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Hitman 3 Is Added To The List Of Epic Games Store Exclusives When It Releases In January 2021
Hitman 3 is the latest title to be confirmed as an Epic Games Store exclusive when the game releases in January 2021.
IO’s classic assassination title is also set to release on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Series X, and Google Stadia. There will be 12 months of exclusivity on Epic for the game on PC.
This is the first time that IO is independently publishing their title. According to Hakan Abrak, director of the studio, this is a “big step” for the company.
IO previously had a deal with Warner for the previous Hitman games, but they negotiated out of that deal after the success of Hitman 2.
In partnership with Epic, many game developers claim that the extra funding from the huge game’s company gives the studio more freedom to build the game as they want.
But fans of certain game franchises dislike the exclusivity of the Epic Games Store. Some view it as anti-consumer, others don’t like the monopoly that it causes in the games marketplace.
One concern raised by fans of the previous games is whether their progress in previous Hitman games, the World of Assassination journey, would carry over into Hitman 3. This was one of the biggest USPs for the game.
Thankfully, there is information about this on the official IO blog post for the new Hitman game:
With that in mind, we are pleased to confirm that PC players will be able to carryover their current progression and unlocks from HITMAN 2 on Steam into HITMAN 3 on Epic Games Store. It will also be possible for PC players to import locations from the previous two games into HITMAN 3 on Epic Games Store. We want to make it a seamless process for our PC players to enjoy HITMAN 3 on a different PC platform and continue to enjoy the benefits of our World of Assassination.
Seeing as players can carry their progression over from the Steam version of Hitman 1 and 2, the exclusivity shouldn’t be a huge problem as long as players are willing to download the game on Epic.
To celebrate the deal with Epic, Hitman 1 will be available free to play later this year on Epic, and presumably Hitman 2 at some point also.
This gives fans of the series a place to get the games for free and begin their progression from the Epic platform.
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November 4Congratulations to new LCSC school board members Trey Hendrix, Tiffany Jones, and Craig Parks.
November 4Congratulations to new LCSC board members Trey Hendrix, Tiffany Jones, and Craig Parks!
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Coronavirus Pauses Tiger Football
Garrett Harker, Sports Editor
As the entire world knows the Coronavirus pandemic has turned everything upside down in the last six months. It has impacted many activities we do but in the most recently it has been going through high school football programs, one of them being Lebanon High School. Due to positive tests the Tigers had to cancel three games in the middle of the season. Most teams in Indiana were fine tuning details getting closer to the playoffs the Tigers were stuck in quarantine for 14 days.
For most of the team everyone was devastated to hear that their season was being put on hold for a couple weeks. It really hit home for the seniors especially because they lost three games of their guaranteed nine games in the regular season.
“Obviously I was very upset because I knew that I was losing games that I will never get back. Friday has been something very special to me and for me it was tough losing those three games in the middle of the season,” said senior JC Reese
Just like every other high school team there are players from all classes and they were also impacted by the positive tests that stopped the season.
“We all knew that this season had potential to be great and for us to have three games taken away from us in the middle of our season was devastating. Those are the games where we start to find ourselves as a team and we just didn’t get the opportunity to play them,” said junior Kobe Ottinger
Although the Tigers are off to a slow start, they are continuing to stay positive and trust what the coaches are saying. The record shows an 0-3 team but the Tigers see something more than that.
“It is very easy to look at our record and say that we are not a good team but we are thinking the complete opposite. In the next few games our goal is to come together and play as a team and with our talent we are going to be a scary team come playoff time,” said junior Max Williams
Even though the Coronavirus took away a few games from the Tigers, they are showing positivity towards the back half of the regular season and are confident about what the team will look like in the playoffs.
Garrett Harker,
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Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 1:07PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 1, 2020 6:46PM EST
MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. -- The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting 38 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, the highest daily count since the pandemic began in March, and three new deaths.
The previous record was reported Nov. 8, when 36 cases were reported. Tuesday also marks eight days in a row of double-digit cases.
The three deaths include a woman in her 80s and a man in his 70s. One had been revealed by the health unit Monday and another won’t be included in MLHU totals until Wednesday. However, all are associated with the ongoing outbreak at the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC).
The new cases and deaths bring the totals in the region to 1,651 cases, 1,395 recoveries and 70 deaths, leaving 186 active cases.
MLHU Medical Officer of Health Dr. Chris Mackie says, “From a case count perspective we’re very much in the orange over the last few days, the cutoff is about 16 cases per day.”
The region has been at 16 or above for more than a week, and Mackie added that he wouldn’t be surprised if the province decided to move the region to orange – restrict later this week.
Outbreaks are ongoing in one unit at the Parkwood Institute and in six units at LHSC’s University Hospital.
On Monday, hospital officials announced that outpatient activity was being limited to urgent or emergent appointments, with other clinical care being rescheduled as virtual appointments wherever possible.
As of Tuesday, LHSC is reporting 43 patients and 34 staff testing positive for the virus. There have also been additional cases among close contacts, with the health unit reporting a total of 93 linked cases.
In total, seven deaths have now been linked to the outbreak, and LHSC has announced it will be, “lowering its flags to half-mast in memory” of those patients and is offering condolences to the families.
A statement released by LHSC President and CEO Dr. Paul Woods continued, “LHSC remains committed to doing everything within its power to help prevent this number from growing higher. Along with our community we must remain steadfast and diligent in our collective adherence to public health safety protocols. We must work together to keep ourselves and each other safe and healthy.”
An outbreak has also been declared at St. Marguerite d’Youville Catholic School in London, Ont. after another member of that community tested positive.
The health unit says it appears to be associated with a previous case reported on Saturday and the declaration is an effort to limit further spread.
Dr. Alex Summers, associate medical officer of health at the MLHU said in a statement, “Transmission of COVID-19 within a school has been a rare occurrence in the Middlesex-London region. Health Unit staff will continue to follow up with affected families and staff members to provide support and advice on next steps.”
The school remains open, but staff and students in classrooms identified as close contacts are being told to stay home.
A new case was also reported at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer, Ont., but that school also remains open as Southwestern Public Health investigates and informs close contacts.
Here is where the cases stand in the region based on the most recent publicly available data, no new deaths were reported in any of the regions:
Elgin-Oxford – eight new, 64 active, 563 total, 493 resolved, six deaths
Haldimand-Norfolk – two new, 43 active, 660 total, 573 resolved, 32 deaths
Sarnia-Lambton – two new, 14 active, 412 total, 373 resolved, 25 deaths
Grey-Bruce – two new, 34 active, 338 total, 294 resolved, no deaths
Huron-Perth – 10 new, 49 active, 343 total, 276 resolved, 18 deaths
Across Ontario, just over 1,700 new infections were reported Tuesday, as well as seven deaths.
The London Health Sciences Centre's University Hospital in London, Ont. is seen Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. (Jim Knight / CTV News)
St. Marguerite d"Youville Catholic School in London, Ont. is seen Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (Jim Knight / CTV News)
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Belarus protests: Tikhanovskaya vows to stand till the end
in Women
Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has vowed to "stand till the end" in protests over disputed elections and subsequent violence.
She told the BBC that if the protest movement stepped back now, they would be "slaves".
Protests and strikes continue, but President Alexander Lukashenko shows no sign of backing down nearly two weeks after the election was held.
He has vowed to crush the unrest in the coming days.
Ms Tikhanovskaya stood as the main opposition candidate, drawing large crowds during the election campaign.
But she left for neighbouring Lithuania a day after the 9 August election, saying she feared for her family's safety, after Mr Lukashenko was officially declared the winner by a landslide. She has said she will go back when she feels safe.
The results prompted widespread unrest and a brutal police crackdown, which only led to more protests.
Last weekend an estimated 200,000 anti-Lukashenko protesters filled central Minsk, and mass strikes are continuing.
Belarus – the basic facts
Where is Belarus? It has Russia – its former imperial master – to the east and Ukraine to the south. To the north and west lie EU and Nato members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Why does it matter? Like Ukraine, this nation of 9.5 million is caught in rivalry between the West and Russia. President Lukashenko, an ally of Russia, has been nicknamed "Europe's last dictator". He has been in power for 26 years, keeping much of the economy in state hands, and using censorship and police crackdowns against opponents.
What's going on there? Now there is a huge opposition movement, demanding new, democratic leadership and economic reform. They say Mr Lukashenko rigged the 9 August election – officially he won by a landslide. His supporters say his toughness has kept the country stable.
'If not now, we'll be slaves'
Ms Tikhanovskaya told the BBC Belarusians had voted for her, not as a future president but as a "symbol of changes".
"They were shouting for their future, for their wish to live in a free country, against violence, for their rights," she said, in her only interview with a Western media outlet.
Despite the fact that the protests had stalled, they had to go on, she added.
"We have no right to step back now – if not now, we'll be slaves and our people understand this and I'm sure we will stand till the end."
Earlier in a video address, Ms Tikhanovskaya urged supporters to step up strikes despite "intimidation" from the authorities.
There have been reports of pressure put on strikers as Mr Lukashenko tries to reassert control.
The president insisted that the crisis would soon be over.
"This is my problem, which I should resolve, and we are resolving it," he said in a visit to a state food factory. "And believe me, in the coming days it will be resolved."
Meanwhile allies of Ms Tikhanovskaya on the new opposition Co-ordination Council have been summoned to the Belarus Investigative Committee (SK), as they are now accused of an illegal power grab.
A lawyer for the council, Maxim Znak, and Sergei Dylevsky, organiser of strikes at the Minsk Tractor Factory, were questioned on Friday.
The council, which also includes prominent Belarusian cultural figures, was launched to organise a peaceful transition and pave the way for a re-run of the election.
But on Thursday the chief prosecutor launched a criminal case against the council, calling it unconstitutional. President LukashenkRead More – Source
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Surfactant protein A suppresses reactive nitrogen intermediates by alveolar macrophages in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (1/439)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis attaches to, enters, and replicates within alveolar macrophages (AMs). Our previous studies suggest that surfactant protein A (SP-A) can act as a ligand in the attachment of M. tuberculosis to AMs. Reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNIs) play a significant role in the killing of mycobacteria. We have demonstrated that RNI levels generated by AMs were significantly increased when interferon-gamma-primed AMs were incubated with M. tuberculosis. However, the RNI levels were significantly suppressed in the presence of SP-A (10 microg/ml). The specificity of SP-A's effect was demonstrated by the use of F(ab')2 fragments of anti-SP-A monoclonal antibodies and by the use of mannosyl-BSA, which blocked the suppression of RNI levels by SP-A. Furthermore, incubation of deglycosylated SP-A with M. tuberculosis failed to suppress RNI by AMs, suggesting that the oligosaccharide component of SP-A, which binds to M. tuberculosis, is necessary for this effect. These results show that SP-A-mediated binding of M. tuberculosis to AMs significantly decreased RNI levels, suggesting that this may be one mechanism by which M. tuberculosis diminishes the cytotoxic response of activated AMs. (+info)
Changes in surfactant-associated protein mRNA profile in growth-restricted fetal sheep. (2/439)
To test the hypothesis that chronic placental insufficiency resulting in fetal growth restriction causes an increase in fetal lung surfactant-associated protein (SP) gene expression, we embolized chronically catheterized fetal sheep (n = 6) daily using nonradioactive microspheres in the abdominal aorta for 21 days (between 0.74 and 0.88 of gestation) until fetal arterial oxygen content was reduced by approximately 40-50%. Control animals (n = 7) received saline only. Basal fetal plasma cortisol concentration was monitored. At the end of the experiment, fetal lung tissues were collected, and ratios of tissue levels of SP-A, SP-B, and SP-C mRNA to 18S rRNA were determined by standard Northern blot analysis. Total DNA content of fetal lungs was reduced by 30% in the embolized group compared with control group (P = 0.01). There was a 2.7-fold increase in fetal lung SP-A mRNA (P < 0.05) and a 3.2-fold increase in SP-B mRNA (P < 0.01) in the chronically embolized group compared with those in the control group. SP-A and SP-B mRNA tissue levels were highly correlated with the mean fetal plasma cortisol levels on days 20-21 (r = 0.90, P < 0.01 for SP-A mRNA and r = 0.94, P < 0.01 for SP-B mRNA). SP-C mRNA tissue levels were not significantly affected by placental insufficiency. We conclude that fetal growth restriction due to placental insufficiency is associated with alterations in fetal lung SP, suggesting enhanced lung maturation that was highly dependent on the degree of increase in fetal plasma cortisol levels. (+info)
Surfactant function and composition after free radical exposure generated by transition metals. (3/439)
Surfactant dysfunction in acute lung injury has been postulated as a result of free radical damage to lipid and protein components. This study examines whether transition metals with different redox potentials and different binding affinities for lipids and proteins affect interfacial properties differently. Purified whole calf lung surfactant (CLS) was incubated with 0.125 mM Fe2+, Fe3+, Fe3+-EDTA complex, or Cu2+ either alone or with 0.25 mM H2O2 or H2O2 plus 0.25 mM ascorbate for 4 and 24 h. Lipid peroxidation was assessed by measurement of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS), and free radical-mediated alterations in protein structure were assessed by fluorescamine assay and Western blot analysis. Function was assayed by pulsating bubble surfactometry. Lipid peroxidation was detected in samples incubated with Fe2+, Fe3+, and Fe3+-EDTA but not with Cu2+. All transition metal-based free radical systems affected surfactant protein composition by fluorescamine assay, indicating free radical-mediated modification of protein side chains. Western blot analysis demonstrated surfactant protein A modification, with the generation of higher- and lower-molecular-mass immunoreactive products. Despite biochemical evidence of lipid and protein modification, surfactant dysfunction was minimal and was manifest as an increase in the compression ratio required to achieve surface tension < 1 dyn/cm. This dysfunction was readily reversed by the addition of 5 mM Ca2+ either before or after oxidation. These data indicate that copper- and iron-based free radical-generating systems modify the lipid and protein components of surfactant differently but suggest that these changes have little effect on surfactant function. (+info)
Surfactant protein A enhances the binding and deacylation of E. coli LPS by alveolar macrophages. (4/439)
Surfactant protein (SP) A and SP-D are involved in multiple immunomodulatory functions of innate host defense partly via their interaction with alveolar macrophages (AMs). In addition, both SP-A and SP-D bind to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). To investigate the functional significance of this interaction, we first tested the ability of SP-A and SP-D to enhance the binding of tritium-labeled Escherichia coli LPS to AMs. In contrast to SP-D, SP-A enhanced the binding of LPS by AMs in a time-, temperature-, and concentration-dependent manner. Coincubation with surfactant-like lipids did not affect the SP-A-mediated enhancement of LPS binding. At SP-A-to-LPS molar ratios of 1:2-1:3, the LPS binding by AMs reached 270% of control values. Second, we investigated the role of SP-A in regulating the degradation of LPS by AMs. In the presence of SP-A, deacylation of LPS by AMs increased by approximately 2.3-fold. Pretreatment of AMs with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C had no effect on the SP-A-enhanced LPS binding but did reduce the amount of serum-enhanced LPS binding by 50%, suggesting that a cell surface molecule distinct from CD14 mediates the effect of SP-A. Together the results for the first time provide direct evidence that SP-A enhances LPS binding and degradation by AMs. (+info)
C1qRP is a heavily O-glycosylated cell surface protein involved in the regulation of phagocytic activity. (5/439)
C1q, mannose-binding lectin (MBL), and pulmonary surfactant protein A (SPA) interact with human monocytes and macrophages, resulting in the enhancement of phagocytosis of suboptimally opsonized targets. mAbs that recognize a cell surface molecule of 126,000 Mr, designated C1qRP, have been shown to inhibit C1q- and MBL-mediated enhancement of phagocytosis. Similar inhibition of the SPA-mediated enhancement of phagocytosis by these mAbs now suggests that C1qRP is a common component of a receptor for these macromolecules. Ligation of human monocytes with immobilized R3, a IgM mAb recognizing C1qRP, also triggers enhanced phagocytic capacity of these cells in the absence of ligand, verifying the direct involvement of this polypeptide in the regulation of phagocytosis. While the cDNA for C1qRP encodes a 631 amino acid membrane protein, Chinese hamster ovary cells transfected with the cDNA of the C1qRP coding region express a surface glycoprotein with the identical 126,000 Mr in SDS-PAGE as the native C1qRP. Use of glycosylation inhibitors, cleavage of the mature C1qRP with specific glycosidases, and in vitro translation of C1qRP cDNA demonstrated that both posttranslational glycosylation and the nature of the amino acid sequence of the protein contribute to the difference between its predicted m.w. and its migration on SDS-PAGE. These results verify that the cDNA cloned codes for the mature C1qRP, that C1qRP contains a relatively high degree of O-linked glycoslyation, and that C1qRP cross-linked directly by monoclonal anti-C1qRP or engaged as a result of cell surface ligation of SPA, as well as C1q and MBL, enhances phagocytosis. (+info)
Surfactant protein-A enhances respiratory syncytial virus clearance in vivo. (6/439)
To determine the role of surfactant protein-A(SP-A) in antiviral host defense, mice lacking SP-A (SP-A-/-) were produced by targeted gene inactivation. SP-A-/- and control mice (SP-A+/+) were infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) by intratracheal instillation. Pulmonary infiltration after infection was more severe in SP-A-/- than in SP-A+/+ mice and was associated with increased RSV plaque-forming units in lung homogenates. Pulmonary infiltration with polymorphonuclear leukocytes was greater in the SP-A-/- mice. Levels of proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 were enhanced in lungs of SP-A-/- mice. After RSV infection, superoxide and hydrogen peroxide generation was deficient in macrophages from SP-A-/- mice, demonstrating a critical role of SP-A in oxidant production associated with RSV infection. Coadministration of RSV with exogenous SP-A reduced viral titers and inflammatory cells in the lung of SP-A-/- mice. These findings demonstrate that SP-A plays an important host defense role against RSV in vivo. (+info)
Filaments of surfactant protein A specifically interact with corrugated surfaces of phospholipid membranes. (7/439)
Pulmonary surfactant, a mixture of lipids and surfactant proteins (SPs), plays an important role in respiration and gas exchange. SP-A, the major SP, exists as an octadecamer that can self-associate to form elongated protein filaments in vitro. We have studied here the association of purified bovine SP-A with lipid vesicle bilayers in vitro with negative staining with uranyl acetate and transmission electron microscopy. Native bovine surfactant was also examined by transmission electron microscopy of thinly sectioned embedded material. Lipid vesicles made from dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and egg phosphatidylcholine (1:1 wt/wt) generally showed a smooth surface morphology, but some large vesicles showed a corrugated one. On the smooth-surfaced vesicles, SP-As primarily interacted in the form of separate octadecamers or as multidirectional protein networks. On the surfaces of the striated vesicles, SP-As primarily formed regularly spaced unidirectional filaments. The mean spacing between adjacent striations and between adjacent filaments was 49 nm. The striated surfaces were not essential for the formation of filaments but appeared to stabilize them. In native surfactant preparations, SP-A was detected in the dense layers. This latter arrangement of the lipid bilayer-associated SP-As supported the potential relevance of the in vitro structures to the in vivo situation. (+info)
Formation of membrane lattice structures and their specific interactions with surfactant protein A. (8/439)
Biological membranes exist in many forms, one of which is known as tubular myelin (TM). This pulmonary surfactant membranous structure contains elongated tubes that form square lattices. To understand the interaction of surfactant protein (SP) A and various lipids commonly found in TM, we undertook a series of transmission-electron-microscopic studies using purified SP-A and lipid vesicles made in vitro and also native surfactant from bovine lung. Specimens from in vitro experiments were negatively stained with 2% uranyl acetate, whereas fixed native surfactant was delipidated, embedded, and sectioned. We found that dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine-egg phosphatidylcholine (1:1 wt/wt) bilayers formed corrugations, folds, and predominantly 47-nm-square latticelike structures. SP-A specifically interacted with these lipid bilayers and folds. We visualized other proteolipid structures that could act as intermediates for reorganizing lipids and SP-As. Such a reorganization could lead to the localization of SP-A in the lattice corners and could explain, in part, the formation of TM-like structures in vivo. (+info)
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Family & Gifts
5 Time-honored Traditions for the Bride and Her Mother
by Meredith Bower
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Deciding to get married is the easy part. Planning the wedding and paying for it -- well, that's the overwhelming part. That's where your parents come in. But while planning involves many activities moms and daughters typically enjoy, it's not all fun and games. With tradition as your guide, you and your mother can navigate the wedding planning process to ensure every detail is handled to perfection.
What role will your mother play in this joyful/stressful time? And, how can you honor her at the ceremony in way that will make her feel particularly special?
The Dress and Veil
Dressing Your Mother (and His)
Please Be Seated
5: The Dress and Veil
Perhaps the most sentimental tradition is for the bride to wear her mother's wedding gown -- with updates and alterations, of course. But if the bride is selecting her own dress, she usually brings her mother along to say "yes" to it. After all, you can always count on Mom for an honest opinion. In fact, visit any bridal salon today and you'll not only find mothers, but also grandmothers, several bridesmaids and sometimes even a father and grandfather on hand to give the bride a thumbs up (or down) to a gown.
If wearing Mom's dress doesn't work, perhaps wearing her veil will. Today, a veil may range from a mantilla, which shrouds the bride, to a simple and sweet flower tucked into a chignon. Incorporating part or all of a mother's veil or headpiece into yours creates a special bond between mother and daughter. And that bond will come in handy when the planning process becomes more stressful.
Why White?
There was a time when a woman simply wore her best dress during her wedding ceremony. Then, in 1840, England's Queen Victoria broke with tradition by wearing a white gown to wed Prince Albert. Since that time, most brides have followed suit. Styles have changed, but white, a symbol of purity, has remained a constant.
4: Dressing Your Mother (and His)
Once the wedding gown has been ordered and the colors for the bridesmaid's dresses and flowers have been determined, the bride can give the go-ahead for her mother to start looking for her outfit. It's OK for the bride to suggest colors and styles that will compliment her wedding style, bearing in mind what her mother will feel comfortable in and look great wearing.
Traditionally, once the mother-of-the bride has selected her outfit, she tells the groom's mother what she'll be wearing, so the groom's mother can then shop for an ensemble that will blend well with the mother-of-the-bride's. As long as the mothers don't try to out-do each other, it's hard to go wrong.
The bridal veil was originally used to prevent the groom from seeing his "intended" before the wedding -- back when the parents chose the mate, and marrying off a daughter was more like a business deal.
3: Please Be Seated
Tradition plays a big role in the wedding procession. If the mother-of-the-bride is not part of the bridal procession, she is usually the last person seated before the ceremony begins. In Christian wedding ceremonies, she sits on the left side in the front row. In Jewish ceremonies, it's tradition for the bride's mother and father to process up the aisle with their daughter and remain under the huppah through the wedding ceremony.
However, that's just tradition, and today's families don't necessarily always follow tradition. Even if you follow the specific rules your faith dictates for the actual ceremony, you can always bend the rules a bit for the processional. For example, if your ceremony is Christian, you could still ask your mother to join your father in walking you down the aisle.
2: Honor Thy Mother
Many brides take time during the wedding ceremony to honor their mothers. For example, some couples present their mothers with a flower during the ceremony. Others plan a unity ritual to symbolize the blending of the two families. A popular practice is for the bride and groom to light a candle from a candle held by their mothers and then to use the flames to light one central candle. Adding special songs, poems or readings to the service is a touching way to pay homage to a mother.
According to the age-old rhyme, the bride must wear "something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue" during her wedding. What better way to incorporate your mother into this tradition than to wear her jewelry as your "something borrowed"?
1: The Reception
After the bride and groom are hitched, it's time to celebrate. The reception includes a few more rituals for the bride and her mother. Traditionally, the bride's parents are the reception hosts, so they head up the receiving line -- meeting, greeting and welcoming guests to the celebration. If the wedding party will be formally announced during the reception, again the bride's parents are first.
The final tradition involving the bride and her mother is the first dance. The bride and groom dance together first. Then the bride's parents join in. The bride is paired with her father, and the groom is paired with his mother-in-law. After a few turns, the groom's parents join the dance and eventually the rest of wedding party and guests hit the dance floor.
And everyone lives happily ever after.
Who Throws the Bridal Shower?
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5th Jul 2018 5:41 AM
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump pressed his top military aides about whether he could invade Venezuela during an Oval Office discussion last year.
His inquiry came during a discussion about imposing sanctions on the South American country as it was roiled by political and economic crises, according to a report on Wednesday.
According to the New York Post, the suggestion stunned the aides, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster - both of whom are no longer with the Trump administration - and sparked a heated debate for about five minutes last August, the Associated Press reported.
Donald Trump asked his military advisers about invading Trump asked about invading Venezuela. Picture: AP
General McMaster was among the advisers who explained that any military action could backfire and threaten the support the US built up with other Latin American governments to punish President Nicolas Maduro for jailing opponents and consolidating power in an effort to establish a dictatorship.
Despite the arguments against, Mr Trump persisted and brought up the successful use of the US military to invade Panama and Grenada in the 1980s.
Although the US President gave no indication he was about to call up the military, the idea appeared to remain in his head.
The next day, on August 11, Mr Trump floated the idea that he would use a "military option" to solve the escalating unrest in Venezuela that threatened security in the area.
"We are all over the world and we have troops all over the world in places that are very, very far away," the president said. "Venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering, and they are dying. We have many options for Venezuela, including a possible military option if necessary."
Mr Trump also mentioned the proposal with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the AP reported, and in September spoke to leaders of four Latin American countries at the United Nations General Assembly about it.
Eventually, Gen. McMaster was able to persuade Mr Trump of how dangerous an invasion would be.
The White House declined comment, the AP reported, but a spokesman for the National Security Council said the US will consider all options to restore Venezuela's democracy.
The US, Canada and the European Union have slapped sanctions on Maduro and dozens of Venezuela officials over allegations of corruption, drug trafficking and human rights abuses.
This article first appeared in the New York Post and is republished with permission.
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For years, media chased the clicks promised by Facebook; now the social media giant threatens to destroy them
Illustration by Jeff Drew
As with any toxic relationship, the possibility of a breakup sparks feelings of terror – and maybe a little bit of a relief.
That's the spot that Facebook has put the news business in. Last month, the social media behemoth announced it would once again alter its News Feed algorithm to show users even more posts from their friends and family, and a lot fewer from media outlets.
The move isn't all that surprising. Ever since the 2016 election, Facebook's been under siege for creating a habitat where fake news stories flourished. Their executives were dragged before Congress last year to testify about how they sold ads to Russians who wanted to influence the U.S. election, and so, in some ways, it's simply easier to get out of the news business altogether.
But for the many news outlets that have come to rely on Facebook funneling readers to their sites, the impact of a separation sounds catastrophic.
"The End of the Social News Era?" a New York Times headline asked. "Facebook is breaking up with news," an ad for the new BuzzFeed app proclaimed.
When a giant like Facebook takes a step – until recently, the social media site had been sending more traffic to news outlets than Google – the resulting quake can cause an entire industry to crumble.
Consumers, meanwhile, have grimaced as their favorite media outlets have stooped to sensational headlines to lure Facebook's web traffic. They've become disillusioned by the flood of hoaxes and conspiracy theories that have run rampant on the site.
A Knight Foundation/Gallup poll released last month revealed that only a third of Americans had a positive view of the media. About 57 percent said that websites or apps using algorithms to determine which news stories readers see was a major problem for democracy. Two-thirds believed the media being "dramatic or too sensational in order to attract more readers or viewers" was a major problem.
Now, sites that rely on Facebook's algorithm have watched the floor drop out from under them when the algorithm is changed – all while Facebook has gobbled up chunks of print advertising revenue.
It's all landed media outlets in a hell of a quandary: It sure seems like Facebook is killing journalism. But can journalism survive without it?
"Traffic is such a drug right now," says Sean Robinson, a 53-year-old investigative reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune. "The industry is hurting so bad that it's really hard to detox."
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$40 Million Boost For Regional Business Partner Network
By: Great South
Published: Fri 17 Jul 2020 08:39 AM
The Southland Regional Development Agency’s efforts to encourage resilience across the Southland business community have received a boost with additional funding via the Regional Business Partner Network.
The Government has allocated $40 million of additional funding to support New Zealand businesses through the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 Business Advisory Fund, which in Southland is being administered by Great South as the Regional Business Partner for the region, will enable businesses to access expert advice and support.
Great South GM for Business Services, Ben Lewis, said the funding was a boost for both the local business sector and the region’s economic recovery.
“As the economic and social impacts of COVID-19 continue to be navigated by our local business sector and region, this additional funding provides access to the tools and networks which will help to increase overall confidence and the ongoing viability of business in Southland,”
The funding can be used to access advice from a range of registered providers, including HR, health and wellbeing, business continuity, cashflow and finance management, strategy, and digital capability specialists.
Mr Lewis said eligible businesses could apply for up to $5000.00 from the fund.
To qualify for funding, Southland businesses will need to meet the specified eligibility criteria including meeting with a Great South Business Growth Advisor.
“Great South is committed to providing local businesses with the support and resources they need to navigate this new landscape and best position themselves for future success. The COVID-19 Business Advisory Fund gives us an even greater platform to offer this support and help businesses in alleviating immediate concerns and developing long term solutions,”
Mr Lewis said scaling up the support available for businesses in Southland was critical given the current environment.
“We have always provided a range of services for the region’s businesses, we are now amplifying this so that businesses can receive the support and reassurance they need at this time,”
More information on the eligibility criteria and process to qualifying for funding can be found on the Great South website.COVID-19 Advisory Fund information: https://greatsouth.nz/covid-19/covid-19-business-support/business-resources/advisory-fundEligibility Criteria for BusinessesBusinesses must:Have undergone an assessment with a Regional Business Partner Growth AdvisorHave fewer than 100 full time equivalent employees, andbe GST registered in New Zealand, andhave a New Zealand Business Number, andbe operating in a commercial environment; andbe a privately-owned business or are a Māori Trust or incorporation under the Te Ture WhenuaMāori Act 1993 or similar organisation managing Māori assets under multiple ownership.
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Coming of age and horror expertly go hand in hand. Stephen King is a master of this trope and his influence certainly casts a spell in this tale of a teenage angst and witchcraft. Ben (John-Paul Howard) is a misguided 17-year-old who is struggling to come to terms with his parents impending divorce. Following a troublesome time he heads off to his Father’s (Jamison Jones) summer home to recuperate but little does he know a supernatural nightmare awaits when he comes face to face with a thousand year old flesh devouring witch with a sinister agenda living in the skin of the woman next door.
The Wretched is a cross breed of IT (2017), Summer of 84 (2018) and Disturbia (2007) in its plot and tone. In many ways it adheres to the standard horror tropes we’ve been accustomed to within the genre; a young protagonist discovers that something is awry with the neighbours, yet nobody seems to believe him and deems him crazy. He strikes up a friendship with a plucky young girl who inevitably ends up becoming the love interest. Finally, a multitude of unfortunate situations keep happening to him as a result of messing with the villain that the rest of the characters question his integrity even though unknowingly, they are in grave danger and he is the only one who can save them! Despite not presenting a highly original narrative, the Pierce brothers offer up a slick, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, creepy teen horror with a stomach-churning sound design and outstanding creature effects.
The Pierce Brothers put their own stamp on the narrative qualities they’ve been inspired by, creating an interesting tone and overall mood for the film. There are some well-crafted moments of suspense and dread, when the elements of creepiness transpire, they truly deliver with unsettling set pieces. The film doesn’t put on any sort of front and while it’s not being blatant in the vein of “look how self-aware we are”, there’s an essence that they are keeping their tongue firmly planted in their cheek, suggesting to the audience “we know what we’re going for here and you do too” without ramming it down our throats.
Remarkably, The Wretched is almost completely devoid of jump scares. From the outset, it would be easy to assume that because this is a mainstream horror flick, it won’t put any effort into building a sense of ambience within the fear factor choosing to be loud and startling for the sake of generating a few ‘jump out of the seat’ moments for the audience. Cleverly, the film uses camera trickery to make the audience feel that there’s a presence lurking in the shadows waiting to strike before pulling back to a safe sense of security for the time being. The build-up of suspense is intricately crafted, allowing for plenty to be left to the imagination.
While there are several unnerving scares taking place in the dark, the film equally knows how to frighten in broad daylight. The seaside town setting and summery vibe juxtaposes the notion of horror while raising the stakes, especially when Ben is caught spying on his neighbours convinced that things are not as they seem. The witch herself is a mysterious and confident villain as she has no qualms in terrorising Ben during the middle of the day where she could be discovered at any given moment. To a degree the setting and horror taking place out in the open is evocative of I know what you did last summer (1997) which saw a group of teens stalked and terrorised primarily when the sun was out. The Wretched does have a nostalgic feel to it with comparisons drawn to that period of late 90’s early 00’s teen horror/thrillers.
John-Paul Howard confidently leads the cast in the main role, he is troubled and sympathetic dealing with major life changes and on top of that being hounded by an unstoppable supernatural force. His fears surrounding his parents imminent divorce paralleled with his otherworldly predicament amalgamates into an allegory for growing up, facing change as well as inner fears. Piper Curda delivers a charismatic and engaging performance as the charming and hardworking Mallory who works for Ben’s father’s sailing company. There’s instantaneous chemistry between the two tapping into the notion of first love and summer romance.
The standout performance belongs to Zarah Mahler in the role of Abbie, the unconventional punk rock but good-hearted mother of two transformed into an unspeakably evil and sinister witch. Mahler truly sinks her teeth into the dual role, creating a well-rounded sympathetic character before transitioning into her terrifying performance as the witch inside her skin. Without revealing too much, there is one freaky moment when the witch confronts Ben on the porch with him inside the house, marking the film’s most tense scene. The key players are aided by a strong supporting cast, namely Jamison Jones as Ben’s dismissive father who does an excellent job in portraying their frayed relationship and Azie Tesfai as Sara, Ben’s father’s misunderstood but well-meaning new girlfriend. The child actors involved deliver naturalistic performances and are effortlessly convincing in depicting their fear once they are placed in peril.
Both the sound design and creature effects are exceptional. The sound effects provide the main source of the horror with cracking and animalistic noises present. The skin crawling creature effects go all out with some magnificent moments of twisted body horror. The film isn’t explicitly gratuitous but does enough to make its audience squirm in the right places. The image of the witch wearing others skin is pure horror in its element. The Pierce Brothers pay homage to cult mega-classic Evil Dead (1981) in the opening sequence within the camera work, their father Bart worked on the special effects for the Raimi masterclass in low budget horror so suffice to say, their penchant for creating horrifying FX is in their blood.
The Wretched culminates with an inventive twist and a satisfying showdown, wrapping up the narrative nicely. Audiences will go into The Wretched knowing exactly what they’re going to get, that said it remains a fun ride and an exercise in thrilling suspense.
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Why did PPP lose elections 2013? Interview with Junaid Qaiser
posted by Abdul Nishapuri | June 7, 2013 | In LUBP Interviews, Original Articles
LUBP is currently conducting a series of interviews with Pakistan Peoples Party’s long-time supporters (Jiyalas) and independent political analysts to have their views on the party’s electoral debacle in 2013. The aim of this series is to provide constructive criticism and sincere reflections to the party’s leadership in order to improve the party’s performance as well as perceptions in the future.
Brief introduction:
Mr. Junaid Qaiser is a writer, columnist, blogger and civil and political rights activist. He has participated in various civil and political rights movements,e.g., right to information, free independent media, devolution of power, restoration of democracy etc. Junaid has served as an editor of the LUBP blog as well as worked in civil society organizations and mainstream newspapers. His father Mr. Nazir Qaiser is a veteran poet and intellectual.
LUBP: What is your association with the PPP? Brief history or/and views please?
Junaid Qaiser (JQ): My association with the PPP goes back to its foundation in the 1967 when my father Mr. Nazir Qaiser joined the party. So, I always describe it as my parent party. My father is a pioneer member of the PPP. In my book ‘Haqaqi Jamhuriat’, I have written in detail about my family’s association with the party.
LUBP: How do you compare PPP with other leading political parties of Pakistan?
JQ: The PPP is a pro-democracy, liberal, and progressive party. The party fought and defeated all military dictators from General Ziaul Haq to General Pervaz Musharaf. It believes in modern contemporary principles and values such as free society, fundamental human rights, civil liberties, constitutionalism, federalism and local democracy. It stood for democratic traditions, liberal values and welfare-oriented policies; it never succumbed to threats and continues struggling for civil and politics rights and democracy. It has a pro-liberal agenda, rich democratic history, sacrifices for human, civil and political rights, and better framework for federation, clear agenda and respect for diversity, pluralism and constitutionalism. Other political parties pale in comparison.
One can see a difference very clearly in two leading mainstream parties’ approach to accommodating women, federation and the political plurality. During the previous PPP government, the President was from Sindh, Prime Minister from Southern Punjab, the Speaker was a woman. Now in PMLN-ruled Pakistan, most posts, from PM to CM to Speaker and majority of women on reserved seats hail from Lahore, and not a single woman is at an important position.
LUBP: Both its supporters and critics are unanimous that the PPP leadership has become disconnected from the masses. Kindly elaborate on this and identify the specific reasons for this distancing.
JQ: Here I would like to say after years of military rule it was a first real democratic transition in Pakistan. Due to long military governments and absence of representative regimes, we have undemocratic and illiberal outlook. Moreover, our state institutions have aligned their interests with unrepresentative powerful groups especially security and intelligence establishment. So, this transitional process was not easy. The PPP government had to face biased media, arrogant anti-democratic judges and right wing opposition parties. It is inaccurate to say that the security and intelligence establishment has remained out of the political sphere in this whole period. We have seen the so called Memo scandal, Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri’s “ Siyasat Nahin ,Riyasat Bachao” campaign, and the Tahaffuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat movement. International newspapers and organizations categorically blamed that these players were acting at the behest of the security establishment to undermine the country’s political system.
At the organizational level, the PPP faced difficulty in organizing itself according to new situation. The tragic assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was the biggest shock and setback to the party. After the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the co-chairman of the PPP Asif Ali Zardari was elected as the President of Pakistan. So, the party hardly got any time and space to organize itself internally. The PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari could not run election campaign due to the security threats. All these factors together played a role in the party’s recent defeat in election 2013. But let me admit here that the party’s second and third level leadership especially in the Punjab failed to play an effective role and practically failed to respond to new challenges.
LUBP: Since 2011, the party outsourced a significant section of its foreign policy to a pro-establishment think tank, the Jinnah Institute, founded by PPP’s ex-media advisor Sherry Rehman. To what extent has this move compromised the PPP’s ideological stance in foreign relations?
JQ: As I said earlier it was a transitional democratic phase, and unfortunately most important departments and ministries were not under the PPP government’s control. Or you can say the civilian government was not the sole decision maker. During this period lots of groups supported and extended security and intelligence establishment’s interests and narratives. Definitely, such compromised policies did not produce good results. I think we should also not forget that despite all these unfavorable circumstances, the PPP leadership took a number of bold initiatives. President Asif Ali Zardari invited Afghani counterpart Hamid Karzi in his oath taking ceremony, he visited India and developed good relationship with neighbor countries as well as signed good strategic, economic and trade related pacts. In the previous government, we maintained good relationships with the world, and we can proudly claim that the PPP led government’s performance in foreign affairs is far better than all previous governments.
LUBP: During Benazir Bhutto’s exile from1998 to 2007, there emerged a buffer between the PPP leadership and the masses in the shape of a certain group of select elites whose loyalties to the PPP were always suspect. To what extent did it affect the popular roots of the PPP especially amongst the youth?
JQ: Yes, to some extent it is true that during Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s exile, there emerged a buffer between the PPP leadership and the masses, which caused so much damage to the struggle to organize the party according to new emerging realities especially in Punjab’s urban centers. During this period, a few opportunists monopolized the party and blocked the way of young people. These people not only damaged the party position, but also failed to respond to new challenges. For example, after Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaaf historical Jalsa in Lahore on 30 Oct 2011, Punjab government and Shahbaz Sharif took it as a challenge and invested heavily on youth, the PML-N also competed the PTI on social media front. On the contrary, the PPP leadership ignored these new digital avenues.
LUBP: PPP’s inside circles confirm that two former ambassadors to the US played a key role in the party’s media policy. To what extent do you think the PPP was able to (a) manage perceptions in the masses, and (b) communicate its point of view and achievements effectively in the media?
JQ: In my view, Pakistan’s mainstream Urdu media is more powerful than the party’s media cell, it’s very much anti-democratic, anti-PPP and pro-establishment. It’s also true that the party could not develop its own alternative media on modern lines, we could not convey our liberal and democratic message as well as achievements. It’s also our failure that we could not tell the people about the importance of constitution in citizens’ life and how constitutional amendments are going to change the structure of the state from unitary to federal state. The PPP government only published one good book about its achievement “Reconciliation, Reforms and Revival”. But the book is in English and very expensive. So it’s no for commoner. We need to disseminate such material in simple Urdu language and free.
LUBP: While other parties (PTI, MQM, PMLN) developed their media and strategic policy wings in house, the PPP appears to have outsourced these functions to certain development consultants who remain simultaneously aligned with the establishment and PML-N. How effective was this strategy?
JQ: These parties were lucky enough to have a friendly media. The anti-PPP media had given free hand to PML-N government in Punjab. Although the PTI had no seat in legislative assemblies or representation, yet the media and especially talk shows gave plenty of time to Imran Khan and his team members. In this way the media successfully tarnished the image of the PPP government through corruption charges and created a space for other parties. Meanwhile, the other rival parties especially in the Punjab the PML-N and PTI established their media houses and designed media and strategic policies. We should admit that our media policy has not done all we hoped.
I would also say that the PPP didn’t have a level playing field, from judiciary to media, to security and intelligence establishment and to terrorist banned groups/ organizations they just all ganged up on it.
LUBP: The Shias, Christians and Hindus amongst other numerical minority groups were considered most loyal PPP voting bank. It’s now established that PPP has lost trust and support of these communities due to its apathy, inaction and insensitivity on Shia genocide, and persecution/murder of Christians, Hindus, Ahmadis etc by Jihadist-sectarian groups. To what extent are party’s media and policy advisors responsible for this callous mismanagement?
JQ: I always say it is not only ideology and sacrifices; your presence also counts in politics. Situation or numerical strength of various religious minority groups is different in different regions. According to Election Commission of Pakistan records, the Hindu community is the largest minority registered in Sindh, and the PPP got good numbers of minorities’ votes in Sindh. There are some 115,966 registered Ahmadi voters who mostly reside in Lahore and Chiniot districts of Punjab. They have been boycotting the election process since 1985 when Ahmadi voters were put in the list of non-Musim minorities.
It’s, however, true that Shia Muslim voters are not happy with the PPP government’s performance, and are displeased with its apathy, inaction and insensitivity on Shia genocide.
Christianity is the largest religious non-Muslim minority in the Punjab. Here, in my view, the party could not design effective policy to attract Christian voters despite its liberal and progressive approach and its response to various incidences of religious persecution. Although, major incidents of religious persecution happened in Punjab and the PML-N local leadership was involved in those incidents, yet the PML-N recaptured space due to presence of its marketers on the ground. On the contrary the PPP could not mobilize Christian voters and accommodate them on important party positions. Instead of contacting directly the Christian voters, it almost exclusively relied on the so-called minorities’ representative political party All Pakistan Minorities Alliance and its leader Paul Bhatti. Due to this policy, the PPP awarded tickets to APMA leader’s friends and relatives and ignored its own loyal workers. It was very discouraging development for all progressive Christians who had been working for the party.
In 2002, Mushtaq Victor who was elected member of assembly on minorities’ reserved seats by Pakistan Peoples Party on the recommendation of APMA left the PPP and joined the then ruling party PML-Q as a bargain to be a Parliamentary Secretary in Government. http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=93
I have been continuously writing against this APMA and Paul Bhatti appeasing policy. The policy really damaged the party’s vote bank in Punjab. It also blocked the way of new Christian members.
LUBP: One of the major causes of PPP’s recent electoral debacle was its perceived inability to manage the energy crisis. Why was the PPP unable to communicate its tangible achievements in this regard?
JQ: Positive political perception is imperative for political parties to succeed and create awareness about its policies as well as achievements, especially when the party is also carrying incumbency burden. The pro-establishment media has been creating the perception that the PPP government and its ministers are corrupt most corrupt, inefficient, and that they are not able to solve Pakistan’s important crises including energy. Unfortunately the party’s media cell could not counter effectively this hawkish media and its narratives. Here I would also like to add that in this transitional phase the other state institutions eg media, judiciary, establishment and opposition parties did not cooperate with the PPP government.
LUBP: Why was Najam Sethi’s name proposed as caretaker CM of the Punjab? This is the same person who undermined the PPP government in the last many years from Pakistan’s largest private TV channel, shifted the blame to the PPP, and is also known for links with the establishment and for humanizing sectarian terrorists.
JQ: I am not privy to the circumstances which led to this decision. But such decisions really affect the morale of party workers when the party is seen as supporting opportunistic and hypocritical political/media figures.
LUBP: To what extent has the policy PPP policy of appeasement damaged the party?
JQ: The PPP government followed the policy of reconciliation so as to avoid clash with security and intelligence establishment and with opposition parties. After election 2008, the continuity of the democratic process become the prime objective of the former government where the government adopted a policy of tolerance, and also compromised on a few issues. But due to this policy, Pakistan marked a monumental moment recently in the shape of a peaceful, democratic transfer of power from PPP to PMLN. Today, President Asif Ali Zardari administered oath to Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as the country’s 27th prime minister. It is a historic, peaceful and transparent transfer of civilian power. And credit for smooth transition of power goes to President Asif Ali Zardari and his democratic vision. Here, I would also like to add that the PPP was the only party which took clear stance on the blasphemy-accused Christian woman, Asia Bibi, and raised voice on other human rights issue and cases. Unfortunately, the party could not get support from other segments of societies, political parties and state institutions.
I want to end this interview on a positive note and congratulate every Pakistani on successful democratic transition that marked the country’s first democratic transfer of power.
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Late Victorian Britain, 1870-1901
by Harrison, J. F. C.
Published 1990 by Fontana in London .
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Statement J. F. C. Harrison.
LC Classifications DA550
Her first book The Victorian Governess was based on her PhD in Victorian History. Kathryn is also editor of George Eliot: A Family History and has won many national prizes for her journalism and historical writing. She is a contributing editor to Prospect magazine as well as a book reviewer and commentator for the Guardian and BBC Radio. Overview: Victorian Britain, - By Professor Eric Evans Last updated
Examining the characteristics of the 19th-century aristocracy, middle class and working classes, this book shows how the late Victorians became politically active. The author also analyzes the moral and religious beliefs of the people of late Victorian Britain. She has published The Woman Reader, (), The Victorians and The Visual Imagination (), and The Transatlantic Indian (), edited the Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (), and has published widely on Victorian and modernist fiction; Victorian and early 20th century painting and photography, and cultural.
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Good Burger Review
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Ed: Welcome to Goodburger, home of the good burger can I take your order?
With the new All That reboot being quite the buzz among Nickelodeon fans, I think it’s best to look back upon the cinematic project that came from one its well known sketches, Good Burger, starring Kel Mitchell as the dumb but good natured fast food worker Ed. Well in 1997 we got a movie with the same name. It’s a dumb product of the times but it’s an enjoyable kind of dumb.
The story involves Ed (Kel Mitchell) and his new friend Dexter (Kenan Thompson) who fight to keep up the Good Burger restaurant open when a rival restaurant called Mondo Burger opens up across the street run by the villainous Kurt (Jan Schweiterman).
The premise for the movies has the classic 80s trope of the small guy trying to take on the big corporation. Mondo Burger is the big corporation in this as it has all she shiny and new technology and the bigger burgers. It’s simplistic but in fairness of the movie, the plot is not the main core here. Its comedy is very much stoner comedy in many of its gags but it ‘s very well in working within its confines. Stuff that wouldn’t be funny and making it so bizarre in a way that can get a legitimate laugh.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this movie is the overall character of Ed. Mitchell does well in delivering the jokes of him twisting the words of those he’s talking to. At the same time, he does it in a way that doesn’t feel annoying. The way Ed interacts with people is just so pleasant in how friendly he is to even the villains. His delivery just has so much charm and likability and it makes his character just one of a kind rather than just an idiot character. Even though Thompson plays an entirely different character than he did from All That, him and Mitchell share such chemistry in their friendship that it almost doesn’t matter. The one-liners they have are unique and make the movie memorable. Outside of the chemistry between the mains the movie also has minor roles and cameos by Sinbad, Shaq, Linda Cardellini, Carmen Electra, Abe Vigoda, etc. all of whom give the movie small moments of charm that is largely a product of the times. Then there’s the villainous Kurt and Schweiterman does do well in hamming it up to the point that his dialogue does get a laugh.
Not every joke works. Gags like Ed shoving grapes up his nose, him inside the milkshake machine, Ed rollerblading his way to work, Dexter and his teacher arguing over a damaged car can either drag on or are far too simple in their humor for anyone under than little kids to enjoy and no doubt adult audiences will find this humor grating. But once again it goes back to the core likability of the two mains. But unless you’ve actually seen All That, gags like these not going to have much appeal.
Good Burger is largely a time capsule of the 90s. It’s downright stupid, not the most intelligent for an adult audience, and not every joke hits but the mains deliver so much of an pleasant charm to it that keep the movie from becoming horrible. If you’re a 90s kid, particularly a 90s Nickelodeon kid, this is something you can definitely look at fondly. Even if you’re not however, you can have some understanding of the comedy 90s kids grew up with and maybe even get a respect for it.
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50+ Photos That Show the Outpouring of Love at Princess Diana's Public Funeral
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When Princess Diana was tragically killed in a car crash in August 1997, it seemed as though the world was mourning just as deeply as her own family. Diana, dubbed "The People's Princess," made an indelible mark on those in the UK as well as around the globe; her funeral, which was held on Sept. 6, was watched or listened to by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide — making it one of the most watched events in history. In London, a crowd of nearly one million people gathered to trace Diana's coffin from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey to her final resting place at the Spencer family's home in Althorp.
Diana's sons, Harry and William, followed their mother's coffin alongside their father, Prince Charles, and their uncle Charles, the Earl Spencer. The visibly moved onlookers blanketed the streets with heartfelt notes, bouquets, and teddy bears, and flower petals rained down from bystanders along the procession route. People also gathered in Hyde Park, where the ceremony was being aired on a giant screen, while celebrities like Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Hillary Clinton, and Elton John attended the official ceremony inside Westminster Abbey. We're looking back on the outpouring of love from the public at Diana's funeral. Scroll through to see all the tearjerking photos.
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Personal appearance, which includes hygiene, grooming and choices regarding jewelry and clothing, is a reflection of attitude towards oneself and the people one is likely to encounter.
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Mohammed Naushad Khan
Policemen are on the frontline in the battle against COVID-19 pandemic including healthcare workers.Enforcing law and order during national lockdown and pandemic was certainly a different kind of experience for the police force. It was not an easy task to implement the guidelines of the lockdown keeping in mind the nature of the pandemic and the mental equilibrium of the people which they were in.
For police forces, it was a challenge to implement guidelines of lockdown without resorting to harsh action. There were instances of highhandedness in enforcing lockdown while handling the migrant crisis. Vegetable vendors were also maltreated. We have seen both the highhandedness and the humane face of the police force during the lockdown when they themselves were distributing food packets and escorting people in need. But have we bothered for them how we have expressed sympathy, concern and gratitude to healthcare workers?
The policemen who are on the frontline are always at risk. They too like the healthcare workers are
serving the people by putting their lives in danger. In Maharashtra alone, 60 personnel have died due to
COVID-19. Out of the 60 personnel, 38 were from the Mumbai Police force alone. Till date, nearly 4,900
police personnel have been infected with Covid-19 in the state. In other states also police officers have
died and are infected. The number is growing. In Delhi, eleven Delhi Police personnel have died due to
COVID-19. Around 2,000 police personnel were infected out of which 1,300 personnel have recovered.
Ajay Chaudhari IPS
According to Ajay Choudhary, a senior IPS officer who has served as Joint Commissioner, Delhi Police,“Policing has never been an easy job anywhere in the world. Covid-19 has posed new challenges for the
police in terms of crime control, contact tracing, management of containment zones, disposal of the dead due to Corona, regulation of the stranded migrant workers. After the doctors and the hospital staff, the police remain the most vulnerable group to get infected. Whereas the medical fraternity has some institutional support and awareness, the police have no such protection. There are no masks, PPE kits, sanitisers available in the police stations. The complainants who visit the police stations cannot be checked. Being a critical service the operations cannot be halted. Interrogations and the custody of the accused cannot be handled by maintaining social distance. For any meaningful checking of documents,
violations of traffic rule one has to come in contact with both the symptomatic and asymptomatic persons.”
“In this scenario, the police department will have to adopt innovative methods of policing. All possible
technological interventions must be adopted without caring for investments. The police personnel should be incentivized by offering additional emoluments, risk coverage, proper medical facilities in case of emergencies to maintain their morale. The police have always shown resilience in meeting any challenge.
It has won accolades from the cross-sections of the society during COVID19. However, the need for
technological up-gradation becomes most important to minimize the public interface. All the services like passport verification, registration of small crimes, counselling in matrimonial disputes, briefings should be done online till the crisis exists,” said the IPS officer.
MW Ansari, former DGP Chattisgarh
M W Ansari IPS, former Director-General of Police (DGP), Chhattisgarh said, “To work under the pandemic has been challenging for functional forces like traffic police, Inspectors and those maintaining law and order, beat constables and all those who are doing their duty on the road or working for VIPs protection. The headquarters of CRPF, jawans of CISF, BSF and ITBF are also affected by the pandemic and had to be contained and quarantined. In Central Paramilitary Force there is approximately 10 lakh force and some of those who were doing fieldwork are also affected. Keeping all these in minds the challenges before the police force is more or less equal as compared to health workers. So far police have performed very well.”
“To my mind, the decision of lockdown was taken in haste and without proper homework. Even we when
doing such things used to give warnings. Three to four days before the lockdown was required with the
message that if anyone wants to go they can go before the lockdown gets implemented. All public
transport including railways was required to make their services free for them. This would have certainly
helped the police force and other stakeholders to manage the migrant crisis more effectively. Given the
kind of infrastructure we have, we all including police and army personnel should try to protect
themselves. In the coming months, challenges will increase and the situation may become very difficult.
Police force especially who are working on the fields will have to remain more cautious in the coming
days,” added the former DGP of Chhattisgarh
Brij Mohan Saraswat , Former DG , Uttar Pradesh police
Brajmohan Saraswat, former DG of Uttar Pradesh police while speaking on the role and performance of police force said, “For policemen, to put all the PPE safety kits in this extreme summer is a very difficult task.
The role of the police was satisfactory overall but there were also cases of highhandedness. For police
forces, maintaining law and order during the lockdown and the pandemic was a different kind of
experience as compared to normal situation. At the initial stage, policemen were not getting the required
number of masks but now it is easily available. As far as the role of the police force is concerned they
have performed well. There are black sheep’s and corrupt people everywhere who use to turn every
situation to make money and they are available in every organization and department.”
“From here onwards, the police force and the healthcare workers will have to remain prepared for the
challenges we may face in the coming months. The role of the police may not be as much as compared
to healthcare workers. We can see the role of police in containment zones, to make sure that people are
following the safety guidelines strictly and law and order is maintained to ensure that healthcare workers can do their job freely and fearlessly. The role of the police was greater during lockdown but from here onwards the role of healthcare workers will increase manifold. Police forces have become trained and they have also received training and they know how to do their duty. In the coming months the demand for healthcare workers and isolation wards likely to increase manifold which is a big challenge,” the former DGP of UP said.
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Four dead, 50 infected at Maimonides care home; authorities outline protocol changes
Selena Ross CTV News Montreal Digital Reporter
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Published Monday, November 23, 2020 9:44PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:23PM EST
MONTREAL -- A care home for the elderly in Cote-Saint-Luc is in the midst of a serious COVID-19 outbreak a few months after being hit hard in the first wave.
Fifty people so far have tested positive for the virus this fall at the Maimonides care home as of Monday night, and four have died, according to a letter sent to residents' families.
"On behalf of all of us we wish to offer our sincere condolences to the families" of those who died, the home's administrators wrote.
The outbreak began when one resident was infected by a caregiver from outside the facility who was positive but asymptomatic, said Jennifer Clarke, Maimonides's site coordinator. That could mean either a family member or a paid caregiver.
Family members of the residents say they fear the situation is a repeat of the spring and they want alarms pulled now, with major action to stem the outbreak.
"We are fearing for the lives of our loved ones," said Joyce Shanks, the daughter of a Maimonides resident.
"We’re asking the government for help. We’re saying 'Send the Red Cross now, send the SWAT team now.'"
But the home released more details on Tuesday to try to reassure the families that the situation now is not the same.
"Improved practices in infection control have been implemented, given the increase in knowledge about the novel coronavirus that has emerged since the pandemic began," wrote Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, the CEO of the health authority for West-Central Montreal, which runs Maimonides, in a statement Tuesday.
CHANGES SINCE THE FIRST WAVE
Rosenberg's statement elaborated on some of the details the administrators told family members in their Monday letter.
They had said that patients who test positive are being relocated to the seventh floor of the building. On Tuesday, Rosenberg clarified that members of nursing staff do not move between care units, and they don't move from any "hot zone" to any other part of the building.
Staff in hot zones have their own elevators and lounge that they don't share with other workers, he said.
In a second measure, all members of staff and registered caregivers -- whether paid or family -- are required to wear protective equipment and are monitored for compliance.
Third, there is a new testing regime, Rosenberg wrote. On-site testing is available, and when any outbreak occurs, all staff and residents are tested.
Staff are encouraged to get tested weekly, regardless of known outbreaks, and the on-site testing has been set up -- not just at Maimonides but at all of the West-Central long-term care homes -- to ease that process.
Every person who enters the building is also screened for symptoms, Rosenberg wrote.
The CIUSSS hopes an addition will soon be added to that regime, he said. They're about to submit a proposal for a rapid-testing pilot project to Quebec's health ministry.
ALMOST TWO DOZEN STAFF SELF-ISOLATING
In the letter to residents' families, Maimonides made it clear the outbreak is far from over -- most of the 50 people who have tested positive are still fighting their infections.
"We are pleased to report that seven residents have now recovered and have been transferred back to their units," said the letter.
Right now, there are 39 active cases. Of those, all are being treated on-site, on the seventh floor, except for one patient who has been taken to the Jewish General Hospital.
But the outbreak has also hit staff hard, at least in terms of the need to self-isolate. There are 22 staff members "from a cross section of departments" who are currently quarantining at home, along with seven "caregivers," said the administrators.
That's also a red flag for some relatives about how things could go from here.
"Things are spiraling out of control at Maimonides in terms of staffing," said Morris Azouz, whose 92-year-old mother lives at the home.
When he visits, he said, he often finds himself helping her.
"I had one [orderly] tell me just today that they don’t know what they would do if the family members and the caregivers were not there to help out," he said.
Azouz said not enough has changed at the home since the first wave, when it also had a bad outbreak, with at least 77 people positive and at least 12 dead.
In his statement Tuesday, Rosenberg said that while "staffing is an ongoing challenge," there's "no shortage" of orderlies right now.
Quebec's new class of thousands of orderlies, rapidly trained over the summer, has helped, with 70 of them assigned to Maimonides, Rosenberg said. Nurses are a bigger problem.
"Having as many nurses on hand as we would like is always difficult," he said, but the CIUSSS is generally able to help.
MEMORIES OF THE SPRING
At the time, families with loved ones living there were very upset about the protocols in place, especially around the transfer of patients between different floors.
A new wave of worries arose, with echoes of that time, last month, when it was announced that Maimonides and other care homes would need to be prepared to care for COVID-19 patients from outside the facility if the hospitals overflowed. Doing so is a ministerial order.
However, Rosenberg said Tuesday that this hasn't happened yet -- it's not a factor in the current outbreak.
"At this time, no one has been transferred from the community to the hot zone at Maimonides," he wrote.
He and the home's administrators, in both their letters, said that representatives of the public health department came for a visit on Friday afternoon.
"They visited each floor and reviewed all aspects of our operations and procedures," said the letters to families.
"The initial feedback was very positive and encouraging, and we will share their findings with you once we receive them."
Rosenberg said that while public health's official report hasn't been released yet, "they have already spoken to us and given their approval for the measures we put in place."
He also said they recommended "several relatively minor improvements" that were put in place, so "overall, Public Health is satisfied with our approach."
Rosenberg also wrote that he would "keep the lines of communication open" and issue further statements when needed.
--With files from CTV News' Andrew Brennan
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Action of Second Continental Congress.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.
He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.
He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.
He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pre-tended Offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized Nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
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Chase Elliott will make Rolex 24 at Daytona debut with Action Express’ No. 31 Cadillac
By Nate RyanDec 18, 2020, 11:00 AM EST
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Chase Elliott officially was announced Friday as making his debut in the Rolex 24 at Daytona next month, driving for Action Express Racing in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener for 2021.
The reigning champion of the NASCAR Cup Series will be teamed with Felipe Nasr, Pipo Derani and Mike Conway in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R for the 24-hour race Jan. 30-31.
Elliott, 25, already is a winner on the road course at Daytona International Speedway, having won the inaugural race for NASCAR’s premier series on the infield layout last Aug. 16. The Hendrick Motorsports driver has five Cup victories on road courses, including a streak of four consecutive dating to August 2019 at Watkins Glen International.
It’s the second NASCAR champion in the Rolex 24 for Action Express, which will have Jimmie Johnson in a second Cadillac with Simon Pagenaud, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Rockenfeller.
“The Rolex 24 is such a major event, and it’s a race that anybody across any type of motorsports really respects,” Elliott said in a release. “I think everyone wants to win a watch before their career is over. It’s something different and a completely different element of racing that I haven’t really tried before.”
This off-season just keeps getting better! Very thankful this came together, and I can’t wait to get to work with these guys! https://t.co/U6pXkCch7e
— Chase Elliott (@chaseelliott) December 18, 2020
Since capturing his first Cup championship last month by winning the 2020 finale at Phoenix Raceway, Elliott hardly has slowed down.
He finished third Dec. 6 at the 53rd annual Snowball Derby in Pensacola, Florida. In his midget debut last weekend in preparation for next month’s Chili Bowl, Elliott finished in the top five of both feature races at Millbridge Speedway.
“I’m trying to branch out and be more diverse as a driver, and (the Rolex 24) is another part of that experience,” Elliott said. “I appreciate Action Express giving me this opportunity, and I am looking forward to learning and running my first Rolex 24 next month.”
Action Express team manager Gary Nelson said Elliott had been impressive during a recent test day on the Daytona road course in the GM simulator.
“We were amazed at how quick Chase got up to speed, his feedback, and how easy he was to work with,” Nelson said in a release. “We are very excited to work with him again next month in Daytona at the Roar and the Rolex 24.”
Elliott will join Action Express and the rest of IMSA’s teams at Daytona Jan. 22-24 for the Roar Before the 24 test session, which will conclude with a qualifying race that will set the lineup for the Rolex 24.
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In Flames - Official Website - News
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Type: Full-Length
Release Date: May 31st, 1999
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Death, Melodic
1. Embody The Invisible
2. Ordinary Story
3. Scom
4. Colony
5. Zombie Inc.
6. Pallar Anders Visa
7. Coerced Coexistence
9. Behind Space '99
10. Insipid 2000
11. The New Word
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Review by Tobias on November 24, 2001.
The high-energy metal propulsion engine that In Flames has become is cranking out one phenomenal work after another. With countless outstanding qualities shining through, it becomes far too difficult to get to them all without drowning the reader in words.
Album after album, you can hear the production getting more and more intense (and perhaps better funded) with these melodic-death deities. Another thing you will notice is how incredibly tight this band is getting. The weaving guitar-work of Jesper Strömblad and Björn Gelotte is just getting slicker with each passing moment. This band is tight!
The arrangements are fantastic and are writing the blueprints for copycat bands that are sure to come in the wake of this bloody outstanding sound. Coerced Coexistence may be a prime example of this archetype.
But it’s not just the wickedly tight drumming and magnificent guitars that are bringing this band to sit at the roundtable of such fantastic acts as Iron Maiden, frontman Anders Fridén delivers with deft control a monster performance that is hard to match.
The amazing thing about In Flames that is so well exhibited in this album is how they can display absolute viciousness with such wildly moving and downright victorious melodies.
Bottom Line: This band is injecting an unparalleled solution of blistering metal and melody, this album will set you full speed ahead.
Categorical Rating Breakdown…
Musicianship: 9
Atmosphere: 10
Originality: 9
Review by Luka on May 9, 2001.
Every good band must evolve and change its sound to avoid becoming stale and predictable, and on "Colony", the path In Flames would eventually take becomes clear. A lighter, more melodic type of death-black metal sound that is being hailed by some as the "greatest thing to happen to metal since Maiden" is what they deliver with "Colony". While I don’t share such an appreciation, I still can’t resist the simple charms of this album.
At first they seemed like a second rate Children Of Bodom, but I eventually realized that these guys have a unique sound of their own. Anders Stromblad and Blorn Gelotte shower us with neat melodies and skillful fretwork behind Anders Friden’s vicious vocal assault. I have to admit that of all the death metal singers, this guy probably has the most likeable vocals; he just seems to put more feeling into his singing and doesn’t stick with one sound.
The guys usually use the same method to write their songs. "Resin" is the perfect example and shows the typical "Colony" song buildup. Starts off with some really good melody, goes for the verse, chorus, verse and a few more attachments before it explodes right back into the melody again. From that point progressing to the solo or further melodies. And the simple formula works very nicely for all songs, although there are one too many filler songs on here like "Scorn" and "Zombie Inc." that bring "Colony" down as a whole.
Painted by the renowned artist for metal albums, Andreas Marshall, the cover for "Colony" is remarkable, although, like the lyrics, I still don’t understand what the hell it’s about. Most of the lyric lines on the album deal with some kind of science fiction storylines, near as I can figure, which just further separates these Swedes from their black metal counterparts who constantly seem obsessed with the "medieval" theme.
Bottom Line: Perhaps the best of the new melodic death genre, In Flames seem to be the leaders of this Swedish movement, which seems to have gained followers like Amon Amarth and many others. "Colony" is good, but there is too much filler material here to make it great.
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ROSAE CRUCIS - FEDE POTERE VENDETTA - OVERLORD EDITION - JOLLY ROGER
These Italian heavy metal mavens have apparently re-issued this album in English a year following the initial release in their native tongue. The material stems from a 1997 demo, but is now recorded for this release and Jolly Roger.
The cover artwork and the members’ photographs leave no doubt where the band’s head and heart is at, namely pure glorious heavy metal. The material is solid and workmanlike, but leaves some to be desired. The band is obviously influenced by Manowar and Hammerfall, but the music is nowhere as bad as the former or as good as the latter. The album benefits from good guitar work which occasionally means frenzied soloing. Thankfully, unlike Manowar, the disc features actual music, although for a while one would doubt that since it is not until track three, that things get going. The Manofallers have enough material to justify moving forward, but need a better sound and more action to elevate themselves. - Ali “The Metallian”
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ENFORCED Release Video Clip For “Malignance”
Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 8, 2021
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Virginia-based crossover maniacs ENFORCED open their Century Media account with their blistering new album, “Kill Grid”. Informed by an incredible cross-section of extremes—from thrash and punk to death metal and hardcore—the emergent outfit drop a nine-song cluster-bomb of thrashing death on apathetic times. After already releasing “Hemorrhage” right before the holidays the band is unleashing an official video for “Malignance” which you can watch here:
While the video is capturing the raw, but positive energy of an ENFORCED live show the song itself has a very serious background. Knox Colby (vocals) explains: “’Malignance’ is about being on the wrong side of history, being led down the path of an ideology built on hatred and violence, only to end up with a bullet in your stomach. The lyrics about-face towards the end of the song and try to shake you out of it. Wake up, get a grip, understand and accept that you’re wrong. The chorus was inspired by a World War 2 prisoner-of-war torture tactic I read about. Soldiers who were captured were forced to smell the bodies of their friends and comrades, which became this strange introspective psychological torture that fit the narrative I was writing.” Guitarist Will Wagstaff dives deeper into the music: “This song has an older Slayer type of vibe to me, maybe ‘Show No Mercy’/’Haunt the Chapel’ era. This is a pure crossover song, ala Exodus/early Testament/Slayer. We knew we wanted to keep it fast for most of the song and it ended up coming together organically during a practice.”
First preorders are already up for you “Kill Grid” which is scheduled for a release on March 12th, 2021: https://enforced.lnk.to/KillGridID
“Kill Grid” came together over a two-year period while ENFORCED were marauding halls and dive bars across the East Coast and Canada. Indeed, inspiration came from different directions, but playing live with bands like Sacred Reich, Red Death, Iron Reagan, All Out War, and Integrity shaped what was to come out of the Richmonders. While it was the previous output that attracted the attention of Century Media, it’s “Kill Grid”, that’s going to put ENFORCED on top-lists of circle pit lunatics around the globe. To track their sophomore full-length, ENFORCED enlisted long-time friend and studio maven Bob Quirk (Iron Reagan) to engineer, as well as Philadelphia-based studio whiz Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Pissed Jeans, Eternal Champion, Ghostemane, Code Orange) to mix and master.
Formed in Richmond in 2017 out of shreds of disbanded hardcore and punk bands, ENFORCED quickly found their calling between the undying support of regional punk/hardcore scenes and their respective record collections. Whether it’s Sacred Reich and Integrity or Bolt Thrower and Amebix, “Pure Crossover Death,” as ENFORCED call their devastating din, devastatingly speared its way through two demos (“Demo 2017” and “Retaliation”) and their no-holds-barred debut, “At the Walls”.
Also check out “Hemorrhage (Visualizer Video)”: https://youtu.be/cLh5Cyy-KAY
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THIS WEEK On GENERAL HOSPITAL: The Aftermath of the Explosion
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General Hospital fans are eagerly awaiting Monday’s episode after the stunning Friday cliffhanger which had an unknowing Julian (William deVry) detonating the bomb he placed inside the Floating Rib on orders from Cyrus Renault (Jeff Kober).
In the newly released ABC promo for the week, they ask as does Carly, “Who Died Tonight?”
Fans then watch a series of images of Port Charles citizens outside where the bomb exploded but who were not inside at the time it went off. Those include: Dante, Laura, Sonny, Carly and Julian.
Watch the explosive promo below.
Then weigh-in .. will there be any casualties? disappearances? Share your theories via the comment section.
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I’m going to guess that the bartender and Dustin will die. Lulu will be gravely injured, thus ushering Emme Ryland’s Lulu off the canvass to seek special medical care out of town.
Kim Sayre
When i was watching lulu was up and about so how is she going to die
Violet Lemm
Rodd, I thought the same, but she’s still alive so maybe something will happen to her later, due to her head injury. You were right about Dustin, and I commented the other day that Dev would die, as there is no more SL for him really. Do we really think Julian will confess? I don’t see that happening because if he tells the whole truth if would implicate Cyrus, and I don’t think they are ready for that yet. I live in CA. and just about before it was over, our Governor interrupted and I screamed so loud, I was… Read more »
I am so sick of Carly sticking her big nose into everything. This damn necklace thing is getting awfully old. Just because Nelle had it doesn’t mean it was hers originally. We saw her take it out of a box months ago when she started wearing it. We don’t even know the box and everything in it was hers. What happened to all her belongings she had with her when she planned on kidnapping Wylie? Usually things are found and gone through. Wouldn’t there have been something mentioned about her things in the car she was driving? Oh, what lousy… Read more »
Denise Alexander Responds to Outpouring of Fan Support on Her Return to General Hospital
Watch the Replay: GH, DAYS, Y&R, B&B & OLTL Stars at Michael Fairman’s Virtual Birthday Party for SAG-AFTRA Foundation Covid-19 Relief Fund
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TONIGHT: Michael Fairman 60th Birthday Livestream Featuring Daytime Drama Favorites To Benefit SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Covid-19 Relief Fund
Longtime fans of General Hospital were over the moon when it was revealed that Denise Alexander was on her way back to the ABC daytime drama series to reprise her role of Dr. Lesley Webber, mother of Laura, played by Genie Francis.
With Laura’s story with her new found half-brothers central to the current storyline, it’s a perfect time for Alexander to be back in Port Charles.
Tricia Sheldon, a fan of General Hospital who loves the vintage years of the show and more as she notes on her Twitter account, was able to reach Alexander, who is not on social media. Sheldon showed her the outpouring of love the actress received, and the excitement on her on-screen imminent return.
In turn, Denise wrote a message to Sheldon to share publicly. Part of which read “Wow! I am breathless! What a wonderful surprise! I am beyond grateful for all the kind and amazing and funny and sweet and caring and supportive and truly delicious messages. I have never felt so appreciated and it brought tears and laughter reading each one.”
Alexander added, “I do not have a clue as to how to communicate on the Internet on Twitter.” She then noted, “I would love to reach each and every person who wrote about that first day back. But I don’t even know what the rules are. I’ve a vague sense that there is a limit to how long a message can be,but do not know how to reach anyone. Is there any way you could forward at least my thanks to everyone?”
Denise closed with, “I love each and every message, and am full of gratitude.”
You can view the communication and Denise’s heartfelt message below.
Now let us know what you thought of Denise reaching out to all of the fans, and how grateful she is that viewers are excited to see her back on-screen via the comment section,
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— Tricia Sheldon (@TriciaSheldon) January 16, 2021
Earlier this week on Monday night, several of the stars of General Hospital, Days of our Lives, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, and One Life to Live, took part in a virtual livestream “party” for Michael Fairman’s 60th birthday.
The event was held virtually to help performers in need who have been deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic by letting viewers know where to make a donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Covid-19 Relief Fund.
Photo: ABC, NBC, CBS
Participating throughout the 90 minute livestream were: The Young and the Restless, Jason Thompson, Sharon Case, and Christian LeBlanc, General Hospital’s Maurice Benard, Laura Wright, Wes Ramsey, and Chloe Lanier, The Bold and the Beautiful’s Katherine Kelly Lang, Days of our Lives’ Rob Scott Wilson, Eric Martsolf, Galen Gering, Arianne Zucker, Shawn Christian, Santa Barbara favorite, A Martinez, One Life to Live’s Kristen Alderson and Eddie Alderson, and Studio City’s Sean Kanan.
You can catch the replay of the birthday benefit event below or on The Michael Fairman Channel on You Tube.
Throughout the evening, the actors shared stories of how they got their SAG card, played a game of Michael’s trivia, and revealed stories about themselves and other “party” guests in a wonderful display of community and camaraderie at all went down live!
Since March of 2o2o, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation has given out more than $6.2 million in emergency aid to over 6,500 SAG-AFTRA performers and their families facing hardship and uncertainty during this pandemic. Thousands of SAG-AFTRA artists have found themselves in dire need of assistance to help pay their rent, buy groceries, cover health care premiums and other bills. You can still make a donation of any dollar amount to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Covid-19 relief fund here. https://members.sagfoundation.org/donate
Now, check it out below, and let us know if you enjoyed the virtual birthday party livestream via the comment section.
Beloved stars from All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite for ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway, a one-night-only streaming concert benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The free streamed event can be viewed on the Broadway Cares website beginning at 8 pm Eastern on Thursday, February 11.
Additionally, the event can be seen on Broadway Cares’ YouTube Channel, ABC-owned television stations’ 32 connected TV apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and each of the eight stations’ websites around the country, including abc7ny.com and Good Morning America’s Facebook page..
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The star-studded lineup will include performances by All My Children’s Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Vincent Irizarry, Eva La Rue, Susan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause and Walt Willey, One Life to Live’s Kristen Alderson, BethAnn Fuenmayor, Kathy Brier, Kassie DePaiva, David Gregory, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Catherine Hickland, Mark Lawson, Hillary B. Smith, Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood; and General Hospital’s Bradford Anderson, Brandon Barash and Anthony Geary..
For the February 11 streaming special, viewers can expect to hear a bevy of Broadway classics and jazzy standards. The streaming event will be directed by John Dietrich, who also directed each of the live stage performances.
Dedicated fans also will have the opportunity for one-on-one virtual meet-and-greets with their favorite soap stars on Saturday, February 13. Further information on tickets and the lineup of special guests will be announced later this month.
From 2005-2011, the stars of ABC Daytime took the stage at New York City’s Town Hall one night each year for ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares. The evening featured dynamic production numbers, heartfelt ballads and hilarious skits. Now, 10 years after that final performance, the iconic ABC Daytime actors revisit their performances as they help raise money for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the event began in 2005. it was for a one-night benefit concert to celebrate All My Children’s 35th Anniversary. With overwhelming support from fans, the event continued for six more years and included cast members from One Life to Live, General Hospital and co-hosts of The View. Over its seven-year run, ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares raised an incredible $1.85 million.
“This event is truly one of a kind,” Broadway Cares Executive Director Tom Viola said. “We are so thankful to the stars from ABC Daytime for joining us again as we relive moments from this delightful tradition, while helping to provide lifesaving medication, healthy meals and emergency support to those struggling during this ongoing pandemic.”
“It was such an incredible privilege and joy to join my fellow co-stars to perform in the seven ABC Daytime Salutes concerts to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS,” said former All My Children star Susan Lucci. “There are no fans like ABC Daytime fans. Their love and support continue to astonish us. We can’t wait to share these special performances with them and help raise money for so many in need during this difficult time.”
Lucci also shared her excitement on her Instagram account expressing: “We’re getting the fans and cast back together!!! Join us on Thursday, February 11 at 8pm for “ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway”—a fabulous online event revisiting seven years of singing, dancing and plot twists, featuring your favorite ABC Daytime stars. And it’s all to help Broadway Cares support our friends and neighbors who are struggling during this pandemic. Watch the stream at
broadway-cares.org, to join the fun! I hope to see you there!”
So excited to hear about the ABC Daytime Back to Broadway event? Let us know in the comment section, and check out the announcement from The View’s Whoopi Goldberg below.
BREAKING! Queen of @theview @WhoopiGoldberg announces ABC Daytime: Back on #Broadway will stream on February 11. Theatre and Soap fans alike are sure to swoon over performances of Broadway hits and parodies by @Susan_Lucci and stars from AMC, OLTL, and GH. https://t.co/Nxa3X2oJcx
— Broadway Cares (@BCEFA) January 14, 2021
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B&B’s Matthew Atkinson chats with Michael Fairman about the wild ride of the Thomas/Hope Mamnequin storyline currently on The Bold and the Beautiful.Leave A Comment
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PrivacySpy
Making privacy accessible
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PrivacySpy rates companies’ privacy policies on a ten-point scale, so you can easily understand how your data is being treated online. I started PrivacySpy with Igor Barakaiev in the summer of 2019.
You can view the site at PrivacySpy.org, install the browser extension here, and view the source code on GitHub.
The New York Times named PrivacySpy a “Tip of the Week” as part of its Privacy Project, writing:
Privacy policies are long, boring and extremely consequential documents. If you’ve been reading this newsletter or keeping up with the Privacy Project, you probably know that buried inside these tomes of legalese are details about how your personal data will be collected, used and potentially shared.
If you’re like me, you feel a pang of guilt now every time you’re confronted with one of these policies. Should you read it? Ideally, yes. Do you have the time, energy or legal/technical acumen to do so? Probably not. So we click “accept” and sigh deeply and move on.
Which is why I am fascinated by Privacy Spy, a newly launched site that makes privacy policies more convenient and accessible. It’s a little like Wikipedia but for figuring out how a company is using — and misusing — your information. Currently the site has 72 major companies’ policies (full disclosure: The Times is included) listed. The website has analyzed each company’s policy and assigned a score out of 10 using 12 individual scores across four categories: collection, handling, transparency and warnings.
Even if you’ve accepted a company’s policy in the past, this is a great reference to see how it’s handing your information. Better yet, it’s completely open source, supported by a nonprofit, and there are no trackers on the site. Check it out here.
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Tag: Francis Musa Ecweru
Katakwi district farmers protest as they are tired of a decade old unfulfilled promise!
“If you don’t eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong enough to pick ones on the tree” – Proverb
Yesterday, a reaction to the disarray of the state of the Republic, as the state of promises going back in time. Over a decade of promises of a Soroti Fruit Factory, a factory where the farmers in Katakwi District could deliver their fruits. This would be a massive investment for the Teso Region. However, it has not seen light of day, but for three campaigns in the region, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Have continued to promise roads, development and factory for their produce. To make juice and generate more added-value on their produce. However, that hasn’t happen, because the National Resistance Movement and the President doesn’t really care about it.
This factory has been talked about being finished many times, many times talk of funds set-up for it, but really not materialized. It has happen every time the President visits. Kinda like a slogan and empty promise. He could for all the farmers care, promise heaven and all the pleasures existing to man. However, they know he will not deliver on it. Museveni doesn’t care about Soroti or the struggle of the farmers in Katakwi.
The MP since 2012, Proscovia Alengot Oromait, who was elected at the age of 19 years old. Who is now 25 years old. For being the MP of the area, she has really not made an impact on the issue. Therefore, the public shouldn’t trust her motivation, as this has been the giant promise in the Teso Region and the NRM has not delivered.
It is 2018, the first big pledge of the Soroti Fruit Factory was in 2008. That is a decade of empty promises, saying there are money for building and planning the factory. In 2017, when in the area, President said together with his team, that its nearly done. This is a district that has fallen behind and that has been through a lot of issues over the years. As the drought and lack of food hit the region last year.
This is just Katakwi District promise, which also entails Soroti District itself, where the factory was supposed to be set-up. Therefore, he has had empty promises in both districts. Katakwi farmers are tired, that is why they just left the mangoes on the street. Instead of taking it to the market, they couldn’t get transport to sell it, even as the state has promised factories to produce juice. Which never appears. It is a government ghost, a government mirage.
Yet, another empty promise from Mzee and the NRM. The farmers are tired of empty, pathetic lies and deception. Big eloquent words from a life president who doesn’t care and has no interest of keeping promises.
No Remedy Mentioned aka NRM or Not Reassured by Museveni aka NRM. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on May 23, 2018 Categories Africa, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, TransparencyTags Agriculture, Besigye, Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, Dr. Kizza Besigye, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Dr. Warren Smith Kizza Besigye Kifefe, FDC, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Forum for Democratic Change, Francis Musa Ecweru, Francis Tumwesigye, Gen Salim Saleh, Gen. Salim Selah, GoU, Government of Uganda, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hajj Erias Lukwago Ssalongo, Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Musa Ecweru, Hon. Nahan Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Insecurity, Isingirio, Isingiro, Isingiro District, Katakwi, Katakwi Agricultural Advisory Service, Katakwi District, Katakwi Town, Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., National Resistance Movement, NRM, NRM Regime, PM Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni, Proscovia Alengot Oromait, Ruhakana Rugunda, Soroti, Soroti Fruit Factory, Teso, Teso Parliamentary Group, Teso Region, Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on Katakwi district farmers protest as they are tired of a decade old unfulfilled promise!
Bukedea district: NRM Government neglect to another level, they are stealing from their starving citizens!
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” – Harry Truman (Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950).
Certainly, the National Resistance Movement and their government doesn’t seem to care how they look. None of their pledges or even written letters to the Local Government matters. Not even in the midst of famine and starvation. You would think that a government and their agencies had sense of keeping their promises to the ones who needs the most basic in life – as their plates are empty after droughts and bad governance. Therefore, the NRM has no sense, when the Bukedea district are reacting that their promised food relief is less; than promised from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) Dr. Ruhakana Ruganda and his department. Certainly, this is disrespecting the people and the citizens of Bukedea. Take a look!
“Mike Okwii, the district secretary for health and social services wants the matter investigated expeditiously before they can distribute what they have received. “According to the letter signed by the commissioner of disaster and preparedness, Bukedea was supposed to get 800 bags of posho and 400 bags of beans. But the district has received only 400 bags of posho and 50 bags of beans, which is shocking. So for us at the district leadership, we have decided not to distribute this food. Not until when OPM delivers all the food items”, he said. Okwii confirmed that as of now, nobody has given them any response as to why the Office of the Prime Minister delivered consignments that have fewer supplies that what was declared. “Nobody has given us the right answer why they delivered less food compared to what is on the delivery note. The minister for Teso Affairs is going to follow the matter because you can imagine the minister came to Bukedea to allocate food to the sub-counties. Little did she know that she allocated food which is not even there”, he added (URN, 2017).
The reason for the disrespect is staggering as the reports of termites and insects to survive, proves the lacking governance and upkeep of institutions. Also, the agricultural sector has been left behind, as the irrigation and thinking of how use water in farming. Certainly, the food relief is a way of making sure the people eat while they wait for next season and possible time to start farming again. These in regions that has been hard hit and the government had been warned by FAO and FEWSNET, so these reports should have forewarned them.
“Food is required besides the medication. If someone is sick, the first treatment is food; medicine works well on a well fed body,” said Dr. Chebitai” (New Vision, 2017). Therefore, with the knowledge that the state still has the capacity to not deliver what so needed and necessary is not only a theft, but taken food of the plates of those who starve. That the NRM has the audacity to this proves how they can easily neglect their citizens. Even taking away their first treatment, that is the level of disappointment, the ruling regime can to do their own. Peace.
New Vision – ‘Parliament staff donate food items to Teso’ (07.05.2017) link:http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1453187/parliament-staff-donate-food-items-teso
Author nilspeacePosted on May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017 Categories Africa, Agriculture, Civil Service, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 2016 General Election, 2016 General Election Uganda, Acholi, Adjumani, Agago, Agriculture, Ambrose Tumwesigye, Amolatar, Amuria, Amuria District, Amuru, Animal Industry, Apapai, Arua, Bana, Banana Fields, Bananas, Beans, Below Average Production, Besigye, Bugiri, Bukahanga County, Bukanga, Bukedea, Bukedea District, Bukedi, Bukomansimbi, Bululu, Burundi, Busoga, Buteleja, Bwekataligilya elibiika amasumba, Cassava, Cattle Corridor, Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, Community Building, Cyperus, Degraded River Bank, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dokolo, Dokolo County, Dokolo District, Dr. Kizza Besigye, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Dr. Warren Smith Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Draught, DRC, Dry Season, EAC, East Africa, East African Community, Eng. Hilary Obaloker Onek, Erias Lukwago, Famine, Famine Early Warning System Network, FDC, Felix Ogong Okot, FEWS NET, FEWSN, Fisheries, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Forest Encrachment, Forum for Democratic Change, Francis Musa Ecweru, Francis Tumwesigye, FY 2014/2015, Gen Salim Saleh, Gen. Salim Selah, GoU, Government of Uganda, Greater Masaka, Groundnuts, Gulu, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hajj Erias Lukwago Ssalongo, Hilary Onek, Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Felix Ogong Okot, Hon. Hilary Onek, Hon. Monica Amonding, Hon. Musa Ecweru, Hon. Musa Francis Ecweru, Hon. Nahan Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Silas Aogon, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Hon. Wafula Oguttu, Insecurity, Invasive Weed, IPC Phase 2, IPC Phase 3, irish potatoes, Irrigation, Isingirio, Isingiro, Isingiro Counties, Isingiro District, Isingiro Government Prison, Jeremiah Kamurari, Kaabong, KAAS, Kabale, Kaberamaido, Kaberamaido District, Kaboko, Kagera Water System, Kaliro, Kalungu, Kalungu District, Karamoja, Karomoja, Kashumba, Katakwi, Katakwi - Moroto Road, Katakwi Agricultural Advisory Service, Katakwi District, Katakwi Primary School, Katakwi Secondary School, Katakwi Town, Katakwi Town Council, Kenya, Kiruhura, Kiryandongo, Kitgum, Kizimbi Wetland, Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Koboko, Kobulubulu, KTC, Kumi, Lake Albert, Lake Nakivale, Lamwo, Lango, LDG, Local District Government, lsingiro, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Lwengo, MAAIF, Maize, Maracha, Market Price, Masindi, Matooke, Matooki, Mbarara District Wetland Inventory Report, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries, Ministry of Disaster Prepardness, ministry of finance planning and economic development, MoFPED, Monica Amonding, Moroto, Moyo, Musa Echweru, NAADS, Nakasongola, Nandala Mafabi, Napak, National Agricultural Advisory Service, National Food Security, National Food Security Awareness Campaign, National Resistance Movement, National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Ngarama, Ngora, Northern Uganda, NRM, NRM Regime, Nwoya, NWSC, Ochero, Okot Felix Ogong, Operation Wealth Creation, OWS, Pader, Pallisa, Parts of Busoga, pastoralists, Patrick Okabe, Peas, PM Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni, Rainy Season, Rakai, RDC Ambrose Tumwesigye, RDC Francis Tumwesigye, RDC Tumwesigye, Refugees, Republic of Tanzania, River Kagera, River Rwizi, Robert Okitoi, RPC Francis Tumwesigye, RPC Tumwesigye, Rugaaga, Ruhakana Rugunda, Rushasha, Rwanda, Seasonal Swamps, Serere, Silas Aogon, Sorghum, Soroti, South Sudan, South Sudanese Refugees, Staff Quarters, State of Emergency, Swamp, Swamp Drainage, Sweet Potatoes, Tanzania, Teso, Teso Parliamentary Group, Toroma, Toroma County, Turkana, Typha Domingesis, Uganda, Uganda General Election 2016, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Value for Money, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Virgin Area, Wafula Oguttu, Water Hyacinth, Watering, West Nile, WFP, World Food Programme, Yields, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni, Yumbe, Yumbe DistrictLeave a comment on Bukedea district: NRM Government neglect to another level, they are stealing from their starving citizens!
In the Teso Region they are eating termites to survive the famine!
There are something deeply wrong, so sincerely wrong when the citizens doesn’t get needed food relief and have to eat termites and insects to survive. This is the state of the famine now in Teso Region, in Katakwi, Amuria, Bukedea and Kaberamaido district.
“Mr Robert Okitoi, the Amuria District council chairperson, said “The situation is bad, people are now eating termites. I think the government should just declare a state of emergency for the regions of Teso, Karamoja and Lango.” (NTV Uganda, 01.06.2017). On the 26th April 2017 the Parliament has passed a motion to declare ‘State of Emergency’ in Uganda, but the President and the State House has not done anything about it.
Still, a local farmer wrote a piece to the Chimp Reports that has some valuable assessments:
“The current hunger in Teso has largely been attributed to drought, while this assertion may hold some truths; there is increasingly evidence that the Ministry of Teso Affairs has not done its part. Hunger in Teso is as a result of both internal and external factors. For many years, the region has been experiencing declining productivity and this was recently worsened by drought. For districts like Ngora, Bukedia and Kumi, land fragmentation has heavily affected productivity” (…) “Clearly besides drought, Teso food systems are in a crisis and our expectation was that the Ministry of Teso affairs working with other stakeholders would work to address this problem. Our view is that hunger should be among the ‘affairs’ that Ministry of Teso Affairs should be engaged in.Agriculture remains a major livelihood for our people in Teso and therefore we require urgent response from Ministry of Teso Affairs on its plans to help our people get out of the current hunger crisis”(Akorikin, 2017).
This here proves that the drought is just the last piece of the straw in a bigger problem, that even the State Ministry has not been in-charge and had the oversight of the Teso Region. There are lacking the support they need. Still, the government still have done something now and then. Like this one relief to Kaberamaido district: “Kaberamaido district has finally received 12, 000 kilograms of relief food from government valued at Shillings 33 million. Kaberamaido is among the districts battling a severe food crisis resulting from crop failure due to prolonged drought. The most affected areas in the district are Ochero, Bululu, Kobulubulu, Kaberamaido, and Apapai sub counties. With over 5,000 households facing starvation representing about half of the total population in the district, the 12,000 kilograms of flour delivered is far from solving the food crisis” (Odongo, 2017). That means on the 30th April 2017, the government delivered 12.000kgs of flour that is estimated to be 231,000 citizens in the district alone. Therefore, you don’t have to be rocket scientist to know that this food relief to the one district isn’t enough…
“The minister for Relief and Disaster Preparedness, Hilary Onek, has offered a bit of advice to the hunger-stricken; stop selling the little food you have left. Onek said the weather has become so unreliable for Ugandans to hold on to the little hope for better yields. “They should consider family needs first before selling all the food. Districts like Lira had a lot of food but it [food] was sold to traders from Kenya, South Sudan and even Rwanda because people want money,” he said in an interview. Asked whether government would consider banning the sale of food to outsiders, Onek said they wouldn’t, in the spirit of the East African Community. “That is not an option we will consider; we only want people to behave responsibly to take care of their family needs before they sell all the food,” he said” (UMDF, 2017).
So now the Minister Onek gives advice to the impoverished citizens, so that they are careful with their food stocks, as the relief of the districts are not up-to par. Therefore, that they didn’t stock the extra foods and now they tell the families to take of it. The government could have used their resources and built food-stocks, instead of living hand to mouth. The small-time farmers in the Teso-Region certainly, needs more than fear of selling what they don’t have, they need support and food relief.
The state also has to facilitate the farmers, not in Operation Wealth Creation or Jerry-Can irrigation, but real projects, storage of food-stocks and recreate farmers Co-Ops in the districts and sub-counties to collectively earn and work together to get better yields and also productivity in general. But that isn’t a scheme and way the National Resistance Movement can corrupt or thieve the funds from. Therefore, that will not happen and is the reason why the similar institutions are gone during the decades of President Museveni.
The Teso Region and these district needs help, the man-made famine together with the drought that has worsen it. So the Government has to charge and actually make a difference, not just thieve monies away from Kampala. Peace.
Akorikin, Francis – ‘OPINION: Government Should Review the Relevance of Ministry of Teso Affairs’ (05.05.2017) link: https://www.chimpreports.com/opinion-government-should-review-the-relevance-of-ministry-of-teso-affairs/
Odongo, Ronald – ‘Kaberamaido Receives 12,000 KGs of Food Relief’ (30.04.2017) link: https://ugandaradionetwork.com/story/govt-delivers-12000-kilograms-of-posho-worth-ugx-33m-to-famine-hit-residents
Uganda Media Development Foundation (UMDF) – ‘HILARY ONEK TO HUNGER VICTIMS: DON’T SELL FOOD’ (01.05.2017) link: https://www.umdf.or.ug/?q=content/hilary-onek-hunger-victims-don%E2%80%99t-sell-food
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The Wonderful Dictator Museveni says to his starving citizens: “that they are eating their state services!”
“A dictator who is elected 5 times. That must be a wonderful dictator. That must be a special one” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Al Jazeera Interview on the Talk to Al Jazeera, 29.04.2017).
First of President Museveni isn’t in his 5th Term, rewriting the history as they have deleted the coup d’etat in 1986 as well, as the period into the first election of 1996. Therefore, he has decade most people tries to forget, where he was “unelected” and power-grabbing. If you then count on the time and such, the right amount of terms would be that he is currently in his 7th !
Well, enough of the sadness of how many terms the 31 year long ruling and wonderful dictator has, today he had to cast his spell on the Labor Day and show his fury of his lazy citizens. Not that he is that hardworking himself, as he eats of the plate himself and empty the state reserves to buy private planes. But that is another discussion!
Therefore, here is the key parts of the speech that is important for me to discuss!
“On the issue of the shortage of food in some areas that hit us last season, my advice is to use relief very carefully for two reasons. The first reason is that relief can kuremaza (disorient) our people away from production to, instead, get in the habit of waiting for relief. Secondly, Ugandans should know that when we are eating relief food, we should know that we are chewing a road, a school or a health centre. Therefore, relief should only be for the really unavoidable situations. It should not be used by politicians for cheap popularity or frivolously (let us take the government food since it is available) or even for corruption by government officials (get the food for selling claiming that it is for relief). Finally, I would like to say that work is the only way to get people out of poverty. I, therefore, urge all Ugandans to develop a positive attitude to work. The NRM government will continue to provide an enabling environment for establishing businesses and creation of employment” (Museveni, 2017).
That he has problem that people are asking and needing food relief is beyond me. Secondly calling them disoriented because of the lacking yields, the burning fire of the sun and the result of the El Nino. But that is just me. That the State and Government could have made sure the rainwater was saved and have more structure so they wasn’t starving in the first place. But then again, Mr. President is never at fault, always casting blame on someone else. Therefore, the citizens is to blame for lacking rains and yields, and also lacking government policies and will to implement some sort agency that support the farmers.
The popularity he speaks of it the ones that want the President to act and declare an emergency, as the volatile and dire situation, as so many people in the hurt districts are eating less a meal a day! Still, he claims people are trading and selling the food without giving it away for relief. Like they sometimes do with clothes, the secondhand rule that some is given, but other is traded away for profits on the secondhand markets. If it was so, shouldn’t the president set his standard and authority to stop this men and woman from thieving the food from the ones in need? I guess he is lazy and disoriented, eating of the licensed roads and royalties of oil prospects instead of really feeding the ones in need.
This isn’t about poverty itself, it is the core mismanagement of his 7th term government, the lack of institution and the lack agricultural oversight, as the jerrycans into prosperity is a lie. That the starvation and famine is about attitude and not about lacking government oversight. If it was the latter and not the first, he was to blame; since he is the kingpin on the top and should have acted before the famine occur, but that had happen if he was legitimate leader. Nevertheless, he is self-made, self-righteous, individual who doesn’t care how ruthless and inconsiderate he is. This wasn’t words uttered for the betterment of the Republic of Uganda, it was to wash to hands of his sins and walk away from the problems. That because the famine and the food insecurity was made of lazy Ugandans and not because of drought…
Well, the wonderful dictator has hands in the state reserves and dislike that he cannot expand his ranch as much usual, pay of his daughters travels expenses or Lady Janet luxurious footwear. Who knows where all the confidential funds go, but certainly not drip-drop/bottle irrigation scheme. Certainly, this President isn’t worried about district roads, which is nearly impossible to travel through in Abletong on anywhere else for that matter. So when he says that the public is eating of roads and other infrastructure projects when they are starving during droughts and famines. Shows little mercy, this little despot with no empathy… it is gone with all the souls he has captured and stolen their future from by staying in power, I guess.
That President Museveni trying to put a spell on the people for trying to survive in hard-times, in times of tribulations and drought, as the state as struggling to give them a decent food relief. The man in charge is saying they are the reason for lacking roads and infrastructure projects because of that! Than, he also says the ones who stands firm in Parliament, asking for him to humble himself and stand down. To beg for mercy and help, to gain extra support and tell that he has mismanaged the Republic with a “State of Emergency” proves true leadership. They want their leader to take responsibility!
If he was truly elected 5 times, wouldn’t he offer more to the ones that he needed their support? Alas, it isn’t so, because he knows he rigs and put fear into the public… instead of having their real support and getting their votes. If he had so, he might have showed some flair and said he would help them because it was his duty. Not that the people are eating of the infrastructure budget.
Me translating so anyone really understand what he is understating in his speech today:“You lazy bastards are eating of government money because you are starving, you should be able to dig roots and eat rats, not eat of the state reserves. The sun didn’t burn that hard and you didn’t collect enough water with your bare hands. While I am driving 30 cars convoys and flying overseas to be a VIP. How dare you insult these foreign investors by eating my road money, aye?”. That is what you can take from the speech of this wonderful President and wonderful dictator Museveni! Peace.
Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta – ‘SPEECH ON THE OCCASION TO MARK INTERNATIONAL LABOUR DAY’ (01.05.2017) link: https://www.yowerikmuseveni.com/speech-occasion-mark-international-labour-day
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Up-North: 5,400kgs rice supposed to feed 879,000 people!
This morning, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni commissioned Dokolo water supply system. (National Water and Sewerage Corporation – NWSC) – 8th March 2017
I don’t know about you but this story should horrify you, as the concern of the citizens is clearly lacking, as their food insecurity is not well taken care off. The Ugandan Government clearly has maladministration or lacking resources, or only funds to Presidential Handshakes and the Presidential Jet. Because the districts of Lira, Dokolo and Alebtong isn’t getting their needs fulfilled. Just take a look!
“Government has delivered 5,400kgs of rice as relief for vulnerable communities faced with food shortage in Lango sub region” (…) “The relief supplies were delivered to Lira, Dokolo and Alebtong districts on Thursday evening. Each district will receive 1,800 kilograms of rice in the distribution. Lira district secretary for production Anthony Ojuka says the supplies will be distributed to extremely vulnerable families comprising of widows, persons living with HIV/Aids and the elderly, among others” (URN, 2017).
To put the whole food delivery and relief supplies into context!
Lira district: The Water Supply Atlas claims in Lira District that it lives about 442,128 people there (Water Uganda, 2017). The Water Supply Atlas claims in Dokolo District it lives about 196,591 people in the district (Water Uganda, 2017). The same Water Supply Atlas claims in Abletong District to be living there about 241,596 people (Water Uganda, 2017). A rough estimate would say that in these three district there are living about 879,000 people!!!
Out of the rice donated, let’s do some math:
Out of the 5,400kgs supposed to be divided on 879,000 people is equal to 0,00614kg per person. So it means measly 0,006kg rice each. That is not even a handful a piece. People are already struggling to eat and the sum of food is insane. If they would deliver anything serious, it should be tons upon tons.
Each district we’re getting 1,800kgs rice is really depressing, especially thinking of the amount of people living there. Just think about it 1,800kgs rice to be shared in Lira district on 442 thousand people, 1800kgs to the amound of 196 thousand people in Dokolo district, 1800kgs shared on 241 thousand people in Abletong district!
There is something seriously wrong with the math-squad of the NRM and their willing people to deliver this sort of relief. Therefore, the first relief to Lira district we’re more sincere: “On March 31, Lira received 25 tonnes of food supplies which was distributed to those in dire need of food” (URN, 2017). That is something fruitful and profound from the government. Still, a month ago, but proves some willingness to make the people survive. Since in Lira District there are 442,128 people and seriously 1,800kgs rice cannot be sustainable, that is measly meals for kingpins of the NRM leadership in Lira town, but not for the whole district even. The same can be said abot the Dokolo District and the Abletong distict!
This is a meager attempt of food relief, if they want to serious with the 879,000 living in this area, they better come with tons of rice and food supplies, that would last and would give more than a handful to chosen few. The NRM cannot be proud of this attempt of needed relief here. Better man-up and ask for State of Emergency, as the NRM cannot have enough funds or manpower to relieve the district in dire need food. Peace.
URN – ‘Govt delivers 5400 Kgs of relief food to Lango sub-region’ (29.04.2017) link:http://observer.ug/news/headlines/52605-govt-delivers-5400-kgs-of-relief-food-to-lango-sub-region.html
Uganda Travel Guide – ‘ Lira District’ link: http://www.ugandatravelguide.com/lira-district.html
Water Uganda – ‘Dokolo District’ (28.04.2017) link: http://www.wateruganda.com/index.php/reports/district/31
Water Uganda – ‘Abletong District’ (28.04.2017) link: http://www.wateruganda.com/index.php/reports/district/108
Water Uganda – ‘Lira District’ (28.04.2017) link: http://www.wateruganda.com/index.php/reports/district/45
Author nilspeacePosted on April 29, 2017 April 29, 2017 Categories Africa, Aid, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 2016 General Election, 2016 General Election Uganda, Abletong, Abletong District, Acholi, Adjumani, Agago, Agriculture, Ambrose Tumwesigye, Amolatar, Amuria, Amuru, Animal Industry, Anthony Ojuka, Arua, Bana, Banana Fields, Bananas, Beans, Below Average Production, Besigye, Bugiri, Bukahanga County, Bukanga, Bukedi, Bukomansimbi, Burundi, Busoga, Buteleja, Bwekataligilya elibiika amasumba, Cassava, Cattle Corridor, Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, Community Building, Cyperus, Degraded River Bank, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dokolo, Dokolo County, Dokolo District, Dr. Kizza Besigye, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Dr. Warren Smith Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Draught, DRC, Dry Season, EAC, East Africa, East African Community, Erias Lukwago, Famine, Famine Early Warning System Network, FDC, Felix Ogong Okot, FEWS NET, FEWSN, Fisheries, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Forest Encrachment, Forum for Democratic Change, Francis Musa Ecweru, Francis Tumwesigye, FY 2014/2015, Gen Salim Saleh, Gen. Salim Selah, GoU, Government of Uganda, Greater Masaka, Groundnuts, Gulu, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hajj Erias Lukwago Ssalongo, Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Felix Ogong Okot, Hon. Monica Amonding, Hon. Musa Ecweru, Hon. Musa Francis Ecweru, Hon. Nahan Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Silas Aogon, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Hon. Wafula Oguttu, Insecurity, Invasive Weed, IPC Phase 2, IPC Phase 3, irish potatoes, Irrigation, Isingirio, Isingiro, Isingiro Counties, Isingiro District, Isingiro Government Prison, Jeremiah Kamurari, Kaabong, KAAS, Kabale, Kaboko, Kagera Water System, Kaliro, Kalungu, Kalungu District, Karamoja, Karomoja, Kashumba, Katakwi, Katakwi - Moroto Road, Katakwi Agricultural Advisory Service, Katakwi District, Katakwi Primary School, Katakwi Secondary School, Katakwi Town, Katakwi Town Council, Kenya, Kiruhura, Kiryandongo, Kitgum, Kizimbi Wetland, Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Koboko, KTC, Lake Albert, Lake Nakivale, Lamwo, Lango, LDG, Lira, Lira District, Local District Government, lsingiro, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Lwengo, MAAIF, Maize, Maracha, Market Price, Masindi, Matooke, Matooki, Mbarara District Wetland Inventory Report, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries, Ministry of Disaster Prepardness, ministry of finance planning and economic development, MoFPED, Monica Amonding, Moroto, Moyo, Musa Echweru, NAADS, Nakasongola, Nandala Mafabi, Napak, National Agricultural Advisory Service, National Food Security, National Food Security Awareness Campaign, National Resistance Movement, National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Ngarama, Ngora, Northern Uganda, NRM, NRM Regime, Nwoya, NWSC, Okot Felix Ogong, Operation Wealth Creation, OWS, Pader, Pallisa, Parts of Busoga, pastoralists, Patrick Okabe, Peas, PM Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni, Rainy Season, Rakai, RDC Ambrose Tumwesigye, RDC Francis Tumwesigye, RDC Tumwesigye, Refugees, Republic of Tanzania, River Kagera, River Rwizi, RPC Francis Tumwesigye, RPC Tumwesigye, Rugaaga, Ruhakana Rugunda, Rushasha, Rwanda, Seasonal Swamps, Serere, Silas Aogon, Sorghum, Soroti, South Sudan, South Sudanese Refugees, Staff Quarters, State of Emergency, Swamp, Swamp Drainage, Sweet Potatoes, Tanzania, Teso, Teso Parliamentary Group, Toroma, Toroma County, Turkana, Typha Domingesis, Uganda, Uganda General Election 2016, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Value for Money, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Virgin Area, Wafula Oguttu, Water Hyacinth, Watering, West Nile, WFP, World Food Programme, Yields, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni, Yumbe, Yumbe District, Zombo.NebbiLeave a comment on Up-North: 5,400kgs rice supposed to feed 879,000 people!
10th Parliament pass a Motion urging President Museveni to declare “State of Emergency” concerning the Food Insecurity!
Prime Minister Rukana Rugunda in Parliament as the motion went to the plenary: “There are hospitals that have no drugs” (Parliament Watch, 26.04.2017)
Today the 10th Parliament passed a motion made by Hon. Monica Amonding (Kumi District), Hon. Felix Ogong Okot (Dokolo South) and Hon. Silas Aogon (Kumi Municipality). They urged the President to declare the Republic are in a “State of Emergency”. This would be done over the famine and influx of refugees, that the Ugandan Republic would naturally both struggle with. As the Government have not functioning structures to fulfill the disasters at this rate, neither the over a 1 million of South Sudanese refugees.
The Minister can be quoted in the motion saying this:
“WHEREAS objective XXII of the National Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy states that the State shall take appropriate steps to encourage people to grow and store adequate food, establish national food reserve and encourage and promote proper nutrition through mass education and other appropriate means in order to build a health state;” (…) “AND WHEREAS OBJECTIVE XIII urges the State to institute effective machinery for dealing with any hazard or disaster arising out of natural calamities or any situation resulting in displacing of the people or serious disruption of their normal life;” (…) “NOTHING THAT Article 110 (1) (b) provides that the President may in consultation with cabinet, by a proclamation, declare that a state of emergency exists in Uganda or any parts of Uganda if he satisfied that the security of economic life of the Country or a part of the Country is threatened by natural disaster” (…) “FURTHER NOTHING THAT most parts of Uganda has this year suffered prolonged drought and famine which has not allowed people to plant on time, while what has already have been planted have dried up and has not yielded any fruits;” (…) “NOTHING THAT the prolonged drought has become a big threat to the lives of both people and animals since Uganda largely depends on agriculture for both food and income;” (…) “REALIZING THAT as a result of this drought and famine, a number of people have been taken ill and others have died of starvation;” (…) “COGNISANT THAT food insecurity has escalated and it’s believed to be the major reason behind the wave of criminal activities which has swept the country and caused mayhem through the country, since people are desperate to get what to feed on;” (…) “AWARE THAT Members of Parliament have on several occasions alerted government of the looming dangers that the Country faces it stringent measures are not put in place to arrest the level of famine in the country” (…) “NOW THEREFORE this motion if moved urging – The President to declare a state of emergency in the country to address the food insecurity” (Motion for a Resolution of Parliament Urging the President to Declare A State of Emergency to address the Alarming Food Insecurity in the Country, 26.04.2017 – Uganda Parliament).
That the MP’s Amonding, Okot and Aogon are doing this in good faith, as they have fate that the President and his cronies will address the Food Insecurity and take care of the citizens. That the President who not to long ago, claimed there we’re no famine in Uganda. There are clearly lacking of food and the reports of the dire situation in many districts are clearly not encouraging. The bleak situation have not changed.
That the State and have significant works to do, not only to declare, but facilitate and make sure the famine struck areas get funding, secondly get food delivery to patch up the hurt. Than the education and useful technique’s for farmers and citizens to take of the water in the seasons, then to reuse it when the dry-seasons are coming. This is certainly something that the citizens know and the state as well. So the government, departments, agencies and the local government should have measures and plans to tackle the famine and the high levels of food insecurity. Also, look to their donors and multi-national organizations that they have gotten help from in the past to support extra in the time of need.
This can be done if the President Yoweri Museveni, actually cries out for help and that he can have the guts to say: “…I have managed the country for 3 decades, the famines was worse under Obote and Amin, but now for the first time as President, I have to say, I have not done my duty, neither has the Movement. We are living in troubling times, the government was not prepared for El Nino and neither was the peasant farmers and villagers. The NRM, I the President as the Ugandan, will now declare State of Emergency. We are not at fault, the climate change and weather is the reason for this….”. If he would have uttered words like this, because I don’t expect the old man with the hat, to ask for forgiveness or say he is at fault. Still, if he proves that the Republic are in trouble and say it to the world. It should be understood.
The FAO, FEWSNET and other has established it and warned for months, while the Republic and the State didn’t act upon it. They we’re lacking procedures and ways of allocating funds for food delivery and steady organization to give relief to the starving citizens. Therefore, the need for declaration is great way of showing to the world and get donations to direct aid on it. But to build structures and disaster relief should have been made by the Ministry for Relief and Disaster Preparedness and the State Minister Musa Francis Ecweru. That Department or Ministry should have the mandate and the needed funds to commit to help the citizens who are barley having one meal day or two, depending on which hurt district it is about right now.
That the MP’s are now tabling and urging the President to act upon it and to declare a Stat of Emergency because of the concern of the agricultural output and the food insecurity. The State could have acted earlier, they could have pledged to this and been upfront, as they have added their own tally with massive flood of refugees combined with drought. The world would have reacted or we could have hoped they had reacted to it, that the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and others could have made efforts to salvage the dire situation. The food insecurity is high and the state has to act. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on April 26, 2017 April 26, 2017 Categories Africa, Agriculture, Aid, Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Economic Measures, Economy, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 2016 General Election, 2016 General Election Uganda, Acholi, Adjumani, Agago, Agriculture, Ambrose Tumwesigye, Amolatar, Amuria, Amuru, Animal Industry, Arua, Bana, Banana Fields, Bananas, Beans, Below Average Production, Besigye, Bugiri, Bukahanga County, Bukanga, Bukedi, Bukomansimbi, Burundi, Busoga, Buteleja, Bwekataligilya elibiika amasumba, Cassava, Cattle Corridor, Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, Community Building, Cyperus, Degraded River Bank, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dokolo, Dokolo County, Dokolo District, Dr. Kizza Besigye, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Dr. Warren Smith Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Draught, DRC, Dry Season, EAC, East Africa, East African Community, Erias Lukwago, Famine, Famine Early Warning System Network, FDC, Felix Ogong Okot, FEWS NET, FEWSN, Fisheries, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Forest Encrachment, Forum for Democratic Change, Francis Musa Ecweru, Francis Tumwesigye, FY 2014/2015, Gen Salim Saleh, Gen. Salim Selah, GoU, Government of Uganda, Greater Masaka, Groundnuts, Gulu, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hajj Erias Lukwago Ssalongo, Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Felix Ogong Okot, Hon. Monica Amonding, Hon. Musa Ecweru, Hon. Musa Francis Ecweru, Hon. Nahan Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Silas Aogon, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Hon. Wafula Oguttu, Insecurity, Invasive Weed, IPC Phase 2, IPC Phase 3, irish potatoes, Irrigation, Isingirio, Isingiro, Isingiro Counties, Isingiro District, Isingiro Government Prison, Jeremiah Kamurari, Kaabong, KAAS, Kabale, Kaboko, Kagera Water System, Kaliro, Kalungu, Kalungu District, Karamoja, Karomoja, Kashumba, Katakwi, Katakwi - Moroto Road, Katakwi Agricultural Advisory Service, Katakwi District, Katakwi Primary School, Katakwi Secondary School, Katakwi Town, Katakwi Town Council, Kenya, Kiruhura, Kiryandongo, Kitgum, Kizimbi Wetland, Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Koboko, KTC, Lake Albert, Lake Nakivale, Lamwo, Lango, LDG, Local District Government, lsingiro, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Lwengo, MAAIF, Maize, Maracha, Market Price, Masindi, Matooke, Matooki, Mbarara District Wetland Inventory Report, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries, Ministry of Disaster Prepardness, ministry of finance planning and economic development, MoFPED, Monica Amonding, Moroto, Moyo, Musa Echweru, NAADS, Nakasongola, Nandala Mafabi, Napak, National Agricultural Advisory Service, National Food Security, National Food Security Awareness Campaign, National Resistance Movement, National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Ngarama, Ngora, Northern Uganda, NRM, NRM Regime, Nwoya, NWSC, Okot Felix Ogong, Operation Wealth Creation, OWS, Pader, Pallisa, Parts of Busoga, pastoralists, Patrick Okabe, Peas, PM Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni, Rainy Season, Rakai, RDC Ambrose Tumwesigye, RDC Francis Tumwesigye, RDC Tumwesigye, Refugees, Republic of Tanzania, River Kagera, River Rwizi, RPC Francis Tumwesigye, RPC Tumwesigye, Rugaaga, Ruhakana Rugunda, Rushasha, Rwanda, Seasonal Swamps, Serere, Silas Aogon, Sorghum, Soroti, South Sudan, South Sudanese Refugees, Staff Quarters, State of Emergency, Swamp, Swamp Drainage, Sweet Potatoes, Tanzania, Teso, Teso Parliamentary Group, Toroma, Toroma County, Turkana, Typha Domingesis, Uganda, Uganda General Election 2016, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Value for Money, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Virgin Area, Wafula Oguttu, Water Hyacinth, Watering, West Nile, WFP, World Food Programme, Yields, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni, Yumbe, Yumbe District, Zombo.NebbiLeave a comment on 10th Parliament pass a Motion urging President Museveni to declare “State of Emergency” concerning the Food Insecurity!
What is so special about the Mbarara compared to the recognized districts with food insecurity?
Why do they deserve food relief with bags of rice in Mbarara? I wonder why, because there are enough places in Uganda where the reported about food insecurity and that was not in the Ankoli sub-counties. In the government own food insecurity report dated to 9th January 2017, the districts of Teso, Isingiro, Karamoja, Lango, Acholi, West Nile and Parts of Busoga.
So for me it is insulting that the Urban poor of Mbarara we’re even mentioned in the government report from January, where the closest area with stressed and half a meals a day in Tororo, still the Tooro kingdom isn’t Mbarara, Ankole sub-region is further and closer to the central region. Also closer to the Rwakitura ranch and Rukungiri of the Movement closest family.
I am sure there are needy people and who would need relief in Mbarara, as the unemployment in 2009 was about 61.2 %. So there are people of dire need and who needs jobs, who also lives on scraps. That was the stats from 2009 in Mbarara, so there are not that I want to be harsh.
But something doesn’t seem reasonable when the January report of 2017, doesn’t state Mbarara or the Ankoli sub-regions. Therefore the food relief being delivered here seems a bit strange. It would been better in Bidibidi refugee settlement, where 270,000 refugees are settled, surely some of the United Nations Organizations are serving them meals of millet and posho. While the rice of Ugandan government are delivered to locals close to the heart of the President.
There are something weird, days after the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) gave away rice in Toroma sub-county, as the Police Force and regional leadership stopped the needed relief in the area. Therefore, the opposition party had to do it in silence. While the NRM and the Central Government, with the pomp and bravado are establishing food for Mbarara. Seems like more help to their own, than he ones who needs it more.
It is hard to say it, but where the people are eating ants and whatever else left behind that is edible by the drought and lacking rains. The infrastructure and institutions are not there to support all of the ones lacking the food and relief, the safety net in the hard times, as the Ministry for Relief and Disaster Preparedness Musa Francis Ecweru hasn’t considered the ramification of the food insecurity, neither has the central government themselves.
That out of the Office of Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda is certainly showing loyalty to his President and his NRM, when he offers a token of help to Mbarara. There are certainly with the level of unemployment, there are people needing help there, but why not doing it the district in the own state report?
Why? Do the state not care about the people eating insects instead of food? Is the NRM forgetting the people and the ones they are supposed to represent, or do they only want to feeds the ones who can work on the ranch of the President at the Rwakitura ranch. That is how it seems to be, that the closer you are to the home of the President, the more you can possibly get from the State House. It isn’t rumor, but a mere fact at this point. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on April 24, 2017 April 24, 2017 Categories Africa, Aid, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, TransparencyTags Acholi, Adjumani, Agago, Agriculture, Amolatar, Amuria, Amuru, Animal Industry, Ankole, Ankole Sub-Region, Arua, Bananas, Beans, Below Average Production, Bugiri, Bukedi, Bukomansimbi, Burundi, Busoga, Buteleja, Bwekataligilya elibiika amasumba, Cassava, Cattle Corridor, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, DRC, Famine Early Warning System Network, FEWS NET, FEWSN, Fisheries, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Francis Musa Ecweru, Gen Salim Saleh, Gen. Salim Selah, GoU, Government of Uganda, Greater Masaka, Groundnuts, Gulu, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Musa Ecweru, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Insecurity, IPC Phase 2, IPC Phase 3, irish potatoes, Isingirio, Isingiro, Isingiro District, Kaabong, Kabale, Kaboko, Kaliro, Kalungu, Kalungu District, Karamoja, Karomoja, Kenya, Kiruhura, Kiryandongo, Kitgum, Koboko, Lake Albert, Lamwo, Lango, lsingiro, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Lwengo, MAAIF, Maize, Maracha, Market Price, Masindi, Matooke, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries, Ministry of Disaster Prepardness, Moroto, Moyo, Musa Ecweru, NAADS, Nakasongola, Napak, National Food Security, National Food Security Awareness Campaign, National Resistance Movement, Ngora, Northern Uganda, NRM, NRM Regime, Nwoya, Operation Wealth Creation, OWS, Pader, Pallisa, Parts of Busoga, pastoralists, Peas, PM Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni, Rakai, Refugees, Ruhakana Rugunda, Rukungiri, Rwakitura, Rwakitura Ranch, Rwanda, Serere, Sorghum, Soroti, South Sudan, South Sudanese Refugees, Sweet Potatoes, Tanzania, Teso, Tooro Kingdom, Tooro Sub-Region, Turkana, Uganda, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, West Nile, WFP, World Food Programme, Yields, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni, Yumbe, Yumbe District, Zombo.NebbiLeave a comment on What is so special about the Mbarara compared to the recognized districts with food insecurity?
NRM’s oppressive behavior is the reason why the FDC had to give the citizens of Katakwi a silent food relief this weekend!
Picture from the 5th April 2017 in Toroma!
During the weekend the Forum for Democratic Change wanted to continue with their food relief program in Katakwi, the region that has been hit by famine and by drought. Therefore earlier in April the FDC sent a team and maize flour, that was on the 5th April of 2017. This was blocked by the Uganda Police Force and the Regional Police Commander Francis Tumwesigye. Take a look!
So on the 22nd April 2017 the FDC went through with it:
“FDC officials secretly distribute food relief in Toroma County, Katakwi, after earlier being barred by police Earlier this month, the FDC team, led by Dr. Kizza Besigye were blocked from giving out the food to vulnerable persons who include child headed families, the elderly and persons with disabilities who are hard-hit by the famine that has ravaged the sub-counties of Toroma, Magoro ,Omodoi and Kapujan. However, yesterday the FDC officials resorted to giving out the food secretly with each parish receiving bags of maize flour and beans for the households in the county. This time, Katakwi’s Resident District Commissioner Ambrose Tumwesigye said FDC should have first sought permission from his office to distribute the food” (NTV Uganda, 22.04.2017).
Minister of Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru have had the whole month to deliver the State organized food relief to their own citizens, earlier him together with the Police shut-down the food relief. The FDC tried to the citizens something good. While the loyalty of the Police, RPC Tumwesigye and RDC Tumwesigye, are both prepared to stop the opposition.
That the FDC had to decide to do it secretly says more about the state of affairs, than of the will of going against the state. That the National Resistance Movement and the local state officials haven’t been positive before.
So even the State Minister Musa Ecweru had to apologize to the residents of Katakwi:
“All willing humanitarian agencies or parties have the right to distribute food, if they consult with the line ministry, the Ministry for Relief and Disaster Preparedness,” Mr Ecweru explained. He added that FDC will be allowed to distribute food if they make arrangements with the Ministry for Relief and Disaster Preparedness in order to avoid duplication” (…) “The chairperson Teso Parliamentary Group, Mr Patrick Okabe, also at the weekend, condemned the actions of police to deny the people of Toroma County food, saying: “Teso Parliamentary Group stands firm with the people of Teso in this trying moment.” (NTV Newsnight, 11.04.2017).
So if the FDC had consulted directly with the minster and the regional leadership. Still, I doubt they would allow it, as the NRM hasn’t really been positive to anything involving the opposition parties, unless they are the “Good DP”. So the FDC would no matter what they do, get blocked and stopped, with tear-gas and get people into hospital treatment. Even if the RDC Tumwesigye had been informed or RPC Tumwesigye had been told, I doubt they would have said: “Yes be kind, just do it”.
Since the NRM and their government forces haven’t really showed any finesse in those matters. So that the FDC had to yesterday and this weekend do it in silence, because of their lacking faith in the government entities. That the RDC and RPC would stifle the efforts of the FDC. We can know how the oppressive behavior of the security forces towards the FDC, when they are doing food relief in silence and in the dark in Katakwi. As the last time the violence and disruption of it, destroyed the willing to help the drought hit region.
That the government doesn’t themselves show that they are grateful and the considerate effort of the FDC. Therefore, the reality that the Government says: “please just tell and we will allow” isn’t truthful or sincere. If it was so, then the FDC would have done it and pleased the government. Still, the reality of it is, that the NRM tries what it can to silence the FDC and their leadership. By any means possible, even when citizens who starve are blocked because of the giver. Shows the ice-cold hearts and the oppressive acts of the ruling regime. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on April 23, 2017 April 23, 2017 Categories Africa, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 2016 General Election, 2016 General Election Uganda, Acholi, Adjumani, Agago, Agriculture, Ambrose Tumwesigye, Amolatar, Amuria, Amuru, Animal Industry, Arua, Bananas, Beans, Below Average Production, Besigye, Bugiri, Bukedi, Bukomansimbi, Burundi, Busoga, Buteleja, Bwekataligilya elibiika amasumba, Cassava, Cattle Corridor, Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, Community Building, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr. Kizza Besigye, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Dr. Warren Smith Kizza Besigye Kifefe, DRC, Erias Lukwago, Famine Early Warning System Network, FDC, FEWS NET, FEWSN, Fisheries, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Forum for Democratic Change, Francis Musa Ecweru, Francis Tumwesigye, FY 2014/2015, Gen Salim Saleh, Gen. Salim Selah, GoU, Government of Uganda, Greater Masaka, Groundnuts, Gulu, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hajj Erias Lukwago Ssalongo, Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Musa Ecweru, Hon. Nahan Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Insecurity, IPC Phase 2, IPC Phase 3, irish potatoes, Isingirio, Isingiro, Isingiro District, Kaabong, KAAS, Kabale, Kaboko, Kaliro, Kalungu, Kalungu District, Karamoja, Karomoja, Katakwi, Katakwi - Moroto Road, Katakwi Agricultural Advisory Service, Katakwi District, Katakwi Primary School, Katakwi Secondary School, Katakwi Town, Katakwi Town Council, Kenya, Kiruhura, Kiryandongo, Kitgum, Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Koboko, KTC, Lake Albert, Lamwo, Lango, LDG, Local District Government, lsingiro, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Lwengo, MAAIF, Maize, Maracha, Market Price, Masindi, Matooke, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries, Ministry of Disaster Prepardness, ministry of finance planning and economic development, MoFPED, Moroto, Moyo, Musa Echweru, NAADS, Nakasongola, Nandala Mafabi, Napak, National Agricultural Advisory Service, National Food Security, National Food Security Awareness Campaign, National Resistance Movement, Ngora, Northern Uganda, NRM, NRM Regime, Nwoya, Operation Wealth Creation, OWS, Pader, Pallisa, Parts of Busoga, pastoralists, Patrick Okabe, Peas, PM Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni, Rakai, RDC Ambrose Tumwesigye, RDC Francis Tumwesigye, RDC Tumwesigye, Refugees, RPC Francis Tumwesigye, RPC Tumwesigye, Ruhakana Rugunda, Rwanda, Serere, Sorghum, Soroti, South Sudan, South Sudanese Refugees, Sweet Potatoes, Tanzania, Teso, Teso Parliamentary Group, Toroma, Toroma County, Turkana, Uganda, Uganda General Election 2016, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Value for Money, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, West Nile, WFP, World Food Programme, Yields, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni, Yumbe, Yumbe DistrictLeave a comment on NRM’s oppressive behavior is the reason why the FDC had to give the citizens of Katakwi a silent food relief this weekend!
The Calvary blocks Opposition Food relief in Katakwi!
“Jubilant reception as we arrived in Toroma, Katakwi District this morning. Situation quickly changed as police started attacking the people” – Dr. Kizza Besigye
You would think that under Presidency of Yoweri Museveni, that his Security Organization would show some sense, but there aren’t any common sense in the Uganda Police Force. As Inspectorate General of Police Kale Kayihura. This reports are coming from Katakwi town today, as the Police dispersed the public gatherings as the food relief from Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) was passing by the starving region.
This is something the government themselves wouldn’t have the capacity to do. They would let the people starve, with their Regional Police Commander (RDC) of Katakwi Francis Tumwesigye. The went all in with gun-shots, tear-gas and other violence as the FDC tried to do a good deed.
Lord Mayor of Kampala Erias Lukwago explains: “We have just wound up our visit to Teso Region. Despite the fact that police unleashed brutality and teargas to disperse peaceful and jubilant supporters, we managed to comb through various parts of Soroti and Katakwi. We handed over food relief to Bishop Obaikol, paid respect to the grave of the former Toroma MP and that of our fallen comrade, Counsel Okiring in Magoro” (Lukwago, 05.04.2017).
That a food relief in Toroma we’re delivered not only with the local Bishop Obaikol, but by the FDC leadership and leaders in the region, who has traveled in the region of late. The RDC Tumwesigye said earlier today: “No giving them food. Let them die of hunger”. How can such a person has a leadership role? What sort of government hires a person like this? The skirmishes from the Police Force have officially lead to five hurt people, the citizens who showed up to get fed.
That National Resistance Movement (NRM) government and the Honorable Minister of Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru have not delivered to the public, because of the FDC had prepared posho to the Toroma town, the Police to prove the point, the UPF even had to tear-gas and stop an 84 year old who went to the car of Dr. Kizza Besigye, so as he passes by the police went after the old man. This proves the little care the police has for the civilians.
You can wonder if the citizens matters to the police as they was even blocking Besigye from visiting the hospital to see to the ones who had to go to Toroma Health Centre. That the FDC leader was blocked to see the ones hurt by the police, when the food relief from FDC came into Toroma, Katakwi.
That the Police had to disperse and block a food relief proves how little they care and that the RDC would utter words and stop it. UPF and NRM proves that they doesn’t care and the world should take notice if the government cries. The FDC could have provided the posho to the citizens as an act of kindness, instead the police brutality will be remembered, not the gift from the opposition party!
Author nilspeacePosted on April 5, 2017 April 5, 2017 Categories Africa, Aid, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 2016 General Election, 2016 General Election Uganda, Acholi, Adjumani, Agago, Agriculture, Amolatar, Amuria, Amuru, Animal Industry, Arua, Bananas, Beans, Below Average Production, Besigye, Bugiri, Bukedi, Bukomansimbi, Burundi, Busoga, Buteleja, Bwekataligilya elibiika amasumba, Cassava, Cattle Corridor, Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, Community Building, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr. Kizza Besigye, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Dr. Warren Smith Kizza Besigye Kifefe, DRC, Erias Lukwago, Famine Early Warning System Network, FDC, FEWS NET, FEWSN, Fisheries, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Forum for Democratic Change, Francis Musa Ecweru, Francis Tumwesigye, FY 2014/2015, Gen Salim Saleh, Gen. Salim Selah, GoU, Government of Uganda, Greater Masaka, Groundnuts, Gulu, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hajj Erias Lukwago Ssalongo, Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Musa Ecweru, Hon. Nahan Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nandala Mafabi, Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Insecurity, IPC Phase 2, IPC Phase 3, irish potatoes, Isingirio, Isingiro, Isingiro District, Kaabong, KAAS, Kabale, Kaboko, Kaliro, Kalungu, Kalungu District, Karamoja, Karomoja, Katakwi, Katakwi - Moroto Road, Katakwi Agricultural Advisory Service, Katakwi District, Katakwi Primary School, Katakwi Secondary School, Katakwi Town, Katakwi Town Council, Kenya, Kiruhura, Kiryandongo, Kitgum, Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Koboko, KTC, Lake Albert, Lamwo, Lango, LDG, Local District Government, lsingiro, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Lwengo, MAAIF, Maize, Maracha, Market Price, Masindi, Matooke, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries, Ministry of Disaster Prepardness, ministry of finance planning and economic development, MoFPED, Moroto, Moyo, Musa Echweru, NAADS, Nakasongola, Nandala Mafabi, Napak, National Agricultural Advisory Service, National Food Security, National Food Security Awareness Campaign, National Resistance Movement, Ngora, Northern Uganda, NRM, NRM Regime, Nwoya, Operation Wealth Creation, OWS, Pader, Pallisa, Parts of Busoga, pastoralists, Peas, PM Ruhakana Rugunda, President Museveni, Rakai, RDC Francis Tumwesigye, Refugees, Ruhakana Rugunda, Rwanda, Serere, Sorghum, Soroti, South Sudan, South Sudanese Refugees, Sweet Potatoes, Tanzania, Teso, Toroma, Toroma County, Turkana, Uganda, Uganda General Election 2016, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Value for Money, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, West Nile, WFP, World Food Programme, Yields, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni, Yumbe, Yumbe DistrictLeave a comment on The Calvary blocks Opposition Food relief in Katakwi!
How the new counties will change for the constituencies before the Presidential General Election 2016 in Uganda – and which MPs it affects.
Recently there been reports that yet again the government of Uganda has decided to split a certain numbers of counties into 39 new counties and in the end make the total amount of Member of Parliament (MPs) to 424 (Kisakye, 2015). This can only been seen as a calculated plan to gain more MPs by the government party to reign over this new counties. I will go through who will have to fight for new constituency and votes in newly created counties that the government wishes. This will be after the list that was on the Observer. I will take district after district. An over time I think you’ll see a pattern.
Agago County MPs:
Who? Party:
John Amos Okot NRM
Judith Franca Akello FDC
Amuria County MPs:
Francis Musa Ecweru NRM
Manjiya County MPs:
David Wakikona NRM
Bukedea County MPs:
George Stephen Ekuma NRM
Rose Akol Okullu NRM
Bukomansimbi County MPs:
Deogratius (Deo) Kiyingi DP
Susan Namaganda DP
Bulambuli County MPs:
Irene Nafuna Muloni NRM
Midimi Wamakuyu NRM
Dokolo County MPs:
Felix Okot Ogong NRM
Cecilla Barbera Atim Ogwal FDC
Gomba County MPs:
Rosemary Muyinda Najjemba NRM
Kyabangi Katusiime Nakato NRM
Kilak County MPs:
Gilbert Olanya Independent
Betty Bigombe Atuku NRM
Dodoth East – Kaabong County MPs:
Samson Lokeris NRM
Bulamogi County – Kaliro District MPs:
Kenneth Lubago Independent
Flavia Nabugere NRM
Kibuku County MPs:
Moses Saleh Wilson Kamba NRM
Sarah Mwebaza Wanene NRM
Nyabushozi County MPs:
Fred Mwesigye NRM
Beatrice Rusaniya Namala Barumba NRM
Kibanda County MPs:
Sam Owor Amooti Otada Independent
Helen Kahunde NRM
Chua County MPs:
Henry Okello Oryem NRM
Beatrice Anywar Atim FDC
Kole County MPs:
Fred Ebil UPC
Joy Ruth Acheng UPC
Kumi County MPs:
Patrick Oboi Amuriat FDC
Christine Hellen Amongin Aporu NRM
Kiboga West County MPs:
Samuel Ssemugaba NRM
Ann Maria Nankabirwa NRM
Kyaka County MPs:
William Ngabu Kwemara NRM
Flavia Kabahenda Rwabuhoro NRM
Mwenge North County MPs:
David Muhumuza NRM
Luuka County MPs:
John B. Ngobi Bagoole Independent
Evelyn Naome Mpagni N. Kaabule NRM
Maracha County MPs:
Alex Onzima Independent
Ruth Molly Ondoru Lematia NRM
Kashari County MPs:
Yaguma Wilberforce NRM
Ruhinda County MPs:
Kahinda Otafiire NRM
Jovah Kamateeka NRM
Matheniko County MPs:
Dr. John Baptist Lokii NRM
Aruu County MPs:
CD Oketayot Lowila NRM
Samuel Otto Odonga FDC
Kooki County MPs:
Amos Mandera NRM
Mawogola County MPs:
Sam Kahamba Kutesa NRM
Anifa Kawooya Bangirana NRM
Soroti County MPs:
Michael George Mukula NRM
Peter Omolo FDC
Angelline Osegge FDC
Okoro County MPs:
Stanley Oribdhogu Omwonya NRM
Butebo County MPs:
Stephen Oscar Malinga NRM
Tororo County MPs:
Geofrey Ekanya FDC
Kibaale County MPs:
Frank Kagyigyi Tumwebaze NRM
Aringa County MPs: (Will be three more districts)
Achile Manoah Mile UPC
Abason Huda Oleru NRM
Bugahya County MPs:
James Kiiza Rwebembera NRM
Koboko County MPs:
Ahmed Awongo NRM
Margreth Diri Bara NRM
Kassanda County MPs:
Godfrey Lubega Independent
Thembo George William Nyombi NRM
East Moyo County MPs:
Moses Ali NRM
Jesica Ababiku Independent
In numbers of the MPs that is on the line and getting new districts to get votes for re-elections in the 2016 elections. This here will be decisive for them. AS you can see that even some district has big birds and people who have been in the wind for a long time like Otafiire from Ruhinda County. But now let me show the numbers:
Party: Total MPs: Percentage:
NRM (National Resistance Movement) 45 69%
FDC (Forum for Democratic Change) 8 12%
DP (Democratic Party) 2 3%
UPC (Uganda People’s Congress) 3 4.6%
Independent 7 10.7%
Total Sum of MPS: 65 100%
This should be call on how the NRM wish to split the votes in certain areas so that they can eat more of the votes in next election. That they can take more of the independent votes and also from the opposition parties like FDC.
Let me show the areas that are being split not just name of main counties. Since Uganda has been split to smaller and smaller fractions and now is hard to remember where the “original” bigger counties where before they got into the humongous number of 424. So let see here:
Part of the Country Total Couties:
Buganda VI – 6
Ankole IIII – 4
Kigezi 0 – 0
Toro II – 2
Bunyoro II – 2
Acholi VI – 6
West Nile IIII – 4
Lango II – 2
Karamoja I – 1
Teso III – 3
Sebei 0 – 0
Bugisha 0 – 0
Bukedi II – 2
Busoga V – 5
Total Counties: 37
(Aringa County will become three counties – North/South and Yumbe)
Numbers game:
If you can quickly see it’s the central regions that have a certain level of changes like in the Ankole, Busoga, Bunyoro and Buganda. The number of counties which is changing in the central/eastern is 17 of 39. Other areas that are also getting a renovation from the government are the Acholi, West Nile and Karamoja which is the Northern parts of Uganda. The total of areas that will be changed is 13 of 39. Those total 30 of the 39. So it’s easily to see where the main changes are happening. Sometimes in the heartland of the opposition parties than in the Movement territory, so if you think otherwise. Look at the numbers and see even if this is going after 69% of the MPs are NRM. We all know that around Mbale and up north has voted for DP more than NRM in history. FDC is also gaining more grown in eastern, central and western areas. Therefore NRM fearing this, FDC candidate even won in Amuru by-election in November 2014. So that the Government is making a change in the districts around isn’t surprising. But let’s look at the other part of this changes that I haven’t touched on yet. Not the number game, but the real election game.
Election game:
This strategy is amazing. The way you split counties to reassure and get more loyalty from the new LDC then before. Therefore doing this so close to the election makes the 40 new counties and 40 new MPs. Also open up new constituency and voter’s numbers that need to be secure to get the MP for a county in. Thirdly and last point is that the history of voting in an area get diminish because the new counties. This will lead to smaller counties and need less people to vote the MP in the area. That can be either a gift or a curse. That the counties are getting to be smaller populations so that their easier to manipulate since their no current voting history in this counties. So that the loyalist will get more positions during next elections and also getting new LDCs that will supposedly to give the local community more control and also support the governments work in the areas. Like getting supervision over the primary school and police I guess. But we all know that this is more securing the NRM government more control over the areas and getting the loyal supporters of the Mzee becoming MPs and also making new counties to disfranchise the opposition if possible. That this areas are also in places where the Independent MPs are coming from and just a few big shots like Kahinda Otafiire. I look forward to see the results from the Presidential General Election of 2016. Hope you do as well in the new counties and see if the MPs from the 9th Parliament will arrive from the new counties.
Just a by the way – on the information flow:
The irony of it all, I couldn’t find the MPs on the Parliaments own site or government official sites online. I found the best by the sites that are targeted by the government. Like the lists from Uganda at Heart had an awesome and amazing list. Second list was from an anti-corruption NGO from Uganda. So the one that isn’t supposed to be friendly with the government is the one that has organized it the best and that is a rare instance. Because a brother expect to easily see who represent them. Taxation with representation, the parliament page of the Ugandan government isn’t sufficient or a page that is really working. Hope that Hostalite and make them a better page indeed. And the Parliament Watch site was ten times better. Where I could double check the result of the General Election of 2011 was from the elected MPs from the Electoral Commission of Uganda. I am grateful that one supposed to be unbiased governmental institution has certain information to the public so I could verify what I found at Uganda at Heart and also the information from Parliamentary Watch. Thanks! Peace.
Kisakye, Frank – ‘Govt creates 39 new counties, number of MPs rises to 424’ (15.07.2015) Link: http://www.observer.ug/news-headlines/38782-govt-creates-39-new-counties-mps-rise-to-424
Author nilspeacePosted on July 17, 2015 July 17, 2015 Categories Africa, Civil Service, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, PoliticsTags 9th Parliament of Uganda, Abason Huda Oleru, Achile Manoah Mile, Acholi, Agago, Agago County, Ahmed Awongo, Alex Onzima, Amos Mandera, Amuria, Amuria County, Angelline Osegge, Anifa Kawooya Bangirana, Ankole, Ann Maria Nankabirwa, Aringa, Aringa County, Aruu, Aruu County, Beatrice Anywar Atim, Beatrice Rusaniya Namala Barumba, Betty Bigombe Atuku, Bugahya, Bugahya County, Buganda, Bugisha, Bukedea, Bukedea County, Bukedi, Bukomansimbi, Bukomansimbi County, Bulambuli, Bulambuli County, Bulamogi, Bulamogi County, Bunyoro, Busoga, Butebo, Butebo County, CD Oketayot Lowila, Cecilla Barbera Atim Ogwal, Central Uganda, Christine Hellen Amongin Aporu, Chua, Chua County, Constituency, David Muhumuza, David Wakikona, Democratic Party, Deo Kiyingi, Deogratius Kiyingi, District Local Council, Dodoth East, Dokolo, Dokolo County, DP, Dr. John Baptist Lokii, East Moyo, East Moyo County, Eastern Uganda, Evelyn Naome Mpagni N. Kaabule, FDC, Felix Okot Ogong, Flavia Kabahenda Rwabuhoro, Flavia Nabugere, Forum for Democratic Change, Francis Musa Ecweru, Frank Kagyigyi Tumwebaze, Fred Ebil, Fred Mwesigye, General Election 2016, Geofrey Ekanya, George Stephen Ekuma, Gilbert Olanya, Godfrey Lubega, Helen Kahunde, Henry Okello Oryem, Independent, Independent MP, Information from Government Sites, Irene Nafuna Muloni, James Kiiza Rwebembera, Jesica Ababiku, John Amos Okot, John B. Ngobi Bagoole, Jovah Kamateeka, Joy Ruth Acheng, Judith Franca Akello, Kaabong, Kaabong County, Kahinda Otafiire, Kaliro District, Karamoja, Kashari, Kashari County, Kassanda, Kassanda County, Kenneth Lubago, Kibaale, Kibaale County, Kibanda, Kibanda County, Kiboga West, Kiboga West County, Kibuku, Kibuku County, Kigezi, Kilak, Kilak County, Koboko, Koboko County, Kole, Kole County, Kooki, Kooki County, Kumi, Kumi County, Kyabangi Katusiime Nakato, Kyaka, Kyaka County, Lango, LDC, Local Government, Luuka, Luuka County, Manijya, Manjiya County, Maracha, Maracha County, Margreth Diri Bara, Matheniko, Matheniko County, Mawogola, Mawogola County, Mbale District, Member of Parliament, Michael George Mukula, Midimi Wamakuyu, Moses Ali, Moses Saleh Wilson Kamba, MPS, Mwenge North, Mwenge North County, Mzee, National Resistance Movement, Northern Uganda, NRM, Nyabushozi, Nyabushozi County, Okoro, Okoro County, Oppisistion heartland, Parliament Page, ParliamentWatch, Patrick Oboi Amuriat, Peter Omolo, Re-Election, Rose Akol Okullu, Rosemary Muyinda Najjemba, Ruhinda, Ruhinda County, Rural Constituency, Ruth Molly Ondoru Lematia, Sam Kahamba Kutesa, Sam Kutesa, Sam Owor Amooti Otada, Samson Lokeris, Samuel Otto Odonga, Samuel Ssemugaba, Sarah Mwebaza Wanene, Sebei, Sebel, Soroti, Soroti County, Stanley Oribdhogu Omwonya, Stephen Oscar Malinga, Susan Namaganda, Teso, The Electoral Commission, Thembo George William Nyombi, Toro, Tororo, Tororo County, Transparency, Uganda, Uganda at Heart, Uganda General Election 2016, Uganda Parliament, Uganda Peoples Congress, UPC, Vote, Voting, Voting history, West Nile, Western Uganda, William Ngabu Kwemara, Yaguma Wilberforce1 Comment on How the new counties will change for the constituencies before the Presidential General Election 2016 in Uganda – and which MPs it affects.
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Prehistorik Man: Titus Made Good Games Sometimes
September 22, 2020 Pete Davison 3 Comments
Titus, it’s fair to say, is not one of the most fondly regarded names in classic gaming — though a fair amount of their work was at least memorable for one reason or another.
That doesn’t mean it was a company completely incapable of putting out a good game, however. And in fact, when Titus was on top form, they actually made some really good titles that still hold up very well today.
One of those games is Prehistorik Man, originally released for Super NES and now brought to a whole new audience as part of the Interplay Collection 2 cartridge for the Evercade retro gaming platform. Let’s take a closer look!
Prehistorik Man was first released in 1995, and is the third installment in Titus’ Prehistorik series of platformers, which began on the 16-bit home computers in 1991. It is part of a trend in the early- to mid-’90s where game developers collectively had a bit of a fascination with cavemen and the prehistoric Earth, and sits comfortably alongside its contemporaries such as Core Design’s Chuck Rock and Data East’s Joe & Man, both also released in 1991.
With the Prehistorik series, Titus gradually developed and refined a formula that seemed to work well. In the original game from 1991, the player had to collect a certain amount of food before they were allowed to progress to the next level; in the 1993 sequel, food simply provided a bonus at the end of a level; and in Prehistorik Man, this remained the case, but each level tended to have its own objective to accomplish besides simply reaching the end point.
Perhaps more notably, Prehistorik Man made a significantly stronger effort with story and characterisation than its predecessors, featuring a recognisable cast of characters who had dialogue over the course of the game. For the most part, this dialogue provided a means of helpfully introducing various game mechanics or hints to the player, but it also provided a strong sense of the game taking the player on a distinct “journey” over the course of its 23 stages. This aspect of the game went on to be one of its most well-received aspects, with numerous reviewers at the time singling out the sense of ongoing narrative — however simple that narrative was — as a particular highlight of the game.
In Prehistorik Man, you take on the role of a caveman named Sam, who has discovered that all his village’s food has been stolen. His village chief encourages him to go on a great journey to seek out a legendary dinosaur graveyard. While it might not seem obvious how this would help the food situation, in the world of Prehistorik Man, bones are a unit of currency, and as such finding a pretty much unlimited supply of them would see Sam’s tribe pretty much set for life.
The game unfolds as a linear sequence of stages in the Euro platformer mould — that means that in most cases, rather than simply taking a straight route to a finish line on the far right, there are often multiple routes to explore, each concealing their own secrets and collectibles. These range from health and extra lives to that all-important food the village can add to its stocks. At the end of a level, the village chief shows Sam what percentage of the food and treasures in the stage he managed to find, and a running total of this across the whole game allows you to earn an extra life for every 100 units acquired.
In many ways, the emphasis on exploring levels to track down hidden collectibles makes Prehistorik Man feel quite a lot like a 2D version of what we would later come to regard as the “collectathon” platformer. In fact, when you take into account aesthetic elements such as the excellent animation, the delightfully colourful pixel art, the slick and smooth parallax scrolling, the cheeky visual humour and the use of digitised gibberish in place of actual recorded dialogue, one could almost mistake this for a 16-bit era Rare game, were it not for the fact that Rare were well into their “pre-rendered” phase at this point in history with the Donkey Kong Country series.
Where Prehistorik Man shines is in its level design. Evidently picking up a few lessons from Nintendo, many of the game’s levels are designed in such a way that they will introduce you to a particular mechanical concept in a relatively safe context before requiring you to make use of it under more dangerous circumstances.
A great example comes with a sequence that involves blocks that drop off the screen if you stand on them for more than a moment; the first of these blocks is safely over another platform, so you won’t die as it drops off the screen, and you’ll get a chance to see how it behaves. As you proceed, however, you’ll have to negotiate a number of these dropping platforms suspended perilously above a bottomless pit — but you’ll know what to expect, because the game has been good enough to show you explicitly what these things do.
This is far from an isolated example, either. A level primarily themed around using hanging vines to get around acts as a suitable primer for the following stage, where you have to contend with an erupting volcano and use vines to get yourself off the flaming ground at regular intervals. Several stages place collectible items in seemingly dangerous locations such as spike pits before providing a convenient turtle or spider to stand on and retrieve them safely. And the various characters you encounter over the course of your journey offer helpful advice and guidance without ever feeling like they’re talking down to you or being patronising.
The stage design also helps with the aforementioned feel of a progressing narrative, too. Rather than featuring abrupt jumps in scenery from stage to stage, each new level brings gradual changes to the overall aesthetic, be it a simple, slight shift in colour palette for the rocks as Sam gets further from home, or a change in backdrop to denote the fading light of the evening as he enters a mysterious forest. While the first couple of stages may look relatively similar, the pace at which these visual changes occur accelerates as you progress through the game, highlighting the fact that with each new milestone on his journey, Sam is entering territory that is more and more alien to him.
This solid design is accompanied by some solid mechanics, too. The controls are tight and responsive, and the decision to put Sam’s ability to run “like a dog” on both the attack button (a la Super Mario games) and angling the D-pad upwards allows for bursts of speed when swinging your weapon would be undesirable — such as when standing on an enemy’s back. It’s a game that clearly had a lot of time, effort and love ploughed into it, and the result is an absolutely lovely 16-bit platformer that I suspect not a lot of people have played.
Prehistorik Man was a thoroughly pleasant surprise that I’d not encountered before trying it on the Evercade. While for many players the two Interplay Collection cartridges for the Evercade are perhaps more interesting as historical curiosities than compilations of games you’d actually want to spend a lot of time playing, Prehistorik Man is a genuinely good title that holds up very well to modern scrutiny.
And it’s yet another example of the Evercade doing what it does best: bringing new life and attention to games that perhaps didn’t get the love they deserved on their original release for one reason or another, and allowing you to enjoy those games both on the go and on your TV. Thumbs up for that. And thumbs up for Prehistorik Man. Eekum bokum, or something.
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Morgan Wallen Stars in ‘SNL’ Skit That Jokes About Him Previously Breaking COVID-19 Protocols
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Morgan Wallen made his Saturday Night Live stage debut just two months after he was uninvited due to breaking COVID-19 protocols.
On the December 5 episode of the comedy show, Wallen took part in a sketch alongside the evening's host, Jason Bateman.
The skit begins with Wallen partying without a face mask or social distancing at the University of Alabama, which actually happened in real life. Bateman, donning the same clothes as Wallen, approaches Wallen and explains that he's him from the future.
"I am you from the future and I came here to stop you from partying tonight," Bateman tells him. "Trust me, somebody's gonna post a video of you ignoring COVID protocols, the whole internet's gonna freak out. Once people hear about the party, you're in big trouble man. You're gonna get kicked off Saturday Night Live."
Wallen tells his future-self that he doesn't want to lose the opportunity or disappoint his fans, so he better leave the event. Before he can, though, Bateman says that he forgot how fun the party was and questions if he should really go since he's having such a good time. Before long, Bateman asks if they can stay five more minutes, and additional chaos ensues.
Watch the full skit, below.
Along with participating in the skit, Wallen performed his latest single, "Still Goin' Down."
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Great Uncle Keith… and the Scotland Road Trip
August 26, 2013 by Palmersan
I’m not sure quite how it happened but I found myself on a 600-mile road trip to the far recesses of Scotland with a toothless 85-year-old in my passenger seat.
We hadn’t seen my Great Uncle Keith for 25 years so it was a bit of shock when the phone rang at my parents’ house and a feeble voice rattled down the line, saying, ‘Hello, It’s Keithhhh.’
Great Uncle Keith, my father’s uncle, had slipped off the radar some time in the early 90s. He met a ‘lady friend’ called Valerie, who had seemingly wanted him all to himself and as a result, he had severed ties with the family.
A quarter of a century on, and with grasping Valerie having passed away, Great Uncle Keith had decided to re-connect with my father, his long-forgotten nephew – from all of 25 miles away in Manchester.
My father is an only child but his father George (now dead) had two other brothers – the aforementioned Keith, and Jack, who married Jill (!) and moved away to Scotland to lead a hardy life of hiking and extreme outdoor pursuits.
We hadn’t seen Jack and Jill for years either but would occasionally receive a postcard from them, usually from far-flung places like the Himalayas, accompanied by messages such as, ‘Did a steady 30-mile hike yesterday; tomorrow tackling Everest…’ or, ‘On the Inca Trail. 40 degrees. Terrain easy.’
Given that Keith hadn’t seen his brother Jack for many years either, I rather generously offered to drive him up there for a Scotland for a family reunion. My parents, never ones to miss out on an adventure, were to accompany us on the trip also, in order the provide some light relief or drive me to despair, depending on how you looked at it.
The first shock was the kind of surprise that you can only get when you haven’t seen someone for 25 years. Far from being the sprightly piano-playing uncle that my father fondly remembered, Keith was now a dithery old man, with only a few silver wisps of hair and, more worryingly, a distinct lack of teeth. He was to stay at my parents for the night before we embarked on the Great Road Trip to Garelochhead.
Somehow, at 2am in the morning, he managed to bring a whole glass shelf crashing down in the bathroom, causing my father to nearly have a heart attack and my mother to get terribly flustered indeed and make statements such as, ‘What on earth was he doing, CLATTERING around in the dead of night?!”
Morning came and the great road trip had begun. I was behind the wheel, with toothless Great Uncle Keith safely ensconced in the passenger seat. My mother was giving a running commentary of the scenery, while my father sat studying one of his Ordnance Survey maps. Four hours later, with a short lunch break (in which gummy Keith attempted to eat a sandwich like a gurning Les Dawson), we arrived at Jack and Jill’s little house on the edge of Loch Lomond.
I vaguely recall Jill from my childhood. She was rail thin, terribly fit and as sharp as glass. A retired headmistress through and through, she didn’t suffer fools gladly.
Jack was much more affable, very quiet and extremely fit also. Now 89, he was – unbelievably – still running up the fells and back before breakfast.
As the car pulled up, Jill waved a spindly arm. And the first thing she said as she greeted her long-lost brother-in-law was, ‘My goodness Keith, where on earth are your TEETH?’
It was a question that all of us were itching to know the answer to. We never did really get to the bottom of it.
She cast a shrewd eye over all of us and turned her attention to my father, who was visibly attempting to hold his stomach in.
‘And Michael,’ she went on. ‘Haven’t you put on weight?!’
Somewhat ironically, given her obsession with how porky we’d all become, she emerged from the kitchen with a mountain of cheese scones and insisted that we all tuck in immediately.
Jack, who had been out doing a spot of windsurfing on the loch and also appeared to have grown a handle bar moustache, arrived shortly after, and they both proceeded to regale us with tales of Pensioners Do Extreme Pursuits.
Two hours later and having been force-fed several more cheese scones, the parents and I began to make noises about leaving for Glasgow – thankful that we’d had the foresight to book into our own hotel – and telling Great Uncle Keith that we would return to collect him in 48 hours. He looked petrified.
Driving back two days later, Keith was already waiting on the path with his battered suitcase. He had never looked so pleased to see us. As we bundled him into the car, Jill peered in and said, ‘Now Keith, remember what I said. Straight to the dentist as soon as you get back. And then you must consult a dietician immediately.’
Privately, I thought the chances of Keith, who only ever ventured as far as the corner shop, consulting a dietician were extremely slim (excuse the pun) but I didn’t dare voice this under Jill’s steely gaze.
‘No Teeth’ Keith just smiled compliantly, showing his gums.
On the journey back, Keith told us that Jack and Jill had marched him several miles up a hill – not to fetch a pail of water – but to explore the former residence of Glasgow-born designer Charles Macintosh (famed for those silly chairs with an elongated back). Reaching the summit, they found that the house had yet to open for the day.
‘Never mind,’ they said. ‘We’ll just walk several miles into town for lunch and come back in a couple of hours.’
On the verge of collapse, puffing Keith had to plead not to be taken back up the hill, at which point Jill expressed her horror at how unfit he had become.
Overall, he’d enjoyed his mini-break, Keith concluded. But he was glad to be getting home.
‘Perhaps you’re getting a bit long in the tooth for these trips away,’ my father quipped.
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My Family… and the Dawn French fixation
July 9, 2013 by Palmersan
We are in the middle of the annual family sojourn to Cornwall, where my father has taken up residence on his favourite seat in the garden to study the passing ships with his binoculars (no doubt contemplating his own imminent foray out to sea in his beloved dinghy ‘Chrismick‘).
This was, until his binoculars fell upon a particular palatial home, built into the cliff directly opposite. My father sat studying the house for quite a long time and pondered who might live in such an opulent mansion.
That afternoon, my sister visited the cove below and reported that she saw a girl ‘fitting the description’ of Dawn French’s daughter Billie, padding from the beach and into the mouth of its imposing gates.
A lengthy discussion was then held by the whole family (along with lots of Googling) at the end of which it was decided that all the evidence pointed to a firm conclusion that this was in fact the residence of non other than Dawn French.
The next morning, my father rose early, filled his flask with coffee, took up position in his chair and trained his binoculars on the house, looking for any sign of movement.
‘Dawn Watch’ continued that evening, followed by another discussion about the rotund comedienne. My sister had been following her on Twitter and discovered she had been at a book signing in nearby Falmouth. There was every chance that Dawn might be at her Cornish home, fuelled by my father’s report of a light going on in the house at approximately 9pm.
And then, finally… a firm sighting! At 2.09pm yesterday afternoon, my father excitedly summoned us all to the garden and one by one we peered through the binoculars. Before our eyes was the unmistakable silhouette of Dawn French, on the balcony of her 40-room mansion enjoying the afternoon sun in a billowing kaftan.
Swept along by the excitement of the celebrity spot, the family began a running dialogue of her movements, with even my mother getting in on the act: Dawn’s looking out to sea; Dawn’s now leaning on the balustrade; Dawn’s now going inside the house; Dawn’s just scratched her bottom…
Dawn French is beginning to take over our holiday: my sister has been googling all about her divorce from Lenny Henry and recent marriage to a man called Mark Bignell (after a 16-month romance!); my father has been on Google Earth investigating the layout of her gothic-style house (it can’t possibly have 40 rooms!); my mother has become something of an expert in Dawn’s weight loss and then subsequent gain (it must be all those Cornish cream teas and pasties!).
Gripped by ‘French fever’, my father was last seen roaring off to Fowey in Chrismick to get a closer look at Dawn’s house from the sea.
I’m not sure where this obsession will end. Camping outside her house until she invites us all in for a traditional cream tea?
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My Father… and his ‘Boat’
June 30, 2013 by Palmersan
One of my parents’ greatest pleasures is chugging down Fowey estuary in Cornwall in their ancient dinghy. They bought the dinghy in 1973 whilst ‘courting’ and named it Chrismick (a hybrid of their names).
The original Chrismick was upgraded to Chrismick mark II in the late 80s – and to this day it lives on, travelling down to Cornwall each year, with occasional ventures onto Lake Windermere.
But whatever you do, never call it a dinghy. In my father’s eyes, it’s a boat: his pride and joy. Better still, it fits into the boot of his car. And nothing gives my father greater joy then driving down the M6 to Cornwall knowing that he has a WHOLE BOAT neatly tucked into his trunk.
Arriving at Cornwall, my father begins the routine of inflating and launching Chrismick – with his trusty foot pump. As children, my sister and I thought this was a great adventure.
As adults, inflating a boat with feeble puffs of air while pumping your foot up and down repeatedly seems a long and tiresome process.
After about an hour of pumping and puffing, Chrismick is finally launched into the water – and we all pile in.
There follows an audible holding of breath while my father yanks the chain on the rusty engine several times, a pause – and then subsequent cheers when it miraculously splutters into life. The trusty Suzuki engine has never let them down yet.
The maddest part of this saga is that after a day on the river, my father then begins the long-winded process of deflating the dinghy and folding it back into the boot of his car – ready to relive the arduous process the next day. (He doesn’t trust Chrismick to be left on the water overnight).
My dad loves the challenge of studying his tide times and channels. On a good tide day, you can make it several miles in-land to Lerryn (of Wind In The Willows fame) and stop off for a Cornish cream tea.
This is another of my Dad’s triumphs in Chrismick: Venturing Places Where Real Boats Cannot Go.
My father proudly claims that Chrismick is a six-man dinghy but five adults is about its limit. Even then, it’s a cosy affair, with my father at the helm and the rest of us perched precariously on its sides, ever fearful that the whole thing might just pop and suddenly deflate.
Occasionally, my father shouts ‘bale’ and one of us has to start scooping out water using a baling device that my father fashioned out of an empty milk carton.
My father has a long-held dream of taking Chrismick out to sea, quashed only by my mother’s annual protests. Apparently they met a sailor in a pub down there in the 80s, who warned them that the coast in these parts is a perilous place – a story which my father still scoffs at.
But judging by the amount of puncture patches adorning on Chrismick’s faded grey sides, I think my mother’s fears are justified.
The place that my father wants to get to is called Lantic Bay – a secluded cove around the cliff of Polruan. To achieve this dream, my father would need to head out to sea, navigating choppy waters that definitely aren’t meant for an ailing dinghy.
He has been Weighing This Up for the last 40 years – more seriously in the last couple of years (egged on by The Foolhardy Husband).
In a week’s time, we’re heading down to Cornwall for our annual family jolly.
And I fear that 2013 could be the year that my father, Chrismick – and the husband – finally set out to sea.
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My Parents… and the Sunday Walks
Every Sunday without fail, the parents and omnipresent Uncle Stephen set off on a walk – exploring a little corner of Lancashire each week. Occasionally, the husband and I join them, along with sporadic guest appearances from my sister and nephew Max.
Weather is never a problem for the stoic parents. We’ve been known to battle gales, snow and hail, all in the name of a bracing country walk. ‘A little bit of rain’, as my mother would say, isn’t something that they would allow to get in the way of their weekly ramble.
My mother also believes that no terrain is too rocky and no field too boggy for our hardy family to traverse. Once, on a walk in Haworth, we met a couple of walkers coming in the opposite direction, who advised that it was just too muddy further along, and that we probably should turn back now. My mother simply scoffed at their feebleness and ploughed on regardless.
But the most memorable walk was around Entwistle Reservoir near Bolton earlier this year.
There had been mass flooding in the area, meaning that parts of the reservoir had overflowed onto the footpath that ran around its perimeter. Signs were put up advising walkers to avoid the area.
Naturally, the parents remained completely impervious to this news.
It all began so well. There were a few puddles here and there – but further into the walk, the puddles began to grow, and a couple of passing dog walkers issued grave warnings that the path ahead was impassable and we should turn back immediately.
My mother simply didn’t believe them, and my father, upon hearing the word ‘impassable’, was even more determined to press on. He loves a challenge.
Further up, the flooding was so bad that it was impossible to see where the reservoir ended and the footpath began. It was just a giant expanse of water.
Faced with this impassable challenge, it was every man for himself.
My sister, left in charge of the pushchair, had no option but to slosh straight through the water – up to her knees!
The rest of us (Max, aka Fireman Sam, having been hastily hoisted onto the husband’s shoulders) decided to scramble up the bank at the side, and head for higher ground.
But my father, with his adventurous streak, plumped for a more difficult route. Determined not to stray too far from the footpath, he attempted to clamber, crab-style, along a rickety fence.
Half-way along, with water swirling below, the fence creaking ominously under his weight, and a sign announcing ‘dangerous undertows’, he realised that perhaps this wasn’t such a good idea after all.
But while the rest of us hollered ‘turn back’ from high above, Bear Grylls With A Bus Pass gamely shuffled on, determined not to be proved wrong.
Soaking wet, with squelching feet, and splinters in his hands, my father finally staggered over.
‘Well, that wasn’t too bad,’ he announced, seemingly unfazed by this brush with near-death.
‘Now, where are we thinking for lunch?’
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Odd Jobs and Drawer Knobs
May 31, 2013 by Palmersan
I’ve already told you that no distance is too far for the parents to travel. Lunch in Edinburgh? Not a problem. Meet you at a historic castle just north of the Outer Hebrides? See you there in eight hours.
And their go-anywhere attitude proves a blessing when there are any DIY jobs to do in Leeds (the husband having been rendered incapable of doing any odd jobs after a frightening incident involving a circular drill, details of which even he doesn’t want to share).
The only problem with my father and his handyman skills is that each task requires two long-winded journeys to Yorkshire: the first to Weigh The Job Up and the second to actually complete said job.
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My Mother… and her Telephone Voice
Remember in the 80s, when parents used to answer the landline by saying the area followed by their phone number ie. ‘St Albans 233915?’
Well, my mother STILL does that.
The husband didn’t believe me so I told him to call my mother. She answered with a trill, ‘Hello, Preston 7437**’, as she always does.
Sometimes, I try to cut her off somewhere between the 7 and the 4, by announcing, ‘It’s ME!’
But she always persists with saying the full number, in her poshest ‘telephone voice’, of course. I think it’s something to do with her former days working on the switchboard at BT, before she became student landlady extraordinaire.
My sister and I were always drilled to answer the telephone in our best secretarial voice, just in case it was Someone Of Great Importance (it never was).
I love that the age of mobile communication has done nothing to dampen my mother’s habit.
The husband’s late grandmother took things one step further – answering the telephone not with her number but with her full postal address.
I almost wish I had a landline so I could carry on the tradition.
‘Hello, Orange 07956 2666**, somewhere in North Leeds…’ just doesn’t have the same ‘ring’ to it.
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The Big End
April 25, 2013 by Palmersan
I had a very random thought today: What is a car’s Big End exactly?
My childhood was dominated by my father perusing his maps and then attempting to drive down various pot-holed roads, always in a vehicle completely unsuitable for such ambitious pursuits.
And each off-road adventure always resulted in my mother clinging onto the dashboard as the car bumped and banged along, crying, ‘Slow down! You’re going to DAMAGE THE BIG END!’
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My Mother… and the Simple Students
March 17, 2013 by Palmersan
Most student landlords fit into the stereotypical image of a burly, no-mess character, who would pitch up at the front door if your rent hadn’t been paid but would largely leave you to your own devices, unless the house was actually burning down.
And then there’s my mother.
My mother – with her cheery nature and natural desire to help – makes an extraordinary landlady. If the students so much as need a lightbulb changing, she promptly hops on her bicycle (she quite contentedly cycles everywhere, having never learnt to drive) and two-wheels down the hill to remedy the problem.
Pitching up at the front door with a deft rat-a-tat-tat, she bustles in, usually berating any poor student caught with a can of lager in their hand mid-afternoon.
‘Drinking at this time? It’s not even 5pm!’
She would then fix the offending lightbulb, wash a few dishes ‘now that I’m here’ and occasionally top up their toilet roll supply, before exiting in a whirl of energy, with a parting shot of, ‘don’t forget to put the recycling out’ – only just stopping short of actually staying to cook their dinner.
The extent of this madness doesn’t stop there. She often offers an impromptu ‘meet and greet’ service to bewildered students when they first land at Preston train station. My map-mad father once even printed off a map of Preston for one particularly feeble student – highlighting the route from the house to the University. It goes without saying that my mother has also been known to wash the occasional student’s bedding.
She puts up a pretence of exasperation with it all, her favourite phrase being: ‘Goodness knows how they are going to be able to do a degree!’
But secretly she loves it.
When I ask my mother what this year’s students are like, they usually fall in one of two categories: ‘simple’, or ‘a bit puffy’, the latter being my mum’s catch-all expression for any boy who acts feeble or slightly effeminate. The quota of puffy and/or simple students my mother encounters seems inordinately high.
Puffiness aside, it stands to reason that over the years, we’ve had our fair share of oddities. One such eccentric that springs to mind was Cameron – an idle character with unkempt, corkscrew hair, who languished in his room for days on end. Too lazy to go to the toilet, he simply used to urinate in a pan and place it under his bed. Not just one pan, but several… which accumulated over many months.
And when it came to moving out, rather than simply emptying his pans into the toilet, he placed them straight into bin liners, leaking his smelly urine all over the backyard – and subsequently the boot of my father’s car (much to his chagrin).
And how could we forget Alvaro, the hairy Spaniard, who barely spoke English – and could only communicate with my mother in exaggerated hand gestures (my mother firmly believes that adopting the tactic of speaking incredibly slowly and incredibly loudly to foreigners will somehow improve their communication). He was dubbed ‘the swarthy foreigner’ – a title which stuck with him for the remainder of the year.
And then there was The French. The French came in a pair, by the names of Idriss and Vincent. This troublesome twosome detested the English and had a strange obsession with leaving the bathroom completely sterile. If so much as a rogue bar of soap was left overnight by a fellow housemate, they would simply hurl it out of the window in utter disgust. Within six weeks of moving in, they had chased away the other three perfectly reasonable English housemates and commandeered the house for themselves, phoning my poor mother at all hours with their unreasonable demands.
Suffice to say, my mother has never viewed the French population in the same light again.
She would rather take a ‘puffy simpleton’ any day.
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From a young age, the parents drilled it into me that banks were out to rob you blind and that anyone who used them was an utter fool – a belief so solidly engrained in their minds, that even now they simply cannot believe that banks allow you to store your money in them for free. My father would sooner have stashed his life savings under his mattress then hand it over to the evil clutches of Barclays or Natwest.
No, for the parents the trusty building society, with its share options and friendly cashiers, was the only safe option to store your hard-earned readies.
This unwavering loyalty to building societies meant that while the rest of the world were embracing the electronic age of debit cards and Internet banking, the parents were quite happily driving several miles to the building society every Saturday morning, clutching their passbook and queuing patiently before drawing out a predetermined sum of money which they had calculated would see them through the week ahead.
Our annual summer holiday in Cornwall proved a little more tricky though. The weeks leading up to the departure would involve a careful calculation of how much money we were likely to need for the week’s activities. In the unlikely event that we should run out of cash, my Dad kept a map of the nearest Woolwich building society branches in the car and would think nothing of a two-hour round trip to St Austell to top up his cash supply.
For years, the parents lived in this comfortable bubble, blissfully oblivious of the need or desire to pay for anything electronically or venture near an ATM.
That was until they pitched up at Premier Inn about two years ago, brandishing a fistful of crisp £20 notes (fresh from The Chorley and District Building Society that morning, I believe) – only to be told that ‘for security reasons’ they were unable to pay for their room with cash. No cash? For security reasons?! Even now, my father recounts the story with an incredulous snort.
However, this proved the tipping point. My mother booked an appointment with the building society manager to explain this rather unnerving episode in detail, and emerged half an hour later suspiciously peering at the shiny new debit card that had landed in her palm.
To this day, the debit card lives in the glove compartment of their car. It has on it a balance of £10 and is to be used FOR EMERGENCIES ONLY (the parents don’t leave any more money on it than that for fear of an identity thief stealing their life savings – although, somewhat ironically, the pin number is permanently attached to it on a post-it note, should the four-digit date of their anniversary temporarily elude them).
I’ve tried to get them to use a cash machine. I’ve tried explained that Chip and Pin aren’t some 90s rap artists but are, in fact, a simple and convenient way to pay for your shopping. I’ve tried to explain that the monetary world has moved on.
But old habits die hard and the parents continue with their Saturday morning ritual.
Images of desperate savers queuing to withdraw their life savings from Northern Rock and horror stories of wide-spread fraud served only to reinforce the parents’ belief that BANKS ARE BAD.
And with the current banking crisis and news that soon there will be no such thing as a free current account, I’m beginning to think that perhaps, just perhaps, the parents may have been right all along.
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March 3, 2013 by Palmersan
If I told you that the parents are happy to make a five-mile drive every Saturday simply to draw some cash out (more on that next week), it might come as no surprise that they think nothing of a 120-mile round trip for lunch.
Yes, no distance is too far for the parents to drive.
They would think nothing, either, of making a two-hour detour just to look at a building my father was vaguely interested in, or trek for miles across the Pennines in search of the source of the River Ribble (it’s a small babble of water in the middle of an isolated field in Yorkshire, for anyone remotely interested).
Once, due to my father’s inherent fear of flying, we drove from Preston to France, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium – and back.
In a week.
Needless to say, my only lasting memory of that great cultural adventure was playing Top Trumps with my sister in the back of the car, while gazing at great expanses of Europe passing by in a blur.
One particular episode of my parents’ travelling madness occurred on New Year’s Day 2009, when most of the population were nursing hangovers and quite sensibly padding round the house in their PJs.
Not the parents.
Two days prior, the husband and I had foolishly agreed to accompany them (and the omnipresent Uncle Stephen – more on him later) on a relaxing country drive, hopefully stopping for a bite to eat in some quaint gastropub, en route.
What we didn’t know was that we would spend two nausea-inducing hours pretty much off-roading across the Lake District, with no guarantee of a meal at the end of it.
For someone who spends a maddening amount of time pondering over the simplest of tasks, my father turns into a cross between Lewis Hamilton and Dick Dastardly the minute he gets behind the wheel.
So it was with some trepidation, that the husband and I – feeling a little delicate from the previous night’s festivities – gingerly climbed into the back of my father’s Suzuki Swift (competitively priced, excellent fuel consumption AND one of Jeremy Clarkson’s favourite small cars – just ask the parents) before embarking on our New Year’s Day sojourn from hell.
After an hour heading into the Lake District, we began to climb higher into the hills, the rain lashing down and mist swirling around us (sounds dramatic but it really was). It might have been my imagination but the higher we climbed, the faster my father appeared to be driving, narrowly avoiding the occasional bemused sheep, and pulling over once or twice to study his trusty Ordnance Survey map – with all the intensity of a Man On A Mission.
When I tentatively broached the subject of how much further the place my father had in mind might be (resisting the urge to revert back to the child-like whine of ‘are we nearly here yet?’), it was met with a stony silence. One thing the parents will never do in the face of adversity is admit defeat.
Another hour later, my father conceded that he might be slightly lost. After all, he said, he hadnt visited this pub since 1977. For all he knew it might not even exist anymore. Yes, 1977. This, you see, is all part of the adventure.
So, it was a rather weary car load of travellers that eventually pulled up outside the Blacksmiths Inn, which according to my father, dated back to 1577. Quite an impressive history for a pub that appeared to be in the Middle of Nowhere.
Stomachs rumbling, we dutifully following my father into its oak-panelled bowels – only to be met with the news that, as it was New Year’s Day, they were fully booked for lunch and there was no chance of getting anything to eat.
My parents and the perpetually-jovial Uncle Stephen seemed completely unfazed by this news (did I mention that they don’t actually believe in booking restaurants, leaving it purely to the jaws of fate), opting to have a drink instead, ‘now that they were here’, and engaging the landlord in a conversation about the pub’s original gas lamps that my father recalled from his last visit 35 years ago.
The husband and I, on the other hand – battling a strange mix of car sickness and gnawing hunger – were rendered almost speechless, collapsing into some hard-backed chairs and closing our eyes in silent despair.
But the day was to take an unexpected twist. Just as we were meekly sipping our coca-colas and contemplating the long drive back, the phone rang. It was a family of six cancelling their booking. Struck down by a sickness bug. The whole lot of them.
‘You’re in,’ cried the landlord triumphantly, throwing down menus in front of us. ‘Kitchen closes in 30 minutes.’
Fed, watered and hardly able to believe our luck, we clambered back into the Suzuki Swift to brace ourselves for the arduous journey back.
It was only when my father paused to linger over his map, that we realised this adventure might not be over.
‘Now, I’m sure there’s an old water mill around here…’
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Bithumb to Lower Withdrawal Limit for Crypto Traders Not Using Real-Name System
One of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, has reportedly announced that it will gradually lower the withdrawal limit for any accounts that have not been converted to real-name ones, citing risks of financial crimes.
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Lowering Withdrawal Limit
Bithumb reportedly said on Monday that it has “decided to gradually reduce the withdrawal limit for customer accounts that have not converted to real-name confirmation accounts,” starting on June 4, according to MTN. This announcement closely follows the exchange confirming that it will block trading in 11 countries including North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, as well as strengthening the account verification process for foreign users.
The South Korean regulators established the real-name system for crypto accounts at the end of January in order to end the anonymous trading of cryptocurrencies. However, the conversion rate has been low. In early May, only about 30% had switched to real-name accounts. Today it is still possible to transact cryptocurrencies in Korea using unregistered accounts.
“According to Bithumb, about 60% of customers do not switch to a real-name verification accounts,” the news outlet detailed, adding that the exchange currently has a daily withdrawal limit of 50 million won (~US$46,465) and a monthly limit of 300 million won (~$278,753).
Initially, “If the account is not confirmed by this measure [real-name], the daily withdrawal limit will be reduced to 45 million won [~$41,795] from next month,” the publication elaborated. While the exchange has not revealed how low the withdrawal limit will eventually be, a Bithumb official was quoted explaining:
We have decided to gradually reduce the withdrawal amounts in the Korean won because it is raising concerns that bank accounts for unconverted withdrawals may become a target of various financial crimes.
Complying With 5-5-7 Regulation
In addition, Bithumb also announced on Monday that it has “built a first-class financial information security personnel and budget system.” The exchange says it is the first cryptocurrency exchange to have “followed all [of the] 5-5-7 [Regulation’s] provisions within the electronic banking supervisory regulations,” chapter 32, section 8, paragraph 2.
The 5-5-7 Regulation recommends that 5% of a financial organization’s total workforce be IT specialists, 5% of which be dedicated to information security, and 7% of the company’s overall budget be used for privacy. Bithumb elaborated:
In May 2018, the current Bithumb’s total employees compared to IT staff ratio is about 21%, and the proportion of IT staff who are responsible for information security is 10%. In addition, about 8% of the annual expenditure budget of Bithumb is used for data protection related activities.
What do you think of Bithumb lowering withdrawal limits for customers not converting to real-name accounts? Let us know in the comments section below.
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vb. Revive.
vb. resurrect
by John Rea
performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales
in partnership with St Fagans National Museum of History
A word that means both to revive and resurrect in Welsh, Atgyfodi will bring alive the sound and image archive of St Fagans National Museum of History in a world premiere installation and music performance piece by Welsh composer John Rea.
Inspired by the archive, John’s beautiful composition brings life to the historic buildings at the museum with immersive sonic installations, and a musical performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. John’s stirring and emotional score features the voices that live in these archives.
Friday 19th Oct:
6:30pm arrival. Installations 6.45pm -7:45pm, 8pm concert start.
Saturday 20th Oct:
6:30pm arrival. Installations 6:45pm -7:45pm, 8pm concert start.
Sunday 21st Oct:
5:15pm arrival. Installations 5.30pm-6.30pm, 6.45pm concert start.
This landmark event forms part of the celebratory opening weekend following the completion of the St Fagans redevelopment project. The event runs for three nights showcasing the new atrium in the main building. Early booking is strongly recommended.
In October 2018, thanks to National Lottery funding, the Welsh Government and other supporters, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales will mark the end of the biggest redevelopment project in the Museum's history. Atgyfodi will form part of the celebratory weekend (19 – 21 October 2018) to mark this important milestone.
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Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch
September 3, 2019 · by mbodayle · in General Music Interest · 2 Comments
The recent rash of biographies of my contemporary musical heroes is sure making me feel my age. Self-written tomes by Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and Squeeze’s Chris Difford were three that I had a hard time putting down. Having lived through the cycles of their record releases and touring, I was able to slot my personal life within the pages and enjoyed colliding with their careers through “I was there!” moments.
Next in line is the new bio covering the life of British singer-songwriter and record producer, Nick Lowe. Lowe’s music is not familiar to all, and many only know him for his two most-famous songs: “Cruel to be Kind” and “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding.”
But, like Mr. Difford, his talents are not fully appreciated. In fact, it’s a crime that Lowe has yet to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, if only for his extraordinary career as a record producer (Costello, Graham Parker, The Damned and The Pretenders). Unlike the other three artists I mentioned, Lowe chose not to write his own story, and the chore was dutifully handled by Will Birch whose background duly qualified him as the best candidate for the job.
Birch was once a drumming songwriter and musical contemporary of Lowe. He has since been a crack music journalist as a frequent contributor to Mojo. He also has previously written two necessary music books that have become definitive works. His 2000 debut, No Sleep till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution documents that British scene of late 60s/early 70s, and his follow-up was a biography of the late British artist and onetime Lowe labelmate Ian Dury.
While Birch is no doubt a skillful writer, he also brings to the table the fact that as a music fan himself, he comfortably writes from that perspective. When I first met him in 1984, I was so surprised to find a musician who collected records and liked talking about rare B-sides and forgotten albums.
To finish the resume on Mr. Birch, he also holds the distinction of having co-written the greatest Power Pop song of all time, “Starry Eyes” with his band The Records. Like Lowe, Birch also worked back in the Pub Rock days (Kursaal Flyers), and post-Records, he served time as a record producer (The Long Ryders, Dr. Feelgood) before devoting most of his time to music journalism.
Some ten years in its making, Birch’s book is rock solid in accuracy and detail and chock full of the author’s enlightening insights. It’s a book that all Nick Lowe fans will cherish.
Birch begins his tale with the bio-requisite background on Nick’s grandparents. He follows with some interesting and well-researched pages about his father Drain Lowe’s fascinating career as an RAF pilot and young Nick’s world travels as an air force brat.
With a character as lively as Lowe, there was no shortage of colorful material. From his first professional band, Kippington Lodge, through his Pub Rock days with Brinsley Schwarz, Nick’s early days are well-chronicled. And, as he did in his Pub Rock book, Birch delivers the most in-depth telling of “the great hype” of the Brinsleys failed attempt to vault directly to superstardom through the tragic and comical failure of their much ballyhooed 1969 appearance at the Fillmore in New York.
There’s much for Birch to recant about Lowe’s early days as house producer for Stiff Records, one of the most fruitful record labels of our time. We hear much first-hand from Elvis Costello, an early Lowe admirer whose career owes a great deal to Nick’s production. Likewise, Costello’s meteoric rise paved a path for Lowe to set his own solo recording career in motion that led to his partnership with Dave Edmunds in Rockpile. That quartet evolved into perhaps the best live band many of us have ever witnessed.
Although Birch reveals Lowe’s occasional indifference towards the book, in the end, he was more than generous in granting interview time to the author. Lowe’s personal insights were candid and frank, and he was forthright on both his substance struggles and his “perfect on paper” but otherwise failed marriage to Carlene Carter. To this reader’s delight, Birch reprints many of Nick’s quotes intact revealing his subject to be intelligent and articulate.
Birch was also blessed with interviews from most of the key family, friends and musicians in Lowe’s life and career. Costello’s contributions were significant and insightful, and as expected, the reclusive Edmunds was not an active participant. The tales of Lowe’s interactions with Carlene’s mother June Carter Cash and her step-dad Johnny Cash are priceless. The author also on occasion inserts himself into the story revisiting some of his interactions with his subject, his powder keg of a manager, Jake Riviera, and Ms. Carter whom he once briefly managed.
Sadly, two important figures in Lowe’s life are no longer with us, his long-time drummer and best mate, Bobby Irwin and his main right-hand man, Neil Brockbank. Fortunately, the author had also been close to them as well, and as a result, their relationships with Nick are not missing from the narrative.
Aside from telling Lowe’s tale, Birch uses Cruel to Be Kind to ruminate on two themes that overshadow his career. One is why Lowe did not attain greater popularity and the other, how he brilliantly reinvented himself.
There are enlightening testimonies and illustrations of Lowe’s songwriting, bass playing and production skills; facts that fans reading this book will generally acknowledge. Likewise, it’s a given that favor with the masses often knows no justice, but there is solace in the fact that Lowe seems quite pleased where he has wound up. His contentment has evolved from once enjoying the life of an opening act whereby he could hit the bar early to a life these days where he can comfortably show his face in public.
Birch makes a strong effort to note how the splendor of Lowe’s career “Act Two” cannot be understated. The man who once wore a comical “Riddler” suit while he rocked now is a dignified “silver-haired” statesmen who croons. Yes, he still plays some of those “fast things one more time,” but with just an acoustic guitar and his soft vocals, Nick Lowe has evolved into one of our generations’ most likeable and respected singer-songwriters. He also takes great care of his voice and as a result, is perhaps the best-sounding elder rocker still working today. It’s a feat that others in his class like Mr. Costello have failed to match, and Birch’s analysis of the “New Nick” is spot-on.
The UK and US editions of Cruel to Be Kind are nearly identical except for different dust covers and a few of the photos in the UK pressing sporting color.
Will Birch’s long anticipated book did not let us down. There’s never a dull moment, and while you will already know and enjoy reliving some of what you read, like the great rock bio that it is, you will hear many new bits for the first time. All these accolades on my part lead up to asking Mr. Birch which well-deserving and under-appreciated artist will be the subject of his next book.
Those of you in the New York City area can see both the author and his subject at The Strand bookstore on Tuesday September 10th. After an interview segment, Mr. Lowe will perform, and Mr. Birch will sign books. Details here.
Tags: Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe, Nick Lowe, Will Birch
Mary ONeil · November 5, 2019 - 1:22 pm · Reply→
I am one of Nick Lowe’s biggest fans and cannot see him enough! He appears in Nashville enough to keep my heart happy. I haven’t read this book, but Christmas is coming and I will.
mbodayle · November 5, 2019 - 1:23 pm · Reply→
You will love the book!
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“Sick of my money funding crap.”
A Fan
“These companies are taking power away from listeners, because listeners don’t have any say where their money goes,” Keating said. “If you only listen to me, I should get all the percentage of the money you spend on music.”
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“User-centric” is rapidly becoming all the rage in the streaming royalty debate. To its credit, Deezer is the only streaming service that has announced it is working on trying to implement a user-centric model. (Others may be, but no public announcements.)
It’s not surprising that a small casual poll by Artist Rights Watch showed that when asked what would help artists the most, the overwhelming choice (83.9%) was buying a CD directly from the artist compared to streaming on Spotify (16.1%) or on YouTube (0%). More rigorous data is required to reach a conclusion, but the lopsided nature of the responses suggests that music fans very well may get it. Not only do they get it, they may be woke enough to try something new.
Streaming is not a way to help independent artists. And it’s definitely not a way to help songwriters who are still waking up from a century of sleeping on their rights. Fans are getting the message that the economics of streaming are not sustainable for independent artists (and probably not other artists who are so unrecouped they may not care). When Daniel Ek makes over $600 million in stock accretion in a single day during a pandemic that has reduced touring revenue to zero, Spotify’s income inequality just seems grotesquely unfair and unethical. (Ek made more than Saudi Arabia paid for its stake in Live Nation). This imbalance seems straight out of San Francisco’s Big Four railroad robber barons of the Gilded Age. Both artists and fans feel more than a little dirty contributing to it.
I wrote the first “Ethical Pool” post in 2018, and given the rumors about difficulties Deezer is having with implementation of a user-centric model, I thought it was a good idea to recap the Ethical Pool approach. I’m not going into the same level of detail as I did in Ethical Pool I, and I’m going to assume that you know certain elements that I won’t get into again here. If you need more detail, I recommend reading the first piece first. In this post, we will briefly recap the royalty pool allocation compared to the Ethical Pool, and then focus more on implementation suggestions.
The Perception of Unfairness
Why do we care? There are a few reasons why streaming royalties are paltry and therefore controversial. The income inequality is brought into sharp relief with Spotify due to the distribution of shares in Spotify’s public stock sale. (The problem being Spotify’s typically short-sighted business decision, i.e., failure, to share their good fortune with all creators on the platform, not with the fact that only the majors and big indies got stock. You can’t take what was never offered.) However, the problem is not with one particular platform, it’s with all the platforms because they all use some version of the revenue share model of calculating royalties.
At a high level, there are two approaches to paying royalties—up front and back end. Up front payments are often fixed price per project or fixed price per unit. Examples of an up-front fixed price royalty would be the statutory mechanical royalty for songwriters or the program license fee for television. The up front model says, the price for my work is $X, I don’t really care if you make a penny, that’s your problem. If it doesn’t profit you to pay my up front fee, get another one. If the up front royalty is small and contemplates numerous copies being sold, there’s often a minimum guarantee or “advance” which does not get paid back, but which is recoupable from the sale of those copies. A television program may have just a lump sum license fee with some distant profit participation.
The bet is that the user will make money and has the means to finance (or deficit finance) the project to get to the cash flow positive stage.
A backend deal usually has a royalty rate attached instead of a fixed penny rate which is a form of revenue sharing. The minimum guarantee appears again, and may be recoupable or nonrecoupable or some combination of the two. Still, the typical backend deal depends on how the licensed work commercially performs in isolation. In other words, if I license a song to a record company or a television program to a network, I don’t really care how the rest of the songwriters or television producers are compensated (although I will sometimes protect my upside by asking for “Most Favored Nation” treatment on some financial terms which can have its own legal problems).
Unintended Consequences of the Big Pool: A hyper efficient market share distribution
Streaming backend deals have an additional twist, and it is this twist that creates this hyper efficient marketshare distribution. Unlike the typical backend deal, streaming backend deals depend on a revenue share. You could ask why is that different, it’s all a revenue share of some kind.
True. But this is a very particular kind of revenue share. Streaming deals establish a pool of service revenue on a monthly basis and that pool is allocated among sound recordings based on plays by the service’s users.
Streaming revenue share is essentially a popularity contest for who gets the most money from the pool at the end of the month. So rather than having a fixed price that varies based on how you do, how you do depends entirely on how you do relative to everyone else in competition for a fixed pool.
Naturally, the more leverage you have, the less Malthusian your deal will be, and you will have lots of downside protection bells and whistles like per stream minimums, per subscriber minimums, subscriber conversion incentives, and other goodies. You may have a bigger share of the monthly revenue pie (so the service retains less), but the high level reality comes down to this: The bigger your market share, the more money you make, and the smaller your market share, the less money you make. It is essentially a zero sum game.
There is another mathematical reality to this calculation–the per-stream rate tends to decline over time. Why? Because if the rate of change in the revenue pie (the “A” value below) does not increase faster than the rate of change in the number of recordings being streamed (the “C” value below), the per stream rate will always decline. Or more accurately, the nominal per stream rate since it is not actually fixed (outside of the downside protections). And Spotify is never going to exert pricing power as long as it is in a growth mode, so the “A” value is very unlikely to ever increase enough to counter the increase in the “C” value.
The calculation looks something like this (although the algebra allows different steps to get to the same result):
Critics will say there is no per-stream rate in streaming licensing contracts. That’s true, but there is a nominal per stream rate that can be approximated, which is about the only way to compare services to each other, so it is a relevant calculation. (See The Trichordist Streaming Price Bible).
So you can see that if you have a lot of popular recordings that are in genres that get streamed a lot, you will be very happy with the streaming revenue share calculation. A concrete example might be hip hop compared to contemporary classical. The ability to fund both an on and off-platform marketing spend that outstrips the competition clearly has a pronounced effect on revenue, also. Playlist placement may make a difference, but whoever knows how particular tracks get included in playlists, please come forward. So even within a genre, the better heeled have a better chance of dominating the royalty allocation and the less well-heeled will see their income fluctuate for Kafka-esque reasons beyond their control.
In the calculation illustrated above, that would mean that if your “B” value is larger than anyone else’s B, then you will dominate that month’s allocation. The more downside protection you have negotiated in your license, then it is likely that your nominal share of the pie will be even bigger if that downside protection is baked into your royalty calculation. (It’s also possible that one party’s downside protection actually reduces the monthly pie for those who don’t have it, but that’s a timing question that is difficult to know the answer to without a royalty compliance examination and even then may be inconclusive.)
From a user’s perspective, the big pool royalty allocation means that their subscription payment goes into the big pool and is allocated based on how that user and all other users stream during the month nearly regardless of which artists the user actually listens to. The impact any one user makes on the allocation of revenue to a particular artist varies inversely to the number of active users on the service in a particular month.
Streaming revenue, then, has become a hyper-efficient market share distribution based on factors like who has the bigger catalog being streamed on the service, which at the margins probably means who has the bigger catalog full stop. This is why the fan says she is “sick of my money funding crap.” “Crap” obviously is in the eye of the beholder, but what she is really saying is that she’s tired of having nearly all of her subscription payment being paid for recordings she never streamed (and maybe would never stream).
User Centric and the Ethical Pool
User centric royalties would capture the user’s revenue (let’s use subscriptions as an example) and allocate it solely to the same user’s streams.
Let us accept as a given that changing the entire royalty system would require the consent of everyone involved who has a license (which is a lot of copyright owners). That consent is unlikely to be given the larger the market share of the copyright owner. Plus a single holdout could stop the whole thing.
Let us also accept as a given that changing the entire royalty system would be very complex and costly.
But–here’s another given. The lower the per stream rates go, the lower the royalty payments go, and the greater the incentive for independent artists to get out of the streaming game altogether. (Not to mention getting angry.) When your royalty payment is minuscule it is easy to just say no. Your motivation for staying in the service certainly isn’t based on the financials and is more likely to be fear of missing out or other preference curve distortion.
Therefore, rather than asking other copyright owners to opt-in to a user-centric model (which many probably won’t do), artists who are poorly served should consider opting out of the big pool. (It must be said that U.S. songwriters gave up the right to opt out of audio-only mechanical licenses long ago, and even perpetuated this travesty in the recent Title I of the Music Modernization Act. Why they did not fight back when they had the services on the ropes through class action litigation is anyone’s guess–but maybe it had something to do with money other than royalty rates.)
If those artists want to stay on the service, then the service could essentially duplicate their big pool accounting ruleset and create a separate pool of revenue–the “Ethical Pool.” This would require allowing users to still pay their subscription fee, but direct where their money would be allocated for royalty purposes. (Users would probably have to opt out of the big pool service since their fees would no longer pay for it, but hardcore fans probably wouldn’t mind and might even view it as a feature.) That could be accomplished by a button in the user’s account settings and artists seeking to participate in the Ethical Pool could have a green check or some other icon indicating that the artist was in the Ethical Pool so would the fan please make that change.
This might take a few months to reach a critical mass of users and artists opting in, but when your royalty starts three or four decimal places to the right anyway, how much worse could it be? Properly promoted, the changeover could be relatively simple and simplicity for the existing and new users should be the guiding light.
No deal points would change for the “big pool” copyright owners so their consent would not be required for the Ethical Pool. The only change would be the rough equivalent of artists dropping out of the service and their fans leaving with them. That risk was part of the original negotiation. For the dominant players, it is unlikely that they will see any real fall-off in revenue, and if anything their hyper-efficient market share allocation may even increase slightly (because the C value would decrease by the number of streams that transition to in the Ethical Pool).
The Ethical Pool will require an investment by the service to create this parallel infrastructure, but if the big services don’t do it, it’s only a matter of time until insult exceeds injury and artists start leaving. Or someone launches a service that caters to artists who would be Ethical Pool candidates.
I don’t think this is the end of the story, but it is a workable interim step on the path to sustainability that is more important now than ever. The Ethical Pool would at least make the money clean and remove that feeling that the fan is actually hurting the artist when streaming.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. However–it doesn’t bend by itself. At this moment, the arithmetic on the Internet is starting to bend that arc. The way it bends is up to us.
By Chris Castlein Ethical Pool April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020 2,330 Words1 Comment
Pandemic: The Local Culture Card Solution Lets Public and Private Sectors Cooperate to Save Our Local Musicians and Retailers
The Local Culture Card would be a limited purpose debit card that permits the cardholder to purchase goods or services from a designated group of “local arts vendors” who would be artists, retailers or nonprofit arts organizations operating in the locality of the user. It would be like a targeted gift card sponsored by state or local government, local corporations, radio or television stations.
Local culture cards would be distributed free of charge to local residents charged up with a minimum payment that must be spent within 30 days of activation. Once funds are used, the issuer or sponsor could elect to replenish the funds on the same 30 day basis.
Alternatively, the local culture card could be sold like a gift card on the same terms.
The purpose of the Local Culture Card would be to empower consumers with purchasing power to directly inject cash into a local artist community—and quickly. This would help everyone in the supply chain from vinyl manufacturers to one-stops to local record stores to the artists themselves and their songwriters.
Those local arts vendors would sign up to accept the Local Culture Card as payment for goods or services. The Local Culture Card could not be used at Amazon, Spotify, Target, Best Buy, Apple or other big box retailers because the benefit would be too diffused and would not retain local funds in local communities. The card could instead be used for purchases at a local brick and mortar store’s online operation or to make a Venmo contribution for a live stream performance for a local artist (or purchase directly from the artist’s Bandcamp account).
The Local Culture Card would initially be charged with a minimum amount of credit or could be purchased like a gift card. It could be branded by locality, state or region and could also be branded as a sponsored card by either state or local government or other private sector sponsor. It could be included or branded as Record Store Day collateral or similar commercial efforts as it will be effective in both commercial and noncommercial applications.
For example, an Austin Culture Card could be sponsored by the Austin Music Office or the City of Austin Economic Development Department. City funds would be used to charge up the card with a minimum amount of spending power, say $50.
Artists like Guy Forsyth or Dave Madden could sign up to accept payment through a webpage for their direct online sales or contributions through Venmo or Paypal for live streaming events. Local retailers like Waterloo Records could sign up to accept the Austin Culture Card for purchases at their online store of recordings by any artist. Ballet Austin could sign up so that patrons could use the Austin Culture Card to donate to that organization. Alternatively, Austin Creative Alliance could sign up to accept donations for any of its member organizations.
The same process could be repeated by the Texas Music Office for artists statewide through the TMO’s “Music Friendly City” operation, or by the Small Business Administration for regional or national artists, retailers or organizations.
Alternatively Local Culture Cards could be sponsored by corporations and distributed to their customers or radio stations and distributed to their listeners. Indie labels could sponsor cards as a tie in with local record stores that carry the label’s recordings.
The only other requirement for using the Local Culture Card would be that the money had to be spent within 30 days of issuance or it would expire. Ideally a bank issuer would agree to provide the card as either a physical or virtual credit card for a zero transaction fee. Remember–the Local Culture Card is not scrip, it’s cold cash placed directly into the hands of artists, retailers and arts organizations by their fans.
While the examples I’ve given are from Austin, there is nothing unique about Austin. The Local Culture Card would be relevant for any city with a cultural community from New York to New Orleans–that the fans want to retain during and after the pandemic.
By Chris Castlein Pandemic, Pandemic: Local Culture Card, Uncategorized April 14, 2020 April 14, 2020 675 WordsLeave a comment
The Virtual Ensemble of the Isolation Congregation: My Sweet Lord/Oh Happy Day Medley
This is truly outstanding work by Austin phenom Dave Madden and some outstanding musicians and vocalists. Dave is masting the live-streaming medium.
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Meth addiction has come roaring back, and during the pandemic, it has grown even worse. Deaths from meth overdoses surged by roughly a third last year, but there is some good news. For the first time, researchers say they have found a medical treatment that helps some people trying to recover from meth addiction. The study was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. NPR addiction correspondent Brian Mann reports.
BRIAN MANN, BYLINE: Jessica Martinez (ph) started using meth when she earned money as a sex worker, paying her way through college. Her life quickly unraveled.
JESSICA MARTINEZ: Oh, I was shooting up every day, sometimes two to three times a day.
MANN: Meth is incredibly toxic and incredibly addictive. Martinez, who works now helping others with meth addiction, says when she started her recovery two years ago, it was brutally hard, in part because there was no medical treatments to help with cravings and withdrawal.
MARTINEZ: For heroin users, there's methadone. There's Suboxone. I just wonder why we haven't researched this drug yet.
MANN: But research has been happening at clinics around the country. Doctors working with the National Institute of Drug Abuse found a combination of two drugs - Naltrexone and bupropion - helped many of their patients avoid relapse.
NORA VOLKOW: This is progress, and it's quite significant.
MANN: Dr. Nora Volkow is the institute's director. She says the clinical trial found roughly 1 in 9 patients who used these two drugs in combination saw significant improvement. That may not sound like a home run, but she says for medications treating mental health or addiction, that's a strong result. Volkow says it appears the drugs work together to ease depression and cravings.
VOLKOW: And if we start to help them that way, this in turn will lead them to achieve recovery.
MANN: Again, many patients weren't helped by this treatment. But because these two drugs are widely available for treating other medical conditions, Volkow expects doctors to begin trying the method even before it wins approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
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Jammu Student Union President Urges Unity For Common Cause
Alan Gray
Sat August 8, 2009
The National Panthers Student Union at the University of Jammu recently underwent a revitalization, spearheaded by Union President, Suresh Kumar.
Suraj Singh was appointed General Secretary, Akhmat Choudhary, Karun and Shaveta, Vice-Presidents, Nitin Sharma, Cashier, Anil Mahajan, Press Secretary, Neha Sharma, Joint Secretary, and Kamayani Sapotra and Meenakshi Anand were appointed executive members.
Suresh Kumar told the media he hopes the newly appointed members shall keep the flag high and will work to support PSU. Commenting on the Central University controversy Suresh opined that the PSU with other like minded student organizations shall continue their fight for the establishment of a central university in Jammu and will promote social harmony in the state. He said that the regular bandh calls are a great threat to socio-economic and educational development.
Kumar appealed to the leadership of Jammu province to work together for the common cause of state development. He thanked chief patron Professor Bhim Singh and Ms Anita Thakur, Incharge NPSU for showing confidence in him and said the newly appointed members would work to bring honour to the party.
Kumar said the PSU would welcome the state government creating another university for the people of the valley. Being an integral part of India, the people of Kashmir have a constitutional right to education. It is in the interest of the nation for the youth of the valley to be educated locally and the discrimination in the region will not be accepted at any cost.
Kumar said the debate around responsibility for the present controversy should stop and a solution to the issue must allow the examination process to be conducted smoothly so students for KAS and other competitive examinations do not suffer.
He appealed to all student organizations to work together for this common cause, for the befefit of the student community.
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Tampa Has an Ambitious Road Mural Goal — and Even Bigger Plans If Funding Comes Through
Phil Roberts December 10, 2020
Painting a bright mural on a Tampa street (Photo courtesy Tampa Downtown Partnership)
The Tampa metro area is near the top among American cities for pedestrian and cyclist deaths and injuries. The issue is of concern to politicians, planners, Vision Zero advocates, and the public. A lack of funding to make the necessary infrastructure changes to reduce the number of casualties in Hillsborough County is being remedied by low-cost quick fixes. With over 3,000 miles of roads in the county, many of them without sidewalks nor crosswalks, large investments to redesign its car-centric streets into more pedestrian and cyclist-friendly thoroughfares are needed. In the City of Tampa, one of those inexpensive alternatives is painting attention-getting murals on intersections and crosswalks.
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The large investments in redesigning the county’s roads were expected to be funded by All for Transportation, a 1 percent increase in the sales tax for 30 years, approved by voters in 2018. But the tax was almost immediately challenged by lawsuits (including one by one of Hillsborough County’s elected commissioners); until the lawsuits are resolved, the almost $300 million collected so far cannot be used by the county nor dispersed to any of the cities within its jurisdiction.
With a decision pending any day now, how critical is AFT to Tampa’s future transportation needs? Stephen Benson, the Chief Planner for the City of Tampa, says the city is doing more larger infrastructure projects, but without AFT, achieving those projects will take time.
“All For Transportation is extremely important, because we have a backlog of tens of millions of dollars of projects that we want to do,” stresses Benson. “It turns what is a 30-year plan into a 5 or 10-year plan. So we get it all done much quicker.”
In the meantime, Tampa is doing what it can on a limited budget. Since 2014, Tampa has had a program called ART in the Right of Way, also known as the Painted Intersection Program, which helps registered neighborhood associations choose which intersections should be painted. “The City established a process for individual neighborhoods to propose intersections in their areas and take the lead with hiring the artist and coordinating volunteers to do the painting,” explains Benson in an email. A separate program, Crosswalks to Classrooms, paints traffic-calming murals on crosswalks near schools.
This year, the City has continued painting more crosswalks and intersections, hoping to complete a dozen of each by the end of 2020. The pandemic has meant less vehicles on the streets, which in turn have made it easier to close major thoroughfares for painting with little disruption to traffic. Most notable is the six block-mural painted on North Ashley Drive in Downtown Tampa, completed in September.
“We did the Ashley Drive mural with the artist [Meaghan Farrell Scalise], city of Tampa staff, Tampa Downtown Partnership staff, and a few friends and family,” says Karen Kress, the director of transportation and planning for the Tampa Downtown Partnership, the business improvement entity in that part of the city. “This all falls under the Paint Saves Lives national campaign. We looked at what New York City did with its low-cost tactical urbanism projects. They used the three Ps: paint, planters, and posts. Obviously, it’s very expensive to do concrete buildouts, but on the Ashley Drive project we used paint, posts and decorative planters to define space,” she says.
Kress lists four reasons that Ashley Drive was the perfect location for a road mural of this scale. First, it’s in a prime location in downtown Tampa, cutting through a busy area separating a waterfront park from the central business district. The other three reasons have to do with driver behavior. “Ashley Drive is an off ramp of Interstate 275. We wanted to give drivers visual cues that they’re entering a vibrant neighborhood and have to slow down, and it’s been very well received,” says Kress. “We did outreach to the adjacent properties to make sure that they understood what the goal was. We often had illegal parking, so we put murals anywhere cars were not supposed to be along the corridor. During Covid, we’ve unfortunately had some drag racing along Ashley Drive, and that was another impetus for doing this.”
Ashley Drive is the first location for the city’s latest pilot program, meant to use color and texture to create painted curb extensions. “Flexible posts will be added to Ashley Drive to reinforce the ‘narrower’ road space,” Benson says. “The ‘life span’ of the art will be long enough to measure and study the impact/performance.”
Most of the road murals are funded by external partners. The Ashley Drive mural cost $30,000, but was funded by the Tampa Downtown Partnership. “The cost included the artist design fees, the paint, planters, posts, but the only thing we didn’t pay for was the City of Tampa staff time to set up cones to control traffic and to install the posts,” Kress explains. “We also asked the city to refresh the crosswalks so it all looks brand new. In terms of a transportation project, $30,000 is not that much.”
These murals are easy fixes, which Benson notes are popular among the public and the media.
(Photo courtesy Tampa Downtown Partnership)
But are they effective? Once the novelty is gone and drivers get used to them, will traffic go back to previous speeds? Both Benson and Kress hope that research on this topic is completed sometime in 2021.
“The reaction has been strong anecdotally, but we need to do data collection to prove the case that it is slowing down traffic,” admits Kress. “It’s just been completed, so we don’t have a plan in place for that data collection to quantitatively measure whether it has been successful, but we are working towards that.”
Emily Hinsdale, President and Co-founder of Sidewalk Stompers, Inc., a group whose mission is to improve student health and safety by increasing the number of student pedestrians, has observed the challenges facing the city for years. “Tampa has grown very rapidly in the last 10 to 20 years. Infrastructure takes a long time to catch up to that population growth,” she says. “It is a city that is largely designed around cars, and it is getting slowly to the point where it is starting to really invest in walking and biking infrastructure.”
Persuading county residents to leave their cars at home is difficult without better mass transit. “That is a huge concern for a lot of people here who would like alternative forms of mobility,” Hinsdale says. “It is something that the city and the county are working on, but it’s a long climb.”
She likes the idea of road murals as a first step in changing the conversations around the future of city streets, and the fact that it is something that can be done immediately with little cost. “Paint is cheap, but can also be very effective,” says Hinsdale. “Paint Saves Lives turns a street from being a black-top thoroughfare into community space. So that when you are driving down the road, you are not only seeing the road, but that this is an active space, that is pretty, and worth looking at. This is part of your city, you are a part of it, and not separated from it by your car.”
Hinsdale hears how positive the public reaction has been to the murals, but also hears the complaints. Though for her, even the complaints from drivers are a positive sign. “When they are complaining about it, there is going to have to be some acknowledgement on their part that what they are saying is that they need to speed,” she says. “On North Ashley Drive, the paint narrows the lanes, but it also creates a pedestrian refuge. People are able to be in a protected space further out into the roadway and are more visible to cars as they approach crossings.”
She believes that the Crosswalks to Classrooms program was necessary because of traffic conditions around city schools. Some of them are on streets where the arrival and dismissal zones do not consider how children might walk or bike to school, instead of being driven. “If you have an elementary school on a minor road with 500 cars pulling in to drop their kids off, suddenly it’s not a minor road anymore at that time of day,” Hinsdale says. “Police will come out to different schools and different times, but enforcement is not a very effective long-term solution. Road design is the safest way to change how people drive.”
Public officials and Vision Zero advocates have three things in common. Both have a desire to see safer streets in Hillsborough County, and the City of Tampa especially. Both see road murals as an important first step in getting there, increasing safety instantaneously while changing the conversation around streets. They also both agree that without the proper funding, traffic safety may end at this first step.
“The planning is not the problem, it’s always the funding source,”says Stephen Benson. “But even without that funding source, we will still work to achieve zero deaths and injuries. With that funding source, you would expect to see large scale transformative projects. Without the funding source, expect to see more of the low-cost projects.”
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No More Dreams
nicktomjoestory Uncategorized October 3, 2020 November 8, 2020 7 Minutes
“Go in obedience and you will find love. You will have no more dreams. Have children instead.”
C S Lewis’ Christ-like hero Elwin Ransom, Pendragon of the mystical Logres, virginal (Lewis’ own term) channel of the celestial powers, Doctor of the University of Cambridge, dismisses Jane Studdock, the main female character of his Fantasy/Sci-Fi That Hideous Strength with these words. She gives up her power as a Seer to descend the ladder of humility (Lewis’ own image) to become a dutiful Christian wife. In the final paragraphs we know she will enter into a more generous (I think this is a word Lewis could appreciate, but I am at a loss) relationship with her wayward husband Mark: her impulse is to realise she will start by tidying up before the sex.
My first readings of this novel* saw Lewis explore – as in Perelandra, its predecessor- the gendering of mythological/angelic creatures, and the imperious Venus leading Mark to his own understanding of the new relationship seemed key to the finale. I got that.
Later readings caused me some disquiet. Is this really Lewis setting out a theology of marriage? Does Christianity for Jane have to entail submission to her husband because of some inherent maleness in Divinity? Not helped, perhaps, by the ‘of their time’ references to Mark and Jane’s troubled sexual relations (C S Lewis is not D H Lawrence), we are in a rather coy world of Jane needing to submit and Mark appreciating the stupidity of his importunity. I don’t necessarily need to have much more detail, but it is clear their times together has not been fulfilling in some way. Lewis is entitled to his authorial choices; it’s just that we have to acknowledge that if we are not at Wragby, then we are not On Chesil Beach either. The time of love-making (or whatever we call it) immediately after the end of That Hideous Strength is somehow for Lewis’ characters going to be more successful – successful because Mark and Jane will come together with a view of their relationship much more conformable to the reciprocity of St Paul’s vision in Colossians: wives be subject; husbands love your wives and be not bitter; children obey; fathers provoke not, &c.
But it would be a cheap trick to confine Lewis’ thinking about sexuality and the Great Dance of Being (his image) to the bumpy start to one young academic couple starting married life He may use them as exemplars, but his myth of gender is more fully explored in Perelandra, Lewis’ Eden-Myth, second in the trilogy. Limited still we might see it – written in the 40s, after all – he is at least open to a bigger picture than the who-does-what minutiae of Jane and Mark – or even the feelings of Elwin Ransom, the virginal and attractive Cambridge don whose adventures with the ancient gods pull all three books together.
In the final section of this second book, a sort of grand opera Finale, Ransom is witness to the establishment of the rule of the “humans” in Perelandra, in the presence of the tutelary spirits of Malacadra-Mars and Perelandra-Venus, the warrior and the lover. He explores a binary M/F sexuality while dividing masculine from male, feminine from female (and this will sit at odds with the depiction of the cruel, cigar-smoking Lesbian in That Hideous Strength), which fits this in his overall intention: to wed traditional Graeco-Roman mythologies with his world view:
Malacandra seemed … to have the look of one standing armed, at the ramparts of his own remote archaic world, in ceaseless vigilance… But the eyes of Perelandra opened, as it were, inward, as if they were the curtained gateway to a world of waves and murmurings.
and it is with this insight that Ransom (and with him, Lewis) understands
…why mythology was what it was – gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.
And so with his gods sorted (sort of), Lewis pulls out all the stops, his prose full of beauty, of awe and wonder and celestial power, his own quasi-scriptural voice pouring out: but is it only in myth that he can confront the realities of gender and sexuality?
This recognition of the mess of human understanding is key, and Alister McGrath ends his essay on Lewis in Curtis and Keys’ Women and C S Lewis with something of a plea for clemency:
Yet there is a more compassionate and more realistic way of understanding Lewis – as someone trapped within the social norms and conventions of a bygone age in British culture.
We are all condemned to live in a specific historical context, which we struggle to transcend.
McGrath “On Tolkien, the Inklings and Lewis’ Blindness to Gender.”
As an aside Lewis’ old Oxford College (and my own) has just elected its first woman President.
Lewis turns finally (before Ransom’s return to Earth) to the Adam and Eve of this new-founded society on Perelandra-Venus, Paradise in its two Persons, Paradise walking hand-in-hand. Lewis glories in the both the wonder of the woman’s breasts, a splendour of virility [sic] and richness of womanhood unknown on Earth, and the feeling trembling on the lips and sparkling in the eyes, the might of the man’s shoulders.
He writes here with what seems to me to be more conviction than he does in his hinting at the post-wedding courtship of a young male academic and his (it seems to me) oppressed wife. Certainly
All this is a roundabout way of highlighting the contrasts in the sexual politics of Earthsea. Ged’s ordinariness at the end of Tehanu is part of this, but it is worth noting the sequence of events: the destructive High Fantasy episodes in The Farthest Shore (I knew I would return to this) have left Ged weak and wounded. He is already at the end of his power in The Farthest Shore, enduring, and longing to avoid, some pain with a restlessness…greater than his strength, which soon gave out. As it turns out (at this stage at least) in facing death Ged is no longer the thing that we have defined him by: a man full of magic, archmage. It is his liberation by Tenar, whom he liberated in The Tombs of Atuan, that allows the two to come together in companionship and love, in physical affection and sex – and in the ordinary life of farming. Vocation – Rise – Fall – and then… Then, a restitution of life in the work of herding and in the house of someone who loves him. If, like me, readers had not seen the sequence of books as an elaborate Princesse Lointaine narrative resolving after long years and painful crises, there is at least a sense of completion.
The Finder, in LeGuin’s next text, Tales from Earthsea, picks up the story – or revisits it by asking why Le Guin’s great mages are celibate anyway, and what is the sociology of the mage world, and where this comes from. It is a story bursting with themes of oppression and resistance, with quotable quotes relevant to any reading of the news at the moment (The great and the mighty go their way unchecked… The lords of war despise scholars and schoolmasters), as well as insights into a more personal spiritual life (We must keep to the center. And wait…).
“My master Highdrake said that wizards who make love unmake their power”
And do they? It would seem not: but they lose their status. Celibacy in Earthsea is a construct of power, and in various ways it is the setting aside of power that allows people to be something more (?better?) than powerful: it allows them to be loving, to be good. I come back again and again to images of pomp from secular and religious occasions and how the set, pious expression seems deliberately enclosed, distant, even disdainful. Cardinals in Cappa Magna; Presidents almost pouting to look grand: they look to me stiff necked and cruel: Gilbertian Mikados. Tenar was freed by Ged in the Tombs of Atuan from her awe-inspiring, dread-full charge as the priestess, the devoured one (shades, to refer maybe more charitably to C S Lewis, of Orual, his brilliantly drawn narrator/protagonist in Till We Have Faces), celebrating empty rites over the dark labyrinth. Ged was freed from the weight of death and of power by Tenar, by warmth, love, and a final setting aside of the burdens of his magic and his status.
The moving story in The Finder – the high-fantasy novella at the start of Tales from Earthsea – has a touching Male-Female relationship at its turning point, where avoidance and coyness become a sexual relationship and a lasting love. In the shorter story that follows, we deal with the simple idea that some people just don’t feel cut out for life as a mage: young Diamond comes home (to the disappointment of his wizard-tutor), picks up with Darkrose, his old girlfriend, and (to the disappointment of his father) goes off as a singer. Ordinary might also mean disappointing the visions grown-ups have for you – but you might end up being happy. There are other ways to unmake or set aside your power.
We see more of Ged in the book The Other Wind, no longer a mage – as the old order changes – but one with experience and knowledge. Tenar in this final book is in ascendance, advising the king, facing the dragons – and the role of women and power is explored further.
And it is Tenar’s wisdom with Tehanu her adopted daughter that in some ways brings this long arc back to earth:
“Ah you dragons,” Tenar said.
It was spoken lightly but it was not lightly said…
“I don’t know what I am, mother,” [Tehanu] whispered in her voice that was seldom more than a whisper.
“I do,” Tenar said. And her heart beat heavier and harder than before.
Le Guin: The Other Wind.
When she returns to Ged he is watering the cabbages like an extra from Voltaire’s Candide, and they share a glass of good red wine. Breaking the world to make it whole sums all the Earthsea revolution (not {but this is another story} unlike the twin volumes of the Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments).
“Well, I’m back,” she said – to paraphrase.
Ursula K Le Guin The Other Wind:
Endpaper (extract)
*I should note that Piers Torday and Neil Gaiman have commented with more thoughtfulness and authority that I can on his portrayal of girls and women in Narnia. In a piece looking wholly at Lewis I would have explored their ideas, and given Alister McGrath’s interesting essay more than a passing mention. For the record, Michael Ward’s work on Jane Studdock is very clear sighted and less defensive. It was a chance comment of mine that Perry Nodelman picked up that started me thinking about LeGuin’s Earthsea as a whole.
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LATER, GATOR: Florida fans give senior quarterback Tim Tebow a loving sendoff after he helped the Gators rout rival Florida State, 37-10, in his final game in Gainsville. Getty Images
Tim Tebow’s final home game went about like everyone expected.
There were tears, touchdowns and another thumping.
Tebow threw for three TDs, ran for two scores and top-ranked Florida beat rival Florida State, 37-10, yesterday in Gainesville, Fla., for its sixth consecutive victory in the heated rivalry.
The Gators stayed unbeaten heading into next week’s Southeastern Conference showdown against No. 2 Alabama, extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 22 games and improved to 12-0 for just the second time in school.
Tebow may have even secured a third consecutive trip to New York for the Heisman Trophy presentation. He completed 17 of 21 passes for 221 yards and also ran 15 times for 90 yards.
The revelry started with Tebow making his final walk into The Swamp amid 90,000-plus fans screaming his name. Tebow and coach Urban Meyer embraced at the 30-yard line as tears flowed down Tebow’s cheeks.
USC 28, UCLA 7
In Los Angeles, Malcolm Smith returned one of Southern California’s three interceptions 62 yards for an early touchdown, and the 24th-ranked Trojans regained their defensive pride while maintaining their city dominance. Matt Barkley’s 48-yard touchdown pass to Damian Williams with 44 seconds left led to an ebullient USC celebration that nearly set off an all-out fight between the teams in their 79th crosstown showdown.
The Trojans (8-3, 5-3 Pac-10) followed Williams’ dramatic score by jumping and yelling on their sideline before moving onto the field in unison. They appeared to be taunting the Bruins (6-6, 3-6), who then came across midfield to challenge them before coaches and officials kept them apart.
TCU 51, New Mexico 10
In Fort Worth, Texas, Andy Dalton matched a career high with four touchdown passes, two to Antoine Hicks in a 12-second span, as fourth-ranked TCU (12-0, 8-0 Mountain West) wrapped up its first undefeated regular season in 71 years. That should finally make the Horned Frogs a BCS buster, though they will have to wait another week to find out for sure.
Oklahoma 27, Oklahoma St. 0
In Norman, Okla., DeMarco Murray ran for two touchdowns, Ryan Broyles returned a punt 88 yards for a score and host Oklahoma knocked No. 11 Oklahoma State (9-3, 6-2 Big 12) out of contention for its first appearance in the Bowl Championship Series.
Georgia 30, Georgia Tech 24
In Atlanta, Georgia took a page out of Georgia Tech’s playbook, rushing for 339 yards to upset the seventh-ranked Yellow Jackets (10-2). Washaun Ealey rushed for 183 yards for the Bulldogs (7-5).
South Carolina 34, Clemson 17
In Columbia, S.C., Stephen Garcia threw three touchdown passes and South Carolina’s defense slowed down Clemson star C.J. Spiller in a victory over the 15th-ranked Tigers (8-4).
Houston 73, Rice 14
Case Keenum threw for 323 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another in the first half and No. 25 Houston cruised. Houston tied a school record with 59 first-half points.
LSU 33, Arkansas 30 (OT)
In Baton Rouge, La., Josh Jasper hit a 41-yard field goal with 4 seconds to go to force overtime, then made a 36-yarder in overtime to lift LSU. Alex Tejada missed a 36-yard field goal that could have forced a second OT.
Miami 31, South Florida 10
In Tampa, Fla., Javarris James rushed for two touchdowns, Jacory Harris threw for two more, and No. 19 Miami (9-3) capped its first nine-win regular season since 2005.
Virginia Tech 42, Virginia 13
Ryan Williams ran for 182 yards and four touchdowns and No. 14 Virginia Tech (9-3, 6-2 ACC) beat host Virginia in what was likely Al Groh’s last game as Virginia’s coach.
Miss. St. 41, Ole Miss 27
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How to Achieve That Goal: The Role of Chinese Culture in the Chinese Language Instruction.
Xiao Xiao Jiao
Linguistic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy
Huazhong Science and Technology University Press
Jiao, X. X. (2000). How to Achieve That Goal: The Role of Chinese Culture in the Chinese Language Instruction. In Linguistic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy Huazhong Science and Technology University Press.
How to Achieve That Goal: The Role of Chinese Culture in the Chinese Language Instruction. / Jiao, Xiao Xiao.
Linguistic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy. Wuhan : Huazhong Science and Technology University Press, 2000.
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The fillable Entertainment Contract Template is a business agreement between Stetson University and the company or individual that is not an employee. Employers of the University may download an Entertainment Contract Template to sign an agreement with an artist, who is also an independent contractor, according to the agreement. This form can be attached during the tax calculations for the IRS.
What I need the Entertainment Contract Template for?
The blank is filled in an agreement form between contractor and university that requires contractor’s services;
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Harlan Leonard once described N. Clark Smith’s impressive persona as the segregated Lincoln High School’s band leader in Kansas City, saying that Major Smith held a “commanding personality”: “He was short, chubby, gruff, military in bearing, wore glasses, and was never seen without his full uniform and decorations. His language was rather rough and occasionally shocking to the few young ladies who were taking music classes, though never offensive. Major Smith simply ran a tight ship. . . . He drilled the Lincoln marching bands until they were the best in the area, some said the best of their kind in the Middle West.”
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Studio portrait of George E. Lee Singing Novelty Orchestra posed playing instruments, ca. 1926. Pictured from left are an unidentified trombonist; Bob Garner, clarinet; Thurston "Sox" Moppins, trombone; George E. Lee, baritone saxophone & vocals; Chester Clark, trumpet; Julia Lee (George's sister), piano & vocals; and an unidentified drummer. Source: Charles Goodwin.
Studio portrait of George E. Lee Singing Novelty Orchestra posed with their instruments, ca. 1926. Pictured: Bob Garner, clarinet; Thurston "Sox" Moppins, trombone; George E. Lee, baritone saxophone & vocals; Chester Clark, trumpet; Julia Lee (George's sister), piano & vocals; et al.. Source: Charles Goodwin.
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January 20, 2021 greenteeth Uncategorized america, biden, election, trump, usa
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Americans on the left and right of the political spectrum are mocking the inauguration of Joe Biden, an illegitimate president, who was installed in the position only through massive election fraud.
Biden supposedly received 80 million votes in the Nov 3rd election. However, no one actually turned out today to see him installed in the Oval Office.
The reality Trump beat Biden by millions in the popular vote, and by hundreds of thousands of votes each in the disputed battleground states.
Biden’s dementia is on full display and it will likely not be long until Kamala Harris becomes president of the United States.
Trump Calls On VP Pence To Grow A Pair And Challenge The Election
“Donald Trump has called on his vice-president Mike Pence to intervene to incorrectly hand him a second term.” An article in today’s Daily Telegraph, ostensibly reporting the efforts of President Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party to challenge the result of November’s election in six states where statistical anomolies provide strong evidence that the vote was somehow interfered with is a triumph for the kind of bad jouralism that fills the pages of UK newspapers. I would not have thought it possible to condense so much misinformation into so few words. Take the statement quoted above…
Time To Rename Democrat Party The Hypocrite Party
As I read the news this morning I wanted to puke every time I encountered a (false) assertion that there is no substance to the claims of massive and organised fraud in the US presidential election made by Donald Trump and his supporters. As there is considerable substance to these claims, evidenced by the refusal of the General Services Administration, tasked with managing the transfer of power after election, to sanction funds for Joe Biden and the Democrats on the basis that several states are still counting votes,
The U.S. Presidential Election is NOT Over. Here’s Where Things Stand Right Now
As an outsider I have looked on (with wry amusement I must admit,) at the chaotic outcome of the U.S. presidential election and the attempts by various mainstream media organisations, political figures and a host of showbiz celebrities to proclaim Joe (Groper) Biden the winner when in fact votes are still being counted in several key states and enough electoral college delegates to flip the majority to Trump. It looks unlikely to happen but as the official result has not been declared it is spurious for anyone to refer to Biden as the President Elect before he has actually been elected …
Were US 2020 Elections Rigged By Dominion Voting Systems
A so-called computer “glitch” in the voting machines flipping votes during the 2020 US Elections has caused a major controversy. The source and ownership of the voting machines used in the elections has become an urgent issue because of real fears that hackers might tamper with the mechanics of the voting system. However, GreatGameIndia has found that the vendors and not hackers maybe behind the rigging.
US News Sites Claimed UK Nov 5th Fireworks Were To Celebrate Biden Presidency
Many of us in Britain and other developed nations spent most of last week looking on gobsmacked at the fiasco that was playing out across the pond as a nation whose inhabitants tell us if we are not doing things “The American Way” we are doing them wrongly, completely failed to back up their claims when they showed themselves to be completely incapable of running a fair and orderly democratic election.
As The World Hails President Not-Trump, News Media Forget He Hasn’t Won Yet
I read several times today that having been “officially” declared winner of the election and now US President elect, Joe Biden is being called on to heal the nation. It’s bollocks of course, while Joe Biden holds an apparently convincing lead in enough states to give him a majority in the electoral college, that body does not meet to formally elect the president until mid December.
Election Fun And Games In America
According to national sources such as The Epoch Times, Trump is currently at 214 electoral votes. If you add Georgia and North Carolina, both of which are obvious Trump wins, far beyond the margin of any Biden recovery, that puts Trump at 245 electoral votes. Trump is currently leading in Pennsylvania, and it looks like a victory that will be aggressively defended by the President and his team.
WISE ADVICE AS AMERICA VOTES
As America votes to choose its president for the next four years, the incumbent Donald ‘Pussy grabber’ Trump or challenger Joe ‘Sniffer’ Biden and chaos threatens to follow the election no matter who wins, I’m reminded of these words from Buckminster Fuller: “If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if you took …
The American Election Is Going To Be Fun.
With the national polls showing Sniffer Biden has a double figure lead byt state – by – state polling showing the race neck and neck, the scandal involving Biden’s son Hunter and dodgy deals in China and Ukraine now embracing Pappy Joe’s activities as Obama’s Vice President, the Democrats claiming Trump will not accept defeat …
Media continue to cover up Joe Biden’s mental decline
With President Trump unfortunately sidelined at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a few days, do you think the media will now be able to devote more attention to examining the incoherent babbling of Dementia Joe Biden?
Nah, won’t happen. The media have been ignoring and/or covering up Biden’s obvious mental decline for more than a year now, even though the video evidence is at their fingertips.
Is America Heading For Civil War?
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com In last week’s article I discussed the issue of American “balkanization” and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology. In my home state of Montana there has been a surge of people trying to escape …
Over half of Americans support using Army to aid police deal with George Floyd protests
Over 50 percent of Americans would like to see the army deployed to the streets of US cities to help police tackle the riots raging across the country following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. The US has been gripped by a massive wave of protests for over a month …
Biden the Democrats least hopeless hopeful? Or is he?
A senior U.S. Republican reportedly said recently that the most difficult ticket Donald Trump could face in the next election would be Joe Biden partnered by Elizabeth Warren. This was not, needless to say, because Biden was a brilliant debater or a lethal political adversary. “If he was any stupider, my you’d have to water him”, the anonymous Republican quipped.See also >>>
Election fraud that the US courts don’t want to know about
December 14, 2020 December 14, 2020 greenteeth Uncategorized america, democracy, election, fraud, usa
Stumbled upon this article at Conservative Woman. Now we Boggart Bloggers are neither Conservatives nor women (except for occasional contributos fat Sally, Nurse Sadie Stikk and Helena Hankart,) but the issue of election fraud in November’s U.S. Presidential Election is one we have followed with interest and amusement as it has given us ample opportunity toremind American supremacists in comment threads that one of the main criteria for according a nation “third world” status is the inability to run free, fair and transparent elections.
After a month and a half of the far left propagandists at the BBC, ITN, Sky News and in print media insisting that allegations of fraud and vote rigging were without substance, this article shows there is more substance in the allegations than in all the outrageous accusations of malfeasance thrown at Donald Trump these past four years.
By Will Jones, for Conservative woman
THE United States Supreme Court has rejected the lawsuit brought by the state of Texas challenging the presidential election result on the grounds that Texas does not have ‘standing’ to bring the case. The state has ‘not demonstrated a judicially cognisable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections’, the court opined. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas did not appear to agree with their colleagues in this but evidently did not prevail.
The legion critics of the legal actions being brought by Trump and others are fond of pointing out how many of the cases have already been thrown out by the courts. But, as Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani notes, no court has yet given the evidence a hearing of any kind: ‘Not a single court decision has had a hearing yet. They haven’t heard from a single witness. They haven’t looked at a single tape. They haven’t listened to a single recording.’
The baffling question to neutral observers is: Why don’t they want to know? As much as the media love to repeat the assertion that the allegations are baseless, in truth there is no shortage of evidence of serious widespread irregularities and anomalies in this election. (See, for example, Patrick Basham’s excellent summary here, a handy infographic from the Epoch Times here, a first-hand account from a Philadelphia count observer here, a video of suitcases of votes in Georgia being pulled out from under a table and counted once all observers had been sent home here, a first-hand account of a poll worker seeing batches of mail-in ballots for Biden that, illegally, showed no sign of having been mailed-in here, and evidence of more than 21,000 named anomalous votes in Georgia here.)
What is going on, that even with so much evidence of prevalent, outcome-tipping fraud, those presenting it cannot get a hearing, cannot set out their evidence to a court or other body that has the power and is prepared to use it to intervene and remedy the problem?
The overwhelming impression I’ve had is of a judicial system that doesn’t want to know. Yes, there’s fraud in American elections, they say. But it isn’t widespread. It isn’t enough to affect the outcome. But how can they know? Such a claim surely depends on the margin of victory, and when a margin of victory is as small as it is in Georgia (about 12,000 votes), how can they be sure the amount of fraud is not greater than the difference in vote tallies without having a close look? … Continue reading >>>
And for those who absolutely refuse to accept that fully corroborated witness statements are evidence, here are some numbers.
American Stupid: Hillary Clinton Says Male Leaders Scared of Greta Thunberg
It’s coming up to election time again in the USA and sure enought some idiot over the pond has allowed a drop of blood to fall on the desiccated lips of Hillary Clinton and the leader of the Democratic Party undead faction has reanimated to ensure the debate, on the Democrat side at least, never risis above the level of stupid set in 2016 when Hillary famously lost to Donad Trump.
Hijab wearing, Jihad supporting U.S. Congresswoman refuses to condemn stoning of gays.
Ilhan Omar (with Bernie Sanders behind thinking “I wouldn’t mind giving her a taste of my pork sausage) – picture credit http://www.thenation.com
It had to happen, and it was always going to be great comedy value when it did. U.S Liberals were always going to face the moment when their love of Gays, Lesbians and Trannies clashed head to head with their love of terrorists and the Islamic Jihad.
Sane Democrats See Little To Gain From Impeaching Trump, Fear It Will Backfire
In an opinion poll commissioned by Reuters a majority of US Democrat voters say they fear that the latest m,ove to impeach President Trump over the Biden-Ukraine scandal will backfire, giving him a boost into the 2020 US election. One has to wonder about an epidemic of dementia among leading Democrats who have forgotten that only a few weeks ago
Pentagon Struggles to Defend America’s Secret War in Niger
The government and military authorities of the USA must be suckers for punishment, already struggling to manage international opposition to their ongoing efforts to effect regime change in Syria and with the bitter taste of failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya still strong in their mouths, they are still escalating US involvement in foreign wars.
Trump Gets Tough after EU Threatens Taxes on Jeans, Bourbon, and Harley-Davidsons
U.S. President Donald Trump is adopting a tough on the European Union, after the Union’s unelected leaders threatened to impose punitive tariffs on leading American brands in retaliation for his attempts to protect the jobs of American steelworkers. “So now we will also impose import tariffs,” threatened Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the unelected European Commission, at an event in Hamburg, Germany.
Oprah Winfrey, Praised As A Feminist Icon, Exposed As A Fraud Within Twenty Four Hours
Tanya Gold, writing about The Golden Globes awards, praised the acceptance speech given by Oprah Winfrey who was given a lifetime achievement award presumably for fronting a television freak show, and commented on the ridiculous calls from other ‘liberals’ in hollywood and Washington for Oprah to run against Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election.
CIA Spearheads US Bid To Control Cyberspace, We Can All Help The Resistance
For several years Western media sources have been terying to top each other’s efforts to publish the most ludicrously hyperbolic articles about so-called Russian hackers while complaining about the alleged damage these hackers, of whose alleged activities no evidence is offered, have inflicted upon the American democracy The Washington Post would feature a propaganda article about Russia’s push towards the control of cyberspace. The New York Times would try to top it, while the LA Times would try to outdo both. What else should one expect from media sources owned by media corporations controlled by Wall Street hedge funds and enjoying a far too cosy relationship with US Government security agencies, if various reports across the net are to be trusted … <a href=”For a quite a while now, Western media sources have been engaged in a sort of a competition, striving to publish as many articles about so-called Russian hackers as they possibly could, while complaining about the alleged damage those unseen hackers inflicted upon the US-style democracy.”>READ MORE ON THIS >>>
Why Is The Scandal Of The Awan Brothers Being Ignored?
You have probably never heard of the Awan brothers, a couple of dodgy foreigners with very strong links to the US Democrat National Committee. Given the noise the Democrats have been making about collaboration with non Americans during the 2016 campaign, it is surprising that neither Trump nor any of his supporters have responded to the fact that they have been handed a baseball bat with nails through the end, with which to beat his leading detractors.
Has Google Become A Major Threat To Democracy In America?
About 10 years ago, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who coined the term network neutrality, made this prescient comment: “To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king.” Wu was right. And now, Google has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power. It has reached a dangerous point common to many monarchs: The moment where it no longer wants to allow dissent.
Read the full Coronavirus bill preview on the UK Government official website – it contains the biggest expansion in executive power we’ve seen since World War 2 MORE ON CORONAVIRUS
Germany’s Official State TV Channel Cheers Coronavirus For Killing Old People Trawling around the weirder fringes of the web, as we bloggers and cyberjournalists are sometimes obliged to if we want to bring you the news the mainstream will not report, one occasionally comes across something important but disturbing – like being brought face – to – face with how sick and warped the far left ecopsychos really are. Take a sketch recently broadcast as part of a satirical show the title of which translates as Bohemian Browser Ballet, shown by German state broadcaster ARD.
EU States Rebel Against Brussels As Van Leyen Demands Borders Stay Open The cracks in European solidarity are growing deeper by the day as the coronavirus crisis threatens to split the bloc. The response of European leaders has varied from panic, as several member-states have takeen unilateral action including severe border closures, to a laissez – fair attidude, notably from France’s idiot president Emmanuel Macron who favours total inaction, having said complacently that viruses don’t recognise borders.
US John Hopkins University Prof Says Don’t Believe Corona Virus Numbers The number of confirmed cases outside of China roughly tripled once again this week, and if this outbreak continues to escalate at this pace there will be more than a million confirmed cases in less than a month. But as bad as the official numbers are, the truth is that there are a whole lot more people walking around out there that have caught the virus but have not been tested.
Is the World Health Organization involved in biological warfare research? Dr. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law, talked in a recent interview with about the Wuhan coronavirus now sweeping through the far east, laboratory in Wuhan, China, where the genetically modified virus appears to have originated, and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) clandestine involvement in biological warfare research …Continue reading
Coronavirus Contains “HIV Insertions”: Claim Stokes Fears Over Genetically Modified BioweaponFor the past two weeks mainstream media reporting of the epidemic of a new strain of coronavirus in China has been getting more and more hysterical. However, reports have pushed back against one “conspiracy theory” about the origins of the virus that has now infected as many as 70,000+ people in the central China city of Wuhan alone (depending on whom you believe).
Why Are Mainstream Media All Telling The Same Lies Over US Voting Fraud Claims
November 20, 2020 greenteeth Uncategorized america, democrat, election, fraud, media, trump
Ian R Thorpe 20 Nov 2020 2:18PM
Mainstream Media’s reporting regaring the aftermath of the USA’s chaotic presidential election, both in the US itself and here in Britain (you can throw in the rest of Europe too,) has been completely dishonest and absolute garbage.
Every mainstream media organisations including the usually right leaning Fox News in the USA and all British print and broadcast news organisations have been slavishly parroting the propaganda of The Obama-Clinton-Pelosi Organised Crime Network (formerly known as The Democratic Party,) that the claims of Donald Trump and his supporters of electoral fraud are not backed by “evidence.” But is this true?
When the US Government’s General Services Agency refuses to release the funds allocated for the transfer of power so that Biden’s team can prepare to take over, citing the cases of several states where counting is incomplete, and other states where there is evidence of “significant irregularities” in voting and electoral procedure how can news editors keep allowing their journalists to write that the Trump campaign’s allegations of fraud are “without substance and that there is no evidence to support fraud claims.”
What the millennials who write for the mainstream news these days struggle with is understanding the difference between evidence and proof. Evidence can be witness statements, documents or results of forensic examination. Evidence is not the same as proof.
So far there is no PROOF of fraud because officials are blocking efforts to investigate the EVIDENCE offered to back allegations and if there is no investigation it ensures no proof (i.e. several pieces of corroborating evidence,) will ever be found.
And when sloppy, lazy journalists can learn of hundreds of votes bearing identical marks and similar signatures and say, “Well that’s not evidence, it’s just hundreds of identical coincidences,” that is a case of the public being told by those in authority, “We know something illegal has gone on, but as we also know the outcome of a fair investigation would be highly embarrassing and damaging we’re going to pretend there is no cause for concern.
Most readers are aware of all this, it’s the journalists and who need remedial education.
Shame on mainstream media for their ridiculous attempts to disenfranchise half of American voters by denying those voters a full investigation of their concerns. How dare mainstream media adopt the position that because the complkainant is Donald Trump he must be in the wrong. That is not how justice works. For four years mainstream media have called into question Trump’s ability to serve as president, without a shred of evidence to back up their allegations of mental instability. Where was the evidence for The Democrats failed attempts to impeach him (twice)? It fell apart the moment it was subjected to scrutiny
How often did mainstream media comment on Biden’s far more questionable fitness for office? Probably never, yet we all saw the evidence of that during the campaign, and those of us who have had to watch the mental decline of elderly relatives as their dementia developed recognise the symptoms far too well..
Systemic fraud is hard to detect on a vote by vote basis, however there is more than enough circumstantial evidence, corroborated by witness statements to warrant going to court, which is exactly what the Trump team is doing.
Amongst other things, there are many precincts reporting more cast votes than number of voter registered. That is a mathematical impossibility, then there are the batches of thousands of votes delivered that were 100% for Biden, not one for Trump. That is a statistical near impossibility, not impossible but the odds against it are trillions to one.
Add the scandal of the ballot harvesting, (illegal in any other democracy,) made possible by the extension of mail in voting and how easily it becomes to organise large scale fraud.
It’s amazing there has been no mainstream media coverage about the huge issues with postal ballots. Journalists simply repeat the same establishment lies despite previous know problems with this type of voting in the USA, Britain, France and other nations where it has been found vulnerable to fraud.
In some US states, for this election postal votes were issued to ALL registered voters, whether they requested the facility or not. Bearing in mind that there are an estimated 1 in 8 voters are incorrectly registered on the role, that’s a huge number of postal ballots being issued to addresses where people no longer live or people have died.
There are accounts of hundreds of ballots being delivered to some addresses and piling up in doorways. Whichever side you vote for, surely you wouldn’t want all those ballots being left out for someone to fill in and post?
Note also that in some states the signature information is torn off the votes and the only the vote counted (see Georgia). So any fraud and multiple voting will not be discovered and a meaninful audit is not possible. It’s the worst possible system and open to huge amounts of corruption, whichever side is doing it.
Or a think of the opportunities to interfere with the election outcome afforded by a foreign-based vote tallying computer software company with unexplained huge shifts in the number of Biden votes (and some large batches of 100% Biden votes mysteriously recovered late during the count, or the unconstitutional absence of Republican observers in the vote counting facilities in Philadelphia, and so on and so forth.
In the 2000 election Al Gore spent OVER TWO months haggling about a few thousand votes in Florida the recount of votes for just one state, Florida. The media and Dems were behind him in the name of procedural democracy and the constitution. so why can’t Trump be given at least as much time? Why is there this obscene rush to certify results for Biden when serious issues with voting and counting have not been resolved satisfactorily.
LIkewise, Hillary Clinton warned Joe Biden a month or two before this election that he should “never concede if you lose no matter what” while Nancy Pelosi blatantly announced the intention to cheat by announcing the party “had a plan” to stop Trump in the key states. Typically The Democrats demonstrate their adherence to no standards, except double ones. I’m not saying the Republicans would behave differently were the positions reverses, this artice is about the state of liberal democracy rather than party politics.
But The Democrats dodeserve a special mention for their hypocrisy. After years of screeching about equality and the evils of white supremacism and institutional racism, bizarrely having to name a senile, white Anglophobe as their presidential candidate and surrounded him with a crowd of pretty disjointed woke extremists.
PS: I have never been a Republican but always an Independent but happily voted for Trump twice. I did not do so for this questionable personality style of courses but for the fact he has been the only one to finally question the establishment politics of the past 30 years or more and address key issues that both parties have doggedly avoided. Maybe the Dems and their media mouthpiece should start looking into these (these key issues are NOT going away unfortunately). That would be way more constructive for all (truly unifying, to follow Biden’s fake attempt at it), rather than practicing this form of intellectual fascism in demonizing Trump and his supporters and calling them the worse names on the planet.
The Republicans should not just passively play cave in to attempts to pressure Trump into conceding and abandon their challenges to the vote. After been subject to 4 years of hell from the Democrats, the very people who have tried to reverse the result of a democratic elections by way of their “resistance”, including in 2016 demanding a vote recount and the after the fact result was beyond doubt trying to claim victory based on the primacy of the popular vote (over the electoral college,) which morally right or wrong has no basis in US law. Then they tried tio impeach Trump and have him removed from office with the made-up “Russian collusion” fiasco and again with the other impeachment hoax in 2019, which cited “abuse of power. Then in election year, 2020 the party was effectively complicit of months of violent riots on the part of the Antifa (fascists) and BLM black nationalist extremists (The Democrat Convention not a single time denouncing the daily riots in those mainly blue states or cities) and blackmailing the voters over the threat of more riots if Trump ever won a second mandate.
It’s interesting to not what maverick left wing freelance journalist Glenn Greenwalk, never a friend of Trump or the Republicans has to say on this election debacle:
from The US Inability To Count Votes Is A National Disgrace by Glenn Greenwald, https:greenwald.substack.com
The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice or some combination of both — has no ability to perform the simple task of counting votes in a minimally efficient or confidence-inspiring manner. As a result, the credibility of the voting process is severely impaired, and any residual authority the U.S. claims to “spread” democracy to lucky recipients of its benevolence around the world is close to obliterated.
At 7:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the day after the 2020 presidential elections, the results of the presidential race, as well as control of the Senate, are very much in doubt and in chaos. Watched by rest of the world — deeply affected by who rules the still-imperialist superpower — the U.S. struggles and stumbles and staggers to engage in a simple task mastered by countless other less powerful and poorer countries: counting votes. Some states are not expected to finished their vote-counting until the end of this week or beyond.
Given the record of failures and humiliations they have quickly compiled, what rational person would trust anything they say at this point? A citizen randomly chosen from the telephone book would be as reliable if not more so for sharing predictions. And the monumental failures of the polling industry and the data nerds who leech off it, for the second consecutive national election, only serve to sow even further doubt and confusion around the electoral process.
A completely untrustworthy voting count is now the norm. Two months after the New York state primary in late June, two Congressional races were in doubt by what The New York Times called “major delays in counting a deluge of 400,000 mail-in ballots and other problems.”
As for evidence that calls the election result into question, leaving aside the alleged (but very obvious,) malfuntioning of vote tallying software, which will be dealt with by the US courts, that are the questions of votes being altered by national guard officers brought in to help with the counting chaos and a decision by a prominent member of the state legislature in one of the key states to allow counting of thousands of postal votes that arrived without a postmark. These are specific incidents and were they isolated cases, would be of little significance. But when the same problems occur in many states, that is evidence of activities which need to be investigated.
For several years Western media sources have been terying to top each other’s efforts to publish the most ludicrously hyperbolic articles about so-called Russian hackers while complaining about the alleged damage these hackers, of whose alleged activities no evidence is offered, have inflicted upon the American democracy The Washington Post would feature a propaganda article about Russia’s push towards the control of cyberspace. The New York Times would try to top it, while the LA Times would try to outdo both. What else should one expect from media sources owned by media corporations controlled by Wall Street hedge funds and enjoying a far too cosy relationship with US Government security agencies, if various reports across the net are to be trusted … <a href="For a quite a while now, Western media sources have been engaged in a sort of a competition, striving to publish as many articles about so-called Russian hackers as they possibly could, while complaining about the alleged damage those unseen hackers inflicted upon the US-style democracy.”>READ MORE ON THIS >>>
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US Congress ‘Officially Tells Biden Campaign He’s NOT President-Elect’
November 17, 2020 November 20, 2020 greenteeth Uncategorized america, usa
Biden and Trump ( Picture: https://newsx.com )
After all the claims from Mainstream Media that Joe Biden has won the US Presidential Election, that Donald Trump’s claims of electoral fraud and vote rigging are without substance and that there is “no evidence” of malfeasance in any of the disputed states, we are hearing this morning (it’s actuall after noon in Britain as I write, but still quite early in the morning on the east coast of the USA and middle of the night in California,) that the US congress (that’s The Senate and The House of Representatives,) on advice from the General Services Administration has officially informed managers of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden is NOT yet President elect, because there are too many outstanding issues in key states for the results to be certified.
Under federal law, ONLY the General Services Administration (GSA) can approve the transfer of power between presidents. Joe Biden is now actively and illegitimately usurping the Office of the President.
We reported last week that the General Services Administration (GSA), the US government agency that manages the transition of power when the presidency changes hands, has refused to authorise funds to finance the transfer of power because Biden had not won.
Now we learn that GSA administrator Emily W. Murphy, who is responsible for recognizing a President-Elect and initiating certain actions which allow the transfer of power to begin, resisten pressure from the Democrats and left leaning media by telling Biden’s team he was not President Elect.
“There are enough state contests in question, such that there is not yet an apparent President or Vice President- Elect,” Murphy claimed. Her letter to Joe Biden’s campaign managers can be read at UK Political news site Politicalite The opening paragraphs of the letter read:
“On November 9th 2020, Democratic House Members sent you a letter that misrepresented the facts surrounding your responsibilities under the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (Act). I write to correct the record.”
“Under the Act, as administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), have the authority to provide government-funded transition assistance to the President-Elect and the Vice President-Elect. However, this assistance can only occur after there are “apparent successful candidates for the office of the President and Vice President, respectively, as ascertained by the Administrator.”
According to unconfirmed Washington sources, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and other aides to POTUS have warned the announcement of the winner in the presidential race might be possible until after all states are done with counts and recounts of votes, a process which could take several weeks.
The news comes as Murphy is facing mounting pressure from Democrats to “ascertain” Joe Biden as president-elect thus giving his transition team additional opportunities, such as communicating with federal agencies, as well as access to nearly $10 million in funding to hire staffers and conduct other operations. Biden’s transition aide, Jen Psaki, called on the GSA administrator to recognise the Democrat as the winner in order to “engage in a smooth and peaceful transfer of power” and defend US “national security and economic interests”.
As the Trump camp continue to pursue their claims that the election was stolen from them by massive voter fraud and the Democrats continue to insist there is no evidence to support these claims, while actively preventing Trump’s lawyers and law enforcement agencies from investigating the claims on the basis of evidence put forward by Trump supporters and whistleblowers, we report on the current state of the chaos.
November 9, 2020 greenteeth Uncategorized america, biden, democracy, fireworks
Just when you thought the US election could not get any more stupid ……..
Many of us in Britain and Europes other leading nations along with outposts of indusrtial civilisation like Australia and Japan, spent most of last week looking on gobsmacked at the fiasco that was playing out across the pond as a nation whose inhabitants are so convinced of the superiority of all things American that they tell us again and again (and again and again and again ad nauseum,) that if we are not doing things “The American Way” we are doing them wrongly, completely failed to back up their claims when they showed themselves to be completely incapable of running a fair and orderly democratic election.
But on November 6th we Brits were treated to another side splittingly funny example of the American media idiocracy’s utter detachment from the reality of anything outside their “woke” bubble. Major news networks and publications abandoned any pretence of balanced reporting long before the election campaign began and by November 6th had convinced themselves that the fireworks let off the previous night all around Britain were a spontaneous celebration at the unofficial (and premature) declaraion of pervy Joe (Groper) Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the US election.
Major news network ABC tweeted footage of colourful fireworks in the night sky over London, saying the display was witnessed “after Joe Biden was unofficially declared by left and liberal news outfits, winner of the presidential election”.
Britons were quick to joke about some US media outlets’ apparent lack of knowledge when it comes to Britain’s bonfire night.
A few of the many reports of Nov 5th fireworks being for Biden can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE
Former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan gleefuly tweeted: “Shall we tell them? I wanna tell them!”
Jack Blanchard of Politico said: “Are you going to tell them, or shall I?”
A number of US news sies, including major newspapers had by weekend backed off the fireworks for Biden claim but still falsely claimed Britoms had taken to the streets to celebrate the serial child molester’s win. Actually these people were neighbours advising each other to lock up their young daughters if Boris invited Groper Biden to the UK.
href=”https://originalboggartblog.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/why-are-the-world-government-schemes-agenda-21-and-agends-30-blanked-by-big-media/”>Why Are The World Government Schemes, Agenda 21 and Agends 30 blanked by big media?
Since the early days on the old blog.co.uk platform we have from time to time raised the issues of Agenda 21 and Agenda 30, The New World Order, and the push for a global, authoritarian, socialist government. Any mention of these things in online forums is certain to get the author accused of being a conspiracy theorist, a right wing extremist, a nutcase, a young earth creationist and much worse.
“Big Brother State”: FBI Says Citizens Should Have No Secrets That The Government Can’t Access
The surveillance state predicted in George Orwell’s novel “1984” has gradually crept up on us. With no sense of irony, the government of the nation that calls itself “The land of the free” has led the way in trying to persuade citizents that the only way they can be sasfe from vague and largely fictitious “existential threats to democracy” is to surrender civil rights and freedom to determine our own destiny …
The surveillance state predicted in George Orwell’s novel “1984” has gradually crept up on us. With no sense of irony whatsoever the government of the nation that calls itself “The land of the free” has led the way in trying to persuade citizens that the only way to be safe from vague “existential threats to democracy” is to surrender our civil rights and freedom to determine our own destiny to Nanny State.
Secret Meeting in London to “End Cash”
Economist Martin Armstrong claims there is a “secret meeting to end cash” set to take place in London before the end of the month involving representatives from the ECB and the Federal Reserve. Armstrong, who is known for successfully predicting the 1987 Black Monday crash as well as the 1998 Russian financial collapse, expressed his shock that no news outlet has reported on this upcoming conference.
Prepare For The Worst Case Scenario
An article on the cashless society our political and corporate overlords are pushing for proposes that as far as privacy and individual liberty are concerned, what is being planned right now in the political capitals and financial centres of the world is the worst case scenarion. An all digital financial system would mean the end of privacy, nothing you bought or traded would be your own business any more …
Cashless Society: The Spy In Your Wallet
Back In 1971 Libertarians Were Predicting Debit Cards Would Become A Spy Tool For Authoritarian Governments. In 2013 The Wall Street Journal reported that the Naional Security Agency (NSA) was monitoring the card transactions of American citizens. Following that, two Senators, Wyden and Udall – who both sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee and thus have access to classified information about the government’s digital snooping intelligenece gathering programs wrote …,/p>
An Interesting Perspective From Across The Pond On The Scottish Referendum Result
The almost inevitable accusations of fraud and vote rigging are beginning to emerge in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum. Surprisingly the likely culprit most fingers are pointing at is not the SNP, leaders of the YES campaign or the Westminster government which wanted to avoid the embarrassment of a no, but the Euronazis in Brussels whose plans for a single European nation would have suffered from a YES vote.
NHS ‘at mercy of predatory US healthcare firms’ if controversial Washington trade deal goes through
The whole world seems to be wising up to Washington’s fascism and designed on creating a global empire. So how come our Conservative / Lib Dem coalition government is still sucking up to the American’s and trying to be the corporate imperialists best friends when the rest of the developed world is distancing itself from the increasingly sinister Obama Administration?
Henry Kissinger On The New World Order
OK, let the Politically Correct screechers screech ‘conspiracy Theory’. Kissinger has of course been a long time advocate of corporatist global totalitarian government by elitis oligarchs and has himself used the phrase New World Order to describe what he sees as the best hope for the future and what those of us outside his small elitist clique see as fascism
IMF Chief Legarde Arrested? It’s DSKja vu All Over Again.
Like her predecessor in the job, Domique Strauss – Khan, IMF Chief Christine Legarde feaces prosecution for criminality and is likely to be forced out of the job. Yet the dodgy episodes in Legarde’s past were well known before she was appointed head of the IMF. So who put the kinfe in and why?
The Real Agenda Of Internet Trolls (fans of free speech they are not)The Real Agenda Of Internet Trolls (fans of free speech they are not)
You’ve seen internet trolls at work, in any comment thread under a blog or article on a controversial subject the trolls will be busy. Are they just mean spirited bigots determined not to tolerate anybody whose opinion differs to their own. Or is there another agenda at work?
Conspiracy Theorist me? OK Smartarse, So You Don’t Believe Conspiracy Theories? Read This …..
I have a theory, not a conspiracy theory but about those who yell conspiracy theorit whenever government propaganda is challenged. I think these people are profoundly insecure and so afraid of the idea that we are on our own in thid big bad world, they have to convince themselves the government is their bestest friend and will protect them whatever happens. Sad really …
What Would The Future Look Like Without The Propaganda Happy Pills The arrogance, hubris and contempt for morality displayed by our ruling classes is gobsmacking. Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians seem to think they are untouchable, above the norms and ethics that apply to ordinary mortals and that they are able to rewrite the laws of nature on a whim. We are not just talking about politicians here, but bankers and business leaders, the legal, medical and education professions, public servants, academics and senior police officers.
America Takes A Step Closer To Becoming A Cashless Society
If you order a beer at a Flatstick pub in Seattle, Washington, don’t try to pay with $10 bill — you’ll walk away thirsty. It’s not that the US state of Washington has started charging Scandinavian prices for booze, but that Flatstick, a hot new mini-chain in the Pacific Northwest, does not … Continue reading
G77 Nations vow to destroy America’s New World Order
By leading the G7, G8 and G20 economic groups for the past few decades the US government has managed to exploit its status as holder of the global reserve currency until it appeared on the brink og global economic hegemony. The Americans overplayed their hand however, became too blatant in their bullying of smaller nations and helping corporate interests override national laws. Now the world is closing ranks against the USA. Can’t say we’re sorry.
“Watershed Moment” In US – EU Relations, Merkel Says Europe Can No Longer Rely On America
Only hours after Donald Trump infuriated Angela Merkel and the rest of his G-7 peers by refusing to endorse the Paris climate treaty, the US President has done it again. Hausfrau Volksfuhrer Merkel has now decided Europe can no longer rely on the USA to commit military support to EU nations that do not pay their NATO subs, should they come under attack, he has done it again …
November 8, 2020 greenteeth Uncategorized america, biden, democracy
The Creepy groper featured in these pictures will be President of the USA unless poeople sct to stop the murder of democracy (Picture: blogspot commons)
I read several times today that having been “officially” declared winner of the election and now US President elect, Joe Biden is being called on to heal the nation. It’s bollocks of course, while Joe Biden holds an apparently convincing lead in enough states to give him a majority in the electoral college, that body does not meet to formally elect the president until mid December. Until he is confirmed by the electoral college he can only be “officially” declared winner of popular votes in the states. And even calls to award him that victory are somewhat premature, although at this stage a tirnaround looks extremely unlikely.
Calls for Joe Biden to ‘heal the nation’ are therefore spurious. Given the nature of his win it seems certain that Biden will be an even more divisive president than Trump, Obama, Bush or Clinton. Since Ronald Regan left office only George Bush Snr. can claim to have united America – everyone though he was a knob.
It was the same here in Britain when it looked like May and the rest of the europhile parliament might succeed in reversing the referendum result or delivering such a pathetic Brexit deal as to render it meaningless as our laws, foreign and defence policy, border controls and monetary policy would still be dictated by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
The anti – Brexit Labour party and the New World Order’s propaganda office in Britain, The BBC, were eager to want to cosy up to the bureaucrats of Brussels, erase British sovereignty and move us inexorably to the status of a federal region in The United States of Europe. It caused so much friction that the nation had never been as divided since Oliver’s Army took on King Charles’ lads.
Well no, the public knew what they had voted for in spite of many patronising claims to the contrary from the intellectual idiots who populate our academic institutions and the political establishment. The result of the referendum was not going to just magically be forgotten and it was made clear if the referendum result was reversed or ignored there would be big trouble.
We The People were not going to accept political jiggery pokery being deployed to deny our collective will any more than Americans will accept all the shenanigans of the Democrats and their cohorts to enact a coup, or a colour revolution, against a legitimate, fairly and democratically elected President. The obvious electoral malpractices of the Democrats will not be forgiven and forgotten and there will be no air-kissing and making up now that the left have got the result they wanted, albeit by highly suspicious means.
Trump voters in the USA and Brexit supporters here have been treated abominably , demeaned , insulted and (in the case of those daring to come out openly as Trump supporters) physically attacked in broad daylight.
So good luck to “Sniffer Joe” as he tries to pretend he is representing a party that will be believed by 70 million Americans as one that will ‘heal the nation’ and bring them all together in peace and harmony. Evan as I type this, the far left uber – butch Alexandria Ocasio – Cortez is reportedly preparing a hit lists of judges, celebrities and journalists who were off – message, to receive visits in the early hours of some morning by The Democrats putative State Security Police currently known as Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Already, Democrats are openly crowing, sneering and hurling insults in the US as they are in the comments here from left wing trolls and pro – EU diehards, who obviously believe the olive branches should come from the other side, never from them who are, of course, full of righteous virtue …
… and never, ever wrong.
But it’s certainly going to be interesting, if stressful, to watch the progress of Biden’s administration in their first few months, on Predident Biden’s first ‘To-Do List’, in his own words or according to Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris and House speaker Nancy (Vinegar Tits) Pelsoi, the top items will be:-
Re-engage with the Chinese WHO
Re-sign the monumentally expensive and pointless Climate Agreement
Cut oil, coal and gas production
Export the jobs Trump brought back to America
Keep up payments to NATO on behalf of Germany, France etc..
Send some cash to Iran.
Declare war on England and bomb the Middle East.
That is if the election chaos is ever resolved and a winner officially declared (NB:- The media are not empowered to officially declare anything, with several states still counting and lawsuits flying around more thickly than snowflakes in a blizzard.)
In a country where convicted murderers can spend decades on death row waiting for labyrinthine legal processes to exhaust themselves, the election that murdered democracy could hang around just as long.
Soros Sponsored “Democracy Spring” Launches Program Of Civil Disobedience
So there you have it, the ‘radical left’ are sponsored by one of the nastiest, greediest corporate capitalists ever, a shameless advocate of global totalitarian government proposed by theelistist socialist group The Fabian society over a hundred years ago and towards which these supporters of ‘oligarchical collectivism’ have been working ever since.
In Parallel With The Upheaval In European Politics, A Similar Cataclysm Is Happening In The USA Having reported for three or four years now the rise of the anti – Integration parties in European Union member nations, UKIP in Britain, the FN in France, AfD in Germany, Denmakr’s Peoiple’s Party, Five Star and the Liga Nord in Italy, the Sweden Democrats and others in every E U member state, we now look at what is going on in the USA as campaiging for the presidential election gathers pace.
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War On Cash – A Country By Country Guide
More on the global war on cash being waged by ruling elites in parallel with their war on privacy as they try to exert total control over everything.
EU Stitch Up To Promote Euronazi Selmayr Is Typical Of The EU’s Contempt For Democracy “2018-03-15T20:12:22+00:00”> Martin Selmayr – would you buy a used car from this man? (Image: Daily Mail) The former Prime Minister of little Luxembourg (population less than Leicester,)Jean-Claude Juncker who now struts the world stage as if he is important, has worked one of the slimiest political stitch ups ever to ensure his favourite sycophant and chief … Continue reading
Re-Branding Dissent – The Quiet Destruction Of Democracy
Many people, all the contributors to this publication among them, fear that democracy is being destroyed. OK, OK, hipsters will say but ‘we’ve never had democracy’, or, ‘it was destroyed long ago’, but left wing deceit aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how, many forms of democratic expression, effective dissent and peaceful self-determination are being outlawed and abolished in a sustained attack on free speech and civil rights.
How Mainstream Media And The Major Political Parties Are Making Sure Voters Do not Hear The Voices Of Politics’ Most Powerful Critics
As the General Election campaign starts to heat up, we try to shift focus away from the squabbling between Conservative and Labour about who can make the most promises they have no intention of keeping and to the real issues concerning jobs, social breakdown , mass immigration, and loss of national sovereignty.
US Presidents Of The Past warned Against Secret, Shadow Government. By now it should be obvious that peacemake, joybringer and putative aquatic pedestrian Barack Hussein Obama was never really in charge of the US Government. Whatever Obama said would happen, all the American government’s policies ensured the opposit would happen. The embedded article thows some light on how the US government really works
Obama’s Terrible Trade Pact Is a Scam That Must Be Stopped Says Jim Hightower
Having written a book on the evil trade treaty that will transform the democratic nations into corporate oligarchies, we step aside and hand the baton to Jim Hightower of Alternet who is equally outraged about the iniquities of TTIP’s equally evil twin, TPP.
Google Has Become A Threat To Democracy Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, About 10 years ago, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who coined the term network neutrality, made this prescient comment: “To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king.” Wu was right. … Continue reading
Another Reason To Get Out Of EU. UKIP MEP Hits Out At Fishing Policy That Penalises British Fishing Crews
As the General Election campaign starts to heat up, we try to shift focus away from the squabbling between Conservative and Labour about who can make the most promises they have no intention of keeping and to the real issues concerning jobs, social breakdown , mass immigration, and an often overlooked area in which our EU membership has perhaps done more damage than any other, the fishing industry.
Democracy: Does It have A Future Or Has Global Totalitarianism Won?
The General Election in Greece (January 2014) could have much wider effects than most elections in small nation, the vote could decide the future of the European Union and have a major breaing on whether democracy can survive the push towards government by a global, corporate oligarchy. It look like being an interesting few months if the anti – EU party wins as polls suggest they will.
Democracy Hating Leftie Judges Choose Self Interest Over Justice Yesterday judges in the UK High Court joined the band of traitors in Parliament, the Civil Service, the Bank of England and the media who are trying to overturn the democratic vote to take Britain out of the European Union. The judges ruled in favour of a challenge to the vote, even though it has … Continue reading
Greece Votes On Whether Its People Have Any Future The voters of Greece will choose today, whether their country, the cradle of democracy, has a future of not. They are voting in a general election which could result in Greece trying to renegotiate the terms of its bailout with international lenders and even quitting the EU if the expected victory for hard line left wing party Syriza.
The leader of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, has pledged to write off much of Greece’s huge debt and revoke austerity measures …
Luxembourg defends massive corporate tax dodging
Over the past week the whole media circus, mainsteam and broadcast, new media, bloggers, the world and his dog, was getting excited about the revelation that traditional tax haven but also founder member of the EU, Luxembourg has been facilitating wholesale corporate tax dodging and this ‘business’ was given the all clear by the then Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy,
October 19, 2020 greenteeth Uncategorized america, biden, election, trump, usa
With the national polls showing Sniffer Biden has a double figure lead byt state – by – state polling showing the race neck and neck, the scandal involving Biden’s son Hunter and dodgy deals in China and Ukraine now embracing Pappy Joe’s activities as Obama’s Vice President, the Democrats claiming Trump will not accept defeat with one face while the other is saying biden must not admit defeat and the domestic terrorist organisations Antifa and Black Lives Matter threatening to unleash a wave of violence if Biden does not win while the National Rifle Association’s members are preparing to ensure there is no jiggery pokery in cases of disputed counts, it looks like US election night is going to be fun for all of us – except Americans.
In fact, with two week to go until voting day, it seems to be kicking off already.
New Data Analysis Finds 353 Counties With 1.8 Million More Registered Voters Than Residents
by Tyler Durden Mon, 10/19/2020 – 12:10
Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times,
A total of 353 counties in 29 U.S. states have 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens, according to an analysis by Judicial Watch.
In addition, eight states, including Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont, were found to have statewide registered voter totals that exceeded 100 percent of eligible voters, according to the nonprofit government watchdog.
Judicial Watch compared the registration data available for 37 states with the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recently available American Community Survey (ACS) numbers for the period 2014–2018 on a county-by-county basis.
“This new study shows 1.8 million excess, or ‘ghost’ voters, in 353 counties across 29 states,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement announcing the study Oct. 16.
“This data highlights the recklessness of mailing blindly ballots and ballot applications to voter registration lists. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections.”
The nonprofit said its study “is necessarily limited to 37 states that post regular updates to their registration data. Certain state voter registration lists may also be even larger than reported, because they may have excluded ‘inactive voters’ from their data.” … Continue reading >>>
For several years Western media sources have been terying to top each other’s efforts to publish the most ludicrously hyperbolic articles about so-called Russian hackers while complaining about the alleged damage these hackers, of whose alleged activities no evidence is offered, have inflicted upon the American democracy The Washington Post would feature a propaganda article about Russia’s push towards the control of cyberspace. The New York Times would try to top it, while the LA Times would try to outdo both. What else should one expect from media sources owned by media corporations controlled by Wall Street hedge funds and enjoying a far too cosy relationship with US Government security agencies, if various reports across the net are to be trusted … For a quite a while now, Western media sources have been engaged in a sort of a competition, striving to publish as many articles about so-called Russian hackers as they possibly could, while complaining about the alleged damage those unseen hackers inflicted upon the US-style democracy.READ MORE ON THIS >>>
Suddenly Fear Of Social Unrest Is Everywhere
September 1, 2020 September 22, 2020 greenteeth conspiracy, new world order, society, Uncategorized america, black lives matter, blm, CIVIL UNREST, fear, pandemic, riot
Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com,
In a year that has experienced a global pandemic, Depression-level job losses, a bevy of large-scale natural disasters from wildfires to Cat 4 hurricanes to derechos, the #1 current concern we’re now hearing from our readers isn’t any of these.
Instead, it’s the danger of social unrest breaking out in their local community.
Anyone with eyes can see that the mercury is rising across America. The riots that follow the deaths of folks like George Floyd and now Jacob Blake, the current violence in Kenosha, Seattle’s lawless autonomous zone, the movement to ‘defund the police’, the anger behind the surge of ‘cancel culture’ — the nation’s social fabric is suddenly stretched taut and starting to tear at the seams.
Is it any surprise that gun sales are up 72%(!) vs last year, with first-time buyers driving a material percentage of that increase:
According to a report by the Washington Post, the National Sports Shooting Foundation says that first-time gun buyers played a heavy role in the increase. Women and black Americans have also shown interest in arming themselves this year.
“Nearly 5 million Americans purchased a firearm for the very first time in 2020. NSSF surveyed firearm retailers which reported that 40% of sales were conducted to purchasers who have never previously owned a firearm,” the organization said in its analysis, which tracked background checks associated with the sale of a firearm reported by the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System.
“This is a tectonic shift in the firearm and ammunition industry marketplace and complete transformation of today’s gun-owning community,” said Lawrence G. Keane, a senior vice president at the foundation. “These first-time buyers represent a group of people who, until now, were agnostic regarding firearm ownership. That’s rapidly changing…
This rise in public ire is something we’ve been warning of for years here at PeakProsperity.com. While there are many serious injustices that exist in today’s society, we believe the root cause for the majority of them lies in the misguided and frequently immoral policies perpetrated by the Federal Reserve and Congress — policies that reward the already-rich at the expense of the general public.
2020 has revealed this truth clearly in the response to the covid-19 pandemic. With the $5+ trillion unleashed between the monetary and fiscal “rescue” stimulus efforts, the battle cry from our “leaders” has been: Defend the rich!
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Extinction Rebellion Wants To Destroy Civilization, Not Just Fossil Fuels
Readers may find it hard to believe but while our attention has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic, other things have been happening. Recently the eco – crusties of EkSTIMKtion Rebellion have elbowed their way back into out consciousness and now, with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, form an unholy trinity of Marxist seditionist groups intent not only on destroying capitalism but destroying civilisation …
‘Bill Gates seeks to microchip humanity!’ Russian Oscar-winning director pushes vaccine conspiracy…
Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov claims billionaire Bill Gates might be seeking to implant humanity with microchips under the guise of vaccination, seeking to control people and ultimately “solve” overpopulation. The ongoing coronavirus crisis has produced a number of wild conspiracy theories, as some are …
Latest COVID Scam move a step too far?
The scam goes on with the latest move to keep the coronavirus fear and panic conspiracy afloat being a rumour that the government will ask over 50s in Britain to”shield” (i.e. place themselves under house arrest,) throughout the winter. But it may be the tipping point, public rteaction has been totally negative.
Coronavirus: Fuelling The Conspiracy Theories – 21 April, 2020
Scientific Evidence for Coronavirus Response Will Be Kept Secret Until Pandemic Is Over Makes us wonder what they’re hiding – editor. Photo: Getty from Breitbart Europe The government has decided to keep the scientific evidence upon which it is basing its response to the Chinese coronavirus secret until the pandemic subsides. Boris Johnson’s administration …
Is the World Health Organization involved in biological warfare research?
Dr. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, talked in a recent interview with Owen Shroyer of Infowars about the Wuhan coronavirus now sweeping through the far east,, the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory (BSL-4) in Wuhan, China, where the genetically modified virus appears to have originated, and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) clandestine involvement in biological warfare research …Continue reading
Big Pharma billionaire charged with conspiracy and bribery of doctors
Not long ago it would have been inconceivable that one day a Big Pharma company founder and owner would be arrested for running a criminal drug cartel, but that is exactly what happened a few days ago. “Federal authorities arrested the billionaire founder and owner of Insys Therapeutics Thursday on charges of bribing doctors and pain clinics into prescribing the company’s fentanyl product to their patients …
France Moves to Make ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Illegal by Government Decree
I have little time for people who yell ‘conspiracy theory’. These emotionally crippled, intellectually retarded, conformity addicted, delusional, left leaning, low – information sucklers of Nanny State’s bitter pap might fancy themselves the voices of reason but in reality they never think anything through.The latest ‘conspiracy theory’ to exercise their vocal chords and typing fingers is the Paris shooting. Given the alacrity with which the socialist government in France has siezed the opportunity to curtail citizens liberties in order to further a global fascist agenda, I would not dismiss the idea.
Everything The Science Whores Told You About Eating Fat Was A Lie.
We have been telling you so for years, but at last the world seems to be cathing up with The Daily Stirrer. Another independent study confirms that the scientists (‘A sack of rogues bought and paid for with corporate gods’ to paraphrase Burns) have been lying about the health risks of eating saturated fat. It’s process vegetable fat, created in laboratories by scientists and other synthesized foods that damage human health.
Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 News Developments Being Suppress By Mainstream Media.
Given the tarnished reputation of mainstream media after decades of its reporting only news favourable to establishment political and corporate interests, it ought not to surprise anybody that television and print news organisations have been suppressing news of developments in the quest to discover the truth about downed Malaysia Airlines Beoing 777, Flight MH17.
Tacit Approval From US Liberals For Islamic Indoctrination In US Schools.
Some schools in US State Of Virginia are closed today, because parents objected to Islamic indoctrination by the state education system. The US Constitution’s clauses on the separation of church and state forbid the promotion of any specific religious teaching, in fact US liberals tend to get their knickers in a twist over signs in classrooms that show the motto “In God we trust.”
EU Report Reveals Continent Being Changed By Migration
While political leaders and the mass media constantly preach of the economic benefits and cultural enrichment that sping from mass immigration,EU Report Reveals Continent Being Changed By Migration just a few days ago we reported a study that found the economic benefits are a myth and today a report published by the EUs in house statistical bureau reveals immigrants have an adverse effect socially and culturally.
Church That Celebrated ‘Black Lives Matter’ Burns in Kenosha, Wisconsin
August 24, 2020 greenteeth diversity multiculturalism, society, terror, Uncategorized america, black lives matter, blm, looting, protest, usa
Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News
After a night of rioting and looting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, one of the buildings to catch fire was a community church which displayed a marquee outside the building celebrating ‘Black Lives Matter’.
Picture: Screenshot via Summit News
Kenosha was hit by violent unrest after a video emerged showing a police officer firing several shots at close range into an African-American man’s back.
Jacob Blake is currently in serious condition at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee as of early Monday morning.
The fact that Blake had walked away from police and attempted to reach inside his vehicle before he was shot didn’t seem to matter to BLM protesters, who almost immediately gathered at the scene of the shooting.
A state of emergency was declared after an officer was knocked out with a brick, stores were looted and numerous fires were started by the rioters who subsequently attacked a courthouse… Continue reading >>>
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Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up’ their homes
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Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle, Washington State, one of the U.S. cities in which civil unrest has continued unabated since the death of George Floyed back in May, marched through a residential suburb this week demanding that white residents give up their homes to be occcuppied by blacks. dramatic video shows.
The video shows a crowd of protestors, including some virtue signalling whites chanting “Black lives matter” before an unidentified man steps up to the lens saying they are living in a historically black section of the city as another woman in the crowd yells that they should “give up” their homes.
“Do you know that before your white ass came here, this was all black people?” the obviously unstable man says. “Do you know people like you came in here and basically bought all the land from the black people for less than what it was worth, kicked them out so you could live here? Do you know that?”
The man continues: “’Cause if you don’t, now you f–king do — now do something about it!”
A woman in the crowd then urges the residents to “open their wallet” as the man continues to yell at the unidentified residents off-camera.
“So how do you plan to fix it?” the man continues. “As a gentrifier, because you are part of that problem.”
A woman with a megaphone then urges the residents to “give up” their house, the footage shows.
“Give black people back their homes!” she yells. “You’re sitting there comfortably — comfortable as f—k as if they didn’t help gentrify this neighborhood! I used to live in this neighborhood, and my family was pushed out, and you’re sitting up there having a good time with your other white friends!”
These people are obviously suffering a collective mental breakdown, one of the things they claim they are aiming to achieve is the removal of Donald Trump from The White House. Howeveer no sane person could possibly believe their violent, criminal behaviour is doing anything other than helping the Trump campaign win re – election.
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EU Parliament Passes Resolution On Ban Of ‘Neo-Fascist’ Groups, Lists Identitarian Movement
The most undemocratic democratically elected body in the world, The European Union Parliament this week passed a resolution demanding that member-states ban ‘neo-fascist’ parties and groups and have intelligence agencies fully co-operate with ‘anti-racism’ NGOs. Ironically the ‘anti – racism NGOs they mention are all offshots of globalist, anti – democracy organisations such as Open Society Institute and the Immigrant Defence Project.
Canadian University Holds ‘White Privilege’ Conference
In an event that marks the latest step in Canada’s descent into collective insanity, Ryerson University held the nation’s first “white privilege” conference this month. Hundreds of academics, media luvvies, professional hand wringers and all the usual suspects turned up at the Toronto-based institution to indulge in an orgy of hated, bigotry and racism aimed at “white people. (nobody defined exactly who was being hated, as I’ve always said, no human being ever was truly white, no human being ever was truly black.
Jailed by UK Gov’t For Speaking Their Minds
We Stirrers are really starting to worry that Britain and the USA are going in the same direction as the EU nations that signed up to German dominance by joining the single currency. It’s as disheartening as it is embarrassing at this point. The establishment is trying to silence dissent and make diversity of opinion a crime. This suppression of individual freedom and our hard won civil rights has come to the point it just feels like something is about to break. They’re clearly scared of something.
Diversity” Is a Weapon Against White People
Visit some parts of most British cities with large immigrant populations and you will be hard pressed to recognize it, certainly my granparents would struggle to recognize the towns they knew. Appeasement of foreigners has destroyed the character of our communities but as usual the political left advise solving the problem by doing over again the things that caused it.
‘Why is My Curriculum White?’ Campaign Forces Oxford Uni to Introduce Compulsory Black History Exams
Britain’s oldest and one of its most prestigious universities has come over all Brack Obama and yielded sanity and academic impartialityto politically correct bigotry from a National Union of Students (Special Snowflake branch)campaign with rejoices in the title, ‘Why is my curriculum white? The snowflakes who are mainly white themselves but are too thick to have noticed that, are protesting against the alleged “Eurocentrism” of history teaching.
The most undemocratic democratically elected body in the world, The European Union Parliament this week passed a resolution demanding that member-states ban ‘neo-fascist’ parties and groups and co-operate with ‘anti-racism’ NGOs […] The motion, which was introduced at the request of Italian MEP Eleonora Forenza, was passed by a vote of 355 MEPs. Many MEPs were not present in the 751-seat chamber for the vote.
Lord’ Sugar Sugar called ‘racist’ for Senegal World Cup team tweet (but it was funny)
Alan Sugar (one of Blair’s dodgy ‘lords’ and front man of the UK version of ‘The Apprentice’ TV show, has come in for a shitstorm of criticism online after tweeting a typical market traders gag about the Senegal World Cup team. Sugar posted a photoshopped image of the Senegal players standing over a row fake designer sunglasses and handbags and gave it the caption “I recognise some of these guys …”
White Privilege Now Inculdes The Privilege Of Being Fired For being White
Its should be obvious by now that the politically correct left, insaniac sociopaths that they are, have only one emotion at their disposal; hate. Bizarrely the hatered of these predominantly white, middle class people, while of themselves, is mostly racist in nature but directed at members of their own race.
Ten Truths You Can’t Tell In Britain Without Being Accused Of Racism.
by Arthur Foxake The screenshot below is from an article written by Trevor Phillips, former head of the Equalities and Human Rights commission for The Daily Mail (or Mail On Sunday) Trevor Philips home truths on racism. Image source Finally, we?re having that open and honest debate about immigration and race everyone has been calling … Continue reading
White Girl Is Burned Alive, 17 Black Gang Members Arrested. Mainstream Media Blanks The Story
Remember how the Social Justice Warriors of the politically correct ‘left’ screamed when a young black man named Trayvon Martin was shot by Hispanic George Zimmerman, because it was assumed someone named Zimmerman would be white? Remember how they wailed and stirred up civil unrest when a black man was shot by white cops in Ferguson, Missouri, automatically assuming the the killing was racially motivated. more >>>
Politician Blasts Conviction For Speaking The Truth On Anti-Semitism In Europe
A Danish politician has been reprimanded for posting comments on Twitter about the resurgence of anti semitism in Europe. Apparently while hand wringing and breast beating about violent attacks on Jewish people is fine, stating the obvious by linking the Europe migrant crisis to this new wave of anti Semitism is a criminal offence …
15 More Men of South Asian Descent Charged With Child Sex Offences
West Yorkshire Police have charged 14 men and a 16-year-old boy with sex offences including the rape of a girl under the age of 16 in Keighley, a small town in the old Woollen Industry distict of the county. The offences centre on one female victim, with one allegation involving a second who was also under 16 at the time.
Racist Student Union Officer says ‘I Can’t be Racist’
We have often made points about the hypocroisy of the left, but a Student Union diversity officer from London beats all comers. Having tweeted ‘kill all white men’ she justifies herself by saying that as an ethnic minority woman she cannot be racist or bigoted.
Multi-Cultural England: Are You Feeling The Progressive Diversity That’s Enriching Your Life
US Soldiers Forced To Sit Through P C ‘White Privilege Presentation. Not Happy Bunnies
The U.S. Army is investigating an unauthorized diversity training presentation on “white privilege” shown to hundreds of Georgia soldiers, USA Today reported, citing an Army spokeswoman. The Equal Opportunity training presentation was shown to about 400 soldiers of the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon on Thursday, according to Captain Lindsay Roman.
If a black person acts like a twat is it racist to say he’s a twat.
Examples of US rapper Kayne West behaving in ways that show what a cupid stunt he is occur to frequently for mainstream media to report them any more it seems. Or maybe it’s just that because Kayne is an African American those mainstream journos were afraid of being called racist if they report his latest fuckwittery.
The British Jihad, Islamism And The Curse Of Multiculturalism.
As the world recoils in horror at images posted on the internet of an American journalist being cruelly and brutally beheaded by an (allegedly) British terrorist fighting for the extremists of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, we ask is the left wing folly of multiculturalism coming home to roost.
Shock; horror. Human Barbie Doll has her own opinions
The human Barbie girl Valeria Lukyanova has become something of an online phenomenon and is regarded as a sex symbol by many young men of the kind who have more computers than friends. Personally I find her apearance bizarre and about as sexually alluring as cold porridge. Still each to there own, where would we be without diversity of opinion.
Immigration – the elephant in the political debating chamber
‘White Racism’
For too long the neo – Fascist left have been allowed to get away with dividing all of humanity into two racial groups, black and white. This has allowed those extremists who support the idea of an authoritarian, global government to dub white people generally as racist, because we have (again generally)been more successful throughout … Continue reading
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Can intercourse offenders modification? Shocking BBC doc meets ‘reformed’ pervs paedophile that is including now on dating sites
WALKING house in the height of summer time, Andrew glanced down the street and saw children playing in a paddling pool nearby.
It had been a scene that will pass many people by, but it was an unwelcome trigger in a constant battle to fight his sexual desires towards children for him.
He could be one of the convicted intercourse offenders which are now sharing their shocking tales in a brand new bbc three documentary, Can Sex Offenders Change?
Andrew – maybe perhaps maybe not their genuine title – ended up being arrested 5 years ago for possessing 80,000 indecent pictures of young ones. He claims it came after a difficult youth and several years of “regressing” to the brain of the toddler to manage their discomfort.
Now, but, he insists he is restored – to the stage he’s also utilizing websites that are dating the hopes of fundamentally fulfilling a spouse and beginning a family group.
He shares his chilling story with presenter Becky Southworth, whoever very own daddy invested a decade in prison for intercourse offences, as she tries to investigate whether offenders can really change with various therapy programs.
Authorities forces in britain recorded 73,518 offences cupid visitors rape that is including online grooming and intimate attack against young ones in 2019/20, up 57 percent from 46,738 in 2014/15 – based on numbers obtained by the NSPCC under freedom of data rules.
‘we felt like a three-year-old son or daughter locked within an adult’s human anatomy’
Andrew, whoever identity is concealed on display, ended up being positioned on the sex offenders’ sign up for a decade whenever cops discovered the pictures on their computer.
Nevertheless, he informs a gobsmacked Becky he has overcome his urges towards kids that he no longer identifies as a paedophile now – and truly believes.
“What people forget is the fact that paedophilia had been the extremely concept of normal if you ask me. We lived every single day it was my normal life, ” he says with it and as such.
“At least it absolutely was until around three months ago whenever all of this began to alter and my brain started to finally change it self after an in therapy. Year”
Paedophilia ended up being the definition that is very of if you ask me. We lived every time along with it
He now only sees kids as “sweet” in a “normal way” – and instead feels attracted to adults – he does still have a problem when he sees a child naked while he says.
“because i don’t like to remember or see myself that way anymore, ” he adds while it doesn’t leave me sexually frustrated, it still generates much anxiety in me.
Andrew – whom claims he is now heterosexual but had been drawn to both children while offending – admits the kids’s paddling pool celebration ended up being a good example of exactly how quickly they can be thrown into an unpleasant situation.
“I ensure that we don’t put myself in hard circumstances but often they find you, ” he admits.
He thinks their offending had been set off by a childhood that is difficult which often intended he used to frequently regress to the head of the three-year-old as soon as developed.
“i really could be nude sitting on to the floor or using toys … i’ve cuddly toys as well as such things as dummies, since strange since it seems. That’s simply regression, ” he claims.
“It’s about wanting to produce a character in your head that is much more in a position to cope than you might be. ”
He adds: “I think it seems sensible that the sexuality came into being because we felt like a three-year-old son or daughter locked in a adult’s body.
“It is reasonable that my brain would say, ‘right, we feel young ones are my peers, and I’m going become drawn to my peers’. ”
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Basil and Theodore
Our holy fathers among the saints Basil and Theodore of the Caves were hieromartyrs who pursued asceticism in the eleventh century in the Near Caves of Kiev. St. Theodore distributed his riches to the poor, went to the monastery and settled into the Varangian Cave, adjoining the Caves of St. Theodosios. He dwelt here many years in strict temperance. Their feast day is celebrated on August 11.
When the enemy aroused sorrow in him for giving away his possessions, St. Basil comforted him: "I implore you, brother Theodore, do not forget the reward. If you want to have possessions, take everything that is mine." St. Theodore repented and dearly loved St. Basil, with whom he lived in the cell.
Once, St. Basil was on an errand outside the monastery for three months. The devil, having assumed his form, appeared to St. Theodore and indicated that there was a treasure hidden somewhere in the cave by robbers. The monk still wanted to leave the monastery to buy possessions to live in the world. When St. Basil returned, the demonic illusion disappeared. From that time, St. Theodore started to be more attentive to himself. In order not to be distracted by idle thoughts during moments of inactivity, he set up a millstone, and by night he ground grain. Thus, by long and zealous ascetic action he freed himself from the passion of avarice.
A report reached Prince Mstislav Svyatopolkovich that St. Theodore had found much treasure in the cave. He summoned the monk to him and commanded him to show him the spot where the valuables were hidden. St. Theodore told the prince that indeed he had once seen gold and precious vessels in the cave, but fearing temptation, he and St. Basil had buried the treasure, and God took from him the memory of where it was hidden.
Not believing the saint, the prince gave orders to torture him to death. They beat St. Theodore so much that his hair-shirt was wet with blood, and then they hung him head-downwards, lighting a fire beneath him. In a drunken condition the prince commanded them to torture St. Basil also, and then to kill him with an arrow. Dying, the martyr Basil threw the arrow at the feet of Prince Mstislav and predicted that he himself would soon be mortally wounded by it. The prophecy was fulfilled on July 15, 1099, during an internecine war with David Igorevich. On the wall of the Vladimir fortress, Prince Mstislav was suddenly struck in the chest by an arrow through an opening in the timbers, and on the following night he died. Recognizing his own arrow, the prince said: "I die because of the monastic martyrs Basil and Theodore."
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Montsion's defence says assault gloves purchased by Ottawa Police
Joanne Schnurr CTV Ottawa
Published Wednesday, September 11, 2019 5:39PM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, September 11, 2019 5:42PM EDT
Receipts for assault gloves.
Cst. Daniel Montsion
Evidence photo reinforced gloves worn by Montsion.
Those assault gloves took centre stage again at the manslaughter trial of Constable Daniel Montsion in the death of 37-year-old Abdirahman Abdi. Montsion's defence lawyers filed receipts as evidence showing that the reinforced gloves were bought by the Ottawa Police as protective gear. Montsion was wearing those gloves when he is seen in video repeatedly punching Abdi in the head during an arrest in July of 2016.
Lawyers told court that the Crown knew about the receipts but didn't enter them as evidence.
“Although these documents were obtained by the SIU in the course of their investigation,” Solomon Friedman said in the defence’s opening statement Wednesday, “the Crown chose not to tender them as evidence in this trial. So, instead the defence will and by so doing, will put to rest any suggestion that our client’s gloves were not issued or approved by the Ottawa Police Services.”
Montsion is charged with manslaughter, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in the death of Abdi. Court has heard over the course of the trial that Abdi suffered a heart attack after a violent arrest outside the apartment building where he lived on Hilda Street. He died the next day in hospital.
The gloves, with red stains marking them, were entered by the Crown as evidence but little more was said about them until now. The gloves are manufactured by Oakley Standard Issue. Several pairs were ordered on-line by Dart supervisor Sandra Sparling in March of 2016 and more purchased at the Oakley store in Kanata in June of 2016.
Defence lawyers also called advanced care paramedic Matthew Rousselle to the stand as their first witness. Rousselle works with Renfrew County but lives in Hintonburg and was off-duty July 24, 2016 when he drove to the Bridghead coffee shop with his wife and two children. The family stayed in the car while Rousselle went inside to get a coffee and noticed two employees in front of the café with “a black gentleman, shaved head,” who we now know as Abdirahman Abdi. Rousselle recalls hearing the female employee tell Abdi that police were called and that he can’t go back inside the café. He says once inside, he saw a woman crying and being consoled by several people.
“Something had happened, I just didn’t know what,” he told court. Then he says people started screaming, “He’s grabbed another woman. He’s grabbed another woman.”
Rousselle says several men ran outside and got into a physical encounter with Abdi. He rushed outside as well and pulled one man off Abdi and brought the man back inside the café. Defence lawyer Michael Edelson asked Rousselle to describe his observations about Abdi. He says Abdi was “sweating profusely, breathing heavily.”
Rousselle was interviewed by the Special Investigations Unit but the Crown didn’t call him as a witness.
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News update for Christmas theatre in London
Regions across the UK were hoping to win the lottery but with the news of Tier 2 (for now) for London, here’s some Christmas theatre news
The Donmar Warehouse announces today that it will present a special concert online to mark the festive season. LOOKING A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS will be performed in the beautiful setting of St Paul’s Church (affectionately known as The Actors’ Church), in the heart of Covent Garden and premiere online for free on the Donmar’s YouTube channel on Wednesday 16 December, 7.30pm. The concert will be captioned, and an audio introduction will be available in partnership with Vocaleyes.
This hour-long concert of musical numbers, sketches and seasonal poetry will be directed by Simon Evans (Staged, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui) with musical direction by Nigel Lilley (Piaf, Caroline, or Change) and production design by Grace Smart (My Beautiful Laundrette, One Night in Miami). Continue reading “News update for Christmas theatre in London”
September theatre news, the UK version
Chichester Festival Theatre has announced their Autumn plans and it looks to be a good’un. It includes:
– Sarah Kane’s Crave, directed by Tinuke Craig and starring Erin Doherty and Alfred Enoch, staged in a socially distanced Festival Theatre for 10 performances and live streamed to digital audiences
– for Christmas, a series of festive concerts (including one with Rebeccas Caine and Trehearn), followed by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in a new version of Pinocchio by Anna Ledwich, directed by Dale Rooks
– Michael Ball, Sheila Hancock and Patricia Routledge in conversation with Edward Seckerson
– cabaret and comedy including Frisky & Mannish, The Black Cat Cabaret, Barely Methodical Troupe, Rich Hall, Suzi Ruffell, Russell Kane and Rosie Jones
– music ranging from a celebration of Sondheim with West End stars, to a song recital by Kate Royal, a new concert from Joe Stilgoe and a portrait of Rachmaninoff with Henry Goodman and Lucy Parham Continue reading “September theatre news, the UK version”
News: the Bridge Theatre plots an autumn season of monologues
The Bridge Theatre has announce a repertoire of twelve one-person plays during September and October, using the theatre’s flexible auditorium to provide around 250 socially distanced seats.
An Evening With an Immigrant by Inua Ellams
Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams left Nigeria for England in 1996 aged 12.
An Evening With An Immigrant is a potent and personal account of life as an immigrant told through poetry and music telling Ellam’s ridiculous, fantastic and poignant story – escaping fundamentalist Islam, experiencing prejudice and friendship in Dublin, performing solo at the National Theatre and drinking wine with the Queen of England – all the while without a country to belong to or place to call home. Continue reading “News: the Bridge Theatre plots an autumn season of monologues”
News: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman launch theatre support fund
With a long list of major founding donors, including Danny Boyle, Emilia Clarke, Tom Hiddleston, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz, the Theatre Community Fund has received a pledge of £1 million.
Some of the biggest names from British stage and screen have joined together to support creatives in the beleaguered theater industry as it struggles to survive the COVID-19 crisis.
Created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman and theatre producer Francesca Moody (who was the original producer of Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag stage show), the newly-launched Theatre Community Fund has already received a pledge of £1 million and amassed £500,000, having signed up a who’s who of actors, directors, writers and producers as founding donors. Continue reading “News: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman launch theatre support fund”
Review: Hello Harry! A Celebration of 40 Years at Stage Door
Just a quickie for the infusion of pure joy that was Hello Harry! A Celebration of 40 Years at Stage Door
Amid the constant shower of shit that passes for news about theatre at the moment, this online concert to celebrate the incredible 40 year career of Harry Gabriel, the Shaftesbury Theatre’s Stage Door Keeper, was an absolute ray of sunshine.
Put together by Giles Terera, the guest list was truly astonishing, featuring a veritable who’s who of the theatre world, all connected one way or another with Harry through the 40 years of shows he has seen pass through the Shaftesbury Theatre. Continue reading “Review: Hello Harry! A Celebration of 40 Years at Stage Door”
News: the Shaftesbury Theatre announces all-star concert Hello Harry!
The Shaftesbury Theatre has announced Hello Harry! – A Celebration of 40 Years at Stage Door – an online concert to celebrate the incredible 40 year career of Harry Gabriel, our night Stage Door Keeper. The concert will stream on YouTube on the 15th July at 7:30pm, with an incredible guest list of performers.
All of these performers are connected with the Shaftesbury and with Harry. The concert will feature stories and songs from shows that have been on our stage over the last 40 years and beyond. Continue reading “News: the Shaftesbury Theatre announces all-star concert Hello Harry!”
News: National Theatre at Home Phase 3
The National Theatre has today announced further productions that will be streamed live on YouTube every Thursday at 7PM BST via the National Theatre’s YouTube channel as part of National Theatre at Home; the new initiative to bring content to the public in their homes during the Coronavirus outbreak. The titles announced today include productions from partner theatres which were previously broadcast to cinemas by National Theatre Live. Continue reading “News: National Theatre at Home Phase 3”
News: Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads returns to TV
Along with the rest of theatreland, I’m already over-excited and impatient for all of these.
Filming begins today on new productions of Alan Bennett’s critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning Talking Heads monologues, which first aired on BBC Television in 1988 and 1998. Ten of the original pieces will be re-made with the addition of two new ones written by Bennett last year. They are produced by Nicholas Hytner’s London Theatre Company and Kevin Loader.
The monologues which will air on BBC One in the coming months are as follows: Continue reading “News: Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads returns to TV”
Posted on March 1, 2020 March 12, 2020
TV Review: Flesh and Blood
Imelda Staunton plays a blinder in ITV’s Flesh and Blood but for a thriller, there’s not much that is actually that thrilling apart from Russell Tovey’s chest hair
“I never ever dreamt it would end like this”
The myriad ways in which we can now consume television content means that programmers can find themselves in a bit of a bind, searching for the best way to ensure their show breaks through in such a crowded marketplace. Just look at The Split, releasing the entirety of its second series online whilst also going for a weekly broadcast. Stripping a show over a week for four consecutive nights, as ITV did with Flesh and Blood, may seem like a happy medium between those two modes but in this day and age, I don’t it matches either.
Written by Sarah Williams (Becoming Jane; Small Island), Flesh and Blood is a lush family drama, edging towards thriller territory, as a body is discovered in this sleepy Sussex beach town. And in true winding narrative style, we don’t know who has carked it. Francesca Annis’ Vivien is quietly surprised to find new love with Stephen Rea’s Mark but her adult children don’t think she’s been playing the grieving widow for long enough and once he moves into their former childhood home, hackles are truly raised, conveniently allowing them to turn from the drama in their own lives. Continue reading “TV Review: Flesh and Blood”
Film review: Downton Abbey (2019)
Baron Fellowes of West Stafford stretches not a single muscle in pumping out more of the same in the tiresomely dull Downton Abbey the movie
“I want everything to stop being a struggle”
To crib the tagline of a certain jukebox musical (here we go again…) you already know whether you’re a fan of Downton Abbey the movie. By any stretch of the imagination, it is just an extension of the TV series and so is guaranteed to maintain that same level of comfort that you have always got from the Granthams et al, whether that’s good or bad.
For me, it means a thoroughly unchallenging film and one which proves increasingly dull. (For reference, I’ve only ever seen (some of) the Christmas Day episodes as my parents are fans.) The hook of the film is that it is now 1927 and King George V and Queen Mary are coming to stay for the evening and heavens to Betsy, we’re all of a dither. Continue reading “Film review: Downton Abbey (2019)”
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Throughout many chapters of my life, I observed those around me with feelings of awe and dismay, wondering how I could obtain that go-getter energy that I seemingly lacked. I was never one for vocalizing my goals; my ambition and momentum has instead been a slow and quiet drive that keeps me going. In this society of ever-growing desires to achieve so much in less and less time, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking we are losing the race to that elusive destination of success and happiness. I’ll admit that it took me longer than I expected (but I guess that’s perfectly appropriate), and with constant loving reminders from mom, to accept that it’s not a race at all. That shimmering mirage of a destination truly comes in the form of the little bright moments of contentedness from simply waking and moving forward each day.
On an operational level, I have always recognized the value of the small changes that contribute to optimum efficiency as a whole, but I struggled to apply that mentality outside of the office. One thing I know for sure is that the heaviness of life will continue to drift in and out with varying degrees of weight, and some days just getting out of bed can be something to be proud of. Over the years I’ve learned to practice patience with myself, to remember that it is okay if I am not always productive in the traditional sense, because achieving success as a complicated and beautiful human being is about so much more.
About a year and a half ago, I started hiking a short trail at a nearby park after work, mostly to abbreviate the long commute home and to decompress from my busy days. My short hikes turned into long runs and now, every morning I am brimming with anticipation of putting on my dusty shoes and escaping into the dirt, with the earthy and cleansing smells of pine and eucalyptus, the skyline of downtown peeking out over the trees, and the dull roar of traffic far enough in the distance that I can be fully immersed in this serene space. Looking back, I feel simultaneous disbelief and pride at how I can so easily melt into my pace, a comforting rhythm that now carries me several miles. I frequently reflect on how I arrived at this accomplishment and all of the tiny victories that I celebrated each day - running the hill just one more time, going just 50 feet more. It is in these small moments where progress is really made.
Oftentimes setting a goal can feel overwhelming when thinking about what is required to get there, whether it’s wanting to be healthier, looking for a new career, reaching out to friends who’ve fallen out of touch, changing a system at work, or even something immense, daunting, and ambiguous like trying to be happier. But growth doesn’t happen overnight, it is a series of small changes, all amplifying and fortifying each other, like ripples on water, stones dropped in one at a time. We must believe in our capabilities, trust in the process and acknowledge our efforts, no matter how seemingly insignificant. And we must gently release doubt’s hold if we sometimes fall behind. Because the speed doesn’t matter. It is the single steps, diligently and courageously placed one after the other, that will get us to where we want to go.
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Out of the LOOP
A guide to country walks by train from London
Walks by county
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Thameslink
Bewl Water & the High Weald
9 ½ miles (15.3km) Stonegate – Wadhurst
Brede & Winchelsea
11 ½ miles (18.6km) Three Oaks – Winchelsea
Chevening and the North Downs
12 ¼ miles (19.7 km) Dunton Green – Oxted
Cuxton, Ranscombe and Cobham
5 ¾ miles (9.4km) Cuxton – Sole Street
The Darent Valley
7 ¾ miles (12.4km) Farningham Road – Shoreham
Groombridge & Eridge Park
10 ¼ miles (16.4 km) Ashurst – Frant
Knole, Ightham Mote & Plaxtol
11 miles (17.7km) Sevenoaks – Borough Green & Wrotham
Maidstone Downs
12 miles (19 km) Hollingbourne – Aylesford
Medway Marshes
10 ¼ miles (16.5km) Newington – Swale
Medway Valley Orchards
6 ¾ miles (10.9km) East Farleigh – Yalding
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content strategy + storytelling
Rapha Women’s Ambassador Program
I’m proud to have launched the Rapha Women’s Ambassador Team in 2014, a successful marketing initiative for this brand that still runs today. The inaugural team was comprised of fourteen female cyclists from all over North America to represent the brand. These women ranged in ability and participation level but they all shared a strong passion for cycling, a high level of influence within their local and broader cycling communities, and are all incredibly dynamic in their own right. The women selected to represent Rapha had an opportunity to collectively bring change to the sport of women’s cycling. Every day, just being true to who they are as women and as cyclists, they incited new energy to cycling, changed perception in the sport and ultimately were helping to get more women riding bikes, which was one of Rapha’s larger goals.
I launched the 2014 Rapha Women’s Ambassador Team program with a 4-day event in Los Angeles called “The Calling”. The Calling draws it’s name from the idea that these women all consider cycling part of their calling and reason for being. This event was part training camp, part product education, and included a number of presentations around Ambassador roles and expectations. The women were treated to a new Rapha cycling wardrobe and some incredible gear from the program partners including all new Trek bikes for the season. Mixed in were some incredible hikes, private yoga sessions, and gourmet meals from well-known cycling chef Biju Thomas as well as some pretty empowering and connections and conversations around women’s cycling.
#RaphaTOC
An extended training camp for a select group of Rapha Ambassadors took place after the Ambassador team launch. I produced a 7-day cycling journey covering over 650 miles from Los Angeles to Sacramento supporting a team of 7 women brining attention and awareness to women’s cycling. We designed a route that covered all but one stage of the 2014 Amgen Tour of California race. This adventure truly showcased what the women of Rapha are all about – fearless, fun, committed, supportive and inspiring. To watch some of what these women accomplished be sure to check out the film Rapha Women: Tour of California Ride, which documents their ride.
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I love to write. Business plans, advertising copy, press releases, you name it...I dig working with words. But most of all I enjoy sharing stories. I love discovering new people, places, concepts, ideas and crafting articles and copy that make you think and act. My work has been published in numerous magazines and I am currently working on my first book.
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I grew up in front of the camera where I was fortunate enough to work for many years as a model in the U.S. and abroad. I've always been comfortable around a camera and passionate about storytelling through images. In the past few years I've had the opportunity to publish some of my photographs along with my stories and I consider it part of the journalism process.
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Oral transmission as a route of infection for viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum)
Anna Amanda Schönherz, M. H. H. Hansen, H. B. H. Jørgensen, P. Berg, Niels Lorenzen, Katja Einer-Jensen
Surveys among wild marine fish have revealed occurrence of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) infections in a high number of diverse fish species. In marine aquaculture of rainbow trout, preying on invading wild fish might thus be a risk factor for introduction and adaptation of VHSV and subsequent disease outbreaks. Our objective was to determine whether an oral transmission route for VHSV in rainbow trout exists. Juvenile trout were infected through oral, waterborne and cohabitation transmission routes, using a recombinant virus strain harbouring Renilla luciferase as reporter gene. Viral replication in stomach and kidney tissue was detected through bioluminescence activity of luciferase and qRT‐PCR. Replication was detected in both tissues, irrespective of transmission route. Replication patterns, however, differed among transmission routes. In trout infected through oral transmission, replication was detected in the stomach prior to kidney tissue. In trout infected through waterborne or cohabitation transmission, replication was detected in kidney prior to stomach or in both tissues simultaneously. We demonstrate the existence of an oral transmission route for VHSV in rainbow trout. This implies that preying on invading infected wild fish is a risk factor for introduction of VHSV into marine cultures of rainbow trout.
Journal of Fish Diseases Online
Recombinant virus
Rhabdoviridae
Transmission route
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Novirhabdovirus Medicine & Life Sciences
Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus Agriculture & Biology
Oncorhynchus mykiss Medicine & Life Sciences
rainbow Earth & Environmental Sciences
virus Earth & Environmental Sciences
infection Earth & Environmental Sciences
Trout Medicine & Life Sciences
mouth Agriculture & Biology
Schönherz, A. A., Hansen, M. H. H., Jørgensen, H. B. H., Berg, P., Lorenzen, N., & Einer-Jensen, K. (2012). Oral transmission as a route of infection for viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum). Journal of Fish Diseases Online, 35(6), 395-406. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2761.2012.01358.x
Schönherz, Anna Amanda ; Hansen, M. H. H. ; Jørgensen, H. B. H. ; Berg, P. ; Lorenzen, Niels ; Einer-Jensen, Katja. / Oral transmission as a route of infection for viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum). In: Journal of Fish Diseases Online. 2012 ; Vol. 35, No. 6. pp. 395-406.
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Transcriptomics and adaptive genomics of the asymptomatic bacteriuria Escherichia coli strain 83972
Viktoria Hancock, Aswin S. Seshasayee, David Ussery, Nicholas M. Luscombe, Per Klemm
Escherichia coli strains are the major cause of urinary tract infections in humans. Such strains can be divided into virulent, UPEC strains causing symptomatic infections, and asymptomatic, commensal-like strains causing asymptomatic bacteriuria, ABU. The best-characterized ABU strain is strain 83972. Global gene expression profiling of strain 83972 has been carried out under seven different sets of environmental conditions ranging from laboratory minimal medium to human bladders. The data reveal highly specific gene expression responses to different conditions. A number of potential fitness factors for the human urinary tract could be identified. Also, presence/absence data of the gene expression was used as an adaptive genomics tool to model the gene pool of 83972 using primarily UPEC strain CFT073 as a scaffold. In our analysis, 96% of the transcripts filtered present in strain 83972 can be found in CFT073, and genes on six of the seven pathogenicity islands were expressed in 83972. Despite the very different patient symptom profiles, the two strains seem to be very similar. Genes expressed in CFT073 but not in 83972 were identified and can be considered as virulence factor candidates. Strain 83972 is a deconstructed pathogen rather than a commensal strain that has acquired fitness properties.
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virulence factors
asymptomatic bacteriuria
global gene expression
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Bacteriuria Medicine & Life Sciences
Genomics Medicine & Life Sciences
Escherichia coli Medicine & Life Sciences
Gene Pool Medicine & Life Sciences
Genomic Islands Medicine & Life Sciences
Asymptomatic Infections Medicine & Life Sciences
Virulence Factors Medicine & Life Sciences
Hancock, V., Seshasayee, A. S., Ussery, D., Luscombe, N. M., & Klemm, P. (2008). Transcriptomics and adaptive genomics of the asymptomatic bacteriuria Escherichia coli strain 83972. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 279(5), 523-534. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-008-0330-9
Hancock, Viktoria ; Seshasayee, Aswin S. ; Ussery, David ; Luscombe, Nicholas M. ; Klemm, Per. / Transcriptomics and adaptive genomics of the asymptomatic bacteriuria Escherichia coli strain 83972. In: Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 2008 ; Vol. 279, No. 5. pp. 523-534.
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To Your Eternity anime to release in October 2020
Anime, Manga, News
Popular Japanese fantasy graphic novel ‘To Your Eternity’ or ‘Fumetsu no Anata e’ will be adapted into a TV anime series by NHK ETV. The anime will be produced by Brain’s Base studio, which is well known for off-the-beat titles ...
Aiko Koyama’s Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san gets anime adaptation
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Slice of life manga Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san or The Caterer at the Maiko Manor will now have its own anime adaptation for the TV audience, and readers are absolutely thrilled about it. The announcement was made by the...
New WIXOSS TV anime to release in 2020; PV released
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Rising Light: Chantiana Staley’s Goal? The White House
Written by: Harley Anderson
Rising Light is an article series highlighting promising photography students from all over the world. This month we introduce Chantiana Staley at the Savannah College of Art & Design.
Chantiana Staley is wrapping up her final semester at the Savannah College of Art & Design and you can tell she is already thinking about heading out into the ‘real world’. While she will no doubt make the rounds in her native Charleston, her goal is to move to New York or California and give it her best shot as a working photographer.
Her prime interest is portraiture, but based on the images displayed on her website she is equally adept shooting still life and landscape.
Chantiana picked up a camera for the first time back in high school, and since that time she has managed to hone a fine sense of composition. She understands how to frame her subject and visually crop into the core of the image.
Chantiana admits to being somewhat a control freak, which works to her advantage when it comes to her photography. She learned how to take pictures shooting available light, but having had a taste of studio lighting, she quickly realized what she can do with a couple of packs, heads, and light modifiers. Like most photographers who ‘see the light’, she much prefers controlling the light rather than have the light control her.
When asked which of her photographs is her favorite to date she takes a short pause before deferring to her series of monochromatic dance photographs, which are admittedly influenced by the work of Alexander Yakovlev, a dance photographer whose work Chantiana greatly admires.
To freeze the model and the splays of powder flying around the set, Staley used Profoto D4 Air and a pair of Profoto AcuteD4 Heads with Profoto Softbox RFi 1×6′ positioned on either side of the model. Thanks to the more-than-ample power output and short flash duration of her Profoto flash system she had full confidence she is able to capture original images that emulate the spirit of a photographer whose style and technique she respects and admires.
The studio still life of spices – which she styled herself, is another side of her work. To capture this image she used a Profoto D4 Air with an AcuteD4 Head fitted with a Profoto Softbox RFi 2×3’ positioned directly overhead on a boom stand. As with most of Chantiana’s work, it is simple and elegant.
Chantiana Staley makes no bones about the fact that she has high expectations for herself. She also knows photography isn’t always the easiest career path she can choose from. Regardless, when asked to describe her dream assignment she took a short breath and with more than a hint of conviction said, “I want to take an official White House portrait… I want to photograph the President of the United States”.
A box of donuts says she does!
Photographer: Chantiana Staley
School: Savannah College of Art & Design
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Panga, 200 pounds of pot wash up near Point Vicente in Southern California
A 25-foot panga and 200 pounds of marijuana washed up on a Palos Verdes beach. One bale of marijuana was floating in the water while another was found on the rocky shore between the Point Vicente Interpretive Center and the Terranea Resort.
The panga was discovered by a hiker who notified authorities around 10:30 am on Friday. The skiff was covered with a gray plastic cover.
This comes at a time when the Mexican Navy announced they were stepping up their efforts to stop the flow of drugs in to the United States by stopping and boarding more boats in Mexican waters.
Along with the bales of pot, there were 18 fuel canisters and yellow rain coats strewn along the beach. Sheriffs had the boat towed to Marina del Rey where it will be examined.
The Westerly out of Long Beach Sportfishing was pulling up to anchor off Point Vicente at 3 pm when a Coast Guard vessel approached. The menacing boat with a gun in her bow pulled up to ask Captain John Ackley if had been around at 8 am. Ackley said no and anchored up in hopes of a seabass. With his binoculars, he could see a sea of federal and local agents combing the rocky beach for clues and evidence.
A similar incident occurred on the Palos Verdes Peninsula on May 13 when a 25-foot panga was found abandoned at Bluff Cove in Palos Verdes Estates. Deputies said the boat was not registered in the United States, and the life jackets and other materials were in Spanish leading investigators to believe the boat arrived from Mexico.
Same thing occurred in May at Catalina Island when Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies seized 1,500 pounds of marijuana at Little Harbor. A man was spotted near plastic-wrapped bales on the backside of Catalina, where 31 bales were later seized.
As long as there is an appetite for drugs on this side of the border, one has to surmise that the pangas will keep coming.
Fishing pangas above were photographed in Popotla, Baja California Norte and are similar to the panga discovered near Point Vicente on Friday. Photo credit- Philip Friedman Outdoors
I threw all that stuff in the trash !!! Wonder how it got to that boat !!! LOL !
Posted by: Vince A | 07/02/2011 at 04:46 PM
I had a good laugh on Vince's comment. Well, Legalization of marijuana has always been a big debate between those who are in favor and those who disagrees. But based on my observation, I think in America alone most of them seemed obsessed with the legalization of marijuana.
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International Network for Philippine Studies
CPP urges preliminary talks to take up JASIG violations
CPP urges preliminary talks to take up JASIG violations, release of political prisoners and human rights issues
By CPP Information Bureau
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today urged the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) negotiating panel to take up in the upcoming preliminary talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) on January 14-18 the issues of government forces' violations of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), the continued detention of some 400 political prisoners and the long-delayed indemnification of victims of human rights abuses.
"In line with the objective of giving the formal resumption of peace negotiations a boost, the CPP sees the urgent need to get the GRP's commitment to comply with the JASIG, put an end to the continued detention of political prisoners and work to provide justice to all the victims of state violations of human rights," said the CPP.
The release of political prisoners, investigation of human rights abuses under the Arroyo government and the indemnification of the victims of the Marcos dictatorship are long overdue in accordance the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIHL).
"The GRP must reprimand and instruct the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP) and its other security agencies to stop violating these agreements," the CPP said further.
"Otherwise, there will be no sense for the NDFP to talk peace with the GRP's negotiating panel while its military and police forces continue to violate with impunity whatever agreements have been reached and signed."
The CPP made the statements in the aftermath of the January 4 arrest of Comrade Tirso "Ka Bart" Alcantara — in violation of the JASIG as well as the treacherous arrest of at least two other cadres and their companions during the ceasefire period. On December 17, NDFP Northcentral Mindanao leader Pedro Codaste was arrested with four others at a checkpoint in Bayugan, Agusan del Norte. On January 1, Edwin Brigano, an NPA cadre in the Southern Mindanao region was arrested while undergoing medical treatment for serious respiratory illness and hepatitis.
The CPP denounced the AFP and the Philippine National Police (PNP) for filing trumped-up criminal charges against the arrested CPP/NDF/NPA leaders "in a desperate effort to justify their illegal and treacherous arrests and continued detention." The CPP said that while most of the criminal charges are trumped-up, the others stem from legitimate acts of war, are governed by international rules and do not fall within the jurisdiction of Philippine penal laws.
"If there are legitimate complaints, these should be subjected to negotiations in accordance with the CARHRIHL."
"In compliance with the JASIG, the CPP and the NDFP reiterate their demand for the Philippine government to immediately release Ka Bart in order for this matter not to stall the resumption of formal peace negotiations," added the CPP. "It further calls for the immediate release of Comrades Codaste and Brigano, as well as other detained NDFP consultants."
Marco Valbuena
Media Officer
Cellphone Numbers: 09156596802 :: 09282242061
E-mail:cppmedia@gmail.com
Published January 7, 2011 By Roselle Valerio
Categorized as News & updates
Ceasefire violations by AFP/PNP cited in NDFP letter to GRP Panel Chair Alexander Padilla
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Written by philsoperaworld June 18, 2018 June 26, 2018
Nikolaj Andrejvich Rimsky-Korsakov: Servilia (1902)
Opera in five acts. Running Time: 2 hours 38 minutes.
Do not expect an overtly positive review, I get the impression that Rimsky wrote this just because he wanted a complete trilogy of operas based on the Lev Mei plays as there is little to mention here. Oddly enough, the Servilia of the title and many of the other characters are actually based on real people. There was a real Servilia who was the daughter of one Soranus, a senator who was imprisoned by Nero. She herself was executed by Nero after she sought the services of a sorceress to find out what had happened to her father (he had committed suicide). This opera has never caught on, at all. If you want the digest on the opera there are only two good points: an aria for the title character around mid-way through the opera and the finale. There are four or five other good tunes, but little of it ever consummates although Rimsky’s attempts of Roman music should get an honourable mention. It has in fact been produced only around ten times in all 116 years since its premiere, and its third production was in 1944! The libretto has somehow been translated in English, so here is the link:
opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/servilia.htm.
Somehow the opera has been completely recorded and someone named Martin Pitchon uploaded it to YouTube this past April:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdYuHPAz0YE&t=179s.
ACT 1: The Roman forum, morning. (27.5 minutes)
14, 16, 21, 25: The opening scene is an interesting example of through composed recitative. A child polenta seller sings a dim sales pitch, joined in competition by an adult soprano florist. Then there is some mild oboe/clarinet/bassoon work, all mildly agreeable but none of it all that eventful really but it is serviceable enough. Some citizens talk amongst themselves about Valerio Rustico, the tribune, and how Hispo, one of their number is going to denounce the lot of them for a reason that isn’t given. We then get some mild fanfare, the sort of thing we would expect from an opera set in Ancient Rome as a messenger arrives telling everyone that Nero is opening a new temple to Minerva. The chorus does its thing effectively enough, if at times it is ornery as there are also reports of Christians arriving in the city. There aren’t any real events until a female chorus brings on a religious procession * which is then protested by an elderly Christian man who is laughter at and attacked by the crowd of worshipers *. Servilia herself comes on trying to stop the attack. Valerio (the tenor) ends up stopping the lynching of the old Christian and Servilia falls in love with him. Valerio’s accompaniment, although very Verdian, is also extremely bizarre with string instruments bopping and woodwinds chirping at odd intervals. There is a solo violin that gets all romantic. The old Christian returns with another hymn like number as the curtain falls and polite applause is rendered.
ACT 2: The baths of Agrippa, a marble dining hall set. (27 minutes)
0, 12: A fugitive prelude * is followed by a serviceable but musically uninteresting recitative about Messalina of all people. It is just senatorial intrigue (something about Valerio’s name being struck from the lists and a group conspiracy against Rome) until the dinner begins. The music is all serviceable and okay in itself but there is nothing eventful (as usual). The reading of the lists by Egnazio has one solidly good tune * which gets repeated over and over from the orchestra.
15: Something of a bright spot is a hymn to Bacchus that is taken up by all of the guests *.
17: Montanus, a senator, sings a rather agreeable song * about Jupiter and Semele to than accompaniment by the on-stage musicians. Then there is some low temperature dancing.
22.5: Slaves enter yelling fire! The library is apparently on fire, they all run out and Egnatius (now alone) reveals a secret door and Nero’s captain Tigellinus. Egnatius reveals that his motive is love for Servilia. Curtain, more polite applause.
ACT 3: A hall in Soranus’ house. (42 minutes)
0, 6, 10, 13: A bit of a party tune leading to a rather jovial women’s chorus * as Servilia tries to spin something on a spinning wheel. Her father comes in and tells her that he plans on marrying her off to his friend Trasea (who happens to be the adoptive father of Valerio). Servilia becomes very sad and reveals her feelings to her father * about love and also Christianity. Trasea arrives to a fanfare (Servilia goes a bit daffy here *) and tells Soranus * that he knows that Valerio loves Servilia and will step aside so the two young lovers can be united in marriage.
17: Servilia gets a nice little aria ** (the best music so far) about flowers ending with a rather deep reflection on why, if God gave women feelings, do men make it impossible for them to express them freely?
30, 34, 40: Valerio arrives and can no longer hold back his love for Servilia, although their duet is hardly passionate and mostly consists of a series of stilted patches of recitative and arioso although Valerio does get one good passage with the orchestra * and there is an attempt at a melody in Servilia’s vocal line but it comes off as bumbling *. The fathers and Servilia’s governess Antonia give their blessings and the orchestra bumbles about like a bad bel canto opera although it does climax effectively enough *, but a centurion bursts in and arrests the older men in the name of Caesar for treason. This is slightly more effective than the previous acts but still.
ACT 4: The house of Locusta, a sorceress. (32 minutes)
0, 10, 17, 21, 23, 31: If you can believe it, the opera falls into that worn out trap as well! Yes we are in the home of a sorceress, who incidentally has a Christian slave to boot if the situation could not become more cliched. Were it not that the historical Servilia consulted with a fortuneteller in the same context as here I would mark this down poorly but it is historical so I have to let it pass. The prelude is a mild piece * which becomes more sinister as we meet Locusta. She has made a deal with Egnazio so that he will come up as Servilia’s “fate” when she comes to have her fortune told. Servilia requests rather sweetly and the orchestra and chorus does an okay job of the apparitions * and all but it is all rather one of a piece. Egnazio comes on and claims to be Servilia’s romantic fate. She rejects him instantly and he goes about his life story in the most ornery way. He ends up giving her a butchered love song * that cries to break through but never does in spite of a second outing *. He leaves her alone to resign herself to submission but really most of this consists of her screaming in misery at the probability of her sexual violation. Nevoleia, Locusta’s Christian slave-girl saves Servilia from a fate worse than death by helping her flee through the catacombs (this is historically improbably as the catacombs did not exist until the 2nd century and we are very much in the 1st century but the two women get one nice little holy tune before escaping * (probably the third or fourth best in the opera unfortunately).
ACT 5: The Temple of Venus (29 minutes)
0, 12, 16, 19, 24: We know we are at judgement with this prelude *. The pre-trial is rather ornery with a Praetor reading off a long list of complaints against Stoicism. The trial goes and Servilia arrives finally. The father are sentenced to banishment, Servilia is to be handed over to Egnazio but Valerio arrives (after having thought to have been dead) and vetos the sentence to the most bizarre accompaniment *. Servilia is overjoyed but also dying from shock and exhaustion. She takes the opportunity to spout out Christian propaganda in her final moments * flutes fluttering about, very holy chords. Suddenly, with less than ten minutes left, the opera turns nuclear ** and as she dies the orchestra goes into a mini-liebestod. Valerio tries to commit suicide in his desolation but he takes comfort in Christianity, and the finale is explosive ***.
This opera is incredibly pallid, what is worse the plot is really boring. Although little of the music is bad or ornery, very little of it is good either. The score is serviceable almost all the time, and there are even some attempts at scenic music (the fanfares, the songs at the banquet in act 2) but there is so little that is actually interesting. Most of the music would be more than appropriate for a film about Ancient Rome, however. The five act grand opera structure comes off rather episodic with this standard and rather dull tale of Christian vs. Pagan Rome where most of the conflict isn’t even between Christians and Pagans but amongst the Pagans themselves. There are two great numbers, Servilia’s flower aria in act 3 and the opera’s two part finale consisting of the death of Servilia and the final Credo, but otherwise the score’s most interesting feature is how retro it is for 1902, it feels half a century older at times. Overall I am not disappointed in taking the three hours to listen to this opera, once, but I would never do it again. Definitely a gamma if there ever was one.
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Архив автора: Mobile news chief editor
Many VCs historically avoided placing bets on hit-driven mobile gaming content in favor of clearer platform opportunities, but as more success stories pop up, the economics overturned conventional wisdom with new business models. As more accessible infrastructure allowed young studios to become more ambitious, venture money began pouring into the gaming ecosystem.
After tackling topics including how investors are looking at opportunities in social gaming, infrastructure bets and the moonshots of AR/VR, I asked a group of VCs about their approach to mobile content investing and whether new platforms were changing perspectives about opportunities in mobile-first and desktop-first experiences.
While desktop gaming has evolved dramatically in the past few years as new business models and platforms take hold, to some degree, mobile has been hampered. Investors I chatted with openly worried that some of mobile’s opportunities were being hamstrung by Apple’s App Store.
“We are definitely fearful of Apple’s ability to completely disrupt/affect the growth of a game,” Bessemer’s Ethan Kurzweil and Sakib Dadi told TechCrunch. “We do not foresee that changing any time in the near future despite the outcry from companies such as Epic and others.”
All the while, another central focus seems to be the ever-evolving push toward cross-platform gaming, which is getting further bolstered by new technologies. One area of interest for investors: migrating the ambition of desktop titles to mobile and finding ways to build cross-platform experiences that feel fulfilling on devices that are so differently abled performance-wise.
Madrona’s Hope Cochran, who previously served as CFO of Candy Crush maker King, said mobile still has plenty of untapped opportunities. “When you have a AAA game, bringing it to mobile is challenging and yet it opens up an entire universe of scale.”
Responses have been edited for length and clarity. We spoke with:
Hope Cochran, managing director, Madrona Venture Group
Daniel Li, partner, Madrona Venture Group
Ethan Kurzweil, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Sakib Dadi, investor, Bessemer Venture Partners
Alice Lloyd George, founding partner, Rogue VC
Gigi Levy-Weiss, general partner, NFX
Hope Cochran and Daniel Li, Madrona Venture Group
Does it ever get any easier to bet on a gaming content play? What do you look for?
Hope Cochran: I feel like there are a couple different sectors in gaming. There’s the actual studios that are developing games and they have several approaches. Are they developing a brand new game, are they reimagining a game from 25 years ago and reskinning it, which is a big trend right now, or are they taking IP that is really trendy right now and trying to create a game around it? There are different ways to predict which ones of those might make it, but then there’s also the infrastructure behind gaming and then there’s also identifying trends and which games or studios are embracing those. Those are some of the ways I try to parse it out and figure out which ones I think are going to rise to the top of the list.
Daniel Li: There’s this single-player narrative versus multiplayer metaverse and I think people are more comfortable on the metaverse stuff because if you’re building a social network and seeing good early traction, those things don’t typically just disappear. Then if you are betting more on individual studios producing games, I think the other thing is we’re seeing more and more VCs pop up that are just totally games-focused or devoting a portion of the portfolio to games. And for them it’s okay to have a hits-driven portfolio.
There seems to be more innovation happening on PC/console in terms of business models and distribution, do you think mobile feels less experimental these days? Why or why not?
Hope Cochran: Mobile is still trying to push the technology forward, the important element of being cross-platform is difficult. When you have a AAA game, bringing it to mobile is challenging and yet it opens up an entire universe of scale. The metrics are also very different for mobile though.
Daniel Li: It seems like the big monetization innovation that has happened over the last couple of years has been the “battle pass” type of subscription where you can unlock more content by playing. Obviously that’s gone over to mobile, but it doesn’t feel like mobile has had some sort of new monetization unlock. The other thing that’s happened on desktop is the success of the “pay $10 or $20 or $20 for this indie game” type of thing, and it feels like that’s not going to happen on mobile because of the price points that people are used to paying.
Alice Lloyd George, Rogue VC
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WhatsApp delays enforcement of a controversial privacy change, Apple may get rid of the Touch Bar in future MacBooks and Bumble files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 15, 2021.
The big story: WhatsApp responds to privacy backlash
Earlier this month, WhatsApp sent users a notification asking them to consent to sharing some of their personal data — such as phone number and location — with Facebook (which owns WhatsApp). The alert also said users would have to agree to the terms by February 8 if they wanted to continue using the app.
This change prompted legal threats and an investigation from the Turkish government. Now the company is pushing the enforcement date back three months.
“No one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8. We’re also going to do a lot more to clear up the misinformation around how privacy and security works on WhatsApp,” the company said in a post. “We’ll then go to people gradually to review the policy at their own pace before new business options are available on May 15.”
The tech giants
Uber planning to spin out Postmates’ delivery robot arm — Postmates X is seeking investors in its bid to become a separate company.
Apple said to be planning new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with MagSafe and Apple processors — This could be the end for the Touch Bar.
Amazon’s newest product lets companies build their own Alexa assistant for cars, apps and video games — Yes, that means your next car could have two Alexas.
Startups, funding and venture capital
Bumble files to go public — The company plans to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.”
Tracy Chou launches Block Party to combat online harassment and abuse — Currently available for Twitter, Block Party helps people filter out the content they don’t want to see.
Everlywell raises $75M from HealthQuest Capital following its recent $175M Series D round — Everlywell develops at-home testing kits for a range of health concerns, and it added a COVID-19 home collection test kit last year.
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Lessons from Top Hat’s acquisition spree — The acquisition of Fountainhead Press marks Top Hat’s third purchase of a publishing company in the past 12 months.
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Video game spending increased 27% in 2020 — According to the latest figures from NPD, spending on gaming hardware, software and accessories was up 25% in December and 27% for the full year.
DOT evaluated 11 GPS replacements and found only one that worked across use cases — The government wants to create additional redundancy and resiliency in the sector.
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Samsung lowers prices with its latest Galaxy S phones, Google completes its Fitbit acquisition and Beyond Meat is coming to Taco Bell. This is your Daily Crunch for January 14, 2021.
The big story: Samsung unveils Galaxy S21 line
Samsung’s new line of phones includes the S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra, priced at $799, $999 and $1,119 respectively, an across-the-board price cut of $200. Brian Heater writes that the Ultra, in particular, “has one very important trick up its sleeve” — namely compatibility with the S Pen.
All three phones are available for pre-order now and start shipping on January 29.
In addition, Samsung announced the Galaxy Buds Pro, which cost $199 and come with a stated five hours of battery life. And it’s launching a Bluetooth locator, dubbed the Galaxy SmartTag.
Google’s Fitbit acquisition is official — This follows regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the pond.
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses — The bug made it possible to retrieve the location data on users who posted to the app.
Beyond Meat shares soar after inking deal with Taco Bell on new menu items — Taco Bell announced that it would work with Beyond Meat to come up with new menu items due to be tested in the next year.
Medium acquires social book reading app Glose — Glose has been building iOS, Android and web apps that let you buy, download and read books on your devices.
Tiger Global is raising a new $3.75B venture fund, one year after closing its last — Despite being named Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV, this is actually the firm’s thirteenth fund.
Carbyne raises $25M for a next-generation platform to improve emergency 911 responses — The Israeli startup aims to help emergency services get more complete information about callers, and to provide additional telemedicine services.
Five consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies — Investors are generally bullish on at-home fitness startups.
Poshmark prices IPO above range as public markets continue to YOLO startups — This is the late-2020, early-2021 IPO market in action.
Twelve ‘flexible VCs’ who operate where equity meets revenue share — Founders seeking non-dilutive funding: start here.
Tech and health companies including Microsoft and Salesforce team up on digital COVID-19 vaccination records — The so-called “Vaccination Credential Initiative” includes a range of big-name companies from both the healthcare and tech industries.
2020 was one of the warmest years in history and indicates mounting risks of climate change — 2020 either edged out or came in just behind 2016 as the warmest year in recorded history, according to data from U.S. government agencies.
Запись опубликована 15.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике Daily Crunch, Hardware, Mobile, Samsung с метками Beyond Meat, Extra Crunch Five, Galaxy S21, Taco Bell.
Amazon is doubling down on one of the biggest strengths of its Prime Video streaming service: aggressive pricing.
The e-commerce giant on Wednesday launched Prime Video Mobile Edition, an even more affordable tier of the on-demand video streaming service — now also bundling some mobile data.
Prime Video Mobile Edition, for which Amazon has partnered with Indian telecom network Airtel, will feature 28-day mobile-only, single-user, standard definition (SD) access to customers in India for Rs 89 ($1.22). This tier will include 6GB of mobile data that customers can consume during the subscription period. There’s also a slightly expensive plan for Prime Video Mobile Edition that will charge customers Rs 299 but will offer 1.5GB mobile data for each day of the subscription. To anyone who subscribes to Prime Video Mobile Edition, Amazon says it will pick the tab for the first month.
Amazon Prime subscription costs $1.7 a month in India and includes access to Prime Video and Prime Music.
The new Prime Video plan is currently only available in India. Its launch comes two years after Netflix unveiled a similar plan in India.
Affordable pricing is key for on-demand steaming services that are looking to make inroads in India, the world’s second-largest internet market. Even as more than 600 million users are online in the country today, only a fraction of them currently pay to access digital subscriptions. In a recent report to clients, analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated that gaming and video streaming market in India could clock as much as $5 billion in gross value transactions by March 2025.
Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.8) mobile-only monthly plan in India
“India is one of our fastest growing territories in the world with very high engagement rates. Buoyed by this response, we want to double-down by offering our much-loved entertainment content to an even larger base of Indian customers. Given high mobile broadband penetration in the country, the mobile phone has become one of the most widely used streaming devices,” said Jay Marine, vice president, Amazon Prime Video Worldwide, in a statement.
Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, is the first roll-out partner for Prime Video Mobile Edition, said Sameer Batra, director, Mobile Business Development at Amazon, suggesting that the company may ink similar deals with other telecom operators in the country as it looks to expand the “reach of our service to the entire pre-paid customer base in India.”
Nearly every on-demand video streaming service in India, including Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar, maintain various partnerships with local telecom operators and satellite TV providers to reach more users in the country. Amazon did not explicitly say when or if it plans to extend Prime Video Mobile Edition outside of India.
Запись опубликована 14.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Apps, Asia, Disney, Hotstar, india, Media, Mobile, Netflix, prime video, streaming service с метками India India, Jay Marine, Sameer Batra, SD.
Smartphone sales are bad — and have been for a couple of years now. Certainly this ongoing pandemic hasn’t helped. All the talk about how 5G and new form factors were going to cause a kind of bounce-back all fell by the wayside, as people put a pause on unnecessary luxuries.
Samsung is the only company that’s seen some success with the foldable form factor, and that whole thing got off to a…rough start. There were plenty of technical issues at first, leading to a less than auspicious first impression. These days, price continues to be a major hurdle — especially during a time when paying $1,000 and up on a phone is a major red flag for many.
In the world of phone form factors, two is, at the very least, the start of a trend. And on day one of CES both LG and TCL have offered their take on yet another form factor designed to offer more screen real estate in pocketable devices.
Image Credits: TCL
LG’s product is — for the moment — the more notable of the two, largely because the company plans to actually release the thing. In an interview published this morning, spokesperson Ken Hong told Nikkei, “As it is released at CES 2021, I can tell that it will be launched this year.”
And, indeed, LG’s a company not afraid to take chances with a wacky form factor. There are a number of examples of the phenomenon in recent years, most notably the swiveling screen on the LG Wing.
Still, the product didn’t amount to much more than a brief tease during a press conference (an excuse to transition between scenes, really), so you’d be forgiven for assuming that the tech still has a long way to go.
TCL, meanwhile, noted up front that the product is still firmly in the concept phase, but managed to give us a better look. I suppose it’s easier to parade concept than an unfinished real-world product. Details are still slim, but the company says the device is capable of expanding from 6.7 to 7.8 inches.
One imagines — or, at least, hopes — that the industry has learned from the issues stemming from the first batch of foldables. Sometimes the race to bring technology to market results in delivering something half-baked, an issue that came back to bite companies like Samsung and Motorola. Lab testing is one thing — the real world is a different thing entirely.
Запись опубликована 13.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике CES, CES 2021, foldables, Hardware, LG, Mobile, TCL с метками CES, Ken Hong, LG, TCL.
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PIA02326: Diverse Geologic Features of Western Tharsis, Mars
Instrument: Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
Produced By: Malin Space Science Systems
Producer ID: MOC2-176 MRPS95221
This pair of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images shows a variety of geologic features along the eastern edge of the Gigas Sulci (the rough, ridged surface at upper left in each picture) in western Tharsis. This is a volcanic region located approximately 750 km (470 mi) northwest of the Pavonis Mons volcano and 350 km (220 mi) southeast of the Olympus Mons volcano.
The regional view (above, left) is a MOC wide angle context image showing the location of the higher resolution, narrow angle camera view (above, right) as a small, white box. The upper left portion of the context image shows a rough, hilly terrain--Gigas Sulci--that is cut along its margins by several troughs that look something like gashes made by a giant knife. Also in this scene are several impact craters, including one (upper right) with a bright, teardrop-shaped "tail" formed by wind. The context frame covers an area approximately 115 kilometers (71 miles) across and is illuminated from the left. North is up.
The high resolution picture (above, right) is a MOC narrow angle camera view of a 3 km-(1.9 mi)-wide area along the edge of the hilly, Gigas Sulci terrain. This image shows a range of interesting geologic features. The Gigas Sulci consist of steep, somewhat mountainous terrain, but the valleys and some of the slopes between these hills appear smooth and mantled (perhaps by dust). Small, parallel ridges on some of the valley floors are probably windblown dunes. The edge of the hilly terrain is cut by a deep trough caused by faulting and down-dropping of the terrain in the center of the valley. The slopes of this valley exhibit dark streaks caused by small landslides. Boulders the size of small buildings can also be seen on some of these slopes. This deep trough and another, shallower one to the south (lower left) cut across lava flows, indicating that the troughs formed after the lava flows were emplaced, cooled, and hardened. The trough at the lower left has slumped and terraced walls. As in the context frame, nor this up and the sun illuminates the scene from the left.
For a full-resolution (3.7 meters--12 feet--per pixel) view of the narrow angle camera image (2.9 Mbytes), Click HERE.
Malin Space Science Systems and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission. MSSS operates the camera from its facilities in San Diego, CA. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA and Denver, CO.
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Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing “Potentially Life Threatening” Misdirection
Police in Victoria have urged motorists to avoid the use of Apple Maps, warning that faulty directions on the much-criticized app have left motorists stranded in the Australian outback for up to 24 hours without food or water.
The press release stated that tests on the mapping system confirmed that it shows the city of Mildura as being in the middle of Murray Sunset National Park, when in fact it is located about 70 kilometers away. The statement from Victoria Police said this is a “potentially life threatening situation” because there is no water supply within the park and temperatures can reach 46 degrees Celsius.
Its been noted many times that Apple Maps’ most egregious errors are for countries outside the US. Berlin was renamed and addresses disappeared completely in Jakarta and now, apparently, Aussie iOS users could find themselves unwittingly starring in their own real-life version of “Picnic At Hanging Rock.”
The decision to remove Google Maps from iOS and replace it with the error-filled Apple Maps forced Tim Cook to issue an apology in September and recommended several competing apps. Apple fired the manager who oversaw the Maps team last month and many have speculated that the October resignation of Scott Forstall, the SVP of iOS Software, was related to the furor. Apple is also reportedly recruiting ex-Google Maps developers in an effort to improve iOS maps.
Image from Victoria Police News
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Monitoring the effect of inulin, protein, and calcium on milk coagulation phases using a fibre optic sensor
Oscar Arango*, Antonio José Trujillo, Manuel Castillo
Currently, there are evident contradictions in the literature about how milk protein concentration and added calcium affect the hydrolysis and aggregation phases during milk coagulation. In this study, a near infrared light backscatter sensor and rheology were used to evaluate the effects of protein (3, 4, and 5%), calcium (0.90 and 1.80 mM), inulin (2, 5 and 8%) concentrations and their interactions on the hydrolysis, aggregation and firming phases during enzymatic coagulation of low fat milk. The increase in both inulin and calcium concentration reduced the duration of the hydrolysis, aggregation and firming phases. The increase in protein concentration reduced the hydrolysis reaction rate, but produced a significant decrease in the aggregation and cutting times. The results demonstrated that the optical sensor is sensitive enough for the inline detection of the effect of variation in milk composition or ingredients addition on each of the coagulation phases.
International Dairy Journal
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idairyj.2018.01.015
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Arango, O., Trujillo, A. J., & Castillo, M. (2018). Monitoring the effect of inulin, protein, and calcium on milk coagulation phases using a fibre optic sensor. International Dairy Journal, 81, 80-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idairyj.2018.01.015
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Uses and consumption of cinema by European adolescents: a cross-cultural study
María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Isabel Villegas-Simón, Ariadna Angulo-Brunet
Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising
Grup de Recerca en Imatge, So i Síntesi - GRISS
TransMedia Catalonia
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This cross-cultural descriptive empirical research observes the relationship of 937 high-school students from eight countries of the European Union with cinema. A survey was applied in 37 schools and 28 cities for individuals participating in a course on film literacy that was offered free of charge and as an extracurricular opportunity in their educational centres. The statistical analysis of the responses shows patterns perhaps tied to the respondents’ culture (country) in their motivation for going to the cinema, their film-choice preferences, the media they watch the films on, the ways they select and obtain the films they watch, the frequency with which they download films and their preferred genres. However, there are also common patterns of use and consumption across the European adolescents in the sample. The results of this research are useful for understanding the place that cinema occupies in the life of youngsters today and particularly relevant for audiovisual regulators, who, they, should take into account the cultural characteristics of young audiences if their actions are to bear fruit.
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Soto-Sanfiel, M. T., Villegas-Simón, I., & Angulo-Brunet, A. (2019). Uses and consumption of cinema by European adolescents: a cross-cultural study. Studies in European Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2019.1613044
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Toast Go™
Easier Training with Toast POS
How Flour Bakery Shaved Minutes Off Wait Times with Toast POS System
The mere mention of Flour Bakery has the ability to make Bostonians' mouths water. One of Flour's key missions is to make the lives of both guests and employees a little bit better each day. Technology is, of course, a part of that experience.
The mere mention of Flour Bakery has the ability to make Bostonian’s mouths water. The bakery, owned by 2016 James Beard Award-winner Joanne Chang and her husband Christopher Myers, has expanded in recent years to five locations with over 350 employees.
According to Director of Operations Mike Brucklier, one of Flour Bakery’s most poignant missions is to make the lives of both guests and employees a little bit better each day. They believed that technology was part of that experience. Mike and Asst. Director of Operations Tanya Li decided to upgrade to Toast because they felt they’d finally found an all-in-one system.
Flour’s growth, commitment to quality, and focus on customer service drove their decision to modernize their bakery POS system.
Improved Service with a Mobile POS System
Walking into a Flour is like walking into an eclectic, modern family kitchen. They’re well known for their award-winning pastries and attentive staff who make every item to order.
“Our founders come from a full-service restaurant background,” Mike says. “As a result, there is an intense emphasis on hospitality. We talk a lot more about service and guest experience than any other place I’ve worked.”
Guests expect a streamlined workflow that serves up their order quickly and accurately. When Flour first opened, tickets were handwritten by staff.
“We used to use handwritten paper tickets, which, looking back, blows my mind,” says Mike. “We had to teach the shorthand to the entire staff and hope they wrote it legibly. If you couldn’t read the ticket, you had to find the person that wrote it during a rush and ask them to decipher it.”
Flour has improved throughput and wait times by line-busting with Toast's mobile POS system. The team aims to serve food to guests within seven minutes of their order being placed. Toast prints a time stamp on each kitchen ticket automatically and the line cooks are more successful in achieving their seven-minute goal.
“All that time we spent running between the counter and the kitchen is gone,” Tanya says. “With Toast, we punch in the order on the tablet and it's sent directly to the kitchen printer. Plus, training is 10x easier because it’s all just buttons on a tablet. The ease of getting the order onto a printed ticket has made a huge difference in wait time - we’re at least a few minutes faster on each order.”
Managers with their Heads in the Cloud
With Toast’s cloud-based POS interface, back end reporting is real-time and intuitive, which was a huge relief for the general managers at Flour.
“Our old system had decent reporting,” Mike says, “But the back office interface wasn’t intuitive or easy to use. Our management team, mostly 25-30 years old, couldn’t navigate the back end because it looked like a 1997 version of Windows. It was absurd. We knew we could do so much better. So we did.”
Managers like Tanya can now manage the menu in just a few seconds with Toast, rather than putting the whole operation on hold to make a small edit.
“With our legacy system, we had to shut down everything just to change the price of a muffin,” she remembers. “It’d take the system completely out for 4 to 5 minutes! We realized, ‘It’s 2015. What are we doing here? It shouldn’t be that hard to change a menu item.’”
The True Gift of Digital Gift Cards
As a staple on the MIT campus and surrounding Boston neighborhoods, Flour processes a lot of gift cards from parents of students. Finding a way to digitally send restaurant gift cards was a priority for Mike and his team when selecting a restaurant point of sale system.
“Creating and mailing physical gift cards is a cumbersome process for us,” he says. “We don’t have a shipping department to ship cards in a timely manner - and gift cards are typically a last-minute purchase.”
With Toast, Flour’s staff can enter a gift card like any menu item and send a digital QR code to the recipient's phone or email address instantly.
“eGift cards just make sense,” Mike says. “Toast makes it easy to process digital gift cards and they’re delivered immediately. It saves us a lot of headache and it’s been a much better experience for our guests. They love that they can just hold up their phone, pay, and they’re done.”
An Upgrade in System and Service
As is often the case with restaurants using legacy POS systems, Flour was used to slow and automated technical support.
“We’d call the old POS company, the operator would dispatch the information, and someone would call us you back an hour later from who-knows-where,” Tanya says. “I love being able to have a direct line to Toast. I can directly email the Toast Customer Care team and get a quick response.”
Toast is both a software and a services company. With in-house professional implementation services available and award-winning technical support for every customer, service is ingrained into the business.
“We initially evaluated seven different POS companies,” Mike recalls. “What really stood out to me was the way the Toast team handled themselves - professional and helpful. Their commitment to service was evident. Customer service was part of the package with Toast. They aren’t just a computer company, the service is really built into the model.”
A Delicious Combination
In the end, Mike and Tanya needed a POS system that was more than an order-processing computer.
“When it came down to it, we wanted a POS system with a customer-facing screen that could do e-signatures, line-busting tablets, and digital gift cards. The other tools we looked at had subsets of those features, but Toast was the only all-in-one POS platform.”
Plus, you really can’t argue with the Toast and Flour combination.
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Postdoc in Nanotechnology
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Coriolis Frequency Tracking
Manus P Henry (Inventor), Mihaela D Duta (Inventor), Michael S Tombs (Inventor)
Motion is induced in a conduit such that the conduit vibrates in a major mode of vibration having a major amplitude and a minor mode of vibration having a minor amplitude. The major amplitude is larger than the minor amplitude, the major mode of vibration has a first frequency of vibration and the minor mode of vibration has a second frequency of vibration, and the minor mode of vibration interferes with the major mode of vibration to cause a beat signal having a frequency related to the first frequency of vibration and the second frequency of vibration. The frequency of the beat signal is determined, and the second frequency of vibration is determined based on the determined frequency of the beat signal.
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Henry, M., Duta, M. D. & Tombs, M., 29 Dec 2020, IPC No. GOIF I/84, Patent No. US10876875B2, 23 Apr 2018, Priority date 7 Mar 2007, Priority No. US89357307P
Henry, M., Duta, M. D. & Tombs, M., 12 Jun 2018, IPC No. G01F 1/84, G01F 1/76, G01F 15/02, G01N 9/00, Patent No. US9995613B2, 2 May 2014, Priority date 7 Mar 2007, Priority No. US89357307P
Henry, M., Duta, M. D. & Tombs, M. S., 12 Sep 2008, IPC No. G01F 1/84, Patent No. WO2008109841A1, 7 Mar 2008, Priority date 7 Mar 2007, Priority No. US20070893573P
Henry, M. P., Duta, M. D., & Tombs, M. S. (2014). Coriolis Frequency Tracking. (Patent No. US2014238149A1).
Coriolis Frequency Tracking. / Henry, Manus P (Inventor); Duta, Mihaela D (Inventor); Tombs, Michael S (Inventor).
Patent No.: US2014238149A1. Aug 28, 2014.
Henry, MP, Duta, MD & Tombs, MS Aug. 28 2014, Coriolis Frequency Tracking, Patent No. US2014238149A1.
Henry MP, Duta MD, Tombs MS, inventors. Coriolis Frequency Tracking. US2014238149A1. 2014 Aug 28.
Henry, Manus P (Inventor) ; Duta, Mihaela D (Inventor) ; Tombs, Michael S (Inventor). / Coriolis Frequency Tracking. Patent No.: US2014238149A1. Aug 28, 2014.
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November 03, 2017 · House Renovations, Interiors
We found this 1950s bungalow in original condition [mint!]. These modest dwellings – many based on architectural plans from the Queensland Housing Commission are not held in the same esteem as the pre-war Queenslander and yet have unique charm and a build quality that surpasses the timber and tin suburban stock.
Adopting a strategy that embraces the bungalow typology in both materiality and manner is central to the conceptual framework. Re-planning of both internal arrangement and creating a relationship to the garden were the major architectural challenges. Incorporating new and inventive detailing to enhance the simplicity of the original architecture. Internally walls were removed to better connect the living room and kitchen whilst the bathroom was replanned and an ensuite added. Removing the bricked-in partitions of the front and rear patios enabled new architecture to bring the garden into the home. Creating a landscape that suited the house and related to the interior was critical, as was opening vistas to the surrounding parkland. New brickwork stairs (front & rear) and plinths, including a patio chaise, have been added to improve these connections. Existing brick screens are replaced with much lighter and permeable timber and wire inter-woven as inspired by 1950s furniture. This opens up the patios and the materiality of the screens and new brickwork contrasts the original terracotta pavers which are preserved.
The main architectural intervention is the roof to the rear patio which is an angular extrusion of the original geometry designed to frame the south west eucalypts in the adjacent park. The new structure intervenes into the kitchen interior and opens the vista up and out, into the landscape.
The asbestos clad garage had a suspended hardwood floor and neat terracotta roof that demanded a higher calling. Re-orientated via a small connecting timber and brick patio the satellite structure is integrated to the house and garden. Reclad, remodelled and repurposed as a floristry studio and a multi-purpose room, and there is a playful re-use of existing doors and windows. The interior design of the house subtly draws on the qualities of the original whilst improving the functionality of the rooms. Bathrooms are new and modern using classic tiling not dissimilar to the era and re-purposing the existing pink basin and bath fixtures into the ensuite. The plan is increased by a cantilever under the existing roof eave to enable a fireplace in the living area where a brick hearth is a visual constant with the exterior. The kitchen is positioned purposefully at the threshold of the patio and garden is a double-galley (race-track) arrangement. The island table is designed to enhance the social side of kitchen dwelling and the neat circular dining area is compactly built into an existing casement glazed corner.
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Last weekend saw the sixth edition of the Southern Cup, hosted at Brookes Sport in Harcourt Hill, Oxford Brookes University between the 9th and 10th of November.
16 teams competed at this year’s Southern regional tournament, with nearly half of those teams being made up of London community teams (7/16 to be precise). Group A-D featured at least one London team (Group C featuring three!) so it’s not surprising when we saw an all London podium at the end of Sunday’s games.
In an intense final, the Werewolves of London Firsts reclaimed their gold medals kicking off the season in style against the London Unspeakables which ended in overtime, compiling a final score of 160°-120*. The match between London’s oldest club and EQC 2019’s bronze medalists was regarded as “one of the most exciting finals in UK Quidditch in years”. Some even comparing it to the likes of the BQC 2015 final in Nottingham against Southampton Quidditch Club and the Radcliffe Chimeras which ended in overtime as well.
The Unspeakables had beaten previous national champions London Quidditch Club A in a tight semi-final beforehand, who then progressed to the third-place playoff, facing the Oxford Mammoths to eventually claim a 3rd place finish for LQCA.
For winning Southern this year, the Werewolves have been given a pass in competing at the European Qualifier Tournament as regional winners are awarded a top seed spot at Division 1 of the European Quidditch Cup hosted in Belgium in May 2020. Other teams to qualify for EQT aside from the podium finishers include Oxford Mammoths (4th), Southampton Quidditch Club (5th), Southsea Quidditch (6th) and London Quidditch Club B (7th).
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Congratulations go to the Werewolves of London Firsts for retaining their title of southern champions for two seasons in a row. We’d like to extend our praise to all our players and teams who competed this year making this Southern Cup one to remember. More importantly, a massive consideration goes out to all volunteers who ran a fantastic tournament giving their time, resources and talent across the event.
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The prisoner at the bar
Arthur Cheney Train
sidelights on the administration of criminal justice
by Arthur Cheney Train
Published 1908 by C. Scribner"s sons in New York .
Justice, Administration of -- United States.,
Crime and criminals -- United States.
Statement by Arthur Train.
LC Classifications HV9468 .T72
Pagination xviii p. 1 l., 386 p.
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A haunting, intensely emotional memoir of the middle-class author’s relationship with a man jailed for murder. In lyrical, flowing prose, columnist and performance poet Bandele (Absence in the Palms of My Hands, not reviewed) presents piercing portraits of herself, the man she loves, and a prison system designed to stifle all sensibility.
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The Others: A Childhood Nightmare
I have a great respect for Spanish directors and their films. J.A. Bayona and The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro and Pan’s Labryinth, Jaume Balaguero/Paco Plaza and REC (U.S. version – Quarantine). And now I can say Alejandro Amenabar and The Others. This film has a chilling take on demons/poltergeists/ghosts and the like. Set back in a time period where ghosts would have been an issue (WWII), this movie artfully uses fog as an extension of ghosts and beings that are not of this world. Transported through this fog, we find an ethereal feel and place where ghosts would most likely dwell.
But I was afraid to watch this movie for a long time. Do you wanna know why?
That is exactly why. The last few seconds of that trailer frightened me back when I was 11. And I know I was a young ‘un, but this movie chilled me somehow. I hadn’t seen that many horror movies and I was naive in the horror department in general. That young girl’s voice and ancient figure beneath the veil haunted my dreams for years. And now, I sat down and forced myself to watch it. Conquering fears and writing blogs. I should mark that off my bucket list.
The Others is a story about a secluded English family and their hardships without a father figure during the end of WWII. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a strict and God fearing mother who feels it is necessary for her children to strictly follow the word of God. But there’s a problem. Her children cannot be exposed to natural light. (If that’s a real disease… didn’t check.) Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley) are
They’re like cute vampires. They can’t see light.
two sick children who have no hopes of seeing the outside world. But the otherworld has come to them. In the form of haunting ghosts.
With a new cleaning and housekeeping staff hired, Grace hopes to make things easier on the children with such a trying lifestyle. Bertha Mills (Fionnulla Flanagan) runs the house with her mute charge, Lydia (Elaine Cassidy), and the elderly garden keeper, Mr. Tuttle (Eric Sykes). With strange occurrences and Anne constantly seeing a young boy and old woman, Grace fears for her own children and wishes her husband were back and knew what to do.
A desperate mother.
What I found interesting that characterizes this movie is a sense/loss of innocence. The children are quite ignorant and innocent in their knowledge of the outside world, especially during a time of war. Their mother’s faith doesn’t waiver while their own teachings are questioned by themselves at all times. This movie seems to question God at the same time that it affirms ghosts and another plane of existence. The whole movie itself is an early 2000’s examination of religion and whether or not it is a viable means of explanation. It prodded it (to an exhausted point I found to be too overzealous) and wouldn’t leave it alone, even at the end.
Nicole Kidman gives a very mean and zealous performance as the mother in this film, a character who would do anything to protect her children from a heathen and sinful world. She escalates at quite a nice and even pace into hysteria (as I’m sure was intended) and leaves you questioning her merit and faith by the end. I also enjoyed Christopher Eccleston (the crazed military leader in 28 Days Later) and his role as the crestfallen husband returned from war. His haunting performance toned the film in a very depressing way that
Haunts. My. Dreams.
characterized a lot of soldier’s feelings after WWII. He wasn’t in it for much, but it was just enough. And Fionnula Flanagan was a fantastic caring/aloof housekeeper who comes off as creepy and nurturing at the same time.
I know you’re there…
After all was said and done in the film, and a lot was, I was overall impressed with the movie. It was done in a very minimal way with one location and a very haunting house. Old style houses like the one in the film from the early 1900’s (or earlier, I wasn’t sure) give me the creeps. The old pictures, the old furniture and dusty feel always have given me the creeps, just knowing someone had to have died in the house. That’s another thing. I really enjoyed the mention of photographing the dead and how that used to be a common practice in order to capture the soul of the person so they may live on. The overall old feel and simplistic nature of horror in the film came from a very human place. Dying and the afterlife, ghosts and hauntings in old houses in something we all are unsure about. And something we can’t explain. Very well done for a Spanish film with no Spanish spoken. 7.7 out of 10.
Jesus is always over your shoulder.
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India services PMI up modestly, input prices at 30-mth high
Posted by Admin on February 4, 2011
http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/India-services-PMI-modestly-reuters-3999984247.html
A waiter serves coffee to college students surfing the internet at a cafe in Bangalore in this April 6, 2000 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
On Thursday 3 February 2011, 10:31 AM
BANGALORE (Reuters) – Business activity in India’s services sector grew at a faster clip in January than in the previous month, boosted by new orders and expectations of solid growth, but costs also soared, a survey showed on Thursday.
The HSBC Markit Business Activity Index, based on a survey of around 400 firms, rose to 58.1 in January after falling to 57.7 in December from November’s four-month high.
It was the 21st consecutive month the key index of the service sector in Asia’s third largest economy has been above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction.
“India’s service sector saw a slight acceleration in the momentum in January, with activities, orders, and employment growing a bit faster and readings staying firmly in expansionary territory,” said Leif Eskesen, chief economist for India & ASEAN at HSBC.
The PMI’s employment index and the business expectations index climbed to their highest in seven months, indicating Indian firms were more optimistic about the year ahead.
However, the input price index hit a 30-month high of 61.99 in January and prices charged were at a nine-month high, underscoring the threat that higher raw material prices are rapidly filtering into the broader economy, fueling inflationary pressures.
“As we saw for the manufacturing sector, however, the supply side is struggling to keep pace with the strong momentum in domestic demand, which is manifesting itself in accelerating input prices and is spilling over to prices charged,” Eskesen said.
India’s manufacturing sector expanded at a slightly faster pace in January but input prices jumped, adding to pressure from food inflation that the government and central bank are already struggling to contain.
“The current strong pace of activity is clearly not compatible with comfortable and stable levels of inflation, underscoring the urgency of continued monetary policy tightening and the need to prepare a budget for the next fiscal year, which is consistent with an appropriately contractionary fiscal policy stance,” Eskesen said.
India’s central bank raised interest rates on Jan. 25 by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing the repo rate to 6.5 percent, in an attempt to suppress stubborn inflation. The increase was its seventh rate rise over the past year and more hikes are expected to follow later in 2011.
The Reserve Bank of India has lifted inflation projections for March 2011 to 7 percent.
(Reporting by Ruby Cherian; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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UK Jan Services Shows Sharp Rebound From Dec Contraction (forexlive.com)
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UK services at eight-month high (bbc.co.uk)
Record growth at factories comes with inflation worry (telegraph.co.uk)
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World food prices seen at record high in January
http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/World-food-prices-seen-record-reuters-194064327.html
A vendor sorts tomatoes at a wholesale vegetable and fruit market in Chandigarh January 29, 2011. REUTERS/Ajay Verma
On Thursday 3 February 2011, 6:12 AM
By Svetlana Kovalyova
MILAN (Reuters) – Surging food prices are on Thursday expected to push the United Nations ‘ food price index to a record high in January for a second straight month, further above the levels which prompted food riots in 2007/2008.
The Food Price Index of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which measures monthly price changes for a food basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, hit a record in December, above a previous high set in June 2008 during the food crisis.
A mix of high oil and fuel prices, growing use of biofuels, bad weather and soaring futures markets pushed up prices of food in 2007/08, sparking violent protests in countries including Egypt , Cameroon and Haiti.
The Rome-based agency has warned food prices could climb even higher, expressing concern about global weather patterns.
Severe drought in the Black Sea last year, heavy rains in Australia and dry weather in Argentina and anticipation of a spike in demand after unrest in north Africa and the Middle East has helped power grain prices to multi-year highs.
The worst winter storm for decades in the U.S. grain belt kept up pressure on wheat futures on Wednesday.
Surging food prices have come back into the spotlight after they helped fuelled protests that toppled Tunisia’s president in January and have spilled over to Egypt and Jordan, raising speculation other countries in the region would secure grain stocks to reassure their populations.
Algeria on Jan.26 confirmed it had bought almost a million tonnes of wheat, bringing its bread wheat purchases to at least 1.75 million since the start of January, and ordered an urgent speeding up of grain imports, a move aimed at building stocks.
World leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week warned rising food prices could stoke more unrest and even war. French President Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated calls for regulation to rein in speculation and volatility.
Multi-year highs for grain and sugar futures in January helped push higher spot and physical prices which the FAO uses to calculate the index.
(Reporting by Svetlana Kovalyova; editing by Keiron Henderson)
World food prices seen at record high in January (reuters.com)
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Posted in Economic Upheavals, Press Releases | Tagged: 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Black Sea, Cereal, crisis, demand, distribution, Egypt, food, Food and Agriculture Organization, Middle East, reuters, supply chain, United Nations, World Economic Forum | Comments Off on World food prices seen at record high in January
Global imbalances returning, could fuel unrest – IMF chief
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) smiles during a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event at the Newseum in Washington, December 16, 2010. REUTERS/Molly Riley/Files
On Tuesday 1 February 2011, 12:44 PM
By Kevin Lim
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The world economy has begun improving but is beset by problems such as high unemployment and rising prices which could fuel crippling trade protectionism or even lead to war within nations, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday.
Rising food and fuel prices in recent months have already hit poorer countries and are one of the factors behind massive anti-government protests in Egypt and in Tunisia, whose president was ousted last month.
The United Nations ‘ food agency (FAO) said last month that global food prices hit a record high in December, above 2008 levels when riots broke out in countries as far afield as Egypt , Cameroon and Haiti.
“The pre-crisis pattern of global imbalances is re-emerging,” Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a speech in Singapore.
“Growth in economies with large external deficits, like the U.S., is still being driven by domestic demand. And growth in economies with large external surpluses, like China and Germany, is still being powered by exports,” he said.
“As tensions between countries increase, we could see rising protectionism — of trade and of finance. And as tensions within countries increase, we could see rising social and political instability within nations — even war.”
Over the next decade, 400 million young people would join the global labour force, posing a daunting challenge for governments, he added.
“We face the prospect of a ‘lost generation’ of young people, destined to suffer their whole lives from worse unemployment and social conditions. Creating jobs must be a top priority not only in the advanced economies, but also in many poorer countries.”
Unemployment stands at 9.4 percent in the United States while a number of European countries are also struggling to create jobs in a global economy where much of the growth is coming from emerging market countries.
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ALSO AT RISK
Concerns about rising debt in developed countries, meanwhile, have increased in recent months.
Ireland was engulfed by Europe’s debt crisis late last year, Greece continues to struggle despite a rescue package and many market watchers fear Portugal and Spain may be next.
Last week Standard & Poor’s cut Japan ‘s credit rating and Moody’s warned it may place a negative outlook on the United States unless it can reduce its gaping budget deficit.
In Asia, the worries centre around inflation and analysts say central banks in countries such as Indonesia need to respond faster to contain rising prices.
Strauss-Kahn also said foreign exchange rate adjustments have an important role to play in addressing global economic imbalances and should not be resisted.
“Holding back such adjustment in one country also makes it harder, and more costly, for other countries to let their exchange rate adjust,” he said.
“For this adjustment to take place, time is of the essence, but asking for time only makes sense if there is a significant and regular move in the right direction.”
Chinese policymakers were moving in the right direction by taking steps to bolster domestic demand, he noted, though the United States and many other Western countries continue to push Beijing to let its yuan currency appreciate faster.
Strauss-Kahn said the IMF expected subdued growth of 2.5 percent for advanced economies this year as high unemployment and household debt weighed on domestic demand.
“Without jobs and income security, there can be no rebound in domestic demand — and ultimately, no sustainable recovery,” he said.
Emerging markets would grow at a faster pace of 6.5 percent, with Asia excluding Japan expanding by 8.5 percent, he said.
“Monetary policy in the advanced economies should remain supportive as long as inflation expectations are well anchored and unemployment stays high,” while Asia may need to do more to address the threat of overheating and a possible hard landing, he said.
(Editing by Kim Coghill)
Global imbalances returning, could fuel unrest : IMF chief (reuters.com)
IMF says ready to help Egypt, others in trouble (nwoandsecretsocieties.wordpress.com)
IMF warns of gathering storm (financialpost.com)
UPDATE 2-Joblessness, rising prices could spark war within nations: IMF chief (reuters.com)
IMF says ready to help Egypt, others in trouble – AFP (news.google.com)
Global economic recovery ‘beset by tensions and strains’ warns IMF chief (guardian.co.uk)
IMF Chief Warns Of ‘Lost Generation’ World’s Youth (huffingtonpost.com)
IMF: Global rebound ‘not the recovery we wanted’ (money.cnn.com)
IMF Chief Warns Of Civil Wars Around The World (businessinsider.com)
“IMF Warns Of Future Wars In Countries That Have ‘Dangerous Imbalances'” and related posts (warnewsupdates.blogspot.com)
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Tens of thousands march against Yemen president
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By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press Ahmed Al-haj, Associated Press – 11 mins ago
SANAA, Yemen – Tens of thousands of demonstrators, some chanting “down, down with the regime,” marched Thursday in several towns and cities in Yemen against the country’s autocratic president, a key U.S. ally in the fight against Islamic militants.
Police opened fire and tear gas to break up one of the marches, witnesses said, and security officials confirmed a demonstrator was critically wounded by police fire. Two others were also hurt in the eastern town of Mukalla, but further details were not immediately available.
In the capital of Sanaa, scuffles and stone-throwing briefly erupted between thousands of anti-government demonstrators and supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled for more than 30 years. However, police stepped in and there were no reports of injuries.
Security forces deployed in large numbers around the Interior Ministry and the Central Bank, and military helicopters hovered over some parts of the city.
Anti-government protests have erupted in several Arab countries in recent weeks. In Egypt, embattled President Hosni Mubarak is trying to cling to power until the end of his term in September, despite more than a week massive street protests demanding his immediate resignation.
In Yemen, protests erupted in several towns Thursday after Saleh moved earlier this week to defuse demands for his ouster by pledging not to seek another term in 2013 and not to allow his son inherit power.
Anti-government protesters said they don’t trust Saleh and demanded that he quit immediately.
“Thirty years of promises and thirty years of lies,” read one banner raised by marchers in Sanaa. Protesters chanted: “Down, down with the regime.”
In a counter demonstration, supporters of the president carried banners warning that the opposition was trying to destabilize Yemen.
Mohammed al-Sabri, a spokesman for a coalition of opposition groups, said hundreds of thousands took to the streets Thursday. He said the opposition is ready to engage in a dialogue with the president, but wants concrete proposals for change.
“We welcome this decision (not to seek another term), but if the people want the president to leave, we will adopt their demand,” al-Sabri said. “We have had political demands which we discussed with the regime for the past three years, but unfortunately failed.”
He said peaceful protests would continue for the next three months.
The United States has taken a sharp tone on Egypt, urging Mubarak to move swiftly to meet the demand for democratic reform. But it has cautiously praised pledges of reform in Yemen.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley on Wednesday welcomed Saleh’s “positive statements.”
The Yemeni president is seen as a weak but increasingly important partner of the United States, allowing American drone strikes on al-Qaida targets and stepping up counterterrorism cooperation.
In Brussels, Yemen’s foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, warned that interference from outside countries — of the sort in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan — would be counterproductive.
He said frustration of the young generation was widespread across the Arab world, including in his country. “I think the frustrations of younger generations are universal in the Arab world,” al-Qirbi told The Associated Press in Brussels, where he had come to seek development aid.
However, he said Yemen’s government never severed contacts with opposition parties and civil groups, and for that reason it was better placed to hold a constructive internal dialogue than other countries in the Middle East.
In Yemen, where the population is overwhelmingly very young, unemployment is 35 percent and poverty is endemic. About 40 percent of the population lives on less than $2 (euro1.45) a day.
Saleh’s government controls little of the impoverished country beyond the capital; it is facing a serious challenge from a secessionist movement in the south and a rebellion in the north.
The U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, thought to be hiding in Yemen, is believed to have inspired and even plotted or helped coordinate recent attacks on the U.S. Those include the failed Christmas Day 2009 bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner and the unsuccessful plot to send mail bombs on planes from Yemen to the U.S. in October.
Al-Awlaki also is believed to have inspired the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, and had ties to some of the 9/11 hijackers.
In Thursday’s marches, thousands of anti-government protesters also took to the streets in the city of Aden. They defied security forces and armored personnel carriers that tried to close the main streets to prevent them from gathering.
Protesters there shouted: “People want the downfall of the regime, the downfall of the president.”
All big shops in Sanaa and Aden closed their doors and major companies hired guards to protect against possible looting.
Protesters also scuffled with security forces in the town of Jaar in the southern province of Abyan, where al-Qaida militants have been active.
Thousands march against government in Yemen (thestar.com)
Thousands march against Yemen president (independent.co.uk)
Thousands turn out to protest in Yemen (chron.com)
Government supporters, opponents rally in Yemen (ctv.ca)
Government opponents, supporters rally in Yemen (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Yemen Protests Lead to End of President’s Rule in 2013 (waronterrornews.typepad.com)
Yemen protests see tens of thousands of people take to the streets (guardian.co.uk)
Yemen square offs in rival ‘Day of Rage’ protests (theglobeandmail.com)
Anti-government rallies in Yemen stay calm – Washington Post (news.google.com)
Yemeni protesters turn out for ‘day of rage’ (guardian.co.uk)
Tens of thousands march against Yemen president (sfgate.com)
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Severe drought threatens millions in Somalia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110203/ap_on_he_me/af_somalia_drought
By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED, Associated Press Malkhadir M. Muhumed, Associated Press – 1 hr 12 mins ago
GAROWE, Somalia – A severe drought has plunged millions of Somalis into crisis after rains failed for several consecutive seasons in this Horn of Africa nation, and the U.N. and aid groups are warning of the possibility of a looming catastrophe.
The drought has increased the number of malnourished children in some regions, displaced thousands of people and killed thousands of animals. Officials in a central Somali region said 18 people died of drought-related effects.
“The situation is dire. It is an added vulnerability to an already extremely vulnerable people,” the U.N.’s humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, told The Associated Press after touring camps for displaced people in Somalia’s semiautonomous region of Puntland on Wednesday.
Amos’s one-day trip was intended, she said, “to remind the people that there is still a long, ongoing problem in Somalia. I don’t want the people to forget Somalia. When you have an ongoing problem anywhere in the world, it is easy to slip it from the agenda.”
The drought is the latest in a long line of problems for Somalia, which has been mired in conflict since 1991, when warlords toppled the country’s last central government and then turned on each other.
According to the U.N., the malnutrition rate among children has jumped to 30 percent in Somalia’s southern Juba region, a figure that is double the emergency threshold. Food prices have soared up to 80 percent in some regions.
The price increase in the south is attributable in part to traders who are hoarding the food to profit off the drought, said Grainne Moloney, the head of the U.N.’s food security and nutrition analysis unit in Nairobi, Kenya.
Many drought-affected families are fleeing their homes in search of food. In the Galmudug region of central Somalia, officials said they haven’t seen such drought conditions since 1974.
Citing a recent survey conducted by his administration, Omar Mohamoud, a local government official, said the drought has killed 18 people and displaced thousands.
Mohamoud said his community has seen about 70 percent of its sheep and goats, 50 percent of its cattle and 30 percent of its camels die in the last three years.
“We are appealing to the international community to respond to the crisis and provide the people with water, food, medicine and shelter,” said Mohamoud. “If the international community does not respond to the crisis urgently, a catastrophe of huge proportions is staring us right in the eyes.”
The British aid group Oxfam says Somalia’s current drought could be as serious as one in the early 1990s, when thousands of people died.
“The situation is bad now, but with more months of no rainfall it could become an absolute catastrophe,” said Alun McDonald, the group’s spokesman in Nairobi. He noted that weather predictions suggest that the next rains “will also be poor or even fail.”
The poor rains are even affecting marriages. In a makeshift camp in Garowe town, Nura Farah, a mother of seven children, told AP that the lack of rains led to a divorce from her husband.
“When the drought hit us we quarreled,” Farah said. “I told my husband, ‘Look, you are a man. So go to town and look for ways to support your family.’ But he rejected my request and divorced me and left.”
Farah said she quit the nomadic life after her family’s one male camel and 200 sheep and goats died in a month. Poverty has forced her and her children to seek shelter in relatives’ homes in Garowe, the capital city of Puntland. Her 15-year-old son contracted tuberculosis because of a lack of food, she said.
The U.N. has released $4.5 million from its emergency fund to respond to the drought and is likely to release more in coming weeks, said Mark Bowden, U.N.’s Somalia humanitarian coordinator. This figure is separate from the $530 million the U.N. appealed for this year to finance its aid projects in Somalia.
The drought’s effects are worsened by the fact aid agencies’ work is restricted in many regions where Islamist insurgents are in control.
Peter Smerdon, the spokesman for the World Food Program, called on all parties to the Somali conflict to allow his agency free access to help the needy population. He said WFP has had to feed more than 130,000 additional people in Somalia because of the drought. Of Somalia’s estimated population of around 8 million people, about 2.4 million need food aid and about 1.5 million are internally displaced.
Amos urged Somali politicians to inject “a sense of urgency to their discussions” to end decades of warfare.
Kiki Gbeho, the head of the U.N.’s office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in Somalia, warned that if spring rains expected in April fail, the country “is in a huge problem.”
Severe drought threatens millions in Somalia (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Severe Drought Threatens Millions in Somalia (foxnews.com)
Somalia faces malnutrition crisis (guardian.co.uk)
Puntland, the TFG, and the Continuing Fragmentation of Somalia (sahelblog.wordpress.com)
Drought-hit Somalis demonstrate to demand aid (foxnews.com)
Drought-hit Somalis demonstrate to demand aid (sfgate.com)
UN seeks $530 million for Somalia ‘catastrophe’ (ctv.ca)
UN seeks $530 million for Somalia ‘catastrophe’ (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Drought-hit Somalis demonstrate to demand aid (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Somalia May Cut Ties to Mercenary Firm (nytimes.com)
Severe drought threatens millions in Somalia (sfgate.com)
Somalis flee drought zones after rebels block aid (reuters.com)
Severe Drought Predicted in 30 Years (seedorama.com)
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PCB Design Starts With a Plan. This Is Not a Skippable Step
May 13, 2020 John Burkhert
When you get started in any profession, your first Manager will have a great impact on the rest of your career. An appreciation for the job comes from their passion. Fortunately, my first ECAD Manager was sort of a father-figure. He drove a 15 passenger van because that was the vehicle required to take his family anywhere. A man of faith, he took the edict to be fruitful and multiply very seriously. More than 10 children called him “Dad”.
The rest of us called him Merril. Our job was to design and build hardware for the Department of Defence along with a special project for the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA project was called Wind Profiler. It was a huge cylindrical contraption, certainly the largest piece of equipment I can remember. Operationally, the Wind Profiler emits low frequency Radar waves straight up that detect wind shear by measuring slight differences in air pressure. More recently, they are also employed around wind farms to protect the generators.
Image Credit: Author - The Wind Profiler radar installation uses an RF amplifier for each of those orange domes, about 50 in all. The “roof” is the receiver antenna.
At the beginning of this daunting project, the main obstacle was the schedule. There was going to be an array of RF amplifiers all the way around in a circle approximately five feet in diameter. Chunky N connectors tied the slightly trapezoidal boards to the antenna array through long cables. The technical challenge was that output power was tightly regulated and spurious emissions outside of the band of interest had to be very low. We had to generate a huge amount of RF power without bleeding over into the rest of the spectrum; not an easy task.
“Failing to plan is the same as planning to fail.”
We realized that simulations were only going to get us so far. We would have to build prototypes and do a real world test and our next iteration had to be the final form. If we wanted a design win, that’s the schedule. We needed a plan. That’s when Merril’s fatherly advice was most clear. “Failure to plan is the same as planning to fail.”
A single board would not generate sufficient power to measure air density. The oxygen and nitrogen that make up our atmosphere are not very reflective to radio waves. One full-scale unit made up the entirety of the preproduction build. Spectrian had their own LDMOS wafer fab. The chip was the same form factor as a Motorola device. This was an insurance plan because our chips were not all that reliable.
Image Credit: Author - The end customer with the profiler trying to hide behind that tree on the right.
“No plan survives contact with the enemy.”
This brings up the second quote to remember. “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” This nugget of wisdom is attributed to a Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. For sure, Colin Powell used it and most likely Sun Tzu wrote something to that effect in The Art of War. His brilliant summation goes like this: …who wishes to fight must first count the cost.”
Planning and Back Up Planning
Have a plan and have a contingency plan, that’s it in a nutshell. Our contingency plan was the secondary source for the chip but also a parallel effort on another pre-production board. Design by committee is a compromise. A race between two competing teams with the winner decided on the test bench took some risk out of relying so much on simulations. We would design two boards but only one could be used in the prototype.
Image Credit: Author - Note the extra rectangles that can be used to alter the board’s performance characteristics. We called them “chicken dots” but they account for uncertainties in manufacturing of boards and chips.
Idiosyncrasies of Analog Design Come Into Play
In the world of RF amplifiers, a minor difference can have an oversized impact. You don’t even need to add or change a component. A little blob of solder somewhere along the trace can change the characteristic impedance enough to tune the amplifier. Board bring-up in an RF amplifier factory involves a lot more than turning on the power and looking at the waveforms.
Technicians spend time on each board, some more than others in an effort to produce the maximum power with the minimum of out-of-band harmonics. Some component values will be labelled as “select at test”. When the Tech cannot get the board to pass, the Electrical Engineer rolls up her sleeves and figures things out.
There is a science to this where the Engineer can alter the width of the trace in a particular spot to achieve the desired outcome. More extreme than a lump of solder, the use of tuning stubs is a popular solution. The trick is to get the exact width required. Variations in the chips can be accounted for in this way. It takes planning to decide how to allocate the geometry.
Image Credit: Spectrian - Note that the tuning stubs are fully extended by soldering metal tabs to the “chicken dots” The boards pictured here are not for the Wind Profiler but are similar in function.
Houston, We Have a Problem - Enter Manufacturing into the Equation
So, we got our work done and presented our competing boards to the wider group. That’s when the bottom fell out of the plan. Someone from the assembly team noted that the N-connector should have been recessed or otherwise set up in a way that allowed for field service without tearing the unit apart. Easily swappable amplifiers was one of the requirements and our plan wasn’t quite so modular.
They asked Joyce, our Mechanical Engineer how much room she could give them. More would be better. She replied that it would take her “a couple days” to figure out the exact geometry of the approximately 20 x 30 mm slot. She would have to re-engineer the housing while we added a few more corners to the RF path since the boards were going to shrink as a result. More simulations and all of that.
We cannot make space or time, we have to take space which will take time
The Program Manager complained that we didn’t have days to spare. Merril, remember him (?), asked “Do you need the space?” The Manufacturing Engineer said, “Yes”. So Merrill said, “Then it will be a couple days.” He totally had Joyce’s back and that of the rest of his team as well. What a good Manager. We all worked hard to get it done and the squeeze was going to be passed on to the Fabricator, the Assembly line and Test Technicians. We cannot make space or time, we have to take space which will take time.
Image Credit: Author - Not all landings can be happy landings.
We had a learning experience. The upshot is that we built that one Wind Profiler and that was it. The test was successful but it was also irrelevant. Another subcontractor stepped into the void and won the socket. The competition is out there and they don’t sleep. We did everything we could except we didn't start with a complete plan. A seven day work-week was not enough to recover.
“We watched our pennies while losing the dollars.”
That fiasco led to a “post mortem”, a term I don’t like. When a giant conglomeration started using that phrase, I suggested the term “lessons learned” but it didn’t stick. I digress. The lesson learned was that we could have rented some network analyzers and hired some temporary technicians or gave our assembly leads a crash course in RF board bring-up to get through the crunch. We watched our pennies while losing the dollars.
There are two possible outcomes in business; a design win or a learning experience. It wasn’t long after that before the Venture Capitalists that funded the company decided that we needed a corporate doctor, a money man to come in and replace the founder as the CEO. It had been seven years since the company founding and the VC’s wanted their money back.
The new guy pivoted the company from Government contracts to building base stations for cellular towers. He also changed the name from Microwave Modules and Devices to Spectrian so people would ask what we did. That gave him an opening to tell our story. As far as funding, he said that we would have an initial public offering or we would “Hit the wall going 100 miles an hour.” No expense was to be spared in order to meet a deadline. We had our IPO the following year.
John Burkhert Jr is a career PCB Designer experienced in Military, Telecom, Consumer Hardware and lately, the Automotive industry. Originally, an RF specialist -- compelled to flip the bit now and then to fill the need for high-speed digital design. John enjoys playing bass and racing bikes when he's not writing about or performing PCB layout. You can find John on LinkedIn.
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Just can’t wait for “The End of Time”
33 Comments on Just can’t wait for “The End of Time”
Regular readers here know that I’m a long time Doctor Who fan. That’s why it’s with some sadness that I await the approach of the two-episode finale for David Tennant’s tenure as the Tenth Doctor. Over his three full seasons and multiple specials in 2009, Tennant redefined the role and even began to rival Tom Baker for my favorite Doctor. This time, fortunately, BBC America will be showing these episodes one day after they air in the U.K.; so I don’t have to choose between waiting several months to see them or getting them by BitTorrent. In any case, there are some tantalizing clues about what might happen and how the Doctor might be forced to regenerate in these trailers:
Oddly enough, apparently there has never been a Doctor Who story entitled “The End of Time” before. In any case, it is fitting that it should be in battle with The Master that the Tenth Doctor meets his end. After all, that was how the Fourth Doctor met his end.
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33 replies on “Just can’t wait for “The End of Time””
Donald Sinclairsays:
Tennant has only done 3 full seasons, the first season of the new show starred Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.
Hmmm, that comment was meant to contain self-effacing html tags acknowledging that I was being a pedantic geek, but they seem to have disappeared.
luciferasesays:
Holy monkey socks that looks good! Makes me really wish I had BBC America.
I’m going to miss David Tennant, he was my first Doctor.
SpyderHawkesays:
Time to “delurk”:
I started watching Doctor Who with the episodes by Tennant then I saw the ones with Eccleston. I’ve never seen any others but I definitely prefer Tennant. I must say, it took some dedication to figure out what was going on but I think I have it down.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to these episodes, though with some sadness. I still haven’t watched Waters of Mars (it’s on my DVR but I haven’t had time yet) but plan to see it before I see the “End of Time” episodes, too bad there’s a week between them.
Kimsays:
I love the Ood! I’m so glad they’ve become a recurring, erm, hivemind.
Unfortunately I found Tennant’s Doctor painfully irritating after a while and had to stop watching. Hopefully the new kid will bring me back.
Romeo Vitellisays:
Ahem, one does not rival Tom Baker. He is the standard against which all later Doctors are compared.
Anthrosays:
Thanks for this posting–it really helped relieve the horrible burning stupid I was suffering over at HuffPo because I was stupid enough to click on a Mark Hyman article. Arghhhhh, put them all in the sack–and get a very big stick!
Long ago and far away, in what now seems like another universe, and before I killed my television, I used to watch Dr. Who (Tom Baker) with my children. I had discovered the doctor when I did my archaeological field work in England around 1980. Many happy memories. I must catch up!
kathy Orlinskysays:
OK, rub it in that we don’t get BBC America. I guess we’ll be watching The End of Time sometime next year. If only my TARDIS hadn’t been stolen.
Harvey Richmondsays:
I would echo Romeo Vitelli’s comment, only I would extend it to include previous Doctors, as well.
Ravenredsays:
My two and a half year old is obssessed with the Doctor. I should add that I don’t actually let her watch it (the Gasmask monsters could scar her for life, let ALONE the Weeping Angels). I’m going to so enjoy two or three years time when I can sit her down on my knee, whack in Season 1 (or 27, if you prefer) and watch her scurry behind the couch for 65 episodes straight. 😉
lauren's hedgehogsays:
@9 I don’t know, Three has always been my favourite 😛 and Three combined with Sarah-Jane and the Brigadier is brilliant. That said, Four and Ten are a very, very close second 🙂
I hated Dr. Who until the telemovie. I don’t get why the older show is so revered. But, Eccleston and Tennant made it something I don’t miss. And for me, Tennant is THE Doctor. I don’t know if I’ll bother watching it when he leaves. He just radiates the joy of learning, exploring, discovering. I will definitely miss his work.
Sigh, we do not have BBC America. But being a gardener, I know the value of being patient. I can wait for the DVD.
WMDKittysays:
I consider “End of Time” to be a Christmas gift from the BBC, and heartily look forward to it!
@10 — Oh, dear GOD, the “gas-mask monsters” were PREMIUM Nightmare Fuel! *shudders* I still have nightmares about them.
Ravenred, the Weeping Angels were major freaky. I watched it with my teenage son when it came out on the SciFi channel. Teenage boys are supposed to immune to that kind of stuff, but I heard more than one “eeek” come out of him during that hour. You need to wait until she is at least in major double digits years before you do that marathon!
I’m 27 and the Weeping Angels still gave me chills (although the opening at the house when she’s ripping off the wallpaper was hilarious.
bushpigletsays:
Daleks gave me nightmares for ages. Memories.. watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa on a Saturday afternoon. Tom Baker is the Doc I grew up with. But David Tennant mmmm
Meg Thorntonsays:
For me, the Doctors who stick in my mind are Four, Seven, and Nine. Tom Baker because he was there for so long and did so much (and because of the Australian ABC repeats, I saw all of it at least three times, probably more); Sylvester McCoy because those seasons gave the Doctor a lot more depth (I think it was the first time they had a multi-storyline plot arc which surrounded the one character); and Christopher Eccleston because he gave the Doctor a lot more rage and dynamism than he’s ever had before, and was a fitting new beginning for an old favourite.
Richard Eissays:
Can’t you watch the episodes from the BBC website? Or is is zone locked?
JohnTRsays:
I’m still trying to get into the new Doctors. Only recently have I started Seasons 1 & 2(the new ones). Its a great change from the Fourth Doctor which I could watch endlessly. The old ones were more boring, more talking but the dialogue and delivery by Baker was so witty that I consider these perfect. Plus, I’m a bit nostalgic for 70s SciFi special effects. The newer ones seem to be a lot more action and drama based, plus a bit England-centric, rather than traveling around the universe in their story lines (at least up to Season 2, netflix doesn’t have latter than that). But still, I could easily turn on the new Doctors and watch for hours.
What about alternate Nine through Thirteen? 🙂 Rowan Atkison and Hugh Grant have also played the Docter. And the Curse of Fatal Death episode with them was also written by Steven Moffat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZktNoK4wDo
Bronze Dogsays:
I’ve abandoned television for Netflix, so I guess I’ll just have to wait for the DVD.
momkatsays:
My 25 year old daughter and I are such Dr. Who geeks that she had to write “beware the weeping angels” on the wall of our renovated kitchen before the cabinets went up. Long live the Doctor!
perturbedsays:
In Classic Who, Four is my gold standard and Three is a close second, with Seven close on his heels (“Remembrance of the Daleks” remains my favourite adventure ever). Nine is very dark, but understandably so, whereas Ten… I have trouble liking him, possibly because he comes across as hypocritical (killing the Sycorax leader in single combat while deploring Harriet Jones for having their ship shot down as a warning to others), judgemental (it all comes spilling out in the most nail-biting parts of “42”) and dripping with hubris. Pride goeth before a fall, and “Waters of Mars” was his greatest display of hubris yet. The only way to go from there is down.
Hopefully Eleven will go back to being more balanced – perhaps, like Seven, accepting the necessity of having to do terrible things without angsting over them or assuming the divine right of Ki… er, Time Lords. After that, there’s only one more regeneration left before he’s heavily implied in Classic continuity to turn nasty (the Valeyard). That being said, a kickarse Who without any scruples would be awesome, because this is the only way for him to finish off the Daleks, the Cybermen AND the Master (thus writing finis on all his classic enemies) before the whole thing is either wrapped up or somehow extended by finding a way around the thirteen-life limit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeyard
IanWsays:
Over this year, my wife and I completed the entire Doc Who series starting with William Hartnell in “An Unearthly Child” and ending (NOT!!!) with “The Waters of Mars”. Yeah I’m ready for Xmas!
The general consensus lately seems to be that Tennant has replaced Baker I, as the favorite Doctor, but regardless of which is your favorite, Matt Smith as a stunning legacy to live up to.
LovleAnjelsays:
I’m glad I’m not the only one switching from Team Baker to Team Tennant.
Waters of Mars was GREAT. I made my husband jerry-rig the VCR to the DVR so I can make copies for my friends without cable.
I got you all beat – my youngest daughter is named “Romana.”
I have to disagree with you, Orac – I don’t like David Tennant as a Doctor. He is way too emotional for a Time Lord. The cool thing about Baker was that he was detached and quirky enough to resemble a time-spanning alien, but when he meant business… well, he meant business. I like David Tennant himself, don’t get me wrong, but I think Christopher Eccleston did a better job at portraying an alien.
Sorry, Tennant isn’t even in Baker’s ballpark. But I am glad they have finally gotten off Earth as of late! (the past seasons have been more about time travel & less about space travel.)
Karl Withakaysays:
Top tier: Tom Baker, David Tennant, & Patrick Troughton. (It’s a shame we don’t have more Troughton episodes on video.) Peter Davidson gets an honorable mention in the first tier due to the fact that he was the first one I saw from beginning to end- I started with Tom Baker in the Key to Time series.
I liked them all (except maybe McGann), even the OTT & bombastic Colin Baker, who tried to develop his Doctor as a initially despised but eventually loved Mr. Darcy type.
I liked McCoy’s portrayal of the Doctor, but looking back, don’t really care for the Cartmel Master Plan much.
I wish the BBC would release the episodes to DVD faster than the few a year trickle they do now.
PREDJAMAsays:
“You may be a doctor but I’m THE Doctor, the definite article you might say.”
âThe Fourth Doctor to Harry Sullivan
Prup (aka Jim Benton)says:
I would put Tennant — to my surprise — at the top of the list, and am tempted to pull out your — absolutely accurate — e-mail comments to me predicting this. I have never been as much of a Tom Baker fan as most of you, preferring the 3rd, 5th, and 7th to him — and possibly Troughton – I haven’t, of course, seen much of him, but I have quite a few of the novelizations of the original scripts. (Btw, I was pleased and surprised to watch THE MOUSE THAT ROARED and seen an ‘old friend,’ William Hartnell in a major role — I’d never thought of him as being particlarly tall, but then I’d seen so few of his appearances.)
I am worried about the 11th Doctor, the last time they went for a ‘young appeal’ type we got stuck with Colin Baker *shudder*.
The 8th, btw, was weak on the one tv show, but became a very interesting character in the books.
For best villains of the early show, I always listed the Autons first, for some reason they really scared me as no other one did. The Delgado Master, of course, though the others never really worked for me. The Daleks were fun, but got tiresome fast, and I’ve never understood the appeal of the Cybermen. And I still think of the ones on the 7th Doctor, the Great Engineer and — the name slips, but I can’t hear the words “ambient temperature” without thinking of the first Ace story and the “Mr. Freeze” type.
Oh, and I would still cry today if the final Adric story was on and I watched it for the fifth time or so.
Shatterfacessays:
Been a fan since 1971 so Jon Pertwee was my first Doctor (actually, not strictly true: I saw the Peter Cushing movies first) but Tom Baker has been my favourite for most of my life. Still, Tennant has owned the role and I’ll be shedding manly tears at his departure.
‘The End of Time’ starts in 15 mins here.
By the way, right that the title hasn’t been used before but there was a ‘Destruction of Time’ – part of the epic ‘Daleks’ Masterplan’ in the 60’s
Shatterfacesays:
Seen it now: I won’t give away any spoliers but you are in for a treat!
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Clearer not simpler fares
Author: Chris Page - Published At: Wed 22 of Feb, 2017 18:20 GMT - (6322 Reads)
Radical fare changes proposed by the Rail Delivery Group risk reducing choice and flexibility for passengers. What is needed are clearly explained fares which offer choice, not simplistic ticketing which removes flexibility. In London, the adjacent termini of St Pancras and King’s Cross offer alternative routes to Sheffield, giving holders of ‘any permitted route’ tickets the flexibility to choose either.
Railfuture is working with rail companies and consumer groups in the Fares Working Group Forum subgroup organised by the Department of Transport to make fares and tickets clearer for passengers so that they can choose the right ticket for their journey, meeting their needs at the best value fare. We welcome the initiative by the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to trial changes to the fares system which are intended to make ticket choices easier to understand and give passengers the best possible deal.
What is needed is for passengers to be given clear information – whether they buy the ticket online, by phone, at a ticket machine, or in person at a station - so that they can make the best choice, not for choice and flexibility to be removed in the name of simplification.
The RDG has announced that the following three changes will be trialled ‘to simplify the system’, starting in May, but it is not yet clear exactly what these trial changes will be:
Routeing changes between London and Sheffield
The RDG says ‘Routeing changes will be tested between London and Sheffield where regulations date back to when the direct service was much less frequent and journeys often needed a change of train via a longer route. This means that tickets are required to be available which are not in step with actual options available now.’ This implies that the direct route between London and Sheffield is always the fastest route and that passengers would not want to travel via the alternate route; neither is correct.
For example, if I am travelling from London to Sheffield for a morning meeting but do not arrive at King’s Cross St Pancras underground station until 0630, I know that I will just miss the 0632 departure from St Pancras which arrives Sheffield at 0855. If I have the slightly cheaper East Midlands only ‘via Chesterfield’ ticket, I will have to wait for the next train at 0724. However if I have an ‘any permitted route’ ticket, I have ample time to catch the 0705 from King’s Cross, changing at Doncaster to arrive at Sheffield at 0917, 24 minutes before the next direct train from St Pancras. Perhaps more important, if I am on time arriving at St Pancras but find that the direct train is cancelled, with the ‘any permitted route’ ticket I have the option of the alternative route. I also have the flexibility to go out by one route and return by the other, perhaps breaking the journey on the way.
The train operators want to remove the ‘any permitted route’ tickets from the system, because they have to share the revenue from those tickets. Although the ‘any permitted route’ ticket also allows travel to Sheffield from Euston or Liverpool Street which is perhaps less necessary, the flexibility to travel from King’s Cross is important. By not explaining what the proposed routeing change will be, the RDG is still failing to provide the clarity which passengers need. If the ‘any permitted route’ ticket is withdrawn, then passengers will be denied both flexibility and choice.
The ‘any permitted route’ ticket must be retained; the rail companies should explain the benefits of flexibility which it offers in return for its slightly higher price.
Best value end-to-end fares
‘CrossCountry Trains is obliged currently to price through tickets for very long connecting journeys even where customers can beat that price by combining different types of ticket (so-called ‘split ticketing’). Train companies want to remove these expensive, obsolete through fares which in many cases nobody buys. A best value end-to-end through fare will be offered for test journeys where customers change trains, by offering one price combining the cheapest fare for each leg of the journey.’
It is not yet clear which journeys will be trialled, but Wokingham to Hebden Bridge may well qualify as a possibility. For a weekend journey, the through super off-peak return ticket costs £120.10. The journey requires a change of trains at Reading and Manchester so splitting the journey here and returning the same day gives off-peak return (the super off-peak return is not available) fares of £4.50, £80.00 and £9.80 – a total of £94.30, with a reasonable saving of £25.80. Returning on a different day means that 2 single tickets would be required for the legs at each end of the journey, increasing the cost to £106.60 and reducing the saving to £13.50.
Reducing the through fare to these prices would be welcome, although the fare might have to be slightly higher as the through ticket includes travel on Manchester Metrolink between Manchester Piccadilly and Victoria stations, which the individual tickets do not.
However, limiting the trial to matching fares between points where changes of train (with different operators) are required is only scratching the surface of the savings that can be made by split ticketing. For this journey, returning on the same day, splitting at Banbury, Leamington Spa, Stafford, Stockport and Rochdale produces a total fare of only £74.80, a much more significant saving of £45.30. This still includes the transfer between Piccadilly and Victoria by Metrolink, and there is no need to get off the train at any of these split points.
If Cross Country Trains were really serious about making split ticketing unnecessary, they would trial reducing the anytime Bristol – Birmingham fare of £112.80 to the split ticketing price of £56.70, a saving of almost half!
Single leg pricing
‘Single-leg pricing will be tested on the London-Glasgow and London-Edinburgh routes so that customers would always know the cheapest fare for their chosen journey, out and back. Despite train companies making online booking easier, finding the best price both ways is made harder because the regulated off-peak fare is a return fare, therefore customers are often left to calculate whether two single tickets are cheaper than a return.’
Single-leg pricing is already offered by Great Western, for example between London and Bristol, but the single costs about 62% of the return. It is sometimes possible to combine an advance single one way and an off-peak single the other way to obtain a lower price than the return ticket, but with the loss of flexibility over choice of train.
It is not clear whether the trial will offer single tickets at 50% of the return or at a premium, like Great Western. It is also worth noting that with a period return ticket, the return journey may be completed on any day during the month following the outward journey, whereas a single ticket is valid only on one nominated day – so it is essential that the return ticket is retained to offer passengers that flexibility, in addition to offering off-peak single tickets.
Rail Delivery Group press release
Railfuture fares campaign
Rail user help – our guide to help you find the cheapest train tickets in the minefield of the fares system and enjoy your journey.
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Москва слезам не верит / Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980)
Москва слезам не верит a.k.a Moscow Doesn’t Believe In Tears
Russian Cinema Council Collection
Quoting the DVD case blurb [sic]: “An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. This is a melodrama about life stories of three girls. Three friends Antonina, Liudmila and Yekaterina, come to Moscow in search of their dreams. Sharing a hostel room, the work and have fun together. Antonina soon marries a good man and settles down to raise a family. For Liudmila, Moscow is a sort of lottery, in which you have to pick a lucky ticket. She attempts to conquer this big city, but ends up a loser. The life of the third girl, Yekatrerina, is a contemporary Cinderella story. She had her share of disappointments, but did not despair. In twenty years she built up a career and became director of a big enterprise. A single parent of a daughter, she finally meets the right man and, after long and bitter years of loneliness, finds true happiness…”
So, in case you missed the awkward grammar, I am watching the official international release of the film from Russia and has subtitled done by a native Russian but English as second language speaker. There are one or two times during my copy where the subtitles are awkward. For example there’s one moment where a character remarks ‘We are like personages in a drama’ where the word ‘character’ would be more correct.I will use the translation provided by the DVD so some names like Lyudmila will be appear as Liudmila instead. Also although I refer to Katerina as Yekatrina this is apparently only present on the DVD case. All the signs suggest there seems to have been no proof reading or quality control during the DVD’s production sadly and I am sure it was rectified for later editions.
The film is set in two time periods: 1958, in the middle of the Khrushchev thaw,and 1979, in the middle of the era of stagnation. My DVD copy had two separate disks separating these time periods into two parts. I don’t know why but assume it is because it is a 1999 edition and dual layered discs were not yet commonly used at that point. It is a good breaking point but I don’t think the film had an intermission between these two parts originally.
The three main women represent the 3 stereotypes of women in Soviet Russia.
Antonina is the traditional girl – she marries early on into a secure home life to a husband who is deemed ‘nice by boring’ and has 3 sons.
Liudmila the ‘tart with a heart’ – she dates multiple men gambling on there being better prospects as long as you are willing to take a risk. Liudmila initially seems to have ‘won’ by marrying a sportsman but it is short lived as he is soon retired and borrowing money from her 7 years after their divorce – presumably with no children produced and her working in a dry cleaners looking for the next ‘win’.
Yekaterina is what society would like to believe in – A self sufficient, hard working and educated person who is a productive, successful, citizen overcoming her circumstances. A single mother who overcame difficulties through focusing on her studies in youth, worked hard for a very senior position in her company and was rewarded by the universe with a man who fulfils her. Arguably she is the most recognisable to western audiences as she represents the viewer’s wish fulfilment, common in films worldwide, though it should be noted the film, as part of this wish fulfilment, glosses over the day to day hardships she faced in those intervening 20 years during the time skip which were necessary for her to arrive at the position she is in during the second part.
Perhaps it is interesting to compare them with the men they end up with.
Antonina marries Nikolai early on and settles into a successful, if dull, marriage producing three sons. As Tolstoy said ‘All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’. They play little influence in events save to be a safe haven for Lyudmila, who has no one else reliable in her life, and Katerina who has been so career focused she has forsaken all else it seems initially.
Liudmila, ever the hegemonist flirt, marries Sergei Gurin who is a rising sports star believing, at the end of the first part, herself to have hit the jackpot she so often speaks of. However in the second half we find her living alone and he comes begging her to loan him more money – even going as far as becoming physical with her out of desperation. When he is at bars he is recognised and never has to buy his own drink but is left unfulfilled with the hope of becoming a coach now his own career is over. Liudmila continues to flirt with any prospective men – even becoming jealous of a general’s wife who she believes has ‘won the lottery’. She otherwise seems to live vicariously through Antonina, who has succeeded in building a family, and Katerina who has a successful career. This leaves her in the role of acting as a sort of eccentric ‘larger than life’ aunt to the children or at worst a warning to Alexandra of what she will become if she doesn’t begin to learn from her mother’s example of taking responsibility and working hard but continues to rely on others and luck.
Katerina has a relationship with Rodion, a TV camera man (often to be found reiterating his view that TV will replace cinema, theatre, books and newspapers) who after a brief tryst abandons her to raise their daughter by herself. He even has his mother go visit Katerina to tell her to stop harassing him to take responsibility (although it was Liudmila calling to help her friend who had resigned herself to fate). Years later he is sent to interview a senior executive and doesn’t recognise Katerina initially. He then meets with her wanting to see Alexandra but Katerina refuses telling him she has done well enough without him in her life. Towards the end he arrives, unannounced, to Katerina’s apartment and, in anger, she tells Alexandra he is her father. I actually found this story thread didn’t get resolved by the end so, with how Alexandra interacts with Gosha, it is no doubt implied she rejects Rodion. At the start of the second half she is also involved with a married man who is cowardly and so she abandons him soon after we rejoin her. The most important of her partners though is Gosha who she meets by chance on a train going home after visiting Antonina’s dacha. He is a staunchly traditional man but, unaware of Katerina’s successful career, begins a relationship with her often expounding how it is a man’s place to be head of the household. Needless to say he finds out he will not be the highest earner in the house and immediately takes flight, more so over having been lied to than a bruised ego (although it is easy to argue either way considering cultural differences). There is certainly a middle aged Cinderella aspect to her storyline during the second half of the film and how she serendipitously encounters him on the train home after the arranged meetings club fails to find her a match suiting her expectations.
In fact Alexandra could be said to serve as a sort of epilogue to the accumulated experiences of the central female characters. Initially when introduced she seems all but a copy of Liudmila by being self indulgent spending her time listening to music and being no where near as active as the older women were at her age. Instead she seems to be relying on others for her pleasures as did Liudmila by dating various young men and using the dorm’s telephone as her number. However we see her develop once Gosha is introduced. She recognises the earnest morality of Gosha who, unlike her mother, engages with her involving her in cooking and other household tasks. When she admits she doesn’t know how to cook, which is very likely with her career orientated mother, he offers to teach her. Thus she is willing to better herself – not relying on improving her prospects by marriage or fortunate but through doing things herself. When he, without a second thought, goes to aid her boyfriend who has been ganged up on by her former paramour she wants her mother to know but he insists there is no need as this is just what a man should do. She begins acknowledging the value in others – he proves he is who he has presented himself as even though some doubt might have been thrown by how many superlative plaudits his friends bestow on him at his birthday (which he invites the unaware Katerina and Alexandra to thinking it no big thing). He is good for her mother and she recognises this in him even if it means she will now be expected to contribute to the home. When Rodion is revealed as her father, having forced his way into her life and upset her mother, we don’t see her reaction in any significance but considering the final scene it may be implied that she sees Gosha as more of a father figure in that he, without want of compensation, does what he can to fulfil the role acting altruistically towards anyone who needs his help. She has learned the value of hard work but, as evidence by her having a boyfriend, society has moved on but some things remain the same through the generations. So the future seems bright – she is still learning but has a strong community of support around her.
It was very good but definitely is a film of its period. The subtitles, done by a Russian had one or two awkward translations – e.g. someone saying ‘we are like personages in a drama’ where we would say ‘characters in a drama’. The way it was filmed was very 70s and films made in Britain had a very similar look from that period. US President Ronald Reagan watched the film several times prior to his meetings with the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, in order to gain a better understanding of the “Russian soul”. I doubt he did as its such a hard concept to depict but certainly he would have seen its heart and that the world over people have similar hopes and dreams despite differences in language and culture.
I guess I have become used to older films being ‘remastered’ as my copy seemed a bit low quality despite being an official DVD from the Russian Cinema Council… But then it was a 1999 edition so maybe someone has improved the quality, in later released editions, since then as HD quality wasn’t a concern at the time.
What really stands out with the edition I have is the extras. Many of the main actors, the director, the scriptwriter and the composer are interviewed. There is a documentary about Moscow and photo galleries. The film comes with the original Russian dub but also a French and an English one. The subtitles come in Russian, English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese. Ironically though the back of the DVD states [sic] ‘Not for sale on the territory of the former USSR’ so it obviously is meant for the international not domestic market!
Aleksey Batalov (Алексей Владимирович Баталов) pretty much stole the show in the second half as Gosha. To put it in context his role is a Soviet version of the ‘manic pixie [boyfriend]’ trope as he seems all too perfect in his portrayal although he does have traditional views about being the man of the house. Such views were falling out of favour in their depiction in the west during the time of the film’s release but it has always been an element of wish fulfilment in romantic films that the female protagonist finds a man who can provide for her both emotionally and financially – so traditional values have never really gone out of fashion. The other characters I can easily imagine being in western films with little if any alteration so look out for that Hollywood remake (if one hasn’t already been made)!
This is one of the keystones of Russian cinema and an essential viewing experience for anyone interested in Russia, Soviet cinema or indeed world cinema. (Albeit I will add that this was filmed during more lenient times so those looking for a Stalinist era depiction, as is the common shorthand imagery used in western cinematic depictions *cough*Child44*cough* need to look elsewhere). The story is easy to follow and compelling. There are one or two moments of very brief nudity but it is very naive and a few moments of physical violence but nothing that wouldn’t be shown before the watershed (i.e. it is safe for all to watch). I highly recommend it.
Vera Alentova – Katerina Tikhomirova
Irina Muravyova – Lyudmila
Aleksey Batalov – Gosha
Raisa Ryazanova – Antonina
Aleksandr Fatyushin – Sergei Gurin
Boris Smorchkov – Nikolai
Viktor Uralsky – Nikolai’s Father
Valentina Ushakova – Nikolai’s Mother
Yuri Vasilyev – Rodion Rachkov
Yevgeniya Khanayeva – Rachkov’s Mother
Liya Akhedzhakova – Olga Pavlovna, Club’s Director
Zoya Fyodorova – Hostel’s Security
Natalya Vavilova – Alexandra
Oleg Tabakov – Vladimir, Katerina’s lover
Vladimir Basov – Anton Kruglov
Cameo appearances:
Andrei Voznesensky
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Georgi Yumatov
Leonid Kharitonov
Tatyana Konyukhova
Pavel Rudakov and Veniamin Nechaev
Just as in Hollywood you might have someone like Bill Murray play a bit part in one scene as a cameo so you have the same here. I cannot say with authority in which scenes they appear but its safe to say many do so in the sequence where Katerina visits the ‘friendship agency’ in the second half where there is some humour about much older men wanting to be placed in the groups with women far too young for them.
Songs from the film
By Sergey Nikitin and Tatyana Nikitina:
Александра (Alexandra)
Диалог у новогодней елки (A dialogue by the New Year’s tree)
By Klavdiya Shulzhenko:
Давай закурим (Davai zakurim / “Lets take a smoke”)
Usually when I review films I go into some depth but I am trying to self edit a bit more nowadays. Hopefully this post is compelling enough though I feel I have left so much out.
I found Star Media on YouTube and it has many interesting Russia films and series on there so I may be watching quite a few of them. Any recommendations of good older films, which they will be more likely to have, are more than welcome 🙂
Posted on August 31, 2016 March 17, 2017 Author MrHearneCategories Movie Review, Review, Russia, Russian, UncategorizedTags akhedzhakova, Alentova, basov, batalov, cinema, Commentary, criticism, drama, Москва слезам не верит, fatyushin, Film, fyodorova, information, khanayeva, kharitonov, konyukhona, melodrama, Menshov, Moscow, Moscow does not believe in tears, Moscow doesnt believe in tears, Movie, Muravyova, music, nechaev, nikitin, nikitina, Review, rudakov, russian, Russian Cinema, ryazanova, shulzhenko, smoktunovsky, smorchkov, songs, soviet, synopsis, tabakov, uralsky, ushakova, vasilyev, vavilova, Voznesensky, yumatov
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Keeping Mum
In a story that looks exciting and exciting about a man working as a deputy in Little Wallb's British village named Walter Goodfellow and writing the perfect sermon. Walter is so busy writing his perfect sermons that he fails to notice his wife courting a US golf coach, his daughter with many friends and his son as a favorite of intimidation. But everything will change later when Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, has a radical solution to the family's long-standing problems.
Actors: Rowan Atkinson,
Rowan Atkinson 6 January 1955, Consett, County Durham, England, UK
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Kristin Scott Thomas 24 May 1960, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
Maggie Smith,
Maggie Smith 28 December 1934, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Patrick Swayze,
Patrick Swayze 18 August 1952, Houston, Texas, USA
Tamsin Egerton,
Tamsin Egerton 26 November 1988, Hampshire, England, UK
Toby Parkes,
Toby Parkes
Liz Smith,
Liz Smith 11 December 1921, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Emilia Fox,
Emilia Fox 31 July 1974, London, England, UK
James Booth,
James Booth 19 December 1927, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Patrick Monckton,
Patrick Monckton 9 June 1947, Hungary
Rowley Irlam,
Rowley Irlam 19 July 1970, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Director: Niall Johnson
Niall Johnson 1965, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK
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[Back from travel. I hope that some of our readers have been following the trail and travail of foreign correspondent and journalist Lara Logan, recently of '60 Minutes' fame. She is causing quite a consternation in the lamestream media who have targeted her for destruction since she has blown the whistle on the whole progressives' propaganda machine. Her interview on tonight's Mark Levin show was superb. gjr]
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Fish, do you deny yes or no that Trump is an Evil Angel
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Uh......gee Punch.....whatever floats your boat but what does any of this have to do with the president?
It looks bad for the pony tail of ignorance, just sayin -
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/brandon-judd-red-wave-democrats-are-powerless-to-stop-it
Yo Walt. Been missing you. Hope you got the green light.
What do you think of that grenade Trump threw irkfht n the middle of the Dems’ retreat at the fancy country club? Boom! I Too funny. Think Nevada Country should take in 700/month and The Poop & Needle Sanctuary City by the Bay about 27k a month.
Last night I read about Trump kicking around the idea of busing illegals to welcome mat states. “Oh boy,” I thought. “Incoming.” The Addicted to Outrage crowd will have the claws out this morning. Trump did not back down but said “Yep, it’s true. Not only that, the buses and planes and transport vehicles are coming your way,. Endless supply.”
That Trump sure is great for jumping in and taking charge of the narrative. Boom! He really smoked them out this time. Left them standing there buff naked with their butts flapping in the wind. A cold wind.
Oh my. Tiny man speaks. Has bigley Daddy issues. Time to take the insolent child, pull down his pants, and spank him over my knee.
And we won’t forget you, little one.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45923/deniro-threatens-republicans-were-not-gonna-forget-hank-berrien?fbclid=IwAR3mBlKyzaAzNX_8etG514ePtG4OEZng0zeK8sfEkjggJUgZxZ3LnUOAgzQ
Glad someone does,, Thanks Bill. Just a long damned week in AZ.
My little girl just needed Dad. Another stint in the hospital.
The only good side, that hospital food was better than most high end restaurants. In the cafeteria no less.(if you could even call it that.) People were taking pictures of the spread.
The medical center makes SNMH look like it's a few months out of WWII. They took good care of my kid.
It's good to be home. It's been too long not giving our proggys indigestion.
I think I gave Ilhan too much credit when I said she is dumb. But, at least I knew she cannot not blow it again and again. Muslim Brotherhood. Dems still have a big anti-Semitic problem. Heck, Tlaib took a yellow post note, wrote Palestine on it, and put it over Israel on the map in her office. Hamas does not believe in a two state solution. Anyway...
"I am going to enjoy watching the people who threw their lot in with her being forced to die on these hills over and over," said the popular anonymous commentator known as Neontas“
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45913/ilhan-omar-uses-iconic-words-george-bush-defend-amanda-prestigiacomo?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
My Gal is Red hot!
“Bill, this is boring!” he yelled. As he tried asking his question — “Why don’t you talk about — ” Hillary immediately began talking over him, saying that the “important political conversations” they were trying to have could be difficult, especially when interrupted by such “agent provocateurs.”
“Jeffrey Epstein!” shouted the man.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/12/only-a-heckler-can-improve-an-evening-with-the-money-grabbing-clintons/
From a few months ago concerning Secretary of State and Mr. Grifter:
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clintons-speaking-tour-ticket-prices/
"When the duo did open their tour, in Toronto last week, the arena was embarrassingly full of empty seats. The Clintons drew only 3,300 people in an arena that holds almost 20,000. On the day of the event, ticket prices dropped to under $7 Canadian.
Their first stop in the U.S. was supposed to be in Sugar Land, Texas, which is just outside Houston, on Tuesday. But the Clintons postponed that one as well, after George H.W. Bush's death.
Evening With Clintons, Or McDonalds?
It was just as well, since tickets, initially priced from around $70 to around $700, had dropped to as little as $6."
Somebody needs to send Sam Hyde for some heckler fun. I'll kick in the $6.
They are troopers though. The show must go on.
https://www.vividseats.com/theatre/bill-clinton-tickets.html
Too true -
Column: Covington, Smollett, Mueller, Avenatti and other adventures in unreality
https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-liberal-media-matrix/
They are coming for your yogurt containers next.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/04/12/california-hotel-shampoo-bottle-ban/
Tax on drinking water next. Hold on to your wallets, the Dems are in charge. Heck, if they really want to clean up rural areas, keep your dirty money grubbin’ hands out of here. Where is the conservative guerrilla street artist when you need her? Resist!
“One of the most controversial proposals to come out of Sacramento this year is a proposal from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to tax drinking water in order to clean up contaminated water in the state’s low-income and rural areas.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-goes-tax-wild-eyes-levies-on-everything-from-water-to-tires
Not a journalist, a hacking spy -
The former top lawyer for the U.S. intelligence community under President Barack Obama is praising the Justice Department indictment of Julian Assange, calling it a “very shrewd” charge that avoids infringing on freedom of the press issues that stymied his Obama administration colleagues.
“I think the Department of Justice was very shrewd in how it approached this,” said Robert Litt, who served as chief counsel to the director of national intelligence between 2009 and early 2017. Litt was interviewed for the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast.
“And the question has always raised, How do you differentiate Julian Assange from the New York Times and the Washington Post?”
But, Litt argued, the indictment of the WikiLeaks founder unsealed this week successfully avoids the issue by narrowly focusing on a single conspiracy charge: that Assange offered to help Chelsea Manning, then a U.S. Army private, crack the password of a classified Defense Department computer.
Assange is quoted as telling Manning in an online chat “no luck so far” — it provided a basis for a criminal charge of conspiring to violate a federal computer law.
“I think it has been significant that virtually all of the big media have been leaping on this as saying, well you know, this is fine, we wouldn't do anything like this,” Litt said about what Assange is accused of doing.
“I think that to the extent the message that's being sent is — ‘We don't have a problem with people publishing things, we have a problem with people using illegal means to obtain information to publish’ — I don't think that's a bad message,” Litt said. “Reporters shouldn't be breaking into places where they don't belong to get information.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/skullduggery-julian-assange-robert-litt-175146306.html
Last Friday marked the monthly ritual of Jobs Day — or the release of new economic data that is gathered and packaged by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unsurprisingly, the figures provide yet further proof the economy remains on solid footing.
More specifically, the Labor Department numbers reveal that job creation continues to be robust — reporting that 196,000 jobs were added in March — unemployment remains near rock bottom levels at 3.8 percent and wage growth expanded millions of American wallets yet again.
These developments only add to the symphony of other positive economic indicators. In fact, it’s evident Americans are objectively experiencing one of the strongest economies in decades.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/04/13/parker-the-numbers-prove-this-economy-is-not-letting-up/
700,000 visitors to our Wild & Scenic Yuba River. I know haters are gonna hate and only a fraction of people self identified as conservatives appreciate wild places or visit our parks, but you must must admit 700,000 visitors a year is a huge economic stimulus for Nevada County. To express your appreciation, please send your donations to SYRCL.
https://yubanet.com/regional/spring-break-river-ambassadors-prepare-for-high-water-at-the-river/
Posted by: Ozz | 13 April 2019 at 07:36 PM
More phony numbers from the past. Actual numbers about 50 thousand if that.
Until you prove it, I don't think anyone who knows you will believe you.
Oh, we have covered these numbers numerous times here and elsewhere. You just bought the propaganda. That is what trolls do.
Todd-
As you are well aware, you are but a tiny island of doubt surrounded by a sea of certainty and solid numbers. You can't substantiate a mere 50,000 visitors per year. It is nothing but a figure you pulled out of the air because you hate to see the smashing economic benefits that river conservation has brought to Nevada City. If you truly care for this community as you claim, pony up and donate a few hundred bucks to SYRCL. You might even come and help pick up some trash.
Ozz 736pm - 700K visitors per year averages to about 1,000 cars per day given 2 people to a car. Wouldn’t you think there would be major traffic jams up and down the South Yuba at that visitor rate. We have yet to hear of such congestion. Thoughts?
George- Over the span of a year of total access between Bridgeport and Spaulding, that would be a reasonable number. My guess would be that the average visitor vehicle contains greater than three persons. http://www.dot.ca.gov/trafficops/census/volumes2017/Route44-50.html
No way snooze, 'greater than 3 per vehicle' LOL Watching too many Subaru commercials! Go back to hating the Union.
Ozz 933pm - Interesting data from you link. Could you kinda connect the dots there to come up with the 700K annual visitor volume. We have seen (and contributed to the) heavy use of the So Yuba at Bridgeport and Hwy 49 crossing, but nowhere near volumes that would give rise to those averages, especially since the heavy use period is during the summer months. During that period the visitors' cars would have to number in the multiple thousands a day. Maybe I'm missing something here.
Bessee- You are correct, I meant to write greater than two occupants. I have worked as a volunteer maintaining the Independence Trail, and it is uncommon to see a single occupant in an out of town visitor's vehicle. Two is most common, but many out of town vehicles have four or more. I am not including locals who come down to the trail for their daily dog walk or exercise stroll.
@ 9:10 pm. Sounds like ‘access’ means driving on the road. What constitutes a visitor? Anyway, inflated ‘visitor’ numbers keeps the money flowing for projects like restoring the Bridgeport covered bridge and putting a jonnie smith on the spot at the Hwy 49 crossing.
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Opps. Link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ0MjoAZR70
SYRCL has river ambassadors at 49 and Purdon most weekends of the summer (14 weekends I believe). By their own estimates they meet face to face with about 20% of the visitors passing by. These numbers are recorded and tallied. Last year they met face to face with nearly 50,000 visitors. This would roughly translate to 300,000 visitors who met with or walked by the ambassadors. These are only weekend and only two river access points. Todd's guesstimated cap of 50,000 is long gone in the rearview.
Stats- https://yubariver.org/our-work/river-ambassador-program/
The numbers were concocted thirty years ago and still live on in the minds of these numbskulls. The original and ongoing numbers are extrapolated by sheeple at three spots on the Yuba where there were a few cars parked. The numbers are phony but as we see they have trolls spouting them as facts. All this has been covered and exposed as fictitious here and elsewhere numerous times.
700,000 visitors is the number put forth by a predator troll. Let’s not move the goalposts.
I will spell it out. Seven hundred thousand visitors a year. Lay it out for all to see. I spent several hours on State websites to valid that number and increased the pal areas the last time the magic 700,000 number came up.....without success. Might be as high as under half that amount with guesstimates about unmanned access points There seems to be an aversion to releasing figures...recent or not recent. Heck, they didn’t record my 20016 vote until 2018.
Each time I drive by those lovely enclaves of White Supremacy know as NSJ and The Ridge, I pass the State Parks. If I take 49, I cross over the South ForkPark. If I feel like taking the long loop, I drive up on Pleasant Valley to Peterson’s corner and have access to Bridgeport as I drive by. Not to mention crossing over the river on the road to Graniteville or to Grouse Ridge.
700,000 is your number. Convince me. Change my mind.
Bullcrap
The number from the link referenced by "Ozz" (wink, wink) is 48,757 contacts... over a SEVEN year period.
That's about 7,000 contacts by "river ambassadors"... per YEAR. Mostly weekend, mostly summer.
What exactly is the point of (what sounds like) a gross overestimate like '700,000' for visitors?
Somebody sticking to their guns for fear of embarrassment? An attempt to show that the area doesn't need good internet service since all the money is made on tourism instead of business? Some sort of global warming tie-in? Maybe that's where all the homeless people go for vacation?
Back to this again? The "visitor" count is as fabricated as AGW "facts".
As for the trail, on 49,, there is only room for about 20 cars.
And how many hours dos the usual visitor occupy that one one spot, before making room for a "new" visitor?
Have yet to see tour buses making drops of loads of tourists.
But that's our LIBS,, just make shit up that sounds good.
Kinda like the dude in Grass Valley claiming he can feel and hear the exploratory drill from a mile and a half away.(he hates mining)
Walt 7:54
"Have yet to see tour buses making drops of loads of tourists."
The shuttle drives non stop to the river all summer and they are in the process of getting another bus.
https://yubabus.com/faqs-1
Posted by: Ozz | 14 April 2019 at 08:00 AM
Better link. I think the other link is from their old website. And note, the number of annual visitors has been updated to 800,000!! And you drone on and on about how saving the Yuba River is somehow an evil tendril of the dreaded A-21 conspiracy. If that is so, give me mo' of that good time conspiracy!!
https://yubabus.com/yuba-river-shuttle
The figure is 700,000. Prove it, dopehead. Another pot head false premise. Prove it. Prove it.
The five faces of oppression.
“The most jarring realization: liberal academics define “oppression” so loosely that their victimhood narrative can never end.”
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If a private company found these low numbers in its employee survey, supervisors, managers, and most regional/mid management would be fired on the spot.
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https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/12/survey-shows-doj-employees-lack-confidence-leaders-integrity-impartiality/
So the shuttle bus makes a stop. BFD.
Your "numbers" are fictional. But that never stops a Proglidite.
HELL.. You won't even attempt to back up the claim. So piss on you....
The SacBee had an attack on Trump for retweeting the video of that babe Omar regarding her comment about "those people did something". The AP attacks Trump! Not one question by those mal practicing "journalists" of Omar. And she is whining about the country and civil liberties of Muslims. I tweeted the AP and asked why they did not ask her about that. Anyway, here she is elected to Congress and still a "victim". I hope these democrat whiners keep it up.
And she and her family were saved by this country and this is all we get from her? What a friggin ingrate.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 14 April 2019 at 08:33 AM
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Bill 8:07-
"The figure is 700,000. Prove it,"
The State says 700,000. SYRCL says 700,000. The Chamber says 700,00. The shuttle service says that number has grown to 800,00. The Nevada County Board of Sups ALSO says it is now 800,000. Hey Todd weren't you one of these? Supervisors never lie do they?
Bill, I believe the ball is in the minority court of dissenting opinion to prove that all of these entities are wrong. That's the way it works. Don't believe the assessor's office? it is up to you to prove otherwise.
https://www.mynevadacounty.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=625
8:36 am link
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/why-isnt-assange-charged-with-collusion-with-russia/
That's it OOzzzzhole.. Never mind the math just won't add up.
Just like the cost of free health care you and yours say "we" can afford.
The 700k was a made up number back in the 90's when SYRCL was trying to get WandS. It was bogus but it lives on as the propaganda number that trolls and charlatans cite. Anyway no one has ever done an actual count.
Trump up three over Bernie in the latest poll for 2020 election.
Trod- RCP average shows Trump under Bernie by 2.5. Even the vaunted Faux News shows Bernie trouncing the fat orange guy by a solid 3 points. Cherry pick all you want. We have the same sources and you simply make yourself look stupid (er) digging through the numbers searching for a win.
We're still waiting for you to disclose your source that proves the Yuba only gets 50,000 visitors a year. Cat got yer tongue?
They're all reporting the same number and pointing to each other to support the 700k number... ooops, 800k. Inflation, you know.
It's the number they all agree on that allows the "park" to continue with current funding. There's a California Parks employee who writes down an estimate every month and they don't have to justify it.
Somehow, this little ditty from Tom Lehrer seems apropos.
Ok Ozzz, lay out the State’s claim that 700,000 visitors a year visit the South Yuba State Park. Not the Empire State Park, not Tahoe National Forrest Land. Then I will be convinced.
700,000 people a year (including winter and fall) visit Bridgeport, the 49er Crossing, and toss in Edwards, Purdon’s Crossing, and the diggings and I will be convinced.
State Park figures from the State Park Service. That’s allI I ask. You made the claim and it’s up to you to prove the State Park System’s own figures. Not what the Chamber of Commerce says, not what that cop hater tin foil hat Chem Trail goat lady says, not what some tourist brochures says. And definitely not what some Pelosi groomed drunk lady from Sac crashing into parked cars on the BOS says.
Give me the State’s numbers of many visitors to the South Yuba State Park. It’s a State Park and I need the State Park’s figures from, say, 2016, 2017. You made the claim and the burden lies with you, pun intended.
State Park visitor numbers from the State Park Service.
The 700K was used in the original hearings by SYRCL to show what the potential would be after they sent out a couple of people to the parking spots along the river. Three if I recall. And they extrapolated the huge number from a couple of hours sitting there counting. Then the other agencies picked up the number and used it. Soon it became the truth. But not for those that know the actual truth.
Trump up over Bernie. Soon to be the finals.
Do the math Ozzhole. 800,000 divided by 365.
There is no waiting line today, or yesterday, or the day before.
Simple math says your full of shit.
But Walt that is what he was told. LOL!
Todd- That is what YOUR Board of Supervisors have been telling us. Do all of thme lie as much as you?
LOL!!! Bernie? See his tax plan? Enjoy! How bout his 70% death tax?
your kids will love it if you vote for him. They will make sure you sell everything(one way or another) before you check out.
Yup,, you LIBS sure have some problems. Anti Semites, 9/11 deniers,
full blown COMMIES. Yet you seem to think you can beat Trump.
Now you bitch that Trump wants to "dump" illegals in your sanctuary cities. Priceless....
Ohhh.. The "county".... They make sure someone follows the clean-up laws to the letter. Yet didn't clean up their own mess.
Yup,, leaky fuel tanks can be costly. I removed the tank,, but the county didn't remove the contaminated soil. It's still there.
Ozz won't even fess up to his/her own inflation of the 'ambassadors' contacts to 50,000 a year by using a number that was the total over a seven span.
The parks report is at parks.ca.gov/statisticalreport
A retired Parks manager/Grand PooBah I know (a member of my extended family) wrote:
"As you have observed, that data is a bit soft. Most parks report a paid day use number and a free day use number. Paid generally ties back to actual receipts. Free is a number, reported daily that is often made up by someone in the field. Perhaps someone has decided that everyone driving by on the highway is having a park experience. Did you ever drink a margarita in a restaurant in old town San Diego? That counts as day use.
When we see a big shift in numbers we look to see what changed. Often the only notable change is that the guy that signed that form for 20 years has moved on and a new name appears at the bottom of the form.
There is folklore handed-down like taking the gift shop daily sales number and dividing by x dollars to report as day use.
When a new director rides in and reduces fees, there is an expectation that numbers will increase. And predictably the numbers go up.
Not a lot of science, but the political world demands data so busy people make it up for them."
......AND HE'S GONE!!!
Cory Booker: Releasing Migrants In Sanctuary Cities Would "Make Us Less Safe"
Apparently "Spartacus" didn't get the memo that any criticism or deviation from Central Controls narrative would not be looked upon favorably!
"THERE WILL BE NO DENIGRATION OF THE UNDOCUMENTED DEMOCRATS" - END COMMUNICATION
Bye Cory....better luck next time!
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The pheelz.....they hurt!
“People are screaming that the American flag on a police car is somehow or another … hurting people’s feelings who might be immigrants or visitors.”
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/04/people-are-screaming-that-american-flag.html
It's funny......depending on his mood.....and the availability of grant money, I'm sure that the "Official Environmentalist of the Three Fisted Sock Puppet Triumvirate" would use those inflated numbers to argue that visitors were, "loving the South Yuba to death" and that a solution to this problem would need to be settled upon.
Cha Ching!
OOZE and his troll ilk have the "tell a lie so many times gig" that it becomes true in their pea brains. Maybe it could go down to the river and keep tabs on the numbers? But trolls are just stupid so it might not even know how to do that.
Speaking of "the river",, any bets how many lives will it will claim this year? It already has ONE.
"Every position of authority agrees that you are wrong. It is up to you to prove to the feds, state, county, and citizens that you alone know some magic number."
It's still a made up number, "Ozz" 1036am.
"Not a lot of science, but the political world demands data so busy people make it up for them."- my expert from the Parks bureaucracy in Sacramento.
Question Authority. All you can do is appeal to authority and appeal to the number of people who use what the 'authority' says. Vericundiam and populum as Aristotle might have written. What you cannot do is let down your guard and admit you were wrong to claim there were 50,000 "river ambassador" contacts a year by using a number that was for a seven year period.
That's how crap rolls downhill.
However, I do think your 1036am deserves to be deleted for your last paragraph.
Gregory-
Yes you were right about my contact numbers being wrong. I just went back and checked. Unlike some, I am more than willing to admit my mistakes. Is it too much to expect others like Trump and Todd to admit they have ever been wrong? I guess the answer is obvious.
Todd @ 8:33 am
Oh, that’s how it works. Omar would have no problem stepping over a couple dozen dead and bleeding bodies of an Islamic Terrorist attack to worry about the bigger issue, i. e., Muslim civil liberties. Interestingly enough, it’s the children of migrants (legal and illegal) that have a crime rate much higher than the general population or their first generation immigrant parents. They lost the attitude of gratitude.
Omar can claim she is being targeted because she checked all the boxes. Female, black, immigrant, Muslim, and America hater. It’s racism! It’s Islamophobia, it’s misogyny, its oppression! It’s White Nationalism!
She is uninformed . She is an Islamic. Contrary to what she says or what she has been told, the Muslim Brother formed CAIR in Philly in 1994. Government docs. The FBI was spying ....er....doing surveillance on the meeting.
This is how it works. The Muslim Brotherhood formed the Palestine Council. The PC formed the military arm, known as Hamas. The Hamas Charter is for a single state solution with Jews driven to the sea. Article One and Thirteen (?) from memory. To fundraise and be the political propaganda arm of the Palestine Council (Muslim Brotherhood), CAIR was formed in the USA. Before that, many Muslims Americans here were convicted of funding or giving material support to Hamas or PLO, including a beloved college professor, lol. The Muslim Brotherhood has a big problem with Arab states like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and UAE and loves the Islamic States like Iran and Yemen and Qatar, but I digress. All government documented.
During the Obama era, the FBI could not even interview/question a Muslim concerning a bomb plot, shooting, or witness investigation without a member of CAIR present. Justice Department rules put on the FBI.
When the House of Representatives agreed on the final watered down version of the recent anti-Semitic Resolution (but took a break before the vote) the head of CAIR escorted Tlaid back to her Rep office and shut the door. CAIR is the propaganda arm of Hamas, all under the umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood (the beloved group of Obama’’s Daddy) was formed in conjunction with Hilter’s Nazi Germany in the Middle East to deal with the Jewish problem. Allies. And on and on it goes.
Egypt declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and forbade them from attending the famous “I am one of you” Cairo speech. Obama invited the Muslim Brotherhood anyway, sat them in the good front seats, shitting on the host country Egypt.
After 9/11, the NYPD bent over backwards to protect mosques and make sure Muslim civil rights were being safeguarded. Like I said, Omar would walk over the bodies of those blown to bits by a Islamic Terrorist to bash America for some perceived threat to Muslim-Americans civil liberties. It’s who she is.
Omar just speaks as she see things. It’s normal conversation in her culture. Run of the mill stuff. The hooked nosed Jews eat Muslim babies...is taught in the first grades in some of their schools. America is evil. She probably says it without any malice in her heart. To her, it’s a given. How she was raised. Plucked from a refugee camp, brought to America, and became an US Congresswoman. She is the American Dream, but certainly does not think so. She is the victim here, folks. Righttttt.
I often puzzled over Europe’s Liberals teaming up with the Islamics to promote their agendas. Seems like the odd couple. Gays and those who stone gays? Weird. But, now I see here in the US the Socialists teaming up with the Sharia Law promoters and it’s seems to work for them. Oppressors claiming they are the oppressed!
“Omar has compared Israel to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism in media interviews where she also suggested that Israel should not be allowed to exist as a Jewish state. Omar has suggested that her Jewish colleagues devised a plan to silence her by accusing her of being anti-Semitic.......”
Hmmm. And I thought Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Learn something new everyday.
"Ozz" 1100am
So, you just now went back and checked only after your nose was rubbed in it a few times?
And now you justify your bullshit by whataboutist dodges.
Smells like Jeff Pellini.
Yup!!! This will win him the W.H.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/14/swalwell-second-amendment-is-not-an-absolute-right/
I guess the smart guy forgets "O" was the best gun salesman to walk the earth.
Hmmm... the Muslim Bros were formed during WWII?
There was a Muslim Brigade formed that fought for the Nazis. Waffen-SS. They couldn't all be butchering Jews and Serbs (mostly Serbs) at Jasenovacs, that was mostly by Christian Croats.
Here they are at prayer:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/muslim-waffen-ss-13th-division-1943/
The Croats, Bosnians and Serbs are all from the same gene pool.
Yes Gregory, I am a humble man. I also tend to go with the consensus of experts rather than pretend I know everything about everything.
Based on the recommendations of the overwhelming preponderance of scientific opinion I brush with fluoride. use vaccines, and admit to being a Round Earther (sorry if that offends your religion), but am in no way offended when you present zebras to "prove" climate change is a hoax perpetuated by (choose one: The Chinese, Agenda 21, Al Gore, Luddites, environmental extremists, the socialist republic, or the Deep State).
Yes Gregory, I am a humble man.
To paraphrase Churchill......."with much to be humble about"!
I also tend to go with the consensus of experts rather than pretend I know everything about everything.
Perhaps a Fourth Fist then.......Frisch would never make such an admission.
"Ozz" 1130am, I've never claimed AGW was a "hoax". It's just really bad groupthink masquerading as science.
"Overwhelming preponderance of scientific opinion" is still just arguments to authority and populism. If you can't justify your use of vaccines (me too) and accepting Newtonian physics (me too) by rational argument, it's just a genuflection (not me too) towards your own personal Mecca. Planet 'frisco, perhaps?
How's that permanent drought doing?
.....MARK THE TAPE!!!!
GOLDMAN SACHS: TRUMP RE-ELECTION LIKELY
Somewhere a tired old hippy quietly weeps!
(Buck up Palooka......the headline is much more definitive than the article that accompanies it)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-sachs-trump-has-narrow-shot-in-close-call-election-bid-130404077.html
Meant to say formed an alliance. They sure ate up Mein Kempt.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/06/27/ANALYSIS-The-Nazi-roots-of-Muslim-Brotherhood.html
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New pro in-ears from Sennheiser enhance monitor sound
Sennheiser has announced it is launching a brand-new series of professional in-ears, beginning with the IE 40 PRO entry model which will be available towards the end of this month.
The IE 40 PRO ensures impeccable audio reproduction with warmth, great detail and natural clarity, thus improving the artist’s focus and performance control even in difficult stage situations.
This meticulous audio performance is complemented by a well thought-out mechanical design that includes a patent-pending, break-proof cable ducting. In early 2019, the IE 40 PRO will be joined by the IE 400 PRO and the top-of-the-range IE 500 PRO.
“The IE 40 PRO is the first and most accessible in a new series of fantastic sounding dynamic in-ear phones,” said Jannik Schentek, Product Manager Professional Audio at Sennheiser.
“In the field test phase, the IE 40 PRO’s sound reproduction astounded the engineers and bands that tried the prototypes. They were delighted with the clear and natural reproduction, which enabled them to better connect with every member of the band and to critically monitor their performance.”
Among the early testers was Paul Di Leo, who plays bass with German superstar Nena. Paul tried the IE 40 PRO on stage during his current tour with Nena:
“I’ve been a huge fan of Sennheiser for years and use their products on tour because they are truly reliable. And for me, that’s the most important thing on stage performing. Worry-free equals priceless! I’ve just had the opportunity to test the Sennheiser IE 40 PRO in-ear monitors live on stage. They delivered the Sennheiser quality I always expect. The IE 40s sound clear and punchy for both vocals and instruments – I highly recommend them onstage as well as off stage!”
Natural, detailed audio reduces acoustical stress
At the heart of the IE 40 PRO is a high-quality Sennheiser driver, which delivers a naturally warm and powerful sound with great clarity. Distortion is at a very low level with 0.1% at 1kHz and 94dB. The bass and lower mids can not only be heard but also felt – a delight for bass players, guitarists and drummers. Powerful Neodymium magnets provide the necessary punch with an SPL of up to 115dB. This clear and natural sound has the added benefit of reducing acoustic stress for the user, who will be able to set the monitors at a lower level.
Patent-pending mechanical design
This meticulous audio performance is complemented by a clever mechanical design which includes a patent-pending cable ducting that reduces the risk of cable breaks. The connector is accommodated inside the ear mould, where it sits protected against the wear and tear that occurs during heavy use.
To protect users against excessive stage sound, the IE 40 PRO are able to reduce ambient sound by up to 26dB. This is achieved by a choice of included silicone ear tips (S, M, L) and a special ear tip made from memory foam, which expands to perfectly fit the ear canal. As the length of the human ear canal varies, the earphones’ ‘sound tunnel’ has two rest positions to attach the ear tips to. Thus ensuring perfect sealing has the added benefit of providing powerful bass reproduction.
The IE 40 PRO will be available in black and transparent versions from the end of September, priced at 99 EUR / $99.95 USD. It comes complete with a soft storage pouch, a cleaning tool and silicone ear tips in three sizes (S, M, L) and a pair of memory foam ear tips in size M.
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· A sculpture called "crippled hand" from Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan is placed in front of stock exchange palace in Milan Septem. The abbreviation for this timezone is CET. SFER ITSALVATORE FERRAGAMO S. Index performance for FTSE MIB Index (FTSEMIB) including value, chart, profile & other market data. : End-of-day quote, intraday chart, variations, volumes, technical indicators and last italian stock exchange sculpture transactions, share NICE S. The Exchange accepts no responsability for the content italian stock exchange sculpture of the website you are now accessing or for any reliance placed by you or any person on the information contained on it. Date of experience: June Ask AnneDickie about L. While you may think this is the case, there is more than meets the eye.
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The 13-foot sculpture is attached to a base, bringing it to a total height of 36 feet. · maurizio cattelan&39;s &39;middle finger&39; arrived today in milan&39;s piazza affari, in front of the italian stock exchange building. Italian Translation of “stock exchange” | The official Collins English-Italian Dictionary online.
stock exchange translate: Borsa, borsavalori, borsa. | Italian Stock Exchange: NICE. Since, it has been a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange. The trading floor (a. The Italian Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana, is based in Milan and is the 108th largest exchange in the world. · Arturo Di Modica, the Italian-American artist who set his bronze "Charging Bull" at the front of the New York Stock Exchange in 1989, says his fresh version is modeled for China: "It must be.
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As technologies have evolved, physical recordings have become a thing of the past. Today, 86 percent of consumers are listening to music using on-demand streaming services.
In this article, we talk about how to create a music streaming app using the example of Spotify. We provide key features, a list of competitors, and a Business Model Canvas for an app like Spotify.
About Spotify
Spotify is a music streaming platform that lets users stream songs of their choice and generates playlists based on a user’s musical preferences.
But Spotify offers more than just access to millions of songs. Its strong point is the community features: On Spotify, users can follow friends and favorite artists and see their listening activity.
Since Spotify isn’t the only on-demand streaming service, we can’t help mentioning some of its competitors. Here is a list of other popular music streaming services and short descriptions of them.
Apple Music. Apple Music gives users access to 50 million songs and offers a three‑month free trial.
YouTube Music. YouTube’s music service offers two versions: a free ad-supported version and a premium version. Premium includes background play, ad-free music, and audio-only mode.
Google Play Music. This service gives users access to 40 million songs. As part of a Google Play Music subscription, users also get YouTube Music Premium.
Tidal. Tidal is a subscription-based music service that has more than 60 million songs and includes exclusive audio and video content. Tidal provides a 60-day free trial.
Deezer. Created in France, Deezer has over 50 million tracks. It offers free and premium plans. Deezer Premium has no ads and supports offline mode.
SoundCloud. SoundCloud users can listen to 175 million songs and upload their own audio content.
Spotify can become a great add-on to any navigation app. Find out the time and cost estimates for an app like Waze.
Key features for a Spotify-like app
Let’s take a look at the features that an app like Spotify needs.
User accounts. To get started, a user needs to create an account.
Cloud storage. A cloud service enables data storage so that users can access their music files online.
Search. This is a must to let users find songs by artist and title.
Library. This is where users can collect their favorite albums and songs for quick access.
Playlists. Users should be able to create and edit playlists.
Recommendations help to provide a personalized experience. They should be based on a user’s musical preferences.
Offline availability lets users download songs and albums so they can listen to them without an internet connection.
Social sharing. With a sharing feature, users can share playlists with friends through social media.
Notifications. With notifications, users can get news about activity of their friends and favorite artists.
Upload. This is an additional feature that your app needs if you want to let users upload their own content.
How to make money with a Spotify-like app
Spotify gets most of its revenue from ads and Premium subscriptions. In Q4 2018, the company generated almost all of its revenue from subscriptions:
Revenue from subscriptions accounted for €1,320 million (88 percent of total turnover)
Revenue from ads accounted for €175 million
Freemium music apps provide some basic features for free, but to get additional features, users need to pay. That’s how Spotify works.
Spotify Premium features include:
Unlimited skips
High-quality audio
Paid subscriptions are the main source of revenue for music streaming apps, especially if they don’t provide a free ad-supported option. For instance, Tidal has only paid plans. When the Tidal trial period expires, users have to pay for a subscription.
Learn how we built a subscription-based marketplace for distributing music and other creative content.
To make money with a free music app or plan, you can let brands play ads in your app.
Spotify supports several ad formats:
Audio. These ads are played between tracks.
Video. There are several types of video ads on Spotify. For example, with Sponsored Session ads, users are shown video ads that allow them to get 30 minutes of ad-free listening.
Display. These ads are overlay images that appear when a user returns to the app.
Challenges of creating an app like Spotify
If you’re thinking of creating an app like Spotify, you need to remember that music streaming services face a number of challenges.
The first and biggest challenge is licensing. Streaming apps like Spotify are a legal way to listen to music. For every stream, digital music services pay royalties to rights holders. That means that licensing is a must. Otherwise, you’ll violate copyright laws.
A song actually has two copyrights:
One on the composition itself (the melody and lyrics) that’s owned by the songwriter or publishing company
One on the sound recording, which is owned by the record label
To stream a song, you need a public performance license. This license is issued by performing rights organizations that collect and distribute royalties for songwriters and publishers. In the USA, these organizations are ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC.
To get a sound recording license, music streaming services sign deals with record labels. To stream indie music, you need to have a deal with Merlin Network, a digital rights agency for independent labels.
Accurate recommendations
Providing recommendations that actually match a user’s musical preferences is vital for a music streaming app. For example, lots of Apple Music users are not satisfied with the app’s recommendations. Considering the competition, users can just switch to other music services.
To provide accurate recommendations, your service needs a strong technology core. Spotify, for example, relies heavily on machine learning algorithms to make the best musical matches.
To provide personalized music recommendations, you first need to collect and analyze data about a user’s musical preferences. You can ask users to choose genres and artists they like right after registration. Lots of music apps do that.
One of the algorithms Spotify uses to make accurate recommendations is called collaborative filtering. This model focuses on finding users with similar musical preferences. Let’s say there are two users, John and Nancy, who mostly listen to similar songs. They both listen to songs A, B, and C. If Nancy likes song D, Spotify will recommend this song to John.
You should clearly communicate the value your app provides to stand out from competitors. That’s why you need a compelling value proposition.
Let’s take Spotify, SoundCloud, and Tidal as examples and look at their value propositions.
One of Spotify’s value propositions lies in the huge number of personalized playlists that it automatically generates, including Release Radar and Discover Weekly. Updated every Friday, Release Radar provides new releases recommended for a particular user. Discover Weekly updates every Monday and is also generated for a particular user based on their musical tastes.
SoundCloud positions itself as not just a music streaming service but also a social media network. SoundCloud lets users upload their own tracks and gives young artists the opportunity to find a community and connect with fans.
To distinguish itself from competitors, Tidal offers high fidelity (Hi-Fi) audio using the FLAC format, which is of higher quality than MP3. As for the value proposition for artists, Tidal claims that it pays a higher ratio of royalties to music creators than any other streaming service.
Entering the market
It’s important to consider the challenge of getting your first users and engaging them with the platform. To address this issue, you need a strong marketing strategy.
Spotify’s marketing strategy includes social media marketing as well as more traditional promotional methods such as TV commercials and billboards. But let’s find out how Spotify started and attracted its first users.
When Spotify launched in some European countries, it was invite-only. Thus, the company could control Spotify’s growth to provide a good user experience. But the invite-only system also helped to create buzz around the launch. Influencers and tech reporters who tested the service shared their experiences, increasing anticipation even more.
In 2001, Spotify partnered with Facebook and launched in the US. The integration let Facebook users show their friends what they listened to on Spotify. This partnership helped Spotify increase the number of Premium subscribers.
Facebook is not the only company Spotify has a partnership with. To attract new customers, Spotify also partnered with Uber, Coca-Cola, and Reebok.
Another music streaming service, Deezer, decided to reach markets where Spotify was not already dominant. Deezer targets listeners in Latin America, Asia, and Africa and focuses on local music genres. As Deezer chief executive Hans-Holger Albrecht notes, while Spotify focuses on playlists, Deezer focuses on local differentiation.
Build an app for web or mobile?
Most digital music services provide web players along with mobile apps. Having a web version can still help you reach a broader audience. It’s always better to let your users choose the device they prefer at the moment.
But if you’re choosing between developing a web or mobile version of your music service, we would recommend a mobile app. And here’s why: According to the Music Consumer Insight Report, 75 percent of consumers primarily use smartphones to listen to music.
In 2015, Spotify provided statistics showing that most of their users preferred mobile devices like smartphones and tablets for listening.
As mobile apps are built for iOS and Android, you can either build a native app for both platforms or choose one platform. Here’s an article where we compare the pros and cons of development for Android and iOS. Check it out if you’re wondering which platform you should choose for your app.
Business Model Canvas for a Spotify-like app
A Business Model Canvas is a template that’s filled with information on a startup’s value proposition, key business partners, resources, revenue streams, etc. It allows you to design and visualize a startup’s business model and quickly evaluate a startup idea.
Startup idea evaluation, in turn, helps business owners make sure their product meets a market need and makes sure the development team can clearly understand the project to formulate requirements.
Here’s a Business Model Canvas for a Spotify-like app:
How to save time and money creating a streaming app like Spotify
The cost of streaming app development depends on many factors, including feature list, an hourly rate of a software development company you choose, and whether the product is going to be developed from scratch. The price can reach $100,000 ‒ $150,000 or even more in some regions for the development from scratch.
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How the STCA 419 homes development passed concurrency – after failing it for 9 months
Posted on August 19, 2019 by Miki Mullor
By Miki Mullor
Aug. 19. 2019: Town Center developer STCA last week received two traffic concurrency certificates that clear the way for 419 new homes and 82,000 square feet of retail space on the southeast corner of SE4th and 222nd Ave. SE.
Three members of the council, staff and STCA believed its Town Center project would not pass concurrency testing as a result of the new concurrency standard adopted earlier this year by a split City Council. Indeed, unofficial test runs over nine months indicated this was the case.
Yet, last week, city staff ran an official test and STCA Phase I passed concurrency, with no improvements to the roads.
How was this possible?
This article unpacks and explains the details behind the approval and raises serious questions. It is unusually long and reads best on a desktop.
Mayor Christie Malchow and Deputy Mayor Karen Moran called a Special Council Meeting to discuss the issues with staff.
The Special Council Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug 20, at 4pm at City Hall.
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What is a concurrency test?
Concurrency is a legal requirement set by the growth management act (GMA) to prohibit development if it causes the level of service to decline below the standards set by city council.
Indeed, Sammamish Municipal Code says exactly that:
(1) In accordance with RCW 36.70A.070(6)(b),
the City must adopt and enforce ordinances which prohibit development approval if the development causes the level of service on a locally owned transportation facility to decline below the standards defined in SMC 14A.10.050,
unless transportation improvements or strategies to accommodate the impacts of development are made concurrent with the development.
These strategies may include increased public transportation service, ride sharing programs, demand management, and other transportation systems management strategies.
For the purposes of the City’s concurrency requirement, “concurrent with the development” shall mean that improvements or strategies are in place at the time of development, or that a financial commitment is in place to complete the improvements or strategies within six years.
Sammamish Municipal Code, 14A.10.010 Concurrency requirement.
Over the last two years Sammamish City Council debated and voted on new Level of Service standards. As we reported, on May 23 those became permanent on a split 4/3 vote.
419 homes STCA project in the Town Center
The new concurrency standard recognized a failure on Sahalee Way, due to congestion on that road during the AM peak hour (7-8 AM).
In February 19, 2019, former Interim City Manager Larry Patterson first reported that the Town Center development cannot move forward unless something is done to improve Sahalee Way:
The immediate impediment to the City’s development is Sahalee Way. Staff and our consultants have met and outlined several smaller projects we would like to model. If these provide enough room to allow the Town Center Phase I [STCA’s 419 units project] and smaller developments, that we can work within our concurrency model…
Larry Patterson, city manager report, page 67, 2/19/2019
As we reported in April, STCA’s first permit application was submitted and could not pass concurrency, as Patterson alluded to in February.
Three Council Members advocated over the last few months to relax the standards to allow STCA’s project to move forward. Council Members Pam Stuart, Jason Ritchie and Ramiro Valderrama even moved to exempt the Town Center from the impact of Sahalee Way on May 23, 2019, a motion that was voted down 3-4.
Stunning development
On August 15, the city issued a surprise press release announcing that STCA Phase I has passed concurrency test. The City didn’t publicize any of the other 10 concurrency tests that were conducted this year:
“The City of Sammamish announced today that two STCA projects for the Town Center development have passed their concurrency tests and that Certificates of Concurrency have been issued for”
City of Sammamish, Press Release, Aug 15, 2019
This is not the first time the City has given STCA special attention. As we previously reported, former communications manager Kelly Stickney got caught in a controversy for promoting STCA in the city newsletter per STCA’s owner Matt Samwick’s request: Just how cozy is the city with STCA?
419 homes = 53 cars leave the city in the AM peak hour
The Sammamish Comment obtained STCA’s two issued Certificate of Concurrency and their corresponding Concurrency Tests.
Section 6 of the certificate reads:
“This certificate is only an indication that [there] is adequate vehicular capacity on the City of Sammamish street network to support the traffic forecasted to be generated by the development described above.”
The approved development consist of 300 apartments, seven single family homes, 112 town houses, one quality restaurant, one high turnover restaurant, and 56,000 sq/ft of a shopping center.
A concurrency test attempts how the future residents who will live in the proposed development will drive around the city.
The traffic engineer forecasted that the 419 new homes and the commercial areas will create 217 car trips during the morning peak time (7-8 AM).
The following maps show how forecasted traffic flows within the city during the morning between 7 and 8 AM:
To Redmond:
14 cars on Sahalee Way
10 cars on East Lake Sammamish Parkway
To Issaquah
25 cars on Snake Hills Road (212th ave)
four cars on Issaquah Pine Lake Road
0 cars on 43rd Street (right after 228th Ave going south)
In total, 53 cars leave the City in the morning peak hour from a 419 homes development.
Where is the rest of the traffic going?
The map from Concurrency test #11 and #12 show how traffic from the STCA project is headed to different spots in the city and to city limits. The blue lines represent traffic, the numbers next to them represent the number of cars on that road segment. The thicker the line, the more cars drive that road segment. (Click the maps to enlarge.)
As cars reach their destination within the city, the number of cars on the next segment drops.
Few cars are shown leaving the Town Center for the transit park and ride in Issaquah Highlands.
Does this match reality?
Assuming the 217 AM car trips the traffic engineer forecasts is correct, the 53 cars that leave the city represents 25% of total car trips.
But that does not match the reality in Sammamish.
According to the city, 96% of the workers commute outside of the city (computed from the data in the slide below from presentation to City Council on May 2017).
Residents will work in Sammamish?
The slide states that 3,311 people work in Sammamish but live elsewhere. Proponents of the Town Center and STCA argue that smaller homes (like apartments) will entice more local workers to move to the city. From looking at the traffic forecast, it seems the traffic engineer made the assumption that the majority of the future residents will indeed work in Sammamish.
The map shows the rest of the traffic going to high schools, shopping centers (including the Town Center) and residential neighborhoods within Sammamish.
Ten percent of the units in the Town Center are designated affordable housing (at about $1,700 per month for one bedroom). The rest are market rate: one- to two-bedroom apartments go for $2,000-3,700 a month; town homes have been selling in the upper $800,000s.
Sahalee Way – to build or not to build
The traffic forecast model still does not explain why STCA was granted a concurrency certificate after it was informed it would fail the test four months ago.
The answer lies in Sahalee Way.
The concurrency test describes some of the conditions to be able to pass:
No roadway segment may exceed an HCM modified v/c of 1.40 in either the AM or PM analysis hours.
No roadway corridor may exceed an HCM modified v/c or 1.10 in either the AM or PM analysis hours. “
This is the oft-discussed vehicle over capacity (V/C) measurement of the roads. The new standards adopted last November by the council majority, and made permanent on the May 23 vote, recognized that Sahalee Way indeed fails the test.
On April 4, a concurrency test showed that Sahalee Way failing (1.15 v/c is over 1.1):
But in a July concurrency test, Sahalee Way is now passing (1.07 v/c is under 1.1):
The two tests show that the v/c number changed from 1.15 (fail) to 1.07 (pass). Given that the City Council did not make any changes to the rules, the change reflects an improvement to the road that is reflected in a lower v/c, meaning less congestion.
Of course, no improvement has yet been done on Sahalee Way, but the law allows the City up to six years leeway between approving development and completing required road improvements.
Road capacity added
Indeed, the STCA concurrency test shows that the engineer added capacity to the road network based on the 2019-2025 TIP (Transportation Improvement Plan) that includes a proposed $54m project on Sahalee Way – as if it will be completed within six years.
As we reported before, the city and prior city councils routinely included projects on the TIPs over the years, with a long history of not completing them.
The following table summarizes the TIPs from 2005 to 2016, showing in red projects that have been sitting on the TIP for years with no action.
In this case of Sahalee Way, the city council specifically pointed out the project is not funded.
“It’s just a planning document”
During the June 18 council meeting, the council routinely discussed the 2019-2025 TIP, including the Sahalee Way project. The TIP was initially voted down 5-2 (with Mayor Christie Malchow and Council Member Tom Hornish dissenting), objecting to the inclusion of the $54m Sahalee Way project that the majority of the council did not think should be built as presented as it would have only provided for an additional 32 cars and would not alleviate the clog once drivers hit Redmond Way / 202.
Only after a discussion in which staff assured the Council the TIP is just a “planning document,” the Council voted for it 4-2, with Hornish and Malchow dissenting, to satisfy a legal requirement to have a TIP in place before July 1. Staff and council also agreed to continue discussion on the projects in September, after the August recess.
During the discussion, Stuart specifically called out acting Director of Public Works, Cheryl Paston, for the questionable practice and alerted her that the inclusion of the Sahalee Way project on TIP does not solve the concurrency failure.
The exchange can be seen here:
Stuart: What projects get included in the modeling for concurrency?
Paston: The projects in the model are in the latest adopted TIP.
Stuart: Do they have to be funded or just be listed?
Paston: They have to be funded because the model assuming the improvement is in place so they have to be completely funded.
Stuart: As of right now, we wouldn’t be solving the concurrency problem because Sahalee isn’t funded.
Paston: Sahalee is funded.
Stuart: But they are not funded. There are dollar figures next to them but we have a $88m shortfall, this is a $53 million project.
It’s not funded.
Paston: When you say “funded,” I guess I am using a different terminology. For the model, it takes the six year TIP and assumes the city will find the funding to complete those projects, that’s how I was using the term.
The way I understand you’re using it is, do we have the money, the revenues, from various sources in hand, or will have by the end of the six years, and that is what you are all are discussing.
Paston closed with the assertion that:
“It is a planning document, because you can change it, this does not commit the city. The budget can look different than the TIP and often it does look different.”
City Attorney Mike Kenyon chimed in and clarified further:
This is definitely a planning document.
If you adopt this tonight, you can change it tomorrow; you can change as often as you want. This is a six year plan.
The concurrency projects have to be included, have to be funded, have to be built within six years, in order to satisfy concurrency and allow development to move forward.
The model, which is separate from the concurrency issue, takes all of the TIP projects and cranks them in so you can see what it looks like if it’s all built out, it doesn’t mean they all will be built out.
These inputs can be changed, the model can be changed, that is a separate issue from the concurrency.
Mike Kenyon, City Attorney
After these clarifications, city council voted for the TIP 4-2, with the Sahalee Way Project in it. Malchow and Hornish dissented. (Moran had to leave the meeting)
Then, it’s more than a planning document…
Then, staff included the TIP in the concurrency test, even though the Sahalee project is not funded and not even approved by City Council – and it has been used to pass the STCA concurrency tests.
As it turns out, the TIP is more than just a “planning document”.
The Comment asked the city whether the city attorney was consulted before the 2019-2025 TIP (with the Sahalee project) was included in the concurrency test.
”The transportation industry’s standard practice is to update traffic models with the most current information,” the city said. “The city updates its traffic models on a continual basis by including each approved Concurrency Certificate, the most recently adopted six-year TIP, and completed private and public projects into it.
“This professional engineering practice is not a legal decision. As such, this routine administrative function is not sent to the city attorney for consultation.”
This is not the first time Paston got caught in controversy related to development and concurrency. In May 2018 we reported how staff blindsided the Council by recommending a component of concurrency, known as “Intersection LOS”, even though it knew it ignores congestion:
New traffic concurrency model ignores congestion; city council caves to staff
The Comment has reached out to all Council members and to all City Council candidates.
Council Member Chris Ross
“I am shocked and mystified by this announcement. The basis of issuing the Concurrency Certificate is reliant on assumptions that defy common sense. Revealing this major decision without warning during the Council recess shows a total disregard and lack of respect towards the citizens of Sammamish. We must hold our city accountable and nothing short of a full public explanation is necessary. “
Kent Treen
“Once again, the City of Sammamish has failed to follow the spirit (if not the requirements) of the Growth Management Act. Instead of using due diligence to be sure that adequate transportation is in place before approving development, staff granted concurrency certificates for 300 apartments, 57 townhomes and 82,000 SF of commercial space (ala recycled Redmond) knowing fully well that the City has no means to provide the required road improvements to meet any reasonable standard.”
City Council Candidate Kent Treen
“Council makes policy and staff executes according to the policy. Council is not involved in running the tests etc and should not be…”
Council Member Pam Stuart (In a reply to Candidate Kent Treen on Facebook):
Ken Gamblin
“In recent council meetings, council was informed by both city staff and our city attorney that the TIP was simply a planning document, and thus all possible future road improvement projects should be placed in the TIP, even if they were not anticipated to be built within the 6 year term.
Now we find out that all road projects in the TIP were included in this concurrency run and were considered as completed, for the actual concurrency test. We need a public explanation to Council and an independent neutral traffic engineer, by staff and the city attorney, on why they were advised that TIP was presented as only a planning document, but then used in the city permitting process.”
City council Candidate Ken Gamblin
STCA Concurrency Test #11
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23 thoughts on “How the STCA 419 homes development passed concurrency – after failing it for 9 months”
Long Term Resident on August 19, 2019 at 8:18 AM said:
Unbelievable. Cheryl Paston needs to be FIRED. Zero integrity and totally shameless. This must be struck down.
otto_the_taxpayer on August 19, 2019 at 9:21 AM said:
I was going to write something like, “The nonsense has reached unprecedented levels,” but it hasn’t. It’s merely being aired more openly than it was under previous regimes.
It reminds me of the old joke about hiring an accountant, using the interview question “What’s two plus two?” The first two candidates said “four”, but the third candidate said, “What do you want it to be?” Guess who got the job? Just change the question to, “What does the word ‘funded’ mean?”
If Paston’s incoherent Newspeak is what constitutes professionalism in municipal government operation, we are well and truly screwed.
Too bad Franz Kafka and George Orwell are dead, they could have a field day with material like this.
ksoggeKent Sogge on August 19, 2019 at 12:38 PM said:
A one-sided completely biased and likely based on history inaccurate. It is just a small group of whiners and now an election political stunt by the Mayor to call a Special Meeting to whine some more in public.
cityhamilton on August 19, 2019 at 1:40 PM said:
Kent: That’s just your opinion.
Long Time Resident on August 20, 2019 at 10:10 AM said:
Another interested party here to push for his own self-interest, community be damned.
Andy Loats on August 19, 2019 at 2:04 PM said:
You don’t need a study to realize that jamming 4000+ sq.ft homes, 10 ft apart in every nook and cranny is going to over stress your infrastructure.
We’ve seen this story play out all over the county and still you have ill prepared government officials buying the “increased tax revenue” story from real estate developers. Gosh, … they wouldn’t have an ulterior motive would they??? COME ON!!!!! Get it together!!
I can’t tell you how glad I am to have left Sammamish after reading this. The city government is obviously bending/breaking rules in support of increased tax revenue at the expense of city resident’s well being.
What a colossally inept of officials and corrupt real estate developers/agents/etc. Thanks for the s#!^show you’ve created for everyone.
Good riddance!
It doesn’t matter where you move to. These people will move into your community next, after they’re done destroying Sammamish, and start the same shite all over again. Self-serving politicians are not just in DC, they are finding their way into every town, every community, ever more shameless and brazen. We can’t run forever. Eventually we will run out of places to run to. It’s time to stand our ground and fight back.
Thomas T Odell on August 19, 2019 at 4:56 PM said:
It is completely incredible that after so many Town Center concurrency tests have failed that all of a sudden there is now another new one that now passes, apparently due to the inclusion of the benefit of a roadway construction project that is not yet fully designed, has yet to be given go-ahead approval by the Council, nor has been funded. Being on the TIP does NOT constitute approval.
Furthermore, the number of trips generated by the new housing is significantly understated and therefore unrealistic. There is NO way that so many additional residences are going to generate so little additional traffic either within our city our to the outside of it. In reality, it will be much more. Apartments and condos traffic generation numbers are higher than average in Sammamish due to both our family orientation and also our generally poor public transportation. This is one of the variables of the model that can be changed to achieve a desired answer.
This whole situation smacks of the pencil whipping of development approvals that the city has often suspected of staff by many of our residents. Ms. Paston is incredulous in her explanation of why the Sahalee project was included. She has sat through too many Council discussions for the past 3 – 4 years on this project to have not known that it has not yet received any go-ahead from the Council as a real, live project. Her role in giving this project a passing grade is highly questionable.
I believe that someone else with much more traffic analysis expertise needs to take over the entire concurrency process which Ms. Paston has badly mismanaged for the last couple of years. I also believe that it is high time for the Council to bring in outside expertise that is not associated with the city’s current traffic consultants to fully vet the model for accuracy of both inputs and functionality.
Also, the way this was handled needs to be seriously looked into by both the City Manager and the entire Council. For this to go out without the apparent knowledge of either the City Manager or the City Council is extremely disturbing and would not have been permitted in any organization that I have ever been associated with in the past, either civilian or military/governmental. It is a failure of command and management control. The total surprise here indicates that there is yet a second major issue that should be addressed by the Council.
Former Council member and former Mayor
wutravels on August 20, 2019 at 7:36 AM said:
Nailed it. You so articulately expressed the sentiments of many Sammamish residents. I hope you read this as public comment during the special Council meeting.
This concurrency test, if done at all, was done in the summer. Summer traffic is always lighter, because school is out and a lot of people are on vacation. This traffic concurrency test needs to be done during the school year, otherwise it is a fraud.
Miki Mullor on August 20, 2019 at 10:13 AM said:
The timing of the test is irrelevant to the results. The data used is collected in May.
Long timer on August 21, 2019 at 3:20 PM said:
Of course the numbers were better when calculated during the summer. School is out and many families are on vacation. Everyone who lives here knows traffic is better during school vacations.
The number of cars estimated to be driven from the town center is ridiculous. How many people who work in Sammamish will be able to afford those apartments? Many workers at Dicks Clothing and Met Market drive up from Federal Way.
Dean on August 25, 2019 at 7:30 AM said:
There are always creative ways to make one’s case
https://www.smdp.com/residents-sue-city-hall-over-development/132905
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-monica-development-20140514-story.html%3f_amp=true
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.planetizen.com/news/2019/07/105242-plano-texas-scraps-its-growth-plan-after-years-litigation%3famp
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pavement, sidewalk, and the stuff thereof
I'm essentially an idealistic and optimistic person, if one can judge by thoughts that go through my head like "Sure, I can work on the blog tonight and still meet all my other deadlines." But I have a very healthy morbid streak (as the hypochondriac child of a funeral home should have), as evidenced by the following train of thought, which stopped at several stations in my head this afternoon while I was pushing Grover in her (BrE) pushchair/(AmE) stroller across the (BrE) car park/(AmE) parking lot at the (AmE) train station/(BrE) railway station:
"Oh look, that car is (AmE) backing up (= BrE-preferred reversing).
"Maybe I ought to get on the (BrE) pavement. That way, if they hit me, it'll be the driver's fault and I'll have a moral victory.
"Hm, if you said to an American 'the pedestrian was on the pavement when she was killed', they'd probably think it was the pedestrian's fault.
"That'll disappoint my parents when the police come to tell them about my tragic demise. (Of course, Grover, being on wheels, will be pushed to safety. )"
Now, one point of interest (at least to me) is the fact that I seem to be thinking in a mix of dialects. That's probably not as clear in reality as it is when I type out the thought process. When I saw the car's movement, I probably thought "!!!" rather than "Oh look, that car is backing up." But the word pavement definitely made it through my head, since otherwise the subsequent thoughts wouldn't have come hot on its asphalt heels. But that's not the reason I've stopped to blog about it.
People frequently note that AmE sidewalk = BrE pavement, but it's rarer to see the AmE use of pavement explained in those ubiquitous lists of simple AmE/BrE lexical differences. In BrE, if you're on the pavement, then you're not on the road, but for Americans, this can be confusing because the road is paved, and therefore pavement. The OED gives the following:
2. a. The paved or metalled part of a road or other public thoroughfare; the roadway. Now chiefly N. Amer. and Engin.The main sense in N. America.
But the more common sense in BrE is:
b. A paved footpath alongside a street, road, etc., usually slightly raised above the level of the road surface. See also foot-pavement n.
I've seen one person on the web claiming that we use pavement in this way in the US--i.e. to distinguish the pedestrian path from the road. That's not my experience at all--so it may be that that it's regional--the writer doesn't indicate where she's from.
Incidentally, sidewalk (originally side walk or side-walk) is one of those things that was originally British English, but which faltered here while gaining favo(u)r in America. So, next time you see/hear a British person showing distaste for the word, you can ask them to thank their ancestors for it. Let's start with these charming folk:
Sir David Attenborough would never say 'sidewalk', he speaks English (properly). [poster PEB at the ITV football (=AmE soccer) forum]
i find myself using more and more American English, in an effort for smoother understanding, as i come into contact with so few Brits here. i say ’apartment’ and ’soccer’ and ’line’ instead of ’queue’ - which is all pretty bad - i commit to never say ’sidewalk’, though - and hope that if i ever did, even in jest, anyone who thought of themselves as a friend would have the common decency to punch me in the face. square in the face. repeatedly. [a gareth egg's myspace page; I don't consider him a friend, but I would consider punching him square in the face. Maybe not repeatedly, as that would ruin my pacifist cred.]
But all that wasn't the reason I've stopped to blog about my morbid thought train either. No, the reason I'm blogging about it is that I have a modicum of guilt about the fact that I've used so few of the good ideas sent to me by readers these days, and thinking of pavement made me think of an e-mail sent to me by my emeritus colleague Max (since he uses his own name when he comments here, I won't do my usual pseudonymi{s/z}ing). He's just read Jane Smiley's Ten days in the hills (which I won't be reading because I've given her two chances and she's driven me [BrE] mad/[AmE] crazy each time), and he sent me a list of Americanisms that were new to him. Among them was
He went down the front steps and walked toward the aviary across Mike's pavers, set in an elaborate pattern of interlocking arches.
which, as he correctly worked out, is equivalent to BrE paving stones, though I had to look it up to know that, as it's not a word I'd ever use. In fact, it's not in many dictionaries--answers.com has to go to the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction for it, so it might just be trade jargon. That's not the only place in Smiley's novel where Max found a term that I had to go to a specialist glossary for (true-divided-light windows, anyone?), which gives a little hint as to why I find her writing too gristly to chew.
Of course, these days, paving is done with just about anything that can be used to harden an area of ground. Where I grew up, we called the black stuff that's used on roads tar or blacktop (one could also, more dialect-neutrally, call it asphalt) but in BrE, it is more likely to be called tarmacadam--a word I'd never heard in America--or its abbreviation tarmac. In AmE, tarmac (originally Tarmac, a trade name) is reserved for the surfaces that (AmE) airplanes/(BrE) aeroplanes drive on at airports--as in "I once had to sit on the tarmac for five hours at JFK." (Not that my bottom came into contact with the tarmac, but that my bottom made contact with a plane that made unmoving contact with the tarmac.) In the OED definition above, we see metalled (AmE would prefer metaled), which refers to road metal, a term that I've never come across before, but refers to "broken stone used in making roads", as is found in these tarmacky, asphalty things. If you'd like to know the technical differences between tarmac and asphalt, I recommend that you look them up because although I've just read all about it, I just can't build up the enthusiasm to tell you about it.
I can't leave this subject without mentioning crazy-paving, which I have only heard in BrE contexts--the first of which (in my American circumstance) was in Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' song Rattlesnakes:
her heart, heart's like crazy paving
upside down and back to front
she says ooh, it's so hard to love
when love was your great disappointment*
Getting to hear that live was the first and only reason we've had to find someone to (orig. AmE) babysit in the evening so far. Did not disappoint--in fact, Mr Cole appointed very well. But getting back to language and away from the little (orig. AmE) crushes of mine that Better Half bears so well, crazy paving is the use of paving stones in a 'crazed' non-pattern. Although, as far as I know, the term crazy paving is mostly used in the UK, it is based (according to the OED) on the originally AmE collocation crazy quilt, for a patchwork quilt with irregularly shaped/placed patches.
* These are the published lyrics, but I've always heard this as 'love was sure a great disappointment'. Click on the link above to watch the video and tell me I'm not wrong!
Labels: architecture , geography , trade names , transport(ation)
Zhoen 19 July, 2008 02:16
The only place I know the word "Pavers" from is This Old House. So, yes, jargon.
"I'm on the pavement, thinkin' 'bout the government."
-B. Dylan.
When I first found out that pavement was BrE for sidewalk, I remember wondering whether British indie-rock fans in the '90s thought that the American band Pavement's name meant "sidewalk," and if so whether that colo(u)red their view of the band (or at least its name) differently. Probably not; it's a pretty nonsensical name either way...
For added weirdness, Pavement has apparently been called "the most British American rock band", according to this interview with Stephen Malkmus.
So far, so on-topic. Hurrah!
So, what is crazy paving called in the US, or do you just not have the thing?
I've never to my knowledge heard it talked about in the US, so either it's not as popular, or we don't feel the need to discuss it as much!
Does anyone have a better answer?
Amy 19 July, 2008 03:49
When I read your description of "crazy paving", it didn't sound familiar, and I thought it must not be a popular design here in the States; but then I did a google image search, and what I found was immediately familiar.
It would seem that what the Brits refer to by the pattern used, we Yanks name according to the material used: I would call it "flagstone".
Altissima 19 July, 2008 05:21
Here in Australia, the black road material is generally known as bitumen. I believe most Aussies would understand tar or tarmac, but would probably not be familiar with tarmacadam or blacktop.
John Cowan 19 July, 2008 07:02
Flagstone can be quite uniformly laid: it need not be crazy. If the crazy paving is made of unworked stone, though, I'd call it fieldstone.
Pacific Bedrock, a Chinese company, has a glossary that says the American English term is simply "randomly set paving".
(Far be it from me to contradict the OED, but I had always understood that people were crazy because they were cracked, like the paving.
Caro 19 July, 2008 08:40
I've heard pavers used in the UK, but I can't remember who by or what part of the country (sorry).
I know them as paviours, brick setts. Paving stones are much bigger and flatter.
See a UK supplier.
But now I type, I'm not sure how well known setts are. Think large ,6", cubes in Yorkshire streets. I was told streets had setts rather than tarmac so that the pack horses could get a grip on the slopes.
steph 19 July, 2008 09:59
All I know is that I cut my finger in the kitchen at work and was bleeding and had grabbed a bit of paper towel and was keeping it under pressure and ran and asked my colleague for a plaster. I was mortified. I needed a bandaid! I was bleeding! Where did the word plaster come from!
Syd 19 July, 2008 15:05
I'd call it asphalt or blacktop - but when I moved to Eastern PA (Bucks County) I learned a new word - macadam, which is obviously a shortening of tarmacadam.
Kevin 19 July, 2008 15:28
Syd, "macadam" isn't necessarily a shortening of "tarmacadam", since there were macadamized roads long before the invention of tarmacadam. The Scotsman John McAdam invented the process of building roads using three layers of graded stones, with each layer rolled to cause the stones to bind together. Tar-bonding of the stones, to prevent the raising of dust clouds by fast moving motor vehicles, was a later invention.
Steph, the word "plaster" comes from the earlier use of the word to denote a piece of muslin spread (plastered) with a soothing or healing salve and placed on a wound. It is, via Latin, from Greek (in which emplastron was the salve itself, related to the words "plasma" and "plastic" which share the idea of moulding), and seems to be the common term in north European languages, cf. Pflaster (German), pleister (Dutch), plåster (Swedish). The term "sticking plaster", to give it its full name in BrE, was thus just that: a self-adhesive wound dressing. To British ears it seems a little odd that Americans always seem to refer to just one brand of sticking plaster (are there no other makes?). Another oddity is that while anglophone Canadians say "bandaid" (so I am told), les Québecois frequently ask for "un plaster"!
As an American, I'd describe "pavers" as being no more than a few inches on each side, designed to form some sort of regular geometric pattern, usually concrete or terra cotta, rather than natural stone. "Brick" would be an acceptable and easily-understood substitute.
Google searches seem to suggest that companies use the word "paver" for some of the larger ones, about a foot/30 cm on each side, but my word of choice would probably be "block" or "stone" or even "tile."
Jim Ancona 20 July, 2008 00:09
I'm originally from northern New Jersey. I was unfamiliar with the term tarmacadam before reading this post, but I do know macadam as a synonym for what I would usually call tar or asphalt. It sounds like something my grandmother would say, and she was from Reading, Pennsylvania in Berks County, not too far from Bucks County, where Syd learned the term.
As to paver, in addition to the generic "paving stone" meaning, there's a more specific meaning of a type of brick, with dimensions in a two to one ratio, so that they fit together tightly when used to pave a walkway or patio, and can be used to make interesting patterns. Bricks that are used to build walls have some other ratio which doesn't lend itself to use in that way.
A question for you guys:
Australians usually say "footpath" instead of sidewalk/pavement; I have been told that this sense of "footpath" is a British archaism/regionalism. (I'm American.) Is there anybody out there in the British Isles who still uses "footpath" to mean a sidewalk/pavement?
In these parts, a footpath is one that goes into/through a wooded area or field (etc.), and isn't used much for pavements/sidewalks in a town that were deliberately put there to be pedestrian zones.
Terry 20 July, 2008 22:13
My definition of "crazy paving" would be that it was made from broken paving stones(frequently available free from your local council), not just irregular stones, and thus named not as the OED would have it, after crazy quilting but from the older meaning of "crazy", damaged, full of cracks.
A footpath, btw, is not exlusively rural and can be urban: it would be a path through a built-up area that did not run alongside a road. Footpath would also be used for the raised area for pedestrians running alongside a rural road.
In BrE a footpath needn't be rural, or lead out from an urban area towards the woods and fields; it can equally well be a paved/tarmacked walkway in town, but the essential difference between it and a pavement is that a pavement necessarily runs beside a road. Many housing estates with cul-de-sacs for motor vehicles have footpaths cutting through between houses from one road to another to facilitate journeys on foot; others have layouts where the house fronts cannot be directly accessed by road -- instead, a footpath passes their front doors. One of these footpaths leads past my own front door; it's not a "pavement" because there is no road alongside it (beyond it is a low wall separating off a parking area) -- but, on leaving my house, whether I turn left or right along this footpath I arrive within 40 metres at a pavement (no wider, and with the same surface, but so called because it runs beside a road).
Jonathan Bogart 21 July, 2008 02:07
The BrE understanding of "footpath" outlined above made me query my AmE instincts on what I would call such a path that diverged from the side of a road, and I think that if it was still of the familiar poured-concrete design, it would be stil be a sidewalk, especially in an urban area. (I'm thinking particularly of college campuses in the Southwestern US, which tend to be swaths of concrete interrupted by buildings and the occasional decorative lawn, where I would use the word "sidewalk" to differentiate concrete from grass, gravel, or asphalt as walking surfaces.)
Might this perhaps point to a further distinction between BrE and AmE usage? The AmE "sidewalk" (at least in my understanding) doesn't need to be to the side of anything in particular, though it sounds as if the BrE "pavement" does. What are others' instincts on this?
lizeff 21 July, 2008 13:09
as an architect raised & educated in the US, but now working in london, there are many many many new terms of AmE/BrE jargon that I've had to adjust myself to (sidewalk / paving) being just one of those things.
I spent my first month working here correcting what I thought were typos, most noticably curb/kerb and sill/cill.
Apparently Brits use curb as a verb (as in to curb your dog) and 'kerb' to be the edging piece of concrete at a level change (between the pavement/sidewalk and the bitumen/asphalt).
I'm still not sure how cill/sill
happened, but basically everytime I mention it to a British person, they look at me and say, 'Well it's not the Kenter of a Kircle is it?'
Another architect chiming in...
"Paver" is actually used (at least when I am drawings plans) to identify the blocks creating the path no matter what they are made of. I often will call for "Brick Pavers" or "Concrete Pavers" when specifying them on a drawing.
Although, in my conversational usage, when I talk about something using pavers, it indicates a sporadic, use of stone. Something with one stone every foot or so, with plenty of grass or sand or whatever surrounding it. Or if it is a continuous path, it is not very wide. Once it gets wider I would just call it a brick walkway, or what have you.
For example, if giving directions to someoen through a garden, I would say, "Follow the brick pavers off to the right." but if it was wider, it would be follow the walkway.
Of course that could just be me.
Doug Sundseth 21 July, 2008 17:19
In addition to "macadam", "black top", and "asphalt", I've heard "tarvey" for that sort of pavement. ( 8-) AmE "pavement".) I've only heard it used by my grandmother, who is from NW Minnesota and is now 95, so it might be obsolete, regional, or both.
Alec 21 July, 2008 18:40
How about the pronunciation of "asphalt"? It always looks to me as if it should be "ass-fault" but I mostly seem to hear people saying "ash-fault". Is this a mispronunciation, is it really the standard pronunciation, or is there a dialectal difference?
I believe the pavement/sidewalk is officially known as the "footway" in the UK. I wouldn't expect to hear anyone use that term except in a legal or technical context.
"Footpath" is used in law relating to public footpaths, which definitely excludes footways.
(The pavement is part of the highway, and it is illegal to cycle or drive on it; while you do not have a right to cycle or drive on a footpath it isn't illegal as such: the landowner can do so legally and anyone else is merely trespassing, a civil offence)
terry--since crazy quilts are made from little leftover, irregular scraps of material, I think the association to both 'crazed' and 'crazy quilts' could be made. Which is to say, 'crazy quilt' could also come from the 'broken' meaning.
kevin--your explanation of 'footpath' is really helpful, and rings true for me--e.g. there's a shortcut between my mother-in-law's house and her local station, which is marked 'public footpath'.
jonathan-I don't trust my own intuitions on 'sidewalk' anymore, so you'll have to wait for someone else to respond!
Over here in Australia where we call one pavement "footpath" and the other pavement "tarmac/bitument/assphalt" (or just "the road"), I've always thought a paved road would be one made of bricks or cobblestones or something. It was quite a surprise the first time I heard a sealed road described as paved.
Although I don't use it and rarely hear it, I understand "pavement" in its British sense.
As for the other terms in your post:
AusE pusher (vs BrE pushchair/AmE stroller)
AusE carpark (vs AmE parking lot)
AusE train station (vs BrE railway station)
AusE reversing (vs AmE backing up)
AusE soccer ("football" refers to the dominant code in your area, so soccer in England, rugby league in northern-eastern Australia, Australian football in the rest of Australia, gridiron in America etc.)
One is driven mad, but once you're there, you're normally crazy because "mad" is ambiguous.
Oh incidentally Lynneguist, I can never see the "word verification" picture when I'm at home, meaning I can only post here when I'm at work. Now, this might be part of some plot to take over the world by ruining the Australian economy, but if it's not, have you got any idea why?
I grew up in Indiana where many of our neighbors had these yard (AmE) surfaces made from found (or "found") materials that looked very much like UK crazy paving. The only term I ever heard for this was "redneck deck", usually used proudly by individuals who considered themselves to be rednecks.
Now I live in a north London home which has true "crazy paving" in both front and back gardens (BrE). This paving was installed exceptionally well (embedded in at least 6" of concrete and nicely level) which means we have decided to live with it rather than try and reveal any of the dirt below. So our "garden" is more like a parking space even though it is not possible to park there.
Here in New Zealand, a 'metaled road' is one that isn't paved, i.e. a (AmE)'gravel road'. Is that the usage in the UK? The original post was a bit ambiguous.
As a former US College/University student, I concur that 'sidewalk' is an unremarkable AmE way to refer to paved pathways between buildings. The simple 'Path' is also used.
'Walkway' and 'pathway' are also common, but they're a bit more formal and would tend to show up in written communications from the university to the students (e.g. stay on the pathways instead of tearing up the lawns, don't chalk slogans all over the walkway outside the dining hall, etc.)
Incidentally, what do brits call 'sidewalk chalk'? or is drawing on the pavement in front of ones' house not something british children do?
Over here, Kiwianna, I think drawing on the pavement is called "drawing on the pavement."
Chiming in from L.A., where the word "pavers" is commonly used to indicate any sort of stones or tiles used to pave a yard. My backyard (garden to you Brits) is completely covered in square, terra cotta tiles, which everyone involved in my home purchase transaction (realtors, handymen, inspectors, etc.) referred to as pavers or tile pavers. But pavement definitely means the street here.
There is a delighful regional word from Sussex that refers to an urban footpath (usually running between the back gardens/yards of houses, and that is "twitten". I would have said the nearest AmE translation would be "alley" - only you can sometimes drive along an alley, but you can't drive along a twitten.
PH 07 February, 2019 21:05
Re "twitten", a similar word (used in the East Midlands) is "twitchell".
@Cameron.
Kiwianna's post sounds to me as if she's referring to the chalk itself rather than the act of writing on the pavement. But 'sidewalk chalk' suggests that in NZ there must be some special sort of chalk made for the purpose. Can this be so?
(Pete Moor)
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@the_sybil.
I was trying to think of a word for the passageways that exist between most back gardens (AmE backyards) in the UK, but apparently seldom in the US. Twitten is perfect.
Here in Florida we do not have the walls and fences of the UK in frontyards. Thus neighbors can, in a pinch, park on each others' driveways or swards, depending on who's having the party. But it's our backyards which are firmly chainlinked one against t'other, with no twitten in between.
So, how did the twitten become the standard architecture in the UK?
Could it have something to do with the legal definition of "Public Footpath"?
(Gawd alone knows who I'll be this time.)
(Never mind. This is Peter. I see juycl. I see choose an identity. After that, I leave it to the gods.)
My first comment linked a couple of unrelated thoughts. Sorry.
To clarify - I am an American now living in New Zealand.
When I was growing up in the US, we would often draw on the sidewalk in front of our house.
We did this with 'sidewalk chalk', which is the same as regular chalk-board chalk, except thicker in diameter, sometimes longer, and by default available as a multi-colored pack (like crayons) instead of all white.
As I think back, I'm pretty sure that what we used was often bits and pieces of regular chalk that my parents filched from the University, but we always called it 'sidewalk chalk'
I was wondering if british children use 'pavement chalk' or if they don't have a special word for it or don't engage in the practice of drawing on the sidewalk at all.
I don't know what New Zealand Children do. I haven't seen any evidence of sidewalk drawing by the kids in our neighborhood, though.
While the children upstairs from us do write on the pavement with chalk, I believe they do it with chalk from school. If the equivalent of 'sidewalk chalk' is marketed here, it's not done as successfully as it is in the States. But also UK shoppers would be less apt to buy such things (and UK shops/stores less likely to stock such things) because no one has space for big tubs of chalk.
I'm from Central New Jersey, but after college I moved to the PA Dutch Country and started teaching pre-school. We referred to the playground as "macadam", whereas I'd have called it "blacktop", so perhaps shortening tarmacadam to "macadam" is a PA thing.
Ginger Yellow 24 July, 2008 17:01
"sidewalk chalk" would probably get you an ASBO in the UK these days.
pandop 24 July, 2008 20:58
Just to confuse matters a little more, there is a street in York called 'Pavement' - and it has both English and US pavements. It does show that the US sense of pavement was known here too, once.
There's also a street in London called Finsbury Pavement.
There are several names for rural or semi-rural footpaths in the UK.
'Lane' would describe a dirt path between two fields, too narrow to drive a car or cart along, perhaps tarmacked nowadays - sometimes the name persists in a city even if the lane is now a fully-fledged street ( e.g. St Martin's Lane in London - the big church at the south end, i.e. in Trafalgar Square, is St Martin's in the Fields, and so it was in 1720!). Similar words are 'loke' in Norwich and 'loan' in Scotland.
'Close' is a good one - used by 20-thC planners to describe a cul-de-sac or short street of houses with only one entrance - in Scotland it refers to the enclosed common area of a block of flats. These are not always enclosed by doors, so that it is an extension of the street, and may go straight through to the back. Staircases lead up to the individual flats.
'Alley' has a more urban feel to it - it usually runs between two buidings or along the back of a street of houses.
A towpath runs alongside a canal and would be where the horse (or man) walked to tow along a narrow boat or barge. Many of these are now metalled, and used as cycle routes.
Then there are bridle paths, definitely rural and specific for mounted horses (and pedestrians) only. These would definitely be earth - or mud - underfoot.
I'm a Brit who used to work in a (BrE?) garden centre (not quite equivalent to AmE/BrE nursery, since we didn't just grow plants and sell them and their accoutrements; we also sold garden furniture and the like). And I really wrote to say that my experience chimed with David's (below), who's American, and generally with the experiences of the architects who've commented: pavers are ornamental in some way, whereas paving stones, or paving slabs, are what makes up a pavement/sidewalk when it isn't just poured concrete.
So it's looking like pavers isn't so much AmE as professional jargon.
Hi Lynn
Interesting that you said "this can be confusing because the road is paved". I would never call a road as paved unless it were built by Romans, a modern road is tarred. To me, paved, means covered by tightly fitted stone (or concrete) paving stones.
cuppatea 27 November, 2008 13:51
Long time reader, first time commenter. Very late comment, but no-one mentioned the U.S. road sign 'Pavement Ends,' which certainly threw me the first time I (BrE) saw one in rural America. Why would I be remotely interested in the fact that there was no more pavement (i.e. sidewalk)? I was also thinking that this was perhaps the first 'pedestrian-friendly' thing I had seen on the U.S. road network. I soon realised my mistake.
catnap 09 August, 2010 04:11
My parents grew up in Galesburg, Illinois, and as such I was always familiar with the term pavers as a reference to bricks. They were used for both streets and sidewalks. Purington Pavers are everywhere in Galesburg, to this day. See this history http://www.historicalbricks.com/brick-street-pavers.html of bricks for a description of the Purington Brick Co. Home Depot sells pavers, though more products are referred to as pavestones.
Pavement, for me, could be an alternative to using the word sidewalk, or possibly street. Time to hit the pavement. Or, I skinned my knee on the pavement outside. I think it implies the solid, hard, formed material, whereas sidewalk implies the walking path alongside the road, and the idea of traveling somewhere.
Block paving London 27 December, 2010 11:07
Its right that Many black road material is generally known as bitumen. But Most of the countries aware about with the word "paving". Generally its common word.
In Philadelphia, people say pavement, not sidewalk, generally speaking.
Eric 15 October, 2012 13:10
The British construction industry uses pavement to mean the roadway, with paving machines (Blaw Knox and Barber Greene pavers were around in the 1950s in the UK, some with wheels, some tracked) laying the material. Since tarmacadam is a mixture of liquid tar and crushed stones (according to the Scotsman who laid the first gravel roads with "stones small enough to put ion your mouth") and tarmac is just a colloquialism for it, I do not see how anyone can trademark the abbreviation for a road surface that has been around for the best part of a century.
I have heard tarmac used for airport runways, aprons and other paved surfaces for decades.
I see no problem with Tarmac the construction company, but that is a different matter.
As for crazy paving, there was a time when any tarred surface would break up or distort in very hot weather. Whitish lines would appear as though creating a jigsaw. Whilst crazy paving usually means randomly shaped slabs of stone, etc used as a surface in a garden, etc, it may have its origin in the way tarred surfaces behaved in hot conditions.
...as for Pavement vs. Sidewalk in the US, in Philadelphia, PA area they use Pavement. I went to two grades in Elementary School there and was raised in Bucks County. It is the only area of the US that uses Pavement that way...that is one way they can tell you're not a native.
cris 11 September, 2015 23:40
I am Canadian but many of the books I read are written by authors from the USA, in the 'Stephanie Plum' series set in a small city in the state of New Jersey, I often encountered the unfamiliar term 'macaderm' which I could understand from the context to mean what I would call asphalt, and thus I assumed it was the general AmE term. Now I know better. Tarmac I have also heard for it but infrequently and wouldn't use.
(contrast the also unfamiliar term 'fireplug' which I had to look up as I could not understand from context what one was or what it meant for a person to built like one)
For me paving or paved would be general terms for covering the ground in a surface layer (which blocks things growing there). And thus areas covered in
Pavers is a term I am familiar with though I may use paving stones more readily. While I have seen paths paved with actual bricks most (when not real stone) pavers are only visually brick-like but otherwise rather different in composition, non-fired and not suitable for vertical building. I moved a literal (metric) tonne of them a few summers ago when I helped my Dad do a new driveway, patio and pathway at his house.
Question for the people in the UK; what are the pavements alongside your streets made out of?
Here I call them sidewalks and while I've seen almost every type of paving imaginable the vast majority are made out of concrete, which (along with being raised up) differentiates them from the street they run beside which is most commonly made out of asphalt(/bitumen/tarmacadam).
Tom 02 December, 2015 17:38
An American chiming in: I don't think anyone has accurately identified the normal US use of the word "pavement." Pavement must be a continuous sheet of either concrete or asphalt/blacktop/macadam. Anything that comes in pieces like pavers, stones, or bricks, does not make up pavement, although paver, stone, concrete, and asphalt-clad ground surfaces would all be referred to as "paved."
Also, "street" is not the same as "pavement." All ground surfaces that are covered in a continuous sheet of concrete or asphalt whether the street, sidewalk, parking lot, yard, playground-- these are all made up of "pavement." "The pavement" would not normally be an American construction except in the sense of "I fell on the pavement." One would never bring an American to an urban setting and ask him to "point out the pavement" and expect anything but a puzzled look. "Point out some pavement" would work, however.
I was looking up the law regarding sidewalk chalk and stumbled across this post. A couple of people commented that, in Philadelphia, people use the word "pavement" rather than "sidewalk". I was born and raised in Philly and the nearby suburbs. I never used the word "pavement" for the pedestrian walkway, only "sidewalk". Some people do say "pavement", but the term is confusing because it also refers to paved road surfaces.
David Crosbie 04 April, 2016 00:37
The same as your sidewalks.
kiwianna
The only pavement chalking's I've ever been familiar with are squares for playing hop-scotch. I suppose we call them 'squares for playing hop-scotch'.
Edgar Wallace in Shadow Man, Mr J. G. Reader Returns (published in 1932)describing the paperboy's description of a man's route while running down a London street (prior to being shot!) refers to "sidewalk" not pavement.
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It is neither a regional council, nor a super department. This Friday, January 1 marks the birth of the European Collectivity of Alsace (CEA), which merges the departmental councils of Bas-#Rhin and Haut-#Rhin. The creation of this hybrid structure, unique in France, responds to a strong demand from Alsatians, many of whom considered the Alsatian identity diluted since 2015 in the Grand Est region.
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Screening does not stop advanced breast cancer, and nearly one third of the small tumours that are found in women offered screening are overdiagnoses, shows a new study. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Mammography screening does not stop advanced breast cancer
Many healthy women are diagnosed with cancer even though the cancer would never have made them ill, shows new research.
Marie Barse
Published friday 07. april 2017 - 06:25
“This is a nail in the coffin for breast cancer screenings. We should drop the screening program.”
So says Karsten Juhl Jørgensen, MD and deputy director at the Nordic Cochrane Centre. He is the lead author on an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the effects of breast cancer screening in Denmark.
The study concludes that screening does not stop the advance of breast cancer and that nearly one third of the tumours diagnosed in women offered screening are actually overdiagnosis.
This means that healthy women who would never have become ill from breast cancer are operated on and exposed to radiotherapy and possibly chemotherapy.
“The really dangerous thing here is that people who would never get breast cancer without screening are diagnosed with it. This has huge, negative side effects on their lives. The psychological burden is heavy and the treatment can be dangerous,” says Jørgensen.
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Two centimetre tumours
Scientists at the Cochrane Centre have used the Danish national registers to compare the occurrence of advanced breast cancer (tumours bigger than two centimetres) among women who were either offered screening or not offered screening.
Breast screening has been available in Copenhagen and Funen County since the early 1990’s, accounting for around 20 per cent of the population. This allowed the scientists to compare the Danish regions that offered screening with those that did not. In 2007, breast cancer screening was rolled out nationwide, providing a 17 year period of observation with differential access to screening.
“In my eyes, this is some of the most valid research that we have in this area. This is because we have good registers and a control group, which makes the results absolutely trustworthy,” says John Brodersen, a professor in general medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
“If the screening program worked then we would see a reduction in the occurrences of advanced breast cancer. If there are more small tumours, but not fewer large tumours, then it doesn’t help—so screening doesn’t stop advanced breast cancer,” says Jørgensen.
Read More: Screening does not prevent aggressive breast cancer
Deadly breast cancer grows quickly
Screening is designed to catch the cancer at an early stage to treat it before it spreads.
“The benefit of screening lies in the fact that you can catch the cancer early and can offer a more gentle treatment and prevent the cancer from developing into deadly breast cancer,” says doctor and project boss at The Danish Cancer Society, Ulla Axelssen.
But Jørgensen says that the new study demonstrates that screening does not catch cancer early.
“The really dangerous tumours grow so quickly that you cannot catch them through screening,” he says, adding that many of the small tumours that you do find by screening, do not grow quickly enough to make a woman ill.
Axelssen finds the new results interesting.
“We’ll read this article with interest at The Danish Cancer Society. We need to take a look at it carefully. It’s an area that we follow closely,” she says.
“The study doesn’t make me say with certainty that we should no longer screen [for breast cancer]. There are many other studies that show screening has a big effect. The usefulness outweighs the disadvantages,” says Axelssen.
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Danish cancer researchers are sceptical
The cancer scientists with experience in breast cancer and screening that ScienceNordic spoke to are critical of the study. They all disagree that the screening process is ineffective and harmful, as the scientists behind the study say.
Peer Christiansen, a professor in breast surgery at Aarhus University Hospital says “the results are very different from those we’ve seen in other studies, also from studies that have highlighted the issue of over-diagnoses from screening programs in Copenhagen and Fyn [central Denmark].”
Christiansen published a study on the subject in 2014, which showed a positive effect from screening. And he knows the scientists behind the new study.
“We know that they have an agenda, which is against screening. They’ll use this to say that we should abolish the screening program. I totally disagree. I’m a clinician with real life patients. I see it through different eyes than the scientists from the Cochrane Centre. I can see the utility and benefit for patients receiving mammograms,” he says.
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Doctor: so how do we ensure that women are diagnosed?
Doctor and head of screening at Rigshospital, Copenhagen, Ilse Vejborg writes in an email:
“There are lots of articles on this, both Danish and international studies, and we in Denmark track the quality of the Danish screening methods very closely. All the indicators of medical quality show that it compares well with international recommendations, including the [identification] of small cancers of one centimetre or less, and the proportion of screenings that detect cancers that have not spread to the lymph nodes,” she writes.
She points to a study from 2013 in the British Medical Journal and to a report from the Danish Quality Database on Mammogram Screening from 2015.
“The same research group have previously argued strongly against women checking themselves regularly for [breast cancer] and that this cannot be used as a screening method. There is broad agreement on this internationally. But how can we ensure that women are diagnosed early enough, before the cancer reaches an advanced stage and when there’s a better chance of survival” she writes.
Read more in the Danish version of this article on Videnskab.dk
Translated by: Catherine Jex
Scientific links
Breast Cancer Screening in DenmarkA Cohort Study of Tumor Size and Overdiagnosis, Annals of Internal Medicine 2017, DOI:0.7326/M16-0270
Karsten Juhl-Jørgensen
Ulla Axelsson
Peer Christiansen
Ilse Vejborg
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The first test tube baby in Norway was born in 1984. An increasing number of women rely on assisted reproduction to give birth. Today, between 2-5 per cent of all children born in Europe are brought into the world this way.
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It is now possible to identify aggressive breast cancers by interpreting the mathematical patterns in the cancer genome.
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A very aggressive form of breast cancer, which appears to be caused by genetic mutations, is affecting women under the age of 40. Researchers will now try to find the genes responsible for the disease.
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Does a Covid vaccine stop you spreading it to loved ones?
Posted on 1 week ago by Trinny Petrillo
WITH three Covid vaccines approved for use, the Government is ramping up the UK’s jab roll out.
More than 2.2 million Brits have now received their first dose of the jab with aims to vaccinate all of the most vulnerable by mid-February.
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A woman has a coronavirus jab at the NHS vaccine centre that has been set up at Millennium Point in Birmingham[/caption]
But it’s still unclear whether those who have a good level of protection against the bug are still able to spread it to loved ones.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock tonight described it as the “critical” key fact, which we still don’t know.
Speaking at a Downing Street press briefing on Monday, he said: “We know that the vaccine reduces your chances of getting Covid and then being hospitalised or dying of Covid. We know it gives you that protection.
“What we don’t yet know – and are following very closely – is how much you might transmit Covid even if you don’t suffer from the disease, after you’ve had the vaccine.
“We hope that it has a significant downward impact on that transmissibility after you’ve been vaccinated and it’s something we’re monitoring and testing people for after they’ve had the vaccine.”
Mr Hancock said that the Government was working on publishing a full paper on the findings in due course.
The Department of Health has clarified that while vaccine won’t give people Covid-19, it’s unclear whether it will stop the spread.
A Government spokesperson said: “We do not yet know whether it will stop you from catching and passing on the virus, but we do expect it to reduce this risk.
“So, it is still important to follow the guidance in your local area to protect those around you.
“To protect yourself and your family, friends and colleagues you still need to
practice social distancing, wear a face mask, wash your hands carefully and frequently and follow the current guidance.”
Experts say that none of the UK’s three approved vaccines – Pfizer, Oxford or Moderna, have been shown to reduce the spread of the virus in the population.
Scientists behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab are continuing to assess whether their vaccine can protect against transmission.
They are yet to publish complete results, but participants were routinely tested for Covid during their trials to track whether someone became infected but didn’t develop symptoms.
Early results suggested that the vaccine may have reduced frequency of infections, which would suggest transmission might also decrease.
Pfizer has said that its scientists are looking at ways to assess virus transmission in future studies.
Professor Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told Sky News: “The Oxford vaccine took samples from people so they’ve been able to look at asymptomatic cases, so we are fairly confident that they will at least reduce transmission once they are effective.
“They will start to have some efficacy 14 days after the first jab so will probably reduce transmission, but not totally prevent it before you have your second jab.
“Pfizer didn’t do any tests but you can be fairly sure they will prevent asymptomatic cases and transmission.”
In the meantime, experts warn that without knowing for sure, people who have been vaccinated could still transmit the infection to others who remain vulnerable.
Stephen Griffin a a virologist at the University of Leeds, told Nature: “In the worst-case scenario, you have people walking around feeling fine, but shedding virus everywhere.
It comes as new figures show the number of people in the UK to have been given a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine is nearly 2.3 million.
Some 78,005 first doses have been given in Northern Ireland, on top of the 1,959,151 in England, 86,039 in Wales and 163,377 in Scotland – to give a UK total of 2,286,572.
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The film line-up was announced this week for the 2015 edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. This year’s line-up will include 210 titles from 45 countries. 102 of these films will be world or international premieres, which includes 17 world premieres from Canada. In addition, a point has been made that 40% of the filmmakers at Hot Docs this year will be female. This year’s opening night film will be the international premiere of Tig, which is about comedian Tig Notaro’s battle with cancer. The film will also be featured as part of this year’s Scotiabank Big Ideas line-up. Another major highlight of this year’s festival is the Canadian premiere of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, which is described as the definitive documentary about the frontman of Nirvana. Here are some of the other stand-out films at this year’s Hot Docs: Being Canadian – Rob Cohen, Canada/USA (Special Presentations)
An ode to Canadiana, which looks to be a very fun watch. This is one not to miss. Chuck Norris vs Communism – Ilinca Calugareanu, UK/Germany/Romania (Screen on Screen)
This fight against communist Romania is worth seeing for the title alone. Deep Web – Alex Winter, USA (Scotiabank Big Ideas)
Former Bill and Ted actor, turned documentary filmmaker, Alex Winter (Downloaded) returns to Hot Docs for this investigation into the deepest corners of the internet. As a major tech junkie, this is a film I will most definitely be seeing. Doglegs – Heath Cozens, Japan/USA (World Showcase)
A film about disabled wrestlers in Japan? Count me in. Jesus Town USA – Julian Pinder and Billie Mintz, Canada/USA (Canadian Spectrum)
This film about the Buddhist star of a small town Passion play looks to be a fun watch. Live from New York! – Bao Nguyen, USA (Show Me the Funny)
A look into the history of Saturday Night Live. Part of a comedy-centric theme programme this year. The Nightmare – Rodney Ascher, USA (Nightvision)
From the director of Room 237, comes this real life documentary horror film, which looks into sleep paralysis. This is supposed to be a quite scary doc, so I will definitely be checking out this one. Monty Python: The Meaning of Live – Roger Graef and James Rogan, UK (Show Me the Funny)
A documentation of Monty Python reuniting on stage. Raiders! – Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen, USA (Screen on Screen)
A look into a fan-made remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Visit – Michael Madsen, Denmark/Austria/Ireland/Finland/Norway (Nightvision)
What would happen if other life forms from space landed on earth? This film seeks to answer that question. That wraps up my highlights. I’m going to be very busy in the upcoming weeks preparing for this year’s festival, which will be taking place from April 23 to May 3.
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Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson
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"Delete" is the eleventh episode in the third season of Smallville, and fifty-fifth episode overall. It aired on January 28, 2004.
11 Allusions
Clark and Lana each make an attempt on Chloe's life after receiving mysterious e-mail messages. Lex helps uncover the source of these emails and Lana rents the apartment above the Talon to Adam.
Chloe is packing up her desk at the Daily Planet and saying goodbye to her editor, Max Taylor. He remarks that she must have enemies in high places to get blacklisted while still in high school. She gives him a couple of stories that she was working on and asks him to look them over. It is impossible for him to publish anything she has written so Chloe suggests a pseudonym: her cousin's name, Lois Lane.
Molly Griggs seeks revenge on Chloe Sullivan.
Lex is working late at LuthorCorp and goes looking for the on-call tech guy. He finds Molly Griggs. He explains his problem and she gives him a disc which should scan for the viruses. After he leaves, Molly finishes removing the hard drive from Chloe's old computer. Chloe arrives at the Torch office and Pete tells her that someone came by and confiscated all the donated computers. She exits the school late at night and is run down by a familiar Dodge pickup. She has to dive under the pickup to avoid harm and is shocked when Clark climbs out of the truck. Clark looks equally surprised to see the wrecked truck and Chloe on the ground.
At the hospital, Sheriff Adams declares Clark to be stone sober and questions the two teens about the incident. Clark can't remember leaving the library. Chloe tells the sheriff it looked like Clark lost control of the truck. The sheriff dismisses Clark and he runs into Lana, who introduces him to Adam Knight, who just finished another session of physical therapy.
The next day, Lex tries to return Molly's disc and learns that no one named Molly works in the tech department and that all hard drives from the computers she was working on were wiped out.
At the Talon, Lana makes Adam a complicated cup of coffee, and Adam remarks on how uncomfortable she seemed around Clark last night. Lana explains that they have a lot of history. She knows that Clark still cares for her, and she can't control that, but he doesn't know what he wants.
Clark is examining the pickup when Chloe arrives at the Kent Farm. She informs him that there was no tampering done to the truck. She asked the mechanic. She starts to cry and says she can only apologize for investigating him so many times. Clark realizes that Chloe thinks he tried to run her over on purpose. He admits that he still isn't over her betrayal, and Chloe reminds him of his own recent bad judgments, but then they switch gears, and she asks him if he remembers anything after the library and he says the last thing he remembers is working on his laptop. Chloe examines the computer and learns that he downloaded an email from someone named "'Brainwave'" just before the accident. It is revealed that "'Brainwave'" is Molly Griggs' screen name as she prepares to send an email message to Lana Lang. Lana finishes showing Adam around the school when she receives an email message on a handheld device that Lex gave her. The message consists of flashing lights rather than words. Lana's eyes glow.
A hypnotized Lana tries to kill Chloe.
And after receiving the message, Lana immediately seeks out Chloe and bashes her head against the wall and throws her down the stairs. Lana follows her down the stairs and coolly states that she is trying to kill her. Lana kicks her in the chest and hits her across the face before Chloe starts to fight back and they fight violently and intensely down the stairs. Chloe rams Lana into a firehose case, and the latter grabs an ax. She chases Chloe down the hall, through the locker room, and into the shower. She knocks Chloe down and is about to bring the ax to her head when Adam intervenes with some impressive martial arts of his own. Lana finally stops trying to kill Chloe when Chloe trips her and she hits her head on the floor and asks what happened.
Adam helps Clark and Chloe figure out the murderous emails.
Later, at the Talon, Clark, Lana, Chloe, and Adam try to piece together why and how someone would want to kill Chloe. They realize that they both got suspicious e-mails just before the attacks. Clark guesses they were hypnotized. Adam helps them track down the IP address of the sender and they realize the messages came from the computers taken from the Torch office. Clark wonders how Adam knows so much about martial arts, computers, and the human brain.
He goes to Metropolis to ask Lex if Lionel is behind it. Lex realizes that the mysterious Molly probably was responsible. Lawrence Garner visits Molly in her loft apartment. He tells her that Max Taylor is questioning him about Chloe's scathing article on his dubious research.
Clark asks Lex if Lionel is responsible.
Lana finds Adam preparing to leave the hospital. He mentions that he would rather stay in Smallville instead of return to Metropolis. He wants to get to know her better, but she questions his motives. He doesn't want to clean up the mess of her previous relationship, and he asks her to leave. Later, they have a real discussion about where their friendship is headed and she persuades him to stay. She offers to renovate the apartment above the Talon and rent it to him.
Lana offers to rent Adam the Talon apartment.
Chloe finds Clark at the Torch office. He tells her what he learned from Lex. She recognizes Molly Griggs' photo and says that Molly is a super-smart engineering prodigy who was being treated at the Summerholt Institute after a psychotic break. Chloe interviewed her for a story she was writing about Lawrence Garner, so they call Max Taylor to warn him. Unfortunately, Molly has already gotten to his secretary, who kills Max during their phone conversation.
Clark takes Chloe to the Luthor mansion for protection and she tells Lex what she knows about Lawrence Garner. Clark leaves to talk with Garner and Lex leaves to talk with the techs he put in charge of tracking Molly. When Clark arrives at the Institute, he confronts Garner with everything he knows, and Garner has security escort him out. Clark uses his super hearing to hear Garner make a call to Molly and overhears Garner give the name of the apartment building and number to the operator. When Clark arrives, he finds Lex is already there. Molly explains that she is defending Dr. Garner out of loyalty. He doesn't have the power to control her. She developed the program herself. Lex discovers that Molly sent another email, and Clark is horrified to realize it was to his mother. Just then, Chloe arrives at the Kent farm, in response to Martha's phone call. Martha comes at her with a sickle while Jonathan chains her to a post by her neck.
Clark and Chloe discuss their tenuous friendship.
Chloe knocks Martha unconscious with a kick to the head. Clark arrives and pulls Jonathan off Chloe, but when he tries to help Chloe up, Jonathan comes at Clark with a meteor rock. He punches him several times before Chloe knocks out Jonathan by releasing several bales of hay stored on the upper level of the barn. They snap out of their trances.
The next day, Clark visits Chloe at the Torch and finds that Lex gave back the computers. She guesses he felt guilty about firing her dad. Chloe confesses that she feels like maybe she deserved what Molly did to her as penance for what she did to Clark. Clark assures her that he is partly to blame for pushing her away. He admits that Chloe found him at his weakest moment in Metropolis and she gave him a second chance, so he owes her the same. They agree that while they can't forget what has happened, Chloe will stop trying to add Clark up and take him as he is, and their friendship is renewed.
Lex approaches Dr. Garner and warns him against any further attempts on Chloe's life. He admits to having stashed Molly away somewhere safe. Then he blackmails him with Chloe's article. He threatens to have it published unless Dr. Garner helps him recover his seven weeks of missing memories.
Ian Somerhalder as Adam Knight
Missy Peregrym as Molly Griggs
Martin Cummins as Dr. Lawrence Garner
Jim Thorburn as Max Taylor
Suzanne Ristic as Maureen
Chris Gauthier as LuthorCorp Technician
Cornell Turner as Security Guard
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To delete means to erase something out of existence.
The title refers to Molly Griggs's mind control program that temporarily erased one's memory, only to fill it with a code to kill someone of her choosing.
It may also refer to Molly's wish to eliminate Chloe.
Antagonist: Molly Griggs and Lawrence Garner
Clark uses the following abilities in this episode: super strength, super speed, and super hearing.
Lionel Luthor does not appear in this episode.
It is very unusual for Chloe, a student columnist, to have her own desk at a big-city newspaper. However, as Max puts it, Lionel does have a large influence.
A picture of the Smallville High mascot wearing a Superman-like costume can be seen for a short moment on the Torch's computers.
It is odd that the deadly e-mails from Molly could only be opened once; if it works twice, Clark would have killed Chloe there and then when they are investigating in the barn.
Jonathan Kent has a non-speaking role in this episode.
In the comics, Brainwave (Molly's computer handle) is a longtime villain and opponent of the Justice Society of America. He can control minds, generate illusions, and fire brain blasts. His son was later a founding member, of the JSA legacy team, known as Infinity, Inc.
Adam walks through the halls of Smallville High and says the classic line "It's a bird..." This is a catchphrase from the immensely popular Superman radio program.
Martha's e-mail address is CNH320@instamail.org. "CNH320" was the license plate number of the General Lee, the car driven by John Schneider's character in his 1970s show The Dukes of Hazzard.
Clark's e-mail address is c-kent@svhigh.com.
Evangeline Lilly makes her fifth and final appearance as an extra on Smallville. She had previously appeared in Kinetic, Visage, Rosetta, and Accelerate.
This is the first mention of Lois Lane, who is established as Chloe's cousin. Chloe mentions another cousin in Obscura, but this cousin may be older than Lois because she was in college already.
Chloe's computer was stolen in Magnetic by the retired Officer Mason. Mason was helping Lex investigate the death of Lachlan Luthor and he appears to have been killed for whatever was on Chloe's computer.
As pointed out by Clark, Dr. Garner was also the doctor experimenting on psychic child Ryan James in the episode Ryan.
This is the first mention of Level 33.1, Lex's secret lab for super powered meteor freaks. Lex says that Molly is "in the care of people who will help her".
This is the first time that the offices of the Daily Planet are seen in the show.
Adam Knight was last seen in Asylum.
Level 33.1 is also mentioned in the Season Four episode Jinx and becomes a continuing storyline in several episodes of Season Six.
Chris Gauthier, the man who played the LuthorCorp on-call technician, returned in Season Eight as Winslow Schott.
Dr. Garner continues his questionable research practices in Memoria.
Lois later appears as a recurring guest star in Season Four and as a member of the main cast from Season Five onward.
Clark compares Lawrence Garner to Mengele, a Nazi physician who performed human experiments of dubious scientific value.
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Molly: You'd rather have a PlayStation-addicted dork wearing a Star Wars T-shirt?
Adam: It was interesting meeting Clark.
Lana: We're just friends.
Adam: Just friends. Well, for friends, you're very uncomfortable around each other.
Clark: You're not the same person you used to be.
Chloe: Kind of like if I moved to Metropolis and became a motorcycle-riding party animal and told you to get out of my life. Kind of like that, right?
Chloe: Lana, what are you doing?
Lana: Killing Chloe Sullivan.
Chloe: So we can rule out paranoia. Someone is officially trying to kill me.
Lex: You know, contrary to common perception, my father isn't behind every nefarious activity in Smallville.
Lex: I'm starting to get a complex. It seems all the women I find even remotely appealing turn out to be psychopaths.
Molly: Birds of a feather.
Clark: No, Chloe, he caught you at a weak moment, and we all have them. You found me at mine in Metropolis. You didn't turn your back on me. You gave me a second chance, and I at least owe you the same.
Chloe: I'd like that. So, what do we do now? We can't just forget about everything that's happened.
Clark: Well, you have to understand there are some things about me that'll never add up.
Chloe: I know that.
Clark: You're willing to stop digging?
Chloe: Yeah. I mean I figure you'll just tell me when you think it's right.
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NASA's First Chief Astronomer, the Mother of Hubble
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Known as the "Mother of Hubble," Dr. Nancy Grace Roman was instrumental in taking the Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality and establishing NASA's program of space-based astronomical observatories.
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NASA Scientist for a Day 2019-2020: Target No. 3 - Charon
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On June 30, 2004 (PDT), as mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory held their collective breath, the international Cassini-Huygens mission successfully arrived in orbit around Saturn.
Flashback: Cassini Arrival at Saturn
This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.
Touring Vesta's Craters
Great Dark Spot
Thomas Valdez tells how his early penchant for tinkering with things followed a path that led him to a career as a research engineer
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Thomas Valdez
How to Track the Solar Cycle
Tracking the Solar Cycle
This movie, made from images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft of the outer edge of Saturn’s B ring, reveals the combined effects of a tugging moon and oscillations that can naturally occur in ...
Oscillations at B Ring Edge
This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NA...
Close-Up of Pluto's Surface
Seeking July 2020 skywatching highlights? Check out giant planets and their moons, Mars rising after midnight and ponder stargazing on the Red Planet.
What's Up: July 2020 [Video]
Giovanni Cassini, the astronomer, discovers a moon near Saturn. Half is dark as coal. The other half, bright as snow. Three centuries later, Cassini, the spacecraft, flies by for a close look.
Backstage Pass to Iapetus
Spacecraft at JPL
Pan Found!
On March 6, the Dawn spacecraft will slip into orbit around Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the main asteroid belt.
Destination Ceres - Breakfast at Dawn
Dark spokes dance around Saturn's B ring in this series of movies comprised of images taken with Cassini's wide-angle camera.
'Tis the Season for Spokes
This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera.
Vesta's Coat of Many Colors
Surrounding Earth is a giant magnetic field called the magnetosphere. Its shape is defined not only by the planet's north and south magnetic poles, but also by a steady stream of particles coming i...
Modeling Earth's Magnetism
These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the changing appearance of the huge storm that developed from a small spot in Saturn's northern hemisphere.
Encircling a Giant
This short animation created by Cassini's mission planning team shows the spacecraft's final orbits - starting with the Ring-Grazing orbits in November 2016 and transitioning to the Grand Finale or...
Cassini's Ring-Grazing and Grand Finale Orbits
OSIRIS-REx Touches Asteroid Bennu
New science, mined from the archives. Data from NASA's Galileo orbiter launched a generation ago yields new evidence of plumes, eruptions of water vapor, from Jupiter's moon Europa.
Re-analyzing Old Data Reveals New Evidence at Europa
As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the "heliosphere" around our solar system.
The Bubble of Our Solar System
This movie from Cassini, made possible only as Saturn's north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.
Spring Reveals Saturn's Hexagon Jet Stream
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