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Can Companies Save Money If They Still Use The U.S. Postal Service?
by Josh Dunham — Co-Founder
The U.S. Postal Service has been operating since 1775 — before the Declaration of Independence, before the interstate highway system, and well before UPS and FedEx were founded (in 1907 and 1971, respectively, if you were curious).
Though the public agency has often been criticized for long waits and unreliable delivery service, it’s taken significant steps in the last decade. The USPS’s two-day Priority Mail service has become a staple for independent and small-batch sellers. And as private carriers have increased surcharges year after year, the USPS’s no-frills pricing can be a refreshing change.
Depending on your company’s needs, incorporating the USPS into your shipping mix could help you save money.
Related: Comparing Shipping Rates in 2018: FedEx vs. UPS vs. DHL vs. USPS
Pros: No Surcharges, Standard Weekend Delivery
Parcel’s 2017 Carrier Performance Survey found that 84 percent of shippers had used USPS in the previous year, up 8 percent year over year. For comparison, usage of FedEx and UPS fell year over year — only 81 percent of shippers used FedEx, a 4 percent drop, and only 78 percent used UPS, a 6 percent drop.
What’s causing the shift? About 36 percent of survey respondents said accessorial charges were their biggest complaint, and 16 percent were most dissatisfied with pricing in general. USPS charges only flat rates, with no accessorial charges at all.
Generally, USPS is most cost-effective for parcels weighing less than 3 pounds. If your product fits in Priority Mail packaging, you can save as much as $1 per parcel compared to FedEx and UPS rates. These small parcels may even arrive faster than they would with a private carrier — since USPS has fewer service tiers, its top-tier services are slower than private carriers, but its low-tier services are typically faster.
Finally, the USPS has offered free Saturday delivery in all markets for years. UPS and FedEx now offer weekend delivery in large markets, but often charge a fee, and their weekend routes may not reach rural destinations.
Related: Your Guide to Negotiating Better Shipping Rates
Cons: Limited Tracking Abilities, Longer Transit Times
Though a number of surveys show the U.S. Postal Service improving its customer service, it still lags far behind FedEx and UPS in customer satisfaction. In Parcel’s 2017 survey, the private carriers still earned higher customer ratings for package delivery performance, on-time service, refunds and claims processing.
Because the USPS is a government agency and not a private company, it lacks some of the nimbleness of its competitors. Hiring, adding new routes and designing new services take much longer for the USPS than they do for UPS and FedEx. They also take much longer to process refund claims and respond to customer service queries.
Relatedly, because most of the deliveries it handles are letters and small parcels that are not time-sensitive, the USPS offers fewer options than its competitors do. Its rush services are very expensive compared to UPS and FedEx.
Finally, the USPS’s tracking system is not nearly as sophisticated as those of its private competitors. With USPS, packages are scanned every time they arrive at a post office or distribution hub, so shippers can monitor them and estimate their arrival date. But with UPS and FedEx, packages are often tracked at the vehicle level — meaning these companies can give customers estimates about the time of day their packages will arrive, often on an hourly basis.
Consider incorporating the United States Postal Service, but make sure all your needs are met
FedEx and UPS outperformed the U.S. Postal Service on every metric except for price in the 2017 Parcel survey. However, while USPS may still have a long way to go, it’s moving in the right direction — the private carriers’ ratings fell across the board from 2016 to 2017, while USPS’s increased.
As always, making service decisions starts with knowing your own needs. Track as many metrics as you can to understand what you ship, how far it travels and what your clients demand.
The postal service is best suited to small parcels with flexible arrival dates. If that’s a significant portion of your business moving those shipments to USPS could go a long way toward reducing your shipping spend, especially during the holidays.
"We have worked tirelessly with our carriers through the years to secure the best rates we possibly could. Their team of specialists was able to help us reduce our shipping expenses by over 25% at no direct expense to our business. We have also been pleased with the results of their weekly audit of our FedEx invoices."
Chuck Allen Chief Operating Office – Southland Industries
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Roland DG Announces Transfer of Its Growing 3D Business Unit
DGSHAPE to Focus on the Dental, Medical and 3D Digital Fabrication Businesses
Hamamatsu, Japan, February 10, 2017 – Roland DG Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and 3D fabrication devices worldwide, today announced that it has decided to transfer its 3D business, consisting of the development and sales of 3D milling machines, 3D printers, engraving machines and photo impact printers, to a newly-established, wholly-owned subsidiary, DGSHAPE Corporation, which starts operation on April 3, 2017.
Since introducing the world’s first desktop-sized 3D milling machine in 1986, Roland DG has developed a variety of innovative digital technologies with the mission of helping people “turn their imagination into reality.” Acclaimed worldwide for their compact size, ease-of-use and affordability, Roland DG 3D products are used for a wide range of applications from creating product prototypes and educating students in product design to crafting custom items and one-off gifts, right down to items and crafts made by individual hobbyists.
In 2010, Roland DG leveraged its 3D milling technology to introduce the DWX series dental milling machines used for fabricating dental prostheses such as crowns, copings and bridges. The DWX series soon gained recognition among dental labs worldwide for their precision, user-friendliness, robust reliability and open system. Today, the DWX series has become a major growth engine for Roland DG’s 3D business, accounting for 60% of sales in that segment.
Widely known for market leadership in wide-format inkjet printers and faced with significant changes throughout its 3D product portfolio, Roland DG determined that the best approach for increasing visibility for its growing 3D business would be to spin it off as an autonomous company. DGSHAPE will provide further value throughout the dental market by developing marketing channels with dedicated sales and marketing teams, bringing fresh technical innovation to digital fabrication tools, and developing solutions based on the open system concept*.
In addition to the dental industry, DGSHAPE will explore business opportunities in the medical field with a medical instrument traceability and maintenance support system. DGSHAPE intends to look for further possibilities in the healthcare field in the future by integrating the skills and know-how cultivated through its efforts in the dental and medical fields. DGSHAPE will also continue to provide innovative 3D products and solutions for the prototyping, education, personalization, fabrication and hobby fields, as well as evolve the existing business for 3D digital fabrication tools to be a strategic platform for generating new products and businesses. For now, sales, service and support for DGSHAPE will continue to be handled by Roland DG.
* Some manufacturers in the dental market provide closed systems that assist with the fabrication of dental prostheses, with packaged systems consisting of dental scanners, CAD/CAM software, milling machines and proprietary materials. Roland DG has adopted the “open system concept,” where users can combine Roland DG dental milling machines with popular scanners and CAD/CAM software, and choose the optimum dental prosthetic material for their patients rather than being locked in to one manufacturer.
Mission and Vision for DGSHAPE Corporation
According to Kohei Tanabe, Executive Officer and General Manager of DGSHAPE Market Development Department for Roland DG who will become Representative Director, President and CEO of DGSHAPE in March, 2017, the mission of DGSHAPE Corporation is to harness the 3D digital fabrication technologies and expertise that Roland DG has developed over more than three decades as well as its proprietary digital cell production system*1 and global customer service and support system*2 in order to provide advanced digital manufacturing/fabrication solutions. “DGSHAPE intends to deliver a greater level of added value that advances a new age of digital fabrication by not only developing innovative hardware and software,” Tanabe said, “but by providing more efficient production workflows, enhanced service and support including consulting, and an open innovation environment that can generate a thriving business through exploiting next-generation technologies such as Cloud, IoT, AI and robotics.”
*1 A proprietary cell-based production system developed at Roland DG that uses digital technology to complement human memory and focus to achieve the utmost in quality and productivity. Each worker refers to a 3D graphic manual displayed on a monitor, receives the necessary parts from an automatic rotating rack and assembles an entire product from start to finish using the indicated electronic tools. Electronic monitoring procedures ensure that the correct parts and tools are used each step of the way, and product quality checks are run at the completion of each task to guarantee quality of work. Log data from each cell is stored on a central server, allowing the floor manager to see work progress at a glance and analyze data to find ways to not only improve workflow in individual cells, but to optimize productivity for the entire factory. This well-established production system is expected to facilitate manufacturing/fabrication workflows across a broad range of industries.
*2 With sales offices located around the world, Roland DG has built a comprehensive customer service and support system consisting of Roland DG Creative Centers, Roland DG Academy, and Roland DG Care to contribute to the development of its customers’ businesses. Creative Centers offer a creative showcase of application samples to inspire customers’ imaginations and invite them to experience the full potential of Roland DG products. Customers are encouraged to share ideas and consult with company representatives to discover solutions that can transform their ideas into reality as well as grow their businesses. Academy offers seminars and workshops to customers worldwide, designed to help them utilize equipment and software to their maximum potential and acquire the skills needed for their businesses. Care provides a broad range of customer service and support including maintenance and troubleshooting to ensure that there are no obstacles preventing the work from getting done. New options for Roland DG’s level of service and support including consulting, are also being considered as another way of boosting strategic business value.
Businesses Fields for DGSHAPE Corporation
The following is an outline of each business.
Dental Business
By providing digital solutions for dental technicians, Roland DG assists dental laboratories in taking advantage of the benefits brought about by digitalization, including consistent, high-quality production on demand in reduced time. In the field of dental prosthetics, advances in technology and materials, including zirconia, composite resins and glass ceramics, are leading to more and more dental laboratories and clinics installing digital systems consisting of CAD/CAM software and milling machines to replace conventional casting methods. Believing that its experience in 3D milling could contribute to an improvement in the productivity and profitability of dental laboratories, Roland DG launched the DWX series dental milling machines. The DWX series quickly established Roland DG's presence in the market. In addition to their affordability, the devices were highly regarded for their desktop size, user-friendliness, and open system for use in combination with popular CAD/CAM software, scanners and materials.
DGSHAPE will continue to provide digital systems capable of producing an extensive range of dental prosthetics from a wide range of materials while improving the workflow efficiency of dental laboratory technicians. DGSHAPE also intends to expand its scope by developing and providing solutions optimized for dental clinics.
Medical Business
Roland DG has concentrated its efforts in the medical field to provide solutions that meet Unique Device Identification (UDI) regulations requiring marking identifiers on medical devices and instruments. In recent years, efforts to review medical instrument safety and management procedures have been increasing in order to reduce the risk of infection inside hospitals and ensure the safety of patients. Regulatory bodies worldwide are seeking a comprehensive management system for instruments and devices in use at medical facilities.
Roland DG recognized an opportunity to apply its dot impact printing technology, which had been cultivated since the early 2000s, to produce marking identifiers for medical devices and instruments. In anticipation of this requirement, the company released the MPX-90M medical instrument marking device in 2012 followed by the MPX-95 with Direct Part Marking (DPM) kit in 2016. The devices enable medical facilities as well as medical instrument manufacturers and suppliers worldwide to utilize a 2D symbol imprinted on each instrument as a permanent solution for tracking available stock, location, and usage history.
Roland DG also envisioned that medical facilities could incorporate proven digital support systems currently in place at Roland DG factories to raise the level of quality and efficiency involving pre- and post-operation maintenance tasks. The cleaning, disinfection and reassembly of medical instrument kits include complicated procedures across a wide variety of surgical tools that are highly dependent on employee experience. Today, Roland DG is working with Hamamatsu University School of Medicine to develop and provide a proof of concept for a computer-driven medical instrument traceability and maintenance support system. DGSHAPE hopes to begin offering a comprehensive solution to medium to large-scale clinics and hospitals in Japan and overseas within the year.
3D Digital Fabrication Business
Three decades following the release of Roland DG’s first personal 3D milling machine, the concept of desktop fabrication continues to generate growing interest. The growth of the internet and social media, the availability of smart devices and personal-use 3D printers, and the increase in the number of public workshops including Fab Labs and manufacturer studios has expanded the horizons of digital creation amongst a vast number of hobbyists, entrepreneurs and “Makers” globally. Now that fabrication is no longer confined to product research and design engineers and specialists in manufacturing companies, a cultural revolution is taking place that has the potential to create new, innovative applications from the collective knowledge and ideas of vast numbers of people around the world.
With such significant advances occurring globally throughout various digital fabrication fields, DGSHAPE will focus its research and development at providing even further innovation and value to customer fabrication efforts. While maintaining its position in its core markets, DGSHAPE will also focus on harnessing next-generation technologies like IoT, AI and robotics to develop solutions suited to a new era of creativity and fabrication. Just as Roland DG previously identified and generated new business growth from its 3D digital fabrication technologies, DGSHAPE will also strive to identify the seeds of new businesses opportunities for future growth.
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By MIRIAM FINDER ANNENBERG
Rising over Rosemont stands the village’s iconic water tower, covered in boldly painted, stylized roses with the base depicted as a green stem. The water tower cemented itself as a village landmark upon its construction in 1982, after a rendering using the village’s eponymous rose caught the eye of the late former mayor, Donald E. Stephens.
Since it was first unveiled to the residents of Rosemont, the tower has twice been repainted, in 1990 and 1998, and undergone an intensive recoating process, leaving the sparkling Rosemont landmark easily spotted from throughout the village today.
“It was completely redone in 2006...We had it completely sandblasted off and redid it,” said Michael Raimondi, Rosemont Public Works director. “Then last winter we put another clear coat on it, so it looks freshly painted.”
When the water tower was built in 1982, it wasn’t the first of its kind to service Rosemont. An older water tower stood close by as the new tower was erected, taken down once the new tower was in place. Mark Wrzeszcz, an engineer with Christopher Burke Engineering, said it is likely the old tower lacked the necessary capacity to serve the Rosemont area, so a new tower was needed.
In 2006, the village undertook a significant project ensuring the longevity of the tower and its iconic roses. Village of Rosemont officials worked with Rosemont-based Christopher Burke Engineering on fielding bids for the tower with the goal of maintaining the elevated structure, along with its bright colors and intricate design for years to come.
“We’re the village engineers, so we assisted them with it,” said Wrzeszcz.
The project began by sandblasting the tower’s exterior to bare metal, after which the original rose design was sketched back onto the tower using photographs as reference. The design was then filled in and covered in a long-lasting finishing coat. The pattern of the design required six different colors, which those working on the project applied in two layers, making two rotations around the circular tower to create and lock in the design.
According to Raimondi, the paint was to last 10 years without requiring any upkeep. Just about 10 years later, the village added a clear coat to ensure the paint’s continued wear.
“It’s the cheapest way to go if everything holds up underneath that,” Raimondi said. “It’s only going to protect the longevity of the paint job.”
The repainting project took place from June 2006 to November 2006, during which time a canopy was built out from the base of the tower and across the drive-through lanes at the nearby McDonald’s, preventing dust and debris from escaping the worksite and interfering with the neighboring business.
Even if inconvenient, any work to the tower benefitted any close-by businesses. The tower holds 500,000 gallons of water, storing water that pressurizes the entire Rosemont water system, used by businesses and residents across the village. The water comes from Lake Michigan to the Rosemont water tower and Rosemont’s local pump station.
“The water comes from the main pump station, the Williams Street pump station,” Wrzeszcz said. The pump station is located under the Williams Street garage in Rosemont and serves the entire Rosemont area.
Structurally, Raimondi said he doesn’t foresee any needs for the water tower in the near future or the chance that the tower will need replacing, as was the case back in 1982.
Additionally, while Rosemont might field suggestions for upkeep to the water tower’s exterior in the future, such as wrapping the tank in its signature design rather than repainting, there are no plans to alter the images adorning the tower.
“It’s a signature piece of our town,” Raimondi said. “Everybody around that flies in or that’s in the Chicago area, they all know Rosemont by the tower.”
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Bus route curtailed following attack
Originally Published / Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007
Dublin Bus - Drivers not operating 15C route
A Dublin Bus route is being curtailed following an attack on a driver last night.
The 15B bus driver was attacked by a group of youths who sprayed him with a fire extinguisher in the Whitechurch area of Rathfarham.
The driver was taken to hospital, but was released immediately.
In recent weeks the 15B route was combined with the 15C route through Whitechurch.
The National Bus and Rail Union says that from 6pm this evening the 15B route will stop about 1.5km short of its new terminus, and will instead stop at the old 15B terminus at Ballyroan Church.
NBRU spokesman John McGraine has apologised for the inconvenience to passengers, but he said he had written to the company a month ago pointing out that urgent action was needed to deal with antisocial behaviour on the route.
He said that following last night's attack the union had no option but to instruct its members to curtail the route.
Dublin Bus evacuated after engine blaze
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Economists advise finance panel to use contemporary population data
| 17 May 2018 6:30 PM GMT
New Delhi, May 17: Leading economists on Thursday advised the 15th Finance Commission to use contemporary population data while making its recommendation while also rewarding population stabilization policy. They also agreed that the permissible limits on borrowings under fiscal consolidation roadmap needed to be equally applicable to the Centre and states. “Economists agreed that it would be realistic to use contemporary population data but weightage should be assigned to population and also rewards for population stabilization policy,” an official statement said after the Commission held a meeting with leading economists of the country.
The participants also discussed the taxation capacity of states and suggested that any formula on devolution needed to be formed by equity, justice and uniformity. Commission Chairman N.K. Singh said that continued engagement with domain experts over the coming months will help the panel in firming up the approach before reaching tentative conclusions both on the vertical and horizontal devolution of revenue. (IANS)
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‘Magnificent Mary’ Makes Sure She Comes Home with a Medal, Three other Indians to Accompany Her
| 22 Nov 2018 5:29 AM GMT
Guwahati: Mary Kom is all set to prove it once again that she is not yet ready to give up her passion and is now just two steps away from holding another Gold medal in her hands. The 5 times world champion enters into the semi-finals of the World Boxing championships and accompanied by another female boxer from North-East, Lovlina Borgohain (Assam) who is also having her Semi-Final bout on Thursday.
MC Mary Kom, competing in the 48kg category, is facing Kim Hyang Mi of North Korea in the ring on Thursday. The mother of three is scheduled to face her opponent at the KD Jhadav Hall and victory in the rings on Thursday will take her directly to the much-awaited finals.
Along with Mary Kom, three more Indian boxers are shining and are all set for their semi-final bouts. These Indian boxers include Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), Sonia Chahal (57kg) and Simranjit Kaur (64kg). Sonia and Simranjit will have their bouts on Friday.
The best part is that the Indian boxers are feeling fortunate to have played in their home grounds in front of home audiences cheering for them. On being asked as to how confident is the Manipuri veteran for the semi-finals, Mary said, "I am confident. I also know when to drop guard and when to attack. I have worked with the coaches and have a plan in place to counter her."
Notably, Mary has been going through strenuous practice sessions as she chasing her sixth gold this time. With an experience of nearly two decades of boxing, the North-eastern boxer is making sure that no stone is left unturned. However, the North Korean boxer's USP is her aggression and quick movement as could be seen in her quarterfinal bout against South Korean opponent Chorong Bak.
At the same time, another Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain too has shown an equally impressive graph with brighter performance. The Assamese girl is set to face her Chinese Taipei opponent Chen Nien-Chin in the semi-finals on Thursday. Lovlina’s last performance against Australian boxer Kaye Frances Scott in the quarterfinals was striking.
On being approached after the win, 21-year-old Lovlina said, "I was inexperienced last time when I took on her. But I now know how to tackle her. I did watch some of the video clips to know her style of boxing."
Other boxers Sonia and Simranjit too are all buckled up to clinch medals for their nation.
Also read: Mary Kom enters into the Semi-Finals, is just two steps away from another Gold
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49 swab samples test negative for COVID-19 in Lakhimpur; 4,065 people under home quarantine
LAKHIMPUR: On the 17th day of the lockdown initiated in order to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people advised for home quarantine in Lakhimpur district increased up to 4085 on Friday. The Health Department stamped 29 more people of the district for home isolation on Wednesday, 26 on Thursday and 20 on Friday. Notably, these people who were suggested for home quarantine in the recent past days, kept their fact of coming from other states concealed. At present, they are compelled to disclose their travel history and then they were stamped for home quarantine of late. However, a total 323 people, coming from their workplace of other states, completed their home quarantine period of 28 days on Friday as per information found from the District Health Department.
The District Health Department sent no swab sample for COVID-19 test to Regional Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, ICMR, RMRC, Lahoal of Dibrugarh district on Thursday and Friday. Though a swab sample of a youth under Dhakuakhana subdivision was sent on Wednesday, the result of the same was intimated to the District Health Department on Friday and the result occurred negative for COVID-19. On Tuesday night, this youth was admitted in the mass quarantine facility of Telahi Model Hospital located at Bochagaon which is at present used as COVID-19 hospital of the district. Along with the youth, the COVID-19 patient of the district Babu Ali and other 13 people, who came in contact with him, have been under observation in that hospital.
Notably, a total of fifty swab samples were sent to the said ICMR for COVID-19 test during the past days from Lakhimpur district. Out of them 49 swab samples of the suspected coronavirus exposure were tested negative while the swab sample of Nijamuddin Jamat congregation attendee Babu Ali of the district was tested positive for the highly contagious disease.
A total of other 38 people have been observed in mass quarantine facility in various establishments of North Lakhimpur town. Out of them, there are 17 people in North Lakhimpur Civil Hospital, while 6 are in Punjab Hotel and 15 are in Lakhimpur Kendriya Mahavidyalaya campus.
On the other hand, the Lakhimpur District Health Department has once again appealed to all to maintain social distancing and to follow other basic protective measures against the novel coronavirus order to keep the pandemic at bay. Emphasis is laid on maintaining of social distancing and respiratory hygiene so that the modes of transmission of the pandemic can comprehensively be controlled.
In this regard, the District Health Department appealed all to follow the advisories of the State government and the suggestions of the World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO, respiratory infections can be transmitted through droplets of different sizes. When the droplet particles are >5-10 µm in diameter they are referred to as respiratory droplets, and when then are <5µm in diameter, they are referred to as droplet nuclei. According to current evidence, COVID-19 virus is primarily transmitted between people through respiratory droplets. Droplet transmission occurs when a person is in close contact (within 1 m) with someone who has respiratory symptoms (e.g., coughing or sneezing) and is therefore at risk of having his/her mucosae (mouth and nose) or conjunctiva (eyes) exposed to potentially infective respiratory droplets.
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IEP is an acronym that stands for Individualized Education Program. Some people may refer to it as an Individualized Education Plan. There’s a lot to know about IEPs and how they support kids who learn and think differently. Understanding IEP basics can help you make decisions about seeking an IEP.
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The Individualized Education Program, often called the IEP, is a legal document under United States law that is developed for each public school child in the U.S. who needs special education.It is created through a team of the child's parent(s) and district personnel who are knowledgeable about the child's needs. IEPs must be reviewed every year to keep track of the child's educational progress.
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The IEP, Individualized Education Program, is a written document that’s developed for each public school child who is eligible for special education. The IEP is created through a team effort and reviewed at least once a year. Before an IEP can be written, your child must be eligible for special education.
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Mike Fleck, VP of Identity Protection at 4iQ, did us the honor of chatting with Aviva Zacks of Safety Detective. She got a chance to ask him how cybersecurity will change over the next few years.
Safety Detective: What drew you to cybersecurity and what do you love about it?
Mike Fleck: I was drawn to cybersecurity because it simultaneously requires both generalist and specialist skillsets. For example, you need to be able to communicate business risk to help stakeholders understand why a particular investment in security is necessary. Then you must be able to evaluate the specifics of how to reduce that risk to an acceptable level, whether it’s the global deployment of a technical control or a subtle administrative change to a business process.
I love that cybersecurity is an ever-evolving and highly intellectual discipline. Security professionals must constantly learn and adapt their skills to devise new defensive and offensive approaches to protect enterprises and consumers. For example, 4iQ uses breach data (that comes from compromised defenses) in an offensive capacity to help investigators unveil the digital identities of attackers.
SD: What do your company’s products do to keep its customers safe?
MF: 4iQ has been hunting for exposed identity information on the deep and dark webs for almost a decade. Through this process, we’ve developed our own proprietary data cleansing and normalization process. This includes de-duplicating and validating that the data is real. We use this information to notify consumers of their risks of identity theft, account takeover, and other forms of fraud. Our platform is also used in novel ways by enterprises and governments to unveil suspicious and malicious digital identities to disrupt or breakup e-crimes and the groups that perpetuate them.
SD: What industries use your technology and why?
MF: 4iQ products are used by some of the largest consumer Identity Theft Protection service providers, security vendors, cyber insurance providers, and enterprises to alert millions of consumers on exposed personal information. Other organizations, such as financial services, banking, enterprises, and government agencies use 4iQ for fraud, financial crime, and anti-money laundering investigations.
SD: What is the biggest cybersecurity threat today?
MF: The biggest cybersecurity threat today is a compromised or fraudulent identity. Criminals know that an authentic identity opens doors that hacking and other attacks cannot. Criminals can steal or create synthetic versions of identities to steal money, exfiltrate intellectual property, or damage personal and company reputations. The identity compromise doesn’t need to be persistent for this to happen. Access to an email inbox as a result of an exposed password only needs to last a few minutes to have a massive impact on an enterprise or a household. This threat gets more severe as we spend more of our working moments outside the corporate firewall, we share our personal data more often, more of our data is collected with or without our consent, and, as a result, more of our data will be exposed in breaches.
SD: How will the cyberthreat landscape change over the next few years?
MF: Attackers are doing really well with existing attacks like credential stuffing, synthetic identities, phishing, malware, and published exploits for unpatched systems. As we embrace IoT and remote workforces and push legacy systems to the Cloud, the cyberthreat landscape will evolve to take advantage of a larger and more fruitful attack surface. Attackers will achieve new levels of automation and scale. They will find novel ways to use and tamper with machine learning. Criminals will find new use cases for misinformation campaigns. The “attacker for hire” economy will blossom as a result. Enterprises will struggle to understand the risks to their digital assets. Consumers will struggle to understand the risks to their privacy.
Of course, we can’t ignore the COVID-19 pandemic and the unimaginable changes, good and bad, it will bring to our lives. Any transformation of personal or professional lives creates new opportunities and new risks. We hope that your audience is staying safe, staying healthy, and is able to find some way to move forward during these highly unusual and stressful times.
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Naked Cowboy
A riveting look at the world famous -- but sorely misunderstood -- Naked Cowboy.
By Kl
July 15, 2006 5:27AM (UTC)
"I'm the epitome of success in the absence of talent," says the Naked Cowboy, a guy who, after 49 arrests in 49 states, finally found fame, a calling and a place at the table as a fixture in Times Square. Matthew Pond's short (7:10 minutes long) will be playing at Rooftop Films "New York Non-Fiction" show on Friday July 14, at Automotive High School in Williamsburg.
Read more about Rooftop Films here. And check out its summer festival schedule here.
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It's turkey time: Hampton farm gearing up for Thanksgiving
Elizabeth Dinan edinan@seacoastonline.com @DinanElizabeth
HAMPTON � Walking a dung-covered dirt road on his family's farm, Steve Hurd attracts his flock of 600 broad-breasted white turkeys, all waddling, gobbling and expecting some food.
Hurd bought the birds at a hatchery when they were six weeks old and trucked them back to his heirloom farm, to feed on grass and grain, then be sold for Thanksgiving dinners. They've been grazing at the 160-acre farm for months and soon will be butchered, plucked and put on ice by Hurd, with a small team of helpers.
Unlike commercial poultry operations, Hurd said his turkeys, "only have one bad day."
If this Thanksgiving is like the last, he said, hundreds of his turkeys will be sold from his farmhouse the week before Thanksgiving.
Hurd's grandparents bought the 11 Old Stage Road farm property in 1923 and it was run as a dairy farm, with milking cows, until Hurd switched to livestock. He now raises cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys, for beef, pork, poultry and eggs.
Hurd's mother Gwen lives in one of the antique farmhouses and he shares a second one with his wife Cheryl. The pig pen is nearby, where Hurd chucks whole pumpkins over a fence, they smash into pieces and dozens of pigs exit a barn to fight over them.
"Not really," he said when asked if he knows how many pigs he's now raising for food. "Up in here it's close to 60 and there's more down back. "I'm not sure I'd want to fall down in there. The other day, one grabbed hold of my leg."
Behind the pig pen is a stable and shelter for Hurd's cows. Across his unpaved driveway, roosters crow in a rusted livestock trailer for hauling poultry.
A nearby field is filled with his turkeys, "broad-breasted whites," attracted to anyone who walks near them. The males have blue around their eyes, the females "do most of the squawking," he explained.
The flock is hearty enough to stay outside unprotected and are fattened with grass and grain, all without antibiotics or hormones, Hurd said. He buys them in batches of six different age groups, to grow them in different sizes, this year ranging from 12 pounds to "a little over 25 pounds."
Predators have been a problem, with something getting his early turkeys a few years ago, but now he surrounds the flock with an electric fence that can be moved around the farm for fresh grazing opportunities.
The turkeys are slaughtered in a trailer on site and the feathers removed in a commercial plucker; a tub lined with rubber fingers that rotates and cleans the turkeys one at a time. Last year Hurd had a crew of six helpers worked until midnight for a week to ready the turkeys for pickup starting the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
No one has ever asked to select their turkey from the flock, said Hurd, who likes his turkeys roasted, prefers dark meat and will bring the Thanksgiving turkey to his wife's cousin's house.
"I have people say, 'I didn't know there was a farm in Hampton,'" Hurd said about his family's property now protected from future development by a conservation easement. "We've been here since 1923."
Hurd Farm is taking reservations with $20 online deposits for Thanksgiving turkeys sold for $4.99 a pound. A shop at Hurd's house is open to the public on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m. and he can be found at local farmer's markets.
For more information and to reserve turkeys, visit hurdfarm.com.
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King County launches $41.4 million rental assistance and eviction prevention program
Aug. 20, 2020 at 4:18 pm Updated Aug. 31, 2020 at 9:49 pm
Sydney Brownstone
Renters and landlords alike will soon be able to apply for rental assistance from a $41.4 million fund to be disbursed by King County.
The rental assistance effort, the bulk of which is funded by CARES Act money received from the federal government, has launched via a county website and will last through Dec. 30 when CARES Act money expires. Renters and landlords who have fallen behind on or are missing rent payments will be able to apply for three months of rental relief, though there are restrictions on who can receive the funds.
The rental assistance program will last beyond the deadline Gov. Jay Inslee set for the statewide moratorium on evictions, which he extended from Aug. 1 to Oct. 15 last month. Experts and advocates have warned, however, that a wave of evictions could follow the end of such moratoriums when people owe back-rent for the months they were unable to pay.
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“Many people are facing serious challenges due to COVID-19 and the loss of health or income, leaving them extremely vulnerable to eviction,” King County Executive Dow Constantine said in a news release announcing the program. “This emergency program will forestall the loss of housing and prevent homelessness for thousands of residents in need across King County.”
The county is now taking feedback on the program via an online form through Aug. 25 and accepting interest forms from renters and landlords, though it will not start distributing funds until after the initial comment period has ended. If selected by the county, renters and landlords can then apply for funds.
The largest piece of the funding, $17.9 million, will be set aside for bigger landlords, who can apply for three months of rent relief if they have residential properties with low-income housing tax credits or have properties in high-needs ZIP codes, defined by high rates of unemployment or COVID-19 deaths.
“This is great news,” said Brett Waller of the Washington Multifamily Housing Association, a landlord advocacy group.
The landlords who qualify for the program can receive three months of payment at 80% of the regular rent or the fair market rent for their eligible tenants, whichever is lower. In return, landlords must agree to waive all rent debts for eligible tenants, not raise rents and not evict tenants for reasons other than good cause through March 2021.
Landlords with more missed payments will be prioritized, according to the county, which will start processing submissions from this group on Aug. 24.
Another $10 million from the program will go to individual renters, who will be drawn from a lottery-based rental assistance system starting Sept. 14 if they’ve made at or below the 50% area median income over the prior 60 days and if they’ve fallen behind on rent. Households also must meet one of the following conditions: a high rent burden, a history of homelessness or eviction, be at risk of severe illness, have a household member with a disability or have housing disrupted due to race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.
If a renter qualifies for relief, their landlords similarly must accept three months of payment at 80% of the regular rent or the fair market rent for the unit. Their landlords then must also waive all debts, even if the renter owes more than three months of missed rent, and agree not to raise rents, evict the tenant or refuse to renew the lease other than for good cause through March 31, 2021.
Small landlords can also apply to the same funding pool available for renters if they have at least one property in a high needs ZIP code. All mobile home park landlords and managers will also be able to apply for funds.
An additional $5 million will be allocated to the United Way of King County to help people in eviction proceedings once the eviction moratorium ends. Other money will go to outreach services and administration, among other things.
Rachael Myers, executive director of the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance, said the program would be “hugely helpful” to the individuals and families that need them, but warned that more funding was needed to avert evictions once the moratorium is lifted.
“It’s going to end at some point and we’re going to need significantly more funding than this,” Myers said.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, an estimated 450,000 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area were estimated to be housing insecure the week of July 16. The measure of housing insecurity was based on whether people had missed last month’s housing payment or if they had little confidence they could make next month’s payments.
The county’s rental assistance fund expects to serve between 7,700 and 10,000 households.
Both Seattle and King County have passed additional renter protections past the end of the statewide moratorium, including a defense renters can use in eviction proceedings if they are unable to pay rent after the moratorium is lifted.
Sydney Brownstone: 206-464-3225 or sbrownstone@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @sydbrownstone.
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I'm not a fan of boxing nor professional wrestling. I find that, as in real life, the players don't always fight fair. I understand that much is done strictly to boost ratings but still I find it distressing. In real life it is even more disturbing for much damage can occur when one or both partners gets down and dirty. Conflict arises in every aspect of our lives yet sadly very few of us are taught at an early age how to resolve our differences peacefully. Many adults still employ the juvenile tactics from childhood that are fear-based and aggressive. It's time to re evaluate the way in which we settle our disputes making it a more equitable process for all. Here are ten tips to fight fair:
1) Approach the disagreement with an open mind and an equally as receptive heart. Remember, the mind is like a parachute: it only works when open. And the heart is where love resides, a much needed ingredient in reasonably resolving disputes.
2) Listen to understand rather than formulating your response. When one feels as those they are being heard and understood they feel valued and hopeful that they can come to a meeting of the minds.
3) Although it's tempting to begin your conversation with such statements as "You make me...You always... You should/shouldn't" openers such as these only put your partner on the defensive. Accusatory statements put other on the defensive as they feel they are under attack. Some will choose to defend themselves; others may retreat from the dialogue. Ask God to formulate your words before they depart from your mouth. Temper them with kindness and respect.
4) Stick to one topic, avoiding the temptation to branch out. Would you go to hairdresser who was not only cutting your hair but applying color to another client, giving a perm to another, and blow drying a third simultaneously? Of course not. You would expect that her undivided attention was on you so as to ensure a flawless haircut. So it is with resolving disputes. Stay focused on the issue at hand.
5) Repeat back what you think you heard the other person say. "Let me see if I heard you correctly. You're concerned about the amount of debt we've accrued but you're not stating emphatically that we can't go on vacation this year. Is that correct?" This one technique alleviates the other party's concerns that you are not fully grasping their position.
6) Identify the issue in three minutes or less. Then refocus your attention to the desired outcome. What is it that you want to accomplish and what are the best steps to achieve that? In this way, 99% of your time, energy, and creativity will be focused on the solution. It also eliminates the opportunity to engage in blame.
7) Let the other person know from the get go that you are open to a compromise. In that way, they will feel more at ease knowing you are entering this with an open mind as well as a genuine concern for their well-being and needs.
8) Put yourself in the other person's shoes. See things through their eyes to gain a better understanding of where they are coming from. You don't have to agree with their position or share the same passion but the willingness to be compassionate and empathetic pays huge dividends.
9) If you find the situation is becoming heated, stop and take a break. Unless the issue is a matter of life or death nothing is so urgent as to risk a debate escalating into an argument filled with anger, bitterness, and hurtful words.
10) Limit the amount of time you spend addressing this issue. Very often, the preconceived belief that this discussion could continue indefinitely is enough to raise anxiety in both parties, contributing to a decrease in patience and tolerance. You can being with a suggestion of "Let's try to wrap this up in 15 minutes. I think that's more than enough time to address this issue."
Fighting fair isn't hard. It means leaving your ego locked securely in a closet in the basement and approaching your opponent as your ally. Keep it short, simple, and respectful and you'll be amazed at how easy it is to arrive at a peaceful and mutually satisfactory resolution.
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Janet's spoken at the United Nations, Notre Dame University, was a keynote speaker for the YWCA National Week Without Violence Campaign, and is a past board member for the World Addiction Foundation.
She's a former columnist for the Daily Record and contributing writer to Woman’s World Magazine, Living Solo, Prime Woman Magazine, and N.J. Family. Her name has appeared in print more than 100 million times, including The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Alaska Business Monthly and more than 50 other publications.
A consultant to corporations including AT&T, U.S. Army, U.S. Postal Service, and Hoffman-LaRoche, Janet is N.J. State certified in domestic violence, an instructor at a battered women's shelter, and founder of The Antidote to Anger Group. She specializes in healing anger and conflict and creating inner peace and writes a weekly blog and bi-monthly newsletter.
Janet has authored 8 books, including the highly acclaimed The Secret Side of Anger (endorsed by NY Times bestselling author, Dr. Bernie Siegel).
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15 Best Small Business Accounting Software Tools for Growing Businesses
by Braveen Kumar
While there is certainly no shortage of small business accounting software available today, choosing the right tool can be deceptively challenging.
With so much overlap in functionality and considerable differences in pricing, it’s all too easy for business owners to end up choosing the wrong accounting tool. After even a modest length of time, switching to another accounting program can seem more of a hassle than it’s worth––a great example of the sunk cost fallacy––which makes choosing the right tool in the first place particularly important.
That’s why we’ve put together this list of the best small business accounting software tools for independent businesses. We’ve separated our list into two categories: cloud-based web applications, and desktop applications.
Cloud accounting software
Available for: Web application
Mobile app: Android, iOS
Price: Plans begin at $15 per month
Free trial length: 30 days
Shopify app or integration: Yes
One of the most popular and well-known small business accounting tools available today is FreshBooks.
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Many of FreshBooks’ tools feature smart assistive technologies and automations designed to make bookkeeping easy. FreshBooks can be configured to automatically reconcile credit and debit amounts and can automatically import financial data from a range of sources. Users can also adjust access permissions on an individual basis. For example, employees can be granted limited access to financial reports, while you can give your accountants administrator privileges.
Pricing starts at $15 per user per month for the Lite plan.
2. Wave
Free trial length: N/A
Shopify app or integration: No
Many of the small business accounting software tools we’ve looked at so far have been inexpensive. But for newly launched independent businesses, even inexpensive can be a little too much initially. Wave, an accounting tool designed for small businesses, understands that problem, which is why Wave is 100% free.
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Available for Windows and OS X, and with Android and iOS apps for invoicing and receipts, Wave is ideal for independent businesses still finding their feet. Wave can do almost everything premium accounting software tools can do, including expense management, banking reconciliation, payroll, and invoicing.
If all this sounds too good to be true, sign up for a free account and see how Wave can help you manage your business’ accounts in less time––all without spending a dime.
3. ZipBooks
Mobile app: iOS
Aimed at business owners who might lack experience with bookkeeping, ZipBooks is a simple, lightweight small business accounting software tool that takes the headache out of accurate accounting.
Image source: ZipBooks.
ZipBooks keeps everything as simple as possible. The product emphasizes the basics, such as accounts receivables, so users won’t be surprised by any complicated menus or intimidating features. ZipBooks’ statements and reports are similarly clean and minimal, focusing on the essential information entrepreneurs need to run their business.
The product’s Starter plan is free and includes unlimited invoicing, basic reporting, and a single bank account connection. Additional plans start at $15 per month.
4. Holded
Price: Plans begin at 10€ (approx. US$13) per month
Even simple accounting can be time consuming, which is why Holded aims to automate much of the busywork inherent to bookkeeping so you can get on with actually running your business.
Holded is a cloud-based accounting tool that offers real-time insights into the finances of your business. Users can integrate Holded’s general ledger with a range of financial data sources to provide at-a-glance overviews of profits and losses, forecasting and reporting, and detailed accounting histories, all with just a few clicks.
Holded is a deeply integrated accounting solution that offers major time savings. Pricing starts at roughly $11 per month, with a 14-day free trial.
5. Sage 50cloud
Mobile app: No
Price: Plans begin at £65 (approx. US$82) per month
Sage 50cloud Accounting is a comprehensive, cloud-based accounting software product with extensive customization options and advanced functionality.
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The product’s Pro Accounting plan––the least expensive option, available for $50.58 per month––is aimed at smaller, independent businesses. It can handle a range of accounting tasks, including expense management, invoicing, and inventory tracking. Sage 50cloud Accounting also integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office.
Sage’s other plans offer additional features, such as role-based security privileges and account management for multiple companies, but may be prohibitive for smaller businesses with more modest administrative budgets.
6. Kashoo
Price: Plans begin at $16.65 per month
Kashoo is small business accounting software that aims to help business owners automate much of the administrative work behind bookkeeping.
Thanks to machine-learning algorithms, Kashoo understands your business better the more you use it. Everything from receipt categorization to sales tax tracking is analyzed by Kashoo, which lets the tool make individualized recommendations on steps to save money, minimize waste, and streamline overall efficiency.
Kashoo’s intelligent, automated approach to accounting won’t be for everybody. Kashoo costs $199 per year (about $16 a month), but business owners interested in its approach to bookkeeping can sign up for a free trial.
7. OneUp
Price: Plans begin at $9 per month
Like Kashoo, OneUp aims to make bookkeeping a much more streamlined process by automating routine tasks.
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Over time, OneUp “learns” how your accounting works by analyzing inputs, such as bank account transactions. OneUp then prompts the user to validate suggested reconciliations with a single swipe on a mobile device. These validations further train OneUp’s algorithms to offer more accurate suggestions in the future. OneUp can also match individual bank transactions with overdue invoices, saving business owners even more time.
You can sign up for a free 30-day trial of OneUp or get a plan starting at just $9 per month for individual users.
8. Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
Mobile app: Mobile access available via mobile web browser
Price: Available by request
Nonprofit organizations face an entirely different set of financial challenges than for-profit businesses. Unfortunately, not every commercial accounting product addresses these differences in their functionality, which is why nonprofit organizations may want to consider Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT for their accounting needs.
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Financial Edge NXT is fully compliant with the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in the US. The product allows nonprofit accountants to budget many years in advance, and the tool’s dashboards can be customized to suit the needs of your organization.
Prospective NXT customers can contact Blackbaud directly for pricing information.
9. Accounting Seed
Available for: Salesforce, web application
Mobile app: Yes, via the Salesforce app
Many small business accounting tools are standalone programs that exist in isolation from the core of a business. This is most definitely not the case with Accounting Seed, which integrates tightly with Salesforce to offer insights into every aspect of your business’ financial operations.
Accounting Seed is a cloud-based accounting solution native to the Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) platform that can serve as a single, authoritative source of financial truth for your business. You don’t need to be a Salesforce customer to use Accounting Seed, as the product is available as a standalone web application. It’s easily customizable without manual IT deployments or custom code, making it an ideal solution for business owners who lack advanced technical knowledge.
Unfortunately, Accounting Seed’s pricing isn’t publicly available, but business owners can contact Accounting Seed directly for a quote.
10. Xero
Shopify app or integration: Yes; third-party integrations available
For business owners who find themselves constantly on the go, Xero might just be the accounting tool they’ve been waiting for.
Xero is an intelligent accounting software tool aimed at small businesses, with an emphasis on ease of use and mobile utility. Xero can be synced across multiple devices and offers users updates in real time, giving business owners the latest information wherever they might be.
The product features a clean, intuitive user interface and can handle a range of accounting tasks, including payroll (via an integration with Gusto), expenses, billing and invoicing, and sales tax calculation, among other features. Pricing starts at $4.50 per month.
11. Sunrise
Price: Plans begin at $149 per month
Free trial length: No free trial, but Self-Service plan is free
Accounting and bookkeeping can be tedious and time-consuming, which is why Sunrise makes accounting simpler, easier, and more intuitive.
Sunrise helps you manage your business’ accounts. The tool lets users create branded invoices with just a few clicks, create and send quotes to customers, build reports quickly, and gain an at-a-glance overview of their business’ financial health.
Ideal for DIY accountants, Sunrise is all about simplicity. Self-service plans are free, with additional plans starting at $149 per month.
Desktop accounting software
12. QuickBooks Online
Available for: OS X, Windows, web application
Intuit’s QuickBooks Online is a popular bookkeeping tool that can help business owners handle their accounting quickly and easily.
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QuickBooks has everything business owners need to take control of their bookkeeping. QuickBooks features a clean, simple interface and intuitive reporting, meaning even newcomers can get up to speed quickly. All QuickBooks plans include mileage and expense tracking, sales and tax reporting, and tools to manage 1099 contractors.
QuickBooks’ other plans offer additional functionality, such as inventory tracking, support for up to 25 individual users, and even access to a dedicated customer support manager. Plans start at $12 per month.
13. Express Accounts
Available for: OS X, Windows
Price: Plans begin at $8.83 per month
Free trial length: A free version of Express Accounts is available for businesses with fewer than five employees
Express Accounts is an inexpensive accounting tool for small businesses that strips away the bells and whistles of other tools to focus on the essentials.
Available for both Windows and OS X, this accounting tool is ideal for smaller, independent businesses with simpler accounting needs. Users can track sales and accounts receivable information, record recurring orders and repeat invoices, and create quotes, sales orders, and invoices.
Independent businesses with fewer than five employees can use Express Accounts for free, though this version does have some usage restrictions. Other plans start at $8.83 per month when billed quarterly.
14. PlanGuru
Available for: Windows, web application
Forecasting is an integral part of accounting, but few accounting tools put accurate forecasting front and center the way PlanGuru does.
PlanGuru is a suite of financial software products designed to help accountants and financial planners more accurately forecast future financial conditions. PlanGuru’s core product offers more than 20 separate forecasting methods and allows accountants to create financial projections for up to 10 years in the future.
With integrations for popular bookkeeping tools, including QuickBooks and Xero, automatic cash flow reconciliation, payroll utility, and preset reporting templates, PlanGuru can help business owners plan for the future. Pricing starts at $99 per month.
15. AccountEdge Pro
Available for: OS X (OS X Catalina not supported), Windows
AccountEdge Pro is a standalone desktop application for Windows and OS X that can handle a wide range of accounting tasks, from sales and receivables to contractor payroll.
Image source: PC Mag.
Unlike many of the small business accounting tools featured on this list, AccountEdge Pro is not licensed on a monthly subscription basis. Instead, users pay a one-time fee of $399. AccountEdge is also available in a Basic edition, but this lacks many of the tool’s most useful features, including data migration from QuickBooks.
Accurate accounting means better business
No two businesses are exactly alike, and an accounting solution that works well for one business may not work at all for another.
While there’s a great deal of overlap between the small business accounting software above, only you can decide which tool is right for your business. Some business owners may see sophisticated reporting functionality as an essential feature, whereas some may prioritize automated reconciliation. Before investing in a new accounting system, it may be worth taking advantage of a few free trials before committing to a decision.
Braveen Kumar
Braveen Kumar is part of the content team at Shopify where he develops resources to help aspiring entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses.
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Thin Air – Richard Morgan,
Reviewed by Joe Gordon
Welcome to Mars, soak.
For the first time in several years, and the first time since the well-received Netflix adaptation of his debut Altered Carbon, Richard Morgan returns to science fiction and, I am glad to report, delivers everything a Morgan fan could want. Since that powerhouse debut years back Morgan has enjoyed – relished, in fact – bringing a Hammett or Chandler-esque Noir quality to his science fiction, and with Hakan Veil, a disgraced former gene-tweaked deadly enforced for a mega corporation, dumped on the Martian colony and making a living anyway he can, he continues that tradition, mixed rather interestingly with elements of the classic Western in this High Frontier colony, but also suffused with a burningly angry take on unchecked market forces and runaway corporate capitalism, the vast inequalities it creates, the needless, grinding poverty and anger, and those who exploit it, on all sides of the political spectrum, from the holier than thou supposed revolutionaries to the oily “man of the people” governor in his super-bling mansion (with more than a passing comparison to several contemporary politicians of our troubled times).
The details of the everyday life and troubles, from the disgruntled and often corrupt (some more so than others) cops and politicians in the vast colony city in the great trench of the Valles Marineris (crudely referred to by locals as “The Gash”) and gangs to the everyday colonists – many of whom, being several generations into Mars life, don’t see themselves as a colony any longer, they see themselves as Martians, and bridle at the oversight by Earth authorities (a fact played on by various political operators on Mars). And with an oversight committee coming into town from Earth, feelings are running high – some see it as an overdue accounting to hold the corrupt governor and local authorities to rights, others see it as outside influence in Martian affairs. And some suspect there is far more going on in the shadows than a simple audit and rooting out of corruption (shades of the current corruption crackdown in China), that there may be deeper, more sinister motivations behind the entire enterprise.
Freshly sprung from Bradbury police’s jail, police officer Nikki reluctantly hires Hakan, still “running hot” (his genetic tweaks include a hibernation cycle, from which he awakens sharp and ready for violence, a handy thing for his former employer who may have had him on ice on a ship sent out for months to intercept another ship and needed their people to come awake instantly and at full tilt), to be a minder to a junior member of the Earth oversight committee, Madekwe. She seems curiously compelled to investigate a minor missing persons case from several years before, out on the much rougher uplands (think the Wild West of Mars, complete with a Marshall service trying to maintain a rough law and order), and Hakan, while agreeing to take the job on, is left wondering what she is really looking for.
To discuss the plot any further would lead to spoilers, and besides, as with Raymond Chandler, the plot, which satisfyingly twists and loops around in conspiracies, political and economic intrigues and sheer bloody violence and double-crosses, is only part of the enjoyment here, much of the satisfaction also comes from the way Morgan tells the story. Like Chandler he has a gift for descriptive flair which manages to be both hard-boiled yet elegant and evocative. As with most of his previous works Morgan delivers some remarkable – and often very violent and bloody – action scenes, and yet this is no mere action-thriller, even the violence has a subtextual layer to it, from the political to the personal levels. And the view of life in the colony for the many is no mere adornment for background colour, there’s a feeling of authenticity, of a real community, of real people struggling to get by, and great empathy for the situation created by those at the top of the heap, over which the many have little control, despite the illusion of elections, and they all know it.
Despite the length this is a tight, fast-paced, high-octane read, with intelligent use of action mixed with some fine science fiction elements, adorned with colourful clothes from the Noir and Western genres for added atmosphere, unafraid to offer us main characters who are not heroic and commit questionable (or downright awful) acts, and yet beneath the powerful action segments, beneath the science fiction of a future Mars and genetically enhanced trained corporate killers, as with most of Morgan’s work it is about fallible, flawed people in a bad situation, trying to get through situations they didn’t ask for.
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Cheech And Chong's Next Movie
Released: June 13, 2017 • Available in US & Canada
THEY'RE BACK WITH MORE ZANY ADVENTURES!
The zany twosome is back for some smoke-enhanced misadventures in this riotous comedy. This time, Cheech must deal with an angry neighbor and losing his job, all while trying to score with a sexy young lady.
Meanwhile, Chong meets Cheech's cousin, Red (Cheech Marin in a dual role), and the two buds have a wild time buzzing around Hollyweird in a bad Ferrari. Along the way, the dynamic duo find time for some mishaps at a movie set, the welfare office, a hotel, a brothel, a music store, a rich girl's house, a comedy club, the ultimate weed field and a UFO-all before the second reel! This outrageous comedy features early film appearances by Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens, Edie McClurg, Cassandra "Elvira" Petersen, John "Jambi" Paragon and Phil Hartman.
“Many Universal titles from this period tended to have terrible theatrical prints, but Shout! Factory's Blu-ray of Cheech and Chong's Next Movie looks great in its 1080p, 1.85:1 widescreen presentation, which shows off the locations so well one can almost smell them. The mono DTS-HD Master Audio is also unexpectedly robust…Recommended.” – Stuart Galbraith IV, DVD Talk
“Cheech & Chong may not have had themselves sobered out of the pop culture conscious, but they’re still pretty funny if you give them a chance. Does this Blu-ray deserve a chance? It’s definitely the best the film has ever looked and sounded. Cheech Marin gives a really solid interview as a bonus feature.” – Brandon Peters, Why So Blu
“If you enjoy their movies in any capacity, then picking up Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie on Blu-ray should be a no-brainer. Its unstructured and untamed nature may not appeal to everyone, but it’s a fun movie that looks and sounds good on the format, which is all you can really ask for.” – Tim Salmons, The Digital Bits
“Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie is a hilarious romp that still stands up as well today as it did back then (even moreso if you grew up in the days when the pop culture references were all the rage). Shout Factory has done a nice job with the film…and the brand-new interview with Cheech is pretty good as well. Definitely the best the film has ever looked and sounded, a must own for any Cheech and Chong fan for sure.” – Michael Scott, AV NIRVANA
“Stoner comedies are a dime a dozen these days but Cheech And Chong’s Next Movie still holds up well, a gleefully stupid movie that’s as delightfully crass as it is genuinely creative and sincerely wacked out. Shout! Factory’s Blu-ray release isn’t stacked with extras but it does look and sounds quite good – fans should appreciate this one, it’s a really fun way to kill ninety minutes and countless brain cells.” – Ian Jane, Rock Shop Pop
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The Sicilian (Director's Cut) (SOLD OUT)
Released: March 29, 2016 • Available in US & Canada
Product Note: As of May 13, 2020, this title is OUT OF PRINT.
"… this is one of Cimino's best films, with a fine sense of spectacle and landscape..." - Chicago Reader
From Mario Puzo, the best-selling author of The Godfather, comes the riveting saga of the life, loves and dreams of the infamous Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Giuliano. Directed by the Academy Award®-winning director of The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino, this epic motion picture stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander) in the most powerful performance of his career.
World War II is finally over, and a war-torn world is at rest. But for the island of Sicily, whose inhabitants dreams of independence from Rome's oppressive, ironhanded regime, the struggle has just begun. Three powers have always ruled the island – the Church, the landowners and the Mafia – until Salvatore Giuliano pronounced himself the fourth.
Determined that Sicily shall gain its freedom, Giuliano and his "brothers" rob and ransom the rich, cold-bloodedly murdering all who dare to defy or betray them. As Giuliano proudly redistributes his newfound wealth among the peasants, Don Masino, the head of the Sicilian Mafia, declares that Giuliano must be stopped – at any cost. Now it's a fight for survival, as the bloodiest manhunt in Italian history sweeps the countryside of the notorious outlaw, Giuliano.
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Grandaddy's Gun
by Aaron Lewis
Album: The Road (2012)
Aaron Lewis wrote all of the songs on his debut full-length solo release The Road except for this tune, which was penned by hit Nashville songwriters Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins and Bobby Pinson. Lewis heard the song when on a hunting trip with Akins and producer James Stroud. He identified with the lyrics so much that he asked Akins for permission to record it, marking the first time the Staind vocalist had ever cut a song he didn't write.
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Satellite Of Love
by Lou Reed
Album: Transformer (1972)
Charted: 10 119
Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I like to watch things on TV
Satellite of
Satellite's gone way up to Mars
Soon it'll be filled with parkin' cars
I love to watch things on TV
I've been told that you've been bold
With Harry, Mark and John
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to Thursday
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Greg from Harrington Park, NjU2 did a nice cover of this on their Zoo Tv tour in 1992. At most shows a video recording of Lou Reed would appear on the monitor and it was timed for him him to sing along with Bono. In other performances Lou Reed himself came out and sang the song live with Bono. I was at one of those shows @ Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands in August of 1992. Very trippy and weird lyrics but brilliantly arranged and written. One of my favorites by Lou Reed.
Cliff from Oakdale, NyThis song by Lou Reed is featured in the 1998 movie Velvet Goldmine. It is about a David Bowie like rock star. It highlights the age of glam rock
John from Indianapolis, InFeatured prominently in the American version of the series "Life on Mars," in the episode "Everyone Knows it's Windy."
Doug from Knoxville, TnThis song can also be heard at the end of the popular radio show "The Ron and Fez Show" on Sirius XM radio.
Marwan from London,you can clearly hear David Bowie on the backing vocals - he also assisted with the song
Lester from New York City, NyThe song's title is, of course, is also the name of the spaceship Joel (then Mike) and the 'bots are held captive on and forced to watch bad movies by the 'Mads down in Deep 13 on 'Mystery Scirnce Theater 3000'.
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by Slipknot
Album: Slipknot (1999)
Her eyes on the channel four
I want to see this place f***ing move
One two three now, now, now, now, now
Maze, psychopathic daze, I create this waste
Back away from tangents, on the verge of drastic ways
Can't escape this place, I deny your face
Sweat gets in my eyes, I think I'm slowly dying
Put me in a homemade cellar
Put me in a hole for shelter
Someone by me please, all I see is hate
I can hardly breathe, and I can hardly take it
Hands on my face, overbearing I can't get out
Hands on my face, overbearing I can't
Lost, run at my own cost, fearing laughter, scoffed
Running from the rush, detached from such and such
Bleak all around me, weak, listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one you're dogging
I am in a buried kennel
I have never felt so final
Someone find me please, losing all reserve
I think I'm gonna go crazy
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't
You all stare, but you'll never see, something inside me
You all stare, but you'll never see, there's something in you I despise
Cut me, show me, enter
I am willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge of my pain, knowledge of my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase? Empathy, out of my way
I can't die, I can't die
Despise, despise
Purity, purity, purity, purity
Have you ever seen God?
Have you ever seen God? Writer/s: CHRIS FEHN, CHRISTOPHER FEHN, COREY TAYLOR, CRAIG JONES, CRAIG A JONES, MICHAEL CRAHAN, MICHAEL SHAWN CRAHAN, MICKAEL THOMSON, NATHAN JORDISON, NATHAN J JORDISON, PAUL GRAY, PAUL D GRAY, SID WILSON, SIDNEY WILSON
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Shane from Melbourne, Australiathe song has changed my mind, the way i think about things. I know the internet says its fake and all that. but like Corey Taylor, I STILL BELIEVE IT!! just the thought of a human doing that to another human is (sic)kening. I know so much about this person/song and the band. From what i know, she was a very nice person, college student, having a good life. Then some ex boyfriend just makes up his mind to end anothers life by torturing another human. PEOPLE = s--t
This just makes me angry,sad and confused. Angry how someone can do that, sad because, well f--k, do i have to point out the obviouse? and confused because once again i dont see what the stalker gets out of torturing a nice girl. From the moment i heard the song "Purity" by Slipknot, i loved it. I first didn't really get it, then i researched up the song whilst on the slipknot web page. And i didnt know what to feel. So my opinion is, Purity was a real girl, who was tortured and
burried alive!! R.I.P.. and also PEOPLE = s--t. stay (sic) maggotz!!
John from Forestville, NyPurity Knight is a fictional character on a website that trains CSI students. Corey came across it and was inspired, thinking it was a true story. Yes, it the song Despise was used as a basis, but the story was incorporated into it to make the song Purity. Frail Limb Nursery is the intro to Purity and it is just clips from the audio evidence used on the website for the Purity Knight case. The owner of the website sued the band so they had to pull the songs from the album re-release it. However it was just recently allowed to be on the aniversary edition of the first album.
Steve from Telford, United KingdomThey had to rerelease the album with new songs obviously because they where being taken to court. who knows if its true or not, can you believe everything you hear nowadays. i know i cant.
atleast we have great musicians making great songs.
Maggot666 from Niagarafalls, Onthis story was not real cory thought is was but then the ppl that made the story put a law suite against them it was released on the self title album as despise
Kelsie from Pittsfield, MaThis song was thought to be on a real girl!! It is not a true case!!! I repeat it is not a real case!!
Here is the web-site where The fake case of Purity Knight is.
http://www.crimescene.com/purity.archive/index.html
I myself found this site before the song Purity came out. I looked at the whole thing and thought it was a real case. But when the song Purity came out, and Slipknot had a law suite against the song , I went back to the site and found that when I went to the main page of the web-site, it said that this site is used for Forensic Student's ...
And yes their is some truth to the story just not that one!! Their was a girl who was buried alive in the back of someone's farm.
Krow from Carcer, Qcso u r telling me this was a fake story? but but but what about the "This is based on a true story about a woman who was abducted by a man and his wife. She was tortured, degraded, and confined during the day in a small box no bigger than a coffin for 6 years. The woman became conditioned with "Stockholm Syndrome." This condition sometimes occurs when a person finally gives themselves willing to their captor and believes they are in love with them, or at least understands and accepts their captivity without resistance. (thanks, James - Dartmouth, Canada)" part at the begaining?
Jackson from NottinghamIt's true about the purity knight
story being fiction. Corey thought it
was real at the time, i think he still does...
but from how the case was made i can see why it's believable. And it's scary cause
sh@t like that does happen.
Jerimias from Nuuk, GreenlandI f*cking love this song! Especially the live version! It has got such a great beginning and great lyrics!
Unknown from Sunderland, EnglandThe song wasn't in original self-titled album release because of copyright as this was the only song Jim worked on on the album, the others were done by former guitarist. Awesome song btw. Stay (sic)
Justin from Franklin, VaThis is a great song, this song sucked me in ever since i first heard it. It is one of my favorite Slipknot songs. I hated when they took some of the lyrics from this song and used it for Deposition because the instrumental on this song went with the lyrics better than the deposition instrumental did.
Kevin from Belleville, IlWhat do you mean they never put it out? It was on their original release of the self-tittled album.
Also could be found on their digipak release. BOth releases are hard to find anymore though. Best way to reconize it is.. On the selftitled cover says slipknot across the front, its purity free, but if it doesnt say slipknot across it, it will ahve the track purity on it, and means it was made the first year of teh albums release.
Wendy from Ft. Worth, TxThe first time I heard this song I was hooked. The story behind it is really something to sit and think about.
Mike from Lisbon, NdThe purity thing never really happened thats why they couldnt put it out becuz of copyrights and stuff. Corey Taylor still believes there is some truth to the story however
JosÃ? from Reidsville, Nc"you all stare.." was just a part of Despise that they decided to leave in purity
Jill from Columbus, OhI love this song. My interpretation of it has always been about like people not accepting you, not liking you and not seeing the true you..."You all stare, but you'll never see..." Those lines really hit me hard, I love this song just for the perfect chorus. I think this is my fav. Slipknot song.
Rachel from Raleigh, NcI love their Disasterpiece DVD! This is a great song!
William from Ocean Springs, MsSlipknot performed this on their disasterpiece DVD. It was one of their best in my opinion. I think this is their best song.
Zachary from North Adams, MaThis song was actually originally a demo that Slipknot put together called Despise. It was put on the Digipack of the self-titled album.
Jeff from Dayton, OhThe story wasnt true. Its on a website that you can sign up for to figure out crimes, like a "who dun it" kind of thing. Thats why the album was rereleased with the song Me Inside replacing Frail Limb Nursury (spelling?) and Purity
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by Steely Dan
Album: Countdown To Ecstasy (1973)
Bodhisattva, would you take me by the hand
Can you show me the shine of your Japan
The sparkle of your china, can you show me
Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there to shine in your Japan
To sparkle in your China, yes I'll be there
Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, look out Writer/s: DONALD JAY FAGEN, WALTER CARL BECKER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Jim from Da PlymAm i wrong but is the Intro guitar bit not in A Dorian? I don't think i understand modes, but if i do then that should be right, right?
AnonymousThe whole song is great. Denny and the skunk jam together brilliantly and the keyboard fits in well in this Jazz/Rock gem
Steven from ChicagoThis song has two of the greatest rock guitar solos ever, imho.
Jim from UsaI wonder if the legendary Alan Watts heard this before he died too young in November 1973? It was released in July of that year. I think he would have gotten the humor more than most!
Tune-wise, this isn't one my my favorite S.D. songs but it could grow on me in context, after learning a lot about Zen.
Mavis from Upper MidwestExcellent treadmill song!
Bartholomew from Pysht, Wa UsaOh, one more - the version recorded live at Santa Monica from the "Gold" album, 1982. Kinda low-fi, but it has a brilliant bebop guitar solo.
Bartholomew from Pysht, Wa UsaTrust the genius of SD to do what very few have been able to accomplish - sarcastic social commentary in a Bebop song disguised as a pop song. Pretty brilliant, actually.
AFAIK, only other to pull this off was Frank Zappa [cf. Be Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church), as on the Roxy and Elsewhere album].
Also, agree w/Angel in Canton OH - despite their polish in the studio, if you never got to hear them live, I'm sorry.
Walter Becker RIP - you shall be missed.
Warren Suggs from CaliforniaDont forget the usual sexual reference..."shine" is slang for giving head.
Eric from Grenoble, FranceI' d tend to agree with Koze from India. I see the song as deriding the easy-to-digest recipes to self-enlightenment slickly marketed by the dispensers of allegedly Eastern wisdom that have been available on the market since the 70s. And who are still heavily best-selling in the US and Europe. The song holds even better today.
Terry from Rocky MountainsI am an avid, long-time SD fan (so please don't flame me), but I'm clearly missing something here... this frenetic song has literally nothing about it that makes me ever want to hear it again. I understand and agree with the comments lauding the technical excellence of the musicians' performances, but I find nothing appealing or memorable about either the lyrics or the melody line. The appeal of SD for me has always been rooted in one (or all) of the following: the emotional pull of the melody; the cleverness and/or poignancy of the lyrics; or the spare and searing deftness of the instrumental passages.
Dean from Saskatoon, SkI am not for mocking religion than I am mocking race or creed. However one must remember that this song was written and recorded at a time when the entire world seemed to be so consumed with materialism it was borderline ridiculous. There was an unpopular war going on in Vietnam, which had shifted some of our attention to the far east and the ways of the people there. And much of North America was still reeling from the turbulent sixties. What IS important is that Steely Dan has never been matched in there dedication to the music, regardless of what the deeper meaning of the lyrics may be. I would like to hear opinions about George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord", which I understand he was successfully sued for the music plagiarism. In the middle of that song the words change from Hallejuah to Hari Chrishna. Again, not here to mock. But we can't all be poets when we are just trying to make a song.
Angel from Canton, OhBest version can be found on Alive In America......imho
Jeff from Sharon, PaAccording to "Best of Steely Dan: An Inside Look at the Guitar Styles of Steely Dan" the solo in the middle of the song is Denny Dias and the outro solo (at the end) is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. Both were members of the original band.
Jorge from Sunrise, FlLove the piano strings singing at the end! Heard that the producer wanted a giant crescendo at the end and Denny Dias was holding a chord and strummed the piano strings to make another layer. Can anyone confirm?
Mike from Minneapolis, MnThe guitar work by Jeff Baxter is some of his finest ever! I had a chance to ask him about the solo on "My Old School" as well and he had every note, bend, hammer-on and pull-off written before entering the studio. One of my favorite guitarist ever!
G from Potomac, Md13 bar blues.
Bodhisattvas don't use psilocybin Chris...
Chris from Bisbee, AzI think this song was originally written for duane allman because it's basically a blues song, but the end is totally allman brothers-style. and duane was one, a boddhisatva
Shannon from Nashville , TnKoze has some interesting insights, accurate ones, I would say. You can almost see Fagen snarking out those lines, with a wry, all-knowing smirk. The trick is, he knows he doesn't know it all..... but has a splendid time lampooning those of us who think we do. Add snappy music to boot and you're prime time! Brilliant musicians, lyrically and melodically.
Mark from Ann Arbor, MiIt's hard for me to put into words exactly why I love this tune (and this band) as much as I do, but to start...If you want to hear blistering guitar riffs that are not just technique but rather are the embodiment of finesse and feel, this is a must-hear tune for you. There are other versions out there (the 'infamous' cassette
version from Santa Monica, played in an even faster meter) but the phrasing and call-and-answer guitar bits in this version are stunning
(as are the guitar 'fill' bits). Listen...and then listen again, and listen closely; the playing is truly transcendental. Of course, the
rest of the musicians have chops (as some would say) 'like you read about', which helps to keep the whole thing as seamless as it is. Also, the energy and tension just never quits in this tune - it just keeps building and building - until it ends in its beautiful crescendo. I remember being
turned on to Steely Dan in my teens by my brother, and upon hearing the solo in 'Reelin' In the Years' deciding that these cats had mad
skills, and I wanted to hear more. Seriously - these cats have few peers in terms of their lyrics, arrangements, melding of styles, and
outright musicianship. To quote Donald Fagen "What's not to like?" about these cats?
Andy from Rockaway , NyGreat guiter riff, is that Becker?
Dan from Los Angeles, CaThe lyrics revolve around two puns: "The Shine In Your Japan" (a type of furniture polish) and "The Sparkle In Your China" (Porcelain dishes and cups & saucers).
Lalah from Wasilla, AkI had one of those sound-activated toys in my office in the 1980s. It was in the shape of a daisy. There were Christmas trees and santa clauses too. When a coworker wanted to see how it worked I'd put Steely Dan's Bodhisattva on. The drum beats coupled with the guitar and keyboard made the best daisy dance. It was mass made somewhere in the far east. Now, that's funny.
Van from Philadelphia, PaThe song speeds up quite a bit; rather startling for a band that relied so heavily on studio musicians and had a reputation for perfectionism, but perhaps that came in later years.
Koze from Chennai, IndiaThis song is about the fickle perception of Eastern Mysticism held by the West. "Can you show me the shine of your Japan, the sparkle of your China" represent the narrow, stereotypical views that many Americans and Europeans have of the far east. This also coupled with the view that enlightment or spiritual realisation is possible without much effort, or is something that can be easily bought, "I'm gonna sell my house in town".
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Save The Best For Last
by Vanessa Williams
Album: The Comfort Zone (1991)
Sometimes the snow comes down in June
Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon
I see the passion in your eyes
Sometimes it's all a big surprise
'Cause there was a time when all I did was wish
You'd tell me this was love
It's not the way I hoped or how I planned
But somehow it's enough
And now we're standing face to face
Isn't this world a crazy place
Just when I thought our chance had passed
You go and save the best for last
All of the nights you came to me
When some silly girl had set you free
You wondered how you'd make it through
I wondered what was wrong with you
'Cause how could you give your love to someone else
And share your dreams with me
Sometimes the very thing you're looking for
Is the one thing you can't see
You went and saved the best for last Writer/s: Phil Galdston, Jon Lind, Wendy Waldman-Parker
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Is COVID-19 Vaccine Maker Novavax a Buy Right Now? Analyst Weighs In
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The Stretford End- Home of the Champions
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weary1969
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Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions
« Reply #5550 on: April 22, 2014, 10:39:32 AM »
Courtesy Palos
Following David Moyes' sacking, police have been called to quell the protests outside Old Trafford.
The Liverpool, Man City, and Chelsea fans have all been told to go home.
Today you're the dog, tomorrow you're the hydrant - so be good to others - it comes back!"
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« Reply #5552 on: April 22, 2014, 12:40:01 PM »
So what happens when the next manager comes in and struggle, fire him too?
https://www.youtube.com/v/blUSVALW_Z4
futbolfan
Quote from: triniairman on April 22, 2014, 08:31:28 AM
My favourite Moyes's quote: "I don't know what we have to do to win. We played well today." - Speaking after United's 2-1 defeat to Stoke in February - their eighth loss of the campaign. Basically he is telling everyone that he doesn't have a clue about being a manager.... He also liked saying "we needed a bit of luck today"...Man.United don't play lucky football!!!
I would not have cared if they sacked him 2 days after hiring him..I was the main one in here opposing Moyes appointment.. The man clueless and lacks confidence!
Yeah ah have to admit you called him out whole season and I for one wanted to give him time, but as the season went on it was obvious that he was way over his head. Klopp or Van Gaal will be much better options.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Quote from: elan on April 22, 2014, 07:44:31 AM
So somebody explain to me why it so important to sack him NOW? Why not see out the 4 or so games and then let him go. But you sack a proper manager for Giggs to be care taker? You rather lose with Giggs, or the players say they will play for Giggs?
The team has to start the rebuilding process now so the sooner they clean house the better. If you want to have the opportunity to sign the top players pre or post WC, Man-U will have to bring in a top tier coach to entice them.
I personally think they already have a deal in place with Van Gaal but it's just a matter of time before it is announced.
Also the loses to Everton or should I say the success of Everton this season was another clear indication that he was in over his head.
Quote from: elan on April 22, 2014, 12:40:01 PM
If necessary, but ownership and the fans will probably have more patience with and lower expectations from the next guy given the performances of this season.
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Quote from: futbolfan on April 22, 2014, 01:41:30 PM
Makes me even more disappointed that we didn't get Martinez.
So where all the talk about tradition? As a Chelsea fan I have/had to endure our lack of patience with managers. Yet the first chance Man United get to show that they believe in tradition and developing (continue) a dynasty they like any other club fired the manager. It - to me -showed that they may have gotten lucky with Ferguson, who happened to work out. Moyes has shown the he may be up to the task, though the learning curve is/was steep. How about showing belief in their supposedly "beliefs" and really give Moyes a chance? SAF a one off, that's all that is.
Arsenal has shown that they are the true loyalist amongst all the talkers. Season after season with less than stellar results and still they persist with Wenger.
asylumseeker
Prepare for Roy Keane.
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Quote from: asylumseeker on April 22, 2014, 08:03:38 PM
For what, another testimonial?
Which top tier teams did Moyes beat when he coached at Everton? At Man-U? How many champion league tournaments has he qualified for?
As he did with his signing of BeBe, SAF made a bad decision when he hired Moyes as his successor. Time for the team to move on, find someone more established and capable of righting the ship.
Dude, SAF had major titles before he came to Utd, so he had something going for him , Moyes has nothing.
"Giving away something in charity does not cause any decrease in a person's wealth, but increases it instead. The person who adopt humility for the sake of Allah is exalted in ranks by Him".
LMA slams United over Moyes sacking
The League Managers Association has branded Manchester United “unprofessional” for their treatment of David Moyes in the day before his sacking and accused them of betraying their historic values of loyalty and honesty in their handling of his exit.
And LMA chief executive Richard Bevan has criticised United in a strongly-worded denouncement of their conduct.
Bevan said in a statement: “The LMA is very disappointed with the nature of David's departure from Manchester United and to read extensive reports in the press, confirming David's sacking, before David himself had been spoken to officially by the club.
“Throughout his time at United, David, as he always does, has conducted himself with integrity and professionalism, values that he believes in and that have been strongly associated with the club and its rich tradition. It is therefore sad to see the end of David's tenure at United being handled in an unprofessional manner.”
Moyes has been voted Manager of the Year three times by his peers and Bevan predicted he will have a bright future and believes he will succeed elsewhere in the future.
He added: “David is one of the most talented, knowledgeable and dedicated managers in British football. He has a wealth of experience accumulated in a management career that started when he was 35 and already spans 16 years, with over 800 games in the professional game.
“David is a three-time winner of the LMA Manager of the Year Award, and without a doubt, he has a significant future in front of him in football management. He is passionate about the game and I know he possesses the drive and resilience to learn from this chapter of his career and move on to a new challenge in the game.”
Quote from: sammy on April 23, 2014, 06:58:21 AM
And yet AF struggled when he apointed at Man United, so what's your point.
Did Man United administration not know all of this when they hired him? Excuses. Man United has shown they stand for nothing other than wins and losses, just like every other club.
True loyalists my ass. Despite the lack of hardware, Arsenal qualifies for, and plays Champions league football every year. And that my friend is the real key. For top tier clubs like ManU, Arsenal, Chelsea, and ManCity, they need the extra revenue earned from playing in Europe to offset the huge salaries and transfer fees for their players. They also need the prestige of playing CL football in order to attract the top talent.
Most other clubs, Moyes probably would've been fired by Christmas. The fact that he lasted this long is a testament to the patience of both fans and management.
But this has absolutely nothing to do with your previous post!
The firing was handled in an indelicate manner. This was somewhat the product of having been hesitant to pull the trigger earlier; however, the indelicate outcome was essentially inevitable ... the alternative would have been keeping him in the gig while "silently" looking for his successor behind his back ... unless they were willing to tell him, and he was willing to hold de fort temporarily ... but what would that have done to further eroding morale and confidence amongst stakeholders?
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Quote from: Mose on April 23, 2014, 10:10:10 AM
You, as most people keep forgetting things that were going on around Moyes. It seems that Moyes was never really in charge, from his own short-comings or from the administration.
1) Don’t change the two most important people in the organisation at the same time
Sir Alex Ferguson had been manager of Manchester United for 27 years and David Gill had racked up a decade as chief executive when the duo stepped down last summer. For manager and chief executive at a football club, read chief executive and chairman at a publicly listed company. Allowing both to leave at the same time is dangerous, particularly when their combined leadership has been so successful. Where was the succession planning that didn’t let that happen? And what happened to the board’s oversight of the career decisions of its two most important executives? How many companies have lost their chairman and chief executive at exactly the same time and replaced both with great success?
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I think you're being a little bit unfair (and I'm an ABU guy!) - it's hard to argue that anyone else without Ferguson's backing would have lasted this long. He inherited a title-winning team, strengthened it with a huge signing in Mata, and can't even guarantee Europa League football. Top teams have higher standards - it's as if he went to a multi-national company earning billions in profit and managed to make a loss in his first 10 months. He was given tens of millions of pounds to strengthen the side, and his acquisitions have been disasters - Fellani for 30 million?
Bluntly, he didn't do much right , and the collective failures damned him. The league position was the culmination of those.
Once again ah not seeing any correlation between the quote and yuh statement.
Then stop reading with yuh eyes closed. Doh worry Man United is the pinnacle of decency and tradition. This was level by Man United, but everyone hanging Moyes out to dry. How many people said this was not a good fit, but yet they still persisted because Ferguson is all knowing.
Another flop by AF, but they not running that in the media though as this is all on Moyes.
But yeah Moyes is shyte
i want to see who the next coach is...giggs will bring the feel good factor but for how long? on talksport they talking about the class of 92 as if they is some band of gunslingers riding into town to shoot the injuns van gaal will be good, but he ent available until july, klopp ruled himself out, charlton ent want mourinho, pep good at bayern but i feel if he win the cl and the dfb-pokal he might feel he need new challenges...and trust me, that man u job is a big challenge b/c is real players need replacing. getting in shaw and perhaps cavani will be a good start
lol, dey really say how the fans of Chelsea, Liverpool and City were the happiest at Moyes Hiring and the most upset by his firing..
I wonder why?>
Who upset?
I just point out Man United Hypocrisy. We beating Man United inspite of the Manager.
Quote from: fari on April 24, 2014, 07:45:01 PM
It was just recently revealed that SAF want the new coach to be hired for a three year period and then Giggs wil take over. This will not end well and I there will be serious turmoil for years to come. I now understand why Jose was not hired because this class of 92 would have been put in check.
As for Klopp, he is saying the right things, by showing loyalty to BVB, but I think in a subtle way he is asking the Glazers 'How all yuh eh call me yet?"
BVB has become and will continue to be feeder system for Bayern which actually exemplifies Klopp's coaching ability.
Van Gaal is a good choice, but I think Klopp's age, ability and charisma will be a perfect fit for Man-U.
On a side note, if the class of 92 throwing dey hat in the coaching ring, I wonder why Yorke eh do the same.
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Fergie should be happy his continued input has been "entertained" ...
Quote from: futbolfan on April 25, 2014, 11:02:38 AM
You wondering why?
Players looked happy, giggs looked happy, fans are happy...
onward to the next game.
Klopp is a nice fit...but he eh moving just so.
Van Gaal....well.....i'd give him a year. He and REAL people go fall out.
Bielsa would be interesting....but not likely.
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today are Christians who acknowledge Jesus ;with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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Improve Your Odds After Failure
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Why feeling bad after a failure is good for you.
Go on, wallow! Beat yourself up! I mean, you really messed that one up! Jeez! A new study published in The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making has found that emotional responses to a failure are more useful in the long run than more intellectually driven responses.
“Understanding how performance differs when focusing on feelings versus thoughts could really impact the way people think about their failures or the way employers think about their employees’ failures,” wrote the study’s lead author, Noelle Nelson, an assistant professor of marketing and consumer behavior at the University of Kansas School of Business.
For the study, Nelson and her research team conducted three experiments to trigger a sensation of failure. For example, they had undergraduates search online for a blender to report the lowest price, with the chance of winning a cash prize. All failed, though, as the computer would inform them they had lost (no one said science is nice). The participants were then asked to focus on either their emotions, or on a cognitive response, such as rationalizing why they didn’t win. For the next test, the group who had focused on their emotions exerted more effort—that is, they tried harder next time.
It does sound surprising, as we’ve been taught that calming down and gaining mastery over our feelings is useful in many situations. Still, Nelson noted in the study, the kinds of thoughts people tend to come up with after a failure are sometimes counterproductive.
Nelson wrote that she could see this study’s findings being useful to “consumers employers, teachers or anyone who deals with managing failure in decision making… Someone like a manager or teacher would be able to guide employees and students in how they respond to failure, hopefully improving the way the next decision is made.”
And the good news is, if you’ve been stifling back emotions after a failure, no need. Nelson wrote that overriding that and allowing yourself to feel the negative emotions could lead to future decision-making that is more positive.
Spirituality & Health’s Wellbeing Editor, Kathryn Drury Wagner, is based in Savannah. She’s been a contributor to the magazine for many years, and she loves sharing ways to build a healthy, mindful, and sustainable lifestyle.
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“This is a fiercely passionate, devastating book on the themes of hubris and retributive justice set in an elegiac summer camp during an unchecked polio epidemic in the mid 1940s. Roth has done nothing less than create an authentic American counterpart to Greek tragedy. It's a disturbing, unnerving book that keeps you in an increasingly fearful nervous tension. This is Roth in top form.”
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In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death. This is the startling theme of Philip Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.
At the center of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground--and on the everyday realities he faces--Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering, and the pain.
Moving between the smoldering, malodorous streets of besieged Newark and Indian Hill, a pristine children's summer camp high in the Poconos--whose "mountain air was purified of all contaminants"--Roth depicts a decent, energetic man with the best intentions struggling in his own private war against the epidemic. Roth is tenderly exact at every point about Cantor's passage into personal disaster, and no less exact about the condition of childhood.
Through this story runs the dark questions that haunt all four of Roth's late short novels, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, and now Nemesis: What kind of accidental choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance?
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Bobby James
Following their disappointing defeat to Croatia on Sunday evening, Republic of Ireland need to raise their game against the reigning European Champions Spain on Thursday, as patriotic bookmaker Paddy power announce free bets and refunds if Spain beat Trapattoni’s men.
In fact, Ireland need a point in this game against the mighty Spain and this is a tough ask for them.
They enjoy being the underdogs of course, but getting something from the Croatia game would have been massive for the boys in green.
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Looking back quickly on Sunday evening’s defeat, it really was a poor performance from Giovanni Trapattoni’s men. They lacked that creative spark needed to win games at this level and defensively, they were too prone to individual mistakes.
Their hopes of qualifying are not over of course, but with games against Spain and Italy to come, they have it all to do.
Trapattoni’s team selection is going to be crucial on Thursday evening. He received plenty of criticism at the weekend for a reserved line-up and underwhelming substitutions, but will he change things against the Spanish?
As for the World and European Champions, they weren’t at their best on Sunday against Italy, but will be happy enough with a 1-1 draw in the end having trailed at one stage.
After losing the opening game of the 2010 World Cup, they are no strangers to starting slowly in tournaments and improving with every game they play.
If this is a pattern that continues, they should have too much for Ireland and there is no doubt the Spanish players will be confident of outpassing and generally outplaying their opponents on Thursday.
One thing they need to make sure they do is take their chances when they come along. The way they play means plenty is created, they just need to be clinical in front of goal when it counts.
With this in mind, it will be interesting to see whether they opt to play an out and out striker against Ireland, something they didn’t do against Italy on Sunday.
Overall, Spain are definitely the favourites for the three points, but Ireland will hope they play their part in a competitive and entertaining encounter.
You can contact me in a number of ways. As well as email, follow my twitter profile. As well as being the Editor in Chief of SqueakyBumTime, Bobby is also a Swansea City fan (before they reached the promised land).
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Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas
Writers: Youla Boudali, Syllas Tzoumerkas
Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Youla Boudali, Christos Passalis, Maria Filini, Argyris Xafis, Thanassis Dovris, Laertis Malkotsis
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Set in a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece it’s a story of two women, who live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. One of them is Elisabeth, a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens 10 years ago and now living a joyless, hung over life; the other is Rita, a quiet, mysterious sister of a local music star. When a sudden suicide case upsets the town and turns the local community upside-down, the two women who have been ignoring each other’s existence so far begin drifting toward each other. As the secrets hidden in the swamps begin to surface, they will have a chance to become each other’s saviors.
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This autobiographical film explores migration, identity, and family relations through a close engagement with a Brazilian family whose members live scattered all across the world. Andrea, a filmmaker who lives in Amsterdam, talks with her siblings and parents. This takes her back to her past, her lonely childhood, and her mother's escape from the Nazis in 1939. The question of the migratory turns both backwards and forwards. On the one hand there is Edith, Andrea's Jewish mother who, as a little girl, fled with her parents and ended up in Brazil. On the other hand there is Andrea who, like her siblings, left Brazil to build a life abroad.
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Satisfaction! The Rolling Stones become the first band to score #1 albums in the UK in six decades
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The Rolling Stones have made UK chart history, as the new reissue of the group’s 1973 album Goats Head Soup has landed at #1 on the country’s Official Albums Chart, making the British rock legends the first band ever to top the tally in six different decades.
The Stones reissue edged out young UK singer/songwriter Declan McKenna‘s new album, Zeros, for the top spot.
Goats Head Soup previously spent two weeks at #1 on the Official Albums Chart after its initial 1973 release. The Rolling Stones have reached the pinnacle of the tally a total of 13 times, tying them for the second most chart-topping albums with Elvis Presley and pop star Robbie Williams. Only The Beatles have more #1 albums, 17.
The Stones move ahead of a number of notable artists who’ve reached the top spot of the Official Albums Chart in five decades, including The Beatles, Elvis and Bob Dylan.
As previously reported, Goats Head Soup is available in multiple formats, including a Super Deluxe box set featuring a newly remastered version of the original album; 10 bonus tracks, including alternate versions, outtakes and three previously unheard tracks; and The Brussels Affair, a 15-track live album recorded on The Stones’ fall 1973 tour.
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Description: Dirigible “Akron” with ships at sea
Comment: Most likely the discrepancy between the date of publication and the date of signature means that at the time of publication it was unsigned and the artist added the date at the time of signing. Most likely. As of this writing a copy of the magazine (or at least the cover of the magazine) is on its way to me and will be included with the purchase of the art. Interestingly, about a year-and-a-half after this image appeared, the Akron crashed into the ocean and became “the deadliest airship disaster on record.” There's a lot of worthwhile reading available on the topic. It looks so reliable and peaceful here.
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Artist William Heaslip (1898-1970)
Condition Very good. Recently cleaned and varnished, newer appropriate frame.
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Publication Information Boy's Life magazine cover, August 1931.
Story inside was “Lighter Than Air” by Commander C.N. Rosendahl.
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iPad mini 3 lands with Touch ID and a brand-new color
By Michelle Fitzsimmons 16 October 2014
Apple's latest micro machine is looking fly
Now it's a trilogy
We weren't 100% confident we'd see it, but the iPad mini 3 has indeed arrived, and it's bringing Touch ID with it.
You could barely have blinked before Apple was done talking about the new iPad mini, but the company laid out its specs before zipping to price and release info.
The iPad mini 3 features a 7.9-inch Retina screen, 5MP iSight camera and an HD FaceTime camera on the front. It can capture 1080p video, standard fare for a slate these days, and houses a last-gen A7 processor.
The biggest change is Touch ID, which will descend down from the iPhone to Apple's tablets. Both the iPad mini 3 and iPad Air 2 feature the finger-reading tech that allows for online purchases and provides an added layer of security.
On the software side, the new iPads will come with iOS 8.1, a decimal upgrade over iOS 8. The software includes features like Continuity, which lets users continue work from an iOS 8 device to an OS X Yosemite machine, and vice versa. The addition of Apple Pay and the return of Camera Roll are also highlights of the OS.
For the first time, Apple is offering its tablets in a gold hue, bringing the iPad mini 3's shade total up to three (gold, silver and space gray).
iPad mini 3 price and release date
The iPad mini 3 price starts at $399/£319/AU$499 with pre-orders getting off the ground Friday, October 17 (October 18 for Australia). It along with the iPad Air 2 will be available in store later next week in numerous countries and territories, including the US, Australia, Canada and the UK.
That's $399 for a 16GB edition. Bumping up to 64GB will put a $499/£399/AU$619 dent in your wallet and the largest 128GB version pulls $599/£479/$739 from your bank account.
Wi-Fi plus 4G editions of the new iPad mini run $529/£419/AU$659, $629/£499/AU$779 and $729/£579/AU$899, respectively.
While the iPad mini 3 flaunts its new fingerprint reader and gold coat, the original iPad mini and iPad mini 2 (formerly the iPad mini with Retina display) are seeing price cuts. The iPad mini will now cost $249/£199/AU$299 and the iPad mini 2 price is settling at $299 (about £186, AU$341).
Check out our hands on video with the iPad mini 3 below:
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Watch a Tesla travel from SF to LA with almost no human intervention
Thanks to its Full Self-Driving feature
By Rob Thubron on January 4, 2021, 8:36 10 comments
In brief: It’s incredible just how far self-driving technology has come in the last decade. To give you an idea of what today’s vehicles can do, watch the video above of a Tesla Model 3 equipped with the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature complete a trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles with almost no intervention from the human behind the wheel.
Tesla enthusiast Whole Mars Catalog (WMC) posted a time-lapse clip of the 380-mile journey compressed into 15 minutes.
The only apparent intervention came when the car crossed into LA and a piece of debris “popped up suddenly after a car moved out of the way.” WMC wrote that “I couldn’t wait to see if FSD would avoid it and had to make sure to move over myself.” Additionally, the battery wasn’t fully charged, so there were two charging stops during the trip.
There was also a moment where the car exhibited some unusual behavior around San Francisco’s Market Street when it moved into an adjacent lane. WMC writes that while most people would have taken manual control at this point, they watched closely for any danger but never intervened.
Price change is pushed to Thursday next week. Applies only to US for now. One week clock will start in other countries as beta is released. FSD monthly rental will also be available sometime next year.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2020
Offering more features and autonomy compared to Autopilot, Tesla’s limited FSD beta started rolling out in October. It can change lanes, park, and drive itself to owners in certain areas. Elon Musk says, based on his own experience, that FSD is able to navigate complicated series of intersections and narrow roads.
The scenario of a world filled with cars driving themselves as we sit in the passenger seats watching TV is still a long way off, but being able to drive hundreds of miles between cities is a major step toward a self-driving future.
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El Clasico postponed due to Catalan riots rescheduled for the week before Christmas
Real Madrid are set to host Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday, 18 December.
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THE REARRANGED EL Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid will be played on 18 December despite opposition from La Liga, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) confirmed today.
Spain’s most prestigious fixture, which was due to take place at Camp Nou on Saturday, was postponed last week because of violent pro-independence protests in Catalonia.
La Liga had proposed December 4 or 7 and may decide to appeal.
“The decision of the Competition Committee has taken place after analysing in recent days the proposals of both clubs, who were invited to agree a date and decided on 18 December,” an RFEF statement read.
“It has also analysed a report from the RFEF Competitions Area as well as numerous reports submitted by La Liga, which are not binding.
“At today’s meeting, the Committee also analysed the latest reports from both clubs, who maintain their initial proposal to play the match on 18 December.”
It means Barcelona, who insisted the original match should have gone ahead this weekend, will face a testing few weeks before Christmas.
In December, they are already scheduled to play away at Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan in the Champions League and Real Sociedad, who sit fourth in La Liga.
Real Madrid will play away at Club Brugge in the Champions League and then Valencia, just before travelling to Barca.
But both clubs swiftly settled on Wednesday, December 18 last week, hours after being instructed to agree a new date by the RFEF.
La Liga, who originally proposed the postponement, disagreed, claiming December 18 would clash with fixtures in the Copa del Rey and harm the economic interests of the clubs involved.
The decision to change the date of the most important La Liga match cannot be left to the decision of the two participating clubs,” La Liga said on Friday, adding that they have a responsibility to “maximise income” from television rights.
La Liga initially suggested swapping the two Clasicos, with the first one being played at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, and then proposed the weekend of December 7, when Barcelona and Madrid already have fixtures.
Their last proposal was Wednesday, December 4, which comes just after Barca play away at Atletico Madrid.
Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde said on Tuesday he hoped the two clubs would not be drawn into a political “war” between La Liga and the RFEF, who have clashed on various issues in recent years.
“I would like common sense to prevail,” Valverde said “I would like there to be a date settled and for the internal wars between La Liga and the RFEF not to involve us.”
Barcelona, who visit Slavia Prague in the Champions League on Wednesday, moved top of La Liga last weekend, one point ahead of Real Madrid.
© – AFP, 2019
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Tipperary music duo Kyoto Love Hotel release EP
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Joe Geaney and Laura Sheary of Kyoto Love Hotel
Electronic pop duo, Kyoto Love Hotel, released their brand new EP ‘Grow’ on Friday, December 11.
Kyoto Love Hotel is the musical project of Joe Geaney and Laura Sheary. The pair met while growing up in Tipperary but nowadays they collaborate from their respective homes in Cork and Belfast.
Delicate understated vocals from Sheary, paired with Geaney’s textured electronic synths, the duo create a fresh and intimate sound with the band describing their music as “songs that you can dance to, or cry to, or maybe both, depending on your mood”.
Having received glowing reviews on the strength of previous singles ‘You Unfold’ and ‘Machine’ featuring on Ed’s National Anthems ‘Ceol For The Soul’ (Today FM), Hot Press ‘Track Of The Day’, the group have also topped a host of new music lists including Nialler9 and The Last Mixed Tape and acts to watch.
Speaking about their latest release, the duo said: “The four songs are about birth, death and growth. Each song represents a different aspect of consciousness. The lyrics often come back to the spaces we navigate as human beings. On the one hand, the geographical landscapes that we traverse.
On the other hand, domestic space and our interior lives. What impact do these spaces have on our psyches? All we know is that when we weren't here, nature was. When we're gone, hopefully, it will remain, if we can collectively stop inflicting damage on it.
Experience, perception, consciousness, memory – all of the things that make us messy, complex creatures – they’re all wrapped up in the water and trees and earth that surrounds us.”
Their EP ‘Grow’ is available on Spotify and all social media platforms.
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Editor's Note: The following is an email interview conducted with General Manager of Constant Contact, Harpreet Grewal. Additional comments added by Online Business Expert Brian T. Edmondson noted in italics.
Can you tell our readers a little more about yourself?
My job heading up Constant Contact is by far my most rewarding career role, as we help more than half a million small businesses grow their business through email marketing. I come from a long line of small business owners, and once launched my own business, so I know firsthand just how hard it is and the many sacrifices it takes to go it alone.
I’ve never forgotten the challenges, which is why it’s so great to focus my energy on helping small businesses overcome those very same obstacles. Our customers know they don’t have to do it alone. There’s no greater satisfaction than helping these talented, determined and passionate folks realize their dreams.
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Why Should Online Businesses Use Email Marketing?
Building online customer relationships can be tough. It’s hard for small businesses to cultivate customer connections – the kind that bring customers back again and again – when so many more interactions are online. That’s where email marketing comes in to help!
With the right (and it’s not that hard) email campaigns, small businesses can promote their brand, let customers know of what’s new, provide tips, offer promotions (think on-line coupons), and generally stay top-of-mind with their customers.
Brian T. Edmondson: The reason email marketing is so powerful and accessible is because of its low cost and the personalized relationship. Of all the marketing methods, email marketing generally has to lowest cost and highest ROI compared to other online channels. Not only that, but it works really well because of both the commercial and personal nature of communicating with people via their email inbox. Email marketing can be completely automated as well so as a business owner you only need to set it up once then let an email campaign run on its own.
With email service providers like Constant Contact, businesses not only gain an email marketing tool but also, essentially, a CRM. They can build customer and prospect lists, as well as take a look at detailed analytics that provide a window into customers’ like and dislikes.
For example, we can tell our small business customers the best day and time to send an email to their customers in a particular week, tell them an ideal length of a subject line header while also letting them know the optimal number of images and links to include. These insights, and much more, help level the playing field for small online businesses going up against much larger competitors.
Brian T. Edmondson: Segmenting your prospects and customers based on interested and sending them targeted emails based on their behavior is one of the most powerful uses of email marketing and why you must be using a third-party email marketing service to manage your email marketing activities. Rather than just sending the same emails to everyone on your list you can send email to people based on their behavior, interests, and actions they take with your company. It's all about the concept of sending the right message to the right person at the right time.
When you add in the benefit of highly-skilled customer support staff, it’s pretty clear the advantages that email marketing can bring.
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What Are Some Ways Businesses Can Use Constant Contact as Part of their Email Marketing Strategy?
Email marketing is easy to use and delivers results. It’s simple really: businesses need to keep in touch with current and prospective customers to stay top of mind…but they typically don’t have a lot of time to do that. Email marketing is a great way to connect with customers, build long-term relationships, and also find new customers. It is not only easy but a really affordable way to market your business.
Brian T. Edmondson: Because of its low costs and high effectiveness I recommend you try to email your list at least one time a week with some type of valuable content and and offer for them to act on. If you subscribe to some major brands you'll notice they send emails on a daily basis or multiple times a week.
An email isn’t just an email; it’s the starting point and connection to social, mobile, and a variety of other marketing tactics. Many online relationships begin on a social networking site like Facebook or Twitter, and while these networks are great at sharing your presence with your existing audience and potential new customers, you don’t have much control over who sees your updates.
Brian T. Edmondson: Email marketing should be a part of a multi-pronged approach to your online marketing. You should be cross promoting across all of your marketing channels, including email list, social media platforms, website, etc. With the technology available today you can be seen in multiple places across the web that your prospects and customers visit so you always have top of mind awareness.
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See Also: 5 Easy Ways to Get More Email Subscribers and Build Your List
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Marriage not as good as ‘Predator’, say men
MARRYING a woman who shares your hopes and dreams is still nowhere near as good as Predator, according to a new survey.
A poll of husbands for Bride magazine found that 80% rated the Schwarzenegger epic had higher levels of excitement and intellectual stimulation than a lifetime commitment to some woman.
Nathan Muir, from York, said: “The scene where Arnie looks up from the body of a pal who’s just had several major organs vaporized by a seven foot skull-collecting merchant of death and says – ‘if it bleeds, we can kill it’, sums up what it is to be a man.
“Don’t get me wrong – I like my wife. But I love Predator.”
Tom Logan, from Finsbury Park, went so far as to have a Predator-themed wedding to wife Jane in July 2001.
He said: “When Jane’s father walked her down the aisle we had the Vicar dress up as Predator, leap out from behind the altar and pretend to slit her throat.
“Fake blood sprayed everywhere and her dad fell to the floor screaming. He didn’t have a clue what was going on. Meanwhile my Nan had some sort of vomiting fit, crossed herself and then collapsed in a heap.”
He added: “We still go and see her about once a month but she’s not really aware of other people anymore.”
Carling Cup Concluded Without Sexual Incident
MANCHESTER United and Aston Villa were congratulated yesterday after the Carling Cup final ended without any of the players having sex with something.
Despite yesterday's achievement, sex-jelly continues to dominate the modern game
Villa opened the scoring while managing to avoid slathering the ball in KY Jelly but United triumphed after scoring two goals without the ball being whisked away to the Borehamwood Travelodge for a spit roast recorded on a mobile phone.
A Football Association spokesman said: "It was a great advert for the game to show that Premier League players can manage to keep it flaccid for 90 minutes, although nobody can countenance United winning a cup without being sick a little in their mouth."
There were concerns the final might descend into lubricious chaos after United's Patrice Evra was seen gazing longingly at the Queen's profile during the coin toss.
But play was able to continue after the referee reassured the United captain that three middle-aged women were currently being greased up in the team dressing room.
Villa manager Martin O'Neill consoled his players by reminding them there were still many hundreds of UK glamour models that they had not yet done something disgraceful on.
He added: "A lot of the lads are young and this defeat has hit them quite badly but I had to point out to them that they still have years of behaving like Caligula on his stag night ahead of them. Carew has been a big help."
The victory is Sir Alex Ferguson's 34th trophy, 32 of which have been won without anyone being charged with gross indecency involving livestock or tarts.
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Bangladesh begins antigen testing for Covid-19 Saturday
SM Najmus Sakib | Published: December 04, 2020 17:08:30 | Updated: December 05, 2020 10:41:28
The government is going to start alternative, rapid antigen testing for Covid-19 in the country on Saturday, officials concerned told The Financial Express.
Though not considered as accurate as PCR test results, the antigen test, according to medical literature, can quickly generate results, detecting the presence or absence of coronavirus antigen in the patient’s body.
This method is being applied to widen sample testing facilities as, primarily, mostly frontier administrative districts, if not all, will be brought under the testing programme, said the officials.
The districts are - Panchagarh, Gaibandha, Joypurhat, Patuakhali, Meherpur, Munshiganj, Brahmanbaria, Jashore, Madaripur and Sylhet.
According to the authorities, the antigen testing, which will be available in the government-run hospitals only, has mainly been taken for the areas where PCR testing is not possible and infection rate is relatively high.
“We’ve arranged training for health staff for conducting smooth antigen testing and it will continue,” Professor Nasima Sultana, additional director (admin) at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said on Friday.
“The antigen test is not recommended for all. Person who fulfils the criteria to come for the test will only be allowed,” she added.
Health experts and the National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) for Covid-19 have long been urging the government to take measures to enhance testing capacity with at least 25,000-30,000 testing a day.
The DGHS and the NTAC on Covid-19, among others, asked the government to introduce antigen and antibody testing.
Taking the experts' calls into consideration, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 17 September approved the antigen testing that is now set for the kick-off.
According to the health ministry’s guidelines on the antigen test, if someone comes positive in the antigen test, s/he will be considered 100 per cent coronavirus positive, and need no other testing to detect Covid-19.
However, if a suspected patient in antigen test is shown negative, the patient will then be suggested to undergo the real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) lab testing, the guidelines explained, suggesting the testing within 1-7 days if someone has Covid-19 symptoms.
The ministry has permitted the antigen testing by following the interim guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) published on September 11.
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Court rejects student journalists’ lawsuit against being sacked over LGBT story
Apriadi Gunawan
Medan / Sat, November 16, 2019 / 11:17 am
Students protest against the decision of the North Sumatra University's rectorate to dismiss 18 students from the editorial board of the 'Suara USU' website on March 28 following the publication of a short story about a woman's unrequited love for another woman. (JP/Apriadi Gunawan)
The Medan State Administrative Court (PTUN) has rejected a lawsuit against the rector of North Sumatra University (USU) filed by students working with the Suara USU student website who had been fired from the editorial board for publishing a short story touching on lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender (LBGT) issues.
Presiding Judge Budiman Rodding said the short story titled Semua Menolak Kehadiran Diriku di Dekatnya (Everyone Refuses My Presence Near Her) and published by Suara USU on March 12 had caused controversy for containing pornography and LGBT content.
Budiman said that, based on those considerations, the rector’s decision to fire the Suara USU editorial board was justifiable, as the rector had the authority over education, research and public services.
The students should have respected the regulations and values of USU as referred to in the university’s internal regulations, he said.
He went on to say that the students had not conducted themselves according to USU’s values stipulated in Article 129 of USU Internal Law (UU) No. 15 on USU management.
“Based on these considerations, the panel of judges rejects in its entirety the lawsuit and orders the plaintiffs to pay Rp 317,000 [US$22.5] in case fees,” Budiman said during the hearing on Thursday.
The plaintiffs had 14 days to appeal the court ruling at the Medan State Administrative High Court (PTTUN), he added.
Representatives of the defendants did not attend the final hearing.
In response to the ruling, dismissed Suara USU chief executive Yael Stefany Sinaga said the judges’ decision was “wrong”, arguing that the bench had only looked at prevailing norms and social values, which he said seemed to confirm that USU and the country did not uphold the freedom of speech.
“The judges said that Suara USU’s former members could express their views outside Suara USU, so their firing did not violate the freedom of expression,” Yael told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
“That is wrong, because Suara USU is the place for Suara USU’s members to write. With the closure of Suara USU and our firing, that is a violation [of the freedom of expression].”
Yael said they were still discussing with their lawyers about further legal action.
The rector fired the 18 members of the Suara USU editorial board based on a Decree No. 13.19 2019, arguing that the student website had distributed pornographic content by publishing a short story about a lesbian's unrequited love on March 12. (ami)
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August 23, 2014 | Politics
PPA Chieftain Lampoons Kalu For Attacking Orji
By Nnaji Obed Asiegbu
Factional deputy national chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance(PPA), Ogbuishi Benjamin Oborota, has described the recent press attack by former Abia State governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, on incumbent Governor Theodore Orji as “myopic and an afterthought”.
Reacting to Kalu's description of Orji as a chameleon, Oborota said the write up was “an expose to the shallowness of the former governor who maintained a chief of staff for eight years without discovering him.”
He said it was disappointing that someone who prides himself as a master strategist could not uncover a chameleon in his cabinet for eight years, to the extent that he would recommend a chameleon to succeed him as governor. “This shows the daftness of the master strategist, and further confirms that his writings might actually have been authored by surrogates as suspected in several quarters,” he added.
He said that Kalu's claim that he never knew the true nature of Orji was false because all persons who had any business to do in Abia State when the former governor held sway knew that the state would have collapsed on Kalu's head but for the then versatile chief of state, who is the current governor.
The PPA deputy chairman said that under Kalu, Abia State had descended to such decay that merit was thrown overboard in favour of “mamacracy where allegiance to the former governor's mother determined progress in appointment and the award of contracts.”
He maintained that during the years between 1999 and 2007, Abia was under siege where governance was turned into a family business.
Oborota said that the assumption of office in 2007 by Orji staved the trend of political migration of Abians who had fled intimidation, kidnap, economic strangulation and assassinations to Abuja and Lagos.
He noted that Kalu fell out with Orji when his failed attempt to corner the state's monthly allocation was resisted by the latter, “which resulted in the unprecedented query of a sitting governor by a political party.”
He expressed surprise at Kalu's blind claim that Abia had lagged behind during Orji's tenure, wondering when last the former governor visited the state.
He urged Kalu to visit Umuahia with the view to marvelling at the great transformation of the city centre where the dilapidated main market, auto spare parts market and the industrial estate he had ignored for eight years have been relocated and modernised, creating space for these massive developments currently ongoing.
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May 6, 2013 | Business & Finance
EU Regulator Takes Aim At Google Over Apple Mobile Patent Lawsuit
Source: thewillnigeria.com
The European Commission said it believed Motorola Mobility, a unit of Google, was abusing its market position by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany over patents essential to mobile phone standards.
The Commission said in a statement it had informed Motorola Mobility of its preliminary view in a charge sheet known as a statement of objections.
The Commission said injunctions could be used to combat patent infringements, but that was not the case where a potential licensee was prepared to agree on licensing terms.
"I think that companies should spend their time innovating and competing on the merits of the products they offer - not misusing their intellectual property rights to hold up competitors to the detriment of innovation and consumer choice," Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.
Almunia said earlier this year that regulators were considering charging more firms with anti-competitive practices in using injunctions to prevent rivals using their patents rather than negotiating fair fees.
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Businesses urged to have say on Tees Valley Freeport bid
Liz Truss visited Teesside and met with Mayor Houchen to discuss Freeports
NORTH-East businesses and industry are being urged to have their say on the Freeport bid being developed for the region, whether or not they depend on the River Tees.
The appeal comes following last week's announcement that the Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen is spearheading a comprehensive bid for a Freeport in the Tees Valley.
Freeport bid for the Tees Valley
As part of the process of developing the bid, Mayor Houchen will consult with industrial and other businesses over the coming weeks.
On a visit to the region last year International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the region was “ahead of the game” to become one of the accepted bids for a Freeport and there was a “huge appetite” for the concept on Teesside.
Mayor Houchen said: “When I started out on this journey to bring Freeports to the UK, many thought it couldn’t be done, that the government of the time was against the idea and that no Government would make such a seismic change in customs and trade policy.
"Then we voted to leave the EU and had a Prime Minister who was a full-throated supporter of free trade and Freeports, who recognised the advantages such free trade zones could bring to areas such as Teesside."
Businesses have until December 18 to send their feedback on the Mayor’s Freeport plans by emailing freeport@teesvalley-ca.gov.uk
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Council to consider change to backyard chicken rules
David DeMille
ddemille@thespectrum.com
ST. GEORGE – Arguing that the city’s existing ordinance allowing backyard hens only on lots of 10,000 square feet or larger is too restrictive, a handful of residents have been asking officials to broaden the ordinance.
Those residents could get their wish at Thursday’s meeting of the city council.
A proposed ordinance amendment, already recommended by the planning commission, would lower the limit to single family lots of 6,000 square feet and larger, provided residents meet various other requirements, such as no keeping of roosters and limits on the numbers of animals allowed.
“There have been a lot of people who have had them and had them taken away, or want them but they can’t,” said Julie Breckenridge.
Breckenridge, who works as the conservation coordinator for the Washington County Conservancy District, got in trouble with city officials when she tried to keep chickens on her property — her downtown lot does not meet the size requirement.
St. George’s existing ordinance limits residents to six chickens and four rabbits on the first 10,000 square feet of lot area. It then allows for additional chickens or rabbits per additional 1,000 square feet.
Coops, pens or cages are restricted to backyards and in most cases must be at least 20 feet from any property line.
Breckenridge said she was hopeful that any change would eliminate a lot size requirement altogether, arguing that the city shouldn’t be regulating such uses anyway, but she called it a step in the right direction.
Like-minded supporters have been urging the city to consider a change, arguing they don’t see why chickens should be regulated differently than dogs or cats.
Mandi Miles, another downtown resident who had to ditch her chickens after a visit from animal control officers, said she didn’t see the harm in having them, as long as things were well-kept.
“I liked the idea of having fresh eggs,” Miles said. “We knew some people who were getting rid of their chickens, and we thought it would be cool to have them.”
The practice has grown increasingly popular in recent years, part of a larger national movement toward more locally-grown, fresh foods in the wake of the Great Recession.
The practice is mainstream enough that major retailers from PetSmart to Walmart have started carrying coops, and chicken-centric communities have started coming together to share tips and ideas.
The popular BackyardChickens.com had grown into a community of more 235,000 chicken owners as of January. And municipalities across the country have implemented various laws that allow for small flocks of backyard birds.
In Utah, regulations vary from place to place. In Taylorsville, residents may have up to two chickens on lots larger than 5,000 square feet, with the number of chickens allowed incrementally increasing with each additional 1,000 square feet.
Pleasant Grove allows chickens on lots larger than 7,000 square feet, but requires permitting.
In other cities, such as Logan, there are no explicit restrictions on chickens, but noise restrictions could limit the type and number of animals that could be kept. Other municipalities don’t allow chickens at all in urban areas.
“It’s been a pretty big issue throughout the state,” said Marc Mortensen, assistant to the city manager.
There is little research on what regulations would work best for backyard chickens, but a 2010 survey by students at DePaul University found that “most cities were satisfied with their ordinances, major complaints and infractions were rare, and the adoption of chicken ordinances has been looked upon positively.”
Follow David DeMille on Twitter, @SpectrumDeMille.
St. George City Council
• When: Today, 5 p.m.
• Where: City Council Chambers, 175 E. 200 North, St. George.
• Top of the agenda: The council is considering a proposed ordinance amendment to reduce the lot size requirement and allow chickens and rabbits in all single-family residential zones.
• Also on the agenda: The council is also considering a $1.5 million building purchase to house a new homeless shelter and various support services.
• On the Web: Visit www.sgcity.org/citycouncil for a full agenda and more information.
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Enoch moves to get engineer quote on Half Mile Road
Tim Beery
tbeery@thespectrum.com
ENOCH – City leaders on Wednesday decided to move forward on getting a quote from an engineer for curb and gutter on Half Mile Road to help mitigate water drainage issues following a two-week period in which residents worked to find a resolution on the issue.
Melanie Johnson, a Half Mile resident, presented the street’s views to the officials during a city council meeting Wednesday.
“I think these concerns are both ours and of the city as well,” she said.
Johnson outlined a number of risks and concerns along the road, including risk to private and public property due to standing water.
“We’re talking about automobiles, homes, basements, garages, any property contained within as well,” Johnson said. “We worry about fencing and anything we have invested in. We are also concerned about our property values. People might not want to live on this street when they see how our drainage is. That is a big concern.”
Johnson presented a slide show that demonstrated progress Ivins City saw when faced with a similar situation a number of years ago.
The Washington County city was able to mitigate its problem through the installation of curb and gutter, she said.
Johnson said the problems on Half Mile Road are citywide and not just relegated to her block.
“As we’ve thought about this as a street, our goal is not just for our street,” Johnson said. “We would love to see better infrastructure everywhere. There are other streets like ours, that have drainage issues. It is the nature of where we live. Storms and flooding is an ongoing issue. We have to be able to manage it properly throughout the city. We feel like there is a need citywide for better infrastructure. We think that the entire city should support an ongoing fund to help drainage issues.”
Councilman Gary Wilcken said he would like to ensure that the information received is good, due partly to Enoch’s budget ‒ but also because the road has been torn up for so long.
“As a council, it is critical that we get good information,” Wilcken said. “We can’t make a decision on what we want to do until that information is good.”
Following a lengthy conversation, the motion was made to go forward with a quote from an engineer. City manager Rob Dotson said he would contact Tim Watson, who works as the city engineer and get the process moving on the quote.
Dotson said he could have some preliminary information on the quote in the coming days.
The Enoch City Council is set to meet on July 29.
Follow Tim Beery on Twitter,@Tim_Beery. Call him at 435-865-4524.
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Dinos quarterback Adam Sinagra named top football player in U Sports
QUEBEC—Calgary Dinos quarterback Adam Sinagra has captured the Hec Crighton Trophy as the most outstanding player in Canadian university football.
The announcement was made Thursday night at the annual U Sports football awards.
A fourth-year arts student from Pointe Claire, Que., Sinagra threw for a U Sports record 3,233 yards this year to lead the Dinos to an 8-0 record.
Sinagra beat out fellow quarterbacks Hugo Richard of the Laval Rouge et Or and Tre Ford of the Waterloo Warriors as well as St. Francis Xavier X-Men receiver Kaion Julien-Grant for the top honour.
The Western Mustangs, who face the host Rouge et Or in the Vanier Cup game on Saturday, had three individual winners. Linebacker Fraser Sopik took home the Presidents’ Trophy as stand-up defensive player of the year, defensive back Mackenzie Ferguson claimed the Russ Jackson Award for excellence in football, academics and citizenship and coach Greg Marshall copped the Frank Tindall Trophy as coach of the year.
Other winners were Laval defensive end (J.P. Metras Trophy, top lineman), Calgary receiver Tyson Philpot (Peter Gorman Trophy, rookie of the year) and Concordia Stingers assistant coach Peter Regimbald (Gino Fracas Award, volunteer coach of the year).
Read more: Vanier Cup playoff structure must change, U Sports CEO says
Laval led the way with eight players on the two all-Canadian teams.
Calgary, Quebec
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Broncos' Weber is team's ace
David Polaski
dpolaski@muncie.gannett.com
DALEVILLE — It didn't take long for Daleville volleyball coach Beth Etchison to come up with a way to describe sophomore setter Zannah Weber.
"She's a silent assassin," Etchison said.
If Weber is an assassin, her best weapon is her serve. It kept Southern Wells and Cowan at bay on Saturday when Daleville won the Cowan Sectional. Weber finished with 13 aces that day, increasing her total this season to 73, a team-high.
And the Broncos could need another impressive performance from her Tuesday, when they host their regional match against the Seton Catholic Cardinals at 7 p.m.
Weber began developing her serve when she was in middle school, eventually unleashing it for the first time in a match during the sixth grade. She said the serve clearly landed out-of-bounds, but her team won the point and the match.
It's a jump serve that barely rotates, moving like a knuckleball erratically through the air and making it difficult for defenders to track.
"It floats and moves back and forth, it confuses people," Weber said.
Once she realized the skill she possessed, she began entering practice an hour early, or staying an hour late, just to hone the serve. The result is she's Daleville's first server and tallied two aces in the first four points against Cowan.
"It'll line drive to your face and absolutely drop," Etchison said. "People have a hard time judging it, they can't see where it's going, and it's something she's been doing for two years."
Weber comes from a family with volleyball blood, as her sister was a second-team All-State setter for the Broncos three years ago. Etchison described Weber as quiet and not vocal but is the quarterback of Daleville's volleyball team and earned her team's trust.
She took over setting duties midway through last season and plays taller than her 5-foot-3 statue appears, tied for shortest on the team. Against Cowan, she won a joust at the net against one of the Blackhawks' middle hitters.
"I try to do my best to stay positive and if someone is down, pick them up," Weber said. "I have to keep my head level if everyone else's isn't."
That's astute maturity, especially coming from a sophomore leading a team into its first regional match since the turn of the millennium.
"She grew up with a volleyball in her hands," Etchison said. "She has good floor knowledge and the girls know that. They trust her."
Tigers travel north
Class 3A No. 1 Yorktown (35-1) travels to Bellmont (21-14) for its regional match. The Tigers have already played the Braves once this season, winning 2-0 in an early-season invitational.
"It's hard to take much out of it, because it's so early in the season," Yorktown coach Stephanie Bloom said. "It's important to remember that the second time you play someone, it's a completely different game."
Yorktown won a five-set battle against Delta before defeating Guerin Catholic to clinch the Delta Sectional.
Raiders seek win
A completely different game is what Class 2A No. 4 Wapahani (23-11) will be looking for when it travels to No. 7 Madison-Grant for its regional.
Wapahani fell to Madison-Grant earlier this season 3-1 and will be looking to reverse its fate. The Raiders and Argylls are two of the more battle-tested teams in the 2A postseason thus far.
Wapahani topped No. 1 Wes-Del in its first sectional match, while Madison-Grant defeated No. 5 Alexandria in the sectional championship.
Contact prep sports reporter David Polaski at (765) 213-5848. Follow him on Twitter @DavidPolaskiTSP.
VOLLEYBALL REGIONALS
3A: No. 1. Yorktown (35-1) at Bellmont (21-14), 7 p.m.
2A: No. 4. Wapahani (23-11) at No. 7 Madison-Grant (26-8), 7 p.m.
1A: Seton Catholic (28-8) at No. 9 Daleville (20-10), 7 p.m.
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A Screenwriting Revolution!
February 1, 2010 by Mystery Man
I’ve been having some revolutionary thoughts lately.
And these are beyond the ordinary musings of a screenwriter, such as, “I’d love to see a nuclear explosion wipe out these ego-maniacal fucks in Hollywood.”
No, my thoughts have centered more around my long-promised, free, screenwriting book that I’ve been working on, which has been tentatively titled, The Screenwriting Revolution. I don’t know when it’ll be available except to say – when it’s damn good & ready.
How can this next generation distinguish themselves?
Let us speak now about the litany of crappy 2009 films. You can blame it on the writer’s strike all you like. The fact is, the craft of screenwriting has been in decline for years, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s time for a revolution, time for the next generation of screenwriters to step up and make their voices heard. And take storytelling into exciting and interesting new directions.
But how can this next generation distinguish themselves?
Let me list a few random thoughts and then I’d like to hear what YOU think would be appropriate for a screenwriting revolution.
Format & Grammar
First and foremost, a writer ought to know how to write and a screenplay ought to look like a damn screenplay. Some might think that sounds so reasonable as to be anything but revolutionary, but this, of all things, continues to be one of my most controversial positions. People love to point out that most screenplays are generally filled with poor writing and poor format and thus, they should be able to write like a child, too. This is one of the great rationalizations for declining standards in films.
First and foremost, a writer ought to know how write and a screenplay ought to look like a damn screenplay.
You need to embrace learning and knowledge and the joy of using your brain and writing brilliantly. The fact is, quality screenwriting begins here. If everyone else is writing like shit, that’s even more of a reason for you to write gold, because it’ll make you stand out. At the end of the day, it’s not about what everyone else is doing. It’s about what YOU are doing and how your work reflects upon YOU.
If you don’t like what I’m saying – great. I’m going to write circles around you.
Reject the Gurus
On the one hand, I believe that you should be a brilliant, well-read writer who has digested many, many guru books so that you will know what many people around the world think about screenwriting. (Although I would suggest getting those books from the library, if possible. I wouldn’t give those people a dime of my money.) Then you should study films (and stories) for yourself. You will probably realize that, more often than not, the art of storytelling is never black-and-white but endlessly grey and that gurus are generally limited in their imaginations, which is why they’re not writing stories.
You should be a brilliant, well-read writer who has digested many, many guru books.
Truth be told, I’m at my wit’s end with Robert McKee whose idea of a seminar is bullying people like a thug into accepting his limited ideas about storytelling. That he even acts like a pompous ass should be the first red flag to observers because it means he’s intellectually stifled (and thus, must resort to bullying) particularly when he’s challenged with solid exceptions to his narrow-minded “principles.” HE just wants stories to be told the way HE likes them to be told.
Let’s count three little ways he’s wrong:
– McKee wrote in his book, Story, (pg 104): “The finest writing not only reveals true character but arcs or changes [to] that inner nature for better or worse, over the course of the telling.” What a rank steaming pile of horseshit. How about one of the most iconic figures of the spy genre, and with a few exceptions, such as On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Casino Royale, James Bond RARELY had an arc. That is a fact. This isn’t debatable. We don’t want him to change. We love him just the way he is. He gets the job done and he does it with style. Can you imagine how different he’d be today if he had a change to his inner nature in every single film? He’d be a villain now, would he not? Bond proves the point that when it comes to franchises, arcs are not a requirement for satisfaction or longevity. I loved the point Ebert made in his Quantum of Solace review about Bond’s best quality. Bond is not some dumb action hero. He is a figure who rises above all of the baddies of the world and rarely lets them get him down. “This is a swampy old world,” Ebert wrote. “The deeper we sink in, the more we need James Bond to stand above it.” Exactly. THAT is the bigger point to his character and why we love to spend time with him again and again and again. Is there anything wrong with that? Hell no.
– Not just McKee but most gurus teach you that every protagonist in every story MUST be sympathetic. Then please explain to me the universal appeal of Ebenezer Scrooge. There is joy to be had in watching the transformation of a totally unsympathetic protagonist, is there not? The Lives of Others was a fantastic film about the transformation of a monstrous Hauptmann Gerd Weisler. How about satire? The whole point of satire is to ridicule the protagonist who has to be unsympathetic. Most recently, I watched In the Loop, which had me rolling in laughter. I don’t think there was a sympathetic character anywhere in that film. But, you see, that’s the point because it’s SATIRE. In the end, almost all of those unsympathetic characters got their comeuppance, which is quite satisfying.
– Who is the most complex character in the history of literature? Hamlet. And in McKee’s Story, he praises the complexities of the prince (page 378): “Hamlet isn’t three-dimensional, but ten, twelve, virtually uncountably dimensional. He seems spiritual until he’s blasphemous. To Ophelia he’s first loving and tender, then callous, even sadistic. He’s courageous, then cowardly. At times he’s cool and cautious, then impulsive and rash, as he stabs someone hiding behind a curtain without knowing who’s there. Hamlet is ruthless and compassionate, proud and self-satisfying, witty and sad, weary and dynamic, lucid and confused, sane and mad. His is an innocent worldliness, a worldly innocence, a living contradiction of almost any human qualities we could imagine.” Does that sound like a sympathetic protagonist to you? No.
What was Hamlet’s overriding quality? He was passive.
He is a character with depth, which is far more intriguing and valuable to the art of storytelling than flat sympathy. Hamlet was so brilliant that he is the only character in all of Shakespeare’s canon who could have written his own play. But what was Hamlet’s overriding quality? He was passive. He was caught inside a revenge story and yet because he was so brilliant, he was free from it. He could see all sides of everything and pontificated as much. He could exact revenge – or not. It didn’t matter, because he saw everything. He was, as Harold Bloom wrote, “a reflecting pool, a spacious mirror in which we needs must see ourselves.” It was through his passive nature that the genius of Shakespeare and his life-altering poetry shined through in ways never seen before.
So what say you? Shall we dumb down the art of storytelling to simplistic formulas or shall we find inspiration in the greatest characters ever created and shoot for the moon?
To Hell with Structure
Let me say, first of all, that every aspiring writer should be experts on structure, especially the 3-act form. You should know the 3-act backwards and forwards, and I don’t mean being book smart about it, either. I don’t care how easily you can rattle off to anyone anywhere how the structure works. I’m talking about the knowledge that comes from the experience of writing many, many scripts within the 3-act structure. You need enough writing experience in your life of shaping stories to fit the 3-act structure, of building tension, of molding that rising climax, and creating satisfying payoffs so that you can feel the 3-act structure in your bones as you compose a story. That never happens overnight.
The 3-act structure is nothing less than a cheap security blanket for the most insecure industry in the world.
But once you accomplish that, you should say, “To hell with structure.”
Truth be told, the 3-act structure is nothing less than a cheap security blanket for the most insecure industry in the world. The people of Hollywood cannot free themselves from the absurd belief that the structures of previously successful 3-act films will guarantee success in future stories. While I certainly love Casablanca, I would never tell anyone that this one script should be the model for all screenplays. How fucking ridiculous is that? Who wants to see a thousand variations of Casablanca? Each genre has its own unique set of rules and clichés. What works in one story in one genre does not necessarily work in another story in another genre. Not every compelling story can be so easily shoehorned into the sometimes simplistic and formulaic 3-act structure. There is so much joy to be had from so many other structures, such as The Godfather, which was a 4-act structure like many Italian operas.
Alfred Hitchcock was notorious for breaking structure. Many of us think back on the Psycho shower scene as being shocking by the fact that there was this surprising, scary, brutal murder that took place in the shower. However, we forget that so much of the shock in that moment sprung from the fact that Hitchcock was killing off his protagonist. We were following this woman and getting involved in the drama of her life and then – eek-eek-eek! – she’s dead. Gone. Hitch totally pulled the rug out from underneath us and we were suddenly lost, narratively speaking, by her death. Who do we follow now? Where does the story go? We’re all alone in this motel with this crazy killer! Has there ever been a guru suggesting that great horror films should follow Hitch’s model of Psycho by killing off the protagonist halfway into the film? Who says you can’t kill off your protagonist? A good long study of Hitchcock reveals many, many interesting (and successful!) breaks in structure.
Question: do you honestly think that by following formula and doing what everyone else is already doing is going to get you noticed? Consider how Memento put Christopher Nolan on the map or how Pulp Fiction made Quentin Tarantino famous or how Rashomon shined a light of well deserved international acclaim onto Akira Kurosawa, one of my favorite directors. Most recently, we had the non-linear narrative approach of (500) Days of Summer written by first-time screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber. I recall Kelly Masterson’s debut screenplay, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, was a break in structure that impressed Sidney Lumet enough to turn into a film. An argument could be made that new writers with structurally ground-breaking work move to the front of the line.
But have solid reasons for doing what you’re doing and never lose sight of the fact that your characters always come first. You find success by how the break in structure serves your characters.
So how can we start a revolution? Hmm. I’ll toss up three ideas:
By rejecting the simplistic formulas and structures outlined by the gurus.
By embracing experimentation.
By supporting each other as a community.
What say you, readers?
– Mystery Man
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Anthony Peterson
Yep – food for thought.
After seeing so many films this summer and just automatically sitting back thinking… inciting incident….point of no return Act 2…false victory Act 3 …etc. It can all get a bit ho hum. The best film I know had no character arc – just a revealling character. In fact, everyone changed except the hero.
I think even audience who haven’t read about structure are overly aware of it in this day and age. I think everyday audiences are more then ready for some more progressive forms of narrative structure.
Lynden Barber
“But what was Hamlet’s overriding quality? He was passive.”
Erm no, he wasn’t. He fronts up to his father’s ghost,he puts on an “antic disposition”,he rigs the Mousetrap to trick Claudius, he torments Ophelia, he stabs an unknown figure behind the arras, he brilliantly uncovers the Rosenkrantz-Guildernstern murder plot on the way to the UK and does a switcheroo on them, he fights Laertes in the swordfight. Passive??!!
OK, at times he disastrously DELAYS (eg not killing Claudius in prayer – though he gives a clear reason for this). He thinks about whether to kill himself – but decides not to. Bad timing and hesitancy are two of his major problems. Inaction? No way. Other we’d have a play as inert as the Coens’ A Serious Man, ie something that would never have been performed for several 100 years.
2) Your point about (a) Bond disproving the need for transformation is undermined by your next paragraphs where you write of how satisfying it is to watch Ebenezer Scrooge’s (er) transformation. You’ve contradicted yourself.
One more point; glad to see you emphasising structure. Whether it’s 3 act, 4 act or non-linear is beside the point. For maximum effectiveness you need structure of some description rather than just letting a story unfold in some haphazard rambling way.
Lee Matthias
I believe MM was saying it was Hamlet’s “overriding” quality, not his only quality, and that was what what made him the complex figure he was.
As for the second point, he did not contradict himself. He clearly allows for a wider view that has room for transforming protagonists and no-transforming protagonists. I’ve recently made the point on my own blog, The Last Reveal, that when the protagonist does not transform there is still a transformation, and it is in the audience’s understanding at the protagonist’s expense.
In fact all arcs are actually always either single or two-fold: in the audience or in both the protagonist and the audience. And plot assembly – what most people see as structure – is purely a surface operation. It can range from 1 act, through 3-act, and beyond, almost to infinity when one considers television meta-stories encompassing years of episodes. The most common feature film structure is 3-act, but ALL THAT JAZZ and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL are 5-act, for example, as are most of Shakespeare’s plays. WILD THINGS is a bad example of 7-act structure shoe-horned into 95 minutes. But, as I show in my analyses of these films from a couple months back, they also exhibit a deeper 3-part structure of character/audience transformation.
The way to look at it, I believe is multi-level, with the surface structure carrying the plot, and the deep structure carrying what the plot’s events mean.
David Nerlich
Can you link us to the particular article on your blog?
I have a 9 part series of posts beginning with this one:
http://thelastreveal.blogspot.com/2009/11/for-unfamiliar-reveal-in-screenwriting_23.html
and running consecutively through 8 more.
We as writers create rules for our selves to help craft our stories, but these rules were created to be broken. Many writers use these rules (i.e. An inciting incident MUST happen on page 35) as a crutch and never let go only to their dismay.
When I write I try to make it a rule (like mentioned before I usually break this rule) to keep about 49% of traditional western story structure and come up with my own structure for the rest. The three act structure is not the Bible; it’s merely a template that should be modified for each story.
Jason Munn
Bond is simply Bond – a simple man. However, it is the playing of the character that offers us change. The character on the page will differ to the character on the screen – it has to, page and screen are different entities. Any filmmaker will tell you, and it isn’t too hard to see, that there is a very real world of difference once we move from the page to the performance – with much happening in that process. Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Daniel Craig – the page is consistent, the screen is not. Even if only subtle, the changes are obvious – otherwise why would we have favourite Bonds?
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I believe a similar thing happens with a screenplay – each screenplay will have its own philosophy, atmosphere and mood, just as each Bond actor brings with him unique qualities. We could not force Moore’s suave humour onto Daniel Craig – or have Craig imitate Moore, it doesn’t work, Craig is Craig, Moore is Moore, Connery is Connery – by the same token it doesn’t often work when one attempts to force a screenplay to match the beats of another. For each screenplay there is an instinctual beat to be found which, upon tuning into it, should help guide the structure.
I’m all for a revolution – the formulas are tools, there to help us, not the other way around.
Karel Segers
My initial drive to start blogging was inspired by the Australian situation. Mystery Man is talking about the actual Hollywood Output. They are two very different things. (Both have a place on the blog, I think.)
When I look at Australian writing, both produced and unproduced, I find writers aren’t even scratching the surface of what is possible. They are completely and utterly ignorant of how structure works, i.e. how audiences perceive the various ways in which a story can be told.
I don’t know. It’s a vicious circle. Writers are ignorant because they don’t know where to learn it, so they turn to the one with the loudest mouth. Internationally that’s McKee and locally … Well, let’s not go there as I hear similar stories of teachers bullying writers.
So Australia needs a Revolution of its own kind. A different kind than Hollywood.
Speaking of which… Surely there is room for more daring storytelling in Hollywood. The past two years have shown us that formulaic storytelling such as AVATAR works well, but a more daring approach such as THE DARK KNIGHT works, too. (Only, the latter was a franchise, so there’s still that other security blanket.)
About McKee, I find he has virtually nothing interesting to say about structure. His approach is so bland and non-committal that he’s eclipsed by a dozen other ‘gurus’ when it comes to that. Surely, he says a few valid things about SCENE design, but ironically he does NOT deliver on the title of his book in terms of STORY structure.
I love structure. But that doesn’t stop at the 3-Act Structure. I love analyzing how writers show a much deeper understanding of drama, anticipation, dramatic irony, Hero’s Journey etc.
Admittedly, much of this is after-the-fact analysis that is hard to use when you’re in the creative zone. It’s RE-writing stuff. But what’s wrong with that? Isn’t that what professional writing is mostly about?
I do have some questions about parts of MM’s militant attack: I don’t see why people who have studied story and written it down, shouldn’t be rewarded for it. If you can afford them, why not BUY the books? I don’t see why teachers who can help writers to crack the foundations before they continue doing their own work shouldn’t be rewarded. (Other teachers get paid, too?) Meanwhile, I’ll continue to contribute to our community for free.
But taking the guru’s models for granted is like copying your favorite writer’s dialogue lines. It’s derivative as hell. First learn the craft, then shape your own voice and style by bending (and breaking?) some rules.
So bottom line: I completely endorse the core of MM’s argument as personally I’d love to see a more diverse mix of movies. It’s perfectly possible to be entertaining without copying a formula that has been done to death.
But it takes talent, skill and hard hard work.
End of rant.
Dean Spleen
True Karel… though I believe it takes one more quality and that is “to give a sh*t whilst not giving a sh*t at all”.
I know. So Zen.
Care about the story without caring about whether this story will ever succeed. When “they” say “no fear” I think they’re referring to having no fear of failure.
That’s why Gurus exist, cause everyone wants to strike it rich and get it right first time and not spend 5 years on a dead end structure they couldn’t crack. And Gurus have to have a cookie cutter philosophy that (a) differentiates themselves from each other and (b) can be simply reduced to a book, cause that is where the most profit is gleaned for least amount of sweat.
So the real bad guy in this equation is the social structure built on paying the mortgage and keeping up with the Jones.
The Gurus are just paying their mortgages the best/quickest way they know how. As script writers, a lot of us are doing the same.
Ignore that and look the other way and there you’ll see true originality staring you down and asking “you game hombre? (or the feminine equivalent… my spanish is rusty)”. Sure maybe no-one will ever make that film, but what would one rather “the okay film that got lost amongst all the other stuff released last summer” or “the greatest script they never made”. As a scriptwriter I know where my coat hangs.
Andrew M
Hey Dean,
Make some great points. Would be interested to see if you’re writing stacks up. Always looking for like-minded and talented writers in NSW. Email me, for a no strings chat about your genre/experience.
andrew@prorevolutionfilms.com
my musings – Structure is absolutely necessary in the first draft to enable your screen story to find its way to an audience. Without it your film is doomed. But how many know how to use it effectively and then can pull off pissing it off? Unless you are a writer with a gazillion credits you wouldn’t dare or your work will never get past the readers let alone into a producers hands. You have to play by the rules if you want to work. However I believe that the subsequent drafts and the rewriting are where you find the space for experimentation, finding a unique voice that can deliver a solid audience to see your film. With many films taking years to get to the screen or rather to get from the writers hands to a producers, this time lapse allows you to have lived with your story and to have had ample opportunity to inhale its essence. This is the headspace where magic happens and no guru can teach this. But with all of their teachings, its impossible to ignore the guru’s. Some do need a hard stab with a pen in places I wont mention (use your imagination), but bully’s are bully’s because we let them. Many writers just extract what they need and create their own principles to use in their work. Wether it works can only be judged by individual credits :)
Thanks all for the interesting discussion. Maybe something sparks when you put Bond and Hamlet in the same room.
Does Bond transform? I’d say to a degree. The gig usually goes from fulfill the brief to something more personal, usually through choosing the good girl over the bad girl and falling for her, if only in a Playboy magazine kind of way.
Is Hamlet passive? Hollywood doesn’t make tragedies very often and it’s easy to forget what a tragic hero looks like. Hamlet is that most tragic of figures, a loser who deserved to win. He makes decisions, he acts, but under the auspice of a cruel god (Shakespeare) it is always the wrong decision. Arguably Hamlet succeeds, in a suicide bomber kind of way, in taking the ‘rotten’ ruling class of Denmark down with him.
Jack McCallum
I stopped there. “To know how write?”
How about learning to proofread, Howie?
Thanks Jack. I hadn’t picked that up.
Now corrected.
Is this really relevant to the Aussie film industry ?
I can’t believe that idea that our local films are ‘following a set story structure and failing because of it.’
Is there a single Australian film that has failed because it was following the Hollywood formula?
Let’s look at some examples:
‘Candy’ was released in 2006. Its theatrical run in the USA sold fewer than 5000 tickets.
That’s in a country with 300 MILLION people.
(1) Was it the lack of a star?
No. In fact, it starred Heath Ledger who was the hot star at the time – Brokeback Mountain had just been released.
(2) Was it because it followed a simplistic Hollywood formula?
No. In fact, it did the exact opposite. The formula would say have a happy ending, etc.
So what was it?
The reason seems obvious – it was a story about a drug addict’s life spiralling out of control.
People simply don’t want to watch those kinds of movies in the theatre.
It might have been beautifully filmed and amazingly acted.
You could have the hottest name at the time and people simply won’t go to see the film.
So why on earth did we spend money to make it?
‘Closed for Winter’ was released in March 2009.
As far as I know, it hasn’t had a theatrical run in the USA.
In Australia it looks like it only had fewer than five thousand tickets sold.
It was beautifully filmed. A masterpiece.
So what went wrong?
No – it had Natalie Imbruglia, which at least for a certain audience should have been a big help.
No. In fact, it did the exact opposite.
The director James Bogle explained at the premiere screening that he wanted it to be slice of character – not a Hollywood story.
And that’s what it is. Beautifully made, but doesn’t follow a story. Tragic events happen.
People are sad. Nothing is resolved.
And, not surprisingly, the audience wasn’t interested.
So why do we keep making films that we know aren’t going to interest theatre audiences?
If we want to argue that we aren’t ‘theatre audiences aren’t important’, then good.
We can all agree that theatrical runs aren’t everything.
But there is no point in spending the extra money to make it suitable for a theatrical run if we know that the story isn’t suitable.
We can stop aiming for a theatrical run and aim for straight to DVD .. or straight to Youtube or iTunes download.
It could have found a wider audience and they could have saved money on the production costs.
Can anyone think of an Australian film that failed to an audience because it was following the Hollywood formula too closely?
Is that really the problem ?
Mac, I believe the issue is that film makers in Australia wish to be know as artists rather than commercial artists (that in their eyes are sell outs). Being in the arts industry for some time now I know that there is a lot of bickering about independent artists selling out to become commercial and being driven by greed than truly providing thought provoking pieces to stimulate the mind than the economy.
The thing is with the arts world, we need to make a commercial product to prove to the powers at be that we have a name that attracts. Once we’ve made that point in our career, we’re free to do whatever we like. Musicians are the perfect example of this. They release albums that provide commercial success to their name and as more albums are released the styles and personality of the band evolve in to their own – rather than what the studio wants. We as film makers must do the same, build our reputation for breeding success and then we’ll be free to do as we please.
David Di Muro
Wow this post has people fired up. As they say, “everyone’s an expert”.
My 2 cents are this:
A film is about how it makes you feel. Excited, happy, bored etc… The most successful films are the ones that have feeling, even if that feeling is gratuitous. In the end the structure is only a piece of the puzzle for manipulating feeling. A good writer will use structure (plot) together with character, setting and mood to manipulate the viewer’s emotions.
If the viewer likes the way their emotions were manipulated, they will like the experience. If not they will not like the experience. Regardless of how it is done; even by large transforming robots or blue faced aliens.
By the way that’s patented theory by me, so don’t forget to cite :)
Jack Brislee
I agree with MM’s assessment of character arcs. Many great film characters don’t have an arc, and that is what makes them great. Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness)in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” does not change. Neither does Patton (George C. Scott) evolve from a blood and guts general into a peace loving hippie. And we follow Burt Munroe’s journey in “The World’s Fastest Indian” because he has one aim and one aim only – to win a motorbike speed record. This one aim makes him a changeless character, and we admire him for his tenancity.
There must be somewhere some erudite literature on character arcs in American films and the belief in redemption and self improvement. This quasi-religous concept is in contrast to the European tradition of a more rigid society that places less emphasis on the individual.
SimAlex2000
experimenting with structure is a good thing. a screenplay without a structure or a story without a structure is a waste of everyone’s time.
I think you do McKee a disservice. Having sat through 4 long days of listening to him, I didn’t feel bullied at all. He was an amazing guy to listen to.
He was clear and upfront about what he was trying to do. His book and lecture are about condensing down the elements of story down to some basic concepts. And they work. No question about it.
He was also totally clear about the following point. Once you know these rules and you’ve mastered the craft, go out and break the hell out of them.
Funny really that you should be trying to shoot McKee down, as you both seem to be saying exactly the same thing. McKee would be the first to admit that there are successful exceptions to the rules.
scriptlarva
I have written about this obsession with rules here.http://scriptlarva.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/reviewing-screenplays-the-way-of-the-east-and-the-west-2/
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It may be mentioned that the freedom fighters belonging to Madhya Pradesh are being extended various facilities under the Madhya Pradesh Swatantrata Sangram Sainik Samman Nidhi Niyam-1972. These also include the medical assistance grant.
At present, the freedom fighters are sanctioned financial assistance up to Rs. 20,000 for treatment of serious ailments. Taking into account the unprecedented increase in the cost of medical treatment in the prevailing circumstances, the State Cabinet has increased the medical assistance grant of freedom fighters to Rs.50,000.
It may be further mentioned that at present freedom fighters are sanctioned medical assistance grant up to Rs. 5,000 by the Collector concerned. The proposal exceeding this amount is sent to the state government.
Moreover, in the wake of the aforesaid decision, the district Collector would now be empowered to sanction financial assistance up to Rs.20,000 to the freedom fighters at their level.
The amount of medical expenses exceeding this limit would be sanctioned by the state government. The Cabinet meeting was presided over by the state Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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Recommendations for malaria prevention in moderate to low risk areas: travellers' choice and risk perception.
Malar J. 2015 Apr 01; 14:139.MJ
The considerable malaria decline in several countries challenges the strategy of chemoprophylaxis for travellers visiting moderate- to low-risk areas. An international consensus on the best strategy is lacking. It is essential to include travellers' opinions in the decision process. The preference of travellers regarding malaria prevention for moderate- to low-risk areas, related to their risk perception, as well as the reasons for their choices were investigated.
Prior to pre-travel consultation in the Travel Clinic, a self-administered questionnaire was given to travellers visiting moderate- to low-risk malaria areas. Four preventive options were proposed to the traveller, i.e., bite prevention only, chemoprophylaxis, stand-by emergency treatment alone, and stand-by emergency treatment with rapid diagnostic test. The information was accompanied by a risk scale for incidence of malaria, anti-malarial adverse drug reactions and other travel-related risks, inspired by Paling palettes from the Risk Communication Institute.
A total of 391 travellers were included from December 2012 to December 2013. Fifty-nine (15%) opted for chemoprophylaxis, 116 (30%) for stand-by emergency treatment, 112 (29%) for stand-by emergency treatment with rapid diagnostic test, 100 (26%) for bite prevention only, and four (1%) for other choices. Travellers choosing chemoprophylaxis justified their choice for security reasons (42%), better preventive action (29%), higher efficacy (15%) and easiness (15%). The reasons for choosing stand-by treatment or bite prevention only were less medication consumed (29%), less adverse drug reactions (23%) and lower price (9%). Those who chose chemoprophylaxis were more likely to have used it in the past (OR = 3.0 (CI 1.7-5.44)), but were not different in terms of demographic, travel characteristics or risk behaviour.
When travelling to moderate- to low-risk malaria areas, 85% of interviewees chose not to take chemoprophylaxis as malaria prevention, although most guidelines recommend it. They had coherent reasons for their choice. New recommendations should include shared decision-making to take into account travellers' preferences.
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Berthod D
Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Delphine.Berthod@chuv.ch.
Rambaud-Althaus C
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Clotilde.Rambaud@unibas.ch.
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Travel Clinic, Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 44, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland. Valerie.DAcremont@hospvd.ch. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Valerie.DAcremont@hospvd.ch.
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Voumard R, Berthod D, Rambaud-Althaus C, et al. Recommendations for malaria prevention in moderate to low risk areas: travellers' choice and risk perception. Malar J. 2015;14:139.
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Posted on May 22, 2014 December 23, 2015 by Ken Kremer
Private Dream Chaser Crewed Mini-Shuttle Design Advances through Rigorous Wind Tunnel Tests
The private Dream Chaser mini-shuttle being developed by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed a series of rigorous wind tunnel tests on scale models of the spacecraft – thereby accomplishing another key development milestone under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to restore America’s human spaceflight access to low Earth orbit.
Engineers from SNC and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia conducted six weeks of intricate testing with several different Dream Chaser scale model spacecraft to study its reaction to subsonic, transonic and supersonic conditions that will be encountered during ascent into space and re-entry from low-Earth orbit.
The tests are among the milestones SNC must complete to receive continued funding from the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability initiative (CCiCAP) under the auspices of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The Dream Chaser is among a trio of US private sector manned spaceships being developed with seed money from NASA’s Commercial Crew Program in a public/private partnership to develop a next-generation crew transportation vehicle to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017 – a capability totally lost following the space shuttle’s forced retirement in 2011.
Since that day, seats on the Russian Soyuz are US astronauts only way to space and back.
The SpaceX Dragon and Boeing CST-100 ‘space taxis’ are also vying for funding in the next round of contracts to be awarded by NASA around late summer 2014.
Dream Chaser commercial crew vehicle built by Sierra Nevada Corp docks at ISS
“What we have seen from our industry partners is a determination to make their components and systems work reliably, and in turn they’ve been able to demonstrate the complex machinery that makes spaceflight possible will also work as planned,” said Kathy Lueders, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager. “These next few months will continue to raise the bar for achievement by our partners.”
To prepare for the wind tunnel testing, technicians first meticulously hand glued 250 tiny sand grains to the outer surface of the 22-inch long Dream Chaser scale model in order to investigate turbulent flow forces and flight dynamic characteristics along the vehicle that simulates what the actual spacecraft will experience during ascent and re-entry.
Dream Chaser awaits launch atop United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket
Testing encompassed both the Dream Chaser spacecraft by itself as well as integrated in the stacked configuration atop the Atlas V launch vehicle that will boost the vehicle to space from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The testing of the Dream Chaser model was conducted at different angles and positions and around the clock inside the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at NASA Langley to collect the data as quickly as possible.
“All the data acquired will be used to validate computer models and populate the Dream Chaser spacecraft performance database,” according to NASA test engineer Bryan Falman.
NASA says that the resulting data showed the existing computer models were accurate.
Additonal wind tunnel testing was done at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California and the CALSPAN Transonic Wind Tunnel in New York.
The wind tunnel work will also significantly aid in refining the Dream Chaser’s design and performance as well as accelerate completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) before the start of construction of the full scale vehicle for orbital flight tests by late 2016.
Video Caption: Engineers used a wind tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to evaluate the design of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser spacecraft. Credit: NASA
“The aerodynamic data collected during these tests has further proven and validated Dream Chaser’s integrated spacecraft and launch vehicle system design. It also has shown that Dream Chaser expected performance is greater than initially predicted,” said Mark N. Sirangelo, corporate vice president and head of SNC’s Space Systems.
“Our program continues to fully complete each of our CCiCap agreement milestones assisted through our strong collaboration efforts with our integrated ‘Dream Team’ of industry, university and government strategic partners. We are on schedule to launch our first orbital flight in November of 2016, which will mark the beginning of the restoration of U.S. crew capability to low-Earth orbit.”
The Dream Chaser design builds on the experience gained from NASA Langley’s earlier exploratory engineering work with the HL-20 manned lifting-body vehicle.
“The NASA-SNC effort makes for a solid, complementary relationship,” said Andrew Roberts, SNC aerodynamics test lead. “It is a natural fit. NASA facilities and the extensive work they’ve done with the Dream Chaser predecessor, HL-20, combined with SNC’s engineering, is synergistic and provides great results.”
Dream Chaser will be reusable and can carry a mix of cargo and up to a seven crewmembers to the ISS. It will also be able to land on commercial runways anywhere in the world, according to SNC.
Left landing gear failed to deploy as private Dream Chaser spaceplane approaches runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Ca. during first free flight landing test on Oct. 26, 2103. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp. See video below
Stay tuned here for Ken’s continuing Sierra Nevada, Boeing, SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, commercial space, Orion, Curiosity, Mars rover, MAVEN, MOM and more planetary and human spaceflight news.
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Scale models of NASA’s Commercial Crew program vehicles and launchers; Boeing CST-100, Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser, SpaceX Dragon. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
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Finlandia and MTU students read to Houghton Elementary kids on MLK Day
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HOUGHTON — As put by Martin Luther King Jr., “intelligence plus character is the goal of true education.” And that’s exactly what college students from all over the Keweenaw Peninsula are trying to show kids here at Houghton Elementary.
By reading to classrooms, students from Finlandia and Michigan Tech helped educate kids about the message of Martin Luther King.
Dare Mayomi, a student at Finlandia, shared, “We know that Martin Luther king is one of the best leaders in the world, even today after his death. And so, it’s really good that we use his ideas and ideology so that we can continue to bring the idea of peace and equality into everyone.”
And this day of volunteering was a way to keep that idea alive and growing.
Rebecca Spencer, a fourth year student at Michigan Tech, explained, “It’s important to give this exposure to kids at a young age because sometimes this holiday can be overlooked given that it’s just another day. So, just keeping history alive and spreading this information to them is really great.”
“You go in the classrooms and you have people from China, from Nigeria, from here, from India in the classrooms, and he helped do that. So I think it’s really important to bring that up now,” added Logan McMillan, also a fourth year Michigan Tech student.
So on this holiday, university students are leading by example.
Anders Hill, Principal at Houghton Elementary School, told Local 3, “I think they get a lot out of it. I think just the interaction with college students and seeing that they’re giving back and giving up their time, and just that whole message of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.”
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The FAA requires all commercial service airports to test their firefighting equipment annually. Testing includes activating a foam fire suppressant that contains chemical, polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS is now known to pose an environmental risk and adverse health outcomes to organisms.
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The Journey of Art - Alexander Manuel
How has the Arts impacted your life?
Art has allowed me to grow internally, express myself fully, and be open to others. It kept my imagination and curiosity alive. Taught me that there is liberation and connection in exploring your feelings then lending those feeling in order to tell someone else's story in hopes to relate to and understand one another.
How did you get begin your professional acting career?
My first paying gig was playing a murder suspect in a crime reenactment show on cable. It was a self-submit off Actors Access. I read the breakdown and thought I might be able to pull it off. Went to the audition and just played pretend. Sometimes the best acting comes from just playing and not trying to be some deep enlightened person but just going back to when you was five years old and thought you was Wolverine from X-Men and going with whatever that energy is.
What has been your favorite role thus far and why?
My favorite role so far was playing Paul in a production of "Den Of Thieves" because he was so imperfect, and annoying and a know-it-all. Plus, it was the first thing I ever did that my family and friends could come out and watch live. Since majority of my work is on camera it felt like bring your family and friends to work day. All I remember is my best friend's loud obnoxious but contagious laugh during the play and the way my family smiled at me after the play and that's why it's my favorite.
What kind of training or classes have you had thus far? What was the benefit?
I have studied at Stella Adler, The People's Improv Theatre, and HB Studios. I like researching different techniques then mixing them up and seeing what works for me. I think the benefit of taking classes is being with classmates and having people to play with. Acting is a team sport you can shoot in your backyard by yourself all you want but eventually you got to have some one to play with, play against, and learn from. Seeing others work and saying "Wow, that was a smart and interesting choice I can sort of see how they got there. I'll try to remember that for myself" then showing your interpretations in front of other human beings. Safest way to find out what you got.
What is an ideal role for you?
I don't really have an ideal role. Whether it's a comedy or drama I just want to play something my community can recognize, be proud of, see themselves in and enjoy.
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Daimler Tests Self-Driving Truck Platoon in Live Traffic
March 21, 2016 by Jerry Hirsch, @Jerryhirsch
A Daimler test platooning autonomous truck on A52 autobahn near Düsseldorf, Germany. (Photo: Daimler)
Daimler Trucks tested three autonomous driving big-rigs in a tight “platoon” formation on an open stretch of German highway Monday.
The test – which took place in live traffic – was part of a plan announced by the German automaker to invest roughly $563 million (500 million euros) into self-driving trucks and commercial vehicle connectivity by 2020.
The company, which also owns Mercedes-Benz, displayed its autonomous vehicle technology on a section of the A52 autobahn near Düsseldorf, Germany.
The combination of the three WiFi-connected, autonomously-driving trucks demonstrated that such formations can reduce fuel consumption by up to 7 percent, said Wolfgang Bernhard, the head of Daimler Trucks & Buses. The technology also cuts emissions.
It slashes the road space requirement for the three truck on highways by almost half.
Bird’s eye view of a Daimler test of platooning autonomous trucks near Düsseldorf, Germany. (Photo: Daimler)
Connected trucks traveling in a platoon require spacing of about 50 feet instead instead of the 150 feet required by regular big-rigs, Daimler said. This smaller spacing produces a significant reduction in aerodynamic drag – similar to the slipstream bicycle racers employ in the giant pelotons in the Tour de France and other cycling competitions.
Daimler Trucks calls its system Highway Pilot Connect.
“The smart, self-optimizing truck has the highest priority for us,” said Sven Ennerst, head of Daimler’s Truck Product Engineering & Global Procurement division. “Using connected communication between the truck and other vehicles and the surroundings, we can improve traffic flow and lower fuel consumption and emissions.”
He said the self-driving vehicles will also reduce traffic collisions.
A human driver attempting to brake suddenly has a reaction time of 1.4 seconds, while Daimler’s Highway Pilot Connect automatically stops and transmits braking signals to the vehicles behind in less than 0.1 seconds, the company said. The difference in reaction times should reduce the frequency of rear-end collisions that occur in highway traffic jams.
While such technology holds promise, myriad issues must be resolved before drivers will see self-driving trucks platooning across the highways of North America or Europe, said Cathy Morrow Roberson, founder and chief analyst of Logistics Trends & Insights.
“Insurance and safety, maintenance, management of regulatory requirements are just the tip of the iceberg,” Roberson said.
But the technology holds huge potential to solve such problems as the crucial shortage of truck drivers in the U.S., she said.
“The data generated by these vehicles will benefit the entire supply chain to assist in not only improvements and enhancements but also the creation of new products and services not even thought of yet,” Roberson said.
The technology also could slash the trucking industry’s labor expenses, Stephen Sashihara, chief executive of Princeton Consultants in Princeton, N.J., told Trucks.com, speaking about a similar U.S. Army test planned for June.
Labor typically makes one-third of a firm’s cost of operating each truck, he said.
In the U.S., Daimler’s Freightliner division obtained a Nevada license to test its Inspiration self-driving truck on public highways last year.
Other companies are working on different applications for robotic trucks.
Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Google a patent for a self-driving delivery truck.
Google envisions a typical delivery truck – similar to what UPS and FedEx use – with lockers on the outside. The truck would robotically drive to a home or office and digitally signal the recipient that their package had arrived. The individual would walk out to the van, type a code into the locker’s keypad and remove their package.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article misstated the level of investment Daimler is putting into self-driving trucks and commercial vehicle connectivity by 2020.
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AP source: Bills to land WR Diggs in trade with Vikings
by: JOHN WAWROW, Associated Press
FILE – In this Jan. 11, 2020, file photo, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) catches a touchdown pass in front of San Francisco 49ers cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon (23) during the first half of an NFL divisional playoff football game in Santa Clara, Calif. A person with direct knowledge of the move confirms to The Associated Press that the Buffalo Bills have acquired Diggs in a trade with Vikings. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Stefon Diggs is headed to the Buffalo Bills in a splashy trade intended to boost quarterback Josh Allen’s development.
Buffalo is set to acquire the big-play receiver and a seventh-round draft pick from the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for four draft picks, a person with direct knowledge of the move confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday night.
The Bills agreed to give up their first-round selection this year (22nd overall) and three other picks to land a fifth-year player who has topped 1,000 yards receiving in each of the past two seasons, the person said. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the trade cannot be completed until the start of the new league year Wednesday.
The deal was first reported by FoxSports.com.
The Vikings will also get Buffalo’s fifth- and sixth-round draft picks this year, and a fourth-round choice in next year’s draft.
In Diggs, the Bills provide Allen with an established wideout on an offense that finished 24th in the NFL in yards gained last season, and 26th in yards passing. Allen enters his third season still attempting to address questions regarding his accuracy that have followed since being selected in the first round of the 2018 draft.
Though Allen showed promising signs of improvement in leading the Bills to a 10-6 record and their second playoff berth in three years last season, he went 271 of 461 for 3,089 yards passing to finish 32nd in the NFL with a 58.8 completion percentage.
Diggs’ arrival comes a year after the Bills upgraded their group of receivers by signing Cole Beasley and John Brown in free agency. Brown led the team with 72 catches for 1,060 yards, becoming Buffalo’s first receiver to top 1,000 yards since Sammy Watkins in 2015.
Overall, Diggs has 365 catches for 4,623 yards and 30 touchdowns in 70 career games. His six touchdowns receiving last year would have put him tied with Brown and Beasley for the team lead.
The move is a blockbuster for Bills general manager Brandon Beane, who has avoided making big splashes in free agency or when it comes to acquiring high-profile players via trade during his previous three seasons on the job.
Beane began this offseason by tamping down expectations in saying, “I don’t think we’re one player away,” when specifically asked about the team’s need to obtain another established receiver.
Beane did stress one point at the NFL’s rookie combine in Indianapolis last month by saying the one thing the Bills need to improve upon is scoring. Buffalo finished 23rd in the NFL in points, and scored 20 or more just seven times.
Diggs, 26, has four years and approximately $47.5 million remaining on his current contract, an extension worth more than $73 million that he signed with Minnesota in 2018.
Last season, Diggs had a career-high 1,130 yards receiving, with four of his six touchdowns covering 40-plus yards. That big-play total tied for the second-most in the league, and his average of 17.9 yards per reception ranked fourth in the NFL among players with a qualifying amount of catches.
Diggs was one of the testaments to Minnesota’s ability to find value in the back of the draft. He was a fifth-round pick in 2015 out of Maryland whose stock fell due to injury and attitude concerns.
He mostly stayed out of trouble with the Vikings, making the biggest name for himself in the playoffs after the 2017 season with his last-play touchdown catch to beat New Orleans in what became known as the “Minneapolis Miracle.”
Fiercely competitive, like many of his peers at his position across the game, Diggs more than once could be seen storming around the sideline after a failed possession by the offense. As wide receiver Adam Thielen and running back Dalvin Cook also flourished as go-to players and Vikings coach Mike Zimmer remained steadfast in his desire to have a strong, consistent running game, there were only so many opportunities for Diggs to get his hands on the ball.
After a dispiriting defeat at Chicago in 2019 that left the Vikings at 2-2, Diggs skipped two days of team activities out of frustration and drew more than $200,000 in fines. After returning, however, he produced some of the finest performances of his career and helped the Vikings return to the playoffs and win at New Orleans in the wild-card round.
This offseason, though, his steady stream of cryptic tweets suggested all was not calm in his corner. Earlier on Monday, several hours before news of the trade broke, Diggs tweeted it was “time for a new beginning.”
Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman both downplayed the possibility of a Diggs trade at the NFL combine last month.
“There’s no reason — the rumors or whatever you’re talking about — to anticipate that Stefon Diggs is not going to be a Minnesota Viking,” Spielman said.
AP Pro Football Writer Dave Campbell in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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Phil Roe: Colorful Fluid Dynamics
Echos of Tufte in one of his introductory statements: "It's full of noise, it's full of color, it's spectacular, it's intended to blow your mind away, it's intended to disarm criticism." And further on the dangers of "colorful fluid dynamics":
These days it is common to see a complicated flow field, predicted with all the right general features and displayed in glorious detail that looks like the real thing. Results viewed in this way take on an air of authority out of proportion to their accuracy.
--Doug McLean
This lecture is sponsored by MConneX.
Roe wraps up the lecture by referencing a NASA sponsored study, CFD Vision 2030, that addresses whether CFD will be able to reliably predict turbulent separated flows by 2030. The conclusion is that advances in hardware capability alone will not be enough, but that significant improvements in numerical algorithms are required.
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Leaked internal Windows 10 build reveals new Start menu experience
The new Start menu experience for Windows Lite has leaked in an internal Windows 10 build. Here's your first look!
A leaked internal Windows 10 build has revealed a brand new Start menu experience that replaces live tiles with a more traditional grid of apps. This Start menu experience is believed to be the Start menu that Microsoft is working on for Windows Lite, featuring a more simplified app layout.
The leaked build comes directly from Microsoft itself, thanks to an issue with the Insider Program rolling out builds that were never greenlit to ship to testers. As a result, an internal build that includes features that are not supposed to be seen by the public has leaked. The new Start menu is very early, and its UI isn't finished. So don't judge it by its looks just yet.
I mentioned a while back that Microsoft was done with live tiles. Windows Core OS editions don't have them, and the only place where they still exist is on desktop. I don't think that's going to change anytime soon, but I also don't think we're going to see them on any new Microsoft projects going forward.
It's unclear if Microsoft intends to ship this new Start menu experience on Windows 10 desktop, as we know it's designed for Microsoft's new Windows Lite OS experience. We'll keep you updated on any new developments that come out of this leaked build. In the meantime, what are your thoughts on the new Start menu for Windows Lite? Let us know in the comments.
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Pupil tests positive for Covid-19 – sending more than 50 others home to self-isolate
A Year 10 pupil at Marshland High School in Wisbech has tested positive for Covid-19, sending more than 50 pupils home to isolate. Picture: Terry Harris - Credit: Terry Harris
More than 50 students have been sent home to self-isolate after one of their peers tested positive for Covid-19.
Fifty Year 10 students at Marshland High School in Wisbech, as well as several others from two more year groups, were sent home on November 25.
Headteacher Craig Jansen confirmed the news after a Year 10 pupil received their positive coronavirus test result.
Mr Jansen said: “The children who have been in close contact with the individual who has tested positive for COVID-19 have been asked to stay at home.
“But the rest of the school remains open and all our other students should continue to attend as normal if they remain well.
“It’s important to stress that the precautionary steps we have taken since the start of the school term has helped ensure there hasn’t been transmission within our school community following our confirmed cases.
“We know that parents may find this latest confirmed case concerning but we want to assure them the measures we have taken to date are in line with government advice and guidelines, and we will continue to monitor the situation.”
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Gulfstream provides new details on its largest and best-performing business jet
The new Gulfstream G700 jet is set to go on the market.
Updated: 9:00 AM EDT Oct 23, 2019
Ashley Garrett
OTHER AREAS WITH MORE PEOPLE-- MOVING AWAY-- INCLUDE -- ALBANY-- AND BIBB COUNTY. NEW THIS MORNING... GULFSTREAM IS RELEASING A NEW JET. THE G-700 FEATURES A CABIN THAT'S TALLER, WIDER, AND LONGER THAN PREVIOUS MODELS TO GIVE PASSENGERS MORE COMFORT.
Gulfstream representatives say, with the company say the new Gulfstream G700 jet is about to be put on the market.It's the industry's largest and best-performing business jet.Gulfstream says it'll feature, a taller, longer and wider cabin.Special jet amenities include dining rooms and lounges. Gulfstream already has pre-orders from Flexjet, a jet rental company. It says, jet deliveries will likely be made to customers by 2022.Right now, there's no word on how much the new jet costs.
Gulfstream representatives say, with the company say the new Gulfstream G700 jet is about to be put on the market.
It's the industry's largest and best-performing business jet.
Gulfstream says it'll feature, a taller, longer and wider cabin.
Special jet amenities include dining rooms and lounges.
Gulfstream already has pre-orders from Flexjet, a jet rental company.
It says, jet deliveries will likely be made to customers by 2022.
Right now, there's no word on how much the new jet costs.
Gulfstream announces layoffs affecting more than 300 employees at its Savannah facilities
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Week In The News: Detroit Bankruptcy, Zimmerman Verdict, Abortion Bill46:50
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Detroit, bankrupt. Zimmerman, acquitted. Texas goes tough on abortion. Boston bombing suspect on the cover of Rolling Stone. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
Demonstrators mass on 34th Street as police attempt to prevent them from moving uptown, Sunday, July 14, 2013, in New York, during a march against the acquittal of neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Demonstrators upset with the verdict protested mostly peacefully in Florida, Milwaukee, Washington, Atlanta and other cities overnight and into the early morning. (AP)
A thunderclap jury verdict to start this hot week. George Zimmerman, not guilty. And the whole country, working through the meaning of that. Some in the streets.
At the other end of the week - Detroit, officially bankrupt. It was a long time coming.
In between, fury and a deal in Congress over the filibuster and presidential appointees. Panama finds military gear, buried in sugar, headed for North Korea. Bradley Manning will face “aiding the enemy” charges. The Boston bombing suspect gets the cover of Rolling Stone.
This hour, On Point: our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
- Tom Ashbrook
Pierre Thomas, senior justice correspondent for ABC News. (@pierretabc)
Susan Davis, chief congressional correspondent at USA Today. (@davisusan)
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst.
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Los Angeles Times: Zimmerman verdict continues to stoke outrage -- "The six-woman jury that acquitted George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting ofTrayvon Martin was initially split down the middle, with half voting to acquit, two for manslaughter and one for second-degree murder, according to the first juror to speak publicly. She was among those favoring acquittal, the juror told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday night."
Reuters: Texas governor signs strict abortion law that sparked protests -- "Texas Governor Rick Perry on Thursday signed into law tough new restrictions on abortion, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy, marking one of the biggest victories in a decade for opponents of the procedure in the United States."
The Boston Globe: Disgust, outrage greet news of Tsarnaev cover in Boston -- "A flattering picture of a shaggy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone, which some have compared to portraits of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, has sparked a raft of criticism throughout the region, from local officials who called the cover tasteless to merchants vowing to keep the issue off their shelves."
This program aired on July 19, 2013.
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Life is but a series of stages, and 2011 was, for me, the beginning of one of them (2011-2013). Together with my colleague Iñaki Cabrera (copy) we founded The Rainy Monday. With great enthusiasm but low business vision, we were a duo working from the heart with the innocence of two very young souls. Bearing all this in mind, we needed to put to paper all those things which made us different from the rest and present ourselves to the world. Who said that Monday sucks was a way of justifying the studio’s name, a claim to individuality and own ideas, and a starting point to explain everything related to The Rainy Monday.
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It’s very difficult to make a creative piece, talking about yourself. The result was our essence. A piece without promising anything, but saying a lot. A piece whose only intention is to strip and let others know us, know who we are, where we came from and where we can go together. We wanted to say: we are just like this, as you can see. We were always like this and we will always try to be the same, unique in our own way ... Do you know someone who believes a rainy Monday is a great opportunity to create, for example, a sunny Tuesday?
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Generous donor replaces stolen computers at faith-based community center
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TO DO SOMETHING INCREDIBLE. >> IT WAS THE KINDNESS OF A STRANGER, TRULY. A MAN FROM CLEARWATER ON BUSINESS HAPPENED TO SEE THE STORY WHILE IN HIS MOMENT ROOM AND HE WAS MOVED TO ACT. HE BOUGHT US EIGHT BRAND-NEW LAPTOPS, THAT WERE BETTER THAN THE ONES WE LOST. >> THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT. THE COMMUNITY CENTER COMPUTER LAB FULL OF COMPUTERS. WEEKS AGO A THIEF FORCED OPEN A WINDOW AND STOLE ALL THE COMPUTERS WHICH AT THE TIME WERE LESS THAN TWO MONTHS OLD. OUR STORY AIRED FEBRUARY 19. THAT NIGHT RODRIGUEZ GOT AN EMAIL AND CALLED THE SENDER IN THE MORNING. >> COMPUTERS WILL BE THERE IN LESS THAN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. TRUE TO HIS WORD HE CAME ON MARCH 1, WHICH WAS MY BIRTHDAY. IT WAS JUST A MIRACLE. A GREAT BLESSING. >> THE DONOR IS IN THE COMMUNITY BUSINESS AND NOT ONLY HAD ACCESS BUT KNOWLEDGE TO INSTALL SOFTWARE, SET UP THE LAB SO IT CAN AGAIN SERVE THE LOW INCOME COMMUNITY PARTICULARLY CHILDREN AFTER SCHOOL AND SENIORS WHO CAN'T AFFORD THEIR OWN. >> I JUST KNEW THAT GOD WAS GOING TO REPLACE OUR COMPUTERS BUT IN THE MANNER THAT IT HAPPENED WAS JUST MIND BLOWING. IT WAS JUST OVERWHELMING. WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESS. >> THE GENEROUS STRANGER'S NAME IS RICK JOINER AND AGAIN, HE'S IN CLEARWATER BUT AFTER HIS INCREDIBLE DONATION THE FOLKS SAY HE FEELS L
Sometimes, something very good can come from something bad.Just ask the folks who run a faith-based non-profit community center near Daytona Beach.Last month, WESH 2 News did a story about a thief who stole brand new computers meant for those who might not otherwise have access.A visitor from out of town saw our WESH 2 News report from his hotel room and the incident prompted him to do something incredible."It was the kindness of a stranger. Truly, a man from Clearwater on business in our area happened to see our story while he was in a hotel room and was moved to act. He bought us eight brand new laptops, better than the ones we had lost," said Derbyshire Place executive director Miguel Rodriguez.Rodriguez said it's a beautiful sight: The community center computer lab, full of computers once again.Weeks ago, a thief forced opened a window and stole all the computers, which, at the time, were less than two months old.Our story aired February 19 on WESH 2 News. That night, Rodriguez got an email and called the sender in the morning."He said, 'I have an open tab with Dell, and your computers will be there in less than a couple weeks.' And true to his word, he came on March 1, which is my birthday, so it was just a miracle. It was just a great blessing," Rodriguez said.The donor is in the computer business, and not only had access, but the knowledge to install software and set up the lab so it can again serve the low-income community, particularly children after school and seniors who can't afford their own."I just knew that God was going to replace our computers, but in the manner of the way it happened, it was mind-blowing. It just was overwhelming. We're back in business,'" Rodriguez said.The generous stranger's name is Rick Joyner, of Clearwater. The folks at Derbyshire Place say they feel like he is family to them.The director at Derbyshire Place had to get everything registered and ready. He plans to show off the computer lab this weekend. The children can begin using them by next week -- great timing, because they are on Spring Break!
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Sometimes, something very good can come from something bad.
Just ask the folks who run a faith-based non-profit community center near Daytona Beach.
Thieves steal new laptops from Daytona Beach community center
Last month, WESH 2 News did a story about a thief who stole brand new computers meant for those who might not otherwise have access.
A visitor from out of town saw our WESH 2 News report from his hotel room and the incident prompted him to do something incredible.
"It was the kindness of a stranger. Truly, a man from Clearwater on business in our area happened to see our story while he was in a hotel room and was moved to act. He bought us eight brand new laptops, better than the ones we had lost," said Derbyshire Place executive director Miguel Rodriguez.
Rodriguez said it's a beautiful sight: The community center computer lab, full of computers once again.
Weeks ago, a thief forced opened a window and stole all the computers, which, at the time, were less than two months old.
Our story aired February 19 on WESH 2 News. That night, Rodriguez got an email and called the sender in the morning.
"He said, 'I have an open tab with Dell, and your computers will be there in less than a couple weeks.' And true to his word, he came on March 1, which is my birthday, so it was just a miracle. It was just a great blessing," Rodriguez said.
The donor is in the computer business, and not only had access, but the knowledge to install software and set up the lab so it can again serve the low-income community, particularly children after school and seniors who can't afford their own.
"I just knew that God was going to replace our computers, but in the manner of the way it happened, it was mind-blowing. It just was overwhelming. We're back in business,'" Rodriguez said.
The generous stranger's name is Rick Joyner, of Clearwater. The folks at Derbyshire Place say they feel like he is family to them.
The director at Derbyshire Place had to get everything registered and ready. He plans to show off the computer lab this weekend. The children can begin using them by next week -- great timing, because they are on Spring Break!
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How ‘Top Chef’ reruns became my COVID self-care
By Matthew Monagle 13 August 2020
No matter the challenge, 'Top Chef' unleashes the inner foodie in us all.
Nina Compton and other 'Top Chef' Season 11 contestants. (Image credit: Bravo TV)
Like many of us, I began my pandemic life with grand aspirations of self-betterment. After a short adjustment period to our new normal, my wife and I decided that the COVID-19 outbreak would be an opportunity to catch up on decades’ worth of old television shows. We picked Shawn Ryan’s The Shield, a television show that had been on our radar for years, to kick things off. It was rich, complex, and promised months of entertainment to keep us preoccupied.
Then a funny thing happened – a few weeks into our first-time watch, we found ourselves taking small breaks to watch one-off episodes of cooking shows. By mid-June, we had abandoned our prestigious television shows entirely in favor of Bravo’s Top Chef, a series that married one thing I rarely enjoy (reality shows) with another thing I’m terrible at in real life (cooking).
But four-plus seasons (and counting) later, I’ve come to realize something: Top Chef is the closest I’ve come to self-care during quarantine.
My wife always wanted to marry a foodie. Instead, she married me. I’m the one guy who grew up in Southeast Alaska and hated most types of seafood. I will pop onto my soapbox at a moment’s notice about the unsatisfying portions at tapas-style restaurants. I once went to Le Bernardin, Éric Ripert’s famous New York-based French restaurant, and spent ten minutes trying to figure out the weird glaze on my entrée. It turned out that the meal had accidentally been served in plastic wrap - that fact alone sure seemed like the universe trying to tell me something about my relationship to fine dining.
On paper, then, I’m the worst candidate to fall in love with Top Chef. Bravo’s long-running reality cooking competition has been a fixture of the foodie scene since 2006; since then, the show has become a proving ground for future James Beard Award-winning culinary professionals. Each season, a new group of sous chefs, executive chefs, and restaurateurs from across the world gather to take on weeks of quick-fire challenges and complex eliminations. Under the watchful eye of host Padma Lakshmi and head judge Tom Colicchio, the field is narrowed (“Please pack your knives and go”) until only one contestant remains.
Like all reality television, there’s comfort in Top Chef’s formula. Once you get past the initial chaos of a dozen-plus contestants, you begin to place people into boxes based on their experience and proficiency. Here is the chef who adds unnecessary complexity to each of their challenges; here is the one who filters every ingredient through their brand of regional or national cuisine. Patterns beget preferences, and preferences make it easy to know which contestants will make a deep run into the season. By the time Restaurant Wars rolls around - a mid-season elimination challenge that asks two groups of contestants to create a pop-up dining establishment – you’ve already emotionally imprinted on a handful of serious competitors.
Top Chef also teaches you that the restaurant world is smaller than it seems. Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago dominate the conversation, and as such, the path to Top Chef takes many contestants through a handful of well-known restaurants and chains. You quickly learn which judges you love – Gail Simmons for her curiosity, Hugh Acheson for his, uh, candor – and which restauranteurs have an outsized impact on each marketplace. As the seasons blend together, past contestants pop up as judges or local experts, giving Top Chef an almost collegiate flair. Over time, you begin to understand the regional influences that go into each community and understand what it takes to stand out from the crowd.
The result is an increased appreciation for the art of cooking. In a typical year, the impact of Top Chef would be that it has inspired me to rethink my relationship with food. Our library shelf is now littered with cookbooks from former Top Chef contestants; each weekend, my wife and I try to tackle a particularly complicated recipe from a personal favorite. We have also taken to creating lists of Top Chef restaurants in different cities, opening the door to food tourism in a way that I would never have considered before. Would I plan a weekend getaway to New Orleans so that I could stake a spot at Season 11 contestant Nina Compton’s Compère Lapin? Six months ago, the answer would have been no, but now I find myself organizing future trips in my head around the restaurants I want to visit first. That couldn’t be more different from how I used to think about travel.
But watching Top Chef in 2020 comes with a unique cost. As each season unfolds, my wife and I find ourselves Googling countless restaurants, only to encounter dozens of different COVID-19 warnings. Some are temporarily closed. Many are permanently closed. And for those that remain open, I find myself evaluating some contestants all over again. Which restaurants seem to emphasize employee and customer safety? Which executive chefs are transparent in their struggles, and who appears to be sticking their head in the sand and hoping this will all go away? Top Chef has put a face to the restaurant industry, but given that some estimates suggest that 80% of American restaurants will not survive the COVID-19 pandemic, that human element has suddenly become more critical than ever.
More than anything, Top Chef has become a conduit to appreciate better an industry that is struggling and the people who are struggling to keep their shops afloat. Following chefs on social media and reading their interviews have taught me how some former contestants are working hard to raise the profile of chefs of color in the wake of Bon Appétit’s discrimination scandal. Or how some are working behind-the-scenes to secure Congressional funds for struggling restaurants. Some Top Chef participants have launched video series teaching people how to make sustainable and environmentally friendly dishes at home. And all of them are engaged in an uphill battle to promote, celebrate, and console the other members of their community as they navigate the ongoing uncertainty of COVID-19.
This, to me, is self-care. Nobody is more excited about my newfound foodie energy than my wife, but we have translated that energy into supporting local restaurants, fundraisers, or even the occasional mail-order delivery from an out-of-town favorite. Finding ways to escape the moment is great, but pure escapism can only last so long. Eventually, I need to feel like I’m making an impact, and knowing where to put our dollars – locally and otherwise – to do the most amount of good is one of the few small acts of control we have left. So here’s to Top Chef and the hundreds of restaurants it has spawned. May I one day have the opportunity to eat at you all.
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Racism makes people happy
"The Scott Walker Syndrome" It is interesting how attractive racism is. Racism makes people happy, and covert racism makes people happiest. Voters living in a first world kind of state will jump into electing a politician who clearly wants to turn the state into a southern hellhole on behalf of the 0.1%, merely if he has a way to tap into the joys of hidden racism. The Trump phenomenon is similar, with the code word of the populist right being 'immigration'. Racism is why hillbillies can never have nice things.
Harper's campaign in Canada, which was faltering, has turned around as he brought in an expert dog-whistler from Australia to lead his campaign.
"French far-right leader to face trial for inciting racial hatred"
"Russian Army starts destroying Islamic State in Syria" From the introduction by Dr. Patrick Slattery:
"By the way, today is Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. So let’s send our very special greetings to our Jewish friends on what must be the busiest day of the Jewish calendar!"
I'd like to see an international anti-Zionist force, akin to the anti-fascists of the Spanish Civil War, be involved in this, particularly the BRICS, and particularly China. This makes sense, as China is intended to be a major target of the neocon ISIS state.
"AIPAC’s Democrat Problems Go Beyond Obama" Flawed, as it doesn't take into account there were two groups of Jewish billionaires fighting here. AIPAC lost solely because it was fighting a more powerful group of Jewish billionaires. Part of the larger plan was to create this 'loss' so parasite Israel could extract more loot from its host.
"Murder on Shuhada Street"
"Is America ready for a Jewish president? The anti-Semitism facing Bernie Sanders – Matthew Rozsa/Salon.com" (note the typical conflating of Jewishness with skepticism at a blood-pouring-from-the-fangs ultra-militant Zionist):
"Back in 1937, only 46 percent of Americans said they’d be willing to vote for a Jewish presidential candidate; 30 years later, that number had only increased to 82 percent."
If you look at the link, you'll see that Jewishness, unlike being a Mormon or old or gay, isn't an issue, though these other groups aren't actively involved in building an empire on the land of other people.
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Swapping positions with Bonanza, Rainbow Riches fell one spot to hit number four on the list. It’s another slot that has been around for more than just a short time.
Rainbow Riches by Nyx / SG Digital is a straight playing machine that has a nice visual design, but nothing over the top. Really, it looks very simple compared to some of the highly animated, three-dimensional slots that are being released lately.
The gameplay on Rainbow Riches is what really stands out. It’s a five-reel, three-row slot with 20 pay lines. Wild symbols grace the reels as well as three different types of scatter symbols that will take players to three separate bonus features.
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5. Diamond Mine From Blueprint Gaming
June Position: 5 Last Position: 265
Diamond Mine by Blueprint Gaming, still being a relatively new slot, makes a serious leap up the popularity list, moving from 265th place up to number 5. This one is obviously one that many players have discovered and enjoyed over the last month.
Diamond Mine borrows quite a lot from the number three slot, Bonanza. Although this one was released by Blueprint Gaming, it uses the MegaWays pay scheme under license from BTG. It uses six reels with up to seven symbols appearing on each reel, plus a horizontal reel on top with four symbols. The MegaWays to win will vary with each spin and can go as high as 117,649.
If we get right down to it, the Diamond Mine theme is unashamedly similar to Bonanza as well. That doesn’t do anything to take away from the game though, of course. The two similar slots coming from two different companies can even be a blessing to players who might have access to a casino that uses one designer’s games but not the other’s.
6. Vikings Go To Hell From Yggdrasil
June Position: 6 Last Position: 25
The Vikings Go To Hell slot from Yggdrasil has been available for several months. Yggdrasil found quite a bit of success with their Vikings Go Wild and Vikings Go Berzerk slots, so it seems only natural that they would create a third sequel that takes some of the games’ most popular themes and features even farther.
The unique gameplay on this slot certainly contributes to its continuing popularity. In addition to spinning the reels, there is a sort of role-playing element that has players gain levels as they rack up wins and do battle with demons, including Lucifir himself. When you throw in the superb audiovisual design and animations, it’s easy to see why players like Vikings Go To Hell.
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7. Cleopatra From IGT
The Cleopatra slot is a digital, online update to the classic Cleopatra that many slot machine aficionados have known and played in land-based casinos. With IGT’s extensive experience in the land-based gaming realm, it really was a no-brainer for them to take one of the most popular brick and mortar casino games, update it a bit, and get it into circulation online, too.
Cleopatra is known for its (or is it her?) straight-ahead gameplay that attracts players by giving them what they want: big payouts and good bonus features. It’s possible to win 10,000 times your bet. Free spins come in lots of 15, and all wins during free spins are multiplied by three. You can even retrigger free spins.
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8. Gonzo’s Quest From NetEnt
Gonzo’s Quest is another NetEnt release that has managed to remain popular with players for an extended period of time. This one was released in 2011, making it more than seven years old at the time of writing. Staying in the top ten for so long is no small achievement.
Gonzo’s claim to fame is that it was the first slot to make use of what NetEnt refers to as the Avalanche feature. Symbols don’t spin on reels, but rather, fall from the top of the screen and land one on top of another to fill the rows. When a winning combination lands, the winning symbols crumble away, all remaining symbols fall as low as they can, and replacement symbols fall down on top. Making it even more interesting, the feature will continue to activate as long as winning combos are formed, giving players a chance for several wins on just one spin.
9. Twin Spin From NetEnt
Yet another NetEnt video slot in the top ten, and again, it’s not a new release. Twin Spin slot made its debut in 2012. You can see from Twin Spin’s previous position of 21 that it hasn’t been a permanent resident at the top of the list, but even after five years it’s a favourite among players, and they are still coming back to it often.
Twin Spin is a 243 ways to win slot designed to resemble the classic Vegas slots. Fruits, bells, diamonds, and bars are just a few of the symbols you’ll see. Every spin has two identical reels that are linked and spin together, with a chance that three, four, or even all five reels can link up and deliver super high payouts. It’s a sweet mix of old style and new technology.
10. Lost Relics From NetEnt
June Position: 10 Last Position: 48
Rounding out the top ten, we have a more recent release from NetEnt. Making quite a jump, moving up 38 positions from its prior rank, the Lost Relics slot was made available to the public earlier in 2018.
Lost Relics uses the Cluster Pay system, which NetEnt introduced. This slot keeps anticipation levels high as bonus wins and extra features are revealed from behind winning symbols. Players never know what they might find waiting for them behind the reels on any spin. There are coin wins, extra wilds, extra scatters, sticky wilds, free spins, and more awaiting.
11. Hugo Goal From Play’n Go
June Position: 11 Last Position: N/A
Hugo is a favourite character that has appeared on Play’n Go’s slots before. This particular slot was released a bit before the last FIFA World Cup tournament. It is somewhat unusual in that it is a three-reel, three-row slot. Don’t let that fool you into thinking this slot is missing any action!
Hugo Goal comes along with some unique and fun bonus features. There are lots of stacked symbols, stacked wilds, second chance respins, respins until you win, and a unique bonus feature that puts Hugo in the goal and gives you a chance to save five penalty kicks. With the opportunity to win up to 800 times your bet, this little guy can add a big bulge to your bankroll.
12. 6 Appeal From Realistic Games
The only slot from Realistic Games to appear within the top 20, 6 Appeal is a slot based on dice. It’s a gambling game based on another gambling game. If somebody finds a way to work this type of thing up to three levels, we’re all in trouble.
The slot symbols are based on players in a casino, with bonus features triggered by red and blue rolling dice that can net you up to 2000 times your bet. Originally released in 2014 as a Flash-based game, this slot has been updated and was re-released as an HTML5 slot at the end of 2017.
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13. Extra Chilli From Big Time Gaming
June Position: 13 Last Position: 7
Extra Chilli is the second slot from BTG to appear in the top 20 most popular slot machines. This one also uses the Megaways payout scheme as well as a six reels plus one horizontal reel layout.
Extra Chilli has some differences from Bonanza, however. On this one, the horizontal reel is on the bottom, but that’s only minor. Here you have the opportunity to buy into the free spins feature — which, if you think about it, kind of makes them not so free — as well as gamble with free spins, whether they are bought or won on a spin. Players are first given eight free spins and then given a chance to spin a wheel which will either increase their spins or take them all away. It’s possible to gamble your free spins up to a total of 24.
14. Witchcraft Academy From NetEnt
Appearing at number 14, Witchcraft Academy is one of NetEnt’s most entertaining recent releases. This slot features both a unique theme and unique bonus features that really make it stand out among others. With excellent graphics and design features, it’s no wonder this one is showing up among the most popular slots so shortly after it’s release.
There are only two bonus features on this slot, but both of them are extremely generous and can lead to high payouts. It’s possible to land up to 20 free spins, and the Element Bonus feature can add both big prizes and big multipliers to those spins.
15. 7’s To Burn From SG Digital
7’s To Burn is a three-reel, three-row slot designed specifically for mobile devices. It’s a rather simple slot, based on classic fruit machine styling with symbols such as lemons, cherries, plums, and bars. An interesting feature is the “Hi Roller” feature that allows players to play for higher stakes with the added advantage of wild symbols on the reel.
16. Vikings Go Berzerk From Yggdrasil
Vikings Go Berzerk shows some movement within the top 20, but, as the second release in Yggdrasil’s Vikings series, it has been a fairly steady favourite among players since its release in 2016.
There are four different Vikings that players can enrage. When any of them goes berzerk, there are chances for random bonuses and some wild wins. With a € 500,000 maximum win, it’s easy to see why players keep coming back to this one.
17. Love Island From Storm Gaming
June Position: 17 Last Position: 105
Love Island has a sexy beach theme, as you might have guessed. It’s a straightforward five-reel, 20 pay line slot. The bonus features include free spins and expanding wilds, as well as a thermometer that multiplies payouts as the heat rises. The maximum payout of just over €35,000 surely has something to do with the allure of this game as well.
18. Jumanji From NetEnt
Based on the original 1995 Jumanji movie, this slot is sure to hold a spot on many players’ favourite lists for quite some time. It’s also another NetEnt design (are you seeing a pattern here?).
The audiovisual aspects of this game are done to absolute perfection, but that’s definitely not the high point of the game. NetEnt somehow managed to pack this single slot with four random features that can trigger during any spin of the reels and a Jumanji board game feature that can trigger four different types of free spins, coin wins, a mystery feature and extra dice rolls. For players that like lots of bonus features, this one is an absolute must-see.
19. Amazing Aztecs From Microgaming
Microgaming let Amazing Aztecs loose in May of 2018. It carries the familiar Egyptian theme, but in a cartoonish way that shows the designers weren’t taking themselves too seriously on this one. It’s a 243 ways to win slot with a feature that Microgaming refers to as giant respins.
After a winning spin, one of the three symbols on the middle reel is randomly selected. If the chosen symbol is one of the symbols that made your winning combination, a giant respin is awarded. During giant respins there are 2×2, 3×3, and 4×4 blocks of the selected symbol on the reels.
Unfortunately, there are no other bonus features in this game. If there were, it would most likely fair much better against the competition.
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20. Dwarfs Gone Wild From Quickspin
Based on the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this slot packs together plenty of bonus features and great design to create a truly entertaining game.
As you play, you build up various options that will take effect when free spins are triggered. Players will see rolling wilds, exploding wilds, throwback wilds, full reel stacked wilds, extra free spins, and payout multipliers of up to five times.
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For Netanel Shafier, There’s Always Another Project
By: N/A | Features | March 10, 2013
It’s midnight. Classic rock is playing in the basement of Schottenstein Cultural Center. The stage is covered in ladders, drills, paint cans, and piles of wood. Without warning—ziiiiieerrrrrp! The table saw kicks in and slices a two-by-four. Behind the saw, Netanel Shafier looks up from his safety glasses, and ear protection, blows away the sawdust, and runs his finger down the cut. Over the next five weeks, he will repeat the step hundreds of times.
For the past three semesters, Yeshiva College senior Netanel Shafier has lead a team of five students in transforming Wilf Campus’s 144-seat theater into a finished set. For two hours a night—and more leading up to “hell” week—Shafier and his crew cut, drill, route, paint, nail, sand, and even solder the various elements in Yeshiva College Drama Society’s ever more complex sets.
This year’s play, “Mister Roberts,” takes place on a cargo ship on the Pacific Ocean during the final days of World War II. “We built a raised platform to make a deck, and a cargo hatch, portholes, anti-aircraft guns and PA speakers,” says Shafier, beaming as he points out the details. “Oh, foam machine? you’ll see,” he promises.
Netanel Shafier, a Teaneck native and Torah Academy of Bergen County graduate, was destined to be dexterous and handy. “At my bar Mitzva, my grandfather told me that instead of sleeping with teddy bears, I used to sleep with blow dryers and blenders,” says Shafier bashfully, “I’ve always been messing around and tinkering. My favorite toys were Legos and Knex, and my favorite thing to do was take apart old household appliances.”
His first carpentry project was a lectern for his rabbi. Since then he has built a T-shirt cannon, repaired a vacuum cleaner, made a giant slingshot “to play Angry birds for real,” built bunk beds for his apartment, and is working on a do-it-yourself arc welder made of an old microwave “for fun.”
As the head of the woodshops and both camp Stone and Moshava in Pennsylvania, Shafier led kids in individualized projects—nock hockey tables, guitar stands and jewelry boxes. Last year he won YU’s dreidel contest after constructing a huge driedel out of a fallen tree. The tools he used? “Chainsaw, angle grinder and router,” said Shafier unhesitatingly, “and yes, I own a chainsaw.”
Over the years Shafier has amassed an enormous tool collection. “Whenever I got money from the summer or jobs, I would budget a little for projects and tools,” he said. The set is strewn with all manner of conventional and unconventional gear. He has saws for every occasion and a tool for any application, except, of course, for the arc welder, which he admits is, “a work in progress.”
He has a story attached to virtually every tool. He inherited a power hammer—complete with a set of .22 caliber Remington cartridges designed to drive fasteners into steel and concrete—from a religious Jew who wanted to give up construction and learn full time.
After a year-and-a-half of studying in Yesodei Hatorah, Shafier enrolled in YU as a phycology major and architecture minor and immediately joined YCDS. Now in his 5th semester, Shafier is in his third semester as the Chief of Set Design and construction. “I made up my title,” he admits. He also serves as the Assistant Stage Manager.
Construction, however, is only part of Shaifer’s job. He spends hours researching the play, talking with the director, and with other actors to see what is feasible and within budget. After conceiving of a plan, he tries to envision the total picture of the audience’s experience, “I want the audience to get completely wrapped up in the experience,” he said. “For ‘The Foreigner’ I wanted the theater to smell like the rural fishing lodge where it takes place, so I took pine-scented car-fresheners and distributed them around the theater.” “Sometimes I go a little overboard,” he admits.
The set budget varies from play to play, but can sometimes rise to $1500. To save money, Shaifer buys wood in bulk—1000 pounds in one trip—from his local Home Depot and drives it to the Heights. He also recycles “everything,” from scraps of wood to old sinks, storing them around the building for later productions.
“Theater is great,” he asserts. “I have to learn about the play, I have to learn how to manage a team. I’ve had to learn about lighting, costumes, and the acting itself.”
When he is not building sets, Shafer has joined Bnei Akiva’s Habitat for Humanity service trips to Alabama and South Carolina, building houses for people in the wake of devastating storms. Shaifer has no immediate career plans, but he does plan on live in Israel one day. “No matter what,” he says, “I’m going to keep building and keep tinkering. There will always be another project.”
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What Support Measures Do Entrepreneurs Want To See In Budget 2021?
Last year, the Singapore government unveiled four Budgets amounting to nearly S$100 million to help citizens, workers and businesses tide over the COVID-19 pandemic.
This unprecedented support comes as the pandemic engulfs businesses in the greatest challenge they have ever faced. Many firms are affected by extended closures, causing significant revenue losses as they are unable to operate.
Despite this, businesses continually try to rise above the challenges and navigate their way through these harsh conditions.
This year, Deputy Prime Minister Mr Heng Swee Keat will be delivering his Budget statement on 16 February in Parliament.
It’s no doubt that many employers are expectant of this year’s agenda, but what exactly is on their wish list for the upcoming Budget 2021?
Alvin Ea, co-founder and CEO of Haulio
Alvin Ea, co-founder and CEO of Haulio / Image Credit: The Asian Entrepreneur
Haulio is in the business of container logistics and they support port truckers as a technology enabler to optimise resources and improve efficiencies.
Given that logistics is an essential service, Alvin said that their business hasn’t been too badly impacted. Even during the lockdown, the logistics industry was still running.
“In fact, the past months have seen an unprecedented boom with so much activities in the port that has even led to congestions, which we expect to continue beyond Chinese New Year for the container freight,” he said.
Thankfully, last year’s Budget announcements helped the business a lot, especially since its target industry players are mainly made up of small- and medium-sized truckers.
The biggest gain was the Job Support Scheme (JSS), which significantly helped the truckers by tiding us (over) in terms of cashflow as the upstream customers from the various sectors get impacted significantly in terms of their business volumes.
For Budget 2021, our belief is that most would love to see a further extension of JSS this year given the uncertainty with the new wave (of COVID-19 cases).
– Alvin Ea, co-founder and CEO of Haulio
Furthermore, since the industry is mostly supported by foreign drivers, he said that it would be great if the foreign worker quota for the logistics/haulage sector can be reviewed.
“Ideally, it should sit under a separate category instead of the services sector due to the nature of the business and the higher difficulty in acquiring local workers, as compared to other industries in the same sector,” he suggested.
He also expects the manpower crunch in Singapore to continue for the year ahead. Therefore, he hopes that the government will allocate more funding for training, as well as the driving of digitalisation for logistics.
“The average age of local drivers is at 50 years old. The lack of local drivers is a major factor, and our view is to reposition the role of the container truck driver by empowering them to do more through technology,” he added.
On that note, he also hopes to see more monetary and non-monetary early support to push for digitalisation among SMEs.
“As a logistics tech startup, we have seen the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the adoption of technology. For example, cheque payments have reduced considerably, (as many) move towards digital options like PayNow (instead),” said Alvin.
“We hope to see digitalisation being pushed in areas such as fleet management as well.”
Rishabh Singhvi, co-founder of WhyQ
Rishabh Singhvi (left) and Varun Saraf (right), co-founders of WhyQ / Image Credit: The Asian Entrepreneur
According to homegrown hawker food delivery platform WhyQ, it received “special permission” from the National Environment Agency (NEA) to operate at hawker centres when dine-in was banned in Singapore.
“At one point, we were generating over 80 per cent of a few of our hawker partners’ daily sales,” said Rishabh.
With such “high demand” during the pandemic, it even had to double its delivery courier and hawker captain fleet from 500 to 1,000.
Thanks to this surge, WhyQ did not have to resort to retrench workers or impose salary freezes. The JSS provided WhyQ with wage support to help them retain, and even expand, their team.
They also took advantage of the SG Traineeship programme to hire six trainees.
As a growing startup, WhyQ has had to keep our operations nimble and cost structures low. Hence, we may not always have the resources to expand our team rapidly even as we grow.
With the SG United Traineeship programme, we are able to welcome new trainees to help us with our expansion plans. It has been a win-win for us and the trainees, where we provide them opportunities to explore a career in the F&B logistics industry, while they each bring valuable skillsets from their respective fields to contribute as valuable members of our teams.
– Rishabh Singhvi, co-founder of WhyQ
For Budget 2021, Rishabh hopes to see continued support for small, local businesses to hire more Singaporeans through such schemes.
He also shared that through the NEA grant, each hawker was given S$1,000 as long as they could show proof of working with a delivery service.
WhyQ thus digitised the entire onboarding process for hawkers and made it easy for them to download invoices and contracts through their platform so they can claim the grant.
A total of over 1,500 hawkers were able to claim it through WhyQ.
“With many of our hawker partners hit hard by the fall in walk-in sales, we hope to see more measures targeted at helping small food businesses like hawkers on their paths to digitisation,” said Rishabh.
“(This can) come in the form of incentives for hawkers to transit their businesses online or adopt smart solutions that would ease daily operations and ensure the longevity of their businesses.”
Vincent Xue, co-founder and CEO of WEBUY
Vincent Xue (in pink shirt) with WEBUY team / Image Credit: WEBUY
Founded by ezbuy’s ex-co-founder, social commerce firm WEBUY focuses mainly on providing customers with daily necessities and groceries so they weren’t too badly impacted by the pandemic.
“Instead, through our platform, we saw how other businesses were badly affected due to the break in the supply chain. (They) relied on WEBUY to open up other avenues for their business model to thrive,” said Vincent.
“Both our international and local suppliers who catered to selling their products to large restaurants in the region saw an opportunity to diversify their customer base to include the everyday customer.”
Thankfully, just as the pandemic started, WEBUY had just ended its Series A funding of US$6 million. This fresh injection of funds helped them to retain all its staff and “grow the business threefold in 2020,” said Vincent.
“Due to the spike in e-commerce sales for daily necessities, WEBUY grew its team and its capabilities through the mobile app to aid both customers and clients in order to fully maximise the experience and opportunity.”
According to Vincent, the past Budget support measures was “enough” to help them tide through difficult times by cutting down on their expenses.
For one, it allowed their clients from the traditional F&B sector to find digital avenues so they can be aligned with Singapore’s digital transformation roadmap.
With Budget 2021, we understood that monetary aid measures were being rolled out as the first line of action. However, due to recent changes in employment regulations, we are hoping that support measures will allow a lax in foreign hires.
Although unemployment levels in Singapore have been recorded as being the lowest in recent years, we do see that hiring a diverse team of people changes the way we grow our business and for our future expansions.
– Vincent Xue, co-founder and CEO of WEBUY
He added that he hopes that the government will work in tandem with local businesses to better understand their pain points with regards to hiring and business flow.
Kenny Choy, co-founder of Sqkii
Kenny Choy, co-founder of Sqkii / Image Credit: Sqkii
Prior to COVID-19, Sqkii had identified 2020 as the year to kickstart its expansion into the wider Asia market.
“Even before the year started, we had secured multiple projects in Singapore and beyond. But as soon as the pandemic hits us, almost all of these projects were put to a halt.”
“Our revenue for the month of April dropped to S$0 for the very first time,” shared Kenny.
Needless to say, the pandemic forced them to rethink their business strategy.
He noted that as social distancing is expected to become a norm and air travel expected to rebound in the years ahead, the expansion or even resumption of a viral physical activation would have to take a backseat indefinitely.
Sqkii knew they had to quickly adapt to the ‘new normal’. In early March last year, they planned a new digital strategy by revamping their gamification approach.
“Since then, we had developed six new games and initiatives, of which four had been successfully monetised,” said Kenny.
“Essentially, we took advantage of the situation where most brands are looking to shift their marketing efforts online and that consumers are seeking for alternative entertainment (and gaming) sources because of the restrictions in air travel.”
“This combination of factors allows the kind of modified gamification services that we provide to shine through as it is a great way to engage bored consumers while driving marketing objectives in a fun way that helps brands stand out from the highly competitive digital landscape.”
By the fourth quarter of 2020, Sqkii had increased their headcount by over 50 per cent and their revenues have also bounced back to pre-COVID levels.
The SGUnited traineeship programme has encouraged a lean startup like us to expand our local team at a quicker pace than we had originally planned. In fact, we have been very pleased with the trainees we had hired and have every intention to convert them full-time after the traineeship programme has lapsed.
Through this experience, I believe an extension of this programme or even a watered-down version would benefit both prospective employees and small-time employers tremendously as they continue to manoeuvre out of this highly uncertain landscape.
He added that Sqkii is planning to expand their team further following the increased demand for gamification marketing.
Looking back on past Budget measures, Kenneth said that initiatives like the JSS and SG United Traineeship programme were very helpful in getting them get over the “initial shock”.
“As we didn’t exactly expect help from the government, the cash payouts from the JSS came as a nice surprise. It provided us with some budget to experiment with new and bold initiatives as we attempt to craft out new revenue sources.”
One of these new initiatives is #HuntFromHome, which is partly funded by JSS.
“We made use of the funds to research, develop, market and execute multiple pilots of this virtual edition of our signature #HuntTheMouse campaign.”
The experiment exceeded expectations and they are now looking to launch the game in Malaysia.
On that note, he hopes to see more support measures that can help local companies expand overseas despite the prolonged travel restrictions for Budget 2021.
William Chin, founder and CEO of Mummys Market
William Chin, founder and CEO of Mummys Market / Image Credit: Mummys Market
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the entire MICE industry, but Mummy’s Market has turned the crisis into an opportunity.
It accelerated its seven-year plan to one year, seeking out alternative channels to continue catering to customers.
“We shifted our business from the MICE sector towards the digital space to launch Singapore’s largest online baby fair by mid-May 2020. This garnered around S$5.8 million in gross merchandise revenue,” said William.
“Besides the e-commerce platform, we also brought our operations back offline and launched our first-ever physical retail store at Suntec City.”
When it became apparent that they would no longer be able to do offline events, Mummys Market decided to re-skill existing staff instead of retrenching them.
“We (got) our existing team to pivot their skillsets to focus on new areas, and upskill to pick up any necessary skills required for such a transition.”
For instance, the sales team moved from selling exhibition spaces to become category managers, working on acquiring content such as listings and deals, and doubling up as customer service support for mothers.
The marketing team were also given a crash course on digital performance strategies and tactics to adapt to the new direction.
Beyond retaining their staff, Mummys Market actually hired new staff, particularly those that have been retrenched from other affected industries, to help meet increased demands and needs from the new platforms.
In the past Budgets, the government cushioned the employment rate dip with JSS, which we have benefited from. The introduction of the Jobs Growth Incentive also helped to encourage companies like ours that are either growing or pivoting forward to be able to take a leap that would otherwise have been too risky during this volatile period.
Enterprise Singapore has also been very supportive, opening their doors even wider during the initial phase of the pandemic to provide their support in establishing business continuity plans.
– William Chin, founder and CEO of Mummy’s Market
Commenting on the upcoming Budget, William said that he is optimistic that whatever support measures that will be unveiled will be helpful for businesses, as per previous Budget announcements.
“No matter what developments may come, my greatest wish is for Singapore to recover and for us to return to normalcy as soon as we can,” he summed up.
Jaslyn Chan, Chief Growth Officer of IUIGA
Jaslyn Chan, Chief Growth Officer of IUIGA / Image Credit: IUIGA
While retail has been badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, Jaslyn observed an interesting effect. Having adopted an omni-channel business model, IUIGA actually saw a positive impact to its digital-first approach.
“Daily online retail traffic went up almost four times in comparison to regular brick-and-mortar operations in Singapore, particularly during April’s circuit breaker.”
She also observed that physical retail experiences evolved during the pandemic, so she sees it as an opportunity to “set a new tone in how everyday consumers can connect with the buying experience.”
This led to the launch of IUIGA’s first furniture-retail experience store in August last year, which represents their growing confidence in reimagining the future of retail.
2020’s Budget support measures have been helpful to bridge traditional businesses in their transition to becoming more digitally connected businesses.
For IUIGA, the measures had a complementary impact as our business model is already digital-first in principle and mechanism. This enabled us to use the support measures in more prudent areas like cashflow management. Likewise, malls offered extended rebates for occupancy and this provided a runway for our retail expansion.
– Jaslyn Chan, Chief Growth Officer of IUIGA
As IUIGA continues to witness increased online consumer engagement and transactions, it further validated their omni-channel business model.
According to Jaslyn, staff performance-bonuses were increased, and existing staff were also doubled in other areas as their focus shifted towards online retail fulfilment and online retail engagement.
In fact, IUIGA is still looking out for new hires as the brand continues to grow.
For this year’s Budget, Jaslyn said that it is difficult to pinpoint what measure to anticipate given how all businesses will still need to adapt to the developments of COVID-19.
“What IUIGA is keeping close watch is how the impacts of our interconnected financial system will cascade down to businesses.”
“It would be helpful to see how more integrative support measures/grants could work in tandem for businesses whom are still transitioning to meet the evolving behaviour patterns of today’s buyers, be it in the B2B or B2C space,” she added.
Hiring Is A Top-Of-Mind Concern For Employers
Although many businesses have been badly hit by the pandemic, it seems like they are on track to a steady recovery.
To further grow their business, many are still looking to hire despite the weak job market.
These hiring efforts have been made possible thanks to the government’s various initiatives like traineeship opportunities, wage support, and foreign worker salary levies.
However, with almost S$100 billion dished out for last year’s Budget, it is very likely that this upcoming Budget will be set at a smaller scale.
Understandably, from the government’s point of view, it may be impossible to give out more support given that the COVID-19 situation is still dynamically evolving.
We don’t even know how long this virus outbreak will last and it would be unwise for the government to deplete all the budget now.
With the significant amount drawn from the reserves last year, it is important that the proposals in Budget 2021 are designed with a long-term, prudent view to help Singapore work towards restoring its finances.
Now that the worst of the pandemic looks to be behind us, especially with the vaccine soon to be distributed, it is time to focus on supporting businesses to strengthen and transform for the future.
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All Seasons Self Storage is located at:
5148 Elk River Road
Elkview, WV 25026
Friday was a beautiful day for a ribbon cutting ceremony at All Seasons Self Storage in Elkview, WV!
Thank you to everyone who came out to the grand opening!
JD Gandee’s father had the honor of cutting the ribbon.
A special thanks to Kanawha County Commissioner Dave Hardy and Speaker of the House Tim Armstead.
Speaker of the House Tim Armstead speaking at the ribbon cutting.
The Charleston Area Alliance would like to thank JD Gandee, family and friends for allowing us to be involved in the special event.
JD Gandee and his wife, Karen, at the ribbon cutting.
admin in Uncategorized on May 22 2015 » 0 comments
Charleston Marriott Town Center
The Charleston Area Alliance presents the Elevations Professional Women’s Network Luncheon: Own It!, an in-depth look at entrepreneurship – exploring risks, challenges and rewards along the way.
The event opens at 11:30 a.m. with informal networking, followed by a seated luncheon and a panel discussion with women entrepreneurs at noon.
The panelists include:
Claudette Hudson, owner of Tgraphics, a professional screen printing, embroidery and advertising company;
Morgan Richards, owner/design of Morgan Rhea, a handmade leather goods and handbags company;
Debra Rohrer, president of Geo-Rhea, a geospatial aerial data acquisition company;
Jill Watkins, principal at Watkins Design Works, a commercial interior design and green building firm; and
Sherri Wong, chef and owner of the Bridge Road Bistro, a multi-faceted food service and fine dining operation.
Reservations for this special event are $40 Alliance members/$50 future members until June 6 at 11:30 a.m. Prices increase to $50 Alliance members/$60 future members after that date.
The Elevations Professional Women’s Network is presented by the Charleston Area Alliance with sponsorship support from DOW Chemical Company.
admin in Elevations,Events,Uncategorized on May 20 2015 » 0 comments
Loft Walk and more at Urban Living 2014 Sept. 15-19
Generation Charleston will showcase the advantages and values of “living, working and playing” downtown at Urban Living 2014.
The five-day event will be held Sept. 15-19 at various locations throughout the city.
Here’s the schedule of events:
Generation Charleston Homebuyers Blueprint
Are you planning to purchase a home? If so, you need the “Homebuyers Blueprint.”
The event from Generation Charleston will provide all of the necessary steps you will need when looking for the perfect place.
It will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton on Sept. 15 from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Topics that will be discussed during the panel discussion include: lending and interest rates, home inspections, insurance and various programs that can assist you in the home buying process.
The event is FREE to attend, but RSVP is required.
Click HERE to RSVP.
Tuesday, Sept. 16
Loft Walk
Join GC for the annual Loft Walk on Tuesday, Sept. 16.
During a guided tour through some of Charleston’s newly renovated and re-imagined lofts, guests will see firsthand why more and more people are choosing downtown living. Loft Walk starts at Recovery Sports Grill at 600 Kanawha Blvd. East.. From there, guests can walk or ride a trolley to the various properties.
You can RSVP for the event by clicking HERE.
‘Thrive’
Check out Charleston’s new business stars and vote on Wednesday, Sept. 17.
For burgeoning entrepreneurs, cash capital is the lifeblood of their business. With “Thrive,” the Charleston Area Alliance’s crowdfunding initiative, startups have a chance to receive an infusion of cash through fresh and innovative means.
Earlier this month, a blind panel selected eight Kanawha Valley-based entrepreneurs with five or fewer employees out of a pool of applicants. These entrepreneurs each produced pitch videos to promote their business and need for crowd funds.
On Sept. 17, an event will be held at Appalachian Power Park starting at 5:30 p.m. To attend and participate in the event, community members will pay $20 a ticket ($21.50 if you register online). In return, they will get to partake in beverages and food, but more importantly, they get to vote for the entrepreneur that they want to support.
At the end of the night, the entrepreneur with the most votes will receive $20 times the number of attendees as cash capital to invest in their business.
Project partners include Generation Charleston, Blue Creek Gas Company, Terrell Ellis & Associates, WV Jobs Investment Trust Board, BB&T and Industrial Bolting.
You cannot vote for a winner, unless you attend the event. To sign up and attend the event, please click HERE.
Tickets will also available at the door and cash is preferable. In the meantime, please check out the pitch videos below and cast your vote for a winner on Sept. 17.
Click HERE to view videos.
The “play” portion of Urban Living 2014 begins with Downtown ArtWalk, the monthly Charleston Area Alliance event. It is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. and features local galleries and talented artists.
For a list of all the venues participating in ArtWalk, please visit: www.CharlestonArtWalk.org. Friday, Sept. 19
Friday Sept. 19
Capitol City Shuffle
7-10 p.m.
Haddad Riverfront Park
Join Generation Charleston for serial socializing at some of downtown’s favorite spots at the annual Capitol City Shuffle
The event begins at 7 p.m. at Haddad Riverfront Park. From there, guests will walk to various establishments including Bar 101, Timothy’s and many others.
Click HERE to RSVP for the event.
Bonus Event
Brown Bag Concert
Grab your lunch and head to Davis Park for free live music at the Brown Bag Concert.
It’s football season and team spirit is in the air. The Charleston Area Alliance is striking up the band for a community tailgate and pep rally.
The community event is free and participants are encouraged to wear their favorite team colors, whether high school, college or professional attire.
Attendees may purchase food from local vendors or bring their own lunch.
For more information and for updates of the lunchtime food specials, click HERE.
The Brown Bag Concert is a program of the Charleston Area Alliance
admin in Uncategorized on September 08 2014 » 0 comments
Member Market: Improve your investment portfolio on May 31
Member Market:
By Alliance Members for Alliance Members
This “Member Market” is a paid announcement sent by the Alliance on behalf of a member to business and community leaders and young professionals.
A CALL TO RECONSIDER CUTS TO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
A joint column by Governor Tomblin and Adjutant General James Hoyer
(May 06, 2014) – We have asked the National Guard to fight our wars and respond to natural disasters and emergencies. West Virginia’s citizen soldiers have done so with extraordinary honor and courage. Now, the federal government has proposed a series of significant cuts to the Army National Guard, which will have far-reaching consequences for our hometowns and our ability to respond to local emergencies and disasters. The connection between these communities and our military services, which many military leaders correctly insist, is essential to success during times of war.
If we continue down this road of significant budget reductions, we are essentially throwing away a significant portion of an investment that has yielded what is now the most well-trained National Guard we have seen in our Nation’s history. We also stand to lose a cost-effective operational force, critical to national security and our ability to respond to domestic emergencies. In fact, the Army National Guard provides 39 percent of the Army’s operating forces for 13 percent of the Army budget. Preserving this force structure will save billions of taxpayer dollars, preserve additional military capability and facilitate the retention of highly trained soldiers who would otherwise leave military service.
The proposed cuts to Army National Guard personnel and equipment also challenge key principles established by our Founding Fathers. Our forefathers established a Constitutional framework for the militia to ensure balance in our nation – that militia is the modern day National Guard. In Federalist Paper 41, Hamilton warns of “liberty everywhere crushed between standing armies and perpetual taxes.” George Washington’s “Sentiments on a Peace Establishment” raises similar concerns. Eisenhower also cautioned against military expansion and the military industrial complex.
Many of our nation’s leaders, both civilian and military, have recognized the value of a well-regulated and capable militia with strong ties to our communities. Unfortunately, it seems some leaders in Washington have lost sight of this sage advice and have proposed to pay the Sequestration bill by significantly reducing the Army National Guard to maintain a larger active Army.
This February, governors from across the nation called for a more realistic proposal that leverages the investment we have made throughout the past 13-plus years in a highly capable, multi-mission National Guard. Despite the strong opposition of our states’ commanders-in-chief, some in Washington continue to move forward with the proposed cuts. They should follow a similar path laid out by a congressionally mandated Commission that explored similar issues in the Air Force and ultimately recommended moving more capability and missions to the National Guard and Air Force Reserve.
As West Virginia’s Commander-In-Chief and Adjutant General, we stand together with West Virginia’s citizens and elected officials, at all levels, and continue to staunchly defend and support our National Guard because it has demonstrated time and again the highest levels of patriotism and professionalism. It is time for all West Virginians to join us and show support for the men and women of the Army National Guard and their families.
We call for a Commission on the future of the Army to provide Congress an independent, unbiased review on the appropriate balance of forces, essential to our Nation’s future security needs.
The Guard is a cost-effective operational force, vital to national security and our ability to respond to domestic emergencies. It provides the same protection and service as the active military at a fraction of the cost. We must have the right balance.
Let Congress know you support a proposal that recognizes the National Guard as a vital component of the Nation’s armed forces and the best value for America. The safety and security of West Virginia and our Nation depend upon it.
SECURITY AMERICA ANNOUNCES STAFF ADVANCEMENTS & ACCREDITATIONS
Contact: For immediate release 2/1/13
T. William (Bill) Signorelli, CPP
Security America CEO & President
BillSignorelli@SecurityAmerica.com
HQ: Charleston, WV: 304-925-4747 Ext. 102
www.SecurityAmerica.com
SECURITY AMERICA ANOUNCES STAFF ADVANCEMENTS & ACCREDITATIONS
Firm with HQ in Charleston, W.Va. and additional offices throughout state and Ohio offers security services and personnel regionally / nationally.
(Charleston, W. Va.) January 31, 2013 – Security America is a leading loss-prevention company serving the security and safety needs of various types of industry and businesses in a multi-state area. The company was founded in Charleston, W.Va. in 1982 by CEO/President T. William Signorelli who is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP). Recently, the company moved its headquarters into its new building at 3412 Chesterfield Avenue in Charleston, W. Va. Now in its 31st year of operation, Security America continues to grow, add staff and promote existing staff.
• Christopher Signorelli has been appointed Division Field Manager in Charleston. He provides service to clients by scheduling security officers and handling all operational matters at assigned sites. Chris brings a range of expertise to his current position, both from prior experience with Security America and from outside the firm. Earlier in his career with Security America, he served as an account supervisor (overseeing a construction site), personnel assistant (hiring and training security officers) and marketing executive, a position that required market research, sales calls and business presentations. As the Group Sales Director for the Carolina Mudcats Baseball team, he oversaw all activities and personnel in the group sales department. (C. Signorelli photo attached)
• Nathan Smith, Security America’s Human Resources Coordinator, worked his way up in the company and recently became accredited as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR). This certification reflects his mastery of core HR areas, including business management and strategy, workforce planning and employment, human resource and development, compensation and benefits, employee and labor relations, and risk management. The PHR certification depends on strict requirements of education, work experience and a commitment to continued learning of current issues facing HR professionals. He is responsible for the company’s recruiting, hiring and training. His previous positions with Security America include division field manager, recruiting coordinator, marketing assistant and security officer. (Nathan Smith photo attached)
• Ray Householder has been named Security America’s Division Field Manager in the company’s Steubenville, Ohio office. He supervises all client and site activity in his region, including recruiting and scheduling security officers assigned to his territory. Householder knows site security inside and out; he has more than a decade’s worth of experience as a security officer, site inspector and recruiting and staffing coordinator. His work with Security America encompasses all three areas including random site inspections and drug testing of field personnel. (R. Householder photo attached)
“I founded this company on a standard of excellence and a commitment to quality,” said T. William (Bill) Signorelli, Security America CEO and President. “We provide the training, the goals and the supervision for each employee to perform to the highest standard in every respect. I’m extremely proud of my staff and the service they provide to our clients,” he said.
Security America supplies uniformed security officers and specially trained personnel for access control, emergency response, fire prevention and theft deterrence to a variety of industrial and specific-use sites, including drilling operations, coal mines, chemical plants, manufacturing facilities and hospitals. The company’s security officers are thoroughly screened and tested for drugs and alcohol; professionally trained and closely supervised. Security America also provides electronic security / monitoring systems. For more information, visit www.SecurityAmerica.com.
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Education reform the focus of the next Elevations luncheon on Feb. 6
Elevations: Professional Women’s Luncheon
Wednesday, Feb. 6
Noon- 1:15 p.m. Check-in begins at 11:45 a.m.
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites at the Charleston Conference Center
400 Second Ave.
Education in West Virginia will loom large over the Capitol this year as policy makers consider measures to address issues raised in a recent “education audit” of the state’s public school system commissioned by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
Education Alliance President/CEO Patricia S. Kusimo, Ph.D., one of the state’s foremost independent voices on the state of our schools will discuss the audit and ways to enhance education for West Virginia children at the next Elevations Professional Women’s Network luncheon, to be held Wednesday, February 6, at the Holiday Inn at the Charleston Conference Center in South Charleston.
The event opens with check-in and informal networking at 11:45 a.m. followed by lunch at noon.
Elevations is presented by the Charleston Area Alliance and Title Sponsor DOW.
Reservations are $30 Alliance members/$40 future members through Jan. 31. Prices increase to $40 Alliance members/$50 future members after that date.
The Education Alliance is West Virginia’s premier statewide, nonprofit research and K-12 public education fund. It advocates for policies and practices to continually improve public school achievement in West Virginia.
The mission of the 1,700-member Elevations group is to “enrich, empower and elevate women to achieve success.” Through luncheons, educational programs and other events, Elevations connects women with the contacts, resources and information to help them, their businesses and their community succeed.
admin in Uncategorized on January 15 2013 » 0 comments
Free one-day forum on small businesses to be held Aug. 20
Partnering for Success: Bringing Small Business Services to the Next Level
August 20, 2012, 9:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. Registration
Charleston Conference Hotel Center – Holiday Inn and Suites
400 Second Ave, Charleston, West Virginia 25303
Keynote Speaker: FDIC Acting Chairman Martin Gruenberg
The West Virginia Small and Micro Business Alliance for Economic Inclusion, in partnership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Appalachian Regional Commission, will host a one-day forum addressing issues relevant to small and micro business service providers. This forum will provide information relating to the provision of services to existing and prospective small and micro business owners, including providing capital, education and technical assistance. The morning will include an introduction to the West Virginia Small and Micro Business Alliance for Economic Inclusion, a panel addressing economic sectors that offer significant opportunities for small business formation and growth, and a panel that will address the present state of small business service provision in West Virginia.
The luncheon keynote speaker will be FDIC Acting Chairman Martin Gruenberg. The afternoon will include a moderated “open mike” session during which attendees will talk about what gaps exists in West Virginias small business servicing networks and what is needed to bring the provision of small business services to the next level. Organizations involved in providing services that further the development of small and micro businesses in West Virginia, including financial institutions, regulators, community development professionals, community development financial institutions, intermediaries, non-profits, and government agencies should plan to attend.
There is no cost to attend and parking is free. http://wwwdev/news/conferences/other_events/2012-08-20.html For more information: John Meeks at jmeeks@fdic.gov or 919-787-8727 x4915 (cell: 919-986-0915)
admin in Uncategorized on July 31 2012 » 0 comments
Lights, camera, action at the next SUCCESStrategies event April 25
SUCCESStrategies:
‘Producing and directing our own blockbuster’
Noon – 1:15 p.m.
DigiSo
1506 Kanawha Blvd. West
If you’re curious what a green screen, “The Colbert Report” and Vision 2030 all have in common, the next SUCCESStrategies event is right up your alley.
Economic development and Vision 2030 updates are on tap for this multimedia-themed SUCCESStrategies luncheon, which will be held Wednesday, April 25.
The luncheon will take place at DigiSo, a new digital arts production studio located on Charleston’s West Side. The studio was recently featured in a Charleston Gazette story, which you can read HERE.
Playing on the digital theme of the location, guests will learn how Vision 2030 intersects with digital media, past and present.
The event’s speakers will be some of the key senior business executives and community leaders who are leading the Vision 2030 task force working groups.
Speakers for the SUCCESStrategies session include:
• Steve Dexter (CEO, Thomas Health Systems)
• Steve Hedrick (Site Leader, Bayer CropScience)
• Tania Hotmer (External Affairs, AEP)
• Kevin DiGregorio (Executive Director, Chemical Alliance Zone)
• Patrick Crane (Policy Specialist, Higher Education Policy Commission)
• Matt Ballard, Drew Dunlap and Cullen Naumoff (Charleston Area Alliance)
Individual registrations are $25 Alliance members/$35 future members. Prices go up $10 each after April 20 at 5 p.m..
To register for the event, click HERE.
SUCCESStrategies is a professional development initiative of the Alliance and Dixon Hughes Goodman.
The Alliance will be able to invoice only for groups of 10 or more. Contact Deb Coffman at DCoffman@CharlestonAreaAlliance.org for more information.
The Alliance cannot issue cancelation refunds within 48 hours of the event. Thank you.
admin in SUCCESStrategies,Uncategorized on April 18 2012 » 0 comments
The 10th Anniversary season of Downtown ArtWalk continues this Thursday
In 2012, the Downtown Charleston ArtWalk will be celebrating 10 years as the Capitol City’s premiere art event. This season promises to be even bigger, better and more exciting than before.
The April 19th edition ArtWalk will add two new venues: Delfine’s Jewelry and the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.
Check out what’s in store for Thursday’s ArtWalk.
The Purple Moon 9
06 Quarrier Street
The Purple Moon is pleased to host members of the West Virginia Allied Artists for a group show. In addition to the Allied Artists, also featured will be works by other national, regional and local artists and, of course, a plethora of mid-20th Century design.
Art Emporium
823 Quarrier Street
Art Emporium will be featuring “Friends Among the Hills,” a showing of paintings by Emily Roles and wire jewelry by Sue Chase. Sue and Emily are long time friends and always West Virginians.
Emily’s acrylic paintings on paper feature a variety of colorful West Virginia landscapes, and Sue combines beads with wire in her designs to make one of a kind rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces.
Chet Lowther Studio
223 Hale Street
Chet Lowther will be showing new works in encaustic, oil, and acrylic for the April ArtWalk.
Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
900 Lee Street, Suite 1600 (A new addition to ArtWalk)
The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation features 29 limited edition pieces of Deborah Herndon’s work ranging from photographs of French and Spanish architectural details and urban landscape (including “French Kiss Knocker,” finalist in the 67th Allied Artists Juried Competition) to one of Herndon’s more recent pieces, “Orchestra Hall, Violin Blue,” a metallic photography print/raised paint tracing on cardboard overlay.
Michelle Krompecher of White Oak Photography will showcase an exhibition of select images from her most recent travels, observations, and experiences. The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation is a new venue for ArtWalk beginning in April. It’s located at the Huntington Bank Building.
1033 Quarrier Street
Gallery Eleven is pleased to feature artist Kathy Boland with her exhibit “Grand Dames of Charleston, WV” for the April ArtWalk. The exhibit will be open through April 30. Gallery Eleven is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Good News Mountaineer Garage
221 1/2 Hale Street
Good News Mountaineer Garage Gallery will feature art from students at Mountaineer Montessori School for this month’s ArtWalk. The fourth, fifth and six grade art students at the school have spent the last two months creating woodblock prints, drawings, mosaics, paintings and sculpture depicting the tragic deaths of miners at the historic Hawks Nest Tunnel.
The student’s work will be for sale and the proceeds will go to an educational component of the Hawks Nest Tunnel Project.
Taylor Books
226 Capitol Street
Featured for the April ArtWalk at Taylor Books’ Annex Gallery are an assortment of assemblage and mixed media work from Robert Villamagna. Villamagna works in assemblage, lithographed tin, paper collage, and mixed-media.His work has been exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory, ARC Gallery (Chicago), Erie Art Museum, among others. Three of Villamagna’s works are in the State of West Virginia permanent collection.
Blacksmith artist Jeff Fetty will be appearing in the gallery with a collection of his work and celebrating the publication of a new book featuring his metal designs. Metal Design International 2012 gathers eight metal designers from around the world each year to participate in its publication. Fetty is only the second American to receive this great recognition.
Jon Salo of Charleston will have some new mixed media sculptures on display.
House of Luxe
House of Luxe will feature brightly colored resin and crystal rings and earrings by “Angelique de Paris.” Also featured is crystal jewelry by Deborah Grivas and Balinese jewelry designs by Anna Beck.
Romano and Associates
230 Capitol Street, Suite 200
Romano and Associates will feature a solo exhibition from Ian Bode. “The Passenger,” the simple figure you will see in nearly every piece of Ian Bode’s work, is a resident of the town of Chuckburgh, which is a nod to Charleston, WV, the town that Ian grew up in and currently resides.
Inspired by artists such as Charles Schultz, Sergio Aragones (Mad Magazine), Gary Larson, Keith Haring and Rene Magritte, Ian uses a “less is more” style for “The Passenger,” which allows the surroundings of each panel to convey the intended thoughts or feelings.
In his work, Ian examines the song lyrics, movies, and books that are part of our culture, along with overheard conversations and his own thoughts. More recently Ian has begun picking up the paint brush again, something he had not done outside of art class since the late 1990’s. Some of these paintings are collaborations with his friend and fellow “Chuckburgh” artist, Dave Thomas.
The Charleston Ballet
Visit the Charleston Ballet Downtown Dance Studios during the April. Register for a free drawing for our SURPRISE GRAB BAG filled with various gift items valued at $175+. Watch dancers as they prepare for upcoming performances. Meet photographer KD Lett and view his new series of dancer portraits and videos.
Stray Dog Antiques
Kept. – an exhibition of portraits of people and their pets, curated by Stray Dog Antiques, will be featured during the April Artwalk.This exhibition features portraits of people and pets, by untrained and folk artists. Ranging from charming to cheesy, this collection will be on display through May. Join us for Artwalk and stroll through our three floors of unique treasures.
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UK government announcing its national credit support for businesses exporting to India
16/01/2018 Vallabh Kaviraj World Comments Off on UK government announcing its national credit support for businesses exporting to India
Credit: Suresh Prabhu
India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu who is visiting Britain, held talks with Britain’s International Trade Minister , Liam Fox, in London as a part of the 12th meeting of the UK-India Joint Economic and Trade Committees to discuss greater cooperation between the two countries and identify barriers to trade and investment, said media news report.
Reportedly as part of deliberations, Liam Fox announced that the UK’s national export credit agency, UK Export Finance, has more then doubled its financial support to enable UK businesses to trade with India.
According to media news report, this means 4.5 billion pounds will now be available for UK companies exporting to India as well as Indian buyers of UK goods and services.
Reportedly the minister said the UK government would work closely with India to break down barriers to boost trade, media news report said.
-AENNS 12/01/2018
In India, Indian government plans to auction enemy properties, home ministry starting the process of identifying all such estates
MPs in House of Commons in Britain approve EU withdrawal Bill
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Common Issues:
Which of these do you think the Town Council is responsible for?
Dog Fouling Speeding Potholes Street lights Anti-social behaviour Parking charges Highways Town centre cleaning Grass cutting Trees and bushes Town Centre Shops Housing Vandalism Litter Graffiti
The Town Council is responsible for:
Of the 15 issues, the Town Council has direct responsibility for –
Grass cutting:
The Town Council uses a contractor to maintain some grass areas around Amesbury, the cemetery, the churchyard, play parks and Lords Walk. Other areas are maintained by Wiltshire Council, private owners, housing associations.
Trees and bushes:
As above, the Town Council has responsibility for some trees and bushes.
Litter:
The Town Caretaker is contracted to clear:
Play parks Lords Walk There is a street cleaning scheme for estates and side roads, where local organisations receive a grant from the Town Council for clearing litter from housing estates and side roads. Litter is cleared from the town centre by Wiltshire Council, as are the major routes through town.
With the recent spate of graffiti around the town (12-18 months ago), the Town Council agreed to pay to have graffiti removed from public and private property (Usually Wiltshire Council takes responsibility, with private households having to pay for this themselves). Incidents of graffiti have diminished, with only occasional instances to deal with.
The Town Council is not directly responsible for:
The Town Council can pass on concerns regarding these issues but has no direct responsibility for them.
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MemoirWriting
written by Anne Skyvington September 27, 2012
My very first water experience is in my mother’s womb. I’m safe, secure, warm. I swim, mermaid-like, do somersaults and swallow the magic fluid. I imagine that I’ll never leave this watery place.
Down the Back
At Waterview the humid scorching air engulfs us; the heat, ruthless, tears at our skin and sends us kids scurrying towards water. My brothers swing Tarzan-like from overhanging scribbly gums, and jump into the creek on Dad’s bush paddock. Launching ourselves from tree roots embedded in the banks, we dive and bomb one another scattering tiny snakes and tree frogs that hide in the depths. I jump in and feel the clay squelchy and squidgy between my toes.
I try to hide my fears of the depths and copy my brothers in derring do. Yellow belly fear, like the bloated green tree frogs with bulging eyes staring down from the rafters of the outhouse, ready to pounce, gobble me up; green waters swirling; amphibian annihilation.
I don’t know where it came from, the fear. My elder brother went off to school at four and found a solid niche for himself within his intellect. Donny, the second brother, was fearless as a warrior. As soon as he could run, he climbed tall trees in search of birds’ eggs, rode bareback and played the clown at school.
I am Minny-Ha-Ha to his Hiawatha the Brave.
Often I was afraid of the dark. One time I screamed out in the middle of the night:
“Monsters. Big black bogey man…under the bed…”
Dad races into the kids’ bedroom and flashes a torch underneath my bed. I want to crawl in between him and Mum in their double bed, but it’s out of bounds. I crawl in with Donny instead, snuggle up to his naked body; feel the flip of his penis like a lizard as he moves over to let me in; I fall into a deep sleep o contentment.
Early memories are bathed in warmth. I am sitting in a pink tub on the old wooden table in the kitchen next to the fuel stove. It is dusk. A golden ball of light sinks into the hills to the west. The warm water soothes my body. I splash my hands in it and crow.
Mummy laughs and rubs me all over with Lifebuoy soap, pours the water over my dark brown hair that is just like hers. The kitchen is bathed in a soft hazy glow. Mummy is listening for the jeep to pull up at the front. I listen too. We will hear him opening the wire gate and driving through into the back yard.
Mummy is laughing now at the black stallion through the window as it frisks and plays with the piebald and bay mares. Her laugh is the laugh of a naughty child. I don’t know what she is laughing at.
The kitchen is warm, warm from the heat of the stove and the last rays of the sun dropping in the west. And I sit in the tin tub waiting for the sound of Daddy’s footsteps.
He bursts in, eyes twinkling and red-cheeked from a beer at the pub, and goes straight to me, picking me up in those strong sun-browned arms and calling me his ‘Little Angie-Pangie’, tossing me up into the air and showering me with kisses. Mummy watches us.
One very early memory is of tombstone-like coldness. A nurse places my skinny body in a hot tub. I have Scarlet Fever. I’m hallucinating. A large black bull chasing me.
“Put her in hospital or you’ll carry her out in a box!” the doctor says.
It’s when the fear, the frozenness, first enters me. I’m taken away from my mother. They put me in a sterile ward in the hospital. It’s opposite the Grafton Gaol.
Daddy brings a tiny rabbit to the windowpane of the children’s ward where I am quarantined. It reminds me that goodness, gentleness still exist the coldness and trauma.
At the end of three weeks, just before Mummy comes to take me home, a nurse places me in a tub of hot water. The sensation of my body afloat in salving water, remains with me to this day.
Not long after this, Daddy drives Mummy and me to Moree. I am the littlest princess. Billy and Donny, five and six, are left at Grandma’s farm, directly across the Highway from our house.
There is one tourist attraction at Moree: the public baths. They’re not just any baths, but ones formed from natural salt springs hidden beneath the ground. Discovered when an engineer sank a drill in search of oil, the hot salt water spurted up like a miracle, an offering from the gods.
Now I’m floating in the warm salt waters of the baths. Mummy and Daddy are holding me up in their arms. It’s heaven. Just the three of us. Floating there. On the surface barely a ripple. h hot waters holding us all up, the three of us, just floating there, on the surface, all is well with my world
On the way back home to Waterview, I spy through the window of our car, a host of tiny snowflake white lambs dotted all around the fields with their mothers.
“Daddy, Daddy! I wan’ one! Pleease can I have one!”
“What’s the matter? What’s wrong, for cris’sake?”
“I want a baby lamb! Daddy, Pleeease can I?”
Mum laughs. Dad stops the car and lets me take a closer look, but it does not assuage the terrible want, the aching hole like hunger, like unquenchabe thirst. I yearn to hold one of the babies in my arms, not merely drink it in through my eyes. In fact, the stopover makes me covet it all the more strongly and urgently, and I whine and cry for a lamb for the rest of the trip.
Mum is a bit deaf by this stage. “Just ignore her, Will,” she says. “She will stop after a while.”
“I wan’ one… I wan’ one…”
“Here, have a lolly to suck on…” and she reaches into the back and sticks it in my mouth.
“I wan’ one!” my voice slobbery now, as well as whining, through the dribbles from the sticky crunchy peppermint stuck to my teeth.
For once my father, who rarely gave into our pleadings for things, seemed to consider the possibility.
“When I have time, I’ll make enquiries. Just give us some peace will you, Angie?”
And that is exactly what he did when we got back home. It was quite a sturdy beast, not the soft toy-like babies of the tablelands, but it was the gesture that counted. I wonder now, whether it touched a chord in him, something to do with his secret yearnings. “All I ever wanted was a mate to share my life with,” he told me once. Much later on.
But it’s the Moree baths I remember most of all.
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Fancy you having Scarlet Fever too! It must have been more common than I had thought. Did you also have to learn to walk again? I do worry about such serious illnesses making a comeback.
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Yes, but the doctor said it was measles turning inwards! I didn’t seem to have any nasty after-effects, except that I have always felt the cold more than others in the family. Thanks for reading my stuff. It means a lot to me.
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Brenda McMorrow is a Canadian Devotional Kirtan artist who has had a rich and diverse musical career (from folk to jazz to bluegrass). Now, with a deep devotion to the unveiling and celebration of our true beings through the power of sound, she is invited to travel worldwide to share her unique blend of original folk-inspired melodies, world beats and sacred Indian devotional chants.
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It was when Brenda participated in her first Sanskrit chant while attending a Yoga workshop in 2004, that she had a profound knowing her musical journey was leading her to places more expansive and heart-opening than she had ever imagined. Brenda remembers: “It was a very simple chant (Om Namah Shivaya), and at the time I had no idea what it signified: all I knew was that every cell in my body started vibrating, and I felt absolute joy”. While in India soon thereafter, Brenda began combining her own songwriting with ancient Sanskrit chants – and she has been flowing with this divine wave of Bhakti energy ever since.
Brenda is a featured artist on the White Swan Records roster, a Colorado label well known for it’s high-profile yoga-inspired artists like Deva Premal. She has accompanied Grammy award winning cellist David Darling and esteemed Kirtan musicians Jai Uttal, Wah!, David Newman, Girish and Dave Stringer, and has been invited to Bhakti Yoga festivals and events across North America, Europe and Asia as part of her most recent tour schedule. When not on the Bhaktiroad, Brenda calls beautiful Guelph, Ontario home.
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21st President’s Honors Concert features top music students
03.28.2017 | By: Janna McKinley
Texas Wesleyan University’s highest-achieving music students will share their vocal and instrumental talents during the President’s Honors Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 7 in Martin Hall.
"To perform in the President’s Honors Concert is one of the highest honors our music students can achieve," Dr. Jerome Bierschenk, music department chair, said.
The following vocal and instrumental students, who will be accompanied by collaborative pianist and coach Keith Critcher, will be performing in this year’s concert:
Elizabeth Drewes, soprano
Jan Lässker, piano
Alan Michael Whetsel Setford, baritone
Antonio Quiñones, alto saxophone
Chanel Hurd, mezzo-soprano
Dexter Collins, guitar
Julian E. Rodriguez, baritone
Alicia Smith, piano
Daniel Hernandez, tenor
Tyler Simpson, percussion
Alli Perez, mezzo-soprano
Luis Calderón, horn
Mary Grim, soprano
Alex Lopez, baritone
The event is hosted by President Frederick G. Slabach and Melany Neilson, along with co-host Joan Taylor Trew. Ms. Trew is a current member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and is co-owner of Williams Trew Real Estate Company. The Master of Ceremonies for the evening is Ryan Keating '12.
The President's Honors Concert, established in 1996, is now in its 21st year. The event migrated from its original venue in the Texas Boys Choir building to the Scott Theatre in the old Modern Art Museum, and finally to its current home in Martin Hall, where it has been since 2003.
Admission is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come basis. There is a reception to follow at Lou’s Place.
For more information about Wesleyan Music, visit our webpage.
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Sichuan University of Culture and Arts was listed as a pilot transformation and reforming university in Sichuan province in June, 2016. It is the first council unit of "Sichuan application-oriented higher education union". The university is located in Mianyang, which is the Science and Technology City in China and the second largest city in Sichuan province. It is adjacent to Nanjiao airport and Mianyang Nanhu park. Now it has Mianyang campus, Zitong campus and Chengdu campus.
The university offers 34 undergraduate majors and 19 associate college majors. the professional system of multi-major mutual support is formed based on our compound and applied talent training requirements and industry advantages. The university has more than 800 first-rate teachers. The following are our honorary presidents: Former minister of Culture Department and famous contemporary Chinese writer Wang Meng; Former vice president of Sichuan People's Political Consultative Conference Feng Chongtai. Former vice director of Higher Education Teaching Evaluation Center of Education Ministry Li Zhihong. National first-level composer and performer Bian Liunian. Deputy director of History and Culture Institute of Beijing University LeiYuan. Former president of Chinese Music College Zhao Talimu.
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Posted on January 19, 2021 January 19, 2021 by Mike 11 Comments
And the bad. And the scary.
This is all real. As hard as it is to believe that what we’ve seen in the past couple of months is actually happening to us, it is. The left has just stolen both the presidential election, and the election that decided control of the Senate. Having done so, they have flooded the nation’s capital with tens of thousands of occupying soldiers, who they have screened for political loyalty. On the 20th, Biden will assume power, and nobody is going to stop it. Trump is finished; he has effectively been out of power since January 6th, and on the 20th, he will be flown back to Mar-a-lago for a quiet retirement. Qanon was fake; there is not and never has been any plan to trust, and “The Storm” isn’t coming. The military isn’t going to overthrow Biden and reinstall Trump; their leadership are completely on-board with everything that has happened. The American Republic is dead; having gotten away with fixing two national elections, the Deep State will assume the permanent role of kingmaker. There will be no more free, fair elections at the federal level. For appearances’ sake, a nonthreatening Republican of the RINO variety – a Nikki Haley or Marco Rubio – may be allowed to hold the presidency again at some point, but they will never permit another real reformer like Trump anywhere near power. All the holes in the system that allowed his rise have been patched. He’s not getting elected again in 2024, and nobody like him is getting elected then, or ever again.
Speaking of January 6th, conservative pundits who say it was a disaster for the right are fooling themselves (and trying to fool you). It can’t do any harm to our political cause because there is no more harm to do. It’s obvious now that we’re not going to vote our way out of this. We’re not going to fundraise our way out of this. We’re not going to get out of this by dropping “truth bombs” on talk radio or going on National Review cruises with Victor Davis Hanson. “Vote harder” (at least in federal elections – there may yet be some value in at at a state and local level) is now a strategy that’s just as rational as sitting in a burning airplane waiting for it to reach Miami. Who cares if what happened on the 6th destroys the national Republican party, drives away big-money donors, gets all of Sean Hannity’s sponsors drop him, and makes the corporate media that already hated us hate us more? Any hope of victory that was ever invested in any of that has crashed and is on fire. It’s not going to get you to your destination. The only thing you can do is to get yourself to a safe place and plan your next move while you watch it burn.
As for what to do now, I have already covered first steps in previous columns, which I invite you to read. But to all of you who have spoken proudly of 1776 and what our ancestors did, and assured yourself that in their place, you would do the same, let me ask you: If not now, when? If not because of this, then because of what? I do not advocate acting rashly or even necessarily quickly – the hour must be right, and the proper occasion must present itself. Certainly, I do not advise any ill-advised or premature moves. We must act wisely and deliberately. What I am telling you is that the time is near and you must make yourselves ready for it.
I wish I could convince myself that he’s mistaken. I’m sure most of us do. There was a time, not long ago really, when I could. But alas, that time is behind us now, and what lies ahead is pure, unalloyed nightmare.
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Telling them
Posted on January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021 by Mike 2 Comments
I somehow missed one of the most outstanding cris de coeur I’ve ever seen when it first appeared. Thanks to NC Renegade, I can make up for that most regrettable lapse now. I’m going to excerpt quite extravagantly from it, because…well, because I have to, that’s why. Read on, you’ll understand.
My 1940s born Dad raised me to be patriotic and proud, to love the war bird airplanes of his era as much as he does, and to respect our flag and our country as a sacred thing. I grew up thinking that being an American was the greatest gift a person could have. I grew up thinking that our country was as strong, and honest and true as my Dad. I grew up thinking I was free.
As an adult, I have witnessed the world I grew up in fall to ruin. I have watched as our currency and our economy have been shamelessly corrupted beyond redemption. Since we’ve been married, my husband and I TWICE had our meager investment savings gutted by the market that we were told to invest in, now that pensions no longer exist and we working stiffs are on our own. We will be working until we die, because the Social Security we’ve been forced to pay into has also been robbed from under us.
I have watched as our elected officials enter Congress as ordinary folks and leaves as multi millionaires. I have watched my blue collar husband get up at an ungodly hour every day and come home with an aching back that we pray will hold out long enough to get him to old age in one piece. Outside of shoes, socks and underwear, almost everything my family wears was bought used. We’ve been on one vacation in 12 years.
I watched as my family’s health insurance was gutted and destroyed. Our private market insurance, which we had to have because my husband’s employer is too small to have a group plan, was made illegal. We were left with the option of either buying an Obamacare plan with unaffordable deductibles and insanely ridiculous out of pocket maxes, or paying the very gov’t that destroyed our healthcare a fine for not buying the gov’t mandated plan that we cannot afford. We now have short term insurance that isn’t really insurance at all, and I live in fear of one of us getting injured or sick with anything I can’t fix from the medicine cabinet.
I have watched as education, which was already sketchy when I was a kid, became an all out joke of wholly unmathematical math, gold stars for all, and self-loathing anti-Americanism. My family has taken an enormous financial hit as I stay home to home school our child. At least she’ll be able to do old-fashioned math well enough to see how much they are screwing her. A silver lining to every cloud, I guess.
I’ve sat by and held my tongue as I was called deplorable and a bitter clinger and told that I didn’t build that. I’ve been called a racist and a xenophobe and a chump and even an “ugly folk.” I’ve been told that I have privilege, and that I have inherent bias because of my skin color, and that my beloved husband and father are part of a horrible patriarchy. Not one goddamn bit of that is true, but if I dare say anything about it, it will be used as evidence of my racism and white fragility.
Raised to be a Republican, I held my nose and voted for Bush, the Texas-talking blue blood from Connecticut who lied us into 2 wars and gave us the unpatriotic Patriot Act. I voted for McCain, the sociopathic neocon songbird “hero” that torpedoed the attempt to kill the Obamacare that’s killing my family financially. I held it again and voted for Romney, the vulture capitalist skunk that masquerades as a Republican while slithering over to the Democrat camp as often as they’ll tolerate his oily, loathsome presence.
And I voted for Trump, who, if he did nothing else, at least gave a resounding Bronx cheer to the richly deserving smug hypocrites of DC. Thank you for that Mr. President, on behalf of all of us nobodies. God bless you for it.
And now I have watched as people who hate me and mine and call for our destruction blatantly and openly stole the election and then gaslighted us and told us that it was honest and fair. I am watching as the GOP does NOTHING about it. They’re probably relieved that upstart Trump is gone so they can get back to their real jobs of lining their pockets and running interference for their corporate masters. I am watching as the media, in a manner that would make Stalin blush, is silencing anyone who dares question the legitimacy of this farce they call democracy. I know, it’s a republic, but I am so tired of explaining that to people I might as well give in and join them in ignorance.
I will not vote again; they’ve made it abundantly clear that my voice doesn’t matter. Whatever irrational, suicidal lunacy the nanny states thinks is best is what I’ll get. What it decided I need is a geriatric pedophile who shouldn’t be charged with anything more rigorous than choosing between tapioca and rice pudding at the old folks home, and a casting couch skank who rails against racism while being a descendant of slave owners.
I am done. Don’t ask me to pledge to the flag, or salute the troops, or shoot fireworks on the 4th. It’s a sick, twisted, heartbreaking joke, this bloated, unrecognizable corpse of a republic that once was ours.
Now go read the payoff. Trust me, you do NOT want to miss it; it’s a most fitting closer for one of the most brilliant, cleanly-expressed blasts of heartfelt outrage I’ve seen in nearly 20 years of blogging, and that’s all there is to it. Gore’s worthy follow-up:
Four days after the election, a woman calling herself OHMama posted “I Am Done” on The Burning Platform website. It was the site’s most read article of 2020. SLL and many other websites reposted it. It was raw, explosive anger and a profoundly moving lament; OHMama was clearly at the end of her rope. The closing paragraph packed a wallop.
OHMama gave voice to what’s beneath the surface for so many of us—abject disgust, barely contained fury, and dread of what’s to come. She claimed her own life to live it as she sees fit, and damn them, damn them all, who presume to rule us.
That anger surfaced in Washington on January 6. The protest and raid of the Capitol were illuminating in several ways. They defined the two sides: the government, its string-pullers, and its allies versus those who despise and oppose them.
Legacy media was filled with paeans to our “sacred” government and its “temples,” deploring the “sacrilege” of those who “desecrated” and “defiled” them. What absolute tripe! Washington is a Corruptocracy, a moral cesspool. Anything sacred would have been vandalized or torn down by the mobs allowed to run riot last year. They would have toppled the Washington Monument if they could have figured out how.
Americans who build businesses or pursue careers honestly producing goods and services for voluntary trade are engaging in activities far more sacred than anything that goes on in the capital. Millions of parents instill moral principles in their children, only to see those principles defiled daily by the government. Washington delenda est—if it were leveled and sown with salt America and the world would be better for it.
Our opponents have (a) clearly defined goal—absolute power—and they are absolutely committed to subjugating or eliminating anyone who stands in their way. Until recently most of those on our side didn’t even realize we were at war.
Nothing will be fair about the coming fight. It’s no use whining about the other side’s lack of principles, its lies, hypocrisy, unfairness, ruthlessness, and control of virtually every important institution. They’re evil totalitarians, what the hell do we expect? Their principle is absolute power and they’ll do whatever is necessary to acquire and keep it.
Ashli Babbitt’s death, if it is to mean anything at all, should be the cold slap of reality across the faces of those who haven’t grasped the nature of what we face.
Head over and read all of Gore’s piece too. Between the two of ’em, these posts say just about everything that needs to be said. The Enemy, flush with victory and believing it secure, will assuredly ignore the increasingly clangorous warning of the tocsin these writings represent. He will come to regret it, and sorely. Unfortunately, a dear price for his arrogance, his hubris, his greed, his incalculable fucking stupidity, will be extracted from ALL of us.
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Demonrat Projection Deflection, in full effect
Posted on January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021 by Mike Leave a comment
Oh, we had ourselves a coup all right. No question about that.
Real coups are not clumsy mob attacks adjacent to lawmakers. Real coups, above all, are about control: Control of communications, control of bureaucracy, and above all, control of military power. And in the past few days, it is President Trump’s enemies who have seized control of all these things.
The most obvious sign of the unfolding coup is the most memorable: The suspension, and then banning, of the President’s Twitter account. After this ban was handed down, a flurry of other tech companies rushed to follow suit.
This isn’t just a petulant attack on the President. For tens of millions of Americans, the President’s Twitter, Facebook, and emails are the main ways they see his statements, unmediated by the press or other actors. While the President has other ways to reach the public, the bans slowed him down and made it far harder for the public to hear him. In effect, Big Tech has hobbled the President’s ability to speak out about what is happening.
Our globalist overlords have decided that there must be no popular way for the President to easily communicate directly with the public he governs that is uncontrolled by powerful, left-aligned corporations.
On Friday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly announced that she had directly contacted military leaders to strip President Trump of his military authority:
Amid mounting pressure to remove President Trump from office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday spoke to the nation’s top military leader about taking precautions to ensure against Trump rashly initiating a military action or nuclear strike in the chaotic waning days of his presidency.
“This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike,” Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said in a letter to her Democratic House colleagues Friday.
This is nothing more than a plot to illegally usurp the President’s constitutional powers. In other words, it is exactly what happens in a real coup. Real coup d’états always revolve around getting the military’s backing. And in this crisis, the military immediately showed where its loyalties lie.
So, in effect, Donald Trump’s command of the military has been usurped by a committee of top generals, members of Congress, and his own Vice President. In other words, he is no longer the real commander-in-chief. And if Donald Trump is no longer the commander-in-chief, then he is no longer the President of the United States. A coup d’état has been carried out. The Trump presidency is over.
It’s no more than the usual Projection Deflection tactic, indignantly accusing their enemies of the exact thing they’re doing themselves. But excoriating the Left for their fathomless hypocrisy is worse than a waste of time, a pointless, masturbatory exercise better men should’ve abandoned long ago as a lost cause. If these people were capable of shame, they’d have all died from it years ago already. Honestly, I’m beginning to think they do it for their own amusement, for pointing and laughing purposes.
At this point, seeing Righty pundits all a-dither over Progtard “hypocrisy” puts me in mind of the cruel old country-boy prank of tying a string of empty tin cans to a dog’s tail, watching with sadistic glee as the poor pooch runs about in frenzied circles, unable to elude the noisy pursuer always right behind him, until he finally keels over half-dead in an exhausted heap from sheer fright.
I would have been happy to just re-post the whole piece here, but I’ll restrain myself to the excerpt instead and implore you to click on over for the rest.
(Via WRSA)
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A long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object
It’s clobberin’ time.
It wasn’t when the US Army attacked the “Bonus Army”, which was peacefully assembled in DC in 1932 seeking early payment of their WWI service bonds.
It wasn’t during the postwar era, when an activist Supreme Court abolished private property rights in the name of “equality”.
It wasn’t when, via the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the American people learned that the entire war in Vietnam had been founded on lies – the biggest of which was that the US military, under the geopolitical and operational constraints they faced, could ever have won the war.
It wasn’t over the torrent of governmental power abuses that ensued over the next 20 years, nor was it when the Ruby Ridge and Waco atrocities happened.
It wasn’t over the establishment of a permanent, unconstitutional omnisurveillance state before and especially after 9/11.
It wasn’t over the nearly 20 years of US military foreign entanglements that took a generation of brave young men and women and sent them home in boxes, broken in mind and/or body, or permanently disillusioned about their country and their leaders.
It wasn’t even over the past five years of lies, deceit, and outright treasonous collaboration with enemy actors to drag America and its people from the smoldering remains of its constitutional past into the gulag of global totalitarianism.
But when, between November 3rd and January 6th, the globalist elites stole both a Presidential election and two Senatorial elections to deliver complete control of all branches and levels of American governance into the hands of the techno-tyrannical Kommissars, it was finally time for resistance.
Read the whole thing. This, too.
Posted in Big tsimmis, Brilliant!, Counterrevolution, FUCK YOU, WAR!, Gangster Government, Hard times in the land of plenty, Hubris and Nemesis, In it to win it, Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out, Patton Would Be Proud!, This Far, No Farther, Where Do We Go from Here?
The long, dark tunnel
Is there a light at the end?
Now, with both media fanaticism and state power joined together, America’s emerging Totalitarian Left have the tools to “cleanse” America. It will wield the state power that Trump and cowardly conservatives refused to touch for four years.
Why then am I optimistic?
Yes, it will be tiresome having to master decentralized blockchains and various obscure technologies just to communicate. It will be stressful dealing with the constant threat of violence from the System or the System’s militant wing. But the whole process is forcing us to adapt to hostile conditions, something we should have been doing anyway. (It’s why VDARE.com has bought a castle).
And I think that it has to be this way. The logic of the Democrat/MSM hysteria is that there must be an ever-greater number of kulak-style enemies to be demonized and deplatformed. However, if you do that to enough people, deplatforming loses its sting.
It’s also mentally freeing us from having a stake in what goes on in Washington D.C. I don’t care about the various games our rulers are playing in the Middle East, the Pacific, and Eastern Europe. I love my country, but the Potomac Regime has very little to do with that country.
Where others see despair, I see a crucible, something that will pave the way for a true national rebirth. We are the heirs of those who endured Valley Forge. Greatness can emerge only from struggle.
With its absurd talk of “insurrection” and ludicrously obvious double standards, the Ruling Class has designated tens of millions of deplorables as something less than citizens, people outside respectable society.
It’s a mistake. Our rulers need us. We don’t need them.
Like I’ve always said, I’m a short-term pessimist. This week’s events may look like a tactical set-back. But it’s just speeding something up that was happening anyway.
In the end, no matter what we do, millions of Americans are about to feel the iron boot of repression—something we at VDARE.com have been dealing with for some time.
Nevertheless, my guess is a lot of us are going to look at each other, as American patriots did after George III responded to their Olive Branch Petition by declaring them traitors subject to the death penalty, and conclude that whatever our differences, “Now we will all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
In the end, I think that will be enough to win.
In the end, it’s gonna have to be.
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Posted on January 8, 2021 January 8, 2021 by Mike 3 Comments
Julie Kelly’s post mortem.
Within hours of the breach of the Capitol, Graham, who failed for four straight years to fulfill his repeated promises to “get to the bottom” of Barack Obama’s corrupt FBI, called for a special task force to investigate the “domestic terrorists” involved in the January 6 incident. “Sedition might be a charge for some of these people,” the tough talker warned. “The people sitting in the chairs need to be sitting in a jail cell.”
Thankfully, Ms Lindey long ago proved zherself to be all mouth. So if he holds true to form, nobody needs to fear anything at all from him this time either.
Graham claimed Trump’s “actions” before the incident “tarnished” the president’s accomplishments in office—accomplishments, by the way, that Trump achieved with little help from Senate Republicans, including Graham.
Ending their reign in humiliation and defeat, capped off with final gasps of grandstanding and betrayal, is a fitting end to the GOP Senate in the Trump era.
Trump supporters, unfortunately, didn’t deserve what they got in the end, as they endured more mockery and contempt from the media, Democrats, and NeverTrump hucksters alleged to be in their own political party. The lax double standards that apply to BLM rioters and Antifa thugs, of course, did not apply to the handful of troublemakers who vandalized the Capitol. Just a short trip down memory lane showed politicians and journalists cheering the takeover of the Hart Senate Office Building in October 2018 by leftist “protestors” angry about Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination and attacks on U.S. senators. But that wasn’t enough to expose the hypocrisy of the moment.
Like so many times before—be it a mob in Charlottesville or pro-life high schoolers at the Mall in Washington—it was death by proxy. Reporters and pundits want to “cleanse” the country of 75 million Trump supporters, language unthinkable just four years ago.
Trump’s presidency will end, but it’s unclear where he goes from here. The Republican Party as we know it also is over; the GOP’s disloyalty to the president and his voters in the final stretch will not be soon forgotten. And Republican control of the Senate during the Trump era ends just how it began, in making a bargain to do the Left’s bidding and ultimately acting as the Democratic Party’s useful idiots.
Democrats will control the White House, the Senate, and the House for the first time since 2009. A feeble near-octogenarian will pretend to govern as his ambitious vice president waits in the wings for her chance to rule. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will try to inflict God-knows-what on the country for at least the next two years.
It’s unlikely that will end well, either.
It didn’t have to end this way. Senate Republicans could have tackled election illegalities if for no other reason than to the placate the base. The president could have been far better prepared to confront voter fraud cases and stayed focused on the more provable examples rather than fringy, hard-to-prove accusations. The Republican Party could have acted like the Democratic Party by demanding state lawmakers in swing states push back harder.
But none of it happened.
The End indeed. David DeGerolamo presents an exciting scenario:
Based on the information from Italy concerning the CIA’s manipulation of the 2020 presidential election, Texas formally declines to recognize Joe Biden’s inauguration. The dispute between Texas and the federal government is not resolved. Texas secedes citing the breach of the Constitution’s election requirements and voter fraud. Florida secedes and joins the new American Union (AU) under President Trump. Other states start to debate which is the legal government. The Biden administration orders federal troops to put down the “rebellion”.
What will people do in the existing United States when their state governments try to overthrow the new country since the majority of the people voted for Trump? Why is President Trump in Abilene, TX? If President Biden did not have dementia, he would realize that his “administration” will be short lived or dead on arrival.
I like it, but Texit ain’t gonna happen. As for Trump, if he’s at all smart he already got himself, his family, and as big a portion of his wealth as he could quickly gather the hell out of this blighted country altogether, and will never set foot here again.
Posted in Believe it or Else, Big tsimmis, BLEARGH!, Death to Liberty!, Distinction Without A Difference, FTGOP, Gangster Government, Hard times in the land of plenty, Leftward ho!, Life in a once-great nation, Life In The O!gulag, We Are Soooooo Screwed
Posted on January 4, 2021 January 4, 2021 by Mike
2020 was the year many of the fairy-tales Americans have turned to for comfort and reassurance took it on the chin.
Perhaps the saddest casualty of 2020 is the myth that average Americans cherish their personal freedom. Politicians continually shifted the rationale for lockdowns – from flattening the curve, to ending “community spread,” to reducing cases to near zero. Regardless of the proclaimed rationale, most people submitted without a fight, and usually without even a whimper. Politicians and bureaucrats fanned mass fears which quickly ripened into hatred of anyone who did not comply with the latest edict.
States and cities across the country set up snitch lines that were soon deluged with complaints of people outside without a mask, meeting friends, or having more visitors in their homes than could fit in a phone booth. Many, if not most, people quickly acquiesced to the “new normal” where any government hack who recited the phrase “science and data” became entitled to rule their lives with an iron fist.
As the Harvard International Review warned, “The very methods that liberal democracies are currently using to effectively fight the virus are the same tactics that authoritarian leaders use to dominate their people. The tools that have been temporarily deployed in the fight against a once-in-a-lifetime disease may become permanent.” That was written on May 23, more than 15 million Covid cases ago – proof of the failure of lockdowns and pervasive restrictions to make Covid-19 vanish. But the miserable batting average of officialdom will vanish into the Memory Hole if politicians launch a campaign to make Covid vaccinations mandatory, complete with boundless vilification of anyone who balks at the injection.
Perhaps it has long been a myth that we live in a self-governing republic rather than a Leviathan Democracy where citizens merely make cameo appearances every few years at the voting booth. It is still possible that the catastrophic and pointless losses imposed by Covid crackdowns will finally awaken enough people to their growing subjugation. But the most dangerous myth is that Americans will finally become safe after they cease making any efforts to leash their rulers.
That’s the biggest myth of them all, one which desperately needs busting.
Posted in Death to Liberty!, Gangster Government, Hard times in the land of plenty, Leftward ho!, Life in a once-great nation, The Almighty State, The Government You Deserve, Willful Stupidity
“Something like a war is underway”
So let’s win it.
Things are shaking loose. Secrets are flying out of black boxes. Shots have been fired. The center is not holding because the center is no longer there, only a black hole where the center used to be, and, within it, the shriekings of lost souls. Will the United States go missing this week, or fight its way out of the chaos and darkness?
If it’s ever to get out at all, it can only do it by fighting.
Whatever occurs in this strange week of confrontation, Joe Biden will not be leading any part of it. Where has he been since Christmas? Back to hiding in the basement? Did the American people elect a ghost? Even if this storm blows over, could Joe Biden possibly claim any legitimacy in the Oval Office? And then what happens with the rest of the story — which is an epic economic convulsion sharper than the Great Depression — as time is unsuspended and the year 2021 actually unspools?
Only the bare outlines of this week’s fateful game are visible. Mr. Trump has not conceded the election. An action will play out in congress under rarely-used constitutional rules as to how the electoral college votes are awarded to whom. The rancor around this action is already epic. Few of the political players are beyond suspicion of dark deals and shifty allegiances. Persistent rumor has the president laying out a royal flush of deadly information about his antagonists, enough to make heads explode among the formerly cocksure and vaporize the narrative they’ve been running for four years.
A whole lot of people are converging in the nation’s capital at midweek, maybe even the touted million. It is a moment, possibly, not unlike the Bastille in Paris, 1789. They will be clamoring right outside Congress as the electoral vote ceremony proceeds. If the battle is not joined in the chamber, it’s a little hard to believe the crowd will just heave a million sighs, trudge back to their cars, and drive quietly home.
It’s not nearly as hard to believe as it should be, more’s the pity. Then again, Ol’ Remus’ sage advice about staying away from crowds keeps coming to mind.
Posted in Big tsimmis, Counterrevolution, Domestic Disputes, FUCK YOU, WAR!, Hard times in the land of plenty, In it to win it, The Ruling Class, This Far, No Farther, Where Do We Go from Here?
Irish democracy
Francis shows us the way.
If nothing else could have done so, this election has clarified the central political issue of our time: America’s federal government has far too much power, an incomprehensible percentage of which resides in the Oval Office. Therefore, merely saving Donald Trump’s second term is not enough.
It’s time for other measures.
According to James C. Scott as quoted by Tim Condon, “Irish democracy” consists of widespread passive resistance to the decrees of the Omnipotent State:
Quiet, anonymous, and often complicitous, lawbreaking and disobedience may well be the historically preferred mode of political action for peasant and subaltern classes, for whom open defiance is too dangerous….One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish Democracy”—the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people—than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.
The premise behind “Irish Democracy” is that the State lacks the enforcement power to have its way with millions upon millions of rebels. It’s Mohandas Gandhi’s strategy, albeit without his overt confrontations with the institutions of government. “You can ignore the State and do as you please, as long as you keep your head down.”
Removing the overt confrontations makes “Irish Democracy” much safer than any other form of rebellion. The State needs conspicuous, targetable rebels. It cannot use terror of its forces without someone to turn into an “example.” No conspicuous rebels means nothing for the State to crucify for the edification of the public. As we mathematical types like to say, quod erat demonstrandum.
I could go on about this, but I don’t think there’s a need. The implications are fairly plain. If you deem the governments of these United States to have become illegitimate, you might find the notion of “Irish Democracy” attractive. Think about the observations above. Think about how you could arrange your affairs so as to dismiss the demands of the State while remaining free of its scrutiny. While it would be harder for some than for others, millions of Americans and their enterprises could contrive to ignore the demands and decrees of the governments that claim “authority” over us.
There are other approaches of varying appeal, such as “going Galt.” They amount to the same thing: rebellion without the need to load the magazines and man the barricades. Choose the course that best accords with your tastes.
Lately I’ve discussed with friends an old maxim of my own devising, to wit: Revolution is not an event; it’s a process. Although it might feel in certain times and circumstances as if a violent uprising is imminent, I don’t think its hot breath is on American necks just yet. From the long-view vantage point of the historical record, revolutions and civil wars are a long time a-brewing before coming to full boil, although we often come to perceive things differently in hindsight.
It appears that the most hot-blooded among us expect the shooting to start in earnest on January 6th, surely no later than the 21st in the wake of the Usurper Biden’s “inauguration.” Myself, I expect that they’ll be disappointed. I repeat: process, not event. And as revolutionary process goes, it’s still early days yet.
There’s no denying that sufficient provocation has been inflicted on Real Americans to ignite a real conflagration, particularly over the past year. Likewise is there no credible argument to be made that the current federal Leviathan is even remotely in accord with the principles set down in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. It’s probably the most dead-cert truthful bumper sticker slogan there ever was: the Founders would have been shooting already.
Still, it’s more than likely that we have several intermediate stages to muddle through before upheaval is general and ordinary, peace-loving Joe Normie—however ferocious his patriotism—finds himself prepared to peer through a 4x Leupold at the shitlib next door, fully and firmly intent on doing him grievous bodily harm. Joe’s patience will always outstrip his battle-wrath, even when the danger of losing all is clear and growing. For that, we should all probably be thankful. The time will come soon enough for Joe to shed his civilized reluctance and wreak vengeance on his tormenters. If you doubt his will to stand and deliver, remember your Kipling:
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.
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Posted on December 31, 2020 December 31, 2020 by Mike
Do, or die.
How each of you reading this decide to answer this question will determine the course of history. Will the domestic enemies of the US Constitution complete the destruction of the Document and the subversion of the American Republic, or will 70 million Americans fight so that those on the Left are defeated and held accountable? Make no mistake, there are no good choices. We are well past the point of having good options.
If we choose, as liberty loving people, to resist this communist coup, there will be blood. The Left has promised, and proven, violence if their coup is resisted. Many may die, patriots, tyrants, and innocents caught in the middle in the next few months. Some of us reading this may die. Some of our wives and children may die. The Union may fracture, perhaps irrevocably. The fabric of America will be irrevocably changed, and not for the better. This will start a civil war, and nobody truly wins in such a conflict. Isn’t the alternative better? If we just give in, won’t the Left leave us alone? What does history tell us?
If we surrender without fighting, as the Left is desperately urging us to do, then history tells us what happens next. Just as in Russia after the Revolution, or Germany when the National Socialists took power, or Venezuela, or in every other country where the Left has stolen the power of government, without exception, Liberty loving folks will be progressively and relentlessly hounded. Using the full force of the Federal government, initially in the ‘blue’ states, but increasingly everywhere, the Left will attack anyone they view as their enemy. Trump voters will be targeted, small businesses will be obliterated, the middle class will be but a memory, and any attempt at resistance will be crushed by the Left using the mechanisms of the Federal government. If you thought that the FBI, the IRS and the EPA under Barry Soetero were bad, then just wait and do nothing, and see what happens next.
States that voted for Trump will receive disproportional attention; denial of revenues, increased regulatory attention, investigations and harrassment of state legislators, and targeted violence and assassinations of influential state politicians. Self defence will be made a Federal crime and the means for self defence likewise criminalized. Worse, there will be no chance of change for the foreseeable future; once having stolen control of the Federal authority, the Left will never permit any repetition of Trump’s 2016 Federal victory, and all subsequent “elections” will result in victory by the Left. Just as in communist Russia, socialist Germany, and progressive Venezuela.
Should Trump fail to use the Insurrection Act, or his 2018 Executive order to smash this coup and if We The People do not wholeheartedly support him if he does, then rest assured that once the Left gains power, they will not hesitate to use these instruments, and others, together with the entire mechanism of the Federal government against their enemies. Against us. The Left has promised this, and can be expected to deliver. There will be no peace, should we fail, except the peace of the grave, and those not killed will be slaves to the Left, allowed to live on sufferance, and the Left will ensure that the survivors suffer. These united States will become Portland Oregon writ large.
I see no other realistic alternatives before us. We all will die someday. Either we run the risk of death in a hard fought civil war or we surrender and face the certainty of oppression and death by the Left, backed by the power of the Federal Government that we surrendered into their hands.
I really, really wish I could say he’s wrong. But…I can’t.
Thanks to Historian, who has two posts up over at Fran’s place his own self, for the heads-up.
Update! In the first of the above-linked brace of posts, Historian poses the burning question: What is to be done? Then he answers it.
It would appear that Liberty loving folk here in these united States are awakening to the idea that their freedoms may indeed be gone if THEY do not do something about it. Most folks, having never considered the subject, are reasonably enough at a loss for how to proceed. One of the reasons that I am a student of history is that while technology changes, human nature does not. It is always worth examining the strategy and tactics of the enemy for useful means and methods, and while I revile the result, one has to regard Lenin’s approach as successful, especially since the American Left has emulated it so closely. What did Lenin say should be done?
After walking us through a few examples from the historical record, he gets down to brass tacks.
Rage is the appropriate emotional response, but rage, by itself, is insufficient. Liberty loving folks are late to the party and we are fragmented, divided and under ongoing assault. So, assuming Biden is illegitimately installed in what will once again be the Spite House, what are we to do about it?
Make our weakness our strength. A grass roots resistance movement numbering in the millions, composed of tens of thousands of small independent cells cannot be effectively infiltrated. Hidden in the body of the American people it cannot be overtly crushed militarily. And with somewhere between 600 million and a billion small arms, with over a million unlicensed machine guns, it cannot be disarmed. Unless we consent.
The road to a successful resistance movement is a journey, and each individual in it has to walk that road at their own pace. The key is starting the journey, establishing the habit of independent thought and action as you take each step. Some may move faster than others and are willing and able to go farther in their journey, but that does not matter as much as your commitment to Liberty.
First, establish your own ideological foundation. Ask yourself, and be sure that you understand the answer to the question, “What is the primary function of government?” If, like me, you believe that the primary function of government is to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then you are a friend of Liberty. Satisfy yourself and understand the reasons why you believe that the present actions of the Left are INTOLERABLE. Not just evil, but not to be tolerated under any circumstance. Withdraw your consent from what would be an illegitimate government. Once you have established that in your mind, then take the next step.
Follows, a whole slew of specific ideas, my far-and-away favorite of which is this:
We’ve talked about the need for the Freedom Forces to have a robust logistical infrastructure, but we must also consider attriting the Left’s infrastructure. One way to do this is to shun them. Have nothing to do with a Leftist; refuse them service if you can. If forced to, give crappy service in the guise of stupidity or incompetence. If you are a barista, put salt in their coffee instead of sugar, or put too much sugar in. Never give them what they want. Overcharge them. Give them the two day old pastries or the moldy ones with the mold scraped off, especially if they are taking it “to go”. If you get a complaint, take refuge in the rhetoric of the Left, accusing them of ageism or sexism, or racism if you are a person of color. If you are involved in online sales and can identify your customer as a leftist, send them the wrong stuff; my wife ordered gloves and got a bunch of food containers, purely by accident. This was amusing, but imagine a Leftist receiving a copy of Trump’s “Great Again” instead of the Lenin’s “State and Revolution.” Confusion in medical records is always interesting if it is possible to do without being traced. The point is, make their interactions with Americans as unpleasant as possible, and never relent. Be innovative and creative. Take another step.
I LOVE it. A tremendous part of our problem, arguably the biggest single reason why we’re where we are in the first damned place, is that the Left has never suffered real consequences for their abominable actions. Therefore, what reason do they have to cease and desist? So be it, then; suffer they must—REAL suffering, I mean, REAL pain. The kind of pain not easily forgotten, the kind of soul-deep agony that instills intense reluctance to ever again offer offense against those who inflicted it.
Real Americans have only ever wished to be left alone, to be allowed to live their lives in peace and at least some semblance of freedom unmolested. The Left chose to deny that wish, most emphatically and with extreme vindictiveness. It must be driven home to them that they chose….poorly, and to regret it so profoundly they’ll never feel the slightest temptation to make the same mistake twice.
Posted in Believe it or Else, Big tsimmis, Counterrevolution, Domestic Disputes, Hard times in the land of plenty, Meltdown? What Meltdown?, Read and Heed, This Far, No Farther, Where Do We Go from Here?
Vassals and serfs, under the sway a nakedly hostile regime.
If you believe, as all Americans should, that failure to abide by the strictures of the Constitution renders the institutions of government illegitimate, then I would argue that 2020 has crystallized an uncomfortable reality: we are now under occupation by a hostile governing force. That may seem ludicrous to some, but I see no distinction between a group of Americans seizing power and governing with complete disregard for the Constitution and an invading force of Chinese communists accomplishing the same objective. Our governing document clearly proscribes what government actors may do, and when the government as a whole discards those constraints as mere suggestions, then it delegitimizes itself.
Show me where in the Constitution agents of local or state governments are empowered to arbitrarily and capriciously suspend Americans’ attempts to make a living, exercise their religious faiths, and peaceably assemble in protest of their governments’ abridgments of their freedoms. Show me where in the Constitution expansive exceptions to Americans’ free speech are carved out that authorize tech companies with monopoly power over the digital town square to censor free debate over the scientific efficacy of pandemic lockdowns or the overwhelming evidence of voting irregularities in the presidential election or even the mere promotion of conservative points of view. Show me where in the Constitution Dr. Fauci is entitled to declare what freedoms Americans may still possess, where Andrew Weissmann is elevated to Lord High Inquisitor in charge of persecuting political allies of the elected president, or where Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel is charged with hunting down lawyers who challenge election fraud. Where does the Constitution give the state of California veto power over the enforcement of federal immigration laws, while giving Arizona no means of protecting the sovereignty of its own borders? Where does the Constitution declare that Black Lives Matter and Antifa are exempt from criminal laws and pandemic lockdowns but that Americans with ideas at odds with Hollywood or academe should be targeted and harassed? How is it possible for elected representatives to enter office by taking oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States while they simultaneously declare their intentions to deprive Americans of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms, their First Amendment rights to worship and speak as they choose, and their Fourteenth Amendment right to receive equal protection under the law? And where does the Constitution insist that the results of a patently fraudulent election must be respected simply because no court in the land will consent to hearing the merits of disputes too numerous to ignore?
It was once common knowledge in this country that all forms of government, no matter how well intended, are inherently corrupt. This was considered an elementary-school history lesson. The Founding Fathers were unanimous in this sentiment. The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and any of the private correspondence between the signers and ratifiers of those important documents all proceed from a fundamental truism: government cannot be trusted. It is, at best, a necessary nuisance in order to constrain the worst impulses of men and, at worst, the greatest threat to an individual’s natural liberties.
That this important historical lesson has been all but deleted from modern curricula that now extol the merits of bigger and bigger government capable of manipulating each human detail, from the biological sex listed on a birth certificate to the global management of hydrocarbon energy, is a tragedy that will continue to produce harm until the lesson is painfully learned again.
Tragedy? No, not quite. I see it as more along the lines of a dead giveaway: the exposed detail that reveals the existence of an agenda, from which an entire conspiracy can then be intuited. Stark raving paranoia, with no evidence to back it up? Could be, could be.
But can anybody out there come up with a credible alternative explanation for why American government schools, starting back in the 70s, radically altered the way American history was taught—opting to bowdlerize, selectively edit, or outright suppress broad swathes of it—weaponizing education itself for purposes of manipulation and subversion, rather than just presenting the material in a more or less fair way as they did before? For why the bedrock principles that form the foundation upon which this nation was built, are now denigrated as archaic and inadequate, instead of examined and honored? For why the Founders, personally, are reviled rather than revered—their human failings grotesquely magnified, their accomplishments dismissed out of hand?
As for the Fauci mention specifically, what I’d really like to have a satisfactory explaination for is why the hell that skulking mediocrity still has a fucking job. Because try as I might, I CANNOT find one.
Posted in Believe it or Else, Commies, Death to Liberty!, Gangster Government, Hard times in the land of plenty, Life in a once-great nation, Life In The O!gulag, LOSING!, The Almighty State, The Liberal Way of War, We Are Soooooo Screwed
What’s goin’ on
The great conundrums of our era: Does he, or doesn’t he? Is he, or isn’t he? Will he, or will he not?
I’m impatient, as I expect most American Thinker readers are as well. We have been promised a coming storm that will be biblical, or a Kraken released on Deep State conspirators. Despite Attorney General Barr acknowledging spygate as “one of the greatest travesties in American history,” there has not yet been a reckoning.
A mid-level FBI attorney, Kevin Clinesmith, pled guilty to falsifying a document which became one of the lynchpins of a FISA warrant on Carter Page and subsequent spying on Donald Trump and his campaign, but he has yet to be sentenced. His co-conspirators are writing books, teaching at prestigious universities, and bashing President Trump on cable news shows.
A presidential election was stolen, and Trump’s own executive agencies say ho-hum, roll over, and go back to sleep. The same FBI that sent 15 agents to investigate a garage door handle that Bubba Wallace claimed was a noose, can’t seem to find any reason to investigate a host of election irregularities.
Republican members of Congress, who happily rode Trump’s coattails to their elections, are telling him to “accept the results” and “move on,” oblivious to the fact that if they get their wish, their party will become as irrelevant as the Green Party. Media stalwarts that were once “fair and balanced,” have tilted to the left, becoming “unfair and unhinged,” rivaling the standard left-wing cable news gabfests.
Perhaps more is going on than I can see, but what is visible to 75 million Trump supporters, those who have endured ridicule and scorn for supporting their president, is that nothing is happening. This is Trump’s administration and he’s the boss. He hires and fires, just as he did in the real estate development world and on “The Apprentice.”
That’s one way to look at it. But there’s a flipside.
Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general and strategist, author of a treatise on military strategy known as “The Art of War.” Trump is a fan, as this book which made his short list of “best leadership books.” Trump quoted Sun Tzu in this 2012 tweet, long before Twitter was fact-checking his every utterance and attaching warnings and disclaimers to each tweet.
Can Sun Tzu’s ancient wisdom and strategy explain the current apparent “nothing is happening” perception for those who, like myself, are becoming increasingly impatient over “all hat and no cattle” promises coming from Team Trump? Is Trump following the Sun Tzu battle plan?
As of yet, there has been no storm, no Kraken. Trump has followed the Constitution, making legal arguments up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. What Vice President Pence does when it is time to again follow the Constitution and certify the Electoral College votes is to be determined.
Will a massive declassification of criminal and seditious activities subdue the Democrats? Will Trump win without a bloody battle? Time will tell.
At this point, it’s a binary choice. Either Trump is in over his head and will be dragged out of office. Or he is executing his plan, on his terms and timing, as he has done since his famous escalator ride at Trump Tower in 2015.
Trump knows the stakes for himself, his family, and America if Kamala Harris and Joe Biden get the keys to the kingdom and promptly hand them over to China. Want to bet against Trump? How has that worked out in the past?
Ponder these words from Trump’s inspiration, Sun Tzu,
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
Mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy.
Is Trump unprepared? Au contraire. Listen to Oprah interviewing him in 1988, more than thirty years ago. He looks younger but sounds the same as he does now, speaking of China, immigration, and electoral politics. Trump has been preparing for this moment most of his adult life.
Buckle up for an interesting few weeks ahead.
It’d be nice to think so, but…well, I dunno. At the moment, that last line is the one and only thing we can all be certain of.
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The biggest DIY project of all time
Roll up your sleeves, everybody.
During an impromptu address from the White House Tuesday night, President Trump called his supporters to “raise their voices” and demand that election injustices be “immediately corrected.”
“If this egregious fraud is not fully investigated and addressed, the 2020 election will forever be regarded as illegitimate and the most corrupt election in the history of our country,” the president declared.
In his remarks, President Trump sought to explain to the American people why he is “so determined to pursue every legal and constitutional option available” to overturn the 2020 election.
“As president, one of my most solemn duties is to protect the integrity of your sacred right to vote,” Trump said. “This year, using the virus as a pretext, Democrat officials in the key swing states illegally violated their own state laws in order to enable, encourage and facilitate fraud on a scale never before seen in the history of our country.”
The president insisted that he won the election by a landslide. “We won it big,” he said.
“Now is the time for the American people to raise their voices and demand that this injustice be immediately corrected,” Trump said.
Sorry, Mr President, but mere voices aren’t going to fix this, no matter how many of them we raise or how high we raise them. How could they, when we know our enemies are deaf to them anyhow? No, I’m afraid we’ll have to raise something more, um, tangible, shall we say. Something that causes more than just psychological pain when it’s raised. Something that will raise a few things in its own special way: bruises, welts, blisters, scars.
You’re right, however, to urge We the People to stand with you in support. The fact is that, sooner or later, the defense of liberty always falls to us. The task is far too vital to trust a proven-untrustworthy “leadership” cabal to see the job done. We have shirked; we have been slack and indolent, we have sought to fob our duty off on others. Even worse, we seem to have forgotten that it ever was our duty in the first damned place.
As a result, we’ve fallen badly behind on the maintenance that keeps our blessed inheritance properly tuned, and now find ourselves in one hell of a mess. The Constitution engine is wheezing, clanking, spewing smoke and fluids from a dozen places due to years of neglect and abuse. It’s dangerously close to throwing a rod or breaking the crank, seizing it beyond hope of repair. It’s no more than appropriate and just that we re-shoulder the burden, take up the tools prescribed in the manual (yes, I do mean THOSE tools, should the Enemy persist in his ever-more-crude thievery and thuggery), and get back to work before we find ourselves broken down far from home, stranded in a dark and dismal place into which we should never have strayed, and will endlessly rue the visit.
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Does not compute
With math so fuzzy it appears be growing a full beard, they have to be using Common Core methods.
(39)With 212Million registered voters and 66.2% voting,140.344 M voted. Now if Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden. These numbers don’t add up to what we are being told. Lies and more Lies!https://t.co/pY3n6DEWzP https://t.co/5FSNfJw992
— Bill Binney, Constitutional Patriot (@Bill_Binney) December 19, 2020
The claim, ludicrous on its very face, is that the miserably unpopular Uncle Gropey “won” over 80 million “votes.” This, mind, after his embarrassingly pathetic primary squeak-by’s, then an entire summer of being unable to draw more than a handful of buzzards to his campaign-appearance shitwagon. Binney’s total vote percentage of 66.2 was culled from the Enemedia organ grinder’s monkeys at the WaPo; according to their chart, that’s the highest percentage of registered-voter participation since 1908’s 65.7 percent. Joe Hoft gives the final tally:
Using the numbers as of today, which are materially similar to Binney’s, we find a huge issue. If we have 213.8 million registered voters in the US and 66.2% of all voters voted in the 2020 election, that equals 141.5 voters who voted in the 2020 election (Binney shows 140 million which is materially the same).
If President Trump won 74 million votes, then that leaves only 67.5 million votes remaining for Biden. This means 13 million duplicate or made up ballots were created and counted for Biden!
This also supports our observations from the start. Biden committed fraud in every imaginable way, but the big steal was in millions of fraudulent votes that were created to steal the election for Biden. MILLIONS!
The results of the 2020 election at a very high level do not add up. This is math liberals – very simple math that even liberals should be able to understand. At a high level, the Biden camp clearly committed fraud.
Well, duh. Every sensible and honest person in the country (qualifiers that assuredly exclude all shitlibs)—hell, in the entire WORLD—knows it at this point.
After all the video recordings; the thousands of sworn affidavits from credible witnesses; the statistically-impossible results; the computer “glitches” that only went in one direction; the beyond-shady mail-in ballots; those things, and a preponderance of further evidence, we ALL know it. How could we not?
And it’s not going to change a goddamned thing.
Which is why I’m thinking this maybe ought to be my last post on the fraudulent 2020 election. Might not be, I admit. But it probably should be. Not to denigrate Joe’s hard work above, mind, but for me the topic has become boring, with odds heavily trending towards an imminent collapse into downright wearisome. A few reasons why:
Nothing has ever, ever, EVER been achieved by trying to persuade a shitlib with logic, facts, and figures. At best they’re supremely disinterested in those things whenever they don’t serve the Left’s interests, which is always; at worst, they’re actively hostile to them. In either case, deploying such irrelevancies against shitlibs is worse than a waste of your time. It annoys the pig as well. Their aggressive disinterest and/or hostility to the Three Horribles—logic, facts, figures, with the historical record and actual science thrown in for good measure in some contexts—serve them as a suit of medieval armor, overlaid by a modern warship’s heavy steel hull-plating, all surrounded by a Star Trek-style force field, creating a shield leaving them invulnerable to all three
Expecting that corrupt, traitorous PermaState agencies such as the DoJ or any/all other Swamp-critter tentacles like the USSC and Enemedia, might be relied upon to do their sworn duty, honor their oaths, and act to right this abominable wrong is every bit as foolish and self-defeating as pinning your hopes on the US Constitution and settled black-letter election law. The Constitution in particular, trampled into insensate pulp long decades ago, was just flung down and danced upon in front of the eyes of the world. So how stupid does one have to be to believe that the poor battered thing will suddenly rise from the grave to save American’s bacon now?
Vichy GOPe quislings, wetting themselves with joy over the prospect of soon resuming their perennial-loser role as the Democrat-Socialists’ pliant chew toys after the Trump Unpleasantness, have eagerly jumped right onto the reeking carcass of American democracy themselves to get in a few solid kicks, demanding that Trump supporters must all now unite to proclaim their support of our new Dear Leader, pResident-(S)elect Gropey Joe Biden-Harris. Anybody who thinks such unprincipled, soulless swine will break character all of a sudden to do the right thing isn’t just stupid, but delusional
Yes, the 2020 election was indeed stolen, and we all know it. Something else we all know, or should by now: exactly what kind of actions constitute the last desperate chance to undo this most brazen of broad-daylight heists. Carrying on with the assembly of a legal case that will never be either heard or heeded no matter how airtight its construction is a mug’s game, played on a table I’m no longer very interested in sitting at. The question no longer revolves around court cases, numbers, facts, or lawyerly maneuvers. The sole question is what comes next…and whether enough of us are up to our unwanted task.
A challenge has been posed, a gauntlet thrown down. This challenge won’t be resolved via papers, filings, and briefs. It can only be met with steel, determination, and blood.
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The word of the day seems to be “secession.” That, or some other specimen of national break-up. Which is every bit as futile a notion as the fantasy that the massive and completely successful 2020 election fraud will miraculously be righted via courtroom maneuvering or other peaceful means.
Ain’t gonna happen, folks.
The nation’s current divide is partly geographic but mostly cultural and juridical. The Texas-led states, despite including parts of the former confederacy, now stand for the rule of law and the civil rights protections of the 1868 14th Amendment. The California-led states now seek to undo over 150 years of human rights laws so that they can override the suffrage and petitions of a “suspect class” (Republicans).
Polling indicates that neither side is budging on the question that best serves as a litmus test: whether the election of Joe Biden is legitimate. About half the country believes it was not because they share Texas’s understanding of what citizen rights are and what constitutes evidence. Half the country believes the election was legitimate because they share California’s understanding of citizen rights as framed by context and by goals, with any means being justified by the right goals, depending on the group involved.
For the first time in anyone’s living memory, we have to contend with the real possibility that the United States will split into separate nations. The split will not look like the 19th century Civil War and may not even be a war at all. Looking at history, I’ve come upon the following possible precedents in history that may help us understand the potential outcomes.
Follows, three historical examples going all the way back to the Roman Empire. Normal American runs down a few scenarios himself before proposing the only one I’ve seen yet that’s even a wee mite plausible:
There is an alternative. An October column here endorsed co-existence through radical federalism: “Longer term re-stabilization could devolve power from Washington, D.C. to state governments. California could ban pickups and mandate abortions, while Texas could do the opposite. Nobody would love it, but the republic would survive.”
An American Mind article from November 30 proposes radical federalism through a constitutional convention. The result would be one currency, one army, mostly separate, somewhat united. Most federal functions would vanish, with state courts becoming “the final word on the right to bear arms, free speech and abortion.” That avoids the difficulty of the U.S. Fourth Fleet in Florida operating a few miles from Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in hostile territory previously known as Georgia.
Sadly, no evidence suggests that the left will compromise. It is emboldened. Our self-appointed rulers are calling President Trump and his supporters “maggots” who “must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society.” Democrat operatives are talking up “guillotines.” Instead of lowering tensions this week, Joe Biden’s senior aides are cursing opponents. Plus federalism is racist.
Even under such a plan, the Defense Department, the State Department, intelligence agencies, federal law enforcement, and the Federal Reserve will continue. Those account for millions of jobs and nearly a quarter of today’s federal budget. The deep state creatures denning in these agencies will not agree to reductions in their authority any more than a colony of paper wasps will agree to the destruction of its nest.
A second American Mind article was published this week as a rebuttal to the first. The left will not tolerate co-existence, wrote Edward Erler, an emeritus professor of political science. “Like all domineering partners who abuse their consorts, they want to rule.”
A commenter at the American Greatness article above forcefully reiterates that home truth:
The only flaw I can see to the “separate ways” argument is a fatal one.
No matter what you do, no matter what you try, do you really think these people will leave you alone?
A major part of the draw of American leftism is the false sense of moral and intellectual superiority it confers to its devotees. But what good is that if you don’t have a captive audience of people into whose faces you can rub your superiority? If you can’t reach them, then how can you lord over them? Tell them how to live? What to eat? When they can leave their homes? Whether they’re permitted to worship? How can you censor them, take away their right to self defense, and punish them?
How can you keep humiliating them and mocking them with sham elections that serve to reinforce their helplessness before your power?
We lost the culture wars because every time we gave in to what the leftists demanded and asked, “Now will you leave us alone?” they attacked another institution.
They will never leave you alone.
So you might as well fight them where you are. This is our country. Our Constitution, our Republic. Not theirs. Why cede it to them? Fight.
Sadly, the very next commenter plunges face-first into the fog of Pretend War, emphasizing the crucially crucial importance of “attending city government meetings, attending school board meetings, running for local government” and, one can only assume, VOTING VOTING VOTING! Aesop puts paid to that happy horseshit with a bucket of cold-water reality to the face.
It’s nice to dream (by which I mean it’s free, pleasant, and makes one feel happy), but you aren’t going to dream your way out of what’s coming.
You can’t dream your way out of socialism.
And history demonstrates, over and over, that you cannot vote your way out of it either.
So unless you’re 10 years old, and planning on outliving it, eventually, when you’re 95, the only way out of socialism is either to flee it (to where?), or to fight it.
Yup. And when some of us more practical, historically-literate types say “fight,” we are NOT talking about verbal complaints, smoke signals, angry letters to the editor, or allegorical puppet theater, either.
Like it or not, whatever “split” is going to happen in America already did—a philosophical, ideological, and cultural divergence that severed Lincoln’s “bonds of affection” in all but the strictly physical/geographic sense—and that’s as far as things are going to go without bloodshed. I repeat: FederalGovCo will never, ever, EVER peaceably agree to cede its power over half the country by partitioning it off and just letting all that territory, all that infrastructure, all those military installations, and all those taxpayer dollars stroll away unmolested. In fact, now that we’ve taken the final steps towards Commie dictatorship with the recent fraudulent “election,” I’d say the bloated, illegitimate central government’s iron grip is far likelier to tighten than to relax.
We fought one Civil War over secession already. Does anybody really want to try arguing that—after a century and a half of consolidating its might, expanding it, and carefully sweeping up the remaining scraps of Federalism and States’ Rights—the government is MORE likely to shrug its shoulders and allow it to occur without a murmur now? Although I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to a national split myself if it would mean out-and-out war might be avoided…well, frankly, I just can’t see anything of the sort actually happening, that’s all.
More Lincoln, just to put the cherry on top.
Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible then to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
The sand in the gears is that the TWANLOCs can in no conceivable way be considered “friends” any longer, either of Real Americans or of Constitutional governance itself. As “aliens” go, they’re the worst possible variety: hostile ones. Lincoln is correct when he contends that “you cannot fight always.” But you absolutely MUST fight until your enemy is vanquished. And this war will not be won until the Left is crushed utterly, the pugnacity and power-lust stomped out of them.
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An “American Coward” speaks
Posted on December 18, 2020 by Mike
Holding back anticipating a safety in numbers that may never come.
Every one of those Americans who understands this must realize that this is it. This is the last moment for the American Republic, the last time we will even have a glimmer of a chance of an honest election result, and the last time any opposition to modern communism will be afforded space in the public square. And yet, neither I nor most of you are going to do anything about this situation that might risk our present status or comfort.
This is why I won’t yet act.
Unfortunately for me, the crisis has come either too late or too early. Our family has four young children, a single income, and a base of assets which could be easily lost but probably never replaced. We are maximally vulnerable to the sorts of attacks which collectivists bring against those who fight back.
Even so, if the fight were on, if the majority of Americans who this past election shows are opposed to creeping collectivism were on the march, I would risk it all to join them. No comfort, no wealth, not even life itself is as important as preserving the possibility of human freedom. The hive-society prison which is being built around us must be demolished at any cost.
But when I look around me, I see many people who are paralyzed as I am. We know that the fight for our republic is unavoidable, and that the time is now, but do not see a nucleus of resistance to which we can pledge our lives, fortunes, and sacred honors without it being tantamount to suicide. We are watching and waiting for someone else to be that nucleus.
Most people who have not committed to the cause of freedom are not conscious supporters of modern communism. Some hold out the futile hope that things will all go back to normal, others have convinced themselves that what is happening is inevitable and cannot be opposed. Both are dead wrong. As open struggle against collectivism, communism, authoritarianism, and globalism rises, both of these positions will weaken, and support for freedom will grow.
I put “American Coward” in quotes in my title because honestly, I’m not at all sure that that’s she actually is. Her initial commentary on communism—indeed, the whole piece, which you should definitely read—shows her to be a woman of intelligence, a modest mother of four whose primary concern is for her family’s security and well-being but who nonetheless acutely grasps the overall situation, and is sincerely pained by it.
So is she REALLY a “coward,” then? Or is she a rational, reasonable soul who is deeply troubled by all this but finds herself at sea when it comes to the practicalities of what she can do about it personally? Does her duty to her children override all else? Or does her duty to her country compel her to rise up and take every action she must to help preserve it from Enemies, Domestic? Exactly what IS her duty here, anyway? Might there still be some useful part for her to play? Kit Perez takes a stab at resolving the conundrum.
I wonder how many in the current climate recognize the act of defiance it took for you to write your letter. There will be those who focus on your supposed “cowardice,” as if standing up in the current game of Whack-a-Mole is somehow bravery, and restraint is proof of spinelessness. In reality, it is not cowardice you possess, but a recognition that there are different roles to play in this war, and different times to play them. Not all roles require a rifle, and not all of them are being played right now. I cannot speak for anyone but myself, but I fear they will all be in much greater use sooner rather than later.
Your choice to raise your children and train them in freedom, to serve as a support mechanism instead of a front line partisan, is not a cowardly one. The time is coming soon when those fighting for freedom will need a place to hide, food to eat, and a way to communicate. You may be a conduit for supplies, information, and a safe place for a partisan to get a tiny bit of much-needed rest someday in the near future. This is all for naught if our children cannot live in freedom, but doubly so if they do not understand its cost.
There are those who are willing to be on the proverbial tip of the spear, and they see you as well. If they are students of their own role, they understand that yours is crucial too. Paine wrote that “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.” Duty doesn’t always mean a rifle, and I have no doubt that you, and many others like you, will find a way to serve in the coming trouble.
Your letter did not fill me with a sense of superiority or judgment for your position, and I do not believe that you are somehow worth less in the cause of freedom. If anything, it made me take heart, because I see you. I see your heart and your willingness to be part of the fight for liberty, if only as a “mere” cog in a larger system, one that is bigger than any of us.
There will be a time when you are needed to take up your role, and that day is coming so much faster than any of us would ever wish for. Perhaps a wounded patriot will find your door in desperate need of help. Maybe you will find a way to get supplies to those who are fighting. Maybe your role is simply to stay alive long enough to tell our story to your children. And if all else fails, in a time when there is seemingly no hope, someone has to pick up our rifles and keep fighting. Your letter says that you will, and that is all we can ask for.
Seems right to me. As I’ve said here several times before, I am way too damned old and sickly now myself to shoulder a fifty-pound ruck, a medium-to-long range rifle and ammunition, and then hump on off for a month-long sniper sojourn in the woods. But among other things, I can roll bandages and/or load mags like a motherfucker. That may not seem like very much, especially to the chest-thumpier types among us, all a-brim with bluff and bluster as they are. But it ain’t nothing, either. Flinging hot lead downrange isn’t the only contribution to be made in wartime, as every real soldier knows. Not by a long yard, it ain’t.
So be of good cheer, Sarah, as much as any of us can manage during these most parlous times. We’ll all have our own part to play in the dark days ahead. Even the most valiant of warriors requires substantial rear-area support in order to fight and win on the front lines. It’s not shirking or cowardice to recognize where and how one can be of most real use, and to know one’s limitations and liabilities. What matters is that we jump in and fill that hole when we see one.
(Both via WRSA)
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Spade=spade
Hey, when he’s right, he’s right.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested Wednesday that politicians who impose lockdowns or curfews to limit COVID-19 are acting like dictators.
The comments came as López Obrador once again fended off questions about why he almost never wears a face mask, saying it was a question of liberty.
The Mexican leader said pandemic measures that limit people’s movements are “fashionable among authorities … who want to show they are heavy handed, dictatorship.”
“A lot of them are letting their authoritarian instincts show,” he said, adding “the fundamental thing is to guarantee liberty.”
Oh wow, I just got chills over here. AMLO is generally regarded as a bit of a left-wing authoritarian his own self. But, as I said: when the guy’s right, he’s right. And here, at least, he sounds way more genuinely American than all too many Americans In Name Only (AINOs?) I could name.
Some local governments in Mexico have tried to use police to enforce limits on masks or movement, which resulted in scandals of abusive behavior by police. López Obrador argues such measures should be voluntary.
“Everyone is free. Whoever wants to wear a face mask and feel safer is welcome to do so,” López Obrador said.
Bingo. And if you’re still quaking in terror over the prospect of contracting a case of the Red Death, stay the fuck home then.
But one area in which Mexico has joined with the rest of the world is in the rush to acquire vaccines. López Obrador urged the country’s medical safety commission, known as Cofepris, to hurry up and approve the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech, which has already been given the go-ahead by regulators in the U.K.
And on Wednesday, Mexico’s Health Department signed a contract for 34.4 million doses of that vaccine, and said it hoped to receive 250,000 doses in December. Each person requires two doses.
Mexico has seen almost 107,000 test-confirmed deaths so far, the fourth-highest toll in the world, but Mexico does relatively little testing and officials estimate the real death toll is closer to 150,000.
OOOOOO, SCARY!!! Right?
The current population of Mexico is 129,558,105 as of Friday, December 18, 2020, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
Mexico 2020 population is estimated at 128,932,753 people at mid year according to UN data.
Oh. Um, never mind. I have two problems here, just as I have all along.
Grand County, Colorado: 40% of COVID Deaths Were Actually Victims of Gunshot Wounds
That’s just one of many, many examples of how grotesquely the Shanghai Sniffles “death toll” has been artificially inflated—the numbers juiced purely for political rather than public-health purposes, as cover for the biggest power-grab in the history of ever.
Which, in turn, bolsters the notion behind those two problems I mentioned. To wit: if this shamdemic was really the planet-depopulator it’s been sold as, then A) TPTB wouldn’t have to lie about it as they have been right from the very beginning; B) the very same “leaders” who have so gleefully destroyed entire local and regional economies via lockdowns that they haven’t the legal authority to mandate wouldn’t be out dining in restaurants, attending parties, and such-like themselves, as they’re constantly getting caught doing. They’d be securely bunkered down in the governor’s mansion or someplace instead, quaking in terror of possibly contracting the Red Death.
Y’know, like YOU’RE supposed to be.
To borrow Glenn’s famous phrase about Climate Change (formerly Global Warming, formerly Global Cooling, formerly “the weather”): I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people claiming it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis. Until then? Fuck off and die, the whole flea-bitten lot of ya.
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A bleak but frank assessment of where we now stand.
What do I owe to my country? Its central government is thoroughly and irredeemably corrupt. It is bankrupt both fiscally and morally. As of this writing, its judiciary has shown itself incapable of defending the Republic against the depredations of leftist rabble. The tentacles of its bureaucracy reach into the lives and wallets of the productive class “eating out the substance of the people” exactly as Jefferson warned. Yet still, with the stench of corruption and theft pervading the country, this government assumes my loyalty.
What, pray tell, has it done to deserve it? Mobs of the indoctrinated expect that we should all just “get over it” and “come together to heal” as if the gangrenous clot of necrotic tissue that is the political culture of this nation will ever heal. Our rulers, our media, and half our “countrymen” piss down our backs and still insist it’s raining. The fealty of helots is what the Lords of Washington expect. They will not get it from me.
The loyalty of free men is reserved for a government of equals, not an aristocracy of reptiles. The latter is what we suffer now. The former we once possessed, but it lies now in the dust of history. The outward form and function remain, but the spirit of liberty, which animated it, has gone. The ties by which free men bind themselves voluntarily to any form of government have long since been sundered by the actions of those who have chosen to rule rather than govern. I will not suffer those ties to become shackles.
Since my forbears bequeathed to me a form of government that no longer exists, I am released from further obligation to the abomination that has replaced it. My loyalty, like my liberty, belongs to me and me alone. It is mine to give or to withdraw as I see fit. I owe the rulers of this land nothing: not life, not liberty, not the pursuit of my own happiness. These things are mine from my first breath to my last gasp. They cannot be abrogated, regulated, or terminated by the denizens of a distant city who presume to know what is best for me. These…people (I do not have the words for the contempt I feel for them) have polluted our forms of government, destroying what they can, dismantling what they cannot.
Everywhere is grift and graft. They have taken nearly everything, yet they still want more. They want my body shackled, my spirit humbled, and my mind enslaved. They try to steal the very breath from my body with their filthy rags. They have trampled upon my God-given rights, indoctrinated my children, accused me, threatened me, and silenced me. Now they have stolen even my choice from me. This government and its leftist appendages have betrayed my trust and half my fellow citizens treat me and mine with undisguised contempt. My loyalty to them and to their government is at an end.
For my own part, I can only add that the Usurper Biden is not my president, and he never will be. And Amerika v2.0 is not my country. He closes with an appropriately humble examination of some of the unknowns.
I do not think I lack personal courage, but the simple fact is that I know what I do not know, and anyone who has not been in a fight like the one coming can say no different. Any man who claims a virtue not yet tested by the fight we face is a liar and a fool. As a young man, I would have welcomed the test. Now, decades on, I ponder the depth of my commitment, the strength of my arm, and the clearness of my mind. Is the man I am now fit for the fight? Only the fight itself will reveal the truth of it. I simply do not know how I will behave when the shooting starts and to claim otherwise is the height of hubris. At the least, I hope that this old man will give good account for blessings received while on this good earth.
No good thing ever achieved by man remains unsullied by the grasping hands of those who seek to exploit it. So it is with these United States. Time, trials, the certainties of fallen human nature, and the machinations of the unprincipled have accomplished what they always accomplish. This nation will crumble and the ensuing chaos will engulf us all to one degree or another. Something good, either a restoration of the old or the institution of the new, will rise from the blood and ashes. I pray that I do not love this life so much that I would live it as a slave or be unwilling to expend it for the sake of those to come. That, at least, is my hope.
Amen, brother. No matter how diligently we may try to suss it all out, the fact is that NO ONE has the vaguest idea what lies ahead. We’re walking on uncharted ground now, trapped in a singularly bewildering place and time that overwhelm all human ability to map or anticipate, with no historical precedent to serve as our guide.
Incredibly enough, I only just realized that I didn’t already have the Burning Platform blogrolled, even though I’ve linked and excerpted from there many times over the years. So I fixed it.
Update! Requiem for a murdered nation.
Let’s keep things simple, shall we.
We are facing the end of the Republic. It is easily argued that it already expired, the point being that now we face a deep state coup, massive election fraud, huge corruption, an attempted Marxist takeover, and foreign control from China.
Democrats are traitors to the Republic. Republicans are not much better. The rule of law is dead: nothing that Trump has attempted to do has been done. He is surrounded by the deep state. The three letter agencies (of which so many of you are so afraid) have sold out to the dark side. They are part of the deep state.
Many of you are sold on the PSYOP that there is a plan in place. You may follow QAnon. “Trust the plan.” There is no plan. The attorneys who have attempted to fight the election fraud in court are fools. Why? Because they are working in an old system, where they had success with big lawsuits in court, and cannot get their heads around the massive corruption of the rule of law and the court system. They are working in an old system that no longer has merit. The supreme court is not doing its job. The Lawyers will not save you; you have to save yourself.
I would like to be wrong, and I would be happy to be so. But I don’t think so. Unless Trump pulls a plan out of his ass, Biden is getting sworn in on the 20th of January. The reprieve we had during the four years of the Trump Presidency will be over.
Most of America is sleeping. They expect that we will get over this. They expect a ‘return to normal.’ That is not going to happen.
There are a few basic facts that Real Americans need to accept and internalize:
This IS “normal” for us now
It will stay that way unless and until WE CHANGE IT OURSELVES
There is no legal, nonviolent way to make that happen
The clock is ticking. Is it never too late to right a grievous wrong? Or did Meriadoc Brandybuck have the right of it on the Pelennor Fields when he despairingly said “too late is worse than never“?
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The Demonrat/GOPe/Ruling Class playbook, that is.
Trump upset this legalized political graft formula, so he had 75% of Washington out to bury him from Day One. All of the Rats, and half of the GOP. Impossible math to overcome.
And it’s not only the politicians: it’s the bureaucrats, generals, admirals, intel and DOJ bosses, leading academics and top MSM figures. Our ruling class elites are all in on the scam, moving through a continuously revolving door of doing political favors, switching jobs and obtaining seven-figure financial rewards, all while protecting one another, plus getting their undeserving brats into Ivy League schools, and then up into the ruling class nomenklatura. Chelsea Clinton was not unique, she was just a high profile example.
Donald Trump threatened this entire legalized graft arrangement with his efforts to “Drain the Swamp,” and in return he got the (so-far) non-kinetic but very real “Plomo” of all political and propaganda gun barrels fired at him from every player in this profoundly rotten system. I don’t need to run down the bill of particulars, it is familiar to all, right up to the election stolen in front of our faces.
So the Swamp won. For now.
And if the election math was bad in 2020 (considering the now-SCOTUS-approved use of ChiCom Fraud-O-Matic vote switching machines, plus truckloads of bogus “mail-in” ballots (with no witnesses at the counting), then just imagine 2022, when 20 million (at least) illegal aliens will be amnestied and given a DemSocRat voter registration card on the same day. The implicit deal will be: Vote Rat, and the Rats will welcome the rest of your foreign family into the USA with no hassles.
Thus the rolling DemSocRat snowball becomes an unstoppable avalanche. This is how The Golden State became one-party Calizuela in one generation: motor-voter at the DMV for all comers, with no questions asked, ever.
And this is how America will become Amerizuela. This is the proven DemSocRat playbook being exported nationwide.
But patriotic Americans will not calmly accept becoming powerless serfs, “Amerizuelans,” under an obviously fraudulent POTUS, in the form of the senile (and soon to be gone) Beijing Biden, and his VP (and soon to be POTUS), Kommie Harris. It has become glaringly obvious even to a blind man that these two grifting non-entities were illegitimately installed at the top of the American power pyramid by our bipartisan ruling-class nomenklatura to protect their beloved Swamp.
Patriots will not accept this election theft, and the socialist tyranny that is sure to follow if it is left unchecked.
There will be blood.
What a terrible thing, to be forced into a position of actually having to hope there will be. Great big buckets of it. But…well, here we all are. The thing that ought to give the Enemy pause, and would if he had a lick of fucking sense, is that so many Real Americans are becoming ever more eager to get this party started for real, and genuinely look forward to extracting some serious payback from their tormentors.
Something cooking update! Proggy really can’t afford NOT to pay heed, whether he knows it or not.
The “Supreme Court” did what I predicted they would do. I was correct, though I take no joy in that fact. At Instapundit, Glenn has this post up. Most interesting to me isn’t the fact that the court rejected the argument, nor what the experts think about that. It is the comments on the article, which are currently well over 1100. A sample of them follows.
I’ve been pondering a reaction to this news. Fairly simple. It’s time to get serious.
How so? Whatcha gonna doo?
Insurgency.
It’s time to finally accept the fact that we have a corrupt Federal government that prosecutes not based upon the rule of law, but based upon politics. We cannot rely on what is right or what is legal to save us.
It’s a complete and total game changer.
IF THE SUPREME COURT
will not uphold the Constitution, and the next administration is in office only through the open in-you-face rigging of a national election in a handful of counties in a handful of swing states, what moral responsibility do we have to follow SCT decisions and listen to the next administration?
None, I would argue.
SO be it. The Constitution is dead, no Constitution, no Republic. No Republic, no federal government.
Good bye all of my Instapundit/DISQUS comrades, time for war and I bid you adieu.
We’re in a new era. Rules are for chumps.
This country is something I despise now.
This is only a smattering. It’s all very serious. The American public has been placed in an awful position.
A few urban areas controlled by democrats pulled their pants down to their ankles, mooned the rest of America, and America is going to have to decide whether to take it, and if not, exactly what to do about it.
Circle the wagons. This may get froggy.
As Herschel emphasizes, these comments are from Glenn’s joint, by no reasonable definition a hotbed of radical zealotry.
Of late, I’m seeing some downright savage e-mails from correspondents whose anger, long contained at a slow simmer, has heated to a seething rage. The next step is for rage to boil on over into resolve, a prickly state that demands action to quiet. All in all, it’s a recipe for disaster for Chef Prog-Tard-Dee, whose over-confidence and inattention near a hot stove might just get him badly burned.
Something’s cooking out there, all right. As the coup-roux thickens, my initially-solid skepticism about the chance of a real, no-shit American uprising taking place is beginning to dissolve.
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This sort of thing is becoming tiresome, at least to me.
WHAT NOW? The Fight for Our Freedom Continues Despite SCOTUS Ruling on Texas
Well, it should—indeed, it must. But the futile hope to see this grievous wrong righted via legal means should be dispensed with at this point. Indeed, it must.
We have to decide are we willing to live in a country where Obama judges ignore justice and rule on their own desires?
Are we willing to live in a country where the FBI attacks honest courageous Americans for calling out corruption rather than deal with the criminals committing the corruption?
Are we willing to live in a country where hard-working Americans pay for government excess and corruption while Democrats create non-profits so they don’t have to pay taxes?
Do we want to live where the upper crust makes millions and billions sending our jobs overseas while allowing anyone to cross our borders?
Do we want to live where babies who miraculously survive abortion are murdered?
Do we want to live where you are forced to wear a mask to stop a cold- like- flu that those under 75 are virtually immune to or be forced to take vaccines that may make us sick?
Do we want to live where Big Media is worse than the Pravda and Big Tech is worse – where lies are the truth and the truth is lies and where our every step and word are observed or censored?
None of us want any of this. Today we fight on. We will never surrender our freedom. We will work through the courts and fight for justice. But we will never live in tyranny.
Hate to be the one to clue you in on this, Joe, but you ARE living in tyranny. And if the only way Americans will “fight” to secure justice is to “work through the courts,” then we’ll all go right ON living in tyranny. Another example:
Will A Small County In Northern Michigan Be The Key To Overturning The Nation’s Election Results? America Should Find Out On Monday
Having just witnessed seven members of the USSC brazen reject their duty and shit on their sacred oaths—three of them ostensibly “originalists” appointed by Trump—America certainly doesn’t have to wait until Monday to find out.
The soap box has failed us. The ballot box, ditto. The jury box just collapsed in a sodden, stinking heap before our very eyes, whatever the weaselly fictions conjured by the Slippery Seven to justify their betrayal.
That leaves us with just the one. Time we all stopped wasting our time clutching at straws and faced the facts, I think. There are magazines that need loading, and there’s a clock ticking.
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Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Label: V2 Release Date: 30/01/2006
by Mike Diver January 27th, 2006
On paper it’s a potentially disastrous pairing: on one side of this five-inch plastic disc we have Campbell, twee scene pin-up and possessor of the most delicate voice this side of one of Heaven’s own chanteuses; Lanegan, meanwhile, is the Devil’s own baritone, voice hoarsened by a life spent chasing rats and dragons down gutters and alleyways, choking on the dust of a dozen near misses. One sits upright in the library, re-arranging the bird watching sub-section into species-specific order, small to large; one rests hunched upon a bar stool, gently cradling the last whiskey his coppers can buy, a cigarette burning itself out over an ashtray already brimming with spent butts. This shouldn’t work at all, right?
Well, it does: any fears of a dangerous liaison are soon sent packing as opener ‘Deus Ibi Est’ thud-thuds its way to attention, one kick drum and a simple acoustic guitar, one voice of gravel and glass. It’s the first of a good few songs that Lanegan dominates – although it’s Campbell’s name that appears first on the sleeve, don’t misunderstand such a billing to mean that she sings the lion’s lyrical share here. Regularly she’s reduced to little more than effectively sensual coos, Lanegan’s weathered chords assuming a central role in proceedings; that said, remember that Campbell wrote most of these songs individually, and note that she's done a sterling job. Nevertheless, the songs Campbell leads – ‘Black Mountain’, ‘Saturday’s Gone’ – while pretty, are the least memorable tunes here.
Trump cards slip from the pair’s collective sleeve with reassuring regularity, though (and it must be stressed that while Campbell’s next-to-solo efforts are the least interesting songs here, they’re in no way poor) – song three, ‘The False Husband’, is a wonderful duet, strings carving tiny nicks into the crisscrossing vocals, a hangman’s bell ringing out over a guitar of purest blues. Their take on Hank Williams’ ‘Ramblin’ Man’ is among Lanegan’s best contributions, but his most arresting performance is reserved for the album’s title track, a tale of two hearts at war and its effect on the bodies that house them: “I bring you a tale of the broken seas, and I’m drowning in whiskey and beer. My doctor reports that if I don’t stop soon, I’ll drown in an ocean of tears.” The man’s lost his lady, reconciliation should be so simple, but he’d rather drink his way to his maker. The cello that appears fifty-something seconds from fade is perhaps the most mournful moment of anything these twelve songs can offer.
The sole instrumental offering, ‘It’s Hard To Kill A Bad Thing’, is perhaps an unnecessary addition, and falling as it does at track nine of twelve only increases its awkwardness – better sequencing would have seen it moved to a more central position, neatly dividing the album into two chapters. Of the remaining standouts, ‘Honey What Can I Do?’ is a wonderful amalgamation of Yo La Tengo and The Delgados, summertime indie-pop at its most graceful and charming; ‘Dusty Wreath’ meanwhile – almost an instrumental save for some trademark oooh-ing and aaah-ing from Campbell, words not totally decipherable – is the middle ground between the closing seconds of a Gregor Fisher Hamlet cigars advertisement and “Dreams can come true, they can happen to you…” It doesn’t close the record, but perhaps it should, such is its bittersweet perfection.
It turns out the paper in question was but the cover, then, and everyone knows what you shouldn’t do with one of those.
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Home News Transportation Heavy goods vehicles banned in rush hour
Heavy goods vehicles banned in rush hour
Source: gulfnews.com
Trucks carrying loads of two and half tonnes or above will not be allowed to enter Abu Dhabi city during rush hour in Ramadan, the Traffic and Patrols Department of Abu Dhabi Police has announced.
Trucks will be prevented from entering the city between 7.30am and 9.30am and 1pm to 3pm to ensure smooth traffic flow.
The department has set Ramadan working hours from 8am to 6pm at the service centres in Abu Dhabi, the Western Region and Al Ain.
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has also amended the hours trucks can travel on the roads in Ramadan. They are prohibited from using Shaikh Zayed Road (from Jebel Ali Port to Zabeel Tunnel), Al Ittihad Road (from Al Garhoud Tunnel to the outskirts of Sharjah), part of Shaikh Rashid Road (from Zabeel Tunnel to Al Garhoud Tunnel) and the Central Business District area, marked in purple, from 7am to 11pm.
Meanwhile, working hours at the Residency and Foreigners’ Affairs Department during Ramadan are set from 9am to 6pm at the various sections dealing with the public.
Visiting hours at Dubai’s Punitive and Reformative Establishments during Ramadan have been set. For men, visiting times for Emirati and Arab prisoners are on Friday between 10am and 11.30am, while for other nationalities they are on Saturday between 10am and 11.30am.
Visiting hours for Emirati and Arab women are between 9.30am and 10.30am on Friday, and for other nationalities they are between 9.30am and 10.30am on Saturday.
The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City also announced it will have extended working hours at its headquarters so that 488 villas can be handed over to Emiratis before Ramadan, a statement sent by the municipality announced yesterday. The extended hours started yesterday, and are from 7am to 8pm.
“The municipality is keen to hand over the villas to the designated beneficiaries, and they should therefore capitalise on the extended working hours over the next three days to complete the required formalities,” said Mohammad Ali Al Marar, customer services manager at the municipality.
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Our Passive House and Eco Architect Team
For each project, including eco house design, sustainable house design, green architecture and passive house design, we create a bespoke professional team from within the staff of Eco Arc, including ecological, Passivhaus and green architects, and from our associate team of collaborators, to service the project from inception through to completion.
Andrew Yeats BA Hons Dip Arch ARIAS RIBA Chartered Architect & Certified Passivhaus Designer
Andrew is a principal director of Eco Arc and Certified Passive House Architect. He established the practice in 1986 after receiving a first class honours degree and a special commendation in environmental design for his postgraduate diploma from Manchester University. Andrew has always had an enthusiastic commitment to ecological passive house design and was the project architect for the 41 certified passivhaus at Lancaster Cohousing project. Andrew particularly enjoys working collaboratively with clients to design beautiful and healthy buildings built to the highest technical and spatial standards incorporating best practice in passive house design principles within a holistic frame work.
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Nick Grant is the Principal of Elemental Solutions, a sustainable building consultant with a lifelong passion for doing more with less. His interest in closing the performance gap between design and reality led him to the Passivhaus Standard of which he is one of the UK pioneers. Nick also works on building related eco-design including lighting, sanitary ware and composting toilets. He is an active contributor to discussions on sustainable design but is also a practical engineer and self builder. He was a long time Trustee of the AECB and is Technical Director of the Passivhaus Trust. Nick has a fresh approach to sustainable building design, committed to evidence based methods with measurable results, because of this Nick advocates Passivhaus design as he knows it works and will deliver buildings with excellent comfort and genuinely low energy use. Nick provides strategic and pre-planning advice through detail design, site supervision, toolbox talks, commissioning and troubleshooting. Nick in tandem with Alan Clarke has worked with Eco Arc on many our previous passivhaus projects.
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Paul Jennings of Encraft is the UK’s most experienced airtightness tester, with coming up to 30 years in the field, including most of the UK Passivhaus projects to date. He trains testers, architects and others, as well as reviewing airtight designs to avoid potential problems on site. We have worked with Paul on all our Passivhaus projects and he has been tireless in working with the site team to get the best possible air test result on each project. Kendal Passivhaus with Paul’s due diligence assistance got down to 0.11 ach @ 50Pa at the first preliminary test. Paul is also Treasurer of the AECB and brings a wealth of rounded experience to each project.
David Tasker Consultant Engineer Corbett and Tasker
David studied engineering at Swansea University and architecture at the Bartlett (University College London) before serving his apprenticeship with Anthony Hunt. He has a long, successful career in design led engineering and has been involved in most building typologies, from large infrastructure projects to bespoke furniture. He has worked as engineering director for a number of central London consultancies most recently Ramboll where he was design director. In June 2013 he formed Corbett and Tasker to pursue personal interests of form, geometry and sustainability. Teaching has always been an important stimulus to his engineering practice and he has taught in many schools of architecture and engineering including the Architectural Association, and more recently the Centre for Alternative Technology and the Royal College of Arts. In 2005 David was awarded the Milne Medal by the Institution of Structural Engineers for excellence in structural engineering
Peter Corbett Consultant Engineer Corbett and Tasker
Peter John graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh with a first class master’s degree in 2005 having received many University awards including the Watt Club Medal for achieving the highest grades in the Civil Engineering Department in 2005. During his student years he was also awarded the Institute of Structural Engineers’ Prize for the “Most Deserving Student in Structural Design†and completed his Masters year at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Since graduating, he has gained a wide range of experience in both large and small projects leading the structural design from scheme stage through to construction. During his time with Gifford LLP and Ramboll Peter has gained expertise in steel and concrete structures, and particularly in timber design. His projects have included a number of high profile and award winning structures, many noted for their innovative use of materials and exemplary environmental standards. He is a chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers. Peter is a director and founding member of NGO Tapini eV, which works to improve access to potable water in the East Transkei region of South Africa through a range of practical and educational programmes. A chartered structural engineer has been fortunate enough to have been involved in a variety of sustainability led projects, including a wide variety of timber structures, and was the project engineer for the Eco Arc new Learning Centre at Harlow Carr & Gorton Monastery
David Ellis Dip Arch- Dip TP Architect Geomancer
David trained initially as an Architect and subsequently as a Town Planner. He worked in public and private practice as an architect and later became a full time lecturer in Architecture. As well as teaching, he also devoted his energies to initiating voluntary, environmental and community development projects. All along he felt a strong connection to the spiritual dimension of landscapes and buildings, with a particular interest in sacred geometry. Gradually, through the practice of meditation, dowsing and personal development, he became aware of the intricate patterns of subtle energies in the landscapes and the cities we inhabit, and he also found his vocation as a geomancer. David has worked with Andrew since 1980.
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Melanie initially trained as an Industrial Designer, and subsequently set up her own craft pottery as well as teaching a variety of arts, crafts and music, in Further and Adult Education. Melanie has special abilities that can make a valuable contribution to helping others, and trained in counselling, interpersonal skills, arts therapies and healing. It became clear that the same healing techniques, including dowsing, could be applied to places as well as people and she found her vocation as a geomancer. Melanie and David first met in 1986, and finding that their approaches were complimentary, they began practising together as geomancers, building up a reputation as Earthwise Geomantic Consultancy. They have worked on Eco Arc’s major projects and for a great variety of individuals, communities, businesses and projects, and with architects, surveyors, engineers, landscape architects and artists. Tel 01457 852372 email: meldaveearthwise@gmail.com
David Fotheringham MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor Turner and Holman
Eco Arc has enjoyed a long standing working relationship with David Fotheringham at Turner and Holman and particularly appreciate his understanding of the true cost implications of sustainable passive house design. David has significant experience of projects involving repair and restoration works to a wide variety of listed buildings and ancient monuments on behalf of the National Trust, English Heritage and others, also housing of a variety of types and museum projects on behalf of the National Railway Museum. Over the years David has also been involved with many nationwide projects involving increased levels of sustainable and passivhaus elements, working with Eco Arc on the 41 certified passive houses at Lancaster Cohousing and many follow on passivhaus projects.
Jon Bushell MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor Bushell Raven
Jon joined Bushell Raven Ltd in 2002 as a graduate quantity surveyor.  He was awarded a diploma in surveying in 2006 from the College of Estate Management, and was elected a Professional Member of the RICS in 2007, being made Director in 2009. Jon is passionate about bringing the traditional skills of the Quantity Surveyor into the 21st century to ensure all Bushell Ravens customers receive an efficient service adding value to every project Bushell Raven our preferred local Cumbrian QS consultants with extensive experience of Eco Build and Passivhaus construction costs
Ed Bushell MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor Bushell Raven
Ed joined the Bushell Raven Ltd in 2010 as a graduate quantity surveyor.  He was awarded an MSc in quantity surveying in 2012 from Northumbria University.  Ed was made a Director in 2013. Ed followed in his father’s and two brother’s footsteps and decided to become a Chartered Surveyor. He enjoys working on barn conversions, historic buildings and sustainable projects. Bushell Raven our preferred local Cumbrian QS consultants with extensive experience of Eco Build and Passivhaus construction costs
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Eco Arc have developed a good working relationship with our local structural engineer Richard Renier who has gained a reputation for delivering prompt, elegant and simple solutions to the structural requirements of our buildings. Richard is a graduate of Sheffield University, and a chartered civil and structural engineer. He has had a long career in engineering consultancy, and has worked in the UK, Guernsey and Afghanistan. Richard now runs his own structural engineering consultancy practice in North Yorkshire specialising in building structures. He has worked with EcoArc on numerous Passivhaus & sustainable projects.
Steve Wade Renewable Energy Specialist
Steve Wade studied as a Physicist at Queen’s College, Oxford and since 1984 has been owner & Managing Director of ‘Wind & Sun’. He has extensive commercial experience of wind & photovoltaic systems, including engineering, design, installation & application. Wind & Sun design, supply, and install wind & solar electrical systems. The company’s main experience has been with providing power supplies for remote situations, eg. isolated housing, monitoring and telemetry systems, and leisure applications. The company is now working increasingly with planners, architects and builders installing larger systems for properties with a grid electricity supply, as a means for users to generate their own electricity in an environmentally benign way. The company offices, showrooms and workshops have electrical requirements met by stand-alone and grid- connected wind/photovoltaic solar systems. These systems are also used for demonstration and training, together with product or system development, testing and evaluation. We have worked on many sustainable projects with Steve since 1992.
Rod Emberton Consultant RIBA ARIAS Chartered Architect
Our colleague Rod Emberton brings two special strengths into our projects. The first is an ability to produce specifications which are fully integrated with our drawings and tender documents, for smooth tendering and construction. The second is his knowledge and experience in working with old buildings, including those with listed status. Rod combines both an interest and experience in existing historic buildings with a wish to work in environmentally sound ways on existing and new buildings. He shares our aim to produce healthy and beautiful buildings and spaces with low environmental impact and low energy use. The same principles apply to the alteration and extension of older and historic buildings; the materials and techniques need to respect the existing structures and also be carefully chosen to be environmentally sound where new elements are introduced.
Stephen Gurney Eden Insulation
Stephen Gurney of Eden Insulation Ltd constructs timber-framed passive house homes and buildings capable of meeting or exceeding the rigorous Passivhaus standard. This specialist eco-building firm fabricates high-quality, pre-insulated, airtight panels in its factory in Appleby, Cumbria, which are crane erected on site, sealed for airtightness and ready for roofing within just a few days. With Eco Arc the experienced Eden Insulation team built the first certified Passivhaus in Cumbria and the second development in Cumbria achieved the second-best result for airtightness ever recorded in the UK at the time. Eden Insulation have worked with Eco Arc on multiple passive house projects and are our preferred Passivhaus timber frame fabricator in the UK. http://edeninsulation.co.uk/
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At the 109th session, held from October 14 to November 1, the UN Human Rights Council considered Zhodzina case and found a violation of the rights of peaceful assembly and dissemination of information in the complaint “Kamarouski against Belarus”. The violations were committed by Zhodzina authorities in 2008 in respect of a group of citizens, among whom was Alexander Kamarouski.
Let’s remind you that on 23.03.2008 after the peaceful assembly of “Freedom Day” and the 90th anniversary of the Belarusian People’s Republic (celebrated in Belarus and among the world on 25.03.2008) and laying flowers to the memory monument “Heroes live forever” in Zhodzina civil society activists Yury Zhylko, Aliaksandr Kamarouski, Paval Krasouski and Yuri Silkin were arrested and convicted 7-days arrest.
This happened despite the fact that the organizers have refused the initially declared in the Executive Committee peaceful and festive events (demonstration, concert and rally) and informed citizens about it. Even after this unjustified ban and violations of the right to peaceful assembly and free dissemination of information the authorities have found a reason to prosecute the applicants for their initiative, dedicated to the “Freedom Day”.
The detention and cruel punishment just for the festive commemoration of Belarusian heroes, who fought for the freedom of the country – it looks like a deliberate violence, intimidation and harassment of social and political activity, manifested on a significant date for Belarusian national independence.
The human rights activist, Aliaksiey Lapitski, who helped to prepare the complaint in the UN Human Rights Committee for Aliaksandr Komorowski on whose behalf the request to the Committee for Human Rights of the UN was supplied and who also suffered from the actions of militia officers dressed in civilian clothes (after the attack of the unknown photos were forcibly removed from his photo camera) noted in connection with the decision of the UN Human Rights Committee on Zhodzina complaint:
– Since both the applicants of a peaceful assembly of citizens, guaranteed by Art. 35 of the Constitution, were illegally punished – in Zhodzina in accordance with the Law “On Mass Events” not a single application for a picketing, rally or march was allowed. Today the application procedure got even more complicated – according to the new decision of the Executive Committee of Zhodzina № 1020 from 27.07.2012 applicants are required to add to the application copies of agreements with the militia, public utility and medical services, is physically impossible to make before the approval of the Executive Committee. At the same time quasi-public pro-government bodies (such as the BRSM or “White Russia”) hold their own public events according to another order under the same law “under decision of executive bodies”.
They do it as it should be in the framework of the positive obligations of the state in relation to a peaceful assembly – absolutely without any paying the militia, public utilities or medics… who anyway are required to carry out their functions as public services and institutions, contributing the realization of the constitutional rights of citizens.
Thus, there is a discrimination against ordinary citizens’ initiatives that facing unacceptable conditions for realization of their inalienable, constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms on which the government of Belarus has positive charges. And the interpretation of the law used by the authorities, create insurmountable obstacles to ordinary citizens and organizations which order peaceful assemblies, because these initiatives are compared with “other events” of commercial kind or sports oriented. Without having any income from the planned events, their organizers – citizens (or NGOs) are forced to conclude commercial contracts with government agencies. (?)
UN Human Rights Committee in the case “Kamarouski against Belarus” found a violation of Art. 21 and Art. 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, committed by Zhodzina authorities in respect of the applicant from Zhodzina.
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So, for anyone that doesn't know, this year's crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths, will be retroactively canonizing a few past DC shows and movies, including the CW's Smallville, Birds of Prey (Tom Welling and Ashley Scott will be reprising their roles as Clark Kent and Helena Kyle from those shows in the crossover), and Black Lightning, Batman '89 (Jack Napier was stated to be The Joker's real name on an episode of Batwoman and Robert Wuhl, who played Alexander Knox, was reportedly seen on set filming with a newspaper depicting Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne and the headline "Billionaire Bruce Wayne to Marry Socialite Selina Kyle" on the front page), and presumably Batman Returns by extension of the latter. Also, the 1990s Flash series was already retroactively canonized into the Arrowverse a few years ago.
So my question is, how should I go about modifying the Arrowverse template to reflect this extended canon? Should I add a section called "Retroactive Canon", "Extended Canon", or something like that, and list Smallville, Batman '89, and Batman Returns (Birds of Prey doesn't have a page here), or should I just leave the template to encompass only Arrow and the shows created in its wake? In the case of the former, I would only link to the main disambiguation page for Smallville rather than each individual season, mind you.
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I think we should leave it be. This is DC multiverse, and in theory, they can put every movie and series they ever had in canon if they wanted to.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I just finished Crisis Part II and so far they've canonized on-screen Batman '89 (albeit with the alteration that Joker didn't die at the end), Titans and by extension its own shared universe on the DC streaming service, Batman '66, Smallville, Superman Returns (Brandon Routh reprised his role, which was merged with the Kingdom Come version of Supes), and probably some others I may not have recognized. It was hinted on the aftershow that Batman & Robin was included as Earth-97 too, which would mean Returns and Forever are included. And we still have Ashley Scott's Huntress from Birds of Prey yet to appear. So at this point, it's safe to say that just about every DC movie and TV show past and present is on some alternate earth out there.
Except for maybe the DC Animated Universe, at least. And not because it's animated, since the Arrowverse has at least two animated series in Vixen and Freedom Fighters: The Ray. The version of Bruce Wayne that Kevin Conroy portrayed was decidedly not the one he voiced throughout the DCAU. It actually makes me kind of sad since this has been the quintessential Batman for me ever since I first watched BTAS.
I've already added Black Lightning to the template since it's a CW show and I might consider adding Smallville under a "See Also" section since it aired on basically the same network (unless someone here above me in the heirarchy explicitly says no), but aside from those and any new CW shows that come in the future, I'll leave it be because it could potentially become bigger than the shows' actual pages.
Don't forget that Superman Returns was a direct sequel to the two Richard Donner Superman films.
A commentator on YouTube also reminded me that the Green Hornet series is also linked due to its crossover episodes with Batman '66, and Tom Ellis reprised his role as Lucifer Morningstar from the Fox/Netflix show Lucifer in a cameo on Part 3.
And I'm only 12 minutes into Part 3, so who knows who else will show up. I just wish Adam West had lived long enough to be part of it.
Well, regarding Batman '66 and crossovers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHD_53UqBeA
Hogan's Heroes is Arrowverse canon. Nice.
Also, WTF? Batman and Robin just let a Nazi go free in Gotham City. Yes, I know he was totally inept, but still. Champions of justice, my ass!
And the Addams Family.
http://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/201...window-cameos/
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City of Ghosts
Director: Matt Dillon
Screenwriters: Matt Dillon, Barry Gifford
Southeast Asia has long served as a beguiling and fascinating backdrop for writers such as Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, and Marguerite Duras. Actor-turned-director Matt Dillon joins their ranks by adopting the mystifying allure of war-torn Cambodia as the setting to spin a tortuous tale of mystery and intrigue, where the slightest misstep may exact the ultimate cost.
After a busted insurance-scam operation, Jimmy Cremins (Dillon) goes to Cambodia in search of Marvin (James Caan), his professional mentor and father figure, who orchestrated the failed venture. Once there, he sets up camp in a seedy hotel. As he sinks deeper and deeper into the exotic but malevolent world, he encounters a colorful cross section of inhabitants whose intentions are shady at best. He eventually finds Marvin, who attempts to convince Jimmy to join him in another scheme with far more severe penalties if it goes awry.
City of Ghosts is a sensually atmospheric thriller that emanates the richness of the surface and the darkness of the undercurrents that exist in this fascinating land. Dillon's insightful direction and typically assured performance embody the film with a singular vision of one man's quest for redemption as he ventures into the heart of darkness.
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The 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA11) focused on harnessing natural resources and ecosystems for adaptation.
The 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA11) to climate change took place in Kampala, Uganda from 26-29 June 2017. Field visits accompanying the conference took place in various parts of Uganda from 22-25 June.
See complete coverage from CBA11, ranging from daily round-ups and videos of the conference, to poster and photos collections
Community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA) focuses on empowering communities to use their own knowledge and decision-making processes to take action on climate change. CBA11 provided an opportunity to review the latest developments in CBA practice, policy and theory with participants from around the world.
CBA11 had the theme of harnessing natural resources and ecosystems for adaptation, and was designed to:
Share and consolidate the latest developments in CBA best practice, policy and theory in different sectors and countries, in Africa and globally.
Disseminate knowledge and experience, both to participants and through online coverage and publication of the conference proceedings.
Strengthen the international CBA community at all levels by bringing people together and supporting collaboration.
Enhance the capacity of practitioners, governments and donors to help those most vulnerable to climate change to improve their livelihoods.
The full programme (PDF) details the sessions and speakers.
Ahead of the conference, delegates took part in field visits to community adaptation projects located in a variety of ecosystems in Uganda.
CBA11 was linked with the UNFCCC Regional National Adaptation Plan Expo. Participants had the opportunity to discuss how to strengthen considerations regarding vulnerable communities, groups and ecosystems as part of the process of formulating and implementing National Adaptation Plans.
On 28-29 June, a youth conference ran parallel to the main CBA11 conference. This focused on 'enhancing the ability of youth to build ecosystem resilience', and examined ways to incorporate the ideas and innovations of young people into policy recommendations.
Coverage from CBA11
Watch daily video round-ups from IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq
CBA11 conference proceedings - event report
Opening speeches and... climate condoms? The opening day of CBA11
Campfire storytelling, a poster marketplace, short films and communicating through food
The next generation takes prominence with the start of the youth conference, and the UNFCCC Regional NAP Expo comes to CBA11 - a report in Storify format
What's next for CBA? Highlights from Day Four in Storify format
Watch seven speeches – including the Uganda Minister for Water and the Environment, and the Ireland Ambassador to Uganda – from the start of CBA11
See the posters submitted to the conference on IIED's Flickr site
Watch five speeches from the closing of the conference on IIED's YouTube channel
Watch the launch of the Least Developed Countries Universities Consortium for Climate Change (LUCCC), a South-South knowledge-sharing and capacity-building initiative among LDC universities
See a collection of photos from the conference
Podcast: America Adapts host Doug Parsons interviews attendees from across the world at CBA11 (one hour and 45 minutes)
Blog: A visit to rural Uganda – part I (on the pre-conference field visits)
News: Indigenous knowledge crucial to tackling climate change, experts say, by Zoe Tabary
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About the organisers
The 2017 conference was hosted by the Government of Uganda. It was organised by IIED, the International Centre on Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), the Makerere University Centre for Climate Change Research and Innovations (MAK) and the Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment. The youth conference was organised by MAK with support from IIED, MWE and ICCCAD.
The 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA10) was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The conference theme was 'enhancing urban community resilience'. The International University of Bangladesh (IUB) campus hosted the event, and more than 300 participants from around the world took part.
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(514-08-31) Complicated Feelings
Summary: Claire Stapleford visits Falt Manor to geet to know some of the family of her intended.
Date: August 31st, 514
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Overlooking the eastern banks of the River Avon, the manor at Falt is quite clearly of Roman construction, although the years since the occupiers left have meant that repairs and rebuilding have given it a more hap-hazard look. The main hall runs parallel to the river with smaller wings at either end, all two stories high, with a small courtyard in the middle. Gardens stretch from the buildings to the river and beyond the northern wing is a range of old service buildings. While the main body of the manor has been kept in reasonable repair, this range has long since fallen into disuse, with stone having been robbed from the walls to patch gaps elsewhere, with the exception of the old bath house which has since been converted in a small chapel to serve the needs of the manor.
Away from the building itself is a yard set aside for the training and drilling of men under arms, and a set of archery buts underneath the trees that line the road down to the river. A small docks can be found on the banks, and to the south a lone path lead towards the edge of the forest.
It is a wonderful late summer day, and the weather lives up to the season, the sky is blue with only a few clouds drifting here and there, and the warm rays of the sun offer sufficient reason to spend time outside. Which is where Leodwen can be found on this late morning, as she enjoys a moment of tranquility on the bench by the chapel, the long blonde hair falling openly about her shoulders a slight contrast to the dark blue of the dress she wears. Her hands are loosely joined before her, and her eyes closed, as the Falt lady indulges in the warm rays of the sun caressing her comely features.
Someone must have stayed in Sarum overnight to reach Falt at this early hour of the morning. Maybe just beyond. There's the sound of two horses coming down the road nearby, moving at a casual walk. Turning onto the property, the lead woman is wearing a thin cloak of black over her features. The sword on her side is visible, and really the cloak doesn't seem like it would hide much except against the sun's rays and blowing dirt. Maybe that was the intent. Definitely female, too. The one at the rear is a Squire, maybe about 15 or so, a girl with her eyes watching the area around them without drawing too much attention to herself. Moving closer to Leodwen, the cloak's hood is carefully lifted back over her head and the face there smiles at the blonde girl. The cloaked rider is pretty without being memorably so. Her eyes are the color of the sky, though, and it might be worth remembering. And despite the stoic look on her face, there's a very subtle turn of her smile towards something friendly. Nothing spoken juuuust yet.
Were she not already alerted to the arrival by the usual noises that come with such - sounds of hooves and horses, calls from people working at the manor as they send a servant to bring word to the Head of Falt Manor - it will be the shadow falling over her view that finally makes those hazel eyes of Leodwen de Falt open and glance up into an unfamiliar face. She has not fallen asleep, certainly not! But instead moves to stand with a swiftness as if she had only been waiting for such an interruption. "My lady. Sir." A glance given the sword at Claire's side. "Welcome to Falt Manor… What brings you here, if I may ask?", Leodwen inquires with an amiable smile meeting the stoic expression of the other lady, fingers brushing hastily over her skirts as if to smooth the fabric, her gaze curious - and then a touch caught as she realizes she has forgotten to introduce herself. "I am Leodwen, older sister to Sir Custennin de Falt." A mild breeze tugs at her blonde hair, and her hand comes up to brush a strand back.
The initial greeting of Lady and Sir brings but a single nod of acknowledgement. Maybe both apply? Only one? Still, she remains silent and begins a slow dismount The long black cloak is thin, but does manage to hide everything but the shape of the sword. While Leodwen smooths herself, the rider dismounts and gestures for the Squire to do the same. Her shoes look more like slips that any Lady would wear around a home. With the turn to face Leodwen, there's a littttle more of a smile and it clues towards friendly. "It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Lady Leodwen de Falt." She bows and rises. The cloak comes off and the reason for it is less surprising. She's wearing a very nice bliant in deep velvety green with black and orange stitching that works with the gold hemming quite well. The cloak was to protect the fabric from dirt. "I am Sir Claire de Stapleford. I-" She twitches that smile a bit. "I am of many titles right now. I think the most relevant point is that I am betrothed to Sir Drustan and I wished to meet his family."
Leodwen's bliaut of dark blue seems to be of the plainer sort, less refined and only showing off very few embroideries at the hems of her sleeves. But then she did not expect any official visitors to arrive. She watches Claire dismount and listens to the courtly greeting. Where Claire offers a bow, Leodwen will execute a graceful curtsey. "Ah! Sir Claire!", she exclaims, as her hands are brought together before her in a gesture of obvious glee. "I am so glad you chose to come and visit! We are happy about this new development. And Drustan is a dear… dear… cousin of mine. It seems you have chosen yourself a worthy… kind… valorous husband, Sir!" She smiles and gestures towards the main building of the manor. "Would you like to come along… I mean…. after you have taken care of your horse?"
The gesture of glee brings a smooth expression of pleasant agreement. Its clear that Sir Claire does not smile, or outwardly emote, much. Schooled to rarely give something away, it's no wonder Stapleford carries the Death Cult status. "He chose me, actually. I was a bit opposed to it in some ways but your cousin has the ability to be stubborn, which it seems I cannot help admiring in a man." The riding gloves are removed and she sticks them into a saddlebag. A gesture for the Squire to approach. "Lady Leodwen, this is Ellee, my Squire. Ellee has given me her word that she will be on her best here and requested that she clean the stalls before and after our horses have taken to using them." Or more likely Claire told her she's going to be doing that. Being no older than 15, Ellee is still new to this game and looks like its just one more in a string of groan-worthy activities. "Ellee, see to the horses, please." The Squire moves off before she looks back to Leodwen. "I would love to come along and see the manor." A nod to the gesture, but she seems insistant Leodwen lead the way. "I could not stay away from the Falt family. Drustan has made my future family out to be an honorable one with much to give. I know his injuries have kept him in recovery, so I decided to pay a visit not just to him but also to you all. I'm going to assume your Head of House or Heir are quite busy at the moment?"
Less schooled in keeping her natural cheerful disposition at bay, Leodwen's features quite openly give away her obvious delight in encountering her cousin's intended. "Is that so?", she smiles, lifting a brow at the revelation that it was Drustan who chose Claire in the first place. When the squire is introduced, the blonde Falt turns her head to offer Ellee a nod of greeting. "A pleasure, Ellee." Hazel eyes flit back to Claire. "But… No need for your squire to clean our stables, we have our own people to do that. It would be an odd sense of hospitality to require her or even you to do that." She chuckles, a melodious chuckle that, and indeed, leads the way when Claire is ready to follow along. "Custennin is the head of our manor, but till recently it has been Sir Cadogan who has taken care of the manor," Leodwen explains. "Our uncle." She pauses, shooting Claire a glance. "Sir Cadogan arranged another betrothal only recently. It seems I am to marry as well, soon." Her smile dims ever-so-slightly. "Which means I will have to leave Falt Manor again. Only shortly after I returned." The question whether Custennin is available has her gaze flicker as she considers. "I am not sure whether Custennin is detained. We shall see. Until then, you'll have to put up with my company." Effortless modesty, offered with a good-natured wink, as Leodwen enters the Hall of the Manor, which is at the moment less crowded with residents and family members than at other times of the day.
"It would be a false word to say I was very accepting of the situation. I was, as he termed it, flustered. I'd no intentions of returning home from Squireship to find myself tripping over words about a man I'd yet met." Huff! But there's a bit of a smile to it. She really does seem to like Drustan quite a bit, even if she kvetches about the inability to help thinking about it. The laughs from Leodwen are easy enough to smile to and the Stapleford Lady finds herself mirroring the expression a little more. "You are to marry as well? You don't seem as enthused about it as you could be. This is to be a marriage of politics, then? She sighs and lifts her chin a bit. "Unfortunately we have our own duty as women. Is he a man of courage and refinement, at least?" She keeps her words quiet while she looks to Leodwen. There's a sisterly intimacy but also something else- the way she preluded it. For her age she seems to have absorbed some sort of authority or leadership.
"I believe you must be thirsty from the ride, and in need of some refreshment?", Leodwen asks, lifting her hand in a gesture towards a servant who hurries off to get some ale as well as some bread and cheese. It is then that the Falt lady points towards the table. "Please, sit down. Lady Claire.", she says then, noting the smile that somehow does not seem to fit the words. "I can hardly notice any vehement objection to the match on your part.", she observes then with a glint in her eyes. "I assure you, Drustan is a nice sort of person, but I sense you are already aware of that." Her hands move to straighten out the bliaut as she lowers herself onto a seat, and a soft sigh leaves her lips, even if the smile remains on her features. "I am to marry indeed, and it will be my second marriage. My first husband died more than a year ago. I am already well acquainted with the hopes and fears of matrimonial life. Which may explain why I am neither very nervous nor excited about it." A nod comes then. "A match made for political reasons, aye. To Sir Ailil de Broughton. He has paid me a call, here at the manor, and I must say, he is quite agreeable. The kind who is actually literate and valorous on the battlefield, as it would seem." The smile deepens, as her hazel eyes go distant for a brief spell. "A well-spoken knight with interest in herbs of healing. Moderately handsome, and of gentle air, even if a little formal and courteous." Her gaze finds Claire’s as she chuckles softly. "We shall have more opportunities to speak, I hope. It is always awkward in the beginning. But that is one of the many purposes of courting, to allow us to get to know the spouse-to-be." Strangely enough, despite the lack of enthusiasm verbally expressed, there is no open objection to this match either, when Leodwen speaks about her intended. But instead, a deepening of a smile, and an optimistic gleam of her dark eyes.
"I would not speak against something to deal with my thirst." Dressed more formally, the ride was quite warm. She does her best to hide it but there is only so much that can be done. Pointed towards the table, she smooths the skirts from behind and takes a seat, legs crossed. "Mm. In the time I've spent with Sir Drustan we've found each other to be a good match. I'm sure he is nice to his family, but I have rather complicated, ah, feelings. I am certainly of the mind to try and keep him around, though. I do rather enjoy him." Despite the schooling, she can't help a bit of blush. There it is - the youth. All the official exterior cannot hide her age for long. But while she listens to the description about the Broughton man, Claire's smile sits. "Regretable about your first, but this second husband certainly does not sound as if you have lost a contest. Well-spoken, valorous, knowledgeable. And easy on the eyes?" That smile from her looks a little more sly and sisterly. Just a bit. "I never liked the formal, courteous men. I always thought it was demeaning to a Knight. Drustan made me realize that first, it is my place to be courted as such and second, that he does it as respect for my status as a Lady as well. I was not expecting to learn anything from being courted."
The ale is brought, and generously poured for the both of them. While Leodwen leans back in her seat and regards Claire de Stapleford as she listens what she has to say. "Complicated… feelings?", the blonde Falt echoes, lifting a brow in intrigued curiosity. "Oh… those can be a trifle to deal with. Especially since you seem to be quite agreeable, and he could become all too sure of himself as a consequence." She chuckles, a soft melodious chuckle that is easy on the ears, Leodwen tilting her head then just so, as her long blonde tresses rearrange about her shoulders. The blush is well noted, but Leodwen would be the last to hold Claire's youth against her, being herself only slightly older, and only more experienced as she is already one husband ahead. "I actually value a knight's ability to express himself in eloquent manner. Sir Ailil is well-read, and it seems we share an interest in the healing arts." Her smile deepens. "And Drustan… well… He is a good man. Prudent. And reliable. I believe he insists on this courting thing, as it shows his esteem for your person. So… be so kind and do him the favor." A bit of a jest there, truly? Leodwen de Falt raises her mug of ale in a toast, intoning warmly: "Welcome to Falt Manor, Lady Claire. We may be an odd kind of people, but we appreciate happiness - especially in the matches of members of our family. My brother Custennin will regret to give up his cousin to your House, but I trust he will insist on you two coming to visit us. Often!"
Ale. Thank the Lord. She pulls it close and takes a drink that is a bit longer than lady-like. Its warm weather. The dress is warm. The bodice is tight. Settling the tankard down in both hands, she clears her throat and looks to the container. Complicated feelings. "Dealing with them is, yes, a trifle. And he's -quite- sure of himself." The Lady-Knight tilts her head a bit, still looking at the cup, cheeks reddening all over again. "Never thought I would be so..drawn to that sort of man. Maddening sometimes." She gives a short, flustered breath and looks back, trying to clear away the thoughts in her mind. "He has shown me that I have no choice and I will behave as he see's fit in regards to courting. He seems to know how I will react before I will." Thus, maddening. "As for Ailil, I've had limited dealings with Broughton but they do not seem to be bad people." And for the religious center of Stapleford to say something like that says a lot more than simple words. "I respect their views during my few interludes. I believe you have not come up short. I take it you will be moving to Broughton manor then, yes?" She lifts the cup in toast, though. She clinks tankards and smiles a little more warmly. "Thank you. But I will sadly be unable to spend much time here. Drustan will split his. However I was thinking of doing our wedding here. Stapleford has many demands upon men and women for marriage but I'd like to show goodwill between homes by having our words exchanged here."
Leodwen leans a touch forward, brows twitching into a slightly intrigued furrowed state, as her hazel eyes study Claire de Stapleford with the shadow of realization dawning upon her. "He ruffles your feathers… Is that it?", she dares to ask. "While at the same time you catch yourself thinking of him?" The pause left for dramatic effect is only brief, as the blonde Falt lady extends her hand to reach for that of her guest - a bold gesture perhaps, but encouraged by the growing confidential tinge of their exchange. "Marvelous. And so romantic." Leodwen's lips curl into a dreamy smile and she sighs softly. Claire's assessment of the Broughtons is received with a nod and a slight dimming of the smile. "I still need to visit the manor, to return the call, Sir Ailil paid us. And yes. I would believe so." The latter said to the question of Leodwen going to live with her husband after the wedding. Her demeanor lightens up, when Claire mentions her thoughts about where to hold the wedding with Drustan. "Oh! I believe, Custennin will be delighted… And I am thrilled! Our chapel may not be the largest, but it is a fine one. I… could show you around later, perhaps?"
Claire flicks her gaze to Leodwen, then away. Then back again. Leodwen hit the mark. "I… would never admit such things whether they be truth or fable." Ahem. "But." A long, haughty breath and the inability to hide her smile leaves Claire looking like any other blushing bride to be at 21. Like all her other emotions, they are understated. But it is clear the girl is extremely excited and is probably holding back a huge amount of gushing. Though given her stations at the moment, she probably hasn't had anyone to talk to at all. And she only just met Leodwen. "I have traveled past Broughton a few times and always admired the fields. That is quite a gorgeous area. Then scents of the grass and the river nearby are something that near puts me to sleep while I ride." At least that might be a bit more reassuring. "Chapel size is not important for our wedding. We only require a priest, our families, and the blessings. And hopefully a gathering of families for supper and feast after. …I know not how Drustan feels about joining Stapleford, but I have more excitement for joining Falt than I show. Hopefully one day I can show that." She turns the hand over and squeezes Leodwen's.
There is a momentary blink of her hazel eyes, when Leodwen de Falt beholds that rather contradictory and hence so female reaction in Claire de Stapleford; still, the warm-hearted smile remains on the blonde lady's comely features. "Of course…!", Leodwen assures, lowering her gaze, and bites her lip as if in acknowledgement of a potential misstep; then flicks her gaze back up to meet Claire's just in time to catch the deepening of the blush.
The shift of topic, Leodwen accepts without even the blink of an eye, though now it is her turn to become slightly awkward, in the way her eyes show a momentary unsteadiness, and the tone of her voice, more breathy than before. "They way you speak of it, Broughton sounds like a wonderful place to be… I shall have to see for myself, as soon as I can get there." Her hand accepts the squeeze then, Leodwen's other hand in fact moving over Claire's, keeping it there for a moment, as she meets Claire's gaze with her own. "You are gaining another family… even if not by name, my lady. As these bonds enhance our web of blood ties… with our next generation to come."
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GUEST POST The other side of suicide
Elinor O'Neill writes for the Harborough Mail and is the author of the blog Lost in Notation. Last year she wore a different dress every day to raise money for the mental health charity Mind. Those dresses will soon be on sale at a charity auction at The Oat Hill pub, Market Harborough. More details here on Liberal England when I have them.
One of the golden rules of surviving self-harm is to be open and honest about when you get the urge to harm yourself. In this way it is hoped that just by voicing the thought you release some of the tension associated with it in your mind. The problem with this theory is that it requires you to let a loved one know that you are thinking of hurting yourself.
I have never been a self harmer but I have tried to take my own life six times in the past six years.
There is a fabulously dark joke, probably only one that a legitimate loon can fully appreciate, about the patient on his third suicide attempt whose doctor calls him a failure because, as the patient’s father had told him all those years ago, "you can’t do anything right".
Sadly it is extremely easy, once your mind is made up, to find a way to end your own life. Not only do we see instances of at times insensitive reporting’s of suicide in the media but there are literally hundreds of sites and chat rooms happy to answer questions as complex as how much do I take to as painfully trivial as what should I have for my last meal.
Rather than give you a graphic account of how I tried all those times what I hope to do is explain to you a little about why a 26-year-old girl with a fabulous job, good friends, a supportive boyfriend, a stable family and a stunning shoe collection would want to take her own life.
I was diagnosed with bipolar on the anniversary of my 17-year-old sister’s death last September, but my friends, family and me all agree that I have been a bit of a crazy long before that day. I remember being in Belgium with the ATC and my sister’s boyfriend at the time telling everyone that I had the most extreme mood swings he had ever seen. At the time I was only 14 and I guess everyone put it down to PMT, but I often wonder whether life would have been simpler if a diagnosis was made at an earlier stage.
In brief, my own illness means that my mood fluctuates at a rate far quicker than that of an ordinary person. The best way I can describe it is like being on a roller coaster which occasionally pauses to let you off to see your photo, but which makes you jump right back on afterwards. In this way I have experienced times where my mood is so low that I cannot physically get out of bed, where I do not eat, dress, sleep or lease of all talk to anyone. People at this time become too much like hard work and I retreat leaving me all the more susceptible to committing the big s.
Strangely though, the other side of this illness is that in general my personality is that of a bubbly cheerleader who has had a bit too much coca cola. Left without medication and meditation I can be a hell of a lot to handle. The world becomes a beautiful place which simply must be experienced today. People and socialising become my reason for living and I have been known to walk home with strangers just to share the stars and pass the breeze.
Let us though return to the harsher side of this illness, its survival rate. One in ten of all people with bipolar illness will go on to die at their own hand. It is the tenth biggest killer in the world and claims lives and destroys families every moment of every day.
But what is it like for the ones who survive the attempts? How do they feel in the moments before they act on the impulse and why do they do what they do?
I wish I could explain it properly, so that you don’t all think that I am a crazy, selfish, melodramatic drama queen, but I don’t know that I can. My experience is personal and in no way does it describe the feelings of everyone who has ever had the urge to end their own life, but what I do know is that when the urge comes upon me it is very strong and very real and unless there is some sort of intervention there is little that I can do to stop the thoughts cascading and the fifth becoming a sixth.
Part of my problem, as I said in the beginning, is that I struggle to tell anyone when things are getting bad and because of this when the urge comes for me to end it, when the world has all gone black and the colour seems gone from my life, I feel, utterly alone.
My most recent attempt was just two weeks ago. It was perhaps the most serious so far and though I will not go into detail for the sake of safety I ended up in Leicester Royal for a week with my kidneys functioning at a third of the rate they were before my attempt.
For more than a year I have managed to hold off on the suicide attempts in spite of having extreme lows by trying to think of the effect it would have on my family, friends, colleagues and partner. By talking about things and voicing the s word whenever it got too strong in my head I managed to stave off suicide for another year.
Due to medication, however my personality has been on shut down during the last five months. Socially I have withdrawn from the world, and though there have been no major lows, so too have the highs of life been gone for me. It had truly got to the stage where I could count on my hand how often I had felt anything more than just alive in months and all of a sudden the urge got too much and the curtains came down.
It was all so sudden and though I did try to reach out in my mind I was made up that my loved ones and the world at large were better off without me. The feelings of that day have dimmed but of what I remember the world seemed a beautiful place which was all the more terrible because the beauty and charm of it was totally inaccessible to me. I felt as though I’d been watching the playground for years from outside of the gate, not allowed to go inside in case I tripped.
I remember getting on a train from London back to Harborough weeping like a child half of me hoping that someone would notice and do something to make it stop. I could hear the thoughts, I knew what was coming but the wheels were in motion and though I talked to my partner it was as though my mind was made up and nothing could stop me.
It is hard to know looking back whether anyone could have got through to me had they known how bad I was feeling but I like to think that had I just had the strength to pick up the phone or even just pressed a panic button, that I did not have, that something could have been done before the act.
A note I wrote but never posted sums up my feelings moments before the act as someone desperate for escape: "I know it's so selfish and cruel of me to do this but I just can't go on living like this. I am so hideously unhappy. I'm not the bub that I once was, I see it in the eyes of my friends. Their bored with me and they wonder where the other Ellie went. The one that was fun and happy, talkative and up for a laugh."
The truth of the matter, of course, is that my friends and family were not bored with me and that few but myself had noticed how flat I had become. For me, I had lost all personality from all the different drugs I had been taking: for everyone else, I was just an ordinary girl.
Although I survived the attempt and have come out the other side happier, drug free and more like me than I have been in months the act was final and the consequences could have been more dire.
As it was my body faced a fight for seven days where my kidney and liver struggled against the damage I had done. It put my parents and partner through hell and has left me weak and unable to drink, which is maybe no bad thing. There are hundreds of people who take this decision and who do not come back from it. It breaks my heart to think this because there are alternatives. There are therapies, medications, options and just other ways. When the black dog closes in it is hard to see that there is still a path up ahead but that is why it is up to us as a society to light the way.
There is currently a three-year waiting list for counselling on the NHS and your chances of seeing a psychiatrist or a CPN are slim to none except in extreme cases such as my own. I have received excellent care through the NHS but there are failings in the system and there is more that can be and has to be done.
Life is so truly wonderful and sitting here writing this blog, lying in bed beside the man who would have been lost to me in the home of a family which would have been broken apart again and in a world of so much possibility I weep at what could have been and for all that can now be.
Labels: Guest Posts, Health, Market Harborough
MMM said...
This gives real insight into the mindset that leads to a suicide attempt. Very honest and open. MMM
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The 19th century Georgian mahogany rent table can be found in the Wm. R. Robertson Fine Arts Rotunda in the display of mechanical and functional furniture.
This 19th century Georgian mahogany rent table is just one example of historical re-creations by Irish artisan, Michael Walton, whose work includes both fine-scale and full-size antique reproductions. The original table’s purpose was to accept and secure rent payments from tenants who would drop their money into the appropriately lettered drawer which then emptied into a lock box at the base. “The rent table as a full-size piece was very complicated and even more challenging to replicate in one-inch scale,” he explains. “It looks like a leather-top drum table, but by pushing down the center of the table it creates a locking system. It’s designed with eight working frieze drawers with an inlaid alphabet index per drawer and the table base features a door that conceals three more working drawers.” Complicated indeed.
Miniaturists have been amazed with Michael’s work for years, but just as interesting is how it all came to be. “After technical school in Dublin, Ireland, I started working as a furniture restorer for a prestigious antique shop,” he says. “I spent eight years there crafting my trade as a restorer of 18th century furniture and maker of fine furniture of the same period.” While there, he was asked if he could possibly create 1/12-scale furniture for Tara’s Palace, a miniature castle that would feature 22 rooms filled with historically accurate fine-scale furniture. He gave it a try by making a couple dressers and a table. Intrigued by scale, he then began working on the side perfecting his miniature techniques. Before long, his work was being featured in London and, well, the rest is history.
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False Victims, Inwardly Ravening Rulers
by medievalkarlPosted on June 8, 2008
In the most recent Nation Corey Robbin (BC-CUNY History Prof) reviews Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative, the collection Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, and Jacob Heilbrunn’s They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons. On his way to arguing for the fundamentally reactionary nature of conservatism (and thus against the notion that Goldwater and his descendants have much to teach liberals about organizing), on his way to pointing out how much terminological ground the Conservatives have lost to liberals (for decades, at least, they have had to argue for “freedom” and “liberty” and “egalitarianism”), and on his way to kicking Heilbrunn down the stairs for what he diplomatically termed “sloppy…borrowed…derivative” writing (and what I might, less diplomatically, refer to our academic integrity office), Robin writes:
While John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville and David Hume are sometimes cited by the more genteel defenders of conservatism as the movement’s leading lights, their writings cannot account for what is truly bizarre about conservatism: a ruling class resting its claim to power upon its sense of victimhood, arguably for the first time in history. Plato’s guardians were wise; Aquinas’s king was good; Hobbes’s sovereign was, well, sovereign. But the best defense of monarchy that Maistre could muster in Considerations on France (1797) was that his aspiring king had attended the “terrible school of misfortune” and suffered in the “hard school of adversity.”
Conservatives have asked us not to obey them but to feel sorry for them–or to obey them because we feel sorry for them.
And soon after he writes:
[Conservatives] are aggrieved and entitled–aggrieved because entitled–and already convinced of the righteousness of their cause and the inevitability of its triumph. They can play victim and victor with a conviction and dexterity the subaltern can only imagine, making them formidable claimants on our allegiance and affection. Whether we are rich or poor or somewhere in between, the conservative is, as Hugo Young said of Maggie Thatcher, one of us.
This point, in part because Robin expresses it so well, hardly requires the emphasis of proof, but I could offer our friend Charlotte Allen as a perfect example. And by that I of course mean she’s merely an example.
However, my point is not to promote Robin’s brilliant review, nor to herald the nobility of CUNY (and we are all fans here of Steve Kruger, Glenn Burger, and Valerie Allen, inter alia). Rather, my point, if I want to reduce it to this, is to trapdoor another Nation review, because of course we medievalists always salivate when anyone writes “arguably for the first time in history.”
(I thus defer responsibility for what I do here to my drives.) The dynamic of “a ruling class resting its claim to power upon its sense of victimhood” predictably conjures up the clichéd Hegelian insight that any desire for a self-sustaining, idealized identity (for example, “the human”) is necessarily going to discover itself under threat, as this continuing failure is, after all, inherent to identity-as-fetish and is, in fact, what enables it: hence my use of the phrase “discover itself” to characterize this violent phenomenology.
Robin’s “ruling class…sense of victimhood” also conjures up the structure of Christianity itself, whose Savior is a victim whose Kingdom opens most easily to the poor, the sick, prisoners, and the scorned, or to those who ascetically take on the habitus, if not the class position, of such groups. A couple of centuries later, Christianity becomes the State religion. The cognitive dissonance necessary to adapt an outsider faith to a position of dominance infinitely fascinates me, perhaps nowhere near so much as in Eusebius’s record of the effects of Constantine’s conversion. In one sermon for this period, we hear how:
Benefactors of themselves and all men, and Christ they [emperors and the secular ruling class] acknowledge as Son of God and sovereign Lord of the universe, naming Him ‘Saviour’ on monuments, and inscribing in royal characters in the middle of the city that is queen of the cities on earth an indelible record of His triumphs and His victories over the wicked.
(G. A. Williamson trans., revised by Andrew Louth, in the 1989 Penguin edition of The History of the Church, 4.17, p. 309)
With this delight in Jesus honored by emperors as a emperor-god–that is, in the style to which Roman gods and emperors had grown accustomed–any earlier scorn of Rome, any wishes for its destruction and for a new eternal city, retroactively looks less like otherworldliness and more like ressentiment (and you will observe now, if you have not already, the hoariness of my “insights”).
Looking far ahead, I slide into the exegesis of Psalms 79: 14, “exterminavit eam aper de silva, et singularis ferus depastus est eam” (The boar from the woods has banished her; and a singular wild beast hath devoured her), which interpretations passed down from Augustine and Cassiodorus understood as referencing the destruction and dispersal of the Palestinian Jews under Titus and Vespasian. In this exegesis, admiration for the power of Rome, and for the ability of Rome to do God’s will, was always polluted by a (feigned?) scorn for Rome itself; thus in his commentary on the Psalms Bruno the Carthusian impugns Titus and Vespasian with “ ‘aper de silva’ procedens, Vespasianus scilicet, qui ferus erat et immundus sordibus vitiorum, sicut aper ferum animal est et sordidum” (PL 152: 1066D; “a boar from the woods” appearing, namely Vespasian, who was savage and unclean with filthy vices, just as the boar is a savage beast and filthy). In a commentary on Habakkuk, Rupert of Deutz explains Habakkuk 2: 17 (“vastitas animalium deterrebit eos de sanguinibus hominum” (and the ravaging of beasts will terrify them because of the blood of men) through what must be a memory of Psalms 79:14: “Ut dictum, ita et factum est. Venerunt enim animalia de silva” (as it was said, so it happened. For animals came from the woods). These animals are, as usual, Titus and Vespasian, who justly destroy the Jews, “qua primi ex omnibus gentibus ausi fuerunt ad se missos prophetas et sapientes et Scribas occidere et crucifigere, flagellare in synagogis suis, et de civitate in civitatem persequi” (who had first among all peoples dared to kill the prophets, wise men, and scribes sent to them, and to crucify and beat them in their synagogues, and to pursue them from city to city). For all his desire to have such a people scorged, Rupert designates Rome as the “silva,” and characterizes the silva as a place “ubi erat multiplicitas errorum, et feri homines habitabant, sicut ferae in silva” (PL 168: 623B-C; where there were many errors, and bestial men lived, just as beasts do in the woods): this city, this center of civilization, this “queen of the cities,” is no city at all.
Monks of the eleventh and twelfth centuries upheld their social power in part by scorning the world, but they did this even as the world’s endowments swelled their estates, even as they became the financiers of Crusade (see Robert C. Stacey, “Crusades, Martyrdoms, and the Jews of Norman England, 1096-1190,” in Juden und Christen zur Zeit der Kreuzzüge, ed. A. Haverkamp. Sigmaringen, 1998, 240). Knowing this, is it enough to demystify monastic scorn of “Rome” and its emperor by pointing out the obvious, namely, that in their enjoyment of Titus and Vespasian and through their enabling of yet another destruction of Palestine, the monks are themselves the boars come from the woods? Is it enough to return to Eusebius to strip the feigned authenticity of victimhood from (certain) Christianities? Have I done enough in invoking ressentiment and Hegel? Is there enough in these gestures–to which I might add my 2005 Leeds paper on “The Christ Child and Pigs in the Oven”–to justify what I do here, to make all this something more than a precious insistence that Robin weigh down what’s already an enormous review with the detritus of my medievalist memory?
Lacking a proper conclusion, lacking even directed motion, all I can do is stop here for now.
(Creative Commons image from here.)
For ages now, I’ve wanted to write (or, rather, finish) a piece on shifting self-identification of regular clergy as sometimes poor and sometimes needing to dole out charity: I have in mind–perhaps not correctly–a sermon on the Dives et Pauper parable by the 12th-century regular canon Raoul Ardent. I’m sure that’s what underlies all my thinking in the post.
Nicola, I know we talked about this briefly just the other day, but I do want to thank you for this comment, and, at once to reassert that (of course) some situations can best be analyzed according to a victim/violator schema, and also to thank you for turning our attention to the question of the victim itself. I do wonder, however, whether the ‘reality’ is in fact “collective” responsibility. I do want to propose a slight nuance by suggesting distributed responsibility. The advantage derives from moving us past the binary and thus allowing for more complex, more adequate, and thus more helpful analysis, while still preserving the differing weights of responsibility that “collectivity” obscures. Although in our conversation I offered Reagan’s destruction of Carter’s environmental improvements to the White House (and thus Reagan’s repudiation of environmentalism and thus, given that the 80s might have been a “magic window” for halting global warming, his responsibility for lord knows how many tens or hundreds of millions of deaths in the next 15-30 years, probably including my own), Reagan’s repudiation would not have been possible, or politically efficacious, without, for example, structures of masculinity that consider environmentalism a kind of effeminacy. As an American male, I no doubt participate, or have participated to some degree, in that structure. But, again, the best analytical mode for this phenomenon and its effects is one that attends to power. Thus we must condemn Reagan, but we must also distribute responsibility. We need more guilt, not less; “distribution” should therefore not be understood as dilution. And we need that guilt to encourage us to make a space for those who can most authentically speak as victims. This goal may involve teaching people to recognize their own victimhood. – See more at: http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2008/06/false-victims-inwardly-ravening-rulers.html#sthash.3t5QeSyJ.dpuf
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"Transform Libraries, Transform Societies” comes to Kuala Lumpur at the Opening Session!
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Plenary Hall in Kuala Lumpur’s Convention Centre came alive in spectacular fashion on Saturday 25 August, as over 3500 delegates from more than 110 countries filled Malaysia’s premier convention venue to experience the official opening of the 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. The Congress theme of “Transform libraries: Transform societies”, along with its equally important companion tagline of ‘Reaching out to the hard to reach’, reverberated throughout the session as we kick off another WLIC—the international flagship professional and trade event for the library and information services sector. Stay tuned for more!
The Istana Budaya dance ensemble, who gave a full performance later on, provided a captivating kick off to the two-hour session. Enthusiastic welcome remarks from Malaysia National Committee Chair, Dato’ Nafisah Ahmad, followed by a welcome address from Tan Sri Haji Mhd Amin Nordin bin Abd Aziz, The Mayor of Kuala Lumpur, came next.
Both communicated the deep commitment the National Committee Malaysia as well as the city of Kuala Lumpur have made towards making this year’s WLIC a success—and the central role libraries and librarians play in keeping Malaysia a literate, inclusive and participatory society.
Library infrastructure in Malaysia, especially in the city of Kuala Lumpur, has been significantly transformed to reach out to those who are inaccessible, and [with libraries] highly-equipped by ICT, creates knowledge networks throughout the city [. . .] We are trying as much as possible to accommodate the need for information for all walks of life, and the cooperation between library and Kuala Lumpur city is one way to accommodate the needs.”
Tan Sri Haji Mhd Amin Nordin bin Abd Aziz, The Mayor of Kuala Lumpur
Next we heard two inspiring addresses to Congress delegates by IFLA President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón and IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner. Their words left no doubt in attendees’ minds about the commitment, proactive vision and bright future both IFLA and Malaysia have for the global library profession.
We are the motors of change, and we are ready. Ready to move up a gear. It is our duty. And our opportunity. Because societies are better, fairer, stronger and more diverse for being shaped by libraries.”
IFLA President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón
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IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner gave a tantalizing preview of the next two important steps in the IFLA Global Vision journey. On Sunday, IFLA will unveil an important contribution to our efforts to create a global discussion by releasing the full version of the Global Vision Report.
The IFLA Global Vision report is the manifestation of a new idea of IFLA and of the power and potential of a united library field. But we are just at the beginning. For the realisation of all the great opportunities which the Global Vision Report identifies, we need all of you. Your ideas and your actions.”
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But that’s just a beginning. IFLA will also launch the biggest Ideas Store for actions to make the Global Vison a reality. “But all this depends on you, on your experience, on your creativity, on your engagement…” said Gerald Leitner. And so on 26 August, we invite librarians and library friends from all over the world to contribute their ideas for the collective vision for future libraries.
After a speech from The Hon. Mohamaddin Ketapi, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Malaysia, who highlighted the crucial role libraries play in Malaysian society, came the Keynote Address by Tan Sri Dato Sri Ali Hamsa, Chief Secretary General to Government of Malaysia. He provided an overview of the country’s ambitious goal to create a “knowledge and reading culture” by strengthening information literacy programmes, building cooperative library networks, and facilitating equitable knowledge and resource sharing—especially to the hard to reach.
Knowledge has always been the most powerful transformative force that helps a society evolve, and libraries have been the sole backbone to the dissemination of this knowledge before the age of the internet.”
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Delegates were then treated to an entrancing theatrical performance by the Istana Budaya ensemble that highlighted Malaysian culture.
The Opening Session concluded with a deeply supportive video address to Congress delegates by the Hon. Tun Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, The Prime Minister of Malaysia. His address is viewable in the YouTube link above.
Finally, IFLA President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón declared the 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly officially open!
See photographs from the Opening session in our Flickr Album.
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Mayhem пїЅGrand Declaration of WarпїЅ
Download torrent Grand Declaration of War for free and register group Mayhem in good quality MP3, FLAC. The site "Metal Download" represents the new album of group Mayhem under the name Grand Declaration of War. Album Grand Declaration of War came out and was recorded on label Season of Mist in December 7, 2018. Group Mayhem plays in genre Black Metal and was formed in country Norway. Release Grand Declaration of War was released on media CD (Compact-Disc) and in Studio album format.
Bands: Mayhem
Release Name: Grand Declaration of War
Music label: Season of Mist
Country of origin: Norway
Type of release: Studio album
Issued to media: CD (Compact-Disc)
Status: Speakers
List of tracks
01. A Grand Declaration of War (4:15)
02. In the Lies Where Upon You Lay (6:00)
03. A Time to Die (1:48)
04. View from Nihil, Pt. 1 (3:04)
06. A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun, Pt. 1 (0:33)
08. Crystalized Pain in Deconstruction (4:10)
09. Completion in Science of Agony, Pt. 1 (9:46)
10. To Daimonion (3:26)
11. Untitled I (4:53)
12. Untitled II (0:07)
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