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Robert Mueller will save America like ‘Batman,’ former FBI colleague says
By Ruth Brown
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller III Getty Images
Roger Stone vows to file $25M defamation suit against NY congressman
Time to call in a special counsel on Hunter and Joe Biden: Goodwin
Robert Mueller's new exclusive interview has no questions about Russia probe
Carter Page files $75M suit against FBI, DOJ, others over ‘unlawful surveillance’
Holy congressional probe!
Former FBI chief Robert Mueller is the hero America needs to investigate Russia’s meddling into the 2016 presidential election, his former second-in-charge said Sunday.
“A line in New York would be Batman’s back to save Gotham, but I think in this case, Batman is back to save America,” Timothy Murphy told John Catsimatidis during an interview on “The Cats Roundtable.”
Murphy served as the agency’s deputy director under Mueller, who was named as a special counsel in the investigation this week, following James Comey’s ouster as FBI director.
Murphy insisted any investigation headed by his old boss “is not going to be a witch hunt” because he is a man of “unquestionable integrity.”
He was careful to add that Comey is also a man of great integrity, but also that there was “a sigh of relief” at the FBI and among the public at large after Mueller was appointed to oversee the probe.
“To have someone come in and independently oversee this investigation was a brilliant move,” said Murphy, who worked at the FBI from 1988 to 2011.
Mueller led the FBI in the particularly tough years after 9/11, and is still highly respected as a tough but fair leader, Murphy said.
“I have already received a number of calls, resumes, a number of people volunteering to leave what they are currently doing to come be on Robert Mueller’s team,” he said.
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HomeReMixesThe Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons "Seeds in the Frost"
ReMix: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons "Seeds in the Frost" 2:41
By RebeccaETripp
classical folk new-age brass chromatic-percussion flute harp oboe woodwinds chill suspenseful
Arranging the music of one song...
"Temple Remains"
Primary Game: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Nintendo, 2001, GBC), music by Minako Adachi
Posted 2018-05-02, evaluated by the judges panel
A shorter piece from Rebecca E. Tripp today, offering an Oracle of Seasons interlude with a chill blend of classical, folk, and new age flavors, leaning heavily on woodwinds:
"This is my arrangement for the song "Temple Ruins" from Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. The original composers for the OoS and OoA soundtracks were Kiyohiro Sada and Minako Adachi. I'm a huge fan of both OSTs! The original track is fairly simple, but I decided to add a lot of layers and try to increase the sense of mystery, beauty and danger present in that part of the game."
The source here is relatively brief, and Rebecca does a solid job extrapolating & permutating; Sir_NutS writes:
"It's not very easy to make a full song out of such a short melody, and it shows she really tried not make the remix feel overly loopy, as every repetition is different from the one that came before, there's a lot of layering of instruments and melodies and the theme is expanded upon mid-way through."
While there's no verbatim repetition & things evolve, there was probably room for a breakdown, solo, or deviation from the same structure, which could have made the arrangement feel more like a complete "song"/experience, but it still sets a lovely stage; Gario concurs:
"The orchestration is quite good, and the production is up to your normally high standards, so it's still a clean pass from me. Nice work."
It's important to note that not every featured (i.e. approved) mix HAS to have a full, traditional song structure, and we have plenty that don't, so it's not a requirement, it just tends to help many arrangements feel like more developed ideas with more contrast & variation. This is a more ambient, environmental piece, which probably explains the comparatively short duration relative to Rebecca's other mixes, and I kinda dig that - it represents good variety within her own body of work. Short, sweet, & transporting!
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Latest 3 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
Ybrik Metaknight
How interesting that I get a pretty heavy Secret of Mana vibe from this mix! Maybe it's just Rebecca's usual style shining through; her mixes always lend themselves to the same feel that Kikuta's two Seiken Densetsu soundtracks often had for me.
At any rate, this is some very enjoyable treatment of a relatively obscure Zelda piece. Nice Work!
evktalo
I'm slowly playing through Oracle of Seasons for the first time - I haven't made it this far in the game, but it feels like I recognize the vibe. I tremendously enjoy the unusual acoustic small ensemble. I like the flute bends, though the one at 0:19 feels like an off-key note unless I'm listening very carefully (I mean, I don't really hear the bend very well as it is masked by another note).
To comment on the comments about structure, personally I quite often like to-the-point structures that pack their punch, or even ones that feel deliberately "incomplete". In this case.. the arrangement is short enough that it does not need a break for the listener inside it. No intro nor outro either to ease you in or out, it just delivers direct from start to finish. The ending is abrupt, but to me it leaves behind a sense of wondering.
Track like this often works in a larger context, where this piece, what comes before, and what comes after, make for a greater than the sum of their parts. For me this track is fine on its own - you can add your own silence before and after, but it probably does not work that well in a random or not-carefully-selected playlist or stream.
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Primary Game:
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Nintendo, 2001, GBC)
Music by Minako Adachi
Classical, Folk, New Age
Chill, Suspenseful
Brass, Chromatic Percussion, Flute, Harp, Oboe, Woodwinds
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Cloud Foundry Foundation Gains SUSE as New Member, Collaborator
by Ostatic Staff - Nov. 03, 2015
With .NET Shared Between Them, Microsoft and Red Hat Get Cozy
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Cloud Foundry Foundation, positioned as a global standard creator for open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and cloud applications, announced its launch as an independent nonprofit foundation late last year, and is run by a very well-known open source leader as its CEO: Sam Ramji (shown here).
The foundation has steadily been adding members that can advance its cause, and the latest organization to join on is SUSE. In addition to joining, SUSE announced it will collaborate with SAP on the Cloud Foundry Foundation's BOSH OpenStack Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) project to help enable Cloud Foundry users to more easily run applications of their choice on public or private clouds.
"SUSE is committed to working together with the other Cloud Foundry Foundation members to develop enterprise-grade solutions for customers and expanding the ways SUSE OpenStack Cloud can increase their opportunities for business success," said Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager of SUSE.
Earlier this year, we interviewed Sam Ramji regarding the foundation's work. He said:
"Companies everywhere are having to make software and cloud services part of their core competencies. Every one of them needs to leverage applications from a limited supply of application developers. So for an open source project to efficiently gather good developers to create code that they can all share —that’s a big core benefit.”
Cloud Foundry is managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project and operates under a system of open governance created by a team of open source experts from founding Platinum Members EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Pivotal, SAP and VMware.
The SAP-led Cloud Foundry OpenStack CPI project aims to improve the ease with which Cloud Foundry communicates with underlying OpenStack infrastructure, whether the cloud is public or private. The goal is to help simplify application testing and deployment for a wide range of cloud users. SUSE says that it will collaborate closely with SAP to help ensure the cloud provider interface supports OpenStack infrastructure.
"As long-time partners, SAP has worked with SUSE to bring enterprise-class products to the Linux market via solutions such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications," said Björn Goerke, executive vice president and corporate officer, SAP Product & Innovation Technology, SAP SE. "As customers increasingly move to cloud technologies, we look forward to collaborating with SUSE to help tightly integrate Cloud Foundry with OpenStack."
For additional information on SUSE OpenStack Cloud, visit www.suse.com/cloud.
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Archaeology & Fossils
Underwater excavation reveals lost Levantine village
by Flinders University
Dr Benjamin (left) and the Haifa University team clear away mobile sands covering the excavation site. Credit: J. McCarthy.
A 7,500-year-old underwater water well that has been partially excavated from a site on Israel's Mediterranean coast near Haifa will give important insights into the Neolithic society that once lived there.
Flinders University maritime archaeologist Jonathan Benjamin was part of the team that excavated and recorded the site in October under the leadership of Dr Ehud Galili, a world-renowned expert in submerged prehistory and a senior maritime archaeologist at the Israel Antiques Authority and the University of Haifa.
Submerged under five metres of water due to prehistoric sea-level rise, the excavated structure was an important water well that supplied fresh water to the ancient civilisation dated to the pre-pottery Neolithic period that lived on the Kfar Samir site, near Haifa, Israel.
"Water wells are valuable to Neolithic archaeology because once they stopped serving their intended purpose, people used them as big rubbish bins," Dr Benjamin, a leading expert in prehistoric underwater archaeology, says.
"This is superb for archaeologists because it means we can look through the refuse of prehistoric societies – including animal bones, plant fibres and tools – to see how these ancient civilisations lived, how they hunted and what they ate," he says.
"At the Kfar Samir site, the water well was probably abandoned when sea levels started to rise and the freshwater became salty so people threw food scraps and animal bones down the well instead."
After shifting several tonnes of mobile sand covering the well, the team took core samples that are currently being analysed for pollen and sediments. It is hoped the results will shed light on the early Mediterranean diet and trade of the prehistoric village.
"As they were a pre-metal society we expect to find stone tools; perhaps weapons made of flint, and needles made of bone," Dr Benjamin says.
"We're also hoping to find organic material such as plant fibers, seeds and evidence of domestic crops such as olive stones that we can date.
"Previous excavations suggest this is likely the world's oldest olive oil production centre and while it's too early to tell what we've sampled from this small excavation, the preliminary results are promising."
Using cutting-edge photogrammetry techniques to create a kind of "3D mosaic", Dr Benjamin is also in the process of generating a 3D model of the well along with fellow collaborator and world-leading expert John McCarthy of Wessex Archaeology (UK).
"We had to take photos in a special way, swimming around the well in a controlled and deliberate manner in order to get full coverage for a high-resolution data set.
"Photogrammetry is not just about creating a pretty picture – for maritime archaeologists it's a tool that we can use to study the site and make archaeological interpretations. We can spend a few minutes under water, but hours on land analysing the material in very fine detail.
"The technique is not new in theory, but only very recently has the technology caught up to allow us to use it underwater, which we have with exceptional results. This is a wonderful tool for underwater archaeological site recording."
While the scale of the Neolithic village and its occupants remain a mystery, Dr Benjamin hopes to continue working with Haifa University to unlock more pieces of the puzzle.
"We hope Flinders' Archaeology Department and University of Haifa will work together in the future to unlock the full history of the site – our relationship is great, the research is world-class and the facilities at the University of Haifa are well equipped for this endeavour."
The excavation, which was founded by The Honor Frost Foundation, was a joint collaboration effort of Dr Benjamin and Dr Galili and Dr Deborah Cvikel from the University of Haifa.
As part of the two-week expedition, Dr Benjamin and Dr Galili also led field excursions to identify prehistoric sea-level markers during project MEDFLOOD, which is funded by the International Union for Quaternary Science.
"Israel is a great place to look at sea-level change because there are markers from 125,000 years ago on land, when sea levels were higher, but also because sea levels are constantly changing over time there are areas offshore with prehistoric coastal villages buried up to 12 metres deep, and possibly more, older material even deeper offshore.
"For history and archaeology, the Levantine coast is absolutely world-class and it's contribution to world prehistory simply cannot be ignored."
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Kátia Catulo | October 15, 2020
We need to break down barriers so that electric mobility can reach all of Europe
To ensure cross-border continuity implies that every country is aligned in its policies, warn managers debating public and private roles in the electric charging network.
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When the challenge is to accelerate electric mobility towards de-carbonization, the public and private sector will have to be “two sides of one coin”, warns Luís Barros, CEO of MOBI.E. It’s a key issue that was immediately clear for the Portugal Mobi Summit guests who debated the evolution of the charging infrastructure. “Therefore, no one will be able to work alone if the goal is to build an integrated network capable of responding to the huge demand of electric vehicles that it’s already happening and that will be growing even further”, defends António Coutinho, Executive Board Member of EDP Comercial
For this to be a fluid process, the most important thing to cooperate. And that means that in specific moments, both sides should be closely collaborating and there should be “circumstances in which the public supports the private”, underlines António Coutinho. In this point, sometimes the harmony between both sides can become unbalanced. Bureaucracy has also been preventing operators to grow at the same rhythm that the sales of electric vehicles, informed us the Executive Board Member of EDP Comercial. Licensing, certifications, long waiting compasses are some of the barriers that halt a process that needs to be simplified.
It’s a need felt by EDP Comercial, but it’s not the only one complaining. Martin Klässner, CEO of Has.To.Be, an Austrian company that is among the leaders in the market of electric charging, has his own experience to share: “It took us over a year to have the necessary licensing which allowed us to enter the Portuguese market”. It’s clear that something needs to change and not only in Portugal: “The electric mobility sector is not confined by borders, it travels from country to country, in the hope that services will keep being secured cross borders, such as it happens today with traditional refueling” underlines Has.To.Be’s CEO.
In a globalized world, there is no longer space for local markets and “centralization must come from Europe”, defends Christian Hahn, CEO of Hubject. It’s a vision that was already expected from him, taking into account that he leads a company present in over 50 international markets. Hubject, with headquarters in Berlin, is actually the result of a partnership between six different companies: BMW, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, RWE and Siemens.
The goal is to operate a data platform that will be useful for an integrated infrastructure for electric vehicles charging. All of that will be much more complicated if there isn’t a legal framework “adequate and common” to European countries: “There are different challenges to face in each country and that produces a halt in the electric sector”.
Ideally there should be a model of reference for everyone. And that could be an ambition for Portugal, believes Luís Barroso. “Although we are all learning to deal with these new realities, I am convinced that our experience could open paths abroad” says the President of MOBI.E – an entity that manages the electric mobility network. There are mainly three factors that play in favor of the Portuguese model: “One charging network available for all operators and the role of a well regulated public-private partnership are the bases for a centralized system, that promotes competition and stimulates innovation”.
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Fewer and fewer are entering the construction industry, and Minnesota ranks as the 20th state in terms of the youth of their construction workers.
"As fewer young people enter the industry, the share of older construction workers has increased. Compared to 2009, there were 330,000 fewer construction workers aged 20 to 29 in 2019, while there were 312,000 more workers aged 60 or older. While there isn’t one obvious reason for these changes, industry experts point to the decline in high school vocational programs and that construction firms hired fewer young people during the Great Recession—changes that have prevented young workers from gaining experience in the industry."
According to the site Construction Coverage, the analysis found that Minnesota's average age of construction worker is 40 years old, and in total, only 22.8% of construction workers in the state were under the age of 30. Here are the latest stats from Minnesota.
Median age of construction workers: 40
Share of construction workers under 30: 22.8%
Share of construction workers over 50: 28.6%
Total construction workers in the labor force: 132,515
Here are averages from the entire country:
Total construction workers in the labor force: 8,391,622
"To find the states with the youngest and oldest construction workers in the U.S., researchers at Construction Coverage analyzed the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The researchers ranked states according to the median age of construction workers. Researchers also calculated the share of construction workers under 30, the share of construction workers over 50, and the total number of construction workers in the labor force."
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Separating employment from pensions and benefits, working longer to tame longevity risk, and expanding financial literacy will be critical, says Wharton’s Olivia S. Mitchell.
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Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“If your parents ever measured you as a child, they had you stand against a wall, and made a little pencil mark on the wall to show your growth. They did not measure you against your brother, or the neighbor’s kids, or kids on TV. When you measure your growth, make sure to only measure your today self by your past self. If you compare your relationships, your success, or your anything against anyone else, you are not being fair to you. Everyone has a different path, a different pace, and different challenges to face along the way.”
— Doe Zantamata
… that today is the birthday of the Airport Hotel? The first airport hotel, the Oakland Airport Inn, opened in Oakland, California, on this day in 1929. Trivia fans: Today, the building that housed the Oakland Airport Inn is home to the Amelia Earhart Senior Squadron 188, a local unit of the Civil Air Patrol.
These pandemic phrases could help on holiday abroad this summer | Northumberland Gazette
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What’s your story? by Seth Godin via his newsletter
If you care about it, it’s probably a story.
Whether you did well on the job interview. The results of your work to find resources to feed the hungry. Your efforts to engage with your teenagers…
We remember Bastille Day, not because we were there, but because the story resonates with us. We vote for candidates because of their stories, and shop at stores that have a story that resonates with us. And it’s a story that determines how people react to an emergency in their town.
The last time we took action on an idea, extended ourselves for a friend, and perhaps encouraged ourselves to launch a new project–these happened because the story worked.
And it’s possible to tell a better story.
It’s on us. We need to learn how to hear stories, figure out which ones are resonating, and do the difficult and urgent work to make our stories more effective.
Because if we care about it, it’s worth doing better.
There are techniques worth learning and doing the work with others on a similar journey is a powerful shortcut to doing it well. We’re relaunching the Story Skills Workshop with bestselling author Bernadette Jiwa today. It’s not only a place to share your story but it’s a place to learn how to do it better. It’s one of our most popular workshops because it’s proven and because it works. [Look for the purple circle on that page for a time-sensitive discount].
Ashio Copper Mine – Nikko, Japan – Atlas Obscura
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Experts Say China Hid Spyware in Mandatory Tax Software
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Scientists Stored “The Wizard of Oz” on a Strand of DNA
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Hatshepsut’s Myrrh Tree – Luxor, Egypt – Atlas Obscura
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Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress | Psyche Ideas
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1997 – Four Australians died and 70 were injured when a bridge collapsed at the 15th Maccabiah Games
HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1544 – England’s King Henry VIII crosses to Calais to join Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in a campaign against France’s King Francis I in Picardy.
1690 – Seven French privateers capture the New England islands of Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island.
1789 – Citizens of Paris storm and capture the Bastille prison and release prisoners, marking the start of French Revolution.
1798 – The US Congress passes the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the government.
1865 – Edward Whymper leads the first team of climbers to reach the summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps at a height of 4477 metres.
1867 – Explosives manufacturer Alfred Nobel first demonstrates his invention, dynamite, at a quarry in the UK.
1881 – William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, the reputed killer of 27 men, is shot dead aged 21 by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
1918 – The French troop-carrying liner Djemnah is sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean. Some 442 people die.
1933 – German political parties other than Nazis are suppressed, and a law is passed that provides for the sterilisation of two million people deemed unfit for reproduction.
1934 – The oil pipeline between Mosul, Iraq, and Tripoli, Lebanon, is opened.
1940 – The Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1958 – Iraq’s King Feisal and Premier Nuri-Es-Said are assassinated in a Baghdad coup, and King Hussein assumes power as head of the Arab Federation.
1994 – The UN Security Council urges the world to aid the estimated 250,000 Hutu refugees from Rwanda crushed into Goma, Zaire.
1997 – Four Australian athletes die and more than 70 are injured after a temporary bridge collapses during opening ceremonies for the Maccabiah Games near Tel Aviv, Israel.
1998 – Death of Richard McDonald, who pioneered the fast-food concept that evolved into McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain, aged 89.
1999 – Argentina and the Falkland Islands end a 17-year stand-off, resuming air links severed after the Falklands war.
2002 – A deranged neo-Nazi fires a rifle shot in an attempt to assassinate President Jacques Chirac during France’s Bastille Day parade. The man is quickly subdued and the march continues.
2004 – Prime Minister Tony Blair is cleared of tricking Britain into invading Iraq.
2005 – US scientists announce they have detected a planet outside our solar system with not one, but three suns, a finding that challenges astronomers’ theories of planet formation.
2006 – Jaroslaw Kaczynski is sworn in as Poland’s prime minister by his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski.
2007 – The Los Angeles archdiocese reaches a $US660 million settlement with more than 500 alleged victims of clergy sex abuse.
2010 – An Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared for a year heads back to Tehran, telling Iranian state media he was abducted by CIA agents, but the US says he was a willing defector who changed his mind.
2012 – UN observers investigating a reported mass killing in the Syrian village of Tremish find pools of blood in homes and spent bullets, mortar and artillery shells.
2013 – Mexican marines capture Miguel Trevino Morales, considered the country’s most vicious and violent drug lord, who led the Los Zetas criminal gang.
2014 – Alice Coachman Davis, the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, dies at the age of 90.
2015 – Indonesia slashes its quarterly Australian cattle imports from 250,000 to 50,000, the Abbott government insisting it’s a trade matter but the opposition pointing to the relationship after Jakarta executed two drug smugglers and Canberra turned back asylum seeker boats.
2016 – A 19-tonne cargo truck is deliberately driven into crowds in the French city of Nice by a lone terrorist, killing 86 people and injuring more than 430 others, including three Australians.
2017 – Australia’s dual citizenship parliamentary crisis is sparked when Greens Senator Scott Ludlam announces he is leaving federal parliament after discovering he is a dual citizen of New Zealand.
2018 – Nancy Sinatra, the first wife and childhood sweetheart of Frank Sinatra, dies at the age of 101.
2019 – In the longest men’s Wimbledon final ever, Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer in four hours and 57 minutes.
Today in history India 14 July | On this day special in history in india
Famous people that have birthdays on this day in history 14 July
1945-Shiv Nadar,Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist.
1950-Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao, mechanical engineer, billionaire industrialist, the founder chairman of GMR Group.
1954-R. Sarathkumar, Indian film actor, politician, journalist and former body builder and former president of the South Indian Film Artistes’ Association.
1954-Tanikella Bharani,Indian film actor, screenwriter, script writer, poet, theatre actor, playwright and director predominant in Telugu cinema.
1958-Shrikant Joshi, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of L&T Realty.
1971-Madhu Sapre, Indian supermodel from Maharashtra.
1971-Pankaj Bhadouria, winner of MasterChef India Season 1.
1976-Vishal Gondal, Indian entrepreneur and angel investor.
Today in history India 14 July
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Famous people that had birthdays on this day in history 14 July
1794-Krishnaraja Wadiyar III was the twenty-second maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore.
1854-Mahendranath Gupta was a disciple of Ramakrishna and a great mystic himself.
1856-Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was an Indian social reformer, educationist, and thinker from Maharashtra, India.
1893-Garimella Satyanarayana was a poet and freedom fighter of Andhra Pradesh, India.
1920-Shankarrao Chavan was an Indian politician who served twice as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 .
1936-Upendra Trivedi was an Indian film and stage actor, director and producer who was one of the most prolific actors of Gujarati cinema.
1937-Sudha Shivpuri was an Indian actress who was most famous for her role as Baa in the Hindi TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.
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Famous people that have death anniversaries on this day in history 14 July
1663-Sivananda Saraswati was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta.
1936-Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928.
1971-Syed Mohammad Hadi was one of the most gifted pioneering athletes of India.
1985-Acharya D P Ghosh was an Indian mathematician, linguist, lawyer, journalist, educationist and statesman.
2008-Y. V. Chandrachud was the 16th Chief Justice of India, serving from 22 February 1978.
Today in history India 14 July – Events that took place on this day in history 14 July
1636-Aurangzeb was appointed the Viceroy of Deccan by his father and Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.
1663-Hindu spiritual teacher, Swami Shivanand Saraswati passed away.
1942- British Quit India resolution is passed by the Congress Working Committee.
1992-The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of Jammu & Kashmir.
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Today in History: writer & naturalist Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-12/?loclr=fbloc
Today in History – July 13, 2020 – News – telegram.com – Worcester, MA
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This Cake Artist Makes Confectionery Look Like Classical Paintings – Gastro Obscura
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The king of Haiti and the dilemmas of freedom in a colonised world | Aeon Essays
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” Zohnerism ” AND WhatsApp Viral University.
” Zohnerism ” – That’s what we generally go through on TV news channels.
Why we need to avoid watching too much of breaking news & panel discussions on Indian TV news channels nowadays! Especially local channels.
The notorious concept of Zohnerism
Zohnerism – all about twisting of simple facts to confuse people.
In 1997, 14-year-old Nathan Zohner presented his science fair project to his classmates, seeking to ban a highly toxic chemical from it’s everyday use.
The chemical in question? Dihydrogen monoxide.
Throughout his presentation, Zohner provided his audience scientifically correct evidence as to why this chemical should be banned.
He explained that dihydrogen monoxide:
—–Causes severe burns in while it’s in gas form
—–Corrodes and rusts metal
—–Kills countless amounts of people annually
—–Is commonly found in tumors, acid rain, etc.
—–Causes excessive urination and bloating if consumed
—–Zohner also noted that the chemical is able to kill you if you depend on it and then experience an extended withdrawal.
He then asked his classmates if they actually wanted to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
And so 43 out of the 50 children present voted to ban this clearly toxic chemical.
However…this chemical isn’t typically considered toxic at all.
In fact, dihydrogen monoxide is simply an unconventional name for water.
Nathan Zohner’s experiment wasn’t a legitimate attempt to ban water, but instead, an experiment to get a representation of how gullible people can really be.
Also, all of the points that Zohner used to convey his point were 100% factually correct; he just skewed all of the information in his favor by omitting certain facts.
In recognition of his experiment, journalist James K. Glassman coined the term “Zohnerism” to refer to “the use of a true fact to lead a scientifically and mathematically ignorant public to a false conclusion”.
And this occurs a lot more often than you think, especially when politicians, conspiracy theorists, etc., use proven facts to persuade people into believing false claims.
The fact that people can mislead, and be misled so easily, is highly unsettling.
P. S – A very meaningful sensible WhatsApp forward that applies to today’s world more than anytime before.
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Ariel Waldman: The colorful critter world of microbes in Antarctica | TED Talk
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Reading Gita
मय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयः ।
असंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु ॥
भावार्थ : श्री भगवान बोले- हे पार्थ! अनन्य प्रेम से मुझमें आसक्त चित तथा अनन्य भाव से मेरे परायण होकर योग में लगा हुआ तू जिस प्रकार से सम्पूर्ण विभूति, बल, ऐश्वर्यादि गुणों से युक्त, सबके आत्मरूप मुझको संशयरहित जानेगा, उसको सुन॥1॥
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Breviloquent
brə-VIL-ə-kwent
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: Latin, mid-19th century
(of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words; concise.
Examples of Breviloquent in a sentence
“Usually he was breviloquent, but he went into great detail when describing his favorite book.”
“If you find it hard to be breviloquent, ask someone to edit your paper before submitting it for a grade.”
14 Coronavirus myths busted by science | Live Science
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As the novel coronavirus continues to infect people around the world, news articles and social media posts about the outbreak continue to spread online. Unfortunately, this relentless flood of information can make it difficult to separate fact from fiction — and during a viral outbreak, rumors and misinformation can be dangerous.
Here at Live Science, we’ve compiled a list of the most pervasive myths about the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, the disease it causes, and explained why these rumors are misleading, or just plain wrong.
Myth: The virus is just a mutated form of the common cold
No, it’s not. Coronavirus is a large family of viruses that includes many different diseases. SARS-CoV-2 does share similarities with other coronaviruses, four of which can cause the common cold. All five viruses have spiky projections on their surfaces and utilize so-called spike proteins to infect host cells. However, the four cold coronaviruses — named 229E, NL63, OC43 and HKU1 — all utilize humans as their primary hosts. SARS-CoV-2 shares about 90% of its genetic material with coronaviruses that infect bats, which suggests that the virus originated in bats and later hopped to humans.
Evidence suggests that the virus passed through an intermediate animal before infecting humans. Similarly, the SARS virus jumped from bats to civets (small, nocturnal mammals) on its way into people, whereas MERS infected camels before spreading to humans.
Myth: The virus was probably made in a lab
No evidence suggests that the virus is man-made. SARS-CoV-2 closely resembles two other coronaviruses that have triggered outbreaks in recent decades, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, and all three viruses seem to have originated in bats. In short, the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 fall in line with what we know about other naturally occurring coronaviruses that made the jump from animals to people.
A study published March 17 in the journal Nature Medicine also provided strong evidence against the “engineered in a lab” idea. The study found that a key part of SARS-CoV-2, known as the spike protein, would almost certainly have emerged in nature and not as a lab creation, Live Science previously reported. What’s more, if scientists were trying to use computer models to engineer a deadly virus based on the original SARS virus, they likely would not have chosen the mutations that actually appear in SARS-CoV-2. That’s because computer simulations show that mutations in SARS-CoV-2 don’t seem to work very well at helping the virus bind to human cells, Live Science previously reported. But it turns out, nature is smarter than scientists, and the novel coronavirus found a way to mutate that was better — and completely different— from anything scientists could have predicted or created, the study found.
Myth: Pets can spread the new coronavirus
Although pets may contract COVID-19 in rare cases, there is no evidence they can spread it to people.
There have been a few reports of cats and dogs that became infected with COVID-19 after contact with their sick owner. For example, in April, two pet cats in New York tested positive for COVID-19, and the owner of one of these cats was confirmed to have COVID-19 before the cat showed symptoms, Live Science previously reported.
Even if pets do occasionally become infected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says there is no evidence that they are playing a significant role in the spread of the virus. And so far, there have been no confirmed reports of people contracting the disease from pets.
Just in case, the CDC recommends that people with COVID-19 have someone else walk and care for their companion animals while they are sick. And people should always wash their hands after snuggling with animals anyway, as companion pets can spread other diseases to people, according to the CDC.
Myth: Kids can’t catch the coronavirus
Children can definitely catch COVID-19, although reports of serious illness in children are rare.
A CDC study of more than 1.3 million cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. from January through May found that the rate of confirmed infections in children under age 9 was 52 cases per 100,000 people in that population of children; that’s compared with an average of 400 cases (of any age) per 100,000 people in the U.S. population as a whole.
Another CDC study found that among 52,000 reported COVID-19 deaths from February through May, just 16 deaths were reported in people under age 18.
Still, not all children are spared from COVID-19. In rare cases, children with a current or previous COVID-19 infection have developed so-called multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). Symptoms of this syndrome can vary, but patients seem to have symptoms similar to those found in two rare conditions: toxic shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease, Live Science previously reported. Toxic shock syndrome is a life-threatening condition that’s caused by toxins produced by certain types of bacteria; Kawasaki disease is a childhood illness that causes inflammation in blood vessel walls, and in serious cases can cause heart damage.
In a study published June 29 in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers described 186 cases of MIS-C in 26 states. Of these, nearly 90% required hospitalization, 80% were admitted to the intensive care unit and 2% died, the authors reported.
Myth: If you have coronavirus, “you’ll know”
No, you won’t. COVID-19 causes a wide range of symptoms, many of which appear in other respiratory illnesses such as the flu and the common cold. Specifically, common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, headache, sore throat, muscle or body aches, difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting. In severe cases, the disease can progress into a serious pneumonia-like illness — but early on, infected people may show no symptoms at all.
And some people never develop symptoms. Exactly how common asymptomatic cases are is still being determined, although the CDC estimates it may be around 40% of cases.
If you have underlying conditions and milder symptoms of the disease, you should seek medical attention at the nearest hospital, experts told Live Science.
Myth: The coronavirus is less deadly than the flu
Though the death rate for COVID-19 is unclear, almost all credible research suggests it is much higher than that of the seasonal flu, which has a death rate of around 0.1% in the U.S., Live Science previously reported.
Among reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S., about 4% have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. This is what’s known as the case fatality rate, which is determined by dividing the number of deaths by the total number of confirmed cases. But the case fatality rate is limited for a few reasons. First, not everyone with COVID-19 is being diagnosed with the disease — this is in part due to testing limitations in the U.S. and the fact that people who experience mild or moderate symptoms may not seek out testing. As the number of confirmed cases goes up, the fatality rate may decrease.
Many studies estimate that around 0.5% to 1% of people infected with COVID-19 will die from the disease, according to Nature News. Even a death rate around 1% is still 10 times higher than that of the flu.
It’s also important to note that estimates of flu illnesses and deaths from the CDC are just that — estimates (which make certain assumptions) rather than raw numbers. (The CDC does not know the exact number of people who become sick with or die from the flu each year in the U.S. Rather, this number is estimated based on data collected on flu hospitalizations through surveillance in 13 states.) Researchers emphasized this point in a recent paper published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, describing how they found that, in the U.S., there were 20 times more deaths per week from COVID-19 than from the flu in the deadliest week of an average influenza season, Live Science previously reported.
Myth: Vitamin C supplements will stop you from catching COVID-19
Researchers have yet to find any evidence that vitamin C supplements can render people immune to COVID-19 infection. In fact, for most people, taking extra vitamin C does not even ward off the common cold, though it may shorten the duration of a cold if you catch one.
That said, vitamin C serves essential roles in the human body and supports normal immune function. As an antioxidant, the vitamin neutralizes charged particles called free radicals that can damage tissues in the body. It also helps the body synthesize hormones, build collagen and seal off vulnerable connective tissue against pathogens.
So yes, vitamin C should absolutely be included in your daily diet if you want to maintain a healthy immune system. But megadosing on supplements is unlikely to lower your risk of catching COVID-19, and may at most give you a “modest” advantage against the virus, should you become infected. No evidence suggests that other so-called immune-boosting supplements — such as zinc, green tea or echinacea — help to prevent COVID-19, either.
Be wary of products being advertised as treatments or cures for the new coronavirus. Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have already issued warning letters to seven companies for selling fraudulent products that promise to cure, treat or prevent the viral infection.
Myth: It’s not safe to receive a package from China
It is safe to receive letters or packages from China, according to the World Health Organization. Previous research has found that coronaviruses don’t survive long on objects such as letters and packages. Based on what we know about similar coronaviruses such as MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, experts think this new coronavirus likely survives poorly on surfaces.
A past study found that these related coronaviruses can stay on surfaces such as metal, glass or plastic for as long as nine days, according to a study published Feb. 6 in The Journal of Hospital Infection. But the surfaces present in packaging are not ideal for the virus to survive.
For a virus to remain viable, it needs a combination of specific environmental conditions such as temperature, lack of UV exposure and humidity — a combination you won’t get in shipping packages, according to Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who spoke with Live Science’s sister site Tom’s Hardware.
And so “there is likely very low risk of spread from products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient temperatures,” according to the CDC. “Currently, there is no evidence to support transmission of COVID-19 associated with imported goods, and there have not been any cases of COVID-19 in the United States associated with imported goods.” Rather, the coronavirus is thought to be most commonly spread through respiratory droplets.
Myth: You can get the coronavirus if you eat at Chinese restaurants in the US
No, you can’t. By that logic, you’d also have to avoid Italian, Korean, Japanese and Iranian restaurants, given that those countries have also been facing an outbreak. The new coronavirus doesn’t just affect people of Chinese descent.
Myth: Drinking bleach or other disinfectants can protect you from COVID-19
You absolutely should not drink bleach or other household disinfectants, and you should also not spray them on your body. These substances are poisonous if ingested, and they can also cause damage to the skin and eyes, according to the World Health Organization.
When ingested, sodium hypochlorite (household bleach) can cause what is called “liquefactive necrosis,” or a process that results in the transformation of tissue into a liquid viscous mass, Live Science previously reported. The bleach can also damage cells as the sodium reacts with proteins and fats in a person’s tissues in a process called saponification (soap), medical doctors reported in 2018 in a publication by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association.
Alarmingly, nearly 4 in 10 American adults in a recent survey reported engaging in dangerous cleaning practices to prevent COVID-19, such as washing food with bleach, using household disinfecting products on their skin or intentionally inhaling vapors from cleaning products, Live Science previously reported.
Myth: Drinking alcohol and eating garlic can protect you from COVID-19
Consuming certain foods, such as alcohol or garlic, will not protect you from the new coronavirus. Although alcohol-based hand sanitizers work to disinfect your skin, alcohol does not have this effect on your body when it is ingested, according to WHO. Indeed, heavy use of alcohol can actually weaken your immune system and reduce your body’s ability to cope with infectious diseases. And although garlic may have some antimicrobial properties, there is no evidence that it can protect against COVID-19, WHO says.
Myth: 5G networks can spread the new coronavirus
Viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, cannot travel on or transmit through radio waves or mobile networks such as 5G networks, according to WHO. The new coronavirus is spread mainly through respiratory droplets that are expelled when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks, as well as through contaminated surfaces. WHO also notes that COVID-19 has been spreading in countries that do not have 5G mobile networks.
Myth: Exposure to high temperatures prevents COVID-19
Exposing yourself to the sun or warm temperatures will not protect you against COVID-19, according to WHO. You can still catch the disease no matter how hot it is — indeed, the virus is spreading even in areas with very hot weather, such as Arizona. Taking a hot bath will also not prevent COVID-19, WHO says.
Myth: Wearing masks can cause CO2 poisoning
In a new visualization, researchers simulated a cough, which appears as a glowing green vapor flowing from a mannequin’s mouth. The visualizations shows that face masks dramatically reduce the spread of cough droplet particles, from 12 feet without a mask to just a few inches with a mask. (Image credit: Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science)
Wearing medical masks for long periods may be uncomfortable for some, but it does not cause oxygen deficiency or carbon dioxide (CO2) intoxication (when too much CO2 builds up in the bloodstream), according to WHO. The same applies for N95 masks and cloth face coverings, according to Healthline.
“Rebreathing tiny amounts of CO2 from wearing either properly fitted N95 respirators or more loosely fitted cloth or surgical masks is of no concern for the vast, vast majority of people,” Darrell Spurlock Jr., the director of the Leadership Center for Nursing Education Research at Widener University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. “The ‘dose’ of CO2 we might rebreathe while masking is quickly and easily eliminated by both the respiratory and metabolic systems in the body.”
When you wear a mask, you should make sure it has a snug fit but allows you to breathe normally, WHO says.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflected updated knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in children.
Tia Ghose, Yasemin Saplakoglu, Nicoletta Lanese, Rachael Rettner and Jeanna Bryner contributed to this article.
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Palestine Foundation says credit goes to Islamic resistance for release of prisoners from Zionist jails
Palestine Foundation of Pakistan has congratulated the Muslims across the world and in particular the families for the release of the Palestinian prisoners from the jails of illegitimate state of Israel.
“The release of a number of Palestinian prisoners, imprisoned for long periods of time, forms a space of joy and hope to the people of our nation as well as to the Palestinian people, who suffer on a daily basis of imprisonment and continuous attacks of the occupation,” said a joint statement of the PLF Pakistan.
The PLF leaders namely Muzaffar Hashmi, Qazi Ahmed Noorani, Sabir Karbalai, Allama Sadiq Raza Taqvi, Mehfooz Yar Khan Advocate said in the joint statement that credit for the release goes solely to Islamic resistance such as Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
They said that Islamic resistance had got released many prisoners from the Zionist captivity by forcing them to do so in the past.
They said that one the one hand, Islamic resistance and their supporters fight the occupation but on the other hand some Arab rulers played proxy wars to benefit Israel that should stop at once.
The PLF officials also expressed concern over the inaction of United Nations to help Palestinians get their legitimate and inalienable rights. They said that had the United Nations played its active and leading role, the issue would have been sorted out.
They vowed that Pakistanis would continue to support Palestinians and their legitimate resistance till the liberation of whole of Palestine and establishment of free, independent and sovereign state of Palestine.
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NY State's promising new antitrust law: Senator Mike Gianaris will let the state step into the federal vacuum.
Ventilation vs covid: Survive winter with DIY HEPA filters plus over-indexed steam heaters.
Writers Guild vanquishes a major agency: ACM folded, WME and CAA next.
NY AG wants to dissolve NRA: "Rampant corruption" is not compatible with tax-charitable status.
Qanon is an ARG (pt II): The other Hon brother weighs in.
NY State's promising new antitrust law (permalink)
New York State Senator Mike Gianaris has introduced an important bill reforming the state's antitrust law, S8700A. The bill allows the state to take unilateral antitrust action against companies engaged in monopolistic conduct, without waiting for the feds.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s8700/amendment/a
Now, it's not as if the feds don't have the power to take action on market concentration, and it's not as if market concentration hasn't ruined competition is virtually every sector of the global economy.
Ronald Reagan's pet fabulist, Robert Bork, proposed an antitrust theory that held that the only time the DoJ should take antitrust action is when companies do anticompetitive actions that raise prices in the short term. Everything else was fair game.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#aaint
And every administration since – particularly Clinton – has doubled down on that plute-licking version of antitrust, with the effect that we are down to between 1-5 companies in virtually every industry.
And where the feds won't step in, states can. In California, the AG is taking on Google.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#feeling-lucky-punk
While in NY, you have a critical mass of hyperconsolidated finance, entertainment and telcoms companies.
The bill has real support, too.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/05/antitrust-bill-new-york-easier-to-sue-big-tech
This is gonna be fu-uuun.
(Image: paul_houle, CC BY-SA, modified)
Ventilation vs covid (permalink)
There's increasing medical consensus that indoor spread of covid takes place through floating aerosol particles. If your environs are warm and dry year round (like my place in San Fernando Valley) this militates a cautious shift to outdoor activities.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-masks-went-from-dont-wear-to-must-have/
But not everyone can be outdoors all the time. Some activities are necessarily indoors, while others will be shifted indoors by rain and cold (and wind, etc). There's preliminary evidence that good air filtration makes a big difference when you're inside.
Good HEPA systems for every room can cost $500+. That's a lot! Some experts, inspired by a study of improvised filters in Singapore as a means of filtering Indonesian wildfire smoke, are looking into $10 paper HEPA filters strapped to $27 box-fans.
https://www.wired.com/story/could-a-janky-jury-rigged-air-purifier-help-fight-covid-19/
These filters were found to capture 75% of 1-10μm particles! Wired's Adam Rogers talked to air-quality expert Richard Corsi from Maseeh College Engineering/Comp Sci, who started riffing on ways this design could be improved upon.
Of course, that's no magic bullet. You could improve the ventilation in your indoor spaces by opening a window, which is hard to do when it's really cold out.
As it turns out, there's one place that's really well-prepared for that exigency: New York City.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curious-history-of-steam-heat-and-pandemics
New York's infamously "over-indexed," sweltering steam heaters date back to the 1918 flu pandemic, when buildings were fitted with high-powered heating specifically so they could stay warm in winter, even with all their windows open to the elements (!).
That's the origin of the perennial New Yorker's lament that their apartments are turned into saunas every winter because their steam radiators have two settings: "off" and "broil."
What's more, steam radiators are basically indestructible and a LOT of New York's housing stock still uses these systems (though the boilers don't run on coal anymore).
This isn't much help to people who don't have this kind of heating, but we've already seen what happens in NYC when airborne diseases aren't confronted with sufficient vigor.
None of this is a replacement for a vaccine or therapeutic, but as harm-reduction strategies go, it's good to see this stuff enter the discourse. What's more, this is all early days, and there are probably some serious, easy gains yet to be won.
(Image: Jim Rosenthal)
Writers Guild vanquishes a major agency (permalink)
When we talk about market concentration in entertainment, we often default to the most visibly concentrated elements: one movie theater chain, four movie studios, one cable operator and one telco per region, five tech giants.
But there's another – incredibly salient – form of concentration that's invisible unless you're actually in the industry: consolidation in the talent agencies.
Private equity-backed rollups have turned a wild jungle of hundreds of agents and agencies into a manicured, ornamental hedge of four mega-agencies: WME, CAA, UTA and ICM.
Private equity is the most predatory form of capitalism extant, the end-product of generations of looters who distanced the financial economy from the real economy, until the best way to make money is to destroy real value.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-mind-forever-voyaging/#prop-bets
And when these eminently guillotinable wreckers took over the talent agencies, the got control over a critical bottleneck in entertainment production, the funnel that all creative laborers move through en route to production. Having control over a bottleneck, they squeezed.
The agencies started creating "packaging deals": when you hire a writer, they also find you a director, lead actors, and so on. And they skim a "packaging fee" off the top of the production, in addition to the commissions they earn from their clients.
This is a massive conflict of interest. Agencies could (tacitly) offer studios lower compensation for their clients in exchange for higher fees. The talent got less, the studios paid less, and the agencies made more.
The arts are a bizarre labor market, because people make art even in the absence of a rational expectation of return – arts production is motivated by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
When Samuel Johnson said "None but a blockhead ever wrote but for money," it was pure aspiration. Not even Johnson himself ever lived up to that standard!
This gives rise to highly exploitative relationships, where unscrupulous middle-men can charge money to artists for access to audiences (or even the promise of access, never delivered upon).
Predatory "vanity publishers," fake agents, and other grifters have bankrupted many a would-be artist.
To counter this tendency, writers are advised to stick to a rule of thumb that "money flows towards the artist."
That is, your publisher makes money from your creation, not fees you pay for publication. Your agent makes money from commissions on the publisher's royalties, not from a service charge to you.
Publishers and agents should never have side-deals that incentivize agents to accept less for you. This is incredibly obvious: agents argue your side in a negotiation with an entertainment company. They can't also be working for the entertainment company.
I mean… duh.
So when the big agencies started doing this packaging thing, writers got pissed. What's more, screenwriters are unionized, represented by (among others), the WGA. And they told the agents, fuck no, no way, cut this shit out.
And the private equity bosses running the agencies said fuck off, what are you all gonna do, fire your agents?
So every WGA member fired their agents.
That was in April 2018!
Most of the mid-sized agencies caved. But the action dragged on for YEARS, seemingly with no end in sight.
Then, last month, UTA caved.
And now, ICM has surrendered.
https://www.wga.org/members/membership-information/wga-agency-campaign/agency-campaign-update-agreement-with-icm
That just leaves CAA (who used to rep me) and WME (who currently do) as holdouts, still involved in both the labor action and an endless, slow-motion lawsuit.
This is a huge victory for the writers, but it's not really clear what'll happen next.
For one thing, there are all the writers who fired their agents and hired managers, went to mid-sized agencies, or used lawyers to rep them — will they go back?
Then there are writers like me: not in the Guild, but with enough option deals to need a screen agent.
As I understand it, if I ever get signed on to adapt any of my work on a union production, I'll have to join the Guild to work on it, and that means firing the agent who got the deal. It's a pretty weird situation!
And for the record, my agent is a hardworking, lovely person who gets my work and is great to work with. She's not a private equity baron.
For me, the ICM deal is a hopeful sign that CAA and WME will cave soon. Their biggest (former) clients can now sign with UTA or ICM, which should scare the shit out of the holdout agencies.
NY AG wants to dissolve NRA (permalink)
If you think about the NRA, you probably concentrate on the org's program activities: raising stupendous sums from terrified musketfuckers and spending them to lobby for the most lethally irresponsible firearms policies imaginable.
Which is understandable! Terrorizing ammosexuals is a pretty odious business, reliant on racist dog-whistles, conspiracy theories that victimize the parents of children slaughtered in school shootings, and so. much. red-baiting.
But the NRA isn't merely a terrorist organization. It's a terrorist organization with a business-model. That is, it's a grift. A way to funnel bedwetting gun-humpers' money into the pockets of mediocre sociopaths who run the org.
For years, the NRA has been mired in scandal, making lavish dispersals to its board of directors and execs:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nra-money-flowed-to-board-members-amid-allegedly-lavish-spending-by-top-officials-and-vendors/2019/06/09/3eafe160-8186-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html
And spending a fortune helping its president-for-life Wayne LaPierre buy a multimillion-dollar mansion is definitely not part of its "charitable purpose."
https://www.propublica.org/article/documents-show-nra-money-helped-chief-wayne-lapierre-search-personal-mansion
And because there is no honor among thieves, the NRA has also been roiled by internal brawls, as "internal coups" briefly displaced LaPierre and replaced him with (I shit you not) Oliver North, who was then swiftly deposed.
https://www.courthousenews.com/nra-marches-ex-leader-to-court-on-failed-coup/
The NRA isn't just a terrorist organization. Nor is it just a grift. It is also – and this is very important – a tax-exempt charitable nonprofit. Which means that it is very tightly regulated.
In theory.
In practice, it has been largely left alone as it lost more than $64m over three years, paid for execs' fancy meals, vacations, and private jets, guaranteed LaPierre $17m in post-employment benefits without Board approval, and did some way shady accounting with its PR firm.
Finally, the grift has become impossible to ignore, and so the AG of the NRA's home state has filed suit to dissolve the organization and force LaPierre to pay back his corrupt gains.
Here's a fun fact: the NRA is headquartered in New York!
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899712823/new-york-attorney-general-moves-to-dissolve-the-nra-after-fraud-investigation
NY AG Letitia James is not fucking around. And she's got a hell of a case, thanks in large part to the NRA itself: when its internecine struggles spilled over into the courts, warring NRA factions exposed a lot of the org's darkest secrets.
The timing couldn't be better. The NRA spent tens of millions backing Trump in 2016. Now, they're not just broke – they're also battling for their lives.
(Image: Paul Sableman, CC BY, modified)
Qanon is an ARG (pt II) (permalink)
Yesterday, I wrote about the idea that Qanon is an alternate reality game, recapping the arguments that leading ARG designer Adrian Hon had published:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#adrian-hon
The ARG company that Adrian Hon helped found, Six to Start, once also included his brother, Dan Hon, who also knows an awful lot about ARGs and has also been thinking about the relationship between Qanon and ARGs.
https://danhon.substack.com/p/qanon-looks-like-an-alternate-reality
Dan Hon's analysis recaps Richard Bartle's taxonomy of gamers: "killers, achievers, socializers and explorers" and shows how Q cultists fit into (and render toxic) these archetypes.
In Q, socializers are meme-makers: "their success creates achievement and community standing."
Achievers are connection finders: "They play for local fame: to be the first to find the connection"
Explorers are connection finders who "get to create new evidence"
Killers are griefers, punishing cult members for doing Q wrong and trolling nonbelievers. Horrifyingly, they're also non-metaphorical killers – cultists have already murdered for the cult and will again.
Conspiracies share ARG-like characteristics: as with ARGs, conspiracists get to make their own canon. If you come up with a cool idea in an ARG, the GM ("puppetmaster") will add it to the story. In conspiracies the coolest theories get promulgated by other "players."
If you squint hard at Q, it looks like an obsessive fandom, and there are elements of Q that are scratching the same itch that fanac does: community, recognition, the satisfaction of creativity and shared storytelling and the joy of feeling significant.
On The Beast, the seminal game that was the Hon brothers' entree into ARGs, players were so excited by their puzzle-solving achievements that reacted to the 9/11 attacks by announcing that they'd solve those, too.
Hon cites the work of Molly Sauter, one of my absolute favorite internet theorists, in a piece called "The Apophenic Machine," which explores the relationship of the internet to conspiracism more generally.
https://reallifemag.com/the-apophenic-machine/
The internet is incredibly rewarding to the conspiratorial impulse: (quoting Kathleen Stewart) "the internet was made for conspiracy theory: it is a conspiracy theory: one thing leads to another, always another link leading you deeper into no thing and no place."
The dispersed, complex, networked world invites complex, dispersed explanations: "the illusion of the world as graspable, strung together with links even as the socially contingent markers of importance, trust, and validity are increasingly on the fritz."
The "paranoid-realist" mode of thought is coming to dominance in our age, epitomized by conspiracies like Pizzagate. As Michael Fortun says, "paranoiacs do not look, they find…[They] do not simply weigh and measure [evidence], but they create it with their instruments."
ARGs are about the pleasure of "making meaning," while conspiracism is "an overabundance of meaning-making."
But conspiracies are also "attempts to wrestle the complexities of the modern world down to a level of simplicity that can be grasped by an individual… manifestations of the reactive attempt to reassert individual control over systemic forms of power that defy narrative. "
Above all, conspiracism is correlated with conspiracies: "One only has to look at the fracking industry, the pharmaceutical industry’s R&D; policies, or the Catholic Church scandals to see that our world weeps conspiracies. They come out of the walls."
Sauter imagines "two separate reality streams: the human politics stream, full of reactive paranoia intent on creating graspable narratives for human consumption, and the overarching networks of networks, the financialized global capital streams and automated algorithmic diktats that operate and adhere without being wholly grasped, without anyone understanding them in their entirety."
(Aside: if you like this kind of thing, make sure to check out Sauter on machine learning)
https://reallifemag.com/instant-recall/
This day in history (permalink)
#5yrsago Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities: when science changes everything https://boingboing.net/2015/08/06/robert-charles-wilsons-the-a.html
#5yrsago Universal Music's anti-piracy ads reached new heights of crazypants gore https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150805/10393031860/universal-musics-anti-piracy-ads-even-crazier-than-you-can-imagine.shtml
#1yrago The only thing health insurance companies are good at is scaring us about socialized medicine https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-05/health-insurance-useless
#1yrago How Quebec's health-care system uses "vaccine whisperers" to keep "vaccine hesitancy" from turning to anti-vax https://www.statnews.com/2019/08/05/the-vaccine-whisperers-counselors-gently-engage-new-parents-before-their-doubts-harden-into-certainty/
#1yrago Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to-obtain-surveillance-footage-without-a-warrant
#1yrago A loophole in nonprofit law means that corporate lobbying is at least double the official figure https://theintercept.com/2019/08/06/business-group-spending-on-lobbying-in-washington-is-at-least-double-whats-publicly-reported/
Colophon (permalink)
Today's top sources: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/), Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/), Boing Boing (https://boingboing.net), Ilan Muskat (https://twitter.com/IlanMuskat).
Currently writing:
My next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. Yesterday's progress: 516 words (46068 total).
Currently reading: The Deficit Myth, Stephanie Kelton
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 12), https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/08/03/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-12/
Upcoming appearances:
Virtual event with Christopher Brown for his novel "Failed State," Aug 12, https://www.bookpeople.com/event/virtual-event-christopher-brown-failed-state
Induction into the CSFFA Hall of Fame, Aug 15, https://www.whenwordscollide.org/canvention.php
Latest book:
"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583; personalized/signed copies here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A__Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html
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Upcoming books:
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The Stillpoints Podcast with Scott Johnson brings insightful, inspiring and moving conversation to how contemplative practices has landed in our modern culture. Scott talks to the many people who have inspired him over the years, as director of Stillpoint Yoga London, to see how their practices have landed in the world.
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#024: Daniel Simpson | The Truth of Yoga
#024: Daniel Simpson Scott talks to Daniel Simpson, on his life as a yoga philosophy teacher and practitioner. Daniel presents ancient texts for modern times. He is the author of The Truth of Yoga, a comprehensive guide to the historic tradition and texts of yoga for contemporary practitioners.
We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community. We live stream beginner classes, Ashtanga Yoga assisted self practice and guided classes with evening mindfulness sessions over 6 days with Scott Johnson and the Stillpoint teaching faculty. It's a beautiful way to navigate these times...
Daniel Simpson's work is informed by his master's degree in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation (SOAS, University of London), and draws on his earlier experience as a foreign correspondent. He combines scholarly knowledge with humour and insight, making yoga philosophy accessible and relevant to practitioners today.
Daniel teaches courses online, at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, at Triyoga in London, around the UK and internationally. With two decades of experience, he aims to help students explore their own path. You can find out more about Daniel’s work and courses here.
You can also purchase Daniel's book - The Truth of Yoga - here.
The Truth of Yoga - Daniel Simpson
Scott and Daniel have known each other since 2015 and in that time Daniel has become a highly regarded yoga philosophy teacher and academic. In this wide ranging conversation they share insights and stories on the last 15 years of change in the yoga world surrounding how yoga philosophy and history is taught. Daniel also shares personal stories and insights from his own life that compelled him to write his new book - The Truth Of Yoga.
In this wide ranging conversation Daniel shares:
About his euphoric experience during a silent meditation retreat, which completely transformed his relationship with the world and himself. How this transcendent experience transformed his asana practise into a practise of embodied consciousness, a physical practise for training the mind. His thoughts on the relationship between hedonism and spirituality. The connection between Vedic soma rituals and yoga, and the relationship between soma and ayahuasca. How yoga can become an addiction in itself, and about learning to identify and deal with these patterns. That the project of yoga was never about experiencing bliss, but an extreme solution for escaping samsara. About his book - The Truth of Yoga, which distills complex ideas into an accessible format His response to the question: ‘What is yoga?’ His previous work as a journalist and his move into academia, and how both have influenced his approach to writing. Why accuracy is important when presenting historic texts about yoga. The enduring effect of Yoga Body by Mark Singleton and how it influenced the academic study of physical yoga That he hopes his book ‘The Truth of Yoga’ will be used as a bridge between academic researchers and yoga practitioners. About the different and contradictory threads of yoga: dual and non-dual, householder and renunciate. How we can maintain traditional aspects in contemporary physical yoga. About his first trip to India, and his experience of attending the Kumbh Mela in 2001. How yoga ultimately helped him recognise, understand and deal with his issues with substance abuse. How yoga scholarship is a form of practise, a discipline in itself. How living a contemplative life is all about relationship: how we relate to the moment, relate to ourselves, and relate to others. A moment-by-moment engagement with reality.
Daniel is a breath of fresh air. His knowledge on the philosophy and history of yoga is so deep yet he is able to share it in a beautifully open, simple and understandable way. I l
#023: Kia Naddermier | The Practice of Pausing
#023: Kia Naddermier Scott talks to his dear friend and colleague Kia Naddermier on their friendship and her life as a renowned yoga and pranayama teacher. They talk about the ability to pause being a key component in the evolution of yoga in your life.
Kia Naddermier is the main teacher & director of Mysore Yoga Paris and an internationally renowned teacher of yoga and pranayama. She is a dedicated advanced practitioner with over 25 years experience of and teaches Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama, Kriyas and adjustment techniques. Kia has studied extensively within the traditional lineage of Ashtanga Yoga, and continues to practice, research and explore this vast tradition.
She is a devoted, long-term student of Shri O.P. Tiwariji and his son Sudhir Tiwariji in the lineage of Kaivalyadham. Kia is one of the first few in the world to receive Kaivalyadham´s highest teaching certification in advanced Pranayamas and Kriyas. Kia teaches with careful adherence to the authentic teachings of Ashtanga Yoga and Pranayama whilst encouraging each individual to explore the beauty of the practice for themselves.
She is dedicated to the growth and development of her students, and her way of teaching integrates her profound knowledge of the breath and Pranic energy, subtle and physical anatomy, with yogic principles. Her deep love and years of dedication to all aspects of this practice shines through in her attentive, insightful and inspirational teaching.
She lives with her husband and two daughters in Paris where she upholds the daily Mysore-program at the Shala.She mentors teachers, runs long-term apprentice programs and gives workshops, trainings and retreats internationally.
You can find out more about Kia’s teaching schedule here.
The Practice of Pausing - Kia Naddermier
Scott and Kia have been friends since 2015, sharing similar yoga shala's in London and Paris. They are dear forms and colleague, teaching together annually at the SYL Spring Gathering since 2015 and at Purple Valley in Goa since 2018. In this warm and intimate conversation Scott talks to kia about her life and evolution as a highly regarded teacher of yoga and pranayama. Kia is deeply honest and shares personal stories about where she finds herself today.
In this personal and intimate conversation Kia shares:
About her first Ashtanga yoga class in the early 90’s, where she encountered John Scott while working as a photographer in London. The immediate sense of homecoming, of landing in her body, that she felt after that first class. Her experience of working as a model as a teenager, and how yoga helped her to realise for the first time that her body could be felt and appreciated, rather than being judged externally for its appearance. The evolution of her practise from that first class; how she struggled to find any Ashtanga classes in Stockholm, so began with Iyengar yoga before going to see Radha and Derek Ireland in The Practise Place. How, after initially coming to the practise through asana, deeper layers of practise have opened up to her. Her interest in spirituality, which started from a young age, and how yoga presented a non-dogmatic way to explore the bigger questions in life. About meeting her Pranayama teacher Shri O.P. Tiwariji, and his humble way of sharing profound teachings. How Pranayama transformed her Ashtanga yoga practise. About the loss of her sister, and how practise helped her to cope with that loss, while giving her the resources to stay strong for her family. That
#022: Josefin Wikström | Bringing Yoga Home
Scott talks to dear friend and colleague Josefin Wikström about how yoga changed her life and how she now shares yoga and Bollywood dancing to people in prisons and to those who suffer from complex trauma.
Josefin Wikström trained as a Yoga Therapist with The Minded Institute in London with a particular focus on complex trauma and mental health. She has also trained with Bessel van der Kolk, and is a certified TCTSY-F (Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator), having trained with David Emerson.
She has been sharing trauma-informed yoga since 2003, and since 2008 she has brought yoga and dance into Swedish prisons. She has developed programmes for teaching yoga in prisons, and has taught internationally, including in San Quentin state prison in the US. In 2015, she began working with the Prison Yoga Project in Europe, and has led Prison Yoga Project trainings in Mumbai, India, and Mexico.
As part of her work for the Swedish Probation services, she co-developed the Swedish Krimyoga program, an evidence-based program drawing on research on the benefits of yoga in correctional settings. She is expanding her trauma-informed yoga programs to include settings such as psychiatry units, the Juvenile justice system, and in schools.
Through the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute in Boston, MA, she has completed the Traumatic Stress Studies Certification with She has also studied trauma-informed dance/movement therapy with Katia Verrault and Tripura Kashyap in India. Josefin is a professional member of ICPA-International Corrections and Prison Association.
You can find out more about Josefin’s work here and all the Prison Yoga Project.
You will be able to buy Josefin's new book, co-authored with upcoming guest James Fox, called Freedom from the Inside: A Woman's Guide to Yoga soon through this link here.
Bringing Yoga Home - Josefin Wikström In this touching conversation Scott and Josefin talk about Josefin's life as a yoga practitioner and yoga therapist teaching in prisons and to people with complex trauma, a journey that moves from teaching in the slums of Mumbai in 2005 to tabling a discussion at the centre of the UK government in the House of Lords in 2015. She has developed into an incredibly wise and prolific yoga teacher, sharing her love and passion for yoga to the most vulnerable people there are.
In this inspiring conversation Josefin shares:
How yoga helped heal from childhood abuse and complex trauma. Had she been self medicating with alcohol and drugs then went to Goa at 18. She met an old man in New Delhi who said ‘you have to do yoga’! These words landed in her - he’d seen the unease in her body. How she went to Rishikesh and connected with breathing and moving in first or second class. She hadn't taken a deep breath before then. Started to feel grounded, less scattered. Felt like she’d found herself at home in herself a sense of safety she had'nt had before. Her drive in her work - can reach this place of safety. An accessible, simple way, for so many people How yoga isn’t just about bliss - embracing causes of suffering too. ‘Cleaning our inner space’ put experiences in boxes rather than throwing them out. How she found a healthy sense of connection with people practising yoga, not to do with drugs. She kept the dancing and let go of drugs Yoga fine tunes the senses. Her work in Mumbai - Kaivalya project. She met a lady in a cafe in Mumbai who worked with dance yoga mental health. Josefin was asked to join a
#021: Taylor Hunt | Recovery Through Yoga
Scott talks to Ashtanga yoga teacher Taylor Hunt about how Ashtanga yoga has helped him through his recovery from addiction and how he now helps others using the same inspiring outlook.
We’d like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community. We live stream beginner classes, Ashtanga Yoga assisted self practice and guided classes with evening mindfulness sessions over 6 days with Scott Johnson and the Stillpoint teaching faculty. It’s a beautiful way to navigate these times…
Taylor Hunt is a devoted practitioner of Ashtanga yoga and a passionate teacher of the traditional method. He was granted Level 2 authorisation in 2013 by his teacher Sharath Jois who he studies with in Mysore every year.
His is a story of personal transformation. His book ‘A Way From Darkness’ is an inspiring account of his journey from addiction to health. He is director of the Trini Foundation, which shares the practice of Ashtanga with those suffering from addiction.
Ashtanga yoga has been deeply healing in his life and he is dedicated to sharing the benefits with others. He teaches daily Mysore classes Ashtanga Yoga Columbus, where he supports the community of practitioners in their practice and their daily lives. He also offers workshops around the world.
You can find out more about Taylor’s teaching schedule here.
You can also contact the Trini Foundation if you are interested in learning more about their inspiring work.
If you’ve been affected by any of the issues brought up in this conversation and need help you contact Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous (please note these links are UK based organisations).
Recovery Through Yoga – Taylor Hunt
In this honest and powerful conversation Scott and Taylor share intimate details about how their lives have been affected by addiction. Taylor has come such a long way in his sobriety and Scott from growing up in an alcoholic family. Their unique perspectives, particularly Taylor on how he has navigated his own recovery, is powerful and honest.
In this moving conversation Taylor shares:
What it means to be running a Mysore shala during the covid pandemic, and his decision to immediately hold classes online so he could carry on supporting his community About his book – Away from the Darkness, in which he writes about his journey from addiction to health. How he was convinced by his sponsor into taking his second yoga class after finding his first deeply uncomfortable because of everything it brought up. How he heard God speaking to him in savasana after that second class, telling, saying ‘you’re perfect, just the way you are’. He’d been sober for six months, and it was the first time he’d felt compassion and love for himself. He’s practised six days a week ever since. How sobriety rekindled his relationship with God. The relationship between being a Twelve Step sponsor and an Ashtanga teacher – the elements of coaching, accountability, and support. The daily work involved in staying sober, how he has to show up consistently in the program and on the mat. His reason for practising – that has to show up for sake of sobriety – means it’s life or death for him, as well as for a lot of people that he teaches, which is why he’s so passionate about showing up. The impact of his addiction on his family. The clarity after suffering he felt when his ex-wife took him for the treatment he needed. His deep gratitude for the second chance he’s been given That his first Ashtanga teacher was Laruga Glaser, who he practised with every day How he’s seen the practise help people, how it offers hope for escaping our samskaras. His belief in a higher power, whether it’s Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu, Shiva, Moses… they represent the same universal truths and inspire him in the s
#20: Prem & Radha Carlisi | Finding Humility Together
#020: Prem & Radha Carlisi
Scott talks to Prem and Radha Carlisi (and their lovely dogs) about their friendship since 2008 and how they've evolved over an incredibly close, and tender, twelve years of knowing each other.
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Anthony ‘Prem’ Carlisi and Heather ‘Radha’ Carlisi first came together as a teaching team in Sri Lanka in 2007. They felt a powerful synergy between their combined energy as teachers, which led them to continue to teach together internationally. They were married in 2013.
In December 2008 they travelled to Bali, where in November 2009 they established the Ashtanga Yoga Bali Research Center (AYBRC). In their shala they teach in the tradition of K. Pattabhi Jois, with whom they both studied for many years. Prem first travelled to Mysore to study in 1978, and Radha in 1995 having begun her study of Ashtanga yoga with Chuck Miller in 1990.
Following the example set by Krishnamacharya, they adapt their teaching to the individual needs of each student. They also apply their knowledge Ayurveda to their unique teaching style, blending the elements of Ashtanga yoga and Ayurveda to help students to achieve a balanced lifestyle well beyond their asana practise.
Prem and Radha have many shared at AYBRC. You can find out more about their teaching schedule here.
Finding Humility Together - Prem and Radha Carlisi
In this moving conversation Scott, Prem and Radha share intimate and tender memories of their friendship over the past 12 years. Prem and Radha are deeply open and honest about how their relationship managed the passing of Prem's daughter Shanti in 2012 and how they navigated people coming to their Yoga Shala in Bali and their own yoga practices. We are left with hope....
In this deeply moving conversation Prem & Radha share:
The challenges they’ve faced running a Mysore shala from Bali during the COVID-19 pandemic. How Scott contacted Prem in 2008 after reading ‘The Only Way Out is In’, and ended up hosting both Prem and Radha for a London workshop. Prem’s motivation for writing his book - to share his perspective as a ‘regular guy’ so that people would know that yoga is accessible to anyone. That after Radha’s first yoga class - which she found in the Yellow Pages - she told the teacher (Chuck Miller) that she was going to be a yoga teacher. About the incredible support Radha has given Prem in his work and in his personal life. About how they set up Ashtanga Yoga Bali together, and how it felt like everything was falling into place for them. That everything collapsed in 2013 with the death of Prem’s daughter, Shanti. How they managed to keep the shala open, with crowds coming to see them, while struggling to come to terms with this tragic loss. The thoughtless comments that Prem received about how, as a long term yogi, he should be able to deal with grief. How grief forces a deeper perspective to Ashtanga yoga practise beyond the physical. That teaching - being able to give to others - can be a solace, and that suffering can bring empathy. The sense of humbling humiliation that Prem felt, in the face of such grief after this life-changing loss, despite external material successes. Their intentions around organising Ashtanga yoga conferences, hoping to keep the community connected after K. Pattabhi Jois died. The responsibility that senior teachers have to pass on the subtler layers of practise that move beyond the physical. About why Ashtanga yoga is a constant process of discovery, rather than a static set of rule
#19: Laruga Glaser | Leaning In To Vulnerability
#019: Laruga Glaser Scott talks to Laruga Glaser on her life as a yoga student and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She also shares her experience as a woman of colour in the yoga industry.
On 3rd June Laruga shared a 52:39 face to camera Instagram post on her experience as a POC in Ashtanga yoga. The majority of her conversation (with Scott) references Laruga's post. It would be highly beneficial to watch this whole share. It is beautiful, powerful and raw....
Laruga Glaser was first drawn to yoga in 1996, and after coming across Ashtanga in 1998 she fully immersed herself in the method and now has over 20 years of dedicated Ashtanga yoga practise. She made her first trip to Mysore to study at KPJAYI in 2007 and has returned every year ever since. A committed student, an advanced practitioner and a Certified teacher, Laruga endeavours to pass on the tradition of Ashtanga yoga. Laruga shares the teachings of Ashtanga yoga as an act of deep love with which she aspires to create an open, challenging and inspiring space in which each individual who comes to her can realise their full potential.
Laruga leads the Ashtanga Yoga program at Yogayama in Stockholm, Sweden and teaches workshops and retreats around the world. You can find out more about Laruga's teaching schedule here.
Leaning in to Vulnerability - Laruga Glaser. Scott and Laruga have a beautifully open conversation on Laruga's life as a student and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She shares how she left a corporate life to become one of the most recognised faces in Ashtanga Yoga. She also shares how she has had to struggle as a woman of colour in the world of yoga and push hard to get to where she is. Scott and Laruga also talk about how to make yoga spaces more diverse.
In this inspiring conversation Laruga shares:
The ways that yoga has landed for her many times in her life, right from the very first time - a series of ‘aha’ moments, of finding inner stillness. How she began practising by following Iyengar-inspired videos by Patricia Walden and Rodney Yi, which helped her to release back pain and encouraged her to carry on practising. How she started learning Ashtanga from David Swenson’s videos and books, which she considers to be her first virtual teacher That despite ‘doing things wrong’, like not holding the drishti or poses for long enough, she still felt a shift, another ‘aha’ moment How Ashtanga felt ‘complete’ to her Her sense of finally feeling at home when she found yoga, that she was in her space, where she’s supposed to be. That while she was at university in Ohio she found an ad in the student paper for 90 days of yoga for $90 - she went every single day. That she found Laurel Howdry, her first Ashtanga yoga teacher, in her last year of university, How her dedicated Ashtanga practise kept her sane and grounded while she was on a corporate career path. That when she found herself at a crossroads between her career and yoga, she decided to follow yoga. When she made her first trip to Mysore in 2007 it was to be a student, to go and study at the source. How she began teaching internationally after that first trip to Mysore, when a fellow student invited her to teach in Taiwan. About her 14 trips to Mysore and how the energy in the new shala still remains the same The importance of being a student. The strong energetic pull she felt that led her to share in depth on about the lack of diversity in Ashtanga yoga, and how it was a vulnerable thing for her to do. About how it finally felt like people were collectively willing to listen to her experience, despite having been speaking out on individual level for years That she spoke out for the people who didn't feel they fit in About having to deal with microaggressions from within the yoga community, and how she’s been the one who’s had to do the work unpacking
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Landlords blocked evictions from small companies for one more three months
By Maria Meredith On Dec 12, 2020
Community Minister Robert Jenrick MP: “We are expanding measures to protect those who cannot pay rent from eviction.”
The government has banned commercial landlords from evicting small businesses from stores and other premises for an additional three months through March 2021.
This moratorium was introduced earlier this year and was supposed to end on September 30th. It was then extended to the end of December and will now be completed at the end of March next year.
Moving will be a huge relief for small businesses struggling to pay rent.
Community Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “This support is for companies struggling hardest during the pandemic, such as: B. in the hospitality industry. However, those who are able to pay their rent should do so.
“We are experiencing a profound adjustment in commercial real estate. It is important that landlords and tenants across the country use the months ahead to reach rental agreements where possible and keep viable businesses running. “
> See also: How to request a commercial rental freeze from your landlord
The government said this “final extension” would give tenants and landlords an additional three months to reach an agreement on unpaid rents.
Further guidelines to support tenant and landlord negotiations will be published shortly. Many tenants are concerned about paying outstanding rent after the moratorium expires. However, landlords claim that some tenants are large profitable companies taking advantage of the current crisis.
The British Property Federation estimates the total unpaid rent for commercial property in the UK at £ 4.5 billion from late March to December.
Andrew Goodacre, CEO of the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira), said: “Bira is pleased with the decision to extend the rental moratorium. We asked because independent retailers are facing challenges on the high street. We hope that this leads to constructive discussions between tenants and landlords to find a positive solution when the moratorium ends in March 2021. “
Commercial landlords are not allowed to use aggressive rent move-in tactics
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The US has reduce vaccine numbers for a number of states on account of confusion about FDA necessities
By Maria Meredith Last updated Dec 20, 2020
Employees move boxes of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as they prepare for shipment at Pfizer Global Supply’s Kalamazoo manufacturing facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan on December 13, 2020.
Morry Gash | AFP | Getty Images
Officials at Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government’s program to distribute Covid-19 vaccines to Americans, had to cut doses for several states due to confusion over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s certificate of analysis for rounds of vaccination.
The federal government’s mistake disrupted vaccination distribution plans in at least 14 states and frustrated governors and state health officials who said they were surprised to learn of shipping shortages.
Operation Warp Speed has put 2 million Pfizer vaccine doses ready for delivery next week, after the US shipped 2.9 million doses last week. Officials also plan to ship 5.9 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine this week.
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief advisor to Operation Warp Speed, said the agency mistakenly assumed that Pfizer’s vaccine was ready to ship when there was actually a two-day delay in which the FDA required a certificate of analysis for each batch of vaccines.
“This delay has led to differences in the plan and in the actual measures,” Slaoui said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “We’ve looked at it and optimized what we’re doing every day.”
The FDA requires a certificate of analysis for each round of Pfizer vaccines at least 48 hours prior to distribution, but does not require the certificate to be verified prior to shipment. The certificate contains quality control test results and is required when Pfizer uses an emergency approval under the FDA.
Former GlaxoSmithKline pharma executive Moncef Slaoui, who will serve as the chief advisor in the search for a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, speaks while President Donald Trump during a coronavirus response event Illness in the rose garden at the White Hearts House in Washington.
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
Operation Warp Speed’s Chief Operating Officer, General Gustave Perna, who is responsible for the logistics for shipping the vaccines, repeatedly apologized for smaller vaccine shipments on Saturday and took responsibility for the “planning error”.
“The mistake I made is not really understanding – again my responsibility – what steps are needed to make sure the vaccine is releasable,” Perna said at a press conference.
States where fewer than expected numbers occur include Washington state, New Jersey, Virginia, Idaho, Michigan, Connecticut, California, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Massachusetts, Iowa, and Oregon.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee said Thursday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had told him that vaccine allocations for his state had been cut by 40% and that other states had similar deficits.
“It’s disruptive and frustrating. We need accurate, predictable numbers to plan and ensure on-site success,” wrote Inslee in a tweet. “No explanation was given.”
Pfizer spokeswoman Kim Bencker told CNBC in an email after Perna apologized that the company had millions of cans in warehouses ready to ship once the company received confirmation from Operation Warp Speed.
“We remain confident that we can dispense up to 50 million doses worldwide this year and up to 1.3 billion doses next year,” said Bencker.
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the introduction of the vaccine will be the toughest vaccination program in history, warning that there will be inconsistencies in the number of planned doses and the doses actually allocated.
“This will be the technically and logistically most difficult vaccination project of all time,” said Adams on Sunday in an interview with CBS ‘”Face The Nation”. “We started slowly and will continue to grow. The American people should be hopeful about the vaccines, but we also need to remain vigilant.”
– CNBC’s Noah Higgins-Dunn contributed to the coverage
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John Bedford Lloyd
John Bedford Lloyd's interest in acting began accidentally, while he was a pre-med student at Williams College. A friend convinced him to take a part in a production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's ... read full biography
Known for The Abyss (1989), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Super Troopers (2001), Remember WENN (1996-1998)
Jan 2, 1956 (age 65) | 6' 5" (1.96m)
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POSITIONS VACANT: SUSIE YOUSSEF AND RAY BADRAN ARE LOOKING TO RECRUIT
Introducing the new original scripted comedy podcast from the ABC
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 — “Is 2018 your year for a change? Looking for work? Think you have what it takes to make it in the start-up world? Well, you’re in luck. Because we’re CrApp and we’re hiring.”
CrApp or Creative Application Ltd, is a hot new start-up focussed on, you guessed it, creating apps, run by step siblings Ray (Ray Badran, Comedy Central) and Susie (Susie Youssef, Get Krack’n, Rosehaven & Squinters).
Applicants shortlisted for the current round of vacancies are comedians Hamish Blake, Gen Fricker, Ronny Chieng, Matt Okine, writer Benjamin Law and folk band All Our Exes Live In Texas.
Do they have the making of a CrApp employee?
Positions Vacant is an original scripted comedy from Australian comedians Ray Badran and Susie Youssef. In the style of a job interview, they interrogate their famous guests by asking the most embarrassing questions possible. The guests have been told only that they have to turn each response into a positive.
Episode one – with Hamish Blake – is available now on the ABC listen app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favourite podcasts.
About Ray Badran and Susie Youssef
Susie Youssef is a comedian, actor, writer and improviser. She has written, performed and produced comedy for stage, radio and television in Australia and around the world. A core cast member on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia, she has had guest appearances in ABC series’ Squinters, Screen Time, Rosehaven, Get Krack!n and also No Activity. She is a regular guest on radio and TV and has appeared on Have You Been Paying Attention, ABC TV’s How Not To Behave, The Chaser’s Media Circus and The Checkout.
Ray Badran is a stand-up comedian and writer for various TV shows, comedians, advertising agencies, theatre and radio. He has performed twice on the Sydney Comedy Festival Gala. In 2015-2016, he performed a segment each day on Triple J weekend breakfast, called The Early Early News, in which he would read fictional news stories. In 2017, Ray created, No Experience Necessary.
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beattie.carlin@abc.net.au
Episode 1: Hamish Blake
LIsten to Positions Vacant now
Watch: Susie and Ray are recruiting now
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Ten children's picture book story types and tropes that need a well earned, and very long 'rest'
Posted by ReadItDaddy at April 30, 2015 Labels: bears, editorial, gender bias, rant, Ten children's picture book story types that need a well earned rest
"This book is sending me to...zzzzzzzzzzzz"
Poor Charlotte. As she gets older, she's becoming a past master in perfecting that withering look that children give you when presented with more maths homework, more spinach (or other food that is 'good for you') or - rather alarmingly lately - another book that treads a worn, very well worn path.
The wonders of the publishing industry are quite something to behold from the outside. Most folk have no notion that a book can take years to turn from a seed of an idea into a submitted manuscript then perhaps a fleshed-out illustration board and eventually a mock book before it gets the green light and will be turned into the next children's best seller. Sometimes the timing can cause so many of the same sort of books to hit the market at the same time, that you can understand Charlotte's eye-rolling at times. So with that in mind, we dug through recent submissions and came up with another one of those irritating "top ten" lists - this time for stories we'd love to see a little less of in favour of newer, more original and tastier book fare. Please understand, this is a light-hearted tongue-in-cheek thing, no offence intended and no specific books were mentioned (or harmed) in the compilation of this list.
In no particular order then...
1) "I'm your friend, I'm not your friend, I'm your friend again because I realise how great friends are" books. Friendships are important as soon as children's social circles start expanding, through school and clubs and all the other things kids get into. But does the world really need another children's book where this is bluntly mapped out and described, as if this is something that needs a manual? Books like these often feature cute and cuddly animals (we resisted the temptation to add that as one of our top ten bugbears, because cute and cuddly can still work beautifully in books without being too sickly). We would love to see a children's picture book that accurately maps out a real childhood friendship - that peaks and troughs like an oscilloscope listening to rave music!
2) Pirates. This is a tough one for us to add to the list because we do rather like a nautical tale, but I think we approached peak blackbeard quite some time ago. Perhaps it's as we described in the lead-in to this post, that so many hit the market at the same time despite all being proposed, requisitioned and published completely separately, but sometimes we only have to get a whiff of a skull and crossbones on a cover, and another angry-looking one-eyed pirate captain with a wooden leg and a hook hand to make us run for the nearest desert island clutching our booties. Now, more girl pirates (says Charlotte) - That's something worth working on. (Please note though: Certain folk who write and illustrate pirate tales get a free pass because they always make us giggle and always come up with a good dose of originality for their stuff. You know who you are!)
3) Princesses. The flip-side of the "pirate" doubloon. Princesses show absolutely no signs of losing popularity, and though Charlotte has moved on a tad from the usual Disney-inspired CinderellaBelleBriarRoseFrogPrincessMeridaSnowWhite stuff, tales of gutsy princesses who flip the usual wishy washy princess tropes on their head can still win her over. It's the others though, those books where Princess Mimsy-Poo lives a decadent life of eating jam tarts, wearing incredible dresses and obsessing about pink that we'd love to see take a well earned break.
4) Flatulence Fiction. It's a whole new genre, didn't you know? Farts, botty burps, trouser trumps, rip-snorters, pantaloon polluters are big business in the children's book market and we've seen many a story wear out its welcome by pivoting around the central theme of letting one off. Humans are at it, animals are at it, we're just surprised that we haven't (yet) seen a story about a friend who is a pirate princess who really likes a damned good trump first thing in the morning to set them up for a quirky adventure!
5) Similar to the above, you could add in the rest of the toilet repertoire. Poos, wees, the odd honking incident. Bodily functions in all their squirty, dirty glory are staple fare for kids from the moment they laugh at their own messes, to the moment they become irrationally obsessed with personal hygiene (ie the minute they start feeling a need to impress the opposite sex). What happens in the toilet (or sometimes, disastrously, as far away from the toilet as possible) should really stay in the toilet. Some of us are trying to eat while reviewing this stuff! (To redress the grumble, it's fair to say that children's illustrators really are pulling out all the stops in depicting the subject matter at hand here so a doff of the cap to them for their efforts!)
6) Bears. Hmm, we're in two minds about including bears in the list as we do rather like a lot of books with bears in them, but it takes a rather amazing, spectacular and astonishingly original bear book to sneak in under our radar and make us sit up and take notice. Bears have been some of the best-loved children's characters for aeons and if we do a quick head count on the blog for bear-based books we'd probably say around 20% of our children's book intake revolves around a bear of some description. How many other animal species on the planet never get a look in because Bruin is hogging the limelight though? Pass on the panda, get rid of the grizzly, wave bye bye to the brown bear, where are all the kids books about wolverines, capybaras, Okapis, Tasmanian Devils eh?
7) Dumb dads. Oh we could really go to town on this subject and I'm sure a lot of other book-loving blogger dads will nod in agreement. The dad has long been used as a comical device in children's stories. They're often shown as the ones being a bit lazy, quite often greedy, absolutely always a bit rubbish in comparison to mums - and here's something that's slightly more serious - dads are often the 'missing' partner in children's stories where only a single parent is shown. There have been some great stories showing dads on their own (and there have also been some fairly irritating stories where dads are irrepressibly smug and brilliant at everything they do so we can understand why they're often relegated to being there for comic value only). Give dads their day though, we're not all completely useless (alright, don't ask Charlotte's mum whether this is true, she'll probably tell you that 'dumb dads' are quite an accurate portrayal really!)
8) Mining old and well-worn out-of-copyright stories to produce "a new and exciting and vibrant version for a modern age". Some authors and illustrators are amazing at successfully doing this, and doing it well. Some authors and illustrators absolutely nail producing a version of a classic tale that is stuffed with originality and delight. But we still see an awful lot of children's picture books where a 'classic' is given the thinnest veneer of gilding, bringing nothing really new to the tale itself. Certain tales have been respun and rewoven so many times, they remind us of the poor princess working at the spinning wheel trying to turn straw into gold before Rumplestiltskin shows up!
9) Revolting rhymes and poorly poetry. The majority of rhyming stories we encounter are a delicious delight, tripping off the tongue when read aloud, and causing an internal chuckle or two when read to ourselves. Sometimes though we read rhyming stories that cause us to ask ourselves "Hey, would this be a really great book if it didn't rhyme like a train crashing down the side of a mountain on fire, and that mountain happens to be a Volcano, and that Volcano is sitting on a gigantic earthquake and the whole thing explodes in a huge chaotic mess of lava, train bits and steam?" (Alright, I'll admit it, as analogies go that's a pretty terrible one). Rhymes should feel like having your tongue wrapped in the most delicious wordy silken sylph-like textures. Some just feel like getting a bit of apple or crisp stuck down between your teeth and your gums. Owch.
10) Boy / Girl books and comics. Wait, wait, we're not going to make the same point that has been made over and over and over again (and quite rightly so) about gender bias in books - but we would really love to underline a point we brought up recently in an editorial about how Marvel and DC just don't "get" kids. It's not just about outwardly labelling a book as a "boy" book or a "girl" book, nor is it about the justified outrage that in certain children's stories the gender bias is more subtle but still there - dad goes off to work, mum looks after the kids and the house. It's more about the fact that no one needs to explicitly tell children what to like and what not to like, no one can really say they've expertly designed a character range that from a glance will instantly have massive girl appeal or boy appeal (girls - you get the cheesy clean-cut teen dreams like the new DC superhero and supervillain stuff that's been specifically designed for you. Boys, you get the usual weaponised violent pithy superhero stuff that is so far removed from its original source material that you'll probably never recognise the original comics those products are based on!) Books and comics for children shouldn't need to shout from the rooftops that they've been tailored in any way for a target audience. Let the audience make up their own minds, boy or girl and if your stories and characters are strong enough, you won't need to lead people by the nose!
And there you have it. 10 things that we'd love to see put on hold (for a while, or in the case of number 10 - permanently). We look forward to seeing what you come up with to prove us wrong on each of these points :)
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Liberalism at All-Time High in 68-Year Survey of American Mood
Plus: Workplace fatalities down in places with medical marijuana, bad news booze bans at strip clubs, pushback to panic about Big Tech, and more...
Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.7.2019 9:38 AM
(Albin Lohr-Jones/Polaris/Newscom)
Liberalism in America is at a record high, according to a new look at data on America's Public Policy Mood. A "measure of left/right preferences over policy choices in American politics," the mood was more liberal in 2018 than at any previous point in the history of recording it.
"The annual estimate for 2018 is the most liberal ever recorded in the 68 year history of Mood, just slightly higher than the previous high point of 1961," wrote James Stimson, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, while sharing his latest findings.
The liberalism mood score for 2018 was about 69.15, according to the data file Stimson shared. In 1961, it was 68.92.
Stimson suggests that the 2018 estimate "represents the expected leftward movement in thermostatic reaction to the Presidency of Donald Trump," but "should not be taken…as only a personal reaction to Trump because its defining items are the issues of American politics of earlier generations, the New Deal and Great Society agenda. And the estimates do not include Trump's signature issues of immigration restriction and trade protectionism."
That last bit is crucial. There are many ways to talk and think about liberalism. A lot of proverbial ink is spilled these days on whether "liberal democracy" or sometimes just "liberalism" is declining globally in the face of various political movements. But those big-picture concerns evoke liberalism in the classical sense (respect for individual rights, political autonomy, free markets, etc.). Meanwhile, "liberalism" as bandied about by mainstream politicians may mean many things.
In this study, liberalism is measured by levels of support for various government programs. The survey covers a wide swath of policy areas, framed in broad terms. (You can read more about them in a 2012 paper from Stimson, available online with free registration here.)
Stimson developed the Policy Mood measure in 1991, and it's become a respected indicator used in a lot of people's research. (Find more of his work here.) Here's a graph Stimson did of the data up to 2016:
"From 1992 to 2012, according to Stimson's analysis, overall support for liberal, pro-government initiatives has declined," noted Thomas B. Edsall in The New York Times back in 2013. Half a decade later, the picture looks rather different.
Liberalism's low points on the Mood scale came in 1952 (49.88), 1980 (51.21), 1981 (53.19), 1982 (53.329), and 1969 (53.33). The only times the liberalism score slipped under 60 this century have been in 2001 (59.39) and in 2014 (59.51).
FREE MINDS
Medical marijuana doesn't endanger workers. In fact, workplace fatalities are down in states with legalized medicinal weed:
In Medical marijuana laws and workplace fatalities in the United States, researchers D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees, and Erdal Tekin analyzed data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia between 1992 and 2015.
The goal: to determine the association between MMLs and workplace fatalities.
The researchers used Bureau of Labor Statistics data on workplace fatalities by state and year. Regression models were adjusted for state demographics, the unemployment rate, state fixed effects, and year fixed effects.
Their conclusion: legalizing medical marijuana has actually improved workplace safety—at least for workers aged 25–44.
Workplace fatalities were down in medical marijuana states by 19.5 percent on average.
Seattle dancers are fed up with booze ban at strip clubs. Katie Herzog takes a look at how Washington state's liquor laws are hurting workers at Seattle-area strip clubs. Local workers "say that Seattle is one of the most difficult and least lucrative cities to be a stripper, in no small part thanks to the statewide ban on alcohol sales," Herzog writes.
In other cities and states, strip clubs make the bulk of their money from the sale of booze. In Seattle, clubs make their money off the dancers themselves, who have to pay for the privilege of working. And those house fees are not cheap: At Deja Vu, a local chain with a near-monopoly in the downtown area, dancers are charged $120 to $180 a night—and if they don't make that money, the club will charge them back rent.
The lack of alcohol also changes the vibe. "Tourists and bachelor parties might come in, but when they realize they can't get a drink, they leave," Aubrey said. Unlike in, say, Portland—where strip clubs are allowed to serve booze and food, and where female customers and co-ed groups aren't an uncommon sight—Seattle strip clubs tend to attract mostly men on their own.
At least some on left and right are pushing back hard against tech moral panic. David French and Glenn Greenwald both offered some some wise words yesterday on social media deplatforming and demonetizing controversies. Here's French at National Review:
The regularity of the controversies—combined with the persistence of the overt viewpoint discrimination—is resulting in a demand that government "do something" to solve the problem. But the problem is far too complex and deep-seated for the government to solve. And if the government tries to step in with too heavy a hand, it's going to violate the law. It's past time for an honest, realistic look at the true cultural, commercial, and constitutional challenges to social-media fairness.
And here's Greenwald, who spoke about the subject on the Tucker Carlson show last night:
Since the Media Matters & Vox hall monitors whose job is to take pictures of the TV and post distorted out-of-context clips did that to me tonight, here are my full comments on whether Silicon Valley overlords will benevolently police our discourse to protect the marginalized: pic.twitter.com/0oOoYUc5VW
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 7, 2019
After Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on Mexican goods coming to the U.S., officials from both countries are reportedly "discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give the United States far more latitude to deport Central Americans seeking asylum," according to The Washington Post. But their sources "cautioned that the accord is not final and that President Trump might not accept it."
Adventures in doublethink: "Freedom of speech isn't the same thing as the freedom to broadcast that speech," insists April Glaser in an all-around misguided Slate piece calling for internet companies to be regulated more like broadcast networks.
J.D. Tuccille explores the status of FBI's new facial recognition database.
The woke surveillance state welcomes you to Manchester's Gay Village. "Look fabulous, you're on CCTV!"
No, I'm not making this up. I wish I were. pic.twitter.com/DpfNu9vmka
— Helen Dale (@_HelenDale) June 6, 2019
The latest jobs numbers are out and unemployment remains at 3.6 percent.
In Connecticut,"'raising women up' apparently means depriving them of employment opportunities." Reason's Scott Shackford looks at the latest expansion of occupational licensing rules for salon staff.
Writer Molly Jong-Fast on Reason Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie: "I'm horrified by some of the stuff he writes, but I am a good friend of his."
Unionizing efforts at Vox aren't going so well.
NEXT: Californians Are Now Paying Higher Gas Taxes. Cities Are Responding by Reducing Lanes for Cars.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.
Reason Roundup Liberalism Progressives Conservatism Public Opinion
Liberalism in America is at a record high, according to new study.
Hopefully they’re defining that as accurately as libertarianism.
Its where authoritarian policies can be liberal as long as you support transgenderism and victimhood in general.
June.7.2019 at 10:21 am
Yes, when Liberalism means government mandates and pogroms.
Rufus The Monocled
Ugh, oi, meh, bah, boh, oof.
That’s not liberalism. I don’t know what it is but it sure as hell ain’t liberalism in its classical sense.
No, sadly it’s liberalism in the American politics sense.
I call it illiberalism.
Sprinkled with libertine narcissism.
Ray McKigney
Molto bene.
This guy knows!
Quo Usque Tandem
“…those big-picture concerns evoke liberalism in the classical sense (respect for individual rights, political autonomy, free markets, etc.)”
Is that now more accurately labeled libertarianism?
June.7.2019 at 6:05 pm
Apparently the definition of liberalism is about as slippery as that of socialism.
Bee Tagger
J.D. Tuccille explores the status of FBI’s new facial recognition database.
they can see you looking consternated, 2-chill
TSA allowing illegal migrants to fly without proper documents
EL PASO, Texas — The federal agency tasked with overseeing security at transportation hubs has been violating its own policy by allowing migrants who have been released from federal custody onto flights despite not having required documents, according to several Department of Homeland Security officials.
For the past six months, the Transportation Security Administration has allowed migrants released from the custody of other Homeland Security agencies to board flights to other parts of the country despite the passengers lacking any of the 15 documents it states are the only acceptable forms of identification….
Did Votes By Noncitizens Cost Trump The 2016 Popular Vote? Sure Looks That Way
In the 2008 and 2010 elections, they said, as many as 2.8 million illegal noncitizen votes were cast, “enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes and congressional elections,” said the study, authored by Jesse T. Richman and Gushan A. Chattha, both of Old Dominion University, and David C. Earnest of George Mason University.
The bombshell was this: “Noncitizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress.”
It got little coverage in the mainstream media, and what coverage it did get was almost entirely dismissive.
Now comes a new study by Just Facts, a libertarian/conservative think tank, that used data from a large Harvard/You.Gov study that every two years samples tens of thousands of voters, including some who admit they are noncitizens and thus can’t vote legally.
The findings are eye-opening. In 2008, as many as 5.7 million noncitizens voted in the election. In 2012, as many as 3.6 million voted, the study said.
Racism! That’s racism I tells ya!
Funny how the group complaining about foreign interference in the election supports foreigners voting in our election.
geez you’re gonna make OBL’s circuitboard explode …
Moo Cow
June.8.2019 at 11:25 pm
Lol fake news bro Hahahaaaaaahaha.
CBP has released border numbers for May. Just stunning
144,258 apprehensions plus inadmissibles, up 32 percent from April
More than 100k were families or children
680k processed during first 8 months of FY19
TSA then referred the Washington Examiner to a webpage, which still states, “You will not be allowed to enter the security checkpoint if your identity cannot be confirmed, you chose to not provide proper identification or you decline to cooperate with the identity verification process.”
“You will, however, be allowed to cast at least one vote in a federal election.”
If we just let these poor suffering people vote in US elections from their home countries, maybe the Democrats would ease up on open borders.
They likely would, as that is the only thing they really want anyway.
If these people voted Republican, the Democrats would be putting land mines on the border to keep them out.
hmmm, Maybe I should fly to Mexico and sneak back into the USA. I’m currently having a standoff with the American government. They don’t want me to fly back to America without a psychiatry note saying that I am safe. I think officials are worry that I might get a boner big enough to unbalance the weight distribution in the airplane thereby causing the pilot to loose control and crash into the ocean on the way home.
I sure hope they didn’t allow the children of illegals to fly unaccompanied. That would be immoral.
chipper me timbers
It’s unconstitutional to demand we show papers to fly, so this doesn’t really bother me. It’s a start. now do it for citizens!
mad.casual
so this doesn’t really bother me. It’s a start. now do it for citizens!
You’re not really bothered because you assume it’s a start and that they’ll ever do it for citizens. You’re a fool because both the open borders and regulation of citizens trends have been in the exact opposite direction of your beliefs for at least a couple of decades.
“Freedom of speech isn’t the same thing as the freedom to broadcast that speech,”
whispering to myself, “i’ve never felt so free”
“Midas has ass’s ears.”
April Glaser is a fucktard.
Might as well just turn the government over to Chelsea Handler and Samantha Bee.
Just like the right to keep and bear arms in California means you can keep one locked up and unloaded in your house.
End Child Unemployment
But only if it’s on an approved firearm list, which stopped adding new models in 2010 and has been slowly removing models.
In fact, workplace fatalities are down in states with legalized medicinal weed…
BECAUSE THE STONERS AREN’T EVEN BOTHERING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK.
And for those who do, break rooms are a lot less dangerous than the factory floor or loading dock.
In this study, liberalism is measured by levels of support for various government programs.
Medical marijuana doesn’t endanger workers.
Who wants to do dangerous shit when they’re high? That would be a bummer.
The woke surveillance state
they’re the ones answering the presidential 3am phone call??
And from whatever bed they want, bigot.
“Yo, someone put a rope around my famous client’s neck. That’s pretty eff’d up, you know?”
The time difference makes it easier to staff those 1-900 hotlines with gay British men and hot “women” living in the UK. 😉
Tom Bombadil
I’m just going to slide this in here:
Is anyone else noticing that a 3-year attempted coup is completely unreported in the “pages” of Reason?
Is there a bigger story (in the USA)?
totes buddies w/NR now so “Silence of the Never-Ts”
“Unreported”?
They may not describe it in terms you approve of, but they have certainly been reporting on attempts to take Trump out.
Funny how reason facts about the coup have Trump and America not as the victims but the perpetrators.
“Freedom of speech isn’t the same thing as the freedom to broadcast that speech,” insists April Glaser
“It’s the same thing as the freedom to listen to that speech, or not listen, or something.”
But I want the freedom not to have to make that choice!
Your free speech zone is now an isolation booth.
In Connecticut,”‘raising women up’ apparently means
bootstraps are in, ladies!
Garter belts!
Hey, there’s a reason we don’t teach the ladies how to wrap tefillin. We don’t want them getting ideas when they see the spare straps of leather behind the tannery.
From @DanHenninger in WSJ: “parties of the left-whether in the U.S., U.K., Germany or California-have come to regard the private sector as an alien tribe whose only function is to finance the public machinery that runs welfare, health and now climate protocols.”
Ryan (formally HFTO)
Sounds like the lives of my friends who marry progressive women
If we’re going to return to the ’70s, can we at least get some good music and movies to go along with the stagflation?
Humble Pie* has been on tour.
*BINO – Band In Name Only.
go see Dead & Co.
And orange and green and lemon appliances too? This industrial kitchen stainless look has to go.
Freedom of speech isn’t the same thing as the freedom to broadcast that speech…
I agree with Slate. We need our great President Trump to take the reins of our conversation platforms.
That’s true. Freedom of the Press is what guarantees the right to broadcast speech.
I think it’s freedom of the press for asynchronous publications and freedom of speech for broadcasting. The Supreme Court has argued that broadcasting can be regulated, because it is difficult to keep broadcasting out of one’s home. The judges figured that if a 3 year old can turn on your radio, politicians need to step in to prevent reciprocity. I disagree. Having a radio in the home is optional. If you don’t want your 3 year old listening to that “nigger music” on the radio, forget Tipper Gore’s non-profit and simply don’t keep a radio in your home.
Well, however you want to make the distinction, it’s all protected.
It’s very easy to keep broadcasting out of your house — turn off the TV or change the channel.
But those radio waves are still bumping into your brain.
it’s 2019 and there’s still no video more terrifying than this
Yes, the Mexican cartel videos of people being butchered alive are so less terrifying. Get over yourself you winey little douche bag (not Johnny).
“And here’s Greenwald, who spoke about the subject on the Tucker Carlson show last night”
Ugh. Greenwald is not only a phony progressive, he’s also a notorious #TrumpRussia denialist. I’m amazed he hasn’t retired from journalism in shame after the Mueller Report proved him completely wrong about everything. If he’s not on Putin’s payroll, he sure behaves like he is.
It’s no surprise such a terrible person would be cozy with alt-right white nationalist Tucker Carlson.
Because Greenwald is an actual liberal and not a commie.
To be fair they don’t require history classes in J school, just the ability to write word salads.
Alan Vanneman
“A lot of proverbial ink is spilled these days”
Uh, what does non-proverbial ink look like? How about “A lot of pixels are being wasted”?
Because that makes no sense.
Virtual pixels.
With the legalization of marijuana fewer hard-working pixels are dying, more are wasted.
It’s literally proverbial virtual ink. Even though no one uses actual ink anymore, and when they do you can’t spill it anyway.
“Look fabulous, you’re on CCTV!”
Would you prefer they instruct the community not to look fabulous because Big Brother is watching? MAKE UP YOUR BLOODY MINDS.
More bad economic news.
IBM is laying off more than 1,000 employees
#DrumpfRecession
#KrugmanWasRight
StagNation.
Low unemployment just means people are working two jobs and barely surviving.
#LibertariansForAOC
I can’t say I’m a big fan of strip clubs in general, but a strip club without liquor must be a pretty sad and pathetic sort of place.
“A strong mind in a strong body.”
H. Farnham
They’re not so bad. Instead of a beer, you just drink your own tears as you try to ignore C-Section scars and prison tattoos without the assistance of inebriation. Also a plus, if you can get past the mental blocks caused by awkward, sober conversation and the faint smell of sweat and desperation, then you’re not too drunk to get a hard-on during a lap dance.
Dude, you’re either going to the wrong clubs or going at the wrong times.
Nardz
Beat me to it, Ray
Right? It’s like saying you hate Mexican food when all you’ve ever had is Taco Bell.
What, so I’m just supposed to throw my hard-earned money away at some elitist juice bar where the girls don’t have physical deformities, mental maladies, and/or rampant drug abuse problems?
I remember the days when thriftiness and non-judgmental outlooks were virtues. I weep for this country.
TripK
I appreciate this post.
You need to go to better strip clubs
Only slightly less pathetic than the places that make them put stickers on their boobies.
A New Jersey Muslim opened up a strip juice bar to cater to men who refrain from alcohol for religious reasons. To each his own. 🙂
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/strip-club-stage-juice-bar-doesn-sell-booze-article-1.1009574
Yea but have you been to a place that has neither booze nor strippers? so boring
You mean work?
I have one stream of income that includes one of those things, so sometimes
Sounds like church.
I live in Washington, strip clubs without alcohol are indeed sad. There’s something deeply wrong with going to look at naked women and having “bartenders” offer you soda.
Biden still isn’t my first choice, but it’s good to see him join the right side of history.
Biden, in Reversal, Says He Supports Federal Money for Abortions
If you don’t support federal money for abortions, you’re basically a Handmaid’s Tale villain.
#LibertariansForFederallyFundedAbortion
He evolved.
what if you don’t support federal money spent on ANY medical expense? super villain?
Unsurprisingly good commentary by Glenn Greenwald. Didn’t Jon Stewart (and Bill Mahr, and certainly others) make fun of Lispin’ Lindsey Graham in the same way? Aren’t they still doing it?
I guess gay jokes are only OK when the target is a closeted Republican.
That’s different. Graham is a Republican, and Stewart and Maher are liberals.
Fuck off, I already made that joke.
Mine wasn’t a joke though. You need to educate yourself on the difference between punching up and punching down.
Give it up, dude. You’ve been making the same tired joke for months. Time to move on.
I hope he never quits. Until the leftists recognize their open borders and welfare state can’t coexist there’s a need to rub their noses in their nonsense libertopia. They call everyone a “slaver” while ignoring that we all pay welfare for migrants.
Long live OBL
I think he’s actually a double parody of the people who think that only lefties could possibly be fore more free immigration and that Reason writers are all secret Democrats. But I could be wrong. It could also be an attempt to imply that libertarians who don’t take a more culturally conservative and anti-immigration stance are secret leftists.
In any case it’s a one note song that has gotten very tiresome. Point made. Find a new shtick.
Fair point, any drum beat will get tiresome eventually. And yes there’s all kinds of ideas floating around. And there are many people like me who would support immigration reform but it won’t mean anything until we stop paying people to move here with taxpayer dollars.
Honestly, I think its art and everyone’s changing reactions to it is part of the play.
Yeah, sure. But it seems the reactions have settled into a steady state for a while now.
Sorry, dude, you got pwned by the troll. Don’t make an ass of yourself (wink, wink).
Yeah, whatever. I was going for more of a meta-troll analysis, but maybe I’m just a sucker.
I much prefer Incomprehensible Bitching for parody of incoherent talking points.
Mazakon
Here’s French at National Review:
Strange new respect is not limited to liberals apparently.
“I’m horrified by some of the stuff he writes, but I am a good friend of his.”
She has to cover her eyes when he drunkenly whips out his dangling modifiers.
Ilhan Omar Filed Joint Tax Returns with Man She Wasn’t Married to, Media Ignores Bombshell
“Things that make you go hmmm: read this closely and keep in mind that Ilhan Omar was legally married to Ahmed Elmi from 2009-2017 while also filing joint tax returns with Ahmed Hirsi in 2014 and 2015. Time to get federal IRS officials involved,” Malkin said.
Media is also ignoring Cummings wife openly violating tax laws with her charity that is paying her salary and non charity firm while receiving funding from corporations with business in front of the Senate.
Where is Lois Lerner when we need her?
Freddy the Jerk
Dunno, but don’t look for her in prison.
pile of money … pina coladas.
Open borders is not only the correct policy for the US, it’s the correct policy for other countries too. (Except Israel, of course.)
Japan’s Already Sluggish Birth Rate Fell to Record Low Last Year
Doesn’t Japan have its own equivalent of the Koch Brothers to fund open borders advocacy? Immigration is the best way to fix an aging population.
#OpenBordersForJapan
We could give Japan some of ours! We seem to have a plentiful supply lately.
We could give Japan some of ours!
Open Borders? Aging population? Koch Brothers?
If you are horrified by something Gillespie wrote, you really need to get some perspective.
#thatwasntrealcommunism
Both the ‘Why don’t poor, rural Americans just move?’ and ‘What if Christians controlled capitalism?’ from a few years back were… creepy.
If you are horrified by any of those things you need to get some perspective.
But their sources “cautioned that the accord is not final and that President Trump might not accept it.”
And none of you thought it would work.
CharlesWT
“Reason’s Scott Shackford looks at the latest expansion of occupational licensing rules for salon staff.
You have to have a license in anti-libertarian straw-manning to be a Salon staff writer.
Koch network opens its doors to Democrats as it expands political engagement
The Kochs clearly agree with the fundamental point I’ve been making all along. With the Republicans now controlled by alt-right white nationalists, Koch / Reason libertarians should be supporting Democrats.
#VoteDemocratForOpenBorders
#ImmigrationAboveAll
Well, somebody has to keep wages down.
Ken Shultz
FWIW, in the post below about Brave . . .
When subscription sales disappeared along with advertising, it made publications like Reason even more dependent on donors.
The Brave Rewards model I described below enables a system where publications go back to competing with each other for the attention of readers rather than donors–doesn’t it?
I have forgotten who it was that suggested I check out Brave (software browser) the other day, but I’d like to thank that person. This is huge! Brave may be the most exciting thing happening in tech right now, especially since Brave’s model hits Google and Facebook right where it hurts the most–in the pocketbook.
There’s this thing called the Brave Rewards program. As you surf the internet, you’re subjected to all sorts of targeted advertising, and that’s what’s paying the bills at places like Facebook and Google. Brave blocks all that advertising, but, if you wish (long story short), you can participate in advertising that’s driven by your own local data–but data that’s never shared with the advertisers themselves. Best of all, the revenue from that advertising is split by three entities–1) Brave themselves (they’re doing this for profit), 2) You (you get paid for the advertising you see if you choose to turn that on, and 3) a website you choose–for instance, you could choose to pay Reason.
When Brave first came out, it was condemned as theft by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post because of its ability to block their advertising so effectively. All three have now reversed that stance and have registered as members of the Brave Rewards program, so that their fans can pay them for the advertising they see–while they’re on other sites. In fact, Dow Jones company was, at one point, offering a free two-year subscription to Barron’s just for signing up for the program.
Also, again, it should be noted that the advertising revenue that is generated by Brave Rewards program users and redirected to themselves, Brave, and the publishers of their choice is coming at the expense of targeted advertising platforms like Google and Facebook. Brave is eating their lunch and using consumer choice to do it. Those of you who want the government to break up Facebook and Google because their market position is too strong owe it to your own integrity to exercise your freedom of choice in the struggle against Facebook’s and Google’s targeted advertising model.
Don’t go crying to the government about how you don’t have enough freedom of choice when you’re not taking advantage of the choices that are available to you.
P.S. The only downside I’ve experienced with using the Brave browser over the past week is that it’s the fastest fucking browser I’ve ever used in my life. It’s better than Ad Block.
P.P.S. Seriously, to whomever it was that turned me onto Brave earlier this week, thank you! When the Hit & Run community was at its best, subjecting my thinking to your scrutiny made me smarter and I learned about things from other people here that I wouldn’t have learned about in my daily life otherwise (not as soon anyway).
>>>and I learned about things from other people here that I wouldn’t have learned about in my daily life otherwise
yeah now you’re the other guy … better than the articles.
I always look forward to Ken’s comment.
As someone that is skeptical of Google and Facebook and their tight control of the public square.. I am interested. I will check this out and see hows its come along.
I used to use Brave back when it first launched but it was really confusing to me.
This is the first I’ve heard of Brave. I’m trying it out now. Thank you for the heads up!
Re Jong-Fast: “… but I was so shocked that American white women had voted for this guy who was so clearly against all of their interests. I was just completely shocked. I wept every day, and I remember that after—”
I stopped here. If she’s shaping the future of the DNC – yikes. Sell your bonds.
Teenage level nonsense.
damikesc
She was the CPAC correspondant for the ultra-conservative Bulwark, who is, if one did not know, trying its hardest to conserve conservatism.
…apparently by sending out prog hogs to mock conservatives and cancer survivors.
Come on, Rufus, don’t you know that American women all share the exact same interests?
Except when they’ve been brainwashed by their husbands and fathers.
And if they don’t, more woke womyn will tell them what their interests are.
John Steppenwolf agrees.
Molly represents everything wrong with white limousine liberal women, and ENB loves posting her garbage. A group of women who have it better than any group of women in the history of the species, and yet they’re always the victims.
“Stop oppressing me!” she cried, as she applied the pliers to his balls once more.
Well, there is still that rape fantasy…
Surprisingly common
A group of women who have it better than any group of humans in the history of the species, and yet they’re always the victims.
FIFY you sexist bigot.
Very true, when white women say their oppressed it used to make my jaw drop. Now it just makes me laugh.
Everyone who votes differently than me… is voting against their own interest! It’s amazing.
The woke surveillance state welcomes you to Manchester’s Gay Village. “Look fabulous, you’re on CCTV!”
This reminds me of that time someone left a video camera pointing at us changing in the gym locker room of my high school. The other boys laughed about it and posed for the camera. I wrote a note and taped it in front of the camera lense saying that I would complain to the Board of Education if this ever happened again. The camera never came back. I was the geeky teen who ruined everyone’s fun.
Wow, looking at the photo: Hillary is not aging well.
I don’t know. I bet Hillary’s arms are way flabbier than that.
Zeb leads the Great Unwoke.
in on that march.
Sexist.
I wouldn’t brag that noted imbecile Jung-Fast is anybody’s friend. Does she have MORE cancer survivors to mock for looking old?
They bask in the stink that is Molly’s work. An ignorant progressive virtue signaller with nothing but sad lonely followers who have too many cats
Unfortunately, everyone who isn’t a liberal is a Nazi
Liberalism = forcing someone else to pay for your shit and complying with your crazy ass ideas …
What does liberty have to do with this?
Modern liberalism is the opposite of liberty. They despise it.
I look forward to the article condemning Mexico for walling off migrants, on their dollar, because the orange man told them to.
One of the golden rule of Reason is “never criticize Mexicans”. There must be a lot of gnashing of teeth over this.
It’s a shame. Pot and ass-sex are more fun and interesting.
I’m a pretty open-immigration kind of guy, but even I would like to see a lot more subtlety and nuance in Reason’s immigration coverage. Though I’ve mostly stopped reading it, so I can’t say I haven’t missed something.
They should at least acknowledge more that there is a real debate among libertarians. Maybe get someone on staff that takes a different view.
I have stopped reading them too. I still sometimes give in to the temptation but those threads are never fun or interesting. And the articles are never informative.
“And the estimates do not include Trump’s signature issues of immigration restriction and trade protectionism.”
Do they include Trump’s signature issues of enforcing existing immigration laws, and opposition to foreign governments stealing from American companies?
Of course, any reports using the terms from our dead past such as “liberal’ and “conservative” are suspect from the start. Try again using questions that lead to answers based on preferring individual freedom .vs state control. Call it the freedom index, maybe.
I never thought I would see the day that Reason would be cheer leading David French in an argument against Glenn Greenwald. Wherever you come down on the issue, Greenwald makes an honest argument and voices legitimate concerns. French as usual being a dishonest asshole. He conflates issues of anti trust and cartels with issues of free speech. The two are not the same and the issue here has nothing to do with the 1st Amendment. The issue here is the legal immunity these platforms have been given as “common carriers” and how they are increasingly looking like an illegal cartel. French avoids those usses and goes on a rant about the 1st Amendment not applying to private parties.
Christ what an asshole.
French as usual being a dishonest asshole.
He may be a dishonest asshole, but the important thing is that he doesn’t raise his voice.
All of the claims made about French’s alleged civility are dumfounding. Here is what Paster David had to say in 2016 about the President and more importantly his supporters.
A minority of its primary voters have torched its founders’ legacy by voting for a man who combines old-school Democratic ideology, a bizarre form of hyper-violent isolationism, fringe conspiracy theories, and serial lies with an enthusiastic flock of online racists to create perhaps the most toxic electoral coalition since George Wallace.
The last sentence is the most illustrative of who French really is. He calls Trump’s coalition or in other words the President’s supporters ” an enthusiastic flock of online racists to create perhaps the most toxic electoral coalition since George Wallace”. Mr. Nice Guy conservative called 50% of his own party violent racists for the crime of disagreeing with him on immigration and trade. He is a real Christian French.
Well, that’s why the left-leaning libertarians go for him I guess.
“a bizarre form of hyper-violent isolationism”
A magazine called ‘Reason’ links to this?
Saying we should enforce the immigration laws and keep people from entering the country illegally is “a bizarre form of hyper-violent isolationism”.
And he has never taken any of this back or admitted that maybe things got a little out of hand in 2016. Nope, Paster David appearently still believes this.
Like I said the other day, what’s this new found fetish for French?
Is he just the new ‘go-to’ guy? Is this a cocktail deal of some kind?
It looks like French finally got his invite to the Journolist.
Of course strippers want to work where alcohol is served. Nothing like some beer goggles to improve sex appeal (and tips).
Statistics of the Day:
Apprehensions at the U.S. border in all of 2007 by nationality:
Mexicans: 800,000
Guatemalans + Salvadorans + Hondurans: 54,000
Guatemalans + Salvadorans + Hondurans: 226,000
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-pressures-mexico-as-second-day-of-border-talks-begin-11559826586?
Apprehensions at the U.S. border in May of 2019 alone:
132,887 people (34% increase from April of 2019).
84,542 of these were traveling as a family with children
Another 11,507 were minors traveling alone
Regardless of whether you oppose a controlled border and regardless of whether you oppose Trump using trade policy to get Mexico to do more on immigration, cutting the people of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras off from eligibility for asylum in the U.S. if they travel through Mexico is a reasonable and constitutional policy position. Pressuring Mexico to join a bilateral agreement to become a “third safe country” to achieve that is also a reasonable and constitutional policy position. Just because we disagree with something doesn’t mean we have to pretend it’s crazy.
We can only hope that more journalists will make the moral case for letting these asylum seekers in and drop the “Trump is crazy!” horseshit. Anyone who opposes Trump’s “safe third country” policy would do well to address it on an honest basis. If you thought the desire for populism was bad before, wait ’til the American people become even more persuaded that the elitists are so obtuse that even a crisis won’t force them to face reality–and only a strong man can get things done.
He is using trade policy as a means to achieve other ends. Understand, that reason has no values other than access to cheap goods. So, the idea that there might be other competing interests is completely foreign to them.
There was an article yesterday in which Binion did his best Sally Struthers impersonation–blaming it all on Trump’s insanity and not even mentioning the Trump administration’s demands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNnkbkZeWKc
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (signed by Bill Clinton!) bars asylum for someone who can be returned to a “safe third country”. According to that law, however, the U.S. must have a bilateral or multilateral agreement with the “safe third country” in question. We already have such an agreement with Canada. Trump is pressuring Mexico to join in a bilateral agreement to become a “safe third country” like the agreement we already have with Canada.
If these people were no longer eligible for asylum, they wouldn’t come here. We may disagree with Trump’s solution. We may disagree with Trump’s tactics to achieve that agreement even if we support the agreement. We should not, however, ignore the logic behind what Trump is doing or pretend that this is all entirely irrational because Trump is so crazy. That’s unworthy of libertarianism and it’s unworthy of Reason’s legacy.
“When REASON speaks of poverty, racism, the draft, the war, studentpower, politics, and other vital issues, it shall be reasons, not slogans, it gives for conclusions. Proof, not belligerent assertion. Logic, not legends. Coherance (sic), not contradictions. This is our promise: this is the reason for REASON.”
—-Lanny Frielander, Reason, Issue 1, 1968
That’s was the thinking behind every issue of Reason–right up until a few years ago. I still haven’t lost my religion. I don’t have to agree with people on anything else, but emotional appeals to pity have no place in a libertarian debate, which isn’t to say that we can’t talk about ethics or harm reduction or even social responsibility. If being a libertarian means anything, it’s believing that people should be free to make choices for themselves and arguing for that in a rational and honest way.
Reason will run a million stories on the evils of small children being dumped at the border and denied entry but never run a single story about those harmed by illegal immigration. If you want to talk in anecdotes and emotional appeals, fine. But do so for both sides because each anecdote is just a valid as the other.
Leo Kovalensky II
Reason will run a million stories on the evils of small children being dumped at the border and denied entry but never run a single story about those harmed by illegal immigration.
While I don’t agree with the constant call to emotion, there is a difference in the above scenarios. In the case of the children at the border the actor causing the “harm” is the state. In the case of people being “harmed by illegal immigration” it’s almost always the actions of individuals doing the ‘harm.”
Do you honestly not see why that distinction might be important to libertarians?
In the case of the children at the border the actor causing the “harm” is the state.
Which state?
While I agree that the Government should not be hurting people in their custody, most of these stories of immigrant deaths and injury are from long exposure, dehydration, and/or malnutrition and the medical folks cannot save the kids.
Additionally, there is a bunch of undermining of the secure border policy by the open border people, so the illegals are the casualties. The majority of illegals could be turned away at the border, if the courts didn’t force the Border patrol to take all these sickly illegals in and put them in underfunded facilities.
War is Hell!
If you thought the desire for populism was bad before, wait ’til the American people become even more persuaded that the elitists are so obtuse that even a crisis won’t force them to face reality–and only a strong man can get things done.
2020 should be very interesting indeed.
And if populism on the right is scary, what does the left’s populist reaction look like come 2024?
Whatever the proper definition of populism is, it’s got something to do with a reaction to elitism, and the solution to that can’t be trying to make average people feel like they’re crazy, evil, and stupid for wanting to have a say in immigration policy. That’s the sun and water that makes populism grow.
On the other hand, I don’t get treated like a shithead by people around here who disagree with me on immigration and trade. It’s not the positions that make people hate elitism as much as it’s the elitists’ disdain for the concerns of average people–whose qualitative preferences are just as valuable and important as those of the elitists.
It isn’t that elitists prefer chocolate chip ice cream. It’s that they they want to force everyone to eat chocolate chip exclusively, and they enthusiastically pretend that everyone who doesn’t prefer chocolate chip is stupid, evil, and unworthy of a logical response or honesty. If the populists will vote against us just for that reason alone, then it’s probably better to lose an argument we should win on the facts than to make average people hate us for no good reason.
It’s better to live and fight another day than to poison the well for another generation.
More than anything I hate how they have taken economics and tried to make it into philosophy and a moral rationalization for putting their interests ahead of all others.
HuffnPuff wants you to know that…
Women Aren’t The Only People Who Get Abortions
Transgender men and other gender-nonconforming folks get abortions, too. But no one’s discussing how the recent abortion bans will affect them.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-arent-the-only-people-who-get-abortions_n_5cf55540e4b0e346ce8286d3
How can someone be that retarded? I can’t figure out if they are in fact that insane and stupid or just that depraved and willing to say anything that the party demands it.
The entire transgender thing is an exposition of how totalitarian ideologies force their believers to tell lies as an expression of their power. The greater the lie, the greater the humiliation the follower suffers when telling it and the greater the power the party is asserting over them.
This will be looked back upon as the grand delusion of our times. Similar to ether and seances from victorian times.
I hope so. I have a bad feeling it will do more damage than those things, however. AGW and transgenderism are the mass hysteria of our time.
I disagree, I think it will look way worse. More like Lysenko or the work of Mengele or, potentially, like the mystery of the end of Mayan Civilization. Ether was a useful theory until something better came along and seances were entertaining. Transgenderism *requires* you to sweep aside centuries of biology and ignore the criticisms of doctors and even transgender people themselves to no real objective end outside empowering irrational minority advocates.
It really only takes a large enough group of people to say “I don’t care about what twitter says” to end this nonsense. These people do not have as much power as they seem to.
Quality Beef
Sorry, no you don’t get to appropriate being a man.
Captain: Abort! Abort!
Woman (excited with prospect of free abortion): I can’t find the abortion clinic!
Captain: What? THE SHIP IS SINKING!
Woman: YOU’RE INTERFERING WITH MY RIGHT TO CHOOSE!
Captain (rowing from dingy): Ciao!
http://quillette.com/2019/06/05/a-modest-defence-of-the-missionary-position/
A defense of the missionary position.
I never thought an article on *sex* could be so damn boring.
No kidding. But I guess an article on the most boring sexual position being boring kind of fits.
http://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/1136674462911422465
The Vox writers’ strike is one of the most enjoyable media dramas in a while. When does Vox start hiring scaps? I would happily write a few articles on their sports cites in my spare time. If it involved getting to cross a picket line with the likes of Dylan Matthews trying to stop me, I might pay for the pleasure.
Scabs are good. Pinkertons with axe handles would be even better.
The Vox Scabs would be a great name for an all girl thrash metal band.
Forget it Jake. It’s Salon.
+1 You can’t yell “Fire” in a crowded theater.
terrible ruling. stop and look around *before* panic dummies.
Never should have been a thing the other Branches of Government allowed the Courts to make up.
Does anyone else remember the days when police and prosecutors used to say regularly “Sorry, but that person has committed no crime”…”We cannot do anything about it”?
Now its unacceptable for Lefties if their government cannot do something about it.
The YouTube purge is not Maza’s fault. That is on Google. But, you tell me how you reisist the temptation of enjoying watching him get blamed for it.
By not being a bigoted sociopath like John.
Says the craziest, most bigoted sociopath on this site.
liberal, pro-government initiatives has declined
Definitely a game of semantics. When I was a kid, “liberals” tended to distrust the government.
Notice how the percent of liberals in that poll is never below 55%. This despite Republicans being on a generally upward trend going back to 1980. So whatever it means, it doesn’t translate to the elections.
Oh, John, felt the need to send you this note. A couple of days ago you posted a link about a 17yr old girl that was able to get state assisted euthanasia for her depression.
Turned out that wasn’t true. While the background information on the girl was mostly correct, she did apply to the state for assisted suicide, but her request was denied. She died from complications related to Anorexia.
I saw that. Shame on me for believing anything I read in the papers without checking it. Still a tragic story. The girl starved herself to death. But it wasn’t the state that did it.
It gave me back some faith in the Netherland’s policy on assisted suicide.
And the other good news is this wasn’t fake news in the sense that someone bullshitted a story to make it go viral, it was an honest mistake of reporting that went viral.
>>>David French … offered some some wise words
dudes just stop
Reason now has joined the Church of the Holy Civility, Smugness and Cheap Migrant Labor under its Pastor David French.
next up, facebook comments only. idiots.
Before OpenBordersLiberal-tarian points out the following example of how competition and capitalism are making us all miserable and poor, I thought I’d jump on it first:
“AT&T’s WarnerMedia will launch its streaming video service in beta later this year, bundling HBO, Cinemax, and a library of Warner Bros. movies and TV. The package will cost “between $16 and $17 a month”
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/6/18655637/att-warnermedia-streaming-service-price-film-tv-hbo-cinemax
I kept thinking that HBO would be doomed post GoT on just a pricing basis. If Netflix can only charge $12.99 a month for more content than HBO, how can HBO compete for just that one channel at its current price of $15 a month through HBO Now?
The answer is that HBO Now will be folded into WarnerMedia’s streaming competitor to Netflix, and both HBO Now and WarnerMedia’s library + original shows will only cost you a dollar or two more than we’re paying for HBO alone right now.
They keep giving us more for less. It’s almost as bad as Google and Facebook giving us stuff for free. Maybe Liz Warren should have the FTC and the Justice Department save us from this vicious cycle of lower and lower prices giving us more and more stuff.
AT&T’s WarnerMedia will launch its streaming video service in beta later this year, bundling HBO, Cinemax, and a library of Warner Bros. movies and TV.
You need a device to stream it which they are tentatively calling a Beta-Max. Get yours now before they sell out!
DC Pride parade outlaws Israeli flags but permits Palestinan flags.
Can anybody guess what country has homosexuality being ILLEGAL? Try doing a Pride Parade in Jerusalem vs doing it in the Gaza Strip for shits and/or giggles.
somehow makes me feel better to know people are that stupid
Yeah, that their support of totalitarian regimes comes from a place of ignorance and not malice softens the blow to our sensibilities.
Liberalism in America is at a record high, according to a new look at data on America’s Public Policy Mood. A “measure of left/right preferences over policy choices in American politics,” the mood was more liberal in 2018 than at any previous point in the history of recording it.
There is no “Liberalism” in the USA. They are Socialists. There is nothing they like about Liberty or Social Liberalism that does not involve massive government.
Animal ownership: Not without massive restrictions about licenses, no declawing, and must be on leashes.
Marriage: Not without massive government force that you must bake cakes for people you don’t want to.
Guns: No fucking way. Guns should be banned.
Speech: Only speech that is authorized is acceptable. Lefties created “Hate Speech” to identify bad speech.
A classical liberal education begins with a foundation in logic and history. How can lefties and protards be described as liberal when they start every argument with a logical fallacy and completely ignore the history of the last century?
The American Left: celebrating 100 years of socialist governments killing 200 million of their own citizens ‘for the good of the people’. Their slogan should be:
Get the MeSSaGE? – Make Soviet Socialism Great Everywhere!
How do you two even get to the grocery store being this fucking stupid?
We have been wondering that about you for years Tony. It is good to see that you are aware of the problem. The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one. Good luck and God speed.
Tell me more about how American Democrats are itching to kill 200 million people, and that’s why you’re forced to support an orange blob of severe mental illness as president.
Where does it say itching to kill?
The 200 million reference is about past socialist countries killing their citizens.
And thank you Vic for pointing that he also ignored the historical context of my comment, as predicted.
I like Tony. He really is a princess among Progtards.
Undertaken by forms of government literally nobody, running for office or not, is advocating (largely because they were failures). You’re just being an idiot and playing semantic purple nurple. It’s so fucking dumb. Those societies had more in common with the authoritarian shitshow you Trump ball fondlers all seem to want lately.
Undertaken by forms of government literally nobody, running for office or not, is advocating (largely because they were failures).
The USSR was one of two superpowers for 45 years. North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, all still going strong. The Chinese government has killed more of its own citizens than the others combined and is still interring them by the millions today.
To call them failures? Fallacious.
To deny Bernie Sanders is not advocating for them? Fallacious.
To call me an idiot and imply I am taking a side? Fallacious.
ALL FALLACY AND NO FACTS MAKES TONY A DULL BOY.
But you said that you think the American left celebrates the genocides of authoritarian communist nations of the past. It’s right there.
BOOM! Straw man! Care to go for the trifecta?
You mean saying American liberals favor authoritarian communism? That one?
Engagement? That is different…
Public health care, basic income, and mandatory state service are inherently socialist and communist staples, but have been shown to be possible without Stalin-like levels of mass displacement.
What I need explained is how they expect to subject the American economy to something like the Green New Deal without implementing draconian regulations and curtailing the use of private property on a level comparable with Stalin’s first 5-year plan. The fact that they know the legislation will never be passed does not make them any less authoritarian for having proposed it.
If you didn’t draconian regulations you should have accepted scientific fact 30 years ago and accepted the mild regulations that would have been possible then. Instead you insisted that polluting the global environment should be penalty-free. Free money from us and our governments. That’s on you dude. I don’t want draconian anything, just a workable solution.
I am really disappointed that Tony didn’t go for the hat trick.
BOOM! Ad hominem! Way to make my point for me.
More logic 101 vocab words. What do you think it is I do here?
And why don’t you ever bitch when Trump says mean things about other people?
What do you think it is I do here?
Dude, you called me out. Either you argue without fallacy or you are just another progtard with no facts.
Why would I bother? There are 1,000 progtards that beat me to it every time. No matter how much I dislike the man, as President, he has been effective at blocking the slide to socialism.
He’s the only politician of either party who would dare raise your taxes, and that’s just what he’s doing. But at least some poor baby isn’t getting affordable healthcare it didn’t work for.
The complete failure of Republicanism to achieve anything good whatsoever for the country in 40 years eventually had to have some effect on people’s mood.
*googles NASDAQ*
*scratches head*
Yeah, did much better under Obama.
So you admit you were lying when you said “The complete failure of Republicanism to achieve anything good whatsoever”
Which of course, has sweet fuckall to do with Obama.
No. Name something. If you want to give credit to Republicans for the current economic cycle, be my guest. But it is a cycle, and an intellectually honest person (not you) will have to give them the blame when the recession comes.
And then they will be objectively, undeniably blameworthy when their stupid pro-cyclical horseshit economic philosophy makes the problem worse (again) until a Democrat comes along (again) to clean it all up.
Name a policy they’ve imposed on the country in 40 years that actually did any good. You’re free to say the Iraq war, if you think that was a good idea.
Republicans and Democrats have never achieved anything good.
Democrats invented modern civilization as we know it following WWII, with Republicans bitching the whole time, finally coming to full power and attempting to undo much of that civilization. They succeeded in redistributing most of the wealth to the top fraction of a percent of wealth owners, but they couldn’t quite abolish the welfare state because the people actually like it. Which is why you hate democracy. It doesn’t give you everything you demand. Welcome to the club.
The democrat party..the party of slavery.
I would have hoped that the failure of government to achieve anything good would have shifted moods in another direction. But it seems to be having the opposite effect.
Unionizing efforts at Vox aren’t going so well.
The 17 people who routinely read Vox must really be upset about this walkout.
Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland
I would expect right-wingers to be sympathetic with respect to the plight of the unpopular.
For America’s liberal-libertarian alliance, meanwhile, the perfect accompaniment to extremely high popularity is the prospect of the next few elections!
See you on election day(s), clingers.
“clingers”
So sayeth the Reason Gecko.
I don’t think so. They won’t let a sentient jar full of the gall bladders of failed dictators into the voting booth. Not even with ID.
We all know you vote absentee.
Darth Soros
In related news, the American Society of Abnormal Psychology reports a surge in sadomasochism. Subjects studied would say things like “Tax me! Tax me hard!” Those more on the “S” side of S&M liked to dress up in a leather “Hillary, She-Wolf of the IRS” costume while wielding a whip.
“Hillary, She-Wolf of the IRS”
WAIT! NOBODY TOLD ME THE SAFE WORD!!!!
EISTAU Gree-Vance
EVERYTHING IS SO TERRIBLE AND UNFAIR!!!!!
Climate change guilt. Racial guilt, if you’re white, racial grievance if you’re not. Income inequality grievance. All of lefty ideology is completely centered around guilt and grievance, dividing people into groups of villains and victims and promoting resentment.
That there are people out there who are wary of the possible remedies that might come from this mindset confuses and angers them. You don’t have to be an “irredeemable, deplorable, uneducated red state hick in flyover country” to be concerned about green new overkill deals, reparations and waves of third world poverty pouring over the border.
The pandering, virtue signaling left should take some responsibility for creating the possibility of a president Trump. Tens of millions of people who don’t hate anyone, but are tired of the notion that they have anything to atone for, played a trick on them in 2016. They will again next year. And the angry left will weep again as people fail to understand their obvious brilliance.
“Also, don’t raise my taxes or I’m gonna fucking whine like you’ve never heard whining before.”
Life isn’t fair. Pay your taxes.
I’m sure you will if you ever find a job, Tony.
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Conservation genetics of the threatened catfish Conorhynchos conirostris (Siluriformes: incertae sedis): an evolutionary relict endemic to the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil
Daniel C. Carvalho, Luciano B. Beheregaray
Analysis of genetic datasets can be particularly useful in providing guidelines for conservation management of understudied species targeted by commercial activities. Here we used population genetic approaches to inform on the conservation status of the Neotropical long-nose pirá catfish, Conorhynchos conirostris. Pirá is a large migratory fish endemic to the São Francisco River Basin (SFRB). It is an evolutionarily divergent and relict species, being the sole representative of an incertae sedis family. The species is considered locally extinct in the upper and lower SFRB, listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and as endangered on the Brazilian Red List (ICMBIO). Fishing prohibition has received severe criticism from middle SFRB fisheries that claim that this understudied species is relatively abundant in that region. We used information from 13 microsatellite markers and COI mitochondrial sequences to clarify the genetic diversity of this enigmatic species in the middle SFRB, to estimate contemporary effective population size (Ne), and to assess its conservation status. Results from bottleneck analyses indicated that the species has experienced recent reductions in population size, which is consistent with small estimates of contemporary Ne. The predicted amount of heterozygosity loss (Ht) in t generations ranged from 0.1152 (for an estimated Ne of 26.4; t = 100) to 0.7573 (for an estimated Ne of 169.9; t = 10). Our study supports the conservation status proposed by the ICMBIO to the remaining pirá population. Moreover, we highlight the need for demographic data and the re-assessment of the current IUCN classification for this evolutionary relict lineage.
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Carvalho, D. C., & Beheregaray, L. B. (2018). Conservation genetics of the threatened catfish Conorhynchos conirostris (Siluriformes: incertae sedis): an evolutionary relict endemic to the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil. Conservation Genetics, 19(5), 1223-1230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-018-1090-7
Carvalho, Daniel C. ; Beheregaray, Luciano B. / Conservation genetics of the threatened catfish Conorhynchos conirostris (Siluriformes: incertae sedis) : an evolutionary relict endemic to the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil. In: Conservation Genetics. 2018 ; Vol. 19, No. 5. pp. 1223-1230.
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Protect protected farmland from permanent destruction
Goodbye to Precious Farmland
Why Farms Matter
The Road to Cudgen
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Sydney’s Northern Beaches Hospital is the same size as proposed for Kingscliff Stage 1! For many residents it has spelled the ruination of French’s Forest. Read their personal stories here, then try to imagine what the undisclosed planning changes will mean to you and your town. The State Government is refusing to acknowledge responsibility for restoring any lost amenity to the town, upgrading anything but the immediate road network, upgrading other infrastructure needed for the hospital and its adjoining medical precinct. Dealing with under-supply of parking nearby and inadequate road network capacity in Kingscliff Central which will experience large volumes of traffic diverting around the hospital zone congestion is totally off the government’s agenda. Tweed residents will suffer the unpleasant impacts and pick up the tab for reparation.
Here is the government’s recently adopted North Coast Regional Plan for 2036. (NCRP) March 2017. It shows the planned major growth centres for the next 20 years.
After much public consultation the Government decided that the growth focus would be the regional city of Tweed Heads, with a Regional Health Precinct of out-of-hospital services clustered around a new much enlarged hospital, acting as the main economic driver for the city. (see “Tweed Regional City” under “Direction 7” at the DPE website) High rise high density residential development would take advantage of the hospital and public transport proximity and sustain the street level retail and private health services. The Tweed Council prepared government endorsed Local Environmental Plans and Development Control Plans to reflect the NCRP.
Tweed Heads.
In 2018, despite all these plans, the Government suddenly announced a drastic reversal. It is completely relocating the hospital (except perhaps for some “out-of-hospital” services (click here for official details.)) away from Tweed Heads by 2022. The elderly or chronically ill residents who relied on the published plans and used their life savings to purchase within walking distance of the Tweed Hospital will now be expected to travel to a new hospital around 15km away to obtain attention. Due to some government equivocation, not everyone may be fully aware of these impending un-heralded changes in their circumstances.
Because of the Class 5 status of the new Kingscliff Hospital, the Planning Minister has already appointed a consultant to facilitate the transfer of private health services such as consulting rooms, private clinics, day surgery etc to re-assemble round the new Kingscliff hospital, and new health related businesses will be encouraged to establish there as well. This exodus of hundreds of jobs and the desertion of acres of medical floorspace will of course hollow out the former health precinct and main economic driver of Tweed Heads. The resultant impact on retail and club industry viability and jobs in Tweed Heads can be expected to be devastating. There has been no public discussion of these adverse economic outcomes prior to or since announcements of the plan change.
Kingscliff & Cudgen
In contrast to Tweed Heads, the lesser villages of Kingscliff & Cudgen barely rated a mention in the NCRP. The residents’ declared environment and lifestyle expectations are expressed in the recent draft Kingscliff Locality Plan (KLP) – two years in the making.
“Kingscliff is renowned for its low key coastal settlement atmosphere, proximity to the
beaches, environmental qualities of Cudgen Creek and the expansive coastal foreshore.
Agricultural and farming define the edge of the Kingscliff and Cudgen settlements and when combined with the green hinterland back drop forms the unique landscape and visual character of Tweeds Green Caldera. Natural attributes and the coastal character make Kingscliff one of the Tweed’s most popular tourism destinations, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
The future vision for the Kingscliff locality is for a vibrant coastal town servicing
the needs of the local residents as well as the broader network of Tweed coastal
villages and tourist alike. A coastal town which offers a prosperous and healthy
community life, local economy and employment opportunities, appropriately
scaled goods and service provision, diversity of housing choice nestled within
a highly valued environmental context fringed with a working agricultural
hinterland.”
The KLP was at pains to preserve the attractive low-rise character, agricultural fringe and low key development as the key to this vision. What the government has failed to properly share is that the initial doubling of the current Tweed Hospital size and its transfer to Kingscliff (along with all the associated private health infrastructure around it) will achieve the opposite to the community vision expressed through consultation. It will instead create the City of Kingscliff/Cudgen, the Regional Health Precinct city-scape that was once intended for Tweed Heads. The community is entitled to an no-nonsense explanation of how a new hospital ultimately 20% bigger than the current Gold Coast University Hospital (see latest proposal details on DoP website) can be inserted into a town with no associated development in proximity.
On April 13, 2018, MP Geoff Provest insisted in his press release that “Development of this site will not fragment the Cudgen Plateau, and its size allows for future hospital expansion and health and education developments without encroaching on surrounding farmland.” This implies that the Hospital Precinct development will always be totally confined to the currently selected site. Mr. Provest must have been badly misinformed, as his statement is in clear conflict with the definition of a Regional Health Precinct in the NC Regional Plan.
Despite our local MP’s bland assurances, the Minister for Planning the Hon. Anthony Roberts has recently announced that he has already appointed a specialist consultant to facilitate the creation of a Regional Health Precinct around the new hospital site. (click here to read). Incredibly, he is still asking us to believe that the hospital site will always remain an isolated concrete tower in the middle of a potato field. But as predicted above, he has now started referring to Kingscliff as the “Tweed Regional City”.
It can be seen from the map and table below, that not only has the likely impact of committed development been seriously under-stated, the adjacent land impact of co-located private infrastructure continues to be concealed from the public.
The government continues to attempt non-disclosure of whatever drastic future changes are planned by lodging its Concept Development Applications in stages. The first was one just for Site Preparation, where the whole project becomes fully committed but the social, economic and environmental impacts of the completed works are barely declared to the public, if at all. The next DA which ought to have full disclosure, but does not, was lodged in mid 2019 – long after all work was locked in with contracts let.
These two communities are entitled be made aware of the full implications of the long term dramatic changes to the lifestyle and amenity they presently enjoy. They should be allowed to choose or reject the changed vision before an irreversible commitment is made.
Possible Ultimate Land Use Plan to Meet Full “Health Precinct” requirements when 900 bed capacity reached. (20% larger than GC University Hospital today.)
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LINDY PARKER HATED the rodeo. Just in general. The sights, the smells, the cloud of testosterone that covered everything.
She hadn’t always hated it, but now it all reminded her of her ex-husband. Damien was so firmly part of that world to her. Whenever she’d gone to rodeo events, it had been for the sole purpose of seeing Damien’s work. To see the results of PR campaigns he’d run and to rub elbows with possible sponsors.
The rest of it didn’t much appeal to her. Dirt and bright lights and overly loud announcers.
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Cocky. Arrogant. Jerks.
Even her younger brother, Dane, suffered from a bad case of it when he’d been out on the circuit for too long.
But there was no bull rider who irked her quite like Wyatt Dodge. Her dear ex’s favorite rider. A man who’d made Damien tons of money and inflated his ego beyond the telling of it, which, in her humble opinion, had contributed to the flagrant affair her husband had engaged in with a woman who had—at the time—worked at Grassroots Winery, and had been young enough that she still probably remembered how to get to Sesame Street.
Not that it was Wyatt Dodge’s fault. No, Damien was responsible for his own body parts and where they wandered. He was the one who had made vows to her, and even if she did feel like perhaps his prolonged exposure to a pack of manwhores hadn’t helped her marriage, she knew exactly where the fault lay for what had transpired.
With Damien.
She’d caught him kissing an employee of their winery. A much younger employee. Sarabeth, who Lindy had considered a casual friend. A woman she’d invited into her home. A woman she’d paid an hourly wage to. And apparently some of those hours had been spent in bed with Lindy’s husband.
And Lindy could hold a grudge. And had. All the way to court, where she had managed to get full ownership of Damien’s family winery, Grassroots Winery.
Jamison Leighton and his wife had been unsurprisingly angry at the way all that had gone. But, they shouldn’t have left the entire thing to a son who didn’t know how to keep it in his pants. Particularly not a son who had signed a very foolish prenuptial agreement, designed only to protect him from her. Which had meant that all bad behavior stipulated in said agreement had been based on the assumption that she would be the one to do all the very bad things.
And so, she had emerged victorious. She’d given more power back to his sisters, who had not had a chance to claim any part of the property from his parents, but who had stood by her side through the ordeal.
She was close to Sabrina and Bea, in spite of the fact that they were blood-related to Damien. They were the sisters of her heart, and they all worked together even now.
She loved the winery, but unfortunately it was that work that brought her to the Get Out of Dodge ranch now—and was bringing her into contact with a man that she liked less than cooked carrots.
Bull rider. Manwhore. Friend of her ex-husband.
Wyatt Dodge.
Lindy gritted her teeth and parked her little red car in the gravel lot. She questioned her decision-making sometimes. The fact that she’d come to Wyatt with the idea of the joint barbecue that would hopefully increase business at both Grassroots and Get Out of Dodge. A barbecue that would showcase the grounds of the dude ranch and the wines from Grassroots, and educate people on the different activities available at both locations.
But it made sense. Business sense, anyway. And she’d felt like it would be shortsighted to let her feelings for Wyatt—both her irritation and the strange tightening she felt in her stomach whenever he was around—hinder an important business decision.
Back in the day, Get Out of Dodge had been a thriving dude ranch, bringing people in for miles. But then, Quinn Dodge had lost his wife, and the tragedy had made it difficult for him to continue running the place at that capacity. Since then, the ownership had passed to Quinn’s son, Wyatt, who had retired from the rodeo circuit. He was working on bringing it backto its former glory, modernizing it and creating a place that would cater to what guests wanted now.
Lindy felt like she was very much doing the same with Grassroots. Now that it was in her control she was doing all the expanding she had wanted to do when she and Damien had been married. He had been just happy to live in a big house and let the winery bump along, making income as it had always done.
Not Lindy. Lindy had come from nothing, and she didn’t take a thing for granted.
All that mattered was the future.
And getting through all of it without killing Wyatt.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday informed that it will conduct Press Conferences at 70 locations across the country on Monday, to “expose Congress for plotting conspiracy against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government and messing with country’s defence.”
This comes after the government on Saturday filed an application before it, seeking a correction in the order to make it clear that the pricing aspect, examined by the CAG, has not been looked into by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as yet.
The Union of India (UOI) sought urgent correction in the wording of a particular paragraph in the order “in the interests of justice and in the facts and circumstances of the case”, while noting that “the observations in the judgement have resulted in a controversy.”
Earlier today, Indian Youth Congress workers marched to India Gate demanding the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the issue.
On Nov 14, Supreme Court dismissed batch of petitions calling for a probe into the controversial Rafale Deal, by which the Centre procured 36 fighter jets for Rs. 58,000 crore from French company Dassault Aviation.
“Perception of individuals cannot be the basis of fishing and roving inquiry by this court, especially in such matters,” said a three-judge bench, while dismissing all the writ petitions which sought a Supreme Court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the deal.
The court said it does not find any substantial material on record to show that this is a case of commercial favoritism to any party by the Government of India.
The Congress party, however, continued to raise their demand for the JPC by saying that ‘Supreme Court was not the forum to discuss such sensitive defence contract’.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not initiating JPC probe in the matter and challenged him to allow the Congress party to conduct the investigation into the case in a press conference held after Supreme Court announced the verdict.
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RMK restored a record number of meadow habitats on state land 11.03
In 2019, meadows and pastures were restored on state land on 554 hectares and swamp habitats on 1422 hectares. In total, RMK spent EUR 6 million on nature protection works, which is about EUR 1 million more than a year ago.
‘Some species need a living environment that is untouched by human activities, others prefer to live in semi-natural biotic communities that have emerged as a result of people and other species living together. By restoring swamps, we reduce the impact of previous human activities, i.e. swamp drainage and peat extraction. However, by restoring and maintaining wooded meadows, we increase human impact in order to enhance the biodiversity that is characteristic of semi-natural biotic communities,’ said Kaupo Kohv, Head of the RMK Nature Conservation Department, while explaining the necessity of the works.
In total, RMK restored endangered habitats on about 2000 hectares in 2019, of which meadow habitats constituted 554 hectares and swamp habitats 1422 hectares. While nature protection works in 2018 cost EUR 4.89 million, the number increased to EUR 5.82 million last year due to an increase in the volume of works.
According to Kaupo Kohv, more extensive restoration works of swamp habitats were organised in Pärnu County, at the Luitemaa Nature Conservation Area, the Maarjapeakse Bog (539 ha) and at the Öördi and Kikepera bogs in Soomaa National Park (484 ha).
‘The wider public has more likely noticed the works that were performed at the Viru Bog, where the drainage systems were closed right next to one of Estonia’s most visited boardwalks. For a few days, the water even rose above the boardwalk, with one dam having to be removed very quickly and the height of boardwalk having to be raised. During the meadow restoration works in Kõruse, Saaremaa, an interesting thing happened when World War II projectile fuses started exploding when the cutting waste was being burned,’ Kohv remembered.
The drainage systems at the Viru Bog were shut down right next to one of Estonia’s most visited boardwalks. For a few days, the water even rose above the boardwalk, with one dam having to be removed very quickly and the height of boardwalk having to be raised. Photo: Harti Paimets
Last year, the area of semi-natural biotic communities rented to enterprises also increased; for the first time, the number of rented areas exceeded 24,000 hectares.
Specific species-protection works contributed to the improvement of the habitat status of 20 endangered and rare species, e.g. in Korunõmme, Saaremaa, growth conditions were created for red helleborine and important open coastal landscapes were restored for natterjack toads at Harilaid.
RMK shall continue with nature protection works this year. For instance, by the end of the year, Tolkuse Bog (about 1000 ha) shall be restored, with the result being visible when walking on the hiking trail. If everything goes according to plan, at least 5000 hectares of rare and endangered swamp, meadow and forest habitats will be restored by the end of 2020. You can read more on the performed works and new challenges from the RMK nature blog.
RMK Development Plan 2015–2020 aims to restore endangered or low quality habitats on up to 10,000 hectares. Since 2015, RMK has restored habitats on a total of 9200 hectares.
Kaupo Kohv
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He is as passionate an Indophile as you can get. Visiting India with his grandmother when he was only 15, and imbibing Indian ethos, even though from a luxury suite at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay, Olaf Van Cleef, the French painter-cum-Cartier executive, can celebrate the smile of an Indian child all grimy after long hours of play in the streets.
The Indian child comes up in our conversation while discussing the overwhelming India influence in his paintings — from Indian gods, elephants and Maharajas to birds and other motifs. “India is my life. I think about India every day. A foreign lady once told me that the boys in Indian streets are so dirty. So I said: “Ma’am, this young boy plays in the street from six in the morning with the rising sun. He spends 10–12 hours in the street. I don’t know a French child who can stay 10 hours in the street, have so much fun and be so happy. I told her in India many are poor, but few are morose. You have to see India in a different light and respect it.”
I’ve been following Van Cleef’s visits to India and his paintings for a few years. I don’t have much knowledge of art, but can claim to have some of human beings. And then how can you not love someone who loves India so much? When we met first, he had said that what many foreigners don’t get about India is that it “is a mosaic with a lot of languages, cultures, and so on” but also, India needs to soften up … like “we add a little water in the wine to soften it.”
Having worked as a sales executive for Cartier for 33 years in Paris, Van Cleef started painting 10 years ago “because I don’t sleep much. I sleep at 9 p.m. and get up at 3 a.m. and started painting.” Working with a jeweller like Cartier has certainly influenced his painting, giving him an eye for colour and beauty. “Somebody said you work with crystals at night (Swarovski crystals in his work) and diamonds (Cartier) in the day!”
And yet the crystals don’t make his work dazzling or overbearing. “That’s because I don’t do crystal as marmalade on the bread. I do crystals like powder of the strawberry that you sprinkle,”
he says.
Dream of India
So how does he find India changing over the years; he comes here twice a year.
Van Cleef shuts his eye for a moment, reflects and says quietly, “A lot of things have changed and yet not changed. Of course all the technology changes are there for everyone to see … Facebook, Twitter, etc. But the essential dream of India hasn’t changed.”
He next explains what is “special” about India. “Take America, or for that matter, Europe; you have the coke, the chicken, the pork. That’s it. But in India you have the tiger, the elephant, the flower, the hot season, beautiful trees … like the green being more green in the next garden.”
Van Cleef is fascinated by the transition taking place in India, and gives the example of the smart phone and how it has revolutionised everything. “People can make one or two euro payments through the mobile phone. The same is happening in Africa, and that is the transition that is taking place in India. I am not a great fan of Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi, but look at the beautiful things he is trying to do in just six months. This is the 21st century when business is no longer going to be from west to east but vice versa. And your Modi talks like a big businessman. In America he came through like a rockstar.”
Another thing he loves about India is that it is the family, rather than individuals, that get prominence in the Indian scheme of things. Also there is more tolerance for the gay community in India, compared to China, he adds.
Van Cleef found it easy to gravitate from Chennai towards Pondicherry which has a substantial French presence. Here he has opened the Van Cleef Hall in Vettikuppam, a poor locality.
A place for polio drops
It is an air-conditioned place where any artist can have his exhibition or display her work. “No gallery offers what we offer … the artists can exhibit their work for just Rs 1,000 a day, which has to paid only after the work is sold. If they don’t sell, they don’t pay anything.
This place is for everyone,” he shrugs.
One doctor comes here to administer polio drops. “It is kind of a community centre. Now I’m planning to put wifi here so people with no internet access can come here and surf the Net.” The idea is to give back to India what he has got from it. The money earned from the sale of his paintings is invested back in the country. This hall also serves as a storage area for all of Van Cleef’s paintings, which are priced at Rs 1.25 lakh (large) and Rs 75,000 (small).
Van Cleef has no inhibitions about relating a recent interesting story from Pondicherry where his attempts “to play Pygmalion” fell flat on its face. At the Hall, there was a 20-year-old artist who painted with “colours from the earth … a little pink, lots of red, which you find in Pondicherry. Very impressed with his work, I felt like Pygmalion and bought him some painting books, colours etc. and said: ‘You don’t have to pay me for these. Just give me your first painting.’ ”
When the young man returned with the painting, his face wasn’t happy at all. He did his best work when he worked with the colours from the earth and not with the artificial colours that came out of a tube. “This was a lesson for me. Don’t try to change people … you have to adapt to them. This is not your country; what he was doing was totally unique and when I tried to change that, I failed”
It reminded him of a lady in France asking him why he didn’t stay with his mother in Monte Carlo instead of “going to India to pick (chocolate) paper from the beach.”
The colourful bits of chocolate paper finding a place in Van Cleef’s painting are all picked up from the ground … in the streets. “Somebody told me that instead of picking up chocolate paper from the streets, why can’t you buy two metres; it will last you a long time. I can do that but where is the diversity? How do I tell such people that your garbage is my gold?”
A Bhutan odyssey
Now Van Cleef has been commissioned to do a set of paintings for exhibition in Bhutan’s national gallery in September 2015. There is an interesting story around why he chose Bhutan! One day he read on the Internet (Wikipedia) that Van Cleef is only well known in the Indian sub-continent. “I didn’t understand what this sub-continent was.” Further reading on the net told him that Bhutan was part of this sub-continent and since there is a Taj hotel in Bhutan—(he is a die-hard Taj group fan and while in Chennai at the Taj Coromandel it is nothing less than the Presidential suite for him, in Pondicherry it is the Ginger hotel!), he decided to explore Bhutan.
Here he met the manager of the Bhutan Museum who said she’d love to have his exhibition provided his paintings did not have “Hindu but Buddhist themes.”
He agreed, but he admits that “after working on the rich and flamboyant Hindu themes, it is difficult to work on the sedate Buddhist themes. Just do the comparison between Thimpu and Tirupathi or Madurai temples. Thimpu is very plain and so is the Zen attitude.”
So Van Cleef went to a lot of museums, including of course the Louvre and researched Buddhism and is “slowly finding that the sex of the man (the phallus) is on every home; in Bhutan it is sacred, they celebrate it!”
So now he is both educated and sensitised, like knowing in India “that I can’t paint a Brahmin wearing his thread the wrong way. That is not acceptable.”
As in India, we won’t take out any money from Bhutan; “I’ve learnt from India that in life, you don’t exist, but co-exist!”
He brushes aside any comment on his generosity with, “If you give nothing, you have nothing, but if you give a lot, you have a lot. Tomorrow if you die, everybody will forget, but at least a few will remember.”
Indians and Cartier
So is economic recession over and are people buying high-end jewellery at Cartier? And have fashion trends changed?
“Nothing is fixed. There is evolution in the technique, work, in the cutting of the stone, size of the jewellery and the customers too. Yesterday the Arabs, Brazilian and Russians were the buyers, today it is China, and tomorrow somebody else … this is the reality… a mosaic,” says Olaf Van Cleef, who works out of the most prestigious Cartier showroom on Rue de la Paix in Paris.
During tough economic times businesses have to device different strategies to remain viable, he says. So while very expensive diamond jewellery can be sold only occasionally, brands such as Cartier can see 200 ball point pens priced 100 euro every week. The same is true for diaries, phone books, etc. This way the brand remains visible.
On the Indian market, Van Cleef calls it “the market of tomorrow. I believe that with Modi the Indian market will open up quickly and business and economy will move forward. This man knows exactly what is good for India.”
As for Cartier jewellery, that was once so popular with the Indian maharajas, he says, “Well, India today has new maharajas in the form of businessmen and industrialists. Today they are buying Cartier but not necessarily from Paris — which has so few vegetarian restaurants — but from the Singapore or Hongkong airports and certainly from Cartier showroom in London where Indians are more comfortable thanks to the English language.”
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Evaluating the mechanistic evidence and key data gaps in assessing the potential carcinogenicity of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in humans
Evaluating the mechanistic evidence and key data gaps in assessing the potential carcinogenicity of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in humans. / Kuempel, Eileen D.; Jaurand, Marie-Claude; Møller, Peter; Morimoto, Yasuo; Kobayashi, Norihiro; Pinkerton, Kent E.; Sargent, Linda M.; Vermeulen, Roel C. H.; Fubini, Bice; Kane, Agnes B.
In: Critical Reviews in Toxicology, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2017, p. 1-58.
Kuempel, ED, Jaurand, M-C, Møller, P, Morimoto, Y, Kobayashi, N, Pinkerton, KE, Sargent, LM, Vermeulen, RCH, Fubini, B & Kane, AB 2017, 'Evaluating the mechanistic evidence and key data gaps in assessing the potential carcinogenicity of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in humans', Critical Reviews in Toxicology, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/10408444.2016.1206061
Kuempel, E. D., Jaurand, M-C., Møller, P., Morimoto, Y., Kobayashi, N., Pinkerton, K. E., ... Kane, A. B. (2017). Evaluating the mechanistic evidence and key data gaps in assessing the potential carcinogenicity of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in humans. Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 47(1), 1-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/10408444.2016.1206061
Kuempel ED, Jaurand M-C, Møller P, Morimoto Y, Kobayashi N, Pinkerton KE et al. Evaluating the mechanistic evidence and key data gaps in assessing the potential carcinogenicity of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in humans. Critical Reviews in Toxicology. 2017;47(1):1-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/10408444.2016.1206061
Kuempel, Eileen D. ; Jaurand, Marie-Claude ; Møller, Peter ; Morimoto, Yasuo ; Kobayashi, Norihiro ; Pinkerton, Kent E. ; Sargent, Linda M. ; Vermeulen, Roel C. H. ; Fubini, Bice ; Kane, Agnes B. / Evaluating the mechanistic evidence and key data gaps in assessing the potential carcinogenicity of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in humans. In: Critical Reviews in Toxicology. 2017 ; Vol. 47, No. 1. pp. 1-58.
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The adenosine2 gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a formylglycineamide ribotide amidotransferase
Genome. 1993 Oct;36(5):924-34. doi: 10.1139/g93-122.
S Y Tiong 1 , D Nash
1 Department of Genetics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
DOI: 10.1139/g93-122
Drosophila melanogaster genomic DNA spanning an adenosine2 gene rearrangement breakpoint (in cytological map region 26B1-2) was cloned and a composite ade2 base sequence was derived from this DNA and from a corresponding cDNA. Based on genetic evidence, the ade2 gene is thought to encode the purine biosynthetic enzyme formylglycineamide ribotide amidotransferase (FGARAT). The cDNA hybridizes to a 4.8-kb message that encodes a 1354 amino acid polypeptide with extensive similarity to Escherichia coli FGARAT. The D. melanogaster FGARAT amino acid sequence is considerably more like that of the E. coli enzyme than is the FGARAT of B. subtilis, which has two polypeptides with, collectively, 969 amino acids. It is suggested that the taxonomically anomalous similarity between the eukaryotic FGARAT and that from E. coli may indicate horizontal exchange of genetic material. On the basis of substantially greater conservation of sequences shared by all three species compared with those present only in E. coli and D. melanogaster, we suggest that no radical alteration of enzymatic function accompanied the transition between the single-gene and the two-gene state.
Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases with Glutamine as Amide-N-Donor*
DNA, Complementary
Drosophila melanogaster / enzymology
Drosophila melanogaster / genetics*
Escherichia coli / genetics
Ligases / genetics*
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases with Glutamine as Amide-N-Donor
phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthetase
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Mini Monsters Books & Product Launch @ AFCC2015
This entry sort of deviates slightly away from my usual entries in that it is not directly about Singapore‘s Malay entertainment scene per se. However, I still find it extremely relevant and important to share this with my readers as it involves an individual who has been a mainstay in our local Malay entertainment scene since she graced our television screens in the old days of Bengkel Kanak-Kanak TV SBC, and now as a highly-respected talkshow host that delves on social issues in our community. Rilla Melati Bahri, a name that needs no further introduction, has just launched her latest educational products via her company Mini Monsters Ltd. this past Sunday, 31st May 2015 at the National Library, in conjunction with the Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2015 event currently happening at the Plaza section of the building, from 30th May -6th June 2015.
I was honoured to have been invited to cover this event, a momentous one I should add. Rilla, from the time I knew her years ago, has always been a strong advocate of good education and learning. She has always championed for our younger generation to be nurtured and cultivated in good learning techniques in the field of language and being comfortable in our mother tongue. In fact, these newly-launched products were conceived from her own experience more than a decade ago, as a young mother looking desperately for educational materials in Malay to aid her in teaching the language to her son, Nadim, in a fun way. Back then, there were hardly anything in Malay in the bookstores and toystores. Through this experience, she took it upon herself to do this project for other mothers with toddlers.
A very decent turn-out at the launch event. Former national footballer Zulkarnaen Zainal (second row, left) was also in attendance…
Hence, the birth of “Siri Bacaan Cekap Kanak-Kanak & CD Bacalah Bersama!”(Confident Reader Series & Audio Read-Along CD) and the collaboration with Masfe Sendirian Berhad for “Set Gantungan Pembelajaran” (Educational Wall Hanging Set) in Malay for toddlers aged two to six years. Mini Monsters are also proud to have been appointed the exclusive sole distributor of the first ever customised Malay educational wall-hanging resources and this exclusive collaboration between them and Masfe Sdn Bhd represents a like-minded approach between both companies in taking the learning of the Malay language to greater heights for children during their formative years.
Rilla Melati addressing the audience and relating how the books and wall-hanging products came about…
This set comprises of mini detachable 2D “softies” which children can pull and paste to corresponding outlines on a standard thematic storyboard that comes with the Malay word to describe the individual softie. The educational objectives of this wall hanging resources are to cultivate early interest in reading through fun, interaction and play methodology, to develop children’s fine motor skills and encourage word-object recognition through touch-and-feel and to plant the seeds of love for the Malay language to children as young as 2 years old through visual stimulation. Although these sets are already in existent and used throughout Malaysia, this is the first time that the set is piloting in the Malay language exclusively for the Singapore market to be distributed by Mini Monsters Ltd. as a licensee.
Role-play performance by participants of Mini Monsters‘ “LaguRIA” weekend workshops…
This educational wall-hanging paraphernalia will add on to Mini Monsters Ltd’s current staple of Malay educational resources and will help to spur its efforts in taking the teaching of the language to the younger age group of children i.e. toddlers and nursery-going kids. For a start, three thematic storyboards will be made available for the Singapore market. They are the Garden Insects Set, Jungle Animals Set & Transportation Set. These wall-hanging resources are made of colorful, non-toxic materials that are safe and have been tested and approved by the relevant authorities for use with children. Another interesting feature of these sets – they are handcrafted by communities in need in Malaysia. An effort Mini Monsters Ltd. is proud to support.
As for the “Siri Bacaan Cekap Kanak-Kanak & CD Bacalah Bersama!”(Confident Reader Series & Audio Read-Along CD), this set comprises of eight storybooks featuring characters inspired by the alphabets from the very popular Malay phonics reading system “Fonik Ria – Cepat Membaca” that was launched by Rilla and her Malay linguist father Drs Bahri Rajib at the same festival in 2013 and a read-along CD comprising of all the eight titles narrated by the author in Malay. For the uninitiated, “Fonik Ria – Cepat Membaca” was created to develop literacy skills for children learning to read Malay. Back then, Mini Monsters Ltd. had launched “Siri Bacaan Awal Kanak-Kanak” (Children’s Beginner Reader Series) in 2013 for pre-schoolers aged 4-6 as a complementing set.
The newly-launched educational products by Mini Monsters Ltd…
Today, expounding on the success of the previous series and the positive response Mini Monsters Ltd. have obtained from many parents, teachers and children alike, another eight titles have been added to this continuous effort of growing and complementing their reading system with its own customised set of reader series. This new set – “Siri Bacaan Cekap Kanak-Kanak” (Children’s Confident Reader Series) aims to create and develop fluency in children who can already read, and guide children to continue to read independently. The accompanying Audio Read-Along CD meanwhile, aims to assist in building upon a child’s imagination and listening skills, expose the child to the Malay language through reading and listening at the same time and encourage parent-child bonding.
The staff of Mini Monsters are ever ready to welcome you to their booth till this Saturday 6th June 2015…
Parents can choose to listen to the story with the child, anywhere, anytime. Together, this set hopes to create a wholesome reading experience for the child and plant the seeds of love for the Malay language in the hearts of budding readers!!! This new set also completes the “Fonik Ria Cepat Membaca” reading system, making it one of, if not the only, locally developed and produced Malay phonics reading system for children that is comprehensive, unique and attractive as an educational teaching tool for the development of Malay language in Singapore. You can get these educational resources from the Mini Monsters Ltd. booth at the Plaza @ NLB building between 30th May to 6th June 2015, as well as their other Malay language educational resource materials, publications and Malay language course details that they conduct for schools and the public. Or you can purchase them online via the Mini Monsters Ltd webpage. Congratulations to Mini Monsters Ltd. for this successful launch and thank you once again for inviting me and the family to grace this lovely event… 🙂
The Mini Monsters booth situated at the Plaza concourse of NLB building…
The event was hosted by Amirah Yahya of Kelas Detention fame back in 2012…
Hyrul Anuar, part of the Mini Monsters team, seen here with the wife of actor Firdaus Rahman, Jannah Ismaeil, and Shasha Ya’kob of Pinggiran Ramadan fame…
Sharon Ismail came to support her good friend’s event with her daughters…
Rilla, seen here with the representative of Masfe Sdn. Bhd.
Author: Pujangga Malam™
Well-known on RIA 89.7FM as a controversial and sensational critic able to invoke thought-provoking and sometimes, fiery responses from fellow listeners. Have since evolved into a distinguished blogger of reputable claim with takes on the Malay entertainment industry and football-related matters. Brutally honest and believes in only reporting the truth as I see, hear or experience it. Self-styled critic who does not mince his words and is definitely a non-conformist. View all posts by Pujangga Malam™
Author Pujangga Malam™Posted on Wednesday, 3 June 2015 Wednesday, 3 June 2015 Categories Album / Single / Music Video / Book / Product / Drama / Movie LaunchesTags Amirah Yahya, Drs Bahri Rajib, Hyrul Anuar, Jannah Ismaeil, Mini Monsters Ltd., Rilla Melati Bahri, Sharon Ismail, Shasha Ya'kob
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Pesta Perdana 2019 Media Conference
We are just a few days away from the actual Pesta Perdana event itself, relatively about 48 hours on the clock. Dunno why it took me this long to post this entry when the media conference event that took place to announce the nominees in the various award categories happened more than a month ago on 21st February 2019. A combination of being busy with several personal commitments, coupled with being lazy and procrastinating contributed somewhat to this very belated entry. I had half the mind to just skip doing it altogether seeing how short of a time I have to post this up with just a couple of days away. I just had to do it as the memory of the media conference itself, or rather its venue where it was held, was probably the best one I had attended in the history of this awards show. For the first time ever, the media conference was held at the beautiful Skai Suites on the 70th floor of Swissotel The Stamford, one of Singapore‘s iconic buildings and once billed as the tallest hotel in the world.
Mediacorp Suria’s prestigious television awards show, Pesta Perdana, will be held this year ‘live’ on Saturday, 30 March 2019 at the MES Theatre at Mediacorp. The event will be graced by Guest of Honour, Mr Zaqy Mohamad, Minister of State, Ministry of National Development and Ministry of Manpower. The biennial awards show, now into its 15th edition, honours the very best in local Malay television. This year’s show will be hosted by multi-talented actor, director and host, Khairudin Samsudin. As a celebratory prelude, fans had the opportunity to meet and greet their favourite celebrities and nominees in a special event called Viva Pesta! that was held on Saturday, 16 March 2019 at Mediacorp Campus Town Square. Hosted by A B Shaik and Farhana M. Noor, the event featured an exciting line up of immersive and interactive activities with delicious food and many instagram-worthy moments for the fans. In addition, fans at Viva Pesta! also attended a special prelude TV show, Pesta Perdana Ekstra! hosted by recently-minted Elit Suria winners, Hans Hamid and Hana Rosli. This show will air tomorrow on Friday, 29 March 2019 at 9.30pm on Mediacorp Suria.
Warna 94.2FM‘s Aura Shai was the host at the media conference…
A total of 31 awards will be given out at the Pesta Perdana awards ceremony from over 300 entries received between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018. Shortman Films’ social drama “Bantal Buruk Saloma“ leads with 11 nominations while Mediacorp Eaglevision’s “Tujuh Hari” is close behind with 10 nominations. This is followed by Flipside Stories’ “Mekah Di Hati“ and Millenia Motion Pictures’ “Tekan Minyak“ which are tied with 7 nominations each. In a nod to the budding new talents of the industry, this year’s Pesta Perdana boasts a total of 30 first time nominees in the performance and creative categories. Interestingly, for five celebrity families, it is all the more special as they are all up for nominations in the various categories and they are:
J.A. Halim, Aminah Ahmad, Helmindra & Fizah Nizam (Father, Mother, Son & Daughter-in-Law)
Sani Hussin & Rosita Hussin (Siblings)
Seriwahyuni Jaes & R. Azmann (Husband & Wife)
Faisal Ishak & Umie Isa (Husband & Wife)
Haslinna Ja’aman & Danial Nazim (Mother & Son)
Ms. Sabariah Ramilan, Head of Malay Audience & Eaglevision, Mediacorp addressing the guests at the media conference…
Other nominees include Papahan Film’s “SR115“, winner of Best Original Screenplay at the Asian Academy Creative Awards 2018 and finalist at the New York Festivals TV & Films Awards 2019 for Drama and Best Screenplay categories; Xtreme Media’s “Swap Kerja Sr 2“, finalist for Outstanding Variety Show category at the 4th Asia Rainbow TV Awards 2018, as well as Filmat36’s “Kembara Kasih Sr 3“, nominee for Best Documentary category at the Venice TV Awards 2018 and finalist in the Community Service Programs category at the New York Festivals TV & Films Awards 2019. Two other nominated programmes, “Bonda“ and “Projek Kasih“, are also recognised finalists at the New York Festivals TV & Films Awards 2019 for Drama Special and Variety Special category respectively.
Ms Sabariah Ramilan, Head of Malay Audience & Eaglevision, Mediacorp, said, “For nearly two decades, Mediacorp Suria has been working closely with local production houses and talents to ensure our programmes entertain, engage and remain relevant to our audiences. We are proud to see our programmes receive recognitions at the regional and international stage, but it is right here at Pesta Perdana that we celebrate and embrace the achievements of our homegrown talents.”
Hisyam Hamid being sandwiched by his missus, Mel Hanafi, and veteran actor, J.A. Halim…
Though I agree with what was said, I did have a chat with several local personalities in different fields whom I will not name, who said a lot can be done after 15 editions of the awards show. For one and this has been mentioned extensively amongst the people in the industry, it would be nice to have monetary cash rewards to go along with the trophies they receive, something that we tend to see on some awards shows across the Causeway. However, to put things into perspective, Pesta Perdana is like our own local Malay version of the Emmy Awards. If we were to put it along parallel levels of such awards show (the Grammys and Oscars included), monetary awards are not given out, yet the prestige in winning speaks volumes for the artistes’ or production houses’ reputation, potential and quality. Monetary cash rewards means we need big sponsors pumping in big money. In reality, do we have that in the first place???
From left: Ryan Sufiyan, Razi Salam & M.K. Kash from Flipside Stories, and Fadhli Abdullah…
For the Most Popular Male and Female Personality categories which are decided by voting, a prominent personality mentioned that it would also be nice if we were to take a leaf out of Channel 8‘s Star Awards show and crown the Top 5 or Top 10 from each category. Voters can have an initial choice of 30 from each category, 10 from the veterans, 10 from the current and the remaining 10 from the up-and-coming cohort. This particular system makes it an inclusive category and not leave the veterans forgotten or feel as though they are cast aside for younger, more good-looking and marketable personalities. I know for a long time, our local television scene has this tendency to favour looks over talents in the name of marketability, but I think it would not hurt at all to have the more veteran ones have their day in the sun. At least they know they have a place in the hearts of viewers and not just the young ones with better social media outreach. For the record, the public may cast their votes for the Most Popular Male and Female Personalities on toggle.sg/pestaperdana. Voting has been opened since 15 March 2019 and will officially close at 10.00pm on 30 March 2019.
Erwin Shah Dawson was seated next to fellow award nominees Aien Aksan (middle) and Batrisya Soffian…
Another thing I would like to mention and this I feel is repeated like a bad record on my end cos I’ve said the same thing before in the past, is that certain categories can be expanded or introduced to include more production houses and not just solely limited to one. I have nothing against Mediacorp Eaglevision cos they, like all the other production houses, produce good and quality programmes on television. But when one category is dominated by just them, it doesn’t look quite good on paper as it looks as though it is favouritism, since they are producing this awards show after all, though I do note that this is probably an (only) avenue to honour their amazing in-house writers and producers. They can probably tweak the categories in future or as what I had mentioned in the past before, to have other production houses produce more of these Variety and Variety Special programmes on Suria, not just limited to them and being an in-house production company of Mediacorp. I think once in awhile, a different and fresh injection of ideas from others can produce a different kind of show on television. At least then we can deny the brickbats on social media that local television shows are one and the same.
From left: Atyy Malek, Endang Rahayu, Andy Idris and Huda Ali…
With that said, I am looking forward to attending and covering this Saturday‘s event, as it is looking more likely that this will be the only awards show this year that local television will witness. I’ve heard and this has been confirmed by several people that my favourite awards show, Anugerah Planet Muzik, has been consigned to the history books, a big pity really, as this was an event that I looked forward to fervently every year, not only for the array of stars coming to perform and win the regional awards on offer, but also an avenue for our local musicians, artistes and songwriters to be recognised for their contributions to the music scene. My appeal to the powers-at-be is never to forget nor cast aside our local acts. Even if we were to resurrect the one-time Anugerah Hitz SG, I will be more than happy because this domain of mine was afterall first conceived, in the aim of supporting local music acts, though I sometimes blog on other regional acts on show here as well. Doing away with APM took a big chunk out of my interest in blogging and seriously speaking, I really lost interest and almost called it a day when I first heard the news. I guess that partly contributed to why I hummed and hawed before finally deciding to post this entry up.
A beaming Fadli Kamsani, who is now the latest face in Warna 94.2FM‘s stable, seated alongside his good friends, Danish Ashraf (left) and Farhana M. Noor…
Pesta Perdana goes live on Mediacorp Suria at 8:30pm this Saturday, 30th March 2019. The Red Carpet event will be shown live on Mediacorp Suria‘s Facebook page from 6:30pm onwards.
Pesta Perdana 2019 Full List of Nominees
Graphics Posters of Nominees courtesy of Mediacorp Suria…
Snapshots of Pesta Perdana 2019 Media Conference
The stunning view of Singapore’s city skyline from the Skai Suites…
Izzat Yusoff & Fir Rahman
Suhaillah Salam, Mariana Yati and Farhana M. Noor
Najib Soiman, Fir Rahman, Joe Lazarie and Erwin Shah Dawson…
Aminah Ahmad, Adlina Adil and Biwa Mastura…
Izzat Yusoff
Aleeyah Nabillah, Huda Ramdzan and Suhaillah Salam…
Andy Idris, Ahmad Syarifullah (Syarif) and J.A. Halim…
Legendary lyricist Hartinah Ahmad and ThinkPlate’s big boss, Mr. Mohideen Abdul Khader…
The mummy-son team of Haslinaa Jaaman and Danial Nazim…
Well-deserved nominees (clockwise from top left): Haslinaa Jaaman, Aien Aksan, Atyy Malek, Huda Ramdzan and Biwa Mastura…
The up-and-coming ones: Danial Nazim, Batrisya Soffian and Freda Mel…
No strangers to local television viewers (clockwise from top left): Wahyu Rahman, Najib Soiman, Suhaillah Salam and Endang Rahayu…
Here they are joined by Ibrahim Sawifi and Wahyu’s husband, Adi Yadoni…
Aleeyah Nabillah and Adlina Adil seen here with Asrah Aman and Raihan Halim from Papahan Films, as well as Ana Ahmad and Nurshafiqah Sapiee from Oak 3 Films…
Danish Ashraf and Safiyuddin Razif from Poetry in Motion…
From left: Wahyu Rahman, Yane Shaharuddin, Izzat Yusoff, Adi Yadoni and Erwin Shah Dawson…
From left: Andy Idris, Fir Rahman and Hisyam Hamid…
From left: Razi Salam, MK Kash, A B Shaik, Ms. Sabariah Ramilan, Zaza Majid, Latiff Is and Siti Zalinah…
From left: Wan Firzaleenazrah, Mariana Yati, Hamed Ismail, Amirudin Abbas, Samri Badi and Amanah Mustafi…
From left: Adi Yadoni, Farhana M. Noor, Fadli Kamsani, Wahyu Rahman, Danish Ashraf and Biwa Mastura…
Fadli Kamsani & Danish Ashraf…
The team behind Jalan Sr 7 – Ana Ahmad, Ibrahim Sawifi and Nurshafiqah Sapiee…
The good people from Mediacorp Suria who made the event happened. This was only half the team…
Freda Mel and her mother…
Haslinna Jaaman & Danial Nazim…
Danial Nazim & Freda Mel…
Fadhli Abdullah…
Hana Rosli and Hans Hamid…
The full team from Mediacorp Suria who made the event a successful one… Well done guys!!!
Author Pujangga Malam™Posted on Thursday, 28 March 2019 Friday, 29 March 2019 Categories Pesta PerdanaTags A B Shaik, Adi Yadoni, Adlina Adil, Aepul, Aien Aksan, Aiman Hakim Ridza, Aleeyah Nabilah, Alif Abdullah, Amanah Mustafi, Aminah Ahmad, Amirudin Abbas, Amy Nawari, Andy Idris, Ariati Tyeb Papar, Atyy Malek, Aura Shai, Azroy Sultan, Batrisya Soffian, Beto Kusyairi, Bigtree Pictures, Biwa Mastura, By Apparatus, Danial Nazim], Danish Ashraf, Dekwan, Dua M Pte Ltd, Elements Pictures, Endang Rahayu, Erwin Shah Dawson, Fa'in Syah Bahar, Fadhli Abdullah, Fadila Abdul Wahid, Fadli Kamsani, Faisal Ishak, Farhan Hassan, Farhana M Noor, Filmat36, Fir Rahman, Fizah Nizam, Flipside Stories, Freda Mel, Gopal K, Hadi Dayyan, Hamed Ismail, Hana Rosli, Hannah Delisha, Hans Hamid, Hariani Hassan Bakri, Hartinah Ahmad, Haslinna Jaaman, Hasnul Rahmat, Hazlina Umar, Helmindra J.A. Halim, Hisyam Hamid, Huda Ali, Huda Ramdzan, Ibrahim Sawifi, Izyan Mellyna, Izzat Yusoff, J. A. Halim, J. Rosmini, Joe Lazarie, Khairudin Saharom, Khairudin Samsudin, Linilidia Abdul Hamid, M. Raihan Halim, Maiya Rahman, Mariana Yati, Mayuni Omar, Mediacorp Eaglevision, Mediacorp Suria, Mel Hanafi, Millenia Motion Pictures, MK Kash, Mohammed Shahril Dzuikeply, Mohideen Abdul Khader, Muhammad Mahfuz, Nadim Sazwan, Najib Soiman, Najip Ali, Naveen Selvayanagam, Netty Fiona, Norman Ishak, Nurul Aini, Oak3 Films, Papahan Films, Pesta Perdana, Pippi M. Firdaus, Poetry In Motion, R. Azmann, Rahila Rashun, Razi Salam, Rein Zahrein, Rosita Hussin, Ryan Sufiyan, Sabariah Ramilan, Safiyuddin Razif, Sahfuddin Mahfudz, Sani Hussin, Seriwahyuni Jaes, Shenty Feliziana, Shortman Films, Siti Khalijah Zainal, Sofyan Daud, Sufian Ahmad, Suhaillah Salam, Suhaimi Jais, Suhaimi Yusof, Suzairhe Sumari, Syarif Ahmad, Syawal Kassim, Taufik Batisah, Taufiq Salleh, The Moving Visuals Co., Thinkplate, Umie Isa, Umm Mika, Verite Productions, Wahyu Rahman, Wan Firzaleenazrah, Warna 94.2FM, Xtreme Media, Yane Shaharuddin, Yazri Malik, Yuslina Yussof, Zaharian Osman, Zaini Nasser, Zaqy Mohammad, Zaza Majid, Zulina Karim, Zuzanita ZakariaLeave a comment on Pesta Perdana 2019 Media Conference
Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo Gala Premiere Screening Event
We are slightly more than three weeks into the new calendar year. It’s been three months since my last post and I know I still owe entries on Anugerah Planet Muzik 2018 as well as originally-planned reviews for Ruffedge‘s and Anuar Zain‘s concerts. Unfortunately, my home PC picked an inauspicious time to go bust, so I was rendered PC-less for some time, hence I was unable to do any updates till I’ve gotten myself a new one. However, it’s been a quarter of a year gone by, and frankly speaking, whatever I owe my readers are old news by now. So I’ll keep my thoughts on APM2018 till the next one comes around (if it does) or maybe I’ll hold my peace forever, if rumours of it being consigned to history books are true. As for the Ruffedge concert, all I can say is, it was a blast and one of the best concerts I’ve ever attended for the fact that I had absolute access to snap photos from close-up without having security or organisers stopping me from doing so. Even the fans had a whale of a night. How many sit-down concerts here can you say that audience are allowed to stand up, dance and sway without having security bugging you to sit down??? Can’t wait for the next Shiraz Project concert here in March with a certain number one singer from Malaysia…
The cast of the “Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo” seen here with their executive producers, Safiyuddin Razif and Nusaibah Abdul Rahim (fourth and fifth from the left)…
Sorry for taking a whole paragraph rambling. Now that I got the explanation for my missing-in-action out of the way, let’s start 2019’s first entry with a gala premiere screening event I attended slightly more than a fortnight ago on 4 January 2019 at the Gallery Theatre of National Museum of Singapore. This screening event was jointly held by Mediacorp Suria and local production company, Poetry In Motion, to promote the blockbuster drama series, “Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo“, which has already been aired on the national free-to-air channel since 9 January 2019. This drama series stars award-winning actor, Hasnul Rahmat, Nurul Aini, Norman Ishak, Jeff Catz, Hamidah Wahab, Fir Rahman, Adlina Adil, Shenty Feliziana, Bella Putri as well as sees the return of Rima Melati Adams on our television screens after a decade-long hiatus. The show also sees the introduction of Malaysian model-host-actress-rapper Amelia Henderson, who bears a very striking resemblance to international film star Gal Gadot as well as several Bosnian actors and actresses. This drama series is directed and written by the husband-and-wife team of Faisal Ishak and Umie Isa, no strangers already on these shores.
RIA 89.7FM‘s morning show presenters, Nity Baizura and Hans Ashrie, were the hosts at the gala premiere screening event…
“Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo” drifts between modern day and flashbacks from the 90s when Bosnia-Herzegovina was plunged into a civil war and mass ethnic cleansing. The aforementioned war serves as the backdrop to the story being told in this drama series, centering on its main protagonist, Rahman Iskander (played by both Norman Ishak and Hasnul Rahmat) and how he was separated from his Bosnian wife Zana (played by Alisa Brkic and Olivera Blazevic) when the war broke out in Sarajevo where he was based. He was tortured at the hands of the Serbs but was eventually released and returned back to Singapore after being found and rescued by the United Nations‘ peacekeeping force. He went on to rebuild his life and eventually got married to supermodel Ramona (played by Rima Melati Adams), but he continues to pine and yearn for his lost love, slipping into depression as a result. Well that’s the gist of the story that I can relate to you having watched the brief 70-minute screening on the gala premiere night where a bulk of the scenes shown to the audience were from the first three episodes.
Director Faisal Ishak relating to the audience some of the challenges faced during the filming. With him are Executive Producers, Safiyuddin Razif and Nusaibah Abdul Rahim…
What I am impressed about the drama series are the breathtaking scenery of Sarajevo, the cinematography, the visual quality of the series which resembles more like a movie than a drama series and of course the pace of how the storyline is being told, which feels just about right. If there are some shortcomings or minor lackings, I would have to say, the CGI effects could have been done much better. But we all know to implement CGI-effects into a production is not cheap and will probably take several production or animation houses to get it right. I think with the budget that they were working at, it should be applauded that a local production house was able to achieve the kind of positive qualities that I mentioned at the start of this paragraph. The gala screening event also had several sections of displays showcasing some of the props used in the drama production as well as serving Bosnian delicacies to go along with the main spread. Truly they pulled all the stops for us to immerse ourselves into the drama series even before it was shown proper on television.
One for the album with the main cast, writer, director, executive producers, soundtrack singer, hosts of the event and new Mediacorp Head Malay Audience & Eaglevision, Community and Content Groups, Mdm. Sabariah Ramilan (centre)…
Some of my closest friends who know my character and how much I appreciate beauty might say I would have been smittened by Amelia Henderson. They might probably be right, having seen and talked to her up close and personal that night, but they are far from the truth actually. The one who caught my eyes the most with her innocence and honesty in delivering her lines was none other than young Bella Putri, the child star who is making her acting debut in this drama series, her first foray in the local Malay entertainment scene, having done several commercial ads and voiceovers for other productions. One could easily hear the audience warming to her with sighs of “Awwww…” every time she came onscreen to speak, moreso when there was a particular scene where she was scolded by her uncle Rahman for dropping his prized painting on the floor. I think this little girl’s career is just about to get a major upturn henceforth and we’ll probably be seeing more of her on television. Try looking out for the commercial advertisement on Changi Airport‘s Terminal 4 and you’ll see this cute little one prancing around in the trailer.
Marcell singing the official soundtrack titled “Cinta Tersembunyi“…
The gala screening of “Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo” was not complete without the presence of Indonesian heart-throb and soul crooner Marcell Siahaan, the singer of its soundtrack titled “Cinta Tersembunyi“. It’s like a nice package when you get Rima Melati to act in the drama series, you complete it by involving her husband to compose and sing the soundtrack to the series as well. And what a lovely composition the song is! I instantly fell in love with the song and as I watched the scenes unfolding during the screening as well as the first two episodes that have already been aired, I began to understand the meaning of its lyrics better. I won’t be surprised if this song is to be nominated in 2021‘s Pesta Perdana for Best Soundtrack. For the record, “Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo” airs every Wednesday evenings at 9:30pm on Mediacorp Suria. Would just like to say well done to the whole production team at Poetry in Motion and let’s hope they will produce more good programmes like this! Thank you too Mediacorp Suria for inviting yours truly to the gala premiere screening! 🙂
Snapshots of “Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo” Gala Premiere Screening
The cast of Hilang Kasih Di Sarajevo
Executive Producers, Nusaibah Abdul Rahim and Safiyuddin Razif…
Madam Sabariah Ramilan, Mediacorp’s new Head Malay Audience & Eaglevision, Community and Contents delivering her opening speech…
Nity Baizura and Hans Ashrie…
Faisal Ishak, Safiyuddin Razif and Nusaibah Abdul Rahim…
Hasnul Rahmat being interviewed by Nity Baizura…
Rima Melati informed the audience how good it was to be back on home soil and also on our local television screens…
Amelia Henderson being grilled by Nity Baizura…
Norman Ishak had the audience in stitches relating his experience keeping his hair long for the duration of the filming…
Madam Hamidah Wahab, a veteran of our local Malay drama scene…
A light-hearted moment shared between the cast and host Hans Ashrie…
Nurul Aini also shared some funny moments during filming…
Little Bella Putri won the audience over instantly when she spoke…
Marcell being interviewed by Nity and Hans, sharing how he came about composing the soundtrack to the drama series…
Marcell singing “Cinta Tersembunyi”…
Some of the props that were used in the filming of the drama series…
The gorgeously stunning Amelia Henderson…
Fauzie Laily and his lovely missus, Nurul Huda, fresh from their return from the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, seen here with Rima Melati and Marcell…
Hans Ashrie and Nity Baizura…
Hans Ashrie and Nity Baizura seen here with Ms. Sharifah Sha (RIA 89.7FM’s PA) and Aura Shai…
Bella Putri…
Bella with Marcell and Rima Melati…
Bella with Hasnul Rahmat…
Local actors Najib Aziz and Najib Soiman sandwiching Hasnul Rahmat…
Najib Soiman and Amelia Henderson…
Amelia Henderson and Najib Aziz…
The two main actors who play Rahman Iskander, Norman Ishak and Hasnul Rahmat…
Maia Lee, fresh from her return from Jakarta, having represented Singapore in the latest Dangdut Academy Asia…
Fazlyna Aziz, Adlina Adil, Fatin Amira, celebrity MUA and stylist Rafil Kamaruddin, Fauzie Laily, Nurul Huda, Budi Iskandar, Sofian Roslan and Nurul Aini…
Syahmi Kadir, Atyy Malek, Yuslina Yussof and an unidentified friend…
Ivan Ang, Muhd Hashir, Siti Hajar Gani, Yamin Yusof, Safiyuddin Razif and Siti Aishah Ahmad…
The husband and wife team of Faisal Ishak and Umie Isa…
The new generation of television personalities – Hans Hamid, Yamin Yusof, Fadli Kamsani, Najib Aziz and Najib Soiman…
Hans Hamid and his missus Irna…
Fadli Kamsani and his beautiful fiancee, Ainin Sofia…
Marcell and Najib Soiman…
Yamin Yusof, Fadli Kamsani, Fir Rahman and his son Muhammad Ilhan Rezqy, and Hans Hamid…
Nusaibah Abdul Rahim, Rima Melati, Marcell, Safiyuddin Razif and Mediacorp Suria’s Siti Zalinah Adam…
The husband-and-wife pairing of Azman Shariff and Mahyunis Mahfudz…
Irna, Bella Putri and Ainin Sofia…
Fadli Kamsani, Bella Putri and Hans Hamid…
Madam Hamidah Wahab, seen here with Elit Suria winner, Hana Rosli and her mother…
New boss of RIA 89.7FM, Zaza Majid with Mediacorp Suria’s Farhana Zolkifli and Nurzawani Jamaluddin…
Nurul Aini with her reputable property agent husband, Sofian Roslan…
Mdm Hanim Saleh from Berita Harian, Mdm Sabariah Ramilan, Madam Hamidah Wahab, Mastura Ahmad and Nurul Huda…
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Elit Suria Semi-Finals Episode Recap…
Time flies by so fast and we’re already heading into the Grand Finals of Elit Suria this coming 27th August 2018. It seems like yesterday I was acquainting myself to the sixteen contestants who made it to the weekly episodic rounds and within less than a week from the time this entry is published, two new stars will be crowned the winners of the competition. Six weeks of competition, of which the recent two I have had the privilege to cover and get to know them up-close and personal, have been a learning journey for all of them. For some, they have discovered hidden talents from within that they initially thought they do not possess. For others, this was their opportunity to test their capabilities, come out from their comfort zones and challenge themselves through unchartered territory. There are even those whose personalities begin to shine through as the weeks progress. I know I have gone through these situations on an annual basis with each passing reality television competition series since I covered my first live event (Anugerah 2009), but come the end of every competition, I will always have that feeling of emptiness and withdrawals for a few weeks afterwards, having had a certain affiliation and connection with the contestants. I actually loathe the end of every competition. This is why I seldom publish reviews of reality competition Grand Finals, because usually there is nothing left to say or assess which will affect the eventual outcome of it.
Hosts Fauzie Laily and Nurul Aini…
The Monday before last, 13 August 2018, saw Elit Suria‘s Top 10 duking it out in the semi-final round, for the coveted six spots in the coming Grand Finals. With so much at stake, there were bound to be those who would buckle under pressure and weight of expectations. Personally before the semi-finals, the ones I had in mind who would advance to the Grand Finals were Amyrah Mustafa, Haziq Halim, Asyraf Iskandar, Hana Rosli, Hans Hamid and Fatin Taha. Not to discredit nor looked down on the other four, Farahnurmadina Farook, Farid Azhar, Erna Ellieyana and Faiz Zainal, but the six that I had in mind had showed more composure, consistency and aptitude in the weeks leading up to the semi-finals. In their favour, I dare say people like Farah and Ellie have more bubbly and outgoing personalities, traits which make viewers warm easily to them. Over the weeks I have come to grow and have acceptance for Ellie‘s style of hosting, whereas Farah‘s winsome smile instantly lights up the scene she’s in. For Farid and Faiz to overcome the odds, they have to have more confidence in delivery, being expressive and not mouthing their words through gritted teeth, with the former slowly showing that he was improving in his own quiet way. So how did they and the rest fare during the semi-finals, which had Food as its theme of the week and Imran Ajmain as the guest performing artiste???
A slimmer and dapper-looking Imran Ajmain graced the semi-finals with his soulful voice…
For the second time in the competition, Asyraf Iskandar came out tops in the Style segment. For this performance which the contestants accompanied to Imran Ajmain‘s “Yang Ku Perlu“, the ones who did well were mostly the male contestants, with four of them amongst the Top 4, whereas four of the female contestants took the following four spots. I did not get the benefit of seeing the scores as they were flashed momentarily on the big screen and I was busy snapping away photographs. But imagine the shock I felt when I watched again via Toggle‘s Catch-Up TV. It was no wonder the female contestants whom I chatted with post-show, all voiced their worries about this particular segment, even though the percentage marks are only 20% of the overall score. Why the male contestants fared better was because they had more defined roles as a chef or waiter for example, where they could play along and improvise. I am not sure what the female contestants roles were other than Ellie‘s, whose character was wooed and proposed to by Hans Hamid in the segment, and Amyrah Mustafa, who was a violin player. This was explained by judge Khairudin Saharom afterwards, the importance of this segment, to understand the roles they are given and to immerse themselves in the characters so that they will have a deep appreciation of them when they go out and interview such personalities working in these career paths.
The semi-finalists grooved along to Imran‘s single “Yang Ku Perlu“…
I was asked by some of the contestants how they could improve and do better in this particular segment post-show. I studied some of their previous performances as well as this recent semi-final episode and managed to understand where judge Khairudin was coming from. I think a lot of worries and concerns stemmed from having to remember their steps, where to position themselves, what to do and so on and having to groove along to the music performed by the week’s guest artiste, which probably led to them not giving off their full best because there were just too many things to remember at one setting. I take for example Amyrah‘s role as a violin player. I think she could have serenaded the pair of Hans and Ellie when they were having dinner in the segment, a little longer than she should have, rather than just a brief encounter. A certain amount of realism should also have been exercised in that when she fiddled the violin strings, her sways should have followed along to the tune of Imran Ajmain‘s “Yang Ku Perlu“. A lot of the female contestants’ movements were too rushed for my liking, which in turn spoilt a lot of my shots, and some tend to look to the floor probably to know where they were supposed to stand. When they looked up and smiled at the audience, it was too brief and in a way, you don’t feel that sincere connection which they should have done. The guys are probably more savvy in that they know what to do, how to improvise and using their eyes and smiles to connect with the audience.
A first in the competition for the hosts, who went over to the judging panel to get a feel of what the view and feeling were like as a judge…
For this particular episode and for the first time in this competition, the contestants were made to interview two guest personalities live on stage, Ms. Nur Safiah Alias from Halal Food Hunt blog and celebrity chef, Chef Siti Mastura. The interview sessions, each lasting about five minutes, were meant to recreate typical media conference scenarios where questions are opened to the floor consisting of reporters and bloggers and the contestants had to imagine themselves as one, clamouring to ask the guest personality burning questions they have in mind. Just from observing the questions posed to the guest personalities, one could see how much effort and homework were done by the contestants. Most impressive and a definite standout was Amyrah, who literally had Chef Siti Mastura‘s profile and accolades at the back of her hands. When she listed Chef Siti‘s personal achievements and also used big words like “takrifan” (statement of meaning), I could hear the audience gasping in awe and had impressed looks on their faces. She is indeed the epitome of what judge Najip Ali has been drumming over the course of the competition, which is the mark of a thinking host that they are looking out for. There was no doubt at all that she would ace this segment and she eventually did, sharing top honours with Haziq Halim. I can foresee Amyrah having the necessary calibre to host a programme of serious nature when given the opportunity in future.
Asyraf Iskandar, Farahnurmadina Farook, Farid Azhar, Fatin Taha and Haziq Halim interviewed Ms. Nur Safiah Alias from Halal Food Hunt blog…
Some might have the feeling of discontent that Amyrah was hogging the time given to her or probably showing off what she knew, but I think she was just doing what is required of her as a competitor, doing her homework and coming to the competition well-prepared. It is not her fault at all if her knowledge of someone’s background is probably more than the others. In fact, it should be a source of impetus for the rest to up their game and do likewise. The only thing she has to be wary about is the time limit that they have, so that her fellow competitors will not feel left out or outshined, as in the case of the semi-final episode where there was only enough time to entertain her open question and not the rest. I am not sure if they will be penalised in the Grand Finals for taking up time, but this is something that she and the rest should be wary of, to keep their lines as brief yet as impactful as possible. This is where their aptitude of the Malay language will be put to the absolute test. It is ok to use big or bombastic words, but it should be kept to the minimum so as not to turn off general viewers from the community who can be quite sensitive and anal at trivial things such as this. At the very least, Amyrah has so far lived up to her initial promise to use the competition to inspire more of her peers and generation to use the Malay language as a comfortable daily medium, something to be proud of and not awkward to deliver.
A light-hearted moment before Amyrah Mustafa, Erna Ellieyana, Faiz Zainal, Hana Rosli and Hans Hamid grilled Chef Siti Mastura…
Not to be outdone, Haziq Halim was also another standout with two quality questions posed to Ms. Nur Safiah. In fact at the beginning of the competition, I have heard from people connected to the programme that he is one with huge potential. However, I was not impressed when I watched him in the very first episode because he appeared to be cocky and arrogant at first glance. But as the saying goes, he is the embodiment of the famous old Malay saying, “Tak kenal maka tak cinta…“. You have got to know him to understand his psyche and approach. Beneath what I would now classify as a “confident” outlook, lies a character who is hungry to learn and humble enough to accept his flaws asking where, how and what he can improve on to his performances. My advice to Haziq is to check on the way he expresses his feelings through his facial expressions, because sometimes it can turn off viewers when he appears to speak in a condescending tone and display a cocky outlook, usually seen during the X-Factor rounds. However, one cannot deny this guy is strong in many aspects, not least his ability to be more expressive and natural over his fellow male finalists, whom I still feel need to shed their cool and macho persona and be more outgoing. No, this is not me looking down on the likes of Hans Hamid or Farid Azhar who have qualified along with Haziq to the Grand Finals, but I would dearly like them to be more evocative yet expressing themselves naturally, to push themselves to perform as well as Haziq, because they are beginning to appear one-dimensional and a bit too formal in style of presentation.
One complaint I have when watching the Personality segment was the apparent confused state of addressing the guests. When one person uses the word, “Awak“, the rest should follow suit and standardise. Likewise if the first person uses the word “Anda“, the rest should also take the cue and reciprocate in kind. Call me anal, but I think there should be a marked distinction between the two words, whether they are in a formal or informal setting. There was one particular moment where one of the contestants used both words when they had to repeat their question. Though there is no wrong in using either words, aesthetically it sounds a bit off aurally. Also, I still notice some of the contestants preferring to speak in Baku, which for a good part of the last five years, have seen many hosts dropping the lingo when they speak, unless they are hosting formal programmes or newscasters reading the news bulletin. The contestants have to bear in mind that the producers are looking for all-rounders, not just hosts for a particular kind of programme. Even radio deejays seldom speak in the lingo, unless they are reading the news or discussing current affairs matters in specially-dedicated programmes. They have to learn to adapt somehow to the requirements of the shows they are engaged to host and not limit themselves. In terms of quality of the questions posed, I think only about half of them gave good ones and this was lamented by judge Khairudin afterwards when asked to give his analysis.
Judge Khairudin was slightly disappointed with the quality of questions asked during the Personality segment…
I was surprised and somewhat disappointed that Fatin Taha‘s usual composure and calm demeanour deserted her when she needed them the most, to the point she repeated what had already been asked by Farid Azhar just before her turn. Such mistakes at this crucial stage of the competition could be the difference between progression or elimination. When I asked some of the contestants what happened post-show as to why some of them fumbled or seemed to have asked a similar question, they said that initially believed they were allowed to bring their notebooks to the live show, but they were told at the last moment that it was not, leaving most of them scrambling to remember who was supposed to ask which question. When I posed the possible scenario of meeting their respective guest personalities to rehearse whilst waiting for the live show to start, they said that the personalities were in another waiting room and they did not have access to them. I managed to meet Ms. Nur Safiah over the past weekend and asked if she could have rehearsed along with them had they asked her to, she said that she would have gladly done so, as she was somewhat bored playing the waiting game in the holding room. So in this case, I think there was a major communication breakdown between the contestants and guest personalities. The contestants were probably too shy to ask or even too worried having to remember so many things to do and say, that taking the initiative to ask eluded their minds. This is a valuable learning experience for them to take the initiative and just do what they feel is right for the betterment of their future performances.
The Bestari round which was keenly contested, yet the overall quality of answers were not up to scratch…
Wow I dedicated at least five paragraphs on the Personality segment alone!!! I don’t think I have much to comment on the Bestari round, where once again Amyrah came out tops to officially be the ace competitor for this segment throughout the competition. I do not know if it was just her rub of green, but I observed that she has been quite fortunate standing nearest to the monitor screen that was facing hosts Fauzie Laily and Nurul Aini every time, by virtue of standing according to names in alphabetical order. She probably had the slight edge in being able to read and see the questions, while those over at the other end were seen tiptoeing and squinting their eyes to get a good read of the questions that appeared on the screen. I could be wrong, but from where I stood, it looked that way, though when I asked her about it post-show, she said that she could hardly see the questions as the two hosts were blocking her view. If that is the case, then I really have to take my hats off to her for her general knowledge proficiency. Not that the rest did not try, they did do their best. In fact some were quick on the draw to answer, but in the end gave a wrong one. I think for the rest to have a chance of upstaging Amyrah in this segment, a tweak to the format of competition during the Grand Finals might give them that window of opportunity. I heard rumours that there is a possibility of it happening, so it will be interesting to see how next Monday‘s question-and-answer segment will pan out. However in the overall context, out of the ten questions asked, only four were answered correctly, with Amyrah edging Farid and Farah by one, a somewhat disappointing figure.
I usually do not focus much to what is being said during the X-Factor round, as my fingers are busy snapping away photographs of the contestants in action. This also probably stems from the fact that I know who have done well for Hosting and Bestari, and probably do not need much self-promotion to advance to the next week’s episode. I only watch it again via Catch-Up TV to analyse how eloquent, fluent, confident and expressive they can be. I must say that there have been several good oratories throughout the competition. I personally feel, given the criticisms I had earlier of Haziq for his apparent cocky demeanour, he actually knows how to play with his words and connect with the audience. Those who eventually managed to qualify for the Grand Finals are those having those four traits that I mentioned earlier, besides how much they were able to touch the audience with their voice sincerity, likeability and most importantly their smiles. This segment is where I really love listening to the soothing and calm radio deejay voices of Hana Rosli, Fatin Taha and Hans Hamid, not forgetting Haziq and Amyrah. As this is a make or break round, their grave facial expressions and hesitancy in delivery are giveaways to their respective lack of confidence levels. This segment sets apart the ones on the fringes of advancement and the ones on the brink of elimination.
Imran Ajmain performed his second song of the night and latest single, “Intan Dan Perak”, just before the final results were announced…
In the end, we said goodbye to the likes of Faiz Zainal, Erna Ellieyana, Asyraf Iskandar and Fatin Taha. I am actually gutted for both Asyraf Iskandar and Fatin Taha who have been consistently good in previous episodes. However, if we take into account that both Farid and Farah had answered one question correctly during Bestari, those correct answers proved to be the difference in them progressing into the Grand Finals, giving them greater weightage, even though Asyraf came in fifth during the Personality round. Both Farid and Farah came in sixth and seventh respectively, so one can imagine how close their marks were to have a significant jump in standings by the end of the show. Hence it is paramount for them to give off their best for all the rounds to set them apart from their fellow competitors. To be fair to both Farid and Farah, I do notice that there are improvements to their performances and styles of presentation. Being the youngest in the competition certainly does not deter Farah from giving off her best and improving as the weeks pass by. I dare say amongst all the finalists, she has been the most improved with her confidence levels the one that I’ve noticed rising a notch higher with every passing episode. Anyway the usual complaints about her from previous episode still lingers, but I’m happy to say that she has been trying to minimise it, which is a massive credit to her. Farid could be a surprise package waiting to explode during the Grand Finals. He has been quite the slow starter, but this Monday, the stars might just align for him and he may just bloom for all we know. He is one dark horse that Hans and Haziq need to be wary of.
The two I was gutted to see being eliminated from the competition – Asyraf Iskandar and Fatin Taha…
I feel that amongst the finalists, Hana and Hans have been consistently good and comfortable without being pushed fully to the maximum of their abilities and capabilities. For the former, she has to distinguish herself as either a performer, given her background as a musical theatre practitioner, or a host. Of course being an all-rounder is good and it has to be pointed out that Hana is a prolific singer and budding actress based on her talents and previous small roles on local television. However, her speech during the X-Factor round worried me a bit, giving me the impression that she will be contented with not winning the competition knowing her other skill sets will ensure she becomes a regular fixture on our screens. Right now as I see it according to current form, Amyrah has the edge over the two female finalists, but I do hope that they will not give up easily without giving her a good fight. Both Hana and even Farah have their personal attributes and respective strengths to upstage Amyrah. They just need to find their inner self-belief and confidence that they can do it. I for one like how spontaneous Hana can be off-camera, just lost in her own world, yet having that steely confidence, poise, spunk and devil-may-care attitude to prove others wrong. She needs to translate them all on stage. Likewise Farah, even though she is naturally demure and probably one that can be dismissed as an outsider, her smile and quiet determination are two of her biggest assets. I think if there are possible chinks in Amyrah‘s armour which the other two can take advantage of, is that she can be a bit too formal in delivery and outlook. She needs to loosen up a bit and be a bit more expressive and outgoing, which Hana and Farah possess.
Say hello to the six finalists – Farid Azhar, Farahnurmadina Farook, Haziq Halim, Amyrah Mustafa, Hans Hamid and Hana Rosli!!!
Haziq‘s strengths and flaws have been mentioned already and I don’t think needs any repeating like a bad record. Amongst the male finalists, he is quite the favourite to win, though I do hope that he does not rest on his laurels or become complacent as a result of my positive analysis of his performances so far. I noticed something in common about most of the finalists when I am reminded of their very first introductory clips. Those who are in for the last lap of competition have lived up to their earlier promises. For Haziq, his desires and will to win in memory of his late father are keeping his determination burning bright. For Hans, I hope that he can break loose from the comfort of doing just enough to get by. He has the charisma and personality to do better. Given his career working as an animal show host at the zoo, he should have the experience in engaging the audience and be a bit more lively in delivery. I was extremely impressed with him from the very start of the competition, but in a reality competition such as this, you want to see improvements every week and not performance levels that have hit a plateau. Like Hana and Farah, I really do hope that both Hans and Farid will kick Haziq‘s ass (literally) come Monday, and not surrender meekly through personal contentment with what they have currently achieved. Right now amongst the guys, Haziq is the one with fire burning in his eyes to win. I hope the other two gentlemen can prove me wrong and I am sure they will. All the best to all the finalists and congratulations once again for making it this far!!!
P.S. Please do not expect to see me do a review of the Grand Finals. Most probably this will be my last entry on the competition.
Snapshots of Elit Suria Semi-Final Episode
Author Pujangga Malam™Posted on Thursday, 23 August 2018 Thursday, 23 August 2018 Categories Elit SuriaTags Ainur Rosyieqa, Amyrah Mustafa, Asyraf Iskandar, Atiqah Hassan, Chef Siti Mastura, Elit Suria, Erna Ellieyana, Fadzli Jani, Faiz Zainal, Farahnurmadina, Farid Azhar, Fatin Taha, Fauzie Laily, Halal Food Hunt, Hana Rosli, Hans Hamid, Haziq Halim, Hisyam Salimnor, Imran Ajmain, Khairudin Saharom, Najip Ali, Noh Irwan, Nur Mehga, Nur Safiah Alias, Nuraliza OsmanLeave a comment on Elit Suria Semi-Finals Episode Recap…
Elit Suria Wildcard Episode
The stage setting pre-show…
This entry nearly did not see the light of day as I have been very occupied the whole week and was away for a short staycation with the family over the past weekend. Why I managed to do this entry at the last moment is because some things that we planned prior did not materialise, so I finally got to squeeze some time to reminisce what transpired during the recent episode of Elit Suria this past Monday 6 August 2018. This was the first episode I finally made my way down to MediaCorp Campus to watch the show live from the studio. Before the show, I was not sure how the contestants would react upon finally meeting me in person after reading my previous two entries, but thankfully all of them were so cordial, warm and friendly, thanking me for pointing out their flaws and where to improve as they do not have the benefit of others telling them how to, or probably were too shy to ask around. I was a bit embarrassed when one by one came up to say “Hi” and “Thank You” to yours truly, that I felt like a mini celebrity that night. I seldom get that from previous reality show competitions because I know some of the past contestants quietly resent and bore grudges against me for my objective assessments, or probably the times they were cordial to me was because I take nice photos of them. Usually once the competition is done, a minority of them will stop following me on social media, which makes me feel used somewhat. Oh well…
The audience which included the eight confirmed semi-finalists, seated at the front row…
The recent Wildcard Round featured all the eight eliminated contestants so far, giving them that last chance saloon to show that they deserved a second chance to still remain in the competition. How lucky it is to be in Group A then, as they had a fortnight off before worrying about the semi-finals tonight. I am sure Haziq Halim, Hans Hamid, Fatin Taha and Hana Rosli will disagree with me, because I know the prolonged days leading up to tonight, only adds on to the tension they are facing at the moment. Last Monday, the show was graced by Akademi Fantasia alumnus, Nurul Rahila Rashun, who performed as the guest artiste and the Wildcard episode’s theme of the week was Culture. Actually it should have been called International Culture since the challenges and questions posed during the episode had something to do with cultures around the world. This was another episode which for me, was an educational eye-opener, because I personally find this particular theme interesting, given my penchant to know useful trivias and stuff, a chance to empower my general knowledge. Prior to the show, the ones I had ear-marked to enter the semi-finals were Fadzli Jani for the guys and between Erna Ellieyana and Nur Mehga for the ladies.
Rahila Rashun performed the haunting hit “Asmaradana“, taken from the box-office hit movie, “Puteri Gunung Ledang“…
I’ve had my fair share of complaints about the Style Round, where the contestants are judged based on their style and confidence onstage. However, I personally like the opening performance between the contestants and Rahila for this particular episode, with all their poses and outfits depicting the different cultures they were portraying. What came as a surprise was the contestants learning to dance and though they are not prolific dancers, they managed to learn their respective choreographies within a short space of time. Not an easy feat when you’re not dancers nor have that hidden talent to begin with. To their credit, the contestants looked like they were enjoying themselves immensely and the ones who enjoyed themselves the most onstage happened to win this segment, Fadzli Jani and Atiqah Hassan coming in at second, though I have to say Fadzli somehow was a bit overexcited during his performance, making the overall balance of energy between the four pairings on stage a bit disjointed. Fadzli and Atiqah also happened to be paired together, as they danced to the style of typical traditional Indian dancers. For the other contestants, they looked more confident and poised than the previous episodes they were in, where I previously pointed out that their lack of confidence from this round alone spelt the end of their journey. But if you ask me who should have won, I would have personally chose Hisyam Salimnor as I found his moves more graceful.
The esteemed judges – Khairudin Saharom, Nuraliza Osman and Najip Ali…
Next comes the Personality segment where the contestants are judged on their hosting capabilities. I find Hisyam‘s hosting a bit too cautious since the very first episode he was in, and I repeated it to him when we met post-show. He tends to mouth his words and break them up according to syllables when he does not need to most times. I guess he just wants to make sure that he pronounces them correctly. When I look at him, I cannot help but be reminded of Danish Ashraf, 2016‘s Anugerah Skrin runner-up. The way they speak, their mannerisms, their styles all look similar. For awhile, I thought they were related, but they are not when I asked Hisyam during our short conversation, but they do know each other personally. I actually like Nur Mehga‘s hosting. The only complaint I had about her previously was, she does not smile much when she knows the cameras are not panning at her. When she does smile, I can feel the whole room light up. So it was nice to see more of Mehga‘s smile during this episode and how confident she was. Which was a big disappointment when eventually she came in 5th for this round, even after judge Khairudin Saharom had praised her for being the best of the four for their hosting segment, which also included the other pair, Noh Irwan Amran and Ainur Rosyieqa. I had expected Mehga to have gotten Top 4 at least.
Noh Irwan‘s shortcomings from the time I watched him previously, were his distinct lack of confidence and unsure of himself. If you were to watch his hosting clip again via Toggle‘s Catch-Up TV, you will understand what I mean if you notice his expressions rolling back his eyes as if to remember his lines. He needs to understand the question that he is posing to his interviewee and make it sound across as natural as possible, not as though he is reading directly from a script. The same assessments could also be levelled on Ainur Rosyieqa, though she looked more poised between the two. For their segment, I think the biggest letdown for both of them was their inability to para-phrase their question when their guest did not answer one of their initial questions properly. A good host should be able to listen and grasp quickly, in turn rephrasing their questions for their interviewee to understand, so that they are able to answer satisfactorily. This is what the judges are also looking out for and what Najip Ali meant by the term “Thinking Hosts“. It did not help that their guest personality’s facial expressions and body language showed as though he did not want to be there and struggling to find the words to answer them. For a good interview to work, both hosts and guest personalities should be equally forthcoming. The ending of their interview also felt as though the audience were left on a cliffhanger and this was felt by the audience when the cameras panned at them right after and they had quizzical looks on their faces.
Najip commenting on the performances of the second quartet – Fadzli Jani, Erna Ellieyana, Atiqah Hassan and Farid Azhar…
As mentioned in the last paragraph, you need a good interviewee to make your interview look and sound more interesting for the audience, which the second group got in the form of personality Marina Yusoff, whom as I type this entry, is away on her Hajj pilgrimage. This segment saw the other contestants, Fadzli Jani, Erna Ellieyana, Atiqah Hassan and Farid Azhar, performing better as a whole over the previous four. I think for Fadzli Jani, the observations I have, as well as discussing with some others about his performance as a whole, is that he tends to overdo things unintentionally, which when done as a duo, steals away the limelight from his partner. If we are to host as a duo, it should be about complementing one another, or his partner could have also returned the favour in kind and matched his energy. Ellie‘s jovial personality is what makes her a standout and I feel that she is quite the fast learner, a sponge if I might add. Amongst the ladies in the Wildcard Round, I think she probably had the highest level of confidence, fresh from her elimination the previous week and hungry to do better. Not surprising that I had her and Mehga in mind as the probable ones to progress to the semi-finals prior to the show, with either one performing well than the other who would be more deserving. However, I still cannot imagine Ellie hosting a programme which is serious in nature just yet. Put her in a children’s show or a light-hearted info-ed programme, you will see her personality shining through. Even though I did say having both host and interviewee being forthcoming makes a good interview, the role of a host or moderator is even more important to get their guests to come out from their shells with how and what to ask. This can only be honed through time and experience, which unfortunately they do not have and have to rely on natural talent for now.
Rahila performed her second number of the night, the evergreen “Penawar Rindu“…
There is something about the way Atiqah mouths her lines which is a source of concern for me, and it’s not about the braces which I said previously that could be one of the factors hampering her. How she reads and pronounces her words has to sound as natural as possible. If the sentence ends with an exclamation mark, her tone should also sound equally excited. If the sentence ends with a question, her tone should also sound as though she is questioning and not putting a full stop to it. It is so much different when I talk to her in person because she sounds so relaxed and natural. Could jittery factors be reasons for her not to do well? Or is it a lack of fluency and confidence in the language? If it’s the latter, then it should be a learning point for all future would-be contestants to brush up on their fluency in speaking their mother tongue language. They should listen to the Malay radio stations more or watch the prime-time news bulletin on television to grasp how words and sentences are being pronounced. It has to be pointed out that for all my criticisms of Atiqah‘s performance, this was her best to date and I can say she has improved from the first time I watched her in the first episode. Farid to me, did just enough without being too extravagant or over in his mannerisms, as compared to Fadzli. However I still have misgivings about his energy level because he can look a bit uptight when it is not his turn to speak and when he opens his mouth to speak, he tries to maintain his cool persona. I think this is one source of frustration I have about Farid, since his time at 2016‘s Anugerah Skrin. He has to come out from his shell and let go at times because he looks like he is holding back most times.
The Top 3 who advanced to the second round of the Bestari segment – Ellie, Farid and Hisyam…
The Bestari segment had me shaking my head right from the start, because for the first question alone, all of them got it wrong. Though the judges admitted that the segment was a tough one given the challenging questions, I think had the contestants listened more intently, they would have probably gotten their answers correct. Actually it was a no-brainer who would advance to the semi-finals once the dust had settled and we saw Erna Ellieyana, Farid Azhar and Hisyam Salimnor advancing to the second round, since Farid came out tops in the earlier segment and Ellie coming in second. Like I said in my previous entry, we usually can gauge who will advance to the following week if they perform well in the hosting and quiz segments, because at the end of the day, they are looking out for an all-rounded host, the ability to speak, think and do their respective homework. In this segment, Farid‘s hunger and eagerness to ace it came to light. For the second time in this competition, a lack of listening to the questions being read properly proved to be Hisyam‘s downfall. In his eagerness to keep up with his competition, he not only answered incorrectly but had a lot of people shaking their heads or slapping their foreheads. When I spoke to him post-show about the gaffe, he admitted that it was a grave mistake borne out of excitement and pressure to stay within touching distance of his fellow competitors.
Farid and Ellie atoned for their previous week’s elimination by redeeming themselves and advancing through to the semi-finals…
I’m not sure if it was due to a lack of time or if the show was over-run, but the X-Factor segment felt a bit hurriedly done once Farid was announced as the winner of the Bestari round, which left no room for pauses or breather for the contestants. I had at least expected them to usher in a short commercial break, but the contestants were immediately asked to up-sell themselves one final time before the judges made their final decisions. Given that Farid had topped both the Hosting and Bestari rounds, he could have eased off and just gone through the motions. To his credit, he did not relax and was a picture of calm and serenity when he spoke, which all the more confirmed his advancement into the semi-finals. Noh Irwan again looked unsure of himself, but he had a reason for it which he told me post-show. His initial lines were asked to be changed last minute, which resulted in him scrambling to pen and memorise a newer version. Though he did not delve on why his lines had to be changed, I felt that the producers could have just let him revised or tweaked them a bit and not change it entirely, resulting in him tripping on his words. Body language, eye movements and tone of voice also play important roles in this segment. The audience can easily detect who is not confident and unsure of themselves just by the way they look, they way they walk and the way they speak. For a majority of them, their lack of confidence for this segment proved to serve as confirmation of their elimination from the competition.
The Wildcard contestants sandwiching judge Nuraliza Osman post-show…
By the end of the show, it was merely a formality that Farid and Ellie‘s names were announced as the two whose journeys in the competition are still alive and well, with the other six bowing out with their heads at least held high knowing they have given off their very best. Tonight, we will get to see who amongst the ten will advance to the Grand Finals in a fortnight, with only six spots up for grabs. Even though we are at the stage of competition where it gets even tougher and harder, I would like to implore all of the contestants, even those who are already eliminated, to shed their inhibitions, grow thicker skins and just ask whoever, be it the judges, the hosts or any of the producers where they can improve, which flaws need to be lessened or what else can be done to make themselves better hosts. I am sure these people are approachable and able to share more from their vast experiences. All they need to do is ask, because no one is going to spoon-feed them, such is the harsh nature of the industry. For the eliminated ones, I can only hope they use the experience to improve on their shortcomings and come back for future competitions well-equipped to do better. They should look no further than host Fauzie Laily, who has worked hard to be where he is now, given that he was eliminated early in Anugerah 2003 but was one of the Top 3 for the ensuing competition in 2005. There are grooming and enrichment classes pertaining to the media industry organised by local personalities like Hafeez Glamour and Rilla Melati from time to time. These young upstarts should consider enrolling themselves in these classes to learn, equip and empower themselves so that they can be more confident and sure. Most importantly, their fluency in their mother tongue is paramount if they want to succeed…
Snapshots of Elit Suria Wildcard Round
Author Pujangga Malam™Posted on Monday, 13 August 2018 Monday, 13 August 2018 Categories Elit SuriaTags Ainur Rosyieqa, Amyrah Mustafa, Asyraf Iskandar, Atiqah Hassan, Elit Suria, Erna Ellieyana, Fadzli Jani, Faiz Zainal, Farahnurmadina, Farid Azhar, Fatin Taha, Fauzie Laily, Hafeez Glamour, Hana Rosli, Hans Hamid, Haziq Halim, Hisyam Salimnor, Khairudin Saharom, Najip Ali, Noh Irwan, Nur Mehga, Nuraliza Osman, Nurul Rahila, Rilla MelatiLeave a comment on Elit Suria Wildcard Episode
Elit Suria Episodes 3 & 4 Recap…
(All images in this entry courtesy of MediaCorp Suria‘s official Facebook page and Instagram account)
Back with another review of Elit Suria, this time combining my thoughts from watching the recent two episodes involving Groups A & B once again. Like the first fortnight, the third and fourth episodes saw two more contestants being eliminated each week, making it a grand total of eight contestants seeing their journey halted from progressing into the semi-final rounds. Episodes 3 and 4 also saw a slight twist to the hosting segment, whereby the contestants interviewed special guests and discussing on the particular week’s themes as a duo, and not individually like the first and second episodes. This was a challenge to see how well they worked together and if they were able to capture the essence of hosting as a team. Group A‘s theme of the week was Films, whereas Group B‘s was Travel, two themes which are closely-related to the media industry and ones that attract eyeballs to info-ed shows pertaining to them. If the first two episodes were graced by female performers, the recent two bucked the trend and gave the males centrestage. The third episode saw Rudy Djoharnaen, winner of Anugerah 1999, and the recent fourth episode had Singapore Idol alumnus and Anugerah Planet Muzik 2018 award nominee, Farhan Shah, as the guest performers. I’ll dive straight into my observations on both episodes henceforth.
If I’m not mistaken, Nurul Aini was very ill during this particular episode, but the masses didn’t know the high level of professionalism she displayed to soldier on through the night… Massive respect!!!
It is difficult as a home viewer to assess the contestants in the first Style segment, as the cameras take turn to pan between the week’s guest performer and them. However, from the short time I was able to view, it was easy to see who deserved to top their respective time onstage. Those short 3-4 minutes onstage accompanying the guest performer, needed to be used to its maximum. The caveat, according to the judges however, is not to overdramatise their movements and prancing onstage, even if they had to fully utilise their moment. Judge Najip Ali mentioned in the third episode, what they are looking out for is not a ready-made star, but someone with a huge potential to make it in the industry and eventually become a household name through their natural aura, charisma and aptitude. I still don’t get much vibes from this particular segment, especially when I watched the fourth episode. Other than Asyraf Iskandar and Erna Ellieyana, I dunno how the others, most notably Farid Azhar, connected their style and character portrayals to the week’s theme – Travel. They could have at least substituted that sporty look with an immigration officer’s or a pilot’s or a steward’s or even a cargo handler’s outfit. No surprises that he came off last in that round. Which begs the question, who was responsible for their outfits and character portrayals onstage??? Was it themselves or the producers???
Rudy Djoharnaen performed Dato’ M. Nasir‘s “Bikin Filem“, accompanied by the contestants. Here we see Haziq Halim and Hana Rosli…
Onto the hosting segment. If in the last entry I lavished praise on the ones who did well, for this entry, I will focus more on the ones who did not do particularly well in my eyes, most notably Atiqah Hassan and Fadzli Jani for Group A, as well as Faiz Zainal, Erna Ellieyana and Farid Azhar for Group B. I actually sympathised with Atiqah as it is not easy to speak fluently and most importantly, clearly, when one is wearing braces. I think her overall performance was hampered by it and I am not sure what other problems she was facing during the recording of her hosting segment with Fadzli, because her facial expressions and body language showed that something was bothering her. The way she presented was also akin to watching a children’s programme host speaking in a monotonous tone. Fadzli, whose energy and outgoing style caught my eyes the last time out, seemed lost when paired with Atiqah. There was hardly any chemistry between them, making their performance completely flat. I finally bumped into Atiqah for the first time over this past weekend at the Twilight: Uniquely Local flea market expo at Suntec City Convention Centre and managed to ask her what happened during the recording of her hosting segment. Indeed she said that she was bogged down by the braces and having to mouth her words carefully. This is why I prefer to watch the shows live, as I get to talk to the contestants post-show to understand some of their difficulties that may affect their performance, so that I can give a more compassionate and understanding assessment afterwards, rather than watch and whack like some others from the comfort of home.
Judge Najip Ali dispensing his words of wisdom to the contestants…
Faiz Zainal seemed nervous next to Amyrah Mustafa, and somehow his slightly higher-pitched voice made his hosting style looked out of sync when complemented with his more composed partner. There was a reason judge Khairudin Saharom specifically asked them much later on if they felt comfortable hosting with one another. Though they tried to be cordial and complimentary towards one another, somehow their respective answers and hesitancy in trying to find the right words were not convincing enough. Amyrah, whom I personally thought didn’t do much wrong, was told that her energy did not complement that of her co-host and guest personality. Faiz on the other hand, was taken to task for not grasping the essence of his questions and merely stating his lines as it is. Erna Ellieyana, or Ellie as she likes to be called, was reminded by judge Nuraliza Osman to lessen her child-like traits and style a fortnight ago. Though she tried to escape from that, her voice and most importantly, the way she pronounced her sentences resembled that of a schoolkid reading from a book out loud to their class. Farid, on the other hand, was quite static and did not show much emotions, making his performance a bit wooden. I was actually surprised that judge Nuraliza actually complimented Ellie on showing significant improvement from the last time out, but I felt that if there were any, it was only minimal. The only thing I liked about her performance was her trying to liven up their segment with her bubbly personality.
Haziq Halim and Hana Rosli were the top performers for Episode 3…
I need to highlight one thing which I found most pleasing over the past fortnight, and that was how much Farahnurmadina probably took my criticisms in the last entry in her stride (or from others in her private circle), and gave a more polished and confident performance when she was paired with Asyraf Iskandar as they interviewed their guest, actress-writer-director-producer, Seriwahyuni Jaes. Though I did not mention names in that last entry, I was specifically referring to her when I brought up the topic of not speaking with an English twang. I was super turned-off when I watched her introductory clip then and thought to myself then, “Girl, why do you need to do that???” It did not look nor sounded good as it came across as made up. Fortunately for the latest episode, she kept that to a minimum, making it barely audible, and gave a very good performance next to Asyraf. It was refreshing to watch them, which had me smiling and nodding away in front of the television screen. It probably helped that they had someone like Seriwahyuni to dispense tips and such prior to the cameras rolling, especially with someone who has bags of experience in front of the cameras and an endearing personality like her, their synergy and energies were just bouncing off one another, making it probably the best of the six interviews between the two groups. So well done to Farah and Asyraf!!!
This was Group B answering questions in the first round of the Bestari segment…
For my favourite Bestari round, I noticed the eagerness, determination and effort in most of the contestants to do well and win that weekly $300 cash prize, judging by how fast they raised their hands to answer. The two who eventually won during their respective week’s episode, Haziq Halim and Amyrah Mustafa, showed how hungry they were to excel in this round, most notably the latter, whom I felt had something to prove after her earlier hosting segment was not given glowing assessments by the judges. I was amazed by their level of knowledge, especially Amyrah, who answered six out of seven questions correctly in the second round of her episode. I was stumped by some of the questions posed during that particular episode where the questions had something to do with travelling and places in the world and could only get about half of them correct. The way Amyrah answered them correctly showed that she is perhaps someone who is well-travelled or probably had done her homework beforehand. It has to be said, that nothing is more attractive than a lady with brains (at least from my personal point of view), and this was the second time in the competition that she has aced this segment. I would like to see the other contestants in the upcoming weeks upping their game and showing the same hunger as their two main rivals.
Farhan Shah performed his hit single, “Istimewa“, along with the contestants…
The last round, which is the X-Factor round, is probably another segment that I still am trying to get used to. This make-or-break round either brings out the best in the contestant or leaves them on the brink of elimination. For some, it either makes them come across as cocky or gives away their feeling of nervousness. However, as I had mentioned in the last entry, this round more or less confirmed who would leave the competition or who would progress. For the third episode, Atiqah Hassan was let down by the way she spoke. When she posed a question at the end, the tone of her voice was not that of someone questioning her audience, but ending her sentence with a full stop. For the fourth episode, I think it was easy to pinpoint who probably had the lowest marks by virtue of the contestant who tripped on his words, Faiz Zainal. He was a bag of nerves and his forced smile tried to hide how nervous he was. Anyway, in this segment Farah reverted back to my earlier grouse about her speaking with an accent, even though it was only momentarily. I am not sure if she has trouble pronouncing the letter “R” or certain words, because I know some people speak with a bit of an accent to hide the fact that they cannot pronounce words containing the letter “R” correctly. However I am sure she will minimise that in the semi-final rounds onwards as she has at least two weeks to work on it.
Judge Nuraliza Osman sharing her thoughts while Najip Ali listened intently…
Other than the eliminations of Atiqah Hassan and Erna Ellieyana whom I felt were more than justified, I found the results slightly unkind towards Fadzli Jani and Farid Azhar, who were also eliminated in their respective episodes. But Group A‘s male contestants were technically strong to begin with and I think Fadzli was let down by his hosting segment. I had expected Faiz to be eliminated as I did not see him doing his best for both the hosting and X-Factor rounds. His only saving grace, and this proved to be very crucial, was him entering the second round of the Bestari segment and answering that one last question which Amyrah probably gave way to her fellow competitors to answer, so as not to make them look bad. Farid on the contrary, did not manage to enter the second round. Hence this is why it is paramount that they do their best for every challenge they pit themselves in, as their consolidated marks from all the segments will eventually be the deciding factors. It is not all doom and gloom for the eight eliminated contestants as they still have the upcoming Wildcard episode later tonight to give off their best. However, only two will advance to the semi-finals. I already have in mind who will progress based on their performances this past month. I just hope the rest will up their game and prove me wrong, even though I will not mention who or if you guys already have an inkling who I have in mind.
Erna Ellieyana and Farid Azhar were still able to smile upon their elimination as they will get a reprieve in the Wildcard episode…
The semi-finalists have all earned their places fairly. Slowly as the weeks progress, I can see their respective potentials and most importantly, their personalities appearing to the fore. In the X-Factor round, I detected that Hans Hamid, Fatin Taha and Hana Rosli could possibly have a future in radio broadcasting or as a newscaster some day, if they are interested as they have the calm, soothing and confident voices associated with those jobs. However, Hana looks and behaves more like a performer onstage, though she should lessen the overdramatisation of her expressions, as well as her emotions at times, cos it can be a bit of a turn-off to look for the average viewer, since she tends to showcase a certain vulnerability by crying in front of the cameras, be it when she’s sad or happy. Haziq and Amyrah, confident and hungry as they are, might want to consider practising in front of the mirror and look at their facial expressions and body language when they smile or speak. There were times when their features displayed a slight tinge of arrogance, so they might want to work on it a bit to up their likeability factor even more with not only the judges but viewers in the studio and at home. Other than that, I think the two of them are quite the clear favourites based on form. As for Asyraf, there were instances where he spoke like an excited kid, so he might want to tone it down a bit, but I love his devil-may-care attitude and principle to just “Go Je!“. He is one person who looks as though he enjoys himself onstage. Farah??? I do not want to sound like a bad record, but I already mentioned her shortcomings and her improvements to be made earlier so I’ll give her a break here. Till the next entry!!!
Author Pujangga Malam™Posted on Monday, 6 August 2018 Monday, 6 August 2018 Categories Elit SuriaTags Ainur Rosyieqa, Amyrah Mustafa, Asyraf Iskandar, Atiqah Hassan, Elit Suria, Erna Ellieyana, Fadzli Jani, Faiz Zainal, Farahnurmadina, Farhan Shah, Farid Azhar, Fatin Taha, Fauzie Laily, Hana Rosli, Hans Hamid, Haziq Halim, Hisyam Salimnor, Khairudin Saharom, Najip Ali, Noh Irwan, Nuraliza Osman, Nurmehga, Rudy DjoharnaenLeave a comment on Elit Suria Episodes 3 & 4 Recap…
Surprise, surprise!!! I’m finally back after a two-month hiatus… I know this reality television series currently airing weekly since 9 July 2018 is into its 4th week as I speak, and probably a bit belated for me to start talking about it. I’ve had people I met on the streets asking me if I was gonna do a review on this new competition. I guess I’ve hummed and hawed long enough before finally deciding to do it. For the uninitiated, Elit Suria is the latest reality talent competition series by Mediacorp Suria, in search of new faces to grace the local television screens, mainly in hosting and acting. One can say that it is probably similar to the previous three Anugerah Skrin competitions that we’ve had so far over the last twelve years, but the main emphasis is on hosting, whereas acting is a secondary component. If I can think of a like-for-like talent competition before this on our local television screens, it would most probably be the Juara competition way back in 2002, which introduced us to household names like Fir Rahman, Nurul Aini and Fadhilah Samsudin amongst others. This current reality competition series is hosted by Fauzie Laily and Nurul Aini, whereas the resident judges are none other than Najip Ali, Nuraliza Osman and Khairudin Saharom. From the line-up of judges, we can more or less see the emphasis of the competition, which is to unearth new hosts for our local Malay entertainment scene.
The simple, yet lovely backdrop of the show’s stage…
Even though I received the invitation to attend the weekly live recordings at MediaCorp Campus, in truth to date, I have not had the time to attend so far. Hence why this entry and also the next one will feature photos courtesy of the Mediacorp Suria Facebook page and Instagram account. However, I have been watching the first two episodes via Toggle‘s Catch-Up TV and finally managing to watch the third and latest episode live on MediaCorp Suria this past Monday, to acquaint myself with possibly the newest faces on local television and of course, to keep myself abreast with the competition. I will not touch on the latest episode just yet in this particular entry, but will do a summary of the first two episodes, where we were introduced to all the contestants who were divided into two groups of eight, namely Groups A and B. My entries for the first four episodes at least, will be from a perspective of a normal television viewer. Hence, I would like to apologise first and foremost, if my words will not be minced as much as if I were to attend a live recording to observe and understand the difficulties faced by the contestants or to get to know them a bit closer. I tend to give benefit of doubt from my observations watching live, rather than from the comfort of home.
Closed door auditions were held way back in March and April this year. Usually I would be invited to cover the audition rounds just to have a feel of what’s to come in the coming weeks and months, but this time I received none and like general viewers out there, I did not know what to expect, who had the potential to succeed and who were the standouts during the audition rounds. Which was partly why I decided to stay away from attending the weekly live recordings to date, not as a sign of protest, but because I was not prepped enough to learn the competition format nor given the opportunity to observe them much earlier to better understand their personalities and psyche. The contestants are judged weekly through their Hosting, Style, Wits, Personality and X-Factor in a series of quizzes and Q&A rounds amongst others. The segment that I most enjoy watching so far is the Wits (Bestari) round, whereby the contestants go through two rounds of quizzes on their general knowledge of the respective week’s theme. Why I enjoy it is because it is equally challenging for the viewers watching in the studio and at home, a value-added component of the show that provides useful trivia and information for our general knowledge. Kudos to local singer Hyrul Anuar for painstakingly doing the research and coming up with the questions!!!
Khairudin Saharom, cautioning the contestants on what to avoid doing when assessing their hosting performances…
Each week the contestants begin each episode by playing accompanying props, or to put it in nicer terms, stage models, to a guest singer performing on stage. This is where they are judged on style and confidence, as well as their aptitude for acting or performing. The first episode saw Aisyah Aziz in action, whereas Kalysa Aziz performed in the second episode. I have mixed feelings watching this segment of the show actually. Who is supposed to be the highlight, the guest artistes on show or the contestants themselves??? Is it supposed to showcase their acting skills or is it supposed to be a mini runway show for the contestants??? Some looked so out of depth and devoid of confidence from the way they moved and walked, that it was easy to pinpoint who would eventually be eliminated from the first two episodes, and it was only the first segment!!! Talk about confidence building for these young upstarts!!! Then there were some who overdid their facial expressions and actions that it became a little cringeworthy to watch. This was also highlighted by judge Nuraliza when she was asked to comment. There has to be a certain balance in character portrayals, which can only be honed through time and experience. Unfortunately for the contestants, they do not have that liberty and advantage, unless they have prior acting backgrounds and experiences, and to just hope their personalities shine through to win over the judges.
Aisyah Aziz was the guest artiste for the first episode…
Getting acquainted to the young upstarts on show, the audience in the studio and viewers at home were treated to introductory videos of all the contestants during the first quarter of the programme. This was where we learned a thing or two about them, to hear of their motivation and reasons behind entering the competition. This was also where I studied their respective body language, facial expressions and tone of voices to know if they were sincere in entering the competition or probably there to make up the numbers. We have the usual clips where they showed their gratitude and appreciation to their respective spouses and parents. Some made heartfelt tributes to their beloved family members who have departed this world or went through personal hardships, naturally shedding tears for the cameras, even those whose talents have been belittled and questioned before by their peers / educators. Nothing wrong with that actually, but viewers perceptions might vary depending on how they digest the stories told before them, as well as seeing the expressions on the faces of these contestants. Some may think the contestants are fishing for sympathy, or hoping to be judged leniently. A little sad story is ok to be heard, but should be kept to a minimum. Viewers easily warm to jovial, bubbly and positive characters afterall.
The second episode witnessed under-rated singer, Kalysa Aziz, in action…
The contestants must also be mindful of the way they speak. For certain sections or probably most people in the community, it is a major turnoff hearing people speaking with a certain accent especially when you are conversing in your mother tongue. You don’t have to add an English twang to your pronunciation of words. It makes you come off as extremely fake. From drawing people closer to you, you actually serve to alienate them. The one that was every bit confident and gave me the most positive vibes in their introductory clips was Amyrah Mustafa, the only contestant who wears a Hijab and has a passing resemblance to Aisyah Aziz. She shared her hopes to inspire fellow youths watching the show, to uphold, empower and showcase the beauty of the Malay language as well as culture. Big hopes on such young shoulders, but one that I believe is achievable as we see her progress in the competition and I hope she does, because she is a natural and a breath of fresh air for our local scene. She also spoke in calculated and measured tones without trying too hard, unlike some of the others whom I will not name. For the guys, the one that I felt was smooth in his delivery, was Hans Hamid. He has a certain warmth in his voice which will make viewers drawn comfortably to him, even if he is slightly lacking in the looks factor. Fadzli Jani‘s bubbly personality and originality in coming out with his own tagline, “Awak Suka Tak?“, also made me warmed easily to him.
The Wits (Bestari) round pitting the contestants against one another on their general knowledge…
The hosting segment is I believe, the main one that they are being judged upon. From creating their own interview questions as well as their own scripts, with only three recording takes per contestant, this is definitely the most challenging segment from my observations. True, they only had about a minute or two to interview their guest personality from the local fashion and music industries, but the weight of their challenge is immense!!! From posing the right questions, usage of language, tone of voice, eye interactions between them, their guests and the cameras, hosting itself is a thankless job and one that I myself shun from doing, and I personally hate doing normal presentations or public speaking to begin with. The contestants had to be mindful especially those who added rhythm and melody to their pronounced sentences. It made them sound as though they were reading directly from their scripts or like school children reading in a class. Another thing they need to look out for is the excessive hand gestures which can be distracting to the viewers. From this segment, the ones that stood out for me were again Amyrah Mustafa, Hans Hamid, Fadzli Jani and Fatin Taha. The rest either exuded too much energy onscreen or looked uncertain of themselves. A few of them need to open their mouths a bit wider and not speak through gritted teeth, whereas there were some who need to smile a bit more, cos when they don’t, they simply looked aloof.
Najip Ali‘s comments never fail to disappoint, his extensive vocabulary and usage of words simply exemplary…
The third quarter of the show saw the contestants pitting their wits against one another through the quiz segment aptly titled “Bestari” (Wits). Questions asked were related to the particular week’s themes and challenged the contestants on their general knowledge, mostly in the local context. I was left somewhat frustrated watching the contestants struggling to answer the questions in the two rounds they were required to answer them. I won’t say that if I were to enter the competition, I could answer all the questions or ace the rounds, but I dare say I could have at least gotten 75% of the questions right, especially the second episode where the theme was Music. I was extremely appalled that questions pertaining to our local Malay music industry were not answered satisfactorily. If they harbour hopes of being in the entertainment industry some day, then they have to keep themselves abreast of who’s who, listen more to the local radio stations, follow more local personalities and artistes on social media, watch more of the local programmes on television. This is all part of being equipped and informed as a host. Listening to the questions before answering is also an important aspect. I was left stumped when Hisyam Salimnor answered “DragonballZ” when the question that was asked was “What is the name of the popular Japanese fashion trend that depicts Anime and Manga characters?” Though most people found it funny (not me!!!), I just felt that that highlighted his weakness in not listening properly and in turn, comprehending what was asked. Oh by the way, the winner of this segment each week bags $300 for themselves!!! Easy money in my opinion.
Hisyam Salimnor and Ainur Rosyieqa found themselves eliminated from the competition in the first episode…
The last segment of the show, called the “X-Factor“, is a last throw of the dice for the contestants, to upsell themselves literally to the judges and relate to the audience why they should still remain in the competition. This segment can be considered a double-edged sword depending on how one views it. The contestants can come off as confident in how they sell or promote themselves, yet at the same time, their words and facial expressions might be misconstrued as arrogant. Some could be seen as trying too hard, whereas there were some who just forgot their lines and tripped on their words. Being a host is not easy especially during a live show. Usually they have the benefit of holding on to cue cards for reference in case they forget what they should be saying, but not these young upstarts, who had to memorise what they needed to say or at least remember the gist of their presentation content. Here, we got to see who are the naturally talented, calm and composed and who needed lots of polishing. By this round, I more or less guessed correctly who would be eliminated from the first two episodes. The ones who were eliminated were the ones that tripped on their words or did not exude confidence on their faces and overall body language. Too much uncertainty is a recipe for disaster and signaled a death knell on their involvement in the competition.
Noh Irwan and Nurmehga were the next two to be eliminated in Episode 2…
Even though we still have six more episodes (five if we were to discount this past Monday‘s episode) before crowning the winner/s, I dare say, without trying to jinx them, from the first two episodes alone, the ones who will appear in the semi-finals at least, are Fatin Taha, Hans Hamid, Fadzli Jani, Amyrah Mustafa and Haziq Halim. I know that as I speak currently, Fadzli has just been eliminated in the third episode, but he will definitely return for the Wildcard Round and I believe is a strong contender to progress to the semi-finals. Personally, I have high expectations on Farid Azhar, whom I had the opportunity to know when I covered his journey in 2016‘s Anugerah Skrin. His experience should at least put him in good stead to do even better than the last time out. So far, he has remained in his own comfort zone and not gotten out from his shell. I hope he can open up a bit more and not stick to being such a cool cat. There is a reason why the judges picked him and it is definitely not to make up the numbers. For those I had not mentioned as prospective semi-finalists, I hope they will not be discouraged and at least prove me wrong on my observations. They are not by any means, dumb or bimbotic, as some of their respective educational qualifications would testify. They just have to grasp whatever tips they receive from their mentors and judges, do lots of homework, research and study how other hosts work, to ask if they do not know, as I am sure many are willing to help dispense advice to them. My next entry will be another consolidated entry once Episode 4 ends and Group B have appeared for a second time.
Author Pujangga Malam™Posted on Thursday, 26 July 2018 Thursday, 26 July 2018 Categories Elit SuriaTags Ainur Rosyieqa, Aisyah Aziz, Amyrah Mustafa, Asyraf Iskandar, Atiqah Hassan, Elit Suria, Erna Ellieyana, Fadhilah Samsudin, Fadzli Jani, Faiz Zainal, Farahnurmadina, Farid Azhar, Fatin Taha, Fauzie Laily, Fir Rahman, Hana Rosli, Hans Hamid, Haziq Halim, Hisyam Salimnor, Hyrul Anuar, Kalysa Aziz, Khairudin Saharom, Najip Ali, Noh Irwan, Nuraliza Osman, Nurmehga, Nurul AiniLeave a comment on Elit Suria Episodes 1 & 2 Recap…
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The use of wheelmotors to provide active steering and guidance for a light rail vehicle
J. Stow, N. Cooney, R. Sellick, R. M. Goodall
Department of Engineering and Technology
School of Computing and Engineering
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Whilst conventional, rigid axle railway wheelsets are inherently simple, reliable and relatively inexpensive, they have well known limitations with regard to the competing requirements of steering and stability. A wide range of mechanical and mechatronic solutions have been proposed to overcome these limitations and to allow near-radial steering in sharp curves. This paper discusses some considerations in the design and development of wheelmotor active steering technology for light rail vehicles (LRVs), where each wheel incorporates a traction motor which can be driven independently of the other. This arrangement is considered to have some advantages over similar mechatronic approaches which use actuators in the primary longitudinal / yaw suspension.
Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Stephenson Conference
Research for Railways 2017
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Stephenson Conference: Research for Railways 2017 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 Apr 2017 → 27 Apr 2017
https://events.imeche.org/viewevent?code=c6344
https://events.imeche.org/docs/default-source/rail-events/agenda-for-the-stephenson-conference---research-for-railways3431a099b4306efdb11aff0000e7ac25
Stephenson Conference: Research for Railways 2017
Link to conference
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Rails Engineering & Materials Science
Mechatronics Engineering & Materials Science
Traction motors Engineering & Materials Science
Axles Engineering & Materials Science
Wheels Engineering & Materials Science
Actuators Engineering & Materials Science
Stow, J., Cooney, N., Sellick, R., & Goodall, R. M. (2017). The use of wheelmotors to provide active steering and guidance for a light rail vehicle. In Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Stephenson Conference: Research for Railways 2017 (pp. 455-462). Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Stow, J. ; Cooney, N. ; Sellick, R. ; Goodall, R. M. / The use of wheelmotors to provide active steering and guidance for a light rail vehicle. Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Stephenson Conference: Research for Railways 2017. Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. pp. 455-462
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Chemical resistance properties of molybdenum back electrodes used in non-vacuum Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 thin film solar cell
Chia Huang Shen, Yi Cheng Lin, Wang Lin Liu
Department of Mechatronic Engineering
The first step in fabricating copper-indium-gallium-diselenium solar cells (CIGS) is to deposit a thin film of molybdenum (to serve as the back electrode), on a glass substrate. Prior to depositing the absorption layer, the surface of the Mo back electrode is cleaned with acetone; however, this may cause the electrode to separate from the substrate. The aim of this study was to discover the specific cause of the separation, and arrive at a solution to correct this behavior. The result is a thin film comprising crystals of different sizes and orientations. Optimal results were obtained when the bi-layer Mo electrode was deposited on a substrate heated to a temperature of 373 K.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2012.06.004
Published - 2012 Jul 20
10.1016/j.vacuum.2012.06.004
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Shen, C. H., Lin, Y. C., & Liu, W. L. (2012). Chemical resistance properties of molybdenum back electrodes used in non-vacuum Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 thin film solar cell. Vacuum, 86(12), 2136-2139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2012.06.004
Shen, Chia Huang ; Lin, Yi Cheng ; Liu, Wang Lin. / Chemical resistance properties of molybdenum back electrodes used in non-vacuum Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 thin film solar cell. In: Vacuum. 2012 ; Vol. 86, No. 12. pp. 2136-2139.
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2019 Americana Honors & Awards Nominees — Full List
Rich Fury, Getty Images
Brandi Carlile, Kacey Musgraves and John Prine are all up for prominent awards at the 2019 Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, the Americana Music Association announced on Tuesday (May 14). This year's nominees list that is dominated by female artists and features an all-female ensemble in the running for Artist of the Year.
In addition to Carlile, Musgraves and Prine, Lori McKenna, Yola and others earned nods at the 2019 Americana Honors & Awards. Notably absent from the list is 2018's big winner, Jason Isbell.
A complete list of 2019 Americana Honors & Awards nominees is below. The ceremony is set to take place at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Sept. 11 during AmericanaFest 2019. The week-long conference and music festival is scheduled for Sept. 10-15 at various venues throughout Nashville. A full list of performances, as well as conference event details, is forthcoming.
2019 Americana Honors & Awards Nominees
To the Sunset, Amanda Shires
The Tree, Lori McKenna
The Tree of Forgiveness, John Prine
Walk Through Fire, Yola
"By Degrees," Mark Erelli, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Lori McKenna, Anais Mitchell, Josh Ritter (written by Erelli)
"Mockingbird," Ruston Kelly (written by Kelly)
"People Get Old," Lori McKenna (written by McKenna)
"Summer's End," John Prine (written by Prine and Pat McLaughlin)
Duo / Group of the Year
I'm With Her
Our Native Daughters
The War and Treaty
Instrumentalist of the Year
Chris Eldridge
Eamon McLoughlin
Chris Powell
Michael Rinne
Emerging Artist of the Year
J.S. Ondara
Erin Rae
PICTURES: A Look Back at the 2018 Americana Honors & Awards
Source: 2019 Americana Honors & Awards Nominees — Full List
Filed Under: Kacey Musgraves
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With the Fire on High Lib/E (Compact Disc)
By Elizabeth Acevedo (Read by)
Paperback (March 30th, 2021): $12.99
Summer 2019 Kids Indie Next List
“The only word I can use to properly describe this book is ‘delicious.’ I first fell in love with Acevedo’s poetry in The Poet X, and now I’m even more in love with her prose in With the Fire on High. This gorgeously relatable story of a teen mom who dreams of life as a chef will rip your heart out, season it, fry it up, and serve it back to you in the tastiest of ways. My only warning is this: Do not read it while hungry.”
— Emelie Burl, Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depot, CT
From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award longlist title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisions--doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.
Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it's not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.
Family - Multigenerational
People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino
Library Binding, Large Print (December 25th, 2019): $28.74
MP3 CD (May 7th, 2019): $39.99
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After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.
The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s uncle.
As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde’s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life—alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed.
A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke’s fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readers—mixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.
James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He’s authored thirty-nine novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
An imaginative blend of crime and other genres, Burke’s existential drama is both exquisitely executed and profoundly moving. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Burke has concocted his usual gumbo of thrills and chills, stirred it with gusto and seasoned it with plenty of local superstition and rumor. What makes these books so enduring (this is the 23rd Robicheaux novel) and the storytelling so seductive is that Burke has the voice to do justice to the region’s ancient curses and its modern crimes." —Marilyn Stasio, for The New York Times Book Review
"[A]ll-enveloping mix of horror and crime" —Booklist (starred review)
"You can always count on Burke, the prolific best-selling author and two-time winner of the Edgar Award, to deliver a white-hot page-turner."—AARP Magazine
"Burke has the poetic gifts to match the otherworldly musings his Louisiana lawman occasionally finds himself dwelling on." —CrimeReads
"Like all Burke's novels, this one is lush and lyrical and poignant and pretty damn brutal. It's a journey into Robicheaux's heart of darkness and America's." —Minnesota Star Tribune
Series: Dave Robicheaux
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Back Heritage » Vietnam » [Photos] Black-and-White Shots Depict Quotidian Details of 19th-Century Vietnam
[Photos] Black-and-White Shots Depict Quotidian Details of 19th-Century Vietnam
Wednesday, 06 January 2021.
These black-and-white shots are among the highest-quality documentation attempts of Vietnam at the end of the 19th century.
The collection was taken by Firmin André Salles, a French photographer and explorer. From 1896 to 1898, Salles traveled to and photographed much of French Indochina, excluding Laos. His trips were among the first to archive the scenes and life in the peninsula in photographic form. The result was a prolific collection of rarely seen sights.
Famous French photographer Numa Broc said of his predecessor: “In total, A. Salles left us several hundred negative plaques, of exceptional documentary value, preciously preserved today by the Société de géographie de Paris."
Have a closer look at Salles’ images below:
Vung Tau, then called Cap Saint-Jacques.
On the Saigon River.
The Ben Nghe Canal in Saigon.
That Phu Temple in Cho Lon.
Inside the Saigon Zoo.
Le Duan Boulevard.
The Saigon Governor's Palace in 1896; the building was destroyed in 1962. The new building is now the Reunification Palace.
The past iteration of the People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City.
Saigon Post Office.
Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Cao Xuân Dục, the governor of Nam Định, at a ceremony honoring graduates of the Hương exam (Thi Hương).
Honored students walk past crowds of onlookers.
Waiting to hear the results of the exams.
Every three years, major provinces hdld a Hương exams for students. Those with high rankings would take Hội and Đình exams in the imperial capital the following year.
At the gate of the Kiep Bac Temple in Hai Duong.
Three children of the governor of Lang Son (on the chairs).
17-year-old Vi Văn Định (left), the son of Lang Son Governor Vi Văn Lý.
In the 20th century, Định himself became the governor of Thai Binh and then Ha Dong.
Embroidery artisan Phan Văn Khoan at his home during Tet.
The Mot Cot Pagoda with some signs of wear and tear.
The staircase leading into the pagoda.
Two egret statues in the Temple of Literature, Hanoi.
Part of the temple with the Khue Van Pavilion on the right.
At the entrance of the temple.
On the banks of Ho Tay. In today's Hanoi, Thanh Nien Street crosses this section.
Quan Thanh Temple.
The northern structure inside Ngoc Son Temple.
Thap Rua with a miniature Statue of Liberty on top.
Tran Ba Temple.
The Huc Bridge.
On the banks of Hoan Kiem Lake.
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Saigoneer in Vietnam
[Photos] 13 Film Snapshots of a Sleepy Vung Tau in 1967
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Mostly taken by National Geographic photojournalist Joseph Baylor Roberts, these excellent shots are among the best images of 1952 Vietnam that one can encounter.
[Photos] Making Sugar at an Early 20th-Century Boiling House in Quang Ngai
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Towns are never settled, their characters forever suffering wanderlust.
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Hue is a city of empires, dynasties, armies, conquest and rule.
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Phu Quoc Prepares for Holiday Travel Boom
Vacationers are looking to Phu Quoc in 2021.
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Vietnam’s first craft brewery continues to ingratiate itself with local audiences.
Kitchen: A Non-Profit Restaurant Dishing up No-Nonsense Comfort Food
The kitchen is the heart of a home. This is the philosophy behind Kitchen, a new not-for-profit restaurant in District 2 that aims to nurture a community with delicious, healthy food.
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Delmarva Power projects seek to improve reliability
Feb 27th, 2020 · by Salisbury Independent · Comments: 0
A crane positions the new 210,000-pound transformer on its concrete foundation, part of Delmarva Power’s system enhancement efforts at the Fruitland substation in Wicomico County.
Delmarva Power is energizing two major substation projects in the Salisbury area this year, part of the company’s ongoing efforts to deliver safe and reliable service for customers across the Eastern Shore. The new Beaglin substation and upgraded Fruitland substation will enhance electric service for more than 21,000 customers across Wicomico County.
“To provide customers the safe and reliable service they expect, it is important to continue strengthening our energy infrastructure,” said Tyler Anthony, Senior Vice President and COO, Pepco Holdings, which includes Delmarva Power.
“The dedicated work of our crews, engineers and others on critical projects like these is a driving force behind our success in delivering record electric service reliability for our customers,” Anthony said.
Substations, like Fruitland and Beaglin Park Drive, reduce the voltage of electricity as it is delivered across the region to homes and businesses. Built by Delmarva Power and local contract crews, the new, modern substations will help deliver energy more efficiently and create new configurations on the local energy grid that allow Delmarva Power to automatically restore service more quickly by isolating damage.
By automating certain functions on the electric system, the new substations create a smarter energy grid and reduce the number of potential outages in the neighborhoods they serve.
The new substations are part of a broader reliability improvement effort Delmarva Power is implementing on the Eastern Shore to reduce outages and enhance the resiliency of the local energy grid. This effort includes modernizing the infrastructure, such as transmission and distribution lines, and adding greater automation on the local energy grid with new substations and equipment.
This reliability work on Delmarva Power’s energy infrastructure has contributed to customers’ experiencing the lowest frequency of electric outages ever in 2019—for the third year straight. In fact, over the past five years, ongoing investments in the local energy grid have driven a 36 percent decrease in the frequency of electric outages.
Delmarva Power’s record-breaking reliability also was recognized by PA Consulting, which presented the company with its 2019 ReliabilityOne Outstanding Midsize Utility Award for providing customers with exceptional service reliability.
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Addenda 3.3 (March 2020)
March 18, 2020 by Jeff Foster
The Cost of Christian Scholarship: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prof. Osam Edim Temple
Bonhoeffer was a brilliant scholar and a man of deep spirituality. His career was promising until 30 January 1933, when the Nazis rose to power. The nationalism they brandished carried the hallmarks of idolatry. Bonhoeffer therefore delivered an address warning Germany of the danger of the rising cult of the Führer (leader). In doing so, he put his life at great risk.
What is the role of a Christian scholar in the face of an idolatrous government? While Bonhoeffer stood out as the voice of truth, the world witnessed the complete failure of the German Protestant church. Bonhoeffer travelled briefly to the United States but chose to return to Germany to suffer along with the Church, arguing that Christians should not retreat from the world but act within it. He saw these events as an opportunity of renewal for Christianity. During this time, he wrote The Cost of Discipleship.
When the day came for Bonhoeffer to be with his Lord, he was led naked into the execution yard to be hanged. Someone wrote: “I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer … kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor; I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.”
As we reflect on the life of Bonhoeffer, let us be thankful for the peace we enjoy and pray for our colleagues who live under severe restrictions. For every Christian, the wilderness will surely come. We must continue to watch and pray because we never know when the Holy Spirit will make tough demands on us. Let us consider this question deeply: does every Christian need a philosophy of sacrifice and martyrdom? For Paul, and equally for Bonhoeffer, “To live is Christ and to die is gain!”
Society Executive Chair, Nigeria
Meet a Society Library Curator
Nita Kotiuga, Ph.D.
Director of Spiritual Formation
Bakke Graduate University
Society members have access to a library full of resources designed to help us flourish as Christian academics. This library is curated by an international team of scholars, one of whom is Dr. Nita Kotiuga, Director of Spiritual Formation at Bakke Graduate University.
Beyond serving as a Society Library Curator, Dr. Kotiuga is also a pastor at Westview Bible Church in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Kotiuga lived her first two years in Iran and then in Morocco until age fifteen. Growing up in a multicultural environment taught her how to adapt quickly and find commonalities rather than focusing on differences. Difference, though, became a place for curious exploration and learning about others.
Dr. Kotiuga entered academia as a means to love God with all her heart, soul, mind and strength. She sought to enrich her understanding of Christianity through the study of the early church, especially “early church fathers and mothers”. She attained an expertise in the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola and now desires to help academics become self-aware and God-aware, placing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as their foundation.
Academia, in her estimation, is in dire need of spiritual formation because it is important to engage the whole person, deepening our understanding of the world, God and ourselves. Western understandings of the mind, which often trumpet human rationality and autonomous subjectivity, hinder such formation. Therefore, Dr. Kotiuga desires to help academics embrace the spiritual life by placing their minds under the direction of the Holy Spirit so that they can fully function as God intended, following the Holy Spirit into all truth.
Meet Our Partner: Focus Kenya
The Society of Christian Scholars partners with Focus Kenya, an umbrella body linking and networking Christian unions from different universities and colleges in Kenya. Their aim is to facilitate mutual support, inter-campus sharing of ideas, and sharpening of leadership capacities for effective Christian work within their affiliated institutions and more generally in the world of work.
Focus Kenya upholds strong Christian principles of accountability and shared leadership. Its mission is to reach and equip students at institutions of higher learning and associates for effective Christian living. Learn more about Focus Kenya.
Society Resources
Call for Journal Articles
The International Network for Christian Higher Education (INCHE), a Society partner, is calling for article submissions to the International Journal of Christianity and Education for two upcoming special issues. The first special issue (with a May 2020 proposal submission deadline) will focus on the character of the university, and the second (with a November 2020 proposal deadline) will concentrate on “The Study of Historical Pedagogues and Their Importance for Christian Education”. Explore this opportunity further at pedagogy.net.
March Webinar
Blurring Boundaries: A Webinar on Science and Faith in the Asian Context, Dr. Michael Brownnutt
Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 1400 GMT
Why does Enlightenment thought struggle to connect facts with values, while Asian thought struggles to separate them? What are the implications for relating faith and science according to these accounts?
Reconsidering the relationship between modern science and faith is crucial if we are to engage in academic discourse in Asia and other contexts that don’t necessarily subscribe to the binaries often associated with the Enlightenment.
Join us on Thursday, 26 March 2020, at 1400 GMT as Dr. Michael Brownnutt, Associate Director of the Faith and Science Collaborative Research Forum at the University of Hong Kong, explores these questions as a physicist trained in the West but living and working in an Asian context.
April Webinar: Academic Excellence and Family Priorities
Is pursuing academic excellence in your teaching, research and administration inconsistent with family priorities? How do we balance the demands of academia with the demands of family life?
Join us for this webinar, co-hosted with InterVarsity-USA, on Thursday, 23 April 2020 at 1600 GMT as Dr. Erik and Sharon Carter share their thoughts on some of their struggles, tensions and joys of integrating family life with academic life.
Dr. Carter serves as the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University (USA) and Sharon is pursuing a graduate degree in spiritual direction.
Please join us for this important conversation as we endeavour to think holistically about our calling to academia.
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Youth Shot Dead
By Hawkins Nanton
Saturday, March 11 was supposed to be a very special day for Brenton âQuinneâ McLean – that was the day he was celebrating his 23rd birthday.
To pass the day he chose to go hunting for iguanas, but tragedy struck in the Reviere Hills just after 10 a.m. and marred the McCarthy residentâs birthday celebration when a homemade shotgun carried by one of his friends discharged, shooting him in the mouth. {{more}}
Reports claim that McLeanâs two hunting partners brought him down from the hills to Junction, Enhams, to get help but their efforts were futile as he succumbed to his injuries when they got there.
Cynthia McLean, breaking down in tears, told SEARCHLIGHT that same morning she had asked her son to stay at home when he told her that he was going hunting. She stated that occasion was the first time he was going hunting for the year.
âA lady came and told me that Quinne is dead. I did not believe, then the police came and told me,â said Cynthia who was unable to go to the scene because of problems with her feet.
âI am feeling so sad; I canât even eat or sleep,â the grieving mother said as she mourned the loss of her first born. She described him as an easygoing young man.
Lecia McLean, Brentonâs younger sister, said when she received the news she was hoping that it was not true. Though she did not believe, she said she started crying. Her worst fears were confirmed when she got to Junction, Enhams and saw her brotherâs lifeless body lying in the road.
Sentiments of grief were also expressed by Eden Tosh of LaCroix who raised Brenton from birth until the age of 22.
Tosh said she was shocked when she received the news. She recalled that after Cynthia took sick Brenton thought it was best to transfer to his biological motherâs home a few months ago to assist her.
âHe was a quiet guy who was never rude to me,â said Tosh.
On Monday, police arrested 17-year-old Randy Williams of Diamond and charged him with causing Brentonâs death. Williams was charged with manslaughter at the Serious Offences Court on Wednesday. He was granted bail in the sum of $5000 with one surety. He is expected to report to the Calliaqua Police Station every Tuesday and Thursday, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. until the Preliminary Inquiry on April 24, 2006.
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2,334 students to sit Common Entrance Examination today
A total of 2,334 students have been registered to sit today, what is likely to be the final locally administered examination, which determines placement of children in the nationâs secondary schools.{{more}}
According to a release from the Ministry of Education, 1,226 male students, and 1,108 females from approximately 70 primary schools, are down to write the multiple choice component of the Common Entrance Examination, at the St Vincent Grammar School and the Girlsâ High School in Kingstown.
They will be tested in English Language, Mathematics, and General Paper.
The reading assessment component of the exams was done in April and May. The composition component of the English examination was written on May 31.
As of 2014, primary school students are to be assessed on common literacies, through the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA), administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).
This, the CXC believes, would provide a seamless transition of students from primary to secondary education, and facilitate portability of qualifications across the Caribbean region.
In 2012, 2,119 students (1,076 boys, 1,043 girls) wrote the exams, with a 53.09 per cent pass rate.
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Home › eBooks › Encyclopedia of American Crime, 2-Volume Set
Authored by: Carl Sifakis
Dewey Number: 364.973
From the Introduction:
"The history of crime in America is quite simply the history of America"—Carl Sifakis
Why are the annals of crime worth studying? Author Carl Sifakis suggests that crimes and the people who perpetrate them—the killers, thieves, madams, prostitutes, crooked officers and judges, political bosses, gangsters, and even the victims involved—reflect the society we have created.
In this comprehensive and objective reference to America's criminal past, he offers 2,000 A-to-Z entries covering significant crimes, criminals, and law enforcement figures and techniques. Entries are chosen based on their symbolic or historical relevance and consist of biographies, definitions, and detailed accounts of criminal activities.
Criminal "firsts," including the Vikings' early depredations in the New World and the case of John Billington, the first convicted murderer in the Plymouth colony
Jean Harris and the "Scarsdale Diet" doctor
The Hillside Stranglers
Lawmen and folk hero bandits of the Old West
Major crime issues of the new millennium, including the use of DNA and other methods to prevent permanent miscarriages of justice
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing
The O.J. Simpson case
The Oklahoma City bombing
Organized crime, including its beginning in the Prohibition era, bootleg king Al Capone, and present-day figures such as John Gotti and Vincent Gigante
Profiles of colorful, brilliant, and sometimes devious prosecutors and defense attorneys
Public enemies of the 1930s, including John Dillinger, Clyde Barrow, and Bonnie Parker
Serial killers such as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Andrew Cunanan
The Sunset Slayer
The treatment of sex criminals
The Unabomber/Theodore Kaczynski
Urban crime, including New York City at the end of the 18th century and the crime rates in our cities today
White-collar criminals, such as Charles H. Keating, Jr., and Michael Milken
Wrongful convictions.
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Boys Basketball – Dunne and Tawiah Lead No. 10 Matawan Past Midd. North
ABERDEEN TWP. - Matawan seniors Mike Dunne and Reggie Tawiah both watched their older brothers team up to help the Huskies win an NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II championship four years ago and both are similar players to the ones their brothers were at the same age.
The difference, according to the younger Dunne, is the mental toughness that the elder Matawan duo developed by playing in big games. If Wednesday's performance down the stretch against Middletown North is any indication, this group of Huskies have a mental makeup that is catching up to their talent.
Dunne scored 15 of his 22 points in the second half and Tawiah poured in 15 points to lead Matawan - the No. 10 team in the Shore Sports Network Top 10 - to a 57-45 win over the Lions.
"Once we get tough mentally, it's going to help a lot on offense and defense," Dunne said. "We have a lot of young guys who are learning that and once we learn how to play mentally tough, especially in the fourth quarter, then we can get to that next level."
Matawan senior Reggie Tawiah. (Photo by Matt Manley)
Wednesday marked the fifth game Matawan has played at home that was decided in the fourth quarter and the Huskies are now 3-2 in those games. The losses came against Rumson-Fair Haven and Union and prior to Wednesday, the Huskies did not have a close win over a team with a winning record.
"We wanted to prove why we are ranked," Tawiah said. "We knew they were ranked before the season and they have a great player, so this was a chance that we belong on this stage."
"I keep telling the guys, it shouldn't be enough just to be ranked number 10," Matawan third-year coach John Giraldo said. "When you're ranked the teams that aren't ranked are coming after you because they want your spot and if you lose one, you're out. You have to be consistent and you have to be able to beat other very good teams."
Middletown North took a 39-37 lead into the fourth quarter thanks to 18 points from junior standout Rob Higgins through three quarters. Matawan took a 44-41 lead on a three-pointer by sophomore Ethan Okello with 5:45 left in the game and shortly thereafter, Higgins left the game and did not return.
According to Middletown North coach Mike Iasparro, Higgins has been sick over the past several days and was fatigued when he came out of the game. He finished with 18 points, the lowest scoring total in seven games for the 1,000-point scorer.
With Higgins on the bench, Matawan went in for the kill. Dunne hit a short jumper to extend the lead to five, followed by a pair of free throws by Tawiah to make it 48-41. Senior Sky Cherry scored on a tip-in to cut the Middletown North deficit back to five, but Dunne answered with six consecutive free throws to push the Matawan lead to 54-43.
"The defensive side was what won it for us," Giraldo said. "We got down early and had to fight back. Once we got close and were able to take the lead, I felt like our defense took over and kept giving us an opportunity."
With Higgins on the floor, the Huskies battled to stay in the game by sticking senior Ramon Estrada on the Lions' top scorer and doing their best not to help off the rest of the shooters. Higgins scored six of his points on fastbreak baskets and attempted only two free throws, giving him four field goals in the halfcourt offense with Estrada matched up on him.
"I thought Estrada was the most important player for us today," said Giraldo of his senior stopper, who finished with five points. "I don't know how many points he finished with, but his defense on Higgins allowed us to play the way we wanted to. We came in and we wanted to guard them without helping if we could and because of the job he did, we really didn't have to help off their shooters."
"Last year, Reggie was the guy we stuck on the other team's best player," Dunne said. "Having Ramon be that guy relaxes Reggie. It calms him down and lets him do his thing on offense. On defense, with him shutting down his man, we are holding good teams like Rumson in the 40's instead of the 60's."
Dunne, Tawiah and Estrada are the three seniors leading Matawan during its 5-2 start to the season, but the sophomore class has also been a key ingredient. Okello scored eight points off the bench, while center John Beukers added six points, nine rebounds and five blocks in the middle. Fellow sophomore Darrell Rogers ran point guard along with Dunne.
"Both Reggie and I remember watching the championship team in 2014 and it takes time to gain that experience and that toughness," Dunne said. "We played four sophomores on opening night and it took them a game to realize that they are good enough to just go out and play without trying to overthink things. Now that they are getting more experience with every game, I think it's making us a more complete team."
Filed Under: basketball game story, boys basketball, Matawan, Michael Dunne, Middletown North, Reggie Tawiah
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There are various ways you can support the centre:
There are various ways to help with fundraising:
The easiest way to make a donation to Sidings Community Centre is by visiting our Just Giving page where you can choose the option of making a one off donation, or supporting us monthly. You could even organise an event and create your own fundraising page to help us raise even more money. We’ll be happy to help you with ideas and suggestions, or promotional materials.
https://www.justgiving.com/sidingscc
If you’re a regular online shopper, you can also donate to us regularly by using Easy Fundraising. Simply register with Easy Fundraising and choose Sidings Community Centre as your cause, then search for your favourite retailers, make a purchase then every time you buy something via Easy Fundraising the retailer makes a donation to us as a thank you. Visit Easy Fundraising today to set up your account or contact us for more information.
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Volunteering to help out at community and promotional events, taking part in sponsored events, donating prizes or goods for fund-raising stalls or raffles, making suggestions for new fund-raising ventures, leafleting for fundraising events, helping on stalls when they happen.
Consider Nominating the Centre for donation schemes – but please ask us first!
If you have professional fund-raising skills – become a member and discuss your offer to help with the Centre Manager and Trustees.
If you are an employee in an industry or company which offers to help small charities like ours, think of putting the centre forward as a recipient – again check with us first please as any fund-raising venture carried out in our name must be approved by us although we welcome the opportunity to work in partnership with local businesses.
Make a donation of money or goods! Donations don’t have to be big – every £1 here and there always counts. Whilst we cannot accept any second-hand electrical goods, other goods can help. Donations of good quality furniture from offices, hotels or conference centres can be an extremely effective way of reducing our costs in replacing worn out chairs and tables.
Become a member:
Please become a member!
Taking out centre membership is a low-cost, instant and easy way to demonstrate support for the centre. Having an active membership base is a good sign that the centre is supported by its users. We would encourage and welcome all our users to take out membership which also entitles you to receive regular news and updates, and notice of significant news or consultation on local matters. Members also get 10% of any private hire fee if the occasion arises. Further benefits in the future may also arise. You will get invitations to meetings about the centre, including the AGM where you can vote.
Membership Fees (renewable annually around December):
Adult Individual – waged: £5
Adult Individual – unwaged: £2
Like any local registered Charity, Sidings relies on its voluntary Board of Trustees to help steer direction and make decisions on matters of governance. Sidings is a Registered Charity (297095) and Company Limited by Guarantee (2139909). Anyone who wants to join the Board of Trustees (or Management Committee) can express an interest and be given one of our “Becoming a Trustee at Sidings” packs – which explains the key responsibilities of being a Trustee, and the process of getting elected.
The Board is interested in recruiting people with a range of skills and interests and a genuine desire to support the centre in developing its role within the community. At Sidings we want all Trustees to find their experience rewarding and interesting, and Trustees can expect to be given information about centre activities and key documentation to help make decisions. Training can be arranged for those wanting to develop their governance skills and increase their knowledge and awareness of the role and responsibilities of being a Trustee. Trustees can expect to attend between 6 – 8 meetings a year (approximately 2 hrs in length). Expenses can be paid for out-of-pocket expenses incurred – e.g. travel costs, childcare.
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Please see our section on “Volunteering and Student Placement” if you are interested in becoming a volunteer at the centre.
By promoting and representing the centre positively to others
Our users can still help support us by promoting the centre and its services to others in a positive way when the opportunity arises. In marketing terms, this is known as “unsolicited support” – which counts bundles in terms of positive profiling and imaging for the centre. It creates a strong image which will help the centre in lots of different ways.
By expressing your support in user feedback in consultation exercises
Give us your case studies and positive feedback if you think that the centre has helped you or members of your family. This enables the centre to demonstrate that it has had a positive impact on the lives of those in the community which can help retain and attract funding. So – thank you to all of you who we know have already done this – your stories are both rewarding and interesting and are a source of encouragement to staff and volunteers to keep going!
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Sangeeta Venkatesh is an environmentalist, researcher, writer and a traveller who believes that life is journey of discovery
Following the Krishna route: Stop 2- Dwaraka – the Gateway to Heaven ©Sangeeta Venkatesh
August 27, 2019 May 13, 2020 / Sangeeta Venkatesh
And other temples………………………………….
104 kms; 2 hours 7 mins
After a half day stay at Porbandar, we left on a 2-hour journey alongside the western coast of the country to reach Krishna’s land – Dwaraka- which literally means ‘Gateway to Heaven’. For the itinerary in Porbandar do click on the following link https://sojournwithsan.wordpress.com/2019/08/23/following-the-krishna-route-stop-1-porbandar/
A Panoramic view of the exterior of ‘Jagat Mandir’
This city is regarded as one of the Chardhams or the four sacred pilgrimage sites of Hinduism. Adi Shankaracharya visited the temple sometime in the 8th century and established the Dwarakapeeth here. It is also one of the seven most ancient religious sites of India, the other six being Ayodhya, Mathura, Haridwar, Banaras, Kanchi and Ujjain. Dwaraka is the 98th amongst the 108 Divya Desams and Lord Vishnu is known as Dwarkadish. He is here with Lakshmi and Rukmini as his consorts. The Vaishnava Tamil saints or Azhwars who have sung the Lord’s praises are Perialwar, Andal, Tirumazhisai, Tirumangai and Nammalwar. Dwaraka is also amongst the 7 Mukti sthalas.
The Dwarkadish Temple
A quick shower and a change of clothes and we wanted to visit the Dwarakadish Temple as soon as possible. The car dropped us off by the banks of the River Gomti just before the bustling market. We walked up the rest of the way in the bustling alley that lead up to the temple.
Shopping for goodies in the temple-town market
I was totally elated as we approached the holy spot, that was home to Lord Krishna. As a child, the first prayer that was taught to me by my father was the following:
“Shanka Chakra Gadha Pane Dwarka Nilaya Achyutha Govindha Pundarikaksha Rakshamam Sharangatham”
I entered the sacred precincts of the ‘Jagat Mandir’that is located in the confluence of Gomti River and the Arabian Sea, reciting this shloka that Draupadi chanted, when she implored the Lord for help when her modesty was being violated in the Kaurava court.
After purchasing the entrance ticket, we go to deposit all our electronic items and bags in a locker for security reasons. This meant that we couldn’t take pictures inside but it gave us an opportunity to savour the darshan of the Lord of Dwarka and the beauty of the temple without any distractions. There are two gateways, the Moksha Dwar, that faces the main market of Dwarka and Swarga Dwar that faces the River Gomti. There are 56 steps taking you down to lead you to the river.
The lines to get darshan are not too long and we could see the Lord’s idol even while waiting for our turn. It is mesmerising to see the Lord carved in shiny black stone in the sanctum sanctorum holding the Shanka (conch), Chakra (discus), Gadha (mace) and Padma (lotus).
Panorama of Gomti Ghat
There are shrines for Lord Krishna’s parents, Devaki and Vasudeva and shrines for other family members, namely, Balarama, Subhadra, Rukmini, Jambavati, Revati, and Satyabhama. There are shrines in the honour of the illustrious grandsons of Lord Krishna, Pradyumana and Aniruddha. You also find Veni-Madhav or the form of Krishna holding a flute that we all identify Him; a shrine for Lord Shiva and a shrine for Lakshmi Narayana. The temple is neat and clean and the ambience in the evening was spiritual. A special shrine is devoted to Adi Shankaracharya and there are members of his monastic order looking after it.
After the darshan of all the deities in the temple we just sat in silence to soak in the ambience. In the view is the tallest spire of the temple that is nearly 78 metres in height. Limestone has been used in the construction of the temple. We see that temple has five storeys and rests on 72 pillars that are intricately carved. As we sit, we see the tall spire has a flag flying that can be spotted from a distance. It has emblems representing the sun and moon, that is ritualistically changed every five hours and is a reminder that Krishna will be with us as long as the sun and moon exist. This temple was built around the 16th century in the western Chalukya architecture.
Sudama Setu after sunset
Sudama Setu : After a peaceful darshan, we move out of the temple, and proceed towards the recently constructed pedestrian suspension bridge over the River Gomti. Called the Sudama Setu, this bridge connects the Jagat Mandir with another island called Panchkui Theerth. The bridge was completed in 2016 and was a collaborative effort by Reliance Industries Limited along with Gujarat Tourism Department and Gujarat Pavitra Yatradham Vikas Board, and Usha Martin Industries. The sunset from the bridge was a sight to behold, so make sure to be there at that time if you make a trip here. You can also shop for bags and clothes and other handicrafts from Kutch and Saurashtra in the street leading to the temple.
Beyt Dwaraka: The next morning we left early to reach Beyt Dwaraka. This is supposed to be part of the sunken city of Dwaraka that Lord Krishna established, the city that was designed and executed by Vishwakarma. Marine archaeology has recently shown evidence of a sunken city, but the topic is beyond the ambit of this article and I will not go into it.
Scenes near the jetty
Singing atop the boat
We reach the Okha Jetty which is 30 kms from Dwaraka from where we are supposed to take a 15-minute boat ride to Beyt Dwaraka. It was disappointing to see the quality of boats and also the lack of any system to ticket passengers. Safety norms are also way below par and there are no life jackets. In most circumstances, we would have never taken a risk but this time we took a chance. Dressed in a saree and I was imagining swimming in it -lest the need arose! Gujarat Tourism needs to rehaul this system urgently.
Okha Jetty
At the island, the temple surroundings need some upkeep. We paid our obeisance to shrine to the main deity Lord Dwarkanath. There are shrines for Lakshmi Narayana, Trivikrama, Rukmini, Satyabhama and Jambavati. This is where Sudama, Krishna’s childhood friend also gave the Lord the humble gift of beaten rice. Beyt Dwarka is also known as Beyt Shankhodhar as legend says that Krishna slew the demon Shankhasura here.
Hanuman Dandi/ MakardhwajTemple
Hanuman Dandi/Makaradhwaj Temple: On the island, about 5 kilometres from the main temple is another temple devoted to Hanuman and the place is called Hanuman Dandi. We hired an autorickshaw to take us to there. Other than the idol of Hanuman, there is the idol of Makaradhwaj, said to be the son of Hanuman. Legend has it that though Hanuman was a celibate, while crossing a river, a drop of ‘perspiration’ impregnated a fish and hence Makaradhwaj was born. Though this story is not found in Valmiki Ramayana, this is popular folklore in Gujarat. It is believed that the fish was caught by the people of ‘Patala’ or the netherworld ruled by Ahiravana, and a creature that was partly simian and partly a creature of the sea was born when the fish was cut. The Jethwa clan of Kshatriyas, that I had mentioned in my previous blog, claim to be descendants of Makardhwaja.
Rukmini/ Rukshamani Temple:
After we returned to the Okha Jetty, we drove towards the Rukmini Temple that is separated from the Dwarkadish Temple by a few kilometres. The exterior of the temple is breathtakingly beautiful with intricate carvings. A short fleet of steps lead you to the sanctum sanctorum.
Rukmini Temple
The main temple has a white idol of Goddess Rukmini, believed to be the incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi. The temple also has a shrine for Goddess Amba, who was Krishna’s family deity. She was the princess of Vidharbha and the primary consort of Lord Krishna. When we reached the temple, a crowd had collected outside and the priest began narrating the story behind the temple.
The exterior carved walls of Rukmini Temple; the carvings are getting damaged due to weathering
It is believed that both Krishna and Rukmini invited Sage Durvasa for a meal. The sage agreed but put forth a strange request that his chariot should be pulled by both Krishna and Rukmini. Both agreed and on a sunny day they began to draw the chariot with Sage Durvasa sitting in it. After a while the physical labour and the sharp sun made Rukmini thirsty and she asked Krishna for some water. Krishna pressed the ground with his big toe and lo and behold, the water of the Ganges appeared and Rukmini was able to quench her thirst. But this did not go well with the angry guest sitting in the chariot. Durvasa took this as an insult and thundered asking how could Rukmini drink water before offering a guest anything? He cursed them by saying that they would be separated for 12 years and the land they were on would always have a scarcity of water. Indeed, the area is water deficient and arid.
The travails of getting cursed, I thought!
Nageshwar Temple: The next stop was the Nageshwara Temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva and is one of the twelve Jyothirlings and is mentioned in the Shiva Purana.
Bhadkeshwar Mahadev Temple: After a short break to rest after lunch, we set out to see the Sunset Point at Arabian Sea beach at Dwaraka. Close to the beach is the Bhadkeshwar Mahadev Temple. Close to is also the Geeta Mandir which showed Lord Krishna explaining the Geeta to Arjuna. We also caught the sunset at Dwarka Lighthouse which offers a great panoramic view of the sea and land.
The view of the lighthouse
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Bhadkeshwar Mahadev Temple
Where to stay: We stayed at the Club Mahindra at Dwarka
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Fly Fishing Rock Creek
CS Drexel
CS is an lifelong, obsessive fly fisherman who is forced to work as a fish biologist and conservationist the PNW.
The view from "The Bridge To Nowhere", Rock Creek.
Disclaimer & Best Practices
Rock Creek is an interesting option that is off of a lot of people’s radars.
As such, I've made some enemies for divulging details about this spot, but oh well. That’s why we have pen names, I guess.
In response to the insults/anger/death threats from fellow anglers (no, sadly I'm not kidding) that I've received and will likely continue to receive for this article, I should point out several things:
1. If you go here, expect varying degrees of hostility from those who already fish here. While this is a publicly-accessible river and belongs to everyone, there are a number of anglers who are extremely protective of the river, and/or want to keep it to themselves. As in all fishing spots, there's a certain amount of guarding that takes place, but it's a bit elevated here. I haven't heard of or had any violent altercations (yet), but just be aware that the angling community here won't exactly be welcoming to newcomers.
2. To some extent, their protectiveness is justified, as this is a small stream, and relatively fragile. If you go, the expectation is that you tread lightly, catch and release with care (i.e. the fish DOES NOT leave the water for a hero shot, period), and practice the most stringent Leave No Trace practices (obviously don't litter, and take out trash you find on the riverbank).
3. Brown trout, rainbow trout, carp, and bass are not native (or more precisely, invasive) to this ecosystem, rainbows debatably weren't either, and all of them disrupt the natural aquatic ecosystem by being voracious predators. Since the main native species in the creek were several imperiled amphibians, sculpins, minows, lampreys, and northern pikeminnow (and therefore not game fish), their suffering at the mouths of invasive game species (e.g. brown trout) is routinely ignored by anglers whose interest in conservation ends at species they aren't interested in fishing for. While I'm interested in keeping the creek in its current condition from the standpoint of fishing quality, anyone citing preservation of the pristine landscape as a reason for you to avoiding fishing for trout is either inconsistent or missing the Big Picture point (in my opinion only, of course).
4. If you go, stop for a beer or supplies in one of the small towns in the area. Respectful, courteous anglers have a lot to offer the local economies, so make an effort to make your presence beneficial to the region's communities.
5. Everyone is worried about their home water being invaded by outsiders; however, if nobody goes and appreciates places like this, nobody comes to love them and want to protect them from more serious threats than additional anglers. The simple truth is that the Palouse Prairie ecosystem is functionally extinct, and this area is one of the last remnant examples in existence. Despite this, Rock Creek flows largely through abused, overgrazed lands, and invasive plant species are rapidly crowding out native prairie more and more each year.
If you come to love Rock Creek, I strongly suggest that you show this love by contributing volunteer time and/or funding to the several organizations in the area working to conserve and restore this unique and extremely endangered ecosystem.
In response to requests for information about such groups, here are the ones I'm aware of that are involved in Palouse Prairie Conservation:
Palouse Conservation District
Palouse Prairie Foundation
Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
The Phoenix Conservancy
White Pine Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society
Species: Trout, Bass, Carp
Rock Lake is certainly not a secret (nor is Rock Creek, frankly) and has fisherman on it nearly every day of the year. Deep and cold, this is the major natural lake in the Palouse area, and houses brown trout, rainbow trout, largemouth and smallmouth bass, and the usual assortment of panfish (and carp, naturally). Access is easy but limited to a boat launch at one end of this long, narrow lake, and shore-bound anglers have little room to roam. Much of the lakeshore is composed of sheer basalt cliffs, so if you don’t have a watercraft here, you’re probably S.O.L.
But another option exists.
The outflow of Rock Lake, Rock Creek, is a gorgeous little river that traces through some of the least-disturbed areas left on the Palouse. It has abundant access up and down the river, alternates between the character of a freestone desert creek and a deep, slow irrigation channel, to wide shallow spring creek, and has more surprises lurking in its waters than any other river in the region.
The entrance to riverside at Escure Ranch
Photo: Rock Creek and Escure Ranch Author Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington
Trout? Here?
Probably the biggest surprise is that trout live here, and big ones. This is surprising because the river runs through open, hot, exposed country, and the average summer water temps would seem to be well above anything a trout could survive. Many of the trout here are therefore seasonal residents by necessity, starting to filter into the river from the lake in fall, and then migrating back up into the lake to shelter in the cold depths through the hot summers. The browns lead the charge in the fall, in their search to find a river to spawn in, and the rainbows follow into the spring.
There’s a catch: a falls exists about 1 mile downstream from where Hwy 23 crosses Rock Creek just west of the town of Ewan, and another one before Rock Creek plunges into the Snake. Both of these mark Points of No Return for trout. Any fish that gets swept over the falls can’t make it back up to the lake and is most likely therefore a Dead Fish Swimming, or will be forced to find and hover around one of Rock Creek's many cold springs to survive the summer.
It goes without saying then that by far the best trout fishing is upstream (or not far downstream) of these natural barriers. There is a lot of private ranch land around the upper falls, so the best way to access this stretch is from the John Wayne Pioneer Trail, which you can connect with from a spur off of Cherry Creek Road in Ewan, or further downstream.
Important Update About Access
The DNR is now requiring special permits for unrestricted access to some sections of the Jon Wayne trail. This may change, but for the time being that's the way it is. This is largely a consideration for hunters, but better to stay on the right side of the law. Check with DNR before you go to stay up-to-date and make sure your permits are in order.
What makes this destination so appealing is a combination of setting, size of the average trout, and technique used to catch them. In the spring when all the other rivers are either too cold, too high, or too muddy to fish, Rock Creek is often fishable (albeit usually muddy) and full of large trout from the lake looking for the first warmth of the season. The river runs through open country, so the first rays of sun of the spring can be enjoyed to full advantage here. Sections of the river are riffled and can be fished blind as with most freestone rivers, but there are some sections that open up into slow, wide areas that resemble a spring creek more than a rocky desert stream. It is here that the real fun lives; the best chance of success is sight-casting to specific targets, whether they are holding station or cruising for food. Some of the trout in here are true bruisers, with 15-21” being the general range. Though not as densely populated as better-known locations like Rocky Ford Creek in central Washington, these fish are similarly particular and challenging in the slow-moving water.
At any rate, these trout see far fewer flies than Rocky Ford fish, so a wider range of flies will work here. When blind fishing in the faster sections, standard nymphs such as Hare’s Ear, Pheasant Tail, Prince, and WD 40’s will do the trick. Since there’s often a little color to the water so a bead or some flash isn’t a bad idea. I personally like small wet hackles with bead bodies, as they can imitate anything from a caddis pupa to a scud. On that note, nymphing with scud, leech, and worm patterns are a solid choice too.
When sight casting, I rely heavily on three patterns to get the job done: scuds, small black leech patterns, and damselfly nymphs. With all of these, I try to lead the fish by a few feet to allow the fly to sink to near the fish’s level, then retrieve them with long, very slow strips. Unweighted flies generally look more natural, and it’s shallow enough that there’s no need for beads and lead usually. Depending on hatch activity, a small nymph like a pheasant tail can be deadly when dead drifted just under the surface. There are plenty of caddis, midges, and a few mayflies here too, so come prepared in case a hatch occurs and you see rise forms.
This is what you want to see...carp "clooping" on the surface
And...not Trout...
Trout are far from the only thing in this creek though. Carp and bass are able to survive the heat of the summer here, and are in large numbers all the way down to the Snake, as well as occasional surprises like panfish and Northern Pikeminnow. Below Rock Creek Falls, there are miles of access along the John Wayne Pioneer Trail, and a visiting angler can throw small streamers for bass or nymph for carp as far as they want.
Yes, I said nymph for carp. Rock Creek is full of carp, and in a lot of ways they act just as you would expect ultra-selective tailwater trout to act. They hold in similar places where you would see trout, they eat all the same things, and can be similarly picky and selective, perhaps even more so. The major difference is the size: whereas an average trout in many rivers might be 10-12”, many of the carp in this small creek are 10-12 pounds. Even when fishing in the “trout water”, it’s fairly likely that you will set the hook on what feels like the trout of a lifetime, only to realize that it’s actually a carp. In much of the creek, the carp are also just as happy to feed on the surface as trout are, depending on what food is around.
While a fair number of anglers might be disgusted at the thought of small-stream carping, I would argue that that’s probably because they’ve never tried it. Fighting a carp in still water is one thing, but a carp in a small stream with some decent current can easily introduce you to your backing. They don’t take to the air very often, but they are certainly capable of it, and they are equally capable of using their broad bodies, weight, and the current to empty your reel before you manage to put the brakes on their initial run.
Carping season starts as the water begins to really warm up in June and continues all the way to fall (before the middle of June or so, the fish will be spawning, and are too preoccupied with sex to think much about food). After the spawn tapers off, they settle into a summer rhythm, with the best time of day being near dawn and dusk, as per usual with fishing. Sight casting, nymphing the same holding water you would for trout, or watching for risers are all productive at times. My favorite is targeting “clooping” carp (in other words, “rising”) in the early evening along the grassy or brushy margins of the creek, where they might be eating anything from mayflies and caddis, to ants or grasshoppers, to grass seeds or cottonwood fluff!
If you’re still wrinkling your nose at the thought of small creek carp, all I can say is, GOOD. If more people believed me about how fun this creek is, I’d have way too much company on one of my favorite spots to spend a summer evening on the Palouse.
Fly selection doesn’t have to get fancy, but all usual carp advice applies (for a bit more detail on fishing for carp, check out my article on the Illia Dunes). Worm patterns, standard nymphs, damselfly nymphs, leeches, crayfish, and scuds are the bread and butter for carp, just as they would be for trout. If for no other reason than sheer novelty, you may want to tie a couple of cottonwood fluff flies for cloopers, which essentially consist of a large wad of white CDC on a size 12 hook. Other than that, in Rock Creek, the flies for carp are the same you would use for giant, picky spring creek trout.
Far and away, my favorite spot for this type of fishing is the area upstream and downstream of Escure Ranch. Accessible from a turnoff on Jordan Knott Road southwest of Ewan, Escure Ranch is also a trailhead for Towell Falls, and a good option for camping. The road in can be a bit dicey in wet conditions, and is rough even in the best conditions, but the reward is stunning prairie scenery, solitude, and miles of river access in a little-travelled corner of the Palouse. You will almost certainly have it all to yourself, and there are plenty of trout, bass and carp in here to keep the open-minded angler occupied for days.
This is far from an exhaustive list of access points for Rock Creek, but it’s a good start. Definitely take the time to explore anywhere you can find roads or a bridge, but be respectful of private property. If you go, be mindful that you’re in a semi-desert, so lots of sunscreen, water, and a hat are essentially requirements. The creek also hosts more than a few rattlesnakes, so be very careful where you put your hands and feet as you chase a hooked carp downstream.
And if you’re still wrinkling your nose at the thought of small creek carp, all I can say is, GOOD. If more people believed me about how fun this creek is, I’d have way too much company on one of my favorite spots to spend a summer evening on the Palouse.
Argusthedog on August 17, 2020:
Hello CS
Great article! Well written and full of useful information. Thank for your devotion and caretaking of these gifts.
CS Drexel (author) from Earth on May 12, 2020:
Good question Nate. The truth is that most of the trout in this creek actually come from Rock Lake, and don't stay here year-round. There are a small population of trout that stay around cold springs and deep spots, but the vast majority move back up into Rock Lake for the summer, making a potential increase in fishing pressure less of an issue than it would be in spots where the trout can't escape to the lake's depths.
In the long run, provided that anglers practice standard catch and release and are careful with their catch, the impact on trout populations is likely to be minimal, particularly given that few trout live in the creek in their most vulnerable period of mid-summer. Thanks for the question!
Nate on March 31, 2020:
As a fisheries biologist do you feel this creek can handle the increased fishing pressure articles like this will likely cause in the future? If you do, I’ll trust your professional judgement on posting this, I’d just like to know if there’s solid enough fish count info on this creek to know we’re not turning this creek into a “not what it used to be” situation
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Nuclear scientist’s assassination places Tehran at crossroads
Few outdoors of Iran had ever heard of the town of Absard till senior Protection Ministry official and nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed on the principle street that hyperlinks it to the capital Tehran. Town’s identify means chilly water, and Nov. 27 definitely poured it on the Iranian institution, bringing into query the effectivity of the safety establishments and the skills of the nation’s enemies to impede Tehran’s strategic tasks.
Fakhrizadeh, described by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the daddy of Iran’s army nuclear undertaking, had simply ended a lunch at his in-laws and was in his automobile in a convoy of three automobiles heading again to Tehran. In response to Iranian Protection Minister Amir Hatemi, a bunch of armed males rained bullets on his bodyguards’ automobile, forcing the convoy to cease. Then a truck on the aspect of the street rigged with explosives was detonated, and the armed males as soon as once more opened hearth, killing most of Fakhrizadeh’s males in addition to the scientist himself, in view of his spouse who was within the third automobile.
Whereas there’s no official narrative over how the assault occurred and who was concerned, hypothesis has flourished in Iran, and the Ministry of Intelligence mentioned in a short assertion that its operatives are investigating.
The instant evaluation in Iran was “This was an Israeli assault with cowl from the present US administration,” in accordance with an Iranian official chatting with Al-Monitor on situation of anonymity. The official elaborated that the assassination is a part of an offensive by Netanyahu and President Donald Trump’s administration “together with some minor components allied with them within the area.” He added, “And it’s out of despair; they know very effectively that this isn’t going to impede Iran’s development. It’s sure that this isn’t going to move and not using a robust response that the entire world will lengthy keep in mind. However it’s Iran who decides when and the way, and never the bloodthirsty enemy.”
There are fears that one of many assault’s casualties is likely to be the revival of the nuclear deal as a brand new administration in Washington is about to imagine workplace. “The timing of the assassination of Fakhrizadeh issues to a fantastic extent,” mentioned Iranian journalist Abas Aslani in an interview with Al-Monitor. He added, “After the US presidential elections, there are actors within the area who’re afraid of a US return to the nuclear deal below Joe Biden’s administration, they usually worry any revival of diplomacy by means of doubtless Iran-US engagements. So, over the last days of the outgoing US administration, which offered a golden period to anti-Iran gamers within the area, they’re making an attempt but once more to impress Iran and create a state of affairs the place Biden can not return to the 2015 nuclear deal.”
A number of hours after the assassination, protesters gathered in Tehran close to the presidential workplace on Pasteur Avenue and the Supreme Nationwide Safety Council headquarters chanting slogans attacking Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who earlier expressed readiness to revive the nuclear cope with Biden coming to workplace if america compensates Iran for its losses.
“Iran is searching for a breakthrough in its bilateral relations with the US. Due to this fact I don’t assume it could retaliate harshly in a provocative method to this newest assault. It hadn’t executed it in January when Qasem Soleimani was killed; it received’t do it now,” mentioned Mohammadreza Kalantari, a professor of worldwide relations at London’s Royal Holloway College. “Regardless of what the hard-liners in Iran are saying, doing and threatening in the previous couple of days, the general public opinion vis-à-vis Soleimani is way totally different from that of Fakhrizadeh.” He added, “Iran’s place after the assassination [elevating Fakhrizadeh’s importance] is a tactic and bargaining chip for the upcoming negotiations with Biden.” What Fakhrizadeh meant for Iran’s nuclear undertaking shouldn’t be equal to Soleimani’s position in its regional insurance policies, he mentioned. “Therefore, whereas Iran retaliated [for] Soleimani’s assassination, because it did in January, it received’t take a harsher stand this time.”
Nonetheless, Iran’s supreme leader explicitly referred to as for revenge. He tweeted for the officers concerned to “critically place two essential issues on their agendas: first to research this crime and firmly prosecute its perpetrators and its commanders, second to proceed the martyr’s scientific and technological efforts in all of the sectors the place he was energetic.” It was important that he didn’t use the hashtag “#SevereRevenge,” which he used when reacting to Soleimani’s assassination.
The talk over how revenge needs to be carried out continues in Iran, with the get together behind Fakhrizadeh’s assassination nonetheless unknown, and no data has been launched but pointing the finger at everybody’s number-one suspect, Israel. When Soleimani was killed, the US administration stepped ahead to assert duty.
What’s apparent is that Iran’s deterrence capabilities have been questionable for the previous 12 months. Placing apart Soleimani’s case, the nation has been the scene of a number of mysterious incidents — the blast on the Natanz nuclear facility in addition to the massive explosion on the Parchin army complicated northeast of Tehran, amongst others.
“Iran has no selection however to reply with a view to set up deterrence,” Aslani harassed, although he drew a extra direct line between the assassination and the current US election. “The assassination targets Iran, however concurrently it desires to take Biden’s Center East coverage hostage by imposing constraints on the upcoming US administration.” Aslani predicted that extra provocations may occur within the coming weeks as a result of there’s a transparent will to lower the possibilities of rapprochement between Iran and america. He added, “Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has mentioned that america shouldn’t be allowed to reenter the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action]. He had earlier talked about Fakhrizadeh by identify; this may need been executed with a inexperienced mild from the Trump administration. The Trump administration has additionally labored laborious to dam the trail of a US return to the JCPOA sooner or later.”
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Allan Tong Posted On October 29, 2019
Former Market Darlings
As in physics, the law of markets decrees that stocks move up and down. However, the following stocks blazed to sudden, dizzying heights before sinking or crashing, caused by market forces or criminality.
Have those stocks recovered or will they continue to languish?
Remember Research in Motion (Blackberry) ?
Glory days and decline: When it peaked, Research in Motion (as BlackBerry was then named) boasted 85 million global subscribers who adored their keyboard smartphones. The phones were so beloved that they earned the nickname CrackBerry.
Based in Kitchener-ON, RIM/BlackBerry ruled the smartphone world until Apple and Android stole its crown. The stock topped at $137.41 in May 2008 before the crash, and stayed above $60 until February 2011. Since then, BlackBerry has more or less traded between $6-16.
Outlook: Since 2015, BlackBerry has been transitioning into cybersecurity under CEO John Chen. Chen is steering a massive undertaking and the results have been mixed. Shareholder Benj Gallander believes in Chen and feels the stock could pop in the next six months. Then again, he may sell it during tax-loss selling season and buy it back later.
He and Keith Richards agree that the recent sell-off after an earnings miss was overdone. The latter feels that a trader could capitalize on this, but Jamie Murray would look elsewhere.
Verdict: Still a work in progress
Recovering from Serious Beating
Home Capital Group
Glory days and downfall: The Canadian home lender was flying high in the summer of 2014.
Then, Home Capital started suspending a total of 45 brokers for creating mortgages based on fraudulent income info. These mortgages were worth anywhere from $1.5-2 billion.
In winter 2017, the Ontario Securities Commission came knocking at Home Capital’s door and soon after the president/CEO was fired. The stock was worth $54.22 in August 2014 then plunged to $8.04 in April 2015.
Outlook: In June 2017, Warren Buffett invested $400 million in HCG and extended a $2 billion line of credit. Shares jumped to nearly $17 and since then have gradually climbed to $27. Michael Sprung has benefited from this recent run and expects HCG to continue to do well.
Though not as bullish, David Baskin agrees that that HCG is safe now, though the company needs to reduce its cost of funding. Javed Mirza gives it a buy signal, based on rising volumes—if HCG rises above current resistance, then decent upside will follow. He predicted that on Oct. 1 when the stock was trading just below $25, and it has since climbed to $27.
Verdict: Positive
A successful turnaround story
Glory days & decline: Microsoft’s operating system ruled the world starting in the mid-1980s under co-founder Bill Gates, but its aggressive tactics created a lock on the market and led to a successful anti-trust suit by the U.S. Government. In spring 1995, Gates shrewdly expanded Microsoft into the internet, still in its infancy before he exited as CEO in 2000. By then, the stock was trading around a then-all-time high of $50, but by 2013, Microsoft had stagnated, rarely cracking $30.
Turning point: In February 2014, Satya Nadella became CEO and has since rebuilt Microsoft as the second-biggest operator in cloud computing behind Amazon.
Outlook: Microsoft is one of the most celebrated turnaround stories in modern investing. Weathering market pullbacks, Microsoft has moved in one direction: up. It now trades at $140. Just a year ago, it was fetching $107. Lorne Steinberg calls MSFT a cash machine, driven by their cloud business, and prefers it over Amazon.
Ashley Misquitta warns that the good news is priced in now, and volatility may lie ahead. Its most recent earnings report pushed the stock up 2%. It’s hard to find a bearish opinion on Microsoft though David Driscoll warns that Microsoft is too exposed to the overall market and advises buying a half-position now, and wait before buying more.
Verdict: Hands-down, a winner. (Disclosure: I own this.)
A fraud and insider trading story
Valeant (Bausch)
Glory days & downfall: Then-CEO Mike Pearson grew this Ontario-based pharma company into a giant by gobbling up several companies, including Bausch & Lomb and Salix. But he did so by astronomically jacking up the prices of specialty drugs—some of them unaffordable yet kept people alive.
Allegations of insider trading and fraud eventually swarmed Valeant, particularly in connection to its specialty online pharmacy, Philidor. (For the whole sordid story, watch the Valeant episode of Dirty Money currently on Netflix.) Valeant stock crashed from $257.53 in July 2015 to $26.30 the following March. An astonishing fall.
The company finally ousted Pearson and rebranded as Bausch, so bad was the stink around its name.
Outlook: Bausch continues to muddle along, rangebound between $25-33. Analysts point it too much debt, zero dividends, and weak growth as Bausch’s generic products face stiff competition. The stock is rarely commented on. The lone bull, Ross Healy, expected a resurrection of Bausch back in July, but the stock has done nothing since then.
Verdict: Avoid.
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Messi leaves irremediably, Bara still tries to resist – La Provincia
Josep Maria Bartomeu yesterday was photographed next to Trincao after the signing of the Portuguese contract, but his head had to be somewhere else, in another player, with whom it is hard to imagine that he will be photographed again in a friendly way. Leo Messi has decided to leave Barça. She wants to do it for free. And the club and its president seek to prevent both one thing and the other. Like to think about Trincao.
From the offices it is ensured that Bartomeu he repeats that it is necessary to get him to stay as it is and that he does not want to prosecute the conflict. It gives the feeling that he is late, that not a face to face between the two would avoid what yesterday and today seems inevitable.
The Argentine has contacted him Manchester City of Pep Guardiola, the coach who has gotten the best out of him. A brutal reunion called to shake up the football industry. It would be the winning project that he is looking for at 33 years old, in the League with the most resonance on the planet and in a team in which, above all, he would coincide with another friend. Kun Agüero would be the new compadre, intimate and mate relay of Luis Suarez.
FIFA endorsement
His negotiations with City would have started and can be fluid, but the global agreement cannot be seen as quick. The Barça tries to fight by Messi claiming the validity of a contract that, apparently, can be interpreted in the opposite way depending on the interests.
Messi He would have assured City officials that the exit clause, by virtue of the unusual and prolonged season, would allow him to leave for the good of the Barça entity. FIFA would protect the player and grant him the transfer if the Manchester club requested it. It remains to be seen if the English want to enter the fray with him Barça, who understands that the clause is clear, he had a maximum margin until June 10 to leave freely, and the burofax can only be interpreted as a form of pressure.
Which seems to lead the conflict in two directions: or Barça and Messi go to court and to see what compensation a judge decides one day, with the wear and tear for both that that would mean, apart from sad after so many years, or they sit down to talk, with City on the phone, on what type of operation would allow the Argentine to leave leaving a few million in the battered Barcelona box and incidentally some exchange players.
Appearance of normality
Bartomeu, to this day, resists giving up the best footballer in history. He does not want to be the president who lets the Rosario escape, he insists. He does not want to sell it and believes he has the law, which he does not want to appeal to in court, on his side. But Messi is adamant in his determination to leave his Castelldefels base. And when a star wants to go, the story –Neymar aside – it shows that he usually gets his way.
On the surface, the club made yesterday see that nothing abnormal was happening in his troubled bowels. The institutional crisis caused by Messi’s rudeness was treated as a sports crisis with the appearance of Ramon Planes, the new technical secretary and the first to officially open his mouth at the club since the burofax war broke out.
“We do not contemplate any exit of Messi at the contractual level. We want him to stay. Our idea is to build a winning cycle around the best player in the world,” he said. He did so after an informal chat with the president, the CEO Òscar Grau and Javier Bordas, manager of the first team, during the act with Trincao.
The convulsion over Messi’s departure occurs in an electoral scenario in which the candidates compete in who verbally punishes the management of Bartomeu the strongest and demands his resignation, which by the way the president continues without contemplating despite the deafening shouting around him. One of these contenders for the club’s throne, Jordi Farré, capitalized on the outrage with swift procedures to launch the motion of censure.
At the command of Koeman
Messi has become an electoral throwing weapon but not a wayward footballer, hence, according to his surroundings, he is willing to take Sunday medical tests and train at the orders of Koeman from Monday to avoid any indiscipline.
There you will see the faces with Busquets and Ansu Fati, who yesterday advanced their return to training, and the rest of their teammates. Also, by force, with others discarded by the coach. Some will appear, therefore, stimulated by the demanding character of Koeman and others, like Messi himself, with their heads elsewhere. Just like Bartomeu yesterday with Trincao.
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Quinnen Williams, a defensive lineman for the Jets who was the third player chosen in last year’s N.F.L. draft, was arrested on a weapons possession charge Thursday night while trying to board a flight at La Guardia Airport, the authorities said.
He was taken into custody around 9:15 p.m. after he was found to have a Glock 19 pistol, according to the Port Authority police.
The authorities said that Williams, 22, had a permit for the weapon in Alabama, where he was a standout for the University of Alabama. His destination from LaGuardia was not immediately clear.
A lawyer for Williams, Alex Spiro, said his client “respects and follows the law.”
“There was allegedly a technical issue with the manner in which the lawfully owned firearm was stored — and we expect the matter to be resolved shortly,” Spiro said on Friday.
The Jets and an agent for Williams did not respond to requests for comment.
Williams, who is listed on the Jets roster as 6-foot-3, 303 pounds, recorded 15 tackles and two and a half sacks in his rookie season. He signed a four-year, $32.5 million contract with the Jets, according to the salary tracking website Spotrac.
Williams is not the only high draft pick of the Jets to get in trouble with the law in recent years. In 2015, the defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson, the No. 13 pick in the 2013 draft, was arrested on charges of resisting arrest and several traffic violations after a car he was driving was clocked at 143 miles per hour in Missouri. There was a 12-year-old in the car, which also contained a fully loaded handgun and smelled of marijuana, a police report said.
Richardson was sentenced to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty in St. Charles County in Missouri to reduced charges stemming from the episode. He was later traded to the Seattle Seahawks and most recently played for the Cleveland Browns.
Williams has an older brother, Quincy Williams, who plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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E.A.-D. v. I.S.C.
J-A24037-20
NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
E.A-D. : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
: PENNSYLVANIA
Appellant :
v. :
I.S.C. : No. 362 WDA 2020
Appeal from the Order Entered February 6, 2020
In the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield County Civil Division at
No(s): No. 2017-1578-CD
BEFORE: BENDER, P.J.E., McLAUGHLIN, J., and MUSMANNO, J.
MEMORANDUM BY MUSMANNO, J.: FILED DECEMBER 24, 2020
E.A-D. (“Father”) appeals from the Order granting the request of I.S.C.
(“Mother”) to relocate with the parties’ child, T.A.A-D. (“Child”), a male born
in December 2016, to Fairfax County, Virginia. The Order also granted shared
legal and physical custody initially on an alternating monthly basis, and
granted Father primary physical custody each year from the second Sunday
in June until the second Sunday in August, and Mother primary physical
custody at all other times. Upon careful review, we vacate and remand for
further proceedings.
This case has a lengthy and convoluted procedural history. Briefly,
Mother and Father met in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2015, and Mother
became pregnant with Child. Mother and Father relocated to Clearfield
County, Pennsylvania. Mother and Father’s relationship was tumultuous both
while Mother was pregnant and after Child was born, with Mother leaving
Father on several occasions to either return to Virginia to live with her mother,
M.R.E. (“Maternal Grandmother”), or arranging other living arrangements in
Pennsylvania. Mother accused Father of domestic violence on multiple
occasions, and each party, at different times, obtained Protection from Abuse
(“PFA”) Orders against the other party.
In January 2017, Father initiated a child custody action against Mother
in Centre County, Pennsylvania, where Father lived at the time. In March
2017, the Centre County court awarded Mother primary physical custody of
Child, and awarded Father partial physical custody, which the court directed
him to utilize at the home of a family member in Virginia, which is where
Mother and Child had relocated. On April 18, 2017, the court issued a Consent
Order awarding Father primary physical custody of Child, and awarding Mother
partial physical custody.
On April 4, 2018, the trial court issued an agreed-upon Order awarding
Mother and Father shared legal custody, Father primary physical custody, and
Mother supervised partial physical custody.1 On August 2, 2019, following a
pro se custody Petition filed by Mother, the trial court issued a Consent Order
granting Mother and Father shared legal custody, Father primary physical
1 On September 22, 2017, the Centre County court transferred the custody
action to the Clearfield County Court of Common Pleas, as Father and Child
had relocated to Clearfield County.
custody, and Mother partial physical custody on alternating weekends and one
day per week.
On September 23, 2019, Mother, pro se, filed a request to relocate with
Child to Virginia to live with Maternal Grandmother, and a Complaint for
emergency custody requesting primary physical custody over Child.2 The trial
court issued a temporary custody Order, and held two hearings on November
27, 2019, and December 4, 2019, after which it directed the parties to file
briefs.
On February 6, 2020, the trial court entered the instant Order granting
Mother’s request to relocate with Child. The Order also awarded Mother and
Father shared legal custody over Child, and shared physical custody on an
alternating monthly basis until August 2020, at which point Father would have
primary physical custody during the summers, and Mother would have primary
physical custody at all other times of the year. Each party was awarded partial
physical custody on every other weekend during the portions of the year when
the other party enjoyed primary physical custody. The February 6, 2020,
Order also rescinded all previous custody Orders.
The trial court, beyond the issuance of the February 6, 2020, Order, did
not file a contemporaneous opinion in support of its Order, nor did it explain
2In the Complaint, Mother alleged that Father had been arrested for driving
under the influence after arriving to pick up Child at the parties’ agreed-upon
custody exchange location at a Sheetz in Centre County.
the basis for its decision at either hearing. Father filed a timely Notice of
Appeal, and a Pa.R.A.P. 1925(a)(2)(i) and (b) Concise Statement of matters
complained of on appeal. On March 31, 2020, the trial court issued its
Pa.R.A.P. 1925(a) Opinion, wherein it made credibility determinations,
analyzed the sixteen custody factors required at 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 5328(a), and
the ten relocation factors required at 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 5337(h).
Father raises the following issues for our review on appeal:
1. Did the [t]rial [c]ourt err as a matter of law and abuse its
discretion by withholding its reasoning for its custody and
relocation decision until it issued a [Rule] 1925(a) [O]pinion,
violating the provisions of 23 [Pa.C.S.A. §] 5323 and subjecting
[Father] to the possibility of unwitting waiver of issues in
[Father]’s [Rule] 1925(b) [Concise] Statement of Errors?
2. Did the [t]rial [c]ourt abuse its discretion by[:]
A. Denying [Father] a copy of the [c]ourt[-o]rdered
Home Study [Mother] referenced in her testimony and
which contained information contradicting [Mother]’s
testimony and substantiating [Father]’s testimony;
B. Suggesting, sua sponte, that the Home Study
could be privileged; and
C. Requiring [Father] to “file something” [sic] in order
to obtain a copy of the Home Study; and
D. Submitting the full Home Study to the record,
thereby making it unavailable to [Father], only after
having rendered a final decision following trial.
3. Were the [t]rial [c]ourt’s conclusions unreasonable and against
the weight of the evidence as shown by evidence of record?
Father’s Brief at 10-11.
In his first issue, Father argues that the trial court violated the mandates
in section 5323 when it neglected to state its reasons for the custody award,
either on the record or in a written opinion or order.
indicates that the trial court did not address its reasons for its custody award
until it issued its Rule 1925(a) Opinion on March 31, 2020, after Father had
already filed his Notice of Appeal and his Concise Statement.
Id. Because of the
trial court’s failure to delineate the reasons for its custody decisions “at or
near the time of verdict,” Father claims he was deprived of the ability to
properly appeal the trial court’s custody award without inadvertently waiving
potential claims on appeal.
Id. at 13-14.
This Court reviews a custody determination for an abuse of discretion.
In re K.D.,
, 151 (Pa. Super. 2016). Our scope of review is
broad, but we are “bound by findings supported in the record, and may reject
conclusions drawn by the trial court only if they involve an error of law, or are
unreasonable in light of the sustainable findings of the trial court.” Saintz v.
Rinker,
, 512 (Pa. Super. 2006) (citation omitted). Importantly,
“[o]n issues of credibility and weight of the evidence, we defer to the findings
of the trial judge who has had the opportunity to observe the proceedings and
demeanor of the witnesses.” K.T. v. L.S.,
118 A.3d 1136
, 1159 (Pa. Super.
2015) (citation omitted).
It is well settled that “[t]he paramount concern in child custody cases is
the best interests of the child.” C.G. v. J.H.,
, 909 (Pa. 2018).
“The best-interests standard, decided on a case-by-case basis, considers all
factors which legitimately have an effect upon the child’s physical, intellectual,
moral and spiritual well-being.” M.J.N. v. J.K.,
, 112 (Pa. Super.
2017). Child custody actions are governed by the Child Custody Act (“Act”),
23 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 5321-5340. This Court has held that, “because the best
interests of the child are the paramount concern of any custody case, the trial
court must address the sixteen best interest factors of section 5328(a) and
the ten relocation factors of section 5337(h).” A.M.S. v. M.R.C.,
835 (Pa. Super. 2013) (emphasis added) (citing B.K.M. v. J.A.M.,
, 172-75 (Pa. Super. 2012)).
Section 5328(a) of the Act provides for the following best interest factors
to be considered:
(a) Factors.--In ordering any form of custody, the court shall
determine the best interest of the child by considering all relevant
factors, giving weighted consideration to those factors which
affect the safety of the child, including the following:
(1) Which party is more likely to encourage and permit
frequent and continuing contact between the child and
another party.
(2) The present and past abuse committed by a party or
member of the party’s household, whether there is a
continued risk of harm to the child or an abused party and
which party can better provide adequate physical
safeguards and supervision of the child.
(2.1) The information set forth in section 5329.1(a)(1)
and (2) (relating to consideration of child abuse and
involvement with protective services).
(3) The parental duties performed by each party on behalf
of the child.
(4) The need for stability and continuity in the child’s
education, family life and community life.
(5) The availability of extended family.
(6) The child’s sibling relationships.
(7) The well-reasoned preference of the child, based on the
child’s maturity and judgment.
(8) The attempts of a parent to turn the child against the
other parent, except in cases of domestic violence where
reasonable safety measures are necessary to protect the
child from harm.
(9) Which party is more likely to maintain a loving, stable,
consistent and nurturing relationship with the child
adequate for the child’s emotional needs.
(10) Which party is more likely to attend to the daily
physical, emotional, developmental, educational and special
needs of the child.
(11) The proximity of the residences of the parties.
(12) Each party’s availability to care for the child or ability
to make appropriate child-care arrangements.
(13) The level of conflict between the parties and the
willingness and ability of the parties to cooperate with one
another. A party’s effort to protect a child from abuse by
another party is not evidence of unwillingness or inability to
cooperate with that party.
(14) The history of drug or alcohol abuse of a party or
member of a party’s household.
(15) The mental and physical condition of a party or
(16) Any other relevant factor.
23 Pa.C.S.A. § 5328(a).
The court must also consider the relocation factors set forth in section
5337(h) of the Act:
(h) Relocation factors.--In determining whether to grant a
proposed relocation, the court shall consider the following factors,
giving weighted consideration to those factors which affect the
safety of the child:
(1) The nature, quality, extent of involvement and duration
of the child’s relationship with the party proposing to
relocate and with the nonrelocating party, siblings and other
significant persons in the child’s life.
(2) The age, developmental stage, needs of the child and
the likely impact the relocation will have on the child’s
physical, educational and emotional development, taking
into consideration any special needs of the child.
(3) The feasibility of preserving the relationship between the
nonrelocating party and the child through suitable custody
arrangements, considering the logistics and financial
circumstances of the parties.
(4) The child’s preference, taking into consideration the age
and maturity of the child.
(5) Whether there is an established pattern of conduct of
either party to promote or thwart the relationship of the
child and the other party.
(6) Whether the relocation will enhance the general quality
of life for the party seeking the relocation, including, but not
limited to, financial or emotional benefit or educational
of life for the child, including, but not limited to, financial or
emotional benefit or educational opportunity.
(8) The reasons and motivation of each party for seeking or
opposing the relocation.
member of the party’s household and whether there is a
continued risk of harm to the child or an abused party.
(10) Any other factor affecting the best interest of the child.
23 Pa.C.S.A. § 5337(h).
This Court has explained that,
[w]hen deciding a petition to modify custody, a court must
conduct a thorough analysis of the best interests of the child based
on the relevant [s]ection 5328(a) factors. E.D. v. M.P.,
33 A.3d 73
, 80 (Pa. Super. 2011). “All of the factors listed in section
5328(a) are required to be considered by the trial court when
entering a custody order.” J.R.M. v. J.E.A.,
(Pa. Super. 2011) (emphasis in original). Section 5337(h)
requires courts to consider all relocation factors. E.D., [33 A.3d]
at 81. The record must be clear on appeal that the trial
court considered all the factors.
Section 5323(d) provides that a trial court “shall delineate
the reasons for its decision on the record in open court or in a
written opinion or order.” 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 5323(d). Additionally,
“section 5323(d) requires the trial court to set forth its mandatory
assessment of the sixteen [section 5328 custody] factors prior
to the deadline by which a litigant must file a notice of
appeal.” C.B. v. J.B.,
, 955 (Pa. Super. 2013),
appeal denied, []
([Pa. ]2013). Section 5323(d)
applies to cases involving custody and relocation. A.M.S.[], 70
A.3d [at] 835[].
In expressing the reasons for its decision, “there is no
required amount of detail for the trial court’s explanation; all that
is required is that the enumerated factors are considered and that
the custody decision is based on those considerations.” M.J.M. v.
M.L.G.,
, 336 (Pa. Super. 2013), appeal denied, []
([Pa. ]2013). A court’s explanation of reasons for its
decision, which adequately addresses the relevant factors,
complies with [s]ection 5323(d).
Id. A.V. v. S.T.,
, 822-23 (Pa. Super. 2014) (emphases added).
In this case, the trial court conducted two hearings on Mother’s Petition
for relocation and modification of the custody Order. Our review of the record
reveals that the trial court did not address any of the sixteen factors in section
5328(a), or the ten relocation factors in section 5337(h), at any point during
the hearings. See N.T., 11/27/19, at 4-109; N.T., 12/4/19, at 4-63. At the
conclusion of the second hearing, the trial court requested that both parties
submit briefs within thirty days. N.T., 12/4/19, at 63. Subsequently, the trial
court issued its Order on February 6, 2020, which established Mother’s and
Father’s new custody awards, granted Mother’s request to relocate with Child
to Fairfax County, Virginia, and provided for various restrictions that Mother
and Father were to follow. Order, 2/6/20, at 1-7. The record does not reveal
any contemporaneous opinion that accompanied the issuance of the Order.
Father proceeded to file his Notice of Appeal and Concise Statement on March
5, 2020, at the end of the 30-day period for filing an appeal. The trial court
did not issue its Opinion, in which it laid out its rationale for the new custody
award and its granting of Mother’s request for relocation, until several weeks
later, on March 31, 2020.3
As noted above, “section 5323(d) requires the trial court to set forth its
mandatory assessment of the sixteen [custody] factors prior to the deadline
by which a litigant must file a notice of appeal.”
C.B., 65 A.3d at 955
3 The trial court, in its Opinion, does not indicate why it did not delineate its
reasons prior to Father filing his Notice of Appeal and Concise Statement. See
Trial Court Opinion, 3/31/20, at 1-32.
(emphasis added).4 Thus, though we recognize that the trial court did
eventually engage in a thorough analysis of the custody and relocation factors
in its Rule 1925(a) Opinion, such Opinion was filed after the deadline by which
Father could file his Notice of Appeal, and constituted an abuse of discretion.
A.M.S., supra
. Accordingly, we are compelled to vacate the trial court’s
February 6, 2020, Order, and remand the case for further proceedings. See
J.R.M., supra
(vacating a trial court order and remanding for further
proceedings when the trial court did not analyze the custody factors); see
M.J.M., 63 A.3d at 339
(explaining that “the Legislature has created a
mandatory inquiry to aid trial courts in determining the best interests of the
child in a custody dispute.”).
Accordingly, we vacate the February 6, 2020, Order, and remand the
matter for the trial court to consider the section 5328 custody factors and the
section 5337 relocation factors, and to delineate the reasons for its decision
either on the record or in a written opinion. If, in the trial court’s
determination, it requires additional evidence on certain issues, or if the
4 We note that this Court has determined that the mandates of section 5328(a)
are not implicated in circumstances where an order does not change the “type”
of the underlying custody award, or change the amount of custodial time
awarded to a party. M.O. v. J.T.R.,
85 A.3d 1058
, 1062-63 (Pa. Super.
2014). In this case, the trial court’s February 6, 2020, Order substantially
changed both the type of custody and the amount of custodial time awarded
to Father, as Father previously enjoyed primary physical custody throughout
the year, and not just during the summers. See Order, 8/2/19, at 2-3.
circumstances related to Mother, Father, or Child have changed, then the trial
court shall schedule a hearing for that purpose. The trial court shall then enter
a new custody order based on its consideration and assessment of the section
5328(a) and section 5337(h) factors, and the best interests of Child. 5
Order vacated; case remanded for further proceedings. Jurisdiction
relinquished.
Judgment Entered.
Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq.
Prothonotary
5 Due to our disposition regarding Father’s first issue, we decline to address
his remaining issues at this time.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. QUIASIA N. CARROLL (18-10-2403 AND 18-10-2404, CAMDEN COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) (RECORD IMPOUNDED)
RECORD IMPOUNDED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE
APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION
This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court ." Although it is posted on the
internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3.
SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
DOCKET NO. A-4103-18T1
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
Plaintiff-Respondent,
QUIASIA N. CARROLL,
Defendant-Appellant.
Submitted December 7, 2020 – Decided December 29, 2020
Before Judges Rothstadt and Mayer.
On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law
Division, Camden County, Accusation Nos. 18-10-
2403 and 18-10-2404.
Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney for
appellant (Ruth E. Hunter, Designated Counsel, on the
brief).
Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General, attorney for
respondent (Daniel Finkelstein, Deputy Attorney
General, of counsel and on the brief).
Defendant Quiasia N. Carroll appeals from a March 14, 2019 judgment of
conviction after pleading guilty to third-degree witness retaliation, N.J.S.A.
2C:28-5(b). We affirm.
We incorporate the facts from our opinion in State v. Carroll, 456 N.J.
Super. 520 (App. Div. 2018) (Carroll I), addressing defendant's challenge to the
trial court's pretrial detention order on the charges of second-degree witness
retaliation, N.J.S.A. 2C:28-5(b), and fourth-degree cyber-harassment, N.J.S.A.
2C:33-4.1(a)(2). Id. at 528. In Carroll I, we remanded the pretrial detention
determination to the trial court for reconsideration of probable cause to detain
defendant on the fourth-degree cyber-harassment charge. Ibid. However, we
held the State established probable cause to detain defendant on the charge of
second-degree retaliation against a witness. Ibid.
Pre-indictment, and prior to the issuance of Carroll I, the State and
defendant discussed a potential plea on all charges. Pursuant to the plea
discussions, on the separate accusations charging third-degree witness
retaliation, N.J.S.A. 2C:28-5(b), and third-degree distribution of narcotics,
N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5(b)(3), the State would recommend time served and five years
of probation for each crime, to run concurrently. The State also agreed it would
not object to early termination of probation after three years of successful
A-4103-18T1
probation. As part of a plea deal, the State agreed to release defendant on her
own recognizance on the third-degree witness retaliation charge and level two
release with conditions on the drug charge. In addition, the State would dismiss
the cyber-harassment and second-degree witness retaliation charges at the time
of sentencing. The State's recommendation of the proposed plea was contingent
on defendant's "waiver of appeal."
On October 3, 2018, prior to any indictment, defendant chose to enter a
guilty plea on the third-degree witness retaliation charge as well as the drug
charge. Her agreement to the plea occurred before the issuance of our opinion
in Carroll I.
During the plea hearing, the judge advised defendant that she faced a
potential prison sentence of ten years if convicted on the charges. He then
confirmed defendant's understanding of her constitutional rights, including the
right to a jury trial. Defendant told the judge she wished to plead guilty to the
charges.
As part of the plea colloquy, defendant answered questions establishing
the factual basis for her guilty plea to third-degree witness retaliation. She
admitted to posting on her Facebook page "lewd, indecent[,] or obscene
material" regarding a witness who testified for the State during a murder trial.
Defendant admitted to calling the prosecution's witness a "rat" and encouraged
people to retaliate against the witness. Defendant confirmed her intent to
"harass or threaten" the witness based on her Facebook posts.1
The judge accepted the plea, finding defendant "freely, voluntarily and
intelligently" admitted to conduct constituting third-degree witness retaliation.
He noted defendant was not under the influence of any substance that would
impact her ability to understand the plea proceeding, was not "threatened or
pressured" into pleading guilty and was satisfied with the services of her
attorney.
After addressing the serious nature of the witness retaliation charge and
the potential chilling effect of defendant's conduct on the willingness of
witnesses to testify in the future, the judge explained he would "give some
serious consideration of whether or not [he would] agree to this sentence." The
judge signed a waiver of the indictment on the charges against defendant and
she was released from custody.
After the plea hearing and before she was sentenced, defendant moved to
withdraw her guilty plea. Based on our decision in Carroll I, she argued she
The witness, fearing for his physical safety, left the State as a result of
defendant's Facebook posts. Carroll I, 456 N.J. Super. at 531.
could not be guilty of witness retaliation absent a finding of probable cause to
support the cyber-harassment charge. She also claimed there was no predicate
"unlawful act" required for a conviction based on witness retaliation. In
addition, defendant asserted a free-speech defense to the witness retaliation
charge.
On March 8, 2019, the motion judge denied defendant's motion to
withdraw her guilty plea. Applying the Slater2 factors, the judge found
defendant failed to assert a colorable claim of innocence, the decision in Carroll
I had no bearing on the validity of witness retaliation charge, defendant offered
no fair or just reason to withdraw her plea, the existence of a plea bargain
weighed against vacating the plea, there would be prejudice to both parties if the
plea was vacated, and defendant accepted an "exceedingly fair" plea offer.
The judge rejected defendant's argument that Carroll I was binding on his
analysis of the motion to withdraw the guilty plea. He noted Carroll I was based
on the limited nature of information typically presented during a pretrial
detention hearing and the scant documentation and written arguments proffered
as part of a pretrial detention appeal. Unlike the pretrial detention judge, the
sentencing judge had the benefit of defendant's testimony from the plea hearing.
State v. Slater, 198 N.J. 145 (2009).
The motion judge declined to vacate the plea based on the plea hearing
testimony and defendant's admission to retaliating against a witness. The judge
concluded defendant's change of position and argument that her plea was not
voluntary were belied by her testimony during the plea hearing. The judge also
rejected defendant's contention that she was coerced into pleading guilty. To
the contrary, the judge found no coercive conduct by the State regarding
defendant's acceptance of the plea. Rather, he concluded defendant accepted the
plea to obtain her release from custody. The judge then sentenced defendant in
accordance with the negotiated plea.
Defendant filed an appeal challenging her sentence and denial of the
motion to withdraw her plea. On December 2, 2019, the matter was considered
by an appellate excessive sentencing panel. The panel noted defendant decided
to plead guilty despite the known defenses available to her at the time she
considered the plea offer. However, the panel determined the appeal was not
ready for disposition without briefs and adjourned the matter for review on a
plenary calendar.
On appeal, defendant raises the following arguments:3
Defendant's notice of appeal and case information statement asserted the trial
court erred in denying her motion to withdraw the guilty plea. The issues raised
in defendant's point headings were not included in the notice of appeal or case
information statement.
POINT I
THE ACCUSATION WAS DEFECTIVE AND THE
FACTUAL BASIS FOR DEFENDANT'S GUILTY
PLEA WAS INADEQUATE BY VIRTUE OF THIS
COURT'S SUBSEQUENT DECISION REVERSING
DEFENDANT'S DETAINER ORDER ON THE SAME
FACTS UNDERLYING THE PLEA.
A. The Accusation Alleging Defendant Tampered With
a Witness By Cyber Harassment Was Defective.
B. The Guilty Plea's Factual Basis For Tampering Was
Inadequate.
POINT II
BECAUSE THIS COURT'S DETAINER DECISION
DEMONSTRATED THAT DEFENDANT'S
FACEBOOK POSTS WERE NOT CRIMINAL
PURSUANT TO N.J.S.A. 2C:28-5b ON THE
EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO IT, AND INSTEAD
MAY BE PROTECTED SPEECH UNDER THE
FIRST AMENDMENT, DFENDANT'S MOTION TO
WITHDRAW HER PLEA SHOULD HAVE BEEN
GRANTED UNDER STATE v. SLATER, 198 N.J. 145
Although we requested briefing limited to vacating defendant's guilty
plea, we elect to address each of defendant's arguments. We begin by rejecting
defendant's contention that our decision in Carroll I supports her argument on
appeal. The decision in Carroll I was premised on a review of the limited facts
presented as part of defendant's appeal from the trial court's pretrial detention
order and addressed only the probable cause determination supporting
detention. Carroll I, 456 N.J. Super. at 533-34. In that case, we "disagree[d]
with the trial court's finding of probable cause as to [cyber-harassment], and
discern[ed] significant legal impediments to successful prosecution of the
[second-degree retaliation of a witness charge] . . . ." Id. at 528. However, the
strength or the weakness of the evidence against defendant was analyzed in the
context of the trial court's probable cause finding to detain defendant. Id. at
533-34. We did not address whether the State would ultimately prevail in its
prosecution of defendant on the charges. Nor did we dismiss any of the charges
against defendant. Although, we did suggest the type of evidence the State
would need to obtain a conviction on the charges at the time of trial. Id. at
536-45. Thus, defendant's reliance on Carroll I as evidence that her Facebook
posts did not support a third-degree charge of witness retaliation is misguided
and unfounded.
We next address defendant's argument that the accusation, alleging
defendant retaliated against a witness based on cyber-harassment, was
defective. Therefore, we must consider whether defendant's cyber-harassment
activities resulted in an unlawful act, constituting witness retaliation.
The statute governing retaliation against a witness, N.J.S.A. 2C:28-5(b)
provides: "[a] person commits an offense if he harms another by an unlawful
act with the purpose to retaliate for or on account of the service of another as
a witness or informant." Thus, defendant must commit an unlawful act with
the purpose of retaliating to be charged under N.J.S.A. 2C:28-5(b).
Under the relevant portion of the cyber-harassment statute:
[a] person commits the crime of cyber-harassment if,
while making a communication in an online capacity
via any electronic device or through a social media
networking site and with the purpose to harass another,
(1) threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to any
person . . . .; [or]
(2) knowingly sends, posts, comments, requests,
suggests, or proposes any lewd, indecent, or obscene
material to or about a person with the intent to
emotionally harm a reasonable person or place a
reasonable person in fear of physical or emotional harm
to his [or her] person; . . . .
[N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4.1(a).]
In her Facebook posts, defendant referred to the witness as a "lying ass
rat," "little ass nigga," and hoped someone should "blow them glasses tf (the
fuck) off [the witness's] face." Carroll I, 456 N.J. Super. at 528-29. When the
witness asked defendant to remove her posts, she refused. Id. at 529. Based on
defendant's posts, the witness feared for his safety and relocated to another state.
Id. at 531.
Here, defendant's Facebook posts, by her own admission, constituted
"lewd, indecent, or obscene material," made with the purpose to harass, and with
the intent to place the witness in fear of physical or emotional harm. While there
may not have been sufficient probable cause to detain defendant on the cyber-
harassment charge, defendant later testified under oath that she posted material
on a social media website with the intent to place the witness in fear of physical
or emotional harm to retaliate for the witness testifying on behalf of the State in
a murder trial. Thus, we are satisfied defendant's social media postings
constituted an unlawful act supporting the third-degree witness retaliation
charge, and the accusation was not defective.
We next consider whether defendant waived her ability to appeal the
validity of the accusation on third-degree witness retaliation charge or assertion
of a defense based on the First Amendment right to free speech. The State
expressly conditioned its plea recommendation on defendant's waiver of any
appeal. In addition, plaintiff failed to preserve these issues at the time of the
plea hearing. Further, these issues were never presented to the trial court as
part of any the pre-indictment proceedings and were not asserted in defendant's
notice of appeal. Thus, defendant waived her challenges.
It is well-settled that "[g]enerally, a guilty plea constitutes a waiver of
all issues which were or could have been addressed by the trial judge before
the guilty plea." State v. Davila, 443 N.J. Super. 577, 585 (App. Div. 2016)
(quoting State v. Robinson, 224 N.J. Super. 495, 498 (App. Div. 1988)). "[A]
defendant who pleads guilty is prohibited from raising, on appeal, the
contention that the State violated his constitutional rights prior to the plea."
State v. Knight, 183 N.J. 449, 470 (2005). "The waiver even applies to claims
of certain constitutional violations." Davila, 443 N.J. Super. 585. As the
United States Supreme Court held:
When a criminal defendant has solemnly admitted in
open court that he is in fact guilty of the offense with
which he is charged, he may not thereafter raise
independent claims relating to the deprivation of
constitutional rights that occurred prior to the entry of
the guilty plea.
[Tollet v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258, 267 (1973).]
There are three general exceptions to the rule waiving an appeal based
on a guilty plea. See State v. Wakefield, 190 N.J. 397, 417 n.1 (2007).4 None
of the exceptions are applicable here and defendant never claimed she qualified
for any of these exceptions. To the contrary, defendant waived any appeal as
part of the plea offer and so indicated that waiver on her executed plea form.
Having reviewed the record, we are satisfied defendant waived her right
to challenge the accusation on the charge of third-degree witness retaliation
based on her knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently pleading guilty and
admitting she engaged in conduct that constituted retaliation against a witness.
We next consider defendant's claim the judge erred in denying her
motion to vacate her guilty plea. We review a decision on a motion to withdraw
a guilty plea for abuse of discretion. State v. Tate, 220 N.J. 393, 404 (2015).
When a trial court decides a motion to vacate a guilty plea, the court must
consider "(1) whether the defendant has asserted a colorable claim of
innocence; (2) the nature and strength of defendant's reasons for withdrawal;
(3) the existence of a plea bargain; and (4) whether withdrawal would result in
The three exceptions are: denial of a motion to suppress physical evidence,
denial of acceptance into a pretrial intervention program, and any adverse
decisions reserved as part of a conditional guilty plea. Knight, 183 N.J. at 471.
unfair prejudice to the State or unfair advantage to the accused." Slater, 198
N.J. at 150.
We have already concluded the judge properly accepted defendant's
guilty plea on the charge of third-degree witness retaliation based on her
testimony. Defendant acknowledged her postings were lewd, indecent, or
obscene, made with the intent to cause fear, and in retaliation for the witness
testifying for the State. Defendant does not contest she made these postings,
only that the postings were protected by the First Amendment. Thus, defendant
failed to assert a colorable claim of innocence.
Further, there was a plea agreement that included defendant's immediate
release from custody. If defendant was not guilty of the witness retaliation
charge, she could have awaited a decision on her pretrial detention appeal. She
then would have had another option to obtain her release from custody because,
in Carroll I, we instructed the trial court to conduct a remand hearing on the
State's pretrial detention motion.
Moreover, on appeal, defendant admitted she failed to testify truthfully
during the plea hearing in order to secure her immediate release from custody.
Defendant seeks to undo the plea after she obtained the benefit of the
agreement, which would result in unfair prejudice to the State and unfair
advantage to her.
Having reviewed the record, we are satisfied the judge's properly applied
and analyzed the Slater factors in denying defendant's motion to withdraw her
guilty plea.
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Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games - Digital Download
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Digital Download
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Digital Download
Join Mario and Sonic as they team up and compete in events at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
Release Date: 08 November 2013
Join Mario and Sonic and the rest of your favorite characters as they team up and compete in events at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
Experience realistic events from the Winter Games, including curling, skiing, figure skating pairs and snowboard slopestyle, which will make its Olympic Games debut in Sochi, Russia.
In addition to these realistic events, the game also includes Dream Events set in the worlds of Sonic and Mario that let players perform dynamic moves not possible in real life. For example, experience the adrenaline rush of Winter Sports Champion Race, a mixed event that combines skiing, snowboarding, skating and bobsleigh in a single race.
The Wii U GamePad controller and the first use of Wii Remote Plus functionality in the series offers greater depth of control and intuitive game play that immerses players in each event.
Platform: Wii U
Release Date: 8th November 2013
Categories: Sports, Party
Age Rating: 3 and over
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A Beginner's Guide to Fashion Photography
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Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum
Situated in the middle of The University of Louisiana at Lafayette lies a study in contrast. The original 1967 University Art Museum, a replica of an antebellum plantation home designed by noted Louisiana architect A. Hays Town, would seem an unlikely partner to the modernist glass and steel enclosure of the newly designed Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum.
The juxtaposition, entirely intentional in design, creates a dynamic dialogue between past and present. From the exterior, the new building’s glass façade hovers above visitors entering the museum, reflecting in its surface the pre-existing Hays Town Building and live oaks of the surrounding sculpture gardens. It is upon entering the museum that one realizes just how deeply the old site has been integrated into the new. Visitors are invited to look back through the glass façade, to a view of the Hays Town building, so that it seems the exterior of the former museum is almost intertwined with the interior of the new. A literal window to the past.
Conceived as a tightly wrapped solid, the construction module of the new museum responds to the structural rhythm of the original building while clearly departing in material and treatment.
At night the project is rendered in a deep blue light through the use of cold cathode tubes located above perforated metal ceilings, a striking contrast with the more traditional lighting utilized in the adjacent building.
Internally, the building spatially unfolds as the visitor moves through a series of sky-lit spaces punctuated by vertical shafts that penetrate the lobby and atrium gallery. A simple planning organization clearly differentiates art spaces from support spaces. To further assist with visitor orientation, a common public area is provided along the entire face of the second floor, where the expansive glass façade allows uninterrupted views back to the Hays Town Building, plaza fountain and sculpture garden.
The resultant feat is twofold - simultaneously creating a communal space for students, faculty, and the sur- rounding community to engage in truly world class art, while providing a bridge between the historical architecture of Louisiana’s past and its contemporary present.
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Someone Please Have Sex With Me by Gina Wynbrandt
5.1 × 6.5"
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"It’s impossible not to fall in love with this hilarious minx as she lunges across the page, nostrils flared, hurling herself into increasingly ridiculous romantic misadventures. Bow down to Gina as she explores what it means to be horny as hell!" —Lisa Hanawalt
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"Wynbrandt is a force of nature as a cartoonist, evincing a fully-formed toolbox of drawing and storytelling skills, a razor-sharp sense of humor, and (contrary to the image she portrays) a powerfully developed sense of self." —Rob Clough
"A diverse set of whirlwind narratives, uniting unconventional beauty tropes, celebrity stalking, internet culture, and even bestiality." —Hyperallergic
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"Someone Please Have Sex With Me plays with conventions of style and color, featuring pleasingly feminine sherbet-y tones juxtaposed against a story line about a woman looking for love in all the wrong places — in all the wrong ways." —Los Angeles Times
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Stalking And Using Fraud Identity To Win Over A Girl - Contents Of A Children’s Show On Doordarshan
by Swati Goel Sharma and Sanjeev Newar - Dec 22, 2020 12:23 PM
A still from the show - Sheikh Chilli and Friendz
The derogatory portrayal of Hindu gurus is not the only problem with the show, ‘Sheikh Chilli and Friendz’, that was recently dropped by Doordarshan after outrage.
A children’s animated show named Sheikh Chilli and Friendz, that has seen several repeated telecasts on state broadcaster Doordarshan, recently came under fire when a social media user uploaded a clip from an episode that showed saffron-clad Yoga gurus in a poor light.
The clip showed a skull cap-wearing, school-going boy named Sheikh Chilli using a jinn to defeat a Yoga guru (depicted with clear Brahminical looks).
After the clip sparked outrage, a Twitter handle, @gemsofbollywood, posted more clips from that episode.
One of them showed a saffron-clad Yoga guru with the name “Guru Ghantaal” (a Hindi term meaning a big fraud). The guru is later revealed to be an evil witch.
Sheikh Chilli and Friendz clip 2:
âGuru Matunga Prasadâ goes to âGuru Ghantaalâ who is a âYoga ka Gogaâ & can defeat skull-cap boy who has an even âbadi dukaanâ of Yoga
But saffron-clad Guru Ghantaal is actually an evil witch who wants Jinnâs necklacepic.twitter.com/vjhXSo3taU
— Gems of Bollywood (@GemsOfBollywood) December 18, 2020
The national child commission took cognisance of the clips and sent a letter to the director of Doordarshan, asking for the show to be removed from the channel as it could “create disparity”.
As per reports, Doordarshan has stopped further telecasts.
The derogatory portrayal of Hindu gurus, however, is not the only problem with the show.
Episode number four of the series shows school-going children lying and using fraud to get a guy begin a romantic relationship with a girl. The animated series has in total 104 episodes of 11 minutes each.
The episode, named Bulbuli se Dosti (friendship with Bulbuli), begins like this: Sheikh Chilli’s pet donkey named Bulkul is stalking a she-donkey and dreaming that he strikes “friendship” with her. When the she-donkey asks why he is stalking her, the he-donkey can’t gather the courage to talk to her. The she-donkey reveals that she is Bulbuli, the only daughter of business tycoon Seth Heeralal. Hearing this, Bulbul faints.
Bulbul is besotted with Bulbuli even though he does not know about her nature and has never struck a conversation with her. The infatuation is based on her looks alone.
When his friends – Sheikh Chilli, his jinn Noorie and a talking toy named Khatku - ask Bulbul why he is feeling low, he says he is too insignificant for the rich Bulbuli. “But she is your ‘jaan’,” declares Khatku.
The group vows they will do anything to get Bulbuli do “friendship” with him. The friends approach Bulbuli when she is walking alone in the streets. When she is hesitant to speak to them, Noorie does some magic after which she begins to talk to them.
Sheikh Chilli suggests that Bulbul could show her around the town. Bulbuli agrees when told that the rest of the group would be accompanying too.
After some time, the group is spotted by Seth Heeralal who is worried and searching for Bulbuli.
When Sheikh Chilli tells Heeralal that they are Bulbuli’s friends, the rich businessman derogatorily calls the group “chane murmure khaane wale”.
Hearing this, Sheikh Chilli lies that Bulbul is no less than the rich Seth and is actually a prince of a (fictitious) kingdom called Chinchpokli.
Heeralal says that he wants to see the kingdom.
Sheikh Chilli proceeds to fool Heeralal. He fakes a building as the palace of Chinchpokli. Bulbul is made to sit on a carriage to fool Heeralal into believing that he is indeed a prince. Next, Heeralal demands that he wants to meet the king of Chinchpokli.
On Sheikh Chilli’s suggestion, his friend Mallika pleads to her father that he should pose as the king of Chinchpokli and meet Heeralal. The father refuses, not because he finds the suggestion unethical but because he is “too busy”.
Dejected, the group turns to a police havaldar to do the job. The havaldar also refuses, not because he objects to this fraud but because he feels it could cost him his government job.
Eventually, the head of the local police station agrees to pose as Bulbul’s father – the king of Chinchpokli.
The climax shows that a thief steals all of Heeralal’s wealth, but is caught by Bulbul, who bravely fights him off. An impressed Heeralal agrees to Bulbul and Bulbuli’s “friendship”. The two donkeys hug.
Here’s a series of tweets on the episode posted by the handle @gemsofbollywood. All clips from the show can be seen below:
The worst of Bollywood of 90s where they glorified stalking, faking identity to win over a girl, getting frauds to pose as parents to meet girlâs father, is back in 2020 Repackaged as animated content for kids and shown on Doordarshan, no less!
Canât believe? See this thread
As can be seen, this episode of the children’s show Sheikh Chilli and Friendz has lifted its plot straight from several Bollywood films, particularly of the 1990s, that glorified stalking and use of fraud identity to win over a girl.
Needless to say, this content, when repackaged as an animation show for targeted viewing of children, is worrisome.
The fact that this comes at a time when states are dealing with increasing crimes on women by men who lie about their name and identity, is even more concerning. The show also advocates use of lies to achieve a purpose.
It is pertinent to mention here that like children, as young as 13 and 14 years of age, have been found to be involved in perpetrating sexual attacks on their classmates. This observation finds a mention in the user handbook on Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012, released by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR aka national child commission).
There is a need to urgently review the contents of children’s shows telecast on various platforms, given their easy access to the viewers today.
Note: The handle, @gemsofbollywood, is jointly run by Swati Goel Sharma and Sanjeev Newar.
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Atlanta Braves vs Miami Marlins – MLB Odds & Picks
Betting News August 14, 2020 by
The coronavirus-shortened 2020 regular season is essentially one third finished, yet the NL East rival Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins haven’t played yet. That will change on Friday in south Florida as the teams open a three-game set in Miami’s home opener.
The Braves are short favorites on the baseball betting odds and it’s time to find out why.
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Why Bet on Atlanta?
The Braves bring a three-game skid into this one after losing 6-3 at the Yankees on Wednesday. Atlanta is without two of its best players in second baseman Ozzie Albies and outfielder and MVP candidate Ronald Acuna.
Manager Brian Snitker said that that he is not expecting Albies to be ready for activation next week. Snitker said the same of Matt Adams, who is on the injured list with a hamstring strain. Albies suffered a bone contusion in his right wrist around the end of July and hasn’t made much progress.
Acuna has been ruled out through the weekend after being diagnosed with inflammation in his left wrist. The good news is it doesn’t appear he’s dealing with any structural damage. Adams is eligible to come off the IL this weekend, but the 31-year-old hasn’t demonstrated enough progress in his recovery to be activated.
Braves catchers are hitting .381 this season, the best mark in the majors. The next closest team’s catchers, the White Sox, are hitting .317. The Braves catchers also lead the majors at the position with a 1.087 OPS. Atlanta has one of the top offenses in the NL despite hitting .171 with a runner on third base and less than two outs. They have 14 strikeouts in these situations.
It’s Kyle Wright on the mound for Atlanta – he was originally scheduled to pitch earlier this week at the Yankees but the team went in another direction. Wright (0-2, 6.75) last pitched on Aug. 8 vs. the Phillies, taking the loss after allowing four runs over six innings. All the damage came in the fourth inning, as he gave up a solo homer to J.T. Realmuto and a three-run blast to Jay Bruce.
It marked just the second time in seven career starts that he has completed at least five innings. The former top prospect will be looking to take another step forward on Friday.
Why Bet on Miami?
Because of the team shutting down for a while, this will be Miami’s home opener. Despite the travel woes, the Marlins have had at least a share of first place in the NL East every day so far this season.
The Marlins have been a huge surprise at 8-4 and come off a wild 14-11 win in 10 innings over Toronto on Wednesday in Buffalo to stop a three-game skid. The Marlins jumped out to an 8-0 lead on Nate Pearson and the sloppy-fielding Blue Jays after two and a half innings, but Jordan Yamamoto gave up two homers, and the bullpen gave up five more over the next six innings, allowing Toronto to tie it.
Jesus Aguilar went 3-for-6 with four RBI. He’s been a great pickup for the Marlins thus far while batting .311 with four homers in 12 games. Magneuris Sierra hit a go-ahead single in the 10th inning and the Marlins overcame Toronto’s seven home runs. The Marlins became the first National League team ever to win a game while allowing seven homers. Miami has a 5-0 record this season when Sierra is in their starting lineup.
Reliever Mike Morin exited Wednesday game with a right elbow injury. He will undergo further evaluation when the team returns to Miami.
It’s Pablo Lopez for Miami (1-1, 1.80). Lopez allowed three runs — two earned — over five innings in a loss to the Mets on Sunday. Lopez allowed five hits, but the big damage were the walks. The right-hander walked four, and while he was able to strike out four, the free passes ended up hurting Lopez. Despite his struggle to limit baserunners, Lopez has been a solid performer in the Marlins’ rotation to begin the year.
Lopez seeks his first career win vs. Atlanta, a team he is 0-3 with a 3.54 ERA against in five starts. Overall, he has done well at Marlins Park. In his career, he has a 3.51 ERA at home in 100 innings.
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Miller’s Law in the Archipelago of Weird
Posted on May 24, 2016 by Meredith L. Patterson
How big is your filter bubble? What’s in it? What’s outside it?
Okay, next question: how can you tell?
In 2011, Eli Pariser defined a filter bubble as “that personal ecosystem of information that’s been catered by algorithms.” Unfortunately, he never defined a measure on filter bubbles. Like its name implies, a measure is a way to tell how big something is. Without one, we can talk qualitatively about filter bubbles, but if we want to get quantitative, we’re going to need to do some more work. We’ll start with a literature search.
Let’s assume that the continuum of human experience is a continuum in the mathematical sense. (Whether this is actually true has some interesting philosophical implications. If it is instead discrete, the analysis below is overkill, but still works.)
In the last few years, researchers have studied the frequency with which Facebook and web users, in aggregate, encounter news and opinions from a different ideological perspective. This is interesting, but doesn’t tell us anything about the size or interior of an individual user’s bubble. Dillahunt et al. 2015 defines a distance metric between search engine users based on the overlap between their personalized search results, but a metric only tells you how far apart two things are. If you want to know how much space a bubble takes up, you need a measure.
Nguyen et al. 2014 creates a similarity metric for movies from the Euclidean distance between vectors of descriptive tags, one vector per movie. The authors use this metric to evaluate a system that recommends movies based on titles a user has already rated. They take the top 15 recommendations for a user, compute their mean pairwise distance, and call that the content diversity of those recommendations. This still only tells us something analogous to the diameter of a filter bubble, though, and then only if you tilt your head and squint. However, because the set of all content that has ever been or ever will be created (and, thus, the set of topics that content has ever been or ever will be about) is finite (if unbounded), trivially a filter bubble in the real world is also a measure space. It’s not immediately clear to me whether there are any measures that tell us anything interesting about a filter bubble’s volume, but the Dirac measure δx(A) answers the question “is x inside or outside A’s filter bubble?” with 1 for “inside” and 0 for “outside.”
Facebook’s study found less of a difference between which news liberals see and which news conservatives see than Pariser expected. However, the researchers only looked at the liberal/conservative valence of articles, which they determined based on how the people who shared an article self-identified politically. They did not examine or identify the topics of articles. There’s been some work on topic identification in group filter bubbles, though, which still makes sense with our notion of filter bubbles as measure spaces. Here’s how.
Let T be all the topics a group discusses. The power set of T is all the possible subsets of T, so elements in the power set are also sets of topics. If each member of a group is only interested in some subset of the topics the overall group talks about, that means we can map each member of the group onto subsets of T. The resulting collection of subsets is a σ-algebra, and along with T, it defines a measurable space: the topics in each member’s individual filter bubble constitute a measurable set which is an element of the power set of the overall set of topics. With our Dirac measure, the measurable space is also a measure space. (Mathematics nomenclature: not fucking helping since sometime before the 19th century.)
However, I have yet to see anyone attempt to empirically characterize topic filter bubbles outside of small political niches. What does it look like when, instead of along some increasingly meaningless two-party axis, you characterize groups by the topics they cluster around?
Well, it probably looks a little something like a continent and a bunch of islands:
Culture, in the part of the world in which I’ve been, and, for all I know, in other parts as well to which I cannot speak, has two rough parts: the Mainland and the Isles.
The Mainland is what calls itself the “mainstream” or “normal” culture.
You know… Mundania.
The Isles are everything else. Everything that’s not “mainstream” is an island.
Nobody knows how many Isles there are. They are wholly and utterly unmapped. Each one is its own subculture.
Some Isles are closer to the Mainland, and some further.
Some Isles are closer to others. Some are big. Some are small.
We — meaning I and a very large percentage of my readership — live in a collection of close Isles which form up an Archipelago. The SCA. Fandom. NERO. Etc.
This is the Archipelago of Weird.
No points for guessing I’m an Islander, obviously. I work on the Mainland, and I have acquaintances there, but I do my research and pretty much everything else that matters in the Isles. The Mainland can be a nice place to visit, but I have to speak Mainlander there, because they don’t understand my jargon. This has its annoying aspects, but also a tradeoff that’s sometimes useful: Mainlanders know nothing whatsoever about Island customs, history, or aspirations, nor do they care to. (“I work in computers.” “Oh! That must be interesting.”) The Isles can be fractious places, and from time to time it’s nice to evacuate away from the latest hostilities. Intra-Isle conflicts are the most exhausting, because they split a population into two or more groups, each with its own native shibboleths and taboos. Keeping track of norm proliferation takes a lot of attention.
Mainlanders, generally unaware that the Isles even exist, know nothing of Island norms either. And Mainlanders get really weirded out when Islanders try to explain them. Mainlanders don‘t want to understand Islander inside baseball. Hell, most Islanders don’t want to understand inside baseball from other islands, unless they’re like me and have a summer home on the Isle of Inside Baseball Dissectors. A Mainlander and someone from the Isle of Fen might both listen politely to an explanation of why the Burr-Feinstein encryption bill is a terrible idea, but neither one has any reason to be particularly interested, so if there’s something I need to get across to them, I’d better be entertaining first and informative second. Burr-Feinstein is inside baseball for someone from the Isle of Infosec, and technically so is the Wassenaar Arrangement, but international trade agreements are Isle of Policy inside baseball. δWassenaar(A) is almost certainly 0 for any Mainlander A, but it could be 1 or 0 even on my native island.
Being able to estimate δx(A) for many different topics (x) and people (A) is an incredibly useful skill for anyone who does much Isle-hopping, or anyone who travels between the Isles and the Mainland with any frequency. Being bad at estimating δx(A) is a recipe for awkward interactions at best, and interpersonal conflict at worst. Mainlanders who can’t estimate Dirac measures for Islanders can still usually get by if they find themselves on an Isle by mistake, depending on how amenable the local Islanders are to humoring foreigners. (Do not expect to be humored on the Isle of Outlaw Bikers.) Islanders who can’t estimate Dirac measures for Mainlanders are kind of screwed on the Mainland, especially if they don’t realize how far away the Mainland filter bubble is from their own. Double especially if they expect the Mainland filter bubble to overlap one-to-one, or even significantly, with their own.
This is something I have to keep firmly in mind every single time an allistic person comes to me with well-meaning questions about autism.
In my first post on this blog, I criticized a piece Sumana Harihareswara wrote about eliminating “inessential weirdnesses” in technology because of its inherently ableist stance on inclusion. Proclaiming command line interfaces and non-face-to-face interaction to be of a universally “unwelcoming” nature erases the subset of people for whom those affordances make a space more welcoming, not less, and many of those people are on the autism spectrum. Harihareswara reached out to me and linked me to a revision of the piece that she gave as a talk at LibrePlanet, hoping to “do better in discussion of ableism and competing access needs.” Encouraged by the lure of dialogue, I opened the transcript and started reading …
… only to discover that Inessential Weirdness Number One, LibrePlanet Edition was still “the command line.” The new Number Two was “not using small talk.”
From the back, off the floor, through the hoop, nothing but headdesk.
In the OSCON version of the same talk, the “inessential weirdnesses” she digs into are contempt (which I can get behind, though frankly, contempt is a communication antipattern in all communities; tech isn’t special here), lack of consideration for religious observances (ditto) … and the command line. There’s also a laundry list of Inessential Weirdnesses Not Appearing In This Talk, and small talk is still one of them.
Look, I’ll be the first to admit that the Archipelago of the Spectrum is a place most people just don’t visit. Particularly people from the allistic Mainland, unless they work in special education or have a relative who lives there. But when someone claims a position of moral authority on how to be inclusive of people with wildly varying levels of ability — and telling people how they should or shouldn’t behave is inherently claiming a position of moral authority — it is ever so slightly incumbent on that person to do at least the equivalent of visiting Wikitravel beforehand. Here’s what you get when you Google “autism ‘small talk’.” With 138,000 results focused on how much of a challenge small talk presents for autistic people, it’s reasonable to assume there’s at least some there there.
When a dialogue reaches the point of “how could you possibly not know this,” I find it useful to apply Miller’s law:
In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of.
Harihareswara states her beliefs that not using small talk is “across-the-board inhospitable” and “off-putting to working-class people and women,” and that “some people get socialized” to “perform solo, freestanding utterances” while others don’t. I’m willing to assume that she believes these things. But what would have to be true in order for someone to form such beliefs?
Here is an incomplete list of possibilities, from least to most charitable:
She believes that the preferences of allistic people are more important than those of autistic people, and that autistic people should subordinate their needs to the preferences of the allistic majority.
She’s never met anyone for whom an expectation of small talk is itself inhospitable.
She’s never met anyone for whom freestanding explanations are the most natural way to communicate.
No one she’s met has been willing to admit having such uncanny-valley traits to her.
The possibility that there are actual people for whom her beliefs about human behavior do not hold did not occur to her.
I have to reject the first hypothesis, because a genuine allistic-supremacist wouldn’t have asked for feedback in the first place. Number four gets a bonus to its likelihood estimation because of the prevalence of the attitude that “indistinguishable from neurotypical is the same as cured” (protip: it isn’t), the stigma that people who are open about their mental health issues face, and how severely underdiagnosed autism is in women. (Here’s a partial taxonomy: white girls are highly sensitive people, white boys are autistic, and black boys have oppositional defiant disorder.)
I don’t have any further data to use in evaluating the likelihood of the other possibilities. One way or another, though, Miller’s Law leads me to conclude that δautism(Sumana) = 0. Whether it’s because she hasn’t gone looking for information or because no one has told her about it, the details of autistic lived experience are outside her filter bubble.
Thus, I went to the Isles for counsel. There’s a little place I like to hang out where all the regulars are autistic women, and all of them except me are feminists. I linked them the transcript of the LibrePlanet talk, and here’s what one of them — who also has some physical disabilities, and from whom I hope to have a guest post soon — had to say.
Look, the tech community is already not very inclusive of me.
It’s not very welcoming to women.
It’s not very welcoming to physically disabled people.
It’s not very welcoming to people with dyscalculia that affects their perception of time.
It’s not very welcoming to people who work best by focusing on one thing to completion or exhaustion instead of interleaving several tasks that must be mentally unpacked, expanded, reabsorbed in both breadth and depth of detail, then switched away from and packed back up again. The type of thinking that gives me wide-ranging expertise — jack of all trades, master of none, better than master of one — makes me nearly unemployable despite my skills and extensive crosstraining.
It’s not very welcoming to people who prefer both breadth and depth of detail instead of only one or the other, in general, come to that.
It’s not very welcoming to people who have suffered short-term memory loss and require, require, a single, assigned, constantly-messy space in which to work by viewing frequent reminders of work-in-progress as it shifts to long-term.
IT IS STILL MORE WELCOMING TO ME THAN MOST PROFESSIONS.
And there are areas where these things are close-to-least true of all the fields I am suited for: I do not have the emotional-labor aptitude for most traditionally-feminine work, I do not have the physical capacity to walk from office to office or lift 30 pounds or sit in the chair assigned to me for hours or perform repetitive arm/hand movements reliably, I do not have the ability to clock in or out on time, I do not have the ability to switch tasks flexibly during the day without excessive mental fatigue and loss of productivity, and I do not have the ability to leave a question unanswered without emotional fatigue and a need for frequent breaks, stimming, or other self-soothing behaviors.
There are areas of tech where these are serious barriers to employment.
There are areas of tech where these things matter less than whether I can pick up a problem, research it in detail, keep it all in my head, keep myself comfortable, and produce a result in shorter order than most people could.
If we’re going to talk about making tech more inclusive, we could talk about physical disability inclusion. We could talk about chronic illness inclusion. We could talk about cognitive disability inclusion. We could talk about neurodiversity inclusion in general.
We could even talk about the self-satisfied but false proclamation that tech is already a meritocracy where none of these things matter so long as I produce a result in shorter order (or of better quality, or both) than most people could, a proclamation that makes any of the other problems more difficult to solve by insisting that they cannot possibly exist, because we have always been a meritocracy (and at war with Eastasia) that would not tolerate such barriers and any such complaints therefore must come from special-snowflake syndrome harbored by incompetents.
We could also talk about the stuff the tech industry does/is/accommodates that still leaves it the closest thing I can have to self-sufficiency and a feeling of personal accomplishment and general utility, and the people who have been not just willing but eager to steer me into the small tech-harbors I’m most compatible with because they get it.
But hey, no, sure, allistic person, let’s talk about this one place you feel locked out of and how we can make it even better for the majority, who already run so many other industries to the exclusion of people like me, first. Let’s make sure the already-privileged majority is comfortable in all places, at all times, before appreciating small pockets of minority safety and accommodation, and asking what they used to do right before they, too, were colonized by the tyranny of the narrowly-defined “default” human being in need of additional comfort while I try to survive. THAT FEELS FUCKING INCLUSIVE TO ME, HELL YEAH.
The tech community is a place where many spectrum-dwellers feel welcome because people don’t expect us to engage in small talk or other social rituals that privilege the desire for a perception of harmony of experience over information sharing. Not everyone whose behavior supports anti-small-talk norms is autistic. In fact, I expect most people whose behavior upholds those norms are not merely not autistic, but have no idea that they’re making the community more welcoming for us. (Thanks for that, by the way, to everyone who does it, whether you knew that was what you were doing or not.)
In other words, anti-small-talk norms are a Chesterton’s fence. Expecting autistic people to get better at small talk in order to make allistics feel more welcome is like expecting people in wheelchairs to get better at walking in order to make physically abled people feel more welcome. It puts all the onus for change on the marginalized population rather than the marginalizing one, and it drives away people for whom the expectation is too much to ask. The fence is there because it protects marginalized people whose presence the community values, and people seeking to tear down the fence have not taken the time to follow Wikipedia’s editorial recommendations for handling that urge:
If you’re considering nominating something for deletion because it doesn’t appear to have any use or purpose, research its history first. You may find out why it was created, and perhaps understand that it still serves a purpose. Or if you do feel the issue it addressed is no longer valid, frame your argument for deletion in such a way that acknowledges that.
Deleting the norm of “small talk isn’t necessary here” and replacing it with a norm of “you must engage in small talk in order to make newcomers feel welcome” excludes those whom the original norm exists to include. For them, the issue the old norm addresses will remain valid no matter how many allistic women get tech jobs. Wouldn’t the truly inclusive solution be to give allistic newcomers more insight about autistic modes of interaction compared to allistic ones, explain how the tech community has evolved over time to include autistic communication styles, and encourage them to set aside their bias against not being small-talked to?
I’d think it would, at least. But this is a lot harder when people don’t even realize they have biases they need to examine, and worse still when the same people consider themselves to be the rightful arbiters of which biases are even worth examining.
As I mentioned earlier, Pariser defined a filter bubble as a personal ecosystem of information catered by algorithms. What this definition obscures, however, is that algorithm is nothing more than a fancy term for process, derived from the name of a 9th-century Persian mathematician. In every single one of those handwringing articles you see about “Are Algorithms Running Our Lives?”, you can safely replace “algorithm” with “process.” Do processes run our lives? Consider how many processes you ran through today on your way to taking out your phone or settling in at your computer, and you tell me. Taking a shower is a process. Making coffee is a process. Riding the bus and driving a car are processes. For that matter, so are the interactions you have with other people, whether you recognize those interactions as processes or not. Other people curate the information that they present to you just as you curate the information you present to them. The only novel purpose that “algorithms” in the handwringing-article sense serve is to remove the constraint of physical distance from the problem of who can curate information for whom. Whether online or in meatspace, there is still some process that filters what information you receive. The only salient difference is the extent to which you can control that process.
“But don’t Facebook’s and Twitter’s algorithms limit what information I see?” Yes, and so do the choices you make in friends. The fact that your friends cater the information that ends up in your filter bubble means that your choices in who to listen to determine whether you’re a Mainlander or an Archipelagian, which inside baseball means something to you and which doesn’t. If your filter bubble contains no outliers, where do you expect to learn that outliers exist, much less what their lives are like? If your goal is to make existing spaces more welcoming to the mainstream, what effect do you think that has on outliers? Especially when only the mainstream gets a say? If your goal is, instead, inclusivity of both mainstream and outlier populations, what actions do you think you could take to learn more about outliers and the Chesterton’s fences they rely on?
I’m leaving those questions open-ended rather than answering them because, frankly, by the norms that Harihareswara claims to support, it’s not my job to answer them. They are, however, absolutely not rhetorical. Mainstream feminism has some serious catching-up to do when it comes to learning about the lives of people who aren’t nice normal middle- to upper-class ladies, not to mention a lot of earned distrust. When you tell people that a skill to which they are inherently maladapted is a new requirement for participating in some culture, you are telling those people that they are no longer welcome in that culture. Bluntly, that is not your decision to make, and people are right not to trust the motivations of anyone who behaves as if they think it is. Too many of us have been burned too many times by people who told us “we want to make this a great place for everyone!”, only to find out that in practice, “everyone” actually means “all the allistics.” If you really do intend to be inclusive, then it’s on you to find ways to discover what marginalizations people experience — including the ones they’ve been socialized into believing it’s shameful to tell you about — and what accommodations they need, because, as the saying goes, intent isn’t magic.
Nor is it lost on me that I am sitting here patiently spergsplaining theory of mind to people who supposedly have it when I supposedly don’t. Allistics can get away with developing a theory of one mind — their own — because they can expect most of the people they interact with to have knowledge, perspectives, and a sensorium not all that different from theirs. Autists don’t get that option. Reaching adulthood, for us, means first learning how to function through a distorted sensorium, then learning to develop a theory of minds, plural, starting with ones different from our own. (Even when it comes to other autists. As the saying goes, if you’ve met one autist, you’ve met one autist.) Developing good Dirac measures for other people’s filter bubbles is an autistic survival skill that allistics can go their entire lives without realizing other people have to acquire.
Except you, dear allistic reader. δpro-small-talk norms marginalize autists(you) = 1, now. What will you do with your newly expanded filter bubble? Think carefully, because your credibility now hinges on it. Granted, that’s credibility among autists and among people who expect others to behave in a manner consistent with the values those others claim to hold, which I’m starting to think may be the exact same set. If you want to prove me wrong, you can start by taking up Miller’s Law yourself: what are the things I’ve explained true of?
Finding an answer to that question is going to require a lot of traveling to unfamiliar islands where the natives may be hostile specifically to people with your neurotype. Understanding why they’re hostile, and why what’s already going right for them is going right, is going to require updating your theory of minds. If you’re not prepared to do that, it won’t be a pleasant trip. If you are, however, then please enjoy your stay in the Archipelago.
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22 Responses to Miller’s Law in the Archipelago of Weird
Joseph Ratliff says:
Reblogged this on The Ratliff Notepad.
Nicholas Perry (@ultimape) says:
to extend your taxonomy: poor white boys have O.D.D., poor white girls are crazy bitches, poor black boys are thugs and probably in jail.
All of this makes me so utterly sad.
blueskymonster says:
Thank you for providing me with extra vocabulary for thoughts that I already had but didn’t know how to efficiently verbalize to others.
I had never heard the term “allistic” before reading this post. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the sense I’m getting from the way this post uses the term is that a person is either allistic or autistic, which seems like a limited taxonomy given I know many people (including myself) who I would describe as straddling the line between the two. That said, I suppose you could make the argument that I’m just describing the border of the spectrum.
Kathy Sierra says:
So sad for me to see that some of the effort spent trying to make tech more welcoming to *women* could be making it less viable for those of us on the spectrum. If this is what’s happening now, I probably wouldn’t last a week in many of today’s more “inclusive” tech environments. But I now also recognize that many (non-weird?) women *were* struggling in the environments I thought were great. I loved it when it was all about The Work and The Users and not so much about The Other Employees or even The Community. I accept that this wasn’t necessarily true for most “normal” people. I don’t know what the answer is. I do know that having all these “discussions” around it escalate into public battles with binary side-picking, false-dilemmas, so often ending with the inevitable shaming and doxxing on *ALL* sides — well, that might be entertaining for some, but feels like a horrific waste of cognitive resources, and not how I wanted to spend what little is left of my life.
After 25+ years as a programmer, I left that world mostly behind and now I’m working full-time with horses. They make way more sense.
siliam says:
As a neruo-atypical male who finds himself more at home in IRC than Skype, and either of those is a sight more friendly then dealing with a bar or, gods help me, a family reunion… Thank you for explaining this better then I could!
Liam Gow says:
Extremely insightful; bookmarked for future reference.
Carl 'SAI' Mitchell says:
“Granted, that’s credibility among autists and among people who expect others to behave in a manner consistent with the values those others claim to hold, which I’m starting to think may be the exact same set.”
No, they’re just two sets that overlap with the set of people who are overly optimistic/not paranoid enough. Cynics don’t expect anyone not to be hypocritical, paranoids (not necessarily the disorder type, this can also include soldiers, law enforcement, and such) expect betrayal. Allists are perfectly capable of assuming hypocrisy by default, and autists perfectly capable of being excessively optimistic about the behaviors of others. Politicians exist at least partly to correct this notion in others.
supergee says:
I am perversely amused by a measure of autism based on the mathematics of Paul Dirac.
Eric L says:
“Nor is it lost on me that I am sitting here patiently spergsplaining theory of mind to people who supposedly have it when I supposedly don’t. Allistics can get away with developing a theory of one mind — their own — because they can expect most of the people they interact with to have knowledge, perspectives, and a sensorium not all that different from theirs. Autists don’t get that option. Reaching adulthood, for us, means first learning how to function through a distorted sensorium, then learning to develop a theory of minds, plural, starting with ones different from our own.”
It strikes me that theory of mind may be a bit of a misnomer, and particularly when referring to what allistics have and autistics do not, it is more of a skill or ability. I think of it as being like the difference between a physicist and a basketball player. If you see someone sink three-pointer after three-pointer, would you say they have a well developed theory of projectile motion? Not really; they’re no more likely to understand that than anyone else. They might not have much of a theory at all, or they could have a bad theory full of errors, because it doesn’t hinder them to lack this; they don’t rely on their theoretical understanding of how projectile motion works, they just do it. But I have a solid understanding of projectile motion and I can’t use it to make a shot.
So much of social interaction including things like reflecting and otherwise reacting to others’ emotional states are things we (allistics) just do without thinking, which means we get by without actually understanding what we do. Whereas some high functioning autistics have quite sophisticated models of how human minds work, models that are still frequently inadequate but nonetheless more sophisticated than a model a typical allistic would give you because they have to rely on that model for social interaction and every error in that model shows up as errors in social interaction. Is that about right?
“But hey, no, sure, allistic person, let’s talk about this one place you feel locked out of and how we can make it even better for the majority, who already run so many other industries to the exclusion of people like me, first. Let’s make sure the already-privileged majority is comfortable in all places, at all times, before appreciating small pockets of minority safety and accommodation, and asking what they used to do right before they, too, were colonized by the tyranny of the narrowly-defined “default” human being in need of additional comfort while I try to survive.”
“When you tell people that a skill to which they are inherently maladapted is a new requirement for participating in some culture, you are telling those people that they are no longer welcome in that culture.”
I wonder if gentrification is a helpful analogy here? It feels that way sometimes. It seems like we had our own neighborhood that most people avoided, not wanting to walk down the streets with those weirdos on them. But then everyone realized it’s actually a perfectly nice place to live and now it’s the hot trendy neighborhood. With everyone moving in, the place must be cleaned up of anything that might still drive people away. The new construction is all bland but nice housing that would feel familiar to people from everywhere else; the quirky eccentricities that give the neighborhood its charm gradually disappear, as do the people who were here because it was the one place they felt like they belonged. And it’s about as intractable — after all, this really is a nice place to be, and we can’t just tell everyone “go away, I was here first!”
TrivialGravitas says:
I’ve found the gentrification analogy falls entirely flat in conversation when trying to explain to feminist why the move on geek and nerd islands is a problem (though in general getting them to grok that Autism is a thing which actually exists and has generally terrible outcomes in adults in a form other than the stereotype also-fragile-x kind is a barrier that I can’t cross either, so maybe if you can get that through to them).
But the fact that it falls flat only makes the analogy more apt! After all, who sees themselves as a gentrifier, or makes housing decisions based on the desire not to gentrify? Basically no one. People pick a neighborhood that seems just right for them, then after they move in they start noticing the ongoing changes, at first maybe for the better and then for the worse, to the point where the neighborhood becomes unrecognizable and the neighborhood they picked is gone, due to everyone who moved in after them. Only your own neighborhood can be gentrified.
I’ve been reading a lot about and hearing second-hand about the San Francisco housing crisis, and it’s striking how far up the income ladder the concern about gentrification can go. (Granted that’s an extreme case.) I’ve met a few white people who moved into the historically latino Mission district, then complained about the gentrification brought on by the richer white people moving in after them. As silly as that makes them sound, many of them have since been displaced by rising housing costs. And on the other hand I’ve read articles explaining how SF housing policy unfairly privileges long-term residents over newcomers and recognized that they have a point.
Point is, this is like gentrification in part because it is so intractable. You finally find the right neighborhood, then discover you don’t own it when it disappears around you. The tech world is growing whether we like it or not. I’m not convinced Meredith has a good answer to this, but I do think she is justified in her concern. At the same time the problems Sumana talks about that some newcomers face are quite real, too. But I like my quirky neighborhood with its delightful weirdnesses.
Simon Penner says:
> I wonder if gentrification is a helpful analogy here?
I agree with you so strongly that you can expect to see posts on this subject in the future
Zoran D. Janković says:
I think gentrification is a very interesting thing to consider because it is such a slippery thing. Sure, what the article[1] describes _seems_ like gentrification, but if we don’t have a good grasp on what gentrification _is_ the comparison is of limited utility.
Personally, I think that the key issue with gentrification is, in fact, the gentry. If the people arriving weren’t disproportionally powerful—due to extreme numbers, wealth, or in the case of the Social Justice Clique, wielding the sort of social power that allows them to ruin lives and end careers—the new inhabitants and the old might come to some sort of equilibrium.
That said, an interesting thing to consider is that the principle of attacking gentrification is that certain assemblages of people bound together by shared history, culture, and tradition, have special rights as a group protecting their identity and continuance. What’s fascinating about this is that, in different context, we either call this social justice _or_ fascist, racist anti-immigrant paranoia depending if it is people from San Francisco or the people from, say, the Czech Republic doing it about either Googlers or Syrians.
And yet, hardly anyone is _consistent_ about this. I wonder how this came to be.
[1] Quite possibly one of the Best Things On The Internet, Ever.
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a ghost in the machine says:
Pro-small-talk norms marginalize introverts as well (for some definitions of “introvert). Introverts also spend a lot of time thinking about how other people think (same qualification). If “allistic” means “non-autistic”, then while even extreme introverts (of this kind) are “allistic”, they are far enough from some norm of cognitive organization that generalizations conflating these groups have to be made carefully.
I mention this because I’m concerned that jargon terms used to label “everyone else” can lead to ambiguities and mistakes. The jargon use of the word “empath” used to mean “non-sociopath”, or “extrovert” to mean “non-introvert”, for example, look to me like mistakes waiting to happen.
Ὀρέστης says:
If you apply for a job working concrete, but you are physically incapable of doing the work, handling the equipment or enduring the environment, why should you be able to keep that job? Even if you CAN somehow struggle through, why do you think you are entitled to be comfortable doing it? The. Concrete. Must. Be. Poured. Whether you do it or someone else does it is immaterial to the edifice that is under construction. How is “tech” different? I’m too old and cold to care WHY you cannot work in caustic mud under a screaming hot sun day in and day out. I just see in short order that you can’t. Your lack of ability (whether it be INability or DISability) is putting the project, as well as the rest of the crew, in jeopardy. So, you’re fired. Find something you CAN do. Next applicant…
ahd says:
“Tech” has a broader range of approaches, materials, methods and goals than pouring concrete. As such, caustic mud under a screaming hot sun can be avoided readily without compromising the work. By an odd coincidence, the less mental energy you put into enduring the caustic mud and the screaming hot sun, the more mental energy you have for excellence. So even the allistic at least give some though to these things. The smart ones, at least…
Nomo says:
Sumana Harihareswara is one of many activists whom I consider a blight on tech industry and nerds in general. I am to the point where I am actively excluding anyone who dares utter more than a few words of gender politics or uses the word “inclusion”. The bullying of “inclusion” activists who insist on including everyone into tech by excluding the people and cultures that built tech to where it is today is not tolerable. I have seen too many broken lives resulting from this. Suicide attempts. An actual sucide.
Active hostility is the only appropriate response to anyone who dares utter a word of gender politics in tech and social media.
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Film Review: The Sixth Sense (1999)
March 7, 2019 by Talking Pulp in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 1990s, 1999, Bruce Willis, Donnie Wahlberg, drama, film, Haley Joel Osment, horror, M. Night Shyamalan, Mischa Barton, mystery, Olivia Williams, review, thriller, Toni Collette
Release Date: August 2nd, 1999 (Philadelphia premiere)
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Written by: M. Night Shyamalan
Music by: James Newton Howard
Cast: Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Haley Joel Osment, Donnie Wahlberg, Mischa Barton, M. Night Shyamalan (cameo)
Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, 107 Minutes
“I want to tell you my secret now.” – Cole Sear
For those that don’t remember the world in 1999, The Sixth Sense scared about as many people as Y2K.
This is a creepy film that penetrated the subconscious of its audience and went on to make its director, M. Night Shyamalan, one of Hollywood’s new “it boys” at the time.
I haven’t seen this since it was in the theater but being that this is its twentieth anniversary, I wanted to revisit it.
It’s not as good as I remembered it and for a long time, I considered it Shyamalan’s second best film after Unbreakable. It is still a much better than decent picture but it is sort of ruined by knowing the twist. However, it was also sort of diminished by knowing young Cole’s secret thanks to the marketing of the film in 1999.
Seeing this now, it is eerie from start to finish but the fact that you were clued in to the fact that Cole can “see dead people” before ever seeing the film, really takes away from that reveal. Plus, you go through half of this film before you actually see a ghost on screen. The first half of the film, had you not known the secret, could have been interpreted as Cole having severe mental issues.
Cole’s secret isn’t the big plot twist though, that comes at the end when it is revealed that Bruce Willis’ Crowe has been dead since the opening scene. I remember being in the theater and hearing everyone gasp when this was spelled out to the audience. That caught me by surprise, as I detected the twist pretty early on and just assumed the audience was supposed to know this all along. There were just too many hints that spelled it out for me before it had to be audibly stated and confirmed by the characters.
I think that the film is effective in how it creates atmosphere and makes you connect to its characters. The thing is, this feels more like a solid pilot for a show than a self contained story within a single film. I think that maybe this should have been a film series or at least found a way to be ongoing on television or books even. I left this film wanting to see Cole do good work in bringing tortured souls some peace.
This film did a nice job of sort of legitimizing horror and making it a bit more mainstream at the time. But the following decade wouldn’t be too kind to the genre, anyway. And this isn’t so much horror at its core, as it just happens to be a solid drama about a child psychiatrist and his very troubled patient. There just happens to be dead people in the story.
My biggest mark against the film is that it is really drawn out and moves at a snail’s pace until dead people start showing up about 50 minutes into the movie. I do like slow builds and suspense but the first half of this movie could have been whittled down.
In the end, this still does a good job of making a real human connection with its audience and it conjures up a thick sense of dread. But I can’t really call The Sixth Sense a classic, despite its cultural impact for the time.
Pairs well with: other M. Night Shyamalan movies.
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Often Off Topic says:
Great review! I wish I could have watched this the way you’re meant to – knowing nothing. My friend spoiled the twist right at the beginning for me and it’s just not the same when you know.
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The Navy canceled a routine Black Sea patrol after Trump complained that it was hostile to Russia
Christopher Anderson, an aide to former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, testified that the White House cancelled a Navy...
By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider November 12, 2019
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Christopher Anderson, an aide to former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, testified that the White House cancelled a Navy freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the Black Sea after President Donald Trump complained to then-national security advisor John Bolton about a CNN report that framed the operation as a counter to Russia, Politico reports.
Anderson's testimony, the news report in question came from CNN and characterized the operation as antagonistic toward Russia. Anderson testified that Trump called Bolton at home to complain about the article, and the operation was later canceled at the behest of the White House, Anderson said.
“In January, there was an effort to get a routine freedom-of-navigation operation into the Black Sea,” Anderson testified. “There was a freedom-of-navigation operation for the Navy. So we — we, the U..S government — notified the
Turkish government that there was this intent.”
While later in his testimony Anderson places the report in January, details from his testimony match
this story from early December 2018, headlined “U.S. makes preparations to sail warship into the Black Sea amid Russia-Ukraine tensions.”
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Roosevelt and USS Carney. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Fred Gray IV)
Anderson said the White House asked the
Navy to cancel the FONOP because the report portrayed the operation as a move to counter Russia, which has increased its naval presence there since annexing Crimea in 2014. In November 2018, its forces attacked Ukrainian assets transiting the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea with the Azov Sea. Russia seized three Ukrainian ships and held 24 Ukrainian service members captive.
“We met with Ambassador Bolton and discussed this, and he made it clear that the president had called him to complain about that news report. And that may have just been that he was surprised,” Anderson said.
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Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G, Redmi Note 9 5G, Redmi Note 9 4G price
The price of Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G in China is 1599 Chinese Yuan (about 17,900 rupees), in which 6 GB RAM + 128 GB model is available. Its 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage model is priced at 1799 Chinese yuan (about Rs 20,200) and 8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage variant is priced at 1999 Chinese yuan (about Rs 22,400). It is offered in Black, Blue and Lake and Autumn color options. At the same time, the 6GB RAM + 128GB model of Redmi Note 9 5G is priced at 1299 Chinese Yuan (about Rs 14,600), 8GB RAM + 128GB variant is priced at 1499 Chinese Yuan (about Rs 16,800) and 8GB RAM + 256GB variant. The price is 1699 Chinese Yuan (about 19,100 rupees). It is offered in Cloud Ink Gray, Flowing Shadow Purple and Out of the Castle Peak color options.
Redmi Note 9 4G 4GB RAM + 128GB model is priced at 999 Chinese Yuan (about Rs 11,200), 6GB + 128GB storage variant is priced at 1099 Chinese Yuan (about Rs 12,300), 8GB + 128GB variant is priced at 1299. The Chinese Yuan (about Rs 15,600) and the 8GB + 256GB storage option are priced at 1499 Chinese Yuan (about Rs 16,800). It is available in Smoke Wave Blue, Misty Green and Feather Black color options.
Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G specifications
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The Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G has a quad rear camera setup, with a 1 / 1.52-inch sensor and a 108-megapixel primary sensor with f / 1.75 aperture. Apart from this, the setup includes an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, a 2-megapixel macro lens and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. It can shoot 4k video at 30fps and 1080p video at 60fps. The phone also has Super Night Scene 2.0 mode. For video calls and selfies, the smartphone has a 16-megapixel camera.
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The sweet and sour flavors of Sicily—Living la vita agrodolce
At the tip of the boot of Italy, the tiny island of Sicily (the biggest in the Mediterranean) has absorbed some sizeable changes in its cooking over the centuries, as new conquerors brought in familiar flavors from home. The island’s central location and abundant natural resources made it a prime target for hostile takeover. Ancient Greeks and Romans, Arabs from North Africa, Normans from Northern Europe, and aristocrats of medieval Spain all left delicious traces in the pantries of the island’s cooks. Today, its flavors still stand apart from mainland Italy, especially in its combination of sweet and sour flavors, a taste known as agrodolce.
A quick inventory of the island’s iconic ingredients illustrates how sweet and sour flavors dominate the landscape.
Sicilians harvest wild fennel in the spring and use every part, from the stalks and fronds to the seeds, even the pollen. The capital city of Palermo is famous for its pasta con le sarde, made of pasta, sardines, and wild fennel fronds.
Introduced by Spaniards in the 1500s, tomatoes weren’t adapted as a staple food by Sicilians (or anyone else in Europe) before the 1800s. But once they got over their wariness, Sicilians put them in everything. One of our favorite preparations is conserva, tomato paste on steroids, made of fresh chopped tomatoes dried to an incredible richness and intensity on boards in the sun.
A farmer inspects his net during the Sicilian olive harvest.
Olives and Capers
On the southwest coast of Sicily, the olive trees are cut low and squat so that they can hold their own against strong Mediterranean winds. Below them, protected by their branches, caper bushes thrive. The bright green Castelveltrano olive is famous for its buttery sweetness; the capers grown in the province of Pantelleria are preserved with Sicily’s legendary Trapani salt.
An orange grove at the foot of Mount Etna, Sicily.
Oranges, lemons, and citron were brought to Sicily during the 9th century from Asia by Arab conquerors. Sicily’s sunny days, cool evenings, and volcanic soil make its lemons exceptionally sweet. The sanguingo variety of blood orange grows throughout eastern Sicily and is used in desserts, drinks, and savory salads, such as insalata di arance, a mix of blood oranges, Sicilian mint, wild fennel, and vinegar—a classic agrodolce combination.
Bitter Greens
Wild asparagus, mountain cabbage, chicory, broccoli rabe, escarole, and countless other varieties of bitter greens are beloved by Sicilian cooks. Their sharp, rich flavors are often accented with lemon juice or vinegar, then garnished with the classic combination of currants and pinenuts. There is even a savory tart called Torta Veradura, filled with bitter greens.
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Strength in the face of COVID: Women of Color Leading from the Hot Spots
June 10, 2020 by Radiah Shabazz
A Tale of Three Cities
Detroit. New York. New Orleans. In the last several weeks these three cities have become epicenters of COVID-19, as all have experienced high rates of infection and/or death from the disease. Each city is also densely populated by people of color and, before and magnified during the pandemic, managing the challenges that come as a result of racism and discrimination, disinvestment, and disregard. As a result, even before COVID, health challenges among Black and Brown residents in these cities were a common thread and often exacerbated by community conditions like toxic emission of air pollution, urban flooding, mold, lack of access to healthy food, and inability to rebuild their neighborhoods and their lives following a severe natural disaster.
The conditions are often cyclical, leading to and exacerbating one another, meaning disproportionate impact for Black and Brown residents in the event of climate disasters like hurricanes, major flooding from severe storms, and even severe winter weather. With these communities already juggling disastrous circumstances, it is not surprising that COVID has crept in and hit them particularly hard, because the same conditions which make any people more vulnerable to climate disasters also breed vulnerability to nearly any other challenge, including a pandemic.
"[We are] designing what we want to see and breaking chains of poverty and inequity. We know what the deepest impacts are and [we are] pushing forward solutions.”
Jessica ClementeCEO of We Stay/Nos Quedamos
And still, in spite of the horrific circumstances these communities find themselves in, a tremendous asset each of these cities has in common is the benefit of dynamic women of color, each of whom sits at the helm of a staple community-based organization. Each of these women have stepped up to ensure the safety, security, and resilience of their communities against threats that made them vulnerable before COVID. They are now doing the same in response to it. The unwavering leadership and perseverance of Donna Givens, President and CEO of Eastside Community Network in Detroit; Jessica Clemente, CEO of We Stay/Nos Quedamos in the South Bronx; and Angela Chalk, Founder and Executive Director of Healthy Community Services in New Orleans, even in hard times, has positioned communities to be equipped with tools and strategies to move beyond crisis mode and into a place where they look towards thriving.
“[We are] designing what we want to see and breaking chains of poverty and inequity,” said Jessica Clemente, CEO of We Stay/Nos Quedamos. “We know what the deepest impacts are and [we are] pushing forward solutions.” This is true for all of these dynamic women.
Balancing in the COVID Pandemic
Prior to the onset of COVID-19, all three were working in the climate arena, developing systems and strategies to make their communities resilient to the climate impacts that often disproportionately devastate communities of color and make for longer, harder recovery periods, if recovery ever happens at all.
For Eastside Community Network (ECN), climate resilience has meant spearheading several community redevelopment efforts to aid in recovery and mitigate negative climate impacts. Last year, for example, it hosted a Juneteenth Day celebration to unveil a rainscape in the Chandler Park community to combat stormwater flooding and the damage resulting from it while simultaneously beautifying an area that is working to offset vacant, abandoned spaces.
Since the onset of COVID-19 and its swift rise to pandemic status, ECN has had to shift its operations and priorities to support the needs of the communities it serves. “We can’t sit on the sidelines while people are dying,” Givens said. “We are making sure people understand how things are done and clarifying messages.”
Since Michigan began sheltering in place on March 12, ECN has shifted to a completely virtual operation, but has still found good use for office equipment by starting a “loaning pool” of 20 laptops to Detroit schoolchildren who don’t have home computers so they may access online classes. Givens also hosts a podcast, “Authentically Detroit,” where she is able to “provide leadership and voice, [while acting] as a response to folks in the community.”
ECN has also stepped in to support shut in community members by distributing essential, but as of late hard to find, supplies like face masks and hand sanitizer, taking care to ensure those who are most vulnerable are served first.
For now, Michigan’s shelter in place orders have begun to lift, with some partial reopening of bars, restaurants, and retail stores taking effect on May 22. In New York–where the pandemic has arguably been most dire–stay at home orders have also been extended in some parts of the state, notably New York City, through June 27.
This has meant a shift as well, for We Stay/Nos Quedamos, a community development corporation committed to building sustainable development and self-determination of its residents, while preserving culture in the South Bronx. Prior to COVID, Nos Quedamos’ resilience-building efforts included planning for a resilience HUB in its Melrose neighborhood, so that residents, in the event of a major climate event resulting in power outages, could have access to electricity for food storage, refrigeration of medical supplies, heat or air conditioning, internet, etc. COVID has shifted, but not completely altered those plans.
“[Before COVID] we had been looking at resilience hubs through the lens of a climate crisis–we are now looking at it through a crisis lens, period,” said Clemente. “We need to be able to respond strategically and impactfully.”
Part of responding strategically has meant anticipating the needs of residents housed in Nos Quedamos’ 19 affordable developments and how prolonged orders to stay home would negatively impact their food security. To alleviate this stressor, Clemente and team have coordinated access to 11 of its buildings as food distribution centers, partnering with a local eatery to provide meals to residents three days a week. Nos Quedamos is also establishing a phone database to maintain positive connections at a distance, while keeping residents informed about ongoing changes resulting from the pandemic.
For New Orleans residents, uncertainty in the midst of constant changes is also driven by hurricane season, as the region braces for how COVID might exacerbate circumstances that have time and gain already proven to be grim. Under the leadership of Angela Chalk, however, Healthy Community Services (HCS), has been able to get in front of some of the most pressing challenges experienced by residents in the Seventh Ward, including urban flooding and aged infrastructure.
HCS leads a flood-prevention program that now boasts 60 active green infrastructure projects in 3 neighborhoods across the Seventh Ward. These interventions proved successful when put to the test last July amidst severe rainstorms preceding Hurricane Barry when over 350 gallons of water drained away, sparing the homes and businesses of residents. Gearing up for what this could mean in the era of COVID, Chalk and her team are already thinking strategically about interventions.
“We’re [already] doing background work so that we can move right into implementation when stay at home orders are lifted,” Chalk shared.
Louisiana lifted its stay at home order and began phase 1 of its reopening process, joining a cluster of states who are leading the way into the next phase of the pandemic–rebuilding. For HCS, the work remains the same, supporting the most pressing needs of the communities it serves and adapting as those needs shift.
The organization instituted a “Ring and Go” system, where packages of food and other essential items are delivered to residents, like the elderly and people with chronic health conditions, who are not able to leave home regularly.
“We want to be able to relieve at least one burden [especially] with hurricane season coming and the potential for tornadoes,” she explains. “We have to continue our work. COVID is here, it is a new reality, but we have to adjust. Have to continue our work around climate change, because it all intersects.”
From Crisis to Thriving
The important takeaway from the clear strength and leadership exhibited in each of these communities is that a crisis is more of a crisis for Black and Brown people. It doesn’t matter if it is a hurricane, a wildfire, toxic emissions leading to high rates of asthma and other chronic health conditions, flooding, or now a pandemic. Those who are and have been made most vulnerable in the event of an emergency will generally fare the same, despite the specifics of said emergency.
The circumstances are similar in each of these cities,–and in practically every urban community of color in the U.S., for that matter– but different enough to require localized expertise and leadership to mitigate challenges and build resilience to them. The leadership exhibited here reflects the intention to thrive, to move communities past merely “responding to” when a threat is yielding against them, and into a place where they are anticipating and ready to combat threats before they have even manifested.
But, to do this, our leaders require support: financial, early and ongoing access to resources, capacity, and technical assistance.
“It’s incredible how we do more with less. But then it becomes an expectation,” reflects Clemente. This notion of doing more with less has become a toxic trait often worn with honor and associated with grit and survival; but with equity at the core, it is vital that communities get the resources they need so they are in a position to grow and do more with abundance.
Like climate disasters, which exacerbate already difficult conditions, COVID-19 has further unmasked disparities, shining light on the vicious cycle of inequities experienced by so many in everyday life. And as we continue on an unknown path, the era of pandemic we are in now will eventually move into a stage of recovery and rebuilding, and it is guaranteed that these organizations will be at the forefront of those efforts, persevering on and providing resources, support, and hope in a time when it is easy to fall into feelings of depression and helplessness. But will they get all of the support they need?
While it isn’t entirely clear what the future holds, these community leaders are already thinking ahead and preparing for the next stages of this crisis–and using what they are learning to forge a path forward for future iterations of their implementation work through the PRC.
“We’re resilient. We’re still working. Hopefully, when all this is put back in pandora’s box, there will be some models wherein we can all thrive, all around the country.”
Angela ChalkFounder and Executive Director, Healthy Community Services
ECN has already responded to the needs of communities in the east side of Detroit in a way that mimics some aspects of a resilience hub. Their implementation project will bring a fully equipped and operational hub to reality by creating the stability and infrastructure of resilience hubs from which they’ll be able to coordinate all their operations in the midst of a climate crisis and as we continue to navigate the pandemic. Nos Quedamos, in addition to moving forward its plan for a resilience hub in the South Bronx Melrose Commons community, is also advancing several strategies and techniques for building community resilience that center community education, resident engagement, and now the extended lens of emergency management for emergencies of all kinds. HCS continues to address urban flooding through its proven techniques for mitigating stormwater and promoting green infrastructure. These techniques will especially alleviate the compounding stressors of managing a pandemic in the midst of the upcoming hurricane season. It is Angela Chalk’s parting words that make clear how sheer will, perseverance, hope and thoughtful servant leadership—traits exhibited by them all–keep these communities whole, even when things are unfathomably difficult.
“We’re resilient. We’re still working,” she said. “Hopefully when all this is put back in pandora’s box, there will be some models wherein we can all thrive, all around the country.” Right on. In the name of resilience–in the name of survival–the work has not and cannot stop.
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EU Commission plans green reset for nature, food and farming
The EU Farm to Fork and 2030 Biodiversity Strategies launched today are potential game changers for EU nature, food and farming policies. The strategies propose a new wave of essential and long overdue targets on topics such as protected areas, restoration of nature, organic farming and the reduction of agricultural chemicals.
The commitment by the European Commission to present binding EU nature restoration targets in 2021 is one of the main achievements of the Biodiversity Strategy, as the voluntary restoration target in the current strategy clearly did not deliver ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/06/measures-to-arrest-natures-decline-must-be-passed-into-law-say-meps ). Restoring natural ecosystems on land and at sea will not only contribute to solving the biodiversity crisis, but is also critical to climate change mitigation and adaptation. WWF, along with other NGOs, were strongly advocating for such a target ( https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/restoring_nature_for_biodiversity_and_climate.pdf ).
"The European Commission has shown it is ready to learn from the health crisis, proposing actions which can change our toxic relationship with nature to a healthy one,” said Ester Asin, Director at WWF European Policy Office. "This forward-looking attitude must be strengthened further in the recovery package next week. We call for 50% of the package to be dedicated climate & environment spending to build back stronger, more resilient economies and societies."
WWF also welcomes the announcement of new EU legislation for a sustainable food system for 2023 in the Farm to Fork Strategy, an initiative to be praised for its long-term vision and its potential to reinforce sustainability in all of the EU’s food-related policies. This is further reinforced by the targets proposed on organic farming, landscape features and on pesticides, fertilizers and antibiotics that give a clear orientation that agriculture must transition towards nature-friendly farming and away from its high dependence on agricultural chemicals.
Crucially, the strategy contains a new requirement for Member States to set comparable targets when drafting Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) strategic plans. This will ensure the consistency of the strategy's overall targets with farming policy. WWF calls on co-legislators to enshrine this new requirement in the CAP regulations currently under discussion.
Unfortunately, the Farm to Fork Strategy fails to tackle intensive production and excessive consumption of meat and dairy products, one of the most glaring omissions. Actions to significantly change consumer behaviour and support more extensive animal farming are also insufficient and lack any concrete targets. WWF, along with other NGOs ( https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/less_and_better_animal_products_in_the_farm_to_fork_strategy.pdf ), and MEPs ( https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/meps-call-for-volume-reduction-in-dairy-sector-to-avoid-milk-lakes/ )had been calling for much higher ambition on this.
WWF does however welcome the proposal for a new law in 2021 to prevent products linked to global deforestation being placed on the EU market, an action that should be extended to cover other ecosystems such as savannahs and grasslands.
The Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies show clear commitments to tackle key drivers of biodiversity loss. However, WWF is deeply concerned that the European Commission has not taken this opportunity to safeguard its water laws. By failing to exclude a revision of the Water Framework Directive, despite its own evaluation saying it is fit for purpose, it has left Europe's water policy in limbo.
“The Commission has shown leadership today. The upcoming discussions in the European Council and Parliament will show whether Europe is serious about a real European Green Deal that puts our planet on the path to recovery!” said Andreas Baumüller, Head of Natural Resources for WWF European Policy Office.
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The Best Way to Monitor On-The-Road
As a filmmaker, chances are you’ve worked on projects that require tons of movement, jumping from set to set or location to location. Whether you’re in a studio lot or on-the-go, these shoots require you to pack lightly so you can move at a moment’s notice. Any heavy equipment will just slow down the process.
But no matter the production, you’ll always need a monitor, and traditional monitors don’t make the best lightweight gear to lug around. Not only do you have to lay out cables and stands at every stop, but the more you move around, the more you have to keep track of. Basically, this is a pretty time consuming process. What’s the best alternative?
One Vote at a Time encountered this issue for their summer productions campaign, and found the perfect solution for lightweight monitoring on the road: smart monitoring.
Traveling Filmmakers
“One Vote at a Time is grassroots PAC run by a team of female filmmakers. Instead of being fueled by corporate giants, we’re supported by the contributions of ordinary citizens. We create digital campaign ads free of charge to candidates running for office around the country. This summer, we are headed into 10 states and aiming to create powerful content for 250 candidates. Our mission is to orient the filmmaking skills that we have cultivated in our careers towards the causes we care about. Starting with our elected officials.” - Mara Tasker, Producer for One Vote.
iOS/Android monitoring allows you to see the shot(s) from smartphones and tablets.
“We’re traveling to multiple states doing documentary-style run-and-gun shoots, so we need to keep our rigs as small as possible. Monitors cost a lot and take up space, so instead of using traditional heavy monitors, it made much more sense to use iPads instead.” - Lauren Guiteras, DP.
Beginning just this summer, Mara, Lauren and their teams have already traveled to North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, and New Hampshire, filming TV campaign ads for candidates running for a wide range of positions (State House, State Senate, State Supreme Court, Governor). Check out one of the videos here:
Directed by Sarah Ullman, Co-Founder & Executive Director at One Vote.
“The campaign videos we film are simple and straightforward, but because we want to be conscious of our time, the politician’s time, and our budget, it can get pretty hectic on our shoots. Not to mention that we’re traveling to these politicians’ hometowns and capturing them in multiple locations. It’s a challenge to make the most efficient use of our time,” said Lauren.
Monitoring On-the-Go
With the need for mobility, small crew and a low budget, One Vote can’t bring large monitors to their shoots. Instead, they choose a much more affordable and efficient solution: Serv Pros.
Serv Pros connect to any HDMI video source and broadcasts it out to up to 10 iOS/Android devices with the VUER app installed. By connecting to the same WiFi network as the Serv Pro, each mobile device automatically picks up the feed (less than 1s delay) and displays it on the screen, giving anyone a handheld monitor nearby.
Monitoring on iPad Pro.
“There’s not enough room in our vehicle to carry a 17” monitor around, nor would it be practical to set that up everywhere we go. With the Serv Pros, we’re able to monitor with our iPads, which we are way easier to carry around than traditional monitors,” said Lauren.
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Angenieux EZ-1 & EZ-2
2x Teradek Serv Pro
1x Teradek Link
3x iPad Pro
Lauren’s team used 2x Sony FS7s in the Texas shoot. Connected to each camera was a Serv Pro, which were themselves connected to the Teradek Link, a high-powered WiFi router designed for production sets. Link (or any WiFi router) is necessary to to monitor multiple cameras at the same time.
Also connected to the Link was the 3 iPad Pros the crew had. Using VUER, the Director, Producer and Lauren were able to monitor from their own devices.
Serv Pro sends video to up to 10 iOS/Androids.
“When our directors are working, we all need to be able to see what our DP is getting, with ease, from anywhere. That means the middle of a field, a farm, a fair. We can't constantly set up. We need to be able to move like a doc crew without sacrificing quality and this system really facilitates that. Even just for simple hero shots for B-roll, it allows us the freedom to move around,” said Mara.
“With VUER, I can tell my DP to follow a candidate as they go knock on doors and I can stay out of the way so they can feel more comfortable on camera since they're less used to it compared to normal actors. It let's my DP follow their movements in a natural and beautiful way while I can continue to look in on what they're capturing and toss out some ideas of how to reframe. More than anything, it gives us ease of access to that person's story and personality in the tight windows we have to try and capture them.”
By monitoring on tablets and being more efficient with time, the crew of One Vote is able to capture high-quality video and focus on telling a compelling story for their candidates.
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Darkest Dungeon 2 was officially announced today. The reveal came not from a press release or just a teaser trailer, but rather in an exclusive interview between PC Gamer and developer Red Hook Studios. The original game, a turn-based roguelike that picked up quite the fanbase, was originally released back in 2016.
Despite this unique reveal avenue, Red Hook didn't say too much about the new game. Some of the details pulled from the interview can be found below.
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Space Shooter Everspace Coming to Switch on December 11
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I'm being told that Woodpunk is a "fast-paced roguelike retro shooter" that is "set in an alternate Medieval Era with futuristic inventions and warfare." Now that we got the "what" out of the way, let's check out the when, where, and also a bit more of the what.
Woodpunk is coming to the PC on November 22 from developer Meteorbyte Studios and publisher Libredia Entertainment. This is the first game ever developed by Meterobyte Studios. They plan on releasing the game for the...
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People loved the first Spelunky so it just makes sense that Spelunky 2 eventually became a thing. Spelunky 2 was indeed announced today along with a 2019 release window and the first ever gameplay trailer.
The PlayStation Blog chatted up Spelunky creator Derek Yu to find out a bit more about what's in store for the roguelike adventure title.
Son of a Witch Brings Adorable Roguelike Action to Steam on May 16, 2018
I guess adorable roguelike games are the new "in" thing today? Because I also just received word that Son of a Witch will be released on May 16, 2018 and it is also an adorable looking roguelike game that is coming to Steam. This one is developed by Bigosaur and has been in development for about three years now. The developer has been taking advice from the Early Access community to fine tune the game ahead of its official release. Today's announcement also includes a launch trailer for...
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The Swords of Ditto Brings Adorable Roguelike to Life in this New Launch Trailer
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The Swords of Ditto is a compact action RPG that creates a unique adventure for each new hero of legend in the relentless fight against
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US claims authority to kill American-born terrorists without trial
(By Deutsche Welle) After a two-year manhunt, the Obama administration ordered the targeted killing of Islamic extremist Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen. The case has ignited a debate over the reach of constitutional protections.
As part of its on-going global campaign to wipe out the leadership of the terrorist group al Qaeda, the United States has targeted and killed an American citizen via drone strike for the first time in the politically volatile Arab nation of Yemen.
The man targeted for death, Anwar al-Awlaki, was accused of both inciting and planning a series of attacks against the United States in recent years. As a Muslim cleric infamous for violent anti-American rhetoric, Awlaki allegedly inspired the Fort Hood massacre in 2009 as well as the failed attempt to detonate a truck bomb in New York’s Times Square in 2010. And he reportedly played a direct role in planning the aborted attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger plane two Christmases ago.
A second American citizen, Samir Khan, was also killed in the drone strike. Khan, who grew up in Queens, New York and lived for a time in North Carolina, was the editor of al Qaeda’s English-language online magazine Inspire.
Although US President Barack Obama did not mention Awlaki’s citizenship during his public statement hailing last Friday’s drone strike as a victory, the president stated that the New Mexican native was the head of “external operations” for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), thereby making him a legitimate target for elimination.
“The death of Awlaki marks another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates,” President Obama said during a farewell ceremony for outgoing Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Mike Mullen.
But civil libertarians and constitutional experts have sharply criticized the Obama administration for denying Awlaki due process rights guaranteed to citizens under the 5th amendment of the United States’ Constitution.
“Absent that kind of a hearing it is unprecedented and illegal to simply assassinate a human being in that way, a US citizen,” Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Deutsche Welle.
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Obituary – Inked In Blood
Posted by Patrick Thompson | Oct 22, 2014 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
As a teenager in the mid to late 1980s, I was spending a lot of time soaking in what metal had to offer. Thrash bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Sepultura were played over and over again late into the night. But come my senior year in high school, my friends and I would discover a new storm of metal. This storm was Floridian death metal. I instantly fell in love with the sounds of heavily distorted and tuned down guitars, deep growling vocals and aggressive drumming. Soon the thrash bands had to share time on the stereo with bands such as Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, and especially the band who is the subject of this review, Obituary.
After five long years, Obituary and Relapse Records announced they would release their ninth full length album, “Inked In Blood,” which put a smile on my face. Now, I knew about the latest members to the lineup, bassist Terry Butler and guitarist Kenny Edwards, but this marked the first time these two were going to be in the recording studio making an Obituary album. So I crossed my fingers while pushing play on my iPod, because I always get a tad nervous when one of my favorite childhood bands releases a new album. I always fear that this could be the album that falls flat and sadly makes you say to yourself, “This sucks!! Maybe they should hang it up.”
So how was the new album, you ask? Should Obituary hang up their instruments and call it a day? HELL NO! Quite the opposite. I’m still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor after listening to “Inked in Blood.” Bursting through the gate, Obituary starts your hair on fire with ‘Centuries of Lies’ and its thrashing tempo. The second track, ‘Violent by Nature,’ is a mid-tempo paced track graced with a lethal thick riff and a searing solo on the back end from guitarists Kenny Edwards and Trevor Peres. I feel ‘Pain Inside’ puts the spotlight on John Tardy‘s inhuman signature growling. They are as effective and scary as hell now as they were the first time I listened to them on Obituary’s debut album,”Slowly We Rot.” The death march riff on ‘Visions In My Head’ is so strong that you dare not stand in its way, for fear that you will be instantly stampeded. ‘Back on Top’ will cut a deep groove into your psyche with a deep rooted riff, Donald Tardy‘s crashing cymbals and John Tardy‘s relentless growls.
The title track and ‘Deny You’ deliver slower but deadly gut-churning riffs from Edwards, Peres and bassist Terry Butler, and the double bass is in abundance thanks to the skills of Donald Tardy. The riff that dominates, ‘Within A Dying Breed,’ is so powerfully raw and distorted that it violently shook the bones right out of my skin. It is a testament to Obituary‘s amazing musicianship that they can build on the strength of this brawny riff and transform the end of the track into a cataclysmic frenzy. Start swinging those elbows, and watch your back, as you run into snarling blood-thirsty random people in the circle pit with the combative, aggressive ‘Minds of the World.’ Obituary flexes its muscles on the final track, ‘Paralyzed,’ with Edwards, Peres and Butler‘s addictive chugging riffs, a solo that absolutely shreds, the ferocious double bass of Donald Tardy, and terrifying vocals from John Tardy that will make you sleep with one eye open.
“Inked In Blood” is an essential death metal album, so pick it up and blast it through your speakers. Your neighborhood will thank you. I always wanted to tag along with my Grandparents when they drove to Florida in the late 1980’s and early 90’s to escape the harsh winters, but I think I know the real reason why they went there. It wasn’t to escape the cold or to watch spring training baseball, they went to raise their horns up in the air while moshing at Obituary concerts.
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Android fans are always impatient for the latest flavor of software for their smartphones. However, while competitors such as HTC and LG have been enjoying the update of their phones one after another, Samsung is still waiting. The flagship Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, and S6 Edge+ have still not received the Marshmallow update.
At this point, we have to mention that a leaked roadmap claims to show when Samsung fans will get Android 6.0. According to the leaked email, Android 6.0 will land for the Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy Note 5 in February. The Galaxy S5 is going to get the update in March or April, while Galaxy S6 Edge and S6 owners will receive Marshmallow in February or March. Galaxy S6 Edge+ and the Galaxy Note 5 will be the first to get the Marshmallow update in February.
Also read: Samsung Galaxy S7 Body, Design and Release Date REVEALED!
Then the update would be rolled out for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in sometime between February to March. The Galaxy S5, Note 4, and Note Edge will be getting the Android 6.0 update in around March to April. Though, there are some bad news for the owners of older Galaxy models, as it seems that S4 and older will not be eligible for the Marshmallow update.
Nevertheless, we won’t take this leaked image as gospel, as we don’t know how valid the leaked image is. We just have to make a logical guess using the information provided. First of all, the Android Marshmallow beta testing for some of the devices has already been initiated, and the February-March-April release date appears to be quite rational and feasible. The truth is that we are almost at the end of January, and February isn’t far, so we don’t have to wait much longer.
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2016 Victoria Film Festival Opening Weekend Recap & What’s Coming
The 2016 Victoria Film Festival (VFF) started off with a great bang with the Friday night screening of My Internship in Canada, a very funny political satire by Philippe Falardeau (Congorama). This movie explores how democracy should really work instead of who can sway prevailing opinion.
CTV Arts Reporter Adam Sawatsky introduced this film and Exantus, one of the two leads. He was present for this screening. Kathy Kay, festival chief, welcomed film enthusiasts who came down for this movie and party. On a blustery evening packed with many events around town (including a broader movie festival at Cineplex theatres and a Jim Brynes concert up in Sidney), competition is getting tough. The VFF is a fixture for cinema buffs to enjoy and I was here instead of anywhere else!
The night continued strong with a Gala party at the historic Promis building, located off Government street. Filmmakers, performers and attendees of the festival mingled.
Everyone got to party it up in a Freudian style world that’s supposed to be dream-like. People arriving at this venue had to choose, Alice in Wonderland-style, between three veils instead of vials to enter a dream-world. There’s a chance to visit the stuff of nightmares, going sweet or being naughty as the entry-point before being welcomed by hugs of teddy bears (which I received) or an entourage of blow-up dolls. I should have chosen the scary route since I love horror, and hardly get scared even when ghosts permeate my dream-world. Once inside, my friend Charles did give me a pill container with bourbon. Did I shrink? Nope. Sigmund Freud is supposed to be explored at this theme party, but shouldn’t Salvador Dali be included too? Yes, my dreams get surreal — as I walked around, my visions blended into a musical world with a rousing performance of familiar musical hits by R&B band, The New Groovement. The band rocked the night and Camosun College’s Cooks Program fed the masses. I enjoyed the mix of hors-d’oeuvres offered but where’s the oysters? Return visits were needed to fill anyone up and I hovered around those tables should new tastes pop up. The selection was nice, but I was starting to crave a proper meal. Fortunately, I did eat before going to the film and this after-party. The bar had drinks from De Vine Vineyards, Spinnakers Brewpub and Ampersand Distilling Company by provided an endless supply of tasty booze, ranging from ciders to oyster stouts to keep everyone spirited, and I had to be careful since I was driving home.
Although this party felt scaled back (food-wise) when compared to previous years, the enthusiasm was infectious. Familiar faces were everywhere, and I was introduced to Connor Gaston, one of Victoria’s favourite filmmakers. He will be screening The Devout on Feb 13th. Other movies made in Victoria include The Girl in the Photographs, a movie that I found particularly thrilling. I got a chance to screen this in advance and also talk to Nick Simon, the writer/director and Thomas Mahoney, producer. His interview will be published later in the week and appear in Absolute Underground Magazine. This film is notable because of Wes Craven’s involvement prior to his sudden death and it will be screened Feb 12th.
Another notable product by Victoria-based documentarian, Patricia Sims, is When Elephants Were Young. This feature will be playing on Monday, Feb 8th at Star Cinema in Sidney, BC and on Weds, Feb 10th at the Odeon downtown at 6:30. The downtown showing is sold out, but if you’re curious about this product, a review and interview can be read on Otakunoculture.com because of its Star Trek connection.
For the weekend, I was running around like a chicken who woke up far too early. I did not want to miss Canada AM / CTV film critic Richard Crouse‘s In Conversation series. He’s the voice of Canada’s movie and entertainment scene. From the big blockbusters to the indies, he’s covered them all and his knowledge of the scene is vast. I was hooked about four years ago and find it’s best not to miss these talks.
He began Saturday’s schedule with a very delightful and informative chat with Semi Chellas Like a well crafted movie, the opening dialogue recounted her life and what motivated her to become a storyteller. By second, glimpses into how she became hired to write for Mad Men fell second and the climax is a very insightful look into what goes on in the writer’s room. A Q&A followed, and I’m not surprised at this discussion’s focus on the seminal show that helped make her a big name in the industry. I was interested in her works for youths. Technically, she’s only done one product which just happened to fit into the category quite well. Since she’s raising two children herself, I did ask if any more is planned. She’s definitely interested. She’s said to me that it’s a genre she wants to revisit.
Semi Chellas talks about her work with Richard Crouse at Victoria Film Festival’s Springboard “In Conversation” series.
After this talk, I was hungry enough to wish I had a TARDIS so I can make it to Surrey, BC to get a sandwich. The evening had two films. One I could go see again, The Sandwich Nazi, or I could see where Ellen Page has advanced in her career. I will always think of her more as the lovely Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand and Days of Future Past (I wished she had more of a role in this though because the comics had her travel back in time instead of Wolverine in the movie!), and I know she’s done an amazing body of work outside of the comic book movie realm. Into the Forest is a genre film based on the book of the same name. It’s very light on the science fiction elements, but the world is definitely there. Patricia Rozema tells me this movie is more like speculative science fiction than hardcore, and I agree. In the Q&A after this film, she revealed that Page brought the idea of the book to her to develop, and from the start, she knew what would be this movie’s focus — to look at the lives of two young women and have it be a coming of age story instead of one with Hollywood-style appeal (i.e. big explosions and killer zombies). She’s not that type of filmmaker.
Larry Weinstein Plays “Daredevil” with Philips Orange Crush Cream Soda.
Sunday, I returned to town to check out Mr. Crouse’s talk with Larry Weinstein. He recounted his early days prior to being a filmmaker. The amusing part of his life story is that he was a teen with finer tastes in music. His love for Classical artists is well-known and that’s what led him to make such fine films like Mozartballs, Beethoven’s Hair, Ravel and Ravel’s Brain. He’s also crafted a wonderful series of shorts like Burnt Toast. Of these composers, he said Maurice Ravel is his favourite. During this talk, showed segments from two of his latest works. One should not be announced just yet, but The Devil’s Horn (History of the Saxophone) was the highlight. It played later that day. The film is quite solid as is, but in my interview with him, he says it’s still a work in progress. I look forward to watching the finished product when it’s released. For a preview, I recommend checking out the interview I conducted for Vivascene here.
For the afternoon, I prepared for BC Family Day by going to a screening of McDull: Me and My Mum, a cute animated film from Hong Kong. Although I find the name odd, hardly Chinese-sounding, at least I discovered in the film that his real name is Nong Mak, a piglet with an affinity to aspire to great heights, but often failing. His attitude to persevere is what makes this character enduring, and in this latest product, he’s all grown up. To recall the products prior of the younger version, the tales recounted looks back at his life. A separate review will be coming. The evening spotlight included the poet and rock star retrospective on Al Purdy Was Here. Feeling like Pink Floyd, I wished I was there for that screening, but sadly, I had obligations to fulfill.
The week looks great with more films to go see. In addition to special programming offered on this holiday, The Amazing Wipala and Oddball, my picks include Rams on Monday, Miss India America on Tuesday, Hermits on Weds, The Lobster on Thurs and a double-bill of The Girl in the Photographs and The Smalls: Forever is a Long Time Friday. Some I will attempt to catch if it is not sold out, but when the film festival is in town, all other movies does not matter anymore. Admittedly, I will have to catch Deadpool. I would not be a geek if I ignored it opening weekend.
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Tories plan to strip holiday pay, workers’ rights, employer pension contributions after Brexit
Posted by Tom Pride in cynicism
Why is Theresa May’s former-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab – and other top Tories – so hell-bent on a hard Brexit?
In 2011, Raab said in a policy paper for the rabidly right-wing think-tank the Centre for Policy Studies that holiday pay, the minimum wage, maternity leave and pension contributions for British workers are all ‘strait jackets’ for British businesses and should all be scrapped.
All of which are currently guaranteed under EU regulations.
Here’s a copy of Raab’s shocking policy paper if anyone wants to read it:
Click to access 111114155257-escapingthestraitjacket.pdf
33 thoughts on “Tories plan to strip holiday pay, workers’ rights, employer pension contributions after Brexit”
Hello, the link to the report by Dominic Rash isn’t working and does not link to the report. Could you please rectify this so I can post to FB please. Everyone needs to know the truth.
Eve.
[Really? Works for me. Try this link: https://tompride.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/111114155257-escapingthestraitjacket.pdf ] – TOM
JSM said:
David Russell said:
No, it is not a coincidence, it is very basic Tory thinking. No wonder that Mrs. May is alerting the army In the event of a ‘hard Brexit’. Britain is going to be relegated to a third world country after the Tories have finished with it. The world’s center for tax havens where the poor and the middle classes can be plundered by the likes of Farage, Reece-Mogg, Johnson et al. Wait ’till the Trump brigade gets into negotiating their so-called Trade Deal’. We seem utterly powerless to avert disaster, but we can, at least, take to the streets and try to throw the buggers out, with force if needs be.
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hilary772013 said:
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This is so frightening we have to get the Tories out.
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Thats what he said it aint going to happen tho .
hirsutemal said:
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Douglas Hannah said:
If Teresa may breaks her promise after promising to keep our employee rights, pension, and other rights, Then the Tory Scum Can Go Fuck Themselves.
fathomie said:
@kathy, really? People said the same thing over privatisation of the NHS and removal of ministerial liability. But, err, both of those things happened in 2012. If you really think the Tories will not seize the opportunity, as they’ve done with Education, Health, Welfare, Policing, the Emergency services, and so on since 2010, to further their hard right agenda, then I politely suggest your remove head from sand as the facts say – you’re wrong.
Bri said:
Blimey! – Do you really believe the UK is really so bad as to need the EU to protect its citizens?
How come we have already had zero hours contracts while in the EU?
I can’t see any party really going through that – they wouldn’t last 5 mins..
Hercules038 said:
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that’s what the tories are about – if you can’t recognize fasciists – tough on the rest of us who can
John Scott said:
So… let me get this straight… “Tories plan to strip holiday pay, workers’ rights, employer pension contributions after Brexit”. Because ONE Tory, an EX-minister, proposed to an EXTERNAL group what he, personally, wanted to do? In 2011? You really are scraping the barrel, aren’t you? I wonder what your poster boy Corbyn was saying in 2011? Pathetic distortion of the facts may play well with your Marxist buddies, but the rest of us aren’t taken in. Even the Daily Fail is better than your ramblings. (And I’m sure you won’t allow my comments on your post, you don’t like criticism.)
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Antony Rutter said:
Another one sided web page, blah blah blah we have heard all of yours and everyone else’s opinions mixed together with whatever facts you can cherry pick from anywhere that suits you but once, just once can we get someone to write an article that can do two sides of the story? Compare politics to a recently ended relationship, one person is telling their (true) story backed up by their facts the other the same and I can assure you both we different outcomes, don’t believe everything you read without being very analytical
elizapdushku said:
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Barry Craik (@Bortne24) said:
I also suspect it has something to do with the new EU tax haven laws that were announced just a few short weeks before Cameron announced the Brexit referendum, and come into effect the month after we leave…
Mark Budgen said:
Labour brought in ATOS. Labour started the misery of the ill and sick having to prove to private companies that they are ill and sick.
mervyn1926@hotmail.com said:
This article is a complete travesty and misrepresentation of the suggestions and ideas in the paper written some years ago. Shame on you for misrepresenting it such a way.
mewdar said:
[Mewdar – unfortunately you have been hoodwinked. As you Brexiters always seem to be. The following statements you have written are all untrue. They were even supposed to be written by a British Army pilot. Unfortunately even that fact was a lie. I asked the pilot in question, and the Leave liars had even used his name without telling him. Full story here: https://tompride.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/leavers-already-campaigning-to-win-second-referendum-on-social-media-with-even-worse-lies-than-before/ ] – TOM.
I think a lot of you remainers need reminding of the following.
TO ALL REMAINERS, IS THIS REALLY WHAT YOU WANT??
A STERN WARNING TO REMAINERS AND LOSERS!
So you now think you know what staying in the EU means but still want to stay in??
If you actually and really know all of these terms of the Lisbon treaty, signed on our behalf without our approval, and knowing this you still believe we should remain, I feel sorry for your love of country.
“What will actually happen if we stay in the EU” is a question no remainer will ever answer but here it is warts and all.
Check it out if you wish ——>>
1: The UK along with all existing members of the EU lose their abstention veto in 2020 as laid down in the Lisbon Treaty when the system changes to that of majority acceptance with no abstentions or veto’s being allowed.
2: All member nations will become states of the new federal nation of the EU by 2022 as clearly laid out in the Lisbon treaty with no exceptions or veto’s.
3: All member states must adopt the Euro by 2022 and any new member state must do so within 2 years of joining the EU as laid down in the Lisbon treaty.
4: The London stock exchange will move to Frankfurt in 2020 and be integrated into the EU stock exchange resulting in a loss of 200,000 plus jobs in the UK because of the relocation. (This has already been pre-agreed and is only on a holding pattern due to the Brexit negotiations, which if Brexit does happen, the move is fully cancelled – but if not and the UK remains a member it’s full steam ahead for the move.)
5: The EU Parliament and ECJ become supreme over all legislative bodies of the UK.
6: The UK will adopt 100% of whatever the EU Parliament and ECJ lays down without any means of abstention or veto, negating the need for the UK to have the Lords or even the Commons as we know it today.
7: The UK will NOT be able to make its own trade deals.
8: The UK will NOT be able to set its own trade tariffs.
9 The UK will NOT be able to set its own trade quotas.
10: The UK loses control of its fishing rights
11: The UK loses control of its oil and gas rights
12: The UK loses control of its borders and enters the Schengen region by 2022 – as clearly laid down in the Lisbon treaty
13: The UK loses control of its planning legislation
14: The UK loses control of its armed forces including its nuclear deterrent
15: The UK loses full control of its taxation policy
16: The UK loses the ability to create its own laws and to implement them
17: The UK loses its standing in the Commonwealths
18: The UK loses control of any provinces or affiliated nations e.g.: Falklands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar etc
19: The UK loses control of its judicial system
20: The UK loses control of its international policy
21: The UK loses full control of its national policy
22: The UK loses its right to call itself a nation in its own right.
23: The UK loses control of its space exploration program
24: The UK loses control of its Aviation and Sea lane jurisdiction
25: The UK loses its rebate in 2020 as laid down in the Lisbon treaty
26: The UK’s contribution to the EU is set to increase by an average of 1.2bn pa and by 2.3bn pa by 2020
I bet many of you didn’t even realise this Treaty even existed, now be honest would you REALLY want the UK to loose all these rights by staying in? I know I certainly don’t…………UK would NEVER be UK ever again.
Perhaps they want to get rid of workers rights to ensure we compete effectively with the USA and China
Lorraine Buchanan said:
If you were to get in touch with A.C.A.S. They would tell you that employers do not have to pay workers holiday pay. This was a right that was scrapped years ago. If look at Gov .UK website it tells you that. Employers do not have to give paid leave.
@mewdar, please don’t post rubbish on here. That has all been factchecked long ago, and it’s a load of utter tosh. It was been taken from a leave website, which itself has been discredited, and, were leavers not so mentally lazy, you could have gone away and found out for yourself that none of it is true. But no, that would have involved reading big words with more than one syllable and that would tax your mental stamina far too much. Oh, and yes I have fact checked it for myself using easily accessible govt and EU documents.
@bri and ‘John Scott’, yes, and we all said not govt would ever dare allow the privatisation of the NHS, and remove the responsibilty of running it from the minister of health – but the Tories did. We said that the Tories would never dare strip redundancy rights from public servants, attack pensions, and slash Police numbers, but, err, they did. We said that they wouldn’t attack workers rights (not covered by the EU) or health and safety laws, but that as the very first thing they did. Tell me, are all Brexit supporters determined to ignore the reality of allowing the Tories a free hand, or is it just the idiots that infest the web?
Martin Crane said:
This was all stated in the Tory manifesto. Only they called it “The People’s Charter”.
Taraneh Ahmadi-Parker said:
The Tories are there to help the wealthy and to hell with everybody else. They don’t care about workers right , education, justice and our NHS.
Voting labour is our only escape from Tory totalaterian regime, that’s why they attack Corbyn and smear him. He is a true leader and only wants the best for the country. Brexit is a Tory mess, and they want to implement it.
Harry Travers said:
“THEY WOULDN’T DARE”!!!
Richard Lea said:
Raab states explicitly in his article that the first seven of his proposals are doable without the consent of the EU. The remaining three would require its consent. The article was written well before Brexit was even on the horizon and you are twisting things by making out that what Raab thinks might be a good idea is necessarily going to occur post-Brexit. And what makes you think that the conservative European politicians who run the EU would not be prepared at some point in time to give the go ahead for such policies if it suited them? At least we have more direct control over what Westminster might decide.
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Racing legend Senna wanted to make F1 safer, reveals team-mate
Former Formula One star Gerhard Berger has revealed that racing legend Ayrton Senna told him about his plans to do more to make the sport safe in the hours leading to his tragic death. A devout Catholic, Senna was Formula One’s brightest star, a sporting giant, an icon in his native Brazil. But on lap... Read More
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Pakistan: First transgender policewoman to become trans victims support officer.
reem sharif
She faced death threats, offences, sexual harassment and did not have an easy life, but these hard times did not stop her. She is the first transgender police officer to become trans victims support officer using her experience to help others.
Her name Reem Sharif, and during an interview she said that she intends to prove trans people can be perfect leaders, able to inspire others like her, to help change and stop all those prejudices that have held them back.
Reem added: “Unless (trans people) have role models to follow, they will continue in the same footsteps of their predecessors who have survived by begging, dancing or carrying out sex work. But when they see a transgender policewoman or a television anchor or a lawyer, they will realise they can dream and aspire to reach for the stars.”
She started this new role just two months ago, and she’s already helped protect 16 trans people, as reported on Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“The other day we got a call from a trans woman that her brothers had threatened to kill her. I went and talked them into accepting that who they thought was their brother had always been a sister. In another case, a tenant was being thrown out of her home for being a trans person and I was able to stop that.”
Her Success Comes after a long series of hard moments.
Yes, her success is a hard won victory, because she had to endure constant abuse through college, which she describes as “the worst years of my life”, in addition to being ostracised by her own family. Yes, because families sometimes can be your worst enemies:
“For my brothers, I was always a source of humiliation. One of them told me he would have a problem getting his kids married off if people found out about me. I was very hurt but I said they don’t have to tell anyone about my existence; in any case we live in different cities and I support myself.”
Pakistan and Trans people
Strangely enough, Pakistan is becoming increasingly accepting of trans : in 2018 the government approved a bill that grants broad legal protections for the Pakistani trans community. This, unfortunately did not stop abuse and discrimination that are still pervasive in Pakistani society, and the experience of being shunned by families is common for too many trans people in the country. This marginalisation makes it harder for trans people to access jobs, education and healthcare.
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COVID-19 Pandemic To Push 47 Million More Women, Girls Into Extreme Poverty By 2021: United Nations
The report mentioned that it would end in reversing decades of progress to lift this demographic above the poverty line.
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India | 6 Sep 2020 2:55 AM GMT
Writer : Palak Agrawal | Editor : Shubhendu Deshmukh | Creatives : Rajath
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COVID-19 pandemic which has disrupted lives all over the world will significantly impact the women and push 47 million more women and girls into extreme poverty by 2021, according to the data released by the United Nations.
The analysis by the UN Women and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report mentioned that it would end in reversing decades of progress to lift this demographic above the poverty line.
It further stated that the COVID-19 outbreak will dramatically increase the poverty rate for women and consequently widen the gap between men and women who live in poverty.
The poverty rate for women was expected to decrease by 2.7 per cent between 2019 and 2021, but projections now point to an increase of 9.1 per cent due to the pandemic and its fallout.
"The pandemic will push 96 million people into extreme poverty by 2021, 47 million of whom are women and girls. This will increase the total number of women and girls living in extreme poverty to 435 million, with projections showing that this number will not revert to pre-pandemic levels until 2030," the UN agencies stated.
By 2021, for every 100 men aged 25 to 34 living in extreme poverty (living on USD 1.90 a day or less), there will be 118 women, a gap that is expected to increase to 121 women per 100 men by 2030.
"The increases in women's extreme poverty are a stark indictment of deep flaws in the ways we have constructed our societies and economies," UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said.
"We know that women take most of the responsibility for caring for the family; they earn less, save less and hold much less secure jobs in fact, overall, women's employment is 19% more at risk than men's," she added.
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner said that over 100 million women can be lifted out poverty if the countries implement a strategy to provide them with better access to education and family planning, fair and equal wages, and expanding social transfers.
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Updated Trends: The latest news in the world of medical science is that a cure for HIV has been reportedly discovered by some German doctors. The news could be a ray of hope and joy for the patients who have the disease, but experts feel the cure process is too risky and will not work for everyone. An HIV positive patient in the US has said that this could not work on every patient, as they have been disappointed many a time.
Medical experts on the other hand, state that the so called cure for HIV needs more research and study and this will help the world to develop a better medicine tomorrow, rather the bone marrow transplant is just too risky. But they were positive over the fact that they have at least found a stepping stone that they will need to work on.
The news broke out from Berlin, as an HIV positive patient had leukaemia and in the year 2007 he received a marrow transplant. As the years passed by, he is said to have recovered from the disease. But the twist was not in the patient, but rather the donor, whose marrow had a special mutation that did not allow the virus to enter the cells, and finding such donor’s itself is a painstaking task.
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Explaining How Earthquakes work
and why we have them.
Interior of the earth
The Lithosphere (litho means rock) sphere contains the crust and upper portions of the upper most mantle. It is about 80 km thick on average - or 1.25% of the radius of the earth.
The interior of the earth is dimensionally similar to the dimensions of an egg. The yolk being the core and the crust being the shell. The shell, which is very thin and brittle is similar to how the crust behaves under similar forces.
Continental crust (25-40 km) (Solid & Brittle)
Oceanic crust (~6 km) (Solid & Brittle)
Moho (3 km)
The Moho is considered to be the boundary between the crust and the mantle where the P waves speed up from 6 km to 8 km.
Upper mantle (650 km) (Plastic like Liquid)
Lower mantle (2235 km) (Solid)
Outer core: liquid (2270 km) (Liquid - plastic like)
Inner core: solid (1216 km) (Solid)
Source: http://www.aboutcivil.org/interior-of-the-earth.html
How Plate Tectonics make Earthquakes
The inside of the earth is very hot and consists of 3 major areas:
The inner and outer core (very hot - 13,000°C)
The upper and lower Mantle (Pretty hot - 2-6000°C)
The crust (~64°C)
Earthquakes occur because of plate tectonics. The theory of plate tectonics is based on the idea that the crust of the earth is sitting on top of a floating mantle of magma. Earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, trenches and mid ocean ridges are created because of the movement of the broken up crust - also known as tectonic plates. These features are created because of the earths internal heat energy found in the core (through radioactive decay) which then creates convection currents throughout the mantle. The oceanic crust is an extension of the mantle - but in a more solid state. The continental crusts are similar to the scum found from processing iron and are less dense to the liquid iron below.
The liquid rock - aka the mantle - get's its heat from the core at the center of the earth through nuclear decay. That heat is then transferred through the mantle through convection. At the top of the convection cell, the liquid rock cools down to a solid state before coming back down towards the core. Along with it, it moves the crust above. Anytime the crust moves, it rubs against an adjacent piece of crust (aka - tectonic plate). That rubbing snaps and vibrates. This snap and vibration is what we commonly call an earthquake.
Sometimes pieces of crust collide towards each other. This causes the frontal parts of the colliding plates to buckle - this forms mountainous terrains - depending on what types of crust (oceanic or continental) are colliding together.
If it's continental to continental collisions - we get earthquakes and mountains. (i.e. Himalaya's)
If it's oceanic to continental collisions - we get trenches, volcanoes, mountains and earthquakes. (i.e. South America)
If it's oceanic to oceanic collisions - we get trenches, volcanoes and earthquakes - called island arcs (i.e. Japan, Aleutian Islands in Alaska etc.)
Before an earthquake happens, the magma deep below builds up tension along the surface between the two plates that are held together. Friction is the force that is keeping it together. When there is enough tension to overcome the friction, an earthquake occures and the fault ruptures - which allows the sides of each plate to move relative to each other.
In terms of energy, elastic energy is built up prior to it slipping (potential energy). Once it slips, mechanical energy is released (kinetic energy)
Earthquakes define plate boundaries
Faults & Plate Boundaries
Where the plates interact - we have plate boundaries. At the plate boundaries - it is true that we have faults. But faults can also happen further away from the plate boundary - so let's determine the difference between the two.
Plate boundaries are determined by the interaction between two plates. These plates are either moving away from each other (divergent plate boundaries), or towards each other (convergent plate boundaries) - where they slam into each other - and lastly plates where they slide past one another (transform plate boundaries).
The major faults lie on plate boundaries between plates. However, many faults can still form near and far from the plate boundary - such as the Wasatch Fault, or any other fault that is a spin off of the San Andreas fault in California. As shown here, Japan is experiencing many earthquakes that are not along the plate boundary that is shown dipping downwards. The shallow earthquakes that are happening at or to the sides of Japan indicate faulting due to regional compression - as the Pacific Plate moves towards Japan and as Japan moves towards the Pacific Plate.
There are three main kinds of faults:
Reverse & Thrust
Strike Slip
Click here to find out why the Pacific Plate is sub-ducting.
The difference between a fault and a plate boundary
A model that shows what happens when a fault forms due to the compressional forces from above and below which squeeze the rock and breaks it.
A reverse fault, much like the faults that formed most of Japan (not the plate boundary) forms when compressional forces squeeze the two blocks - that result in breaking the rock forming a fault.
Normal faults, like the Wasatch Fault, happen when tension pulls at the blocks and breaks the rock forming the fault.
A strike slip fault, like the San Andreas fault (which is a plate boundary) moves to the side relative to the other block instead of up and down.
Reverse Faulting from Compression
Normal Faulting from Tension
Photos of existing faults
Faults Forces & Energy
Faulting happens because of several forces at play. Those forces also relate to energy.
Forces involved:
Tension (Pull)
Compression (Push)
Friction & rock strength
Energy Involved:
Elastic Potential Energy converts to Mechanical Energy (Kinetic)
Tension and compression make up the stress along the fault. The fault is the plane of weakness
In order for an earthquake to occur, tensional and compressional forces must overcome frictional forces and the rocks rigidity - (or material strength).
In this video - notice how he describes how stress (tension and compression) must overcome frictional resistance in order to get an Earthquake. Also notice the blue region which is relaxed - low stress, and the red regions that are high stress.
Also note that when an earthquake occurs, the fault is ripped - in this case, the fault ripped up to 75 miles, and ripped at a speed of 5000 mph. That's a very fast rip!
I n class, I explain how this is very similar to a windshield crack and snapping your fingers.
Notice in this video - that once the area that is relieved, it puts more stress on adjacent areas that have not snapped yet. This is where future earthquakes occurred - much like a windshield crack happens in spurts instead of all at once.
Earthquakes & Seismic Waves:
Once an earthquake occurres, seismic waves are generated. Just like sound waves going through a medium, the ground moves both up and down, back and forth and side to side. Generally speaking, we have three seismographs at any location to pick up the three different directions.
In the old way of calculating magnitude, the height of the amplitude of the wave (up & down portion of the squiggly line) showed how large the earthquake was. Now they use more variables in their calculations. But, if in a perfect world, the further you move from the hypo-center, the wave gets less intense - much like the sound is very intense when you are near a loud speaker, and softer the further you move away from the speaker. This helps to explain why station 1 might experience higher amplitudes and 3 diminished amplitudes.
Below are video samples of how a wave might propogate throughout the world after an earthquake occurs.
Different Seismic Waves
Basically, there are two different types of body waves - or waves that travel through material, and two surface waves - or waves that travel only on the surface.
Body Waves:
P - Waves (Animation)
S - Waves (Animation)
Surface Waves:
Love Waves (Animation)
Rayleigh Wave (Animation)
Source: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/waves.html
How Seismic waves affect damage
This is a link that discusses how seismic waves damage buildings etc. (Earthquake Shaking)
How Earthquakes generate Tsunami's
Notice in this video how compressional forces of the Pacific Plate are pushing the overlying continental plate (i.e. like Japan). This pushing and subducting must overcome the frictional forces between the two. Once compression exceeds friction, slip happens and the water above is thrusted upwards - causing a huge wave to move outwards. This is how Japan's Tsunami was created.
Using Alaska's Earthquake to explain Japan's Earthquake
Why predicting is so difficult.
Predicting Earthquakes in relation to Japan's earthquakes
How earthquakes shape the earth over longer periods of time
When an earthquake happens, the land moves is small short bursts. Each time the crust moves due to the mantle moving below, when the crust above breaks and moves, that rumbling we call an earthquake.
A part of Japan, after its last earthquake, moved 8-12 ft eastward. If we were to view it from a distance - it wouldn't look like a lot of movement in a global perspective. However, if over the course of millions of years of earthquakes, you might see gradual fluid like motion of the plates and continents moving, like the animations show above.
Additional Supplemental Videos
PBS video on Plate Tectonics, "When plates collide" shows a great animation of what happens deep below.
Anchorage Alaska Earthquake
Seismograph animation through Norton
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Yahya Hassan mellem litterære strømninger
Larsen, P. S., 2020, In : SPRING - tidsskrift for moderne dansk litteratur. 47, p. 15-34 20 p., 2.
Yahya Hassan er et poetisk maskingevær: Yahya Hassan er tilbage med en forrygende digtsamling, der placerer ham som en lysende skikkelse i det danske poetiske landskab
Larsen, P. S., 9 Nov 2019, In : Kristeligt Dagblad. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Review
Ya Heard Me? Rhoticity in Post-Katrina New Orleans English
Schoux Casey, C., 31 May 2016, In : American Speech. 91, 2, p. 166-199
Rhotics
X-Y Converter Family: A New Breed of Buck Boost Converter for High Step-up Renewable Energy Applications
Bhaskar, M. S., Sanjeevikumar, P., Wheeler, P., Blaabjerg, F., Rivera, M. & Kulkarni, R. M., Dec 2016, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Automatica (ICA-ACCA), 2016. IEEE Press, 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
XVIIth Interntional Congress on Mathematical Physics
Jensen, A. (ed.), Oct 2013, Singapore: World Scientific. 744 p.
XVIIth international congress on mathematical physics: Aalborg, Denmark, 6-11 August 2012
Jensen, A., 1 Jan 2013, World Scientific Publishing Co. 724 p.
pulse detonation engines
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry characterization of aging effects on the mineral fibers treated with aminopropylsilane and quaternary ammonium compounds
Zafar, A., Schjødt-Thomsen, J., Sodhi, R., Goacher, R. & de Kubber, D., Jul 2012, In : Surface and Interface Analysis. 44, 7, p. 811-818 7 p.
X-ray microtomographis study of nanoclay-polypropylene foams
Ma, Y., Pyrz, R., Rodriguez-Perez, M. A., Escudero, J., Rauhe, J. C. M. & Su, X., 2011, In : Cellular Polymers. 30, 3, p. 95-110
X-ray CT-derived soil characteristics explain varying air, water, and solute transport properties across a loamy field
Paradelo Pérez, M., Katuwal, S., Møldrup, P., Nørgaard, T., Herath, L. & de Jonge, L. W., 2016, In : Vadose Zone Journal. 15, 4, 13 p.
soil transport processes
solute transport
X-radiation
X-ray CT and Laboratory Measurements on Glacial Till Subsoil Cores: assessment of inherent and compaction-affected soil structure characteristics
Lamande, M. A. M., Wildenschild, D., Berisso, F. E., Garbout, A., Marsh, M., Møldrup, P., Keller, T., Hansen, S. B., de Jonge, L. W. & Schjønning, P., 2013, In : Soil Science. 178, 7, p. 359-368 10 p.
glacial till
XPO1 expression worsens the prognosis of unfavorable DLBCL that can be effectively targeted by selinexor in the absence of mutant p53
Deng, M., Zhang, M., Xu-Monette, Z. Y., Pham, L. V., Tzankov, A., Visco, C., Fang, X., Bhagat, G., Zhu, F., Dybkaer, K., Chiu, A., Tam, W., Zu, Y., Hsi, E. D., Choi, W. W. L., Huh, J., Ponzoni, M., Ferreri, A. J. M., Møller, M. B., Parsons, B. M. & 9 others, van Krieken, J. H., Piris, M. A., Winter, J. N., Hagemeister, F., Alinari, L., Li, Y., Andreeff, M., Xu, B. & Young, K. H., 1 Dec 2020, In : Journal of Hematology & Oncology. 13, 1, 148.
KPT-330
Genetic Background
X-Parameter Based Modelling of Polar Modulated Power Amplifiers
Wang, Y., Nielsen, T. S., Sira, D., Jensen, O. K. & Larsen, T., 2013, In : IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation. 7, 14, p. 1161 - 1167
Scattering parameters
X Marks the Spot: Archives and the profanities of history
Heinsen, J., 2013, 12 p.
Xenon-Water Interaction in Bacterial Suspensions as Studied by NMR
Rodin, V., Ponomarev, A., Gerasimov, M. & Gurevich, L., 2017, In : International Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 5, 1, p. 26-36
nuclear magnetic resonance
xBreeze/ADL: A language for software architecture specification and analysis
Li, C., Yang, H. J., Shi, M. Y. & Zhu, W., 1 Dec 2016, In : International Journal of Automation and Computing. 13, 6, p. 552-564 13 p.
Xbox 360 Kinect cognitive games improve slowness, complexity of EEG, and cognitive functions in subjects with mild cognitive impairment: A randomized control trial
Amjad, I., Toor, H., Niazi, I. K., Pervaiz, S., Jochumsen, M., Shafique, M., Haavik, H. & Ahmed, T., 8 Apr 2019, In : Games for Health. 8, 2, p. 144-152 9 p.
Mental Status and Dementia Tests
Trail Making Test
X-Band Dual Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna With High Gain for Small Satellites
Squadrito, P., Zhang, S. & Pedersen, G. F., Jul 2019, In : IEEE Access. 7, p. 74925-74930 6 p., 8731947.
Small satellites
Circular polarization
X-band Antenna with Enhanced Gain and Sidelobe Suppression
Squadrito, P., Zhang, S. & Pedersen, G. F., 2019, 2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). IEEE, 4 p. 8739492
Acoustic impedance
X and Y Chromosome bearing sperm separation using “Allgrad®” density gradient in the buffalo
Afshani, M., Alipour, H., Rastegarnia, A. & Eftekhari-Yazdi, P., Jul 2011.
Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Poster › Research › peer-review
X2Q Your personal examplebased graph explorer
Lissandrini, M., Mottin, D., Velegrakis, Y. & Palpanas, T., 1 Jan 2018, In : Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 11, 12, p. 2026-2029 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article in Journal › Research › peer-review
WYSIWIB: Exploiting Fine-Grained Program Structure in a Scriptable API-Usage Protocol Finding Process
Lawall, J., Brunel, J. P. M., Palix, N. J-M., Hansen, R. R., Stuart, H. & Muller, G., Jan 2013, In : Software: Practice & Experience. 43, 1, p. 67-92
www.21century.dk: Læring for det 21. Århundrede
Gjedde, L., 1 Oct 2018
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research
Wurf.it: A Network Coding Reliable Multicast Content Streaming Solution: - ns-3 Simulations and Implementation
Hernandez, N., Pihl, J., Heide, J., Krigslund, J., Pedersen, M. V., Vingelmann, P., Roetter, D. E. L. & Fitzek, F. H. P., 16 Jun 2016. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper without publisher/journal › Research › peer-review
Network coding
Linear networks
WUppaal: A web-service for the Uppaal model-checker
Fogh, P., Cano Hald, T. & Nielsen, B., 11 Apr 2016, 2016 2nd International Workshop on Modelling, Analysis, and Control of Complex CPS (CPS Data). IEEE, p. 1-6 6 p.
Job shop scheduling
Formal verification
Cyber Physical System
WUPPAAL: Computation of Worst-Case Execution-Time for Binary Programs with UPPAAL
Cassez, F., Gonzalez de Aledo, P. & Jensen, P. G., 2017, Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools. Springer, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10460).
WT1 promotes cell proliferation in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines through up-regulating cyclin D1 and p-pRb in vitro and in vivo
Xu, C., Wu, C., Xia, Y., Zhong, Z., Liu, X., Xu, J., Cui, F., Chen, B., Røe, O. D., Li, A. & Chen, Y., 2013, In : PLOS ONE. 8, 8, p. e68837
Retinoblastoma Protein
cyclins
Cyclin D1
Written guidelines for decision making concerning the possible use of internal insulation in historic buildings
Blumberga, A. (ed.), Freimanis, R., Blumberga, D., Veidenbergs, I., de Place Hansen, E. J. (ed.), Hansen, T. K., Du, G., Stöcker, E., Sontag, H., Freudenberg, P., Janssen, H., Roels, S., di Giuseppe, E., D'Orazio, M., Gianangeli, A., Maracchini, G., Quagliarini, E., Møller, E. B., Capener, C-M., Lång, L. & 6 others, Johansson, P., Lasvaux, S., Giorgi, M., Favre, D., Padey, P. & Wagner, G., 30 Jun 2020, European Commission. 151 p.
Writing with resonance
Meier, N. & Wegener, C., 2017, In : Journal of Management Inquiry. 26, 2, p. 193-201 193 p.
Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education
Niedrig, H. (ed.) & Ydesen, C. (ed.), 2011, Peter Lang. 318 p.
Writing My Way Home
Wegener, C., 2018, Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research: In Praise of Detours. Wegener, C., Meier, N. & Maslo, E. (eds.). 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan, Vol. 1. p. 181- 191 10 p. (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture).
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Writing Game Journalism in School: Student Voices on Games and Game Culture
Hanghøj, T. & Nørgaard, J., 2019, Proceedings of the Connected Learning Summit 2018. Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press, p. 98-107
writing friends
Meier, N. & Wegener, C., 17 Nov 2016
Writing for Impact: How can we write about our research in a way that leads to meaningful change
Meier, N., 18 Apr 2016
Writing, catching the moment very raw
Wegener, C., 2018.
Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper without publisher/journal › Research
Wrist torque estimation during simultaneous and continuously changing movements: surface vs. untargeted intramuscular EMG
Kamavuako, E. N., Scheme, E. J. & Englehart, K. B., Jun 2013, In : Journal of Neurophysiology. 109, 11, p. 2658-2665
WP7 Design Tools for Wind Turbine Blades
Damkilde, L., 2016, Torsional Stiffening of Wind Turbine Blades – Mitigating leading edge damages: EUDP project 64013 - 0115 – Final report. Jensen, F. M. (ed.). Roskilde: Bladena, p. 70-79 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Report chapter › Research
WP4 CASE STUDY Report: Living Knowledge
Dorland, J. & Jørgensen, M. S., Nov 2016, Bæredygtig Design og Omstilling, Institut for Planlægnng, AAU. 81 p.
WP1 Development of New Standardization Process
Sørensen, J. D., 2016, Torsional Stiffening of Wind Turbine Blades – Mitigating leading edge damages: EUDP project 64013 - 0115 – Final report. Jensen, F. M. (ed.). Roskilde: Bladena, p. 13-25 13 p.
Wound Healing – A Proteomic Analysis of the Effect of Erythropoietin on Granulation Tissue Isolated from ePTFE Implants
Christensen, B., Koudahl, V., Honoré, B., Overgaard, J., Damsgaard, T. E. & Vorum, H., 2013, In : Archives of Clinical and Experimental Surgery . 3, 1, p. 26-33 8 p.
Worth, Wonder and Worry in the Accelerated Academy
Hoffmann Birk, R., 2018, Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research: In Praise of Detours. Wegener, C., Meier, N. & Maslo, E. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 93-102 9 p. (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture).
Worst-Case Traversal Time Modelling of Ethernet based In-Car Networks using Real Time Calculus
Revsbech, K., Schiøler, H., Madsen, T. K. & Nielsen, J. J., 2011, In : Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 6869/2011, p. 219-230 10 p.
Worst-Case Memory Consumption Analysis for SCJ
Andersen, J. L., Todberg, M., Dalsgaard, A. E. & Hansen, R. R., 2013, Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems . Association for Computing Machinery, p. 2-10 9 p. (Proceedings of the International Workshop of Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems).
Data storage equipment
Worse self-reported effectiveness of prophylactic amitriptyline treatment is associated with widespread pressure pain hyperalgesia in tension type headache
Palacios, M., Castaldo, M., Wang, K., Guerrero-Peral, A., Arendt-Nielsen, L. & Fernández-de-las-Peñas, C., 2018.
Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review
Worldwide overlook on the differences in child and adolescent psychiatry training program. Descriptive cross-sectional study based on early career pscyhiatrists' point of view
Gomez Alemany, T., Hansen, A. S. & Moscoso, A., 1 Apr 2019, In : European Psychiatry. 56, Suppl., p. S36 E-PP0146.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract in journal › Research › peer-review
Worldwide Differences in Regulations of Clozapine Use
Nielsen, J., Young, C., Ifteni, P., Kishimoto, T., Xiang, Y-T., Schulte, P. F. J., Correll, C. U. & Taylor, D., 2016, In : C N S Drugs. 30, 2, p. 149-161 13 p.
Formal Social Control
World War 1 - some economic aspects and considerations
Olesen, F., 2016, Department of Business and Management, 21 p. (Department of Business and Management Workling Paper Series; No. 3, 2016).
Research output: Working paper › Research › peer-review
World War 1 and the Chinese Revolution
Li, X., Nov 2018, World War 1: The Great War and its Impact. Dosenrode, S. (ed.). Aalborg Universitetsforlag, p. 265-290 25 p. (Studies in history, archives and cultural heritage).
World War 1: The Great War and its Impact
Dosenrode, S. (ed.), 2018, 1. online edition ed. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. 342 p. (Studier i historie, arkiver og kulturarv; No. 10).
World Poverty and Not Respecting Individual Freedom Enough
Sonderholm, J., 2011, In : Journal of Philosophical Research. 36, p. 209-218 10 p.
World poverty, positive duties and the over-demandingness objection
Sonderholm, J., 2013, In : Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
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Hook Jaw Net Radio’s “On Air with Robert & CC” will host a live interview with Blush, the newest international musical import, from PBR Rock Bar inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Friday, April 12 (Photo: © Scott Harrison/ RETNA/ www.harrisonphotos.com).
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SBA to Congress: Drop health care provision
By Alice Lipowicz
The Small Business Administration is urging Congress not to renew a provision in the fiscal 2005 Defense Appropriations Act related to small-business health care coverage for employees. SBA asserts that the Section 8014a provision harms the ability of small businesses to compete for Pentagon contracts.
Under the 8014a language, the Department of Defense may not hire a small business contractor if that contractor lowered the cost of its bid while either failing to provide health insurance to employees, or contributing less to employees' health insurance costs than does the Pentagon for its own civilians.
SBA Administrator Hector Barreto wrote a letter to Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, asking Lewis to oppose renewing the provision in the upcoming appropriations bill for the Pentagon for 2006.
"Its implementation will have the unintended consequence of limiting small businesses' ability to compete for DoD contracts, which make up the largest percentage of federal contracting opportunities," Barreto wrote.
Alice Lipowicz is a staff writer covering government 2.0, homeland security and other IT policies for Federal Computer Week.
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Ken Gemes and Andrew Huddlestone: Nietzsche
Bernard Williams, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religious Studies September 12, 2017 Leave a comment
Nietzsche in full swing
On the 12th September, the first Williams Project of this academic year was held in which Professor Ken Gemes and Dr Andrew Huddlestone of Birkbeck, University of London, came to talk about Nietzsche, a prominent German philosopher of the 19th century. Being the Bernard Williams Philosophy Lecture, we welcomed Patricia Williams, his widow, yet it was also special as it was the first of many more interactive seminars in which the audience were constantly questioning and participating in a discussion which was constantly interpreting what the philosopher means.
The talk began with a reading from ‘The Gay Science’ on the madman and whether ‘God is dead’ – with ‘God’ referring to the idea of god, religion and morality and whether we have some morals and human values left in this westernized modern world. This encouraged further questions of “How does the madman react to the death of God?” and “How did the marketplace folk, the non-believers, react to the madman’s whimsical nonsense?”. More importantly, the passage describes us as the murderers of God, which invites us to ask “What do we do now if there are no more Christian values? Do we create our own or is the madman merely a madman and we should ignore him? Do we need these old values in such a new society?” The discussion only developed further into ideas and many questions regarding nihilism and also the personal and political beliefs of Nietzsche – an atheist!
Overall, this talk was incredibly engaging – allowing the audience to question what the ‘death of God’ means to them, and serves as a great introduction to a year of Williams Project sessions.
Adam Goriparthi
Mr Chaudhary: God – the ultimate reality
Mathematics, Religious Studies, Science June 6, 2017 Leave a comment
On Tuesday the 6th of June, Mr Chaudhary, one of Chigwell’s maths teachers, gave a talk on “God – the ultimate reality”. First, he took measurements of a student in “good proportion” and pointed out similarities. Then he started with the human embryo and how the embryo develops, then showed a sentence in the Quran that also explains the human embryo and how accurate it was. He showed us another quote in the Quran which tells us that two seas never meet, and then showed us a video of two seas that don’t mix. He then shows some more believable facts that God exists. Finally Mr Chaudhary was asked questions with the hope of proving him wrong, but he stood his ground and answered them in detail.
Sulaymaan Khan
Clare Bodalbhai and Amelia Hart: Death Café
Life, Psychology, Religious Studies October 11, 2016 Leave a comment
Death is a taboo subject, and on 11th October Clare Bodalbhai and Amelia Hart came to Chigwell School and set up a death café to have open conversations in small groups about something that people usually shy away from talking about. With tea and cake to normalise the conversation and to open up the atmosphere, the death café posed questions about death that most people do not think about. What kind of music would you want played at your funeral? How do other traditions and cultures deal with death? Who would you want at your funeral? The café gave people an opportunity to openly express themselves; be they facing fears, or overcoming grief.
Richard Maynes: Was Jesus a Historical figure?
History, Mathematics, Religious Studies June 14, 2016 Leave a comment
On Tuesday 14th June, Maths teacher Mr Maynes delivered the arguments from Richard Carrier about the likelihood of Jesus existing as a historical figure. He analysed the wide historical context and different kinds of evidence using Bayes’ theorem – a mathematical tool used to assess probability. He explored evidence against Jesus, such as how his story isn’t the first of its kind, and how scholars who wrote the Bible were aware of the kinds of similar tales (such as that of Romulus) which have not been proved to be real. Moreover, he addressed the issue of discrepancies surrounding how the dates of kings with whom Jesus interacted don’t all match up with the dates Jesus supposedly existed in. As well as this, he posed the possibility of Jesus being created as a human figure solely to strengthen the control of the church. Mr Maynes claimed that even Biblical scriptures cannot be seen as totally reliable since many allegedly forged letters have been entered under the name of St Paul. He then combined the evidence he had researched, using Bayes’ theorem to conclude that there was a 17% chance that Jesus existed.
Mr Maynes delivered an interesting, coherent talk which was easy to follow and made some controversial claims, sparking debate, particularly in the claim made that the book of Acts cannot be trusted as a source at all because the book is, allegedly!, a myth.
Olivia Mendel Portnoy
P.S. Peter Walling, OC and former WP speaker, read this post and kindly sent the Library a copy of Bart Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist?. Ehrman, an agnostic, argues against the claims made Richard Carrier and others that Jesus probably never existed. The book is in the Library.
Mr S. Goodfellow and colleagues: “P4C”
Biology, Medicine, Mental health, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies May 13, 2014 Leave a comment
Chigwell’s philosopher-in-chief and four Remove students (Adam Goriparthi, Max Humphreys, Tom Lockley and Michael Newman) led the Williams Project in a demonstration of the P4C (Philosophy for Children) method. We watched a ‘stimulus’ video about a near-death experience, in small groups generated questions we’d like to discuss, voted on the two we’d like to consider in more depth, and then had an open discussion on these two. Our two chosen questions were: “Can near-death experiences be medically explained?” and “If there were such a thing as life after death, why would there be life after death?”.
A really interesting afternoon. Mr Goodfellow’s P4C club will restart in September (Tuesdays of Week A, 4:15, RS1).
Mr S. Chaudhary: “God’s Golden Ratio”
Art, Astronomy, Biology, Mathematics, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Science June 18, 2013 Leave a comment
Our Head of Maths, Mr Chaudhary, gave us a vastly wide-ranging and heartfelt exposition of the centrality of the ratio φ (“phi”) in the universe and the human body, and what that centrality meant.
He showed that the ratio (see above, equivalent to 1:1.618…, which is, uniquely, the same as 0.618…:1) lies behind the Fibonacci sequence, which we see in so many growth patterns in animals and plants, as well as in the relationship between a myriad of measurements of the human body. It’s also one of the commonest principles in the way we perceive beauty: painters place horizons at it.
Mr Chaudhary argued that the odds of this one ratio being at the centre of so much were virtually nil, and so it is convincing evidence of divine design behind creation. He showed us verses from the Quran which point out that God has designed the universe in a way whereby we can detect, even deduce, his hand.
Universal Laws and the Golden Ratio
15 Uncanny examples in nature
Disputed observations (Wikipedia)
Amia Srinivasan: the nature of moral truth
Philosophy, Religious Studies January 23, 2013 Leave a comment
On Tuesday 22nd January Amia visited us from All Souls College Oxford, where she’s studying for a D.Phil. on issues in epistemology, ethics and meta-philosophy. She spoke to two full WP meetings about whether moral truths actually exist – whether there is an objective right or wrong (the Realist position), or whether right and wrong is ultimately a matter of what we humans believe (Anti-realism); is moral opinion the same kind of thing as an opinion on whether celery tastes nice, or is it more than that?
Using question-and-answer, and audience votes, she skilfully exposed the inconsistencies in our thinking: Realists have the luxury of being able to condemn unequivocally outrages like the Holocaust, but, unless they are religious, have problems explaining where they get their universal moral truths from; anti-Realists sit happy in a materialist, Darwinian universe, but aren’t able fully to condemn horrible crimes like the recent rape on a bus in Delhi. We concluded that most of us are inconsistent: in moments of reflection we tend to think we are Anti-realists, but when we live our lives and read the paper we seem to be Realists. She patiently explained that this presents us with a problem.
The conversation continued over food, and back at Sandon Lodge with a small group of philosophical VIth formers.
Toby Houlton: Shrunken heads
Anthropology, Geography, History, Religious Studies, Science January 8, 2013 Leave a comment
For the first WP meeting of 2013, Toby Houlton, an Old Chigwellian studying for a doctorate at the University of Dundee, told us about shrunken heads – tsantsa: who produced them, how and why. We learnt about the tribes in Peru and Ecuador where these customs arose, and the religious beliefs behind the custom. Most cultures preserve their own dead and try and erase the memory of their enemies; these SAAWK tribes did the opposite, as they believed that new members of a tribe could only be born if their dead were completely forgotten. Thus they erased all memory of their own ancestors, but preserved the heads of their enemies. They also believed that the enemy’s spirit could come out of his mouth to haunt them, hence the stitching up of this orifice. Toby explained how the heads were shrunk – basically by taking off the skin and chemically hardening it – and made to look stupid by pushing back the nostrils and pulling out the lips. We passed round a pig’s head which Toby, to prove that he understood the method, had shrunk himself.
He then told us about how colonialism had distorted the system: because Europeans were keen to possess tsantsa, the tribes actually went out hunting enemies just to fuel this export market. Europeans also made versions themselves, sometimes to sell as ‘the real thing’. It’s now been banned, so the practice has stopped.
A brilliantly delivered and fascinating account of something everyone has heard about but knows little of.
Nigel Warburton: Moral Luck – an Oxymoron?
Bernard Williams, Philosophy, Religious Studies September 11, 2012 Leave a comment
On Tuesday September 11th we were lucky to have with us Bernard Williams’ widow Patricia, as well as the well-known philosopher Nigel Warburton, who spoke to the WP on “Moral Luck: an Oxymoron?”. Nigel’s point was that we often surprise ourselves by blaming people for being unlucky: his main example was that of a speeding driver who runs someone over – the driver is surely unlucky if someone runs out in front of her, and yet we feel she deserves a harsher sentence than if she’d been lucky and no one had been hurt. We somehow feel that the harm done by one’s actions ought to feature in the calculation of a fair punishment, regardless of the amount of control the person had over their actions. It was a really clear and interesting presentation, and Nigel was particularly impressed with the contributions from the younger pupils, which he said were better than those of many undergraduates. The conversation continued into the evening.
OneVoice: Israel and Palestine
Ethics, Geography, History, Politics, Religious Studies November 8, 2011 Leave a comment
Shir and Thuraya, from the OneVoice movement, shared their personal experiences as young Israeli and Palestinian women growing up in the conflict. Their moving testimony shocked us, and brought home to us how different and difficult life in such circumstances must be. Their proposal of a two-state solution, and their rejection of violence, was put with articulacy and conviction, and led to a very interesting discussion.
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by Bob Kuntz
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Fidalgo Island is perhaps best known as the home of the Anacortes Ferry Terminal—the jumping-off place for the San Juan Islands and Victoria, British Columbia. Birding cognoscenti, however, recognize the island as a fine and varied birding destination in its own right. Any or all of the sites described here are often included on a visit to Whidbey Island or to the Skagit and Samish Flats.
SWINOMISH SLOUGHS
Go 2.6 miles west on SR-20 from the traffic light at Bay View-Edison Road (north side of SR-20; south side is La Conner-Whitney Road). This intersection is also known as Farmhouse Inn corner. This will take you across the Swinomish (pronounced SWIN-ih-mish) Channel bridge onto Fidalgo Island. You are now on the Swinomish Indian Reservation. Turn right at the exit for March Point and then immediately right again onto Casino Road. At 0.1 mile you can pull off on the left (north) side of the road along Swinomish Slough, best viewed at low tide, to look for Semipalmated Plover, both species of yellowlegs, and other shorebirds. Return to a stop sign, turn right, and continue 0.8 mile to a sign reading Casino Road. Turn right onto this road (called East March Point Road on some maps), cross the railroad track, and pull off immediately on the right to check the several dredge-spoil islands, home to a colony of Glaucous-winged Gulls. Caspian Terns are regular summer visitors.
MARCH POINT AND FIDALGO BAY
A peninsula between Fidalgo and Padilla Bays, March Point is home to two major oil refineries. The tank farms and cracking towers at your back form an odd contrast with the spectacular natural scenery of Padilla Bay, Mount Baker, and the Cascades. Drive up the road along the eastern shoreline to the tip of the point, pulling off when there’s an open view to scope the waters. Loons, grebes, cormorants, and several species of diving ducks are common here, especially from November through April. March Point is a good place to view Gray-bellied Brant (see also page 114). Check the refinery piers for Black Turnstones. Black Scoter is rare in Fidalgo Bay; Sanderling, American Pipit, and Snow Bunting are occasionally observed on the pebbly beaches. Continuing around the point, West March Point Road completes the loop back south to SR-20 in 5.7 miles.
Turn right and continue west about one-half mile. Here SR-20 turns left (south) toward Deception Pass and Whidbey Island. Stay straight onto SR-20 Spur, travel 2.7 miles, enter the roundabout, and turn right onto Commercial Avenue (SR-20 Spur). Continue into the Anacortes business district. At 1.2 miles, turn left with SR-20 Spur onto 12th Street.
MOUNT ERIE
If you are tempted by a panoramic view of the entire area covered by this chapter, with some good forest-birding possibilities thrown into the bargain, an excursion to Mount Erie will well repay the one-hour round trip. (To maximize your investment, choose a sunny day.) After heading west on 12th Street from Commercial Avenue, in 0.8 mile turn left onto D Avenue. This arterial jogs right, then left, becoming A Avenue. In 1.9 miles, turn left (east) from A Avenue onto 41st Street, then right in another 0.5 mile onto H Avenue, which continues south as Heart Lake Road. After passing Heart Lake on your right, turn left in 1.4 miles at the sign for Mount Erie Viewpoint. The 1.8-mile road through 1,400-acre Mount Erie Park ends at the 1,273-foot summit. Along the way, species to look for are similar to those for the wooded habitats of Washington Park (see below). There are four vista points, and by visiting each one you can see south the length of Whidbey Island and Puget Sound to Mount Rainier in the distance; southwest to the Olympic Mountains and the Strait of Juan de Fuca; northwest and north across Rosario Strait to the San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island, and the Coast Mountains of British Columbia; and east to the Cascades, Mount Baker, and the Skagit and Samish Flats.
Return to the intersection of D Avenue and 12th Street, turning left onto 12th Street, which soon becomes Oakes Avenue. In 2.3 miles, at a right turn for the ferry terminal, continue straight ahead on Sunset Avenue to the entrance to Washington Park (0.6 mile), an excellent seabird viewing site from late September through mid-April. The one-way, two-mile loop road through this popular park starts just past the camping area. If you are driving, pull off on the left at Green Point, about 0.7 mile from the park entrance, to scope Rosario Strait and the west entrance to Guemes Channel. Note: the loop road is reserved for walkers, runners, and bicyclists up to 10AM, when it opens to automobile traffic. Naturally, the best viewing times are from early to mid-morning before the crowds arrive and with the sun at your back. At these times, the third-to-half-mile walk to Green Point from the parking area is worth the small effort. Take your scope. Three species of loons (Red-throated, Pacific, and Common) and three of grebes (Horned, Red-necked, and Western) are seasonally common, as are Common Murres, Pigeon Guillemots, and Marbled Murrelets. Rhinoceros Auklets are present in large numbers from July through October. In November and December, this is a good location to seek Ancient Murrelets. Harlequin Ducks and Black Oystercatchers are frequently seen along the rocky shoreline. At dawn, hundreds of Brandt’s, Double-crested, and Pelagic Cormorants move up Rosario Strait to feeding areas.
Another good pullout is 0.2 mile ahead. Farther along the loop road (0.3 mile), a set of stairs leads to a rocky beach and more oystercatchers. The road weaves its way through a typical low-elevation forest of Western Hemlock, Douglas-fir, and Pacific Madrone—the beautiful understory tree with old, red peeling bark and young, smooth chartreuse bark. Stop often to walk the numerous trails, looking and listening for year-round resident species such as Red-breasted Sapsucker, Hutton’s Vireo, Steller’s Jay, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Pacific and Bewick’s Wrens, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Spotted Towhee, and Purple Finch. During migration and summer these may be joined by Rufous Hummingbird, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Black-throated Gray and Townsend’s Warblers, and Western Tanager. The loop road ends back at the main parking and picnic areas.
SHIP HARBOR INTERPRETIVE PRESERVE
From the end of the loop road, drive out of the park along Sunset Avenue 0.7 mile to a stop light (Sunset ends here). From the stop light continue straight ahead on Oakes Avenue (SR-20 Spur) for 0.5 mile and turn left onto Ship Harbor Boulevard (Glasgow Way on some maps). In 200 yards turn left at the T-intersection onto Clipper Drive, which becomes Edwards Way. Follow Edwards Way downhill 0.2 mile, where it dead-ends at a cul de sac parking area.
A paved section of the Guemes Channel trail extends east approximately one mile along Guemes Channel and provides opportunities to view loons, grebes, cormorants, a variety of waterfowl, and Pigeon Guillemot. This trail section is wheelchair accessible with trailside interpretive signs. Better birding can be experienced along the trail going west leading into Ship Harbor Interpretive Preserve. This trail leads to a boardwalk suspended over a wetland with multiple observation platforms and beach access. The trail ends at the ferry terminal, approximately 0.2 mile from where you parked.
Within the preserve you can see a seasonal variety of waterfowl (among others, Eurasian and American Wigeons, Cinnamon Teal, Long-tailed Duck, both goldeneyes, Hooded Merganser) and gulls (Bonaparte’s, Heermann’s, Mew, Thayer’s, Glaucous-winged) as well as Virginia Rail, Sora, Anna’s Hummingbird, Violet-green Swallow, Marsh Wren, and Common Yellowthroat. Look in the saltwater channel for scoters, loons (Yellow-billed recorded), grebes, cormorants, and Pigeon Guillemot. A highlight is a colony of Purple Martins that nest in the boxes provided; Osprey are also found nesting on the platforms at this site.
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City Recreation
General Election: November 3, 2020
Absentee/early voting is happening now at Waconia City Hall for City of Waconia residents!
For the General Election, absentee/early voting is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday starting September 18 and going through November 2. The City will also be open extended hours for voting on the following dates:
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Local, state, and national elections are held in even-numbered years. On election day, all polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The City of Waconia is divided into 2 wards, please view the polling places listed below. If you are unsure of the ward in which you reside, please consult the City of Waconia Ward Boundary Map below or visit the Secretary of State’s website.
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Bernard Kincel
Bernard E Kincel served his country in World War II with the 461st Bombardment Group .
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Oh what a lovely war is a very comical play showing World War 1 in a satirical context which is the exact opposite of Dulce et decorum which is very realistic and shows the real horror of world war 1. both of these ways of portraying a play have their advantages and their disadvantages. Oh what a lovely war is played so that people will remember the war in a fond way and not of its real horror. This both have good and bad sides; the good side is that the war will not be as heavy on the minds of the people that have just watched the play.But the bad side of this way of acting is that the war would be remembered not as it actually was and the people that died in this war would not be appreciated as much as they should. This is the exact opposite of realism which does show the real horror of the war in dulce et decorum.
This also has its good and bad sides. The good side is that people would actually know what happened in the war and what the soldiers had to go through.But again the bad side is that it would not be suitable for some audience’s i. . small children. Both ways of portraying war do have their advantages and disadvantages to certain audiences. As long as they’re both shown in moderation the war and many other events will be remembered correctly. For this play we used a completely different way of portraying the war by showing it in realism.
This shows what actually happens in a scene in real life. For the war we used the same drama elements that we used for oh what a lively war but used them to portray the war in a realistic sense.We used movement to portray how tired the soldiers are after marching for miles and putting certain acts in slow motion to show climax and how the soldiers cant cope with the action. We also used some drama mediums by not making any noise when a soldier was dying to clearly mark to the audience that this was a point of climax. Music and sound was a big part of this piece because the hall echoed and doubled the effect of it, we used this and put a backing track dimly in the background while we read the poem and done the actions.All of these techniques again made the play better to watch. Drama mediums, elements and explorative strategies helped to enhance the dramatic meaning of the poem by putting more emphasize into the play and making all of the audiences senses active and stimulating there brain to think about what is happening around them and over stimulating them to make them blown away by the act.
The three types of drama that we have been studying this term are very different and put across different massages for the same type of event.Satirical shows the funny and comical side of things while making a point in-between the lines, realism shows the actual horror of the event and make the audience really think about what they are seeing and the point behind it. In oh what a lovely war the caricature exaggerates his movements in voice and body to emphasise a characteristic.
They do this by making everything they do over the top, which is like slapstick comedy. We done this by making our song sung in a very deep voice and lengthened the words to make it more satirical, this then made the play more enjoyable to watch.We also added Bertolt Brecht theory of making the audience distanced from the action on stage so that it would not get emotionally involved with the characters and the action, this made him a theatre practitioner and changed the way drama is today. We did this in our play of oh what a lovely war by me changing my hat every time I changed from a German soldier to an English soldier, using this method it distanced the audience from the character and broke the illusion of theatre.This added spas to the performance, this is where an audience learns something important through humour i. e.
that German and British soldiers stopped fighting on Christmas day and gave each other presents. To rehearse for a section of oh what a lovely war we used drama elements. We done this by doing some ensemble work where we worked together as a group of actors in singing a song we needed synchronisation to create a strong dramatic effect with a comic affect. To do this we needed rhythm pace and tempo to make sure all of our voices were in the same time.We also synchronised our movement’s mimes and gestures i. e.
holding our stomachs when we laughed. We also used symbolic elements by using the projector to show an image of war at Christmas with all of the troops round a Christmas tree, this again reflected the message behind the play. We also added drama mediums to our rehearsal period; we used music and sound to play at the beginning and end of the performance to get the audience in the right mood for the play.We also used lighting in our performance to highlight that the trenches were dark and muggy; this again portrayed more information to the audience without them even knowing it. All the rehearsal work that we done did add effect to the performance by giving it an atmosphere and making all of the comic and dramatic tension work.
These again added to the dramatic effect by making the audience in the right mood for the play and setting them up for the satirical performanceLooking back and evaluating my work I think that we done well enough to make the play satirical by using all of the drama elements that we had rehearsed earlier I the term. This made the play more interesting and distanced the audience from the concept and horrors of war by showing the funny side of it and using one of brechts theory’s to provoke the audience into thinking about the point of war and its futility, this makes the audience sit back and think about the other side of war and what it is worth for anyone which was the point of the play in the first place.
The changing tradition of war poetry
The way two poems by Wilfred Owen show the real horrors of war
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Highest Paying Hobbies
Jobs in the Arts
By Kate Stepanski
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As you participate in a hobby, years pass -- suddenly you are an expert. Perhaps you discover you are even more proficient at the hobby than your desk job because your hobby is driven by passion. The silver lining about hobbies is that once enjoyment and skill synchronize, the favorite pastime is an investment; it's a door to future freedom from the corporate world or a dull retirement. It turns out the weekend tinkering that enthralls you may be of value to other people.
You could be on to something with those handmade snowflake ornaments. Make art for fun and voila, you have an inventory for a small business. The start-up costs can be minimal, especially if you make recycled and found-art pieces. In her book "The Handmade Marketplace," marketing mentor Kari Chapin recommends starting an annual craft fair if one does not exist in your town. Earnings at holiday fairs can range from nothing to thousands in a single day. Other options include selling through the Internet with a site like Etsy. It is not uncommon for artists and crafters to decide to quite their day jobs to pursue art full-time.
The ability to redo a bathroom tile job or clean the gutters pays off. Average house visit rates for electricians, carpenters and plumbers are often $100 or more, plus an hourly rate and the cost of parts and a parts run. By being able to do a repair yourself, you save the house call fee and hourly rates. Playing Mr. or Ms. Fix It has the potential to save a family thousands a year. Handy homeowners have the ability to take out owner work permits on their properties and boost their equity at a steep discount.
The hobby of entering sweepstakes and contests offers extra income opportunities for free. In "You Can't Win if You Don't Enter," contest expert Barb Taylor describes how she enters 200 to 300 contests a year, earning an annual average of $10,000 in vacations and other prizes. Taylor's first score was a radio contest; entering local contests through radio stations and shopping malls increases your chances of winning since there are stricter eligibility guidelines with fewer entrants.
That vintage sports car hiding out under a layer of dust in your garage could be a treasure trove. According to Jy Murphy of "Popular Mechanics," the 1986, 1987, and 1988 Chevy Sprint and 1986 and 1987 Honda Civic vehicles both had over 50 mpg for highway driving. With rising fuel prices, restored economy cars have a demand. European automakers have been making fuel-efficient vehicles available in the foreign markets for decades; salvage a classic import for a few hundred dollars, purchase or pull parts, and watch the investment multiply into the tens of thousands. There is also a market for mechanics who can place hybrid and electric engines into retro vehicles.
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Kate Stepanski has been a professional writer since 2006. Her writing has appeared in media outlets like "The Oakland Tribune," “Mun2," “Not For Tourists," “Burner Magazine” and “San Francisco Bay Guardian." She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from San Francisco State University.
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WSTale » Science » More Mammals Are Hiding Their Secret Glow
More Mammals Are Hiding Their Secret Glow
mediabest December 18, 2020 mammalTasmanian Dultraviolet
Were platypuses just the beginning?
In October, researchers reported that the already perplexing animals fluoresce a psychedelic blue-green color under black light. The species joined a short list of mammals known to do this, including opossums and flying squirrels.
Since the study came out, others have begun their own investigations, mostly in Australian mammals. Although results are preliminary, the findings suggest we may have to book a larger venue for the mammal rave.
When he heard about the platypus discovery, Kenny Travouillon, curator of mammals at the Western Australian Museum, borrowed a black light lamp from the arachnology department. (They normally use the lamps to find scorpions, which also fluoresce.)
After confirming that their preserved platypuses glowed, he and his colleagues moved on to the rest of the collection. “We just went around for a bit of fun,” he said. “Putting the torch on all of them and let’s have a look.”
This was only a first pass. Fluorescence occurs when pigments in certain materials absorb ultraviolet rays, which are usually invisible to people, and re-emit them as colors that we can see. Black light lamps and flashlights soak these pigments with UV rays and cause them to glow — but they often emit visible light as well, which can muddy the waters. More rigorous studies involve filtering out this visible light, and measuring the fluorescence’s true strength and color.
But what they saw was encouraging. Bilbies — endangered marsupials with long snouts and rabbit-like ears — had orange and green accents. The quills of hedgehogs, porcupines and echidnas shone bright white, as if dipped in correction fluid.
Some specimens were more reserved: Of two wombat species they examined, only one fluoresced, and “kangaroos didn’t seem to do very much at all,” Dr. Travouillon said. The museum plans to team up with a nearby university to do a more systematic study, with better equipment, early next year.
Live animals are also being tested.
When a co-worker told Jake Schoen, a conservation technician at the Toledo Zoo the platypus news, “we got pretty excited about it,” he said. He had already modified a camera to photograph fluorescence for another project. After checking out the zoo museum’s own preserved platypus specimen, Mr. Schoen next turned his lens on the Tasmanian devils, Spiderman and Bubbles.
“The tricky part was having them sit still for a fraction of a second,” he said. Eventually, Bubbles cooperated. When the UV flash went off, voilá: A cool blue glow emerged around her eyes, at the bases of her whiskers, and inside the cups of her ears.
“Presumably all of its skin is fluorescent,” Mr. Schoen said. The portrait he captured looks a bit like a velvet painting. Preserved Tasmanian devils at the Western Australian Museum glowed in a similar way, Dr. Travouillon said.
What do the scientists who found that platypuses glow think? “These observations are exciting,” said Erik Olson, an associate professor of natural resources at Northland College in Ashland, Wis., and one of the authors of the platypus paper. “I encourage folks to document such observations of biofluorescence within the scientific literature so that others can build upon their work.”
Others say it’s easy to read too much into these findings.
While looking at photos of animals with Day-Glo fur or skin gives the impression that perhaps they appear this way to one another, that’s very unlikely, said Michael Bok, a visual systems biologist at Lund University in Sweden who was not involved in any of this research. “It would be incredibly surprising,” he said, if these animals “could make out these fluorescent patterns in any sort of natural lighting environment.” He compares it to human fingernails and teeth — biological materials that also fluoresce, to little fanfare or avail.
In a 2017 paper, two biologists reviewed hundreds of known examples of fluorescing birds, plants, crustaceans and other organisms, and found only a few cases where these patterns might play a role in camouflage, mate attraction or other behaviors.
Mr. Schoen and others at the Toledo Zoo hope to work with contacts at the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program to potentially “tease out whether or not this is actually an ecologically adaptive trait,” he said.
In the meantime, he is heartened that his photo has increased public interest in Tasmanian devils. Some people have written online that they “didn’t even know that it was a real animal,” he said.
Its fluorescence “may just be a coincidence,” he said. “But it’s certainly a lot of fun.”
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Download Microsoft Excel Viewer Execution Date The date a contract was signed by a State authority. Under New York State Public Authorities Law, contracts submitted to the Comptroller's Office for filing must be received within 60 days of execution. Filed SA Eligible - New This transaction type denotes a new State authority eligible contract that was filed by OSC. Filed SA Eligible – Amendment This transaction type denotes a State authority eligible contract amendment that was filed by OSC where the original contract was previously filed or approved by OSC. Filed SA Eligible – Amendment - No Original This transaction type denotes a State authority eligible contract amendment that was filed by OSC where the original contract was not required to be filed or approved by OSC. Filed SA Exempt – Amendment This transaction type denotes a State authority exempt contract amendment that was filed by OSC where the original contract was previously filed or approved by OSC. Filed SA Exempt – Amendment - No Original This transaction type denotes a State authority exempt contract amendment that was filed by OSC where the original contract was not required to be filed or approved by OSC. Filed SA Exempt – New This transaction type denotes a new State authority exempt contract that was filed by OSC. Original Contract Approved/Filed Date For contracts subject to the Comptroller’s approval, the date the contract was approved by the Comptroller; and for State authority contracts subject to filing requirements, the date the contract was filed with the Office of the State Comptroller. The approved/filed date can come after the contract start date. SA Eligible Contract A State authority contract with an anticipated contract value exceeding $1 million that is paid partially or totally from moneys appropriated by the State or was awarded noncompetitively. SA Exempt Contract A State authority contract that is exempt from the Comptroller's review under New York State Public Authorities Law Section 2879-a(3). Spending to Date The amount the State has paid to date to the Vendor under the contract. State Agency The name associated with state government entities including state agencies and certain departments, offices, boards, commissions, divisions and councils. State Authority The name associated with public authorities or public benefit corporations created by New York State law, other than an interstate or international authority, with at least one member appointed by the governor or who serves as a member by virtue of holding a civil office of the State. Transaction Amount The dollar value of a contract or a contract amendment. The amount can be a negative number if the agency reduced a previously approved contract amount. It can also be zero if an amendment changes the end date but not the contract amount. Transaction Approved/Filed Date The date the transaction was approved by the Comptroller's Office or the date that a State authority contract was filed with the Office of the State Comptroller when the contract is subject to filing requirements. Transaction Type A converted contract, a new contract, a contract amendment, or, in the case of State Authorities, the filing of a new contract or contract amendment.
A converted contract is a contract that was approved before April 1, 2012 and has been transferred to the new Statewide Financial System now in use for all financial information. A converted contract combines information for both the original contract and any amendments to the original contract approved prior to April 1, 2012. Amendments after this date for converted contracts are displayed separately on the Open Book website. Detail about converted contracts prior to April 1, 2012 can be requested by contacting OSC. Vendor Any entity, which may be an individual, business, not-for-profit organization, or government agency, that provides goods or services. Vendors that had an approved/filed contract with an authority. Vendor Name The legal or common name of the vendor that has entered into a contract with the State. You will only find vendors that have at least one approved contract. Download to an Excel Spreadsheet If you are unable to open the spreadsheet, please click the link below to download a free Microsoft Excel viewer and follow the installation instructions on Microsoft's website.
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Original Contract Approved/Filed Date between 01/01/2019 and 12/31/2019
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Current Contract Amount
Spending to Date
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Original Contract Approved/Filed Date
LARGE PUBLIC POWER COUNCIL Long Island Power Authority OP000005
01/01/2019 12/31/2019 Membership Dues for 2019 Service - Other/ Misc. Services 01/09/2019
AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOC Long Island Power Authority OP000004
PARKS RECREATION & HISTORIC PRESERVATION Long Island Power Authority C000947
02/14/2019 06/30/2021 Cost Sharing Agreement Nature & Energy Center Design & Construction Phases Jones Beach State park Inter-government - Other 03/12/2019
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK NA Long Island Power Authority C000942
03/23/2019 03/22/2022 Revolving Credit Agreement - $200,000,000 commitment; $32,100,000 interest and fees Service - Banking 03/06/2019
NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Long Island Power Authority X000828
09/13/2019 06/30/2022 Funding a Collaborative Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Program Revenue Generating - Other 09/13/2019
NIXON PEABODY LLP Long Island Power Authority C000950
03/29/2019 12/19/2022 Legal Services - Disclosure Counsel Services Consultant - Legal Services 06/28/2019
EDGEWOOD ENERGY LLC Long Island Power Authority X000072
07/25/2002 10/31/2023 Renewal Parcel A-1 21 Sagtikos Parkway Islip Suffolk County Revenue Generating - Property Lease 06/06/2019
ERNST & YOUNG US LLP Long Island Power Authority C000944
02/20/2019 02/19/2024 Strategic Planning Consulting Services Consultant - Information And Technology Solutions And Services 02/20/2019
RICOH USA INC Long Island Power Authority C000948
06/12/2019 06/11/2024 Data Center Colocation Services Equipment - IT Hardware/ Software 05/30/2019
MOHANTY GARGIULO LLC Long Island Power Authority C000946
07/01/2019 06/30/2024 Swap Advisory Services Consultant - Audit, Accounting, Actuarial And Related Services 03/13/2019
PFM FINANCIAL ADVISORS LLC Long Island Power Authority C000945
07/01/2019 06/30/2024 Financial Advisory Services Consultant - Audit, Accounting, Actuarial And Related Services 03/13/2019
KPMG LLP Long Island Power Authority C000952
10/01/2019 09/30/2024 Internal Financial Audit Services Consultant - Audit, Accounting, Actuarial And Related Services 11/01/2019
NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Long Island Power Authority C000951
04/01/2019 03/31/2029 Purchase of ZECs from NYSERDA - Tranches 2-6 Commodity - Energy Products 07/18/2019
WELLS FARGO BANK N A Long Island Power Authority C000953
09/01/2022 09/01/2029 Interest rate swap agreement for 2012 Series bonds Service - Banking 12/30/2019
CITIBANK NA Long Island Power Authority C000954
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Geraldton Travel Guide: Arts and culture
By Stephen Scourfield
Travel Editor
West Travel Club & The West Australian
Geraldton arts workers have come up with an exciting way to draw the crowds.
Eve York’s idea for a speed-dating night at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery was a great success. About 50 people came, young men staying beside a particular artwork which they’d got to know a bit about, and the women moving on after a chat. The artwork was the conversation starter.
“People just said ‘Do it again, do it again’,” Eve says.
And so Eve, the co-ordinator gallery and cultural development of Geraldton Regional Art Gallery (“in short, A Great Boss” say her colleagues) did.
This time they staged a speed-dating night for people age 45-60, and 25 came.
Then the request came from seniors. “What about us?”
And so the third speed-dating night is for people aged over 60. Some of them have asked for “slow dating”, confides Eve. “It’s good fun, too.”
That it might be, but the objective is to encourage people who might not normally visit the gallery to think of it as an active and welcoming space — their space.
And Eve is not alone in pouring energy, ideas and vigour into the city.
With an exhibition of Julie Dowling’s work at Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Eve York, Marnie Douglas and Ellen Norrish. Picture: Stephen Scourfield
With her is gallery officer Ellen Norrish, who has just shown me through the behind-the-scenes collection and infected me with her pep.
And in comes Marnie Douglas, the city’s arts and cultural development officer, who’s been busy running street art and art bollard projects, curating the Art Drive, and is full of more ideas. “Bins.” Bins? A competition to design artwork for wheelie bins may be next.
This happy threesome ooze verve and harmony.
“And we all came in at the same time,” says Eve, confident at the helm. While she grew up in the Wheatbelt, Marnie is local and Ellen has come from Perth.
“It’s been so exciting coming to the town. I haven’t had a bad coffee since I’ve been here and haven’t given up my brunches,” she says.
“Geraldton’s full of surprises — in a good way,” agrees Eve. “It has a good arts community. There’s a real shift — we create things and send them south. I don’t feel that way in Perth.”
There’s even a bit of fun competition between them all to see who can encourage the most newcomers into the gallery. While I am there, people wander in, and there’s a warm and friendly greeting for each of them; a real welcome.
Street 'furniture art'. Picture: Stephen Scourfield
The eagerness extends deep into the Greater Geraldton Council, which funds the gallery, says Eve. “They are incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.”
“We are so lucky that we have inherited this gallery that is just so beautiful to work with and now it’s about community engagement.”
The gallery, in the heart of Geraldton, is in the former 1907 Town Hall. In 1997 the building was added to the State Register of Heritage Places in WA.
It keeps the City of Greater Geraldton Art Collection which is comprised of more than 475 artworks, including important works by Norman Lindsay, Elizabeth Durack, Hans Heysen, Howard Taylor and Robert Juniper.
Elizabeth Durack was once commissioned by the Town of Geraldton to produce 90 drawings on paper of the Geraldton area, and this is the only surviving collection of this type in WA. There are many contemporary works, too.
The gallery runs the Mid West Art Prize as well as education and youth activities and artists’ talks.
Urban street art by Jordan Andreotta and students of the Nagle Catholic College. Stephen Scourfield
When I am there, there’s an exhibition of Yamaji woman Julie Dowling’s work. Yagu Gurlbarl (Big Secret) is her first solo show on Yamaji country.
It appropriates styles of European portraiture, Christian icons and mural painting, blending them with the indigenous.
Exhibitions will change every six to eight weeks.
“In terms of programming, I can pretty well decide what I want," says Eve.
"It is all designed to intrigue."
Top picture: Street art in Geraldton. Picture: Stephen Scourfield
For more on Geraldton regional art gallery, see artgallery.cgg.wa.gov.au or phone 9956 6750.
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