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Mahabharata Characters 01 – Three understandings of the timeless classic
This talk is a part of the “Fascinating Mahabharata Characters” series. To know more about this course, please visit:
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Transcribed by : Sadananda Das
Welcome to the Mahabharat Character Series. In this series we will be discussing fourteen fascinating characters from the Mahabharat spanning over four generations.
The Mahabharat is among the two most popular and influential books in the ancient literature of Vedic India. The Mahabharat and Ramayana have together shaped the hearts and inspired the lives of billions of people for millennia. What is so special about these two books?
In the Vedic Canon – Canon refers to the body of literature that is considered sacred, or is considered authoritative in a particular tradition. In the Vedic canon there are a vast number of books all of which have their importance.
In the Itihasas the specialty is that what is taught in principles, logic and through analysis, in the srutis and in the Upanishads that is taught through real life demonstrations.
There are two ways of instruction: one is didactic and another is demonstrative. Didactic means, “Though shall not kill, though shall not steal, and though shall not commit adultery.” So, it is didactic or it is instruction. Didactic is important no doubt, but the heart doesn’t connect with didactic instructions so easily, but to what is narrational and what is demonstrative. If instead of saying, Though shall not be greedy, if one tells a story, “Once upon of time there was a person…” and then we discuss how that person is greedy and how that person caused ruin to others and ruin to oneself; then that same lesson is demonstrated in a way that the heart and the head can both connect with.
In the Vedic canon there are these two broad bodies of literatures: the srutis and the smriti. The srutis give the principles in terms of analysis; especially the Upanishads are very abstract philosophical books where there are a few stories, but it is a lot of analysis. Now the same principles that are taught in sruti are taught in smritis; the smritis have two broad bodies of literatures. In the smritis there are the puranas and then there are the itihasas. The Puranas refer to those bodies of literatures which are compilations of narratives from vast periods of time; the puranas are a thematic anthology from multiple historical epochs; they don’t focus on one particular face in history.
The world Itihas means history in our context and it means much more. Just like in
Sanskrit there is the word called Prana. Prana Vayu isn’t just oxygen. Oxygen is definitely very important for our life and our survival, but prana vayu is much more. It is the whole composite of all the gaseous elements and their interactions which makes life possible. Similarly, Itihas is not history in the sense in which it is understood in today’s educational and academic setting. The Itihas are history definitely in the sense that there is a focus on a particular dynasty, person or a set of person, but that is narrated in such a way that instructions are conveyed. It’s not just a dry anthology of dates and events. It’s a living transforming narration of incidents that may have happened millennia ago, but those incidents demonstrate principles which hold true even today, and by the understanding of those incidents and their underlying principles we can get inspiration and guidance for our life even now. That is the significance of the epics – the Itihasas. The Itihasas and the Puranas both focus on history, but Itihasas focus on one particular character, dynasty or a set of people. The Ramayana focuses primarily on Lord Ram. Ayana means journey; so Ramayana is the journey of Lord Ram. That focuses on the story of the descendants of King Bharata called the Mahabharata.
Bharat was an illustrious king in the dynasty of the Kurus long before the Pandavas and that is why those descendants in the dynasty are called as Bharatas. In the Bhagavad-gita Krishna repeatedly refers to Arjuna as Bharatarsabha; Best among the Bharatas.
Mahabharat is the story of the greater Bharata. Bharat was a king and also Bharat refers to a place. In the word Bharat Bha is connected with the word Bhaskara; Bhaskara means sun, that which gives light. In Bharatak Rata means that which one who is absorbed in; Bharata is that which is absorbed in light. Bharata refers to that part of the world which is absorbed in the light of spiritual knowledge. So, spiritual culture was always present and prominent in India. The land that we call India has many names. In the Vedic culture it is referred to as Bharat or Bharatvarsha and the story of the greater Bharata. So, it refers to both the person Bharat and his descendants and the area that he ruled, and the events that transpired in that area at that particular time when some especially significant people were living and ruling. This is Mahabharata. Now the word Maha is not just in terms of the greatness of the country or of the greatness of the people who were the descendants of Bharata, but the Maha also applies in terms of the sheer size of the book.
The Mahabharata is hundred and ten thousand verses. Comparatively Srimad Bhagavata is ten thousand verses and the Ramayana is about twenty four thousand verses, whereas the Mahabharata is a mind boggling ten thousand verses. And prior to the Western world’s discovery of the Vedic civilization and the discovery of the Mahabaharat there were certain poems and compilations which came in the Greco-Roman tradition from which modern European civilization has come and those
compilations are considered to be majestic, massive and mind boggling. Iliad and Odyssey were among the two massive poems or literary compositions in the European tradition, but the Mahabharat is seven to eight times longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined together. That is how big it is, and just reading through it can be a whole lifetime of joyfully absorbing engagement.
Now the Mahabharata is divided into eighteen parvas. A parva is a division of a literary work, and the parvas are – just like we have chapters in a book, and then if the book is very long, then sets of chapters are brought together in sections. A book may have four sections, and each section may have four chapters. Like that there are many chapters within each parva, but overall there are eighteen chapters. The word eighteen has a lot of significance in the Mahabharata. There are eighteen parvas in the Mahabharata; the war that is the central pivot or the climax of the Mahabharata in one sense, although the Mahabharata goes for much longer time after the war, but that is the heart of the Mahabharata in one sense. The war lasted for eighteen days, and similarly the Bhagavad-gita which is the most important nugget of wisdom; there are treasures of wisdom scattered throughout the eighteen parvas of the Mahabharat, but the most precious nugget of wisdom that is present in the Mahabharat is the Bhagavat Gita and the Bhagavat Gita also has eighteen chapters in it.
When we look at the Mahabharat how do we related with it? Actually Srila Madhavacharya has been amongst the various Acharyas; he has studied and commented on the Mahabharat quite extensively, and he has written a very important analytical study on the Mahabharat called as the Mahabharat Tatparya nirnay. Tatparya means meaning, nirnay means deciding or ascertaining. So, what exactly is the meaning of the Mahabharat? That has to be ascertained, and that is what he does in this book. Therein he describes that the Mahabharat can be understood at three different levels. One could be the literal or the historical, second is the ethical and the third is the transcendental. Let’s understand this one by one.
First is the literal or the historical. Now literal or historical means that this is how the events happened, and because these events are connected with great personalities – there is the supreme Lord who is present as Krishna and there are great devotees present. Just the literal narration of these events is potent and purifying and it can free us from our many past sins and can give us exciting and absorbing matter for thought which as we contemplate on purifies us, and helps us to move forwards towards our spiritual journey, towards wisdom, enlightenment and towards pure love for Krishna; and his devotees to perform extraordinary and enlightening pastimes in this great classic. That is the first level where even if one doesn’t do any analysis and one just hears the stories; that will be purifying.
For the Ramayana it is said, and the same thing applies for the Mahabharata also.
Eke asharam pumsam mahapataka nasanam – for one letter what is the characteristic? Mahapataka nasanam; pataka is sin and mahapataka is great sins. Great sins are destroyed by the recitation and the submissive oral reception or the hearing of the Mahabharata or the Ramaya; it applies for the both. Beyond that there is the ethical level. Ethical level means that we learn ethical lessons from what has happened over here. From the events that have happened over there we see that Duryodhana was so greedy, arrogant and evil minded; and one who become like this will meet destruction. On the other hand the Pandavas were virtuous and still they suffered so much. Although they suffered, eventually they were redeemed and attained the Lord.
By studying the ethical dilemmas or by studying the various characters of the Mahabharata we can understand how ethical truths are demonstrated though history; how those who are virtuous are ultimately protected, redeemed and delivered; dharmo rakshati dharma. Dharma protects those who are adherents of dharma. That is demonstrated at the ethical level. Beyond that we can also learn from the specific ethical dilemmas that the characters in the Mahabharat face. Ethical dilemmas means situations where on is not able to decide what is the right course of action, and how one who chooses a wrong course of action can bring ruin upon oneself and ruin upon others even to the extent of ruin for the whole world, and then beyond that there is the transcendental, and the transcendental is in two senses transcendental. One is that it is focused on the glorification of the supreme Lord. That means that whatever happens in the Mahabharat is ultimately the arrangement of the Lord for the glorification of his wisdom, his love, his glory and his grace, and this transcendental explanation can also involve some metaphorical explanations. Metaphorical means that something can be a symbol of something else. One thing can be used as a representation for teaching something else. For example, Krishna in the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita repeatedly explains that the soul is indestructible. In Gita (2.17) he says that the soul is avinashi or it can never be destroyed. Then a few verses later in Gita (2.23 & 2.24) he explains that the soul cannot be destroyed, and yet the same Bhagavad-gita in the sixteenth chapter says when talking about lust, anger and greed that they are three thing that are the gates to hell and they destroy the soul. Now if earlier it was described that the soul cannot be destroyed, then how can lust, anger and greed destroy the soul? The Bhagavatam as well as the Isopanishad also use the word atmaha, the killer of the soul. What does this refer to? It refers to not the killing of the soul in the literal sense because the soul is eternal and it cannot be killed, but in the metaphorical sense it means that the soul’s spiritual awareness, propensity and capacity for spiritual development is choked, suppressed and throttled, and that is what killing of the soul refers to. In some cases there are metaphorical explanations of the Mahabharat also.
The metaphorical explanation should supplement and not supplant the literal explanation. Supplement means to add to, and to supplant means to replace.
Supplement means add to; it means that the literal events actually happened, but through the literal events there is some further significant thing also that can be learned. Supplant means to replace. At the heart of the Mahabharat there is a massive destructive fratricidal war and this makes people very uncomfortable. The idea of a book which is filled with so much violence – why should such a book be glorified? And is it calling everyone to do violence like that? We will discuss about what is the role of violence in Mahabharata later, but it is significant that there are two parvas – shanti parva and anusasan parva which happen after the conclusion of the war.
As I mentioned there are eighteen parvas in the Mahabharat; five parvas – six to ten focus on the war, and after that there are parvas where Bhisma and Yudhisthir discuss extensively, and the focus in on non-violence. Just now a war has been fought and both of them have fought in the war, and yet Bhisma says over there that nonviolence is an extremely important principle of dharma. What does it mean? That means that it is not that the Mahabharat is thoughtlessly or wantonly endorsing violence. There is a lot of deliberation. In fact we see that in the fifth parva, Udyog Parva; Udhyog is industry and work. The industriousness of the Pandavas and of Krishna is in trying to avoid the war. They all tried to avoid the war. The war was by no means the first recourse. After all other courses of action were tried and they turned out to be unsuccessful; only then the war was taken as a last recourse.
Some people try to say that the Kurukshetra war did not take place at all, and in this way they try to say that the Mahabharat is not actually talking about violence. Srila Prabhupada who was one of the greatest teachers in the modern times explained that this sort of explanation where we reject the historicity of the war does violence to the message because the Bhagavad-gita which was spoken just before the war had happened is a very grave mood and it is analyzing the course of action, and then it eventually describes how one can act at an enlightened level even in this world; and even an activity which is as seemingly anti-enlightenment as a war.
Generally when people fight we don’t think of them as very cultured, civilized or enlightened people. We will think, “They are fighting like animals.” So, normally war would be considered as anti-enlightenment, but even an enlightened person may have to sometimes fight. Now even when we want peace sometimes, the United Nations has to deploy a peace keeping force. So, force is required to have peace. But force involves violence, but peace involves lack of violence or absence of violence. Now just to maintain peace and to prevent violence some amount of force and violence may be
required. Violence is a fact of life and Mahabharata doesn’t fight shy of that in the name of some Utopian Pacifism. Utopian Pacifism means some unrealistic idea that everyone should be peaceful and there should not be any violence. That sort of thing is not practical in real life. The Mahabharata does not fight shy from the unpalatable realities of life, but at the same time it also gives abundant caution and wisdom about how to act and how to never rush into war thoughtlessly. We are discussing all these because we are focusing on the point of metaphorical explanation. The metaphorical explanation can be used to supplement and not supplant.
Can the Kurukshetra represent the human consciousness where there is a war going on between the forces of evil and the forces of good? The forces of good are outnumbered by the forces of evil; the virtuous desires within us are outnumbered by the vicious desires and there is a confrontation. But there is God on the side of virtue, and those who take shelter of God, even if they are outnumbered, still they emerge victorious. Can such a metaphorical explanation be accepted? As long as it is not supplanting, as long as it is not used to replace the literal explanation, it can be used. The important point is that this is something which the Bhagavad-gita talks about. The Bhagavad-gita uses the metaphor of fighting for an inner war also. Krishna talks in the Gita (3.43) how one should conquer over selfish desire and one should conquer over lust with determination. There he uses the language of war. Here he uses the word shatru, nimi, jahi- win over, durasadam-formidable. All these words are referring to the inner war which is what the Bhagavad-gita is talking about also. So, there is an inner war and the Mahabharat setting can also be used to demonstrate, illustrate or understand the principles that are active in the inner war that happens in our own consciousness.
Kurukshetra is like the territory of our consciousness; and who is going to conquer that territory? Is it going to be virtue or is it going to be vice? That is what is to be decided, and if we take shelter of the supreme Lord Sri Krishna as the Pandavas did, then we will be able to ensure that virtue triumphs our heart and then we live virtuously, and then attain life’s supreme perfection of pure love for God, and then we return to him for an eternal life. So, the Mahabharat can be understood in a metaphorical level also, but that is something which is secondary. That is not primary in terms of replacing the historical. It is something which does not supplant the literal understanding. So, there is the literal, the ethical and the transcendental. In the transcendental we will see how they demonstrate the glories of Lord Krishna and also there are deeper meanings which apply to our lives also.
When we will be discussing the Mahabharat we will be focusing on the characters. The eighteen parvas span a hundred and ten thousand verses, and is a massive book. The Adi Parva talks about the background and the birth of the Kuru elders, the birth of the
Pandavas, the death of Pandu, the return of the Pandavas to the Kurukshetra and Hastinapur. All that happens in the Adi Parva. The second parva is the Sabha Parva where Draupadi is disrobed and Pandavas lose everything, and then they are exiled. The third Parva is the Vana Parva. In the Vana Parva the Pandavas are exiled and their adventures in the forest are described. Their meeting with many great sages and many philosophical discussions are described in this also. Then the fourth Parva is the Virat Parva where the Pandavas live in ajnata vas in the kingdom of Virat. Fifth Parva is the Udyog Parva in which the Pandava’s finish their thirteen years of exile and they are staying in the kingdom of Virat and they are making various arrangements to try to avoid war, and at the same time considering the possibility and even the probability of the war they are also planning to get allies so that they will be equipped for the war. The sixth parva is the Bhisma parva. This is the time when Bhisma was the commander. It is in this parva that the Bhagavad-gita was also spoken, and Bhisma was the commander for ten days, and he was the longest reigning commander for the Kauravas. Then the next parva is the Drona Parva which is the seventh parva; Drona was the commander for five days, eleven to fifteen. Then there is the Karna Parva. Karna was the commander on the sixteenth and the seventeenth day. Then there is shalya parva. Shalya was the commander for the eighteenth day. That is the ninth parva. The tenth parva is called the Sauptik Parva. Sauptik means sleep. In sleep Aswathama brutally assassinated all the Pandava warriors except for the Pandavas and a few others. That is described in this parva. Then there is the Stri Parva; all the woman are devastated and heart broken by the immense massacre that has happened; and their lamentation is described in this. And then there is Shanti Parva and Anusasan Parva in which Bhisma gives instruction to Yudhisthir. Then after that there is Aswamedhik Parva in which Yudhisthir Maharaja performs the Aswmedha Yajna, and before that in the Adi Parva he had performed the Rajasurya Yajna. But in the Aswamdhik Parva he performs the Aswamedha Yajna. The fifteenth is the Ashramvasik Parva where Dhritarastra and Gandhari renounce the world after getting the instruction from Vidura. Sixteenth is the Mausulya Parva in which the Yadu’s fight and they destroy each other and Krishna also departs from the world. The seventeenth Parva is the Mahaprastanaik Parva in which the Pandavas after hearing about the departure of Lord Krishna also depart towards the North. Mahaprastan means the great departure; the departure from which one never returns. And the last is the Swargarohan Parva where the Pandavas attain higher destination. We will not be able to go through all the Parvas systematically, but we will focus on the central incidents in all the Parva’s with respect to the most important characters.
We will discuss characters from four generations. Bhisma and Drona from the older generation; there are many generations in the Mahabharata who are all there interacting. Then we will discuss about Dhritarastra, Vidura and Gandhari from the next
generation. Then we will discuss about Yudhisthir, Arjuna, Bhima, Duyodhana, Karna Aswathama and Draupadi, and then we will discuss Abhimanyu from the next generation. About Ghatotkatch and some other characters in the next generation we will discuss while we are discussing about Bhima or others with whom his interactions were there. In this way we will go over the main story of the Mahabharata, and while discussing each of these characters we will discuss some of the controversial aspects of their lives and we will try to clarify their controversies, and we will also look at how they demonstrated ethical principles that hold true for us even now, and we will see how they also in their own way play some role intentionally or unintentionally in the unfolding of plan of Lord Krishna, and how he although is not the central character in the Mahabharat; the Pandavas and their activities are primarily described in the Mahabharat.
There is an appendix to the Mahabharata called as Harivamsha in which the activities of Lord Krishna right from his childhood are described. In the Mahabharata it is not described much, but still although Krishna was not a central character, he was in many ways the most important character, and how his role was so significant. And how ultimately the Mahabharata which has many principles teaches the principle of pure devotion?
In the Mahabharat itself it is said that whatever is found elsewhere will be found here, but whatever is not found here will not be found anywhere else. That means that the Mahabharat is like a compendium. So, if one wants one can have principles of material religiosity, and there can be principles of pure devotion. It is all there and it is a massive compendium. We will look at all these and we will focus while we are looking at the biographical analysis of the important characters of the Mahabharata; the principles of pure devotion which more than everything else in the Mahabharata hold true now and hold true for ever because they address the hearts innermost longing for love and life eternally, and that ultimately is the promise of the scriptures, that those who hear the scriptures and understand the principles can attain life and love eternally. From our next episode we will start discussing about the oldest character who has a very important role in the full Mahabharat; that is Bhisma Pitama.
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Three local firms generate 30 new jobs in Galway
Three Enterprise Ireland-supported companies based in Galway – Palliare, Ronspot and Venari Medical – are in the process of creating 30 new high-quality jobs.
Galway started 2021 on the right foot with news that 30 new jobs are to be created by three local companies.
“This is very positive news for Galway,” said Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar, TD.
“It proves that local innovation is having a global impact and these companies are competing and winning in international markets”
“These three Galway-based companies are working in high growth areas and their success shows the power of indigenous enterprise. Congratulations to the teams at Palliare, Ronspot and Venari Medical on these milestones, I look forward to seeing your continued growth.”
Palliare, a medical device company, has hired 10 new employees in recent months
Flexwork company, Ronspot, intends to have a total of 10 new employees on board by Spring 2021, and has hired five people since September. Ronspot is a technology company which enables the flexible workplace between office and home.
Venari Medical filled three new positions in October and have plans to recruit up to 10 new employees in the coming months.
“This has been a challenging year for businesses, but many Irish exporting companies are continuing to grow and recruit talented, innovative employees,” explained Enterprise Ireland regional director Michael Brougham.
“Palliare, Ronspot and Venari Medical are in the process of filling 30 new positions. Some have already been recruited and others will be filled in the coming months. This is really positive news for Galway and the western region. It proves that local innovation is having a global impact and these companies are competing and winning in international markets.”
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Palliare
Palliare Ltd was founded in 2018 as a spinout from Irish gastro-diagnostic company Crospon, which was acquired by Medtronic (in 2017. Based in Galway, Ireland, Palliare is dedicated to advancing the state of the art in smoke evacuation and insufflation technologies for laparoscopic, endoluminal, endoscopic and robotic surgery.
“Further to recent US FDA clearance of our EVA15 insufflator product, we are now ramping up our manufacturing operation in preparation for a US launch early in 2021,” said Caroline O’Dea, managing director of Palliare.
“We have also continued to grow our R&D capacity further to the company securing EU Horizon 2020 funding to complete development and release of the EndoTrap and LeakTrap surgical safety products. We are grateful for the support from Enterprise Ireland and Western development Commission as we progress into the market.”
Ronspot
Ronspot Ltd was founded in 2018 to help companies address chronic employee car parking issues. Its goal was to gain the maximum efficiency from office car parks while keeping parking fair and equitable. Since early 2020 it has identified new opportunities in the management of flexwork office models. Ronspot believes the future of the workplace will see a permanent blended environment where employees will split time between their home and office. Ronspot has customers in Ireland, UK, France, Austria and Czech Republic. The company is based in the GMIT Innovation Hub in Galway.
“The support Ronspot has received from Enterprise Ireland has been crucial to our growth and for allowing us to make long term plans for servicing our market and international customers,” said Michael Furey of Ronspot.
“As a native Galwegian I am passionate about developing the region and creating jobs and value. There is some amazingly talent to draw on and having the right supports in place helps it all fall into place.”
Venari Medical
Sean Commins, Stephen Cox and Nigel Phelan from Venari Medical. Image: Martina Regan
Venari Medical was founded by in 2018 Stephen Cox (CEO), Sean Cummins (CTO) and Dr. Nigel Phelan (Chief Medical Officer). Venari Medical’s mission focus is on innovation of unparalleled safe, effective, patient-centred medical devices that improve quality of life for those with debilitating vascular disease. Venari Medical is a spin-out from the BioInnovate Ireland fellowship programme for medical device innovation at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) which is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland.
“We gained seed investment of €4.5 million this year to focus on preparation for First In Human clinical trials of our BioVena medical device next year,” explained Stephen Cox from Venari Medical.
“BioVena is a novel Class II catheter which uses the body’s natural response for the office-based treatment of chronic venous disease and venous leg ulcers, which affects 1 in four adults across the globe. We’ve recently added three talented R&D and Quality Engineers to our Galway team based at the new Innovation Hub at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). We are looking to expand again in 2021 with hires across R&D, Quality and Regulatory Affairs to bring BioVena through international regulatory approvals and commercialisation, and to further internal innovation in the development of new novel product lines for the treatment of unmet endovascular needs.”
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Agriculture, Marine Resources, Marketing and the Environment Secretary, Hilton Sandy.
Agriculture, Marine Resources, Marketing and the Environment Secretary, Hilton Sandy is urging vendors including those coming from Trinidad to obtain vendor’s and health badges in order to sell their produce in Tobago.
He warned that the Environment Police and Health Inspectors will shortly swing into action to ensure that the vendors have their badges. He said failing to do this they will be prosecuted under the law. The vendor’s badge can be obtained at the Division’s offices on Glen Road, Scarborough.
Sandy said the vendors were putting their customers at risk by not having their badges and also warned that persons purchasing produce in bulk must obtain a receipt from the farmer as evidence of purchase. He said the receipt must also carry the farmer’s registration number.
The Agriculture Secretary also had good news for Tobago farmers. He disclosed at the weekly post Executive Council media briefing on Wednesday that the Executive Council had approved the agriculture subsidy programme of the Ministry of Agriculture to be implemented in Tobago.
Sandy said the design for the new multi-million Scarborough Market to be built at Orange Hill Road, Shaw Park had been approved and soon tenders will be invited for the construction of a retaining wall to facilitate the building and car park at the site. He said once this was done tenders will be invited for construction of the building.
He said it was a sad day for Tobago last Thursday when the Minority Side abstained from voting on a Motion requesting the Central Government to take steps to ensure the security of the island’s fisherfolk. He said he did not know whether it was because of their new political association they did not support the Motion.
Sandy explained that having failed to get action from the National Security Minister, the Assembly took the matter to last Thursday’s plenary sitting of the House of Assembly so that the approved Motion can then be sent directly to the Prime Minister for action.
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Home Grow
Deep Work needs Inner Work
How Mindset and Mindfulness Foster Corporate Culture
By Klaus Motoki Tonn -
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
Since Cal Newport’s book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, the concept has become a focal point for corporations looking to leverage their human capital. The premise: high-quality work requires intent focus. This can mean creating a serene environment to work in; however, this is often not possible. Constant digital connection offers continuous distraction, and busy schedules frequently necessitate working on the go. Sometimes, tranquillity must come from within.
Deep work, on a more profound level, is the ability to cultivate a high level of personal focus, allowing for productivity even in distracting environments. As such, deep work is all about the self, which is where mindfulness comes into play. The capacity to slow down, concentrate, relax and stay calm irrespective of the environment is a learned skill. With appropriate training, this skill is a habit that produces results.
How to Use Mindfulness for Deep Work
Simply put, mindfulness means slowing down and becoming aware of the self by focusing on the body and the mind, which is why Google and SAP call it “Search Inside Yourself”. In the training programs they offer, the basic foundations of mindfulness are taught starting with:
Empirical, scientific and clinical findings based on research in the area of mindfulness and stress reduction (why mindfulness affects your emotional intelligence, your work habits and your ability to interact with the people around you).
Personal training and application of meditation methods, such as breath work and techniques to deal with constant thought intervention.
Mindfulness for a Healthy Corporate Mindset
Organisations are searching for new ways to encourage creativity. A culture of innovation is a strategic asset when it comes to ensuring sustainability. Since IBM’s 2010 CEO Study and the ongoing work of IDEO’s founders (prioritising creative confidence), creativity is quickly becoming the single most important competence moving forward.
Encouraging creativity first and foremost requires a culture of curiosity, openness, experimentalism and error tolerance. People are the carriers or ambassadors of culture. The question then remains, “How can organisations encourage a sustainable and self-developing corporate culture starting from the ground up?”
Google and SAP are answering this question with mindfulness training. Mindfulness reduces stress and enables non-reactive interactions in the workplace, allowing space for self-reflection and concentration on deep work. This environment sets the foundation for a vastly improved corporate culture, generating a positive feedback loop that improves effectiveness on long-term and strategic tasks. The organisation becomes more resilient on a collective level. When efficacy increases, a workforce becomes more content and less likely to leave. After all, completing tasks and seeing tangible results is crucial when it comes to satisfaction.
The First Steps
To start with, organisations must consider how their corporate culture can work to fulfil the company’s strategic goals. Identifying key challenges is integral to this process because an effective corporate strategy is designed to meet these challenges.
1. Develop a collective mindset framework
We suggest a dialogic approach. Mindset is a pattern but should not be fixed in every detail. The opportunity exists to use corporate mindset as a framework to establish communicative processes within the organisation. However, this does not mean that corporate mindset is negotiable. It is fixed in its core strategy alignment and is usually defined by executive management and then adapted by other levels of leadership, allowing for a measure of flexibility and specialisation. In other words, corporate mindset is best implemented by establishing a matrix based on its core elements and then enabling other levels of leadership to develop their own sub-items and applications for their departments and teams.
Openness, for example, can be expressed differently across the various divisions of a large organisation. The logistics department might find other expressions of openness (for example, more people-oriented) and applications (for example, more informal work for team culture) than the product management department. However, both will work on becoming more open to align with the mandate set out by the corporate mindset.
2. Develop mindfulness in individuals
Ideally, companies will offer mindfulness initiatives to leadership (as corporate culture needs role models) as well as to other employees on a broad level. This requires a significant investment of time and resources, which means leadership must first ideate a comprehensive plan to prioritise mindfulness and mindset.
3. Develop organisational mindfulness
There are several approaches to building resilience and mindfulness as a corporate initiative. Organisations can use open methods like “working out loud” to foster informal communication, open time resources for self-development and organisational learning.
Reconsidering the structure and role of meetings is another strategy to exercise mindfulness as an organisation. Meetings take the time of employees in leadership and administration roles but also act as the springboard for wider organisational improvement.
Additionally, groups can learn to build resiliency by understanding both system theoretical approaches, meaning the ability to see reality as an ongoing construction of communication and the “sensing” mode in the analysis of organisational behaviour itself.
One application is a “check-in and check-out” routine in the spirit of open communication. Other workplace routines such as “meerkat boards”, where teams will publicise indicators to identify dangerous developments, can also be considered organisational mindfulness.
Finally, systems for evaluation and supervision must be established in an approachable, practical manner. Organisations need to define key performance indicators and communicate with management and employees on an agreed schedule.
By definition, mindfulness on every level of an organisation requires a constant checking in with the self. In ascertaining and further developing what works, companies can maintain a constant level of improvement on every level, enjoy the self-perpetuating returns of a strong culture and concentrate on the deep work.
Klaus Motoki Tonn, image courtesy of the author
Klaus Motoki Tonn is the founder of Lumen Design, Lumen Partners and sh|ft, as well as senior leader at the Landeskirche Hannovers (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, Germany). He has more than 20 years of experience in strategic communication, innovation design and entrepreneurship. In the first half of his professional life, he worked as a corporate lawyer in M&A, IT and Investor Relations. Now, he is writing a PhD on Digitalization Strategies and has a publishing deal with Springer Gabler for Mindset.
Klaus Motoki Tonn
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Meryl Streep rocks out in Ricki and the Flash trailer
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Meryl Streep is stepping back into the spotlight as a rock star in her newest film Ricki and the Flash, in a new trailer that’s been released.
Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a rock and roll legend who decides to return home to her ex-husband (Kevin Kline) and adult daughter (Streep’s real-life daughter Mamie Gummer) to make amends for past mistakes. This isn’t Streep’s first time in the singing spotlight, having showed off her singing voice in 2008’s Mamma Mia!.
Ricki and the Flash also stars Audra MacDonald, Sebastian Stan, and rock legend Rick Springfield. The film is directed by Jonothan Demme and written by Academy Award winning writer Diablo Cody, who won her Oscar for her hit debut feature, Juno.
Ricki and the Flash hits Australian cinemas on Thursday, 13 August through Sony Pictures Australia.
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MCT: Sunday, June 28, 2020
By AVA News Service on June 28, 2020
Cool Windy
Pet Sister
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A COOLING TREND will continue today across the interior, accompanied by gusty northerly winds in the afternoon and evening. Marine stratus will give way to a cool and windy day along the coast. Inland temperatures will warm heading through the upcoming week, with areas of morning low clouds followed by some sunshine and breezy afternoons at the coast. (NWS)
UKIAH SHELTER PET OF THE WEEK
If a happy-go-lucky and social dog is what you're looking for—Sister is your girl! Sister loves her stuffy toys and carries them around with her, content in the knowledge she is keeping them safe. Although she came in with an unknown history, we can see that Sister has had some training. This adorable sweetie knows sit, down and shake. Sister does a bit of jumping up, so some fine tuning/training would be good. Sister is an active dog, and an active family would be a perfect fit for her. Sister is 2 years old and weighs a delightful 49 pounds.
To see our canine and feline guests, and for information about our services, programs, events, and updates about the county covid-19 closure and the shelter, visit: mendoanimalshelter.com. We're on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/mendoanimalshelter/ For information about adoptions please call 707-467-6453.
THE DEATH OF MICKEY
by Bill Kimberlin
Many years ago this summer, I was standing in the Shield's Cemetery at the graveside services for Mickey Bloyd. It wasn't necessary for me to think back to my high school years in Boonville -- they were all around me.
Mickey was the youngest and largest of the Bloyd brothers. Mickey had died of natural causes in San Quentin. He had been on death row for a domestic murder and happened to be in the first group of prisoners to transfer off the row when the Supreme Court ruled against the death penalty in the 1970s.
The Bloyds were known as fighters. Some local wag once said that since there was so little to do in Navarro, where they lived, the Bloyds would just go out into a field and fight. You didn't want to fight with Mickey. His older brother Skippy was notorious for cleaning out a barroom full of loggers up at Happy Camp one time, and Skippy was just a shrimp compared to Mickey.
While all the guys used the high school barbells, our teacher and coach, Dan Gaffney, had to build a special set for Mickey. The regular ones just weren't big enough. Taking two huge buckets and filling them with cement, Mr. Gaffney created a home-made barbell that was Mickey-size. It may still be out behind the high school gym somewhere. There's probably nobody around anymore that can lift it.
Mickey and all the Bloyds were pretty much Deependers. They came to Boonville to go to school, frequent the Midway Cafe and that was about it. The Valley was very isolating for a teenager without a car then, as it is today I suppose. He was also a year or two younger than I was and that made a big difference in who you hung out with.
I had visited the Bloyd ranch quite often as a sort of unwelcome guest of my cousin who was a family friend to Mickey's next oldest brother, David, who everyone called Deede. The Bloyds were an old Valley family like the Rawles, but without the money. They were working class, but respectable because they owned land. Unlike the Rawles, the Bloyds had exploits. This was still a time when Valley mischief was seen as more colorful than criminal.
There were only two places in the Valley where we could buy beer: The Oaks in Yorkville and a tavern in Comptche. Neither of these places were able to tell if the tallest of us was of age or not and they both had long ago decided to err on the side of the sale.
Mickey, on the other hand, was adept at liberating cases of beer from the then Floodgate Store and no doubt other establishments in or near Navarro with less than adequate security systems. Those of us with hot-rod cars welcomed the opening of this additional supply line. We certainly weren't about to question its heritage, since it would have been hypocritical to decline stolen beer when its intended purpose was to fuel our drunken drag races up and down the Valley.
Like all Valley delinquents, we looked up to the myths of the delinquents who had come before us. We were still marveling at the legend of a young man by the name of Kenny McKinney who held the nighttime record from Boonville to Cloverdale on the wrong side of the road with his lights off. He had made it in 28 minutes in something called "The Blue Goose". Now that was something to look up to.
The best we had ever been able to accomplish was for David Bloyd, myself and my cousin Mike, to turn Gary Robertson's '55 Chevy completely upside down in the middle of Highway 128, right at Farrers' turn. All the beer we had stored on the floorboards came crashing down on us as the car rolled over.
Trapped in an upside-down car on a blind turn where logging trucks were known to barrel along, we somehow managed to extricate ourselves from the car and immediately began to ditch the remaining contraband beer. Fortunately, we didn't have to worry about the empties, as we had spent the evening tossing them out the windows as we sped up and down the Valley in our usual search for amusement.
Carefully, but regretfully, we tossed the remaining unopened cans as far as we could into the dark. Unfortunately, we were throwing in the wrong direction and the cans were only traveling about three feet in the air before hitting the bank-side of the road, and immediately and incriminating falling to our feet. Once we had successfully corrected our launch coordinates, and ditched the beer, our worst fears were realized with the arrival of the Valley's only professional law enforcement officer, Russel Troxler, CHP. The Valley Sheriff, Carl Passmore, we knew to be safely home in bed... or so we imagined.
Officer Troxler actually had our undying respect, based on the fact that his Highway Patrol car could actually lay rubber (squeal tires) when it shifted from second to third gear with...get this, a slush box (automatic transmission). It was a continuous wonder to us that this was even possible. However, we had witnessed this phenomena several times as he would apparently receive a radio call and blast out of downtown Boonville leaving verifiable screech marks on the pavement.
But this night, as luck would have it, Officer Troxler was on an emergency call now, something about, "Hell's Angels in Cloverdale", he shouted as he merely tossed us flares and roared off. Truly, fortune shined on us. It was not yet midnight and no one was dead or even arrested. Gary was terribly worried though. "My father's gonna kill me", he kept saying. This issue was of considerable concern to us all because parents, unlike police, still held some small vestiges of authority over us.
Years later I always remembered Gary's father with the nickname, "Fuckin Ukiah". This was because of the fact that he couldn't use a sentence in the English language without saying "fuckin". This made for some rather amusing sentence construction, when nearly every noun was proceeded by the word "fuckin". And it wasn't Ukiah, he said, but "YOU-ki-ah". "Fuckin YOU-ki-ah".
Now this is not to criticize. Gary's father was from Arkansas, like just about half of the working families in the Valley in those days. Their use of language fascinated me, and years later I came to miss their mangled syntax with all of its colorful, "I ain't got no ..." and "Where's he at?" double negative speak. It's almost as interesting as Ebonics and both have the same Southern regional characteristics. After all, its what adds character and keeps our language fresh, even if part of me also reacts with the fingernails on the blackboard response, when I hear it.
As for the profanity, my aunt always used to say that my Uncle Avon, whose every other word was the somewhat more acceptable, "Goddamn", wasn't really aware of what his language meant to others. It was as natural to him as his bib overalls, which I never saw him out of except when he went to San Francisco to buy a new car -- Buicks and Oldsmobiles for him and Pink Lincolns for my aunt. Or when they went to Europe and he scratched his name on the wall of the Roman Coliseum with his car keys, "Avon Ray, Philo."
No, I can't fault any of them. In fact, I still hear one old timer at the drive-in whose use of "goddamn" rivals my uncle's. Except he uses a lot more emphasis. As in, "I closed the GODDAMN gate and walked up to the GODDAMN house" etc. He's a master, just as natural as breathing to him. (Hell, Mark Twain had a swearing room built into his Tiffany decorated mansion in Hartford, Connecticut. I'm not about to argue with the guy who wrote "Huck Finn").
Anyway, Gary was worried, so we somehow managed to roll the car over and get in. To our surprise it started right up and everything seemed pretty normal except for our having to sit all scrunched down in the seats, due to the fact that the top was crushed down to about where our shoulders would normally be. About this time, someone had the idea to use our feet to try and push the top back up. This actually seemed to work wonderfully, except for the fact that the next morning we could see the real result, which was a crushed roof with a bunch of lumps in it where we had pushed up our feet.
I can't remember what happened to that car, although I know Gary's father didn't kill him. And my Aunt said what she always said, which was, "If I ever catch the guy who's selling you kids that beer I'm gonna kill him."
Well, she never did find out and the fact is we pretty much got it ourselves, with a little help from Mickey.
(photo by Larry Wagner)
FAIR PLAY FOR TOMMY
I can’t believe the letters to the Ukiah Daily Journal editor squawking to stop Tom Hine from writing his column in the Journal. Personally, of all of the local writers of columns, the only two I ever read are Tom Hine and Jim Shields who both only appear in the Sunday Journal. The rest of them, I can’t even force myself to get past the first paragraph.
I think most of these oafs complaining about TWK are upset because Tom Hine pokes fun at them and their far left beliefs, and, with their way overinflated egos, just can’t stand being made fun of.
In my opinion, I believe that most of the reasons that they give to get rid of TWK are, to use a very, very overused word, racist.
FAIR PLAY FOR TOMMY (2)
Freedom of Expression in Perilous Times:
I find disturbing the attempts to kick Tommy Wayne Kramer (nee Tom Hine) out of publishing his column in the Ukiah Daily Journal. Some of my liberal friends seem to feel that his screeds are inappropriate and disturbing. I certainly don't agree with most of what he writes but it's a refreshing addition to an otherwise monochromatic opinion arena.
I used to view TWK as satire because it didn't fit the Tom I have known very slightly but over several years. I will never forget the day that our mutual friend and mentor, Buddy Eller, died in a tragic car crash. Tom was obviously as crushed as I was by the loss of a man with whom he apparently had substantial political disagreements but still enjoyed a strong bond and friendship. Somehow I feel that if my liberal friends had sat down with Tom and discussed their concerns… Oh, there you go again, Kathy, singing Kumbaya and whining "Can't we all just get along?!"
But the fact remains that banning a person from expressing right wing political ideas would be a blemish on our liberal community. It's important to hear the other side and Tommy certainly pushes the envelope like no other local writer I know. Thankfully, editor KC Meadows "gets" that freedom of expression thing and TWK will continue at the Journal. And I hope that his critics continue to express their views and challenge his. Just no more attempts to silence him, please. That's not who we are.
Kathy Brigham
(photo by Byron Spooner)
PAUL ANDERSON WRITES: There’s a $1000 fine for littering on Highway 1. Why not a $1000 fine for people refusing to wear masks? It’s absolutely the right thing to do and could be very lucrative for the County this summer with so many out-of-towners flouting the rules. Is there a member of the Board of Supervisors who has the stones to propose that? How to enforce? Take some money out of your pathetic cannabis program and devote it to hiring more code enforcement officers for this specific purpose.
CALPELLA, 1910
COVID-19 TESTING IN POINT ARENA
Monday June 29
Redwood Coast Medical Services, Mendocino County Public Health and the City of Point Arena have collaborated to provide free surveillance testing for COVID-19 to residents of Point Arena and the South Coast. The drive-thru testing will be conducted on a first come-first serve basis on Monday June 29 starting at 9:30am and is free-of-charge.
Testing will be limited to residents of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties. There will be approximately 100 tests available.
COVID-19 Surveillance Testing
Monday June 29, 9:30am
WHERE: Point Arena City Hall/Veteran's Building
451 School Street (MAP
For general information about the testing, please contact Point Arena City Hall at 882-2122. Please note that no reservations for testing will be accepted.
NOTE: Public agency, lodging, restaurant, grocery store and other employees with heavy public contact will be able to receive guaranteed testing between 9am and 9:30am. Please contact Point Arena City Hall at 882-2122 by 5pm Friday for more information or email admin@pointarena.ca.gov by 5pm Sunday, June 28.
WHAT TO EXPECT: The specimen collection (nose swabs) will be performed by RCMS staff and volunteers; specimen testing will be managed by the local Health Department. This screening is a first come/first served screening of persons without COVID19 symptoms. The purpose of the screening is to collect a random sample of persons in the community around Point Arena to determine the presence of asymptomatic COVID19 in the area. It provides important data regarding the presence of the virus in our community.
This will be a drive through test; you will remain in your vehicle and be directed to a testing site by volunteers. (If there is more than one person in your vehicle, we will ask each person being tested to briefly step out of the vehicle.). Expect there may be a line of cars, but this line generally moves swiftly. You will be asked personal information by vetted RCMS volunteers, who are collecting data required for testing by the Health Department; you will have a nasopharyngeal (nose) swab performed by an RCMS nurse/provider; test kits will subsequently be transported to the UCSF laboratory for testing.
Because this is an outdoor and public event, we will do our best to respect your privacy — but true privacy cannot be guaranteed. The Health Department states that persons testing POSITIVE for COVID19 will receive a call from the Health Department by July 7th. Persons testing NEGATIVE will NOT receive a phone call. Per the Health Department,persons NOT receiving a phone call by July 7th will be considered “Presumptively Negative.” Any person testing positive will be guided by the Health Department on their next steps, including isolation/quarantine and accessing medical care.
We look forward to helping provide this vital public health service for residents of Point Arena and the South Coast.
UKIAH, 1933
MSP FRIEND BOB SHANNON SHARED A 'COAST STORY'
MSP saw this posted by former Mendocino County resident Bob Shannon Friday:
"I was a key player in the story below....but Nick and ? I decided not to take up a movie offer.
Home Burns but Holiday Is Merry for One Family
FORT BRAGG, Calif., Dec. 25, 1977 (AP)—Their home had burned and their fishing boat had sunk, but it was a joyous Christmas for the Nick Lackey family after two close brushes with death.
Last Wednesday the Coast Guard called Carol Lackey to tell her that her husband's boat had been wrecked and he was missing. The late‐night phone call woke her up in time to detect a fire in the house and rescue her two children, Crystal, 3 years old, and Jade, 2.
When the Coast Guard called again Christmas Eve, it was to tell Mrs. Lackey that her husband had been rescued by a passing freighter off Coos Bay, Ore., after four days without food and water on a life raft in the stormy Pacific Ocean.
The Coast Guard said the search continued today for Mr. Lackey's crewman, Ernie Lopez, who was missing at sea in the wreck of the 38‐foot Blessed Redeemer.
While waiting for word about Mr. Lackey, his family was buoyed by the tiny coastal community 150 miles north of San Francisco. They were given a mobile home on the site of their burned‐out house by Georgia‐Pacific, a logging company. Other people chipped in food, clothing and household goods.
Below is Nick as seen today..."
Nick Lackey
THE MILK MONITORS are getting outta hand. This very morning I'm deep in the golden hills above Fairfax, trucking right along, a song in my heart, thinking good thoughts, when I suddenly hear a screeched, "Mask!" And here comes a lycra-babe, a woman of fifty or so. I never got within 25 yards of this person, but jolted out of my purplish reveries all I could come up with in the way of a response was the first line of that Lawrence poem, "I wish I knew a woman…" Then it occurred to me that given the communication's dysfunction plaguing the land that even a lame attempt at irony might be construed as… "Yes, officer. I was on my morning walk when I noticed an unmasked older man with this weird, uh, erotic-like smile on his face, and when I told him to put his mask on he just kind of leered at me and said he wanted to get to know me. There I was, alone in the hills with this pervert! I know men, officer, believe me, and I certainly know carnality when I see it!"
YES, it's objectively crazy to mask up when you're out for a walk at the crack of dawn in a human-free place, but in every public venue where there are others the mask ought to be mandatory. I agree with Paul Andersen's suggestion to supervisors Williams and Silent Dan Gjerde that the unmasked, wherever distancing is impossible, be fined. A thousand bucks, as Andersen suggests, is unreasonable, but fifty isn't. This plague thing is no joke. No man is an island etc.
TALK about hyper-inflated reputations, the description of John Bolton as "brilliant, courageous, a great statesman" and so on is not only slam-dunk untrue, it's disgusting. But there it is in lock-step, from Wolf Blitzer to the rest of the neon-toothed punditocracy. A draft dodger himself, Bolton has held out for more war as the solution for every foreign policy dilemma. What a nest of snakes there is at the leadership level of this doomed country, and tenth-rate snakes too.
HOW COME one of these tech geniuses we're always hearing about can't come up with a non-lethal means of subduing the berserkers? The cops have tried bean bags, nets, rubber bullets (crazy dangerous and seemingly ineffective as crowd control), various kinds of disabling gases, and who knows what all? There's gotta be a better way, right Elon?
UNLESS my ancient ears deceive me, is there only one song anymore? "Baby, baby, baby, uh baby, oh baby...." Where have all the great lyricists gone?
THE GREAT IRONY of the BLM uprising is that race relations are better than they've ever been, that there are now literal millions of loyal inter-ethnic relationships where, 60 years ago there were few-to-none. The multi-racial demonstrations are living proof that we've come a very long way in a very short time in the race department. Apply the noble principles of democratic socialism to our Hobbsian economy, and a lot of the remaining tensions would be outta here. Won't happen. The Great Slide is too far slid, and a Biden administration won't do anything to arrest it. Trump has only made the obvious, obvious.
THE CONTESTED Lincoln statue, for a certainty, would have been opposed by Honest Abe himself, a modest fellow who would cringe at his latter-day canonization. A genius writer, does anybody think the author of the Gettysburg Address would want to see himself depicted as a God-like figure posed above a grateful freed slave at his feet? This sculpture manages to insult both parties.
WE'RE NUMBER ONE! The US recorded 45,242 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the largest single-day increase of the pandemic so far, with five states, including Florida, Georgia, Utah, Tennessee and Idaho, racking up ominous spikes in reported cases. Florida, just this morning, reported 9,585 new infections in the last 24 hours and 24 additional deaths. The US death toll has surpassed 125,000, the highest in the world, with a total of 2.48 million confirmed cases.
(photo by Angela Dewitt)
COMMUNITY POLICING, AN EXCHANGE
[1] If there were no cops, who would she call? Who would help her? Answer: her community patrol. Since there would be no cops, no arrest, no district attorney, no one to help the victim or the perpetrator, the community patrol, local neighbors helping each other. If we all had our own patrol, we could start to take out the meth freaks, distributors, and the cooks. No cops to protect us, no cops to protect the criminals. We win, there are many more of us, regular good people with more guns and ammo than any police station. In this new day of no cops, those two guys who helped this woman are heroes.
This guy was beating his sig other until two men intervened.
The real win would be if the wussie were forced right out of the valley. Since we all pay property taxes, and some of the money goes to law enforcement, we deduct the percentage of our taxes that go to law enforcement, and use the money for our own private law enforcement. Private law enforcers do not have to answer to dist attorneys, or governors, they answer directly to us. I would bet that in 6 mos, most criminal elements would be driven out of here. The patrol could get a D4 or D5, and methodically destroy all the illegal unpermitted hoops. Who could stop them? Who would the illegals call? No one, there are no cops.
[2] Somalia does it that way. We’ve already got the Toyotas. We just need the machine guns to mount in back.
COYOTE VALLEY, NOW LAKE MENDOCINO
(1) MARIJUANA GROWS: Why is this a waste of resources? These grows are terrible for our community and even for the cause of all things marijuana (which I don’t really care about, but I think you do). I’m an old school outlaw but as I settle down and want to have a normal life here, I have begun to appreciate law enforcement getting the scummy growers out of here. They don’t help anyone but their bosses, and the money doesn’t circulate in the community. Have you noticed the degrading of our towns? If we could all look back 20 years, what has the marijuana industry done but brought money to a few, while the downtowns are filled with empty stores and homeless zombies. Sorry for the rant.
(2) MARIJUANA GROWS: I don’t agree with you that marijuana growing is bad. I have seen it done well by actual caring and humble people who used the profit to build and maintain simple and loving homes. However I do agree with your “The marijuana industry has brought legions of these very types into our communities. And it’s not getting any better despite govt. efforts to legitimize…” I have seen the “legalization” reverse the goodness by rewarding baller mega-growers, government parasites and corporate investors while hurting the same people I referred to in my opening statements… The money and the sensationalism of weed growing pulled many bad people into this area. We became a magnet for sociopaths and greedy posers - many who now have permits and hype their dubious credentials!
The gorgeous glowing bowl is by the late and very talented Lisa Lebow. The "Moon Maiden" was a delightful birthday surprise from Sue Sellars and Janet Seaforth. — Jan Wax
SUPERVISOR TED WILLIAMS on KZYX with Karen Ottoboni last Wednesday morning was asked about the budget process this year:
Ottoboni: Did you feel the process was good? You got enough information that you were able to do it, or did you really have to dig?
Williams: No. I don’t think it’s a good process. I hate to be that guy. It’s like we elected the Anderson Valley Advertiser for the Fifth District. But I am critical of the process. I don’t think it’s very good. It’s not a reflection on staff. I think we hire some excellent people who are incredibly hard working. They are talking to me late at night on the weekend. About budgeting. And not as just a one-off but regularly. The employees in this County are highly dedicated.
SCHOOL STREET, UKIAH, 1885
DOES THIS SOUND REMOTELY WORKABLE?
According to a recent press release, Ukiah Unified is looking at three different scenarios for fall reopening:
Scenario A: Return to school five days a week with safety measures to provide for as much social distancing as practicable and remote learning for parents who do not feel comfortable sending students to school five days each week. This five-day-a-week model may look different than what our community is used to.
Scenario B: This is a hybrid model where students would be split into two groups, with 50 percent of them in each group. One group would be referred to as A and the other as B. In this model, a student would attend school in person two days a week and be on remote learning three days a week. This hybrid model could work in a variety of ways. One possible example would be the A group attends school in person on Monday and Tuesday, and the B group attends school in person on Thursday and Friday with additional classroom sanitation on Wednesday. Parents who do not want this option could choose remote learning.
Scenario C: Remote learning similar to the 2019-20 school year if the health conditions in our community necessitate it.
(Mark Scaramella)
CATCH OF THE DAY, June 27, 2020
Brown, Cabada, Freitas, Hietala
BENJAMIN BROWN, Ukiah. DUI-drugs&alcohol.
FRANCISCO CABADA-BELTRAN, Ukiah. Disorderly conduct-loitering on private property.
BRANDON FREITAS, Fort Bragg. Assault with deadly weapon not a gun, controlled substance.
JUSTIN HIETALA, Ukiah. Concealed dirk-dagger, probation revocation.
Norton, Noyo, Pearce
ROBERT NORTON, Ukiah. DUI.
SAMANTHA NOYO, Willits. Controlled substance for sale, stolen property.
AMBER PEARCE, Point Arena. Domestic abuse.
Penny, Rabano, White, Young
TANYA PENNY, Sausalito/Ukiah. Disorderly conduct-alcohol.
SEBASTIAN RABANO, Ukiah. Domestic battery, probation revocation.
HAROLD WHITE, Fort Bragg. Fugitive from justice, false personation of another, failure to register as sex offender with priors.
TERRANCE YOUNG, Ukiah. Domestic battery, suspended license, probation revocation.
HALL OF RECORDS, UKIAH
WE LOVE OURSELVES
During the shelter in place mandate, our residential care homes, behavioral health services, crisis and homeless programs have all remained open to continue to serve our children, youth, families, and adults with essential healing care. The selfless services and supports RCS employees provide daily is life-changing and value-adding. Further, our organization is made possible by our steadfast administrative teams who provide the backbone for the services RCS is able to make available to the community. Without the brilliance of our administrative employees, we would not have been able to respond to this new environment seamlessly.
RCS is proud to stand in company of such amazing, brilliant, and inspiring change-makers who work tirelessly to create a more loving, just, and healing world. Our employees stepped up and continue to amaze us during these critical times, often working overtime, taking shifts in programs and counties they do not usually work in, spending countless hours ensuring clients’ needs are met – all while being away from their families - and for this and all the other countless ways you contribute, we salute you!
For more information about the services RCS provides – from foster care to our 24-hour youth and adult homes; our 24-hour crisis services, behavioral health services, day resource and night shelter services, and substance use disorder treatment services, please visit our website at www.redwoodcommunityservices.org.
— Victoria Kelly, CEO, Tawny Bailey, COO, Carmen Harris, CPO, Angie Bakker, Marketing & Communications
Despite the dogmatic devotion to democracy that we’ve all been browbeaten with since Kindergarten, the sad fact is that democracy allocates the 50% of people with an IQ below average the same voting power as the 50 per cent who have greater than average intelligence.
I’ve been amused for years about how the only thing Republicans and Democrats agree upon is how stupid the voters are, depending on the outcome of the last election. People only truly believe in democracy when the votes are going their way. This is most easily observed now by watching the panties-in-a-wad snowflakes spouting off about “burning the system down if we don’t get what we want. Waah.”
Whenever I hear a politician or a pundit preface a statement with, “I think the American People are smart enough to realize that…,” I immediately tune out. They are of course lying, because no politician has the slightest respect for the voters or their putative intelligence. The preface would more accurately be replaced with, “Maybe enough of the American People are stupid enough to believe what I am about to say….”
Democracy guarantees that stupidity reigns most frequently. A Dictatorship or Monarchy may have some good moments, but ultimately evil will reign. They are both lousy systems, mainly because a sizeable chunk of people are just plain baseline stupid, and all people have the capacity for evil.
The demise of civilizations was baked into the cake when it began. The momentary illusion that we somehow had things figured out was fueled, literally, by the discovery of petroleum that transiently has allowed a lot more people to eat and successfully breed. As it winds down, things will return to economies based upon conquest and enslavement of both animals and people. Any World Made by Hand is going to have to contend with the people over the hill that want your village’s potato crop, shovels, horses, oxen, and females. To protect all that the village is going to have to cough up taxes for the local warlord’s protection. Feudalism was the dominant pre-industrial system, and will be the predominant post-industrial system.
Along the way, watch for much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Mark your calendars, it began in earnest in 2020. Or 1973. Or 2008. Or argue about some other date, it doesn’t really matter, does it?
TRUMP IS NOT just the perfect media product, he’s a brilliant propaganda mechanism. Though most of our problems are systemic, most of our public debates are referendums on personality. Not many people can be neutral on the subject of Trump, so we wave him at you all day long.
Meanwhile, a vast universe of systemic issues is ignored. We’ve been steadily narrowing that field of view for decades, particularly in investigative reporting.
In the years after Manufacturing Consent came out, big corporate conglomerates bought up most major media outlets. The biggest outlets learned there’s no percentage in doing big exposés against large, litigious companies. Not only will they sue, they’re also certain to pull ads as punishment. Why make trouble?
Also, news audiences had by then been trained not to value this kind of work the way they once had. It was easy enough to sell something else instead—better weather graphics, celebrity news, faster delivery, etc. Papers and stations that had their own correspondents abroad or in Washington increasingly shuttered those offices and relied on the wires. Nobody much cared.
The message to reporters working in big corporate news organizations was that long-form investigative reports targeting big commercial interests weren’t forbidden exactly, just not something your boss was likely to gush over.
When media companies aren’t doing the right stories, they start self-sorting for the wrong ones. You could call this the Worthy and Unworthy Targets principle.
Worthy targets are small-time crooks, restaurant owners with rats, actors, athletes, reality stars, and other minor miscreants. In the Nineties, to this list of worthy subjects, we added two more: Either of the two approved political parties.
Fox struck gold with the Lewinsky story and the Clinton impeachment. Roger Ailes, the new CEO, was learning to cash in by terrifying elderly audiences with images of evil hippie power couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Hillary denigrated baking cookies while letting her husband run around with his pants around his ankles. Thanks in large part to Lewinsky and the Starr probe—stories that Fox rode to riches as white hat/black hat soap dramas—the network went from launch to top of the cable market in less than six years.
Fox nailed the formula of the modern news story. Forget just doing a cable variety show with conservatives and liberals engaged in ritualized fighting. Why not make the whole news landscape a rooting section?
It would be a while before other networks embraced Fox-style open political slant (and when they did, they did it in a different way). But Ailes quickly had a lot of imitators when it came to the blame game.
RETHINKING THE POLICE
I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about defunding the police. I think we need to do the opposite. I think we need to greatly increase salaries for police but also make it mandatory that any applicant have a degree in philosophy, public health or psychology and a minor in police science.
For those already on the job, have a time range for them to get enrolled in these programs or be phased out.
The FBI and some state police departments have these requirements, and their workers aren’t so apt to be racist and commit acts of evil.
You ask, are there great police officers in our midst? Almost everyone says they know great people who are police officers. I do myself. However, all of these great officers need to stand up for the soul of their profession and forcefully oppose the criminal elements in their midst.
Being silent in the face of this persistent racism isn’t great policing but condoning the continuation of the problem. Every right-thinking officer needs to stand up for all the good they do and get rid of the dinosaurs who ooze hatred and prejudice. Then the people and the police can sing the same tune of peace and harmony.
Please stand up.
John Lyhne
KNOTS, JUST KNOTS
by Denis Rouse
The phone rings. Rarely a good thing. It’s Zuckerman calling, the wannabe auteur of Monte Nido. He has a notion he wants to take a rock climbing lesson and he wants Weinstein to partner up with him.
“C’mon, don’t be chicken shit”, he says, “The first lesson is knots, just knots, no climbing”.
Weinstein, not yet fully aware that whatever Zuckerman says is pure Hollywood vacuity, agrees to go. It’s a monstrous decision because Weinstein’s fear of heights is redline and he is putting his trust in Zuckerman’s assurance. Just knots, no climbing.
They drive together to the base of a soaring cliff face in the San Gabriel Mountains where they meet up with a group of climbing students, including three attractive girls, and two instructors from the climbing school, a couple of wiry young men whose body fat appears to be about zero.
A half hour is spent upon knots. While Weinstein works assiduously on a half hitch it does not escape his attention that the three girls are more than attractive; they are hot, they are in fact lithe sun-bronzed muscle toned beauties, members of a then burgeoning breed of proto females who frankly intimidate Weinstein down to his socks. It is also becoming clear to Weinstein that Zuckerman’s words were pure crap. A long nylon line is being prepared, a belaying line, and the taut male instructors are issuing instructions that are clear and unambiguous. Use your feet, test your footholds, don’t rely on arm strength. Your feet are the key. We’re only going up a hundred feet or so but remember that a ten foot fall can be just as fatal.
Oh sweet Jesus, Weinstein, can you run and hide? No, you can’t run and hide. The proto femmes aren’t scared. Look at their expressions. The bitches look like they’re going fucking shopping. They’re happy, elevated, energized and you are a quaking two hundred pound piece of shit.
“Zuckerman, you asshole, get me out of this”.
“C’mon Weinstein. It’s nothing. Look at the size of my ass. You’re in much better shape than I am”.
Fear has a color. Fear is purple. Weinstein’s face is magenta but there’s no escape within the bounds of any human dignity here. The line is cinched to Weinstein’s waist and three lead climbers including big ass Zuckerman and two of the khaki clad uber femmes have already begun to make their way up the cliff face. Weinstein is climber four. The line is tugging. Get up there Weinstein. Test your footholds and for God sakes don’t look down. This is no time for an anxiety attack. Remember, the purple is only a message. Think, you schmuck, your father once told you fear can be either your foe or your friend. Make her your friend.
Weinstein is thinking way beyond, “What the fuck am I doing here?” Weinstein is thinking “I can’t believe I’m doing this”. But Weinstein is busy. He’s busy testing footholds and despite the instructors’ admonition he’s also relying on arm strength to keep ascending the cliff face and get this goddamn lesson over with as quickly as possible. Fear has a smell too. Fear smells like wet rock. Think of fear as having a bell curve. Weinstein’s fear hits the top of the bell curve when he reaches a narrow ledge in the cliff that is the terminus of the climb, nothing more than a niche in the cliff, a niche that is ten stories high, a niche that has barely enough room for the climbers to gather together and chat. Everyone chats. Zuckerman chats. The uber chicks chat. Weinstein can’t chat because he can barely breathe; he is in the midst of a deeply personal private crisis, a struggle to control panic that is quickly going from magenta to black. If fear also has a taste Weinstein can’t taste it because his mouth is as dry and desiccated as the Atacama Desert. His foci problem is that he and his fellow climbers have been temporarily disconnected from the security of the belaying line so it can be reconfigured into a rappelling line for the trip back down. Allow panic to overbear you now Weinstein and the coroner will be called to pick you up with a spoon. The instructor is giving a talk about rappelling. Weinstein hears not a word he is saying. He just wants to get buckled again to the security of any fucking line in the house and get back to Mother Earth who he now knows he dearly loves. After interminable minutes, minutes that seem like millennia, Weinstein is rappelling downward, not well, awkwardly, but downward at last, and when his size twelves finally clomp down on terra firma, his body, his mind, his spirit is at once suffused with a kind of relief he has heretofore never known. He believes he has met his worst enemy, he who lives within his own self, and survived to tell the tale.
“Weinstein”, Zuckerman says when the group gathers at the base of the cliff to chat some more, “Let’s sign up for another lesson, a more advanced climb, what do you say?”
“Zuckerman, you know your pal Paparian, your Armenian buddy who carries a loaded Uzi in the trunk of his car in case the Turks show up again, he who drinks Jack Daniels right out of the bottle, he who does pull ups from your ceiling beams? Let’s give him a buzz when we get home, I need a quiet evening”.
George Hollister June 28, 2020
I remember Nick Lackey. What a story. He had land out on Low Gap Road, and would come through Comptche. I did not know him, but many of my neighbors did. The back drop for the tragedy was the 1977 drought. The drought ended with a horrific 80 to 100 mph wind storm, and Nick Lackey was off Cape Mendocino when the storm hit. That is where his boat went down. I had a friend, and next door neighbor who was good friends with crew mate Ernie Lopez. He hired a plane to help in the search.
As I recall, Nick was a bull, always working, always moving ahead. I never saw him just hanging out. After loosing his boat, he sold the land out on Low Gap, and I never heard his name mentioned again. Few in Comptche today would have any idea who he was. Few remember that wind storm, either. It nocked our power out for about two weeks. Then it rained. The drought was over.
James Marmon June 28, 2020
RE: BRUCE ANDERSON AND THE ANTI-MASK LEAGUE OF 1919
The 1918-1920 flu pandemic came in three major waves. After the first wave in the US, the virus subsided, and Americans were restless to have businesses reopened and for social life to resume. There was a growing movement to stop wearing masks, which had become ubiquitous – so much so that The Anti-Mask League of 1919 was formed. These were protests from those who thought the public health ordinance violated their liberty.
The virus came back with a vengeance in the fall and was much deadlier than the first wave, eventually killing more than 675,000 Americans and killing around 100 million of the 500 million it infected worldwide before it was over. This was before mass vaccination, before the electron microscope; this is the tragedy of herd immunity and stubborn ignorance.
Viruses aren’t political; they don’t care about your theories or speculations or projections. They’re unthinking parasites only wanting to replicate and use your body as a host. Wear a mask.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10204769338851033&set=pcb.10204769339451048
James Marmon
Mask Maker
‘be courteous, protect others’
Bruce Anderson June 28, 2020
Huh? I’m FOR masks, and faithfully wear mine in public places. Jeez, James. Be a little more careful, ok?
mr. wendal June 28, 2020
Re: WE LOVE OURSELVES
What a bizarre marketing blurb for RCS. They didn’t even bother to let anyone know the name of the organization. You could discover it if you read their promotion until the end where they share their website. That they’re spending their time, energy, and our money on this drivel – especially during these times – is infuriating.
I was left without any words after reading it Mr. Wendal, thank you for your comment. I’ve noticed that in the last year RCS has been trying to distance themselves from being identified as the “Schraeders” and I believe that is the true intent of this letter to the editor. For instance their signing off as Victoria Kelly, CEO, Tawny Bailey, COO, Carmen Harris, CPO, Angie Bakker, while leaving Camille Schraeder’s (Executive Director) name out.
RCS does not want to be referred to as the Schraeders anymore. In the old days, Camille’s name would have been the only name on that letter.
Where’s the money Camille?
Former RCS Employee
Lake County Office
Joe June 28, 2020
Lincoln statue
People are ignorant of the fact that emancipated Americans funded the statue of the slave who is not kneeling but rising up from slavery .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8466537/Reenactor-freed-slave-Charlotte-Scott-defends-Lincoln-Emancipation-statue.html
People who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.
Also watch this video on the same subject and see if you don’t appreciate this man’s views;
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1276679557748101121
Stephen Rosenthal June 28, 2020
Re: the Lincoln Statue. You beat me to it Joe. The Cancel Culture vigilantes are not only completely devoid of historical knowledge but too lazy to spend any time gaining said knowledge. Bruce, I’m surprised you didn’t research this a bit more before commenting on it.
Intent was pure, but looking closely at the thing it still looks like the great white father and a child-like figure subservient to him. And as I said, Lincoln, from everything we know about him, would have cringed at all the post-mortem hagiography.
My grandfather Hollister’s mother’s family was part of the Abolitionists movement in Leavenworth, Kansas before the Civil War. The name was Norton. They were members of the Congregation Church. My grandfather told me his mother was born in Oberlin, Ohio.
The expectation at the time was that slaves once freed would embrace freedom and integrate into society. The idea of a slave being subordinate to Lincoln, in a statue, was not their vision, nor Lincoln’s. The big problem with the vision of freedom, is slaves were not allowed to be educated, and were in no position to pursue personal responsibility, or financial independence once freed. There were attempts to bring education to former slaves, but those attempts mostly failed for numerous reasons. Thomas Sowell makes reference to that in his book”Black Rednecks & White Liberals”.
The result was when chattel slavery ended, most slaves went from being slaves to being serfs. The tradition of denying education continued, and became of culture for many descendants of former slaves. This attitude toward education is part of a culture of the poor in the South, both black and white. For the Southern poor, going to school was either for “whitey” if you are black, or for sissies if you are white.
Harvey Reading June 28, 2020
The expectation of many, if not most, abolitionists was that the freed slaves would be transported to Africa. For a while Lincoln shared that notion. Some freed slaves were in fact so transported, and some of them even built a country there, but overall the whole notion was logistically infeasible (not to mention morally reprehensible). You get two pats on the head and a scratch behind your ears from James if you can name that country.
Also, George, given the tall, unsubstantiated, tale you told a while back about the Canadian health care system, I cannot bring myself to fully swallow your story. It seems to me that you are just trying to wriggle out from the hole you dug for yourself with your prior racist comments.
The only thing that might save America is “School Choice”. Trump is saving the best for last. A case for “school choice” is gaining momentum by the day, especially in the last two or 3 weeks.
A semi-clever diversion from real problems.
The only opinions on this this matter that are important are those of the descendants of slaves. Whitey’s opinion is irrelevant. Let THEM decide, then live with their decision.
John Sakowicz June 28, 2020
— Redwood Community Services, Victoria Kelly, CEO, Tawny Bailey, COO, Carmen Harris, CPO, Angie Bakker, Marketing & Communications
I wonder what their combined salaries are?
The only thing that matters here is job’s John. Camille is a job’s creator. I believe she is the number one employer in the County, after the County. The Board of Supes have turned her lose because she is good at leveraging state and federal money to get more state and federal money, which grows her empire and creates jobs. That’s why they turn a blind eye towards questioning the effectiveness of her programs and requiring financial accountability. As long as she keeps her hands out of the General Fund, she is free to carry on.
The Measure B money is going to complicate things here in the near future, that’s not other people’s money and questions will be asked. Questions lead to more questions.
Lazarus June 28, 2020
I hope you’re correct James, but I have great doubt. Who’s going to ask the questions? When the county gets locked down again, it’ll be a free for all to get money from anywhere, just to keep minimal services open.
Disband the 11 member committee, thank them for their service. Promise to give the money back, wink wink, then abolish the measure.
Be Swell,
Where is the $21 trillion missing from the federal budget?
https://home.solari.com/special-solari-report-missing-money-2020-update-with-mark-skidmore/
Probably money owed to Social Security that was “borrowed” to fight wars, based on lies, against dark-skinned people.
Vegas Baby, Vegas. Mask up and show up. Vegas Baby, Vegas.
Be Swell Baby,
Testing testing testing – but are we actually testing?
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/
“HOW COME one of these tech geniuses we’re always hearing about can’t come up with a non-lethal means of subduing the berserkers?”
The only “berserkers” are the oafs who support Trump.
“THE GREAT IRONY of the BLM uprising is that race relations are better than they’ve ever been…”
Oh, yes, things are so wonderful. You sound like a typical right-wing apologist, of the sort who argued, “…too much, too soon…” with respect to federal civil rights legislation in the 60s.
Bullshit, Harv. Even in Wyoming….
I stand by what I said, Mendocinian. Too bad it hurts so much. Race relations in this country have sucked from the start. People who peddle BS about how much better things are live in a dream world. Look at the per capita imprisonment difference between blacks and whites. At relative income levels. Things are as bad as they always were, no matter what a pretty picture you conservatives may paint to ease your consciences…
Typical conservative hogwash. He or she thinks people are stupid because he or she hangs out with moronic conservatives.
Typical fascist/ Stalinist thinking. People are so stupid and irresponsible they need smart people to run their lives for them. People aren’t stupid. Distracted, but not stupid. More plainly, Would you rather have a trial by a jury of random citizens or take your chances with a single judge?
Susie de Castro June 28, 2020
Question presents an opportunity for discussion.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said back in ’95: “There are some serious problems with how juries are operating, leading some people to wonder if we should just do away with trials decided by a jury,” she said.
Link below is not the first time, nor the last time, the Justice spoke about this subject.
https://www.deseret.com/1995/1/31/19156653/o-connor-says-it-s-time-to-revamp-jury-system
The quote was from your ON LINE COMMENT OF THE DAY. And, I agree, it is typical conservative hogwash. Fascist/Stalinist is about as conservative as it gets. And please save any BS about Stalin being a Communist. He was a conservative dictator, like dictators tend to be.
As far as our corrupt “justice” system goes, I prefer to avoid it entirely. Its motto is “If you’re wealthy, you go free with a slap on the wrist; if you’re not, it’s prison for you, especially if you are dark-skinned; if you’re poor and innocent, we’ll let you plea to a lesser charge, especially if you’re dark-skinned”
Harv Reading, a nation unto himself!
Got nooze for ya, old fella. There are tens of millions of us. Get used to it.
Betsy Cawn June 29, 2020
Despite the near century of Diagnostic & Statistical Manual interpretation of human behaviors, and thousands of specialized fields of “scientific” studies, I’ve yet to see anyone explain the phenomenon we call “stupid.”
Simultaneously, I’ve witnessed the devolution of American primary education and extreme conformism to minimally defined social systems — job, college, or military service being your approved choices; harnessing the placidly employed distributors of school “services.”
A couple of generations that grew up “believing” what they see on TV, bedazzled by ever more intricate machines (cars, motorcycles, electronics, software, entertainment) and usually feeling proud when they “get rewarded” with momentary exhilaration in the hundred-watt spotlight. Aren’t you wonderful . . . NEXT!
My neighbor and I were just talking about the strange problem we’re seeing in our corner of Lake County (and of course, all over Farcebook, constantly) of citizens who not only reject the grantedly-grappling public health authorities’ (CDC at the top of the groaning pile) data points — always demanding that instant gratification they’re so accustomed to (my internet speed is annoying?) — but express a form of anger toward the more compliant populace that is out of proportion to either the level of effort or to the “odds-making” calculations of “better safe than sorry.”
People who, I would bet, have never so much as read the U.S. Constitution, wailing about their non-existent “rights” to do what they prefer, and furthermore demean those who do not beg to differ. Vicious, vacuous, glib sentiments of non-compliance “superiority” that smack of the same arrogance at the root of Civil War defeat denial and celebration of heroes whose brutality — whether overseas or the not-at-all sacred “homeland — and the meaningless arguments (using the term as loosely as possible) between George Hollister and Harvey Reading.
“People aren’t stupid. Distracted, but not stupid.” Human ingenuity inborn in all individuals is almost guaranteed — but what it is put to use for, and how misanthropic intentions are tolerated (all the way to the White House) is a poly-sci-fi wonder played out on every form of media that exists today.
Why are belligerent “non-maskers” so angry at us old struggling and very vulnerable people who are not doing anything more than saying, “do what you can — a mask is better than nothing”?
Why do the people of Mendocino County (and Lake County) have so little influence over the long-standing governmental systems — administrative operations and spending decisions lovingly described by Mr. Scaramella and plain as the “nose on your face”? How many years has the subject of “mental health services” (and the surreal organizations in charge of delivering them) been a topic of concern in the AVA? How many groundhog days are there in a year?
Does the failure to grasp the implications of incompetence in delivery of public health and safety services (fire protection/suppression, medical emergency and crisis care, utility lifelines, law enforcement) have anything to do with the people on the outside trying to deal with them in their daily lives? I think the answer is that we are still looking for the Wizard of Oz, because “defunding the administration” is too scary and complicated. Cops and district attorneys are part of a system that is defined by legislation at all levels. You continue to patronize Shraeder’s circus tent but leave the “mess management” cleanup to the line staff and provide only the binary choice of punitive incarceration or medical incarceration, so a facade of taking care of business is substituted for alternative actions (Kemper report). Then the Measure B committee is deployed with absolutely no requirements to perform, sits and bullshits for years, no apparent work done, and it’s no big deal to the Board of Supervisors.
What exactly “is” stupid? And why can’t it be fixed?
Louis Bedrock June 30, 2020
Betsy Cawn, MCT, 28 June
Hi Betsy,
Although these comments don’t directly answer your question, I hope they are helpful.
Carlo Maria Cipolla, an eclectic economist, published a collection of essays titled “Allegro ma non troppo”. In one of them, “The fundamental laws of human stupidity”, Cipolla explores the nature of stupidity. It’s a funny and enlightening read, I would suggest this book to every(non-stupid)body.
According to Cipolla, these are the five fundamental laws of stupidity:
Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.
A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is.
https://www.theava.com/archives/77892
Scroll down to “KANT, ROUSSEAU, THE ARCHBISHOP USHER, AND OTHER IDIOTS”
There is safety in numbers. Stay with the heard. This is the only option, and the easy option for most people. Being free allows one to separate oneself from the heard, and the inherent stupidity that emanates from it. Rousseau, to name one, still has a heard following, and those who have taken what he said as gospel, and expanded on it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/herd
Note the spelling.
My comment was addressed to Betsy, not you.
Eric Sunswheat June 28, 2020
Exhaust Valve Mask Statistical Collateral Damage.
Dr. Colfax of Ukiah Adventist Emergency Room, speaking as private citizen, shoved off concern expressed by KZYX caller on COVID-19 at 3pm show last Monday, with Colfax apparently saying it didn’t matter one way valve masks were ineffective to protect others, as it was simply important for masks to be worn by all if possible.
Then on Wednesday COVID-19 at 3pm KZYX radio show, Colfax expressed ire and postured frustration that community spread is surging in the County.
Homegrown Ukiah Valley’s Dr. Doohan may have dictated flawed default exhaust valve allowance mask guidelines in Mendocino County Public Health Orders, authored from San Diego.
On recent Friday COVID-19 KZYX radio Dr. Doohan was interpretable as verbal stern abusive, roughly saying generally she knows, what is good for the community and known about the science (background: only vaccine immunity will save us) in her orders, that must be followed in this pandemic health emergency. However Dr. Doohan may be losing the big picture, while working part time.
In effect, local Dr. Colfax could be drumming up defective exhaust valve virus spread mask casualties business for his employer contractor Adventist Hospital, as routine elective surgeries have been postponed, but as he speaks only as a concerned citizen, some day Colfax may clarify.
His brother, Dr. Grant Colfax, Public Health Director in San Francisco, seemingly beats to the sound of a different drummer, with distinct Health Orders guidance, in concert along with many of the other counties Health Officers, in regulations with variable enforcement education protocol, to prohibit exhaust valve mask use unless medically necessary.
So what if local Colfax and distant Doohan are cavalier, ignorant or toadies, for the CDC and Governor Newsom’s error and omission.
Is it the ‘billionaires hit’ or do local newspapers care, what with average life span of loosely rural and northern half of Mendocino County, historically 10 years less than the rest of the County.
ES 11:22 AM Sun Jun 28. 2020
RE: Masks with one-way valves cannot be used to comply with this Order. These types of masks permit respiratory droplets to easily escape which places others at risk.
—>. Source: Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
The County Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg, M.D. has issued Health Officer Order No. 2020-10. This Order will be effective starting 5:00 p.m. (PDT) May 26, 2020, continuing until 5:00 p.m. (PDT), on June 30, 2020, or until it is extended, rescinded, superseded, or amended in writing by the County of Santa Barbara Health Officer (“Health Officer”).
https://www.edhat.com/news/temporary-requirement-to-use-face-coverings
A lot of people believe that wearing a cloth mask or ones without a exhaust valve is like shitting in your pants. They see them as as nothing more than diapers and they don’t want that. They’re the ones screaming that cloth and/or masks without exhaust valves are unhealthy. Those folks are the most stubborn. The whole thought of holding their germs in and re-breathing them makes them sick to their stomach, screw everyone else.
Cloth Mask Maker
I wear Chinese fake KN95 masks,and gargle with baking soda dust or drops of hydrogen peroxide, either one, diluted in water, To kill fresh landed COVIN-19 fomites after 2 hour shifts, 8 hours a day. I like it.
I make sure to consume high density liposomes antioxidants first thing each morning with water, before eating 5 minutes later. Go figure!
And reuse mask if it does not smell after being aired out. Dental hygiene yes!
What is shitting in your pants like, James?
preposition: of
1.expressing the relationship between a part and a whole.
https://humanevents.com/2019/05/25/donktum-restricting-the-range-of-consciousness/
About my comments above, I usually refrain from criticizing your Board of Supervisors and public officials, mostly because all I know is what I read in the AVA, or occasional viewing of official meetings. But I do have need to use many of the organizations in Mendocino County that we have cultural connection with (agriculture, water resources, special districts, recreation, and various administrative agencies), and often go to Mendo County websites for better resources than I can find on Lake County equivalents.
And I am harshly critical of the Lake County Board of Supervisors, especially where it comes to the “delivery” of “mental health” services — and the creeping expansion of RCS operations into the county’s Behavioral Health “system of care.” BUT there is no one in the County’s impervious administrative system who will even consider re-organizing priorities such as Black Lives Matter and its world-wide supporters suggest. The municipal government as self-rewarding enterprise (with all those lurking “unfunded pension benefits”) must be quaking in its boots, given the collapse of the entire economy and the mushrooming number of disaffected unemployed who can clearly see the disintegration of “normal” life every day.
In Lake County, the Board of Supervisors’ answer is to redirect attention to the old tar baby “Economic Development” and its fantasy of “rebranding” Lake County (20 years of this nonsense, uncounted millions of wasted dollars) — even deciding that we should no longer mention “disaster recovery” because we have to keep “moving forward.” Seventy-six trombones on order, and meanwhile let’s hum the notes and not worry about that mean old pandemic, eh?
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A BBC interviewer is accused of turning ‘interrogator’ live on air
Peadar O'Cearnaigh
A BBC interviewer was accused of turning “interrogator” while interviewing a member of Northern Ireland’s left-wing republican party Saoradh. BBC Radio Ulster invited Dee Fennell onto William Crawley’s Talkback programme. The programme was supposed to be discussing his party’s opposition to the British navy and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) visiting a recruitment fair at a Catholic school in Belfast. But soon, it was Fennell – not the school visit – at the centre of the conversation.
Opening the show
Whether for production value or provocation, this segment of Talkback opened [1:03:58] with The Village People’s popular track In The Navy. Primarily enjoyed as a dance anthem, some also regard it as a navy recruitment song.
Alban Maginness was also on the show and in the studio while Fennell was on the telephone line. Maginness is a member of centre-left republican party the Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP). Maginness welcomed the police and navy invitation, but Fennell and his party Saoradh strongly opposed it.
Interrogation of Fennell
Instead of discussing the points Fennell raised, Crawley attacked Fennell’s opening response. This was representative of Crawley’s tone throughout. In fact, the majority of the questions put to Fennell had nothing to do with the school invitation.
Crawley told Fennell “you don’t speak for republicans”, despite the fact that Saoradh is a republican party. Crawley then immediately inserted the word “dissident” before republican. When Fennell asked Crawley to explain the term “dissident”, Crawley ignored him.
https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/first-extract.mp3
Fennell’s position
Fennell stated that Saoradh’s opposition to the invitation was based on the victimisation of local families by the PSNI and British armed forces. Fennell said that local families have been victimised by stop and search legislation and “have had their homes raided by these armed men and women”.
He spoke about victims of police plastic bullets. One 15-year-old boy was shot dead quite close to this school in 1989. Fennell also mentioned how local families have been victims of state murder and collusion in the past.
But Fennell was cut off and these points were explored no further. Crawley seemed more interested in a wider political position, so he bombarded Fennell with a series of questions unrelated to the show’s main purpose.
Crawley continued asking Fennell irrelevant questions throughout the interview. This included asking him:
Is your war over?
Fennell replied:
I don’t have a war. I’m speaking to you as a member of a legitimate political party.
But it was Crawley’s constant badgering – five times in total, asking if Fennell would oppose attacks on police officers in Northern Ireland, that prompted Fennell to suggest Crawley was behaving like an “interrogator”:
You’re a presenter. You’re not an interrogator, William.
https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/extract-2.mp3
What did we learn from the interview?
Fennell’s response to this questioning is key. He was representing a political party just as Maginness was. But instead, Fennell was interrogated while Maginness sat in comfort. The courtesy shown to Maginness should also have been shown to Fennell.
Vilification of “dissident republicans” is common in the mainstream media. Crawley’s approach reinforced that narrative and prevented listeners from learning much about their position. The underlying current is that, unless you conform, you’ll be subject to public ridicule – a current that can just as easily be meted out to other political viewpoints.
The Canary contacted the BBC for comment but had not received a response by the time of publication.
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Inside the Market
Three stock picks from Harbourfront’s Wes Ashton
Brenda Bouw
Published November 9, 2020 Updated November 9, 2020
With the benefit of hindsight, like most investors, portfolio manager Wes Ashton knows late March would have been the best time to buy some of his favourite stocks. However, he still believes there are good investing opportunities in both value and growth companies that have experienced market volatility in recent months.
“I’m more confident in deploying cash today, instead of trying to catch a falling knife” a few months ago, says Mr. Ashton, co-founder and director of growth strategy at Vancouver-based Harbourfront Wealth Management and principal of its largest client practice, overseeing $365-million in assets.
His average portfolio return was 1.5 per cent over the past year as of Oct. 30 compared with a drop of 5.5 per cent for the S&P/TSX Composite Index over the same period. (Mr. Ashton’s performance includes private investments as well as equities and reinvested dividends, and varies by client, depending on their asset allocation and risk tolerance.)
As for buying stocks, Mr. Ashton says now could be a good time for some investors snap up some technology stocks that are down by double digits since late summer. Beaten-down blue-chip stocks in sectors such as banking and telecom are also attractive today for long-term investors, he says.
It might also soon be time for investors to start dipping into travel sector stocks, once there’s promising news about a COVID-19 vaccine, which could spur pent-up travellers to start booking future trips.
“Travel stocks … are poised to recapture losses as a result of the pandemic,” he says, but cautions investors not to rush in. “You might miss out on the first little bit, but there is so much on the upside you might be able to capture.”
For his clients, Mr. Ashton is invested in a range of large-cap stocks in sectors such as banking, telecom, technology and railways (among others) as well as alternative investments in sectors such as private equity and debt and privately held income-producing real estate.
Earlier this year he also started adding gold and silver to his portfolios, rotating between gold bullion ETFs and actively traded pools of resource companies, to capitalize on rising prices.
“We haven’t owned resources in ages,” Mr. Ashton says. “We want to be exposed a bit in that area.”
Mr. Ashton has his eye on stocks in a few different sectors and shares three of his picks for investors to consider.
AerCap Holdings NV (AER-N)
Market capitalization: US$3.6-billion
52-week range: US$10.42 to US$64.86
Nov. 6 close: US$27.04
One-year return: minus 54.8 per cent
AerCap is the world’s largest aircraft leasing company that has been hit hard by the pandemic as part of the transportation sector. Mr. Ashton says he believes the stock is poised to do well once travel begins to pick up again, particularly as a COVID-19 vaccine gets closer to reality.
He says the Dublin-based firm has a strong enough balance sheet to make it through the pandemic and is more diversified than buying any single airline. “You aren’t betting on one company, but rather you’re betting a little bit more on the industry,” he says
He says investors should consider looking for another pullback in the stock before getting in. The stock is up about 4 per cent in the past month. Mr. Ashton doesn’t own AerCap, but is considering purchasing the stock for some client portfolios once the pandemic starts to abate.
Apple Inc. (AAPL-Q)
Market cap: US$1.9-trillion
52-week range: US$53.15 to US$137.98
Nov. 6 close: US$118.69
One-year return: 84.6 per cent
Apple stock has been riding the tech wave during the pandemic and has cooled off, alongside most of its peers, in recent weeks. Mr. Ashton notes the stock is down about 14 per cent since its 52-week high in early September and suggests it could be a good time for investors to look at picking up shares ahead of an anticipated strong holiday sales season.
“Buying on the dips to get into stocks like these isn’t bad, especially if you don’t own it already,” he says.
Some of his clients have Apple stock in their portfolios or through ETFs and he’s considering adding the stock to some other portfolios if the valuation becomes more attractive.
Domino’s Pizza Inc. (DPZ-N)
Market cap: US$15.7-billion
52-week range: US$270.08 to US$435.58
Mr. Ashton says he believes this pizza restaurant chain is a good stock to own, especially as more people turn to takeout and delivery during the pandemic era.
He started buying the stock earlier this year and on the recent dip after its third-quarter earnings miss. While the company reported revenue of US$967.7-million, above analyst expectations of US$953-million, earnings per share of US$2.49 came in below consensus expectations of US$2.79, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv. The company was hit with higher costs because of the pandemic.
Mr. Ashton says he believes the pizza chain is well positioned ahead of the holiday season and will continue to deliver strong sales, and likes that the stock doesn’t move up and down with the broader market.
“It’s not as correlated with the markets,” he says, which helps to diversify market risk.
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Trek to Annapurna Base Camp
Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal
Friends Adventure Team
14 Duration
Get closer to the Himalayan giants of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri on this trek to the Annapurna Base Camp. Organized over 14 days, this trek also takes you to the base camp for Mt. Machhapuchhare, the summit of 10,500 feet tall Poon Hill and the natural hot water springs of Jhinu Danda. During the day, you'll spend hours trekking through mountains and exploring multi-coloured forests of bamboo, birch and rhododendron. All throughout, snow-capped mountain peaks of Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Hinuchuli, Machhapuchhare will offer awe-inspiring views.
NOTE: Price displayed is per person price for a booking of two travellers. Price displayed is subject to fluctuations based on international currency exchange rates at the time of booking.
The Annapurna mountain range, home to some of the tallest mountain peaks in the world, are located inside the Annapurna Conservation Area. The base camp of Annapurna consist of a few tea-houses built for the convenience of expeditions attempting a summit bid. The base camp, located at an altitude of over 13,500 feet, is surrounded by barren mountain slopes covered with boulders and layered with thick patches of snow. The tall mountain peaks of Annapurna Dakshin and Hinuchuli overlook the base camp, offering goose bump-inducing views of the Himalayan terrain.
Trek to the base camp of Annapurna, the tenth-highest peak in the world. | Visit the base camp of Mt. Machhapuchhare. | Relax in the natural hot water springs at Jhinu. | Summit the 10,500 feet tall Poon Hill. | Explore trails and routes in the Annapurna Conservation Area.
Approx Elevation
Average Distance Per Day
Private vehicle
Nayapul, Nepal
Day 1 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Arrive at Kathmandu
Land at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Here, a representative of the tour operator will meet you at the airport and escort you to a pre-booked hotel in the city. You can spend the rest of the day at leisure. Visit the local marketplace to shop for any last minute essentials or take a stroll around town to explore the city. In the evening, you'll have a short briefing session with your trek leader. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu.
Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu.
Arrive in Kathmandu and spend the day at leisure. You'll be accommodated in hotel rooms at Kathmandu on twin-sharing basis. You'll be escorted from the airport to the hotel in a private vehicle. The hotel will generally be located in the Thamel area of the city, located 20-30 min drive away from the airport. Since no meals are included in today's meal package, you can visit any of the restaurants in Kathmandu to have meals at your own expense.
No meals are provided today
Food variations Veg|Non-veg|Egg
Day 2 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Sightseeing at Kathmandu
Visit some of the UNESCO Heritage monuments in Kathmandu on a guided, cultural tour of the city. Driving around in a private vehicle, you'll visit local attractions such as the Patan Durbar Square, the Pashupatinath temple or the Boudhapath Stupa. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu.
Head out for a day of sightseeing in Kathmandu and visit the city's heritage attractions. A tour guide will accompany you at all times in a private vehicle. You'll be accommodated in the same hotel as yesterday. Today's meal package includes breakfast at the hotel. You can visit any of the restaurants in Kathmandu to have additional meals at your own expense.
Day 3 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Kathmandu to Pokhara
Board a private vehicle and begin the journey to Pokhara. Travelling across the Nepalese countryside, you'll get your first views of snow-capped mountain peaks on the horizon. The drive will take you past small villages with gorgeous landscapes alongside the Trishuli River. You'll arrive at Pokhara by late afternoon. Take the evening to visit the city's Phewa Lake. Overnight in a hotel at Pokhara.
Overnight in a hotel at Pokhara.
Travel from Kathmandu to Pokhara in a private vehicle. In the evening, you can visit the city's popular Phewa Lakeside area. You'll be accommodated in hotel rooms at Pokhara on twin-sharing basis. Today's meal package includes breakfast at the hotel. You can visit any of the restaurants in Pokhara to have meals at your own expense.
Day 4 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Pokhara to Tikhedunga
Today marks the first day of your trek to the Annapurna Base Camp. You'll begin with a 2-hr drive from Pokhara to Nayapul, where you'll disembark and begin the trek. A fairly easy walk over a dirt road, the trek takes you alongside the Modi Khola River as it flows down from the glaciers of the Annapurna. At the village of Birethanti, you'll enter the Annapurna Conservation Area, and proceed to the village of Tikhedunga. Overnight in a tea-house at Tikhedunga.
Overnight in a tea-house at Tikhedunga.
Travel from Pokhara to Nayapul in a private vehicle and trek from Nayapul to Tikhedunga. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at Tikhedunga. In all tea-house accommodations, if twin-sharing rooms are unavailable, you may be allocated dormitory-style rooms on multi-sharing basis. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Tikhedunga
Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 5 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Tikhedunga to Ghorepani
Heading out from Tikhedunga, you'll encounter a steep patch involving intense climbing over an uphill trail. After a challenging trek, you'll reach the hilltop village of Ulleri, where you'll get some of the most breathtaking views of the Annapurna mountains. Proceeding onward through a forest of rhododendron and birch, you'll arrive at Ghorepani, a village at the base of Poon Hill. Overnight in a tea-house at Ghorepani.
Overnight in a tea-house at Ghorepani.
Trek from Tikhedunga to Ghorepani. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at Ghorepani. In all tea-house accommodations, washroom facilities will be common to all guests at the tea-house. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Ghorepani
Day 6 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Ghorepani to Tadapani
Early in the morning, before sunrise, you'll begin trekking from Ghorepani with flashlights in your hand. Through a thick rhododendron forest, you'll scale the 10,500 feet high summit of Poon Hill. You'll reach the top just in time to witness the breathtaking sunrise over the mountains of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri. Later, you'll descend from Poon Hill, make a short stop at Ghorepani and proceed towards the village of Tadapani. The 6-hr trek takes you past sections of gorgeous forests and pastures. Overnight in a tea-house at Tadapani.
Overnight in a tea-house at Tadapani.
Trek from Ghorepani to Tadapani. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at Tadapani. All tea-house rooms are usually equipped with a bed, blanket and bed sheet. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Tadapani
Day 7 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Tadapani to Sinuwa
Begin trekking from Tadapani towards Sinuwa. The trail, a mix of easy, downhill walking and challenging, steep inclines, takes you over a suspension bridge over the Kimrong Khola River. Trekking past the village of Chhomrong, settled by the ethnic Gurung natives, you'll arrive at Sinuwa by late afternoon. Overnight in a tea-house at Sinuwa.
Overnight in a tea-house at Sinuwa.
Trek from Tadapani to Sinuwa. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at Sinuwa. Some travellers prefer bringing their own sleeping bags to use in tea-houses. The tour operator will provide you with one, if required. You may also buy or rent a sleeping bag at Kathmandu or Pokhara. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Sinuwa
Day 8 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Sinuwa to Deurali
The trek for the day will take you to the village of Deurali, where you can get closer views of the towering Mt. Machhapuchhare. The trail will lead past forests of bamboo, upstream along a river stream flowing down from the Annapurna glaciers. You'll arrive at Deurali after an 8-hr trek by late afternoon. Overnight in a tea-house at Deurali.
Overnight in a tea-house at Deurali.
Trek from Sinuwa to Deurali. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at Deurali. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. While non-vegetarian options are present on the tea-house menu on most days, travellers are advised to stick to vegetarian dishes for concerns of health and fitness.
Deurali
Day 9 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Deurali to Annapurna Base Camp
Today, you'll trek to your destination for the entire trek, the Annapurna Base Camp. Hiking past an ascending trail, you'll also visit the Machhapuchhare Base Camp along the way. Upon arriving at your destination, you'll check-in to the tea-house and spend some time exploring the base camp and admiring spectacular views of mighty Himalayan peaks. Overnight in a tea-house at Annapurna Base Camp.
Overnight in a tea-house at Annapurna Base Camp.
Trek from Deurali to Annapurna Base Camp. Throughout the entire trek, you'll be accompanied by an experienced, English-speaking trek leader as well as a support staff of cooks, helpers and porters. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at the Annapurna Base Camp. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Annapurna Base Camp
Day 10 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Annapurna Base Camp to Bamboo
After a morning spent in the company of the Annapurna, you'll begin the return trek along the same route. You'll hike on a primarily downhill trail, past the Machhapuchhare Base Camp and the village of Deurali, towards the village of Bamboo. Overnight in a tea-house at Deurali.
Overnight in a tea-house at Bamboo.
Trek from the Annapurna Base Camp to Bamboo. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at Bamboo. Since travellers will be trekking on remote routes at altitudes of 4,000-13,000 feet, availability of services will be fairly limited. Accordingly, travellers are requested to moderate expectations of comfort and luxury. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 10 Milestone
Day 11 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Bamboo to Jhinu
Begin trekking from Bamboo and retrace your steps until the Chhomorng village. Here, you'll take a fork in the path and proceed towards the village of Jhinu. The small, hillside settlement is located just a short distance away from the Modi Khola River. At Jhinu, you'll check-in to a tea-house and visit the river, where a pool of natural hot water springs is located. Relax, rejuvenate and take a bath in the hot springs before turning back towards Jhinu. Overnight in a tea-house at Jhinu.
Overnight in a tea-house at Jhinu.
Trek from Bamboo to Jhinu. Throughout the entire trek, you'll be accompanied by porters who will carry a limited weight of your personal luggage. The group will have one porter per two trekkers. You'll be accommodated in basic tea-houses at Jhinu. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Jhinu
Day 12 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Jhinu to Pokhara
For the last day of trekking, you'll make your way down from Jhinu towards Nayapul. The route will take you alongside the Modi Khola River and past the village of Birethanti, where you'll exit the Annapurna Conservation Area. At Nayapul, you'll board a vehicle and travel back to the city of Pokhara. Overnight in a hotel at Pokhara.
Trek from Jhinu to Nayapul and travel to Pokhara in a private vehicle. The tour operator will take care of all government permits and entry fees such as the Annapurna Conservation Area permit and the Trekker's Information Management System card. You'll be accommodated in hotel rooms at Pokhara on twin-sharing basis. Today's meal package includes breakfast only. You can visit any of the restaurants in Pokhara to have meals at your own expense.
Day 13 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Pokhara to Kathmandu
Early in the morning, you'll board a vehicle and drive to the capital city of Kathmandu. Bid goodbye to the mountains of Annapurna, since you'll be travelling back to the flatlands. In the evening, you can visit the local marketplace to shop for gifts and souvenirs. A farewell dinner to celebrate the successful completion of the trek to Annapurna Base Camp is scheduled for the night. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu.
Travel from Pokhara to Kathmandu in a private vehicle. You'll be accommodated in hotel rooms at Kathmandu on twin-sharing basis. Today's meal package includes breakfast and dinner only. For dinner, you'll visit a popular restaurant in Kathmandu to try some authentic Nepalese cuisine. You can visit any of the restaurants in Pokhara to have meals at your own expense.
Day 14 of Annapurna Base Camp Trek: Depart from Kathmandu
According to your flight timing, you'll be transferred to the airport. Your trip ends here.
Your trip ends by late morning.
Check-out of the hotel and avail a transfer service from the hotel to the airport. Your trip ends here.
All cancellations made on or more than 20 days before departure of the Annapurna Base Camp trek: 80% refund.
All cancellations made less than 20 days before departure of the Annapurna Base Camp trek: no refund.
In case of no show: no refund.
All refunds will be processed after deducting a transaction charge for international payments and transfers. Please check with us to find out what this charge will be for the Annapurna Base Camp trek. All refunds will be subject to a foreign currency premium/discount.
Travellers are requested to treat the local culture with respect and avoid littering, defacing property and monuments and causing general disturbance.
Travellers are required to follow instructions of the trek leader during the trek to Annapurna Base Camp.
Consumption of alcohol and drugs is prohibited during the trek. Consumption of tobacco products and cigarettes is not recommended.
The trek to Annapurna Base Camp is rated moderate to difficult in intensity. Accordingly, the trek is recommended only to travellers with prior experience of at least one high-altitude trek in the Himalayas.
A high level of health and fitness is required to book this trek to Annapurna Base Camp. If you have any cardiac or respiratory conditions, or suffer from knee or spinal problems, please inform the tour operator and consult your doctor before booking this trip.
This trek will take travellers to destinations from 4,000-13,000 feet, where travellers who have not properly acclimatized may experience acute mountain sickness.
The tour operator reserves the right to alter or cancel the itinerary of the trek to Annapurna Base Camp due to bad weather conditions or other unforeseen circumstances to ensure maximum safety of travellers and staff. Travellers are required to bear any additional costs arising due to such a change in itinerary.
The tour operator takes utmost care to ensure safety of the travellers and shall not be held responsible for any mishap, accident or loss of life during the trek to Annapurna Base Camp.
Prices displayed are subject to fluctuations based on international currency exchange rates at the time of booking. Accordingly, prices displayed may be subject to a foreign currency premium/discount.
Grab stunning views of the Himalayas on a trek to Annapurna Base Camp!
Incredible views of the Annapurna range from the summit of Poon Hill.
Snow-stormed terrain of the Annapurna Base Camp.
The Annapurna range towering above the base camp.
Airport transfers at Kathmandu in private vehicle
Guided, cultural city tour of Kathmandu
Travel arrangements between Kathmandu-Pokhara and Pokhara-Nayapul in a private vehicle
Accommodation in hotel at Kathmandu and Pokhara for 5 nights on twin-sharing basis
Accommodation in tea-houses with common washrooms while trekking on twin/multi-sharing basis
All meals from breakfast on day 4 to breakfast on day 12, plus breakfast on days 2, 3, 13, 14 and dinner on day 13
All government permits and entry fees
Services of experienced, English-speaking trek leader
Services of porters/mules to carry up to 15 kgs of personal luggage (one porter per two travellers)
Sleeping bag, walking poles, trek map and duffel bag
Technical and safety gear required during the trek, if any
Rates are inclusive of any international payment transfer fees.
Travel between home city and Kathmandu
Lunch and dinner, during stay in Kathmandu and Pokhara
Adventure travel insurance (recommended)
Nepal visa arrangements and costs
Personal expenses like extra meals or beverages etc.
Any costs arising due to unforeseen circumstances like bad weather, road blocks etc.
Any additional cost due to fluctuations based on international currency exchange rates at the time of booking
Anything not mentioned in inclusions
Full-sleeved t-shirts/shirts
Sweaters and thermal wear
Down jacket and windcheater
Hiking shorts and full-length track pants/trousers
Wool or synthetic hat/cap
Gloves, socks, monkey cap and balaclava
Water-resistant trekking shoes
Not to wear - Expensive jewellery and gadgets
Hard luggage like suitcases, trolley bags etc.
Tight-fitting or uncomfortable apparel
Private vehicle for airport transfers in Kathmandu
Local jeep or similar vehicle for transport between Kathmandu-Pokhara and Pokhara-Nayapul
Daypack (with rain cover)
ID proof
Sunglasses (with UV protection)
Sunscreen lotion and lip balm
Head torch/lamp (with spare bulb)
Camera (with extra batteries)
Dry snacks (dry fruits, protein/granola bars etc.)
Local currency (Nepalese rupee)
Specific personal or prescribed medication
Personal first-aid kit
Kathmandu is well-connected to most major cities of the world via flights to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM). For Indian travellers, most major air carriers operate daily flights from New Delhi and with similar frequency from other cities as well.
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The tour operator will arrange your transport to the start point of the Annapurna Base Camp trek.
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13 May 2019 | Story Zama Feni | Photo Charl Devenish
National Control Laboratory Deputy Director, Dr Quinton Meyer (right), and Marlena Visagie, Quality Assurance Manager, at the laboratory within their facilities at the University of the Free State.
The University of the Free State-based National Control Laboratory for Biological Products (NCL) has maintained its esteemed status as a pharmaceutical testing laboratory after the South African Accreditation System (SANAS) further endorsed its quality-management systems as of high standard according to the International Standards Organisation’s requirements.
The Director of the NCL, Professor Derek Litthauer, said their laboratory – which is also approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) – has again achieved the international testing standards. The cherry on top was that the NCL also received a certificate of Good Manufacturing Compliance (GMP) from the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA).
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Some of the factors that make the NCL an esteemed institution, is the fact that it is one of 12 laboratories worldwide to perform vaccine testing for the WHO; the NCL is the only vaccine-testing laboratory in the country that performs the final quality-control testing of all human vaccine batches marketed in South Africa on behalf of SAHPRA.
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“In our role as vaccine-testing laboratory for the WHO, the NCL helps to ensure that the vaccines purchased through the WHO prequalification programme for international distribution to resource-limited countries, meet the high standards of quality, safety, and efficiency.
The NCL was one of the first full members of the WHO NCL Network for Biologicals, which consists of full and associate members of regulatory authorities from more than 30 countries.
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Prof Litthauer said this achievement is recognition that their laboratory complies with specific international standards with respect to its quality-management system.
“In practice, it means that the laboratory has all the quality systems in place to ensure high-quality test results. The GMP certification is a further step, meaning that laboratory testing is on the expected level for any pharmaceutical testing laboratory and manufacturer. It is a very strict certification.”
He further mentioned that the NCL is also licensed as a pharmaceutical manufacturer. “Although we do not manufacture, we have to comply with manufacturing standards.”
“It is rare for a pharmaceutical testing laboratory (such as the NCL) outside of a manufacturing context to qualify for both certifications. It means that the NCL complies with exceptionally strict standards for pharmaceutical labs anywhere in the world,” he said.
The certification provides the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, the World Health Organisation, and other national control laboratories around the world, with the confidence that the test results from the NCL can be trusted.
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The NCL Quality Assurance Manager, Mrs Marlena Visagie, said, “It is essential that the NCL complies with the highest international quality-assurance standards to ensure that all the lot-release operations, such as manufacturing review and quality testing, are performed in a reliable and reproducible manner.”
“There can be no compromise when it comes to the quality of medicines which are made available to the public,” she said.
“What makes this special, is that the NCL does not only comply with international ISO/IEC standards for pharmaceutical testing, but also with the additional GMP standards required by a pharmaceutical manufacturer. This means that the NCL must ensure that all its operations, including everything from the way documents are compiled and stored, to the maintenance of equipment and infrastructure as well as staff competency, are performed according to international guidelines.”
All NCL staff share vision of excellence
Prof Litthauer said the NCL has a staff complement of 15 technical, administrative, and support staff. Four staff members have PhDs, and the rest of the technical staff have master’s or bachelor’s degrees or are trained as medical technologists. “At the moment, our biggest problem is to get enough suitable space to expand our testing,” he said.
Prof Litthauer said, “All the staff members at the NCL share the vision of excellence, which makes this kind of achievement possible.”
The NCL will host the third annual meeting of the WHO NCL Network in November of this year and will then be reassessed again by the WHO as part of the normal three-year cycle of assessments.
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BROKEN RECORD BY TRAVIS GREENE | @TRAVISGREENETV
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Three-time GRAMMY® nominee, multiple award-winning artist, songwriter, and producer Travis Greene, has launched his upcoming new album Broken Record, available for pre-order now. Unveiling the album cover and track list, the new album features the lead single “Won’t Let Go,” which was recently released to radio along with the official video for the song. Greene has released the new song “Good & Loved” ft. Steffany Gretzinger, which is now available as an instant grat track together with “Won’t Let Go” upon pre-order, and releases an official video for the new song, featuring his live performance with Gretzinger. On Broken Record, Greene has created an eleven-track album with other standout forthcoming tracks including “Great Jehovah,” “The Breaker,” and more. He continues to make waves as one of the industry’s most exciting hit makers of this generation, engaging listeners and friends to come together connecting in faith and love, taking his songs around the world with smash hits like “Intentional,” which just recently was RIAA-Certified Gold®, “Made a Way,” “You Waited,” “Be Still,” and more. Broken Record will be released everywhere on Friday, October 11th.
Greene will also perform in an album pre-release event in Washington DC on Saturday October 5th, at the 12th Annual Spirit of Praise Celebration sponsored by Radio One, Inc., Praise 104.1, DC’s Inspiration station. Showcasing his new album live in concert, tickets are now on sale, with the Spirit of Praise Celebration also featuring Kurt Carr, William McDowell, Koryn Hawthorne, Jonathan Nelson & Purpose, and BET’s “Sunday Best” winner Melvin Crispell, III and finalists Joshua Copeland and Tiffany Andrews. The show will take place at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, DC.
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Cinema Feature
Give It Up And Bring It On
A Battle Of Good Versus Evil Versus Cute And Fluffy.
By James DiGiovanna
Jesse Bradford
YOU KNOW WHAT high school cheerleaders are great at? Fake enthusiasm! Who doesn't love fake enthusiasm?! It's the GREATEST!!!
In Bring It On, Kirsten Dunst stars as Torrance, who's about to be promoted to head cheerleader of the Toros cheerleading squad! It's the position she's always dreamed of! And now it's hers!
But being head cheerleader is not the sheer glamour position that most teen films and WB dramedies would have us believe. In fact, right after Torrance is elected head cheerleader (during the obligatory lingerie scene in the locker room) she faces her first fully-clothed crisis: One of her cheerleaders is injured, and a replacement must be found before the state cheerleading championships begin!
Courtney, an evil cheerleader on the Toros squad, wants her younger sister to be picked. And, of course, none of the stuck-up cheerleaders want Missy, the wild rebel girl who almost has a tattoo, to be on the squad. But Torrance announces that cheerleading is not run by democracy, it's run by cheerocracy, meaning the head cheerleader gets what she wants, and Missy, who's really a gymnast and is way too cool to be a cheerleader, is signed on over the objections of the heavily made-up Courtney and her catty confidante, Shelley.
This precipitates the next crisis: When Missy comes to the first practice, she realizes that the Toros' cheers are stolen! The previous head cheerleader, Big Red, who put the "itch" back in "bitch," had been biting the routines of the East Compton Clovers! Worse, the Toros are mostly white, and the Clovers mostly black, so it's, like, a race thing.
Torrance doesn't know what to do! Luckily, the extremely cool rebel girl Missy has, for no apparent reason, befriended the extremely perky Torrance, and tries to help her through the crisis. "It's only cheerleading!" she says, to which Torrance can only reply "But I'm only cheerleading!"
From there, race, class and fake enthusiasm meet in a tumultuous battle of good versus evil versus cute and fluffy. Who will win? Well, when the Clovers get into the national cheerleading championships opposite the Toros, the answer becomes pretty obvious, but hey, the important thing isn't winning, it's having a winning attitude!
Bring It On, while aimed squarely at teens, is witty enough to withstand adult viewing, and self-conscious enough to make fun of itself. Of course, it's not so witty and self-conscious as to alienate its core audience, so it never rises to the level of Jawbreaker or Election, high school comedies that lost some viewers due to their cynicism.
Still, Bring It On offers something that very few modern films have: large-scale dance numbers with visually stunning choreography that's reasonably well photographed. Big dance scenes are even harder to shoot well than big fight scenes, and they call for a cinematographer with the skills of an old-timer like Sol Polito (who shot 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933). Sol never missed a footstep or got in so close that he lost the sense of the figures (no doubt the fact that Busby Berkeley was directing him helped).
Shawn Maurer, who shot Bring It On, is not as precise as Sol Polito, but he is pretty good. The figures (i.e. the patters formed by the large groups of dancers) are clearly recognizable in most scenes, and while there are just a few too many close-ups (a no-no in scenes with 20 and more dancers) most of the choreography makes it through the cinematography process unscathed.
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Where Bring It On suffers is in the use of stock characters. There's the rebel girl, the cute and endearing gay boy, the two stuck-up and catty cheerleaders, the perky lead girl, and the stupidly evil jocks. Hollywood seems to think that these kinds of stereotypes are necessary to a successful teen film formula, but the few films that venture outside these narrow confines are usually richer for it.
There are also some real limits to how hip a Hollywood teen film can be. When the cheerleader's choreographer tells them that "cheerleaders are dancers who've gone retarded," he mixes a nicely self-deprecating point with a pointlessly deprecating slur. Since that's become the catch phrase for Bring It On it's a good example of both the film's strengths and weaknesses. There are also the obligatory fart jokes, and one or two over-the-top teen sex jokes of the "smell my finger" sort.
Still, for a fan of the old dance movies of the '30s and '40s, Bring It On holds a lot of charm. Just think of it as Busby Berkeley for really, really, really horny teenagers.
Bring It On is playing at Century Gateway (792-9000), Century El Con (202-3343), De Anza Drive-In (742-6174) and Foothills Cinemas (742-6174).
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OnePlus Responds to Charges of Benchmark Cheating
The OnePlus 5 is one of the fastest phones on paper. But are the great performance numbers because of optimization or manipulation?
The long-anticipated OnePlus 5 is receiving glowing reviews. But now there are reports the handset's processor isn't as fast as benchmark results suggest.
On Tuesday (June 20), XDA Developers accused OnePlus of intentionally manipulating benchmark scores on its OnePlus 5 to artificially inflate the perception of the smartphone's power. The site said that the actions were "obvious" and "calculated" and tantamount to "cheating" in today's smartphone market.
According to XDA Developers, the smartphone will typically run at a lower clock speed during normal use. However, the device comes with a mechanism that allows it to identify a benchmarking app and quickly boost its clock speed to the highest level to improve results.
The site said that when allowed to work on its own, the OnePlus 5 would deliver the best processing power available in 95 percent of cases. When the mechanism was turned off, however, it would only get to the top speed in 24.4 percent of cases. The OnePlus 5 has scored exceedingly high marks in most benchmarks, including the popular GeekBench 4.
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It's worth noting that this isn't the first time OnePlus has been accused of manipulating benchmarks. In February, the company was cited for alleged benchmark cheating with its OnePlus 3T, the predecessor to the OnePlus 5. It denied that charge.
In a statement to XDA Developers, OnePlus clarified how its handset works with benchmark apps, and seemed to rebuke claims that it's cheating.
"People use benchmark apps in order to ascertain the performance of their device, and we want users to see the true performance of the OnePlus 5," the company told XDA Developers. "Therefore, we have allowed benchmark apps to run in a state similar to daily usage, including the running of resource intensive apps and games. Additionally, when launching apps the OnePlus 5 runs at a similar state in order to increase the speed in which apps open. We are not overclocking the device, rather we are displaying the performance potential of the OnePlus 5."
The benchmark scores, in other words, are designed to provide you some insight into what you might get, but only during certain circumstances.
The OnePlus 5 will go on sale on June 27.
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Steve_233 21 June 2017 16:37
Apparently they learned nothing from the Volkswagen scandal.
Abom 21 June 2017 16:47
14bil USD for emissions cheating =/= a tripped benchmark.
redngold09 21 June 2017 16:50
A Chinese company cheating? no way!
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Neteller was founded as a company in Canada in 1999. It first began its operations as an electronic money transfer service early in the following year. The vast majority of these transactions involved the transfer of funds used to make payments between online gamers and the world’s gambling industry including bingo sites. Online bingo sites were expanding rapidly during this period, and a trustworthy means of transferring funds electronically was essential to the industry’s continued growth. Neteller soon had this fledgling market virtually sewn up. Soon after launch, it was an accepted method of payment at around 80% of the world’s online gambling merchants.
Whilst this early success and rapid growth is clearly a success story, the company was heavily reliant on this single market. Well over 90% of its revenue was derived from online bingo transactions, and furthermore, this business was primarily taking place in the United States, rather than spread worldwide.
This over-reliance on American gamers became a real problem as the regulatory authorities in the United States continually imposed further restrictions on the online gambling industry throughout the early years of the 21st Century. The legal situation with regard to gambling in the US is complicated by the fact that while the Federal Government in Washington (President, Senate, House of Representatives) has the greatest powers with regard to gambling, State authorities can also impose their own regulations. This explains why the state of Nevada is able to administer a much looser legal framework, enabling Las Vegas to become the widely acknowledged gambling capital of the world.
The 1962 Federal Wire Act had already imposed considerable restrictions on the gambling industry, but the advent of the internet, with its new technologies and the complete revolution in domestic and international trade was not really covered by this outdated legislation. This resulted in several legal cases and clarifications of the law by the US Department of Justice and various Appeal Court rulings. The whole situation was uncertain and needed tidying up. This finally occurred with the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.
The whole situation was a disaster for a company which earned virtually all its revenue from the online gaming industry. The company took the decision to re-locate its business to the Isle of Man in 2004 in order to attempt to circumvent any tightening of the laws. It also raised additional funds by launching on the London Stock Exchange the same year. $70m was raised. Unfortunately, none of this managed to help matters, as the funds contained in all US based Neteller account holders were subsequently frozen. They were not released for several years as the legal battles continued.
The damage was done. While Neteller continued its attempt to diversify by broadening its customer base, its revenues fell disastrously. Fee revenues collapsed from a high point in 2006 of around $240m in 2006 to just $60m by 2010. Nevertheless, the basic principles and the ideas behind the service were certainly still viable, and this combination of great potential, but poor financial health left the company ripe for takeover.
The precise mechanism of the takeover is masked by name changes and various corporate financial wizardry involving mergers, takeovers and apparent reverse takeovers. The end result of all this account ting chicanery was that Neteller ended up being owned by a company called Optimal Payments PLC. The transaction occurred in 2011, with the process being completed early the following year with the new company in total control.
Optimal Payments was already the owner and operator of the pre-payment card service Paysafecard, and in 2015 it added to its growing portfolio of payment methods by acquiring the rival electronic payment service, Skrill. The company has also decided to re-name itself, becoming known by the name of its original payment service, Paysafecard.
The result of all these corporate shenanigans is that three of the major online payment facilities, Paysafecard, Neteller and Skrill are in fact all owned by the same company. This company is known as Paysafe Group PLC, with its headquarters based on the Isle of Man.
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Walk The Goods Line Sydney
Perhaps you are asking “What is The Goods Line, Sydney?” Well, it’s a pedestrian and bicycle pathway in the centre of the city. The result of a creatively converted disused and unsightly rail corridor it is now a vibrant public space. The Goods Line was opened to pedestrian and bicycle traffic in 2015.
Where is The Goods Line?
The Goods Line follows the route of its predecessor, an elevated rail corridor which connected Central Station and Darling Harbour Goods Yard. Trains chugged along the tracks transporting wool, wheat and other essential items back and forth, including coal which was destined for the Ultimo Power Station (now the Powerhouse Museum). The last goods train left Darling Harbour Goods Yard in 1984.
A busy thoroughfare
Now, many people walk The Goods Line, using it as a short cut between Central Station and Darling Harbour. However, more than a pedestrian walkway, it is a destination in itself and provides an inviting outdoor space for office workers and students to study, meet and relax. It follows the original elevated route, running 4m above the ground.
I am going to Walk The Goods Line
Only a short 500m long, the walk passes artefacts which hark back to Sydney’s industrial heritage. Today, for the first time, I am going to walk The Goods Line and explore some of this industrial past.
Approaching The Goods Line from Tumbalong Boulevard in Darling Harbour, I can’t resist a quick diversion into the newly opened Steam Mill Lane. Lined with interesting eateries, colourful geometric installations hang above the Laneway brightening things up as people queue for a seat.
Steam Mill Lane
“M”bedded in the Concrete
After carefully crossing the Light Rail tracks I head right towards the Goods Line. Today being my babysitting day, I am thankful for the ramp which makes pushing the pram to the elevated rail corridor easy.
The Powerhouse Museum (which will move to and reopen in Parramatta in 2023) is at this end of The Goods Line which runs off to my left.
References to the Industrial History of the Area
Taking the time to more closely observe my surroundings, I notice round metal plates embedded at intervals in the concrete pathway. They all tell a story. The single capital letters etched into the smaller plates form words relevant to the history of the area.
There’s “M-E-A-T-S-I-D-I-N-G” and “D-E-P-A-R-T-U-R-E” while larger rings have whole words etched into them, including “TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL” and “MARSHY SWAMP COCKLE BAY”.
Time for recreation
Transformation and Renewal
There are plenty more. Look carefully and discover for yourself other references to the industrial history of the area. Unfortunately, some of the plates have been removed but it is easy to guess which letters are missing.
The sun is shining and people are out and about enjoying the unseasonal autumn weather. Some walk determinedly towards their destination, others stroll appreciating the opportunity to be in almost an “oasis” in the city.
A Recreation Space
The children’s play area includes a sandpit where a sandstone culvert, discovered during nearby digging work, has been re-built. Originally constructed in 1853 it could be one of the earliest surviving pieces of infrastructure from NSW’s early railway construction. The nearby water feature provides little ones with creative play opportunities.
This culvert dates back to 1853
Water Play Area
A man practices his boxing moves on one of the grassed areas while students play a light-hearted game of table tennis. There is even exercise equipment set up for anyone who wants to use it.
The bright yellow metal seats and communal tables have an industrial look, in keeping with the past use of the area. People come and go from the tables – they are well used.
In some areas along the walk, sections of the early railway tracks run through garden beds. In other parts, the railway tracks are flush with the concrete of The Goods Line pathway itself.
An Industrial Look to the Seating
Tiered Seating
There is a section of wooden tiered seating that puzzles me. Office workers and students sit individually or in groups on the seats eating lunch or chatting, but what other purpose does the seating serve? Later I read that the seats form an amphitheatre for outdoor movies and similar activities.
The “Paper Bag Building”
This is the first time I have come face to face with the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building. Also known as “the paper bag building”, this fascinating construction houses part of The University of Technology Business School and is the first building in Australia designed by Frank Gehry.
Dr Chau Chak Wing Building
Detail of Dr Chau Chak Wing Building
You may not be aware that the lower levels of the Dr Chau Chack Wing Building are open to the public, and it is worth taking time out to have a look around, being cognizant of the classes that may be in session.
Ultimo Road Underbridge
Walking over the Ultimo Road railway underbridge built in 1879, I wonder why this rare industrial structure is called an underbridge when it passes over a road? Apparently, it all depends on where you are standing.
“Where a railway passes above a road [as is the case with this bridge], the bridge is an overbridge from the point of view of the road, and an underbridge from the point of view of the railway [The Goods Line]”. (edited extract from Wiktionary)
Information Panel describing the Rail Heritage
36-lever frame interlocking machine
Unfortunately, the wooden signal box that once stood here burnt down in 1996. What remains is the 36-lever frame interlocking machine providing yet another reminder of Sydney’s rail history. Different combinations of the levers and points worked to control the movement of trains on the tracks.
Fig trees lining the pathway along much of its length provide welcome shade and a break from the concrete and glass of surrounding buildings which include more UTS buildings and the home of The Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The Central Station end of the Goods Line
Couldn’t resist this one
While there are plans to extend The Goods Line to Redfern, today the tracks disappear under tall metal mesh gates. To the left of these gates, stairs and a ramp provide easy access to Central Station.
Thoughts on The Goods Line in Sydney
I walk up the ramp (still pushing the pram) and pass through Sydney TAFE arcade with its bright orange and blue walls, to the Henry Deane plaza and into the Devonshire Street tunnel to the Southern Concourse of Central Station.
Sydney TAFE Arcade
Henry Deane Arcade
The Goods Line in Sydney is nothing like The High Line in New York, but it certainly is worth a visit. Now that I have walked it for myself I’ll be back – to get from Central to Darling Harbour, or just to relax under one of the fig trees and watch the passing parade.
Access to the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building: The public levels (2-5) are open from 8am-10pm weekdays and 8am-6pm weekends. Access is from The Goods Line as well as from Ultimo Road and, Mary Ann Street. Visitors are welcome, but as classes may be in progress keep noise levels low.
How to find The Goods Line: I reached The Goods Line from Darling Harbour via the Tumbalong Boulevard, but of course it is equally accessible from Central Station. The best way to reach The Goods Line from Central Station is to leave the station via the South Concourse and the Devonshire Street Tunnel. Continue through the Henry Deane Plaza and the tunnel beneath George Street which leads to the Sydney TAFE Arcade at the end of which is The Goods Line.
After walking The Goods Line, visit Chippendale (Central Station end) or Pyrmont (Darling Harbour side).
And to for another perspective on The Goods Line, read what Best Sydney Walks has to say.
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Ryan Biddulph
Joanne that Paper Bag Building is really neat. Never seen anything quite like it. Definitely worth a visit.
Yes, Ryan. Definitely worth a visit.
This is fascinating! I live in Glebe and work in the city, yet I never heard of the Goods Line. I’m looking forward to checking it out. I do love the Paper bag building!
Pleased to have introduced you to something you didn’t know about Sydney, Margarita. Quite close to where you live too.
Bernadette Marshall
Its great that this rail route is reclaimed for pedestrians and cyclists, and with such interesting architecture and industrial design along the way, it looks like a good path to walk/cycle.
With your eye,Bernadette, you’d really enjoy taking a walk down The Goods Line.
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Reportage/ 13 June 2016
A Stranger in a Familiar Place
In the Hospital on Grey’s Inn Road
by Diane Fortenberry
Eight narrow NHS beds, the footprint of each traced by a ceiling-suspended railing from which hangs a pleated curtain, offering what privacy there is. Six women in various states of undress, ignoring each other as studiously as if we are all in a London tube carriage, rather than commuting to surgery. A sign on the wall opposite exhorts visitors to keep the windows closed, in order to prevent the ingress of squirrels. The ward is hushed – a chittering squirrel or two would add some welcome texture to the linoleum floor and plastic chairs.
I have never before been a patient in a hospital, but I’ve become familiar with the sets and costumes over the last year. I’ve been part of the audience, the play an American one. The stage is different here in England – no modern private rooms with sofa and wide-screen TV, no airy, resort-like corridors with paintings behind glass – but the actors look the same: the caring minority. There, African-American, here Jamaican and Indian, minding their white patients with serenity and skill. The surgeon with his Arabic name, reassuring, marking with indelible ink where he will cut.
I am terrified.
The anesthetist and his assistant joke, as they check that I match the person described on the forms I hold. We’ve all lived in West Hampstead at some point, and the anesthetist used to bartend at the Black Lion pub, just up from the station. Learned his trade there, he laughs. The surgeon arrives, no longer be-suited but in dark green scrubs, a cap over his bald, smiling head. The cannula goes into my hand, and four hours of my life are lost.
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The little match seller
Every match a dream
Every dream a flight!
One flight after another
On the filthy and shear snow
That scratches the child with asphalt
Death makes its way
And turns her body to marble.
Swallow her silent and alert mouth
Grab her round bare little hands
Snatch her lifetime interrupted
By a macramè frill
Grab her knees dirtied on all fours
Grasp her fury without aims
Seize! Her vices as impulsive butterflies
Grasp! Her oxymoron that prolongs time
Seize! The freezing cold of her motionless tender feet
Grasp! Her waiting at the pulsing of the body
Seize! Her implacable disposition to die
Grasp! The scream of her dreaming heart
Seize! Her frozen match on the ground
Grasp! Her last fleeting moan!
Light the burn out match
Brighten the enchantment of her dream
Clean the filthy snow
Melt that marble body
Soothe the asphalt scratches
Release her breath
Raise her body from the floor
Allow her the last flight.
My mother saw her doctor on New Year’s Eve a year ago, a quick appointment to analyze her pain and get a prescription to ease it. She didn’t come home again. Ten weeks, two hospitals, a nursing home and a hospice later, she died in Mississippi, in a bed like the one I’m lying on now. I’m not in pain, and no longer frightened, but I weep with sadness that she spent her last weeks on a bed like this, in a room with cinderblock walls, fed by strangers. Insured Americans die alone, their premiums a guarantee that the only fellow beings with whom they need connect are the family and friends they choose, and the hospital staff they don’t. Here, I share the night ward with two Turkish women, one a middle-aged mother whose children must translate the nurses’ questions for her, the other a young woman who does the job out of kindness after the children leave. She is kind to me as well, urging me to remove the hot leggings that prevent thrombosis while anaesthetized, offering a shoulder so that I may circle the room with wobbly steps. She has had mended the damage caused by an accident in Izmir at the age of two, while I have had repaired the harm done by childhood infections in Mississippi. We are all foreigners here.
I cannot sleep. The bandage wrapped tightly round my head presses into the wound like a wooden mallet, and the long period of abstinence from food or drink has created a throbbing headache that echoes in my skull. I cannot sleep, but the darkness makes it easy to travel. In Kalamata, two decades ago, I take the role of stagehand, pushing a wounded friend through the chaos of a grimy Greek emergency room, his blood is already dry on the half-ton marble block that has crushed one hand. He knows his lines: his screams compel silent attention. Here in this quiet room, the Turkish mother presses a bell to call for water.
I have always felt most comfortable as a stranger in a familiar place. I've grown used to the sense of belonging, but not of inescapable detachment woven into a deep familiarity. I spent more time in Mississippi last year than I have since I left at twenty-one. Is it familiarity that made me feel as if the place was sucking me in, like a boot in oozing mud, or would it happen to anyone?
Mississippi is a difficult place to return to, and an easy place not to leave. For the stranger, it is exotic as any South Asian culture or East African village. For the prodigal child, it's the schoolroom you longed to escape, the scrappy pine hills you watched recede in the rearview mirror, the attitudes you knew too well to be able to debate, the family you looked on condescendingly from the heights of well-travelled adulthood, the place you couldn’t admit you loved. And hated. It's all the things you’ve grown out of and learned better than, and all the things you miss with an ache so intense it threatens to drive you back.
In London, people wear black. In Jackson, Mississippi, women wear pink and yellow, and men wear long shorts and t-shirts that advertise Bubba Gump's Famous Shrimp. In London, people drive Mercedes and Fiats and Smart cars. In Jackson, they drive SUVs and pick-ups and Fords. In London, you learn urban sight: the art of registering the presence of others, in order to avoid collisions, while seldom noticing individual faces. In Mississippi, courtesy demands that you meet the eyes of the stranger on the street, share a few words with the person next in line. In London, the police are unarmed, mostly. In Mississippi, null signs stenciled on the doors of office buildings, libraries and hospitals indicate those atypical places where weapons, along with smoking, are not permitted.
It’s 5am in the hospital on Grey’s Inn Road, and a nurse has brought coffee; the caffeine relieves my headache. I note that, in British hospitals as in American ones, night staff are noticeably more brusque than daytime nurses; the three of us apologize for putting her to the trouble. With the light, the Turkish mother’s children return, and the fourth bed is occupied by a new arrival who’ll be on today’s roster of surgery. As the morning’s medical staff and visitors come and go, the shadowy night ward in which we three shared our histories and whispered our fears morphs into a bustling transit lounge, with belongings packed, second checks that nothing is forgotten, email addresses scribbled and hugs bestowed.
Performance over, we leave the stage.
Diane Fortenberry
is a Mississippi-born writer, Senior Editor at Phaidon Press in London, and sometime Greek and Roman archaeologist. She wrote her PhD thesis on Mycenaean warfare and has published widely on Classical archaeology, early travel and art history, less widely as a poet and memoirist, and is working on novels set in the American Deep South, ancient Athens and the London Underground. She tweets as @wisecynic when insomnia gets the better of her.
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On-Site St. Croix: Eat @ Cane Bay’s Full Moon Reggae Party
Eat @ Cane Bay Reggae Jam
The St. Croix that I grew up in during the 1970’s and 80’s would never be counted among the top Caribbean destinations to visit for live reggae. Oh, we had some nice bands and the occasional big concert from the likes of Steel Pulse and others, but in our corner of the Caribbean at the time, reggae took a back seat to down island calypso, stateside R&B and several other musical forms.
Oh how times have changed!
The Virgin Islands in general, and St. Croix in particular, have recently become a hotbed for emerging reggae artists. Styles vary somewhat from artist to artist, of course, but overall the vibes are of a conscious roots variety, drawing heavy influences from the likes of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Aswad and more.
Midnite has been the biggest name on the St. Croix reggae scene for some time, but others like Umojah, Dezarie, Niyorah, Melame Ganje and Batch are definitely worth seeking out as well. One of the best places to have your seeking rewarded is Eat @ Cane Bay, the fabulous North Shore seaside bar and restaurant that’s a must-stop for us during every visit back home.
Remember Eat’s legendary Sunday Reggae Brunch? Well, on my last trip to St. Croix, I discovered that brunch isn’t the only time you can enjoy great roots reggae at Eat. To see what I mean, just check out the video above. I shot it during a Full Moon Party at Eat back in March.
To say that I was blown away by the concert would be an understatement. You can see and hear the quality of the talent for yourself, but what struck me the most was the happy, irie vibe of the crowd. There were tons of people in and around Eat that night; some packed in front of the stage, others lining the street outside or spilling onto the beach. Booze flowed freely and smoke filled the air as the hours grew shorter, a combination that could’ve easily spurred trouble.
There was none.
The crowd, caught up in the conscious lyrics and infectious vibes, embodied the music, espousing a spirit of brotherhood, positivity and fun.
Pure niceness.
Eat @ Cane Bay’s Sunday Reggae Brunch is still your best bet for catching some of St. Croix’s finest reggae artists as the restaurant doesn’t host Full Moon Parties like this on any kind of regular schedule. Either way, you’ll want to check in with them online for more info before you make any plans for a mystical musical journey to St. Croix. Or better yet, like ’em on Facebook to stay fully up-to-date on all the latest going’s on at Eat. That’s how I found out about the Full Moon Party I attended, easily one of the best tips I’ve gotten all year!
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November 10, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
A group of Maryland business groups is launching a campaign Tuesday to persuade state lawmakers to nix a pioneering tax on digital ads.
The coalition, which calls itself Marylanders for Tax Fairness, describe the tax as a poorly timed initiative that would ultimately hurt small businesses that advertise online.
The General Assembly passed the tax this spring to raise $250 million a year for education. Democratic leaders described the proposal as a targeted tax on social media and Internet giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, which tailor online ads based on user data. The tax is levied on the big companies who run the ads, but the new coalition argues the expense would be passed on to those who buy the advertisements.
The tax was approved on a party-line vote in March, just as the coronavirus pandemic was prompting nationwide shutdowns, and Gov. Larry Hogan (R) vetoed it in May. The General Assembly, where Democrats hold a veto-proof majority, will take up whether to sustain or overturn the veto when it reconvenes in January.
The coalition includes the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, the state’s chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business, the Maryland Retailers Association, and the Maryland,-Delaware-D.C. Press Association.
The Washington Post is a member of the association. The owners of The Post and other news organizations opposed the tax because they believed it would apply to smaller news publishers that rely on digital ads.
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Updated: 6:31 PM EST Feb 20, 2015
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The state provides local jurisdictions with highway user fee funds but they have been lacking the past several years, putting a strain on other budget items.
Representatives of Maryland counties and cities asked state lawmakers Friday for more money to fix roads across the state.Mobile users tap here to watch videoThe state provides local jurisdictions with highway user fee funds but they have been lacking the past several years, putting a strain on other budget items.Under pressure, officials from counties, cities and towns want legislators to figure out how to give them more money to remove snow, fix roads and bridges.The plea comes at a time when lawmakers are considering the governor's repeal of the gas tax, which according to one analysis, could erase $3 billion in funding to the Transportation Trust Fund over the next several years.John Barr, first vice president of the Maryland Association of Counties, said his organization is not taking a stand on the proposed repeal of the gas tax."They are going to have to work it out amongst themselves where they are going to find the funding," Annapolis Mayor Mike Panteledes said.Local officials are relying on property tax revenues to fill gaps, but that, too, is shrinking. A lack of highway money will have an immense impact on Annapolis roads, Panteledes said."In Annapolis, we went through a round of layoffs, froze positions, raised fees, raised personal property tax, cuts in services," Panteledes said.The counties want legislators to revisit, in their words, restrictive education funding formulas. They're urging a uniform approach to drug abuse and want protection for first responders from lawsuits when they treat overdoses.The counties are seeking money to pay lawyers who represent the indigent at the bail commissioner level because the state seed money is running out."We hope that we can get some type of relief, some support to help defray the impact and the cost," said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, who is president of MACo.In addition to highway funds, the Municipal League wants more control over the planning process. They're seeking restrictions on releasing personal financial information on ethics forms. Both organizations embrace the governor's philosophy of empowering locals to handle affairs, yet they are still seeking state aid."It's a fine balance, obviously, and it is difficult," Barr said.Gov. Larry Hogan provided an additional $19 million in highway user fees in his budget. Local jurisdictions are seeking a better, long-term formula to get the aid back to pre-recession levels.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
Representatives of Maryland counties and cities asked state lawmakers Friday for more money to fix roads across the state.
Mobile users tap here to watch video
Under pressure, officials from counties, cities and towns want legislators to figure out how to give them more money to remove snow, fix roads and bridges.
The plea comes at a time when lawmakers are considering the governor's repeal of the gas tax, which according to one analysis, could erase $3 billion in funding to the Transportation Trust Fund over the next several years.
John Barr, first vice president of the Maryland Association of Counties, said his organization is not taking a stand on the proposed repeal of the gas tax.
"They are going to have to work it out amongst themselves where they are going to find the funding," Annapolis Mayor Mike Panteledes said.
Local officials are relying on property tax revenues to fill gaps, but that, too, is shrinking. A lack of highway money will have an immense impact on Annapolis roads, Panteledes said.
"In Annapolis, we went through a round of layoffs, froze positions, raised fees, raised personal property tax, cuts in services," Panteledes said.
The counties want legislators to revisit, in their words, restrictive education funding formulas. They're urging a uniform approach to drug abuse and want protection for first responders from lawsuits when they treat overdoses.
The counties are seeking money to pay lawyers who represent the indigent at the bail commissioner level because the state seed money is running out.
"We hope that we can get some type of relief, some support to help defray the impact and the cost," said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, who is president of MACo.
In addition to highway funds, the Municipal League wants more control over the planning process. They're seeking restrictions on releasing personal financial information on ethics forms. Both organizations embrace the governor's philosophy of empowering locals to handle affairs, yet they are still seeking state aid.
"It's a fine balance, obviously, and it is difficult," Barr said.
Gov. Larry Hogan provided an additional $19 million in highway user fees in his budget. Local jurisdictions are seeking a better, long-term formula to get the aid back to pre-recession levels.
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Capital Gazette staff rally on Labor Day to save local news
By David DeJesus, Secretary, WBNG Local 32035 September 7, 2020 November 4, 2020 -
Friends and colleagues,
The Chesapeake News Guild, representing the unionized staff of the Capital Gazette, invites you to join us and say goodbye to our newsroom, to be closed this year by corporate owner Tribune Publishing.
The Capital newspaper has had a presence in Annapolis since the 1800s. But Tribune, a publicly-traded company, which as recently as March paid millions of dollars in dividends to corporate shareholders, is using the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic to justify withdrawing its physical presence from our communities.
This closure will not only leave journalists without a safe and supportive environment, it will have a significant impact on our ability to effectively engage with the communities we cover.
Tribune Publishing’s divestment in our physical community presence is a divestment in the people of Maryland. We disagree with this decision because we believe that the country needs journalists on the ground, holding institutions accountable more than ever.
The Capital staff will come together on Labor Day to bid farewell to its newsroom and rally in support of local news along with Carroll County Times and Baltimore Sun journalists.
We will be removing our belongings and equipment from The Capital office; loading up our cars (essentially our new newsrooms); and then parading our mobile offices through the city.
The car caravan will proceed from Riva Road, down West Street and around Church Circle and State Circle to City Dock. There, staff will speak and answer questions.
We invite you to cheer on the staff as we make our way around Church and State Circles at approximately 11:45 a.m. and then proceed to City Dock for a press conference.
We hope you’ll join our fight to save local news.
What: Rally to bid farewell to the Capital Gazette newsroom and save local news
Who: The staff of the Capital Gazette as well as supporters from sister papers and elsewhere
When: Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7 — The car caravan will begin at 11:30 a.m. and reach City Dock around noon. A press conference will occur from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Where: Press are invited to watch journalists leave the newsroom. For more information about the location, please contact chesapeakeguild@gmail.com.
Supporters can cheer on the car parade as it comes down West street, around Church Circle and State Circle, down Maryland Avenue to City Dock. There, everyone can join the press conference at Susan B. Campbell Park.
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Man executed in front of pregnant wife during Tennessee crime spree, friends say
by: Josh Breslow
Posted: Sep 14, 2020 / 10:19 AM EDT / Updated: Sep 14, 2020 / 12:01 PM EDT
COFFEE COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A gunman executed a hostage in front of his pregnant wife during a weekend crime spree spanning several Tennessee counties, according to friends of the victims.
The suspect, accused of killing two people and wounding at least three others was identified by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as Dangelo Dorsey, a St. Louis man, who eventually took his own life.
During a news conference Sunday night, David Rausch, the director of the TBI said the situation began around 9:30 a.m., when Dorsey opened fire inside of a vehicle traveling along Interstate 24 near the Beechgrove exit. He killed one person inside the vehicle with him, identified as 28-year-old Darcey Johnson, and wounded another, the director explained.
(Courtesy: Jenna Underwood)
As traffic stopped along the interstate, Rausch said Dorsey got out of the vehicle he was in and attempted to carjack another driver, but that driver ran away. He then reportedly approached a nearby truck and shot that driver in the face during an exchange between the two.
Rausch said Dorsey attempted to carjack another driver, but as she drove away, he fired a shot through the car’s window, striking her in the hand.
Dorsey drove off in a vehicle and rear-ended a car belonging to Phillip Jordan Stevens, 23, and his wife, Aileen, according to the TBI. When the couple stopped, believing it was just a fender-bender, investigators said Dorsey took the couple hostage. The TBI reported Dorsey then forced them to drive him to their home in Morrison, where he took two firearms, swapped vehicles and left with the hostages.
In the coming hours, Rausch said Dorsey took the couple to the McMinnville area, where he separated them, and then executed Phillip Jordan Stevens, in view of his wife. Dorsey then reportedly forced Aileen Stevens back into the vehicle and they returned to the interstate.
The body of Phillip Jordan Stevens was later recovered along I-24 westbound near Exit 111-B, according to investigators.
Dangelo Dorsey (Courtesy: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)
Law enforcement located Dorsey’s vehicle traveling eastbound on I-24 around 3:30 p.m. Following a pursuit that reached speeds of approximately 100 miles per hour, Dorsey crashed, then took his own life, investigators said.
Aileen Stevens, who friends said is pregnant, was found in the crashed vehicle and was not seriously injured, Rausch added.
A GoFundMe page set up to benefit the Stevens family raised $5,000 within 12 hours.
Dorsey had no adult arrest record in Tennessee and was not wanted by law enforcement on any outstanding warrants, Rausch said Monday morning. He added Dorsey does have an “extensive criminal record” in his home state of Missouri.
The incident remains under investigation by the TBI.
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The Alps cover more than 60% of Switzerland, forming the landscape and featuring many lakes.
They also have a big influence on Swiss plants, wildlife, habitat and lifestyle, making this country particularly interesting to explore in a rental campervan.
After leaving Lyon, your Swiss adventure will begin at Lake Geneva, where you can see the famous water jet and astonishing Bains des Paquis. Enjoy fondue at the lakeside café with a beautiful view of Geneva. Follow the lake until you reach Lausanne, where you can explore the marina. Lake Geneva is so vast that it's a great place for nearly all water sports: sailing, canoeing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, water skiing and more. Past Lausanne, your campervan will take you to Montreux, which hosts the famous Jazz Festival. Visit Château de Chillon, a fortress chateau on the lake. Then head towards Lake Neuchâtel, in the Jura foothills. Wander through the beautiful Neuchâtelois Vineyard overlooking the lake and take in views of the Bernese Alps peaks. Those who love bicycling can ride some or all of the Tour of Lake Neuchâtel route on their bikes. Stop along the way for a swim at the many beaches.
Once back at your comfortable van, head towards Bern, the country's capital, which isn't located on a lake, contrary to the prevailing trend. You've left the French-speaking part of Switzerland and are now in the Germanic area. Continue on towards Interlaken, a ski resort located between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz at the base of the prestigious Alpine summits of Jungfrau, Mönch and Eiger. Like elsewhere in Switzerland, all kinds of mountain activities are available to you: hiking, mountain biking, paragliding, climbing and more. After all that effort, you'll be ready for a long evening in your little campervan, complete with dinner on-board and a night under the stars. At this juncture, you have two choices to continue your lake-view roadtrip: head towards the many northern lakes in German-speaking Switzerland or towards Lake Lugano and Lake Maggiore in Italian-speaking Switzerland.
In the north, you'll come across sumptuous Lake Lucerne and the city's iconic wooden bridge, Chapel Bridge. Your van will be happy to wait a few hours while you take a boat cruise through Lake Lucerne's mists. Continue past Lake Zoug, one of the smallest and most charming lakes you'll see on your journey. Your route will then take you into stereotypically Swiss landscapes: alpine pastures with pretty cows, refreshing hay smells and little chalets. You'll expect to run into Heidi at every turn. Next, cross Lake Zurich on foot over the incredible wooden footbridge that connects the Hurden peninsula to Rapperswil. Drive along Lake Constance's southern shores and enjoy views of Switzerland's second largest lake by surface area. The lake is fed by the Rhine, which separates Switzerland and Germany. Not far from Lake Constance, you can visit the charming little town of Appenzell, deep in the canton that produces Appenzeller cheese.
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What we learned from John Bolton's book on the Trump administration
Jeanine Santucci / USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, writes in a forthcoming memoir that his former boss made policy decisions in order to help his own political prospects.
"The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir," is set to be publicly released on June 23, but news outlets obtained copies ahead of its release and an excerpt was published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, revealing that Bolton portrays Trump's foreign policy strategy as "chaotic," and suggests Trump was consumed with re-election.
"The whole thing made my head hurt," Bolton says of Trump's approach to trade.
The Trump administration sought to block the book from being published this week, with the Department of Justice filing a lawsuit in federal court. Trump has also dismissed the book as "highly inappropriate" and said it would be a "criminal problem" if published.
Democrats and other critics of Bolton pointed out that he refused to testify during their impeachment inquiry into the president's dealings with Ukraine, and only agreed to testify during the Senate trial when he knew it was unlikely Republicans would call him forward.
Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview Wednesday night that Bolton "is a liar while adding “everybody in the White House hated John Bolton” in response to the reports on the book.
Here are key claims from Bolton's book, as reported Wednesday:
Trump sought foreign help to help his re-election
As was alleged by Democrats during impeachment, Bolton writes that Trump used his position as president to boost his 2020 re-election chances. But Bolton says, in the published excerpt, that those efforts went beyond just Ukraine. The book is expected to detail other pressure campaigns on governments, according to a book preview released last week by Simon & Schuster.
"I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my White House tenure that wasn’t driven by re-election calculations," Bolton says.
Trump asked China's president Xi Jinping to increase its purchase of American-grown farm products because aiding farmers would benefit him in the presidential race, according to the published excerpt. The requests came during trade negotiations at the 2018 G-20 summit in Argentina and again in June 2019 at the summit in Japan.
"In exchange (for concessions on tariff rates), Trump asked merely for some increases in Chinese farm-product purchases, to help with the crucial farm-state vote," Bolton writes of the Argentina meeting in the excerpt. "If that could be agreed, all the U.S. tariffs would be reduced. It was breathtaking."
And in Japan, Trump "turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win," Bolton writes.
Ukraine aid linked to investigations, Dems should have pursued more
According to The New York Times, Bolton also writes that Trump explicitly linked military aid money designated by Congress for Ukraine to investigations he wanted into Democrats, an allegation at the center of the impeachment investigation.
Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into former Vice President Joe Biden, his 2020 rival, and House Democrats sought to prove that he did so with the threat of withholding the aid money. Trump repeatedly denied there was a quid pro quo, and he was ultimately acquitted by the Republican-majority Senate.
According to the Times, Bolton writes that on Aug. 20, Trump "said he wasn’t in favor of sending them anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to (Hillary) Clinton and Biden had been turned over.”
And Bolton criticized Democrats for not looking into other transgressions he says Trump committed, rather than focusing almost exclusively on Ukraine.
"Had Democratic impeachment advocates not been so obsessed with their Ukraine blitzkrieg in 2019, had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about Trump’s behavior across his entire foreign policy, the impeachment outcome might well have been different," Bolton writes in the excerpt published by the Wall Street Journal.
Top advisers mock Trump behind his back
Bolton describes Trump administration officials as denigrating their boss behind his back at times. Some, including Bolton and Pompeo, considered resigning out of frustration with Trump, the Washington Post reported from Bolton's book.
“What if we have a real crisis like 9/11 with the way he makes decisions?” former chief of staff John Kelly said, Bolton writes in the book.
According to the Times' reporting, Bolton described Trump's 2018 meeting with Kim Jong Un, during which he says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo passed a note to Bolton about Trump that read, "He is so full of s--t."
Trump approved of internment camps in China
Bolton writes that Trump spoke with China's leader about plans of "basically building concentration camps" to hold Uighur Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority group that has been strategically detained by the Chinese government in internment camps and prisons.
The White House announced Wednesday that Trump signed a bill that would punish China for its crackdown on Uighurs, as pieces of Bolton's book came out, including his recalling that Trump approved of the Uighur camps a year ago.
Bolton writes that during the Japan G-20 summit, "with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang."
"According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do," Bolton said.
The legislation Trump signed "holds accountable perpetrators of human rights violations and abuses such as the systematic use of indoctrination camps, forced labor, and intrusive surveillance to eradicate the ethnic identity and religious beliefs of Uyghurs and other minorities in China," the president said in a White House statement.
According to the WSJ, Trump denied giving Xi approval for the Uighur camps in China.
Contributing: Ledyard King; the Associated Press
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5 Steps To Power Posing Your Way To Success In Love & Life
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Mary Malia
Jul 3, 2014, 13:04 EDT
Is your body language stopping you cold? Are your habitual body positions holding you back in love, life and in your career? Does continually slouching in your chair at work contribute to you feeling overwhelmed or depressed? Does jumping up and down and doing fists pumps into the air make you feel more powerful?
In the last few years, a number of studies on body language have revealed not only how powerful body language is as a communication tool, but how you, as an individual, can shift the trajectory of your life and how you feel simply by changing your body language.
Dr. Amy Cuddy, a professor and researcher at Harvard, did a now well known TED Talk called "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are." It’s one of the top 15 most viewed TED Talks ever.
In it she reveals several powerful tips for using your body language consciously to land a job or to overcome the handicaps that life hands you. She uses her own personal history of being involved in an accident that damaged her brain and left doctor's telling her she'd never be able to reach her professional goals as an example of the power of body language. By understanding how to use her body to empower herself, she's been able to accomplish things that were thought impossible.
Body language is universal, cultural and individual and it's impact on our lives is constant. Every single day, people are relating to you based on your body language and you're not even aware of your silent, powerful and unconscious use everywhere you go.
Research shows that even individuals that are born blind use universal body language gestures. The expression of emotion through our body is a powerful form of release of both positive emotion like that expressed when a race is won to the feelings of loss and failure by someone who loses in the same race.
Amy Cuddy's work introduced us to the concept of Power Poses and Power Posing. Think about Superman or Wonder Woman: they stand tall, shoulders back, feet spread and pointing forward, head upright and hands placed firmly on the hips. You feel the power just thinking about the picture right?
What research now shows is that body positions can trigger certain hormones, which then trigger certain feeling or emotional states. Simply put, a power pose makes you feel powerful. Let's dig deeper and look at 5 reasons you need to change your body language.
#1: You'll Get Better Results At Work (And Dating!)
Adopt and use power poses everywhere you go. Your body can be your ally to help power you through tough situations. The real power of body language is demonstrated with Dr. Cuddy's research results that show when individuals applying for a job power posed for 2 minutes prior to being interviewed, the interviewer chose all of the power posers to move forward in the interview process. On the other hand, none of those instructed to sit using body language exemplifying powerlessness were chosen.
Powerful body language yields powerful results.
#2: Body Language, Not Facial Expressions Will Tell You More About Intense Emotions
A popular TV Series called "Lie To Me" told the story of the world's foremost expert on reading facial micro-expressions. It's a fascinating show but for the average Joe and Jane, we're not going to be able to read micro-expressions very often, as they last less than a millesecond on average and require training to really understand accurately.
That leaves us with a much bigger canvas to look at — someone's body. Princeton Professor of Psychology Alexander Todorov has determined that body language more accurately conveys intense emotions. This flies in the face of what most of us believe, which is the face tells us all we need to know about how a person feels. Through a series of experiments, Todorov showed that intense facial expressions cannot be accurately correlated to body language. So, emotions like winning and losing can look the same in the face but the body will display very different signals for losing or winning.
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When someone has a really intense look on their face, don't focus there. Pay attention to what that person’s body is doing to really know if he or she is mad, sad, happy or something else.
#3: Body Language Can Reveal Your Insecurities
If you don't like yourself, your body language will tell me; sometimes the minute I meet you but usually within a short time. If you are lacking in confidence, your body language will give you away and smart people are looking at these clues.
Clues that you're feeling overwhelmed, less than confident or unsure about yourself include :
Any self-comforting gestures where you rub yourself. This includes rubbing your arm, rubbing your hands together, rubbing your neck, playing with your hair, playing with jewelry, and/or rubbing your thighs. Self-comforting happens very unconsciously, so it's important that you decide to do something else with your hands besides touch yourself in tough situations like a first date or job interview.
Using the fig-leaf gesture when you're lined up for pictures or in a standing situation where you feel exposed. The fig-leaf gesture is crossing your hands over your genital area when you standing. It communicates fear, weakness and a need to hide your body. Stop it! If you must do something with your hands, put them behind your back and don't cross them in front of your chest.
Crossing your arms. Everyone thinks they know this as a defensive position but sometimes it's just an unconscious way to comfort and protect yourself. Drop your arms and get used to having them hang by your sides.
Slouching at your desk. Slouching is a loser pose. Get rid of it!
These negative body gestures and postures aren't helping your cause. You're being read as needy, unsure, defensive and insecure. It's in your self-interest to learn and use body language that is more confidant and powerful because it will actually help you feel that way.
#4: A Repertoire Of Power Poses Will Help You Succeed
If you're set on dropping the poses that leave you feeling powerless, here are some ideas for replacing them.
Of course, adopt and use Amy Cuddy’s power pose. Whether you're going with Superman or Wonder Woman, you can take and use these poses everywhere you go. You may downplay them in certain situations, but think about how you can use these in meetings at work, dating situations or when dealing with tough family situations where you might have backed down in the past. It's simple to arrive at your destination a few minutes early and head to the bathroom to power pose in private for a couple of minutes before meetings or dates begin.
In place of the fig leaf, go for the thumb in your belt loop pose. This is a big power move pose as it draws attention to your genitals. You could also put your hand in your pocket with your thumbs hanging out. This pose communicates confidence and power. It also gives you something to do with your hands besides retreating to crossed arms or that silly fig leaf.
Sit up straight at your desk and make sure to stand up straight. It takes practice if you're not used to it, but it changes your body language significantly and you'll notice people treating you differently.
Finally, if you can, stand. Stand tall and straight with your feet at least shoulder width apart. This is taking the power pose and ratcheting it down a bit by not putting your hands on your hips. It still communicates power, confidence and a readiness to take action.
#5: Practice Posing Will Make Shake Up Your World
Practice is important and is going to make all the difference for you. First, assume your usual body language. Imagine being at a meeting, on a date or something that would usually be a bit tense for you. How do you look?
Next, step back and power pose for a least 2 minutes doing a Superman or Wonderwoman pose. Then play with the power poses suggested above. Watch yourself, try them on in different ways and get your imagination involved by pretending you are your most favorite and confidant person in the world, whether that's President Obama, Richard Branson, Oprah, or someone close to home.
Turn on music that makes you feel really good and imagine yourself in different scenarios showing up using power poses instead of powerless poses. You'll start to have different results show up in your real life, too.
Your body and your imagination together form the most powerful duo you have for changing the outcomes of your life. It's free. It's available and you'll feel differently in minutes. Don't wait. Start now!
Mary Malia is a dating expert. To learn more about breaking through to creat a great life and lesbian love visit www.gaygirldatingcoach.com.
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oil and gas|30 November, 2020
Saudi Aramco eyes new businesses, signs partnerships with six firms
Plans include establishing companies through industrial investment programme (IIP)
An investor monitors a screen displaying stock information at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) following the debut of Saudi Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) on the Riyadh's stock market, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 11, 2019.
REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri
Saudi Arabian state oil giant Aramco shared plans on Monday to launch new businesses that will create jobs in the kingdom, as it secured new partnership deals with six companies in Europe and Asia
The firm said it had just signed memorandum of understandings (MOU) with Shell & AMG Recycling B.V. from the Netherlands; Chinese companies Suzhou XDM, Shen Gong, Xinfoo and SUPCON; and Posco from South Korea, to boost its industrial and digital capabilities at home, and expand its flagship “localisation programme”.
The agreements include studying the feasibility of building an integrated steel plate manufacturing plant in the kingdom, exploring joint investment opportunities for the services and manufacturing value chain, as well as in chip manufacturing and related technologies.
The oil company has been among major Gulf firms hit hard by a slump in demand and weak oil prices due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company saw its profits for the third quarter of the year drop by 44.6 percent, and still has to pay its shareholders more than $18 billion dividend for the quarter.
In a statement on Monday, the firm said the latest collaborations will “pave the way for the launch of new businesses across multiple innovative growth sectors, including steel plate manufacturing, industrial 3D printing, digital equipment manufacturing, energy management and control; catalyst manufacturing and recycling and advanced chip and smart sensor manufacturing”.
“These new collaborations reflect Aramco’s commitment to increasing the company’s reliability and operational efficiency, as well as its commitment to further enhancing the kingdom’s commercial ecosystem and increasing employment and development opportunities for talented Saudis,” it added.
The company said the collaborations are also a significant milestone in the company’s In-Kingdom Total Value Add (IKTVA) programme, which was launched in 2015. “The expansion [of the programme] includes plans for new international partnerships and the establishing of companies through an industrial investment programme (IIP), which is linked to the development of Aramco’s business,” the firm said.
Amin H. Nasser, Aramco’s president and chief executive officer, said the new partnerships will “contribute to advancing innovation, sustainability and enhance the scale of reliability” in Aramco’s business ecosystem. It will also benefit companies operating in Saudi’s energy and chemicals sector.
“These partnerships will also have a strong focus on new technologies, by maximising our investments in non-metallic materials and the circular carbon economy, as well as the development of talented Saudis in communities where we operate,” Nasser added.
(Writing by Cleofe Maceda; editing by Seban Scaria)
Cleofe.maceda@refinitiv.com
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Apple confirms Anobit acquisition: A strategic hit to Samsung?
Apple confirms the acquisition of an Israeli flash memory startup reported last year; a deal that could serve as a deadly blow to Samsung's smartphone hardware.
By Zack Whittaker for Between the Lines | January 11, 2012 -- 04:47 GMT (20:47 PST) | Topic: Tablets
Apple has confirmed that it acquired Anobit, an Israeli startup that makes flash memory used in the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air.
Rumours of the acquisition first came to light in December after the news was reported by Israel's Calcalist business news site. Israel's prime minister's office acknowledged the purchase in a tweet on December 20th.
An Apple spokesperson confirmed the purchase, but declined to offer a figure on how much the company was bought for. It was thought that the Cupertino-based technology giant paid in the region of $400 to $500 million for the company, however.
Besides Apple's acquisition of NeXT in 1997 for $404 million, the Anobit deal represents one of Apple's largest acquisitions to date. Apple acquired PA Semi in 2008 for $278 million, and Quattro Wireless in 2010 for $275 million, CNET highlights.
Apple is the largest buyer of NAND flash memory, as Bloomberg reports, accounting for around 23 percent of the market last quarter. Apple is thought to have an estimated 100 million iPad and iPhone devices on the market, with an 15 million iPads sold by March 2011, and over 70 million iPhones since its launch in June 2007.
The Israeli company said its memory signal processing technology uses propriety signal-processing algorithms and advanced error correction to improve reliability and performance specifications of its flash-memory hardware.
It is thought that Apple bought the startup company to gain access to its technology, and to boost chip memory and improve device reliability. With its purchase, it will bypass the need to turn to a third-party company for vital hardware pieces for its highly popular smartphone and tablet products.
But perhaps worryingly for Samsung -- an Anobit customer -- it may allow Apple to finally cut off the hand that feeds its main competitor's hardware.
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The first fully developed American factory system emerged in the _______ industry. A. textile B. iron C. sugarcane D. distilling
The first fully developed American factory system emerged in the textile.
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In the Old South, the majority of slaves A. lived on plantations with 20 or more slaves.B. lived on small farms.C. lived on plantations with 100 or more slaves.D. worked under a task system.
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A KELSO couple expecting triplets found out they were the parents of quadruplets in the delivery room. Hope Annis-Brown and Carl Morgan, both aged in their 20s, welcomed four baby girls on December 6, more than three months before their due date in February. They also have a son together, Carl, who was born on January 1, 2020, and Ms Annis-Brown has a nine-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. The couple didn't find out they would be having multiples until Ms Annis-Brown was 26 weeks along. "We first thought it was triplets and then it turned into four," Mr Morgan said. They learned of the fourth baby while delivering the children via caesarean section just two weeks later. "I went into labour at 28 weeks and when I was in the surgery room they took out the three and the doctor felt under my ribs and said there was four," Ms Annis-Brown said. Despite being born early, the girls, named Ariah, Aaliyah, Nataliah and Nariyah, were doing well. A LOCAL family was left devastated on the verge of Christmas after a fire ripped through their West Bathurst home on December 19. Emergency services were called to a fire at West Street around 8am to find a single-storey cottage well alight. "We initially had two vehicles attend the scene, and crews proceeded to get to work in order to control the fire," Fire and Rescue NSW Bathurst station officer Sandy Collins said. "On arrival, we ascertained all four occupants had been evacuated, but they expressed concern about the welfare of their pets. "Firefighters conducted a search and rescue of the property for the pets and, unfortunately, one pet was found deceased." The fire was fully extinguished by 10am, but 75 per cent of the house was damaged. KINDHEARTED Holden owners helped a girl end her primary school experience in the best way possible after a difficult seven years. Twelve-year-old Jessy Edenborough was diagnosed with autism in 2015, but on top of that also lives with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety and mental delay. School was challenging, but the experience was made worse by bullying. Knowing Jessy is a big Holden supporter, her mother, Fiona Broadbent, posted a message in the Bathurst Our Town Facebook group to see if anyone with a nice Holden would drive Jessy and her friend, Iesia, to their Year 6 prom. Mrs Broadbent said there was an overwhelming response, with one person, Chris McKeig, offering to arrange a convoy of Holdens. The convoy ultimately featured six commodores and a Torana, driven by Mr McKeig, Peter Donnelly, Darren Gold, Donna and Todd, Shane Carpenter, Les Ovington and Rob Farmsworth, who was from Lithgow. Tania and Andrew Livingston also helped with the surprise. Jessy was surprised to see the convoy parked outside her grandmother's house, where she getting ready, and became a little overwhelmed when she realised they were there for her. "She almost had a tear in her eye, that's how it was for her. It was amazing," Mrs Broadbent said. A MAN died in a farming accident on a property at Oberon on December 9. Police said the 76-year-old man was trapped under an all-terrain side-by-side vehicle when it flipped on the farm about 5pm. Chifley Police District duty officer Inspector David Abercrombie said emergency services were quickly called to the property but the man could not be revived and died at the scene. BATHURST RSL Club Ltd confirmed it was in negotiations with a development consortium for the potential construction of medical facility on the former Clancy Motors site. They were also in discussions with Bathurst Regional Council about the development, which proposed to construct a multi-level car park behind the RSL. While a development application for the proposal hadn't been prepared and submitted, the concept was formally presented to council and received a "positive response". "It's still early days, but we were really encouraged by the positive response from councillors when the concept was formally presented to them," Bathurst RSL general manager Peter Sargent said. ALSO MAKING NEWS IN DECEMBER:
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A KELSO couple expecting triplets found out they were the parents of quadruplets in the delivery room.
Hope Annis-Brown and Carl Morgan, both aged in their 20s, welcomed four baby girls on December 6, more than three months before their due date in February.
They also have a son together, Carl, who was born on January 1, 2020, and Ms Annis-Brown has a nine-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
The couple didn't find out they would be having multiples until Ms Annis-Brown was 26 weeks along.
"We first thought it was triplets and then it turned into four," Mr Morgan said.
They learned of the fourth baby while delivering the children via caesarean section just two weeks later.
"I went into labour at 28 weeks and when I was in the surgery room they took out the three and the doctor felt under my ribs and said there was four," Ms Annis-Brown said.
Despite being born early, the girls, named Ariah, Aaliyah, Nataliah and Nariyah, were doing well.
Home destroyed days before Christmas
A LOCAL family was left devastated on the verge of Christmas after a fire ripped through their West Bathurst home on December 19.
Emergency services were called to a fire at West Street around 8am to find a single-storey cottage well alight.
"We initially had two vehicles attend the scene, and crews proceeded to get to work in order to control the fire," Fire and Rescue NSW Bathurst station officer Sandy Collins said.
"On arrival, we ascertained all four occupants had been evacuated, but they expressed concern about the welfare of their pets.
"Firefighters conducted a search and rescue of the property for the pets and, unfortunately, one pet was found deceased."
The fire was fully extinguished by 10am, but 75 per cent of the house was damaged.
Holden owners make day special for Jessy
KINDHEARTED Holden owners helped a girl end her primary school experience in the best way possible after a difficult seven years.
Twelve-year-old Jessy Edenborough was diagnosed with autism in 2015, but on top of that also lives with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety and mental delay.
School was challenging, but the experience was made worse by bullying.
Knowing Jessy is a big Holden supporter, her mother, Fiona Broadbent, posted a message in the Bathurst Our Town Facebook group to see if anyone with a nice Holden would drive Jessy and her friend, Iesia, to their Year 6 prom.
Mrs Broadbent said there was an overwhelming response, with one person, Chris McKeig, offering to arrange a convoy of Holdens.
The convoy ultimately featured six commodores and a Torana, driven by Mr McKeig, Peter Donnelly, Darren Gold, Donna and Todd, Shane Carpenter, Les Ovington and Rob Farmsworth, who was from Lithgow.
Tania and Andrew Livingston also helped with the surprise.
Jessy was surprised to see the convoy parked outside her grandmother's house, where she getting ready, and became a little overwhelmed when she realised they were there for her.
"She almost had a tear in her eye, that's how it was for her. It was amazing," Mrs Broadbent said.
Oberon man dies in farming accident
A MAN died in a farming accident on a property at Oberon on December 9.
Police said the 76-year-old man was trapped under an all-terrain side-by-side vehicle when it flipped on the farm about 5pm.
Chifley Police District duty officer Inspector David Abercrombie said emergency services were quickly called to the property but the man could not be revived and died at the scene.
Bathurst CBD could get a new hospital
BATHURST RSL Club Ltd confirmed it was in negotiations with a development consortium for the potential construction of medical facility on the former Clancy Motors site.
They were also in discussions with Bathurst Regional Council about the development, which proposed to construct a multi-level car park behind the RSL.
While a development application for the proposal hadn't been prepared and submitted, the concept was formally presented to council and received a "positive response".
"It's still early days, but we were really encouraged by the positive response from councillors when the concept was formally presented to them," Bathurst RSL general manager Peter Sargent said.
ALSO MAKING NEWS IN DECEMBER:
Plans to build a go-kart track at the top of Mount Panorama were dealt a $750,000 blow after the federal government rejected Bathurst council's application for grant funding.
A potential scooter and skateboard ban for the Bathurst central business district was floated by councillors.
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Councillors came to a compromise on car parking within plans to expand The Oxford Hotel.
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Trump Issues Proclamation Hailing Christian Martyr for Defense of Religious Liberty
By Mary Margaret Olohan
President Donald Trump marked the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket in a proclamation issued Tuesday, honoring the 12th-century English bishop as “a lion of religious liberty.”
The president’s proclamation heralds Becket as a precursor to “numerous constitutional limitations on the power of the state over the Church across the West.”
“Thomas Becket’s death serves as a powerful and timeless reminder to every American that our freedom from religious persecution is not a mere luxury or accident of history, but rather an essential element of our liberty,” Trump’s proclamation said.
“It is our priceless treasure and inheritance. And it was bought with the blood of martyrs.”
King Henry II of England murdered Becket in his own church on Dec. 29, 1170, after he refused to acknowledge the king as his supreme ruler.
“His last words on this earth were these: ‘For the name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I am ready to embrace death.’ Dressed in holy robes, Thomas was cut down where he stood inside the walls of his own church,” the proclamation said.
Trump invited “the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and customary places of meeting with appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of the life and legacy of Thomas Becket” and highlighted “brave and inspiring shepherds” such as Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong and pastor Wang Yi of Chengdu, who was imprisoned by the Chinese government.
“To honor Thomas Becket’s memory, the crimes against people of faith must stop, prisoners of conscience must be released, laws restricting freedom of religion and belief must be repealed, and the vulnerable, the defenseless, and the oppressed must be protected,” the president’s proclamation said.
“The tyranny and murder that shocked the conscience of the Middle Ages must never be allowed to happen again. As long as America stands, we will always defend religious liberty.”
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“A society without religion cannot prosper,” the proclamation added. “A nation without faith cannot endure — because justice, goodness, and peace cannot prevail without the grace of God.”
The president’s proclamation comes amid several high-profile religious freedom disputes that have come to a head during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lawmakers across the U.S. have issued orders restricting or prohibiting religious services in response to the outbreak.
The Trump administration and former Attorney General William Barr have repeatedly fought against such restrictions, warning that “even in times of emergency,” federal law prohibits religious discrimination.
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Four Army recruits, all from different walks of life are waiting to be sent to Vietnam. The movie deals with the prejudice, struggles, sexuality, and tolerance issues of these young recruits all living together under one barracks roof. Streamers is based on a Broadway play by the same name, written by David Rabe, who adapted his play for the big screen.
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Sonoro announces its new Smart Line multiroom systems
By Adam Smith 07 December 2017
The new range comprises of the Stream, the Relax and the Meisterstück, and is set to launch in the UK later this month.
For those looking for a suitable way to get sound throughout their home this Christmas, Sonoro's new systems might be what you're asking Santa to put under your tree. The range includes the Sonoro Stream, Sonoro Relax and Sonoro Meisterstück (above).
Let's start with the Stream: it's an internet radio with Bluetooth and wi-fi built in, with the added bonus of Spotify Connect so you can stream your favourite albums easily.
Its 7.5cm driver is backed up by two passive radiators, and it's designed for use all around the house - including in the bathroom, since Sonoro has included a waterproof remote control so you can still switch tracks while soaking in the tub.
The Relax, meanwhile, builds on the functionality of the Stream, but also includes pre-installed nature sounds to help you chill out and/or meditate. It can also keep track of 10 Spotify playlists, alongside its 40 preset radio stations for FM, DAB and internet radio.
The Relax (left) and Stream (right)
At the top end is the Meisterstück - or, in English, the 'Masterpiece'. A hefty claim. This system has four drivers powered by five Class D amplifiers, and is able to play from USB, CD or aptX Bluetooth for 'CD-like' streaming.
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Pupils at Whitgift are coached to play with passion, to train hard, to want to improve and to always put their team first.
These are values that drive success not just on the cricket field but in school life in general.
Cricket becomes a key part of school life during the summer term when 24 teams throughout the School, ranging from A to E, are fielded. With the oversight of David Ward (Head of Cricket), Neil Kendrick (Head of Cricket Performance) and Simon Jackson (Cricket Academy, Head Coach), pupils are challenged with block fixtures against some of the strongest school teams in the country throughout the season. Pupils can also train and practise with a County Academy-style Cricket programme during the two winter terms.
In First Form, Second Form and Third Form, between 70 and 80 pupils take part in the annual Cricket Camp in either Spain or Barbados while cricketers in the senior years enjoy major tours to countries such as Australia or South Africa every two to three years.
Whitgift’s training and playing facilities are such that they have hosted numerous First Class and List A matches and are used by Cricket Australia as their training ground when they are in London.
Whitgift has nine students who have progressed on to play First Class Cricket and in recent times, three OWs - Rory Burns, Jason Roy and Dominic Sibley - have opened the batting for England in Test Cricket. Jason Roy played an important role in England’s World Cup campaign and was part of the first England team to lift the World Cup.
We hope to instil a lifelong love of the game in all students who take up the sport and we are very proud of the numbers of pupils who carry on playing or taking an active role in cricket long after they leave the School.
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Lockdown has lifted and estate agents have absolutely lost it
The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a bizarre new era of inappropriate virtual viewings and arbitrary face masks
By Natasha Bernal
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It’s a sunny day in Wimbledon, south London, during the coronavirus lockdown in early May. An estate agent’s smartphone camera pans across a terraced house on a tree-lined street. A smiling man opens the door — under his head a tagline reads “Cribs With Gregory”. What immediately follows is in equal measures bizarre and entertaining. As he shows the viewer around his “crib”, Gregory jumps in slow motion onto a bed to the opening music of 2010 hit ‘Like a G-6’. At one point CGI butterflies appear to come out of his head and sparkles randomly shoot out of parts of the house. For £500,000, you could move into this two-bedroom ground floor maisonette.
This type of video tour has become the go-to attempt from estate agents to promote properties to people who are interested in buying or renting during the lockdown. Some are shaky vertical Blair Witch-esque disasters. Others show estate agents apparently auditioning for Location, Location, Location , or complete silence followed by heavy breathing. One particularly depressing viewing in Harrow included an estate agent opening the kitchen cupboard of a miniscule bedsit to reveal a desolate pot noodle and a can of Oust. Another overly honest estate agent in Hatfield admitted that the kitchen drawer in a rental property was broken — not that anyone watching the video would have noticed.
Virtual viewings aren’t new. But they have become part of the experience of thousands of people who have restarted their search to find somewhere to live as lockdown rules were lifted last month. People looking are told it’s buyers’ market, mainly because it’s limited to those daring enough to venture out and risk contagion to look at properties. After months of lockdown, sellers or landlords whose properties have been on the market since before lockdown, or who have seen deals fall through, are eager to move ahead. They have a small window of opportunity, if the experts that are wary about the buoyancy of the property market are right. Housing experts have forecasted UK-wide price falls of up to 13 per cent as the property market struggles to rebuild during the coronavirus crisis. And so sellers and landlords are turning to virtual tours to shorten the time between initial interest and offer on the table. Sales of Matterport’s 3D cameras, which allow properties to be shown in 360 degrees, have jumped 630 per cent in March, according to a report by the Financial Times . But the majority of property videos are still shot on a trusty smartphone.
Mark Hayward, chief executive of NAEA Propertymark, the UK's professional body for estate agents, says that the surge in virtual viewings was buoyed in some part by people who had become “aggressive” when they were told they couldn’t view properties during lockdown. “It at least lets people make an initial judgement of the property rather than have to physically visit the property and walk around, spending a lot of time,” he explains. “If they'd seen what they can see on a virtual viewing, they probably wouldn't have bothered.” But that doesn’t mean that estate agents can give their properties a flattering filter and make viewings into Hollywood productions. Virtual viewings should show a home “warts and all”, he says.
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Despite a rise in popularity, video tours are far from becoming the norm. One London estate agent says that their clients did not want virtual viewings of their homes because they preferred people to go and view them in person. By which they meant, virtual viewings are so unpopular with some sellers that they preferred the alternative of people taking public transport, putting masks, gloves and shoe coverings on and traipsing through their personal spaces until they strike a deal.
But going to view properties in person during lockdown is a bizarre experience. Depending on the estate agent (and the property), you can either end up wearing enough home-sourced PPE kit to feel like you’re on a hospital ward, or standing in close quarters with a complete stranger who is not even wearing a mask.
That lack of consistency comes with substantial risks. Hayward says he has warned estate agents that if they don’t comply with minimum safety standards, the entire sector could be put on lockdown again. “I have heard anecdotally that there are some who seem to be ignoring the guidelines. The reopening of the market is temporary. If a sector is abusing the guidance, the government could revert and say I’m sorry, it’s no longer open for business.”
In reality, each estate agent has a different strategy. One agent that showed me a two bedroom flat in Putney insisted that masks were not necessary because no one was living there at the time. Another in Twickenham hung a mask around their neck, while a third half-heartedly blamed his hay fever for tearing off his mask to repeatedly sneeze. All of them agree: this situation is very, very strange.
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Christina Taylor, 28, owns a dance school in Old Trafford, Manchester. Since the crisis, she decided to use her savings to branch out and start another venture, buying properties to renovate to boost her income. She shunned video viewings because she says video can’t show the level of work that each prospective property needs. But when Taylor turned up at several viewings in the past couple of weeks, she says the three estate agents she booked appointments with refused to go into the properties with her.
“I found it a bit weird. None of them came in with me, they said due to social distancing I had to go in by myself,” she explains. “All three were on their phone or sat in their car and had absolutely no interest. Two I had to actively go and find, and they were sitting on the phone in their cars. It’s an excuse for them to do what they want.”
Taylor can’t understand why estate agents are not overcompensating now to make sure that they build up a returning customer base once the crisis is over. “Every single time it's felt so lazy, and I felt very disregarded,” she says. “If you don't feel like a valued customer, you're not going to go back.”
On the other side of the UK, one estate agent is following the guidelines despite it impacting her business. Beth Robinson, director at Belfast-based estate agency Templeton Robinson, has been working non-stop since lockdown rules were lifted. An average 20-minute viewing has turned into a 40-minute endeavour to make sure that all of the viewing rules are obeyed, she explains.
“I get there first, open up all the doors, everything propped open, I offer them the spray, I’ve got masks and gloves if they want them. I stay distanced in the background and away they go. I am getting bids, offers and houses agreed for sale,” she says. “You have to follow the guidelines and be very vigilant and strict.”
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Robinson has a backlog of about two months in what would have been the busiest time of the year for her business in April, May and June. She believes that the entire viewings situation has been “badly handled” by estate agents and the government alike. “We have been left to muddle through,” she says.
As estate agents decide their own rules on what to wear and how to act during viewings, there are no real regulations on what to do if a property is occupied when someone turns up for a viewing either. One London-based renter shared a message from their landlord, which claimed that in-person appointments are only allowed if it’s someone’s second viewing. “No browsers or time wasters,” the landlord says. “They also have to have financial checks before a viewing, this is all to keep viewing numbers to an absolute minimum which I am very aware is an absolute priority as u [sic] are living at the flat.” Tenants and sellers are routinely asked to step out of their properties or stay in the garden (if they have one) while viewings take place. Few estate agents expect to have to disinfect surfaces and door handles on their way out.
Laura Sears, a PR consultant, is looking for her first property near the border of London and Essex. She didn’t find virtual viewings very useful — many of the properties she was interested in simply had a slideshow of still images to music, she says. Her in-person viewings showed that sometimes, it’s only the buyer who sticks to the rules. “In one property it was the vendor who showed me around,” she says. “She didn’t ask me to put on a mask or take my shoes off or anything. They had a little daughter who couldn’t have been older than eight months, and suddenly here’s this stranger walking in the house with a face mask on. She was so creeped out.”
Natasha Bernal is WIRED's business editor. She tweets from @TashaBernal
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November 27, 2020 Opinion
The 2020 International Day of the Girl Child celebrations in Zimbabwe were recently held on a sad note, with videos of some schoolgirls clad in their uniforms, performing sexually suggestive dances in their classrooms with their peers cheering them on.
Scenes of boys in school uniforms were also trending on social media, with some school children openly confessing that the scenes that went viral on social media were just a tip of the iceberg.
As the world commemorates the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, these images leave a terribly sour taste in the mouth, with parents and guardians wondering if the school is still a safe place for their children’s moral guidance and rectitude.
Indeed, as they say, “kids shall always be kids” and should be left to play, learn and explore real life experiences that would prepare them for their adult life and as responsible citizens in their future daily lives.
It is in this instance that things like playing house and the numerous games that most of our generation used to play like hunting rabbits, trapping birds and laying snares and craft work of various kinds during cattle herding, helped to shape and mold our present day life which is invariably characterised by moral fortitude, hard work and perseverance.
It was also not considered out of place during our time to see a parent, any parent other than your own, meting out punishment or dishing instant justice for any errant behaviour or any action deemed inappropriate.
Hence the famous Shona adage: “Mwana ndewe munhu wese.”
But with the advent of the current globalized world and the continued assault on the influence and role of the extended family system, coupled with the fading influence of our highly valued cultural way of life that made African communities a unique feature, the future of our children seems to be hanging on the edge of a cliff.
What with the pervasive technological advancement, riding at the back of the fourth industrial revolution and the seemingly unlimited access to the pervasive and the various diverse media platforms.
Indeed, our children are now being exposed to more varied and potentially damaging influences.
It, therefore, becomes imperative that as parents and guardians we should be seen to be taking centre stage to provide a moral compass at the household level if we are to salvage the little that is left in our children’s moral fibre.
For, given the fractured and disjointed nature of most pillars of society’s social support structures, it becomes incumbent upon parents not only to become appropriate role models, but also to be actively involved in inculcating a sense and culture of responsibility amongst our children.
I always want to refer to the rich saying in our Shona culture that “Gavi rinobva kuma svuuriro”, literally translated that the buck comes from the tree, which is the home.
This begs the question, whether or not as parents we are providing a home environment that is conducive for children’s moral guidance and rectitude.
As somebody noted years back, the home was a place for refuge, security and a haven for family stability.
The home was further a place where people could flee from trials, troubles and difficulties of life. It also served as a traditional place of togetherness.
Enter the 21st century, most homes have become a battle ground, and in some cases simply becoming a place to eat and sleep where moral decadency and degeneracy take centre stage.
Another sad feature of today’s homes is that many families have become fragmented with a shocking rise in the number of single parent households and in some cases children being left to raise themselves.
Indeed, the phenomenal change in the nature and structure of the 21st century homes has affected many parents’ ability to make the home a healthy nurturing place for their children.
For, whilst the home used to be a safe sanctuary for children’s upbringing, all that seems to have drastically changed due to the impact and influence of technological advancement where excessive violence, explicit sex and a total lack of decency and morality have invaded many homes with the resultant collapse of moral values
More often than not, some parents are openly found cheering or encouraging children to indulge in conduct and behaviour that under normal circumstances should either be discouraged, forbidden or out rightly condemned, a conduct that is detrimental to children’s moral growth and development.
There is also sadly a category of parents who are quick to blame everything and everybody for the insalubrious conduct and behaviour of their children.
For, it is either the teachers at school who are accused of all sorts for the bad behaviour of children; their peers from broken families or the media which serves as convenient scape goats.
Not that these mediums are perfect either.
In fact, it is now an open secret that the school environment is no longer conducive, unlike during our days when teachers were perfect role models; where you would find the teacher following up to the pupils homestead for failing to attend classes; where elder brothers and sisters were pillars of support and strength whom as young boys, we could look up to as role models.
But as things stand, some teachers have, in some cases, become a wretched lot.
In some instances, it is not uncommon to find teachers in beer drinking binges with their pupils.
Sexual gender based violence
There are also stories of teachers being used by perverts to recruit school girls for the lucrative, but damaging commercial sex industry.
On the other hand, the brothers and sisters whom we used to look up to as role models have now become purveyors of moral decadence and criminal conduct, with young girls as old as 12 years being lured into apprenticeship in the oldest profession of prostitution.
Furthermore, boys are not spared either as they are constantly exposed to the thrills and joys of mbanje smoking, musombodhiya and other illicit drugs that are readily available at almost every street corner.
As for some members of the law enforcement agents, they have not been helpful either as some have become willing and enthusiastic guests to the party by condoning such anti-social practices affecting children.
It is this sad state of affairs that has left many children exposed and vulnerable to a plethora of vices that have become associated with the 21st technological advancement.
Indeed, as parents and guardians, we need to do self-introspection, hold a mirror, look at ourselves carefully and start asking ourselves serious questions about our role in shaping a future that we would be proud of.
We also need to interrogate ourselves as parents and guardians in terms of our behaviour and conduct towards our children.
Firstly, we need to ask ourselves whether we are the role models that our children and future generations would be proud of.
Secondly do we possess the appropriate parenting skills that would serve as a moral compass for our children and future generations?
Thirdly, to what extent are we involved as parents and guardians in our children’s online life, given the pervasiveness of the technological age that has become the everyday life of our children in view of the prevalence of online publications?
Furthermore, parental involvement in the children’s online life becomes more imperative, in view of the mushrooming of predators who are daily posting videos that are unpalatable and inappropriate for the minors’ viewing, particularly as they relate to sex, nudity, violence and other nefarious activities.
Indeed, we all appreciate and acknowledge the role and importance of technology and as a prerequisite for functional literacy.
However, the impact of technological advancement can be devastating if children are left to explore the world without the parents and guardians’ active involvement.
In this instance, subtle methods to screen and monitor on line publications that children can be exposed to become mandatory.
There is also need to check any traces of behaviour change through a casual chat with their peers, coupled with application of positive reinforcement mechanisms that can go a long way to incentivise good behaviour, without necessarily infringing on the child’s right to privacy.
Indeed, technological advancement has taken the 21st century by storm, a factor that has moved governments the world over and our government too which has since come up with the Cyber Security Bill to fight the scourge of cybercrime in both the social and economic spheres.
For issues to do with cyber bullying have been cited, affecting some people’s reputation, standing and in respect of children even their performance in class.
It can, therefore, be argued that the coming on board of the Cyber Security Bill is a welcome development in the face of growing incidences of popularisation of commercial sex through the screening of nude videos and the resultant sexual exploitation and abuse of girls by predators who lure girls into prostitution and pornography.
There also is the real and growing threat of scum bugs where young boys and girls have fallen victim to online dodgy investments, deals resulting in loss of pocket money or bus fare or even school fees.
As alluded to earlier on, until and unless parents and guardians take an active role and interest in the children’s online life, the nation is faced with a real crisis of a lost generation, given the extent and magnitude of the influence exerted by the media, particularly the notorious and unregulated social media.
There is also the real threat of the potentially damaging and pervasive peer pressure, coupled with the influence of some unscrupulous relatives and a host of other morally bankrupt social misfits who are in the habit of posting unpalatable or highly inappropriate videos on social media.
Indeed, the video that recently went viral on social media of schoolgirls engaging in a plethora of anti-social behaviours and activities pricked the conscience of many a parent, given what many parents are going through in this economic environment just to enable a child to go to school.
This calls for a concerted effort to activate all social support systems and structures, ranging from the traditional family structures, the media, institutional support structures and the local authorities.
However, in majority of cases, local authorities have been found wanting in so far as their mandate to provide recreational facilities is concerned.
For during our days, we had such facilities as libraries, boys’ clubs, swimming pools and almost every sporting facility at all such centres, with such activities and facilities serving to keep most of our generation away from bad influence.
It was also through such facilities and institutions that character was formed, discipline instilled, a sense of responsibility inculcated and strong personalities developed.
These facilities also served as the embryo and hub of morality, good behaviour and as a vehicle for behaviour change and modification
As Nelson Mandela once said: It takes a community to build a child.
But for societies to realise the Mandela dream, there is now need, more than ever before, to develop and strengthen social support systems and community parenting structures that guarantees parental involvement in child safety and related welfare programmes.
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What The Hell Is He Thinking? All The Questions You've Ever Asked About Men Answered (Penguin, 2010)
While writing my Girl About Town dating column for thelondonpaper, I noticed an odd thing. Though it was a column by a woman for women, men were my most impassioned correspondents. Turns out they have a lot to get off their chests in the domain of dating and romance. Who knew? I decided to give them a chance to do so by explaining in thei
While writing my Girl About Town dating column for thelondonpaper, I noticed an odd thing. Though it was a column by a woman for women, men were my most impassioned correspondents. Turns out they have a lot to get off their chests in the domain of dating and romance. Who knew? I decided to give them a chance to do so by explaining in their own words the most puzzling aspects of their courtship behaviour. When it comes to dating and relationships, how do men operate and why? This book tries to answer. Deemed an 'amazing' book by Cosmopolitan Magazine, it was given out with the July 2010 issue, releasing a joyous 450,000 copies onto the market. The book was extracted in The Sunday Times in June 2010. It was translated into German, Polish, Italian and others, and distributed with Glamour magazine in South Africa.
The Man Diet: One Woman's Quest to End Bad Romance (Harper Collins, 2012)
Why do women feel incomplete without a romantic relationship? Why is singleness such a tricky, complicated state for women? And why does FUN – our hard-won freedom to etch as many notches on our bedposts as possible – so often feel like anything but? This book stemmed from my own experiences, and those of my friends, bingeing on junk food
Why do women feel incomplete without a romantic relationship? Why is singleness such a tricky, complicated state for women? And why does FUN – our hard-won freedom to etch as many notches on our bedposts as possible – so often feel like anything but? This book stemmed from my own experiences, and those of my friends, bingeing on junk food love: pursuing sexual encounters with people who didn't care about us nor us them, all in the name of experience...and feeling drained, anxious and bad about ourselves as a result. This book proposes a way out of the cycle of junk food love. It was extracted in The Sunday Times. The Observer called it 'interesting', written in a 'breezy and intimate' style. Interview with the Evening Standard here and in the Jewish Chronicle here and interview with the Sunday Times here. The Man Diet was translated into Korean, Portuguese, Italian and others.
Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of 'the Single' (Bloomsbury: 2020)
What came before Tinder? What came before Guardian Soulmates, Match.com and Plenty of Fish? And when did singleness become a universal and expected life stage? This book is a scholarly answer to that question, focussed on 1970-2000 – the three decades before the internet rose to prominence. Testing the assumption that the internet radical
What came before Tinder? What came before Guardian Soulmates, Match.com and Plenty of Fish? And when did singleness become a universal and expected life stage? This book is a scholarly answer to that question, focussed on 1970-2000 – the three decades before the internet rose to prominence. Testing the assumption that the internet radically retooled romance and courtship, I found that if we look back to around 1970, we see all the social and cultural trends already in place that underpinned the rocketing success of internet dating. The 1970s saw a rapidly expanding dating industry, many more singles as marriage rates sank, divorce rates soared, and casual sex and relationships became acceptable. I track the birth of the single as we know it today by charting the fascinating textures and oddities of the pre-internet world of singles services, including lonely hearts adverts, computer dating and introduction agencies. Called 'fascinating' by James Bloodworth in Unherd. Tim Stanley gave it five stars in the Telegraph and said it was 'like watching Love Island with Foucault'.
Copyright © 2020 Zoe Strimpel - All Rights Reserved.
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The Best Takeaways from Viral Campaigns
Posted by Maridsa Choute in Digital Ads / Social Media on October 3, 2019Tags: branding / digital advertising / digital marketing / innovative marketing / instagram / snapchat / trend tracking / twitter / viral campaigns
We took some time to reflect on some of the most innovative digital campaigns we saw this summer. Brands that stood out tapped into how to use social media consumer behavior to create campaigns that would grab attention, be viral, and be memorable. Below, we picked out five viral campaigns that we (Zora Digital (ZD) liked and why we think they worked.
Papa John’s Augmented Reality (AR) Pizza Box
Papa John’s teamed up with Sony Pictures and Snapchat to create an AR experience for its consumers who ordered their ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ XL pizza. The box debuted before the July 2 release of the Spider-Man movie. On each XL box, there was an augmented reality (AR) activation code that customers could scan with Snapchat, and through the app, the box transformed into the European landscapes such as the Big Ben in London that were present in the movie. Snapchat users could also have fun with the Papa John’s lens that included a game where players trap pizzas using Spider-Man’s web.
Why ZD Thinks This Worked:
“The pizza company is the first of its kind to offer augmented reality through Snapcode on their pizza boxes,” according to Papa John’s chief marketing officer, Karlin Linhardt.
This is one of the few viral campaigns that relied heavily on an emerging technology, AR, that is often used in gaming. While we live in the age of face-altering filters, augmented reality impacts the way companies can market to its consumers by creating fun, interactive moments that users can enjoy.
We also think that this campaign was a perfect fit for an audience that already has an affinity for imaginative concepts and sci-fi. And Gen Z and millennials have become fans as the Spider-Man saga continues. Sony was smart to partner with Papa John’s through an app that 75 percent of all 13-34-year-olds use according to Snap Inc.
The Ever-Changing Unicorn Drink
It all started with a tweet sent from Starbucks on April 19, 2017. Starbucks announced their color and flavor changing Frappuccino. The announcement came ten days after National Unicorn Day. I know what you’re thinking: what is National Unicorn Day? Every year on April 9th, it serves as a day for offbeat activities. Forbes magazine states that photos of the drink were leaked on Reddit by Starbucks employees early to create suspense before the official social media announcement. Fans and influencers became excited for the aesthetically pleasing purple and blue Frappuccino. This made it an Instagram sensation.
Starbucks created a product based on an online behavior and a popular food trend because it was photo ready and perfect for IG. According to Mobile Marketer, from April 19 through April 23, 2017, there were over 155,000 posts on Instagram related to the drink.
The unicorn Frappuccino shows that brands should continue to be creative to create viral campaigns. They should also think about their audience. 75 percent of Instagram users are between ages 18-24 according to Brandwatch.
Lastly, they should think of how to create the perfect Instagram moment that generates positive buzz, excitement, and most importantly product trial.
Starbucks’ overall mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit, and at its core the goal of social media is to create connections with hundreds, even thousands of people.
The Maddening Name Change
On June 11, 2018, IHOP tweeted a video graphic of the ‘p’ of the logo turning upside down into a ‘b’ that was revealed to stand for burgers. Instead of being the International House of Pancakes, the restaurant became the International House of Burgers. Through the confusion and hilarity of the name change, the restaurant’s burger sales quadrupled in the first three weeks after the Twitter reveal according to Adweek. Digital Marketing Institute states that IHOP saw 6,477% in social media mentions in one day and, “the hashtags IHOP and IHOB gained 297 million impressions in the weekend-long lead up to the reveal.”
The week long buildup to the reveal created so much suspense, it was almost like watching an episode of your favorite show.
IHOP has been open for over 60 years, and this stunt reinvigorated the traditional breakfast spot by reminding its guests of the variety of food options available.
Through the confusion and hilarity, celebrities tweeted about the name change, and even other brands participated in the jokes, each wanting to get in on the big story.
This campaign will be memorable for a long time. A year later, guests go to IHOP, see the menu, and jokingly ask, “isn’t this place called IHOb now?”
Dream Crazy and Crazier
This campaign began last year when Nike and Colin Kaepernick teamed up for their Dream Crazy video. On September 3, 2018, Kaepernick tweeted (which currently has over 900,000 likes) a black and white image of himself with the quote, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt.” The campaign was followed up with a video that begins with Kaepernick asking, “Are your dreams crazy enough?” The Dream Crazy campaign was followed up this year with the Dream Crazier video narrated by tennis phenom, Serena Williams that was released on February 24, during the Oscars and over a week before International Women’s Day.
Millennials care about social causes. According to the Millennial Impact Report, 29 percent of millennials care most about civil rights and racial discrimination. We’ve all seen how they have used it to spread the message for causes like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. Social media makes it easier to participate in social movements.
Nike recognized the opportunity to reach out to a generation that was brought on the ideas of social justice and change. They knew that they would get backlash; however, the positive impact for the company meant more. Any by standing up for their core values, following Kaepernick’s Dream Crazy campaign, the company saw a 31% boost in sales and a $6 billion brand value increase.
Foundation for All
Beauty for All became the mission for the 2017 launch of Fenty Beauty. The brand initially launched 40 foundation shades that catered to a variety of skin tones and undertones, making it feel like there was a shade for everyone. The brand’s release was a trendsetter and created, “The Fenty Effect,” in which makeup companies now release complexion shades with a wide array of more inclusive shades than in years past.
It is a known fact that the world is becoming more diverse. Fenty Beauty has tapped into the disparities in the beauty industry and created excitement around its diverse range of shades in the foundation launch for their viral campaigns. Beauty influencers of color who were ecstatic to try foundation shades that felt tailored to them and their dark skin shared the message.
According to Think with Google, the brand went live at the same time in 17 countries, and the company ships directly to 137 countries, so Fenty reaches out to a large audience that was previously ignored in the makeup industry. Fenty Beauty continues to be a success because it doesn’t leave out any consumer.
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What are the Different Types of Public Court Records?
Daphne Mallory
Public court records are available to anyone who wants to review the documents relating to civil or criminal litigation. The main types include case files, dockets, and court orders, and they are available for cases litigated in local, regional, and national courts. Case files include court documents, such as legal pleadings and correspondence between attorneys and depositions. Dockets are calendars that list the cases and trial dates, as well as the names of the plaintiffs and defendants. Court orders are the judgments rendered by the judge that require one party to act or refrain from taking action. Cases may be assigned to a specific court in the jurisdiction, and individuals must often know which court to search if they want to find the documents they’re looking for.
Public court records include case files, dockets, and court orders.
Case files are vital public court records for the individuals or businesses who are parties to the case, but also to third parties affected by the case and attorneys or pro se litigants who need to prepare their own cases. The clerk’s office has the duty and responsibility to maintain those case files and to share them with the public upon request. Some court clerks make some or all of the documents in a case file available electronically, such as on the court’s website. Individuals who want to search a case file can often ask the clerk or staff in person, who will retrieve it for them. It’s often necessary to know the names of the plaintiff and defendant or the case number, which can be retrieved from a court docket.
Court clerks make public court records available for public viewing.
A docket is a list of the legal actions that the court hears, and it represents the court’s caseload. The court clerk is often the individual responsible for creating and updating the court docket. It can be reviewed and searched like other public court records, but the cases are often listed in chronological order. It may be difficult for individuals to search the court docket if they do not have information about when the case they want to research was heard. The docket is often helpful to retrieve case file numbers.
Court orders provide a description of the case and the final ruling. These orders are often a written order by the judge that directs parties to stop doing something or forces them to take certain actions. These are public court records that are included in case files and in separate court files for the public to search.
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Trump: I'm not surrendering on census-citizenship question
President calls reports fake news
Published July 3, 2019 at 2:12pm
The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE! We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.
President Trump on Wednesday called reports that his administration has given up its effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census "fake."
"We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question," he wrote.
On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and a Justice Department lawyer said the Census Bureau is in the process of printing the census questionnaire without the citizenship question.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively blocked adding the question, ordering the case challenging the question to be reconsidered by a lower court.
That left the Commerce Department with little no time to resolve the matter before this past Monday's deadline for printing the questionnaires.
But the RedState blog argued there is no reason that a question that was on the census for 175 years cannot be restored.
"The statutory authority to do so is clear. Apportionment for the House is based on census results and it's clearly against the intent of the Equal Protection Clause to continue to allow areas with high populations of illegal immigrants to garner extra seats."
RedState reasoned that the Supreme Court "has already affirmed the legality of doing so and this decision came down way too late to force such a change."
"The rest is bureaucratic nonsense that can be fought later."
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Janice Dean scorches Andrew Cuomo: 'Your mistakes cost us the lives of family members'
January 4, 2021 January 4, 2021 Bob Unruh, WND
Janice Dean appearing on ABC’s ‘The View’ (Video screenshot)
Janice Dean, the senior meteorologist for Fox News, on Monday condemned New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo for requiring nursing homes last spring to take in patients infected with COVID-19.
Dean’s story is personal, as she lost both of her husband’s parents to the coronavirus after they were exposed in a nursing home.
Estimates of the number who died as a result of Cuomo’s policy, which purportedly was to keep hospital beds open, range from 6,500 to much higher.
“Two of those deaths were my husband’s parents, Mickey and Dee Newman, both of whom contracted the virus in their separate elder care facilities in New York City,” Dean wrote in a column for FoxNews.com.
“I believe the deaths of thousands of seniors who have died from COVID in New York State could’ve been prevented, and that’s the reason why I became an advocate over the last eight months trying to expose Cuomo’s own ‘mistakes and shortcomings,’ while the national media crown him as one of their finest politicians,” Dean said.
“Had the governor admitted his terrible decisions instead of making posters, plastic mountains and coronavirus artwork, many of us would’ve forgiven him. Had he written condolence cards instead of books about ‘leadership’ I probably would not be speaking up on behalf of other grieving families,” she said.
“Perhaps in lieu of joking around with his brother on CNN about his love life, doing puff pieces with People magazine or submitting videotape for the Emmy Awards, the governor could have been meeting with families and expressing sorrow for their loss,” she said.
Dean pointed out that Cuomo found time during the pandemic to write a book, “American Crisis,” which “has lined his pockets as he continues to profit off the deaths of tens of thousands of New Yorkers.”
In March, Cuomo was on television “dismissing the severity of the coronavirus and instead was worried about the vaping crisis in New York.”
No lockdowns, he said on March 18. But then he closed New York.
A short time later he issued the order “that helped kill thousands of seniors.”
It came despite Cuomo saying: “Who are we worried about? Seniors, compromised immune system, people with underlying illnesses. Where are the places we’re really worried about? Nursing homes, senior congregate facilities.”
He even helped create “Matilda’s law,” named after his mother, to “protect” seniors.
It was on March 25 that care facilities were required to take COVID patients and were banned from testing them.
“When I look back on our own family experience it comes down to this: The dangerous people (those who were recovering from COVID-19) were forced into nursing homes, putting others in extreme danger. And people that could make a difference in the residents’ physical and emotional well-being (the family members) still, as of this date, are not being allowed into those facilities,” Dean wrote.
“My in-laws never had last rites performed by a Catholic priest, they died alone. And, besides a quick graveside burial service, we never had a wake or funeral. I’m stating this because thousands of families went through the same tragic process.”
She cited Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin, who owns and operates Van Rensselaer Manor nursing home, saying “you have to question the motives behind the order because it defies logic and a basic understanding of medicine and senior care.”
In the 46 days after the order, “over 6,000 COVID positive patients were accepted into those tinderboxes, resulting in viral brush fires that killed thousands. We still don’t have the exact total number of those who were killed because New York is the only state that doesn’t count those who caught the virus in their elder care facilities but died in the hospital.”
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether New York is undercounting coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents and and has demanded information from hundreds of private facilities. But the state is stonewalling, Dean said.
Meanwhile, she said, Cuomo has blamed “God, Mother Nature, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, President Trump, the New York Post, Fox News, nursing home workers, and nursing home visitors” for the deaths.
She linked to her column on Twitter:
Your mistakes cost us the lives of our family members, @NYGovCuomo. But rest assured, we, the People will be strong in our fight for answers and accountability. And the more you try to silence us, the louder our voices will become. https://t.co/4d7PyCFCkr
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) January 4, 2021
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Ethiopia: Pressure on churches building; evangelical church told to vacate after ten years
June 18, 2019 Ethiopia Churches, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Oromia
An evangelical church in central Ethiopia has been ordered to vacate its building, 10 years after it started meeting there, and churches elsewhere in the region say pressure is increasing on them, too. The Mekane Yesus Evangelical Church in the town of Robe in Bale zone, about 400km southeast of . . . Read More
Young Ethiopian Christians ‘bribed’ to convert to Islam, says charity
November 19, 2018 Ethiopia Converts, Education, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Mahibere Kidusan, Youth
Young Ethiopian Christians are bribed with jobs and education prospects if they convert to Islam, according to the UK-based charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). A Christian religious leader who wished to remain anonymous told ACN that Christians who are poor were especially targeted. “The [Muslim employers] are . . . Read More
Ethiopian PM sends condolences to Orthodox Church after 15 priests killed
August 14, 2018 Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed, Addis Ababa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Jijiga, Oromia, Somali Region, Tigray
Ethiopia’s prime minister visited the leader of the country’s Orthodox Church on Saturday to express his condolences after 15 priests were killed and ten Orthodox churches damaged in the eastern Somali region last week. Among the priests killed were Rev. Kidane Mariam Nibretu, Rev. Yared Hibu, Father Gebiremariam Asfaw, and . . . Read More
Ethiopian Evangelical sent back to prison for ‘causing outrage to religious feeling’
June 27, 2018 Ethiopia Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Protestants
An Ethiopian court of cassation has rejected an appeal by an Evangelical Christian sentenced to seven months in prison for “causing outrage to religious peace and feeling”. Temesgen Mitiku Mezemir, 24, the leader of an Evangelical fellowship group, was taken back to prison in the southern city of Arba Minch, . . . Read More
Ethiopian Evangelical who ‘outraged religious feeling’ given second chance to appeal
May 1, 2018 Ethiopia Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Protestants
An Ethiopian court of cassation has said it will hear the appeal of an Evangelical Christian sentenced to seven months in prison for “causing outrage to religious peace and feeling”. The appeal hearing is scheduled for 9 May and follows the rejection of a previous appeal by a lower court. . . . Read More
Ethiopian Protestant loses appeal against prison sentence for ‘causing outrage to religious peace and feeling’
March 22, 2018 Ethiopia Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Mahibere Kidusan, Protestants
An Ethiopian court has turned down the appeal of an Evangelical Christian sentenced to seven months in prison for “causing outrage to religious peace and feeling”. In its verdict, published on 19 March, the court upheld an earlier sentence given by a judge in the southern city of Arba Minch . . . Read More
Ethiopian Evangelical sent to prison for ‘insulting’ Orthodox Church
February 9, 2018 Ethiopia Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Mahibere Kidusan, Protestants
A judge in southern Ethiopia has sentenced an Evangelical Christian to seven months in prison for “causing outrage to religious peace and feeling” following accusations believed to come from members of the predominant Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC). The judge in the city of Arba Minch handed down the sentence on . . . Read More
Ethiopian Christians arrested for ‘praying against government’
January 10, 2018 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Chagni, Churches, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, House churches, Pentecostals, Tigray
Seven Ethiopian Christians have been arrested and detained in the north-western town of Chagni on suspicion of praying against the government. A local source told World Watch Monitor the seven men, members of the Meserete Kiristos church, were followed and overheard by a local militia group when they went up a . . . Read More
Ethiopia: church attacked, then told to close and member arrested for ‘inciting religious clashes’
August 11, 2017 Ethiopia Amhara, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Mahibere Kidusan, Pentecostals, Tigray
A Pentecostal church in Ethiopia has been ordered to stop meeting in a residential area, in the wake of a mob attack on the church, after which a church member was arrested for “illegal activities” that “incited religious clashes”. The Full Gospel Church in Tikil Dingaye, 20km from the historic . . . Read More
Ethiopian Christian attacked with machetes for evangelising
July 31, 2017 Ethiopia Converts, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Tigray
An Ethiopian Christian suffered deep wounds to the back of his head when he was attacked while alone in his home by a group of local Muslims with machetes The attack on 16 July left the 27-year-old man needing life-saving surgery. The man – who, for security reasons, cannot be . . . Read More
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As an incredibly fit triathlete, Lou Iovoli was shocked to hear that he had a late-stage cancer that could possibly kill him. As Lou and his own doctor share the story of the drastic measures they took to treat him, they give hope to those diagnosed with this disease that is often disfiguring, devastating, and deadly. Second Opinion: Head & Neck Cancer airs Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 8:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV.
Produced by WXXI, in partnership with the University of Rochester Medical Center and West 175 Productions, Second Opinion focuses on health literacy in an engaging, entertaining, and accessible way. A patient story provides the backbone of each episode as host Dr. Peter Salgo leads a panel of medical experts through the twists and turns of one patient's real-life medical mystery. New this season, Second Opinion introduces each patient in their own home environment to provide a personal look at the circumstances surrounding their medical condition. To help deepen the very human, personal storytelling, the patient later meets a panel of experts in the studio, before a live studio audience, to continue the discussion.
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The Sculptural Imagination
Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
Alex Potts
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In the modern period, sculpture has often been viewed as more limited, more literal, and also more primitive than the “leading” visual art: painting. But precisely because of its marginal status, Alex Potts points out in this stimulating and original book, sculpture has played a complex and intriguing role in modern ideas and fantasies surrounding visual art. Potts explores the special qualities of sculpture as a free-standing three-dimensional entity, and he considers the distinctive demands sculpture places on the viewer.
The book begins in the late eighteenth century, when a systematic formal distinction began to be made between painting and sculpture. Following changing attitudes toward sculpture through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Potts analyzes for the first time the radical transformation that has occurred not only in the nature of sculptural works but also in their display and reception. He focuses on a broad range of texts by major writers who have in some way been obsessed by sculpture and by such artist-theorists as Adolf Hildebrand and Donald Judd. The author also offers a detailed view of selected iconic works by key players in modern thinking about the sculptural. The impact of minimalism features prominently in this discussion, for it placed the phenomenology of viewing three-dimensional objects for the first time at the center of debate about modern visual art.
Alex Potts is professor and chair of history of art at the University of Reading, England. He is the author of Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History, published by Yale University Press.
115 b/w + 50 color illus.
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| W. crew streak ends against Princeton
Charles Gariepy
W. crew streak ends against Princeton
Charles Gariepy 12:00 am, Apr 17, 2006
On Saturday, the women’s crew team was introduced to a virtually foreign word: “defeat.” Despite the team’s season-long record of success, its winning streak has finally run out.
Travelling down to Princeton this weekend, the Elis were ready to test themselves against the team that Yale head coach Will Porter predicted would take the Ivy Championship. Although the women were defeated in all five of their races against Virginia and Princeton, they came in second in four — losing to Princeton in three. Yale finished second in the day’s competition over Virginia, giving up the Eisenberg Cup to the No. 1 Tigers.
“We knew going in that it would be a challenging race,” varsity eight three seat Jennifer Hansen ’07 said. “Princeton always puts up a fast race.”
The largest margin of loss was 13.1 seconds in the novice eight, in which the team pulled a time of 6:53.3. The closest races of the day were the second varsity eight — in which the Bulldogs finished 4.1 seconds behind Virginia — and varsity four, where they finished 5.7 behind Princeton. With a time of 6:24.2, the varsity eight gave up 9.1 seconds to Princeton.
Although the loss may have been unexpected for Bulldogs fans across the crew nation, varsity eight five seat Rachel Jeffers ’07 said the team knows it can always be faster.
“This is not a step back,” Hansen said. “Win or lose, it’s always a learning experience.”
Jeffers said Princeton is historically fast at the line, and there was no exception in the varsity eight race. In the first 20-30 stokes, the Tigers established a lead that they were able to maintain despite the Elis’ attempts to push through, she said. By 500 meters into the race, Princeton had achieved a boat’s length ahead of Yale, and the women were unable to recover.
With competition rowing neck and neck, the rowers and coxswains alike must focus on their individual and collective performances, third varsity coxswain Berkley Adrio ’09 said.
“I try to call an aggressive race, and stick to the race plan while responding to the other crews,” she said of her own performance.
While the coxswains manage the boats themselves, the rowers work blindly, rowing with their backs to the finish line.
“We try not to get freaked out [when passed by another crew],” Hansen said. “We just do what we normally do and try not to let it faze us. … We did a good job of that.”
Under ideal rowing conditions, racing Princeton’s manageable course gave the team a chance to focus on every aspect of its row, Hansen said.
“We took a lot from this race, and we can definitely see our potential,” she said.
After the fourth regatta of the spring season, the Elis will not be changing their preparation methods, Jeffers said. Even though the race against Princeton was an important measuring stick for its performance, the team did not do anything differently from before.
“We’re always pushing for speed,” she said. “In every race we’re trying to have a perfect race.”
Jeffers said the races are getting tighter as the team gets closer to the Eastern Sprints. The most important piece of information gleaned from Saturday is an understanding of Princeton’s racing style — they’re the team to beat.
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| M. basketball humbled by West Coast powers
Brittany Golob
M. basketball humbled by West Coast powers
Brittany Golob 12:00 am, Nov 26, 2007
LOS ANGELES — Members of the men’s basketball team got all the experience they wanted in the Golden State over Thanksgiving break, but they got it at a cost.
After being handed losses by Stanford and No. 2 UCLA in a Thanksgiving trip to the West Coast, Yale dropped its overall record to 1-3 before it prepares to meet its last ranked opponent, No. 4 Kansas, in a month.
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The Elis took a beating at UCLA’s legendary Pauley Pavilion, losing by almost 40 points in Los Angeles last Friday. The Bruins topped the Bulldogs, 81-47, and dominated for about 30 minutes of the uneven match.
“That’s the best team in the country,” guard Alex Zampier ’09 said of UCLA. “We were hanging tough, and then we gave up some transition passes and they got the momentum.”
The Elis held their own against the powerhouse until the home team gained a six-point lead about eight minutes in. UCLA then found its stride and began tossing easy high passes in to its post players for almost guaranteed points.
The Bulldogs’ shots just did not fall in, and Yale achieved only a 35.1 field-goal percentage despite making just nine fewer field goals. UCLA notched 15 points off free throws and sank eight long balls, which proved the difference in the game.
“Our shots weren’t falling and they were getting layups,” center Matt Kyle ’08 said. “When we played zone defense, they passed to the high posts. They know what they’re doing.”
Going into halftime, the Bulldogs were a respectable 15 points behind. But Bruins Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love put on a clinic for the final 20 minutes, as they each amassed 15 points.
On a basket that put UCLA ahead 58-31, Love forced an errant ball back onto the court to Josh Shipp, who raced the ball upcourt for an easy two points. The Bulldogs stood little chance against the Bruins’ forceful offense and first-class defending.
“In the second half, things kind of got out of hand,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “We didn’t have as many good shots.”
The Elis fell behind by as many as 39 points and finished the match at a 34-point deficit. The margin of defeat was a far cry from the 11-point difference in Palo Alto, Calif. on Tuesday.
Stanford defeated the Bulldogs in the Elis’ first match of the week, 72-61. Twenty-two points from captain and guard Eric Flato ’08 were not enough against a double-double and career game from seven-foot Cardinal Robin Lopez and a 25-point effort by forward Lawrence Hill, . The Elis never saw a lead, but they stayed close, with nine shots from beyond the arc and 21 points off turnovers.
“We just hit our shots,” guard Nick Holmes ’08 said. “We played better and defended too. We played tough competition to learn how to play together.”
The trip to the left coast left the Bulldogs with a pair of losses to high-caliber teams, but the experience gained should serve the Elis well when they take on more tough teams in the coming weeks.
“Our players thought this was a great experience,” Jones said. “Playing where John Wooden coached is going to be something these kids will remember for the rest of their lives. They won’t remember the score, but they will remember this experience.”
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| 'Body Politic' engages mind too
'Body Politic' engages mind too
4:37 am, Nov 09, 2012
It’s a good thing I had my ID at the theater last night because an usher asked me for it at the door.
It took me a good long while to figure out that this little bureaucratic trip-up was an extension of the performance — not exactly street art, but foyer art, if you will — and that the ID the usher was asking for wasn’t my Yale one but the government-issued plastic card, the ID that controversially confirmed that I was an American citizen, eligible to vote. The play, “Richard 2012,” was billed as an “election event,” after all, and as a defensive American I wouldn’t want any foreigners to be better armed to ridicule to the circus-theatrics of the recent election. “Don’t air dirty laundry,” as the saying goes. I doubt that’s what writers Alex Kramer ’13, Charlie Polinger ’13 and Raphael Shapiro ’13 had in mind when they had an usher ask for my ID — though I’m kind of foreign, after all — but then again … I doubt that the usher knew I’d actually be voting on the show’s candidates: I’m reviewing the show, after all.
So I’ll come clean: it’s a blockbuster show, a media mash up of the best (Shakespeare’s “Richard II”) and the worst (campaign materials) of Western civilization into an energetic, timely punk of a senior project that simultaneously manages to sustain some deep insights. Kramer, who plays the “incumbent,” kicks off the show with an oration collaged out of 16 separate Obama speeches, starting with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention way back in 2004. Kramer’s uncanny vocal imitation of Obama fuels a fast-forward capsule of the president’s political flight. The oscillating, start-and-stop style of his stump speech; the lilt; the arrogant tendency towards pontification — Kramer mimics these Obama hallmarks to an admirably tactful, even respectful, degree, which only bolsters a runaway scene that seeks to flake away the words’ polish, and then grind it underfoot. It’s all the more honest for his fairness to the man he’s portraying.
Snaking through the speech is the makeshift Obama campaign slogan, “Fired up, ready to go!” Through overuse, its spontaneous radiance collapses into a fatigued mantra — and a false one to boot, as becomes clearer with Kramer’s every sigh and snappy shrug. By the time Kramer settles into an Oval Office desk that’s too big for him, he seems battle-weary, unprepared for the policy briefs an aide dumps at his side. He ends up circling the desk, folding himself into it like he’s going into hiding, though I’d like to believe he’s de-stressing with some office yoga.
Shapiro plays the only other character, Kramer’s challenger — Romney, that is, though Shapiro’s mimicry certainly isn’t as faithful as Kramer’s. He captures Romney’s slickness, but riffs on the role more widely than Kramer, in a way that conveys more of his own personal charm. At the Republican Convention he breaks out into a lip-lickingly smug song-and-dance routine of “Yankee Doodle Dandee.” Romney was never that expressive; his hair was.
A large chunk of Shapiro’s acting takes place on screen, where pre-filmed interviews linger on Shapiro’s physiognomy in a way that creates an intimacy never granted to Kramer. A strategic move on the writers’ part, no doubt: without the humanizing videos, the play would exhibit a salient bias against the Republican candidate, whose gaffes balloon to satiric proportions, especially in the debate scenes. Indeed, Shapiro sometimes gropes for simple words with a style more Dubya than Romney, and seems a bit overeager when interrupting questioners.
Its own partisan tics aside, the play takes on partisanship with scrutinizing intensity. With only two real characters — silent aides don’t count — audiences suffer from a claustrophobically binary arrangement that resembles American politics all too well. The costumes are all red or blue; so are the banners. The audience members, arranged on two sides of the theater, facing one another, literally face off. Towards the show’s end, Shapiro and Romney predictably duke it out, in a protracted, slow-motion brawl studded with strobe lights. It’s a hilarious scene, but gratuitous; comic relief isn’t exactly wanting in the script. The “morning after” the debate, where Shapiro and Kramer come out as janitors cleaning up after themselves, wins out though; using Shakespeare’s lines, they fret over the sovereign’s fate — an ironic self-appraisal by two politicians who’ve already disgraced themselves.
The integration of Shakespeare’s “Richard II” grounds the intensely current play in eternal questions about statecraft’s uncertainties. But Shakespeare’s lines don’t call attention to themselves, and their role is frankly secondary. Instead, it’s the writers’ own original directorial choices that raise the play’s content above hackneyed critiques of politics.
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| QASIM: The problem with Upworthy
Isa Qasim
QASIM: The problem with Upworthy
Isa Qasim 3:10 am, Feb 06, 2014
A few days ago, an article popped up on my Facebook newsfeed with the lengthy title “His First 4 Sentences are Interesting. The 5th Blew My Mind. And Made Me A Little Sick.”
The article had been posted by the website Upworthy, which shares progressive videos and promotes them in the hopes that they will go viral via social media. As the website puts it, Upworthy seeks to make “important issues as shareable as a video of someone jumping on his bed and falling out the window.” In a sense, Upworthy’s mission is a noble one. If, like me, you are sympathetic to most of the causes discussed in the videos, then you can get behind efforts to promote them in an engaging way. However, Upworthy, and a growing number of sites imitating its methods, represent a very serious, troubling trend in the future of our media landscape.
There are many objections that could be raised against Upworthy and other similar sites. They are often patronizing and manipulative. They overuse effusive words like “awesome” in an attempt to draw readers in, dealing with even serious subjects in a light-hearted manner. But Upworthy’s problems extend beyond editorial childishness.
Upworthy frames its narratives using emotions, not information. The goal of an Upworthy article is to create the expectation of some emotional sensation that the video will then fulfill. Videos may be educational, but that’s not their primary purpose. Consider the headline that I quoted at length in the first paragraph. Someone who sees this link on Facebook does not click on it because she wants to learn about healthcare — in fact she has no way of knowing healthcare is the topic of the article. She clicks on it because she wants to have her mind blown in an unsettling way. The article might be informative as well, but information comes second to emotion.
Upworthy’s approach is effective because it motivates readers to share their posts, as people are likely to pass on materials that move them. But this emotional approach to informing people is troublesome because it makes facts subservient to the emotional narrative constructed. Facts are included because they strengthen the power of the emotional climax, but those facts that might muddy the issue and add unwelcome complexity are discarded for the benefit of the narrative. If someone’s views on a topic have been defined by an emotional framework, then new facts are only accepted if they bolster that framework. It is more appealing for online progressives to rest in dignified outrage or profound empathy than deal with the muddied world of actual politics and policy.
Of course, Upworthy was not the first to use this emotional approach to policy. Cable news and talk radio have tread this path many times before. But these venues typically maintain the veneer of valuing facts. Fox News famously claims to be “Fair and Balanced.” With Upworthy, it seems we are shedding that veneer and simply embracing the idea that narrative legitimizes fact, instead of the other way around.
Why does all this matter? Upworthy may well be the future of journalism on the web. Business Insider labelled it the fastest growing media company of all time. Its model is extremely successful, with nearly 90 million unique visitors last December. Even if Upworthy itself does not survive, its imitators will. These websites see themselves as taking up the role of traditional journalism, explicitly aligning themselves on their website with the “noble mission to inform the public and draw attention to the things that really matter in our society.” Upworthy has the potential to truly revolutionize how we consume news, and we would be much poorer for it.
So please, the next time you see an inspiring video on Upworthy, look up the topic in The New York Times, or some other fact-driven news source, and share that article instead. Traditional news sites may not be as flashy, but at least they’re grounded in real information.
Isa Qasim is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu.
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| Hundreds demand union in GESO protest
Rachel Siegel
Hundreds demand union in GESO protest
Rachel Siegel 7:41 pm, Oct 21, 2014
The skies held as hundreds of students, union workers and city and state representatives protested Tuesday evening demanding that Yale allow graduate students to unionize.
Blocking off College Street between Wall and Elm Streets, the rally was the culmination of a weeks-long campaign organized by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), a graduate student union not recognized by the University. After multiple GESO representatives, community leaders and Connecticut politicians, including Gov. Dannel Malloy, addressed the crowd, union leaders delivered a photo petition — binders filled with photos of over 2,000 GESO supporters — to Woodbridge Hall. The petition included photos of over 1,000 GESO members, or graduate employees on campus
GESO was joined by Locals 34 and 35, which collectively represent nearly 5,000 blue, pink and white-collar Yale employees.
GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said that since GESO’s last rally in April — at which GESO leaders delivered a petition demanding the University recognize the results of an election to decide on the union question — both New York University (NYU) and the University of Connecticut (UC) negotiated their first contracts with their own graduate student unions. Greenberg said that these developments reignited GESO’s determination to secure the University’s recognition.
“Today, there are over 1,000 of you here,” Greenberg told the crowd. “Today, there are over 1,000 members of the unions joined by the city, the campus and the state saying, ‘We want Yale to negotiate.’”
Mayor Toni Harp, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Malloy, as well as many other state and local politicians, took the stage to offer their staunch support for GESO. On either end of the stage, banners with the photos of every petition signatory lined the west side of College Street.
DeLauro said that the rally was ultimately about respect and dignity for the graduate students employed by the University. Malloy echoed the sentiment.
“I believe it, the people of Connecticut believe it, and most importantly, you believe it and are acting on it,” Malloy said.
Joining the politicians on stage were some of GESO’s student representatives and other union leaders, including Local 35 President Bob Proto and Local 34 President Laurie Kennington. Both Proto and Kennington said that a decision by the University to negotiate with GESO would improve the quality of graduate student work on campus.
In early September, Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said that she had no plans to meet with GESO leaders.
At least on Tuesday, the protest appeared to do little to shift the stance of the University administration, which has long opposed graduate student unionization.
University spokesman Tom Conroy said that most graduate students assist in teaching one course per term, and that there are outlets through which the University works with them.
“The Graduate School provides a wide array of academic support services and works directly with the Graduate Student Assembly, an elected body of graduate students representing all departments, to improve graduate students’ academic, social, and living experiences at Yale,” Conroy wrote in a statement to the News.
Conroy added that Yale has been one of the positive factors in the upward trend of New Haven’s job growth in the past ten years.
Abbey Agresta GRD ’16, a fifth year PhD candidate in the history department who spoke at the rally, said that teaching is the most important thing she does as a Yale student.
But she said that despite her love for the classroom, the conditions under which she has had to teach have made her job difficult.
“The way Yale handles teaching assignments can be extremely unpredictable and makes it hard for graduate teachers to be the best teachers we can be,” Agresta said.
Allison Hadley GRD ’18, a third year PhD candidate in the Italian department, took to the stage to express her concerns about the shrinking numbers of graduate teachers in her department. She said that as Yale College prepares to take on 800 new students in the fall of 2017, it will become increasingly difficult for teachers like her to give those in introductory language classes the attention they deserve. Hadley said that a dialogue with Yale would help improve the classroom experience for both teachers and students alike.
Evan Pease GRD ’17, a fourth year PhD candidate in the Physics Department, said that much of his research depends on federal funding. Pease said that as he sees that funding decrease year by year across the sciences, there needs to be a platform from which student researchers can negotiate with the University.
“The graduate researchers — they’re the ones working on these projects when the funds aren’t being renewed,” Pease said. “A union would basically be an indication from the administration that they’re there to protect all types of scientific research, not just the ones currently in favor with funding agencies.”
Scott Marks, one of the founders of New Haven Rising — which is aligned with the unions — said that his organization’s support of GESO was rooted in the fact that Yale must set an example as one of the city’s largest employers. During the rally on College Street, Marks led dozens of NHR members in chants and later started a rendition of “We Shall Overcome” outside Beineke Plaza.
Marks said that so many NHR members came to the rally because his organization works for increased job access for New Haven residents, as well as communication between employers and their workers.
Silliman chef Stuart Comen — who authored a public letter in September decrying changes in Yale Dining — said that he came to the rally with his wife and sister-in-law, both of whom are members of Local 34, to speak up on behalf of the student teachers and to remind the administration that union workers should not be underestimated.
“We’re louder and stronger than ever,” Comen said. “We’re not here to disrupt the students’ lives, but we’re going to fight for what we believe in.”
Eve Houghton ’17 said that even as an undergrad, the GESO campaign resonated with her because the teachers’ labor conditions directly affect students’ learning conditions.
Connecticut State Senator Gary Holder-Winfield said that it was important for politicians to physically come to the GESO protest rather than just make statements from behind a desk.
“We’re always going to come out and support [the workers] in the way we say we do in our campaigns,” Holder-Winfield said.
After the speeches, GESO organizers and politicians in attendance led a march down College Street and up Wall Street to Beinecke Plaza, where they delivered the petition to Woodbridge Hall. After the rest of the crowd spilled into the plaza, the the protesters continued chanting, “What do we want? A Union; When do we want it? Now!” for about fifteen minutes before the petition was delivered.
As the crowd began to disperse, Greenberg could be heard through the megaphone saying, “We’ll be back.”
Correction: Oct. 22
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that a petition with over 1,000 signatures was delivered to Woodbridge Hall. In fact, protesters delivered a binder containing photos of over 2,000 GESO supporters, not a signed petition.
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Earthquake Liability Leaves Building Owners in Search of Seismic Retrofit Financing
Over the next 30 years in California, scientists predict the frequency of small earthquakes will decrease.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the chance of a major earthquake, magnitude 8.0 or greater, will increase.
These predictions from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stem from a greater understanding of multi-fault ruptures. Scientists have discovered a new fault line in Southern California, which is overdue for a major quake along the San Andreas Fault. Running underwater from San Diego Bay to Seal Beach in Orange County, and on land across the L.A. basin, the recently identified fault could lead to powerful quake affecting 20 million residents, reveals the USGS.
Aside from the sheer volume of residents in the Los Angeles metro area—13 million—the population density is what concerns scientists. Renters occupy more than half the homes in L.A., and about 60 percent of these occupants are families. With the L.A. metro area home to the nation’s fourth-highest percentage of renters, combined with a greater likelihood of powerful earthquakes in the coming years—preventative measures are crucial.
Failure to properly retrofit the hundreds of thousands of multi-family properties in L.A. will prove catastrophic. But what most property owners don't realize is that they may be held accountable.
Property Owners Found to be Negligent
Earthquake liability made headlines in 2003. It was late December in Paso Robles when a magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook the Central Coast. Two women were killed while working in an old retail shop, as bricks and plaster collapsed. The City of Paso Robles required this building to undergo seismic retrofits although the deadline was 15 years out. The victims’ families sued the property owner; they won.
This case was notable because a jury unanimously agreed that the property owner was neglectful. The outcome was based on the fact that, even though the property owner complied with city codes, she knew about the unreinforced brick and failed to act before it collapsed. Seven years later a state appeals court upheld the verdict.
L.A. Enacts Nation’s Strictest Seismic Mandates
Following the Paso Robles case, the L.A. City Council in 2014 mandated a public inventory of all structures at risk of damage or collapse in an earthquake. City inspectors identified 13,500 soft-story buildings they felt needed strengthening. Shortly thereafter, a law passed, requiring these seismic retrofits.
Los Angeles property owners are given seven years to fix wood apartments and 25 years to strengthen concrete buildings—and they have to cover the costs. With price tags ranging from hundreds of thousands for wood apartments and millions for concrete towers, commercial property owners are scrambling for ways to finance these upgrades without sacrificing their livelihood.
How to Pay for Seismic Retrofits
The L.A. City Council agreed in 2016 that renters and building owners must equally share the financial burden of earthquake retrofitting. Initially, L.A. housing law allowed landlords to increase rent up to $75 per month to help cover costs, but that amount was soon decreased to $38 per month over 10 years.
With the estimated cost of retrofitting a six-unit, soft story building ranging from $30,000 to $60,000, many building owners are left searching for supplementary financing. Some property owners are turning to PACE financing for the answer.
PACE, or property assessed clean energy, is a financing option that enables property owners to make energy efficiency and renewable upgrades, and in some areas, water conservation and storm protection – now it includes seismic upgrades. This financing is incorporated into property taxes and repaid over the long term.
With PACE, a landlord can access financing for no money upfront, and spread out the cost of a seismic retrofit over decades.
Earthquake liability is a serious concern. Procrastinating on retrofits can leave a property owner negligent in the event of an earthquake.
Read the next article in this seismic series, which focuses on how to prevent or reduce devastating losses while increasing tenant safety.
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