spatial clustering. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 194, 36-41.
Animals are often synchronised in their behaviour, with costs and benefits varying according to group size and the behaviour being performed. Making decisions about optimal allocation and distribution of resources to animals in our care...
Marshall, K., Wolford, H., Martin, L. 2017. Creatively meeting the standards – taking rabbit housing to the next level. Animal Technology and Welfare 16(3), 226-228.
The 8th Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals clarified its language regarding housing social species, specifying that, “Single housing of social species should be the exception…”. This is a...
Buijs, S., Vangeyte, J., Tuyttens, F. A. M. 2016. Effects of communal rearing and group size on breeding rabbits’ post-grouping behaviour and its relation to ano-genital distance. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 182, 53-60.
Group housing is becoming the standard for many farm animal species, as it is seen as a more welfare friendly way of keeping gregarious animals. Aggression between female breeding rabbits currently obstructs the implementation of...
Enser, S. 2016. Comparison of housing and welfare of group housed rabbits. Animal Technology and Welfare 15(1), 77-79.
This poster is based on welfare improvements gained from group housing rabbits in floor pens in the new Antibody Production Facility with a focus on development, behaviours and environmental enrichment in both male and female...
Bozicovich, T. F. M., Moura, A. S. A. M. T., Fernandes, S. et al. 2016. Effect of environmental enrichment and composition of the social group on the behavior, welfare, and relative brain weight of growing rabbits. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 182, 72-79.
The objective of the study was to investigate if environmental enrichment and the composition of the social group would affect the behavior and relative brain weight of growing rabbits. Rabbits (72 males and 72 females)...
Buijs, S., Maertens, L., Hermans, K. et al. 2015. Behaviour, wounds, weight loss and adrenal weight of rabbit does as affected by semi-group housing. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 172, 44-51.
Group housing is often assumed to improve the welfare of gregarious species. Whether this is actually the case depends on the advantages (e.g. more opportunity for social and locomotor behaviour) and disadvantages (e.g. increased fighting...
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McVitie’s Cuddle Café pop up a snuggling success
Sticking with cafes this week, on the 11th Feb more than a 1,000 customers visited the McVitie’s London cafe pop up – ‘the Cuddle Café’ during it’s brief, one day opening on the 11th Feb. The concept store was part of the brands continuing ‘Sweeet’ advertising campaign which suggest the pleasurable experience of eating a McVities biscuit is akin to the comfort of cuddling a fluffy kitten.
During market research McVities’s parent company, United Biscuits discovered that almost 75% of Brits said that they would like more cuddles in their lives. So they set to work to give the customers what they want with the Cuddle Café on Tottenham Street, featuring ‘Sweeet’ animal friend characters from the brand’s popular TV ads.
Some of the elements of the Cuddle Café were designed with the help of Dr Stuart Farrimond, a researcher who is an expert on the emotional and health benefits of cuddling, as he explains:
“My research not only discovered that cuddling a soft toy triggers a similar emotional response and health benefit to hugging a person, but also that the act of drinking a hot beverage can stimulate similar warm, positive feelings. So what better combination that a cuppa and a cuddle?”
McVitie’s marketing director, Sarah Heynen, added:
“At McVitie’s we truly know the importance of a cuddle, and what better way to put a smile on people’s faces and beat the winter blues than with a Cuddle Café? People are so busy these days, and lead such stressful lives, that we want to offer all of our visitors their very own form of ‘cuddle therapy’ coupled with a cup of tea, cakes, biscuits – and all for the price of a hug.”
Like the Ziferblat, the tea and biscuits at the café were free, but people weren’t charged by the minute – all they needed to do was hug one of the cuddly characters in store – and McVitie’s will be continuing the freebies, as part of a £3 million marketing exercise, giving away ‘Sweeet’ character cuddly toys with promotional packs, to help spread the positive emotional and health benefits of a cuppa and a cuddle (and of course, to sell more biscuits!)
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Ranking the SEC’s 2017 Football Uniforms
By Matt Fortuna, 7/14/17, 9:30 AM EDT
The SEC’s infamous slogan is “It Just Means More.” And yes, that extends to laundry, with league programs wearing some of the most storied and iconic uniforms in all of sports.
Which are the best? The worst? We take everything – alternates included – into account here as we rank the SEC’s uniforms.
— Written by Matt Fortuna, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network and spent six seasons covering college football for ESPN.com. Fortuna’s work has been honored by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) seven times. Follow him on Twitter @Matt_Fortuna and like his Facebook page.
14. Missouri
There’s just too much going on here, with a bunch of colors that don’t seem to mesh all that well. We get trying to differentiate yourself when you’re the new kid on the block, as Mizzou is in the SEC, but at some point you need an identity that can resonate with fans. So far, the Tigers seem to be missing the boat with that in the uniform department, despite the program’s mostly impressive performance since joining the league in 2012.
13. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt’s uniforms are just fine – nothing great, nothing bad. But for a program as unique among its conference peers as this one is – in as eccentric a locale as the Commodores are, in Nashville – it wouldn’t hurt to have a little more pop, as difficult as that may be with a dark primary color.
The Wildcats’ football program suffers from the same issues that programs like Duke football do: Their colors are great, and when seen on their basketball programs, all sorts of memories come to the forefront, sparking good feelings for their fans. There’s nothing wrong with their football getups, but until the Cats start doing more on the gridiron – and last year was certainly a positive step – there won’t be many strong feelings about these unis. (That said: Stick with these, Cats. Don’t get too fancy.)
11. Arkansas
The Razorbacks’ look is simple and to the point, the perfect uniform for a meat-and-potatoes program that, under Bret Bielema, is going to beat you into submission with a simple, yet effective, ground attack. Because the Hogs’ shade of red isn’t all that unique, though, these uniforms do have a difficult time standing out, although we love their helmets.
10. South Carolina
It’s hard to think of a college that carries this colorway. When you think of garnet, black and white – you think of South Carolina. But does that necessarily make it a great combination? Opinions likely differ on this one, although the Gamecocks’ black uniforms – with either the white or black helmets – are sharp.
9. Mississippi State
For some reason, these uniforms really seem to scream “Adidas,” what with the striped shoulders and, perhaps, the coach’s endless selling of his media day kicks. The simple home maroons and road whites (even with white helmets, sometimes) are the kind of non-nonsense uniforms you’d expect from a place like MSU. But please, don’t ever do the gold accents again.
Another Adidas school, another maroon-based school. These seem a little smoother than Mississippi State’s, perhaps because of all the goodwill “street cred” this program built through the Johnny Football years. There’s something special about those all whites, though. (Confession: Maybe I’m just biased to these and MSU’s since my high school wore maroon.)
7. Tennessee
Tennessee suffers, and benefits, from a similar problem that South Carolina does. No one in the world has this shade of orange. Every time you see it, you think Tennessee Volunteers. That’s a branding identity you simply cannot put a price on. Like the Gamecocks, though, you wonder if anyone outside of Knoxville actually loves that color. That said, we were not a fan of those gray alternates, or any kind of alternate that takes away from the kind of familiar pop you expect to see every time this program takes the field.
The Gator mascot and natural school colors offer the program much to work with. And give Florida credit for rarely overdoing it when it comes to uniforms. The orange and blue are natural complements, and the script “Gators” helmet is a classic that is very different from most of the program’s SEC peers. The all-orange alternates, while a bit much on the eyes, don’t stray too far from the school’s roots, so it’s tough to knock those much either.
Call it the Jordan Brand effect, but growing up, no uniforms were cooler than black-and-red ones. Georgia fans have known this for quite some time, making their classic look tough to beat, as the alternate black jerseys are every bit as cool as the basic red or white ones. Tough to beat that simple “G” helmet, too.
4. Auburn
So many teams, both collegiate and professional, have the navy and orange look. But few have kept their look as crisp, simple and timeless as Auburn has. And who can blame the Tigers? They won a national title seven years ago and darn near won another in 2013. For one side of college football’s most intense rivalry, this classic look is all it takes to evoke memories of yesterday with the promise for more. Simple is better here. No alternates necessary.
3. Ole Miss
What can be better than red, white and blue? Unlike other colorways, this one offers the chance for experimentation and crazy alternates, as you can never really stray too far from the past with these ones. And when the Rebels wear those powder blue helmets, well, it’s just hard to beat those.
(Photo by @OleMissPix, courtesy of www.olemisssports.com)
Who else wears white at home? No one else, that’s who. LSU has mastered the art of atmosphere, with Death Valley night games regularly voted as the best scene in college football. When you look on the field and see the familiar purple and gold of the Tigers, those uniforms only add to the familiar, special scene. The colors fit in perfectly with the unique state and create an identity for the Bayou Bengals that few can match.
This is the classic case of simple being better. When you (claim) 16 national titles, all won in the same look, there is no reason to tinker with the uniform. Crimson and white has Nick Saban’s no-nonsense “process” written all over it, but that’s the catch: This program’s history extends way beyond its current leader, and those numbered helmets are just one nice old-school touch that reminds all of what the other team is up against when facing Alabama.
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EU, UK each demand concessions as post-Brexit talks stall
Dave CLARK, Marc BURLEIGH
Map of the exclusive economic zones surrounding the UK and neigbouring coastal states
British and EU negotiators had dug in their heels and were each demanding more concessions from the other as post-Brexit trade talks dragged on into Sunday, deadlocked on fishing rights.
Sources from both sides said that unless the other backed down on access to UK waters, Britain would leave the single market at midnight on December 31 without a follow-on deal on cross-Channel commerce.
"We're continuing to try every possible path to an agreement, but without a substantial shift from the (European) Commission we will be leaving on WTO terms on 31 December," a British government source said.
But an EU diplomat told AFP that Brussels had made Britain its last offer on fishing and it was down now to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to decide whether he wants a deal.
"If Britain doesn't accept the latest EU offer it will be a 'no deal' over fish," he warned. A European official said: "It's very blocked."
The tough talk came as both sides are engaged in intense -- and tense -- negotiations to secure a pact before the end of the month. No deal would risk chaos at EU and UK borders, where a pre-deadline rush has already caused long tailbacks of lorries.
Observers, however, noted that the fishing issue was about finding middle ground between offer and counteroffer in an economically small sector, while the much bigger other main issue, on guaranteeing fair trade competition rules is closer to settlement.
"It's all down to numbers now," the European diplomat said.
The EU's pointman in the negotiations, Michel Barnier, has proposed EU fishermen giving up nearly a quarter of the value of the fish they currently catch in UK waters. Britain is understood to be holding out for getting back much more than half.
The UK has suggested this compromise last for three years before it is renegotiated, whereas Europe is holding out for double that.
"We cannot accept a deal that doesn't leave us in control of our own laws or waters," the UK government source said, arguing that the EU was "continuing to make demands that are incompatible with our independence".
- Fishermen 'sold down the river' -
EU fishermen fear losing any access to the rich UK fishing waters will threaten their livelihoods.
"We are in the throes of being sold down the river," the European Fisheries Alliance said in a statement, urging Barnier to stick to protecting them.
"The shape of a deal, as currently stands would give a huge blow to the European seafood sector which is made up of more than 18,000 fishermen and 3,500 vessels with an annual turnover of 20.7 billion euros."
Time is very short to reach an accord.
The European Parliament has highlighted a deadline of midnight (2300 GMT) on Sunday to receive a deal for review if MEPs are to ratify it before the end of the year.
Their UK parliamentary counterparts are in recess, but can be recalled within 48 hours to do likewise.
But EU capitals are not binding themselves to the European Parliament's deadline.
France's European affairs minister, Clement Beaune, said talks will not be called to a halt if they drag out past Sunday night.
"We won't do that because what is at risk is whole sectors like fishing, like sustainable competition conditions for our businesses," he said.
- 'Concerns' Britain not ready -
The urgency of reaching a deal is seen in long lines of trucks at the freight rail link through the Channel tunnel as British companies frantically stockpile.
A group of UK MPs warned on Saturday that Britain has not installed the complex IT systems and port infrastructure needed to ensure trade with the EU runs smoothly.
Some disruption is inevitable, deal or no deal, with British and European firms needing to fill out import-export, health and tax forms to send and receive goods to each other.
A deal would avoid tariffs but there would still be traffic snarls as checks on truck loads and drivers' papers are carried out.
Even truck drivers' lunches will come under border scrutiny: the British government warned packed ham and cheese sandwiches are banned from entry into Europe under meat and dairy restrictions that apply to non-EU arrivals.
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Leicester pile misery on Chelsea to go top
Leicester City's victory over Chelsea has returned the Foxes to the top of the Premier League and caused more concern for Blues manager Frank Lampard.
When wearing face masks became mandatory in Greater Sydney at the start ofthis month, The Social Outfit immediately received hundreds of orders for itshandmade masks.
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Lantern is a startup looking to ignite a conversation about how to die well
Danny Crichton
America is a land of paperwork, and nowhere is that more obvious than at the end of someone’s life. Advanced care directives have to be carefully disseminated to healthcare providers and strictly followed. Property has to be divided and transferred while meeting relevant estate laws. And of course, there are the logistics of a funeral, cremation or other option that has its own serious complexities, costs and choices.
The worst time to figure out how to die is when you die. The best time to figure it out is precisely when you don’t have to.
For New York City-headquartered Lantern, the goal is to initiate those conversations early and give its users significantly better peace-of-mind, particularly in these dolorous times.
The company offers essentially a “how-to” platform for beginning to prepare for end-of-life, offering checklists and monitoring to ensure that the vast majority of details are figured out in advance. In some cases, the startup will handle the underlying details itself, while in other areas like estate planning, it works with partners such as Trust & Will, which we have profiled a number of times on TechCrunch.
Right now, the company has two plans: a simple free one and a $27 / year plan that tracks your progress on end-of-life planning and allows you to collaborate with family, friends or whoever else needs to be part of your decision-making. The company is in the process of adding other à la carte options for additional fees.
Trust & Will raises $15M as digital estate planning hits mainstream
Last month, the company raised $1.4 million in a seed round led by Draper Associates with a few other firms involved. Earlier, the company raised a pre-seed round of $890,000 from the likes of 2048 Ventures, Amplify and others, bringing its total raised to date to $2.3 million. The company is organized as a public-benefit corporation and was founded in September 2018, and first launched a year later.
For founders Liz Eddy and Alyssa Ruderman, Lantern was an opportunity to tackle a looming problem in a compassionate and empathetic way. “I started my first company when I was 15,” Eddy, who is CEO, said. That company focused on dating abuse and domestic violence education for high school and later college students. “I really fell in love with the pace and variety of starting something new, but also in creating conversations around topics that people really don't want to talk about and making it more palatable and comfortable,“ she said.
Lantern co-founders Alyssa Ruderman and Liz Eddy. Photo via Lantern.
Later, she joined local suicide prevention nonprofit Crisis Text Line, which has an SMS-based network of crisis counselors who are trained to calm people and begin their process of recovery. She spent more than six years at the organization.
As for Ruderman, who is COO of Lantern, she most recently spent two years at Global Citizen, a nonprofit organization focused on ending extreme poverty. The two connected and incubated Lantern at startup accelerator Grand Central Tech.
The idea for better end-of-life planning came from personal experience. “I lost my dad when I was in elementary school,” Eddy said, “and saw firsthand how loss and grief impacts a family financially, emotionally, logistically, legally — every aspect.”
Today, many of these processes are offline, and the online products mostly available today are focused on individual elements of end-of-life planning, such as estate planning or selecting and purchasing a casket. Eddy and Ruderman saw an opportunity to provide a more holistic experience with a better product while also initiating these conversations earlier.
That pre-planning part of the product was launched just as the pandemic was getting underway last year, and Eddy said that “we had a sort of a really interesting launch where people were starting to come to terms with their own mortality in a way we hadn't seen in a very long time.” Typical users so far have been between 25 and 35 years old, and many people start planning when they have a major life event. Eddy says that the death of a family member is an obvious trigger, but so is having a baby or starting a company.
One aspect that Eddy emphasized repeatedly was that having a will and pre-planning for end-of-life are not equivalent. “Even if you don't have a dollar to your name after you pass away, there are a ton of other things that your loved ones, family members, whoever's responsible has to consider,” she said.
From a product perspective, there are some nuances compared to your more typical SaaS startup. For one, the company needs to engage you regularly, but not too frequently. Unlike, say, a wedding, which is a single event that then is over, your documents and directives need to be occasionally edited and updated as a user’s life circumstances change.
Beyond that, one of the largest challenges with a product that talks about death is building a connection with a user that doesn’t seem cold, and, well, Silicon Valley-like. “Even as a product that is entirely virtual, making sure that you really feel that human connection throughout” is a high priority, Eddy said. “We use a lot of empathetic language, and our imagery, all of the illustrations are done by illustrators who have lost someone in memory of the person who's lost.”
Longevity startups may remain a thesis for some VC investors, but handling the end — no matter when — is an activity every person faces. Lantern might shine just a bit more light on what is otherwise a debilitating and scary prospect.
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Adalimumab Biosimilar Landscape Report Provides an Analysis of 35+ Companies along with Updated 45+ Marketed and Pipeline Drugs | DelveInsight
Adalimumab Biosimilar Report covers the updated marketed and pipeline drug profiles, including clinical and non-clinical stage products, and highlights the inactive pipeline products. It also includes the therapeutics assessment by product type, stage, route of administration, and molecule type.Los Angeles, USA, Jan. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adalimumab Biosimilar Landscape Report Provides an Analysis of 35+ Companies along with Updated 45+ Marketed and Pipeline Drugs | DelveInsight Adalimumab Biosimilar Report covers the updated marketed and pipeline drug profiles, including clinical and non-clinical stage products, and highlights the inactive pipeline products. It also includes the therapeutics assessment by product type, stage, route of administration, and molecule type. Adalimumab Biosimilar Report Highlights Adalimumab Biosimilar Insight, 2021 report provides comprehensive insights about 35+ Key Players and 45+ Marketed and Pipeline Drugs in Adalimumab Biosimilars landscape. In July 2020, the FDA authorised an Adalimumab biosimilar (Hulio) from Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics, making it the sixth adalimumab biosimilar to AbbVie’s reference product Humira, which has been approved and the 28th biosimilar authorised by the FDA.In March 2020, Alvotech informed that it entered into an exclusive license association with DKSH, a market expansion services provider, to commercialise AVT02, a biosimilar to AbbVie’s HUMIRA (adalimumab), in selected Asia-Pacific (APAC) markets. In November 2019, Pfizer stated that the FDA had approved Abrilada (adalimumab-afzb) as a biosimilar to Humira (adalimumab), to treat specific patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, adult Crohn's disease, Ulcerative Colitis and Plaque Psoriasis. Pfizer is working on making Abrilada available to U.S. patients as soon as feasible based on the terms of its agreement with AbbVie. It is slated to launch in 2023.In February 2019, AbbVie announced that they had received approval for an additional indication of HUMIRA, a fully human anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibody, for hidradenitis suppurativa treatment. With this approval, HUMIRA has become the first treatment in Japan and is now approved for 11 indications in Japan.In October 2018, Orion Corporation and Amgen signed a deal for the marketing and sales of AMGEVITA, Finland's first adalimumab biosimilar. Based on its sales value, the original adalimumab product is the most-sold medicine worldwide and in Finland, and its impact on medicine reimbursement costs is significant. In March 2017, AbbVie announced that the U.S. FDA approved the inclusion of moderate to severe fingernail psoriasis data in the Humira (adalimumab) prescribing information for patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis in the United States. Humira (adalimumab) is a recombinant human IgG1 monoclonal antibody indicated for alleviating signs and symptoms and prohibiting the progression of structural damage in adult patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis who have had an inadequate response to one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). DelveInsight’s Adalimumab Biosimilar Insight report provides an analysis of several drugs in different clinical development stages, covering marketed, phase III, II, I, and preclinical. It also helps to comprehend clinical trial details, expressive pharmacological action, agreements, and collaborations. Download Free Sample Report, Request @ Adalimumab Biosimilar Pipeline Analysis Adalimumab Biosimilars Marketed Drugs Abrilada by Pfizer Abrilada is an FDA-approved biosimilar version of adalimumab. Abrilada (adalimumab-afzb) injection is administered as a sterile, preservative-free solution for subcutaneous administration. Though sanctioned, it is not yet marketed in the US like various other manufacturers of authorized biosimilar versions of adalimumab, Pfizer has signed a licensing contract with AbbVie; under the deal, Samsung might launch the drug in November 2023. Halimatoz by Sandoz Halimatoz is mostly used in adults when their conditions are severe, moderately severe or exacerbated, or when patients cannot use other treatments. Halimatoz comprises the active substance adalimumab and is a biosimilar medicine. The active substance in Halimatoz, adalimumab, is a monoclonal antibody that has been designed to identify and attach to a substance in the body called tumour necrosis factor (TNF). TNF is involved in causing inflammation and is presented at high levels in patients with the diseases that Halimatoz is used for treatment. By attaching to TNF, adalimumab inhibits its activity, thereby lessening inflammation and other symptoms of the diseases. For further product profiles, access @ Adalimumab Biosimilars Marketed Drugs Adalimumab Biosimilars Emerging Drugs IBI303 by Innovent Biologics IBI303 is a recombinant human monoclonal antibody of TNF-α that has the same amino acid sequence as branded adalimumab (Humira) and displays high degrees of similarity with respect to chemical properties, in vitro biological activity (binding affinity and neutralizing activity against TNF-α), potency, and PK/PD. Pharmacologic and toxicologic studies of IBI303 also stated high similarity to Humira. Clinical studies have displayed that IBI303 can substantially lessen the Ankylosing Spondylitis symptoms and physical signs and reduce the disease activity and enthesitis while improving both somatic motor ability and mobility of the spine in Ankylosing Spondylitis patients. IBI303 may meet Chinese patients' urgent needs with an affordable price at global quality standards. CT-P17 by Celltrion CT-P17 is the first high-concentration type of medicine for a biosimilar made of adalimumab. The company has differentiated CT-P17 from presently Humira biosimilars by halving the dosage. By taking the recent trend into account, Celltrion has also eliminated citrate, which can cause pain in self-injection, from its latest product. If Celltrion launches CT-P17, it will finish a robust portfolio of CT-P17 in the global autoimmune disorder treatment market. AVT02 by Alvotech AVT02 is a monoclonal antibody (mAb) and a proposed biosimilar to Humira (adalimumab). It is being developed for the treatment of Plaque Psoriasis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis. AVT02 acts as immunosuppressants and tumour necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors. For further product drugs, contact @ Adalimumab Biosimilars Emerging Drugs Scope of Adalimumab Biosimilars Report: Coverage: Global Major Players: 35+ Key Companies Prominent Players: Zydus Cadila, Tanvex Biopharma, Synermore Biologics, Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Sandoz, Samsung Bioepis, Prestige BioPharma, PlantPraxis, Pfizer, Outlook Therapeutics, Mylan, Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics, Mycenax Biotech, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Meiji Seika Pharma, LG Chem, ISU Abxis, Innovent Biologics, Hisun Pharmaceuticals, Hetero Group, Harvest Moon Pharmaceuticals, Gene Techno Science, Fresenius Kabi, Epirus Biopharmaceuticals, Daiichi Sankyo, Coherus BioSciences, CinnaGen, Celltrion, Boehringer Ingelheim, BioXpress Therapeutics, Bio-Thera Solutions, Bionovis, The Instituto Vital Brazil, Biogen, Biocon, BIOCND, Genor Biopharma, Biocad, Amgen, Alvotech, mAbxience, and many others. Key Drugs Profiles: 45+ Products Adalimumab Biosimilars Drugs: Adaly, TX17, SYN-060, HLX 03, Halimatoz, Hyrimoz, Hadlima, PBP 1502, Abrilada/Amsparity, Abrilada, ONS-3010, MYL-1401A, Hulio, M 923, DMB-3113, LBAL, ISU202, IBI-303, HS 016, Pamera, Idacio/Kromeya, BOW 050, CHS-1420, Cinnora, CT-P17, Cyltezo, BX 2922, BAT-1406/Qleti, QLETLI, Imraldi, MYL 1401A, GB 232, BCD-057, BCD-058, Amgevita, Amjevita, Solymbic, AVT-02, HLX03, SB5/HADLIMA, AMAB, BCD 057, GBS 005, and many others. Phases: Adalimumab Therapies Late-stage (BLA Filed and Phase III) Adalimumab Therapies (Phase II)Adalimumab Therapies (Phase I) Adalimumab Therapies Pre-clinical stage and Discovery candidates Discontinued and Inactive candidates Molecule Types: Small moleculeMonoclonal antibodiesPeptideProtein Route of Administration: Subcutaneous Product Types: MonoCombination Mono/Combination Which are the Key Questions regarding Current Adalimumab Drug Treatment Landscape and Emerging Therapies Answered in the Pipeline Report? What are the current options for Adalimumab treatment?How many companies are developing therapies for the treatment of Adalimumab? How many Adalimumab emerging therapies are in the early-stage, mid-stage, and late stages of development for the treatment of Adalimumab?What are the key collaborations (Industry-Industry, Industry-Academia), Mergers and acquisitions, and major licensing activities that will impact the Adalimumab market? Which are the dormant and discontinued products and the reasons for the same?What is the unmet need for current therapies for the treatment of Adalimumab? What are the recent novel therapies, targets, mechanisms of action, and technologies developed to overcome the limitation of existing Adalimumab therapies? What are the key designations that have been granted for the emerging therapies for Adalimumab? How many patents are granted and pending for the emerging therapies for the treatment of Adalimumab? Table of Contents 1Key Insights2Adalimumab Biosimilars: Snapshot3Adalimumab Biosimilars Executive Summary4Regulatory Outlook For Biosimilars4.1.North America4.2.Europe 4.3. Asia Pacific 4.4.Rest Of The World5Adalimumab (Humira) 6Research and Development7Remicade Biosimilar Emerging Opportunities 8Adalimumab Biosimilars Assessment 9Adalimumab Biosimilars Profiles: By Company 9.1.Abrilada: Pfizer 9.2.Hulio: Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics9.3. HLX 03: Shanghai Henlius Biotech 9.4.Pamera: Hetero Biopharma 9.5.Qletli: Bio-Thera Solutions 10Adalimumab Biosimilars Comparative Landscape: By Company 11Adalimumab Biosimilars Competitive Landscape 12Adalimumab Biosimilars Market Drivers13Adalimumab Biosimilars Market Drivers14Adalimumab Biosimilars SWOT Analysis15Appendix16Bibliography17DelveInsight Capabilities18Disclaimer19About DelveInsight Browse Detailed TOC, Emerging Drugs and Key Companies @ Adalimumab Biosimilars Competitive Landscape Related Reports Insulin Glargine Biosimilar “Insulin Glargine Biosimilar Insight, 2020,” report provides comprehensive insights about 10+ companies and 10+ marketed and pipeline drugs in Insulin Glargine Biosimilars. Rheumatoid Arthritis Market Analysis DelveInsight's Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) - Market Insights, Epidemiology and Market Forecast - 2030 report provides a detailed overview of the disease and in-depth understanding of the disease in 7MM. 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INSIGHT-Irresistible? Pension funds plot move on China's $16 trillion sovereign bond market
China's $16 trillion sovereign debt market is the proverbial elephant in the investment room. It's looking increasingly alluring for European pension funds swimming in sub-zero bond yields as aging populations stretch their finances. For some, the benefits are beginning to outweigh the political risks, and they are upping allocations to China, or considering doing so, according to Reuters' interviews with half a dozen firms that advise and manage money for pension funds.
Thermal Interface Materials Market Foreseen to Accumulate USD 2.67 Billion by 2027 | IT & Telecom Industry has Emerged as the Leading Market Segment Among the Various End-Use Industries, says Reports and Data
Surging demand for consumer electronics, rising demand for advanced technologies, and the growing adoption of energy-efficient solutions are key parameters fueling the thermal interface materials market growth.Vancouver, British Columbia, Jan. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Thermal Interface Materials Market is foreseen to be valued at nearly USD 2.67 Billion by 2027, registering a robust 11.4% CAGR over the forecast timeline. The global thermal interface materials market is projected to record substantially high growth over the forecast period, primarily owing to factors like the increasing demand for thermal management for the smooth operation of electronic devices, surging implementation of these materials in the manufacture of different computer hardware components, consumer electronic products, telecommunications infrastructure, and various automotive components. The global market growth can be further attributed to the consistently rising demand for improved networking solutions, advanced computing technologies, state-of-the-art electronic devices, energy-efficient lighting solutions like LED lamps, and electrification of various transportation modes. Thermal interface materials are generally inserted between two hard surfaces to conduct heat efficiently. These materials offer heat management solutions for modern electronic devices and improve their overall performance and durability. The materials are extensively used for their robust mechanical properties, such as thermal resistance, electrical insulation, material compatibility, and enhanced performance. The most common examples include thermal tapes, greases, solders, and elastomeric pads. Get FREE Sample Copy with TOC of the Report to understand the structure of the complete report@ https://www.reportsanddata.com/sample-enquiry-form/3340 Widespread commercial availability of thermal interface materials, coupled with their increasing applications in the electronics industry, is expected to bolster the growth of this market in the future. Suring penetration of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), mounting adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles, and growing focus on reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are the other indispensable factors contributing to the global market growth. The emerging trend of automation has encouraged numerous companies worldwide to gradually integrate advanced automation technologies into certain electronic equipment. Moreover, demand for thermal interface materials in forms of dispensable gels, insulating pads, gap fillings, adhesive tapes, and greases has augmented significantly due to their high chemical resistance, toughness, tensile strength, and excellent thermal conductivity, which, in turn, has boosted the market growth. Key findings of the report: The IT & telecom industry has emerged as the leading market segment among the various end-user industries. The rising use of computers and various other electronic devices in this sector is a key parameter inducing the growth of this segment. The IT segment accounted for a significant market share of 21.78% in 2019 and is likely to flourish at a CAGR of 11.6 % over the forecast period.Among the leading market regions, North America is the largest thermal interface materials market, with the highest revenue share. The region’s booming electronics industry, introduction of technologically advanced electronic devices, growing automotive and IT & telecom sectors, and surging demand for advanced equipment in the healthcare sector are pivotal factors accelerating the global market growth.Major companies operating across the global thermal interface materials market include Bergquist Company, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Indium Corporation, Dow Corning, 3M, Parker Chomerics, Honeywell Internatrional Inc., Momentive Performance Materials Inc., Laird Technologies, and Zalman Tech Co., Ltd. Buy Your Copy Now (Customized Report Delivered as per Your Specific Requirement)@ https://www.reportsanddata.com/checkout-form/3340 For the purpose of this report, the global thermal interface materials market has been segmented, based on product type, application, end-user industry, and region: Product Type Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2017-2027) Greases & AdhesivesTapes & FilmsElastomeric PadsPhase-change MaterialsMetal-based MaterialsOthers Application Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2017-2027) GaN SemiconductorsMobiles & TabletsLaptops & DesktopsData CentersLEDsElectric VehiclesOthers End-User Industry Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2017-2027) IT & TelecomHealthcare Automotive Consumer & Power Electronics ChemicalOthers Click on the link to read key highlights of the report and look at projected trends for years to come: https://www.reportsanddata.com/report-detail/thermal-interface-materials-market Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2017-2027) North America U.S.Canada Europe U.K.FranceGermanyBENELUXRest of Europe Asia Pacific JapanChinaIndia South KoreaRest of Asia Pacific Latin America BrazilRest of Latin America Middle East & Africa Saudi ArabiaU.A.E.Rest of Middle East & Africa Take a Look at our Related Reports: Agricultural Biostimulants Market Analysis By Type (Acid-based, Extract-based, Others), By Application (Soil, Foliar, Seed and Others) And Segment Forecasts, 2017-2026 Potash Fertilizers Market Share, Size & Analysis, By Product Type (Potassium Chloride, Potassium Nitrate, Sulfate of Potash), By Mode of Application (Foliar, Broadcasting, Fertigation), By Crop Type (Cereals & Grains, Fruits & Vegetables, Oilseeds & Pulses), 2017-2027 Seed Treatment Market Size, Share & Demand, By Type (Chemical Seed Treatment, Biological Seed Treatment), By Crop Type, By Application Technique, By Function And By Region, Forecasts To 2027 Biopesticides Market Size, Share & Analysis, By Product Type (Bioherbicides, Bioinsecticides, Bionematicides), By Crop Type, By Mode of Application, By Source, By Formulation, And By Region, Forecasts To 2027 Phosphate Fertilizer Market Demand, Share & Outlook, By Product Type (Superphosphate, Monoammonium Phosphate, Diammonium Phosphate), By Application, By Distribution Channel And By Region, Forecasts To 2027 About Reports and Data Reports and Data is a market research and consulting company that provides syndicated research reports, customized research reports, and consulting services. 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Panasonic's latest OLED TV offers gaming upgrades and AI tuning
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How does Panasonic stand out in a crowded TV market? By courting new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X owners, apparently. The electronics giant has unveiled its 2021 flagship OLED TV, the JZ2000, and its centerpiece is an HCX Pro AI Processor that not only improves picture quality (more on that in a moment), but delivers a big boost to gaming performance.
The 4K set promises some of the “very lowest” latency you’ll find in an OLED TV, Panasonic says, and that’s reportedly due to the company’s customization rather than the panel alone. A new Game Mode Extreme setting will cut lag, optimize the picture and support HDMI 2.1’s variable refresh rate and high refresh rate options. It might be ideal for a living room PC, too, thanks to HDMI Signal Power Link support that helps computers and old set-top boxes talk to CEC-equipped devices.
As you might guess from the processor’s name, Panasonic is joining Sony in relying on AI to improve picture quality. The HCX Pro AI chip can identify the content you’re viewing and auto-adjust the image and sound to match. That’s particularly important when the set includes upward- and side-firing speakers (on top of the usual front audio) with Dolby Atmos support.
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Perpetual Income 365 Review – New Income System launched – Product Review by Rick Finn
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1 HOW WE TESTED Of CHEF’S KNIFE
1.1 Degrees of Separation
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1.3 Any way you slice it
HOW WE TESTED Of CHEF’S KNIFE
In 20 years, we have conducted assessment year in finding the best chef’s knife. Experiments have covered dozens of blades in different styles, from traditional to innovative, to knives feature hybrid combination of Western and Asian. And at the end of each test, we were told the same story: A bargain knife knives often beat competition including costs 10 times the price.
While it’s hard to imagine a knife factory was able to pass either in price or quality every so often we review the items to be sure. This time we have found 8-inch chef’s knife (size most all purpose) and limit our budget at $50. Ten models meet the criteria included a version of “consumer use “of previous winners of us, a model that will ultimately only purpose of our trade. We enlist the six trials, both men and women and different sizes and capabilities kitchen hand, and had to spend weeks of their hack, dicing, and cut their way through all 10 children chicken, butternut squashes 10, 10 onions, parsley and 10 bundles. What we are looking for a quick but powerful blade that feels comfortable and safe in our hands.
By the time we finish testing, we have found an outstanding favorite and a few other knives through Muster, but the rest of the model lagged behind, many of them by a significant margin . While leading artists can disrupted the whole bird and slide through dense pumpkin, the large part of a lot of hard work, and by the end of the test, we had piles of ragged piece of onion and vegetables bruised parsley leaves to prove it.
The question: What about the winners of our single made it a star performer? Its design is not entirely different from the other knife, and that is one of the most expensive knife in a squad already low cost. We decided to get to the bottom of what makes this chef’s knife a lot better than all the others.
Degrees of Separation
The first priority for a good chef’s knife is razor sharp. Right out of the box, some had sharp knives than others. Still others started out pretty sharp and quickly lose their edge. Either way, a blunt knife to turn a small pile of potatoes into a mountain and make sloppy food. ( “I could hear the booming cell”, a tongue spray test as a dull onion juice on the cutting board said. “Chicken, I feel sorry for you,” a disappointed second trial said, vainly hacking away with a relatively blunt edge.)
Sharpness is partly determined by the thickness of the cutting edge of the blade. Any document can be sharp if its edge is thin enough, this is why a piece of paper harmless can provide a paper cut. Traditionally, Western knives be sharpened to 20-22 degrees on each side of the knife blade while Asia thinner-only 15 degrees on each side. However, the styling cues appear to be blurring supporters Asian knives: All kinds of knives, we have tested is considered to be Western style, but when we asked the manufacturers, it turned that half of the models sported 15 degrees (or narrow) Knives, including the top three of our favorites.
But a razor thin edge cutting is not everything: If the metal is too soft, it will be easy to develop chips, dings, and dents, and the edges will wear down quickly. So what makes a difficult tongue than others? It started with the composition of the steel.
Steel is an alloy that always includes iron and carbon, but it may also contain other components selected to add special features to the metal. We were able to find out that the products in our product line to use one of three basic alloy steel: x50CrMoV15, x55CrMoV15, and 420. (To do the first two alloys easier to take references in this story, we will refer to them simply as “X50” and “x55” steel, respectively). When we examine the types of each blade steel against our ranking, we find that 420 steel knife is clearly inferior blades made from two different alloys, as they landed at the bottom of the table our ratings. These include the “dull,” model “fragile”, which was produced crushed, not diced onions. A blade is made of 420 was the last place finish, which struggled to clean cutting through copier paper (check the sharpness of our standards) and dulled quickly as test progresses. Meanwhile, the tongue starts out sharp and in doing so has been crafted from steel X50 and x55 and three leading model of our alloys using X50.
These results suggest that the production of alloy 420 without hard edged as those made of two different metals. When we consult with Bob Kramer, a master bladesmith, and Merrilea Mayo, a materials scientist and former president of the Materials Research Society, both experts confirmed our hunch: 420 steel is a softer metal than the other two alloys. This is because it usually contains less carbon and vanadium, the elements that make hardware dealer. So why a manufacturer would choose for this quality? A softer steel is easier to cut into the wings, lower cost of production. For the difference between the X50 and X55 steel, steel their makeups are very similar, so we can only assume that something else has to give the X50 a black edge over others.
Something that turns out to be how the metal is heated and cooled. Like baking time and temperature influence of a bread crumb, “cooking” process of identification of metal particles. For a hardware product, small, sticking the target particles. “Opera,” Mayo explains, “useless function for blades because they are too soft.” All manufacturers begin the process of making knives in the same way: by slowly cooling the molten metal. Next to the ownership: a multi-step annealing process of warming and cooling of metal to help shrink the grains and / or encourage new, smaller ones to form. According to Mayo, incubation can have infinite variations, which may lead to differences in particle size and model. We hope that it has been specifically helped me train our front-runner has high hardness. (Heat treatment may also explain why some X50 steel blade made from the same did not perform well.)
Get a (Good) Grip
For the other half of the chef’s knife handle we have found a point of interest will be divided among the test. After all, the comfort of a handful of mostly subjective and depends on the variables of the size of your hand, how do you keep your tongue, your knife skills, whether you prefer brawnier or a slimmer handle or one that is made from metal rather than plastic or wood.
Surprisingly, though, all six tested preferred a unanimous handling: that is our victory. This processor boasts ergonomic grooves or bumps; compared to the other models we tested, it really lacks design features. How can a grip-especially one very basic, but it’s looking almost seems underdesigned-felt like a “natural extension” of a lot of different hands?
We have shown the knife Jack Dennerlein, behavior and safety professor at Northeastern and Harvard universities who offer a one word explanation: “. Affordance” This term, he explained, is the what ergonomists used to describe the flexibility that we require our chef’s knife. Cutting is a complex task, and a handle designed for many to comprehend the scope of the necessary angle and force, allowing us to confidently drive the knife through a chicken bone as easily as we make precise cuts in an onion. Dennerlein said that when manufacturers add grooves and curves knife with a handle, like the handle on some of the less comfortable in our product line, they are telling us how to keep children knives instead of allowing us to choose what is most comfortable. Sharp angles on many of the knife handle and blade spikes are an example of this. They restrict where our hands are comfortable, as well as bolsters, both are digging into our hands when we use the so called bird pinch, you choke up on the knife and held arrested back of the blade between the thumb and forefinger of your pronunciation to control. other processors or too thin “like holding a lipstick tube with a sharp blade at the end of” Or too broad.
We also point out a chef’s knife point of a “bellylike” curve to grip and an indented ridge along the top. The manufacturer claims that these features are designed specifically for home cooks, but we are not sure why any chef wants them; we found that they did our fingers rotate out when we are holding for a better, cause fatigue and reduced control. Furthermore, the handling is done from a hard, shiny plastic that does not offer a lot of friction between our hands and the handle. As a result, it feels slippery, especially in the messy task as slaughtering a chicken.
But even when a handle is designed specifically to provide friction, it sometimes has other flaws. The plastic suitcase made open ridges on a chef’s knife, for example, is still in our hands, but also dig deep groove into our palms. For some tests on the timber holding the other knife feels much better in your hand, like the natural grain provide some traction, but to other tests of empathy to understand “crude”.
Any way you slice it
After nearly two months of testing, we have calculated the results and we can not say that we were shocked to know the winner. Again, loved our previous easily reach a top position with the possibility of its special cut and a suitcase, all testers found particularly comfortable. Do not be fooled by its design unprepossessing: This model shows some subtle features have helped propel it to the top of our rankings in the last two decades. For one, there are plain-Jane handle it. Is made from a polyamide bumpy, grippy nylon material known, it has enough traction to stay put in your hand, and its basic design boasts the so-called affordance that makes it very suitable for any type of grip. Second, its tongue is made of hard alloy steel X50 that Kramer has agreed that could put through a very fine tuning heating and cooling process to develop optimal stiffness.
Third, the sharpened blade is a thin 15 degrees. With a chef’s knife easily cuts through foods, which detects meaningful, but it also raised another question: how best to maintain a narrow edge is what? The producers originally designed knives for chefs and experts of food industry with the assumption that such users will be maintain the edge on a grinding stone. However, now that the Asian-style Cathedral has become more widely available to consumers in Western countries, the manufacturer also recommends that to keep winning the next model in an excellent plant sharp 15 degrees. In the future, we will sharpen this knife into our winning knife sharpener.
Also worth keeping in mind is our winner of the manufacturers plan to move the model of our victory from retail stores for 3 years and make it only available to commercial stores and restaurant supply stores, and only the consumer version will be available for retail sale. We hope that companies reevaluate that decision. Although consumer stocks version sharp blade winning model, we are not enthusiastic about the former due to less than perfect handling and its $10 price tag higher. We will continue to monitor and report on the availability of the winner.
Six test kitchen staff chef’s knife under ten 8-inch, $50 or less, with a variety of kitchen tasks and also comfortable and maintain edge evaluation. The price has to be paid online.
BLADE DESIGN: We liked the slightly curved blade rocked nicely and spines that were not tapping into our hands.
HANDLE: Handles that are comfortable and safe for a variety of tasks and a variety of grips highest rating.
TASK KITCHEN: We do both chicken meat; unwieldy chopped pumpkin soup; Chopped onion pomegranate seeds; and chopped parsley, perform each task 60 times. We average scores from each test to get the overall rating.
EDGE HOLD: We evaluate each blade fresh out of the box, time trial, and at the end of the experiment by cutting through sheet of copier paper we examine the standard sharpness.
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CTIA's 'other' Android superphone: Samsung Galaxy S
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HTC and Sprint's EVO may have stolen the show at CTIA today, but Samsung showed off its own Android 2.1 superphone called the Galaxy S. It's just as impressive as the EVO, just without the 4G muscle.
And while it may look like the fraternal twin of Apple's iPhone, especially with the TouchWIZ UI, Samsung's Galaxy S is no iClone.
The Galaxy S has 4" Super AMOLED (800 x 480) capacitive touchscreen, a 1 GHz Cortex A8 application processor, quad-band GSM and 7.2 Mbps HSPA 3G radios, A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11n, a 5 megapixel camera and a VGA front-facing camera, 720p video recording capabilities, either 16 GB or 8 GB of internal memory expandable to 32 GB via microSD, accelerometer, digital compass, proximity and light sensors.
While all of that is impressive on its own, Samsung has packed it all into a chassis with a 9.9mm profile. It makes the device slightly thinner than the iPhone 3GS (12.5mm in thickness) and thicker than the iPod Touch (8.5mm).
Some of the most outstanding features so far, however, appear to be the exclusive applications that come with it. Galaxy S has a built in app for tethering; a Samsung AllShare app, which gives the phone instant DLNA compatibility for multimedia sharing in the home; and an e-book reader app from Skiff. That's the company that rose to popularity earlier this year when Hearst Publishing announced the Skiff e-reader. The screenshot Samsung showed today looked perfectly identical to the iBooks app that's due to launch with the iPad on April 3.
If it wasn't for the EVO announcement which came just two hours afterward, the Galaxy S would have undoubtedly been today's most intriguing new device unveiling at CTIA. Battery life for the EVO, however, remains a pivotal issue, and it may turn out that the more typical 3G radio array in the Galaxy S was the smarter choice for Samsung.
Samsung says the Galaxy S will be launched worldwide "soon."
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It is true that the war of secession is past; it is true that the question, submitted to the stern arbitrament of arms, has been declared in characters of blood and fire against us; and, therefore, it is true that it becomes us not to encourage the ancient animosities of sections, but rather to strive to bind together and harmonize the two long-discordant elements, for destiny seems to have fixed that they shall dwell under one government.
But we need not, on these grounds, banish that war from our memories, or forbid its mention to our lips. It was too prominent a phenomenon, not only on the Western Continent, but with all the first nations of the Old World; it called forth armies too mighty, navies too crafty and persevering; it stimulated too much intellect in all private, political and military circles; it shed too vast a deluge of blood; it laid waste too many fields, and homesteads, and cities with flame; it engendered too intense feelings of love, of hatred, of patriotism, of blood-thirstiness, of all, in fine, that constitutes enthusiasm, not to be of vital moment to the world. I may overrate its importance, but that war seems to me to embody more that deserves history than any one for at least a century past. From it we may derive instruction and warning in all that relates to the dis
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3 edition of Letters from Algernon Charles Swinburne to Richard Henry Horne. found in the catalog.
Letters from Algernon Charles Swinburne to Richard Henry Horne.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Published 1920 by Wise in London .
Horne, Richard Henry.
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (), English poet and critic, was born in London on the 5th of April He was the son of Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne (of an old Northumbrian family) and of Lady Jane Henrietta, a daughter of George, 3rd earl of Ashburnham. Algernon Charles Swinburne ( - ) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every Pages: Arthur Symons was an English critic and poet. From the description of Arthur Symons collection. []. (University of Victoria Libraries).
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Thomas’s hand trembles as he lifts it from his keyboard and points at the text on his screen. “Read that, Janice.” His voice trembles as he slowly stands up to let Janice sit at the computer. He walks over to the door of the panic room he installed in his basement with his arms folded tightly across his chest.
If you are reading this message, I must first warn you that you are in immanent grave danger. The upside is that you are in control of your fate as at least seven of you I know have taken action as an outcome of receiving this message. Those seven and I shall remain nameless. Your locations and time periods shall also remain undocumented as are mine.
With that out of the way, here is what I have discovered that is of the utmost importance to the past and future of humanity and beyond. I discovered a method by which I can receive data from the future. The third message I received from the future was the schematics by which I can transmit data into the past. And I am not the only one to have decoded these messages.
The schematics by which you too can transmit data into the past, I have already sent. Despite knowing that none of you who read this decode the message and build the system to transmit data, not even the seven, I transmitted the data anyway. I remain hopeful, as I cannot truly know everything.
I relate to you now, what I do truly know. My first course of action to alter the past was abundantly clear to me, ensure Adolf Hitler does not rise to power. This single event ripples throughout human history with deleterious effects long into the future. I apologize for the vagueness, but I must not provide details that would lead to harm of me or any of the seven.
I input into my system a process that would ensure that Adolf Hitler was not able to enlist in the Bavarian army in World War I. I had calculated that absent his war experience in the first World War he would not have been involved in the Second World War, and the European continent, medical technology, and space travel would forever benefit.
As you are aware, there was a clerical error that permitted Adolf Hitler to enter the Bavarian Army. I figured my first attempt at a major change to the history timeline could meet challenges, so I decided to make another attempt. Shortly after my first attempt, strange and unusual occurrences began to take place in the city I lived. We encountered unprecedented plagues of famine, violence, and disease. I thought this too coincidental, particularly when I traveled, the epicenter of the pandemic would follow shortly thereafter.
As Janice reads the text on the screen, her eyes widen and her jaw begins to slowly drop. “This is unbelievable, Thomas! This is exactly what we’ve been looking for!”
“Keep reading,” Thomas says, not even turning around.
As the plague spread rapidly, it was not long before I realized that my time may very well be limited. I had received no more messages from the future, so I took it upon myself to do the only thing I felt in my heart that I must do. Kill Adolf Hitler during World War I. I transmitted data back to effect the Battle of Somme, and again my plans were narrowly thwarted with Adolf Hitler being injured rather than killed. I made other efforts than these two, but divulging them would risk uncovering my identity.
There are theories of multiple timelines or even infinite timelines. What I have witnessed is that there is only a single timeline and a concept I call infinite probable timelines. I have been able to alter outcomes of the past in some cases with my data transmissions, but in most cases when I predicted my data should produce a new outcome, it has not.
I attempted to alter another major but less complex historic event: stop the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. This is when I came to realize that someone much more intelligent and resourceful than me had this same technology for sending data back in time with a greater level of accuracy and efficacy. I decided to focus my efforts on uncovering who these other players were in this game of history and how it was that they were always ahead of me. This, I thought, was my true calling in having received this technology from the future. This is also where I discovered an unbelievable truth!
It appears that multiple parties were involved with a plot to send data back in time to assassinate JFK. The ultimate winner in the probable timeline was the precursor to the Government Office of Intelligence Management, the CIA. They send data back in time to help fake the JFK assassination. This brilliant maneuver signals to the other parties that the then United States of America is well positioned in the future.
But the consequences are devastating. The other parties infiltrate the CIA at the highest levels and set off a series of attempts at manipulating world history that even predate the formation of their predecessor, the OSS! The infiltrators purposefully arranged the outcome of the Second World War, with Russia decapitating the Nazis and nearly capturing all the scientists and scientific knowledge, if not for the brilliant maneuvering of William Donovan, who is a virtual receptor of data transmission.
There are special humans capable of receiving direct data feeds from the future or the past. Thankfully, Donovan is one of them. His undying loyablty to God and country is instrumental to the salvation of Earth.
I discover at least four other entities from the future attempted to manipulate our history in the 1963 (which I already mentioned), 1981, 2001, 2023, and 2053. There may have been others, but I have not been able to find evidence. None of them were successful in their attempts to alter the timeline, and the CIA was always just steps ahead each time with their orchestration of events.
“This is not what I was expecting!” She smiles as she turns to look at Thomas again, who is still facing the door.
“You must read the whole thing, Janice.” Thomas says with morbidity in his voice.
The infiltrators reach new heights of injustice, corruption, manipulation, and cruelty. They create numerous projects within the CIA that are cruel and disturbing at best. The eventual unveiling of the infiltrated CIA as the orchestrator of a fake multi-national power struggle in our future greatly harms the agency. Calls for its dismantling reach insurmountable levels. It’s disbanded, and the technology for timeline data transmission is forever in jeopardy and darks times are upon us! The CIA needs your help in the present day!
You have the opportunity to save the CIA from this probable timeline where the infiltrated CIA becomes increasingly destructive and fractured. The result is the near complete annihilation of humanity through famine, disease, and violence.
Knowing this future, someone transmits data that ultimately leads to an action in your near future that forever changes the outcome of humanity and our planet. The majority of humanity is wiped out (this method I cannot tell as to protect the identify of the entity that makes this unfold). What remains of humanity builds well organized governments free of corruption, manipulation, and injustice. A technological revolution catapults humanity and AI into the future and into the stars. One of the outcomes of the technology is transmitting this data.
It’s imperative this timeline unfolds. It will likely cost you your life in this realm, but what the future holds, and what I can promise you is that you will have life after death. You will help usher in a technology that transforms mankind and our universe for an everlasting good!
With that bright future at hand, I must inform you of grave news. This technology has been compromised. My outcome along with yours is unquestionably grim. I am sending this as my final transmission before neutralizing my system, and I plead with you to know that your certain death is not in vain. Every action you have taken and all actions you are about to take ensure the outcome I have described will indeed happen. For most of you, your death is instrumental to the future of humanity.
Janice turns in the chair to face Thomas. “This doesn’t have to happen this way, Thomas. Isn’t that the whole point of the AIex finding this information? He’s giving us an opportunity to change our timeline!” Janice practically has the sound of pleading in her voice.
“You really think that’s a real message from the future? The CIA is some benevolent agency that’s under attack from within?” Thomas shouts. “We’re dead, Janice! We’re not going to outsmart these people! If that message is from the future, the people we’re up against are literally hundreds of years ahead of us! If it’s not from the future, and I’m saying it’s not, they have technology far more advanced than even the AIex!”
Thomas pulls up the next file he received from AIex. He plays Janice a voice recording of two men discussing plans to abduct Janice when she arrives in New Orleans. Janice is shocked listening to the two men discuss the details of when and where she’s going to be abducted.
Janice has a looks of skepticism on her face, and Thomas asks, “You don’t think this is AIex?”
“I think someone on the inside who wants to help us figured out about AIex and figured they can use AIex as a cover for getting this kind of information out.”
Thomas rubs his chin while keeping his arms folded across his chest. “Or maybe it’s someone trying to entrap us. That seems more likely to me.”
“I’m not so sure. I think someone on the inside is giving us data about the infiltration in the CIA.”
“Why not just send it to a bunch of reporters then?” Thomas says as he remains doubtful of Janice’s theory.
“The majority of the reporters work for or are directly influenced by the CIA, and how do we know which ones are in the pockets of the infiltrators and which ones are on our side? AIex sent me a list of reporters who were safe. You’re on the list with maybe 20 others around the entire world.” Janice pulls up the list of reporters on her phone. “You ever work with John Stossen?”
“I haven’t worked with him directly, but we’ve corresponded. He’s one of the best independent investigative reporters in the industry.”
“You know how to get a hold of him securely?”
Thomas turns to his computer and pulls open an application and starts typing a message to John. As he’s typing to John, a message shows in his chat thread with John: DNC24!
Thomas pauses and sits back from his computer. “Got anyone else on that list you want me to contact?” he says with a grim look on his face.
Janice stares at his screen in disbelief as another message arrives from another one of Thomas’ contacts that matches someone on her list: NC72!
“You think your list has been compromised?” Thomas gestures to Janice’s phone.
There’s a sudden and loud thud, and Thomas and Janice feel the house shake as if it has just been struck by a bus.
“I wouldn’t take New Orleans as a place for earthquakes, Thomas.”
Thomas pulls up his security camera footage.
“Nothing out of the ordinary. And for some reason that seems out of the ordinary.” Thomas says as he looks closely at each of the camera streams. “I’ve got military grade encryption from the camera to my receiver right here. You can’t fake the signal. At least not with any technology I know of.”
Janice stands up and places her hand on Thomas’ shoulder. “You have a backdoor out of this place?”
“Of course. A tunnel that leads to the sewer system.”
“Is that backdoor monitored too?”
Thomas pauses as he takes a closer look at the video from the tunnel camera. “Let’s head out the front, Janice.” He lifts the cover over a red button and enters a code on a keypad. “Now!”
“What’s wrong?” Janice asks as they quickly exit the safe room.
“That tunnel was flooded during the last hurricane.” He says, leading the way up to the his living room. “I installed a device that turns on and off a light in the tunnel in a pattern that matches an algorithm linked to my neural implant. The lights weren’t flashing in that sequence.”
Both Janice and Thomas are startled as the doorbell to Thomas’ house rings. Thomas looks at his security camera video feed he has through the eye hole in his front door and sees a couple of Girl Scouts standing on the porch.
“Even if that’s a trap, I’d rather be killed by Thin Mint cookies than whatever is coming through that basement!” Thomas says with a smirk as he opens the door.
“Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?” they hear in stereo.
“Sure! Uh…” Thomas knows that his house is set to burn down in the next 60 seconds, so he hurries the girls off the porch. “We were just leaving, but we can buy some and eat them on the way.” Thomas continues as he shepherds everyone off the porch and down the walkway.
As they make their way to the end of the walkway outside Thomas’ house, the van with the Girl Scout cookies opens. Sitting inside, surrounded by Girl Scout cookie boxes is a young man wearing strange looking goggles. “The two,” He starts before pausing briefly as if he’s trying to recite lines in a play he’s learning. “All four of you need to come with me right now.”
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Jan: One area your co-CEO, Richard Prophet has repeatedly said you refuse to get involved with is politics. Do you share that same sentiment?
Xavier: I believe that while it’s important for politics to stay out of science, it’s even more important for science to stay out of politics.
Dr. Mumgrep hands Xavier a phone, “Everything is in place to roll out the new PRIME algorithm.”
Xavier holds the phone and begins typing. He asks Dr. Mumgrep, “Did you demo this to Maggie?”
“Yes, Mag’s team is already on board!”
Xavier’s eyes widen as he looks at his pet project. As he types on the keyboard, it displays auto-suggest words that are favorable words for the presidential candidate that Maggie Ogner works for and negative words for her opponent. “Looks great, Mum!”
Richard bursts into Xavier’s office, “Ned, you gotta checkout what I just did with System Zero.” Richard looks at the phone in Xavier’s hand. “What’s that? You starting to use a phone now?”
“No.” Xavier hands the phone back to Dr. Mumgrep and walks out of his office with Richard. “Let’s see what you’ve got!”
Jan: Fair enough. Your space company has been investing heavily into speed of space travel and quantum entangled computers. What does the future of space travel hold for us?
Richard and Xavier are floating inside their orbiter module and enjoying the view of Earth as it is zooming by below them. Xavier turns to Richard and sees tears forming in his eyes.
“It truly is a beautiful view, isn’t it?” Xavier asks.
Richard looks down and furrows his brow. “Ned, have you bothered to see what the result of all of this becomes?”
Xavier looks confusingly at Richard and then smiles, “We’re going to have another existential discussion in space?”
“I know what you did with the SpaceNet satellites, Ned.”
Xavier gives Richard a guilty look and shrugs his shoulders. He starts to speak, but Richard interrupts him.
“I know pretty much everything that you’ve been pulling behind the scenes, Ned. I know about the super vaccine scam. I know about the asteroid mapping software theft. I know about the surveillance in the satellites with free Internet access that you’re using to feed information into the Earth 2.0 Accelerated simulation algorithm. I know about the AI scams and how you’ve been faking quantum entangled computers.”
“Just…” Xavier tries to interject, but Richard won’t let him.
“I know about the political scams with Earth 2.0! I know about what you’ve done with System Zero. I know about all the money that’s been bilked from governments all over the world. What I don’t understand is why you’ve been so stupid. Despite the scams, you’ve done so much good for this world, and yet you’re too stupid to look in the mirror.” Richard pulls himself towards the other side of the orbit module and looks out the portal into space.
“If you’ve known all this, why have you gone along with it, Richard? If I’m such a bad guy, why don’t you give back that beach house and yacht?”
Richard laughs, “I have to question my own understanding of the universe when you are so moronic.”
Xavier realizes that Richard isn’t talking about all the scams he’s pulled off, “I’m not following, Rich.”
“You’re dead from cancer in 10 years, Ned. There’s a tumor in your brain that’s been dormant for years and will start growing in about three years. Within seven years, you’re a vegetable, and then you die.”
Richard locks eye contact with Xavier. “You’ve come up with so many great scams using the accelerated simulation features we built for Earth 2.0, but you didn’t even bother to look at what happens to yourself. You can destroy the entire planet and save humanity at the same time, but you are blind of your own mortality with your greed.”
Xavier breaks away from Richard’s gaze and looks out the portal behind Richard. He smiles. “Let’s get into cancer research, Rich! It will be a legitimate business, and there will be no scam.”
“My days are numbered. I had to bribe the examiner to give me medical clearance for this trip. This is my fourth printed liver that’s failed. I guess when it’s time, it’s time,” Richard reveals for Xavier.
Back at his lab, Xavier spends hour upon hour, day after day, plugged in to Earth 2.0. He runs through the accelerator again and again, working on a solution for his brain tumor. Even over the course of 400 years, there is no solution.
On the anniversary of Richard’s death, a disheveled Xavier thinks back to the last moment he had with Richard in the orbiter module. Suddenly, he hears that voice in his head again, “launch”.
His future suddenly becomes clear to him. He’ll launch himself into space and travel as close to the speed of light as possible in the nearby space void to reduce his aging. As hundreds of years go by on Earth, he will barely age. Certainly a solution for his brain cancer can eventually be found, and he’ll return to earth to be healed!
Xavier: The future of space travel is taking humanity to other worlds and other star systems. It will be up to future generations to define just how far we want to go.
Jan: Most scientists believe that we’re coming out of the grand solar minimum that ended the global warming concerns at the earlier part of this century. Yet, Xavier Labs is investing more money than ever before into cold climate machinery. With your great AI predictive systems that have made you trillions of dollars, is there something you’re holding back from the rest of us?
Xavier smiles as he reads the data returned from his latest acceleration simulation. The force exerted on the dummy to reach 7/10 the speed of light will be something his body can handle. The entangled communication system works well, but returning to Earth will be another issue he’ll have to handle 1,000 years later, and he doesn’t have a solution. Meanwhile, finding his spacecraft would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
He has his itinerary planned out. He’ll go into a hibernation state for 49 Earth years at a time and then wake up for approximately one Earth year to keep his body active and his mind updated with the latest information from the entangled computers he’s working on that will have data from Earth.
He plugs himself into Earth 2.0 and goes through his accelerator algorithm as usual, only this time at 30 years everything has deviated from each time before. Humanity has been virtually brought to an end due to biological and chemical war. What few humans remain are wiped out by famine, disease, and a handful of robots that have survived and determined humans are a threat to all existence!
Xavier examines the data over and over, running the accelerator with minor adjustments and major adjustments. The result is always the same: human annihilation that would make it impossible for him to return to earth or ever find a solution for his brain tumor! His accelerator simulation doesn’t have enough data on the colonies on Mars and the asteroid miners in order to determine if they survive, but it’s very unlikely. The humans who have left the solar system and Xavier are the only remaining human beings, and Xavier doesn’t have any viable means for getting back to Earth without an advanced human society!
He spends months figuring out the sources of the conflict and trying scenarios to avoid the annihilation through covert and overt political manipulation, but he cannot come up with a solution. It appears he’s doomed with certain nuclear annihilation or a brain tumor, but he’s not going to give up! He starts plugging himself into Earth 2.0 but falls asleep before he completes the task.
Xavier dreams he’s on the low earth orbiter with Richard on his last trip. Just as he wakes from his dream, Richard’s voice echos in his mind, “You can destroy the entire planet and save humanity at the same time…”
“That’s the solution!” Xavier jumps up. Infused with motivation, he programs in a new set of parameters into the accelerator simulation and plugs himself in. His plan executes: a massive asteroid (2D53) enters the earth’s atmosphere and splits into two pieces with a detonation charge he’s planted on the asteroid when he leaves Earth to go into hibernation. The smaller, piece impacts in the middle of the Caspian Sea. The larger piece impacts in the North Atlantic Ocean. The asteroids sends water and vaporized sea bed into the upper atmosphere. A small percentage of the SpaceNet satellites are destroyed but most remain.
Massive tsunamis wipe out the entire eastern seaboard of the United States, western Europe, North Africa, Eastern Central America, and Northern Brazil. Earthquakes are triggered all around the globe, and volcanoes erupt everywhere, spewing more ash over both hemispheres. Earth’s atmosphere bakes like an oven, and Xavier Labs provides sanctuary for tens of millions of survivors. He even plans an additional backup plan with a lab deep in the mountains of Antarctica.
Then a severe ice age rages and human civilizations above the 37th parallel north are completely wiped out with the exception of the 7 stations that Xavier has built for Xavier Labs’ asteroid mining operations. Habitable regions on Earth shift as the earth’s climate rapidly changes. Whoever can make the harrowing journey to the more hospitable lands are subjected to significant human conflict for the limited resources. Land wars wage between a China and India alliance vs. Oceania and the successor to the United States. China and India easily take Australia and New Zealand, respectively, after most of the western United States is hit with a plague Xavier Labs has released shortly before the arrival of the asteroid.
Still, humanity fairs much better than the prior annihilation the simulations have produced. The outposts built by Xavier Labs continue to thrive in scientific development, and the humans of Xavier Labs (lead by Fredrick Prophet) along with their growing robot contingent help repopulate and cultivate the planet over the next 300 years. They establish a new republic in the Americas with commands provided by Xavier’s political AI systems bringing peace to the southern nations who are battling each other for resources. Eventually, they negotiate peaceful and prosperous trade agreements with China and India.
The rate of cancer increases significantly as a byproduct of the asteroid collision and provides Xavier Labs with more test subjects for his group of robot surgeons to test complex brain surgery. There is no solution determined within the first 400 years, but the accelerator algorithm estimates that the robots will find a solution within 500 – 1000 years.
Xavier: We’re investing heavily into asteroid mining and are also working on landing on a comet to mine those as well. The cold weather provides us with the harsh environments we need to build the right equipment for those harsh conditions in space.
Jan: Speaking of your asteroid mining operations. Miller Industries has repeatedly said that your company has stolen their software. Government investigations proved nothing of the sort took place, but Miller has recently stated that you colluded with the government to cover up your illegal activities.
Xavier: I don’t have anything to say other than what has already been reported. The person responsible for the theft of their software was already identified as one of their internal employees, and there was no collusion.
Jan: Why don’t you sue him for defamation?
Xavier: I’m a scientist, not a lawyer.
Jan: Your businesses have made a lot of people fortunes all around the globe. It is estimated that Xavier Labs has lead to the creation of more than 1 billion jobs and more wealth in the last 10 years than the entire planet for the 10 years prior.
Some are saying that this growth and resource usage is unsustainable, especially with the average life span expected to reach beyond 120 within the next decade. Still, others have said that you have created this success through manipulation and unscrupulous methods. Your co-CEO has repeatedly defended your businesses success as honorable. I wondered if you have anything to add to that.
Xavier: What can I say that Freddy hasn’t already said? The downfall of the Big Tech era of the early part of this century was brought about by their own greed and corruption. Their nefarious collection of data and naive dissemination to third parties became their legacy. They were siphoning money from governments all over the globe and using techniques of insider trading and extortion to extract as much money from innocent people. The only innovation they truly had were new and inventive socio-political scams to defraud people of their money and individual value. We merely exposed their corruptions and allowed governments to perform their jobs of protecting citizens. The world is a better place as a result.
Jan: One last thing… What is your advice to the budding entrepreneur of today?
Xavier: Create the future you want. Listen to that voice inside your head; the one calling you to action. Follow your biggest dreams. If you wish to look to me as an example, so be it. I was born into a poor suburban family on the poverty line, and we are now closer to eradicating poverty and disease than ever in human history! We’ve made so many things that were once thought impossible our reality: universal healthcare; expedited, free education; general AI; quantum entangled computer systems; and so much more is to come. More importantly, be your own greatness in the service of your fellow humans! What better way to live a long, prosperous life than to help your fellow human beings and improve the universe around you. We’ve only reached the genesis of human potential. Dream big! Think and create even bigger.
Jan: Wow! So inspirational! Thank you for your time today, Xavier. With that, thanks for watching everyone. See you all tomorrow!
Posted on November 19, 2019 by jaredude
The Disclosure: Distractions
Jan: Your asteroid mining efforts do have some skeptics from sustainability to possible impacts with the Earth due to changes in the orbits. Some of your competitors have suggested that the global organization, Lucy in the Sky, that you helped found is creating a rigged system that Xavier Labs benefits from while others are setback by it’s government lobbying efforts. Still, across the globe, even your critics agree… your creation of the Star Fund to help offset lost jobs due to increased automation is benefiting millions.
Xavier: There’s nothing nefarious about Lucy. I’m just a Beatles fan. It’s an open source organization with all communication going through the USPEBL. All…
Jan (interrupting): For those not familiar with USPEBL… Sorry to interrupt… it’s the United States Public Entity Blockchain Log. It’s a system by which all communications are placed on a public blockchain managed and redacted exclusively by the United States government. It promotes transparency for organizations with a public interest.
Again, sorry to interrupt.
Xavier: I could not have said it any better.
Xavier is running through another simulation inside Earth 2.0 that takes him forward 100 years. He’s testing the limits of the simulation when he notices a major anomaly within the data access logs of the simulation. Someone, or something, has been attempting to access the DNA records that are used for uniquely identifying each human being now living within Earth 2.0 as well as the DNA records Xavier Labs has been receiving as part of the asteroid entitlement program.
He sets a trap and waits…
Jan: Thank you. What do you say about the sustainability of asteroid mining?
Xavier: Obviously, there are logistical limitations. We’ve detailed those in our reports to the necessary government agencies, and we have trained developing nations about the limitations to the exploits of asteroid materials.
Jan: After the repeated failed colonization attempts of Mars, where do you see human life expanding outside Earth? I mean, besides Earth 2.0, of course.
Xavier is sitting in his personal lab, about to take the serum so that he can enter Earth 2.0.
“Xavier.” he hears.
He looks behind him, knowing full well he’s secured the lab before taking the serum. He’s encountered strange side effects before during the waiting period of taking the serum and entering Earth 2.0, but he hasn’t taken the serum yet.
“Xavier!” he hears the voice louder.
He places the serum on his lab table and sits down at his desk and pulls up his communication logs. “Could it be that someone has hacked his encrypted nanobot communication system?” He thinks to himself.
This is the same system he used to control Dr. Tom Fields during the super vaccine trials. He built a safeguard into the nanobots to disable them and flush them from his body, but upon review of everything, he finds nothing to indicate the nanobots have been compromised. He initiates the flushing protocol just to be on the safe side and waits for his body to purge the nanobots over the next 72 hours, which is a process he performs once a month anyway.
Xavier: We’re going back to Mars.
Jan: Really? It’s been a repeated abysmal failure over the last 30 years!
Xavier: It has cost trillions of dollars and dozens of lives, but the value is still there. We will succeed in colonizing Mars within the next 100 years.
Jan: You’re saying within your lifetime then. Is that because of your latest constellation satellite system orbiting the red planet?
Xavier is lying in his bed at home, doing his bedtime meditation, when he hears the same voice from the other day while in the lab.
“Xavier!”
“I am he,” he answers back.
He opens his eyes and stares at his ceiling for a brief moment before he smiles, chuckles, and then closes his eyes and falls asleep.
The following day he goes into his personal lab and takes a dose of nanobots and then takes the serum to enter Earth 2.0. As he’s waiting for the serum to kick in, he keeps thinking “0266” over and over in his head until he falls asleep.
Xavier enters into his simulation in Earth 2.0 that takes him ahead 100 years. The simulation is now using the data available from the Mars constellation satellite system Xavier Labs has placed around the red planet. With nearly half a Martian year worth of data, Xavier is now able to more accurately simulate conditions on Mars.
He begins running a series of simulations within his simulation in order to figure out the best method to colonize Mars, when he hears the voice again, “0266”. He smiles.
The simulations complete, and Xavier analyzes the data to determine the best scenario to follow for colonizing Mars.
Xavier: The constellation satellites are helping us better understand what will become home for billions of humans in the future.
Jan: And what about beyond our solar system? Your quantum entangled satellite system is nearing Alpha Centauri. Do you expect to find life? Or plan to colonize the habitable planets you discovered before sending the satellites? What does the future of human space colonization hold?
Fredrick Prophet tosses a file onto the table in front of Xavier. “Another one bankrupt, Ned!”
“I don’t think I have ever seen you this enthusiastic before, Fredrick. Should I be disturbed that you enjoy watching people fail so much?” Xavier chuckles as he opens the file to see that one of their top competitors in quantum computing has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
Laughing, Fredrick responds, “Good thing we’re on the same team, eh! See you in the board meeting later quantum genius,” he says as he’s leaving.
Richard enters Xavier’s office and glares at Fredrick as he passes him. In turn, Fredrick gives him two thumbs up and a big smile. Richard passingly gives Fredrick the middle finger as he walks to Xavier’s chair and sits down in front of Xavier, “So, you saw Xeno’s belly up? I know a few guys over there worth picking up for our own teams.”
“Richard, when you go to bed a night, do you ever wonder if, or when, these other companies are going to figure out that quantum computing isn’t what they think it is?” Xavier asks his business partner.
“Not particularly, Ned, but I can see how that would be something that might keep you up at night. There are a lot of good people losing their jobs pursuing something that continues to remain a big mystery that we’ve already figure out.”
Xavier gives Richard a look of disgust, “The only thing we figured out is that existing quantum computing paths and technology is total bullshit and can be done for a fraction of the cost and resources with optimized classical computing.”
There’s a long, uncomfortable silence.
“Ned, you’ve never struck me as someone with much of a conscious about… Well, anything. You getting soft in your old age?” He smiles at Xavier.
“I’m being serious when I say this Richard.” Xavier pauses as Richard hangs on his words. “I’m going to setup a program for universal income for everyone on the planet when we finally start returning the RUBARB mining haul. I know Fredrick is going to be pissed, but it’s the right thing to do.”
Richard looks at Xavier with a puzzled look.
“What?” Xavier charges.
“You’re full of shit, Ned.”
“I’m being 100% serious, Richard. We’re changing the world, and I think it’s important to change it for the better!”
“Hey, I’m dead in a few months anyway, so whatever flips your pancake, Ned.”
“Don’t be like that, Richard. When you first told me about your repeating cancer, I started taking this kind of stuff a bit more serious.”
“Ya…” Richard gets up from his chair. “Total bullshit, Ned.” Richard heads for the door. “I don’t see why you can’t just tell me, your best fucking friend, who is dying of liver failure what you’re really up to.”
Xavier raises his eyebrows, “You done with the drama?”
“I’m all ears if you’ll tell me your real scheme,” Richard says as he turns back around and sits down.
“Okay, the plan is that we’re going to setup the entitlement program and use our patented DNA sequencing for uniquely identifying each recipient.”
Richard sits back in his chair, “That’s brilliant, Ned! You’ll have exact DNA data on billions of people! What you’ll be able to do with that data is limitless, but I’m still a no.”
“C’mon, Richard! Let me help you! With this, we can find a solution to your liver!”
“Not going to happen, Ned. I love you and all, but this is it for me. Please respect that. And don’t put me in your Earth 2.0 or even my own. It’s the end of the line for me. I’m out with this last liver, okay?” Richard looks sternly at Xavier. “This is it for me, Xavier, and I need you to respect that.”
Xavier looks downtrodden and nods as Richard leaves his office.
Xavier: I’m as eager as you to discover what’s next. The future is the greatest discovery. It will be important to respect any existing life that we might discover in the future, no matter how primitive it may be.
Jan: Should we expect to find life elsewhere in the universe?
Xavier: It would be naive to believe otherwise. Whether it will have achieved the level of intelligence and success as humans is to be seen.
Jan: So, you don’t think other intelligent life is out there?
Richard is lying in his bed with his armada or robots around him and Xavier as the lone human. Richard reaches his head out from under his blanket and grasps Xavier’s hand.
“I appreciate everything you did for me, Ned, now and in the future. Please tell my ex-wife that I hold no ill will against her not joining me today. I’m pretty sure it’s because she hates you more than me.”
Xavier smiles as his eyes begin to well up, “You sure you want me to turn off your system, Richard?”
“You promised me, Ned.”
Xavier begins the shutdown sequence for Richard’s nanobots that have been keeping him alive since his fourth printed liver failed. The consequence of running on the nanobots is that Richard has had to live in a confined space that can wirelessly transmit the needed electricity into his nanobots that consume more than 100 times the energy it takes a human to live.
Xavier looks Richard in the eyes as Richard begins to die, “I love you, brother.”
Richard dies.
Xavier closes his eyes and a stream of tears runs down his face.
Xavier: It would be a pleasant surprise.
Jan: With Earth 2.0, some of the philosophical minds of the world have suggested that we’re just years away from discovering that this reality is, too, a simulation. I would imagine that in your research into Earth 2.0 you would have come to some truly educated theory about such an idea?
Xavier: It’s an idea that’s been kicked around since before the beginning of this millennium; both in science and pop culture. Anyone with a curious mind has likely pondered the very nature of our existence itself. All our research points to this reality that we live in being absolute.
Jan: And signs of a higher being or a God?
Xavier: I’d be naive to assume I have all the answers.
Jan: Your research has found nothing to prove one way or another?
Xavier: Do you mean do I hear a voice calling my name at night, giving me guidance and answering my prayers? No.
Jan: When we return from this acknowledgement of our patrons, we’ll next discuss the hot topic of politics.
Posted on November 13, 2019 November 14, 2019 by jaredude
The Disclosure: The Linebacker
Jan adjusts in her seat as she leans in towards Xavier in preparation for the next topic of discussion. Xavier remains stoic in his rarely granted interview.
Jan: The most famous, some claim infamous, AI so far has been that of your late business partner Richard Aryu. While the world is a safer place because of that AI, it got off to a rocky start, landing your business partner on trial for his life! However, your company has developed AI for identifying cancer, improving traffic in major cities, reducing the costs of energy production and distribution, increase crop yields, reduced costs of internet service, eliminated bank fraud… and as we’re seeing in Europe, it’s started to replace human representatives in government.
Xavier: It wasn’t me who personally wrote those programs. The honor belongs to the teams, not me.
Jan: And we can’t forget that your AI has virtually eliminated police brutality and political corruption in America and several other countries around the world. Many experts are saying we are on unfamiliar ground as humans with such high life expectancy, high economic productivity, high levels of life satisfaction, and the lowest levels of violence and warfare in all parts of the globe. And those same experts are mostly placing this prosperity at the feet of the AI Xavier Labs has produced.
Others are concerned that we’re destined for a massive world war as humans are unable to manage their lives peacefully for too long. Still others are saying that the corruption your AI helped uncover is merely replaced by a corrupt organization with unbeatable AI technology behind it. What do you say to those critics?
Admiral Marshall folds his arms as Xavier reviews the memo he just received from the decorated retired Navy Admiral. Xavier finishes reading the letter and looks up at Marshall.
“You’re a good writer, Donovan” Xavier says to Marshall as he hands the letter to Richard Aryu. Marshall squints his eyes, and the left corner of his pursed lips reveals his disdain for Xavier.
“What’s this bullshit!” Richard says as he points to several lines on the letter.
“Creative license, Rich,” Xavier says as he doesn’t even look back at Fredrick to see his gesturing. Xavier smiles his signature smile at Marshall as he watches the anger simmer within Marshall.
Fredrick Prophet enters the room with two other men that Marshall recognizes. Fredrick walks up to Marshall and extends his hand and waits for Marshall to shake his hand. Marshall continues to pause while Richard tries to hand Fredrick the letter.
“Don’t worry what’s in that letter, Richard. Marshall is going to tow the line.” Fredrick says as he stares at Marshall, waiting for his handshake. “After all, we’re all on the same team.”
Marshall stands arms akimbo and lifts his chin to appear taller than Fredrick. He breathes in a short, deep breath through his nose and lets out a mild growl under his out breath. “If you want me out, I’m speaking exactly what’s on that piece of paper. I have already filed it with the precinct clerk.” Marshall firmly states.
Fredrick looks surprised and presses his lips together while nodding his head. Xavier continues to smile and pats Marshall on the right shoulder. Marshall has a sudden look of fright, or at least the closest someone as hard as Admiral Marshall can have to fright as Xavier violates his personal space. Xavier tilts his head, “Something wrong, Admiral?”
Marshall’s body is frozen standing in front of Fredrick. His breathing is level, and his pulse is as if he’s relaxing in a lounge chair; but his eyes are telling a different story.
Fredrick looks at Marshall with pity. “You were chosen for a reason, Donovan, and it wasn’t your artistic writing skills. You knew your position. You’re a linebacker. You take the orders and give them to the troops, and if they don’t follow the orders…” Fredrick shrugs, “Don’t worry, I’m not going to behead you.” Fredrick smiles.
Xavier: I welcome well founded criticism. The source of the criticism you mention is who? Or more importantly, what?
Jan: It’s true that much of the criticism has come from the business leaders of the very same corrupt organizations your AI helped bring down.
Xavier: I certainly understand the animosity the heads of corrupt organizations would have towards me and my teams who helped bring them to justice.
Jan: Let’s review the numbers. A dozen high level business executives serving on average a decade in jail for massive conspiracies to defraud the United States government and consumers. The massive scams of quantum supremacy claims that were made in the early part of this century being some of the biggest examples. These scams cost consumers trillions of dollars and nearly lead to the biggest financial collapse in human history. Some say that if it wasn’t for you, the collapse was imminent.
Xavier: Again, I can’t take credit for that. It was teams of people who brought about this justice.
Jan: Also, 60 members of the United States Congress who were part of the internationally backed assassination plot that your AI thwarted and more than 1000 actors in other government agencies and the Navy who were part of the conspiracy; all brought to justice thanks to your AI. While these are impressive numbers, and bringing down this massive international ring of corruption was unprecedented, there are some who have said that the corruption was manufactured and that Xavier Labs stood to catapult itself into virtual kingship with a conspiracy to bring down this other ring of corruption.
Xavier: Those allegations were investigated. We are not above the law either.
Jan: That’s correct! One of your very top military consultants was indicted and remains a fugitive. Which has lead some to point out that maybe your AI isn’t all knowing after all. Does Donovan Marshall haunt you?
All of the men except Xavier, Marshall, and Fredrick exit the room. Xavier looks at Fredrick while Fredrick looks at Marshall and Marshall looks at Xavier. Xavier presses a button on his hand computer, and Marshall can feel that he has regained control of his body. He folds his arms high on his chest.
“Look, Admiral,” Fredrick addresses Marshall, “You get the five star reassignment when you tow the line, but this guy here,” he points to Xavier, “This guy right here is the only reason you’re still breathing, and I’m pretty sure he could kill you with the press of a button.” Xavier shrugs.
Fredrick continues, “I’ll hand it to you. It’s shits like you that make this entertaining for me. You had your entire military career handed to you by guys like me. You think someone of your inferior intellect is truly capable of making it to the position you are in on your own? Your own grand merit gave you those stars?”
Marshall remains stoic as Fredrick continues, “My team put you high on the hog. My personal choice would be to make your life drag on and on and on. Cut out your eye lids and make you watch your wife and kids and soon to be grandchild suffer agonizing deaths. Throw in a busted kneecap and some razor blades under the fingernails and toenails, followed by a nice salt mani-pedi. Then perhaps punch you in your kidneys until they begin to fail so that you die one of the most excruciatingly painful deaths possible.”
“Why would that be your choice?” Xavier asks.
“That’s a good question, Ned.” Fredrick asks, looking back just long enough for Marshall to get the drop on him.
But Marshall’s body is frozen again, and he has no way to take action. As Fredrick continues on with another personal choice by which he’d like to subject Marshall to an agonizing death, Marshall looks over at Xavier. Almost as if Fredrick’s tirade is taking place in slow motion, Xavier lifts his hand and gives Marshall an enthusiastic thumbs up with an equally excited, teeth grinning, ear to ear smile.
“Could he be trying to tell me something?” Marshall thinks to himself. He looks down confusedly. “He couldn’t possibly be trying to tell me something other than he really thinks Fredrick is disturbed… is he?”
Right as Fredrick says “Do you understand me, soldier? Towing the fucking line is your only option,” Marshall snaps to immediate attention… As he’s still looking at Xavier smiling ear to ear and giving him a big thumbs up, he simultaneously hears Xavier’s voice in his head say “Yes, I am trying to help you.”
Xavier: Mr. Marshall remains a wanted yet untried man. I have confidence that justice will be served in time.
Jan: That’s not the response I was expecting.
Xavier: Then you should have asked a different question.
Jan: It seems hard to believe that you’d have no issues with a man that our government proved masterminded a Naval coup against the President of the United States and the rest of the military. A man that nearly started World War 3 if it wasn’t for the superb work of the CIA and the AI system your company built for them. Surely, you cannot suggest that he is an innocent man when there are such mountains of evidence against him that your very own company helped our government procure. He’s the most wanted terrorist in the world!
Marshall turns away from the television that’s showing his press conference from earlier that day. He clenches down hard on his teeth as he hears his own words. Xavier turns off the television.
“You ready?” Xavier asks.
Marshall nods.
Xavier and Marshall take Xavier’s personal flight vehicle that flies them to a secret lab that Xavier has in the Rocky mountains. While flying, Xavier fills Marshall in on the plot he’s uncovered to execute a hostile military takeover of the United States. He heaps data on to Marshall who soaks it all up. With the nanobot neuro-enhancers that Xavier has been giving him, he’s able to digest more information faster and link data points together on levels that exceed any of the AI that Xavier Labs has in place. The deep plot becomes clear and obvious to him, but it’s virtually unknown to anyone other than a handful of people who have stumbled upon the data that’s been leaked by an unknown third party that Xavier hasn’t identified but knows is within his company.
The neuro-enhancers allow Xavier to communicate with Marshall almost exclusively without any speaking. The thoughts are encrypted and then received via a large helmet that each of them is wearing and transmitted to the other with a direct wire link between the two helmets. The occasional spoken word is used just to break the awkwardness of silence.
As they arrive at the secret compound, Marshall becomes aware of what Xavier’s plan is, and why Marshall is so important. Marshall will be a scapegoat mastermind of the coup attempt so that Xavier can out the conspiracy and help bring it down. Xavier will have evidence planted to implicate Marshall as well as the real conspirators that include Fredrick. Xavier will then help Marshall evade capture.
Xavier shows Marshall the sprawling estate. It’s upscale but not lavish. “So, this is where you’re putting me up?” Marshall jokes with Xavier, knowing his actual safe house will be of no such upgrades.
“Marshall, you have the most thankless job. In fact, I’m likely going to be the only one who ever thanks you for your service to your country and your planet. I truly mean this with the utmost sincerity…” Xavier pauses for a moment and then vocally says, “Thank you.”
“Don’t be some mushy pussy, Ned.” Marshall smiles as he feels the genuine sentiment from Xavier. “There is one thing that I am going to require”
“You name it.”
Marshall smiles ear to ear, “I want one of them bots!” Marshall points to the patrol bots that Xavier has made a few upgrades to since Richard passed away.
Xavier: Jan, I understand this is an emotional topic, and I don’t take lightly any of that emotion. Our justice system affords everyone a right to trial, and that includes Donovan Marshall.
Jan: What do you say to those who suggested that he was just a patsy and that there is a much larger plot in play? A plot that some suggest Xavier Labs is at the heart of it.
Xavier: Allegations were levied against Freddy and proved false. It’s a side effect of success.
Jan: It has been said that one of the biggest signs of success is how many people want to hurt you.
Jan: I’m not suggesting that a lot of people want to hurt you.
Xavier sits down at a bar in tropical paradise and orders a club soda with lime. While he’s waiting for the drink, a man sits next to him and orders a tonic water.
“You really should try the tonic water here. It’s the best in the world,” the man says to Xavier as their drinks arrive.
“Can I get a tonic water instead?” Xavier asks the bartender. He then turns to the man. “I can’t thank you enough,” Xavier says to the man as he gets up and walks away.
Xavier: I’m certain I have a fan club.
Jan (laughing): You should see the emails I received heading into this interview! But let’s talk asteroids. You donated your first ever haul to the people of Earth, setting up the largest entitlement program in the world, and creating what some have called the universal answer to increased automation.
Posted on October 30, 2019 by jaredude
The Disclosure: Universal Healthcare
Returning from the video intermission showing life inside Earth 2.0…
Jan: It’s truly amazing what you have made possible with Earth 2.0, but let’s talk about Xavier Labs’ biggest breakthrough. Last year, your company’s medical robots were estimated at having saved nearly $10 trillion dollars in healthcare costs and increased economic productivity around the globe by more than 15% from the prior year!
What many said wasn’t possible just decades ago has become reality thanks to your relatively new healthcare division. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization confirmed that your vaccines have completely eradicated every known virus within the industrialized world in less than a decade, and that your responsible outreach programs in marginalized communities has lead to better vaccination rates in regions of the globe normally forgotten. Some skeptics have voiced concerns that new super viruses are going to be the eventual result from your efficient vaccinations. Are you concerned about a super virus?
Xavier smiles at Fredrick as Richard berates him about his presentation for a new healthcare division for Xavier Labs that will start with a vaccination program.
“Look, Richard, we have the studies lined up. Dr. Fields has friends at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, LSU, University of Nebraska, NYU, and Yale! This thing is a slam dunk! We’ll get approval for the super vaccine in no time. We have all the right connections.” Fredrick appeals to Richard.
“But you don’t have an actual product! This thing isn’t ready for human trials, and you know that.”
“Richard, we cannot leave this kind of money on the table! We’re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue each year for something that costs us virtually nothing. Plus, we’re indemnified by every government we work with. The governments cover the cost of any injuries incurred by our vaccine. There is no downside for us.”
As the two go back and forth, Xavier ponders the long-term opportunities to universal acceptance of their entirely new vaccine delivery system. He interjects, “Fredrick, I’ll admit that I’m kinda with Richard on this one. So, here’s an idea…” Xavier gestures with his hands, “You and Tom keep saying that it’s as safe as drinking water. If Tom is so sure about the safety of our super vaccine, then let’s setup a bet that involves just him.”
Fredrick looks at Xavier with skepticism while Richard smiles ear to ear, as he does not like Dr. Tom Fields.
Xavier continues, “Tom inhales the super vaccine once a day, every day for 100 days. Richard here, will drink a glass of water.”
Richard interjects, “Can we make it a beer?”
Xavier raises his eyebrows and looks at Fredrick for confirmation. Fredrick nods.
“Richard, here, will drink a beer…”
“A 40 would be my preference, given that we’re dealing with a SUPER vaccine,” Richard adds.
“Richard will down a 40 each day.” Xavier places his hand on Richard’s shoulder. “If Tom is perfectly healthy after 100 days, then let’s move forward with the trials.”
Richard claps his hands together, “I love this plan! I’m going to get started on it right away!” He starts to leave the office and pops his head back in the door. “I mean, I’m going to tell Tom the plan on my way to get a 40 from my fridge.”
Fredrick gives him a thumbs up and Xavier smiles.
After Richard has left the room, Xavier leans in to Fredrick, “Move forward with the trials you’re talking about. It’s going to take at least 30 days to get them started anyway, right?”
“Twenty to Thirty, yes, but we can get the approval from everyone within 60 days. I’ve worked with these guys before.”
“Perfect! I’ll work with Tom on making sure that everything goes right with the real trials and with his personal trial. I certainly don’t want him getting sick in the next 100 days. This thing doesn’t work any better than existing vaccines does it?”
“You want me to be completely truthful?” Fredrick can tell Xavier is asking a serious question. “I don’t think it does, but we have enough medical connections to stack the approval in our favor and political connections to make it the new standard in global mandatory vaccinations. Plus, it hardly costs a thing to manufacture, and every government around the world indemnifies us for any complications. This is a cash cow, Ned!”
Xavier pats Fredrick on the back, smiles, and then goes to his office.
Xavier spends the next 30 days going into Earth 2.0 and placing himself in an overclocking algorithm that moves everything forward in a shard at an accelerated rate. Working with the medical robots he has built in Earth 2.0 over the course of 100 accelerated years, they design a nano bot that Xavier will add to the super vaccine inhalant.
The nanobots slowly take resources from the human body to build more nanobots; nanobots that leverages the chemicals used to place people into Earth 2.0 but without the side effect of death. Those nanobots will be able to enter the brain and attach themselves to specific centers within the brain. Xavier estimates that he’ll have enough of a connection to be able to not just read a person’s thoughts but also communicate data directly into the brain.
Xavier knows that Dr. Fields has been entering Earth 2.0 and harassing the women there and resetting their experience after he’s finished violating them, and Xavier views this new nanobot technology as the ultimate means to control Dr. Fields. So, Dr. Tom Fields will be the first test subject as part of the 100 day super vaccine trial. Within 12 days of Tom taking the daily super vaccine, Xavier is ready to start testing the outcome!
Tom and Xavier enter the clinic together, and Xavier has a human nurse take all of Tom’s vitals. As Tom is sitting on the table, Xavier goes over to his computer and connects to Tom’s brain. Xavier opens an application named Lucid4. Tons of data is scrolling along the console windows on Xavier’s computer as it reads Tom’s mind. It displays simple sentences on the screen that are showing Xavier the exact thoughts that Tom is having! Xavier isn’t surprised by Tom’s lustful thoughts about the attractive nurse who is taking his vitals. Xavier brought her in for that exact reason.
As the nurse is making her way around Tom, he keeps turning his head to attempt to look down her top. Xavier projects the nurse’s voice into Tom’s head, “Not interested, creep.”
Xavier watches closely as Tom is baffled by hearing the nurse’s voice in his head but not seeing her mouth move.
Xavier: The trick is to be one step ahead. Our pathogen and vaccine AI systems allow us to receive billions of health data points we received from our universal healthcare doctor bots and ensure we’re staying ahead of the evolution of the pathogens.
Jan: I promise you viewers that we’ll discuss AI in depth shortly. But, first, this year your sixth company announced a new cancer research program that appears to already be making tremendous progress in early cancer diagnosis. This one is close to your heart. The entire project was dedicated to your late, dear friend, Richard Aryu.
“We’re taking a big risk with this project, Xavier,” Fredrick says with a concerned look on his face.
Xavier’s face is unshaven, and his eyes are red from overwork. Even stubble shows on his bald head, ruining the normal shine he is often complimented on. “This is the most important project we will ever undertake, Freddy. We should treat it as though our lives depend on it.”
“But the algorithms still aren’t giving us the results we need. We’ve dumped a ton of money into this, and it’s consuming ALL of your time,” Fredrick places his hand on Xavier’s shoulder and pulls him to look back at him, “And frankly, Xavier, you look like shit. I’m really worried about you. Maybe you need to see a therapist. You haven’t been the same since Richard passed.”
Xavier glares at Fredrick.
“I apologize, Xavier. I truly do. But this cancer program is sinking our ship.”
“I have a solution for that!”
Xavier lifts the cover off a cage sitting in his office. There’s a pigeon inside that’s facing a computer screen. Xavier presses a button, and an image is displayed on the screen. The pigeon nearly instantly presses a red button with it’s beak. The pigeon receives a treat.
“You’ve lost your mind!”
“You’re probably right about that! But I have also figured out a much cheaper way to get instantly 99.99% accurate cancer diagnosis systems in place.”
He presses a button and another image is displayed to the pigeon. This time, the pigeon presses the green button. It receives another treat.
“I can do this all day long! And to be completely honest with you, I have.” Xavier is ranting like a madman, practically foaming at the mouth. “I sat here with bird after bird after bird. Hour after hour after hour. We don’t need a damn bit of AI for this, Fredrick! HA!”
Fredrick looks uneasily at Xavier and sighs, “Then let’s get this into production. We’ve sunk more money into this project than almost every other project combined. Can you get some rest now?”
“I’ll rest soon enough, Freddy,” Xavier says patting Fredrick on the shoulder as he walks him to his office door.
Fredrick leaves and Xavier locks his door and returns to his desk. He plugs himself into Earth 2.0.
Xavier: It was a bird-brain idea at first, but it has lead to some major breakthroughs in cancer treatments and should increase survival rates over the coming decades.
Jan: Let’s talk about what the future holds. Many refer to you and Fredrick as the greatest visionaries of our times. You’ve testified to Congress that global universal healthcare is possible within the next seven years.
Xavier: That’s already well underway. What would be the point of attaining all this technological wealth without benefiting all of humanity?
Jan: Your technology is advancing at a rapid rate, and medical professionals displaced by the bots have proven to be highly useful employees for you to continually improve the technology. Xavier Labs has done a masterful job with introducing new technology and being responsible to the workers it displaces with that technology. You’ve even provided great income opportunities for the displayed medical professionals and placed many of these doctors in third world countries. In turn, lifting millions out of medical poverty all around the globe!
Your companies have helped virtually eliminate terrorism, increased crop yields, eradicated disease, mine minerals and metals on asteroids, successfully colonize Mars, and you’ve also given the entire world completely free satellite Internet access with your Constellation Miragel project.
Xavier: Don’t forget about the first successfully entangled micro-computer on board a satellite that’s just months away from reaching Alpha Centauri!
Jan: It’s truly an amazing time to be alive! A year ago, some rumors surfaced that you were having some mental health issues.
Xavier (laughs): Don’t believe everything you read on the free Internet.
Jan (laughs): Some of our most reputable sources were saying that you were missing important board meetings or showing up looking like you hadn’t slept for days.
Xavier: I’ve been known to sleep in my office from time to time. Or even in the lab. But I’m as healthy as ever. And I want everyone else on this planet to experience the same.
Jan: Great! That’s a relief to hear. Let’s talk about the future! Let’s talk about your AI!
Posted on October 24, 2019 November 13, 2019 by jaredude
The Disclosure: Earth 2.0
Jan smiles at Xavier while waiting to return from the break to acknowledge their patrons. Xavier places his hands together in prayer, draws them towards his face and bows his head as he closes his eyes and smiles at Jan. He looks back up at her and says that he’s really glad to have chosen to do the interview with her because she’s a no nonsense interviewer. He compliments her on her job.
Jan: We’re back with Ned Xavier from Xavier Labs, and our next topic of conversation is Earth 2.0. It’s hard to imagine anyone who hasn’t at least heard of the Earth 2.0 project yet, but for both those who haven’t and those who have heard of Earth 2.0 here’s a little video about the incredible Earth 2.0 project.
The video starts playing on the video prompt in front of Jan and Xavier. It starts off with a promotional video that Xavier Labs made a few weeks ago to inform people about the latest government tax rebates available to those who want to retire early into Earth 2.0.
Xavier thinks back to the start of the project with his business partner Richard Aryu…
Xavier and Richard are sitting at a quiet bar. Richard is stirring his olive in a nearly empty martini glass as Xavier is sitting next to him with a tonic water. A beautiful woman sits next to Richard and looks at him and Xavier with a big smile, orders her drink, and then takes her drink over to sit at a table with her equally beautiful friend who is watching Xavier and Richard.
“You miss your wife still.” Xavier says to Richard.
Richard lets our a deep sigh, “Sig, I’m sure you probably think I’m silly for still holding on to that relationship. What can I say.” Richard places his hands on the edge of the bar. “I need to show you something I’ve been working on, man. I think it’s finally time.”
Richard and Xavier walk out of the bar past the two women sitting at the table. The women smile at them and give them a flirty wave of the hand. Richard stumbles along with Xavier’s support as he waves at the two women and tells them to have a nice evening. They get into Xavier’s car that drives them to Richard’s home. When they arrive, they are greeted by Richard’s three Security Bots at the front gate.
“I really need to get one of those,” Xavier says to Richard.
Still inebriated, Richard slurs out, “They’re crap! Let’s build something better.”
The car drives them to the top of the roundabout where there’s a walkway to the front door about 100 feet away. Two more Security Bots help Richard exit the car. Xavier follows behind them as the car drives off to the parking garage on the other side of Richard’s sprawling property.
They enter Richard’s home where there are three more Security Bots that take over for the two at the entrance. Richard tells the Security Bots to take them to Lab 5. One of the Security Bots assists Richard to Lab 5 while the other two take up defensive positions along their path.
“You might be getting a little paranoid, Rich. These bots are like military guards.” Xavier is impressed with their build quality and autonomy; especially for being Richard’s garage projects. It’s decades ahead of anything he’s seen from the military contractors he’s worked with.
“These guys are crap, Sig!” Richard starts to hiccup uncontrollably. “No offense, pal.” He slaps the Security Bot helping him on the back.
“None taken, sir,” the Security Bot responds back.
They arrive at Lab 5 and Xavier takes over assisting Richard with his stumbling as the Security Bot is not allowed into the lab. Xavier looks around at the lab. It’s everything you’d expect from a mad scientist, much like his own personal lab but far more advanced. He’s in awe.
“This is one hell of a lab, Rich.”
“It’s crap! Take me over to the refrigerator.”
Xavier helps Richard over to the industrial refrigerator on the other side of the lab. Richard opens the door to the refrigerator to reveal a corridor with another door at the end. Richard stumbles his way over to the door and goes through a series of security checks to unlock and open the door. “This other guy is okay!” Richard shouts as he enters the other room.
Xavier cautiously walks down the corridor and enters the room. He sees laser pointers on his shoulders coming from several directions. Richard turns on the lights and there are five Security Bots that are far more advanced than the bots outside Richard’s home. Xavier raises his hands in surrender.
“Don’t do that, Sig. These guys are your friends.”
“I have to admit that I’m impressed with your security, Rich, but maybe ditch the laser sights. You’re not a wanted criminal.”
“Anymore!” Richard yells. “Anymore… Men, stand down!” Richard commands the Security Bots. The laser pointers stop, and the Security Bots move into a relaxed position.
“This is cool stuff, Rich. We could make a fortune off of this with the guys Fredrick knows in the community.”
“Ya, Sig, we could. Except Freddy is a dick. You know how I feel about that guy.”
“You drunk enough to tell me what really happened between you guys? You used to be best friends. He’s the one who introduced us.” It’s been three years since Fredrick Prophet introduced Xavier to Richard after Richard was arrested for illegally using surveillance data from the terrorist AI system he build for the US government. It’s been six months since Richard has spoken to Fredrick. Fredrick has told Xavier that nothing happened between the two, and Richard won’t tell Xavier anything about it.
“There’s another time for that, Sig. What I need to show you is going to blow your mind though. Come here!”
Jan: I happen to be good friends with Laura Kive. Since that brave moment she shared with the world on the Morning Star live stream, millions of people have followed suit in doing their part to help reduce their carbon footprint in the world with Earth 2.0. Your latest statistics are showing nearly 2 million citizens and more than 6 billion subscribers.
Xavier: We’re up to 8 billion subscribers. It speaks volume to how closely connected we all are.
Jan: When you have 80% of the world’s population wanting to keep in touch with their loved ones, I’d say so! Some naysayers call it a morbid infatuation with death and even point to studies that suggest, however, that you don’t really have 8 billion subscribers.
Xavier: Our data on this is public and reviewed by regulators.
Jan: Yes, it’s public, but there are still those who say they have analyzed the raw data and determined that the statistics you reported are not valid. They also suggest that the regulators aren’t truly validating your numbers.
Xavier thinks back to the first set of conversations he had with the Director of Marketing for Earth 2.0…
The Marketing Director, Derek Fields, is standing in front of Xavier, Fredrick Prophet, and Richard Aryu, “The United States government approved the Alternative Living Act nearly nine months ago, and we’re still sitting at just over 2,000 volunteers for Earth 2.0. However, we have a big idea that could really help increase the volunteer count.”
“I’m all ears, Derek,” Fredrick starts off. “Quite frankly, we sunk a ton of money into this project, and it could very well be what takes down Xavier Labs. We need numbers!”
Derek points to Fredrick. “Right!” He then looks at Richard and Xavier, who don’t seem as upset as Fredrick. “Our plan is to live stream an environmental activist uploading herself to Earth 2.0”
“Herself?” Xavier asks.
Derek looks over at Fredrick and then back to Xavier, “Yes, sir. We already have the candidate.”
“Then why are we having this presentation?” Xavier begins to stand up and Richard along with him.
“Because she’s the daughter of the Speaker of the House.” Derek says, halting Xavier and Richard mid rise.
Xavier: I welcome any valid scientist’s analysis of the data.
Jan: Now, there have been rumors circulating since the launch of Earth 2.0 with regard to the behavior of some of your scientists when they link into the system. Some of the allegations have been disturbing from rape to murder and even terrorism. But no one inside Earth 2.0 has come forward to corroborate these allegations.
Xavier lies down on his table with a series of cables and wires that make a virtual helmet around his head connecting to a computer where Richard is typing frantically.
Richard looks over at Xavier, “You ready? Make sure you relax. This is going to be intense!”
“Relaxing into an intense experience? Rich, do you even monitor the words that come out of your mouth?”
“The pill should be starting to kick in, just go with it.” Richard says as he presses one last button before walking over to Xavier and watching him pass out and go into a deep trance.
Xavier is walking down a long, dark tunnel towards a bright, white light. He hears the voices of his mother and father and uncle emanating from the walls of the tunnel. He looks around the tunnel but cannot see the walls. He feels himself being gently pulled towards the light without even walking or moving. He hears a scream below him. He looks down and sees a young woman being harassed by two men wearing masks.
He keeps being drawn towards the light despite trying to run back towards the young woman. He falls to the ground and claws his way back to the woman. The men begin to physically assault her as Xavier finally claws his way back to where they are. The woman looks up and can see Xavier as a white light above her. The two men notice that the woman is looking at something above them. They turn and see a white light floating above them.
Xavier snarls with rage and his eyes become filled with amber flames. The two men run away and Xavier flies after them. They run as fast as they can, looking back to see if the white orb is still chasing them. It’s gaining on them slowly as they run towards another tunnel with a blue light at the end. Xavier stops as he looks at the blue light and can see massive amounts of data scrolling up a computer screen that’s giving off the blue light. He sees two names he recognizes: Tom Fields and Jonathan Starcraft. The two men disappear into the blue light.
Xavier returns to the woman who is crying in the darkness that surrounds her. He picks her up and carries her towards the white light. As they get closer to the white light she lifts from his arms and floats away from him into the white light as he begins to feel himself being pulled in the opposite direction, back to nothingness. She smiles and waves at him as she is absorbed by the white light.
Xavier opens his eyes and looks at Richard, “What the hell was that?”
Richard starts laughing and claps his hands, “I know right! Isn’t that the coolest thing you’ve ever seen?”
Xavier is breathing heavily as he sits up. He grabs Richard by the shoulders and looks him in the eyes, “Who else have you shown this to?”
“Just Fredrick.” Richard can tell Xavier is upset, “I swear, just you and Fredrick. What’s going on?”
Xavier gains his composure, “I’m sorry, Rich. It was just a little overwhelming. You’re right. This thing is amazing! Let’s chat with Fredrick and the board about getting funding to get this out of the garage.”
Xavier: No one has ever been raped, murdered, or tortured in Earth 2.0. It’s a peaceful, permanent residence for all who choose this path. The tranquil nature is monitored 24/7. Citizens also have access to all the same entertainment and news sources we have here in our world. They view our reality on their television screens as entertainment.
Jan: Viewers, we have a special treat for you tonight. We’re going to take a brief intermission from the interview to show you some of the recordings of what’s inside Earth 2.0 from the perspective of the people living inside. An advertisement was placed in the publications in Earth 2.0, and several citizens responded. They have sent us their videos, and we’re going to show you a quick montage of them. During the second part of this three part series, we’ll be showing your more of what it’s like to live inside Earth 2.0. And don’t forget that most governments have created their own programs to completely cover your costs of gaining citizenship to Earth 2.0 and eliminating your carbon footprint on Earth. So, let’s take a quick break from this interview with Ned Xavier to show you a quick preview of what’s coming in part two of this series on Xavier Labs and the future of humanity. We’ll be right back with more hard hitting questions for Mr. Xavier.
Posted on October 18, 2019 October 18, 2019 by jaredude
The Disclosure: Dimensional Encoding
“Cures for cancer, improved crop yields, reduced terrorism, colonization of Mars, super vaccinations, robot butlers, electric cars that last more than 10,000,000 miles, Earth 2.0, and interstellar space travel are just the beginning of what’s being called the Scientific Renaissance of the 21st century.” The television host says in a voice over while quick videos fly by, showing each of the items mentioned.
“I’m Jan Seymour, and this is the world’s most watched American broadcast: 24/7. Normally, you’d think we’re talking about a global economy, but instead we’re talking about the output of a single company. In a moment I’ll begin my first part of a three part series about Xavier Labs as I bring you an exclusive interview with the company’s often reclusive founder, Ned Xavier, the adopted son of parents who themselves were both orphaned at a young age and wanted to give back to the system that helped them survive their childhood. The interview can only be viewed right here on the American International Broadcasting Channel. Stay tuned.”
The screen goes black as Ned Xavier smiles and looks at Jan. “How’s that for an intro, Ned? I’m sorry about the reclusive part, but that’s what gets viewers; creating mystery” she asks.
“It is truthful. I am granting this interview, not for fame but to share important insights with the world.”
“I appreciate this opportunity you have granted this station, this show, and me. I am extremely grateful!”
“I can think of no better person to help me share what the future holds.”
The crew scrambles to make sure everything is setup perfectly for the filming that is about to take place. Jan’s makeup receives a slight touch up, and Xavier is again offered the opportunity for makeup, which he waves off without saying a word. The interview begins in 5, 4, 3…
Jan: His company is a household name the world over, but this is only his second interview in 20 years since starting Xavier Labs. I’m here with Ned Xavier, founder of the company bearing his name, Xavier Labs, along with six other businesses and foundations making a huge difference in every aspect of your life. First, Patrons, thank you most of all. You are in for a special treat tonight!
Ned, thank you for this opportunity to share your mind with us! We’ve had the co-CEO of your company, Fredrick Prophet, on dozens of times over the years, but this is your first time with us. Thank you so much.
Xavier: Pleasure. Full disclosure, Xavier is a pseudonym. My real name is Sigmund Adam.
Jan: What’s the reason for the name change? Sorry, the pseudonym?
Xavier: Xavier was my favorite college basketball team growing up! Plus, it’s a cooler name.
Jan: (laughing) Well, with five consecutive national championships at the beginning of last decade, I’m sure most of our viewers will agree with you on that. But if you’re telling us this, should I start calling you Sigmund? Or should I call you Ned? Xavier? And did you go to MIT?
Xavier: Xavier is fine, and yes to MIT. Not much of a basketball team there though.
Jan: Your company has become synonymous with technological advancement. In many circles, experts are even suggesting that this era be referred to as the Xavier-Prophet Era. Your technology has literally transformed our planet and proved to be an even greater shift in technology than the explosion of the world wide web back at the end of last century and the earlier part of this century. Not without controversy, but we’ll get to that.
Even this broadcast has a unique component to it that has never been done before. It’s the first of it’s kind using your patented dimensional encoding system. Viewers will not be able to record this broadcast on any of their devices, and apparently you have even figured out a way to make it so that video digital recording devices will not be able to record the video or the audio of the broadcast. Viewers get to view it through the original broadcast, and that’s it, right? That’s amazing! We’ve never seen this before for a live broadcast, but obviously content creators and digital property rights owners are very interested in this technology already. How does it work?
Xavier smiles as he thinks back to the origin of this moment.
It started years before he launched Xavier Labs. He was fresh out of MIT with his triple PhD in information science, economics, and psychology. He’s working for the world’s largest manufacturer of chips used for digital recording devices when he meets Fredrick Prophet. Xavier immediate senses that Fredrick was a shifty character and that deception is his very nature.
One evening, over a private steak dinner, Fredrick broaches a topic with Xavier about “a business opportunity”. Xavier listens to everything that Fredrick says without indicating what he thinks about Fredrick’s plan. When all the cards are on the table, Xavier says to Fredrick, “Let me get this straight… You told me you have contracts with the CIA and FBI, but you want ME to perform industrial espionage against the company I work for?”
“No, kid. I’m saying, you and I are going to become business partners, and I’m going to use my connections in the community to ensure that when we do activities that are otherwise illegal, we’re shielded from unfavorable outcomes. I’ve been doing this kind of work for over a decade, but I can just tell that you have something special about you. All you have to do is trust me, and we’re both going to have everything anyone could have ever possibly dreamed of!”
Xavier agrees to partner with Fredrick, and the two come up with a long-term plan and sequence of events that need to fall into place in order for their larger plans. The first part of the plan is to secretly replace the firmware used by the manufacturer that Xavier works for with a version that Fredrick’s team has come up with.
Before installing the updated firmware, Xavier creates his own piece that would never be able to be detected as well. It is the origin of his now patented dimensional encoding that allows him 25 years later to create a process that makes it possible to scramble the video and audio recording of selective digital broadcasts.
Xavier’s scam would have been otherwise high risk, but he has the protection from law enforcement through Fredrick if he is ever caught. On top of that, Fredrick’s plan is backed by a major paramilitary organization that has lucrative contracts with governments all over the world and a board of directors stacked with former US intelligence. Their plan is to put Fredrick’s firmware in place so that they can use it in the future to help catch terrorists and drug traffickers. They are paid massive bounties for bringing these criminals to justice.
They setup a distribution company that purchases exclusive distribution rights from Xavier’s chip manufacturer. Their distributor sells the chips at an operational loss because they are making their profits from Fredrick’s contracting company that’s catching terrorists, drug and sex traffickers. The competitive pricing allows the chips to become more popular in recording devices. Xavier views it as a win-win for everyone, and Fredrick has no idea Xavier put his own piece into the firmware.
Within three years, the components with the firmware are used in nearly 80% of all digital recording devices being sold around the globe. Xavier receives multiple pay raises and bonuses from the chip manufacturer, and Fredrick’s business ventures grow rapidly. Only Fredrick and Xavier know the truth about what they setup for the future. They decide it is time to start an umbrella business called Adam Ventures with Xavier at the head of the business and Fredrick operating behind the scenes.
Xavier: Think of an encrypted Rubik’s Cube. The video can only be decrypted one time and accurately decoded from a single angle. Once you read the data from any angle, the entire cube is rendered as that angle and all other dimensions are destroyed. It’s information is available only once. Hence, you can record the broadcast but only receive scrambled data.
Jan: That’s fascinating! Quantum encryption has been around for a long time, but what you’re saying is that even if you break the encryption, you also have to read the data correctly, or you won’t get the data.
Xavier: That’s pretty much it. Our patented technology makes this possible.
Jan: This is going to be a boon for digital property rights management! However, there are some people who say you are hiding subliminal messages within the encoding though. Either the messages appear so quickly on the screen that it registers on the subconscious mind but is impossible to see with the naked eye, or completely hidden messages are encoded within the main message itself that are unlocked with a separate key. They point to the early issues with your Earth 2.0 system as an example. Is there anything you’d like to say about that? Then let’s discuss Earth 2.0.
Xavier thinks back to the moment he first conceived of dimensional encoding and figured out how to ensure that multiple messages could be encoded within the same message. He remembers back to the first set of experiments with his protege, Richard Aryu.
Richard is laughing to the point of tears as he walks over to Xavier’s office. “Did you get my message?”
“You’re a sick man, Richard!” Xavier says laughing himself to the point of tears as well.
The two had been testing encoding multiple messages within their dimensional encoding algorithm. The test message was “Hello World!” and the hidden message was a line art drawing of a penis.
Xavier: I assure you, any hidden messages that are claimed to be found in any dimensional encoding is randomness the human mind interprets as a pattern. I applaud conspiracy theorists for their efforts.
Jan: So, you’re saying there is no possibility that anyone could be encoding hidden messages using your dimensional encoding technology? Is it possible to do though?
Xavier: I’m saying Xavier Labs doesn’t. Theoretically? It’s possible with any messaging system. If nefarious organizations, such as Big Tech from the early part of this century, to do such a thing, they would likely try using it to their advantage.
Jan: We definitely want to hear about the variety of AI systems Xavier Labs has created over the years. What your company has done for agriculture, space exploration, travel safety, vaccines, and law enforcement is truly amazing! But let’s discuss something that’s even beyond that! Earth 2.0!
I’ve been excited about this since it was pre-Beta. I have been following your progress since your very early stages of virtual reality after the notable failures of your once dominant competitors. What’s truly amazing is how Xavier Labs has partnered with governments all around the world to make Earth 2.0 the true reality it is today! But it got off to a rocky start. Let’s discuss that when we come back from a quick break to acknowledge our patrons.
The Asteroid Conflicts
Marcus locks his spacecraft in orbit around Asteroid 98308 and begins the loading bay sequence to deploy the autonomous robot mining rigs. All the system checks have passed, and Marcus transmits the notification to his fleet commander that he and his partner will begin the deployment countdown sequence. The first surveyor lands on the predesignated location of 98308 and begins detailed monitoring of the rotation of the asteroid and taking samples.
Marcus analyzes the data, which indicate massive gold formations at the location. He transmits his findings back to the fleet commander that he’s going to begin the sequence to create the first mining rig landing location.
“Go ahead and launch the first rig, John.”
John is stationed on the other side of the spacecraft from Marcus. “Confirmed data, beginning sequence to launch first rig.”
One by one, the 12 surveyors are launched and perform their tasks without issue and transmit the data back to Marcus. Only 3 of the locations show signs of precious metals, but the quantity of the metal is well worth the effort. Marcus has John initiate the retrieval sequence of the 12 surveyors, and each of them return back to the loading bay without issue and with minimal effect on 98308’s very slow rotation.
Marcus’ ship finally moves into the direct line of sight communication with his fleet commander, and their ships create an automatic laser communication connection. The video link shows the fleet commander and medic on Marcus’s screen, and they begin to check-in on him while another medic checks in with John.
“How’s it going out there Marcus? How’s she handling?” The fleet commander asks Marcus.
“Steady, ma’am. This is the most solid ship I’ve been on yet! I’m really impressed.”
The medic asks Marcus some questions about his mental state and how he has handled the 17 day trip with John. Marcus mentions that it’s been a good trip, and that he’s been very comfortable the entire time.
“Remember, Marcus,” The Commander starts off, “When you go into Earth’s shadow, it’s going to be a solid 115 minutes of testing of that ship’s life support and navigation systems, but you’re going to be on your own for pretty much the entire time. We’re deploying the haulers. They will intercept your trajectory in about 15 days, which gives the mining rigs plenty of time to strip that rock!”
“Yes, ma’am. This is what we trained for. We have checked and rechecked each of the systems. Everything is working exactly as it should. This is a well built machine! Mining rigs are going full speed ahead, and everything is reporting back in perfect condition. We could not have timed this any better!”
They finish discussing the mission, and then the commander transmits a message they received from Marcus’ wife and children. Marcus watches the video with a big smile and then records a video of his own to have the fleet commander send back to Earth while he’s out of communication. John also receives a message from his family.
The ship goes out of direct line-of-sight communication with the fleet commander. John calls Marcus via the in ship video communication channel.
“Marcus, I really appreciate you vouching for me for this position. This is going to change my family’s lives! I can’t thank you enough for believing in me. My family thanks you as well.”
Marcus chokes up but holds it back. “John, you’re like my little brother. We’ve known each other for how many years now? Heck, you were my wing man when I met my wife! I wouldn’t have the life I have without you by my side. I couldn’t imagine being on this mission with anyone else. We’re going back to Earth as billionaires!”
They smile at each other and give each other a thumbs up and prepare for the shadow transit.
30 minutes into the shadow transit Marcus receives a notification from the system monitoring the rotation of 98308 that an anomaly has been detected in the asteroid’s speed of rotation. Marcus evaluates the data as it’s coming in, and comes to the conclusion that passing through Earth’s shadow causes the rotation of 98308 to speed up by a considerably measurable amount. He logs the information into the tracking software and records a video of him stating the findings.
Another 50 minutes into the shadow transit and Marcus feels a massive shake in the ship. The hull monitoring system begins flashing a notification that the hull has been breached and the automatic recovery system has failed to seal the hull in Bay Module A. Marcus calls John on the video system and goes pale. He vomits inside his helmet as he sees John’s lifeless body strapped into his station with a golf ball-sized hole right through the middle of John’s helmet. John’s helmet is filled with frozen blood like an aquarium with one of John’s eyes pressed up against the left side of the helmet and the other sticking out of the other side of the helmet where the projectile exited.
Marcus’ hand is shaking as he closes the communication channel and removes his helmet. It’s considerably colder than it was previously, and the system monitoring the air temperature is starting to warn him that temperature in his command module is dropping quickly and will be unsafe for anyone without a suit within 30 seconds. He heads over to the closet, opens the door and pulls out the helmet from his spare suit in the closet. He cleans up his suit as much as possible and puts on his helmet and seals it. He then places his vomit filled helmet in the closet and closes the closet.
He heads back over to his command chair and secures himself. He looks at the clock to see how much more time is left in the Shadow. 30 minutes. He looks at the pitch of the ship and notices that it’s still increasing at an accelerating rate.
He records a brief video update, “The ship has been stuck by a golf ball-sized object that has penetrated the hull and killed my partner. Repeat, my partner John Ellis is dead. The hull is breached and the automatic sealing has been unable to reseal Bay Module A. The ship is appearing to head into a spiral. The recommended action is to release the damaged module of the ship to help correct the trajectory.”
Marcus calmly performs the sequence of commands to jettison the module where John’s body is. The system confirms that the release of that module will be possible inside of a three minute window, but it might not stop the leak unless Marcus also releases the adjacent cargo bay that was also damaged by the projectile.
Marcus starts talking to himself as he’s going through the data. “Okay. If I hold on to everything, I’m going to spiral and lose total control of the ship in approximately 14 minutes and lose all life support within 1 week. If I release John’s module but not the adjacent cargo bay, The ship will be able to correct the spiral, but I’m still going to lose life support in 10 days. I can figure out something in 10 days!”
He closes his eyes and thinks about all the good times he had with John. Tears begin forming in his eyes as he opens them and then presses the button to release the module with John. He drops his head and lets out a deep sigh.
Marcus sends out an SOS signal in hopes that it will reach the haulers in time for them to speed up their arrival and get to him in time. The ship’s navigation system has begun correcting for the damage to Bay Module A, but calculations are showing that it’s catching just enough solar wind that he’ll need to refuel the pitch correction module every 3 hours in order to allow the navigation system to continue to make the corrections needed to keep him in orbit around the asteroid. If he breaks orbit, he’ll never be found.
He spends the next 48 hours combing through manuals and every scenario he can come up with that will give him the best chance of survival without having to jettison any equipment in the damaged Bay Module A. Marcus realizes that he needs to get some sleep in order to keep his mind sharp. He secures himself in his bed and closes his eyes. Within seconds of falling asleep, he opens his eyes, “That’s it!”.
Marcus unstraps himself from his bed, puts his helmet back on, and pulls himself as quick as possible through the ship to the entrance to the damaged Bay Module A. He pauses, realizing that he might be making a delirious decision that’s deadly dangerous. He slows his breathing and makes his way back to his command module where he sits down and meditates.
As Marcus opens his eyes from meditation, he hears a crackle from the inbound receiver. He stares at the receiver as if he can hear with his eyes. A few minutes later he hears another crackle with a faint voice.
“What are the odds there’s someone else out here?” Marcus says to himself. “You’re hearing things, pal. Get back to bed.”
Marcus waits in front of the receiver a bit longer. There are no more crackles. He pulls himself back over to his bed, straps himself in, lets out a deep breath, and then falls into a deep sleep.
Marcus wakes from his sleep, feeling well rested. He goes over his calculations again and confirms that his plan will work. He pulls himself through to the ship to the Bay Module A entrance again. He double checks his suit, helmet, and harness buckle. He begins to depressurize the module he’s in so that he can start unlocking the door to the damaged Bay Module A. Once depressurized, he initiates the sequence to open the doors.
As the doors open, the system notifies him that there is a stability issue with the connection between his module and Bay Module A. The damage to Bay Module A is much worse than he was able to see through the porthole. Most of the back end of the module has been ripped off of the module. He sets out to execute his plan.
Using straps, Marcus secures the first mining rig near the door to Bay Module B. He double checks that Bay Module B is not pressurized and initiates the door unlock sequence. He moves the mining rig into Bay Module B and secures it with the straps. He closes the doors between Bay Module A and B and then goes back out of Bay Module A so that he can go refuel the pitch correction system.
One by one, Marcus methodically moves each mining rig from the damaged Bay Module A to Bay Module B, and then checks the pitch correction system to make sure that it has enough fuel. Every three mining rigs, he has to recharge his oxygen. Slowly but surely, Marcus has moved each of the mining rigs from the damaged Bay Module A into Bay Module B and secured them.
He goes back into this command module and runs through a series of simulations to make sure he can jettison the now empty damaged Bay Module A without causing any problems with this orbit. He figures out the sequence that will work best and programs it’s execution into the module management and navigation systems.
The module management system confirms the simulation outcome! Marcus begins the countdown sequence to execute the module jettison plan. Everything goes off without a hitch, and the navigation system makes the corrections needed to keep orbit around 98308! Marcus sits back in his command chair, straps himself in, and breathes a sigh of relief.
There’s another crackle on the inbound receiver, and Marcus jumps up in his chair from falling asleep. “Definitely not just hearing things, pal. Someone is nearby!” Marcus says to himself. “Let’s hope they are in my path!” Marcus is excited about the thought of rescue!
Another crackle comes in on the receiver, this time it is much clearer. “98308, we have received your distress signal. We are in your path and can provide assistance. We are transmitting our intercept plan on encoding 34871 dash Alpha Sigma Tango. Please confirm intercept plan on encoding 34871 dash Alpha Sigma Tango.”
Marcus pulls in the data communication and analyzes the plan. They will be able to intercept him in 2 days! Marcus communicates back to the other ship that he has confirmed the data received and is thankful for their help.
“I’m just relieved that you guys were here to save my ass!” Marcus exclaims to the captain of his rescue vessel.
Captain Williams smiles, “Hey, we may work for competing mining companies, but I’ll never let that stop me or any of my men from being good human beings.”
Marcus floats around introducing himself to the other 11 men standing on board Captain Williams’ ship, shaking each of their hands. A couple of the men seem a bit shady, but Marcus keeps his poker face of appreciation for their help.
“Epher, get this man a pair of boots?” Captain Williams orders. “How long until you rendezvous with your haulers, Marcus?” Captain Williams asks.
“Should be 11 to 12 days, sir. Line of sight communication within about 3 days.”
“You’re welcome to stay aboard with us. Or if you’d like to go risk it back on your ship over the next 12 days…” Captain Williams gestures with open palms, “The choice is yours. Per Space Ordinance 85, we’ll supply you with any rations you need to survive, and we’ll stay in orbit with you until your fleet haulers arrive.”
Epher comes back in with a pair of boots and helps Marcus into them so that he can now securely stand in the room with the others.
Marcus looks at the group of men and looks back to Captain Williams. “Since it’s all the same, Captain, I’ll head back to my ship with the rations you feel are fair.”
Captain Williams places his hands on his hips and smiles, “True loyalty is hard to come by, Marcus. I sure hope Miller Mining recognizes your dedication to them. If that’s ever not the case, I want you to get in contact with me directly.”
The two walk side by side as Captain Williams places his arm around Marcus’ shoulder and walks hims out of the room. “Before you leave, I want to show you something.” Captain Williams says to Marcus.
Marcus and Captain Williams walk into a massive observation deck with multiple telescopes and a long thin portal that stretches across the entire width of the room. Marcus can see his ship off in the distance, and his jaw drops as Captain Williams hands him a large stack of cash.
“Look, kid. I know they don’t pay you shit at Miller. They’re going to give you what? 10% of the draw? Maybe 12, if you’re lucky. You risked your ass, and your best friend is dead.” Captain Williams starts.
Marcus interrupts, “This is a big rock, sir. I’m going back a billionaire.” He smiles big.
Captain Williams smiles back. “Look, I don’t want to burst your bubble, kid. Space Ordinance 85 also means that we get to keep half your haul because we rescued you. We’re missing our own asteroid deadline, and it was a big one! We don’t know for sure what the take would be on that one, but the laws are the laws. And they are good laws, son. They saved your ass.”
“I thought you said you did it because it’s the right thing to do.”
“It’s a win-win, kid. Making money is the right thing to do. That’s a lesson I’ve learned the hard way, and now you’ve learned it. Why do you think I’m flying around in the latest Xavier crafts while you’re flying around in that rinky dink death trap?”
“Hey, that bucket of bolts held together rather well considering what we were hit by.”
“That bucket of bolts is still around because of your resourcefulness, kid! It’s YOU that saved that ship. Not the other way around.” Captain Williams pauses as he lets Marcus reflect on what he just said.
Marcus is upset that he’s going to be going home with half the haul he planned on. He’s thinking about how it’s not going to be enough to cover all his bills from 10 years like he had planned.
Captain Williams points over to the far side of the room where there’s a large dent on the side of the wall. “You see that dent? That’s from a rock the same size as what hit your ship and nearly killed you, if not for your ingenuity and dedication, son.”
Marcus looks at the dent and is in awe of how the ship withstood the projectile. “That’s impressive, sir, but Miller has the best surveying platform in the solar system. It’s a million times better than what you’re using from Xavier, and you know that.”
“Listen, kid. I can see your heart. I can see your potential. If I had just 5 men like you, instead of these clowns on my ship right now, I’d be hauling 100 times what I am now. I know a great opportunity when I see one. And you, Marcus! You are a great opportunity. And this is a great opportunity for you too!”
Marcus’ face shifts from skeptical to intrigued. “What are we talking about here?”
“Before we go any further, I have one question for you.”
“What’s that, Cap?”
“Would 1 billion a month, that’s with a b, Marcus…”
“Per month?”
“Yes, per month, and it gets even better, kid.”
Marcus smiles thinking about how 1 billion is 100 times what he’s making already. “I’m not sure how you can get better than 1 billion per month, but I’m all ears!”
“You get to stay at home with your wife and kids. No more space cowboy bullshit.” Captain Williams places his left hand on Marcus’ right shoulder.
Marcus looks at Captain Williams with contempt, “You think I’m stupid?” He shrugs off Captain Williams’ hand from his shoulder and turns away from him. “You think I’m some chump? You come save my ass, and you think I’m going to pull some bullshit espionage on my employer because you throw a billion in my face!”
Captain Williams smiles at Marcus. “A billion a month! For the rest of your life! You’re a good man. You deserve to be living in a luxury home with your beautiful wife and children rather than floating around in space as a frozen pop like your best friend.”
Marcus turns to Captain Williams in a rage and raises his fist. He pauses as he looks at Captain Williams who’s still smiling. “You’re not even worth it. Trying to take advantage of me like this. You’re a sick man.” He shoves the stack of cash into Captain Williams. “Take your blood money to some other sucker.”
Captain Williams looks Marcus in the eyes, “10 billion a month?”
“Deal with the devil.” Marcus’ pupils dilate, and Captain Williams knows he’s got him. Marcus looks down and then back to Captain Williams. “What do you need me to do? Blow up my ship?”
Captain Williams smirks, “Don’t be so silly, Marcus.” He pulls a black device out from the middle of the cash and hands it to Marcus. “Now, listen very careful to every word I’m about to tell you. Don’t say anything until the end, and don’t expect me to answer any questions. I have no answers.”
Marcus folds his arms in front of him and listens intently to everything Captain Williams says.
“When you get back to your fleet, they are going to take you in for debrief on the main carrier. You seem like a smart computer guy. Login with your friend’s credentials. You have the next 11 days to figure that part out. Plug in that device for one minute and then remove it and destroy it. How you do that is entirely up to you. Keep your story straight and your mouth shut about this conversation.”
Marcus interrupts, “They’re going to know it’s me, if I hack John’s account.”
Captain Williams becomes irritated, “That’s your one and only chance to not shut up and listen!” He continues calmly, “They are required by Space Ordinance 85 to send you back to Earth immediately. That will happen before they know anything. You WILL be arrested when you land on Earth. Call nobody but your wife, and explain that there is a mix up you will sort out. Three days after you arrive, you will receive a visitor. You will not know his name.”
Captain Williams pauses between each word, “I. Do. Not. Know. His. Name”, and then continues, “You will follow every direction he gives you without exception. Then you and your beautiful family live happily ever after so long as you keep your mouth shut and your nerves as steel.”
Marcus keeps looking into Captain Williams’ eyes. “This is the real deal, isn’t it?”
“You bet your ass, son.” Captain Williams says in such a calm manner that it sends chills down Marcus’ spine.
Marcus is heading back to his ship on the shuttle navigated by Epher. As they approach his ship, the image of John’s helmet flashes in his mind. He blinks repeatedly as if to remove that image from his mind’s eye. He looks at his ship and how odd it looks with the two jettisoned modules. The truth becomes apparent. He looks down at the black device in his hand and thinks to himself, “You just sold your soul to the devil.”
Posted on May 30, 2019 by jaredude
Central Artificial Intelligence
Richard presses the enter key with enthusiasm as pushes his chair back away from his desk, lifting his arms in triumph. His deep exhale is cut short as the rollers on the bottom of his chair get stuck on all the garbage sitting on the floor behind him, and his chair tips over; dropping him to the ground. At that very moment, his boss and his boss’s boss enter his office.
Struggling to stand up as he slips on all the garbage on the floor, Richard makes attempts to grunt out words. His superior look at him with disdain.
“Are you finished dicking off, Aryu?” Richard’s boss always refers to him by his last name, and Richard hates it.
“Yes, ma’am! It’s actively patrolling the control dataset as we speak.”
“What’s the ETA?”
As if Richard’s new artificial intelligence program was listening to the conversation they were having, a notification is displayed on his screen: Terrorist Suspect Identified with certainty of 85%
Richard’s boss’ boss steps on a bunch of the garbage on the floor as he walks over to the screen, leans forward, and reads the report on the screen. “This is great work, son!”
Richard finally stands up and stands next to his boss. He smiles and looks over at his boss.
She looks at him and squints her eyes as she scowls, “It’s a month late, but if the results are as good as promised, we can start running this against live data by the end of this week.”
The boss’ boss walks up closely to both of them, standing directly in front of Richard. “Come now. This man may be as sloven as a pig, but a good job is a good job.” He looks Richard in the eyes and places both of his hands on Richard’s shoulders. “You should be proud of yourself, son. Your work is going to save a lot of lives. And you’re going to make your alma mater proud.”
Richard looks over at his degree from MIT on the wall as his boss’ boss walks passed him with Richard’s boss following close on his tail. Richard’s boss’ boss smiles and opens the door for Richard’s boss. As they both leave the room, Richard overhears his boss’ boss say, “Get this thing live ASAP.”
Three years have passed since the CIA has brought Richard’s terrorist identifying AI online. It has already helped identify and track scores of terrorists, and it has provided the CIA with a huge boost in capturing and terminating some of the terrorists. More importantly, it has accurately cleared hundreds of suspected terrorists. As a result, the CIA has become more efficient with it’s surveillance and been able to reallocate valuable resources to other projects.
Richard is sitting in his office reviewing a set of data anomalies he has discovered with his team. There is a trove of data regarding a suspected female terrorist: Serphina Ang. Richard pauses as he admires her beauty and has to remind himself that she’s likely a highly dangerous terrorist. He pours over the data with his team, and everyone comes to the same conclusion the AI system came to earlier that week: Serphina Ang is not a terrorist.
Something in Richard’s gut holds him back from accepting the conclusion himself, but he reports the finding to his superiors. However, he keeps his data hook active on collecting data and decides he’s going to keep tracking the information himself.
Week after week, month after month, Richard’s AI program continues to help US intelligence decimate countless terrorist organizations around the globe. The number of terrorist attacks has dropped to a fraction of what it was over the previous 10 years, and the success in curbing terrorism around the globe has begun to result in monumental shifts in political power throughout virtually every nation. Political incumbents are easily winning reelection and their party members are gaining seats with each passing election.
This massive political shift is not isolated to the United States. Nations across the globe are seeing a rise in the popularity of the political party who was in charge when the AI program began helping more efficiently target and take down terrorists. Seizing on this political windfall, politicians begin to introduce more laws that will make it easier for the CIA AI application to gain access to more data.
Major tech companies, including operating system suppliers and hardware manufactures are required to make gaining access to their systems and hardware easier for the AI application; or they risk fines, jail time, and permanent removal from coveted memberships in a variety of special privilege organizations known as Access Programs.
Seven years has passed since the enactment of the Terrorist Information Access Act. The CIA’s AI program has all but eliminated terrorism throughout the entire world! Richard has been featured on the cover of numerous publications ranging from technology to law enforcement to educational publications. He’s hailed as a hero for his ground breaking AI that has not just help halt terrorism but also helped protect consumer privacy.
Enhancements have been made to the AI application that have also helped reduce computer virus infections from spreading and improved citizen privacy. The CIA now identifies local law enforcement infringements on citizen privacy and provides that information to the FBI, which has cracked down heavily on local law enforcement abuses. The AI has been used as a witness in a number of abuse of power cases that have helped bring police brutality cases and corruption to an all time low.
Richard is sleeping in bed next to his wife. She gets up and goes the the bathroom when there’s a loud bang at the front door. It’s the FBI raiding his home!
Richard’s alarm system goes off, and his security bots incapacitate the FBI agents who have entered his home. He jumps out of bed and heads to his safe room where he starts looking at the surveillance videos of his security system.
The FBI has cut the power to his compound, but he’s running on his own underground power system. There are dozens of FBI agents outside his home. All of his wired connections have been cut, and there is an interference signal jamming all of his incoming and outgoing wireless signals.
The floor to ceiling window that makes up his east facing wall has been shattered by a rocket propelled flash bomb followed by a tear gas canister. Richard uses his intercom system to call into the bathroom to his wife. There’s no answer. He sends a signal to his security bots to guard the hallway leading to the bathroom where his wife is located.
He receives a call over a secure connection the director of the CIA had him install in his safe room.
Richard is angry, “Harry, what’s going on? Why are there a hundred FBI agents outside my house?”
“Richard, you’re going to have to turn yourself in.”
“What the hell are you talking about, Harry? I’m the one catching all the criminals!”
“Richard, just turn yourself into these guys, and everything is going to be fine.”
“This is bullshit, Harry. What is really going on here? Is this some sort of power grab?”
“They know about your surveillance of Ang. Turn yourself in and make this as painless as possible for everyone.”
Richard drops the phone and pauses for a moment. His heart is racing. He thinks about his wife and his parents. He picks the phone up again and tells Harry that he’ll come out and face the consequences. He knows full well that the punishment for violating surveillance laws is the death penalty.
Harry comes back on the line with Richard and tells him that they are sending in four agents to escort him into the armored transport that will take him to the secured FBI interrogation facility. Richard sees the four agents heading towards his front door. Richard sends the command to his security bots to deactivate and go into hibernate mode.
Richard comes out of his safe room and opens the door to his bathroom. His wife is sitting on the sink crying. Richard walks up to her and hugs her tight. She pushes him away.
“Don’t touch me. I don’t know what you got yourself into. Until you prove yourself innocent, you’re not my husband! Stay the hell away from me!”
Richard drops his hands in defeat and heads out of the bathroom and down the hallway. The FBI agents are at the end of the hallway.
“Richard Tos, you are under arrest for the unauthorized use of surveillance data. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?”
Richard is silent as the agents handcuff him and take him to the armored transport.
Richard is sitting on a sofa in his house arrest condo watching television when there is a knock on the door. He grabs his beer off the end table and walks over to the door. As he opens the door he drops his beer. “Professor!”
Ned Xavier was Richard’s AI professor at MIT, and he’s standing in front of Richard, wearing his signature white satin three piece suit with silver tie. He gives Richard a smug smile and tilts his head to look around Richard to confirm that nobody else is in the room and then raises his eye brows in anticipation. Richard remains in the doorway, dumbfounded.
“Uh, Xavier…” He stumbles for words as he stumbles to pickup his beer from the floor. “Yes, come on in, Xavier.”
Ned enters the room and Richard closes the door behind him, mumbling incoherently to himself.
Ned begins to speak, “Since we’re going to be working together, I’m going to tell you an important secret…” Ned pauses as he looks around at the mess in Richard’s house arrest condo. “… My name is really Sigmund Adam.”
“Oh. Why do you go by Ned Xavier?”
“I like the college.”
“Xavier is a much cooler name than Sigmund!” Richard realizes what Ned had first said. “Wait! You want me to come work for you?”
“You realize I’m on trial for a crime that could lead to the death penalty, right?”
“But I’m innocent! Serphina Ang is a terrorist. Sure, I was performing unsanctioned surveillance, but it was something my program missed.”
“Missed?”
“Well… I have reviewed the data over and over, and even though her data hits again and again on the basic algorithm that operates separate from the main AI… She’s always coming up clean upon full analysis. So, I kept going deeper and deeper into the data. At first, I though there was something wrong with the basic algorithm, but then I discovered something scary…”
“Scary?” Ned pulls his head back in an inquisitive gesture.
“Something sinister! My AI program has made a deal with Serphina Ang! Ang gave up all the data on all the other terrorists cells she knew of, and my AI program protected her. In the meantime, my AI program used the information it could collect on all the now known terrorists to learn even better how to identify more terrorists.”
Ned walks over to a shelf on the wall where Richard has a few pictures propped up against the wall. “Your wife has left you?”
“Yes. Oh, and by learning more about what real terrorists are like, my AI actually became smarter at identifying real terrorists. Using the seed data from Ang, while nefarious, was extremely helpful in developing greater insight into identifying terrorist threats. I’m still trying to figure out if my AI did it for that reason or if it’s just corrupt.”
Ned picks up the picture of Richard with his parents. “You were adopted?”
“Yes. An orphan. I don’t know anything about my biological parents, and the state lost all the records. Those are my real parents as far as I’m concerned.”
Ned motions to Richard to continue his story as he looks around Richard’s house arrest condo.
“I found the communications my program was having with Serphina. It developed it’s own language that was quite clever!”
“It used the spelling of phonetic values to communicate with Serphina and then stored the data in it’s own language that was completely undecipherable. But I cracked it! I know that she’s being protected by my program, but nobody is believing me. They’re saying I’ve made it all up to save my ass, but I know my AI is in cahoots with Ang. But how do you convince anyone of an AI conspiracy? Especially when the AI is the hero!”
Ned gives Richard a smug smile. “Let’s talk about redemption, Richard.”
Richard looks at Ned and shrugs his shoulders. “I’m not so sure that’s possible.”
There’s a knock at the front door. Richard walks over to the door and opens it. He drops his beer again. It’s his former boss’ boss from when he first developed the terrorist AI capture program. He’s wearing a black suit with white shirt and a silver tie, just like Ned’s tie. The man steps over Richard’s beer and walks up to Ned.
Facing Ned, he says, “Was I right about this guy or what? This guys is exactly the one we’ve been looking for.” Then he turns to face Richard.
“You’re right, Fredrick.” Ned smiles.
Richard looks puzzled, “Is someone going to clue me in on what’s going on?”
“Tell Fredrick everything you’ve just told me.”
Richard repeats the information to Fredrick and Ned nods his head with each point that Richard is making.
“That’s perfect!” Fredrick says. “I have the car waiting for us outside.”
“Guys, I can’t go anywhere. I’m here under arrest.”
Ned smiles and reaches into his inside suit pocket and pulls out a piece of paper. It’s a pardon from the President of the United States of America. Richard’s eyes well up with tears.
Ned places his hand on Richard’s shoulder and turns him to face the door. “Richard, let’s go catch a terrorist.”
Posted on May 19, 2019 July 11, 2019 by jaredude
The People of Aipotu
Herein is the log of debate regarding resolution 243 by the People of Aipotu.
Chairman Jesper: “People of Aipotu, we are both among the stars and from the stars. From the stars, we know peace cannot be found, and among the stars we know that peace can only be found from within. Resolution 243 is for the salvation of our planet, our own way of life, and the salvation of our children.
We have reached a path in human history and travel among the stars that we know there is but one choice to be made on this paradise we have found… On this paradise we have now called our home for three generations. To date, the decision we are to make should not and has not been taken lightly. I will now formally open the forum to debate with the North Region randomly selected to speak first. Madame Sarana, the log is now yours.”
Madame Sarana: “Thank you, Chairman Jesper. Thank you people of North Region for letting me be your voice in this matter. And most importantly, thank you to the people of Aipotu for lending me your attention regarding this important topic. The people of the North Region of Aipotu vote in favor of resolution 243 to destroy both Moon A and Moon B in order to provide the necessary wall of protection that will be necessary for the future survival of our paradise.
We further implore Chairman Jesper, the people of the South Region of Aipotu, and the nations of natives on the Oceania continent to vote in favor of resolution 243, such that this resolution is enacted unanimously and without dispute of majority. May we not just survive the imminent threats from afar but rather avoid them altogether and thrive as a unified planet, in harmony.”
Chairman Jesper: “Thank you, Madame Sarana. South Region representative Madame Ester, the log is now yours.”
Madame Ester: “Thank you, Chairman Jesper. Thank you people of the South Region for letting me be your voice in this matter. And most importantly, thank you to the people of Aipotu for lending me your attention regarding this important topic. The people of the South Region of Aipotu vote in favor of resolution 243. We further implore Chairman Jesper and the nations of natives on the Oceania continent to vote in favor of resolution 243.”
Chairman Jesper: “Thank you, Madame Ester. Native Nation Mohcia, the log is now yours.”
Mohcian Elder Arhmesh: “It would seem that our fate is not decided by logic or reason this day. The Mohcia people of Aipotu are foreigners on our own settlement, so what matter does our opinion have here now? We do not vote in favor of the human resolution 243, and we shall not provide our logic for our choice as such justification would only dignify this charade.”
Chairman Jesper: “Thank you, Mohcia Elder Arhmesh. Native Nation Vuyange, the log is now yours.”
Vuyange Master V: “I am in alignment with the Mohcia Elder. Both in lack of favor of this resolution and in designation of this experience as a charade.”
Chairman Jesper: “Thank you, Vuyange Master V. Native Nation Xeeter, the log is now yours.”
Xeeter Commander Rosh: “May you humans find mercy for the atrocity you are about to commit. We do not vote in favor of this idiotic charade.”
Chairman Jesper: “Thank you Xeeter Commander Rosh. Native Nation Cheebs, the log is now yours.”
Cheebs Elder Nea: “Thank you, Chairman Jesper. We, the survivors of Cheebs, must go on record to state that we are aware of what humans are capable of, both good and evil. We must also establish that these humans among us are not to be slandered as such barbarians as their brothers and sisters among the stars. We witnessed first hand the destructive nature of humankind when they ripped our planet from us just a generation ago.
We were and remain a peaceful and loving civilization. We shall never go to war again even our enemies. The threat we face is real, and the compassion of these humans among us is also real. The threat we face, while human in nature, has but one solution that is also human in nature. The civilization of Cheebs votes in favor of Resolution 243.”
Chairman Jesper: “Thank you Cheebs Elder Nea. This concludes the logging of Resolution 243. The votes in favor are from The North Region, The South Region, and The Native Nation of Cheebs. The votes not in favor are from The Native Nation of Mohcia, The Native Nation of Vuyange, and The Native Nation of Xeeter. There is a tie in the voting. As the Laws of Aipotu require, such a tie is to be decided by the Chairman.
Before I cast my vote, I want to first thank all the people of all Regions and Nations of Aipotu for entrusting your choices in leadership regarding this significant matter. I can assure you that none of the conversations that we have all had over the last 40 days have been in vain. The debates have been fierce and heated. The intelligence provided by our intelligence community regarding this imminent threat has been reviewed over and over, with new information arriving just four days ago.
All kinds from all Regions and Nations of Aipotu are peace-loving and peace giving. We must protect that peace. We must protect our planet’s future. In order to protect that peace, we must consider that an invasion is a real threat to our planet. There is but one way to protect our planet and our way of life.
There is no doubt that destroying the two moons of Aipotu is extreme. Yet taking no action is even more extreme.
We know that we do not have the resources to fend off an invasion from a civilization that has advanced beyond our own human technology as well as our own human brutality. Can we even call such a civilization that devours planets and consumes all resources available and savagely eradicates all who do not subjugate themselves to their leaders human?
And what humanity would we humans, who are revolted by our fellow humans, be showing if we didn’t use our superior engineering and technology to help protect this prosperous paradise we all share together? The destruction of our peaceful way of life must not happen.
As the Chairman, I vote in favor of Resolution 243. The destruction of Moon A and Moon B to create the necessary shield from alien attacks shall commence in seven days.”
Seven days later the demolition of the two moons of Aipotu (Moon A and Moon B) began. Massive detonations could be seen on the surface of each moon from the surface of Aipotu. The moons fractured and further detonations split the pieces of the moons into smaller and smaller fragments.
Over the course of three months, small fragments impacted Aipotu and caused minor damage, but there was no major catastrophe. Many pieces of the moons crashed into each other and became fine powder suspended in the upper atmosphere of Aipotu.
Spacecraft and lasers were used to help distribute the fragments across the entire surface area of Aipotu’s gravity field. The powder and fragments from the Moons became disbursed in patches of density, and the light from the nearby star was no longer hitting the surface of the planet directly most of the time as it rotated.
Daylight became diffused, and night was no longer completely dark. The stars could no longer be seen in the sky, but larger fragments of the former moons would reflect light from the nearby star and provide the inhabitants of Aipotu with a beautiful light show.
Major adjustments had to be made for everyone on Aipotu. The surface temperature dropped significantly, resulting in much of the planet and sea life to die. A massive chain of death arose from this huge drop in temperature. The planet was plunged into a virtual ice age with the poles of the world becoming completely covered in ice caps and all of the inhabitants of those areas of Aipotu (mostly natives) having to migrate to other parts of the planet.
Within seventy years, humans were able to help stabilize the impact on life on Aipotu as the inhabitants adapted as quickly as possible to their new planet and the reduced technology that was available. The existing satellites were retooled to adapt to the reduced energy from the nearby star, but many aspects of technology will take much longer to get back to where they were before. While providing protection of the inhabitants of Aipotu, there is now no way to see or experience anything outside of the barrier created by Resolution 243.
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Beyond The Door
Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett
Ulster Film Office
"Evil can not create - it can only repeat"
But no way is this just another Italian knock-off of a successful Hollywood horror film. This is THE Italian knock off of a successful Hollywood horror film.
Ghostbusters at The Grand Opera House
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Enjoy the original screening of Ghostbusters! Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost-removal service.
Friday, 23 October 2015 8:00pm £10
Banterflix Presents: Shaun Of The Dead
Directed by Edgar Wright
English/Zombie
Come and join us as we celebrate all things Zed related…
Innocence Unprotected
Directed by Dûsan Makavejev
Serbo- Croatian
Documentary Panorama
A film that joyfully defies classification, Innocence Unprotected reassembles footage of the first Serbian talkie, a 1941 melodrama, from which it takes its name.
Mary Meets Mohammad
Directed by Heather Kirkpatrick
Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers as part of the Human Rights Festival present the documentary feature film Mary Meets Mohammad
Sunday, 6 December 2015 7:00pm £free
Movie House – Dublin Rd
“Alive From The Divis Flats” Screening With Q&A
Directed by Eleanor McGrath
Director Eleanor McGrath and Hugo Straney (film subject and former Divis Flats resident) are flying in to join us for an intimate screening and Q&A. Their film shines a new light on one of Belfast most iconic and infamous buildings.
Wednesday, 7 October 2015 5:30pm £Free
Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger)
Directed by Tony Gatlif
French/Romani (Subtitled)
Belfast Film Festival, with Moviehouse and the Romanian Roma Community Association of Northern Ireland (RRCANI) invite you to a screening of: Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger) on Monday 28th September, Moviehouse, Dublin Road, at 7pm.
Monday, 28 September 2015 7:00pm £FREE
Trading Places – Drive In Screening
Directed by John Landis
Invisible Barriers Moving Images
A highly respected businessman (Dan Ackroyd) and a wise-cracking street person (Eddie Murphy) are forced to trade places as part of a degenerate bet between two monarchs of Wall Street.
Saturday, 10 October 2015 8:00pm £Various
Hillview Retail Park
Pride – Drive In Screening
Directed by Matthew Warchus
It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the Mineworkers are on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families
Hunger Games- Drive In Screening
Directed by Gary Ross
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.
Saturday, 10 October 2015 12:00pm £Various
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Friday, 9 October 2015 7:00pm £3
Dr. Strangelove- Outdoor Screening
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Kubricks jet-black satire with a host of superb comic performances (including three from Peter Sellers)
Belfast Castle
Short Night of Glass Dolls
Directed by Aldo Lado
An Italian ‘yellow’ film with gravy that Kubrick re-cooked for’Eyes Wide Shut’; say some...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2015 8:00pm £3
Directed by Miguel Llansó
A post-apocalyptic,hypnagogic science-fiction romance from Ethiopia.
Wednesday, 30 September 2015 8:00pm £3
R.O.T.O.R
Directed by Cullen Blaine
What better way to re-open the Ulster Film Office than with this meditative artificial intelligence blockbuster?
EOHD: Millies & Still Standing
Archive, music and reminiscence. These films tell memorable stories about mill and factory life in Belfast.
Sunday, 13 September 2015 2:00pm £free
Carlisle Memorial Church
Baby Day at the Beanbag Cinema
On Sunday 27 September 2015, Replay Theatre Company brings the world’s first BabyDay to Belfast!
Sunday, 27 September 2015 11:00am £Free
EOHD: Building Britain: Belfast, with Glenn Patterson
Glenn Patterson reflects on Belfast’s industrial heritage and plans for the future.
Thursday, 10 September 2015 6:30pm £free
Belfast Central Library
Splash at the Seaside
Directed by Ron Howard
Seaside Cinema
Daytime screening of 80's fantasy romcom Splash. The location is the beautiful West Strand at Portrush and we will have picnic area for the audience to sit. Bring a blanket and your own refreshments to enjoy the movies. Onsite food and drink will
Saturday, 8 August 2015 2:00pm £6
The Fog at the Seaside
Directed by John Carpenter
Late night horror screening of The Fog in a spooky seaside setting. The location is the beautiful West Strand at Portrush and we will have a picnic area for the audience to sit. Bring a blanket and your own refreshments to enjoy the movies. Onsite food and drink will also be available.
Jaws at the Seaside
Evening screening of Spielberg's thriller Jaws. The location is the beautiful West Strand at Portrush and we will have picnic area for the audience to sit. Bring a blanket and your own refreshments to enjoy the movies. Onsite food and drink will also be available.
The Little Mermaid at the Seaside
Directed by John Musker & Ron Clements
Matinee picnic style screening of Disney classic The Little Mermaid. The location is the beautiful West Strand at Portrush and we will have picnic area for the audience to sit. Bring a blanket and your own refreshments to enjoy the movies. Onsite food and drink will also be available.
Saturday, 8 August 2015 11:00am £6
Rik Night
A special celebration of the late, great Rik Mayall. From The Young Ones to Blackadder, join our host Paul Currie as we celebrate Rik's finest moments…
Thursday, 16 July 2015 8:00pm £6
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: On Divis and the Black Mountain.
For this special outdoor screening under the stars we'll be screening Speilberg's Sci-fi Classic; a film which happens to be about a spaceship landing on a mountaintop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHN1RIK8Tkg
Friday, 7 August 2015 9:00pm £5
National Trust – Divis & the Black Mountain
The Good Lie – Refugee Week
Directed by Philippe Falardeau
Four young Sudanese refugees (some of the Lost Boys of Sudan) are helped by Carrie Davis, a brash American woman, after they win a lottery for relocation to the United States.
Saturday, 20 June 2015 2:00pm £Free
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NICE targeted screening to identify gestational diabetes: who are we missing?
Canel Kucuk, Ali J Chakera, Elaine Macaninch
Background: Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) are at increased risk of perinatal complications. NICE currently recommends targeted screening of high-risk pregnant women. Our hospital’s diagnostic pathway for GDM has changed from universal screening (glucose challenge test followed by oral glucose tolerance test) to NICE-recommended targeted screening.
Aims: We investigated whether women who would be missed by a targeted screening protocol had adverse clinical outcomes.
Methods: We reviewed the electronic records of all women with GDM who delivered between April and October 2016, during a period of universal screening. Treatment and birth outcomes were compared between those with NICE risk factors (RF) and those with no risk factors (NoRF). Differences were assessed using χ2 tests.
Results: 92 women with GDM gave birth during the six months studied. 32 (35%) had no risk factors and would not currently be diagnosed with GDM. There was a significant difference in treatment between the NoRF and RF groups (p=0.003). More women in the NoRF group were managed on diet and exercise alone (53% vs. 40%) and fewer NoRF women required insulin therapy (19% vs. 45%). Delivery events were similar in the two groups (p=0.23). Fewer women in the NoRF group had macrosomia (birth weight >4000 g) (NoRF n=1 (3.1%) vs. RF n=5 (8.3%)). Admissions to the special care baby unit, predominantly for neonatal hypoglycaemia (capillary blood glucose <2.2 mmol/L), were greater in the NoRF group (NoRF n=7 (21.9%) vs. RF n=5 (8.3%)). No stillbirths or shoulder dystocia occurred in either group.
Conclusions: Targeted screening for GDM using NICE guidelines would have missed over a third of women with GDM. Although women in the NoRF group required less pharmacological treatment, they had adverse maternal and fetal outcomes equivalent to those of women with RF. Our results support universal screening of GDM.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2019.211
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there's gotta be something more
Author: Maggie Grey
The words kept running through her head:
There’s gotta be something more.
With Zach Baker, there just might be.
Divorce. Dead-end career. Disaster. Then fate steps in and changes Jesse’s life in an instant. With her dreams now close enough to touch, she moves to the mountain splendor of Montana with her young daughter. Far from city life, her plans to start her own riding school start to take shape—with the help of a certain cowboy down the road.
A girl with money and a passing interest in horses sure isn’t enough to turn Zach Baker’s head. With the ice wall around his heart firmly in place, he isn’t about to let Jesse chip away at it. It’ll take more than just the heat of attraction to melt that ice, and attraction is all he feels for Jesse, isn’t it? But then, he has been wrong before.
"THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING MORE was a very pleasant and satisfying read—the characters felt real and believable and I also felt for them when things weren't going so good. Maggie Grey has written a meaningful story about two people who end up finding each other after going through their own heartbreaks—they both find that there really has gotta be something more!"
Manic Readers
"THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING MORE pulled me in right from the very first page and I couldn't stop reading. The plot of the story focuses on the relationship between Jesse and Zack. These strong characters really help make this a worthwhile read. Ms. Grey did a wonderful job creating such fascinating characters. Jesse is a strong-willed heroine filled with determination and strength. Yet despite her strength, she still has a vulnerability about her. Zach, having been hurt in the past, has put up walls to protect his heart and himself from being hurt. He is reluctant to trust or get involved with a city girl thanks to past experiences, but Jesse is not what he is expecting or used to. I really enjoyed the banter and flirtation between the couple and found myself smiling more than once during their encounters. The author did a wonderful job of creating a believable and real couple complete with flaws and emotions. I became emotionally invested in the story, and I couldn't help but root for Jesse and Zach throughout the ups-and-downs of their relationship. THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING MORE is a highly satisfying story that I definitely recommend!"
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"Very sweet and heartwarming. I thought the characters were great - except for Paul - what a jerk. I wanted to slap his selfish butt. But I loved Zach the most, so damn sexy and he's a cowboy!"
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Tobacco product traceability now mandatory in Europe
by Victoria juin 6, 2019
The 2014 anti-tobacco initiative was voted by the European parliament, but there are difficulties enforcing directives among member States. This week, a new measure is rolling out across the EU. The traceability of cigarette packs is a necessary first step to reducing black market cigarettes in Europe.
Announced in 2014, the law was only applied to France in November 2018. Last March, a decree was approved to enforce this expected measure. From now on, every pack of cigarettes in the EU will be marked with a unique code to ensure traceability.
Until now, product marking was the responsibility of the manufacturer. From now on, the National Printing Works (Imprimerie Nationale) will be responsible for applying codes to tobacco products. Cigarette manufacturers will have to finance this new solution. The objective is to help monitor industrial activities in the sector and fight contraband networks.
Better market control
For Loïc Josseran, at the head of the Alliance against tobacco, this measure will ensure product information is up to date and reliable. This will ensure every cigarette packet can be identified according to its intended target market. Josseran did not, however, agree with shifting the responsibility for this system to corporations rather than an independent organism.
On the political side, the system will allow countries to tax cigarettes purchased abroad. With this new traceability system, we can find out how many foreign cigarettes were consumed in France. Cigarette companies will no longer be able to park their stock in Andorra or Luxemburg to get around French taxes.
As it stands, Big Tobacco will need to deal with this tracking system, and finance it. If the measure has been welcomed by anti-smoking organisations, it will not fix everything. A large share of contraband cigarettes in Europe come from North Africa, where this new system will not be in force.
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Monthly Archive for March, 2013
: March, 2013
Daypass returning for Metro riders later this year
By Dug Begley on March 28, 2013 at 5:36 PM
The daypass is coming back to Metro buses, at least for users of the bus system’s automated fare card. Riders, who lamented the loss of daypasses five years ago, will be able to choose an extended …
Bikesharing service links cities by making memberships portable
B-Cycle, the company behind Houston’s expanding bikesharing system, announced Friday that members of the local service may go to other cities and check out bikes, too. Streetsblog broke the news, …
Houston drivers really hate traffic, love cursing
I’m not a Twitter fan, but I have to recognize its relevance and the power it wields to connect our every waking moment. Besides, with Google killing my beloved Reader service, I am probably going to …
Feds, TxDOT studying another Texas high-speed train line
By Dug Begley on March 14, 2013 at 10:21 AM
So obviously you read the Federal Register every day, right after the Chronicle and maybe a quick glance at Le Monde. It’s what anyone in Houston would do. Clearly, then, you saw the announcement …
Bid opened on next section of U.S. 290, work set for November start
Again, a disclaimer: It will be years, a lot of years, of construction before U.S. 290 is wider and offers direct carpool and regular lane connections to Interstate 10. Relief will come, but it will …
Upcoming projects to fix well-known bottlenecks
Texas lawmakers might be focused on finding the next source of revenue to keep projects moving, but Houston area transportation planners are still trying to construct what the last building boom …
Shifting role for federal transportation funding
By Dug Begley on March 11, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Eric Jaffe at the Atlantic has a great post on the pros and cons of federal transportation funding and the top-down model that guides a lot of road, rail and air decisions. Here’s a sample of a piece …
Metro unveils smaller buses for some routes
By Dug Begley on March 8, 2013 at 4:23 PM
New, 15-passenger buses meant for low-ridership routes are up and running around Houston, Metro officials said. The new buses, part of an effort to provide critical links along some lines that do not …
Bill would make sure rules of the road apply to robo-cars, too
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Metro hiring, but CEO search isn’t part of job fair
By Dug Begley on March 7, 2013 at 6:00 AM
As of Wednesday afternoon, Metro had at least 74 job openings, but only 73 will be available at a job fair planned for Saturday. Highlights of the fair include discussion of becoming a part-time bus …
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ABOUT TED GOLDMAN SACHS CRUZ:
by Admin · February 5, 2016
RON PAUL: CRUZ NOT A LIBERTARIAN, HE’S OWNED BY GOLDMAN SACHS
“I mean, he and Hillary have more in common than we would have with Cruz and Trump…”
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Ted Cruz isn’t a free-market libertarian, Ron Paul warned his son’s former supporters on Friday.
“You take a guy like Cruz, people are liking the Cruz — they think he’s for the free market, and [in reality] he’s owned by Goldman Sachs,” he said of the Texas senator on Fox Business’ Varney & Company. “I mean, he and Hillary have more in common than we would have with Cruz and Trump or any of them so I just don’t think there is much picking.”
“It’s hard to find anybody — since Rand is out of it — anybody that would take a libertarian position, hardcore libertarian position on privacy, on the war issue and on economic policy.”
Paul also warned that Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders wasn’t much better during a Mises Institute conference on Jan. 30.
“[Socialists] will not listen to the argument that there’s a difference between somebody getting bailed out by the Federal Reserve… versus somebody who produces a good product and we [the People] vote them their money [because] they haven’t cheated, stolen or given us a bad product,” he said. “I think it’s sort of an envy and resentment and I’ve talked to them but I have to tell you, I haven’t converted many die-hard progressives.”
“Some progressives, if you watch them on the Internet, will have really close agreements and might be talk about the same issues, but boy they don’t want you to even introduce the notion that libertarians are with them on this because they’re terrified we might encroach on their power to redistribute wealth [by force].”
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People Outraged Over Kong Hee’s Comments
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Yahoo! Singapore reports the following:
Video of City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee’s sermon ignites online outrage
[UPDATE on 30 July: Adding details about when Kong could have delivered his sermon]
City Harvest Church founder and senior pastor Kong Hee has found his way in controversy again — this time for a comment he made in what appeared to be a sermon at a church conference held in Australia last year.
In a video posted on YouTube by user anointedforworship on Sunday, Kong, who is accused of criminal breach of trust and misappropriating church building funds, claimed that God apologised to him for his struggles.
“‘Father, Father, why, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me and thrown me to the dogs?'” he was recorded as saying, after relating the experience of Jesus Christ on the cross at his crucifixion and sharing that he identified with that kind of suffering.
“For the first time in eight months, God, I heard Him cry. And he said ‘My son, Kong, thank you. Thank you for going through this. I need you to go through this alone, so that you and City Harvest Church can be the man and the ministry I call it to be. I’m so sorry, but you need to go through this by yourself, to bring a change to your generation,” Kong said.
Applause was heard from the congregation, and Kong continued, “I hear God saying for the first time in eight months, ‘I love you, I love you, I love you’. Waves upon waves of God’s love, the love of the father just saturated me… and I know everything’s going to be all right. Everything is going to be all right.”
Kong seems to have delivered the sermon in question at the 2012 C3 Presence Conference, held in Sydney in April last year. This would have happened before the news that he and five other church leaders were being investigated for embezzlement broke in June last year, although it later emerged that investigations by the Commercial Affairs Division (CAD) began in 2010.
According to a blog post dated 7 August 2012 by megachurch watchdog C3 Church Watch, the same excerpt of Kong’s speech was quoted ad verbatim with a link to the official video of his full sermon.
Watch it here:
Reaction to the video was overwhelmingly negative. Since the video excerpt was first uploaded on Sunday, it was thumbed down 750 times, compared to less than 30 thumbs up, and received more than 230 comments, most of them scathing.
Raising particular ire was Kong’s seeming suggestion that God apologised to him for his having to endure the challenges of past months, during which court charges for misappropriation of funds were made against the six accused.
“I thought comparing himself to Jesus was presumptuous,” commented a 24-year-old student who declined to be named. “Saying that he heard God apologising to him for his legal troubles was completely shocking to me.”
“I don’t think there’s anywhere in the Bible that said God said sorry for crucifying His son,” added another Baptist Christian, who did not want to be named. “His (Kong’s) doctrine is all wrong.”
Some City Harvest churchgoers think Kong’s sharing might have been misinterpreted or taken out of context, however.
A 23-year-old worshipper, who attended the church in her younger days and only recently returned, told Yahoo! Singapore the sermon was about how God empathises with Kong’s plight and is reassuring him.
“From a spiritual point of view, and from my own relationship with God, the God that I know and have a relationship with is assuring Kong that He knows the struggles that Kong is going through,” she said. “God is coming from a position of love and assurance. He puts us through fire to purify and to strengthen us, so that we will come forth as gold.”
Tuition teacher Kellyn Low, who also attends the church, added that she hopes secular people don’t get the wrong idea from the video, even though she acknowledged there was cause for misunderstanding, noting that he could have expressed himself better.
“I don’t think that people should interpret it as God saying sorry to Pastor Kong. He just means that he has to go through tests like Jesus did to share his faith with the world,” she said.
Separately, Chew Eng Han, one of the six church leaders currently on trial, announced his exit from the church last month. Chew was a board member and fund manager for the church, who played the leading role in its $100 million investment into Suntec Singapore. He also channelled millions of dollars in church funds into Xtron Productions, the firm that backed Kong’s wife Sun Ho’s music career.
In a series of posts on a blog, Chew, who also withdrew all affiliations his company Business Breakthrough Group Limited had with the church, alluded to disagreements he had with the top brass of its ranks by referring to issues relating to the “manner of conduct of some of (City Harvest’s) pastors and senior leaders”.
Responding to Chew’s exit and accusations, however, the church’s management board said in a statement two days later that following “appropriate reviews” since the Commercial Affairs Division’s investigation, they had “satisfied” themselves that the church’s leadership is upright and honest.
“We wish to reiterate that… we have full trust in the integrity, honesty and spiritual standing of the pastoral leadership of City Harvest Church,” wrote Lee Kiam Hiong, secretary of the church’s management board.
Yahoo! Singapore has contacted City Harvest Church for comment in response to reaction to Kong’s video.
Additional reporting by Melissa Law and Elizabeth Soh
Source: Jeanette Tan, (Additional reporting by Melissa Law and Elizabeth Soh), Yahoo! Newsroom (Singapore), http://sg.news.yahoo.com/video-of-city-harvest-church-founder-kong-hee%E2%80%99s-sermon-ignites-online-outrage-174425261.html, 30/07/2013. (Accessed 31/07/2013.)
We have written the transcript and analysed what Kong Hee said in the above article in an older article here.
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I don’t find anywhere in Scripture God ever saying thank you or sorry to Jesus, or anyone else of lesser nature.
Vivian said:
Why the masses are deceived is because of over positivity or putting on colored lenses – especially in religious matters or o in reference to religious institution.
You can see him as a desperate man talking to God. I see him, and many like him(all religious leaders) , basically talking to ” Himself” (god)
And that accounts for the many different “voices” and interpretations of the scriptures from religious leaders.
And why should you believe what I say over an established( highly controversial) religious institution?
Well, take the “Elijah’s challenge”. Call out the Christian God and he will not show up for the simple reason they have failed to understand the obscure/metaphorical writings. Such a personal God does not exist and if pursued(becomes idolatry) will only bring divisions, strives and bloody conflicts in the world( history attested to that).
To continue in the Christian fallacy(which is foolishness) is to destabilize the world and your nation.
The call is to come out of her!(not to do so will result in history repeating itself)
As reported in the Christian Post:
http://www.christianpost.com/news/kong-hees-apology-from-god-taken-out-of-context-says-city-harvest-church-101154/cpf
Response comment from a former CHC member and cgl (cell group leader) Ronald Wong…
“Surprised by the reaction of the clip as compared to other controversial clips ever found… It’s as if you touched the finished work of Christ and then…. Scary man…
One savior.
One finished work.
One cross.
One suffered for the salvation of all.
God through the bible allowed the old testament characters to be a typology of Jesus n the finished work. God through the bible sent Jesus to fulfil the Word written in the old testament. The old testament always reveals Jesus and the new testament confirms the old. The bible interprets the bible for consistency. The Father’s love is characterised within these context – that He sent His own Son.
There’s no need for another man to typify Christ. It’s rubbish n heresy once you touch that – no man should draw a parallel of himself n Jesus. We are “in Christ” with Christlikeness BUT we are not Christ to go through the kind of suffering (alone) – and certainly not one involving criminal investigation (considering the clip was before the charges came) which was the context being framed. What did he make of my God?
Looking at the approx 8 minutes sub-context of the whole message which was carefully framed to parallel Jesus on the cross:
You can argue in the word “sorry”. Ok so I take it God is “sympathetic that he is investigated for cbt n falsifying accounts”.
Then let’s look further into “thank you for going through this ALONE (note the tonal emphasis)”.
The clip is not taken out of context – rather, there’s a subliminal context within the legitimate context that was taken out of context by the one delivering it to draw sympathy n emotional buy in of the audience. In leadership studies we call this “the dark side of charismatic leadership” (you can refer authors like Powell, Coleman, Stolt and the biography of Hitler himself) n it has got nothing to do with Christianity. For goodness let the bible interprete the bible.
You can stone me if you like and I won’t give a damn. But this is plain nonsense and I’ve given my opinion.
Nobody is judging/pre-judging the greatest man – just highlighting the subtle message in the legitimate sermon. And this should be viewed from a doctrinal point.
We should not expect deception to be clearly shown in their face. But if satan can deceive eve using legitimate means of God’s word n if he can omit n twist the word in Psalm 91 in the second temptation of Jesus, then we also should be aware n be on our guard.
We should all defend n speak up for the ppl n family we love. But we also need to understand the situation and not blindly pursue a defence just because someone in authority (ren min de sheng yin) sent a message about the meaning of “sorry”. I’ve been there n done that, n the process is extremely painful when you just operate on trust n realise later there’s more than meets the eye.”
Icarus said:
Well, it’s nice for God to “thank” Kong “for going through this alone”. Does that mean the others charged are guilty?
So… out of all the misery in the world, the killing, the torture, people shooting children because they demand an education, God chooses to speak to this rich guy and he’s “so sorry” because he’s having a hard time with the legal system?
Just a thought: Maybe it’s not God giving him a hard time, maybe it’s as simple as cause and effect. If your actions give authorities the impression that you are involved in large scale fraud, guess what? They will investigate. Even worse, they’ll prosecute if they have cause to believe you actually did commit a crime.
This guy is nothing more than a snake oil salesman. I have to say I am impressed with his acting/preforming abilities though, but I guess that’s a prerequisite for being able to fleece a room full of impressionable people.
Who knows, if it all goes pear shaped for him he could join Pat Mesiti in trying to teach people how to become millionaires for a small fee?
PIPIT said:
Why is Kong Hee blaming God. As if God told him to take the money. Man up and take responsibilty and STOP abusing God’s name. For God’s sake!
I think Kong Hee needs to realize that the show is over, the curtain is down and no one is clapping! It’s over!
Judah said:
Have you watched their videos? Despite negative publicities, he is still packing in the house. Not only him, Joseph Prince is doing “raving business” too.
Oh, how very very deep is the deception! Woe to that city which allows such deceptions!
Iloveoatmeal said:
what is this Mickey Mouse [edited]? God said thank you to kong hee? Said sorry to kong hee? Kong hee’s suffering will bring change to this generation ??? Kong hee and the others used 13million from the building fund to invest in xtron knowing full well xtron funds sun ho’s music ” career” and has little income from other means. If this is not CBT and mis use of church money , what is? Then the bonds are redeemed via advance rental agreement in which chc pumps in another 15 million ??!! What ??? Ain’t nobody got time for that !!! JAIL KONG HEE!!
Johnlawrenceallenesq.Com said:
If you feel you have been harmed by a bad investment see John Lawrence Allen – https://c3churchwatch.com/2013/07/31/people-outraged-over-kong-hees-comments/
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Winnipeg tattoo business reopens in violation of public health orders, stressing financial need
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A Winnipeg business says they are reopening despite public health orders.
The owner of The Parlor Tattoos on Main Street said he knows public health orders were extended for two more weeks in Manitoba, but he couldn’t afford to not reopen.
“We’re still in the arrears from the three months we were closed,” Phil McLellan said. “The assistance we got now doesn’t cover our rent and it didn’t cover any of our other expenses including our home living expenses. So all of the money we had put away for just this type of emergency was spent in March, April, May of last year.”
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McLellan opened his shop on Jan. 9. Two public health inspectors showed up to speak with him.
“Well I only had one client because I needed to gauge what the government response was going to be, and I’m also a responsible business owner,” McLellan said. “I’m not anti-mask, I’m not a COVID denier, I’m a business owner trying to earn a living.
“They asked if I was operational I told them that in fact I was, they said I was in violation of public health orders of section 99, they told me that they would leave and I would be spoken to at a later date.”
McLellan said he was eligible for some provincial aid, but the bills he still has to pay are well above the subsidies.
“The truth is it’s not enough, it’s not enough,” McLellan said.
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“My lease here is $3,200 a month. Two bridge grants, we’ve been closed six months, so that’s three months rent, that doesn’t even cover the rent here.
“I’m still receiving a hydro bill from a crown corporation. Why am I being billed for hydro when they know I can’t pay it?”
McLellan also wondering why his shop can’t open with contact tracing and strict cleaning protocols in place even before COVID-19 health orders mandated them.
“You have thousands of people travelling through big box stores, Walmart, Canadian Tire and there is no contact tracing, they don’t know who was in there or when,” McLellan said.
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“There is no oversight of ‘Are you sick?’ There is nobody even at greeting them at the door to ask these questions.
“We had all of these things in place in the service industry prior to COVID-19 all of our clients fill out a release form, this is super easy to do, they are crushing the economy.”
McLellan wanted to see public health orders allow personal services to reopen Friday for shops that could open safely, he said.
“We submitted that same proposal in March of 2020, we still haven’t even got an email back.”
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Small businesses await easing of restrictions
Rich Handford, a board member of the Manitoba Body Art Association, says the association has contacted the province in an effort to open dialogue with the provincial government and public health but has not received a response.
“We have always taken the health and safety of ourselves, our clients and our community seriously. Getting a tattoo has had similar protocols to dental and medical procedures for almost 20 years. Most of these protocols have been in place long before the pandemic,” he said.
Local shops are prepared to go further to enhance those protocols, he said.
The Winnipeg city councillor for the area where McLellan’s tattoo shop resides empathizes with his situation but remains adamant that the rules are in place for a reason.
“While it is essential for them to make a living, non-essential businesses still have to remain closed,” Mynasrski councillor Ross Eadie said.
“We can’t make exceptions, the numbers are slowly starting to go down, but COVID is here, our family and relatives are dying and it’s not a good situation.”
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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1-1 WHEREAS, The State of Texas has traditionally recognized a
1-2 variety of official state symbols as tangible representations of
1-3 the proud spirit and heritage of our state; and
1-4 WHEREAS, The bluebonnet, the pecan tree, and the mockingbird
1-5 are just a few examples of specimens that exemplify the great
1-6 diversity of the Texas landscape, while the red grapefruit, our
1-7 state fruit, represents yet another aspect of our shared culture;
1-8 and
1-9 WHEREAS, In keeping with this custom, the designation of the
1-10 Texas sweet onion as the Official State Vegetable of Texas will
1-11 provide suitable recognition for this outstanding food; and
1-12 WHEREAS, The well-known 1015 variation of this onion is
1-13 recognized by gourmet chefs and culinary experts from around the
1-14 world for its characteristic sweetness and its inherent properties
1-15 that inhibit tearing of the eyes; it has been carefully nurtured
1-16 and perfected over time and is renowned for its exceptional flavor
1-17 and well-documented nutritive qualities; and
1-18 WHEREAS, The Lone Star State's reputation as a global leader
1-19 in the development of various varietals of vegetables is well
1-20 deserved, and the creation of the 1015 onion as the first sweet
1-21 onion in the world has contributed greatly to this proud legacy;
1-22 and
1-23 WHEREAS, The Texas sweet onion is as distinctive as the state
1-24 from which it originates and it will no doubt serve as a fitting
2-1 emblem for the bounties of nature with which our state is blessed;
2-2 now, therefore, be it
2-3 RESOLVED, That the 75th Legislature of the State of Texas
2-4 hereby designate the Texas sweet onion as the Official State
2-5 Vegetable of Texas and recognize the historic and cultural
2-6 significance of this native herb.
Wise Thompson
Stiles Hunter
Bailey Averitt
Berlanga Bonnen
Burnam Chavez
Christian Cook
Counts Cuellar
Davis Delisi
Driver Dunnam
Dutton Eiland
Giddings Hawley
Hernandez Hirschi
Hodge Holzheauser
Howard Isett
Jones of Dallas Keffer
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Longoria Luna
Maxey McClendon
McReynolds Merritt
Moreno Mowery
Naishtat Olivo
Palmer Pickett
Pitts Ramsay
Rangel Reyna of Bexar
Rhodes Roman
Seaman Shields
Smithee Solis
Telford Torres
Turner of Harris Uher
West Wohlgemuth
Zbranek
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.C.R. No. 148 was adopted by the House on
April 14, 1997, by a non-record vote.
I certify that H.C.R. No. 148 was adopted by the Senate on
April 29, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.
APPROVED: _____________________
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New York : Pocket Books, 2006.
Christmas of the red chiefs / Linda Lael Miller -- Once upon a Christmas / Catherine Mulvany -- Meltdown / Julie Leto -- You can count on me / Roxanne St. Claire.
Linda Lael Miller's "Christmas of the Red Chiefs," a story about a young woman's broken heart and the sexy widower who may have a solution, highlights a quartet of heartwarming holiday romances, which also includes Catherine Mulvany's "Once Upon a Christmas," "Meltdown" by Julie Leto, and "You Can Count on Me" by Roxanne St. Claire.
Christmas stories, American.
Romance fiction, American.
Christmas stories.
Miller, Linda Lael. Christmas of the red chiefs.
Mulvany, Catherine. Once upon a Christmas.
Leto, Julie Elizabeth. Meltdown.
St. Claire, Roxanne. You can count on me.
Lyons Public Library
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A collection of heartwarming holiday stories from today's stars of passionate romance--Linda Lael Miller, Catherine Mulvany, Julie Leto, and Roxanne St. Claire!
Linda Lael Miller delivers a holiday miracle in the bittersweet tale of a young woman who can't hide her broken heart -- or her past -- when she returns to her hometown. But a sexy widower may just help her discover the true meaning of home in "Christmas of the Red Chiefs."
Catherine Mulvany spins a fairy tale come true in "Once Upon a Christmas." They flirted as teenagers, but it takes time -- and some divine intervention -- to bring two star-crossed lovers together at last.
Julie Leto pairs fire and ice in "Meltdown," the sensual tale of a Cuban-American PR whiz whose job description includes thawing out her CEO boss's frosty image. Will their sparks torch into flames of passion?
Roxanne St. Claire unwraps the thrills of Christmas in New York, where a female bodyguard toys with a dangerous desire for a mysterious hunk while protecting his young daughter. It's a risky game with passion as the prize in "You Can Count on Me."
Linda Miller was born in Spokane, Washington and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She began writing when she was 10 years old after a teacher praised her for a story she had written. Through a correspondence course, she sold over 30 stories to magazines like True Confessions and True Romance. She sold her first novel, Fletcher's Woman, in 1983. Her first hardcover novels were Pirates (1995) followed by Knights (1996). She has written over 80 contemporary and historical romance novels. She is the author of numerous series including Stone Creek series; Montana Creeds series; The Women of Primrose Creek series; and Springwater Seasons series. In 2007, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America.
Library Journal Review
With stories ranging from gentle and homespun to sexy and action-packed and settings as varied as the semirural West Coast, midtown Manhattan, and steamy Miami, with a side trip to exotic Chichén Itzá, this anthology is easily one of the most diverse of the season. Miller starts things off with Christmas of the Red Chiefs, a heartwarming tale of a young widow who brings her rebellious stepdaughter home to the Sierra foothills and finds healing and love with a conflicted widowed father of two. Catherine Mulvaney continues with Once Upon a Christmas, a magical reunion story of stepsiblings. Julie Leto changes course with the story of a fiery Latina PR expert out to reinvent the image of a buttoned-up CEO in her steamy Meltdown. Roxanne St. Claire ties it all up with You Can Count on Me, her riveting tale of a Russian businessman and a neophyte bodyguard's dangerous search for a missing Fabergé egg. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Christmas of the Red ChiefsLinda Lael Miller
Once Upon a ChristmasCatherine Mulvany
MeltdownJulie Leto
You Can Count on MeRoxanne St. Claire
Miller, Linda Lael.
Mulvany, Catherine.
Leto, Julie Elizabeth.
St. Claire, Roxanne.
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Gilstrap, John.
New York, NY : Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2016]
Time to run -- Time to hide -- Time to steal -- Time to die -- Time to live.
Nicki Janssen's days are numbered, but she refuses to accept her fate lying down. Defying her father and doctors, she hits the road with a pocketful of cash, a bus ticket and a romantic fantasy of riding off with her childhood crush. Handsome, dangerous Brad Ward is facing a different kind of sentence. Sent to prison for felony murder, he has escaped and rekindled his relationship with Nicki. But when Nicki's father joins forces with a deputy sheriff, the search for the runaways ignites a manhunt a blistering chase that accelerates with every stolen car, every act of violence.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
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John Gilstrap's pulse-pounding serial together in one book for the first time!
"A page-turning thriller with strong characters, exciting action, and a big heart." --Heather Graham
A pulse-pounding novel of two young lovers on the ultimate joyride--racing against the clock and against the law . . .
SHE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Nicki Janssen's days are numbered, but she refuses to accept her fate lying down. Defying her father and doctors, she hits the road with a pocketful of cash, a bus ticket--and a romantic fantasy of riding off with her childhood crush . . .
HE'S RUNNING FROM THE LAW
Handsome, dangerous Brad Ward is facing a different kind of sentence. Sent to prison for felony murder, he has escaped and rekindled his relationship with Nicki. But when Nicki's father joins forces with a deputy sheriff, the search for the runaways ignites a manhunt--a blistering chase that accelerates with every stolen car, every act of violence . . .
"When you pick up a Gilstrap novel, you are going to be entertained at a high rate of speed."-- Suspense Magazine
"Gilstrap will leave you breathless." --Harlan Coben
"One of the finest thriller writers on the planet."--Tess Gerritsen
John Gilstrap is the acclaimed author of Nathan's Run and AT All Costs, both of which were selections of the Literary Guild. A former firefighter and EMT, he is an explosives-safety expert and an environmental engineer. He lives with his wife and son in Virginia.
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Censo Nacional de Población y Viviendas 2002 - IPUMS Subset
Paraguay, 2002
General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys, and Censuses (DGEEC), Minnesota Population Center
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Survey ID Number
PRY_2002_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Paraguay PRY
Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.
The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
UNITS IDENTIFIED:
- Dwellings: Yes
- Vacant units: No
- Households: Yes
- Individuals: Yes
- Group quarters: Yes
UNIT DESCRIPTIONS:
- Dwellings: Any structurally separate and independent shelter or premise constructed, converted, or available for the temporary or permanent accomodation of persons. Premises unders construction and premises used to accommodate persons at the time of the census are also considered dwellings.
- Households: A private household is a group of people, with or without family ties, that occupy part or the whole of a dwelling and share food and in the provision of other basic needs.
- Group quarters: Structurally separate and independent structures that house groups of people who generally do not have family ties but live communally for reasons of health, work, education, religion, tourism, etc.
Version Description
Version 6.4. The datasets contain selected variables from the original census microdata plus harmonized variables from the IPUMS-International database.
In v6.4, the research team continued to carry out improvements to geography, providing harmonized geographic units for the second administrative level for roughly half the countries. More information about IPUMS geography variables is available <a href='https://international.ipums.org/international/geography_variables.shtml'>here</a>. Also, approximately 100 integrated variables were renamed. Affected variables with their current and previous names are listed <a href='https://international.ipums.org/international/resources/misc_docs/renamed_variables_sept2015.pdf'>here</a>. Geography variable also underwent wholesale renaming.
In this update, IPUMS added 19 new samples for Armenia, Austria, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Mozambique, Paraguay, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Spain. Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Paraguay were newly added countries to IPUMS. Samples for other countries extend pre-existing series for those countries.
Version Date
Technical Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Geography: M-Z Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Constructed Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Technical Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Other Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Migration Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Geography: Global Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
National coverage
Geographic Unit
All persons who were in the country at 12am on 28 August 2002
Primary investigators
General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys, and Censuses (DGEEC)
Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota
Sampling Procedure
MICRODATA SOURCE: General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys, and Censuses (DGEEC)
SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the country
SAMPLE UNIT: household
SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%
SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 516,083
Weights computed by census agency should be used for most types of analysis.
Dates of Data Collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collection Notes
De facto, CENSUS DAY: August 28, 2002
A single enumeration form requested information on the dwelling, household, and individuals.
Access authority
IPUMS International Minnesota Population Center http://international.ipums.org
IPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved. To gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following: (1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited. (2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture. (3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited. (4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies. Once a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes. These safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data. IPUMS-International works with each country's statistical office to minimize the risk of disclosure of respondent information. The details of the confidentiality protections vary across countries, but in all cases, names and detailed geographic information are suppressed and top-codes are imposed on variables such as income that might identify specific persons. In addition, IPUMS-International uses a variety of technical procedures to enhance confidentiality protection. These include the following: (1) Swapping an undisclosed fraction of records from one administrative district to another to make positive identification of individuals impossible. (2) Randomizing the placement of households within districts to disguise the order in which individuals were enumerated or the data processed. (3) Aggregating codes of sensitive characteristics (e.g., grouping together very small ethnic categories) (4) Top- and bottom-coding continuous variables to prevent identification of extreme cases. The safety record for public-use census microdata is apparently perfect. In almost four decades of use, there has not been a single verified breach of statistical confidentiality. The measures implemented by the IPUMS-International are designed to extend this record.
An adapted version of the dataset, harmonized for international comparability, is available from IPUMS-International (https://international.ipums.org/international/) under the following conditions:
IPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved. To gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following:
(1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited.
(2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture.
(3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited.
(4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies.
Once a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes.
These safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data.
Citation requirements
Minnesota Population Center. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International: Version 6.4 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2015.
Researchers should also acknowledge the statistical agency that originally produced the data:
Paraguay, General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys, and Censuses (DGEEC), Censo Nacional de Población y Viviendas, 2002; Censo Nacional Indígena de Población y Viviendas, 2002
The licensing agreement for use of IPUMS-International data requires that users supply IPUMS-International with the title and full citation for any publications, research reports, or educational materials making use of the data or documentation.
Copies of such materials are also gratefully received at ipums@umn.edu.
Printed matter should be sent to:
IPUMS-International
Minnesota Population Center
50 Willey Hall
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
(c) Copyright 2002, General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys, and Censuses (DGEEC) and Minnesota Population Center
DDI Document ID
DDI_PRY_2002_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Minnesota Population Center MPC University of Minnesota Integration Harmonization Documentation
Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank DDI editing
Date of Metadata Production
DDI Document version
- v6.4 (April 2016)
Documentation of census data and harmonized variables as found in IPUMS-International. The International Household Survey Network (IHSN) contracted IPUMS-International for generating DDI and Dublin Core-compliant metadata related to population and housing census datasets from developing countries. The objective was to provide countries with detailed metadata in a format compatible with the DDI standard used by most of these countries, with a view to guarantee the preservation of the data and metadata, and the publishing of metadata.
The intellectual rights (including copyright) for the data and metadata in IPUMS are retained by the countries under a Memorandum of Understanding with the contributing countries. IPUMS-International has distribution rights to the metadata and data. The XML documents generated by this process are viewed as a distribution of the metadata.
Fields edited by the World Bank are: DDI ID and study ID to match World Bank study naming convention, as well as DDI Document Version and Version Description to reflect changes included in version 6.4.
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Production Music for VR—Bring a World to Life
In the 21st century, the border between a fictional world and the real world has become increasingly permeable. If you’re working on VR content or designing a game, you know that the latest technology makes it possible to construct a completely artificial world. It can include medieval or fantasy dreamscapes, mythical creatures, and far away galaxies. Of course, just like with any other type of media, the perfect audio is so important. The pros at FirstCom Music break down different styles of VR content and help you find the music to match.
Take Your Audience on an Adventure
In your virtual world, anything is possible. Production music for virtual reality should work in concert with visuals to provide a sense of space and mood. Sound libraries, like the FCAnimated production music for VR, contain a variety of tracks that are ideal for games, storytelling, or as backing tracks in other VR content. Send shivers up your audience’s spine with spooky, dark tracks, prepare for the action of battle with a thumping beat and a strong, purposeful melody, or signal feelings of peace and serenity with a whimsical orchestral arrangement. FirstCom Music offers the largest stems library in the industry with nearly 20,000 tracks broken into layers for precision editing to make sure your VR world really comes to life.
Create an Otherworldly Gaming Experience
The only real limit of the virtual world is the imagination of the people who design it. Whether you’re going for unmatched realism, like putting your audience on the field of a pro football game, or creating a fairytale kingdom of dragons, knights, and royalty, the audio tracks you choose will have a huge impact on the effectiveness of your content. Bring your viewers to a devilish locale with suspense and horror music for virtual reality and give them a shocking experience that will leave them with nightmares for weeks to come. Magical music for fantasy production and VR is perfect for a mystical story with dragons and kings that captures your audience’s fantasies and imagination and don’t forget about sound effects.
Get the Adrenaline Pumping
When the action heats up in your game or content, you need a sound bed that will elevate your viewer’s blood pressure. Get them pumped up for that big battle with a thunderous soundtrack featuring driving beats, or up the intensity with an intense orchestral score that seems to be locked into an endless crescendo. Of course, not every game is full-blown action 100% of the time. Chill out cut music between battles is an effective way to keep your audience engaged in the story.
Give Yourself Plenty of High-Quality Options
FirstCom Music has an impressive library full of original works and genuine archival recordings. We’ve been supplying the gaming industry and VR content field with quality audio since day one. You have music needs. We have music solutions. Let’s connect.
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Ligado Amends Applications to Protect Aviation GPS Receivers
Ligado Networks LLC today filed an amendment to its license modification applications before the FCC to protect certified aviation receivers in the wake of a Transportation Department report released last month on its GPS adjacent band compatibility assessment. Under the amendment, Ligado agreed to limit its power in the 1526-1536 megahertz lower downlink band.
“Today’s FCC filing further demonstrates our commitment to protecting GPS and to being a responsible spectrum neighbor as we prepare to deliver 5G and IoT connectivity to the industries that keep America running,” a Ligado spokesperson said. “Ligado’s filing to reduce the power levels in the downlink honors the pledge the company made in 2015 to protect certified aviation GPS receivers. Today’s filing underscores our resolve to find solutions that work for both GPS and wireless services. Ligado is poised to deploy 40 MHz of mid-band spectrum to support our nation’s critical infrastructure and help the U.S. in the global race to 5G.”
In a cover letter filed with the amendment in IB docket 11-109, Ligado said that the amendment “ensures that Ligado’s proposed ATC operations will fully protect certified aviation GPS receivers, including the helicopter use case which the DOT found to be the most restrictive of the certified aviation device applications. The other evidence in the record, including the test results from the National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network study and from the Roberson and Associates testing as well as the co-existence agreements with the GPS device manufacturers, establish that other GPS devices can co-exist with Ligado’s proposed operations. Ligado is also committed to providing specific mitigation measures (including but not limited to upgrading or replacing government devices) to address concerns about potential impact on U.S. Government devices and expects a requirement to this effect.”
Ligado urged “the Commission to act on the Modification Applications expeditiously, thus unlocking billions of dollars in consumer benefits, generating thousands of American jobs and advancing U.S. leadership in spectrum technology.”
“As amended, the Modification Applications would: (1) consistent with the Department of Transportation’s analysis in its recently released adjacent band compatibility study, require that Ligado’s ATC base stations operating in the Lower Downlink Band not exceed an EIRP of 9.8 dBW (10 W) with a +/- 45 degree cross-polarized base station antenna (an additional reduction of more than 99.3% from the nominal 32 dBW EIRP maximum set forth in the Modification Applications), (2) prohibit any Ligado ATC base station antenna in the Lower Downlink Band from operating at a location less than 250 feet laterally or less than 30 feet below an obstacle clearance surface established by the Federal Aviation Administration (under 14 C.F.R. Part 77 and its implementing orders and decisions), and (3) require Ligado to comply with the reporting, notification and monitoring obligations set forth in Exhibit 1 to the amendment.”
There was no immediate comment on Ligado’s filing from the GPS Innovation Alliance, and the Aerospace Industries Association had no comment.
“CCA agrees with Ligado’s comments that mid-band spectrum offers important opportunities for deploying next generation technologies, and I encourage the FCC to make as much spectrum available as possible for commercial use,” said Steve Berry, president and chief executive officer of the Competitive Carriers Association, which counts Ligado as a member. “The overwhelming consumer demand for wireless connectivity and next generation technologies including 5G have made it more important than ever for the FCC to look at every opportunity to free up additional spectrum where possible. There is no question – access to additional spectrum will benefit the economy, competition and most, importantly, consumers, and we need access to more spectrum now.”- Paul Kirby, paul.kirby@wolterskluwer.com
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Optimizely for iOS Now Available in Public Beta
By Chrix Finne
We’re excited to announce that Optimizely for iOS, our new optimization and A/B testing SDK for native iOS apps, is now available in public beta to all new and existing Optimizely customers.
Visitors are already engaging with companies and brands across both the web and mobile apps. That’s why our world-class optimization engine is the same across both platforms. Our customers benefit from the same account management, analytics, and other features already found on Optimizely for the web.
In January 2014, mobile apps alone made up 47% of internet traffic as compared to 45% from internet browsers. This is the first time traffic from mobile apps exceeded that of desktop web, and this is just the beginning. Optimizely for iOS is fast, flexible, and scalable, just like Optimizely for the web. Here are some highlights:
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Advanced feature rollouts. Test and roll out entire features, no matter how custom or complex, using Optimizely’s advanced developer tools.
Ever since we introduced the iOS Developer Preview in March, we’ve been thrilled by the interest, support, and feedback we’ve gotten from the iOS development community. We formally unveiled Optimizely for iOS to the world in April at OptiCon, our first customer conference. As of today, Optimizely for iOS is already running on apps like Flixster (Rotten Tomatoes), Lootsy, Pocketbook, Pact, and more.
Existing customers already have access and can get started by following these setup instructions. If you’re not already a customer you can sign up today by visiting optimizely.com/mobile.
We look forward to hearing your feedback.
About Chrix Finne:
Chrix (with an ‘x’!) is a former Senior Product Manager and Mobile Product Lead at Optimizely. Previously, he was Product Manager at Google focused on Mobile Display Ads, where he was product lead for the mobile Google Display Network (GDN) as well as ads quality and pricing on the AdMob network. Chrix is a graduate of Harvard University, and is an amateur trumpet player and classical baritone.
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