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Patent application title: METHODS OF DISPENSING AND MAKING POROUS MATERIAL WITH GROWTH ENHANCING ELEMENT
Inventors: Michael Fick, Jr. (Virginia Beach, VA, US) Eric Singer (Virginia Beach, VA, US)
Assignees: General Foam Plastics Corp.
IPC8 Class: AB29C6542FI
USPC Class: 264 466
Class name: Composite article making shaping material and uniting to a preform or solidified layer against inner surface of a hollow preform or solidified layer
Patent application number: 20110115112
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Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of dispensing a porous material and to a method of making a porous material insert for various plant grow pots, plant bowls, and plant baskets, the porous material insert including a growth enhancing element integrated with and dispersed throughout the insert.
1. A method of forming a container with a foam block insert, comprising: providing a container having a major axis approximately parallel to its bottom and a minor axis at approximately a right angle to its major axis; creating a first male mold having an outer periphery cooperatively shaped to fit inside the container; creating a second female mold from the first male mold, the second female mold having an opening with inner dimensions corresponding to the outer periphery of the first male mold; dispensing a foam into the opening of the second female mold; curing the dispensed foam to form a foam block insert with outer dimensions corresponding to the opening of the second female mold, the cured foam block insert having a major axis approximately parallel to its bottom and a minor axis at approximately a right angle to its major axis; removing the cured foam block insert from the second female mold; and inserting the cured foam block insert into the container.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the amount of foam dispensed is such that a height of the resulting cured foam block is approximately twice a desired height of the insert to be used in the container, and further comprising cutting the cured foam block along its major axis to form two inserts of the desired height.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a method of forming the first male mold comprises: measuring the dimensions of the inside of the container; calculating the dimensions of the outer periphery of the first male mold to correspond to the measured inside dimensions of the container; and fabricating the first male mold according to the calculated dimensions.
4. The method according to claim 3, wherein calculating the dimensions of the outer periphery of the first male mold is performed using computer-aided design solid models.
5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the first male mold is fabricated of wood.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second female mold is vacuum-formed from the first male mold.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the vacuum-formed second female mold is polymer-based.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second female mold is machine-formed from the first male mold.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second machine-formed female mold is formed from aluminum.
10. A method of forming a container with a foam block insert, comprising: providing a container having a major axis approximately parallel to its bottom and a minor axis at approximately a right angle to its major axis; creating a first male mold having an outer periphery cooperatively shaped to fit inside the container; creating a second female mold from the first male mold, the second female mold having an opening with inner dimensions corresponding to the outer periphery of the first male mold; creating a third male mold from the second female mold, the third male mold having an outer periphery with dimensions cooperatively shaped to fit inside the second female mold; creating a fourth female mold from the third male mold, the fourth female mold having an opening with inner dimensions corresponding to the outer periphery of the third male mold; dispensing a foam into the opening of the fourth female mold; curing the dispensed foam to form a foam block insert with outer dimensions corresponding to the opening of the fourth female mold, the cured foam block insert having a major axis approximately parallel to its bottom and a minor axis at approximately a right angle to its major axis; removing the cured foam block insert from the fourth female mold; and inserting the cured foam block insert into the container; wherein the second female mold is vacuum-formed from the first male mold; wherein the third male mold is machine-formed from the vacuum-formed second female mold; and wherein the fourth female mold is machine-formed from the third male mold.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the amount of foam dispensed is such that a height of the resulting cured foam block is approximately twice a desired height of the insert to be used in the container, and further comprising cutting the cured foam block along its major axis to form two inserts of the desired height.
12. The method according to claim 10, wherein a method of forming the first male mold comprises: measuring the dimensions of the inside of the container; calculating the dimensions of the outer periphery of the first male mold to correspond to the measured inside dimensions of the container; and fabricating the third male mold according to the calculated dimensions.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the first male mold is fabricated of wood.
14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the vacuum-formed second female mold is polymer-based.
15. The method according to claim 10, wherein the fourth machine-formed female mold is constructed of aluminum.
16. The method according to claim 10, wherein dispensing the foam into the opening of the fourth female mold further comprises introducing an enhancing element into the foam.
17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the enhancing element comprises particles of a fertilizer material.
18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the enhancing element is introduced prior to a cure time of the foam.
19. A method of forming a container with a foam block insert comprising: creating a first male mold having an outer periphery cooperatively shaped to fit inside the container; creating a second female mold from the first male mold, the second female mold having an opening with inner dimensions corresponding to the outer periphery of the first male mold; introducing an enhancing element into a foam; dispensing the foam together with the enhancing element into the opening of the second female mold; curing the dispensed foam with the enhancing element to form a foam block insert with outer dimensions corresponding to the opening of the second female mold, the cured foam block insert having a major axis approximately parallel to its bottom and a minor axis at approximately a right angle to its major axis; removing the cured foam block insert from the second female mold; and inserting the cured foam block insert into the container.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/262,680, filed 19 Nov. 2009, which application is hereby incorporated by reference.
[0002] Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of dispensing a porous material that can include a growth enhancing element and, more particularly, to a method of making a porous material insert by which a growth enhancing element is incorporated into the mixture for use in various plant grow pots, plant bowls, and plant baskets.
[0003] U.S. Pat. No. 7,407,340 to Byles discloses a modular, self-contained engineered irrigation landscape and flower bed panel. The irrigation apparatus of Byles includes a substantially continuous panel of porous material extending throughout the planting area, such that the porous area has spaces to allow movement of irrigation water therethrough. The spaces are of sufficient size to allow plant roots to grow therethrough.
[0004] Methods of dispensing foam and making foam that incorporate a growth enhancing element for use in Byles, among other things, are necessary and desired. By way of example only, and without limitation, the growth enhancing element can be a plant fertilizer.
[0005] Briefly described, embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for dispensing porous material to form a porous material insert for use in a container. Embodiments of the present invention also relate to a method of making a porous material insert for a container whereby the insert contains a growth enhancing element.
[0006] The container is adapted to contain both the porous material insert and a plant, wherein the plant can grow in the container, such that it requires less watering because the porous material can absorb and dispense water as needed to roots of the plant. For example and not limitation, the container includes a grow pot, bowl, or basket. The instant method is particularly well suited to nondraining containers (i.e., containers without a drain hole) in which water would ordinarily collect and settle at the bottom of the container. The porous material insert includes foam, and, more particularly, can be a polyurethane foam. The porosity and absorption of the foam provides an efficient water-collection mechanism, which further provides a convenient water source for the plant roots which grow into the foam. And, by incorporation of a growth enhancing element into the foam, such as a plant fertilizer, a source of nutrients for the plant is further provided. The plant comprises a flower, herb, vegetable, palm, and the like.
[0007] The method of dispensing foam comprises creating a first mold. The first mold is approximately the size of the container in which the foam insert will be placed. The method also includes dispensing foam into a production mold, which is created from the first mold. For example, the production mold can be vacuum-formed from the first mold. Once the production mold is created, foam can be dispensed into the production mold, and the resulting foam can be appropriately sized for subsequent insertion into the container. For example, the created foam from the mold can be cut to a desired size for insertion into the container.
[0008] In an exemplary embodiment, the first mold can be a wooden mold that is created from and sized to fit inside the plant container. The wooden mold can be a male mold, upon which other molds can be made. From the wooden mold, a first polymer-based production mold can be created. The first polymer-based production mold can be vacuum-formed from the wooden mold. Next, a reverse mold can be created from the first polymer-based mold. The reverse mold can, for example, be an aluminum-based mold. The reverse mold can be machine formed from the first polymer-based mold. The reverse mold can be a main mold for use in creating a number of additional production molds. From the reverse mold a polymer pour mold (i.e., a second polymer-based production mold) can be machine-formed.
[0009] In an exemplary embodiment, foam can be dispensed into the polymer pour mold. The foam dispensed into the polymer pour mold can be cut to a desired size. Then, the foam insert can be placed into the bottom of a container to hold the plant. Ultimately, the plant and soil can be placed atop the foam insert.
[0010] In another exemplary embodiment, a growth enhancing element can be incorporated into the foam mixture to provide an improved growth environment for the plant. By way of example only, and without limitation, the growth enhancing element can be a plant fertilizer such as solid fertilizer pellets or granules. By mixing the enhancing element into the foam mixture before the foam is formed, the enhancing element is thoroughly dispersed throughout the foam. The combination of the foam material, which is intended to absorb water and dispense the water to the plant roots throughout the life of the plant, with the enhancing element, which is designed to release and provide nutrients to the plant when exposed to a water source, establishes an environment for stimulating and promoting plant growth.
[0011] These and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent upon reading the following specification in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
[0012] FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a photograph of a first mold, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0013] FIG. 2 illustrates a perspective view of a photograph first polymer-based of a production mold, which may be vacuum-formed from the wooden mold of FIG. 1, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0014] FIG. 3 illustrates a perspective view of a photograph of a reverse mold (e.g., an aluminum-based mold), which may be machine-formed from the first polymer-based production mold of FIG. 2, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0015] FIG. 4 illustrates a perspective view of a photograph of a polymer pour mold (i.e., second polymer-based production mold), in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0016] FIG. 5 illustrates a photograph of a finishing saw fixture, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0017] FIG. 6A illustrates a photograph of a foam insert, which is created from the polymer pour mold of FIG. 4, and which may be cut to size with the finishing saw fixture of FIG. 5, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0018] FIG. 6B illustrates a photograph of a pair of foam inserts, which are cut to size from the foam insert of FIG. 6A using the finishing saw fixture of FIG. 5, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0019] FIGS. 7A and 7B illustrate a perspective view and a cross-sectional view, respectively, of a foam insert that includes a growth enhancing element, depicted in the figures as solid fertilizer pellets, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0020] FIG. 8A depicts a conventional system for dispersing foam to create a foam block.
[0021] FIG. 8B illustrates a system for dispensing foam that incorporates a growth enhancing element for creating a foam insert sized and shaped for a particular container, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0022] FIG. 8c illustrates another system for dispensing foam that incorporates a growth enhancing element for creating a foam insert sized and shaped for a particular container, in accordance with an another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0023] To facilitate an understanding of the principles and features of embodiments of the invention, they are explained hereinafter with reference to their implementation in an illustrative embodiment. In particular, embodiments of the invention are described in the context of being a method for dispensing foam to create porous material (foam) inserts sized for containers holding plants and including the additional feature of a growth enhancing element integrated into the foam insert.
[0024] Embodiments of the invention, however, are not limited to its method in making foam inserts for containers for holding plants. Rather, embodiments of the invention can be used when a method of dispensing foam is desired, or as is necessary. Thus, the method described hereinafter as dispensing foam for containers holding plants can also find utility as a method for dispensing foam for other applications, beyond that for containers having plants.
[0025] In addition, embodiments of the growth enhancing element of the invention are described in the context of being a fertilizer additive that can be imbedded into the foam insert to provide nutrients for the plant growth in the container. In particular, the fertilizer additive can be in a solid pellet or granular form. However, the invention herein described is not limited to the use of fertilizer as a growth enhancing element. Rather, embodiments of the invention can include any additive material, whether in liquid or solid form, that can be incorporated into the foam insert and that can improve and/or alter the properties of the foam or otherwise provide a benefit to the use of foam in the container. So, it may be desirable to incorporate an additive material into the foam insert that can modify its structural properties (i.e., weight, density, stiffness, porosity), electrical properties (i.e., conductivity, resistivity), or mechanical properties (i.e., sound absorption, solubility, heat resistance, thermal expansion, insulation), just to name a few examples. The scope of the invention herein described is intended to encompass all such forms of additives.
[0026] The steps, materials, and components described hereinafter as making up the various elements of the invention are intended to be illustrative and not restrictive. Many suitable steps, materials, and components that would perform the same or a similar function as the steps, materials, and components described herein are intended to be embraced within the scope of the embodiments of the invention. Such other materials, and components not described herein can include, but are not limited to, for example, materials that are developed after the time of the development of embodiments of the invention.
[0027] Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of dispensing and a method of making foam. In an exemplary embodiment, the foam dispensed and made by the described methods can be to a specific shape and size that is tailored to fit inside a container. In some embodiments, the foam insert created by methods of the present invention can be used in a growing medium insert in various types and shapes of containers, e.g., grow pots, bowls, and baskets. The containers depicted in the exemplary embodiments presented herein are cylindrically-shaped containers, which are conventionally used as planters and the like; however, the method described herein is not limited to such containers. So, for example, a rectangular or square-shaped container could also be used without departing from the inventive scope.
[0028] A container shape can be created, such that the radius of the top of the container is approximately the same as the radius of its bottom. In addition, the container shape can be created such that its bottom radius is approximately the same as the top radius of the dispensed foam. In this manner, the foam dispensed will approximate a cylindrically-shaped insert that has a major axis parallel to the bottom of the container and a minor axis at a right angle to the major axis. Then, foam can be dispensed at approximately twice the size needed, such that the foam dispensed can be cut in half (along the major axis) to fit the container into which the foam insert is designed to be carried. This will produce two similarly-sized inserts.
[0029] In an exemplary embodiment, this can be accomplished by taking sample shots of dispensed foam created from test containers made in the desired diameter. Then, from these shots, computer aided design solid models (CADs) can be created. The test containers can be created by starting with a wooden mold, which is used to then make polymer-based molds (e.g., polyethylene molds) by vacuum forming. In some embodiments, additional molds can then be created by using the CADs to make a reverse mold for vacuum forming production molds. Preferably, the reverse mold is aluminum based.
[0030] Building on this method, another improved method in accordance with the exemplary embodiment can be used when a specific container shape is needed. To fit a customized container, the container details are initially measured and calculated to create the necessary CADs. The reverse mold can next be created by, for example, machining an aluminum-based mold for vacuum forming the final polymer-based pour molds. When creating the reverse mold, part shrinkage due to the natural expansion/contraction of the material can be contemplated and calculated for the polymer-based mold, and also for the final foam inserts. This calculated shrinkage dimension can be incorporated into the overall dimension of the reverse mold. To accommodate many container shapes, the foam can be contained by capping the mold so that the finished foam has a flat surface on both its top and bottom before cutting the foam insert (along the major axis as previously described) to the desired size.
[0031] In an exemplary embodiment, foam can be dispensed into the production mold. Foam can be dispensed from a liquid foam machine or like device, which, after dispensing the appropriate materials, and the necessary cure time, will form a foam block, shaped to fit in the inside of the container. The foam can be many types of foam, including porous material, webbed material, open-cell foam material, boned crumb rubber, polyurethane, polyethylene, combinations thereof, and the like. The foam can be made in a manner that is well understood. For example, a polyurethane foam can comprise a mixture of two primary chemicals, such as isocyanate and polyol blend, which when combined produce a chemical reaction. The two liquids are dispensed using precise gear metering pumps, which can control the quantities as necessary. Each liquid passes through a separate fluid line after which they are fed into a dynamic rotating screw-type agitator. The resulting mixture is emptied into the production mold to form the foam block. The foam reaction begins almost immediately upon the mixture of the chemicals, thus the process times may vary according to the specific formula used and the specifications of the foam product to be produced.
[0032] The "cream time" is the time from dispense of the liquid chemicals until the foam reaction begins. During this process, bubbles are formed and the mixture expands. The "set time" is the time it takes to complete the chemical reaction. The "de-molding time" is the "cure time" it takes for the foam to "set" to the touch, whereupon it can be removed from the mold for subsequent fabrication and use.
[0033] In an exemplary embodiment, a growth enhancing element can be incorporated into the foam mixture prior to the foam being introduced into the polymer pour mold (production mold). As more particularly described herein, the enhancing element can be a solid or granular form of fertilizer, which can be mixed with the liquid chemicals used to create the chemical reaction that forms the foam insert. Thus, by mixing the enhancing element before the step of curing the foam (i.e., allowing the foam to harden to the touch for handling and fabrication), a thorough disbursement of the enhancing element can be achieved.
[0034] In some embodiments, the foam inserts can be cut to the desired size by using a band saw fixture.
[0035] In some embodiments, the foam insert can be created by being dispensed in an appropriately-sized mold, which may be capped, without the need for the dispensed foam to be twice the size desired, such that a step of cutting the foam is eliminated.
[0036] Referring now to the figures, FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a first mold 100. The first mold 100 can be a male mold of the container for which the foam insert 600 will ultimately reside. In an exemplary embodiment, the first mold 100 can be made of wood.
[0037] In an exemplary embodiment, a sensing system can record and calculate the measurements of the container. Then, computer aided design solid models (CADs) can be created to represent the interior of the container. Once created, it can be used to create the first mold 100. For example and not limitation, the sensing system can read and calculate the dimensions and shape of the container to create the CADs. Then, a numerically-controlled machine can cut the first mold 100, e.g., out of wood, to match the specifications of the container.
[0038] In an exemplary embodiment, a production mold 400 (see FIG. 4) can be formed directly from the first mold 100. The production mold 400 can be polymer-based. For example and not limitation, the production mold 400 can also be constructed from other polymer materials, such as polyolefins, as well as ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) polyethylenes, low, medium, and high density polyethylenes, polyurethanes, polyamides, and copolymers, and combinations thereof. In addition, other materials, including metals such as aluminum, titanium, and the like, metal alloys, ceramics, and the like, can be used for the production mold 400, without departing from the scope of the invention.
[0039] There are many ways by which the production mold 400 can be created. In an exemplary embodiment, the production mold 400 can be vacuum-formed directly from the first mold 100, i.e., from the wooden mold such that its inner dimensions match the outer dimension of the first mold 100. Alternatively, the production mold 400 can be machine-formed directly from the first mold 100.
[0040] In another exemplary embodiment, the production mold 400 can be made via a few additional, intermediary steps. As illustrated in FIG. 2, a first polymer-based production mold 200 can be vacuum-formed from the wooden mold 100. Then, as illustrated in FIG. 3, a reverse mold 300 (i.e., an aluminum-based mold) can be created from the first polymer-based production mold 200 of FIG. 2. The reverse mold 300 can be machine-formed from the first polymer-based production mold 200. By way of example, and not limitation, the reverse mold 300 can be made from aluminum. Other methods or substances are certainly possible. The reverse mold 300 can be the main mold for a number of other production molds 400, because it can be made of metal, such as aluminum, and can withstand various environments and is not susceptible to damage from various circumstances. Next, from the reverse mold 300, as illustrated in FIG. 4, the production mold 400 can be machine-formed.
[0041] In an exemplary embodiment, after the foam has solidified or hardened, a block of foam 610 is thus formed with the appropriate shape for an insert into the desired container as depicted in FIG. 6A. Further, in this embodiment, the foam block 610 is roughly twice the height needed, thus the foam can be cut to a predetermined size. For example and not limitation, the foam can be cut in half to result in a pair of foam inserts 600 as depicted in FIG. 6B. In this manner, inserts 600 for two separate containers can be produced from a single foam block 610. It is also possible to increase the size (height) of the foam block 610 and to cut the foam into smaller increments (e.g., thirds, fourths, etc). Preferably, the foam can be cut to size via the finishing saw fixture 500, as illustrated in FIG. 5.
[0042] In an exemplary embodiment, the finishing saw fixture 500 is a system of many elements. As illustrated in FIG. 5, the fixture 500 includes a channel system 510, a holder 520, a cutting apparatus 530, a release mechanism 540, and an exiting platform 550. Depending on the size of the foam inserts 600 to be created, the holder 510 may change in size and shape. The holder 510 can be made by many means and methods, and is adapted to hold or secure the foam for cutting. The holder 510 is adapted to move along the channel system 520 from at least an insert position, to a cutting position, and ultimately to a release position. In the insert position, the formed foam 10 can be inserted in to the holder 510. The holder 510 can the slide along the channel system 520 to the cutting position. In this position the cutting apparatus 530--for example and not limitation a saw, a band saw, and the like--can slice the foam 10. Then, after the foam 10 has been cut, the holder can slide along the channel system 510 to the release position, wherein the release mechanism 540 causes the cut foam 10 to exit the holder 510 onto the exiting platform 550. The exiting platform 550 can be placed, for example, above a container for assembly in a container, shipment, quality assurance purposes, and the like. The holder 510 can then slide back along the channel system 520 to the insert position, in which the cutting process can be repeated.
[0043] A conventional method for dispensing foam to create a foam block is depicted in FIG. 8A. As shown, the mixing process 700 incorporates a combination of liquid isocyanate 710 and liquid polyol 720 is fed from two separate dispensers 730, 740 through two separate lines 750, 760 and into a mixing head 770. The mixing head 770 includes a rotating screw-type agitator 900, which vigorously mixes the two liquids 710, 720 to form a chemical reaction that creates the foam mixture 780. The foam mixture 780 then passes from the mixing head 770 to form a foam block 790 and then onto a conveyor belt 795 or (or another collection device) so that the foam block 790 can cure for the appropriate time. The resulting mixture will expand to some extent, and, after the requisite cure time, can be fabricated into various shapes and sizes by cutting the cured foam to the desired shape and size. In this process, the fabrication process takes place after the foam block 790 has cured.
[0044] An embodiment of the present invention is depicted by the process 800 in FIG. 8B. As shown, a third dispenser 810 and a third line 820 are added to the conventional assembly in which an enhancing element 830 can be introduced into the conventional mixture of the isocyanate 710 and the polyol 720. The enhancing element 830 is depicted in FIG. 8B as a solid pellet-sized fertilizer, but, as discussed above, the enhancing element 830 can be any sort of additive that can provide the desired properties. By introducing the enhancing element 830 into the mixture, and by using the rotating agitator 900 of the mixing head 770, the enhancing element 830 can be uniformly dispersed throughout the resulting foam mixture 880 as it exits the mixing head 770 to form the foam insert 610. In particular, the process is preferably performed by introducing the enhancing element 830 into the mixture 880 prior to the cream time. Thereafter, once the foam insert 610 has cured, the enhancing element 830 will remain in place throughout the foam block 890 unless and until it is intentionally dislodged or is used up in the normal course. In FIG. 8B, the foam mixture 880 is depicted as passing into the mold 400 that is made from the container such that the resulting foam block 610 is shaped to the desired container. Thus, the fabrication process is designed to occur prior to the curing of the foam.
[0045] Once the foam block 610 is cured and has been removed from the container, the foam block 610 can be cut as necessary to the desired size as depicted in FIG. 6B. The resulting foam block 610, including the enhancing element 830, is depicted in FIG. 7A. Also, a typical foam insert 600, formed by cutting the foam block 610 along the section B-B, is depicted in FIG. 7B. Because the enhancing element 830 is dispersed throughout the foam block 610, some care must be taken when the block 610 is cut since a small amount of the enhancing element 830 may become dislodged. Otherwise, the remainder of the enhancing element 810 will remain in the foam block 600 as described above.
[0046] An embodiment of the present invention is also depicted in FIG. 8c in which the third dispenser 810 and third line 820 are positioned such that the enhancing element 830 can be introduced into the process after the formation of the mixture of the liquid isocyanate 710 and the liquid polyol 720 through the lines 750 and 760, respectively. Such an embodiment offers the advantage that the enhancing element is not subjected to the forces introduced by the agitator 900 in the mixing head 770. In all other ways, the process 800 in FIG. 8c is similar to that described in FIG. 8B.
[0047] Once the foam block 610 has been cut to size, as in FIG. 6B, the foam insert 600 is created and is ready to be inserted into the container. The plant can be inserted atop the foam insert 600.
[0048] In an exemplary embodiment, the foam mixture 880 can be dispensed into a mold in which the foam block 610 is formed to match the size desired, and thus the cutting step can be eliminated. In such an embodiment, the remainder of the steps described above (except for the cutting step) can be performed in like manner to form the foam block 610.
[0049] Herein, the use of terms such as "including" or "includes" is open-ended and is intended to have the same meaning as terms such as "comprising" or "comprises" and not preclude the presence of other structure, material, or acts. Similarly, though the use of terms such as "can" or "may" is intended to be open-ended and to reflect that structure, material, or acts are not necessary, the failure to use such terms is not intended to reflect that structure, material, or acts are essential. To the extent that structure, material, or acts are presently considered to be essential, they are identified as such.
[0050] While exemplary embodiments of the invention have been disclosed many modifications, additions, and deletions can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention and its equivalents, as set forth in the following claims.
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must put up with the dryness of these communications. The stirring events at Bowling Green, freighted with the dusting of Kentucky, may soon draw me to a field affording ample scope and verge. I am kindly permitted, by a lady friend, to make the following extract from a private letter written by a soldier at Bowling Green; "Times with us have assumed quite a business air. Troops in large numbers are arriving daily, and going immediately on to the head of our army, which is at Green river. Within four miles of General Buell's forces a battle is imminent, and may be progressing at this moment. Our brigade has marching orders, but I do not know at what time we shall leave this place. Since we have been here, we have had plenty of drilling. We were temporarily placed with the Second Kentucky Regiment, under Colonel Hanson. While with him, we made a dash into the country about sixty miles through rain and mud, which I assure you took the wire edge off the boys. We were s
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Great Uprising in Eastern Kentucky. (search)
Pouring in — Prospects of a fight doubtful-- Gen. Hindman's official report of the battle of Woodville. Memphis, Dec. 27. --The latest Louisville papers received here represent that Northern troops continue to pour into Kentucky in one unceasing stream. Reliable intelligence from Bowling Green says, that appearances do not indicate an engagement, although unforeseen circumstances might precipitate a fight within eight or ten days. But a few Federals have as yet crossed Green river, and it is reported that they have gone back, and burnt the bridge. Gen. Hindman's official report of the Woodsonville fight says that Col. Terry and three Texan Rangers were killed; Lieut. Morris, of the Third Texan Rangers, was dangerously wounded; and Capt. Walker, three Rangers, and two privates of the Arkansas Battalion, were slightly wounded.--The Yankee loss was 75 killed, and the number wounded was unknown. We took eight prisoners. Kentuckians from Bourbon county, who a
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Villanova vs. Boston College, 11/25/20 College Basketball Predictions
Villanova vs. Boston College Prediction
No. 3 Villanova tips off its season tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET when it takes on Boston College from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT. Despite laying 14.5 points, are the Wildcats still a safe bet to cover the large number?
721 Villanova Wildcats (-14) at 722 Boston College Eagles (+14); o/u 143
Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
Villanova vs. Boston College Betting Prediction
The Wildcats are 19-7-1 against the spread in their last 27 neutral site games as a favorite and are 19-7-1 against the number in their last 27 neutral site games overall. While they are just 2-6 against the number in their last eight games as a favorite dating back to last season, I feel comfortable laying the wood with ‘Nova tonight based on some of Boston College’s shaky trends.
For example, the Eagles are just 1-5 against the spread in their last six games overall, are 1-5 against the number in their last six games as an underdog and have failed to cover in five of their last 17 neutral site games as a dog. For one reason or another, they’ve also struggled to cover on Wednesday as well, posting a 1-4 ATS record on that day of the week.
WEDNESDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL PREDICTION: VILLANOVA WILDCATS -14
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TPP: A Threat to United States Sovereignty
(Unedited version available on TheMadisonForum.com)
On January 7, 2016, the Northwest Georgia 912 Project; along with The Madison Forum, The John Birch Society, The Freedom & Liberty Coalition, The Constitution Party, Restore and Preserve the Constitution (The Key Is WE!), and the Canton TEA Party, hosted Mr. Tom Barksdale of IndieDems.org for his presentation on “The TPP: A Threat to United States Sovereignty.” The venue was packed with citizens who were extremely concerned about was written into this massive trade agreement that was negotiated behind closed doors and excluded the public, press, and legislators. This trade agreement will not only affect our work force and wages, food safety and labeling, pharmaceutical pricing, environmental safeguards, internet freedom, and more; but also the very sovereignty of our nation.
According to Mr. Barksdale:
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell recently told the media that he has informed the White House that it should postpone Congressional review until after the 2016 elections and even delay until Obama leaves office. Congress would almost certainly reject the pact, McConnell reportedly said, if asked to act early next year.
Meanwhile, the all three Democratic presidential candidates have come out against TPP, along with Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. A main concern of many opponents is doubt that TPP will achieve its stated goal of fostering the creation of American jobs and aiding the growth of the U.S. economy. American labor unions, for example, fear it may result in a net loss of American jobs.
Many opponents also see a threat to U.S. interests posed by the Investor-State Dispute Resolution (ISDS) provisions of TPP. IndieDems opposition stems mainly from concern about the ISDS procedures. The provisions deal a body blow to United States sovereignty, to the democratic process, and to the U.S legal justice system by establishing supra-national tribunals to resolve disputes between international corporations and the countries that are a party to the agreement.
Corporate lawyers will make up these three-member tribunals. They will act totally apart from domestic judicial systems. U.S. laws, rules, regulations and precedents will be irrelevant in these hearings.
This 2-hour session was broken into a 45 minute presentation, above video, with a 30-minute Q&A session afterward, below. We encourage you to share this information and prepare to contact your congressmen.
TPP: Full Q&A Session
Q&A (Individual Questions)
Q: Why did Rep. Tom Price support the TPP?
Q: Does Sen. Isakson really understand the TPP?
Q: Based on the fact that our two (GA) senators received money from groups supporting the TPP, that corporations stand to make a lot of money while the American people stand to lose, and that it seems to be unconstitutional; what do you recommend we do to stop this?
More information on the TPP (thanks to Jan Barton):
Sessions On TPP: ‘My Fears Confirmed’; Shut Off Fast-Track Now
Contributions by Legislator
Congress Should Not Give Obama Fast Track Authority on TPP
Boehner Got $5 million, Ryan $2 Million, McConnell $9 Million – Any Doubt Why TPA Passed?
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secret Surrender of Sovereignty
Trade Deals Like the TPP Only Benefit the One Percent
Q: Who are the lobbyists giving money to our U.S. representatives?
Q: Who created this monstrosity?
Q: Is the TPP a step toward a North American Union, which is similar to the European Union, and a step toward a one-world government?
Q: Will the TPP require more open borders so that countries and corporations in the trade agreement have more access to a cheap labor force?
Q: Are there still hidden parts to this agreement or has everything come to light?
Q: Can we expect any cost reductions from the TPP agreement?
Q: Where in the U.S Constitution is ‘agreements’ addressed?
Q: Does an up or down vote apply to all nations in the trade agreement for the TPP to be approved?
Q: Who provides the force of the gun to compel governments to pay fines awarded by the tribunal?
Q: Are there ways to bypass the TPP?
Q: How can we get the moderators of presidential debates address this?
Q: Should congressmen be required to take a test on their knowledge of the Trans Pacific Partnership?
Read more about the TPP and how, if passed by congress, it could affect our United States sovereignty, democratic process, U.S legal justice system, economic prosperity, food labeling, internet usage, and much more!
The Madison Forum
The Constitution Party of Georgia
The John Birch Society
The Canton Tea Party
The Freedom and Liberty Coalition
IndieDems
99WeVote
FlushTheTPP
INITIAL ANALYSIS BY CITIZEN.ORG
https://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-tpp-text-november-2015.pdf
HANDOUT FOR DISTRIBUTION:
http://www.flushthetpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Coalition-Prosperous-America-on-TPP-12-1-15.pdf
Filed Under: Govt Exposed, Legislative Review, Regionalism Tagged With: TPA, TPP, Trans Pacific Partnership
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Asus unveil P5E3 Premium and Rampage Formula
As the launch of Intel's X48 chipset draws nearer, Asus has announced the addition of two new motherboards, namely the P5E3 Premium and the Rampage Formula. Both boards are DDR3 only, and support 1600MHz FSB's. The P5E3 Premium includes three PCIe x16, one PCIe x1, and two PCI slots, while the Rampage Formula has two, three and two respectively. The Rampage Formula comes with Asus' SupremeFX II sound card, and Voltiminder LED.
Sapphire to equip HD 3870 X2 with GDDR4 memory
Currently, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 ships with 1GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900MHz. However, according to Fudzilla, partners plan on adding GDDR4 memory to their boards, thus resulting in clocks higher than 1000MHz. Of course, this would also result in a higher selling price, though this is a flagship product, so I guess they can get away with it. Diamond also did a similar thing to the HD 2900 XT; they were the first to release the board with 1GB of memory (which was also GDDR4).
3DMark Vantage screenshots appear
Back in late December, some screenshots appeared that were claimed to be from the next version of 3DMark (which at the time was believed to be dubbed 3DMark 08). A few days later, we learned that they were stolen from 3D artists. Today though, we actually have some official screenshots of "3DMark Vantage" from Futuremark, and they're just as good, if not better than the fakes. The three images released are all from the one benchmark - a trip through space.
Futuremark to start making games
Futuremark, a Finnish benchmarking company, has already stolen some traffic from review sites with their new graphics and processor value rankings, which is located on the YouGamers site. Futuremark has now announced plans to start challenging game developers as well. Futuremark says it will develop its latest games on the new Intellectual property, which will provide the highest quality game play. Futuremark promise it will ?deliver stellar performance even on the modest platforms.?
Crysis heading to consoles?
Crysis is the new highly demanding first person shooter from Crytek, which puts all the latest and greatest PCs to shame, if the user dares to turn the settings up. Now, the game may be heading onto consoles. Crytek have plans to show off a console version of Crysis, using the CryEngine 2, at the Game Developers Conference next month.
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Thanks Giving (I Like Peanuts!)
"I don't have a transfer...," says this sullen brother, trailing off into awkward silence. A lanky dark-skinned fellow about my age, maybe a few years younger and a few inches taller, dressed in an orange waterproof jacket which would work well as a dress on me. Rainier and Forest.
"Well, let's see," I say, noticing the oblong package he's eating from. "Are those peanuts?"
"Yup."
"Can I have some?"
Wordlessly he pours a generous handful into my open hand. "That's cool," I say. "Thank you! This is my dinner!" There is a barely perceptible smile as he begins walking to the back. "Thank you!" I exclaim again. Want to make sure he heard me say that. Partway down the aisle he stops and returns, giving me the rest of the peanuts package. Other people are getting on now, and amidst the hubbub I yell, "Thank you!!" There's a sideways nod of acknowledgement as he retreats to the rear. We continue on toward downtown.
"The next stop is Bayview, that's by Leows, and WorkSource," I say into the mic. Periodically I'll tell them to have a good night. Very important, after all!
At 4th and Pike a huge mob is waiting. I'm delighted. Here they come. The brain has to be at full attention to be present with each face, over and over, changing in seconds, each new person a human being with histories and stories of their own, having nothing to do with those who passed before or after. It's a rush. Here's my dear friend Tracy, out of nowhere, with her brother tagging along– "nice to meet you!" It is a sea wash of faces, beautiful people I've seen somewhere before, shapely fingers or tubby ones, swiping passes and tossing change. Figures with bags and gristle and style, echoes of emotions and headspaces I've lived in myself. I check the back door in the mirror. The orange jacket guy is going out, but no, he's holding for a second, indecision, looking at the stream coming in the front, and now he's coming up to me. Tracy's up front, and the mob is nigh unstoppable, but I'm happy to force it all to a halt if he wants to leave through the front doors. A lot of local chaos at the front.
"Did you wanna step out here?" I say to the man.
"I'll wait for them to get on." Shaking his head. He must have a question.
"Okay."
That can be quite a wait, as it is tonight. The tumultuous wave of humanity continues gushing in for several more minutes, a cacophony of coats and purses and textures, leathery skin and eyeliner, young bunnies in love and ticking time bombs, the tired and the hungry, the last straws and those gentle, neutral faces you can never guess about. I'm reminded of the notion that each of these people, far from being extraneous supporting characters in my blurry periphery, are in fact at the center of their own universe, with loves and losses and families and problems and dreams of their own. The sheer size of such a truth only barely exists inside my comprehension. The earth may be small, but humanity makes it enormous.
Finally they're all in. Mr. Orange steps forward. What did he want?
Just to shake my hand.
He extends his arm over someone else's head. "Ey, thank you," he says with enthusiasm, smiling wide like I'd never expect.
"Dude, thank you for feeding me!"
"No, thank you! For everything!"
"Thank you!" We're laughing now. I think he's just happy to be here, in an accepting and loving space. He says, "you have a blessed night, man!"
"You too!"
Later on in the U-District, a very pale– and very old– we're talking straight out of the bible here– homeless man pipes up from somewhere behind me. "Are you going to Ballard?"
"No. We're just a 49." I say something about the 44, and how it does go to Ballard.
"Do you have any food?"
"I do not have any food."
As he's gathering his things, medium gray and white hair swinging, loading up his elbow crooks and fingers with various bags, it occurs to me. Of course.
"Oh, wait, hey! I do! Check it out! D'you like peanuts?"
"Yes!" he exclaims.
That's two people in one night, giving away the same package of peanuts and feeling great about it. I wonder if he passed it on as well!
Banter in the Nighttime
The Nightwatch crew has just arrived. They have their tickets and directions, and are fanning out to the various shelters they've been assigned for the evening. "Next stop is Eighth Avenue," I tell them and everyone else. "By the library."
"I didn't know there was a library here!" one of them says.
"Yeah, it's just to the left. Real small, but it has a bathroom, a bunch a books,"
"It has a bathroom!" he laughs.
"You know, the essentials!"
They continue talking amongst themselves, and I listen, smiling to myself. Their conversation didn't have high-minded literacy of the exchange below, but more than made up for it with its easy humor.
"That one's real small."
"Oh, it's tiny."
"Just a room, basically. And it's dead quiet in there. You can't even fart. If you fart, you gotta turn around and run out, 'cause everyone'll know it was you."
"Well, shoot."
"It's a small library, it's not a real library."
"They got like three computers,"
"Capitol Hill has a real library, right?"
"You can't watch porn. It's just too damn quiet. Hell, you can't even talk. You can't watch porn, and you can't talk."
"Hey, did you ever run a background check on yourself? Did you know you can run a background check on yourself?"
"It's crazy, the stuff you learn. I just ran a background check on myself. I wasn't aware I've been arrested twice."
"That's 'cause you were drunk!"
"I don't drink."
"That's all the more proof that you do drink, 'cause you can't remember!"
"Apparently. Didn't know I've been arrested three times."
"I thought it was two times! You really are drunk!"
"Get outta here!"
Let Us Not Judge, That We Might Not be Judged Ourselves
"How you doin' tonight?"
"Typically!" he says. "And yourself?"
"Oh, I'm well!"
"That's excellent!" he smiles. "And syntactically correct!"
"I do my best!"
That was the first guy. With him is a second man, his friend. Both have books. I ask the first fellow what he's reading, and it's a hefty sci-fi tome of at least a thousand pages, about the export of steel across different galaxies. "Seminal stuff," as he describes it, from the great 1960s-70s period of sci-fi. "Asimov, Frank Herbert, all those guys."
"Just a little light reading!" I say.
He laughs with pleasure.
"And how about you, what do you have there?"
The second man turns up from his own book. "Oh, this is, it's about Intercultural Communications."
"Cool!"
"Yeah, it's all about the complexities of communicating between cultures, and how the studies we do can impact those communications and how we apply those results can fundamentally affect decisions people make."
"Oh wow. So it's talking about the impact of the studies themselves?"
"More how those studies are conducted."
"Ooooh."
"Yeah, how the different methods chosen can influence the results and what people do with those results."
"Tight."
Once again, just some light reading. I ask him a few more questions about it. I'm fascinated and want to look it up myself. "What's it called, the book again?"
"It's, uh. Experiencing Intercultural Communications, an Introduction. By Judith,"
I'm scribbling down the title. "Experiencing...."
"Yeah, Experiencing Intercultural Communications. By Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama."
"By Judith Martin."
"And Thomas Nakayama. Yeah, it's really good."
"Nakayama, first name Thomas?"
"Yeah."
"What made you choose this book? I mean, that's a pretty specific focus,"
"I just thought it sounded interesting. And what's really cool is, at the end of each chapter, they have like sixty or seventy citations to other books on similar subjects to what was covered in the chapter."
"Oh, that's a gold mine!"
"Yeah, so if you're interested in this or that, you can go read further, and get all in detail. Which has been super helpful."
These two were not students attending accredited universities. They were not educated businessmen. They were street people, quite possibly homeless, no different in look from so many of the huddled figures we pass on the sidewalks downtown. What was it my elementary school teacher told us when she broke down the word "assume?"
From a Healthier Slant
Two teens board at Henderson. This happened immediately after the story below. They walk to the back, then immediately turn around and walk back up, looking for seats as far away from the back lounge as possible. That's odd. It'd be pretty hard to explain this to Rosa Parks, but today's youngsters of color often do their best to avoid the front of the bus.
"We gonna sit up front," one of the boys says. They're scrunched in the two seats closest to me. "It's some nasty shit on the floor back there!"
It's a mixture of urine and malt liquor- a mixture I suggest avoiding at home! Out loud, in the interest of decorum, I say, "yeah, I don't know what that is!"
"Shit was sticky."
"Always an adventure out here!"
They laugh in solidarity. "You don't gotta clean that shit up, though, right?"
"No, I'm gonna leave it for the cleaning lady!" She'll know what to do.
The second boy chimes in with, "I know you don't gotta clean it, cause you ain't pissed off! They couldn't pay me extra to touch that shit! I'd be like, fuck that five bucks!"
They're rolling into each other, like a connected single being, arching out the same sentence in two voices. "They couldn't pay me,"
"Fuck that five bucks!"
"Couldn't pay me five to go and look at it!"
"Yeah, couldn't pay me five!"
"I'm glad it don't smell too funky," I say. "I mean, it cooouuuuuld be root beer, but...."
Boy one, choking out a laugh: "'Could be root beer,' he says!"
"How's the night been for you guys?"
They respond in a hesitant key.
"Um."
"Uh."
"Uh oh," I say.
"Yeah. Strange, pretty strange. One of the strangest nights we've ever had."
"Okay. Okay. I hope strange not in a bad way,"
"Aw, strange in all kind a ways, good, bad,"
"You got everything, the good the bad the ugly?" Don't know if they've seen the great Sergio Leone film, but I may as well recommend the title by way of subterfuge.
"Yup, the good the bad and the ugly!"
"It's getting gooder though."
"Yeah, and they was some good. The girls were good. I'd say that was the best part."
"There you go."
"'There you go,' he says. And we smoked some good weed."
"Uh huh."
"And it's getting gooder now, yeah,"
The other one continues: "and the yeah. Good always wins at the end of it. The good always outweighs the evil."
"Iss getting gooder," nods Boy Two. "This bus ride right here is all better!"
I'm interested in Boy One's thought. I continue his sentence to see if he'll elaborate. "At the end of the day,"
"Yeah. At the end of the day, there's always more good. Jus' like in the movies, you know,"
"Shit always ends up workin out," his friend explains.
Boy One says, "And I'm glad they put it in the movies like that. 'Cause it's, it's, it's,"
"Like a reminder?" I say.
"Yeah, a reminder."
"Always a light at the end of the tunnel," I say.
"Yeah, ain't no tunnel goes on forever."
"Like they say, the night is always darkest before the dawn." There I go, quoting another film.
"The night is always darkest before the dawn, you know?"
I'm so glad they both think that way. Does it even matter if it's true or not? Of course there's no way to definitively know one way or another. But if you find a perspective from which to view the universe that allows you to see and emphasize the good, to notice and contribute to the idea of a just universe, well, wouldn't that be a good thing? For the sake of one's sanity, for the sake of belief in good works? Why not work toward the decency and excellence that exist all around us, that we might appreciate it more often, and take part in it more regularly? Thank you, young boys, for your perspective. There's wisdom lurking beneath the surface.
Kate Alkarni Gallery in Georgetown is shutting down. In fact, the entire Seattle Design Center is shutting down. It was bought out. It won't be the last time you hear of Kate Alkarni Gallery, however, as she has exciting new plans for reemergence, coming back in a big way hopefully in the Spring.
Meanwhile, though, Thursday will be the last and final chance to see a show at KAG in Georgetown. I have 150 pieces at this show, and it's one of my absolute favorite shows I've ever had. If you haven't had a chance to, I urge you to take advantage of this last opportunity to see it. I'll be there from 5pm to 6:30. The show itself will continue til 9pm, but due to a prior commitment I'll have to leave at 6:30. Details and directions here.
You're in Town
There's still a face there, at the end of the line in Rainier Beach. She's in the back, on top of the rear wheel. A favorite seat of mine. Who likes to sit facing sideways, anyway?
"Hey," I say, ambling generally towards her, checking the now-empty bus for lost and found. She can't be more then thirty, abnormally thin, with large front teeth.
"Hey."
"We made it to the end." I don't like to explicitly ask them to leave without first trying the softer approach. You can get a lot done indirectly.
"Thank you." She continues to sit and shiver awkwardly, and then sheepishly pulls up her pants from down around her knees. I turn away to give her some privacy, looking around for lost and found items. The urine mixes with the enormous quantity of malt liquor on the floor, loosening up the stickiness.
All the doors are open, but we start talking. She and I walk up the aisle slowly. Her story slurs out in fits and spurts, the words blending into strange new rhythms I work to understand. Something about the DOC. Rambunctious types coming and going at Othello, where she got on. Her aunt was sick, at the bus stop, and she stayed with her as long as she could, attending to her in the local chaos.
"That's good of you, lookin' out for her."
"They was all yellin'. I'm tryna make money." Now she's slowing down, speaking softly, through a disfigured mouth. "What time is it?"
"Eleven thirty, just before eleven thirty,"
"See, everybody get paid in thirty minutes,"
"That's right, first of the month,"
"Yeah. So don't nobody care about nothin.' I been holdin it for two hours. You saw how long I was out there."
"Yeah, I think I saw you I was goin' the other way."
"They all sayin', they always talkin' 'she my homegirl, she my homegirl,'"
"Talkin' about your aunt,"
"They always like 'we love her,' callin' her homegirl, but as soon as she down, they ain't gonna do nothin. And she's my aunt. What am I gonna do? Nobody else, they don't care. Even though they be like, 'she my homegirl.'"
"Just a buncha words."
"Well, I'm glad you was there." The old LA accent slipping out unbeknownst. "You're doin' a good thing."
Earlier I had considered saying something about peeing. But is anything more unnecessary than the no peeing lecture? Every(sober)body knows that. It's all about the circumstances, and tonight her problems vastly supercede my own. As a bus driver I can certainly relate to the whole bathroom thing (see the post below!).
I stood there in the bus doors, stopped in my tracks, watching her walk away. Just another person like myself, same generation, separated only by a few choices and opportunities. There was something about the image of her pulling her pants up which deeply humbled me. Her, scrunching herself into a corner, trying to be invisible. I turned back inside. Be careful before calling something pathetic, I cautioned myself. That which is called pathetic is often beautiful, a vulnerable beauty hopelessly lost upon jaded eyes.
Tofu Spring Rolls, Comfort Stations, and Deep Breaths
I rushed in, looking for the cheap stuff. My shift (or "piece") was about to start, and I needed food. This was unusual. I usually bring lunch. There was the banh mi, the soy sauce noodles, here was the layout of sushi and bento... what was cheap? I resolved upon going full time to never open my paychecks, and continue living as if on a part-time budget. A way of staying happy.
There they were. Tofu spring rolls, "$3.99 only." Cheap. Protein. Vegetables. Perfect. I paid and ran out the door to the great and towering 7/49.
There are short routes, and there are long ones. I prefer longer ones because you're not repeating yourself so many times. Leave those ten-minute Mercer Island loops to whoever likes that stuff. The 7/49 is gigantic, serves as broad a spectrum of humanity as there exists in the city, with ons and offs the whole way. Many people use the through-route, riding for a while.*
You can guess the drawback of driving long routes, however. If nature calls, it may be another hour or more before you can use a restroom. In theory, you could pull over and find one, but are you really going to? What if there's a line at the gas station? Will the restaurant let you use it? Will this place even have– and meanwhile there's a crowd waiting on the bus, and more waiting down the street....
This was precisely the predicament I found myself in, several hours after eating the world's least digestible tofu spring rolls. It's different than being at the end of the line, wherein I believe religiously in taking the time for restrooms and exercise. More pressure. At Broadway and Roy I decided to hold it all the way to Rainier and Henderson, about 70 minutes away. I could do this. John Coltrane kicked his heroin habit through sheer force of will. This oughta be cake.
No one on the bus knew why, but my normal driving style, not slow but definitely not fast, suddenly became extremely urgent. Gone was the Nathan Approach of attempting to drive exactly the same whether on time or late, expeditious but not rushing– nope, none of that now. Too sensible. It was time to burn some rubber. "Let's get outta here, " I said into the PA as left a zone. We were hauling.
As it happens, driving like this doesn't really affect what time you get there. People think it does. Have you ever noticed when you drive home at 70 mph instead of 55, all those cars you spent so much energy passing just end up right behind you on the exit ramp? The effect is amplified on a bus, what with all the starts and stops. Rushing on a bus is generally pretty useless, not to mention rougher on the joints, and incredibly dangerous– wait, all that is too logical! I'm trying to use the bathroom here! Rational thought can wait. We flew through town like a jealous tornado, disappointing runners left and right, tearing wildly across the arterials and giving the left lane a reason to exist. My hello's and thank you's acquired a clipped roboticism that gave Kate (the automated voice) a run for her money.
After making it out to Rainier in what felt like record time but was probably only a minute or three faster, I raced over to the comfort station and used it, and used it, and used it. Oh, how lovely. How enchanting. What a beautiful world it is.
I spent the remainder of my break wandering around Saar's Market. A Muslim woman was seated on the floor, looking over the choices of pots and pans. A regular passenger greeted me in the bread aisle. The checker gave me a free paper bag, saying, "I may need a ride one day!"
On the return trip into town, I discovered I was still in urgent mode. Why? I don't know. There's something addicting about it. Once you lock in, it's a little hard to jump back into relaxation. I pressed harder than necessary on the gas, and could feel my heart racing as we took a yellow light. If you drive the bus like I normally do, you'll know this type of stress doesn't really figure in your day. I was discovering how much it changed me.
A girl got on at Genessee asking for free transfers. "Next time," I said to her and her man. "Next time?!" they muttered, accepting but nonplussed. They know me as the accommodating happy Nathan driver. Everyone down there does. "This guy's cool," I'll hear them say as they board. This girl hadn't paid, but she had acknowledged me– what more could you ask for? I need to slow down, I thought, flooring it to the next zone.
At 8th and Pike, a middle-aged man with glasses stepped aboard. "I just got off Sound Transit," he said, "and I don't have an Orca card and I'm trying to go to Wallingford. Could I ride?"
"Yeah, that sounds fine."
"Could I have a transfer?"
"Tell you what, why don't you ride my bus for free, and then pay the next bus."
"Yeah but could I have a transfer?"
I raised my hands to my head in exasperation but stopped mid-motion, my hands frozen in front of me before reaching my face. I paused for a moment. Everything was still, and I could feel the crowd– other folks getting on, him, guys sitting behind us– watching. Most of all I felt myself, watching my own behavior.
My first two years driving bus were spent at Bellevue Base and East Base. When I went straight from that to driving not just a downtown route but a trolley, every driver at Bellevue had advice for me. Much of it was very helpful (Angle into zones! Use 4-ways when doing the unexpected! Know your headways!). I remember veteran Terry nodding sagely, thinking it all over, on one of our last days relieving each other on the 245. He trained me on my very first day driving live service. We went back a bit.
"There will be days," he said finally, "when your patience will be pushed to the limit." He enunciated the phrase with a weight made real by memory and hardship. To the limit. That's all he said. He didn't offer a solution.
"Hmm," I said. I had no idea he was talking about.
In films we see protagonists reacting to high stress situations with alertness and brilliant precision, when they're at their best. You don't see them when they're not at their best. When people are chasing Matt Damon, it's never when he's underslept or has a headache or diarrhea. Life, however, is different.
I broke the electric pause by saying, "I'm having a rough night and I shouldn't be taking it out on you. I'm sorry."
"You're the shit," he said, accepting the transfer I offered, then quickly getting out of my way, perhaps thinking I might regress.
"I hope you have a better night," a man who'd been watching said as he stepped out.
Let yourself receive it, I thought. "Thank you! Thanks for saying that!"
Driving up East Pine I reflected. How had this loss of perspective happened? Wasn't I strong enough to get out of this addictive headspace, which had been entirely of my own making? It'd been a terrific night, all things considered. It hadn't been a rough night at all. Bring me back to myself, I silently asked of the passengers and the world around me. I need your help.
In moments like this I throw myself out there even further than normal. The reasoning being, if I put more of myself out there, I'll get more back. It always works. Eventually someone responds, and it helps me climb the ladder back to being myself. I'd like to get to the point of doing this independently, but sometimes you need a little push.
Into the PA, approaching John and Olive Streets: "Comin' up is Johhhhhn Street, John or Olive, depending on which way you roll... John, where you can get a 43, or an 8."
"John, where you can get a john," said the man with glasses, coming forward.
"There you go!"
"Hey, out in the U District, is the 44 still running every fifteen minutes?"
"Yeah! Well, the 44 is every fifteen till midnight,"
"Oh, tight,"
"But the 43 is only every half right now."
"Oh okay. So I can probably hop out here, score some drugs and then be on my way!"
I laughed. It sounded absurd, and yet somehow in tune with the zany, hopping madness of the neighborhood around us. "Just another Sunday night!" I said.
"Well, I hope it's a great evening!"
"Thanks! Y'ave a good night!"
Right after he left a girl with dreads and a pitbull got on, perhaps one of the heroin set that lounges outside Dick's. The dreads were tinged with red, and her face was lively and present.
"How are you tonight," she asked, preempting what I usually say to the passengers.
"My night is great! And yours?"
She winked at me discreetly and smiled, affirming that yes, it had indeed been a great night. She was so right.
Later I'd see him again, two nights later. He suffers from severe insomnia. In fact, he hadn't slept in the time between now and since we last spoke. We extolled the virtues of various parks. We like Cal Anderson, we decided, because of its community park vibe. When it's nice out, everyone in the neighborhood seems to come out. It always reminds me of Seurat's 1884 Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, come to life. He agreed. "Gas Works is great too," he said. "Like Cal but without the drugs."
*Service planners, please keep the through-route. There's no question I'm asked more often than, "do you turn into the 7?," and nothing more pleasing than to be able to say yes and see them smile in relief. Transferring, especially at night, is not fun.
Rainier & 39th, Sometime after 10pm / Thanks for that Vote!
"I'ma be real wit choo, man. You deserve to be driver uh duh year. Every time I see you you be friendly. You be gettin' out and helpin' somebody. And not jus' this year, but every single time, you be tellin' em where we at, lettin' people know. Really though. Dude. If it was a vote, I'd be votin' for you."
He came all the way from the very back to say that, this kid. He'd stalked up here from the nether regions of the bus, pulling his headphones down around his neck, this adolescent boy dressed in classic thuggy teen gear, visually indistinguishable from the thoughtless, glum and confrontational youth persona we're all familiar with, the fellow you're supposed to be wary of on your walk home.
But here he was, one of the very same, sharing such unabashedly unhip praise. I don't know specifically what inspired him. I'd just hopped out of the bus to help a Latino boy learn how to use the bike rack. Of course I blush at his kind words, but I'm blown away less by what he said than the fact that he felt the need to say it, to walk all the way up here and go to the trouble of expressing his adamant approval for those most utterly uncool of attributes– decency, graciousness. Altruism.
Who says virtues are lost on the youth?
Once again, regarding my current show, which is one of my all-time favorites and one of the better shows I've ever been in, is closing! Last chance to see 150 small works! I'll be there from 5pm to 6:30 only. Stop on by if you can!
And much more importantly, THANK YOU, you lovely Seattle voters, for voting yes on buses! Without knowing it, this boy thanks you. The great human collective thanks you, the churning organism that keeps this city alive, the fastest-growing city in the nation. No major city doesn't also have an excellent transit infrastructure, and no city with a great rail network doesn't also have killer bus service. Seattle doesn't just need to preserve its system, but to expand, and this measure allows for that. Incredibly, we'll finally be looking at service changes that aren't just a bunch of reductions. People working in the off hours or unusual commutes will be able to keep their jobs, allowing the city to keep thriving. I'll be able to continue the blog, to keep riding the bus everywhere, and I won't be laid off! Honestly, how can I thank you enough?
The new service hours will largely go into maintaining the current network and beefing up existing service with added runs and frequency. But look also for a possible split of the C and D with new service on those routes to South Lake Union and SODO, as well as extending the daytime 70/71-series express pattern into the evenings and Sundays. Details here. For myself, I'd love to see some more wire! And the 280 restored! One can hope!
Expectations / Revised Closing Show Hours
"Please, don't bust a cap in my ass," he said with a sigh, stepping on.
"I'm not going to bust a cap in you. In fact, I'm gonna give you a transfer!"
"Man, Thank you! I appreciate choo!"
I would too, if someone, instead of shooting me, elected to give me a a nice blue piece of paper. Definitely what we'd call the preferred alternative. I've never had someone thank me for refraining to bust a cap in their ass!
IMPORTANT: The last chance to see my current show, which contains 150 pieces of new work by me, is on Thursday, November 20. This Closing Show is from 6pm to 9, and it's free as always.
UPDATE: I will not be there for the entire show. Due to a prior commitment, I will be present only from 5pm (before the show starts, but the gallery will be open) until 6:30. Of course I'd prefer it if you came then! Hope you can make it!
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(AUBRECHT C. et al., 2008) A global map of urban extent from nightlights (ZHOU Y. et al., 2015) A global poverty map derived from satellite data (ELVIDGE C.D. et al., 2009) A green light for efficiency (GASTON K.J., 2013) A laboratory experiment to determine the dispersal response of Atlantic salmon (... (RILEY W.D. et al., 2015) A lunar cycle in zooplankton (MACIEJ GLIWICZ Z., 1986) A lunar rhythm in the foraging activity of northern water snakes (Reptilia: Colu... (ANDREADIS P.T., 1997) A model of phototaxis and its evaluation with anuran populations (HAILMAN J.P., 1976) A new astronomical method for determining the brightness of the night sky and it... (SCIEZOR T., 2013) A new measurement of the absolute spectral reflectance of the moon (LAWRENCE S.J. et al., 2003) A new roadway lighting measurement system (ZHOU H. et al., 2009) A new source for high spatial resolution night time images — The EROS-B commerci... 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(OSORIOA D. & VOROBYEV M., 2008) A Review of the Impact of Artificial Light on Invertebrates (BRUCE-WHITE C. & SHARDLOW M., 2011) A review of the theoretical and numerical approaches to modeling skyglow: Iterat... (KOCIFAJ M., 2016) A Saturated Light Correction Method for DMSP/OLS Nighttime Satellite Imagery (LETU H. et al., 2012) A scale-adjusted measure of “Urban sprawl” using nighttime satellite imagery (SUTTON P.C., 2003) A sharper image? Estimates of the precision of nighttime lights as a proxy for e... (NORDHAUS W. & CHEN X., 2014) A Simple Computer Model for the Growth of Light Pollution (PIKE R., 1976) A study on effect of altered circadian rhythm in the development of obesity (KATE N.N. et al., 2012) A Study on Energy Saving and Light Pollution of LED Advertising Signs (HO C.Y. et al., 2012) A study on the risk perception of light pollution and the process of social ampl... 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(GRANT R. et al., 2012) An assessment of ‘turtle-friendly’ lights on the sea-finding behaviour of logger... (ROBERTSON K. et al., 2016) An atmospheric radiation model for Cerro Paranal - I. The optical spectral range (NOLL S. et al., 2012) An Estimate of Avian Mortality at Communication Towers in the United States and ... (LONGCORE T. et al., 2012) An Experimental Comparison of Screech Owl Predation on Resident and Transient Wh... (METZGAR L.H., 1967) An improved method for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical thickness from the V... (MCHARDY T.M. et al., 2015) An improved method of night-time light saturation reduction based on EVI (ZHUO L. et al., 2015) An owl's eye: Schematic optics and visual performance inStrix aluco L. (MARTIN G.R., 1982) Analyse de l’effet de la gestion de l’éclairage public sur l’activité des Chirop... (VERNET A., 2014) Analyse des incidences des éclairages artificiels sur la sélection des gîtes de ... 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(HORVATH G. et al., 2014) Anthropogenic sounds differentially affect amphibian call rate (SUN J.W.C. & NARINS P.M., 2005) Apparent Effects of Light Pollution on Singing Behavior of American Robins (MILLER M.W., 2006) Applicability of mesopic factors to the driving task (GIBBONS R.B. et al., 2015) Applied scotobiology in luminaire design (DICK R., 2014) Après plusieurs mois sans éclairage public, la commune de Rebecq passe à la vite... (ANONYME, 2015) Arrêté du 25 janvier 2013 relatif à l'éclairage nocturne des bâtiments non résid... (MINISTÈRE EN CHARGE DE L'ÉCOLO..., 2013) Arthropod phototaxis and its possible effect on bird strike risk at two Namibian... 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(JUSTICE M.J. & JUSTICE T.C., 2016) Attraction of nocturnal insects to street lights : a study of municipal lighting... (EISENBEIS G. & HASSEL F., 2000) Attraction of Nocturnal Migrants by Lights on a Television Tower (COCHRAN W.W. & GRABER R.R., 1958) Attraction of petrels to artificial lights in the Canary Islands: effects of the... (RODRÍGUEZ A. & RODRÍGUEZ B., 2009) Attraction to light – from how far do moths (Lepidoptera) return to weak artific... (TRUXA C. & FIEDLER K., 2012) At–Sea Behavior Varies with Lunar Phase in a Nocturnal Pelagic Seabird, the Swal... (CRUZ S.M. et al., 2013) Au premier top... 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(FALCHI F. et al., 2011) Lion proximity, not moon phase, affects the nocturnal movement behaviour of zebr... (TRAILL L.W. et al., 2016) Loche d'étang (BENSETTITI F. & GAUDILLAT V., 2004) Locomotor and light responses of larvae of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemu... (RUDLOE A., 1979) Long-Term Effects of Chronic Light Pollution on Seasonal Functions of European B... (DOMINONI D.M. et al., 2013) Long-term study of gamete release in a broadcast-spawning holothurian: predictab... (MERCIER A. et al., 2007) Loos-en-Gohelle : mise en lumière des terrils, la bonne idée n’en était pas une... (CRÉPELLE E., 2015) Loss of the Night (HERBORT-VON LOEPER C., 2011) Loss of the Night (HÖLKER F. & TOCKNER K., 2009) Loutre d'Europe (BENSETTITI F. & GAUDILLAT V., 2004) Low levels of light pollution may block the ability of male glow-worms (Lampyris... (BIRD S. & PARKER J., 2014) Low-illumination prey detection by squirrel treefrogs (BUCHANAN B.W., 1998) Lucane cerf-volant (BENSETTITI F. & GAUDILLAT V., 2004) Lumière artificielle : une pollution qui coûte cher (BORDAGE F., 2014) Luminance-Corrected 3D Point Clouds for Road and Street Environments (VAAJA M.T. et al., 2015) Luminance-dependent visual processing enables moth flight in low light (SPONBERG S. et al., 2015) Lunar Condition Influences Coyote (Canis latrans) Howling (BENDER D.J. et al., 1996) Lunar cycle effects on sleep and the file drawer problem (CORDI M. et al., 2014) Lunar landings—Relationship between lunar phase and catch rates for an Australia... (LOWRY M. et al., 2007) Lunar orientation in a beetle (DACKE M. et al., 2004) Lunar Periodicity of Aquatic Insects in Lake Victoria (CORBET P.S., 1958) Lunar phobia in a neotropical fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis (Cheroptera: Phyll... 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(ALBERS S. & DURISCOE D., 2001) Modeling population density with night-time satellite imagery and GIS (SUTTON P., 1997) Modeling the night-sky radiances and inversion of multi-angle and multi-spectral... (KOCIFAJ M., 2014) Modelling and Optimization of Solar Light Trap For “Reducing and Controlling” Th... (NARASIMHA REDDY M.R. & SRINIVAS GOUD A., 2015) Modelling artificial night-sky brightness with a polarized multiple scattering r... (KEROLA D.X., 2006) Modelling of light pollution in suburban areas using remotely sensed imagery and... (CHALKIAS C. et al., 2006) Modelling the population density of China at the pixel level based on DMSP/OLS n... (ZHUO L. et al., 2009) Modelling the spectral behaviour of night skylight close to artificial light sou... (KOCIFAJ M., 2010) Modifying the built environment: the impact of improved street lighting (HERBERT D. & DAVIDSON N., 1994) Moins de pollution lumineuse rime avec économie financière (ANONYME, 2015) Molecular evolution of color vision in vertebrates (YOKOYAMA S., 2002) Monochromatic phase curves and albedos for the lunar disk (LANE A.P. & IRVINE W.M., 1973) Moon and sun compasses in sandhoppers rely on two separate chronometric mechanis... (UGOLINI A. et al., 1999) Moon-related surface activity of bannertail (Dipodomys spedabilis) and fresno (D... (LOCKARD R.B. & OWINGS D.H., 1974) Moonlight Drives Ocean-Scale Mass Vertical Migration of Zooplankton during the A... 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(LYYTIMÄKI J., 2013) Navigational Efficiency of Nocturnal Myrmecia Ants Suffers at Low Light Levels (NARENDRA A. et al., 2013) Ne plus avoir peur de la nuit (ASSOCIATION FRANÇAISE D'ASTRON..., 2012) Near infrared light pollution measurements in Croatian sites (ANDREIC Z. et al., 2012) Nested case–control study of night shift work and breast cancer risk among women... (HANSEN J. & LASSEN C.F., 2012) Nesting ecology, current status and conservation of sea turtles on an uninhabit... (ANTWORTH R. et al., 2006) Neural coding underlying the cue preference for celestial orientation (EL JUNDI B. et al., 2015) Neural Summation in the Hawkmoth Visual System Extends the Limits of Vision in D... (STÖCKL A.L. et al., 2016) New device for monitoring the colors of the night (SPOELSTRA H., 2014) New Framework of Sustainable Indicators for Outdoor LED (Light Emitting Diodes) ... (JÄGERBRAND A.K., 2015) New light for old eyes: comparing melanopsin-mediated non-visual benefits of blu... (SCHMOLL C. et al., 2014) Night and crepuscular mosquitoes and risk of vector-borne diseases in areas of p... (SUAREZ-MUTIS M.C. et al., 2009) Night irradiance and synchronization of lunar release of planula larvae in the r... (JOKIEL P.L. et al., 1985) Night Landscapes: A Challenge to World Heritage Protocols (LOVERIDGE A. et al., 2014) Night light alters menstrual cycles (LIN M.C. et al., 1990) Night Migrant Fatalities and Obstruction Lighting at Wind Turbines in North Amer... (KERLINGER P. et al., 2010) Night noise guidelines for Europe (HURTLEY C., 2009) Night on Earth: Mapping decadal changes of anthropogenic night light in Asia (SMALL C. & ELVIDGE C.D., 2013) Night or darkness, which intensifies the feeling of fear? 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(DOLL C.N.H. et al., 2000) Night-time lighting alters the composition of marine epifaunal communities (DAVIES T.W. et al., 2015) Night-time lights of the world: 1994–1995 (ELVIDGE C.D. et al., 2001) Nighttime light level co-distributes with breast cancer incidence worldwide (KLOOG I. et al., 2010) Nighttime lights and population changes in Europe 1992-2012 (ARCHILA BUSTOS M.F. et al., 2015) Nighttime Lights Compositing Using the VIIRS Day-Night Band: Preliminary Results (BAUGH K. et al., 2013) Nocturnal activity of Lesser Kestrels under artificial lighting conditions in Se... (NEGRO J.J. et al., 2000) Nocturnal behavior reduces predation pressure on Black-vented Shearwaters Puffin... (KEITT B.S. et al., 2004) Nocturnal emergence of hatchling sea turtles: control by thermal inhibition of a... (MROSOVSKY N., 1968) Nocturnal emergence of juvenile rainbow trout from winter concealment relative t... (CONTOR C.R. & GRIFFITH J.S., 1995) Nocturnal feeding of young by urban peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) in Wars... (REJT L., 2001) Nocturnal feeding under artificial light conditions by Brown-hooded Gull (Larus ... (LEOPOLD M.F. et al., 2010) Nocturnal hunting by peregrine falcons at the Empire State Building, New York C... (DECANDIDO R. & ALLEN D., 2006) Nocturnal illumination and night flying insects (NOWINSZKY L., 2004) Nocturnal light environments and species ecology: implications for nocturnal col... (VEILLEUX C.C. & CUMMINGS M.E. , 2012) Nocturnal Light Exposure Impairs Affective Responses in a Wavelength-Dependent M... (BEDROSIAN T.A. et al., 2013) Nocturnal light pollution and underexposure to daytime sunlight: Complementary m... (SMOLENSKY M.H. et al., 2015) Nocturnal provisioning by Swainson’s thrush (BALL J.R. et al., 2011) Nocturnal vision (WARRANT E.J., 2008) Nocturnal Vision and Landmark Orientation in a Tropical Halictid Bee (WARRANT E.J. et al., 2004) Non-Visual Effects of Light on Melatonin, Alertness and Cognitive Performance: C... (CHELLAPPA S.L. et al., 2011) Not-So-Bright Lights, Big City (GOODYEAR S., 2014) Note méthodologique pour la réalisation des cartes de bruit des grandes infrastr... (TOUSSAINT L. et al., 2011) Nous ne dormons pas la nuit (RIHA S. et al., 1991) Nouveau - Glowee, l’éclairage bioluminescent (TÉLÉMATIN, 2015) Nouvel atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de France, 1985-1989 (YEATMAN-BERTHELOT D. & JARRY G., 1994) Novel approaches for energy efficient solid state lighting by RGB organic light ... (THEJOKALYANI N. & DHOBLE S.J., 2014) Nuée d'éphémères attirés par les lumières et écrasés par les voitures (NATURE DÉTRUITE, 2016) Nuisances occasionnées par un éclairage public. 13e législature (SÉNAT, 2009) Nuit Blanche (BURGHARTZ B., 2014) Nuit, biodiversité nocturne, pollution lumineuse : la population interrogée (ASSOCIATION ÉCOCITOYENS DU ... & SORDELLO R., 2016) Nutrition in the spotlight: metabolic effects of environmental light (VERSTEEG R.I. et al., 2016) Obesity: Heavy sleepers (OWENS B., 2013) Objets volants nocturnes identifiables (OVNI) (CPIE VAL D'AUTHIE, 2008) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE... & ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2009) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2009) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2009) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2009) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2010) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2010) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2010) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2010) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2011) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2011) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2011) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2011) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2012) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2012) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2012) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2012) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2013) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2013) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2013) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2013) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2014) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2014) Obscuritas noctis (ASSOCIATION POUR LA SAUVEGARDE..., 2014) Observation techniques that minimize impacts on wildlife and maximize visitor sa... (WOLF I.D. & CROFT D.B., 2012) Observations of the Polarized Light From Stars (HALL J.S., 1949) Observations on Bird Migration at Milwaukee (KUMLIEN L., 1888) Observations on the nocturnal activity of the habu with special reference to the... (YAMAGISHI H., 1974) Observing other pedestrians: Investigating the typical distance and duration of ... (FOTIOS S. et al., 2014) Observing stress of artificial night lighting on marine ecosystems – a remote se... (AUBRECHT C. et al., 2010) Oedicnème criard (ANONYME, 2013) On the feasibility of inversion methods based on models of urban sky glow (KOLLÁTH Z. & KRÁNICZ B., 2014) On the relation between zenith sky brightness and horizontal illuminance (KOCIFAJ M. et al., 2015) On-premise commercial sign lighting and light pollution (GARVEY P.M., 2005) On-road experiment to assess drivers’ detection of roadside targets as a functio... (REAGAN I.J. et al., 2015) Ontogeny of migratory orientation in the savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwiche... 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Document " Deuxième Plan National Santé-Environnement (PNSE 2) 2009-2013 "
Thème du document :
Nuit menacée - Bruit - Effets sur l'Homme (santé, sommeil, vieillissement)
Groupe biologique :
MINISTÈRE DE L'ÉCOLOGIE, DE L'ÉNERGIE, DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE ET DE LA MER
MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ ET DES SPORTS
MINISTÈRE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE
MINISTÈRE DU TRAVAIL, DES RELATIONS SOCIALES, DE LA FAMILLE, DE LA SOLIDARITÉ ET DE LA VILLE
Lien contenu/source :
http://www.sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/PNSE2.pdf
Citation courte :
Ministère de l'écologie, de l'énergie, du développement durable et de la mer et al. (2009)
Citation complète (format NuitFrance) :
MINISTÈRE DE L'ÉCOLOGIE, DE L'ÉNERGIE, DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE ET DE LA MER, MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ ET DES SPORTS, MINISTÈRE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE & MINISTÈRE DU TRAVAIL, DES RELATIONS SOCIALES, DE LA FAMILLE, DE LA SOLIDARITÉ ET DE LA VILLE (2009). Deuxième Plan National Santé-Environnement (PNSE 2) 2009-2013. 10 pages.
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Identifiant NuitFrance :
NF-BIBLI-944
Permalien de la fiche NuitFrance :
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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2614 is to be kept in a locked container in the personal office of Dr. Schmidt. Requests to research SCP-2614 must be forwarded to his office.
Description: SCP-2614 is a DVD copy of the fifth season of the television drama The Sopranos. The disc itself is moderately scratched, consistent with deterioration after heavy use. The object does not bear any marks of origin, although the word "BOOKSHELF" written in black marker obscures the title logo on the top face.
When played, SCP-2614 is non-anomalous unless an action is performed during a scene where a character is watching the film █████ ██████. If the Play button is pressed on any working remote device, the viewer is granted control of the camera view through the device's directional pad and the center button used for forward movement. The camera is free-moving and fully maneuverable. Upon the performance of this action, it is not possible to revert to the previous non-anomalous state without ejecting the object and thoroughly cleaning with isopropyl alcohol.
After assuming control of the camera, the show's setting will begin to elapse in real time. As such, characters have been observed to continue interacting after what would normally have been a scene transition. It is not possible to fast-forward or rewind. Judging by the apparent in-universe date at the outset, the user would have to wait three days and fourteen hours and navigate the camera to a strip club known to be frequented by associates of the DiMeo Family, in order to be present for the next chronological broadcast scene.
The POV cannot pass through solid objects. If maneuvered out of the Soprano residence, it is theoretically possible to ascend to deep space, although this is not feasible given the rate of travel.
The movement of this observational point is not bounded in three dimensions. Recent research has succeeded in navigating the camera to Boston, MA. It appears that the world depicted contains numerous cities populated by actual individuals. However, despite the show's realism, its own stylistic flourishes and nature as a television show — such as major characters being unusually audible in social settings — continue to be apparent. These, which might be referred to as "meta-anomalies", are not acknowledged by characters or "bystanders."
The POV itself cannot manipulate the environment but is capable of entering the settings of other visual media if it is directed to move into an in-universe television or computer screen until the image occupies the entire field of view. From that point, the camera can be navigated into other screens in that setting, and so on potentially indefinitely.
Researchers concede the impossibility of fully mapping these mimetic universes, although efforts are ongoing. Since these mediums can potentially differ radically from their parent universe - such as actors existing as their actual character portrayal - it is possible to enter alternate or unknown media.
What follows is a transcript log of mimetic travel and accounts of what can be referred to as extra- or supra-canonical material.
+ Preliminary Testing
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Universe: The Sopranos
Description: First recorded experiment after discovery of effect. POV directed to a bookshelf in the Sopranos living room where a note written in a journal pad is clearly legible. It reads, "Art is the emanation of Man, Man the Emanation of Nature, God the Grandfather of Art."
Description: POV ordered to remain in place at starting point for exactly ten hours, during which Tony Soprano retires to bed and awakes at 7 AM. He subsequently becomes agitated at the lack of a brand of orange juice drink in the refrigerator. This scene is not present in the show.
Description: POV is navigated out of the Sopranos residence through an open window in the second-floor bathroom. The night sky is cloudy, and does not match corresponding meteorological records of that date. POV is able to break cloud cover and move indefinitely upwards if it is so desired.
+ Home Universe and Alternate Property Logs
Description: POV was placed in Soprano bathroom. Character Tony Soprano observed to have sobbed in shower. This is not mentioned in the original plotline.
Description: POV moved to the residence of character Christopher Moltisanti, a protégé and nephew of Tony Soprano. Character is observed to go on an alcohol binge and shout profanities directed at his uncle. This is not depicted in the original broadcast.
Universe: The Wizard of Oz
Description: POV was maneuvered to the local Newark Library where a child was watching the film on a desktop computer. POV traveled east for ██ days before entering what appears to be an outer-space void colored pink and yellow.
Universe: Snow White
Description: POV maneuvered from Dorothy character's Kansas Home to a private showing of the Disney film in Denver. POV was subsequently directed upwards, and once having gained a sufficient altitude, descended on a continent east of the events of the film. In this continent, researchers discovered a young man in combat with a boar-like creature. It was revealed the princess' stepmother is a dark sorceress and had been manipulating the events to ensure the crown for her youngest son. As there are obviously no television sets in this setting, testing was suspended and resumed in home universe.
Universe: The Simpsons
Description: Found in home located in Soprano neighborhood. When POV is directed out of Springfield, researchers discovered characters in the style of rival show Family Guy, which has been justified in the crossover event that aired ten years after initial airing of the anomalous Sopranos episode. The programs' respective "cartoon physics" have been observed to cause considerable environmental and occasionally urban devastation.
Universe: The Jetsons
Description: Found in the home of former DiMeo Family boss Corrado Soprano. POV was immediately directed to descend beneath the setting's thick atmospheric cloud cover. Researchers discovered what appears to be a 1950s-era archetypal American family referred to as "the Jacksons" that live in a WASP suburban community inoculated from the planet's toxic atmosphere. The Jacksons family members correspond roughly to the character types in The Jetsons and The Flintstones.
Universe: Last Temptation of Christ
Description: Found playing in DiMeo Family associate Bobby Baccialeri's residence. After the final scene, after which a crucified Jesus proclaims "It is done!" and the screen flickers to white, the credits did not play. POV was ordered to move forward. As there was no way to gauge movement, researchers were ordered to place an object on the center button overnight. Upon their return, POV was revealed to have been stopped in front of a luminescent female figure. [DATA EXPUNGED]
Universe: Goodfellas
Description: POV ordered to inspect the cockpit of a helicopter Ray Liotta's character fears to be the federal authorities. Upon inspection, helicopter pilot revealed to be a civilian.
Universe: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Description: Researchers were able to discover a second terrestrial Monolith in the ocean supposedly linked to an Atlantis-like civilization after entering a researcher character's office and perusing all readable material.
Description: Above experiment repeated, but POV entered the film during the infamous "Star Child" sequence. POV subsequently unable to move. View appeared to be moving through a vortex of visually distorted nature scenes. [DATA EXPUNGED]
Universe: Gladiator
Description: Encountered playing in the home of a character known for his love of the film. When entered, POV traveled to southern Antioch to see the earliest Christian churches. The churches themselves were considerably more elaborate and lavish than their real-world counterparts, typical of Rome's depiction in the actual film.
+ Alternate Media Log
Universe: Trailer for the film "Troy" on the Sopranos television set
Description: Following discovery of ability of POV to enter other settings, camera is directed into a movie trailer for the film "Troy" during a scene in which Achilles is shouting to inspire his men. The scene continues as if POV had entered the actual film.
Universe: Commercial for a brand of laundry detergent
Description: As commercial runtime was 24 seconds, researchers observed a "wall" or area of white space advancing at a slow rate from the west of the commercial setting. Researchers reported conditions in the city as becoming increasingly violent and chaotic. Researchers have been advised to not enter commercial broadcasts due to distress experienced by apparent inhabitants.
Universe: MP3 Visualization on Windows Desktop Computer
Description: POV directed into computer screen playing a Windows Media music visualization. Researchers discovered a dark blue void in which it was possible to discern moving waveforms in the distance. It is believed these other waveforms consist of visualizations being played on other screens.
Universe: Music Video
Description: POV directed into computer screen playing a music video depicting artists at an extravagant beach party. Due to the video's stylistic direction, the setting appeared in eclectic colors. POV remained immobile for six hours. Researchers observed the sky turning from greenish-teal to yellow-red to a highly unusual dark shade of color called "Stygian blue" which appears as a luminescent dark blue.
+ Nested Mimetic Log
Universe: Sandman
Description: Sandman is an exceedingly popular serial drama in the Sopranos universe. Carmela Soprano has been observed to speculate on the show's plot trajectory with friends and acquaintances, although it is never mentioned in the original program. The show follows a reformed cartel enforcer, Jamie "Sandman" Guiterrez, seeking to relocate his family after his incarceration and inoculate his younger brothers from drug and gang influence. When entered, during a scene in which Jamie Guiterrez's younger brother is seen purchasing methamphetamines in a dilapidated home, researchers discovered a journal pad note near the mattress bed of a heroin addict. The note read, "THERE WAS NO GOD HERE, THOUGH I CRIED, I FOUND HIS SHADOW, AND COULD NOT DIE". Researchers initially believed this to be diegetic and referring to the squalor of the building.
Universe: Caroline, Caroline
Description: Caroline, Caroline is a popular, long-running television show in the Sandman universe similar in convention to shows such as The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy. Caroline is presented as a southern belle who moved to New York after marrying an oil tycoon. When entered at an establishing shot of the titular character's apartment building, the setting appeared to have been uninhabited. Researchers could find no signs of life in either the city itself or upstate New York.
Universe: Snakebite
Description: Slasher film found to be playing in abandoned suburban home in the Caroline, Caroline setting. Entered during a scene in which the killer, a mentally deranged farmer with fangs, corners the main character in a swamp. Upon entering, both characters turn to look directly at the POV and remain unresponsive from that point forward. All characters have been shown to behave in this way. POV directed out of Bayou Louisiana into a local movie theater. All persons encountering the camera followed its movement.
Universe: ██████
Description: Romantic film found to be playing in theater during a scene set in a diner. When entered, diner's lights reverted to a deep red color. All in-universe lighting is affected. City appears uninhabited. Sky is black and devoid of stars, although a dark red glow has been observed on the horizon in all directions. [DATA EXPUNGED]
Universe: Static
Description: As all television sets in previous setting were tuned to static, researchers opted to enter a screen in a hospital waiting room. Once inside, pressing the center button would resolve the visual snow into an image, as if the POV was moving through a "cloud" or "field" of static. POV eventually appears in a brightly lit hallway (see attached file). All directional movement is restricted except for forward travel. As the POV advances, the image becomes more saturated [DATA EXPUNGED].
DATA CONCURRENT WITH PATAPHYSICAL HYPERMODEL: DMRG
ALL RESEARCH PERSONNEL ARE EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN FROM REPEATING ABOVE PROCEDURE ON PAIN OF POTENTIAL TERMINATION.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Education for Vulnerable Children
COVID-19, SEED C.A.R.E.S, Blog, News
As part of SEED’s response to COVID19, our team got straight to work to fully understand the challenges emerging from closures of the 715+ SEED Schools in Lagos, Nigeria. Increase in number of COVID-19 cases and extension of lockdown days has now pointed to the fact that schools are not physically resuming anytime soon. On 22 April 2020, the Hon. Commissioner for Education in Lagos State, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, issued a press statement that third term remains postponed, however private schools can continue remote teaching so that students continue to learn. We are not against online/remote learning, but what about the vulnerable children amongst us that attend low-cost private schools (often regarded as “private schools for the poor”) that are not government funded.
Low-cost private schools in Lagos State accounts for over 60% (about 12,000) of the schools and educate millions of children from very poor communities. These schools typically survive from “hand to mouth” as they depend on the meager fees they receive from poor parents mostly on daily, weekly or monthly basis. Many of these schools were already facing other challenges prior to this crisis. For instance, most of the schools in Education District 5 (Badagry axis) had been adversely affected by the Benin border closures. Many of their parents’ incomes, which are mostly tied to border activities, had been negatively impacted.
Today, Nigeria has the largest number of extremely poor people in the world, has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world (13.2 million) and 4 out of 5 persons aged 15-24 are unable to read a full sentence. According to the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu during his 2020 budget presentation, “Lagos faces an existential threat arising from the interplay of demographic and climate change. Lagos will continue to be a magnet for multitudes within and outside Nigeria, in search of jobs and economic prosperity. These levels of migration put phenomenal strain on the physical and fiscal resources of the State”. This infrastructure includes public schools. The growing population of the state and the market forces for education is responsible for the emergence and growth of low-cost private schools.
Education is way out of for many to escape poverty and SEED remains committed to ensuring quality education for all children. SEED supports schools that serve children from low-income families to build lasting pathways towards improving education quality. We work with schools to ensure to ensure they have the capacity to tackle the most common obstacles that stand in the way of providing quality education to local communities. We envision a world with transformative schools that enable children, no matter their background, to thrive and succeed. To date, SEED has served 715 schools with 5,986 staff and 65,170 children.
It is a struggle to find 1 out of 10 of my parents that have a smart phone and is online. Some that have an smart phone don’t stay with their children. The children are with their grandparents. I have thought of sending the children printed worksheets but I surely cannot sustain it because of cost as parents cannot pay anything right now. They are struggling with hunger. For now honestly, I am open to other suggestions that can help me keep them busy till after the lockdown. It seems we will be at home for a while. I sincerely hope that my school can survive this. Please come to our aid.
Anonymous, A SEED School
School Resilience Conversations
SEED embarked on a 3-Day conversation (18th – 20th April 2020) with our School Owners/Leaders via WhatsApp. The outcome of these conversations has been analyzed using the SWOT tool to provide an aggregated picture of what is at stake for most of the low-cost private schools in Lagos State that serve these vulnerable children.
Goal: To ensure that children from low-income families continue to learn despite the school closures.
Strengths Weaknesses
Unwavering commitment to the students they serve who are fighting their way out of poverty.
Good relationship with parents through the Parents-Teachers-Association (PTA).
Partnership with the local community.
Poor digital literacy of School Owners/Leaders and Teachers.
Poor financial state (little or on cash reserves) to meet up with funding requirements for salaries, fixed costs, infrastructure (smart phones, data, etc.), communications, and other expenses for remote teaching.
Poor (incomplete or not up-to-date) data of parents.
Lack of motivation of teachers to take up remote teaching due to non-payment of salaries and job insecurity.
Opportunities Threats
The free Radio & TV school options provided by the Lagos State Ministry of Education.
Low-Tech tools that can be deployed easily e.g. WhatsApp, FacebookLite, etc.
Free and easy-to-use Tech tools that can be deployed e.g. Google Classroom, Edmodo, Classdojo, etc.
Learning resources (printed packets) that children can use at home
Limited or zero access to devices or hardware to sustain online learning
High illiteracy (basic & digital) rates and poverty levels of most parents leading to them not willing to embrace new solutions e.g. WhatsApp classes
Poor infrastructure to support remote learning in most low-income communities (e.g. power, internet access, etc.)
Child protection & safeguarding risks given reduced access to students and increased household vulnerabilities.
Some learners will never return to the classroom.
Financial survival of the school due to loss of revenue from school fees due to the impact of the crisis on parents income.
No educational subsidies, stimulus packages or concessional loans available by government. For instance, the Targeted Credit Facility for COVID-19 Relief for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) by the Central Bank of Nigeria and implemented by NIRSAL MFB does not have Education listed as a priority sector.
Turning Insight Into Action
Making connections between each quadrant of the SWOT analysis, we worked around the square to highlight opportunities for key stakeholders which includes (not limited to):
Lagos State Government: Leverage the local community partnerships that exist with low-cost private schools for sensitization of free government Radio & TV school options and to distribute learning packets. Build trust with the low-cost private school sector by providing stimulus packages and/or relief funds for schools in exchange for their registration with government (as a vast majority of these schools are not on the government database). Embark on mass adult literacy trainings post COVID-19 linked to the parents in these schools. Revise Child Protection & Safeguarding policies and guidelines to provide for risks related to online/remote learning.
Financial Institutions: Build relationships with these schools by supporting their financial literacy education. Many of these schools do not understand cashflow management, a critical strategy for survival during crisis. Develop, maintain and increase if possible, access to finance/credit opportunities for these schools.
Network Providers: Provide concessions on the costs of data and advertise them as solutions for the education sector. Some schools are able to deploy tech tools for online learning but data is still a major challenge, besides hardware.
EdTech Companies: Support teachers with digital literacy trainings and resources. Provide increased access to online/remote learning resources for students
Local and International Donors/Funders: Design projects to support learners returning to the classroom post COVID-19. Provide flexibility with existing funding and additional short-term funding (as required) for grantees and investees.
As stakeholders, we know the priorities currently are public schools, however we appeal to you to consider the private education sector in Lagos State as they bridge the massive gaps in public education in the State with 18,000 private schools compared to the less than 2,000 public schools. Between 2010 – 2015 if government were to have provided education for the over 7.5 million children attending private schools, it would have amounted to N377 billion ($1.05 billion). With a population growth rate of 3.2% and an increasing demand for quality education options that parallels the growth of Nigeria’s economy, government will have between 2015 – 2025, N958 billion ($2.66 billion) to spend on strengthening public sector options [DEEPEN, 2018]. Imagine if majority of them do not survive this pandemic. Will the public schools in Lagos State be able to accommodate them and provide education for the millions of children they serve?
SEED is responding to the needs of schools through our SEED C.A.R.E.S. (COVID-19 Advocacy, Relief, Empowerment & Support) project. It is an intervention focused on ensuring that children get access to quality education, despite this crisis situation. It is a holistic project that will reduce the impact of the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring the children from low-income families in the schools we serve continue to learn despite the crisis and post COVID-19, they are able to remain in school. To learn more about SEED C.A.R.E.S., click here.
The time to support these schools is now. We need to support them in this crisis. These are the same schools that will do the hard work during the recovery period once they resume and they will be faced with a myriad of challenges. Nigeria is already in a bad state when it comes to education. If we do nothing, we are at risk of millions of children being left behind.
Tags educationPoor ChildrenNigeriaQuality EducationPro-PoorLow-Cost Private SchoolsEducation StakeholdersLow-Income FamiliesAffordable Private SchoolsSDG4Education For AllInclusive EducationLagosCOVID-19Crisis ManagementSEED CARESCOVID-19 ImpactVulnerable ChildrenFolasade AdefisayoBabajide Sanwo-OluLagos State GovernorHon. CommissionerLagos State Ministry of Education
Namama Esther Halima
April 24, 2020 / Reply
I really do appreciate the efforts of seed in assisting the low income school l believe if the reasons given are properly look into it will help Lagos state education at large and we all will benefit I e parents , children and schools of low income .l believe Almighty God will give us the grace
Good and well analyzed advocacy. Sure this seem to be a right step to ensure every child is catered for education wise.
The analysis and recommendations here is a worthy cause for all stake holders either private public or international body.
Most especially Nigerian private investors should see these recommendations as a clarion call to assist low income education providers.
CHANDORA SCHOOLS
A wonderful commitment towards the development of Nigeria via the education sector. I do not know of any development of a Nation without a quality education of her citizens. SEED,please see to it that this sector does not collapse, especially from the angle of private schools of low income status of which CHANDORA N/P SCHOOL belongs. God will empower you the more with a view to helping us out.
Mrs B.S. lkotun
Please Lagos State Governmentthis is the right time to surport low-school so that millions of children will not be left behind&they will not face serious challenges after the recovery period.
Omotayo Adenike
I really must appreciate SEED for being a voice at this trying times.
We hope that the Government will do well for private schools in the state. We pay taxes, we are employers of labour and we bridge learning gaps.
Adegbuyi Bawo Alero
Great work you are doing @ SEED, God Almighty will give you the grace to accomplish this huge task successfully.
Alh. Zakariyah Misbaudeen
Thanks to Mrs Oniyitan and her team for being there for us (which I have them under my umbrella) always. May Allah reward you abundantly.
If the government can work on this the better for us and the tomorrow’s Leaders .
Apart from the education problem most parents of low pay Schools are on COVID- HUNGER not lockdown so government must do something fast especially remote area in Ajangbadi, Ilemba etc going to Badagry in order to avoid crisis or protest by the masses .
Ramadan Kareem to us all.
Akinlade tawakalt aderonke
I’m from low cost school. I assist my pupils by giving them assignment since they live around but no salary for us because of lockdown
Ifebuzor Nkechi Anthonia
I need a loan for my school.
Adegoke Comfort Funmilayo
June 19, 2020 / Reply
I implore SEED to please support the teachers of the private schools that cannot afford salaries in Lagos State ,as many teachers in my community are in distress now . Especially those families where the couples are working in the ‘ struggling’ private schools.
Olawoyin Blessing
August 11, 2020 / Reply
We are happy to hear of the program for low income private schools.Please ,we want our school,Ruling class Private school to benefit in this scheme, please the school is Located at ikorodu, Bayeku,most of our school parents are into fishing., please we need your help in our school so that we can join hands to help the community children to be educated.thanks.08025893107
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Americans Love Stories Like This: A Joe Sixpack Fight China, and Wins (Sort of)
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Shawn Donnan, When Chinese competition threatened his business, one man refused to accept defeat. Financial Times, Aug 11, 2014
www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f5f0cf10-1e62-11e4-9513-00144feabdc0.html
(book review on Beth Macy, Factory Man; How one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local — and helped save an American town. Little, Brown and Co, July 15, 2014)
(a) Average Joe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Joe
(Joe Sixpack (for males))
The "sixpack" refers to canned or bottled beer in six (and abdominal muscle masses, too).
(b) The review is republished in Los Angeles Times today.
(c) "One day in November 2002, Mr Bassett, a third-generation furniture maker from Virginia, found himself in China meeting the Communist party official and businessman intent on putting him out of business."
One article ("the") in "the Communist party official and businessman" means he is an official who doubles as a businessman.
(d) "In truth, as Macy acknowledges, China did to those southern towns what they had done to Grand Rapids, Michigan just a few decades before, by paying lower wages and shamelessly turning out cheaper copies of popular furniture to grab market share."
Grand Rapids, Michigan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan
(on the Grand River [Lansing the capital located upstream; at 252 miles, the longest river in Michigan; empties into Lake Michigan]; sectional heading “Furniture City”: Grand Rapids remains a world leader in office furniture production, much of it now outsourced in Asia)
(e) “The US industry also had its fair share of problems and misplaced arrogance. Among them was a boozy and sexually charged business culture that leads Macy to describe its heyday as ‘Mad Men in the mountains. With moonshine instead of martinis.’"
Because the male executives were in the mountains of the South, they drank moonshines as opposed to Mad Men of Madison Avenue who drank martinis.
(f) “he [Bassett] had mobilized much of the US furniture industry and hired a top lawyer to mount a trade case against Chinese manufacturers for dumping bedroom furniture suites below cost on the US market. * * * It is also clear that there is an element of futility in fighting globalization. After punitive anti-dumping duties are levied by the US, the production of bedroom furniture does not come home to Virginia as Bassett hopes — it moves to Vietnam. And the fight is costly: One economist estimates that the legal battle ends up costing $800,000 per job saved.”
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Review : See Me by Wendy Higgins
*Warning: This review may contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Source: Own
While most seventeen-year-old American girls would refuse to let their parents marry them off to a stranger, Robyn Mason dreams of the mysterious McKale in Ireland, wondering how he'll look and imagining his cute Irish accent. Prearranged bindings are common for magical families like her own, however when she travels to the whimsical Emerald Isle she discovers there's more to her betrothal and McKale's clan than she was led to believe.
What starts as an obligatory pairing between Robyn and McKale morphs over time into something they both need. But one giant obstacle stands in the way of their budding romance: a seductive and deadly Fae princess accustomed to getting what she wants-and what she wants is McKale as her plaything. Love, desire, and jealousies collide as Robyn's family and McKale's clan must work together to outsmart the powerful Faeries and preserve the only hope left for their people.
- Barnes & Noble
Rating: FOUR GOLD STARS!!!!!
My Review: One word: MAGICAL
I loved this book! There was great humor, just the right dose of teen angst and romance mixed in with magical Irish lore. And considering I do NOT read faerie tales, See Me was a lovely surprise. Bravo Ms. Higgins!
The premise for the plot is interesting from the start. From the moment I read the blurb, I was a goner. Robyn Mason is an 17-year-old girl living in America with her parents and younger sister. Everything about her life has been pretty ordinary . . . except for a couple minor detail. Her parents are magical servants for the temperamental Fae. Oh, and she is betrothed to 50-year-old teenager who she has never met.
Before we get to the juicy part, let us start from the beginning. Robyn comes from a long line of human "helpers" of the Fae with some magical blood, the Dightheach. The Fae aren't exactly the biggest fans of humans and their mood can change in an instant. As it goes, there was an incident that forced Robyn's parents' hand. Thus, Robyn had been betrothed to McKale since infancy. And although she has been aware of the arrangement since childhood she does not know the full story of McKale and his clan. Much to my surprise, Robyn has never been against the arranged marriage or the the fact she has ever had contact with him (not even a letter) or has no idea what McKale looks like. In fact, she usually fantasized about the mysterious McKale of ancient magical blood and cute Irish accent and living in Ireland. However, being human, she did allow herself to imagine horrible scenarios now and then:
"Of all the truly frightening things worth worrying about, I held one selfish wish. Please . . . don't let McKale be too much shorter than me" (page 14).
But can you blame her? It is not easy being girl 5'11 tall.
Freshly graduated from high school and all set for her new adventure in Ireland, Robyn and her family make their way. But what is a story without a plot-twist every now and then (hehe)? Her mother drops a bomb on Robyn concerning the boy she is to marry. A bomb that total freaks her out. A bomb that Robyn's parents conveniently failed to warn her about all these years. Good thing they were all thousands of feet in the air in a plane, to late for Robyn to find in her bedroom back home.
Fate only cackles at her more when Robyn arrives in Ireland and meets the Fae Princess for the first time. Spoiled beyond repair, and deadly to boot, the Fae Princess has set her claws in McKale and does not intend to let him go so easily. She wants him as her plaything and an arranged marriage ordained by the Fae King's Consort will not stand in her way.
In See Me, Robyn must meet, get to know, fall in love with and marry McKale within a month's time all the while fend off the evil Fae Princess' advances in her betrothed . . . *without offending the Princess* or pay dearly.
Character Breakdown:
Robyn Mason - Ever since reading Rift (Creamer) and The Hunger Games (Collins) I have been on the Badass Girl Power bend. As such, I am more easily annoyed by female characters that fall into the "damsel in distress" role. Luckily, even when the odds were and although she wasn't a full out rebel, Robyn stood her ground. Robyn is a "real" character. She is relatable and I sympathized with her. The quote below really hit home with me, not because of what Robyn said but how she said it. It reminded me of my teenage years and the new, and exciting and the frustrating feelings I experienced.
"I was torn between wary of getting closer to him, and wishing he would seek me out and bare his soul. The inner turmoil made me grumpy" (page 126).
McKale - Hmm . . . I don't want to say too much about the mysterious McKale so you experience him entirely on your own -- trust me, you will thank me. I will only say that he is different from the normal stock of book boyfriends. Not the usual cup of tea (or hot chocolate in my case) but he is endearing and likable. I was skittish when I first met him but it was all for not ;)
"I suddenly became aware of his presence close behind me. I felt my ponytail lift and I stopped cranking. A slow turn of my head caught McKale letting the hair fall from his hand. He'd been smelling my hair. And now he wore an expression like a boy who'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar" (page 56).
Cassidy Mason - Cassidy character is genius and by far my favorite character. She was freaking hilarious! Her personality was exuberant, making her presence jump of the pages. Not to mention she was a great sister to Robyn (which I adored). I also appreciated that Higgins gave Cassidy her own little side story -- one that I pray she continues in the future.
If you are a magical lore fanatic who enjoys romance and humor, See Me is definitely for you. Even if you aren't ... See Me is still for you. Give the book a try and I promise you will not regret it. I swear that on a Bookiedeeds Warrior's Oath!
USA Today and NY Times Bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, is a former High School English teacher living in Virginia with her husband and two children.
*** Check out Wendy Higgins' website for more information about her and See Me: HERE
Posted by Ashley Correa at 9:00 AM
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Cover Reveal! Katie McGarry's Nowhere But Here
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Review : On The Fence by Kasie West
Review : Doon by Carey Corp & Lorie Langdon
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10th TIBA FESTIVAL
6 - 11. June 2012.
Theater International
Belgrade Adventure
Side programme
App form
Festival Program 2012
La Baracca Testoni Ragazzi, Italy
On-Off, Andrea Buzzetti, Carlotta Zini, Valeria Frabetti
directed by: Valeria Frabetti
actor: Andrea Buzzetti
target group: 1-4
When I was a baby, a little baby, I never wanted to go to sleep with the light on… I closed my eyes and waited for the lights of my dreams to switch on”.
The show developed from an “experiment” carried out in the crèches, where we could observe the children’s relationship with light and darkness. On stage there is an actor but the real protagonist is the light. Music and movements create a dance by following the rhythms of the switches. The light can be everything.
Lamps, bulbs and cables become a flower, a spoon, a dancer, a candle, a carrousel… They become a mother, a father, and a child.
“On-off” is a tribute to the children’s amazement at the behavior of light and to their interest towards controlling it and its intensity through the use of switches. It is a game and a way to help them not be afraid of the darkness.
La Baracca – Testoni Ragazzi Founded in 1976, La Baracca has been working in the field of theatre for children and early years for the past 30 years.
The company’s productions are addressed exclusively to children and young people, and they are centred on actors theatre and on an original theatrical style.
Over the years, they have developed a poetics aimed at generating amazement, trying to pursue simplicity intended as essentiality, always paying special attention to the relationship with the audience.
To date, La Baracca has produced over 140 shows for children and young people, with more than 9.000 performances.
Every year, new productions for all age groups are realised, for children attending crèches to secondary school students, as well as for those attending primary schools and kindergarten children.
Since their first project “A place for kids”, which started in 1980, La Baracca has strengthened its relationship with the territory. In 1983, La Baracca started to administer the Sanleonardo Theatre, in agreement with the Municipality of Bologna. It was the first agreement between a public body and a theatre company for children and young people. Since 1995, the theatre has moved to the Teatro Testoni Ragazzi and it has become a Stable Theatre of Innovation for Children and Young People.
In addition to the activities of the Teatro Testoni Ragazzi in Bologna, they manage two small Theatre halls in Medicina (district of Bologna). This was the starting point for the project “Medicinateatro”. Moreover, over the years, they have been collaborating with other municipalities of the district.
To date, 31 theatrical seasons have been programmed in Bologna, and 9 in Medicina. Over 1.200.000 amongst children, youngsters and adults have taken part in them. The performances have been more than 5.000, for over 700 titles, presented by 450 Italian, European and extra-European companies.
Since its foundation, the company presented its shows not only in Italy, but also in many international festivals in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Japan, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, United States, Switzerland, Hungary and Uzbekistan.
Many of the scripts written by La Baracca – Testoni Ragazzi’s authors have been translated and staged by other companies in Austria, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.
www.testoniragazzi.it
Wednesday 6. June
Narodno pozorište Užice
Pozorište Boško Buha
Wednesday, 6.June, 17.00h
FESTIVAL OPENING
EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
Thursday 7. June
GANG OF PERO KVRŽICA
Pozorište Žar ptica, Hrvatska
Thursday, 7. June, 17.00h
FIVE BOYS
Malo pozorište DuškoRadović
Malo pozorište Duško Radović
Friday 8. June
Pozorište La Baracca Teston iRagazzi, Italija
Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište, scena Studio
Friday, 8. June, 11.00h
EAGLE TO HAWK
Pozorište Consol, Nemačka
ABOUT SEAGULL
Pozorište Mladih, Novi Sad
Saturday 9. June
Lutkarsko pozorište Agadit, Izrael
Saturday, 9. June, 12.00h
RIO DE LUNA
Pozorište DA.TE.DANZA, Španija
Sunday 10. June
Lutkovno Gledališče Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sunday, 10. June, 17.00h
Pozorište Trešnja, Hrvatska
Monday 11. June
Monday, 11. June, 12.00h
Pozorište Norrdans, Švedska
TIBA FESTIVAL
Teatarska Internacionalna
Beogradska Avantura
Trg Republike 3
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Northwestern Ontario Sportsmens Alliance
Photos from the Field
North Western Ontario Sportsmen's Alliance
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
The Northwestern Ontario Sportsmen’s Alliance was founded in 1998 by a few like minded sportsmen who felt that government, other agencies and organizations were not best serving the needs of hunters, anglers and trappers in the north.
These dedicated individuals decided that we needed our own voice in the north, to speak out on behalf of our interests and concerns as they pertained to wildlife management and conservation issues.
Since then “team NOSA” has garnered status as the lead organization for northern Ontario, in dealing with subjects ranging from moose management to fisheries regulations.
We’ve defended publicly our stance on issues such as reinstatement of the spring bear hunt. NOSA and its members work on a variety of conservation minded projects ranging from fish stocking and rehabilitation programs to putting volunteers alongside MNR biologists as they do aerial moose inventory in helicopter flights.
All of this effort is done on a volunteer basis. As a non-profit organization we are limited in our funding ability but we have successfully managed our organization’s financial needs by running a successful Membership Dinner and fundraiser once each year.
Come chat with us in our forum and have a look at our past newsletters here
With tremendous support from the northern Ontario business community, we continue to forge ahead with setting goals for the enhancement and promotion of our hunting and fishing heritage in the north. With member input and communication we will continue to serve northern Ontario’s Outdoor community in a manner that best reflects their views.
So join us in successfully passing down to following generations the legacy of northern Ontario’s proud hunting, fishing and trapping heritage.
CONTACT NOSA
Northwestern Ontario Sportsmen's Alliance welcomes comments and feedback.
Feel free to contact any director through their email on the Directors page.
Northwestern Ontario Sportsmen's Alliance
1100 Memorial Avenue, Suite 253
P7B 4A3
Email: teamnosaemail@gmail.com
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Krugman Gives Free Seminar On Bank Plan: It Sucks
Maybe, after Tim Geithner resigns, Paul Krugman will be asked to run the treasury? One can hope, can't one?
More on the bank plan
Why was I so quick to condemn the Geithner plan? Because it’s not new; it’s just another version of an idea that keeps coming up and keeps being refuted. It’s basically a thinly disguised version of the same plan Henry Paulson announced way back in September. To understand the issue, let me offer some background.
Start with the question: how do banks fail? A bank, broadly defined, is any institution that borrows short and lends long. Like any leveraged investor, a bank can fail if it has made bad investments — if the value of its assets falls below the value of its liabilities, bye bye bank.
But banks can also fail even if they haven’t been bad investors: if, for some reason, many of those they’ve borrowed from (e.g., but not only, depositors) demand their money back at once, the bank can be forced to sell assets at fire sale prices, so that assets that would have been worth more than liabilities in normal conditions end up not being enough to cover the bank’s debts. And this opens up the possibility of a self-fulfilling panic: people may demand their money back, not because they think the bank has made bad investments, but simply because they think other people will demand their money back.
Bank runs can be contagious; partly that’s for psychological reasons, partly because banks tend to invest in similar assets, so one bank’s fire sale depresses another bank’s net worth.
So now we have a bank crisis. Is it the result of fundamentally bad investment, or is it because of a self-fulfilling panic?
If you think it’s just a panic, then the government can pull a magic trick: by stepping in to buy the assets banks are selling, it can make banks look solvent again, and end the run. Yippee! And sometimes that really does work.
But if you think that the banks really, really have made lousy investments, this won’t work at all; it will simply be a waste of taxpayer money. To keep the banks operating, you need to provide a real backstop — you need to guarantee their debts, and seize ownership of those banks that don’t have enough assets to cover their debts; that’s the Swedish solution, it’s what we eventually did with our own S&Ls.
Now, early on in this crisis, it was possible to argue that it was mainly a panic. But at this point, that’s an indefensible position. Banks and other highly leveraged institutions collectively made a huge bet that the normal rules for house prices and sustainable levels of consumer debt no longer applied; they were wrong. Time for a Swedish solution.
But Treasury is still clinging to the idea that this is just a panic attack, and that all it needs to do is calm the markets by buying up a bunch of troubled assets. Actually, that’s not quite it: the Obama administration has apparently made the judgment that there would be a public outcry if it announced a straightforward plan along these lines, so it has produced what Yves Smith calls “a lot of bells and whistles to finesse the fact that the government will wind up paying well above market for [I don't think I can finish this on a Times blog]”
Why am I so vehement about this? Because I’m afraid that this will be the administration’s only shot — that if the first bank plan is an abject failure, it won’t have the political capital for a second. So it’s just horrifying that Obama — and yes, the buck stops there — has decided to base his financial plan on the fantasy that a bit of financial hocus-pocus will turn the clock back to 2006.
By Unknown at 3/21/2009 11:45:00 AM
Labels: bailout, economy, geithner, Krugman
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The Jukebox Rebel
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“The Modern Dance” by Pere Ubu - album review
features in: Album Chart of 1978 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s ● 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
Serving bona-fide modernity as opposed to Kraftwerk's unrealistic variant, this peculiar quintet from Cleveland were just as likely to appeal to disillusioned prog-rockers as eclectic punks, and were the epitome of New Wave experimentation. They were to American left-field rock what Lee Perry was to Jamaican reggae; historically aware but very much forging ahead with a weird and wonderful sense of adventure, with loops, samples and effects sprinkled atop rhythms which could be rock-solid or loose-caboose, as the mood of the piece demanded. At the time of release in January ’78 they were: David Thomas (24, vocals, musette, percussion); Tom Herman (28, guitar, backing vocals); Allen Ravenstine (27, synths, saxophone, tapes); Tony Maimone (25, bass, piano, backing vocals) and Scott Krauss (27, drums). Original bassist Tim Wright played on a couple of tracks, but he was a goner already. Like all good bands, Pere Ubu are instantly recognisable from the off, almost entirely due to the strange vocalisations of lead singer and chief visionary, David Thomas, who treats words like elastic-bands and trembles, yelps and barks his way into your psyche over the course of the 36 minutes, with a nervous energy that’s highly infectious.
Whilst there’s hardly a weak moment on this LP, the best from side 1 is the closer “Chinese Radiation”, which seems to find our man scarily addressing a thronged mass at Tiananmen Square: “We will purify, we must purify, for the sake of that security we all want, we will purify. He'll be the red guard, she'll be the new world, he'll wear his grey cap, she'll wave her red book.” My favourite track appears at the start of side 2, “Life Stinks”, the only song on the LP not to have been written by any of the current group. How fabulous that the spotlight shines on Peter Laughner here on Pere Ubu’s debut album. He was a Cleveland, Ohio singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional journalist best known for being in the “classic” late period line-up of Rocket from the Tombs and also for co-founding Pere Ubu after Rocket’s split. Born 22nd August 1952, he died on 22nd June 1977, aged just 24, of acute pancreatitis. They’ve done him proud here, ripping into his song with mucho gusto. Continuing this great run, “Real World” is absolutely the sound of now, the new no-wave, unconsciously elitist superior-than-thou music. I sense disdain. For whom, or what, I’m not quite so sure, but it’s there in bucket-loads. This album is super-smart from start to finish, a memorable debut.
A1 [03:19] Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) Post-Punk
A2 [03:30] Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) New Wave
A3 [04:37] Pere Ubu - Laughing (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) Dubbeat
A4 [03:07] Pere Ubu - Street Waves (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) Proto-Punk
A5 [03:29] Pere Ubu - Chinese Radiation (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) New Wave
B1 [01:53] Pere Ubu - Life Stinks (Peter Laughner) Post-Punk
B2 [04:01] Pere Ubu - Real World (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) Post-Punk
B3 [03:49] Pere Ubu - Over My Head (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) Blues Rock / Soul Rock
B4 [06:08] Pere Ubu - Sentimental Journey (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) Avant-Garde
B5 [02:44] Pere Ubu - Humor Me (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Scott Krauss) Dubbeat
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Peavey DPM SP Sample Playback Synthesizer
Peavey were no strangers to sample replay units when they released the Sample Playback Synthesizer in the early nineties. The company already had the DPM3 SE Plus, which could loop, trim, and combine samples when loaded into its 512K of battery-backed sample RAM. Peavey also released the SX, a mono 16-bit sampling module, to serve as an inexpensive way add-on for the sample playback capabilities of the DPM3. It was the easiest way to load your own samples into the DPM3 or any of your gear that could read SDS format samples. For many, it was one of the most user-friendly introductions to sampling.
However, the combination of the DPM3 and SX was still lagging behind what could be done with a dedicated sampler, which prompted Peavey to release the Sample Playback Synthesizer. The "synthesizer" part of the name is not just for show either as the SP also has its own synthesis section for processing samples. The SP features 2 MB of onboard sample RAM that can be upgraded to 32 MB. With the standard memory alone it required up to two high-density disks of 1.44MB each to save samples, so users who upgraded to 32 MB were better off adding a larger hard disk. In fact, the SP had SCSI ports on the rear panel to accomplish this. Using a SCSI port was also the most practical method for connecting the SP with an SX, although the latter required an upgrade to get a SCSI port.
The SP front panel has a simple and logical layout and features a 2 x 20-character backlit LCD as well as the aforementioned disk drive. It features Disk, Wave, Tone, Map, and Preset buttons to quickly access the relevant operations. There are also arrow buttons for moving the cursor in the LCD while an infinite rotary data knob and Inc/Dec buttons take care of selecting pages, parameters, and so on. The rear panel has MIDI In/Out/Thru ports, a screw for LCD contrast adjustments, main and sub pairs of audio outs along with the two SCSI sockets.
For its time the SP offered a lot of versatility for something that many thought was simply a sample playback machine. It was compact, affordable, and offered plenty of features for dedicated users to mess around with. However, it was also simple to operate for those who only needed it to cover all the basics.
Lookup Prices for DPM SP Sample Playback Synthesizer
Peavey SP Genesis Chillout
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Peavey DPM SP Manual
Polyphony - 16 voices
Multitimbral - 16 parts
Oscillators - 1 VCO
LFO - 1 LFO with Low Pass, Resonance
VCA/Envelopes - 1 VCA With ADSR envelope
Controls - MIDI In/Out/Thru
Memory - 128 Patches RAM, Hard Drive, Tape Storage
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Scott City looks to wrap up district title at Concordia
Adam Kadavy
Scott City, Kan. (westernkansasnews.com)–With their 12th consecutive playoff birth clinched, the Scott City Beavers are looking for one more thing. While they are the lone undefeated team, and have the maximum district points, the Beavers are not quite district champions. Tonight in their regular season finale, Scott City will make their first long bus ride of the year to take on the Concordia Panthers in a 7 pm kickoff at Harold M. Clark Stadium.
Scott City comes in to week nine with an 8-0 record and a 2-0 district record, following a 28-0 win at Goodland last Friday night to claim their sixth GWAC title in eight years. The Beavers scored on two of their first three possessions to lead 14-0 after the first quarter and 21-0 at the break. Despite only getting one score in the second half, the defense would step up, denying Goodland a score on their lone second half trip into the red zone. Scott City would finish with 506 yards of offense, with 414 coming on the ground. Jarret Jurgens had a career-high 190 yards and two scores, and rattled off an 80-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. The win gave the Beavers their 27th straight district win, going back to week nine of the 2008 season. So far this year, Wyatt Hayes leads the ground attack with 901 yards and 14 touchdowns. Scott City averages 376 yards per game, with 292 coming on the ground. Defensively, the Beavers surrendered 181 yards against Goodland, and allow an average of eight points and 148 yards of offense per game.
Concordia dropped to 4-4 on the year after a 32-14 loss at Colby last Friday night. The Panthers fell behind 13-0 after the opening quarter and 20-0 at the break. They scored on the first play of the second half to pull to within 20-8, and got to within 26-14 early in the fourth quarter, before the Eagles put the game away with a fourth quarter touchdown. Concordia finished with 297 yards of offense, with 213 coming on the ground. They gave up 451 yards of offense, with 347 coming on the ground. Leading the ground attack this year is senior Rope Dorman, who has 692 yards with seven touchdowns. He has been hampered by an injury that has kept him out of the lineup for a good portion of the second half of the year. He had 41 rushing yards last week, before being carried off the field with an injury. Senior Billy Bechrd has 514 rushing yards and seven touchdowns for an offense that averages 287 yards per game, with 195 on the ground, and 21 points a contest. Defensively, they’ve given up 283 yards a game and 19 points per game.
Last season in their first-ever meeting, Scott City won 42-0. It was scoreless after the first quarter and the Beavers led 21-0 at the break. Both teams will be in the same district for the next two seasons, and will meet in Concordia on week eight next year. Scott City is 9-1 all-time against the NCKL.
As for the district scenarios, Scott City has assured themselves a playoff spot. With a win, they will host a regional playoff game next Friday. If Concordia were to knock off Scott City and Goodland defeat Colby, then Concordia would be the district champion and Scott City would travel to Holcomb for the regional round of the playoffs. If Colby defeats Goodland, than the Eagles will be the second seed, and if Colby and Concordia both win, then it will come down to points, and that would give Scott City the district championship with them being so far ahead, and most likely Colby the second place spot, based on points. A Scott City win and a Goodland win by 10 or more points would give the Cowboys the final district spot. Going into Friday’s games, Scott City is 2-0, +42 in points, Colby 1-1, -3, Concordia 1-1, -17, and Goodland is 0-2, -22.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 pm, with a 6:3o pregame on Mix 94.5, online at westernkansasnews.com/mix94, on the TuneIn app, and also on the free Mix 94.5 app.
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The Mod Squad 1972
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Stars: Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, Tige Andrews, Michael Cole
Director: Tony Barrett, Harve Bennett, Aaron Spelling, Danny Thomas
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Han Sunhwa speaks up for the first time following departure from SECRET
Han Sunhwa left a message to fans following her official leave from girl group SECRET and TS Entertainment.
On September 26th, Sunhwa stated on her official Instagram, “A different, much careful greetings to you, Secret Time.” She first thanked her fans for their support over the past seven years as a member of SECRET.
She continues, “I am much regretful and somber as I have made a difficult decision. I will cherish the memories. I will devote all of my passion for the days to come,” concluding with, “I thank my TS Entertainment family, SECRET members, and fans for being with me throughout this journey.”
It was previously reported that Han Sunhwa’s contract with TS Entertainment will be ending on October 13th, and that she will be pursuing an acting career onward.
Meanwhile, SECRET will become a 3-member group without any additional members. Jeon Hyosung, Song Jieun, and Jung Hana have all renewed their contracts.
Read the full translation of her letter to fans down below:
To all the Secret Time fans and those who cheered for us….hello this is Han Sun Hwa. Unlike many other times I am very careful to say what I have to say to all of you today.
First for the last 7 years I have received more love than I can say as a member of SECRET and I am thankful to have laughed and cried with you all and I cannot express how happy I was.
Looking back I do not think I would have been able to accomplish half of what I have done alone at a time where I was so inexperienced. I received more love and attention than I would have ever imagined was possible
I am sad and a little disheartened having made such a difficult decision but I will cherish all the memories and use all the passion I have had in the past and move forward into the future.
As I prepare for a new journey I am sure I will seem lacking and awkward but I will continue on and work hard to pay you back for all the support you have shown me.
Thank you to all the TS family, my members and all the fans that have supported me I sincerely thank you
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Protect your dogs with the canine flu vaccine
Staff | Nov 7, 2019 | Pets
BY KATE THAYER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
As pet owners protect themselves against flu this season, vets say they should also be thinking about their dog.
While canine flu, unlike the influenza that infects humans, is a year-round virus, some veterinarians use the flu season to talk to pet owners about keeping their pets healthy.
The highly contagious H3N2 canine flu strain was believed to have originated in dogs brought in from South Korea, said Natalie Marks, medical director at Blum Animal Hospital in Chicago.
The illness can spread “like wildfire” among dogs at parks, boarding facilities, doggy day cares or even in condo elevators, Marks said. Symptoms are mainly respiratory, with coughing, sneezing and a runny nose, followed by fever and sometimes a lack of eating. The virus is not known to infect humans, she added.
There’s now a vaccine available for dogs, Marks said, which is effective and, unlike human influenza vaccines, there are no guessing games on which strains to include.
Pet owners should talk to their vet about whether their dog needs the vaccine, which is administered annually and includes a booster shot in the first year it’s given, she said, adding that she recommends one for any dog that’s in contact with other dogs at any time.
“The frustrating part for pet owners is sometimes dogs will spread the virus before they even look sick,” she said. “That’s why vaccination is the best strategy.”
While many pets are able to recover from a bout of canine flu, the virus can become fatal if it turns into pneumonia — a risk for less healthy dogs, Marks said.
Unlike human influenza, there is no required, centralized reporting of the illness, which makes it difficult to track outbreaks, Marks said.
However, animal hospitals can partner with research centers to track any virus spreading throughout the country.
Banfield Pet Hospitals, with locations across the country, recently partnered with Cornell University’s Animal Health Diagnostic Center’s surveillance network, to track canine flu outbreaks. Heidi Cooley, a veterinarian at a Banfield Pet Hospital in Washington state, said it helps for pet owners to track current flu outbreaks, but she also advises them to check in with their vet about what they are seeing.
The center’s data shows Illinois has had the most cases of the H3N2 strain, likely attributed to the 2015 outbreak, which then spread throughout the country, said Colin Parrish, professor of virology at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine. More recent outbreaks were reported in the San Francisco area, he said.
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Tag: Storming the Capitol 2021
For tens of millions of Americans, Donald Trump was and will always be a hero. He accomplished things other Republicans only said they WANTED to accomplish but never did. Still, a single human being, he could not win- especially when the chastised Chi-Coms entered the fray on the side of his enemies- because there was no expense, no length, no outrage- a global pandemic, for instance- they would not commit in the fight to ‘get Trump.’
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Andy Ngo does not know Antifa as well as he thinks he does…
Valencia, CA 91354, 01-10-2021 Sunday: The last couple of days I have been doom and gloom because of the “Storming the Capitol 2021” event we had the misfortune as Americans watching live on TV. No one I know- including me- believes a single one of the people who stormed into the Capitol Building was a ‘Trump supporter.’ None of the people that flooded into the Capitol’s interior and ran amok was a ‘Trump supporter.’ No, the Trump supporters remained outside on the steps while the violent mob that broke glass, forced the doors open, and then ran inside were all Antifa and Black Lives Matter folks- despite what ‘Antifa expert’ Andy Ngo says.[i]
One thing we do know is that Antifa is NOT the same Antifa it may have been four, six, or eight years ago. The ‘Anti-Fascists’ we now see are well-funded, well-led, and have an in-depth hierarchy of leadership. In effect, I believe they have generals and colonels behind the scenes just as they have lieutenant colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, even noncoms on the ground directing the foot soldiers.[ii]
Typically, the highest rank in any military actually on the ground fighting are the lieutenant colonels, they are the highest rankers conducting the tactical elements, i.e., the battles in person while the higher officers plot the over-all strategy.
Andy Ngo says his experience tells him that Antifa does not possess the ability or the wherewithal to run a false flag operation such as infiltrating and insinuating themselves into legions of Trump supporters and then nudging them to do things they typically would not do such as barging their way into the Capitol Building and running amok.
If you rely on CNN, MSNBC, the BIG THREE networks, even Fox News, you lacked the opportunity to see the photos I saw on OAN and on Newsmax. When YOU observe people clad entirely in black, their faces obscured, catcher’s masks on top of facial coverings, you know those aren’t Trump supporters.
Moreover, you also did not see on the other networks and TV channels the Capitol Police on one side of the Capitol Building step aside to allow the demonstrators entry onto the grounds. That seemed to be prearranged, my friends.
Despite what Andy Ngo says, IF the Antifa mobs we watched in action around the United States this year are not capable of running a false flag operation, let’s look at all the evidence: pallets of bricks, Molotov cocktails, riot gear, buzz saws, welding equipment, commercial grade fireworks and lasers, explosives, hand-to-hand combat gear, humongous skateboards that double as heavy-duty clubs, and other equipment that shows up magically as if from thin air. Someone is paying for all this stuff.[iii]
What’s more, look at all the groups and individuals involved in bailing those unfortunate enough to be arrested out of jail and getting them back on the street. Someone is funding them and my colleagues and I believe them to be the Chi-Coms, Iranians, and George Soros.
Then you have already-compromised Chi-Com dupe Congressman Eric Swalwell- an embarrassment to the Golden State- telling Nicolle Wallace on “Deadline: White House” this past Thursday afternoon that it ‘looks like the “Trump mob” had assists from Republicans within the Senate and the House of Representatives who egged them on, paved their way, and then did nothing to impede their progress into the interior of hallowed ground.
As of Thursday morning, we have a NEW impeachment movement against President Trump even though he has now accepted the results of the 2020 Presidential Election.
The House Speaker Nancy “Mumbles” Pelosi is encouraging Vice President Mike Pence to convene the Cabinet so it can put the 25th Amendment into motion and remove Trump. Otherwise, they are going to ramrod a second impeachment through and now that Dems control the U.S. Senate, more or less, they will attempt to remove him PRIOR to January 20.
It is what it is, folks. To people such as Andy Ngo who fail to give credit where credit is due, namely recognizing that Antifa has moved to the next level- let me end my first week of the year by saying that Antifa now is a global fascist organization, capable of launching multiple operations across a variety of fronts.[iv]
The United States has become the proving ground for their flexing of muscle, for their rapid growth, thanks to liberal mayors and governors allowing them to do things heretofore no liberal mayor or governor ever allowed before- the destruction of major parts of cities.
Trump is not so much the villain as he is the excuse for them to undergo a growth spurt the likes of which has never been seen before. Trump’s bombast and his willingness to fight every day of his term but not to recognize the media’s ability to mold, shape, and redirect his messages and his accomplishments has allowed them to create an alternative reality of Trump.
It is this ‘alternate reality of Trump’ with which the left goes after the minds of the inattentive or part-time recipients of news from questionable sources such as Facebook Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, and elsewhere.
I’m surprised he lasted as long as he has.
See you next time…the Good Lord willing…[v]
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Sunday, January 10, 2021:
[i] Amazing how the Democrats are spinning the storming of the Capitol. I saw Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand talking to Neil Cavuto on Fox and she was adding the element of RACISM to the discussion by saying that the Capitol Hill cops were not prepared for the RIOT because the demonstrators were WHITE people (adding the supremacist to the white) whereas when Black Lives Matter folks had ‘peaceful demonstrations and protests,’ the cops were mobilized against them. She also said that IF black folks had stormed the Capitol, they would have been SHOT and most likely killed. There is NO way to stop the spin.
[ii] I contend that Antifa- like the Italian Fascists and the Nazis- are organized along paramilitary lines with military-style officers directing actions from on high all the way to the ground. They follow Mao Zedong’s rules for insurgencies as well as the prattle of losers like Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, and other left-wing bozos. We must give them credit for improving the previous model’s flaws- Occupy Wall Street- who were little more than riffraff and other lowlife scum who had no clear sense of direction.
[iii] The Occupy Wall Street tramps had to rely on donations of food, clothing, booze, and dope to survive whereas Antifa is well-funded, wel-equipped, and well-supplied. The Occupy garbage is little more than a stoned rabble whereas Antifa is growing by leaps and bounds. Wake up, Andy Ngo, when they bashed your head in Portland a couple of years back, that brain bleed must have devastated your mind.
[iv] I would hazard a guess that the Chi-Coms are the source of ALL funding for these groups. My colleagues have suggested that they have improved on the Marxist model by incorporating elements of the Nazi model, i.e., allowing private ownership albeit with government direction as well as the racist policies, only ones directed against their minorities. They have discovered that throwing money around accomplishes far more goals that dropping bombs on some hapless sap and overrunning their positions on the ground. Amazing what money can accomplish. (Pssst- we are still awaiting our checks…LOL)
[v] For all I know, I could end up in a landfill.
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We can thank Saul Alinsky and Mao Zedong for creating the picture-perfect strategy that has destroyed the MAGA agenda and put its creator into legal jeopardy
This is diabolical but it’s perfect. The Dems have implemented the scheme perfectly. Like most of my colleagues, I believe the Democrats and the RINOs colluded and conspired with the Chi-Coms. Yes, they will label me a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ which is what they call anyone who swims against the current. Think about it, however, the Chinese Virus arrives on scene while the president is in the midst of impeachment.
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What a diabolically perfect plan…
Valencia, CA 91354, 01-08-2021 Friday: Folks- you must hand it to the Democrats- and to their masters in Beijing- they know HOW to shape a coup, how to unite both political parties, as well as to mold the opinions of the generally inattentive American people by following classic Saul Alinsky/Mao’s Rules for Insurgency by isolating a target, destroying a target, and then transferring the blame for whatever the insurgents are doing onto the target’s shoulders, thus vilifying, pillorying, and then demolishing him or her completely.[i]
We saw the stratagem on Wednesday in the nation’s capital. Supporters of the president began arriving in D.C. on Monday and were peaceful. They wanted to ‘Stop the Steal.’ They wanted the people of the country to know and understand that they have questions about the election that are going unanswered. On Wednesday, they assembled outside the White House and listened to various speakers, most of them members of the Trump family, all supportive of the 45th president, before marching to the Capitol.
The president came out and spoke to them. Then, at 1:00 P.M. Eastern Time when the certification of the election began in the Capitol Building, the crowd marched over there just as they did during the passage of Obamacare a decade or so ago because they felt their views were being tossed into the trash, that their hopes and desires mattered little to elected Democrats and RINOs, and that there were no other options than to assemble in peace, in prayerful vigilance, and in silence.[ii]
Like the election, events on the surface appeared to be kosher although somewhat curious[iii] but behind the scenes, the scheming was in full swing. As the Trump supporters marched to the Capitol Building and waved their banners and flags, the BLM and Antifa thugs insinuated themselves into their ranks and then began acting violently, throwing rocks and bottles and breaking glass. They then swarmed into the building making mayhem, managed to get into both chambers and run amok, all the while screaming that “TRUMP WON! TRUMP WON! TRUMP WON!”[iv]
In doing so, they made it appear that the president’s supporters were the unhinged ones. It allowed much of the media to single them out and then to denigrate them. It allowed them to trash President Trump, to blame him, to isolate him further, and to put him, his family, and his closest supporters into the crosshairs for whatever awaits them on the other side of Inauguration Day.
For all we know, as that moron Steve Hayes demanded, the president could be removed from office as we speak, the vice-president become the acting president, until “Pro-China Joe” Biden takes the oath of office and the coup against our country becomes complete.
They blame his responses to the pandemic as inadequate. They continue deriding, destroying, accusing, and trashing this man, all the while mob violence breaks out across the country from the early summer through the fall and into the winter. This last event, the storming of the Capitol Building has given anyone remaining in his orbit opportunity to begin attacking him or withdrawing from him, leaving him even more isolated, distrusted, and shunned.[v]
‘President-elect Pro-China Joe’ Biden came out after the events this past Wednesday and is talking about ‘sedition’ and ‘treason’ and whatever else his handlers insert into his earpiece and thus into his mouth. Various surrounding state governors sent law enforcement to quell the so-called “MAGA violence.”[vi]
It’s perfect, they can attack the man, trash the man, and ruin the man no matter what he says, does, or will attempt to do in the time remaining him- even if he has any time remaining to him- because I suspect the push will be to remove him from office NOW.
What a plan. What a perfectly executed plan, one that required loads of moving parts but which synched together perfectly and I am telling you, Trump is done, finished, kaput, as is his family. None of them will ever be able to run for office again and I suspect that when the ‘Biden administration’ finishes with the Trump Family, NO one will ever be able to put forth the MAGA agenda again, so toxic it will become.
The country is lost. I am burying my guns and will call law enforcement next week to report them stolen and will also change my party affiliation to DEMOCRAT.
See you tomorrow. God help us. God save the nation.
01-08-2021 Friday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MMCDVIII: “We can thank Saul Alinsky and Mao Zedong for creating the picture-perfect strategy that has destroyed the MAGA agenda and put its creator into legal jeopardy” by Certified Working Chef B.H. Cznystekinki, ACF-CWC.
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Friday, January 08, 2021:
[i] CNN was running a Chiron in which it was saying that ‘soon Trump was to speak- in a desperate coup attempt.’ What? The only ones engineering a coup are the Democrats and RINOs and their financiers in Beijing. IF we survive this attempt to overthrow our government and way of life, there are loads of people who are going to have to pay a humongous price for their crimes- including the God damned Chi-Coms.
[ii] I still remember when hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters assembled outside the Capitol, standing in silence, hoping against hope the Affordable Care Act would not pass. I still remember when House Speaker Nancy “Mumbles” Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and another congressman strode through their midst holding the BIG GAVEL up high. Later, they would accuse the Tea Party folks of having spit on the third individual, a black congressman, which led to all sorts of charges of ‘racism’ against the Tea Party. Someone eventually offered one million dollars- Breitbart, I think- for video evidence of the ‘incident’ which never turned up. The right does not riot and run amok although there have been times when we have wished they would.
[iii] Like “Pro-China Joe” Biden remaining in his basement 99-percent of the time. We should have known something was up, my friends, because something sure the f**k was.
[iv] We have never seen Trump supporters go violent, ever, ever before. The people that became violent and stormed the capitol were wearing black, many had their faces covered, they appeared to be the typical Antifa-BLM human shit that rioted in the streets of our country almost all year. Furthermore, there is video showing them being allowed INTO the Capitol grounds by the Capitol Hill cops which is shocking because what happened next inside the building including at least two shootings and one death could have been prevented. Yet, they permitted it to occur unmolested. Someone must answer for this. Isn’t Nancy “Mumbles” Pelosi in charge of the Capitol Hill cops? I believe her to be their head.
[v] Even Andy Ngo has drifted to the other side by saying he does not think it’s Antifa. He does not believe that Antifa has the wherewithal to infiltrate Trump supporters in the numbers they did. Andy, there are emails showing the link that have come to light on the few remaining conservative sites out there. With Chi-Com cash in their bank accounts, anything is possible.
[vi] Everything perfectly orchestrated and going off like clockwork, right after President Trump spoke to his supporters and the certification began on the other end of the National Mall, that’s when the Antifa thugs kicked into gear.
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Comic Books News X-Men
Does 'X-Men' #1 set up a resurrection arms race?
Does ‘X-Men’ #1 set up a resurrection arms race?
X-Men #1 sets up a major threat to the mutants.
Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.
Jonathan Hickman’s epic reset on X-Men takes another step towards revealing more as Dawn of X begins today. X-Men #1 features art by Leinil Francis Yu and it’s a great first issue after the epic and excellent House of X and Powers of X. We talk extensively about what Hickman has done and where we go from here in the official AiPT! Comics Podcast (check that out below). That said, X-Men #1 reveals quite a few morsels to dig into.
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The most obvious new reveal shows how Scott Summers aka Cyclops has a happy family which includes his brothers Havok and Vulcan, but also his father and son. The character dynamics were interesting throughout, but it wasn’t until the last page do we realize the perfect life Scott has may be in jeopardy very soon.
The new threat is thanks to the acts of Cyclops and the X-Men way back in House of X #3. In that issue, the X-Men storm the Master Mold satellite station called The Orchis Forge. The head of the station run by Doctor Gregor runs a tight ship thanks to her husband Erasmus keeping things locked down. As the X-Men attack, we see Erasmus take his own life to protect the base and his wife.
The X-Men created an enemy that day in Doctor Gregor.
At the end of X-Men #1, we see Doctor Gregor is picking up the pieces when Director Devo confronts her as she didn’t attend her husband’s funeral among the many others killed. In the final few panels Devo points out Doctor Gregor’s husband was a huge loss and in response, Doctor Gregor points out maybe he isn’t gone…forever.
In the final panel Doctor Gregor suggests there’s a way to bring her husband back.
This has huge implications for the mutants and their new initiative that allows them to bring anyone back who has been killed. The humans will soon be able to do the same. Not only does this mean mutants don’t have an edge in the resurrection game, but humans can likely bring others back to fight the mutants whose population is growing every day.
How does this change Xavier and Magneto’s plan? Does Doctor Gregor officially become the main villain to the X-Men? We’ll have to keep reading to find out! This is only a sliver of the story however and I highly recommend you read the full issue to get all the scoops.
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Road of Bones review: a cold trek into madness
What will be the first to go in the cold Siberian arctic, your body or your mind?
Ari Bard
Historical. Survival. Horror. Who wouldn’t want to check that out? Road of Bones is completely in my wheelhouse and a book that reeled me in from page one. You can immediately feel the harsh Russian winter. The book’s also very methodical in its storytelling, making frequent use of the 9-panel grid to keep us moving forward as the brutal conditions of the gulag weigh us down. There’s never a moment of comfort or reprieve, only the harshest of environments, the knowledge that slowing down or stopping means death, and a supernatural force lurking on the fringes of every page.
It’s the harsh conditions that keep you immersed in the story. The character work is largely unremarkable, but that won’t stop you from wincing at the brutal violence, heavy beat-downs, and awful living conditions of Kolyma gulag. Writer Rich Douek knows when to minimize his dialogue, take a back seat, and let artist Alex Cormack’s renderings of frozen blood, heavy snow, and a dark, bleak, prison camp do the talking. The mixture of whites, reds, and dark browns, greens, and grays makes for an effective color palette, even though it’s not always used to its maximum potential. Cormack and Douek do a great job of always leaving a little room for hope among the desolation and violence. It never completely runs out, even though by the end, you’re left questioning whether or not the hope was real in the first place. The lettering adds to this aesthetic as well, with Justin Birch’s dialogue having a scratchy, etched look as though they were carved into a prison wall instead of just written. He also makes great but sparse use of SFX and is sure to only include the when he knows they’ll pack a punch. Some of the placements are a bit peculiar, covering up the art when they could be placed more efficiently, but overall it’s nice work.
The use of magical realism, however, is one of the best aspects of the book. You’re never certain the Domovik, or whatever this horrifying creature feeding Roman’s drive to survive, is real, but the visuals when it appears are so visceral that it’s impossible to think the opposite. The creature introduces a new dimension for the escape and survival that leaves you anxiously awaiting and trying to anticipates its next appearance. Combined with the book’s formal structure, which is meticulous in its ability to keep you turning pages while not giving too much away, you have the perfect tone for a survival horror book. The use of formalism is remarkable, and Douek clearly has a strong command over the 9-panel grid. He knows how to close things to make you feel so cramped and stressed that the magical can seem possible. As the series goes on, Cormack makes great use of red, and how that permanently stains the snow beneath the characters’ feet. Eventually, even the white gutters turn red in a spectacular display of violence.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of other character work to propel you along. The beginning setup is long and largely unfulfilling. Survival horror needs to do more than simply establish harsh conditions. It’s the Russian gulag; we expect conditions to be harsh, but we have no reason to feel for the characters who must endure them. Road of Bones simply establishes prison as a mercilessly brutal environment, but gives us no reason to want these characters to escape. Ultimately, that can cheapen some of the payoff pages and issues down the line. Roman’s biggest point of sympathy is that the character got 20 years in the gulag for a joke about Stalin which, while harsh, isn’t enough. There are some little acts of kindness sprinkled in here and there, but there’s nothing that really makes you identify or feel for this guy. Two pages showing his life before the gulag might have made all the difference.
While there is a lot to love about Cormack’s line work, the colors can be a bit of a letdown. The layouts create an effective and methodical build to violence and the juxtaposition of the bright white snow and the darkness of the night help us see the connections between desolation and madness, but our three main characters are hardly distinguishable under the cover of night. They all look similar and wear thick coats and ushankas. It’s easy to lose track of who’s who for panels at a time. Some of the supernatural elements are also cheapened by the thick, dark colors. It’s probably to make the figure more menacing, but I found myself struggling to see what it was doing or what it resembled. These shortcomings didn’t permeate through the entire book but were noticeable enough to take me out of the story multiple times.
I suppose it’d be appropriate to call Road of Bones historical fiction, but there’s hardly any significance given to the historical part. As I was reading, I asked myself if the story would have the same effects if it was just set in a generic prison camp in a cold, harsh environment, and I’m pretty sure it would. There are some important details about why Roman, our protagonist, ended up in the gulag in the first place, but they don’t really serve the story. The only historical commentary Road of Bones seems to make is that the gulag was a brutal, desolate place, you could be thrown in the gulag for something incredibly insignificant, and living under these conditions can lead to desperate acts of madness. Douek and Cormack make that commentary well, but I question how insightful it really is for the location and period in question.
At its core, Road of Bones is a question of survival versus sanity. It’s a struggle to see whether our three main characters will break their bodies first, or their minds. At the end, if it’s the latter, one must question whether the trek was even worth it. Is the escape even worth it if you have to lose a piece of your soul in the process? I’m not sure if any of us readers will ever know the answer to that question.
Road of Bones TP
Road of Bones is a solid survival horror story with great imagery and phenomenal tone that lacks the character work to back it up.
Cormack does a great job rendering the desolate, harsh Siberian environment and throwing in some brutal violence.
Fantastic use of magical realism. Meticulous and tight use of formalism makes the supernatural seem plausible
Douek makes great use of dialogue to set the scene and establish desperation
The characters aren't strong enough to support the horror surrounding them
One might question whether or not the "historical" piece is essential to the story
Strange balloon placements at times
Comixology/Amazon
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Police: Off-duty officer shot while shielding son from gunfire in North Philadelphia
NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police say an off-duty officer was shot while shielding his son from gunfire in North Philadelphia.
It happened at 4:47 p.m. Friday on the 1100 block of Parrish Street.
Police say Officer Angelo Romero was off-duty, at the time, when a gun battle broke out.
"He was caught in the crossfire, immediately covered his son, which any father would do. He was actually struck at least one time in his thumb. He did take some fragments to both legs, as well as to his buttocks," said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross.
Commissioner Ross says the officer was then able to get his toddler son to safety at a nearby relative's house.
He was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for treatment.
Authorities say the officer was not an intended target.
The shooters remain at large.
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No marijuana arrests under latest proposal by NJ lawmakers
A man smokes a marijuana cigarette (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
You could possess up to a pound of marijuana without fear of arrest under a proposed state law.
Under bill S-2535 introduced on Thursday, the distribution and possession of one pound or less of marijuana would still be an unlawful act but with decreased penalties. A first offender would receive a written warning. Second and subsequent offenses would carry a civil penalty of $25, or performance of community service in lieu of payment of a penalty.
“We have been over-penalizing marijuana offenses for far too long. We all know it is not nearly as dangerous as heroin or cocaine and it has no place being classified with them in statute,” state Sen. Sandra Cunningham, D-Hudson, said.
She believes that the tough penalties were intentionally created to target the black community.
Possession of 50 grams or less of marijuana in New Jersey is punishable by a $1,000 fine and a six-month jail sentence.
“The War on Drugs has ravaged communities of color for far too long. While we await voter approval of legalization, we cannot forget about those arrested and incarcerated every day on marijuana-related charges,” state Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex, said. “By decriminalizing certain marijuana offenses, we can prevent countless unnecessary arrests and the attendant legal consequences over the next seven months.”
Voters will get to decide about the legalization of marijuana in a referendum question in November. Senate President Steve Sweeney could not line up the votes in 2019 to pass legislation legalizing marijuana.
The new bill also address expungement, one of the issues that prevented some senators from approving the legalization bill.
Any arrest, charge or conviction for certain marijuana or hashish offenses that occurred prior to the bill’s effective date would be deemed not to have occurred, so there would be no need to petition the court for an expungement.
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CBD • Health & Wellness
What is CBD? A Beginner’s Guide to Cannabidiol
by Jeffrey M. Crenshaw
CBD is now hitting the headlines for good reasons, especially for health! It may be quite challenging for beginners to get real information about the CBD product, following several confusing information that you can find on the internet! Many CBD products are available, and it even adds to more confusion! The CBD review will enlighten you on everything you need to know about the Cannabidiol and why it’s an excellent option for neurological conditions. The article will also elaborate on why Cannabidiol should not be confused for the psychoactive THC! Cannabidiol indeed goes through ranges of processes to yield the CBD products, such as the CBD edibles, the CBD topical, and the CBD oils! All the CBD products have their defined purpose, and it will be worth getting to understand all the facts about each of them! Let’s get the facts below!
What is CBD (Cannabidiol)?
CBD, a short form for Cannabidiol, is now a famous ingredient derived from cannabis plants! The hemp and marijuana plants are the leading products where you can derive the Cannabidiol from! Hemp is highly accepted for a pure quality CBD with no or little traces of the psychoactive THC!
On the other hand, marijuana plants have less concentration of the Cannabidiol, unlike the THC contents, which are available in high quantities! You can harvest the best Cannabidiol using processes such as the CO2 extraction process. Some other modes of extraction are available, but the CO2 extraction process is widely used.
CBD does not portray any addictive effects. Neither will it brings euphoric effects! It is a non-psychoactive product that only possesses health benefits, especially for anxiety, pain, and stress. Cannabidiol has an application in manufacturing the Epidiolex drug, which is administered to epileptic patients! THC, on the other hand, is very psychoactive. For a hemp or marijuana product to qualify to be a Cannabidiol, the trace amounts of THC should be less than 0.3%!
How Does Cannabidiol Work?
Every human system has an endocannabinoid system that is responsible for reacting with the Cannabidiol.
The human body has CB1 and CB2 receptors. The CB1 receptors are the brain, while the CB2 receptors are located in the peripheral nervous system. The CB2 receptors will influence pain and inflammations. It does not directly bind with the receptors but influences the way the receptors sense pain and inflammations.
Highly purified CBD is the reason why it is used to treat seizures in epileptic persons. Experts argue that there is too little evidence on other potential uses. The primary principle behind the working of the Cannabidiol is the fact that it activates or inhibits other compounds in the endocannabinoid system, such as stopping the body from absorbing anandamide, which is associated with pain!
The research on the practical functioning of the Cannabidiol is still underway! The available results re very impressive about what the CBD can do!
How Do You Take Cannabidiol?
There are many ways through which you can take CBD! First, you may take it as food. The availability of the edible Cannabidiol is the reason why it is now very possible to consume Cannabidiol! The cannabinoids will be easily absorbed in the digestive system into the bloodstream.
Some CBD products can be applied topically, such as the CBD cream, lotions, or even the salves! Others, such as the CBD oil, can be taken sublingually where you place them under the tongue! CBD capsules or pills will be swallowed, and, of course, it will be absorbed directly into the bloodstream from the stomach.
What are the Health Benefits of Cannabidiol?
CBD has many applications following its amazing benefits that it accords o users!
First, CBD will be useful in treating several conditions such as pain, anxiety, and stress.
Cannabidiol is also beneficial for patients with neurological conditions such as cancer and arthritis! You can take Cannabidiol to relieve that pain associated with the conditions.
Cannabidiol also has a role in the beauty industry, where they are used as skincare products.
Most of the Cannabidiol reviews agree that Cannabidiol can be critical in enhancing a quick recovery after an exercise hence making it so famous with the athletes.
Is Cannabidiol Illegal?
It is arguably through that CBD is currently legal in more than 60 states. The Cannabidiol products are federally legal, while those derived from the Marijuana plant remains in the schedule 1 controlled substances! The Cannabidiol products are not approved as the prescription drug or even a dietary supplement!
Notably, the hemp products are legal under a farm bill, but this does not mean that the Cannabidiol products are legal! They still face restrictions in their countries except for the states that approve them! Check your country’s requirements for the CBD products!
Where to Buy CBD?
CBD products will be an excellent option for patients with issues such as stress, pain, and anxiety! Do you wish to acquire this Cannabidiol product? It’s simple. All you need to do is to choose the brands that sell the best Cannabidiol products! You can be sure to get the best CBD products by choosing a product from a reputable brand!
Cannabidiol reviews will highlight all the essential factors that will give you the best CBD product! Ensure that you settle for the best brand that has a reputation! The Cannabidiol products are often sold online, and all you will be required to do is make your order online, after which they ship it to you! Check the shipping requirements for the Cannabidiol that you are going to buy!
To conclude, Cannabidiol is a fantastic compound that you will find in the cannabis Sativa plants! Ensure that you are buying a CBD that follows all the strict measures such as using the best extraction process, availing all the third-party lab testing results, and using the high-quality Cannabidiol that grows naturally in the USA! More research about the Cannabidiol is still underway. The available results about the Cannabidiol are awe-inspiring hence casting the doubt of the possibility of it being harmful! You can rely on it for pain, anxiety, depression, and stress!
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Edward Burns Replacing The Brothers Mcmullen Sequel With Prequel
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16 October 2013
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Picture: Edward Burns Premiere of Summit Entertainment's 'Alex Cross' at the ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome - Arrivals Hollywood, California - 15.10.12
Actor/director Edward Burns has scrapped plans for a follow up to his popular 1995 comedy The Brothers McMullen and is developing a prequel instead.
The Saving Private Ryan star confirmed in 2011 that he was penning a sequel to the family drama, centring around three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island, New York, with plans for a release in 2014, but he has ditched the project because he simply wasn't a fan of his own work.
Taking to his Twitter.com blog, he writes, "I had to throw out the MCMullen sequel idea. I just didn't fall in love with any of the ideas I had about where to find them 20 yeas later. So instead of MCMullen sequel I'm writing a prequel. Set in 1986, Jack is a senior in college, Barry a senior in Hs (high school), Pat finishing 8th grade."
In the original movie, Burns portrayed Barry MCMullen, while his onscreen brother Patrick was played by Mike MCGlone and Jack Mulcahy was cast as his movie namesake. The film also starred a young Connie Britton in her feature acting debut.
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Koenigsegg’s 1,700 bhp Gemera Combines Comfort With Top Performance
By Frances Cooper - March 19, 2020
The new Koenigsegg Gemera is here, and it’s being compared to the Ford Focus. How does it line up?
Looking to Replace Your Ford Focus?
Then you must be prepared to make a lot of sacrifices – but they might be worth it. Let’s start with the negatives.
The Focus can comfortably fit up to five people. The Gemera, on the other hand, can fit only four. Focus is available with five doors, but you get two on the new Koenigsegg Gemera.
On the plus side, you may consider the Focus’ doors to open in a boring way, but that’s not the case with this 1,700 bhp family vehicle.
Koenigsegg’s Luggage Space, Compared to That of Focus
A hatchback version of the Focus has about 341 liters of boot space with the rear seats up. When you fold down the rear seats, space gets even bigger – up to 1320 liters. It’s a spacious family vehicle you can enjoy as your daily driver. The Gemera, on the other hand, has a total luggage volume of just 200 liters. However, the Koenigsegg allows you to opt for a roof box, and as every family will confirm, roof boxes are way cooler than regular old boots.
Is the Engine Bigger Than That of a Regular Ford Focus?
Gemera has the same number of vehicles. However, where the Focus’ three-pot is a 1.0-liter, Koenigsegg’s newest model is a 2.0-liter. When talking about horsepower, the Focus makes around 100bhp, and the Gemera makes 600bhp. How did they do this? There is no magic – it’s pure engineering.
Is Gemera More Affordable Than a Ford Focus?
But 600bhp From a 2.0-liter. How Is This Even Possible?
That’s not all. Just like the Ford Focus, the three-cylinder engine powers the front wheels. Unlike one of the most renowned models of Ford, the Gemera also features three electric motors, one on each wheel, and one on the engine’s crankshaft.
When all systems are working together, the Gemera makes 1,700bhp, 2580 pound-feet of torque and can go from 0-62 mph in 1.9s. Sounds impressive, right? It surely is.
Will this be your next family vehicle? The choice is only yours.
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RS Round 10 report: Ludwigsburg thrashes Le Mans at home
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KAHUDI, CHARLES
#5 Forward France 1986 Height: 1.96
DIOT, ANTOINE
#6 Guard France 1989 Height: 1.93
KOFFI, ALAIN
#7 Center France 1983 Height: 2.05
BOWMAN, BRANDON
#8 Forward United States of America 1984 Height: 2.06
ACKER, ALEX
#9 Guard United States of America 1983 Height: 1.95
DEWAR, BEN
#10 Guard United States of America 1981 Height: 1.96
PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE
#11 Guard France 1987 Height: 1.70
RUPERT, THIERRY
#12 Forward France 1977 Height: 2.00
BATISTA, J.P.
#13 Center Brazil 1981 Height: 2.06
KAHUDI, HENRI
MENDY, KEVIN
NIANG, BABACAR
#17 Center France 1991 Height: 2.08
DROUAULT, PIERRE-ETIENNE
KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS
#20 Forward Greece 1976 Height: 2.07
JACKSON, JD
Head coach France 1969
EuroCup 2010-11 Games
Regular Season 4 wins, 2 losses
1 L at Banvit Bandirma 78 - 70
2 W vs EWE Baskets 84 - 60
3 W at UNICS Kazan 63 - 67
4 L vs UNICS Kazan 65 - 98
5 W vs Banvit Bandirma 67 - 59
6 W at EWE Baskets 71 - 73
Last 16 2 wins, 4 losses
1 L at Goettingen 75 - 71
2 W vs Aris Thessaloniki 85 - 70
3 L at Budivelnik 67 - 61
4 L vs Budivelnik 72 - 77
5 L vs Goettingen 77 - 83
6 W at Aris Thessaloniki 73 - 78
Total Record 6 wins, 6 losses
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Le Mans Sarthe Basket reached an agreement with playmaker Tywain McKee to work together next season, the club announced Thursday. McKee arrives from Hapoel Bank Yahav...
Club Profile: Le Mans Sarthe Basket
One of the very best clubs in France this century, Le Mans Sarthe Basket comes back to the Eurocup after a year away, holding hopes it will return to lifting trophies, too.
Le Mans Sarthe adds guard Pitard
Le Mans Sarthe Basket reached an agreement with defensive guard Gedeon Pitard to work together until the end of the 2016-17 season.
Le Mans Sarthe signs former Eurocup champ Gelabale
Le Mans Sarthe Basket signed veteran forward and former Eurocup champion Mickael Gelabale, one of the most-accomplished players in French basketball, to a two-year contract.
Le Mans Sarthe tabs Konate
Le Mans Sarthe Basket reached an agreement with small forward Lahaou Konate, who penned a two-year contract with his new team on Tuesday.
Post-draw analysis, comments: Group A
The 2013-14 Eurocup Draw is in the books, with all 48 teams assigned the regular season groups that will map their way forward through the rest of the season. Check out this...
Le Mans put Cuthbert Victor at forward
Turkish Airlines Euroleague Qualifying Round team Le Mans Sarthe Basket announced the addition for one year of forward Cuthbert Victor. Victor (1.97 meters, 29 years old)...
Le Mans and Koffi, two more years
Le Mans Sarthe Basket of France will go to battle in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Qualifying Rounds behind one of its signature players after signing center Alain Koffi to...
Le Mans lands veteran playmaker El-Amin
Le Mans Sarthe Basket found a point guard for the upcoming season by inking Khalid El-Amin to a one-year deal on Thursday. El-Amin arrives from Cibona, where he averaged 8.6...
Le Mans pens Pape Sy to two-year deal
Le Mans signed one of the best all-around players in France, swingman Pape Sy, to a two-year deal, the club announced Tuesday. Sy (2.00 meters, 24 years old) arrives from BCM...
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EuroCup 2010-11
Accumulated Statistics - All phases
ACKER, ALEX 11 10 294:30 150 41/74 13/30 29/37 10 24 34 35 10 20 25 36 162
BATISTA, J.P. 12 11 264:49 138 57/114 24/32 21 29 50 12 3 18 4 4 39 32 113
BOWMAN, BRANDON 3 0 54:42 25 6/8 1/5 10/12 2 12 14 3 2 7 1 3 11 36
COVILE, RYVON 3 0 49:51 15 4/12 0/1 7/8 4 11 15 1 8 1 11 6 7
DEWAR, BEN 11 4 282:08 141 23/40 23/67 26/29 5 27 32 22 13 12 3 1 29 23 128
DIOT, ANTOINE 12 11 336:02 112 18/38 17/54 25/31 2 38 40 43 13 35 1 23 39 127
DROUAULT, PIERRE-ETIENNE 1 0 14:11 1 1 2 1 -2
KAHUDI, HENRI 10 1 78:54 7 1/8 0/5 5/8 3 3 6 12 2 3 2 7 6 6
KAHUDI, CHARLES 11 8 218:15 67 14/27 10/29 9/15 10 21 31 6 6 12 1 27 19 51
KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 8 4 179:06 58 10/32 9/20 11/12 8 23 31 6 2 10 3 8 10 52
KOFFI, ALAIN 6 6 123:25 39 16/34 7/8 11 22 33 2 3 9 1 3 13 14 48
MENDY, KEVIN 2 0 18:50 1 0/4 1/2 3 3 1 2 1 -3
NIANG, BABACAR 2 1 1:15 1 -1
PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 12 2 238:56 45 10/25 4/14 13/17 4 22 26 32 11 28 4 25 25 53
RUPERT, THIERRY 12 2 245:06 72 28/61 16/20 16 21 37 2 7 12 11 4 19 18 75
Totals 2400:00 870 228/477 77/225 183/231 112 279 391 176 72 181 20 25 233 240 885
Average 200:00 72.5 47.8% 34.2% 79.2% 9.33 23.25 32.58 14.66 6 15.08 1.66 2.08 19.41 20 73.75
Average Statistics - All phases
ACKER, ALEX 11 10 26:46 13.6 55.4% 43.3% 78.4% 0.9 2.2 3.1 3.2 0.9 1.8 2.3 3.3 14.7
BATISTA, J.P. 12 11 22:04 11.5 50% 75% 1.8 2.4 4.2 1 0.3 1.5 0.3 0.3 3.3 2.7 9.4
BOWMAN, BRANDON 3 0 18:14 8.3 75% 20% 83.3% 0.7 4 4.7 1 0.7 2.3 0.3 1 3.7 12
COVILE, RYVON 3 0 16:37 5 33.3% 87.5% 1.3 3.7 5 0.3 2.7 0.3 3.7 2 2.3
DEWAR, BEN 11 4 25:38 12.8 57.5% 34.3% 89.7% 0.5 2.5 2.9 2 1.2 1.1 0.3 0.1 2.6 2.1 11.6
DIOT, ANTOINE 12 11 28:00 9.3 47.4% 31.5% 80.6% 0.2 3.2 3.3 3.6 1.1 2.9 0.1 1.9 3.3 10.6
KAHUDI, HENRI 10 1 7:53 0.7 12.5% 62.5% 0.3 0.3 0.6 1.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.6 0.6
KAHUDI, CHARLES 11 8 19:50 6.1 51.9% 34.5% 60% 0.9 1.9 2.8 0.5 0.5 1.1 0.1 2.5 1.7 4.6
KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 8 4 22:23 7.3 31.3% 45% 91.7% 1 2.9 3.9 0.8 0.3 1.3 0.4 1 1.3 6.5
KOFFI, ALAIN 6 6 20:34 6.5 47.1% 87.5% 1.8 3.7 5.5 0.3 0.5 1.5 0.2 0.5 2.2 2.3 8
MENDY, KEVIN 2 0 9:25 0.5 50% 1.5 1.5 0.5 1 0.5 -1.5
NIANG, BABACAR 2 1 0:37 0.5 -0.5
PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 12 2 19:54 3.8 40% 28.6% 76.5% 0.3 1.8 2.2 2.7 0.9 2.3 0.3 2.1 2.1 4.4
RUPERT, THIERRY 12 2 20:25 6 45.9% 80% 1.3 1.8 3.1 0.2 0.6 1 0.9 0.3 1.6 1.5 6.3
Accumulated Statistics - Last 16
ACKER, ALEX 5 4 134:05 83 20/36 10/18 13/15 6 12 18 22 6 9 13 15 96
BATISTA, J.P. 6 5 130:17 67 27/51 13/16 8 9 17 10 2 8 2 1 19 18 61
DEWAR, BEN 6 3 154:57 81 14/24 12/35 17/19 3 16 19 13 4 9 2 1 12 16 78
DIOT, ANTOINE 6 5 153:02 48 10/21 7/23 7/9 1 22 23 17 4 15 1 9 12 52
KAHUDI, HENRI 6 1 64:05 5 1/8 0/3 3/4 3 3 6 10 2 2 2 7 4 5
KAHUDI, CHARLES 5 3 87:04 24 7/12 3/11 1/3 3 9 12 2 5 14 5 9
KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 6 4 144:09 47 9/27 7/15 8/8 6 15 21 4 2 7 1 8 8 40
KOFFI, ALAIN 1 1 1:47 3 1/1 1/1 1 1 1 5
MENDY, KEVIN 1 0 15:14 1 0/2 1/2 3 3 2 1
PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 6 2 130:25 25 5/14 3/6 6/9 1 15 16 15 4 11 3 11 14 34
RUPERT, THIERRY 6 1 128:58 35 11/28 13/15 7 10 17 1 2 4 3 2 14 13 32
Totals 1200:00 444 111/232 43/116 93/113 49 141 190 97 28 79 8 11 113 118 468
Average 200:00 74 47.8% 37.1% 82.3% 8.16 23.5 31.66 16.16 4.66 13.16 1.33 1.83 18.83 19.66 78
Average Statistics - Last 16
ACKER, ALEX 5 4 26:49 16.6 55.6% 55.6% 86.7% 1.2 2.4 3.6 4.4 1.2 1.8 2.6 3 19.2
BATISTA, J.P. 6 5 21:42 11.2 52.9% 81.3% 1.3 1.5 2.8 1.7 0.3 1.3 0.3 0.2 3.2 3 10.2
DEWAR, BEN 6 3 25:49 13.5 58.3% 34.3% 89.5% 0.5 2.7 3.2 2.2 0.7 1.5 0.3 0.2 2 2.7 13
DIOT, ANTOINE 6 5 25:30 8 47.6% 30.4% 77.8% 0.2 3.7 3.8 2.8 0.7 2.5 0.2 1.5 2 8.7
KAHUDI, HENRI 6 1 10:40 0.8 12.5% 75% 0.5 0.5 1 1.7 0.3 0.3 0.3 1.2 0.7 0.8
KAHUDI, CHARLES 5 3 17:24 4.8 58.3% 27.3% 33.3% 0.6 1.8 2.4 0.4 1 2.8 1 1.8
KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 6 4 24:01 7.8 33.3% 46.7% 100% 1 2.5 3.5 0.7 0.3 1.2 0.2 1.3 1.3 6.7
KOFFI, ALAIN 1 1 1:47 3 100% 100% 1 1 1 5
MENDY, KEVIN 1 0 15:14 1 50% 3 3 2 1
PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 6 2 21:44 4.2 35.7% 50% 66.7% 0.2 2.5 2.7 2.5 0.7 1.8 0.5 1.8 2.3 5.7
RUPERT, THIERRY 6 1 21:29 5.8 39.3% 86.7% 1.2 1.7 2.8 0.2 0.3 0.7 0.5 0.3 2.3 2.2 5.3
Accumulated Statistics - Regular Season
ACKER, ALEX 6 6 160:25 67 21/38 3/12 16/22 4 12 16 13 4 11 12 21 66
BATISTA, J.P. 6 6 134:32 71 30/63 11/16 13 20 33 2 1 10 2 3 20 14 52
DEWAR, BEN 5 1 127:11 60 9/16 11/32 9/10 2 11 13 9 9 3 1 17 7 50
DIOT, ANTOINE 6 6 183:00 64 8/17 10/31 18/22 1 16 17 26 9 20 14 27 75
KAHUDI, CHARLES 6 5 131:11 43 7/15 7/18 8/12 7 12 19 4 6 7 1 13 14 42
KAHUDI, HENRI 4 0 14:49 2 0/2 2/4 2 1 2 1
KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 2 0 34:57 11 1/5 2/5 3/4 2 8 10 2 3 2 2 12
MENDY, KEVIN 1 0 3:36 0/2 1 -3
PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 6 0 108:31 20 5/11 1/8 7/8 3 7 10 17 7 17 1 14 11 19
RUPERT, THIERRY 6 1 116:08 37 17/33 3/5 9 11 20 1 5 8 8 2 5 5 43
Totals 1200:00 426 117/245 34/109 90/118 63 138 201 79 44 102 12 14 120 122 417
Average 200:00 71 47.8% 31.2% 76.3% 10.5 23 33.5 13.16 7.33 17 2 2.33 20 20.33 69.5
Average Statistics - Regular Season
ACKER, ALEX 6 6 26:44 11.2 55.3% 25% 72.7% 0.7 2 2.7 2.2 0.7 1.8 2 3.5 11
BATISTA, J.P. 6 6 22:25 11.8 47.6% 68.8% 2.2 3.3 5.5 0.3 0.2 1.7 0.3 0.5 3.3 2.3 8.7
DEWAR, BEN 5 1 25:26 12 56.3% 34.4% 90% 0.4 2.2 2.6 1.8 1.8 0.6 0.2 3.4 1.4 10
DIOT, ANTOINE 6 6 30:30 10.7 47.1% 32.3% 81.8% 0.2 2.7 2.8 4.3 1.5 3.3 2.3 4.5 12.5
KAHUDI, CHARLES 6 5 21:51 7.2 46.7% 38.9% 66.7% 1.2 2 3.2 0.7 1 1.2 0.2 2.2 2.3 7
KAHUDI, HENRI 4 0 3:42 0.5 50% 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.3
KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 2 0 17:28 5.5 20% 40% 75% 1 4 5 1 1.5 1 1 6
KOFFI, ALAIN 5 5 24:19 7.2 45.5% 85.7% 2.2 4.2 6.4 0.4 0.6 1.8 0.2 0.6 2.6 2.6 8.6
MENDY, KEVIN 1 0 3:36 1 -3
PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 6 0 18:05 3.3 45.5% 12.5% 87.5% 0.5 1.2 1.7 2.8 1.2 2.8 0.2 2.3 1.8 3.2
RUPERT, THIERRY 6 1 19:21 6.2 51.5% 60% 1.5 1.8 3.3 0.2 0.8 1.3 1.3 0.3 0.8 0.8 7.2
Regular Season, Round 9: Le Mans Sarthe Basket vs. Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia booked its spot in the Eurocup Last 32 by beating Le Mans Sarthe Basket 71-87 on the road for its third straight win in Group B.
Regular Season, Round 8: ALBA Berlin vs. Le Mans Sarthe
Le Mans Sarthe Basket kept alive its chance of advancing to the Last 32 with 80-86 road win over ALBA Berlin on Wednesday night in Mercedes-Benz Arena.
Regular Season, Round 7: Le Mans Sarthe Basket vs. Enel Basket Brindisi
Le Mans Sarthe got back to the winning ways, using its defense and a two big fourth quarter runs to beat Enel Basket Brindisi 66-45 on Wednesday night.
Regular Season, Round 6: Gran Canaria vs. Le Mans Sarthe Basket
Herbalife Gran Canaria Las Palmas established sole possession of first place in Group B on Tuesday following a 77-62 victory over Le Mans Sarthe Basket.
Regular Season, Round 5: Le Mans Sarthe Basket vs. MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg
MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg survived overtime to beat Le Mans Sarthe Basket 75-81 on Tuesday.
Regular Season, Round 1: Le Mans Sarthe Basket vs. Herbalife Gran Canaria Las Palmas
Herbalife Gran Canaria Las Palmas outlasted Le Mans 74-79; Kevin Pangos was among six Granca scorers in double figures.
One of the very best clubs in France this century, Le Mans Sarthe Basket returns to the Eurocup after a year away. Last season was a good one for the team; it reached the French League semifinals and the Leaders Cup final, but lost both of those against Strasbourg. Le Mans also advanced to the FIBA EuroChallenge quarterfinals. Started as a women's club in 1939, Le Mans opened a men's basketball team in 1952. Le Mans qualified for the top French League in 1963 and won the French Cup in 1964. Le Mans made its debut in European competitions in the 1974-75 Saporta Cup and its first French League championship came in 1978. The team successfully defended the crown a year later, then made it to three more finals and won it all again in 1982 with players like Floyd Allen, Hevre Dubuisson, Greg and Eric Beugnot, Olivier Veyrat and Bob Purkhiser playing major roles. Le Mans played the Euroleague's first group stage in 1978-79 and 1979-80, but soon faced tough times and was even relegated to the second division. Le Mans returned to the forefront in 2003-04, when it won the French Cup and made its ULEB Cup debut, which started a run of 11 straight seasons in one of Europe’s top two competitions. The team did even better in 2005-06 by winning both the French League and Semaine des As titles with local legend Vincent Collet as head coach. That success led to the first of three consecutive Euroleague appearances in 2006-07. Le Mans did not reach the Top 16 on any of those three occasions. In the 2008-09 season, Le Mans lifted more trophies: the French Cup and the Semaine des As. Over the next five years, Le Mans made as many Eurocup appearances, but never got past the Last 16. At home, it played in the French League finals in 2010 and 2012 and lifted the Leaders Cup trophy in 2014. After another solid campaign, Le Mans now returns to the Eurocup and hopes it will return to lifting trophies, too.
French National League: 1977-78, 1978-79, 1981-82, 2005-06
French National Cup: 1964, 2004, 2009
Semaine des As Cups: 2006, 2009
Average Records - All seasons
Index Rating 2005-06 91.10
Points 2003-04 79.10
Total Rebounds 2015-16 37.20
Assists 2003-04 17.70
Steals 2005-06 9.40
Blocks 2003-04 3.90
2-pointers made 2005-06 23.50
3-pointers made 2013-14 8.20
Free throws made 2003-04 18.10
Single Game Records
Index Rating 2005-06 135 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 29 Nov. 2005
Points 2003-04 97 Makedonikos 27 Jan. 2004
Total Rebounds 2015-16 54 Enel Basket Brindisi 25 Nov. 2015
Assists 2003-04 27 Energy Branuschweig 16 Dec. 2003
Steals 2005-06 20 Dynamo Moscow 22 Nov. 2005
Blocks 2005-06 12 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 29 Nov. 2005
2-pointers made 2005-06 31 Virtus Roma 06 Dec. 2005
3-pointers made 2009-10 13 Hemofarm Stada 08 Dec. 2009
Free throws made 2015-16 31 ALBA Berlin 02 Dec. 2015
Player Highs
Index Rating 2005-06 BESOK, HUSEYIN 38 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 29 Nov. 2005
Points 2013-14 WOOD, DASHAUN 30 CEZ Basketball Nymburk 30 Oct. 2013
Total Rebounds 2003-04 TURNER, RAHSHON 16 Buducnost 02 Dec. 2003
Assists 2004-05 PRICE, HOLLIS 10 Hemofarm Vrsac 16 Nov. 2004
Steals 2009-10 WRIGHT, ZACK 5 Triumph Lyubertsy 05 Jan. 2010
Blocks 2005-06 KOFFI, ALAIN 4 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 29 Nov. 2005
2-pointers made 2012-13 BATISTA, J.P. 10 Artland Dragons 21 Nov. 2012
3-pointers made 2003-04 RUZIC, JURICA 8 Adecco Estudiantes 13 Jan. 2004
Free throws made 2015-16 McKEE, TYWAIN 11 ALBA Berlin 02 Dec. 2015
Eurocup 2015-16 Eurocup 2013-14 Eurocup 2012-13 Eurocup 2011-12 Eurocup 2010-11 Eurocup 2009-10 Euroleague 2008-09 Euroleague 2007-08 Euroleague 2006-07 ULEB Cup 2005-06 ULEB Cup 2004-05 ULEB Cup 2003-04
5 KAHUDI, CHARLES F 1.96
6 DIOT, ANTOINE G 1.93
7 KOFFI, ALAIN C 2.05
8 BOWMAN, BRANDON F 2.06
9 ACKER, ALEX G 1.95
10 DEWAR, BEN G 1.96
11 PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE G 1.70
12 RUPERT, THIERRY F 2.00
13 BATISTA, J.P. C 2.06
15 KAHUDI, HENRI G 1.94
16 MENDY, KEVIN F 2.00
17 NIANG, BABACAR C 2.08
18 DROUAULT, PIERRE-ETIENNE G 1.94
20 KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS F 2.07
Head coach: JACKSON, JD
Christophe Le Bouille
Club Address:
Rue Juan Manuel Fangio, 72100 Le Mans, France
Arena:
2 Avenue Antares, 72100 Le Mans, France
Club Official Website
@msb_officiel
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Boss of Teesside Plant at Centre of Beer CO2 Shortage Explains How to Stop Future Problems
BioRefineries/Renewable Fuel Production, Biorefinery/Fuel Production Infrastructure, Business News/Analysis, Co-Products, Feedstocks, Field/Orchard/Plantation Crops/Residues, Infrastructure, Opinions, Policy, UK (United Kingdom)
by Kelly Price (Teeside Live) Ensus says a change in the law on PETROL could secure its future – and keep the CO2 flowing to the food and drink industry — Bosses of a Teesside ethanol plant at the centre of the “worst CO2 shortage in decades” say a change in the law on PETROL could help secure its future – and keep the gas flowing to the food and drink industry.
Ensus is “one of the bigger plants” that stopped supplying CO2, which has led to rationing and gaps on the shelves as products from crisps and crumpets to cider run low.
Both are back up and running but bosses at Ensus say a much-needed mandate to allow more of their main product, bioethanol, to be blended with road fuel would allow them to increase production including its byproduct CO2.
The company, which uses wheat to make its bioethanol, has argued for years the Government needs to speed up UK policy on greener road fuel.
“At the end of the day, when our customers invest in [CO2] plants they expect our plant to be up and running all year round,” said Mr Pearson.
“We are very much encouraging the Government to support a mandate of petrol called E10 that allows 10% of ethanol [to go into road fuel].
“It would be the equivalent of taking 700,000 cars of the road.
“The extra benefit would be the CO2 would always be flowing to the food and drink industry.
“It would ensure the plant was online and producing CO2 because the demand for ethanol is there.
All new cars are designed to run on E10, which is available in other countries and is France’s main road fuel.
Pub giant JD Wetherspoon, which ran out of some of its best-selling draught drinks, said on Monday supplies would be “back to normal” in time for England’s World Cup clash with Columbia on Tuesday night. READ MORE
BioRefineries/Renewable Fuel ProductionCarbon Dioxide (CO2)co-productsE10ethanol/bioethanolTransportation Fuels PolicyUK (United Kingdom)wheat
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The EU copyright directive – how it will affect Internet communication?
Dr. Bissera Zankova
Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria
As the preparation of the new EU copyright directive is in full swing discussions about its ramifications are widespread and related to every aspect of Internet communication. The rules that will come into force will oblige online companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc to share revenue with the creative industries and remove copyright-protected content on YouTube or Instagram. Social media giants will have to sign licensing agreements with rights holders such as musicians, performers, authors, news publishers and journalists to use their work online and it is expected their revenues will soar. Internet companies also have to install filters to prevent users uploading copyrighted materials. The exemptions that are proposed relate to small companies that are less than three years old; with an annual turnover below €10 million ($11.3 million); with fewer than five million monthly users. The draft does not affect non-profit organizations and encyclopaedias such as Wikipedia which will still be able to use data for research and educational purposes as well as ordinary users. It will not create ground for Internet censorship. With regard to small expression forms the directive will contain specific provisions which oblige member states to protect the free uploading and sharing of works for the purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody or pastiche. The provisions actually ensure that they will be even safer than before because so far protection for such works has been afforded by different national laws.These are by and large the advantages of the new directive repeatedly underlined by its proponents.
However, the polar opposite of this are critics of the draft who discern the new perfidious type of censorship it may generate and sustain. They warn of a risk of unintended censorship with no working exceptions for satire or small businesses, which could lead to a filtering of legal content and a further monopolization of the Internet. Renowned scholars as Dr. Stephan Dreyer at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research are of the opinion that user-generated platforms will change their manner of operation. In support of such inference, researchers from the Science Media Center Germany argue that the law would have the unintended effect of blocking satirical content including memes, because there is no foreseeable way that digital filters could recognize the difference between copyright material and satire, and would eventually block them as forbidden material. Generally the admonition of more liberal minded scientists and experts is that the whole architecture of the Internet will be changed. Prof. Marcus Liwicki, chair of machine learning at Lulea University in Sweden, thinks that “the new law is generally difficult to implement and it is unfair to shift the burden of review to the platforms.” “Flea markets would have to check all pictures, films and records they sell in the future to see whether they really are originals and not illegal copies and telephone providers may have to check all telephone calls to see if they are not transmitting copyrighted content during conference calls with hundreds of participants.” Despite these complications Prof. Liwicki stresses that the new instrument will improve the overall situation of the European creative industry. However, nothing is certain before the directive begins to be implemented.
Regarding satirical content, particularly memes, they were spread via email or Usenet communities in the early days of the Internet. Meme-sharing was a factor for boosting discussion within the messageboard or newsgroup population by asking for feedback, comments, opinions, etc. Later the video memes were on the rise on YouTube. As social media networks grew fast memes became more and more popular with users. People love memes as they are easy to pick up when you are immersed in an ocean of information. A reader will have the time to look at a meme and share further the succinct message. Memes can be used for advertising a brand and for digital marketers they have become an attractive tool for engaging an online audience.
Memes can pursue various goals but what is important is they carry the specific flavor of the Internet communication and have become unalienable element of the everyday practiced online culture.
The Internet will not be the same without the spontaneity and the interactive opportunities offered by memes. All users hope that when adopted the new copyright directive will not filter out memes and will not stifle the free, creative and entertaining potential of the web.
More on the regularly raised issues regarding the up coming EU copyright directive and the possible threats for satirical content and memes see at:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190111IPR23225/questions-and-answers-on-issues-about-the-digital-copyright-directive
https://www.dw.com/en/memes-could-be-filtered-out-by-eu-copyright-law/a-47858247
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Home/Media & Advertising/Kenny Kunene South African MultiMillionaire Business Man and Socialite. How He made his Millions, from rags to riches and blinging! Hard Work, Party and More Parties
Kenny Kunene South African MultiMillionaire Business Man and Socialite. How He made his Millions, from rags to riches and blinging! Hard Work, Party and More Parties
November 21, 2010 Media & Advertising, Mining
Kenny Kunene is a force to be reckoned with in the business world. He tells us how he does it.
I’m an executive and shareholder of mining company Central Rand Gold.
I also have various other companies including an investment entity with overseas business partners. And I’m a director of a publishing company, X-Concepts.
What qualifications do you hold and from which institutions?
I’m a teacher by profession and, believe it or not, I never studied accounting or business studies.
I did my teachers’ degree at the former Vista University (now called Central University of Technology) at the Welkom Campus.
How did you end up in business?
To tell you the truth I never liked school, but my grandparents forced me to at least finish my first degree. I’m very grateful for that.
I always loved business and in high school I used to sell fruit. During weekends I helped out at a township tavern.
I guess that’s where and how I developed an interest in business.
Where did you work before?
I was a teacher and loved it because I was making a difference to young kids. Never mind the low salary.
What do you like or dislike about your job?
I like what I do because it gives me a chance to make a difference in ordinary people’s lives.
I dislike it when I have to deal with greedy, egocentric people who pursue their own interest at the expense of others.
Where do you see yourself in the near future?
I see myself with billions of what we call risk money, which I can invest in the economic development of young people with business talent.
Where do you think young people lose it?
They want to live ahead of their ages and others idolise criminals.
They get excited about material possessions that criminals show off and think they too can follow suit.
My advise to them is: don’t think you can master any crime or do drugs. And don’t abuse anyone who is weaker than you, protect and be a hero. We all have it in us.
They must read The Choice: The Gayton McKenzie Story. It’s a life-changing book.
How do you spend your leisure time?
Some people play golf, some go to soccer stadiums and others do picnics, but I love to party.
Not that I’m bragging, but I drive the best. I have a 911 Porsche Carrera, GTS Porsche Cayenne and a BMW 1Series.
How Kenny Kunene Made His Money:
•In jail, Kenny Kunene says, he earned R22 a month making tea for the warders at Grootvlei Prison, and other cash and goods working for Gayton McKenzie “in the smuggling business”;
•On his release in 2003, he declined numerous invitations to take part in robberies and scams, despite having only R3000 in his bank account;
•In 2004, he earned a small wage as the agent for a man selling refurbished desks and stationery to schools in the Free State;
•Later that year, he used his old contacts to arrange discounts on equipment for a partner starting a nightclub in Odendaalsrus, and earned a stake in the business;
•In September 2005, he got a teaching job at Calculus Secondary School in Bloemfontein, teaching life orientation and English, for which he earned R3000 a month. He bought an old VW Golf, but had to put it on blocks;
•In 2006, with less than R10 000 in assets, he struck a deal with Gayton McKenzie to form X Concepts Publishing and to promote and sell McKenzie’s prison biography. They also began a fish company with four trucks and a refrigerated warehouse, and later sold it “for profit”;
•Kunene became rich in 2007 selling tickets for McKenzie’s motivational talks to companies for “big money” and also advised people on “holes” in their home security for a fee. A portion of the money they made from the book sales was invested in a “mine consultancy business”. Benefactor Greg James’s company, CRG, hired Kunene on a large contractor’s salary. He does not deny that he received share options allegedly worth hundreds of thousands of rands;
•In February 2008, he was appointed a senior manager of community relations at CRG. He bought a multimillion-rand Sandton apartment and a Porsche 911, using a numberplate that read “What now?” as a taunt to prisoners who said he could not afford the car without resorting to crime;
•Applying business lessons he says they had learnt from mentors, James and Gavin Varejes, Kunene and McKenzie attracted foreign investors and became part owners of “about three, four companies”; and
•In February 2010, the pair began mining operations in Zimbabwe. Kunene says they are in the process of securing R140-million in start-up funding from foreign investors for a R700-million mining project “in another African country” and plan further ZAR clubs in Durban and Mozambique.
Kenny Kunene spent USD100,000 for his 40th birthday bash! There’s no stopping Joburg tycoon Kenny Kunene. Hard Work Pays Off!!!
Berated by no less than Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi for his extravagant 40th birthday party last week, the flash BEE businessman is doing it all over again on Saturday.
He’s off home to Welkom to celebrate with close friends and relatives.
Kunene ran foul of Vavi after newspaper reports claimed he had spent more than R700 000 on last Thursday’s party. Most of it went on imported booze such as Moët & Chandon’s Dom Pérignon and Louis Roederer’s Cristal champagnes and Chivas Regal whisky, at the ZAR nightclub he owns with former convict Gayton Mackenzie, to party the night away with the who’s who of the current elite.
Kunene hit back, by writing an open letter to Vavi, ripping him apart for his alleged hypocrcisy and telling him to “go hang or go to hell”. The letter was widely reprinted by newspapers on Friday, but, speaking to the Saturday Star afterwards Kunene couldn’t resist taking another dig.
The one thing Vavi and the media had got wrong, he said, was that it had been a one-day party.
“On Saturday I had a pool party at my place. I had so many beautiful ladies strutting around in their bikinis, it was so much fun,” he said.
“We drank, ate, partied all weekend and I could not have had a better birthday party. I am not ashamed or embarrassed, as I am having honest fun,” said Kunene.
“I have absolutely no problem with people speaking their minds, but Vavi is the biggest hypocrite I have ever met. Just because I am a black man, Vavi has decided to have a go at me, because he believes I got my money from doing crooked things,” said Kunene.
“It’s an insult to me,” said Kunene. “I am no tenderpreneur, I earn my money with the hard work I have put in for a very long time. Vavi hates to see young black men succeed and it makes me sick to my stomach. He also called me a pig, which is uncalled for.”
“Vavi enjoys a lavish lifestyle, just like me, and he has the nerve to criticise me. It’s ludicrous. While Vavi chooses to hide behind his wife and spend her money, I can say with a big smile on my face that it is my hard work that has earned me the money I have,” he added.
His guests included presidential spokesman Zizi Kodwa, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, Malema’s spokesman, Floyd Shivambu, and socialite Khanyi Mbau.
Kunene said Vavi’s comments about his party last weekend had done nothing to dampen his mood and he would continue to enjoy his birthday celebrations.
“I have worked really hard to succeed in life. I truly deserved the party I threw last weekend and I will enjoy my celebrations with the less fortunate, as well as the people I grew up with in Welkom, today too,” said Kunene.
He said while his birthday bash had cost him an “arm and a leg”, it was party he had always dreamt of having.
“I had the best time of my life. While I had my main celebration on Thursday at my nightclub, the party lasted all weekend,” said Kunene.
Kenny Kunene with Billionaire Patrice Motsepe at Kunene’s Club ZAR in South Africa
“I even had models lying down on tables so my guests could nibble sushi served on their stomachs. It was the best sushi I have ever had in my life. I couldn’t ask for more,” laughed Kunene.
He added that while it may have come as a shock to some, the way he chose to serve sushi at his birthday party was a very popular thing to do.
“It happens everywhere behind closed doors. I chose to do it in the public. Because I am from Africa does not mean I am rural. We are living in the 21st century and this happens in Europe and all over the world. I’m really glad I did it, because it was so much of fun,” he said.
He added that although he enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, he had also given a lot back to those who were less fortunate.
“Yes, I might throw lavish parties which the media are always there for, but most people do not see how I help those less fortunate than myself.
Last year I helped several poor kids achieve their dream of going overseas by funding their trip with over R80 000,” said Kunene.
“I don’t like bragging because I do it out of the good of my heart, but I get really frustrated when an honest hard-working man like myself cannot even enjoy my own birthday party without someone saying something about it.” – Saturday Star
KENNY KUNENE BUYS A 1.5 MILLION LAMBORGHINI
A month after drawing public fury for his R700 000 birthday party, former gangster Kenny Kunene has ordered a yellow Lamborghini valued at around R1.5-million, and is shopping for a helicopter.
Kenny Kunene With Busta Rhymes at Kenny Kunene’s Famous ZAR Night Club in South Africa
He has deliberately parked one of his four sports cars next to the BMW of his partner and fellow ex-convict, Gayton McKenzie, so that their personalised number plates read “X Con” – “So what”.
Previously he spent R800 000 on a party in his Free State home town of Odendaalsrus to thank friends and ancestors. He arrived in a helicopter for the traditional slaughtering of a cow.
Just four years ago, Kunene says he had less than R10 000 in assets; had to hitch-hike to meetings, and sometimes slept in McKenzie’s car.
Now, he is part-owner of a mining and entertainment empire and has partied with celebrities like John Legend and Arsene Wenger.
While Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi has called him a “hyena” who “spits in the face of the poor”, Kunene claims to be a “new generation role model” for South Africa’s poorest youth.
In an interview which he reluctantly granted to the Sunday Times, Kunene, 40, acknowledged that public speculation and suspicion was rife about how he had jumped from poverty to riches in just four years – he was released from jail in 2003.
“The reason why everybody is questioning my income is maybe they have limited knowledge of the business world,” he said. “Or they are lazy – they like salaries, and to bask in the sun, and people must come and say ‘there is a tender’.”
Born in Kutlwanong township and raised by his grandparents and unemployed mother, Kunene now lives in a plush Sandton apartment, while his wife and son live in Odendaalsrus.
He was jailed at Grootvlei Prison in the Free State for six years for fraud in 1997 – having spent four years awaiting trial.
Here he risked his life to expose gross corruption and abuse at the Jali Commission.
He said he plotted his rise to riches here while literally on his knees, clipping the toenails and callouses from the feet of a prison warder.
However, this week Kunene revealed additional details of his criminal history, when he committed sometimes violent crimes for a gang while working as a Klerksdorp teacher.
In what he describes as “the worst thing I ever did”, Kunene said that – enraged that a fellow gang member had heightened their risk of arrest – he shot a gang colleague in the thigh as they left the scene of a robbery.
Kunene admitted that he tried to sell ivory illegally in Pretoria in 1995 – and that he had grabbed a tourist around the neck to shield himself from police guns aimed at him before his arrest. This case was later dropped.
“We used to get involved in fraud, car theft, robberies,” he said. “Now when we do our talks to kids and schools, we say: ‘When we were criminals we couldn’t enjoy our cars; we couldn’t drive them in the daylight’.”
Under threat to his life from prisoners and corrupt warders, Kunene said he had once carried a teapot spiked with rat poison to a whole panel of Jali Commission advocates, including Jerome Brauns, SC, who later defended President Jacob Zuma – but then warned them not to drink it.
“The 50 metres I walked with that kettle was the longest of my life. And the decision I made to warn Advocate Brauns was the best of my life.”
For his success, Kunene credits McKenzie; ANC empowerment policies “beyond tenders”; “foreign investors”, and the teaching and support of their two “mentors” – mine boss and philanthropist Greg James, and telecommunications tycoon Gavin Varejes.
He said McKenzie found him counselling troubled pupils at Calculus secondary school in Bloemfontein, at a salary of R3000 a month in 2006, and proposed they join forces to sell McKenzie’s book, The Choice, to schools.
“We went everywhere; sometimes we’d sleep in the car – Gayton’s M3 – when we could not (afford) a hotel,” he said.
Kunene said that – inspired by the book’s anti-crime message – James bought 80 000 copies of two versions of the book in June 2007 to give to Western Cape schools, providing them with the money to start “a small mine consultancy business”.
Musician Lady May with Kenny Kunene
Kunene and McKenzie were later appointed senior managers at Central Rand Gold – where James was CEO – in charge of dealing with the Soweto community affected by the proposed mining.
Kunene said he had since become co-owner of “about three, four businesses”, including a new mining venture “elsewhere in Africa” which he said could grow to be worth R700-million.
“Our mentors – Greg and Gavin – have taught us to diversify: We have been made by white people – we are not ashamed to say that – because they celebrate when you turn your life around.”
Mariette Lifferink – the former spokesman for the Soweto community affected by the CRG mine – submitted formal complaints to the government and the Legal Resource Centre last year, alleging that Kunene had broken promises to the community, and had “advocated hatred against me”.
Kunene denies the claims.
Despite the criticism, hundreds of Kunene’s 806 friends on Facebook are teenagers and students, who have written messages in support of his lavish lifestyle.
Kenny Kunene buys 1,5 Million Car!
A month after provoking public fury over his R700 000 birthday party, former gangster Kenny Kunene has ordered a yellow Lamborghini valued at around R1.5-million and is in the market for a helicopter.
‘We have been made by white people – we are not ashamed to say that’ He says his party – at which sushi was served on the bodies of half-naked models – was nothing compared with the R800 000 he splurged on another bash in his Free State home town of Odendaalsrus to thank friends and ancestors in August last year.
Then he arrived in a helicopter for the traditional slaughtering of a cow.
This is the man who dares South Africans to find fault with his millions and his partying excesses.
Just four years ago, Kunene says he had less than R10 000 in assets, had to hitchhike to meetings and sometimes slept in business partner Gayton McKenzie’s car.
Now he is a part owner of a mining and entertainment empire and has partied with celebrities like musician John Legend and French football coach Arsene Wenger.
He and McKenzie, also an ex-convict, park their cars together so that their personalised numberplates read “X Con” and “So what?”
While Cosatu secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi has called him a “hyena” who “spits in the face of the poor”, Kunene claims he is a “new generation role model” for South Africa’s youth.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Kunene, 40, acknowledged that public speculation and suspicion were rife about how he jumped from poverty to riches in just four years.
He spent 10 years in jail before his 2003 release and then starting his business empire in 2006, he says.
“The reason why everybody is questioning my income is maybe they have limited knowledge of the business world. Or they are lazy – they like salaries and to bask in the sun.”
Born in Kutlwanong township and raised by his grandparents and unemployed mother, Kunene now lives in a reported R12-million Sandton apartment, while his wife and son live in Odendaalsrus.
He was jailed in Grootvlei Prison in the Free State for six years for fraud in 1997, having spent four years awaiting trial.
There he risked his life to expose gross corruption and abuse to the Jali Commission.
He said he plotted his rise to riches there while literally on his knees clipping the toenails and calluses of a prison warder.
This week, he revealed more details of his criminal history when he committed sometimes violent crimes as part of a gang while working as a Klerksdorp teacher.
In what he described as “the worst thing I ever did”, he said that, enraged that a fellow gang member had heightened their risk of arrest, he shot him in the thigh as they left the scene of an armed robbery.
He admitted that he had tried to sell ivory illegally in Pretoria in 1995 and told of how he had grabbed a tourist around the neck to shield himself from police guns aimed at him before his arrest. That case was later dropped.
“We used to get involved in fraud, car theft, robberies. Now, when we do our talks to kids and schools, we say, ‘When we were criminals, we couldn’t enjoy our cars, we couldn’t drive them in the daylight.'”
Under threat to his life from prisoners and corrupt warders, he said he once carried a teapot spiked with rat poison to a panel of Jali Commission advocates – including Jerome Brauns, SC, who later defended President Jacob Zuma – but warned them not to drink it.
“The 50m I walked with that kettle was the longest of my life – and the decision I made to warn Advocate Brauns was the best of my life.”
For his success, Kunene credits McKenzie, the ANC’s empowerment policies “beyond tenders”, “foreign investors” and the teaching and support of two “mentors”, mine boss and philanthropist Greg James and telecommunications tycoon Gavin Varejes.
He said McKenzie found him counselling troubled pupils at Calculus Secondary School in Bloemfontein, at a salary of R3000 a month, in 2006 and proposed they join forces to sell McKenzie’s book, The Choice, to schools.
“We went everywhere. Sometimes we’d sleep in the car when we could not (afford) a hotel.”
He said that James, inspired by the book’s anti-crime message, bought 80000 copies of two versions of the book in June 2007 to give to Western Cape schools, thus providing him and McKenzie with the cash to start “a small mine consultancy business”.
The pair were later appointed senior managers at Central Rand Gold (CRG) – where James was CEO – in charge of dealing with the Soweto community affected by the proposed mining.
He said he had since become co-owner of “about three, four businesses”, including a new mining venture “elsewhere in Africa”, which he said could grow to be worth R700-million.
“Our mentors, Greg and Gavin, have taught us to diversify. We have been made by white people – we are not ashamed to say that – because they celebrate when you turn your life around.”
He gave a long list of his charities, from a burial fund for “our heroes” in the MK Veterans’ Association to university bursaries for 12 Soweto students, whom he set up in “brand-new flats”.
At his five-star club, ZAR, in Sandton, the Sunday Times found Kunene, dressed in one of his Aigner designer suits, being debriefed by staff he had sent to Durban to find a site for a ZAR franchise. He flaunted his history by holding a giant champagne bottle behind gold-painted “prison bars”.
Said Kunene: “I landed in a helicopter in my area to motivate young people – some of you will say I am boasting. I am not boasting, I am boosting.”
In his first legal drama since prison, Kunene this week rushed to resign his position as director of at least five private companies – having learnt it was illegal from newspaper revelations for convicted fraudsters to be directors of companies.
Kunene said he discovered his “honest mistake” after newspaper revelations two weeks ago revealed that Tony Yengeni, the former ANC chief whip and fraudster, had contravened the section by becoming the director of six companies.
No person with a compulsory prison term for an offence “involving dishonesty” may be a director of a company, according to the SA Companies Act.
Kunene told the Sunday Times: “I didn’t know that was the rule – when I read this thing about Yengeni, I started resigning all my directorships.”
Among the companies he is resigning from include African Australian Minerals and Energy Ltd, Dirbyn Investment Holdings and Dirbyn Publications – saying he would lodge the papers yesterday.
KENNY KUNENE, INSPIRED by PATRICE MOTSEPE, MAKES MONEY AND LIVES LARGE
Defiant businessman Kenny Kunene says the wealthy have the right to spend their money as they please, without fear of being bullied.
Now known as the Sushi King, Kunene told City Press on Friday that he made his millions in mining and venture capital after his release from Grootvlei prison in 2003.
He is adamant that there is nothing crass about spending R700 000 on a party and eating sushi off the body of a half-naked woman.
“In the civilised world, there are men and women called models. I paid the women to model. This thing of a human sushi platter happens all over the world. If it doesn’t happen in South Africa, then I’m a trendsetter.
“I am a man of style. I look anywhere where there is style and try to be different. Some people play golf, I party. That’s how I relax. So who am I exploiting?”
It is a mystery how a man who did prison time for fraud could become so rich in a few short years.
The father of three says he and his business partner Gayton McKenzie, whom he met in jail, started off by setting up a publishing company. They later sold it and got into mining and, later, established an investment consulting company.
Kunene is a director of companies that include Afri-Oz Resources, African Australian Minerals and Energy, Dartingo Trading 213, and Dirbyn Investment Holdings.
He says his companies invest in mining and fuel in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
The 40-year-old drew the ire of Cosatu boss Zwelinzima Vavi for spending R700?000 on his birthday bash.
Vavi said the behaviour of members of the new elite was an insult and amounted to spitting in the face of the poor.
Kunene says: “Why should a black person, when successful, be viewed as having made his money from tenders, or through questionable means?
“(Vavi) doesn’t know me, yet he thinks I’m a tenderpreneur.”
Kunene keeps a flat in Sandton and a house in Welkom, where he grew up. He won’t say where his apartment is located, but it is apparently at the exclusive Sandton Emperor in Morningside, where flats cost an average of R16 million.
He also keeps a permanent room at the Radisson Blu Hotel, where the ZAR lounge he co-owns with McKenzie is located.
He refuses to say how many sports cars he owns, save that his favourite brands are Porsche and Lamborghini. His fleet includes a Mercedes SLK 55, an Audi R8, a Porsche Cayenne GTS, a Porsche Panamera and a Porsche911.
“During apartheid, (wealthy) black people were afraid to show their money.
Vavi is saying we must regard ourselves as third- and fourth-class citizens.”
Kunene says he turned to the life of crime and hustling at a young age to make a living. He used to move gold for smugglers in his small mining hometown.
Even after graduating from university he continued with various criminal activities, mainly fraud, because his teacher’s salary was not enough to support his extended family.
“I had dreams. I looked up to honourable people such as Patrice Motsepe and Cyril Ramaphosa, and said to myself, ‘if they can do it so can I’.”
His public spat with Vavi seems to have earned him more friends than detractors. On Friday alone he got more than 150 friendship requests on Facebook, and messages of support.
“Some of us really look up to you. Keep that fire burning.
Haters will always be there (and) I’m sure you know that otherwise you wouldn’t (be where) you are right now.
What inspires me most (is that) you are a billionaire, and no cent from tenders.
You rock,” Ntsiki Ben Ntuli wrote on Kunene’s page this week.
– City Press
There has been a bit of a tit-for-tat war going on in the South African press between two outspoken men.
One, Kenny Kunene, a nightclub owner, held a lavish 40th birthday party recently, during which sushi was reportedly served on the bodies of half-naked women and guests drank expensive imported whisky and champagne.
Leading government and African National Congress leaders attended the party, according to press reports. Other newspapers show photos of the flamboyant Kunene standing in front of his expensive sports car, which has “So What” written on the number plates.
This kind of in-your-face conspicuous consumption has “sickened” the main labur union leader, COSATU’s Zwelinzima Vavi, who says this kind of behavior from the new black elite sets a bad example and insults the poor of South Africa.
Kunene says he spent more than $100,000 on the one-night bash – in a country where unemployment is rife and many families struggle to put food on the table.
My question is – how much “bling” is too much? Are African high rollers judged more harshly than, say, big-spending Russian oligarchs? Or is Vavi correct in saying that South Africa’s rich should be more circumspect with their wealth?
Posted by: CNN Correspondent, Robyn Curnow
KENNY KUNENE IN NEW YORK TIMES
Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa DebateBy CELIA W. DUGGER
SANDTON, South Africa — Kenny Kunene, a former gangster turned businessman, gave what he called “the mother of all parties” for his 40th birthday. With his small paunch protruding from a white tuxedo and his eyes hidden behind Roberto Cavalli sunglasses, he ate sushi from the belly of a woman who was wearing nothing but black lingerie and high heels while hundreds of guests looked on.
As the revelers got tipsy on his liquor, he says he treated the most important among them — including Zizi Kodwa, President Jacob Zuma’s stylish spokesman, and Julius Malema, the rabble-rousing leader of the governing party’s youth wing — to $1,300 bottles of Dom Pérignon. Like the American rappers he emulates, Mr. Kunene himself swigged a bottle of Armand de Brignac Champagne that goes for more than $1,500 at his posh nightclub, ZAR, perched on the roof of a five-star hotel.
His October bash here in Sandton, a Johannesburg suburb often described as the wealthiest square mile in Africa, and another sushi-eating party that Mr. Kunene hosted recently in Cape Town, have turned him into a peculiarly South African sensation. His antics set off raucous bickering in the governing alliance about the conspicuous consumption of a politically networked black elite in a country where the majority of young blacks do not even have jobs.
Zwelinzima Vavi, leader of Cosatu, the powerful trade union federation allied with the governing African National Congress, accused Mr. Kunene of “spitting on the face of the poor” and declared that parties where people who have gotten rich in dubious ways flaunt their wealth “turn my stomach.”
Mr. Kunene, who says he supports the A.N.C.’s Youth League with his time and money, promptly retorted that his was “honest money spent on honest fun.” He describes his success as proof of the nation’s democracy, and he told Mr. Vavi, who is also black: “You remind me of what it felt like to live under apartheid. You are telling me, a black man, what I can and cannot do with my life.”
The Kunene story has crystallized a recurring question about life in post-apartheid South Africa: Is the accumulation and exhibition of such wealth a sign that blacks have finally arrived after an era when whites hogged the high life, or is it evidence of a moral decay undermining Nelson Mandela’s once great liberation movement?
“It raises in such wonderfully stark terms what freedom is and what one does with it,” said Jonny Steinberg, an author and one of the many newspaper columnists who commented on the events. “The idea that one uses it to get rich, and ostentatiously so, and that this is the most important dividend of freedom, is very powerful.”
In recent months, the spectacle of eating sushi from a woman’s body — perhaps familiar to Americans from Samantha’s escapades on “Sex and the City” — has been a source of both lurid fascination and ridicule here. A cartoon by the Mail & Guardian’s Zapiro, titled “The Last Sushi,” depicts a naked woman lying on a long table with well-known businessmen and politicians feasting on the fishy bits that decorate her curves.
That Mr. Kunene, a small-time player in South African politics, has vaulted onto the front pages underscores how salient the issue of economic inequality has become in South Africa, a country that by some estimates has the worst disparities of wealth in the world.
But the focus on Mr. Kunene, nicknamed the Sushi King by headline writers, is also a tribute to his obvious gifts for self-promotion and self-reinvention.
He was raised by his unemployed mother (an evangelical faith healer), his grandfather (a retired English teacher), and his grandmother (a midwife and the family’s only earner) in a black township outside of Odendaalsrus in what is now the Free State. The family could never afford to give him a birthday party, he said, and he always craved luxuries.
When he was a teenager during apartheid, he said he and his friends picked out the houses and cars in wealthy white areas they fantasized would one day be theirs. He dreamed of Porsches. “The objective was to overthrow the government and take everything that the white man had,” he said.
Like his grandfather, he became a high school English teacher. To earn extra money, he opened a small saloon, eavesdropped on gangsters and joined them, hijacking cars, robbing businesses and dreaming up ways to trick people out of their money, he said.
“My heart was not into armed robberies,” he said. “My heart was more into fraud because I’m a thinker.”
But he was caught and convicted in 1997 of helping run a Ponzi scheme. His case alone listed more than 1,900 victims, he said. He served six years in prison. After his release, he went into business with Gayton McKenzie, a bank robber he had befriended behind bars. They sold a book that Mr. McKenzie wrote about quitting a life of crime, and marketed Mr. McKenzie’s motivational speeches to schools and corporate groups.
They invested their earnings in a fish distribution business, Mr. Kunene said, and then started working as consultants to diamond and gold mining companies, helping manage testy relations with restive local communities and navigate the shoals of government regulation in a country governed by a black majority.
Last year, Mr. Kunene and Mr. McKenzie helped Gold Fields, a major gold producer, retain its mining rights to the South Deep mine southwest of Johannesburg, which the company describes as “one of the greatest undeveloped ore bodies in the world.”
“It’s a lot of political lobbying work,” explained Sven Lunsche, a Gold Fields spokesman.
At Mr. Kunene’s swanky apartment in Sandton, a snapshot of him with President Zuma is displayed in the living room. On his iPad, he flicked through photographs taken at his birthday party, showing pictures of him with the men he called “Zizi and Julius” — Mr. Zuma’s spokesman and the Youth League leader, Mr. Malema.
At the Cape Town party on Jan. 29, Mr. Malema was quoted as saying that Mr. Kunene’s club belonged to the A.N.C., but he later issued a statement insisting that he had said only that black people have a right to own a club in “predominantly white territory.”
Mr. Malema’s comments prompted Gwede Mantashe, the party’s secretary general, to starchily insist that the A.N.C. “is not into nightclubs or partying, but it is a revolutionary movement. We furthermore reiterate our condemnation to the act of serving sushi on a woman’s body.”
Kenny Kunene, Lil Kim and Fistaz Mixwell
Mr. Kunene this month bowed to his party’s wishes and foreswore sushi parties, but he could not resist noting that in South Africa, the rainbow nation, “I ate sushi off a black girl in Johannesburg. In Cape Town, I ate it off a white girl. I was intending to eat it off an Indian girl in Durban.”
Mr. Kunene has leapt into a life of fame and money, but often on Mondays he gets into one of his Porsches and makes the short drive to the poor and working-class township of Alexandra. “I don’t forget where I come from,” he said.
Kenny Kunene and Girl Friend Eda Rose
There he drinks with the regulars at a small bar, the Stoop, and eats a plate of tripe like his mother used to make. House music pumps from speakers, echoing over the township hillside, sparkling with tiny lights.
Last Monday, he left his nightclub, with its purple velvet couches, mirrored wall and sensational views of the Sandton skyline, dressed to impress in $2,000 jeans (“Billionaire brand,” he said, “the most expensive in the world”), pointy-toed purple Italian shoes and a matching belt.
As the evening wore on at the bar in Alex, as the township is sometimes called, men in shirtsleeves who had just finished work gave way to young women with glossy lips who were in a party mood. Mr. Kunene, sitting in a molded plastic chair, nursed his Belvedere vodka and soda and updated his Facebook page.
“Chilling at the Stoop,” he wrote. “The township is the bomb.”
Instantly, he had a rush of responses from some of the thousands of people who have added him as a friend since his birthday party made news.
“Can I join u?” posted one.
“Lucky you,” wrote another.
“Why was I not invited?” asked a third. “Is there sushi?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15southafrica.html?_r=2&emc=eta1&pagewanted=all
Kenny Kunene’s chairman for ZAR, Tycoon Gayton McKenzie totals R2-million R8
Following his miraculous escape last weekend when he wrecked a R2-million supercar outside Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, controversial businessman Gayton McKenzie already has his eyes on a multi-million rand Maybach limousine.
McKenzie, the chairman of Kenny Kunene’s growing nightclub empire ZAR, was travelling in a convoy of flashy cars on the R61 to Ngcobo when his white Audi R8 Spyder flew off the road, crashed through a fence and came to a stop in a field.
In the process, the vehicle knocked down an Eskom power pylon, cutting electricity to parts of Ngcobo.
In the car with him was former Miss SA Teen Moloko McKenzie, who was knocked unconscious.
Thankfully McKenzie managed to free himself from the totalled sports car, pulled Moloko free of the seat and carried her to safety.
McKenzie, a former prisoner, his business partner Kunene and others were returning to Gauteng after attending the wedding of President Jacob Zuma’s daughter Dudu and businessman Lonwabo Sambudla over the Easter weekend
The accident was witnessed by several in the convoy, and Kunene was following the R8 in his black Lamborghini convertible.
“We’re all just glad that Gayton is okay. It was absolutely horrifying but the important thing is that he is okay,” said Kunene.
“He has hurt his leg really badly and cannot drive at the moment. So after he attends meetings he goes straight home to relax because he needs to recover,” said Kunene.
“Gayton was simply happy to be alive,” added Kunene. -Saturday Star
May 1 2011 at 11:26am
By Sameer Naik
Kenny Kunene Mr Sushi Mansion South Africa Living Life To the Fullest – Majozi!!!
Kenny Kunene Interview
Whites made me what I am – Sushi king
” I know that there are a lot of top people in the ANC and in business who support Malema privately, and yet they dare not show their public support for him just because they are afraid of losing tenders
These people are hypocrites. They are the sort of people who spend a fortune… then turn around to criticise me for doing the same
His reality TV show, So What, debuts on Saturday on e.tv at 7.30pm“
“SUSHI King” Kenny Kunene has attributed his success in business to white people.
In an interview with Sowetan at the new Southern Sun Hotel in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, Kunene, who had a whole camera crew in tow, shooting his every move, was for the first time quite open about his climb to the top of the social ladder and the business world.
Famous for eating sushi off semi-naked women, the controversial businessman says black people, who have become his fierce critics, did not help him escape poverty.
Instead, whites did when they opened doors for him after 18 months of unemployment after he had come out of jail.
“When I came out of jail, I had no job for 18 months, and when I eventually got a job at a private school earning only R3,000 a month (before mysteriously clinching business deals) it was through white people.
“I was made by white people and no black person made me, including those who are now criticising me,” Kunene said yesterday.
He said when he was unemployed and struggling most people isolated themselves from him.
The tycoon also said defiantly that no matter what, he would continue to support ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema in the face of various charges brought against him by the ANC.
Kunene also said he owed nobody an apology for living a good life, including throwing lavish parties.
He had worked hard for his money, and, contrary to public perceptions, had actually spent some of this money on charity, especially in the townships.
“Some people called me and criticised me for supporting Malema publicly in the face of the charges. My answer is that I will continue supporting Malema because when I was criticised (for the parties) he publicly defended me, and therefore I am not now going to leave him in the cold.
Kenny Kunene and ANC Youth League Leader Julius Malema
“I am supporting him in return because I appreciate what he did.
“And, for a fact, I know that there are a lot of top people in the ANC and in business who support Malema privately, and yet they dare not show their public support for him just because they are afraid of losing tenders.
“I do not have a tender, even though I would love to have one. So I do not worry about losing a tender by supporting someone like Malema, who supported me in my hour of need,” Kunene declared, throwing up his hands in anger.
The controversial businessman reserved most of his criticism for his detractors, who often speak out about his lavish parties, as they often say the expensive parties take place in a society characterised by immense inequalities between the rich and the poor, and he would serve society much better if he invested among the poor by, for example, building houses.
“These people are hypocrites. They are the sort of people who spend a fortune on expensive whisky, including buying a 21-year-old bottle, which as a businessman I actually like.
“The problem is they then turn around to criticise me for doing exactly the same.
“I am not the only businessman throwing expensive parties.
“My crime is that I am an ex-convict, and the fact that I go public about the parties, while they do it in the privacy of their homes. And besides, who says that you should work hard to earn money to give to the poor?
“Today in my office I have piles of proposals from young black people who would never dream of going to the same people criticising me. Those young people have confidence in me and not in those people because they know they are useless, and will not help them.”
There are now several versions of how Kunene made his fortune.
The popular one is that when he and his business partner Gayton McKenzie were released from prison, McKenzie penned a book about his life inside.
Kunene helped him sell the book as McKenzie’s right-hand man when McKenzie held motivational talks at schools discouraging pupils from crime.
“I am loyal to my friends. Gayton and I were best friends in prison, and we still are outside prison, and are today business partners. It is the same loyalty that calls for me to support Malema because he supported me also.”
The businessman’s new reality TV show, So What, debuts on Saturday on e.tv at 7.30pm.
Kenny Kunene’s Mine closed –
Kenny Kunene loses mining licence
In May this year, the Sunday Times reported that an explosive forensic report by Nexus Forensic Services, which was commissioned by Puno Gold, CRG’s empowerment partner as well as interviews with several current and former CRG employees, revealed that:
– CRG’s Australian chairman Michael McMahon admitted the company had previously misled investors and urged his chief executive not to make “untrue assertions”;
– Kunene and McKenzie used their political connections to get the mining rights in record time;
– Companies linked to the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association scooped deals from CRG worth more than R40-million;
– Kunene went from selling fish from the boot of his car to earning R150,000 a month as a stand-in chief executive, while McKenzie earned R243,000 a month, also as acting chief executive; and
– Johan du Toit and his wife, Anne, loaned Kunene R1-million to help him launch his nightclub ZAR.
The forensic report, which was given to the Hawks in February this year, reportedly concluded that “there would appear to be grounds for a case to be answered for fraud”.
Since March, the mine and other industry stakeholders have held four meetings with the Department of Water Affairs to clarify and agree on the technical principles, funding allocation and timing of the implementation of an interim solution to the acid mine drainage problem that was experienced in the central basin of the Witwatersrand area.
The mine was also accused of failing to disclose to shareholders, who have sunk R1.67-billion into it, that the government was considering shutting it down.
The mine was shut down by the State on Monday.
CRG raised more than R1-billion after listing on the London and Joburg stock exchanges in 2007 for a mine that was meant to improve the lives of Soweto’s poor.
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/09/28/rot-in-kunene-s-gold-mine-led-to-closure
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http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-27-kenny-kunene-loses-mining-licence
Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has cancelled the mining rights for top businessman Kenny Kunene’s Central Rand Gold Mine, the department said on Tuesday.
The decision was made last Friday and papers were served on the mine’s office in Johannesburg on Monday, spokesperson Bheki Khumalo said.
“They were only dealing [with] a tenth of the promises they made to the minister. She found it not satisfactory and cancelled the mining licence.”
Khumalo said the rights had been awarded to the mine based on certain agreements it had undertaken to keep. These included implementing a work and social labour programme and contributing to the socioeconomic development of residents in the area.
Khumalo said the mine could appeal the cancellation. It would however need to first deal with the department’s internal processes before approaching the courts.
The mine was not immediately available for comment.
Kunene — who owns the upmarket ZAR nightclub in Greenpoint, Cape Town — attracted media attention for holding his version of the ancient Japanese custom of Nyotaimori, or “body sushi” at the nightclub.
He also spent an estimated R700 000 on his birthday party in October last year. – Sapa
Kenny Kunene Girlfriend Takangwane Khanyile from Swaziland
‘Sushi King’ Kenny Kunene’s alleged Swazi girlfriend, Takangwane Khanyile has admitted that she and the South African multi-millionaire are an item. Khanyile who relocated to South Africa two years ago to pursue her studies in Pretoria said she has been dating the mining mogul from July last year.
She admitted reading an article about herself and Kunene in Drum magazine and announced that he was just on his way to her apartment to take her out shopping.
She said Kunene was taking her shopping for an outfit for the Sixties Party featuring a performance by US artist John Legend this weekend in Mpumalanga. She will attend the party with Kunene.
She said: “Yes we are dating. I’m actually waiting for him right now. We are going to pick an outfit for me to wear at the Sixties Party.”
She did her primary and secondary school at St Francis in Mbabane before she relocated to South Africa.
“I don’t care what anyone can say. The media can say all they want but I know what I know.”
She met Kunene at his club, Club ZAR on July 29.
“We met and the rest, as they say, became history,” she stated.
Kunene referred to the 20 year old as a friend in the interview with Drum.
In the magazine, the two appear holding hands.
“We are dating with Kenny. I met him at his Club Zar, on July 29 and the rest is history,” she insisted.
Kunene denied all those claims saying they are just friends.
Khanyile’s father owns the famous Ingwe Mabala Hotel at Ngwenya.
Although she attends parties, she manages to always keep a low profile.
Asked whether she wants to marry Kunene, she said those weren’t part of her plans.
She would only marry a decent man, insinuating in a subtle way that Kunene is not.
“Marriage isn’t part of the agenda here. I see myself marrying someone else.”
Kenny Kunene and Swazi Girlfriend Takangwane Khanyile “Taka”
MBABANE – Controversial South African multi-millionaire Kenny Kunene is in the latest Drum magazine pictured walking hand in hand with a Swazi girl.
The picture of the pair was taken during the Gay Parade which took place two weeks ago in Johannesburg.
The event is attended yearly by the lesbian and gay community and those in support of their rights.
This year it was graced by some of South Africa’s popular personalities who included Amstel Maboa of 3SUM fame, afro jazz star Lira and Simphiwe Dana to name but a few.
The magazine says that the lady, identified as Taka is Kunene’s new girlfriend.
However, when called for comment, the businessman denied that they are an item.
“Yes I was with her and her friends because I didn’t want to attend the event with my PA as he is gay and I am straight. The girls, who I met while in Swaziland, asked me to take them there and I did just that,” he said.
Kunene visited the country in August this year for the Bikers Party which took place at the Mavuso Sports Café in Manzini.
Since then, there has been a lot of negativity regarding his visit.
He has also come under serious criticism for having shown clips of him in bed with four girls during his stay in the country.
This appeared on his new reality show ‘So What’ which airs every Saturday on etv.
KENNY KUNENE 41st BIRTHDAY IN PICTURES
The king of sushi Kenny Kunene threw a big birthday party to celebrate his 41th birthday party at Capellos in Nelspruit at the weekend.
Expensive champaign flowed like water but this time around the party was very different than the one he organised in the previous year where he splashed R 700, 000 in just one night.
The guest list included SABC 1 crew Tazz Ngida, DJ Tira, Mpumalanga entrepeneur Mash Maliba, Zolisa Xaluva and Thabiso Molamu from Generations.
DJ Ganyani who has just released a new album tiltled The family took the crowd to another level when he rocked the crowd with some of Mzansi’s new songs but it was his song with Thiwe Get Over You that made the women ‘get down’.
DJ Tira also gave a strong performance when he collaborated with Joocy on the vocals for I give you my love from his new album.
Kunene was dancing on the floor almost the whole night but this time but he did not eat sushi on top of women bodies.
Gaddafi-themed birthday party for Kenny Kunene South African tycoon
Kenny Kunene celebrates 41st by dressing up as the deposed leader, accompanied by models in camouflage bikinis
His 40th birthday party caused uproar when he ate sushi off half-naked models. His 41st was no less colourful or provocative.
Flamboyant South African businessman Kenny Kunene celebrated by dressing up as one of his idols, Muammar Gaddafi, in a flowing cream robe. He surrounded himself with six models wearing camouflage-pattern bikinis and brandishing fake AK47 rifles – an apparent reference to Gaddafi’s infamous “Amazonian guard”.
The multimillion-rand celebrations, held last week in Alexandra township in Johannesburg, also featured pictures of the deposed Libyan leader on huge TV screens.
Kunene said he was inspired by Nelson Mandela’s loyalty to Gaddafi as a supporter of the liberation struggle in Africa.
“I’m very political,” Kunene told the Guardian. “I looked at what’s happening in Libya and know Gaddafi was overthrown for oil by America and Britain. I felt that I wanted to celebrate Gaddafi as a living legend for contributing to the liberation we enjoy today. I was celebrating him as a father of the liberation struggle. Unfortunately he died the same week.”
Asked about his Gaddafi-style costume, Kunene said: “I felt I needed to celebrate him in the way that he lived. I loved his outfits. I don’t care if they say they were tasteless. He believed in Africa. He was a man of style and he knew how to dress.
“People at the party were excited. They said, ‘You are forever a role model for us’.
He added: “He was the only president I knew who had female bodyguards. I don’t denigrate women; I respect them. Girls fight to be around me at parties because I give them a lot of career opportunities and pay them for it. Not just black girls but white girls too.”
Gaddafi’s death “really hurt,” Kunene said. “He died like a martyr. He did not run away from his country. He said he would die there and he did.
“The man had long years as a ruler but I don’t think the world has been exposed to the good he did for his country. It is Britain and America who create dictators because the leaders dare not step down for fear of prosecution.
“The international courts have never prosecuted Britain and America for the people they kill in oil-rich countries. I don’t hate British people, I don’t hate American people. I just hate the governments’ way of doing things in other countries.”
Nightclub owner Kunene’s birthday party last year, costing more than 700,000 rand (or £63,000) triggered a national debate. Images of him eating sushi off half-naked young women earned him the soubriquet “sushi king” and came to symbolise the alleged excesses of South Africa’s new black elite. This time, however, he claimed that there were only two men in the world who understood the protection of women: himself and Gaddafi.
Thousands of township residents attended the party, the Star, Johannesburg, reported and were served African cuisine such including as dumplings, tripe and chicken feet.
Kunene, a former teacher who spent six years in prison for fraud, has apparently planned no fewer than six birthday parties. He is not alone inexpressing sympathy for Libya’s fallen autocrat. Floyd Shivambu, spokesman for the African National Congress Youth League, said last week: “Brother Leader was ruthlessly killed by rebels armed by Nato forces, who invaded Libya because of its natural resources.”
The fact that he was killed in combat was an “inspiration to many freedom fighters across the continent and the world”, Shivambu added.
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Insipirational Rags to Riches story Kenny. Keep up the hard work.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAJOZI,WE ARE PROUD OF YOU,ALEX
chief am inspired by your works wanna be like you
Pat Stevens
Kenny Kunene: The South African novel Politics is the Greatest Game was sold through Amazon Books on ISBN 1857565665, there are only 300 first edition copies still available which I bought from Janus Books, I did this so I could begin rewriting edition two which will be four books. The original book would make an insightful gift for your friends, especially if it was personally inscribed by the author, if you are interested please contact me at patstevens8@gmail.com
TRUE INSPIRATION TO YOUN BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS LIKE MYSELF FROM THE TOWNSHIP TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING GREAT OF THEMSELVES AND LEAVE A LEGACY BEHIND……KEEP MAKING PEOPLE WONDER AND FEED THEIR JEALOUSY MY BIG BROTHER!!!!
– Wandile 1D.
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kenny. u are something else my man. I lije when u say. if Motsepe and Cyril made it so can u. im coming where u are. i have a communications company. i'm also opening an investment company. i will altimately be where u are. true inspiration!!!!!kenny. u are something else my man. I lije when u say. if Motsepe and Cyril made it so can u. im coming where u are. i have a communications company. i'm also opening an investment company. i will altimately be where u are. true inspiration!!!!! sa kubeka
u rock my man! true inspiration. live your life hoping n beleiving that one day will follow ur steps. u deserve it
KENNY HE IS A REAL KING,GOD HAS BLESSED HIM HE IS LEAVING HIS DREAM KENNY MY MAN BIG UP AND SPEND UR MONEY SA U WISH.LONG LIVE KK LONG LIVE.TSHEPO(0722080101)
The fact that he is not afraid to spend his money it shows that he is really a king of sushi…like it or hate it,it is what it is DEAL WITH IT coz KENNY is here to stay
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It is the best interview of a South African millionaire and I think that his photos which are presented here really show that he is living a royal life.
ZELDA CONSTANCE Ndovela
I JUST LOVE THE STYLE, KEEP UP!
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Oz Open 2013: Finals review
Posted on January 28, 2013 January 8, 2018 by ATT Author
Finals review
Victoria Azarenka’s on court mannerisms have long attracted criticism mainly for that grunting, of which of course she is not the only practitioner. But for once it was not the “wooooOHH” of the Belarussian that caused some upset, but her mysterious medical time-out in the semi final defeat of Sloane Stephens. The reason? Nerves became a full-blown panic attack in the space between the rushed on-court interview and the post-match press conference, few were convinced.
Azarenka recognizes – like the Sharapovas and Serenas before her, who posses that almost madamish on-court attitude with an imminently amiable and attractive off-court media personality – that she wont always be the crowd favourite. Yet, with an ability that echoes another of this new generation of sportspeople – Sebastian Vettel, she can block this out or simply accept it and adopt a ‘who cares’ attitude.
This talent played its part in Victoria overcoming the wealth of support for fellow finalist Li Na who had a somewhat more forgiveable call for the trainer in an entertaining 3-set Australia Day ding dong.
That, and some at times scintillating but always solid match-play that showed calmness and confidence.
Li was arguably the player of the tournament on the women’s side, such was her dissection of the white-hot Sharapova, but Azarenka – as you feel applies to every facet of her lifestyle – was not to be denied.
Apart from some mind games and some bad blood from years gone by, the men kept things 100% tennis. With Ferrer dispatched and a grumbling Federer dethroned it was left to the two best players in the world currently – and if Rafa Nadal fails to reach his best then for the considerable future – to reignite a rivalry that so enthralled the globe at Flushing Meadows last year.
There was precious little to choose between the two in the first two tiebreak sets. As he did in the Wimbledon final, Murray started strong – as he had to – and looked the more determined an brimming with a confidence possibly at its career high.
I have no doubt that if the Scot had managed to clinch that second set t would’ve been too much for even the elastic Serb, such is Murray’s belief and general quality of play which has soared in the last 18 months.
People speak of Murray’s mentality over the years, but the improvements in his shot-making and attacking play have made the difference, fitness too.
Blisters played their part in Andy’s defeat down under but perhaps there also existed a whisper of those mental gremlins creeping back into Murray’s mind.
Inserting self-doubt into his opponents is however one of Djokovic’s most devastating weapons. The Serb is the complete package and seems to possess at least two more gears than his competitors.
There are now murmurings that Murray’s maiden Slam victory were thanks to the blustery New York conditions and not a level of talent to worry the Big 3. Sunday’s final may have supported such a view in some areas, but in truth it showed that Murray will continue to place himself in contention for more majors.
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You Sometimes Have to Go a Little “Berserk”
July 25th, 2019 in Anime, General Reviews by The Droid
This is what I call an iteration series. Huh, what do you mean? The reason we have the year in parenthesis is that this show was done before, way back in 1997, but this version of “Berserk (2016)” (“Beruseruku”) is potentially a lot that the previous series was not, like openly bloody and endlessly violent.
Above is the mercenary Guts and he was a member of The Band of the Hawk, a more organized group of mercs. Serving Griffith, who wanted to rule a kingdom of his own, most of the band was wiped out during the Eclipse ritual. Guts had lost an eye and his lover, Casca, went crazy. You will not learn any of this back story through the series, but it may not really matter. All you need to know is Guts is seeking revenge and that, as The Black Swordsman, he is being hunted down as he is hunting down God’s Hand apostles, really mean, vicious monsters. The soldiers going after Guts are the Holy Iron Chain Knights, led by Lady Farnese do Vandimion, who believe that they are on a mission from God. So did the Blues Brothers and they destroyed a mall.
Into this delightful mix we throw Puck, a spirit of some type, who Guts accidentally saves; Isidro, a young thief, who Guts accidentally saves and Luca, a prostitute who has taken Casca under her wing and who Guts accidentally saves. Guts runs on the theory that he who is fights alone, fights better. What, like this guy doesn’t fight well enough? Now, he has all these hanger-ons. Sheesh! The series details all the moral conflicts that these people must address while having to deal with the cruel and vicious machinations of Father Mozgus, head of the Inquisition and one sadistic monster, which honestly makes him no better than the other monsters floating above and flailing about and lurking in the shadows.
The hardest part of this show is not the unrelenting violence, torture and gore that permeates the action, but the animation itself. A lot of it comes off as not much better than a scratch test or incomplete art work. It felt a lot like the artistic approach from “Knights of Sedonia”, as the CG work is stiff and stilted and the non-action sequences seem tepid and flat. The plot keeps the storytelling moving forward, despite the serious drag caused by the artwork and presentation thereof, but at what overall cost? How many times must I see the 20-year molars of all of these folks? I think I also saw an epiglottis or two as well.
I am not going to address the physics of the show. Guts wields a blade that is ten inches across and seven to eight feet long, so it is genuine heavy metal, but he cleaves people in twain like a hot car through butter. How can he even pick that thing up? (There is a very funny sequence where Isidro tries to do that). The whole show builds to this massive fight scene at the Tower of Conviction and this is a fight that crosses the last half of the show, but the show hasn’t officially ended (and while scribbling all this down, another season was confirmed), so Guts’ overall quest remain far more alive than the bulk of the characters.
The violence is of such a nature that you may only get slightly grossed out the first time you see it, but once the benchmark is set, it’s more a means to an end, despite some terrifying torture sequences in between. This world they live in is short, brutish and ugly and any loose or errant comment could lead to your death, all done through the loving hand of God as ministered by creepy Father Mozgus. If you can tough it through the art style, there is a good story here, even with that tired trope that those in the Clergy are bigger perverts and liars than those they are trying to save.
I do need to address the fan service, such as it is. Puck, being a fairy or a sprite or something like that, appears to be female, but it is hard to tell, as his/her body is almost like a Barbie doll, so it’s smooth with nothing to truly indicate a gender. Yes, she is naked, as what need has a sprite for clothing? There is another sequence where Lady Farnese is topless, but all you know is that she has breasts where they are supposed to be, yet no details. Not that it matters; whatever kind of ‘enjoyment’ you would get from seeing a naked lady is deluged by the grim and horrific violence that almost immediately follows.
And it’s not all mindless violence; there is a genuine reason for it, if only to see the talent and viciousness that Guts has to offer. It’s just that no one seems to learn from it. Actually, it’s like that was your only mistake and game over. Would better artwork have helped this show? That is hard to say, but the poor use of CG downgrades a lot in my book. Still, the votes go out for you to take it in…..just not all of it at the same time. You need to pace yourself on this one.
On a scale of 1 to 10:
Artwork 6 (Some very poor decisions)
Plot 8 (A good story is in there)
Pacing 7 (Runs in spurts)
Effectiveness 6 (Lost because of odd presentation choices)
Conclusion 5 (It reaches a ‘coupler point’, but hasn’t ended)
Fan Service 2 (A similar show would be “Okamisan”)
Overall 7 (Really because of the art work)
And remember, it’s first run until you’ve seen it. I will find her.
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Homocysteine And Neurological Disease p. 355
D Nagaraja
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Homocysteine And Stroke p. 357
D Nagaraja, Ritha Christopher
In recent years, a great deal of attentions has been focused on the role of homocysteine, a sulfur-containing amino acid, in the etiopathogenesis of atherothromobtic vascular disease. Multiple prospective and case-control studies have shown that a moderately elevated plasma homocysteine concentration is an independent risk factor for stroke. The exact molecular mechanism by which homocysteine or related metabolites promote atherothrombosis is unknown although several possible roles have been proposed. It is generally held that homocysteine promotes thrombosis by adversely affecting the functions of the vascular endothelium that maintain the blood's fluidity. Homocysteine concentrations are determined by genetic and nutritional factors including deficiencies of folate, vitaminB12 and B5 supplementation with the nutrient cofactors required for optimal functioning of the homocysteine metabolic pathways significantly impacts homocysteine levels, and offers a new integrated possibility for prevention of first and recurrent episodes stroke.
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Factors Influencing Anti Epileptic Drug Non-Compliance p. 369
M Dhanaraj, A Jayavelu
Non-compliances to anti epileptic drug therapy is one of the commonest causes of relapse of seizure. The various factors influencing non-compliance in a state government hospital where patients below poverty line are issued free drugs once in 2 weeks are unknown. In this study, 200 adult epilepsy patients consisting 100 complaint and non- complaint in each group were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. The relevant demographic and clinical characteristics such as awareness of altitude towards purchasing the drugs were collected. The data was analyzed using student "t" test and chi square test. The factors influencing non-compliance were, a)difficulty in collecting the drugs once in 2 weeks from the hospital (45% vs. 21%:p value < 0.001), b) Lack of family supported (42%vs.29%:p value < 0.05), c) Mental adverse effects of the drugs (54%vs.33%: value <0.002) and d) Poor motivation. The attitude of the patients was negative towards purchasing drugs even at times of emergency (84% vs. 44%:p value <0.001). Measures to rectify the above factors are suggested.
Atypical Neurological Manifestations Of Hypokalemia p. 375
P K pal, B Vengamma
A part from the well-established syndrome of motor paralysis, hypokalemia may present with atypical neurological manifestations, which are not well documented in literature. Methods: We treated 30 patients of hypokalemia whose neurological manifestations improved after corrections of hypokalemia. A retrospective chart review of the clinical profile was done with emphasis on the evolution of symptoms and occurrence of unusual manifestations. Results: Twenty-eight patients had subacute quadriparesis with duration of symptoms varying from 10hrs to 7 days and two had slowly progressive quadriparesis. Fifty percent of patients had more than one attack of paralysis. Early asymmetric weakness (11), stiffness and abnormal posture of hands (7), predominant bibrachial weakness (4), distal paresthesias (4), hemiparesthesia (1), hyperreflexia(4), early severe weakness of neck muscles (3), chorea (1), trismus (1),and, retention of urine (1) were the unusual features observed. The means level of serum potassium on admission was 2.1+0.6mEq/L.and the serum creatine kinase was elevated in 14 out of 17 patients. All patients except two had complete recovery.
Belief Based Rituals And Their Relevance Towards Comprehensive Epilepsy Management p. 381
One hundred consecutive adults with epilepsy attending the outpatient clinic for the first time were interviewed to find out the various belief-based rituals practiced by them for the control of epilepsy. They were compared with a control group consisting an equal number of patients with chronic daily headache. The various rituals practiced by them were 1. Exorcism to expel the demon in 22% of the study and 4% of the control group (p value < 0.00015). 2. Tying "Thayathu" around neck, loin or arm in 29% of the study and 10% of the control group(p value <0.00069), 3. wearing "Kappu" (a metal ring) around wrist in 13% of the study group and none in the control group and 4. Tying "Holi thread" around wrist, neck or loin in 22% of the study group and 10% of the control group(p value>0.021). Any one of the above rituals was performed by 51% of the study group and 17% of the control group (p value <0.0001). Most of the patients who practiced the rituals were from suburban towns and rural areas. The mean delay in seeking medical treatment for epilepsy was 26 months among those who performed rituals and 19 months in the rest. During the ictal phase of the seizure, iron made objects such as key, chain, a rod or pipe was thrust into the hand of 80% of patients by a bystander or a relative for the control of convulsion, without providing first aid. The importance of epilepsy awareness programmes for the rural and suburban community as well as health professionals is stressed.
Hyperhomocysteinaemia And Vitamin B12 Deficiency In Ischaemic Strokes In India p. 387
R S Wadia, N C Edul, S Bhagat, S Bandishti, R Kulkarni, S Sontakke, S Barhadi, M Shah
Hyperhomocysteinemia is a recognised risk factor for stroke and ischemic heart disease (HID). Vit B12 Folate and pyridoxine deficiency are important causes of raised serum homocysteine. As a vegetarian diet is very poor in Vit B12 we sought to study the incidence of hyperhomocysteinaemia in our stroke populating and to measure Vit B12 and folate in these cases. Consecutive cases of ischaemic stroke, either arterial or venous, admitted over a period of 2 1/2 years were studied. Embolic strokes and those on vitamin supplements were excluded. cases were divided into vegetarian (including those taking milk and / Or eggs), those who took non-vegetarian 4 or less times a month, and frequent non-vegetarians taking 5 or more times a month. Serum total homocysteine, serum B12 and folate levels were studied along with all other routine parameters. For comparison we examined 101 controls without HID, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, rental failure or recent vitamin intake. With the international norm for homocysteine given as 5-15 umol/litre (1)we called serum homocysteine 16 umol/litre or more as raised. There were 147 cases of ischcmic stroke :119 arterial and 28 venous infarcts. In the arterial strokes 99 of 119 cases (83.19%) had raised serum Homocysteine including 25 of 27 (92.5%) of those with arterial stroke before age 45. Of 28 cases with venous infarct 21 (75%) had raised homocysteine (HCY). Hyperhomocysteinemia was the commonest risk factor for stroke in our populations. Out of the total 147 cases the exact dietary intake was not known for ten cases., 58 were vegetarians, 54 were occasional non vegetarians (NV) and 25 were frequent NV. In the 58 vegetarians, 55 had serum HCY> 16 umol/1 (94.8%) and of those vegetarians with HCY> 16, serum B12 <200pg/ml was seen in 44 (75.8%) and between 200-300 pg/ml in five (8.6%). Of the 54 occasional NV, 46 had HCY>16umo/1 (85.2%) Of those with HCY >16, serum B12 level of <200 pg/ ml was seen in 28 (51.85% occ. NV) and the level was 200-300 pg/ml in 12 patients (22.2%) . Of the 25 frequent NV 11 had increased HCY (44%), none had serum B12 <200 pg/ml and six had serum B12 between 200-300 pg/ml (24%). MCV (means corpuscular volume) was greater than 95fL in 51% of vegetarians, 4606% of occasional non- vegetarians and 6% of frequent NV. Low serum folate (<3 mg/ml) was uncommon and found in3 vegetarians, 3 occasional NV and 2 frequent NV and each time with B12 deficiency. In 101 controls homocysteine was raised in 52 (51.5%) including 86.6% of vegetarians and 17.1% frequent NV. Serum B12 <200 pg/ml was present in39 (38.6%). This included 56.6% of vegetarians and 5.7% of frequent NV. Raised serum homocysteine is common in India and is a major risk factor for strokes and this is mainly due to Vit B12 deficiency. The important predisposing factor is a vegetarians diet. A regular supplement, or fortification of food with vit. B12 (with or without folate) could be a very worthwhile preventive measure in this country.
Effects in Oxygen saturation (SpO2) and Heart Rate (HR) In Hemiparetic Stroke Patients On The Affected Side p. 393
P C Mathur, Anushuman Somani
Hypoxia is common in C.V stroke patients and monitoring of SpO2 by pulse oximetry should be done in the acute phase. Many a time, it is felt that physical changes on the affected side or i.v infusions may alter oximeter readings. Thirty patients 18 men (60%) 12 women (40%) : 19 left hempiaresis (63.3%) were recruited. The maximum differences between simultaneous left and right arm readings was 1% SpO2. Heart rate fluctuated more but no affected/non-affected side pattern was seen. Mean SPO2 was 95% on both sides. Mean HR was 82 bpm on both sides. There was no significant difference between the two sides for either parameter.
Role Of Cervical Paraspinal Electromyography In Cervical Spinal Root Avulsions And Its Correlations With Intra Operative Findings p. 397
T Arulmozhi, M Dhanaraj, A Jayavelu
The diagnosis of cervical spinal root avulsion in patients with brachial plexus injuries is major challenge of the present day with the available investigatory procedures. To validate the use of the paraspinal electromyography was done in20 successive patients who all had sustained injuries to their upper limb nerves following road traffic accidents. Electromyographic abnormalities indicative of root avulsion were identified. All of them underwent explorative surgery. The results of the paraspinal electromyography were correlated with the intra-operative findings. Paraspinal electromyography was abnormal in six and normal in 14. All the six patients with abnormal results had evidence of multiple spinal root avulsion. Among those with normal paraspinal electromyography, two showed single spinal root avulsion and in the remaining 12 they were intact. The sensitivity of this test was 75% specificity 100% positive predictive value 100% and negative predictive value 85%. Paraspinal electromyography is an useful test in identifying cervical root avulsions because of its high positive predictive value. However with single root avulsion the sensitivity of the test falls. Somato sensory evoked potential and magnetic resonance imaging studies may be valuable adjuncts in diagnosing such cases.
Calvarial Thickening And Cerebellar Atrophy Following Chronic Phenytoin Usage p. 403
Sudhir Kumar
Mimetic Facial Paresis p. 405
Sudhir Kumar, Ravi. P Kumar
Annals Of Indian Academy Of Neurology p. 407
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The Irish Slave Trade: The Forgotten WHITE Slaves…
The Slaves That Time Forgot…
Dean James III% AMERICA’S FREEDOM FIGHTERS –
IRISH: THE FORGOTTEN WHITE SLAVES
We’ve all been taught the horror’s of the African slave trade. It’s in all the school books and in plenty of Hollywood movies and has been shoved down our throats since Obama took office. But for some reason the largest group of slaves in the British Colonies in the 17th Century doesn’t get mentioned at all- the Irish.
They came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. Some were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But are we talking about African slavery? King James VI and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbour.
The Irish slave trade began when James VI sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.
By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.
Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia.
Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.
As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.
African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (£50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than £5 Sterling). If a planter whipped, branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African.
The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce.
Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish mothers, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their children and would remain in servitude.
In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls (many as young as 12) with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves.
This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.
England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.
There is little question the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more, in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is also little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry.
In 1839, Britain finally decided on it’s own to end its participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded this chapter of Irish misery.
But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong. Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories.
But, why is it so seldom discussed? Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims not merit more than a mention from an unknown writer?
Or is their story to be the one that their English masters intended: To completely disappear as if it never happened.
None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.
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Shawn Wetzler says:
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/slavetra.html
Interesting reading.
Xrucianus says:
To “American Freedom Fighters”: I honestly can’t fathom the depth of hatred it would take to write & publish an article like this at a time like this. There’s no other reason to broadcast this piece in June of 2015, other than to use it as one more rock to throw at the black community; a Westboro Baptist placard to shout down the cries of the black community; a molotov cocktail to throw into our nation’s current racial hostilities. It’s demonic, not Sermon on the Mount logic. I refuse the blessing from the god you’re invoking both in your article and in your salutation.
“At a time like this”? I remember reading an article about this last year.
Sonny Daze says:
This story should be told every day of the year, especially to white hypocritical guilt laden LIBTARDS !
psychicbloodbrother says:
It doesn’t fit your marxist narrative does it? History is important and adds context to the discussion about human nature. Stop using the tenets of Christianity against Christianity in your emotionalist plea. You are obligated to tell the whole story if you are to get at the truth as you are obligated to follow the entire gospel not just the parts you agree with. The truth is the truth is the truth, and it shall make you free. Your comments are very well timed i might add.
So you’re arguing the spirit behind writing the above article was Christian love?
handgunnar says:
So you’re arguing that pandering to racist thugs who have NEVER directly experienced the slavery that they use to justify their own racism, sloth, violence, and arrested cultural development is “Christian love”? You need to go back and study how Jesus spoke hard truths to those who needed to hear them, regardless of whether it hurt their feelings.
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” – Jesus Christ
“Brood of vipers”–guess who?
v. 37 in that same chapter couldn’t be more fitting.
And yet, He is ready to show you mercy even now.
Metra101 says:
sorry but its not a zero-sum game. dismissing your point is NOT the same as defending the opposing (especially when there are many more he could support that the extremely biased and nitpicked one you chose for him)
Mark Culbertson says:
the thing is that most of the stories of how bad the Aferican slaves were treated , when you dig down you find they narrated the actual Isish and scottisch slaves treatment as being the African treatment , great lies that they tell to miss lead plus the northern staes of the usa have tryed to erease slavery out of their history , when slavery is brought up I simply ask when you going talk about the dirty rotten slavery North then nobody says enything or shifts back to the south … the thing is no one today was a slave nor lived then , why is this up roar now 160 years later ??? If anyone says slavery affects them then they are in need of mental help and please get it. This actricle hits it right , the truth and the whole truth need to be taught .
You are an unspeakable coward and a reprehensible racist agitator who should be ashamed of himself, if you had a discerning conscience capable of recognizing shame.
John Walker says:
No disrespect to you sir or the cloth , but I do feel there is a revelence to this artical . If only to teach everyone that hatred and injustice effects us all .
Just Straight Shooting says:
After reading your comments I have come to the conclusion that you are NOT a true man of God, but rather a wolf in sheep’s clothing, divisive and cowardly, rotting the minds of whoever will listen to to your lies and subversion.
Titus 3:10New King James Version (NKJV)
10 Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,
You have been admonished by many in this thread and as the Lord directed in the verse listed above, you and your arguments of lies are rejected.
Fortunately the love of Jesus is greater than our ability to curse, brother. The goodness & blessings of the Lord Jesus to you!
catonine says:
A horrid chapter in English history, that should be told and remembered. However, starting off by saying:
“We’ve all been taught the horror’s of the African slave trade. It’s in all the school books and in plenty of Hollywood movies and has been shoved down our throats since Obama took office.”, shows the author’s bias and his hatred of our President — how has Obama shoved the African slave trade down our throats? Had no one been aware of it prior to a black man becoming president? I appreciate bringing attention to the horror the Irish slave endured, but not at the cost of diminishing the African experience with slavery.
Nobody is trying to “diminish” anything or any part of the history of black slavery. Rather, the point of this article is to point out the hypocrisy and outright lies of the race hustlers who try to paint the history of slavery as being ONLY blacks enslaved by whites. In reality very little of what people like obama, sharpton, jackson and the naacp teach about slavery is true at all, but rather composed of half truths, cherry picked “facts”, and outright lies. From listening to the rhetoric and false narrative spouted by these race hustlers most young, and ill informed people are led to believe that black africans were enslaved by white people because white people hate black people, which is simply NOT true, it is a blatant LIE concocted to enhance the deception they are propagating to sell their agenda.
Natalie Canning says:
Very well said and the Truth about slavery for a change. Many white soldiers died for the freedom of the Black Slave, so this sickening rhetoric by Obama, Sharpton, Jackson and rest of their cronies is being well overplayed. Should make a movies so the world can see what the Irish lived in their lives. Many women of all nationalities were sent here as slaves to work in factories and were abused and raped by owners and bosses of these companies because they were owned by them. I know my Italian ancestors had to buy there freedom and suffered years of abuse working in sweat shops. Many becoming pregnant and being beaten until they lost the child they were carrying.
Why no big deal about it? Because the Irish have gotten beyond it. It happened but there is nothing we can do about it now. Yes I am Irish and proud of it and yes I have always heard of the ” indentured servants” all of my life. Do most people know why there were so many Irish cops? Because it was such a dangerous and low job no one else would do it. There are many many things that happened to the Irish and many other nationalities but we don’t dwell on it. We get on with our lives and try to do better.
Thank u Marge, as wrote above earlier, many nationalities were tried lower than slaves especially in the North. My Italian relatives had to buy their freedom and the women suffered many disgusting sexual atrosities but we kept moving and don’t burn our towns down and loot small businesses that can never recover.
Vickstir says:
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The king, Samorin, hears of the newcomers and summons them. The most important part of Os Lusíadas, the arrival in India, was placed at the point in the poem that divides the work according to the golden section at the beginning of Canto VII. Camões is a master in these descriptions, marked by the verbs of movement, the abundance of visual and acoustic sensations, and expressive alliterations. In Canto X, before the sailors return home the Siren invites Gama to the spectacle of the Machine of the World (Máquina do Mundo) with these words: Faz-te mercê, barão, a sapiência Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões – Free Ebook This page was first posted on Tuesday 2 Decemberand revised on Sunday 10 April For more free audio books in more than 25 languages or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. The heroes of the epic are the Lusiads (Lusíadas), the sons of Lusus—in other words, the Portuguese. The Canto is ended with the poet communicating to the reader: Impossibilidades não façais, After the storm, the armada sights Calicut, and Vasco da Gama gives thanks to God. The speech that Jupiter uses to start the meeting is a finished piece of oratory. PESSOA ON CAMÕES’ OS LUSÍADAS: METER, GRAMMAR AND RHYTHM ... Pessoa’s original spelling will be maintained. In strophes 22 and 23 they are also said to be shining. V and VI). Uploaded by Jutay21 on April 4, 2017. The narration concludes with an epilogue, starting in stanza 145 of canto X. When the sailors arrive on the Isle of Love, the ocean nymphs make a pretense of running but surrender quickly. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's Aeneid (1st c. BC). Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Os Lusiadas were writen by a highly educated, intelligent individual ( some may argue that Camoes dropped out of the University, but that does not diminuish his intellect or knowledge of classic poetry, rhyme, greek mythology and so forth); the language is that of XVth Century Portugal with the vectorization of a classic education. The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). Those texts are normally narrative-descriptive. Uniform with this were issued Burton's "Camoens: his life and his "Lusiads." The allegory in the second part of Canto IX sees Camões describing the scene between the sailors – whom the Nymphs were expecting – prepared by Venus. Columbano, 1894 ... Camões reading "Os Lusíadas" António Ramalho, 1893 António Carneiro, 1927 António Carneiro, 1925 - 1929 Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic,[2] much as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks. Encontre Os Lusiadas Original - Livros, Revistas e Comics no Mercado Livre Brasil. The Adamastor episode is divided into three segments. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. It is not to be confused with, Strophes 70 to 79 of Canto VI, surviving a hurricane or the Portuguese defeating Neptune, as a tile masterpiece, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Os_Lusíadas&oldid=988167820, Articles containing Portuguese-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2007, Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt), Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The action of the poem begins after an introduction, an invocation, and a dedication to King Sebastian. The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). Häftad, 2015. Jupiter, after the end of his speech, entirely neglects the guidance of the other Gods, so two parties are formed: the party of Venus, favourable to the Portuguese, and the party of Bacchus, defending the interests of this god who wanted to stop the Portuguese from reaching their goal. SHOW ALL. The locus amoenus: the strophes that come after strophe 52 of Canto IX, and some of the main parts that appear from strophe 68 to 95 describe the scenery where the love encountered between the sailors and the Nymphs take place. Bacchus appears in a vision to a Muslim priest in Samorin's court and convinces him that the explorers are a threat. Page 397 - Ar'aby, cov'ering so much ground, 100 where tawny peoples vague o'er vasty space ; whence come the Rabytes,1 best for battle found, light-limbed, high-fettled, noble-blooded race. Os Lusíadas é o nome de um poema épico de Luís Vaz de Camões, publicado em 1572.A obra está dividida em 10 cantos, com número variável de estrofes. The priest spreads the warnings among the Catuals and the court, prompting Samorin to confront da Gama on his intentions. First printed in 1572, it is regarded as Portugal's national epic , much in the same way as Virgil 's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans , or Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks . Os Lusíadas, de Luís de Camões (Livro completo) The Machine of the World is presented as the spectacle unique, divine, seen by “corporeal eyes”. Omissions? It is written in the decasyllabic ottava rima, which has the rhyme scheme ABABABCC, and contains a total of 8816 lines of verse. This technique is used most strongly when Inês fears the orphaning of her children more than losing her own life and she begs for the commutation of capital punishment for an exile in Siberia (Cítia) or in Libya in order to have an opportunity to raise her children, and she is compared with "the young beautiful Policena". Key concepts The heroes. The night included the usual eating, drinking and celebrating, as well as a reading of “Os Lusíadas,” a piece of poetry recited by actor Pedro Giestas … Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões – Free Ebook This page was first posted on Tuesday 2 Decemberand revised on Sunday 10 April For more free audio books in more than 25 languages or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. In original green cloth. A Muslim named Monçaide greets the fleet and tells the explorers about the lands they have reached. Época - 1524 (?) Em síntese:Características gerais: * Racionalidade * Rigor Científico * Dignidade do Ser Humano * Ideal Humanista * Reutilização das artes greco-romanaa) Racionalismo – a razão é o único caminho para se chegar ao conhecimento.b) Experimentalismo – todo o conhecimento deverá s By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. This episode, which comes right after the first strophe of the narration (no. Columbano, 1894 ... Camões reading "Os Lusíadas" António Ramalho, 1893 António Carneiro, 1927 António Carneiro, 1925 - 1929 Community Texts. Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads) is the national epic of Portugal. It is written in Homeric fashion and focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Os Lusíadas [Ortografia Moderna e Edição Original de 1572] [Resumos, Estudos, Biografia e Análises] - Ebook written by Luiz de Camões. Page 397 - Ar'aby, cov'ering so much ground, 100 where tawny peoples vague o'er vasty space ; whence come the Rabytes,1 best for battle found, light-limbed, high-fettled, noble-blooded race. The vigorous theophany that the first part describes is in the following verses: "Chill the flesh and the hairs/ to me and all [the others] only by listening and seeing him" ("Arrepiam-se as carnes e os cabelos / a mi e a todos só de ouvi-lo e vê-lo"). Camões, Luís de [Author] Craesbeeck, Pedro [Printer] Fernandes, Domingos [Printer] ... Metadata creation date: 2014-06-11 — 2018-07-24 — Original descriptive metadata created by the Iberian Books research project, based at the School of History, University College Dublin. To be able to translate this by the "painting that talks" is to achieve one of the highest points in universal literature. Behold the coast that trends to bind and bound yon other Persian Strait, where sight can trace the Headland proud the potent name to own of Fartak-city, erst to Fame well-known. Os Lusíadas (Portuguese pronunciation: [uʒ luˈzi.ɐðɐʃ]), usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões[1] (c. 1524/5 – 1580) and first published in 1572. Bacchus, seeing that the Portuguese are about to arrive in India, asks for help of Neptune, who convenes a "Concílio dos Deuses Marinhos" (Council of the Sea Gods) whose decision is to support Bacchus and unleash powerful winds to sink the armada. It was written when Camões was an exile in Macau[3] and was first printed in 1572, three years after the author returned from the Indies.[2]. Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (4 star ratings) 11.1 Camões saving the original manuscript from the shipwreck; 11.2 Camões reading "Os Lusíadas" Canto I Camões and the Tágides . Canto I . The sailors again set sail for home. The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Honours that render life sublime. The Lusiads, epic poem by Luís de Camões, published in 1572 as Os Lusíadas. O tema do poema é a história de Portugal desde os primórdios até o tempo de Camões, com uma narrativa idealizada e alusões frequentes à mitologia e cultura clássica. LAC tnb 2019-11-18 update (1 card) The initial strophes of Jupiter's speech in the Concílio dos Deuses Olímpicos (Council of the Olympian Gods), which open the narrative part, highlight the laudatory orientation of the author. Os lusiadas. SHOW ALL. Visiting Os Lusíadas is being sure that you can count on a quality service, a unique, original and stimulating atmosphere. The story moves on to the King of Melinde, describing the journey of the Armada from Lisbon to Melinde. The Muslims plot to detain the Portuguese until the annual trading fleet from Mecca can arrive to attack them, but Monçaide tells da Gama of the conspiracy, and the ships escape from Calicut. At the urging of Bacchus, who is disguised as a Moor, the local Muslims plot to attack the explorer and his crew. Buy a cheap copy of Os Lusíadas book by Luís de Camões. On several occasions the poet assumes a tone of lamentation, as at the end of Canto I, in parts of the speech of the Old Man of the Restelo, the end of Canto V, the beginning and end of Canto VII, and the final strophes of the poem. The final marine eclogue conforms to a pattern that is common to many of Camões' lyrical compositions: falling in love, forced separation, grieving over the frustrated dream. The 10 cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and amount to 1,102 stanzas. Trabalho realizado no âmbito da disciplina de Português. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. The qualities of the digital image partially depend on whether it was made from the original or an intermediate such as a copy negative or transparency. This is followed by passages on the meaning of Portuguese nationality and then by an enumeration of the warrior deeds of the 1st Dynasty kings, from Dom Afonso Henriques to Dom Fernando. During a sumptuous feast on the Isle of Love, Tethys, who is now the lover of da Gama, prophecies the future of Portuguese exploration and conquest. I am a graduate student at a university in Portugal. Pris: 319 kr. Also, he is a poet and teaches at a university in Lisbon. And always with a carefully chosen wine list, created to accompany all our kitchen’s creations. ", Manuel de Faria e Sousa wrote a commentary about the work in the 17th century. Do narrative poems tend to be very short? The ten cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and total 1,102 stanzas. 11.1 Camões saving the original manuscript from the shipwreck; 11.2 Camões reading "Os Lusíadas" Canto I Camões and the Tágides . One of the nymphs sings of the future deeds of the Portuguese, and the entertainment ends with a description of the universe given by da Gama and the Nereid Thetis. Sereis entre os heróis esclarecidos Da Gama manages to get free only after agreeing to have all of the goods on the ships brought to shore to be sold. The work describes the discovery of a sea route to India by Vasco da Gama. Responsibility: Enjoy. Such emphasis on the appearance of Adamastor is intended to contrast with the preceding scenery, which was expressed as: "seas of the South" ("mares do Sul"): "(...) / the winds blowing favourably / when one night, being careless/ watching in the cutting bow, / (...)" ("(...) / prosperamente os ventos assoprando, / quando hua noite, estando descuidados / na cortadora proa vigiando, / (...)"). After an appeal by the poet to Calliope, the Greek muse of epic poetry, Vasco da Gama begins to narrate the history of Portugal. IN COLLECTIONS. The first, a theophany, goes from strophe 37 to 40; the second, which in chronological-narrative terms is a prolepsis, occupies strophes 41 to 48; finally, the third part, a marine eclogue with some points of contact with Écloga III of Camões, ends in strophe 59. Os Lusíadas , usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões (c. 1524/5 – 1580) and first published in 1572. Outra cousa não é que as deleitosas Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Are prose and poetry the same? The Lusiadas, as a poem, transcends them both "and is the lovelier because we know / it has gone beyond itself, as great things go." Just as the gods had divided loyalties during the voyages of Odysseus and Aeneas, here Venus, who favors the Portuguese, is opposed by Bacchus, who is here associated with the east and resents the encroachment on his territory. The tour continues with glimpses of the lands of Africa and Asia. .. Também é a minha opinião de que este livro é a maior obra da literatura portuguesa de. Strophes 134 and 135 are written to evoke this pity. Given in an allegoric sense: Que as Ninfas do Oceano, tão fermosas, At the end of the poem, on the Island of Love, the fictional finale to the glorious tour of Portuguese history, Camões writes that the fear once expressed by Bacchus has been confirmed: that the Portuguese would become gods. Original file (1,024 × 342 pixels, file size: 62 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . ... download 12 Files download 6 Original. The nobility of the characters is also emphasised, in a way that is intended to create feelings of sympathy when the protagonist suffers. Audio of me reciting the original text in a reconstruction of Renaissance Portuguese pronunciation From The Lusiads By Luís Vaz de Camões Translated by A.Z. We encounter Vasco da Gama's voyage in medias res as they have already rounded the Cape of Good Hope. First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled... Free shipping over $10. The gods are described by Jupiter as residents of the "shiny, / starry Pole and bright Seat" ("luzente, estelífero Pólo e claro Assento"); this shiny, starry Pole and bright Seat or Olympus had already been described before as "luminous"; the Gods walk on the "beautiful crystalline sky" ("cristalino céu fermoso"), to the Milky Way. After condemning some of the other nations of Europe (who in his opinion fail to live up to Christian ideals), the poet tells of the Portuguese fleet reaching the Indian city of Calicut. The most important part of Os Lusíadas, the arrival in India, was placed at the point in the poem that divides the work according to the golden section at the beginning of Canto VII. Sometimes these descriptions are like a slide show, in which someone shows each of the things described there; examples include the geographic start of Gama's speech to the king of Melinde, certain sculptures of the palaces of Neptune and the Samorim, the speech of Paulo da Gama to the Catual, and the Machine of the World (Máquina do Mundo). 19 of Canto I) and depicts the entry of the caravan of carracks in the poem, sailing into the unknown upon the sheet of white foam of the Indian Ocean, has huge significance in the organization of the poem. Para poder efectuar a devolução, o produto não pode ter sido usado e deve estar nas mesmas condições que o recebeu e na embalagem original. Luís Vaz de Camões (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʒ ˈvaʒ dɨ kaˈmõjʃ]; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, e.g. Many times, da Gama bursts into oration at challenging moments: in Mombasa (Canto II), on the appearance of Adamastor, and in the middle of the terror of the storm. Camões dedicated his masterpiece to King Sebastian of Portugal. A governor and official of the king, called the Catual, leads the Portuguese to the king, who receives them well. 5 A metrical line consisting of seven feet, the fi rst 4 being most commonly dactyls (or, alternatively, spondees), and the last three being trochees (the seventh foot may Que quem quis sempre pôde: e numerados To reward the explorers for their efforts, Venus prepares an island for them to rest on and asks her son Cupid to inspire Nereids with desire for them. The work describes the discovery of a sea route to India by Vasco da Gama. Finally, Tethys relates the voyage of Magellan. The 10 cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and amount to 1,102 stanzas. The heroes of the epic are the Lusiads (Lusíadas), the sons of Lusus—in other words, the Portuguese. The king then demands proof from da Gama's ships, but when he tries to return to the fleet, da Gama finds that the Catual, who has been corrupted by the Muslim leaders, refuses to lend him a boat at the harbor and holds him prisoner. Os Lusíadas is a Portuguese epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões. dos errados e míseros mortais, Your lordship's wish is now fulfilled to share the supreme Information from its description page there is shown below. All these cases resemble eclogues. Navigate parenthood with the help of the Raising Curious Learners podcast. The Catual then goes to the Portuguese ships himself to confirm what Monsayeed has told him and is treated well. Presented here is the first printed edition of Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), the national epic of Portugal, published in Lisbon in 1572. "Este manuscripto original do seculo XIX ... é enriquecido com annotações de alguns outros commentadores, desenhos originaes &, e é propriedade de Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro." Honras que a vida fazem sublimada, That the Nymphs of the Ocean, so beautiful, The typical cuisine is essentially sea-based, the sea food and fresh fish are the house specialities. Each one of these types of speech shows stylistic peculiarities. Os Lusíadas são uma epopeia na qual se reflete o otimismo do Renascimento, crente nas capacidades do homem. Os Lusiadas were writen by a highly educated, intelligent individual ( some may argue that Camoes dropped out of the University, but that does not diminuish his intellect or knowledge of classic poetry, rhyme, greek mythology and so forth); the language is that of XVth Century Portugal with the vectorization of a classic education. Os Lusiadas de Luis de Camoes : reimpressao "facsimilada" da verdadeira 1.a edicao dos Lusiadas, de 1572 / [Luis de Camoes] ; precedida duma introducao e seguida dum aparato critico do professor da Faculdade de letras Dr. Jose Maria Rodrigues Tip. These cantos contain some of the most compelling passages in the poem. Jupiter says that their history proves it because, having emerged victorious against the Moors and Castilians, this tiny nation has gone on to discover new worlds and impose its law in the concert of the nations. The poet's invocations to the Tágides and nymphs of Mondego (Cantos I and VII) and to Calliope (beginning of Cantos III and X), in typological terms, are also orations. Suprema de, cos olhos corporais, The gods of the four corners of the world are reunited to talk about "the future matters of the East" ("as cousas futuras do Oriente"); in fact, what they are going to decide is whether the Portuguese will be allowed to reach India and what will happen next. She tells of Duarte Pacheco Pereira's defense of Cochin (Battle of Cochin); the Battle of Diu fought by Francisco de Almeida and his son Lourenço de Almeida against combined Gujarati-Egyptian fleets; the deeds of Tristão da Cunha, Pedro de Mascarenhas, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio and Nuno da Cunha; and battles fought by Martim Afonso de Sousa and João de Castro. Os Lusiadas were writen by a highly educated, intelligent individual ( some may argue that Camoes dropped out of the University, but that does not diminuish his intellect or knowledge of classic poetry, rhyme, greek mythology and so forth); the language is that of XVth Century Portugal with the vectorization of a classic education. The Lusiads, epic poem by Luís de Camões, published in 1572 as Os Lusíadas. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's Aeneid (1st c. BC). The fleet lands at Melinde where it is welcomed by a friendly Sultan. Jupiter's chair is a crystalline seat of stars and the rest of the Olympian furniture is equally ornate: "In shiny seats, enamelled / of gold and pearls, under there were / the other gods (...)" ("Em luzentes assentos, marchetados / de ouro e perlas, mais abaixo estavam / os outros Deuses (...)"). Seis serigrafias de Lima de Freitas : sobre o poema épico Os Lusíadas de Luís de Camões. The ten cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and total 1,102 stanzas. The evil demigod is preceded by a black cloud, which appears above the heads of the sailors. Canto V ends with the poet's censure of his contemporaries who despise poetry. Contributor Names Freitas, Lima de. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Lusíadas – Luís de Camões | páginas, Porto Editora, (1ed. ("Ó potestade – disse – sublimada, / que ameaço divino ou que segredo / este clima e este mar nos apresenta, / que mor cousa parece que tormenta?") The council ends by accepting the point of view earlier expressed by Jupiter; however, Bacchus will not accept this. The voyagers spend several days in Melinde on the east coast of Africa, and, at the request of the king of Melinde, da Gama recounts the entire history of Portugal, from its origins to the inception of their great voyage (Cantos III, IV, and V). This book is making my 6-month "Os Lusíadas" research project much easier. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Are none other than the delightful Com centro na narrativa da viagem de Vasco da Gama até as Índias, Camões conta nesta epopéia a história do povo português, utilizando-se da estrutura clássica do poema épico. [citation needed] It is normally classified as a lyric, thus distinguishing it from the more common war episodes. There are also many lyrical moments. Proposição e os três grandes grupos que constituem o herói coletivo Canto I, est. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. O herói liberta-se da sua pequenez humana de “bicho da terra”, pela sua ousadia, coragem e perseverança, ascendendo a um estádio superior, digno dos deuses - a imortalidade. This is followed, in the ancient rhetorical fashion, by the narration (the past shows that the intention of the Fados is the same one that the orator presented). SHOW ALL. Descubra a melhor forma de comprar online. It starts as "Reason and Order demanded" "a Razão e a Ordem concertavam", but it ends in insubordination, to which Mars brutally puts an end. The Catual speaks with Monçaide to learn more about the new arrivals. Tethys and the angelic painted Island, Thus, the explorers are lured into an ambush but successfully survive with the aid of Venus. Narration (the epic itself) – starting in stanza 19 of canto I, This page was last edited on 11 November 2020, at 14:43. Episodes that stand out include Egas Moniz and the Battle of Ourique during Dom Afonso Henriques' reign, formosíssima Maria (the beautiful Maria) in the Battle of Salado, and Inês de Castro during Dom Afonso IV's reign. Francisco de Sales Lencastre - Os Lusíadas - Edição Anotada Vol I e II Item Preview 1 Francisco Lencastre - Os Lusíadas - Edição anotada - Vol II.pdf. In these strophes, Camões speaks of Viriatus and Quintus Sertorius, the people of Lusus, a people predestined by the Fates to accomplish great deeds. IN COLLECTIONS. Following this incident, the poem narrates the maritime journey to India—an aim that Dom João II did not accomplish during his lifetime, but would come true with Dom Manuel, to whom the rivers Indus and Ganges appeared in dreams foretelling the future glories of the Orient. Jupiter is described as the "Father" ("Padre" – archaic Portuguese for 'father') who "vibrates the fierce rays of Vulcan" ("vibra os feros raios de Vulcano") and presides from a "crystalline seat of stars" ("assento de estrelas cristalino"), carrying "a gleaming crown and sceptre / of another rock clearer than diamond" ("hua coroa e ceptro rutilante / de outra pedra mais clara que diamante"). Os Lusíadas é uma obra poética do escritor Luís Vaz de Camões, considerada a epopeia portuguesa por excelência. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Description: 2 volumes 18 cm: Other Titles: Lusíadas. The first line mimics the opening line of the Aeneid, and pays a hopeful tribute to the young King Sebastião. Product Information. Francisco de Sales Lencastre - Os Lusíadas - Edição Anotada Vol I e II Item Preview 1 Francisco Lencastre - Os Lusíadas - Edição anotada - Vol II.pdf. During the council, the behaviour of the gods is described as disgraceful. V 1 OS LUSÍADAS Comentário De FRANCISCO DE SALES LENCASTRE Volume 1 Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Expressing the surprise he experiences, Gama quotes himself: "Oh divine power – [I] said – sublimated, / what divine threat or what secret / this clime and this sea presents to us / that seems a bigger thing than a storm?" ... download 21 Files download 7 Original. Then, while the sailors are listening to Fernão Veloso telling the legendary and chivalrous episode of Os Doze de Inglaterra (The Twelve Men of England), a storm strikes. Publication date 2017-04-03 Topics Educação Clássia Collection opensource Language Portuguese ... download 19 Files download 7 Original. Os Lusíadas [Ortografia Moderna e Edição Original de 1572] [Resumos, Estudos, Biografia e Análises] *** Lançamento Março/2015 - A mais rica e completa versão de Os Lusíadas. Camoes, Luis de. O renascimento literário atingiu o ápice em Portugal durante o período conhecido como Classicismo, entre 1527 e 1580.
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The revamp of Newcastle United under new boss Steve McLaren continued this week with his third signing of the window so far, defender Chancel Mbemba from Anderlecht. The Democratic Republic of Congo full back has arrived at the club for a fee of £8.5million and should go into Newcastle’s starting line up for next Sunday’s season opener against Southampton along with fellow newcomers Georginio Wijnaldum and Aleksandar Mitrovic. Mbemba is a powerful full back with good pace and a strong reading of the game who should add some bite to the Newcastle back line. Having played 36 times for Anderlecht last year including their six Champions League matches, Mbemba appears comfortable at the highest level and is being heralded as a coup by Newcastle who have stolen a player with the best years of his career ahead of him.
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But how many years exactly has become an interesting side point and distraction in this transfer. The uncertainty over how old Mbemba actually is has plagued the player since he moved to Europe three years ago. The issue is that in Congo birth certificates and record keeping are rare so Mbemba’s exact year of birth is unknown. What is certain is that he arrived into the world on August 8th but of what year? The players first two clubs registered his birth year as 1988, making him 26 today however his country submitted 1991 as his year of birth when registering him for the African Cup of Nations. That would make him 23. Then when Mbemba moved to Europe to sign for Belgian side Anderlecht they registered his birth year as 1994 making him 20. The player himself has been reported to believe that his birth year was 1990 making him 24 today.
Mbemba in action for DR Congo
Where the truth falls in this story is unknown but FIFA has now launched a formal investigation to get to the bottom of it once and for all. It is suspected that the date given by the DR Congo national team was fabricated to allow Mbemba to take part in the 2012 Olympics games, a tournament he would have been illegible for if he was indeed born in 1988. By bring the clock forward, a move done by several African nations, he would be able to compete and would hand Congo an advantage against its competitors given Mbemba’s then size and strength. The birth dates given by Mbemba to his first clubs are likely to be incorrect as well due to poor medical/birth records or simply down to the players desire to play professionally for as long as possible. Many players in Africa see a career as a footballer as an escape from their current lives and a way to help their families. Adjusting their year of birth as they move around allows them to prolong their careers further and generate more money to send home. Mbemba is not the first nor will be the last player from Africa to have their age questions. Stars like Taribo West, Nwankwo Kanu and even former Newcastle striker Obafemi Martins have been questioned about their real age given that they appeared to have played at the highest level from a very young age.
Taribo West – How old is he really?
(Image from PA)
To Newcastle and their fans, they care little about how old Mbemba is. Whether he is 20 or 24 makes little difference to Steve McLaren who sees the player as someone who will become an instant hit with the fans and will help Newcastle to progress on the pitch. Mbemba himself seems unmoved by the ongoing speculation around his year of birth and in fact has become accustom to having his teammates tease him on the issue. His international colleagues ritually poke fun at his ever-moving birthday but all agree that he has the potential to go all the way in the game. He has raised comparisons between himself and Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany back in Belgium and its hard to argue with. Both are powerful yet skillful defenders who can read the game brilliantly. Mbemba will now have the chance to show what he can do in England’s top league and whether he can replicate Kompany’s success and become one of Europe’s best defenders.
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Nestled almost directly under the southern pylon of the Harbor Bridge, Pier One offers arguably the best views in all directions.
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The 102-year-old listed building actually pre-dates the Harbour Bridge and once served as the ferry station for passengers returning to Northern Sydney from the city. Today, hotel guests can avail themselves of the hotel’s private pontoon for stylish arrivals and trips in the vintage Italian timber boat.
pier-one-sidney-harbour-harbor-view-suite The Harbor View Suite and its pleasing panorama
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Weekly Update: Industrial Capital Markets
Weekly Update:
Industrial Capital Markets
As the 4th quarter of 2020 begins, we prognosticate a bit about the future of industrial real estate and the capital markets. We also have the unique opportunity to present insights from some C-Suite industrial professionals about their prospective on where we may be headed.
Erik Foster Principal Head of Industrial Capital Markets
Industrial Investment Outlook 2021 Series
The robust performance of the industrial sector during the pandemic, fueled largely by rapid ecommerce growth and other consumer buying activity, is seen as a harbinger of strength for 2021 and beyond. Fundamentals are expected to remain strong across most U.S. markets and there is considerable capital waiting to be placed, with many investors focusing on core markets, particularly those in land constrained areas. These sentiments were echoed by several industry experts interviewed as part of our Industrial Investment Outlook 2021 series, which will be highlighted periodically in this newsletter As the fourth quarter of 2020 approaches, ecommerce growth is continuing at a record pace and more and more consumers are adopting online shopping patterns that may continue long-term. This activity, when combined with growth in spending at consumer goods retailers such as Target, Walmart and Lowes, and medical supply companies, is creating significant demand for industrial space. “I anticipate we will continue to build upward momentum through late 2020 and into 2021,” said Jojo Yap, Chief Investment Officer with First Industrial Realty Trust. “We expect strong momentum in industrial leasing, construction, and investment, particularly with infill land positions and in land constrained markets. Among the key indicators we’re tracking are ecommerce as a percentage of overall sales and trade, with a focus on inbound cargo, as that’s what ends up in warehouses.” Jim Clewlow, Chief Investment Officer with CenterPoint Properties, also noted the strength of land constrained markets and a strong demand for larger industrial space. “We are seeing aggressive pricing and strong leasing demand, particularly for transactions that are 750,000-sf and larger.” A significant driver of overall market activity right now is changing consumer behavior due to the pandemic. More people are ordering online, buying products curbside and shopping in grocery stores instead of going out to stores and restaurants. “We’ve seen a significant shift in consumer food consumption during the pandemic and that is changing how food is distributed,” Clewlow said. “Grocers are as busy as they have ever been and, as more food goes through their system, this is translating into a greater demand for industrial space for their users.”
Market to Watch for 2021
While there was much talk about growing secondary markets heading into the pandemic, many investors now are focusing on core markets with access to large populations centers, such as Southern California, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, South Florida, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania. The constant theme with all of this activity is ecommerce. “Every ecommerce transaction requires a lot more industrial real estate and we don’t expect any kind of snapback in that activity,” said Matt Brodnik, Chief Investment officer with Exeter Property Group. “We still see a great deal of tenant demand in most of our markets and actually saw more leasing done in 2020 than in all of 2019. Amazon has been a big tenant for us and we are also seeing activity from Walmart, Lowes, Best Buy and other consumer products retailers.” Among the markets with some imbalance is Houston, which saw a high volume of speculative construction before the pandemic and then an uptick in vacancies. “Kansas City and St. Louis have also seen a slowdown but we’ve seen a lot of other markets doing well,” Brodnik said. “Memphis, Charlotte and Indianapolis are markets where activity has been strong, as well as core markets such as New York and New Jersey.”
The strength and stability of the industrial sector continues to attract investors, who have considerable cash on the sidelines ready to be placed. “There is a lot of stability in the industrial market in terms of cash flow in markets across the U.S.,” Yap said. “You don’t have a lot of roll over costs and industrial has the lowest Capex costs of all product types. We except that to continue. Long term, a number of investors are continuing to allocate capital in coastal markets with supply constraints. When you combine good demand with a supply-constrained environment, there is a greater potential for rent growth.”
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How to See Who Views Your Instagram Profile
TL;DR: You can't
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Last Updated: February 15, 2019 1:55 pm
Instagram is one of the most widely used social media platforms these days, with over a billion monthly active users logging on daily to check out images/videos posted by the friends, family or their favorite celebrities. While there is a large population of Instagram users who post stuff on the daily, there are quite a few who just lurk around without posting all that much or use the platform as a means to stalk other users. If you’re an avid Instagrammer with a public profile, it’s quite likely that you’ve wondered ‘Can I see who views my Instagram profile?’ more often than you’d like to admit. So, how does one track who views their Instagram account? Can you keep a tab on your Insta stalker? Lets find out.
Well, to be precise, there isn’t any straightforward way for you to check who views your Instagram page. Instagram doesn’t have an in-built feature to let users check who’s viewed their profile and there’s a very good reason behind that – user privacy. Facebook-owned Instagram has all the data you’d need to check who viewed your profile, but it won’t share it with you because that could lead to a significant drop in user engagement on the platform.
Why, you ask? Well, since a significant number of Instagram users spend their time just checking out other profiles without posting anything on their own profile, if Instagram releases data regarding their activity, there’s a very high chance that they’ll stop using the app as much, which is definitely bad for business. Even though these users don’t engage with other people on Instagram, they still consume the same number of ads as everyone else and if they’re called out for their activity they might stop using the platform altogether.
Using Third-Party Apps to See Who Viewed Your Instagram Profile
So are there any third-party apps you could use to see who viewed your Instagram profile? Yes, there are an absolute ton of apps, both on the App Store and the Play Store, that will have you believe that you can see who views your Instagram account and find your Insta stalkers by giving them access to your Instagram account. But, do they work? Definitely not. Apps like ‘Who Viewed My Profile?’ and ‘SocialView for Instagram’ have very poor ratings and there are several good reasons behind them. The first, and probably the most obvious one, is that the apps don’t work.
The apps just pretend to work and show a list of random Instagram usernames which keep changing every time you open the apps to make users feel that they’re doing something. Secondly, and most importantly, these apps run the risk of being a major privacy threat as they collect all your account data as soon as you log in with your Instagram account and give them access to the data. On top of that, the apps usually charge a subscription fee for their fake services and are also chock full of ads, which doesn’t really make for a pleasant user experience.
The most damning reason behind why these apps don’t work is quite straightforward. Instagram’s data policy clearly states that it only shares a user’s name, Instagram username and bio, profile photo and email address with third-party apps that have not been vetted by the company. Additionally, Instagram’s Graph API, which was introduced earlier this year, is much more restrictive than the older Instagram API platform, which means that apps that haven’t been approved by Instagram to use the API lose the ability to access the API altogether. So, now that third-party apps are out of the question, how can you see who viewed your Instagram profile?
Using Instagram Stories/Highlights to See Who Views Your Instagram Profile
Even though Instagram doesn’t give users access to a feature with which they can check who’s visiting their profiles, it does have one that allows users to see who all viewed their Stories and Highlights. The feature can, therefore, be used to check who all have recently visited your profile. In order to make use of this feature to reveal your Insta stalkers all you need to do is tap on the profile picture icons lined up in the bottom left corner of your recent Instagram Stories. This will bring up a list of all the users who’ve checked out your story, including users who don’t follow you.
This feature will also let you block any users who you don’t want to share your Stories with by tapping on the menu button to the right of the user’s name and selecting the ‘Hide Story’ option, so you can easily block any Instagram stalkers you may have.
Since Instagram Stories expire after 24 hours, you’ll have to check the list on a daily basis (in case you upload that often). But if you want to get a long term overview of who’s been visiting your Instagram profile, you can check the same list on your Highlights, which also displays a list of all the users who’ve visited your profile (provided they played the Highlights).
Using Instagram Business Accounts to See Who Views You Instagram Profile
You can also see who viewed your Instagram profile by making use of an Instagram business account. Having an Instagram business account will give you access to important information about who’s been visiting your Instagram page but there’s a catch.
With a business account you’ll be able to access valuable insights about the users visiting your profile, including their location, age range, gender, and the time that they’re online. However, the insights won’t reveal the names of all the individual users who’ve visited your profile.
If that’s the kind of data you’re interested in, you can easily convert your personal Instagram account into a business account. To do so, you’ll have to navigate to the Instagram Settings and tap on the ‘Switch to Business Profile’ option, then connect your Instagram account to a Facebook Page that you administrate.
Instagram will then prompt you to choose which contact information you wish to pull from your Facebook page as Instagram business accounts require users to have at least one contact info. Your new Instagram business account is now good to go. It’s worth noting that Instagram Insights don’t pull historical data and starts collecting data only after the Instagram business account is set up.
How to Make Your Instagram Account Private
Now that we’ve explored all the ways in which you can see who views your Instagram profile, lets talk about how you can prevent someone from viewing your profile. The answer is quite simple. You can prevent unknown users from checking out your Instagram by making your profile private.
To convert your Instagram profile from public to private, you’ll need to navigate to the settings menu in the Instagram app and toggle the ‘Private Account’ option. It’s as easy as that. Do note that switching to a private account won’t have any affect on your existing followers, so you’ll need to weed out unwanted followers or Insta stalkers individually after converting to a private account.
So Can You See Who Views Your Instagram Profile?
So, if you’ve been wondering whether you can see who viewed your Instagram profile, well, you can’t. The only workaround, which involves checking who’s viewed your Instagram Stories and Highlights, isn’t accurate as it only shows all the users who viewed your Stories or Highlights and doesn’t account for all the users who went through the posts on your timeline. Third-party apps, as I’ve already explained, are no good and using them is definitely a waste of your time and money. In case you want more information about the users visiting your profile and can do without getting their names, then you can also convert your personal account to a business account. And finally, if not knowing who’s visiting your Instagram ID bothers you all that much, you can switch to a private account.
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Air cargo volumes between Asia-US slowing down
Asia-U.S. air cargo freight rates continue going down since port operations on the West Coast have sharpened since the heavy congestion appeared at the beginning of this year, according to analysts Drewry.
Shippers have air cargo solutions built into their supply chains to avoid port delays or to expedite the shipment of products to market during peak periods, and those options were heavily used from November through March as the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex ground to a halt.
But with no container port congestion at the West Coast, demand for air has steadily fallen off.
The air freight prices for U.S. imports spiked in November 2015 as importers were desperate to have their Christmas stocks ready for the holiday season and took the option to route some shipments by air.
According to Drewry, the ocean freight volumes are growing at a much faster rate than air cargo with greater demand for the sorts of goods that are typically moved by containers thanks to the lower freight costing in the supply chain. . On top of that, higher-value goods are increasingly being shipped by containers via ocean carriers.
Even though data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that this trend was bucked last year, a closer look at the data reveals that air cargo has barely increased its tiny fraction of the U.S. containerized import trade, now holding a 2.8% share that is up from 2.4% at the start of 2014.
“In normal circumstances there is very little overlap in the goods that ocean and air cargo move, but the small bubble they do fight over in the middle includes items and parts from the hi-tech, fashion, and automotive industries among a small select group that require expedited transportation,” Drewry said.
Drewry believes that as ocean carriers look to redress the supply-demand imbalance, this could potentially prolong the air cargo shipment of a small number of high-value goods. But as port operations in California continue to improve, the long-term shift from air towards ocean will resume.
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AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft hereby announces pursuant to section 93 (2) Stock Exchange Act to have been notified by Erste Group Bank AG (FN 33209m) on 19 September as follows:
AT & S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft Fabriksgasse 13, 8700 Leoben-Hintenberg (FN 55638x of the regional court Leoben) (“AT&S”) is currently conducting a subscription rights capital increase and an offering of new and treasury shares (the “Offering”). Erste Group Bank AG (“Erste Group”) will act as underwriter and as subscription agent in the course of the Offering.
In the context of the Offering on 17 September 2013 Erste Group in its function as subscription agent has agreed with the shareholders Androsch Privatstiftung, Franz-Josefs-Kai 5, 1010 Vienna (FN 183415d of the commercial court Vienna) and Dörflinger-Privatstiftung, Karl-Waldbrunner-Platz 1, 1210 Vienna (FN 182519k of the commercial court Vienna) on the transfer of subscription rights for shares in AT&S to Erste Group for purposes of implementing the Offering. Such subscription rights will not be exercised by the aforementioned shareholders in accordance with the agreement and will expire as worthless.
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My Own Voice
Categories: Bio / Memoir, Contemporary, Historical, New Adult, Romance Author: Uvi PoznanskyNarrator: Heather Jane HoganSeries: Still Life with MemoriesLength: 5 hrs and 37 mins
Falling in love with Lenny should have been the end to all of Anita’s troubles.
For her, it’s only the beginning, when family secrets start unravelling. His ex-wife, Natasha, is succumbing to a mysterious disease. How can Anita compete with her shadow? How can she find a voice of her own?
And when his estranged son, Ben, comes back and lives in the same small apartment, can she keep the balance between the two men, whose desire for her is marred by guilt and blame?
★★★★★ “A creative, gripping and deeply moving tale of a young girl coming of age in unfathomable emotional circumstances.”
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This is a mesmerizing story of a young woman searching for love inside of her own life and marriage. The narrative unfolds in the first person. At times, Anita is not likeable. She believes every man finds her irresistible and acts the part. She is self-absorbed and self-centered. She can be manipulative. But as the listener starts to understand her, empathy begins to develop. Anita was molested while growing up. She knows what it is like to be poor and has been homeless. She falls hard for an older man, who reminds her of her father. She desperately wants to be loved by him. Anita knows she looks just like her husband’s first wife and wonders if her husband really loves her. He seems to want Anita to be like his former wife, instead of loving her as a unique individual and woman. Her husband doesn’t seem to value and cherish Anita or love her like she deserves to be loved. The narrator does a really great job. However, the southern accent is weird. Anita has grown up in Southern California near Santa Monica and her voice should sound like she comes from that area, not the south. Anita’s character is deep, intense, and complex. This would be a good book club pick. The listener will want to discuss aspects of the book with others to see what they thought. This audiobook doesn’t have a cliffhanger ending.
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By Mikela Floyd Kinnison
Sex and the Capital City is a new bi-weekly column from CultureMap contributor Mikela Floyd.
About three years ago, I stopped dating. I didn’t have a traumatic incident, nor did I have some sort of asexual epiphany. No, my dereliction of the dating world was of the apathetic variety; a mere “meh” in the face of the awkward situations I had experienced throughout my dalliances in the meat market.
Alas, it's a new year, and I begin it with resolve to change my Cathy-cartoon-like ways.
I wasn’t always so indifferent on the idea of putting myself out there. In fact, like many, I had a serious relationship throughout most of college. And like many, ours was a relationship that didn’t work out. I don’t have ill thoughts of that time, mind you. This was not a one-off that soured me on the whole notion of settling down. I didn’t begin burning bras as soon as the breakup wounds healed.
Nope, I wasn’t completely averse to dating — until I left Austin.
In fact, once “back in the saddle,” I entertained a number of eligible suitors. There was the Australian reality TV star (a story I may dive into at a later date), the record label employee whose mere acquaintance paid off with free music in spades (when you’re 21, these are the things that matter) and even the occasional revisiting of a high school flame or two.
Moving to New York City at the age of 22 can be a terrifying prospect. Moving to New York City at 22 alone? Well, that’s a different ballgame altogether.
Sure, I had interned in the city previously, and my post-grad setup included free co-ed housing provided by my new employer (the same employer who now pays Snooki and The Situation to cohabitate, but I assure you, the digs weren’t nearly as nice in my six foot by six foot room), but I went without a good friend in my midst, doe-eyed and optimistic of my future as a New Yorker.
Fast-forward a few months, and the reality sets in, and how. Sarah Jessica Parker et al glamorized the city’s dating landscape a bit, folks. There were friends of friends, of course (most notably a Northeasterner with a WASPY name and a family bed and breakfast to boot), but as they often do, things fizzled, and before I knew it, I was a non-dater extraordinaire.
The reality of Los Angeles is that while it boasts a population to rival most third world countries, it has the ability to simultaneously be the loneliest place on earth.
Relocation to Los Angeles didn’t exactly help things in terms of singledom. Like many naïve girls before me, I flocked to the City of Angels with idealized dreams of a bohemian lifestyle, determined that my life would be footloose, fancy free, and full of interesting people.
The reality of Los Angeles is that while it boasts a population to rival most third world countries, it has the ability to simultaneously be the loneliest place on earth. Careers are on the brain, instead of crushes; lunch meetings, instead of lunch dates.
You can see now, where I’m going with this. Finding love takes a backseat, and understandably so. Los Angeles isn’t exactly a city known for its crop of fine gentleman, so things didn’t seem to work out there.
But here I am: a serial non-dater, back in my hometown, and facing the tail end of my 20s as the only single gal at the endless barrage of weddings now dominating my social calendar. I may not find the man of my dreams, but I'm ready to at least test the waters.
Join me in this bi-weekly column, where I'll share the insane, hilarious, and hopefully fun experiences I'll have as I try to navigate my way out of Spinster-Town.
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Krill another day: Antarctic crustaceans more resilient than thought
Last updated November 26, 2018 at 2:21 pm
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Adult krill appear unharmed by upticks in ocean acidification.
Antarctic krill may be more resilient in the face of climate change than we have assumed.
New Australian research suggests the small crustaceans, which belong to several species and comprise the order Euphausiacea, are largely unaffected by even significant levels of ocean acidification.
In a laboratory study conducted by scientists at Australia’s University of Tasmania, they were able to survive, grow, store fat, mature and maintain respiration rates when exposed for up to a year to acidification levels that can be expected this century and beyond.
The caveats are that the research focussed only on adults, so other life stages may be more vulnerable, and that the persistence of krill will depend on how they respond to acidification in synergy with other stressors, such as ocean warming and decreases in sea ice extent.
Nevertheless, it’s an important finding. Krill are the primary prey of many Antarctic marine mammals and seabirds, and thus a key link in the Antarctic food chain. One species, Euphausia superba, comprises an estimated 379 million tonnes of biomass in the region.
Previous short-term studies have indicated that they may be more vulnerable to ocean acidification than crustaceans from lower latitudes.
As international researchers noted in a major 2012 paper looking at the impact of climate change on Antarctic krill, we need “a better understanding of the resilience and the genetic plasticity of krill life stages”.
The new study was carried out in the university’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and reported in a paper published in the journal Communications Biology.
“We reared adult krill in laboratory tanks for 46 weeks in seawater with a range of pH levels, including those in the present day, levels predicted within 100 to 300 years, and up to an extreme level,” says lead author Jess Ericson.
“We measured a suite of physiological and biochemical variables to investigate how future ocean acidification may affect the survival, size, lipid stores, reproduction, metabolism and extracellular fluid of krill.
“Our results showed that their physiological processes were largely unaffected by pH levels that they are expected to encounter over the coming century.”
Increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are causing ocean acidification, as absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide in seawater alters ocean chemistry.
Ocean acidification increases mortality and negatively affects physiological functioning in some marine invertebrates, causing decreased mineralisation or dissolution of calcium carbonate shells, decreased or delayed growth, increased mortality and delayed reproduction or abnormalities in offspring.
A US study in 2011 argued that changes in the abundance of krill were responsible for increases and decreases in penguin numbers in the Antarctic.
In the same year, another group of Tasmanian researchers reported that both environmental change and human activity were having an impact on krill populations, with increased interest in products derived from krill.
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The Cairngorms Loop
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Przemek Duszynski
Hiker by nature, cyclist by heart. Przemek grew up in Central Poland getting repeatedly lost and found in local woodlands. Sometime in the 80s Przemek attempted his first longer cycling trip to the other side of town and ended up on house arrest. He is looking to expand the definition of “the other side of town” and thrives on places where cars fear to tread. Read more at inbetweenspokes.wordpress.com.
The Cairngorms Loop trail circumnavigates one of the most stunning areas in the Scottish Highlands, Cairngorms National Park. Dirt roads and singletracks climb valleys and twist their way back down through ancient Caledonian Forest. This route takes riders back to the roots of mountain biking and some sections will challenge even the experienced bikepacker.
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Inspired by similar endurance racing trails found in America, the Cairngorms Loop was originally organized as a self-supported ITT event by Steve Wilkinson with the first completions of the route registered back in 2012. Based on the classic Tour of the Cairngorms mountain biking route, the trail consists of two loops, inner and outer, encircling the Cairngorms National Park.
Going through some of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery, the Cairngorms Loop offers rider’s everything from long dirt road climbs through scenic strath, spine-chilling singletrack descents to epic hike-a-bikes. Bothies located along the route provide an option to wait out the worst of the Scottish weather and conveniently placed resupply points allow riders to plan ahead while still keep their load lightweight.
This route deviates from the original ITT route making it more ridable and more touring friendly. The start of the route is Aviemore allowing for a better resupply option before heading out. It also avoids a steep hike-a-bike to Blair Atholl through Fealar Lodge, instead continuing down to the city via Glen Tilt on singletrack and gravel roads. As of 2016 parts of the trail near Ruigh Aiteachain bothy have been washed out by violent storms and not restored – an alternative way to Feshie Bridge via Feshie Lodge road is part of this route.
Weather in the Scottish Highlands can be unpredictable and can go through all four seasons in just one day, be aware of that and plan your ride accordingly. Most of the towns en route offer public toilets, please help keep the Scottish wilderness pristine and make use of them whenever possible.
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Singletrack down to Glenn Derry is a stunning ride ending in one of the most beautiful areas along the whole trail,
The world’s biggest single malt whisky bottle can be seen in Tomintoul’s Whisky Castle,
The Caledonian Forest is a prime example of ancient Scottish landscape and is home to some globally unique specimens,
Route section between Bynack Lodge ruins and Glen Tilt offers a superb and challenging trail ride along the valley’s steep hillsides,
Ruigh Aiteachain bothy, surrounded by old pine trees is a great place to wait out bad weather,
Traversing exposed Highlands terrain near Fords of Avon,
Lush green landscape around the Gaick Pass is a great opportunity for a last wild camp before returning to Aviemore.
Glenlivet distillery is just 8 miles away from where the route crosses Tomintoul, and offers free tours. Rejoining the route can be made by connecting parts of the Speyside Way and Glenlivet Estate mountainbiking trails.
Best time to visit Scotland is early in the season. May is historically the driest month of the year and numbers of midges are low. Weather may be too volatile after late September/early October.
The Cairngorm National Park can be easily reached via ScotRail services from Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Having a no-see-ums approved head net will keep one sane when facing swarms of midges.
Red Deer stalking season runs from July 1st to 15th February reaching its peak between August and October. Riding the trail in this period should be avoided.
Wild camping is very popular in Scotland and finding a suitable place in the Highlands is rarely a problem.
There are five bothies along the trail, although two of them (Fords of Avon and Inshriach) offer nothing but emergency shelter. These are quite popular amongst Scotsman and can get busy during weekends and bank holidays.
Drinking water is generally not a problem and water purification not necessary. Use common sense i.e. drink from fast flowing mountain stream, be wary of animal carcases upstream.
Major resupply points can be found in Aviemore, Blair Atholl and Braemar. There are small shops in Tomintoul and Glenmore but don’t expect them to be open late.
This route is not signposted nor otherwise marked. Some sections can be difficult to navigate in bad weather a reliable GPS unit is highly recommended.
There are two notable hika-a-bike sections, one through the marshland between White Bridge and Feshie Lodge, second leading through the Fords of Avon to the Lairig an Laoigh pass. Anticipate slower progress.
Expect one major river crossing near Fords of Avon, which is generally easy, but water levels can rise dramatically after prolonged periods of rain or out of summer season.
Ryvoan bothy is a great stopping point before crossing the most exposed section of the route going through Fords of Avon.
cairngormsloop.net– the official page of the route containing the unaltered version of the ITT trail
mountainbothies.org.uk – Home of Mountain Bothies Association
deerstalkingscotland.co.uk – Detailed information on deer stalking season
bikehike.co.uk – On-line service with access to Ordnance Survey topographic maps.
glenlivetestate.co.uk – Glenlivet Estate mountainbiking guide
glenlivetestate.co.uk/media/– Glenlivet Estate trail map
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Coronavirus | T.N. reports 820 new COVID-19 cases, 16 districts record less than 10 cases each
16 districts record less than 10 cases each; 11 deaths take the toll to 12,177
Tamil Nadu recorded 820 new cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths on Tuesday. This took the State’s overall tally to 8,22,370, while the toll stood at 12,177.
A total of 16 of the 37 districts clocked in new cases in single digits. This included Ramanathapuram (3), Sivagangai (7), Theni (5), Tirunelveli (9) and Virudhunagar (9). Chennai reported 235 cases, while 81 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Coimbatore. There were 55 cases in Chengalpattu and 44 in Tiruvallur.
Presently, 7,808 persons were under treatment. This included 2,342 in Chennai and 738 in Coimbatore. As another 971 persons were discharged after treatment, a total of 8,02,385 were discharged till date.
Five of the 11 deaths occurred in Chennai. Two persons died in Madurai, while Chengalpattu, Coimbatore, Namakkal and Salem accounted for one death each.
One of them – a 35-year-old man from Salem – did not have co-morbidites. He was admitted to a private hospital on December 31 with complaints of fever and myalgia for eight days, cough for six days and difficulty in breathing for three days, and his sample returned positive for COVID-19 on January 1. He died on January 3 due to COVID-19 pneumonia.
A 44-year-old woman from Chengalpattu with diabetes and morbid obesity died at the Government Corona Hospital, Guindy due to severe COVID-19 pneumonia, respiratory failure and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome on January 1.
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Home Magazine Features Photo Essay: Appalachian Trail Beauty Spots
Photo Essay: Appalachian Trail Beauty Spots
by Joshua Moore
Photographer Joshua Moore, who lives in Church Hill, Tennesee, knows his area’s part of the Appalachian Trail just about as well as he knows his cameras. His work has been published by National Geographic YourShot, Shutterbug Magazine, B & H Photography and many others. He is also a volunteer photographer for the National Park Service, and conducts photography classes. Learn more at joshtmoore.com
Once we looked at a few of his shots of the trail, we asked him if he’d match up our favorites with directions to walk to where he found the shots.
Enjoy the photos, consider the treks.
Joshua Moore
Newfound Gap to Charlies Bunion: Follow U.S. 441 south from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to the Newfound Gap parking area in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Take the A.T. 4.1 miles to Charlies Bunion. The first 2.5 miles is rather difficult with a large elevation gain, rocks and roots. The remaining 1.6 miles along the ridge line offers beautiful views of the forest and of the Smokies. Once you reach Charlies Bunion, be cautious of the drop-offs on each side as you take in one of the most iconic views of the A.T.
Watauga Lake: Park along Wilbur Dam Rd., in eastern Tennessee, heading towards the TVA Watauga Dam Visitors Center at a small pull-off. Look for the wooden sign that reads “Big Laurel Branch Wilderness, Cherokee National Forest.” Follow the Appalachian Trail up the mountain for 5.1 miles to the Vandeventer Shelter, for stunning forest views and views out over Watauga Lake.
Roan Highlands: Carvers Gap to Jane Bald (both photos). From Roan Mountain, Tennessee, follow U.S. 143 to the state line (Carvers Gap), and the parking area. Cross the road and follow the A.T. for 1.2 miles to Jane Bald. This section starts in pine forest, but yields to 360-degree views of the beautiful Roan Highlands.
Beauty Spot: From Erwin, follow TN 395 (Rock Creek Rd.) to Beauty Spot Gap Rd, to the Beauty Spot Parking area. Beauty Spot is 30 yards from where you park and you can follow the A.T. from there into the Roan Highlands. Beauty Spot, along the North Carolina/Tennesse line, is a bald that offers up stunning views of the Roan Highlands.
Max Patch: Take Exit 7 from I-40 E, then take Cold Springs Creek Rd., which turns into Harmon Den Rd. to North Carolina State Rte 1182, where the Max Patch parking area will be on the right. Follow the trail for .8 mile to the top of Max Patch and a connection to the Appalachian Trail. Max Patch offers of 360-degree views over a span of 350 acres in the Pisgah National Forest.
Shady Valley: Follow US 91 to the intersection of Osborne Ln. and Cross Mountain Rd. to the Cross Mountain parking area. You will then have a choice: follow the A.T. into the forest for a beautiful woodland hike; or cross the road and follow the A.T. for a 1.5-mile hike through a field with views of Shady Valley, Tennessee, and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Threat Research | July 30, 2019
Ransomware in exotic email attachments
Blog 3 of 5 part series on advanced research into modern phishing attacks
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In the software arena, winning the mind share means becoming widespread to the point of being considered a de facto standard. And when it comes to the ways in which information is shared, this means being the object format everyone gravitates to. While aspirational for many software vendors, such success is impossible to predict, difficult to achieve, and challenging to maintain.
Sometimes the solution that's first to market is the one that takes the share majority. Sometimes it's the one that solves the problem the best. And sometimes it’s the one that speaks the language of its users.
Localization is why certain object formats can only be seen within certain regions or particular language-speaking groups. Because of their limited reach, those formats are thought of as exotic or globally unknown.
In a world as diverse as ours, a security company must do much more than just localize its software. It must both speak the language of its users, and cater to their information-sharing needs. To keep its users safe, a security solution must be able to inspect both the popular and the exotic.
As an illustration of the dangers lurking in exotic email attachments, let us dissect one such regional attack. The following email has recently been received by a company based in Korea.
When run through an automated language translation service, the message reads something like this.
Sounds quite convincing. Because of that, it has a high chance of tricking an unvigilant reader into opening the attachment. That is where a security solutions’ breadth and depth are truly tested.
What exactly is an EGG file?
EGG is a perfect example of a regionally successful object format. It was made by a South Korean company at the time when archivers battled for dominance. From its inception, it supported Unicode, which allowed it to gain traction in the local market. It quickly expanded to business and home users alike, gaining just enough of the mind share to be thought of as the de facto standard. While all this happened in the early 90’s, it did survive through the ZIP popularity surge at the turn of the century. EGG is still around today, and it can be opened by the majority of South Korean computers.
The attached archive is titled “Original image”, and the file with the same name can be found within the EGG archive as well. But its extension is a deceptive one. The “image” within is using the double extension trick in order to deceive the reader. A large number of space characters is used to hide the executable extension from being displayed in the software for extracting archives. Since the executable extension might not be visible, the unvigilant reader could assume that the file is a simple image, and open it. That wouldn’t be a good move, because in this case, the attachment is actually GandCrab ransomware. Opening the attachment would result in major problems for the organization, as most of their files would be encrypted and held for ransom. Luckily, that didn’t happen.
ReversingLabs A1000 visualizes the email headers and allows analysts to browse email contents. Email body is clearly separated from the attachments, as shown below.
In the attachments folder, the A1000 lists all email attachments, along with their original Korean file names. They are recursively analyzed in order to increase the inspection surface. Our advanced static decomposition technology supports the EGG file format, alongside more than 360 others, and its extraction yields the actual malicious payload.
Since the archive format is an exotic object format, not many security solutions support it out of the box. ReversingLabs Titanium platform not only supports the format, but it also uses the decomposed results to determine the final classification, and ultimately convict the malicious email.
EGG archives are just one of many exotic object formats that organizations working globally will eventually see in their environment. The modern way of life entails adapting to the ways information is exchanged. Regardless of the object format that is shared, ReversingLabs Titanium platform is there to inspect the contents, and ensure that the users are protected.
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Importance of Sprint Backlog in a Scrum Project
What is a Sprint Backlog? Is it a baseline, a record or a report? Baseline is a project document, which, defines aspects of the project and, once approved, is subject to change control. It is used to measure project’s actual performance as against planned targets. A record maintains information on the progress of the project. A report provides snapshots of the status of different aspects of a project at a given point of time or for a given duration.
To answer this question, we need to understand what a Sprint Backlog is, its purpose and composition. The Scrum Team creates the Sprint Backlog and Sprint Burndown Chart using the User Stories and the Effort Estimated Task List during Sprint Planning Meeting. During Sprint Planning Meeting, the User Stories, which are approved, estimated, and committed during the Approve, Estimate, and Commit User Stories process, are taken up for discussion by the Scrum Team. Each Scrum Team member also uses Effort Estimated Task List to select the tasks they plan to work on in the Sprint, based on their skills and experience. The list of the tasks to be executed by the Scrum Team in the upcoming Sprint is called the Sprint Backlog.
It is common practice in Scrum that the Sprint Backlog is represented on a Scrumboard or task board, which provides a constantly visible depiction of the status of the User Stories in the backlog. Also included in the Sprint Backlog are any risks associated with the various tasks. Any mitigating activities to address the identified risks would also be included as tasks in the Sprint Backlog. Once the Sprint Backlog is finalized and committed to by the Scrum Team, new user stories should not be added – however, tasks that might have been missed or overlooked from the committed user stories may need to be added. If new requirements arise during a Sprint, they will be added to the overall Prioritized Product Backlog and included in a future Sprint.
Another tool associated with the Sprint Backlog is the Sprint Burndown Chart. It is a graph that depicts the amount of work remaining in the ongoing Sprint. The initial Sprint Burndown Chart is accompanied by a planned burndown. The Sprint Burndown Chart should be updated at the end of each day as work is completed. This chart shows the progress that has been made by the Scrum Team and also allows for the detection of estimates that may have been incorrect. If the Sprint Burndown Chart shows that the Scrum Team is not on track to finish the tasks in the Sprint on time, the Scrum Master should identify any obstacles or impediments to successful completion, and try to remove them. A related chart is a Sprint Burnup Chart. Unlike the Sprint Burndown Chart which shows the amount of work remaining, the Sprint Burnup Chart depicts the work completed as part of the Sprint.
So, it is difficult to categorize the Sprint Backlog as a baseline, record or a report. And as Scrum professes minimum documentation, Sprint Backlog fulfills purposes of more than one project document. For more information on Scrum framework, you can read the Scrum Body of Knowledge (SBOK Guide). It can be downloaded for free in SCRUMstudy website: http://www.scrumstudy.com/download-free-buy-SBOK.asp
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A Ten Foot Frame for a Five Inch Watercolor
by David Boles.In Urban Semiotic.7 Comments on A Ten Foot Frame for a Five Inch Watercolor
Super Bowl 43 was played last night and the Steelers beat the Cardinals 27-23 in a barnburner for the centuries. The problem with the NBC broadcast was not the game, but rather the massive, and unnecessary 10-foot frame of spectacle, commercialism and crass self-promotion that overpowered the delicate watercolor of a beautifully executed game of football.
We knew we were in trouble last night when we were given two — TWO! — for the price of one at every turn.
Two Faith Hills — One sang a twangy Country-Western song to intro the show while the other sang “America the Beautiful.” Since when was the NFL overtaken by the redneck South? Hank Williams, Jr. is plenty country enough for a thousand lifetimes.
Two Songs About America — Faith Hill wasn’t enough. We had to have Jennifer Hudson sing the National Anthem, too.
Two Female Sideline Reporters — Both did nothing during the game after lavish introductions.
Two National Heroes — Sully waved, Petraeus flipped.
Two Faces of Bob Costas — I have no idea how Costas keeps his job. His red-eyed and bleary-lidded performance last night was just as ordinary as usual. The guy loves the sound of his own tinny voice. He talks and talks and talks all while claiming to be unbiased and independent. Please, someone retire the man before he does lasting damage to our retinas and burning ears.
Other than the pain of having to watch truly awful and uninspired $3 million per-showing advertising, Bruce Springsteen left us cold and wondering what happened to his New Jersey cool? Springsteen was more David Lee Roth than “The Boss.” The Bruce we know would never smash into a camera just to be obnoxious.
Let’s forget, for a moment, that Springsteen’s football performance at halftime was preening and over-anxious and let’s examine his strange, new, public love for being backed up by a Black Choir on the chorus of his songs even though they aren’t present on the original recordings.
We first saw evidence of such during his rousing rendition of “The Rising” during the Barack Obama Inauguration party:
Then, curiously, last night during the Super Bowl Halftime show, we were treated to another Black Choir singing with Bruce, however briefly, on his new song — “Working on a Dream” — and we immediately knew Bruce was trying to play the same moment twice in less than two weeks on an international stage.
That’s bad form and terrible taste: At least let one Black Choir wear street clothes so the connection isn’t quite so loud and painful.
As we turn our jaundiced eye to next year’s Super Bowl, let’s hope the NFL will reconstitute the innovative notion they’ve tried only one time before in their history — on December 20, 1980 — when the New York Jets played the Miami Dolphins and there were no announcers.
The only sound of the game was that generated by the crowd and the players. I watched that game and loved every moment of its natural, organic, splendor.
We need a return to the purity of a simple, watercolor, experience when it comes to the Super Bowl — let the players alone cast the colors and the tone — because we’ve had our fill of the gaudy and the treacly.
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Funnily enough I thought you were going to write about the overcommercialization of the super bowl. Doesn’t bother me too much as I don’t watch the game but the principle of the thing is certainly upsetting. They should show more of the game and less of the frame.
You’re right about the game being the centerpoint, Gordon — but the Advertising has taken over the day. I can’t believe the attention being swathed over the awful TV ads. Do people realize all they’re doing is propagating the money meme for these companies? There’s no aesthetic being served. No higher purpose is being accomplished.
When we give our rapt attention to Doritos instead of what’s happening on third down — then we’ve let the game escape us in favor of 30-second escapism. We’re doomed!
I am so sick of all those silly ads. Why do we care. I agree people seem not to realize they’re being played for fools with this addiction to advertising.
I guess that’s the new American, commerce, Anne. Advertisers want eyes and getting all this rapt attention by hooking into a football game is a culturally acceptable and legitimate whoring.
Football is selling eyes for the right price.
That’s the trouble with the game, Anne, it’s too much about power and money and not enough about effort and honor.
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Two Lettes to the Reverend Moses Stuart: On the Subject of Religious Liberty
Από τον/την Bernard Whitman
holy temper and character, and manifest a willingness even to lay down his life in defence of his religious faith, my conscience compels me to grant him the Christian name, although he rejects some of the most precious articles of my belief. And if the conscience of the orthodox does not move them to perform this act of justice towards their liberal brethren ; if it does not require them to do unto others as they would have others do unto them, no reasoning can ever induce them to perform this duty, or convince them of this error. Have not unitarians the same Scriptural right, and as much reason, to deny the Christian name to the orthodox denomination?
2. The Orthodox deny Unitarians the Christian Character. Look at those passages in which orthodox writers have denied unitarians the Christian character, and endeavoured to make the community believe they were irreligious and immoral in their lives. My first quotation shall be from the sermon of your friend, Dr. Beecher, at Worcester. " It requires no proof, but universal observation, to support the position, that the irreligious, immoral, and voluptuous part of the community prefer the liberal system, and are vehement in their opposition to the evangelical system. If this assertion needs confirmation, assemble the pleasure-loving and licentious community of the world; the patrons of balls, and theatres, and masquerades; and if they support the preaching of any systein of doctrines, is it not substantially the liberal system ? " When the Reverend Doctor wrote this paragraph, he probably forgot, that several of the orthodox cities in our country support more than four times as many theatres, and balls, and masquerades, as the unitarian city of Boston; and that the state of morals in this liberal city, according to its population, is very much superior to that of any of the large evangelical cities in the union.
My next quotation shall be from “ The Spirit of the Pilgrims.” “Unitarianism, as a system, is very agreeable to the natural, unhumbled heart, is specially adapted to the tastes and inclinations of the gay, thoughtless, and fashionable world, denying them no liberties or gratifications which come any where within the bounds of decency, while it quiets their consciences with the name and forms of religion, and allays the fear of death by promising happiness beyond the grave; and it will not be thought strange, with all this variety of adaptation, preparation, and influence, that a considerable number of individuals and churches were secretly, and, it may be, almost imperceptibly, CORRUPTED.” Now I was not before aware that most of our civil fathers were such vile, corrupted characters. One of your writers has been looking over the Registers for several of the last years, and he is astonished to find that almost all our public officers have belonged to the liberal party. And he sums up the result of his investigations in this sentence: “And more than nine tenths of the political influence is in the hands of the unitarians.” I rejoice in the orthodox authority for this fact, for two reasons. First, every man can look to our public men, and determine if the nine unitarians are wicked characters, while the one orthodox is the only godly officer. And, secondly, persons at a distance will readily conclude, that the wisest, ablest, and best men are elected to office in Massachusetts ; and accordingly determine that unitarians sustain the fairest reputation in the land.
My two last quotations shall be, one from the “ Recorder," and the other from “ The Spirit of the Pilgrims.” “By his writings for ten years past, Dr. Channing has taken the lead among the eneinies of the orthodox; and who are the enemies of the orthodox? Why, every infidel, and disorganizer, and sabbath-breaker, and debauchee, and gambler, and every haunter of grog-shops and theatres in the land. The orthodox are honored with the uniform and unrelenting hatred of all the haters of good order, the haters of virtue, the haters of God.” What, my dear Sir, Dr. Channing at the head of a party which includes all these vile characters ? and is this the way to answer his arguments? And now for the passage from “ The Spirit of the Pilgrims.” “We cannot contemplate the career of Dr. Channing but with extreme pain. He was once a very serious-minded man, a professed believer in what we deem the religion of the Bible. But of this faith he has made shipwreck, and has been among the first to let in that flood of infidelity, which, under a fashionable name, has swept over the altars of New England. When licentiousness has reached its height in our land, and a jubilee is proclaimed to those in the upper classes of society who have hitherto been withheld by public opinion from an open renunciation of the sabbath, Dr. Channing will be referred to as the gifted mind, who, with commendable caution, first unloosed the yoke of a superstitious observance. May it appear in the judgment that he fled at last to that cross as his only hope, and that he did not go into eternity till the blood shed for the remission of sins was applied to his soul, and his peace was made with God through the atonement of his Son.” Such language can excite nothing but pity for the writer in the mind of every decent person of any denomination. It is not in the power of man to produce stronger evidence of the weakness of the orthodox cause, and the wickedness of orthodox writers in thus judging the hearts of their brethren.
Now if the members of your denomination were free from failings, imperfections, and sins, you would have some excuse for thus passing upon your fellow Christians sentence of condemnation. But you cannot justly lay claim to any such exemptions; and although it does not become me to speak of the external conduct and character of the orthodox, I may quote a few lines from an article in the last American Quarterly Review, written by a Christian who rejects unitarianism, and who has had much opportunity for observation. “ Admitting that there are pure and bright examples of a good life among the terrorists,
not however more or better than are found among their opponents; if we look at them individually, we shall see them, generally, as devoted to worldly wealth and enjoyments; as solicitous for distinction and influence; as easily and happily puffed up with pride and conceit; and as mere creatures of flesh, as those they pity or spurn, because, forsooth, their pretensions to sanctity are not so lofty, or their notions of Christianity so mysterious, as their own; nor their observances and deportment squared by the rule they have adopted. They are as impatient of injuries; as vindictive in their passions ; as unforgiving in their temper; as keen, close, and avaricious in their dealings; as hard creditors ; as inflexible and unpitying in exacting their rights." Will any man in your party dare to affirm that this is not the literal truth? When you or any one of your friends can feel that you are without sin, then will it be time enough to condemn a large, and respectable, and virtuous denomination as irreligious, immoral, and unchristian. Remember that unitarians have the same right and as much reason to deny the Christian character to the orthodox denomination.
3. The Orthodox assert that Unitarian Ministers are not Ministers of the Gospel. Look at those passages in which orthodox bodies have declared that unitarian preachers were not ministers of the gospel. One extract will be sufficient in this case ; more especially, since it contains the opinion of a numerous body of orthodox clergy and delegates. “In the present state of our country, whilst unitarian errors, in various forms, are making their insidious approaches; whilst the advocates of this heresy, in many cases, are practising a system of concealment, and insinuating themselves into the confidence of multitudes who have no suspicion of their defection from the faith; the Assembly feel it to be their duty to speak without reserve. It is the deliberate and unanimous opinion of this Assembly, that those who renounce the fundamental doctrine of the trinity, and deny that Jesus Christ is the same in substance, equal in power and glory, with the Father, cannot be recognised as ministers of the gospel, and that their ministrations are wholly invalid.” Remember that unitarians have the same right and equal reason to deny orthodox preachers to be ministers of the Gospel.
4. The Orthodox assert that Baptism and the Lord's Supper, when administered by Unitarians, are not Christian Ordinances. Look at those passages in which orthodox writers have denied the name of Christian ordinances to baptism and the Supper when celebrated by unitarian Christians. One or two extracts from your friend, Dr. Miller, will be sufficient for my present purpose. “ You are prepared, I hope, to decide, promptly and without wavering, that their ordinances are to be held unworthy of regard as Christian institutions. With respect to the validity of sealing ordinances administered by unitarians, the highest
judicatory of the church to which we belong has given a decision, which ought to be generally known. In the year 1814 a question was laid before the General Assembly, in the following words. A person who had been baptized in his infancy by Dr. Priestley, applied for admission to the Lord's Table. Ought the baptism administered by Dr. Priestley, then a unitarian, to be considered as valid ? The Assembly, after mature deliberation, decided as follows. Resolved, that this question be answered in the negative; and it was accordingly determined in the negative.” I have known several instances of late occurrence, in which the orthodox have rebaptized unitarian church members, and admitted them to their communion only as new converts. Remember that unitarians have the same right and as much reason to deny the validity and Christian appellation of the ordinances administered by orthodox ministers.
5. The Orthodox assert that Unitarians spread their Sentimonts by Concealment. Look at those numerous passages, in which orthodox writers accuse unitarians of spreading their peculiar opinions by concealment. One sentence from “The Spirit of the Pilgrims” will be sufficient for my present purpose. “Unitarianism, it is well known, was introduced and propagated in this country by concealment.” Is this true? For my own part, I am free to confess, that I have never understood the meaning of this charge. Concealment! What do you mean by the term ? Do you mean, that unitarian ministers concealed orthodoxy from their hearers, and thus introduced unitarianism? If so, how do you account for the well known fact, that a large majority of many congregations have embraced unitarianism, to whom their own ministers never preached any thing but rigid orthodoxy, and would permit none but orthodox preachers to officiate in their pulpits ? That such has been the result in many societies in this Commonwealth, you have already received abundant testimony; and that such is the condition of many more parishes over whom exclusive pastors are still settled, you will ere long have still more demonstrative evidence. If then such be your meaning, please to reconcile this notorious truth with your oft repeated accusation. Do you mean, that unitarian ministers concealed unitarianism from their hearers ? Where then did they obtain a knowledge of it? You admit that they have received it, and still believe it true? From the Bible ? And is this a good reason why they should renounce it? Or is it any less valuable because derived from this sacred source ? Are people to believe nothing but what comes from their preachers ? I know your friend Dr. Miller has exhorted all the orthodox to consider the preaching of unitarians as blasphemy, and to avoid their publications as they would a cup of poison. If then this be your meaning, please to reconcile the well known fact, of the general reception of unitarianism by the members of unitarian parishes, with your oft repeated accusation. Do you mean, that unitarian preachers concealed the name of their sentiments, when delivering them to their hearers ? If so, wherein lies the guilt of such a course ? Is truth any less precious because stigmatized by an odious name? Is it a preacher's business to proclaim the party names which have deluged Christendom, and been a principal cause of dividing Christians? And if a parish have embraced true views of the gospel, do you suppose they will be so foolish as to renounce them, because they did not at first know the sectarian title by which they had been christened? If a man finds a guinea, and knows it to be pure gold, but knows not its name, will he cast it from him as worthless, when informed of the appellation by which it is called? If this be your meaning, please to inform us, if this is the estimate you put upon the understandings of your own hearers, and by them proceed to form your opinion of unitarian believers? Do you mean, that unitarian ministers have sincerely endeavoured, according to the best of their judgment, to promote the religious knowledge and spiritual welfare of their hearers? And is not this their duty ? Is it not commanded by Jesus and his Apostles? Have you any authority to dictate to other preachers how they must perform their ministerial services ?
Now, Sir, I wish to know why this charge of concealment against unitarian ministers has been so often reiterated by orthodox writers. Has it not been done to frighten the more ignorant members of our societies, so that you might gain a few proselytes? Remember, Sir, that the orthodox are peculiarly obnoxious to this charge of concealment. One of your pupils made this confession to me after he had been in your seminary two years. “If the orthodox community only knew how very liberal many of us are in certain articles of theology, they would not herr us preach." How long is it, since a public charge was given to orthodox ministers, not to preach the doctrine of election in times of religious excitement? How long since your colleague advised your pupils not to bring forward the doctrine of election too often, on account of the prejudices existing against it in the community ? How long since one of your students, who had been lately ordained, observed that the orthodox did not preach sufficient terror ? And when asked why he did not preach more, answered — “ Because my people will not bear it.” I have more facts on this subject than you may imagine. You must remember that there are men now in the unitarian denomination who were once initiated into all the secrets of the orthodox party. The literal fact is this ; many of your preachers are much more liberal than their hearers imagine, while many others are much more rigid in their sentiments, and they feel obliged to trim their course of ministerial duty, in order to keep their societies united. But, even if this be not blamable (though I certainly wish to pursue no such practice myself), I do find fault, when you proceed to condemn day after day your unitarian brethren for doing precisely the same thing which
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Lock In
by John Scalzi
Book 1 in the Lock In series
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent – and nearly five million souls in the United States alone – the disease causes “Lock In”: Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what’s now known as “Haden’s syndrome,” rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an “integrator” – someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.
But “complicated” doesn’t begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery – and the real crime – is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It’s nothing you could have expected.
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Future Nuclear Scenarios
Advanced fission and fusion technologies for sustainable nuclear energy
6 Comments on Advanced fission and fusion technologies for sustainable nuclear energy
Last week, the Australian Academy of Science held their annual meeting in Canberra, and the final day’s event was focused on energy technology. The symposium was called “Power to the people: the science behind the debate“. I was invited as one of the speakers, to discuss next-generation nuclear power technologies and their role in decarbonising our fossil-focused economy.
The description of my talk, as it appeared in the programme, is as follows:
Title: Advanced fission and fusion technologies for sustainable nuclear energy
Abstract: Next-generation nuclear energy – including advanced fission reactors, fusion-fission hybrids and pure hydrogen-fusion designs – offers a means to produce vast quantities of zero-carbon and reliable electricity and process heat. For fission, new designs that are now ready for commercial demonstration can take advantage of the superior physical properties of plutonium in a fast neutron spectrum to convert essentially all of the mined uranium into useful fissile material and abundant electricity.
The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) and similar ‘Generation IV designs’ can change in a fundamental way the outlook for global energy on the necessary massive scale. These resource extension properties multiply the amount of usable fuel by a factor of over a hundred, allowing demand to be met for many centuries with fuel already at hand, by a technology that is known today, and whose properties are largely established. Demonstrating a credible and acceptable way to safely recycle used nuclear fuel will also clear a socially acceptable pathway for nuclear fission to be a major low-carbon and sustainable energy source for this century.
For fusion, there are exciting medium- to long-term prospects, based on work now being done on the International Thermonuclear Reactor Experiment (ITER) and on hybrid fusion-fission designs that use molten-salt coolants and use thorium and hydrogen isotopes as fuel.
Replacement of fossil fuels is urgently needed to sustain global society whilst mitigating environmental impacts, and sustainable forms of nuclear energy offer a realistic and effective way of achieving this goal.
Bio: Barry Brook is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute, where he holds the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change. He has published three books, over 200 refereed scientific papers, and regularly writes popular articles for the media. His awards include the 2006 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal and the 2010 Community Science Educator of the Year. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of extinction, analysis of energy systems for carbon mitigation, and simulation models of the synergies of human impacts on the biosphere.
Here is the HD recording of my talk – recorded professionally by the Academy, which includes many close ups of my slides. The talk runs for 28 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of questions. I trust you will find it useful, and be sure to pass on the link so that others can watch it and be more informed – and entertained!
There were a wide range of talks presented, generally of high quality, and many of which were also recorded. The full video cast can be viewed here. Below is the programme:
Friday 31 May
Power to the people: the science behind the debate
Morning chair session I Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRSWelcome
Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS
Dr Dean Morris (Platinum Sponsor)
Head of Operations, Australian Synchrotron
Representing the Melbourne Convention Bureau
Improving human well-being on a resource-limited planet – can we do it?
Professor Sir David King FRS FAAS
Chancellor, University of Liverpool, former Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and former UK Chief Scientist.
Solar photovoltaics – recent developments and Australia’s key role
Professor Martin Green AM FAA FTSE FIEEE
Scientia Professor and Executive Research Director
ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, University of New South Wales
Morning chair session II Professor Kenneth Baldwin FAIP, FlnstP, FOSA, FAPSSolar thermal power – how long till impact?
Mr Wes Stein
Manager of Renewable Energy, CSIRO Division of Energy Technology
Project Leader, CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre
Geothermal power– regulatory nirvana for unconventional energy
Barry Goldstein
Executive Director, South Australian Energy Resources (coordinating lead author for the IPCC’s 2011 Special Report on Renewable Energy)
Unconventional gas – opportunities and limitations
Professor Sue Golding
School of Earth Sciences
University of Queensland
Direct injection coal engines (DICE) – a coal paradigm revisited
Dr Louis Wibberley
Principal Technologist
Advanced Coal Technology, CSIRO Energy Technology, Newcastle
Afternoon chair session I Professor Thomas Maschmeyer FAA FTSE FRACI
Looking out: Australia’s potential energy future
Dr Tom Hatton
Group Executive, CSIRO Energy
Nuclear energy for Australia – policy and politics behind the Debate
Dr Ziggy Switkowski FAICD FTSE
Chancellor, RMIT University (former chair of ANSTO and former CEO of Telstra and Optus, ex-chairman of Kodak, Australia)
Professor Barry Brook
Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, Mawson Laboratories
Afternoon chair session II Professor Chennupati Jagadish FAA FTSE FIEEE
Smarter grids – why control, decision, communication, computing and network sciences are also needed
Professor David Hill FAA, FTSE, FIEEE
Foreign Member Royal Swedish Academy of Eng Sciences, Chair of Electrical Engineering, Director Centre for Future Energy Networks, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney
Energy storage – a disruptive technology for future grids?
Professor Tony Vassallo FRACI FIEA
Delta Electricity Chair in Sustainable Energy Development, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Can energy demand be limited while improving quality of life?
Professor Ian Lowe AO
Emeritus Professor, School of Science
Conclusion and close of meeting
Professor Robin Batterham AO FREng FAA FTSE
Kernot Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
← Green Junk – In praise of waste → Log, slash, truck and burn – welcome to renewable electricity nirvana
6 replies on “Advanced fission and fusion technologies for sustainable nuclear energy”
dennisbpetersonsays:
ITER is probably the most long-term fusion project, as far as commercial deployment goes. I surveyed some projects which much shorter timeframes here: http://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/10/planId/1202301
Still adding links and references.
(Last year I made similar entry that talked a lot about IFRs.)
Anonsays:
Until they get at least engineering breakeven they are useless, we need something now, not when someone finally gets fusion to work and right now fission is all we’ve got (and this means LWRs, though IFRs and LFTRs are close enough to proven that we could be pretty confident they’d be ready within the decade if we wanted them, that can not be said for anything to do with fusion with the notable exception of Project PACER).
Many of them also look to me like snakeoil (claims we can do Boron fusion certainly should set off alarm bells as should the idea that ICF is better done by hitting the fuel on one side instad of all around).
Personally whilst I suspect fusion will be able to do the job of electricity production it not turn out to be any better than advanced nuclear (e.g. LFTR), rocketry is where fusion would really come into its own and would be worth developing the tech even if we knew it would be useless for making electricity.
luissays:
I will like to have one online copy of your Australian Academic Science speech.
Chris Benhamsays:
I watched Barry’s talk, but the picture (one of his slides) stayed the same after the 12.13 mark. But putting the mouse cursor at the bottom after that point did reveal a very small changing picture. Did anyone else have this problem? Can it be fixed?
Adam Bakersays:
I also had this problem, couldn’t see the slides after that happened. Otherwise very good talk. Cheers Adam
Philipsays:
ITER is likely the most expensive fusion scheme, outdated, ill-conceived, and hard to get break-even. There are other more advanced fusion concepts that should be scrutinized before wasting billion euros on the ITER gargantuan project. http://tinyurl.com/neutron-free
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1And it came to pass after this that Nahash king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
2And David said, I will shew kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
3And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Is it, in thine eyes, to honour thy father that David has sent comforters to thee? Is it not to search and overthrow, and to spy out the land that his servants are come to thee?
4And Hanun took David's servants, and had them shaved, and their raiment cut off in the midst, as far as the hip, and sent them away.
5And certain went and told David concerning the men; and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Abide at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
6And the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David; and Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and from the Syrians of Maacah, and from Zobah.
7And they hired thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people; and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered together from their cities, and came to battle.
8And David heard of it, and he sent Joab, and all the host, the mighty men.
9And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the city; and the kings that had come were by themselves on the field.
10And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind; and he chose out of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians;
11and the rest of the people he gave into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
12And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me; and if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
13Be strong, and let us shew ourselves valiant for our people, and for the cities of our God; and Jehovah will do what is good in his sight.
14And Joab and the people that were with him drew near in front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
15And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. And Joab came to Jerusalem.
16And when the Syrians saw that they were routed before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river; and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
17And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over the Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. And David put the battle in array against the Syrians, and they fought with him.
18And the Syrians fled from before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and slew Shophach the captain of the host.
19And the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were routed before Israel, and they made peace with David, and became his servants. And the Syrians would no more help the children of Ammon.
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HairClone is a startup biotechnology company focused on developing personalised treatments using a patient’s own cultured hair cells to reverse hair loss. Step one of this process which involves looking to create what aims to be the world's first follicle banking service, to be launched in 2019.
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HairClone is aiming to enter a very large market worth $4bn for surgical hair restoration alonesource. With their rejuvenation arm of the business, they hope to grow this market by attracting a whole new set of customers.
Furthermore, early biobanking of hair cells increases the likelihood of future hair rejuvenation/regeneration and could, therefore, build continuous revenues for the business.
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Early establishment of follicle cell banking can potentially provide early operating revenue and marketing experience.
HairClone is looking to combine medical and technical innovation to enable early pre-licensed treatments.
HairClone is focusing on private clinician, patient paying treatment in a major market.
HairClone is developing treatments that look to rejuvenate and regenerate hair.
There is the potential for non-equity-dilutive revenue via key opinion leading clinical partners who will also be a conduit to patients.
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Experienced, multi-disciplinary team supported by a well-established and worldwide recognised clinical partners programs.
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There are some promising preliminary results that show the possible potential in the future.
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There is a market with a large number of people interested in improving their situation with a treatment that works and could be achieved at a reasonable price.
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HairClone is developing two personalised therapies to treat the most common cause of hair loss in men and women (androgenic alopecia). HairClone's lead treatment aims to rejuvenate thinning hairs for patients when they first notice hair loss, their second treatment aims to regenerate brand new hair follicles for patients with extensive hair loss. These treatments, if successful, would dramatically revolutionise the market by filling the unmet needs of women with female pattern baldness, men for whom it is too early in the balding process for hair transplantation to be recommended and patients who need greater coverage than can be achieved by transplantation. In 2019 HairClone aims to launch the world's first hair follicle banking service which will allow patients to store a small number of hair follicles for future expansion. They have an expanding clinical partner network of leading hair transplant surgeons around the world who are providing non-dilutive co-funding and a deep clinical know-how and expertise, linking them to patients for both banking and later treatment.
The team have been founders, CEOs and Directors at multiple public and private Biotechs in the US, EU and UK. They have developed cell-based products that have treated approximately one million people and the Medical Directors have performed over 7,000 hair transplants between them. HairClone's team has extensive clinical and regulatory experience and have been involved in the design and operation of over 20 clinical trials around the world including the world's first trial using cultured hair follicle cells.
Paul Kemp PhD
Paul is a founding Director of HairClone. He has over 25 years’ experience in the development and commercialisation of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy products. He has developed commercialised cell therapy treatments and grown companies from founding to flotation. He has raised over £25M from International VC funds and previously he has held Executive Board level positions in both public and private Companies in the UK and US (Organogenesis, Intercytex).
Vincent Ronford, PhD
Vincent has more than 28 years of experience of applied research and product development in the fields of regenerative medicine, wound healing and cosmetics. He has worked in companies in Europe, United States and Asia (Organogenesis, L’Oreal, Smith and Nephew). He is currently Scientific Director of HairClone (UK) and Chief Innovation Officer at Cutiss AG (Switzerland).
Dr Bessam Farjo MB, ChB, BAO, LRCP & SI
Qualified from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and co-founded the Farjo Hair Institute in 1993 exclusively offering hair transplant surgery and hair restoration medicine. Dr Farjo is a Past President of both British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery and International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery. He is a diplomate of American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery, Past Medical Director of Institute of Trichologists and member of European Hair Research Society.
Dr Nilofer Farjo, MB, ChB
Nilofer Farjo has been performing hair transplants for 25 years and is recognised for her educational and leadership contributions at international congresses and meetings. She also has been acknowledged by her peers for outstanding achievement in basic science or clinically-related research in hair pathophysiology or anatomy as it relates to hair restoration for which she was awarded the ISHRS Platinum Award in 2012. Nilofer currently works on hair biology research with six UK Universities.
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Head of Business and Corporate Development
Eric is a serial entrepreneur who has raised nearly €90 million over the course of his career and has had numerous successes in the sale and initial public offering of biotechnology companies. He is co-founder of four biotechnology companies called Myosix, Murigenetics, HairClone and Digital Orthopaedics. Eric is also Board member of the biotechnology companies Bioxodes, VitriCell and Innobiochips. He was principal of the life sciences practice of Arthur D. Little in Paris and Boston.
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Impacts of Minnow Species Composition on Marsh Feeding Ecology: A Look at Minnow Composition in Heron Marsh
Abstract: Minnows play an important role in marsh ecosystems as both predator and prey. The abundance of minnows in water systems makes them important tools for studying the feeding ecology of small prey fish. Minnow traps were set within specific regions and plots located in the Heron Marsh in the Adirondack Park, New York. These traps were baited and checked the next day, and minnows were identified by species then released. Trophic guilds were assigned to each minnow species based on literature and feeding habits. ANOVA tests were conducted to compare minnow species composition from the fall of 2020 in all regions of the marsh. Histograms were used to compare length-frequency over time and sites where minnows frequent. The composition of trophic guilds showed that carnivores were scarce, as creek chub only over 100mm were considered predatory, and they were not as frequent as smaller creek chub. Omnivorous generalist feeders were common but no specific site in the marsh had more omnivorous feeders than other sites. Finally, the abundance of insectivores was high in most sites, and highest in the forest ecology trail site. Length frequency of the two most caught fish, creek chub and finescale dace, were represented with histograms. Creek chub under 100mm were more abundant in every site than individuals larger than 100mm. Similarly, finescale dace 70mm and smaller were more common in every site.
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An Ecological History of the Albany Pine Bush, Albany NY
Abstract: Paleoecology allows us to look backward in time thousands of years to see the long-term ecological history of an area. The main focus was to conduct the first exploratory investigations of the wetland located in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve (APBP) and Stump Pond deposits and the first directly dated ecological history of the pine bush. Irregular fire regimes and land development have caused a massive loss to the pine bush. Between 1940 and 1990 the pine bush has experienced an 81% change in land cover. Despite this, the APBP is home to many rare and endangered species in need of habitat restoration. Three samples (APB1-A, APB1-C, & APB2) were collected from a wetland within the boundaries of the APBP and one sample (Stump-1) was collected from a nearby pond. Cores were analyzed for pollen assemblages to reconstruct the tree community. APB cores revealed that Pinus and Quercus pollen grains made up the majority of all pollen found from Present – 6600 years ago Stump-1 pollen assemblages were dominated by Pinus and Picea indicating that between 6600 and 10,600 years ago the ecosystem transformed into the pitch pine- scrub oak ecosystem we see today. This information can help the APBP justify future preservation and restoration work.
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Cultural eutrophication of Lower Saint Regis Lake using diatoms and organic content as indicators of eutrophication.
Abstract: Cultural eutrophication can greatly affect water quality, leading to algae blooms and can affect fish communities. Throughout the history of Paul Smith’s Hotel and College, development along Lower St. Regis lake has led to increases in eutrophic conditions, which has detrimental effects on water quality. In this study, a sediment core from Lower St. Regis Lake was analyzed to determine when past eutrophication events occurred. This was accomplished using species counts of diatoms from every 1.0 cm of sediment. The relative abundance of diatom species such as Tabellaria flocculosa, Asterionella formosa, and Fragilaria crotonensis were used as indicators of more eutrophic conditions. Loss on ignition (LOI) was also used to measure the organic content in the sediment at increments of 0.5 cm. The higher percent lost on ignition indicates higher productivity in the lake and more eutrophic conditions. Some samples from the sediment core were also dated using lead-210 to create a timeline that could be compared to known dates of events occurring along the lake that could have affected the trophic status of Lower St. Regis Lake. There was a sudden spike in the relative abundance of F. crotonensis and an increase in organic content at a depth of 20 cm in the core, indicating that conditions became more eutrophic. Based on the lead-210 dates, this spike in F. crotonensis and organic content occurred between 1898 and 1908, when development around the lake was increasing and Paul Smith’s Hotel added indoor plumbing with poor wastewater treatment practices.
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Authors: Lydia Harvey
Generating Visitor and Nordic Ski Revenue at The VIC
Abstract: This project encompasses a comprehensive media and advertising plan to generate revenue for the Nordic ski season at the Paul Smith’s College Visitors Interpretive Center (VIC). The VIC is an environmental education and winter sports center owned and operated by Paul Smith’s College. This plan is designed to be useful in generating Nordic Season revenue for the VIC for years to come.
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File Attachments: Jill Henderson Capstone Plan .docx
Authors: Jill Marie Henderson
Youth Board of Directors: Developing a Sustainable Youth Leadership Program for UNESCO's Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network
Abstract: The Man and Biosphere program has been successful but not without its challenges or gaps in capacity, specifically relating to youth involvement within the program. Youth-Adult Partnerships provide valuable growth opportunities for both adults and youth, along with benefits extending beyond the walls of an organization. Youth given agency and support provide significant gains for organizations and adults willing to make space for them in decision-making roles. This study recommends the creation of a Youth Board of Directors within the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network which will directly address programmatic mandates on youth involvement within the Man and Biosphere program, while simultaneously adding capacity to the biosphere.
Major: Parks and Conservation Management
File Attachments: Cuthell_Capstone_2020.docx
Authors: Samuel K. Cuthell
Paul Smith's College VIC Concert Venue
Abstract: The addition of a concert venue and camping facility at The Paul Smith’s College VIC will add another layer of community enjoyment. The surrounding area does not have a premier concert venue to provide musical enjoyment for visitors and members of the local community. In the College’s Strategic plan, it specifically mentions wanting to “Improve student success and retention through co-curricular activities focused on mind, body and spirit” In the same section it mentions also wanting to “improve campus utilization and net revenues during January and summer terms”. Implementing a concert venue at the VIC would accomplish both of those goals. We believe that this model fits in the strategic goals that the VIC is aiming to accomplish. Supporting the arts at the VIC will achieve visitor connection to musical arts, and connect visitors to other types of outdoor recreation at the VIC. The Paul Smith’s College mission statement and strategic plan includes ensuring facilities that meet the current and future needs of people, implementing strategies to use campus to support community building, contributing regional economics, and to be recognized as important. Specifically, the VIC’s mission statement is, “To connect outdoor recreation, experiential education, and the arts, naturally”. We believe that the addition of a musical venue of proper scale for the region would satisfy the goals of the VIC and our institution by connecting people to nature in a new way but also giving them a concert venue in an amazing setting. Ideally, they could spend the whole day recreating and then finish the day with a concert or performance of some other type such as comedy. With help from the VIC’s Facility Manager Andy Testo, and the Alumni Campground Coordinator Heather Tuttle we have developed the framework of a feasibility plan for future use of the current facilities as a music venue with a supporting campground facility.
File Attachments: VIC Concert Venue Final.docx
Authors: James Rounds, Dan D'Apice
Addressing Overuse: A Hiker Shuttle in the Adirondacks
Abstract: The increase in visitors to the Adirondack State Park in New York State has led to overcrowding and overuse at many of the most popular hiking trails. A common complaint is that there is not enough parking for trailheads and so visitors park alongside the roads which lead to many safety issues. We propose a hiker shuttle for the Saranac Lake area that would not only alleviate the roadside parking issue but would also give more people a chance to explore trails that they might not have heard of before. A shuttle system will allow for better safety conditions for pedestrians and drivers on the roads as well as control trail traffic to prevent trail degradation.
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Authors: John Kilgannon, Kaitlyn Dudash
Summer Camp at Osgood
Abstract: Camp Osgood is a look at the potential for an outdoor environmental summer camp to be developed in addition to the current property and function of Osgood farm. Looking at why people are drawn to camps both children and adults alike a summer camp at Osgood Farm could be both beneficial on an individual and community level. We found that a summer camp such as Osgood in the location surrounding Saranac Lake could be very beneficial and leave a lasting positive impact and provide opportunities.
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Authors: Sam Drake, James Pierpont
Risk Management in the Front Country Setting
Abstract: This paper is a proposal for a risk management plan for the Adirondack Watershed Institute's Front-Country Steward Program that was created in the summer of 2019. Research as well as interviews, surveys, and personal experiences were used in order to create a baseline for this plan.
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A Resource Development Plan for incoming REALM and PACM students during Welcome Week at Alumni Campground through the PSC Guide Service
Abstract: For our Capstone, we are focusing on a feasibility and implementation plan regarding the Welcome Week Treks. We are proposing a four day, three night expedition utilizing the Alumni Campground located on Paul Smith’s Campus. The expedition will be called, “An Intro to the Adirondacks”. The Welcome Week treks will be open to the Recreation, Adventure Education, and Leisure Management (REALM) and Parks and Conservation Management (PACM) students and the expeditions will be run by the Paul Smith’s College Guide Service. During this expedition, students will be hiking, paddling, rock climbing, and utilizing the campus challenge course. The Paul Smith's College experience has been the turning point for many when deciding to attend this institution. From the beginning until the end, Paul Smith’s College strives to give the best experiential learning to their students, and give them the best possible learning experience to give their students the brightest future.
Major: Recreation, Adventure Education and Leisure Management, Parks and Conservation Management
File Attachments: Written Report- Rec 440 Capstone .pdf
Authors: Jessica Heroux, Emily Biccum, Sean Malloy
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by Jonathan Hamilton | Jan 7, 2019 | Latest Articles | 0 comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXSRrEQrr4
In August 2018, Trevor took me (Jonathan) and two of my children (Max & Isla) carp fishing and camping at a Mid-Kent Fisheries venue. It was a great adventure for the children who had never been fishing before. In this age of iPads and XBoxes, it was lovely to see them revel in the joy that the countryside can bring. What follows is the story of our two days angling for Carp and rudd.
Me (Jonathan), Max & Isla in the car on the way to our fishing lake
Camping at a Fishing Lake in Kent
After a bumpy journey, we arrived at the mid-Kent fisheries venue. The mini was packed with camping gear. Trevor, being the expert had a far more practical Freelander loaded up with his bivvy and all the angling gear.
Max standing outside our bivvy after it was erected.
Camo Bivvy
It was a fresh Saturday morning in Kent and, after a few minutes, we had Trevor’s spare 3 man bivvy up and ready. My first learning point of the day: You can’t take a regular tent when carp fishing and camping. You need to have a ‘camoflage’ bivvy which has colours more sympathetic to the environment and has a lower profile physically. Definitely important to respect the environment and disturb it as little as possible. Nature is beautiful, we need to keep it that way.
Casting With Boilies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-slosN0e_a8
While I had been putting up the bivvy, Trevor had been busy getting the rods and carp fishing gear set up. He had three very long fishing rods sitting on their rests already cast out to the water. All the rods had bite alarms set, meaning that as soon as a fish took, he would be aware and could reel it in. Second learning point of the day for me was when Trevor took a catapault and pelted a load of “Boilies” which I understood to be a form of fishing bait, into the lake. When I asked why, he explained that for the fish to take the baits on the lines, they had to think that it was normal and representative of the surrounding foodstuffs.
Isla Looking Cross to Begin with...
Isla with one on the hook
Max and Isla Introduced to Carp
Isla and Max with a Small Rudd
A small rudd - one of the first catches of the day
Hot day selfie
Isla ready with the net
Isla with a 9lB Mirror Carp
A Nice Mirror that Trevor Let me Catch
Max Learning to cast
Max With a 12lB Mirror Carp
Max With a Small Rudd
Max With Another 12lB Mirror Carp
Trevor also fed the boilies into the lake using a plastic rocket shaped capsule that he filled with boilies and then sent a long way into the lake, brining it back in an intermittent jerking motion. This seemed to be designed to spread the boilie trail in a line from where the fish were back to the bank on the other side of the lake where we were located.
Landing Carp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VccNaZ4iwVA
Not long after the gear was set up, the fish started to take. Trevor coached Max, Isla and myself on how to land them. We all took turns on holding the landing net while the angler brought in the fish. Learning point 3 of the day was that bringing in a fish that has caught the hook is not straightforward. As a total novice, I had always assumed that once the fish bites, all that you need to do is to reel it in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy-ZozKpIDw
Trevor showed us the technique that he uses to get a very good rate of landing fish that are on the hook. It seemed be a combination of no reel with pulling, followed by reel for a few seconds, followed by no reel and pulling again. It looked entirely logical while I watched him teach it to Max. Max picked it up straight away but I found it much harder to master. Isla was too small to do all of the work, so Trev manned the rod with her and they did it in tandem.
After a long day of fishing for carp and rudd, the kids were exhausted as was I. Trevor, being used to the enviroment was still keen to cast out ‘one more time’ but even he was ready for his sleeping bag before 11.
Cooking Round the Campfire
We cooked sauceages and burgers on my portable camping BBQ. I have to say this is a really good piece of kit to take with you. Very small, compact and gets great results. The kids, with full tummies and tired legs clambered into their sleeping bags and were asleep before their heads touched the pillow.
Knowing Fish by Name
I stayed up for a while and watched Trev as he cast on a neigbouring lake for a carp that he was after. Learning point 4 of the day was that professional carp anglers will know exactly what fish are in which lakes. Literally able to identify them by their markings. See The Pretty One for a good story on this.
Sleeping in the Bivvy
It was a very cold night in the bivvy. Even in July, it can be bitterly cold at night if there is no cloud above to insulate the earth. We wrapped up warm overnight & I was glad that Kelly, my wife had packed a couple of duvets for us, to go over our sleeping bags. I was also rathe envious of Trevor’s sprung camping bed and rather decided that I would have to hunt down a few of those for the next caming adventure.
The next morning, it was a beautiful, clear morning with a stunning blue sky. We cast out again and waited for the bites. The fish were just as keen today as they had been yesterday and there were lots of catches on the bank.
Isla Watching Trevor Prepare
Max With a 11lB Mirror
Max’s first Catch of the Day
Trev and Isla Holding Her Catch
Trev and Isla with a 12lB Mirror
Sadly it was soon time to go home and one little boy wished that he was still out on the lake…
Max Wishing he Was Out on the Lake
It was a genuinely transformative experience going carp fishing with my children for the first time. The whole experience was incredibly developmental for me and my children. I will blog again about my journey in learning how to fish for carp.
Carp Fishing and Camping in Kent by Jonathan Hamilton
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These days, many people are enhancing their faces with injected collagen and other facial fillers. Fillers work to plump up areas of the face and are primarily used to reduce wrinkles or engorge lips. However, a newer filler called Restylane is being used to treat under eye circles.
Restylane is a cosmetic filler that was approved by the FDA in 2003 for the treatment of facial wrinkles. However, many doctors use Restylane for other treatments like lip enhancement or reducing dark circles under eyes. Restylane is made of a biodegradable hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance present in all living organisms. It works to provide volume and fullness to an organism’s epidermis.
Restylane is produced as a clear gel substance that is injected directly beneath the surface of the skin. Like most fillers Restylane works to plump the underlying tissue in skin. However, Restylane is different from other dermal fillers in the way it permeates the dermal tissue and naturally binds to water molecules. The modified water molecules help assist in achieving and maintaining a natural looking volume.
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What I learned from my anxious experiment in masked running through Seattle
Investigating Health
By William Heisel
Is this family breathing in this runner’s plume? Or are the rules outside fundamentally different?
(Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images)
My family lives a short walk from one of the nation’s great urban trails: the Burke-Gilman in Seattle. If you’re ambitious, you can literally run from the ocean, through the city, past a beautiful lake, and into the suburbs where you can keep on running for another 11 miles to a beautiful riverside park.
If you’re me, you can run from your house, into some nice beachfront property and back again.
But when the pandemic began and studies started to show how the virus was transmitted through airborne droplets that could remain in the air for minutes — not dissipate in seconds — then my wife and I started to question the prudence of running on a trail that tightly bound by trees and houses where we live and always busy. We began to refer to it as the “COVID corridor.”
As I saw more and more people wearing masks in public, though, I started to wonder if runners and bikers on the trail would take up the same practice. I now find myself regularly standing in line at the grocery store with everyone masked, or standing in line at the coffee shop with everyone masked. My family went on a hike high up in the Cascade mountains the other weekend, and everyone we encountered on the trail was in a mask. Couldn’t I run safely on the trail if everyone was masked up?
I did a little reading in advance. The Cleveland Clinic had a helpful piece where sports medicine physician Dr. Caitlin Lewis gave guidance on what to do when running:
As a general rule, wear a face mask when you’re running in an area where social distancing is hard to maintain. If you’re going to be passing people or weaving in and out of crowds or others around you, you’ll want to wear a mask, says Dr. Lewis.
That sounds like the Burke. I have never gone on a run on the trail without encountering groups of cyclists and multiple people running on the trail. Sometimes I have a hard time passing people (or people have a hard time passing me!).
So I masked up, wondering whether it would cut down on my speed and lung power. I also decided to keep a count. How many people would I see on the trail in masks? On sidewalks in busy areas, it’s easily 75% these days in Seattle. On the mountain hike it was 100%. In stores,with the governor’s mandate here in Washington, it is now 100%.
On the Burke, I thought it would be 75%. Far from it. Out of 239 people I counted, 17 were in masks, a rate of 7%. I also thought I’d be able to run with a mask without suffering a cardiac arrest. I finished the run, but not without a struggle.
Here’s how it went.
Mile 1. I was feeling strong. I haven’t been able to go to the gym or the pool during the pandemic. And the Burke has been off limits. But I’ve been working out at home and going on shorter runs through the neighborhood. I thought I would feel the effects of the lack of consistent exercise more than any impact from the mask. And for the first mile, I ran exactly the same pace as my typical pre-COVID-19 run. I saw a few dozen people in that first leg, none of them in masks.
Mile 2. My breaths were getting a little deeper at this point, and I felt myself literally sucking the mask into my mouth. An unusual sensation but not as unusual as it would have been before months of wearing a mask in public. I counted more people walking, running, or biking, including a handful with masks. I started to wonder if I was just being an idiot. Had all these people figured out something that I didn’t know? Did the state health department issue some new decree that morning that exempted runners and cyclists from wearing masks? Did people think I was glaring at them for ignoring the mask mandate? Were they, instead, glaring at me for putting on self-righteous airs?
Mile 3. The trail was no busier than when I started. I had to slow down at one point and wait for a group of cyclists to pass so I could get around a group of three people walking together. Amid that little traffic jam, I was the only one in a mask.
Mile 4. At this point, I started to really feel the effects of not being able to breathe as easily as I could without what effectively felt like having a sock in my mouth. Is this what it would feel like to break free from being a hostage and run into the forest with a hood over your head, hearing the hunting dogs barking behind you? Dark thoughts crept in.
Mile 5. I was wiped out. It didn’t help that it was a sunny afternoon, a temperature of 76 degrees that felt like 90 with the mask on. I made my way home at the slowest pace of any of my runs on record. One of the only things keeping me going was the idea of just arriving at my door and pulling that mask, now fairly damp inside from my breath, off my face.
So I learned a couple of things. You can run with a mask, but it’s definitely less comfortable. I also learned that there will be no way for you to maintain six feet of distance all around you on a trail like the Burke. On average, I was encountering a person every 110 feet, but if their cloudsof breath and respiratory droplets spread out from them as far as 6 feet and hung in the breezeless air, I was running right through them. Not to mention the fact that you can’t possibly maintain a sizeable difference between people when they are running, walking, and cycling different directions on the trail.
We are living in a real-time, horror-show version of people acting against their self-interest and against the larger interest of society in part because the information being presented by government leaders about COVID-19 is confusing, gap-filled, and sometimes contradictory.
The highest calling for a journalist is to bring clarity in crisis. And in the absence of clear direction, journalists can clarify what we know and don’t know, as new science emerges and our understanding grows.
I learned a little bit from my experiment with mask wearing, and I hope to see some of your own self-created experiments, too.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is being delivered early and gameplay is leaking
Cyberpunk 2077 is hopefully releasing in the next few weeks and the game is already being delivered early. A handful of lucky players have already got their hands on the game and are leaking gameplay for everyone to see.
The first spotted copy in the wild was an image of the physical PlayStation 4 game on the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit. At first, nobody really believed the authenticity of the copy. However, soon after, a 20-minute long gameplay video, raw and unedited, confirmed that the time is nigh.
The footage has been streamed through YouTube, Google Drive, and every media file sharing site you can think of. Several mirrors have been taken down for obvious reasons. Although, a quick web search will easily find what you seek.
The game’s main menu and interface were featured. The player started a new game and showcased some of the character creation in action, eventually picking the Nomad lifestyle. The video moved between both first and third-person gameplay and how that works in-game. There is some vehicle gameplay in the middle of the desert, as the Nomad path has indicated in previous videos.
Obviously, this looks nowhere near as good as the official footage that has been put out by the developer in their Night Wire features. It is also lacking the evident Day One patch that will be included on launch day. With all this in mind and it being played on the older hardware of the PlayStation 4, it isn’t the best looking game we expected… but it’s still finally nearly here.
Only a few days ago, we got an official sneak-peak of some Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay. CD Projekt Red shared the Night Wire: Episode 5 featuring Keanu Reaves as Johnny Silverhand, one of the main secondary characters of the story. If you’re interested in seeing a 30-minute deep-dive into the most fascinating character in the game, check it out here.
Either way, Cyberpunk 2077 has gone “gold”, is finally out in the wild, and is looking to actually launch on 10 December 2020. Stay tuned to our website, social media, and listen to our podcast and radio show to here our review and thoughts when Cyberpunk 2077 drops.
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Home Technology The 33 best TV shows to binge on Hulu
The 33 best TV shows to binge on Hulu
Hulu has a stash of great shows making a case for adding the streamer to your roster. Lately, it’s been hitting it out of the park with comedies like The Great and High Fidelity, along with a few co-productions that have brought us the stunning Normal People and This Way Up. There’s plenty of good TV on one of the cheapest streamers out there. Let’s round up the best shows of the bunch.
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Unreal’s four seasons are all up on Hulu for you to devour. The satirical series centers on the behind-the-scenes of a Bachelor-type dating show and the questionable integrity of its producers. Clinging to her moral compass is Rachel Goldberg, whose particular talent lies in manipulating addictive reality TV drama. But things get complicated when she develops feelings for the show’s playboy suitor. Smart, biting and occasionally grim, Unreal is a sharp assessment of people and popular TV.
This miniseries starring Kate Mara and Love, Simon’s Nick Robinson traverses an affair between a Texas high school teacher and her 18-year-old student. The forbidden romance has its consequences that eventually find the closure of a cautionary tale. Digest the moments of psychological impact in this beautifully done drama.
This comedy set in a small Ontario, Canada, community is mad in the best way possible. Ice hockey players, “hicks,” out-of-towners, drug addicts and the “natives” all form the cast of delightfully strange and refreshing characters. They often speak in a thick Ontario dialect as they come up with a surprising stream of wordplay, puns and discussion of big issues.
Centered on a woman who has a nervous breakdown, This Way Up is the kind of comedy that adds a shade of darkness to the stream of jokes. When she’s not worrying her older sister, Áine’s teaching English as a second language. Or she’s going on dates with guys who aren’t as available as she thinks they are. Buoyed by creator-star Aisling Bea’s endless stocks of charm, This Way Up is at the pinnacle of shows centered on a young woman figuring things out.
James Franco serves up an impressively grounded lead performance at the heart of this sci-fi thriller based on a Stephen King novel. He plays James Epping, a recently divorced English teacher who’s persuaded to nip back in time to the early ’60s, specifically Nov. 22, 1963, to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Handsomely made, with conspiracies and an affecting romance, 11.22.63 will keep you in town for longer than you signed up for.
Sally Rooney’s novel turned miniseries is anything but normal. Normal People charts the romance between Marianne and Connell, from growing up on the Irish coast to starting university in Dublin. You see all their ups and downs, from breakups and depression, to the tough first steps at university. Eventually you’re so embedded in their lives, your heart breaks with theirs. It’s incredibly hard not to fall in love with this show and its soulful couple.
This Twilight Zone-inspired anthology series from a few years ago serves up six mini-movies that focus on our internet generation. Dimension 404 explores the strange corners of cyberspace, with a healthy dose of dark comedy and Black Mirror twists. If that wasn’t weird and wonderful enough — Mark Hamill narrates.
Based on a Margaret Atwood novel, Hulu’s dystopian tragedy series depicts a totalitarian US where women are trapped in child-bearing slavery. While that might sound like tough viewing, especially when the “Handmaids” are raped by their Commanders, you still have hope a resistance will see them return to safety in Canada. The production values are immense, making this world so vivid the tension and suspense feel real. On top of that, you’ll find a mesmerizing and subtly fierce lead performance from Elisabeth Moss.
From the writer of The Favourite comes another unique period drama that has members of royalty say things like, “Ever I am of gentle heart and massive cock.” Elle Fanning stars as Catherine the Great in her early days moving to Russia to live with her new husband, who proves to be far less romantic than her naive heart expected. Picking up where The Favourite left off, The Great is filled with amazingly indecent lines delivered by the most unexpected characters.
Inspired by the stories of Stephen King, Castle Rock blends complicated characters and mystery with classic King themes. Over two seasons, the show delves into the dark secrets of its titular town, through characters like a criminal attorney, a prisoner and the niece of Jack Torrence. King fans will appreciate the references, while everyone can enjoy the rich psychological horror.
In reimagining Nick Hornby’s famous novel, High Fidelity the TV series couldn’t have picked a cooler star to take over the Championship Vinyl record store. Zoe Kravitz plays the music-obsessed Rob, who becomes concerned with finding out exactly why her past relationships didn’t work out. With a chef’s kiss soundtrack and relatable relationship drama set in a hip Brooklyn, High Fidelity… hits all the right notes.
Based on a disturbing true story, The Act depicts a mother abusing her daughter by fabricating illness and disabilities. Thanks to two outstanding performances from the formidable Joey King and Patricia Arquette, The Act is a true crime dramatization that hits you with shock after shock.
SNL star Aidy Bryant is all charm and relatability in this comedy that offers an honest look at the life of a young woman learning to accept her body. The theme streams through her work and love life, with some standout secondary characters including the hilarious Patti Harrison along for the ride. While some of the storylines are a little familiar, Shrill is nevertheless both delightful and uplifting.
Alex Garland brings his existential sci-fi mastery to TV in Devs, a miniseries centered on a Silicon Valley quantum computing company. Somehow a thriller that moves at a contemplative pace, Devs sees Lily investigate the mysterious death of her boyfriend who dies on his first day working for Devs, a division of the company no one seems able to explain. Haunting, atmospheric and going big with its exploration of free will and determinism, Devs is unforgettable TV.
After spending her 20s in a relationship with a woman, Sadie realizes she needs a break to explore her bisexuality. She has flings with both men and women on a messy, complicated journey to self-discovery. Delivered with total compassion by creator-star Desiree Akhavan, The Bisexual is as poignant as it is witty.
Based on a Celeste Ng novel, Little Fires Everywhere puts a microscope on two women and their differing socioeconomic backgrounds. The ever brilliant Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington play the women, who both juggle teenage children, work and a whole lot of other conflicts. It all kicks off with a house burning down, so you know you’re in for some dark twists and big acting moments.
The spinoff of Love, Simon follows another young man figuring out his identity and sexual orientation. Michael Cimino plays Victor, a half Puerto Rican, half Colombian-American starting at a new school in Atlanta. Delivered with all the heart you could hope for, Love, Victor is a welcome continuation of the Love, Simon world, with Nick Robinson returning to narrate.
This historical miniseries has a stacked cast, including Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne and Sarah Paulson. Blanchett plays Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative activist who caused unexpected backlash to the political movement to pass The Equal Rights Amendment. Other prominent feminists of the ’70s like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan all pop up. For a vivid look at history through powerhouse performances, Mrs. America is tremendous.
From Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland comes another animated sitcom that pairs outer space with middle America. Solar Opposites centers on a family of aliens who must take refuge on Earth, a place that is both fascinating and awful to them in equal measure. With humor and humanity to ground the fast-pace craziness, Solar Opposites is an easy hit.
If you’re a British TV fan, it doesn’t get much better than a Sarah Lancashire-led miniseries. The Accident is about, yep, an accident in a fictional Welsh community. An explosion on a construction site kills several children, leaving the community fighting for justice. Lancashire plays a hairdresser married to a local politician, whose plans to improve the town don’t quite work out. Smart, nuanced and tackling complicated material, The Accident is compelling viewing.
Marvel’s show about teenage superheroes has a pretty intriguing premise: Six youngsters team up to fight against… their criminal parents. Eventually The Runaways sees the teens do some running, escaping their parents as well as villains like Morgan le Fay. Despite the occasionally standard superhero storytelling, the strong ensemble will grow on you, alongside the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe references and general exciting action. If you’re a fan of the comics, you’ll be satisfied.
Yes, you read the title correctly for this comedy series that thrives off cringe humor. PEN15 is a unique, wild farce about growing up in the 2000s, so internet dial-up, Discmans and choker necklaces are everywhere. The weird part: We follow two 13-year-olds played by adult actors, while their school co-stars are all the right age. You definitely have to see the ridiculous fun for yourself.
The latest John Green young adult novel adaptation is an impressive miniseries set in the early 2000s, following students at a boarding school and a love story between Pudge and Alaska. But in a sad turn, there’s a tragedy the students have to come to terms with. Looking For Alaska brings big teen emotions to life with an excellent cast and a wash of nostalgia.
Casual brings impressive credentials behind the scenes, with Jason Reitman of Juno and Up In The Air sitting in the director’s chair for a host of episodes. We follow Valerie, a recently divorced single mom living with her weird brother. The show doesn’t hold back as she starts internet dating, with hilarious sharp edges to the dialogue, as well as a few deeper reflections on life.
Set in 18th century London, Harlots follows Margaret Wells, a brothel owner who faces competition from a rival brothel that offers posher services to more elite clientele. Looking at life for women at the time, when they could only move up in the world through marriage or sex work, Harlots has a bittersweet side amid the campy fun.
Misfits creator Howard Overman teams up with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to bring us this ludicrous comedy about a time traveling janitor. After Josh Futturman completes his favorite video game, the characters come to life and recruit him to help save the world. Along with the dumb jokes and surprisingly compelling sci-fi, there’s a sense of nostalgia that enriches the overall fun.
Ramy Youssef stars in this comedy-drama that shines a light on life for a first-generation American Muslim growing up in New Jersey. Understanding the values of his Egyptian community can be precarious for Ramy, but he takes on his spiritual journey with humor and empathy. It gets even better when Mahershala Ali joins in season 2.
Hulu came into the picture for this British political satire in season 4 all the way back in 2012. Since then, star Peter Capaldi has had a stint as The Doctor in Doctor Who and creator Armando Iannucci has adapted his own work to bring us the formidable US-set Veep. The talent behind The Thick of It is clear, so go back and watch Capaldi’s Malcolm Tucker, the “enforcer” in Number 10, dealing with blundering ministers, party spin doctors and more.
This Jeff Daniels-led 10-episode series gives you an accessible look at what happened between the CIA and the FBI during the rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the late ’90s. Based on a book that examines events in the lead up to Sept. 11, The Looming Tower dissects the rivalry between the divisions and how it might have paved the path for tragedy. It’s as fascinating, pacey and sharp as it sounds.
Back in 2013, James Corden and Matthew Boynton reunited from their Gavin & Stacey days to write and star in an ambitious series that attempts to combine the sitcom format with a Hollywood thriller. Did they succeed? For the most part, yes, especially if you can get your head around that unique approach. With a heavily stylized feel and joke after joke, The Wrong Mans is definitely worth checking out.
A show about unlikeable characters who you actually like? With Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner playing the leads, Difficult People delivers just that. The struggling and jaded comedians hate on everyone, from annoying people taking selfies, to people who don’t look where they’re walking on the street. With a host of cameos including Kate McKinnon, Difficult People is wildly amusing entertainment.
Set during the Iraq War in 2003, this British crime thriller follows a former policeman who, while searching for his missing daughter, is captured and tortured by US troops. But then he’s recruited by a former British policeman to become a police officer in the Green Zone. Told from the perspective of Iraqis, this riveting six-parter that plays out almost like a western is an impressive gem.
George Clooney stars in this adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical war novel, keeping the darkly comedic tone. Set during World War II, Catch-22 sees an unhappy US Army Air Forces bombardier forced to fly more and more missions, dropping bombs on strangers who want to kill him. While he does his best to sabotage his situation, he’s trapped in the job by an infuriating bureaucratic rule. Both hilarious and horrifying, Catch-22 soars.
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Posted on September 14, 2018 February 26, 2019
by Evan Ambrose
This viewing has reassured my decision last night to go see Mandy instead of The Predator. Should’ve bought Mandy on Prime and rewatched it in the comforts of my humble abode tonight. Should’ve done that. By the way, buy Mandy on Prime if you haven’t already! Gracias!
I’ve got plenty to spill, so I’m going to start off with the positives—that graciously saved this movie from being truly unwatchable—before I ramble on.
The Predator withholds charming anthropomorphic (human-like) character chemistry throughout a peaking bulk of its runtime. This comes into huge play in terms of my degree of recreation for this flick. Particularly in the second act—which is arguably the most pleasant allocation of this entire entry—there’s a sequence that takes place in a Hotel Room that had me nonstop laughing. During this moment, you could sense a radiance of connection and fraternity from this group of wacky soldiers + Olivia Munn. It was delightful. When the comedy does work, it works sublimely. This goes to show that most of the casting was on point with Black’s initial themes, chiefly from some stand-outs like Jacob Tremblay and Trevante Rhodes—actors who are way too high of talented calibers to be working on a project like this. Also, The OG Predator—the one that wasn’t one of those CGI critters (we’ll get more into this later on)—looks imposingly practical and has some genuinely grotesque encounters.
Now, here comes the rambling…
You can see what Shane Black was trying to accomplish when watching this. I’m about 99.9% sure creative differences with the studio and control disputes got in the way of Black’s vision being spellbound into possible triumph. This is a factor that has unfortunately, leveled The Predator to be a vastly incoherent mess of a film. This is a Frankenstein of a movie, coinciding way too many story elements (good or bad) and transfixing them into way too enclosed of a time span. This is a lazy, lazy movie that is all over the place in terms of its storyline and minor complexes. It’s a spill of sore, unwarranted ideas that have no rightful reason to be promulgated, especially in an already dying franchise like this. The end product appears incomplete, and that’s absolutely unacceptable. It’s melancholy to see this occurring so often and so recently within Hollywood businesses.
The first seven minutes actually were buoyant, I was on board, there was hope, an essence of optimism. But after that time-mark, the whole compound derails and becomes what it will be known for years to come.
Remember when I said that the comedy was solid when it worked? Well, the 70% of moments when it didn’t fixate for me, mainly occurred around the first act after those few hospitable minutes. The inserts of MCU styled quips just don’t mesh with the presented story elements being expressed from sequence to sequence. This can especially be nauseating when the story is jumping from A to B so rapid-fire-like. I’d assume that you’re mindset isn’t wishing for light-hardiness, but rather, for an explanation, commentary, and justification.
The editing and camera work in The Predator is purely jarring. So much feels cut out and misplaced making it indeed difficult to keep track of what is occurring.
And that third act. That third act got out of control. It got full on “f*** the audience and fans, let’s just do whatever the hell comes to mind first” out of control. Some of the laziest storytelling in a climax/finale I’ve seen all, freaking, year.
I couldn’t dig the new Alpha Predator or those Predator dogs. Not necessarily cause they were composed of CGI elements, it’s just that their presence felt uncanny, and their reason for existence was not excusable enough for their appearance in this particular film. Well, their reason was there, it was present, but just, in my humble opinion, immensely shortsighted. I have no idea what the writers were thinking when developing a good chunk of these plot-pieces.
There’s additionally, no potency to this movie, nearly, at all. Come on, this a damn Predator flick! At least have some intense, white-knuckled schemes! I know it’s trying to go full comedy-mode on us, but at least have some recognition and respect for the predecessors’ trademarks!
And also *screw* the last 5 minutes of The Predator that are plainly dedicated to setting up a sequel. Most likely, we ain’t gettin’ it—at the mere least, a sequel that doesn’t follow what this film set out to set up—thanks to the Box Office Stats (so far). Hopefully…
All in all, it can be said that I much rather would’ve preferred if Shane Black worked on crafting a Nice Guys 2. I’ll even take a Lethal Weapon 5 since I’m so unapologetically desperate at this point. So yeah, The Predator is by far the worst Predator movie in the franchise—not including those AVP films. Go figure. (Verdict: D+)
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Empathy and the Atonement
Even as an incurable optimist, I can see the world is often drenched in suffering.
It is difficult to imagine a more idyllic home than my sunny northern California, yet even here sorrow surrounds me. I see it in the sunken eyes of a young woman who is struggling furiously to free herself from addiction. I hear it in the anguished voice of a friend as he tells me how he used to envision hanging himself because he so desperately wanted not to be gay. I feel it in the intensity with which a loved one pleads to know why God had seemingly abandoned him to the hands of a callous abuser. And it haunts the halls of the hospital where we often have to deliver shattering news—I’m sorry, Ma’am, there is nothing more we can do for your husband; I’m sorry, Sir, but your cancer has spread to the liver and can no longer be cured.
This is to say nothing of far-off places where suffering seems universal. Across the globe, great waves of refugees fan out across deserts and rivers, succumbing to starvation, disease, or, worse: abuse, rape, and torture. In far-away countries, warlords rule with blood and horror; evil dominion is the wont of the powerful across much of the earth. It is enough to stop and crush the fragile heart.
It is understandable, then, that the thoughtful throughout history have questioned God’s love. For as long as people have conceived of an omnipotent and perfectly beneficent God, they have wondered, Why do so many suffer so much—indeed, why does anyone suffer at all? For the Christian disciple, these questions can be all the more vexing because even in our most difficult moments, and even when we look to God for answers, his help is not always immediate or obvious. Even C. S. Lewis once questioned God’s apparent apathy, observing in the midst of his anguish at the passing of his wife:
But go to [God] when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. You may as well turn away. The longer you wait, the more emphatic the silence will become. There are no lights in the windows. It might be an empty house. Was it ever inhabited? It seemed so once. And that seeming was as strong as this. What can this mean? Why is He so present a commander in our time of prosperity and so very absent a help in time of trouble?1
These questions yield no easy answers.
Yet, as I have come of age, Mormonism has offered me powerful and deeply satisfying responses to these thorny quandaries. I first sensed the stunning potency of Mormonism’s intellectual answer to the problem of evil as a college freshman fifteen years ago. As time wore on, however, and as my loved ones and I became more intimately acquainted with sadness and loss, this intellectual answer grew insufficient. The problem is not with the sufficiency of Mormonism’s answer to the intellectual problem of evil, but, rather, that the intellectual question is not really the one ultimately most worth asking. While I first asked, “Why does suffering exist if God loves us?” life eventually moved me to ask, “How has God responded to this suffering?” and “How would he have me respond?”
Happily, I’ve discovered that Mormonism also offers substantive and fulfilling responses to these more pressing questions. As I’ve made my own way along the pathway of Christian discipleship, I’ve found that Christ’s perfect answer to the world’s suffering is to offer to weep with us through each of our trials—he literally and individually takes our sorrow upon him. In similar fashion, I have become increasingly deeply convinced that empathy is the most powerful way in which God invites us to partner with him in assuaging the world’s manifest sadness. Ultimately, by precept and by covenant, Mormonism invites us to make God’s willing empathy our own. This empathy becomes a golden thread woven through the fabric of our theology and our lived discipleship.
A Theological Response
No treatment of Mormonism’s response to the problem of evil can be complete without recognizing David Paulsen’s masterful theological exegesis on the subject. To this day, I recall listening—rapt—to Paulsen (a BYU religious philosophy professor) address the subject with force and elegance at a BYU devotional one Tuesday morning more than fifteen years ago. In that discourse, Paulsen laid out the contours of what is arguably religious philosophy’s most vexing and insoluble dilemma, saying that the problem of evil not only challenges our faith but seemingly demands that we “stare contradiction right in the face.”2
He goes on to quote the philosopher David Hume, who wrote: “Why is there any misery at all in the world? Not by chance, surely. From some cause then. Is it the intention of the Deity? But he is perfectly benevolent. Is it contrary to his intention? But he is almighty. Nothing can shake the solidity of this reasoning, so short, so clear, so decisive.”3
Paulsen then proceeds to outline why the problem is even more hopeless than Hume suggests. In short, Paulsen’s argument is that in addition to assigning God perfect goodness and omnipotence, most creedal Christians affirm that he has created all things ex nihilo. In so doing, they place God in an inescapable bind, making him not only aware of, but also an accessory to, every human crime.
Paulsen then proceeds to demonstrate, however, how Joseph Smith leads us out of this hopelessly tangled intellectual thicket. Paulsen points out that Joseph blasphemously denied ex nihilo creation, teaching instead that the matter of which we are made is coeternal with God and that some essence of what makes me me—my “intelligence”—has been forever and will never cease to be. If this is true, Paulsen explains, then God is freed from the unrelenting demands of absolute creation—he cannot then be held responsible for every consequence of our misused agency. Thus Joseph’s teaching allows God’s perfect love to remain intact, in spite of the evil we see in the world.
While I still deeply appreciate Dr. Paulsen’s (and Joseph Smith’s) gift to our community, it has struck me more powerfully with the passage of time that his answers do little to quench the thirst of the parched soul. Yes, it is true, Joseph’s theology convincingly answers evil’s cognitive why and thus gives us grounds to accept the existence of suffering in the universe of a perfectly loving God, but even this philosophy does little to ease real human suffering. The inadequacy is a categorical one—abstract theology packs a certain intellectual heft, but it is ultimately inadequate to address the pain of abuse, neglect, terror, and loss.
Mormonism, however, goes beyond this set of abstract—if beautiful—intellectual equations. While David Paulsen demonstrates how Joseph Smith’s theology of eternal souls solves the intellectual problem of evil, other modern Mormon authors have demonstrated that Mormonism also helps ease the emotional weight of evil, and, finally and most importantly, both Mormon theology and our lived Mormon experience invite us as Latter-day Saints to partner with God in becoming the answer to the existence of evil in the world.
Empathy as God’s Answer
Perhaps no book has affected me as profoundly in the last ten years as Terryl and Fiona Givens’s The God Who Weeps. Among the many resonant ideas they articulate, one stood out to me as being of utmost, urgent importance. Their chief and most beautiful offering is this: that God most deeply deserves our worship because he willingly submitted himself to suffer, in every particular, each of the terrible vicissitudes through which we pass. Using as their central motif Enoch’s encounter with a weeping God, the Givenses argue that God taking upon him our sins and suffering was far from a singular event (for example, in Gethsemane and on Calvary), but, rather, his decision to suffer with us is one of his character’s central features. Their argument is that God answers the quandary of evil’s existence by offering to make our suffering his own.4
As Terryl Givens has argued elsewhere, this central tenet—that God eternally mourns with us—is one of Mormonism’s most profound contributions to modern religious discourse.5 While hints of this appear in the Bible and creedal Christianity, the very idea is contradicted by the Nicene Creed (a God without passions could hardly sorrow, let alone weep), and it is demonstrated nowhere so urgently and descriptively as in distinctly Mormon scripture.
Understandably, we may naturally incline toward a conception of the Savior as a steel-skinned spiritual colossus, even when he dwelt in his mortal tabernacle. Yes, we may reason, Jesus was not only human but also suffered immeasurably. In the end, however, we think, his divine parentage must have shielded him from the full weight of the burden he carried. His suffering was greater than ours, but given his godly strength he must hardly have felt the weight of it at all.
Book of Mormon prophets, however, go to great lengths to teach us that the opposite of this is true. Nephi leads out, and his emphasis is unsubtle: “And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge [Christ] to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it” (1 Ne. 19:9). Nephi may intend two purposes here: first, to emphasize Christ’s willingness to suffer (suffer meaning “to allow”); but the second purpose, I would submit, is to underline the visceral depth of the Savior’s suffering. The nails at Calvary did not glance off impenetrable wrists. Nephi wants us to understand that those weapons—and many others—found their marks in skin every bit as fleshy, fragile, and thin as ours; Christ’s searing pain raced across nerves and synapses with the same lancing speed with which pain arcs toward our brains. Nephi’s repetitive insistence that Christ did not merely pass through pain as an abstraction but suffered it in all its messy furor—just like we do—seems almost a calculated reaction against the idea of an unfeeling God.
King Benjamin goes further still: “[Christ] shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish” (Mosiah 3:7). Here, the prophet king is at pains to assure we understand that Christ did not just suffer these things as deeply as we do, but much, much more deeply still. Death is a blessed boundary, King Benjamin suggests, which separates even the world’s most beleaguered from even greater suffering.6
Yet for Christ, there was no such boundary. He, alone, ventured past the point where suffering overwhelms normal physiology and set forth into a desolate abandoned wilderness the likes of which we thankfully will never know if we repent. Paradoxically, rather than shielding him from suffering, his divinity excavated a great crater into which the dregs of the bitter cup were poured. No wonder the Savior is so expressive—indeed, his words ring with pathos—when he describes the experience himself: “I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; . . . which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink” (D&C 19:16, 18).
Alma goes further still. While preaching to the people in Gideon, Alma gives perhaps the most poignant and meaningful three verses ever written about the atonement:
And [Christ] shall go forth, suffering pain and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pain and the sicknesses of his people. And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities. Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance. (Alma 7:11–13)
Like Nephi, Alma is insistent—with his repetition of “according to the flesh”—in emphasizing the visceral, urgent, and mortal dimension of the terrible price Jesus paid. Beyond this, however, Alma introduces another facet to our understanding of the Savior’s sacrifice. Often, when I conceive of the Atonement, I picture the Savior bent below the weight of the world, like Atlas beneath a globe freighted with the world’s sins. Alma, however, does not suggest such a single massive load; instead, he depicts a personal act of willing sacrifice wherein the Savior enters into our suffering with each of us one at a time.
How such a thing could have been accomplished, we do not know. Certainly, to fully realize such a vision must have involved some violation of the laws of space and time as we understand them. Nonetheless, Alma connotes an image of Christ learning to succor each person one at a time. Alma suggests a personal encounter wherein Christ invites me to lay my burdens at his feet and then, surveying my particular allotment of betrayals, illnesses, sadness, and sin, the Savior offers to suffer through all of it at my side. He repeats this process over and over again with each person in the whole human family until he has “descended below all things” (D&C 88:6) and, having “trodden the wine-press alone” (D&C 76:107), can offer with perfect understanding to succor each of us in our most desperate moments. Viewed in this light, the Atonement’s most meaningful balm is that it assures there is never a time when the Savior cannot say with genuine integrity, “I know just how you feel.” Jesus is, as Elder Neal A. Maxwell once beautifully put it, “a fully comprehending Christ.”7
Few general conference addresses in recent years have touched me as deeply as Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s “Behold Thy Mother.”8 Elder Holland’s central conceit in this talk is that many of the superlatives we ascribe most readily to the Savior apply for similar reasons to mothers—just as Christ bore our sorrows and iniquities, our mothers bear us in the womb and then bear with us through our most poignant afflictions. Elder Holland’s most obvious purpose is to reverse engineer our understanding about Christ’s love to help us better understand just how deeply our mothers love us, as well as the depth of mothers’ collective sacrifice.
For me, however, his talk worked most powerfully to do the reverse—that is, to teach me about Jesus’s love. About halfway through the talk, Elder Holland tells of a young boy who entered the mission field worthily but who soon found himself overwhelmed by the complexities of confronting his own same-sex attraction and “some trauma he experienced in that regard.” The young elder, as Elder Holland recounts, returned home early from his mission, with his “faith . . . at crisis level,” and then soon found himself “by turns hurt, confused, angry, and desolate.”9
This boy’s saving grace, however, was his mother’s love. Elder Holland describes her love movingly:
His mission president, his stake president, his bishop spent countless hours searching and weeping and blessing him as they held on to him, but much of his wound was so personal that he kept at least parts of it beyond their reach. The beloved father in this story poured his entire soul into helping this child, but his very demanding employment circumstance meant that often the long, dark nights of the soul were faced by just this boy and his mother. Day and night, first for weeks, then for months that turned into years, they sought healing together. Through periods of bitterness (mostly his but sometimes hers) and unending fear (mostly hers but sometimes his), she bore—there’s that beautiful, burdensome word again—she bore to her son her testimony of God’s power, of His Church, but especially of His love for this child. In the same breath she testified of her own uncompromised, undying love for him as well. To bring together those two absolutely crucial, essential pillars of her very existence—the gospel of Jesus Christ and her family—she poured out her soul in prayer endlessly. She fasted and wept, she wept and fasted, and then she listened and listened as this son repeatedly told her of how his heart was breaking. Thus she carried him—again—only this time it was not for nine months. This time she thought that laboring through the battered landscape of his despair would take forever.10
As Elder Holland told the story in conference, my wife and I sat, transfixed, because the boy’s mother is my wife’s sister and the boy is my wife’s nephew and dear friend (they are nearly the same age). We were among the first to know about his early homecoming, and we spent sleepless, tear-filled nights worried whether he would ever be whole again. My wife, especially, spent some nights journeying with him through that battered landscape, and from conversations with her, her sister, and the boy (now a man), I have some modicum of understanding of just how harrowing a journey it was (and still can be) for all involved.
What lends the story such remarkable power is the willingness of my sister-in-law (and, to a lesser degree, my wife) to enter into the boy’s pain with him and the terrible price they paid to do so. For them, his suffering was not an abstraction but, rather, a visceral, immediate, ever-present reality that consumed their hearts and minds, at times, just as much as it did his. What spiritual alchemy allowed his suffering to become so truly theirs I do not know, but it is clear to me that the love impelling their willing suffering exerted a nearly irresistible spiritual pull on my young friend, and it was largely that force which drew him back into an orbit of safety and brought him back to his (earthly) spiritual home.
It is likewise the Savior’s willing sacrifice and resulting empathy that pulls us toward him and his perfect love. As the story of God weeping with Enoch suggests, Christ’s empathy—that is, his willingness to suffer with us—was not finished when he expired on Calvary but instead appears to be as eternal as his love. I learned the power of the pull this love exerts nearly ten years ago while studying my father’s journals from around the time he got married. My father’s dear friend had spent many years estranged from the Church, having immersed himself in hippie culture and the 1960s tide of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Eventually, however, this friend returned to full faith and fellowship in the Church. One evening, many years after his return, my father found his friend, who was staying in our home, studying his scriptures and noted that he had embroidered on his scripture case “gravity.” When my father asked why, the friend looked at him knowingly and said, “God’s love is like gravity: you can hate it, curse it, and say it doesn’t exist, but it is always there, pulling us closer to Christ.” My wife and her sister have taught me, through their example, that it is the Savior’s decision to suffer with us that gives his love such irresistible, irrepressible, gravitational power.
We Are His Hands
Once, when discussing the ideas of Terryl and Fiona Givens with my wife, she responded, “Yes, but sometimes when we are sad, we need someone ‘with skin.’” Abstract theology—even when it’s as beautiful as what the Givenses describe—does not on its own entirely erase abuse, heal the sick, comfort the widow, or counter power’s abuses in the world. To accomplish these tasks, we must embody divine empathy—most often, we become the face and hands that allow those around us to feel God’s love. In life’s most vexing moments, we often cannot “fix” anything, but we can always offer to listen and to try to understand. My argument here is that, understood rightly, Mormonism—through both scripture and our lived cultural and religious experience—uniquely and actively encourages us to deepen our Christian discipleship by empathizing with those in need.
Perhaps it should not surprise us that it is Alma’s father, Alma, who most memorably captures the covenantal nature of this empathy. Indeed, he suggests that empathy is not simply one among an array of important religious virtues; rather, it is—or ought to be—one of the defining hallmarks of our Mormon identity. While this may seem a radical claim, how else are we to understand his articulation that an undergirding principle by which we can know if we are prepared to be baptized is our willingness to empathetically care for the other members of the flock. Our preparation is complete, he explains, when we find ourselves ready to “mourn with those who mourn, and comfort those who stand in need of comfort” (Mosiah 18:9). We commit to do this on the day we become Latter-day Saints, and we implicitly renew this commitment each subsequent Sabbath as we take the sacrament—how better, after all, to simultaneously take Christ’s name upon us, keep his commandments, and always remember him than by bearing the burdens of those around us?
Sitting in the pews on Sunday, then, we are to recognize that the suffering of our fellow Saints is, by covenant, our own. We are bound by our integrity to bear the burdens that weigh down our fellow disciples. This understanding illuminates for us one meaning of Jesus’s paradoxical invitation to us to lay our burdens at his feet while also shouldering his heavy cross. Because Christ deserved no punishment himself—he committed no sin and likely could have escaped, by his divine heritage, all difficulty if he so chose—when he asks us to “take up [our] cross, and follow [him]” (Matt. 16:24), what he is really asking is that we shoulder the burdens of those around us. Their burdens are his, and so when we commit to become members of the “fellowship of his sufferings” (Philip. 3:10), we are actually promising to take up the burdens of those with whom we live, work, and worship.
It is for this reason that many of the seemingly mundane aspects of Mormon ecclesiastical organization constitute an inescapable aspect of the genius of Mormon Christian discipleship. A church run by lay clergy refuses to allocate to professional priests and preachers the burdens of parishioners. No, because all of us band together to run our wards, we are all ultimately responsible for each other’s welfare. Home and visiting teaching, for example, are actually a means of assuring we each have a chance to enter into another family’s sorrow, as well as celebrating together with them their joy. Similarly, geographically assigned wards assure we cannot ensconce ourselves only with those who are like us and who might make us comfortable. As Eugene England reminded us in “Why the Church Is as True as the Gospel,” the mundane matter of working through the quotidian particulars of running a ward forces us up against personalities and characteristics that may nearly drive us to distraction—and that’s the point.11 This sometimes tumultuous process buffs us, teaching us to love not in abstraction but in the face of our oh-so-mortal brothers and sisters.
This is perhaps why King Benjamin’s sermon is filled with poignant reminders that are key not just to understanding God’s mercy but to developing some modicum of it ourselves. More frequently than I care to admit, I find myself frustrated at faults I perceive in those I love; over and over again when I am tempted toward such small-minded thinking, I hear King Benjamin saying, “Tyler, you are a beggar, too,” and immediately I find that any umbrage at the faults of those around me melts away. We have no right, after all, to look askance at those who ask undeservedly for our help; we will doubtless be doing the same (at least to God) before long. The reminder King Benjamin offers—that we all incline before the divine throne, dressed in rags and pleading for mercy and help—is a vivid and potent impetus to enter into empathetic relationships with everyone we meet, no matter how mean or unimportant the person seems (see Mosiah 4). Indeed, some of our finest moments as a people are those where we combine our strength as we ride to the rescue of those in need. The ability of Mormons to mobilize in the aftermath of a natural disaster, for example, is legendary, and it has likewise been genuinely remarkable to watch our people respond to the recent call to make worldwide refugees’ stories our own—the resultant outpouring of time and resources has been heartening.
Initially, of course, there will be limits to the degree to which we can enter into others’ suffering. Unlike Jesus, our empathy cannot—at least initially—be perfect. In addition, for nascent Christians like most of us, empathy will tax us as perhaps no other Christian endeavor does. I, for one, come face to face with the limits of my own empathy daily. I am an oncologist, a father, a husband, a friend, and a disciple. In each of these roles, I make the deepening of my empathy a daily pursuit. Yet, in spite of my best efforts, I find this endeavor to be exhausting, toll-taking work.
Nonetheless, I have often found myself seemingly endowed with empathic reserves beyond my own capacities in some of the moments that matter most. This in one arena where I have found sweet fulfillment of a version of Nephi’s promise, for it is “by grace” that I have empathy, “after [and sometimes in spite of] all [I] can do” (2 Ne. 25:23). I have found that, my own inadequacies and exhaustion notwithstanding, the Lord often honors my desire to have the strength to enter into another’s suffering. Perhaps this is because the resulting spiritual connection is among the most sacred of which we mortals are capable. In what way, after all, can we more powerfully emulate Christ than this?
Perhaps no other aspect of Mormon life represents our distinctive success in cultivating a culture of empathy better than our genealogical labors. While genealogy might, on the surface, seem a fairly dowdy duty, and while some may approach it as a pro forma box to check, I’ve been impressed at the empathic depths to which genealogy often takes us. We Mormons delight in tales of our ancestors. Many members have an aunt or grandparent who has spent hours poring over century-old diaries or searching through reams of microfiche in an attempt to deepen her understanding of a long-departed ancestor’s life. In its best iterations, all of this work symbolizes the empathic drive of members to enter into the lives of their forebears, to better understand what it would have been like to live so many years ago.
Likewise, the distinctive doctrine of performing ordinances vicariously for the deceased constitutes a call to devote ourselves to a sort of visceral, corporeal empathy. This work done on behalf of ancestors who have passed on is really quite staggering. First, think of the labor that goes into “preparing a name for the temple.” In homes around the globe, members—be they teens or nonagenarians—sift through recent or ancient documents in an attempt to reconstruct the rudiments of a deceased person’s life. What was her name? When was she born, and where? When did she die? Was she married? To whom? And the list of questions goes on. While the questions are basic and the degree to which the living member can really empathize with the plight of the deceased forebear is often limited, the fact that the work happens at all is quite striking and testifies to the force of the empathic impulse in Church culture.
Then, once these details are appropriately noted, a small card is created, which—again in the vein of seemingly mundane Mormon rituals with an elevated symbolism—represents the existence of a man or woman often long since passed. A distant family member, often many branch-points down the family tree, lovingly takes this card to a temple set apart and consecrated partly for this purpose. Finally, over a number of hours, the member lends his body as a temporary offering to allow the deceased’s spirit a chance to access saving ordinances.
That this happens ever, at all, in a world consumed with so much empty buzzing busyness, should stop us in our tracks. But that such corporeal, focused, spiritual effort should be made endlessly on behalf of those we have never met and to whose thanks we will not—at least in this life—be exposed, is both spiritually impressive and incredibly hopeful. This oft-repeated ritual is a powerful testament to the power of the empathic impulse within the Church. Indeed, what other impulse could better impel Elijah’s mission of turning the hearts of the children to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to their children than empathy?
As I have pondered temple work as a part of this exploration of Mormon empathy, I have found that the image I describe above—of an empathetic believer entering a sacred space to do for another what he cannot do for himself—brings me back, full circle, to Jesus. For it is there, in the temple, in that infinitely repeated empathetic vicarious work, that we see a reflection—an earthly echo—of the beauty of the Savior’s sacrifice.
I do not mean to suggest any special insight into the particular mechanism by which the Atonement works; indeed, I freely confess that while I treasure what understanding I have of the Atonement, it is limited and provincial. Still, while pondering on the temple as described above, a specific, visceral, and powerful image came to my mind, and that image has changed how I understand the Savior’s sacrifice. I saw, in my mind’s eye, the Savior entering his house and picking up a card with my name etched in black ink on light blue paper. I saw the Savior enter the “session” as I have so often done. But then, instead of the expansive and didactic re-enactment to which I am treated each time I go, the Savior is confronted instead with a synopsis of my life. There, in every particular, he suffers with me: each pain, each sin, each sickness, each sorrow. He willingly stays for the duration, feeling each lash I endure with flesh every bit as sensitive as mine. He stays with me, he cries with me, he suffers with me, and, by the end, his empathy for me glows—perfect and complete. And then, still in this vision, I see him shower me with love and then turn, pick up another card, and start the whole process again but for someone else.
Ultimately, then, Mormonism offers an answer to the problem of evil that comes in at least three parts. First, as outlined so eloquently by David Paulsen, Joseph’s theology frees God from the constraints of an ex nihilo creation and thus allows us to believe in a perfectly loving God even in a world drenched in suffering. Beyond that, Mormonism offers us a perfectly and eternally vulnerable God who answers evil’s existence by taking all suffering upon himself. Finally, and most urgently, Mormonism teaches us that we must be God’s most frequent and immediate response to evil—for those around us who suffer, we are, most often, God’s face and hands.
Because We Are All Beggars
My argument here is that Mormonism offers an expansive understanding of empathy that rivals that found in any belief system with which I am familiar. Furthermore, in some respects—such as genealogy, temple work, and responding to crises around the world—I believe we are imperfect but that we excel. Yet, in other regards, there is still so much more we can do. Indeed, as I examine my life, and in spite of my best efforts, I am struck that I have so often passed by opportunities for empathy without even realizing they were there. In this regard, I am saddened to think how often I have been deaf and blind to the suffering of those around me. I fear that, in this way, I may have contributed to the “contraction of feeling and lack of charity” that the Prophet Joseph once lamented.12
In my mind’s eye, I think of the poor who often arrived there through some hopelessly complex mix of poor personal decisions and even worse surrounding circumstances. I picture a young man who is coming to recognize that he is attracted to other men and who sits on the ward’s periphery, terrified someone might find out. I see committed disciples, beset by doubt, who fear disclosing their questions out of trepidation that we will accuse them of sin as the impetus for their questioning. I see the childless couple, biologically barren and devastated to be so, who weep at the frequent, if unintended, slights doled out by fellow Saints. I hear the cries of the depressed woman who has just been told, again, that if she would only “try harder” her spirits would lift and her heart would easily gladden.
I do not mean to suggest any meanness of spirit on the part of those of us who pass by these suffering souls without offering them solace or comfort. Indeed, I believe my own failures in this regard have been the result not of personal pique, but of a failure of my moral imagination. Nonetheless, whatever the reason, each time I “pass by on the other side” (Luke 10:31–32) I forfeit the opportunity to enter into an empathetic relationship that would lift us both together.
Perhaps King Benjamin knew our moral imaginations would need stirring in these latter days. Perhaps he envisioned our remarkable ability to vicariously empathize with some even while, at times, ignoring the suffering of others. Perhaps this understanding and vision partly drove him to deliver his stirring sermon. And perhaps it was with this understanding in mind that he reminded his listeners that the humility inherent in understanding that “we are all beggars” should be enough to rouse our faculties to a commitment to willingly enter into the suffering of those around us. King Benjamin’s entire sermon rings with empathy, but nowhere more so that when he resoundingly reminds us:
Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have . . . ? And has he suffered that ye have begged in vain? Nay. . . . O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have one to another. . . . I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants. (Mosiah 4:19–21, 26)
Don’t you see? he pleads. Don’t you understand? Christ willingly took on him your suffering—he still bears the marks as reminders—and in so doing now asks you to do the same for those around you. Suffering is our opportunity to deepen our empathy and thus develop more fully one of Christ’s most resplendent virtues.
Perhaps King Benjamin is so forceful—even uncomfortably direct—on this point because he understands that cultivating a moral imagination is heavy lifting and we often need coaxing to work that hard. Developing empathy for those who suffer around us is not the same as “being nice,” nor do kind acts fully suffice. Empathy, though a gift, is like a muscle we must exercise and strengthen. It requires a pause when a suffering person confronts us—a moment of silence in which we ask, “What would it be like to walk in this person’s shoes?” Or, in the eloquent summation provided by President Linda K. Burton, we might query: “What if their story were my story?”13 Such a probing mental task will seldom leave us cool or apathetic but instead will often yield the shocking realization that had my life been a little different, that could very well have been my fate. Thus these moments offer a rare pivot point, a flash of time wherein my heart can genuinely soften and my spirit can grow that much more contrite. The miracle is that this purposeful moment is, nonetheless, just a moment—and yet, in it we can make the quantum leap from apathy or enmity to empathy, and this transformation can mean the world to those who suffer around us.
On a recent Tuesday, I found myself at the hospital near midnight. Over the preceding few days, I had cared for a young woman whose metastatic cancer had begun growing aggressively. As the cancer grew, she began suffering a number of complications from that growth, and the situation grew increasingly grim. I wondered—occasionally out loud to my team, but more often to myself—whether she would ever leave the hospital. Her case particularly unnerved me because she and her husband were both quite young. It was easy to imagine her husband’s heartache as my own—I wondered how I would respond if it were my wife lying there, possibly dying. On that night, in particular, my heart was heavy as I rushed back to the hospital from home to attend to a worrisome new complication.
After a few hours spent attending to the patient, counseling with her family members, and consoling the other grieving members of my medical team, I headed with weary shoulders and a heavy heart out the back door of the hospital toward my car in the parking lot. This was a pathway I had traversed hundreds if not a thousand times before, but that night the walkway seemed unfamiliar to me because—in place of the bustling milieu of doctors and patients that normally envelops me there—I found myself alone, wrapped in the silence of the starry night. At one point along the path, I stopped and gazed into the silent cancer center. In my mind’s eye, I imagined the hallways bursting with people, and, in that moment, it was as if my soul was infused with insight—suddenly, I could hear arising from each person I saw the worries that weighed on his or her heart. Here was a man who had just been told no further options could hold his cancer at bay; here was a woman who wondered if she could continue caring for her increasingly invalid husband; here was a man who, after coping with cancer for five years, was suddenly faced with the prospect of a divorce; here was a teen wondering what life would be like without her mother; here was a doctor terrified he had missed a critical diagnosis; and here, there, and everywhere wandered eternal souls, confined to mortality, and all carrying loads that could easily break a wounded heart. My heart swelled in that moment, and I felt compelled forward with an urgent desire to reach out, help, lift, and heal.
Taken aback, nearly breathless from the impact of the image, I found myself stepping backward, as if the weight of the idea were just too much. It was one thing to discover—nearly unbidden—an easy sense of empathy toward that young couple with whom my wife and I had so much in common; it was another matter entirely—and an incredible and overwhelming one at that—to find myself suddenly filled with even a momentary trace of empathy extending in every direction. I have wondered since what my life would be like—what choices I would make—if I could be blessed to see things that way at all times, every day. I can only imagine such a life, and I can only conclude that it would be enormously difficult, staggeringly rewarding, and, in a word, divine.
Thus we arrive at a central paradox of the Mormon life. Mormonism may initially appeal to us because in the midst of our own suffering, our beliefs offer a cogent intellectual, emotional, and spiritual answer to the question “Why do I suffer?” Yet, if we are not careful, the comfort we find in these answers can lull us into a false security that inhibits us from entering into some of the most difficult, meaningful, and fulfilling work of becoming truly converted Mormon Christians. Perhaps it is partly for that reason that far from our baptism standing as a singular life event, the promises we make at baptism—including the one to empathically enter into the suffering of those around us—we implicitly renew every week as we partake of the sacrament. In that weekly sacred moment, we can remember that it was Alpha and Omega—the singular Being who by dint of his perfection merited no suffering whatsoever—who entered not just into mortality but likewise willingly took upon him our betrayals, sins, sicknesses, death, fears, and all other suffering. Furthermore, in that instant of epiphany we can remember that the Weeping God has made this empathy a defining feature of his divine character, and he has invited—no, commanded—that we do likewise.
It is little surprise in this context that Joseph Smith declared, “A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world anxious to bless the whole human race.”14 We will know the Atonement is working in us when the prospect of suffering strikes us as so repugnant that it drives us to “pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that [we] may be filled with [Christ’s] love” (Moro. 7:48).15 Then, when the work on our knees is done, we will leap to our feet and wear out the rest of our lives by listening to those who need an open heart, consoling those who cry alone, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and seeking to succor and nourish wherever we go.
It is certain that becoming the answer to suffering will be difficult—sometimes it will wrench our very hearts—but for committed Mormons, the obligation presses on us with the weight of covenant and commandment. We cannot rightly escape the burden of compassion for our fellow travelers; empathy beats at the very heart of our religion.
Tyler Johnson is a clinical assistant professor in the oncology division of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He received an MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and a BA in American Studies from Brigham Young University in 2005. He teaches institute in Palo Alto, California, and has focused most of his teaching on the prophets of the Book of Mormon.
1. C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1961), 6.
2. David Paulsen, “Joseph Smith and the Problem of Evil,” BYU Studies 39, no. 1 (2000): 54.
3. David Hume, “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,” in Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, 13th ed., ed. Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau (Belmont, Calif.: Thompson Wadsworth, 2008), 65.
4. Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life (Salt Lake City: Ensign Peak, 2012): 24–29.
5. Terryl Givens, “Mormons at the Forefront,” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (June/July 2016): 20, available online at http://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/06/mormons-at-the-forefront.
6. There is some physiologic sense to this idea. Pain stresses the body terribly. A person in pain suffers a surge of adrenergic hormones—a super-charged version of the response we colloquially call “fight or flight.” But if that surge becomes too severe, eventually the organism can’t handle it and a person passes into shock. While we don’t usually say as much, it is not hard to imagine that, if left entirely unchecked, this response would make suffering literally lethal.
7. Neal A. Maxwell, Not My Will but Thine (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988), 51.
8. Jeffrey R. Holland, “Behold Thy Mother,” Ensign 45 (November 2015): 47–50.
9. Holland, “Behold Thy Mother,” 49.
10. Holland, “Behold Thy Mother,” 49.
11. Eugene England, “Why the Church Is as True as the Gospel,” Sunstone 10, no. 10 (1986): 32.
12. Jill Mulvay Derr and others, The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016), 78, available online in “Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book,” 62, Church Historian’s Press, The Joseph Smith Papers, http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/59.
13. Linda K. Burton, “I Was a Stranger,” Ensign 46 (May 2016): 15; italics in original.
14. Joseph Smith, “Extract from an Epistle to the Elders in England,” Times and Seasons 2 (January 1, 1841): 258.
15. King Benjamin teaches precisely this principle in Mosiah 4:12–16. While we often read these verses as injunctions—that is, as “thou shalt” commandments—in fact King Benjamin lists these actions (living peaceably, helping the poor, nurturing children, succoring those who stand in need of succor, and many others) as signs indicating a disciple has “come to a knowledge of the goodness of God . . . through the atonement which was prepared from the foundation of the world” (vv. 6–7).
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Editor: Sharene Bungay (sharene@mun.ca)
1. CAIMS 2012 Annual Meeting
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Family Matters: Indigenous kids still over-represented in out of home care
The latest Family Matters report has revealed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are still being removed from their families at an 'alarming' rate.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were almost 10 times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be in out of home care in 2019, according to the latest Family Matters report.
The annual report showed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are 37 per cent of the children removed from their parents, despite being just six per cent of the population of children in Australia.
Family Matters chair Sue-Anne Hunter told NITV News the rise in numbers is, unfortunately, not surprising.
"We're not addressing the underlying issues," the Wurundjeri and Ngurai illum wurrung woman said.
"The underlying issues for coming into care are around transgenerational trauma, around poverty, family violence, drug and alcohol issues, mental health.
"Then where the investments are happening, they're not happening where they should be. More money is actually going into child protection, so removal of children rather than looking at how do we preserve families, how do we reunite families."
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are less likely to be reunified with their families than non-Indigenous children.
Source: Facebook: Family Matters.
81 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out of home care are living permanently away from their birth parents until the age of 18.
Excluding children under permanent care orders, only 26 per cent of Aboriginal children in out of home care were assessed as having a possible reunification with their families.
This compared to 37 per cent of non-Indigenous children.
Out of 19 adoptions of Indigenous children in 2018-19, 95 per cent were to non-Indigenous carers. All of those adoptions occurred in NSW and Victoria.
Ms Hunter said this is an 'alarming trend'.
"Once a child goes permanently into care, and we've seen the rates rise, particularly in NSW and Victoria, they then go off the books, so to speak, for the government," she said.
"Government doesn't count them, because the definition for out of home care doesn't count permanent care and once a child is permanently placed, the government loses responsibility.
"But what happens is then the child loses connection to culture, to community, then there's a gap, how do they learn their culture, and how do they learn who they are and how to be as an Aboriginal person, particularly with the high rates of being placed with non-Aboriginal carers."
'We know best'
The new National Agreement on Closing the Gap, signed in 2020, includes a target to reduce the rate of over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out of home care by 45 per cent by 2031.
Ms Hunter said the goal of Family Matters is to eliminate the over-representation of Indigenous children in out of home care by 2040.
She said to achieve this goal the causes of child removal have to be addressed, investment in early intervention and prevention as well as Indigenous community-controlled services need to be increased, and Indigenous families must be central to decision-making when it comes to our children.
"What we need to do is invest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations," Ms Hunter said.
"We need to invest in family support, we need to get to our families before the system does.
"We know best and we know we do. We need to make sure that legislation and policies, that we're part of that decision making, that we're not left just to be told what to do."
The report also calls for a commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to be appointed nationally and in every state and territory.
Ms Hunter said a national commissioner would be able 'to call governments out' on failures to address the over-representation of Indigenous kids in out of home care.
"We know what's best for us, we know what programs we need to run," she said.
"If we've got an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander national commissioner they can make these calls and make governments in each state and territory jurisdiction accountable."
Tags: #AboriginalAustralia #ChildrenMatter #CPPMatter #ForgottenAustralians #IndigenousPeopleMatter #ItsTimeToFixTheSystem
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MARVEL MAKES FOUR DATES
Russ Fischer
So one or two of you saw Iron Man. With $100.75M domestic (the 10th biggest opening weekend ever) and $201M worldwide, making this the second-biggest non-sequel opening after Spider-Man, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is now shitting into a platinum toilet and wiping with the skin of fallen presidential candidates.
But success hasn’t changed him — it’s time to make some movies! This morning, as expected, Marvel made some earnings announcements. Part of that release was the company’s planned feature slate, which looks like this:
The First Avenger: Captain America (working title)
(EDIT: Also noted is that a writer/director is ‘engaged’ for Ant Man, with no release date specified, but with a 2 film per year plan, that likely wouldn’t go until 2012 at least.)
Looks like Iron Man‘s worldwide take suggests that another couple of very American heroes aren’t going to pose any problems for box office abroad. No directors or other details are attached, but based on what we know you can do some math. Jon Favreau will be going to work on his sequel in about 20 minutes and we should hear final confirmation about Matthew Vaughn on Thor shortly.
But with that ballsy pair of Avengers movies going in 2011 the only way that Jon Favreau could follow through (or be allowed to) on his stated interest to direct the team picture would be to make it concurrently with Iron Man 2. Is working Peter Jackson (or Robert Zemeckis) style a possibility for him? Who’s going to handle those flicks for 2011? Leterrier? Let’s see if Marvel is still this giddy after The Incredible Hulk opens.
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YOU WOULD NEVER SUSPECT THAT THIS WAS A BLOOD SIMPLE REMAKE
Alex Riviello
When news hit earlier this year about the remake of the Coen Bros’ debut Blood Simple, we all wondered what director Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) could possibly do with such a gritty noir film, what sort of film he would turn it into.
Now that the trailer for the film (now titled Amazing Tales: Three Guns) is here we can see the obvious answer- make it a thriller/comedy set in feudal China.
Yeah, you’ll be hard-pressed to find any reference point to the original film. It does look utterly fantastic and weird, however, and Yimou is such a great director that it automatically warrants a watch. The film will apparently be split into two separate parts, one while is comedy and one which is straight-up thriller. Very interesting stuff. The film opens in China next month but we won’t get it in the States till next year.
Fake your death on the messagebaords.
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No Hope For Dudes Who Deal Dope
Adam Campbell
Earlier today I saw a trailer for the modern blaxploitation picture Black Dynamite, which you can find on the official website. In fact, you not only can find it there, but you almost certainly should go and watch it there right now. Because when I say modern blaxploitation picture, I only mean modern in that this film is being released this year. Every other facet of this trailer is a pitch perfect recreation of the action based efforts in the 70’s genre, from the dodgy film stock to the voiceover man. Even the mild purple and green lighting for the love scene is bang on the money.
Some of the acting is a little on the winking side or the just plain bad, but this fairly low budget production has a casting coup in nabbing Michael Jai White as the lead. In fact, if there is anything in the trailer that stands out as non-authentic for the genre, it’s probably Michael Jai White’s real life martial arts prowess, which is a little too impressive and athletic. Rudy Ray Moore* of Dolemite fame could hardly lift his leg high enough to kick anyone, and you’d have to have just suffered a mild stroke not to be able to dodge one of his slow motion chops.
Obviously Black Dynamite is a labour of love for the filmmakers, and judging from this piece of footage, albeit only a few minutes worth, they’ve really nailed it, in camerawork, music, fashion and idiosyncrasies. I love the delay after the man is shot on the roof, as he stands around waiting to be shot again. If the full movie is made with the same attention as the trailer shows, it’ll be a treat, and an economical one. According to IMDB, the budget on the film is only around 2 million dollars, of which I’d imagine a nice chunk went to Michael Jai White. And when I saw that very reasonable figure, I couldn’t help but think of Grindhouse.
There is surely nothing so silly as an expensive item which is meant to look cheap. So spending 53 million dollars to try (and fail) to accurately recreate the aesthetic of tiny-budget genre cinema must be very silly indeed. I could never quite get my head around what that project was meant to achieve and it seemed the filmmakers only half agreed on what they meant as well. The section by Rodriguez is too flashy, modern and CGI fuelled to have anything in common with the inspiration, whereas Tarantino’s better entry feels more authentic at first but ends up with him being too clever by half.
Certainly the first warning light that should have flashed for the directors (who are no strangers to low budgets themselves) is how having too much money, too much time and too many stars might drown the concept. The problems are summed up toward the end of the Rodriguez trailer for the fake film Machete. After getting the tone right in the first half of the trailer (much better than he does in Planet Terror), Rodriguez blows it with a CG enhanced Danny Trejo flying through the air on a motorbike with a minigun mounted on the front of it. That the audience didn’t come to see their films is neither here nor there, the worst thing is that they failed in the central conceit of their own pet project.
Similarly, Hong Kong cinema is always saying that some new film is the return to the glory days of 80s genre cinema. I remember hearing this about S.P.L a few years ago, which was good, though very much like the movies Donnie Yen had been making consistently for a while, before a small detour into Hollywood. Most of these new genre movies have some appeal, but they can’t quite shake the ‘advancements’ in over stylising things for the modern audience. The older genre movies had to rely on cheaper and more outrageous things to get their audiences. I remember being about 12 and seeing the trailer for Tiger On The Beat, in which Chow Yun Fat shoots people by flinging a shotgun attached to a rope around corners. Something as daft as that costs very little to do, is every bit as outrageous and was more impressive to me then than the kind of expensive tedious antics of movies like Planet Terror.
The limited budget factor is why so many of these films were so inventive and the best ones were movies who surpassed their humble beginnings. There’s something slightly unpleasant about high profile successful filmmakers deciding to dabble in low budget genre, with a production budget in their pocket that could have paid for 1000 of the films they so admire. It’s like a rich student slumming. And if Black Dynamite is the success that it appears to be, I hope any other directors hoping similar experiments keep a copy of this film on their desk.
*By the way, I read over at Twitch that Ruby Ray Moore has another Dolemite film coming up for release, but to say it looks lazy is an understatement.
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Comexi Group signs an agreement with Euro Sales to locate its own spare parts store in Moscow
• During Upakovka, the company has strengthened its presence in the market with the introduction of new 'Innogreen' technologies
Comexi Group has participated successfully in Upakovka, in Moscow. As part of one of the most important events of the industry in Russia, Comexi Group has reached an agreement with Euro Sales company to locate its own spare parts store in Moscow, which reinforces the effectiveness of post-sale services throughout the whole Eastern Europe market.
New technologies under the concept 'Innogreen'
During four days, Comexi Group trade delegation headed by the company’s vice chairman, Mr. Ramon Xifra, met with more than 200 professionals representing 50 companies. In its 48m² booth, Comexi Group has presented the latest solutions developed in all product lines with a common denominator: sustainable innovation.
In printing, Comexi Group has used its participation in Upakovka to present its new developments in offset technology (through the Comexi OFFSET CI8), the new rotogravure printing machine Comexi ACOM R2 and the FLEXO F2 platform with solvents inks and water-based. Regarding lamination and special coatings, the Comexi NEXUS SL2 and the new holographic laminator have demonstrated Comexi’s potential to adapt to the market needs.
Meanwhile, the slitting and rewinding new range, as well as the anilox cleaning peripheral equipment with laser technology -Comexi ENVIROXI LCR- and solvent recovery -Comexi ENVIROXI Ecodistil- are other optimal solutions displayed in the flexible packaging industry.
To Josep Santiago, Comexi Group Senior Area Manager, "attending Upakovka is an opportunity to test the needs of a growing market and respond directly with our solutions. As a strategic area for the company, meet face to face with all the converters is essential to further strengthen our presence."
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By Como FriendsAugust 13, 2019All News, Conservation, Education, Impact & News, Uncategorized, Zoo
After a complex medical challenge for gorilla Alice, Como Zoo’s family troop of western lowland gorillas is reconnecting with the public this summer
Gorgeous summer weather makes every Minnesotan look forward to time outdoors, including the members of Como Zoo’s tight-knit family troop of western lowland gorillas.
For the last several weeks, the troop has been getting reacquainted with the public and rediscovering their outdoor habitat, following treatment of a complicated medical condition that’s kept the six-member family troop in a habitat space located behind-the-scenes of Gorilla Forest.
“The gorillas are all doing really well and seem to enjoy watching the visitors,” says Como Zoo primate keeper Michelle Hays. “The first couple of days were a big adjustment for baby Nyati, who basically stayed glued to her mother’s side. But now she’s gaining confidence, playing with Arlene, and really starting to explore on her own.”
Engaging with visitors is a brand new experience for baby Nyati, who has been behind-the-scenes at Como Zoo for more than a year while her mother Alice was diagnosed and treated for a number of medical challenges, including a complex skin picking disorder that has opened large wounds in her skin. Similar to a condition in humans known as “excoriation disease” or “dermatillomania,” it can be a difficult condition to treat. And it’s even more complicated to cure in a young gorilla who is still nursing a 20-month-old infant, and whose complex family structure nearly defines the word “co-dependent.”
“This has been the most complicated case I’ve ever had here at Como Zoo because it involves multiple problems that have different needs for treatment, a baby that is impacted by what we do, and a family that has to be involved and accounted for every step of the way,” says Dr. Micky Trent, a large animal veterinarian and associate professor at the University of Minnesota’s College of Veterinary Medicine, which has a long-standing partnership at Como Zoo. “Treating a gorilla is not like taking care of a human. You have to consider the impact of every move you make on the outcome for the entire troop, and that’s made this very complex.”
While the condition has not been cured, Alice’s keepers and veterinarians allowed the female gorilla and her family troop access to the public habitats of Gorilla Forest in June.
“Alice’s health concerns have been challenging, not only for her gorilla family, but also for our zoo keepers, and the wider community of gorilla health and behavior experts who are committed to caring for her,” says Como Park Zoo and Conservatory Director Michelle Furrer. “She may not look very pretty right now, but we’re very pleased with the progress she’s made. The two things that we really want the public to appreciate are that Alice is doing a great job of being a gorilla, and she’s turned out to be a terrific mother.”
Diagnosing A Multifactorial Medical Problem
Como Zoo is home to nine western lowland gorillas, including a six-member family troop that includes Schroeder, the 33-year-old male silverback, Nne, a 31-year-old female, 16-year-old Dara and her daughter Arlene, born in February 2015. The top ranking female in the group is Alice, 17, who was born at the Miami Zoo and moved to Como in 2013 at the recommendation of the Gorilla Species Survival Plan, a conservation panel of gorilla keepers and other professionals that manage the health and well-being of gorillas in 51 zoos across the United States .
Recommended as a breeding partner for Schroeder, a long-time bachelor at Como Zoo, Alice delivered her first baby in 2014, an infant that died within days due to apparent feeding complications. By 2017, Alice was pregnant again, giving birth to a female that Como Zoo visitors voted to name Nyati, a Swahili word for “Unicorn.” This time, the 17-year-old female exhibited strong maternal instincts and successful nursing behavior.
Though the baby’s delivery was not complicated, Alice encountered other medical challenges just before and after delivery. While pregnant, she injured the gastrocnemius muscle located in her right calf, and still favors the leg by walking on the side of her foot. Her skin picking behavior surfaced around this time, and worsened a few months post-partum when she also suffered from a pneumothorax—free air in the chest that interferes with inflation of the lung—which required treatment by aspiration of the air while under anesthesia. During the height of her skin picking problem, Alice had opened or enlarged several large and wounds on her legs and abdomen.
“One thing that’s important to understand is that skin picking is a normal gorilla behavior,” says Hugh Bailey, lead gorilla keeper at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, and a member of the Gorilla Species Survival Plan called in to consult on the case. “Gorillas can get some nasty wounds from fights, or just from being injured in their environments, and picking wounds helps to keep the injury clean. That’s why, even with really bad wounds, we often don’t treat gorillas with antibiotics because the injuries will heal on their own.”
As Como Zoo visitors may notice this summer, some of Alice’s wounds appear to be scabbed over, while others may be open and bleeding.
“You might ask, ‘Why not put a Band-Aid on her?’ and the answer is she would eat it,” says Dr. Trent. Even topical medications such as sprays and ointments pose a problem, since baby Nyati could put the medicine in her mouth as well. In fact, the close connection between Como’s gorilla mothers and babies has limited many of the treatment options available to veterinarians and keepers.
“We’ve got two babies in that troop, so whatever we do to Alice, we do to the young ones, which has been part of our rationale for the selection of drugs we use,” Trent says. “Every medicine we’ve chosen has had low penetrance into breast milk or low risk to infants if eaten. We want baby Nyati to mature normally, too, we don’t want her to be exposed to anything that would deter her neurologic development.”
To better understand both the causes and potential cures for Alice’s condition, Como Zoo turned to other gorilla keepers and facilities that are part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, sharing Alice’s symptoms with members of a gorilla keeper listserv, and providing regular progress reports to the Gorilla Species Survival Plan.
As Trent explains, “The first step with any of these picking disorders is to determine if there’s a trigger. Our initial approach was to look for anything that might make her skin feel odd.” Tests soon ruled out allergies, skin funguses, and other viruses that could be causing the skin irritation.
The zoo also sought help from psychology and neurology consultants at the University of Minnesota, looking for advice from professionals who had had success treating similar skin picking problems in humans. In May, Como Zoo also invited the Woodland Zoo’s Hugh Bailey, and Dr. Tom Meehan, vice president for veterinary services at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo and veterinary adviser to the Gorilla SSP to observe the gorilla troop and make recommendations for moving forward.
After spending more than a week in Gorilla Forest’s behind-the-scenes animal care areas observing Alice and her interactions within the troop, Bailey and Meehan concluded that Alice’s skin picking is not due to a social or psychological problem but is instead a manifestation of various physical problems.
“This problem that she has with picking doesn’t interfere with her normal day or her ability to be a gorilla,” says Bailey. “She has a normal activity budget. She moves around fine. She eats well. She forages normally. She interacts with everyone else normally, and she takes care of her infant. None of this has been impacted by her medical condition, and it tells me that it’s not due to depression or anxiety.”
Troop Dynamics and Treatment
Visitors who have heard about Alice’s health problems often ask why the gorilla hasn’t simply been separated from the other members of her troop until she’s healed.
“But that’s just not how gorillas work,” explains Como Zoo senior keeper Allison Jungheim. “Schroeder’s job as the dominant male is to protect his troop of females and if you try and split them up, that causes a lot of stress on everyone, not just for him. If Alice were to be separated, that could also cause negative dynamic issues when you put them back together. The gorilla’s social dynamics have been a large part of our considerations all along.”
The positive bonds observed between Como Zoo’s gorillas have also reassured gorilla behavior experts that staying close to her family troop is the best medicine for Alice. While primates can experience anxiety or depression, or get picked on by higher ranking animals, Bailey says, “We just don’t see any of that with Alice. She’s part of a great group of gorillas that get along very well. They have a silverback who is very mellow and even-handed, he and the other females are great with the kids, and they settle disputes in a normal gorilla way, without a lot of aggression. The best place for Alice to recover is right here.”
In humans, skin picking disorders are usually treated with a combination of medication and behavioral therapy—an approach that’s hard to recreate for a great ape. “In people, the first line of defense is behavioral modification, and coming up with different things that a person can do when they feel the need to pick, like clenching their fists,” says Dr. Trent. Since Alice tends to pick during “down time” when she’s not eating, exploring, or engaged with her baby, keepers have created a daily schedule that includes more frequent enrichment and interaction with the gorillas, in hopes of redirecting her focus during those intervals. She is also being treated with a drug that is labeled as an anti-depressant in humans—in this case, it is being used to break a psychological feedback loop that may be giving Alice positive reinforcement from picking.
After a period of major improvement in April, Alice’s condition has remained fairly constant since May—a trend that her caregivers hope will continue when the troop returns to spending time in Gorilla Forest’s outdoor spaces this summer. “This is a very challenging disorder to overcome and Alice may never be fully cured,” says Dr. Trent. “But we know that UV light and sunshine and activity are good for many skin disorders, so we’re hopeful that she will continue to improve over time.”
For the short term, some of the interior viewing areas of Gorilla Forest have been covered to give the gorilla troop time to readjust to their outdoors before they encounter crowds of onlookers. Como Zoo’s daily gorilla training sessions at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. will also include occasional updates about how Alice and her family troop are faring. “The main thing we want the public to recognize is that although Alice has a condition that doesn’t look good, it is not detracting from her ability to function as a gorilla and to take good care of her baby, and to enjoy food, and to do all the things gorillas do,” says Dr. Trent.
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Update on the New #Conglomerates
Posted on July 26, 2016 by Content in Context
My blog on the New Conglomerates has proven to be one of the most popular I have written. I’d been contemplating an update for a while, even before I heard this week’s announcement that Verizon is buying the bulk of Yahoo!. Talk about being prescient…. So, just over two years later, it feels very timely to return to the topic.
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Of the so-called FANG tech stocks, when I was writing back in May 2014, Facebook had recently acquired WhatsApp and Oculus VR. However, apart from merging Beats Music into its own music service, Apple has not made any big name deals, but has made a number of strategic tech acquisitions. Meanwhile, Amazon has attempted to consolidate its investment in delivery company, Colis Privé, but got knocked back by the French competition regulators. Netflix finally launched in Australia in March 2015, and within 9 months had 2.7 million customers, a growth rate of 30% per month. Finally, Google has since renamed itself Alphabet, and purchased AI business Deep Mind.
Over the same period, Microsoft appears to have reinvigorated its strategy: back in May 2014, Microsoft had just completed its acquisition of Nokia. Since then, Microsoft has announced it is buying LinkedIn (following the latter’s purchase of Lynda.com in 2015), but has also shut down Yammer, which it had only bought in 2012. The acquisition of LinkedIn has been framed as a way to embed corporate, business and professional customers for its desktop and cloud-based productivity tools (and maybe give a boost to its hybrid tablet/laptop PCs). On the other hand, Microsoft has a terrible track record with content-based products and services, as evidenced by the Encarta fiasco, and the fact that Bing is an also-ran search engine. I think the jury is still out on what this transaction will really mean for LinkedIn’s paying customers.
So, what are the big tech themes, and where are the New Conglomerates competing with each other?
First, despite being the “next big thing”, VR/AR is still some way off being fully mainstream (although Pokémon GO may change that….). Apple and Google will continue to go head-to-head in this space.
Second, content streaming is not yet the new “rivers of gold” for publishing (and the sale of Yahoo! might confirm that there’s still gold in those advertising hills….). But music streaming (Apple, Spotify, Amazon and Google – plus niche services such as Bandcamp and Mixcloud) is gaining traction, and Amazon is building more content for SVOD (to compete with Netflix, Apple and Google). But quality public broadcasters such as BBC, ABC and NPR are making great strides into audio streaming (via native apps and platforms like TuneIn) and podcasting. One issue that remains is the fact that digital downloads and streaming still suffer from geo-blocking, and erratic pricing models.
Third, Amazon continues to build out its on-line retail empire, even launching private label groceries. Amazon will also put more of a squeeze on eBay, which does not offer fulfillment, distribution or logistics and is a less attractive platform for local used-goods sellers compared to say, Gumtree.
Fourth, Amazon is making a play for the Internet of Things (which, for this discussion, includes drones), but both Apple and Google, via their hardware devices, OS capabilities and cloud services, will doubtless give Amazon a run for its money. Also, watch for how Blockchain will impact this sector.
Finally, payments, AI, robotics, analytics and location-based services all continue to bubble along – driven by, for example, crypto-currencies, medtech, fintech, big data and sentiment-based predictive tools.
Next week: Another #pitch night in Melbourne…
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3 Ways YouTube Pre-Roll Ads Forces Marketers To Rethink Video Advertising
By Kavi Guppta March 12th, 2015
There’s something about the disruptive pre-roll ads on YouTube that has always fascinated me. As a content creator, I’m starting to notice more and more how important YouTube’s pre-roll format is for determining which brands are successfully connecting with their customers and which brands are falling behind.
Advertisers are given fewer than five seconds on YouTube to convince the audience an ad is worth watching to the end before the viewer has an option to skip it. And eConsultancy research suggests 94 percent of people skip pre-roll ads after that five-second mark.
But if these ads encourage viewers to skip commercials, how are brands transforming their content to capture that lost attention? How can something ignored by audiences still be useful to marketers?
Creative production, use of technology, and evolving views on audience relevance are all key for brands hoping to do a better job of connecting with audiences on YouTube.
Let’s take a closer look at the three areas where brands can step up their pre-roll content game.
The creativity of pre-roll ads
Pre-roll ads have shown that video content can no longer just be a static one-way pitch to the viewer to buy something. The content has to be much more immersive and play into the way YouTube users watch videos.
The majority of brands I’ve encountered through pre-rolls aren’t doing enough to really take advantage of the space they’ve paid for. They’re still uploading the same commercial that ran on television. They’re using the five-second window to shout “Wait, don’t press skip.” Or they’re trying to squeeze in as much information as possible and hope something sticks. All of these techniques are stale.
Still, there are some brands that have begun to produce more YouTube-centric creative video content.
“The level of creativity has certainly gone up,” said Michelle Costello, digital media and web video reporter for Adweek. “[The pre-roll] is making people more innovative with their video commercial content. And as a result, we’re seeing more creative works in the shorter format.”
For example, Travel Agency Flight Centre produced a series of “What If?” pre-roll ads that ask the rhetorical question “What if you didn’t skip this ad?” to the viewer. The pre-roll poses an impassioned idea that asks the audience to ponder the journey they could take—with Flight Centre—and then apologizes for interrupting the video.
Belgian’s Lotto organization challenged audiences to a staring contest during the pre-roll for a chance to win two tickets to “Tomorrowland,” a popular electronic festival.
And Digi Telecommunications released pre-rolls acknowledging the annoyance of the interruption before giving viewers something interesting to enjoy—a cute ballerina dancing or a cat lounging—while quickly promoting the brand’s services.
These are all great examples of playing to the format’s inherent weaknesses and turning them into strengths. Those who want to reap the benefits of creative pre-roll need to adapt to the format in similar ways.
The technology of pre-roll ads
In addition to the creative element of video content, pre-roll also offers marketers a chance to work in a variety of screen sizes and time constraints.
Therefore they should test content formats that connect with viewers on the go (shorter pre-roll videos) and viewers who are connecting on desktop devices (longer pre-roll videos). A pre-roll clip can be useless and unreasonable if an ad is longer than the 20-second viral clip the viewer is ultimately trying to watch.
Calls-to-action also play an important role in navigating the viewer through the advertising product. The link that takes the viewer away from YouTube needs to be more than just a boring old hyperlink to the brand’s website. It has to continue the visual experience to another video or an equally engaging article.
Once again, very few brands take advantage of these techniques.
Honda, with its recent “Other Side” campaign, gave viewers the chance to control the Japanese carmaker’s advertising experience through calls-to-action. Viewers are shown a fast-paced 30-second pre-roll ad while message associated about the brand’s Type-R Civic Model flash on the screen. The final call-to-action encourages viewers to visit a branded website, integrated with YouTube, that allows audiences to toggle between two interactive digital experiences that take place in car.
The campaign’s UX is boosted by incredible design, and the brand might have driven even more awareness had the pre-roll been just as interactive as the website. The interactivity displayed in the longer ad is what separates it from your average TV advertisement. Moving forward, making use of these technological advantages will separate the skipped ads from the viewed ads.
The relevancy of pre-roll ads
In a September 2014 analysis of U.S. Digital Video Ads, eMarketer claimed that “[m]uch of the time audiences spend with digital video in general is not useful for advertisers, such as clips that are either too short to include ads or not brand friendly, and both are attributes of many user-generated YouTube videos that get the most views.”
Too many marketers aren’t using the powerful data that can be accessed by YouTube or Google’s targeting technology. Instead, as eMarketer demonstrated, brands have been using the data to attach irrelevant ads to the platform’s most popular content. The majority of these commercials hope to catch someone’s attention, but the content rarely connects with the viewer’s actual interests in that moment.
To remedy this trend, brands need to improve the relevancy of their content in order to hook viewers. For example, a hardware brand could analyze engagement metrics for DIY home renovation videos to understand what types of projects are most popular and then create ads for products that are relevant to those tutorials. The insights will lead to a more relevant advertising experience that could potentially seduce the viewer away from the video they were planning to watch.
Another way to target the right audience involves collaborating with YouTubers who are already attracting audiences with compelling content. The hardware brand in the example above could team with influential video creators who focus on crafts and home repair to produce targeted video ads in line with the high quality content the YouTube influencer already provides. After all, YouTubers are now more popular than traditional celebrities among teens—so on YouTube pre-rolls, they could be incredibly relevant.
“When you normally watch TV, it’s the same ad that everyone sees across the U.S.,” Costello said. “But the differences with online video mean you can really get specific and reach that ideal user who wants to buy your brand. It’s supposed to lead to better brand perception.”
Pre-roll video will probably continue to struggle to some degree because of their skippable nature, but there’s no doubting that brands can get more people to pay attention to the medium. Focusing on creativity, technology, and relevancy may not revolutionize pre-roll clips, but it might just get a few more customers to keep watching. For now, that’s good enough.
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Protecting our social security system from churn and burn
Posted on September 22, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen
Today’s Crikey has a brief piece by me in reaction to a piece by Christian Kerr on Wednesday. I’ve written about this a couple of times on Troppo before.
Here’s my reprise for Crikey.
What makes Australia’s social security system great
The memes are out in force again, I see. Given the breadth of issues journalists cover and the speed at which they must work, one can’t blame them for swallowing the odd line set for the unwary.
On Wednesday, Christian Kerr fell for what he himself called an “old chestnut” — “why the hell are we paying public servants to take money away from people in tax and hand it back to them in welfare?”
I’ll tell you why because, like all other countries our tax system raises revenue according to individual earnings, but family payments are designed to assist according to household rather than individual needs.
That difference underscores an under-appreciated gem of Australian public policy.
As in other countries, our social security system is messy. But when it comes to what matters getting the best social results for the least cost well, the clich© “world’s best practice” doesn’t begin to describe it.
Our system provides European-style protection for the least well off and for low and middle income children at near American-style revenue cost. It’s nearly three times as targeted as the next best system New Zealand’s. Even poverty traps have been tackled here better than most other countries.
* Ratio of dollars to poor households per dollar to rich households. Source (ppt): Whiteford, OECD, 2005.
Of course some “churn” reflects increasing politically targeted middle class welfare and to that extent Kerr’s comments hit home.
But Australia gets the stellar results it does precisely because of the way the tax system raises money and the way the payments system then recirculates it according to household need.
The real question is the administrative efficiency of both systems acting together not the magnitude of “churn”. Indeed, if we called family payments “tax credits” as some other countries with less efficient systems do measured tax churn would plummet.
Of course nothing real would have changed. But the “tax churning” meme could be laid to rest.
Then we could move on and get churned up about something more worthwhile.
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36 Responses to Protecting our social security system from churn and burn
The real question is the administrative efficiency of both systems acting together not the magnitude of “churn”
Peter Saunders says:
Nick keeps using Peter Whiteford’s table to support his argument that we do not have a churning problem in Australia. But as I have pointed out several times before, the Table is comparing tax-welfare flows at extreme points in the income distribution. Look at the pattern across the distribution overall and you get a very different story.
It is true that Australia targets cash on poorer households more successfully than other countries do. This is because of our tight means testing and the fact that all benefits are paid out of general taxation rather than from a national insurance fund. Whether or not this is a good thing is of course debatable, for we certainly pay a high price in the high EMTRs which are unavoidable when you withdraw means tested payments from people as soon as they start to earn a bit more of their own money. This creates huge work disincentives from which our system inherently suffers. Nevertheless, it is true that we devote a higher proportion of our total welfare spending to the lowest 30% of earners than virtually any other OECD country (something the welfare lobby persistently fails to recognise, incidentally).
It is also true that our system churns back fewer tax dollars to the richest 10-20% of the population than other countries do, but this is almost entirely due to our different age pension arrangements. Because we do not have a European-style insurance system, the highest earners in Australia do not get a state age pension when they retire, but in most other countries the pension is paid on the basis of eligibility through past contributions rather than on the basis of ‘need’. Because the richest Aussies do not get a government age pension, their share of total welfare spending is lower than in other countries.
The key point, however, is that other welfare payments are spread thickly across the middle classes, and this has got worse as family payments have been made more generous. Nick fails to mention that, below the top 20% of income earners, churning is every bit as great in our system as elsewhere. As Peter Whiteford states in the paper which Nick keeps referring us to: “Australia has roughly the same share of middle class welfare as most other OECD countries” (p.11). He estimates that the middle 60% of Australian earners get 56% of all welfare transfers. This means there is a huge problem of churning in our tax-welfare system, and Ann Harding’s modelling at NATSEM bears this out.
This is not just a problem due to the inefficiency and expense. Much more important is the erosion of independence. Millions of people who could otherwise look after themselves are having money taken from them in tax so that the government can give it back (and demand their gratitude) in payments and services they would not have needed if they had not been taxed so heavily in the first place. This is why the churning debate will not go away, no matter how much Nick (or Peter Costello for that matter) wish it would. “Stellar results”? Hardly.
James Farrell says:
What’s with this ‘targeting’ business? Are you some kind of patriarchal paternalist? Get with the program.
I read this in Crikey before here and I don’t have the brain capacity of those that posted before me.
Doesn’t this sort of churn suggest that those on middle income are not as good as money managers as those on low incomes and high incomes?
Doesn’t that in turn suggest that those on high incomes care about money and want to for arguments sake re-invest their money in X, and those on low incomes need all the money they can get just to meet an adequate standard of living for say their family, whereas those on middle incomes are a bit blaise?
I feel that I should point out that while my SPRC paper – in an attempt to be “balanced” – does note that “in this specific way Australia has roughly the same amount of middle class welfare as other OECD countries”, this specific way means as a share of total spending. However, because of targeting Australia spends less than the average, so the paper also shows that when you calculate churning across the whole income distribution and – not just the extremes – Australia still has the lowest level of churning of any OECD country, when you express churning as a % of household disposable income.
In any case, in the paper I also argue that this measure of churning is fairly primitive. It is an overestimate because it is calculated from grouped data rather than from unit record data. More importantly, silly policies can reduce measured churning. For example, if all disabled or old people living with relatives set up separate households then churning would go down because it would reduce the overlap between a household receiving benefits and paying taxes. Would this be a good policy to support? Unfortunately poverty would go up unless the taxpayers voluntarily transferred more money to their relatives (and in case they would lose the economies of scale arising from sharing households).
As Nick and Derrida Derider point out – The real question is the administrative efficiency of both systems acting together not the magnitude of “churn”
In case anyone wonders or cares, my comment was directed at Nicholas, not Peter (whose comment I hadn’t seen).
Peter S: Are there many retirees in the top 10-20% of the income distribution? If not, are these figures calculated on a lifetime basis? I would have thought the answers to both these questions would be ‘no’, in which case I don’t quite see how lack of government old age pensions in Australia relative to other countries could be responsible for a relatively low rate of spending on the top 10-20%.
Much as I dislike baby bonuses, they would also contribute to what seems a lot like churning, but is actually pulling money away from singles to families, but it might look a lot like churning if the group is defined on the basis of income. (Which is just another way of making Peter W’s point that how the group is identified will matter.)
Nicholas Gruen says:
Thanks for your comments Peter (S). Thanks for your comments too Peter W, but these comments are addressed to Peter S :)
You commented on this when I posted on it a while ago and I was hoping you’d expand. It seems to me that you’re using churning to suggest that there’s massive inefficiency in the system and that we can end it all by just giving the money back. Well I broadly endorse the way the money is being given back through the family payments system now. Of course we could quibble, and I guess we could both think of some middle class welfare we’d like to do away with.
So I’ll agree with you that it could well be better ‘optics’ to call all of the cash circulated as family benefits ‘tax credits’. Wherever you do it that gets rid of the churning. One is left with the real question which is ‘where are your priorities in terms of targeting tax relief?’ Right now the relief is targeted to middle and lower income families. How would the relief you want to give differ?
On the last thread I made the following comment but didn’t get a response. I hope you might be able to expand a little more here.
Thanks for your response. I’ve read your papers and my own bias is the same as yours – to encourage self-provision where possible. But . . . Whiteford’s comments on churning runs for seven pages including over a page of specific responses to your suggestions. He’s fairly sceptical of your proposals without rejecting them out of hand.
(For instance just trying to think it through intuitively, it seems to me that using the tax free threshold is a very blunt instrument because it is so indiscriminate. This means that it gives away large amounts of revenue and so undermines our capacity to cross subsidse those who are in poverty more than temporarily and families with children. (I’ve take it from comments you’ve made in various publications that you’re broadly in support of these goals, even if you want to scale them back to the extent you can bring about self-provision.)
Can you tell me if there’s a detailed response to Whiteford’s comments.
Cam Riley asked me to post the original piece by Christian Kerr. Here it is.
“More than 900,000 working age Australians will keep less than half of their next dollar of private income, a report shows, and more sole parents and women face higher effective marginal tax rates than they did a decade ago,”
I have redone the calculations of churning in OECD countries and excluded the top 20% of the income distribution in each country to deal with Peter S’s point above. When you do this, Australia moves from having the lowest level of churning in the OECD to the third lowest – after the US and France (but France pays for most of its welfare system with employer social security contributions, which are not included in household income surveys, so this is misleading). It also means that the US spends a lot more of its lower level of social spending on the rich than does Australia!
These calculations are static and do not measure lifetime churning, and they also do not include indirect taxes and government non-cash benefits. If one is concerned about this broader measure of churning then it would be much higher than if you simply look at direct taxes and cash benefits. However, Australia would still have a relatively very low level of chuning as our government non-cash benefits are around the average, but our level of indirect taxes is lower than most other countries.
Thanks to Nick and Peter W for thoughtful contributions. But I fear there is a basic philosophical gulf between us.
Nick talks of “giving the money back” to taxpayers, but that is not what I have been arguing for. I don’t want it taken from them in the first place. Similarly, he thinks raising the tax free threshold means “giving away revenue”, but I think it means not collecting revenue.
Nick thinks the difference between giving people their money back and never taking it away from them in the first place is just a semantic quibble (which is why he thinks relabelling FTB payments as tax credits will answer my concerns) but it is not. There is a huge difference between depending on the government to make payments to you, and being independent of government by retaining your own income earned through your own efforts. And this, for me, is what the churning debate is all about. Nick keeps insisting the concern is about efficiency, but in a paper I published in July last year (http://www.cis.org.au/IssueAnalysis/ia61/ia61.pdf) I identified efficiency as only one of six reasons for trying to reduce churning (the others being strengthening work incentives, improving sustainability over time, personal empowerment, enhancing social solidarity and depoliticising civil society by stopping politicians vote-buying with voters’ own money). I am currently trying to write a short monograph on all this which will hopefully make these points in more detail.
Turning to Peter W, it seems to me the appropriate basis for measuring the extent of tax-welfare churning is as a proportion of total government spending, for the debate is precisely about how much tax governments should take and how much benefits they should hand out. It therefore remains true to say that Australian government churning generates as much ‘middle class welfare’ (relative to total government budgets) as other western governments do.
More importantly, Peter accepts that his analysis excludes lifetime churning (tax taken today but handed back later rather than immediately), it excludes the value of services in kind (notably education and health, the first of which is known to favour the middle classes more than the poor) and it excludes indirect taxes (thereby massively underestimating the amount of tax paid by those on lower incomes who receive most of the targeted spending). These are three huge omissions. Analysis has been done (by Ann Harding and others) that includes all these things, and it reveals extensive tax-welfare churning in the Australian system (I reviewed some of this literature in my first churning paper published in April last year – http://www.cis.org.au/IssueAnalysis/ia57/IA57.pdf).
Peter rightly says that including all these things would still show Australian churning as lower than in most of Europe, but so what? The task as I see it is to refashion the twentieth century welfare state to take account of the growth of affluence over the last 50 years. The European welfare states are the last place to look for ideas on how to do this.
In his SPRC paper, Peter rightly says that there are major practical difficulties in significantly reducing churning. I agree with this – but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. I believe, for example, that there is a lot of scope in developing personal accounts to replace mass dependency on government provision, but the models here are found in places like Chile and Singapore, not in Europe.
My argument has always been that large numbers of Australians could afford to insure themselves, or save, to cover many of the risks that 2 or 3 generations earlier they could not have afforded to cover, but the high taxes they have to pay to fund the state system of provision precludes many of them from doing this. Superannuation is the obvious example of the viability of enhanced self-reliance – most of us can now save and invest for our retirement in a way that would not have been possible 50 or 100 years ago. What is true of retirement is true too of other key areas like health and income insurance.
A move in this direction may or may not prove more efficient (I think it would but others may disagree). But it would certainly be more liberating.
I look forward to your responding to my points at some stage. You paint my views as in some way fundamentally different to yours. Well I tried to engage you by conceding your point. I could concede it ‘for arguments’ sake, but I also concede it more genuinely. I agree with you that if possible it’s better if money isn’t taxed from people and then given back to them.
But you’re not arguing to do away with some of the distributional concerns of the payments system. As I understand it you want to favour people with children (by giving them larger tax free thresholds). I’d rather do it with tax credits. The difference as far as I can see it is that both policies tax families with children less but using tax credits would introduce ways of targeting that tax relief. They would target the tax relief to poor and middle income families and means test away the high income families.
So at least in terms of distribution, it seems your proposal is similar to the status quo with the advantage of it being done by not raising revenue rather than recycling it (which is a good idea by me). But your proposals make the tax relief less targetted and available to rich and poor alike. Which of course means if we did it on a revenue neutral basis, the size of the benefits will have to be reduced.
Am I getting warm?
If I could just add a few cents worth to this argument (sorry, discussion). The issue about how to treat Family Tax Benefit is key. Conceptually, Family Tax Benefit is part of the tax system, not the social security system (that’s why it’s called family tax benefit, not family benefit). It’s just that in Australia, unlike some other countries, we recognise that such a benefit is more useful to many people as a fortnightly payment than only at the end of the year, so we give people the option to claim it fortnightly as if it was a social security payment But anyone who wants to reduce their level of tax/social security churning can always wait until the end of the year and claim their FTB then. The fact that so few people do this may illustrate just how important FTB recipients think churning is.
Unfortunately, because FTB is means-tested it leads to high EMTRs (though I would point out that these are very much lower than they used to be, precisely because this government has made FTB so much more generous). But the alternative to this is to have very generous universal family assistance which would have to be financed by, you guessed it, high tax rates. Or you just have much higher tax thresholds, as Peter S seems to prefer, but that leaves you with the problem of how to assist families who don’t have a high enough income to benefit from tax breaks. As soon as you introduce some form of refundable tax credit to deal with this issue, you are right back where you started.
By the way, the high EMTRs that NATSEM seems to be so worried about are at the low end of what you would expect from a means-tested system – in fact most of the people experiencing EMTRs greater than 50% have EMTRs between 50 and 60%. But if you defined high EMTRs as more than 60% you wouldn’t have much of a story, would you?
Yep, that’s right.
Backroom girl, I don’t see why it should make any difference to my argument whether you are given your benefit fortnightly or annually, the point is you are still being made to rely on a payment by government when there would be no need for you to be in this demeaning position if the money hadn’t been taken away from you in the first place. (I have, incidentally, made the same point in relation to our absurd income tax system which deliberately over-taxes you so you can be grateful when the ATO gives you a little bit back again at the end of the tax year).
Nor do I think an EMTR of 50+% is a minor concern. I agree with you that high EMTRs are inherent to means tested benefits systems, but isn’t this an argument for looking for an alternative system that does not rely on means tested benefits?
This brings me on to Nick’s point about redistribution and support for families with children. My view (set out most recently in my essay with Barry Maley in my edited CIS volume, ‘Taxploitation’, chapter 7) is that the TFT should ideally be set as equivalent to the welfare floor for any given family type – thus, around $13K for singles, $21K for couples opting for joint taxation, $21K for single parent with one child, $27K for couple with 1 child, $30K for couple with 2 children, etc. This would guarantee that nobody is taxed before they have earned a subsistence income. It would also mean that nobody earning above these thresholds would need be given any further state support. Middle class welfare thus all but vanishes.
The problem, of course, concerns people earning less than their TFT. Given the minimum wage, this will only affect families with children, so the single and joint couple thresholds are fine. The problem concerns low income families with children (e.g. a couple with 2 kids earning less than $30K).
Assuming we want to avoid the present system of gradual means test tapers creating extensive welfare dependency across a wide span of incomes, there are only 2 possible solutions that I can think of. One is to have a 100% withdrawal rate below the TFT, but this would create a major disincentive effect over a tight band of income, which I consider unattractive. The other is to turn the child’s component of the TFT into a non-means-tested tax credit. Parents could then claim, say, a $4K tax reduction for each child, and those earning less than $4K per child above their threshold could claim the shortfall as a cash payment.
A system like this would keep the great bulk of families out of the government payments system, in contrast to our present system which sucks more and more into it. It would also overcome the work disincentives associated with means testing, for many low income families would pay no tax, and no low or middle income families would face an EMTR above 30%.
I estimate this change would ‘cost’ $12 billion in revenue foregone, but some of this would certainly be recouped in efficiency gains and higher employment rates.
I hope this answers Nick’s question (all of this is spelled out in my essay with Barry Maley).
Peter, just a few points in response
I’m not sure why a means-tested tax credit is ‘demeaning’ and an increase in your tax threshold (supplemented by a means-tested refundable tax credit) is not. While I’m sure that most Australians would rather pay less tax than they do at present, I’m not aware of any evidence that FTB recipients in Australia regard receiving FTB as demeaning. I also don’t believe that most Australians regard themselves as ‘welfare dependent’ if they receive FTB. (In many households, of course, the person receiving the FTB is different to the person who would be paying less tax, which might affect some people’s views.)
As to whether it is necessary to have EMTRs of less than 50%, I am not aware of any realistic proposal that would allow income support for people without work to be paid at existing levels and not have EMTRs of more than 50%. Any degree of means-testing will create EMTRs this high over at least some of the income distribution and I believe that a universal non-means tested basic income that was enough to actually live on would require every dollar of private income to be taxed at more than 50% just to pay for it in the first place. It really isn’t possible to reduce everyone’s EMTR to 30 per cent without leaving a hell of a lot of people worse off than they are at present.
Assuming that your estimated $12 billion in revenue foregone (presumably this is after subtracting off the money that is currently paid out as FTB?) is correct, that is a fairly large hole in government revenue. Do you have any proposals for how that hole would be filled – or would government just have to cut expenditure in other areas by that much?
Peter, who are the winners and who are the losers in your proposal – compared with the current system?
Backroom Girl and others have it quite wrong. Most of what passes for FTB is welfare money, rebadged as a tax measure. Just because people pass it off as being part of the tax system doesn’t really make it so. Having the butcher deliver bread wouldn’t make it sausages. And I’m sure BG knows this; he/she is probably just being agreeable.
Peter S. has the makings of the right idea by having tax free thresholds that sit on a par with the payments to the various household types. However, the claim that this would prevent people being in both the tax system and the welfare system just cannot be so (unless there is some cunning trickery at work). It implies a withdrawal rate on the income support side of 100%, and that income support is not assessable income for income tax purposes. It also overlooks one of the great divides between tax and the welfare system – one is assessed on yearly income; the other fortnightly (more or less).
People should wrap their brains around the idea that the welfare system needs to interact properly with the Pay As You Go Tax system, not the tax system in the broad.
The other point I wanted to make is to take exception to the claim in Nick’s original article that the churn is due to family payments. Some undoubtedly is (most of it, probably, because we don’t have proper tax deductions for children any more). However singles and couples without kids are churning away as well, without FTB in sight.
Consider the changes the Gov’t introduced to Newstart Allowance, etc, income tests from July this year. They knocked between 10 and 20% off the withdrawal rates as an incentive meausure (pulling down EMTRs). This means that the cutout point for a single Newstart payment is now a little under $800 a fortnight. But the last $130 of this is pure churn – the person pays more in tax than they get in Newstart. For childless couples it’s about the last $220 a fortnight.
People in these income ranges show up in the welfare stats, but they are net taxpayers. If the tax and welfare interaction had been designed better, they wouldn’t be on payment, and could probably still be getting the same in-hand dollar amounts. I think this is poor design. It also means people need to take the welfare dependency numbers with a very large grain of salt.
Spog,
I am not defending any or all of the payments system. I’ve been critical of the idea that getting rid of churn should be a high priority in this area. If the matters you have drawn attention are inappropriate, they should be dealt with but not primarily because churn is an issue – it is that the net effect of the various policies are not working well together.
As I’ve said, I’m actually in agreement with Peter that appearances are of some significance here – that it’s better for people to get things as targeted tax relief rather than get payments from the government. But that’s because you care about appearances – because you think appearances have significance in terms of values and culture.
But that can be separated from the argument about who we help (with grants or tax reduction). I think Peter’s support for reduced churning mixes up the two issues.
But beyond arguing the broad merits targeting assistance according to household income (adjusted for how many people live in the house) I’m not supporting any particular aspect of the current payments system – at least not in this discussion. Further I agree with Peter’s opposition to ‘middle class welfare’ so I don’t agree with lots of those cheques that go out in multiples of $100 the oddest being the $800 for apprentices. On the other hand quite a lot of middle class welfare is the result of reducing EMTRs – you can’t argue for benefits and against middle class welfare and high EMTRs at the same time – they mutually exclude each other.
Peter Saunders: A number of comments
To a significant degree you seem to me to be concentrating on appearances rather than reality.
Like backroom girl I don’t understand why current family payments are demeaning and why they reduce people’s independence, but if they are paid as a tax reduction they are OK. Is there any evidence that recipients of family payments would think of them differently if they were paid in a different way?
As I read your proposals families would receive non income-tested payments below their new tax thresholds, so for these families your system is the same as it is now, so in your terms you still have a system that is demeaning .
To me the problem is that if you wish to go further and encourage private accounts for education and health, the effective tax thresholds you are talking about must be even higher. If for arguments sake the cost of a public secondary school place is about $4,000 a year and you have a marginal tax rate of 30%, then you need to increase the tax threshold for a one-child family by an extra $12,000 a year. Health costs increase this.
Let’s say that we introduced extensive personal accounts along the line of Singapore’s – wouldn’t most people perceive these as no different from taxes in the sense that the Government is telling you what to do with your money?
I would note in passing that I have severe doubts that Australian social values are anything like those in Singapore – a point you have made, I think, about people who advocate a Swedish social welfare system. Singapore is economically liberal when it comes to macro-economic policy, but the government is authoritarian and social values are conservative (and presumably derived from confucian social and family values – not exactly prevalent in australia). The Gini coefficient in Singapore is about 0.49 compared to roughly 0.30 in Australia – and they have one of the lowest fertility rates in the world – in my view an indication of a society with significant internal strains (mainly relating to the position of women). Also while they have high rates of home ownership most of the housing was built by the government and sold off at subsidised prices.
In contrast, Australia has one of the most redistributive social security systems in the world and a strong commitment to egalitarianism and questioning of authority – about diametrically opposite to Singapore.
Your proposal also does not deal with the churning that is actually heaviest on low income people – that is the level of indirect taxes on their consumption. why does reducing income taxes have higher priority than reducing indirect taxes?
Backroom girl (post 16) and Peter W (post 21) both query why government top-up payments should be considered demeaning. The point is that learning to rely on government to give you money is destructive of the spirit of self-reliance. If many recipients do not find this demeaning, it is only because we have all become so habituated to dependency on government hand-outs, and because so many people receive them that it now seems ‘normal.’
As illustration: At the time of the last federal budget I participated in the ‘Life Matters’ programme next morning where we responded to listeners’ calls. Overwhelmingly, callers went on about what they were being given, or not being given, in FTB, Child Care Benefits, etc., expressing indignation that some people were getting more than them, or that their needs were not being properly recognised by the government. It was a thoroughly depressing experience, for the subtext was that we are all needy victims requiring and deserving government assistance.
One of my core objections to churning is the way it transfers power to politicians while making great swathes of the working population dependent on their arbitrary beneficience. The results are seen in the scramble for handouts on the one hand (“what is the government doing for me?”), and the brazen political auction of taxpayers’ money for votes on the other (“vote for us and we’ll give you even more of your own or other people’s cash”).
None of this happens if people are simply allowed to keep their own money.
Incidentally, Peter W asks whether “recipients of family payments would think of them differently if they were paid in a different way?” But like Nick’s comments about “giving the money back” (see my post 11), this again fails to grasp what I am saying. To reiterate: I am not saying the money should be paid “in a different way,” nor that it should be “given back.” I am saying it should not be taken away from people in the first place.
Peter also doubts whether people would regard compulsory payments into their own personal accounts as any different from paying tax to the government. Answer: yes they would! Look at super. If people saw no difference between the money they (through their employers) pay into their own super accounts and the money the government takes off them in tax, they would not make additional voluntary contributions into super. When did you last hear of anyone making additional voluntary contributions to the ATO?
Just as receiving a government payment is very different from keeping your own money, so too paying tax to the government is very different from paying into your own savings account. These things may appear to be economic equivalents, but sociologically, psychologically and politically they are complete opposites.
Finally, thanks to Spog (18) for insisting that FTB payments are welfare payments no matter how much Mr Costello may insist they are tax transfers (although Costello actually tries to have this both ways – see http://www.cis.org.au/exechigh/Eh2006/EH35006.htm). And yes, Spog, it is true that my proposals do not eliminate tax-welfare churning altogether, but they do eliminate middle class welfare (for nobody earning above the threshold needs or gets any kind of government payment).
I think this discussion has been very useful, but I’m now bowing out as I’ve been away from CIS for the last 3 months and lots of other things are pressing for attention. Thanks to all contributors.
I know you have now withdrawn from this conversation, but I would like to assure you that I do actually have quite a bit of sympathy with your preference that people be more self-reliant and for government policies to encourage and assist this.
It’s just that I think you underestimate the practical difficulty of delivering what is currently paid through FTB through the tax system, not least because it is employers that have to administer the tax system and they are not interested in anything that makes their lives more complicated. I think there is a very good reason why most countries in the end have opted for a system of income transfers to assist families with children (even in cases such as ours where they pretend that they are part of the tax system). Income transfers are designed to be targeted (or not) on a family basis, while most tax systems are based on the individual.
You can only really make tax-based family assistance simple by making it universal, so that you don’t have to take account of the income of both parents at once. I agree that this would significantly reduce churning, but it would also have to be either much more expensive than what we have now, or much meaner in terms of maximum assistance, or both. The system we have, imperfect as it might be, is in the end a compromise between trying to give people without their own income enough to live on and keeping the overall costs down, while trying to ensure that there is still sufficient financial incentive for people to become more self-reliant. Nicholas is quite right when he says that it’s not really possible to be against both high EMTRs and middle-class welfare – you have to have one or the other unless you want to abandon any pretense of providing an adequate income at the bottom of the scale.
While I would be one of the first people to say that I think the current government has gone further than necessary to throw more money at families, the political reality is that now that they have, changing the system in any significant way would be extremely difficult. But good luck with your campaign.
Peter thanks for the time you’ve given us, but aren’t you being a bit of a tease?
I don’t know about others, but I’ve got this feeling that we’re just inches away from nailing down our differences. Just another 2 minutes of your time for you to set out who wins and who loses from your proposals?
Bring Back EP at LP says:
Can i just say thanks to Nick for first of all using that large Gruen intellect to write on this topic and for the comments made after that. Special thanks in particular to the two peters but in essence all contributions have been highly educative for boofheads such as I.
I do agree with nick. the evil Peter S is not very far away from nick.
Never let it be said I was a tease! Actually, I published some benefit/loss estimates over 2 years ago.
We don’t have the resources properly to model these proposals at CIS, but when Barry Maley and I first started toying with the idea of combining TFT rises with non-means tested child tax credits (and scrapping other benefits), we estimated patterns of gains and losses as follows:
Small gains for most single, childless workers (non-workers on benefits unaffected);
Lower net incomes for families relying entirely on welfare, and for those with one part-time minimum wage earner (welfare claimants with no other source of income are the biggest losers – a single parent with 2 children who has no other income is 13% worse off);
Slightly lower net incomes for families with one full-time minimum wage earner, but substantial increase in net incomes for families earning between the minimum and the average wage. Above that people make the same absolute gains (but lower relative gains).
These patterns are not surprising – part of the intention is to strengthen work rewards and incentives, and that clearly is achieved, for nearly all households with at least one full-time worker benefit, and their EMTRs are slashed. But as Backroom Girl predicted, we lower EMTRs and end middle class welfare at the expense of lower levels of welfare support for families with no other earnings.
If these reduced incomes for welfare dependent households are deemed unacceptable (or politically impractical), Barry and I thought one possibility would be to enhance the value of the Child Tax Credit for children under five (where there should be no expectation of the primary carer getting a job), although this would add another $2.5 billion to the total cost. (incidentally, answering an earlier query from Backroom Girl, my view is that we should require government to find savings to cover these changes and should not be bound by the revenue neutrality condition, which simply institutionalises current high levels of public expenditure).
All these calculations (which are very rough, and which rest on an earlier and slightly different version of our proposals) can be found on pages 16-20 of Maley and Saunders, “Tax Reform to Make Work Pay” (March 2004) – download from http://www.cis.org.au/Publications/policymonographs/pm62.pdf. These proposals are not cast in stone – we can play around with them to generate somewhat different outcomes for specific groups – but this is basically the benefit/loss pattern, and it’s not one that I believe is totally unreasonable, though I appreciate others will disagree.
In response to your 20, I think churning has more significance than logic (or perhaps just arithmetic) would suggest. One of the points Peter S. is constantly making is that it might just be better to not take the money in the first place, rather than recycle it back, even if the end benefits (financially) are the same on paper.
Horizontal equity measures are a case in point. Look at the noise level around Family Tax Benefit Part B. Then cock an ear toward the dependent spouse tax offset – isn’t the silence on this deafening in comparison? What’s the difference between them for households with a tax liability? Functionally they are for the same thing, but one is despised and taunted and the other is ignored. The difference? One is a cash payment and the other is reduction in tax collection.
Similarly, the point I made in my post 19 was that welfare dependency, as measured by numbers on payments, is artificially high because the Gov’t went down the direct payment route when it could have reduced the tax take. This has knock-on impacts that are additional to the churn involved. For example, these people are picking up concession cards that are really conceptually for people on low incomes, not higher income people who are just on benefits because the Gov’t couldn’t be bothered doing the harder work of fixing tax-transfer interactions. They are lumped in with the poor quite inappropriately.
Reductions in churning would require a return to sanity on the issue of horizontal equity, something I don’t see coming when people endlessly talk about a need to target. In fact that illustrates my point. As soon as we go down the cash payment route, targetting comes up. Horizontal equity goals are lost if we switch to cash payments. They survive better in the place they should live – reduced tax collection.
If I read Mr Saunders post above correctly – under his proposal, people on welfare are worse off, most people on the full-time minimum wage or less are worse off, most people above that are better off.
Gummo Trotsky says:
I’m in a bit of a Robin Goodfellow mood – I’d just like to remind everyone that the Titanic had targetted lifeboats.
Andrew Reynolds says:
Surely it is not impossible to combine the family benefits with individual payments – the UK has been doing it for years and, at least from the point of view of a simple taxpayer (me) it worked well.
For example, my wife and I were both working and were eligible for certain tax reductions based on our family situation. When starting with an employer I gave them a form from my previous employer showing how much I had earned in income and paid in tax up to the point where I left.
I then filled in a form indicating which tax adjustments I was entitled to (as we were both working it took a quick discussion with my wife to work out which ones she was already claiming) and then at each pay date through the year my correct tax liability up to that point was worked out. Any outstanding tax was then paid to the Inland Revenue after being deducted from my pay and, unless there was anything odd in my tax arrangements, most of the time a tax return (and a tax refund / payment) was not needed. Simple.
Where there was a change to the rules an email came around from HR advising us of it and asking us to update their records if we were affected. I would then check with my wife if she was already claiming it.
It meant that most of the burden of the year end forms was shifted to the point where you joined an employer and any changes were dealt with on the fly. Although many of them were accounted for by the government as payments, they were actually never taken out of our pay in the first place. A much better and easier system with less work to do at the year end for everyone. It also gets rid of the payments back and forth we get every year.
That’s actually a good point Andrew. The Australian system of Family Tax Benefits can work the same way – people can take it as a reduction in tax deducted rather than as cash payments. Hardly anyone does, which is probably an indication of something (possibly ignorance, but it might also reflect some preferences within couple households for who gets the money in their hand).
The Australian system requires you to guesstimate your income for the financial year, something at which people are spectacularly bad. There is a rumour that the estimates people submit are recorded by Treasury and then compared to their actual incomes. Anyone who has correctly estimated their income and expenditure in advance is then hired by Treasury in an effort to improve that Department’s own forward estimates processing.
As Spog points out it is possible to take the family tax benefit as a tax refund at the end of the year, but you have to be happy with giving the Tax Office an interest-free loan – and you also can’t do this for any rent assistance you are entitled to. You can take FTB in tax reductions throughout the year, but then you have to be happy telling your employer what your husband or wife’s income is, and also for them to calculate what your payments will be, so some people may not like this for privacy reasons (and you also can’t do this for rent assistance).
It is inherently difficult to deliver large income-tested payments through the tax system, however. I’m not sure from what he says whether Andrew Reynolds was receiving any of the Child Tax credits that now exist in the UK, but they have exactly the same overpayments problem that Australia had in the first few years of the the Family Tax Benefit. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5032170.stm for some of the gruesome deails.
Like Australia they are solving the problem by throwing a lot of money at it.
It is worth noting that for a couple family on benefits or combining benefits with low pay (up to about 40% of average wages), Australia now has the most generous family payments in the OECD (and presumably therefore the world), while for a family with somewhat higher pay (around 50% of the average), the UK is the most generous, followed by Australia.
Peter W,
No, we were not there for that pleasure (?). I doubt that we would have been eligible. To me, though, the system where the calculation is remade each pay is the best one – ensure that, provided you are a normal PAYE taxpayer and you have no abnormal circumstances, you do not need to submit a return. This cuts down on so much work, saving everyone a lot of time and effort – except for the employer, but even there the load is not too heavy as the computer programs take care of most of it.
Of course the FTC faced considerable opposition from employers in the UK for exactly the reason Andrew stated. But it also caused some fears that employers would use it to lower some wages (as they know what the person’s household net income is) and therefore appropriate some of it for themselves (don’t forget that Australia’s original Child Endowment was introduced in wartime as an anti-inflationary measure explicitly to do this).
Wherever you have a degressive effective tax scale (ie EMTRs higher on lower incomes than for slightly higher incomes) and collect tax/pay benefits during he course of the year will inherently overpay some people on a full-year basis. As I’ve pointed out elsewhere a practical EITC in Australia would have to face this issue, f’rexample.
Backroom girl has made some references to the “wallet vs purse” issue (ie who within the couple actually gets the money). Historically this was a big factor in design of these things – the sociologists provided strong empiric evidence that using tax and child benefits to transfer money from the wallet to the purse boosted the amount spent on the kids. That is, intra-household churning was deliberate. I dunno if this is still the case though – the “male breadwinner/female housewife” model ain’t what it used to be.
Oh, and BTW Peter S – give Ann Harding a call if you want to model these things. STINMOD is really easy to use. Or you could use MITTS in Melbourne which also does the behavoural changes in labour supply, but it has a much steeper learning curve (ring Kostas Mavromaras if you’re interested).
Both bodies price-discriminate according to customers’ elasticity of demand (as revenue-maximisers should), so a plea of poverty probably won’t fall on deaf ears.
Lance Kelly says:
Australia is on the downward spiral. As I am sitting here at my desk I am wondering about my return to Australia after 7 years sabbatical in another country. Leaving as a single and coming back as a family I find my mind churning over the issues that lie prevalent in Australia every time I read some news about Australia. The burgeoning welfare state mentality that society leans on, the lack of efficient business entreprenualship the policies of free education and free medical care at the cost of low to mid income earners.
All these issues have their drawbacks and their advantages but high on my mind is the very severe lack of Australian Identity and patriotism. Yes, it is for many Australian a politically incorrect word, but when you visit and live in other countries you realise that without it you are just not a country at all and very lax in identity. Most countries are proud of who they are and what they are because on the one hhand the government encourages it and on the other the national days of holidays bring about festivity and togetherness. As an Australian growing up in Australia I found this sort if activity lacking in attendance or indeed non-existant.
Why? I think it is simply our lack of thought on producing positive minded people in Australia that are proud of who they are and what the are. Our Army is very small compared to the size and population of our country. Any time Army Service is touted people run for cover, but it is the training ground for the appropriate future leaders of a country, without it you end up with social upheaval and welfare state mentality. Business is surrounded by political interference in just about every area in Australia. It’s no wonder many small businesses end up on the heap, with the sort of interference that runs rampart.
When you grow up inside Australia you dont know any different and its impossible to objective about what you dont understand nor care too. With the rise of globalism and world economics alomg with free trade, Australia cannot depend on the way oversized public service to bring it into the modern globalism age of the 21st Century. One only has to look from outside in to Australia to actually see what is wrong with it. The idea of a fair go has been a misnomer for many a year and we need to get on with the business of making trade and manafacturing and business in a truly global sense without the infringment of beauracracy.
Reduce public service and increase business should be th motto on everyones lips these days not what money can I get from the government or how can we make that business pay for our welfare.
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Washington rallies from 21-point deficit, beats Utah 24-21
By TIM BOOTH - Nov. 29, 2020 12:31 AM EST
Utah safety Zemaiah Vaughn (16) runs 73 yards as quarterback Jake Bentley (8) reacts on the sideline after Vaughn intercepted a Washington pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
SEATTLE (AP) — Elijah Molden saw Trent McDuffie pull in Utah’s final desperation throw and was overcome by a wave of excitement, jubilation and relief.
After a miserable first half, Molden and his teammates pulled off one of the biggest comebacks in Washington’s history.
“I was actually pretty emotional to be honest, just because that was a street fight of a game,” Molden said.
Down 21-0 at halftime, Washington capped its comeback with Dylan Morris hitting Cade Otton on a 16-yard touchdown pass with 36 seconds left to give the Huskies a 24-21 win over Utah on Saturday night.
Morris and Otton were the stars on the final drive, and McDuffie’s interception of Jake Bentley’s desperation heave in the final moments clinched the stunning comeback.
It was the fifth time in school history Washington (3-0) rallied from a deficit of 21 or more points to win, and the first since 1989 when the Huskies trailed UCLA 21-0 and rallied for a 28-27 win.
“That was probably the first comeback I’ve ever been a part of,” Washington linebacker Zion Tupuola-Fetui said. “I just had to take in the moment.”
Morris was brilliant on Washington’s final drive, taking the Huskies 88 yards in less than four minutes, capping the winning drive by rolling to his left and throwing across his body to find his big tight end. Otton had eight catches for 108 yards and a pair of second-half TD receptions.
Morris was 23 of 38 for 272 yards and the two TD passes to go along with three interceptions. He was 6 of 9 for 71 yards on Washington’s final drive, including a play where the snap was botched but Morris still hit Otton for a completion.
“That’s the type of calm that he has through adverse situations,” Washington coach Jimmy Lake said. “Really that sequence right there really captures what Dylan Morris is about.”
The unexpected matchup between the Utes and Huskies came after both teams had their originally scheduled games canceled due to COVID-19 issues with their opponents. Washington was supposed to play rival Washington State while Utah was scheduled to travel to Arizona State.
Bentley was 16 of 23 for 144 yards and one touchdown in his first start for Utah. But Bentley also threw two interceptions, one in the third quarter that helped Washington’s comeback and the desperation throw in the final moments.
“The defense is doing a great job of getting the ball back for us and getting off the field and we’ve got to stop giving it back and that starts with me. It’s frustrating for sure because you feel like you let the team down,” Bentley said.
Ty Jordan rushed for 97 yards as Utah (0-2) rolled up 215 yards rushing. But Jordan also had a costly fumble in the fourth quarter deep in Washington territory that cost the Utes a chance to pad their lead.
“The way we played in the first half is indicative of who we can be, but we didn’t finish,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said.
Down 21-0 at halftime, Washington awakened in the third quarter on both sides of the ball. Kamari Pleasant’s 2-yard touchdown run capped the opening drive of the half and Washington pulled within 21-10 after Molden intercepted Bentley, leading to a field goal.
On Utah’s next possession, Bentley was stuffed on a fourth-and-1 QB sneak at the Washington 41 and turned the ball over on downs. Three plays later Morris hit Otton on a 21-yard TD strike and Utah’s lead was down to 21-17.
Morris had one mistake midway through the fourth quarter when he underthrew Ty Jones and was intercepted by Vonte Davis, but the freshman QB made up for it on the final drive.
“He’s a steady, leader of our team, and it showed up in the second half,” Otton said.
UTAH’S START
Utah’s first half was nearly perfect, a strong rebound coming off last week’s loss to USC.
The Utes had 221 total yards and 134 yards rushing in the first half. They were 4 of 7 on third downs and Bentley was excellent at keeping plays alive with his feet.
When he did take his shots, Bentley didn’t miss. On the final drive of the first half, Bentley connected with Bryan Thompson on a 19-yard strike on third down, then found him in the back corner of the end zone for a 21-0 halftime lead.
Utah: The Utes like playing close games against Washington. Five of the past six have been decided by a touchdown or less.
Washington: Tupulola-Fetui has been a revelation for Washington’s defense. He was listed as a backup on the initial depth chart to begin the season but an injury to Laiatu Latu gave Tupulola-Fetui a chance to start as a pass rusher. He had three sacks against Utah and now has seven sacks and three forced fumbles.
“To have that type of production in three Pac-12 games is phenomenal," Lake said.
Utah: The Utes are scheduled to host Oregon State next Saturday.
Washington: The Huskies are scheduled to host Stanford next Saturday.
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Blue CAPS launches manifesto, ‘Keep it Clean’ campaign
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Last Updated on Saturday, 11 April 2015, 19:59 by GxMedia The non-governmental organisation, Blue CAPS, on Saturday called for an end to “cuss out” politics, even as it launched its own manifesto of demands that it intends to press the new government to address. “We decided that we will a proactive step and generate what we believe is an organic ...
Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best endorses APNU+AFC coalition as “best” party to run Guyana
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 April 2015, 18:23 by GxMedia Former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best on Saturday endorse the opposition coalition for next month’s general and regional elections, saying that it offers the best chance of the country being governed properly. “I wish to go on record as endorsing the APNU-AFC coalition ...
PNCR supporters in Linden focussing on opposition victory
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 April 2015, 17:08 by GxMedia People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) supporters in Region 10 have decided to put their concerns aside about the exclusion of several persons from being opposition coalition’s candidates for next month’s general elections, according to sources. The sources said a meeting slated for Saturday under the chairmanship of regional campaign coordinator, ...
Relief operation underway for drought-stricken Rupununi, Region One
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Last Updated on Saturday, 11 April 2015, 9:54 by GxMedia Authorities are preparing to rush relief supplies of water and food to drought-stricken Rupununi and parts of the Barima-Waini (Region One), government said Friday. Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon said the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) would be coordinating efforts to source and distribute water to the hard-hit ...
Thousands of election day officials could be disenfranchised- opposition
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 April 2015, 1:17 by GxMedia by Janelle Persaud A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition is concerned with what it labelled the ‘disenfranchisement’ of electors by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following a decision not to issue certificates of employment to Election Day officials. At its weekly press briefing on Friday at the Crown Street-based ...
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Beer Here! History Colorado Looks At Our Brewing Past
#brewingthenewwest
by Carrie Dow on Jun 18, 2019 in Culture
Beer arrived in Colorado when German and other European settlers arrived for the Gold Rush of mid- to late-1800s. Beer has been a huge part of Colorado’s economics and society ever since. Now History Colorado is taking an in-depth look at that history from its 1800s roots to the craft beer boom of today with its latest exhibit, Beer Here! Brewing the New West on view now on the fourth floor. Increase your Colorado beer knowledge by viewing this latest exhibit.
The exhibit is divided into five eras the first of which is saloon culture beginning in 1859. You’ll see how an increasing population and industrialization made saloons popular and how breweries that supplied these saloons grew. In 1882 there were 23 breweries in Colorado and the largest was Ph. Zang Brewing Company producing over 100,000 barrels a year. If Zang operated today, it would be the state’s fourth largest.
However, things took a turn in the early 20th century and this exhibit doesn’t shy away from some of the pitfalls of beer in Colorado. Looking at Prohibition, Colorado voted to become a dry state in 1916, four years before the rest of the country. One of the biggest reasons for becoming dry was because of overwhelming domestic abuse and neglect. However, Prohibition itself proved challenging. It turns out that the Ku Klux Klan, which didn’t have much of a presence in Colorado, came to prominence here during Prohibition along with organized crime.
Emerging from Prohibition’s noble experiment, Colorado and specifically Coors Brewing Company, which survived Prohibition through diversification, began an advertising campaign that turned it into one of the largest breweries in the country. However, that came at a cost. Coors’ minority work force, Chicanos, organized a labor strike in the 1960s that helped bring about positive labor changes in the company. In the 1970s and 1908s Coors focused its advertising on Colorado’s natural beauty and outdoor lifestyle and it proved a big hit with consumers. You can view some of their classic commercials in a recreated 1970s living room with a console TV. Don’t miss the appearance by actor Mark Harmon in the 1980s commercials.
From there the exhibit looks at modern craft brewing culture today. From Boulder’s Charlie Papazian home brewing his way to the Great American Beer Festival in the 1980s to the rise of New Belgium and Oskar Blues in the 1990s, craft brewing has altered Colorado’s economic landscape, but was it for the better? The exhibit explores that and more. Included in this part of the exhibit are four videos of Colorado’s beer pioneers to explain how craft beer has changed Colorado. Videos are from Charlie Papazian, former Governor John Hickenlooper, New Belgium founder Kim Jordan, and the founder of one of Colorado newest breweries, Karen Hertz of Holidaily.
The exhibit concludes with a display of pint glasses from almost all of Colorado’s 360 current craft breweries, which museum staff scoured the state to secure. Can you find your favorite brewery’s glass in this amazing Pint Pyramid?
To round out a visit to this informative exhibit, the museum’s Rendezvous Café will offer a special beer flight for guests of age to purchase. Beers include Great Divide’s Yeti Stout, A.C. Golden’s Batch 19, Coors Banquet Beer, and Oskar Blues’ Dale’s Pale Ale. Tickets are $14 per adult and include entrace to the entire museum. Kids are welcome to view, but the content is geared toward adults. Exhibit runs through August of 2020.
Here’s a little Colorado beer trivia to get you started:
What Colorado mountain is featured on the Coors Light can?
Home brewing became federally legal when which president signed H.R. 1337 in 1978?
Which Colorado brewery is credited with first putting craft beer in cans?
What was Blue Moon Belgian-style White originally called?
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Liberal Media Takes Liberties with Major University and Coronavirus
05.26.2020 | Commentary | Daily Surge |
Surge Summary: Liberal media’s Donald Trump animus has caused it to wildly misrepresent the actions not only of the president but of some of his supporters as well – including a university president’s response to the coronavirus.
by Robert Knight
Did you hear the good news?
Liberty University, which the media predicted would be Ground Zero for a deadly outbreak of coronavirus, has not reported a single on-campus case. Not one.
This is welcome news to any person of goodwill. But not to the press.
In March, the media went bat crazy, essentially accusing Liberty President Jerry Falwell, Jr. of risking mass murder by welcoming some students back from spring break.
The New York Times headline on March 29 was “Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus, Too.”
No, it did not. Most students stayed home. Mr. Falwell welcomed back to the dorms those students who would have put themselves more at risk by traveling, especially those from overseas. The college followed strict health guidelines such as social distancing, and recommended that students use online programs.
On March 30, The Washington Post ran an editorial, “Irresponsible decisions like Jerry Falwell Jr.’s put untold numbers of people at risk.” The Post cited The New York Times’ contention that about a dozen Liberty students “were sick with symptoms that suggested COVID-19.”
It turns out that the students had common colds or the flu or something other than COVID-19. Only one student tested positive, and he was living off-campus.
Several other universities, such as Rutgers, Pepperdine, Valencia and Texas A&M, introduced similar policies, but only Liberty was singled out for a press whipping.
Well, why not? The media have hated the college since 1971, when Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell Sr. established it to give Christians an alternative to “mainstream” academia.
The sad truth is that most colleges have morphed into Marxist hothouses where U.S. history courses have given way to transgender studies, multiculturalism and identity politics, and where students learn to despise their country.
Liberty offers a traditional curriculum, attracting students from all over the United States and abroad, making it one of the largest private universities in America. With 15,000 students on campus and 100,000 students online, Jerry Falwell’s dream has become a nightmare for the progressive left.
Added to the mix is Jerry Falwell Jr.’s outspoken support of President Trump, before and after his election. Mr. Trump was Liberty’s commencement speaker in 2017. On the other hand, Mr. Falwell’s sometimes Trump-like retorts to critics may indicate that the New York wise guy could be influencing Mr. Falwell more than the other way around.
But we can’t get into either man’s head and see their actual mindset. Unlike the press, that is.
On May 17, Washington Post editors looked into their handy replica of Mr. Trump’s right-hand palm, read the lines, and came up with this in the Sunday Outlook section: “Coronavirus testing is about saving lives. Trump thinks it’s just about numbers, says journalist Fintan O’Toole.”
In the same edition, fellow soothsayer Ruth Marcus’ column was headlined: “To Trump, winning is all that matters.” Really? He has no other motives? And he only thinks about numbers?
Well, what do you expect from a very bad man with orange hair, as he’s depicted each week in The Post comics section by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who is hopelessly locked in a “Hate Nixon” mode updated to the Trump era?
To underscore Mr. Trump’s assumed moral turpitude, The Post (and we’re still working on the May 17 edition here) sent reporters all the way to West Java, Indonesia, so they could produce a two-page spread with a big color picture of a construction site. The headline: “Trump’s business partner digs up graves to build resort.”
Perhaps this is actually newsworthy. It’s usually the Democrats who commune with the dead, especially around Election Day.
Well, if the Russian collusion smear didn’t work, and the Ukraine phone call impeachment attempt is collapsing into a Biden disaster, why not go for guilt by association? Talk about digging for a scandal.
Back on Page One, The Post accused Mr. Trump of a “retaliatory purge” because he fired the State Department inspector general who had apparently been more at home when Mr. Obama was in the White House.
Finally, the lead editorial on May 17, “The absurd cynicism of ‘Obamagate,'” claims that “Mr. Trump would like to rewrite history, making it seem as though the Russian investigation lacked firm grounding and that a sinister Obama administration plot explains the misdeeds that his own people committed.”
Why, yes, that’s where the evidence has led, with the FBI being exposed for its persecution of Gen. Michael Flynn and its “Crossfire Hurricane” plan to prevent or cripple the Trump presidency.
If you thumbed all the way through the May 17 edition of The Post, you would be convinced that we are in the grip of a power-mad authoritarian president. But what a difference a day makes.
On May 18, The Post’s front page had this: “Trump seems poised to let others lead on reopening: Governors, businesses make key calls as critics see shrinking presidency.” Shrinking presidency?
Well, which is it? Is he an overreaching authoritarian or a shrinking president?
Likewise, will we ever learn whether Jerry Falwell Jr. has psychic powers like a Post writer, or was he just lucky that he was right about the coronavirus policy?
Inquiring readers may never know.
The views here are those of the author and not necessarily Daily Surge.
Originally posted here
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Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.
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North Korea accuses South of crossing disputed boundary to find dead official
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North Korea has accused South Korea of crossing a disputed sea border in search of the body of a South Korean official killed by North Korean troops last week.
South Korea denied the accusations, but the North warned Sunday that the incident could escalate tensions.
NORTH KOREA’S KIM APOLOGIZES OVER SHOOTING DEATH OF S. KOREAN
“We urge the South side to immediately halt the intrusion across the military demarcation line in the West Sea that may lead to escalation of tensions,” the official Korean Central News Agency said. “It arouses our due vigilance as it may lead to another awful incident.”
South Korea’s military and coast guard responded to North Korea’s claim of a border incursion by saying their ships and aircraft have been searching waters south of the boundary since Friday in case the official’s body drifts back.
A South Korean marine boat patrols near Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, on Sunday. (Baek Seung-ryul/Yonhap via AP)
Officials in Seoul have said the 47-year-old was likely attempting to defect before North Korean troops aboard a boat fatally shot him and burned his body.
Kim Jong Un issued a rare apology for the shooting death of the official in a message received by South Korea on Friday.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s office said the country’s National Security Council viewed Kim’s apology positively and proposed a joint investigation with North Korea to find out what happened to the official.
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Petition of Captain Caleb Hyde, setting forth, that, on the 10th of May last, he marched part of a Company of Militia, at the alarm at Ticonderoga, one hundred and forty miles, at his own expense, Pay-Roll of Captain Brown's Company, marched from Sto
Massachusetts, House of Representatives
Petition of Timothy Munro, wounded on the 19th of April, Memorial of the Selectmen of the Town of Sherburne, praying the repeal of a Resolve forbidding the importation of Fuel and Provisions into that Town, Resolve for establishing Fees for the Court
Committee, to build ten Armed Sloops authorized to build but five, if they cannot procure Riging, Iron, or other materials
Committee to take measures for the apprehension of Dr. Samuel Gelston, who has fled from the custody of the Messenger of this House, Petition of Solomon Pierce, wounded at the battle of Lexington, Petition of the Committees of Machias, etc. Their Lum
Committee to repair to Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, in the recess of the Court, to inquire into the circumstances of that Town, Committee to make a representation of the conduct of the Inhabitants of the Island of Nantucket to the American
Committee to look into the Establishment of the Field-Officers of the Forces raised by the Colony in April and May last
Bounty for the encouragement of the manufacture of Sulphur, Resolve, directing that no process of a civil nature be commenced within the Colony, until the further order of this Court.
Report of Committee of both Houses on the Resolve of Congress relative to Persons whose going at large may endanger the safety of the Colony, or the liberties of America, considered and recommitted
Committee to make inquiry relative to the sending of two Vessels to the West-Indies by Colonel Doane, of Barnstable County, and the loading of other Vessels by other persons, Contrary to the Resolutions of the American Congress, Petition of a number
Letter from General Washington representing that the Army is in want of Fire-Arms, Resolutions appointing a Truckmaster, to reside at Machiss, for trade with the St. John's and Passamaquoddy Indians, Committees to be appointed to purchase, in the rec
Letter from the President of Congress, dated January 2
Petition of William Henshaw, praying allowance for his services as Adjutant-General, Further measures for procuring Hay fox the Army adopted, General Washington furnished with a copy of the Resolve for lending him the sum of fifty-thousand Pounds, Re
Petition of Benjamin Crocker, of Falmouth, for permission to send a Vessel to Tobago, Report of Committee-on Petition of the Committee and other Inhabitants of Machias, Goldsborough, and other Towns in Lincoln County, Committee on anonymous Letter, d
Amendments to the Resolve of the 8th instant, relative to the Estates of Refugees, Amendments of the Council to the Militia Bill rejected
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Scientific Director: Prof. Daniele Morandi Bonacossi
Venue: Palazzo Caiselli, second floor, room L2-14
Email: rima@uniud.it
The Intedepartmental Research Center on Ancient Medicine (RIMA) was established on 26th May 2017, under Article 17 of the General Regulation of the University and with resolution of the University Council. It represents an autonomous scientific structure that involves the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage (DIUM), the Department of Medicine (DAME) and the Department of Agrifood, Environmental and Animal sciences (DI4A); it is based though at DIUM, which is also in charge of its administrative and accounting management.
The research area of RIMA covers the following themes, which are often interconnected:
Diseases and geographical environment: environmental and hygienic conditions as cause of diseases, nutrition and diet, longevity and mortality;
Socio-cultural context: social role of the health specialists, society's attitude towards health, disease, mortality etc.;
Education and training of the health specialists: text-books, medical schools, healing centers, pharmacies and the like; differences among the figures of the medical specialists; relations between medical practice and religious beliefs and/or ritual practices;
Symptomatology and medical diagnosis: medical examinations, anamnesis, symptoms detecting, identification of the physical cause, diagnosis of remission or death; use and application of medical treatments, specific healing techniques, extra-medical elements (rituals, exorcisms, spells etc.);
Surgery: tools, cases and limits of the intervention; internal anatomical knowledge regarding animals and humans; treatment of fractures, wounds, abscesses, infections; ophtalmology and dentistry; obstetrics;
Diagnostic systems: their (diachronic and synchronic) evolution from religion to science; exchanges of specialists and experiences between different geographical and cultural areas;
Identification of the origin of the diseases: from the theories that looked for them in external factors (e.g. the pre-hyppocratic greek medicine) to the hyppocratic theory of the "humors";
Taxonomic and molecular identification and study of the plants employed in ancient Pharmacopoeia;
Identification and evolutionary study of pathogenic microorganisms based on their DNA analysis;
Study methodologies of ancient medicine: traditional approach and historicism, historical-anthropological approach, problems relating to technical terminology and interpretation, use and limits of the "retrospective diagnosis".
The objectives of the Center shall be:
to promote, conduct and coordinate research activities, by taking advantage of various specialists: Philologists and experts in ancient literatures and religions, Cultural Anthropologists, Paleoanthropologists, Archaeologists, Ancient Historians and Historians of Medicine, Paleobiologists and experts in Applied Genomics, IT and Digital Humanities specialists.
to promote through publications, conventions, seminars and exhibitions, the dissemination of research in the field of ancient medicine through a historical, archaeological, archaeomedical and archaeobiological perspective. In particular, the scientific activity of the Center will focus especially on:
the publications of volumes dedicated to yet unpublished parts of the Mesopotamic medical corpus, as well as of other linguistic and cultural provenance, and of scientific comparative studies on various connected aspects of the Ancient World;
the organization of international conventions and workshops;
the constant participation of its members to the major international conferences and conventions dedicated to the subject;
to communicate effectively the results of the research activities promoted by the Center;
to offer support for research in diverse scientific sectors, by providing equipment and expertise;
to collaborate with national and international institutions operating in the sphere of ancient medicine;
to offer consulancy and research activities to bodies and institutions interested in the themes investigated by RIMA;
to promote, support and organize didactic activities like master classes, formation courses, specialisations, doctorates. RIMA could also organize educational activities for graduating students in disciplines like Archaeology, Ancient History and History of Medicine, as well as for the general public
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Love Saves The Day: A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979 Part 2 (2xLP + insert)
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Review: Having previously offered up two vinyl compilations focusing on his book Life & Death on the New York Dancefloor 1980-83, dance music documentarian Tim Lawrence has decided to travel back in time to the decade covered in his previous book, Love Will Save The Day. This second part (of two) gathers together some of the greatest American dance music of the 1970s, deftly showcasing what some might call the disco continuum. It covers a lot of ground, moving from the sparkling orchestrated soul of Willie Hutch and the intergalactic jazz-funk of Charles Earland, to the punk-funk hedonism of Miroslave Vituous and the boogie-era brilliance of Edgar Winter, via a string of surging underground disco treats.
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Wilson Pickett - "Don't Knock My Love" (part 1)
James Brown - "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"
Jackson 5 - "Hum Along & Dance" (Uncut version)
Brainstorm - "Lovin' Is Really My Game" (12" version)
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Gladys Knight & The Pips - "It's Time To Go Now"
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Review: Having already delivered a killer compilation inspired by the music explored in his fantastically forensic examination of NYC's early '80s post-punk dance scene, "Life and Death on the New York Dancefloor", academic and author Tim Lawrence has now served up a similar essential set based on his previous tome, the detailed story of disco that is "Love Saves The Day". The two-disc set begins begins with a dash of traditional Congolese music and ends with the spacey, synth-laden boogie business of Edgar Winter's "Above & Beyond"; in between, you'll find the hard-worn funk of James Brown, the percussive dancefloor jazz of Chuck Mangione, the soaring Philly soul of Wilson Pickett, a string of inspired (and usually heavy) disco workouts, a dash of jazz-funk and even a chunk of NYC no-wave.
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“Mutant seeds” blossom in the pollen research field
November 20, 2014 By Paige Blankenbuehler in Research Tags: Arabidopsis, Bond Life Sciences Center, decoding science, jack c schultz, mapk3, mapk6, mizzou, MU decoding science, plant science, pollen, shuqun zhang, University of Missouri, university of missouri science, wrky34, zhang pollen
A mutant arabidopsis model nearing pollination.
Mutant arabidopsis models under lamps in Shuqun Zhang's lab.
Three-month-old mutant arabidopsis models are used to study the function of pollen.
The thought of pollen dispersed throughout the air might trigger horrific memories of allergies, but the drifting dander is absolutely essential to all life.
Science has long linked this element of reproduction with environmental conditions, but the reasons why and how pollen functions were less understood. Now lingering questions about the nuanced control of plants are being answered.
“Pollen is a very important part of the reproductive process and if we understand how pollen develops and how environmental stresses impinge on this process, we might be able to prevent crop loss due to high temperature or drought stress etc.,” said Shuqun Zhang, a Bond Life Sciences Center investigator.
Zhang has developed a new line of seeds that helped him and his lab identify an influential signaling pathway that triggers a chain reaction associated with normal pollen formation and function.
This research could lead to improvement to a plant’s response to disastrous environmental variables like drought to optimize pollen production and increase the production of food crops.
Left: Pollen grains genotypes MAPK3 and MAPK6 are illuminated by red and yellow dye using a fluorescent microscope. RIGHT: Normally developed pollen grains shown by an electronic microscope scan. | Credit: Shuqun Zhang
Mutant seeds are the key to this work.
Instead of glowing green in the soil like you might see in a science fiction movie, they are providing important insight on plant reproduction and stress tolerance.
Zhang developed these plants from a mutant strain of Arabidopsis, a model plant used in scientific research. Certain genes were “switched off”to pinpoint where important pollen functions were signaled.
Using this mutant plant and seed system, Zhang found that WRKY34and WRKY2, two proteins that turn on/off genes, are regulated by MPK3and MPK6 “signaling” enzymes. These enzymes basically transform proteins from a non-functional state to a functional state, turning on specific duties or functions. Zhang, a professor of biochemistry at MU, began tinkering with the MPK3 and MKP6 pathways more than twenty years ago during his post-doc at Rutgers University.
Zhang’s research shows the newly identified MPK3/MPK6-WRKY34/WRKY2 pathway is a key switch in the hierarchy of the signaling system in pollen formation.
The research showed that the plant’s defense/stress response and reproductive process are linked, and the influential proteins MPK3 and MPK6 were part of the bigger WRKY34/WRKY2control pathway, which is activated in early pollen production.
The system is so useful that researchers across the country won’t stop asking for the seeds, Zhang said.
“We have a lot of requests for seeds,” Zhang said. “This is a very nice system to study pollen formation and function.”
The cascade of control
The functions of MPK3/MPK6 in plants can be compared to a “mother board” switch. The pathway — MPK3 and MPK6 —are part of a hierarchy of response, turning functions on or off. In other words, it’s a switch that controls a lot of different things. Controlling WRKY34/WRKY2 is one of the many roles played by MPK3 and MPK6.
Shuqun Zhang, University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences investigator.
“Whatever is plugged into it is what comes on,” Zhang said. “We are actually very, very interested in the evolutionarily context, how this came to be.”
This signaling process is just one of many in plants. MPK3 and MPK6 are two out the 20 MPKs, or MAPKs (abbreviated from Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) in Arabidopsis. They control plant defense, stress tolerance, growth, and development including pollen formation and functions.
“We determined that this MAPK-WRKY signaling module functions at the early stage of pollen development,” Zhang said.
The “loss of function of this pathway reduces pollen viability, and the surviving pollen has poor germination and reduced pollen tube growth, all of which reduce the transmission rate of the mutant pollen,” according to the research.
Zhang and his lab worked with the MU Division of Biochemistry and Interdisciplinary Plant Group on the research, which published in PLoS Genetics in June of this year.
A world without pollen production and defense
Without pollen, plants would not reproduce — there aren’t any Single Bars in the plant world (that we know of) — and if plant generations don’t propagate, there would be no air or food for human life to sustain.
“The factors such as heat and drought stresses cause problems to the plant’s normal developmental process and that’s how pollen fails to develop,” Zhang said. “If we understand the process, and know how environmental factors impact negatively the process, we can then make plants that can handle environmental stress better.”
Zhang and his lab continue to research the complexities of these pathways. Next on the quest is to answer how MPK3/MPK6 are involved in pollen functions such as guiding the pollen tube growth towards ovule to complete the sexual reproduction process in plants.
“It is possible that MPK3 and MPK6 are activated quickly in response to the guidance signals,” he said. “There’s still a long way to go because very few players in this process have been identified, we try to understand the biological process how they work together.” This research is in collaboration with Dr. Bruce McClure, also professor of Division of Biochemistry.
1. PLoS Genetics (May 2014): Phosphorylation of a WRKY Transcription Factor by MAPKs is Required for Pollen Development and Function in Arabidopsis — Funded by a Hughes Research Fellowship and grants from the National Science Foundation.
2. Plant Physiology (June 2014): Two Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, MPK3 and MPK6, are required for Funicular Guidance of Pollen Tubes in Arabidopsis — Funded by a National Science Foundation grant and a NSF Young Investigator Award.
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Enamel Pin Community Struggles with COVID-19
by Natalie Wallington | Jul 13, 2020
Butterfly pin from Shoal.
Enamel pins are ubiquitous in gift shops and accessory aisles across the country. These tiny pieces of wearable art offer their owners the chance to adorn backpacks, jackets, hats and more, and make perfect gifts and collectibles to boot. But the story behind these little pins is more complex than first meets the eye– their creation often involves closely-guarded factory relationships, industry middlemen, the threat of art theft, and direct negotiations with overseas manufacturers. And in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, many of the fragile business relationships keeping the enamel pin industry afloat are in jeopardy.
“It has been sort of a never-ending, constantly-changing nightmare ever since outbreaks started,”says Alex Tinsley, a pin designer and employee of Alchemy Merch, a middleman organization that communicates with overseas factories on US customers’ behalf.
She recalls that the pin factory her company works with was particularly impacted in the early days of the virus. “Our factory was pretty close to Wuhan, so they were closed and totally not operating for a lot longer than some of the others,” she says. “They had tighter shutdowns than anywhere else in the country.”
A unique relationship with China
The machinery used to make enamel pins is banned in many parts of the world due to its potential for creating counterfeit coins. For this reason, 95% of the world’s enamel pin factories are located in just one country: China. This gives the enamel pin community a distinctive characteristic not found in many other industries: it frequently involves individual small makers in North America and elsewhere doing business directly with Chinese manufacturers. These manufacturing relationships can be fraught with language barrier issues, conflict over defective pins, and lapses in security that can result in knockoff designs flooding the market. But at their best, these relationships are beneficial to both parties: pin designers avoid the added fees of middlemen, and pin factories get business based on their word-of-mouth good reputation.
“It definitely took the factories a while to stand back up again,” says Serena Epstein, an illustrator and pin designer in the San Francisco Bay area. Then, as the virus arrived in North America, pin designers began feeling its effects just as factories in China were recovering.
“We went from emailing manufacturers, checking on them, making sure they’re okay and their families are healthy, to COVID coming out here and then suddenly they’re checking on us,” she recalls.
The timing of the virus
The virus’s offset timing in different parts of the world has put pressure on designers and manufacturers alike. Currently, many Chinese factories have reopened and are functioning at a high capacity– Alana Ma, a factory representative from Ever Rich Gift Limited, confirmed via email that her factory is “already back to work as usual.” But pin designers elsewhere in the world, particularly in the United States, are still feeling the effects of the virus on their businesses.
“A pretty big proportion of our business is either directly related to conventions or big events, or it’s independent designers who sell at big events like that. So when all of those events got canceled, that meant that our sales took a nosedive,” recalls Tinsley. “And then, of course, there was this period of panic, and nobody knew what their job situation was going to look like… people were both distracted and probably a little bit afraid to invest in pins.” Epstein, who runs the nature-inspired gifts company Shoal, adds that the decline in sales may also be correlated with the waning popularity of enamel pins as a whole.
Cat pin from Shoal.
Succulent society pin from Shoal.
Beluga pin from Shoal.
Are pin sales declining overall?
“I’ve definitely seen a decrease in pin sales over the past couple of years,” she says. Over time, she expects to see this customer base narrow back to its original loyal demographic: pin collectors. But other pin designers testify that their businesses have suffered for reasons unrelated to the public’s interest in buying pins. Katie Hof, the designer and pin collector behind Faux Fox Studio, says that the virus’s toll on her mental health has caused the biggest impact on her business.
It’s just been a really hard year
“For me, the sudden change in routine and isolation were the worst,” she says. “I had to start schooling my kid from home while running a business, I couldn’t see my family and friends as I normally would…no one knew what this would do to the economy or how bad it was. I struggle with major depressive disorder… it’s just been a really hard year.” Other pin designers echo this sentiment. Alesia Gitter, a maker known in online pin communities for offering advice to newcomers, says that COVID-19 caused more personal conflicts than anything else.
“Having to homeschool my kid basically stopped my company more than anything, since my company was alongside [attending] college,” she says. “Overall, China didn’t impact me as much as the US did.” As the virus crisis wears on, many makers have also struggled with whether or not it’s appropriate to try to return to ‘business as usual.’ Instagram user @katzenjammerpins, a pin collector and designer based in Germany, recalls deciding against launching a Kickstarter campaign in March– many pin designers use this platform to crowdfund their pin manufacturing costs.
“I wasn’t sure if it’s appropriate to start a campaign when so many people [are] suffering around the world,” she says. She ended up funding the pins herself, but is now waiting for international mail restrictions to lift– these restrictions have also delayed or even halted delivery on many of the pins she has purchased for her over-700-pin collection. Tinsley feels similarly about selling her own pin designs during such a tumultuous time.
Stitch ‘n Witch pins from Alex Tinsley
Still, pin-making holds promise
“I haven’t been doing a lot of marketing since it doesn’t seem like a time when I should be selling things to people if I don’t absolutely need to,” she says. Nevertheless, she argues that now may be as good a time as any to become a pin designer.
“If it’s something you’re interested in and you’re home anyway, I think it’s a great time to get into it,” she says. “It’s also just immensely satisfying to send in a drawing and have it become a physical object. It’s delightful. And if you’re trying to boost your at-home business right now, because everything is crazy, you can definitely do worse than to try out pins.”
Natalie Wallington
Natalie Wallington is a freelance political journalist and maker based in the New York City area. She has professional interests in social and environmental justice as well as investigative reporting. She is also a freelance editor and copywriter, and runs a small Etsy shop where she sells stationery and embroidered gifts. You can find her website here and her Etsy shop here.
Rick on July 17, 2020 at 11:37 am
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Shirley on August 10, 2020 at 10:06 pm
Thanks for sharing. It turns out that there are so many twists and turns behind a small enamel pin.
I usually look for enamel pin maker directly from Google.
After reading your articles, I think I need to understand my pin maker’s difficulties in production and delivery.
In this special period, Hope all is well with you and your family… Thank you again
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The fact remains that the vast majority of more than 270 cruise ships within the CLIA member fleet were not affected by this virus. This is due, in large part, to the aggressive measures adopted by CLIA oceangoing cruise lines in response to COVID-19 based on prevailing guidance from global health authorities, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Those measures include rigorous screening protocols, enhanced sanitation measures and the availability of onboard medical care and treatment 24/7.
Tragically, we know now that this virus can affect any setting where people come together to socialize and enjoy shared experiences. For this reason—and upon the WHO’s declaration of a pandemic in mid-March—CLIA oceangoing cruise lines took the unprecedented step to voluntarily suspend worldwide operations, making the cruise industry one of the first to do so.
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The number of individuals traveling abroad for fertility treatments has risen significantly over the past few years. The Fertility Tourism Survey 2020 shows the trend remains high and low cost is no longer the main motivation to travel abroad for fertility treatments. 97% of the survey respondents were considering travel for fertility treatments. The survey also identified the sought-after fertility tourism destinations which are likely to gain more from this niche market. Needless to mention, fertility treatments are among the preferred treatments in medical tourism besides cosmetic surgery, dentistry and treatments related to cardiology, oncology and orthopedics.
Also called as fertility tourists, these medical tourists are increasingly being attracted to the chance of combining their fertility treatments with holidays in exotic locations. And the increasing demand for such services has urged many foreign fertility clinics to start cashing in on the multimillion dollar industry that fertility tourism has become today.
Breakthrough in IVF boosting fertility tourism
In-vitro fertilization or IVF is a great breakthrough in providing infertility solutions to the couples longing for parenthood. But accessing IVF treatments gets restricted either due to unavailability of quality treatment or due to exorbitant treatment charges especially in this type of treatment where the success is not guaranteed. Furthermore, if couples have to opt for more than one cycle of IVF, it results in a huge financial drainage.
For example, one cycle of IVF costs more than 4000 GBP which is too expensive. Legal factors often prevent couples from accessing the IVF treatments available in the home soil. This has necessitated the growth of cross-border medical tourism for IVF treatment where couples return home with smiling faces.
Reasons for rise in fertility tourism
Some of the reasons for the sudden surge in fertility tourism in the last few years include:
Reduced Treatment Costs: Studies have shown that many foreign destinations offer fertility treatments for at least 20% lesser costs than in countries like the U.S. and UK.
Abundance of Donors: Age is a crucial factor in determining the success of fertility treatments. The shortage of donors in countries like the U.S. and UK have thus, forced many couples to move to other countries where they can start the treatment almost immediately without having to wait for a donor.
The survey also highlighted the concern regarding donor availability which is often superseding the cost factor.
Wider treatment options and success rates
With older couples aged between 35-44 years, these are the prime reasons for seeking fertility tourism. Success rate is the main motivating factor for couples to look for overseas fertility tourism above anything.
Patient feedback best reflects the success rate of fertility treatments of any international IVF clinic. Therefore, intending couples are likely to rely more on these for a preliminary assessment of the treatment availability, patient experience and success rate of a specific clinic.
Things to Note when choosing a fertility clinic
As in the case of any foreign medical facility, it is considered wise to check its credentials, accreditations and client reviews beforehand. This would help patients stay away from clinics that simply change their statistics sans any proof in order to attract more clients.
It is also considered wise to speak to the consulting gynecologist before starting treatment. This would allow one to understand the level of professionalism with which the facility would treat him/her. This would prevent unnecessary hassles later on.
Top fertility tourism destinations worldwide
Here are some of the top fertility tourism destinations in the world.
Spain leads the world in fertility treatments and is also a popular medical tourism destination. The country is home to numerous world class fertility clinics that offer treatments for just a fraction of the costs back in UK and U.S. Spain continues to top the destination ranking in fertility tourism in the 2020 survey. 23% of respondents voted for Spain which is low compared to 2017 survey where 60% of respondents expressed Spain as their first choice.
Strong government backed medical tourism infrastructure, lenient regulations and highly specialized IVF services have made this Mediterranean country another most sought after destination for IVF treatments in Europe. Notable features that attract foreigners for IVF and ART services are:
– IVF treatments are open to single women and same sex couples
– Ready availability of egg and sperm donors maintaining anonymity
Higher number of quality infertility treatment clinics in Spain, which is more than any other European country, is another factor drawing foreign medical tourists. In terms of expenses, IVF treatment in Spain is about 50% less than in UK. Moreover, clinics assisting the foreign medical tourists in their mother tongue make the treatment seeker feel at home where they do not have to face any hassle due to language barrier. As Spain provides great vacationing opportunities along with almost 70% less IVF treatment cost, foreign medical tourists are able to plan a great vacation along with the required treatment.
North Cyprus has been a prime health and wellness tourism destination for European travelers. Relaxed IVF laws and great medical infrastructure for high-precision fertility treatments have contributed to the booming fertility tourism. In the 2020 survey, Cyprus ranks as the second choice among fertility tourism destination with 15.2% respondents voting for it.
If the beaches don’t lure visitors to Greece, the myriad infertility treatment options would. Most of these treatments are performed at high end clinics with high success rates. Couples are also encouraged to relax at a beach side resort during their stay in order to remain de-stressed during the treatment. 14% of the 2020 survey respondents preferred Greece to get treated for fertility issues.
IVF clinics in Greece are open for intending couples irrespective of their sexual orientation. Moreover, anonymity of egg and sperm donors also helps those couples in achieving parenthood who are unable to use their eggs or sperms due to some valid medical reasons. Moreover, strong government monitoring regarding the safety and quality of IVF treatments of the clinics is another big draw.
In the 2020 Fertility Tourism Survey, Czech Republic continues to be one of the preferred destinations. Prague, the vibrant capital of Czech Republic with an enriched historical and cultural background, is one of the best destinations to avail IVF treatments. Unparalleled infrastructure and a talented pool of specialists teaming up in high-end fertility clinics provide the best infertility solutions at a very low cost compared to other European countries. Being just one and a half hour flight from UK, this destination sees a lot of medical tourists seeking IVF treatments. Moreover, this glamorous city with all sorts of tourist appealing features and an exciting nightlife forms a good holiday cum treatment package.
Easy accessibility of commercial surrogacy along with other cutting-edge fertility treatments makes Ukraine a favored fertility tourism destination. Ukraine has over 19 fertility hospitals and treatment clinics. It offers a range of fertility treatments for clients, including IVF, surrogacy and even egg donation to help older ladies conceive.
India offers world class fertility treatments, including IVF, for the most affordable costs in the world. The country is home to more than 500 infertility treatment centers, some of which have been operational for more than 30 years.
When it comes to IVF and ART treatments, India tops the chart as one of the leading destinations. Not only economical viability, but the availability of quality specialists in the field of infertility treatments in the most advanced clinics has made it a big medical-tourist puller in the Asian subcontinent. This is mainly because the specialists – trained in the US and UK – have an excellent track record; and their dedication, post treatment care and support are unparalleled. In cost comparison, average IVF treatment cost in the US is $10,000 whereas in India it could cost around $3,000 only..
IVF treatment along with other forms of ART has gained immense popularity in the domain of Turkish medical tourism primarily because of the excellent infrastructure and internationally talented fertility specialists. This European country with fantastic Mediterranean climate offers a pleasant stay along with the quality medical support to treatment seekers. IVF treatments in Turkey are strictly regulated where these cannot be availed by same sex parents or single woman. Moreover, surrogacy, gender selection, egg and sperm donation are not allowed in Turkey. In spite of these restrictions, Turkey continues to be a much sought after IVF treatment destination mainly due to the competitive pricing which is much less than Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Advanced fertility treatments and great success rates are facilitating fertility tourism in Dubai. For last few years, Dubai medical tourism has undergone massive transfiguration backed by effective strategies. The Dubai Fertility Center (DFC) has achieved great milestones in fertility treatments posting more than the international success rate of 45%. Till 2019, the center received 79, 262 couples with 63.6% comprising of Emiratis and 36.4% expats. The center also received couples from the GCC region, other Arab nations, the US, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Apart from medical expertise, it is the open-mindedness of the Danish that has made Denmark a popular fertility tourism destination. An estimated 8-10% of Danish babies are born from IVF treatments. With the world’s most relaxed legislation on IVF and associated treatments, the country has been attracting couples and single women from other countries for required infertility solutions. Heterosexual couples, single women and lesbian from Sweden, Germany, France, UK, Norway and Switzerland throng Danish fertility clinics.
Closest to the U.S than any of the other destinations, Brazil is known as the cosmetic surgery capital of the world. The country has also been gaining a lot of recognition for its fertility treatment centers and their high success rates.
Many couples are traveling overseas for fertility treatments like IVF and surrogacy. Several countries around the world have also started increasing the number of fertility clinics in order to cater to this surge of medical tourists opting for such treatments.
Portugal, Denmark, Hungary, the US and UK are among other preferred fertility tourism destinations presented by the 2020 survey. Malaysia, a prominent name in global medical tourism intends to generate more fertility experts to boost fertility tourism as a part of medical tourism. As the global demand for overseas fertility treatments remain, no wonder we will find many other destinations making an impressive mark in this domain of medical science.
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What Employees Accomplish Together at Bounteous When They Share Content
By Mark Emmons
Bounteous has a great story to tell. It starts with the name.
When Chicago-based HS2 Solutions acquired three companies and rebranded in late 2018, Bounteous was a perfect choice because it means “generously given” or “plentiful.” That captures how the fast-growing digital experience agency is a fountain of insights, creativity, and technical ability for clients.
The company also knew who the best people were to tell the story of an organization recently named to Ad Age’s Best Places to Work 2020 list:
It’s why Bounteous implemented “The Well,” an employee communication and engagement platform powered by Dynamic Signal. The Well harnesses the authentic voices of employees, arms them with content that makes them persuasive company ambassadors to augment the company’s brand and makes it easily shareable.
“We know that getting out news about Bounteous is an important way of amplifying our blog content and thought leadership,” said Marketing Manager Sarah Baker. “We want to publicize events and highlight our training sessions across the country. Our employees have great networks who would find our content valuable, and we want to motivate them to share. Getting employees involved and seeing a halo effect from their social channels just seemed obvious to us.”
It’s also remarkably successful.
Of the company’s 406 employees, 372 have registered for The Well – 92 percent
81 percent currently are active users
A campaign to increase visits to the company website Careers page generated more than 142,000 social media impressions and a 100 percent increase in site traffic month-over-month
“The Well is a great way to bring people together,” added Marketing Content Specialist Hallie Stahl. “We’ve worked hard not to make it just another place where people have to go in and find information. We’ve made it a place for everybody and where they can easily share the information that we broadcast to them.”
Here’s how Bounteous does it.
Explaining Why It’s Important
Research has shown that Employee Advocacy matters. The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer determined that more than half the general public finds employees are credible when forming opinions about brands. FleishmanHillard says that consumers see regular employees as three times more trustworthy than the CEO.
In a company training webinar, Baker and Stahl showed how, together, employees could use The Well as a digital bullhorn to promote their personal brand and Bounteous on social media at the same time.
“We wanted to show everyone the impact they could have by reaching such a large number of colleagues on LinkedIn, for instance,” Stahl said.
They also created resources with tips to make people feel more confident talking about Bounteous on social media.
“We have different generations in the workforce from Gen Z on up,” Baker added. “We have our public speakers who are comfortable with Twitter. Then we have people who only get on Facebook once or twice a week to share information with their family and friends. We needed to appeal to everyone.”
Initial Launch
The Well overflowed (so to speak) with information that would make them want to visit. That included content specific to the platform.
“We wanted to make it the watering hole to get all the information that you needed about the rebrand, Baker said. “The Well was the place to get exclusive rebrand merchandise. Our rebranding video was in there, too.”
Employees also could find client news, media mentions of Bounteous, and awards won by the organization. One platform channel was created just for employees to share what they’re reading, and another for regional happenings around the company. The latter was especially important as employees from four companies in six offices across the United States and Canada were coming together for knowledge sharing.
A platform leaderboard tracking content shares added a touch of friendly competitiveness.
“Just the bragging rights alone got people interested,” Baker said.
And let’s not forget the prizes. As part of the launch, Bounteous awarded $500 flight vouchers to three employees who registered for The Well, participated by sharing content, and had the highest points on the leaderboard by the end of the designated period.
Add it all together, and a remarkable 70 percent of the company registered during the rollout.
Hiring Blitz Campaign
Eight months into the program, maintaining the momentum created during the successful rollout became a focus. So, to increase platform engagement and draw attention to the company’s growth, Stahl oversaw a “Hiring Blitz” contest.
The goal was for employees to share a series of posts that linked to the Careers page on the Bounteous website. Participation was measured on a weighted system of the number of shares, clicks, and leads generated.
“We emphasized that we wanted everyone to share them in a meaningful way and not just rapid-fire,” Stahl said. “It was more about how people were engaging with that post. We looked at that as a way to encourage thoughtful sharing.”
Prizes went to a person from each office, one from the remote workforce, and one randomly selected winner – so everyone had a chance to win, including those with smaller social followings.
The results? There was a 100 percent increase in Careers page views. Engagement numbers on The Well also spiked with a 67 percent increase in active users and a 46 percent jump in sharing.
“We’re proud of our share rate,” Stahl said. “It showed us that people are paying attention. That’s important because we know it’s hard with client work and multiple communications platforms when it can feel like they have so much else to do every day.”
While the ultimate goal of The Well is about making employees great ambassadors for the brand, there’s another essential objective, Baker and Stahl said.
Employees feel heard and part of something larger than themselves.
“That’s why The Well is a place where people can always find information of value,” Stahl added.
Launch with clear instructions and goals. “We had a strategy of telling people exactly why we’re doing this,” Stahl said. “We constantly said, ‘It’s cool. Go do it!’ Explaining the value of why we’re doing something really helps.”
Don’t set it and forget it. The platform just doesn’t run itself. “You have to put the time, effort, and creative energy into making it successful,” Baker said. “It’s like everything else in life. You get out of it what you put into it.”
Engagement numbers will fluctuate. “You have to understand that this isn’t central to someone’s job,” Stahl said. “Interest probably will drop off at times. You will need to keep finding ways for people to stay interested and keep coming back.”
Capture a sense of fun. Bounteous kept the Hiring Blitz contest top-of-mind with tactics that tapped into the company culture. Those included leveraging the company Slack music channel to spell out “We’re Hiring,” a Pinterest board of employee “shoe-fies” for candidates to visualize how to walk a mile in their shoes, and Well-exclusive office tour videos to extend a virtual welcome. “We’re always looking for ways to highlight our spirit and give people a glimpse of what it’s like at Bounteous,” Stahl said.
Giveaways work. “Having some giant prizes at our launch didn’t hurt,” Stahl added.
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Mark Emmons
Mark Emmons is the storyteller at Dynamic Signal. He previously was a newspaper reporter at the Detroit Free Press, the Orange County Register, and the San Jose Mercury News. He reluctantly uses the Oxford comma.
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cosmetics-preservatives
Cosmetic Products Regulation, Annex V - Allowed Preservatives
EU. Allowed Preservatives: Annex V, Regulation 1223/2009/EC on Cosmetic Products, as amended by Regulation 2019/1966/EU, 28 November 2019
This list contains substances designated as preservatives which cosmetic products marketed in the EU may contain. The list contains maximum concentration limits and other restrictions. It also contains special labeling requirements, which outline conditions of use and warnings.
Last updated 16 December 2020. Database contains 176 unique substances/entries.
Function(s)
Restriction(s)
(C12-C18)Alkyldimethylbenzylammonium saccharinate
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Benzalkonium chloride, bromide and saccharinate'
1,2,3-Propanetricarboxylic acid, 2-hydroxy-, monohydrate and 1,2,3-Propanetricarboxylic acid, 2-hydroxy-, silver(1+) salt, monohydrate
All cosmetic products except oral products and eye products
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Citric acid (and) Silver citrate'
Not to be used in oral products and eye products
1,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione
1-(4-Chlorophenoxy)-1-(imidazol-1-yl)-3,3-dimethylbutan-2-one
Rinse-off shampoo
1-(4-Chlorophenyl)-3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl) urea
Purity criteria: 3,3',4,4'-Tetrachloroazobenzene < 1 ppm, 3,3',4,4'-Tetrachloroazoxybenzene < 1 ppm
1-Hydroxy-4-methyl-6-(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) 2-pyridon
Rinse-off products
Maximum concentration value is given for '1-Hydroxy-4-methyl-6-(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) 2-pyridon and its monoethanolamine salt'
Cosmetic products other than rinse-off products
1-Hydroxy-4-methyl-6-(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) 2-pyridon, monoethanolamine salt
1-Phenoxypropan-2-ol
Only for rinse-off products
10-Undecenoic acid, calcium salt
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Undec-10-enoic acid and its salts'
10-Undecenoic, sodium salt
2,2'-Methylenebis(6-bromo-4-chlorophenol)
2,4-Dichlorobenzyl alcohol
2-Methyl-2H-isothiazol-3-one
2-Phenoxyethanol
3,3'-Dibromo-4,4'-hexamethylenedioxydi-benzamidine
Maximum concentration value is given for '3,3'-Dibromo-4,4'-hexamethylenedioxydi-benzamidine and its salts'
3,3'-Dibromo-4,4'-hexamethylenedioxydi-benzamidine isethionate
3-(p-Chlorophenoxy)-propane-1,2-diol
3-Acetyl-6-methylpyran-2,4(3H)-dione
Maximum concentration value is given for '3-Acetyl-6-methylpyran-2,4 (3H)-dione and its salts'
Not to be used in aerosol dispensers (sprays)
3-Iodo-2-propynylbutylcarbamate
Deodorants/anti-perspirants
Not to be used in oral and lip products
Not to be used in products for children under 3 years of age
Not to be used for children under 3 years of age.
Rinse-off products other than oral and lip products, products for children under 3 years of age except in bath products/shower gels and shampoo
Not to be used in products for children under 3 years of age, except in bath products/shower gels and shampoo
Leave-on products except oral and lip products, body lotion and body cream, products for children under 3 years of age
Not to be used in body lotion and body cream
4,4-Dimethyl-1,3-oxazolidine
pH must be greater than 6
4-(3-Ethoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-one
4-Hydroxybenzoic acid
Maximum concentration value is given for '4-Hydroxybenzoic acid and its Methyl-and Ethyl-esters, and their salts'
4-Isopropyl-m-cresol
5-Bromo-5-nitro-1,3-dioxane
Avoid formation of nitrosamines
5-Chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy) phenol
Body soap/Shower gel
Non-spray deodorants
Nail products for cleaning the fingernails and toenails before the application of artificial nail systems
Face powders and blemish concealers
5-Ethyl-3,7-dioxa-1-azabicyclo [3.3.0] octane
All cosmetic products except oral products and products applied on mucous membranes
Not to be used in oral products and in products applied on mucous membranes
5-Pyrimidinamine, 1,3-bis (2-ethylhexyl) hexahydro-5-methyl-
Alkyl (C 12-22) trimethyl ammonium bromide and chloride
Ammonium benzoate
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Salts of benzoic acid other than that listed under reference number 1 and esters of benzoic acid'
Ammonium bisulfite
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Inorganic sulphites and hydrogen sulphites'
Ammonium propionate
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Propionic acid and its salts'
Ammonium sulfite
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Alkyl (C 12-22) trimethyl ammonium bromide and chloride'
Benzalkonium bromide
Benzenecarboximidamide, 4,4'-(1,6-hexanediylbis (oxy))bis-
Maximum concentration value is given for 'Benzenecarboximidamide, 4,4'-(1,6-hexanediylbis (oxy))bis- and its salts'
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Learning Economics with Minecraft: Productive Resources
Updated: March 18 2020,
Author: Melissa Frey, Council for Economic Education
Objective Standards Summary Procedure Assessment Extension Resources
Define productive resources.
Analyze their use in building a home in Minecraft.
Productive Resources
In this economics lesson, students will build homes in Minecraft to learn about resource choices.
Ask students what things are necessary to produce or build a house. Write 10-12 of their answers on the board. Answers will vary but should include such things as lumber, nails, saws, carpenters, drywall, roofers, land, and so on. Be sure to coach students until you get an example for each type of productive resource- natural, capital, and human. Students will be classifying these in a later activity. Tell students that productive resources are natural resources, human resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurship used to make goods and services.
Define the types of resources as follows:
1. Human resources are intangible assets possessed by individuals, including knowledge, talent, skills, health, and values. This is also known as human capital. In more simple terms, human resources are people who work to produce a good or service. Examples of human resources are a truck driver, plumber, teacher and nurse. Ask the students for other examples of human resources. Write the students’ responses on a new section of the board under the title “Human Resources.” Then, ask the students to identify the human resources that they named in the warm -up used to build a house. Add these responses under the “Human Resources” column on the board. Next, distribute a copy of Human Resources in Minecraft to each student. Ask students who are familiar with the game to identify each image.
2. Natural resources are things that occur naturally in the world and can be used to produce a good or service. These resources are gifts of nature and are present without human intervention. Examples of natural resources are water, natural gas, granite, deer and minerals. Ask the students for other examples of natural resources. Write the students’ responses on a new section of the board under the title “Natural Resources.” Then, ask the students to identify the natural resources that they named in the warm -up used to build a house. Add these responses under the “Natural Resources” column on the board. Next, distribute a copy of Natural Resources in Minecraft to each student. Ask students who are familiar with the game to identify each image.
3. Capital resources are goods produced and used to make other goods and services. Examples of capital resources are an office building, computer, oven, and wrench. Ask the students for other examples of capital resources. Write the students’ responses on a new section of the board under the title “Capital Resources.” Then, ask the students to identify the capital resources that they named in the warm -up used to build a house. Add these responses under the “Capital Resources” column on the board. Next, distribute a copy of Capital Resources in Minecraft to each student.
Review the terms by saying that productive resources are used to make goods and services that people buy every day. Ask students what resources are necessary to produce a haircut. Answers will vary but should include things such as a comb, razor, clippers, electricity, scissors, hair stylist and so on. Ask students to classify the productive resources used to produce a haircut as natural, human or capital resources. Record their answers on the board. Answers will vary but should include the following: capital – comb, razor, clipper; natural– water; human – hair stylist. If students name the person whose hair is cut or the hair, explain that the consumer is not considered a resource.
Before giving directions to students, read Background Information for your reference. Note: A Microsoft 365 account is required in order for teachers to login to Minecraft Education Edition. Divide students into teams of 4 and have the groups work together on a computer and/or laptop. Students will be working together to build a home in Minecraft using natural, human, and capital resources. The game should be set to multiplayer mode so each student can build simultaneously. The instructions below are also included in Building a Home – a student handout. Students are only to receive the first page. The reflection activity is to be completed as an assessment.
Tell students after they finish their houses they will compare them to those of the other teams by comparing:
Living space (Number of bedrooms? Living room? Kitchen?)
Design and amenities (Flow? Decoration? Functionality?)
Valuable additions (Farm or garden next to the house? Mining tunnel under the house?)
Property selection (Near a waterfall? Near a beach? Does the nearby landscape add or subtract from the home value?)
Which type of resource was most valuable for making the house special?
Tell students they will have 25 minutes to gather resources. They will then have 30 minutes to build their homes. Tell them their first task is to gather resources and decide who uses which tool, who gathers which resources, and how they allocate their resources during the building process.
Each team should choose four iron tools to be used by the team communally. Emphasize to them that they are not allowed to make their own tools. Disable tool/weapon crafting, if possible. Give each team 2 furnaces and 1 crafting table. Tell students to stop gathering resources and meet at their intended building location to decide on how they will build their home. Depending on the length of your class period, you may want to stop here and continue next time you meet.
Each student should write a reflection on the uses of productive resources in their team project. Have students complete the Reflection section of Building a Home.
Direct students to draw a spider diagram that illustrates the productive resources needed to produce a particular good of their choice. For example, if the main topic on the diagram was the good “hamburger” students could identify items such as beef, lettuce, and tomato under the sub topic “natural resource,” grills, cash registers, and wrappers under “capital resource,” and cashiers and cooks under “human resource.” Use the link to see an example of a Spider Diagram Template.
Print and make copies of the Restaurant Creation handout in the resources section. Distribute handout.
Human Resources in Minecraft
Natural Resources in Minecraft
Capital Resources in Minecraft
Minecraft Education Edition
Building a Home
Spider Diagram Template
Restaurant Creation
Economics,Social Studies
Fundamentals of AP Economics: Production Possibilities
In this economics webinar, learn to teach the production possibilities frontier using self-generated data and real world examples.
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Productive Resources
Hawaiian Economics: From the Mountains to the Sea
In this economics lesson, students will compare the benefits and costs when allocating resources.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Productive Resources
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In this economics webinar, teachers will understand the importance of studying economics and how scarcity impacts decisions.
Key Concepts: Opportunity Cost, Productive Resources, Scarcity
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Business News›News›Politics and Nation›All India Muslim Personal Law Board should be abolished for the sake of Muslims: Taslima Nasreen
All India Muslim Personal Law Board should be abolished for the sake of Muslims: Taslima Nasreen
Rohit E David
, TNN Last Updated: May 05, 2017, 02:15 PM IST
"The truth is that AIMPLB is full of misogynists and it is an anachronism in a modern secular society which pulls the Muslim community backwards," Taslima Nasreen said.
"AIMPLB was forced to take this stand in the face of searing criticism from different quarters for not ending a regressive practice like triple talaq," Taslima Nasreen said.
The Supreme Court will begin hearings this month on the legal validity of triple talaq, which the government wants to abolish. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has fronted the debate on triple talaq, while asking for it not to be politicised. Taslima Nasreen, noted Bangladeshi author living in exile in India for over two decades, spoke to Rohit E David on the issue, explaining if the practice is an essential part of Islam and the position taken by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on it:
AIMPLB has called for a social boycott of those misusing triple talaq, even while terming it an eligible form of divorce. Your comments?
AIMPLB was forced to take this stand in the face of searing criticism from different quarters for not ending a regressive practice like triple talaq. It wants to save its credibility. So, it asks for a social boycott of people divorcing wives through pronouncement of triple talaq in a single sitting. The decision to ask for social boycott is a slap in their face as it proves that the practice is despicable. But still they don’t want to dispense with it, perpetuating misogyny in the name of religion.
If the law board wanted reform of Islam, it could have done so but it has always opposed reforms. This is nothing more than posturing. The truth is that AIMPLB is full of misogynists and it is an anachronism in a modern secular society which pulls the Muslim community backwards.
Why does triple talaq need to be reformed?
It is an unfair thing for Muslim women because women do not have a similar right to divorce their husbands by saying talaq talaq talaq. The problem is not triple talaq: the real problem is women’s financial dependence on men. If women become educated and independent, talaq or divorce won’t scare them. It is hell for dependent women who won’t find any place to stay or any money to survive.
If several Muslim countries have already removed triple talaq, why can’t India?
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Indonesia and Algeria banned triple talaq. Bangladesh banned triple talaq before I was even born. India is not able to do this because of the politics of appeasement. The fear of the minority community can be addressed and they can be assured of their freedom of religion which is guaranteed by Article 25 of the Constitution of India. Mullahs and maulvis have become self-styled representatives of the Muslim community who keep stoking insecurity. Mullahs are stuck in a medieval mindset blocking progress of their own community.
Is triple talaq an essential part of Islam?
Many Muslim countries have abolished it. I do not think any law or system which reduces dignity of human beings should be essential. Even if triple talaq were an inseparable part of Islam, it should still be discarded because women do not have the same right to divorce their husbands.
What is your response to PM Narendra Modi’s comments that all efforts should be made to provide justice to Muslim women?
I appreciate it. I hope Muslim women would get justice not only in India but all over the world.
They have been suffering for too long. They should take off their burqa, hijab and go to school, college, university and live life as they like. Whoever oppresses women should be heavily punished. Women have to liberate themselves. They cannot expect obscurantist mullahs to emancipate them.
What is your view on AIMPLB?
This is an organisation of Sunni fundamentalists which does not take into its fold Shia and Ahmadiyya Muslims. Its duty is to protect Muslim personal laws which are based on Sharia. It supports the antediluvian system of triple talaq, child marriage, and opposes gay rights. It objects to any change in the divorce laws to confer parity to Muslim women. This board issues fatwas against reforms in Islam and all kinds of progressive ideas. The misogynistic law board should be abolished for the sake of Muslims. Muslims need no other laws but modern civil laws based on equality and justice.
There is a demand from right wing groups to disband AIMPLB. Your comments?
It is an irony that the demand of abolishing the board comes from Islamophobes whereas it should have come from Indian left-liberal groups. The hypocrisy of left-liberal groups is unimaginable. Instead of supporting Muslim women’s human rights, they want them to suffer under misogynistic religious laws. The marriage between the left wing and Islamists is one of the world’s biggest tragedies. I oppose the right wing but I am for the abolition of AIMPLB.
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