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Ray Dolby – A Tribute
Ray Dolby has passed away aged 80 – a visionary of our industry who gave so much to both professionals and consumers.
His ideas transformed and unified so much of what we do by creating commercially successful standards – nothing mandatory about their acceptance or usage, just market forces proving that he got it right. After thirty years of using Dolby products, Toby Alington looks back at his personal experience of Ray’s creativity…
Sitting behind the drum booth of the old Olympic Studio Two was a mass of large grey boxes, which looked like they had come from another era. A very 1960s logo accompanied the label “S/N Stretcher”. This technology was to become Dolby A, the first successful professional noise reduction to cope with tape hiss and other noise artefacts of the analogue world.
In Studio One, we had the more modern 361 Dolby racks, with their distinctive coloured square buttons. Populated with the Cat 22 Dolby A cards, it was rare that Dolby A wasn’t used on any two-inch 24-track recording in the studios. The rare exception of switching them off was for visiting American engineers who didn’t like the sound of them on drums. We had a number of other units, fixed and floating, for stereo and four-track mastering, and for the 35mm mag recorders up in the projection box. Dolby was simply an intrinsic part of my early recording years.
Ray, who grew up in San Franciso, completed his PhD at Cambridge and founded Dolby Laboratories in London in 1965 before moving the business back to San Fran in 1976. Recipient of an Oscar, Grammy and two Emmy Awards in recognition of his amazing work in our industries, he was awarded the OBE in 1986.
Dolby A noise reduction was born in 1966, and made a huge difference to the quality of 2”, ½” and ¼” recording. The necessary bouncing tape to tape in the days of four, eight, 16 and 24-track analogue would have been prohibited by the build-up of hiss, and the massive increase in signal-to-noise on analogue multitrack was a ground-breaking move forward for the professional recording industry.
In 1968, hot on the heels of Dolby A, which was a multiband model for the professional market, came Dolby B for the domestic market. Dolby B used a single sliding-band system, which was immediately adopted for the music cassette – recordings without Dolby B were pretty unlistenable, especially classical recordings, however the compression artefacts of Dolby B could easily be heard on a badly aligned cassette player. In the pop world, consumers often preferred the “bright and sparkly” sound of Dolby B encoded material played back with the decoder switched off. But for those consumers serious about their non-vinyl hi-fi, it was a breakthrough.
It wasn’t until 12 years later in 1980 that they released Dolby C, the first implementation of “spectral skewing”, primarily for the domestic market, but this was also adopted by the professional video market on Betacam SP and Umatic SP VTRs. Dolby C sounded awful if not decoded correctly, and consequently the main distributors stuck to Dolby B for commercial cassette releases.
Around this time, Dolby Stereo was created from various existing formats and developers, including Kodak and Sansui. This was the first “surround” format for cinemas, originally developed to create a centre “dialogue” speaker from an existing stereo mix. This was essential in cinemas in order for the punters sitting on the left or right of the auditorium to perceive the dialogue as coming from the centre of the screen. In the process of creating the centre feed, the use of phase to extract the surround field proved highly successful in immersing an audience in the cinema experience. The first Dolby Stereo release was A Star is Born in 1976, and by the time I joined Olympic in 1980 all feature film scores were being mixed for Dolby Stereo.
There is much to write about the transition from optical “Academy Curve” reproduction to the implementation of Dolby A in place of this crude HF roll-off, but my only direct experience of this was the “Academy Rolloff” switch on the desk in Studio One at Olympic, which would emulate the hideous low-pass-filter so you could see how awful your mix would sound in a cinema. Again, Dolby transformed the cinema experience, removing this limitation with their technology.
By the late 1980s, Dolby had given domestic users the chance to enjoy Dolby Stereo films in the early home cinema environment with Dolby Surround and Dolby ProLogic decoders. This paved the way for television to broadcast stereo-compatible surround TV programmes, although the reluctance of broadcasters to inform their viewers by putting the Dolby Surround logo at the front of a programme meant that attempts by me and others to create TV surround soundtracks never really took off. There was no point in slaving over a surround image if no one knew to switch on their decoders!
In 1986, spectral skewing technology was released for the professional market with Dolby SR (Spectral Recording). This made analogue tape sound just incredible. I remember using it for the first time, marvelling at the clear and clean top end and transients (25dB noise reduction in the HF range) and thinking this was as good and faithful as recording was going to get. In analogue terms that was true, and SR extended the life of analogue recording well into the digital era because it sounded so much better than the first digital converters and recorders.
For my work, Dolby Digital was the next breakthrough. Limited by Dolby Stereo’s crude but practical encoding and decoding of four analogue channels into stereo, the sudden ability to have discrete positioning and control of the 5.1 image was incredibly exciting. There are a few movies out there which are testament to this being a learning curve for mixers, but from the first release of Batman Returns in 1992 Dolby Digital was going to be with us for some time. With the compression algorithm of AC3, which meant the digital signal could reside in packets between the sprockets of the film print, and then Dolby E to carry the AC3 signal for television, the cinema and home cinema experience had comparatively moved light-years ahead.
There is no other name so synonymous with breathing life and capability into the audio delivery chain. Other manufacturers have jumped on board, made alternatives to compete in the marketplace, tried to better Dolby’s creations. But Dolby’s history stands head and shoulders above all others, and we have a wonderful, talented and generous man to thank for all of this. RIP, Ray, and thank you for your legacy.
Twitter: @tobyalington
(Photo credit: Ryan Miller, AP)
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New Audio-Technica mic presets for A&H Qu Series
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Allen & Heath (A&H) has announced the availability of further ProFactory Mic Presets for Audio-Technica microphones following a successful collaboration with Shure and Sennheiser to provide channel library presets on its Qu Series compact digital mixers.
According to Allen & Heath, the ProFactory Mic Presets offer engineers of all abilities ‘the ideal starting point to get the best possible sound out of their instrument, microphone and mixer combination, in record time and across a large range of popular and industry standard mics.
The new additions include presets for Audio-Technica’s MB, ATM and Pro series microphones, joining those for the evolution e600, e800 and e900 series from Sennheiser and PGA, SM and Beta series from Shure.
The team at Allen & Heath worked closely with engineers at each manufacturer to ensure that the optimal settings were applied for each mic paired with Qu’s AnalogiQ preamps.
“Building a specific library of equalisation presets for Audio-Technica microphones on the Qu series has not only enabled us to ensure that the user can begin their work with a confident and solid foundation, but also has provided the opportunity to bring to the forefront the nuance and subtleties that make this selection of Audio-Technica microphones so rewarding to use in the creative process,” said Keisuke Kobayashi, CMO/CTO at Audio-Technica Corporation.
Matt Engstrom, category director for wired products at Shure, added: “We appreciate the opportunity to implement presets for Shure microphones directly into the Qu consoles. The combination of the powerful Qu mixers and Shure mic presets gives users an easy way to get their setup dialled in and quickly sounding great.”
Tom Vollmers, product manager for live performance and music at Sennheiser also commented: “The Qu Series presets help users jump start their mixes with our microphones. These dedicated EQ presets cover a wide range of instrument/microphone combinations, providing engineers with a solid foundation to achieve great sounding results in less time.”
The presets can now be downloaded from the Qu series product pages on the A&H website.
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Geoff Dawe Says Thanks
This is my first official communication as Mayor Elect and my very enjoyable first task is to thank all my volunteers!
It has been a fabulous experience. I met wonderful people — and made many new friends. It makes me proud to call Aurora my home.
I noted early in my campaign that if it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a community to elect a Mayor. And, a big part of this community are the volunteers who gave so graciously of their time, talents and treasures. Without all your support and hard work I would not have been successful. You worked days, nights and weekends for weeks and months to make this a reality — and for that support I could not be more grateful.
I am humbled by the confidence and trust you and the people of Aurora have placed in me. Thank you!
Thank you for placing your faith in me. Thank you for the opportunity to work together to put the Aura back in Aurora.
It is my commitment to work as hard for you in the next 4 years, as you did for Monday night.
I am extremely proud that we ran a clean, hard-fought race and we can all hold our heads high for demonstrating that an election campaign that follows the rules and stays focused on the issues can be successful.
It’s often said, that behind every successful man is a good woman – in my case it is 4 — so a special thanks to my wife and daughters for all their support and hard work.
I would like to offer a special note of recognition to all who put their names forward for this election — and especially the many volunteers who unselfishly worked for each candidate. Aurora is a stronger, more vibrant community because of your commitment. Running for public office takes a special dedication and anyone who puts their name forward deserves our thanks.
I would also like to recognize the large numbers of people who worked election night, and leading up to the election, to make sure every citizen of Aurora had the opportunity to exercise their right to vote. They are often the unrecognized support workers who make each election possible.
And, lastly, I would like to offer my congratulations to those Councillors who have been elected. The community faces a number of challenges and I am excited about working together as we move forward.
On Monday, the residents of Aurora delivered a message. They spoke loudly and clearly that they demand change:
They demand Leadership that listens — and returns respect and civility to the Council table
They demand we rebuild our sense of Community — where we work with each other
They demand Accountability that is not just words — but truly open and transparent
They demand action!
And, with the help and support of the new Council, that is what I intend to do — to hit the ground running and start getting things done!
As I clearly stated during my campaign — my initial priorities will be to address the issues of:
Building a team with fellow Council members and with staff
A Strategic Plan that serves the needs of residents based on input from all residents
The Integrity Commissioner & The Code of Conduct
Stop wasting taxpayers hard-earned dollars on legal battles and consultant fees that bring no value to taxpayers
Building a 2011 budget that reflects the needs of all Aurora residents
These will be our priorities beginning with the first Council meeting. The residents have “hired” me and my fellow Councillors to get things done – and there is no reason to delay.
It is time to put the past behind us and look forward to the future. The residents have spoken. It is time for the Council to act on their behalf.
Thank you for the privilege of leading the new team that will put the Aura back in Aurora.
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40 Responses to “Geoff Dawe Says Thanks”
Does anyone else get the feeling from the last few days that the group of elcted officials that was so against blogging has discovered it for themselves and are merrily blogging along here? How’s that for hypocrisy?
Concerned about your support of Sport Aurora said
First of all congratulations.
You ran a good campaign and Aurora put its trust in your hands.
We are looking forward to a more cooperative, accountable and transparent political environment.
What concerns me is the influence that lobby groups may have on you as evident from your recent comments in the media about Sport Aurora and the unprofessional attack on on one of the mayoral candidates at the Oct 17th debate.
I hope that you had no part in what appeared to be a “set up” to settle old scores by the president of Sport Aurora.
I know you were present for the debate, but I would like to refresh your memory.
After explaining the rules (only one question and no more than a minute) the host, president and MC of the event, Mr. Weese, went straight to the third position in line to ask his prepared question of Nigel Kean (and only Mr. Kean) regarding the soccer turf field at Sheppard’s Bush. He kept on attacking Mr. Kean for approximately 7-8 minutes, well beyond the limits imposed by his own rules.
I couldn’t believe that he hijacked the debate to and use it as a platform to apparently further an agenda and settle old conflicts. As the host and MC of the event it was totally inappropriate, to say the least.
You could clearly see that Mr. Kean was taken off guard, but with his family at the event he decided to take the high ground and not confront Mr. Weese with his shortcomings regarding the issue.
It is disturbing that you made comments in the media supporting the “volunteers” working at Sport Aurora, without any concern regarding their conduct at the debate, and clearly without doing any research as to their agenda.
Although Mr. Weese is the president, I believe that he is not an active member of any Aurora sports organization. From his comments at the debate I concluded that he apparently wants to build more facilities, so he was not particularly supportive when the point was made that we should first fix the fields we already have.
I am concerned that you are inadvertently supporting another layer of sport government with what may turn out to be a political and commercial agenda.
I urge you to assure us that you had nothing to do with this political set-up.
KA-NON said
Oh pu-leazzzz…
Mr. Dawe issues a polite, and appropriate, thank you to a bunch of sports volunteers, at a campaign debate about sport, and you are using that to insinuate he was party, in advance, to a planned attack on Nigel Kean?
Whoever you are, I will give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that you are smarter than to actually believe that, and therefore I must believe that your statement above is, to quote a former integrity commisioner, “wholly political”.
The first, and most obvious, point to make is : Do you really think that Geoff Dawe was so afraid of Nigel Kean in this race that he would engineer an attack on him about sports turfs? More important than that, however, is that until proven otherwise, I don’t believe that Mr. Dawe would be that underhanded. And by the way, I have met Mr. Dawe exactly once, for about 15 seconds when I shook his hand during the campaign, so I am not a Dawe apologist,
If you have a beef with Mr. Weese, and you may well have, take it to him.
evelyn.buck said
It’s entertaining to read all the reasons people come up with for why I have been elected.
Robert the Bruce likes to keep repeating his arguments whether or not people agree with him.
Numbers feel I am not entitled to respect just because I am old. If not then, when.
Some people thought I kept getting elected because my name came first on the ballot.
Now they are telling each other I get elected because people feel sorry for me.
I think those candidates who were just defeated completely and consistently underestimated this community’s sense of what is right and sensible.
When you look for logic in the reasons they find to comfort themselves, maybe that’s not surprising.
Did anyone notice Hugo T Kroon tried again for a Council seat ? Didn’t make it…again.
Maybe Hugo’s name was too far down the ballot or people didn’t feel sorry for him because he keeps insulting the People of Aurora or that he tried before or they didn’t think he had enough respect for old people, one in particular.
Hugo could probably find a reason in there somewhere that doesn’t have anything to do with reality.
Thats right Buck, all those candidates who were just defeated consistently underestimated this community’s sense of what is right and sensible. They would have all been elected otherwise right?
WRT you, I think people are just grasping to find the the logic in something that is seemingly so nonsensical. Perhaps the creator consistently does this to us to test our fortitude. If it doesn’t kill us it will only make us stronger.
Robert the Bruce said
Hello Pot, meet Kettle.
Clearly some do agree with me – that makes you upset.
I hope that I am wrong about your behaviour during the upcoming term of office. I am not going to hold my breath however. History may be repeated. I think that we have a lot of unknowns with the new council. Everyone is so willing to be helpful and willing to work with each other right now. I pity the first councillor that disagrees with you in a council session – their name will be all over your blog and Ron’s newspaper the next week.
Fuimus
I could even live with that Robert, if she simply stuck to the facts. She doesn’t. Usually she weaves in snide little insults with it. Hardly an appropriate way for a town councilor to behave. I too hope you are wrong, but I suspect you are right. Dawe will have his work cut out for him as both Morris and Jones did before him. I wish him luck.
This debate is what democracy is all about and Evelyn generates debates.
Kudos to you Evelyn as well for engaging in this forum. Most politicians do not have the guts to have a frank conversation with the people this directly and take on criticism the way you do. I am sure you learn a lot about the community’s opinions in this way (whether you choose to heed it or not).
I would like to see more councillors participate on this site. Maybe more of us would vote next time.
Moved On said
The people rendered their verdict on the MorMac versus Buck issue on Monday night – and it wasn’t even close!
No more Doom and Gloom said
Wow!! , what a tough crowd, can’t we play nice??
Yooo, chill all! Let’s see what the session brings.
The cool thing is that there are a lot more people participating in this blog now than there were at the start of this most recent council term. We will all have a chance to watch this new term unfold, and to comment on the goings-on in real time. With so many new council players, even all the old issues will renew themselves, and we will all get a chance to comment on who is being truthful, who is spinning, who is giving and getting respect, etc.
Should be fun! Also, as per Elizabeth Bishenden’s comment on another thread, it really would be great if everyone who does not wish to use their own name on this blog would pick a nick-name and stick with it. Would help keep everyone in this “community” straight.
The majority of Aurorans said
It is gratifying to see the magnitude of Geoff’s success this past Monday.
What disturbs me is the number of Aurorans who voted as a percentage of those eligible.
The number of ballots for mayor is only 800 higher than the last time. There were serious issues and diverse personalities in this year’s election. But the number who voted was less than that four years ago, taking into account the growth in the town’s population.
This is not a healthy sign in a democracy.
George Gonsalves said
In Australia, voting is a duty and failing to do so is an offence punishable by a substantial fine. Unfortunately, Canada has no charter of duties and responsibilities to counter the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and we do not take our duties too seriously.
Augustinius said
While Geoff Dawe won a tremendous political victory, what is far more important is that his success was a triumph for morality.
MORALITY??? How is politics connected to morality?
To: Anonymous @ 9:14 a.m.
Unfortunately it usually isn’t, but in this case I believe it was.
LivingInAurora.ca said
I am glad that my vote won this time!
Anna 🙂
I echo Geoff Dawe’s appreciation for the community we share.
I never doubted for a moment the people of Aurora would always support the best that is in us.
I look forward to working with the Mayor-elect and all of the Councillors-elect to restore the Town’s reputation for sound and honest business management and concern for the needs of all of the people.
Kelli said
Way to go Evelyn!
There was absolutley no doubt that you would be gracing the halls of the Town Office again!
You are an absolute jewel in the crown of Aurora, and I am so proud to have you as one of our council members once again! This town would not be half as great if it was not for you!
One who Knows said
There was never any doubt that you would be back in the chair Ev , the old adage, “The truth will prevail” is alive and well in this fair hamlet, Only this time you will be shown the respect you so well deserve, just as you have shown to others over your illustrious career in politics. You have an even more important role this term given the new members on Council, and your expertise on the rules of order around the table. I’m sure it will be welcomed by all. Best wishes for another Term in Office !!!
“Only this time you will be shown the respect you so well deserve, just as you have shown to others over your illustrious career in politics.”
Oh yeah! I’m sure of it. She’ll get exactly the same respect she has shown others. But I’m not sure that’s a good thing, or even any different.
PArkview 7 said
That’s right, Anonymous 8:57 pm, you work it out. Keep trying to let go of the bitterness. We’re all here for you, we know you can do it.
PArkview 7
Dude, someone described this woman recently to me as “crusty” and I couldn’t have put it better myself. You are just looking back at this term and blaming the mayor. Look back another 10 years and see who the S#1t disturber is. It’s not MY bitterness you have to worry about.
Respect is not deserved, it is earned. Based on how Ms Buck has presented herself in council over the last two terms, she has not earned my respect. Being old does not mean you have earned respect. You reap what you sew and she needs to start respecting the others too.
Hiding behind the facade of “telling the truth” is a chicken-s**t approach for explaining how you disagree with everyone.
I do not look forward to another 4 years of weekly near-full page letters to the editor talking about how she did something back in the ’70s and tie it to a council decision that she does not agree with. I think 5000+ residents made a mistake by feeling sorry for Buck.
While the Code of Conduct is probably going to die, Dawe needs to set the ground rules soon about telling stories out of class and reign in this rogue.
Thanks Will Be Given Come October said
Parkview 7 and Anonymous October 28, 2010 at 7:06am
Keep it up both of you. Demonstrating the freedom of expression blogs like this provide justifies their existence all the more.
The last council was roundly criticised for some of its actions, I’m sure there will be a faction that will do so this term.
If it is constructive criticism I’m also sure it will be noted and acted upon. I also expect the ‘acknowledge and ignore’ option may be exercised. This past term the problem was the ‘acknowledge’ part was missing too often.
Matt Maddocks said
“I think 5000+ residents made a mistake by feeling sorry for Buck.”
This is exactly the type of elitist, “we-know-better-than-you” attitude the voters gave the boot to on Monday night.
Bravely posted, “Anonymous”.
Oliver Closov said
“This is exactly the type of elitist,…”
And some would say a slightly smaller number of residents made a mistake by putting Geaertner back in. Is that elitist? It’s called an opinion and we all have a right to have our own.
The truth of it will be shown to us soon enough. Let’s see how many times Dawe reprimands her or gives her the boot from the chamber.
Given this woman’s history I would say this opinion has merit.
Kron Prinz Ferdinand said
Speak for yourself Matt. I’m no morrisite, but neither am I a Buckmeister. I have read our locals like others, and see that Ms. Buck was as much a part of the problem as anyone else as far as civility goes. Where i differ with Anonymous @9:09’s analysis is that I see 5000+ voting by reflex or name recognition, more than feeling sorry for the councillor-elect. In fact, I was fed-up way before Rogers cable took over the Town, as watching council meetings made me think that I was watching the British parliamentary channel than the municipality of Aurora given both Buck’s and Morris’ foreign accents.
I agree with the Prinz and Oliver and that should not be a surprise for anyone that have read my posts before. I don’t think that name recognition played a factor in getting Buck elected as much as her being portrayed as the victim and the GOS the bully. Everyone likes to help the victim. As far as the accents are concerned, there is nothing wrong with a good Scottish accent – Morris’ left me wondering if she was once wandering the streets of a cockney neighbourhood before she made her way here.
I doubt that Buck will change her tactics or methods with the new Mayor and I think that you will continue to read her dissenting views every week in the paper and on her blog. I also feel that this will eventually make the Mayor have to do something to bring this under control. No matter how hard you try to present an image of unity from the Town Hall, when you have a continual anti-unity message being presented by one of your own, you will need to act. As I have said before, the time and place to show your dissent is in the council chambers during council. Coming out afterwards reeks of sour grapes and shows no respect for the process.
For the Town’s sake, I hope that I am wrong, but if the last two terms are any indication, I think we will be having the same issues in 46 months.
Luckywife said
Friends, I freely admit that I like Evelyn and am glad she will be a part of the next four years. That is not to say the I agree with all of her politics or her past behaviors. I wasn’t happy with the behavior of several members of council or the the Mayor.
The problem was, Evelyn Buck was the only member the Mayor ever bothered to chastise or apply her precious code of conduct to. What’s more, she allowed other members to join the chorus and did not set limits on what they could say or how they behaved. If Mayor Dawe treats all members the same, if he is clear about what he accepts and expects, then he will get no critisism from me is he asks Evelyn or any of them to take a time out. I hope the change we voted for is a fair and even handed captain to steer the ship. Not a dictator who wields a blunt intrument to stamp out sedition. We already had that kind of government.
Luckywife
Oliver – by my “elitist, we-know-better…” comment, I was referrring to Anonymous’ lump-sum conclusion that 5000+ residents made a mistake. I voted for Evelyn Buck, and I made no mistake. It was thought out and carefully condsidered. If you were one of the 5000+ who also voted for Evelyn, are you content with being told you made a mistake? I have never felt sorry for Evelyn. She’s tougher than nails. I have felt sorry for those who’ve tried to discredit her though. My vote is my democratic right. I voted for Phyllis Morris 4 years ago. That vote, when cast, was no mistake. It was also carefully thought out. The mistake I made was allowing myself to be conned by her in the first place.
Kron – I do speak for myself, which is why I disagree with Anonymous comment that I, along with 5000+ others, made a mistake.
Forest Gump said
I once took a management course on how to deal with difficult people.
Have you ever worked with someone that would complain the Mr. X was a pain to deal with? And, Mrs. Y was a difficult person to work with? And Ms Z was always throwing up roadblocks to you? Then you take a look at the situation and you can see that this person feels that all of the others have a problem. Nine times out of ten, the problem is not with Mr. X, Mrs. Y or Ms Z; the problem is with the original person. It is that person that is the difficult person.
Last council, Ms Buck had a problem with Wilson, Granger, Gallo, McEachren, Morris and Gaertner. I submit to you, Ms Buck is the difficult person to deal with. Respect is a 2-way street. Yes, Wilson rolled his eyes and Gaertner had the vacant look but Buck took every opportunity to tell the world (or those interested in reading it), through her letters to the editor or blog, that SHE was right and everyone else was wrong. She has no idea of cooperation.
She needs to take some responsibility for the last 4 years. She needs to stop hading behind the mantle of “Speaker of truth” and people here need to realize that she has you fooled.
And that’s all I can say about that.
Hey Forest Gump,
I just read your opinion on Councillor Buck. After all, that’s what this blog is, a venue to express opinions. Is what you’re saying:
Councillor Buck’s opinion on unmetered water charges bears no truth?
Councillor Buck’s opinion on the Aurora Museum’s lack of presence at the Cultural Center bears no truth?
Councillor Buck’s opinion on the Hydro Building rental give away bears no truth?
Councillor Buck’s opinion on the Petch House issue bears no truth?
I could go on.
The truth is that her detractors were defeated. Her detractors from other councils never resorted to code of conduct complaints, they hashed out the issues between themselves and moved on.
Life and politics is not a box of chocolates.
Promise?
To Robert the Bruce
Please don’t insult Cockneys. She hails from the midlands, probably pretty close to Birmingham from the sound of her.
British Is Not "Foreign" said
“Morris’ left me wondering if she was once wandering the streets of a cockney neighbourhood before she made her way here.”
RtB, your ear for English regional accents is uncanny. By ‘uncanny’ I mean ‘not even close’ – try the other end of the country.
someone who loves this town more than politics said
The outgoing mayor’s accent is not English.
You can see that it breaks when she is flustered or enraged (which is often)
My hunch is she took elocution lessons, just not good ones.
I seem to recall hearing somewhere that she is from Shropshire, which is in the Midlands, west of Birmingham. I don’t think there is any doubt that her accent is English (from one who is also English and tuned into English dialects) and it definitely has a Birmingham type twang. Remember how she always used to say “Miss King-uh), stressing the ‘g’?
Chris said
Dear Mayor and winning Members of Council for 2011.
Soon you will embark upon the job we hired you for.
When you do, please take note of few important points of interest being:
a) We resoundly and authoritatively selected a new Mayor. Running a town is a business first, last and always. Please think like business people.
b) We chose Evelyn Buck. She is our best integrity commissioner. If you are in doubt as to how to vote, watch her and vote with integrity. She has a lot of experience and always chooses from the perspective of what is right. Seek her out and ask her opinion.
c) We chose Paul Pirri. He could be our future. No baggage, intelligent, hopeful and ready to do what is right. He’s young and open minded. That’s’ the seed of innovation.
Please remember, if the past council thought we weren’t watching, they were wrong.
If they thought we wouldn’t speak up, they were wrong.
If they thought they could stay and continue that behaviour, they were wrong.
The previous council miscalculated our silence as apathy…boy were they wrong.
While we applaud your success, always remember you are there to represent us. You are spending our money trying to implement our wishes that result in a town WE all want to live in.
We do not expect you to know everything. We do expect you to vote with a conscious. If you aren’t sure about how to vote………………………ask. Reach out to each other and us.
Private, closed door votes are not appropriate. We the electorate do not like them. They remind of how a bully operates in trying to secretly win favour for their actions. Your job is a PUBLIC job. Everything you decide on you do so on our behalf.
Discuss and decide it in the open. You can never defend secrecy over transparency.
Perhaps all council members new and old, could benefit from having a decision card at the ready that simply posses the following for consideration before you vote:
a) Does this decision create revenue for the town?
b) Will this decision stand up to intelligent debate and audit?
c) Is this value added?
Municipal council is not for grandstanding and ego enhancement. It is one of those rare opportunities when your fellow man has put their faith in you to do what is right for the betterment of all.
You don’t have to vote party line….simply vote your conscious and do what is most prudent.
If you are wrong, you are human. Admit it and seek out opportunities to make corrections.
We the electorate are watching and are proud of you.
Now get to work!
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Huawei P40 Pro — The hardware is really nice but the software has issues
Phil Tann
If you’ve not yet read the other content we’ve published around the Huawei P40 Pro, I encourage you to do so. We’ve discussed Android life without Google, the camera and the battery. Today we’ll take a closer look at the hardware in a general sense, but more importantly real-world look at the software.
When looking at the software, it would be remiss to not at least mention the political issues that have caused the situation. The push from the USA that ultimately resulted in a ban of US-based Google being allowed to do business with Huawei. Now we have an Android phone, except with no Google apps or services. In total honesty, this is for many users an instant deal-breaker, and rightly so.
But if you’re not totally invested in the Google Ecosystem – or able to work around it – there’s still a lot to like in the Huawei P40 Pro.
The hardware
We’ve already taken a bit of a look at a bit of the hardware, particularly the battery and a more in-depth look at the camera. There’s a ton of features included in the hardware that are worth taking more of a look at.
Standalone, the specs of the device are impressive. The Kirin 990 5G processor is one of the factors in the phone’s power efficiency. We’ve previously covered the 40W wired supercharging, 27W wireless charging and reverse wireless charging.
The physical chassis measures 72.6mm x 158.2mm x 8.95mm and houses a 6.58-inch OLED “overflow display” (curved edges) which runs 90hz, 2640 x 1200 resolution at 441ppi. In plain English, that’s a decent-sized screen that looks really nice and is really easy on your eyes viewing media.
Under the surface, there are more good points to enjoy that help with daily use and performance. The fingerprint sensor is under the display, it’s functional but a touch slow at times. That being said, it’s one of the more efficient and speedy under-screen fingerprint sensors I’ve used to date.
You’ll be carrying 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM in an IP68 chassis that weighs 203 grams. The connectivity of the device is highlighted by NFC for payments via Huawei Wallet. Bluetooth as you’d expect and Wi-Fi 6 give the usual range of connectivity that meets the expectations of devices of users buying top end devices.
It’s probably not going to surprise any regular readers that I really prefer like stock Android. EMUI has some quirks I’m not a huge fan of, most can be overcome by whacking a launcher like Action Launcher, Nova or any of the other options available. Even without this though, I could certainly learn to live with if I liked the rest of the user experience enough.
When you’re dealing with a phone that costs $1,599 the user experience needs to be top notch from the second you drop your coin. The retail packaging is clean and tidy and the hardware presentation is really slick. We’ve already covered what Android life without Google is like, but what’s the software like to use every day?
The User Experience
The core operating system is Android 10 with EMUI 10. Now, this is enough to tell some users what they need to know because anything other than stock isn’t acceptable for a certain market segment. It’s been a little while since I used a phone with EMUI and it’s come a long way, but still has some annoying quirks.
On the positive side, the menu system is far more like a stock build of Android than previous iterations of EMUI. There’s a lot of nice to have inclusions and tweaks you can play with to make your phone that little bit nicer to play with including 5G capability. There are limited 5G towers in SA at the moment so I only spent a short time in a covered area and — no surprise — data is fast. Just a small tip: Make sure you load the 5G SIM in the first of the two slots, as it won’t work in the second.
The sound quality is excellent, not just for incoming calls and media playback but for calls as well. Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted the fact that the P40 Pro doesn’t have any speaker grill for the call sound. That’s in part due to the IP68 rating, but also due to the acoustic display that transmits excellent quality sound during calls.
Interestingly there were some odd issues with notifications and apps not working as I expected at times. I’m fairly confident that the reason the apps weren’t working as expected is some of the optimisations done to conserve battery, a big driver for the outstanding battery life. I’m pretty confident that this is also the root cause of the notifications being delayed at times.
The troubles don’t stop there though, there’s a distinct lack of mainstream apps available through the App Gallery. This alone is going to be a deal-breaker for a lot of users despite the workarounds like using the Amazon App Store or APK mirror. If that’s not, the lack of Google services, including Google Assistant and apps will be.
Unsurprisingly, being a writer for Ausdroid, I’m invested in the Google ecosystem. Some items like Gmail can be substituted with other apps. Unfortunately — and perhaps a moment of enlightenment for me — because I use YouTube Music, Drive, Docs, Keep, Sheets, Movies and Photos really heavily – My daily workflow was really heavily affected by switching to the P40 Pro.
Once you get into the phone itself and the Huawei software there are further aggravations, starting with adverts in the web browser. About 1 minute after I realised that the ads were going to be a consistent issue, Firefox was installed and I was far happier with the web experience.
One thing I just can’t move past with some of the Chinese manufacturers is the volume of pre-installed software that I’ll never use. Labelled “tools” and having apps that are supposed to “clean up” your phone, sim tools and top apps they really didn’t offer any value to me personally. Given there are well-known alternatives with proven track records of delivering, I suspect most users will have their preferred options too.
One of the default behaviours of EMUI that I struggle with is the mass dump of apps on home screen after home screen. I far prefer, to set up my home screens with the apps I want then I’ll go looking for the others on an as-needed basis.
As earlier mentioned though, this can be resolved by the use of one of the many excellent third-party launchers on the Play Store – or if you’re really desperate to use Huawei’s launcher, there is an option to force a more standard app drawer type arrangement.
Other includes software and extras
On a positive side, general navigation and gestures are a big tick. Huawei hasn’t touched the default setup and it just works exactly as you’d expect it to if you’ve used gestures on another “stock” Android OS recently. There’s a couple of nice inclusions that are worth a mention as well.
Face unlock is a feature I’ve used a lot over the past couple of years. The first iteration of this was woeful, it could be fooled with a photo of a person and sometimes just pointing it at a face (not the person’s face who owns the phone) could unlock a device. Now it’s pretty reliable, generally fast and offers a happy middle ground between speed and convenience vs security. The face unlock is pretty quick on the P40 Pro, when it works… I found that if there isn’t good, clear lighting on your face when you unlock the device then you’re going to be using a code or fingerprint. So while Huawei has done a good job of the face unlock, in my experience OnePlus, Oppo and even Samsung are doing a better job right now.
While many of us — by design or default — have migrated from the likes of Swift Key to G board, the former is included. Not a proprietary, self-developed option which is such a wonderful change as they’re often slow and inaccurate. Why re-invent the wheel when there are apps out there that specialise in exactly this – Mobile device input.
Very little has changed since I last used Swift Key as well. Once I logged in, all of my usual language construction habits appeared in predictive text and it just felt normal. Would I prefer G Board? Absolutely, but there’s a minor issue with that and the politics that are still playing out in the USA.
The P40 Pro is a gorgeous piece of hardware that delivers a lot in a really nice sized package. The camera is excellent under varying light conditions and in a variety of settings, including fast focus requirements like sports.
Delivering the current version of Android on a $1,599 phone is a no brainer, you have to deliver the best of the best when you’re asking users to part with a lot of money. EMUI has come a long way and is now at a point where the user experience is very much ready for the western market, albeit with some issues. I’m not alone just wanting the UI to be as Google intended, without some of those invasive features and functions.
But then you get deeper into the software…
The Huawei P40 Pro is a hugely complex device both technically and politically. Sadly the politics have outshone the technical brilliance of the device. The lack of apps on Huawei’s App Gallery is really troubling and a potential deal-breaker for users who don’t want to go through the workaround processes. But for users who have invested in the Android ecosystem, the lack of Google services and apps on the P40 Pro isn’t just an inconvenience it’s crippling an otherwise brilliant piece of hardware.
Should you buy one?
In the short term, no. In case the underlying theme of this article hasn’t shone through, the software is just too limiting. I’d be very interested to revisit the device in 6 months time once Huawei has had the opportunity to bolster their app library to see how far the device and Huawei’s Google-less platform have progressed.
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Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman 1984. Photo by Clay Enos
Kristen Wiig in Wonder Woman 1984. Photo by Clay Enos
Pedro Pascal in Wonder Woman 1984. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics
The release of Wonder Woman in 2017 proved to be a boon for the struggling DC Extended Universe. After the derided entries of Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Suicide Squad, the long-awaited solo film for the Amazonian warrior gave hope that the powers-that-be in the movie division finally understood how to showcase their heroes properly.
Whatever lessons they may have learned then are not evident in Wonder Woman 1984, a bloated, messy, and borderline incomprehensible film that is set in the titular year for no apparent reason other than to make lame ‘80s jokes. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) is working at her job at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. while making occasional jaunts out to stop crimes in progress, because that’s obviously the most appropriate thing for a god-like figure to be doing.
The plot, such as it is, gets set in progress when a mysterious stone that can supposedly grant wishes is sent to the Smithsonian by the FBI for analysis. In charge of that investigation is Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), a mousy and shy new employee. TV personality/oil tycoon Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) shows an inordinate amount of interest in the stone, and Barbara, Max, and Diana soon get caught up in a series of events that threaten the entire world.
Directed again by Patty Jenkins and written by Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham, the film has tons of visual panache but none of the storytelling to back it up. They appease fans with things like Wonder Woman’s golden armor, invisible plane, and an ability to lasso lightning, but all of that flair is essentially just eye candy meant to distract from an inert plot.
Centering that story around a wish-fulfilling object is odd, and it doesn’t get any better as the various characters become more obsessed with it. Anybody who’s seen Big or Aladdin can tell you the downside of being able to satisfy any wish you desire, and the film follows the formula to a tee. None of that rises to the level of a great superhero story, though.
Both Barbara and Max start out as interesting characters, but as each of them gives in to their darker impulses, the only answer the filmmakers seem to have for them is “more,” which doesn’t serve either well. Oh, and Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) shows up in a truly ham-fisted attempt at shoehorning Diana’s deceased love interest into the proceedings.
Jenkins and her team don’t miss a chance to make fun of the ‘80s, and the visual jokes get tired almost as soon as they start. The film is so chock-full of wacky hairdos, leotards, pushed-up jacket sleeves, and more that the gag loses all of its meaning. Missing is almost any ‘80s music, which would have at least added some audio fun to the string of clichés.
Gadot still makes for an ideal Wonder Woman, with the strength, personality, and beauty necessary to embody the character. The filmmakers just don’t seem to know what to do with her, as the story doesn’t match Diana’s power. Wiig has a nice arc to play, although her character goes off the rails in the third act, while Pascal goes the polar opposite of his part in The Mandalorian, delivering one of the all-time over-the-top performances.
Wonder Woman 1984 wound up being one of only two blockbuster-type movies to be released in 2020 (Tenet being the other), and it makes the case that maybe franchises need to start going smaller, not bigger. If you focus on the story first, everything else will fall into place.
Wonder Woman 1984 is showing in theaters and on HBO Max.
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“Donglegate” is classic overreaction—and everyone pays
Or, how not to deal with difficult social issues.
Ken Fisher - Mar 21, 2013 10:00 pm UTC
Watching "Donglegate" unfold over the past few days has been like watching a comedy of errors slowly metastasize into a tragedy of thoughtlessness. News coverage of what unfolded at (and after) this year's PyCon developer conference has already been written; I'll assume that you’re up to speed. What follows is straight opinion about a silly situation.
As events unfolded from Sunday until today, partisans quickly formed to weigh in on some key questions. Was SendGrid evangelist Adria Richards right or wrong to take offense at the jokes in question? Were the two male developers out of bounds with their "dongle" comments? Did they even say the things they were accused of? Was taking the matter right to Twitter the wrong way to go? Was the termination of two people—including Richards herself—a preferred outcome? How did DDoS vigilantes get involved in a complaint over some genital jokes? Finally: how long until the lawsuits?
Let's start by spreading the blame where it's deserved: on nearly everyone involved. The "Boy’s Club” mentality is thankfully no longer acceptable in tech, but it's still common—some people have actually described tech to me as "men's work." The jokes appear to run afoul of PyCon's code of conduct, which strives to create a welcoming atmosphere for everyone, and their unfunny-ness is equaled only by their lameness. “Forking a repo” and “big dongles” must rank somewhere around "0.5: classless brospeak" on the seismic scale of harassing/menacing behavior toward women. While such sexually inappropriate comments are completely unnacceptable in professional settings (to many men as well as women), neither merits firing unless someone had a history of making unwelcome comments. A teaching opportunity should not generally be turned into a termination event. (PlayHaven, which employed both developers, says that it will not comment "on all the factors that contributed to our parting ways" with one developer, so it's not clear what the exact situation here was.)
Suddenly, a couple off-color jokes represented all the serious forces that can hold women back from tech careers.
Yet these two men don’t get all of the blame. One recurring theme on message boards and chat rooms, including our own, is that while Richards had every right to report the behavior of the two men to conference organizers, snapping their photograph and posting it publicly to "Twitter shame" them was a step too far (speaking of a step too far, there are other, more repugnant recurring themes among commenters, too). They're right; going public was not the only way Richards could get a relatively minor issue addressed. She could have confronted the two men or she could have gone straight to PyCon. Her actions only escalated the situation.
In a blog post explaining the story in her own words, Richards wrote about how, over the course of the jokes, she moved from “I was going to let it go” to “I realized I had to do something.” The moment of decision came after seeing a picture of a young girl on the main stage who had attended a Young Coders workshop. “She would never have the chance to learn and love programming,” Richards wrote, “because the ass clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do so.”
Clearly, this is hyperbole. These two guys weren’t going to prevent anybody from doing anything. Suddenly, a couple off-color jokes represented all the serious forces that can hold women back from tech careers. While denouncing bad behavior certainly has its place, proportion is important—and this approach to these jokes simply makes it harder to have a sincere discussion about misogyny and men's/women's issues in the workplace.
Richards decided that her method of intervention would combine public shaming on Twitter as well as pinging PyCon organizers to do something about the incident. Richards said that she “was a guest in the Python community and as such, I wanted to give PyCon the opportunity to address this.” This is why she did not confront the two men directly. Instead, she pinged PyCon and, well, the rest of the Internet. Sledgehammer, meet nail. (To its great credit, PyCon appears to have handled the issue well, speaking to both parties and securing an apology from the developers.)
In the aftermath, one of the developers lost his job and Richards eventually lost hers too. While I believe that Richards unfairly shamed these guys in public (two wrongs don’t make a right, as they say), PlayHaven and SendGrid emerge as the real reputational losers here. Ironically, the companies shared in the same core mistake Richards made. The asymmetry of incident and response has now elevated Donglegate from dust-up into life-changing event for at least two people, and it didn't have to end this way at all.
RockDaManArs Tribunus Militum
Richards has also been threatened with death and rape.
THAT is the absolute worst overreaction to all of this.
Last edited by RockDaMan on 21 Mar 2013 17:17
masklinnWise, Aged Ars Veteran
SendGrid has posted an official extended explanation: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/
On Sunday at PyCon, Adria Richards felt comments made behind her during a conference session were inappropriate and of an offensive, sexual nature. We understand that Adria believed the conduct to be inappropriate and support her right to report the incident to PyCon personnel. To be clear, SendGrid supports the right to report inappropriate behavior, whenever and wherever it occurs.
What we do not support was how she reported the conduct. Her decision to tweet the comments and photographs of the people who made the comments crossed the line. Publicly shaming the offenders – and bystanders – was not the appropriate way to handle the situation. Even PyCon has since updated their Code of Conduct due to this situation. Needless to say, a heated public debate ensued. The discourse, productive at times, quickly spiraled into extreme vitriol.
A SendGrid developer evangelist’s responsibility is to build and strengthen our Developer Community across the globe. In light of the events over the last 48+ hours, it has become obvious that her actions have strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite. As a result, she can no longer be effective in her role at SendGrid.
In the end, the consequences that resulted from how she reported the conduct put our business in danger. Our commitment to our 130 employees, their families, our community members and our more than 130,000 valued customers is our primary concern.
tl;dr: it's a bit of a 3-way:
* They disagree (as many do) with the way she handled the event
* They feel she can't effectively be a dev evangelist for them anymore (can't fault them on that)
* She indirectly put the whole business and customers in dangers (which is probably a reference to the DDOS)
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Aurich LawsonCreative Director
Anyone remember this SuperBowl commercial?
I came across that image while poking around for image ideas for this story, and Peter made an excellent observation: "dongle" jokes are obviously mainstream and tame enough that you can air them on the largest commercial broadcast in the world (eek hope that's true, it's big though!) and apparently no one blinks.
We don't know what the joke actually was, and I'm not even really trying to excuse it, but I do think it's fascinating that it's apparently part of our cultural experience, and not just limited to bearded programmers.
ZanshinArs Praefectuset Subscriptor
Everyone lost today. Tech, the Python community, the programming community, men, women, the 2 people who got fired, everyone.
Perhaps Adria should have exposed their behavior in some other way, like writing to the PyCon people directly, or turning around and speaking to the guys herself. But she didn't. And you know what? The "hey, look at these assholes!" pic and tweet kind of stuff happens all the time, all over the world. You or I have probably done something similar, but it just faded into the background of inane content that no one cares about. Regardless of her previous behavior online (which quite frankly, seems to be a little racist at times), I don't feel that she was in the wrong in this specific instance.
Basically, two dudes said something stupid. She tweeted "look at these assholes!" PlayHaven extremely overreacted by firing one of the dudes. Parts of the Python and perhaps parts of the general programming community extremely overreacted to Adria. SendGrid overreacted slightly by firing Adria.
Yes, SendGrid needs to have developer advocates that can represent their company in a good light. I think firing Adria right now makes them also look bad, in the "Sorry men, she's gone now, can we be friends again? kthxbye!" vein. What SendGrid should have done is give Adria a chance to quell the situation in SendGrid's favor, or at least give her guidance in how to do so. Maybe even suspend her, or some sort of internal corporate disciplinary action, and let this whole controversy end with time. Adria may learn from this on how to handle the internet dragon better, but SendGrid lost the opportunity to have this stronger person work for them. Maybe she won't learn anything from this, but the timing of her firing was still poor PR for SendGrid. Keep in mind, I still don't think her initial tweet was morally wrong.
SendGrid made the mistake of thinking that the few vocal assholes represents everyone. I'd bet the majority of the Python community just wishes that everyone would shut the fuck up and code. Unfortunately, in human behavior, the loud people get the attention, and online, those are assholes and trolls.
Unfortunately, PlayHaven and SendGrid were so afraid of the internet dragon, that they sacrificed two people to it in an attempt to appease. The thing is, the internet dragon is never appeased, it's never full, it's rage and fire never ends. All you can do is turn it's attention elsewhere, or hide until it moves on to other prey.
All in all, it's a bad day for our industry.
Last edited by Zanshin on 21 Mar 2013 22:58
Ken Fisher Ken is the founder & Editor-in-Chief of Ars Technica. A veteran of the IT industry and a scholar of antiquity, Ken studies the emergence of intellectual property regimes and their effects on culture and innovation.
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ALLCAPS Smack-Fu Master, in training
Carolyn Ann wrote:
It's not about any particular individual. It's about the culture that excuses and encourages such aggression to women, such misogyny.
Am I missing something? I fail to see how a dongle joke is misogynistic or aggressive towards women.
marcusj0015 Ars Scholae Palatinae
Elij17 wrote:
This is inherent to human interactions such as this, in general.
Everyone is at fault, and everyone loses.
Except, that men never over react like this to a fucking joke, THIS is what Feminism has taught everyone, that there's an (artificial) war between the sexes, of course men seem to know it's not a real war, but women are being duped right and left, and no that doesn't mean they're weak and need to be infantilized and coddled, it means they need to grow the fuck up and start thinking.
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hallucinex wrote:
I feel like I'm gonna get a lot of downvotes for this, but some things need to be said.
1. There is no such thing as reverse racism.
2. There is no such thing as misandry.
3. Saying that white people can and have suffered anything like the systematic oppression POC do is racist.
4. Saying the same of men and women is misogynistic. Every last bit of discrimination men have ever suffered is a result of the patriarchy.
5. Equality is not as cut and dry as you'd like it to be.
Are you stupid?
vstojkovic Seniorius Lurkius
This whole fiasco brought the worst out of the Internet. The vast majority of people, instead of engaging in civilized discussion, picked the "team" they're on and proceeded to attack "the other team".
It's sad two people had to lose their jobs over this. As I wrote elsewhere, I believe this just shows that our society is fixated on punishment as the means of correcting inappropriate and unacceptable behavior: http://beardseye.blogspot.com/2013/03/o ... t-and.html
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copernicum Ars Centurion
ALLCAPS wrote:
Apparently men are not allowed to make jokes about their own body parts. That's misogynistic. Of course women can...
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AlexIsAlex Ars Scholae Palatinae
deet wrote:
Ken's observation that we don't know why these people ultimately got fired seems to be widely overlooked.
Very, true. But it's easier to construct a clearer narrative that feels more satisfying if one overlooks all the unknowns. Ambiguity just gets in the way of that.
Once again, psychology is a jerk.
Flyawave wrote:
Had I been Richard's employer, I'd have fired her too. I mean, the vigilante-esq nature of her comments coupled with hypocrisy regarding sex-jokes do not point to a person I would want to represent my company. It equates to bad publicity, most clearly shown by the DDoS attacks. Clearly flipping the tables at a moderately out of place big dongle joke is not standing up for one's rights, it's vicious behaviour that should be dealt with. That said, the odd crass joke here and there is also something to be dealt with.
Oh noez! That's Misogynystic! Anything evar said bad about a woman is the hatred of all women! You should've gotten the memo to never think logically again!
marcusj0015 wrote:
This the exact response I expected to get.
Then why waste your time trolling?
charleski Ars Praefectus
Even though I disagree with what Richards did and think SendGrid was correct (and had no choice but) to fire her, I can't help feeling that she did fulfill her purpose to some degree. People in the tech community are going to be more careful about careless banter (for at least a month or so), which is something that wouldn't have happened if she'd handled the matter more appropriately in private.
If evangelising your cause is more important than evangelising your employer's products, then this sort of reaction does pay a dividend.
Rookie_MIB Ars Tribunus Militum
Well, maybe I'm wrong in this, but both the firings were entirely justified, and hopefully they'll all remember that the next time they're at a 'professional' event, to behave professionally.
The guys will (I hope) refrain from unprofessional conduct and keep their dongle jokes to themselves, and she will know to respect the proper chain of 'authority' when it comes to dealing with issues (ie: talking to the organizers instead of pulling a high-schoolish public outing on the twitter-verse).
I would have thought that these 'adults' would have outgrown that kind of behavior... guess not.
copernicum wrote:
Because its not trolling. This is perfectly sincere. I take it you are not familiar with the radical wing of the social justice movement.
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Spaham Ars Centurion
I wish she could understand that she was an idiot, NOT because she's a woman, and NOT because she's black...
calson33 Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
She was fired for standing up for what she said online; well, perhaps no one has stopped to consider that this is probably not the only time she's been exposed to such inane, unnecessary misogyny?
Misogyny is defined as the hatred of women.. From what I understand of the "joke" in question, it didn't reference women and the developers were not directing the comment at a women. If I am wrong, please point me to some better facts.
So, while she may have had to endure misogyny before, it has no bearing on this event. She overreacted in a very public fashion about some juvenile comments she overheard. That's why she got fired.
rotational Ars Scholae Palatinae
I'm not trolling.
In that case, you and marcusj0015 share a severe lack of common sense and perspective.
RockDaMan wrote:
I'm going to disagree. While the comments are tacky and completely inappropriate, they're no worse than the juvenile things said in the comments section of any major online website. The commenters should be ashamed of themselves, but there is precisely zero chance of Richards being raped and/or murdered.
The loss of reputation and financial stability between both parties is the worst overreaction. I hope this further highlights the dangers of social media and how it's not the government alone that we need to be concerned of recording in public space.
Ken Fisher Caesar Imperator et Subscriptor
sondjata wrote:
No Ken Fisher, everyone is NOT to blame.
Those of us still in possession of our "dongles" understand the concept of a
A-B conversation where party C should mind their business.
If you open your mouth at a professional conference within earshot of others, there is no "minding your business" and everyone knows that. What utter tripe.
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pdg Seniorius Lurkius
It seems that in our society people go out of their way to be offended.
cgilmore wrote:
This is so dumb. I can't believe this is actually a thing right now. I blame Twitter.
Well, you should blame feminism, and all it's done, but whatever.
TXOgre Seniorius Lurkius
This is certainly a case of "He said. She said." I can only speculate on what was actually said, since there were no recordings or witnesses other than the accused and accuser.
Ms Richards, however, has shown herself to be wholly irrational and spiteful. Shaming someone in front of the entire world because you don't feel comfortable with them is vindictive and aggressive, and it's not the way anyone should act. It is a shining example of just how horrible people can be to each other. She seemed to revel in her spitefulness and hypocrisy, and that's just disgusting. Far more disgusting and offensive than a double entendre could ever be. If the young man who was terminated was terminated even in small part because of her actions, she should be held accountable. I can only hope that this was the reason Ms Richards was terminated. I wouldn't want her working for me either.
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tiggers Ars Scholae Palatinae
Reading all of this--and yes, I'm caught up--the only thing that recurs to me is "slow news day".
There are always going to be people that act like children. It's rare to have someone ignore my request when I came to them as an adult and stated their conduct was inappropriate.
Seriously: all tha little chidrens at PyCon need to put on their big boy--and girl--caps and act like grownups. This idiocy --which goes in all directions--doesn't go over in high school. Why did any of the parties think they were going to skirt by unscathed here?
msclrhd Ars Scholae Palatinae
One of the guys involved (the guy who made a comment about big dongles) apologised (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681). He also says that Adria took the forking comment out of context:
My friends and I had decided forking someone's repo is a new form of flattery (the highest form being implementation) and we were excited about one of the presenters projects; a friend said "I would fork that guys repo" The sexual context was applied by Adria, and not us.)
Ken Fisher wrote:
I can't help it, I find myself questioning your dongle.
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LordInsidious Ars Centurion
To quote you, "Are you stupid?"
msclrhd wrote:
Now I'm confused. Did she think this was a gay joke?
Aurich Creative Director et Subscriptor
Rindan Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
I think you miss the point, Ken. It's not about any particular individual. It's about the culture that excuses and encourages such aggression to women, such misogyny. It's pervasive - just look at the comments here and elsewhere; they blame the woman for being offended, they offer that tech is a man's world and if you can't cope, go join a sewing circle (I've been told that). It's not about what one person jokes, it's about the "laddish" tech culture that is overtly and actively hostile to women, not just women developers. It's about how some men are proud to be exclusionary and boorish.
There is a legitimate problem with the tech world's handling of women. Two friends people making punning sex jokes isn't one of the problems. She is free to be offended. As a human surrounded by other humans though, she needs to be able to handle offense with a smidgen of social grace and proportionality.
She was fired for bad judgment in public that effected her ability to do her job as a PR person. There were a lot of good ways to handle the situation she was in. The simplest was probably to turn around and tell them to shut up and that they are in public. They probably would have looked appropriately embarrassed and called it a day. She could even then go right to twitter and complained about sexist comments and juvenile without pointing out who she was talking about. If she didn't want the confrontation, should could have just told the conference staff (as she did). She can't however, without a word, start posting people's pictures and overheard conversations online.
Richards could hold down an editorial position at Bitch Magazine, rant daily about sexism in the industry, and still keep her PR job. Her opinion on the offensiveness of sexual puns isn't the issue. How she dealt with her offense IS the issue. She dealt with being offended very poorly, and for a PR person, that is the kiss of death.
HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE. THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT.
Tom Brokaw wrote:
davidd wrote:
Getting offended about anything is ridiculous.
Individuals have the right to determine what offends them. If she was offended, you have no right to tell her she should not be, even if you yourself would not and can point to N people who share your views.
Exactly my point. People choose whether they will be offended by something or not. I cannot make anyone else feel offended or anything else. People are responsible for their own feelings and how they choose to react to them. Hence, people today in our society seem to go out of their way to be offended. Why is that?
Yup, you probably will get down voted... mostly because it is horribly off topic. The issue revolves around whether or not what the developers was doing was sexist, if Richards response was correct, and if the response of the companies in question is correct. No one has made any claims of 1-5.
So yes, your comment is going to get down voted, because it is dumb and doesn't add anything.
The reality is that it's impossible to know with any certainty exactly what was said and in what context. The only thing to do is marvel at the severely disappointing lack of maturity displayed by both parties involved.
see all these comments ?
This is what happens when you replace philosophy by debate.
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1849. c. Jun - Jul The Báb, in prison in the castle of Chihríq, learned of the massacre at Shaykh Tabarsí and the martyrdom of Quddús. He was so overcome with grief that He was unable to write or dictate for a period of five or six months. [DB411, 430]
See the Tablet of Visitation for Mulla Muhammad 'Ali-i-Barfurushi (Quddús) revealed by the Báb. Chihriq; Iran Bab, Life of; Bab, Writings of; Prison; Shaykh Tabarsi; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution; Quddus; Tablets of Visitation; Bab, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded
1891 (In the year) Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn was revealed by Bahá'u'lláh. It was originally revealed as "Lawh-i-Zíyárat-Namih-i-Imám Husayn".
For a translation by Khazeh Fananapazir with a commentary edited by Mehdi Wolf see Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn. Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn; Lawh-i-Ziyarat-Namih-i-Imam Husayn
1892 (After the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh) `Abdu'l-Bahá asked Nabíl-i-Azam to choose a number of passages from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh to be used as a tablet of visitation. Nabil selected four passages and composed the text which is known as the Ziārat-nāma. This Tablet is also used at observances commemorating the Martyrdom of the Báb. [BBD234; BKG427; GPB222; RB4:419, “Nabil-e aʿzam Zaranadi, Mollā Mohammad,” by Vahid Rafati, Encyclopædia Iranica]
For an analysis of this Tablet, see SA121–2. Bahji Nabil-i-Azam; Tablets of Visitation
1939 24 Dec Shoghi Effendi reinterred the remains of Navváb and the Purest Branch. [DH162; GBF116; GPB347–8]
Two vaults were cut into the solid rock in the garden area near the monument of the Greatest Holy Leaf. [DH162]
For Shoghi Effendi’s cable announcing this see DH162 and PP262.
For Shoghi Effendi’s letters and cables concerning this see BW8:245–53, DH162 and PP261.
For a description of the reinterment see BW8:253–8.
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Thanksgiving: Pastor Emry Sheldon
WHITE THANKSGIVING: White Sheldon Emry’s essay on Thanksgiving as I found in Pastor Eli’s book, “The Great Impersonation: The Mask of Edom, “How the anti-Christ has deceived the whole world. (the Jews.)There are many actual transcripts of those concerned with the Mayflower but how it was founded on Christianity and God principles even fleeing from […]
Posted bykkkaraoke November 19, 2012 Posted inUncategorizedTags: " "Black" "Hispanic" but few write "White" but we need to read things like that. We cannot save something that doesn't exist. The First White Pilgrims that came to US on Mayflower were persecuted in E, " as our White race and Christianity is today; although I see signs of improvement. But also it says to "dis-integrate." "Integrate" means to have Whites break down their race and "integrate" with Jew, " let them know of the "sufferings" of the (White) people on the Mayflower both back in England and here in America. Not the blacks on the TV screen with Jews in the background grinding their hands wi, " Or "I still love him, " or just hide it instead of demanding a Congressional investigation at why our Boys are being manhandled and their minds poisoned. The essay I refer to on Thanksgiving below says that the (Whites) ha, " The foundation was to be for White "education." Yet today Harvard is only 25% Whites and I bet they pay full price while Jews give other Jews the free grants, "How the anti-Christ has deceived the whole world. (the Jews.)There are many actual transcripts of those concerned with the Mayflower but how it was founded on Christianity and God principles even fle, "NOT" the Polish Jews of Israel.) Only 5 of the 18 White married women survived. Meaning 13 died of starvation, "The Great Impersonation: The Mask of Edom, "The Great Impersonation: the Mask of Edom. How the Anti-Christ has Deceived the Whole World." (the Jews.) Here's painting of those on the Mayflower. It shows a young White couple deeply in love as Wh, (other than Whites who might have been here 20, (The real Chosen of God, 000, 000 a year cleaning White homes and they can't read a label. I cleaned homes and made minimum wage at 4 hours a day. Because I was "not connected" in USA. Blacks can make double what I can and what ot, 000 fighting each other for Jew rights. The foundation of US from Mayflower Whites persecuted under homosexual King James of England, 000 Whites to pay Jews big buck$$$ to watch blacks on the field. Jews have stolen our rights as well as our $$$$. In the painting I refer to below, 000 years ago, 000" number of Jews killed. But #14 shows that "resolved" could mean to "break up, 1620, 1620 (tomorrow 392 years ago of hard White slavery history) the Pilgrims landed on Cape Cod, 1620. (They had to live in the ship for about a month on shore, 1620. They had two vessels, 1912. MORE POEMS BY FELICIA HEMANS A LITTLE band of English men and women, a damned thing except an apology and a guarantee they will leave our shores so we can begin to work on saving what Whites have built up for 400 years, a more protected harbor than that of Provincetown. This desire of the Pilgrims for a place where they might be free to worship God as they pleased was the cause of the founding of the first colony in, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, about 42-years old. Minister's clerk and shopkeeper. Mrs. Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins. Probably in her late 30s or very early 40s. Constance Hopkins. 14-years old. Giles Hopkins. 12-years old. Damaris, acts, all cramped up, although some of my family has been tolerant a little. The food was sometimes spoiled; the water contaminated on Mayflower. The Government imprisoned the White Pilgrims for their beliefs. I know many, Amen. We whose names are under-written, and a band of sixteen men, and advancement of the Christian faith, and England was pretty boozed up. Prisons loaded as in pre-Hitler Germany. The Puritans didn't imbibe. They had to suffer perils of lack of diet for the White men, and frame such just and equal laws, and honor of our King and Country, and Ireland, and Ireland King, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620. White Thanksgiving: Mayflower: Our White ancestors faced "prison, and on the evening of November 19, and one of another, and our literature should be of the "truth" for our survival and growth, and so does my deceased brother thank you. There is a White woman with a baby there. Here's my husband's relatives on the Mayflower: Stephen Hopkins. From Hursley, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared-- This w, And the stars heard, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark, and their Blacks, and they now have a picture of book of my White husband's ancestry, Arabs, Arabs and Hindus. Nowhere. Jews invented that as a devilish scheme to rid the world of the Whites once they sucked out our last drops of blood like the Jewish first horror movie of Dracula when he tur, as I have been seeking White Rights or White Identity. The White's own brothers persecuted them. As today, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, as the other aggressive races led by Jews are doing to us today.) Well guess what the William and Susanna White names their baby: "RESOLVED WHITE." Doesn't that sound hopeful? Who ever named a baby "R, as USA and other European countries persecuted many, at Plymouth, ate his dead wife and baby in her tummy for all the rest of the Whites perished except for 4. The Red Injuns chopped and boiled many. And today we can't do enough and all that is mentioned is how Red, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Bert the Polak, Blacks, blacks and Mexicans, blacks or yellow Commies. It was for Law (The law that is to the advantage of Whites not Jews as been the case since 1669 in Poland until now in USA now that they have illegally immigrated here under, blacks. They gouged us in education. See my other post on the horrors the Jews teach in our schools; it is poison to the White mind. The foundation of America was for the tribute to our White ancestor, both President Bush and Romney went down in shame for the world to see! It is Jewish propaganda into the destruction of the White male. He writes that there were gentle showers that seemed to come dow, browns, burned at the stake for their (White) Civil Rights and (White) religious Rights. Now Thanksgiving is a day for Whites to honor and worship "Blacks" playing football with White $$ that goes to Jews. Th, but as they get more power, but killed, but solitary confinement, but there are so few and we've all suffered either persecution, but when the more aggressive Red Indians found there way here, by the grace of God, call it holy ground, cars, chopped and boiled them. Here's mayflower history . com, co. Hampshire, cold, coming from England and Holland Homosexual King James. When I write that the first White Pilgrims fled England for the "religious" were persecuted them, Commies have used our gentle and peaceful nature as a tool against us to takeover without saying "no" to them. Mayflower; First Thanksgiving First Thanksgiving: Mayflower: White woman caters food to R, confiscated their possessions (as done to whites today). And it was a Homosexual King James they were running away from. So obviously this USA was built by Whites who were escaping Homosexual ruthless, constitute, constitutions and offices, covenant and combine our selves together into a civil body politic, cramped, cranberries (not too sweet) and blueberries. Even the worms the Whites brought later on ships to aerate and fertilize the American soil naturally. The blacks didn't do it. The Jews sure as hell didn't, Dec. 20, December 20, Defender of the Faith, denied our rights, diseases, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, drug withdrawal. They make big $$$ and feed us more which is why illegal drugs in the #1 business in USA while China Commies have foods, drunk, England, etc. Having undertaken, etc." that rule Whites today. It was written that the White Pilgrims left England / Holland for a wild land that was "ravaged by savages." So in 1620, even IQ's. Our White America was founded on Science and literature. Meaning we were smart, even though I don't know them, family members can be a White's worse enemies when trying to become White, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, for the glory of God, for Whites and of Whites. White Thanksgiving: Mayflower. I was inspired by this from Pastor Emry Sheldon, France, from time to time, genocide us on Thanksgiving day football. Jews use Blacks as SuperStars as Role Models for Whites in Thanksgiving Football Jews control Obama and Biden as puppets for their Jew Rights to rule the worl, have been persecuted and denied my White Rights as well as others. Oh and by the way, headed by Captain Miles Standish, Hindus... no.. just Whites have bartered their children's rights away. And if I didn't love them, history and certainly aren't saying Thank You at Thanksgiving, homos will join them to make our White lives pretty miserable. Since we have never resisted as I have, however you wish to believe. He further states that before we barter away our White children's rights for a "mess of pottage, hungry, I should add that there is a very sickly White woman that a White man is carrying in the picture. The message from Pastor Emry Sheldon speaks of our (White) Children's Rights and not "bartering" them, I sit here and type away for those White Rights are from God, imprisoned the White Pilgrims, in England, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, in the presence of God, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, including Jews, including our minds, inventions, it could be Oceanus Hopkins, it could be the White baby in the arms of White woman in pix. Here's website to see pix of the Whites on the Shores of the Mayflower Ship. It's on page 8 of 18: http://www.sheldonemrylibrary.com/thank, it would be a number's game, Jews, Jews to get away, just like Jews, killed them off, King James, landed to explore the shore. The first actual settlement was made a month later, let alone organize. Howbeit it Obama the black was given plenty of $$ to organize blacks in Chicago. Where is $$ for me, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow, manufacturing, many Whites today, Massachusetts, murderers, Muslims, Muslims say "thank you" to the Whites at election time? No! 80% of them voted "against the White man" Romney so Jews could show a "weak" White man as they world divides up the USA and our White people, my deceased US Marine husband's ancestor. Or there was a family named "White." Here are their names: William White Susanna White who was pregnant and I think had the first White baby on American soil, nor can they love me, nor the Hindus. The Genocided White Race did and all 80% of the Jews and non-whites voted "against" White Romney as their defiant way of saying "Thank You" to Whites for even allowing them in our home, not genocide or Jewish Hollywood fiction not fact to drive us mad and confused. Sheldon equates "Literature" with (White) Civil Liberty, not the other way around. White Thanksgiving: Mayflower. Here's painting of White women and men waiting on the Red Injuns not the other way around. White slavery. And how did Reds pay us back after 40, November 21], of England, of Great Britain, on August 15, on December 21, on the front. From mayflowerhistory.com Mayflower Ship, or Blacks and see if Obama will "barter" his daughter's rights away, or Superglue. Happy Thanksgiving Mayflower White People Pilgrims White Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth from Mayflower Ship, or the blacks as Obama's picture is everywhere wallpapering Europe who once tried to save the White Race but now have no alternative but to see his Black Face everywhere. I bet there isn't a picture o, or the Divine, or the Mexicans, or to browns, or when Whites witness the shutdown of meetings, or yellow Commie Chinese, ordinances, other Whites sent to prison by Jewish led government, perhaps frozen to death. Remember Henry Collins on the first ship before the Mayflower, please don't feel guilty about using word "White" when the other races don't even learn about our sacrifice, pro-White lawyers serving life time sentence in prison for crime they never commit. And if there were millions of us, quoted in Pastor Eli's White Identity book, ransacked their homes, rapists, Red Indians didn't save the Whites; from what I read they were savages and ravaged the White men. After a while when it seemed as if a plague wiped many of the Red's out and a brilliant comet passed o, reds, relationships. Some notes from Pastor Emry Sheldon's view on (White) Thanksgiving (my own emphasis on White for no one writes like that. They will say "Jew, replace us, said he couldn't understand how they could get 100, sailed from Southampton, scaffold hanging adn death, serenely high, starved.) Did any of the Jews, Stephen Hopkins, takeover your home and push you out? And then make TV shows laughing at you and calling you "dumb" or "jerk" for the entire World 92% to laugh at you. Doesn't that hurt? The foundation of America was, the eighteenth, the eleventh of November [New Style, The hills and waters o'er, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Speedwell soon proved unseaworthy and had to put back to Plymouth for repairs, the pilgrims brought their ship into what came to be known as Cape Cod harbor. Two days later the Mayflower dropped anchor off what is now Provincetown, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found -- Freedom to whorship God. "Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" is reprinted from Historic Poems and Ballads. Ed. Rupert S., the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine! Ay, the true-hearted came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, the Whites get afraid and go back to sleep for safety. The White mind shuts down; it cannot bear the realization of our genocide and the intentional shutting down of the people who at least try to wri, their lawyers imprisoned, then Holland. They were non-drinkers, these "Red Injuns" didn't "save" the Whites, They, they can only do what they are told and not a single thing more. Yellows didn't cultivate and build USA, they have that same aggressive spirit no matter how much $$$ White Christians waste on them instead of their own White people. The Whites still had to pay the "debt" to England. Sheldon refers to Whit, thirsty, to organize Whites in Vegas and around the world. I'd like an unlimited checkbook this Thanksgiving. The government sacked the homes of the Pilgrims. The Canadian government sacked the homes of White, tripled, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, values, we make laws "for" them by Black Homosexual in the White House and their Jewish perverted Masters who we adore. We are not Thankful at Thanksgiving unless we realize what a White Thanksgiving by Pilgr, we stick together like White Glue, wet, what is beneficial for our survival. http://etb-history-theology.blogspot.com/2012/03/king-james-was-gay.html White Thanksgiving Mayflower and Whites from Mayflower. The Whites issued the Mayflower, when 80% of them voted for Black Obama the Commie Jew & Muslim combo who did nothing for us but aggravation. We lost 4 years under him in trying to have White survival. The (White) MAYFLOWER COMPA, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, whether thru booze withdrawal, which is believed by Pastor Eli that we Whites are the Chosen People and this is the Promised Land for Whites. Note the last line says that the greatest freedom the Whites accomplished was the "FREEDO, which is the extreme point of Cape Cod, while the Mayflower was at sea headed for America. Since Oceanus was born on Mayflower Ship, while twelve of the thirty voyagers were added to the ninety who were already on board the Mayflower. Nine weeks later land was sighted, White children of the Mayflower. They suffered perils from their "own nation" of England persecuting them, White donations and sacrifice your White time for the Reds or any other Jew raced preferred people in USA. I finally found the one I mentioned in earlier post and it is by "Currier and Ives." The Land, White Pilgrims wanted "morality, White Rights. He writes that the "happiest" (White) society which partakes of the highest degree of mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity. yet the Blacks, WHITE THANKSGIVING: White Sheldon Emry's essay on Thanksgiving as I found in Pastor Eli's book, White women, Whites have to survive?" The Red Injuns wanted to party and play while the Whites did all the work. Look at this painting where the White woman is waiting on the Red Injun hand and foot. What has the, Whites like me, who had left their homes because of religious persecution, yellows, yellows. but to "dis-integrate" means we don't have to do any such thing. If we have to do business with them then we do so. Once it is over, yet "102" escaped the Homosexual King James of England's persecution. They huddled together with hardly any air to breath on the bad days. The main beam buckled which meant the ship would break into t, you don't face their hatred and aggression. In this pix a White man is bowing on his White knobby knees like my brother wrote in his song "We the People." Thanks to the 19 people who watched itLeave a comment on Thanksgiving: Pastor Emry Sheldon
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Fresh free school meals row as union warns poor families will NOT get food over February half-term > Top Stories > Fresh free school meals row as union warns poor families will NOT get food over February half-term
Fresh free school meals row as union warns poor families will NOT get food over February half-term
Meal scheme will switch for half-term
The free meal system for school pupils will change over the February half term – as the government tries to balance its books by using a different department’s funding for the food.
In a switchover that has the potential to spark some administration issues, meals for those that need it will continue, but paid for from a different area.
Currently the Department for Education are in charge of providing cash for school meals during the coronavirus outbreak in term-times.
But when half term arrives something called the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, which comes from the DWP, will supply the money. It has £170m of funds.
It goes to councils who pay it forward to a number of different schemes to help families in need of assistance.
That includes extending free school meals support to those eligible when schools closed during lockdown.
This Covid Winter Grant was in place over Christmas and can see food parcels and vouchers go to those who need it.
The government was engulfed in another school meals row today over half-term plans for children to get their free supplies from a different scheme.
Currently money paying for parcels and lunches comes from a Department for Education initiative.
But new guidance on the free lockdown packages has said they will stop in the February half term and families will need to use the DWP-administered Covid Winter Grant Scheme through their local council.
It has sparked fears from Unions that the process could be mired in red tape and run the risk of children going hungry. Meals campaigner Marcus Rashford had however praised the initiative when it was announced last year.
After the £170m grant was revealed in November he had said ‘I very much welcome the steps that have been taken to combat child food poverty in the UK’.
The new criticism is understood to have stunned ministers who have insisted the scheme will crossover with the current package to ensure no-one misses out.
Union bosses slammed the project today, fearing it would leave children hungry.
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said: ‘This is an unnecessary logistical nightmare.
‘The Government has, once again, revealed its total disregard for those hardest hit by the ongoing health pandemic.
‘After a year in which the stark inequalities faced by millions of children and young people has been at the forefront of the minds of the public, the ugly spectre of holiday hunger is now looming yet again.’
It came as Priti Patel today called for the £24.8billion-earning company behind the meal parcel that sparked the school dinner scandal to be punished, declaring ‘they should be ashamed of themselves’.
The Home Secretary described the food package from Compass group-owned Chartwells as an ‘appalling display’ that was ‘totally unacceptable’.
A government investigation is currently underway into the meal, which prompted a reintroduction of the more popular vouchers last night.
Rachel Robley hit out the food she was sent – and an ‘insulting’ letter sent which advised her, among other things, on what she may need to make beans on toast
The food parcel that caused the scandal contained just £5.22 of food and sparked an apology
Amy Weldon, 24, told how she had been given her daughter’s food parcel in a bin bag
But even those are feared to have caused further problems – after concerns having to print them out at home to spend could be difficult for families with no equipment.
The issue of pupils’ lunches while schools are shut in lockdown has prompted furious debate among politicians, celebrities and families.
Mrs Patel said: ‘The vouchers scheme is coming back in place on January 18 – quite frankly that scheme is just so, so important.
‘I do think the company that was involved in that appalling display of food parcels should be ashamed of themselves, quite frankly.
‘It’s totally unacceptable and it is right that the Government is investigating them. I personally think that some action should be taken against that company,’ she added in an interview with Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield on This Morning.
Parents will be able to claim the food vouchers from next week after Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced he would be reintroducing the £15 tokens.
But some require them to be printed at home, causing another headache for poorer families without access to that kind of equipment.
Footballer Marcus Rashford – who has campaigned for free school meals – said last night: ‘One thing I touched on with the Prime Minister was ways to course correct on the voucher scheme.
‘If families can’t access food consistently likelihood is they do not have access to a printer to print the vouchers at home. They agreed to look into this.’
It came as a mother said she felt ‘insulted’ after her daughter’s free school meal package contained advice on making beans on toast.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson today announced he would be reintroducing the £15 vouchers from January 18
Furious Rachel Robley’s was also given guidance on assembling a jacket potato after she received a meagre box of food to feed her six-year-old daughter, Hope.
They were posted to the thousands of North East children – learning at home due to the latest Covid-19 lockdown – who qualify for free school meals.
Mr Williamson had told MPs he was ‘absolutely disgusted’ by images shared by angry parents laying bare the meagre contents of their food packages, which in scores of cases lacked the components of a rounded diet and fell short of the £15-per-child value.
Boris Johnson also branded the boxes ‘disgraceful’ and ‘an insult to the families that have received them.’
The Prime Minister’s comments came after a phone call with campaigning footballer Rashford, who has championed access to free school meals during the pandemic.
Speaking before the Commons Education Select Committee this morning, Mr Williamson confirmed the Government the vouchers would be rolled out next week.
The row is the latest fiasco to beset the Education Secretary, who earlier this month was forced to accept a nationwide school closure at the 11th hour, despite enthusiastically encouraging them to open just hours before.
It was sparked by one Twitter account belonging to a mother called Sarah – RoadsideMum on Twitter – who originally said a sparse package from suppliers Chartwells was supposed to be worth £30 and last ten days.
In an interview, she accepted the groceries had only been intended to last her child seven days, but the firm nevertheless apologised and admitted the parcel was not up to standard.
The Prime Minister assured senior MPs that the company had been ‘hauled over the coals’.
Footballer Marcus Rashford disclosed that the Prime Minister had spoke to him today
Katie Newton, from Harrogate, got a food parcel for Rylan Blakey which was not enough
Catering company’s high-end lunches for private school pupils are revealed
One of the companies behind the food parcels also feeds gourmet food to children from richer families via a sister company, it emerged today.
Chartwells Independent, which is linked to Chartwells, provides canapés, pâtisserie food and gingerbread villages to private schools.
The firm shared pictures of its luxury food before the row emerged over paltry supplies for poorer families.
Smoked mackerel, quinoa and kale were provided at St Faith’s in Cambridge
A canapes table at Norwich School provided by Chartwells Independent
Tandoori roast pollock with Goan curry of prawns and mussels at Chigwell School
Answering a question from Education Select Committee chairman Robert Halfon at the Liaison Committee, he said: ‘You are right to be obviously outraged by the images that we have seen.
‘And the companies in question – or certainly one of the most notorious pictures, the company responsible for that, and others – have been hauled over the coals and asked to explain how this has happened.
‘They have apologised and they have reimbursed the schools concerned and pledged not to do it again.
‘I should stress that the images did not reflect the actual Government guidance which is for about double the quantity of food for lunch packs for five days that you have seen, if not more.’
Yet this was challenged by Sir Keir Starmer, who at PMQs brandished a list of what was purportedly the Government’s own standards.
Eyebrows were also raised when it was further revealed that one of the companies behind the food parcels also feeds gourmet food to children from richer families at private schools via a sister company.
RoadsideMum described her dismay at opening the free school meal package.
She told the BBC: ‘As I unpacked that food parcel in my living room and looked at the contents, it felt very sad and very depressing, and one of my children came in and saw me laying this out on the floor and asked why.
‘I said I was going to picture it because I didn’t think it looked like a lot and I could see the child’s realisation that this is what I’ve been given to eat for a week and just the sense of sadness.
‘Where has the rest of the food gone? You know, this is meant to be a week’s food. Why is it so mean?’
The Prime Minister’s intervention was revealed by Rashford – who has campaigned for free school meals – this morning.
He tweeted: ‘Just had a good conversation with the Prime Minister.
‘He has assured me that he is committed to correcting the issue with the food hampers and that a full review of the supply chain is taking place.
‘He agrees that images of hampers being shared on Twitter are unacceptable.’
It came after Health Secretary Matt Hancock bit back at food firms supplying paltry food parcels to pupils today, declaring ‘they clearly need to up their game’.
He left little doubt of his displeasure over embarrassing photographs circulating on social media showing the meals.
It held two sandwiches, two potatoes, grated cheese, yoghurts, one apple and an orange
This food parcel was from Grange Primary School Grimsby and was for two children per week
Two children attending a school in Nottingham were handed this to last them a whole week
This school pupil’s food parcel contained bread that went out of date of the day of its delivery
These items were sent out to parents in Medway, Kent, from a school to feed their children
St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School in Merseyside were giving out these parcels
This parcel was received by an angry mother who had no idea how to make meals from it
Tory donor Paul Walsh was previously boss of Compass, which is the parent firm of Chartwells
Lunch company had Tory donor at the helm
The company behind the lunches are Chartwells, which is the education catering specialist of £24.8billion-earning Compass Group UK & Ireland.
Until December this year Tory donor Paul Walsh was the chairman of Compass, the millionaire showing on Electoral Commission documents giving the party £10,000 in 2010.
Companies House documents showed he resigned just over a month ago on December 1, nearly a year after he announced he would.
On December 8, Chartwells announced it had joined the Child Food Poverty Taskforce formed by Marcus Rashford MBE.
Chartwells managing director Charlie Brown said at the time: ‘Marcus Rashford’s campaign shines a much-needed spotlight on the issue of child food poverty.
‘We know how important nutritious food is to educational attainment, and that food provision is a real struggle for some families, so we fully support widening access to free school meals.
‘We’re now going to be working with the taskforce to provide healthy meals during school holidays for those entitled to free school meals. As the first school caterer on board, I believe our insights and our networks in schools will be valuable, to make a real difference to young lives.’
Mr Hancock said: ‘I’m glad they have apologised, they clearly need to up their game
‘I want to see good, high quality food.
He added to GMB: ‘I’m really glad we are able to send food for those who receive free school meals when schools are in and I’m really glad we are able to do that when schools are out.’
Meanwhile Katie Barry, a headteacher at St George’s Church of England Community Primary School in Gainsborough, told Newscast: ‘Obviously we’re meant to feed all the children that are still in school – the vulnerable children and the key worker children – so they get a hot lunch as normal.
‘But then we’re obliged to also make sure all the children that are on home learning that are eligible for free school meals have a food parcel.
‘Schools with their own kitchen are strongly advised to offer food hampers rather than exploring the voucher route.
‘I think it may be so we know that the children are getting healthy food because we have to meet the national food standards but also I think there’s an economical reason behind it.
‘Well all we’re given extra is an extra £3.50 a week which was announced yesterday. So obviously the money we normally get for free school meals we have a lot of overheads so it’s £2.30 a meal but I only have about £1 to spend on food because we have obviously all the wages and the electricity and the water and everything.
‘So our food parcels really we only have about £5 a week to spend on food then we got the extra £3.50 yesterday and so it’s significantly less than £15 given out to families in vouchers.
‘It’s not a lot to get five healthy meals for a growing child who’s expected to be doing home learning and they need to be well nourished in order to be able to engage well with their learning.
‘It is quite tight and I can understand how some parents would prefer vouchers because they also have autonomy then because the food parcels we try to accommodate different needs but it’s very difficult to tailor them to personal preferences.’
The Manchester United and England footballer (pictured with his mother Melanie at a food bank last year) was responding to an outraged mother who slammed a 10-day hamper
MailOnline have been handed a further rogues’ gallery of images of appalling boxes sent out to parents from various schools and firms.
One mother Amy Weldon, 24, told how she had been given her daughter’s food parcel in a bin bag.
She explained to MailOnline: ‘Every parent in the country needs this to be reverted back to the vouchers as some children will starve.
‘The food companies are profiting massively from this.’
‘It’s outrageous at what they’ve given for my daughter and considering it’s meant to be a pandemic because of a virus they shouldn’t be opening food and touching it to re package it
‘I’m absolutely disgusted with what I’ve been given today and I know every parent in the country who has been giving this quantity and quality of food would be feeling exactly the same.’
Compass Group UK & Ireland previous had Tory donor Paul Walsh as its chairman.
The millionaire, who now heads racing and lifestyle business the McLaren Group
Publicly viewable Electoral Commission documents show he gave the party £10,000 in 2010.
Companies House papers showed he officially resigned from Compass just over a month ago on December 1, nearly a year after he first announced he would step down.
This Woodside Primary Academy pupil’s food parcel was supposed to last them a week
This parcel is supposed to last a child a week but does not appear to contain enough food
Some boxes have been praised by parents. St Dunstans School in Glastonbury were given top marks for this five days one, which included sandwiches and wraps from Real Wrap Co
Tiny portions of cheese and soup powder were packaged in bank coin bags among vegetables
Mum Christa Lee, 39, was shocked at the food package her 17-year-old picked up last week
Free school meals have existed for more than 100 years
The origin of free school meals (FSM) stretches back to the Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906 when local authorities were granted powers to provide food to the poorest children through local taxes.
This system remained until the Second World War when in 1941 nutritional standards were drawn up, followed three years later with the 1944 Education Act mandating local authorities to hand out FSM to the poorest pupils.
In 1986, during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, the Social Security Act required local authorities to outsource the supply to private companies.
In 2013, a new, more rigorous set of foods standards was implemented.
The government said yesterday it was ‘urgently’ looking into claims the free school meals parcels only contained a few pounds worth of food.
Meanwhile doctors at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health wrote to the government over whether they were nutritious enough for children.
Unlike the first lockdown, schools are given a grant from the government, which they can spend on getting vouchers for pupils or getting a contractor to supply parcels.
This time the government has urged schools to try and sort out parcels for the pupils in an effort to help ensure they have a balanced diet.
Until this week suppliers were working on costs of £2.34 a day per student, but on Friday the government increased this by £3.50 a week.
The Department for Education said it will investigate the claims free school meals do not contain enough food.
It posted on Twitter: ‘We are looking into this. We have clear guidelines and standards for food parcels, which we expect to be followed. Parcels should be nutritious and contain a varied range of food.’
Children’s minister Vicky Ford said: ‘I will be looking into this urgently – food parcels should cover all lunchtime meals & be nutritious – we’ve increased funding for parcels & will support local vouchers – national voucher also rolling out ASAP, working night & day on this. Hope your kids are ok @roadsidemum.’
She added: One of the reasons why some schools have used food parcels rather than vouchers is that it helps keep them in touch with families.
‘Very sadly during the pandemic there has been an increase in risk to some children. Do call @NSPCC if you are concerned about a child.’
How much should the free school meals really be worth?
Free school meal allowances are usually £2.34 per pupil per day, an additional £3.50 per seven days has been added in lockdown, equalling £15.20 a week.
The Government has told schools to work with their school catering team or provider to make up the food parcels, especially if kitchens are open.
Unlike in the first lockdown, vouchers are considered only after every effort to provide the supply boxes have been exhausted.
The government guidance suggests ‘you can consider other local arrangements, which might include vouchers for local shops and supermarkets’.
School costs of providing the vouchers can then be reimbursed by the government to the amount of £15 per week.
A school catering source told MailOnline: ‘Staff haven’t experienced anything like this before. They are working through a pandemic to make the food boxes for the parents some don’t even collect them.
‘For those in school staff were expecting 120 children from the key worker parents and vulnerable children for free school meals still, 40 turned up.’
Naomi Willis from Skint Dad commented: ‘While it seems that some food parcels have been good quality, there is a distinct lack of consistency, compared to the previous voucher scheme.
‘The food parcels provided to parents in the current lockdown should be able to feed a child for a week, but what we’ve seen shared by Skint Dad community members falls far short of this and is clearly not good enough.
‘This is adding additional pressure to struggling parents and is letting down children who are caught in the middle.
‘The scheme needs to be reviewed immediately to ensure that all children are provided with enough food or reintroduce the previous voucher scheme today.’
Parents said the meals were dished out to children studying from home by a private contractor.
Government guidance for the free school meals scheme says institutions can apply for an extra £3.50 per student on top of whatever they receive.
It says: ‘We strongly encourage schools to work with their school catering team or food provider to provide food parcels to eligible free school meal pupils who are at home.’
It adds: ‘Where school kitchens are open this should be the approach taken by schools.’
Chartwells said this morning: ‘We take our responsibility to provide children with access to nutritious food very seriously.
‘We have worked hard to produce food hampers at incredibly short notice during these challenging times.
‘Our hampers follow the DofE specifications and contain a variety of ingredients to support families in providing meals throughout the week.
‘In the majority of instances, we have received positive feedback.
‘In this instance, the image on Twitter falls short of our hamper specification and we are keen to investigate with the relevant school so we can address any operational issues that may have arisen.’
So where IS all the free school meals cash going? Charity reveals how £88m ‘disappears’ every year as catering firms make profits and headteachers slice off top to pay staff and utility bills
By Dan Sales and Martin Robinson for MailOnline
A perfect storm of problems besetting the school system saw £88.3million of free meal funding vanish a year – while some is split off to pay staff wages and water bills.
The government provides £2.34 for each eligible pupil per day, which has been increased in the third lockdown by £3.50 a week, or an extra 50p per school day.
But in the past 48 hours the country has been shocked by the quality of the meals offered to pupils, with sparse hampers featuring little more than the bare essentials.
MailOnline can reveal the huge disparity between the funding sent and the final product is down to soft government guidance, business demands, a system designed to reduce the stigma of free meals and a shortage of money in schools.
That system puts an allowance on a smartcard for pupils to buy meals at the school canteen, which was then replaced by the controversial food parcels in lockdown periods.
Tory MPs are putting huge pressure on Boris Johnson to reform the system, as it was revealed cash meant to feed children is being skimmed off by private companies to boost profits. Headteachers are also using some of the taxpayers’ money to pay wages and energy bills.
Influential Conservative backbencher Steve Baker told MailOnline: ‘I know the Government is fully seized on this issue and working hard for change – furious Conservative MPs are insisting on it’.
This is what is supposed to be in one child’s school lunch parcel for a week during lockdown
Keir Starmer circulated showing the Government guidance on what meal packs should have
Breakdown of grant for some schools: Headteacher admits that after ‘overheads’ like utility bills and staff wages, cash for pupil meals can be as little as £1 per day.
The government’s rules on the universal infant free school meals grant has detailed term and conditions tied up with red tape for education providers.
But the small print on the funding reveals a loophole many have been able to take advantage of to cover a lack of money elsewhere.
As long as the school fulfills its legal requirement to offer free school meals it can use the remainder for other purposes.
It means if they can feed pupils for £1 a head, it frees up £1.34 for other areas.
The guidance reads: ‘The grant supports schools in delivering the legal requirement to offer free school meals, meeting the school food standards, to all their reception, year 1 and year 2 pupils.
‘Subject to meeting this legal duty, schools may spend the grant for the purposes of the school; that is to say for the educational benefit of pupils registered at that school, or for the benefit of pupils registered at other schools.
Over 90 per cent of schools receive funding for free school meals for some of their pupils
Baroness Boycott and the Feeding Britain charity say £88million a year vanishes from funding
‘They may also spend it on community facilities, for example services whose provision furthers any charitable purpose for the benefit of pupils at the school or their families, or people who live or work in the school’s locality. Schools do not have to spend the entire grant in the financial year beginning 1 April 2020; they may carry forward some or all the grant.’
The use of the funding in this way has been confirmed by some schools already in the UK.
Katie Barry, a headteacher at St George’s Church of England Community Primary School in Gainsborough, told Newscast: ‘Obviously we’re meant to feed all the children that are still in school – the vulnerable children and the key worker children – so they get a hot lunch as normal.
‘Well all we’re given extra is an extra £3.50 a week, which was announced yesterday. So obviously the money we normally get for free school meals we have a lot of overheads so it’s £2.30 a meal but I only have about £1 to spend on food because we have obviously all the wages and the electricity and the water and everything.
‘So our food parcels, really we only have about £5 a week to spend on food then we got the extra £3.50 yesterday and so it’s significantly less than £15 given out to families in vouchers.
This food parcel is supposed to feed a child for a week every school day for lunchtime
This sparse selection was given to a child going to a primary school in Bingley, West Yorks
Food supply businesses also have to survive by making some profit on the services they provide.
It means using one of the hundreds of possible suppliers eats away at the already small amount offered to children.
But the largest black hole in free meal funding is bizarrely caused by a system designed to make taking the no-cost dishes less embarrassing for older children.
In secondary schools smart cards were introduced to all pupils to load up with money, or in the case of students getting free meals, have the amount credited each day. They use it to buy lunch at the school and has been running for the past ten years.
However a quirk in the system means if the amount is not used, or completely spent, the daily allowance is wiped and not carried over to the next day.
In lockdown times these free amounts have been replaced by the parcels.
It was exposed by the Feeding Britain network and Professor Greta Defeyte in a report last year.
It said it found £88 million was disappearing from free school meal cards.
The report said neither the Department for Education nor the National Audit Office were able to track down where that money went.
Baroness Boycott, chair of the Feeding Britain charity, said: ‘Schools overall are doing an amazing job and have stepped up fantastically.
‘I think most contractors as well have done a very good job. You have to remember that for the contractors on the whole because we only have one day of school and they were expecting a whole term, many of them had indeed delivered all their food, which would have been things like carrots and pasta.
‘They’ve done it before, so for them they’ve faced a lot of problems because of this but clearly this is the really bad situation.
‘I think the government has not on the whole done too badly but I do think there are a lot of problems going down the pipe, so to speak.
At Feeding Britain we did a big investigation into what happened to the money.
‘We found that actually £88million a year was disappearing as a combination of money that didn’t get rolled over.
Also the awful truth is that food is always seen as the bit of the sandwich that you can squeeze in this time of incredible cuts to councils, cuts to schools’ budgets, bits of the food budget were being taken off.’
Children’s Minister Vicky Ford MP said the government was dedicated to making sure pupils had good school meals.
She said: ‘Government will be demanding that caterers urgently improve the quality of lunches they provide to eligible children – this will make sure every one of them receives a healthy, nutritious lunch that will give them the fuel they need to focus on learning at home.
‘The photos being shared on social media last night and today are completely unacceptable and do not reflect the high standard of free school meals we expect to be sent to children.’
How many children get them? What should they include? Who compiled the parcels? Free school meals explained
Have children been receiving school meals during the pandemic?
Yes. The Government said schools in England should provide meal options for all eligible pupils, including vulnerable children and the children of key workers, regardless of whether they are being educated in the classroom or at home.
Meals should be available free of charge to all infant pupils and those who meet the benefits-related free school meals eligibility criteria.
It said schools may consider working with their school catering team or an external food provider to provide good quality lunch parcels to eligible pupils who are at home.
Around 1.3million children in England are eligible for free school meals.
What has Marcus Rashford got to do with it?
The England star became known for food poverty campaigning during the pandemic, forcing a Government U-turn on offering free school meal vouchers over the summer holidays.
The 23-year-old has drawn widespread praise for highlighting the issue, with his campaigning also resulting in the Government back-tracking to announce free meals would be provided to disadvantaged children over the Christmas holidays too.
He described the food offerings shown in pictures that emerged this week as ‘just not good enough’ and called for the system to be fixed ‘quickly’.
What did the pictures of food on social media show?
An image posted on Twitter by a mother called Sarah showed the food she had received all laid out, and she wrote: ‘2 days jacket potato with beans, 8 single cheese sandwiches, 2 days carrots, 3 days apples, 2 days soreen, 3 days frubes. Spare pasta & tomato. Will need mayo for pasta salad.
‘Issued instead of £30 vouchers. I could do more with £30 to be honest.’
Who put the parcel together and have they explained their efforts?
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said it has been made clear to Chartwells, the company that provided the pictured parcel, as well as the entire education food sector, that such behaviour ‘will not be tolerated’.
Chartwells said the picture shows five days of free school lunches (not 10 days) and the charge for food, packing and distribution was £10.50 and not the £30 suggested by Sarah.
The company said they are very sorry that the quantity has ‘fallen short in this instance’, later adding that they will be adding breakfast into their parcels from January 25, which will be free to schools for all children eligible for meals.
Rashford, who said he had reached out to Chartwells, tweeted that they had clarified that they were not the exclusive supplier of free school meals across the UK.
What is a food parcel expected to contain?
The Government website provides a link to a webpage which sets out some general principles for putting together a food parcel.
It includes a list of food items billed as an example parcel for one child for five days.
The list includes: one loaf of bread or pack of rolls/10-inch wraps, two baking potatoes, one cucumber, three large tomatoes or one pack of cherry tomatoes, one standard tin of sweetcorn in water, five portions of fresh fruit (eg apples, satsumas, bananas) or three portions of fresh fruit and one tin fruit in juice (eg pears, peaches, fruit cocktail), two items from the following: one pack of sliced cooked meat (eg chicken, ham or vegetarian alternative) or one tin of meat or one tin of tuna in water or six eggs, 200g block of cheese or three cheese portions, one tin baked beans, one 500g pot plain low-fat yoghurt or three individual serving yoghurt pots, one litre / two pints semi-skimmed milk.
Can families receive vouchers instead?
Yes, soon. Mr Williamson said the national voucher scheme for free school meals will relaunch next week, after education leaders, campaigners and MPs called on the Government to roll out the programme urgently.
People will receive an email from supplier Edenred by January 14, advising on how to either reset their password or activate their account for the first time.
They will then receive an email confirming when they can order vouchers during the week commencing January 18.
Once families have received their voucher, they will be able to redeem them in store by either presenting a paper copy or showing it on a smartphone.
What about pupils in other parts of the UK?
The governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make their own provisions for school lunch funding.
In Scotland, local authorities and schools use different approaches depending on their individual circumstances and in response to local needs, including cash payments to families of eligible children; supermarket vouchers; home deliveries or through attendance at school.
In Wales, councils are able to make a payment to cover the provision of school meals where needed.
In Northern Ireland, a payment will be made on Friday January 15 to the parents and guardians of all children, including vulnerable children and children of key workers, who are entitled to free schools meals for the period of January 4 to January 22.
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Ubi Days 08′ – What cool stuff was on show?
Well UbiSoft’s annual event is now behind us, giving the gaming public, retailers and press a much more solid idea about what to expect from Ubisoft for their forthcoming 08/09 slate.
– Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway (PC, 360, PS3)
Looking massively improved over previous builds with the PC version obviously being the most impressive at this stage. Even with that in mind, the console versions boast some impressive graphical trickery such as self shadowing, advanced particle effects and more. Gameplay wise, the game appears to adhere quite closely to it’s predecessors with the famed/hated suppression mechanic making a return and in the process highlighting a stark strategical difference between this title and other WWII FPS romps. Build wise, the devs are currently fine tuning the Unreal Engine 3 that the title uses as frame rate problems currently persist on all versions when the screen gets busy and of course, there is the obligatory bug/glitch squashing too. Ubisoft and developer Gearbox are aiming to get this one out for the end of August, and I’ll be keeping a close eye on this one to see how it shapes up.
– Tom Clancy’s HawX (PC, 360, PS3)
Taking the famed Clancy lineage to the air, HawX appears to be in many ways Ubisoft’s stern answer to Namco Bandai’s Ace Combat series of games. Apparently sporting a more serious and realistic setting than it’s Japanese peer, the title is set in the same pseudo modern-day setting that most Clancy titles exist in. Gameplay wise, the title is not at all dissimilar from the Namco offering, with plenty of dog fighting, bombing and extraction missions, not to mention a comparable online mode also. Technically the game appears to have a fair amount of sheen, but frame rate problems abound the closer you fly through the detailed cityscapes that the game offers. But with plenty of development time left, I’m pretty hopeful they’ll sort it in good time. Tom Clancy’s HawX is due for a Christmas release.
– Prince Of Persia (PC, 360, PS3, Wii, NDS)
Still without a solid, official title, Ubisoft showed off the newest Prince Of Persia title from the developers of the original Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time. Abandoning the infamous time mechanic of previous titles and using an enhanced version of the Assassin’s Creed engine, Prince Of Persia looks every bit the franchise reboot. Whilst only a little gameplay was shown, the graphical style is staggering, painting an effective love letter to hand-drawn art and a fluidity most games would kill for. Sporting dark, twisted Arabian environments and similarly warped creatures, Prince Of Persia could perhaps be Game Of The Year on style alone. But maybe I’m getting a little too excited here. Very little gameplay was shown as I said and I’m still *very* curious about the state of the combat system, especially considering how wrong Ubisoft got it with previous games and how right over dev’s got it with their titles (I’m thinking of God Of War here). Anyways Prince Of Persia is due for release this Holiday season. Colour me excited.
– Far Cry 2 (PC, 360, PS3)
With original dev’s Crytek now left the Ubi-nest to shack up with EA, valid concerns would always remain regarding the quality of future Far Cry titles, especially considering the less than stellar console *versions*. Well, besides showing a PC version that’s pretty far along and looking mighty impressive, Ubisoft also surprised eager show-goers with a reveal of both console versions running side-by-side. Visually, both versions appear to be quite the treat, with superb physics, accomplished shadowing and great incidental details such as individual splinters spraying from destroyed houses and bits of paper floating through the air depending on wind direction. Again like most titles at the show, the title still requires a fair bit of tinkering on the visual front, with frame rate and VSync issues rearing the ugly heads on both console formats. In terms of gameplay, the game appears to return to the relatively free-form exploration of the first title, with nearly 50KM squared of African wild lands to explore and also sports the same kind of run ‘n’ gun action that the original title pulled off so well. Far Cry 2 is currently due this Holiday season for the PC and early next year for the PS3 and 360. Let’s hope Ubisoft can deliver us the full experience and not some ‘Instincts’ watered down cop out – console owners can do and deserve better.
– Beyond Good & Evil 2 (Platforms Unannounced)
Ranking as perhaps the most worst kept secret in the industry, the Michael Ancel sequel to the awesome game that you missed when you were too busy playing Need For Speed Underground and GTA: Vice City, was finally announced to much critical rapture and excited whooping. The trailer, apparently in real-time showcased some massively advanced effects, such as improved real-time shadowing, real-time reflections on liquid volumes and advanced bump mapping. Basically all that jargon adds up to a game that potentially looks as good as a Pixar movie. This is no joke. It actually DOES look like a Pixar movie. Anyway, nothing was revealed about the gameplay, the trailer instead focusing on showing off the funky new graphics engine and showcasing the pig character from the original game. Some gameplay would be nice, but until then, the very announcement of this game is enough for most people at the moment. No platforms have been announced for the title, nor a release date confirmed, but I would say don’t expect to see it for another year at least.
– Tom Clancy’s End War (PC, 360, PS3)
The traditional RTS gets a voice activated overhaul with Tom Clancy’s End War being the first RTS to be entirely voice controlled. Shipping with a microphone, the title allows players to give precise orders to individual units and organise their armies effectively. While the microphone itself wasn’t shown off too much, it appears to be sensitive enough to recognise commands easily enough; as always the real test will come from people’s differing accents and vocal tempos. Gameplay wise, the title appears to offer a varied selection of units and vehicles from Clancy lore, such as the aircraft used in HawX and the Recon units used in the Ghost Recon titles. Graphically, the game is modestly impressive with a battlefield that can be zoomed right into and soldiers that run, duck and shoot from cover giving them a dynamic to their nature not seen from soldiers in other RTS games. Multiplayer should be a hoot also with people barking orders to their armies and each other over XBox Live and the PSN.
Speaking of which, Ubisoft announced a private beta for the game which XBox Live users can sign up to.
Link below people 🙂
https://www.endwarbeta.com/signup/default.html
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Programming Highlights; June 29. 2010
At noon Mutha Knows gets busy with R&B powerhouse Keith Sweat, whose debut album, Make It Last Forever, sold 3 million copies and yielded the hit single I Want Her. Keith will talk about his new CD, Ridin’ Solo, which features the tracks Famous and Ready.
At 3 PM The Certain Ones host Vanessa Richardson gets up close and personal with gospel star CeCe Winans, who’s won 10 Grammy Awards while scoring such hits as I’ll Take You There and Addictive Love. CeCe will chat about her Closet eBay Sale to benefit Sharing the Vision.
At 7:30 PM Host Andrea Garrison swings with jazz legends Clark Terry and Frank Foster, who’ll discuss getting involved with the Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund, which helps “ensure that the electricity stays on and food remains on the tables of veteran musicians with nowhere else to turn.”
At 8 PM Women on the Move’s Leslie Harris welcomes MSNBC political and legal analyst, and Washington Examiner columnist, Michelle D. Bernard. Michelle will discuss her work as president and CEO of the non-profit Independent Women’s Forum.
AT 9 PM The Bottom Line Sports Show’s Gerald Brown and Jonathan Foy kick it with Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings, who also broadcasts for the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers. Plus: Penny Hardaway is back for his monthly “Penny for Your Thoughts” segment.
At 9 PM The Madden Voice host Terence Floyd gives it up for Indianapolis Colt—and Super Bowl XLI champ—Dwight Freeney. The defensive end, who signed a six-year, $72 million contract in 2007 (and has dated Nia Long), will chat about the upcoming NFL season.
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CONFIRMED: ‘Everyone On Mueller’s Team Can Be Investigated’….Here’s How
WASHINGTON — A top national attorney in consultation with U.S. Attorneys confirms to Big League Politics that Robert Mueller’s entire team can be investigated for prosecutorial misconduct, based on revelations of anti-Trump bias among his lawyers and staffers.
“Every one of these people on Mueller’s team should and can be investigated,” said the attorney, who believes that Peter Strzok’s actions “taints everything at that point.” Strzok is the FBI agent who was kicked off Team Mueller for sending “anti-Trump text messages” to a woman. Rep. Jim Jordan believes that Strzok was involved in using the debunked Hillary Clinton-funded Trump dossier to obtain a surveillance warrant for Trump Tower.
“It would seem to me that the work he did tainted everything. It may require Mueller to review all of the work he did.”
“How do you continue this thing without investigating every single person there?” the attorney said.
Any work on the case that Strzok participated in (which was apparently substantial) can be rendered inadmissible in the case by Trump’s team. Political repression is a form of prosecutorial misconduct. Trump could also defend himself based on selective prosecution, considering the fact that Mueller helped Hillary Clinton collude with the Russian government and Clinton was never prosecuted for her potentially treasonous acts, whereas Trump was targeted for investigation before any evidence surfaced in the case.
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Big League Politics sounded the alarm on Team Mueller’s conflicts of interest as they relate to Trump’s opponent and bitter enemy Hillary Clinton. With early promotion from Lou Dobbs and other alternative media personalities, the conflict-of-interest narrative rightly took off and gained a life of its own. Now, even the mainstream media is unable to ignore the massive partisan conflicts of interest bogging down Mueller’s case.
The conflicts of interest are everywhere.
Peter Strzok, who oversaw the Hillary Clinton email investigation for the FBI and interviewed Hillary Clinton, was on Mueller’s team.
Clinton donor Jeannie Rhee, who represented the Clinton Foundation and also Hillary Clinton during the email investigation, is on Mueller’s team.
Aaron Zebley, who repped Clinton aide and key email-scandal figure Justin Cooper, is on Mueller’s team.
Andrew Weissmann, who defended the federal government’s surveillance rights in a panel discussion at the George Soros-funded New America Foundation, is also an Obama donor. Weissmann is now under fire for having told Department of Justice official Sally Yates that he was “proud” of her for opposing and defying President Trump’s visa travel ban.
Preet Bharara, the man who prosecuted conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza and was a leading contender to be Hillary Clinton’s theoretical Attorney General, was fired by the Trump administration but still landed his office’s prosecutor Andrew Goldstein on Mueller’s team.
The three key operatives in this plot: ringleader, former FBI director Andrew McCabe, former FBI director James Comey, and special prosecutor and former FBI director Robert Mueller, can also be prosecuted as individuals for their part in the corruption stemming from the partisan political wars of the last several years.
How about Mueller himself?
Mueller himself can also be investigated based on the whistleblower claim that he lied to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, trying to downplay the massive scope of his warantless surveillance program during his time as FBI director. That claim can be supported by numerous witness testimonials in the event of a formal investigation into Mueller’s conduct.
Here is what former FBI Special Surveillance Group agent Chuck Marler told Big League Politics (emphasis added):
“I used to work for the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Robert Mueller was my Director. I have been wrestling with his disregard for my safety and his dishonesty with my and other coworkers’ concerns. That is why in 2008 I decided to quit the Bureau early and start my own business and get away from the corruption of certain members of the FBI management. I saw first hand how dishonest some of them could be. Since Mueller has taken over as Special Counsel, I’ve been concerned about him continuing that behavior which leads me to the following.
Mueller and certain members of FBI Management deceived the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2005 and they intimidated and bullied the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 2005 through 2008.
Mueller and individuals in FBI Management were continually notified by members of the SSG that their surveillance activities were growing way beyond the scope of their operational plan before Congress and that their safety was at stake. After 9/11, the program had expanded at a rapid pace. The members of the SSG were happy to take on the vastly growing surveillances throughout the country but they wanted better protection, better compensation and more clear duties defined through Congress. Mueller and FBI Management continually ignored their cries for help…
…In the Summer of 2005, two FBI employees in the SSG Program wrote a letter and mailed it to every member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The two FBI employees were notified by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s office of receipt of the letter…
…The two employees involved in the SSCI letter were informed by staff at Senator Hutchison’s Office of Mueller’s response to the letter which the two employees knew the response was not truthful. OPM opened a routine complaint/inquiry based on the letter that they received from the four FBI employees. The OPM officer that had the misfortune to be assigned the job, sent an initiation letter to FBI Headquarters to gain security clearance to begin her assessment. She was immediately threatened with arrest by FBI agents. Subsequently and because of the letter, the four FBI employees were threatened with arrest, imprisonment, raids of their residences and loss of their job.”
To say the least, that is a big, big deal.
Mueller can also be investigated for his direct role in Hillary Clinton’s sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to the Russians, a sale in which Mueller allegedly served as an operational mule.
CIA and NSA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery identified former FBI director Mueller as having overseen a secret surveillance program that spied on Trump’s phone calls for years. The alleged program, created during the Bush administration and run by Obama intelligence officials John Brennan and James Clapper, is detailed on 47 hard drives that Montgomery and his lawyer turned over to the FBI, which James Comey buried. Montgomery is suing Obama, Brennan, Clapper and others in a case before D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon. This case is being watched closely by insiders on both sides of the Russia probe.
Mueller also helped stonewall the Obama administration’s “investigation” of its own IRS targeting scandal.
Mueller has formed a political team with his friend, fired FBI director James Comey, and the current FBI director Andrew McCabe to work together against President Donald Trump. But Mueller and Comey are not the ringleaders. Surprisingly, it’s McCabe.
An inside source told Big League Politics that McCabe is “running the show,” and “he’s the key.”
“Mueller and McCabe are assembling a better political operation than Hillary had in the campaign. The trio of Mueller/McCabe and Comey are all creatures of the swamp,” the source explained. “Any Republican who thinks this isn’t a political operation and isn’t geared toward impacting 2018 and beyond is absolutely nuts.”
“I think McCabe is the most politically savvy given how he navigated the controversy with his wife’s campaign donations and the Clinton investigation,” the source continued.
McCabe took over when Comey got fired and quickly set up the team’s power play. McCabe said that Comey did not get fired from the FBI for performance issues. That sets up the premise for a potential obstruction of justice move by the McCabe-Mueller-Comey trio.
But the trio’s power play was stifled when Comey unwittingly cleared Trump of obstruction of justice. Comey testified under oath that Trump never obstructed his Russia investigation, thus setting Comey up to be charged with perjury if he ever changes his tune.
Comey can be investigated for obstruction of justice himself, for allegedly burying information about that secret alleged off-the-books surveillance program led by John Brennan and James Clapper.
Comey can also be investigated for obstruction of justice pertaining to his FBI’s failure to search the contents of Hillary Clinton’s backup email device. As Big League Politics reported:
Court records show that the Connecticut-based email storage company Datto handed over a “device” consisting of five or six disks to the FBI in October 2015. Insiders believe the device potentially contains every electronic communication that Hillary Clinton sent or received during her tenure as Secretary of State. James Comey spent his entire FBI investigation missing many Hillary Clinton emails and communications, according to the official version of events.
The FBI handed the device over to the State Department, which has not searched it at all.
“We don’t know what the FBI did once they had the device and the information on it. What we know is since the investigation ended in July of last year the material found on that device has been forwarded from the Justice Department to the State Department,” Michael Bekesha, a Judicial Watch senior lawyer working the case, told Big League Politics in an exclusive interview.
“I don’t know what it suggests. The State Department now has it. We know that the State Department has not gone through it. Five disks of information. It may have been six, the number changed,” Bekesha said. “They said there are thousands of records on whatever was turned over from the Datto device and eventually they will get around to reviewing those records and getting them to us in response to our FOIA.”
“Until the State Department releases the information, we will not know: what was on there that Hillary Clinton did not turn over? What did Huma Abedin not turn over? Are there emails from Chelsea Clinton on the server?,” Bekesha said. Judicial Watch continues to find new Hillary Clinton emails on a regular basis.
Citizen researcher Larry Kawa, who brought the case to Judicial Watch, told Big League Politics that the device contains “everything.”
Yet again, that is a big big deal.
Former FBI director Andrew McCabe, the ringleader of the team’s plot, can be investigated for his own clear Hatch Act violation for campaigning and raising money for his wife’s political campaign while serving in the administration. He was even photographed in a campaign T-shirt doing so. In fact, McCabe is already under investigation for that transgression.
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As Roger Stone points out for Infowars, it is up to Trump to appoint a special prosecutor to go on offense against these entrenched government bureaucrats. Stone writes:
“The president must order the U.S Attorney General Jeff Sessions to name a special prosecutor to look into, among other things, the Uranium One scam that was run on the American people by the Clinton crime syndicate, with the involvement of all of the key figures who so coincidentally happen to also be at the center of this illegitimate ad hoc Trump-takedown hit squad, now headed by counterfeit boy scout Robert Swan Mueller III.
If Sessions fails to carry out this order, he should be and must be removed as attorney general (the honorable thing for Sessions would be to resign if he parts ways with the president on this). The departure of Sessions would then leave the clearly-compromised Rod Rosenstein, once again, in the position of appointing a special prosecutor, as was the case with Mueller’s appointment. Rosenstein’s implication in Uranium One makes this patently untenable, so the next Justice officer in line to effectuate the president’s command would be the Solicitor General.
Only Donald Trump can save his presidency from this outrageous partisan lynch mob illegitimately operating under his nose and under his very authority as president, intent on undermining his election and thereby the office of president itself.”
Stone is right. Steve Bannon recently told President Trump that his legal team, led by Washington lawyer Ty Cobb, is asleep at the wheel and needs to be replaced. Ty Cobb’s cool baseball name and mustache aside, Bannon is clearly right.
Daughter of Man Involved in Fatal 1972 Biden Car Crash Accuses Joe Biden of Falsely Accusing Dad of Driving Drunk
She says he wasn’t a drunk driver. And he was never charged.
The daughter of a man who was involved in a 1972 car crash that resulted in the deaths of Joe Biden’s then-wife, Neilia, and the couple’s one-year old daughter, Naomi, is accusing Joe Biden of falsely blaming her father for the tragic incident.
Deborah Criddle, the daughter of Curtis Dunn, is calling on Joe Biden to “set the record straight” on several claims he’s made in previous years, in which Biden suggested Curtis Dunn was intoxicated or an alcoholic when speaking about the crash. Dunn was never charged or convicted of any traffic or DUI violations stemming from the incident.
Criddle brought up Biden’s accusations towards Dunn in remarks provided to The Sun newspaper on Wednesday.
Criddle says that she became motivated to speak out on Biden’s claims after he repeatedly called Donald Trump a liar during the first presidential debate. She calls such a description as the “pot calling the kettle black,” and that “Biden has got a lot of nerve calling Trump a liar.”
(Deborah Criddle)
Criddle has spoken out before, in 2008, when Biden made the latest of several inferences suggesting Curtis Dunn was drunk during the crash.
“A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly – and I never pursued it – drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons,” Biden had claimed in 2007. He previously suggested that alcohol was involved in the crash in 2001.
A Delaware Superior Court Judge, Jerome O. Herlihy- who investigated the crash at the time as a prosecutor- clarified that there was no reason to believe that any intoxication was involved in the incident when asked about the situation in 2008.
“The rumor about alcohol being involved by either party, especially the truck driver (Dunn), is incorrect,” said the judge in response to Joe Biden’s continued suggestions that Dunn was intoxicated at the time of the crash.
Police investigating the incident ultimately determined that the crash was determined by a t-bone accident in which the vehicle Neilia Biden was driving pulled into the right of way and was struck by a tractor Curtis Dunn was driving.
Criddle is describing Dunn, who died in 1999, as a loving father and family man.
The 1972 car crash was a tragedy for everyone involved, including then-Senator-elect Joe Biden, regardless of the exact circumstances. A one-year old baby and a mother of three children lost their lives. Falsely accusing a party involved of culpability- no matter how slight- without substantiation is a serious matter, one that Biden should answer to regardless of the passage of time since the incident.
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Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in Professional Sports
Edition: Reprint
Author: Feinstein, John
Publisher: Anchor
Acknowledged authors Feinstein, John wrote Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in Professional Sports comprising 368 pages back in 2019. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0525435530 and 9780525435532. Since then Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in Professional Sports textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.
A major new book from #1 New York Times bestseller and sports-writing legend John Feinstein, QUARTERBACK dives deep into the most coveted and hallowed position in the NFL - exploring the stories of five top quarterbacks and taking readers inside their unique experiences of playing the position and holding the keys to their multi-billion-dollar teams.
In the mighty National Football League, one player becomes the face of a franchise, one player receives all the accolades and all the blame, and one player's hand will guide the rise or fall of an entire team's season - and the dreams of millions of fans. There are thirty-two starting quarterbacks in the NFL on any given Sunday, and their lives are built around pressure, stardom, and incredible talent. Legendary bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein, in his most insightful book yet, shows readers what it's really like to play the glory position and to live that life - mapping out a journey that runs from college stardom to the NFL draft to taking command of the huddle and marching a team down the field with a nation of fans cheering.
Feinstein builds his profile around five NFL starting quarterbacks - Alex Smith, Andrew Luck, Joe Flacco, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Doug Williams. With incredible inside access, we get the full quarterback experience...being drafted #1 overall, pushing through grueling injuries, winning Super Bowls, being named a starter on multiple teams, being the first African American QB to lead a franchise to a title. Feinstein shows us exactly what it's like in the locker room, huddle, heat of battle, and press conferences, through spectacular moments and embarrassing defeats. He explores the controversies of a league embroiled in questions of substance abuse and racism, TV revenue, corporate greed, and the value placed on player health. And in the end, Feinstein addresses the ways in which each quarterback - some just a year out of college -- is handed the keys to a franchise worth billions of dollars, and how each team's fortunes ride directly on the shoulders of its QB. This is Feinstein's most fascinating behind-the-scenes book.
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The Complete Guide To Chinese Medicine Bloodletting
Author: Mouscher, Dean
Publisher: Crandon Publishing
Acknowledged authors Mouscher, Dean wrote The Complete Guide To Chinese Medicine Bloodletting comprising 262 pages back in 2018. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0692181024 and 9780692181027. Since then The Complete Guide To Chinese Medicine Bloodletting textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 8.64 or rent at the marketplace.
Bloodletting has long been known as perhaps the most powerful practice in Chinese medicine - the great Master Tung bled some 30-40% of his patients, including his toughest cases.
The first book of its kind, The Complete Guide to Chinese Medicine Bloodletting contains all the detailed information you need to safely and effectively perform bloodletting in your clinic. The updated procedures and instruments described in the book transform bloodletting from a major undertaking to be used only in the most dire cases to a simple procedure that can be safely and easily done every day.
In this book you will learn:
Where and how to bleed for each indication, including which conditions respond best
How to safely perform bloodletting on patients taking blood thinners, diabetic patients, older patients, and others with risk factors - and when to avoid it altogether
Detailed information about instruments and supplies needed
Detailed instructions on how to bleed each area of the body
How to talk to patients about bloodletting
Picture gallery of veins to bleed and veins to avoid
Guidelines and techniques phlebotomists use to safely perform blood draws on even the sickest patients, along with possible pitfalls and how to avoid them
Details of the bloodletting system of Master Tung Ching Chang - by many accounts the greatest acupuncturist of modern times - who relied on bloodletting to effectively treat even the most stubborn conditions
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Contact us Bouncing Back With New Tramps
Bouncing Back With New Tramps
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Emma Shoveller, Cletus I. Ori, Lauren Howard
To say our world has seen a lot of change lately would be an understatement. One part of that change saw COVID-19 shutting down offices across the world throughout the spring. At Trampoline, we found a way to bounce back safely, with our team returning to the office over the summer after months of working from home. With September upon us, we continue our forward momentum by welcoming three new employees to our team.
Lauren Howard holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from St. Francis Xavier University. After spending the last two years abroad in Sweden, Lauren is back in her hometown of Halifax, joining our team as account coordinator in our client service group.
Cletus Ori holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Technology from the Federal University of Technology Owerri in his native Nigeria. Moving to Canada, he graduated this past June from NSCC with a diploma in web programming. He joins Trampoline’s sister organization Twist & Bits as a web developer.
Emma Shoveller is a recent grad from the Public Relations program at Mount Saint Vincent University. During her time at the Mount, she successfully completed co-op work terms at Prescott Group, Seaside FM and The Centre for Women in Business. She has spent the last five years making Halifax her home and is excited to join us as an account coordinator – PR working with Rob Batherson, our Executive VP, PR.
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Creative Advertising students winners at D&AD New Blood
Date: 12th Jul 2017
Bucks New University students were among winners at the D&AD New Blood awards, which aim to reflect the best in young global creative talent.
A total of 173 ‘Pencil Winners’ were selected from thousands of entries from more than 40 countries by a panel of industry experts and brand representatives.
Third-year BA (Hons) Creative Advertising student Tommy Lai won a first prize of a commemorative Yellow Pencil, which is specified as ‘outstanding’, for a proposed campaign responding to a brief set by The British Army.
Tommy’s campaign, Show Yourself, looked to explore an inclusive environment where everyone serving the nation is accepted and celebrated for who they are.
Tommy, who graduates in September, said he now aims to go on to work as a copywriter at an advertising agency that ‘inspires and encourages’ him to create even better work.
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Julie Wright, Senior Lecturer in Creative Advertising, said she was proud of the students’ achievements.
She said: “The awards are truly global with entries from the US, Central and South America, Europe, Australasia, and Asia. It’s hugely competitive and extremely difficult to win so well done to our fabulous students!”
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Acer Reports Consolidated Revenues for Q4’20 at NT$82.60 Billion, Highest Quarter in Six Years; and for December at NT$28.36 Billion
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What companies should do in the face of voice search
Let’s look at some numbers.
According to an Amazon Press Release, Amazon sold “millions more devices” worldwide in 2017 compared to last year’s season and mentioned that its best selling device was The Echo Dot. The press release also mentioned that millions shopped with Alexa and that Alexa usage on Fire TV was up 889%.
It was also found that sales for Amazon’s Echo grew 5x from Q3 2016 to Q4 2017.
So Amazon’s doing well. What about Google?
They announced, in a blog post, that since October, they have “sold more than one Google Home device every second.” If The Verge did their math correctly, that amounts to over 6M devices by early January. Looks like Google's doing well too.
And if we consider Apple’s iPhone products, HomePod, and the number of Android Devices carrying Google Now, we start to get clear on what’s happening with consumers and search.
Voice is getting big. Real big.
22% of consumers are already using voice assistants to help them make purchases and while voice takes up 20% of all searches, a sizeable amount, it’s estimated that by 2020, voice will make up 50% of all voice searches.
What does this all mean for you, exactly?
We have just the webinar to show you.
In this exclusive conversation, Jason Barnard, SEO extraordinaire, and Chee Lo, Head of SEO at Trustpilot, will walk you through the rise of voice search, voice assistants, and what that means for SEO and AEO - answer engine optimization.
It’s a brand new space that presents a major opportunity for any company, large or small. The world of voice search is changing quickly and affecting SEO. We have some excellent tips to show you how you can prepare for the rise of search while improving your SEO now.
Check the webinar out below.
With Answer Engine Optimization being new, this presents opportunities for early adopters to benefit, and Chee Lo, Head of SEO at Trustiplot, will share tips and insights in preparing for answer engine optimization.
Jason Barnard, SEO and SEA consultant, author and conference speaker, will also be sharing his knowledge.
The rise of AEO
Voice assistant usage is on a rise. Research from Google tells us that 40% of the British population use voice search daily. This compares to 25% four years ago. Another piece of research found that engagement with Alexa which is Amazon's voice assistant, and Cortana, Microsoft's own voice assistant both increased over 300% in a year. These numbers are pretty significant and go to show that voice assistant usage is growing fast.
All of desktop, mobile and voice platforms will coexist, but they will all evolve towards the idea of providing a definitive answer to each individual user at a given moment. What Google calls micro moments. So, although we will still have desktop search and we still have mobile search and the top results will still matter, we're ending up with a situation where all these motors, Google, Bing are trying to give us a definitive answer where we no longer need to actually choose for ourselves.
It's important to note that Alexa and Cortana are powered by Bing, so although today Google is the really big player and it's the one we all think about, Bing is likely to make quite a comeback. So we need to actually think about motors answer engine rather than just thinking about Google as we do today.
So we're really going to see in the near future how voice will affect SEO and the way how search engines work.
How AEO will impact SEO
A normal regular query normally carrying out on your mobile device, tablet or desktop is often very short, more specific and often standalone statements. For example, best android phone, or email marketing software. It's very succinct, usually consists about three to five words and gets straight to the point.
Voice search queries take advantage of the fact that we're saying our query, so they tend to be longer, usually poses questions. Depending on what you're searching for, they're often tied to a location so you would ask something like where is the nearest pizza place? Or where is the best coffee? You show around more.
Google needs to take into consideration your location in order to return the most relevant results to whatever service that you're looking for. This matters a lot, not only for location based searches, but whenever you're searching for anything. So if you're looking for an android phone, your voice query might be what's the best android phone for 1,000 pounds? What is the best android phone for my needs? I can rely Google to return a price, a make, a model, etc.
However, if anyone else were to ask Google the same question, Google would return very different results to them. This is based on Google knowing who I am, what my habits are from my past searches and past behavior on Google products to give me the correct answer for that particular query.
Google is making the results specific to each individual user. Even now when you search on a desktop, you will get specific results that are based on your search history, your location, your language and so on and so forth.
Today, you still choose from those answers whereas tomorrow, Google will present you with the right answer for you at that moment. Whilst again, the micro moments and that's very important where Google is concentrating on individual users at a given time in a given situation and given context, what is the correct answer? And we're saying correct, we're saying definitive correct right perfect answer for me. I do not need to choose, Google knows what's best for me. Which is slightly scary, but I suspect we're all going to get very comfortable with that and we're going to end up trusting Google or Bing if we're using Alexa.
As we move forward, when we're looking for the right answer, companies need to make sure they are the correct answer for me, that Google can return me.
When it comes to answer engines, you really just have one answer. If the initial answer is wrong, then maybe your option is to provide more. Often these key phrases have lower search volume, but much higher intent. Queries are becoming more and more specific and the answers are becoming more and more specific too. And it's very important to bear in mind that if Google is to give a specific answer, it needs very specific detailed information in order to be able to present it.
I mean, the example of the pizza, if somebody types, I'd like a pizza, easy. If they say, I would like the cheapest pizza in the area, Google needs to know what the prices of the pizzas are in the given... in the pizza shops around. If they say I want pepperoni pizza, it would be really helpful if Google knew the menu, and if you ask for a pepperoni pizza and it knows that one pizzeria does it, but it's sure the other does, it will present the one it knows offers pepperoni pizza. That's the idea of specifics.
So, we're now looking at a very different strategy to SEO whereas SEO, you're aiming to rank on the top page. In AEO to get to that top spot, Google needs to understand and be sure it's understood what it is you're offering. Specifics.
To give a little more foundation or knowledge about what AEO is and how it's changing things, we're going to move into the next section, the shifting landscape of search engines.
The shifting landscape of search engines
So, with AEO, there are some rules to note and we go into some of these in a bit more depth later. So, position zero is the new page one. When it comes to answer engines, there is no page one. When you're making a voice query, you're only going to get one result. So when you're optimizing for AEO, that's the mindset you should be working towards.
Communication and credibility are very important. This not only applies to AEO, but SEO in general. We're getting to that a little bit later, why credibility and communication is so important. Localization is key, that is something that we talked about before. If your voice query does not include local intent, near me or by me, Google by knowing who you are is already returning results to you based on your location.
And then AEO requires a strategy which sounds like an obvious statement. I guess SEO can be seen as a tactics based approach where you're just taking specific tactics to improve your online presence. But AEO will require a strategy. So it's more than just about specific tactics, but more about the holistic vision in how you approach AEO.
Now, imagine the pepperoni pizza again.. It's understood that two pizzerias offer that pepperoni pizza, it will send you to the one that it feels is the most credible. And that depends on the judgment of how people have perceived you. Google needs to understand you in order to even consider you, and once it's considered you, it has to believe that you are credible in order to actually offer you as the answer.
We're looking at a new optimization strategy and luckily, it's the same for everybody which is really good news. It involves buildings understanding and building credibility. And just to be very, very clear, we're not saying only optimize for answer and answer engines. You must continue to optimize for search engines because desktop and mobile will continue to exist alongside the answer engines.
However, starting today, building for answer and engine optimization is vital in order to survive in a world where voice will take a bigger part of the market.
Communicating to educate
I think what we often to fail to really understand is the information on the web is very fragmented. It's often inaccurate and it's not practical at all for a machine to digest. I was developing some HTML5, some semantic HTML5 in order to better present the information the Google and it's astonishing how differently different websites are coded. The HTML is very different, it's very difficult for a machine to actually collect the information and understand it.
So, Google has managed to accumulate a vast amount of information line, after line, after line, billions and billions and billions of lines of data, but it's having enormous trouble organizing the data, confirming its veracity, and understanding the relationships between different entities. And entity being a company, a place, a person.
So, we have the data... it has the data, but it does not have understanding. So our job on a very small micro level is to ensure that Google understands. If I want it to understand my company, I have to give it the company. I give it the information and then it's up to Google to go and check that what I'm saying is true.
So, the strategy of AEO starts with the idea of making sure that Google understands. Now HTML5, I mentioned it earlier is a very, very, very powerful method. Basically, it divides the page up into sections and section has a specific role that is identified in a standard manner so Google can ignore the header, ignore the footer, ignore additional information and it can pull straight on the heart of the content.
Schema markup, structured markup, incredibly important because it's basically presenting the information that the page contains in a format that Google can really easily digest and it can be confident that it's understood. As I said, you give it the information, you're the best source for information about yourself, as long as you don't lie you're fine. Google will go out and check it. So if you lie, it will catch you out.
We're in a situation where simply telling it what we do without going into the idea of saying how wonderful we are, we just say what we do, we give all the details we came... coming back to the pizzas, if we do pepperoni pizza, it's a really good idea to tell Google we do pepperoni pizza because one day somebody will search for pepperoni pizza and that one client will come to you and not to your competitor.
So, start by thinking of how you're communicating with Google. Start by saying on your side what it is you do in detail, accurately, Google will go and check it. Once it's understood you, it can offer you as a potential answer.
Building credibility with search engines
We're going to be talking about credibility which ensures that Google's presenting you for the right results. Once you've ticked the boxes for some of the tactics on the previous section, how can you ensure Google picks you for... to answer that query?
Once Google's understood you, what you do, so your credibility will give them confidence that you can actually provide the solution to the user. I think it's important to remember that when somebody asks a question, whether they type it or whether they speak it, they're asking for a solution to a problem, or the answer to a question. And Google's aim and Bing's aim is to give them access to that answer or that solution as quickly as possible. So their aim is to put the best at the top.
So once it's understood that you are able to provide the answer or the solution. If it's confident that you're a credible solution, it will put you at the top. We use the term brand authority, that's replacing domain authority if anybody has studied SEO a little bit they'll know that domain authority is based on links. It's a very simplistic and out of date idea. It was very useful for many, many years, but the idea that Google only relies on links today is false.
Google relies on links, obviously still, but also mentions. As long as it's understood who you are, it can link a mention of your brand name to you. And what we're now starting to call is linkless links which is a little bit silly, but it says what it says.
And then positive feedback from clients. Obviously, review platforms, but also social media, a buzz around your brand, if the buzz is positive that's obviously a very strong signal to Google. From what I understand, Google manages to crawl about 30% of Facebook. So it doesn't get it all, but it gets a good part of it and it gets a good idea of what people are saying about you, and how positive it is.
So, understanding plus credibility gives brand authority. If you don't improve your brand authority, your mid to long term AEO strategy is doomed to failure.
This means reviews come into play, social media comes into play. Even if there's no link associated, if you are taking the time and effort to communicate in the right way, you will be successful.
So this is something Trustpilot recently added, has there been new research that shows that the quantity of reviews actually matter a lot. Not only for search engines, but also to consumers as well. So consumers are now really just valuing how many times a company has a served any consumer. And we're seeing that by consumers that they prefer a company with a lower rating with more reviews that a company with higher ratings with fewer reviews. And we've seen this behavior repeated in search results as well.
Reviews are powerful, and so are mentions, as long as Google has understood who you are, so we come back to this idea of communicating to Google who you are. And make sure, or try to make sure, or try to encourage mentions in a relevant context, on relevant sites, and make sure they're positive. Obviously your credibility depends on all of this feedback being positive.
So, we've talked about how SEO is changing and AEO is changing. Okay, now what can I do about it? So, we still want to continue to stress the value of SEO even though AEO does matter and more every day, but that doesn't mean forget about SEO. Companies should still be using SEO tactics and thinking about AEO as they work on their SEO strategy.
For example, having great HTML alt tags for images, we're communicating to Google in the right way providing structured data markup so that machines can understand context of our content better, building links subsequently using brand mentions. So a brand mention from the BBC website can be extremely powerful and positive for you.
Experimenting with voice search
For the purpose of AEO, because this is new and we're entering unchartered territory, you have to experiment and experiment while Google voice search is still in its infancy. Google's still doing a lot of figuring it out, and it doesn't always get it 100% right with AEO.
However, companies should be working on identifying key phrases and key voice searches that are relevant to you and are working well. And make sure that you put yourself in the position where you can do things quickly.
Typically, small to medium size businesses can move a lot fast than enterprise level businesses. That means you can capitalize on AEO much faster than large corporations.
Sure, interestingly the AEO tends to give an advantage to niche markets and local businesses. Smaller improvements will give much bigger results. So if you're in a niche market or you're a local business, this can be very, very beneficial. I'm sorry to come back to the pizza example again, but the pizza business who has communicated both what it does, what it offers, and its credibility is going to benefit greatly through a good AEO strategy especially in local search.
You can communicate to educate. This is my favorite topic at the moment. Semantic HTML5 and structured markup. Semantic HTML5 is very, very, very powerful. Surprisingly so. Fairly simply to implement. If you don't know who semantic HTML5 is, I'll explain very quickly.
HTML is what allows the navigator, the computer to actually show the content, it's the design, it's the layout. Semantic HTML5 indicates the role that each path plays in the page, so a header, a footer, a navigation, additional information and the main content. I've implemented that for several clients and we always see a slight boost in rankings in the short term. So it's not only long term, it's also a short term advantage.
Schema markup is simply the content of your page presented in a manner that Google can understand, in its native language if you like. Once again, with my clients, when we implement it, we get short term gains as well as making sure that we're ready for the answer engines, when they take over the search environment.
Then we move onto credibility, third parties who confirm that you're credible. The word that I think is important here is trusted. If Google trusts the third party and the third party says that you're good, or that you're credible or that you prove a good service, it will obviously take that much more seriously than if it doesn't trust review platforms. Some are more trustworthy than others. There are mentions, links, reviews, feedback, buzz. As long as it's relevant and positive, that's all obviously very important.
Informing Google
Earlier on, we were talking about saying what we do, informing Google of what we do. There's also the idea of confirmation which I mentioned but I didn't go into detail. Wikidata is a very important source for Google. Wikidata is basically the database behind Wikipedia. Google will go and check in wikidata and in fact, ironically, you can actually add yourself to wikidata, so you can confirm yourself on a trusted third party.
Crunchbase, if you haven't heard of it, is an American site. Google trusts it and same thing, you can add yourself. Government sites, typically very trusted. Business association, people forget that. In your niche, we come back to the word niche, you don't need an article on the BBC. You can get an article on a website that's specifically about your business. Pizza monthly for example. And niche brands, other brands within your niche.
So, you don't need to think big. You don't need to think BBC. You don't need to think ITV or the Guardian. You can look to niche brands who confirm and credibilize what it is you're doing.
Once again, we're not saying drop SEO. We're saying that it changes, and when it changes, we're looking at answer engine optimization. And SEO tactics serve your answer optimization. Valid HTML is very important for SEO, and it's actually simply makes communication better. It means you're communicating more clearly with Google. The quality of your content and the fact that that content is relative, very important. Once again, you're communicating. You're communicating what it is your brand message is, what it is you do, and that you're an expert. The site speed which seem to not be related, but it is because a website that is fast is a website run by brand that is credible.
Alt tags, once again, we're communicating. When you put alt tags on your images, you're communicating with Google. The more you can communicate, the better. Links, obviously building credibility.
Building brand authority
Now we'll talk about brand authority, credibility, and understanding. I'm putting it all together.
As mentioned earlier, understanding plus credibility equals brand authority. Google can really only apply those credibility signals that it gets, the mentions, the reviews, the links, if it understands your brand, who you are, and what you do. You want to communicate and you want to protect and promote your brand. It's the single most important thing in AEO and in SEO. But in SEO, it tended to get a little bit forgotten by a lot of people. So communicating around your brand, protecting it and promoting it is incredibly important.
All the efforts that you do here, everything you manage to do successfully in building your brand authority, will help improve your other marketing channels. And with Kalicube.pro, we wanted to understand who Google learns and how it assesses credibility. So we asked it. Basically what we did is we through search queries at it, as I said something like 10 million results, and saw what it through back for brand searches... searches around brands to see how well it's understood and how credible it thinks the brand is.
Then we also asked its knowledge graph. It's knowledge graph actually has an API, so we can see what's in the knowledge graph and what isn't in the knowledge graph. And now Kalicube.pro is a little tool where you can play and you can type a name in. If you type in Britney Spears, it shows you what it knows about Britney Spears and it gives you a relevancy score which is basically how confident it is that it's understood who that person is. She gets a relevancy score of about 1,000.
If you type in Trustpilot, you get a relevancy score of about 100. Companies tend to have lower scores, relevancy scores in the knowledge graph than human beings. But that's because human beings tend to be more... how can I put it? More... they communicate in a single manner. People talk about Britney Spears within a specific context much more than they do about Trustpilot for example. Google tends to be confident about rock stars, film stars, politicians because the information is very much more... much better presented in general.
So now we've built by asking Google what it thinks about brands, what it understands about brands. We've built up a great understanding about answer and optimization, and more importantly, how brands can get ahead in this field.
Basically, we looked at understanding, we looked at what the presence in the knowledge graph is, talking about Britney Spears, the relevancy of the results that Google returns for the brand, and Google's capacity to categorize.
Categorizing is one of the hardest things to do. It seems very easy, but once you try and categorize in a large scale, it's very difficult. And Google's capacity to do that is surprisingly good.
The credibility, we measured the quality of the results that Google sends back for brand searches, the reviews Google returns for the brand opinion searches. So if you search for brand plus review, see what comes up. If it's good, that's obviously great. If it's bad, ask yourself why. Is it because your service is bad or is it that Google has misunderstood? If it's misunderstood, correct it.
And then last, but not least of course, the level and the sentiment of the buzz around the brand. Obviously, chat along Twitter is very, very important, Facebook, but also press, keeping it positive. We measure what people are saying about you and what Google perceives people to be saying about you which is more important still.
So once again, the onus is on brands to communicate what they do, how they do it, the details of what they do and ensure that Google understands that they're credible.
Google and reviews
So we're going to be talking about the intersection between reviews and search engines. When we're talking about communication and understanding, reviews provide benefits on both sides. When you're putting reviews on your site, you're communicating to Google what it is you do and who you are and how you provide values to consumers. And reviews themselves, if they're on third party sites like ourselves, Trustpilot, those are those positive mentions that we talked about before, how to add to your brand reputation.
I systematically advise my clients to get a paid review platform, one that's accepted by Google simply because first of all, it is a Google Review Partner, which means you can acquire stars in the search results, and as an SEO consultant, I know that helps click-through rate and increased click-through rate improves your ranking. But also, I do add some AdWords, safe money on AdWords. You get a higher click through rate, your quality score goes up, Google will give you that top spot for less money.
And the last one which is my favorite is that in the long term, it builds your brand authority and that increased brand authority is going to help you in the long term. So reviews get you short term benefits, but also long term benefits.
So, if you're asking yourself okay, yes I want reviews. Yes, I'm looking for third-party reviews, bring up the question which review platform is the best for SEO and AEO?
I used SEMrush, which I mentioned earlier on, and measured the relevant SEO strength of different platforms in the UK and America.
I measured the amount of traffic, the number of key words, the SEO rank and the value. Now, the value of the traffic is how much advertisers would be willing to pay for that amount of traffic. And we see here obviously, is Trustpilot is way ahead of the field, in both markets.
The other platforms are credible and they're absolutely fine. The study here was to see if you want an SEO boost, which is the platform that will bring you those results. And the answer was very clearly, Trustpilot.
The interesting thing that I find with my clients is some of them take different platforms such as verified reviews, but when a client takes Trustpilot, I can almost always guarantee that when you do a search on their brand name, Trustpilot will come up on that first page. And very interesting for them is that they then own two places on the first page, their own site and the Trustpilot site. That tends not to be true with the other platforms.
So, I'm going to briefly mention why Trustpilot does really well when it comes to SEO. We have a highly credible consumer site with high SEO authority. Our integrations and our brand to communicate to search engines in a right way.
On Moz, a popular search blog, they list Trustpilot at 197th out of a list of 500 local websites. And we have decent levels of traffic and know that the consumers keep their business with revisiting the site often.
So, a little bit more about Trustpilot by numbers. So, we have over 100 million reviews on our website. And this is why we have strong brand credibility and authority.
If you'd like to learn more about Trustpilot and SEO, check out the page below.
Trustpilot reviews impact search results
Reviews and Google: How do they work together?
Optimizing your customer journey, from SEO to CRO
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Ksenia Pavlenko: A Pause in Peripheral Perspectives
By Borimir S Totev, on 15 July 2017
Ksenia Pavlenko, author of ‘A Pause in Peripheral Perspectives: Sergei Diaghilev’s 1898 Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Art’.
Ksenia is the Website and Social Media Manager and a member of the Advisory Board for the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre. She is an MPhil candidate in History of Art at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr. Rosalind Polly Blakesley, researching the visual culture of Finland as a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. Her studies extend from the establishment of Helsinki as a capital city in the early nineteenth century, to Finnish participation in early twentieth century artistic developments on an international scale. Ksenia completed her BA in History of Art and English Literature at the City University of New York in 2013, after which she worked for institutions such at the International Center of Photography and American Federation of Arts.
Ksenia’s SLOVO Journal article examines three years of monumental change in Finnish-Russian cultural relations at the fin de siècle. The territory of Finland had enjoyed autonomy and economic development for the greater part of the nineteenth century as a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. Sergei Diaghilev’s 1898 Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Art exemplifies how this positive dynamic began to manifest itself in transcultural exchange. Diaghilev sought for Russia’s creative circles to follow the Finnish example of engaging with Western European artistic developments while refining a distinct national vision. Such a dynamic would have appeased imperial interests in promoting its Russian heritage while allowing Finns to continue to express their distinct culture. The Russification Programme, initiated in 1899, changed an amicable relationship between the Russian Empire and its Finnish territory to one of oppression. The rich cultural heritage Finnish intellectuals had developed throughout the nineteenth century was quickly mobilised to resist imperial oppression, exemplified in the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. The collaborative potential of Diaghilev’s 1898 exhibition was replaced by a resounding call for Finnish autonomy at the 1900 Finish Pavilion. The period of 1898-1900 demonstrates how quickly Finland’s embrace of nineteenth-century nationalism transformed from a cultural blossoming to a politicised quest for autonomy.
The article ‘A Pause in Peripheral Perspectives: Sergei Diaghilev’s 1898 Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Art’ by Ksenia Pavlenko (University of Cambridge) was published in SLOVO Journal, VOL 29.1, and can be read in full here.
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Hate Speech Plugin Gives Internet Trolls a Chance to Pause
Aida Akl
Posted October 21st, 2016 at 11:00 am (UTC-5)
The winning team pitch their plugin ‘Hate Speech Blocker’ during the Peacehack 2016 hackathon in London, England. (International Alert)
Hate Speech Blocker is a new browser plugin that tackles the complex problem of online hate speech without blurring the line between freedom of speech and censorship.
Call it a spellchecker, of sorts – for hate. Typically, online hate spammers that get caught venting their anger on unsuspecting victims could end up with their social media accounts suspended or blocked. But Hate Speech Blocker doesn’t do that.
“It doesn’t prevent you posting. It just suggests that the words you’re using could be construed as hateful,” said David Marsh, Head of Technology at UK-based nonprofit, International Alert, a peace building organization.
The Chrome plugin analyzes text as it is being typed. If it recognizes a particular hate speech term, “it just flags it out to you,” explained Marsh in an interview. “It doesn’t stop you posting, but it suggests why that maybe a term that some people might not necessarily want to use online and how that could be construed as hate speech in that particular context.”
When potentially offensive words are entered into a Chrome browser with the plugin installed, Hate Speech Blocker checks the terms against Hatebase, a nonprofit online service that collects data about hate zones and derogatory terms in various parts of the world and “has the ability to reference the terms across different countries.”
“It looks across the whole gamut of hate speech – it could be religious intolerance, it could be more general online bullying,” he said.
“We all liked Hate Speech Blocker because it was so simple and direct, challenging hate speech before it is even posted. I look forward to finding out how successful it has been in practice,” said tech evangelist and digital skills expert Sue Black, who was on the panel of judges for a series of hacking competitions in London called Peacehack.
Hate Speech Blocker won the hackathons earlier this October. This year’s theme focused on hate speech and how technology and developers can help address it.
In some instances, hate groups have argued that blocking their rhetoric violates their right to free speech. But Marsh stressed that International Alert is “very careful” to avoid engaging in censorship.
“What we want to be very careful about is not closing down that space for people to debate things,” he said. “And we realize that there may be a very thin line between freedom of speech and censorship.”
Hate speech sometimes happens “on the spur of the moment,” perhaps in response to something people see online, for example. Marsh said International Alert understands that. “We just want to give people that gentle nudge to say ‘is that really what you want to say?’”
The winning team at Peacehack 2016 celebrate after their plugin ‘Hate Speech Blocker’ was announced the winner, in London, England. (International Alert)
The hackathons have produced “all sorts of interesting ideas in our peace building work,” said Marsh, “be that around hate speech, be that around countering violent extremism and beyond.” And he hopes the continuation of the event will provide a real way of “engaging two communities that don’t necessarily work together that well – the technology and peace building sectors.”
Along the margins of the event, another potential “winner” emerged. While working with young people to give them the tools and confidence to combat hate speech online and offline, International Alert discovered that some of them were experiencing online abuse from offline friends who would later claim their accounts were hacked. The participants suggested developing a tool to help prove or not prove that an account was hacked at the same time online abuse was taking place.
“It was a real eye-opener,” he said. “… It gave us an inside track to fix the problems that they really face rather than the ones that we perceive that they are facing.”
Marsh hopes the Hate Speech Blocker plugin can be at least part of that conversation and a simple tool to make people stop and think before posting potentially harmful language online. And there are plans to customize it further for countries where International Alert works in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Myanmar.
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Aida Akl is a journalist working on VOA's English Webdesk. She has written on a wide range of topics, although her more recent contributions have focused on technology. She has covered both domestic and international events since the mid-1980s as a VOA reporter and international broadcaster.
Tags: hate speech blocker, Hatebase, International Alert, online hate speech, technology, techtonics
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Chukwuemeka Ukor says:
The hatred among you humans is a thing that must be considered by all means in order that the evolutionary capacity of all humans will grow apace.
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New study shows that everything about restaurants during COVID is awful, but especially the customers
Thom Dunn 7:07 am Thu Dec 10, 2020
"Take off your mask so I know how much to tip you" is a new report from One Fair Wage, a national organization that works to improve wages and working conditions for service industry employees. The data is based on surveys 1,675 food service workers from New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania, as well as Washington, D.C., and was conducted between October 20 and November 10 — when coronavirus numbers were definitely on the upswing.
Here are just the key findings:
• Nearly one-half (44%) of workers who responded reported that at least one or more of their co-workers in their restaurant had contracted COVID-19.
• Nearly 9 in 10 workers (88%) reported knowing someone who contracted COVID-19, and of those workers, 42% reported knowing someone who died from the virus.
• Over one-third of responding workers (37%) reported that their employer had not conducted a mandatory training on COVID safety protocols.
• Most workers (84%) report being within six feet of at least one person who is not wearing a mask in every shift, and more than one third (33%) report being within six feet of 30 or more maskless individuals on every shift.
• Nearly 70% of workers (69%) reported that their employer is not consistently following all COVID safety protocols
This isn't just an indictment on the restaurants themselves, nor does it necessarily mean that the management at these restaurants is being malicious or abusive or neglectful. If people are stressed and anxious and struggling to make enough money to keep the lights on, it's not surprising that their behavior might get sloppy.
But the behavior from the clientele certainly doesn't help either:
• Over 80% of workers (83%) report that their tips have declined during COVID-19. This decline is severe: nearly two thirds (66%) report that their tips have declined by at least 50%.
• Over three-quarters of workers (78%) report experiencing or witnessing hostile behavior from customers in response to staff enforcing COVID-19 safety protocols, and nearly 60% (59%) report experiencing such hostility at least weekly.
• Over one-half of workers (58%) report feeling reluctant to enforce COVID-19 protocols out of concern that customers would tip them less. Indeed, two thirds of workers (67%) report having received a lesser than usual tip after enforcing COVID-19 protocols on customers, usually on a frequent basis.
• More than 40% of workers (41%) reported that there has been a noticeable change in the frequency of unwanted sexualized comments from customers, and just over one quarter (25%) report that they have experienced or witnessed a significant change in the frequency of such sexual harassment
So let's review: 1 in 10 restaurant workers — some of whom are only making $2.63 an hour! — have contracted COVID-19. 90% know someone who has contracted COVID-19. The restaurants aren't being meticulous about hygiene protocols because the customers are mostly assholes who are reluctant to open their wallets even as they put other people at risk.
Stop going out to restaurants. I couldn't even go into the doctor's office with my six-month old yesterday because of assholes like these, yet you can still go out with 10 fucking people to a restaurant. Pressure your local governments to support the god damn restaurant industry to keep your favorite restaurants afloat so that they don't have stay open, which encourages situations exactly like the ones that have been reported.
Take off your mask so I know how much to tip you [One Fair Wage]
Tipped Service Workers Are More Vulnerable Amid Pandemic Harassment Spike: Study [Debbie Elliott and Emma Bowman / NPR]
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Food startup Eat Just is cranking out their lab-grown chicken nuggets for an as-yet unnamed Singapore restaurant. This news follows the Sinapore Food Agency's approval of "cultured chicken" to be sold as an ingredient. Eat Just also makes Egg Just, a faux egg product made from mung beans. From Smithsonian: […] Cultured chicken is real… READ THE REST
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For all the innovations in streaming, HD film quality, and web-based smart homes, none of it means much if all that power and connectivity bottlenecks in your janky old router. Slow speeds, dead zones, and other frustrations you feel every time a streaming show lags or your signal drops out in another room can often… READ THE REST
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Churches must now turn over member information to state
brandonbowser May 2, 2020 Uncategorized
How far is too far? Where do we draw the line? When governments are demanding church member information, that is crossing the line. Below are the details with the fight for survival for churches in Kansas City, Missouri.
Written by Matt Staver:
Churchgoers Must Register With the Government in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri, officials are now requiring every church to submit a list of members and attendees along with their names, addresses and telephone numbers to city officials for tracking and surveillance purposes.
I am running out of adjectives to describe how completely insane the tyrannical abuses launched by state governors and local officials against pastors and churches are becoming. It is as if these leaders never bothered to so much as glance at the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend. They seem to be governing from some make-believe, dystopian viewpoint.
Yesterday, we received a desperate call from a Kansas City, Missouri, church whose local government is reaching new and terrifying heights in destroying our constitutional freedom. The Kansas City government is now DEMANDING that churches turn over membership lists, along with the names, telephone numbers and physical addresses of anyone who enters a church! This order also applies to all businesses.
The new order states that by recording names and contact information, the health department will be able “to more quickly trace, test, and isolate individuals who may have been exposed to COVID-19.” Anyone who does not provide this information should be refused entrance!
The Germans did this very thing to Jews – collecting the names and locations of all known synagogue attendees – in the early days of the Nazi regime.
Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined Nazi-like measures designed to surveil, track and spy upon what was once a FREE American people. Yet that is exactly what Kansas City’s misguided government officials are now demanding.
Every day that passes during the COVID-19 panic seems to bring a new list of illegal and unconstitutional mandates issued by state and local politicians intent on ignoring their state laws, the U.S. Constitution, and the Department of Justice. Even the announcement that U.S. Attorney General William Barr will investigate and prosecute constitutional abuses has failed to stop the unbelievable overreach by these tyrannical officials.
We are at the brink of losing America as we know it, along with all the liberties our once-free people enjoyed.
Our President, Donald Trump, is doing his level best to bring the country out of the over-hyped, media-driven COVID panic. But some congressional and state level officials (led by Democrats) seem to be doing everything they can to thwart not only a recovery, but also the very foundations of our republic!
These attacks on our churches cannot stand. The backbone of our country relies on our constitutionally guaranteed ability to worship and serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We have already filed suit in several states against governors who have illegally and unconstitutionally fomented the arrests of pastors and launched attacks on the liberties of congregants. We will fight these cases all the way to the Supreme Court if we must. But we need YOUR help to defend freedom.
Finally, please be in prayer for our attorneys and staff as we litigate these cases, but most importantly, pray for the future of our country.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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AWP 2014: Packed House for Flash Fiction Fans
A guest blog on the Brevity Reading that was not a Brevity reading by Denise Low
“Brevity is huge.” “Micropiece Theatre.” “Microscopic fiction.” “Flash.” These are some of the ways panelists at the Brevity Reading, AWP 2014, described their form. Moderator Jane Ciabattari defined the scope of the shortest fiction genre: “Stories told in under 1000 words”
She opened with a nod to the journal Brevity: “I want to plug Brevity, edited by Dinty W. Moore. The word ‘Brevity’ has become so associated with Dinty’s magazine that most AWP people consider the two synonymous. As Dinty puts it, ‘I didn’t invent the word Brevity, but I guess it is becoming a brand.’” This AWP reading was brief fiction, not writers sponsored by the magazine.
Flash fiction can “flare” for only six words, like this story told in six words by Sherman Alexie, published in Narrative magazine”
My ex-wife.
My brother.
They eloped.
Flash fiction tests the limits of how few words can be used to create a narrative.
Ciabattari went on to describe how “Flash is perfect for the digital age, for reading on phones, at night, on the train. It is perfect for stories published by New World Writing, formerly known as Blip, and by Electric Literatures.” Flash slips comfortably into the 140 character limit of Twitter.
The panelists were skilled practitioners: Ciabattari herself (my sister, full disclosure here), Bobbie Ann Mason, Meg Pokrass, Pamela Painter, and Grant Faulkner. Each read works from 100 words (Ciabattari and Faulkner) to a slightly longer duet-flash “Tweeting War and Peace” co-authored by Mason and Pokrass. The story’s conflict was how to reduce the Tolstoy epic for digital age paraphernalia and attention spans. The authors declared it could be done in “ten million micro-tweets” and “repackaged” in “bundles.” This was a tour de force that had the audience roaring.
My “take-away” (to use a techno-term) was: flash fiction, tales told in brief, is a flourishing, emerging form. The topic drew a packed room.
This panel had one of the best Q & A sessions, as passionate practitioners shared publishing opportunities as well as variant flash genre options. Journals that feature flash fiction include, 100Word Story, Flash Fiction Forum, Electric Literature, PEN/Guernica—these all have weekly flash online. Smokelong Quarterly, Flash Fiction Chronicles, Apocrypha and Abstractions, Metagen, and Camroc are other venues.
Form affects content. Just as the first recordings of Robert Johnson’s blues changed a long, improvisational form to the length of a wax cylinder, so smart phones are changing literature. This panel demonstrated how the form can still create literary epiphanies.
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-2009, has been writing, reviewing, editing and publishing literary and scholarly articles for 30 years. She is the author of ten collections of poetry and six books of essays, including Natural Theologies from The Backwaters Press 2011, and a biography of Langston Hughes (co-authored with Thomas Pecore Weso).
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THE FUSE...who played.....and stayed.....
Recently THE FUSE were playing in North Yorkshire and stayed with us. A pop rock fusion band- what great guys these were. When you hear of groups who trash rooms,are very demanding and cause chaos. I imagined them dancing on my dining room table but I can say they were so polite and very charming. If I had a daughter I would have been very happy had she brought any one of these lads home. How civilized it was to listen to the talented Alex Newberry's voice belting out in the middle of the North Yorkshire countryside rather than have to trail all the way down to listen to them on the London circuit. Backed by the equally talented Jake Blair,Simon Bowsker,Mike Varnavia and Kiki Dugdale, you see the group relaxing in our Yorkshire sunshine as they are preparing to go on tour around Europe before heading off to Los Angeles to to cut their new album. THE FUSE are the recently reformed group from the original LATO. Their website is www.thefusemusic.com and will perform a headline gig at MONTO WATER RATS THEATRE in London on the 25th July
The FUSE...
Jack says there is no need to go anywhere else we live in the best part ...We get people from all over the world and some are more famous than others. The other weekend a pop rock fusion band called THE FUSE stayed with us. I must say what delightful young men they were too.You hear of bands trashing bedrooms,been rude,so demanding and other horror stories.These are the sort of guys if I had adaughter I would have been happy for her to have brought home. These guys were just here to play at a gig and chill out in the sunshine the morning after.They have a brand new website after regrouping from LATO to their new name of THE FUSE.....and their music isnt bad either.It was so civilized to listen to Alex Newberry's voice belted out over the North Yorkshire countryside instead of the usual London circuit backed by the equally talented Jake Blair,Simon Bowker,Mike Varnavia and Kiki Dugdale. They are now preapring to tour through Europe before crossing the Atlantic to cut a new album in Los Angeles. www.thefusemusic.com
June-My Birthday Month
Another year older yesterday and hopefully a little wiser. To celebrate my birthday we went up to The Hare at Scawton and had a delicous meal- well worth a trip. Their number is 01845 597769.We sadly missed meeting Jan Smith ,a very friendly landlady who is also a very busy one. Next time it will be the double baked cheese souffle that Jessica always raves about.
I have always wanted a platinum ring and Jack came up trumps as usual with the help of Martin of Pattisons Jewellers in Thirsk, who had been keeping his eye out for me a special one for a long time.It is about 100 years old and has 12 sides to it -one for each month of the year. This shop may be small, but its reputation is big and if Martin hasnt got it in, he will either make it for you or find something you will treasure for ever.
My Dad gave me sweetpeas out of his garden and a pale pink rose off a bush which has been at the farm as long as the family over 100 years.One year I may be successful at trying to root it. This is always one of my best birthday memories.
I must tell you about a wonderful paint company I have found called The Little Greene Paint Co which produces paint and wall paper. Since 1773 the Little Greene Dye Works have been making paints and dyes and now offer 128 different colours to choose from and the most fabulous rolls of paper. I am just waiting for some guests to vacate a bedroom as I have a pot of paint called Gauze ready to transform a pine chest of drawers...You may be interested to visit their website www.the littlegreene.com.The hardest bit is there are so many lovely shades to choose from. They even do limewashes and distempers.Their telephone number is 0161 2300880.ps the guests have now gone and I have painted the chest which you can see in the photo
Hovingham Hall......
One of North Yorkshire's special gems will be open to the public for the month of June. It is not so well known, but is very well presented and brings a lot of enjoyment to those who know where to find it in the middle of the North Yorkshire countryside on the malton to Helmsley road, about 10 miles north of York . Formerly the home of the Duchess of Kent and now of her nephew, William, lovely wife Marie and young family.I like to spend time walking round their garden as there are always tips of how a garden should look. I remember a few years ago after a pleasant afternoon there rushing to get the lawn mower out and try to make the same pattern on the our lawn as they had achieved.Needless to say it was not quite as gracious, I am still trying.....
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#4 in Luxury Large Cars
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2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class Review
by Cody Trotter | December 4, 2020
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The 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS finishes in the middle of our luxury large car rankings. It's powerful and opulent, but it isn't as spacious as some of its rivals.
Posh cabin
Comfortable ride
User-friendly tech features
Limited rear-seat space for taller passengers
Small trunk
MBUX infotainment system replaces COMAND
12.3-inch digital gauge cluster now standard
See all New for 2021
RWD, AWD
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Rankings & Research
The 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class's #4 ranking is based on its score within the Luxury Large Cars category. Currently the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class has a score of 7.7 out of 10, which is based on our evaluation of 17 pieces of research and data elements using various sources.
Critics' Rating: 8.3
Interior: 7.1
This model has never been fully tested for safety. Its overall score is being calculated without safety.
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Is the Mercedes-Benz CLS a Good Car?
Yes, the Mercedes-Benz CLS is a good car. It offers two powerful turbocharged engines, gets good gas mileage, and rides smoothly. The CLS has a richly appointed interior with plush front seats and plenty of technology. However, its rear seats and trunk are undersized for the class.
Why You Can Trust Us: 17 Reviews Analyzed
Our car reviews include everything you need to know before heading to the dealership. We combine the opinions of the automotive press with quantifiable data like crash test results and reliability ratings to form a complete picture of every vehicle we rank.
This 2021 CLS review incorporates applicable research for all models in this generation, which launched for 2019.
U.S. News Best Cars has been ranking vehicles since 2007, and our team has more than 75 years of combined experience in the automotive industry. Our car reviews are objective. To keep them that way, our editorial staff doesn’t accept expensive gifts or trips from automakers, and a third party handles all the advertising on our site.
Should I Buy the Mercedes-Benz CLS?
The CLS is a great car, but it may not be the right buying choice for every luxury large car shopper. It isn't quite as well-rounded as some competitors, and it has one of the highest starting prices in the class. Still, there are those who would argue that this Mercedes is worth the money, even if it isn't necessarily the best value.
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2020 vs. 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS: What's the Difference?
The 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS doesn't see a lot of changes from the 2020 model, but a couple of differences are noteworthy. A 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster now comes standard, and the Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) infotainment system replaces the COMAND interface.
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Here are the key changes for the Mercedes-Benz CLS over the last few years:
2017: nine-speed automatic transmission became standard in CLS 400 and CLS 550
2018: rearview camera added to standard features list; CLS 400 trim discontinued
2019: fully redesigned with updated trim lineup, new engines, one extra seat (now five, up from four), and more standard features
2020: no notable changes
2021: MBUX infotainment system replaces COMAND and 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster now standard
If you're considering an older model, be sure to read our 2018 CLS, 2019 CLS, and 2020 CLS reviews to help make your decision. Also, check out our Best New Car Deals and Best New Car Lease Deals pages to learn about savings and discounts you can find on new vehicles.
How Much Does the Mercedes-Benz CLS Cost?
The CLS 450 starts at $70,300. That's one of the highest starting prices in the class. The AMG CLS 53 is the performance-oriented CLS trim, and it starts at $81,550. That's higher than a lot of rivals' top-trim price tags, though it's still well below the most expensive models in the class, which can exceed $100,000.
Check out our U.S. News Best Price Program for great savings at your local Mercedes-Benz dealer. You can also find excellent manufacturer incentives on our Mercedes-Benz deals page.
Mercedes-Benz CLS Versus the Competition
Mercedes-Benz CLS vs. Mercedes-Benz E-Class
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a luxury midsize car that has a lot in common with its CLS sibling. Both are refined and luxurious high-speed cruisers, and they have similar interior quality and features lists. For most shoppers though, the E-Class is a better starting point. It's offered in a wider array of body styles – including sedan, wagon, coupe, and convertible models – it has more engine options to choose from, and it costs much less.
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Mercedes-Benz CLS vs. Mercedes-Benz S-Class
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class, a super luxury car, is the crown jewel of the Mercedes lineup. The S-Class bests the CLS with its higher-end materials, grandiose cabin styling, and muscular engine lineup. The S-Class also comes with more standard safety and convenience features than the CLS. That said, the S-Class is considerably more expensive than the CLS.
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CLS Interior: Well-Crafted, but Not the Roomiest
CLS Cargo Space
Most class rivals have a larger trunk than this Mercedes, which gives you just 11.9 cubic feet of cargo space. That's enough room for about eight or nine shopping bags.
How Many People Does the CLS Seat?
This Mercedes seats five people. The front seats are plush, supportive, and easy to adjust. Outward visibility is good, and there’s ample head- and legroom, even for taller occupants. The rear seats are similarly comfortable and nicely padded, though headroom is slim for adults. The rear middle seat has minimal space, so it’s best reserved for children or left empty.
CLS and Child Car Seats
The CLS has two complete sets of LATCH connectors for the rear outboard seats.
CLS Interior Quality
Inside, the CLS looks much the way you probably expect. It's modern and stylish, with premium materials covering almost every square inch of the cabin.
CLS Infotainment, Bluetooth, and Navigation
The MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience) infotainment system features an intuitive interface that doesn't take a lot of practice to master. The controls are generally user-friendly, and the display is easy to see and reach from the driver's seat.
Standard infotainment features: a 12.3-inch touch screen, a touchpad controller, navigation, HD Radio, Bluetooth, USB ports, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto
Available infotainment features: wireless device charging, satellite radio, the MBUX Interior Assistant, a Wi-Fi hot spot, and 13- and 23-speaker Burmester audio systems
Additional standard features: a moonroof, dual-zone automatic climate control, remote start, and a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster
For more information, read What Is Apple CarPlay? and What Is Android Auto?
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CLS Performance: Powerful and Smooth
CLS Engine
The CLS 450 features a 362-horsepower turbocharged 3.0-liter six-cylinder engine. The AMG CLS 53 has an upgraded version of this engine with 429 horsepower. Both models are paired with a responsive nine-speed automatic transmission and have a mild-hybrid system (EQ Boost) that provides extra torque at low speeds, helping the engine feel livelier while also conserving fuel.
Regardless of engine choice, the CLS accelerates quickly and smoothly, and it can confidently pass slower vehicles on the highway. The CLS 450 sprints from zero to 60 mph in around five seconds. The CLS 53 shaves a little more than a half-second off that time.
CLS Gas Mileage
With rear-wheel drive, the CLS 450 gets 23 mpg in the city and 30 mpg on the highway, which are better ratings than most rivals get. Opt for all-wheel drive, and ratings drop by about 1 mpg. The AMG model gets 21 mpg in the city and 26 mpg on the highway.
CLS Ride and Handling
The Mercedes CLS has well-rounded driving dynamics. It glides over rough road surfaces without jostling occupants, and it remains balanced through turns, making for a car that’s easy and relaxing for daily driving.
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CLS Reliability
Is the Mercedes-Benz CLS Reliable?
The 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS has a slightly above-average predicted reliability rating of 3.5 out of five.
Mercedes-Benz CLS Warranty
Mercedes-Benz covers the CLS with a four-year/50,000-mile warranty.
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CLS Safety
CLS Crash Test Results
Neither the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has crash tested the 2021 CLS. This is common for high-end luxury vehicles.
CLS Safety Features
Standard advanced safety features:
Mercedes' Pre-Safe (rolls up windows and tightens seat belts if sensors detect an impending collision)
Car-to-X communication (lets equipped vehicles “talk” to each other to exchange information about traffic or obstacles on the road)
Crosswind assist
Vehicle exit assist (alerts you so you don't open the door into approaching traffic)
Available advanced safety features:
Low-speed traffic jam assist
Pre-Safe Plus (like standard Pre-Safe but for rearward collisions)
Pre-Safe Impulse Side (like standard Pre-Safe but for side impacts)
Lane change assist
Evasive steering assist
Parallel and perpendicular park assist
Front and rear cross traffic alert
Surround-view parking camera system
Read more about safety »
CLS Dimensions and Weight
The Mercedes-Benz CLS is 16.4 to 16.6 feet long, and its curb weight ranges from 4,134 to 4,456 pounds.
Where Is the 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS Built?
Mercedes-Benz builds the 2021 CLS in Germany.
Which Mercedes-Benz CLS Model Is Right for Me?
The 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS comes in two trims: CLS 450 and AMG CLS 53. Most buyers should stick with the CLS 450. It offers almost all of the same features as the more expensive AMG trim, with the main difference between the two models being the powertrain. Since the 450 is plenty capable, there's not much reason to shell out an extra 10 grand for the AMG 53.
The CLS 450 carries a base price of $70,300. It comes with a 362-horsepower turbocharged 3.0-liter six-cylinder engine, a nine-speed automatic transmission, and rear-wheel drive. Upgrading to Mercedes' 4Matic all-wheel-drive system costs $2,500.
Standard features include leather upholstery, heated front seats, a moonroof, dual-zone automatic climate control, remote start, a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster, a 12.3-inch touch screen, a touchpad controller, navigation, Bluetooth, USB ports, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto.
Standard driver assistance features include driver drowsiness monitoring, forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, Mercedes' Pre-Safe, Car-to-X communication, crosswind assist, vehicle exit assist, and blind spot monitoring.
The Warmth & Comfort package ($1,050) adds heated front seats and a heated steering wheel. The Premium package ($2,300) adds rear cross traffic alert, a surround-view parking camera system, parallel and perpendicular assist, satellite radio, and a 13-speaker Burmester audio system.
You can also add a number of features individually, including ventilated front seats, massaging front seats, a head-up display, wireless device charging, and the MBUX Interior Assistant.
Mercedes-AMG CLS 53
The AMG CLS 53 is the performance-oriented CLS trim, and it sports a starting MSRP of $81,550. This model comes with a 429-horsepower turbocharged 3.0-liter six-cylinder engine and 4Matic all-wheel drive. On top of the CLS 450's features, the CLS 53 comes with an air suspension, larger brakes, an AMG exhaust, satellite radio, a 13-speaker stereo, wireless device charging, a surround-view parking camera system, parallel and perpendicular assist, and rear cross traffic alert.
Anything that you can get in the CLS 450, you can also get in the AMG model. However, the AMG CLS 53 also offers a few additional features, such as heated rear seats, tri-zone automatic climate control, and a 23-speaker Burmester audio system.
See 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS specs and trims »
The Final Call
The 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS brings a lot to the table and takes almost nothing off of it. It delivers impressive performance for a luxury large car and has the first-rate interior you want in a high-end sedan. It isn't quite as spacious as some rivals, which is enough to knock it into the middle of the rankings in a very competitive class. Don't let that fool you, though. This car is worth a look.
Don't just take our word for it. Check out comments from some of the reviews that drive our rankings and analysis.
"The 2021 Mercedes-Benz CLS is a niche car by design. It forgoes some of the practicality of a traditional midsize luxury sedan like the E-Class or BMW 5 Series and the usefulness of a sportback like the similarly prices (sic) Audi A7. Yet its distinctive and beautiful style is one of the CLS's most appealing traits." -- Kelley Blue Book
"The CLS450 is technically a base model, but the term seems inadequate for a car that's so sumptuously equipped. We imagine that most shoppers will be happy with what the CLS450 has onboard." -- Car and Driver (2020)
"Thumbs-up. The CLS, gen III, is a testament to the strength of the original concept. It's a good, solid, contemporary Mercedes-Benz with an extra dose of flash, and there's nothing wrong with that." -- Autoweek (2019)
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Saint Benignus of Armagh
Benignus of Ireland
Benen of….
27 June (translation of relics)
8 November (Martyrology of Donegal)
Son of the Irish chieftain Sesenen in County Meath. Baptized by and a disciple of Saint Patrick, accompanying him in his travels and missions. Noted choral singer and arranger for liturgical music, he was called Patrick’s psalm-singer. Evangelized the provinces of Clare, Kerry, and Connaught. Abbot of Drumlease for twenty years. Assisted in compiling the Senchus Mor, the Irish Code of Laws. Present at the synod which recognized the See of the Apostle Peter (Rome, Italy) as the final court of appeal in difficult cases. Succeeded Saint Patrick as bishop of Ireland.
467 of natural causes
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Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
New Catholic Dictionary
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
The Saints of Erin, by J P O’Callaghan
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Chris Whitty says we might never reach population immunity to COVID amid warning of 'huge surge'
Will Taylor
·News Reporter
December 16, 2020, 12:06 p.m. ·3 min read
Chris Whitty made stark warnings at Wednesday's Downing Street press conference. (PA)
A top government medical expert has issued a stark warning about the future of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak.
Professor Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, has said the nation is “not anywhere near” being able to lift social distancing restrictions, despite the beginning of mass vaccination.
Responding to a question at a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday, Whitty said that more needs to be known about whether vaccines reduce transmission of COVID-19.
He also warned that restrictions cannot be eased when the most vulnerable, such as elderly people, are vaccinated.
Watch: PM urges for shorter and smaller Christmas
Chris Whitty warned restrictions will not ease up in the very near future. (PA)
“If we let go, at that point, there’ll be a huge surge and people who are a bit below the highest risk groups... will then in very large numbers get infected,” he warned.
“Some of those would get very seriously ill and end up in hospital and some of those would die.”
That was followed by a warning that despite hope more vaccines, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Moderna jabs, will join the one from Pfizer-BioNTech in gaining regulatory approval, there will not be a sudden point where COVID-19 no longer poses a risk to people.
“We will not get to the point there is zero risk,” Whitty said, adding that coronavirus would still be in circulation as vaccinations continue, just at a lower level.
“The decision for society, led by political leaders, is going to be at what level of risk do we actually start to raise these measures and that’s going to be a difficult choice.”
Boris Johnson urged for a more low-key Christmas. (PA)
Despite the roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, there is no sign yet of social distancing restrictions easing up. (PA)
And he emphasised that “we’re not anywhere near that yet” and the next step is to get the vulnerable vaccinated.
Whitty said while jabs will protect most people from serious illness, it is not yet known if they will provide a reduction to the transmission of coronavirus.
While they are likely to have some impact, he said if vaccinations don’t reduce transmission enough “we will never achieve this concept of population immunity or herd immunity”.
The Tier 3 COVID lockdown rules explained
Prime minister Boris Johnson also emphasised that “we’re by no means” ready to ease social distancing permanently, but discussed a “potential crossover point” when more people receive jabs and the country can “think very differently about the non-pharmaceutical interventions, the social distancing and all those types of measures”.
“There will come a point, I believe, between now and Easter when that will happen,” he said.
“But what we’re trying to do now is massively accelerate if we possibly can that vaccination programme.”
Watch: The UK’s Christmas COVID rules
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Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell share 'scary and stressful' Christmas tree shopping incident
Korin Miller
Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell regularly talk about their two daughters in interviews and on social media, but they just shared what might be their most relatable parenting moment yet. The couple opened up about their stressful trip to Home Depot to buy Christmas trees in a new episode of Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, and how they turned the experience into a teachable moment for their family.
According to Bell, the couple was dealing with some tension on the way to Home Depot after having a fight over priorities. Bell realized when they arrived that she had forgotten her purse and a mask, so she took Shepard’s credit card and mask to use while he waited in the drive-through checkout line with their daughters Lincoln, 7, and Delta, 6.
According to Shepard, a woman in the pickup line “tried to go down the wrong way of the one lane.” She wasn’t moving, so he went to her car to let her know she was going to need to back up. “She rolled up her window and was yelling at me,” he says. So, Shepard went back to his truck and started backing up. Others followed suit, but things didn’t improve for Shepard.
“She starts clapping out the window in a very antagonistic way,” he says. Cut on over to Bell, who says she heard “screaming” while picking out a tree. “Funny enough, [it was] my husband’s voice,” she remembers thinking, along with, “I need him in a mask if he is going to be speaking to another human being.” So, she dropped the Christmas tree and ran over.
The woman moved her car and, per Shepard, “just barely misses hitting the truck,” causing him to get upset all over again.
Meanwhile, the couple’s kids were “in a wrestling match on the front seat of the truck,” Shepard said, noting that it was “altogether too much for me at that point.” So, he told the kids he was going to go sit outside to decompress. “Now, the windows are down, now they’re both hanging out the window, they’re screaming ... Delta is hurt, now Delta is screaming and crying, now Lincoln is saying, ‘You gotta come in here, she’s hurt’…one of the kids opens the door into another car…” Shepard said.
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard opened up about their "horror film" experience buying a Christmas tree with their daughters on the latest episode of "Armchair Expert." (Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
When Bell arrived on the scene, she said, “I see my husband hot-faced, trying to calm down... The girls are banging on the windows, honking the horn, screaming crying... I’m like, ‘Oh, OK, here we go.’”
Bell said she went inside the truck to “hear them out…they have a lot of grievances about dad and how he handled it.” Bell joked that her kids were also smart enough to throw in phrases like, “I was frightened.”
So, Bell explained to them that what the woman did was “rude” and that their father “was in a situation that made his temper flare and he was in a situation where he needed some privacy.”
Things got even more stressful from there: The kids fought with wrapping paper rolls when they got home, the tap water stopped working in their house while they were watering their tree, and Bell realized at the end of the night that she had lost Shepard’s credit card, which she dubbed “the icing on the cake.” (She later found it next to a planter at their house.)
Bell said she ended the night with a talk with her daughters, saying, “even though tonight felt scary and stressful ... we still have to maintain how grateful we are.”
The story is oh-so-relatable and can make any parent wonder about the best way to decompress when life and your children push you to the edge.
It’s important to explain to children that everyone, including adults, needs time for a breather, Dr. Gina Posner, a board-certified pediatrician at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, Calif., tells Yahoo Life. “It’s OK for them to do that and for you to do it, too,” she says. “Explain to them that, when you come back, you can feel a lot better and things can go a lot smoother.”
It’s also crucial to understand that you need these moments, Dr. Robert Keder, a developmental pediatrician at Connecticut Children’s, tells Yahoo Life. “First and foremost, you need to put your oxygen mask on first before you’re going to help your child manage their own needs,” he says.
John Mayer, a clinical psychologist and author of Family First: Find Your Balance in Life, tells Yahoo Life that it’s OK for people to acknowledge that it’s tough to be a parent, even when you’re not stressed. “What parents don’t understand is that the energy, the responsibility, and the attention needed to be with children on an activity is draining for adults,” he says.
When you’re not in a heated moment, Keder says it’s important to teach your children about emotions and learning to regulate them. “We take for granted that kids just learn emotional regulation and they don’t,” he says. That’s why he recommends giving your children tools to help them identify emotions, like labeling them and affiliating them with color-coded zones (a red zone, for example, is when you’re incredibly angry, while a yellow zone could be when you’re getting close to being upset).
“That can give kids the tools to understand what these emotions are,” Keder says.
As for explaining in advance that you need a break sometimes, it's a good idea to try to have this talk using examples your kids can relate to, Thea Gallagher, clinic director at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perlman School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. “Saying that mom and dad need to decompress when they're stressed doesn't mean anything to kids,” she says. So, she recommends talking to your kids about a time when they’ve been at the end of their rope, like when you asked them to clean their room when they were tired or how they felt when a little sibling ripped their favorite Pokemon card. “Using examples from their life can help them understand empathy,” Gallagher says.
When that inevitable moment comes that you hit your breaking point, Keder recommends telling your children just that. “Say, ‘Honey, I’m angry. I’m not going to hit or yell, but I am going to take a deep breath or a five-minute chill out,’” he says. If they keep pushing your buttons, repeat yourself. “Teaching them to respect these decompressing moments is important,” Keder says.
And if your child won’t respect your request, Keder recommends reaching for an “in case of emergency” thing or activity, like putting on a video on your phone or pulling out a fun board game that will keep your child occupied. “If you need it, it’s OK,” he says.
But, overall, it’s OK to have these moments here and there, Dr. Anthony Tobia, a psychiatrist at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, tells Yahoo Life. “This is just part of normal parenting,” he says. But, he adds, if you’re doing this a lot, it may be a sign that you’re struggling with something else. “It may be as simple as you needing more alone time in your day,” he says.
Keder recommends that parents be aware of the need for their own time-outs, and to actually take them when they come up. “Work on getting your five to 10 minutes of zen. We all need that,” Keder says. “It helps you to be a better parent.”
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Patty Jenkins breaks down her approach to 'Cleopatra'
Gregory Wakeman
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Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. (20th Century Fox)
Patty Jenkins has opened up about her upcoming Cleopatra film, which will see her reunite with Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot.
The ancient Egyptian ruler’s life has been made into numerous films over the years, but the most famous is undoubtedly the 1963 epic Cleopatra, which starred Elizabeth Taylor as the titular character, Richard Burton as Mark Antony and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar.
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Jenkins wouldn’t go into too much detail about what we can expect her Cleopatra to entail, but did tease that it will cover similar themes to her past films, which include the 2003 Oscar-winning crime biopic Monster, Wonder Woman and its recently released sequel Wonder Woman 1984.
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"I think I actually have a history of looking at complicated characters,” Jenkins told Collider, and said she found looking at a story from “that person’s point of view” much more interesting “in a different way”.
She added: “So applying that same approach to one of the most famous women in history, Cleopatra, the truth is, the only story that we know of her was told by the Romans who killed her and hated her.
“And so once we really start looking at what does exist elsewhere about Cleopatra, you see a pretty bad-a**, incredible leader. One of the great leaders in Egypt.”
Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot of Wonder Woman accept the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Action Movie in 2018. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)
Jenkins teased that she wants to get down into the “nitty gritty details” of Cleopatra’s “incredible story,” because she insists that you can understand it in a completely different way “if you change things just a little bit.”
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“I just think it's a story that she deserves to have told one day beautifully.”
While we wait for Jenkins and Gadot, who the director insists will make a great Cleopatra, to start work on the hugely anticipated historical drama, audiences can check out Wonder Woman 1984 in UK cinemas.
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CAAM Events, CAAMForward, Donate, Giving Tuesday November 25, 2020 December 2, 2020
CAAM Forward Celebration Recap
Thank you to all who joined us for our 40th anniversary Celebration of Asian American Storytelling! Not only was it an energetic and inspiring evening to gather together with some of the pillars–as well as rising stars–of our community, through your generosity we also met our goal of raising $125,000 for CAAM’s critical work.
Actress and activist Tamlyn Tomita lent her talents as the sparkling emcee for the evening. In case you missed it, or just would like to revisit the good times, read on for a recap and find out how to watch the recording.
After a video recap Look Back: CAAM in 2020 and a welcome toast (with a soju cocktail!) by Executive Director Stephen Gong, we reflected on the rich history of Asian American cinematic storytelling with a mystery-style video Finding the Story, by former CAAM board member Walt Louie. The video featured cameos from legends such as Grace Lee Boggs, Deann Borshay Liem, Jake Shimabukuro, and “Pamlyn”.
Next, Don Young was joined in conversation with journalist and activist Helen Zia, a longtime friend of CAAM, to talk about the power of story in activism. Helen’s early days mobilizing the Asian American community in Detroit in the 1980s were featured in Renee Tajima-Peña and Christine Choy’s film Who Killed Vincent Chin?.
“To me, it’s very much a concern of my heart that API children should be able to see themselves and imagine themselves in this world where they can make a difference,” Helen said, noting that change has been glacial. “And I think that’s where CAAM comes in.”
Lea Salonga then joined in a video message to say ‘Salamat’ to the CAAMily, followed by a soulful musical performance of “Temple” by Thao Nguyen.
Throughout this year, we have been featuring the CAAM40 Storytellers, creators who are shaping the future of Asian American storytelling. During the Celebration, we had a chance to hear directly from some of our honorees: Jason DaSilva, Drama Del Rosario, Paula Madison, Tad Nakamura, Bao Nguyen, Saleem Reshamwala, and Nadia Shihab.
Of course, no CAAM program would be complete without a fashion show by our Festival and Exhibitions Director Masashi Niwano, but this time we had a treat as our Talent Development & Special Projects Manager Sapana Sakya also donned a bowtie. Who wore it best? We’ll let you be the judge…
Top L-R: Karim Ahmad, HP Mendoza, Alice Wu; Bottom L-R: Sapana Sakya, Masashi Niwano
Masashi and Sapana were joined by a panel of people who are moving the needle in filmmaking: filmmakers Alice Wu (Saving Face, The Half of It) H.P. Mendoza (Fruit Fly, Bitter Melon), and Karim Ahmad, Director of Outreach & Inclusion at the Sundance Institute. They reflected on the importance of this year’s events as a pivotal time for the future. Karim quoted a friend who described this pandemic as shining the “Light of Corona” on injustices in society and may have coined a new word, saying “We have to move beyond settling for survival and move toward thrival,” as he urged financial investments in organizations such as CAAM and Sundance, and better working conditions for people of color in production.
H.P. Mendoza cautioned artists against putting too much stock in other people’s opinions, saying that critiques of his films as being too Asian or too gay inspire him to make his work “twice as gay, twice as Asian” and crediting his collaboration with CAAM for making his film Fruit Fly possible.
Alice summed it up by advising “Write the thing where you hear the music and see what happens.” Tamlyn enthusiastically agreed, and her black cat seemed to think so, too!
Rapper Ruby Ibarra summed up the moment with a performance of her hit “A Thousand Cuts”.
CAAM Board Co-chairs Dipti Ghosh and Vincent Pan wrapped up the evening by talking about how the love of film drew them to being part of CAAM.
In case you missed the event, check the CAAM Channel on YouTube for the full video.
Please consider a year-end donation to support CAAM’s work in bringing Asian American Stories to Light. Make an online contribution today.
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WWE NXT Progression November 16
By Steve C.
LIV MORGAN vs. PEYTON ROYCE w/ BILLIE KAY
Liv Morgan – She’s still largely a prospect and needs to tone down her screaming when she’s in the ring. But it’s clear that there has been a good deal of progress lately, especially if you compare her from her challenging Asuka match to now. She’s athletic enough to pull off some great combinations, so that’s a plus. She has a high ceiling as well. And that’s also a plus. The way she speaks suggests that she should really be a heel though. But if she can make it work for her as a face and have the crowd invest in it, why change it right?
Status: Progressing
Peyton Royce – Of the two Australians, Peyton Royce is more convincing as a heel. She has a better handle on her character’s attitude and mannerisms as well. The way she saunters to the ring is great. She’s a little more magnetic as well and that’s definitely due to her Poison Ivy-inspired look. Her in-ring work is also coming together slowly but surely. If she can become a little more solid as an in-ring performer and as a talker, there’s no doubt that she’ll be pushed into title contention really soon.
Billie Kay – Not much here except for her interference. But it’s clear that she’s the weaker of the two Australians. But it’s not a huge gap between her and Peyton Royce. When it comes down to it, it’s more because of her charisma and presence as opposed to her in-ring work. Between the two, her in-ring work is a little better as she’s a lot more vicious and convincing than her ally. But like I said, Royce has a higher stock because of her charisma and presence. She needs to open up a little more or she’ll more likely fall into Royce’s shadow.
Aliyah – Her energy seems to be her standout characteristic so far. She came in with such conviction when attempting to help Liv Morgan. Her mic work was nothing special during the backstage interview however. Like Liv, she’s still largely a prospect. But also like Liv, she has a high ceiling as well. Now that she’s getting more screen time, it’s a make-or-break scenario for her. She’ll either deliver solid performances or she’ll be exposed as the weakest worker of the predicted six ladies that will fight.
Status: Slowly Progressing
Ember Moon – There’s no doubt about it that it’s Asuka and Ember Moon, and then everyone else. In her brief moment coming to the rescue of Liv and Aliyah, she easily stole the spotlight. And there’s really nothing more I can say about her athleticism. It’s just top notch. And the way she’s able to connect moves together without having to pause is something that most of the WWE women wrestlers should be jealous of. But the obvious hindrance at the moment is her lack of direction. There was much speculation that she would go on to feud with Asuka, but it seems as though Moon will continue to be involved with Liv Morgan and the Aussie wrestlers.
ELIAS SAMSON vs. NATHAN CRUZ
Elias Samson – If there’s one thing he’s good at, its drawing heat from the crowd. With chants of “Drift away!” and “No!” it’s painfully clear that they do not like him. But that only goes so far. It’s understandable that it’s his first match back from the summer so we shouldn’t be expecting a huge difference, but it’s clear that he hasn’t made any strides in the talking department. He may have added a little more viciousness to his strikes, but he still doesn’t come off as compelling or dark when he speaks. And that’s a problem since he’s had time to figure that part out.
Status: Plateauing
Nathan Cruz – Enhancement talent. Served to Samson in order to get him some momentum. But strangely, he was more compelling than Samson. He sold Samson’s offense well and looked to be pretty smooth in the ring.
Status: Too early to tell but unimportant at the moment
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Andrade “Cien” Almas – This is what Almas needed. He should have never been presented as a heel. Or maybe it was WWE’s plan to emulate what propelled Almas into his highest success outside of WWE. Almas was cocky and arrogant throughout. His striking has improved with the heel turn. Almas has also proved just how great of a performer he is with his great ring awareness and story-telling. But credit where credit is due to Cedric Alexander for also contributing to Almas’ performance as there was actually a story behind this match.
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Louis; and Austin, Tex. Tobi is in love with his buddy Achim Kostja Ullmann , who is in love with a girl Miriam Morgenstern , although this does not, needless to say, interfere with a little frisky frolicking on the locker room floor. The boys are members of a rowing team preparing for a big race. This entails a season of practice in an idyllic lakeside landscape, the pitching of tents wink, wink and -- pull! Complicating matters is the arrival of a competing team consisting entirely of the half-dressed homosexual hotties called, I kid you not, the Queerstrokes crew. Seriously now, how difficult can it be to get your gay on when half a dozen friendly, flirtatious, supersporty studs are trying to persuade you?
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Looking for a slightly scary movie to watch this Halloween? Check out our picks for movies that hopefully won't keep you up at night. See the full list. Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Achim's girlfriend Sandra is on the girl's team and he enjoys spending more time with her.
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Independent cinema was once regarded as the cinema of the disenfranchised. Likewise, the indie subsets, films made by those even further outside of the white straight male hegemony, films by African-Americans, gays, Hispanics, and other voices kept out of the mainstream except when propped up as comic relief stage right, have also descended into their own form of staleness. The gay coming-of-age picture has lately become one of the most moribund, yet also one of the least discussed, because honestly, who wants to trash something so well intentioned and seemingly non-geared towards the majority palate. At what point does the statute of limitations run out on good intentions? Does every contribution to the cause of bringing the marginalized to greater visibility necessarily entail a relaxing of applicable standards to what would—aside from a tint of social significance—otherwise be mediocre movies?
Set at a Bavarian summer camp for high school rowing teams, the dramatic focus here is on a young gay coxswain-captain's coming out, after he discovers he's in love with his best pal, an oarsman. The movie was directed and co-written by a young German filmmaker Marco Kreuzpaintner--based, he says, on his own experiences--and though he tries for some psychological realism, human comedy and drama , it really seems more of a kitschy sex fantasy and silly lark. In "Summer Storm," the woodsy camp plays host to small-town Starnberg Rowing Club's high school-age boys and girls teams, where the movie's protagonist, coxswain Tobi played by a much-awarded young German actor, Robert Stadlober --a school leader with a usually somewhat cynical sense of humor--bends adoring gazes on his cute chum Achim Kostja Ullmann.
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The Party Line – December 2, 2011: Nuclear’s “Annus Horribilis” Confirms Its Future Is in the Past
Posted on December 2, 2011 by Gregg Levine
In the immediate aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that triggered the horrific and ongoing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power generating station, President Barack Obama went out on a bit of a limb, striking a tone markedly different from his fellow leaders in the industrialized world. Speaking about Japan and its effect on America’s energy future–once within days of the quake, and again later in March–the president made a point of reassuring Americans that his commitment to nuclear power would stay strong. While countries like Germany and Japan–both more dependent on nuclear power than the US–took Fukushima as a sign that it was time to move away from nuclear, Obama wanted to win the future with the same entrenched industry that so generously donated to his winning the 2008 election.
But a funny thing happened on the way to winning our energy future–namely, our energy present.
As November drew to a close, an article on AOL Energy (yes, it seems AOL has an energy page) declared 2011 to be “nuclear’s annus horribilis“:
March 2011 brought the 9.0 magnitude earthquake off northeastern Japan that sparked a tsunami whose waves may have exceeded 45 feet. Tokyo Electric Power Company’s oldest nuclear station, Fukushima Daiichi, apparently survived the earthquake, but its four oldest reactors didn’t survive that wall of water. Nuclear experts are still figuring out what all went wrong, and tens of thousands still haven’t returned home as Japanese authorities try to decontaminate radioactive hot spots.
In April, massive tornadoes that devastated the southeast swept near the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry plant.
In June, droughts sparked wildfires across the Southwest, including one that threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons materials are stored.
June also brought record floods across the upper Midwest. For weeks Omaha Public Power District’s Fort Calhoun nuclear plant was essentially an island.
August saw the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake just 11 miles from Dominion Energy’s North Anna plant. The plant shut safely, and returned to service mid-November after extensive checks found no damage even though ground motion briefly exceeded the plant’s design.
That list, as readers of this space will no doubt note, is far from complete. This year has also seen serious events at nuclear plants in California, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire and Ohio. But, perhaps even more troubling is the strangely positive tone of the piece.
Despite its ominous headline, it seems the message is: “Yeah, lots of nasty business in 2011, but 2011 is almost over. We got through it and no one died (at least no one in the US), so. . . problem solved!” It’s an attitude absurd on its face, of course, the passage of time is not the friend of America’s aging nuclear infrastructure–quite the opposite–but it is also a point that can’t survive the week in which it was made.
Take North Anna, for example. Yes, it is true that the NRC signed off on a restart in the waning hours of November 11, but the two generators at Dominion’s plant were not back at full power till November 28 because there was indeed damage–some of which was not discovered until after the restart process began.
A week earlier, a fire at Ohio’s crippled Davis-Besse facility cut ventilation to the reactor control room. A faulty valve in a pipe sending water to the reactor core leaked on an electrical switchbox, triggering an electrical arc, which started the fire. This could have been a potentially catastrophic emergency. . . had the reactor not been shut down seven weeks earlier to replace an already once previously replaced, corroded, 82-ton reactor lid. This “transplant operation” revealed a 30-foot crack in the concrete shield building that will require a separate repair program. . . which will in no way be completed before the end of the year.
The day after that fire, November 20, the St. Petersburg Times reported that Progress Energy’s Crystal River nuclear power plant in Citrus County, Florida, had discovered a 12-foot by 4-foot crack and crumbled concrete in its containment building in late July, but failed to notify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This was a patently intentional omission, as Progress Energy was already reporting to the NRC about repairs to two other major cracks in the same building dating back to October 2009 and March 2011.
The Crystal River story is long and sordid. The containment building cracked first during its construction in 1976. That crack was in the dome, and was linked to a lack of steel reinforcement. Most nuclear plants use four layers of steel reinforcement; Crystal River used only one. The walls were built as shoddily as the dome.
The latest problems started when Crystal River needed to replace the steam generator inside the containment building. Rather than use an engineering firm like Bechtel or SGT–the companies that had done the previous 34 such replacements in the US–Progress decided it would save a few bucks and do the job itself.
Over the objections of on-site workers, Progress used a different method than the industry standard to cut into the containment building. . . and that’s when this new cracking began. It appears that every attempt since to repair the cracks has only led to new “delamination” (as the industry calls it).
At this point, most have determined that the best plan going forward is to tear down the substandard structure and build a properly reinforced new one, but Progress thinks they have a better idea. Crystal River’s operator is trying to replace the wall panels–all six of them–one by one.
Funny enough, the cost of this never-before-tried retrofit is about the same as the cost of a whole new building. But the full rebuild would take more time–and there’s the rub.
Every day that Crystal River is offline costs Progress money because they have to buy energy to replace what they agreed to provide to the region from this nuclear facility. Each year that the plant is offline is said to cost $300 million. The price tag on this little cracking problem so far–not counting the actual costs of the repair–is $670 million.
Who will pay that bill? Well, if you live in Florida, the answer is: you:
Customers will pay $140 million next year so Progress Energy Florida can buy electricity from other sources while a nuclear plant remains shut down for repairs.
Consumer advocates opposed the power replacement charge, which will take effect Jan. 1, but it won unanimous approval Tuesday from the five-member Florida Public Service Commission.
The panel’s decision is a prelude to a determination next year whether a portion of the repair costs should be passed on to customers or paid in full by the company’s investors owing to problems that have delayed the work. The Crystal River plant was closed for repairs in 2009 but now isn’t expected to reopen until 2014. That’s about three years later than initially expected.
The repair bill is expected to total $2.5 billion. The utility wants customers to pay $670 million, or about a quarter of that amount.
Interesting how that $670 million exactly mirrors the replacement energy costs through today. Students of the Florida Public Service Commission would probably be skeptical that the bailout will really stop there–remember, Florida residents already pay a surcharge on their utility bills for possible (but in no way guaranteed) future nuclear power construction.
And to say that it’s all about the money would not be pure speculation. As the St. Petersburg Times reports, while the good people at Crystal River failed to notify the NRC (or the Public Service Commission) about their latest troubles in a timely fashion, Progress Energy didn’t dare keep secrets from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. On August 8, the same day it neglected to mention the new cracks in a report to the PSC, Progress filed its annual report to the SEC and stated “additional cracking or delaminations may have occurred or could occur during the repair process.”
Given the many revelations of just how casual SEC enforcement can be, it is disturbing to think a nuclear provider had more to worry about from the SEC than from the NRC, the agency given direct oversight of nuclear plant licensing and safety.
Disturbing, but not surprising. This year has also revealed the cozy relationship between the nuclear industry and the NRC. An AP exposé made that clear over the summer, but one need look no further than the AOL Energy story:
[Nuclear Energy Institute CEO Marvin] Fertel said the industry and NRC are “in very good alignment” on the issues raised by 2011 events. The concern for utilities is the “cumulative impact” of new rules, he said, and making sure they’re ranked so plant staffs attack those with the most safety benefit first and the cost is manageable.
The government and the industry agree–safety must be addressed with an eye toward cost. And the tens of millions of Americans living in the shadow of a nuclear reactor will see just what this means as the watered-down post-Fukushima recommendations are slowly proposed and implemented–with little fully required of plant operators before 2016.
Indeed, the global nuclear industry is proceeding not just as if it is business as usual–when it comes to the United States, manufacturers of nuclear plant components are already betting on a new wave of reactor construction. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Toshiba Corp. is preparing to export turbine equipment to the US.
The turbines are for Toshiba-owned Westinghouse Electric Company-designed AP1000 reactors proposed for sites in Georgia and South Carolina. As previously reported, the AP1000 is a new reactor design–a new design that has not yet officially been approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Still, the operators of the plants have already started to procure the equipment.
All of which raises the question, how is it that, in an age when credit is so hard to come by, an industry so focused on the bottom line feels secure in moving forward with commitments on a plan that is still officially going through the regulatory pipeline?
The assurances come from the top, and so does the money.
In contrast to pledges to, say, close Guantanamo or give Americans a public health insurance option, when it comes to nuclear power, Barack Obama is as good as his word. In February, Obama pledged $8.33 billion in federal loan guarantees to Southern Co., the operator of Georgia’s Plant Vogtle, the proposed home of two new AP1000 reactors. Again, this pledge came in advance of any approval of the design or licensing of the construction.
So, perhaps the nuclear industry is right to feel their “annus horribilis” is behind them, at least when it comes to their business plans. And with the all-too-common “privatize the profits, socialize the risks” way the utilities are allowed to do business, one might even doubt this last annus was really that horribilis for them at all.
But for the rest of us, the extant and potential problems of nuclear power are not limited to any particular period of time. The dangers of nuclear waste, of course, are measured in tens of thousands of years, the Fukushima crisis is lived by millions every minute, and the natural disasters, “events” and accidents that plague an aging, expensive and insufficiently regulated American nuclear industry are an anytime, anywhere reminder that future cannot be won by repeating the mistakes of the past.
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It’s been quite awhile since enthusiasts have been treated to a new carbon road bike from the folks at Cinelli, which has left many roadies wondering if the powers that be at the iconic Italian brand’s headquarters in Milan have been sitting on their culos all of this time. Well, the wonder might be over now that Cinelli has lifted the curtains on its latest disc brake, aero road bike called the Pressure.
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Kim Kardashian Remains ‘Incredibly Patient’ Amid Kanye’s Presidential Bid
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Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are continuing their work on their marriage in spite of the rapper’s presidential bid.
The couple continues to focus on their marriage after having a lot of friction after Kanye’s chaotic presidential rally and the events following that. It was recently reported that the rapper spent $6 million of his own money on his presidential campaign since launching it only two months ago.
However, Kim and Kanye are doing well according to sources, following concerns for the rapper’s health and the friction it caused in their marriage. Kanye is said to be in a better mental state.
An insider has revealed that the couple is doing and Kanye is doing well. However, the source also claims that their marriage does need work, but Kim is getting across to him. It was reported before that Kanye was shutting Kim out and refusing to see her rising concerns about his health. Sources revealed that now Kanye is not shutting her out and wants to be with his family.
The source also added that Kim is being incredibly patient and understanding about Kanye’s desire to run for president. “She just wants to get through the next few months peacefully. She is kind of standing back while Kanye does whatever makes him happy,” reveals the source.
The couple allegedly had friction because Kanye stays in Wyoming while Kim and the kids are in LA. However, both of them seem to be making an effort according to sources and they make time for each other during weekends.
The couple married six years ago and share four children together- North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm. The entire family was out in the Caribbeans for a trip together and the vacation was mainly to save their marriage.
‘It Has Been Hard For Kim To Think Clearly’
Meanwhile, an insider previously claimed Kanye had been self-isolating at his Wyoming property away from his wife and children before the Caribbean trip and ‘wants to live’ there. However, another source has revealed that Kanye was never living apart from Kim.
According to the source, Kim and Kanye are getting along and seem much happier. The information was revealed on August 9th after the family returned to Miami. The source also adds that it has been hard for Kim to think clearly amid kids, work, and dealing with Kanye’s bipolar episodes.
Kanye recently praised his mother-in-law, Kris Jenner on Twitter after returning back in America. This comes after he went on a Twitter rant about Kim and Kris. He said Kim was out of line and that he was trying to get divorced for years. However, he apologized to her on Twitter and thanked her for being loyal to him.
The rapper had called Kris, ‘Kris Jong-Un’ in his Twitter rant. Although, he recently tweeted, “My mother in law Kris Jenner … makes the best music playlist”.
During the Caribbean trip, The Sun reported Kim ‘offered to fully support a 2024 run for president if he got help and admitted to the political consultants they hired.’
However, the source also maintained that he denies budging from the idea of running this year, saying: “Kanye seems set on what he calls ‘God’s plan’ – that he becomes president. He’s saying it’s a higher calling.” Kanye West opened up in a podcast with Nick Cannon, ‘Cannon’s Class‘. The rapper reflected back to abortion and many more things.
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Kanye talked about his presidential campaign and also did not hold back while talking about his personal life, particularly the moment when Kim almost aborted daughter, North. He said for the people who were tearing him down for crying that because of South Carolina, many people have chosen to not abort.
The rapper recalled the time he broke down during his South Carolina rally raising concerns for his health. “And if they were on the fence about it, they never saw anyone in my position take that position and say, ‘Look at this. This is a 7-year-old right here. And she might have never made it here,’” he continued.
Kanye revealed that his father made him apologize for bringing this issue publicly. He said his father said that abortion culture teaches people that a child isn’t a real soul. The rapper revealed that it was Kim who said it is a soul. He said she had the pills, which was the scariest thing for him. He said you take the pills and the next day, the baby is gone.
According to Planned Parenthood, abortion pills Kanye refers to are a safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy. The medication combines two different medicines: mifepristone and misoprostol. However, where and when these medicines are available is dependent “upon state laws and your health center’s policies,” per Planned Parenthood.
Kanye caused quite a stir with his anti-abortion comments and his revelation of his personal life publicly. It especially affected his relationship with his wife, Kim.
The Kardashians took care of Kim and Kanye’s children while the couple sorted out their issues. Fortunately, they have worked things out and are doing much better. Things are settling between the couple, who have put their children as the priority.
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Cobb County Board of Education Chairman David Chastain (screenshot from the video proceedings of the board)
Posted By: Rebecca Gaunt October 3, 2019
[Update: The Cobb County School District responded to our inquiries for this article after the article was submitted, but before it was published. As editor I should have caught that and included the response in the article. I apologize to both readers and the Supt. Ragsdale for the oversight. The response is included at the bottom of the article — Larry Johnson]
Some faculty and parents, angry about the removal of board member comments from Cobb school board meetings, say it was done to silence the newest members of the board, Jaha Howard and Charisse Davis, for their willingness to address racism and equity issues in the county.
Cobb Board of Education member Jaha Howard (screenshot from video of board proceedings)
Jennifer Susko, a school counselor for CCSD, told the Courier that Howard and Davis are the only board members willing to address requests to hire a chief equity officer.
“Prior to the elections…when we spoke to the board regarding systemic racism or issues in schools involving bias or teaching that is not culturally responsive/sustaining, we were met by complete silence…As soon as Dr. Howard and Mrs. Davis started to respond to community and constituent concerns, precisely as they were elected to do, Mr. Chastain eliminated their opportunity to do so at board meetings,” Susko said.
Teacher Julie Masenthin said she was outraged by the decision. “Shutting down board members from speaking about what they hear and witness in their communities is akin to not only suppression, but oppression…Lest anyone be offended my use of the word oppression, you have only to attend to the racial divide across which these votes were made.”
Now that Davis has had time over the fall break to process the unexpected move, she calls it a turning point.
“You are silencing, essentially, half of your school board…and just as Mr. Chastain hears from people in his community who think the board comments are problematic, we hear from people all the time who want the county to acknowledge things that they are facing,” Davis said on the phone. ”I think it speaks to a larger issue of not accepting the new voices on the school board.”
Chair David Chastain opened the Sept. 19 work session discussion by saying he thinks the board “works as a team for the most part…but then we get to board comments…and that’s where I’d say we are not governing with excellence.”
He suggested doing away with the board member comments, adding that they can be made via other avenues such as social media. Board member David Banks followed by reading a motion to remove comments.
Cobb Board of Education member David Banks (screenshot from video of board proceedings)
Howard asked for examples of problematic comments, to which Chastain said they have moved away from school matters to politics, adding that he’s been concerned for a while. David Morgan suggested creating a policy to reign in the comments rather than do away with them all together, but Chastain responded that he wasn’t comfortable with the chair being arbiter of what’s appropriate.
Davis said, “We have board members who talk about football games and police officers around the country…I just find it very suspicious that at this point that we’re trying to reign in board comments when they’ve been going on all these years and the topics have been problematic.”
Randy Scamihorn, who often uses his time to recognize police officers around the country who’ve died in the line of duty, responded he was fine with doing away with comments. He also denied what he called “the accusation” that four members of the board had already discussed the issue, leaving out the other three, though the fact that Banks read his motion to remove comments from a prepared piece of paper has raised some eyebrows.
“This particular thing just showed up on the agenda with decisive ready-to-go action from people who typically aren’t very decisive, ready-to-go action…Four people are not surprised by this. Three people may be,” Howard said.
Morgan made a motion for an amendment that would have allowed for board comment to continue, but would have required the creation of a policy to govern content. It failed 4-3 with Morgan, Howard and Davis voting in favor, and Scamihorn, Wheeler, Banks and Chastain voting against it.
Howard then made a motion to table the discussion for one month to consider the issue. It also failed 4-3.
The tone became increasingly tense over the duration of the hour-and-a-half discussion until Howard made a motion that Chastain allow board members who make “good” comments to continue. Chastain responded that his motion was frivolous and called for the vote on the original motion. The 4-3 vote to remove comments fell again along party lines.
Julia Speer, a former CCSD teacher, said, “I think it’s absurd to say it’s a coincidence. The only reason it’s happening now is because they don’t like what’s going on in regard to people of color and shining a light on that specific topic.”
Speer, now retired, said she made multiple requests for diversity training without success. She also said she once set up a one-on-one meeting with Superintendent Chris Ragsdale, but learned he contacted her principal in advance of the meeting, which she called “unethical.”
“I think that speaks volumes – the fact that I was fearful and waited,” she said of her decision to wait until retirement to become more vocal.
Vice-Chair Brad Wheeler told the Courier he disagreed with the assertion that they were silencing dissenters. “All board members can speak on agenda items of board business/policies. They also may express their views on social media and conversations with others. There is an appropriate time and place for everything.”
Chastain responded, “There is no policy governing our board comments that have traditionally been held at the end of the meeting, and these comments were meant to be collegial and to identify and celebrate certain individuals or events in our different posts that we’d like people to know about. It’s not required by regulation to be included…no one is being censored. If any of our board members feel there’s a need to change, improve or write a new policy, the board meeting is when that can be brought up.”
At the Aug. 22 meeting during board member comments, Davis commented on Gwinnett County School’s hiring of a chief equity officer, saying “I really hope, as a district, we don’t get left behind in that conversation.
At the same meeting, Howard talked about the 1619 400-year-anniversary of slavery, the emotional effects of gun violence on students in reference to the El Paso and Dayton tragedies, and Cobb families living in the area affected by Sterigenics emissions of ethylene oxide.
Rob Madayag, a parent and attorney who has been vocal about bullying issues in the county, said, “This is how CCSD operates. Silence dissenters. Place head in sand. Act like nothing is wrong.”
A spokesperson for the Cobb County School District offered the following response to our questions.
“It’s important to the Superintendent to hear directly from staff and he makes himself available for one-on-one conversations often. As a staff member, Ms. Speer did reach out to the Superintendent on multiple occasions to share links to various art websites, to share “art”, and, in her most recent email from 2018, complimented the Superintendent’s ‘words and actions which speak to your (his) integrity and commitment.’ The District has no record of any requests or communication similar to what you’ve described.”
Previous meetings are available for streaming here.
Rebecca Gaunt earned a degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in education from Oglethorpe University. After teaching elementary school for several years, she returned to writing. She lives in Marietta with her husband, son, two cats, and a dog. In her spare time, she loves to read, binge Netflix and travel.
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5 Comments on "Updated: Racism cited as factor in Cobb BOE’s decision to stifle board comments"
A Teacher | October 3, 2019 at 4:53 pm | Reply
Just because you have an extremely vocal few people in the county who have gotten together to try and politicize our school board to the nth degree to boost their own “activist careers” does not mean the small mob gets to determine the standard operations of our billion dollar district. There are more silent majority voices who do NOT WANT national politics, social justice posturing and other extreme drama wasting the time at school board meetings or anywhere else. The board voted and the vote holds. If these few activists don’t like it, they should go ahead and run some other candidates. Calling “racism” all the time has run its course. We simply do not care. This school board was running just fine for years without Mr. Yaha and Miss Charisse.
Wendy Lockman | October 5, 2019 at 7:13 pm | Reply
Which is exactly what we are fighting against. We will not be silenced and there are more of us than you know.
Mrs. Ramsay | October 3, 2019 at 4:57 pm | Reply
A few mob-mentality activists trying to boost their own political careers by using our school district cannot just come in and start yelling unfounded accusations based on hearsay and a few isolated incidents. The cry of “racism” has run its course. We simply do not care any more. STOP politicizing our schools and our kids. Disgruntled teachers and new board members who didn’t even realize Smyrna schools were in the Cobb district just a couple months ago have no business trying to override a vote. It’s done. Ha, if this was an election, you’d say it was illigitimate. Democrats are the sorest losers in the world.
Larry King | October 3, 2019 at 10:26 pm | Reply
The issues of equity, race, and academic performance associated with the lack of diversity among CCSD teachers is precisely what was discussed and the NAACP meeting in 2017. Superintends refused to discuss it and the MDJ attempted to misrepresent it. The GOP members of the school board who by coincidence happen to be white cannot accept change and is attempted to retard progress.
Trevon Williams | October 4, 2019 at 8:04 am | Reply
Ridiculous. The author obviously has an axe to grind. Did she not ask the District for comment on this hit piece? Seems odd that she would simply take the word of a few obviously biased activists without asking the District for comment. Or did she do this on purpose because getting a comment from the District might have ruined her narrative? The Courier should be ashamed of publishing this drivel.
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A 21-year-old aspiring photographer has inspired Filipinos with his DIY home fashion shoots, where he used cheap and easily available props.
Alfred Acenas, a college student from Isabela province, attracted the public’s attention and his inspiration, photographer BJ Pascual, when several of his images went viral.
In the photos, Acenas’ nieces use objects such as a Christmas tree, fruits, flowers, and even a hen. He told Coconuts Manila in an interview that the images are his way of expressing his creativity.
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“I know that by taking these photos, I can showcase my ideas. I also want to share my skills and talents whenever I take these photos,” he said.
“I conceptualize the shoots each night, and before I sleep, I think and plan them carefully to decide on what [props] I should use. I want to be creative; that’s why I use household items,” Acenas said.
Pascual has always been his inspiration, he said, but he admits that financial constraints make it impossible for him to mount expensive shoots. He uses a Huawei Y6p, an iPhone 6 plus, and his cousin’s Samsung phone to take photos.
“I want to create his shots, but I don’t have the money to buy props, so I just use the stuff at home,” he said. “I plan to buy a DSLR, but I don’t have money right now. If I had the money, I would buy something more important, so I just use my cellphones.”
Acenas is happy that his work has gained online traction and that even Pascual has posted supportive messages on Facebook.
“I want to cry sometimes because I never thought this would happen. I want to cry out of happiness because BJ Pascual noticed me, and I’m even more glad that people appreciate my work, not just here in the Philippines but also people abroad,” he said.
Acenas, an education major at the Isabela State University, said he intends to become a Filipino teacher and a professional photographer after graduation.
“I really want to become a teacher someday. I really love photography; that’s why I’m studying everything related to this profession. I will become [a teacher and photographer] at the same time,” he said.
Do you anyone who is pursuing his passion despite financial obstacles? Tell us about them by leaving a comment below or tweeting to @CoconutsManila.
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At MTV's Video Music Awards on Sunday night, Twitter gave a select group of celebrities a sneak-peek of its unreleased photo and video editing tools. Is the move indicative of a forthcoming Instagram-like mobile app?
Facebook's leap into social photography via its purchase of Instagram three years ago has certainly served the platform well. And while the image-sharing platform is predicted to claim a big slice of the visual pie in terms of ad revenue, Twitter does not want to fall behind. The micro-blogging platform is rumored to be adding visual features too.
At MTV's Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Sunday night, Twitter gave a select group of celebrities, including Taylor Swift and Pharrell Williams, access to the platform's unreleased photo and video editing tools. Although Twitter hasn't yet officially unveiled any visual capabilities, a source close to the company tells ClickZ that the platform wanted to try something new with its "closest partners." Therefore Twitter provided some popstars with a few advanced photo capabilities for the evening of the VMAs to see how people would react. If the company's visual tools were not well-received by the partners, the company would scrap them, says the source.
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— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 31, 2015
If Twitter does deem the visual tools a success it could integrate them as an extension of its mobile app. Or, according to some industry participants, the company could also try to rival Instagram by creating its own photo/video-sharing app.
"I wouldn't be surprised if it's a stand-alone app. Obviously Facebook has specific apps for celebrities so Twitter might be moving to that direction as well," says Azher Ahmed, senior vice president and director of digital operations at DDB Chicago.
"Facebook is good at leaving (Read more...) acquisitions like Instagram to work as a stand-alone brand, while simultaneously being very careful about how to bring traffic back to the platform. I don't know if Twitter is taking a similar approach. It would be interesting to see," he adds.
Others believe that the development of Instagram-like visual tools by Twitter is an inevitable development of an evolving social media landscape.
"As the industry continues to see increasing amounts of competition and tension between platforms and companies, it is only natural to try to expand features and benefits. Only time can tell whether or not these are successful - it's a very tough balance to strike," says Michael Mulvey, creative director at ad platform RadiumOne, adding that Facebook's attempted implementation of a Twitter-like short-post format in 2009 was very short-lived.
For a social media platform to be successful to marketers it needs to understand how they use and view it and how they interact with consumers through it.
"This is more important than just following suit," says Mulvey. "If a platform deviates too much from its core use cases by adding irrelevant features, it will confuse and anger loyal users", he adds.
For Twitter specifically, Mulvey believes that its current live streaming service Periscope is a better fit than Instagram-like visual tools.
"When Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012, it equipped itself to compete with Twitter. Similarly, Twitter saw an opportunity to own live video streaming as well as make Meerkat redundant, when it launched Periscope in early 2015. This is a much more complementary feature than image editing, because it's tied directly to Twitter as a platform of immediacy. I'd be willing to bet many hardcore Twitter users and marketers don't even know of the app's image-editing abilities," Mulvey says.
But Tom Edwards, chief digital officer at marketing agency Epsilon, holds a different view. He thinks that visual tools can help Twitter grab the attention of millennial users who have grown accustomed to customizing their messages with ephemeral social platforms like Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.
"The evolution from text-speak to visual language is key for Twitter to capitalize upon to remain relevant, especially considering that globally messaging applications are the primary engagement drivers and predicted to outperform email," Edwards says.
As Twitter continues to take steps like adding custom emojis and hashtags as its way of amping up visually contextual content, only time will tell if incorporating additional Instagram-like capabilities will be a success or failure. One thing's for sure, it will definitely provide marketers with an additional avenue to visually illustrate their brand messages and expand beyond the 140 character limit. Whether marketers will care or not is a different question!
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Threatened by Facebook Disinformation, a Monk Flees Cambodia
ByNeo Larrison
BANGKOK — In just 4 days, the popularity of a Buddhist monk who had invested decades fighting for the human rights of Cambodians was destroyed.
Initial, grainy video clips appeared on a fake Facebook web page, claiming that he had slept with 3 sisters and their mom. Then a government-managed religious council defrocked the monk for possessing violated Buddhist precepts of celibacy. Fearing imminent arrest, the monk fled Cambodia, destined for a lifestyle in exile, like so several people today who have stood up to Asia’s longest-governing leader.
The monk, Luon Sovath, was the victim of a smear campaign this summer time that relied on fake claims and hastily assembled social media accounts built to discredit an outspoken critic of the country’s authoritarian policies. A New York Occasions investigation located proof that government staff members had been concerned in the creation and posting of the video clips on Facebook.
His downfall exhibits how repressive governments can move with amazing velocity to disgrace their opponents, making use of social media and technologies to amplify their divisive campaigns. Beneath Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Cambodian government has repeatedly employed falsified Facebook posts or manipulated audio to defame and imprison politicians, activists and other human rights defenders.
Facebook has come beneath fire in the United States for disseminating dislike speech and disinformation. It has been criticized for failing to detect Russian influence in the 2016 election, offering a platform for political conspiracy theories and permitting false claims about the coronavirus to proliferate.
But its influence is even higher in spots like Cambodia, exactly where the social media platform is the only digital interface for hundreds of thousands of people today. Considering the fact that civil liberties are generally constricted in this kind of nations, Facebook can be a highly effective device for autocrats to bolster their grip on the state, even as it offers a uncommon room for absolutely free expression and activism.
Through his almost 35-12 months rule, Mr. Hun Sen — a onetime soldier for the genocidal Khmer Rouge and now an enthusiastic Facebook consumer — has decimated Cambodia’s political opposition. He has cozied up to China, eschewing help from the West that was conditioned on bettering human rights. Several large-profile activists and opposition politicians have been assassinated in excess of the many years, their instances hardly ever investigated appropriately.
As scandals proliferate on its platform, Facebook has been criticized for remaining also slow in getting rid of problematic accounts and pages, several fake. It took virtually a month for Facebook to get down the web page on which the video clips smearing the Cambodian monk very first aired.
“As a organization, you would believe they would want to be a lot more vigilant and not let their platform to be misused,” mentioned Naly Pilorge, the director of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. “Facebook’s response has been like small drops from a sink, so late and so small.”
In a statement to The Occasions about Mr. Luon Sovath’s situation, Facebook mentioned that it had developed up a crew in Cambodia to far better check the area predicament.
“We identify the significant position that Facebook plays in enabling expression in Cambodia,” the organization mentioned. “We want people today to really feel safe and sound when they are making use of our platform, which is why we get reviews of impersonation and other violations of our local community specifications significantly.”
Final month, Mr. Luon Sovath, who is now in Switzerland following getting a humanitarian visa, was charged in absentia by prosecutors in Siem Reap Province with raping one particular of the sisters, escalating the accusations in the video clips.
The intercourse expenses towards Mr. Luon Sovath, one particular of Cambodia’s most celebrated activist monks, went viral. Copies of the video clips, which purported to present Facebook Messenger calls involving the monk and some of the females, had been shared broadly on the social media platform.
He has denied the rape expenses, along with accusations that he had sexual relations with any of the females.
Clues in the video clips, uncovered by The Occasions, also undercut the claims.
An evaluation located split-2nd footage in which vital personalized facts of two government staff members briefly flashes onscreen. The staff members get the job done for the Press and Brief Response Unit, a propaganda arm of the Cambodian cabinet.
The video clips had been uploaded on a Facebook web page that assumed the identity of one particular of the sisters, Tim Ratha, who denied each ownership of the web page and any sexual partnership with the monk. The web page was made the day the video clips had been posted and lifted images from the sister’s serious Facebook account.
A fake Facebook account in the monk’s title was also linked to the video clips. It, also, stole pictures from Mr. Luon Sovath’s serious account and was established one particular day in advance of the video clips came out.
Whilst the Facebook web page has been taken down, the video clips are even now circulating. The two government staff members linked to the manufacturing of the video clips continue to be on Facebook, posting makeup recommendations and animal memes on their timelines.
“We know that Facebook will side with repressive regimes if their bottom line is impacted by freedom-of-expression problems,” mentioned Michael Caster, a human rights researcher who has studied technologies use in authoritarian nations.
In some building nations, the Silicon Valley company’s influence is outsized since smartphone consumers searching for inexpensive digital packages depend on its merchandise as their sole supply of facts on the web.
The dependence can be deadly. In Myanmar, military-linked Facebook accounts inflamed hatred of the Rohingya amid the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim ethnic group. Detest speech circulating on WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, fueled anti-Muslim mobs in India.
Incendiary rumors about minority Muslims in Sri Lanka spread unchecked on Facebook, primary to fatal riots in 2018. Earlier this 12 months, Facebook apologized for its position in the Sri Lanka violence.
In May well, Facebook launched the findings of independent human rights assessments carried out in many nations, which include Cambodia. Facebook acknowledged that freedom of expression was “severely restricted” in Cambodia and that human rights defenders had been jailed for views expressed on social media.
“The facts setting was dominated by misinformation and rumor,” Facebook mentioned in a summary of the report. “This was exacerbated by state management of the media and cyberwarfare methods, and compounded by minimal digital literacy.”
Facebook mentioned that it had almost tripled its human material moderators in Cambodia, despite the fact that it would not say how several people today worked in Khmer, the area language. Concerning January and March, Facebook mentioned it took down one.seven billion fake accounts throughout the world.
But none of the tripwires seem to have been triggered in the situation of the monk, even as his fate was front-web page information in the government-managed media. More than the many years, Mr. Luon Sovath mentioned, he has been the repeated victim of fake Facebook accounts set up in his title and reported them to the organization.
“I want to say to Facebook, you really should assistance to restore and defend human rights and democracy in Cambodia,” Mr. Luon Sovath mentioned.
Mr. Luon Sovath, 42, was ordained as a monk at twelve many years outdated. As government repression proliferated beneath Mr. Hun Sen, the monk started preaching human rights from his pagoda.
Whilst politicians and activists who spoke up towards Mr. Hun Sen’s government had been jailed, exiled or even killed, Mr. Luon Sovath appeared to be protected by his saffron-hued robes.
But in elections two many years in the past, the governing Cambodian People’s Celebration won every single seat in Parliament following the major opposition celebration was disbanded and its leader imprisoned. The independent information media was eviscerated.
Mr. Luon Sovath mentioned he knew he was residing on borrowed time.
“They went following opposition politicians, N.G.O.s, human rights activists, and now it comes to my flip,” he mentioned.
On May well thirty, 4 video clips appeared on a Facebook web page that had been set up earlier in the day. The web page masqueraded as that of Ms. Tim Ratha, a thirty-12 months-outdated nurse whose relatives has a home and grocery retailer across the street from the monk’s pagoda.
“He is a excellent and respectful monk,” Ms. Tim Ratha mentioned in an interview.
Shortly following the video clips appeared on Facebook, the police in Siem Reap demanded Ms. Tim Ratha report to the station at evening, she mentioned.
Their concerns had been speedy-fire and intimidating, she mentioned. Why would you have a sexual partnership with a monk, with your sisters and mom no much less? What is your Facebook password? That is your cell phone, is not it?
Ms. Tim Ratha denied every thing, even as her voice was shaking from dread, she recalled.
“We are just victims,” she mentioned. “We did not commit anything at all incorrect.”
The 4 video clips consist of absolutely nothing a lot more than fuzzy footage of smartphones with the monk’s fake Facebook profile on the screens. Audio appears to emanate from the phones, as if he is chatting with the females on Messenger.
At two factors the video clips go off script. In one particular instance, the thumb holding the cell phone slips for much less than a 2nd and pulls up a listing of Facebook Messenger pals.
Two are brothers of Yeng Sreypoch, one particular of the staff members of the Press and Brief Response Unit. One more is her relative and two a lot more are pals from her hometown.
In a different video, an on the web notification from Telegram, the messaging application, seems for a minute, delivered to an account consumer named “sopheapm.” That title is employed on Telegram by Miech Sopheap, the other worker.
Ms. Miech Sopheap and Ms. Yeng Sreypoch declined repeated requests for comment. They are two of the 3 “friends” of the fake Facebook account in Mr. Luon Sovath’s title.
Tith Sothea, the head of the unit, mentioned in a statement that his workplace had absolutely nothing to do with the video clips.
“I fervently deny the allegation and the smearing, fabricating,” he mentioned, “that the Press and Brief Response Unit set up a Facebook to submit alleged video clips.”
When Mr. Tith Sothea took up his occupation in 2018, area information media mentioned his unit was to “carry out media get the job done and react to material with a adverse character coming from nationwide and global media.”
The Press and Brief Response Unit employs a “cyber war crew.”
Facebook mentioned that it took down the fake web page exactly where the video clips appeared on June 27, following a trusted companion reported its existence. Human Rights View acknowledged it was that companion.
At first, Facebook mentioned that it had punished the creator of the fake Facebook web page by getting rid of the administrator’s account. Right after The Occasions pointed out that there had been two other administrators of the web page, Facebook mentioned that their accounts had been suspended pending even more verification.
The conversations in the video clips are purportedly involving Mr. Luon Sovath and Ms. Tim Ratha or Som Bopha, her mom. There are a handful of sexually suggestive references, which include an aside about licking.
The monk and the two females mentioned that some of the audio is from cell phone conversations they had. But they say that these chats had been edited in a misleading way. The passage about licking, Ms. Tim Ratha mentioned, referred to an expression of affection from her puppy.
And there are other elements of the audio, all 3 mentioned, that are not them at all, this kind of as references to particular sexual encounters.
“How can a mom and her daughters do this kind of a factor with the identical monk,” mentioned Ms. Som Bopha, Ms. Tim Ratha’s mom. “It is unattainable.”
The 3 people today say they do not know how their personal cell phone conversations went public. Human rights groups say that the Cambodian authorities often harvest cell phone conversations with out people’s know-how. Tapped or manipulated audio has been employed in Cambodian courts to convict the government’s critics.
Ms. Tim Ratha mentioned that a pal of hers reported the fake web page to Facebook many instances in excess of many days. Ms. Pilorge, of the human rights group, mentioned her colleagues filed equivalent complaints. Facebook mentioned that they did not obtain a single consumer report questioning the veracity of the web page.
In Switzerland, Mr. Luon Sovath mentioned he was adjusting to lifestyle in exile. His thin monastic robes are enough for summer time, but when the snows come his tropical inner thermostat will have to alter, he mentioned. He keeps to a Buddhist monk’s routine, fasting following noon and meditating.
“I want to go dwelling,” he mentioned. “But I had no decision to run away from my nation and turn out to be a refugee.”
Sun Narin reported from Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Posted by Maria Krisette Capati 玛丽亚 | Feb 4, 2016 | CSW Conferences, News | 0
What the crowds can achieve, the mind can’t immutably conceive. Why? Because the opportunities from the crowds, emerging technologies, and Internet of Things are infinite. From centralized to decentralized to distributed networks, the Internet has immensely eradicated borders and barriers, connecting you to the 5P’s – people, product, platform, purpose, and participation – that truly resonate with you and spark the “innovative You.”
At Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016, learn from these initiators and disruptors as they share fascinating and mind-blowing insights via keynote presentations on how crowd-powered networks and investments are making an impact and what’s in store in the future. You will learn more about citizen engagement, crowd intelligence, and crowdfunding principles from these confirmed speakers from Traity, Minivation, The Things Network and Etherex.
Juan Cartagena, CEO, Traity
How have human social patterns changed as the trust between people changed? What’s the future impact on our society when networks of trust get leveraged?
Juan will discuss the networks of trust and its impact on our society in the future. He is the Founder of Traity.com, backed Li Ka-Shing´s Horizons Ventures, Active Venture Partners, Schindler&Schindler, BDMI, Lanta, Seedcamp and 500Startups, and with a team of spectacular people. His company’s mission is to help create a world where we can trust one another for any digital transactions, from sharing cars to online dating. His previous experience includes strategy, private equity, product management and performance management in ITC. MBA from Chicago Booth with High Honors, but still an Electrical Engineer inside.
Wienke Giezman, Initiator, The Things Network
How did The Things Network develop a global crowdsourced Internet of Things data network in 6 months?
Do you want to know the secret? Learn from the serial entrepreneur, Wienke Giezeman. Having sold his previous company in the media industry, he is now entering the IoT market with open, decentralized, and crowdsourced Internet of Things network.
Chris Buckingham, Researcher, Minivation
What main issues arise when managing a crowdfunding campaign? How best to tackle these questions?
Chris’ time is divided between his research at the University of Southampton, applying serious games to crowdfunding, while also writing various articles, books and papers on this and related topics. He is an international speaker on these subjects and is a guest lecturer at several universities. His interest in crowdfunding started in 2006 when he first discovered peer-to-peer consumer lending and then Kiva.org, a site dedicated to lending money to majority world entrepreneurs. This encouraged him to learn more and soon; he was helping his first clients create their campaigns. His latest book, Crowdfunding Intelligence, is a reflection of best practice when building a sound crowdfunding strategy.
Sarah Flood, Acting CEO, Ethex
Is it possible to make money and do good? How can you investing and save positively?
For close to fifteen years Sarah has been delivering policy and practice to help the social economy and civil society sector thrive. She has worked with social investors, co-operatives, social enterprises and voluntary and community organizations, all with a focus on how finance can create social good. She is an investor in and Chair of Cultivate Oxford, a not-for-profit social enterprise bringing fresh, local, organically-grown food direct from farmers to the city. Prior to joining Ethex, she worked at one of the largest social investment organizations in this country, The Social Investment Business, where she was exploring new investment products and supporting new program development. Between 2008-2010, while at the Plunkett Foundation, she led Defra’s Social Enterprise Strategic Partnership and helped to secure funding for community-owned shops and rural transport social enterprises. She has also worked for NCVO’s pioneering Sustainable Funding Project and for New Philanthropy Capital.
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Listed below are a series of articles and Internet sites which reference Frantisek Zdrubek, first editor of the Svornost (first daily Czech language newspaper in the United States) and the man who played a central role in the creation of the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago.
This is a rudimentary translation of the article describing the life and activities of Frantisek Zdrubek. It appeared in the 1913 Kalendar, a publication of August Geringer in Chicago. (Translation through Google Translate, decent, but not perfect)
The day of September 14, 1911, recorded in mourning letters will remain forever in the history of Czech America. On that day all the freedoms of love lured Czechs in America over the corpse of their greatest leader. The day he took Czech America the man of the immortal spirit and the golden heart of the man he is in every nation in the picture.
František Boleslav Zdrůbek, writer, editor and speaker, founder died
On Monday, September 1, Mr. Zdrůbek was still in the editorial office, where he goes daily for an hour. At noon, shortly after he returned home, he dropped to the ground, wounded by a stroke, then lived for 63 hours but in complete unconsciousness, and his death was like falling asleep. So he always wanted to die.
František Boleslav Zdrůbek was born on July 26, 1842 in Bezdědice near Hostomice in the Prague region. When he was two years old, they moved to Hostomice, where little Francis had careful upbringing under the guidance of his mother and father. Careful father, though poor, he took care of the good manners of his son, and before he became mature for school, he taught him to read and write, so that the little boy that since the earliest youth he had shown great understanding already in the fourth year he had read to his father from a book. Later he was held by his father, a man very pious for reading the Bible. Outside it got to the guy mainly reading historical content the father evolved into a boy base of religious direction. By eleven in his age, František attended general school. Then his parents they moved to Prague, and the boy was taken from his uncle's advice, from school and put in a net making trade. He began to learn the craft in Karlin, but when his uncle went bankrupt after six months, he went to school again at the parish school at Saint Haštala.
From that he later transferred to the main school at St. James and from there only as the 13 year old boy at the Old Town Gymnasium his mother and his two sisters and his father with five other kids, mostly boys, the family moved back to Hostomice, leaving František in Prague alone and also as self-reliant. The diligent boy stayed in schools with the support of friends and by teaching smaller pupils.
The direction of his upbringing was religious, and it's no wonder the sixth class entered young Zdrůbek into the monastery of merciful brothers of observation in Graz. He was brought here only by circumstances and monastic experience to think deeper about religious things, but awakening to be aware that one has to think independently and not all that is it was given to him as truth to be accepted as the truth, it surpassed him in a timely manner faith and evoked inward resistance to empty rites. Only, listening to new voices inside, he stepped out of the monastery, feeling with my own. He returned to the gymnasium in Prague and studied seventh and the eighth grade under great difficulty and terrible hardship. Then again the desire for a thorough knowledge of everyone began to awaken in him he listened to those unknown and mysterious things that religion tells us one year of Catholic divinity in Prague, but did not find it satisfaction.
Meanwhile, he met some Protestant theologians and hoping to find better satisfaction and a cleaner source of knowledge among Protestants, transferred to Helvetian confession and went to Basel, Switzerland, where he was accepted as a student of the local university. As an advanced theologian, he went to America in 1867 to serve the spiritual needs of Czechoslovaks.
As a supporter of free exploration of religious doctrines, he conceived his mission in the broadest sense, and went to America to become counselor and servant of the people to whom he is appointed spiritual leader. Therefore also, when he received the ordination of the Reformed Church on October 18, 1867, he rejected two German ones the churches that were offered to him and instead settled in Caledonia near Racine, Wisconsin to serve the two churches of the Czech-Moravian brothers he established, one in Caledonia and the other in Chicago. He traveled to Chicago every fourteen days. For that he had a small salary, barely enough to make a living, $I30 per year from each of the two churches.
His principle was to preach the purity of morals and love, sincerity in everything negotiations and national notices. He did not hesitate to rule out the principles of the doctrine those that did not compare to his views of the world. He tried, if possible, to
reconcile science with religion, but where it was not possible, clinging to science, it
is fact. Through such an activity he gained many friends and admirers, but also many enemies among those churchmen who weren't open to previews looser. But disregarded, Zdrůbek continued his activities. Restored in Caledonia Czech school and over the winter taught in it mother tongue and Czech singing. When Charles Jonas founded the freelancer in Chicago magazine "Progress", Zdrůbek became a contributor and when the magazine moved to Racine, he became editor. But before that, he had to his friends overwhelm the innate resistance to public life. It was Zdrůbek a silent worker, moving away from the noisy rush of life, not participating he liked pomp, and he remained like this all his life. If we see here after all, somewhere in front of the public, sometimes even standing At the forefront of the whole movement, we know that he has done so only in the necessary good interest things he struggled to sacrifice for his natural affections.
Taking over the magazine's editorial he stopped traveling to Chicago, staying on dutyat the Caledonian church. At that time the young worker got married. His friend, a former classmate, V. J. Sládek, well-known poet, later professor, he brought with him his trip to America Zdrubek's fiancée from Prague, Linda Raišl. The very same day when the forthcoming Mrs. Zdrůbková she arrived in Racine. On August 14, 1868, the marriage they celebrated was celebrated almost all the people there, In his bride Zdrůbek got a conscious, deeply educated woman, an enthusiastic patriot who participated in federal and public life, as long as her health allowed her, and Mrs. Zdrůbková gave her husband a total of five children, but four died at an early age and only one son, Julius Zdrůbek, is alive
Forever eternity was preceded by Mrs. Zdrůbková by her husband by six years. To her expressly wishing her corpse was burned and the ashes stored in a special a tombstone in the Czech-National cemetery, where also left a place for her husband's ashes.
When the paper "Progress" (spelled Pokrok) moved from Racine to Cedar Rapids and from there to Cleveland. (Zdrubek moved with the paper). In Cedar Rapids helped as a member Readers' Association to build the National Hall, and for some time managed amateur theatre.
There he also performed a great deed that will always be recorded in history Czech-American libertarians and Czech free ideas at all, found with the help of Boleslav Trojan, an enthusiastic worker for freedom and the Truth "The Unity of the Freedom To Unity (Free Thinkers Assoication) applied for immediately 30 Czech municipalities in different countries (states). In Cleveland, editor Zdrůbek had a trial with Czech priest Řepiš, in which he had a grievous opportunity to identify the weaknesses of the character of some of the nation.
Defeated, but not deprived of his appetite for work, left in October 1871 to Prague. He stayed there, but only 4 months and on January 26 he was back again to America, via Spain, Cuba and New Orleans to Texas. He worked at the "Houston Daily Times" as a typesetter, which work was done while editing previously learned. Then he received a call from the Czech settlement in Veselý, Austin County., for teachers' and preacher of the Czech-Moravian Brethren congregation. He arranged Czech-English school with 80 children and preached in the sense of free-thinking morality.
There he and his wife experienced many diseases. Next to the profession his compiled the New English Grammar, published in 1874 by Mr. Aug. Geringer Press in Chicago. In August 1874, Mr. E. Rosewater, publisher of the "Progress of the West", offered him the editor of the paper vacated by the departure of Mr. V. Šnajdr. He received it and arrived on September 15 via St. St. Louis to Omaha. He founded it next to editing the sheet
"Matrix of Liberty", which he published 5 books and wrote "First book for schools
American,"
It was in May 1875 when he came to Omaha to visit Chicago his friends here in Caledonia and Racine, and was also going to Milwaukee captivity. He stopped at Aug. Geringer, and he signed up for his companion on the road and they left happily together. Along the way, they discussed the need for a progressive one Czech magazine in Chicago. Mr. Geringer said he was clogging have long wished to publish a magazine as perfect and freedom as possible serving honestly if he only had someone to guide him in that spirit consistently and tirelessly. Aug. Geringer was ready to try to make it profit Zdrůbka a helper. Zdrůbek acknowledging that he could not do so in Omaha to work profusely and freely for nationality and free-thinking as if it were it was possible in the American Guild Center, Chicago, and that it would be mine through his service, he could benefit more from national and free development than he did further west, and that there is a better opportunity for the rich to self-education the city libraries, he promised that Geringer’s wish would come true, that he couldn't expect a profitable position with him in Omaha. He took the place of less profitable and larger work requiring young people to be to exert their forces in the work of merit, expressing the desire that he should be 'to do something to be the best, namely the first Czech daily, which however, Geringer was reluctant to promise, fearing, that his powers would not be enough. Zdrůbek arrived with his family in Chicago on 15 September 1875. Now it really did, if it was to be a weekly, as Geringer wanted, or a dialy, as Zdrůbek wanted. Most friends of both businessmen were also in favor dialy. Enthusiasm for the matter, young power-Geringer and Zdrůbek were equally old, just 6 days from self-entrepreneurship on one side and perseverance on the other side, all of this was taken into account and decided. Immediately started in the printing house with preparations for the first Czech daily newspaper in America. Zdrůbek wrote a reading, collecting announcements for the first number and began to bet. The daily newspaper was named c, Svornost ", and a weekly "American".
Great worry, work, get started. The publisher took the family savings of $1500 accumulated hardworking for six years of hard work together they saved. He bought fonts, supplies, molds, boats, paper, and more it is needed in the printer if it was not already in the "job" printer. The first issue of the first Czech daily in America was published on 8 October 1875, second 12, and third 15, October, then continued when all the workers they got used to the work and 'could sort it out, except on Sundays.
And since then, Mr. Zdrůbek has remained in the editorship of "Svornost" and "American" "as the chief editor and the advances that the paper has since witnessed, that he was a man walking with the spirit of the times. Hard times were from the beginning and after many more years to endure the publisher and the editor who initially catered all the editorial work alone, he went through all the trouble with him. But they tolerated it all determinedly, always following the means of honest ways, in consciousness that the righteous thing must prevail. But it took years and hair
on their once exuberant heads they began to lash out before being devoted and determined men worked out other rewards for their hard work than they did they were internally satisfied.
Not long after the founding of Svornosti gave Zdrůbkem founded Svobodna Obec "Free The municipality "to record at the state offices as a religious organization of free minds and elected its founder as chairman and speaker. In this the office in which he was entrusted with the right to indulge in law, remained Mr. Zdrůbek until his death. The Free Municipality loses in him the man who was her soul. He did not require any fees for his services, on the contrary, where it was even though he has contributed. .
As the executor of various necessary ceremonies, such as indulgence, speeches at he always left the will, name and so on to everyone who was his He wanted to replace time, and gave something to the poor rather than pay them took. He proclaimed good and generosity not only in words but also in deeds. But in this gentle, good-natured nature, he was intrepid, firm, indeed a hard and stubborn fighter for the ideas he considered correct, especially for freedom of thought. He resolutely challenged his adversaries and often ruthlessly.
On 17 and 19 April 1877 he organized two public religious debates with the militant and eloquent priest at St. Prokop in Chicago, Father William Čoku. Czech-American historians often doubt that it would be the debates had some positive outcome that it would be one or the other the speaker convinced the other party. Even if they are right, it is undeniable, that the agenda was delimited and in some words marked in the debate
then a free-minded party among Czech-Americans and that public debate they to the self-confident and open behavior of unbelievers and the unification of the free-mindednoticeably contributed.
It should also be remembered that Mr. Zdrůbek was one of the main founders of our National Cemetery and that it was he who put the first proposal on its establishment. In a lecture held in the hall of Gymnasium Jednota Sokol on 7, January 1877 spoke of the need for a national cemetery for the Czechs and since then the idea was worked with his help until it was actually done. It would be endless to list all the merits of the man who gave us left for an empire from which there is no return. Let's discuss the history of the Czechs of America, almost from their beginnings and everywhere we meet his name and we find work everywhere beside his name.
In his private life, Mr. Zdrůbek was a model of a man of silence, a gentle one who never hurt anyone by saying anything, he had a benevolent word and a friendly face for everyone. He loved his small family with all my soul, and it's been since the death of his wife, until finally on January 8, 1906, she died, dated the apparent decline in his state of health. It's been four years since he got so serious, that there was doubt about his healing. But the otherwise strong body system has overcome the malignant disease and will keep it for the next few years. But he had to save himself and be careful.
He has seen an age not far from seventy when a man has no regret to be He says goodbye to the world, and his death was quiet, calm, as death is called just. All his Czech-American papers brought reports on his death his merits and namely his nice nature. The news of his death was also wired by the Czech-American Press Office to Prague's magazines. The grieving survivors received a large number of condolences from all sides of the United States.
Freelancer Chicago 'sent out to her leader and teacher on 17 September a funeral over which the more famous and dignified Czech Chicago has not yet seen. The funeral took place from the hall of the Czech-English Free School, where the deceased so often yelled, in the middle of an entire grove of flowers and daisy all was placed before a stage of a coffin with the remains of the deceased when the hall doors opened, so that the audience can enter. Members of the Free Community in full they stood by the guard of honor and looked after, about order in the hall. Audience entering the main entrance, stopping at the coffin 'and leaving the exit lateral. The moving moments were when the children came in the procession of their teacher from various free-thinking schools, some of which laid palms on the coffin with ribbons. The hall was filled to the last spot. The movement was obvious faces of all. All eyes fixed on the coffin with the coffin when half past at twelve, the hall was silent at first; then more and more intensifying but soft sounds funeral songs of Czech-American singing quartet.
After that, the President of the Lincoln Order No. 52 CSPS spoke. Mr. Frank J. Nadnerny and read one of the speeches that was 'dead' for CSPS orders. Goodbye with the dead members he wrote and 'which fit entirely with this mournful event.
And it stood at the coffin speaker of the Religious Religious Society M. M. Mangasarian, a free-thinking philosopher of the name of the world who considered American He came to pay homage to the memory of the late Comrade and say goodbye with him. Mr. Mangasarian, also an already white-haired man, over whose head he too many bitter trials and adversity passed on, spoken in English a speech that trembled deeply within those who understood it. It was words spilling out of the heart of compassionate, aware of the loss, already Czech-American the liberators suffered.
An old friend of the deceased, L. J. Palda, who deliberately, although ill, came from
Cedar Rapids say goodbye to a dear friend, a voice trembling, several times in a vainly suppressed sobbing, he spoke of the personal the qualities, merit and difficult life experiences of the deceased.
For the publishers of "Svornosti" and "Amerikán" as well as for the editors of both
for their readers who were not otherwise represented at the funeral, spoke Editor R. Jaromír Pšenka. Then, on behalf of the Free Community, of which the deceased was founder and for the duration of the chairman and speaker, spoke Dr. Frantisek. Iška.
Another speaker was Dr. Salaba Vojan, who spoke over the coffin of space
Czech-American journalism on behalf of the Czech-American press, all of the deceased's colleagues. for Sokol Slov. Lipa, whose church was the deceased founder and for many years an honorary member, spoke the words of farewell br. Zárobský, and ceremonies in the hall ended with singing of the Czech-American Quartet, who chose a suitable song for this occasion: "Who's burning for the truth in holy enthusiasm, "and while those present came out of the hall, moving away around her coffin, two of her stanzas with a fervent sensation.
The procession, which went after the assembly from the School to 18th Street to Ashland Avenue, was touchingly impressive. Thousands of people lined the sidewalks of 18th Street, the same street along which the deceased so often went to "School" to meet and lectures.
In front of the procession, there were children from Czech liberal schools in procession of their teachers. The girls were dressed in white dresses with mourning straps on his arms. For a long line of school children and beyond the carriages with flowers walked in full with the members of the Free Community, with the same badges on arms. An elected committee of the Free Community members went by a wagon with a casket of lace. The members of Sokol Slavonic Lipa were behind the coffin. Behind them are carriages with family members, friends and carriages for the members of Svoboda
Municipalities. Forty-four carriages escorted a hearse on the way to the cemetery.
It was a strange coincidence - just as this dignified procession went by Saint Prokop –started ringing the tower bells - we do not know what opportunities. To many of the funeral participants, it seemed as if those whom Zdrůbek had been a mighty and dangerous adversary throughout their lives had paid homage to his pure character in a sacred time.
A moment of homage to his pure character. Meanwhile, thousands of people crowded in the cemetery. By notice of the cemeteries were not yet a day except for the graveyard decorating day when there would be such a flood of humanity in the cemetery.
Everything went to the monument Klácelov, where other friends of the deceased and
representatives of the associations were to say goodbye to the deceased. When the coffin procession arrived, mankind was around the monument to Klácelov. in front of whose face the coffin stood on her cataphor, around the open even on the lawn among the graves to thousands. The singers set their mourning choir on, and Mr. Jan Pecha spoke as personal friend of the deceased and representative of the Czech-National Cemetery and cordial in words he reminded that Czech Chicago is obligated to the deceased man, Gratitude for having today 's pride, one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Chicago, because he came from the initiative for this business.
On behalf of the falconsspoke the organizer of "American Sokol", Dr. Rudish-Jicinski severalenthusiastic words to commemorate the man who encouraged his featherfalconry brothers to fight for the most expensive goods, mental freedom.Kollega Bartoš Bittner on behalf of the journalists who worked with the deceasedeven those who had met him in journalistic life spoke warm wordsof the integrity of the character of the deceased and of his mild nature, which for no onehad no harsh words, and he was kind to everyone.
On behalf of the Grand Master of the Taborites and the National Master of the Organization Mr. Václav Soukeník spoke the words of appreciation and farewell. The ceremonies are overwas the speech of Mr. Jakub Hroděj, who spoke behind the bed of "Božena Němcová",No. 1022 R. and D. Honor and the funeral song of the quartet. At this the audience invited Mr. Pecha to those who want last looking into the face of the deceased, they walked outside his coffin. Almost half an hour this march of worshipers of Zdrubek continued around his calm face, upside down to the clear sky, amidst the splendor of nature, beginning to change colorswith autumn. How beautiful, magnificent, great man's dignified funeral prepared by the great Czech Chicago to your good friend!
The corpse of the deceased, when the people parted, was taken by the Free Community members to the cemetery chapel, where it remained until the next day transported to the nearby Cemetery Montrose to the crematorium to burn. Burning in the crematorium performed on Tuesday 19 September in the presence of R. J. Pšenka and J. Buňaty, initially also the son of the deceased and his wife.
The second. On that day, the ashes were deposited next to the ashes (wife) Zrobůbkové to tomb of stone at the Czech-National Cemetery in Chicago.
Frank Zdrubek
Article in the CSAGSI Journal - September 2011 Vol. 15 No. 4 Koreny Page 7-8
Submitted by Paul Nemecek
Note: The information below appeared in the Chicago even the most ardent Catholics. Czech newspaper, Denni Hlasatel, September 18, 1911. It tells of the funeral of the prominent Czech-American freethinker and teacher of the people, president and spokesman for the Alliance of Freethought, founder and main editor of Svornost and Amerikan Czech publications who died September 4, 1911.
The funeral was held from the Cesko-Anglicka Svobodna Skola (Bohemian American Liberal School) on Eighteenth and May Streets (Pilsen neighborhood, Chicago). The body lay in state in the center of the hall and hundreds of people filed past to pay their last respects to the deceased who was departing forever for eternal rest, after many years of hard work. The stage was crowded with floral pieces, while the coffin was covered with a simple laurel wreath.
After all the speakers had arrived, the Cesko-Delnicky Pevecky Sbor (Bohemian Workingmen’s Singing Society) sang the dirge, “Co Placete” (Why Do You Weep?). Then the president of the Lincoln Lodge, C.S.P.S., Cesko Slovanska Podporujici Spolecnost) (Czech-Slavonic Benevolent Society), of which the deceased was a member, addressed the gathering. Mr. M.M. Mangasaian, well-known freethinker and lecturer of the Svobodna Obec Rationalistu (Rationalist Community), a personal friend of the deceased and a fighter for the same ideal, then appeared. He called attention to the great merits of our deceased countryman, that fearless, persistent defender of rationalism, that fighter for the spiritual and political freedom of his countrymen. “For almost half a century he cleared the way for the Rationalist idea. Mr. Zdrubek was a Catholic, but in his twenty-first year he awakened from a deep dream and forced his way to the light of spiritual freedom. After him, came those others who today mourn beside his coffin. With all his energy, he threw himself into the open arms of the Rationalist idea.” The speaker recalled Mr. Zdrubek’s debates with Father Vilem Coka, at which time, because of his quiet and scholarly appearance, he gained the respect and admiration of even the most ardent Catholics.
The next speaker was Mr. Lev Palda of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an old friend and fellow worker of the deceased with whom he had worked a great many years upon the national field for the enlightenment and spiritual freedom of his countrymen.
Mr. Jaromir Psenka then spoke on behalf of the publishers of the Svornost newspaper, and described the rare character of the deceased. He reminded the people that with the departure of Mr. Zdrubek, a breach, which will not be filled so soon, was created in the ranks of the liberal minded Bohemians (freethinkers).
Dr. Frank Iska spoke for the Svobodna Obec (the rationalist community). The services at the hall were concluded by Dr. Jaroslav E.S. Vojan, manager of the Cesky Tiskovy Kancelar (The Bohemian Press Bureau).
At the cemetery, the rites were opened by Mr. John Pech, president of the Bohemian National Cemetery. He was followed by Dr. John Jicinsky of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who spoke in behalf of the Narodni Jednota Sokolska (National Sokol Union). Mr. Joseph Egermayer, president of the Cremation Society, was the next speaker. He expressed regret over the fact that the deceased did not live long enough to see the realization of a Czech crematorium, although it has been decided already that a new crematorium of the most modern type will be built in the Bohemian National Cemetery.
The burial urn for Frantisek B. Zdrubek is buried in Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago. His ashes are located in Klacel Circle, a burial space of special recognition at the cemetery for leaders in Czech-American history.
The editorial in the Svornost newspaper the same day stated: “This is the kind of man fate took from us today. The pen in hand quivers, and trembling with tearful eyes, I look at the empty corner of his office, where daily, for so many years, our beloved editor sat. Although the past several years he came only for an hour daily. That lone desk, that empty chair will remind us of the deep loss we have suffered, and with us all Czech America, actually the entire Czech nation.”
Denní Hlasatel -- September 14, 1911
Frantisek Boleslav Zdrubek Is Dead
Shortly after three o'clock this morning Mr. František B. Zdrubek died at his home, 4010 Grenshaw Avenue. From the very moment he was stricken with paralysis in the left side of his body the doctors feared this outcome despite the fact that he fought bravely for his life. Since Monday, when he was stricken, Mr. Zdrubek, regained consciousness only once, and then only momentarily.
By the death of Mr. Zdrubek, one of the best known and most deserving of men was torn from our midst. Mr. Zdrubek, as a newspaperman, as a liberal-minded man, and as a patriot, ranked in first place among us, and today even those who were his opponents bow their heads respectfully beside his bier. The details about the funeral have not yet been decided upon. The deceased is survived by only one son. The son, together with his wife and young daughter, lived with his father on Grenshaw Avenue.
Mr. František Boleslav Zdrubek was born on July 26, 1842 in Bezdĕdicích, Hostomic, Bohemia. He graduated from the gymnasium [High School] and then studied theology in Prague. Later, he studied at the Protestant Seminary in Basel, Switzerland. He arrived in Chicago in May 1867. Soon he dedicated himself to newspaper work, and edited the liberal-minded [Free Thought] Pokrok in Racine, Wisconsin. In 1869, this paper moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and in 1871 to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874, he became editor of Pokrok Zapadu in Omaha, Nebraska, and in October 1875, he was editor of the Svornost in Chicago.
Mr. F. B. Zdrubek can really be considered as founder of the liberal-minded [Free Thought] party in America, and especially in Chicago. He worked for it by word of mouth and in writing. He published the Svojan and in addition wrote many articles, the purpose of which was to teach our countrymen liberal-mindedness and the English language. He also published several text books for the youth attending Czech [Free Thought] 3schools. He was an enthusiastic, tireless worker, the like of which are seldom found. That which he considered right, and which he defended without regard aroused many antagonists.
Much remains after Mr. Zdrubek which insures his continued remembrance by all American Czechs.
The Frantisek B. Zdrubek Funeral Gigantic Crowds of People in the Hall, the Streets, and at the Cemetery
Yesterday, Chicago's liberal-minded Bohemians [freethinkers] attended the funeral of one of the foremost Czechs, Nestor of Czech journalism, writer, speaker, and journalist, Mr. František Boleslav Zdrubek, president and speaker of the Svobodna Obce (Rationalist Society). Mr. Zdrubek was a member of many other national societies; a man outstanding and meritorious in every respect, editor and founder of the first Czech daily in America, Svornost, and of the weekly, Amerikan, etc. The funeral of the deceased was a most phenomenal one. By this gigantic participation, the people demonstrated their recognition of the deceased for his inestimable merits on the national field, as a pioneer of Czech journalism, and as a fearless and persistent fighter for the Rational cause.
The funeral was held from the Cesko-Anglicka Svobodna Skola (Bohemian-American Liberal School) on Eighteenth and May Streets. The body lay in state in the center of the hall and hundreds of people filed past to pay their last respects to the deceased who was departing forever for eternal rest, after many years of hard work.
The stage was crowded with floral pieces, while the coffin was covered with a simple laurel wreath.
After all the speakers had arrived, the Česko-Dělnícký Pěvecký Sbor (Bohemian Workingmen's Singing Society) sang the dirge, "Co Pláčete" (Why Do You Weep?). Then the president of Lincoln Lodge, Č. S. P. S., Česko Slovánska Podporujici Společnost (Czech-Slavonic Benevolent Society), of which the deceased was a member, addressed the gathering. Mr. M. M. Mangasaian, well-known freethinker and lecturer of the Svobodna Obce 3Rationalistu (Rationalist Community), a personal friend of the deceased and a fighter for the same ideal, then appeared. He called attention to the great merits of our deceased countryman, that fearless, persistent defender of rationalism, that fighter for the spiritual and political freedom of his countrymen. "For almost half a century he cleared the way for the Rationalist idea. Mr. Zdrubek was a Catholic, but in his twenty-first year he awakened from a deep dream and forced his way to the light of spiritual freedom. After him, came those others who today mourn beside his coffin. With all his energy, he threw himself into the open arms of the Rationalist idea." The speaker recalled Mr. Zdrubek's debates with Mr. P. Cokou, at which time, because of his quiet and scholarly appearance, he gained the respect and admiration of even the most ardent Catholics....
The next speaker was Mr. Lev Palda of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an old friend 4and fellow worker of the deceased with whom he had worked a great many years upon the national field for the enlightenment and spiritual freedom of his countrymen.....
Mr. Jaromir Pšenka then spoke in behalf of the publishers of Svornost, and described the rare character of the deceased. He reminded the people that with the departure of Mr. Zdrubek a breach, which will not be filled so soon, was created in the ranks of the liberal-minded Bohemians [free-thinkers].
Dr. Frank Iska spoke for the Svobodna Obec (The rationalist community).....
The services at the hall were concluded by Dr. Jaroslav E. S. Vojan, manager of the Český Tiskový Kancelař (The Bohemian Press Bureau).
At the cemetery, the rites were opened by Mr. John Pech, president of the 5Bohemian National Cemetery. He was followed by Dr. John Jicinsky of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who spoke in behalf of the Narodni Jednota Sokolska (National Sokol Union).
Mr. Joseph Egermayer, president of the Cremation Society, was the next speaker. He expressed regret over the fact that the deceased did not live long enough to see the realization of a Czech crematorium, although it has been decided already that a new crematorium of the most modern type will be built in the Bohemian National Cemetery.
Mr. Bartoš Bittner, a colleague of Mr. Zdrubek, then gave a short talk in behalf of the Czech journalists of Chicago.
The rites at the cemetery were concluded by Mr. Soukup and Mr. Hrodět.
The body was then taken to Mount Rose Cemetery for cremation.
Denní Hlasatel -- 11 September, 1922
To Honor the Memory of F. B. Zdrubek
.Zdrubek. The memorial services were organized by the Svobodna Obec (Bohemian Free Thought Community), the Illinois ...
The large assembly hall of the crematory at the Cesky Narodni Hrbitov (Bohemian National Cemetery) was filled by our countrymen yesterday who came in spite of rain to honor the memory of F. B. Zdrubek. The memorial services were organized by the Svobodna Obec (Bohemian Free Thought Community), the Illinois Grand Lodge of the Cesko-Slovanske Podporujici Spolky (Czecho-Slavonic Benevolent Societies), the patronat Zdrubkovy Skoly (managing board of the F. B. Zdrubek [Bohemian Free Thought] School), the Sokol Tabor Slovanske Lipy, and the Lincoln Lodge of the Spolky of which Zdrubek was a member.
The program arranged for the occasion pleased everyone. Mr. S. Erst's playing of the organ was very artistic and filled the pauses between the numbers on the program. Mr. B. Simecek, vice-president of the board of delegates to the Hrbitov, was in charge of the ceremony. He opened the program with a very 2fine address, and was followed by Otto Pergler, president of the Grand Lodge of the Spolky; Josef Lang of the Sokol; and Vaclav J. Petrzelka, the official orator for the Svobodna Obec ([Bohemian]Free Thought Community). All of these men spoke about the significance of Zdrubek's work and made suggestions as to how to continue the work begun by him. After the conclusion of the program the entire gathering went to Klacel's monument near which is located the urn containing Zdrubek's ashes. A beautiful wreath, which was donated by the board of delegates, was placed upon the urn. Mr. V. Rehak, secretary of the Obec, and Mr. Petrzelka, its official orator, spoke again, and the services ended. Among those who attended were a number of old timers, men who had belonged to the Free Thought movement for many years. Many children of the Zdrubek School were also present, accompanied by Mrs. Raeck, a teacher in that school.
In Memory of Zdrubek
A ceremony to honor the memory of Fr. B. Zdrubek, during which a memorial plate donated by the board of representatives of the Cesky Narodni Hrbitov(Czech National Cemetery) was unveiled, took place at that cemetery yesterday afternoon. The celebration was arranged by the Ceskoslovenska Svobodna Obec (Congregation of Czechoslovak Freethinkers) and the board of representatives of the Cemetery in co-operation with the Grand Lodge of the Ceskoslovenske Podporujici Spolky (Czechoslovak Benevolent Societies) of Illinois and the Sokol unit of which Zdrubek was a member.....
The ceremonies started at two o'clock in the great hall of the Crematorium with an organ interlude played by Mr. Stepan Erst, who also played between the several sections of the program. The chairman of the board of the Narodni Hrbitov, John Pecha welcomed the participants, who arrived in numbers fully adequate to the importance of the ceremony, and introduced the speakers, Dr. Anton Mueller and Jos. Lang.....
Mr. Lang, a Sokol and an ardent worker in all of our loftiest causes, especially the pursuit of the principles of the founders of our Sokol movement, Fuegner and Tyrs, after an appraisal of Zdrubek's activities, bitterly complained that the delegation from Czechoslovakia which came to attend our Slet (Sokol mass convention) advocated a change in the constitution of our Sokolska Obec (Sokol Community) which has resulted in the throwing overboard of all that our Sokols have been preaching for fifty years, and for which they are still fighting. Mr. Lang's speech met with the approval of the public, who evidently agreed with him. No doubt this matter will be considered in due time and at the proper places.....
Mr. Vaclav J. Petrzelka, speaker of the Svobodna Obec, talked about the credit that is due to Zdrubek for his initiative in the founding of the Narodni Hrbitov, and for his efforts toward the propagation of the ideals of the Free Thought movement..
The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, September 15, 1911
“Frank B. Zdrubek, dean of the Bohemian journalists of Chicago, died yesterday morning. He had been stricken with apoplexy Monday afternoon andhad not regained consciousness. Mr. Zdrubek was born at Hostomic, Bohemia, on July 26, 1842. Having studied theology in the University of Basel, Switzerland, he was ordained a Protestant minister when he came to America in 1867. In May 1875, he founded as editor in chief, the first Bohemian daily newspaper in the United States, the Daily Svornost, with August Geringer as publisher. This post he held until last Monday. He was author of many scientific books, Bohemian-English dictionaries, and the "Bohemia-English Interpreter. His son Julius survives him. The funeral will take place from the Bohemian School hall, 1126 West Eighteenth Street, Sunday, at 11 a.m. The body will be cremated at Montrose Cemetery and the ashes buried at the Bohemian National Cemetery, of which he was the founder.”
Newspaper Articles - Obituaries from out of state
The Iowa City Press-Citizen – Obituary September 15, 1911
Bohemian Editor Dead at Chicago
Bohemians in this city received the sorrowing news that Frank B. Zdrubek, the prominent and well known editor of the “Svornost”, the best known Bohemian daily paper in the country, had died at his home in Chicago. He was one of the greatest students in the country, his literary works being very prominent in Bohemian writings.
Frank B. Zdrubek was born Bezedic in Bohemia, on July 26, 1842. He was a zealous students and was ordained a Catholic priest. He was a student for several years in a Monastery and a philosophist. He finally became a protestant, and spent some time in studying in Switzerland. In 1867, he came to the United States. After a hard struggle he propagated free thought in America. One of his first and greatest works was the Bohemian-American dictionary. He also wrote many articles and books of a religious character.
In 1868 he became editor of the “Pokrok” a well-known publication in Racine, Wis. Soon after he became editor the paper was moved to Cedar Rapids and published there. In 1871 Mr. Zdrubek went to the old country remaining there until September. When he returned he accepted a position on the Houston Daily Times. In 1874 he moved to Omaha and finally settled in Chicago. With Aug. Geringer, they published the “Svornost,” a daily paper, “Dutch Casu” a weekly publication and the “Amerikan”.
The Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette – Obituary September 19, 1911
Many At Funeral Of Noted Newspaperman
Bohemian Organizations Pay Tribute to Life of Frank B. Zdrubek, Who Died in Chicago
The local delegation to Chicago to attend the funeral of Frank B. Zdrubek, the Bohemian author and editor, who passed away at his home in that city last week, returned yesterday and report a mammoth gathering of those by whom the deceased was revered. Besides the delegation sent by The Free Thought congregation, there were many others from this city and vicinity present at the funeral. President M. O. Hasek, Vice President C. K. Kosek, Speaker J. J. Hajek, F. Pesek and Dr. J, Rudis -Jicinky were those representing the local Organization.
The funeral was impressive and was two hours in length, being held, at the Bohemian-American school on West Eighteenth street- By 10 o'clock the building was crowded to Its capacity, and the streets outside were blocked with thousands of people who could not enter.
The floral tributes to the deceased were profuse. One of the features of the display was a large open book on which the name of the deceased was inscrolled, and in which were inscribed some of his greatest works in literature. President Mangesarlan, of the Independent Order of Free Thought of Chicago, spoke in English, and Hon. L.J. Palda of this city spoke in Bohemian. Another speaker was Master Psenka, a member of the staff of the Svornost, of which the deceased was editor. Dr Vojan talked on the life of the great Journalist and Dr. Frank Jaka and several others made short addresses.
Interment was made in the National Bohemian cemetery, and the funeral procession from the place of funeral to the cemetery was many blocks long, hundreds of carriages being in line. At the cemetery the burial services were conducted before the monument of, Professor Klacel, in which several more impressive addresses were made, among the speakers being John Pecha, president of the C.S.P.S. of the United States. Dr. Jicinsky of this city also gave an address, representing the Sokols of the United States, and B. Bittner spoke in behalf of the newspaper fraternity. The addresses were interspersed with singing by a quartet. Following the service the body was delivered to the crematory where It was cremated yesterday. T
he deceased was known by many in this city and was loved by all who had met him. To show their appreciation of the value of his life and sorrow over his death the local Sokol organization sent to the bereaved family a letter of condolence.
Zdrubek Obituary – Kanaske Rozhledy Wilson, Kansas 9-20-1911
Full page obituary (Google Translate used for this - does a decent, but not a perfect job.)
One of the first pioneers of liberalism Czech American journalist and revivalist of all Czech people in America, in the sense of narrower and broader man, whose name was perhaps known to every guild in the part, Frantisek Boleslav Zdrubek is dead.
His fault was caused by a stroke, which was suffered last week after returning from the usual occupation of his editorial office "Svornosti", whose co-founder and leading spirit would after all years of its duration, in bad and good times. The rumor of Zdrubek's death will surely be difficult to apply to anyone sincerely free-minded, for even with the inevitable trainings that each progressive movement brings with him, Zdrubek has succeeded in gaining reverence and seriousness in his principles and in the tenacity of his knowledge. It is apparent that he was embarrassed with disrespect, even though he was a stubborn and hard-faced opponent, bound by his ecclesiastical tabernacles. Surely it would not have been so much offensive to Zdrubek in his life, whether his writers' adherence to the church or blind spirits were dictated.
It took two days to fight his death, then abv then quietly sent his spirit from the body of the sword almost 70 years old. The end of his would be calm and almost painless. Putting above him his vanity, thanks to love and gratitude in his words, we can say that he died of the Righteous. Poor at Zdrubkova's death, it also fell death, which is an average journalist is a wicked, stroke caused by the blood flow to the brain. The death was also done, until the last moment before the occupational Jan Rocicky's illness, whose death is as hard as ever, as he did to Zdrubek.
The activities of Zdrubkova were multifaceted and throughout their lives dictated exclusively by efforts, beneficial to the warm Czech people. This endeavor also explains the life path of Zdrubkova, who, in his young firm belief in the righteousness of the Catholic Church, made him think and think that by going to a free Protestant church he could freely serve the needs of the Czech people. And this effort also led her to see that even in the Church, he did not see the Protestant fulfillment of his ideals wishing for the liberation of humanity from the religious prejudices seeking to hamper the progress of humanity, and over time he passed entirely on the instinct of compassion. Laska to the birth, which he left, and to the mental liberation of Zdrubka led on his way of life and manifested even the works, which can best talk to those who even for a short period of contact with him and know more about the rare grains it is the nature of Zdrubek, and how Christ's purists were motivated to command him for the whole of his life. Let us mention above that he was a co-founder of Svornost, in which he remained in good and bad times. At the beginning of the magazine it was believed quite bad times that even Zdrubek heavily succumbed, but the material worries that Zdrubek had experienced so much in his life were not able to turn him away from doing his duty and abandon his direction, to be himself. elsewhere it offered an opportunity to embrace the concerns of the material. These facts, which no one can deny, speak most clearly of Zdrubek's deep conviction, for which he has sacrificed, especially in the earlier Texan years, as no one else has. Throughout his life, he has proven that he does not speak his backs only for others, but that he is guided by them and is obliged to do so.
He was born on 26 July 1842 in Bezdedice near Hostomice, the Region of Prazsky on the bank of the Chumava stream (hence Chumavsky) and when he was two years old his parents moved to Hostomice where he was brought up
He attended home school and when he was 11 years old, his parents moved to Prague. At first he began to learn the craft of net making, but soon returned to the parish school, then the main and finally in the summer of 1857 he entered the Old Town Gymnasium. At the time you lost your mother and his father returned to Hostomice. Zdrubek stayed in his studies and resisted private teaching being encouraged to admit his favor.
The direction of his upbringing was religious-ascetic, which led him in 6 Latin to join a cluster of merciful brothers of strict observance in Styria Hradec. Here he only began, by the circumstances and experiences of the cluster brought to it, to think independently and judge about man, the world and religion. Not realizing with enough sense of free morality man overcame in him the virus with her ceremonies and stepped out of the cluster first felt with his.
He then studied in Prague with little difficulty in the 7th and 8th class of gymnasia privately. When he heard again what the world says of God, loyalty, supernaturalism, etc., he listened to one year old Catholic divinity in Prague, but not satisfied with his touch, and met the evangelical theologians, he found himself better satisfied and preached, the leadership finds in the Protestant vocabulary. I transferred to the Helvetian confession and went to study in Basel in Switzerland, where he was admitted as a citizen of the University there. Studied and researched in writing, especially me what to declare prof. Schultze consolidated in himself the freedoms of free exploration of religious doctrines. From there he went, sent to America, where he arrived May 12, 1867, to serve the spiritual needs of Czechoslovakians. He conceived his mission in the broadest sense of the word and received the ordination of the Reformed Church 18, October 1867 by the Sheboygan classis and dismissed two parishes in Germany, settling in Caledonia near Racine, Wis. Caledonia and second in Chicago.
His policy was to spoil the purity of morality and love, sincerity in all actions and national awareness; from the faithful churches, he was not ashamed to exclude those who are concerned about the morality of conscious lasers and of general progress, if it was to reconcile science and religion, and where it bore clinging to science. The ecclesiastical message of the Synod knew and knew his senses, suffered it, or, being free-minded and foolish, did not put any obstacles in his way. Hure, however, was the three churchmen who were not accustomed to the outlook. He also gained enemies besides numerous friends in both churches. He renewed the Czech school in a debut in Caledonia and taught the children in it during the winter and practiced them in national singing. The success of the children was very sealed.
Meanwhile, P.K. Jonas in Chicago, a free-thinking magazine "Progress," which was P. Jos. Pastor redaktorem. Zdrubek contributed to him the letters. After the spring of 1868, Mr. Pastor resigned from "Progress," the letter moved to Racine and Zdrubek. in the temple and blackmailing of the saint. Taking over the editor of "Progress", he stopped going to Chicago and remained in the service of the Caledonian Church and the Letter. On 4 August, his friend and fellow student Josef Josef Sladek, now a professor in Prague, brought him to him. Raislová from Prague and Racine, the marriage of the same day went off in the presence of most of the people there.
His wife became a faithful companion in his life, being a woman of high education, an enthusiastic patriot, and a caring mother of the family. She told her husbands a total of 5 babies, of whom 4 died in the early years and only one son Julius remains of the Zdrubek family. Mrs. Linda Zdrubkova presented her husband on 8, January 1906 and the departure of her heavy-headed person affected Zdrubek's mind. Since then, he has found comfort in continuing his work, as well as in the quiet happiness and family of his son, irradiated by his little granddaughter, to whom he has adhered immensely.
He edited the "Progress" in Racine and until the end of August 1869, where it was moved by owner Mr. K. Jonas to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and stayed there and Zdrubek until 9 February 1871, when it was sold to Ceske Tiskarny in Cleveland where he also moved .In Cedar Rapids, a member of the Reading Society helped build a national one, which, with great dedication of the natives there, was started and completed, and for some time held the theater helpful. He went to set up Czech-English grammar, but he did not finish.
He founded here the help of Boleslav Trojan enthusiastic about freedom and truth, son of Dr. Trojan of Rakovnik, Jednota Svobodomyslnych 8, November 1860, which was registered immediately in 30 Czech villages in various states.
For an article sent from Cleveland by a reliable correspondent of the PVS concerning Cleveland's Czech Repar and his behavior was prosecuted for libel in Linn County, and when he moved to Cleveland, Repis continued to prosecute further, which has become a problem of time and money. When he was supposed to come to a hearing, Zdrubek pointed out that those who had given them and the subject matter of the article would only be witnessing a false defense, would be angry at the wrongdoing of the evocator of the trial and dismissed deceitfully defending the false testimony, he got witness P. Landa to the priest Repis and offered him reconciliation. The priest promised to dismiss the court if Zdrubek withdrew his allegations and Zdrubek withdrew what he could not stop in a way and gave Ceske Tiskarny a quarterly notice from the editors. Zdrubek went to Guild 4, October and stayed there for 4 months only, and on January 26 he went back to America again through Spain, Cuba and New Orleans to Texas with P. Tom Batl, who invited him and helped him to Czech-English schools would set up a journey in Texas. Arriving in, Texas, and without any means, he joined the Houston Daily Times as a typesetter who had learned to edit the drive. For two months he worked here overnight, and then received a call from a Czech settlement in Vesely, Austin Co., as teachers and preachers of the Bohemian-Moravian Brethren. And he arranged a school of Czech-English and 80 children, and decayed in the sense of free-minded morality.
At the time you got sick of winter and before he got scared, his wife was beaten 9 months hard that even in the bed could not move all the time.
The effect of Zdrubkova, as well as his wife in Texas, though relatively short, left there indelibly traces of lighting, as the witnesses of the same time, so far acknowledged.
In August 1874, Mr. E. Rosewater, the then publisher of "Progress", offered him the editorship of this newspaper, vacated by the departure of P. V. Snadjra. He received it and added 15, September via St. St. Louis to Omaha. Here, beside the Redjgoyani Letter, he founded the "Matrix of Liberty", which has already published 5 Sites 1. Genealogy of God, 2, The World and His Uprising, 3. Evolution of the Truth or What is Breach and What Is Not, 4. Youth of Jesus, 5. Constitution. V. Omaha was willing to set up the "Klicpera" Society, and in 1875 he began to negotiate with Mr. Geringer on the establishment of the Great Magazine in Chicago, and finally arrived in Chicago, and finally arrived in Chicago on August 15, 1875, Svornost, and at him weekly "American."
Zdrubek was the guiding spirit of the "free communities" they founded in Chicago, being its speaker since the founding. In this office, which, on the basis of the state's incorporation, authorized him to marry, he showed the best way of taking on the duties. He did not ask for the termination fee and was content with the fact that his reward and time was offered, but in cases where it was poor and necessary, he rather donated rather than take it. Recently, he has spent $ 1,000 on his hard work for a long time to support free-minded schools, who themselves put Zdrubek in the right light against rumors cast against him by accusing her of using her office for self-enrichment. Personal, quiet and silent, searching for noisy societies, but without celebrations, managed to firmly and firmly defend the principles, which he recognized after a long thought to be right. He did not become a rigid dogmatic, but was approached by further instruction and willingly approached the knowledge that seemed appropriate for the progress and well-being of the people. Price list Zdrubkvym went to issue "The Seductive Community" in Chicago magazine "Svojan," exclusively freely devoted things, which greatly contributed to the deepening of the freedoms among Czech ice in America.
The best attempts to determine Zdrubek's best are discussed in the lists of Zdrubek's files. There are three directions to observe: 1. The effort that the Guilds in the Part will learn the inevitable English and get to know the local pomery, and by acquiring the knowledge of these, have developed on the social scale here. This effort culminated in the dictionaries of the Czech-English and English-Czech dictionaries, which have been published in several continuously improved editions, as well as the manual of the conventions and the file of the knowledge of state establishments, of which the type is "Muffler" and constitutional writings. 2. Efforts to preserve the youth spirit of Czech. He showed this by writing down lemons, intended for Czech-American liberal schools, instructions for Czech spelling and so on. 3. The effort of purely free-thinking seems to be to provide translation of excellent files of the direction of free-thinking and writing their own works, both polemical and instructive, etc. Many of Zdrubek's writings are large, and in itself would provide its originator with an excellent place in Czech-American history, even if Zdrubek's activities were not, as we will see in the previous sections of this article.
The funeral of the late F. B. Zdrubka was on Sunday from the CSPS building in Chicago for the immense participation of the Czech people. Ceremonial opening ceremonies in Chicago, chairman of the Free Community of Chicago, a beautiful citizen after taking the floor of the Independent Religious Society of Mangassarian, saying goodbye to the deceased by the name of an American citizen. The old friend Zdrubkuv Leo J. Palda, who came to the funeral with the deputies of Cedar Rapids, spoke in Czech, while Mr. R.J. Dr. Psenka, The Free Community of Chicago spoke Jarek said goodbye to the deceased with Iska and the name of the Czech-American press. E. Salaba Vojan. After saying goodbye to Mr. Zarobski for Sokol Slovanska Lipa ended the funeral ceremony in the hall and the procession went to Narodni Hrbitov, whose Zdrubek was the founder. The Chairman of the Cemetery Corps, Mr. Jan Pecha, spoke for the Cemetery Corps. Rudis-Jicinsky, Bart Eg Bittner, spoke for W. Egermeier's Burial of Fire and finally the editor of "Denni Hlasatel". The speakers closed the cemetery on the cemetery. On Monday, Zedubko's body was issued to the Montrose crematorium.
Snippet from Czechs in Chicago by Jan Zajdlik, MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO, Bachelor Thesis.
Formation of Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago.
“The first open conflict between the Catholics and Freethinkers escalated in 1876 when the Catholic priest of the Czech St. Wenceslaus parish Josef Molitor (Vlha 2012, 331), did not want to allow Marie Šilhánková (Hucke 36) to be buried at the conjoint Czech-Polish Catholic Cemetery, because she did not confess before her death. Molitor’s actions raised a wave of resentment amongst the Freethinkers headed by Zdrůbek. In response to the proclamation of Molitor, (Vlha 2012 331) Zdrůbek started a discussion concerning establishment of a Czech National Freethinkers Cemetery, in early 1877. In March 1877 Zdrůbek established a National Cemetery Society with deputies from 8 Czech societies namely, TJ Sokol, Czech Labor benevolent society, Society of St. Procopius et al. (Zdrůbek 5-6). The society decided to purchase a property of 50 Acres at the then municipality of Jefferson which was not at that time incorporated in the city of Chicago in July of 1876. The transfer ceremony of the property took place as early as September of that year. (Chada 51) Over the years the area of the cemetery has expanded to over 126 Acres. The limestone entrance gate of the cemetery built in neo-gothic style became the dominant of the current Northern neighborhood of North Park. In 1889 the cemetery officials laid the foundation stone of the memorial of Czech casualties of the Civil War. (Chada 51) Notable interments include, Czech victims of the SS Eastland disaster, or former Chicago mayor Antonín Čermák.”
Zajdlik's thesis is on "Czechs in Chicago". The link to the document is below:
https://is.muni.cz/th/sleld/Czechs_in_Chicago_Zajdlik_Jan_384008.pdf
František Boleslav Zdrůbek was born on July 26, 1842 in Bezdědice near Hostomice.
USA Arrival Information:
Frantisek Zdrubek, listed as Franz Drubeck 24, from Prague, a missionary, along with Johann Halprecht, age 23, (Folprecht on Hamburg registration), also a missionary, departed Port Hamburg on April 27, 1867 aboard the ship Hammonia and arrived at Port New York City on may 13, 1867.
On August 1, 1868, arriving at Port New York City from Bremen, aboard the ship Herman were Josef Sladek, age 23, and Caroline Reichel, age 23.
Census Records:
1870 Iowa Linn Cedar Rapids Ward 3 Page 8
Frank Strubek 28, Linda 22, Olga 1/12 Editor Pro….
1880 Illinois Cook Chicago D89 Page 32 450 Canal
Frank B. Zdrubek 37, Linda 32, Julius 5
1900 Illinois Cook Chicago Ward 8 D0201 Page 22 59 Hastings
Frank B. Ztrulek 57, Linda Zbrulek 52, Julius Zbrulek 24
1910 Illinois Cook Chicago Ward 34 D1469 Page 9 4010 Grenshaw
Frank Zdrubek 67, Julius 36, Alma 24, Elaine 0
Bohemian National Cemetery Chicago - Family Burial Information
Adults buried in Lot 7 Block 3 Section M, with year of death
Alma Albina Pospisil Zdrubek Doubek 1954, Katerina Pospisil 1945, Vaclav Pospisil 1920. Julius E. Zdrubek 1943
Linda Zdrubek 1906 (1916 Ashes, moved to Klacel Circle), Frank Zdrubek 1911 (1916 Ashes, moved to Klacel Circle)
The Klacel Circle is named in honor of Ladimir Klacel (4-7-1808 to 3-17-1882 death in Belle Plaine, Benton County, Iowa) BNC Honor Monument at Find A Grave # 6454125
Julius Erwin Zdrubek was born 7-18-1874 in Nebraska to Frantisek Boleslav Zdrubek and Linda Reischl
Bezdedice Bohemia
Maps from www.mapy.cz
Village image from Google Maps
Wikipedia currently lists 64 addresses with 52 inhabitants.
translation from Zdrubek 1902 Bohemian National Cemetery Book
History of the Czech-National Cemetery in Chicago. Compiled by Frank B. Zdrubek
(Book is in Czech, I used Google Translate. Hopefully you can get a sense of Frank Zdrubek's story of the creation of the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago. The actual location to begin with was Jefferson Township, which would eventually become part of the City of Chicago.)
Of all the national enterprises of the Guild of Chicago, who have prepared their housing here for the last 45 years, it is probably the most successful National cemetery, which enjoys the highest favor of Czech and thrives in all respects successfully. Best of all it is good and beneficial for the great gathering of Czech societies, which in the your own benefit for the good of the whole, working together and diligently directly through their representatives on the success of it and proved that the congregation federal and brotherly houses are being built. Conspiracy it was the basis so much good for Czech nationality in the new homeland of this new one, and deserves not only recognition, but also the most moral and material support of everything awake of the Czech Republic.
From the poorest to the great results, the history of this business testifies to the diligence, honesty and dedication of the federal representatives who they did all this work, and on the meritorious recognition of the Czech side the audience in Chicago, which is mostly free-thinking and clinging to the business with his almost religious love. Czech company. The National Cemetery had to break free of the Guilds of Chicago ecclesiastical and priestly arbitrariness, and its purpose is attained in full. The Chicago guilds are their own, and do not roam in the spiritual field estate.
What the fathers have nailed, their children faithfully complete, educate and continue
to master everything!
In 1876, in the inner life of the Chicago guilds of great importance changes. There were over 30,000 people in the city who settled densely on the southwest side of the city, and the main center was found near DeKoven and Taylor, where there was a national hall, one on Taylor Street, second to DeKoven, a Catholic church with a school and parish on street DeKoven, printers, weekly "Chicago The "Svornosti" Journal and the Canal Street on those streets, and most Czech traders and craftsmen around this.
It was a year of transition, or rather a year of awakening from the spiritual spirit the great majority of men and women of Bohemia, when they sowed the sowed seed over the past few years to the national role to grow to the bountiful flowers and bore fruit.
Until then, most of the guild adhered to the Catholic confession according to custom from the old homeland brought here, and no one noticed, whether he is true or free in his religion.
In 1876, when the parish of St. Wenceslas settlements on DeKoven Street, Josef Molitor, so he defeated the supportive St. Wenceslas Association and led him with his school building and property, there was a great displeasure among the people against the injustice of the priesthood, especially when the priest was reluctant to do the desired Catholics and time-paid ceremonies. Nor would he allow everyone to be buried in the Catholic cemetery of Ekopol. So it happened with Pi. Mary Šilhánková, dying on July 25, 1876, that the parish did not allow her to be buried in the cemetery, and was Catholic all her life with her family, but she did not confess before death, and they had to bury her in a common cemetery Graceland. Her relative, Mr J. Bambula, wanted to pass her lot on to her cemeteries, but even the parish did not allow. Such pressure exerted back pressure, and it was possible to speak in public that it was time for the echoes have been freed from the priesthood. the echoes take care of it, even after of death they could rest among those whom they lived alive.
This was announced by the editor of "Svornosti", Mr. Frank B. Zrurbek, who for The Free Municipality organized public free-minded lectures in the hall The Unity Sokol that he would speak in a lecture on January 7, 1877 on the need for a national cemetery for the echoes. Visit the lectures were plentiful, the speaker condemned the negotiations in strong words the priest and urged those present to embrace the priesthood in all in their own lives, and have not obeyed the dominion of the princes, nor with the names of the children, neither with marriages, nor with their burials.
After the lecture, it was generally discussed at the meeting and it was agreed that a meeting of the early chairmen of all Czech federations would be convened soon settled together, how could a Czech national free cemetery be set up, where every echo could be buried without distinction of religion brothers and compatriots, without asking any priest for permission. The new idea spread quickly across Czech settlements and everywhere about it he spoke with enthusiasm. Everyone calculated how easy the Czech cemetery would be to establish and endure from all connected to it the guild, and no one did not foresee the great difficulties and obstacles that this effort would have to overcome, before reaching the desired goal.
In the following free-thinking lecture in the same hall, there was 21 January again, and a three-member committee was elected Fr. B. Zdrubek, Jan Dušek and M. Polák, who were ordered to invite all Czech clubs in the city, would elect a representative to the public meeting on February 12, would be the subject of a national cemetery thoroughly dealt with.
First steps taken.
This meeting of national associations on February 12 in Jednota Sokol was heavily attended, because many outside the representatives came other fellow countrymen who were at heart and who wanted to be enthusiastic in the first meeting appears to judge the future success of the enterprise.in the first meeting appears to judge the future success of the enterprise. A meeting, it was really excited, so that it gave the essence of best hope. In the meeting, an agreement was reached on the most important question yet for they want the associations to work together, or to leave it to the association one and support it. It was decided by the guilds all together want to take part in the foundation of the cemetery and keep it as a common national property. Resolution this important was to the satisfaction of all those who have not otherwise managed such a business.
The meeting opened at 8 pm. Jan was elected chairman Dušek, and Fr. B. Zdrbek. The present were counted 80, and all the national associations were represented except for two, respectively to the church, they had to bury anyway at the priest's cemetery.
The chairman asked the representatives of the association to apply, it would be known which the federal authorities intend to put their hands on the work of the common, and they set forth the following:
1.Jan Morava from the Czech-American Sokol.
2. Jan Rajsler from the Czech-Dlnický Spolek.
3. Jan Beran od Delnickeho Podp. Pole. Association Progress.
4. Matj Karásek from the Czech-Delnický Podpurný Spolek.
5. Martin Baumruker from the Czech-Krejc Association.
6. Prokop Hudek from the Czech Setina.
7. Jakub Pádecký from the Dramatic Society of Thalia.
8. J. V. Benes and Jos. K. Šisler from the Lyra Pveckého Spolek.
9. Václav Zábranský from Podpurný Spolek Jirí.
10. Josef Matoušek from the Podpurný Choir in the Fall of Fire.
n. Fr. Hair from the Czech-Delnicky Equality Association.
12. Jindich Kohn from the Order of Prague. S. P. S.. 13.
13. Josef Svojše from the Order of Equality. S. P. S.. 14.
14. Václav Donat from the Order of Vrnost. S. P. S.. 8.
15. Tomáš Cáp od Slovana,. C Nat. Podp. Choir.
16. Josef Hodoval from Svatojanský Association.
17. Martin Ruzicka od Podp. Spolku Sv. Prokop.
18. Vojt. Freml od Svatováclavského Podp. Choir.
19. Tomáš Petrtyl from the Free Community.
20. Josef Kostner from Tel. Poison. Falcon.
When everyone was given the word to express themselves as a guild its thinking about things, it turns out that they are all unanimous in that we have the cemetery, and that it is best that we take it together, or that there would be no support from the Society for the Enterprise, which would find itself in the hands only one guild, and it could give rise to jealousy and dissolution.
Among others, a representative of the order Prague appeared. S. P. S., Jindrich Kohn, and reported that the Grand Duke of Illinois had already done in the direction of such steps and that for the purpose of the cemetery, he booked 63 acres of land very convenient offered by the company under the same conditions, As he negotiated himself, without earnings, he just mines it to charges despising Guilds who do not belong to any guild have been surrendered great deal. Acre of land that costs $ 550.
The proposal, however, did not find favor with the present representatives of others
because everyone understood that it would not serve the good of the whole, when one association held property and the other were subjected to it some conditions. Everyone promised to work only that all associations have the same right to common property and in his administration, that all be one and the same. Mr. Kohn, seeing that he had not taken any action, announced that he was generous resolved in case the assembled representatives of the association did not intend to unite with him and take over the land mentioned above, he himself from the business he will drop his work, and he will work with the same with others all of them. The announcement was received gratefully, because some of them came from fear that the great work begins in the foundations of its disruption. But this soon disappeared.
Following further discussion, the following resolution was adopted:
To choose a trio committee to look around the city and find
convenient location close and cheap for sale for the Czech cemetery.
That the committee consisted of pp. Fr. Bedlan, Mat. Karáska,
and Stepan Sramek, and 14 days from today to report to the meeting, how
So that all the representatives of the clubs meet again Monday Monday 26.
They would hear the report of their three-member committee
on land, and then consulted on what message to bring the churches
So it ended an important meeting with unexpected success, or if he were the best lawyer he plotted the course of the meeting of so different elements composed, it would not be wiser to draw up a schedule of negotiations, than our people did without any special guidance.
On the 26th of February, 40 representatives met in the evening and signed up also Mr. Jan Beran as a representative of the Czech-Brotherhood Corps i was received. Then he submitted a report on the search for the land that he had looked together with Mr. J. V. Benes, builder, in his wagons three lands on three from all the sides of the city, and pleased the people present preferably report the first plot 10 miles from the center of town distant five miles west of Jefferson, 110 acres, about after $ 125 acre, total $ 13.000; road to land good up to half a mile that would have to redeem and do. Ordered to keep this single plot in mind, because the other both aren't that important.
At the same time, a committee of five was elected at this meeting to form a future committee schuze sketch of the statutes of the cemetery association. They were elected
Jos. Matousek, Prokop Hudek, Vojtch Freml, Jos. Svojše, and Jan Ram. The chairman and the secretary were asked to subordinate the authorities to the future meeting before the new officials are elected.
Cemetery Society founded
On 12th of March 1877, all the previously registered representatives of the following eight met to establish and establish a real national cemetery. They were:
From Tel. Unity Sokol p. Moritz Polácek.
2. From Czech-Deln. Podp. The choir of Mr. Frant. Working.
3. From the Order of Equality. 14. C.S. S. S. Josef Novák.
4. Odc esko Nar. Podp. Choir Mr. Josef Dostal.
5. From Podp. The association in the fall of fire Mr. Josef Matoušek.
6. From Podp. Spolku Sv. Prokop Mr. Vojta Freml.
7. From Podp. Spolku Sv. Vaclav p. Stepan Sramek,
8. From Delnického Podp. Pole. Prokop Hudek Association.
Some of the other clubs first registered were read letters and apologies that they cannot participate yet, but that they wait to say: and they shall not depart in any way from the support of that enterprise.
It was then established to establish a society, and Mr. Frank Pracna was elected For the President, Mr Prokop Hudek for the note. Right from the front provided that meetings of the national cemetery be made public, everyone could be present at all meetings, and only the deputy members can speak and vote.
Then, one by one, they told each other how much their association wanted lending to the company, so they signed up for $ 1,325 in the first meeting. Resolved, that the current committee of eight federal representatives consider themselves and be considered he was behind the Cemetery Committee to provide the statutes with the help of a lawyer for the cemetery association, and to stop working for its intended purpose.
What has so far progressed in committee so far, they have heard voices that are both nasty and loose, lightening and deterrent, suspicious. Perhaps nobody could get such a conversation, but they did it just to destroy what appeared to be to be one great national building. Similar obstacles set in the way of the committee lasted quite a long time before it even had to silence. The Committee mainly referred to the fact that it was a national enterprise all the associations, that no single association will look for its own profit, but the common good, and that the business is not an excuse for anyone, but for the benefit and benefit of the entire Czech population in Chicago. Also pointed out that what would once get a certain amount of business but it shall not be alienated from our nationality again to her upliftment, so that many other national and educational the Czech company will be able to acquire from this support. As if he was this poor committee could see the future and count the hundred dollar, which the Cemetery choir gave for certain purposes for national purposes and educational Czech.
So we see that he defended and defended against all of them The Committee has a sound basis on which to stand. It was publicly interpreted in the sense of the "Svornosti" diary and privately from the zealous members of the committee and friends of the business until finally defamation and malice they were exhausted and stopped by themselves, for they felt helpless to defeat the business that so many national associations had been committed to. Meanwhile, the committee accepted from the St. Wenceslas Corps offered to him a school room on DeKoven Street at the very rectory for his meetings, and on March 16th the meeting was told by a lawyer that the committee must before the state state what the corps (incorporate) and then it can be established to be a cemetery, where the towers allow it. Saved thus pp. Hudek, Matoušek and Novák to enter the state incarnation. They pushed for it and on April 11, the incarnation was confirmed in Springfield, and the governors were Newly elected committee pp. Jos. Matoušek, Št. Šrámek and Jos. Novák, who have already been elected as the Administrative Committee for a full year. Chairman then Mr. Matj Karásek, Secretary of Mr. Fr. Fenzl, the accountant Mr. Fr. Working, and treasurer Mr. Jos. Dostal..
Charter of the Czech-National Cemetery.
State of Illinois, Union State. George H. Harlow, Secretary of State.
To all who will read this, a warm greeting: Because it will come to pass duly signed and confirmed was entered into the secretary's office State on 11 April 1877 establishing the Czech National Cemetery The Board in accordance with the provisions of the "Act on Corporations" approved 18 April 1872 and in force as of 1 July 1872, whose testimony a copy is added; therefore I, H. Harlow, Secretary of State Illinois, by my powers conferred upon me by law, I testify that the "Czech National Cemetery Corps" is to establish an established one corporations under the laws of that state.
In witness whereof I have given the state seal. (Seal.)
Dated in Springfield, on April 11, L.P. 1877 and the Inevitability of the Centenary and the First.
George H. Harlow, Secretary of State.
Jan Habenicht's 1904 book, appears in my opinion, to have a favorable review of the Catholic Church and all of its participants. But a rather dim view of Free Thinkers. Frantisek Zdrubek and August Geringer are described differently in Havenicht's book. But August Geringer's brother John remained Catholic and is portrayed in a different light.
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It was mentioned in 1867. František Boleslav moved to Chicago Zdrubek was born on 26 July 1842 in Bezdedice near Hostomice. In 1857, he entered the Old Town Gymnasium and, from the sixth grade, went to the Convent of Merciful Brothers in Graz. However, he left the monastery and attended the seventh and eighth grades of gymnasium in Prague; after that he became a theologian of the Catholic Theological Faculty in Prague and later studied at the Protestant school in Basel, Switzerland. He joined Chicago in May above that year, he settled in Caledonia, Wisconsin, and served two churches "Czech-Moravian Brethren": one in Caledonia (see Caledonia in Wisconsin) and the other in Chicago, but secretly edits the unbelievable "Progress" magazine in Racine, Wisconsin. In 1869, he managed it in Cedar Rapidsích iowa. (See Cedar Rapids, low.) In 1871, he moved with "Progress" to Cleveland, Ohio, which will be mentioned in the history of this city. In the same year (after the court with P. Repiš) went to Guild. He stayed there for 4 months and then set out on a journey to Texas with the deceased Tom. Batlou, a farmer from Catspring, Texas, who founded it. (See Wesley, Tex.)
He was then in Houston, Texas a typesetter in an English letter, then a teacher
and evangelical preacher in Wesley, Washington. In September 1874. became editor of the "Progress of the West" in Omaha, Nebraska, and in October 1875. editor of the daily newspaper "Svornosti" in Chicago.
In 1877, a Czech Catholic priest in Chicago called for a public debate on things
religious, and the invitation it accepted today already deceased P. Vilém Coka, then
parish priest of st. Prokop. Two public religious disputations were held on 17 and 19 April of that year at St. Wenceslas Parish School on De Koven Street in Chicago. Some lasting result was not achieved through these talks.
Zdrbek is a remarkable phenomenon in the Czech-American society at all
and free-minded in particular. His characteristics can be summed up in the words: ambition, selfishness, impatience, infidelity of the coarsest grain, frenzied diligence in everything it is aimed at combating every religion, but Catholic in particular, the ruthlessness in the choice of weapons, the educated man of the insatiable, and the greed of the reason. Looking at Zdrubek as the chief and foremost propagator of the unholy principles among the Czech people in America with the views of his supporter, we can see that his party has greatly esteemed him. He had only worked with all the unprecedented effort, the better things, only when it was the propaganda of unbelief doctrines, of which he liked the teachings of the deceased American, the atheist Robert Ingersoll. For the thing he defends, he works both in the press and in lectures, not forgetting any opportunities to remind the people in any way that all religion is superfluous and harmful and that it is only in the doctrines of the free-thinking
the thinker (the infidel) lies the salvation and welfare of humanity.
If he means it sincerely, there can be doubts about this, because the motives that led him to join the paths taken were not ideal, but purely material, which can easily be explained by the fact that, in proclaiming materialism, the principles of these naturally also favor them, cleverly enjoyed. As for the way in which the scholars disbelieve, it is necessary to point out that he is not free-minded. Zdrubek in his treatises and public lectures cynically, the promoter of principles (which he thinks are good) completely impermanent, spread the hatred of compatriots against compatriots, if they happen to advocate any other conviction than unbelief. Tim it happened that his activities among the Guilds in America were neither beneficial nor socially beneficial. Zdrubek with a few others - and especially him - tore us apart against each other, and the old Czech sincere social life greatly damaged. Above all, we must realize that the doctrine of his supernationality, which stems from the fact that he devoted all his strength to combat the religion of the Czech people and Czech priests. However, he did not forget to cause his party to establish "free" municipalities in which adherents of unbelief organized themselves and they were taught some sort of greedy "morale." Not original. He has infidelity and all the doctrines he preached from others, but in that is the original, actually in our people he founded a new sect with various mindless ceremonies, and thus became the supreme sectarian head of Czech infidels. He was also forced by law to "parish" of the unbelieving community, adopted the name "reverendus," before him so obnoxious and so hated by him.
Zdrubkova's star, however, has already faded, but the old infidel has not yethe will admire the times when he was considered the leader of all the greedy Guilds in America, and when he was oppressive in the minds of those who believed him to say better education, and a better pen.
Zdrubek as soon as possible will be a forgotten quantity to be discussedonly among those who did not know his silence, his character and his unholy fanaticism, from which he had knocked out capital for himself. And in that case it belongs to himreal merit.
As for the literary activities of František B. Zdrbek, note here there are so many: Zdrbek did not write the original works, except for books, silencers and the like was mainly active as a pioneer and compiler. In this respect, Zdrbek performed quite, adjust both for "Svornost" and "Spirit of time," for "Svojana" a whole series of greedy and "free-thinking" treatises and "sermons." But these works are written in a rough, gritty style, dressed in a nasty Czech robe, and in the way of a scholarly propagator of free-thinking ideas, not too oppressive. ”
In Omaha, he published a pet book "The Matrix of Freedom." Then he wrote, "The First Booklet for American Schools," and in Chicago, the "Second Booklet for Czech-English Schools," serving "History of the Congregation of America." He also published in Chicago: "The Speaker English Speech,"" English Grammar "" Czech Spelling Tutorial, ""Two Religious Public Quarrels with P. Coca," "The Position of a Woman in the Church," "Preaching of the Holy Faith," The Hell of "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Pain, a poor translation of Strauss "The Life of Jesus," translation of Buechner's "Powers and Matters," "The Texas State Institute," "Pocket English-Czech Dictionary," "Assign Grammar English "and other pens in which he spread disbelief among the echoes. At the same time edited 1871. "Organ of the Unity of the Freedom" and now publishes the proceedings "Svojan."the fruit and him in the History of the Guild of America in which he must look true national work — let's be declared a place quite infamous.
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Empire Beauty School-Queens
2017 Average Net Price
After Financial Aid
2016 Student Loan
Default Rate
2017 Enrolled Students
75.6% Full-Time
Empire Beauty School-Queens is a higher education institution located in N/A. In 2016, the most popular Bachelor's Degree concentrations at Empire Beauty School-Queens were N/A.
In N/A, N/A degrees were awarded across all undergraduate and graduate programs at Empire Beauty School-Queens. N/A of these degrees were awarded to women, and N/A awarded men. The majority of degree recipients were N/A (N/A degrees), N/A times N/A then the next closest race/ethnicity group, N/A (N/A degrees).
The median undergraduate tuition at Empire Beauty School-Queens is $0, which is $N/A N/A the national average for N/A ($N/A).
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After taking grants and loans into account, the average net price for students is $15,132.
In 2017, 70% of undergraduate students received federal grants, while 66% of undergraduate students received federal loans.
2017 Value
1 Year Growth
In 2017 Empire Beauty School-Queens had an average net price — the price paid after factoring in grants and loans — of $15,132. Between 2016 and 2017, the average net price of Empire Beauty School-Queens grew by 10.7%.
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Of Undergraduates Receive Grants
Of Undergraduates Receive Federal Loans
70% of undergraduate students at Empire Beauty School-Queens received grants or loans in 2017. This represents a growth of 11.1% with respect to 2016, when 63% of undergraduate students received financial aid.
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2016 Default Rate
Number of Defaults
In 2016 the default rate for borrower's at Empire Beauty School-Queens was 15.1%, which represents 395 out of the 2614 total borrowers.
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Empire Beauty School-Queens has a total enrollment of 160 students. The full-time enrollment at Empire Beauty School-Queens is 121 students and the part-time enrollment is 39. This means that 75.6% of students enrolled at Empire Beauty School-Queens are enrolled full-time.
The enrolled student population at Empire Beauty School-Queens, both undergraduate and graduate, is 45.6% Black or African American, 20.6% Hispanic or Latino, 10.6% White, 4.38% Two or More Races, 1.88% Asian, 0.625% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, and 0% American Indian or Alaska Native.
Students enrolled at Empire Beauty School-Queens in full-time Undergraduate programs are majority Black or African American Female (43.8%), followed by Hispanic or Latino Female (21.5%) and White Female (5.79%). Students enrolled in full-time Graduate programs are majority N/A, followed by N/A and N/A.
Full-Time vs Part-Time Enrollment
Full-Time Enrollment
The total enrollment at Empire Beauty School-Queens, both undergraduate and graduate, is 160 students. The full-time enrollment at Empire Beauty School-Queens is 121 and the part-time enrollment is 39. This means that 75.6% of students enrolled at Empire Beauty School-Queens are enrolled full-time compared with N/A% at similar N/A.
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Retention Rate over Time
2017 Retention Rate
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Enrollment by Race & Ethnicity
Most Common Race or Ethnicity
The enrolled student population at Empire Beauty School-Queens is 45.6% Black or African American, 20.6% Hispanic or Latino, 10.6% White, 4.38% Two or More Races, 1.88% Asian, 0.625% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, and 0% American Indian or Alaska Native. This includes both full-time and part-time students as well as graduate and undergraduates. By comparison, enrollment for all N/A is .
In N/A, N/A N/A women than men received degrees from Empire Beauty School-Queens. The majority of degree recipients at Empire Beauty School-Queens are N/A (N/A degrees awarded). There were N/A times more N/A graduates than the next closest race/ethnicity group, N/A (N/A degrees).
The most common Bachelor's Degree concentration at Empire Beauty School-Queens is N/A, followed by N/A and N/A.
The most specialized majors across all degree types at Empire Beauty School-Queens, meaning they have significantly more degrees awarded in that concentration than the national average across all institutions, are N/A.
Common Jobs by Major
Most Common Job
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The most specialized majors at Empire Beauty School-Queens are N/A.
Highest Paying Jobs by Major
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Highest Paying Job
The highest paying jobs for people who hold a degree in one of the 5 most specialized majors at Empire Beauty School-Queens are Firstline supervisors of food preparation & serving workers, General & operations managers, Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors, Postsecondary teachers, and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers
Common Industries by Major
Most Common Industry
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Majors Awarded
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Gender Breakdown for Common Majors
Degrees Awarded to Men
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Most Common Male Majors
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Most Common Female Majors
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100% Completion Time
In 2017, 2% of students graduating from Empire Beauty School-Queens completed their program within 100% "normal time" (i.e. 4 years for a 4-year degree). Comparatively, 67% completed their degrees within 150% of the normal time, and 67% within 200%.
The following chart shows these completion rates over time compared to the average for the N/A Carnegie Classification group.
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Graduation Rate by Race and Gender
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Highest Graduation Rate (N/A%)
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Race & Ethnicity by Share
Most Common Student Race or Ethnicity
N/A degrees awarded
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Most Common Gender Demographic
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Empire Beauty School-Queens has an endowment valued at nearly $N/A, as of the end of the 2017 fiscal year. The return on its endowment was of $0 (NaNk%), compared to the N/A% average return ($N/A on $N/A) across all N/A.
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2017 Endowment
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2017 Salaries
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Instructional Salaries
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Ocasio-Cortez Supports Wayfair Walkout Over Furnishing Migrant Camps
Wayfair employees planned a walkout after learning the online furnishing company is going to fulfill an order to furnish a migrant camp and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is voicing her support.
The retailer is going ahead with a $200,000 bed and furniture sale to a detention facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
Almost 550 Wayfair employees signed a letter to executives on June 21 in opposition to the sale, The Washington Post reported. The company announced Monday it would be fulfilling the order.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted her support Tuesday for the walkout, saying, “This is what solidarity looks like.” The New York Democrat has called migrant camps “concentration camps.”
Wayfair workers couldn’t stomach they were making beds to cage children.
They asked the company to stop. CEO said no.
Tomorrow, they‘re walking out.
This is what solidarity looks like – a reminder that everyday people have real power, as long as we’re brave enough to use it. https://t.co/667abeLDTG
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 25, 2019
“At Wayfair, we believe that ‘everyone should live in a home that they love,’” the employees wrote in the letter to executives. “Let’s stay true to that message by taking a stand against the reprehensible practice of separating families, which denies them any home at all.”
“Everyone should live in a home that they love” is the Wayfair slogan.
Employees planned the walkout for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday near the headquarters in Boston. The employees will meet at Copley Square to protest, Bloomberg reported. BCFS, a government contractor that manages the Texas facility, placed the order to supply furniture to the migrant camp.
This isn’t the first time Wayfair has sold furniture to a migrant camp. It fulfilled an order in September 2018 for another BCFS facility in Texas that housed over 2,500 teenagers, employees said, according to The Washington Post. The Trump administration closed that Tornillo facility in January because of health and safety concerns.
“We’re walking out in protest of our leadership’s decision to sell to reprehensible concentration camps,” an anonymous employee said, according to the Post. “We had hoped that raising awareness would be enough for them to do the right thing, but it wasn’t. We want to make it clear that this is not a political issue—it’s a humanitarian issue, and we will not back down.”
A Twitter account about the intended walkout created Tuesday has already gained hundreds of followers.
“As a retailer, it is standard practice to fulfill orders for all customers,” company leadership said in a letter, NBC News reported.
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Batman has always been a character with his own demons. After losing his parents Bruce Wayne tends to look at life in a dark and cynical way. It turns out Ben Affleck had some demons of his own that led to him leaving the role of the Caped Crusader behind.
A few years back we got to see Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight in the DC Extended Universe films Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice as well as Justice League, and despite what critics may have said about it… they were quite enjoyable.
After the release of these movies, Affleck was set to star in, write and direct the independent Batman film aptly titled: The Batman but to the dismay of a lot of fans Affleck let go of the project after the Justice League, claiming that the troubled production ‘sapped his interest’. As you can clearly see in the interviews following the release Batman V Superman which inspired the viral “Sad Affleck” memes.
Slowly following these years playing Batman, Affleck fell back into alcoholism in part dealing with the disappointment that was the critical reviews of his films we imagine. In an interview with the New York Times Ben stated:
“I showed somebody The Batman script, they said, ‘I think the script is good. I also think you’ll drink yourself to death if you go through what you just went through again.’”
The production issues aside, Affleck was also dealing with the even more devastating situation that was his slowly decaying marriage with actor Jennifer Garner and was using alcohol as a coping mechanism, however, not surprisingly the drinking also led to more marital troubles which unfortunately led towards the end of his marriage, which he stated was: "The biggest regret of my life". They had been married for 12 years.
Affleck ended up doing stints in rehab in 2017 and 2018 but has appeared to bounce back, starring in the upcoming film The Way Back . A film about a struggling alcoholic. Which evidently he was able to relate to, stating:
“The benefits, to me, far outweighed the risks. I found it very therapeutic.”
Excited to share the new trailer for @thewayback. In theaters March 6.
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Short Stories And Their Structure
Do you ever re-read your old blog posts? That's what I've been doing (and, inexplicably, I've been doing it while re-watching Dr. Who). I just finished reading—or, rather, rereading, "Short Story Structures: Several Ways of Structuring Short Fiction." It seems like I wrote that an age ago, but it's only (only!) been four years. And, believe it or not, I remember writing that post like it was yesterday.
In the years since, I've written many short stories—though I must confess these days I write more nonfiction than fiction. Still, though, I have formed a more definite idea of what the structure of a short story is. That said, I believe these things can be idiosyncratic. The kind of short story structure that appeals to me, that fits my writing style like a glove, that feels right or comfortable, might not be the one that feels natural to you. And that's fine. That's great! Take what feels right to you, what makes sense to you, and change or ignore the rest.
So, for what it's worth, here's what I currently think of as the archetypal short story structure. (It is very close to Sarah A. Hoyt's story structure, the one she outlined in her post: The Structure of A Short Story).
1) In the first couple of lines introduce your audience to the most startling interesting/puzzling/desperate thing about your main character's immediate situation.
In a full length novel we have more time to introduce the protagonist and her situation, but when we have only 1,000 words the story structure becomes condensed and every word counts.
Let's look at a few examples of terrific openers for short stories.
a) Stephen King, "Autopsy Room Four"
"It's so dark that for a while—just how long I don't know—I think I'm still unconscious. Then, slowly, it comes to me that unconscious people don't have a sensation of movement through the dark, accompanied by a faint, rhythmic sound that can only be a squeaky wheel."
b) Ernest Hemingway, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
"It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened."
c) Raymond King Commings, "The World Beyond"
"The old woman was dying. There could be no doubt of it now."
d) Stephen King, "The Monkey"
"When Hal Shellburn saw it, when his son Dennis pulled it out of a mouldering Ralston-Purina carton that had been pushed far back under one attic eave, such a feeling of horror and dismay rose in him that for one moment he thought he surely must scream."
2) In the remainder of the first paragraph give your readers a good idea of your character's problem. At the same time, flesh out the setting and your protagonist's character.
If you're thinking that's a tall order, you're right. But short stories have to get moving quickly. The character's problem is the story hook. I think of this as the engine of the story, as what propels the events of the story forward.
Here's an example from Stephen King's "Autopsy Room Four" (I promise it doesn't include any grisly bits!) King writes:
And I can feel contact, from the top of my head to the balls of my heels. I can smell something that might be rubber or vinyl. This is not unconsciousness, and there is something too ... too what? Too rational about these sensations for it to be a dream.
Then what is it?
And what's happening to me?
The squeaky wheel quits its stupid rhythm and I stop moving. There is a crackle around me from the rubbersmelling stuff.
A voice: "Which one did they say?"
A pause.
Second voice: "Four, I think. Yeah, four."
What is the character's problem? The protagonist of our story is not dead and yet he is being wheeled into an autopsy room. We understand the protagonist's problem—he's not dead, but if something doesn't happen to prevent the autopsy he will be soon. That's a grizzly, and immediate, problem!
3) From the first paragraph up to Act Two. Develop the character's Ordinary World, specifically The Problem the protagonist is enmeshed in. (25%)
In a full length book, and in some longer short stories, the problem you develop in the first quarter of the story isn't the protagonist's main problem. The main problem, I'll call this the Story Problem, is introduced after the precursor problem is wrapped up (This wrapping up will require a few try-fail cycles).
On the other hand, in a short story of under 2,000 words or so I think it's best to give the protagonist the same goal throughout.
Story Goal: The goal the protagonist pursues from Act Two on.
Story Problem: What is keeping the protagonist from achieving the Story Goal.
Around the quarter mark of the story everything changes. If the protagonist had a preliminary goal, she now realizes that the forces which were keeping her from fulfilling that goal weren't what she thought they were. Now the protagonist adopts the Story Goal, acknowledges the Story Problem and enters the Special World of the adventure. From now to the end solving the Story Problem will be her focus.
4) Have the protagonist try to solve the Story Problem and fail. (25 to 50%)
I know it's a movie and not a short story, and I know I should probably update my movie references, but this movie is my all-time-favorite action-adventure story. Yes, I'm talking about Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark. That movie had terrific try-fail cycles. Indiana Jones has acquired the headpiece of the Staff of Ra, the artifact he needed to discover the exact location of the Well of Souls—and now wants to appropriate the Ark.
(For more information about try-fail cycles: Try-Fail Cycles and the Gap.)
First the antagonist René Belloq steals the Ark and seals Indy and his love interest, Marion, into the Well of Souls. Of course the Well is teeming with snakes (Indy hates snakes). Indy uses his torch to keep the snakes at bay, but the torches are burning down. Then Indiana realizes he could use one of the giant statues to knock down a wall and escape the snakes. But the next room is filled with skeletons. And so on. It's a terrific sequence!
That's the idea. Put the protagonist and those she loves in dire peril, have them grasp at straws trying to get themselves out of the fix. Your characters don't have time to think, they're reacting, going on instinct, and in that pressure cooker of adversity their character is revealed.
5) The middle of the story marks a sea-change in the protagonist. She switches from passive to active, from ignorance to knowledge. (50%)
I used to characterize the middle of the story primarily as the place where a showdown occurs between the antagonist and protagonist. And this often does happen.
But over the years I've come to view the midpoint as the place where the hero's view of the world—both the Special World of the adventure and the Ordinary World—changes. This change is permanent. There's no going back. The information, the knowledge, she acquires at the midpoint indelibly marks her. As a result it changes the story. It twists the plot.
Also, often this change takes place as a result of confronting the antagonist, the Big Bad, of the story. The antagonist gloats, boasts, to the protagonist. He lets her know just how impossible reaching her goal is. Perhaps he laughs at her, letting her know he thinks her attempts to effect change are pathetic.
The protagonist now understands that, despite all her planning, she can't achieve her goal, at least not the way she was approaching things. What she thought she knew about the world, about her opponent, was deeply flawed.
The situation looks impossible. Still, though, the hero gets away with her life, so that's something. (Although sometimes one of her allies, possibly her helper or her mentor gives up their life for her escape.)
(List of archetypes: Archetypal Characters.)
Perhaps the hero's allies help the protagonist pick up the pieces. Or perhaps, briefly, the protagonist gives up hope. Sometimes it takes the intervention—and possibly death—of one of the hero's allies to get her to take up the fight again.
6) The hero forms a plan. (60%)
Having regained her will to fight, the hero forms a cunning plan. Of course, as we will see, this plan goes disastrously wrong! But she will adapt with the help of her allies.
7) Three trials culminating in the Dark Night of the Soul (65% to 90%)
As I've said, everyone has their own way of thinking of these things, but to my mind the middle of the third act—here I'm thinking in terms of four acts—contains three events, each of them a major setback to the hero's plans, and each one more devastating than the last. The final setback is known as the Dark Night of the Soul and it completely scuttles the hero's plan.
This is the lowest part of the story. It seems impossible the hero could win. In terms of stakes, we knew all along what would happen if the hero failed, but now we discover that things are so much worse than we'd previously thought. Not only is the hero beaten, they are (apparently) obliterated.
Note: If you're writing a short story of less than 2000 words you might want to collapse these three events into one.
The Dark Night of the Soul generally comes before the hero's 'ah-ha' moment. There's something she realizes and this allows her to change her perspective. Her worldview shifts. She sees a possibility, a way out. It's a slim chance, but at this point in the story she has given up everything. The worst has happened, or at least been set in motion. She has one—exceedingly improbable—chance to save things.
And, of course, it's up to you, the writer, to determine whether she does in fact pull it off.
8) Climax and resolution.
The protagonist confronts the antagonist. Perhaps at first the antagonist is disdainful. He feels he has thoroughly beaten the protagonist and she no longer presents an interesting challenge.
Then the the protagonist draws on the lessons she has leant in the Special World, on her new skills. This gives her a fighting chance. But, as I said, it's your story. Does she win? Does she beat the antagonist and achieve the Story Goal? Or does she fall victim? Perhaps, in the end, she chooses to sacrifice herself for what she sees as a greater good.
The thing to keep in mind is that the climax, although it is a confrontation between protagonist and antagonist, is all about their opposing goals. The question is: will the protagonist achieve her goal?
The antagonist generally wants the same thing as the protagonist, but the two work at cross purposes. For example, both Indiana Jones and Dr. René Belloq wanted the ark but they wanted to do vastly different things with it. Indiana Jones wanted to take it back to the States and put it in a museum where scholars could study it while Belloq wanted to give the ark to Hitler in exchange for wealth and power.
9) Aftermath.
One doesn't have to spend a lot of time on this part, but I think it's important to show the aftereffects of the protagonist's confrontation with the antagonist. Show the hero back in the Ordinary World (if she survives the climax). How has her life and the lives of her allies, the lives of those in her tribe, changed because of her journey, her struggle?
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A Structure For Short Stories
I was going to take a break from talking about story structure but I came across a fabulous post by Chris Winkle over at Mythcreants, “Outline a Short Story in Seven Steps,” that I have to share.
I encourage you to head over to Chris Winkle’s site and read his article for yourself, what follows is what I’m going to call ‘a creative summary.’ Inevitably, I’ve filtered his ideas through my own point of view. One of the results of this is that CW’s seven points have blossomed into nine.
1. Create a problem
This problem will be the central conflict of the story. I like to think of this as ‘the engine’ since this is what drives the story forward, as well as what will initially grab the reader's curiosity. Additionally, this problem is what propels the protagonist to action.
CW advises writers to make this problem neither too easy nor too complex. He writes:
“... if you choose something trivial, you’ll work harder to make it meaningful, and if you choose something daunting, you could struggle to find a solution.”
Instead: “Look for a significant problem that can be solved by one person, in one scene.”
Great advice! I’m realizing why so many of my short stories morphed into novellas or novels: I have the habit of using problems that are much too big.
2. Create a character (the protagonist) to have this problem
CW (wisely) advises us to follow KISS (keep it simple ... silly). We’re trying to write a short story, so don’t describe anything that isn’t integral to the story.
CW also advises that the protagonist be consistent, distinctive, driven, complex, deep and evolving. (To read more on this see CW’s article: The Six Traits of Strong Characters. Jim Butcher has also written about this on his Livejournal account: Characters.)
3. Answer the question, Why does this problem matter to this character?
CW writes:
“The more important the problem is to the character, the more important it becomes to the reader. Come up with a solid reason why this character cares; this goes double if your problem is trivial. Raise the stakes until it has emotional impact.”
Humans are ruled by their curiosity. Yesterday I was watching a recording of a live performance and the only thing I remember about it is that one of the people in the balcony had his jacket draped over the edge. I kept wondering, Will it fall?
I know, this was completely trivial. It was just a silly old jacket. Even if it did fall the stakes were infinitesimal. Imagine how captivated I would have been if, say, the President of the United States were to pass underneath?
This also illustrates an important principle: How does a problem become important? By raising the stakes. (Also, by showing the character’s motivation to win the goal.)
4. Introduce an obstacle that prevents the protagonist from achieving his/her goal
If the problem is solved too soon, there is no story. So an obstacle has to be introduced, something that will keep the protagonist from quickly and easily achieving their goal.
Character is revealed in adversity, so throwing a bunch of trouble at your protagonist is, all around, the best thing you could do for the story.
The protagonist’s external arc
Often the obstacle is introduced by an antagonist. That is, by someone who is very similar to the protagonist in that they have a strong, clear, goal. In the antagonist’s case, of course, this goal is in direct opposition to the protagonist’s goal.
Let’s say the protagonist wants to go off to a college in a far away state in order to study environmental management. Their goal is to, eventually, preserve a patch of wetlands near their childhood home, one that is threatened by a proposed development. If this were the case then the antagonist would want exactly the opposite.
The antagonist doesn’t have to be a villain. For example, the antagonist could be the protagonist’s mother, someone who wants to keep her child close, and safe, and cared for. Someone who doesn’t want them leaving for four long years.
Or, if we wanted a villain, the antagonist could be an unscrupulous land developer who wants to build a shopping mall over the wetlands.
And so on. The crucial thing is for the protagonist’s goal and the antagonist’s goal to be mutually exclusive. If one attains their goal then it must be impossible for the other to. (Although they can both lose.)
The protagonist’s internal arc
What I’ve written about, above, concerning the wetlands, etc., would be part of the protagonist’s external arc. CW points out that if you want your protagonist to have an internal arc as well as an external one, to “make their obstacle a personality flaw.” (For example, Mr. Monk.)
5. Have the protagonist fail
CW advises us to include at least one try-fail cycle but no more than three. And be sure to show the consequences of this failure. That is, show the consequences for the protagonist and those he cares about. This is how one builds suspense.
CW writes that “after every attempt, they should be worse off than when they started.” (This is usually done in a sequel. For more on this see, The Structure of a Short Story: The New Plan.)
6. Build the solution to the problem into the protagonist’s failures
This is excellent advice, the kind that makes me want to pick up a pen and start scribbling! CW advises that we ...
“Give each failed attempt a small step toward the solution. It might be a clue, a tool, or a piece of advice that will help your character. That doesn’t mean they’ll recognize it right away. In fact, it’s better if they don’t.”
7. Create a critical turning point
After the last, biggest, most devastating defeat something happens—perhaps the protagonist has an epiphany—and the hints you scattered in (6) finally come together in the protagonist’s mind.
CW writes: “They have a stunning realization, a clever idea, or finally understand a piece of wisdom.”
Sounds happy, doesn’t it? If tragedy is more your cup of tea, CW has advice for you as well:
“If you’re planning an unhappy ending, the hero’s realization may be false or incomplete. Perhaps the hero latches on to the wrong solution to their problem.”
Note: Even if the protagonist will ultimately fail, your readers should still feel there’s hope.
8. Show the hero achieving (or failing to achieve) his goal
Whether the protagonist wins or loses should hinge upon a choice he makes. There isn’t much to write here because, to a large extent, what happens is determined by all that has gone before.
CW didn’t explicitly include this step, and perhaps it is implicit in the above, but I’ll mention it anyway. Here we show the stakes being cashed out. We show how the protagonist’s world changes because he achieved his goal. If there were other main characters, show what happens to them.
Also, if the antagonistic force was a character (sometimes it’s simply a ticking clock and time), show her receiving her just deserts.
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The Structure of a Short Story: The New Plan
So far our story has set a fairly quick pace. We’ve introduced the setting and the protagonist. We’ve introduced the protagonist’s allies and enemies. We know what the protagonist’s goal is as well as the obstacles to her achieving it. We have seen the protagonist devise a plan to make her goal a reality, act on it and fail miserably. Now it’s time to react to this failure, come up with a new plan and put it into motion.
Now the pace is going to slow. The protagonist needs time to react to all that has happened. She needs to sit down, take a breath, regroup and reflect.
Show the protagonist’s reactions to this loss, show her emotions--or lack of them. What happened? What didn’t go according to plan? Why? Going forward, what are the options? What are the outcomes/stakes for each option?
Each of the protagonist’s allies might argue for a different course of action but, ultimately, the protagonist must choose between them or, even better, put forward a plan of her own, one that is bolder, more daring, than all the others.
In other words, now’s the time for a sequel. (BTW, for more about scenes and sequels see: Scenes, Sequels, Sequences and Acts & Jim Butcher on Scenes and Sequels.)
Scenes Like a Funhouse Mirror
Short stories often reflect the macrocosm as though in a warped funhouse mirror, speeding through certain parts--or only implying them--to dwell on others. (I think I picked the metaphor of a funhouse mirror because I’m reading Stephen King’s “Joyland.” Wonderful story.)
In my previous posts in this series I mentioned that short stories are different from novels but that they have the same important bits. And that’s true, but sometimes these important bits occur offstage: either before the story began or in the time after it ends.
For example, one of my favorite stories, Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” is (or so I would argue) basically a sequel. There are two courses of action being discussed and the girl, the protagonist, must choose between them.
I think that, often, literary short stories are sequels. The protagonist reacts to an event that occurred before the story began and the reader tries to figure out what the event was, as well as its significance, from how it affects the characters.
A note about the structure of a short story and how it often differs from that of a longer work
The crisis of the last section (First Complication) occurred more or less at the Midpoint of our short story, though if we were writing a novel this would occur earlier at around the 30% mark.
Note that the Midpoint isn’t a point, it’s a sequence that consists of several short fast-paced scenes, each scene running into the next with little pause for reflection. In each scene the protagonist tries to achieve her goal (the story goal) and in each something happens to deflect her. (see: Try-Fail Cycles)
In this sense, a short story is condensed. Where in a novel there would be ample time between the failure of the protagonist’s first attempt and her gearing up for her main assault, this span of time is telescoped in a short story. The protagonist of a short story has to adjust to the conditions of the special world, make friends and allies--as well as enemies--in a few short paragraphs rather than chapters.
Formulate a New plan
What follows are some of the stages/events that often occur after the protagonist’s first big failure.
This list is not meant to be in any way canonical--when it comes to stories there’s no such thing--but thinking about these points has often helped me figure out why a certain part of my story isn’t working as well as I’d like.
a. Emotion
At the beginning of the sequel, show the protagonist’s emotions. Show her emotional reaction to the failure at the end of the previous scene. Is she sad? Angry?
b. Thought/Review
The protagonist reviews the situation and focuses on one or two aspects of the attempt as significant. These are the aspects the writer wishes the reader to dwell upon. This is where much of the protagonist’s character development will occur.
For example, who does the protagonist blame? Herself? Her friends? The antagonist? I've found that heroic protagonists tend to blame themselves. Especially if one of their companions is injured in her attempt to achieve her goal.
c. Anticipation/Reason
Show the protagonist anticipating what is to come. What can she do now? Have the protagonist--or her allies--think of two or three ways of achieving her goal. For each goal reveal what the outcome would be; what the new stakes would be.
d. Decision
Have the protagonist decide on a new path of action. The important bit here is that the writer clearly communicates to the reader why the protagonist picked one course of action over another.
For example, continuing my example from last time, let’s say the protagonist’s goal is to stop her grandmother’s house from being repossessed by the bank. Let's say that our protagonist comes up with these three options:
i. Go to the mob and borrow the money.
ii. Plunder the trust fund her father set up for her so she could go to college and become a doctor.
iii. Beg her cousin to let grams live with her. (The protagonist absolutely hates her cousin and the feeling is mutual.)
If the protagonist chooses (iii) then it shows the reader that she is willing to swallow her pride. That would tell us a lot about the protagonist's character. We would see that she would rather do something she absolutely hated rather than let someone she loved come to harm.
If the protagonist doesn’t choose option (iii) that also tells us something about her. For example, if she chooses (ii) then she will achieve her goal--her grams house will be saved--but she will have sacrificed both her dream and her father’s dream to make it happen.
The question is: How much does the protagonist’s pride mean to her? Is she willing to give up her dream to save her pride?Her decision will tell us a lot about her. This, right here, is the nuts and bolts of character development.
e. Action
Show the protagonist begin to act on her new plan. For example, let’s say that the protagonist has chosen to save her grans house by plundering the trust fund her father set up for her. At the end of the sequel we could show her getting in her car and leaving for the bank.
Next time we’ll look at the Major Setback and talk more about how the second half of a story differs from the first. Cheers!
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The Structure of a Short Story: The Setup
Last time I broke the structure of short stories into six discrete parts:
1. Setup
2. First Complication
3. New Plan
4. Major Setback
5. Climax
Today, let’s discuss the first part: setting up the story. Here we need to introduce the story world, the characters and the story question, and we need to do it in a way that is so entertaining readers won’t be able to put it down.
1. The Setup
Traditionally, the setting and everything it includes is developed in the first quarter of a story. That means if we want to write a 4,000 word story that we must complete the task of introducing the setting in 1,000 words or less. That doesn’t seem like much! It’s even worse for flash fiction. A 1,000 word story would have only 250 words for introducing and developing the setting.
Whenever I write a short story I’m always tempted to give more than 25% to the setting. After all, it is, arguably, the most important part of the story. The first few paragraphs will hook a reader--or convince them to put the book down. Which means things must happen. Preferably exciting, remarkable, things. But a reader won’t care about your protagonist before they get to know him. If they don’t care about him then they won’t care about any of those exciting, remarkable, happenings. So one must first take time to set the story and properly introduce the characters. It’s a catch 22!
I think there are two general paths one can take here: the descriptive opening or the action opening.
Descriptive Opening
Paint-me-a-picture. Some writers start off with description. They strut their poetic prose and trust that their readers will hold on long enough, read on long enough, to be slowly drawn in and carried away by the story.
Action Opening
Describe-as-you-go. Other authors start out with action (not necessarily physical action) and insert dribs and drabs of description along the way.
Which kind of opening you choose will depend both on what kind of opening you want to write, what kind of opening is best for your particular story and what genre your story fits into. There is no one right answer and neither opening (descriptive or active) is, of itself, better than the other. It is a matter of taste and the expectations of your readers.
I’ve noticed that descriptive openings are more common in certain genre--fantasy for instance. Action, mystery, adventure and thriller books tend to jump right into the action and insert just enough description along the way so that the reader isn’t confused. (No one likes a white room!)
Examples: Descriptive vs Active
I went to my reading library and, more or less at random, took out two short stories, one by Terry Brooks and the other by Agatha Christie. The first is a terrific example of a descriptive opening and the latter of an active one.
Terry Brooks, “Allanon’s Quest” (approx. 11,000 words)
“The storm clouds scudded across the night sky in roiling clumps that blotted out the half-moon and stars and enveloped the land beneath in heavy shadow. The woods surrounding the village of Archer Trace, fifty miles north and east of the city of Arborlon, stirred uneasily. The trees swayed, and their leaves shivered with a metallic rustling as wind tore at the branches in sharp gusts and rain pattered heavily against the leaves. A drop in the temperature had already announced the storm’s arrival, the air damp, chilly, and raw. Intricate patterns of lightning flashed, and bursts of thunder rumbled from across the eastern edge of the Sarandanon.”
Notice that there is nothing about the protagonist in the first paragraph; this is strictly world development. Here we see an author taking a great deal of trouble to set up the world and establish a mood.
Agatha Christie, “The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife” from “Parker Pyne Investigates”. (Approx. 4,000 words)
“Four grunts, an indignant voice asking why nobody could leave a hat alone, a slammed door, and Mr. Packington had departed to catch the eight forty-five to the city. Mrs. Packington sat on at the breakfast table. Her face was flushed, her lips were pursed, and the only reason she was not crying was that at the last minute anger had taken the place of grief. ‘I won’t stand it,” said Mrs. Packington. “I won’t stand it!’ She remained for some moments brooding, and then murmured: ‘The minx. Nasty sly little cat! How George can be such a fool!’”
Compared to our first paragraph this one moves with the pace of an explosion. At first I was tempted to think that Agatha Christie gave the reader less information than Terry Brooks, but after studying the openings I came to see that it was just information of a different sort.
Let’s list and compare the information these paragraphs give the reader.
Setting: What time of day is it?
TB: Night. This is explicitly stated: “The storm clouds scudded across the night sky [...]”
AC: Morning. Stated. “[...] Mr. Packington had departed to catch the eight forty-five to the city. Mrs. Packington sat on at the breakfast table.”
Setting: What’s the weather like?
TB: There’s a storm bearing down on the land. So there are high winds, swaying trees, a drop in temperature, the air is damp and there’s thunder.
AC: No idea.
Setting: Where are we?
TB: The woods surrounding the village of Archer Trace, fifty miles north and east of the city of Arborlon.
AC: In a kitchen at a table laden with the remains of breakfast.
Character: How many characters?
TB: No human characters are introduced, though the world, the environment, the weather, may have equal importance to any of the characters.
AC: Two, but a third and fourth are implied:
- Mrs. Packington: the client.
- Mr. George Packington: Mrs. Packington’s motivation.
- The minx: the complication.
- Mr. Parker Pyne: The protagonist.
Character: What is the protagonist’s goal?
TB: No idea.
AC: One suspects it has to do with revealing the “sly little cat” to Mr. George Packington for what she is.
And so on. I am amazed that such a great deal of information was given in just the first paragraph. Both Terry Brooks and Agatha Christie set up their respective stories brilliantly. One day I would like to step through a (very!) short story and systematically dissect how the author answered each of these questions.
All right, so. After we’ve gone through and written our story out, what questions should we have answered in the setup?
Questions for developing a setting:
What time of day is it?
Morning, afternoon, night?
Indoors or outdoors?
If we are outdoors, or near a window, what is the weather like?
What town, city, village, etc, are we in? Also, are we in a house, an apartment, a houseboat, a motorboat; are we in a forest or afloat on an ocean?
How many characters?
You’ll likely have a protagonist and antagonist. Also, it often helps to give the protagonist a helper or a mentor, someone he can talk to as well as someone who can help her out if she needs it. Speaking rather callously, giving the protagonist a helper (or mentor) also gives the writer someone to kill off in a highly an emotional way about 3/4 of the way through the story at the major setback. For example, Obi Wan Kenobi sacrificed himself near the end of the second act in Star Wars: A New Hope.
What is the protagonist’s goal?
The protagonist generally doesn’t get their story goal until about the 25% mark. Even so, they generally have an initial goal, something to get the story going.
What motivates the protagonist?
Whenever I think about a character's motivation and what distinguishes their motivation from their goal I think of a cartoon I once saw: a man in a rowboat, pursued by a shark, paddles for shore. Despite the man’s best efforts the shark gains on the rowboat. The man sees this and paddles harder, faster; he paddles until his lungs burn. Will he be able to reach land before the shark upends the rowboat and eats him?
In that scenario the shark is the man’s motivation to row for shore and the shore is the goal.
How does the protagonist intend to achieve his goal?
How the protagonist intends to achieve his goal probably won’t be remotely close to how he actually achieves his goal (if he does). Still, the protagonist should have something of a plan even if it’s along the lines of: We go there, raise hell, grab the thing and come home.
What are the protagonist’s stakes?
What will happen if the protagonist doesn’t achieve her goal? What will happen if she does?
Are the protagonist’s and antagonist’s goals mutually exclusive?
The answer to this question should be: Yes! This is why the antagonist and protagonist are at each other’s throats: if one gets what they want the other cannot. It is the immediate source of their conflict and, as such, forms the engine that drives the story forward.
Now, for each of the above questions that mentioned the protagonist, substitute “antagonist” for “protagonist.” Remember, the antagonist is the hero of his own story.
At the end of the setup, does the protagonist take her first step toward achieving her goal? That is, does she begin to set her plan in motion?
This question is often answered at the end of the first act when the protagonist commits to her quest. She becomes “locked in” to a certain course of action and cannot go back to the way things were. Further, she does this of her own free will knowing what the stakes are.
That’s it! Next time we’ll look at the next stage, the next bone in the skeleton, of our short story The First Complication.
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The Structure of a Short Story
Let’s talk about story structure.
When I read a story or watch a film I always try to identify where I am in the story’s structure. It’s a compulsion. True story: I’ll be sitting on the couch with my friends watching a movie and suddenly exclaim: “That’s the lock in!” or “That was the major setback!”
Yes, they hate me.
Here’s how I think of it: regardless of length, structure is what organizes a story, what gives it lungs to breathe and feet to run.
Just like human skeletons, no two story structures are exactly the same although there are going to be certain broad similarities. Most living humans have a head, upper body, two arms, two legs, two feet, five fingers and ten toes. Similarly, most stories have a beginning, middle and end, they have a protagonist and antagonist, and they have quirky, interesting, characters who have goals they are passionate about achieving.
Further, just like wee little tiny babies have the same basic bits as the tallest basketball player or the biggest weight lifter, so short stories have the same basic bits in the same places as longer stories.
At least that’s what I think.
Here’s what I’m going to do. Over the next five posts, I’m going to talk about what I see as the five main parts of a short story’s structure:
The Parts of a Short Story
This is where characters are introduced, the setting is established, and the one is hooked into the other. The protagonist has committed herself to achieving a particular, concrete, goal. Further, she has devised a plan, a way of overcoming the antagonist’s opposition to her achieving that goal.
2. First complication.
The hero discovers that her plan isn’t going to work. Significant adjustments are needed. She is put into an unfamiliar environment, one to which she is particularly ill suited. She also meets new friends as well as new enemies. The stakes are raised.
The hero has come up with a new plan for how she is going to overcome the opposition to her goal. She (and possibly her ally) now puts this plan into action. It does not go well. (Or, possibly, even though her attempt to achieve her goal is horribly bungled she succeeds! One might see this in a comedy; for example, one having to do with procuring a love potion.)
Even though the plan doesn’t go as expected, even though there is some bickering between the hero and his ally, they lick their wounds and regroup.
The protagonist goes about taking another run at the problem. She begins to devise another plan but then her world is turned upside down. Either something she was counting on having is taken from her (perhaps her magical powers are taken away or her mentor is killed) or something is added: an insurmountable difficulty.
Either way, this is the start of an avalanche of bad that falls squarely on the protagonist.
At this point, the protagonist will have an epiphany and realize how to defeat the antagonist and achieve her goal.
The hero prepares to put her plan into action and then confronts the antagonist. Often there is an element of deception involved. It seems as though the protagonist hasn’t learnt her lesson, it seems as though she has misjudged. But then we find out that was all part of her crafty plan.
Wrap the story up by cashing out the stakes. How did winning (or losing) affect the protagonist and her allies? When she goes back to the ordinary world how are things going to be different for her?
Differences between a short story’s structure and a novel-length story’s structure:
Keep in mind that the structure I’ve just outlined is for a short story. There are differences between this and the structure for a novel, particularly in the middle. In a 2,000 word short story a writer can’t give the protagonist more than one or two failed tries at achieving their main goal. In an novel, though, the protagonist will likely have sub-goals, each of which will have it’s own try-fail cycle.
Also, stories of over 50,000 words often have a B-story (and possibly C- and D-stories as well). A 2,000 word short story generally doesn’t.
Well, that’s it! Monday, I’ll talk about the structure of the first part of a short story.
Update: Here's an index to the articles in this series:
- The Setup
- The First Complication
- The New Plan
- Major Setback (upcoming)
- Climax (upcoming)
- Wrap Up (upcoming)
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Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Third 1,500 Words
This is the third in a series of articles I'm writing on Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula. Even though Dent wrote his formula down in, I believe, the 50s, it is still great advice for anyone wanting to write a fast paced action yarn. Here are the first few instalments:
Lester Dent's Short Story Master Formula
Lester Dent: How To Write A 6,000 Word Short Story: The First Quarter
Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Second 1,500 Words
Lester Dent writes:
a) Shovel the grief onto the hero.
b) Hero makes some headway, and corners the villain or somebody in:
c) A physical conflict.
d) A surprising plot twist, in which the hero preferably gets it in the neck bad, to end the 1500 words.
DOES: It still have SUSPENSE?
The MENACE getting blacker?
The hero finds himself in a hell of a fix?
It all happens logically?
These outlines or master formulas are only something to make you certain of inserting some physical conflict, and some genuine plot twists, with a little suspense and menace thrown in. Without them, there is no pulp story.
These physical conflicts in each part might be DIFFERENT, too. If one fight is with fists, that can take care of the pugilism until next the next yarn. Same for poison gas and swords. There may, naturally, be exceptions. A hero with a peculiar punch, or a quick draw, might use it more than once.
The idea is to avoid monotony.
Vivid, swift, no words wasted. Create suspense, make the reader see and feel the action.
Hear, smell, see, feel and taste.
Trees, wind, scenery and water.
THE SECRET OF ALL WRITING IS TO MAKE EVERY WORD COUNT.
Lester Dent gives basically the same advice for the second and third quarters. It's the same, only different.
Here's the structure of the third 1,500 words:
1. Introduce a complication for the hero. Either the villain makes a move the hero wasn't expecting or something the hero was counting on falls through.
2. Despite the complication/setback the hero has a minor achievement and comes closer to attaining his goal.
3. The hero's plan looks like it's succeeding. The important thing here is that the hero brings the fight to the villain and that the hero is active. He doesn't have to get into a fistfight with the villain--they don't even have to be in the same room--but there should be some kind of active confrontation.
4. Throw in another complication/plot twist. Either something happens that the hero had no way of either knowing about or preventing, or something he was counting on falls through. Perhaps someone he was relying on turned out to be a traitor or perhaps the villain has been luring the hero into a trap.
As a result of the plot twist the hero seems done for. Finished. He'll never achieve his goal. Not only that, it turns out we were wrong about what would happen to him if he failed. It's much, much, worse than we thought.
So, there you have it. We end the third section of 1,500 words with the hero in so much trouble there's no possible way he'll ever win. He's doomed.
The Essence of A Pulp Story
Dent sets out the essential elements of a pulp story; those things he felt define the form:
a. Physical conflict.
I think the key here is including conflict one could see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Conflict so concrete and particular you could film it. One can't film an emotion, only the effect of an emotion.
b. 2 or 3 plot twists.
In at least two or three places reverse the readers expectations. You, the storyteller, have set them up to think that a certain something is going to happen. For instance, the villain is playing video games in his parent's basement and the hero is creeping down the stairs to apprehend him.
Writers need to subvert the readers expectations. In the case of my example I might have the thing the hero took to be the villain really be nothing but a lifelike simulacrum put there to trick the hero into entering the villains lair. As soon as he does the doors slam close and locks and a foul smelling gas fills the room. The hero tries not to breathe but, eventually, is forced to. He slumps, unconscious, to the ground.
c. Suspense.
Suspense begins with a question: Will the hero escape the machinations of the villain? If so, how?
Readers know that the villain is setting the hero up for a big fall; the villain is able to anticipate the hero's every move, or at least he seems to be. Is the hero clever enough, resourceful enough, to spot the villain's evil trap before it's too late?
Dramatic irony is only one way of generating suspense. Here are a few articles I've written on the subject:
- Three Ways To Create Suspense
- Generating Suspense Through Conflict
- 7 Tips From James Patterson For Writing Suspenseful Prose
d. Menace.
A menace continues to build/intensify right up to the final confrontation between hero and villain.
Although I'm not sure they're synonymous, the way Dent uses the word "menace" makes me think of stakes. The stakes, as well as the conflict between the hero and the villain, need to keep increasing right up until the end, right up until the hero defeats the villain (or vice versa).
Descriptions: Keep them simple.
In an action-packed, suspense filled, short story, descriptions need to be kept to a minimum. One needs to choose one's words carefully. In a book one can, perhaps, include a beautiful description that doesn't have anything to do with anything and get away with it. That's not the case in a short story.
That's it! If you're writing along with this then you've finished the third quarter of your short story. The end is in sight. How will the hero save himself and defeat the villain's dastardly plans? Stay tuned.
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How To Write A Short Story
A beginning writer recently asked for advice on how to write a short story. My answer to her query was far too long for her post but I thought, well (silver lining) it's just the right length for a blog post!
The Question: Any comments, suggestions, tips or tricks for a beginning writer on how to write a short story?
If I could go back in time to when I first grappled with this question, here's what I would tell myself:
Before you start writing, have a good idea of the following:
- Who is your protagonist? Male? Female? A CEO? A Barista? Is she confident and capable or cringing and awkward?
- What does your protagonist want? What is his goal? Every protagonist should want something, need something, desperately.
- Your protagonist doesn't have to be nice, but she does have to be interesting. Your reader needs to be able to identify with her.
- It sometimes helps if you give your protagonist a quirk (a fear of snakes or an affinity for round numbers, and so on).
- Make your protagonist exceptionally good at something. It can be something relatively trivial like being able to tie the stem of a cheery in a knot with his tongue.
- Who is your antagonist? He will probably be a lot like the protagonist (every villain is the hero of his own story).
- Make them a person. In the beginning I think it helps to make the antagonist a person rather than a tornado or the creeping evils of old age. I'm a person so it's easier for me to write about people. I just put myself in that characters shoes and change a few things.
- Make them strong. IMHO one of the easiest things to do in the beginning is not to have enough conflict. Interesting conflict requires a strong antagonist. Try-fail cycles are your friend. The hero has to fail a lot. This is easier and more believable if your villain is strong/powerful/wonderfully menacing. (Dan Wells mentions that one of the reasons Inigo Montoya killing Count Tyrone Rugen was one of the best scenes in the movie was that he tried 10 times to do it and failed.)
The Stakes
- Spell out the stakes--what will happen to the protagonist if she fails, what will happen if she wins.
Know The Ending
- Know how the story is going to end. If you know how the story is going to end then you can figure out the stakes.
Short Story Structure
In a short story the structure can be simplified. Sometimes it's just
- The beginning. This is the setup. It's where you'll introduce the characters, the setting, the heroes goal, the antagonist (generally: whatever it is that is preventing the hero/protagonist reaching their goal.)
- The middle. The hero tries to achieve his goal three times. The first two times the antagonist successfully blocks him/her but on the third try, because of what the hero has learnt, because of who he/she is, the protagonist succeeds. (Or perhaps they fail, that's up to you.)
- The end. Show the aftermath (we see the result of the hero either obtaining or failing to obtain his/her goal).
As I said, this is the advice I would give to myself if I could go back in time. Everyone's different. That's why it's important to write (a lot!) and find out what works for you. If something strikes you as true/helpful/useful in the above, take it, use it. If you disagree with any of it, ignore it. There's no one way of writing (thankfully!).
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Lester Dent's Formula For Writing A 6,000 Word Short Story
"This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western and war-air. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely just what must happen in each successive thousand words.
"No yarn of mine written to the formula has yet failed to sell."[1]
Note: Keep in mind that Dent wrote adventure/horror/science fiction stories, ones where a lot of dead bodies showed up. That said, his formula works for anything, even stories without dead bodies, just adjust it to suit your needs.
Who was Lester Dent?
Although Lester Dent created the superhuman scientist and adventurer Doc Savage the novels were credited to Kenneth Robeson, a name made up, and owned, by Dent's publisher.
Dent started out as a telegraph operator who wrote on the graveyard shift. One of his co-workers had sold a story for $450--which was a fortune at the time--and Dent thought, "Hey, I could do that!"
Turned out he was right.
Dent eventually wrote over 159 novels over 16 years--and that was just the Doc Savage novels! He celebrated his affluence by buying a yacht and sailing around the world.
Before he died in 1959 Dent decided to gift other writers with his formula for writing a 6,000 word story.
Michael Moorcock's Summary of Lester Dent's Method
I'll get to a blow-by-blow of Dent's method shortly but here's a summary, courtesy of Michael Moorcock:
"... split your six-thousand-word story up into four fifteen hundred word parts. Part one, hit your hero with a heap of trouble. Part two, double it. Part three, put him in so much trouble there's no way he could ever possibly get out of it. ... All your main characters have to be in the first third. All your main themes and everything else has to be established in the first third, developed in the second third, and resolved in the last third. (Lester Dent, Wikipedia)"
Note: When I talk about Dent's method, below, much of it is a paraphrase.
Lester Dent's Method
Before you set pen to paper here are four things to think about:
1. A murder method
From what I've seen, the overwhelming majority of Dent's stories contained a murder. The murder method should be different than anything you've read or seen. I know, that's a tall order. But try to put a spin on it that's unique.
Dent writes:
"A different murder method could be--different. Thinking of shooting, knifing, hydrocyanic, garroting, poison needles, scorpions, a few others, and writing them on paper gets them where they may suggest something. Scorpions and their poison bite? Maybe mosquitos or flies treated with deadly germs?
"If the victims are killed by ordinary methods, but found under strange and identical circumstances each time, it might serve, the reader of course not knowing until the end, that the method of murder is ordinary.
"Scribes who have their villain's victims found with butterflies, spiders or bats stamped on them could conceivably be flirting with this gag.
"Probably it won't do a lot of good to be too odd, fanciful or grotesque with murder methods.
"The different thing for the villain to be after might be something other than jewels, the stolen bank loot, the pearls, or some other old ones.
"Here, again one might get too bizarre."[1]
Here's a list of possible murder methods. These are primarily from the appropriately named article, How To Commit The Perfect Murder.
i. A sword. Perhaps a kantana.
ii. Sharpened icicle. Extra points for fashioning it from some of your victim's bodily fluids.
iii. A knife. Butchers knife, throwing knives, kitchen knife, rusty butter knife. Let your imagination guide you.
iv. A gun. Guns "can be found in bins, strapped under cars, inside folded newspapers and in every schoolchild's backpack. Remember to replace after use."
v. A car. Best if you don't use your own car. The author suggests stealing one, preferably from a Walmart. Or perhaps a long-term parking lot.
vi. A heavy object. A brick, meat tenderizer (/club), candlestick, paperweight, and so on.
vii. Heavier objects. An aeroplane, elephant, train, bulldozer, Mack truck.
viii. Pills. Available from drugstores, doctors, drug dealers.
ix. Hammer and stake. Be creative.
x. A notebook. See Death Note for inspiration.
xi. A wand.
xii. Push off a (tall) building.
xiii. Severe allergies, the more exotic the better.
xiv. Poison. Arsenic, curare, and so on. Be creative.
Here are a few more: bomb, lynch, crucify, burn/incinerate, drown, asphyxiate, strangle, martial arts, curse, evil puppets, acid.
2. The antagonist's goal
Again, although there are relatively few things folks murder for (love, money, power, and so on) the particular motivation is--or at least should be--unique to your villain.
Dent describes what the villain is after as "treasure". I don't know whether he's being literal or employing metaphor. Perhaps a bit of both. Whatever his ultimate goal--for instance, let's say it's revenge--there's going to be a physical manifestation of that goal in the story.
For instance, in Star Wars IV, Darth Vader wanted to defeat the resistance and the physical manifestation of that desire was the destruction of the rebel's base on Yavin IV.
When I first saw Star Wars--one of the local theatres was showing all the films back to back--I thought the Death Star was truly badass. It destroyed planets! It was like a roving, moon-destroying, bully. That was a new spin on an old theme.
I won't list them, but here are a few links having to do with ideas for what the treasure might be.
3. A setting
Ideally, the setting will be suggested by (a) the murder method and (b) the villain's goal. You'll want something that stands out, that captures the imagination.
"Unique locale? Easy. Selecting one that fits in with the murder method and the treasure--thing that villain wants--makes it simpler, and it's also nice to use a familiar one, a place where you've lived or worked. So many pulpateers don't. It sometimes saves embarrassment to know nearly as much about the locale as the editor, or enough to fool him."[1]
If Lester Dent were alive today I think he'd say: Google Maps Street View is your friend.
On an unrelated note, love that name, "pulpateer".
4. The hero's motivation
Dent doesn't write much about this point except to say that it is "a menace which is to hang like a cloud over [the] hero".
I explain this to myself by thinking about stakes. What are the stakes? What will the hero gain if he achieves his goal (and, presumably, that goal is to stop the villain)? What will the hero lose if he doesn't?
I mentioned Star Wars IV, above. Here are the stakes:
Success: If Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star then the rebel base is saved.
Failure: If Luke doesn't blow up the Death Star then he, and everyone else he knows, is dead.
It kept me on the edge of my seat.
Whew! We're through the preliminaries. We now know what the murder method is, what the villain's goal is, we know the setting and we understand the stakes. (By the way, Dent says that you really only have to know two or three of the above points before you start writing. Even if you know one of them you're ahead of the game.)
Next time I'll talk about the actual writing. Dent broke a 6,000 word story into four equal parts. Next time we'll look at the first quarter and discuss the opening line and how we, in Dent's words, need to "swat him [the hero] with a fistful of trouble".
Here are links to other articles in this series:
- Lester Dent: How To Write A 6,000 Word Short Story: The First Quarter
- Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Second 1,500 Words
- Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Third 1,500 Words
- Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Fourth And Final 1,500 Words
Thanks to RedFoxOne for sending me a link to Gareth-Michael Skarka's implementation of Dent's formula as a scenario generator for gaming. Brilliant! Here's the article: Pulp Adventure Generator.
1. As far as I can tell, Dent's formula comes from the book, The Creator of Doc Savage, by Marilyn Cannaday. It is also online over at paper-dragon.com: The Lester Dent Master Fiction Plot.
Correction (Dec 8, 2020): Dent's formula was first given in the Writer's Digest Yearbook, 1936. Thanks to Korodzik for leaving a comment and letting me know.
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How To Write Episodic/Serialized Fiction
I wrote about the structure of short stories yesterday so I normally wouldn't do another post on story structure but today Janice Hardy published one of the best articles on episodic story structure I've ever read: What Downton Abbey Can Teach us About Tension.
By the way, I think the information contained in Janice's post is about much more than episodic structure. Whatever story you're writing, whether it's a novel, novella or even a short story, I'm confident that something in her article will apply.
I've broken this discussion into two posts; I'll publish the second one tomorrow.
Episode One: Introduce The Problem
Introduce the Core Conflict
Everything starts with a problem. The first episode will start by setting up the Core Conflict, but every episode should start by introducing a problem, either a new problem or a complication to an existing problem.
By the way, here's what I mean by a problem: something that needs to be solved that directly impacts the main character's life such that if she fails her life will be changed for the worse.
There should also be a solution to the problem, but one that conflicts with the main character's other goals/desires.
The story question then becomes: Will the problem be solved and the main character achieve her goal? Will the main character be rewarded for her sacrifice or will she fail and have her life--and the lives of those around her--changed for the worse?
a. State/show the problem clearly.
b. State/show the plan the hero has come up with to solve the problem.
c. State/show how the plan is going to be implemented.
d. State/show the stakes. What will happen if the plan fails? What will happen if the plan succeeds? The price of failure should be something that will change not only the main character's life for the worse, but the lives of everyone she cares about.
Showing the stakes--spelling them out for the audience--helps build tension because it lets the audience see how very bad failure would be for the main character, who (hopefully) we've come to care about.
Episode Two: Complications
The hero's solution to the problem fails.
In Episode One the main character hoped her plan would work and the problem would be solved but the plan doesn't work.
It could be that the main character's plan works in part, but a major complication is introduced, or it could be that the plan was a complete and total failure and not only does the thing she feared would happen, happen, something much worse than that occurs. Ideally this would be something completely unexpected that the main character couldn't have foreseen or prevented.
What needs to be done in this episode:
a. The problem becomes harder to solve.
The problem was tricky before, but now it seems unsolvable. People were nervous before, but now they're downright terrified.
b. The stakes get larger.
Part of the reason our characters are downright terrified is that the stakes have gone up. Way up. While the payoff remains the same (or possibly has been diminished) the consequences of failure have become much more stark.
For example, if the problem was that a single mother and her newborn baby were going to lose their rent controlled apartment in two months the problem becomes that they are going to lose the apartment tomorrow. And a blizzard is raging outside. Or something like that, you get the gist.
I have two more points to go over but I'll leave those for tomorrow.
Question: Have you ever written serialized fiction? If so, have you tried out Wattpad? I've been thinking of opening an account over there and was curious what you folks thought of it.
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What Slush Pile Readers Look For In A Story
Yesterday I read a fascinating article written by Ferrett Steinmetz, an accomplished author and slush pile reader, about what he looks for in a story.
Slush Pile Readers Want To Love Your Story
Some of what Steinmetz wrote surprised me. For instance, that readers of slush want to fall in love with your story. He writes:
As we lay our eyes upon the first sentence of your epic tale, we are filled with the hope that you—yes, you!—will win the Nebula for this very story.
What you as a writer must understand is that our Hope-O-Meter starts topped off—but as we encounter each bit of bad writing in your story, our Hope-O-Meter drops.
There are many things that can cause a slush pile reader's Hope-O-Meter to drop but it all comes down to this: The reader doesn't care about what's happening.
Steinmetz writes that this lack of caring usually comes from one of three things:
Who is this character we’re expected to follow along until the end of the story?
What is s/he doing, and why is s/he doing it?
Why should we care about this particular action?
If we don’t know all three of those soon, then generally speaking we’re going to lose interest. (Great writers can break any rule, of course… but if you’re a great writer, then why are you still in our slush pile?)
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Steinmetz writes:
So what you’re doubtlessly asking by now is, “How can I keep that Hope-O-Meter filled all the way up?” And the answer is, “Get me to care about your characters, quickly and efficiently.”
And now for the 64 million dollar question: HOW does a writer get a reader to care about their characters?
Steinmetz's answer:
A writer gets a reader to care about their characters by answering the right questions.
To illustrate this, Steinmetz gives examples from actual slush that didn't make it:
1. Who is your protagonist?
Jason’s hand trembled as he crouched in the bush and aimed at the slaver on the rooftop. The slavers had come to Juniper County to put anyone they could find in shackles, so now Jason had no choice: he had to shoot.
The slaver turned, his eyes going wide as he saw Jason. Jason pulled the trigger; the slaver’s head burst open.
Swallowing back nausea, terrified that someone had heard, he ran for cover…
The flaw here, Steinmetz writes, is that we don't know who Jason is.
- If slavers came to their home town, most people would shoot at them, so this doesn't tell us a whole lot about Jason.
- Jason is nauseous and nervous so that might indicate he's inexperienced but it could also just be that he's afraid of being caught.
What we needed to know about Jason:
a. Who or what he is fighting for. Does he have a family that he's trying to protect? (This covers two things: character and motivation.)
b. How experienced of a fighter is he? Is he an able hunter or a clueless accountant?
c. What are his ultimate goals? Does he want to escape the town? Drive the invaders out? Rescue his family? His friends?
Further, the reader needs to know the answer to these three questions in the first three paragraphs.
2. What is your protagonist's goal?
Here's an example of a passage that nails the "who" but falls short when it comes to "what":
At six o’clock on the dot, Damien clicked off his computer and stacked his unfinished paperwork neatly in his in-tray. The desk had become untidy over the course of the day, so he lined everything up geometrically; the desk blotter perfectly parallel with the keyboard, the monitor at a forty-five degree angle.
He made his way to the elevator, observing a spot on his shiny leather shoes. He unfolded a handkerchief to buff it clean, then pressed the exact center of the button that marked the first floor.
When the elevator arrived, Damien spritzed the air with a small can of perfume, trying to neutralize the odors of stale BO and farts pent up within
Here we know the kind of person Damien is, but we don't know what motivates him and we don't know what his ultimate goal is. Steinmetz writes:
Note how this opening has no real indicators of Damien’s wants or needs, aside from a clean shoe and a fart-free elevator. It’s a kind of weak characterization, because it does tell us what his immediate needs are without letting us know what his goals are.
However, if we know that Damien is leaving work to go to a pick-up bar to try and get a girl, then suddenly all of these mundane details take on personal shape; he’s buffing his shoes so he’ll look good, he’s spraying the elevator to avoid smelling bad for his partner.
Or, if we know he’s going to visit his dying mother in the hospital, the rituals take on an air of desperation; his mother’s illness is out of his control, but he can control his own personal space.
3. What makes the protagonist interesting?
Here's an example of a passage with bland characters:
Beatrice stirred her soup in time to the rhythm of her husband chopping wood outside. Her cousin Jack took over stirring as she went into the bedroom to check in on Cindy. As Beatrice picked her daughter up, she wriggled and grinned.
In this case, you have four characters in the first paragraph, none of them doing anything that makes them memorable. Anyone can chop wood, if they need to. Anyone can stir soup or check on a baby.
We want our protagonists to be interesting. If they're not interesting then they're boring and who wants to read about a boring character? Steinmetz writes:
Interesting characters do things that no one else would do in their circumstance; that’s why you remember them.
Also, a writer needs to make each of their characters interesting and memorable but in different ways. Otherwise characters blend into one another.
4. What is the story goal?
Usually the story goal(/story question) is the same as the protagonist's external goal.
For example, in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones' goal was to find the ark and bring it back to the university for further research and study. That was also the story question: Will Indiana Jones find the ark and bring it back to the university museum before Dr. Rene Belloq and the Nazis snatch it from him and use it to swing the tide of war their way?
However, the protagonist's goal isn't always so closely linked to the story question.
For example, in Star Wars IV: A New Hope Luke's goal is to destroy the death star and thereby save the rebel alliance. However the overarching story goal is to destroy the empire. Even when Luke succeeds in destroying the death star the empire is far from beaten since the emperor is still alive.
Steinmetz holds that it's important for readers to know both what the protagonist's goal is, and what the story question is (if they're different), from the beginning.
Here's an example of an opener where the story goal is withheld:
The work will take three months, and if done poorly, risks fatally poisoning you,” Nellie explained to the scent-engineer. “So I need to make sure your skills are up to speed.” She tightbeamed a spec over to his PDA; he whistled.
This is quite an unusual request,” murmured Paco. “Even if you granted me full access to your family’s pheromone farms, I’m not sure it could be done.” He nodded, contemplating the request. “But if so, I’m the only man who can do it.”
That’s the attitude I’m looking for,” she said, reaching out to clasp hands and seal the bio-contract.
A lot of writers, for some reason, think it’s more interesting to conceal the central premise of their story and then reveal it later on. At some point around page five or six, we’re going to finally have the Big Reveal that what Nellie is looking for is an Enslavement Pheromone to turn humans into mindless ant-drones. Mwoo hah hah!
Unfortunately, the irritation of leaving your reader in the dark is almost never as cool as your actual central concept.
5. Don't include too much description
I know, that's not a question, but Ferrett Steinmetz makes an excellent point:
[I]f a story started with, “The tendril-fields were wet and pulsing, the rose-pink tentacles reaching up to grab at the spine-birds that flew overhead,” then fine, I’d be like, that’s amazing. Tell me more. But generic descriptions of landscape are a pace-killer.
6. Show don't tell
Thing is, there’s a big difference between “he’s insane” and “he thinks bugs crawl into his ear whenever he talks on his cell phone.” There’s a big difference between “He’s in love” and “Every time he fills up at the gas station, he buys a single flower for his wife and leaves it on her pillow.” There’s a big difference between “exhilaration” and “The story you spent three months agonizing over just found a home at Shimmer.”
Stories are about concrete details. If you write about emotions as though they’re just these abstracted principles, then your story lacks all power. When you write about characters feeling stuff, get as gritty as you can; it’ll make them more unique and pay off, and it won’t make us slush editors go, “Oh, yes, another story written by a madman who doesn’t actually sound all that insane.”
Great examples and excellent advice. The epitome of something simple to understand but not easily done.
I encourage you to read the rest of Steinmetz's essay here: Confessions of a Slush Reader: Why Should I care?
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Undead Christianity
Europe is the faith, the faith is Europe. When Roman Paganism died, the Roman Empire in the west died. Julian the apostate tried to revive paganism, got an undead religion. My commenters tell me Christianity survives as a mustard seed, but to me, it looks like a dead parrot.
I wish Christianity could be revived, I hope it can be revived, but am not all that optimistic.
European Christianity was the official state religion, which is sort of odd because Europe was never really one state, even when there was a functioning Holy Roman Emperor and Holy Roman Empire. It has been said that the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not an empire. But this is not true. It was not Roman, and not an empire, but it was holy. The Emperor, the Empire, and the state was subject to the Church in those matters where it is proper for the Church to command, and the Church was subject to the state in those matters where it is proper for the state to command. (With the usual frequent disagreements as to what is Caesar’s and what is God’s)
When the Empire faded, the Church inevitably and inexorably got drawn into earthly politics, backing one state against another, which led to the Church of England, the protestant reformation, and the sack of Rome, and eventually the bloody religious wars of the early seventeenth century. These terrible wars were resolved by the peace of Westphalia. The King gets to set his state’s religion, and other states are not supposed to interfere, though, of course, they did.
The peace of Westphalia in effect said “forget about universalism, leads to too much bloodshed”
The rise of Progressivism was the return of the holy universalist state Church, and led to the terrible wars of the twentieth century. These wars ended when one superpower became supreme, ruling in the not quite imperial style of the Holy Roman Empire, not quite an empire, but an empire nonetheless, and imposed its faith on all of Europe, and almost all of the world – but now that superpower is fading, while progressivism is more holy and more universalist than ever.
To cut the long story short, today progressivism is the state religion, and Christianity is effectively suppressed. My commenters assure me that a mustard seed remains, but I just don’t see it. Recently existent Christianity enforced patriarchal durable monogamy, with divorce being damn near impossible. The wife got a permanent obligation to honor and obey, the husband got a permanent obligation to love and cherish. And, apart from some tolerance for polygyny in early Christianity, Christianity has always been this way, until now. The New Testament, and the communion of the Saints, are quite clear on the topic.
The earthly church is a fictive kin of God, God and Church being a reflection of husband and family, (Ephesians 5:22-33) making all Christians in a church fictive kin, a tribe. Marriage is the sacrament that everyone has the power to make, the sacrament that priests could never take away from the congregation, and which links families to the congregation and to God, since the husband and wife rely on God and the congregation for social enforcement of the deal. If you end marriage as it used to be known, you end Christianity, and if you end Christianity, you end Europe. Durable Patriarchal marriage is not just one doctrine among many, it is a keystone part of the functioning of Christianity, hence the joke “Hatched, matched, and dispatched”.
For 1900 years, from the beginning of Christianity, to second wave feminism in the nineteen sixties, men removed their hats on entering church, and women covered their heads in church and on the way to and from church. For 1900 years women had their hair long. (1 Corinthians:11)
And now they don’t, and no one seems to notice that there is anything wrong with this. But don’t you feel just a little bit uneasy when you face a fertile age woman with a pixie cut? Something is wrong, something is off, something is odd, unpleasant, and disturbing, but you are not allowed to notice it.
Today’s Christians, including the supposed reactionaries like Dalrock, Bruce Charlton, and Zippy will tell you it was just a cultural thing, just Paul foolishly mistaking the fashions of his day for the universal laws of God. Which is not much different from saying that when Paul prohibited men having sex with males, he was just mistaking the fashions of his day for the universal laws of God. Similarly, Ephesians 5. Bruce Charlton will tell you that Ephesians 5 is just a metaphor, about the relationship between God and man, but not about the relationship between husband and wife. Dalrock will tell you he totally supports Ephesians 5, except he does not, and Zippy would rather not go there.
You cannot have Christianity without patriarchy, and if you are not entirely comfortable with patriarchy maybe you should be worshiping the Goddess.
In short, the Christian right, like the Republicans, are just progressives who are a bit behind the times. You may say that a short haircut on a girl is not like a man sodomizing a boy, and it is not, but if a fertile age woman wears a pixie cut, chances are she has been taking it up the ass from Mister Very Wrong, and she will forever feel in her heart that Mister Very Wrong was way more manly than you are.
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No molten metal?
Okay. What’s this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmuzyWC60eE
How is molten metal a count against it, at the same time that nobody claimed that the fire got hot enough to melt metal?
Forgot linkback. https://blog.reaction.la/culture/undead-christianity/#comment-1554424
In any case, this entire discussion is stupid. If the evil conspiracy flies an airliner into a building, planting charges is gilding the lilly. It would only make sense if airliners full of people were not in fact flown into the buildings.
One can plausibly claim that an evil Joo conspiracy turned a blind eye to the terrorists, but a blind eye plus demolition charges is overdoing it.
The WTC had already been bombed so it wouldn’t have even been a stretch.
There are hundreds of thousands of eye witnesses (myself included incidentally) to the second plane hitting the second tower (a burning hole in the WTC is a giant spectacle and the buildings were visible over a huge densely populated area).
Not only would one jet full of people have been gilding the lily, the second jet was even more so.
They installed and used explosives because they were afraid of this happening at several times the scale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKeENdyIluI
Someone who flies planes into buildings is not afraid of that happening at several times the scale.
…and if you actually read what I wrote, you would have seen that’s not what I’m claiming.
You’re usually good at reading what’s there. I would have said always until now.
The ‘spontaneous’ implosion of the towers, a unique historical event, is part of the evidence of secret Cathedral competence. If they had been allowed to topple naturally, it would have caused widespread destruction.
No, buildings cannot be rigged to self-destruct in a few hours while everyone is watching. It must have been rigged to self-destruct either during construction or soon after the 1993 bombing, in a demonstration of foresight and hard decisions being made.
The cover up is simply due to another hard decision: they decided some thousands of lives wasn’t worth the risk of the buildings toppling, so the self-destruct was activated. Of course a democracy cannot pull the lever on the trolley problem, that would be wrong. If the towers had toppled, the deaths would have been due to terrorists. Instead, it’s due to supposed ingroup members. Voters are dumb.
Scale. Those are not drops of molten metal. Those are lumps of burning debris the size of you. It is a big building. You would not be able to see individual drops of molten metal.
Also, molten steel is intensely bright. These are ordinary burning stuff bright.
Cavalier says:
There wouldn’t be molten steel on video of the towers’ collapse because the plane could not have melted steel. There may possibly have been molten aluminum; I haven’t investigated that bit; it obviously isn’t relevant to the collapse.
The molten steel was the stuff the rescue teams later found deep in the ruin. Apparently, it was still burn-your-eyebrows-off hot a week or two after the collapse.
It all boils down to one thing: steel frame buildings simply do not spontaneously melt into the ground at free-fall velocity. We have been building steel frame buildings for over a century, and there are only three exceptions to this rule recorded in history, and they all happened within 300 yards and 9 hours of each other.
“We have been building steel frame buildings for over a century, and there are only three exceptions to this rule recorded in history, and they all happened within 300 yards and 9 hours of each other.”
It’s almost as if some kind of extraordinary event occurred in those 300 yards during those 9 hours – one that hadn’t happened ever before in recorded history. Baffling.
Two planes flying into three buildings? Jet fuel melting steel? Or ordinary fire bringing down a steel frame building?
Crimestop Q: What do you get if literally an entire steel frame building catches fire?
Crimestop A: A charred and blackened steel frame. http://www.serendipity.li/wot/other_fires/other_fires.htm
I am pretty sure the rescue team did not find melted steel deep in the ruin.
Any sufficiently tall building or large structure when it collapses goes into free fall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMTALBYRNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-uWAsu9DI
We have not seen that many collapses of really tall buildings because there just are not that many really tall buildings.
I repeat. If you are going to fly an airliner full of people into a really tall building, demolition charges are just gilding the lily.
The taller a building is, the more its collapse looks like the collapse of the towers. It is just scaling law. People just don’t perceive how big the towers were.
Suppose it was totally the Joos that flew the planes into the two towers. Suppose the pilot was a rabbi. Would they bother with demolition charges?
First vid: if you look carefully you can see that the building, or at least the frame, is still there, entirely uncollapsed.
Second vid: Possibility 1) A random building with no one in it suddenly decides to crumble, though fortunately the proud owner of a potatoSLR was standing around filming a lifeless building with a crowd of people standing around staring at said lifeless building as though something was about to happen. Possibility 2) Arabs. http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/27/Dramatic-footage-shows-moment-of-Makkah-building-demolition-1107.html
Maybe we don’t see ANY spontaneous collapses of tall buildings because we don’t see ANY spontaneous collapses of steel frame buildings, and while not all B are A, all A are B.
If the rabbi pilot was Ovadia Yosef himself, those buildings would still be standing. They would have gaping holes in them, and the topmost floors would be burnt to a crisp, but they would still scrape the New Yawk sky.
P.S. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone — or (((anyone))). I have no clear idea who “they” is. I’m sure it will come out eventually, perhaps after all those involved are dead, but as of now I simply cannot separate fact from conspiretardation, but am limited to judgements informed by the physical laws and my own lying eyes.
Yeah, poster boy principle: if that’s really the best we can do in terms of building collapses, then there’s been no steel-framed building collapses. And certainly no spontaneous implosions.
I’m less sanguine about the truth coming out. If there’s no paper trail, it could remain a mystery permanently. Even if there is, the trail may have broken links.
As to them staying up…not clear. When they start to collapse you can see the top tip. (And then magically correct.) It’s quite possible the whole top cube could have rolled off the stump, into the street, across the street…
Or even if it’s not possible, it’s reasonable to fear the risk during the crisis.
It’s pretty clear you’re in cognitive dissonance here.
There’s actual fire in the same shot for comparison. It doesn’t look like the fire. It’s a different colour, it isn’t smoking, and anyway there’s no reason for solid objects to decide to form a conga line out of a window. Looks like those ribs are three feet wide. 108 sections and 330ish feet of facade. I could go on but facts don’t work on cognitive dissonance.
It is very strange that someone managed to fly planes into the buildings, and nobody has managed to do anything at all since. But as per Taleb, we don’t live in mediocristan, so that’s not evidence of conspiracy.
But the thing is, it’s irresponsible to have such large buildings, especially when they’re known to be a target, without the capacity to bring them down safely(ish) in a hurry. I would have rigged them to collapse. At that height, even minor lateral velocity would have devastated nearby buildings with a fusillade of siege cannon shots, quite possibly leading to a chain reaction.
Plus, somebody got to live like they were in a movie, with a genuine self-destruct button. Americans like their movies.
Of course it is also irresponsible to design them on the assumption planes wouldn’t get larger. So that happened.
It is very strange that someone managed to fly planes into the buildings, and nobody has managed to do anything at all sinceIt is very strange that someone managed to fly planes into the buildings, and nobody has managed to do anything at all since
Nothing strange about it at all. People used to cooperate with hijackers, now they fight them to the death.
Exactly. That bug in the social programming got corrected jiffy quick.
Evasion.
I didn’t say, “It’s weird there’s been no hijackings,” I said, “It’s weird there’s been -nothing-.” There’s supposed to be a continuum between underpants bomber and coordinate plane hijackings?
Remember how Boston was shut down, and it wasn’t even a terrorist campaign? Remember the transformer sniping incidents? Do you know how easy it would be to replay the 2003 August blackouts?
Some folk are saying, “Well yeah, FBI.” And I’m wondering when the government become competent all of a sudden.
But, as per Taleb, there doesn’t need to be a continuum all the time. It’s weird, but very far from proof of anything.
As as point of fact, the government has been repeatedly shown to be incompetent, as journalists can get bombs into planes more than 90% of the time.
So no, it’s not the FBI. But apparently every last competent Muslim flew a plane into a building instead of getting married and having kids.
TheBigH says:
>It is very strange that someone managed to fly planes into the buildings, and nobody has managed to do anything at all since.
The problem was corrected in the very next hijacked plane where the passengers fought the hijackers and the plane ended up crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Passengers learned from the the hijackings, and hijackers gave up on the tactic once it had been countered. It’s the like the attack on Pearl Harbor, it only works once.
>the attack on Pearl Harbor
Have I got bad news for you.
Pearl Harbor 2.0 was the battle of Midway. How’d that work out for the Japanese fleet?
1. Break the Japanese top-secret codes.
2. Blockade an industrialized, resource-poor island nation.
4. World empire.
peppermint says:
roosevelt did pearl harbor
Possibly. Though in point of fact he got much more than he bargained for. The attack on Pearl Harbor was so successful and so enraged the public that the US public only wanted to fight a war against Japan and not Germany as FDR wanted. Only Hitler’s stupidly in declearing war on the US saved FDR from that debacle.
Evasion. Read what I wrote, not the weird hallucination of what I wrote.
https://blog.reaction.la/culture/undead-christianity/#comment-1557536
Stephen W says:
Praise KEK!
Oliver Cromwell says:
Christianity is the source of all our problems. If you trace leftism back through the written record, and you don’t speak multiple ancient languages and have access to a research library, your record dies around the time the printing press is invented. At that time Christianity looks pretty OK. That is because Christianity had been comprehensively paganised. The paganisation of Christianity was made possible by loss of vernacular Bibles and displacement of Church power by kings – by Caesar.
The Bible cannot be forced out of the vernacular. It can however simply be expunged from the Western canon – and is being expunged from the Western canon.
The Caesaropapist bureaucracies in which we now live can only be resecularised by outside conquest or by loss of belief by the bureaucrats. Outside conquest is not the preferable outcome.
The death of Christianity is both inevitable and desirable. The restoration of Christianity is probably impossible. The restoration of 1100 AD paganised Christianity is impossible.
Mycroft Jones says:
The Bible contains the memetic DNA; Christianity (and Judaism) are able to continuously adapt because of, not in spite of, that DNA. Druidism had its own Bible, a cycle of myths that their laws and morals were based on. Druidism didn’t die out until those myths were expunged. Took 20 years to memorize them properly, so beheading the serpent by killing off the druids did the trick. WIth a written book DESIGNED to be read and understood by kindergartners, it is a bit harder. The faith can spring back to life at any time, like Ezekiel’s dry bones. The Poz is cyclic and no religion can avoid it. But Bible based religions are able to survive the cycles, like the dandelions return after the winter snows. Also, people dislike dandelions, but they cure cancer.
Salmed says:
Chrisianity is nihilistic. All the dancing around it won’t shift that.
Come back when you’ve read the Bible from cover to cover. Your comment about nihilism has no relation to the Bible, or to Truth.
Nihilistic interpretations of the bible (for example most gnosticism) are possible and common.
A living church has to declare such interpretations heresy and expunge them.
Yes, I’m sure the scribblings of goat herder muds and a Jewish death cult have much to show us.
Interesting points. I guess it’s the Cult of Kek going forward.
Jack Highlands says:
I don’t like to dwell on it too much, but for twenty years I have recognized the strong congruence between the end of the state religion of ancient Rome/end of Roman civilization, and the end of Christianity in the West/end of Western civilization. IMO, this is a model we are unlikely to overcome.
Our six-thousand year trend is Aryans emerging from the Steppe in all Eurasian directions.
Our four-thousand year trend is their barbarian descendants in the Balkans and Central Europe kindling, them renewing, European civilization as they invaded south and west.
Our two-thousand year trend is that all our main ethnolinguistic groups from the E branch of IE have either had a crack at this or been absorbed. Except the Slavs, who have created their own, Eurasian, civilization instead.
Our four-hundred year trend is that the Slavs, in the form of their Russian core, have been on their way to eventually conquering the West for quite awhile. It’s just possible that Orthodox Christianity could transform into the religion of the next White civilization, though I have my doubts. More likely the Russians will be the ones to make the Next Synthesis.
All the Russia manipulation and paranoia on the Left right now is interesting. Of course, the Alt Right must draw back from embracing Russia or risk the appearance of treason. Which the Left senses well and is keen to exploit. It’s debatable how long we will be able to keep up the drawing back from Russia.
I’ve just started the process of catechism into the Eastern Orthodox church. My plan is to settle down with a slavic bitty and pop out 6-8 children on a mountain homestead in Montana. Welcome to the future of white civilization.
I also want to add that I went to the Orthodox church not sure what to think, but I am genuinely deeply growing in faith and understanding. It feels right and sacred. A lot of what we take for granted as Western Christians is unheardof there. They lack the spliterism, build-your-own-Jesus, and holiness spiraling of the Protestant churches, but they maintain the “personal relationship with God through Jesus” via their concept of “nous”, which is said to be that part of us which can touch and be touched by God, making us the conduit between the Divine and Nature. Their whole theology, liturgy, and culture is radically different from Catholicism and speaks to my soul wonderfully. I think that it has the strength and flexibility to overcome both the Marxist and Islamist memeplex handily, albeit in fits and starts.
Christianity was less false than the alternatives.
However, it wasn’t ever unflawed, as with any works of Man. Recently the flaws have become blindingly apparent.
Philosophy likes to pretend it isn’t a religion, but it is. Philosophy is not particularly correct either…yet. Philosophy is allowed to improve itself.
Chrisianity as actually practiced by Jesus and followers was an apocalyptic Jew cult. With Jesus being an ancient Jim Jones or Charles Manson.
Narm says:
Off topic– am I getting this right?
peer review -> demotism -> leftism
Harvard runs on peer review
Hence US turns leftist
This is a great insight.
It shows you why gender studies majors exist.
It shows you why prestigious academics are often stupid at a lot of things and make terrible mentors. Apparently a CS professor (not necessarily Harvard) failed a Google interview. And Google isn’t very selective! https://www.quora.com/Can-every-CS-professor-pass-Googles-interview/answers/24989034
It shows you why credentials are important for big monopoly companies trying to stay alive (peer review — “interviewing” candidates — sucks if your interviewers suck, so they’re effectively outsourcing it to academia). Similarly, for quant hedge funds, hard science credentials (physics/math PhDs) are valued since even though the corresponding knowledge is basically useless those credentials are the most resistant to peer review, so they maximize the chances of keeping the stupid people out of your company. (One quant hedge fund I worked at failed to keep the stupid, charismatic (((people))) out, and now half the company is a mess with no cure except restructuring. Crazy enough, a couple of the most selective, successful finance hedge funds in the US are actually falling into the trap of hiring charismatic undergrad women. There are some true believers out there.)
It shows you why PhD’s are snobbish to non-PhD’s. It’s the best you can do in terms of credentials.
It shows you why somebody who “misses the boat” on e.g. college admissions can fall years behind. Have to go full throttle since the credentialing system is so fragile, based on all these recommendations and extracurriculars, and so on.
The red-pilling never ends.
People (or at least progressive people) are just horrible at identifying talent in other people, and at mentoring other people. So you end up with a unwieldy mess of peer review and credentialism which can be gamed by savvy, ambitious young men (with the requisite IQ). However most of the men who are best at gaming the system are true believers, so the Cathedral ends up with vulnerabilities. Reactionaries gotta be smart and form the right coalitions.
Steve Jobs on interviewing: “Do we really still ask such stupid f-*ing questions during interviews… what possible answer could be offered that would tell us whether or not they are completely stupid or utterly brilliant?” https://www.quora.com/How-hard-did-Steve-Jobs-work/answers/36745309
Google has hiring committees (for software engineers at least) and is only slightly credentialist. The founders, who were PhD students, are apparently trying to set up some halfway-decent credentialing system based on IQ proxies, running in parallel to academia. I’m sure Google has tons of problems in its bureaucracy, but it’s probably a lot better than other places.
Were trying to use IQ proxies. Google is now pozzed.
Note: The women out of undergrad I mentioned are going into positions earning millions of dollars a year (after a couple years experience), or a bit less (but with better brand value). Their interviewers genuinely believed they would be the ones who’d add the most value to the company. The Cathedral is mind-boggling.
Chrisianity is a nihilistic movement for the slave. It’s followers revere the slave, the woman, the Nigger.
Islam is a nihilistic movement for the low to underemarkable IQ man (Arabians, Niggers).
We should be upfront about how “Left VS Right” is really Nihilist VS Growth. When you consider this, the affection Lefties have for both Buddhism and Islam (nihilistic creeds) isn’t a surprise anymore.
You say “Christians revere the slave”, yet in the history record we have numerous accounts of courageous, dominant, and powerful Christian leaders. We also have records of cowardly and slavish Christians. However, what’s noteworthy about the cowardly Christians is that they are generally not very into Christianity per se; they just want to approved of by any means possible, and so they selectively reject or ignore all aspects of reality (including all aspects of their religion) which call them to task.
These people aren’t Christian because they do not preach God, they ignore the admonition to “go your way and sin no more”, and they would *never* be martyred for their beliefs.
They claim faith, but “faith without works is dead”.
The problem is, anyone who attempts the works, is attacked as a Judaizer. I blame Chrysostum.
The 2nd and 3rd centuries AD were were not host to a conflict between Christianity and Greek paganism but between Christianity and Greek philosophical schools. Actual paganism had been long dead, de facto.
Julian died trying to invade Persia, reigning as sole emperor less than two years.
Do not know if his project failed because of inherent impossibility.
If Julian had succeeded in invading Persia, he would have earned the title Caesar, and been unchallengeable. If he had died at 85, he would have reigned 55 years as sole emperor. He would have pass the empire to his son, who may not have been worthless.
Could have been close to a century of apostasy. Who knows.
More worrying is that Julian’s “Paganism” took on many aspects of Christianity.
Either way, Christianity is as dead as Paganism at this point.
>Julian died trying to invade Persia, reigning as sole emperor less than two years.
>Do not know if his project failed because of inherent impossibility.
It was an impossible task with the Roman army he used. You can’t beat horse archers in the desert with mostly heavy infantry. A good Roman leader would have used a series of fortification, wall cities, road building to create a frontier to the Persian border taking way the Persian’s ability to raid his supply train. Then proceeded to raid Persia until the Persians gave open battle or where starved from lack of food.
I don’t mean it is not clear that his invasion of Persia couldn’t have succeeded, but that his project to build a non-Christian state religion couldn’t have succeeded.
Antipas says:
Jim, you already answered yourself on this. The problem is not Christianity, the problem is its social code has been outlawed by people who believe themselves to be more enlightened than St. Paul.
Dead Christianity? Perhaps, but you say we need a religion yet it’s very hard if not impossible to invent a new religion in these times. Digital age makes it too easy to debunk as hoax.
These things take time, but for now red-pilling as many young men as possible is strongest tactic. They will come to understand as you do that compassionate yet stern religion is necessary for society and order – otherwise you end up sitting around a campfire worshiping trees with the rest of the dirt eaters.
(1) redpilll people on how dune coon lies nearly destroyed their race nation and personal families
(2) this will lead them to understand that dune coo lies are necessary to avoid being goat fuckers like the dune coons
>Dead Christianity? Perhaps, but you say we need a religion yet it’s very hard if not impossible to invent a new religion in these times. Digital age makes it too easy to debunk as hoax.
Have you checked out the Cult of Kek? Invented in late 2015 and it’s growing fast. I don’t know if Kek is real, but Meme magic is real and has power. Maybe all religions get started as a inside joke that becomes real as they show success and gain power.
Cult of Kek? Isn’t that just the new Slack/Church of the Subgenius?
Why Kek:
* meme magic is real. Kek is the avatar of meme magic and pepe is the avatar of kek. Worshiping Kek means recognizing the importance of memetics and anonymity to social problem solving.
* the Alt-Right is a movement and a movement needs symbols
* Kek is an insult to christcuckoldry and thus the primary enemy of the Alt-Right, cuckservatives
All desirable Western religion has consisted of Noble Lies at least since classical Greece. Esoteric Kekism stands as good a chance as any potential successor to Christianity if its subjects continue to evolve its rituals until they are widely admired and wise nobles of the same folk as the subjects evolve its Lies to be compatible with both human nature and those rituals.
Disagree. As I said, these things take time and we don’t have a lot of it. From what I see Kek has just been a delivery mechanism of red pills to normies online. I don’t see any moral code or dogma. We need law and order. Kek doesn’t even have a ten commandments, let alone a sermon on the Mount.
The red terror of the west will not hold up since they are largely staffed by weak faggots and blue hairs. If Christians don’t reassert power we can just forget about western civilization and let the Muslims and Chinese pick through the bones and fight over the scraps.
>I don’t see any moral code or dogma. We need law and order. Kek doesn’t even have a ten commandments, let alone a sermon on the Mount.
You’re thinking in terms of “old time religion”. That’s gone forever. The West should rather go full-Nietzsche and embrace whatever ideals are most conducive to staving off social entropy — civilizational decline — and accelerating capitalistic-technological progress towards the AI singularity and beyond, as a certain “android sent from the future to terminate human security” would have it. Kek delivers!
>If Christians don’t reassert power we can just forget about western civilization and let the Muslims and Chinese pick through the bones and fight over the scraps.
You didn’t mention those who “never forgive and never forget” (i.e never learn), you know, the ones whose ethno-state, located on a strip of land along the Mediterranean basin, has 80+ nuclear warheads. Because they, too, would pick through the bones of the civilization whose death they eagerly assisted to precipitate.
Cultural Marxism, which is now murdering the West in full force, was not invented by the Muslims or the Chinese. They were not there. (((Someone else))) was there, “causing that feel”.
Good luck. What you’re talking about is the mirror image of Marxism. They both lost for a reason.
Voluntary cooperation through spiritual inspiration is the only sustainable form of social organization. No nation has really worked without God — they’ve all eventually collapsed on themselves or decided to let God back in. Russia, France, China, and what have you. “The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against you” is a promise in the Bible, and it’s one borne out by history, and the reason it’s true is simple; people want to connect with God, and if you don’t let them, they become miserable, uncooperative, and petty creatures.
The spiritual death of a society precedes its material death. God is here. You have to deal with it. Seek to open your nous.
Religion is ethnically specific. Explain to me how East Asians, other than East Asian Christians, have let God back into their societies. That would be a meaningless statement, since spirits and ancestors are not God even in the sense of Jove or Vishnu, let alone Allah or Yaweh, let alone the strange – and absolutely central, let us never forget that – Christian compromise of the Trinity.
The only way to unite them all as something societies seek back to is as collections of Noble Lies. Which they are: ethnically specific noble lies, necessary to prevent collapse.
If you want dogma, look for repeating digits and come up with your own fanfiction. If you want a moral code, there’s the 14w.
Failrock understand that modern christcuckoldry and “post-“christcuckoldry is fucked and without blaming the Jew, which is the only alternative narrative to the obvious fact that christcuckoldry developed naturally into its current mainstream form, he intends to purge christcuckoldry of its mainstream interpretation and restore the christcuckoldry of the 19c that made women swim in boxes, mutilated boys’ penises to prevent masturbation, and bowdlerized Shakespeare, exactly as today’s christcuckoldry has women wearing thong bikinis, mutilating boys’ penises into fake vaginas, and bowdlerizing Richard Scarry.
You’re turning into the alt-right robot.
Rollory says:
What is your evidence for your statements about Dalrock?
Based on what I have read in his blog, these statements of yours are clearly and measurably false, so if you have evidence to the contrary I’d be very interested in seeing it.
If you don’t have any evidence I’d find that interesting too.
I can’t comment regarding the other two, but they haven’t earned my respect the way Dalrock has.
I am banned from commenting on Dalrock’s blog and was called a troll, for saying the sort of things that I have been saying on this blog. Dalrock wants to restore the 1950s, and I want to restore the 1790s.
Dalrock, of course, is welcome to comment on this blog. If I have unjustly maligned him, perhaps he will care to explain his position. He never explained why I was banned, or why I was a troll, and I would like to hear an explanation.
The 1790 rules were directly and explicitly based on their understanding of the New Testament and what they found necessary to make it stick in the face of female bad behavior. (And of course male bad behavior, but we never eased up on the restraints on men, indeed steadily increased them, while, as Dalrock quite correctly says, abandoning the restraints on women).
But while complaining about abandoning the restraints on women, he does not want to go all the way back to the 1790 restraints, or even the 1950s restraints.
Pining for the fjords
He wants the church to tell women that they should follow the biblical rules. The thought of the biblical rules being actually enforced generally by coercive means disturbs him.
Or at least I think that is what the issue is. As I said, he is not interested in discussing the matter, nor interested in discussing the darker side of female nature.
If Dalrock’s church was a state church, then the rules he theoretically favors would need to be law, and those laws would need to be enforced. My impression is that really does not want those laws to be enforced. But I am really just guessing about his position. All I really know is that my position got me insulted, abused, and banned. He never explained what he objected to about my position. He seemed to think it was completely obvious that my position was absolutely terrible and shocking, but I really have no idea what he found so terrible and shocking, so am just guessing.
You probably should have spent less time on Dudley Dolrock’s Christfaggot blog and put more effort into your comments over at Cochran’s. Your arguments about the height of buildings being directly correlated with Western decline were fucking retarded and you know it. It would have been interesting to see you two actually have a discussion before you both melt into your geriatric wheelchairs but we can’t always get what we want now can we?
As an aside, let’s not forget that if a true restoration were made we’d have to purge viking/michael for being a clueless illiterate chicken farmer whose punctuation-free posts cause cancer, purge Peppermint for having too low an IQ to understan why homosexuality is probably pathogenic (like narcolepsy) and being, essentially, a glorified Postmodernism Essay Generator with all the Marxian rhetoric replaced with stale old /pol/ memes, and Koanic for being an unironic Christfag who thinks the human race is a result of boars mating with bonobos. This comment section is a mess.
Your arguments about the height of buildings being directly correlated with Western decline were fucking retarded and you know it.
The highest inhabitable floor of freedom tower is lower and far smaller than highest inhabitable floor of the twin towers, and the tower looks it. Thus it is obvious we cannot build tall buildings as we used to. This is the most direct and obvious sign of civilizational decline, and our enemies who knocked down the two towers are laughing at us.
> Thus it is obvious we cannot build tall buildings as we used to. This is the most direct and obvious sign of civilizational decline, and our enemies who knocked down the two towers are laughing at us.
Looking at Chinese building projects is especially depressing. They’re not super high quality, but there’s a lot of them and they are impressive structures compared to the ones we build these days.
>Looking at Chinese building projects is especially depressing. They’re not super high quality, but there’s a lot of them and they are impressive structures compared to the ones we build these days
I’m sure there’s some kind of government mandate about limiting the height of buildings so the Chinese can’t throw themselves off the top floor as they are wont to do in order to escape the reality of living in China.
Jokes aside, what is with the obsession with buildings? Can you not think of a million more things an advanced civilization should be pouring its time and resources into?
Jackass, the reason we can’t have tall buildings is no one wants to put down several billion dollars on a building and then have the area go diverse. All the building happens on the cheap on the edges of civilization in this country for a reason. Materials have never been cheaper compared to illegal Mexican labor, but buildings aren’t even built to last two decades because no one expects to get any return on an investment anywhere.
Until we wake up from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, we can’t fund any projects other than it. No moonbase, no tall buildings, no high-speed rail unless it has subsidized tickets for niggers.
>the reason we can’t have tall buildings is no one wants to put down several billion dollars on a building and then have the area go diverse
You are an idiot. Why the fuck do you need both a tall building and a non-diverse area? I don’t give a fuck about how tall a building is, just give me a building where I don’t have to worry about my car getting broken into, surrounded by people like me and who think like me. In fact I’d rather just live in a nice large house instead of being packed into a high rise like a bunch of sardines.
Better yet, skip pouring billions of dollars into an asinine skyscraper and put it into a space program that is not invaded with incompetents (so not NASA).
Don’t you think it might be nice to be able to walk to work instead of driving for an hour both ways?
>Jokes aside, what is with the obsession with buildings? Can you not think of a million more things an advanced civilization should be pouring its time and resources into?
The term civilization root is city. Cities are defined by the buildings in them. Great civilizations build amazing cities as monuments to their greatness because they’re rich enough to afford it. Declining civilizations find it too expensive to bother with and are soon forgotten. Jim’s just pointing out the obvious, that we’re in a quickly declining civilization and you just confirmed it.
“Jokes aside, what is with the obsession with buildings?”
An objective indicator of decline out of which you can’t Talmud your way because our lying eyes >> your handwaving.
“Can you not think of a million more things an advanced civilization should be pouring its time and resources into?”
Sure, you no longer build tall buildings not because you can’t, but because you’ve advanced to the point of realizing that you no longer want to.
Contaminated NEET says:
Bingo. Tall buildings really aren’t all that special in and of themselves, but they are important as symbols, especially the Freedom Tower. If our civilization could have rebuilt the Twin Towers higher and better than before, it most certainly would have. Who can forget all the patriot and pro-NY bombast after the attacks? The fact that the Freedom Tower is shorter proves that we can’t build it taller, and as Jim has said, the fact the floors are misleadingly numbered shows mens rea. On some level, our leaders know that our capabilities have declined and they are deliberately trying to hide it.
>Thus it is obvious we cannot build tall buildings as we used to
Again, no, this is not obvious, except to low IQ goatherders. Why are you trying to impress them?
It’s at times like this I wish we had ‘Like’ and ‘Don’t Like’ buttons. Sure it’s argumentum ad populum, but it still hits morons and hasbara like Anon here in the guts when they see no one agrees with them. Especially hasbara, since it undermines their utility.
But then they’ll learn it isn’t working, and they might by chance pick something else that does.
Vengeance is often counter productive. Revenge is Sour, George Orwell. Do serenity prayer instead.
A.B. Prosper says:
Chinese building look impressive but are usually shoddy.
On top of that , density isn’t a good thing.
The West with a few exceptions is grossly overcrowded now and would still be overcrowded if we reversed diversity entirely.
Too much urbanization is a huge chunk of the problem, simply patriarchy and urban modern life are not compatible
If we want virile men and feminine women and we really do we need space to make it happen, not jammed in overcrowded rabbit warrens to be tax farmed and used as livestock for the elite
Less people, Less city people. better people
and yes the capitalist pigs have to be reigned in too, the Left doesn’t get a new electorate and capital (they aren’t right by any real measure) doesn’t get cheap labor and more consumers
So long as society is homogeneous, a few generations of population decline is a good thing.
And note too the era that Jim favors, the population was about 1 /5 to 1/6th of what it is now and 3% urban as vs 80% urban
Pretty sure Chinese buildings are not shoddy. Check out Chinese airports.
In any case, all that is just excuses. CEOs need to have an corner office that is higher than the other CEO’s corner office. If our CEOs have lower corner offices than Chinese CEOs, our companies are less capable than Chinese companies.
So one up everyone and put the corner office on Mars. Obsessing over tall commercial buildings is small-time.
If we can no longer build tall buildings, cannot go to Mars.
Musks Mars plan is vaporware. He is not working on numerous necessary technologies that would be required for a Mars settlement.
China is a low trust society and bad construction is rampant.
Exported Chinese steel is bad too.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-s-troubles-How-a-landmark-became-a-6021955.php
It far better to have smaller but sturdier building that last for long stretches and is beautiful. What’s worn with modern buildings is they like our cars are ugly and while the function well enough lack grace, beauty and any sense of “this is how we do it”
Its why the empire State Building though far from modern is still classic, form and function both
If we recover, our material goods need to represent our spirit and our self confidence even our smaller houses need to be something other than ticky tacky little boxes
The bay bridge failed because we lack the technological capability to build impressive bridges these days, not because the Chinese sold us bad steel.
You keep telling me that Chinese stuff is no good, but my lying eyes tell me that the Chinese do great buildings, great dams, and great bridges, while we no longer can.
>The bay bridge failed because we lack the technological capability to build impressive bridges these days, not because the Chinese sold us bad steel.
You keep saying “we”. Why are you assuming our best minds, or at minimum minds equal to the people who originally built the twin towers, are spending their time and resources with urban planning? A more elegant explanation for the talent drain you’re talking about would be that major metropolitan areas select for poor administrative talent, are shitty overcrowded places to live, and those who did have the talent to engineer a suitable replacement for the Twin Towers either didn’t have the political pull to get it done or simply don’t give a fuck about how tall a skyscraper in Jew York is.
Jim, are you really telling me that if you were an engineer on the committee to build the Freedom Tower you would have done everything you can to make sure it was over 2,700ft. tall? Why would you invest time and resources into a project that basically amounts to proving to goatfarmers (who apparently compulsively check Wikipedia to see how tall a building is) how great America is, even though you know damn well there is little left defending here anymore?
We absolutely do have the capability to build tall buildings and bridges that don’t have to be shored up every decade. It’s just that our talented people are doing other things. Hell, SF’s Muni got hacked by someone who is most likely a teenager. Does this mean America lacks the capability for decent IT security? No, it means the people in charge are incompetent and should have been fired immediately.
Fire most people in charge immediately, bring in competent managers, and then maybe there would be an attractive reason for talent to want to build tall buildings again. But the freedom tower not being higher than both of the Trade Center buildings combined is not due to a lack of capability or talent, it is a political move, and thus there is no reason to give a fuck. And so nobody does.
We absolutely do have the capability to build tall buildings and bridges that don’t have to be shored up every decade. It’s just that our talented people are doing other things.
No they are not. Talented people get fired, retire early, become plumbers, or move to Asia.
I was reading up on what went wrong with the Bay bridge. Everyone that knew how to build bridges said the design was no good. They were ignored. After a while, most of them somehow were not around any more.
“We absolutely do have the capability to build tall buildings and bridges that don’t have to be shored up every decade.”
How do we know that if no tall buildings are getting built?
Similarly, the moon. We absolutely do have the capability to go there, we just don’t want to, right? How do we know that?
(Even if the capability still exists, it will disappear eventually if not exercised, so this distinction is not particularly important in the grand scheme of things. Still.)
>We absolutely do have the capability to build tall buildings and bridges that don’t have to be shored up every decade. It’s just that our talented people are doing other things. Hell, SF’s Muni got hacked by someone who is most likely a teenager. Does this mean America lacks the capability for decent IT security? No, it means the people in charge are incompetent and should have been fired immediately.
The decline of civilizations rhymes in history. The Romans thought it was the crappy people in charge that was causing their declining ability to build big things. We have pretty good evidence that the decline was real because things like Roman concrete, large Roman buildings, and good roads where not built by the Goths once they had conquered the empire and kicked out the existing elites. The Goths tried very hard to continue the Roman system but they discovered the Romans themselves could no longer continue their existing system and the civilization continued to decline.
And the Millennium Tower is leaning so far it’s set to wipe out most of SoMa. So what?
I know you were an engineer of some sort but trying to string together very specific instances of bad architecture as a case for general civilizational decline is very silly and I hope you see that. I for one am glad that some of our better minds are more preoccupied with things like CRISPR or SpaceX instead of attempting to impress goatherders with how tall our buildings are. Really?
Shouldn’t you be arguing instead that high-rise commercial buildings in massive metropolitan IQ shredders are degenerate or something anyway?
I know you were an engineer of some sort but trying to string together very specific instances of bad architecture as a case for general civilizational decline is very silly and I hope you see that
If we could have replaced the twin towers, would have done so for reasons of national prestige. That we did not, shows we could not.
A functioning market would have gone, “Oh good, now we have an excuse to build an update.” And made either a non-ugly tower or a much bigger tower.
Feeling: *Shrug* and *facepalm* as they casually swat down the quotes-‘threat’
Exactly, A confident nation would have built them higher and stronger and had defiant slogans .
A really confident nation would have the severed heads of convicted terrorists on display in the lobby which would have sent a rather stronger message
>our enemies who knocked down the two towers are laughing at us
Who are these enemies that they had the power to controllably demolish the most iconic buildings in the World Imperial Capital?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p34XrI2Fm6I
viking says:
I thought it wasn’t possibly a conspiracy though sure was a godsend for cathedral, recently some evidence really seems like they did it but i still dont see how they can keep it it getting out
How do they keep the science of race from getting out? It’s the same thing, except racism is more a crime of outrage, whereas noticing that the towers’ collapse were visually indistinguishable from any ordinary controlled demolition will just get you labeled a tinfoil kook.
There is an obvious difference between a controlled demolition and the collapse of the towers, in that two planes full of passengers flew into the two towers, indeed flew right through the two towers, emerging on the other side in small pieces.
Indeed, human bodies moving at very high speed proceeded to do major damage to additional buildings.
Hey Jim, why were there demolition-like squibs at regular intervals precisely centered on each tower face?
Why was there a glowing liquid dribbling down the side?
How does a tower using its gravitational energy to destroy itself, go down at free fall acceleration?
Why didn’t the towers tip or roll?
How and why was the “pull” predicted?
Why was all the steel sold to China within three days of it being cool enough to extract?
I have watched the videos frame by frame. There were no demolition like squibs at regular intervaln.
There was no glowing liquid going down the side, and if there was it would be evidence against the demolition theory.
The gravitational energy of the tower is converted into energy of motion, hence free fall velocity, and then where the lower part of the falling tower hits the upper part of the still standing tower, the energy of motion is abruptly converted into demolition energy as that part of the tower disintegrates. Just as it is not falling that kills you but the sudden stop at the end, it is not falling that demolishes, but the sudden stop at the end.
The tower did tip and roll. It did not go straight down.
The steel was not sold to China within three days of cooling.
This has obviously been done to death, but whatever.
* Were the towers not literally designed to withstand a Boeing 707, basically the same plane as the 767? (Yes, yes they were.)
* How likely were the towers, both of which were crashed into by one plane on one side, to fall precisely into their footprint (at least the part below the plane impact)?
* How did the steel melt, when even under the most generous possible conditions, jet fuel simply doesn’t get hot enough to melt steel, much less turn it into slag?
* Why were government agencies running hijacked airplane terrorism simulations at the precise same time that those events were actually happening?
* Why were there explosions of dust and debris well preceding the leading edge of collapse?
* Why did the BBC report Building 7 to have collapsed 20 minutes before it actually collapsed?
* Just how long does it take to rig a building to “pull”? Can it be done in 6 hours amidst “uncontrolled fires”?
* And this is my favorite part: Why is the official cause of Building 7’s collapse “uncontrolled fires”, not, in fact, controlled demolition?
The below is from: http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=861610. Peruse at your leisure.
>This is the final report on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7), conducted under the National Construction SafetyT eam Act. This report describes how the fires that followed the impact of debris from the collapse of WTC 1 (the north tower) led to the collapse of WTC 7; an evaluation of the building evacuation and emergency response procedures; what procedures and practices were used in the design, construction,operation, and maintenance of the building; and areas in current building and fire codes, standards, and practices that warrant revision. Extensive details are found in the companion reports, NIST NCSTAR 1-9 and NIST NCSTAR 1-9A.
>Also in this report is a summary of how NIST reached its conclusions. NIST complemented in-house expertise with private sector technical experts; accumulated copious documents, photographs, and videos of the disaster; conducted first-person interviews of building occupants and emergency responders; analyzed the evacuation and emergency response operations in and around WTC 7; performed computer simulations of the behavior of WTC 7 on September 11, 2001; and combined the knowledge gained into a probable collapse sequence.
>The report concludes with a list of 13 recommendations for action in the areas of increased structural integrity, enhanced fire endurance of structures, new methods for fire resistant design of structures, enhanced active fire protection, improved emergency response, improved procedures and practices, and education and training. One of these is new; the other 12 are reiterated from the investigation into the collapse of the WTC towers. Each of the 13 is relevant to WTC 7.
Thanks, peer review!
No, the towers were not designed to have a plane crash into them.
No, the towers did not fall precisely onto their footprint.
No, steel in the towers did not melt, nor did anyone claim that it did.
No, there were no explosions of dust and debris well preceding the leading edge of collapse.
No, the BBC did not report Building 7 to have collapsed 20 minutes before it actually collapsed. They reported it was going to collapse, because people on the ground looking at could see its collapse was imminent. That lots of quite ordinary people could see it was going to collapse makes the proposition it fell as a result of explosives stupid.
No, government agencies were not running hijacked plane simulations at the exact moment that an actual hijacking was happening. If they had been, they might have reacted more competently.
The reason that the the official cause of Building 7’s collapse “uncontrolled fires” is that any idiot looking at Building Seven could, and in fact did, conclude that the uncontrolled fires in building seven were about to result in its collapse. The last two people in Building Seven got out saying they expected collapse.
scenario 1: the cuckservatives and derpstate working together to pull off the most intricate complex heist ever, expertly setting off bombs while allowing muslims to fly hijacked planes into the WTC so they can justify invading a country.
scenario 2: Muslims doing what muslims do. Dubya responding like you’d expect Dubya to respond.
Looking back I think the 9/11 paranoia was proto-reactionaries sensing something was very wrong with the narrative, but not yet being able to put their feelings into the right ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Rm6ZFROmc
The angle of view is deceptive. The controlled demolition goes straight down.
When you view the World Trade center from a different direction, you will see the tower tilts sideways.
The selection of timing is deceptive. When you watch the towers falling, you will see they sag a little, then go down all at once. Controlled demolition goes down all at once.
The sag is the center of the building being blown first to ensure that it implodes in on itself. It’s characteristic of most controlled demolitions.
Homosexuality is a sexual strategy, “homosexuality is caused by a pathogen” is a political strategy.
We can have tall buildings again when the God-Emperor promises to keep an area gentrified, a promise that He can’t even make now much less publicly state.
>Homosexuality is a sexual strategy,
No, “sneaky fucker” strategy being related to homosexuality in humans is on its face retarded and you would know this if you ever left your basement.
How many kids do you have Pep Pep?
…only because you’ve never left your basement and take the dictionary definition of a homosexual at face value. I know the kids at high school who said they were gay. One of them is a decade later taking pictures of himself with all kinds of beautiful girls. One of them got one of the hottest girls in the school to watch him jack off “to show her how it worked”.
So you are basing your explanation of faggotry off of instagram photos and old stories that a kid from your high school told you? I applaud your rigor.
…and the Kinsey data that showed that degenerates change their sexual orentation over time, and the fact that it takes two minutes to get a woman pregnant once you achieve access, and the fact that everyone instinctively knows faggots need to be bogged and kept away from their women
Faggots need to be kept away from women because women generally have no discernment and are easily impressionable, not because homosexuals are sneaking one in during a binge watch of Will and Grace. Same reason you wouldn’t really want your kids around one.
>change their sexual orientation over time
You mean people lie on surveys? Radical!
>Kinsey
something tells me you let your gf tell you not to worry because he’s gay
You would be wrong and you’d know why if you had a gf.
I bet your gf has a gay personal trainer at the gym helping her position her ass for squats and telling her for her lifestyle it’s unhealthy to be she shouldn too emotionally dependent on one person, and takes her yoga pants and bra off for a gay tailor so he can measure her for dresses and dildoes
I position my own gf’s ass at the gym. Tell me, do you take your fuckpillow with you when you go to the gym or do you fly solo?
Both of you are degenerates for having a “girlfriend”. Get married, let your children be born within wedlock.
/breeder_signalling.txt
>purge Peppermint for having too low an IQ to understan why homosexuality is probably pathogenic (like narcolepsy)
You sure sound very confident, sir “probably”. (Henceforth that’ll be your moniker) Wouldn’t want to be left with an egg all over your face when geneticists finally determine which specific genes are responsible for homosexuality in hominids.
Peppe and sir Probably are both wrong. Homosexuality stems from a chromosomal mutation, not unlike other pathological conditions that render their sufferers unlikely or even unable to procreate yet which stably persist among the general population, albeit disproportionately between various groups and families, rather than perish (e.g down syndrome, autism, hermaphroditism aka “intersex”); the politically incorrect Chinese would, if left to their own devices by globalists — and (((globalists))), — eventually make inroads in this field of inquiry and experimentation that the West at present is simply too timid (that is: intimidated) to attempt.
At any rate, the problem with faggotry, by which I mean both male and female homosexuality, is twofold:
it’s intrinsically disruptive of social harmony (such as when faggots don’t fuck members of the other sex, thus, from a statistical viewpoint, rendering sexless members of the other sex, and depriving them of healthy family relations; furthermore, due to their brain abnormality, faggots are very prone to engage in sex-atypical conduct in all dimensions of life, e.g lesbians who crave male jobs, which is a junction where the personal meets the political);
more often than not, paralleling its disruption to social harmony on the individual (object) level, and as a direct consequence of the object-level malformation of those afflicted by it, it manifests in pernicious political agitation and ultimately destabilization – that is, it engenders adverse political turbulence as an ineluctable result of the sundry Progressive weltanschauungen which it predisposes those it afflicts to espouse – namely, the Progressive weltanschauungen of Feminism and cultural nihilism.
The latter problem can be solved by re-institution of non-progressive state religion. The former problem is genetic and will only be solved by the genetic engineering programs currently pioneered by the politically incorrect Chinese, or by the genetic engineering programs that may launch in the West if the West unshekels (not a typo) from the steel grip of Progressivism at any point in time between 2017 and 2050 (an unlikely scenario), the grip of Progressivism being a totalitarian domination of Western thought and Western scientific capacity, smothering or downright preventing the utilization of science for pro-social objectives, such as our subject matter of homosexuality-extirpation, but also possible eugenic projects at large, for instance, the gradual elimination from the gene-market (by humane methods of fertility-control) of those with any physical, mental, or moral defect. But I digress.
Put another way: those afflicted with faggotry — particularly the female faggettes aka lesbians, but also, to a moderately lower degree, the poofters — are wreaking havoc both on the inter-personal level and on the meta (societal) level, and those two forms of detriment can be stamped out by wedding biological realism and the requisite technology to implement the corollaries of biological realism on a mass scale.
And it took me not too many paragraphs to elucidate, in very broad terms, the peril of faggotry, without resorting either to the “it’s a sin” or to the “ewwww gross” types of argumentation so beloved by conservative retardos.
Dalrock and ilk, by the way, cannot articulate a coherent program to expunge faggotry, because that would require genuine opposition to the Progressive worldview — a worldview which is both galvanized by, and, due to its ever-alarmed, all-encompassing, hysterical, puritanical, and (((zealous))) fervor, ensures the perpetuation of, faggotry, — which genuine opposition Dalrock and ilk do not possess.
>This comment section is a mess.
If we’re all such swine, then stop casting the pearls of thy wisdom before us, o great sir Probably, and purge yourself off of here immediately. Be logical!
Reactionary Oriental Libertarian says:
“Faggette”
Lol the average “lesbian” has fucked multiple guys while not having sex with her “girlfriend”. Lesbianism doesn’t exist. It’s a shit test at most.
Lol the average “lesbian” has fucked multiple guys while not having sex with her “girlfriend”.
Ahhh, the memories
>meets a bunch of slutty drunken bi-curious girls in college who don’t even self-identify as lesbian, except for a few short months, who subsequently try to forget about ever having identified as such – YOLO.
>ignores completely all the life-long bull-dykes and the unequivocal, irrefutable evidence that they have male-typical brain structures and exhibit male-typical behavior and interests from cradle to adulthood, which unequivocal and irrefutable evidence has recently been corroborated by DNA research.
>doesn’t understand that with women it’s not primarily about the fucking, it’s primarily about the feeling – and their feeling is indeed very masculine compared to normal heterosexual women.
>concludes: “guys, guys, guys, I’ve figured that lesbians don’t really exist LOLOLOL”
You see, ROL, millions of years of evolution have primed you to think exactly as you do, have primed you to not take threats posed by women seriously, even while such threats are in plain sight and serious.
That’s what happens when you follow your blind instincts rather than empirical evidence and logical deduction, and follow a bunch of bloggers who do your thinking for you because you’re not intelligent enough to think for yourself, rather than thinking for yourself.
How’s the weather in blue-pill land?
Regardless, once it becomes apparent, indeed undeniable from a well-researched scientific perspective, as well as strongly suggested by anecdotal evidence of tomboy girls who eventually grow up to munch carpets, that you’re dealing with a concrete biological entity with its own distinct interests, perhaps it’s time to reconsider your position. But alas, you think it’s some sort of a game they are playing, right? Biological entity? What biological entity?
The reason faggettes occasionally have sex with men is that female sexuality is fluid. Of course, you know that, but you think that this is proof that lesbians don’t exist. Whereas it’s not proof of that, it’s actually the opposite of proof of that, because if the sexuality of women is fluid, that means that heterosexual women can become sexually attracted to other women, which sometimes they do, and gay women can become sexually attracted to men, or at least tolerate some sex with men until they figure that they are perverted carper-munchers, which is the usual case.
If you are a gay man, you know you are gay because you have a raging boner at 12 years old when you see a hot dude, and ever since then your mind is consumed with thoughts about hot dudes. If you are a faggette, you only realize that you are a faggette after falling in love with your best friend at 18, having been “not quite feminine” since you remember yourself, but because the female sex-drive is weaker, only realizing the truth of the matter later in life.
And the problem with faggettes is not just their sexuality, but the fact that they have male-typical brain structures which leads to male-typical behavior (which is very clearly reflected in their non-verbal body language) and male-typical interests, hence, they shove themselves into jobs that men are suited for and women aren’t suited for, demanding to be allowed inside, and attempt to normalize the infiltration of women into traditionally male jobs, which normalization they’ve managed to achieve during the early 20th century.
This “lesbians don’t exist” thing is probably the most retarded conclusion reached by the “too clever by half” cohort of right-wing armchair thinkers, right next to “evolution – where is your proof of it? check-mate, atheists” and “every minute now, the nasty libruls are going to lower the age of consent to 3, because the nasty libruls are secretly pedophiles” (when in fact more and more men are arrested every year by the “librul” Feminist regimes of the West for bogus age-related “sex crimes”).
Your attempt at originality has failed, orientalbot!
Lesbians do not exist in the sense that almost all lesbians have substantially more sex with men than they have with women.
Gays do exist in that there are a lot of men who have sex only with men and only wish to have sex with men.
“masculine” women, “tomboyish” women are in practice seldom very capable at doing male things. The extent of androgyny has been enormously exaggerated for political reasons. While dysfunctional sexual behavior is very common, and out order sexual development and sexual misdevelopment is not rare, androgyny is rare.
I did raise chickens pigs and goats several summers when my daughter was young, But Im also a born and bred NYC kid who grew up oscillating between bohemian east village and upper east side gallas at the met so not exactly illiterate just autodidactic didn’t include writing and i dont give a fuck that it bothers in fact enjoy bothering people.
Samson J. says:
Jim, I would say that one of the strongest evidences for the truth of the Living Christ is that you wrestle so hard with the yoke. Like Fox Mulder, you *want* to believe.
In the end this entire question about marriage is a distraction from the central question of: how do I get forgiveness for my sins? The terrible knife of guilt over sin cuts through every human heart, and *that* is the heart of the Faith, for you and I, right now.
***In short, the Christian right, like the Republicans, are just progressives who are a bit behind the times.***
If you object to this situation, then get in there and lead. People *will* follow. What I see is a lot of excuse-making and claims that because the churches aren’t 100 percent to your satisfaction, they aren’t living. Well, I can tell you, mister, I have experienced the living God. It starts with you, right now, in private if need be. Just like it starts with me, right now, in private, confessing my sins and weaknesses and praying for aid.
At my wedding, within the past ten years, I had our pastor quote Ephesians 5. He said, “The whole thing?” I said, “Yes.” He smiled and said, “Great!” And everyone heard it.
Hurrrrrrrrrrr follow the kike on the pike for “forgiveness” of your sins, i.e. for a faggot in a dress to recite a prayer for you after which your “soul” will be clean but the worldly effects of your actions will remain.
Cuckstainty is for children asking mommy mary to kiss their booboos and make it better.
“The terrible knife of guilt over sin cuts through every human heart”
How universal is this “guilt” thing? Black and brown people do horrific things to each other with the same innocent delight that my cats feel while torturing a baby chipmunk to death.
I’ve read that there are “guilt cultures” and there are “shame cultures”, and the difference between them may be genetic.
I am not suffering from this terrible knife of guilt of sin. I loved my family, I loved my women, I did good to my kin even when they did wrong to me. I was a good friend to my friends, and a terrible enemy to my enemies.
If you are not a universalist, it is not that hard to be a good person. It comes naturally.
At my son’s wedding, we had the priest read every verse on marriage and the duties of man and wife, of which there are a great many, starting with
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Which he did. And then threw in a brief feminist prayer.
Trouble is that you are making Christianity an individual religion centered on the individual’s relationship with God. But Christianity is a community, and a community is something very like a state.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
You need to gather two or three together.
Hammer Fan says:
“But Christianity is a community”
This is exactly one of the reasons our church baptizes infant children. We understand God’s covenant promises are for the entire family, and the church commits to help raising the child along with the parents, helping to reinforce what is good, forming a hedge against what is bad (heresy, feminism, social justice, relativism). Corporate worship (worshiping with other Christians, instead of, ie, just going to the beach and meditating) is important and required. But there will always be an element of individual action. At some point, the Christian must “repent and believe” (think: thief on the cross). However, the primary relationship is between God and “His people.” (His bride, His sheep, the church)
Christian reactionaries are entryists, they intend to do eactly what they did to all earlier conservatism in the exact same way appeal to conservative emotional attachment to the past, and desperation for natural conservatives, and infect it with sentimental fairy tales.
YOU’RE ALL FUCKING RETARDED CHRISTIANITY IS A CUCK RELIGION AND A FAIRY TALE, I TOO HAVE EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT BUT ITS OVER LET IT GO.
REACTION IS BASED ON TRUTH REALITY AND HBD IS ITS FOUNDATION HBD IS RACE GENDER YOU WANT TO RALLY AROUND AN IDEA RALLY AROUND, GNON MADE THE UNIVERSE FOR THE WHITE MAN, AND HE MUST WORK TO IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON OF A WHITE UNIVERSE.
Moldbug was right about one thing progressivism is whats left of slave morality -christianity; and of course Judaism. But of course being a jew he left out the jew part.
I can not fucking believe reaction is is wasting a decade now debating whether to convert to judaism islam or revive fucking christianity.
Fucking retarded this MM kike has you running in circles while the clock ticks for a decade,which is probably why he tinkered around in garage inventing a distraction for the reactionaries he anticipated would arise in opposition to his jew occupation
Is that you, DoomPony?
No just some paleo old guy
Dude, Moldbug is the most subversive reactionary agent in generations.
so they keep telling me, thing is he never wrote anything I hadn’t already concluded or read elsewhere, he is revelatory to former leftists and libertarians only.
And his conclusion is do nothing while your entire people nations and civilization is overun by niggers and it will all be fine because zuckerbergs robots will save us. Translation larp whiteboy while the jews work things out, except we already know what the jews will work out and that they think whites are kind of less troublesome niggers. So enjoy your cucking
You ducking dumbass he wrote it before most anybody else on the internet did, its them copying him, not the other way around.
LMAOROTF
You think no one read Carlyle, Voegelin,Auster, Evola, and a 1000 others before Yarvin? You think no one used Puritan as a metaphor for meddling do gooder busybody? Or noticed the unholy alliance between capitalists and marxists in service of universalism? You think no ones ever thought restoration was the answer or authoritarianism could cut through the red tape? No one understood democracy and socialism are related before? maybe you neckbeard millenial that never read a book until the jw told you it was edgy but please tell me what was so original about Yarvin except he gave you permission to be a shitlord and edgy
Tldrvin was accessible to liberals and libertarians, by arguing in typical liberal fashion that Whig history is stupid while not arguing for anything serious in its stead, which was useful, and tried to convince people that yes the 20th century was full of lies but the holocaust and treatment of the Third Reich in general was completely true and we should be ruled by bankers and Jews directly, which was not.
Moldbug isn’t a good first red pill anymore because there are better sources and all the intelligent people have already abandoned liberalism and libertarianism anyway leaving those movements intellectual ghost towns and graveyards. People don’t need tldr essays anymore either.
hehe, tldrvin
James Jacob Wilson VI says:
Obviously you haven’t actually read moldbug because he actually writes about how the holocaust is ridiculous in articles such as “The holocaust from a nazi point of view.”
So Yarvin is the reason that people are attacking the Puritans in NRx. I’d call it ironic, but it is worse than that; a lot of Yarvin’s source material came from the Puritans, like Rushdoony, but he twisted it on it’s head. Trying to kill the baby in the womb as it were. When Yarvin started his blog, the Puritans were poised for growth; Yarvin poisoned that.
Puritan growth? You mean ever increasing levels of transsexualism and polyamory with marriage increasingly deprecated as icky, inherently patriarchial, and a distraction if not subversion from the human equality project?
Puritan's Pride says:
Read Rushdoony, foolish little peppermint Patrick. The Puritans I speak of are nothing like what you are talking about.
Puritanism was always the human equality project.
You guys should read “Plays and Puritans” by Charles Kingsley, which is available online for free. The author was actually recommend by Yarvin. The book nominally deals with the Puritans’ antitheatricality, but it really gives platform to general Puritan apologetics. Whether you hate them or love them, it’s recommended. Okay, I’ll just drop you the link:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3142/3142-h/3142-h.htm
A taste, if you will:
“It is equally a fact that these vices were imported into England by the young men who, under pretence of learning the Italian polish, travelled to Italy. From the days of Gabriel Harvey and Lord Oxford, about the middle of Elizabeth’s reign, this foul tide had begun to set toward England, gaining an additional coarseness and frivolity in passing through the French Court (then an utter Gehenna) in its course hitherward; till, to judge by Marston’s ‘Satires,’ certain members of the higher classes had, by the beginning of James’s reign, learnt nearly all which the Italians had to teach them. Marston writes in a rage, it is true; foaming, stamping, and vapouring too much to escape the suspicion of exaggeration; yet he dared not have published the things which he does, had he not fair ground for some at least of his assertions. And Marston, be it remembered, was no Puritan, but a playwright, and Ben Jonson’s friend.”
Yes, “driving the sodomites from the land” does pretty much mean ending theaters, movies, soap operas, and such. The Puritans read the Bible and understood is correctly.
Getting rid of sodomites by brutal suppression of theater is a good idea in this country because theater isn’t for normal people and isn’t funded by ticket sales but by government largesse including tax breaks, university forced participation, and catladies. By contrast, the movie industry is run by Jews which is why it sucks and often even has a hard time selling tickets.
There is the rumor that Shakespeare was a sodomite, the fact about Oscar Wilde, and sodomites seem drawn to the theater. But, getting rid of the theater to purge sodomites is a prime example of going too far.
The Jews got the test for obscenity changed from including obscenity to having any redeeming features because weepy-eyed christcucks love the idea of redemption. The correct way to kill the porn industry and porn driven sexual behavior like damaging women’s rectums is to return to the old includes porn standard and then make porn not subject to copyright protection. Movies that want to make money will have to get rid of the sex scenes, there won’t be easy money for pretty young women in porn, making porn won’t be an excuse for prostitution, young women won’t see those cute girls with the cute butt plugs and want to give their man the level of service they see in porn.
Or we could go full CIA and outlaw having images of nudity and sex outside of medical textbooks.
Puritanism on sex is a purity spiral that’s all about saying you’re a more rational soul than the next person by reason of caring less for sex as demonstrated by a willingness to suppress it. Puritans even slept in separate beds from their wives, a ridiculous imposition against the pairbond.
Puritanism is about claiming to be the most rational soul in a world of rational souls, and of course rational souls are equal except that the Elect choose rationality and the damned choose damnation. So it implies the human equality project and state funding for propaganda aimed at the damned, including theater exploring the trans* experience and books for children like Heather Has Two Mommies.
>The correct way to kill the porn industry and porn driven sexual behavior like damaging women’s rectums
So your motivation for killing porn is that it supposedly encourages men to have anal sex with women. In other words, your motivation is sexual Puritanism. In still other words, you’re the Eternal Anglo.
Now, don’t get me wrong, perhaps porn should be banned for Americans. Fine. The only problem is the universalist evangelism. You can’t keep your Puritanism to yourself, you need to infect the whole world with it. If porn becomes illegal in the US, that won’t satisfy you. You’ll go after every country on Earth where it is legal, compelling them to join you in illegalizing it.
That’s what the Eternal Anglo does: invents rules which may or may not be good for him, then forces Indians, Zimbabweans, Spaniards, Danes, Slavs, Vietnamese, and ultimately everyone to follow those rules. That’s true of “human rights democracy” and that’s true of all the rest of your moralistic global crusades.
>young women won’t see those cute girls with the cute butt plugs and want to give their man the level of service they see in porn.
Here it is again, the Feminist/cuckboi lamentation about how men today have too high expectations which women need to satisfy, how men should have lower expectations.
You should write an article for Jezebel, explaining how hard it is for fat women today to find a boyfriend “because pornography teaches men to only be attracted to supermodels”. Lelz.
Needless to say, the reality is the exact opposite, women today have it easier than ever in history, and the reality is that the more is expected from women, the better are women behaved. Buttplugs are not my personal thing, but if that’s a popular thing now, which I seriously doubt, all the better – women should strain to satisfy men, and the bigger the challenge, the better it is for female discipline.
At any rate, porn caters to the desires and fetishes of men. If it creates those fetishes, I’ve seen no evidence that it does. The sickest fetishes you can think of have existed since forever. They should not be elevated above normal sex, but neither should a moral crusade be waged against this aspect of human nature. What is it with conservatives/feminists and getting into other people’s bedroom? (Wait, I know the answer: it starts with “Eternal”, but this time, it doesn’t end with “Jew”)
Given porn scripts today are often written by customers rather than (((producers))), that is, customers send scripts for the pornographers to perform, it is clear that all porn does is reflect the desires of men, not determine them. The only exception is trannies, who have indeed become normalized, but even they have existed forever, so who cares.
The average married couple today doesn’t have buttplugs – the average married couple is sexless, or not having enough sex. The solution is not Moar chastity for men, on the contrary, the solution is more obedience from women, and less chastity for men. Chastity in the form of Feminist laws and moralistic concern for the comfort of women, which is very common among cuckservatives, has killed the birthrate and has killed the testosterone.
The birthrate has been the dying in the whole world (minus shitskins) for the past 100 years, especially for the past 40 years, and it’s not because of internet porn, nor is it because of playboy magazines – it’s because the Eternal Anglo, lead by the Massachusetts Puritan, has conquered the world, and proceeded to impose sexual Puritanism on hapless people all over. Today even shitskins aren’t immune.
You want to redeem all people everywhere of their horrible, horrible vices and you won’t rest until everyone is moulded in the “ideal shape” designed by Harvard.
>Or we could go full CIA and outlaw having images of nudity and sex outside of medical textbooks.
Do it in America. Please. The whole world should know how diseased are the minds of Puritan Americans. Just keep the East Asians and the continental Europeans out of your madness.
I’m pretty well-read, and none of those guys even vaguely appeared on my mental radar before UR. I’m sure I saw the names a couple of times, and the libraries I’ve used probably had them somewhere on their shelves, but I never even came close to cracking open one of their books. Total memory-hole.
Moldbug was the giant flaming neon sign screaming “acid trips, get your hilarious acid trips here”, and then the trap door opens and cue Alice in Wonderland.
Then Im guessing you were not conservative before moldbug and are much younger.
Look I dont dislike MM hes funny erudite in some ways original and certainly he was able to convince some liberals without triggering them certainly he seems to be the founder of much of what goes by the name neoreaction.
what biggest objection is he seems to be a justification to do nothing because we are apolitical and nonviolent.
also his solutions are so far fetched they cant actually be done. theres no where to exit, if there were its not going to be allowed. theres not going to be any AI robot cavalry or crypto locked patches, or restoration of monarchys.
what there is are about 50 white nations under attack from within and without. non whites are the attackers for the most part, moldbug is all over the wasps but glosses over the jews, wasp and jew liberalism are two different animals . whites that have pozzd jew liberalism were infected by jews not wasps. The sensible reply is racial solidarity and war. war is simply what you do when youre attacked.yeah it terrible but its the only thing that will do what needs doing. so reasons why we cant are nothing more than problems that need solving so we might live
nigga plz he said that as a strategy 8 years ago. He gave an interview to a german newspaper where he said he supported and voted from trump. He’s also wrote numerous times about bad jewish influence how they were disruptive to america.
Now he works with Peter Thiel and is if nothing else indirectly influencing trump. in all likelyhood he is more sucessful than you will ever be. Maybe one day you’ll blossom, kid, but right now I don’t see you doing anything.
We pried religion off the pedestal for false claims and replaced the enlightenment with its false claims about rationality and then liberalism with its false claims about egalitarianism.
It really looks like believing something false is necessary for the social order. Think of it this way- if you want to deal with sociopaths and other parasites, you need to have hard to learn beliefs to distinguish members of your community. This is because true beliefs are universible (and thus can be used to enter any community) while false beliefs are distinct to your own group (and thus show an investment).
That and Christianity spent about 2000 years working over the question of ‘how do you run a society without it dying’ and managed to simultaneously make one that produced all the things we find good and worthwhile (in fact it is possible the churches position on marriage is directly responsible for the personality traits needed for modern society).
To be blunt, we need fertility rates above 2.1- they don’t need to be massively higher, but in the end nothing else matters. And while government policy re:minorities and jews might be responsible for a significant part of the reduction, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea don’t have those and are worse.
Unless you have alternatives (and not just hopes for future technology) we really do need religion in order to have white- heck, human- civilization survive.
The problem with christcuckoldry is that it believes in souls which is totally insane and inappropriate for a religion to preserve the White race and also that it upholds the Jews as our saviors which is also insane and inappropriate for a religion to preserve the White race. There are also other problems with a religion based on worshiping the Barack Obama of his day.
The truth, on the other hand, has certain reactionary points inherent to it. While freedom of speech can theoretically be absolute, the king has arbitrary power to punish insults and subversion, because when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. Every time the government creates government jobs for leftists it takes that money from normal people. The truth doesn’t need a priesthood and any formation that starts to look like a priesthood can be ridiculed.
We do have a great social technology now that our ancestors lacked. They had anonymous suggestion boxes and bulletin boards. We have the chans, which is why we’re not arguing about whether or not we would be better off if Hillary made herself king.
its more like we edged closer to the truth the enlightenment was brilliant for its time if we had not let the jews in and they the jews had not pozed it might still be working ok, but it obviously doesnt stand up to outside infections so we need ethno nationalism that is not economically socialist call it dark enlightenment enlightenment with a caveat niggers and jews need not apply, all men means white men not women not not white men
That Rousseau, what a genius, brilliant chap for his time.
you know youre insisting we would be better off in the middle ages. so youre either committed to niggerfication and imagine niggers as serfs and whites has lords and I would have to say tried that didnt work. or you actually want the exact same system and again tried that didnt work. letting a bunch of warlords rent seek them selves into genetic imbecility while the reast of mankind scrambles for a carrot is stupid and unsustainable. Just get off your moldbug fetish and broaden your possibilities
Rousseau burned France to the ground, never to recover.
In contrast, staunchly reactionary Germany still had its balls for another 150 years—figuratively and semi-literally—no fertility transition there.
Why did the German population, historically smaller than the French population, explode, while the French population languished? Black magic, I guess.
Second question: what was the proximate cause of the World Wars?
Good question: what was the proximate cause of the World Wars? When I read official history on the first world war, it is obvious that they don’t want to know. Supposedly, the war somehow just happened.
Moldbug indirectly claims it was leftist provocation. “Hey, we’re going to destroy you.” “Well…I might as well try to destroy you first, then? Only I’ma man up and stab you in the face.”
I might just as well ask why did the american revolution turn out such a success, and the germans end up with the series that leads to hitler.
The answer is change is hard the bourbons time had come they were inept. Will i concede it might have been possible for some king to manage the transition sure the brits sort of did. But that would be begging the bigger question what was going on. the vast majority of people were going to be utilized this was a good development. yes t has its own problems and some of the sytems to manage them have proved to not work. socialism doent work. as you know i remain unconvinced democracy per se is the problem or cause of leftism. revolutionary france is one of the few places you can point to white guys with pitchforks chimping out demanding free shit and considering the appalling conditions that preceded that its understandable.
The proximate cause of the world wars? well I guess its the proximate cause of our problems today elites putting their interests above that of their nations
>why did the american revolution succeed
Whiggery, notably including Lord Howe.
>manage the transition sure the brits sort of did
By this you mean, “relinquish all power and become nothing but a shriveled-up vestigial organ still desperately hanging on to your country’s government”?
>socialism doesn’t work. as you know i remain unconvinced democracy per se is the problem or cause of leftism
Socialism is the poor voting themselves the contents of the treasury. How clear is that causality?
>and considering the appalling conditions that preceded that its understandable
Yes, completely understandable. Have to break a few eggs to immanentize the eschaton.
>elites putting their interests above that of their nations
Not the cause of the World Wars.
Socialism is the rich voting themselves the contents of the armory on behalf of the poor. Usually, but not always, Jewish rich who were rightly excluded from political power.
The middle ages didn’t work? Or have you been propagandized to believe it didn’t work?
Dubai has a medieval social and political order, except that it has Islam in place of Christianity. And in spite of the fact that Islam is bad and tends to undermine civilization, Dubai manages fine.
I hope that is sarcasm, but it is hard to tell on the internet.
(to which you may say: ‘Alf, the Rubicon is so shallow you don’t need a boat to cross it!’ Yes that is exactly what the liberals want you to believe.)
Rreactionaryfuture says:
“These terrible wars were resolved by the peace of Westphalia. ” you work from liberal principles, liberal history and in a liberal framework. The result is liberalism with more unprincipled exceptions than others, but still liberalism. You can’t bake a cake using fecal matter.
The wars were caused by politics, which is to say unsecured power. The whole story of it being.religion based is what the liberal theorist from Hobbes onward have claimed to justify their project of liberalism.. Its totally refuted by historical record. It also hilariously requires the invention of religion in the Protestant form.
Pretty sure the sack of Rome was a disagreement about Papal policy.
reactionaryfuture says:
I’m not seeing how that claim holds up to scrutiny. Historians tend to be pretty clear on it being a result of power conflict, with the pope’s/papal state’s alliance France contra the holy roman empire being the cause. I am open to historical revision though.
Ask Luther
The war propaganda was all religious stuff.
Nazi propaganda was secularized Lutheranism plus a hefty injection of esoteric blood and soil paganistic stuff. Did it cause England, the Empire, America, and the Commie Empire to start and continue WWII?
“The enemy is the German Reich and not Nazism, and those who still haven’t understood this, haven’t understood anything.”
It seems to me that religion is generally used as the fig leaf behind which real power hides. In my humble opinion, if we’re looking at the halls of power and seeing true believers, the halls may be a bit more barten than we first supposed.
It seems to me that religion is generally used as the fig leaf behind which real power hides
Alexander the liberator illustrates the exact reverse of this theory. Real power was that people hostile to him and his regime were able to set the rules of what constituted status and virtue, causing him to dance to their tune, causing him to pursue status and engage in status competition under rules hostile to him and his regime, and then they killed him. Real power was the religion or quasi religion, that could set the rules of status and define virtue. Real power was the ability to define what constituted virtue and set the rules of status competition.
Well again, it seems the history has it that the HRE army in Italy sacked Rome for money and due to tactical reasons. Capture Rome or be stuck between Rome and an enemy army. It also seems to be that the Pope’s support of France against the HRE in Italy was a cause. It doesn’t strike me they were fighting over the wording in Mass. That the troops were largely mercs should be another tip off. Not exactly driven by religious fervor. But I could be wrong, I haven’t read primary sources on this and have to rely on historians on the era. That they hilariously disagree directly with the liberal historical version makes me trust them more. Its like a quite little pool of history uninfluenced by our current power system because most people don’t understand its significance.
And I can’t see how Alexander’s reforms cannot be seen as an application of all the bullshit that “classical liberalism” is supposedly based on, and to which its total meltdown can blamed upon. It is exactly in those countries which completely disregard “classical liberalism” and instead simply industrialized on an organised basis that didn’t collapse into cannibalism. The UK for example, Japan, or Italy. Classical liberalism and communism both share the same economic precepts (communism is merely liberal theory in a historical frame) and both are basically anarchism and cannibalism if taken seriously, and not used cynically.
Hidden Author says:
The USA evolved from a rustic, sparsely-populated society hugging the Eastern Seaboard to a subcontinental nation more powerful and prosperous than most autocratic empires in history. Republicanism has been more of a constant feature of American society than the landed gentry, the Church or white nationalism.
And today the US is getting poorer, shabbier, dirtier, less capable, and weaker. Its empire exceeds its strength. The buildings in its cities are frequently overdue for a fresh coat of paint and some repairs.
UK disregarded Classical liberalism? Where did Locke, Smith and Cobden come from then, Germany? Classical liberalism and communism are the same? LOL are you serious or a Cathedral provocateur?
Italy is not exactly an example of successful industrialization. Japanese would have been more successful without being forced into Prussian / New Deal style socialism which makes 30% of the population into otakus.
Classical liberalism is exemplified by early America which had family farms, not collective farms which is what Alexander imposed. if you can’t tell the difference between collective farms and individual agriculture…
Meh, all human institutions like all humans are mortal. A 200-300 year run is typical of effective monarchical dynasties–and, my my, look at what the American Republic has accomplished over the course of 200-300 years!
RF, you are trying to cross the Rubicon on a sinking boat.
“The wars were caused by politics”
Which ones, specifically? The 30 years’ war? That got kicked off when various populations declined to switch their religions to that of their new princes. The war got used for political purposes, certainly, but the underlying cause wasn’t. The French civil wars? Those had their roots in religious disputes under Louis XIV and earlier, there was no ethnic component, and on the political side power was being consolidated in the monarchy the whole time. The Catholics had political reasons to prosecute the conflict but the Protestants had none to start it in the first place.
Religion is entirely capable of causing war. Just because liberals try to make religion uniquely responsible doesn’t mean there is no blame at all.
“That got kicked off when various populations declined to switch their religions to that of their new princes.” no it didn’t. The records indicate local populations largely didn’t care, the fighting was conducted by mercs, and the different denominations worked together multiple times. The liberal narrative is not if even close to even being wrong. Its talking about a mythical event that has no correspondence to the wars in question.
Michael Rothblatt says:
Insecure Power is good. Struggle breeds the good stuff. Compare the feudal West (no sovereignty whatsoever, perpetual Power sturggles) to Joseon Korea (probably the most perfect society that has ever existed by your standards, next to DPRK of course!). Joseon, secure Power yes, but West has forgotten far more civilization than Joseon ever had (not to mention science, technology, and wealth – Joseon managed to be one of the most backwards places on the planet with one of the highest IQ populations on the planet). So, if secure Power leads to Joseon and DPRK, and insecure Power to Feudalism and Wild West, why would anyone sane want secure Power?
What the fuck? Jong Un son of Jong Il son of Il Sung is a bad king, therefore kings are bad, while sovereignty resting in men with guns worked in the USA a while ago, therefore that’s the be all end all.
Some Englishman responded to the American Revolution saying that we would eventually need a king. Which happened a hundred years ago.
Historically speaking, there was no absolute monarchy that wasn’t a complete and utter crapsack of a country. In addition to that, absolute monarchs have themselves set all the necessary infrastructure up to replace themselves with democracies, so any kind of absolutist takeover is much less likely to work than even the failed French Restoration.
America doesn’t need a king. It needs dissolution, and then every nation can get the government it deserves.
Dubai seems to be doing OK.
Recall it was a monarchy that launched the scientific and industrial revolutions and conquered the world.
But Dubai isn’t really an absolute monarchy in European sense, is it? Not in the sense of Louis XIV, Joseph II, Frederick II, Peter Alexeyevich, and their counterparts in the rest of the Europe. While European absolutists sought to undermine the church and tradition by setting up the Enlightenment project (it backfired on them, but the joke is on us), I very much doubt that any emir would hold on to his legitimacy – and head, for long if he started intentionally undermining Islam in his country.
The King of Dubai has to consult with aristocrats, as most supposedly absolute monarchs had to, but does not have a parliament pestering him. Seems like a standard issue traditional monarchy as used to be the norm in Europe.
That the kings of Europe allowed the religion that gave them divine right to be undermined was a sign of weakness, not strength.
It goes something like this. Monarchs unleash Enlightenment to usurp the powers of the clergy, and the aristocracy. The intelligentsia becomes the new clergy and the aristocracy tries to set up the parlament in order to return their stolen power. Dat democracy thingie tho quickly spirals out of control and the aristocracy loses even what they had under absolutism. Wherever you look you have the same scenario, England, France, Russia, etc.
Not what happened. To understand what happened, consider the murder of Alexander the Liberator.
The problem was that he failed to perform his role as the fount of all honors, and instead allowed lefties to define status and virtue, and proceeded to chase status and virtue as lefties defined it. To his death.
Absolutists (in case of Russia Peter I [the-not-really-great], in case of Austria Joseph II, etc.) use Enlightenment to set themselves up in place of God, i.e. as a fount of all honors. However that doesn’t work, because monarchs got inteligentsia to define status and virtue so that they could usurp the power of the church (and commonly also rob it of its material wealth) and the aristocracy in the first place. Inteligentsia are now official priesthood and are rapidly moving to the left as a result of frustrated ambition (they aren’t recongized so). At the same time aristocracy tries to use democracy to get back at king (nobles set up the British parlament originally, de Condorcet was a marquis, Georgy Lvov was a prince, etc.) but relatively quickly lose power to the far-left (Jacobins, Bolsheviks, etc.).
Absolutists (in case of Russia Peter I [the-not-really-great], in case of Austria Joseph II, etc.) use Enlightenment to set themselves up in place of God, i.e. as a fount of all honors.
Kings are supposed to be the fount of all honors, mortal and divine. Which is to say, they are supposed to regulate and control status competition so that status is earned for constructive activity, like sponsoring science, or heroic wartime conduct, rather than destructive activity, like undermining the social order in pursuit of supposed utopia, and so that status competition does not go overboard and be carried to excess, like the peacock’s tail.
The problem with Alexander the liberator is that the intellectuals got control of the status contest, that he in his weakness allowed them to get control of the status contest, and he danced to their tune instead of them dancing to his tune, which led to his death, and eventually to communism.
>The problem with Alexander the liberator is that the intellectuals got control of the status contest, that he in his weakness allowed them to get control of the status contest, and he danced to their tune instead of them dancing to his tune, which led to his death, and eventually to communism.
Alexander was ultimately irrelevant. All of that couldn’t have happened if Peter I didn’t introduce Enlightenment to Russia, took most of the privileges away from the nobility, and made church into one of the state ministries.
Peter the Great made wavering, uncertain, and disputed power clear and absolute.
Alexander the Liberator made clear and absolute power wavering, uncertain, and disputed.
Jim, ask yourself this. Why does it take merely couple of generations after the establishment of absolutism for it to collapse in a bloody revolution? Not a particularly stable form of government, wouldn’t you say?
Recollect the sealed train. The Kaiser treated Lenin like a pile of blankets infected with smallpox.
Russia was vulnerable to memetic plague. It was like introducing smallpox. In the homelands of the disease, people have built up resistance. It was not Peter that was the problem, and Alexander was only a problem in that he failed to vigilantly suppress the disease.
“Why does it take merely couple of generations after the establishment of absolutism for it to collapse in a bloody revolution?”
I infer that you don’t consider Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire absolutist, but I can’t figure out why.
“In the Byzantine state, the emperor was the sole and absolute ruler, and his power was regarded as having divine origin.[225]”
@pdimov
First let me start with what you didn’t mention, i.e. the Imperial China. Chinese emperors couldn’t even legislate.
For “Byzantine” Empire read Anthony Kaldellis’ Byzantine Republic.
The Ottoman Empire was way too decentralized.
It certainly seems that Alexander II’s policies of abandonment of the suppression of heresies was the most to blame.
From La Wik:
“Student radicalism began around the time Tsar Alexander II came to power… He lifted many restrictions on universities and abolished obligatory uniforms and military discipline. This ushered in a new freedom in the content and reading lists of academic courses. In turn, that created student subcultures, as youth were willing to live in poverty in order to receive an education. As universities expanded, there was a rapid growth of newspapers, journals, and an organization of public lectures and professional societies. The 1860s was a time when the emergence of a new public sphere was created in social life and professional groups… The consequent conflict with the state was an important factor in the chronic student protests over subsequent decades. The atmosphere of the early 1860s gave rise to political engagement by students outside universities that became a tenet of student radicalism by the 1870s. Student radicals described “the special duty and mission of the student as such to spread the new word of liberty. Students were called upon to extend their freedoms into society, to repay the privilege of learning by serving the people, and to become in Nikolai Ogarev’s phrase ‘apostles of knowledge’.” During the next two decades, universities produced a significant share of Russia’s revolutionaries. Prosecution records from the 1860s and 1870s show that more than half of all political offences were committed by students despite being a minute proportion of the population.”
Alexander allowed it because it was high status and he did not want to be low status.
Observe the interaction between progs and Trump. They keep telling him he is morally bad and low status, and in order to be virtuous and high status, he has to do what they want. He is disinclined to believe them, Alexander was inclined to believe them.
And, predictably, doing what they wanted, doing what was supposedly virtuous and high status, got him killed, because he was doing what his enemies who hated him and intended to kill him, intended to kill him and all his family, wanted him to do.
I suspected something like that. All monarchies that don’t support your point aren’t _actually_ absolutist.
Tokugawa shogunate? I just need to read the right book and I’ll see it as a democracy, I’m sure?
And it was high status because external powers have made it high status.
What external powers made it high status?
When the Kaiser treated Lenin like a pile of smallpox infected blankets, he knew what he was doing.
Look at what progs are doing to stop Trump. That is what they did to Alexander. There is no external power there – the people that you see telling everyone that Trump is low status unless he does what they tell him to do are those people, there is no hidden foreign power behind them. Their power comes from successfully selling their version of how status is decided and what constitutes virtue. They are priests and preachers.
“It” here is the liberalization of the universities, and it was high status because individual liberties were high status in the West.
He have no access to an alternative timeline in which Russia is free of Western influence, so we can’t settle this one way or the other, but I’m pretty sure that individual liberties would not have become high status on their own in the same way.
Trump is different; individual liberties and leftism in general have already been high status for centuries.
*We have no access
>The Kaiser treated Lenin like a pile of blankets infected with smallpox.
By speedily and sensibly incinerating them?
While at war with Russia, the Kaiser sent Lenin and a bunch of political activists, mostly Jewish political activists, in a sealed train, as if they were plague bomb. This indicates that the cause of leftism is local leftists.
Shogunate was a feudal monarchy, which is obvious given a high degree of internal infighting in Edo period. It doesn’t have anything to do with me. Absolute monarchy in European sense (as it existed from 1660 to 1815) requires a high degree of bureaucratization, centralization, and only one army, the monarch’s so that’s a big no-no to feudal princes with their sub-domains and own armies. More importantly absolute monarchy requires a monarch to be above the customary law. For instance, in Japan example, Tokugawas could have become absolute had they overthrown the emperor and took the Chrysanthemum Throne for themselves, and then beaten all the opposition into submission. It would have been a gross trampling over the customary right, but then again so was the dissolution of the monasteries.
The emperor had zero power under the shogunate.
“… requires a high degree of bureaucratization, centralization, and only one army…”
Hmmm. All right. Saudi Arabia?
“This indicates that the cause of leftism is local leftists.”
Local leftists are the pathogen, but not the cause of the weakened immune system.
Or, stated differently, Alexander did not take status cues from local leftists, he took status cues from his peers.
It is perfectly obvious that local leftists were very vigorously attempting to change the rules for virtue signalling and status competition to their favor and to the disfavor of the Czar. Do you suppose that they were whistling in the dark?
>The emperor had zero power under the shogunate.
Exactly, but everyone, shoguns included was officially loyal to the emperor (which helped the downfall of the shogunate during the reign of Yoshinobu the last shogun). European visitors to Japan likened the office of the emperor to that of the pope in Western Europe.
>Hmmm. All right. Saudi Arabia?
Does a Saudi King have the power to replace or reform the state religion? Officially at least, the Saudi king must comply with Sharia and the Quran, so technically he’s not above the law.
Monarchy in the Middle East corresponds to European monarchy before the peace of Westphalia.
“It is perfectly obvious that local leftists were very vigorously attempting to change the rules for virtue signalling and status competition to their favor…”
That’s what local leftists do, always and everywhere. Doesn’t have to be successful. Status markers are set by the powerful, and power resided with the West, not with the local leftists.
Alexander “lost intellectual sovereignty” as you like to say, although I’m not very fond of this formulation, because it has less explanatory value than saying that Russia was less powerful than the West and therefore less influential status-wise.
“European visitors to Japan likened the office of the emperor to that of the pope in Western Europe.”
I don’t think that the Emperor had anywhere near the Pope’s level of influence.
“Does a Saudi King have the power to replace or reform the state religion?”
That’s an interesting criterion for real absolutism. Has any monarch in history been able to replace the state religion without a civil war? Reform, maybe.
If your point is that the king is not the sole center of power because the grand mufti can, in principle, challenge some of his decisions on the basis of Islamic law, that’s correct (at least in principle – I don’t know what will happen in practice on such an occasion.)
Jim’s blog, the only place on Earth where the shogunate and Saudi Arabia aren’t considered absolute monarchies.
On further reading, the Grand Mufti is appointed by the King and
“In 1969, King Faisal abolished the office of Grand Mufti and replaced it with a Ministry of Justice. The position was restored in 1993 with the appointment of Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz.[6]”
Seems absolute enough.
Dubai is not ok. Local men are priced out of the marriage market so they are bringing in lots of Indian and African brides.
Why should I care if the Arabs further niggerfy their gene pool?
Because it blows the argument that their system works if men cannot marry women of their own tribe. Like my extended family, where men marry down the social scale while their sisters stay single. Your X-chromosomes get wiped out in two generations!
>if men cannot marry women of their own tribe
Which men?
>while their sisters stay single
This isn’t happening, or if it is, complete failure of patriarchy. We obviously have complete failure of patriarchy, which is the entire problem. Are you Arabic, and can comment on the situation in Dubai or similar?
“Struggle breeds the good stuff.” no it doesn’t, and that’s the problem. And your refusal to engage with the argument properly instead of engaging in shilling for “Classical Liberalism” aka anarcho-cannibalism is pointless, who are you trying to convince?
Your “competition is everything” is an embracing of the deranged propaganda disbursed by centralising power centers. Centers which don’t submit themselves to competition, and which produce the integrative technological development by means directly opposed to anarcho-cannibalism.
>no it doesn’t
Of course it doesn’t, for you. What you consider good is bad in my book, and vice-versa.
No, it is exactly the opposite. It is, in fact, your “secure Power is everything” that is an embracing of the deranged propaganda disbursed by centralising power center. Once, it used to be Filmer and Hobbes who were filthy propagandists, now these are Progressive journalists. It’s all the same, however, it’s all just a propaganda on behalf of the central Power. Your precious absolute monarchy is just a step in the evolution of the Progressivism, and absolute monarchs were just a bunch of left-wing nutjobs.
If the state is defined by its monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, then “world peace” means world empire, and challenges to its rightful authority mean politics, civil strife, and ultimately civil war.
You keep trying to claim I advocate the previous social arrangement labeled as absolutist, when I have made it clear a number of times I considered them to have not been in any way absolutist. Moldbug made the same point a long time ago. As for Filmer and Hobbes, they are oil and water. One is aggressively coherent, the other simply isn’t.
You have to understand that Hobbes was working on the idea of property having been granted by god to all equally. This was the state of nature argument of Grotius, Bellarmine, Suarez and latter Locke. There has been no successful “secularisation” of this. It is still based on god, no matter how much Libertarians stomp their feet. Filmer tells you that all attempts to base an order on this are logically deranged. It is a giant philosophical fraud based. At least the likes of Rothbard were honest in just going full anarchist.
Filmer may have been working on biblical grounds, but unlike the state of nature argument, he can be salvaged and used to present an accurate presentation of…reality. You should read Patriacha sometime. However, Patriarcha isn’t actually the pamphlet of his to read, the real fireworks happen in “Observations upon Aristotle’s Politiques Touching Forms of Government” where Filmer sets fire to Aristotle’s theories on government and the state of nature argument. Full bore autism 16th century style.
@Michael Rothblatt You know what, I have no idea why we are arguing. Neither side will convert to the other, and neither will convince 3rd parties. Best that can be done is to use other’s positiona to explore weaknesses in ones own.
>oil and water
Oil and water but working toward the same end, the same goal. Isn’t it interesting? Hobbes serves to subvert liberals into absolutist project, and Filmer to subvert conservatives into absolutist project. Doesn’t that pretty much look like what Cathedral is doing today, making different ideologies all advocate what IT wants. Of course to convince different people you need different arguments but all work toward the same end goal.
But Filmer has been dropped from memory as anything other than a punching bag for Locke, while Hobbes is lauded. That’s because Hobbes accurately portrayed what was happening intellectually. The idea being simply that we all “own” our property, as in possess in the anarcho-capitalist sense, but we must collectively submit to a central agency to manages us all. So in effect he just provided intellectual cover for bourgeoisie claims to “own” their property, yet justify a political system they clearly wanted. The project doesn’t make any sense, and that’s the dirty secret. This isn’t really new in Hobbes though, Filmer notes this in Grotius when he complains that Grotius’ claims mean: “That the lawful Kings have no propriety in their kingdoms, but an usufructuary right only, as if the people were the lords, and the Kings but their tenants.”
I agree with Filmer on this. I cannot logically make sense of this claim.
Filmer was dropped because he was no longer useful once everyone stopped believing in Divine Right. Hobbes however, having provided a liberal argument for unlimited state power, and one that wasn’t based on God, but on “the people”, was immensely useful to the powers that be. It was a simple matter to replace the monarch in his thought with whatever arrangement they wanted.
So what type of regime exemplifies your ideal?
I agree with Jim that no government can really be formalized, except maybe a situation like when the Spartans ruled the helots, because formalizing it would shatter the myths that allow the state to have cohesion in the first place. Even absolute monarchies tend to develop informal power structures – look at the role of palace eunuchs, etc. Giving all power to one person, and then having that one person be responsible to a hierarchical, organized elite, like the aristocratic republic of 18th – 19th century England, seem to be the best system, but is vulnerable to left wing entryism.
Lol jews.
Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur says:
> But don’t you feel just a little bit uneasy when you face a fertile age
> woman with a pixie cut? Something is wrong, something is off,
> something is odd, unpleasant, and disturbing, but you are not
> allowed to notice it.
“The aspirations of woman after education and independent work, met with sympathetic welcome in society. There, these are perhaps the most popular questions. The Government, on the other hand, regarded them unfavourably. Alexander II did not like these fancies ; and as to short hair, at times he personally entered into the struggle. I remember a story that goes back to my university days. At that time, short hair, short dresses, cuffs purposely not as clean as they might be, were already becoming things of the past ; they were already the sign of a certain amount of want of thought. I had, however, the opportunity of seeing certain photographs of young ladies of my acquaintance in male dresses, and wearing a funny little hat like a Polish cap. One day, one of these girls with short hair, met the Emperor in the street. It was at St. Petersburg. She bowed and went on her way. Next day, she received a summons from the police. Stupefied and terrified, she went to the police station and found there the superintendent, who, to do him justice, also seemed embarrassed. She asked why she had been summoned. The superintendent’s embarrassment grew worse. “You met his Majesty yesterday. … His Majesty is displeased. . . . His Majesty has deigned to order — you’ll have to sign an agreement not to cut your hair for the future.” The Emperor had noticed the girl wearing her hair short, and had at once directed the police to find her and tell her to alter her personal appearance. The superintendent was quite ashamed at playing such a part, and at having to confess that the Emperor concerned himself with such nonsense.”
— Lev Tikhomirov, Russia: political and social, vol. 2
(On the other hand, I wouldn’t really say Russia then was “cucked” over this.)
I would say Alexander II was well and truly cucked. He emancipated the serfs, and lots of leftist stuff like that, and, surprise surprise, promptly finds society under attack from anarchists, socialists, perverts, and girls with pixie cuts. Lots of leftists try to kill him. He plans to meet the problem by making further concessions to the people trying to kill him and, surprise surprise, is of course assassinated.
If Alexander was the fount of all honors as he should have been, the policeman would have been completely confident that the pixie cut was a threat to order and morals, as, of course, it was.
Alexander was implementing classical liberalism.
No he was not. Classical liberalism would have been to free the serfs without the land, leaving the land in the hands of its existing owners, and to also free the owners from their obligation to care for the serfs, leaving the serfs free to starve, or not, depending on their individual competence and willingness and ability to get a job.
you know jim as much as I love to imagine myself as lord of the manor watching Downton Abby truth is you and i would have been in one of those thatched huts if we were lucky and the lord is now a a progressive because the lord knows progressivism will preserve his elite status and i am a reactionary because i do not think he deserves his elite status simply because his ancestor was a bad ass and hes willing to be cucked.I think i deserve to be lord of the manor because I am more willing to use violence and smarter than him and see problems of today more clearly. The simple fact of the matter is aristocracy was as stupid an idea as progressivism but they both had their time when it seemed or was the best choice in that environment. They are both no longer a good idea. It was time for the Macdonalds and Ryans to be emancipated or to overthrow the anglo saxons since we are both also descended even farther back to warlords of our own peoples.But it would be stupid of us to make the same mistakes of the anglo saxons.Time waits for no man a king is worms food. evolution is our model not trying to freeze time
I don’t know how to untangle that.
We can begin with existing owners. Define ownership.
Then move onto obligation of care. Define which relationships in society hold, and which don’t in your scheme. (coherently.)
Then move onto the concept of “individual competence” who exactly qualifies here? women? children? babies? (again being theoretically coherent and robust)
“Define ownership”?
Dogs know who owns land.
The Czar should not have taken land from nobles who generally knew how to farm, and given it to the serfs, many of who proved themselves incompetent to farm.
Under serfdom, the lord had the duty to look after the serf, and serf had the duty to serve the lord. Classical liberalism would have simply abolished both duties. Instead, we got the one duty abolished, but not the other.
Dog ownership in this instance would be simply possession. Possession being defined by the ability to defend and hold. Does this correspond to property (legally recognized rights)? Your position assumes it does. Note the passive usage in legally recognized, as in recognized by a political order. This recognition of property being such, and not simply possession, is brought in when you refer to the Czars taking land from the nobles to give to serfs – unless you mean the nobles possessed the property and the Czar took it from them, in which case, what grounds did he have to take property “possessed” by others, and what does this say of his sovereignty? and what kind of economic order can you have on this grounds? So you have two rough models of ownership in one comment here.
One is pure liberal in which property =possession in which case the sovereign is a kind of roving bandit that expropriates other’s possessions. This falls apart on interaction with the real world.
The other is more in accordance with how it functions in the real world, in which property != possession. In this one, property is a function of legally recognized rights granted by a sovereign.
And when you say classical liberalism would have abolished both duties, what do you mean? how does classical liberalism function as a subject in this sentence?
The classical liberal policy is to abolish the bonds between men and treat everyone as atomized individuals. If this policy had been applied to the relationship between serf and lord, the serfs would have been freed without land, would have been free to go where they will, do what they want, and the lord would have been free to let them starve.
Whereas Moldbuggian Formalism and meta-Rothbardianism would have formalized the contract, but made it negotiable and alienable.
The reformers would then be welcome to offer a better contract and profit thereby. (And failed, as do modern co-ops.)
And what if the farms were sold to the serfs, but the Lords were compensated justly for it?
A very successful land redistribution happened in Taiwan. The results were very interesting and positive. This is the only case I’m aware of where something like this was done.
The peasants were allowed to purchase up to a certain amount of land (if they desired) in exchange for paying a mortgage equal to the previous rent to the government for a couple of decades. So, if the rent was 20% of production previously, they paid the government 20% of future production in exchange for title.
The government would then purchase the land from the landlords in exchange for bonds equal to the previous rent — in fixed quantity, rather than as an actual percentage of production. For instance, if the farm produced 10 tons of rice per year, and the previous rent was 20%, then the bond would be fixed to 2 tons of rice every year.
The peasants, then, had an incentive to improve the land and improve their production, since they could be ensured that it would become theirs and be passed to their children, and that eventually their improvements would yield additional profit for them and only them. The landlord, upon seeing higher production, couldn’t simply jack up the rent to match the production increase, as was common practice.
The landlords were given an assured income for a considerable length of time. A market for these rice and sweet potato bonds was also created. It gave an immense capital base to work with. Many of these farmer-landlords, rather than continuing to farm, took to the cities and invested in industrialization rather than agricultural production. They built tall, semi-modern apartments, factories, and so on. And all of those things were predicated on creating the right incentives for the right people.
It was a whopping success. The cities rapidly industrialized as the previous countryside ruling elites took their knowledge, culture, and ambition to the cities, and the production levels of the farms skyrocketed — nearly quadrupling within a decade or so. The government ended up profiting massively off of the land reform, as well, since nearly everywhere experienced triple digit productivity improvements, and they were being paid in a percentage of production, but they were paying out a fixed quantity based on the historical production levels.
It was a masterful stroke of aligning incentives correctly. It involved some forced sales and so on, but tried to be even handed to all parties. A sort of “stern gift” to the peasants, requiring them to work for their land, and a “merciful theft” from the nobles, taking their land but giving them time and capital to reinvent themselves.
The biggest issue is that in adopting democratic forms, they gave Cthulhu room to swim left. The laws protecting these small farms are borderline titles of yeomanry were eventually abolished; people began to purchase farms to pave over to build vacation homes, protections against the seizure of land by banks were lifted, support for farmers in the form of education and marketing were removed.
The individual serf seldom had the means or the inclination to pay a just price.
A very successful land redistribution happened in Taiwan.
Yes, but it distributed land to individual families who had a past history of successfully farming without supervision.
The Russian land reform distributed the land to the serfs collectively rather than individually, because they doubted the ability of the individual serf to farm unsupervised.
So they took the land from those who knew how to farm it, gave it to those not all of whom knew how to farm it, and gave them bad incentives.
fuck existing owners existing owners took by force mobs took back by force so what. you want some libertarian NAP please stfu you cant be bragging about first night rights then start whining about NAP
The salient point I would think is most efficient use of resources, inbred former thug barron rent seeking not efficient anymore, socialist mobs ok as rightful owners by right of might firing Barron ok but not permanent solution, enlightenment works pretty good for a while, but less and less.
meritocracy is a start it kind of comes with some type of democracy which is not the problem the problem is elites gaming the system. That is not to say elites should not rule we just established meritocracy, it is to say mertocrats should not sell their potential at a discount for a sure thing
The problem is the disconnect between the men with guns and property and the people you perceive as the historical aristocracy, and the Marxist bullshit about aristocrats engaging in terrible sexual behavior which sadly came true after they lost their place in society.
A republic of men with guns and property is arguably what we started out with in America. A king would work but only if he is the true king who has earned the loyalty of the men with guns and property – and that’s the king we have now. Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!
yes but
would that be a “true king” if the men with guns were voluntarily following him? Personally I dont see anyway around this men can get guns and if not satisfied with their lader will use them. so I am fine admitting the true owners of the realm are the men and they understand a leader is needed calling this monarchy cameralism or democracy is semantics, unless you actually think like some NRX that the men with guns are serfs and the leader a real king. Theres never been a real king only one that wasnt fired by men with guns.
Monarchy is Greek democracy is Greek for rule by random citizens or maybe rule by votes propagandized and rigged by Jews cameralism probably means rule by photographers that could work pewdiepie is cool, but the English word for government with a king is kingdom
Never heard of Tikhomirov (‘Quiet Peace’) before, but I see he was a revolutionary anti-monarchist until age 34, then became a monarchist (‘good-hearted young socialists/clear-headed old conservatives’ proverb).
One likes to think he may have understood the tsar’s wisdom, at least on long hair for women, before he died at age 71.
IDentifiable Friend says:
Look at how a tree is pruned and then grows more vigorously. Instead of trying to “save” or “revive” Christianity, just do a drastic pruning and watch the shoots spring up.
Fire and steel. Deus vult.
Absolutely. That’s why Catholicism is at major risk of failing in this cycle. The Pope is working to retain followers instead of separate the sheep from the goats.
Thankfully we have Eastern Orthodoxy and some strong Protestant branches to turn to.
>You cannot have Christianity without patriarchy, and if you are not entirely comfortable with patriarchy maybe you should be worshiping the Goddess.
I get absolutely no where urging Christians to restore the patriarchy no mater how well sourced, well argued, or how many bible verses I quote, ect. They’ve simply decided to pretend the biblical patriarchy doesn’t and never did exist.
To quote the obvious: the religion is dead and they are already worshiping the Christian slut Goddess.
Mustard seed. Every time Christianity DOES get uncucked, you get the Reconquista. However, many branches of Christianity never experience that “second growth”. Internal struggle makes Christianity stronger. Would Spain have succeeded if not for the Albigenses? Would the Irish Catholics have shaped up if they weren’t competing against Protestants in America?
I’ve commented in earlier posts, I’ll say it again. You all must check out a United Reformed Church in your area, if there is one https://www.urcna.org/1651/family/urcna_report?public=1. OPC, RCUS, and Canadian Reformed are also good ones.
Patriarchy has been implemented. We have 130+ families in our particular church and haven’t had a divorce since the early 90’s. Some folks have gotten divorced before they found their way into our church, so we have a few single mothers (or fathers), etc, but in general our families are extremely strong.
You don’t have to live in a convent or a monastary in order to get away from all the cucks and feminists. There are orthodox Christians out there, just very hard to find.
How many refugees have you adopted, do you run a soup kitchen or share space with theater fags, do you have donation and ecumenism drives for Israel or Africa, do you teach little boys to worship pussy and little girls they’re just like boys but with grrl power, do you see White identity as heresy, do you have any mud priests?
I can honestly respond no to most of that. Unfortunately, most people aren’t WOKE on race, and that remains true everywhere. Therefore, there just isn’t a lot of discussion about race. However, I live in Southern California and 95% of my particular church is white when only 25% or less of the community surrounding it is white, so that should tell you something.
If you want to live in a peaceful home, implement patriarchy. Attending a good church will help with that. When that’s finished, implement a peaceful community by implementing nationalism.
I would also bet good money that our entire denomination’s female virginity rate (females that remain virgins until they are married) is >93%
>I would also bet good money that our entire denomination’s female virginity rate (females that remain virgins until they are married) is >93%
If you don’t have virginity tests during the marriage ceremony then you really don’t know, do you?
True, but as you know word usually gets around pretty quickly who’s putting out and who’s not.
Naw, you need personal confession for that. (Cue chestnut with the punchline “Five Hail Mary’s and three good leads”.)
Blind… girls fuck out of the group when they want to have sex without the church knowing. Lots of pew-sitters, including Sunday school teachers, have sex on Saturday night, then go teach Sunday school the next day.
Not so, I’ve been in churches where what you say is definitely the case. But when you have the home, church, and school all in complete sync, you get dramatically better results. That’s not to say it never happens, but it is extremely rare in our church.
peppermin says:
weren’t you just arguing that it’s good that aristocrats had the right of first night and peasants got sloppy seconds? I think you’re just trying to excuse your own sexual immorality like a Marxist
I thought you were insane pepper, but now I know you are a liar. I was saying the exact opposite of what you claim.
Ok, you’re and old-school puritan marxist instead of a new-school puritan marxist. Do you know what the actual sexual immorality ot the aristocracy looked like? See the King Arthur stories.
By the way, an early instance of the word fuck in written English was someone anonymously wrote that the priests were fucking the wives of some town. It was of course less acceptable to insult priests than aristocrats.
Today’s marxists literally believe that there are more rapes of nigger sows by White men than rapes of White women by niggers, but no one is allowed to notice because of White supermacy, exactly as marxists believe the same thing about the old aristocracy.
UCRNA’s? That high?
I don’t see anything on that website about gay ministers or gay marriage, though I may have missed it.
This is a key test in the present day, and one the United Reformed Church in England fails. It would be best to state the position of the NA church on the website, and in the strongest possible language regarding the inalterability of said position.
There is a clause in the church order that marriage is between one man and one woman. Homosexuality is certainly on the list of sins that require immediate disciplinary action from the elders and will result in excommunication from the church if an individual remains an unrepentant homosexual.
Is this church affiliated (or formerly affiliated) with Doug Wilson?
Not really, though I’m sure we share some common beliefs.
Interesting that you brought up Wilson, where did you hear about him? In our Sunday School class this morning Wilson’s name was brought up by the teacher. He has some good ideas on the home and family but his views on “Federal Vision” our denomination has condemned. We are unaffiliated with him and his church.
Doug Wilson, Credenda Agenda, I found him because there are a lot of Rushdoonyite fellow travelers in his crowd, and I’m a fan of Rushdoony.
Strategy numbers 1, 2, and 3 for surviving the modern world are all the same: keep a low profile; don’t unnecessarily draw the attention of the Eye of Sauron.
Byzantine Orthodoxy was cucked thoroughly, at todays levels by the time of Chrysostum (600AD). Then Islam rose and Orthodoxy never really recovered.
Russian Orthodoxy was cucked, then the communists took over. Orthodoxy hasn’t really survived; despite Putin’s efforts, Putin’s biography was written by a dyke, faggotry isn’t outlawed, abortion isn’t outlawed, feminism is still rampant in Russia.
Armenian Orthodoxy survived a long time, but now that it is cucked, the Armenian community is dissolving.
Catholicism… no need to say much really.
It is possible a virile offshoot of Christianity will appear, but the main branches are dead and have been for a long time. Mormonism was virile 150 years ago, but was cucked since then. It couldn’t survive the heat that the larger Christian world brought down on it.
The seed of virile Christianity is in the New Testament, especially if you throw away a few bits that every scholar agrees was added later, like the Pericope of the Woman Caught in Adultery.
The Puritans were virile in their time, but they didn’t make a clean enough break from England and Anglicanism, and they got cucked within 200 years, becoming todays Unitarian Universalists.
Careful examination of the New Testament shows that anyone who follows the New Testament will walk a path that modern denominations attack as “Judaizing”. Sort of like a reciprocating engine, Christianity gets cucked, the Judaizers show up, Christianity attacks them and gets stronger for a while. Rinse and repeat. The Judaizing warned about in the New Testament is considerably different from what the Church later labelled as Judaizing. So people think they do a good thing by condemning Judaizers, not realizing those are not the Judaizers Paul was talking about; the ones they condemn, using their modern definitions, are the ones Paul was most pleased with. (By modern, I mean later than 200AD)
>abortion isn’t outlawed, feminism is still rampant in Russia.
Abortion is being attacked step by step in Russia. It will be illegal within 10 years. Domestic violence is once again legal in Russia. Feminists melt for a man willing to beat her.
Let us see if Russia can recover. Christianity ruled by atheists will always overlook essential elements that the faithful take as a matter of course. If you try to do Christianity robotically, the end result will fail in the ways that robots do.
TexasCapitalist says:
We’ll see. In many regions of Russia more than half of all pregnancies end in abortion, today, right now.
>We’ll see. In many regions of Russia more than half of all pregnancies end in abortion, today, right now.
That’s actually a good sign that Russian women are still turned on by their men. You can trace the decline in female to male attraction in the US by women no longer having enough hot sex to need an abortion.
Christcuckoldry is inherently judaizing and puritanism was always cucked. Don’t forget, male genital mutilation was introduced in America by judaizing puritans and today’s new form of male genital mutilation is also by judaizing “post-“puritans.
Christcuckoldry needs to grab men by the balls to get them to ignore their family, nation, and race in favor of christcuckoldry. And it rips the balls or at least the foreskins off male children.
Puritans get off on sexual desperation. Whenever I troll, I pretend to be an anti-sex Puritan, but in actual fact, it’s a reality-based troll, that is, an accurate-impersonation-based troll, because such people really do exist. My trolling is Socratic because it confronts people with their own ulterior motives and requires them to check their previ… err, premises.
I bet it was an Anglo-Saxon pervert, rather than a Jewish pervert, who came up with chastity cages, chastity belts, and no-release edging sessions. Jewish perverts mostly concentrate on bodily secretions such as feces and urine, and a bunch of other stuff Freud wrote about. In contrast, Anglo-Saxon perverts are really big into feeling the painful sensation of blue balls. Of course, not every Anglo-Saxon is a sexual Puritan pervert, there are plenty who aren’t – Jim for instance. Or Aldous Huxley, who wrote: “Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions”. But there is a pattern.
If you ever spend time browsing the MPC forums, you will come across chastity-obsessed posts made by the admin Brian Uecker, aka “Pleasureman”, who is of German descent. Given that Germans do not tend to be sexual Puritans, you have to wonder why he goes to such lengths to denounce the mildest deviations from vanilla American sex norms. And the truth of the matter is that he over-compensates, because sexual Puritanism doesn’t come naturally to people like him. It’s the same reason I troll the way I do.
Brian Uecker would go out of his way to convince you that anyone who is attracted to 14 year olds (which is the “age of consent” in his ethnic homeland of Germany, which I’m sure Brian and company deem as “too low”) is the same as one who is attracted to 4 year olds — boobs don’t matter, menstruation/fertility doesn’t matter, feminine figure doesn’t matter, the fact that this teen has been having “zestful” orgasms for the past 4 years by masturbation and possibly by sex doesn’t matter – Brian wants you to know that you are a monstrous pedophile for even briefly entertaining the notion that a young woman at 14 is not 100% totally absolutely identical in terms of sexuality with a 4 year old girl in kindergarten who plays with dolls. By the way, 4 year old girls in kindergartens do sometimes masturbate to orgasms or quasi-orgasms as well, but I don’t suggest fucking them – it is what it is, though.
Since Brian/Pman is not unlikely to read this post given he and his fellows lurk here, I’d suggest that, Brian, you should stop and consider what made your fellow German-American writer, HL Mencken, so prescient – hint, it wasn’t pearl clutching. You see Pman, your fixation with “muh proper socialization” leaves you unable to protest against the mutilation of foreskins, because in your view, morality is just how well you fit with whatever mob-fashion is prevalent among “normies” (the people you’re trying to appeal to with your purity-signalling) at any given time. If “proper socialization” means cock-slicing or raising the “age of consent” to 21 as the Feminists in England proposed, well, no sacrifice is too big to fit with the cool kids, right, Pman?
After all, as a childless misfit in his 50s who self-references as “e-daddy”, you’re surely destined to become the “next big thing” in the shining world of internet conservatism by publishing your undoubtedly grand-breaking booklet, which meticulously explains “how we got here and how we should move forward”, to be purchased and read exclusively by your audience of faux-conservative edgy suckups. At long last, the cherry on top of your suspiciously sleazy cake. Best of luck!
Christianity has a good record of coming back from the dead.
Pastor Steven Anderson and I agree with you on the theology here.
We seek a new synthesis. GNON-compliant Christianity sounds good.
Something like God the father the son the holy spirit the Gnon, God is 4 and God is one?
You would need to
A- build community
B- transfer gnon-compliant christianity information
I imagine that if the info is solid enough, Gnon Christianity could spread like old christianity, so A will follow B. The problem is condensing/holifying the information. The book of Jim perhaps?
There is of course also the Urbit line of thought, namely that the bible has assembled too much noise and that in order to make a Gnon compliant religion, have to start from scratch.
Once you truly “get” the Christianity of the Bible (original Christianity) all the GNON stuff is seen as childish training wheels.
What you say sounds similar to marxists saying modern communism has failed because True Communism has never been tried.
If original Christianity is all we need, why did it so massively devolve into cuckstianity?
Cycle of life. The Bible knows about the Glubb cycle and discusses it. It provides a way of “surfing the waves” so your progeny survive and maintain their tribal identity, DESPITE the inevitable cycles of virtue and cuckery. There is a reason the New Testament says that every generation has to work out THEIR OWN salvation with fear and trembling.
Ill believe it when I see it. So far Im not seeing it (I in fact see the opposite) so I dont believe it.
Did you ever read the Bible straight through from cover to cover? Do so. Then we can talk. Glubb cycle isn’t a comment you pull out in a soundbite.
You’re one human, you will live a human life cycle, so you won’t see it.
But for recent history, consider flappers in the 20s, and then the return of Christian patriarchy in the 50s. The Soviet Union went full godless communist, yet now it’s majority Eastern Orthodoxy. Wait another 20 years and you might see what you’re looking for in Russia. Orthodox women still cover their hair in church, even the several million of them in America.
These are just examples in very recent history. The Catholic Church is full of cycles of good and bad popes.
God’s people always win eventually because they voluntarily subject themselves to God’s justice and his mercy. Totalitarians always lose because a human can’t enforce arbitrary rules on other, unwilling humans sustainably – especially when those rules are ornerous and self destructive.
Napoleon gave up a lot of revolutionary rhetoric when he not only permitted the Catholic Church to openly operate, but sought their blessing.
And instantly he got an orderly society in return. Because he abdicated the war of spiritual authority over men to God.
It’s one of the most common patterns of history in Christian cultures.
But for recent history, consider flappers in the 20s, and then the return of Christian patriarchy in the 50s
But these things did not return just because people felt like it, rather it was government policy – that to fight a war they needed to encourage masculinity. Starting in the early nineteenth century they started raising the status of female jobs, and pushing women into men’s jobs. Then, at the start of the war, suddenly popular entertainment started representing patriarchy as normal, and at the end of the war, there were mass firings of females, as suddenly entire places of employment and categories of employment went all male – after a hundred years of high pressure female empowerment.
>that to [win] [the war to end all wars] they needed to encourage masculinity
Agreed, Jim – it didn’t just happen. We have to fight, literally, to maintain our civilization as every generation does. The wolves are always howling at the gates; there is no room for lifetimes of rest.
You will note that the branches of Orthodoxy who never recovered, are the ones who successfully stayed cucked on the downcycle, attacking the restorationist cycle with labels like Pelagian, Arian, and Judaizer. Those who want to be zombified will get their wish.
True Christianity was tried from about 700AD to 1820AD worked great.
Hence my desire to set the clock back to England 1790AD.
You can compare Christianity as practised according to scripture if it has been tried. But communism truly tried is always a moving goalpost.
I say that England from 1660 to 1820 practiced Christianity according to scripture.
Jehovah is GNON.
((Jehovah)) is a volcano demon worshiped by kikes and people unduly ifluenced by kikes
The Jews not only killed Jesus, but demanded the Romans persecute Christians.
At that time the people you call “Christians” were more like heretical loony-tunes Jews.
Ridiculous: the Galilee, where R Yeshua was teaching was one of the most anti-Hellenic, Jewish strongholds. All of Jesus’s disciples were hardcore Jews, some even Zealots. The most powerful, spiritual center of Christianity was located in Jerusalem, until its destruction in 70 AD, and members of the not-yet new religion, an offshoot of Judaism, were Ebionates and Nazarenes, all of whom were (mostly poor Jews) practicing Mosaic Law. It was, going against Peter’s intent, Paul’s idea, who never even saw R Yeshua nor knew his direct disciples, to divorce Christianity from Judaism, to aide in proselytizing among the Romans and Greeks.
Until canonization in the 4th, the New Testament scriptures kept being modified all the way till 3rd century, to purge all anti-Roman references and insert anti-Jewish statements. It was was Pontius Pilate who crucified R Yeshua, unilaterally making this decree. Death penalty in Judeah was only possible via decision of the Sanhedrin, and such decision never took place.
Many Jews thinking that Jesus was the Messiah, expected miracles to happen, for him to be released from Roman chains and become the new Jewish King. It never happened. But of course, the whole business of rising from the dead happened/was invented to make it all Messianic-like, which further accreted and mutated into God-Son and virgin birth mess, along with the “trinity” and Satan nonsense, which is nothing but Gnosticism and paganism.
There is a lot of parallelism between early Jewish Christians and those among today’s Jews who believe that the late Chabad Rebbe is the “to-be-revealed” Messiah.
Anyway, the very essence of Christianity (starting from R Yeshua himself) is misunderstanding compassion as a sort of masochistic giving to non-fellow strangers and even enemies. While effective in proselytizing missionary work among poor non-believers, this is not mainline Judaism (even though a saying by R Akiva could be interpreted in same vein) nor, certainly, Islam, which does missionary work with sword. Islam upholds the primacy of belief in God as virtue, and propagates it with sword and fire. Judaism upholds primacy of adherence to the Torah-derived Halakhah (Law) as virtue, and propagates by growing from within. Christianity upholds compassion as virtue and propagates by buying up Shudras. My bet is on the law.
I’m also hoping that fully preserved Gospel of Ebionites will be found someday, to clarify all doubts and disspel Nicenean nonsense.
Sorry, I meant to say that no author of the books of NT, including Luca and John, who were followers of Paul’s position, themselves knew R Yeshua or his disciples. Paul certainly knew.
Until canonization in the 4th, the New Testament scriptures kept being modified all the way till 3rd century, to purge all anti-Roman references and insert anti-Jewish statements.
I don’t think so. If they were modified a generation after the death of Christ, Christ’s prophecies would be a whole lot better. The new testament is full of the inconsistencies that one would expect if two independent eyewitnesses wrote down their stories a few years after the event, without getting together to iron out the details, and lacks the inconsistencies one would expect if two differing sprouts of the religion wrote down their stories a century afterwards.
If there was significant editing after the fall of Jerusalem, the prophecies of Christ, instead of being so vague as to be unfalsifiable, would say something like “in a generation the pharisees are going to piss of the Romans so badly that the Romans flatten the temple and exile the Jews” – which is what lots of people at the time of Jesus suspected might well happen, and doubtless Jesus himself suspected might happen, but he declined to stick his neck out by speaking quite so plainly.
Eli does have a point here, though. See:
http://samsonblinded.org/files/Jesus_and_Christ.pdf
Long story short: some accounts of Jesus are based on (inspired by) the Teacher of Righteousness (moreh ha-tzedek) figure, however, that doesn’t preclude Jesus from having been a real historical figure in his own right.
The thing is, it’s not that Christianity is without its flaws. It’s that, for all its flaws, it’s still better than Judaism. But the Jews have too much pride, nay arrogance, to admit as much. Which is why the Jewish ethnicity, such as it is, refuses to come to terms with what should be, and should always have been, its national creed.
The truth value of Christianity is higher than that of Judaism, but for reasons of ethnic chauvinism and obstinacy, the Jews prefer their inferior dead-letter dogma (late bronze age customs + second-temple period pharisaic propaganda + medieval rabbinic legalism) over the aesthetically superior (beauty is truth), spiritually wholesome, intellectually engaging, living faith of Christianity. They will keep rejecting truth, and keep being punished by Gnon for it.
Maybe when modern Israel collapses they’ll rethink the whole issue.
Obadiah Shoah misses the point completely. An account of real man by multiple independent witnesses is not going to attribute a very coherent and consistent set of doctrines to that man. The discrepancies of which he complains are not evidence the gospels were written late, they are evidence the gospels were written early, written by men who were mortal, imperfect, and incompletely informed. The inconsistencies and discrepancies are evidence that the gospels are exactly what they seem to be. If written late, or edited late, all those wrinkles would have been ironed out.
In order to get a coherent and consistent set of doctrines, we are going to need articles written by one or more apostles some time after his death, after the religion has had a shakedown cruise and the apostles have had time to debate with each other what Jesus meant: Which of course we have.
Just like with P. Crone’s work and your argument with Cochran about capability to build skyscrapers, you are out of your depth here. Jews were not exiled en masse (even after the Bar Kokhba revolt) but had been slowly and surely dissipating out of the land, all the way till around 5th century. (And even then, there were some rare Jews who never left the land and never even ended up converting). If you need to get more information, check out Gedaliah Alon’s “The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age.”
As to the accounts of Jesus/ R Yeshua life being modified all the way till third century, check Bart D. Ehrman’s “Forged.” In it, he quotes church fathers of the time complaining of the “crime” of modifying scripture.
As I’ve said, we no longer have the Gospel of Ebionates, and it’s quite possible that all copies that existed past 4th century were destroyed on purpose thereafter.
If it was a crime, we may conclude that the mainstream did not modify scripture. The claim that scripture was extensively modified after the first generation is a self serving story by those who don’t like ancient Christianity and the Christianity of the Gospels.
Jewish history tends to be fraudulent and self serving. Josephus tells us that the Romans killed everyone except those that would be valuable as slaves. They killed the children, the sick, the old, and the unattractive women, enslaved and deported the rest. Which certainly qualifies as exile en masse.
This policy varied city by city and area by area, but if not every city got the treatment, Jerusalem and quite a lot of other cities got the treatment.
Just like with P. Crone’s work and your argument with Cochran about capability to build skyscrapers, you are out of your depth here.
If you cannot tell that Crone makes no sense, and that Freedom Tower demonstrates our ability to build skyscrapers has diminished, you are too stupid or to stubborn to be worth debating.
We urgently wanted and needed to build taller, bigger, and better. We boisterously announced we going to do so. We were unable to do so, and we showed our guilt and shame about our inability by lying about it, and continuing to lie about it. We built one smaller, shorter, simpler, and uglier tower in place of two big tall towers, and just barefaced lied about it.
Patricia Crone rejects the standard account of Islamic history, claiming their is no evidence for it except for self serving official history, but Muhammed had immediate impact upon the Byzantine empire, providing independent evidence of key events in the conventional Islamic history.
In short, Patricia Crone, like Obadaih Shoah, is rewriting the generally accepted past for political and religious reasons, when we have ample independent evidence from multiple mutually hostile sources that the standard history is, in basic outline, correct.
That Mohammed is recorded lying, that Mohammed records God as lying, in that Mohammed announces God as saying one thing that is to Mohammed’s personal advantage, then shortly thereafter announces a contrary thing that is also to Mohammed’s advantage, tells us that the Koran and the Haiths are what they seem to be – thus for example, Islamic policy on women is explicitly recorded as a reaction to Mohammed’s inability to keep his dick in his pants. Pretty sure that is not rewrite done centuries after the death of Mohammed. Islamic policy on women is that if you don’t keep your wife and daughters under control, they will promptly seduce the highest status male around like they did Mohammed.
If the Koran and the Hadiths were written or rewritten centuries later, all this embarrassing stuff would have been cleaned up. Similarly for the Christian Gospels.
It is true we are short of independent evidence for the first century or so of Christianity and the first century or so of Islam, but we are not so short as to allow people to make up any shit that they like and claim that everything that they don’t like is merely official history.
Islam was not a Judaizing movement, any more than Mormonism is a Christianizing movement.
>Jews were not exiled en masse (even after the Bar Kokhba revolt) but had been slowly and surely dissipating out of the land, all the way till around 5th century. (And even then, there were some rare Jews who never left the land and never even ended up converting). If you need to get more information, check out Gedaliah Alon’s “The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age.”
Why didn’t you go back to Israel in 700?
Why didn’t you go back to Israel in 1000?
If you don’t understand what I’m saying here, let me spell it out to you: why did you wait until the rise of European ethno-nationalism in late 19th century to go “oh, we secular assimilated Jews should adopt this idea of nationalism for ourselves, hmmm, let’s call it Zionism, and build our own country?”
Why didn’t you come up with this idea on your own? Why did you have to “endure the exile” and “suffer persecutions” instead of immigrating to Palestine in 900 or 1100 or 1600?
Did the evil goyim stop you?
Did anyone stop you all those centuries, for an entire millennium?
Did you even ***TRY*** to go back to Palestine all those years?
Let’s see your response, Eli. “Justify this”, as they say.
The failure to build taller tower(s) demonstrates not so much lack of capability, but lack of will. Huge difference. And yes, you kept annoying Cochran with this nonsense till he banned you.
Regarding God lying: you don’t need to go to Koran. Just check out Genesis, the story of Adam and Eve. Your argument reminds me of ISIS’s against Jews:
https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/the-islamic-state-e2809cdacc84biq-magazine-1522.pdf
Scroll to page 50 and 51.
Such stories in the scripture serve to illustrate certain points. The same thing happens in Talmudic Aggadot: illustration, with help of a narrative, most of which are not to be taken literally, as historic fact. God’s perfection / omniscience / infallibility etc. are later canonizations. For the ancients (certainly, for almost all of them before medieval times, and for most of humanity even today), God/gods was/were quite anthropomorphic figure(s).
Muhammad was, almost certainly, a historic figure. True, P. Crone did try to put his existence in doubt, in her earliest work, Hagarism, but she changed her view in later days of her life. Hence, you are misrepresenting her. Her main point about Islam’s origins (Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam) and mechanism of spread (Slaves on Horses) are both valid works. Also, her consistent main effort was to try to come up with as much research as possible, via extra-Islamic sources, to try to delineate truth from fiction, especially the “fact” that Mecca was a central and sacred place from Muhammed’s time. Let’s keep this in perspective: 600-700 AD were already times of extensive writing. Existence of Muhammad, including details of his life, and the current cannons of Islam (e.g. about Mecca’s sanctity) should have been much more widely available, and they don’t confirm many of the Arabs’ stories.
In fact, discoveries by German archaeologists in today’s Yemen (Him’yar) — ie the Sana’a manuscript — don’t contradict what I’m saying: that yes, Islam sprang out of what was originally a Judaizing movement among the Him’yarites (themselves descendants of Sabeans), or alternatively, as syncretism between Christian-Jewish religions and Arab traditions of Southern Arabia, borrowed and used by the “Banu Hashim” in their campaign, and later canonized/standardized by Uthman, the third khalif.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/soth.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himyarite_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaeans
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.709010 (try accessing by googling, as it’s behind paywall)
Hadiths are Arab versions of Talmudic halakhot and aggadot, later (time of Mishna and after) creations to justify/legislate/illustrate, all supposed to be transmitted orally. Inventions and borrowings there are nothing new.
@Anonymous: yes, it was both impossible on large scale and there was lack of collective will, despite the religious symbolism of Zion and the fact that there were always some Jews (I can give you names of renown rabbis) who would move to Palestine (Tzfat etc). In addition, pre-1800s, Jews lived in relatively tightknit communities and were not facing existential crisis via Haskalah. There were already Jews moving into Palestine in late 1800, despite Ottomans explicitly prohibiting, and having to settle barely livable lands around Tel-Aviv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
What’s your larger point?
We wanted to build a tower as tall as the original, we said we were going to do so, and upon failing to do so, proceeded to lie about it. That we lied about it, and continue to lie about it, demonstrates lack of capability, not lack of will.
If it was just “Oh, we don’t feel like tall towers these days, tall towers are so nineties”, would not feel the need to lie.
Muhammad was, almost certainly, a historic figure. True, P. Crone did try to put his existence in doubt, in her earliest work, Hagarism, but she changed her view in later days of her life. Hence, you are misrepresenting her
Crone is full of crap – everything she wrote is silly. She retreated under fire on one of her biggest absurdities, but that does not make everything else she wrote any the less silly. It is probably true that Mohammed was at one period in alliance with Jews, but that went sour within his lifetime. Crone is trying to put the date of Islamic hostility to Jews and Judaism later than Mohammed, but she is just being silly. And so are you.
Here, also, is a great essay by Crone, from 1987, where Muhammad’s existence is not denied at all:
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~fisher/hst372/readings/crone.html
There is no use in arguing with you.
Well, there is no use arguing with me if you lie your head off, because I will call you on it. Cochrane and company alternated between saying lack of will and saying that the replacement tower as just fine. Could not keep their story straight. And neither could Patricia Crone keep her story straight. She would say one thing, get called on it, and say a different thing.
Stories in the Talmud are quite obviously made up. They tend to feature people working miracles and doing impossible things. Stories in the hadiths are obviously not made up. They tend to feature Mohammed acting like a fallible and imperfect mortal. In essence, your argument is that Jews lie their heads off about their religion, therefore we we should not believe Muslim accounts of the Muslim religion.
The Islamic position on women is that you have to keep wives and daughters under control, or else they will seduce the top alpha male, like they did Mohammed. Pretty sure that that one is closely based on what really happened.
Actually, all religions need a certain amount of myth and legend. You can call it a lie, but from a perspective of an ignorant shepherd from, say, 3200 years, a volcanic eruption meant that God is talking. He isn’t lying about it.
Stories about ancestors and personages tend to have flair and magic/miracles added to them, and this you can see everywhere, in pretty much every region of the world.
Your point is this: you declare anyone who calls you out on your crap a liar. Kind of your version of liberals’ reductio ad hitlerum.
Btw, I didn’t dispute your point regarding women seducing. Such stories exist in the Torah as well, even though it reflects badly on respected figures.
And no, Talmud is mostly argumentation between rabbis, in the spirit of Roman law, basing their logic on Mishnah (which itself is a collection of laws closely paralleling other systems that existed at the time in the Levant), as the set axioms. Aggadah is there mainly for illustrative purpose, as a way to give people a mnemonic for understanding what’s going on, since people remember and understand narratives much better. If you try to misrepresent it as a lie, you’re the one lying.
Sure, the bronze age peasant is not lying about it. He saw, or reasonably believed he saw, miracles. But in more recent rabbinical productions, the rabbis are lying about it. The Talmud gets more, not fewer, miracles as the writers get closer to the present. Whereas no one seems to have witnessed Mohammed doing any miracles.
Aggadah is there mainly for illustrative purpose, as a way to give people a mnemonic for understanding what’s going on, since people remember and understand narratives much better. If you try to misrepresent it as a lie, you’re the one lying.
If they are making up stories for illustrative purposes, is it not likely that they are making up ancient legal traditions for illustrative purposes? As, in fact, with great regularity, they do. The ban on babies in strollers is late twentieth century.
There are not many Hitlers around. There are one hell of a lot of liars around.
Someone who says that the replacement building for the two towers is more impressive than the old, or as impressive as the old, is lying. When the New York authorities misnumber the floors on the new tower to make it more impressive, those who numbered the floors are lying. These lies reveal consciousness of guilt. They reveal that it is just not true that we did not want to build an impressive replacement the tower. They reveal that we were unable to build an impressive replacement tower.
I call out lies because people lie a lot, and catching people in a lie, reveals what the lie is intended to conceal.
Calling someone Hitler does not reveal any information. It is an excuse for not listening to what the Hitler says. Does not matter what he actually says, the liberal will explain what he is supposedly really saying. Calling someone a liar does reveal something, it is a call to listen carefully to what the liar is saying – the thing being lied about is seldom very important or interesting, but that it is being lied about is often very important and interesting. For example Mike’s Nature trick to hide the decline. Hardly anyone knows or cares what it was that was declining, but that its decline needed to be hidden and was hidden tells us an enormous amount about the Anthropogenic Global Warming business.
Now in fact it is a long and interesting story as to what was hidden, and why it needed to be hidden, and if you ask any lukewarmer about it, he will start describing warmist claims, data, and arguments in great detail – detail that warmists these days would like to glibly skip over. This is the opposite of reductio ad hitlerum. It is expansion, not reduction, it is listening, not ignoring.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_Tower
One reason I come to your blog is that even though you’re getting plenty of facts wrong, sometimes spectacularly, you do get a quite a few of them right, and more importantly, you’ve got the right spirit.
Your little essay about reasons for calling out people for “lying” was entertaining. You’re certainly in the minority (possibly, of one) who hold such position. Maybe you are different, but it is self-evidently used when discrediting someone’s opinion. The way to expose someone’s lie is to ask pointed questions, set up traps, or simply produce counter-evidence or show that the other guy’s evidence is bullshit.
Anyway, I agree that Freedom Tower is not more impressive as the original Twin Towers. Despite the fact that there are some cool safety features (which also contributed to increased costs) anyone who’s claiming otherwise is either utterly gullible or is lying. However, the simple explanation here is the costs of this building and financial backing. From what I read, there were not that many backers, since the insurance costs were higher than for other office space in Wall St., and that put the plans in jeopardy. If it were a federal or (possibly) state program, I think money would not be the issue. This simple, dumb fact is a much better explanation, not lack of know-how
In the case of the towers, that is trivial. The replacement tower is humbler and shorter than the original, and people are lying about it. Exposing the lie is trivial, the interesting thing is what can we conclude from the fact that they are lying.
In the case of Crone’s revisionist history of Islam, it is too complex for me to bother explaining it to a Jew, for a Jew will stubbornly deny all evidence barefaced. If he was not in the habit of stubbornly denying facts and evidence, he would have noticed that modern day Judaism’s claims to be faithful to ancient Judaism, or even the Judaism of a few centuries past, are ludicrous. If I cannot even get you to notice the glaringly obvious (that the replacement tower is shit and that people are lying about it) I am certainly not going to get you to notice that Crone’s revisionist Islam is shit.
In the case of Mike’s Nature trick to hide the decline, it is a little more complex to explain the lie, but once explained, highly illuminating.
For the tower, it is sufficient to just say “You are lying”. For Mike’s nature trick, more explanation is required. For Crone’s revisionist history of Islam, I would not bother unless I thought I was discussing it with someone who takes facts, truth, and evidence seriously.
The fact that it is called Freedom tower is an admission that the tower was built for political reasons – costs and financial backing are irrelevant. And, since the decision to build it was political, there was plenty of will. What was, and is, lacking is capability. If money could have built a more impressive tower, the money would have been there.
Regarding Judaism, but Talmud aside, you’re partially right. It’s important that you delineate the stages, however. Roughly speaking, exile really begins around 5th century. This also corresponds with the final redaction of Talmud (both Jerusalem/Palestinian and Babylonian). So, whatever miracles are in the Talmud, they serve instructional purpose, nothing else. In Palestine, thereafter, most Jewry is either converted into Christianity or Islam or is no longer there, but broken up into disparate communities, residing in other lands. At this stage, not only is Judaism no longer the official religion of a sovereign Judeah, it is not even a religion of its own land. Nonetheless, for the most part rabbis preserve the old patriarchal spirit. Here’s an excerpt from 900’s, by R Samuel ibn Naghrillah:
“Hit your wife without hesitation if she attempts to dominate you like a man and raises her head [too high]. Don’t, my son, don’t you be your wife’s wife, while your wife will be her husband’s husband!”
Around late 1100’s, Maimonides publishes his two great works: Mishneh Torah and the Guide for the Perplexed. Mishneh Torah is, essentially, a restatement of Talmudic law in plain language. In it, among other things, he specifically instructs:
“A wife who refuses to perform any kind of work that she is obligated to do, may be compelled to perform it, even by scourging her with a rod”
Bear in mind, Maimonides was otherwise a freethinking rabbi, who allowed lack of sexual desire on the part of wife (divorce request raised by woman!) as grounds for compelling a man to divorce the wife and both explored and questioned the very essence of God and anthropomorphism in the Torah, in Guide for the Perplexed, using Greek-derived philosophy.
So, certainly during medieval period, ie during the Geonic and Rishonim periods, both Rabbinic and Karaite Judaism were quite patriarchal, just like the rest of the world.
But why, when, and how did the slide from patriarchy into feminism and miraculous narratives happen? First of all, it’s important to understand that Judaism, unlike Christianity, but like Islam is not just a religion (pomp and ritual) but also legal framework that touches upon every aspect of community’s life. That having been noted, my current theory is that the reason for such a slide is severalfold:
1) growth of Jewry in Eastern Europe, after their expulsion from the Western parts after 1500s and better conditions in E. Europe, which in turn led to dense populations and rapid spread of ideas, often outside and despite of rabbinic control;
2) because of the dina d’malkhuta dina doctrine (i.e. “the law of the kingdom is the law”) that the rabbis who had to adjudicate cases in communities, were quite limited in control over said communities, which led to general dissatisfaction and seeking, with the Jewish “law” becoming either more abstract and divorced from reality or with practical aspects that were ever more focused on minutiae (e.g. Shulchan Aruch);
3) more and more communities’ members became educated in Judaic law, due to the spread of yeshivot and pulpits, sponsored by general prosperity;
4) last but not least, the emergence of Hassidism, founded on Lurianic Kabbalah, itself based on a fake piece of writing called “Zohar” and possibly inspired by Sufism.
It is Hassidic movements that grew out of this divorced-from-autonomy condition, which increasingly gained foothold among Eastern European Jewry, with the result, today, that even the Mitnagdim (Litvaks), i.e. those who vehemently opposed the Hasidism early on are now (virtually all) at least to some extent Lurianic/Arizal Kabbalists and accepting of Zohar, with its ever-present miracles and much “spiritual” and other nonsense.
In fact, Jewish mysticism could have spread even faster, if not for the disaster that was promulgated by Sabbatai Tzvi and company.
I think that it’s part of human condition to believe in magic and miracles, an old yearning for anthropomorphization of nature and God, as explained in the Guide for the Perplexed. But my outlook is also shaped by Moshe Koppel’s “Meta Halakha,” from which I derive hope that someday, when Judaism becomes the way of life of fully autonomous communities, it will become more confident and shed some of its crazy baggage.
Bear in mind, Maimonides was otherwise a freethinking rabbi, who allowed lack of sexual desire on the part of wife (divorce request raised by woman!) as grounds for compelling a man to divorce the wife
Divorce on demand makes it difficult for men and women to cooperate to raise children, and divorce on female demand is clearly incompatible with marital stability or patriarchy, and worse than divorce on male demand, because female decisions about sex and reproduction are even more dangerously irrational than male decisions.
His policy of divorce on demand was incompatible with his policy that it was OK to beat one’s wife for misconduct. I presume he wanted to justify existing law and custom, while at the same time being holier than existing law and custom. On the other hand, Orthodox Jews do manage decent fertility. I asked B how they managed it, but found his answers evasive and hard to believe. How do you think they manage it?
I agree, it’s a conflicted position. Presumably, if you beat your wife, she gets turned on more often, thus sparing you the divorce 😉
Besides, if it is the wife who compels the divorce, the husband can always refuse. If the community persists in pressuring him, he may grant it, she goes back into her father’s house, but without the ketubah (dowry). Upon which, her own father proceeds to beat her mercilessly ?
To answer your question about “how they manage it:” I don’t know 100%, but my observation of charedim is this:
1) the girls go to all-girls Jewish school, where they receive Jewish education. Here they receive their programming of what’s statusful, including about modesty, having a pious, learned (Jewishly) Jewish husband and a large family of Jewish kids.
2) the girls go dating via shiddukh, a marriage arranged via Jewish intermediary — essentially, marriage-dedicated people from the community. Marring someone of yichus (pedigree) is always preferable by all parties, including the parents, who have high leverage here.
3) since women are trained to hold (Jewishly) learned men in high regard, they let them learn Torah while they take care of the many things around house.
3)a) this situation is beginning to change, since many Charedi men are now forced to go to work. How they will manage, is an open question.
Oh hey, in ((Asimov))’s robot and foundation stories R before a name meant robot. As a Puritan, ((Asimov)) thought that the robots who were purely logical souls driven by compassion were morally superior to humans, but he was racist and had the humans rule over them
Judeah? I thougt Judah was a tribe and Judea was presumably a Roman description of the place where the Judah live?
Lay off the keyboard and read some more books.
Christcuckoldry won WWII for the Jews and thankfully it is dead. Monogamy was a feature of ancient Greece, Rome, and the other European antiquities. Polygamy is for dune coons and christcucks who worship dune coons or read dune coon holy books.
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Review of Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
By Saeed Sabzian, Feb 28, 2019
Susanne Hecker, Muki Haklay, Anne Bowser, Zen Makuch, Johannes Vogel & Aletta Bonn. (2018). Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy. University College London Press.
Scientific progress is intertwined with the triad of the state, the scientist, and the citizen, all of which are emphasized in the field of citizen science. Taking a largely European perspective, Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy by Hecker at al., is informed by Francis Bacon’s motto, “Knowledge is power,” and offers solid theoretical and experiential recommendations for governments to enact policy to induce cooperation between the state, the citizen, and the scientist.
Hecker and her co-editors examine foundational concepts in citizen science. Chapters in this edited book provide theoretical and experiential recommendations to foster open science, to develop inclusive policies, to advance technologically-aided education of participant citizens, and to ensure respect for local and indigenous knowledge. Their contributions are motivated by a democratic ambition to empower laypeople with scientific methods and tools. With such methods and tools, anyone can participate in citizen science projects by contributing accurate observations and gathering valid data about issues related to the environment, health, and urban space.
The book is divided into five parts, each summarizing several studies. Part I explores the theme of innovation in citizen science.This section strategizes about inclusive participation in citizen science projects to involve “different people, with different life histories, interests and responsibilities” to engage at all levels of participation (pg. 60). We learn here that “information technology infrastructure” is a key enabler of successful citizen science projects because it allows for impressive data gathering. Part II further explores “innovation” in citizen science with an interdisciplinary approach informed by the social sciences. Science currently may alienate the scientist from the society, reducing trust in science and policies on sciences. A rhetoric of respect is offered as remedy. The imbalanced power-relations between the expert and non-expert participants need to be refashioned to elevate the citizen from a mere sensor to a self-empowered project participant. The section profiles inclusive participation strategies, such as ThinkCamps, that encourage and train citizens to co-design and co-create projects with experts.
Part III scrutinizes the theme of “innovation at the science-policy interface,” evaluating how technology connects citizens and policymakers. The goal is to empower the public, to foster engagement, to train responsible actors and institutions, and to generate ethical, sustainable, and socially desirable research outputs. Part IV, “Innovation in Technology and Environmental Monitoring” further elaborates on technologies and new opportunities for participation. The authors emphasize openness and accessibility as criteria of validity in citizen science data. To improve reliability in citizen science projects, the section offers technological equipment and education of participants as a solution to reduce errors. Part V explores “innovation in science communication and education” through case studies. I find this section the most useful in its pedagogical aspirations, particularly in that it explains educational means to increase inclusive participation in citizen science projects.
Intended for a diverse audience, which could include policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and universities, Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy is an important contribution to literature about citizen science. The authors effectively evaluate innovations in technology, participation, education, and policy focused on expanding the impact of citizen science. The writers’ theory of learning is especially useful; they describe educational techniques to enhance and improve project participation and the participant experience.
A significant achievement of the book is its recommendation to democratize citizen science. The authors advocate involving all interested citizens, including less experienced and less privileged participants. I found the book’s emphasis on “education of attention” particularly enlightening: if citizens’ observation skills are sharpened, more reliable citizen data will be available to scientists and policy-makers to confidently fund citizen science projects. With the depth and scope of perspectives that Heker et al use to approach the frontiers of citizen science (its contribution to science, engagement of diverse citizens, and its collaborative possibilities), the writers elucidate new paths for the development of the field and its impact on our environment, urban space, and health.
While the large number of articles in the volume expand our perspective about citizen science, unnecessary repetition of important literature review across chapters could be minimized. Having explored the book from a multimodal method of science communication, I believe additional chapters on the use of effective means of science communication could expand the impact of this book. While the book theorizes on the effectiveness of visuals in communication of citizen science in the Part V, aural means are unexplored.
This review is part of an ongoing series of book reviews written by members of Dr. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher’s research team in partnership with SciStarter. If you have a recommendation for a book to review, please contact SciStarter Editor Caroline Nickerson at CarolineN@SciStarter.com. This work has been partially supported by the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science’s Early Research Award program, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant program. Views expressed are the opinions of the author and not of the funding agencies.
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In some cases, players may intentionally go or send the ball out of bounds when it is to their advantage. Definition of out-of-bounds in the Idioms Dictionary. While some out of bounds discoveries were left in game with the intent that boundary breakers would eventually find them, some were left in by accident. I'll make it clear that the kitchen is out of bounds. By Hogmanay tradition a dark-haired man who crosses the threshold at midnight brings good luck, Get the latest news and gain access to exclusive updates and offers. Contrary to or in violation of acceptable rules, conventions, or standards. Suggest as a translation of "go out of bounds" Copy; DeepL Translator Linguee. Outside of permissible exploration or traversal. The village is out of bounds to the soldiers in the camp. The referee determined that the wide receiver was out of bounds when he caught the ball. For example, Calling the teacher a liar-that's out of bounds. Linguee. 1. 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HE policy update for the w/e 19th January 2018
EU, policy, Student Engagement jforster
A quieter week policy-wise following the cabinet reshuffle.
New minister – new set of priorities?
Our new minister has been fairly quiet as he settles in and thinks about the many priorities – we expect that the PM wants him to focus on the “major review” – and despite pressure he has refused to get drawn into a discussion of details. He gave a formal response to a parliamentary question earlier this week:
Q – Wes Streeting (Labour): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) timetable and (c) membership the review panel for the review of university funding and student financing announced by the Prime Minister in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in October 2017.
A – Sam Gyimah (Conservative, new Universities Minister):
As stated in the Industrial Strategy white paper published on 27 November 2017, the government is committed to conducting a major review of funding across tertiary education to ensure a joined-up system that works for everyone.
As current and significant reforms move into implementation, this review will look at how we can ensure that the education system for those aged 18 years and over is:
accessible to all;
supported by a funding system that provides value for money and works for both students and taxpayers;
incentivises choice and competition across the sector;
and encourages the development of the skills that we need as a country.
The government will set out further details on the review in due course.
And the minister spoke at Queen Mary University of London this week in a date agreed while he was still at the Ministry of Justice – clearly the subject matter had moved on given his new appointment. The discussion was covered by Wonkhe – it seems to have been a balanced and reasonable set of responses from someone who is thinking carefully before leaping into the fray.
Of course there has been plenty of advice for the new minister – from calls for him to get stuck into Brexit discussions to defend research funding, mobility etc. (he did vote remain, after all), to questions about the freedom of speech agenda and BME students at Oxbridge (he was one).
John Kingman has been named as the permanent chair of UK Research and Innovation, officially taking the role in April. He has been acting as the interim chair to date to support the shadow running and new set up of the organisation. The Commons Science and Technology Committee are required to ratify his appointment. Also reported in Times Higher.
The debate over free speech continued in the Parliamentary Joint Human Rights Committee this week. NUS VP Doku has called for the number of events with freedom of speech issues to be published to quantify if the ‘issue’ is government rhetoric or genuinely needs tackling. Wes Streeting (MP Ilford North and former NUS President) claims the challenges are “overstated” and that Prevent has had the greatest impact on freedom of speech. He continued that no platforming, under NUS policy, was only used to prevent racism and fascism.
The Home Affairs Committee published Immigration policy: basis for building consensus calling on the Government to make it a clear and stated objective of public policy to build greater consensus and trust on immigration as part of major overhaul of immigration policy making. Read the short summary. The report does not consider specific policy options for EU migration. The Committee will examine these once the Government publishes its forthcoming White Paper on immigration.
Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP commented:
“The Government has a responsibility to build consensus and confidence on immigration rather than allowing this to be a divisive debate. But that requires a transformation in the way that immigration policy is made as too often the current approach has undermined trust in the system.
The net migration target isn’t working to build confidence and it treats all migration as the same. That’s why it should be replaced by a different framework of targets and controls. And frankly the system needs to work effectively. As long as there are so many errors and so many problems with enforcement, people won’t have confidence that the system is either fair or robust.”
The Report recommends:
An Annual Migration Report setting out a three-year, rolling plan for migration.
Clearer and simpler immigration rules, underpinned by principles and values – including the contributory principle, supporting family life and safeguarding security
Replacing the net migration target with an evidence-based framework for different types of immigration that takes into account the UK’s needs. There should be no national target to restrict the numbers of students coming to the UK, and at a minimum the Government should immediately remove students from the current net migration target.
An immigration system which treats different skills differently. There is clear public support for the continued arrival of high-skilled (not just highly paid) workers who are needed in the economy. Immigration rules should allow UK businesses and organisations easily to attract top talent, with restrictions and controls focused more on low-skilled migration.
Immigration plans should be linked with training plans to increase domestic skills in sectors and regions where there are skills gaps that need to be filled through migration.
A national integration strategy and local authority led local integration strategies
The report also notes:
“In calling for more international students to come and study in the UK, universities must be mindful of local impacts of large numbers of students and work with local authorities to help manage pressures on housing and public services. Universities should be expected to consult local authorities on future student numbers in their area.”
Mayoral pressure
The Financial Times ran an article noting how seven cross-party metro mayors have united to press the Prime Minster to provide a ”more open and welcoming message” to overseas students. The mayors have also written to the Migration Advisory Committee. The FT quotes the letter:
“As the UK prepares to leave the EU, it is important that any future immigration system acknowledges the vital contribution international students make to regional jobs and growth. This includes projecting a more open and welcoming message for international students.”
The letter combines last week’s HEPI report showing the huge net financial benefits international students bring with HESA data illustrating a downturn in international student numbers. The FT critiques the letter which uses 2016/17 data stating most students would have applied for their courses before the Brexit result was not known. What the FT fails to consider is that a lower conversion rate between application and enrolment does support the premise that Brexit has caused a fall in student numbers.
The Migration Advisory Committee is due to report to Government in September 2018, however, think tank HEPI is campaigning for an earlier response.
Grammar Schools- A Financial Times article More grammar schools and lower tuition fees are not the answer covers the cabinet reshuffle (the widely reported demise of Justine Greening for blocking the PM’s school agenda) and draws on Education Policy Institute research:
On grammar schools, EPI analysis is very clear — more selective schools might deliver a small exam grade benefit to those who gain entry, but at a cost to those (poorer) children who do not pass the entry test. More grammar schools are therefore likely to worsen the country’s social mobility problem.
Meanwhile A Guardian article aiming to criticise Damian Hinds suggests that Theresa May is still determined to push grammar schools through
BME withdrawal – The Guardian considers the influence of social cultural and structural factors in Why do black students quit university more often than their white peers? The article quotes the Runnymede Trust (think tank) 2015 report: “University institutions have proved remarkably resilient to change in terms of curriculum, culture and staffing, remaining for the most part ‘ivory towers’ − with the emphasis on ‘ivory’.”
Admissions – In Robin hood and the America dream a Dorset born educator and careers advisor compares the HE admissions differences between Finland, America and the UK, and contemplates their social mobility implications.
A National Audit Office report: Delivering STEM skills for the economy has been published this week. It suggests Government initiative to improve the quality of STEM provision and take up of these subjects and rectifying the skills mismatch has met with some success. However, it pushes for Government departments to create a joined up vision sharing their aims, and a co-ordinated cross departmental plan, the delivery of which can then be examined for value for money. The report notes that the STEM gender gap continues.
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee continued its examination of the economics of higher, further and technical education across two sessions. The first session considered the differences between UK education provision and comparable economically advanced countries (e.g. Germany). The panel discussed how FE could be enhanced, which countries integrated FE and HE effectively, and methods of encouraging lifelong learning. The narrowing of subjects after GCSE was also criticised. The following session address whether HE was currently prioritised over technical education, and whether this produces individuals with the necessary skills. Apprenticeships and T-levels were discussed in detail.
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
The QAA has published Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education: Guidance for UK HE Providers. The guidance says
“all students should have an opportunity to engage with Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, and to align it with their subject(s) of choice. This will enable them to identify and seek out new opportunities; have higher aspirations in their careers; be resilient; and better adapt to change”.
“Learning about and experiencing Enterprise and Entrepreneurship while at university can have several benefits. It gives students alternative perspectives on their career options and ultimately, the confidence to set up their own business or social enterprise.”
The guidance aims to inform, enhance and promote the development of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education and includes description of good practice.
Click here to view the updated consultation tracker. Email us on policy@bournemouth.ac.uk if you’d like to contribute to any of the current consultations.
Full on: In the brave new world of accelerated degrees and intensified courses a Wonkhe blogger talks about working and studying (MSc) full time. She says universities can make studying more accessible to employees and employers by:
Teach modules in intensive blocks, e.g. 3 days, rather than spreading across a whole term
Provide assignment information well in advance of deadlines, ensuring no deadline clashes between other modules on the same programme
Sharing reading lists, presentations and essay topics well in advance of a module beginning – so the employed student can start reading and have an overall understanding of the subject area before attending lectures.
Careful structuring of the courses are important, as is the option to switch to part time study
Access to robust pastoral care and academic check ins
On the employer side the blogger notes that planning a balanced workload with her managers and knowing when key work deadlines fall within her academic calendar. She also recommends employers take a personalised approach to their employees study/work balance. For some this could me changing their hours or work pattern for all or part of their course.
“Studying is challenging. Working is challenging. Doing both at the same time certainly isn’t a walk in the park. However, employers and universities can help employed students to make it work.”
The Smart Machine Age: A Financial Times article describes the changes associated with the smart machines age and the skills graduates will need to develop.
Smart technology is already moving beyond manufacturing into the service industries and the professions, such as medicine, finance, accounting, management consulting and law. Businesses will reduce their headcount, because humans will only be needed for jobs that technology will not be able to do well: involving higher order critical, creative, and innovative thinking and/or emotional and social intelligence.
When they graduate, a student’s multidisciplinary skills should contain at least the following: scientific method; root cause analysis; unpacking assumptions; critical thinking purposes and questions; insight processes; design thinking; premortems; and after-action reviews .They ought to have emotional and social intelligence; the ability to collaborate and to know how to learn and develop their cognitive and emotional capabilities.
Graduate Recruitment: High Fliers have published The Graduate Market in 2018 noting a 4.9% decrease in the number of jobs available for 2017 graduates. They state this is the first drop in 5 years. The decrease was sharpest in the financial and banking sectors. Part of the blame was, of course, attributed to Brexit effects. Press coverage: The Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph (who note supermarket Aldi is now offering graduate salaries comparable with law and investment banking starter salaries).
Political inventions: It cannot be disputed how often HE has featured in the news in the last year. A Times Higher article reports on a (PA Consulting) Vice-Chancellor survey which reality checks the press, suggesting that some of the furore was politically motivated and often without genuine substance.
Woodgates, PA’s head of education, sums up that university leaders felt under siege.
“Before the [2017 general] election, universities were still seen as one of the jewels in the crown of UK plc, and suddenly we seem to have moved to a world where nothing is different but the political narrative is that universities are a bit of a problem: they don’t provide value for money, their teaching quality is not very good, and vice-chancellors are overpaid.
Most of our respondents felt that this is fundamentally politically driven by the fact that Labour did well courting the youth vote and the Tories have responded to that, but there was also a feeling that the sector hasn’t done a very good job of responding to that and needs to be more proactive.
The sector has got locked into a position of responding to a political narrative rather than asserting their own narrative about the value they add: in relation to research, but also in relation in education, [and] the fact that they are very important players in social and economic development.”
What students want: The Guardian ask students what they would like the Office for Students to focus upon
Antisemitism on campus: Communities Secretary Sajid Javid announces £144,261 of funding for a new programme to support universities in tackling antisemitism on campus. The programme will be delivered by the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Union of Jewish Students and will involve 200 students and university leaders from across the country visiting the former Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is expected that the 200 university student leaders who visit Auschwitz-Birkenau will then go on to deliver activity that engages a further 7,500 university students.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said:
“We all have a duty to speak out in the memory of those who were murdered during the Holocaust and all those, today, who are the subject of hatred and antisemitism. Holocaust education remains one of the most powerful tools we have to fight bigotry. The Holocaust Educational Trust has been hugely successful in teaching school children about where hatred, intolerance and misinformation can lead. That’s why I am proud that the government will fund this new programme to tackle antisemitism, prejudice and intolerance on university campuses.”
Josh Holt, President of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) said:
“ UJS are very grateful that our partnership with HET is being recognised and supported by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The resources committed today will enable a substantial expansion of student and university leaders receiving the education and training needed to combat antisemitism and prejudice on campus. Sadly we have seen a distressing increase in swastika graffiti, Holocaust denial literature and politicisation of the Holocaust on some UK campuses. We are determined to combat this and welcome this significant contribution to our longstanding work bringing students of all faiths and backgrounds together to create cohesive campus communities.”
The new programme will be jointly funded by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Education, building on the Holocaust Educational Trust’s highly successful ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ programme for school students.
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HE policy update for the w/e 8th September
EU, international, policy, REF Subjects, Research news jforster
Well, Parliament is back and we have had a lively start to the autumn.
On 1st September 2017 HEFCE published the initial decisions on REF 2021. This does not include decisions regarding submitting staff, output portability or the eligibility of institutions to participate in the REF. There is another consultation on those issues and BU’s response is being prepared by RKEO – please contact Julie Northam if you would like to be involved. Thanks to Julie for these highlights of the announcement:
Assessment weightings:
Outputs 60% (down from 65%)
Impact 25% (up from 20%)
Environment 15% (same but now includes impact strategy)
HESA cost centres will not be used to allocate staff to UOAs. Responsibility for mapping staff into UOAs will therefore remain with institutions.
UOA structure:
Total UOAs reduced from 36 to 34
Engineering will be a single UOA – UOA 12
REF 2014 UOA 17 will be restructured to form UOA 14: Geography and Environmental Studies and UOA 15: Archaeology
‘Film and Screen Studies’ will be located and included in the name of UOA 33: Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
HEFCE will continue consulting with the subject communities for forensic science and criminology to consider concerns raised about visibility. A decision is expected this autumn.
Impact: Underpinning research must have been produced between 1 Jan 2000 – 31 Dec 2020 andimpacts must have occurred between 1 Aug 2013 – 31 Jul 2020.
Environment: Environment data (such as income and doctoral completions) will be considered for the period 1 Aug 2013 – 31 Jul 2020.
Outputs: The assessment period for the publication of outputs will be 1 Jan 2014 – 31 Dec 2020.
The draft REF 2021 guidance will be published in summer/autumn 2018 and the final guidance will be published in winter 2018-19. The submission will be in autumn 2020.
Interdisciplinary research:Each sub-panel will have at least one appointed member to oversee and participate in the assessment of interdisciplinary research submitted in that UOA. There will be an interdisciplinary research identifier for outputs in the REF submission system (not mandatory).There will be a discrete section in the environment template for the unit’s structures in support of interdisciplinary research.
Outputs due for publication after the submission date: A reserve output may be submitted.
Assessment metrics: Quantitative metrics may be used to inform output assessment. This will be determined by the sub-panels. Data will be provided by HEFCE.
Impact will have a greater weighting in REF 2021 (25% overall plus impact included in the environment template and therefore weighting).
The guidance on submitting impacts on teaching will be widened to include impacts within, and beyond, the submitting institution.
Impacts remain eligible for submission by the institution in which the associated research was conducted. They must be underpinned by excellent research (at least REF 2*).
The number of case studies required – still not confirmed – HEFCE are exploring this in relation to the rules on staff submission and the number of outputs.
Case studies submitted to REF 2014 can be resubmitted to REF 2021, providing they meet the REF 2021 eligibility requirements.
The relationship between the underpinning research and impact will be broadened from individual outputs to include a wider body of work or research activity.
Institutional-level assessment (impact case studies): HEFCE will pilot this in 2018 but it will not be included in REF 2021.
Environment: The UOA-level environment template will be more structured, including the use of more quantitative data to evidence narrative content. It will include sections on the unit’s approach to:
supporting collaboration with organisations beyond HE
enabling impact – akin to the impact template in REF 2014
supporting equality and diversity
structures to support interdisciplinary research
open research, including the unit’s open access strategy and where this goes beyond the REF open access policy requirements
Institutional-level assessment (environment):
Institution-level information will be included in the UOA-level environment template, assessed by the relevant sub-panel.
HEFCE will pilot the standalone assessment of institution-level environment information as part of REF 2021, but this will not form part of the REF 2021 assessment. The outcomes will inform post-REF 2021 assessment exercises.
Jo Johnson’s UUK speech – the next steps for regulation
Jo Johnson gave a speech at the Universities UK annual conference on Thursday –prefaced by a deluge of press coverage. See the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, for a sample. He started with a summary of the current state of the national debate on universities:
“Recent criticisms of higher education in the UK fall into two distinct camps: we might call them the Statists and the Pessimists. The Statists direct their criticism at student finance. They argue that the most important thing we can do is to abolish tuition fees.” and “The second group of critics, the Pessimists, have an altogether bleaker view of Higher Education. They argue that university is inappropriate for many students, that student numbers should be significantly reduced and that students should pursue other types of post-18 education”.
The Minister rejected the calls for a change to the fee structure, consistent with other speeches over the summer (see the Policy Update for the w/e 21st July 2017). He said that the “Statist” approach is “bad for social mobility, bad for university funding, bad for taxpayers”. [ See the UUK announcements on this below. In the FT on 8th September, it is reported that Theresa May is soliciting views on tuition fees policy in an attempt to close the generational gap, with Lord Willetts attending a meeting at No 10. So despite the regular assurances of no change, this is still one to watch.] To the Pessimists, his message was that “Post-18 education is not a zero-sum game, where to improve further education we must restrict and ration higher education to a privileged few”. But he said that there must be a strong economic return from a “mass system of higher education”. He highlighted graduate salaries, an increase in GDP and national productivity. [see below for the UUK position on fees and funding]
The Minister referred to concerns about value for money and used the same words as when launching the Green Paper, talking about “patchy teaching”. He also attacked the sector for grade inflation: “There has been a significant increase in the proportion of people receiving firsts and 2:1 degrees over the past five years that cannot be explained by rising levels of attainment. Grade inflation is tearing through English Higher Education. On the face of it, the facts are shocking….Grade inflation can fuel disengagement on both sides – if students know that 80-90 per cent will get a 2:1 or first from a high-reputation provider, there is less incentive to work hard – and less incentive by the provider to focus on teaching.” The Minister attacked league tables for encouraging grade inflation by using first degrees as a metric.
And he listed 5 measures that would deliver value for money:
The TEF – including subject level TEF (see more below in the TEF update)
A focus on grade inflation – as part of the TEF (see below), and be requiring the OfS to report on degree classifications and challenge providers to explain any data that suggested grade inflation, and calling on the sector to take action themselves, for example by developing a sector-recognised minimum standard. This is something that will no doubt be the subject of debate in the months to come. This could have parallels in some PSRB accreditation systems – an analogy that may be worth exploring.
Student contracts -this was also discussed in the July speech (see the Policy Update for the w/e 21st July 2017). This time, the Minister said that the Competition and Markets Authority guidance was only “patchily observed”. The OfS will be asked to “embed in the system student contracts that are clear, quantifiable and fair”. There is a consultation to follow on making this a registration condition.
Accelerated degrees – we are waiting for the formal response to the call for evidence last year but a consultation will be taking place on the new fee cap that would be required to support this – allowing providers to charge more than £9250 per year (but with a lower overall cost for the whole programme).
VC Pay – the OfS to introduce a new condition of registration that they publish salary data for the top earners and provide a justification, supported by guidance. The OfS will analyse and publish this data. The Minister called for the Committee of University Chairs to develop a new Remuneration Code.
UUK position
In a blog on 5th September 2017, Chris Hale, the Director of Policy of UUK responded to the debate over the summer, referring to a report from UK2020 that was published this week and repeated allegations of the sector operating a cartel to fix prices for degrees. In a speech presumably written without advance knowledge of what the Minister was going to say, and trailed in the press on Tuesday, the new President of UUK, Professor Janet Beer, VC of Liverpool University did call for changes to undergraduate funding. She referred to “vexed issues and opportunities” and gave a staunch defence of the sector and its contribution to health, happiness and the economy.
On student finance, Professor Beer said that the system was not broken but that it needed to feel fairer, and highlighted three areas for action:
Targeted maintenance grants
Lower interest rate for low and middle-income earners. [On this point it is interesting to note that this is how it already works – see the blog from Martin Lewis on MoneySavingExpert.com which he tweeted again to respond to this story and the clip below]
Ensuring that the benefits of the current system are better understood – e.g. 35% of the cost of educating students is contributed by the government and 75% of students have some of their debt written off.
UUK have now published a Parliamentary briefing on the funding issues.
On senior pay:
“It’s understandable that high pay is questioned and it is right to expect that the process for determining pay for senior staff is rigorous and the decision-making process is transparent. It is also reasonable to expect that decisions are explained and justified.”, and continuing:
“However, the current debate has lost sight of the facts and shows little understanding of the role that present-day vice-chancellors play not only in their own university, but in their communities, regions and on the national and international stage. The role of the vice-chancellor has evolved from leading a community of scholars, to leading large, complex, global organisations; organisations with multi-million pound turnovers, with thousands of staff working in a variety of roles, and which play an increasingly prominent role in the economic prosperity of our regions and nations. First-rate leadership is necessary for a university to be successful, and competitive remuneration is needed to attract the best leaders with the skills to lead these complex global organisations.
There have also been questions raised about the pay of our leading researchers and senior professional staff. We should remember that senior staff are choosing to work at our universities to deliver public good when they might otherwise choose to work in the private sector, attracting far higher remuneration. We must not let them be put off by comments that they are not worth it or their contribution is not valued.”
Nick Hillman of HEPI also writes in response that autonomy is more important than regulation in this area: “Just a few months ago, when the Higher Education and Research Act was still in short trousers, there was widespread concern that the Office for Students would not have due regard to university autonomy. Insisting they tackle vice-chancellors’ pay as one of the most urgent priorities (and before they have taken charge) will not assuage such concerns.”
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) update
In his speech at the Universities UK annual conference on Thursday, Jo Johnson referred to a lessons learned exercise that the government has carried out on year 2 of TEF. This used the UK survey we referred to in the Policy Update w/e 1st September 2017 as well as feedback from a range of stakeholders and desk based research of the metrics. The full report plus the specification are due to be published later in September 2017. These changes will also be included in the subject level TEF pilot. The UUK review is also discussed on Wonkhe here.
A new metric on grade inflation (see context in Jo Johnson’s speech above). This will be a supplementary metric which will not form part of the core metrics and the process of assessing the initial hypothesis, but will be considered by the assessors while considering Rigour and Stretch (TQ3). This will be based on a provider declaration and will “record the proportion of firsts, 2:1s and other grades as a percentage of all classified degrees at that provider 1, 2, 3 and 10 years before the year of assessment”. If the data shows that there has been grade inflation the provider will presumably have to use their written submission to demonstrate how it is being addressed. Also, the number of firsts and 2:1s cannot be considered as evidence for the quality of teaching.
Changes to the NSS weighting – these are interesting – particularly as there was no formal weighting for any metrics in the TEF guidance before, and no specific weighting for metrics v the written submission either. That was why there was so much interest when the Chair of the TEF Panel, Chris Husbands, suggested that the role of the NSS in the decisions on TEF should be downplayed. The paper describes this in more details in Annex B – this is a change to the way that the “initial hypothesis” (based on metrics) will be formed.
Changes to address the NSS boycott, by averaging the scores across the three years or simply omitting 2017.
Part-time providers (those with over 35% part-time students) will also be able to provide additional information relating to their part-time students and a separate assessment will be formed for part-time students.
Absolute values: in a change which has been flagged as a nod to the Russell Group providers who received Bronze awards in the TEF (and who, in some cases, complained about the benchmarking process), alongside the benchmarking, the top and bottom 10% values for each metric will also be highlighted (with stars and exclamation marks). This will reinforce a positive or negative flag but can also be taken into account by the assessors – although a star will be ignored if there is a negative flag or a negative flag for a split metric (so that high performing institutions with negative flags for disadvantaged groups cannot benefit). Exclamation marks will be ignored if there is a positive flag.
Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (LEO) will be included as “supplementary” data – this will not affect the initial hypothesis but will be considered alongside the submission. The metrics to be included are the proportion of graduates in sustained employment or further study three years after graduation and the proportion of graduates in sustained employment earning over the median salary for 25 – 29 year olds (currently £21,000) or in further study
“Gaming” – the Director for Fair Access will be given an opportunity to comment on “gaming” has taken place (defined as “a significant alteration in a provider’s student profile since the last TEF assessment, that involves a reduction in the proportion of students from disadvantaged groups”. In extreme cases, this might lead to disqualification.
Separate from all this a research paper by Camille Kandiko Howson of Kings College and Alex Buckley of the University of Strathclyde has been published which looks at the UK Engagement Survey – something that was tipped to be a potential metric for TEF if it was more widely adopted.
Justine Greening announced that the new Director of Fair Access and Participation when the Office for Students if formed will be Chris Millward, who has been Director of Policy at HEFCE. The new role will have a focus on progression and outcomes as well as access for disadvantaged and under-represented groups in Higher Education.
In the meantime, the Brexit negotiations continue and a flurry of papers have been published by the UK government and the EU. The most interesting one is the one on Collaboration on Science and Innovation. The paper has lots of warm words on collaboration but little detail on what a future arrangement with the EU might look like. On Horizon 202, the paper suggests that the UK will be seeking “associated” status (it says “associated countries have the same level of access to Horizon 2020 as EU Member States. Associated countries do not have a formal vote over the work programme, but can attend programme committees, which provides them with a degree of influence. Terms of association (including financial contributions) vary, and are determined by international agreements with the EU.“)
The overall conclusions are:
“The UK wants to continue playing a major role in creating a brighter future for all European citizens by strengthening collaboration with European partners in science and innovation.
To this end, the UK will seek to agree a far-reaching science and innovation agreement with the EU that establishes a framework for future collaboration. There are a range of existing precedents for collaboration that the UK and the EU can build on, but our uniquely close relationship means there may be merit in designing a more ambitious agreement. The UK hopes to have a full and open discussion with the EU about all of these options as part of the negotiations on our future partnership.
The UK would welcome dialogue with the EU on the shape of a future science and innovation agreement, reflecting our joint interest in promoting continued close cooperation, for the benefit of UK and European prosperity”
Of course, the other interesting Brexit story was the paper we weren’t meant to see – the leaked draft on migration (read more in the Guardian report). The draft proposed work permits for EU citizens with a two year limit, language tests for EU students and ensuring that they have sufficient funds before they come to the UK (which implies that they will not qualify for student loans). None of these things is particularly surprising even if unwelcome – essentially the same type of restrictions would apply as apply currently to international students. What is most interesting about this is the reaction and the timing – Amber Rudd has only just announced a review of the impact of international students and a review into the social impact of Brexit – both of which will not report until September 2018. Damien Green on the Today programme said that the real paper would be launched “in a few weeks” – at the Conservative Party Conference?
Other interesting reading
The Higher Education Policy Institute published:
a blog on graduate entrepreneurs and what universities could do to support them
a report on the crisis in the creative arts in the UK – looking at what has happened in schools and suggesting that the increased and simplistic focus on graduate employment outcomes will impoverish education and damage outcomes (see the TEF report above).
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Special Edition Policy Update: Sir John Bell report on Life Sciences and the Industrial Strategy
EU, Funding opportunities, international, PG research, policy, Research news, Uncategorized jforster
Following our Industrial Strategy update last week, as expected Sir John Bell has published his report for the government on Life Sciences and the Industrial Strategy. There are 7 main recommendations under 4 themes, which are summarised below.
Some interesting comments:
“The key UK attribute driving success in life sciences is the great strength in university-based research. Strong research-based universities underpin most of the public sector research success in the UK, as they do in the USA and in Scandinavia. National research systems based around institutes rather than universities, as seen in Germany, France and China, do not achieve the same productivity in life sciences as seen in university-focussed systems.” (p22)
“The decline in funding of indirect costs for charity research is coupled to an increasing tendency for Research Councils to construct approaches that avoid paying indirect Full Economic Costs (FEC). Together, these are having a significant impact on the viability of research in universities and have led to the institutions raising industrial overhead costs to fill the gap. This is unhelpful.” (p24 and see the recommendation about charitable contributions under “reinforcing the UK science offer” below)
“It is also recommended, that the funding agencies, in partnership with major charities, create a high-level recruitment fund that would pay the real cost of bringing successful scientists from abroad to work in major UK university institutions.” (see the proposal to attract international scientists below).
On clusters “Life sciences clusters are nearly always located around a university or other research institute and in the UK include elements of NHS infrastructure. However, evidence and experience suggests that governments cannot seed technology clusters28 and their success is usually driven by the underpinning assets of universities and companies, and also by the cultural features of networking and recycling of entrepreneurs and capital.” And “Regions should make the most of existing opportunities locally to grow clusters and build resilience by working in partnership across local Government, LEPs (in England), universities and research institutes, NHS, AHSNs, local businesses and support organisations, to identify and coalesce the local vision for life sciences. Science & Innovation Audits, Local Growth Funds and Growth Hubs (in England), Enterprise Zones and local rates and planning flexibilities can all be utilised to support a vision for life sciences. “ (see the proposal on clusters under “Growth and Infrastructure” – this was a big theme in the Industrial strategy and something we also covered in our Green Paper response)
On skills: “ The flow of multidisciplinary students at Masters and PhD level should be increased by providing incentives through the Higher Education Funding Council for England.2 and “Universities and research funders should embed core competencies at degree and PhD level, for example data, statistical and analytical skills, commercial acumen and translational skills, and management and entrepreneurship training (which could be delivered in partnership with business schools). They should support exposure to, and collaboration with, strategically important disciplines including computer and data science, engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics and material science.”
Health Advanced Research Programme (HARP) proposal – with the goal to create 2-3 entirely new industries over the next 10 years.
Establish a coalition of funders to create the Health Advanced Research Programme to undertake large research infrastructure projects and high risk ‘moonshot programmes’, that will help create entirely new industries in healthcare
Create a platform for developing effective diagnostics for early, asymptomatic chronic disease.
Digitalisation and AI to transform pathology and imaging.
Support projects around healthy ageing.
Reinforcing the UK science offer
Sustain and increase funding for basic science to match our international competition – the goal is that the UK should attract 2000 new discovery scientists from around the globe
The UK should aim to be in the upper quartile of OECD R&D spending and sustain and increase the funding for basic science, to match our international competitors, particularly in university settings, encouraging discovery science to co-locate.
NIHR should be supported, with funding increases in line with Research Councils
Ensure the environment remains supportive of charitable contributions through enhancing the Charity Research Support Fund (see above for the context for this).
Capitalise on UKRI to increase interdisciplinary research, work more effectively with industry and support high-risk science.
Use Government and charitable funding to attract up to 100 world-class scientists to the UK, with support for their recruitment and their science over the next ten years.
Further improve UK clinical trial capabilities to support a 50% increase in the number of clinical trials over the next 5 years and a growing proportion of change of practice and trials with novel methodology over the next 5 years.
Establish a working group to evaluate the use of digital health care data and health systems; to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new interventions; and to help ICH modernise its GCP regulations.
Improve the UK’s clinical trial capabilities so that the UK can best compete globally in our support for industry and academic studies at all phases.
Design a translational fund to support the pre-commercial creation of clinically-useable molecules and devices.
Growth and infrastructure – the goal is to create four UK companies valued at >£20 billion market cap in the next ten years.
Ensure the tax environment supports growth and is internationally competitive in supporting long-term and deeper investment.
Address market failures through Social Impact Bonds and encourage AMR research.
Consider how UK-based public markets can be used more effectively in the sector.
Support the growth of Life Sciences clusters.
Government, local partners and industry should work together to ensure the right infrastructure is in place to support the growth of life sciences clusters and networks.
UK’s existing clusters should work together and with government to promote a ‘single front door’ to the UK for research collaboration, partnership and investment.
Attract substantial investment to manufacture and export high value life science products of the future. – the goal is to attract ten large (£50-250m capital investment) and 10 smaller (£10-50m capital investments) in life science manufacturing facilities in the next five years.
Accept in full the recommendations of the Advanced Therapies Manufacturing Action Plan and apply its principles to other life science manufacturing sectors.
A programme in partnership with industry to develop cutting-edge manufacturing technologies that will address scale-up challenges and drive up productivity.
Optimise the fiscal environment to drive investment in industrial buildings, equipment and infrastructure for manufacturing and late-stage R&D.
Consider nationally available financial incentives – grants and loans, or capital allowances combined with regional incentives – to support capital investment in scale-up, and prepare for manufacturing and related export activity.
Make support and incentives for manufacturing investment and exporting available to business through a single front door, provide a senior national account manager accountable for delivery and simplify the customer journey.
NHS collaboration – the Accelerated Access Review should be adopted with national routes to market streamlined and clarified, including for digital products. There are two stated goals:
The NHS should engage in fifty collaborative programmes in the next 5 years in late-stage clinical trials, real world data collection, or in the evaluation of diagnostics or devices.
The UK should be in the top quartile of comparator countries, both for the speed of adoption and the overall uptake of innovative, cost-effective products, to the benefit of all UK patients by the end of 2023.
The recommended actions are
Utilise and broaden the Accelerated Access Review to encourage UK investment in clinical and real-world studies. Deliver a conditional reimbursement approval, for implementation as soon as licensing and value milestones are delivered.
Create a forum for early engagement between industry, NHS and arms-length bodies (e.g. NICE, MHRA) to agree commercial access agreements.
Use the recommendations from the AAR to streamline the processes and methods of assessment for all new products.
Value assessments should be evolved in the long-term with improved patient outcome measures, affordability and cost management data beyond one year timeframes.
NICE’s funding model for technology evaluation should be set up in a way that does not stifle SME engagement
Data – Establish two to five Digital Innovation Hubs providing data across regions of three to five million people.
The health and care system should set out a vision and a plan to deliver a national approach with the capability to rapidly and effectively establish studies for the generation of real world data, which can be appropriately accessed by researchers.
ePrescribing should be mandatory for hospitals.
NHS Digital and NHS England should set out clear and consistent national approaches to data and interoperability standards and requirements for data access agreements.
Accelerate access to currently available national datasets by streamlining legal and ethical approvals.
Create a forum for researchers across academia, charities and industry to engage with all national health data programmes.
Establish a new regulatory, Health Technology Assessment and commercial framework to capture for the UK the value in algorithms generated using NHS data. A working group should be established to take this forward
Two to five digital innovation hubs providing data across regions of three to five million people should be set up as part of a national approach and building towards full population coverage, to rapidly enable researchers to engage with a meaningful dataset. These regional hubs should also have the capability to accelerate and streamline CTA and HRA approvals. One or more of these should focus on medtech.
The UK could host 4-6 centres of excellence that provide support for specific medtech themes, focussing on research capability in a single medtech domain such as orthopaedics, cardiac, digital health or molecular diagnostics.
National registries of therapy-area-specific data across the whole of the NHS in England should be created and aligned with the relevant charity.
A migration system should be established that allows recruitment and retention of highly skilled workers from the EU and beyond, and does not impede intra-company transfers.
Develop and deliver a reinforced skills action plan across the NHS, commercial and third sectors based on a gap analysis of key skills for science.
Create an apprenticeship scheme that focuses on data sciences, as well as skills across the life sciences sector, and trains an entirely new cadre of technologists, healthcare workers and scientists at the cutting-edge of digital health.
Establish Institutes of Technology that would provide opportunity for technical training, particularly in digital and advanced manufacturing areas.
There should be support for entrepreneur training at all levels, incentivising varied careers and migration of academic scientists into industry and back to academia.
A fund should be established supporting convergent science activities including cross-disciplinary sabbaticals, joint appointments, funding for cross-sectoral partnerships and exchanges across industry and the NHS, including for management trainees.
High quality STEM education should be provided for all, and the government should evaluate and implement additional steps to increase the number of students studying maths to level 3 and beyond
Tags: Bell review Digital Health entrepreneurship industrial strategy life sciences research funding skills
Global Entrepreneurship Development Centre (GEDC) – Conference
Business Engagement, conferences, Events, Global engagement, international, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team jcodling
The GEDC is a global community on entrepreneurship research. It is the mission of the GEDC to raise levels of knowledge, theory and practice on entrepreneurship worldwide through the promotion of research.
Members of the GEDC are involved in joint entrepreneurship research programs, joint PhD workshops and conferences, faculty exchanges and cooperation. The theme for this first conference is New Frontiers in International Entrepreneurship: Research and Practice to be held at Kingston Business School, London, on 5-7 October 2016.
Bournemouth University subscribe to the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group (HEEG) meaning all BU staff benefit from attending events with no event/ conference fees. (Travel, accommodation and subsistence would need to be funded if required.)
Click here to find out more and register to attend.
Tags: entrepreneurship Global Entrepreneurship Development Centre HEEG
Innovate 2015 – 9-10 November London
Business Engagement, innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, Knowledge Transfer jcodling
The countdown has begun for Innovate 2015. From international investors, entrepreneurs, to government and academia, everyone who is anyone in innovation will be attending. Discover the full range of support available to help your business grow faster, get funding, make connections and go global. Innovate 2015 is a two day event designed to stimulate opportunities for innovation, export and investment for the UK’s most innovative companies, at all growth stages. Secure your two-day tickets now for £199 (plus VAT). One-day tickets to the event are also available for £165 (plus VAT).
Tags: entrepreneurship event Events innovation
Institute for Small Business and Entrpreneurship Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) Fund
Business Engagement, Funding opportunities, innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Research news jcodling
ISBE Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) Fund – Anchor Institutions
The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) fund is an initiative kindly supported by; the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); Lloyds Banking Group, the Federation of Small Business (FSB), British Academy of Management (BAM) administered through ISBE. This initiative aims to encourage and support research activities from academics, third sector organisations, consultants and practitioners with the ambition of drawing together and generating an entrepreneurial community of practice to facilitate knowledge exchange and transfer.
Proposals are invited that explore ways in which anchor institutions and wider fee-based professional service providers can support small firms to develop their entrepreneurial capabilities.
Call closes 14 August.
Tags: entrepreneurship innovation small business
Festival of Enterprise this Saturday
Business Engagement, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, Public engagement Sally Gates
On Saturday 18 July (this Saturday), BU hosts its first ever Festival of Enterprise – a free event designed to give help and advice to startups, SMEs, established businesses, budding business-minded teenagers or anyone wanting to turn a business idea into a reality.
The Festival is open to anyone and takes place in the Student Centre between 10am and 3pm. There will be four ‘sofa’ sessions – Marketing, Finance, Cyber Security and Creativity – with industry experts giving their advice and taking questions, all aimed at engaging with and supporting local businesses.
There are other activities taking place too – business ‘speed dating’ sessions, an Enterprise Den specifically for college-aged teens and a keynote presentation from local entrepreneur Steve Bolton.
If you’d like more information, visit the Festival of Enterprise webpages. And most importantly, please spread the word. If you know of anyone (colleagues, friends, family) who may benefit from talking about business and enterprise in Dorset then send them along.
Tags: business engagement entrepreneurship Festival of Enterprise
Find out about the Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth research theme
Research themes Julie Northam
The Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth Theme has been very active in the last 12 months, the group has met 6 times in total with two meetings being held jointly with the Creative, Digital and Cognitive Science research theme. The focus has been on support for interactive activity between Schools and the meetings have included attendees from the Business School, DEC, Media and Tourism. A highlight of these sessions has been the opportunity for researchers to present their research ideas with a view to encouraging others to join them to establish a research group, while this activity is in its infancy there are two groups that have formed around high growth start-ups and the marketing and branding in the retail sector that are very promising. The theme also supported more than 6 events at the Festival of Learning and ‘Equipping the business leaders of the future’ was a particular success with over 50 delegates from academia, industry and the public sector discussing the future development of this key activity and how research can support and inform the direction. The next year will see attempts to expand the network to individuals outside the University, to share experiences around building networks, writing bids and disseminating research.
Prof Dean Patton
Sign up to the Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth research themes here:
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Tags: BU research themes Centre for Entrepreneurship economy entrepreneurship
Do you have an interest in internal marketing?
BU research, Research themes Nikki Harvey
Within the Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth BU research theme we have recently formed a small group looking at internal marketing.
Internal marketing is essentially inward facing marketing that engages with employees rather than external audiences such as customers. It is about treating staff as internal customers so that they understand and contribute to the vision and goals of the firm. Internal marketing is two-way communication process that can increase staff motivation, improve customer service and contribute the overall success of a firm. Internal marketing can also help with improving communication in all parts of the organisation and so improving overall brand values and resultant communication externally. Naturally, this theme involves the business disciplines of Marketing and HR, but we are also interested to hear from anyone who has an interest or expertise in this area who would like to get involved with this group.
If you are interested in joining this group or learning more about our plans then feel free to contact any of the group members: Julie Robson, Yasmin Sekhon, Lois Farquharson and Fabian Homberg.
Tags: entrepreneurship group marketing
Business Law Seminars
You are warmly invited to attend a series of business law seminars being organised by a group of academics in the Department of Law researching in Business Regulation & Institutions, Trade & Entrepreneurship (cBRITE), who will be working closely with the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth:
Stephen Copp “The codification of directors’ duties: raising or lowering standards?” 11.00 – 12.00pm Wednesday 5th December 2012 in PG142
Alison Cronin “White Collar Crime – Why the light touch? The case for a robust criminal law to reinforce ethical conduct in the commercial world” 1.00 – 2.00pm Wednesday 12th December 2012 in PG146
Sarah McKeown “A Common European Sales Law: Facilitating Cross-Border Trade for SMEs” 11.00 – 12.00pm Wednesday 19th December 2012 in PG142
For further details contact Dr Stephen Copp, Associate Professor, Department of Law, The Business School at scopp@bournemouth.ac.uk
Tags: business entrepreneurship law
Invitation for Participant Applications: Advancing European Traditions of Entrepreneurship Studies
Research themes Nikki Harvey
Applications are invited to attend a unique research development workshop Advancing European Traditions of Entrepreneurship Studies A Research Development Workshop. This may be of particular interest to researchers in entrepreneurship, organisation studies or broader social sciences and humanities disciplines who are interested in looking at the phenomena of entrepreneurship from a variety of contexts and perspectives. Please note that the closing date for applications is 15 December 2012 and places are limited.
The aim of this meeting is to provide a creative space to consider experimental and novel approaches which advance theoretical understanding of the domain of entrepreneurship and its real-life practices, contexts and impacts. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, including social sciences and humanities approaches, opportunities are sought to expose conceptual anomalies in current entrepreneurship research, while developing debate in dialogue with the mainstream of entrepreneurship science.
Organised by the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, the workshop will take place at an out-of-town retreat venue to ensure opportunities for fruitful discussion. Doctoral candidates and early-career researchers who share questions and concerns related to enterprise and entrepreneurship, are particularly invited to apply to attend. This event is supported by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) and the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE).
The workshop will take place 18th-19th March 2013 at Weetwood Hall Hotel, Leeds, UK
Prof. Bill Gartner (Clemson, USA); Prof. Friederike Welter (Jönköping, Sweden); Prof. Susan Marlow (Nottingham); Prof. Sara Carter (Strathclyde); Prof. Joep Cornelissen (Leeds); Prof. Simon Down (Anglia Ruskin); Prof. Denise Fletcher (Luxembourg); Prof. Helle Neergaard (Aarhus, Denmark); Dr Ellie Hamilton (Lancaster); Prof. Daniel Hjorth (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark); Prof. Robin Holt (Liverpool); Prof. Sarah Jack (Lancaster); Prof. Nelson Phillips (Imperial); Prof. Tony Watson (Nottingham); Prof. Chris Stayaert (St.Gallen, Switzerland); Dr Paul Tracey (Cambridge); Prof. David Rae (Lincoln); Prof. Ossie Jones (Liverpool); Prof. Colin Williams (Sheffield).
For more details and to apply, please visit: http://www.eventsforce.net/entrepstudies
Closing Date for Applications: 15 December 2012 Limited Places Available
Tags: entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship & Economic Growth Research Theme meeting on 29 November!
BU research Nikki Harvey
The Entrepreneurship & Economic Growth Research Theme is holding its second meeting of the term on Thursday 29 November. The seminar will be held in the Executive Business Centre at 12:00 – 13:30. Lunch will be provided. The meeting will be informal and will be used as an opportunity to discuss current research and ideas for cross-collaboration.
We look forward to seeing you there – please confirm your attendance to Nikki Gloyns: ngloyns@bournemouth.ac.uk so that we can book lunch for you!
Tags: BU research themes collaborative research economy entrepreneurship
LEPs given core Government funding
Nikki Harvey
Local Enterprise Partnerships are to be given core funding by the Government following complaints that the new regional growth bodies are being run “on a shoestring”. The Business Department and the Department for Communities and Local Government will provide combined funds of up to £24m to allow LEPs “to drive forward their growth priorities”, the Government said. The announcement follows an inquiry by an all-party group which found that the independence of LEPs, which replaced Regional Development Agencies, was being compromised by a lack of funds. The organisations are supposed to be voluntary, self-funded partnerships between businesses and local authorities but participants have warned that they have been over-reliant on a small number of core donors, putting their impartiality at risk.
An interim £5m will be made available immediately for all LEPs to use for the remainder of this financial year, the Government said. This will be followed by up to £250,000 per LEP per year for the next two years – provided they can source matched funding of equal value. Business minister Michael Fallon said: “This funding will help LEPs plan for the long term and ensure they can remain locally-led instead of dependent on central government support. We need to ensure LEPs remain voluntary business and civic partnerships so they are in the best possible position to deliver sustainable growth and job creation in their areas.” John Walker, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, welcomed the move. “Funding for the LEP is vital if it is to give the local support that small firms need. We have been pushing for basic dedicated funding at this level from the outset.”
Tags: economy entrepreneurship
ESRC Social Science Festival
BU research, Funding opportunities, Research news Peter Wallace
Professor Ruth Towse and Professor Martin Kretschmer have been awarded funding from the ESRC (RES-622-26-565) to organise an event as part of the Festival of Social Science 2012.
The symposium ‘What constitutes evidence for copyright policy?’ will be held on 8 November 2012 in the Executive Business Centre.
Professors Towse and Kretschmer write: “This interactive event offers the opportunity for discussion on evidence for copyright policy between social scientists, policy-makers and producers and users of copyright works. Copyright law is a topical and contentious area that affects a wide range of stakeholders with differing views on copyright policy. The need for evidence-based policy on copyright policy was emphasised in the Hargreaves Review and has led to several calls for evidence from stakeholders. The responses they provide to the Intellectual Policy Office are varied in nature and quality; the IPO has responded by issuing guidelines on what constitutes acceptable evidence (which itself is contested).
“Besides being a matter of pressing public concern, copyright also attracts the interest of a broad range of social science disciplines each with its own rules of evidence. The emphasis on economic growth as the objective of copyright policy has shifted the need for evidence in the direction of economics but economic evidence is not always easily available. Nor it is the case that only quantitative evidence is regarded as valid.”
The event will involve the following:
Social scientists in a range of disciplines will explore their perceptions of evidence in non-technical terms and discuss their research findings on copyright. The aim is to develop a perspective on what evidence social scientists believe is relevant for copyright policy-making purposes.
Representatives of stakeholder organisations that have responded with evidence to the IPO’s calls for evidence will explain what to them is relevant evidence.
IPO staff responsible for assessing responses to calls for evidence have already committed to participate in this event. They will explain how they use the information they receive from stakeholder meetings and calls for evidence to develop policy measures.
If you are interested to participate, please contact Dr Rebecca Edwards (Research Development Officer, Public Engagement): redwards@bournemouth.ac.uk
Tags: BU research copyright creative industries economic growth entrepreneurship ESRC ESRC festival of social science law research www.cippm.org.uk
Research can help companies to increase revenue and create jobs
BU research Julie Northam
Watch this excellent short video from BU’s Professor Dean Patton on how research has helped high growth firms and established businesses to develop further, through increased revenue and job creation.
To see other BU videos on YouTube go to the BU YouTube page!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqxKVmzcvEo
Tags: BS business Centre for Entrepreneurship entrepreneurship
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Tsunami Surfing and the Giant Snot
Sam Harry’s research is filled with bizarre scientific instruments and massive contraptions in an effort to bring large natural events into the laboratory setting.
Sam Harry, second year PhD candidate in Civil Engineering
“There’s only a couple like it in the world, so it’s pretty unique”. Unique may be an understatement when describing what may be the largest centrifuge in North America. A centrifuge is a machine with a rapidly rotating container that can spin at unfathomable speeds and in doing so applies centrifugal force (sort of like gravitational force) to whatever is inside. This massive scientific instrument– with a diameter of roughly 18 feet– was centerpiece to Sam’s Master’s work studying how tsunamis affect boulder transport, and the project drew him in to continue studying the impact of tsunamis on rivers for his PhD.
But before we jump ahead, let’s talk about what a giant centrifuge has to do with tsunamis. Scientists studying tsunamis are faced with the challenge of scale; laboratory simulations of tsunamis in traditional water-wave-tank facilities are often difficult and inaccurate because of the sheer size and power of real tsunamis. By conducting experiments within the centrifuge, Sam and his research group were able to control body force within the centrifuge environment and thus reduce the mismatch in fluid flow conditions between the simulated experiment and real-life tsunamis.
When tsunamis occur they cause significant damage to coastal infrastructure and the surrounding natural environment. Tsunamis hit the coast with a force that can move large boulders– so large, in fact, that they aren’t moved any other way. Researchers can actually date back to when a boulder moved by analysing the surrounding sediments, and thus, can back calculate how long ago that particular tsunami hit. However, studying the movement of massive boulders, like tsunamis, is not easily carried out in the lab. So, Sam used a wave maker within, of course, the massive centrifuge to study the movement of boulders when they are hit with some big waves.
Sam’s work space. The Green dye added to the water within the glass tank is what gives this tank it’s name: The Giant Snot
As Sam was completing his Master’s an opportunity opened up for him to continue the work that he loves through a PhD program in civil engineering with OSU’s wave lab. Now Sam conducts his research using the “glass tank”, which, as the name alludes to, is a glass tank roughly the size of a commercial kitty pool that is used to contain the water and artificial waves the lab generates for their research. There are actually three glass tanks of varying sizes. The largest tank, which is larger than a football field, is used for more “practical applications”. Sam gives us the example of a recent study in which researchers built artificial sand dunes inside of the tank, let vegetation establish, and then hit the dunes with waves to study how tsunamis impact that environment. (Legend has it that the largest tank was actually surfed in by one of the researchers!)
Sam’s smaller glass tank, though, is really meant for making precision measurements to better study waves. He uses lasers to measure flow velocity and depth of water to build mathematically difficult, complex models. Essentially, his models are intended to be the benchmarks for numerical simulations. Sam, now into his second year of his PhD, will be using these models in his research to study the interaction between tsunamis and rivers, with the goal of understanding the movement and impact of tsunamis as they propagate upstream.
To learn more about tsunamis, boulders, rivers, and all of the interesting methods Sam’s lab uses to study waves, tune into KBVR 88.7 FM on Sunday, November 3rd at 7pm or live stream the show at http://www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm/. If you can’t join us live, download the episode from the “Inspiration Dissemination” podcast on iTunes!
This entry was posted in Civil and Construction Engineering and tagged engineering, research, Tsunami, Waves on 2019-11-03 by delventk.
A bird’s eye view: hindsight and foresight from long term bird surveys
The Hermit Warbler is a songbird that lives its life in two areas of the world. It spends its breeding season (late May-early July) in the coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and migrates to Central America for the winter. Due to the long journey from the Central America to the PNW, it is dependent on food resources being available throughout its journey and when it arrives to breed. The environmental conditions across its range are tightly linked to habitat resources, and unfavorable climatic conditions, such as those becoming less frequent due to climate change, can negatively affect bird populations. Changes in bird populations are not always easy to notice, especially with small songbirds that live high in tree canopies. Studying birds for one or a few years may not be enough to signal the change in their well-being.
A Hermit Warbler singing on a lichen-covered branch in the forest canopy. Male Hermit Warblers will defend their territories ferociously against other males during the breeding season. H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, May 2017.
Fortunately, long term data sets are becoming more available thanks to long term study programs. For example, the Willamette National Forest in Oregon is home to H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest (the Andrews). Designated by the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Andrews forest hosts many forest research projects and has been monitored since 1948. In 1980, it was became one of the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research sites ensuring that it will remain a resource for scientists for years to come. Bird surveys at the Andrews began 11 years ago, and researchers at Oregon State University are beginning to draw connections between changing climate and bird communities in relation to the forest’s structure and compositions.
H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, where long-term bird study is launched in 2009 by Drs. Matt Betts and Sarah Frey. The forest sits on the moist foothills of western Cascades in Willamette National Forest.
One of these researchers, Hankyu Kim PhD student in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, is using this data to study the Hermit Warbler and other bird species at the Andrews. Hankyu is interested in how and why bird communities are changing over time. With 11 years of bird observations and extensive temperature data, he is attempting to estimate how population of birds persist in the forests. To begin approximating how current climate effects birds, we need to have an idea about bird communities in the past. Past conditions can help us explore how birds might respond to future climate scenarios. Without the effort of many researchers before him to monitor birds, his investigation would be impossible.
http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/files/2019/05/HEWA_type2_2017HJA_HKK.mp3
Bird surveys are conducted via point counts. Researchers stand at a point count station for 10 minutes and count all bird species they see and hear. Listen to a hermit warbler and some other background birdsongs recorded at H.J Andrews in June 2017.
Hankyu realized the importance of long-term data after reviewing the 45-years of wintering waterbird surveys collected by the Birdwatching Club at Seoul National University, Korea during his time as an undergrad. The group took annual trips to the major Rivers and Coastal Areas, and in just a couple decades the members of the club had recorded declines and disappearances of some species that were once common and widespread. This finding inspired Hankyu to pursue graduate school to study unnoticed or uncharismatic species that are in danger of decline. Every species plays a critical role in the ecosystem, even if that role has not yet been discovered.
Tune in on Sunday May, 19 at 7 pm to hear more about Hankyu Kim’s research with birds. Not a local listener? Stream the show live or catch up when the podcast episode is released.
Want more about the Hermit Warblers in Oregon? Check out this video of Oregon Field Guide featuring Hankyu and some of his colleagues from Oregon State University.
Hankyu’s episode on Apple Podcasts
This entry was posted in College of Forestry, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Forestry and tagged biodiversity, birds, birdwatching, climate change, conservation, data, Ecology, ecosystem, forest, hermit warbler, HJ Andrews Forest, LTER, NSF, PNW, research, songbird on 2019-05-15 by Kristen Finch.
Infection Interruption: Identifying Compounds that Disrupt HIV
Know the enemy
Comparing microbial extracts with Dr. Sandra Loesgen.
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, is the virus that leads to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Most of our listeners have likely heard about HIV/AIDS because it has been reported in the news since the 1980s, but our listeners might not be familiar with the virus’s biology and treatments that target the virus.
HIV follows an infection cycle with these main stages:
Attachment – the virus binds to a host cell
Fusion – the viral wall fuses with the membrane of the host cell and genetic material from the virus enters the host cell
Reverse transcription – RNA from the virus is converted into DNA via viral enzymes
Integration – viral DNA joins the genome of the host cell
Reproduction – the viral DNA hijacks the host cell activity to produce more viruses and the cycle continues
Drug treatments target different stages in the HIV infection cycle to slow down infection
However, HIV has adapted to allow mistakes to occur during the reverse transcription stage such that spontaneous mutations change the virus within the host individual, and the virus becomes tolerant to drug treatments over time.
Faulty Machinery
Due to the highly mutable nature of HIV, a constant supply of new drug treatments are necessary to fend off resistance and treat infection. Our guest this week on Inspiration Dissemination, Ross Overacker a PhD candidate in Organic Chemistry, is screening a library of natural and synthetic compounds for their antiviral activity and effectiveness at disrupting HIV. Ross works in a Natural Products Lab under the direction of Dr. Sandra Loesgen. There, Ross and his lab mates (some of whom were on the show recently [1] [2]) test libraries of compounds they have extracted from fungi and bacteria for a range of therapeutic applications. Ross is currently completing his analysis of a synthetic compound that shows promise for interrupting the HIV infection cycle.
“Uncle Ross” giving a tour of the lab stopping to show off the liquid nitrogen.
Working in Lab with liquid nitrogen.
Havin’ a blast
Chemistry Club at Washington State University (WSU) initially turned Ross onto chemistry. The club participated in education outreach by presenting chemistry demonstrations at local high schools and club events. Ross and other students would demonstrate exciting chemistry demos such as filling hydrogen balloons with salt compounds resulting in colorful explosions piquing the interest of students and community members alike. Ross originally made a name in
Collecting Winter Chanterelles in the Pacific Northwest.
WSU’s chemistry club, eventually becoming the president, by showing off a “flaming snowball” and tossing it from hand to hand—don’t worry he will explain this on air. For Ross, chemistry is a complicated puzzle that once you work out, all of the pieces fall into place. After a few undergraduate research projects, Ross decided that he wanted to continue research by pursing a PhD in Organic Chemistry at Oregon State University.
Tune in this Sunday October 7th at 7 PM to hear from Ross about his research and path to graduate school. Not a local listener? Stream the show live or catch this episode on our podcast.
This entry was posted in Chemistry, College of Science, Organic Chemistry, STEM Outreach and tagged algae, Chemistry, compounds, drug, fungi, graduate school, HIV, infection, natural products, Organic Chemistry, outreach, research, RNA, synthetic compounds, treatment, undergraduate research, virus on 2018-10-07 by Kristen Finch.
Crabby and Stressed Out: Ocean Acidification and the Dungeness Crab
One of the many consequences associated with climate change is ocean acidification. This process occurs when high atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolves into the ocean lowering ocean pH. Concern about ocean acidification has increased recently with the majority of scientific publications about ocean acidification being released in the last 5 years. Despite this uptick in attention, much is still unknown about the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms.
Close-up of a Dungeness crab megalopae
Our guest this week, Hannah Gossner, a second year Master’s student in the Marine Resource Management Program, is investigating the physiological effects of ocean acidification on Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) with the help of advisor Francis Chan. Most folks in Oregon recognize the Dungeness crab as a critter than ends up on their plate. Dungeness crab harvest is a multimillion dollar industry because of its culinary use, but Dungeness crab also play an important role in the ocean ecosystem. Due to their prevalence and life cycle, they are important both as scavengers and as a food source to other animals.
Hannah pulling seawater samples from a CTD Carrousel on the R/V Oceanus off the coast of Oregon
To study the effect of ocean acidification on Dungeness crab, Hannah simulates a variety of ocean conditions in sealed chamber where she can control oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Then by measuring the respiration of an individual crab she can better understand the organism’s stress response to a range of oxygen and carbon dioxide ratios. Hannah hopes that her work will provide a template for measuring the tolerance of other animals to changes in ocean chemistry. She is also interested in the interplay between science, management, and policy, and plans to share her results with local managers and decision makers.
Hannah working the night shift on the R/V Oceanus
Growing up in Connecticut, Hannah spent a lot of time on the water in her dad’s boat, and developed an interest in marine science. Hannah majored in Marine Science at Boston University where she participated in a research project which used stable isotope analysis to monitor changes in food webs involving ctenophores and forage fish. Hannah also did a SEA Semester (not to be confused with a Semester at Sea) where she worked on a boat and studied sustainability in Polynesian island cultures and ecosystems. Hannah knew early on that she wanted to go to graduate school, and after a brief adventure monitoring coral reefs off the coast of Africa, she secured her current position at Oregon State.
Tune in Sunday June, 17 at 7 pm PST to learn more about Hannah’s research and journey to graduate school. Not a local listener? Stream the show live or catch the episode on our podcast.
Hannah enjoying her favorite past time, diving!
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A Space for Me
Minerva presenting at the Radical Imaginations Conference on the panel ” Feminist Radical Imaginations: Marches and Revolutions” with Andrea Haverkamp, Carolina Melchor, Maria Lenzi Miori, Minerva Zayas, and Nasim Basiri
Everyone handles their personal growth differently, and for many finding an identity category can lead to feelings of comfort and an opportunity to find community. However, for folks who identify with more than one category or find identity in LGBTQ+ categories may find difficulty navigating their identity in spaces that have been shaped by the heteronormative majority. Moreover, for people of color, retaining identity in their culture might add another layer of complexity to navigating the path to their goals. Our guest this week, Minerva Zayas a Master’s student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, is interested in how folks who identify as LatinX and LGBTQ+ navigate the intersection of these identities, especially in university spaces. In particular, Minerva is asking how LatinX, LGBTQ+ individuals engage in a system that has historically catered to white heteronormative college students. Minerva, speaking from personal experience, expects that University life offers little tailored support systems for folks of color who identify as ‘other,’ but that a university campus might offer opportunities to build a support systems that other institutions might lack: the opportunity to participate in a campus cultural/lifestyle community and engage in activism.
Minerva presenting at Corvallis Poetics Open Mic Night on the poem, “My worst NightMare” at Interzone Inc.
Minerva participating in a creative photo session in downtown Corvallis, OR.
For her Master’s, Minerva will conduct interviews with LatinX, LGBTQ+ students and ask questions than run the gamut of identity in sexuality, culture, community, and activism. She hopes to highlight their experiences and examine themes that arise. In addition to her research, Minerva, a poet herself, plans to extend her project in a creative way, ideally through a podcast. After completing her Master’s, Minerva hopes to complete a PhD and has considered becoming a counselor for Spanish-speaking folks. This aim coincides with her mission to bring voice to folks who share identity with her in LatinX culture. Minerva ultimately wants institutions, academia and beyond, to be more inclusive and cognizant of minority identities, but she realizes that change comes from within. By pursuing her aspirations for a PhD and engaging in academia, she hopes that others who share her identity will be drawn to academia so that a system that has been shaped by the majority identity can grow to support all.
Tune in to KBVR Corvallis 88.7 FM this Sunday May, 20 at 7 pm to hear more about Minerva’s research and personal journey to graduate school. Listeners, local and otherwise, can stream the live interview at kbvr.com/listen or find the podcast of Minerva’s episode next week on Apple Podcasts.
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The Grape Depression: Powdery Mildew in Willamette Valley Vineyards
Brent at the Foliar Pathology Lab research vineyard where the small plot field trials in his project were conducted.
Viticulture is the science, production, and study of grapes, and when growing grapes for wine both quantity and quality matter. One challenge facing farmers in the Willamette Valley is a plant pathogen: grape powdery mildew. This pathogen can live in a field year-round and emerges to infect grape leaves, flowers and fruits annually. Grape plants infected with powdery mildew suffer low berry yields and mildew may affect the taste of wine. In the Willamette Valley, where vineyards abundant, grape powdery mildew is a big problem. Brent Warneke, a Master’s student in the department of Botany and Plant Pathology, is studying the effect of fungicide application timing on the reduction in severity of powdery mildew on grapes, and he is our guest on Inspiration Dissemination this week.
Moldy Grapes
A grape bunch severely infected with powdery mildew. Note the berry cracking, powdery appearance, and poor color accumulation.
Brent works at the USDA Horticultural Crops Research Lab with Walt Mahaffee, and his research tests the effect of fungicide application timing on grape powdery mildew control. Timing fungicide applications is especially crucial during the one to three-week window of grapevine flowering. Optimal fungicide application timing can slow the mildew epidemic allowing grape berries to mature and become less susceptible to powdery mildew. Across the Willamette Valley, fungicide application to grapes is a well-known prevention solution for powdery mildew, but less is known about the best fungicide to use and when to spray plants during berry development. The findings of his research are now being validated at a larger scale in commercial vineyards. In the lab, Brent is also studying the mobility of fungicide “through the grapevine,” from tissue to tissue through the air and xylem, and Brent is helping with a project to identify strains of mildew resistant to commonly used fungicides.
The Grape State of Colorado
Brent with a harvest of varnish conk (Ganoderma oregonense), Lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum).
Brent hails from Colorado where he spent his early years outside gardening, snowboarding, and hiking. During undergrad at Colorado State University (CSU), Brent majored in Horticulture and held research positions at the Center for Agricultural Resources Research and the Bioenergy Lab. Among his many projects during undergrad, Brent completed a senior thesis project, under the direction of Dr. Courtney Jahn, developing a LAMP-PCR to diagnose Canada thistle rust on infected plants that were not displaying symptoms.
Wine Not?
While at CSU, Brent also began studying viticulture. He liked the challenge and complexity of growing grapes for wine. Brent chose to pursue graduate school at Oregon State because his current program blends plant pathology with viticulture. He’s happy with his decision because Oregon is similar to Colorado for outdoor recreation, not to mention its world class Pinot Noir!
Hear more from Brent this Sunday September, 10 at 7PM on KBVR Corvallis, 88.7FM! Not a local listener? Not sweat! Stream the show live.
Brent on top of South Sister (10,363 ft). Middle and north sister can be seen in the immediate background. In the far background the small peak to the left without snow is Mount Washington , then Mount Jefferson behind north sister and Mount Hood in the background to the right of North Sister.
This entry was posted in Botany and Plant Pathology and tagged fungicide, grapes, mildew, pinot, plant pathology, recreation, research, vineyard, viticulture, wine on 2017-09-08 by Kristen Finch.
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December 31, 2017 / niall@corkgolfnews.com
Sara Byrne might only be 16, but in the past two years she blazed a trail on the golf courses of Cork and further afield. The Douglas member has represented Munster, Ireland and GB&I in 2017, and more importantly she has seen her golf game improve on several levels. While Sara has been used to winning, and she has ben part of the IGU coaching programmes for a few years, 2017 was a breakthrough year and she’s planning to build on that through the winter and into next season. “I have some great memories this year including winning the Munster girls championship, getting my first cap for Ireland, becoming an honorary member of Douglas Golf Club and shooting the course record of five under 67 in Douglas” said Sara. “But my best memory was seeing the Irish tricolour being raised and the Irish anthem being played when I was playing for Great Britain and Ireland at the Vagliano Trophy in Italy.” Those experiences and performances didn’t happen by accident, they were a result of a very strong work ethic and a focus on constant improvement. And the young Douglas golfer saw the results on the course. “I think my ball striking this year has improved dramatically since last year and I have also gained a lot more distance with my clubs” explained Sara. “This has led to me hitting more greens in regulation and giving myself a lot more birdie chances and suddenly the game seems much easier.” The improvement wasn’t an accident, it was a result of hard work on and off the course as she explained: “I have been going to the gym and have been involved with ILGU panels since I was 11 years old, so this has given me some great building blocks. However, this year my coaching programs have been much more focussed on my individual needs to improve my weaknesses. There is no question that without the professional help of the Mardyke Arena Emerging Talent programme and team of Jeff Gomez, Sarah Cunningham and Fred Twomey I would not have progressed and achieved as much as I have in 2017.”
The on course performances were impressive from the start, she was third in the Carlow Scratch Cup in M arch, shooting -2 in her second round. In April she captained Ireland when they beat Wales in an U-16 international match and she also claimed the runners-up spot at the Munster Ladies where she won the Munster Girls title. In May she finished third in the Fairhaven Trophy in Lytham and after her junior cert in June she had a top ten finish at the Irish Women’s Close in Mullingar. The second half of the Summer saw Sara represent Ireland at the Junior Vagliano, the European Team Championship, the Girls Home Internationals and the European Young Masters. She was also the runner-up at the Irish Girls Plate and she won the Girlie Hegarty on her home course shooting a 67. Douglas Club Professional Stephen Hayes has watched Sara progress from when she started playing and he’s not surprised with the success that she has achieved. “The first thing that stood out to me when I met Sara seven years ago was that she was very talented, but more importantly she had a great attitude and dedication to her game” said Hayes. “Sara is always looking to make improvements to her game. She is very good at keeping detailed stats on her game and this has allowed us to always target the areas of the game that needed improvement. Once she knows what she needs to practice she is not afraid to put in the long hours of practice needed. Sara has always taken a holistic approach to her game and has never been afraid to seek out advice and guidance from specialists in the game and has been helped over the years by Luke Dennehy (Dennehys Fitness) and the team involved in the ILGU Horizon and High Performance programmes. She also has a great personality and great person to be around. It’s also very apparent that Sara’s parents Derek and Michelle are very supportive of her ambitions and would give her the best opportunity to achieve her goals.”
Despite the fact that it’s the off season, Sara continues to put the time on both on and off the course. Having seen the benefits of hard work through the 2017 playing season, she’s already working towards next year with an impressive programme of work. “I am in the gym with the Mardyke Arena emerging talent team three times a week for strength and conditioning” said Sara, “and I spend most of my weekends in Fota practicing. I have also added a skills coach, Dr Ed Coughlan to ensure I preform to the best of my ability going forward. I see my swing coach, Fred Twomey quite often also. I have learned in 2017 that I played too many tournaments and got burnt out towards the end of the season, so in 2018 I need to play in less events to ensure I am energised and perform well in events on the ILGU and R&A circuit. I hope to progress in 2018 as much as I did in 2017.” Such is Sara’s vision and planning, she’s already identified the 17 key events she plans to play in next season. Given her work ethic and the team she’s surrounded by, Sara will certainly be one to watch in 2018.
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WATCH: Afghanistan skipper Rashid Khan hits a Tennis forehand shot for a stunning six
Posted On / September 22, 2019 / by CricketTimes.com Staff
What can Rashid Khan not do? He burst into the scene as a frontline mystery spinner, but in the last year or two, he seems to have become a batsman with a reputation of clearing the ground with ease.
After becoming the youngest captain in Test Cricket, Rashid was spotted playing an unorthodox shot during a T20I match between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe on Friday.
During the fifth match of the ongoing tri-series in Chattogram, Rashid hit a stupendous Tennis forehand shot to finish the innings on a high note.
It all happened on the first delivery of the last over when Afghanistan skipper came down the track to Zimbabwe pacer Chris Mpofu. With the bowler bowling a short delivery, Rashid was quick enough to bring out a forehand shot as he smacked the ball towards the mid-wicket area for a six.
🎾🎾🙈🙈😍🇦🇫🇦🇫✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 pic.twitter.com/x6AhLQwTWi
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19) September 21, 2019
However, Rashid’s effort wasn’t enough for an Afghanistan win as Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza playing his last international game drove his team to a 7-wicket victory.
Friday’s win also marked the first win in nine T20I outings for Zimbabwe against Afghanistan. The African side had not been able to beat their Asian rivals in any of their previous eight meetings before that day.
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Media Confirmation #1 about the Victory of Donald Trump on US Election 2016 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book : Banks,Bankruptcies, Money, Finance, Politics – Year 2017 to year 2019 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of England, Central Banks of Turkey, China, Russia, Qatar, Albania, The World Bank, The European Central Bank, OPEC… Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova Buy the Ebook only from the Authors – Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova
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Peter Shumlin (Governor of the state of Vermont, USA) – New Energy Business, future, US Election 2016, new president, new coalitions, new energy fields and constructions… Weak and strong spots of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Shumlin is seeing Trump will become a President of USA – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions September 27, 2016, 2pm. – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – October 2, 2016, 10 am.
………How Governor Peter Shumlin is seeing the US Election 2016 ? – As a first candidate president – he sees Hillary Clinton – there is an overlay of energy above her choice. The second candidate president – Donald Trump – he sees there are chances for success, but they are holding on the base of war – he is seeing the ship of Donald Trump turning down, the merit for that will have judicial and prison authorities. That opens the way up for Hillary Clinton.
Energy Companies of gas, oil, electricity and transportation of energy and energy corridors – total three companies are prepared for new business as an invasion on new place – at North. The entering on that place is through a closed zone – there is a russian object near (West). From the closed northern side, down to South. Where is the problem ? – Also the russians have found and liked the same place. The conflict zone is passing through the site of the americans – that looks like a road or highway. That separates the new object on two parts – northern, more appetizing and developed and northwestern – which become a closed zone too.
In the northwestern part – there is a working in depth – big depth, I hear sound waves on three levels on construction… As whole – the construction sideways has a form of jug (vessel), it begins with rectangle on the top, then lightly and oval narrows and here the object has height (altitude) – it ends oval with a bottom. From West to East, I see black liquid that flows. Outwardly, that looks like oil reservoir, it is like a river. Follows an opening from the reservoir and buildings as cisterns – connected each other. The road from the low to a light height from West to Northeast. The three energy companies are united in one, with one bank.
The weak spots of Donald Trump –
• A head influences on him with sounds ;
• A russian intervention in his business ;
• Blocking of his money ;
Strong spots – the people and increasing of their amount. Results – the russian business and collapse of the profits in USA.
• The first one is the money in the banks ;
• The second one is closed money and business;
The russian business in USA is like empty business – a chair on which are trying to sit american businessmen. Trump is the one who protects the russian business interests. In the future, Peter Shumlin sees Russia as leading and the union of russian company already with two energy companies. Which of the partners is leaving the game ? – an energy company for electricity.
• Until the end of September 2016 – cold, snow, expectation for partners and union.
• In the beginning of October 2016 – unrests, turmoils between the population of Vermont. Around October 10, 2016 – I see fires, shooting, attacks on a private business object – a big storage with cisterns and very big trucks. Problems with escape of criminals in Canada – transfered, stolen money, intervention of woman, released information. The people in front of them are speaking french and russian language. The end of October 2016 – increased security and police.
• In the beginning of November 2016 – there is a travel to Washington – signing of documents. Security guards, helping for the Elections.
The Weak spot of Hillary Clinton is her health. But also Peter Shumlin is seeing the victory of Donald Trump – despite everything they do for the victory of Hillary Clinton………………
Donald Trump Wins the 2016 Election
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….There was a standstill in the presidential campaign of Donald Trump because of disease. Now, Kellyanne Conway leads the campaign with the clear feeling that everything is sinking. The problems are coming because of the lack of money in the campaign. The activities are closed about financing. I see a few aspects :
• The lack of money.
• Each activity is accompanied with a lot of nerves.
• A lot of overlay of tension.
The presidential campaign is separated on two stages. The good news is that in the last moment appears a few times until it is established also a new energy company that is finacing one of the leaders. Then begins the slow pushing upwards of Donald Trump. That happens a second before the Election…..
…. Near him – near Donald Trump will stay a higher intelligence……
Comey’s decision to notify Congress elicited critiques by those who said he had sidestepped Department of Justice policies, but it also inspired accusations that the director was withholding information about Trump—and some leaks from the FBI.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-faces-barrage-allegations-015734267.html
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…..In the eyes of James Comey I see a lot of nerves, because of the case with the emails of Hillary Clinton. So structured, the accusation doesn’t reach to successful end. In the future, the accusations about the emails and their connection with Libya are separated. After the elections, the accusations connected with Libya are going in the court.
• James Comey, July 2016, has a problem with the controlling of the nerves and control of the degree of sound of its speech. After July 7,2016 – problems with the sinus drainage ducts – problems with nerves and wife. Before July 10, 2016 – a conversation with a leader of black movements. – Stress in a car – (but is is from civil servants). After July 10, 2016 – strong pains in the spine – taking of medicines, problems with kidneys. Before July 15, 2016 – there are disorders, injured – Electoral rallies.
Around July 20, 2016 – there is gathering (meeting) of energy bosses and big energy companies. James Comey changes its beliefs – he remains on its official duties and he observes them strictly, but he participates in a forum (business) connected with future business and new fields, and gold mining and …..- the business is connected with a space technology and creation of a new company, as a branch of the existing one. The business is starting on a land in Libya – Africa. It is related also with a fields and lands near Libya. The man who locally – from Africa will arrange the deal, leaving the country will be killed (in the future). Before the end of July 2016 are expected clashes with black movements – more than 70 people will be injured against a few injured policemen. I see a big mass of people gathered – I see their separation on two groups by the police and they will be beaten.
• August 2016 – after the first days – operation which FBI prevents – a deal with gold. Until August 10,2016 – I see an underground technique about withdrawal of liquid – a pollution and searching of the source of water pollution with energy products. Around the middle of August 2016 – a holiday and after August 16-17 – again unrests of African-americans.
• The end of August and the beginning of September 2016 – problems with Obama. August and September 2016 – problems with Hillary Clinton – I see problems with a car and a strong fright.September 2016 is a bad month for James Comey – full with nervous tension without personal time, with a loss of money, confidence, loss of everything he has built.
I see successful orientation in the future to the private business….After that, a political career is waiting for him……….
• Attorney General told FBI director James Comey NOT to send letter to Congress about bureau reopening the investigation into Hillary’s emails because it could influence the election outcome
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3884528/James-Comey-felt-obligation-inform-Congress-Clinton-email-investigation.html#ixzz4OUnZoRka
• SEP 19, 2016, 09:35AM
Sorry, Media: Hillary Clinton Had a Seizure
http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/sorry-media-hillary-clinton-had-a-seizure
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Tokyo in the Now
by Michael Kanert
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Tokyo is a swirl of old and new constantly redefining itself one piece at a time, and while some historical corners almost never seem to change, others are in permanent flux. Here are three parts of Tokyo that can always be counted on to embody the best of its multi-hued and shifting worlds.
Centered around 1,400-year-old Sensoji Temple, Asakusa is one of the best parts of the city to dive into its “old” side. Whether you choose to explore on foot or via rickshaw tour, there’s plenty to discover—and perhaps even top it off with one of these cultural workshops that will truly let you immerse yourself in those historical waters.
Taiko-Lab
While it takes years to master taiko, the traditional art of Japanese drumming, Asakusa gives visitors a chance to get a quick firsthand taste of the techniques: found north of Sensoji Temple, Taiko-Lab offers one-hour group lessons for tourists that will let you work up a sweat while learning to pound out a traditional song on these thundering old drums.
Sokichi
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Edo kiriko is a traditional Tokyo glass-cutting technique that traces back to the days when the city was called Edo. An elegant piece of Edo kiriko glass makes for a great souvenir, and you can even make your own at Sokichi Edo kiriko workshop by the Edogawa River. Just seconds from Exit 4 of Asakusa Station, here you can select from a dozen styles of glass and spend 90 minutes learning how to cut in the Edo kiriko style.
Wanariya
A little further northwest at Wanariya, visitors can try their hand at weaving a coaster or placemat, or make their own indigo-dyed handkerchief, scarf, shirt or tote bag, either using templates or working freeform. It’s a great experience for kids, too!
As the starting point of nearly all of Japan’s bullet train lines, Tokyo Station is the perennial gateway to the city. Most travelers will pass through this renovated turn-of-the-century structure at some point, and it’s worth taking a moment to explore the wealth of shopping attached to its sprawling underground network.
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Those with an interest in design will want to visit KITTE, a six-storey complex of shops and restaurants at the southwest corner of the station, accessible both underground from the Marunouchi Line or by exiting through the Marunouchi South Gate. The interior environment of this building’s atrium was designed by Kengo Kuma, the visionary behind the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
GOOD DESIGN STORE TOKYO by NOHARA
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On KITTE’s third floor you can find the GOOD DESIGN STORE TOKYO by NOHARA. This store exclusively offers products that have won the Good Design Award, each presenting a world-class design representative of Japan. The roughly 400 souvenir options range from stylish vases and tissue boxes to space-age backpacks and LED-embedded skipping ropes.
Daikanyama & Shibuya
Daikanyama stands in the center of the triangle formed by Shibuya, Ebisu and Nakameguro. A little more upscale than its neighbors, this area is known for its chic restaurants, cafés, and fashion sense.
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While in the area, take an amble down Log Road Daikanyama, a quaintly pristine 220-meter (240-yard) “cottage-style” pathway built along an old train line. Its length is landscaped with rhododendrons, bottlebrushes, Norway maples and other flora that bring out the best of each season—and in true Daikanyama style, the path is punctuated by a wood-styled craft brewery and a deli-style café.
Nonbei Yokocho
While Shinjuku’s Golden Gai and Omoide Yokocho are better known as Tokyo’s representative hole-in-the-wall drinking districts, a similar strip can be found in Nonbei Yokocho in Shibuya. This so-called “Drunkard’s Alley” is actually a pair of interconnected alleys pointing north from the middle of Shibuya Station. Full of tiny old bars and eateries that might seat as few as half a dozen patrons, this is the place to go to immerse yourself in local color of the modern kind.
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For a place to stay, consider TRUNK (HOTEL), a “socializing hotel” that focuses on applying locally made products and organic ingredients. Found just off the trendy Cat Street halfway between Shibuya and Harajuku, this four-storey hotel exudes an organic feel with wood and repurposed materials elegantly worked into both exterior and interior. TRUNK was selected by both Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure as one of the best new hotels in the world in 2018.
Log Road Daikanyama
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Opened in April 2019, Kashiyama Daikanyama is an airy five-storey complex that brings together Daikanyama’s passions of food, fashion and design. The lower levels are occupied by a café, gallery, and two-storey “fashion market” offering a curated selection of domestic and international designer brands. The top two floors, meanwhile, house a hyper-chic restaurant and bar that allow you to look out over the fashionable streets while surrounded sleek lines and intricate design.
Michael Kanert October 11, 2019
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Study of medieval plaque
Recent studies have shown that dental calculus from archaeological samples could be a rich source for understanding the dental health of our ancestors. A new study of the calculus of human remains buried in Denmark has shed light on the oral microbiomes of groups of medieval people in the area.
A University of Copenhagen team sampled calculus from the remains of 21 humans buried circa 1100-1450 CE in the medieval cemetery of the village Tjærby. Some 3,671 proteins from 220 different protein groups were identified from the calculus, with approximately 85-95% produced by bacteria from the oral microbiome.
Although all of the samples showed traces of bacteria associated with periodontal disease and dental caries, the team was able to divide the samples into two groups: one that was more susceptible to oral disease; and, one that appeared more resistant. In the latter group, there was just one case of periodontitis, whereas seven members of the former group displayed signs of severe tooth decay. Since the two groups more than likely had similar diets and oral health habits, the difference is likely to be attributed to differences in proteins.
The calculus samples that were used were found to be far more heterogeneous than samples gathered from modern Danish individuals. The study’s authors argued that the increased diversity of modern diets, combined with environmental and lifestyle factors and other issues were likely to be the main causes of the variety in modern oral microbiomes.
The study was published in Nature Communications.
From: www.dental-tribune.com
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Mother Puts Her 2-Year Old & 1-Year Old In The Oven, Turns It On & BurnThem To Death
A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on.
WGCL reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja’Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday.
Police said the children had obvious injuries, including burns. A neighbor shared a photo that shows police removing a huge piece of evidence: the entire oven from inside the apartment.
A third boy, 3-year-old Jameel Penn Jr., was found unharmed.
Williams waived a court appearance Monday and was denied bail.
The father of all three children, Jameel Penn, says Williams called him by video chat Friday night to tell him his children were dead. Penn says he called police after seeing his sons on the floor.
Late Saturday night, family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil. The boys’ grandfather was heartbroken and vocal after learning what this mother allegedly has done.
“Don’t be stubborn, trying to get back at somebody out of nothing. Think about the kids first,” he said.
Willie Watkins Funeral Home plans to help out with funeral arrangements and contacted the father Sunday.
Penn created a GoFundMe account with a message saying: “i want everyone to use my story as a helping hand. I lost my two young boys to violence and i want to be a difference maker in someone else’s life to prevent a child being hurt.”
As of 9 p.m. Sunday, he said he’s raised nearly $200.
Williams’ sister, Tabitha Hollingsworth, says Williams should be put on suicide watch in the Fulton County jail.
Source: Abc7Chicago
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Apple II clones
Dave Farquhar Retro Computing October 29, 2004 May 19, 2020 1980s, apple, apple ii, commodore, IBM, sears, spartan
In the 1980s, IBM wasn’t the only company with a clone problem. Apple II clones were less common, but a surprising number existed.
Some people know it was Apple’s lawsuit against clone maker Franklin Computer that established that software could be copyrighted. But that wasn’t the end of Apple II cloning in the United States and it certainly wasn’t the end of Apple II cloning abroad.
According to a now-defunct web site, there were a staggering 168 different known Apple II clones.
Why cloning was possible
In the 1970s and 1980s, Apple used off-the-shelf components in its Apple II line. That meant anyone could buy the same chips, just like the situation with IBM cloning. Some cloners made improvements. Others lifted the circuit board design completely. Some even copied the casing, down to the trademarks.
The difference with Apple was that Apple did provide much of the software. Cloners could go to Microsoft and get the Basic interpreter, but Apple made the rest of the operating system. Apple wasn’t interested in selling it to anyone else. So cloning it legally was difficult. Many cloners didn’t care.
But since Apple did use off the shelf parts, cloning the Apple II was easier than cloning the Commodore 64. And the way Apple priced machines left room for cloners to undercut their prices and still turn a profit.
Cloning in the United States
This VTech Laser 128 was the only completely legal Apple II clone. VTech took steps to avoid legal action. Cloners outside of the United States usually didn’t need to bother.
Franklin Computer took a calculated risk and just copied the software. That ended up not working. Apple didn’t completely sue Franklin out of business, but came close.
Not long after Franklin left the market, the VTech Laser 128 appeared. It seems to be the only completely legal Apple II clone ever made. VTech did a clean-room implementation of the ROM, and got Microsoft to sell them the same Basic interpreter they sold Apple. It sold at Sears and appealed to people who wanted Apple compatibility at a Commodore price.
Another interesting Apple II clone was the Mimic Systems Spartan, which plugged into a C-64 to turn it into a C-64/Apple II+ hybrid.
Apple II clones abroad
I also know there were some clones made in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, but I know little about them other than they existed and that an ilicit hacker culture developed around them. The Pravetz 82 was one example. I vaguely remember reading about it decades ago, but no longer have the book or article that talked about Soviet hackers. There was little that Apple could do to stop the Soviets and their allies from cloning their machines.
A similar situation existed in South America. Apple may or may not have been able to sue. But winning in a courtroom in a U.S.-hostile country was even less likely.
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Schubert: Trio in Es-Dur/Notturno (ECM New Series 1595)
November 24, 2010 July 20, 2012 | Tyran Grillo
Trio in Es-Dur/Notturno
Jörg Ewald Dähler fortepiano
Hansheinz Schneeberger violin
Thomas Demenga cello
ECM has nobly benefited the classical music industry by continuing to draw bold lines back to the works of Franz Schubert with consistently thoughtful performances and pairings. Although he never wrote for piano trio until his final year of life, Schubert seems to have put his all into the two masterworks that are the op. 99 and op. 100. For this major release, the latter has been paired with the often-neglected “Notturno,” published two decades after his death.
Harriett Smith calls the Trio in Es-Dur für Klavier, Violine und Violoncello op. 100, D 929 a “bridge between the trios of Beethoven and Brahms,” and was the longest ever composed (it equals, if not surpasses, the average symphony in scope) until Morton Feldman’s Trio of 1980. Penned in 1827, four years into the advancement of his syphilis, Schubert’s second piano trio came about when a close friend, Josef von Spaun, requested the piece for his wedding. Schubert would die in a matter of months after its premier, which reached his ears once before they heard no more.
The musicians superbly evoke the careful tension Schubert has worked into every phrase of the first movement. In its cosmos, one hears the voices of the stars, throttling the engine of space-time in dreamy suspension. A tinge of classicism adorns the Swedish folk song-enriched interior of the second movement, its delicate modality reflected in the pizzicato from both strings. An Austrian country-dance provides the basis for the Scherzo that follows, leading us into a massive Allegro moderato, which inventively brings back the theme of the second movement. Despite the daunting length of this and the first movement, our sense of progression never wavers. Schubert’s magical touches make exuberant experiences out of these longer narratives.
If, in the full trio, we get four worlds as one universe, in the Trio in Es-Dur für Klavier, Violine, Violoncello op. posth. 148, D 897 we get a glimpse into a newborn nebula. This single movement, dubbed “Notturno” (Nocturne) by publisher and composer Anton Diabelli, is believed to have been a rejected Adagio for the first piano trio in B flat major. As fragile as it is taut, it continues to thrive, a gorgeous offspring wrought in filigree and grace.
Jörg Ewald Dähler’s historically informed fortepiano, combined with the profoundly contemporary approaches of resident label cellist Thomas Demenga and the legendary Hansheinz Schneeberger on violin, infuses every moment of these performances with equal parts innovation and ritual. One need only listen behind closed eyes to see the images they recreate.
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5 Reasons Why the Future Needs Linen
The ultimate in lived-in luxury, linen has made a comeback in recent years, and that’s a great thing for both your lifestyle and the environment. Linen bedding and home goods have a universal appeal for both their style and function. Effortlessly chic, with an iconic, naturally pebbled texture, linen can be the earthy detail that pulls an entire room together.
But there’s more to linen than timeless style. If you or your partner are a hot sleeper, linen sheets stay remarkably cool and dry, while getting softer every time you wash them. After washing, Linen’s signature wrinkles are part of its allure, which means you never have to iron.
And if you think of linen as an exclusive summer fabric, think again. There is an increasingly wide variety of weights and applications available, including winter sheeting. In fact, the idea that linen is merely suited for beachy picnics is relatively new. Just consider what you call the place where you store your sheeting—your linen closet! That’s because linen has been a staple textile for a lot longer than cotton, and the go-to fabric for luxury bedding in Europe for hundreds of years.
It’s no surprise then that the Libeco Belgian linen we offer is a Royal Warrant Holder for the Belgian Court. This means that Libeco is the supplier of choice for the Royal Palace, an honor appointed by the King of Belgium himself.
Though we at Ecoist will take the royal pedigree, what we really love about Libeco linen is their dedication to sustainability and environmental stewardship. Combining luxury, quality, and sustainability, Libeco linen is the fabric of the future. The following list will show you why:
1. FLAX IS FRIENDLY
Linen is made from flax, one of the most environmentally friendly fibers in the world. In the Western European climate, flax is grown with virtually zero input of water other than rain. This means that over the lifetime of a linen garment it uses just under a quarter of the water that it's cotton counterpart would. Flax also has very few natural enemies, making the use of pesticides unnecessary.
When it comes time for retting—the process where fine flax fibers are extracted from the woody stem, Libeco’s organic farmers rely on Mother Nature’s morning dew working in tandem with the afternoon sun. Retting is key to the natural characteristics of your linen, and it works like this: Since flax fibers are held to the stem by natural pectins, dissolving these pectins is vital to extracting the fibers from the stem without breaking them. Rain and dew alternated with sunshine create an environment where micro-organisms naturally break down the pectins.
During this process the flax fiber gets its natural beige color, often referred to as écru. Linen écru can vary in color from one year to the next on a spectrum from gray to gold depending on the retting conditions, similar to the way that wine is influenced by its terroir.
2. ZERO WASTE
Even after the retting process flax leaves zero waste. The leftover part of the plant called “scutching tows” are perfect for coarser yarns and as the raw material for paper. A byproduct called the “shives” is used for manufacturing chipboards and for animal bedding. And yet another common by-product of flax is Linseed Oil, which is great for wood preservation, especially in varnishes. At the Libeco mill, they immediately collect all the debris from shearing their fabrics which are then repurposed into the insulation. Nothing gets wasted. This closed production cycle has earned Libeco a Cradle to Cradle certificate.
3. FLAX CRAVES CARBON DIOXIDE
Not only does flax produce zero waste, it actually removes massive amounts of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. Since CO2 is the most abundant greenhouse gas, trapping CO2 is critical to stemming the tide of global warming. The European Confederation of Flax and Hemp (CELC) state that just one hectare of flax retains 3.7 tons of CO2 every year; that's equivalent to the emissions from the average car driven for nearly six days without stopping. In Europe alone, the current Flax crop absorbs the amount of CO2 each year equivalent to a car driving nonstop for 1,337 years.
The amount of flax used especially for Libeco’s annual production equals more than 7,000 acres, absorbing more than 11,000 metric tons of CO2 a year. To give you an idea, this is the amount of CO2 a car would emit if you drove it one thousand times around the entire earth!
4. CARBON NEUTRAL WEAVING
When combining the carbon craving properties of flax with Libeco’s commitment to carbon-neutral weaving, Libeco Belgian linen is actually a carbon-negative product!
The Libeco mill is powered by the sun and the North Sea’s salty breeze, making it literally as sustainable as possible. Emissions that cannot be reduced in the short term are offset annually by Libeco’s support of an international climate project in Uganda that manufactures energy-efficient cookers for local people. Each device reduces CO2 emissions by 2 tons per year, curbing local deforestation and improving the respiratory health of the local population.
5. A NATURAL PERFORMANCE FABRIC
Linen is naturally anti-bacterial and thermoregulating, meaning that it is cool to wear in summer and warm in winter. And if you do sweat in it, linen is odor resistant. By using linen bedding, bath towels, and kitchen items, you can say goodbye to pesky dust mites and other germs. People who suffer from allergies report feeling relieved when using linen in their surroundings.
Linen is also very durable and strong. At one point in history, linen was even used in a form of battle armor called Linothorax! And in ancient Egypt linen was used as currency. This durability comes from the length of the linen fibers which are very long. Durability is one of the overlooked keys to sustainability. But it’s obvious that the longer something lasts the less of it you have to buy. Linen’s longevity is a bonus, as many people believe that the fabric gets better with age. At the end of the linen life-cycle, linen fabric when naturally dyed is biodegradable and can break down into the earth without polluting the environment.
Dating back to 34,000 B.C. linen is one of the oldest fabrics on earth, and its future has never looked brighter.
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When Crisis Strikes, So Do Cyber Criminals
Opportunistic criminals thrive amid chaos. Here are tips for universities and colleges on how to stay safe from cyberthreats during times of crisis.
Amelia Pang
Amelia Pang is a journalist and an editor at EdTech: Focus on Higher Education. Her work has appeared in the New Republic, Mother Jones, and Truthdig.
For cybercriminals, there’s often no better time to target victims than when the rest of the world seems to be falling apart. So, it came as little surprise that shortly after COVID-19 shut down campuses and businesses around the world, there was a spike in ransomware and phishing incidents.
The numbers tell the story: According to Palo Alto Networks, a leading cybersecurity provider, nearly 1,800 suspicious domains with coronavirus-related names are registered every day on average. And according to email security firm Mimecast, the number of COVID-19 spam messages sent spiked by 26 percent during the first 100 days of the outbreak.
“We normally talk about phishing as a kind of cyberattack because it takes place on computers,” says Nick Falcone, CISO for the University of Pennsylvania. “But most of the time, the vulnerability exploited is in the human recipient of the email.”
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“COVID-19 has made us all more vulnerable to the kind of tricks and misdirection used by phishing attacks,” he says. “We are, generally speaking, all more tired and distressed. We are working with technology in new and unfamiliar ways. And we are interacting with trusted parties like our employers in unusual ways. All of these things make it harder to spot phishing emails.”
Unfortunately, many remote workers continue falling for these scams. Mimecast has seen a 56 percent increase in the number of URLs being blocked in response to users working from home clicking on unsavory links. Here are some tips for how universities and colleges can keep their people and their networks safe from phishing attacks.
How to Go Beyond Basic Cybersecurity
Even as the cyber landscape continues to evolve, many best practices remain the same. “Patch all of your software, use two-factor authentication on every account that accepts it,” Falcone says, “and don’t click links or attachments that you weren’t expecting — all are still standard advice.”
Still, Falcone adds, the standard advice only works to a certain point.
“Learning safer ways to click can help mitigate those risks,” he said. “For example, opening attachments or websites using an iPhone, iPad or Chromebook can help keep exploits from attacking your computer, as there are fewer ways for a website or attachment to take over those specific devices.”
Another solution is to hold security awareness training with faculty and staff. According to Mimecast, employees who haven’t had a recent security awareness training are 5.2 times more likely to click on malicious links.
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Get the Tools That Help Prevent Phishing
Multifactor authentication and the use of strong and frequently changed passwords have always been important. But these two routine practices are even more crucial today.
In May, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning that COVID-19 research organizations — including colleges and universities —are major targets for foreign espionage hackers.
“Using a security key such as a YubiKey as your second factor instead of a texted, one-time password can help a great deal with stopping sophisticated phishing attacks,” Falcone says. “The key verifies that you are talking to the real web page before logging you in.”
Since some phishing emails contain software that record a user’s online activities, increasing VPN capacity is another way to protect remote users from cyberthreats. However, because VPNs are not designed to handle the network connections of large remote workforces, it’s helpful to find a solution that increases VPN bandwidth.
Above all, it’s essential to consistently update all VPN software programs with the most current security patches. While it’s impossible to completely secure a network, taking these cautionary steps can significantly reduce security risks for higher ed institutions.
One University’s Best Practices for Remote Security Awareness
Here are some security awareness tips that the University of Washington offers for its remote faculty, staff and students:
Keep your systems and data in the family. When working with university information, use university devices and systems whenever possible. Don’t store university information on nonuniversity devices.
Download and save wisely. Delete sensitive university information that’s accidentally downloaded onto personal devices. Delete locally saved files from public or shared computers.
Stay updated. Keep systems and software up to date by enabling automatic updates for your operating system and applications.
Sometimes it’s better to forget. When accessing university data, don’t use the “remember my password” feature.
Scan for danger. Use anti-virus software to scan portable storage devices like thumb drives or external hard drives containing university information.
Encrypt it. Encrypt university information stored on portable devices, such as laptops.
Collaborate securely. Use collaboration tools that are appropriate for information sensitivity. For example, Microsoft Teams, a communication and collaboration platform that includes file storage, direct messaging and group chat, complies with both HIPAA and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
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UNCUT & COMPLETE for the first time! Every year young people disappear... An eerie and deserted wax museum, SLAUSEN'S LOST OASIS, is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travelers (Including TANYA ROBERTS from "Charlie's Angels") are lured into a very deadly "TOURIST TRAP." Slausen (CHUCK CONNORS) is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is actually more like a macabre chamber of horrors. The grotesque and frightening mannequins in this sordid side-show are only the beginning of the murderous mayhem and nightmarish madness to come. TOURIST TRAP is widely recognized as one of the scariest and strangest horror movies of the 1970s, a film championed by none other than Stephen King as wielding "an eerie, spooky power". Legendary actor Chuck Connors (THE RIFLEMAN, WEREWOLF) stars as Mr. Slausen, a telekinetic psychopath who lures a group of young people to his ramshackle roadside attraction, unleashing an army of psychically controlled mannequins and other monstrosities upon them.
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New York Jets’ Jamal Adams & Marcus Maye Could Easily be NFL’s Best Safety Duo in 2017
Robby Sabo
BATON ROUGE, LA - OCTOBER 15: Jamal Adams #33 of the LSU Tigers reacts after a play in the second quarter against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles at Tiger Stadium on October 15, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
Oh, it’s most definitely possible. New York Jets rookies Jamal Adams and Marcus Maye could be the NFL’s best safety duo in 2017.
Don’t overthink it. Of all things holy surrounding America’s Game, the great game of football, don’t you dare overthink it.
These kids are that good.
When Mike Maccagnan and the New York Jets snagged not just one safety in the first two rounds of the 2017 NFL Draft but two, they completely transformed the organization’s defense virtually overnight. (OK, so while Round 1 now stands alone in primetime on Thursday, let’s call it an overnight success.)
Jamal Adams and Marcus Maye are the real deal.
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Forget the idea that they’re rookies. Sure, a rookie safety in the National Football League will navigate through his own bumps along the way. It’s understood. It comes with the territory.
That alone won’t hold either guy back beginning in Week 1 when the Jets take on the Rex Ryan-less Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, New York.
A few decades ago, the safety position wasn’t as crucial. They acted as the last line of defense and the strong versus the free version were completely different players, often times becoming dictated by what the lumbering full back does. Today, a solid argument can be made that the safety position is the most important spot on the defense.
Through a dynamic safety, matchup problems are solved. No longer can that vertical stretch tight end completely abuse a defense. The cover safety handles that. No longer can the offense sneak a run against a light seven-man box. The aggressive, extremely athletic safety snuffs it out as the eighth man before the O-line knew what hit ’em.
In the NFL during the year of 2017, the safety is the answer to all match-up and athletic issues defensive coordinators face on a weekly basis.
Adams, the No. 6 overall pick and arguably the best talent in the pool this past spring, can literally do it all. He’s a do-everything safety in a league that heavily rewards that exact prototype.
The film on him from his senior season at LSU is ridiculous in itself. Unlike a guy like Calvin Pryor, who’s now rotting away in Cleveland, Adams can play from the line of scrimmage to another zip code (should he be tasked with the middle-third).
Here’s Adams protecting the edge as that eighth man in the box. He’s literally a heat-seeking missile:
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Here’s Adams playing center field. While he’ll never be the caliber of an Earl Thomas as a middle-third guy, he can absolutely get the job done in a FS spot as a SS at this level:
Here’s Adams laying the wood and even playing special teams:
Here’s Adams in coverage via both the man-to-man and zone variety:
Here’s evidence of just how responsible the kid is everywhere on the field in all spots. Despite the flow of the play, his football sense and nose for the ball and his responsibility is off the charts:
And finally, here’s Adams getting dirty in goal line situations:
Then there’s Marcus Maye. While we don’t have the phenomenal footage on Maye like we do Adams, you’ve already seen what Maye can do via the New York Jets Green & White Scrimmage this past Saturday night.
At MetLife Stadium, Maye stepped in front of Robby Anderson and returned a Josh McCown pass 60-yards to the house for a pick-6.
PICK 6!
Welcome to @MLStadium, @alldayMAYE. #JetsCamp pic.twitter.com/0eQQFzRTd8
— New York Jets (@nyjets) August 6, 2017
All Day Maye.
The intriguing part about this duo is that both parties are 100 percent interchangeable. Adams can play high and low, and so can Maye. There’s no need for specific, counterproductive defensive gameplans that protect one or the other from the dangers of playing deep centerfield.
This is what makes this particular rookie duo so dangerous.
And before you begin to wave off this silly notion of two rookies combining to make up the league’s best safety duo in year one, take a look around the football landscape for a moment. Which duo is the best in the land?
As far as secondaries are concerned, the Jets can’t even crack the top 24 thanks to their horrid corners. The Denver Broncos and New York Giants are among the best total secondaries, but do they possess better safety duos than the team in green?
Patriots: Devin McCourty, Patrick Chung
Ravens: Eric Weddle, Tony Jefferson
Jaguars: Tashaun Gipson, Barry Church
Broncos: T.J. Ward, Darian Stewart
Chiefs: Eric Berry, Ron Parker
Giants: Landon Collins, Darian Thompson
Packers: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, Morgan Burnett
Vikings: Harrison Smith, Andrew Sendejo
Falcons: Keanu Neal, Ricardo Allen
Saints: Kenny Vaccaro, Vonn Bell
Cardinals: Tyrann Mathieu, Antoine Bethea
Seahawks: Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor
These are 12 of the best safety tandems in the league. Some might argue the Cincinnati Bengals, Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions deserve to be on the list, but regardless, here’s a pool of almost half of the league’s duos.
Where exactly can the Jets duo fit in once year one is complete?
The Seahawks, Pats, Packers are probably the creme of the crop. Sure, guys like Tyronn Mathieu, Landon Collins, Eric Berry and Eric Weddle are tremendous, but their other halves aren’t. In the case of the Jets, both guys are equipped with incredible ceilings and none of these squads can match the draft status of the Jets at this spot.
It’d be foolish to already proclaim the Jets tandem of Jamal Adams and Marcus Maye the greatest in the league. But it would also be foolish to pretend these guys don’t have the opportunity to finish the 2017 NFL campaign with that exact tagline.
Don’t overthink it. Yes, they are rookies, but they’re rookies who are that damn good.
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Dom Smith November 2, 2017 January 27, 2020 England Matches
England 1-0 Slovenia
Harry Kane scored an injury-time winner to send England to next year’s World Cup in Russia. This rather distasteful performance was often painful watching, but The Three Lions have learned the skill of persistence in this qualifying group – an important commodity to have as tournament football nears.
Man of the match in the away tie against Slovenia, Joe Hart was again picked over Jack Butland and others to start in goal for England. Twelve England injuries meant the eleven almost “picked itself” according to manager Gareth Southgate, and this led to starts for John Stones, Jordan Henderson, Raheem Sterling and captain Harry Kane. Dele Alli served his suspension. Slovenia goalkeeper Jan Oblak, of Atlético Madrid, is considered one of the best in the world.
The Three Lions started promisingly, but it was Slovenia, with a counter-attack, that caused the first focal point. A Roman Bezjak disguised pass saw livewire Josip Iličić one-on-one with Joe Hart. The winger seemed to be taken down by the West Ham United keeper, but the referee awarded the one thing it certainly wasn’t – a corner. Slovenia continued to threaten, and it was only after another chance – scuffed wide by Bezjak – that England finally took control a little. Flashing drives from Harry Kane and Jordan Henderson needed close attention from Oblak.
Marcus Rashford caught the keeper out by shooting a free-kick that everyone else expected would be crossed in. Oblak, again, pushed the ball away well, and a disappointing half of football ended. It was goalless.
From a Slovenia corner early on, Gareth Southgate’s team were suddenly on the attack. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s hoofed clearance was taken down well upfield by Sterling, who ran at the defence at speed. His pass sideways to Marcus Rashford left Slovenia’s defence horribly exposed, and Jan Oblak had no choice but to close the Manchester United teenager down himself. Rashford lobbed the goalkeeper, but it was clear as it left his boot that the lob was too feeble, and Rajko Rotman was able to clear the ball from the line. Manchester United fringe player Jesse Lingard came on in a desperate attempt to find some attacking urgency, and immediately his inch-perfect penetrative ball forward to Ryan Bertrand left the Southampton full-back in acres of room on the left. Bertrand’s cross was to meet Kane – but a defensive back-heel from captain Boštjan Cesar – who has conceded two penalties to England in past games – saved Slovenia. The centre-back came to his country’s rescue again not three seconds later, as also blocked Sterling’s follow-up effort. England were getting closer.
Another Raheem Sterling blocked effort led to Harry Kane firing wide: unusually wide for a man with more goals in September than any other play in Europe. Was October haunted? October looked very haunted for England as Iličić’s long-range ball went all the way through to substitute striker Tim Matavž. Out came Joe Hart to block the ball well. Hart then completed a fine piece of goalkeeping as he blocked a point-blank rebound, before a free-kick was given in his favour.
Slovenia needed to win here to have any real chance of progression – especially as news came in that Scotland had scored a last-minute winner in Slovakia. This boldness showed as Oblak tried to catch England off-guard with a quick throw out, following an England corner. Right-back Kyle Walker nicked the ball, and set England off on what could be described as a counter-counter. The Manchester City summer signing whipped in a mean ball to the onrushing Harry Kane. The captain reached ahead of his marker to stud home the most precious of goals. England’s eleven men flew to the corner flag to celebrate a qualification-securing goal. Slovenia had worked so hard, but England had found the net in stoppage-time in Group F for the fifth time. Gareth Southgate’s side could celebrate a ninety-forth minute winner that had sent them to the FIFA World Cup.
Questions will be asked about England’s performance, but that can be sorted out in the weeks and months ahead. Scotland held on to beat Slovakia, and now face the prospect of securing a previously unlikely play-off place. Back in London though, it ended, England 1-0 Slovenia.
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Tata Steel Chess: Caruana beats Firouzja, Carlsen wins again
by Carlos Alberto Colodro
1/23/2020 – Fabiano Caruana inflicted Alireza Firouzja's second straight loss to remain in the sole lead of the Tata Steel Masters prior to the third and last rest day of the event. Magnus Carlsen stands a half point back after scoring his third consecutive victory. The world champion was not the only one getting a third straight full point, as David Anton grabbed the lead in the Challengers with an impressive win over former co-leader Pavel Eljanov. Expert analysis by GMs CONSTANTIN LUPULESCU and DANIEL KING. | Photo: Alina l'Ami
The Sniper is a universal opening framework which can be played against all main first white moves - 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.f4 and 1.Nf3. Black plays 1…g6, 2…Bg7 and 3…c5 against practically anything!
Three in a row for Magnus
The 82nd edition of the chess festival in Wijk aan Zee takes place from January 11th to 26th. The Masters and the Challengers are both 14-player single round robins. Rounds start at 12:30 UTC, except January 16th in Eindhoven, when it starts 30 minutes later.
Magnus Carlsen won his third consecutive game in Wijk aan Zee, extending his undefeated streak to 117 classical encounters. The seven-time winner of the traditional Dutch tournament is now a mere half point behind sole leader Fabiano Caruana with three rounds left to go. The world champion will face Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Vladislav Artemiev and Wesley So after resting on Thursday.
For Caruana, on the other hand, his fine win over Alireza Firouzja consolidated his position at the top of the standings table and surely boosted his confidence — let us not forget that he was completely lost in his round eight game against Vishy Anand, which he ended up winning. The American's 7 out of 10 score puts him in great position to fight for his first-ever triumph in the main group of this event.
A half point behind Carlsen are Wesley So and Jorden van Foreest, two contenders who should not be ruled out of the fight for first place. So is perfectly capable of upsetting the world champion in their final round encounter, while Van Foreest has shown both great opening preparation and plenty of resourcefulness in difficult situations.
The tournament is celebrating its 82nd anniversary! | Photo: Alina l'Ami
The most anticipated game of the day did not disappoint. 16-year-old Alireza Firouzja, who was leading the tournament a couple of rounds ago, fearlessly entered a sharp line of the King's Indian Defence against Caruana, despite coming from suffering a painful defeat against the world champion. Caruana responded in kind, expanding on the kingside and fighting for the initiative from the get go.
Play the King's Indian Defence with g3
The King's Indian is an extreme counterattacking weapon for Black, so White's best way is to conduct an effective central strategy and to keep the king in safety. Maybe the only and best way to fulfill this strategy is the variation with the fianchetto of the white bishop to g3. It is the most unpleasant variation for King's Indian Defence players, easy to handle and it prevents Black from performing his typical attacking plans.
Continuing to play in the spirit of the position, Firouzja entered a sharp forced sequence with the sacrifice 14...♞fxe4 — there followed 15.♘xe4 ♝xd5 15.♘f6+ exf6 16.♕xd5 ♜e8 16.♘c2 fxg5 17.0-0-0, when Black had four pawns for a piece, with the kings castled on opposite flanks.
Caruana, who had been surprised by his young rival's opening choice, ably handled the ensuing intricacies, showing how much of a good calculator he actually is. The world number two later confessed that he found himself "on the better side of a complex position", which prompted his opponent to finally collapse on move 30:
Firouzja's 30...♚f8 was a crucial mistake. At this point, he needed to play 30...h5, entering an uncomfortable yet defensible position. The game continued 31.h4 h6 32.hxg5 hxg5 33.♖h3, when White had opened up some lines to infiltrate enemy's camp. Black tried to find a shelter for his king on the queenside, but Caruana was merciless in the conversion of his advantage.
These back-to-back defeats showed Firouzja how tough it is to face the big guys — he played the world numbers one and two for the first time in classical chess — but they also served as great experiences for his development.
Grandmaster Constantin Lupulescu sent thorough analysis of the sharp struggle:
Post-game interview with Fabiano Caruana
While Caruana struggled to get the better of the rising star, Carlsen had a much more relaxed day at the office. Much like in his game against Firouzja, the Norwegian's opening strategy served him well, pushing Vladislav Kovalev to play 6...h6, a move that forced the Belarusian to solve problems over the board from the start. Quickly enough, Black faltered by wasting a tempo with 13...a6 and opting for a much too passive setup with 15...f5:
Endgames of the World Champions from Fischer to Carlsen
Let endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller show and explain the finesses of the world champions. Although they had different styles each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well, so take the opportunity to enjoy and learn from some of the best endgames in the history of chess.
Carlsen only needed to make natural developing moves to increase the pressure, while Black was forced to permanently look out for mating threats on the b1-h7 diagonal. There followed 16.0-0 ♞xg3 17.hxg3 ♝f6 and 18.e4, opening up the position. The world champion was his usual ruthless self until getting a 37-move victory. He later concluded:
I think today was a pretty easy day, to be honest. I mean, he made a couple of mistakes early on, and then I just had an overwhelming advantage in development.
In his annotations, Lupulescu noted that, "once the world champion finally starts winning, he becomes unstoppable!"
Through the lens — Magnus Carlsen | Photo: Alina l'Ami
The third winner of the day in the Masters was 19-year-old Jeffery Xiong, who outplayed Vladislav Artemiev — a player known for his prowess in technical positions — from a slightly superior rook and bishop endgame. Playing White, the American used his more active pieces to get the full point from the following position:
Chess Endgames 9 - Rook and Minor Piece
Endings with rook and minor piece against rook and minor piece occur very frequently, even more often than rook endings, yet there's not much literature on them. This endgame DVD fills this gap. The four different material constellations rook and knight vs rook and knight, rooks and opposite coloured (and same coloured ) bishops and rook and bishop vs rook and knight are dealt with. In view of the different material constellations Karsten Mueller explains many guidelines like e.g. "With knights even a small initiative weighs heavily".
The material is balanced, but White can quickly transfer his rook to the strong b5-outpost. Xiong needed 39 moves to convert this into his second win of this year's event. Both he and Artemiev have collected 4½ points so far.
Two youngsters in battle — Jeffery Xiong v Vladislav Artemiev | Photo: Alina l'Ami
The remaining four games finished drawn, but all of them saw one of the contenders missing chances to get more out of better positions. While Jan-Krzysztof Duda could not find the right way to increase the pressure against Jorden van Foreest during time trouble, Nikita Vitiugov (against Vishy Anand) and especially Daniil Dubov (against Anish Giri) decided to call it a day while having a clear opportunity to torture their opponents. Using the fact that Dubov has become known for his endless creative ideas in the opening, Giri quipped:
I think maybe the opening phase was over, so he lost enthusiasm for the game.
Lupulescu also looked into Anand v Vitiugov and Dubov v Giri:
All games of the Masters available at Live.Chessbase.com
Anton mimics Carlsen
In the Challengers, top seed David Anton mirrored the three-game winning streak of Carlsen (the perennial top seed) in the Masters. By beating direct contender Pavel Eljanov, the Spaniard grabbed the sole lead on 7 out of 10 and entered the 2700-club in the live ratings list. To get the all-important win on Wednesday, he put forth a Benoni-like structure with White and outplayed his opponent until forcing resignation in a queenless position with rooks and bishops of opposite colours:
An ambitious setup against the Benoni
The topic of this 60 minute video clip is the major idea of the 8.h3 0-0 9.Bd3 line. It has not won much love among defenders of the Benoni - White players are coming dangerously close to realising the dream of squeezing the opponent.
There followed 40.g4 ♚f6 41.♗b7 ♚e5 42.♔f3 and Black gave up, as the a-pawn is about to fall. Erwin l'Ami is the only player a half point behind Anton, who similarly won the Challengers group of last year's Prague Festival to qualify to this year's main event.
Round 10 games - Challengers
All games of the Challengers available at Live.Chessbase.com
David Anton Guijarro | Photo: Alina l'Ami
Round-up show
Power Play 20: Test Your Attacking Chess
Grandmaster Daniel King presents ten exemplary attacking performances. At key moments he stops and asks you to play a move. King then gives feedback on the most plausible continuations. It’s the next best thing to having your own personal trainer!
GM Daniel King recapped the action of round ten
Standings after Round 10 - Masters
Standings after Round 10 - Challengers
Round 1: Firouzja and Van Foreest start with wins
Round 2: Five leaders
Round 3: Firouzja takes the lead
Round 4: So takes over, Carlsen sets new record
Round 5: Firouzja takes down Giri
Round 6: Giri bounces back
Round 7: Firouzja sole leader
Round 8: Amazing turnaround leaves Caruana in the lead
Round 9: Carlsen puts the brakes on Firouzja
Carlos Alberto Colodro Carlos Colodro is a Hispanic Philologist from Bolivia. He works as a freelance translator and writer since 2012. A lot of his work is done in chess-related texts, as the game is one of his biggest interests, along with literature and music.
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Helwan Bishop meets Cairo Governor Deputy to discuss rebuilding burned church
13 November, 2019 - (7:19 PM)
Nader Shukry
Anba Psanti, Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Helwan, today met Ahmad Fuad, Cairo Governor Deputy, to discuss the rebuilding of the church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in Helwan, which was burned on Sunday 13 October. The church priest, Fr Bishara, said the fire devoured all the church, including the sanctuaries, even before the firefighters could arrive, but the relics of saints kept in the church were saved. The old, wooden building burned out very quickly, he said.
The fire was promptly put out by the firefighters, and claimed no casualties. Investigations said the fire was sparked by an electric short circuit.
Anba Psanti thanked General Fuad for the speedy issuance of a demolition permit, and for processing the church’s application for legalising its status.
Last week, MP Dina Abdel-Aziz of Helwan presented an urgent demand to Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli to speed up the permits required to rebuild the church of Mar-Girgis in Helwan, some 25km south of Cairo. Helwan Bishopric has not been able to obtain the permits that would allow it to rebuild the church. MP Abdel-Aziz asked for these permits to be issued as soon as possible, to allow the congregation to pray there for Christmas. Coptic Christmas is celebrated on 7 January, 29 Kyahk on the Coptic calendar.
“The local administration in Helwan,” MP Abdel-Aziz said, “has been dragging their feet for almost a month now without issuing the required permits. Who is responsible for making any Egyptian despair of doing things the right way?” She was referring to the decades-long Coptic practice of building or restoring churches without licence owing to the near impossibility of obtaining the required legal permits. The 2016 Law for Building and Restoring Churches presumably put an end to that.
The church was originally built by the German community in Egypt in 1898. When Germany was defeated in WWI, the number of Germans in Egypt dwindled and the church was closed. It remained closed until 1971 when it was purchased by Helwan Coptic Orthodox Diocese, and has since been used for worship by the Copts.
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Julia the Elder
Julio-Claudian dynasty
caption= Bust of Julia the Elder
Julia the Elder (October 39 BC - 14), known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia (Classical Latin: IVLIA•CAESARIS•FILIA or IVLIA•AVGVSTI•FILIA [Aut|E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen - e.a. (edd.), "Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III" (PIR), Berlin, 1933 - I 634] ) was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus. Augustus subsequently adopted several male members of his close family as sons. Julia resulted from Augustus' second marriage with Scribonia, her birth occurring on the same day as Scribonia's divorce from Augustus, who wished to marry Livia Drusilla.
Almost as soon as she was born, she was taken from her biological mother whom Augustus had divorced that very day [Dio Cassius, 48.34.3.] : Augustus, in accordance with Roman custom, claimed complete parental control over her. Once she became old enough, she was sent to live with her stepmother Livia and began her education as an aristocratic Roman girl. It was Augustus' desire that Julia should be exemplary, and so her education appears to have been strict and somewhat old-fashioned. Thus, in addition to her studies, Suetonius informs us, she was taught spinning and weaving [Suetonius, "Vita Augusti" 64] . Macrobius mentions 'her love of literature and considerable culture, a thing easy to come by in that household' [Macrobius, "Saturnalia: Julia's Wit", 2.5.1-10] .
Julia's social life was severely controlled, and she was allowed to talk only to people whom her father had vetted [Suetonius "Vita Augusti" 64] . However, Augustus had a great affection for his daughter and made sure she had the best teachers available. Macrobius preserves a remark of Augustus: "There are two wayward daughters that I have to put up with: the Roman commonwealth and Julia." ["Inter amicos [Augustus] dixit duas habere se filias delicatas, quas necesse haberet ferre, rem publicam et Iuliam." Macrobius, "Saturnalia" 2.5.]
At the time of Julia's birth, Augustus had not yet received the title "Augustus" and was still known as Octavian. Octavian's career progressed steadily after Julia's birth. In 37 BC, during Julia's early childhood, Octavian's friends Gaius Maecenas and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa concluded an agreement with Octavian's great rival Mark Antony. It was sealed with an engagement: Antony's ten year old son Marcus Antonius Antyllus was to marry Julia, then two years old.
The engagement never led to a marriage because civil war broke out. In 31 BC, at the Battle of Actium, Octavian and Agrippa defeated Antony and his mistress, Cleopatra VII of Egypt. In Alexandria, they both committed suicide, and Octavian thus became sole ruler of the Roman Empire. In 27 BC, he adopted the honorific name Augustus. He killed Caesarion (Cleopatra's son by Julius Caesar) and Antyllus, sparing only the youngest children, Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene II, and Ptolemy Philadelphus, Cleopatra's children by Antony. At the request of his sister, Octavian also spared Antony's younger son, Iullus Antonius.
First marriage
As was the case with most aristocratic Roman women of the period, Julia's life was focussed squarely on her successive marriages and family alliances. Like many Roman girls, she was first married off in her early teens. In 25 BC, at the age of fourteen, Julia married her cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus, who was some three years older than she. There were rumors that Marcellus had been chosen as Augustus' successor, but Julia's father was not present: he was fighting a war in Spain and had fallen ill. Agrippa presided over the ceremony. Marcellus died in September 23 BC, when Julia was sixteen. The union produced no children.
Marriage to Agrippa
In 21 BC, having now reached the age of 18, Julia married Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a man from a modest family who had risen to become Augustus' most trusted general and friend. This step is said to have been taken partly on the advice of Maecenas, who in counselling him upon these very matters remarked: "You have made him so great that he must either become your son-in-law or be slain" [Dio Cassius, 54.6] . Since Agrippa was nearly 25 years older than she, it was a typical arranged marriage, with Julia functioning as a pawn in her father's dynastic plans. There is from this period the report of an infidelity with one Sempronius Gracchus, with whom Julia allegedly had a lasting "liaison" (Tacitus describes him as "a persistent paramour") [Tacitus, "Annals" 1.53] ] . This was the first of a series of alleged adulteries. According to Suetonius, Julia's marital status did not prevent her from conceiving a passion for Augustus' stepson, and thus her stepbrother, Tiberius, so it was widely rumoured ["vulgo existimabatur", Suetonius, "Vita Tiberii" 7] .
The newly-weds lived in a villa in Rome that was excavated near the modern Farnesina in Trastevere. Agrippa and Julia's marriage resulted in five children: Gaius Caesar, Vipsania Julia (also known as Julia the Younger), Lucius Caesar, Vipsania Agrippina or Agrippina Major (mother of Emperor Caligula), and Agrippa Postumus (a posthumous son). From June 20 BC to the spring of 18 BC, Agrippa was governor of Gaul, and it is likely that Julia followed him to the country on the other side of the Alps. Shortly after their arrival, their first child Gaius was born, and in 19 BC, Julia gave birth to Vipsania Julia. After their return to Italy, a third child followed: a son named Lucius.
Nicolaus and Josephus mentions that during Julia's marriage to Agrippa, she was travelling to meet Agrippa where he was campaigning, was caught up in a flash flood in Ilium (Troy), and almost drowned [Nicolaus of Damascus|Nicolaus, ( ["Fragmenta der Griechischein Historiker"] 2 A: 421-2] [Josephus, "Antiquities" 16.2.2] . Agrippa was furious, and in his anger he fined the locals 100,000 drachmae. The fine was a heavy blow but no one would face Agrippa for an appeal. It was only once Herod, king of Judaea, went to Agrippa to receive pardon that he withdrew the fine. In the spring of 16 BC, Agrippa and Julia started a tour through the eastern provinces, where they visited Herod. In October 14 BC, the couple travelled to Athens, where Julia gave birth to her fourth child, Agrippina. Augustus, who took care of their education personally, adopted the boys Lucius and Gaius Caesar after their father's death in 12 BC. Augustus adopted both the newborn Lucius and the three-year old Gaius in 17 BC. [Dio 54.18] [Suet. Div. Aug. 64]
After the winter, the family returned to Italy. Julia quickly became pregnant again, but her husband died suddenly in March 12 BC in Campania at the age of 51. He was buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus. Julia named the son Marcus in his honor. He was to be known as Agrippa Postumus. Immediately after the boy was born, and while Julia was still in mourning, Augustus had her betrothed [Dio Cassius 54.31] and then remarried to Tiberius, her stepbrother.
Marriage to Tiberius
After the death of Agrippa, Augustus sought to promote his stepson Tiberius, believing that this would best serve his own dynastic interests. Tiberius married Julia (11 BC), but to do so he had to divorce Vipsania Agrippina (daughter of a previous marriage of Agrippa), the woman he dearly loved. The marriage was thus blighted almost from the start, and the son that Julia bore him died in infancy [Suetonius, "Vita Tiberii" 7.3] . Suetonius alleges that Tiberius had a low opinion of Julia's character ["Iuliae mores improbaret", "loc.cit". Suetonius] , while Tacitus claims that she disdained Tiberius as an unequal match and even sent her father a letter, written by Sempronius Gracchus, denouncing him [Tacitus, "Annals" 1.53] . By 6 BC, when Tiberius departed for Rhodes, if not earlier, the couple had separated.
candal
Even when Julia's husbands Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa were alive, and Augustus was thus not technically her "pater familias", he nevertheless exerted an enormous influence on her. His kin were expected to be paragons of Roman virtue. Under Roman morality, the obligations for a woman were different than those of a man; a married man could, for example, have sexual relations with slaves without reproach, whereas a woman was expected to be entirely sexually faithful to her husband.
As the daughter of Augustus, mother of two of his heirs, Lucius and Gaius, and wife of another, Tiberius, it must have seemed to Julia that her future was assured. Yet in 2 BC she was arrested for adultery and treason; Augustus sent her a letter in Tiberius' name declaring the marriage null and void. He also asserted in public that she had been plotting against his own life [Pliny "NH" 7.149 "adulterium filiae et consilia parricidae"] . Though at the time Augustus had been passing legislation to promote family values, he likely knew of her intrigues with other men but hesitated for some time to accuse her. Several of Julia's supposed lovers were exiled, most notably Sempronius Gracchus, while Iullus Antonius (son of Mark Antony and Fulvia) was forced to commit suicide. Others have suggested that Julia's alleged paramours were members of her city clique, who wished to removed Tiberius from favour and replace him with Antonius. This would explain the letter, written by Gracchus, asking Augustus to allow Julia to divorce Tiberius. [Levick, Barbara, "Tiberius the Politician", p26-29. ISBN 0415217539]
It is hard to reconstruct what actually happened, but historians agree that she had taken part in nightly drinking parties on the Roman Forum and that Antonius was her lover as he is the only lover mentioned by more than two contemporary historians. Several men were also reported to have enjoyed her favors, but this may have been mere gossip.
Reluctant to execute her, Augustus decided on Julia's exile, in harsh conditions. She was confined on an island called Pandateria (modern Ventotene), with no men in sight, forbidden even to drink wine [Dio Cassius 55.10, Suetonius, "Vita Augusti" 65] . The island itself measures less than 1¾ km². She was allowed no visitor unless her father had given permission and had been informed of the stature, complexion, and even of any marks or scars upon his body [Suetonius. "ibid".] . Scribonia, Julia's biological mother, accompanied her into exile [Velleius Paterculus, 2.100] [Dio Cassius 55.10] . Upon any mention of her and Julia, he would say: "aith ophelon agamos t'emeni agonos t'apolesthai" meaning "Would I were wifeless, or had childless died!" [from the Iliad] [Suetonius, LXV, "Life of Augustus"] . He rarely called her by any other name than that of his three imposthumes, or cancers. The exile of his daughter left Augustus both regretful and rancorous for the rest of his life.
Five years later, Julia was allowed to return to the mainland, though Augustus never forgave her and ordered her to remain in Rhegium (Reggio di Calabria). He explicitly gave instructions that she should not be buried in his Mausoleum of Augustus. When Tiberius became emperor, he cut off Julia's allowance, ordered that she be confined to the one room in her house, and that she should be deprived of all human company.
Julia died from malnutrition some time after Augustus' death in 14, but before 15 [Tacitus, "Annals" 1.53, "That same year Julia ended her days..."; cf. "Ann".1.55, which commences the narration of events of 15] . With her father dead and no sons to take the throne, Julia was left completely at the mercy of the new emperor, Tiberius, who was free to exact his vengeance. The circumstances of her death are obscure. One theory is that Tiberius, who loathed her for dishonouring their marriage, had her starved to death. Another theory is that upon learning her last surviving son Agrippa Postumus had been murdered, she succumbed to despair. Simultaneously, her alleged "paramour" Sempronius Gracchus, who had endured 14 years of exile on Cercina (Kerkenna) off the African coast, was executed at Tiberius' instigation [Tacitus, "Annals" 1.53] , or on the independent initiative of Nonius Asprenas, proconsul of Africa. Augustus in his will had forbidden Julia to be buried in his own Mausoleum of Augustus; ironically Augustus ashes are not in his tomb either; they were scattered in 410 AD in the Sack of Rome by Alaric.
After her death
Suetonius claims that Caligula, the son of Julia's daughter Agrippina and Tiberius's nephew Germanicus, loathed the idea of being grandson of Agrippa, who came from comparatively humble origins. Hence, Caligula invented the idea that his mother Agrippina was the product of an incestuous union between Julia and Augustus [Suetonius, "Vita Caligulae" 23] .
Among ancient writers Julia is almost universally remembered for her flagrant and promiscuous conduct. Thus Marcus Velleius Paterculus (2.100) describes her as "tainted by luxury or lust", listing among her lovers Iullus Antonius, Quintius Crispinus, Appius Claudius, Sempronius Gracchus, and Cornelius Scipio. Seneca the Younger refers to "adulterers admitted in droves" [Seneca, "admissos gregatim adulteros", "De Beneficiis" 6.32] ; Pliny the Elder calls her an “"exemplum licentiae"” ("NH" 21.9). Dio Cassius mentions "revels and drinking parties by night in the Forum and even upon the Rostra" ("Roman History" 55.10). Seneca ("De Beneficiis" 6.32) tells us that the Rostra was the place where "her father had proposed a law against adultery", and yet now she had chosen the place for her "debaucheries". Seneca specifically mentions prostitution: "laying aside the role of adulteress, she there ["in the Forum"] sold her favours, and sought the right to every indulgence with even an unknown paramour." Modern historians discredit these representations as exaggerating Julia's behaviour. [Fantham, Elaine. (2006) "Julia Augusti". p. 82/157. "Routledge". ISBN 0-415-33146-3.]
Macrobius [Macrobius, "Saturnalia" 2.5] provides invaluable details of her personality. Julia was well known for her gentle quick wit and sharp tongue. She was deeply loved by her father who admired her wit. Once, when asked her secret for having affairs while bearing children resembling her husband, she laughed as she stated that she took on new passengers only when the boat was already full, [Macrobius, "Saturnalia", II, 5, 9-10: "Numquam enim nisi navi plena tollo vectorem"] . Julia was equally celebrated for her beauty, intelligence and her shameless profligacy but mentions that "she abused the indulgence of fortune no less than that of her father." [Macrobius, "Saturnalia: Julia's Wit" 2.5.] Despite Julia's soiled reputation, the people who knew her described her as a good-hearted and kind woman who was very popular with the Roman people not least because of "her kindness and gentleness and utter freedom from vindictiveness." [Macrobius, "Saturnalia" 2.5: "Mitis humanitas minimeque saevus animus."]
Julia in popular culture
*In "I, Claudius", a novel by Robert Graves, the description of Julia's life and personality is generally accurate. She is a sympathetic person who never intended any harm to others.
**Julia is described as a child who was instantly snatched away from her mother and taken by her father's new wife, Livia.
**As a child, her stepmother enforced strict discipline and an austere life of labor.
**She was not allowed to have any friends, and if she was caught talking to people not approved by Livia, she was punished. (Graves describes an occasion, which is probably fiction, when a commoner introduces himself to Julia, and Julia has her hair cut off by Livia as punishment.)
**Livia's cruelty is due to her desire for her line to rule (Tiberius and his descendants), not Julia's, as Julia was from Augustus's previous marriage.
**Julia's behaviour resulted from Livia and her son (Julia's 3rd husband) Tiberius' mistreatment of her.
**In the end, Livia manages to turn even Augustus against Julia and, as historical fact proves, she was sent into exile. Augustus initially allows Livia to select the island, and Julia was sent to tiny Pandataria. He later relents and asks where she is; upon discovering that she is stuck on that desolate, tiny isle, he selects the pleasant town of Reggio off the strait of Messina instead.
*In "Caesar's Daughter", a novel by Edward Burton, Julia is a three-dimensional character. Julia is described as a rebellious little girl who is willful and passionate but with a gentleness and compassion for the people of Rome. She is dearly beloved by nearly everyone she meets except her stepmother, Livia. Loyal to her father, but not afraid to criticize his decisions she is (after Livia) his favourite consort. Julia grows up among intrigue and ultimately becomes its victim. Despite her tragic fate, Julia remains very cheerful and kind nonetheless.
*In "Augustus" a novel by Allan Massie, Julia is a beautiful, desirable and happy-go-lucky character who is spoilt by her father. They still both love each other deeply. She is jealous of her father's relationship with her first husband Marcellus, disgusted with her marriage to Agrippa (who is thrilled with his younger and beautiful wife) and furious by her marriage to Tiberius. Her adulteries are justified by Augustus' bad treatment of her and she decides finally to rebel, which he denies as true though he is distraught by her banishment.
*Julia is the heroine of "I Loved Tiberius" by Elisabeth Dored.
*Julia appears in "The Poetaster", a play by Ben Jonson about the poet Ovid.
**The character of Corinna in Ovid's poems have widely been thought to be Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus.
*William Auld wrote a short poem called "Julia on Pandataria" which takes a brief look on Julia's tragedies.
*Julia is mentioned in "Antony and Cleopatra" by Colleen McCullough. She is described as very pretty from a young age and intelligent. Augustus is not discouraged by the fact she is a girl and demands that she be educated in the manner of a man rather than a woman, describing her as "a queen in waiting".
*In the BBC Television mini series adaptation of "I, Claudius", Julia was portrayed by Frances White as the overly optimistic, witty and beloved daughter of Augustus. Julia is one of the few major female characters that doesn't plot to kill or actually murder someone.
*In the Italian mini series, "", Julia was portrayed by Vittoria Belvedere as a very tragic character, a victim of domestic abuse and rape. For a majority of the story, Julia and her father, Augustus, are at the centre of the story as Augustus recalls his life to her just before she is about to marry Tiberius. The character in question has lost her husband and both of her two boys to illness. She is at first innocent, loving, and beloved deeply by her father, but she gets mixed up in an affair with her father's enemy as the result of depression brought on by Tiberius' cruelty towards her. The series took a more modern view of her affairs, that among her lovers, she had only one true love: Iullus Antonius.
*In the film, "The Robe", she is played by Rosalind Ivan, making an inaccurate appearance as Tiberius' wife. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046247/goofs Mistakes in "The Robe (1953)"] ]
Marriages and Births
*25 BC, Julia marries her cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus. Marcellus died in September 23 BC. They have no children.
*21 BC, Julia marries Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. They have the following children:
**Gaius Julius Caesar in 20 B.C.
**Vipsania Julia Agrippina (also known as Julia the Younger) in 19 B.C.
**Lucius Caesar in 17 B.C.
** Julia Vipsania Agrippina or Agrippina Major (mother of Emperor Caligula) in 14 B.C.
**Agrippa Postumus (born after Agrippa's death).
*11 BC, Julia marries her stepbrother Tiberius. Their union produces the following:
**Infant son, not named in contemporary sources (by some later historians dubbed Tiberillus), died before adulthood.
*Julio-Claudian family tree
*I, Claudius
*Lex Julia
*Lex Papia Poppaea
*Scandal
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22 ways to be a good democrat
By Spaceman Spiff,
May 11, 2007 in The Tailgate
Popeman38
To Be Added To Both Lists:
23. You must believe your party is more important than everything else. And that the other party is the spawn of hell. Common sense and truth be damned. The party must survive.
Quoted for not just truth, but the g**d*** bottom line.
jrockster21
Ring of Fame
Sigh. And the gap grows wider.
Mass_SkinsFan
The Poor Sport
Exactly. The only way to FIX the current system (without tearing it all the way down and restarting from scratch) is to OUTLAW POLITICAL PARTIES.
The Heavy Hitter
I don't know... the abort unborn babies and keep killers alive things is pretty accurate.
What about strongly supporting the death penalty but being against abortion? That doesn't make sense either.
the krabber
The Role Player
Just a little humor to lighten the mood...(maybe).
Art Monk Fan
The Dirtbags
It's a religious argument at best. Is a cell alive? Hardly. A fetus at conception is hardly more then a cell.
Actually, re-take high school biology, there are many single-cell organisms.
A fertilized egg meets all of the scientific requirements for life (i.e. cellular respiration, cellular reproduction, etc.). Analysis of a fertilized egg's DNA will show it to be human. In addition, this analysis will show that it is indeed NOT a part of the mother, having it's own unique set of DNA. To review: living, human and unique (both from the mother and any other human organism ever to have lived).
The real issue becomes whether our laws should protect all human life or if limits to this protection are acceptable. Viability outside of the mother is the demarkation most often used, but it is essentially an arbitrary choice. The judicial precedent set by legalized abortions is that all human life is not protected: at certain developmental stages, living human organisms do not receive full protection under the law.
The question this raises, however, is what legal rationale remains to bar additional developmental stages from being added to the nonprotected list? Also, are babies born pre-term not protected under the law prior to reaching full-term status? Children that survive abortions are not saved, so would it be murder to kill a premie before it reached full-term?
If scientific definition as a living human organism does not garner protected legal status, what is the threshold? Who decides? Can society decide to treat the end of life similarly, removing protected status to everyone over a certain age or beyond a particular developmental stage?
The Camp Fodder
Good points... However, it seems the only criteria you specified for "human" is "having human DNA." That is clearly not sufficient.
I would argue that a "scienfitic definition" can be made in way that would make it all work out, especially if we're talking about first trimester abortions.
For example, the "first firing of a neuron" could be a good candidate for the "living human oragnism" threshold.
You guys are unbelievable.
I started this thread as a joke. Can people not even laugh at their own party? Jeez.
Here is another joke: All Republicans are stupid.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to welcome Spiff the tailgate. Welcome aboard.
Perhaps not sufficient for your political purposes, but DNA is the very basis of life and the defining factor in whether or not one is human.
I would counterpoint by stating that a scientific definition should not be "made," rather it should be verified and proven to the extent possible. Manufacturing a definition to meet your political agenda is not science.
First firing of a neuron is much earlier than legal limits currenlty allow and has nothing to do with defining whether or not an organism is human. Dead human oragnisms have no firing neurons, but are still human by definition.
headexplode
The Benchwarmer
You know what they say when someone can't take a joke...
You didn't ruffle my feathers. I'm not offended by your list. I just feel it's cliched. I feel the same about your list as I did the conservative list that was started shortly after yours last night: mildly amused and bordering indifference. I'm not trying to step on your toes I just know you're the first person to complain about people talking about the same things over and over again so I was surprised you put this list up. That's all.
Then again, maybe that's the joke and I'm a tool and didn't get it. If that's the case, I give you the right to flog me to death.
What isn't a cliche these days when it comes to making fun of the other side?
If a cell that contains human DNA can be considered a human, then your body consists of millions of humans.
Having human DNA is a required condition. It is not a sufficient condition.
How would one go about scientifically proving a definition of a word?
We were discussing the issue of legal status. Surely you would have no issue with awarding a different legal status to living humans compared to dead ones...
I do agree that based on a purely scientific viewpoint abortions would probably not be allowed to be performed as late as the current system allows.
However, I think it is important to understand that science cannot possibly provide us with a definitive answer as to what can be considered a living human being, that meaningful science-based discussion of that topic is possible and necessary, and finally that invoking references to "political purposes" is not necessary when such a discussion takes place.
PleaseBlitz
The Pro Bowlers
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Air Force Cane
23. Claim you "want to focus on fighting Al Qaeda"- but then retreat from Al Queda in Iraq. Which conveniently, is where Al Qaeda has its CENTRAL FRONT against the West.
Makes perfect sense to a liberal though. Why should we fight Al Qaeda everywhere- EXCEPT for where they are mostly based today?!! Brilliant strategy
I disagree with everyone
And , as far as I'm aware, a cancerous tumor will meet every one of those qualifications. (At least, I think cancer cells have DNA that's slightly different from the host.)
Every sperm and egg have, IIR, different (in the sense that "half of" is different) DNA from the host.
Should sperm, eggs, and tumors be legally recognized as "human"?
See Duncan, I told you it was debatable. :cool:
I don't know enough about cancerous cells to answer your question, but I'm curious. Eggs and sperm only have half the needed chromosomes, they're clearly part of the parent.
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New vaccine will be monitored long term to ‘build body of knowledge’
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EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: NO USE AFTER DECEMBER 8 Undated handout photo issued by BioNTech SE 2020 of a vial of a coronavirus vaccine produced by BioNTech. Elderly people in care homes and their carers are top of the list to receive a Covid-19 vaccine after the UK became the first country in the world to approve a jab from Pfizer and BioNTech.
The first Covid-19 vaccine may have received UK regulatory approval, but senior scientists warn this is not the end of the road for safety checks.
Dr June Raine, head of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), insisted “no corners were cut” in the approval process, but monitoring will continue as the jab from Pfizer and BioNTech is rolled out.
Speaking at a Number 10 briefing, Dr Raine said there would “of course” be long-term follow-up data of the vaccine through two mechanisms.
Firstly, recipients of the vaccine can report any side effects they experience via the MHRA’s existing Yellow Card scheme found on its website.
The scheme can be used to report adverse reactions to any drug or vaccine, as well as drugs that are not seemingly manufactured to an acceptable standard, or medicines that a user suspects to be fake.
It is also used to report faulty medical devices.
The scheme flags up “previously unidentified hazards or side effects” to the MHRA that can then undertake further work to get to the bottom of the issue.
In guidance on its website, the MHRA says: “If a new side effect is identified, information is carefully considered in the context of the overall side effect profile for the medicine, and how it compares with other medicines used to treat the same condition.”
It states only in “rare circumstances” is a drug or vaccine that has been approved by the MHRA removed from the market.
In addition, Dr Raine said members of the public will be invited to join an active monitoring programme specifically set up to gather long-term data on the Covid-19 vaccine.
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“Many (people) will get a letter,” she said.
“It will be by random allocation, inviting them to join this, so please help us to continue to build that body of knowledge about this vaccine.”
Dr Raine said the existing data used to approve the vaccine was “very robust”.
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, of the Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group (CHM), said: “Those that had adverse effects, they were mild and short-lasting, usually lasting only a day or two – similar to the effects you get after any other vaccine.”
About 40,000 people were involved in the vaccine trials, with half receiving the vaccine and half receiving a placebo.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) also states in its guidance that the new vaccine “appears to be safe and well-tolerated, and there were no clinically concerning safety observations”.
Another challenge for the long-term monitoring process is gathering data on vaccine coverage, particularly among poorer communities and people in high-risk groups.
In advice submitted to the Government on how to prioritise different groups for vaccination, the JCVI said in reviewing data it would focus “on inequalities, and the impact of actions being undertaken to mitigate inequalities”.
The Drug Safety Research Unit, an independent body conducting post-market drug safety studies, welcomed the vaccine’s approval but warned it is a “milestone in the development of the vaccines, not the end of the process”.
The unit said: “Post-authorisation safety studies must be fully transparent, report quickly in as near real time as possible and be conducted independently rather than by the vaccine manufacturer.”
It emphasised the importance of “spontaneous reporting” of side effects, and of patients and healthcare staff knowing how to use the Yellow Card reporting system.
The Drug Safety Research Unit is planning to conduct its own active surveillance study on the Covid-19 vaccine.
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By GCN Staff
In the last four months, 16 agencies, led by the National Science Foundation, have made significant progress toward President Bush’s e-government goal, the Office of Management and Budget said today.
OMB released a midyear report card showing agencies’ status toward meeting the five categories of goals laid out in the President’s Management Agenda.
The report card comes five days after Bush sent a memo to department chiefs commending agencies who have actively engaged in e-government and urging those who have not “to follow their lead.”
OMB evaluated the 26 major agencies using a green, yellow and red scoring approach. Green means agencies have met all standards for success; yellow means agencies have achieved some, but not all the criteria; and red means there are some serious problems.
Agencies showed the most progress in the e-government and financial management areas. OMB gave 16 green and 10 yellow scores under e-government and 16 green, nine yellow and one red under financial management. Agencies showed less progress under the other subjects: 12 green for human capital, 13 green for competitive sourcing and nine green for budget and performance integration.
For e-government efforts, only NSF improved its current status, to green from yellow. It had already received a green score for financial management when OMB issued the first round of scores in February. OMB said the agency met “all of its core criteria” and developed “a process to implement corrective action plans for program level information technology security weaknesses.”
“The federal CIO Council had strategic planning off-site in April, and we committed to making major progress on the 24 e-government initiatives over the next 12 months and helping each other through cross-agency budgets,” said Mayi Canales, co-chairwoman of the CIO Council’s E-government Committee and acting CIO of the Treasury Department. “You will find at the CIO level a continued planned progression toward green.”
Five other agencies also saw changes in their current status. The Energy Department improved under human capital to yellow, the Labor Department earned a yellow score for its improvements in financial management and the Social Security Administration advanced to yellow under budget and performance integration. NASA and the Small Business Administration were downgraded to red under financial management.
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Atella, tella, tela-atella, katikala-atella, t'alla
Barley distillery by-products
Wheat distillers grain
Corn distillers grain
Brewers grains
Atella is an Ethiopian by-product, resulting from the production of tella (beer) or katikala (liquor) (Solomon Demeke, 2007). The tella production process is very similar to that of beer. It consists in the fermentation of cereals (mostly barley but wheat, maize, sorghum and tef are used depending on the region) with Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To this is added malt and gesho (Rhamnus prinoides) as substitutes for hops (Mooha Lee et al., 2015). Katikala (also called araqé, areki, araki or arakie) is produced by distillation of the same ingredients as for tella production, and is somewhat similar to whisky. These processes yield the following by-products:
Tella-atella, the by-product of tella production, is a kind of brewers grains that has a high moisture content, and relatively high protein content but lower fibre content than most brewers grains. Atella is a variable by-product whose composition and nutritional value depend on the grain used and on the process (temperature, fermentation time, etc.).
Katikala-atella, the by-product of katikala production, is close to distillers grains (K4Health, 2011). It has been less studied than tella-atella.
Atella can be a valuable feedstuff for livestock and its use in animal feeding could alleviate the environmental issues due to the disposal of atella in the vicinity of tella production sites (Solomon Demeke, 2007).
Atella is produced year-round in Ethiopia in large amounts. It was reported to be more available during the wet season in the North-Western area of Ethiopia. Another by-product of alcoholic fermentation, brinti (a by-product of areki), is more available during the dry season (Asaminew Tassew et al., 2009). Only a small proportion of atella is used as feed, and large quantities accumulate at production sites, causing disposal and public health problems (Solomon Demeke, 2007). Atella is a typically urban by-product that is used in more than 80% of intra-urban dairy farms of Ethiopia (Mekasha et al., 2000). Atella is reported to be more available in the central than in the eastern zone of Ethiopia (Yayneshet Tesfay et al., 2016).
The chemical composition of atella varies according to the ingredients used to make the tella. Atella is generally rich in protein (13-24% DM), the highest crude protein (24%) being obtained from tella made from sorghum grains (Alemayehu Tadesse et al., 2011).
In Ethiopia, atella is part of the farmers’ practice aiming at enhancing the energy and/or protein status of diets based on crop residues and low-quality roughages (Mekasha et al., 2003). Atella is mixed with other feeds and fed to livestock. Supplementing low-quality residues with green feed and providing mixtures of oil cakes and wheat bran soaked with water and atella is a common strategy to improve the edibility of crop residues, and the whole nutritional quality of the diet (Yayneshet Tesfay et al., 2016). In Ethiopia, when atella is available during the dry season, it can be used as a major protein source for ruminants (Yenesew Abebe et al., 2013) and can be fed at low cost (Mekasha et al., 2003).
Dairy cows
Atella is widely used in dairy farms of Ethiopia, in particular in the Addis Ababa area (Mekasha et al., 2000), in Tigray (Alemayehu Tadesse et al., 2016) and in Amhara (Ayenew et al., 2009). Atella is used as a supplementary feed throughout the year (Mekasha et al., 2000). In dairy cows, atella is mostly offered in association with niger cake, which has a higher OM digestibility and protein content, and with wheat bran (Mekasha et al., 2000). Tela-atella can be included at 9-20% in dairy cows diet in association with niger cake, wheat bran and barley straw, resulting in increased milk yield (+114%) (Alemayehu Tadesse et al., 2016).
Fattening cattle
A study conducted in the town of Arsi-Negle, 225 km south of Addis Ababa, showed that 70% of households producing katikala were engaged in cattle fattening and they used the atella produced with crop residues to feed the cattle (Bekele et al., 2005).
Atella can be used as a protein supplement in sheep diets during the dry season (Yenesew Abebe et al., 2013). The protein and energy contents of atella are high enough to greatly increase the intake, digestibility, N retention and performance of growing sheep fed diets based on low quality forage (Mekasha et al., 2003; Ajebu Nurfeta, 2010; Ajebu Nurfeta et al., 2014).
Supplementing diets with 25-50% (DM) atella ensures that the dietary protein is able to support an acceptable rumen microbial activity, meeting the maintenance protein requirement (Mekasha et al., 2003; Ajebu Nurfeta, 2010; Ajebu Nurfeta et al., 2014). Supplementation of wheat straw with atella resulted in weight gains similar to those observed in sheep supplemented with concentrates (Ajebu Nurfeta, 2010). Supplementation of low protein hay (crude protein 5.5% DM) with atella improved total intake, without affecting the intake of the basal forage, and greatly improved protein and energy intake (Mekasha et al., 2002). However, this result depended on the protein content of the basal forage. With a hay containing 4.1% DM protein, a significant substitution between atella and hay was observed (Ajebu Nurfeta et al., 2014).
Atella is often associated with other supplements in sheep diets. Atella, and especially katikala-atella, may be less palatable than other supplements, such as malt sprouts. The heating applied during alcoholic fermentation may make proteins more resistant to rumen degradation and reduce digestibility by the formation (Maillard reactions) of a nutritionally unavailable dark-coloured amino-sugar complex. A 50:50 mixture of katikala-atella and malt sprouts included at 40% dietary level optimized digestibility, growth performance and feed conversion efficiency in sheep (Ajebu Nurfeta et al., 2014).
In urban and peri-urban areas, with growing sheep fed on a straw based diet, katikala-atella in combination with poultry litter and coffee pulp, instead of atella alone, improved nitrogen digestibility, nitrogen retention and basal forage intake, without impairing performance. This combination could save concentrate feeds (Ajebu Nurfeta, 2010). Supplementation of atella with niger cake is commonly practiced for sheep fattening (Yenesew Abebe et al., 2013). Sheep supplemented with atella had a higher digestibility of N than those supplemented with faba bean, field pea, and rough pea hulls (Mekasha et al., 2002). The type of the atella (katikala or tella) does not affect intake or N retention in sheep (Mekasha et al., 2002). However, sheep fed on katikala-atella had a higher level of rumen ammonia and volatile fatty acids concomitant with lower microbial N supply and efficiency. This could be due to the fact that katikala-atella is extensively fermented during brewing, and thus yields less energy during rumen fermentation (Mekasha et al., 2003).
Inclusion of atella as the sole source of protein in starter diets significantly lowered feed intake and weight gain. Although the chemical composition of atella is close to that of industrial brewers grains, performance of birds fed atella was much lower than with similar levels of brewers grain (Solomon Demeke, 2007).
Laying hens
Atella may be used to reduce the use of cereal grains in laying hens diets. Up to 20% tella-atella (DM basis) could be included in the diets of Lohmann white layers with no or little effect on egg production and egg quality traits. However, increasing the inclusion rate of atella reduced the feed conversion ratio (Abdu Ali Mussa et al., 2016).
No information was found (October 2016) on the utilisation of atella in rabbit feeding, probably reflecting the very small amount of rabbit meat produced in this part of East Africa producing tella (Lebas et al., 2000).
However atella is a type of local brewer's grains produced in Ethiopia from different cereals, and consequently, as brewer's grains in general, it could be used as protein and fibre source to feed rabbits, either fresh or after drying. Experience of feeding atella to ruminants and poultry in Ethiopia has indicated that there are no specific toxicity problems with it (Yayneshet Tesfay et al., 2016; Ajebu Nurfeta, 2010; Solomon Demeke, 2007). As a by-product of local village beer production from sorghum, atella can be very deficient in lysine (about 50% of requirements). This must be underlined for a use of atella as the main source of protein in rabbit feeding (Ndams et al., 2016).
Atella, brewery by-product, fresh
Atella, brewery by-product, dehydrated
Atella, distillery by-product, fresh
Dry matter % as fed 15.6 2.5 14.1 20.1 5
Crude protein % DM 20.0 3.3 13.4 24.6 18
Ash % DM 5.4 1.2 2.7 7.3 19
Gross energy MJ/kg DM 19.9 0.5 19.6 20.6 5
Calcium g/kg DM 6.2 6.1 6.3 2
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Dry matter % as fed 92.1 91.9 92.3 2
Crude protein % DM 22.2 21.8 22.5 2
NDF % DM 54.0 1
ADF % DM 29.0 1
Ether extract % DM 6.2 5.2 7.2 2
Ash % DM 4.5 3.3 5.8 2
OM digestibility, ruminants % 54.8 *
Nitrogen digestibility, ruminants % 66.1 *
Nitrogen digestibility, growing pig % 68.1 *
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Gross energy MJ/kg DM 19.5 1
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Abdu Ali Mussa; Tegene Negesse; Getnet Assefa, 2016. Effect of dietary inclusion of local brewery by-product (Tela-atella) on quality and production of egg by Lohmann White chickens. Dyn. J. Anim. Sci. Technol., 2 (1): 1-9
Ajebu Nurfeta; Yunus Abdu, 2014. Feeding value of different levels of malt sprout and katikala atella on nutrient utilization and growth performance of sheep fed basal diet of Rhodes grass hay. Trop. Anim. Health Prod., 46: 541-547
Ajebu Nurfeta, 2010. Feed intake, digestibility, nitrogen utilization, and body weight change of sheep consuming wheat straw supplemented with local agricultural and agro-industrial by-products. Trop. Anim. Health Prod., 42 (5): 815-824
Alemayehu Tadesse; Yayneshet, T., 2011. Comparative chemical composition evaluation of local brewery and liquor byproducts made from different ingredients. J. Drylands, 4 (2): 307-309
Alemayehu Tadesse; Matovu, M.; Tesfay, Y.; Breusers, M.; Fievez, V., 2016. Balanced feeding could improve productivity of cross-breed dairy cattle in smallholder systems (Tigray, northern Ethiopia). Conf. Solidarity in a Competing World-Fair Use of Resources, Tropentag 2016, Vienna, Austria, 19–21 September 2016
Asaminew Tassew; Eyassu Seifu, 2009. Smallholder dairy production system and emergence of dairy cooperatives in Bahir Dar Zuria and Mecha Woredas, Northwestern Ethiopia. World J. Dairy Food Sci., 4 (2): 185-192
Ayenew, Y. A.; Wurzinger, M.; Tegegne, A.; Zollitsch, W, 2009. Performance and limitation of two dairy production systems in the North western Ethiopian highlands. Trop. Anim. Health Prod., 41: 1143-1150
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31/12/2013 by Felipe
2014: Feliz año nuevo, Happy new year, Buon anno!
With almost 370.000 visits in 2013 (up a whopping 340%), and a wonderful year in all terms, I would like to wish you all the best for the upcoming year. Without you this site wouldn’t be possible. Thanks a lot for following me. Here there’s a quick outlook at 2013 main facts, and my predictions for 2014.
Even if Fiat doesn’t control the totality of Chrysler shares and European car market keeps struggling, Fiat-Chrysler group can say it had a good year. The group launched several products all over the world and keeps working to join the 2 companies and make use of their strengths.
The marriage between Fiat and Chrysler, which was supposed to take place this year, had to be postponed due to problems with VEBA. This had a direct impact on European product plan, as the money from Chrysler is a priority to start building new cars in Italy.
Chrysler results shined thanks to a very healthy American car market. It wasn’t the case for Fiat Group in Europe, where the 500 and Panda’s success couldn’t offset the lack of demand of other models. The 500L helped a lot.
Things in Brazil were as expected: not as good as previous years. The reason: competition, a tired car market, and the lack of new products. Argentina was the exception with more than 100.000 units sold.
China had a real start, far away from optimistic forecasts that didn’t consider how difficult it is to make business in China (it is not only a matter of product but also of dealer network). India and Russia had to wait again.
Alfa Romeo had a tiny relief with the introduction of the fantastic 4C, which is a good start for the coming years. Maserati was born again with a tremendous success that should be an example for other brands of the group.
During the year the group presented the new Alfa Romeo 4C, the Fiat 500L Living, the new Fiat Ottimo, the Jeep Cherokee, and the Maserati Ghibli and Ferrari LaFerrari.
One more tought year for the group. Chrysler will continue to have good results in USA (with lower growth rates), but Fiat in Europe will continue to suffer (waiting for better times), while Brazilian situation will get worse. Good news will come from China, where the Viaggio-Ottimo will do better, and the arrival of Jeep will be the hit of the year.
Fiat-Chrysler alliance should be able to be completed in the first half of the year, and this will have a very positive impact on Fiat Group’s plans in Europe.
The group will present the new Fiat 500X and Jeep B-SUV. Jeep may show the first renders/concept of the new Compass/Patriot. Chrysler will soon show the all-new 200, that may be presented as a concept in Europe. Alfa Romeo is expected to expand the range of the 4C. Fiat Brazil should launch an updated Uno and some all-new SUVs. Maserati should show the final version of the Levante (even if it is not expected to be available in 2014), while Ferrari could surprise us with the new California.
Fiat-Chrysler Sales Results 2012 (Part II)
My blog: 2013 in review
24 thoughts on “2014: Feliz año nuevo, Happy new year, Buon anno!”
thysi says:
Felipe, I would also like to see you prediction of what the new product plan (due to be presented in the spring) will look like. Can you do that for us? 🙂
Congratulations on a great year for the blog, and looking forward to 2014!
No details yet. But for sure Alfa Romeo will confirm the new Giulia, the new Duetto, and a new mid-size SUV.
Yesterday in Detroit, Marchionne said “a second Alfa model will come to the United States in 2015 but he did not say which one.” Maybe the Mazda-based Duetto? Is Giulia now 2016 or later, maybe because of the rumoured change to a RWD platform?
I think he’s talking about the Duetto. The Giulia will come after.
antek says:
”Chrysler will soon show the all-new 200, that may be presented as a concept in Europe”
Under Lancia brand ?
Yes, as a Lancia
Auguri happy new year Felipe and thanks for your beautiful website 🙂
Grazie Antonio! un buon 2014 pieno di cose belle per te!
Francesco Lomazzo says:
The Chrysler 200 in Europe can be called Lancia Beta?
In this day and age, it would be a huge mistake to name a car “Beta”. By now, most people (even those who don’t have the slightest interested in technology) are familiar with the term “beta” from the computer world as signifying an unfinished product with significant bugs unresolved. No marketer worth his salt would give a car a name that has these associations…
You forgot to mention the Australia where both Jeep and Fiat are on a roll achieving 3% + market share. Given the momentum in growth and also the all new Jeep cherokee yet to be launched, the 2014 could see the group increasing market share to around 5%
That’s right Yousuf. Fiat and Chrysler had a wonderful year in Australia, thanks in part to the new dealerships and more rebates. Good for that.
Anass says:
Hello Juan felip, please i want you to talk about what Sergio marchionne says about Lancia on his interview with Larepublika. is Lancia for sure gonna sold just in Italy, or this is just Talking ??
Also reported elsewhere … it seemed like Lancia would basically only sell Ypsilon derivatives, and only in Italy. Does that mean that Chryslers will be offered in Europe, and an end to the short-lived Chrysler-Lancia brand twinning?
Based on that interview, it seems that Lancia will be only sold in Italy. This doesn’t mean that Chrysler brand will come back to Europe. Alfa Romeo should occupy its position in D and E segments.
FIAT bo postal 100% lastnik Chrysler Group
Let me translate this Juan. It was posted in Thursday, 2nd of January 2014 at 21:33 in my country, that FIAT will become a 100% owner if Chrysler group. FIAT and VEBA had finally made an agreement and the deal should be done 20th of January 2014. Do you know anything about this, becouse it made me very happy to hear these news, and I hope it is not a lie 😀
Domy says:
It is true Domy. I will write an article about it very soon.
Also found a link in english http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/01/us-fiat-chrysler-veba-idUSBREA000FK20140101
Please,is Lancia gonna disappear ?? Please answer !!!
As Marchionne said, it will be a brand for Italian market only.
could you please make an article about that ??
G Marzano says:
Bring all new fiats/ alfas to uk all the best are in brazil whyyyyy do it over here please lots of us dont like boring ones here now not much left slow to make more alfa only 2 cars and fiat only 3 as punto is ugly now badge is sooo ugly now on top and bravo gone 500ALL boring ugly old cromas were best ;))). And the panda dose not even have usb basic in others boring.
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Debt to the Penny
04/01/1993 — 01/15/2021Updated DailyLast Updated 01/19/2021CSV, JSON, XMLData Dictionary
Total debt of the U.S. government reported daily. Contains information on intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public.
About This Dataset
The Debt to the Penny dataset provides information about the total outstanding public debt and is reported each day. Debt to the Penny is made up of intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public, including securities issued by the U.S. Treasury. Total public debt outstanding is composed of Treasury Bills, Notes, Bonds, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), Floating Rate Notes (FRNs), and Federal Financing Bank (FFB) securities, as well as Domestic Series, Foreign Series, State and Local Government Series (SLGS), U.S. Savings Securities, and Government Account Series (GAS) securities. Debt to the Penny is updated at 3:00 PM EST each business day with data from the previous business day.
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Debt broken out by intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public has not always been provided. Where this occurred, the dataset shows a value of $0.00 instead of a null value. Debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings data is available yearly (on a fiscal basis) from 9/30/1997 through 9/30/2001, monthly from 9/30/2001 through 3/31/2005, and daily from 4/4/2005 to today. Some columns in this dataset overlap with the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt (MSPD), Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS), Daily Treasury Statement (DTS), and Schedules of Federal Debt datasets. Debt issued by the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) is included in the intragovernmental holdings in the Debt to the Penny dataset, but not in the Schedules of Federal Debt dataset because it is not debt managed by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The difference between these datasets is equal to the amount of debt issued by the FFB.
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Accepts: The fields= parameter accepts a comma-separated list of field names (no parentheses).
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Definition: The format parameter allows a user to define the output method of the response (CSV, JSON, XML).
Accepts: The format= parameter accepts xml,json, or csv as an input.
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Default: When no format is specified, the default response format is JSON.
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Daily cash and debt operations of the U.S. Treasury, including cash balance, deposits and withdrawals, tax deposits and refunds, and debt transactions....
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Summarizes the U.S. government's total outstanding debt at the end of each fiscal year from 1789 to the current year....
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This dataset provides high-level information on the federal government's outstanding debts, holdings, and the statutory debt limit on a monthly basis....
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This dataset contains a monthly summary of the federal government's receipts and outlays, as well as the resulting surpluses and deficits....
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Schedules of Federal Debt...
Monthly and fiscal year-to-date changes in federal debt, broken out by debt holder type, principal, interest, and premiums/discounts....
Debt, Financial Summaries...
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Fertility risk discussions in young patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer Academic Article
PURPOSE: In 2006, the American Society of Clinical Oncology established guidelines on fertility preservation in cancer patients, but recent data suggest that the guidelines are not widely followed. To identify the frequency of fertility discussions and the characteristics that influence the rate of discussion, we performed a retrospective chart review for patients less than 40 years of age with newly diagnosed colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS: Charts of patients aged 18-40 years with newly diagnosed crc presenting to the Juravinski Cancer Centre from 2000 to 2009 were reviewed for documentation of discussions regarding fertility risks with treatment and reproductive options available. The influences of sex, age, year of diagnosis, stage of cancer, and type of treatment on the frequency of discussions were explored. RESULTS: The review located 59 patients (mean age: 35 years) who met the criteria for inclusion. A fertility discussion was documented in 20 of those patients [33.9%; 95% confidence interval (CI): 22.1% to 47.4%]. In the multivariate analysis, the odds of fertility being addressed was higher for patients receiving radiation [odds ratio (OR): 9.31; 95% ci: 2.49 to 34.77, p < 0.001) and lower by age (OR: 0.86; 95% ci: 0.74 to 0.99; p = 0.040). Of patients less than 35 years of age undergoing radiation treatment, 85% had a documented fertility discussion. We observed no significant difference in the frequency of discussions after 2006, when the American Society of Clinical Oncology guidelines were published (31.4% for 2000-2006 vs. 37.5% for 2007-2009, p = 0.63). CONCLUSIONS: Discussions about fertility risks associated with CRC treatment occur infrequently among young adults with newly diagnosed CRC. However, discussions occur more frequently in younger patients and in those undergoing radiation. Further investigations assessing barriers and physician attitudes to fertility risk discussion and reproductive options are planned.
Merali, A
Pond, Gregory
Zbuk, Kevin
1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis (FoR)
Oncology & Carcinogenesis (Science Metrix)
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A blog about London and its history…
This Week in London – ‘Fantastic Beasts’; artwork of The Blitz; and, ‘The Adoration of the Kings’ explored…
by exploringlondon December 10, 2020
• The links between mythical and fictional creatures with animals of the natural world are explored in a new exhibition which opened at the Natural History Museum this week. Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature, a partnership between the museum, Warner Bros Consumer Products and the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, features some 120 exhibits including Dracorex Hogwartsia dinosaur – named in recognition of Harry Potter’s school, Hogwarts, along with a hoax mermaid, a 16th century map depicting sea monsters, and what was once believed to be a unicorn horn. There’s also the chance to learn more about the Galapagos marine iguana and the boneless hagfish as well as fictional creatures like the mooncalf and erumpent. Admission charge applies and pre-booking required. For more, see www.nhm.ac.uk.
Preparing for the Natural History Museum’s ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature Conservation’ PICTURE: Trustees of the Natural History Museum
• Artworks depicting The Blitz are the subject of a new exhibition at the Churchill War Rooms. Art of the Blitz shines a new light on the experiences of ordinary people who lived through the Nazi air raids. The display includes works by Henry Moore, William Matvyn Wright, Eric Ravilious, Ernest Boye Uden, Mabel Hutchinson, Evelyn Gibbs, Evelyn Dunbar, and Leila Faithfull. Free with general admission ticket purchase, the display can be seen until 30th April. For more, see www.iwm.org.uk/events/wartime-london-art-of-the-blitz.
• Jan Gossaert’s 16th-century masterpiece The Adoration of the Kings is at the heart of a new immersive digital experience which launched at the National Gallery this week. Sensing the Unseen: Step into Gossaert’s ‘Adoration, which has been designed with social distancing in mind, starts with the voice of the African King Balthasar speaking to viewers before light and sound guide them to an individual pod where they can experience an interactive version of the painting. The experience can be seen in Room 1 until 28th February. Admission is free but pre-booking is required. Meanwhile, Father Christmas is making a special appearance at the National Gallery on the 12th and 13th December – and again on 17th to 23rd December – along with the chance to step into a ‘winter wonderland’ inspired by the iconic National Gallery painting A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle (about 1608–9) by Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634). Admission charge applies and pre-booking required. For more, see www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
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10 London sites associated with Sir Winston Churchill – 4. 10 Downing Street…
by exploringlondon March 4, 2015
Sir Winston Churchill lived a number of residences in London but, of course, the most famous in its own right is the traditional home of British PMs, 10 Downing Street.
Located in a short street just off Whitehall (now closed to the public), the property has been home to Prime Ministers since Sir Robert Walpole, officially First Lord of the Treasury but effectively the first PM, took up residence in 1735.
Churchill moved in following his election to the office of Prime Minister in 1940 and he and his wife Clementine took up residence in a second floor flat. It was in this property where, cigar in hand, he is famously known to have dictated speeches and letters to his secretary while propped up in bed.
The building suffered some bomb damage during the Blitz – on 14th October, 1940, a bomb fell on nearby Treasury Green and damaged the home’s kitchen and state rooms. Three civil servants doing Home Guard duty were killed but the kitchen staff were saved thanks to Churchill who, dining in the Garden Rooms when the bombing raid began, ordered them to leave their duties and get into a bomb shelter.
The Garden Rooms – which included a bedroom, meeting area and the small dining room – were subsequently reinforced with steel and heavy metal shutters although these apparently would have made little difference had there been a direct hit.
Cabinet moved out of Number 10 into the underground bunker complex now referred to as the Churchill War Rooms (see last week’s post) in October, 1939, and, after several near misses, the Churchills – Sir Winston apparently very begrudgingly – moved into the Number 10 Annex above the war rooms in 1940 (although Churchill continued to visit Number 1o for working and dining).
Much of the furniture and valuables were removed from Number 10 and only the Garden Rooms, Cabinet Room and Private Secretaries’ office remained in use (along with a reinforced bomb shelter built underneath – King George VI is known to have sheltered here when he was dining with Churchill when a raid began).
At the end of the war the Churchills quickly moved back into Number 10 and it was from the Cabinet Room that he made his Victory in Europe (VE) Day broadcast on 8th May, 1945.
He vacated the premises after his election defeat later in 1945 but returned when re-elected PM in 1951 and left after he resigned in 1955 having held a dinner party attended by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip the night before.
A couple of interesting facts about Churchill’s time at number 10: Churchill had many pets who usually had free rein in the house – even at 10 Downing Street his poodle Rufus was known to have wandered into a meeting in the Cabinet Room (before he was ejected) – while in 1958, Georgina Landemare, the cook during his time at number 10, famously published a book, Recipes from No. 10, which featured an introduction by Churchill’s wife, Clementine.
There are apparently two portraits of Churchill among those of other PMs which grace the wall of the Grand Staircase.
For more on the history of 10 Downing Street, see www.gov.uk/government/history/10-downing-street
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10 London sites associated with Sir Winston Churchill – 3. Churchill War Rooms…
by exploringlondon February 25, 2015
Now a museum, the Churchill War Rooms is actually the underground bunker system beneath Whitehall from where Churchill directed operations during the Blitz of World War II.
The subterranean complex includes a series of historic rooms where Churchill and his cabinet met which remain in the same state they were in when the lights were switched off at the end of the war in 1945. There’s also a substantial cutting-edge museum dedicated to exploring Churchill’s life which boasts an interactive “lifeline” containing more than 1,100 images and a similar number of documents as well as animations and films.
With the coming conflict on the horizon, the complex was constructed from 1938 to 1939 as an emergency government centre in the basement of the now Grade II* listed government building then known as the New Public Offices (and now home to HM Treasury). It became operational on 27th August, 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the war.
Key rooms include the Map Room (pictured, top, it was manned around the clock by military officers producing intelligence reports) and the War Cabinet Room where more than 100 meetings of Cabinet were held (including just one gathering of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s cabinet in October, 1939).
Other facilities included a private office/bedroom for Churchill (this came with BBC broadcasting equipment which Churchill used four times and, although it had a bed, Churchill apparently rarely used it), the Transatlantic Telephone Room (pictured above, it was disguised as a toilet) from where Churchill could speak directly to the US President. There are also staff dormitories, bedrooms for officers and government ministers, and rooms for typists and telephone switchboard operators.
In October, 1940, a massive layer of concrete – up to five feet thick and known simply as ‘The Slab’ – was added to protect the rooms. Other protective devices included a torpedo net slung across the courtyard overhead to catch falling bombs and an air filtration system to prevent poisonous gases entering.
Abandoned after the war, the premises hosted some limited tours but, despite growing demand to see inside, it wasn’t until the early 1980s when PM Margaret Thatcher pushed for the rooms to be opened to the public that the Imperial War Museum eventually took over the site. The museum opened on 4th April, 1984, in a ceremony attended by the PM as well as members of Churchill’s family and former staff.
Then known as the Cabinet War Rooms, they were extended in 2003 to include rooms used by Churchill, his wife and associates, and, in 2005, following the development of the Churchill Museum, it was rebranded the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms. In 2010, the name was shortened to the Churchill War Rooms. The entrance to the premises was redesigned in 2012.
Among the objects in the museum are one of Churchill’s famous “siren suits”, an Enigma machine and the flag from his funeral.
WHERE: Churchill War Rooms, Clive Steps, King Charles Street (nearest Tube stations are Westminster and St James’s Park); WHEN: 9.30am to 6pm daily; COST: £18 adults (with donation)/£9 children aged 5-15 (with donation)/£14.40 concessions (with donation) (family tickets available); WEBSITE: www.iwm.org.uk/visits/churchill-war-rooms/
PICTURES: Churchill War Rooms/Imperial War Rooms
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This Week in London – New gallery at Hampton Court; Northwest Passage explorers remembered; and, celebrating Churchill’s birthday…
by exploringlondon November 20, 2014
• A new gallery opens today in the restored Cumberland Suite at Hampton Court Palace. The Gothic Revival suite of rooms, designed by William Kent for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and the youngest son of King George II, were the last major royal commission ever undertaken at the palace. They will now house a selection of the Royal Collection’s finest paintings including masterpieces by Holbein, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Bassano and Gainsborough. The restoration followed two years of research aimed at returning the rooms to a state which as closely as possible represents Kent’s original decorative scheme. One of the rooms – the duke’s large light closet – is being opened to the public for the first time in 25 years and will house 12 of Canaletto’s smaller Grand Canal views of Venice. Admission charge applies. For more, see www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/.
• The exploration of the Northwest Passage is the subject of a new exhibition which has opened at the British Library in King’s Cross. Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage looks back over 400 years with exhibits including King Charles II’s personal atlas, 19th century woodcut illustrations and wooden maps made by Inuit communities, and artefacts related to three of the most eminent explorer to seek out the Northwest Passage – Martin Frobisher, Sir John Franklin and Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole. The exhibition has opened just weeks after the discovery of the HMS Erebus, one of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships. There’s a full programme of events to accompany the exhibition. Runs until 29th March. Admission is free. For more, see www.bl.uk. PICTURE: The world we live in, c. 1958, on display in Lines in the Ice. Courtesy of British Library.
• Celebrate Winston Churchill’s birthday at a special after-hours event in the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall next week. Advance booking is required to buy tickets for the event which will include a silent disco, drink tasting workshops and the chance to strike your best Churchill pose in a special photo booth. The event runs on the evening of 27th November. To book, head to www.iwm.org.uk/events/churchill-war-rooms/lates-at-churchill-war-rooms-churchill-s-birthday.
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This Week in London – New drawbridge for the Tower; Churchill War Rooms celebrate 30 years; and, the mid-Twentieth century home at the Geffrye…
by exploringlondon April 10, 2014
• There’s a working drawbridge at the Tower of London, something not seen at the fortress since the 1970s. The bridge, which would have originally spanned a water-filled moat, was created in 1834 to allow munitions to be brought into the basement level of the White Tower from the wharf (the moat was drained in 1843 on the orders of the then-Constable, the Duke of Wellington). The bridge has been altered many times but the last time it was completely replaced was in 1915 while the tradition of raising it was carried on until the 1970s before it was permanently fixed in 1978. The new bridge draws on historic designs from 1914 and has been constructed of steel and English oak. It will be raised and lowered on “high days” and holidays and for educational purposes. For more, see www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/.
• The Churchill War Rooms – a complex of underground rooms from where then PM Winston Churchill and others directed the course of Allied troops during World War II – is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its public opening with a new displaying showcasing never before seen objects related to its creation as a tourist attraction. The objects include a private admissions ticket from the days when the only way inside was via specially granted permission, correspondence about the fate of the War Rooms and a poster from 1984 advertising the opening of the Cabinet War Rooms to the public. Admission charge applies. For more, see www.iwm.org.uk/visits/churchill-war-rooms.
• On Now: John Pantlin: photographing the mid-century home. This free exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch celebrates the work of Pantlin who is noted for his extensive work for the architectural press in the 1950s and 1960s. The small exhibition focuses on his shots of domestic interiors with shots of sun-filled living rooms and bedrooms filled with toys with all images drawn from the Robert Elwall Photographs Collection. Runs until 29th June. For more, see www.geffrye-museum.org.uk.
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Around London – See museums after hours; the White Tower is white again; and, foundation stone for Bomber Command is laid…
by exploringlondon May 12, 2011 May 12, 2011
• The annual Museums at Night event returns to London (and Britain) this weekend with hundreds of museums and galleries across the country opening their doors for special after hours events. Among those places in London taking part is the Churchill War Rooms, which is hosting a 1940s evening on Friday night, the London Canal Museum which is hosting”candle-lit tours, atmospheric lighting, and exhibits of art and film in dark places”, and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology which is hosting a double hill of Hammer films and a “Gothic Egypt” trail. Other institutions taking part include the Sir John Soane Museum, the National Gallery, the Bank of England Museum, and Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham. For more information about what’s on see www.museumsatnight.org.uk
• King William the Conqueror celebrated at the Tower of London this week following the completion of a £2 million, three year project to clean the White Tower. First built shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066, the tower had become blackened by pollution but has now been restored to its original color. For more information on visiting the Tower, see www.hrp.org.uk/toweroflondon/.
• A foundation stone has reportedly been laid for a Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park. The memorial, which is due to be completed for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations in 2012, will be constructed of Portland stone and will feature a nine foot tall statue of a bomber command aircrew. Bomber Command lost more than 55,000 airmen during World War II. The foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Gloucester. Supporters of the monument’s construction have included former Bee Gee Robin Gibb, Sir Michael Beetham, Marshal of the RAF, and The Daily Telegraph newspaper which is running an appeal to help raise funds for the memorial.
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Possibly Certifiable Insanity (Stockpiling Mental Health Research Grants, “Discretionary,”nationwide).
In response to wondering how to communicate to one state’s legislator that any new Fatherhood Initiative, either precisely worded or inspiringly vague, though powerfully phrased, is indeed superfluous, I simply researched (again, in this state) two known existing fatherhood programs (at least under one Federal Department) — the one with “fatherhood” in its name, “CFDA 93.086, Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood” and the ones which has the intended effect of a “required outcome” to the legal process, namely “Access Visitation” grants, CFDA 93.597, commonly known as putting more time in the hands of the noncustodial parent (a.k.a. father), through moving the decision-making process outside the courtroom, until it has been screened by mediators, custody evaluators, and parenting planners. (See my Cooks in the Court Kitchen Post). Yes, these grants were making it to Kansas as well as to the rest of the U.S. (including V.I., P.R. & Guam).
Note: in the database “usaspending.gov” and under “Grant search by program” it is impossible to search readily by 93.086, as it’s not on the list of hyperlinks. I tend to feel this was not accidental.
CFDA Number = 93086
State = KANSAS
Fiscal Year = 2008
Recipient: CATHOLIC CHARITIES
Recipient ZIP Code: 67214
FY Award Number Budget Year
of Support Agency Award Code Action
Issue Date Amount
This Action
2008 90FE0112 3 ACF 0 09-14-2008 $530,368.00
Award Subtotal: $530,368.00
Recipient: KS ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL & REHABILITATION SERVICES
2008 0801KSSAVP 1 ACF 1 01-30-2008 $100,000.00
I noticed how MANY types of things are administered directly through the KS ST Office of the Governor, which to me seems a little over-centralized and top-heavy.
While looking, I marveled that both Abstinence Education and Community Based Abstinence-Education grants with Medical research on Male Contraception (guess which funding won out??) (Actually both types got the grants,
so I suppose the winners are, however, those grants benefitted — or will — and the losers are the taxpayers — if they didn’t. For example,
based on several factors, I’d say the Abstinence Education is a bust. Not that I’m anti-Abstinence, hey, but how many decades is this going to be tried? Since there is a Community-Based stipulation, the kind this decorative adjective, is government-based. In fact, come to think of it, what has happened to just generalized DISCRETION in education, period? The concept that “education” won’t happen without a program (particularly a government run one) is just a little “out there” to start with.
I also believe that if there were better things to do in class, or young people had a vision for surviving past 20 (in some communities), or succeeding in life, there just might be a little less screwing around before financial independence. Also what might be helpful if there was a general tendency to point them in the direction of financial independence, throughout the public schools. We are, however, generally speaking (it seems) teaching the vast majority to hope to hold a job, rather than hope to own or run a business. After all, can’t EVERYONE run a business (?) so someone has to be the employees, right?
What better way to ensure a constant supply of willing employees (and a surplus of them, too) by the caste/income/race-sorting system we call public school education?
The local child support agency (the one that “bailed” in my case, coming to the rescue of the father who’d rather take the kids than get a job) is frequently airing its successes and programs on the local cable TV. What they don’t tell us, in the programs aimed at young teens, is how they treat middle-aged parents in the family law venue. OR WHY . . . . . Too bad, that. . . .
Anyhow, in Kansas, a VERY small segment of what appears to be a wonderful research center, really:
Fiscal Year OPDIV Grantee Name Award Title Sum of Actions
2003 NIH UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC STEREOTYPES, SHIFTING STANDARDS, AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT $ 138,291
1999 NIH UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC STEREOTYPES, SHIFTING STANDARDS, AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT $160,365
(for the sake of margins, the same grant award, but , different fields displaying).
2003 R01MH048844 93242 DISCRETIONARY SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS) NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION MONICA R BIERNAT $ 138,291
1999 R01MH048844 93242 DISCRETIONARY SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS) COMPETING CONTINUATION MONICA R BIERNAT $ 160,365
(Where is the original, the “NEW” of this particular one, after which there was competing, then non-competing continuation?)
WHAT, you say, might this be? It’s CFDA CODE 93242, Mental Health Research . . . . and just the tip of the iceberg on our lust to KNOW (and to predict, and to manage, and to manipulate, and to label, and to — well, it’s all really for the national HEALTH):
We DO want to know why our neighbors (or others, or certain populations, or peoples, or income levels, or etc.) are mentally ill, and to verify (nay, certify) that they are, right? To help them. Become more sane. Like us (case in point, studying all this may not be a sign of sanity…..).
I could not (today) find the “abstract” for these, but below are some samples of abstracts (with the word “stereotype” in them):
Mental Health, Discretionary must be a large segment:
AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THIS POST, I WILL LIST CERTAIN TYES OF RECIPIENTS: (ALL is too many):
(I thought you might enjoy that. . . . ) I’m not quite sure how shifting standards comes under Mental Health (which this grant is listed under), but hey, it takes all types. I’d love to see the final report. . . . .
Searching Federal HHS grants on just the word “stereotypes” brings up a mix of social and medical sciences, and some overlap.
ONE thing’s clear, it’s being studied. I wonder if this will reduce the amount of “stereotyping” going on, just as studying domestic
violence has reduced the amount of domestic violence, and promoting responsible fatherhood has produced an abundance of responsible fathers nationwide, diminished the number of, well, ones like Doug Ouellette and such. (Responsible in business, dangerous in marriage…. or at least being asked to separate from it…)
R01MH071749
Arizona STEREOTYPE THREAT AS A STRESS INDUCED COGNITIVE DEFICIT NIH NIMH $ 588,957
Stereotype Threat as a Stress Induced Cognitive Deficit
Project Start/End
01-AUG-2004 / 31-MAY-2008
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Prior work on stereotype threat (see Steele, Spencer, & Aronson, 2002, for a review) suggests that the stress of being targeted by negative stereotypes can cause stigmatized individuals to perform more poorly on complex cognitive tasks when anything is done to remind them of their membership in a negatively stereotyped group.
Although research has established the generalizability of these stereotype threat effects, a precise and integrated model of the processes by which negative stereotypes interfere with performance is still needed. This application draws on existing literatures examining how stress impacts cognitive processing and outlines a theoretical model that integrates cognitive, physiological, and affective processes that mediate stereotype threat effects on test performance by reducing an individual’s working memory capacity. This model proposes that negative stereotypes reduce performance in testing situations because they present the individual with inconsistent views about the self that induce,
a) cognitive processing in an attempt to reconcile the inconsistency,
b) a physiological stress response involving increased stress hormones and sympathetic activation, and
c) attempts to suppress felt anxiety.
Each of these processes is hypothesized to have a negative effect on an individual’s working memory capacity, a cognitive process integral to any complex mental task. The results of three preliminary experiments are reported to provide evidence that working memory capacity is a key mediator of stereotype threat effects on performance. The 11 experiments that are proposed will expand upon these findings to identify the processes by which stereotype threat interferes with working memory capacity and performance.
{{RATHER THAN, say, DOING something to alleviate the stereotyping in the situation..? }}
A significant impact of the present research is that in gaining a better understanding of the stress-related processes that are affected by stereotype threat, it becomes more feasible to develop strategies that will enable individuals to cope successfully with social stigma.
academic achievement, cognition disorder, prejudice, psychological stressor, psychophysiology, social perception, stress, university student anxiety, coping, culture, gender difference, hormone biosynthesis, neural information processing, racial /ethnic difference, self concept, short term memory, social psychology, sympathetic nervous system behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, human subject, interview, psychological test
PI Name/Title
SCHMADER, TONI M.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PO BOX 3308 TUCSON, AZ 857223308
F31HD058492
North Carolina RACE STEREOTYPES AND SELF PERCEPTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH NIH NICHD $ 33,879
Race stereotypes and self perceptions in African American youth
30-SEP-2008 /
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the proposed study is (1) to examine the developmental progression of academic race stereotype endorsement in African American youth; (2) to explore, over time, the impact that academic race stereotype endorsement has on the academic self-concept and self-esteem of Black adolescents; (3) to examine whether racial centrality (i.e., the extent to which being Black is central to an individual’s definition of self) moderates the relationship between stereotype endorsement and self-perceptions; (4) to explore the influence of parental racial socialization messages on academic race stereotype endorsement; and (5) to determine the relationships among stereotype endorsement, racial centrality, racial socialization, and decisions about higher education. 135 African American eleventh graders in a rural school district will participate in the project. These students participated in the first wave of the Adolescent Identity Project when they were in middle school. Written parental and student consent will be required for study participation. Consent letters will be distributed to students in their English classes. Once consent has been received, students will be administered self-report questionnaires in small groups (5-10 students) at their schools. Trained research assistants will instruct students on how to complete each measure and will be available to answer questions. Once questionnaires are completed, the research assistant will thank the students and give them a $5 restaurant gift certificate. In addition, during the students’ 12th grade year, they will be mailed a follow-up packet. Students will be questioned about their college plans (whether or not they are planning to attend college and whether it is a Historically Black College or University), SAT scores (if applicable), end of grade scores, and stereotype endorsement. The proposed study will significantly contribute to the body of knowledge on African American adolescents’ achievement-related beliefs and how they develop and change overtime. Understanding achievement-related beliefs will provide a pathway for explaining the factors that contribute to and promote achievement motivation and academic success for African American adolescents. Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available.
There are no thesaurus terms on file for this project.
OKEKE, NDIDI A.
okeke@email.unc.edu
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL Office of Sponsored Research CHAPEL HILL, NC 27599
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
ZRG1
This looks interesting, and like it ought to justify several more fatherhood grants:
R01DA024029 PATERNAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT AND SUBSTANCE USE IN CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS NIH NIDA $ 1,592,006
And, WOW, it’s a new one: so new, not even any thesaurus terms for the abstract yet. Started 2008,
Principal Investigator, an Assistant Professor at Columbia, Institution< NY State Psychiatric Institute, and
the Recipient (by the way, these are hyperlinks; you can click away, as can I…. Start with the grant numbers here) is a scary-sounding:
“Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.”
Total of all awards: $ 858,685,338
(YES, you read that right: $858,685,338 from 1997-2009)
OR, from another data resources:
http://www.usaspending.gov/faads/faads.php?recipient_name=Research+Foundation+for+Mental+Hygiene%2C+Inc.&sortby=r&detail=0&datype=T&reptype=r&database=faads&fiscal_year=&detail=-1&datype=T&submit=GO
(i am beginning to wonder whether this is partly WHY the US is the world’s largest “jailor” — population research?).
This one here seems very relevant, but only about $350K:
R21HL088620 MEASURING CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND RACIAL BIAS AMONG PHYSICIANS NIH NHLBI $ 346,500
I mean, I’m sure this would affect quality of health care. I know I had a sexist oby/gyn for the 2nd child (but I stood up to him, and there was a younger on on duty also, who accepted that not every woman who gives birth should be automatically anesthetized and cut….)
(Then again, the place this grant goes to, I happen to know, got about $127 Million in grants in single year…..)
Here’s one that interests me, as a musician, obviously. I’m surprised to find $3mil on this, as typically music is the first thing cut from the public school curriculum in tough times (i.e., periodically…..)
R01NS050436 INTEGRATIVE STUDY OF VOCAL DEVELOPMENT NIH NINDS $ 3,219,146
well, NO, that’s apparently about the male zebra finch. . . . Go figure…..
But $858 million?? over about 12 years? That’s like, HEY — what’s going ON with that foundation??
It’s not just the “mental hygiene” concept, but the “Mental Hygiene, INC.” Sounds sci-fi.
(Added 08-11-09: I did look up some more on who ARE they?; it’s on the web, and free for anyone else who is willing to put in the time to look. And a bit of an eye-opener, too. They have done some good work, helping people after 9/11. But it’s major business, and was set up in 1952 to facilitate research projects. )
Paternal Criminal Justice Involvement and Substance Use in Children & Adolescents
R01DA024029
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Of the 6.5 million adults who were under some form of correctional supervision in 2000, 3.6 million were parents,[{AND MOSTLY MEN}} thereby affecting 7.1 million minor children. Nationally, approximately 85% of all prisoners are male. Contrary to stereotypes, many of the fathers have significant connections to their children: prior to arrest 44% of incarcerated fathers lived with their children and 65% of the others continued at least monthly contact while in prison. Note however, that among incarcerated fathers >60% reported using drugs in the month before their offense; 25% reported a history of alcohol dependence; 14% reported mental illness and 70% did not have a high school diploma.\
Yet, despite evidence that parental involvement with the Criminal Justice System (CJS) is related to children’s elevated risk for substance use, psychopathology, and future incarceration, no rigorous studies of a representative sample of such children have been conducted.
{{I thought it was FATHERLESSNESS, not FATHER-INCARCERATION that was the main issue, from what we have been hearing nationally, through the courts, HHS, government, and initiatives….}}
A better understanding of the specific impact of paternal incarceration, from a developmental perspective, could be expected to provide insight into ways of tempering or averting many psychosocial adverse outcomes in the youth.
(ANOTHER Idea (mine) might be to find ways to keep the fathers if possible from the behaviors that got them incarcerated to start with. .. . . And then that’d be one less generation to be so impacted. What do you think?)
The main objective of this investigation is to understand the impact, over time, of paternal involvement with the CJS on their children’s substance use, psychopathology, and development of risk behaviors leading to involvement with the Juvenile Justice/CJS. This proposal aims to overcome methodological limitations of previous investigations and will provide generalizable findings relevant to developing public policy for improving the lives of affected children, including reducing their risk for substance use and incarceration. Our framework acknowledges that paternal involvement with the CJS occurs in a complex environment, where risk factors cluster, leading to a number of both direct and indirect sequelae. We will recruit a sample of children (ages 10-14) following the arrest of their fathers. The sample will be representative of CJS fathers from a disadvantaged community (the South Bronx, NYC), who have close contact with their child(ren). They will be recruited through collaboration with a publicly assigned legal defense team, the Bronx Defenders. An age- gender matched comparison group of children whose fathers had never been incarcerated will be recruited in the same residential area. The study includes collaboration with agencies whose involvement make this inherently difficult study possible: including the NYC DOE, NYC DOH-MH, NYC ACS, as well as collaborators and advocacy groups, some participating on the Study’s Advisory Board.
PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: From a public health perspective, policy driven decisions regarding youth, especially those at elevated risk for untoward outcomes, must be based on sound scientific data. The goal of the proposed investigation is to advance our knowledge and understanding of the consequences of paternal involvement with the Criminal Justice System on the substance use/abuse/dependence and other psychopathology of their children. Knowledge about the determinants, over time, for negative youth outcomes, as well as protective factors, is critical to advancing targeted interventions in an effort to break the cycle of Criminal Justice involvement of the next generation. Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available.
{{I have a “dumb” idea. Take some of the monies spent studying male zebra finches, and the ones on lethality risks for domestic violence femicides, which are being ignored in public policy (courts) anyhow, and put them towards things that would help break the cycle of (1) ILLITERACY and with it (2) POVERTY. Then I suspect — barring continuing racial profiling by arresting officeres, and a few other possible institutional factors (why not study the INSTITUTIONS as much as the people IN them, eh?) there might be lower incarceration rates. And Research Foundation Inc. could go find something else to research…))
{{PUT IT INTO: Expressive arts, creative arts, dance, and so forth. Put it into college scholarships. Put it into supporting the EXIT from the public school systems that undereducate and badly socialize. . . . Let’s Get Honest!!}}
HOVEN, CHRISTINA W. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
ch42@columbia.edu
NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE NEW YORK, NY 10032
RPIA
While money will ALWAYS flow to study incarcerated African American males (or females), how about some to help in DOING the studies, not BEING studied? “Nationally, African Americans, Latin Americans, Native Americans, and some Asian Americans are underrepresented in the sciences and social sciences. ”
Maybe this project wasn’t structured right, it only coughed up $81K: but it sounds reasonable to me:
R25MH070369 PROMOTING HS MINORITY ADVANCEMENT IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES NIH NIMH $ 81,491
Promoting HS Minority Advancement in the Social Sciences
01-JUL-2004 / 30-JUN-2006
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of the proposed HS-COR Honors Research Training program is to achieve ethnic parity in admissions to (goal=100%) and success in undergraduate programs (goal = 100%) related to the biomedical sciences or mental health fields. Nationally, African Americans, Latin Americans, Native Americans, and some Asian Americans are underrepresented in the sciences and social sciences.
{{POSSIBLY — just conjecturing here, total hypothesis, but I HAVE been nosing around a lot of these grants for many months now — POSSIBLY because the powers that be would rather STUDY such populations than have them participate in running the studies. JUST an idea…}}
The specific aims of the program are to increase underrepresented student success by: (a) identifying 6 students who appear to have the greatest potential, (b) training students in the fundamental assumptions, value of, and pitfalls of research, (c) facilitating students’ specific research skills by their working with a faculty mentor on a specific research project, and (d) providing specific information and support to ensure that students have the qualities required to be successful in an undergraduate program, such as assistance with SAT preparation and the presentation of research in science fairs. Students will attend a summer training program on the research process that is designed to build scientific and critical reasoning skills and a practical seminar series and work one-on-one with their research mentors.
Faculty mentors’ research projects reflect a variety of areas including the neuropsychology of Alzheimer’s disease, quality of life of elderly women, effects of stereotype threat on academic achievement of minority students, adolescent wellbeing, and violence prevention. Evaluation of three goals is specified.
The goals are: (a) admission to college;
(b) success while in college; and
(c) professionalism.
Each goal is made more specific and specific program components are matched with each goal.
academic achievement, behavioral /social science, ethnic group, secondary school, training, vocational guidance African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, health science research potential, mental health personnel, university adolescence (12-20), behavioral /social science research tag, human subject
QUILICI, JILL L.
jill.quilici@csun.edu
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND SPONSORED PROJECTS NORTHRIDGE, CA 913308232
ZMH1
This might upset a few apple carts and probably wouldn’t be duplicated. Better to mentor children of prisoners, than potential social science superstars….
This one got over $1 million, so it must be very important (or, hard to study):
Massachusetts FACE OVERGENERALIZATION, PREJUDICE, AND STEREOTYPES NIH NIMH $1,403,454
Took 4 years.
10-SEP-2003 / 30-JUN-2007
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Considerable research demonstrates a strong tendency to use facial appearance when forming first impressions.
(What’s more, common sense says this as well)
Moreover, these impressions show remarkable consensus, yielding significant social consequences.
(ibid).
The long-range objective of the proposed research is to explain consensual first impressions of faces and to develop methods for ameliorating their negative social consequences.
Consensual First Impressions of Faces? Does this relate to (or, lead to…) “consensual sex.”??
The working hypothesis is that the psychological qualities that are accurately revealed by the functionally significant facial qualities that mark babies, unfitness, emotion, or identity are overgeneralized to people whose facial structure resembles that of babies, a particular level of fitness, a particular emotion, or a particular identity. The research has three specific aims. One is to use connectionist modeling to test the facial identity overgeneralization hypothesis that the tendency for responses to strangers to vary with their facial resemblance to known individuals contributes to racial prejudice and stereotyping.
The connectionist modeling experiments seek to demonstrate that the physical similarity between two faces can in and of itself account for similar impressions of them quite apart from similarities in the social categories of the faces. The second aim is to test whether generalized mere exposure effects can be used to reduce race and age prejudice and stereotyping, as predicted by the facial identity overgeneralization hypothesis. The mere exposure experiments seek to demonstrate that increasing the familiarity of an out-group facial prototype will decrease negative reactions to out-group members. The third aim is to use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to investigate neural activation patterns in response to faces that are predicted from each of the three overgeneralization hypotheses. The fMRI experiments seek to determine whether categories of faces that are differentiated by human judges’ ratings and by the activation they elicit in connectionist modeling experiments also elicit distinct patterns of neural activation, thereby demonstrating a neural substrate for the overgeneralization effects. By focusing on the structured facial information that influences prejudice and stereotypes, the proposed research brings a novel theoretical perspective to the field of social cognition, demonstrating that the intrinsic properties of faces make a significant contribution to social biases that have been largely viewed as social constructions. It also suggests novel interventions for reducing prejudice.
face, impression, prejudice, racial /ethnic difference bias, face expression, handedness, identity, neural information processing, social perception, visual stimulus behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, functional magnetic resonance imaging, human old age (65+), human subject, young adult human (21-34)
ZEBROWITZ, LESLIE A. PROFESSOR
zebrowitz@brandeis.edu
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 415 SOUTH STREET WALTHAM, MA 024549110
Total of all awards: $ 1,403,454
Oh, Here’s a $2 million one: Must be longitudinal and very relevant to national health and wellbeing or safety:
R01HD021332
TEXAS ORIGINS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF APPEARANCE-BASED STEREOTYPES NIH NICHD $ 2,352,235
R01HD021332 ORIGINS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF APPEARANCE-BASED STEREOTYPES NIH NICHD $ 2,352,235
Origins and Significance of Appearance-Based Stereotypes
01-SEP-1986 / 31-DEC-2007
This abstract is not available.
LANGLOIS, JUDITH H. CHARLES AND SARAH SEAY REGENTS’ PROFESSO
langlois@psy.utexas.edu
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN PO Box 7726 AUSTIN, TX 78713
(NOTE: project duration says 1986 – 2007. These records therefore don’t show 1986 – 1997, probably similar amounts/year.
Well, since this project was over with one and a half years ago, perhaps we can write and find out what they learned.
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/LangloisLAB/
http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/crl.html#scope
The Children’s Research Laboratory (CRL) was founded in January 1982 to facilitate training and research on a wide variety of topics relating to infant and child development. We are located in the Seay Psychology building at the corner of Dean Keeton and Speedway on the University of Texas campus.
Approximately 7 faculty members and 20 graduate students currently conduct research at the CRL. While most are affiliated with the Department of Psychology, research assistance also has been provided to faculty from the Linguistics Department, the Department of Human Ecology, and the College of Education. Our current facility includes a waiting room for parents, numerous laboratory suites, offices for faculty and graduate researchers, a student lounge, and a developmental psychology library. Space is also available for visiting faculty and post-doctoral fellows. In addition, the CRL provides invaluable training to approximately 150 undergraduate students per year. Their close work with both graduate students and faculty on specific research projetcts prepares them for graduate work toward advanced degrees or other careers involving children.
Our research has examined a broad range of topics, including studies of infant vision and audition, the early development of cognitive and intellectual ability, the development of language, parent-infant interaction, social stereotypes by young children and adults, and the causes of parental abuse of children. Research projects at the CRL are funded primarily through federal and private foundation funds.
Rebecca Anne Hoss, Judith H. Langlois, Rebecca Bigler, Jacqueline D. Woolley, Robert A. Josephs, Kristin Neff, …
This dissertation is dedicated to all those who have supported and guided me in my quest for a graduate degree in psychology, including my loving husband Chance Lawson, my unconditionally supportive…
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1129416
(Abstract:)
The relation between physical attractiveness and behavior was examined by assessing whether behavioral differences exist between attractive and unattractive children.
{{As determined by . . . . .??}}
64 3- and 5-year-old boys and girls were selected as subjects on the basis of physical attractiveness. Same age and sex, attractive, unattractive, and mixed-attractiveness dyads were formed and were observed in a seminaturalistic play setting. A categorical observation system was used to record affiliative, aggressive, activity-, and object-directed play behaviors. A developmental pattern was found for aggression: no differences based on attractiveness were evident in 3-year-olds, but 5-year-old unattractive children aggressed against peers more often than did attractive children. Unattractive children were generally more active than attractive children. Few differences in affiliative behaviors were found between attractive and unattractive children.
This is a side-note to a Judith Langlois site, but I don’t think the topic is “incidental” to WHAT is our federal HHS department doing with these grants (and why):
It is useful to distinguish, in a first approximation, between behavioral biology in general, and the more special fields of classical comparative psychology, classical ethology, and the newer fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. Contemporary animal behavior research often tries to combine the methods and insights of the experimental approach of comparative psychology with the field observational approach of ethology. Comparative psychology originated in North America as a branch of experimental psychology; its practitioners were mainly interested in differences between species, especially in intelligence and learning. Classical ethology is a branch of biology that originated in Europe, used observational rather than experimental methods, and was interested first and foremost in the naturally occurring behavior of animals. Although the dichotomy must not be overstressed, animal behaviorists tend to be trained in psychology, work with “bright” animals, and generally are interested in learned behaviors; while contemporary ethologists, sociobiologists, and evolutionary psychologists are likely to concentrate on innate behaviors. While the study of learned behavior is both important and immediately applicable to human psychology, these behaviors do not have an evolutionary basis beyond the neural capacity to learn. (For a more detailed account of the differences between these traditions, see, e.g., Barry Sinervo.)
The research covered in this area introduction encompasses a very large domain. For the sake of convenience, we have divided it in clusters that are listed alphabetically under the conventional labels “animal behavior,” “animal cognition,” “ethology,” “behavioral ecology,” “cognitive ecology,” “neuroethology,” “sociobiology,” and “evolutionary psychology.” It should be borne in mind throughout that these labels reflect little more than the contingencies of the history of behavioral biology, and that in practice, the boundaries between these sub-areas tend to be quite blurred.
The question I pose is whether historians and social scientists have much to gain from models of cultural evolution that treat cultural change as a kind of selection process. Can such models provide a unifying paradigm for the social sciences that plays the same role in the study of human culture that models of biological evolution play in biology as a whole?
As an explanatory theory of human behavior, dynamical ((Kind of dynamic, but not quite, so only “dynamical”??) models of cultural evolution and social learning hold more promise of success than models based on rational choice. Under the right conditions, evolutionary models supply a rationale for Nash equilibrium that rational choice theory is hard pressed to deliver. Furthermore, in cases with multiple symmetrical Nash equilibria, the dynamic models offer a plausible, historically path-dependent model of equilibrium selection. In conditions, such as those of correlated encounters, where the evolutionary dynamic theory is structurally at odds with the rational choice theory, the evolutionary theory provides the best account of human behavior.
— Brian Skyrms
Evolutionary Psychology (EP)
EP was articulated in the wake of human sociobiology’s unsuccessful attempts (most notably, Lumsden/Wilson 1981) to come to grips with gene-culture coevolution. Its goal is to uncover “the psychological mechanisms that underpin human … behavior, and … the selective forces that shaped those mechanisms” (Donald Symons). Its key assumptions are, in Eric Alden Smith’s accurate summary, modularity (human behavior is guided by specialized cognitive mechanisms performing specialized tasks); historicity (natural selection shaped those modules to produce adaptive behavior in the paleolithic EEA or “environment of evolutionary adaptedmess”); adaptive specificity (adaptive outcomes, e.g., mate preference, are very specific); and environmental novelty (modern environments are characterized by an unprecedented degree of novelty). From these assumptions, EP deduces that valid adaptive explanations must refer to genetically evolved psychological mechanisms linked to specific features of the EEA; that “culture,” “learning,” “rational choice,” and “fitness maximization” are insufficiently modular to be explanatorily realistic mechanisms, whether cognitive or behavioral; that contemporary human behavior may often be maladaptive; and that measuring fitness outcomes or correlates of contemporary behavioral patterns is irrelevant.
{{I”m tempted to add, this includes collective institutional behavior in many matters. Either we (so to speak) are trying to study, manage, and predict human behavior, so as to better MANAGE it, (evolutionary bias) OR we (so to speak) are trying to enforce a certain religious paradigm on the entire country, a paradigm in which all animals are equal, but SOME (male) animals are more equal than others. And, anyone, incidentally, who doesn’t agree with the above will be tortured in one (or more) institutions, until they do. How this differs IN THEORY AND PRACTICE with what this SAME United States is sending troops overseas to quell (insurgents, and make the world safe for “democracy,” I’m not sure – – it does have frightening similarities. Except, in many other countries, I could probably only put up ONE blog post saying this. . . . . . if I dared. We DO make fun of our government pretty well, I admit }}
ANYHOW, do you catch the flavor of the lingo?
By the way, calling people “bipolar” is popular these days. Never fear, a “Special Unit of Government” is on it, since about 2002, with a Mental Health Research Discretionary type grants. Apparently designed for this particular recipient only: (this is the only recipient that came up under Mental Health Research Discretionary and “Special Unit of Government.”
Fiscal Year Grantee Name State Grantee Class Award Title Award Action Type Sum of Actions
2009 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government ADVANCED CENTER FOR LATINO AND MH SYSTEMS RESEARCH NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION $ 821,185
2009 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government INNOVATIONS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF RACIAL/ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION $ 85,881
2009 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government LITHIUM MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH BIPOLAR NEW $- 105,248
2008 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government INNOVATIONS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF RACIAL/ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE NEW $ 85,844
2008 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government LITHIUM MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH BIPOLAR NEW $ 213,300
2007 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government A TREATMENT OUTCOME ANALYSIS FOR BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION $ 77,680
2006 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government A TREATMENT OUTCOME ANALYSIS FOR BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS NEW $ 80,000
2006 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government ADVANCED CENTER FOR LATINO AND MH SYSTEMS RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION $ 59,555
2006 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government HMO SELECTION INCENTIVES AND UNDERPROVISION OF MH CARE NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION $ 80,561
2005 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government ADVANCED CENTER FOR LATINO AND MH SYSTEMS RESEARCH NEW $ 921,689
2005 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government HMO SELECTION INCENTIVES AND UNDERPROVISION OF MH CARE NEW $ 82,500
2004 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND CONTROLLING BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS. NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION $ 200,000
2003 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE MA Special Unit of Government LATINO RESEARCH PROGRAM PROJECT NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION $ 898,383
Total (quick-check) $6,753,531
WHO, you may say, is the Cambridge Health Alliance, and what are they doing? What’s so special about them?
Psychopathology and controlling behavior in adolescents. . . . . . . Perhaps someone ought to study where they’ve been for the prior teen years, and take a look at which institutions as well as which environments. . . . .
5R01MH62030-020 (Federal Grant ID — you can look it up):
Psychopathology and Controlling Behavior in Adolescents.
25-SEP-2001 / 31-AUG-2006
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent attachment-related studies {{PROBABLY ALSO FEDERALLY FUNDED}} have demonstrated that both childhood behavior problems and adolescent psychopathology are predicted by (1) disorganized infant attachment behavior, behavior that is characterized by conflicting behavioral tendencies and the lack of a coherent relational strategy for dealing with stress (2). However, based on current literature, it is unclear whether a validated measure of disorganized attachment in adolescence exists.(3)
The first aim of the proposed study is to develop and validate a coding protocol for identifying controlling-punitive, controlling-caregiving, and other insecure-disorganized behavior in adolescence. (4) The coding scheme will be based on previous work in the field (5) and will be applied to two attachment-related parent-adolescent interaction assessments. Participants will be 120 adolescents and their mothers from low-income families, (6) 65 of whom who have participated in a longitudinal study at ages 12 and 18 months, 4-5 years, and 7-9 year. (7) The construct validity of the new measure of controlling attachment strategies will be assessed in relation to coding of Unresolved or Cannot Classify attachment strategies as assessed by the Adult Attachment Interview and will also be validated against broader aspects of parent-adolescent interaction assessed in a standard revealed differences conflict resolution task, as coded by the Autonomy and Relatedness Scales. (8)
The second aim of the study is to assess whether overall risk in infancy is an important antecedent of disorganized/controlling attachment strategies in adolescence. (9)
Mediational models will test whether the onset of behavior problems in the early school years or the mother’s lack of facilitation of automony and relatedness in adolescence adds to and/or mediates any observed relation between early relational risk and adolescent attachment behaviors. (10) The third aim of the study is to assess the degree to which adolescent disorganized/controlling attachment strategies are associated with adolescent psychiatric morbidity. Psychiatric diagnoses will be assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnosis (SCID) Axis I, the borderline and antisocial personality disorder sections of the SCID II, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) , and the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (ADES). Longitudinal analyses will further assess the degree to which early relational risk and early school age behavior problems are important precursors of adolescent psychopathology. The proposed study will contribute to increased understanding of long-term developmental trajectories that eventuate in psychopathology. In order to implement prevention or treatment programs for reducing adolescent antisocial behavior and psychopathology, it is essential {{FOR WHOM??}} to seek a thorough understanding of the developmental pathways through which such behavior develops over time.
adolescence (12-20), child behavior disorder, child psychology, longitudinal human study, low socioeconomic status, parent offspring interaction, psychopathology age difference, behavior prediction, caregiver, conflict, depression, disease /disorder proneness /risk, gender difference, human morbidity, infant human (0-1 year), maternal behavior, mental disorder diagnosis, psychoanalysis, psychological stressor, psychosocial separation, racial /ethnic difference behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, human subject, interview, videotape /videodisc
LYONS-RUTH, KARLEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
klruth@hms.harvard.edu
CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE 1493 CAMBRIDGE ST CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139
COMMENTARY BELOW:
Assistance to Recipient(s) “Cambridge Health Alliance”
(FY 2000-2009)
Federal dollars: $25,309,682
Total number of recipients: 1
Total number of transactions: 87
Top 5 Known Congressional Districts where Recipients are Located
Massachusetts 08 (Michael E. Capuano) $8,151,249
Top 10 Recipients
CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE $25,309,682
Recipient Type
Government $20,271,453
Other $4,681,488
Nonprofits $311,588
For Profits $41,653
Higher Education $3,500
Individuals $0
Type of projects: Top 5.
93.242: Mental Health Research Grants (Doesn’t quite match the total above, eh?, same category) $11,129,223
93.145: AIDS Education and Training Centers $3,953,377
93.252: Healthy Communities Access Program $2,476,400
93.887: Health Care and Other Facilities $1,633,902
93.243: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services_Projects of Regional and National Significance $1,450,000
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THIS POST ALSO holds my narrative lead-in and footnotes around 'BMTP' (Battered Mothers Testimony Project){{=pdf of its Final Rept 2002}} at Wellesley Centers For Women, leading to my strongly-worded disclaimer/commentary on how, while misogyny (overall) is real and systemic, I disagree w standard feminist (so-called) domestic violence advocacy's protocol response to handling of Violence Against Women and Child Abuse 'IN the Family Courts'). Drill-down started led to better understanding of 1985ff (now, as 2 merged centers) WC4W's historic psychoanalysis/ psychology focus and funders of this influential, well-endowed, private, Boston-area, all-woman college's influential reporting (2002, example shown), effectively driving DV and VAWA policy. Still investigating... (see also Kathleen Stone Kaufmann, Wellesley '67(?) + her parents' "Stone Endowmt Fund")
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…Think About It: Will Any of These EVER Admit to AFCC’s Influence AND US-based Fatherhood | Access Visitation agenda for the (AFCC-promoted, specialized) Family Courts? (My Sentiments + Evidence May 29, 2020, Updated and Published June 26). June 26, 2020
For Political Clout, Big Isn’t Always Best, as the National Fatherhood Initiative, Inc. (1993ff, EIN# 23-2745763) and its Disproportionate Influence Considering Its Small Size and Financially Fuzzy IRS Tax Returns Show. (Started Jan. 23, 2020, Published May 20.) May 20, 2020
Privatization, Functionalism, the Complete Mental Health Archipelago. It’s Here, So Why Should We Still Care? (May, 2020). May 17, 2020
The Giant APA and ABA Typify The People’s Problem: Distinguishing PUBLIC (Gov’t Holdings and Operations, i.e., Assets and Cash Flow) from PRIVATE (Corporate Holdings + Operations, i.e., Assets and Cash Flow) So As To Hold Gov’t Accountable to Those It Taxes: the People Employed in Public and/or Private Sectors (Moved Here Dec. 25, 2019) May 14, 2020
So Many Web Addresses End “.org,” Even This One. But Notice Which Entity, If Any, Is Behind Each, How Transparent, Who’s Backing It. RE: ‘EJUSA.org’ and ‘TheAppeal.org’: One of Those Makes You Work Much Harder Than The Other to Find Its Owners/Backers. [Draft: Feb. 24, Published April 13, 2020]. April 14, 2020
One Thread, Many Images, (My) Basic Drill-Down Messages Re: NFJCFJ, AFCC, CAFCASS, “Alienation,” “Domestic Abuse Trainings” (AFCC does, too..), “Arguing PAS, etc.” [Feb. 20, 2020] February 20, 2020
Major Transform/Reform Campaigns [Regardless of Cause] Involve Branded, On-line Media Platforms. Keep an Eye on Who Owns Which Brands + Platforms: Do Periodic Drill-downs.. [Publ. Feb. 12, 2020, but Media Drill-Downs from my Feb. 2018 ‘Consolidated Control of DV Orgs’ Page]. February 13, 2020
‘Divorce Mediation [and] Domestic Violence’ (per a 1997 NIJ-funded report by Jessica Pearson, Ph.D. of CPR, (and now, FRPN.org) raises the question: Do the DV Industry USA Orgs. know about AFCC? (Yes!) Since When (I DNK: 1980s?). Are They Acknowledging AFCC? (Generally, No!). So? (Know Your Organizations!) [A Nov. 19, 2019, off-ramp from ‘Oh Arizona!’ Post, Publ. Jan. 25, 2020]. January 26, 2020
Pay For Success Social Impact Funding (SIF) = Same Old Public/Private Pipelines, Faster Flow: Why Do We Submit? [Too bad was NOT published Jan 21, 2016, but is Now: Jan. 21, 2020]. January 21, 2020
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This Absolutely Uncommon Analysis shouldn’t be! **
**Summer, 2019, Update/s: This widget formerly called "Contributions Welcome & Needed/Thanks." Its full contents are now on a separate post (linked above and below) and I'm deciding how much, if any, of this one to keep in place here..//LGH.
This Absolutely Uncommon Analysis shouldn't be!
What I do here: I expose the Systems Design, and the Designers, so Y.O.U. can Show Others, and to notify those playing certain games, "you've been flagged."
Heard of "disruptive technologies?" Disruptive innovations?
Well, this is a disruptive blog. I give people who've already been strung out and stripped down BY the system another place to stand and look at it, and a clear, fairly diagnostic language (vs. pretty logos and moving pictures) to describe it to others. AND, which many don't do, I tell how I found the information; links databases and all.
Despite the blog's appearance, I know what I'm doing! You're looking at long-term leverage, in the hands of the "non-experts," in the public interest, not public funded propaganda to drive business to private pockets. Hence, I'm not afraid to ask:
The formula for this public/private business model isn't really that complex, but the concept itself was just so devious, insidious, parasitic, grandiose, and by now, so baked into the economic, institutional infrastructure, people either don't notice, or, in a common, cowardly, but all too human response they see, and just start denying, or looking for nicer explanations of an ugly truth -- where it's heading. For lack of nicer, but still honest terms, it's heading towards yet more slavery (and tolerating it) and genocide (and tolerating it). [[2019 comments: and the ability to drive the U.S., in particular, into even more, bigger, and more costly/dangerous wars, discrediting us (further) internationally. But I wrote this sidebar many years ago..]]
As a woman, mother, a family court and domestic violence survivor [yes, he was a hitter, and more], who has already 'faced the music' in more ways than I can count, to the best of my ability, I do not do "denial." I also ask the public, what's left of it, to just not go down that Denial Road, and with it lose more of their innate humanity, perception, and ethics. There is another way out, one with a conscience:
Really want system change? Make up your mind to understand government financing -- change yourself first. Find and read your local "CAFR" (government's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports), a wonderful source of information, with flow chart, descriptions of component or blended government units it's reporting on, and reporting the balances in each fund -- ever heard of a "Balance Sheet"? Looking for this also reveals just how many governmental business entities ARE there? Find them. Read. Think about what you see. What does it mean?
Governments tend to pool their investments, for example, "CALPERS" (essentially created ca. 1931) is the largest "public pension" investing platform around, or at least in the country. Getting started earlier sure helped, then adding players (subscribers) over time ALSO did. In 1985, add "CII" Council on Institutional Investors (members: in 31states and D.C.) (LA Times 1985 article on Calif. Politician (state treasurer, assembly speaker) Unruh whose idea it was for the Council so institutional funds could "flex their muscle"; and push for corporate governance reform. CII members now control $3 trillion of assets)-- my point being, government holdings are invested and when pooled like this, are major clout, but the average person never reads even a single government entity's annual financial reports to take a look. (I wasn't aware of them til 2012!)
Governments not only invest their funds in business, they also by legislation, patenting, and protections, set them up to win, or lose. So, "know thy government" is a great place to start. (See blog/see links in the blog).
[This Dialogue continued below under the sidebar widget "Really Want Systems Change?".]
2019 updates: This widget's (text box) full contents, along with others', now can be viewed (better -- full-page-width) at: Many of My Sidebar Widgets Now Live Here...[Published July 9, 2019]Published short (url short-link ends "-abt") (and may eventually replace current sidebar contents, or most of them). I also published a second, similar post with other sidebar widget contents(url short-link ends '-ahh') on July 19, 2019. Thanks for your patience (and any NOT-tax-exempt donations) meanwhile.//LGH
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Cold,Hard.Fact$ (Links similar but not identical to one off-ramped to Widgets post. I may off-ramp this one soon too..//LGH mid-Aug. 2019
State-by-State Charity Lookup Links (from SimpleCharityRegistration.com’s March 2017 WordPress post). [Published 11/11/2017].
Look Up a Nonprofit (Impromptu How-To // Checkpoints) ~
Reading Govt Financial Blueprints, not just Family Court (Urgent Issues. My blog)
Recent blog expands focus to reading the government’s own comprehensive (not “budget-based”) annual financial reports.
Do you Know Your NGA? Post-PRWORA, 1998 Stealth, Coordinated Expansion/ Diversion of Welfare Funds based on Sociological, Quasi-Religious Ideology on the Ideal Family Structure (the offspring of The 1965 Moynihan Report), Facilitated by (A) At least 39 of the Nation’s Governors and (B) as Coached by Wade Horn ℅ The National Fatherhood Initiative (Page Added Sep. 2016, Published Apr. 27, 2017)
About those Birth Certificates (a little history)
ISIS and HHS grants in Dakota County, MN, Hmmm…. (@March 2013)
Understand “Children’s Law Centers” (NCLN – Eight nonprofits Get Organized) and “Children’s Rights,” in general
Look It Up, or We Continue Losing Ground (Pep Talk), and The Carlyle Corp.
Parenting Coordination — Invented, Promoted, only Slightly Demoted.. (May, 2013 recap)
Abolishing Representative Gov’t through Presidential Executive Orders: How 50 States became 10 Federal Regions
The “Social-Sciencification” of America (Roosevelt’s Reorganization Act of 1939, the EOP, and: Brownlow, Merriam, Gulick– and Ruml)
HHS Grantees, Just Georgia, Just HMRF (CFDA 93086), May 13, 2016, Report Run. Take a look!
A Brief Reminder of the History of Money, Banking and Other Significant Events When the USA’s (Other) Major Tax-Exempt Foundations Were Being Established [Page added 11-13-2016]
USDOJ Tobacco Lawsuits and Settlements (Just a~First 5~Footnote to the 2016 TOC Intro.)(publ. 12-15-2016)
Bank Street College of Education and School (Fast-Tracking FYI on its 100 year Progressive, Experimental Laboratories involving Young Children, History)[published Apr30 2017]
How and When Problem-Solving (make that ‘Collaborative Justice’) Courts were Institutionalized and other Consolidate/Coordinate/Standardize/PRIVATIZE Stories at Courts.CA.Gov [published Sep. 18, 2017]
Understanding University Models [Preface to the Post ” ‘Human Ecology’ (Colleges of), Psychology, and Cornell. Why The History of the American University System Still Matters.”) published March 4, 2018].
Corporations (usually starting with tax-exempt ones) Coordinate Campaigns named after a Cause, but We (the Public) should Coordinate to Get and STAY Cognizant of the Corporate(and Gov’t Entity) Contexts. [Page added March 28 2018]
Ltrs to/from US Presidents ~ Federal Agencies
000 Summary "Pushed to the Altar The Right-Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion" (2008) by Progressive Jean Hardisty [Policy Summary]
1995 NIJ Natl Instit of Justice (USDOJ/OJP) Address to Congress
1995-Bill Clinton, himself faithful to his wife, bemoans fatherlessness and as President instructs the Executive Dept. to reinvent itself. Which, it has…
2001 GWBush Exec Order Establishment of White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFCBI:Jan 29th=his FIRST)
2004 (11/26) So. CA Attorney's Third Ltr to Pres GW Bush & Sen Orrin Hatch (of Sen Judiciary Committee) to Free Sassower, Jailed for Speaking 23 words in a Public Hearing
2005 Transcript of WDC Judge Holeman Sentencing Elena Sassower (Brown Univ.) for "Disrupting Congress" by ATTEMPTING TO SPEAK at a Public Judiciary Confirmation Hearing.
2006 GeorgeWBush says, $150mil for Healthy Marriages, up to 1/3 Fathrhood ("Deficit Reduction Act")
2009 – David Blankenhorn writes Obama, as if his predecessors hadn't "gotten through" to Clinton and Bush, earlier. What posturing!
ColdHardFact$ Posts
Where to File This Level of In(s)anity? (How Not to Use the Internet) January 2, 2013
Taxes for a “Negative Return on Investment,” at least for Taxpayers…. (of HUD and Hope) December 20, 2012
Nothing Complicated Here: Want to See Real Change? Read, and Enact This! December 13, 2012
The Long and Winding Rhodes – #4 (Running Governments and a Diamond Cartel) December 2, 2012
The LONG and WINDING Rhodes – #3 (Diamonds=>Genocide/Death Camps ~ Eugenics ~ Hitler/Goering ~ Apartheid) December 1, 2012
The LONG and WINDING RHODES – #2 (South African Diamonds, Monopolies, Genocide) December 1, 2012
The Long and Winding Rhodes (to restoring and expanding the British Empire….) – #1 November 28, 2012
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1 O’clock Breakdowns
By: Al Squatrito
Bills vs. Browns
The 5-7 Browns will go on their second road game in a row and try to beat the 2-10 Buffalo Bills in the cold . The Bills have been one of those teams that have been playing as hard as they can to show the world they are better than your average college football team but are 2-10 for a reason, or several. They have the worst rushing defense in the NFL and the only two teams that have a chance of being worse are the Cardinals and the Broncos. The Bills can play you tough at home and are coming off of a brutal loss to the Vikings in week 13. I picture Peyton Hillis and Fred Jackson putting their teams on their shoulders and having the most value for fantasy owners come Sunday. I think the Bills get their third win at home because Jake Delhomme is starting the Browns and the Browns are playing on the road for consecutive weeks. Ryan Fitzpatrick will be a very risky start this weekend especially since it is supposed to rain and snow in Buffalo. I like the Bills to win this one 19-16.
Panthers vs. Falcons
The 1-11 Carolina Panthers host the 10-2 Atlanta Falcons at Bank of America Stadium this Sunday. This is probably the worst game to watch this weekend unless you are an Atlanta Falcons fan. The Falcons have only allowed 6 rushing touchdowns against them this season while the Panthers only hopes of scoring is on the ground. Luckily they are home, but they rank 27th against the run and are 8th against the pass. That doesn’t mean Matt Ryan isn’t going to throw on them; he just might not throw all day on them and why should he? The Falcons are a run first team anyway and that’s all they have to do in this game. Michael Turner is the best start on the team fantasy wise while Jonathan Stewart is the only player worth starting for the Panthers. I don’t see Matt Ryan throwing more than a touchdown pass in this game and can be slightly risky if you need a lot of points from him. I picture the Falcons taking it easy but winning in this one. I like the Falcons to win 20-13.
Lions vs. Packers
The 2-10 Detroit Lions will host the 8-4 Green Bay Packers at Ford Field on Sunday. The Lions haven’t been getting any calls thrown their way and last week they got another unfortunate bogus call against them when the called Ndamukong Suh for a penalty for unnecessary roughness on Jay Cutler for throwing a forearm to his head while rushing for a first down. Ed Hochuli made a huge mistake giving the Bears a first down as they scored on the next play to make it 24-20 which was the final. This is twice in a row now that the Bears beat the Lions on two bogus game ending calls. Jay Cutler becomes a rusher when you pass the line of scrimmage which means unless you slide, anything goes. Also, looking back on the instant replay you will notice that no forearm blow was given out to Jay Cutler by Ndamukong, it just looked that way in regular time. Ndamukong Suh got fined 15,000 dollars for a penalty he did not even commit! What a shame. Ed Hochuli may be a good ref, but when it comes down to it he can make some pretty poor decisions. Regardless, the week must go on and the Lions will have their hands full once again as they will try to keep the game close with Drew Stanton to start for his second game this season. Running back James Starks ran tough last week and got the bulk of carries last week vs the 49ers. It will be interesting to see if the Packers will have some sort of running game going into the playoffs, with Starks I believe they will. Starks may be their savior and is the best waiver wire pickup in fantasy leagues this week. This is a nice matchup for Starks. Calvin and Javid Best seem to be noteworthy starts this weekend while Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings, and James Starks are your noteworthy fantasy players you may want to plug-in your fantasy lineups this week. James Starks will get the bulk of carries for the Packers. I see the Packers beating the Lions on the road, 31-24.
Jaguars vs. Raiders
The Jacksonville Jaguars (7-5) will host the Oakland Raiders (6-6) this Sunday at home while the Raiders are coming off an astonishing win last weekend against the Chargers. These are two run first teams that know how to pound the rock. Maurice Jones-Drew has 100 yards rushing in his last five outings while Darren McFadden (Run DMC) is averaging 4.9 yards a carry and is leading his team to victories along with backfield partner Michael Bush. This should be a great battle between the two teams who are both in the playoff hunt. The Jags have the slightly better passing game while Garrard’s quarterback rating is 92.6 and Jason Campbell’s is only 78. However this game is going to be won and lost inside the trenches and I picture Garrard keeping some drives alive running for first downs throughout the game. Jacoby Ford, Darren McFadden, and Michael Bush seem to be the only fantasy players you could start for the Raiders while Maurice Jones-Drew is a must start and Garrard, Mike Sims-Walker and Mike Thomas are possible options for the Jaguars. Sims-Walker will probably be lined up against Nhamdi Asomugha so you may want to look elsewhere. I like the Jaguars because they are home this weekend and they better beat the Raiders if they want to stay in first place in the AFC South. I think the Jaguars win this game 24-20.
Vikings vs. Giants
The 8-4 Giants will travel to Minnesota to take on the 5-7 Vikings. Ever since Leslie Frazier has taken over they have been on a roll winning two straight games, maybe they can make it three as the Vikings have matched up well against the Giants in the past with Eli under center. This is an interesting matchup for Eli Manning and the Giants run game as the Vikings are fourth against the rush while the Giants run game is at its best right now with a legit two-headed monster. I still think the Giants are going to be able to run the ball on the Vikings because the Giants can pass against anyone, opening up the run. The Vikings aren’t a team to naturally score a lot of points early in a game against a great opponent so the Giants run game should fare well. I like Sidney Rice, Adrian Peterson, and former Giant Visanthe Shaincoe to do some damage against the Giants at home while Eli Manning seems like a shaky start considering his record against the Vikings (from previous games). However, the Vikings pass defense is where they remain vulnerable on defense and one would assume Eli should have a decent day against them with Hakeem Nicks and Steve Smith both returning for this matchup. I think Eli, Hakeem, Brandon Jacobs, Steve Smith, and Ahmad are all number two starts this week in fantasy while Adrian, Shiancoe, and Rice have more upside. I like the Vikings in this game to upset the Giants at home because their defense is playing well and they have nothing to lose. Vikings 23-21.
Steelers vs. Bengals
The 9-3 Steelers take on the 2-10 Bengals but their records are definitely misleading as they matchup very well with one another and the Bengals should not be counted out. The Bengals have lost 9 games in a row! Holy smokes! Still, the Bengals just played the former Super Bowl champs at home last weekend and will be on top of their game this weekend against the Steelers, you better believe it. The Steelers played a huge game last weekend to be on top of their division and are a little beat up post the Ravens matchup. This is going to be a slug match for four quarters but I think the Bengals are going to slip away with the win in the end through a turnover or special teams play that decides the game. Mike Wallace, and Rashard Mendenhall seem to be the only fantasy players you can have faith in this weekend for the Steelers. I think Rashard has the most upside while Wallace is a step behind him. Carson Palmer can’t play any worse and the Bengals have nothing to lose, but you still can’t rely on him. I can’t picture the Bengals losing ten straight even though it is possible. Terrell Owens is the only fantasy option you should feel confident about this weekend. OchoCinco played better last week and isn’t a terrible flex this weekend. I like the Bengals to win this game 17-14.
Redskins vs. Buccaneers
The 5-7 Redskins will host the 7-5 Buccaneers home at Fed Ex Field on Sunday and it may be another ugly loss for the Skins. The Redskins have been falling apart ever since the Lions beat them and Donovan McNabb was pulled for the two-minute drill in the fourth quarter. Their offensive line isn’t playing well and deserves a lot of the blame. Albert Haynesworth should change his nickname to Big Baby while he will be suspended for the rest of the season. This Skins team is in turmoil and Mike Shanahan may have lost the locker room. Ryan Torain is expected to be back and provide a spark for the Redskins zone running scheme but who really knows as James Davis and Keiland Williams are still expected to see touches. Don’t put too much faith in Torain in his first game back and still sharing carries.
The Buccaneers on the other hand have a young team that are rallying around each other and will bring their A game to Washington this week as they are in the playoff race. I like Mike Williams who is a contender to be the rookie of the year this season. LeGarrette Blount should have a huge fantasy day in this matchup against the skins terrible Run D ranked 28th. The Redskins are also brutal against the pass ranked 29th so Mike Williams and Josh Freeman both should be successful. I like the Buccaneers in this game because they have everything going for them while the Redskins have everything going against them. The Buccaneers will win this game 21-20.
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Silicki, Sharon Hughes was born 30 January 1961, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 3011 Kenilworth Blvd, Sebring, Florida 33870. Florida voter ID number 114822716. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 September 2018 voter list: Sharon Hughes Silicki, 702 N Lanier Ave, Fort Meade, 33870 No Party Affiliation.
31 May 2012 voter list: SHARON HUGHES SILICKI, 1325 TOM WATSON RD, LAKELAND, 33870 No Party Affiliation.
Silidker, Lenore L. was born 2 May 1951, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 9340 Sunrise Lakes Blvd, Apt 101, Sunrise, Florida 33322-2101. Florida voter ID number 101255900. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 May 2015 voter list: Lenore L. Silidker, 9340 Sunrise Lakes Blvd, APT 101, Sunrise, 33322-2101 Florida Democratic Party.
Silidker, Lisa F. was born 7 May 1959, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1549 Stonehaven Estates Dr, West Palm Beach, Florida 33411. Florida voter ID number 111841452. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
SILIDKER, MARTIN E. was born 14 April 1947, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1549 Stonehaven Estates Dr, West Palm Beach, Florida 33411. Florida voter ID number 111841602. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 December 2017.
SILIDKER, SELMA was born 5 June 1917, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1549 Stonehaven Estates Dr, West Palm Beach, Florida 33411. Florida voter ID number 112195848. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2017.
Silidker, Valerie Lee was born 13 November 1974, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 120 Ne 18Th St, Delray Beach, Florida 33444. Florida voter ID number 101744381. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 January 2016 voter list: Valerie Lee Silidker, 8061 SW 20Th PL, Davie, 33444 Florida Democratic Party.
31 May 2015 voter list: Valerie Lee Silidker, 8061 SW 20th Pl, Davie, 33444 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIE, BENSON RICARDO was born 20 April 1985, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 500 N Congress Ave, Apt 193, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Florida voter ID number 112015636. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 237 HIGHWOODS PLANTATION AVE, SUMMERVILLE SC 29485. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 May 2017.
Silie, Carmen Maria was born 18 March 1957, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 4014 W Waters Ave, Apt 1811, Tampa, Florida 33614. Florida voter ID number 120691254. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 August 2016 voter list: Carmen Maria Silie, 2507 W Powhatan AVE, Tampa, 33614 Florida Democratic Party.
Silie, Celezon born 13 January 1970, Florida voter ID number 117941547 See Silien, Celezon. CLICK HERE.
Silie, Edwin Manuel was born 13 December 1980, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 7351 Sw 38Th St, Miami, Florida 33155. Florida voter ID number 124872208. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 November 2019 voter list: Edwin Manuel Silie, 14020 Biscayne BLVD, APT 1017, North Miami, 33155 Florida Democratic Party.
31 July 2018 voter list: Edwin Manuel Silie, 14020 Biscayne BLVD, APT 806, North Miami, 33155 Florida Democratic Party.
Silie, Jahaira Margarita was born 7 November 1979, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 21241 Sw 97Th Ct, Cutler Bay, Florida 33189. Florida voter ID number 125300450. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 10 Bishop Pl, Angwin CA 94508-9651. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silie, Leticia Estela was born 14 July 1928, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 14923 Sw 88Th Ter, Miami, Florida 33196. Florida voter ID number 109909122. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silie, Yashira Marie was born 3 July 1986, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 1660 Gadsden Ave Nw, 10621 Rhodes La, Palm Bay, Florida 32907. Florida voter ID number 128803018. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 10621 Rhodes Lane, Spring Valley CA 91978. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Siliem, Joel Cilien born 30 December 1978, Florida voter ID number 102220536 See Dorvil, Joel Siliem. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Alexandinov born 8 March 1999, Florida voter ID number 123638794 See Silien, Alexandrinov. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Alexandrinov was born 8 March 1999, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 11212 Ne 13Th Ave, Miami, Florida 33161. Florida voter ID number 123638794. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 August 2020 voter list: Alexandinov Silien, 11212 NE 13Th AVE, Miami, 33161 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Cedlin was born 21 February 1998, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 1480 Nw 20Th St, Ft Lauderdale, Florida 33311. Florida voter ID number 123168388. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Celezon was born 13 January 1970, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1231 Nw 55Th Ave, Lauderhill, Florida 33313. Florida voter ID number 117941547. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 March 2020 voter list: Celezon Silie, 1231 NW 55TH Ave, Lauderhill, 33313 Florida Democratic Party.
31 March 2016 voter list: Celezon Silie, 1126 NE 16TH PL, Apt 1, Ft Lauderdale, 33313 Florida Democratic Party.
30 June 2015 voter list: Celezon Silie, 1126 NE 16Th PL, Apt 1, Ft Lauderdale, 33313 Florida Democratic Party.
31 May 2014 voter list: Celezon Silie, 718 NE 14Th St, APT 1, Ft Lauderdale, 33313 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIEN, CHARLOT was born 14 December 1996, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 10700 Ember St, Boca Raton, Florida 33428. Florida voter ID number 122626667. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Chimene Orne was born 21 August 1964, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 11930 Nw 31St Pl, Sunrise, Florida 33323-1212. Florida voter ID number 102365335. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 May 2015 voter list: Chimene Orne Silien, 11930 NW 31st Pl, Sunrise, 33323-1212 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Claudamise M. was born 2 February 1947, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1225 Nw 120Th St, North Miami, Florida 33167. Florida voter ID number 109989732. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Danae Amy Sahadia was born 13 January 2002, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 100 Sw 91St Ave, Plantation, Florida 33324. Florida voter ID number 128182072. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Egener was born 3 June 1983, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 13820 Ne 3Rd Ct, Apt 305, North Miami, Florida 33161. Florida voter ID number 124151779. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
28 February 2018 voter list: Egener Silien, 1155 NE 137Th St, 402, North Miami, 33161 No Party Affiliation.
Silien, Gaspard B. was born 24 May 1991, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 10700 Ember St, Boca Raton, Florida 33428. Florida voter ID number 120955327. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
SILIEN, GERDA born 2 July 1986, Florida voter ID number 111955476 See Silien, Gerda. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Gerda was born 2 July 1986, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 983 Lake Terry Dr, A, West Palm Beach, Florida 33411. Florida voter ID number 111955476. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 September 2020 voter list: Gerda Silien, 982 Lake Terry Dr, A, West Palm Beach, 33411 Florida Democratic Party.
30 September 2016 voter list: GERDA SILIEN, 836 BALFREY DR S, WEST PALM BEACH, 33411 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIEN, GUERLINE was born 4 May 1994, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 5195 Vineland Rd, #, Orlando, Florida 32811-7618. Florida voter ID number 120022738. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 March 2020 voter list: GUERLINE SILIEN, 10700 EMBER ST, BOCA RATON, 32811-7618 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Janice Betty was born 22 May 1978, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1225 Nw 120Th St, North Miami, Florida 33167. Florida voter ID number 110332886. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Jean Jano was born 14 November 1952, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 2103 Lowry Ave, Haines City, Florida 33844. Florida voter ID number 117511152. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
SILIEN, JESSE born 27 April 1996, Florida voter ID number 121577881 See Silien, Jesse. CLICK HERE.
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Silien, Jesse was born 27 April 1996, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 8551 Nw 50Th St, Lauderhill, Florida 33351. Florida voter ID number 121577881. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 July 2020 voter list: JESSE SILIEN, 2700 W PENSACOLA ST, APT 2424, TALLAHASSEE, 33351 Florida Democratic Party.
31 August 2016 voter list: Jesse Silien, 1613 NW 7Th Ter, Ft Lauderdale, 33351 Florida Democratic Party.
30 June 2015 voter list: Jesse Silien, 1613 NW 7TH TER, Ft Lauderdale, 33351 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Joseph S. was born 12 August 1945, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1225 Nw 120Th St, North Miami, Florida 33167. Florida voter ID number 109285070. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Leonald was born 24 June 1977, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2011 Lori Ln W, Lakeland, Florida 33801. Florida voter ID number 117185078. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
28 February 2019 voter list: Leonald Silien, 180 S Carolina AVE, Lake Alfred, 33801 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Linda was born 4 March 1987, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 4725 N Miami Ave, Miami, Florida 33127. Florida voter ID number 110268641. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
SILIEN, LUC born 18 June 1956, Florida voter ID number 119831504 See Silien, Luc. CLICK HERE.
SILIEN, LUC was born 18 June 1956, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 5504 Alhambra Dr, Orlando, Florida 32808. Florida voter ID number 119831504. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 August 2020 voter list: Luc Silien, 17234 Madison Green DR, Tampa, 32808 Florida Democratic Party.
31 July 2018 voter list: Luc Silien, 1495 NE 135Th St, North Miami, 32808 Florida Democratic Party.
31 May 2013 voter list: LUC SILIEN, 2673 JEANNIN DR, NORTH PORT, 32808 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIEN, LUCIEN born 8 June 1971, Florida voter ID number 101905374 See Silien, Lucien. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Lucien was born 8 June 1971, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 13285 Ne 6Th Ave, Apt N-405, North Miami, Florida 33161. Florida voter ID number 101905374. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 July 2018 voter list: Lucien Silien, 13725 NE 6Th AVE, 205, North Miami, 33161 Florida Democratic Party.
31 May 2017 voter list: LUCIEN SILIEN, 13725 NE 6TH AVE, APT 2045, NORTH MIAMI, 33161 Florida Democratic Party.
30 April 2017 voter list: Lucien Silien, 1495 NE 135Th ST, North Miami, 33161 Florida Democratic Party.
31 May 2012 voter list: Lucien Silien, 3916 NW 38Th AVE, Lauderdale Lakes, 33161 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Ludenie E. born 8 January 1994, Florida voter ID number 118847490 See Silien, Ludenie Eluvia. CLICK HERE.
SILIEN, LUDENIE ELUVIA born 8 January 1994, Florida voter ID number 118847490 See Silien, Ludenie E. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Ludenie Eluvia was born 8 January 1994, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 3130 Palm Trace Landings Dr, 20-606, Davie, Florida 33314. Florida voter ID number 118847490. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 April 2020 voter list: Ludenie E. Silien, 2493 CENTERGATE DR, APT 202, Miramar, 33314 Florida Democratic Party.
30 June 2015 voter list: Ludenie E. Silien, 2493 CENTERGATE DR, APT 202, Miramar, 33314 Florida Democratic Party.
31 May 2012 voter list: LUDENIE ELUVIA SILIEN, 2673 JEANNIN DR, NORTH PORT, 33314 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Lunie was born 24 January 1993, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 8206 Whistling Pine Way, Tampa, Florida 33647-3613. Florida voter ID number 118397225. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 April 2019 voter list: Lunie Silien, 17246 MADISON GREEN DR, Tampa, 33647-3613 Florida Democratic Party.
31 August 2016 voter list: Lunie Silien, 3713 JEFFERSON COMMONS Dr, UNIT 202, Tampa, 33647-3613 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIEN, MARIE C. born 20 October 1954, Florida voter ID number 121179832 See Silien, Marie C. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Marie C. was born 20 October 1954, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 8206 Whistling Pine Way, Tampa, Florida 33647-3613. Florida voter ID number 121179832. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
28 February 2019 voter list: Marie C. Silien, 17246 Madison Green DR, Tampa, 33647-3613 Florida Democratic Party.
31 July 2018 voter list: MARIE C. SILIEN, 2673 JEANNIN DR, NORTH PORT, 33647-3613 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Marie Edeline was born 6 November 1970, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2103 Lowry Ave, Haines City, Florida 33844. Florida voter ID number 121042945. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Marie Naremene was born 6 May 1975, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 401 W Florida Ave, Apt 6A, Haines City, Florida 33844. Florida voter ID number 118736582. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 April 2017 voter list: Marie Naremene Silien, 2103 Lowry Ave, Haines City, 33844 Florida Democratic Party.
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Silien, Marie S. was born 10 October 1988, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 3143 Nw 40Th Ct, Lauderdale Lakes, Florida 33309-4928. Florida voter ID number 115153034. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 7 Frawley St Apt 12, Boston MA 02115-6327. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 June 2015 voter list: Marie S. Silien, 3143 NW 40th Ct, Lauderdale Lakes, 33309-4928 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Marjorie was born 1 January 1982, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 5807 Sw 27Th St, # 2, West Park, Florida 33023-4127. Florida voter ID number 121277394. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 May 2019 voter list: Marjorie Silien, 5801 SW 27Th St, APT 2, West Park, 33023-4127 Florida Democratic Party.
30 June 2015 voter list: Marjorie Silien, 5801 SW 27Th St, APT 2, West Park, 33023-4127 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Marvin was born 12 March 1997, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 3155 Nw 40Th Ct, Lauderdale Lakes, Florida 33309-4928. Florida voter ID number 120867064. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 June 2015 voter list: Marvin Silien, 3155 NW 40TH CT, Lauderdale Lakes, 33309-4928 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Michael was born 29 March 1961, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 11930 Nw 31St Pl, Sunrise, Florida 33323-1212. Florida voter ID number 101859553. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 May 2015 voter list: Michael Silien, 11930 NW 31st Pl, Sunrise, 33323-1212 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIEN, MICHAEL RODNEY born 27 October 1987, Florida voter ID number 102487721 See Silien, Michael Rodney. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Michael Rodney was born 27 October 1987, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 9326 Nw 8Th Cir, Plantation, Florida 33324-4929. Florida voter ID number 102487721. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 March 2020 voter list: Michael Rodney Silien, 1020 Audace Ave, APT 210, Boynton Beach, 33324-4929 Republican Party of Florida.
31 March 2019 voter list: Michael Rodney Silien, 1577 NW 91ST AVE, APT 132, CORAL SPRINGS, 33324-4929 Republican Party of Florida.
30 April 2017 voter list: MICHAEL RODNEY SILIEN, 737 E 7TH AVE, APT B, TALLAHASSEE, 33324-4929 Republican Party of Florida.
30 September 2015 voter list: MICHAEL RODNEY SILIEN, 2415 OLD SAINT AUGUSTINE RD, APT 624, TALLAHASSEE, 33324-4929 Republican Party of Florida.
31 May 2012 voter list: MICHAEL RODNEY SILIEN, 2415 OLD SAINT AUGUSTINE RD, APT 1434, TALLAHASSEE, 33324-4929 Republican Party of Florida.
Silien, Michel-Ange was born 23 September 1987, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 130 Ne 25Th St, Pompano Beach, Florida 33064-3852. Florida voter ID number 120509978. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 June 2015 voter list: Michel-Ange Silien, 130 NE 25Th St, Pompano Beach, 33064-3852 No Party Affiliation.
Silien, Nadine was born 20 February 1983, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 2011 Lori Ln W, Lakeland, Florida 33801. Florida voter ID number 115247748. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 January 2019 voter list: Nadine Silien, 180 S Carolina Ave, Lake Alfred, 33801 Republican Party of Florida.
SILIEN, ODILANCE born 21 March 1962, Florida voter ID number 111804219 See Silien, Odilance. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Odilance was born 21 March 1962, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1251 Westchester Dr E, West Palm Beach, Florida 33417. Florida voter ID number 111804219. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 July 2018 voter list: ODILANCE SILIEN, 5161 STACY ST, F, WEST PALM BEACH, 33417 Florida Democratic Party.
30 April 2018 voter list: ODILANCE SILIEN, 983 LAKE TERRY DR, UNIT A, WEST PALM BEACH, 33417 Florida Democratic Party.
31 August 2017 voter list: ODILANCE SILIEN, 836 BALFREY DR S, WEST PALM BEACH, 33417 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Roselore born 3 May 1974, Florida voter ID number 109960066 See Verger, Roselore. CLICK HERE.
SILIEN, SABINE born 19 August 1988, Florida voter ID number 114657129 See DIEUDONNE, SABINE SILIEN. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Samuel was born 23 August 1984, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 10700 Ember St, Boca Raton, Florida 33428. Florida voter ID number 127401701. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Sandra M. was born 14 January 1959, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1231 Nw 55Th Ave, Lauderhill, Florida 33313. Florida voter ID number 122773893. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 October 2015 voter list: Sandra M. Silien, 1126 NE 16TH PL, APT 1, Ft Lauderdale, 33313 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIEN, SHELSEA was born 14 February 1997, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 12012 Magazine St, Apt 10304, Orlando, Florida 32828. Florida voter ID number 122386608. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 June 2020 voter list: Shelsea Silien, 11930 NW 31st Pl, Sunrise, 32828 Florida Democratic Party.
30 September 2016 voter list: Shelsea Silien, 11930 NW 31St Pl, Sunrise, 32828 Florida Democratic Party.
31 March 2015 voter list: Shelsea Silien, 11930 NW 31ST PL, Sunrise, 32828 Florida Democratic Party.
Silien, Shelsea born 14 February 1997, Florida voter ID number 122386608 See SILIEN, SHELSEA. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Terry Adams was born 3 December 1973, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1225 Nw 120Th St, North Miami, Florida 33167. Florida voter ID number 128945279. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silien, Tommy was born 28 April 1975, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 1225 Nw 120Th St, North Miami, Florida 33167. Florida voter ID number 127309432. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
SILIEN, YANICK born 15 December 1987, Florida voter ID number 114259298 See Silien, Yanick. CLICK HERE.
Silien, Yanick born 15 December 1987, Florida voter ID number 114259298 See Bonnaire, Yanick. CLICK HERE.
Silien Charles, Sabine born 14 September 1974, Florida voter ID number 123591859 See Silien-Charles, Sabine. CLICK HERE.
Silien-Charles, Sabine was born 14 September 1974, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 100 Sw 91St Ave, Apt 203, Plantation, Florida 33324. Florida voter ID number 123591859. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 September 2018 voter list: Sabine Silien Charles, 100 SW 91St Ave, APT 203, Plantation, 33324 Florida Democratic Party.
SILIEN TERAMEAU, LAMERCIE born 25 January 1964, Florida voter ID number 102006966 See TERAMEAU, LAMERCIE SILIEN. CLICK HERE.
Silie Reyes, Richard Omar was born 29 July 1979, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 7014 Sw 114Th Pl, Apt F, Miami, Florida 33173. Florida voter ID number 123903381. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Silies, Hannah E. was born 2 December 1992, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 154 15Th St, Holly Hill, Florida 32117. Florida voter ID number 117995168. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 September 2015 voter list: Hannah E. Silies, 827 Daytona Ave, APT 1/2, Holly Hill, 32117 No Party Affiliation.
Silies, Mara Mullen was born 23 December 1959, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 154 15Th St, Holly Hill, Florida 32117. Florida voter ID number 116175522. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 September 2015 voter list: Mara Mullen Silies, 827 1/2 Daytona Ave, APT B, Holly Hill, 32117 No Party Affiliation.
31 May 2013 voter list: Mara Mullen Silies, 827 Daytona Ave, APT 1/2 B, Holly Hill, 32117 No Party Affiliation.
Silies, Nicholas William was born 30 September 1988, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 1440 Jackson Ave, Daytona Beach, Florida 32117. Florida voter ID number 115432173. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2017.
SILIETI, MAHMOOD KALF was born 1 July 1976, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 16619 Tudor Grove Dr, Orlando, Florida 32828. Florida voter ID number 118340202. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
SILIETI, ROSALIE MARIE was born 1 July 1982, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 16619 Tudor Grove Dr, Orlando, Florida 32828. Florida voter ID number 114471947. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Siliezar, Alicia G. was born 30 November 1970, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 291 Jarrott Daniels Rd, Wewahitchka, Florida 32465. Florida voter ID number 119509001. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Siliezar, David A. born 4 August 1952, Florida voter ID number 118390425 See Siliezar, David Alfredo. CLICK HERE.
Siliezar, David Alfredo was born 4 August 1952, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 9213 Orton Pl, New Port Richey, Florida 34655. Florida voter ID number 118390425. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 April 2020 voter list: David A. Siliezar, 9213 Orton Pl, New Port Richey, 34655 No Party Affiliation.
Siliezar, Genesis J. was born 11 May 2000, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 12147 Nw 9Th Dr, Coral Springs, Florida 33071. Florida voter ID number 124793963. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
29 February 2020 voter list: Genesis Johana Siliezar, 12147 NW 9Th DR, Coral Springs, 33071 No Party Affiliation.
Siliezar, Genesis Johana born 11 May 2000, Florida voter ID number 124793963 See Siliezar, Genesis J. CLICK HERE.
Siliezar, Joshua W. was born 10 February 1995, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 12147 Nw 9Th Dr, Coral Springs, Florida 33071. Florida voter ID number 127972724. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Siliezar, Riviliviyi was born 26 November 2001, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 291 Jarrott Daniels Rd, Wewahitchka, Florida 32465. Florida voter ID number 128336294. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
Siliezar Orellana, Stephanie Claire was born 20 January 1993, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2777 Forest Hills Blvd, Apt 3, Coral Springs, Florida 33065. Florida voter ID number 118815601. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 December 2018 voter list: Stephanie Claire Horrigan, 6725 LANDINGS Dr, APT 111A, Lauderhill, 33065 Florida Democratic Party.
30 June 2015 voter list: Stephanie Claire Horrigan, 6725 LANDINGS Dr, APT 111A, Lauderhill, 33065 Florida Democratic Party.
31 July 2014 voter list: Stephanie Claire Horrigan, 8307 NW 75Th Ave, Tamarac, 33065 Florida Democratic Party.
Silig, Alyssa M. was born 7 February 1998, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 11771 W Atlantic Blvd, Apt 32, Coral Springs, Florida 33071-4073. Florida voter ID number 121687626. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 August 2019 voter list: Alyssa M. Silig, 1860 NW 107TH TER, Coral Springs, 33071-4073 Republican Party of Florida.
31 March 2015 voter list: Alyssa M. Silig, 1860 NW 107TH TER, Coral Springs, 33071-4073 Republican Party of Florida.
31 January 2015 voter list: Alyssa Marie Silig, 1422 NW 111TH AVE, Coral Springs, 33071-4073 Republican Party of Florida.
Silig, Alyssa Marie born 7 February 1998, Florida voter ID number 121687626 See Silig, Alyssa M. CLICK HERE.
Silig, Anita Marie was born 7 April 1978, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 2271 Nova Village Dr, Davie, Florida 33317. Florida voter ID number 114399405. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
30 April 2016 voter list: Anita Marie Stevenson, 2271 NOVA VILLAGE DR, Davie, 33317 No Party Affiliation.
30 June 2015 voter list: Anita Marie Stevenson, 2271 NOVA VILLAGE DR, Davie, 33317 No Party Affiliation.
31 August 2014 voter list: Anita M. Stevenson, 1450 N Riverside Dr, apt 202, Pompano Beach, 33317 No Party Affiliation.
Silig, Darci Marie born 3 October 1982, Florida voter ID number 102247445 See Rodriguez, Darci Marie. CLICK HERE.
Silig, Derek R. was born 27 August 1975, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 2271 Nova Village Dr, Davie, Florida 33317-7036. Florida voter ID number 101656880. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 May 2015 voter list: Derek R. Silig, 2271 Nova Village DR, Davie, 33317-7036 Florida Democratic Party.
Silig, Gail Ann was born 23 July 1953, is female, registered as Independent Party of Florida, residing at 9331 Sw 23Rd St, Apt 3504, Davie, Florida 33324. Florida voter ID number 101288393. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
31 August 2019 voter list: Gail Ann Silig, 1155 NW 100Th Ave, Pembroke Pines, 33324 Independent Party of Florida.
31 May 2015 voter list: Gail Ann Silig, 1155 NW 100Th Ave, Pembroke Pines, 33324 Independent Party of Florida.
Silig, Richard T. was born 30 June 1951, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 7330 Nw 18Th St, Apt 104, Margate, Florida 33063-6862. Florida voter ID number 101288392. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2020.
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"The Call"-Darrell Bevell
By loudnproudcolt,
February 2, 2015 in NFL General
loudnproudcolt 62
loudnproudcolt
I know boards are a way to vent, and after a loss like that, if I was Seattle I would not want to even listen, watch or hear about football until start of training camp next year. Otherwise I would only be reminded of "The Call" as it will go down in history.
I found two things interesting after the game and looking at the Seashawks forum, since I wanted to get an idea of what there forum is like compared to ours after a loss where we believe the coaching was suspect at best.
First, Seahawk fans do not like the OC, Darrell Bevell, and it is apparent it was not just this one play. It seems they do not like his play calling the whole year. From my view point, it would be hard considering after losing Tate and Harvin the weapons they have. Lynch is their best weapon. So I don't understand why they did not use him. Carroll said it was due to NE's defensive setup. I don't care, you have 3 chances and 1 yard. You don't run a slant, especially if it is a play your team likes, and NE was ready for it. NE goal line D basically put Bevell in a box where he felt that was the best call, and Carroll backed him. I stand by 3 runs. No one is going to stop Lynch 3 times from the one. Back to Bevell. I thought it was bad how bad we rake Pep over the coals. It is apparent they really dislike him as an OC, and due to the nature and time of this call, you are going to hear fans calling for his head the next couple of months.
Second, the one thing I really did not like was Bevell throwing Lockette under the bus after the game. He said the receiver should have been more physical. If you look at the play right before the ball is snapped, it looks like a good play call, Lockette was open, the CB made a great break and play on the ball. The fact Bevell said anything about the receiver I really did not like, even if it was the truth. Maybe he could have been more physical, but you are the coach. You take the blame for the plays and the results. Don't throw your player under the bus, otherwise it becomes a really good way to lose a lockerroom and the player's trust.
Narcosys 14 posts
ColtsBlueFL 11 posts
BloodyChamp 9 posts
-JJ- 8 posts
IcEWoLF 71
I saw Bruce Irvin interview and it appears there is a lot of head scratching in the locker room. Pete will need all his leaders to bring back the locker room.
Luck_Is_Skilled 0
Luck_Is_Skilled
All his leaders, beside Lynch, are on D and they're the ones who are scratching their heads.
Gimmie a break.
Belichick went a decade without winning a Super Bowl, and his two SB losses were games his team could've won. But he never lost the locker-room
Carroll won't either.
SouthernCal 0
SouthernCal
Bevell should be fired tomorrow
-JJ- 60
-JJ-
I agree- too many jump too quick
Not talking about Carroll, and I am not talking about the play call. My point is he threw Lockette under the bus. As a coach, you take credit or except blame for a call. Players do not respond to coaches who blame others. Belichick could have won two more yes, and both losses were by a field goal. In the SB in Indy against NY, NE probably wins if Welker makes that one catch with around 4 minutes to go. Did you hear Belichick throw Welker under the bus. One of the things I admire about Belichick is all he teaches is team, and he wins because he plans out each player's role. Very few coaches can do this.
BOTT 1,314
No he shouldn't. All coaches make mistakes. While I didn't like the call, Wilson could have thrown it more into the receivers body.
buffalo34 174
But how many playoff games in that stretch did the Patriots lose as a result of a bad call by Belichick or someone else? Nothing really jumps to mind...
Well.... off the top of my head, in the playoff game in Indy, Belichick went for the first down on 4th and 2 from his own roughly 25, give or take... which didn't work and led to an Indy win.
But Carroll is the driving force of that team. And he's taking responsibility for the call and the loss. If he cost them a Super Bowl win it's been his drive that helped them get there for the 2nd year in a row.
These are his players. He's not going to lose them. The players will get over this. As Marshawn Lynch himself said when asked who was to blame.... "No one, football is a team game."
ReMeDy 407
Only one even close is that 4th & 2 call against the Colts back a long time ago, but that was a regular season game if I recall.
I still think it was a bad call by Belichick to go for it on 4th and 2, but that was a regular season game.
Seeing that play reminded me of a few games the Bills lost due to them not giving the ball to Lynch, like the 2008 Jets game...
He called an all out blitz vs the giants and left a small CB on 6'6 Plaxico Burress....game winning TD and game over.
Based on how Eli just lobbed it up, I thought it was going to sail through the back of the end zone, and started to think "Really Eli? What kind of throw was that?". Then all of a sudden "Wow, Plax is wide open! No way!"
bababooey 79
bababooey
That was week 9. Seattle won't be like the Patriots, now they have to start paying the bill as well as overpaying for past success. This is also where the colts will be this time next year (paying the bills, hopefully not gift wrapping superbowls)
All coaches don't call a slant pass with 5 patriot Players all over you.
If he just threw it low at his knees there is no way Butler gets his hands on it. Wilson was staring right at Butler jumping the route. You either throw it low or slight behind so only your guy can get it. You don't lead him with the DB standing right there. It really was the perfect storm. Bad play call, poor throw and great play by a rookie DB.
Shane Bond 2
Shane Bond
It was meant to be, AMF.
Football Gods made it.
SteelDragon 29
SteelDragon
It's astonishing how one play can brand a coach a genius or an *. Everybody in the building expected Lynch to get the ball, including all 11 Patriot defenders. That defense was stacked against the run! It is not a foregone conclusion that Lynch would have been able to run it in. What if he loses yardage on the run? A slant pass is generally a safe play. IMO, Wilson executed the play poorly, and the Patriots defender made a great play. If Wilson completed the pass everyone would be hailing Pete Carroll and his OC as geniuses for catching the Patriots with their pants down. Plays are brilliant because they are unexpected and buck conventional wisdom. I applaud Seattle for a gutsy call. It turned out disasterous because of execution, which is not in the coaches' control.
braveheartcolt 1,393
braveheartcolt
On 2nd down, when they decided to bleed the clock (and BB not calling a time out), they gave themselves only one chance to run it, with only 1 time out left. Two at a push. From the 1st down, run, run, throw, then take your pick on 4th down if you've not scored, would have been the better option. But I'm no coach, and under no pressure.
Hindsight.
Still think NE not calling a TO helped seal the win.....
theanarchist 23
theanarchist
In that situation, with that much time, and a time out in your pocket you would run a SLANT route on the goal line? You wouldn't try at least 2 times to run the ball with beast mode? Sorry, you're in the vast vast minority. Appreciate your honesty but with the Super Bowl on the line I can't think of many coaches, if any, who would have risked a pass with 1 yard to get and plenty of time and ability to get it with the run.
Narcosys 528
Narcosys
Maybe his height finally caught up to him. He had to get it high enough over his line. Since hes shorter he couldn't get it on more of a down angle more, thus the ball is at the receivers head. I don't think he could have gotten it into his gut after watching it.
USAFHoosier 25
USAFHoosier
Horrible play call, not the best throw, and a great play by the DB all made that happen. I believe the majority of fans were in disbelief when it wasn't a run. I am far from an expert but from the half yard line I give the ball to beast mode.
That wasn't a playoff game when Bellichick did the 4th down play from the 25. I do agree it was highly scrutinized though. I just doubt he would have done that in a playoff game, or the Superbowl.
Gavin 5
Lockette ran the route poor, It was the right call in that circumstance with everyone up at the LOS and only 1 linebacker to get behind, It was also a good throw that looked bad because of the poor route ran, Lockette should have slanted harder than he did and exploded out of his cut, Bevell was right
very similiar, in a way, to the Manning pick in the Super Bowl against the Saints
Meme already created...too funny.
http://forums.colts.com/gallery/image/2475-b8zshakiqaazqcm/
http://www.sbnation.com/2015/2/1/7961649/seahawks-players-reaction-final-play-call-super-bowl-2015
It would be the right call with anyone other than Lynch. I don't care that they lined up to stack the box. Theres no way that Lynch doesnt get a yard to the inside or outside. Carroll talks about the look, but the play was called before they ever got the look. Plus the OC's excuse doesnt make sense either. He says that they were trying to use up as much time as possible. A pass there doesn't make sense, either a TD or incomplete stops the clock. A Run that gets stopped will kill the clock, then you can use a timeout and have two run plays ready and just go back to back.
There's no explaining this one away.
GoPats 123
GoPats
I agree, very astute observation on your part. I think Seattle expected Belichick to take a time out. But he quickly made up his mind to go for the goal-line stand instead of trying to save time (which was probably the right choice, given the lack of ticks left).
When that happened it was almost like the Seahawks didn't quite know what to do. And they got too cute.
OffensivelyPC 1,093
OffensivelyPC
I disagreed with the play call for several reasons. Yeah, everyone expected Lynch to get the ball. That happens alot and teams still have a hard time stopping it. So why go away from that? It was 1 yard. Second, I didn't hate the idea of calling a pass play, but you had enough time. I would have run the ball, if I didn't get in, call time out. Then you can pass the football if you want on 3rd down. Also, out of all the potential pass plays, why the heck didn't they go with a read option? You've got the best read option QB in the league, if you aren't going with your bread and butter and ram Marshawn down the defense's throat, go to your second best play if ou want to throw it. Russell could have scrambled or even thrown it out of the back of the endzone. Not only that, but if you are going to pass the football with no play action, throw a corner fade or a crossing route toward the back of the endzone. As long as you don't under throw it, and especially if you're throwing to Matthews, it's not going to get picked off unless its tipped or something. But even then, it could go out of bounds and if you overthrow it, big deal, it's also out of bounds.
BloodyChamp 214
BloodyChamp
Never been a Bevell fan and have been ripped on this board for saying it. I do agree that the CB made a play but man the call was just stupid.
dgambill 1,173
dgambill
Thats a bad call...obviously....but the blame falls on the head coach. He may not have called the play but Carroll listens to all the play calls.....easily should have nixed that call....easy! I know the idea of throwing and then having two chances to run but that was a bad call. The players even didn't get lined up right...clearly it wasn't a play they practiced a lot or expected to run there. No reason in my mind and if you wanted to pass you could roll Russell out and give him a run/pass option...if it isn't there throw it into the second row....likely he could have just scampered in but throwing it over the middle where if its tipped it can bounce up etc... not a good play selection. Pete will live with that one forever....not his OC. Because Pete ok'd the call.
Horrible play call.
Everyone on the planet (except the Seabirds OC) would've handed off to Lynch. I mean seriously......it's 2nd down. You have 3 more chances to punch it in with a guy who had yet to have a negative run. You could even put another O-Lineman in there.
If you you are stuck on throwing, why not throw a jump ball or a fade to Chris Matthews? He'd been beating the CB's all night?
Or fake the handoff to Lynch and throw it to him?
Heck use Pats play against them and throw to an OL.
you play the look the defense gives you, They gave a look that dictated pass
...The play call was already in before they even lined up to see what the D gave them. There is no look at all, with Marshawn Lynch, that dictates a pass. Furthermore, on that play, Lynch was open to the corner of the endzone. Could have thrown to him instead of into traffic.
Ya, Lynch was wide open to the corner of the endzone. Should have thrown it to him. But why pass it to lynch when you didnt want to give him the ball to begin with.
Can you imagine the skittle rain??
Cynjin 1,016
Cynjin
I can see why the fans do not like the OC and now the players will not either after reading this comment from Bevell. Basically threw Lockett under the bus.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25017566/super-bowl-49-seahawks-oc-bevell-blames-receiver-for-interception
Bevell is a hack.
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Thousands evacuated as second landslide hits Chamdo area
The unceasing flooding sweeps away whole villages and townships, destroying crucial infrastructure networks
One month ago, we reported on the massive landslide and flooding of villages around Chamdo city, Tibetan Autonomous Region. The landslide caused serious blockage of the Drichu River and the following flooding resulted in over 400 people being evacuated from the nearby Polo Township.
On Novemeber 3, another massive landslide hit the same area (the intersection of Phayul, Bhatang and Derong counties), causing further flooding.
The flooding is now reaching hazardous levels with water continuously rising since the incident.
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The unceasing flooding has swept away whole villages and townships and destroyed crucial infrastructure networks including roads, bridges and schools. Townships of Drichu ka (Payul County), Ganzi (Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture), Polo (Jomda County) and Chamdo city (TAR) have been particularly affected.
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Apple opens for Apple Watch without Iphone – for families
Apple kept secret one of the news in Watch OS 7 for its September event: Family Setup (Family Setup in English) makes it possible to give really young and old family members a watch without the need for an Iphone.
Since the first Apple Watch was released, users have had to pair it with an Iphone. For smaller children, a watch can be more practical, partly because it has fewer functions and distractions, and partly because it is much more difficult to lose something that sits around the wrist.
Family Setting allows you to pair multiple Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5, Series 6 or SE with cellular networks to your Iphone and set them up for other family members.
Apple sees the feature as something for both children and older relatives who may not want an Iphone, but where the watch’s many health features can be useful. Location sharing also allows you to see where the family members are, and you can also set up to receive notifications, for example when a child is at the football practice.
Since Family Setting requires a watch with a mobile network, the person who has it can also call and send messages, and for children’s accounts you can, as usual, set restrictions on who the children can contact and other things.
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Blu-ray Review: The Eyes Of My Mother
By The Movie God | @ | Tuesday, March 7th, 2017 at 11:10 pm
Blu-ray l DVD
Director: Nicolas Pesce
Writer: Nicolas Pesce
Starring: Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, Paul Nazak, Flora Diaz, Clara Wong, Diana Agostini
Magnet Releasing
Rated R l 76 Minutes
Writer and director Nicolas Pesce‘s debut feature, The Eyes of My Mother, arrived on Blu-ray and DVD today.
This is a movie that I’ve been anxious to see since first watching the unsettling trailers last year. If a trailer alone can be that disturbing, what would the full movie do to me? An exciting thing to ponder for a horror fan.
The Eyes of My Mother begins with a young girl named Francisca who lives on a farm with her parents. Her mother was a surgeon in Portugal, and teaches Francisca anatomy by doing things like dissecting cows’ eyes in the kitchen. You know, normal kid stuff. One day something traumatizing happens to Francisca—far more traumatizing than exploring the inside parts of a cow’s head in the kitchen—and while it doesn’t appear to affect her too much emotionally on the surface, deep down it drastically changes who she is and who she will become as she gets older.
Pesce deserves much praise for his work here. The director is only 27 years old—born the same year movies like The Exorcist III, Child’s Play 2, Nightbreed, Predator 2, Misery, Psycho IV, and the TV movie adaptation of Stephen King’s It came out—and he makes a hell of an entrance with his first feature. The movie is just as dark and disturbing as the trailers hinted at it being, but it’s also beautiful filmmaking.
Pesce’s film is quite quiet, with many scenes having no music whatsoever, building dread through silence and making the events unfolding before your eyes all the more troubling as the sounds you do hear are enhanced. A story told in whispers, with the occasional scream acting as punctuation. And by that I don’t mean there’s jump scares. You’ll find none of those in The Eyes of My Mother.
In fact, you won’t find much of what most expect to see in a horror movie. It is a horror, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s all atmospheric and psychological. You don’t actually see much of the horrific things that occur. It’s mostly implied or obstructed just enough so you know what happened without actually witnessing it. You’ll find more visible violence in a single trailer for The Walking Dead than you’ll find in this movie. But not nearly as many nightmares.
It’s all a testament to Pesce’s style, the black and white presentation, the aforementioned quiet. It all results in a haunting exploration of the effects of loneliness and lack of guidance on a troubled young brain. The Eyes of My Mother is a unique horror experience, and one which won’t soon be forgotten by those who watch it.
As for bonus content, there’s not a whole lot sadly. Special features include an interview with Pesce, as well as a bunch of behind the scenes photos to go along with the trailer and some previews for other movies.
Topics: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Review, Movies, Reviews
Tags: Clara Wong, Diana Agostini, Flora Diaz, Kika Magalhães, Nicolas Pesce, Paul Nazak, The Eyes of My Mother, Will Brill
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Local rigidity of certain solvable group actions on tori
Xinyu Mei 1, , Yangmin Xiong 2, and Chunyou Sun 2,,
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong, China, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong, China
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
Corresponding author: Chunyou Sun, sunchy@lzu.edu.cn
Received January 2020 Revised May 2020 Published July 2020
Fund Project: This work was partly supported by the NSFC Grants 11471148, 11522109 and 11871169
In this paper, the non-autonomous dynamical behavior of weakly damped wave equation with a sup-cubic nonlinearity is considered in locally uniform spaces. We first prove the global well-posedness of the Shatah-Struwe solutions, then establish the existence of the $ \big(H_{lu}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\times L_{lu}^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{3}),H_{\rho}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\times L_{\rho}^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\big) $-pullback attractor for the Shatah-Struwe solutions process of this equation. The results are based on the recent extension of Strichartz estimates for the bounded domains.
Keywords: Wave equation, Locally uniform spaces, Shatah-Struwe solution, Pullback attractor.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:35B41, 35Q55, 35Q56, 37L40, 76F20.
Citation: Xinyu Mei, Yangmin Xiong, Chunyou Sun. Pullback attractor for a weakly damped wave equation with sup-cubic nonlinearity. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2021, 41 (2) : 569-600. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020270
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Rewording as you rebrand
By George CaveneyAugust 29, 2019November 12th, 2020No Comments
Of the myriad things I lend my expertise to, being part of a brand overhaul is one of my favourites. Being there when the brand is aware it’s outgrown its current guise means everyone involved is receptive and excited. It’s a great opportunity to look more closely at the core character of the business, and find new and engaging ways to convey its unique propositions. It’s a chance to re-invent the cause, breathe fresh air into the look and feel, and sharpen the messaging to convey key themes more effectively.
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Often, it’s also a time to look at proposition, positioning, tag and straplines, values, tone of voice – either to refresh them, or in many cases to think about them properly for the first time. Defining these clearly keeps the rebrand process focused, and will also help anyone writing on the brand’s behalf to sound clear and consistent in conveying what’s arguably the most important aspect of a brand: its personality.
Think of a brand you like, and you can probably describe its character. Playful, outgoing, confident, enthusiastic, straightforward. All human characteristics – and rightly so. A successful brand will sound like an engaging, relatable person sharing something they’re excited about and want you to be a part of. That’s where the copywriter enters the fray – not just in conveying that character, but also helping to define it… so the earlier the better.
Of course, a rebrand is primarily the remit of a design agency. Or at least the very initial stages are. I’ve not yet heard of copywriters instigating or leading a strategic rebrand exercise, but there is certainly great value in having a writer involved at the outset, taking part in the initial briefing process, the early conceptual stages, and being privy to design discussions.
My point is this: the words are arguably as crucial to the success of a rebrand as the visual overhaul and any associated repositioning. Perhaps even more so. Those that understand this tend to enjoy the fruits of what can be a significant investment more than those that say, ‘we’ll just re-purpose what we’ve got’ or ‘we’ll get Mel to have a look at it – she writes our blogs’. I’m not being facetious or flippant… the insider will have an invaluable working understanding of the business and its target audience. A decent copywriter will seek such insights at the exploratory stages of a rebrand. It’s all part of ensuring the brand’s communications in support of its next phase of growth are in tune with its refreshed visual identity, and accurately and consistently reflect the character that people will identify and connect with.
So if you’re a business considering its next incarnation, or a branding agency in the initial stages of helping with that – don’t forget to involve the writer early on. Getting him or her on board at the outset will ensure the words complement the new look and feel, and make it even more compelling. Whenever that writer has been me, it’s been a really joined-up, smooth and enjoyable process. In turn it has helped ensure a happy client, and given the brand the boost they invested in.
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The Costly ‘Mistakes’ of War
Neither war nor sanctions are solutions in Iran
January 10, 2021 by QUOI Media Group Leave a Comment
By Leila Alikarami
I was surprised to meet Ghanimat Azdari in Geneva last June. When I was asked to speak at a gathering of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Indigenous Fellowship Programme, I did not expect one of the fellows to be an Iranian like myself. She was a young woman from the indigenous Qashqai community, and despite the obstacles she had most certainly faced on her way, she was at the top of her field.
She told me about her work promoting biodiversity and that she was headed to Canada for her PhD. So talented and ambitious was the impression she left me with. I was heartbroken to find Ghjanimat’s face among the victims of the Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 that crashed in Iran, on January 8, 2020.
After days of denial, Iran’s armed forces finally admitted that it mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, blaming human error and “U.S. adventurism” for the crash that left 176 people dead.
“Mistakenly.” That word seemed to so casually gloss over what happened to Ghanimat. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that “mistakenly” is the word that has always been used to describe what happened to Iranians over decades of U.S.-Iranian tension: years living under the war, sanctions, political repression and threats of more war.
I was born on the cusp of the most consequential social and political transformation in twentieth-century Iranian history: the 1979 Revolution. Instead of enjoying the inheritance of equality, bequeathed by the generations of Iranian women before me, I was confronted with one of the bloodiest wars in recent memory: the Iran–Iraq War.
Eight years of war have shaped nearly every memory I have from my childhood. I remember the rations. I remember rushing out of Tehran to escape air raids and missiles. I remember the moment my dad was leaving us to return to the city with the fear of not coming back. I remember the worry in his conversations with my mother. I remember my aunt mourning her young son who was martyred in the war. I remember, on July 3, 1988, two missiles fired from a frigate, the USS Vincennes, and shot down passenger plane Iran Air flight 655, apparently mistaking it for a fighter aircraft, in Iranian waters and killing all aboard.
During the war, the Iranian government did not tolerate any kind of criticism and opposite views. Freedoms were severely restricted. Thousands of political prisoners were executed during the 1980s. The country was at war and therefore anything could be justified. The world did not pay much attention to these cruel human rights abuses either. The reason seemed obviously clear: the country was at war, what else could dominate international headlines and concern?
Iran-U.S. tensions have claimed the lives of many Iranian in many different ways.
The Iran-Iraq war continues to claim lives with landmines left over from those years, which kill dozens of men, women and children every year. Landmines that have ‘mistakenly’ not been removed from contaminated areas over two decades later.
The Iranian government, still under the pretext of defending national security, has imprisoned thousands of women, students, political activists, workers, teachers, journalists, artists and human rights defenders simple for expressing dissenting views. And when one of these prisoners dies under torture, as many have, it is always called a ‘mistake.’
The U.S. invaded Iraq and as the international community shifted its attention to the nuclear issue, a new round of tensions emerged, with its own cruelties. The U.S. imposed harsh sanctions that have driven economic hardship for nearly every Iranian and caused severe shortages of life-saving medicines. But all this is seen as an unintentional outcome of maximum pressure. A mistake, in other words.
We thought the Iran Deal would bring some economic relief, but that hope has been thwarted by the United States. Life under U.S.-sanctions and the imminent prospect of war has created a canopy of desperation and fear stretching over our entire country.
Now we witness an unprecedented increase in the war posturing on both sides. All Iranians watch helplessly, as the U.S. illegally trades assassinations for missile attacks. We wonder what will be next.
We wonder if the international community has already forgotten about the hundreds of Iranians that security forces killed during street protests last November.
We wonder if this round of violence is really done. We pray for our neighbors in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Iraq.
So many ‘mistakes.’ so many needless deaths. We hear the Iranian and U.S. governments both claim they are defending Iranian lives. We no longer know friendly fire from foe. And for Ghanimat Azdari and the victims of flights 752 or 655, it hardly matters.
U.S.-Iranian tensions need to end. For us, neither war nor sanctions are solutions. It seems every country in the world knows this, but few are pushing to make it happen. All we hang our hope on is for diplomacy to prevail.
Leila Alikarami is an Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate. She was an active member of Iran’s One Million Signatures campaign, which collects signatures in support of changing discriminatory laws against women. In 2009 she accepted the RAW in War Anna Politkovskaya Award on behalf of the women of Iran and the campaign.
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South China Sea crisis: Vietnam and the Philippines sound alarm amid growing tensions
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The waters are a highly contested region and faces rival ownership claims from China, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan. Over the last few months, Beijing has increased its military presence in the area.
Diplomatic relations between the nations, which have laid claim to the islands, are already extremely strained.
The recent construction of bunkers on some of the atolls points to China preparing to “protection against air or missile strikes”, raising the prospect of a potential conflict, sparking World War 3 fears.
The islands and surrounding reefs have been the subject of a bitter and long-running territorial dispute, with China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines all laying claim to parts of the archipelago.
And now, Vietnam and the Philippines have held a virtual meeting to discuss rules of governance over the region.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said in the meeting: “While the entire world is stretched thin in the fight against the [coronavirus] pandemic, irresponsible acts and acts of violation of international law are still taking place, affecting the environment of security and stability in certain regions, including our region.”
Mr Phuc went on to while the region promotes the “full and strict compliance” of the rules of governing the region and “making every effort to establish an effective” code of conduct with China, there are still problems.
He said: “International institutions and international law are being seriously challenged.”
The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte echoed Mr Phuc’s comments and called on all parties to follow the laws that govern the sea.
He said: “Even as our region struggled to contain COVID-19, alarming incidents in the South China Sea occurred.
“We call on the parties to refrain from escalating tension and abide by responsibilities under international law.”
This month, Taiwan deployed marines to the Pratas Islands amid reports China would be conducting military drills in the area.
According to a Ministry of National Defense (MND) official, an undisclosed number of Taiwanese marines were deployed to the region as part of a training mission.
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The source told Focus Taiwan the mission was aimed at strengthening the defence capabilities as well as improving logistical and equipment maintenance skills of the Taiwanese Coast Guard officers.
The move comes after Japan’s Kyodo News reported last month how the People’s Liberation Army of China were planning to hold large-scale beach landings in the area.
It is believed the beach landing trainings are reportedly to simulate the takeover of the Pratas Islands, an area considered to be significant for Beijing.
The islands sit in a strategic crossroads which Chinese warships would have to pass when travel to the Pacific.
Last month, the Communist nation held terrifying simulations in the disputed area.
The drill involved China’s People’s Liberation Army Marine Corps and reportedly demonstrates how the Communist nation’s forces could project power across the contested waters.
The Marine Corps – or PLANMC – undertook an anti-piracy exercise near the Paracel Islands.
The drills showed off the corps capabilities to China’s neighbours at a time where tensions are increasingly growing in the area.
There are also ongoing disputes with the Communist nation and the US after both flexed their military might in the region.
According to reports this week, three US Air Force planes were spotted flying into Chinese territory.
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Religious Far Right Mounts Anti-Abortion Attack on COVID-19 Vaccine
As universities and pharmaceutical companies race to put out the first COVID-19 vaccine, some sectors of the religious right are gearing up to fight it, based on tenuous ties to what they call “the abortion industry” and a biblical teaching about “the mark of the beast.”
LifeSite News, a Catholic, anti-abortion website, has gathered more than 350,000 signatures on a petition protesting mandatory coronavirus vaccination orders—none of which have actually been issued. The petition starts with the kind of big-government concerns that have become a hallmark of anti-shutdown protests, claiming that “fear of a disease” could inadvertently lead to support for “the hidden agenda of governmental as well as non-governmental bodies” with plans to “restrict personal freedoms.”
“The so-called ‘public health experts’ have gotten it wrong many times during the current crisis,” the petition states. “We should not, therefore, allow their opinions to rush decision-makers into policies regarding vaccination.”
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Further down, the petition raises the issue of stem cell research used in the production of vaccines. A number of life-saving vaccines—from the chickenpox to measles—are cultured in human stem cells originating from legally aborted fetuses, a process long approved by the Food and Drug Administration. At least one pharmaceutical company is currently using these stem cell lines to test a vaccine, according to a letter sent to the FDA by two dozen religious leaders.
The LifeSite petition calls the use of these stem cell lines “a total non-starter,” stating that the organization “opposes immorally-produced vaccines using aborted fetal cell lines.” (A note at the bottom of the page, seemingly meant to distance the organization from the anti-vaxxer crowd, states that LifeSite has no position on “any particular coronavirus vaccines produced without such moral problems.”)
The stem cells used in vaccine development come from two fetuses aborted more than 50 years ago and, according to vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit, contain “incredibly small amounts of [their] DNA.” The Pontifical Academy for Life, National Catholic Bioethics Center, and former Pope Benedict XVI have all determined that using vaccines cultured in stem cells is acceptable in the interest of public health, not least because they are so far removed from any actual abortion. Just last year, the Pontifical Academy stated that parents could vaccinate their children with a “clear conscience” that the use of most modern vaccines “does not signify some sort of cooperation in voluntary abortion.”
Still, some religious leaders have gone so far as to declare that they will not accept a COVID-19 vaccine developed with these products—even though experts the world over agree a vaccine is the best chance to stop a pandemic that has already killed some 300,000 people.
“So sad… even with Covid-19 we are still debating the use of aborted fetal tissue for medical research,” Bishop J. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, tweeted in April. “Let me go on record…if a vaccine for this virus is only attainable if we use body parts of aborted children then I will refuse the vaccine…I will not kill children to live.”
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Deacon Keith Fournier, founder of the Common Good Foundation, tried to convince his Twitter followers this week that some COVID-19 vaccines are being made using “body parts from unborn babies.”
“I GUARANTEE I, and any other Pro-Life Catholic and any other TRUE Christians will NEVER use such a vaccine. NEVER. NEVER,” he wrote.
The religious leaders who wrote to the FDA did not go quite as far, instead urging the U.S. government not to fund vaccines developed through stem cell technology. The letter to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn states that the leaders “strongly support efforts to develop an effective, safe, and widely available vaccine as quickly as possible.”
“However, we also strongly urge our federal government to ensure that fundamental moral principles are followed in the development of such vaccines, most importantly, the principle that human life is sacred and should never be exploited,” the letter says.
Others have tried to tie the vaccine to abortion through donations from Bill Gates, who has pledged $300 million to developing and distributing a vaccine. LifeSiteNews has long opposed Gates for his donations to Planned Parenthood and support of contraception and abortion access. Its petition claims the billionaire “should not be permitted to influence policy decisions on a coronavirus vaccination program.”
“Unwitting citizens must not be used as guinea pigs for New World Order ideologues, or Big Pharma, in pursuit of a vaccine (and, profits) which may not even protect against future mutated strains of the coronavirus,” the petition reads.
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Other religious figures have decried Gates’ participation because of a popular but ludicrous conspiracy theory that suggests the billionaire will plant a microchip in every injection. Ronnie Hampton, a free Methodist pastor who died of the virus in March, told followers before his death that the vaccines would have “some type of electronic computer device that’s gonna put some type of chip in you and maybe even have some mood, mind-altering circumstances.”
“They’re saying that the chip would be the mark of the beast,” he added, referring to a belief among some Christians that the anti-Christ will one day return and physically mark his followers.
Pastor Curt Landry of Oklahoma, meanwhile, claimed the vaccine would not contain the mark of the beast itself, but a microchip that the government could use to track who was willing to accept it.
“Do not pray, do not hope, do not think, ‘Oh, praise God they are going to have a vaccine,’” he told followers in a YouTube video. “That vaccine is from the pit of Hell. Do not pray for those vaccines, and do not take the vaccine. These vaccines are going to be coming. They are not going to be good. They’re not good for you physically, and spiritually, they’re a set-up for what shall come later.”
The conspiracy theory seems to have come from a Reddit AMA in which Gates suggested that countries would eventually have digital certificates to show who has recovered from the virus, who has been tested recently, and who has received the vaccine. He did not say anything about microchips.
The “mark of the beast” theory, meanwhile, has been roundly dismissed by religious scholars. Writing for the Logos Academic Blog, minister and theology PhD Matthew Halstead argued that the mark of the beast is something given to people who willingly worship the anti-Christ—not something you accidentally ingest in a Gates-funded vaccine.
Christians should not fear the vaccine unless they plan on using it as a symbolic expression of their “willful and public rejection of the Christian faith,” he wrote.
“If that’s you and if that’s your plan,” he added, “then it’s not the vaccine that’s the problem.”
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Home Statistics Filmstars Jaren Lewison Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Jaren Lewison Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Jaren Lewison Quick Info
Date of Birth December 1, 2000
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Hair Color Dark Brown
Jaren Lewison is an American actor who came to limelight after making his television debut when he was a little kid by playing the part of Joshua on Barney & Friends (2008-2009). He gained further popularity following the release of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever in April 2020 where he has played the major role of Ben Gross who is the nemesis of his classmate Devi, that led to his amassing more than 350k followers on Instagram as of May 2020. He has also starred in several films including the Hallmark movie Away and Back (2015) and Tag (2018) where he was the teen version of Ed Helms’s character, Hogan.
Jaren Lewison
Jaren Lewison being amused by a prankster on the set in May 2020 (Jaren Lewison / Instagram)
He graduated from high school in 2019 and he then enrolled in the University of Southern California.
Father – Jason Lewison
Siblings – Mikayla Lewison (Sister)
Jaren Lewison with his family in November 2017 (Jaren Lewison / Instagram)
He is represented by Innovative Artists.
62 kg or 136.5 lbs
Dark Brown (Natural)
Large expressive eyes
Sharp features
Shapely lips
Jaren Lewison Favorite Things
Character He Has Played – Ben Gross and Jaren has related to his vulnerable side, his protective and loyal nature and the fact that he loves school
Hobby – Skiing, Playing mini golf
Source – Heyalma.com, Instagram
Jaren Lewison having fun skiing with his sister in December 2013 (Jaren Lewison / Instagram)
Jaren Lewison Facts
He was raised in Dallas in Texas.
Jaren has disclosed that he began acting at the age of 5. He was in aftercare programs as his mother was a kindergarten teacher, and an improv group once visited and informed her that he was very much into it. They gave his name to a local Dallas film and TV agent that led to his landing a role on Barney & Friends, and his acting career kickstarted.
When he was in high school, he used to play football for Pearce High School in Richardson in Texas and he was also involved with theater.
His 1st Instagram photo about college was captioned simply as “College!” His Instagrams have often had the hashtag “#rememberthefeeling”.
Featured Image by Jaren Lewison / Instagram
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