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Why Multicultural Communities for Mobility Exists
MCM exists to improve the quality of life for underserved low-income communities of color by empowering and engaging community leaders at the local level to advocate & educate for safer bikeways, walkable communities and access to mass transit for all.
How Multicultural Communities for Mobility Makes a Difference
MCM advocates for safe, alternative transportation access in underserved communities of color within greater Los Angeles. MCM sees bikes, access to adequate sidewalks, and mass transit options as part of the movement for social justice. We seek to create a new consciousness that allows low-income communities to be safer, healthier when biking, walking and using mass transit.
What Multicultural Communities for Mobility’s Vision is for Greater Los Angeles
When everyone in LA has an equal voice in creating safe places to walk, bike and access mass transit, our work will be realized.
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Game of Thrones Star, EP Talk Tragic Finale Twist: Is [Spoiler] Really Dead?
There are now three universal truths Game of Thrones fans must accept: “Winter is coming,” “The night is dark and full of terrors” and, as bluntly delivered door showrunner Dan Weiss, “Dead is dead.”
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Game of Thrones stars reportedly in salary negotiations for the final seasons
GoT has been a rare combination of a ratings smash, cultural phenomenon and a critical darling,winning Emmy last year.I hear the stars of the series are sharing in its success with major new salary bumps for what is rumored to be Got's final chapter.
Game Of Thrones Stars Talk Upcoming Season 2
They revealed that some plot details from Martin’s third novel, “A Storm of Swords,” will be used in Season 2.
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Ready to go on @NoFibs Election13 citizen journo seat reports
Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs
Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and her weblog, Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs.
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by Margo Kingston
Nearly fifteen years ago, when I was a political journalist in Canberra, I tried to get posted to Bourke to report rural and Aboriginal affairs from the outside in. Now I’ll be covering the 2013 election from the Gold Coast with 20 plus reporters on the ground in seats around the nation.
No Fibs’ seats reporters are volunteers who live in the seats they cover, so they report as constituents as well as citizen journalists. It’s a pro-am team. Two volunteers are working journalists, one is a veteran citizen journo for indie media and another a final year journalism student. They join public servants, accountants, a teacher, a retired businessman, a farmer, a musician, a real estate agent, a PhD student and two geeks. A few more citizen journos’ seat scene-setters will be published soon.
As chief of staff in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Canberra bureau many years ago, I saw my job as trusting my reporters – keeping Sydney editors off their backs so they could pursue the stories in their rounds that they thought were important.
My approach has not changed as No Fibs editor. Apart from the scene-setter, I’ve told reporters it’s their space and their voice and they can file when they like on what they like. They control their coverage, so the people they speak to can be confident that the reporter is responsible for the piece delivered and that it will not be manipulated to suit the editor.
It can be lonely for reporters on the ground rather than in a newsroom or on the election campaign bus, particularly if they’ve never covered a story, let alone an election, before. To build a sense of community I’ve set up a private Facebook group so reporters can swap ideas, ask questions and read my ideas for stories and angles. All have agreed to read the work of their colleagues, and I hope that as policy is delivered and election issues break they can file reaction on the ground, giving readers a sense of how big picture themes are playing out locally.
No Fibs is a Twitter-based site and No Fibs reporters have twitter handles, so tweeps living in their seats are free to communicate with them and, I hope, help them out with tips, information and ideas. I hope each reporter will develop a local following to enrich their cover and that local media links up with them. In Kevin Rudd’s seat of Griffith, local online paper the Westender is publishing reporter Jan Bowman’s stories.
No Fibs reporters and I are committed to complying with the Media Alliance Code of Ethics. Errors will be corrected quickly and transparently, and so far all my reporters have been meticulous in ensuring they quote accurately and give all candidates a fair go. I’ve found their reports compelling. Authentic voices, a wide-range of styles and cover grounded in the place where they live is fresh air for this jaded political journalist, and I hope readers feel the same.
Most reporters want to interview all the candidates, so readers will hear much more from the multitude of new parties and independents than in other election cover.
Another difference in our cover is that we are covering safe Liberal, Labor and National Party seats as well as some seats in play this election.
A feature of our cover is the preponderance of seats in Victoria, a state largely ignored in recent national election coverage. We cover the three most marginal Labor seats in the State – Corangamite, Deakin and La Trobe – safe Liberal seat Higgins and safe Labor seat Lalor. We also cover two inner Melbourne seats where the contest is between Labor and the Greens – Wills and Batman – and Indi, a rural seat held by controversial Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella but under organised, well-funded attack by conservative independent Cathy McGowan.
When this experiment began I crossed my fingers that we would hear from regional and rural seats so readers would get a taste of the many different democratic experiences of Australians. I was grateful that young journo Emma Kennedy’s editor at the North West Star in Mt Isa agreed to let her report Katter country for us. We are reporting the NSW regional seat of Eden-Monaro, and I’m expecting reports from Hinkler, a Queensland National Party seat, Page in northern NSW and New England, where Barnaby Joyce is set to replace Tony Windsor.
All up we will cover about 15 percent of seats in the election, with at least one seat in each State. That’s more than my co-publisher Tony Yegles and I can manage, and luckily former AAP chief-sub editor Julie Lambert has very kindly volunteered to edit and publish our citizen journalists reports during the election campaign.
No Fibs has partnered with Macquarie University on a research project on citizen journalism, and our seat reports are central to that research. I hope to write a book on the results of this experiment after the election, and to jointly author an academic article with project leader Professor Catharine Lumby.
I would never have imagined nine months ago that I’d have the chance to experiment with citizen journalism again. What happens in politics and on No Fibs over the next few weeks is anyone’s guess. I’m excited.
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God it is so good to have you back Ms Kingston, ma
Trouble is we are in for just another worthless, visionless, racist election based only on who can be the most vicious against refugees to win the bogan vote so I will be opting out.
I had a call from and ESL teacher in Adelaide today, his mostly migrant and refugee kids are traumatised, marginalised, brutalised and bleeding by the racist attacks and they need help. They need proof they are allowed to exist, the Hazara kids are again feeling the brunt of the cruel racism but the African kids are not doing much better.
The coward Gillard let loose the dogs of racism again in her dumb Lowy speech where she proclaimed that only good migrants like her parents and her have any rights as she tried to flog refugees off to East Timor.
Lyn says
This is such an exciting project. Can’t wait to follow the reports from your citizen journos over the next 5 weeks.
Lidbox says
Margo,You have always been an inspiration right from web diary days.I can understand what pain and dissolution you went through to get here.But you are back and very welcome,you inspired me to connect to independent media sources and for that I and many others are truley grateful
Kaite Matilda (@kaiteM1) says
Margo it’s wonderful to hear from you again. I absolutely love this idea and hope more take it up so we have a broad democrascape of this big country building up to the 2013 election. I live in Calare, a National near-safe seat and i’d be tempted to try my hand at your citizen journalism but i have no experience at it and being a Carer i don’t get out a lot, so i’ll be contented to watch and read instead. cheers
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Tom Of Finland To Premiere At Göteborg Film Festival
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Pegasus Profiles – Business Resilience and Recovery Scheme
A Thetford-based metal cutting and processing firm will benefit from a new fund set up to support Norfolk and Suffolk companies to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pegasus Profiles has been awarded a grant from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s new Business Resilience and Recovery Scheme.
The £3.5m scheme was launched in late April to support short-term resilience projects and longer-term diversifications.
Pegasus Profiles applied for the funding to purchase a new 12Kw fibre laser cutting machine. It will allow them to substantially increase their capacity to cut carbon and stainless steel plate up to 35mm thick – improving their efficiency, remove the need to sub-contract certain work and reducing lead time for their customers. The new laser will help keep the company at the fore front of engineering in Eastern region.
Richard Oliver, of Pegasus Profiles, said: “Following our strategic review in light of the Coronavirus crisis, we are taking measures to safeguard the business through a mix of activities including product diversification and improving operating efficiency and effectiveness.
“We’ve identified several opportunities – including broadening our laser cutting capability – which will extend our vertical integration and improve service by bringing selected sub-contracted manufacturing in house.”
Chris Starkie, Chief Executive of New Anglia LEP, said: “In these challenging times, it’s essential that we move quickly to support businesses, and this is an excellent example of a business looking to become more efficient, drive innovation and diversify at this crucial time.
“I’d encourage any business which is reviewing its processes, considering investing in new equipment or which needs support to reopen to speak to one of our business advisers at the New Anglia Growth Hub.”
The New Anglia Growth Hub provides free, impartial support for businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk. Call 0300 333 6536 or email [email protected]
For information about the Business Resilience and Recovery Fund, visit www.newanglia.co.uk/grant/business-resilience-and-recovery-scheme
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Health authorities issue rabies reminder warnings after Latvian fatality ({{contentCtrl.commentsTotal}})
Foxes are a known vector for rabies. If in doubt, stay away or go to the nearest emergency room if bitten. Source: Minupilt.err.ee/Merike Pikkmets
The Health Board (Terviseamet) and Veterinary and Food Board (VTA) have issued a public reminder to exercise caution around wild or unknown domestic animals in Estonia, particularly if they exhibit unusual behavior, due to the risk of rabies infections.
Any individual coming into contact with animals in such cases should go to the nearest emergency room, the authorities add.
While Estonia has been rabies-free for several years, in neighboring Latvia, a 55-year-old died in late November after contracting the disease in India, ERR reports.
"Although Estonia has been considered a rabies-free country as of 2013, an animal taken abroad may contract the disease and bring it into the country on return," Irina Dontchenko of the Health Board's department of infectious disease surveillance and epidemic control said.
Dontchenko also strongly recommended raising awareness among children who may be tempted to pet strange animals.
"Rabies is an acute disorder of the central nervous system which causes animals to behave differently. As a result, wild animals can be seemingly friendly and approach humans," Dontchenko said.
Infection with the rabies virus begins when the saliva of a diseased animal enters via a bite, scratch or wound.
The pathogen stays in the entrance conduit for about a week, where it propagates, before travelling via the nerve system to the spinal cord and brain, reaching the eyes, heart, skin and mouth.
The average incubation period for rabies is one to two months, but ranges hugely from a minimum of one week to a maximum of over a year. The length of the latency period depends on the site of entry of the virus, usually the further from the cerebral cortex, the longer the period.
The virus multiplies in the salivary glands and is secreted by saliva, which can carry the agent up to two weeks before an animal becomes obviously sick.
Symptoms start with nausea, vomiting, fatigue, fever and other non-specific symptoms. Some sufferers experience pain, inflammation, tingling or tingling sensations at the wound site.
As rabies progresses, breathing problems occur, which are manifested by periodic deep breathing or gasping; later symptoms can differ from patient to patient and can include signs of irritation and aggression, loss of orientation, muscle twitching and cramps, causing severe pain in the neck and throat when swallowing or even aversion to water and fluids (hydrophobia). Throughout this phase, a patient is conscious.
Rabies can also take a more inhibited form, usually resulting in death due to cardiac or respiratory arrest.
There is no known cure for rabies once infected, and it is always fatal in humans and animals.
Vaccination is mandatory
"We remind pet owners that pet rabies vaccination has been mandatory in Estonia for over 65 years," said Enel Niine, project director at the VTA, who added it is the responsibility of every pet owner to ensure that their pet is vaccinated against rabies at least every two years.
"In addition, animals should not be allowed to roam around freely, as they may come in contact with strange animals [that way]," said Niin, reiterating that direct contact with wild animals or unknown domestic animals should be avoided, even if they seem friendly.
Members of the public should also notify the VTA or police if they spot wild or domestic animals behaving erratically.
Wild animals also get vaccinated
Wild animals living in border areas of Estonia are also vaccinated against rabies, twice a year.
In addition, in cooperation with the Estonian Hunters' Association, known major potential rabies vectors in the wild, principally foxes and raccoon dogs, are monitored, with all domestic and wild animals suspected of being infected with rabies notified to the veterinary service.
Over 1,000 laboratory tests related with rabies are conducted per year, ERR reports.
The last known animal infected with rabies to be found in Estonia was a raccoon dog, intercepted about a kilometer inside the Estonian border, adjacent to Russia's Pskov oblast.
Only pets which have received rabies vaccinations are permitted into Estonia.
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Home Business Y-SEG launches COVID-19 Business Solutions for Young Entrepreneurs
Y-SEG launches COVID-19 Business Solutions for Young Entrepreneurs
The Youth Sector Engagement Group (Y-SEG) on Thursday launched the “Business Solutions for Young Entrepreneurs” in Accra to provide business recovery and resilience support to young entrepreneurs.
The 3-month programme, will focus on providing business development support, facilitate engagements with 100 young entrepreneurs towards mitigating the challenges posed by the pandemic and to promote recovery and resilience of youth-led businesses beyond the pandemic.
It would be carried out in partnership with Africa Aurora Business Network (AABN), Ghana Chamber of Young Entrepreneurs (GCYE) and Young Professional in Agricultural Development (YPARD) and Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).
Mrs Maureen E. Odoi, Executive Director for AABN, said their response to support young entrepreneurs was due to a survey carried out during the COVID-19 partial lockdown period.
She said the survey revealed that most of these young entrepreneurs lacked the necessary technical support, especially in the areas of financial management, access to market, and financial support to help them recover from the losses they made due to the pandemic.
Mrs Odoi said even though the target was to reach 100 hundred young entrepreneurs, as at August 30 this year, they had already received 300 applications.
“However, due to the uniqueness of our initiative and the criteria we followed, 100 people were finally selected. Even now, we still have people still knocking on our doors seeking to be given the opportunity to join the activity. This eagerness from them is an indication of the high demand for business development services amongst young people in Ghana,” she said.
She said the programme comprised two areas; core modules (compulsory for all young entrepreneurs) and elective modules (which allows the entrepreneurs to select two areas to specialize under).
After that, the entrepreneur will be assigned to a team of certified technical advisors who will provide him or her with executive coaching and develop customized solutions to help recover from any financial loss.
The Executive Director said after going through all the stages, participants would have virtual pitching sessions to enable them get connected to organizations which supported young people in terms of access to finance.
She said the Young Entrepreneurs who went through the programme, would continuously be with the business associations as a one-stop shop where they get to learn from peers and also grow their organizations.
Mr Emmanuel Ansah-Amprofi from YPARD and the Programmes Director for Y-SEG, said the COVID-19 pandemic brought both positive and negative effects on Agriculture.
The positive, he said, had to do with the various agricultural initiatives that were put together to provide sufficient food for the country.
He cited that majority of Ghana’s rice was imported but the pandemic and lockdown of the some parts of country, including borders, called for an increased focus on local rice production.
However, he said entrepreneurs in agribusiness struggled to get access to funding and budgetary support from institutions.
Mr Ansah-Amprofi said Y-SEG had succeeded in helping many companies which, hither to, had difficulties in registering their businesses to do so.
He called on government to invest more in agribusiness to move it from the traditional ways of doing business to E-Commerce, a system that required less capital and infrastructure.
Dr Sherif Ghali, Chief Executive Officer of GCYE, said another survey conducted during the partial lockdown showed that 80 per cent of young entrepreneurs were struggling due to measures implemented by Government.
He said these measures which drastically reduced economic activities meant that one out of every four businesses was closed down and that, called for urgent technical and financial support.
The CEO encouraged participants to take the programme seriously, and called on stakeholders and partners to come on board to support the initiative.
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Belafonte On Kaepernick: ‘To Mute The Slave Has Always Been In The Best Interest Of Slave Owners’
"When a Black voice is raised in protest to oppression, those who are comfortable with our oppression are the first to criticize us for daring to speak out against it."
Roland Martin sat down with legendary actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on Wednesday for an exclusive interview. During their discussion, Martin and Belafonte covered a variety of topics, including Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit during the National Anthem at football games.
Belafonte, who is no stranger to taking a stand on an unpopular issue, shared with Martin his profound thoughts on Kaepernick’s symbolic gesture to stand with the oppressed and address the backlash the NFL quarterback is experiencing.
Martin asked Belafonte about his thoughts on the reports detailing anger coming from NFL front office officials about Kaepernick’s protests, in which an undisclosed number of individuals said they would not sign the embattled quarterback if he was released from the San Francisco 49ers.
Mr. Belafonte told Martin, “To mute the slave is always been to the best interests of the slave owner.
“When a Black voice is raised in protest to oppression, those who are comfortable with our oppression are the first to criticize us for daring to speak out against it.”
Belafonte, who played a prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement, called Kaepernick’s decision to stand against the oppression of African-Americans a “noble thing.”
He continued, “I think that speaking out and making people aware of the fact that you are paying homage to an anthem that also has a constituency that by the millions suffer is a righteous thing to do.”
The civil rights icon added, “The fact that these people are having these ‘How dare you speak out against lynching?’ and all of the things that racism stands for or the conclusions to racist acts permit – I think is a statement about America.”
For having brought this attention to the plight of African-Americans who suffer at the hands of heavy-handed policing, which in many instances end in the deaths of Black men and women, Mr. Belafonte called Kaepernick “a noble and courageous man.”
Watch Roland Martin’s exclusive interview with legendary actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte in the video clip above.
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Kudankulam
Everything you need to know about Kudankulam: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Indefinite fast against Kudankulam N-plant resumes
Chennai, May 1 (IANS) At least 24 activists of the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Tuesday launched an indefinite fast at four villages in Tirunelveli district, around 650 km from here, in protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP).
Change of guard at Kudankulam N-plant
Chennai, April 30 (IANS) A series of top level changes due to retirement at India's atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIl) has resulted in change of guard at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu, said an official.
Kudankulam plant fuelling may get nod by next week
Chennai, April 28 (IANS) Atomic power reactor operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) hopes to get the regulatory nod to fuel the first unit of Kudankulam nuclear power plant in a week's time, a top official said here Saturday.
Jayalalithaa writes to PM, demands Kudankulam power
Chennai, April 25 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh again, reiterating her demand that the state be allocated the entire 1,000 MW power to be generated from the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP).
Anti-Kudankulam protestors to fast from May 1 onwards
Chennai, April 23 (IANS) Upset with the Tamil Nadu government for going back on its assurances, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Monday announced that it would resume an indefinite hunger strike from May 1 against the two 1,000 MW plants at Kudankulam.
Nuclear power key to India's development: Official
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Batting for upcoming nuclear power plants in the country, Principal Scientific Advisor to the union cabinet R. Chidambaram Friday said that nuclear energy will play a key role in India becoming a developed nation.
Kudankulam nuke plant row intensifies as activist slams govt's atomic energy body
Chennai, Apr 18 (ANI): Criticizing the Department of Atomic Energy, anti-nuclear activist Neeraj Jain has urged the Central Government to halt operations at existing plants such as Tamil Nadu's Kudankulam project.
Foreign firms under scanner after Kudankulam stir
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The government has in a fresh order asked all foreign outfits in India to furnish it with updated details of their workers and nature of their work, at least once a year.
Panic in Tamil Nadu after Indonesia quake
Chennai, April 11 (IANS) Fear gripped Tamil Nadu and a tsunami alert was sounded Wednesday after two powerful earthquakes in Indonesia triggered strong tremors across the state.
High alert in Tamil Nadu n-plants
Chennai, April 11 (IANS) A high alert was sounded at Tamil Nadu's Kudankulam and Kalpakkam nuclear plants after the 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia's Sumatra region.
Karunanidhi slams Sri Lanka for raising doubts over nuke power plant
Chennai, Apr 10 (ANI): Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday slammed the Sri Lankan government for raising doubts over the release of harmful radiations from Kudankulam nuclear power plant.
Kudankulam row: 'There may be misunderstanding', says Kalam
New Delhi, Apr 10 (ANI): With Sri Lanka voicing concern over the possible impact of radiation from the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu in case of an accident, former Indian President and eminent nuclear scientist Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam said here today that there was no need for concern, adding that there may be a misunderstanding.
Work at Kudankulam quickens for first reactor
Chennai, April 7 (IANS) Work at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) is progressing rapidly with employees working even on holidays to get the atomic regulator's nod to reopen the first reactor vessel and remove the dummy fuel, the Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) said.
The dangerous implications of India's nuclear romance
Efforts are on to squelch the months-long peaceful movement by villagers living in the neighbourhood of the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu which has delayed its commissioning. What brought the people out of their homes is the fear that the plant is a threat to their lives and livelihood. Repeated assertions by spokesmen of the national science and technology establishment, from former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam downwards, have not convinced them that the plant is accident-proof. Instead of talking to the people and addressing their concerns, the Government of India appears set to crush their movement using crude force.
Democratic protests against Kudankulam stifled: Prashant Bhushan
Chennai, March 31 (IANS) Advocate and Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement member Prashant Bhushan Saturday charged the central government of stifling democratic protests by filing cases against protestors against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP).
Jaya wants entire power allocation to TN from Kudankulam nuke plants
After clearing hurdles from the way of constructing much controversial 'Kudankulam' nuclear power plant, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday has asked to Prime Minister to......
Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa writes to PM, demands all Kudankulam power for state
Chennai, Mar.31 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has written a letter to the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, demanding that the 2000 megawatts of power to be generated by two units of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant be given to the state because of the "severe power shortage" faced by it.
Allot entire 2,000 MW Kudankulam power to Tamil Nadu: Jayalalithaa
Chennai, March 31 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Saturday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allocate the entire 2,000 MW power to be generated by the two units at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) to the state which is facing severe power shortage.
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China’s Huawei To Roll Out 4G Service Across Addis Ababa
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A man walks past a Huawei company logo outside the entrance of a Huawei office in Wuhan, Hubei province, October 9, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s state-run Ethio Telecom said on Thursday it had picked Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world’s second largest telecom equipment maker, to roll out a high-speed 4G network across the capital Addis Ababa.
The introduction of the service is part of a $1.6 billion deal signed in July and August between the Ethiopian firm, Huawei and ZTE, China’s second-biggest telecoms equipment maker, to expand mobile phone infrastructure throughout the Horn of Africa country.
“In terms of allocation, Huawei will be responsible for the expansion of 4G in Addis Ababa, including other mobile services – the 2G, 3G, IP and the like,” Abdurahim Ahmed, Ethio Telecom’s head of communications, told Reuters.
Abdurahim said the allocation plan was finalized on Wednesday.
“It is expected to benefit more than 400,000 subscribers. Within an eight-month period, the expansion project of Addis Ababa, including 4G, will be completed.”
The deal, signed by ZTE in August and Huawei a month before, will enable Ethiopia to double subscribers to more than 50 million by 2015 and expand 3G service throughout the country.
Both firms will split their work along 13 expansion areas.
The contract was awarded under a long-term loan package to be paid over a 13-year period with an interest rate of “less than 1 percent”, Abdurahim said.
Africa’s rapidly expanding telecoms industry has come to symbolize its economic growth, with subscribers across the continent totaling almost 650 million last year, up from just 25 million in 2001, according to the World Bank.
Ethio Telecom is the only mobile operator in the country of more than 80 million people, among the last remaining countries on the continent to maintain a state monopoly in telecoms.
The government has ruled out liberalizing its telecoms sector, saying the 6 billion birr ($321 million) it generates each year is being spent on railway projects. Ethiopia plans to build 5,000 km of railway lines by 2020.
(Reporting by Aaron Maasho; Editing by James Macharia/Mark Heinrich)
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Lagos state polytechnic Ikorodu, gets new Rector
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The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the appointment of Nurudeen Olaleye, as the 11th rector of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu
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6 edition of Trinidad Yoruba found in the catalog.
Trinidad Yoruba
From Mother Tongue To Memory
by Maureen Warner-Lewis
Published May 1999 by University Press of the West Indies .
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IFA/Yoruba Fundamentals of the Yoruba Religion (Orisa Worship) - Chief FAMA. This book provides detailed instruction of practical usage of Ifa by practitioners and non-practitioners and answers many questions with respect to "How to Pray ' the Ifa Way." The book, "The Bible" of the traditional Yoruba Religion, is 6 x 9, has pp with photographs/5(35). 50+ videos Play all Mix - Trinidadian Deep-Yoruba Path YouTube; Trinidadian Deep - Trini Ting - Duration: Shadow Deep 5, views. Dove - Duration: Cymande.
Why Trinidad and Tobago citizens value Yoruba culture — Elebuibon Novem Written by: Tunde Busari Originally posted at: THE renowned Ifa Priest and Araba of Osogbo, Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon has revealed why the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago appreciate Yoruba culture and struggle to propagate it. The following excerpt comes from pp. of Houk's book. Before posting this, I should note that I have never been to Trinidad and that I am not personally familiar with Trinidadian culture or worship. IIRC, we have one poster on from Trinidad: any comments or corrections he might have are, of course, welcomed.
Trinidad Yoruba: From mother tongue to memory. By Maureen Warner-Lewis, Page 1 of 1 Author: George L. Huttar. Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad: The Socio-Political Legitimation of the Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Faiths. Barbados/Jamaica/Trinidad and Tobago: The University of the West Indies Press, , pp. Bibliography, photos, glossary, : Hope Munro Smith.
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Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother-Tongue to Memory (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)Cited by: 1. Offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad, addressing the experience of Africans in Trinidad and examining the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was modified and discarded in the European-dominated island community.
Explains linguistic structures, analyzing Trinidad Yoruba as a distinct dialect of. Trinidad Orisha, also known as Shango, is a syncretic religion in Trinidad and Tobago and is of Caribbean origin, originally from West Africa (Yoruba religion).Trinidad Orisha incorporates elements of Spiritual Baptism, and the closeness between Orisha and Spiritual Baptism has led to use of the term "Shango Baptist" to refer to members of either or both religions.
A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery. Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern by: Trinidad Orisha: Spirit, Color, and Drums Orisha is a colorful and misunderstood religion practiced in Trinidad and Tobago with ties to the Yoruba culture of Nigeria.
A spiritual tradition with celebrations of food, drums, dance, and prayer, Orisha has millions of followers in the world. A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery.
Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study breaks new Author: Maureen Warner-Lewis. Yoruba Songs of Trinidad Paperback – January 1, by Maureen Warner-Lewis (Author) out of 5 stars 1 rating.
See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Price New from Used from 3/5(1). Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean.
The study breaks new ground in addressing the experience of Africans in one locale of the Africa diaspora and examines the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was successively retained, modified, and discarded.
Browse this Book on Google A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery. Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean.
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and island lies 11 km ( mi) off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America.
It is often referred to as the southernmost island in the an area of 4, km 2 (1, sq mi), it is also the fifth largest in the West IndiesLocation: Eastern Caribbean. Trinidad Orisha: Spirit, Color, and Drums Orisha is a colorful and misunderstood religion practiced in Trinidad and Tobago with ties to the Yoruba culture of Nigeria.
A spiritual tradition with celebrations of food, drums, dance, and prayer, Orisha has millions of followers in the world. Orisha of Trinidad, by Monique Joiner Siedlak, explores this African-routed. ISBN: OCLC Number: Language Note: Text in English and Yoruban.
Description: xviii, pages ; 23 cm: Contents: Pt. Cultural researcher and chairman of the central committee of the Orisha Movement of Trinidad and Tobago, Rudolph Eastman says Orisha is a “spiritual discipline” and not a religion.
“Remember different groups came here (during slavery) and they all had different ways of worshipping the Almighty,” he says, adding that the Orisha practice. This site is on the Heritage Asset Register which is the official list of Trinidad and Tobago’s historic sites that are worthy of notation and preservation.
The register is authorized by the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago’s Council and is by no means exhaustive. The sites on the Heritage Asset Register are not owned by the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad Yoruba - Notes on Survivals This article is prepared from two papers prepared for the Conference on Caribbean Linguistics, Mayat Mona, Jamaica. YORUBA is the name of a prominent language spoken by a people of the same name living in the south-western part of present-day Nigeria and in the south-eastern area of modern Dahomey.
Book Description: James Houk's field work in Trinidad and subsequent involvement in the Orisha religion allows him a uniquely intimate perspective on a complex and eclectic religion.
Originating in Nigeria, Orisha combines elements of African religions (notably Yoruba), Catholicism, Hinduism, Protestantism Spiritual Baptist, and Kabbalah. Trinidad Yoruba by Maureen Warner-Lewis,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide/5(2). Books shelved as yoruba: The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts by Baba Ifa Karade, Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief by E.
Bolaji Idowu, Tales of Yorub. Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Maureen Warner-Lewis Buy from $ Essentials of Yoruba grammar. Oladele Awobuluyi Buy from $ My Yoruba alphabet. Richard Edward Dennett Buy from $ Beginner's Yoruba. Kayode J Fakinlede Buy from $ Yoruba Basic Course.
Earl W Stevick, Howard E Sollenberger (Preface by) Buy from $ Yoruba. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
Yoruba Songs of Trinidad by Maureen Warner .Originating in Nigeria, Orisha combines elements of African religions (notably Yoruba), Catholicism, Hinduism, Protestantism Spiritual Baptist, and Kabbalah. A religion of spirits and spirit possession, ceremonies and feasts, churches and shrines, sacrifices and sacred objects, Orisha is constantly shifting and unstable, its practice widely varied.
In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad, Castor outlines how the political activism and social upheaval of the s set the stage for Brand: Duke University Press.
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Descended from one of Roseville's pioneer families, Jerome Clark Hellar was born on April 23, 1904 at 605 Oak St. in Roseville to Martin Colin Hellar and Elva Clark Hellar. He was thereafter known to family and friends as Clark. His maternal great-grandparents Darius Darwin Clark and Catherine Cruder Clark, along with their daughter Alma and two sons Willis Albert and Wallace, arrived in Roseville from Akron, Ohio in 1870. The Clark Hellar Collection is arranged in three series: 1. Correspondence, 2. Ephemera, and 3. Photographic Material. Items span the years 1879 to 1976.
Descended from one of Roseville's pioneer families, Jerome Clark Hellar was born on April 23, 1904 at 605 Oak St. in Roseville to Martin Colin Hellar and Elva Clark Hellar. He was thereafter known to family and friends as Clark. His maternal great-grandparents Darius Darwin Clark and Catherine Cruder Clark, along with their daughter Alma and two sons Willis Albert and Wallace arrived in Roseville from Akron, Ohio in 1870. D. D. Clark built the family home on the corner of Church and Lincoln Streets in 1886.
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed scheme to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is “economically harmful, legally suspect and environmentally indefensible,” according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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This winter's snow holds lots of water. Each cubic foot of drifted, piled or compacted snow contains 2 to 3 gallons of water, so actions homeowners take now can minimize future water problems in or around their house, says Ken Hellevang, North Dakota State University Extension Service agricultural engineer and flood expert.
Route 1000 classes coming soon
Do you have a teen driver? If so, you could help keep them safer and reward them for that safe driving by signing them up for a Route 1000 class.
Missling presents in Missouri on behalf of NDFB Foundation
In North Dakota, when the going gets tough, the tough pull together. That was the message North Dakota Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Jeffrey Missling shared with those attending the Missouri Levee & Drainage District Association meeting in Columbia, Missouri, February 27.
Free webinar for household water well owners
The National Ground Water Association is offering a free Webinar on March 10 for household well owners on how to be good stewards of groundwater and water well systems.
NDFB Executive VP named to advisory panels
North Dakota Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Jeffrey Missling, Fargo, has been appointed to two farm-related advisory panels.
NDFB Foundation receives national award
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N.D. entrant makes YF&R Sweet Sixteen
Cassi Jo Schriefer of Golden Valley made the Sweet Sixteen round of the American Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmer and Rancher Discussion Meet. Schreifer was also recently named a finalist in the YF&R Challenge, held during the NDFB YF&R Leadership Conference in Minot.
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American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman called on Congress to adopt a resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding” and the proposed regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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On-Ride Entertainment Announces Lead Îngloda Cast
Sicklerville, NJ, NOVEMBER 9, 2012: On-Ride Entertainment, LLC. announces the leading cast of their first feature film, Îngloda. On-Ride Entertainment, LLC. has casted Lauren Danese to play the role of lead actress Kelly, Rachel Worrell to play best friend Kacy, and Amber Figueroa to play Nikki. Cast teaser posters will be made available in the coming weeks to help with promotion and awareness around the film.
On-Ride Entertainment, LLC. would also like to welcome 1st Assistant Director Jackie Martine and Camera Production Assistant Charlie Altersitz. Jackie and Charlie both bring an educational background in Communications and Film/TV and will be valuable to the completion of Îngloda.
On-Ride Entertainment, LLC. has delayed shooting until January 2013 due to weather and other uncontrollable conditions. No further delays are anticipated.
On-Ride Entertainment, LLC. is a film production company based in Sicklerville, NJ. On-Ride Entertainment produces short and feature-length films written both in-house and by other parties. On-Ride Entertainment was founded in September 2012 by President & CEO Everett Burgan, Vice President & COO Brian Targett, and Vice President and CBO Robert Bittle.
amber figueroa, cast, charlie alteristz, ingloda, jackie martine, kacy, kelly, lauren danese, lauren davish, nikki, rachel worrell, teaser
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Posted on May 7, 2012 May 31, 2012 by BlogMeister
Performer’s Guide to “Jeux Deux”
A one-stop-shop for performing organizations interested in Tod Machover’s “Jeux Deux”, a work for orchestra, Yamaha Disklavier and electronics.
Machover utilizes his “hyperpiano” concept, in which the grand piano, played with consummate sensitivity by Paul Chertock, interacts with the Yamaha Disklavier in a way that augments, transforms and splinters the music, sometimes releasing a volley of pre-composed notes in greater profusion and rapidity than a live pianist could possibly play them. The result is an absolutely stunning experience for performer and listener alike.
– Phil Muse
In Jeux Deux, a wild and disarming tribute to Debussy’s last orchestral work, the soloist plays a Hyperpiano – a Yamaha Disklavier Grand – which outdoes Liszt, thanks to software that takes the solo part beyond the realm of mortal possibility. – Gramophone
LISTEN – Excerpts
To request a CD or MP3 of full tracks please email junekino@media.mit.edu for a download code. The CD is available for purchase from Bridge Records and Amazon.com.
Jeux Deux (excerpt 1)
https://operaofthefuture.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/05-jeux-deux-11.mp3
https://operaofthefuture.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/06-jeux-deux-2.mp3
Additional video of live performances, audio excepts, photos, composer’s remarks and links are available at Tod Machover’s official website.
The CD was partially funded through Kickstarter. The project video provides some fun background information, excerpts and documentary footage of the world premiere performance of ‘Jeux Deux”.
THE SCORE: ‘Jeux Deux’ (Boosey & Hawkes 2005)
PERFORMING ENSEMBLE REQUIREMENTS
“Jeux Deux” is scored for the standard orchestra formation, with a corps of three percussionists playing about two dozen instruments; the solo pianist plays the Yamaha Disklavier Grand. Both piano and orchestra are purely acoustic with no amplification or electronic enhancement. Instead, the Disklavier records and plays back with great musical and performance accuracy. With the addition of Hyperinstrument software, the Disklavier also augments, transforms and splinters music played by the soloist. This HyperPiano thus becomes a formidable foil, at times weaving intricate contrapuntal embellishments, at others creating cascading textures.
Additional equipment to be provided by the performing organization:
Yamaha Disklavier Piano
High-quality Stereo PA system
House mixing console
Adequate microphon(s) for piano amplification
Cables as needed
Adequate power
REVIEWS OF ‘Jeux Deux’ ARE CONTAINED IN REVIEWS OF THE CD “…BUT NOT SIMPLER…”
Gramophone – Review of “…but not simpler…”
New Music Connoisseur – Andrew Violette review “…but not simpler…”
Audiophile Audition – TOD MACHOVER: ‘…but not simpler…’ & other works – Bridge Records
NPR – February 12th Weekend Edition review ‘Jeux Deux’
Review: Machover CD an “absolutely stunning experience”
AllMusic.com – Review of Tod Machover’s …but not simpler…
NOTES (From Booklet notes by Richard Dyer, former chief music critic for the Boston Globe.)
The title pays playful homage to Debussy’s final orchestral score, Jeux, a “dance poem,’’ in Debussy’s words. As it was initially staged, Jeux was a ballet about two young women and a man whose game of tennis has been interrupted – they are searching for a tennis ball that has gone missing, and the search turns into a different set of games, romantic or psycho-sexual, and these new games have ambiguous rules. At the end, an unseen hand bounces a tennis ball onto the stage. Jeux is a work of great harmonic, metrical, and psychological complexity, and Machover thinks of it as a “spiritual antecedent’’ of his own piece.
In this instance, the two games are first the traditional one between the soloist and the orchestra, and second, the interplay between the human soloist and the “hyperpiano,” the Yamaha Disklavier Grand, which “augments, transforms, and splinters” the music that the soloist plays live, sometimes operating at speeds and a level of dexterity well beyond the possibilities of even an exceptionally well-trained pair of human hands – a mere 10 fingers could not possibly encompass this music. The resulting sonority transcends anything we might expect from an acoustic instrument.
The score indicates that a live note from the piano sometimes “triggers’’ a volley of pre-composed notes which the Disklavier plays; sometimes the computer processes the live piano notes, transforms them, and sends them back to the Disklavier, which plays them, physically but phantomly moving keys and pedals; and sometimes the live piano notes and articulations shape and modify music that is generated by the computer, and then played back on the Disklavier. The effect is brilliant and explosive, an aural 4th of July fireworks display.
There are three principal sections in the piece which is played without interruption, and three cadenzas for hyperpiano punctuate the work.
The first section, marked “swift and stealthy,’’ begins like Ravel’s La Valse with a pulsing rhythm in the bass rather than a melody or even an introduction. The composer describes the first movement as “like a rapidly flowing mountain stream, quiet and slightly mysterious.’’ True enough, although the rhythms sound 20th century and urban. At the climax the Disklavier goes crazy – memories of all of those famous and delicate water pieces by Liszt and Ravel are obliterated by a torrential cascade…
The second section, “Freely lyrical,’’ sounds vaguely Baroque in the cut of the melodic ideas and the ornamentation of those ideas, if not in the harmony; birds seem to listen and supply their own ornaments.
The transition to the finale is interesting – a “solid, steady’’ section is anchored by a series of 24 successive low Cs from the piano and the bottom instruments of the orchestra; these gradually grow faster and accumulate thunderous volume and dense texture, melding full orchestra and fully extended hyperpiano. An aleatoric section – in which zigzagging cascades of flowing piano notes are literally dialed to the Disklavier from a mini-keyboard
played by the soloist – gives way to the bumptious thoroughly C-major melody of the finale which bubbles along cheerfully over and through many rhythmic displacements. There is a last quick game of hide-and-go-seek between the Disklavier and the orchestra before the music slips over the horizon – you don’t hear pitches any more, only rhythm and a final pianissimo thump, like the mysterious bounce of a tennis ball tossed by an unseen hand.
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Posted on March 1, 2017 by onespoiledcat
It’s Time To Tell!!!!
We thought we had ya with yesterday’s Teaser…………….it was an old photo – kind of blurry and the color was all faded and we figured nobody would guess! We were WRONG……….but first things first of course as always…….bright and early and right off the mark when we went live we had our FIRST COMMENTER and it was:
Oliver and Calvin ! from Facebook
WELL DONE DOODS – HERE’S YOUR PRIZE!
Now let me show you the photo from yesterday one last time before we spill the beans………
Remember that this photo was taken in the 60s…….and it was taken by my Mom’s Mom while on a trip to Portugal. This is the Fatima Cathedral in Fatima, Portugal and that big tree is known as “The Tree of Visions”…… this website talks a bit about this sacred place (**NOTE** there is a pop-up ad before you get the site – just click SKIP THIS AD to go to the site!).
My Mom’s Mom was there with people from her office – she was a civilian employee of the US Department of the Army and her office went there for a conference and got to do some sight-seeing while there.
If you look VERY CAREFULLY and CLOSELY at that little building that everyone is walking towards you might see a few people on their knees – a lady in white and behind her two other people – they are on their knees as they approach the shrine paying homage.
SO – who was the FIRST to guess correctly?????? Well, that little honor goes to Da Phenny and his Staff – we think Angel Easy might have had a paw in it too – as you remember he was known as the KING OF TEASERS!
A couple of others guessed it too – those of you who DID, get this:
AND OF COURSE – last but not least – we have the GREENIE BRIGADE! Didn’t know or guessed wrong? Here’s your badge!
So that’s it for another exciting Teaser week………please remember, if your humans think they have a good photo for the Teaser – tell them to send it to us! We need some challenging photos for our “stash” of possible Teasers! It’s fun when you KNOW where it is to watch the guesses roll in!
Until next week – Study Hard! Otherwise Sarge might get after you! (EEEEEEEEEEK)
Hugs from your Dynamic Duo
Angel Professor Sam and Assistant Prof Teddy
Filed under Angel Cat, Cat Blog, Funny Cat Blog, Life With Cats, Vacation Snapshots and tagged fatima, guess where, Portugal | 40 Comments
Clowie on March 1, 2017 at 3:01 AM said:
Hi Sammy!
onespoiledcat on March 1, 2017 at 6:34 AM said:
Hi Beautiful Clowie!! ❤
I’m pleased to collect another Greenie.
Remind me, why isn’t there a badge for first comment on Tell-All day?
Gosh – PRESSURE PRESSURE……..maybe one day we’ll have 87 badges for “last guesser”, “half way through the day guesser”………and who knows – maybe even “craziest guess EVER” !!
Sounds good to me!! 😀 😀
Tails Around the Ranch on March 1, 2017 at 2:40 PM said:
Ooh, ooh…if there was a prize for being last (and incorrect), I’d win that every week. LOL Late to the pawty again, sweet Teddy and Sammy. Congrats to the winners; we are most happy for them!
Phenny is the pup that never sleeps – he’s always right there no matter WHEN the Teaser goes up – AND same for a few others who are always RIGHT THERE – believe me – we aren’t always RIGHT THERE – we try to be but when we schedule a time for the blog to go live sometimes Mom is BUSY and not there to see who’s first or who’s right! Anyway, KEEP ON TRYING!
Love, Angel Sam and Teddy
easyweimaraner on March 1, 2017 at 3:12 AM said:
concats oliver&calvin and concats da phenny hehehehe ;o) I love the last photo… it is the 100% evidence that teddy was sent by an angel…
Oh I agree – Teddy most certainly WAS sent by an Angel……..and we love BOTH of them to bits.
CONCATULATIONS ON FIRST RIGHT GUESSER!!
Animalcouriers on March 1, 2017 at 3:40 AM said:
Well done Da Phenny and his Mom!
We agree – totally!!!
Photofinland by Rantasalot on March 1, 2017 at 5:22 AM said:
The last photo is great, as easyweimaraner said.
Just like two peas in a pod……interesting how Teddy and his Guardian Angel look a lot alike!
katsrus on March 1, 2017 at 6:33 AM said:
Congrats to the winners. I get a greenie. Have a great day.
Enjoy your BIT of GREEN!
MrJackFreckles/Pipo & Minko on March 1, 2017 at 8:45 AM said:
Whoot! Only thing we were right in was that pawppy was not right,MOL!!!
We will grab the greenie and let petcretary run off to do all her not-kitty things…
By the way,green is a great color for March!
And congrats to Phenny!!
15andmeowinge on March 1, 2017 at 9:02 AM said:
Congrats to Oliver, Calvin and Phenny! I was way off, I thought the photo was taken in the US. XO
Piglove on March 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM said:
Gosh darn it. What an awesome place. Shakes head. This little piggy has to get out more – snorts with piggy laughter. Happy Wednesday! XOXO – Bacon
Kismet on March 1, 2017 at 9:43 AM said:
Poland, Portugal-they’re close in the encyclopedia and they’re both Europe to me.
Under the Oaks on March 1, 2017 at 9:59 AM said:
Congratulations to all the winners! It is a beautiful cathedral!
kittiesblue on March 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM said:
They really are the dynamic duo. Mom is getting very excited for the 4th…not too sure about Mau. CM continues to try to play with him but nothing goes further than smacky paws until Mauricio finally hisses. Cooper, however, is persistent. We believe he will eventually wear Mauricio down. Sending lots of love to all. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo and Cooper Murphy
Two French Bulldogs on March 1, 2017 at 11:02 AM said:
Whooa! Good guess. We were definitely in the wrong part of the world
Brian on March 1, 2017 at 11:37 AM said:
That is an amazing place boys. Way to go Phenny!!!
onespoiledcat on March 1, 2017 at 12:25 PM said:
YAY FOR DA PHENNY!!!!!! 🙂
Molly and my Mom @ The Fast and the Furriest on March 1, 2017 at 11:39 AM said:
Congrats to the winners!! What an amazing place to have visited!!
My Mom never mentioned visiting there at all – in the mid-60s I was out living on my own and my parents were divorcing – it was only after my Mom passed away that I got her photo albums and discovered all the traveling she’d done! Thankfully she had written on the back of the photos where they were taken! It was a fun TEASER…….
cecilia07 on March 1, 2017 at 11:53 AM said:
Da Phenny and Angel Easy are a duo to be reckoned with for sure.
WE might have the WordPress problem fixed. We’ll see tomorrow
Millie and Walter’s Mom sent a message to word press they suggestions which Mom followed:
1) check spam folder, 2) check to see if we show up in following blog list, we did; however, we did select comments and found that somehow a check was on “block emails to me from wordpress”! Of course mom changed that lickety split.
But she was getting some WordPress notices even with that checked. We’ll see tomorrow
Oh I’m glad at least there’s HOPE that you’ll start getting your notices!!!! Today WE are having problems commenting on Blogger blogs! Don’t recognize our WordPress ID………what’s up in the blogosphere? Strange happenings!
Love, Angel Sammy and Teddy
Dianna on March 1, 2017 at 12:52 PM said:
Concats to the winners. Well done, you two ginger guys!
The Florida Furkids on March 1, 2017 at 1:55 PM said:
ConCatulations to the winners. We love that last photo!!! Two Peas in a Pod for SURE!!!
onespoiledcat on March 1, 2017 at 2:05 PM said:
That’s us – the GINGER TWINS………!!
The Swiss Cats on March 1, 2017 at 3:48 PM said:
Amazing ! Concatulations to the winners ! Purrs
Frankie and Ernie on March 1, 2017 at 5:15 PM said:
We think that Da Phenny is Blogville’s Official EARLY BIRD.
The Island Cats on March 1, 2017 at 5:42 PM said:
We never would have guessed Portugal. Congrats to all that knew.
Flynn on March 1, 2017 at 6:01 PM said:
Concats to Da Phenny! My mum has never been to that part of Portugal but says she might get there one day.
Concats to Oliver and Calvin too.
Flynn my Mom hasn’t been there either but I imagine it’s quite a well-visited spot in Portugal! Hugs to you all!
Love, Angel Sam, Teddy and Mom
Hailey and Zaphod on March 1, 2017 at 7:27 PM said:
Your family is so well traveled Teddy and Sammy.
The Canadian Cats on March 1, 2017 at 9:47 PM said:
Oh wow…Never been there….heck I haven’t been anywhere! A beautiful picture though.
Old photo but interesting place!
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Chapter 957: Taking A Risk
Dhaka had never expected that something like that would happen right after they stepped into the thick fog. After calling out a few times loudly without receiving a response, he knew that something odd had happened to Dagmar and Asser. They wouldnt just vanish like that.
He gave it some thought; the three of them werent even that far apart. Their sudden disappearance caused Dhaka to be on even higher alert.
He had intended to find the other two before proceeding any deeper, but before he could sweep the area with his consciousness to locate them, he noticed that he had been wrapped by a thick layer of seemingly benign smoke. It was as if he had fallen into a quagmire, constantly sinking and about to be submerged at any moment. His limbs felt thousands of times heavier than before. It took him more than ten times the force to even raise his arm.
As the smoke enveloped him, it entered his body through his pores. Not only did he feel much heavier, he also started to numb. The smoke definitely contained some form of toxin.
Even so, it was not able to do any proper harm to him. Dhaka smirked as he caused the energy of destruction in his body to erupt from his body, annihilating the toxin that had entered it and forming a barrier over his body at the same time.
All of a sudden, the weight of the smoke was suddenly lifted, giving him back control over his body.
Being one of the twelve Hegemons of the overgod realm, Dhaka was famous for his combat strength. The edict of destruction had always been one that focused on powerful attacks, and Dhaka was willing to do anything to constantly get stronger. A minor setback like this wouldn't be able to overcome him.
After breaking from the toxic smoke, he made a sweep with his soul in an attempt to locate Dagmar and Asser. However, his mastery over this was still inferior to Dagmar's. He felt his soul sense being restricted from spreading too far by a weird body of air. He couldn't even span the hundred meters in his immediate surroundings, let alone find Dagmar and Asser across the whole of Pandemonium.
Thankfully Bryan's not in Pandemonium. Otherwise, he would've taken the chance to sneak attack one of us already, he thought as he slowly marched towards the depths of Pandemonium.
Meanwhile near the center of Pandemonium...
"Dhaka really is impressive. He was barely affected by the fog. I guess my master was right. The outer defenses might work against normal gods, but not those at the overgod realm," Gilbert said. Seeing Dhaka shake off the effects of the fog from the magical mirror and break through a few barriers within Pandemonium, he felt rather impressed.
"Every expert that reaches the overgod realm are terrifying beings. Dhaka, Dagmar and Asser, being Hegemons of the godhunters, are people who have emerged to stand atop a mountain of corpses. We can't afford to underestimate people like that!" Bollands said with a serious look. After a moment, he looked to Han Hao and said, "With him barging in so forcefully, I worry that most of the formations won't be able to stop him. Do you think we should lead him to this spot instead?" He pointed at an area that looked like a small hill.
The Five Elite Zombies, seeing Bollands point at the spot, seemed a little taken aback. However, they didn't speak a word and only turned to Han Hao.
As the leader of the Fringe-dwelling godhunters, Han Hao was well trusted by Stratholme, Phoebe and the others of the House of Han, despite not spending much time with them.
Han Hao looked at the spot with a contemplative gaze. After a moment of thought, he said, "Alright. I'll make a trip there myself to lead him there."
Han Jin, surprised, said, "Big Brother, let someone else do it. Over there is where the most terrifying formation of Pandemonium is deployed. Father had warned us that the formation doesn't differentiate friend from foe. Anyone that enters the area will be attacked indiscriminately, and the formation won't ever stop working as long as there is a sign of life in it and the energy within Pandemonium hasn't been used up!"
"It's fine," he said. He didn't say anything else before turning to leave.
"Wait!" Though Scarlett didn't really seem too worried at first, she felt something was off after listening to Bollands and Han Jin.
Han Hao turned to her and said, "I will be fine!" He left right after without delay.
Just as he left, through the magical mirror, everyone noticed Dhaka activating his divine energy to the fullest, forming Orbs of Destruction to be sent all over the place indiscriminately. Some of the formations were more or less ruined by the chaotic bombardment while others could barely operate at full capacity.
Unlike Dhaka, Dagmar and Asser had entered Pandemonium with utmost caution despite how brave sounding they were initially. They were so careful that they only took small steps, unlike Dhaka who destroyed almost everything he came across.
"These two are huge threats as well. They didn't go all out because they still didn't have a grasp of the situation before. Once they leave the fog and are no longer under its influence, they'll definitely go blasting away at everything in Pandemonium like Dhaka," Bollands calmly said.
"Don't worry. They'll soon encounter the Infernal Psychedemon Formation. The two of them will be held back there for some time at least. Once they leave it, the Skysunder Lightning Formation awaits. So, there's no need to worry about the two of them," Han Jin whispered to Bollands.
"Great!" Bollands' voice was raised a little higher to draw the attention of the others. "Everyone, let's get preparing. Once Han Hao leads Dhaka into that place, we'll immediately leave Pandemonium through the underground tunnel. The three's subordinates are waiting outside and I want to use our households might to deal a heavy blow to them while the three are in here."
"Of course!" Sangius loudly said, "Since those godhunters have a deathwish, we should oblige!"
"Sanguis, instruct the guards to get ready. However, wait for my signal. Only bring them into the fight through the underground tunnel after I say it's clear, alright?" Bollands warned, knowing how reckless Sanguis could be sometimes.
"Don't worry, I know what to do!" Sanguis said before impatiently leaving with Gilbert.
Within the valley, all sorts of formations were covered in fog. Han Hao flew past them like a wraith armed with his bone spear.
A few demon generals stealthily flew out from his bone spear and snuck up to Dhaka, who was destroying everything in the distance, to monitor his every move.
Han Hao had memorized all the formations and energy barriers Andrina had deployed along the way thanks to his impeccable memory. He quickly sped towards Dhaka.
An insidious aura was present all across Pandemonium. Whenever the formations were activated, the killing intent they radiated would cause those within it to feel a chill down their spine which would also affect the energy within their bodies. However, Han Hao didn't hate this place. Instead, he found it rather comfortable. The environment was ideal for his cultivation of demonic arts.
His bone spear swayed about in his hand and shot out a dark beam from time to time, all the while an eerie wail emanated from it. Though, it was so soft that one wouldn't pick it up unless one really listened for it.
Gradually, he arrived at the location Bollands had talked about; he could already feel the danger as he approached. The demon generals that he sent out made sure to avoid that area and even the countless souls contained within the bone spear seemed to want to leave the area too.
"You may go anywhere you want within Pandemonium, but you'll have to be on your utmost care at one place. Even you shouldn't enter it! That place will destroy anything that enters it regardless if it's friend or foe!" Feeling the fear coming from the souls in the bone spear, Han Hao recalled Han Shuo's warning to him before he left. He stood still at the edge of the area without taking a single step in. He gave it some thought before pushing the spear into the ground by his feet as he infused some odd runes and energy into it.
He then let go. The bone spear sank slowly into the ground until only one small part of it was exposed. It then began to let out a grey smoke.
After some hesitation, Han Hao left empty handed and charged past the various formations back to where Dhaka was. Soon, he was there and he immediately sent a surge of soul energy rumbling towards him.
All of a sudden, Dhaka felt his head hurt midway through his rampage and immediately noticed Han Hao's presence. The physically tough Dhaka was a little weak towards soul attacks, so the full-powered soul energy strike Han Hao used was enough to make Dhaka feel his head splitting with pain.
He hurriedly stopped his wanton destruction and focused his attention on resisting the soul attack. Just as he was doing so, he noticed that the soul energy that permeated his consciousness had vanished the next instant. Not far from him, Han Hao looked a little panicked as he attempted to flee.
"Hmph, you've come to die, have you not?!" Dhaka smirked and couldn't wait to give chase. He was not a cultivator of the edict of death and therefore, even if Han Hao had mastered the Quintessence Shard's power, hed still be immune to its effects.
That's why, while Dagmar was afraid of Han Hao, Dhaka wasn't.
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Nature Research
Editorial Summary—The mitigating effect of repeated memory reactivations on forgetting
Improving memory with “Partial Recall”
Warren Raye
Head of Outreach & Partnerships, EMEA & Australasia, Open Research Group, Springer Nature
No need for total recall, remembering a part can strengthen the whole. When Hugo Lehmann and colleagues at Trent University asked volunteers how many previously seen images contained a simple feature (e.g., living object), forgetting was reduced compared to volunteers who only viewed the images. Furthermore, this benefit was akin to that of volunteers who were asked to described the images in full detail. In both cases, the reduction in forgetting was achieved with only three recall opportunities and persisted for at least 28 days, including improvements in quality and quantity. Thus, our most lasting and vivid long-term memories should be amongst those that we reactivate from time-to-time, whether in whole or in part. This may also account for why some memories are less vulnerable than others to neurodegeneration and brain injury.
This original research article is freely available in the companion journal npj Science of Learning here.
Based in our London office, I am the Head of Outreach & Partnerships for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australasia.
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Qualcomm announces its first Snapdragon 4 series 5G chipset Today, Qualcomm is introducing the Snapdragon 480 5G platform, and the major significance is that it's the firm's first entry-level 5G chipset. While you can get a Snapdragon 690 handset for under $300, these smartphones will be in the $125-$250 tier. Indeed, a $125 5G smartphone is unheard of in the current market. "Qualcomm Technologies continues to accelerate 5G commercialization globally to make 5G smartphones more accessible, especially as people worldwide continue to connect remotely," said Ke
Apple Reportedly Placed a Large mmWave 5G Antenna Order for the Upcoming iPhone 13 Family
mood posted a topic in Mobile News
Apple Reportedly Placed a Large mmWave 5G Antenna Order for the Upcoming iPhone 13 Family For 2020, when Apple unveiled the iPhone 12 series, mmWave 5G support was only available in the U.S., but things could take a different turn when the iPhone 13 officially announces. A fresh report claims that Apple is working with foreign telecom companies to bring mmWave 5G support to other regions in the coming years. To speed up this standard's proliferation, the iPhone giant has apparently placed a large order for mmWave antennas. Qiqi Will Reportedly Be Added to Apple’s
T-Mobile launches its first 5G hotspot alongside 100GB standalone plan
Reefa posted a topic in General News
T-Mobile has announced its first 5G hotspot, one that can be activated on multiple standalone plans offering up to 100GB of data per month. There are some big advantages to the 5G hotspot over the 4G LTE alternatives, including support for a huge number of devices connected simultaneously and lower prices with higher data caps. The new T-Mobile 5G MiFi M2000 hotspot supports both Extended Range and Ultra Capacity 5G network connectivity, as well as 4G LTE when in places where 5G isn’t yet available. In addition to the support for connecting up to 30 devices, T-Mobile says the
It's better to burn out than fade Huawei: UK rolls out schedule for rip-and-replace rules
steven36 posted a topic in General News
Nothing from Chinese bogeyman allowed in core network by early 2023 The UK's Ministry of Fun* has published its roadmap for the removal of so-called high-risk vendors from UK telecoms networks as part of the second parliamentary reading of the Telecoms Security Bill. The roadmap adds detail to the previous edicts, which banned wireless carriers from acquiring new Huawei-made equipment by the end of the year, and forces them to fully remove existing Huawei kit by the conclusion of 2027. By the end of March 2021, networks will be prohibited from u
Motorola Moto G 5G gets leaked with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 750G
steven36 posted a topic in Mobile News
The phone will reportedly have a 6.6" display and a 5,000 mAh battery. What you need to know A recently leaked photo shows off the Moto G 5G with a Snapdragon 750G SoC. This could be one of the first phones to use Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 750G. The phone will reportedly have a 6.66-inch display, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 5,000 mAh battery. A recently leaked photo by Slashleaks has revealed the Moto G 5G, Motorola's next 5G budget phone with Qualcomm's brand-new Snapdragon 750G chipset.
How Apple Built 5G Into Its New iPhones
How Apple Built 5G Into Its New iPhones The faster wireless standard uses different chunks of the radio spectrum—but the technology remains nascent. Apple's new iPhones will operate in both the slower, longer-range “midband,” as well as the super-fast, short-range millimeter-wave frequencies for 5G. Photograph: Brooks Kraft/Apple In introducing its first 5G phones on Tuesday, Apple said it had tested them on more than 100 networks. That’s a s
In China, Apple's 5G iPhone 12 sparks fever-pitch, but divided reaction
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple’s iPhone 12 launch drew mixed reactions in mainland China on Wednesday, with fans cheering a 5G model for their favourite brand while others planned to wait for upcoming devices from local rivals like Huawei Technologies. The much-anticipated Apple launch comes in the wake of Chinese Android-platform brands such as Huawei and Xiaomi Corp having already rolled out higher-end 5G devices compatible with China’s upgraded telecoms networks, with the U.S. giant seen by some analysts to be late to the party. In its second-largest market
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The WIRED Guide to 5G
Karlston posted a topic in Guides & Tutorials
The WIRED Guide to 5G Here's everything you'll ever want to know about the spectrum, millimeter-wave technology, and why 5G could give China an edge in the AI race. The future depends on connectivity. From artificial intelligence and self-driving cars to telemedicine and mixed reality to as yet undreamt technologies, all the things we hope will make our lives easier, safer, and healthier will require high-speed, always-on internet connections. To keep up with the explosion of new connec
MediaTek announces T750 chipset for 5G fixed wireless access routers
Karlston posted a topic in Technology News
MediaTek announces T750 chipset for 5G fixed wireless access routers Today, MediaTek is announcing its latest 5G chipset, the T750. But unlike other 5G chipsets that we've covered, this one isn't made for phones. It's designed to be used in fixed wireless access routers and mobile hotspots. In other words, this is the type of thing that you can use to get a 5G home Wi-Fi network set up. "Pervasive high-speed broadband connectivity is becoming more important with the increase in connected devices and the surge of people working from home, taking online classe
Qualcomm is bringing 5G to everyone with cheap 5G Snapdragon chips
Qualcomm is bringing 5G to everyone with cheap 5G Snapdragon chips Dirt-cheap Snapdragon 4-series chips will make nearly every phone a 5G phone. Enlarge / The Snapdragon 4 series is near the bottom of Qualcomm's lineup and is used in most cheap devices. Qualcomm 64 with 30 posters participating Qualcomm's push for 5G will soon hit some of the cheapest phones on the market. Today, the company announced 5G is coming to the Snapdragon 4-series in "early 2021." Qualcomm says the goal of these
ZTE Axon 20 5G revealed with under-display tech: camera, fingerprint reader, speakers
Reefa posted a topic in Mobile News
Today we’re taking a peek at the newly-revealed ZTE Axon 20 5G, otherwise known as the “world’s first under-display camera smartphone.” This device might not look particularly extraordinary at first – it’s not really meant to be particularly striking in outward appearance. Instead, it’s meant to do what any other smartphone does, without the drawback of having a space up front for a camera – be it a wide bezel, a notch, or a hole in the phone’s display. Up front the ZTE Axon 20 5G works with a 6.92-inch FDH+ (2460 x 1080 pixel) OLED display. This phone delivers under-display finger
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Samsung could build UK 5G if Huawei is banned
Samsung could build UK 5G if Huawei is banned Samsung says it can provide mobile operators with 5G kit (Image credit: focustech) Samsung says it could provide the kit necessary for UK operators to build 5G networks should they be banned from procuring Huawei equipment. The Korean electronics giant has a limited presence in the mobile equipment market but has big ambitions for 5G, hoping to secure 20 per cent of the market by 2020. It has seen strong demand in its native South Korea as well as from US operators who are ba
Qualcomm launches new Snapdragon 690 processor to add 5G to budget phones
Qualcomm launches new Snapdragon 690 processor to add 5G to budget phones Along with support for 4K HDR video and 120Hz displays Qualcomm is launching its next 5G chipset today, the Snapdragon 690, the first product in its 6-series chips to get support for the next-generation networking standard — although it’ll only support the slower sub-6GHz versions of 5G, not the faster mmWave standard. The new Snapdragon 690 also promises a variety of other improvements over the previous 6-series chips. Qualcomm says it’ll
AT&T SAYS IT WILL (KINDA SORTA) START OFFERING A 5G NETWORK
The AchieVer posted a topic in Software News
Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES In January, AT&T said it would launch a 5G wireless network in 2018. On Tuesday, the company said it would meet that target—barely—by launching a 5G service in parts of 12 cities starting Friday. Even in those cities, though, few people will be able to use the service anytime soon. Eventually, 5G is expected to deliver speeds around 200 times faster than today's 4G wireless networks. For now, though, AT&T's new network, dubbed 5G+, and a 5G home wireless network launched by Verizon in
5G: A transformation in progress
The AchieVer posted a topic in Technology Talk
5G: A transformation in progress Early 5G deployments are now under way, and general awareness of 5G is increasing. However, fully operational 5G networks that can support advanced business-transforming use cases are still under development. Analogue mobile phones first appeared in the early 1980s, and were used for voice calls only (imagine that!). Second-generation (2G) digital mobiles made their debut a decade later with GSM, offering text messaging (SMS) as the 'killer application' on top of voice services, b
New security flaw impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G telephony protocols
steven36 posted a topic in Security & Privacy News
Researchers have reported their findings and fixes should be deployed by the end of 2019. A new vulnerability has been discovered in the upcoming 5G cellular mobile communications protocol. Researchers have described this new flaw as more severe than any of the previous vulnerabilities that affected the 3G and 4G standards. Further, besides 5G, this new vulnerability also impacts the older 3G and 4G protocols, providing surveillance tech vendors with a new flaw they can abuse to create next-gen IMSI-catchers that work across all modern telephony protocols.
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Apple considered Samsung, MediaTek to supply 5G modems for 2019 iPhones
(Reuters) - Apple Inc held talks with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and MediaTek Inc along with existing vendor Intel Corp to supply 5G modem chips for 2019 iPhones, according to an Apple executive’s testimony at a trial between Qualcomm Inc and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday. Between 2011 and 2016, Apple relied on San Diego-based Qualcomm as the sole supplier of such chips, which help iPhones connect to wireless networks. Starting in 2016, Apple split the business between Intel and Qualcomm, but in 2018, Apple moved solely to Intel for its newest phones.
AT&T promises nationwide 5G in early 2020 — using sub-6GHz spectrum
AT&T already launched its initial mobile 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities last December, but it’s now preparing for full nationwide coverage — a dauntingly large task that its millimeter wave small cells won’t be able to handle alone. This morning, the carrier revealed that it will “offer nationwide 5G coverage with our lower band spectrum,” specifically the sub-6GHz frequencies discussed in our interview with AT&T VP Gordon Mansfield yesterday. Above: Netgear's Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot is the first AT&T mobile 5G device, and already available for purchase.
Will 5G play a role in IoT security?
The AchieVer posted a topic in Technology News
Will 5G play a role in IoT security? Threats abound for connected devices as carriers prepare for next-generation of wireless mobile communications. The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow as more and more devices, sensors, assets, and other "things" are connected and share data. Still, many remain concerned
Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas, T-Mobile says
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Germany planning 'trustworthy' supplier requirement for all networks and 5G
The AchieVer posted a topic in General News
Germany planning 'trustworthy' supplier requirement for all networks and 5G A draft of updated security requirements is set to appear in Northern Hemisphere's spring. Germany's Federal Network Agency, the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), published on Thursday a set of planned additional security requirements for telco networks within the country, which are due to appear in draft form during the Northern Hemisphere's spring. The BNetzA point
China to lead APAC tech spend, 5G race ahead of global markets
China to lead APAC tech spend, 5G race ahead of global markets China will remain Asia's largest in terms of tech spending, growing 4 percent this year and 6 percent in 2020, and lead global markets in the 5G race where its investments in telecommunications account for 57 percent of the country's overall spend. China is expected to remain Asia's largest spender in technology, forking out US$256 billion this year and US$273 billion in 2020, as well as lead global markets in 5G where the country's investments in
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These British cows got access to 5G before most people
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Watch a Verizon 5G phone hit speeds faster than your home Internet
It was under ideal conditions, but Verizon finally puts real numbers to mobile 5G. Enlarge / The blazing fast conclusion of Verizon's speed test. David Weissmann It was a bit earlier than scheduled, but Verizon switched on parts of its 5G network today, debuting in "select areas" of Minneapolis and Chicago. Every carrier out there likes to slice and dice definitions to have the "First 5G" everything, but in terms of using a real, mmWave 5G signal and something approximating a 5G smartphone, Verizon has made the most progress yet in
MG Hector to Be India's First Internet Car, Technology Revealed
MG Hector to Be India's First Internet Car, Technology Revealed MG Motor India’s first car will be the Hector SUV which will go on sale in Q2 this year. The second car, which will arrive in 2020, will be a pure electric vehicle - eZS. MG Hector SUV. (Image: MG Motor India) MG Motor (Morris Garages) has showcased their car technology in India with the launch of the iSMART Next Gen, developed in partnership with global technology players. The MG Hector, which will go on sale in June this year, will come with iSMART Next Gen and will be the first internet car in India.
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Hacker Fundamentals: A Gentle Introduction to How IP Addresses Work
By Allen Freeman
Imagine you're in Paris and you need to get to Versailles. Looking around for directions, you come to a cold realization—you do not speak a lick of French! How are you going to get to Versailles and what happens if there is a detour? It will be a difficult struggle, and you'd probably get lost and eventually fail. This is why it's important to know some of the country's language before taking that trip in the first place.
This is the same approach you should take with IT security. Only this time, you are not in Paris, you are in your bedroom looking for open and vulnerable machines on some host ranges. You look at the IP addresses in slight confusion—you know what an IP address is, but do you know what it does? Can you tell how large the network is from its IP? This is the language of the Internet.
In this article, I will provide a gentle technical introduction to IP addresses, explaining how they are more then just a bunch of numbers that point to a resource. These networking topics will slowly ramp up, and by the time all is said and done in this series, you will find yourself much more comfortable at the helm.
What Is an IP Address? Really?
In a nutshell, an IP address is a unique identifier for a location and/or resource on the Internet or TCP/IP network. I am sure most of you reading this knew that, so let's break those numbers down a little bit.
The current version of Internet Protocol, or IP, is version 4. This version allows four octets of data to represent an IP address. Each octet is considered to be the same as a byte, and there are 8 bits in every octet for a total of 32 bits. A bit itself can be one of two values, usually represented as 1 or 0. Finally, each octet is separated by a period.
The newer IP version 6 (IPv6) standard features addresses 16 bytes (128 bits) in length, however this has not gained widespread support yet, and IPv4 remains the standard still today.
There are two notations to show an IPv4 address—decimal and binary. You are most likely familiar with the former example of 86.118.34.65. Probably less so with a binary address like 11000001 10000011 00011011 11111111.
Want to learn more about binary? Click here.
IP Address Classes
An address is also divided into three classes; A, B, and C. While there are two more classes, they lay beyond our scope right now, as they are only used for special roles like multicasting. These three classes have a fixed number of IP addresses, as shown below. In each address, there is a "class identifier," a "network identifier" and a "host identifier" encoded.
As you can see, an A-class network has a large amount of possible hosts, whereas a C-class network only has 254 available.
I know you're already burning to know why a C-class only has 254 host addresses available, and not the full 256. If you calculated the number of hosts for the B- and A-classes, too, you'll have realized that they are also smaller by two hosts from the theoretical maximum. The answer is that the lowest address, the one with all bits in the host part set to 0 is used to address the network itself, and the highest address, having all bits of the host part set to 1, is used as broadcast address, meaning all hosts in this net.
A bit can be one of two values, usually represented as 1 or 0.
A byte is 8 bits.
As a binary sequence of eight 1's or 0's. Ex: 11001100
As a decimal number. For example, the above binary number's decimal equivalent is 204.
As there are 8 bits in a byte, each byte can represent 256 possible values.
So, the binary would be 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111111, making the address you see 255.255.255.255.
Likewise, a binary address of 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 would be 0.0.0.0.
This all might seem confusing now, but hang tight, because it will make much more sense in my next article about subnets and diving up a network. For right now, just file this little bit of information away. The key is to take away the idea of separate classes and how they determine network size.
Humans, being somewhat different from computers, have difficulty remembering lots of similar numbers. Working with names is much easier for us and less prone to errors. That's why you rarely see the bare numbers on the Internet. In fact, when you enter a URL into your browser to view a website, your request must first be translated from the readable written address, into an IP address that can be routed. This translation is done by the Domain Name System, in short: DNS.
If you send off a request to connect to a certain website, let's say www.yahoo.com, you actually first send a request to the DNS server to lookup and translate into the correct IP address of 209.191.122.70. With this IP address, you then make the actual connection to the website. This happens behind the scenes and usually quick enough you don't notice.
Also note, there is nothing stopping you from just typing an IP address into your web browser and connecting that way either.
Once you grasp these entry level networking concepts, they will be the foundation for your hacking. As you understand network architecture more, you will understand how some attacks work, and why others do not. I have always thought the proper hacker must have knowledge in programming, networking and operating systems.
In the next article, I will go into how to divide your networks up using subnetting. We will then go over DMZs and why you must know how to work through them in order to get to the real target and all of the juicy data.
Commonly Used Addresses and Values
127.0.0.1 — The loopback interface address. All 127.x.x.x addresses are used by the loopback interface which copies data from the transmit buffer to the receive buffer of the NIC when used.
0.0.0.0 — This is reserved for hosts that don't know their address and use BOOTP or DHCP to determine their addresses.
255 — The value of 255 is never used as an address for any part of the IP address. It is reserved for broadcast addressing.
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Zafir Kanji 8 years ago
I can't wait for the next article! I just discovered this site a few months ago and I can't get enough! I wish I knew more about this stuff so I could be a contributor! Alas, a noob I am. But even if I can't contribute, I will be here all the time!
Microdon 8 years ago
I lIke the style of this article - easy to follow but full of little gems of information. Waiting for the next one!
Mohammed Habeeb 8 years ago
Great.. I am eagerly waiting for the next article in line as everyone else. Hats off to you man..
Allen Freeman 8 years ago
Thanks for the comments! I hope to make this into a weekly topic. Each week something new about networking slowly ramping up in concepts.
Royce Miller 8 years ago
Nice article, can't wait for the next! :) been wanting to understand subnetting better.. This site rox face XD
WikiAnon Mudit 8 years ago
kool... nice one..
Don Thomas 8 years ago
Awesome ! And I am was looking for the next one. Is the next article ready? If so, please link up to it.
"In the next article, I will go into how to divide your networks up using subnetting."
Astenon 6 years ago
Is the next article up? I have been looking for it
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Patient Care, Innovation
Nano-Instrumentation Achieves Superior Foot & Ankle Outcomes—Outside the Operating Room
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. John G. Kennedy has pioneered an innovative, in-office visualization approach that is improving outcomes for patients with foot and ankle conditions.
Photo: NYU Langone Staff
A novel, in-office visualization approach is transforming outcomes by combining enhanced diagnostic capabilities with immediate, minimally invasive treatment for foot and ankle conditions. NYU Langone Health specialists—who pioneered the system’s use and have now performed it in the most cases worldwide—are working to extend the frontier of its applications throughout the intricate foot and ankle anatomy.
With Real-Time Insights, Enhanced Surgical Decision-Making
The nano-instrumentation technique applies a leading-edge visualization system combining imaging sensors, LED light, and image management to perform minimally invasive arthroscopy and guide injections in tight joint spaces that have previously been difficult to visualize. The needle-sized, 1.9-mm chip-on-the-tip NanoScope™ system enables diagnosis of arthritis and cartilage injuries as well as arthroscopic treatments of the foot and ankle, with local anesthesia in the physician’s office.
Pioneered at NYU Langone by John G. Kennedy, MD, chief of the Division of Foot and Ankle Surgery and professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, the nano-instrumentation approach was first used to remove a patient’s bone spurs and scar tissue from a prior cartilage restoration surgery. Its benefits—the concurrent evaluation of the surgical area and immediate, targeted treatment—were apparent to the patient, who walked out of the office within 15 minutes.
“Suddenly we have the ability, outside of the operating room, to see inside joints, tendon sheaths—anywhere within the body—with clarity equivalent to or better than standard arthroscopy,” notes Dr. Kennedy.
“Patients’ understanding of their pathology can predict outcomes, and now I can show my patients what is happening—problem and solution—in real time. It’s the most interactive patients can get in their healthcare and recovery.”—John G. Kennedy, MD
Awake patients become real-time participants in their procedure and treatment. “Patients’ understanding of their pathology can predict outcomes, and now I can show my patients what is happening—problem and solution—in real time,” adds Dr. Kennedy. “It’s the most interactive patients can get in their healthcare and recovery.”
Although Dr. Kennedy has used the technique in patients of all ages, he notes that it’s most effective in mild to moderate pathologies in a younger patient population, and those patients are selected carefully. “This doesn’t displace sophisticated imaging or replace the need for larger surgeries for treatments, like implants, that can’t fit in a 2-millimeter portal,” Dr. Kennedy notes. “But I think we are heading toward a time when visiting an orthopedic surgeon will be more like visiting your dentist—you’ll go in for a small procedure and expect to leave on the same day.”
Faster Mobility Tied to Shorter Recovery
The real-time view improves visualization and understanding for both patient and physician. A patient may not comprehend why an injury causes pain during exercise, but seeing the scars and bone spurs on the ankle joint elucidates the problem. At the same time, the nano-instrumentation provides diagnostic specificity superior to that of MRI, enabling the surgeon to treat the problem immediately.
“One patient had had several MRIs with different providers, and no one could identify the source of her pain at the top of her ankle joint,” says Dr. Kennedy. “As soon as we put the camera in, we saw a loose piece of bone floating around; we took it out, and she was instantly better.”
The detailed look inside the joints has also enabled Dr. Kennedy and his team to reach—and treat—smaller areas of the anatomy. Conditions such as arthritis in the first MP joint, for example, have become treatable, rather than career limiting, for athletes.
For the broader patient population, the nano-instrumentation approach has altered the course of recovery by nearly eliminating the immobilization that accompanies open surgeries due to soft tissue trauma around the target pathology. The new technique focuses recovery on the primary injury and enables immediate mobilization—critical in cartilage injuries that heal through motion.
The difference is evident in a registry of patient-reported outcome scores Dr. Kennedy created to measure overall patient satisfaction, based on factors such as mobilization and pain. In an early retrospective cohort analysis of 31 patients treated with nano-instrumentation for anteromedial impingement, known commonly as footballer’s ankle, patients demonstrated significant pain reduction and a low complication rate. Additionally, the approach was associated with excellent patient-reported outcomes and high rates of return to work and sport, with patients indicating that their involvement in the awake procedure helped them better understand their injury and recover more quickly.
Reaching Beyond the Surgical Status Quo
Dr. Kennedy and his team continue to push the boundaries of the procedure’s application to bring its benefits to more patients, and are cataloging the wide range of pathologies that may benefit, from tendon debridement to biologic augmentation of joints. The team recently achieved a plantar-plate repair with nano-instrumentation in the second toe, the world’s first recorded procedure in that area.
The technique is particularly promising in cartilage injuries, which commonly occur following minor injuries such as ankle sprains but may not present symptoms until arthritis establishes years later. Such osteochondral injury can now be addressed in-office, where the nano-instrumentation identifies chondral defect and the patient is treated with platelet-rich plasma, significantly simplifying surgery and recovery time.
For athletes and dancers, the approach can mean the difference between returning to their full performance—or not. “Previously, we’d ask patients why they never got back to their previous levels, and they’d tell us they were overly afraid of reinjury,” Dr. Kennedy notes. “Now they can see for themselves that their injury is resolved and the joint is fine.”
The pioneering application of the technique is an example of the drive toward more sophisticated diagnostics and minimally invasive approaches to improve recovery with fewer surgical complications across orthopedic conditions, adds Dr. Kennedy. “Here, striving to be better, by doing things differently from how they were done last year or in prior years, is not only encouraged—it’s an institutional imperative,” he says. “Thanks to that culture, we’re now collaborating with surgeons around the world to help advance this approach.”
Disclosure: John G. Kennedy, MD, is a paid educational consultant to Arthrex, the company that produces the NanoScope™; he receives no financial benefit from the company’s products.
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Santa Clarita Diet Season 4 Release Date, Cancellation & All You Need To Know
Jerrome Pesso
Santa Clarita Diet is an American comedy and horror-based drama that was created and developed by Victor Fresco originally for Netflix. Victor Fresco is himself the producer of this show alongside Barrymore, Olyphant, Aaron Kaplan, Tracy Kautsky, Chris Miller, Ember Truesdell, and Ruben.
The show was a running hit when it was out on Netflix; it’s an amusing genre of comedy and some zombie flavor, which makes it unique from the other shows that air on Netflix. With its unique screenplay and immensely well-written plot, Santa Clarita Diet’s three seasons are still watched in anticipation of the fourth season, after Netflix canceled its fourth season, fans wrote their petitions and have somewhat made Netflix think again.
Santa Clarita Diet Season 4 Cast Details
If Santa Clarita Diet Season 4 releases, it is quite a possibility that we will have the same popular faces alongside some new addition, which, once confirmed, will be updated on our website.
The main cast of Santa Clarita Diet
Main cast:
Drew Barrymore as Sheila Hammond.
Liv Hewson as Abby Hammond.
Timothy Olyphant as Joel Hammond.
Skyler Gisondo as Eric Bemis.
Recurring cast:
Ricardo Chavira as Dan Palmer.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis as Lisa Palmer.
Andy Richter as Carl Coby.
Richard T. Jones as Rick.
Joy Osmanski as Alondra.
Kaylee Bryant, as Sarah.
Zachary Knighton as Paul.
Jee Young Han as Marsha.
Ethan Suplee as Tommy.
Matt Shively as Christian.
Kerri Kenney-Silver as Petra.
Linda Lavin as Jean.
Goran Višnjić as Dobrivoje.
Santa Clarita Diet Plot
The show revolves around Joel and Sheila Hammond, who reside in the city of Santa Clarita. One fine day the couple begins facing a series of obstacles when Sheila somewhat undergoes a metamorphosis and becomes mysteriously undead and suddenly craves human flesh. The show continues with the efforts of Joel and the family, that try to help Sheila go through her metamorphosis.
Joel and Sheila
If Season 4 of this horror series is approved by Netflix, we should expect the following,
Santa Clarita Diet season 3 wrapped up, with Anne leaving, and therefore the Knights being no more a problem to Joel and Sheila. With this being said, Season four can witness the return of Anne along with some new drama and zombie action for the audience, but the main focus could be on Joel being infected by Mrs. Ball and in order to save her husband, Sheila could turn Joel into a zombie. It would really be amusing and Interesting to see what kind of a zombie Joel turns into.
Santa Clarita Diet Season 4 Release Date
If renewed, Santa Clarita Diet Season 4 will be released sometime in 2021. If it follows the pattern of its previous releases, like, Season 1 was released on February 3, 2017, then Season 2 on March 23, 2018, and Season 3 on March 29, 2019. Each season had a gap of 1 year, so if renewed in 2020, we can expect it to come out in 2021.
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Other Sashas
a commonplace journal
Books Read By Year
Classics Project 2011
Marginalia, Monthly Wrap-Up
Finally: Goodbye, July!
29 July 2011 10 August 2011 by Sasha Martinez
Well, that month was particularly ghastly—mostly because Real Life came a-calling. And when it does that, things go very silent around here. But not just in the blog, mind you—but my reading life as a whole.
No, that wasn’t a reading slump—that was Real Life wresting this little joy away from my cold, hard hands. It’s been a crazy month at my job; many times, running like a headless chicken was the only source of respite. And, ugh, there were some two weeks that I read next to nothing—just limply picked up a book here and there, even as I did so, getting that sinking feeling that I’ll abandon it—not really because it sucked, dammit, but because my schedule [read: life] sucked. Gone were the days I’d stay up all night to finish a book—ooh, defiance, dork-style! The past couple of weeks have been so exhausting that all I could do was [a] stare off into space before sleeping, [b] giving a grunt then sleeping, [c] crashing into bed and sleeping.
I had such noble reading-and-blogging plans at the start of the month (especially considering that June was also mostly a no-show for me). I read Greg Baxter’s much talked about memoir about self-destruction [A Preparation for Death], and found enough brain cells to give credit to my experience with it. I followed up with a classic Laura Kinsale [Flowers from the Storm]that I still can’t seem to talk about. Then, I reunited with a writer I first met in high school [Guy de Maupassant’s Pierre et Jean], and reunited with an old favorite (as in, The Red Garden is the sixteenth book of Alice Hoffman that I’ve read).
And then I decided to put my dorkier cap on and read two books, in succession, about how our brain works when it’s reading. Which is, well, hard—working real hard. The two books are in agreement [or, well, jump off from common ground]: the brain was not wired for reading, there’s no specific gene in charge of decoding squiggly lines. Reading was a cultural and evolutionary adaptation, yes, but the brain hasn’t exactly fine-tuned it—so it worked around it: reading in the brain as a convergence of neurological pathways. Consider me awed.
The first book, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryanne Wolf, enjoyed quite a bit of wee-fandom in the blogosphere—and, really, nothing like reading and science thrown together to warm my cackles. But, unfortunately, Proust was bust. Bust. More science than story, and not very engaging science at that. Yes, so much literariness was hinted by that title—Proust! Squid! Brains!—but it was all but invisible. It came off as a shoddily assembled technical treatise on the brain and reading—stiff language, I-don’t-see-your-point organization, and no human element whatsoever. Nothing to make this reader go, “Hey, yeah, that’s me, that’s exactly what reading is. Golly, my brain thinks that way when I read Jane Eyre’s rejection of Rochester?” Which was too damned bad. I mean, hell: an already difficult-to-explain melding of science and culture became just as inscrutable and alien to the reader. Bah.
The second book, Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read, by Stanislas Dehaene, was the surprise. I thought it perfect—it’s just a beautifully crafted, competently written work. It was accessible, approachable, charming, and more interactive—without sacrificing the concentration demanded by complex science. Dehaene shows you how the brain works. For example: he plays around with type, and then tells you how berserk your brain had gone. Anecdotes are used as vivid illustrations, a concrete marker on so lofty a concept as neuroscience. And I felt so goddamned smart! And, Dehaene—you could feel that he loved reading. He was good at all this science stuff, yeah, of course—but you could feel that he’s familiar with all the rollercoaster emotions that involve holding a book in one’s hands. Gah. I went all dorky with this one, love it.
Aherm. So. See? Promising. Right? It kind of stopped there. Again, not just the blogging, but the reading. Egad. What was probably the busiest event concerning my job run roughshod over a lot of people’s lives [including mine, however tangentially], and it just really really really got hectic. As in: stare off into space in the middle of a Serious Discussion, and wail in one’s head, “Oh, wait, I think I can hear my books. My babies! They’re calling for me!” Sleep, too, liked to summon me.
When I did get to find the time to read—actively hunt for time, dammit—I turned to romance novels. Oh, sweet, sweet fuzzy blanket of goodness, I love my romance novels. I read six romance novels this July, and one anthology dressed up as a novel.
I’ve said before that the genre was my go-to genre whenever I feel like life’s goading me to tear my hair out. It’s the genre that I “call home—the don’t-bother-bathing-during-the-weekends kind of home, the put-your-feet-up-while-eating kind of home, the I-will-burp-when-I-need-a-breather kind of home. I realize that I occasionally get tired having my hands clasped in front of me when facing Ooh Literature. Whatever conventional/cliché dichotomy there may be between the literary and the genre—hell, I love ‘em both—but the romance novel’s one of the few things that will allow me to parade around in my underwear and furry slippers. So to speak.” [Yeah. That probably needs elaboration—I’m dying to write something exhaustive about why exactly I love romance novels—but, alas, not today.]
I followed up the reading-brain books with two Loretta Chase favorites. I began my Chase-Reeducation with The Last Hellion. I kind of feel bad for this one, because it came on the heels of Kinsale’s Flowers—and god knows I’ve got a monster post on that book stewing inside me—but, ultimately, I feel bad for The Last Hellion because it failed for me, regardless of whatever novel it followed.
That is, hell: it’s kind of a mediocre book, in my opinion. Fun, yes. Unconventional-ish, yes. But so-so—we’ve got your usual hellion rake with the heart of a marshmallow, and a heroine who’s an orphan-saving virago. And these two, they like to fight for no apparent reason. Because they’re supposed to have an impetuous romance? I’m all for that, dammit, but can we please have a point to these quarrels? Our hero’s a rake because he’s a rake, and, gah, Grenville, though a great character, just won’t relent. Huh. I guess that’s what’s wrong with it: there’s so little relenting, or timely vulnerability, and so much conflict-for-the-sake-of-conflict that I just couldn’t enjoy it. I just couldn’t swoon. And y’all know how much I look swooning.
Chase’s other fan-favorite, Lord Perfect, was, um, okay. Was it because of my emotional deadness when I read it that I can’t seem to remember if I like this novel or not? Ugh. Is this yet another “classic” of the genre that failed to elicit the appropriate reaction from me? Yeah. Probably. I mean, I think I liked it. I think I liked our headstrong and too-notorious-for-her-own-good heroine [named Bathsheba, good lord]. I think I liked Benedict Carsington, the gentleman. I liked his composure, haha. I liked how the two of them, ya know, bonded.
I should like this book more, really. I mean, I laughed several times, I squealed several times. But did it reverberate? Nope. I don’t think so. It contains what I’m suspecting is a ginormous pet peece when reading romances: when the story’s principal conflict stems from the idiocy of secondary characters—in this case, her daughter and his niece. Take note that this is an en route road trip love story, historical romance novel style. Gah. I mean, I know that a lot of romance novels deal with conflict of the life-and-death situation.
But I really want to know, too, how this couple loves in quiet times. I want to know how they love when nothing else is at stake but them. Is that too much to ask?
And, non-resonating [this is retrospect, yes] books aside, I went on reading romance novels. Because they were the only books that made me feel alive during Hell Month. That is melodramatic, yes. Okay then. Because I want this infernally long blog post to end on a happy note, I’m saving the better books for last.
Consider the Mary Balogh double feature [concerning brothers, naturally] a rung higher than Meh and a rung lower than Great. Both novels—More Than a Mistress and No Man’s Mistress—deal with uncommon arrangements. The first one has a duke and his nurse getting it on. The second one is the duke’s son living in a contested house with a virtual stranger. Both stories were okay enough, yeah. Both had too many unnecessary details, and far too many surprises re character insight. Both had me going, “Why do I really read romance novels, when this particular chunk of paper makes me feel like a mere observer?” Did I like ‘em? Sure, I guess. I don’t know.
Impulse paid off with one book: a completely unknown to me author and her book that I picked up because I, blindly, liked what I read at the back of the book: Anne Gracie’s The Accidental Wedding—despite it containing usual pet peeves. Huh.
It’s a twist on the amnesia trope—because, well, our hero regains his memory before shit truly hit the fan. And our heroine is this genuinely capable, really strong young woman—she’s trying to make ends meet, taking care of her half-siblings. Our heroine has been through the wringer, and our hero’s chill enough to help her out without it being all weird of him. [Note: Sasha, your prose is deteriorating!]
Yeah. I really liked this. It’s quietly romantic, compelling, with just enough angst thrown in. And I swooned here and there. I did. See? You can put your characters’ lives in danger, throw in some precocious children, and have them spend quiet times behind curtains, or holding a funeral for bees. See? It can be done!
Thankfully, the happy juju of Gracie’s novel was carried over to the Frankenstein’s monster that is the novel composed of three interconnected stories by three romance novelists. That was a compliment, okay? But, yes, The Lady Most Likely—penned byJulia Quinn, Connie Brockway, and Eloisa James [individually? huddled around a lone laptop?—defies categorization. It is not really a novel, no matter what the cover says—that would demand, at the very least, cohesion or wholeness. Not just have the three stories take place in a romance-infested house party. Because, ya know, it feels like the camera just pans, regardless of how good the stories are. It was not a novel to me. Why not just call them interconnected novellas? Just saying.
I sound really grumpy and snarky, but it’s the fact that this post is growing to alarming proportions. Because, really, I like this little monster of a book. Kudos to Quinn, Brockway, and James, for managing to trace distinct stories, all of them really, really good in their own way. All happy and light without being silly about it.
Julia Quinn’s, in particular—gahd, that novella needs to be elaborated on, it needs to breathe and frolic and do hanky-pankies in the expanse of the novel’s structure. A painfully shy diamond of the first water, and this lord who’d been a younger son all his life until, until. Although the story still worked given the limitations of the form, I wish the shyness had been explored and slowly chipped away—even to the people that matter. I wish I knew more about our hero, other than that when he falls in love, it’s so adorable how dumbstruck he gets. Sigh.
Augh. Exhausted, here. And sighs of relief abound as well. A part of me regrets having to lump it all here—my poor romance novels, I cannot do you justice! I wish I had more time, more space, more energy. I wish I could tell you how, say, Mary Balogh’s More Than a Mistress reminded me so much of Jane Eyre, down to the dialogue and the heroine’s name. Or that I could write a more convincing appeal against the popularity of Proust and the Squid and champion Dehaene forever.
Ah, but it’s here. It’s done. Bye, July, at last. We’ll see where this goes.
PSA: The books mentioned in this post were all bought from National Bookstore. I hoard, okay?
Books About Books Connie Brockway Eloisa James Julia Quinn Laura Kinsale Loretta Chase Mary Balogh Maryanne Wolf Romance Novel Science Stanislas Dehaene
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I came to see this theme in action (you said on WordPress central that you liked it ) and stayed to read your post! Very interested in your review of the reading brain books and I might have to go and get a copy too. Thanks. You remind me how little I read these days, apart from what I see on the screen in front of me. The internet has eaten my reading time. How does anyone deal with that I wonder. All the best, Joanna
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Sony Reveals PlayStation 5 Pricing for November Launch
The PlayStation 5. Courtesy of Sony Interactive Entertainment
Jared Burton 9/18/20
Sony to sell PlayStation 5 for $499, or $399 for a version without a disc drive.
After much beating around the bush, Sony streamed an announcement of the PlayStation 5 release and some accompanying games. The PlayStation 5 is scheduled to launch November 12 in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea (other countries get it on the 19th, while the China market release is still "under exploration"). The newest console from Sony will cost $499, which matches the $499 price tag of its rival, the Xbox Series X from Microsoft.
Both companies are selling a cheaper version of their flagship console. $399 will net you a PlayStation 5 with all the trappings except a disk drive, which means games will need to be purchased digitally through the PlayStation Store. The lower-price option from Microsoft is called the Xbox Series S for $299, but there is some concern about its ability to handle next-gen games—the hardware intends to display 1440p resolution rather than 4K, for instance.
Other Prices to Add Up
When considering the price of a new console, it's important to remember the price of games and accessories. Full-fledged games have cost $60 on previous consoles, but that price is going up. In the PlayStation blog, Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan writes, "Our own Worldwide Studios titles will be priced from $49.99 to $69.99 on PS5." Expect the newest and biggest games to cost $70. Buyers also consider the accessories offered:
DualSense™ Wireless Controller (standalone) – $69.99
PULSE 3D™ wireless headset – $99.99
HD Camera – $59.99
Media Remote – $29.99
DualSense™ Charging Station – $29.99
Launch Titles
Alongside the hardware, Sony announced several games planned to release in the PS5 "launch window":
Astro’s Playroom (Japan Studio) – pre-installed on PS5
Demon’s Souls (Bluepoint Games / Japan Studio) – $69.99
Destruction All Stars (Lucid Games / XDEV) – $69.99
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games) – $49.99
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition (Insomniac Games) – $69.99
Sackboy A Big Adventure (Sumo Digital / XDEV) – $59.99
In addition to these, Sony has big titles planned for next year, including:
God of War: Ragnarok
What are your thoughts on the price tag? Do you plan to buy a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X? Comment below!
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News > Alumni News > The World Made a Rainbow
The World Made a Rainbow
A huge thank you to the extremely talented Emily Mackenzie-Shapland (nee Hamilton) (98-00B) who kindly donated some of her beautifully illustrated books to the School library.
"One day, a little girl wakes up in a changed and isolated world. She can't see her friends. She can't go outside. She can't even go to school. She feels lonely and sad. But mom has a great idea--they'll paint a big rainbow together and put it in the window to give hope to people passing by.
From missing friends, missing teachers, and missing grandparents, The World Made a Rainbow tackles all of the challenges of life under lock-down for little ones while offering hope, comfort, and solidarity. It's a story that will be familiar to families of all shapes and sizes and will resonate with an entire generation for years to come.
With charming illustrations from a new talent, The World Made a Rainbow will reassure and uplift--after all when every rainstorm ends, there's always a bright, shining rainbow"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Made-Rainbow.../dp/1547607130
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International Law and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Martti Koskenniemi, Mónica García-Salmones Rovira, and Paolo Amorosa
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198805878.001.0001
Series Editors’ Preface
Preliminary Study
International Law and Religion
Part I Natural Law and Ius Gentium
1 Law, Justice, and Charity in a Divided Christendom: 1500–1625
2 Between Scylla and Charybdis
3 Religion, Empire, and Law among Nations in The City of God
4 Grotius’ Imago Dei Anthropology
5 John Selden and the Jewish Religious Fountainhead of the International Law of the Sea
Part II Human Rights, Between History, The International and Religion
6 The Religion/Secularism Debate in Human Rights Literature
7 Natural Rights in Albert the Great
8 The Past is Never Dead
9 Whose Justice? What Political Theology?
Part III International Law, Religion, and Territory in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean
10 Muslim Jurists’ Criteria for the Division of the World into Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam
11 From Imperial to Dissident
12 ‘If I forget thee, O Jerusalem’
Part IV Political Theology and International Legal Theory
13 The Doctrine of the Providential Function of Commerce in International Law
14 The Faith in Humanity and International Criminal Law
15 Religion and Empire Carl Schmitt’s Katechon between International Relations and the Philosophy of History
16 International Law-making and Metaphysical Foundations of Universality
17 The Law of Nations at the Origin of American Law
18 Messianic Visions of the United States
3 Religion, Empire, and Law among Nations in <i>The City of God</i>
4 Grotius’ <i>Imago Dei</i> Anthropology
10 Muslim Jurists’ Criteria for the Division of the World into <i>Dar al-Harb</i> and <i>Dar al-Islam</i>
15 Religion and Empire Carl Schmitt’s <i>Katechon</i> between International Relations and the Philosophy of History
Law, Justice, and Charity in a Divided Christendom: 1500–1625
(p.25) 1 Law, Justice, and Charity in a Divided Christendom: 1500–1625
Sarah Mortimer
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198805878.003.0002
During the Reformation, new interpretations of Christianity were developed—with important consequences for international relations. Taking the thought of Thomas Aquinas as their starting point, Catholic scholars like Francisco de Vitoria argued for a natural law for all but they insisted that human beings were also obliged by Christian duties and commitments. These duties could only be fulfilled within the Catholic Church. Protestants rejected these claims and argued instead for one single set of ethical obligations, which were the duties of natural law. For them, natural law included both secular and religious principles, and it applied across national and political boundaries. The radical effects of this concept can be seen in the anonymously written Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos. This chapter considers arguments on both sides of the confessional divide before discussing the Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius and his attempt to provide a new synthesis.
Keywords: natural law, Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Vitoria, charity, Hugo Grotius, Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
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Early National History
Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy
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Slavery and Abolition
Urban History
Manifest Destiny and U.S. Empire
Immigration and Asian Exclusion
Madame Butterfly and Orientalism
The Eaton Sisters and Madame Butterfly
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Discussion of the Literature
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Asian American Literature, U.S. Empire, and the Eaton Sisters
Edward TangEdward TangDepartment of American Studies, University of Alabama
The Eaton sisters, Edith Maude (b. 1865–d. 1914) and Winnifred (b. 1875–d. 1954), were biracial authors who wrote under their respective pseudonyms, Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna. Raised in Montreal, Canada, by an English father and a Chinese mother, the sisters produced works that many scholars have recognized as among the first published by Asian American writers. Edith embraced her Chinese ancestry by composing newspaper articles and short stories that addressed the plight of Chinese immigrants in North America. Winnifred, on the other hand, posed as a Japanese woman and eclipsed her older sibling in popularity by writing interracial romances set in Japan.
The significance of the Eaton sisters emerges from a distinct moment in American history. At the turn of the 20th century, the United States began asserting an imperial presence in Asia and the Caribbean, while waves of immigrants entered the nation as valued industrial labor. This dual movement of overseas expansion and incoming foreign populations gave rise to a sense of superiority and anxiety within the white American mainstream. Even as U.S. statesmen and missionaries sought to extend democracy, Christianity, and trade relations abroad, they also doubted that people who came to America could assimilate themselves according to the tenets of a liberal white Protestantism. This concern became evident with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and the Gentleman’s Agreement (1907), legislation that thwarted Chinese and Japanese immigration efforts. The lives and writings of the Eaton sisters intersected with these broader developments. As mixed-race authors, they catered to a growing U.S. consumer interest in things Asian, acting as cultural interpreters between East and West. In doing so, however, they complicated and challenged American beliefs and attitudes about race relations, gender roles, and empire building.
Edith Maude Eaton
Winnifred Eaton
Sui Sin Far
Onoto Watanna
U.S. imperialism
Asian immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentlemen’s Agreement
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New Kensington Couple Hospitalized With COVID-19 Urge Against Holiday Gatherings: ‘Understand What The Ramifications Are’
"Now knowing what I know, people are crazy that they don’t want to just wear a mask and wash their hands."By Amy Wadas December 23, 2020 at 7:36 pm
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – As we approach Christmas and New Year’s, there’s concern about another surge upon a surge as people across the country gather to celebrate. A local couple who recently had COVID-19 is urging people against that and to play it safe so you don’t end up in the hospital during a time when hospitals are filling up fast.
Vicki and Tom Straub spent time at Allegheny Valley Hospital in Natrona Heights after testing positive for COVID-19.
“I will never go back into the hospital. I’ve determined that,” said Vicki Straub.
That’s how Vicki of New Kensington feels after she spent a week in the hospital with the virus. She just got out a little over a week ago.
“I consider myself a fairly active person so to do this to me was mental as well as physical. I was out of my mind,” said Vicki.
Her husband Tom, an EMT and volunteer firefighter in New Kensington, spent a few days in the hospital not long before that. Neither person was on a ventilator but did need oxygen to help them breathe during their stay.
“When our oxygen level started to drop, it was a very scary event. You go into the hospital — no visitation,” said Tom. “The caregivers are coming in. You’re there by yourself most of the time. A lonely time and scary time.”
The exception was some texts and Zoom calls Vicki had with her family while she was battling the virus.
“I’ve been careful, tried to obey the rules. Now knowing what I know, people are crazy that they don’t want to just wear a mask and wash their hands,” said Vicki.
The couple is also urging people to reconsider getting together with loved ones this holiday.
“Just understand what those ramifications are. If you are out there having a few drinks with friends not practicing safely, you can wind up bringing this home to your family,” said Tom.
The couple said they are still trying to get their energy back and Tom said he doesn’t plan on going back to work until he gets the vaccine.
First responders are part of Pennsylvania’s phase 1B vaccine distribution plan.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health says the vaccine is recommended for people who have sufficiently recovered from having the virus. If it’s been more than 30 days since you tested positive for COVID-19 and aren’t haven’t significant symptoms, you would be eligible to get vaccinated.
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Private hospital merger to be approved if local concerns addressed
The CMA has found that the completed private hospital merger between Circle and BMI does not raise UK-wide competition concerns but could reduce competition in two local areas.
Both Circle and BMI provide elective care to NHS and privately-funded patients in the UK. BMI manages 52 private hospitals and clinics in the UK, while Circle currently operates two private hospitals in Bath and Reading and is planning to open a third hospital in Birmingham this year.
After completing its initial Phase 1 investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that the merger could result in a substantial reduction in competition between private healthcare services in Bath and Birmingham. Circle and BMI do, or will, compete closely in these cities and there are limited other competitors available for patients.
The CMA is concerned that if the businesses were to merge, patients who pay for their own healthcare in Birmingham and Bath could face higher prices and that NHS and privately funded patients could face a lower quality of service in those areas.
As part of its assessment, the CMA has taken into account the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak by considering not only the current provision of private healthcare but also how this is likely to impact the opening of new hospitals both by the merged company and their competitors.
Joel Bamford, CMA Senior Director said: “If local concerns can be overcome, we will clear this merger. At the moment though, we have found that it if it goes ahead as planned, competition will be reduced and it could negatively impact patients in Bath and Birmingham.
“We recognise that this is a difficult time, with private hospitals having effectively put their entire hospital capacity temporarily under the control of the NHS to deal with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. It remains important that we protect competition between private healthcare providers and the benefits it can bring to patients.”
The companies now have until Friday 17 April 2020 to address these concerns. If they are unable to do so, the deal will be referred for an in-depth Phase 2 investigation.
For more information, visit the Circle Health/BMI Healthcare merger inquiry web page.
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bioMérieux buys BioFire Diagnostics for $400m
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France-based bioMérieux has acquired the privately held US company, BioFire Diagnostics Inc for $400 million, consolidating its position as a major player in infectious disease diagnostics.
BioFire invented, manufactures and commercializes its multiplex PCR FilmArray® system, a simple and rapid molecular biology solution dedicated to the diagnosis of infectious diseases. FilmArray has already contributed to improving patient care and reducing healthcare spending, and bioMérieux intends to further stimulate sales of this system and expand its menu.
“The acquisition of BioFire fits perfectly into bioMérieux’s selective strategy for external growth…It enables us to reinforce our infectious disease franchise, our main area of specialization. FilmArray® is the only system that makes it possible to detect disease-causing viruses and bacteria using a single reagent. As such, it eliminates the borders between different technologies, simplifying the diagnosis of infectious diseases and delivering faster results for better patient care.”
Jean-Luc Belingard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of bioMérieux.
“We could not have found a better shareholder than bioMérieux, world leader in clinical and industrial microbiology. This is an exciting next step in the evolution of BioFire, and it will allow us to achieve our mission of helping to make the world a healthier and safer place and to continue to support our biodefense customers in the United States Department of Defense and allied forces. bioMérieux’s commercial network will further boost sales of our flagship product, FilmArray®. In addition, the Company’s unique know-how in the field of infectious diseases will contribute to the development of new panels, creating very attractive prospects for the future.”
Kirk Ririe, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of BioFire.
On the basis of ongoing R&D, FilmArray® should make it possible to detect over 70 disease agents responsible for respiratory, gastrointestinal and blood infections within the next three years.
BioMerieux buys diagnostics rival BioFire for $450 mln (Reuters)
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Review: War, Evil, and the End of History
4 Star, Atrocities & Genocide, Consciousness & Social IQ, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, History, Philosophy, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, War & Face of Battle
Connects 9/11 to Long Era of Imperial Deceit & Predatory Looting,
Bernard Henri Levy
Edit of 20 Dec 07 to connect to more recent books.
There are some gems in this book, but it is *not* anywhere near the kind of blindingly brilliant, deeply philosophical work that the publicists would have you believe. He is a talented and very wealthy (inherited wealth) Frenchman of the Jewish faith who could be called the Bill Gates of French philosophy, fwith irst-rate marketing.
The author is clearly a courageous and inquisitive individual, and I would rank him third, after Robert Young Pelton and Robert Kaplan, in the “journalist-philosopher-adventurer” category. He has been to all of these places, he has seen with his own eyes, and he writes thoughtfully, if often tediously, about what he has seen.
The real gem in the book is the connection he makes between 9-11 and our deliberate ignorance of the many wars, genocides, crimes against women and children, torture, corruption, etcetera that we in the West have manifested. He writes with conviction and insight about the “meaningless war” across Africa, South Asia, around the globe, where entire regions have descended into a chaotic hell of kill and be killed, work and die, slavery or death, rape then death. His point, which I like very much, is that history does not end, it recycles, and in 9-11 and the global war on terrorism what we have is a “homecoming” of all these wars to America and its Western allies.
This is not, however, completely original, in the sense that the “Map of World Conflict & Human Rights” that I have been handing out to my adult students (thanks to Berto Jongman in The Netherlands for creating it, and to the European Centre for Conflict Prevention and Goals for Americans Foundation, among others, for funding its creation) ably documents all of this is a single compelling document, and many books in the 490+ that I have reviewed cover all aspects of these “ungovernable regions” in great detail.
The author is half absurd and half correct when he condemns the United Nations for its zealous pursuit of Israel as a racist and terrorist state, while the United Nations largely ignores the many genocides taking place from Russia and China to Indonesia and Brazil and Central America and onwards. He is absurd on the first count, correct on the second.
The book is fully worth four stars, definitely worth purchasing, for its articulation of a European view on “the heart of darkness” as it exists today. I was especially taken with his discussion of Buddhist versus Hindu terrorism and extremism and the use of child soldiers in Sri Lanka, since it makes the point that other religions, not just Islam and Christianity, spawn cycles of terrorism and ethnic violence.
The book concludes on a note worthy of the greatest philosophers, a reflection on the death of memory within Western civilization, the death of *moral* memory. Having just returned from Denver, where I was privileged to observe a two-week Office of Personnel Management course on National Security, a first-class endeavor, I was struck by the recurring theme, across virtually all of the world-class lecturers: “morality matters.” Morality has a tangible value in helping nations, organizations, and individuals “get it right.” The last two pages of the book are the best, and conjure up clear and frightening pictures of billions of dispossessed swarming over the European and US cities, bringing the despair we have ignored to our doorstep. Ignore history, ignore evil, and it will eventually, inevitably, come to your doorstep. We–or perhaps even more sadly, our children and grandchildren–will pay for our moral cowardice and our historical blindness. In these final reflections, the author does demonstrate a brilliance that requires us to attend to his future reflections.
More recent books supportive of this author’s insights:
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)
The Fifty-Year Wound: How America’s Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World
War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America’s Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It
Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
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Carbon Trading, Now On Blockchain
Posted by Liju Philip on October 15, 2020 September 25, 2020
Cryptocurrency meets carbon trading. That’s the pitch from Nori, a new Seattle-based startup, that just raised $4 million in funding from cryptocurrency focused investors including Placeholder, North Island Ventures, Tenacious Ventures, and a big, privately held agriculture multinational that the company declined to disclose. Founded by Paul Gambill, a former Deloitte Technology employee who left the firm in 2015 to begin working on a company that would tackle climate change, Nori uses blockchain to solve the “double counting” that exists in the carbon offset market.
“Every single carbon credit that has been sold across international borders has been counted twice,” said Gambill. “When a project happens, the carbon credit themselves are the assets that someone then sells to someone else. They sell that to a broker who sells it on to someone else. If you see carbon trading in markets… it’s the same ton that is trading hands over and over and over again.”
Using the example of a rainforest preservation project in Brazil as an example, Gambill said that both the Brazilian originators of a project and the international purchaser of the credits will count the project in their own carbon emissions mitigation accounting. “It’s a silly problem that can easily be solved by double entry bookkeeping but no one is doing it,” Gambill said. And while many companies are now buying and immediately retiring carbon offsets so they can’t trade again on open markets, those transactions only represent a fraction of the total volume of offset sales, according to Gambill.
Gambill believes that carbon markets are the right solution for the climate change problem, which he sees as a matter of engineering. “In 2015 I left and I wanted to work on something that was bigger and more important and climate change seemed like an obvious thing to me,” Gambill said. “I’ve been thinking about this as more of an engineering project. The CO2 is in the wrong location and we have to move it. This is the next great engineering project that humanity must undertake… by 2017 i had put together a team and a business model and we were off to the races.”
The problem that Gambill set out to solve in 2017 was the way carbon markets have failed to operate. By separating out the certificate for the offsets from the payment mechanisms. Buyers pay using Nori’s token and a token is always good for one ton of sequestered emissions, but the price of the token will fuluctuate based on supply and demand. “We want a commodities market where people are speculating on and buying and selling, but we don’t want to do that on the actual carbon itself,” Gambill said.
The company operates an ecommerce front end where people can buy Nori tokens to offset their purchases (the company already has a customer in Shopify) and then there are trading mechanisms where Nori will list its token to trade on exchanges that also address carbon emissions mitigation and financing for projects. “We will have auction in our application in the future,” Gambill said. It’s another step on the company’s roadmap toward becoming an api for carbon removal that integrates into any platform or application. If that vision sounds familiar, that’s because Nori’s not alone in attempting to develop the api for carbon offsets.
Companies like Wren and Cloverly are also pursuing emissions reductions, but Gambill says that they’re approaching the issue from the wrong side of the equation. While Cloverly and Wren are coming up with ways to sell existing carbon credits based on customer demand, Nori’s Gambill argues that his company is tackling the supply side of the equation by promoting the development of new carbon sequestration projects starting with farmland. The company has a convincing collaborator in Comet Farm, a greenhouse gas accounting and reporting system developed by the US Department of Agriculture, that’s working with Nori on its emissions reductions accounting framework.
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Player ratings & analysis: Chivas USA 0-3 Philadelphia Union
Posted by Dan Walsh on June 2, 2014 at 11:50 am
Photo: Earl Gardner
No matter how bad your team gets, you can always count on Chivas USA to be worse.
If there’s a big takeaway from Philadelphia Union’s 3-0 road win over Chivas, that’s it.
Of course, that would make for an awfully short column, so here are a few more thoughts on Saturday’s game.
John Hackworth plays the Peter Nowak lineup game
Predicting John Hackworth’s lineups has suddenly become an awful lot like predicting Peter Nowak’s lineups. There tends to be at least one starter in the lineup that comes out of left field.
Prior to this season, Hackworth’s lineups were predictable, because he didn’t have many options to throw on the field.
Since Austin Berry got hurt in March, Hackworth has often deployed at least one starter who nobody predicts. Against the Galaxy, it was Antoine Hoppenot, who went from a recent lack of productivity directly into the staring lineup. Against Chivas, it was Fred, who had not played a minute all year. The player(s) in question might be solid enough when in form, but the selections come as surprises.
How many of you thought Fred would start? If you somehow picked him in the weekly pool — wait, that pool ended two years ago? — then you’re everyone’s buddy next year for the March Madness pool, Powerball lottery, trip to Atlantic City and prognostications on the stock market.
Hackworth likes to take advantage of opposition matchups to find mismatches. That’s what often drives the decisions, like Hoppenot’s surprise start against two slow, clunky center backs. Sometimes he’s right to do that. Sometimes he’s not. At times, it just ends up with him outthinking himself when he could put his best 11 on the field and simply let them play. Nowak was infamous for this, making himself bigger than the team in the process. Likewise, Hackworth’s tinkering certainly raised questions as the losses piled up and the back line shuffled and shuffled some more.
But Fred? Well, that’s a different story.
Let’s talk about Fred as a starter
How many of you completely lost your junk when you saw Fred in the starting lineup? Did you throw the remote control against the wall? Turn off the game? Send text messages to your friends about how you and a buddy could coach the Union better, simply by virtue of being able to pick a good starting lineup?
Did you think Zach Pfeffer had merited a start after playing well as a sub in two straight games?
Or did you just laugh, shake your head, and say, “What next?”
Well, we saw what next. Fred played a good game.
Fred didn’t get a ton of touches for a guy playing the No. 10 role. Only Danny Cruz had fewer (47) than Fred’s 69 touches among the five starting midfielders, and that’s no surprise: Cruz always has the least.
But Fred made the most of those touches, completing over 80% of his passes, putting a dangerous header on goal, and generally showing plenty of composure in a central role. He offered a steady, heady hand when one was needed.
Back during his first stint with the Union in 2010, Nowak usually deployed Fred as one of two advanced midfielders in a generally messy 4-2-2-2. Fred always looked out of position there, inclined to move centrally instead of offering the width that was needed from that role.
On Saturday, Hackworth played Fred exactly where he should: In a central attacking midfield role. And Fred answered the bell.
Now let’s see if he can do it against a real professional team when the Union play Vancouver this Saturday.
What is going on at center back?
So Austin Berry and Aaron Wheeler were good enough to start at center back, but now neither one can make the 18 ahead of Ethan White?
At what point will we see a consistent back four?
Sheanon Williams is a decent backup option, and his quickness may have made him a more attractive option to Hackworth against a small poacher like Torres. But he is no center back. Big strikers dominate him aerially and physically, and we saw against Los Angeles the missteps he can make when pulled too far out of his comfort zone against top competition.
Berry hasn’t been good since he got hurt early in the year, but he hasn’t been that bad either. Giving him several runs in a row might make him look something like the player who generally impressed people the last two years in Chicago. He is the only player on the roster not named Okugo who has proved himself as a steady, starting center back in this league.
It makes you wonder if the Union might try to bring Carlos Valdes back after the World Cup. They can, you know.
Chivas USA is bad — real bad
Let’s not blow this game out of proportion. Yes, it’s a good win that the Union really needed.
But Chivas is a really bad team, even worse without both their starting center backs. Their strategy at home basically consisted of putting every man behind the ball, fouling constantly and hoping for a counterattack.
Even then, the Union netted two of their goals in controversial enough fashion that Chivas fans could make the argument that the refs were rooting for the Union, and you would actually have to consider for a moment whether that might be true. (The argument fails, for reasons I’ll lay out below, but you actually have to think about it.)
It’s no wonder that just 5,231 people showed up to watch the game. The CD Los Angeles rebranding can’t come soon enough.
Sometimes, you get the breaks
The Union got all the breaks Saturday from the refs. And in a game where Chivas played cynical and ugly soccer, the Union deserved them.
The six-second call: Some will question referee Allen Chapman calling Chivas goalkeeper Dan Kennedy for the six-second violation that led to the Union’s first goal. But not only is that the rule, but Chapman similar call in their preseason game against the New York Red Bulls. The league office has made clear this season that this is a rule they want to emphasize this year to speed up games and cut out unnecessary delays.
Martin Rivero’s handball: Was Rivero’s handball on the ensuing indirect kick intentional? Maybe, maybe not. Did Rivero know it was possible when he leaped in the air to block the shot? Well, judging by his subsequent impression of a gunshot victim, yeah, he probably did.
Wenger’s offside obstruction: Andrew Wenger was clearly offside when he dummied Cristian Maidana’s shot that subsequently hit the net. The question is whether he legitimately obstructed Dan Kennedy and prevented the Chivas goalkeeper from making the save. If you watch the replay, you can make the case that Kennedy appeared late on his diving save, whether Wenger was there or not. I would have waved off the goal, but maybe I’d have been wrong.
Oswaldo Minda’s red card: The official box score describes the cause of the booking as a “fight.” There was no fight. Rather, there was the same type of dirty play that Minda offered all game. Taken by itself, it was a yellow at best. But Minda should have gotten an earlier yellow for persistent infringement. Minda deserved an ejection for his full day’s work, but Chapman skipped a step in the process. If he had given Minda an earlier yellow, Minda may have stopped fouling much earlier.
Zac MacMath: 7
MacMath faced just one shot on target, but he came off his line well and put himself in solid positions. His perfectly placed punt to Danny Cruz in the 69th minute set up a point blank shot on goal for Cruz. Goalkeepers don’t record many key passes.
Ray Gaddis: 6
Gaddis played his usual lockdown defense and was tidy with his passing. He didn’t force anything, and it helped the Union keep possession more than their random crossing of past games has.
Amobi Okugo: 6
Okugo didn’t have to do much, but when he did, he was in the right position. A more typical game for the reliable center back.
Sheanon Williams: 5
Williams was fine. Solid enough. But let’s not pretend he’s a center back. He got caught a bit out of position a few times, but he never got hurt for it because Chivas showed up packing blanks instead of bullets.
Fabinho: 5
Fabinho was fine too. Just fine. He made the highlight reel for a great give-and-go with Maidana, only to see his shot curl wide, and he made the reel again for some awfully clumsy defending that led to his yellow card. He runs in a straight line really well; it’s just those lateral movements that cause him trouble. (It’s like someone created a FIFA 14 player with 78 speed and 63 agility.)
Maurice Edu: 7
Edu lost possession a few times with occasional lackadaisical play but made up for it with passes like the one that opened up Maidana for his assist on Casey’s second goal. He played a solid defensive game, and Brian Carroll’s presence was never missed. Also, round up his rating for smartly giving Casey the PK.
Vincent Nogueira: 9
Nogueira completed 91% of his 90 passes, and it’s not like they were all easy. There was the beautiful chip to Maidana to set up the latter’s goal and his typical, pinpoint long balls. It’s easy to take a guy for granted when he plays a near-perfect game every week. The one warning sign is that he looks bored, tired or disengaged a bit more of late. Then again, wouldn’t you under the circumstances?
The Union’s actual average positional location vs. Chivas USA, according to WhoScored.com/Opta.
Fred: 6
See above. Composed, steady game. An advanced central presence that, along with the bumping back by one slot of Nogueira and Edu in the midfield, really improved the Union’s offensive spacing and pacing against a condensed Chivas defense.
Danny Cruz: 4
Cruz had a couple of nice attacking plays, but as usual, he spent most of the game disengaged from his teammates, off on an island deep down the right flank. Click here, scroll down to “Positional Report,” click “Player Positions,” and you’ll see why. (Or, simply look at the reproduced image at right.)
Cristian Maidana: 7
Maidana followed his ordinary first half with a far more impressive second half. He was accurate on his crosses, particularly his perfect assist to Casey. When he’s on his game and paired with Nogueira, the Union can unlock opposition defenses.
Conor Casey: 7
Confidence matters for strikers. Maybe his thunderous second goal is an anomaly in his slow fade into obscurity. Or maybe it’s the beginning of what we saw last year: A torrid June-August stretch that followed a preseason injury and a slow regaining of form. If the latter, remember the PK and its confidence boost.
Andrew Wenger: 4
Little impact on the game outside his controversial dummy on Maidana’s goal.
Zach Pfeffer: 6
A third straight good showing off the bench for Pfeffer. He looks like a completely different player from the overwhelmed teen thrown into the mix far too early under Nowak. He has shown quick decision-making, tidiness with the ball, and an instinct to move in a controlled fashion toward goal. Pfeffer has earned a start.
(Guide to ratings. 1-3: varied degrees of bad. 4: a bit below average. 5: average. 6: above average. 7: good. 8: very good. 9: great. 10: hat trick hero.)
The Geiger Counter
Allen Chapman: 5
See above. People may knock Chapman for some of his calls, but he was handed the task of calling a game that Chivas entered with no plans of doing anything beyond parking the bus, fouling Union players, and hoping for a counterattack goal. He actually handled those parts of the game fairly well. The one clear spot to dock him is for not giving Minda an earlier yellow before going to the straight red. The Wenger offside is a toss-up, and Chapman’s grade would suffer more if I wasn’t giving him the benefit of the doubt on this as noted above.
Preferred lineup for the Union’s next game against Vancouver
MacMath, Williams, Okugo, Berry, Gaddis, Edu, Nogueira, Fred, Maidana, Pfeffer,* Casey
(* – presuming Sebastien Le Toux is still injured)
Author: Dan Walsh Novelist in progress. Former newspaper & magazine reporter. Occasional freelancer. Started PSP in 2009 with some awesome guys. Moved to Italy in 2014, then the UK in 2019. See more at http://www.danielwalsh.net. Follow on Twitter @danwalsh_writes.
If someone has ever had a less inspiring 3-0 win it deserves to in a museum somewhere.
i know. we should have won. we should have won handily. we did. but it feels so empty.
i’m going into Saturday with the resigned, low expectations.
these far, far from home wins and ties don’t make a home route feel any better.
looks to be a good day for soccer and we might get some fun songs from the river end. see you there.
One thing someone complained about in the game report which I thought I’d comment on here was Chapman calling a foul throw on Ray Gaddis.
Personally, I thought it was the right thing to do. There are too many times when players run to the spot where the ball went out, fake a throw, run about 10 yards up the field, fake another throw, run another 10 yards, and then finally throw. It’s time for the league to crack down on that.
Chapman was warning the players every throw in and Ray didn’t listen. It would have been one thing without the warnings but given that they were clearly there, the foul throw was the correct call.
Dan Walsh says:
Good point! I forgot about that when writing, but that reinforced the view toward giving Chapman a little more benefit of the doubt than I might usually, and that he was trying to call the game strictly by the rules, not by customs. The big calls went the Union’s way, but not all the calls.
KenZolo says:
I give an Edu three or four not being able to pass a five yardr push pass about five times.
He definitely had some noticeably bad passes, and they stood out to me too.
But when I checked the numbers, I saw his pass completion rate for the day was over 85%. It struck me as one of those cases where the negative stood out more than the positive.
The Black Hand says:
Pretty harsh on Danny Cruz. His finishing was poor, but he did a lot of things right. He created as many chances as his counterparts.
Fabinho, as well
RNC says:
I think Gaddis deserved a bit less. He got worked by Barberra a bit and agree with KenZolo that Edu (and a few others) seemed very careless with the ball at times, even with time and space.
Andy Muenz is also right on about the throw-ins. I didn’t have a big problem with Chapman because he was pretty vocal and consistent. The Wenger, dummy play was probably the biggest issue.
I think that Ray picked up a slight knock. He looked to be favoring, a bit.
You were far too kind to the ref, IMO. The handball appeared to be both unintentional and within the frame of his body. And Wenger clearly interfered with Kennedy. Kennedy can’t dive if there’s a player where he needs to get to. There’s really no argument to be made that Wenger didn’t interfere or obstruct or whatever standard it needs to be. The Union basically won 1-0 and looked ugly doing it. These numbers are far too high for a team that continues to struggle to sustain quality for more than 30 seconds at a time.
Chapman was the Union’s MOTM.
Atomic spartan says:
Warned about 6 seconds before the game? That sets up a “gotcha” foul. It is much better form to additionally warn during the game before calling the foul. Playing “gotcha” only leads to more whining and cynicism, and Chivas did not need any help playing uglyball.
ScottE says:
The 6 second call always seems a bit harsh to me without an in-game warning first. Hard to make a case for stalling in the first half of a game that was 0-0 at the time. That being said, with the broadcast cutting away to replay, I have no idea how egregious it was or wasn’t. While admittedly not studying it on replay, based on the couple of views I had, the handball seemed legit. The defender jumped, turned and seemed to have his arm extended out from his body. I would argue it wasn’t in it’s “natural” position. On the Maidana goal, I thought Wenger was involved enough in the play that offsides would’ve been the right call, though it’s a tricky play, as I don’t think Kennedy was getting to that ball no matter what.
if you watch the instant replay thing on the mls website, they counted out the amount of time kennedy had the ball and it was 13 seconds
Thanks. So 13 seconds plus a pre-game warning makes that a pretty reasonable call.
Eli Pearlman-Storch says:
I still don’t agree with the call. The ref shouldn’t be looking to make calls, he should be refereeing in a way that allows play to continue. Thus, rather than mischievously counting in his head so he could have his “gotcha” moment, why not just yell, “HEY, GET ON WITH IT” ?
In it for the Doop says:
Or the players can play to the rules. iMO the rules of the game like the 6 second rule is around so the game continues to flow, the only reason it’s a problem here is because of all the past refs that let it go
Post edited to add the image that I couldn’t save directly from Whoscored.com, re: average field position of Union players.
Noguiera seemed to slide out to the right, when in possession of the ball. Could be a reason for Cruz playing so advanced…maybe.
AD22 says:
Is/was Maidana’s goal any different that Chris Rolfe’s against the Union back on May 10th, where TWO DCU players were standing right next to MacMath?
this was the first thing i thought of saturday night
I thought that the DC goal was iffy, as well. Watching again, they really didn’t interfere with MacMath.
Maidana’s goal went through Wenger’s legs, making it impossible for Kennedy to have a shot at.
@TBH … I guess MacMath could’ve complained for interference if he’d actually made an attempt to stop THAT shot. 😉
He was visualizing the stop!
Hackworth must have stressed the practice of visualizing matchplay. Unfortunately, he didn’t advise the club that it is an exercise practiced BEFORE a match.
It was closer to the one Chicago scored against NJPC that same day, when Magee faked at the ball from an offside position. That one counted too. It’s apparently a PRO directive that really reduces the idea of ‘actively’ affecting a play. If Kennedy had run into Wenger while trying to make the save, he probably would have gotten the offsides call.
Jason Kolodziejski says:
I agree 100%, I thought that was offside against DC in that game. Same should apply here.
dan, i am guessing you were not the one running the philly soccer page twitter account during the game. whoever that was had a very different take on chapman’s performance haha
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Rob127 says:
We suck so much but Chivas sucks more???
Smackey the Frog says:
At this point, I don’t care how morbid the season has been so far. This one was fun to watch.
Not sure about ‘fun’. But it was good, for those of us who were worried that the Union had quit on Hackworth, to see what ‘quit’ really looks like.
I’m with Smackey on this one. I was away for the weekend, and thrilled to come back to a DVR holding a 3-0 Union win. I don’t care who it was against. A win against Chivas beats a thumping at LA Galaxy, or home against NE. There were some things to like about this match.
-nickt.- says:
i have more fun watching other teams rec league games than i had there. between the 2 shitty teams and a shitty ref i didn’t think it had much going for it.
kingkowboys says:
YES!!! No one probably noticed but there is a point in this article that I truly believe is how to make this team better…Carlos Valdes.
I don’t believe a striker will do anything for this season or next without improving the back line. Valdes is on loan in South America in order to make and play in the world cup. After that is over he has had his wish granted (congrats Carlos BTW). I am all for paying the cancellation fee and bringing him back. We are not going to bring in a top level striker if the team has no prospects of sniffing the post season (we probably don’t already), and if we bring in a striker that doesn’t get at least a brace a game it’s all for not. Valdes needs to come back. Our prospects of winning increase more with a solid CB than they do of a brand new race horse up top.
You think he wants to come back to play under Hackworth? For a team that may have virtually no shot at playoffs as of the WC break?
I’m pretty sure that every GOOD veteran who knows/played for Hack, want no part of his garbage. I truly feel this is why Parke wanted out.
And we’d be just as bad, CUZ THE COACH CAN’T COACH.
TheDuke says:
What happened to the Opta chalkboard on MLS’ site? Is there anywhere to get access to the passes, tackles, etc?
It’s still there. It looks prettier but functions worse, which is why I had to crosscheck numbers with WhoScored (and that never works well due to discrepancies between the two). Look at the box score on the MLS site. You’ll find it at the bottom. The heat map feature appears to be gone though.
Having 50 different lineups is a sign that the manager is throwing $hit at the wall and hoping something sticks.
It is going to piss me off beyond belief when Noguiera RUNS from this team after the season is over. This guy has to stay.
If, and it’s a big IF, Valdes comes back he will certainly make a difference. I hope he would come back with a good attitude, with his demands having been met. Time will tell I suppose.
Edu need to start playing like we were led to believe he can. He looks like the player that had lost his form (and job) at Stoke. Maybe I’m a little to harsh, and I think some of his failure can be attributed to Hack playing him out of position, but he needs to find a way to be better.
The Valdes thing is fun to think about – his theoretical first game back would probably draw the biggest ovation of any Union player in our 5 years of existence.
Bigger than the ovation Hackworth got for his first game as manager?
That was pretty big
There would be one ovation that would be larger, although the appearance would not be to play, sadly, . . . Faryd Mondragon. While I support John Hackworth as coach, unlike many, if Mondy ever wanted a shot at coaching, I’d love to see us give him one. His leadership skills as captain were quite strong.
What is it that Hackworth does that inspires your trust? I’m not trying to be a dick. I just really don’t see it.
Regarding Valdes:
If he doesn’t make the 23-man squad, couldn’t the Union call him back prior to the World Cup? The break would give him and Berry/Okugo a good deal of time to get (re)acquainted.
For what it’s worth, Carlos played in about 50% of Columbia’s qualifiers, so it would surprise me if he were not in the 23.
he made the squad
He was consistently starting for San Lorenzo in their Copa Libertadores matches, but not so much in the league matches after they were no longer in the running for the title.
Paul Costa says:
Here’s what’s on my wish list: new ownership. Five years on and we’re nowhere. Why can’t we be someone’s Five Year Plan?
Aren’t your ratings a little low for the defense after a shutout during which the other side got off only 6 shots, 4 of which were blocked?? I mean yeah, our opponents looked pathetic, but it’s not like that invalidates a good result. And it’s not like they had so many chances, or that Zac had to bail out the back line. I think all of them deserve another point or two.
And Chapman deserves a point or two less. The double-screwing of Chivas that led to the first call was sad, but the non-call on Wenger was even worse. I do give him credit for enforcing throw-in placement, though, as mentioned earlier in this thread.
That clean short had more to do with Chivas’ impotent striking, than it did our defensive prowess. In truth, our defense didn’t look stellar. Williams looked shaky at the CB. Okugo looked sound. Gaddis got stuck high…often. Fabinho, actually, put in a strong effort.
Edu did a nice job shielding, but I felt that his vision and passing were lacking.
All in all, Chivas gave our defenders a pretty relaxing 90′.
5 is average. 6 is above average. The back line played an above average game on the whole. That’s a good thing. None of them played a bad game. Edu was good in front of them. They just weren’t required to play great. Chivas brought nothing to the house.
So if we asked fans of other teams, would they say we look like Chivas when we aren’t playing against them? Anyone…
The gap between the Union and the Goats is not that vast.
Neal says:
Dan, I like your starting lineup for Vancouver. If Letoux starts I would start Pfeffer over Fred.
I would go with Pfeffer over LeToux. Keep Fred. He added a nice piece to the puzzle.
I would swap Edu and Okugo. Amobi looked more threatening, with his long passing. Edu really hasn’t shown me much. He is taller than Okugo and I think that he could actually play CB well.
Up top, I think that it is too soon to give up on Wenger.
Pfeffer over Fred, but put Chaco inside. Pfeffer needs to play on the wide to free him up over 60 mins or so.
I pick Wenger b/c Casey keeps it too tight (see the pic above). Even though I don’t think Wenger is dynamic enough.
Really: I just don’t need to see Carroll, Fred, LeToux, Casey. Give me youth.
And Edu probably would have made the WC if he played CB. His game is more suited to it. On paper, he’s the perfect CB.
Could still put Chaco in the middle and have Fred and Pfeffer on the on the outside. I’d rather take an extra look at Fred, than roll with LeToux. Seba’s touch is poor and he roams too much. Plus, all three could interchange at the 10, giving us the ability to throw different looks at our opponents.
Fred (Fabinho overlapping) and Pfeffer (composed possession) could compliment Maidana, as well as Wenger.
I’m all for a look at Edu, at CB. He’d be legit.
I’m not giving up on Wenger. But Casey just scored two goals. He hit his sweet spot last year around this time. When you need wins as badly as the Union do, you don’t mess around. The guy who scores the goals starts.
I can’t argue with that. Give Casey a run-out and see if his form kicks up, with the added confidence.
That said, I didn’t really care for Casey’s match. Aside from the header (which was vintage Conor Casey), he had a rather ineffective match.
buzzkill_ed says:
I could be wrong and usually am, but when I watched the replay it looked like Kennedy didn’t even see Wenger until the ball had already gone in. I don’t think Kennedy reaches that ball either way. Since Wenger didn’t play the ball and Kennedy didn’t see him, I thought it was a good goal.
I thought the red card was appropriate on watching the replay. The Chivas player missed the ball with his first kick and lunged at the player with his second. It looked desperate and reckless to me.
I’m not accusing you of being a homer, but in my eyes, that offsides could not have been more clear. Kennedy definitely knows Wenger is there and rather than jump out of the way of the ball, Wenger dummies it through his legs. That is absolutely making a play on the ball. A dummy in midfield that sends a runner away is a great play on the ball, so too was this. He was in Kennedy’s way, Kennedy saw him and if Kennedy extends his body he makes the save. Wenger effected the play with both his presence and his body. Clear as day for me.
I agree. He was off, and effected the outcome. Kennedy should have made contact with Wenger, to sure up the call.
Yeah, Wenger probably could have sold that a bit better.
Citizen Vogel says:
This is a tiny point, but, why is Williams now dominated in the air? I swear for the first 2-3 seasons he out jumped EVERYONE on 50-50 balls…
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Mineralogy and petrology of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary clay bed and adjacent clay-rich rocks, Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
Richard M. Pollastro;
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Charles L. Pillmore
Journal of Sedimentary Research (1987) 57 (3): 456–466.
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Richard M. Pollastro, Charles L. Pillmore; Mineralogy and petrology of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary clay bed and adjacent clay-rich rocks, Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado. Journal of Sedimentary Research ; 57 (3): 456–466. doi: https://doi.org/10.1306/212F8B61-2B24-11D7-8648000102C1865D
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The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary is preserved in a sequence of coal-bearing, fluvial rocks in the lower part of the Raton Formation (Late Cretaceous and Paleocene) at several sites in the east-central part of the Raton Basin. The K-T boundary occurs at the top of a kaolinitic claystone layer, commonly referred to as the "boundary clay layer," in an interval of coal and carbonaceous shale. The boundary is defined by the disappearance of certain fossil-pollen taxa. The boundary clay layer also contains shocked quartz grains and abundance anomalies of iridium, chromium, and other elements. Each of these characteristics support the hypothesis of an asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous. Small goyazite spheres were also found in the boundary clay bed; however, their origin is uncertain. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and thin-section petrography have shown that the boundary clay bed exhibits unique mineralogic and petrologic characteristics not possessed by other clay-rich beds in coal-bearing rocks of the Raton Basin. The boundary clay bed is composed primarily of well-crystallized kaolinite but also contains subordinate, randomly interstratified, mixed-layer illite/smectite, both of which appear to have been formed by the alteration of vitreous material in a coal-swamp environment. The bulk mineralogy of the boundary clay bed is similar to that of other kaolinite-rich clay beds (tonsteins) that altered in coal swamps from airfall volcanic ash. The alteration process and diagenetic products of the host material in the boundary clay bed, however, differed from those of the tonsteins, resulting in a unique petrographic fabric. The boundary clay bed is characterized by an overall imbricate fabric that may reflect an original vitreous material that included shards, bubbles, and spheres. The original fallout material of the boundary clay bed first altered to "cabbage-like" microspherules, indicating a halloysite or allophane precursor, and then to well-crystallized kaolinite; the well-crystallized kaolinite is the diagenetic stable phase for these rocks at their maximum burial conditions. In comparison, the vitreous components of the tonsteins were altered directly to coarse vermicular and platey kaolinite. Alteration of the original fallout material in the boundary bed was probably rapid, leading to hydrated, disordered, fine-grained clay minerals that formed into curled spherical or tubular shapes. The factors that produced these unique fabrics in the boundary clay bed existed at all K-T sites in the Raton Basin and were much different from those that formed the coarse platey and vermicular fabrics of ordinary tonsteins. The distinctive character of the boundary clay may be due to the unique nature and chemistry of the fallout material and (or) physical or chemical conditions existing shortly after its deposition.
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With a huge wealth of 13.1 billion dollars, Elon Musk is considered one of the most successful technology entrepreneurs today. However, few people know that he is a big fan of Monty Python. The British comedy group was his great inspiration.
The billionaire introduced a list of 5 inspirational songs to work for him. Monty Python’s song ‘Always look on the bright side of life’ suddenly appears on this list. Elon Musk shared that this song appeared in the movie Monty Python’s Life of Brian and it was obviously a very unhappy song because at that time characters were nailed to the cross. He said that this song will remind us to always remember that we should not pay attention to bad things in life. According to Elon Musk’s concept, he would rather choose optimism and wrong than pessimism and right.
Apart from that, Elon Musk also shocked people by posting tweets about recruitment for Boring Company in a joke style in Monty Python. This is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company founded by this billionaire in 2016.
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Ken Shane celebrates the six-month anniversary of his Soul Serenade column with an awesome mix that includes every song that has appeared in his column so far.
Soul Serenade: King Curtis, “Soul Serenade”
When it comes to soul music, there’s only one King of the saxophone: King Curtis. Ken Shane begins his new column with a look at Curtis’ most famous song, “Soul Serenade.”
The Friday Mixtape: 2/26/10
Rob Smith February 26, 2010
Rob Smith provides some soulful sides to get us through winter’s last throes, in this week’s Popdose.com Friday Mixtape.
The Weekly Mixtape
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SEO for the Rest of Us
The #1 Content Marketing Strategy for 2021 - Ross Simmonds
If you are in the marketing automation space, it's great to look at the HubSpots of the world and try to leverage that to gain insight, but you can also look at sites like Wirecutter. You can look at any other property that has been able to kill it from an SEO standpoint and reverse-engineer what gave them success.
One of the key insights I've recognized is when you look at Moz, Salesforce, or HubSpot, a lot of them have been able to establish a lot of traffic by simply creating glossary sections of their websites. That's something that, as an SEO, you should be able to look at and ask how can I apply this to my industry?
If you're a coffee company, maybe you create a glossary around the different phrases that are interesting to coffee. If you are a plant company and you're selling plants, create a glossary section on your site that is dedicated to the bonsai trees, to the tulips, to any other plants.
Don't hesitate to look at other industries outside of your own for inspiration.
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'SEO Copywriting" is a term that gets thrown around quite a bit. Is it SEO? Is it copywriting? Can the two ever coexist? Joel Klettke and I discuss this in today's conversation. Quick Links: 00:00 Introduction 01:40 What is SEO copywriting? 05:22 Beginner copywriting and SEO mistakes 08:00 Why CTR is the most important metric in Page 1 SEO rankings 10:15 SEO vs. Content Marketing 11:00 SEO research and Copywriting research ---- What SEO copywriting means really depends on who you ask. Some live and die by it and some swear it is it's own full-blown skillset. Copywriters who also know SEO and understand the impact of rankings and title tags are awesome. Joel, and I, both hate the phrase SEO copywriting because typically when you're writing copy for the web you're writing for the intent of engaging a human being SEO copywriting, on the other hand, is a phase used by companies on Upwork who want spammy articles they hope will bring in search traffic but also covert people to an offer. It becomes this less awesome game of keyword density and other nonsense. If you're doing copywriting and it's hurting your SEO, it shows you really don't know how to do copywriting. SEO is writing for people. Copywriting is writing for people. It's the same thing if you're doing it right. It's NOT finding 100 different ways to say why the pizza at your 100 locations in and around Tallahassee is awesome. If you're writing great, compelling copy, you're going to tick a lot of boxes for SEO anyhow. SEO should be a consideration and it should be baked in, not the end goal. The end goal is not to show up, or to rank for a thing, it's to deliver a message and communicate a value. If all you care about is ranking, you've got some misaligned goals in your business to rethink. One of the biggest seo copywriting mistakes that people make is thinking that the pages have to be a certain length. When that's the focus for your SEO, you put the word count ahead of the conversion and message of the copy. Every word on the page should serve your readers. Copy does have a place in SEO, but the mistaken belief that the H1 tag or title tag has to be a certain way, is wrong. When you have a stronger link profile, you can be a bit more playful in your copy. When you rank third in the search results, but your title tag is more compelling, you'll start getting a lot more clicks which will quickly boost you up in rankings. It doesn't matter if you do everything right with SEO and show up on page one, but when you can't convert that traffic, it's mostly worthless. Yes, get informed on SEO and understand ranking factors, but that is just one more tool in your SEO copywriting toolkit. What we're doing with words is having conversations and (hopefully) communicating something of value. That's way too important a thing to hand over from a true copywriter to an SEO department.
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Valentine’s Dance abduction-murder solved by DNA? Bethany Decker disappearance: Boyfriend charged
Carla Walker was kidnapped from her boyfriend’s car after a Valentine's Day high school dance in 1974, and was found brutally murdered three days later. A Texas man has been arrested after the Othram Inc. forensic laboratory identified a genetic profile in the cold case. Plus, a person of interest in the 2011 disappearance of young pregnant woman Bethany Decker has been extradited to Virginia to face an abduction charge. Joining host Ana Garcia is Othram Inc. founder and CEO David Mittelman.
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Baby Vanessa | 83
As investigators process a crime scene in Ansonia, Conn., they realize a one-year-old girl, Vanessa Morales, is missing.
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84: Lured - Justin Robinson
On October 20, 2012, 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale went missing after leaving home on Homecoming Saturday, riding her new BMX bike. Her disappearance led police to the home of teen brothers Justin and Dante Robinson, leading to their arrests. For more information on Autumn’s Law, visit: https://www.change.org/p/autumn-s-law-hold-abusive-neglectful-parents-partially-accountable?use_react=false This episode brought to you by BEST FIENDS! Music: We Talk of Dreams www.purple-planet.com 84 Sources: South Jersey Times. “Autum Pasquale’s death: Police charge 2 teenage brothers with murder.” October 23, 2012. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2012/10/police_two_teenage_boys_charge.html Doug Shimell, Tracy Davidson, David Chang. “Autumn’s parents question police effort to find daughter.” October 24, 2012. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/autumns-parents-question-police-effort-to-find-daughter/1947380/ Kim Gregory, Alan Feuer. “A South Jersey town grieves after a girl’s murder.” October 24, 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/nyregion/in-murder-of-autumn-pasquale-online-echoes.html?_r=0 Carly Q. Romalino, South Jersey Times. “Autumn Paquale’s death: Gloucester COunty prosecutor hands off murder case to Camden County.” February 7, 2013. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2013/02/autumn_pasquale_murder_glouces.html The Trentonian. “Parents of slain NJ girl settle lawsuit.” February 28, 2013. https://www.trentonian.com/news/parents-of-slain-nj-girl-settle-lawsuit/article_a0b54af1-41a7-5d7e-a33c-d434a23b07a2.html CBSN Philly. “NJ teen, 16, sentenced for horrific murder of Autumn Pasquale, 12.” September 12, 2013. https://www.trentonian.com/news/parents-of-slain-nj-girl-settle-lawsuit/article_a0b54af1-41a7-5d7e-a33c-d434a23b07a2.html Carly Q. Romalino, South Jersey Times. “Autumn Pasquale killing: Dante Robinson released from jail, pleads guilty to obstruction.” September 24, 2013. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2013/09/autumn_pasquale_murder_donte_robinson_released_from_jail_pleads_to_obstruction_charge.html Jason Nark, phillynews.com. “S. Jersey town still struggles with death of Autumn Pasquale.” October 18, 2013. https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20131018_S__Jersey_town_still_struggles_with_death_of_Autumn_Pasquale.html Carly Q. Romalino, South Jersey Times. “Gloucester County prosecutor ‘wanted to finish’ Autumn Pasquale murder case.” September 28, 2013. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2013/09/gloucester_county_prosecutor_wanted_to_finish_autumn_pasquale_murder_case.html Jessica Dean. “Exclusive: Autumn Pasquale’s father files suit against parents of her murderer.” December 2, 2013. https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/12/02/exclusive-autumn-pasquales-father-files-suit-against-parents-of-her-murderer/ Lisa Belkin. “Is it a crime to raise a killer?” September 12, 2014. https://news.yahoo.com/is-it-a-crime-to-raise-a-killer--190558283.html?guccounter=1 Associated Press. “Family of Autumn Pasquale sues law enforcement agencies.” October 27, 2014. https://abc7ny.com/autumn-pasquale-murder-12-year-old-murdered-burlington-county-new-jersey-news/368159/ Rebecca Forand, nj.com. “Lawsuit claiming cops botched Autumn Pasquale murder case dismissed.” June 15, 2016. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2016/06/lawsuit_filed_against_cops_in_autumn_pasquale_case.html Matt Gray, nj.com. “5 years later, tributes for Autumn Pasquale continue as killer’s family faces new charges.” October 9, 2017. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2017/10/5_years_after_autumn_pasquales_murder_case_still_m.html Matt Gray, nj.com. “A killer explains the slaying of a child: ‘I didn’t kill her for no bike.” March 27, 2018. https://www.nj.com/news/2018/03/a_killer_explains_slaying_of_a_child_i_didnt_kill.html David Chang. “Man charged in teen girl’s murder more than 4 years ago arrested in home invasion: Police.” May 24, 2017. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/break-in-arrest-new-jersey-murder-autumn-pasquale-clayton/17404/ Annie McCormick. “Man linked to killing of AUtumn Pasquale shot, arrested for NJ home invasion.” May 25, 2017. https://6abc.com/new-jersey-news-dante-robinson-autumn-pasquale-girl-murdered/2033254/ Carly Q. Romalino, The Courier-Post. “Clayton man ‘duped’ into alleged home invasion.” May 25, 2017. https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2017/05/25/clayton-man-pasquale-case-duped-into-alleged-home-invasion/346735001/ Carly Q. Romalino, The Courier-Post. “4 more charged in Gloucester home invasion.” June 2, 2017. https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2017/06/02/robinson/360284001/ Matt Gray, nj.com. “Brother of Autumn Pasquale's killer charged in drug raid.” September 15, 2017. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2017/09/brother_of_autumn_pasquales_killer_charged_in_drug.html Carly Q. Romalino. “Clayton man linked to 2012 AUtumn Pasquale murder guilty of 2017 home invasion.” October 4, 2019. https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/crime/2019/10/04/autumn-pasquale-murder-suspect-dante-robinson-guilty-home-invasion-clayton/3865323002/ Rebeecca Everett, nj.com. “Man involved in Autumn Pasquale’s murder case gets 35 years for home invasion.” October 23, 2020. https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2020/10/man-involved-in-autumn-pasquales-murder-case-gets-35-years-for-home-invasion.html Prosecutor Warren Faulk statements on Autumn Pasquale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ejs6aHv0mc “The death of Autumn Pasquale: In the killer’s words.” March 27, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwtDCU3o5LI “New details on Autumn Pasquale murder case.” October 25, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwBnJ2P0mFI 911 call from home invasion shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBuTrKGWVYE https://www.change.org/p/state-of-new-jersey-prosecutor-s-office-for-gloucester-county-charge-justin-and-dante-robinson-as-adults-for-killing-autumn-pasquale
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In 2017, a 40-year-old woman never returned home after working at an Oklahoma hospital. When police reviewed the security footage, they saw her getting into a man’s truck and they drove off together- but she was never seen again. This is the story of Holly Cantrell. *BONUS EPISODES* patreon.com/goingwestpodcast *ADS* Gobble: Get 6 meals for $36 (and free shipping!) at gobble.com/goingwest Apostrophe: Visit apostrophe.com/goingwest and use code GOINGWEST for $15 off your prescription Talkspace: Get $100 off by going to Talkspace.com and use code GOINGWEST *CASE SOURCES* https://obituaries.mcalesternews.com/obituary/holly-cantrell-1078504813 https://www.bishopfuneralservice.com/obituary/holly-cantrell https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/oklahoma-police-holly-cantrell-missing-pregnant-mom-body https://www.mcalesternews.com/news/skeletal-remains-identified-as-holly-cantrell/article_761ff0c0-52b6-11ea-8c7d-b39df0871a08.html https://www.bishopfuneralservice.com/obituary/4216025 https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/missing/holly-cantrell--mother-of-3-with-secrets--vanished-in-broad-dayl https://www.mcalesternews.com/news/skeletal-remains-identified-as-holly-cantrell/article_761ff0c0-52b6-11ea-8c7d-b39df0871a08.html https://www.fox23.com/news/local/human-remains-found-2018-belong-missing-pittsburg-county-woman-sheriffs-office-says/MOHT7EWZVVAT7NLY5KAR77QFGA/ https://people.com/crime/holly-cantrell-human-remains-pregnant-oklahoma-mother/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Unjust & Unsolved
19: Andre Brown
1990’s Bronx, New York: The most violent decade in the city’s history in one of the most impoverished areas in the nation at the time, and college student Andre Brown was right in the middle. A drug turf war, teens with guns, and a corrupt mob lawyer for the Bonanno crime family - what could possibly go wrong? For more information and a complete list of sources for this episode, visit: https://www.unjustandunsolved.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the show and access exclusive content: http://patreon.com/unjustandunsolved
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The Cheetham Murders
Kenneth and Iva Cheetham met and fell in love during World War II. They eventually married and settled in Washington State. Kenneth and Iva loved to travel and took yearly vacations to different spots around the country. In 1991, they set out to meet up with family for a vacation at Glacier National Park. They never joined up with their family and were later found shot to death. Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the murders of Kenneth and Iva Cheetham. There are a number of mysteries that surround this case. Authorities knew they had both been shot but they were unable to conclusively identify the caliber of bullet used in the murders. They had very little to go on, the biggest lead was a missing video camera and bag with a strap that had the Cheethams' name on it. That strap was later found by itself. But, there were a number of other murders around the area where the Cheethams were found. Police had to figure out if they were connected. You can support the show at patreon.com/truecrimeallthetime Visit the show's website at truecrimeallthetime.com for contact, merchandise, and donation information An Emash Digital Production See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MURDERISH
Jami Rice
“Katie Beers, Against all Odds” | MURDERISH Ep. 073
On December 28, 1992, nine-year-old Katie Beers vanished from a Long Island amusement center. National headlines in the days that followed read “The Tiny Tragedy from Long Island” and “America’s little girl lost.” The ripple effects were extensive. Not only was a young child missing, but a paralyzing sense of ‘stranger danger’ also terrorized New York’s second largest county. What had become of little Katie? Was any child safe? The events that unfolded after the young girl’s disappearance were a tale of alarming tragedy and unabiding resilience. Join me as I walk you through the case of Katie Beers. Check us out: Visit Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami. The website also has links to buy MURDERISH merchandise and become a Patreon supporter. Patreon subscribers can get access to exclusive Patreon-only episodes. To sign up for Patreon perks, click “Go Behind the Scenes” on the website OR click here for a direct link to our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/Murderish . Let’s get social: @MurderishPod (Twitter), @MurderishPodcast (Instagram), search “Murderish” (Facebook). Sponsors: - PepperBall: Visit PepperBall.com & use promo code MURDERISH10 for 10% off of your order in the New Year. - Stamps.com: Visit Stamps.com , click the microphone at the top of the homepage & enter promo code MURDERISH for a 4-week trial, free postage, & a digital scale. - Best Fiends: Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. - PlushCare: Visit PlushCare.com/murderish to start your FREE 30-day trial. Post roll podcast promo: Excuse Me, That’s Illegal podcast. Subscribe! Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising requests. Click this link to get started advertising your brand, podcast, company etc. on MURDERISH https://www.advertisecast.com/MURDERISH . Production & Music: John & Jessica Bukenas of Audio Editing Solutions (production), Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams (music). Research & Writing: Alison Schwartz. Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer ...it just means you’re murder-ish.
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A missing woman, two suitcases, and a refrigerator. For photos and maps pertaining to this case, check out Jenny & Laura's highlight at the top of my Instagram profile at www.instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley
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Seized & Scorched: Kim Antonakos
After a night out clubbing with a friend in New York City, the beautiful and kind 20-year-old Kim Antonakos disappeared. Kim was on her way home in the early morning hours when she was abducted. Her father, wealthy businessman Tommy Antonakos, immediately began a widespread and organized search for his daughter. What he didn’t know was that Kim’s abductors were supposed friends of Kim. Right under Tommy’s nose, these cold-blooded men pretended to care about her and to participate in his search for Kim. Join us at the quiet end for Seized and Scorched. Everything about Kim’s abduction showed unbridled cruelty and extraordinary incompetence. When plans to hold Kim hostage for money didn’t go according to plan, Kim’s abductors panicked and took Kim’s life. But not only was her young life stolen from her and those who loved her, Kim died an agonizing and slow death, leaving her unrecognizable. Before the investigation was completed, another murder would occur, revealing that the callousness of at least one of her killers ran deeper than even imagined.
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110: It's Always the Husband: The Michael Morton Story
In 1986, a young mother was brutally murdered in her Austin, Texas home, early in the morning, while still sleeping in her bed. Her husband had left for work at 5:30am. Her three year old son was left alone in the house. Unfortunately, the night before, her husband had become disappointed when his wife had been too tired to make love. Michael Morton loved his wife, but he left a note for her that would definitely sting any wife. And based mainly on that note alone, corrupt investigators made sure he spent 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Christine Kirkpatrick Morton. Hosted and produced by Erica Kelley Researched by Haley Gray and Erica Kelley Written by Hannah Newcomb and Erica Kelley Original Graphic Art by Coley Horner Original Music by Rob Harrison of Gamma Radio Edited by Chaes Gray of Gray Multimedia Case suggested by Lacey Gholson Sponsors: BetterHelp.com/southern HelloFresh.com/southernfried10 Best Fiends https://michael-morton.com/ Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/110-its-always-the-husband-the-michael-morton-story Merch | Donate | In the Media: https://southernfriedtruecrime.com @southfriedtruth (Twitter) @southernfriedtruecrime (Insta) If you are suffering with abuse in quarantine, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help: US Crisis Text Line: 741741 US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-737-732 Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/ If you are having suicidal thoughts during this unprecedented time, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Please call the US National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 For resources in other countries: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
Once Upon A Crime | True Crime
Esther Ludlow
Episode 192: Serial Predator: Curtis Dean Anderson - Part 1
A 7-year-old goes missing from Vallejo, California in 1999. It would be some time before Xiana Fairchild would be linked to a serial predator who would ultimately be connected to several missing and murdered women and children in Northern California and beyond. This is the first part of a month-long series about serial predator Curtis Dean Anderson. Resources: Letters from a Serial Killer: The true story of a mother and a journalist's fight to save a little girl's life by Kristi Belcamino and Stephanie Kahalekulu, Publisher: Kristi Belcamino, 2018. "A Sad End to Xiana's Story" by Stacy Finz, Patrick Hoge, Tyche, Hendricks, Matthew B. Standard for The San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 4, 2001. Sponsors: Skout's Honor: www.SkoutsHonor.com/once for 20% off your order. Acorn TV: www.acorn.tv - use offer code ONCE to get your first 30 days free. Links: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime
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Episode 93: The Mommie and Clyde Killers
This case will take us to the upper east side of New York City during the summer of 1998. A famed socialite went missing and the man that was suspected in her disappearance was none of the things that he had claimed to be. Join me as I tell John a story of high society, eviction laws, and how not to be a parent. Patreon.com/truecrimecouple Sources: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/03/sante-kimes-mother-murderer-criminal-mastermind https://nypost.com/2001/04/27/death-house-finds-a-buyer/ https://www.thewaterscrooge.com/blog/evicting-a-tenant-without-a-lease-in-nyc-what-you-should-know https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-30-tm-kimes48-story.html http://www.tribune242.com/news/2013/oct/23/serial-killers-856k-bahamian-bank-stash/ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8i5ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dkcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3513,2860038&dq=sante+kimes+bahamas+murder&hl=en https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/11/nyregion/kenneth-kimes-takes-reporter-as-a-hostage.html McFadden, Robert (July 14, 1998). "A FAMILY PORTRAIT: A special report.; A Twisted Tale of Deceit, Fraud and Violence" (https://archive.is/20130130102903/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70610F73B550C778DDDAE0894D0494D81) . New York Times. Archived from the original (https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70610F73B550C778DDDAE0894D0494D81) on January 30, 2013. Retrieved December 2020
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144 - The Disappearance of Jennifer Pentilla
***Sponsored by: AcornTV! Visit Acorn.TV/Trace to get your first 30 days free! Simplisafe! Visit Simplisafe.com/Trace for a free security camera and 60 day risk free trial!*** Eighteen year old Jennifer Pentilla was driven to help others. Fresh out of high school she traveled to Mexico on a mission trip to paint churches and assist the local community. When an opportunity arose to go back, she leapt at it. What was supposed to be a group bike trip from San Diego, down into Mexico, fell through but Jennifer was undeterred and even if she had to go alone, she was set on making the trip. In October of 1991, she set off on her own and for a time the trip was going well. However, on October 17th she made her last call home and mysteriously disappeared from Deming, New Mexico. Over a year later, most of her belongings were found in the desert not far from the town of Hatch. Thirty years later, the question remains, what became of Jennifer Pentilla? FB: https://www.facebook.com/TraceEvidencePod/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/traceevidencepod/ TW: https://twitter.com/TraceEvPod Visit https://www.trace-evidence.com for more information, case photos, contact information and more. Merch: https://traceevidence.threadless.com/ GetVokl: https://getvokl.com/channel/trace-evidence-1 (Weekly livestreams 7pm-8pm Eastern) Music Courtesy of: "Lost Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford
The Murder of Jessica Chambers
On Dec. 6, 2014, in Courland, MS, a horrible murder occurred. First responders were called out to a scene that they thought was just a car fire. But, then they found 19-year-old Jessica Chambers who had severe burns on over 90% of her body. Emergency personnel tried to get information from Jessica on what happened to her but she could barely speak and she died later at the hospital. Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the tragic murder of Jessica Chambers. Investigators struggled to piece together what happened to Jessica and who was involved. A lot of rumors swirled around Courtland and the surrounding towns. Police centered their attention on a man named Quinton Tellis, who was with Jessica that day. They have tried him twice, but, both juries failed to reach a verdict. Tellis has also been charged with the murder of Mandy Hsiao in Louisiana. That trial has yet to occur and it remains to be seen whether Mississippi will try him a third time. You can support the show at patreon.com/criminology An Emash Digital Production See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Morbidology
82: Reagan Tokes
A collective fear that many women face is walking alone at night-time. Most women can relate to the sense of terror that washes over when you think that somebody could be following you or watching you. In Columbus, Ohio, in 2017, a young woman vanished while walking to her parked car after finishing her shift at a local bar. The investigation would reveal many systemic failures in Ohio’s justice system and lead to a change in law. It would also give legitimacy to the collective fear of walking alone at night. SPONSORS - YARN: Thank you to YARN for sponsoring this episode! YARN is an interactive storytelling app offering everything from true crime chat fiction stories to even choosing your own adventure. Download for free at the Apple App store or Google Play. BETTERHELP: Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode! Is there is something that interferes with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? BetterHelp online counseling is there for you. Get matched with a counselor today: https://betterhelp.com/morbidology PODCORN: Thank you to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode! Podcorn is revolutionizing podcast sponsorship. Start browsing sponsorship opportunities today: https://podcorn.com/ PODCAST PROMO: OUR TRUE CRIME PODCAST Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourtruecrimepodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourtruecrimepod PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/morbidology SHOW NOTES - https://morbidology.com/morbidology-the-podcast-82-reagan-tokes Audio Credit: Evening of Chaos - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Empty Reflections - ErikMMusic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgq4SPKHlyI A Mothers Sacrifice - OurMusicBox - https://ourmusicbox.com/ Dark Tranquility - Anno Domini Beats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mBav72AkE Scott Buckley - Undertow CO.AG Music – Cold Case Detective, The Ulgonsah Witches, So Evil-Dark Synth, Drifting Through Time, The Rake, Underwater - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA/videos
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(Part 2/2) 18-year-old Corona, CA high school baseball prospect Brandon Willie Martin was signed by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2011 Major League draft. His talent and incredible promise was worth an estimated $860,000 cash signing bonus. But after signing the contract, renting a posh 6,700 square foot mansion, and hosting massive alcohol and drug fueled parties - something changed in Brandon. Over the next four years he would lose everything - including his freedom, after he was released early from an involuntary 72-hour emergency psychiatric hold. This episode of Invisible Choir is proudly sponsored by Podcorn. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up at https://podcorn.com/podcasters/ This episode of Invisible Choir is proudly sponsored by Best Fiends. Download this fun and exciting puzzle adventure game on the Apple App Store or on Google Play. Special Podcast Promo: Always Time for True Crime Visit Invisible Choir on the web: * Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium: https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir * Website: https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/invisiblechoir/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/InvisibleChoir Written/Audio Sources: * Ex-baseball player who allegedly “hated” being Black convicted of killing Black father and two others * How a rising Corona baseball star’s life tumbled into a death penalty trial * Callous killer or mentally ill? Penalty phase begins in Corona triple murder case * Brandon Martin MiLB Stats * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin on Trial for Triple Murder * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Triple Murder Trial - Cousin of Defendant & Ofc Sandoval * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Triple Murder Trial-Sgt Brad Voorhees-Crime Scene Photos * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial-Sgt Brad Voorhees-Fmr Criminalist Brian Reinarv * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial-Desiree Seagraves-Occ. Therapist-Michael Harvey * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin - Trial-Michael Harvey - Vics Son-in-Law - Craig Taylor Ret Ofc * Triple homicide victims’ children sue Corona, Riverside County, security system companies * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial-Judicial Notice of Facts-Karen Alexander, ADT Phone Call * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - Ofc Shannon Velasco - Corona PD. Spotted Def in Vehicle * Former MLB prospect Brandon Martin gets life in prison in triple murder case * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - Day 3 - Ofc Robert Bejines - Corona PD * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - Nathan Devlin & Det. Jesse Marquez * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - Day 4 - Police Interview Part 1 * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - Police Interview Part 2 - 3D Reconstructionist Part 1 * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - 3D Reconstructionist - Blood Spatter Expert * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - K9 Officer Jeffrey Bennett - Dr. Leticia Schuman FP * MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin Trial - Dr. Leticia Schuman Forensic Pathologist * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin - Swanson Family Members Testify * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin - Swanson Family Members Testify2 * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Brandon Willie Martin - Anderson Family Members Testify * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Convicted of Triple Murder - Sean Martin - Defendant's Brother * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Convicted of Triple Murder - Dr. Vasilica Valcru -Psychiatrist * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Convicted of Triple Murder - Jamal Abdullah & Matthew Budgell * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Convicted of Triple Murder - Dr Alan Abrams Psychiatrist Part 1 * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Convicted of Triple Murder Dr Robert Solomon & Craig Andersen * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Convicted of Triple Murder - Melody Martin Defendant's Mother * Penalty Phase for MLB Draft Pick Convicted of Triple Murder - Melody Martin Defendant's Mother2 * Paranoid Schizophrenia * Zillow Profile: 1207 Winthrop Drive * Pro baseball player, accused of killing 3 people with bat, was released early from psych hold, lawsuit says * Funeral held for man slain while installing security system at Corona home Music & Sound Effect Sources * Opening Track: “Negotiations” by Edward Karl Hanson * Closing Track: “Moon Language” by Chelsea McGough Music & Sound Effect Sources All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ® and SoundStripe ®. Individual sources are available via request at info@invisiblechoir.com
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The murder of a church choir member reveals a sordid secret and an unlikely love triangle. Season 11, Episode 11 Originally aired: December 22, 2013
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Baby's remains found during home remodeling. Son shoots and kills his mother at the dinner table.
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(This episode features content from a previous episode of My Life of Crime.) How murder, mayhem and a not so average mom shaped the life of Hollywood filmmaker Nicholas Musurca. Nick’s specialty is horror films. His childhood revolved around his mother’s unusual occupation- TV crime reporter for 48 Hours. He grew up on tales of abducted children, eerie crime scenes and serial killers. One of those notorious murderers, known as “BTK,” mailed some of his artwork to the house. Why? Because his mother gave out their home address. Nick's mother, none other than crime reporter Erin Moriarty, believed that the killer’s artwork was essential to reporting the story… and she figured the killer wasn’t getting out of jail anytime soon. This funny, warm, biting podcast about combining motherhood with investigating murder delves into the relationship between Hollywood horror and true crime. Hosted jointly by Erin Moriarty and her partner in crime at 48 Hours, correspondent Richard Schlesinger, the podcast showcases what it’s like to cover some of the country’s most infamous crimes and the victims who must live through them.
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Defense attorneys for the female "killer clown" suspect in Florida want their client released. Sheila Keen-Warren is accused of dressing up as a clown and killing her future husband's wife in 1990. Plus, an Illinois man has been charged with murder after allegedly fatally shooting his girlfriend while driving. Criminal defense attorney Joshua Ritter joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A 4-year-old Missouri girl was allegedly tortured to death by neighbors who intended to "beat the 'demon'" out of her family. The girl's parents and the family's neighbors have been charged in the girl's death. And a Seattle man was arrested after allegedly dumping the dismembered remains of five medical cadavers in remote woods in Arizona. Dr. Judy Ho joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This week in a special True Crime Daily Podcast: Our guest is Willie "Timmy" Donald, an Indiana man wrongly convicted of robbery and murder who served more than 20 years in prison before he was exonerated. We discuss how Mr. Donald went car-shopping with family one night in 1992 and ended up in a police lineup, how police and prosecutors let the wrong man go to prison -- and what has changed since. Also joining us is Willie T. Donald's attorney, Thomas Vanes; and Dr. Nicky Jackson, coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program at Purdue University Northwest in Indiana, who is the creator and chair of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition. Criminal defense attorney Alison Triessl co-hosts with Ana Garcia. Righting the Wrong of a Wrongful Conviction - GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/righting-the-wrong-of-a-wrongful-conviction The Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition - Purdue University Northwest https://www.pnw.edu/college-of-humanities-education-social-sciences/exoneration-coalition/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Charles Square
Charles Square, the largest Square in Prague. The plan to create at this place a large market as an central space of the New City is presented even in 1348 in the foundation charter of Charles IV. But the market has been here much earlier, already in the days of Kosmas.
The change of the former muddy space in the working market started in 1843 under the direction of the count Karel Chotek and the present form of the park comes from the 1884 thanks to the interest of František Thomayer, brother of the famous medicine doctor, Professor Josef Thomayer. Since 1848 the place is called Karlovo and is decorated by five monuments. First of them dedicated to the poet, prose-writer, playwright and publicist Vítězslav Hálek was dedicated in 1882, in 1898 there was dedicated the monument of the Czech botanist and traveller Benedikt Roezl, the leader of the Máj generation Karolína Světlá has her monument here since 1910, the monument of woman writer and the pioneer of the woman movement Eliška Krásnohorská is there since 1931 and the monumental sculpture of the most notable Czech naturalist and patriot of the 19 century Jan Evangelista Purkyně is at the Karlově náměstí since 1961. The Baroque fountain from 1698 with the 10 meters high column with the sculpture of St Joseph at the top was made by the sculptor Matěj Václav Jáckl, he was in 1691 incorporated as the citizen of the Nové Město.
Since 1377 in the northern part of the place was built the first building of the New Town Hall, when was erected the eastern wing with the jail and the office rooms. To the present survived from the original building only the cellar, tower and the portico gallery. The southern wing, in which are placed especially the representative premises were built in 1411-1416, and the 70 meters high tower with a view gallery was built in 1451-1456. The present shape of the city hall comes from 1905. In 1957-1958 the hall in the ground floor was rebuilt in a Ceremony Hall. On this occasion has been found a painted Renaissance beam ceiling. Since 1962 was listed this building as the only city hall in the Czech Republic at the list of National cultural monuments. Its reconstruction finished in 1995. The dominating feature of the northern part of the square is the pseudo classicist five winged court building with three yards from the years 1901-1903 with a portico and decorated facade. On the presents there is a Municipal Court in Prague and the District Court for Prague 4. The restaurant Black brewery, the functionalistic apartment building No. 292 from the year 1933-1934 is now reminded only by the embossment of a lion. The building of the Česká technika with the allegoric sculptures of the Science and Work on both sides of t h e doorway we can find at the corner of the Resslova Street. The Charles Square Centre, modern office building and a minor shopping centre is situated at the opposite side over the entrance to the metro.
The decoration of Karlovo Square i s the Church of St. Ignatius from the second half of the 17l h century. In the construction took place important constructors Carlo Lurago and Pavel Ignác Bayer. In the neighbourhood was built the New Town Jesuit College with the Chapel of Francis Xaverius. After abolishing of the Jesuit Order in Bohemia this building was used as the garrison house and an army hospital. At the top of the Church front side there is a statue of the founder of the Jesuit order, St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), extraordinarily placed in the golden aureole, what was according to the church rules the privilege only for the Christ and Virgin Mary.
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Kerri Balliet, Red Baron Coaching
01/14/2021 1:54 PM | Emmy Harding (Administrator)
Kerri Balliet is a certified transformational coach with Red Baron Coaching. She works with clients to transform themselves from the inside out giving them the opportunity to live more meaningful, joyful, and authentic lives so they can achieve their dreams instead of sitting on the sidelines. After transitioning out of a 35-year corporate career, she started Red Baron Coaching in 2018, and has worked with many corporations and individuals to help people tap into the maximum potential.
Kerri and her wife, two kids and two dogs moved to Milwaukee 16 years ago. She has been a PD member since 2018 and her favorite event was a summer member connect where she had the pleasure of connecting with fellow member Sharon Kevil. The two became fast friends and learned to kayak together.
Something about Kerri that you can’t find on her resume is that she loves the word “why.” It’s an adverb, a conjunction, a noun and an interjection. In scrabble, it will earn you 12 points. But most important, WHY Is a way to describe your destiny or your purpose. Why are you here on this planet?
Be sure to introduce yourself to Kerri at an upcoming PD event if you haven’t already!
Denisha Tate-McAlister, Denisha Tate & Associates Consulting
As Founder of Denisha Tate & Associates Consulting, Denisha Tate-McAlister guides nonprofits and faith based organizations to operational success through systems alignment, staff development and launching of strategic goals. Her current project is the resident led revitalization efforts of the Amani Neighborhood on the northside of Milwaukee, working with over 8,000 residents, more than 30 non-profits over a 130 block segment of the city.
Denisha has lived in Milwaukee for 12 years and joined Professional Dimensions in 2016. In her words, PD has provided her with the most amazing networking opportunity that she could ever imagine. Every PD gathering allows her to meet someone new that has a skill she wants to learn from or an interest that she shares. Denisha also served on our Sacagawea Awards committee this year, helping drive the event to be successful.
Something about Denisha that you couldn’t find on her resume is that she is blessed to have 9 amazing children and 18 grandchildren. She always wanted a big family but life seemed to be heading in another direction, then two years ago she married the love of her life and look at her now!
Be sure to say to Denisha at the next PD event!
Nina Johnson, US Bank
12/03/2020 10:11 AM | Emmy Harding (Administrator)
Nina Johnson is the Consumer and Business Banking Leader for the Wisconsin market at US Bank, managing more than 400 employees throughout the southeastern segment of the state. She was hired to create a “Bank of the Future” experience using digital solutions that result in a positive costumer experience within the area. She’s worked in the banking industry for more than 35 years and has held several leadership roles in her tenure, ranging from computer operations and consumer leading to direct auto finance and private label loss mitigation.
Nina feels like this year has opened the door to having transparent dialog about sensitive topics and she has used this season as a catalyst for change in her market. She has taken this moment in time to create a safe space for courageous conversations by hosting Town Halls/Panel Discussions to address civil unrest, quarterly leadership development guest speaker events supporting DEI, peer mentoring for white executives that aspire to be a part of the solution, small conversation circles to address difficult topics like privilege, “black lives vs all lives” and other taboo topics impacting society.
Carving out space for real conversation was based on her desire to protect her team both physically and psychologically. Her goal was to use various modes of communication to harness true relationship building and sincere service as essential leaders. The concept is based on the core principle of knowing your audience and delivering a positive experience in the workplace.
Nina’s favorite PD activities are the annual events where she can reconnect with female leaders of all ages. She looks forward to a time where we can gather in-person again and catch up.
Be sure to say hi to Nina at an upcoming PD event and thank her for all she’s done in our community!
Jean Casey, GROTH Design Group and Circuit-jobs.com
Jean Casey is Director of Business Development for GROTH Design Group, an award winning architecture and interior design firm serving many markets including: Corporate, Healthcare, Senior Life, Education, Religious and Community projects. She has provided strategic direction to leading architecture firms in Wisconsin for over twenty years and also connects individuals to jobs through Circuit-jobs.com, a website she created to support the Built Environment: Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Commercial Real Estate.
Jean was born and raised in Milwaukee and is very engaged in our community through a variety of service opportunities and professional association memberships, previously serving on the boards of Rotary Club of Milwaukee, the Social Development Foundation and Alexian Village.
Jean's biggest source of pride though are two children, Ian, 27 and Emmy, 25 (PD’s Member Relations Coordinator!)
Jean joined PD in early 2020 and her favorite virtual event this year was the Ideation Summit. Something about her that you can’t find on her resume is that she skews Type B and asks that you keep that to yourself.
Be sure to say hi to Jean at an upcoming Professional Dimensions event.
Jessica Pharm, Blackness and the Workplace
Jessica Pharm has been working in Human Resources for several years, working in a variety of different positions. She is also the founder of Blackness and the Workplace, a platform dedicated to creating space for Black professionals. She also hosts a podcast with the same name, where she interviews industry leaders and talks about the various issues and topics that impact Black professionals.
Jessica was born and raised in Milwaukee, growing up in the Sherman park area. Her favorite Professional Dimensions activities are the various networking events that help her connect with like-minded successful and ambitious women entrepreneurs and thought leaders throughout the city.
For more information on Blackness in the Workplace, please visit www.blacknessandtheworkplace.com and be sure to say hi to Jessica at the next virtual event and ask her about her new business!
Simmi Urbanek, Platypus Advertising & Design
Simmi Urbnaek is the VP of Business Development and Marketing for Platypus Advertising & Design, a full service agency that does traditional and digital branding, marketing and advertising. She is also the President of the Walker’s Point Association and a volunteer with several other organizations.
Her favorite Professional Dimensions activities are the Progessive Dinners. She says those programs are the best way to meet the most PD members and have the best in-depth conversations. Simmi was also a driving force on our Sacagawea Awards Committee this year and worked tirelessly to ensure the event was a success.
One thing about Simmi that you can’t find on her resume is that she has very vivid dreams and can often remember them for a long time, including a dream in 1999 where she dreamt the Pope blessed her!
Be sure to say hi to Simmi at the next Professional Dimensions outing and thank her for all she did to make sure the event was such a success!
Devon Norwood, Baird
As Senior Vice President for Baird Advisors, Baird’s fixed-income asset management team, Devon Norwood plays an integral role in expanding and deepening relationships with the investment intermediary partners by focusing on driving productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. Devon also serves as Treasurer on the Professional Dimensions Charitable Fund Board.
Devon grew up in Wauwatosa and has been in Milwaukee pretty much her whole life. She moved to Minneapolis for her first “real job” after graduating from UWM but returned to Milwaukee after a year.
Her favorite Professional Dimensions activity is hands down the Sacagawea Awards. She says she always leaves the awards ceremony feeling inspired.
Something about Devon that you can’t find on her resume is that she’s been skiing and snowboarding for just about 30 years. Her family gets together about once a year to hit the slopes. Her five-year-old daughter just learned this past season and she’s hoping to get her three-year-old started soon!
Be sure to say hi or introduce yourself to Devon at our next Professional Dimensions outing.
Tami Sweeny, Life Productions, Inc.
Tami Sweeny is the Executive Producer and Owner of Life Productions, Inc. Tami is a UW-Madison graduate with a background in Public Broadcasting editing promotional pieces, doing research for local documentaries and working as a news reporter and public affairs host at WNDU-TV in Indiana. Her work has been featured on ESPN along with winning a Chicago Midwest Emmy Award for a Single Public Affairs Program in 1997-98.
Tami has lived in Milwaukee since 1985. Her favorite Professional Dimensions activity is the Sacagawea Awards event, where she helped produce the incredible videos of our honorees and their guests. She said it was an honor to get to tell the stories of trailblazing women in our community, and their accomplishments and contributions never cease to amaze her.
Something about Tami that you can’t find on her resume is that she has four adult children scattered all across the globe, three daughters-in-law, one son-in-law and grandchild #7 coming in November! She loves the outdoors, completed her second half Birkie cross-country ski race this past February and just finished a 59-mile whitewater rafting/camping trip on the Smith River in Montana.
Be sure to say hi to Tami at the next Professional Dimensions gathering and thank her for all she did to make our Sacagawea Awards such a success!
Wendy Terwelp, Opportunity Knocks of Wisconsin, LLC.
07/09/2020 12:32 PM | Emmy Harding (Administrator)
Wendy Terwelp is CEO of Opportunity Knocks of Wisconsin, LLC, the author of the “Rock Your Network” series and our 2020 Sacagawea Awards Chair. Dubbed a “LinkedIn Guru” by the Washington Post, Wendy is an award-winning executive career coach and personal branding strategist who works with high-performing leaders and organizations to advance careers, rock networks and up-level brands. Her consulting services, speaking engagements, and programs serve audiences worldwide through conferences, associations and corporate engagements.
As Chair of the 2020 Sacagawea Awards, Wendy designed a reimagined virtual Sacagawea Awards experience, which included a live awards ceremony, professionally produced videos, interactive networking, surprise guests, and a special gift for sponsors and guests to celebrate with the honorees safely at home. Wendy and her committee members worked tirelessly to successfully sell out the event and achieve record-breaking results with the help of all Professional Dimensions members, friends, partners and sponsors. Wendy’s favorite Professional Dimensions activities are the progressive dinners, where she can meet many different members and learn something new or gain a new perspective.
Something about Wendy that you can’t find on her resume is that she loves live music concerts. While this year many traditional summer events in Wisconsin were cancelled, she is still enjoying the many live-streamed “concerts from home” musicians have been providing on Facebook and other streaming websites.
Be sure to say hi to Wendy at an upcoming Professional Dimensions event and congratulate her on a successful Sacagawea Awards!
Andrea Petrie, Alverno College
Andrea Petrie works for Alverno College as Vice President for Advancement, leading development and engagement efforts with alumnae, donors and friends as the college brings to life its strategic vision and continues building collaborative partnerships with southeastern Wisconsin corporations and foundations.
Andrea moved back to Milwaukee from Chicago in 2006 to work for Marquette University. She now lives in Muskego with her husband and three children.
Her favorite Professional Dimensions activity is the Sacagawea Awards. In fact, it was after her first awards ceremony that she became a member! She found it incredible that although you can tell the women are a close and tight-knit group, they go out of their way to make you feel welcome and that you belong. She has never felt like an “outsider” attending any Professional Dimensions event, and always finds members are genuinely inclusive and inviting.
Something about Andrea that you couldn’t find on her resume is that she loves karaoke! So much so that she bought a portable karaoke machine, complete with a disco ball, that she can take with her places.
Be sure to strike up a conversation with Andrea at the next Professional Dimensions outing!
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Barb Remembers
“These are not numbers, but people I loved and cared about,” Michigan State alum Jon Nalley wrote in a 1991 affidavit, explaining that his ACT UP civil disobedience grew from the loss of twelve college friends to AIDS. Michigan LGBTQ Remember featured these twelve individuals for World AIDS Day last year.
For 2018, the site and this blog commemorate twelve other Michiganders lost to HIV/AIDS, all from Metro Detroit, who are specially remembered by Barbara Murray: Anthony Caputo, Chester Cislo, James Drain, Jeff Kucharsk, Tom Bartley, Jim Proffitt, Doug Pizzala, Tim Warner, Jim Beates, Scott McCready, Robin Ware, and Dan Stoepker.
Barb Murray has a unique perspective on AIDS. From 1989 to 2013, she served as executive director of AIDS Partnership Michigan, formerly Wellness Networks. Her long career is exemplary of the often-unsung role that lesbians played in caring for gay and bisexual men in the 1980s and ‘90s.
Just like Allison Bechdel, she is the daughter of a funeral director, so she was matter-of-fact in recounting the losses she witnessed on the forefront of fighting the epidemic. If she sometimes sounded detached from grief, it’s because she rarely had time to grieve. There was too much work to be done.
In mid-November, Barb and I met for lunch at Founder’s in Detroit, where she was eager to try a particular craft beer. Over the course of several hours, she reflected on a dozen people whose deaths left an indelible imprint. The conversation was something of a spontaneous offering of memories and moments, poignant touchstones that she experienced with each person.
Each of the twelve was out about their diagnosis, and Barb was not involved in client services, so her reflections betrayed no professional confidentiality.
“It was hard not to fall in love with Tony,” Barb said of Anthony Caputo. Barb and Tony became friends through his work with Wellness House. She remembered him as a “classic Italian” who enjoyed life and would rattle off stories about his high-end clientele when he was a hairdresser in New York. He was fond of telling about doing Barbra Streisand’s hair. “The best haircuts I ever got were from Tony Caputo,” Barb boasted. Her voice cracked a bit when she tried to fathom, even twenty-three years later, that he was gone, “stricken by a blood-borne disease that nobody expected.”
Tony Caputo, 1990. (Personal collection of Barbara Murray.)
Barb remembered Chester Cislo as a neighborhood fixture in Ferndale, where Wellness had its office on Livernois. She could picture him walking fast, his head forward ahead of his feet as he sped past their building. “What a special guy.”
Chester attended support groups and social functions held at Wellness. “We had a lot of parties so people could get together and have fun,” Barb said. Although the agency adopted strict policies about privacy, she explained that the lines between clients and staff and board members blurred in the wake of the emergency they were grappling with. “It was a human response to a problem that had to be met.”
Her main memory of James Drain was of a quiet, sweet man with a sweet, cockeyed smile. While serving on the board for Affirmations Community Center in the early 1990s, Barb regularly saw him greeting visitors to the Pioneer Building, their former location Nine Mile Road. She didn’t know he was dealing with AIDS until Jan Stevenson, then executive director of the center, told her that James had died. For Barb, James was a key part of Affirmations whose death left a major void. “All of a sudden he was gone.”
Barb knew Jeffry Kucharski mainly through Jeff’s partner, Tom Wilczak, one of her closest gay male friends. When Jeff died at age 31, his memorial service was held at Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church. Wilczak asked Barb and Linda Peterson to be at the door to hand out red ribbons to people coming in. “Jeff was very young, and it wasn’t fair,” she said. “Nothing about it was ever fair.”
NAMES Project panel for Jeffry Kucharski. (Personal collection of Barbara Murray.)
Tom Bartley’s illness was “pretty far along” when Barb met him, shortly after she was hired as executive director of Wellness Networks. She saw it in his dark, hollow eyes and in his noticeable drop in weight. One of their earliest conversations involved a bathroom that had supposedly been rehabbed to be barrier-free. “That bathroom is not barrier free,” Tom told her.
When Barb checked, she found the facility up to code but lacking a hand bar beside the toilet or behind the tank. She knew from caring for her own parents how crucial such seemingly minor modifications could be. “I realized that just the simple act of getting up and down off a toilet was an enormous challenge for him,” she said.
Newly attuned to the physical realities endured by Tom and others with AIDS, the next day Barb went to a local store and bought a toilet seat riser with hand-bars on the sides and installed it herself.
The first AIDS funeral Barb Murray attended was for Tom Bartley.
Tom’s life partner Jim Proffitt volunteered on the reception desk at Wellness. Often the front desk became a hangout for the small staff, so Barb got to know him well. “What a sweetheart,” she said. Since Jim was such a familiar face in the community, his presence helped convey the agency as a reputable and safe place. “If Jim was there, you knew it was okay,” Barb explained. “Sort of like the Jim Proffitt seal of approval.”
She also credited Jim and Tom with showing her a caliber of gay love she hadn’t witnessed before. “They taught me how to be a couple in the face of horrible adversity,” said Barb.
“Every one of these people taught me something.”
Barb knew Doug Pizzala for a long time before he came to work for AIDS Partnership Michigan as business manager. “Bright guy. Very soft spoken. And loved his Broadway musicals,” Barb chuckled. Not only was he good at his job, but in the midst of a hard day Barb could duck into his office, close the door, and escape with Doug by listening to Phantom of the Opera.
Barb ached at the memory of having to lay Doug off when finances tightened. “I loved that guy,” she said. “So, I’ll always play that game in my head: Would he have lived longer if I’d kept him on?”
Tim Warner was another person who sat at the front desk atop the stairs at the Wellness office in Ferndale. “A very sweet young man that was caught in the jaws of AIDS.” Barb conjured an image of Tim and his partner David Wyka at an AIDS fundraiser at the Detroit Polo Club in Milford. I was puzzled that Tim and David would be so enthralled by the event until Barb reminded me that they were there to see the young horse riders, saying “You know how much gay men like to dress up.”
Tim Warner and David Wyka, early 1990s. (Personal collection of David Wyka.)
In speaking of Jim Beates, Barb said, “If anybody ever needs proof that the closet is a shitty place, look no further than the early days of AIDS.” Active in Friends Alliance, he was the first openly gay pastor in the Presbytery of Detroit. “We should all have ministers as good as Jim Beates,” she added.
Barb remembered Scott McCready as the “heart and soul” of Friends Alliance. She recalled that when Scott died, one of his friends followed through with a promise to take his ashes to San Francisco and sprinkle them in Golden Gate Park. “It’s one of the side stories nobody ever hears,” said Barb.
Barb called Robin Ware an “incredibly good employee.” Robin was a staff social worker with HIV. Her young daughter also carried the virus and often hung out in their office.
Barb told how in 2000 she and Robin attended the U.S. Conference on AIDS, at which they shared a hotel room because they both smoked. It was unusual for an employee to “room with the boss,” but Robin was not bothered. “And we had the best goddam time,” said Barb. “We hung out and got to know each other in a different way.” According to Barb, the two “forged a strong friendship over and above her child spending time in our office when not in school.”
Robin Ware and South African Nikosi Johnson, 2000. (Personal collection of Barbara Murray.)
When Barb got to know Dan Stoepker, his partner Brad Kosko had already died. The two had shared a three-story home in Detroit’s University Park district, where AIDS Partnership Michigan once held a strategic planning retreat. Barb remembered admiring the little library in the foyer. Dan told her how he would open books and find love notes that Brad had hidden for him to discover. “They were a source of great joy,” Barb said.
In 2005, Barb visited Dan just days before he died. “I went to see him on Tuesday,” she said. “My memory is Dan died on Thursday.”
Our lunch and her reminiscing done, we hugged and exchanged our good-byes.
“Now that I’m 72, the tears come pretty easy some days,” Barb said. “I didn’t do this much at all while I was working. It’s now that I’m retired that the memories come flooding.”
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Quartz’s The Next Billion is back in New York on Nov. 16, exploring the next wave of internet users in emerging markets and on mobile platforms. Speakers include Phil Libin of Evernote, Luis von Ahn of Duolingo, Catherine Hoke of Defy Ventures, and many more. We’re hosting a full day of live interviews, interactive demos, debates, and networking with local and international innovators and decision makers. Sign up here!
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The Taiwanese and Chinese presidents meet for the first time. Ma Ying-jeou will meet Xi Jinping on Saturday in Singapore, and is expected to express a desire to maintain the island’s status quo with the mainland. But the meeting could fuel more anti-China sentiment in Taiwan.
A general election in Myanmar. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from winning the presidency, and more than 1 million minority citizens cannot take part in Sunday’s vote. Nevertheless, it remains the most important election since the military refused to share power in 1990.
Lufthansa flight attendants go on strike. Following a breakdown in negotiations over early retirement benefits and pensions, the airline’s cabin crew will begin a week-long labor strike, starting at 11am GMT.
The US publishes jobs data. Economists expect that about 180,000 jobs were added in October, and that the unemployment rate fell to 5%—close to the 4.9% the Fed considers “consistent with full employment.” Quartz, as always, will be live-charting the numbers.
Cable TV helped Disney beat estimates. The entertainment conglomerate reported a fourth-quarter net income of $1.6 billion, from $1.5 billion a year earlier, due to higher ad revenue and broadcast fees from networks such as ESPN. But a loss of subscribers to online alternatives remained an issue; Disney’s share price fell marginally.
The US probed ExxonMobil over climate claims. A subpoena issued earlier this week requested internal emails and other records, according to the New York Times (paywall). The investigation centers on whether Exxon’s statements to investors about the threat of climate change were consistent with the company’s own research.
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Rebel groups in Syria were confirmed to be using chemical weapons. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an international watchdog, said non-government fighters had used mustard gas, according to Reuters. The group did not assign blame, but some sources suspected ISIL of using the weapon.
Boeing’s NASA bid failed. The US space agency rejected the US aerospace company in a contest for a $3.5 billion contract to supply cargo to the International Space Station, and delayed a final vote until Jan. 30. Elon Musk’s SpaceX remains in the race, along with Orbital and Sierra Nevada.
Car sales in China got a major boost. Sales in the world’s largest auto market rose by 11% in October after the government lowered tax rates to boost car purchases. Auto brands were also discounting their models, following earlier sales declines.
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Surprising discoveries
Amazon’s brick-and-mortar book store has no price tags. You have to scan barcodes with your smartphone.
Malaysia’s corruption scandal inspired a song that went viral. The lyrics are vague enough to keep the songwriter out of trouble, probably.
Happier populations have more baby boys. Fewer are born during periods of stress.
Japanese retirement homes are creating fake casinos. Gambling chips can be earned through exercise and health checks.
Ben Carson thinks the pyramids were built to store grain. At least the US presidential candidate dismissed the alien intervention theory.
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‘Uncovered’ release charity single in aid of Racing Welfare
The band, originating from Lambourn and Swindon was formed in April 2017 by the guitarist Shaun Johnson. Uncovered have played a handful of shows and are building up a solid reputation among crowds of all ages. Their professional approach and dedication has been renowned among audiences.
Both Shaun and lead singer Gracie O’Reilly work within the horseracing industry. While Shaun handles transport for trainer Daniel Kubler, Gracie works for Oliver Sherwood.
The rest of the band is made up of Steve Miller on bass, Chris Newstead on keyboard, Colin Matthew on guitar and Tom Wiltshire on drums.
Shaun Johnson of Uncovered said “Racing Welfare provides many areas of support for people who work in the racing industry and that’s where the inspiration came from to release the song to try and raise not only some money for the organisation but also to promote awareness that they are there 24/7 to help and advise racing staff in times of need.”
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The last major stretch of Delhi’s Metro Line 7 has opened, an event Bombardier and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC) celebrated on 31 December 2018.
Delhi Metro Line 7 Features Bombardier CITYFLO 650 System © Bombardier
The new stretch of the automated, driverless metro line is 9.8km long. It runs from Lajat Nagar to Mayur Vihar in the Indian capital. This will give passengers a new rail link between Delhi’s south and the east of the city. The line, the first driverless metro in the city, features Bombardier’s advanced rail control system, the CITYFLO 650.
Line 7, the Pink Line, has opened in several phases since March 2018. There is now only one short section that remains to be completed. All current Line 7 sections use Bombardier’s CITYFLO 650 communications-based train control (CBTC) system to ensure the reliable and safe operation of the driverless trains.
Bombardier CITYFLO 650 System
The CITYFLO 650 system uses radio networks coupled with a moving block signalling system to deliver centralised train control. Essentially, trains communicate their location via their radio system, while a wayside signalling system grants movement authorities to the trains, also via radio.
S.S Joshi, Director Rolling Stock and Signalling, Delhi Metro, said:
“The opening of this last section of our new, fully-automated Line 7 is a major milestone in the expansion of integrated public transportation in Delhi. The line is already easing pressure on the existing network and is improving travel for millions of commuters.”
Rasmi Ranjan Ray, Head of Rail Control Solutions India, Bombardier Transportation, said:
“It has been a momentous experience to see the start of services on Delhi’s first fully-automated metro line. This latest section to open marks a major milestone for DMRC in its introduction of driverless, high-capacity services. Moving Delhiites together for over a decade, Bombardier remains committed to supporting the expansion of the city’s metro network.”
Line 7 has a total of 38 stations. The circular line will be 58.5km once fully complete. In particular, it will be the only metro line in the city to connect to all the other six lines. Currently in two sections, a final 600m stretch will join them together. The line can accommodate maximum train speeds of 85km/h. The headway on the line is just 90 seconds.
Bombardier has provided CBTC solutions to Lines 5 and 6 of the Delhi Metro as well. Both of these feature Bombardier’s CITYFLO 350 solution. Bombardier has also provided 776 MOVIA metro cars for the network. The last of these became operational in February 2018.
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Role of prolactin in the gonadotroph responsiveness to gonadotrophin-releasing hormone during the equine annual reproductive cycle
J Townsend
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C Walters
D J Tortonese
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A combined suppressive effect of prolactin (PRL) and dopamine on the secretion of luteinising hormone (LH) at the level of the pituitary gland has been identified in sheep, a short-day breeder. However, little is known about the role of PRL in the intra-pituitary regulation of the gonadotrophic axis in long-day breeders. In the present study, we investigated the effects of PRL on LH and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) secretion during the equine annual reproductive cycle. Horse pituitaries were obtained during the breeding season (BS) and nonbreeding season (NBS). Cells were dispersed, plated to monolayer cultures and assigned to one of the following specific treatments: (i) medium (Control); (ii) rat PRL (rPRL); (iii) thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH); (iv) bromocriptine (Br); and (v) Br + rPRL. Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) dose-dependently stimulated LH release during the BS and NBS. During the BS, neither rPRL nor TRH affected the LH response to GnRH, but Br significantly (P < 0.01) enhanced both basal and GnRH-stimulated LH release through a mechanism that did not involve alterations in the concentrations of PRL. However, rPRL prevented the Br-induced increase in basal and GnRH-stimulated LH output, and suppressed LH below basal values (P < 0.05). Conversely, during the NBS, no significant effects of treatments were observed. Interestingly, at this time of year, the incidence of pituitary gap junctions within the pars distalis decreased by 50% (P < 0.01). By contrast to the effects on LH, no treatment effects were detected on the FSH response to GnRH, which was only apparent during the NBS. These results reveal no direct effects of PRL but an interaction between PRL and dopamine in the inhibitory regulation of LH, but not FSH, release at the level of the pituitary in the horse, and a modulatory role of season/photoperiod associated with alterations in folliculostellate cell-derived gap junctions.
Journal of Neuroendocrinology
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1) NZD GDP: A Less Severe Economic Slump? Kiwi’s Fate Hinges On Fed, Risk Trend
New Zealand’s (NZ) solid response to contain the coronavirus pandemic is likely to translate into a less severe economic contraction than anticipated, although stricter lockdowns and borders controls imply a slower economic recovery in the long-term.
The South Pacific nation is set to witness the first recession in ten years, with the GDP likely to shrink 12.8% QoQ in the three months to June vs. -1.6% seen in the first quarter of 2020. On an annualized basis, the economy is expected to contract 13.3% in Q2 vs. -0.2% prior.
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Courtesy of the good handling of the coronavirus spread and plans of re-opening up the economy faster, the NZ Treasury Department bumped up its growth and employment forecast on Wednesday, as it published its pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) for this year.
According to the update, the economy likely shrank 3.1% in the year vs. the 4.6% contraction projected in the May budget. The jobless rate will rise to 7.8% by 2022, lower than the 9.8% peak seen in the previous forecast.
The latest NZ fundamentals have signaled that the economy is on a path of recovery. The country’s ANZ business confidence index improved to -26% in September vs. August’s 41.8%. Meanwhile, the fall in the manufacturing sales and wholesale volumes was not as severe as feared.
Despite the tourism being hit by the pandemic, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said most short-term indicators were less grim than predicted at the government’s annual budget in May. Although the impact of the stricter shutdowns in Auckland could probably be felt in the third quarter.
When compared to a weaker global outlook, the Pacific island nation is expected to grow by an average 4.2% across 2021 and 2022 while the economic growth in Australia the US is foreseen at 3.6% and 3.5% respectively.
Further, a faster-than-expected turnaround in the Chinese economy also boosts the case for a less severe economic downturn projected for New Zealand. China is NZ’s top trading partner and dairy is the Kiwi nation’s leading export product.
NZD/USD sits at two-week highs above 0.6700 in the lead up to the all-important US Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy decision following which the NZ Q2 GDP figures will be released on Wednesday at 2245GMT.
The FOMC decision will have a major impact on the market sentiment, which will likely emerge as the main driver for the FX market. Therefore, the kiwi pair will take cues from the broader risk trend, which could influence the reaction on the GDP publication.
A dovish Fed followed by a positive surprise on the NZ GDP figures could likely to bode well for NZD/USD, allowing for a rally towards 0.6800. While the Fed’s concerning tone on the US economic recovery could dampen the market mood and limit the impact of a shallower NZ recession.
A combination of supporting factors assisted the EUR/USD pair to gain some follow-through traction through the first half of the trading action on Tuesday. The optimism over a potential vaccine for the highly contagious coronavirus disease remained supportive of the upbeat market mood. The global risk sentiment got an additional boost from stronger-than-expected Chinese macro data, which reinforced expectations for a V-shaped recovery for the world’s second-largest economy. This, in turn, weighed on the US dollar’s relative safe-haven status and assisted the pair to build on its recent bounce from the vicinity of mid-1.1700s.
The shared currency was further supported by encouraging data from the Eurozone. In fact, the German ZEW Economic Sentiment unexpectedly rose to 77.4 in September from 71.5. The data signalled that experts continue to expect a noticeable recovery for the Eurozone’s largest economy. Adding to this, the Eurozone ZEW Economic Sentiment climbed to 73.9, which pushed the pair back to the 1.1900 mark. The momentum, however, lacked any strong follow-through and quickly ran out of the steam on the back of a late USD rebound.
The greenback found some support following the release of Empire State Manufacturing Index, which jumped to 17.0 in September from 3.7 previous and easily surpassed market expectations. The reading was strong enough to offset the disappointing release of the US Industrial Production figures, which posted a modest 0.4% growth in August as compared to 3% recorded in the previous month. Apart from this, some repositioning trade ahead of the highly anticipated FOMC decision on Wednesday prompted traders to lighten their bearish USD bets.
The pair retreated around 60 pips from daily tops and finally settled near the lower end of its daily trading range, albeit lacked any strong follow-through. The pair held steady below mid-1.1800s through the Asian session on Wednesday and remains at the mercy of the USD price dynamics in the absence of any major market-moving economic releases from the Eurozone. Meanwhile, the US economic docket highlights the release of Monthly Retail Sales data for August, which will be looked upon for some meaningful trading impetus ahead of the key central bank event.
From a technical perspective, the pair’s inability to gain any meaningful traction beyond the 1.1900 mark points to a possible near-term bullish exhaustion. That said, any meaningful slide towards the 1.1800 mark might still be seen as a buying opportunity. This is followed by strong horizontal support near mid-1.1700s, which if broken will be seen as a fresh trigger for bearish traders. The pair might then accelerate the fall towards August monthly swing lows, around the 1.1700-1.1695 region, which if broken decisively will set the stage for an extension of the recent corrective slide from levels beyond the key 1.2000 psychological mark.
On the flip side, the 1.1900 mark might continue to act as immediate strong resistance and any subsequent positive move is likely to meet with some fresh supply near the 1.1935-40 region. A sustained strength beyond will negate any near-term bearish bias and assist bulls to make a fresh attempt to push the pair back above the 1.2000 mark.
Gold (XAU/USD) has regained the bids above $1950 on Wednesday, having settled Tuesday a tad lower at $1954. The bright metal witnessed good two-way price swings a day before, mainly driven by the US dollar dynamics and global market sentiment, in absence of any significant US macro news. Gold rose to two-week highs of $1972 in the first half of the day, helped by notable US dollar supply. Upbeat Chinese activity numbers lifted the market mood and downed the dollar. However, in the American trading, gold tumbled over $20 as the greenback staged a comeback amid resurgent haven demand on worries over the US fiscal deadlock and a ballooning deficit. Further, the tech rally-driven gains on Wall Street indices also dampened the sentiment around gold.
In the lead up to the Federal Reserve (Fed) showdown due later on Wednesday at 1800 GMT, the dollar has given up the overnight gains amid dovish expectations. The Fed is unlikely to make any changes to its monetary policy settings but could formally announce the adoption of the average inflation targeting (AIT) framework. The key focus will be on the central bank’s long-term projections and dot plot chart which is expected to read dovish, as the economy continues to battle out the coronavirus blow. Dovish and uncertain Fed outcome could trigger a fresh sell-off in the US currency, benefitting gold.
Gold confirmed a symmetrical triangle breakout after closing Monday above the falling trendline (pattern) hurdle at $1955.18.
On Tuesday, the price closed in the red but finally found acceptance above the critical $1950 level for the second day in a row, having recaptured the 21-day Simple Moving Average (DMA), now at $1944.30.
With that, the price trades above all major DMAs alongside a bullish 14-day Relative Strength Index (RSI), currently inching slightly higher at 54.95.
Should the Fed turn out more dovish than expected, the metal has a room for a test of $2000. However, a closing above critical resistance around $1973 is needed for additional upside.
Alternatively, the price could drop back towards the upward-sloping 50-DMA at $1929, below which the September 8 low of $1906 could be put at risk. A daily closing below the latter would prompt the resumption of the corrective declines from record highs of $2075.
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Walking Access seeks feedback on mapping system 20-Feb-2012
The New Zealand Walking Access Commission wants your feedback on its Walking Access Mapping System (www.wams.org.nz).
The mapping system was opened to the public last year to make planning visits to the outdoors easier. It identifies land over which the public has access and shows the boundaries of private land, making it easier for people to know when and where they must ask for access permission.
You can provide feedback on the Walking Access Mapping System by filling out the Commission’s short survey, online here. All survey respondents go into the draw to win $250 worth of petrol vouchers.
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Update: After the problems we have had with the comic, we have had to put development of these parts of the project on hold. Some people have asked “Why didn’t you put a deadline on these?” The answer is simple: because we didn’t get to a stage where we could say for sure when they would be.
If you want to get involved or would like more information on these proposed projects, email us at reynardcity@gmail.com. If you – like us – are passionate about seeing these projects get made, please, visit our patreon page and donate now! Visit the ‘advertise’ page for more information about how you can help.
With artwork by Juston De Cristofaro, the idea behind this graphic novel is bridging the events of the early issues, giving people an insight into where the characters of Reynard City come from.
Want to see more graphic novel artwork? Visit the ‘advertise’ page for more information on how you can donate, or simply visit our patreon page!
The idea behind the game is a 2D scrolling beatemup, similar to arcade games I loved as a kid, albeit with more twists and turns.
This has been delayed as the programmer (Spencer Ross Austin) is currently busy. However, we are happy to have DJ Cmore Trix and Nicholas Webb on board. Visit our Patreon to help support this project.
Animation is a process that takes time. Our eventual aim is to produce a pilot that we can pitch to production companies. We previously got to the script reading stage with Kudos (the production company behind Hustle and Life on Mars) and we’re confident that, with the right people, this can work. We also want to say “thank you!” to everyone that has worked hard on these projects. Click here to find out more about the talent below >>
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We are pleased to announce the RIDE FOR HEALING; a week long event that will start on May 27, 2013 and end on June 2, 2013. The week begins on Memorial Day with a ceremony at the Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Motorcycles and classic cars will leave St. Paul and travel to all four corners of the state. Vietnam Veteran recognition rallies will be held...
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French and Riviera News.Friday July 24th 2020
Castex in Nice-The French Prime Minister Jean Castex is to visit Nice in the coming days.
Mr Castex says that he will come with “concrete offers” of ways to increase public safety in high rise areas of the city that are rife with drugs and other crime.
The Prime Minister is responding to Monday’s serious incident in the Moulins district during which a gang of armed men is reported to have chased someone down the street before shooting him in the foot. A number of empty shell cases were found outside a local supermarket following the incident which Mr Castex has described as “completely unacceptable”.
As Mr Castex was speaking , another firearms incident was being reported in Grasse where two men were injured by gunshots near the quatre-chemin roundabout on Thursday afternoon.
One of those shot has been rushed to hospital in a serious condition.The other man sustained lighter wounds.
Meanwhile ,the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin made a surprise visit to Nice on Thursday afternoon to discuss security issues with local officials.
Mr Darmanin visited the Moulins area before attending a meeting at the prefecture.
Later on Thursday ,he paid a visit to French border force officers in Menton.
Night train- The French Transport Minister has said that the Paris -Nice night train service is to resume within the next two years.
Jean-Baptiste Djebbari made the announcement as part of government plans to invest several billion euros in SNCF services.
The Paris -Nice night train was withdrawn from service in 2016 following a decision by former French President Francois Hollande much to the dismay of regular passengers.
Improving rail services is a key part of government transport policy as efforts are made reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental standards.
Nice arrest- A convicted Italian sex offender has been arrested in Nice after several years on the run.
The man who repeatedly sexually and physically assaulted his former partner at their home in Asti in front of their 5 year old daughter fled during his trial in 2016 and was convicted in absentia.
Italian police have not ceased in their efforts to find him and finally tracked him down to Nice where French officers arrested him on Thursday.
He’s now been returned to Italy to serve a 6 year jail sentence.
Detained- A 59 year old man who has appeared in court for threatening three young people with an axe has said that he’s glad that police arrested him “before he could do any damage”.
The man is also accused of threatening a paramedic with a knife.
He’s been detained in a psychiatric unit while reports are compiled and ahead of a full trial on August the 7th.
Beach closed- Police in Antibes have closed the Plage des Ondes owing to a sewage leak coming from a private waste pipe on the Avenue Marechal Juin.
Authorities moved to rapidly clear the beach on Thursday morning as soon as they became aware of the leak which has now been repaired.
Tests on the water are now being carried out and swimming should be allowed again from midday today , all being well.
False alert-A suspected fire at the municipal tip at Lorgues in the Var has turned out to be a false alarm.
17 firefighters rushed to the tip on the chemin des Girards on Thursday following reports of a fire.
On closer inspection ,it turned out that fumes were being produced from some blocks of chlorine which were being stored in a shed on the site.
Correction- We would like to correct a story concerning the 50 year old man who was severely injured in a tubing accident in the Bay of Villefranche on the 11th of July.
The man ,who was critically ill and placed in a coma got his thigh caught up in the propeller of the boat which he was tubing from and not a winch as we previously reported.
The man has now been brought out of a medically induced coma and happily looks like he’s on the road to recovery.
A judicial enquiry is being carried out to establish the exact cause of the accident.
Riviera Radio apologises for the error in the previous report.
Covid-19- French health authorities have reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours including ten new clusters of the infection.
Public Health France says that infection rates are “increasing” and that there have been 3,589 cases of Covid-19 recorded over the past week- a 27 percent increase on the previous week.
The public is advised to self-isolate and get tested as soon as possible if any symptoms of coronavirus are experienced ,however mild.
There is a warning that people are not getting tested quickly enough following the onset of symptoms with some leaving it for up to a week before seeking medical advice.
30,182 people have died from Covid-19 in France since the start of the epidemic.
5,957 people are currently receiving hospital treatment with 436 in intensive care.
Severe cases requiring ventilation have increased by 83 over the past week.
Cathedral repairs-Repairs to Nantes Cathedral which was seriously damaged by fire last weekend will take around 3 years according to experts who’ve completed an inspection of the building.
Stained glass windows were blown out in the fire ,some art works were damaged and the historic 16th century organ was destroyed.
Tests for lead in the air are being carried out in order to make sure that local resident haven’t been exposed to any toxins.
The St Peter and St Paul Cathedral was constructed between 1435 and 1488 by the Duke of Brittany Francois II and is a protected French historic monument.
The building should be allowed to partially reopen within the next few weeks to allow religious services and limited public visits.
Renault accusation-A lawyer acting for the family of 4 children who were killed in a car accident on the A7 motorway in the Drome department on Monday night has said that the car manufacturer Renault will have to answer for the tragedy.
9 people including the five dead children were in the Renault Scenic when it burst into flames ,left the road and rolled over ,trapping the driver and passengers inside.
Initial reports suggested the brakes had failed but a technical expert who’s examined the wreckage now says that the vehicle’s turbo broke resulting in the fire.
The four survivors of the crash who include a 7 year child are being treated in hospital in Lyon for severe burns and other injuries.
The family’s lawyer says that human error has been ruled out as the cause of the accident and that Renault must face justice.
The 2005 model car had been due to undergo a controle technique in the spring but the legal requirement was pushed back to the autumn under a government approved delay owing to the coronavirus lockdown.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose for the first time in four weeks last week according to data published by the US Labor Department.
Figures show that claims for state unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 1.41 million for the week ending the 18th of July -an increase from 1.3 million the previous week.
The new data suggests that the Labor market is stalling again amid a resurgence in Covid-19 infections.
Cases of coronavirus have exploded across America in recent weeks prompting authorities from the Deep South to the West to shut down businesses again or pause reopenings.
Workers being sent home are now joining a second wave of layoffs as the economy battles its worst recession for decades.
Shares in Twitter have risen by 4 percent after the social media firm reported its highest ever yearly growth of daily users who can see advertising.
Average monetisable daily users rose by 34 percent year-on-year to 186 million-beating analysts estimates of 176 million.
However ,Twitter missed Wall Street expectations for quarterly revenue as the coronavirus pandemic battered the firm’s events -focused digital advertising business.
Advertising revenue fell by 23 percent to 562 million dollars against forecasts of 585 million.
The firm’s CEO Jack Dorsey has also an apologised again for last week’s hack that compromised the accounts of high-profile users.
Mr Dorsey said that he felt “terrible” about the incident and that Twitter had taken immediate steps to improve security.
And-South Korea has slipped into recession as the country struggles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Asia’s 4th largest economy saw GDP slump by a worse than expected rate of 2.9 percent year-on-year.
Exports caused the biggest drag on the economy falling by the biggest amount since 1963.
South Korea joins both Japan and Singapore which have both entered recession In recent weeks but the country’s Finance Minister Hong Nam-Ki says that he remains optimistic that the economy will recover quickly and is predicting a “China style rebound” in the third quarter.
Cricket-The third and final Test between England and West Indies gets underway at Old Trafford today with both sides still in with a chance of winning the series.
West Indies won the first Test at Southampton with England winning the second Test.
Jofra Archer is back for England after serving a one match suspension for breaking England’s bio-secure bubble before the second Test.
Ben Stokes still has a groin niggle and may not be able to bowl.
The West Indies captain Jason Holder has told his side to “keep pushing” as the tourists look for a first series victory in England for 32 years.
Football-The final day of the English Premier League season will be played on Sunday with several issues still to be resolved.
One of Manchester United ,Chelsea or Leicester will miss out on a Champions League place next season while at the bottom ,two out of Bournemouth ,Watford and Aston Villa will join Norwich in being relegated.
Arsenal play Watford.Burnley host Brighton.Chelsea play Wolves.Crystal Palace host Spurs.Everton play Bournemouth.Leicester face Manchester United.Manchester City play Norwich.Newcastle host Liverpool.Southampton face Sheffield United and West Ham play Aston Villa.
Golf-Renato Paratore of Italy leads at the halfway mark of the British Masters at Close House ,Newcastle.
The Italian is yet to drop a shot and followed his opening 65 with a 66 to reach 11 under par.
England’s Dale Whitnell is in second place on 10 under alongside Justin Harding of South Africa.
Lee Westwood just made the cut thanks to a level par 71 which leaves him on 1 under-10 shots behind the leader.
Sunshine and the chance of some light showers in the Alpes-Maritimes this afternoon-more thunder in the mountains.
Moderate to strong westerly winds developing this afternoon and highs of 27-33 degrees.
Overnight lows of 21 degrees on the coast and 18 degrees inland with clear skies.
The weekend-Clear skies with highs of 27-31 degrees.
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French and Riviera News.Wednesday July 29th 2020
Toulon crisis-Police in Toulon are investigating another murder in the troubled Sainte-Musse district in the east of the city.
An enquiry is underway after the body of an 18 year old youth was found at the foot of a tower block in the early hours of Tuesday.He ‘d been shot 5 times in the back and several times in the head.
Authorities say that the murder is almost certainly drug related and that the victim had previously been involved in several drug-related crimes.
There have been several murders in the area since March with rival gangs fighting a turf war for control of the drugs trade.
Last week a well known dealer who’d only just been released from jail was shot dead as he was being driven into a car park by his partner. The murder was witnessed by three children who were in the back of the vehicle.
Care home back in lockdown-A care home in Mougins where 38 residents died from Covid-19 at the height of the pandemic has gone back into lockdown after another elderly person tested positive.
The woman tested positive for the virus while receiving treatment for an unrelated illness at the Simone Veil hospital in Cannes and the Riviera care home has now been placed back into lockdown as a precaution.
Management at the home stress that neither any member of staff or resident has the virus at the moment and that regular tests are being carried out.
Results from the latest series of tests will be available today and if all are negative then the lockdown will be lifted.
IKEA construction strike- Workers at the construction site of the new IKEA store at Nice St Isidore have downed tools and started indefinite strike action amid reports of job cuts.
Unions say that the building firm Les Travaux du Midi which is owned by Vinci Construction is planning to make 180 workers redundant but only after the new store is completed.
Reports say that the firm is to offer voluntary redundancies to around half of the workforce but will sack staff anyway if they refuse.
The company has refused to comment and says enquiries should be addressed to Vinci Construction.
The new IKEA store which will cover 24,000 square meters had been due to open in November 2021 but the opening has now been delayed until early 2022 owning to a number of factors including lockdown.
Vinci Construction says that no redundancies will take place before consultations with unions.
Bad water-Swimming has once again been authorised off the Flots Bleu in Saint Laurent du Var after bathing was banned on Monday afternoon.
Regular testing of the water on Monday found abnormally high levels of harmful bacteria but levels have now returned to normal.
Sea water off the coast at St Laurent has been found to contain potentially harmful levels of bacteria on a number of occasions this year and bathing off the Landsberg beach has been banned for the entire summer while thorough investigations are carried out.
Road behaviour-A young woman has told police that she “feared for her life” following an incident on the A51 motorway between Marseilles and Aix-en-Provence.
The woman was on her way to work and was attempting to overtake another vehicle when she noticed a red car coming up in the outside lane at “an excessive speed”.
She says that she pulled back in ,let the car pass and then sounded her horn to alert the driver that he was driving far too fast.
The 27 year old says that the driver of the red car then slowed down ,pulled alongside her and started to hurl insults at her. He then pulled in front of her and slammed his brakes on in an attempt to make her crash into the back of him.
She says that she was forced to stop in the middle lane of the motorway and that two young men aged around 20 got out of the red car ,came up to her vehicle and started shouting at her while attempting to open the car doors which were fortunately locked.They then got back in their car and drove off at high speed.
The victim says that the incident left her shocked and extremely shaken up and that she had thought that she was going to die.
Initially she was afraid to make a complaint as she thought that the two men would find her and “do her in”.
Meteor showers-Stargazers are in for a treat tonight with meteor showers of ‘Southern Delta Aquarids’ clearly visible in the sky.
If you’re in an area without too much light pollution ,the meteor showers should be visible between the top of the sky and the horizon by looking towards the constellation of Aquarius.
The meteors are expected to be particularly bright tonight but patience will be required as it may take 15 minutes to half an hour for the eyes to pick them up.
Once the eyes have adjusted ,around 25 meteors per hour should be on display.
Fancy a bite ?-A man who bought an apple tart from a Carrefour Market store in Bandol was shocked to find a human tooth inside after he’d taken a bite.
The man ,who’d recently got married has bought the tart as a celebration treat to share with his wife and father.
He says that he was already a little cross as he couldn’t get the cake out of its plastic wrapping but was more than a little peeved when he found the tooth inside.
To add insult to injury ,he says that when he returned the tart to the store in Bandol he was only offered a refund or a replacement.
The victim ,who says that he could have easily swallowed the tooth has now hired a lawyer and is demanding compensation.
Carrefour has apologised but says that the offending tart was manufactured by an outside source and came to its store already wrapped. It says that an internal investigation has been started into the incident by the supplier.
Gironde Fire-Firefighters in the south west of the country say that a forest fire that’s destroyed some 250 hectares of trees in the Gironde department around 60 kilometers south of Bordeaux is now under control but they remain alert.
The fire started on Monday afternoon and has taken 160 firefighters aided by 4 water bombers more than 30 hours to bring under control.
A fire truck was destroyed by the flames during the battle to contain the fire.
Many parts of France including the Alpes Maritimes and the Var are on high alert for fires with temperatures expected to climb over the next two days.
Fusion-The assembly phase of the world’s largest nuclear fusion project is underway in the south of France.
The 20 billion euro Iter Project which has been dogged by complex technical problems will aim to demonstrate that fusion power can be generated on a commercial scale.
Millions of components will be used to assemble the giant reactor which will weigh 23,000 tonnes and is the most complex engineering project ever conceived.
The director-General of Iter , Bernard Bigot says that “constructing the machine piece-by-piece will be like assembling a three-dimensional puzzle on an intricate timescale and with the precision of a Swiss watch”.
If correctly harnessed , nuclear fusion releases vast amounts of energy by fusing heavy hydrogen atoms together at a temperature of 150 million degrees Celsius-that’s 10 times hotter than the core of the sun.
The project which is centred near the Cadarache power plant in the Bouches du Rhône is expected to deliver the first ultra-hot plasma sometime in 2025 and is backed by the EU and France along with several other nations including the UK , the United States , Russia , Japan and China.
Spaceman-The French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will become the first European to fly on board the new SpaceX Dragon 2 which is due to blast off from Cape Canaveral for the International Space Station in the spring of 2021.
The 42 year old has already spent 6 months on the ISS between the end of 2016 and June 2017 and says that he couldn’t be “more excited” to be returning to Space.
Pesquet will be among a group of 7 astronauts who’ll be taking part in a new NASA mission which will be carrying out experiments ranging from the effect of space travel on the human body to growing plants.
The mission is in preparation for an eventual manned flight to Mars which the Frenchman says he feels certain will happen “within his lifetime”.
US Democrats and some Republicans remain opposed to Senate plans for a new 1 trillion dollar stimulus package aimed at curbing the worst economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic with discussions described as “very difficult”.
A majority of Senate Republicans are in favour of the new plan but a minority remain opposed along with Democrats in the upper house of Congress.
The wrangling comes just three days before millions of Americans are due to lose unemployment benefits and Democrats say that the fresh proposals will result in workers being 30 percent worse off with payments cut from 600 to 200 dollars a week.
As the United States experiences it’s worst economic downturn in decades ,the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that it would extend several of its lending facilities until at least the end of the year as the impact of Covid-19 proves to be more prolonged than previously expected.
The US central bank is set to reiterate its accommodative position when it concludes its two day policy meeting later today.
US consumer confidence has fallen back in July amid a rapid increase in Covid-19 infections which have resulted in businesses shutting down again and shoppers staying away from stores.
The US Conference Board said on Tuesday that it’s consumer confidence index dropped to a reading of 92.6 in July down from 98.3 in June worse than economists forecasts.
The reopening of businesses across America had boosted economic activity in recent months but has resulted in a surge of coronavirus cases forcing several states into reverse.
The flare-up is threatening to derail the recovery from the unprecedented recession caused by the pandemic.
And -A study by the London School of Economics has found that a Brexit hit is looming for sectors of the UK economy that have emerged relatively unscathed from the coronavirus pandemic.
The LSE report says that Brexit will deliver a “double shock” to the UK economy with business conditions worsening for sectors that have survived the impact of coronavirus and lockdown measures.
The LSE says that the economy will be damaged “whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson secures a deal with the EU or not”.
The report ,which is published today and has already been seen by a number of newspapers includes information from a monthly survey of Confederation of British Industry members CBI.
It concludes that a “simultaneous impact” from Brexit and coronavirus will be felt across the business spectrum from the autumn when Chancellor RIshi Sunak’s pandemic policies aimed at supporting the unemployed end and the new trading environment for the UK outside the EU starts to bite.
Cricket-Stuart Broad has become only the second English bowler in history to take 500 Test wickets as his side wrapped up the series win against West Indies at Old Trafford on Tuesday.
Broad ,who’s 34 removed Kraigg Brathwaite to join team-mate James Anderson in the 500 club.
West Indies were bowled out for 129 in their second innings on a showery day in Manchester to hand England a 269 run victory and a 2-1 series win.
England are now up to third place in the World Test Championship behind India and Australia.
Formula 1-The chairman of Ferrari has said that the team can’t expect to be competitive until 2022.
John Elkann says that he has total trust in team principal Mattia Binotto and that Ferrari are laying the foundations for being competitive and winning when the rules change in 2022.
The chairman said that “a long path” is ahead but he was convinced that Binotto is the right man for the job.
Football-It’s the second leg of the first English Championship playoff semi-final tonight.
Brentford host Swansea trailing 1-0 from the first leg.
The second semi final between Fulham and Cardiff is being played tomorrow night with the Londoner’s leading 2-0 from the first leg.
Racing-Stradivarius with Frankie Dettori on board has won the Goodwood Cup for a fourth time.
The 6 year old John Gosden trained star had conceded weight to some rivals and looked short of room approaching the final furlong.
Dettori stayed calm on the 4-7 favourite and powered clear of Nayef Road and Santiago to win the race.
Fine in coastal areas-some showers developing inland this afternoon.
Light variable winds and highs of 28-29 degrees on the coast and up to 33 degrees inland in the Var.
Overnight lows of 22 degrees with clear skies.
Thursday and Friday-Fine in coastal areas, showers inland and getting hotter with highs of 29- 34 degrees tomorrow and 30-37 degrees on Friday.
Much of the rest of France is on a heatwave alert for the rest of the week.
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Silence of the Lambs (updated 14sep14)
[This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 August 2014.]
It is now twelve years since WSJ Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by Muslim terrorists. Since then countless thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims have been murdered by Muslims in the name of their ‘religion of peace’. A couple of weeks ago we were reminded by journalist James Foley’s gruesome execution that nothing has changed. He was killed by the new emergent Islamic State or ISIS that seeks to re-establish an Islamic caliphate in the Mideast, and eventually raise its flag over the White House.
In this twelve year period many of us in the west have become desensitized to the daily words and deeds of radical Islam that now operates with impunity on several continents, and vows to bring the world under the dictates of their prophet Muhammad and his sharia law. Anyone who stands in their way or visibly opposes them is marked for death. There is no negotiation about this, nor has there ever been.
Today the ante has been upped by the evolution of ISIS from Al Qaeda. Many of our media people still call them terrorists, but that is only a reflection of their abysmal ignorance and the new lows of today’s professional journalism. ISIS implements its theo-political ideology through a military government that has a rapidly growing fielded army which numbers in the tens of thousands. It is sufficiently disciplined, trained, and armed to have defeated both Syrian and Iraqi army units in pitched battles as they conquered the large land mass with over eight million people now under their control.
ISIS is also well financed, receiving large influxes of cash from selling black market crude oil, robbing captured banks, and being funded by various Persian Gulf Arab states that are supposed to be American allies. All the while they implement fundamentalist Islamic terror to subdue and extort the populations under their control. Summarily shooting and beheading civilians, whom they don’t trust or want to use as examples for compliance, is a daily occurrence.
Hamas is another Islamic counterpart that likewise owns territory, is funded by rogue Islamic states, and governs millions of Muslims. Hamas also gratuitously murders its own Palestinian people while it promotes its objective to erase the state of Israel. In doing so, Hamas again displays the culture and morality of Islam by fighting from behind women and children in their hospitals, schools, refugee centers, and mosques, thereby inviting Israeli counter fires that inevitably also kill the innocents.
Given all that, the point I want to raise here is the response of the touted millions of ‘moderate Muslims’ who, we are told, are neither terrorists nor support the radical Islamists who are in a self-declared war with western civilization. And let’s focus here on the moderate Muslims who live among us in Europe and America. When talked to individually, these people denounce what is happening in the Mideast and Africa. They claim to have no part in such campaigns. Yet seen as the Muslim-American community, they are strangely silent. They make no aggregate peep when, month after month, their brothers in the Prophet slaughter thousands of Muslims, in addition to Christians and people of other faiths.
Within the safe and civilized lands of Europe and America, why are there not gatherings and street demonstrations of Muslims protesting the ongoing slaughter and denigration of their proselytized ‘religion of peace’? Why are the moderates not out there making their collective voice heard and inviting us to join them in their outrage? Save for a few brave Muslims, could it be that there is no such outrage in the Islamic communities that are expatriate from their lands of origin? Or could it be that Islamist terror is already so well established in, say, the US, that the moderates don’t dare gather to voice opposition for fear of being killed by their own. Have we forgotten those living among us who detonated the bombs in Boston, and who caused the Ft Hood slaughter that is cynically labeled “workplace violence”?
These are the questions that none in the west want to ask or seek to answer as more jihadists begin returning to America and Europe in the coming weeks and months. So as the worldwide massacres continue, we are truly witness to the silence of the lambs.
My name is Rebane, and I also expand on this and related themes on georgerebane.com where the addended transcript of this commentary is posted with relevant links, and where such issues are debated extensively. However my views are not necessarily shared by KVMR. Thank you for listening.
[Addendum] Today any critical discussion of Islam always brings up the social sins of medieval Christianity. Islam’s apologists have a lot of history on their side that speaks to Christendom’s bloody internal conflicts in which Christians gleefully visited unimaginable horrors on other Christians. And, of course, the militant spread of Christianity from its European base is now the stuff of legends. So the friends of Islam counsel the rest of us to shift our perspective and understand that today’s headlines just reflect Islam going through its own growing pains as did Christianity centuries ago.
But what these apologists miss is that Christianity also received vigorous push back from other kingdoms practicing other religions – most certainly the Muslim-Christian feud started very early after the Prophet’s heirs decided that Allah wanted an Islamic instead of a Christian world. The result was a slowly boiling war between the followers of the Prophet and the followers of Christ – existentially a war between two major civilizations.
It’s hard to say when that war took a breather before starting up again in the 21st century. Most historians point to Islam’s 1683 defeat at the Battle of Vienna when the Poles saved Christendom’s collective rear end. Others say that the defeat of the Ottomans in WW1 put a kibosh on Islam’s further expansion. However, if you speak to the Serbs and Croatians, they’ll tell you that Muslims continued their push up the Balkans well into the 1990s. In any event, Christianity has essentially been retreating since being pushed out of the Holy Land which they had reconquered with the Crusades. OK, so the Spanish had a little victory in 1492 when they expelled the Moors from that end of Europe.
But all of that was then, and this is now. When was the last time anyone held a sword over someone’s head and shouted, ‘Accept Christ or die!’? For some time now things have been the other way around. And that, dear reader, is the world we are living in now. Actually, today things are even much worse because we have instant global communications, 24hr global travel, and marvelous nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction.
And that’s not the end of it. Things go down from there because today we no longer understand the mindset of our sworn and dedicated enemy. The west has pretty much turned its back on God, accepting various forms of secular humanism to answer life’s deepest questions. The Muslims haven’t, but we like to think that they have, else we draw a blank when we attempt to penetrate their thinking.
Islam today is the world’s most dominant end-timer religion. By that we mean that its taught cosmology, in the context of which devout Muslims see themselves, has a definite endpoint when Man’s affairs on earth come to an end, and Allah’s kingdom becomes manifest to all believers. Non-believers will find themselves somewhere ranging from oblivion to hell. Everything done now on earth is a preamble or preparation for assuring a good life in the eternal kingdom to come. And here’s the most important point, dying in the service of Allah’s kingdom coming sooner than later is a guaranteed ticket to early entry into paradise.
As shown by the years-long blather from the mouths of western leaders, we don’t do very well in figuring out how to deal with people like that. In fact, within the public sphere of international discourse, we don’t even believe that people like that exist. In my reckoning, this is perhaps the greatest weakness in the west’s ability to defend its civilization and way of life. Most certainly the radical elements of Islam know this, and make a big deal of it as they successfully recruit thousands of disaffected, rudderless, and disenfranchised young (mostly) men of Muslim ethnicities.
Our leaders are totally dumbfounded by the dedication, faith, and zeal of the cadres of suicide bombers and fighters, and the large supportive factions of their friends, neighbors, and relatives in the communities from which they emerged. I say they are dumbfounded because they never talk of that tremendously powerful attribute of our enemy’s fighters. Yet we recognize its rare expression in our own fighters when they make on the spot decisions to sacrifice themselves. But we would not dream of making it an explicit tactic and assemble specific military units in which individuals are trained to become one-time intelligent components of a destructive weapon system. Our culture does not allow it.
But Islam does and celebrates its doing. The least we could do for our own sake is to recognize the sheer power of a religion that effectively entices so many of its adherents to a faith of incomparable commitment in which they gladly give their all to please their god. (I spoke more elegantly of this in my ‘Of Ragheads and Racism’ which has given so much stomach acid to our tongue-clucking liberal neighbors.)
So much more can be said about the war about which we are in denial, but I want to conclude this little addendum by just listing a few teachings of Islam as widely practiced by its more zealous adherents, quietly accepted by the ‘Muslim street’, and denied by Islam’s politically prudent public relations cadres of both Muslim and secular humanist persuasions.
1. Killing apostates and reluctant infidels,
2. Honor killing their own children and relatives,
3. Taqiyya – sanctioned subterfuge, dissimulation, and lying to advance Islam,
4. Murdering and welcoming the killing of their own in sectarian violence,
5. Fighting from behind their own women and children to solicit their injuries and deaths,
6. Their emigrants colonizing instead of integrating into western societies.
And finally, check out this demonstration that recently took place in Miami. In America, we tolerate and provide succor to our obvious enemies. How would such a reciprocal demonstration be received in Ramallah, Baghdad, Tehran, Riyadh, …, or even Istanbul?
[30aug14 update] There is an extremely informative and relevant interview – ‘Inside the Mind of the Western Jihadist’ - in today’s (30aug14) WSJ. The interviewee is Shiraz Maher, a former British jihadist, who is now an academic researching the western jihadism movement at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization, King's College London. Backed up by data, the information he presents about how westerners are drawn into radical Islam is chilling in both its facility and scope. He shows how it is Islam by itself, absent any cultural preambles, that is sufficient to create the kind of dedicated raghead monsters capable of all that is described above and more. It is definitely a valuable and timely read for anyone who wishes to know Islam beyond its politically corrected trappings on prominent display in the west.
[5sep14 update] RR has long reported that Muslim communities in the main seek to colonize the west rather than integrate into western societies. Evidence for this is nowhere more obvious than the Muslim enclaves in Great Britain, Norway, Swededn, Germany, ... setting up alternative sharia law dominant civil jurisprudence areas with the concurrence of their host countries' progressive government agencies (more here and here). More astute observers of Islam then point out that such implementation of sharia is never a stable and satisfactory achievement for Muslims, but simply a foot in the door as part of a more comprehensive program of colonization. The success of such a strategy is evident from the almost non-existent response by their sensitive, caring, inclusive, and culture-tolerant European hosts, none of whom seem to either understand what is happening or give a crap. As is also evident from these pages, we replicate their welcoming behaviors.
[11sep14 update] There is a small Islamic light hidden in Pakistan that we must recognize. We see a report on the back pages of today’s WSJ about a Muslim cleric Tahir ul Qadri who has written a voluminous fatwa denouncing Islamic terrorism, and now leads a movement in Islamabad against Pakistan’s corrupt government. We are told that Mr Qadri -
…is a frequent frequent speaker at conferences dedicated to dialogue with Christians and Jews. Proud of having been educated in a Catholic school, he blasts Saudi Arabia as "the biggest problem of the Muslim world" for exporting its conservative strain of Islam, and says that his goal is to eliminate Islamic academies known as madrassas by replacing them with schools that teach secular subjects. … "I am trying to lead the Muslim world toward the right, moderate, path, to bring the leadership and the people out of this confusion of extremism and terrorism, towards humanism and a peaceful society,"
On this day of remembrance we celebrate any port in the storm that rages worldwide.
[more] Continuing to give credit where credit is due. Check out this meeting of Muslims in Dearborn posted on Glenn Beck's site.
[14sep14 update] And then we return to the real problem of Islam described here by a learned man brought up as one of their own.
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George, you're right on the money. If I remember correctly, after 9/11 there were Muslim leaders in the US publicly denouncing terrorism, but the rise of ISIS and affiliate groups to their current level of activity constitute a sort of "world 9/11". Considering their stated goals and brutal tactics, plus their acquisition of increasingly sophisticated technology, we must "all hang together or we will all hang separately"....(apologies to B. Franklin). Europe is in a worse position and England has just raised their threat level. Frankly, I don't understand why the US hasn't been hit with a wave of suicide bombing already. (Imagine a dozen suicide bombers, each in a separate mega-mall across the US on a Saturday afternoon, simultaneously detonating themselves. Imagine what that would do to "consumer spending"....other than drive everyone to Amazon.) Peaceful US Muslim leaders need to be public again, despite the risks. Failing to do so raises obvious questions.
Posted by: Fuzz | 29 August 2014 at 10:29 PM
Bill Geltz writes in the Washington Free Beacon
The FBI’s most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting—both carried out by radical Muslim Americans.
Instead, the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to U.S. internal security from extremists is limited to attacks and activities by eight types of domestic extremist movements—none motivated by radical Islam.
They include anti-government militia groups and white supremacy extremists, along with “sovereign citizen” nationalists, and anarchists. Other domestic threat groups outlined by the FBI assessment include violent animal rights and environmentalist extremists, black separatists, anti- and pro-abortion activists, and Puerto Rican nationalists.
“Domestic extremist violence continues to be unpredictable and, at times, severe,” the report states.
A copy of the unclassified, 60-page National Threat Assessment for Domestic Extremism, dated Aug. 14, was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It warns that the threat of domestic-origin extremism was moderate in 2013 and will remain so for this year.
More details in at the Washington Free Beacon HERE. The Government refused to recognize the problem.
Posted by: Russ Steele | 30 August 2014 at 07:44 AM
RussS 744am - Thanks for that important input which continues to corroborate the assertion that our government has now embarked on a police state mentality in which it views the greatest threat to its new brand of governance coming not from across our borders, but from its own citizens within. Many of us believe they are correct in their assessment. We can and will defeat America's foreign enemies, but our own government going rogue, with its technologically manifest and far reaching agencies, bureaus, and commissions training their sights on us, is another matter. Perhaps we too are yet another silent flock of lambs.
The ones who say " they are just not here" may care to see how many "from here"
are turning up dead "over there".( That's where all the fun is....There words, not mine.) The latest two left from Minnesota, the same high school, and the same Mosque. That same "house of peace" is no stranger to investigation of radicalism. Vary soon, those that can't make the trip will turn their frustrations loose here. If the "street chemists" can whip up a batch of meth from household goods, things that can go boom will be the next recipe.
They are among us. That's for certain. But we dare not even suspect without getting marked as "racist". We can't even snag a bus load or two of illegals
when they march in the street demanding instant citizenship. ( But officer! They are right THERE!!!)
Muslim stuff has be found along the Southern boarder plenty of times. But that is to be ignored by homeland insecurity.
You would think our government is just asking for another attack. And maybe they are. There are some on Capital Hill that would love to have an excuse to suspend the Constitution and impose martial law from shore to shore.
( The True Progressive wet dream) Just think.. No mid term election.. "it's tooo dangerous". "O" would claim that it's just not smart to change administrations in a time of emergency, and put the nation in that hands of "beginners".
Far fetched? Maybe,,, but how far do you think "O" and Co. would go to retain their power?
Posted by: Walt B | 30 August 2014 at 03:37 PM
Walt B: The old bumper sticker from days of drugs, sex, and rock-n-roll read "you don't change Dicks in the middle of a screw, so vote for Nixon in 72".
Nothing like another 9/11 for a good reason to suspend The Constitution of the United States of America, suspend the mid-terms, and take our focus off the 1.5-2.5 growth for all of 2014. Is there one drop of love for America in Barry's DNA?
Are you willing to accuse Bush of the same shenanigan as you imply with Obama? That's exactly what those on the far left believe happened with 9-11
WOW! Paul is a "truther". Just like Van Jones. ( that what got him tossed from his czar gig.)
Now Paul.... Given "O"'s inaction against the radical Muslims, speaks louder than words. Even today "O" has NO PLAN. Listen for once to his mouth piece speaking daily in the press briefing.
His golf game takes precedence.
"O" has flown cover for the ragheads from the start. From the Muslim Brotherhood on up.
Do not go down Paul Emory's road to BDS. We all end up arguing about staff we cannot change. It is history, it over, it cannot be changed, but it does take us off the subject of this post, which is part of Paul's strategy.
Posted by: Russ Steele | 31 August 2014 at 07:42 PM
heck no. only wack jobs believe that 9/11 was premediated for solely political purposes or even personal gain. Bush took it to them as best he could with the support of Conress and the UN. We did not even take Iraqi oil or even napalm the poppie fields in Afganistan.
Mr Paul, people on the fringe will believe anything. Heard Ophrah Windfree say on an interview that is was impossible for steel to melt. I can assure you that all metal has a melting point, be it Al or brass or steel or gold. No exceptions. I know cause I have worked in foundries and poured liquid metal a time or too. Wonder if the former heavy lady thinks her luxury automobiles came out of the ground in their current shapes or how the World Trade Center's I-beams were made. Hint: H-e-a-t. And I don't even consider Ophrey a far left wing wing nut or part of the radical extreme Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
Heard another expert say that was impossible for the passengers on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania to use cell phones from planes on that date in history. The guy called from a secret location when he said "Let's roll." Some blame the Jews and some like Obama's hand picked Czar Van Jonesing said it never even happened. There were no planes at all that crashed into the buildings. The secret government blew them up with big firecrackers.
Mr. Paul, this current lawless administration is arming the police, pushing to nationalize gun control, spying on every citizen, tweet, Facebook post, reading these words, having their lips so far up the ragheads' arses that you need a neumatic hammer just to hear that loud popping sound of Zero and Co.'s heads being removed from Ahabs' behinds.
Obama and Ayers and Van Jonesing and their ilk believe the only way to change America as we know it is to break the country through massive increases in social spending, topple it from the top, and arise again after the riots and smoke clears abit. It's in their writings not mine, being disciples of Sal, not me. Of course not one single paper has emerged from Zero's college career at Occiendal College, Columbia, Harvard, or even one paper from Zero's tenure as Editor of Hardard Law was emerged. Not one paper written by Zero on this or any subject. So, yeah, I judge a man like that by the company he keeps.
Big hugs and kisses, Billy T and his High Steppin' Heros and Zeros.
One more thing for Paul to comprehend. To "fundamentally transform" anything, what is originally there must be destroyed and torn down. Be it a solid structure, or society.
"O" and his wrecking crew of an "administration" has done a bang up job of the demolition of our Constitution.
The LIB "lambs" are willingly and complaisantly, being led to the slaughter house, with trinkets, freebees, and handouts. The rest of us are being dragged by the collar kicking and screaming.
My sincere apologizes Mr. Steele. Me pushed button that said "post comment" before reading your understandable warning.
Heck, it is indeed nice being off Mr. Paul's "do not respond to Bill" list. I be moving on up in the world.
The difference between a diamond and a lump of coal is pressure and heat. The obvious first impression difference between our last president and the current one is twofold:
First, W stumbled over words and even mangled them, a sin to the word police. On the other hand, 0 was a smooth operator that had people swooning and fainting upon hearing his words on a daily basis.
Secondly, as our esteemed Senate Majority Leader pointed out, 0 "is an articulate Negro". W has never been praised as an articulate Negro.
Bush Derangement Syndrome! Some people are obsessed. Paul also believes there was a shooter on the grassy knoll. That is what things come to at a third rate FM station no one listens too. Too funny.
Mr. Todd: there was a shooter on the grassy knoll. I seriously believe the unnamed shooter was the one who shot JR Ewing. Ended a good run of a good tv series. After the shooter on the grassy knoll did his/her dastardly deed, we are now forced to search for Dallas reruns. Alas, woe am I.
Gosh and golly
It was under Bush's regime (Republican House and Senate) that the Patriot Act was passed. And indeed the Republican Majority and Republican Sheriff in our fair county welcomed the Federal Grants for cell phone sucking and an armored vehicle for our local police without a wimper of protest from the Rebane chest thumpers. What's a guy to think?
Golly Paul Emery, I guess I just don't know. The Patriot Act was, GASP! Bi-partisan, and all your pals signed on from the left. So, though Bush kept the country safe for the balance of his term, that rates low on your thank you list.
BillT, Paul Emery actually does believe there was a shooter on the grassy knoll. Notice he did not deny it?
Are the actions of our Republican majority BOS and Sheriff contemporary enough for you?
also Bill writes "Mr. Paul, this current lawless administration is arming the police"
That was of course with the consent of our local Pubbers
Paul@10:32 I was not pleased about the Sheriff's MRAP and told Sheriff Royal directly at a Republican Luncheon, I am not sure what blogs that he reads. George has written about the militarization of the police and I have commented on those posts in opposition. If you are reading my blog you would have discovered that I am not a real fan of the BOS leadership right now.
Yep Mr. Todd, but we know who shot JR and some boneheads still think it was Pamela Sue or Miss Ellie. It was the dude on the grassy knoll.
Zero took the Patriot Act far beyond the letter and spirit of the law to realms unimagined by Bush even to this day. Bush, like Reagen (and Mr. Paul) possessed a healthy suspicion of Big Bro and trusted the people. The far lefturd Marxists have a unhealthy trust of Big Bro and suspicion of the people.
Mr. Paul, before you play that broken record again, pray tell, are you really simply upset that we are not up in arms over the local event ordinance or are you just doing the usual moral equivalency thang again to get us on the real topic about local ordinances and lights over Commerical street?
Heck, stab a opossum or ride an elephant and the locals go apeshit. Don't think the events ordinance can hold a candle to those two aforementioned earth shaking events, nor will Sheriff Royal be burned in effigy like the medicinal marijuana ordinance discussion.
Mr. Todd, I listen to KVMR on a daily basis (off and on, sometimes more off than on, sometimes more on than off, never on days off) to calm the savage beast within. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. Wish they would play me some New Riders of the Purple Sage sometime, but I am too shy to call and request.
Part 2: Mr. Todd, I could be wrong about who shot JR. It could have been the one armed man.
I have yet to hear George whisper a peep about the increasing militarization of our local police. It seems like every month or so there is a new Fed grant to the local police for some gadget and it rarely makes it off the consent calendar.
Oh, this is getting good. Grass valley police get some free stuff from the defensive department and we actually have a say in the matter. Excuse meeeee, Mr. Paul, but I don't live in GV or the village of Nevada. Like stuff given or sold to local law enforcement through grants supplied by the Defense Department is something that local Republicans have a say in. Ok, I will go up and chain myself to the old courthouse building if that pleases ya, not!
Boy you really can't stand the Defense Department. Can't blame ya with all that waste and fraud. Almost as riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse as the food stamp program (1/3 is fraud) or the billions ripped off from us each and every year by lying sacks of shit filing falsified Earned Income Credits. There oughta be a law! Oooopps, the laws are on the books. Some deterrent.
When someone posted the map of where the hardware of war was being sent to and which general localities, I was struck that if you drew a line from North Dakota down to Texas through Nebraska, basically the only toys of war local law enforcement got/requested was guns. No need for nothing else. With that said, I threw in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and was struck that the far NW corner of Montana got a hellcat vehicle. Now I know that vast uninhibited area and was puzzled why LE up there in the wild boonies would they need a armored vehicle. Was it because of all the crazy Canooks scaling the mountains north of Glacier National Park to sneak into the USA? There are no villages or settlements in that area either. Was it because they needed a free all terrain vehicle to route their way over to Ruby Ridge, Idaho, just in case. Naw. Then it stuck me. The only employer in those mountains is the government. Now it makes sense. Afterall, it's been declared a UN free zone and a handful of trappers and hermits might get uppity. Maybe, maybe not.
Then it hit me. That be grizzly country. The government scientists would need a fortified armored heavy plated steel 4x4 to hide from them hungry bears. Of course folks in that Northwest corner of Montana have been praying FOR global warming lately so they must be racial extremists and gun totting to boot. Who would turn down a free all terrain vehicle in them parts? Them hermit camp busters are expensive.
Bush Did It
President Barack Obama said last night at a Democratic fundraiser in Rhode Island that the terrorism from ISIS "doesn’t immediately threaten the homeland." The reason? The security measures taken by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to Obama.
First the president said the situation in the Middle East is "scary," according to a transcript of the event released by the White House.
"I don’t have to tell you, anybody who has been watching TV this summer, it seems like it is just wave after wave ofupheaval, most of it surrounding the Middle East. You’re seeing a change in the order in the Middle East. But the old order is having a tough time holding together and the new order has yet to be born, and in the interim, it’s scary."
Then he told the Democratic donors not to worry because measures put in place by Bush and Cheney "make us ... pretty safe."
This is not going sit well with Paul Emory and his lefty friends. Now the real question is, are we really safer with a nearly open southern boarder?
Posted by: Russ Steele | 01 September 2014 at 07:49 AM
Paul, with a sonorous voice sez:
"Russ
I have yet to hear George whisper a peep about the increasing militarization of our local police. "
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2013/11/bb6-is-in-the-can-a-conversation-with-sheriff-keith-royal.html
There's also plenty of posts concerning the issue generally.
No doubt the underlying problem has something to do with the CIA in Iran, the Reagan administration, and the Bush family ties to Nazi Germany.
Posted by: driveByPoster | 01 September 2014 at 08:03 AM
The Sheriff accepting a Federal donation of an armored vehicle from the DOD. Does that fall under the topic of militarization of local police? The Repub dominated BOS gave it a thumbs up without a peep. There will be more to come.
Re militarization of NC sheriff's department. Over many talks with Sheriff Keith on the national problem (yes, I believe it to be a national problem) and its reflection on our county, I am satisfied that 1) our sheriff is minimizing the rate and scope of militarization, and 2) minimizing the deployment of his department's personnel in full military regalia when handling a law enforcement event. In my view, Sheriff Royal is a competent politician and a first rate law enforcement professional. He understands the common ground that both the county's Right and Left share in keeping his department's 'optics' to remain as traditional as possible.
My real concern is with Sheriff Royal's successor who could well wind up becoming our own version of The Little Corporal wanting to put his military gear on full display at every opportunity, and imbue his deputies with a helmets and armor shoot first and questions afterward mentality. As other counties and police departments have shown across the land, that is an extremely easy change to bring about. When the time comes, we should all join together to very carefully vet candidates for our next county sheriff. A Bull Connor with tanks, machineguns, and grenades will not serve.
Paul, we have recently slammed this militarization of police in numerous comments and talked it to death. Your more to come will not be anything new.
In all fairness, much of the recent concerns raised were probably buried in several now freshened up Sandboxs. The first concern Dr. Rebane raised after the Boston Marathon crock pot explosions was where in the heck did all these police in military garb and military vehicles and military weapons of war appear from. His radar was up and running before and after the BM croc pot bombings. Reminiscent of a tin horn dictatorship with the militarized police turning towards the citizens instead of enemies abroad. Getting harder to tell law enforcement from the military every day.
Mr. Paul, you are preaching to the choir. I'd wager you will find well over 100 comments in you do a little tedious digging. Consensus was we do not what our local law enforcement out gunned by the bad guys, YET this is a disturbing trend, be it visual or psychological, by design or not. Looks like they are preparing to quell civil unrest and hammer down the nail that stands up. Welcome to party, albeit you are wee bit tardy, aka, unsociably late. Please turn your hymnal to page 63.
To protest the most recent internationally publicized beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff by the Islamic State in the name of Allah, I take it everyone noticed all the street demonstrations, media appearances, and letters to editors from the highly touted moderate Muslims worldwide. I'm talking about all those moderate Muslims who claim to (oh so silently) reject what we like to call their 'radicalized' brethren. Maybe tomorrow.
George, I'd give the Islamic Main Street a little slack... the terror is also aimed at them. Even Hamas ("responsible" terrorists compared to ISIS) is executing palestinians in Gaza who it suspects are playing nice with Israel.
Posted by: Gregory | 03 September 2014 at 10:23 AM
Gregory 1023am - I already gave them this "slack" in my post. (Both ISIS and Hamas murders of their own are covered in my post.) What I'm doing in my 1002am is calling attention to the other alternative I mentioned - that they are not uniformly moderate, but live in communities that are already sufficiently 'radicalized' to make any kind of protests by moderates no longer possible. Does that not then mean that they are already here, and that the notion of moderate Muslim communities is a myth??
Word is out there is a real winner on the loose here in the U.S.
He came from the same Minn. aria. At least the leaders in the Mosque there
called the cops when he started "radical" talking. Gotta give credit where it's due.
It seems the FEDS dropped the ball again and let the bastard slip their fingers.
We may hear from this guy in six days.
This says it...
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/tom-delay-obama-paralyzed-by-muslim-sympathies/
Walt 718pm - Can you give a citation for that. Yes, we should celebrate expressions of Muslim loyalty as they occur, if for nothing more than to recognize their courage and rarity.
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Cracking Envy (Or How I Learned To Stop Romancing A Deadly Sin)
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By Barbara Rick
Envy Green, New York Botanical Garden, 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by Barbara Rick. All rights reserved.
It’s a hard, rotten knot of a word. Sinister. Secret. Has a way of gripping me by the throat and squeezing my soul of rational thought, patience, and generosity. Keeps rolling in like a black wave. ENVY.
After a crushing professional disappointment a while back, I found that I was brooding. Dark and long. Gnawing on the ‘injustice’ of it all. Sneering as I licked my wounds.
I became aware that I — as spiritually evolved and as peaceful a meditation warrior as I like to believe I am — was hobbled by something much bigger and darker than myself. Something slithery, lizard-like and primal. I was on to ENVY.
Touching its long thin tail. Up to my shins in it. And if it was giving me this much trouble, wrestling with me backstage in my accomplished, prosperous, abundant life, chances are it’s doing a number on everyone else as well.
So I began digging, peering back through human history, and what I saw knocked me out.
The story of Cain and Abel, for starters. That’s when Cain, a farmer, turns on his shepherd brother because God liked Abel’s gift better. Cain, who by all accounts hadn’t even given much of a gift, was enraged anyway and ‘set upon’ his brother in a field. At the root of this first recorded homicide? ENVY.
Treatment of the Jews in the Holocaust? Not just the scapegoating, but the Germans preferred to actually lose the war than let up for a second on the extermination campaign against the Jews. ENVY, again.
Driving those planes into the Trade Center towers on 9/11? Yes.
Hostile, implacable, illogical, petty, deadly ENVY.
What a juicy, throbbing idea for a new documentary! We are intensively at work on this as we speak at my company, Out of The Blue Films, Inc. Seeking and receiving support and insights from some of the best minds in the world on this subject; scholars and artists musing, informing, inviting, seducing others to look at something most dare not. This film will be a bold, insightful, humorous exploration of the causes and consequences of this most corrosive human emotion.
Why and how is ENVY at work? It has a chameleon nature. First you see it, then you justify. It’s the squirming worm under the rock of history, hiding from the light. Exposed occasionally and brilliantly by Shakespeare, Dickens, immortalized in Salieri’s encounters with Mozart … Iago’s loathing of Othello … Cassius’ for Caesar … Claggart’s Billy Budd.
Viscous and vicious… elusive… a most urgent threat: between siblings, neighbors, nations. The evil eye. Often confused with jealousy, which, our ENVY scholars tell us, is often easier and softer for many to admit. Jealousy involves three people, and the fear of losing something you already have, while ENVY is typically between two people: that painful, searing feeling you get when someone else has what you long for and fear you might never get.
It’s the most shameful of the deadly sins, the mother of all others, writes Chaucer.
The driving, writhing force beneath most beloved fairy tales from Cinderella to Snow White. Scholars agree it casts a long, long shadow on humanity and its greatest power is that we are afraid, unwilling, or unable to look at it. Its care and feeding in secrecy under our dark collective psyche is the most damaging of all.
So we are calling it out, conjuring it up, exposing it to the best of our ability.
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We’re using unique storytelling techniques to tell this dark, dangerous and ultimately triumphant story of human good over human evil — embracing the worst of ourselves to coax out and harness the very best.
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Please share with us your essays, short stories, poems, haiku, watercolors, oils, collages, drawings, photographs, and music. One of you will win a prize: a bright and shiny new Amazon Kindle. Any and all entries, or excerpts of them, could end up in our revolutionary and groundbreaking documentary. No promises, of course. Remain anonymous if you wish, that’s fine.
Shine a light on your ENVY. Chisel at it with your pen or paintbrush – splash some sunlight on your darkest corners. Walk together with us, deep into it and out onto the other side. It will be a hell of a ride.
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Somewhere near Bouna Vista lies a peaceful and greenery-filled neigbourhood known as Wessex Estate. The old colonial-styled estate houses a total of 26 white and black low-lying blocks that were built more than 50 years ago.
These distinctive colonial apartments used to be the homes of British soldiers and their families from the fifties to the early seventies.
Today, with the government keen in developing this area as a focus for arts and design, some of the buildings are leased out to local and foreign artists, architects and creative designers.
Opposite of Portsdown, separated by the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE), is another similar estate with many colonial houses, mostly for residential uses. The estate is situated beside the Hort Park.
There is a famous eating house in Portsdown known as Colbar (short form for Colonial Bar).
It was first built in 1953 at nearby Jalan Hang Jebat, and started off as a canteen to serve the British military soldiers who lived in Wessex Estate. The canteen has survived over the decades, and expatriates have gradually become its main customers after the British withdrew from Singapore in the late sixties.
In 2003, Colbar shifted to Whitchurch Road to continue serving the masses with its signature dishes in chicken chop and curry chicken.
Other similar estates in Singapore include Dempsey, Rochester Park and Seletar Camp. Dempsey and Rochester Park have transformed into high end food and beverage heavens whereas part of Seletar Camp is being reserved for the new Aerospace Hub.
Seletar Camp, popular for its peaceful and bucolic feel, currently has dozens of similar black-and-white colonial-styled bungalows leased to locals as well as expatriates.
The camp was completed by the British in 1928, as a means of air travel and air defense for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The name “Seletar” refers to the aboriginal tribes who lived along the coastal regions near the Johor Straits.
Between the fifties and seventies, the community living at Seletar Camp, made up of more than 2,000 RAF employees and their families, became better known as the Seletarville. It was visited by George Ward, the then-British Secretary of State for Air in 1957.
After 2006, the camp became increasingly affected by the rapid development of the Aerospace Hub, where almost half of the 378 original colonial houses have been identified to be demolished to give way to the new facilities.
Many of the houses bounded by Park Lane and Hyde Park Gate, now under Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), are left empty and awaiting for demolition. The conditions of these beautiful black and white houses are still in good shape.
There are also three huge mansions at Park Lane, one of which was the clubhouse. The clubhouse had many facilities, including a large swimming pool. It is unknown whether the other two mansions were formerly of residential use or other purposes. The designs of these mansions look to be a mixture of colonial and Malay flavours, with many pillars added to the first level of the buildings, much like a Malay attap house standing on stilts.
Fortunately for now, the houses at Mornington Crescent, Lambeth Walk and Maida Vale are spared from the modernisation. However, it remains unsure whether these occupied houses will be demolished after their leases expire in a few years’ time. The Aerospace Hub is expected to be completed in 2018.
The Seletar Base Golf Course was built as a golf club for the British personnel in 1930. The National Sports Promotion Board (NSPB) took over the course in 1971 after the British Forces withdrew from Singapore, renamed it as Seletar Country Club. When the club moved to Lower Pierce Reservoir in 1995, the course became one of the few golf courses open to public. It had also shut down due to the development of the area.
Like the former British Air Base at Seletar, there are also many classic black and white colonial houses at the former British Naval Base at Sembawang (now Sembawang Shipyard). More than two dozens of the houses are scattered on both sides of Admiralty Road East and West.
There is a network of minor roads in the Sembawang vicinity that used to be restricted to public access in the past. The roads were mostly named after the Commonwealth countries and former British colonies, such as Canada, Kenya, Pakistan and Sudan. Some, like Auckland Road, Durban Road, Lagos Road and Wellington Road, were named after their cities. The rest had their names taken after the overseas territories of Britain. Bermudas, Falkland and Gibraltar are some of the examples.
While most of the houses are occupied and well-maintained, some are in poor conditions. Just a short distance away from the century-old Beaulieu House (now a restaurant) and the Sembawang Jetty, it is a serene and quiet environment for the current residents here.
Also read about the colonial houses at Wessex Estate.
127 Responses to Portsdown, Seletar & Sembawang Colonial Houses
Patrick Ong says:
Sadly most of these houses are not under conservation…And the high rent is chasing the earlier tenants – the families, singles and artists – out and replaced by regular folks with loads of money
Was living at Warwick road during the late 90s. Love the tranquillity, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Walking along the railway towards Hang Jebat mosque, just for a bowl of yummy chicken curry. Any idea are those colonial houses at Portsdown and Warwick still exist?
Yep, they are still around.. Many artists and designers rent the houses as home+offices
yes warwick still exist i just went around there
Ross Ibrahim says:
I didn’t know my wife (Jesse) also subscribe to this wonderful blog! Hi Jc?
Yes, beautiful memories of Warwick Road, love the place…
Wonder where Gopi and Smoggy is now..
Ken Benge says:
I lived at 1 Lancaster Gate fron 1968/1971 and have happy memopries of the camp. I went back on 2007 and saw the bungalow which had been modernised but didn’;t have the courage to knock on the door and speak to the occupants. Went back again 2009 and sadly much of the camp as I knew it was being demolished.
Hope to make one more visit during 2012 as have friends who were and still are trading in Jalan Kayu.
Sadly,what was the home and community for thousands of serviceman and their families is almost beyond recognition.
A little off topic here but, does anyone know anything about the bungalow on top of bukit timah hill?
Hi Nick, I went up to the summit of Bukit Timah Hill but I did not notice any bungalow there.
Chiew Joven says:
I saw a old house on the summit but was use by the telco for communication but I’m not sure if it is the bungalow you are referring to.
This telecom building is located near the summit
it looks really interesting, would love to visit somedays.
Rob Cannon says:
HI, What a lovely lot of nostalgic pictures to look at. I lived at RAF Seletar in 1960-62 and we moved on to the camp to live at 8, The Oval. I revisited there about four years ago, the year of the 1st grand prix, and it was lovely to be able to see our lovely bungalow. Very happy childhood memories. My Dad was a teacher at the RAF Seletar junior school.
Sandra Purnell says:
I was an RAF Sgt.’s daughter at School in 1960/61 . We lived at 52 Regent’s St. RAF Seletar. I would love to revisit when I come to Singapore on 6-9th June 1914. Currently living in Australia on route back to UK> Do the houses still exist.
Michael Hume says:
hi, Sandra, how are you?
I lived at Seletar from 1959-1963 and had the most marvelous few years. I don’t know how old you were at the time but I had a few friends who were of school age (mid teens) that were doing their GCE’s while they were there. I think, from memory, that they actually were bused to Changi to the school there but after all this time I’m not sure.
I have managed to re-contact a couple of them since accessing this site and can be contacted on mike@mkhume.com
I write novels nowadays if you are a reader – see the website
Mike Hume in beautiful Tasmania
Andrew Bailey says:
Nice to read your post. I was there with my family from 1955 to 1957 – my Father was posted there. I went to the base school.
Trying to remember which road we lived in but cant find a map that covers the south-west corner of the married quarters, to jog my memory. It was a row of bungalows, facing some open ground which went up to the perimeter security fence.
I roamed the whole island, alone or with pals, in the 17th Singapore (Eastern) scouts. The most magical experience of my life.
MRS JACQUELINE A IRVINE says:
My partner was there from 1951-1956 he is the son of Squadron Leader Thomas.
We are going back there this year to 2 Park Lane as David celebrates his 70th birthday and lived there as a child.
Pamela Payne says:
i was there 55-57 (I was 12 to 14 years old) and went to the base school! My maiden name was Allan. Just been back to Singapore for the first time since then and had a simply wonderful time. Jalan Kayu was only partly changed and there was still much to recognise at Seletar; we never got into a black and white but stayed in the tiny house in Jalan Kayu. Had a Coke at The Canteen, where we kids used to rot our teeth on Cokeafter school. The present owner has been here for 50 years – he has just two teeth! Did you know Janet Hunter? She was my best friend but, sadly, I’ve lost touch with her. Pam
mike hume says:
Hi, Rob.
I was at Seletar from 1960-63. Loved the place and the people.
Are you the same Rob who was asking after Dusty Miller?
If so, send me a mail on mikehume@bigpond.net.au
Mike Hume
i was serving my national service at school of manpower training in seletar camp. this was where we were trained to type using manual typewriters. there was a encik(warrant officer) who shouted at trainees(like myself) as “baboons”. he has since retired and is now a grassroot leader in sembawang/nee soon grc.
Encik Bakerchi!
Kogi says:
I went to school of Manpower in 1979. Was it still at seletar then? Can’t recall. A 3-tonne truck would pick up a few of us trainees at bedok n other locations n bring us to the school.
I’m lucky enough to be the current resident of the house pictured above as Sembawang house 3. It is indeed a wonderful, serene area of Singapore – I appreciate the beauty every single day. There are also many more of the black and white bungalows on and around Canada Road across the main Admiralty Road East from the shipyard. Interestingly enough the house opposite mine is known as the old Khatib mess, see:
http://pictures.nl.sg/434399a2-6e75-486d-8639-245949e7638e.aspx
for photo.
Thank you for your lovely website and I must get to the hot spring – it’s been on my to-do-list forever!
Hi! Abigail,
I once came acrossed the petrol car and officers petrolling the area, the petrol car and the uniforms they wore do not look like the normal police officers we usually see. Just out of curiosity, are they under different forces? or they are a special unit for the area?
Haroon says:
Occupant of 14 Knights Bridge here from 1970s to 1994. 🙂 I loved my childhood life. Sadly the house has been demolished. 😦
Patricia Spencer says:
My parents lived at 18 Knights Bridge in 1950/51 and I’d love to be able to identify which house it was on old aerial photos or plans. We do have photographs but they are too close-up to work out its position with respect to other houses. If you could help us to pin down its location in Knights Bridge, that would be much appreciated.
Not sure if this will help
https://postcardsfromseletar.com/2007/11/14/birds-eye-view-of-seletar-airbase-past-present-and-future/
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/postcardsfromseletar.com/2008/10/16/which-houses-will-stay-which-will-be-demolished/amp/?source=images
https://www.ura.gov.sg/Conservation-Portal/Explore/Photo-Gallery?bldgid=FRAFS
Thank you for the links which are very interesting, but what I’m trying to do is work out which of the houses shown on plans is number 18 Knights Bridge where my parents lived. If you could indicate which was 14 where you lived, then I could probably work out where 18 was – I hope that makes sense!
Peter Dunlop author "Street names of Singapore" says:
Please do not call the concrete and brick houses “Black & White” The black paint was only added after they were transferred to Singapore civilian ownership in the ’70s and were then let to the public. Strictly, the term black and white should only apply to those house with significant timber in their construction. The timber was painted black to help resist termites
most of the colonial houses at Seletar, Sembawang and Portsdown are built in concrete and bricks, which means there aren’t many Black and White houses left in Singapore
buellbunny says:
Friends of ours lived in an old black and white house in the 80’s. It was used as a Japanese brothel during the war! It is sadly long gone now, along with the flats we lived in, in Ratus Road.
I would welcome debate on the term “Black & White”.
In my recollection, none of the brick and concrete houses such as at Portsdown Road, Rochester Park, Medway Park and so on had any black paint when they were British military quarters. I believe that the black paint was an addition, a marketing ploy, of the various government agencies entrusted with these properties and their immensely valuable land bank, since independence. At first the rents were very low but in time some of them became popular with Singaporeans and the rents began to rise.
I believe that the term “Black & White” should apply strictly to houses with a significant amount of timber in their construction. Such houses are to be found in Alexandra, Tanglin, off Scotts Road and behind Dunearn Road and elsewhere. Many were built as quarters for military and administrative officers of the colonial government
Keegan says:
Peter Dunlop, that’s very interesting and pertinent info! Thanks a lot! Now i understand why there are so many so called “Black and White Bungalows” in unexpected areas of Singapore – it’s cos they aren’t REALLY colonial B&W houses!!! And yes, what you say about it being a marketing ploy is sooooooooooo true!! Thanks for opening my eyes!
Katena Leck says:
I’ve been living in a colonial bungalow in seletar camp since 1994 to 2008. Had a wonderful time there. Can anyone tell me when were the houses at Warwick road built? Were they built the same time as Ports down road colonial houses?
Shona Fullerton says:
We lived in Montreal Rd a the Naval Base (Woodlands) from 1971-1974. Dad was with the RAF.
We had also lived at Changi, on the Chip Bee estate and Krangi.
There is a colonial-styled house along Alexandra Road, left vacant for several years… Anyone has info of this abandoned house?
Sin Yee says:
some of the old colonial houses are very visually interesting and I’m looking for an abandoned one for filming of a short film. Anyone has good suggestions and how do I go about applying for the permission to shoot the short film at the place?
Hi, I just lived in 202 Lagos Circle at Sembawang after a stint working with the MoD.
Hi Chris. How funny, I will be staying there in a few weeks time. Is there a picture on this blog that looks similar to 202 Lagos Circle?
Harry Brown says:
Hi, my parents lived in 202 Lagos Circle c. 1951-52. My father worked for the Admiralty and I think the house may have been part of the Naval Base at that time. I know that they really liked their time there.
Rai says:
Hello there! Just wondering if you know any infomartion about this bungalow at Thomson Rd. It is visible from PIE toward Changi entering from Thomson. It has a driveway uphill leading to the main building. When i was walking pass, i could see there were some birds, not sure if its a hen, along with 3 or 4 of its chicks at following foraging near d grassy area. I really had that old school kampong feeling. Really curious about the current owner and what it used to be. I saw a sign “Europa Country Club” but the guard said that its a private property and there is no entry.
Joyce Lewis says:
My husband and I were both serving members of the RAF and were posted together to RAF Seletar in 1967. We stayed at the Pasir Ris hotel for a week before finding a house in Jalan Tari Zapin off Jalan Kayu, this was only for another few weeks as we were then allocated a small bungalow on Seletar camp in Edgware Road. We are going to Australia for a holiday in the New Year and stopping three nights in Singapore We would love to see if any of our old haunts still exist and have a trawl down memory lane as we have such fond memories of Singapore and Seletar. I was demobbed in late 1969 and we came home with our baby daughter in 1970.
Can anyone advise whether it would be worth going to visit Jalan Kayu or has it all gone now?
katenaleck says:
Hi Joyce, I feel a need to answer to your post as there are some coincidence of your time spent in Singapore as with me living here. My husband and I moved into hay market in seletar camp in 1994 and stayed right up to 1st January 2009 when the government took back most of the rented black and white houses in the camp for air hub development. We then bought a house at Jalan Tari Zapin. And stayed there for 4 years till end of last year. We missed the lay back and close to nature living of a black and white house that we moved into Normanton estate ( portsdown black and white) where we are also closer to our boys school.
Edgware has still half a street intact but the camp has changed alot, Jalan Kayu miracly survive through the years, most of the houses along the road have retained its old look but alot of food places have popped up too. It has still a very old charm about it with the roti prata shop still there. Overall I think though the camp has changed alot, it is still worth a walk down memory lane. Hope you have a good time should you decide to visit Singapore and Seletar Camp.
Katena
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Hi Joyce, you can check out “A Walk Through the Old Neighbourhood – Jalan Kayu” on how Jalan Kayu looks like today… There is also a couple of old photos of Jalan Kayu in the 1970s and 80s
Jalan Kayu still very much remains the same as before, but Seletar Camp, as what Katena has described, has changed a lot in recent years
Jean Minchintin says:
I have only just found this site. My husband was stationed at RAF Seletar 1964/67 & initially we lived just outside the RAF base in Jalan Kayu but I do not remember the name of the road – it was off the main road from the camp on the right hand side. The accommodation was just terraced bungalows all linked together. We then moved to an RAF hiring in Serangoon & my daughter was born at Changi hospital in 1965
I would love to see any photos of the of the housing running behind the main Jalan Kayu road leading up to RAF Seletar.
I loved my time in Singapore & have never had the chance to return & maybe I don’t want to as it has changed so much & I have wonderful memories of the quaint & colourfull place
Dave Taylor says:
Not sure if I am repying to Joyce, or the page creator – who has done a brilliant job. Lots of nostalgia here, although I just read one mail where the guy said he would have loved to have been this peaceful place – Seletar – during Christmas. I’m afraid not. This period was often reffered to by both the officers and airmen as a “Four Day Drunk”. Lots going on, none of it exactly peaceful!
I see many people on here that should become members of the RAF Seletar Association. Our newsletter and website feature lots of stories about the old days, we even organise trips back to Singapore and Seletar, the next one – probably the last – is due to depart in March 2015 and there are still places available.
Dave Taylor, Assn Vice President & Membership Secretary
Peter Clay says:
Hi Joyce, my name is Peter Clay and I was stationed at RAF Seletar from 1966 to 1970 with 52 Sqdn. My family and I lived first in Jalan Tari Zapin but after 4 months we moved to Seletar Hills but this was only to last for 3 months as the RAF then moved us into 23 Birdcage Walk on the base and there we stayed until we left Singapore in February 1970. I moved across to work out of RAF Changi when Seletar became the first air base handed over to the Singapore Armed Forces in February 1969. I then travelled to and from Seletar to Changi every day for a year before sadly leaving Singapore at the end of February 1970. I am returning to Singapore in October 2014 and look forward to seeing all of the changes that have taken place.
Old Birdcage Walk is still around, but Seletar has changed so much that it is almost unrecognisable now
Hi Joyce Many thanks for your rapid reply to my comments on Seletar. I thought it might have changed beyond all recognition but it seems some is still recognisable. Is it still a military base or is access open to the general public? If not I suppose I will have to write to the Commanding Officer to request permission to enter so that I can show my son and daughter in law who will be with me where we used to live.
Hi Peter, That was weird, I have just got home and read your messages and then to find that you thanked me for my reply was very odd. I am just replying! We have not yet been back to Seletar, we travel in January 2014, so can’t answer your questions. I was hoping for similar answers!. Your spell of service was pretty much the same as ours except that we stayed at Seletar until June 1970, I was a Cpl WRAF on Seletar and the very last member of the WRAF on the station, I worked until November 1969 when I retired to have our first child. My husband was a Sergeant in 6 TSU and he worked on Seletar until we came home in June 1970. I was in Changi hospital having our daughter in February 1970 when you were travelling home. Hope you enjoy your visit next year, if I find out anything useful I will let you know next March. Best Wishes Joyce
Hi Joyce Sorry the reply was not from you but from REM SG my mistake. However I hope you enjoy your trip in March and I look forward to your comments on your return. I think we were there at the same time and I have a daughter who was born in Changi hospital on 19 July 1967.Its hard now looking back to realise that she is 47 years old but then again I am 72, I guess we never think in our minds how old we are. Best wishes Peter
Hi Peter, I’m not Joyce but RemSG, the author of this page. I’m the one who replied you above 😉
There is still a small restricted military camp but much of the Seletar vicinity has been opened to public access since many years ago, so you can just drive/walk in at your own leisure.
As mentioned, Seletar has undergone big changes particularly in the past 2/3 years. Half of the colonial houses there have been vacated and will probably be demolished soon. Some of the old roads were expunged too (I’ll upload the maps later)
Hey Peter, I just thought I would write this reply. Your comment above reminded me so much of what happened when my late father attended my graduation in England in 1995. His situation is somewhat the reverse of yours. He was with the Singapore Army and in the 50s he was sent to England (I think for training). We went to Salisbury and there was one military base he wanted to return to. Unfortunately, we did not write in first so there was no chance for him to visit. He seemed more than happy though, to be able to see it from the outside.
As his daughter, I was so proud of him and was sad he didn’t get to go in. I would imagine, your son and daughter-in-law would also like to see a part of your history… if indeed it is still visible (with the change Singapore has gone through).
I am currently in Canada, but I am sure Singapore would welcome you 🙂
Hi SMG sorry for the mix up. Many thanks for your info and look forward to your map of the present situation.
Hi, these are the maps of Seletar, ten years apart
Map of Seletar 2002
(Source: Singapore Street Directory 2002)
(Source: http://www.streetdirectory.com/)
Hello everyone, thank you for the really nice replies to my message. Also thanks for the maps, I see that Edgware Road is still there although foreshortened. I think it looks as though our old house, number 30 has dropped off the world! Never mind it will still be good to go back and look at the camp and Jalan Kayu, might even have a wander down Jalan Tari Zapin. It is nice to know that we will be able to go onto the camp area without having to apply for permission. Next we will have to find out how to get from the centre of Singapore City out to Jalan Kayu, still it will be fun to find out. Thanks again Joyce
Hi Joyce, Peter, as per the author of this blog, Seletar Camp has changed alot since the days when you lived here. But some of its charms still remain and I think it is definitely worth a visit, at the very least to stop by at the prata shop outside for a hot (or cold) teh tarik (pulled tea)
The old camp gates are still around, but without any sentries now, you can drive or walk through freely. Nice to note that even the old searchlights at the top of the gates are still intact. And beside the entrance is a cairn that was just unveiled a few months back by the RAF Seletar Association when a few of it’s members flew to Singapore for the ceremony;
http://www.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20130402-412941.html
That too should be worth a visit to see and take a couple photos. After that it’ll be a trip down memory lane for you as you pass through the gates and see the roundabout and the familiar names; Edgeware, Maida, Lambeth. Take a lovely stroll around (but preferably not in the heat of the Singapore 12 noon sun) these streets that you used to call home. The houses are all still there and very well conserved. You will see some very uniquely done up homes, including one filled with lovely vintage automobiles and motorcycles with it’s own 1950s style garage.
Old Birdcage Walk’s houses are still there too, but most are either empty or leased to aerospace related companies as they are on the other side closer to the aerospace sector. You can definitely walk right up to them nonetheless, no military restrictions.
Need to point out something relating to the above 2013 map; it does not show Oxford street, but trust me, it’s still there, I currently live at Oxford Street
Back to the walkabout; at the end of Oxford Street and before you enter Old Birdcage walk is a lovely old canteen under a big tree, operating since the 1960s till today. Mostly serving tea, coffee and light snacks and opened till 4pm (closed sundays). Another nice place to stop for a break before you head towards Old Birdcage. From there you can continue to explore the other side of the camp before making your way back out to Jalan Kayu.
Getting from downtown to old Seletar airbase -> either just take a taxi direct, or you can take the subway (MRT) to either Sengkang or Punggol station, then take a 5 minutes taxi ride from there. There is also a bus 103 direct from Serangoon bus interchange. This is the only bus that goes into the old airbase estate
Interesting side note reminding us of Seletar’s past; just last week they found a Japanese aerial bomb near St Martin’s Lane while digging. It is a 100kg bomb from WW2 that didnt detonate and stayed lodged in the ground all these years. Imagine; during the time you were living in Old Birdcage Walk this scary device was underground, barely a street from your home 🙂
Thankfully the military has control-detonated the device and all is safe now. Thus as you can see, your old stomping grounds is still a very interesting and beautiful place to visit. Here’s wishing both of you a safe and lovely trip to Singapore and Seletar, take care. – David
Our family was stationed RAF Seletar mid fifties and we used to live in the last house next to the golf course on Old Birdcage Walk. My husband and I are visiting in January 2018 is this house still there please?
Hi Christine Peter Clay here.I lived in 23 Birdcage Walk from 1967 to 1970 and returned in October 2014,all that was left of old birdcage walk was about 3 houses all of which seemed to have been made into flats the rest had been demolished.They were standing on their own as all else had been cleared around them,even they may not be there now but I found it very sad so dont be surprised at what you may see.We still enjoyed the new modern Singapore though so good luck on your visit.
Christine Kendall says:
Peter, thanks so much for your reply. Am in a quandry now as to go or remember it how it used to be!
Thanks again Christine
Hi David I live at no 15 oxford st from 1973 to 1976 on selecta camp my husband was in the forces at new soon camp we lived right across from the golf course would it be possible for you to post some pics of my house I stayed at please I would be very grateful thankyou jean
Lunch at the nostalgic Colbar @Whitchurch Road
Jennie Aries says:
As a teenager aged 15 we walked along Lagos Circle regularly to get to the Naval Base Club to the Teenagers Room, where, I met my husband, who also lived in the Naval Base, further towards the Gate, you used to get to The Causeway to cross to Jahore B. We did return, 17 years ago, and had a lovely day touring around the Base, visiting our old haunts, including the Dockyard Pool!
Thank you for your information David, we are really looking forward to our visit in February and getting quite excited at the prospect. Joyce
horlicksyey says:
Hello! I was just wondering if anyone knows the location of the house in the last two pictures ?
Thank u!! 🙂
@ Horlicksyey – I think Wellington Road, Sembawang.
Laishrem Prakash Kumar Singh says:
So many memories just dance around me this morning and I went back to my 1984, when I was living in 108 Jalan Hang Jebat with my family. I remember my first friend Robin , who lived on 107 top floor with family, they are two brothers & one sister, his father like music. I wish I can get his contact. I miss you my friend, when I went on 1996, it was just like same it was, and I spent my whole day.
Contact Me: Laishrem@gmail.com
An empty colonial house at Dahan Road, off Admiralty Road West. There’s also an old makeshift shelter (bus stop?) outside the house.
We used to get the bus to SIngapore International School from this bus stop in 71-74
We lived round the corner in Ratus Rd. Sadly our flats are gone now, but would love to go see the old neighbourhood again one day…. if its still there that is!
janice goh says:
hi, we are interested to be able to rent a house in seletar camp. our kids will love to live in a house surrounded by nature. my husband and i will love the sound of crickets…
what kind of rent should we be expecting to pay?
Does anyone have any information about Rochester Park?
My father lived there from 1957-1962 and I visited a few weeks ago. The house he lived at – number 18 – and a number of others on the road are boarded up for redevelopment.
I wondered what was going ot happen to the boarded up houses. A number of others in the vicinity have been converted to restuarants.
Black and whites at old Seletar airbase to get new lease of life
The black and white bungalows at the former Seletar airbase were built to house officers from Britain’s Royal Air Force before the outbreak of World War II.
Now they could house offices, schools, restaurants, spas and sports facilities under plans being drawn up by the Government, The Straits Times has learnt.
All 32 bungalows, which have been vacant in recent years, and two former military buildings at The Oval and Park Lane will also be gazetted by the Urban Redevelopment Authority for conservation.
Despite the planned makeover, JTC Corporation is intending to maintain the colonial charm of the structures. “This will add vibrancy to the area and the ambience will also be preserved with the decision to zone it as a heritage site,” said JTC’s aerospace director Leow Thiam Seng.
Some empty yet beautiful colonial houses at Rochester area, opposite Star Vista
Do you know what these houses are being redeveloped into? My father lived at number 18 and has many happy memories of the area.
David Taylor says:
THe RAF Seletar Association have in their ranks members who lived and worked at Seletar from as far back as the thirties up until closure as an RAF Base in 1969. Lots of data in our archives on everything to do with the base from 1928 the the present day. For details contact dt@deltatango.net
falwasser says:
Nostalgic… As a child we lived in a beautiful house on Ratus Road Sembawang, apartment on Admiralty Road and then Durban Road flats (an amazing community there).
It’s sad seeing the empty houses. The stories they could tell. The echoes of laughs and playing through those houses. Sad.
What Fun! Just fell into this blog while looking for names of streets! I’m scanning all my pictures and trying to document them. We moved on the base when it first opened to the public in 1976. Hardly anyone was living there and I had my pick of bungalows…I chose the one on Edgeware right where it faces Knights Bridge. I picked this one because it had a telephone booth right outside. I knew it was going to take months before I could get my own. I was alone most of the with two little boys while my husband was flying in Indonesia. What good memories… most of the families were British (I’m an American)… wonderful Halloween party – trick-or-treating all over the base followed by “tea” / BBQ! I remember my boys’ friends who lived on Knights Bridge – Bryan and Jenny Rebecca…how I learning to play golf on an empty golf course – Sammy was the pro…chasing our little dog home and locking him up so he wouldn’t roll in the sand traps! Matthew was our grocer who came by a couple of times a week.
Thanks for the memories! It was so long ago.
Effa says:
Does anyone know if I can rent any of these colonial houses for a 2day event (wedding)?
Barbara Lake says:
I lived on Wessex Estate twice. The first time 1952 – 1954. Cannot remember the name of the court but it was directly opposite the Pasir Panjang Infants school. We watched it being built and then I went there. From 1959 – 1960 we lived further up in Gibraltar Court.
We lived on Birdcage Walk, Seletar from 1958 – 1959.
Denise brook says:
I lived in singapore from 1961 to 1963, as a teenager.. We stayed at the pasa ris hotel for a short while then moved to a hiring in serangoon garden city, on Chartwell Avenue. we then moved onto the camp at Seleter, to Birdcage Walk, then to a newly built house on Swallow Street. it is great to see the old homes. I went back to Singapore two years ago and went to all the homes I lived in. one only has happy memories! Denise Crossfield.
Jean Arnold says:
I lived at 15 Birdcage Walk 1962/1963 – Jean Devoy
Jean, Could you contact me please. One of our memebers (RAF Seletar Assn) living in Australia wishes to get in touch. Just had an e-mail from him this morning, he was at Seletar way back, thinks he knows you.
Pete and Bev Ramsay NZDF says:
We lived in Duke Street Seletar 1971-1973 then Durban Road Naval Base 1977-1979. Our black and white in Durban Road was still there four years ago windows glassed in and air conditioning installed. Our Amah of both tours lives in Yishun and we are still in touch. I bought a set of tyres from Ah Soon Tyres Orchard Road in 1972, now he owns a Shell service station and we will catch up with him this month. Leighton Tailors of Jalan Kayu 1970’s now trades from Far East Shopping Centre and still make clothes for me. Great people and many memories.
Julia Brown says:
I lived with my family, father Group Capt TWA Hutton,at No 1 Park Lane, RAF Seletar, 1966/1970
Julia, I would love to get in touch with you. When writing the history of RAF Seletar (Crowning Glory ISBN 1-903953-16-2) I tried to get in touch with your father, but was unsuccessful. I did manage to contact the last CO, Group Capt Alexander Maisner, and we became good friends. I am still in touch with his daughter.
Hi David, Very sorry you didn’t manage to get in touch with my father, I am sure he would have loved to have spoken to you. Unfortunate he died just over five years ago. I was only a teenager and don’t have very much that would have helped you. I just remember really enjoying our time at seletar.
Hi Ramsays, very interesting to hear your story. Unfortunately Duke Street was one of the casualties of Seletar’s aerospace space revamp. Only a handful of streets are left. I live on Oxford and sometimes try to imagine how life was like in the old days when I stroll around the base. Must have been a peaceful and lovely experience, especially during days like Christmas and Easter. Here’s wishing you the very best.
Steve Ingram says:
I lived in 8 & 12 Hyde Park Gate between 1966 – 71 I was 9 -14 yrs old then, Dad was a teacher in the (derelict for many years) Junior school on Oxford rd/hampstead gardens (now demolished).
I came back to seletar a few weeks ago at the end of July 2015, bur there’s a new road and everything’s gone, School, Golf club house Oxford rd too. Now only a dual carriageway.
I tried to get to Hyde Pk Gt but could not get through, I could see No1 Park Lane (Station Commanders house) across the road but could not work out how to get there.
Do you know if the bungalows on Hyde Pk Gt and the Oval been demolished or are they being restored?
I wanted to get photos of our old houses but could not manage them.
Mr David Taylor says:
Have not visited this site for some time Steve but if you contact me I have quite a file on the ex RAF Seletar married quarters.
Hi guys. I am an Australian who lived at Seletar from 1959 to 1963 and worked at the CJ2 “spook station”. I played footy at the base, golf at the golf club, swum at the pool and grew to like a lot of English RAF types during my sojourn there. so much such so that I learned to fly back in OZ and was a pilot for all of my working life. I write novels now about the Arthurian Legends (15at last count) and my e-mail address is mikehume@bigpond.net.au I’d love to hear from anyone who was there in those marvelous days, not that todays days aren’t marvellous.
My family lived on Hyde Park Gate between 1966-71 I was a boy then 9-14 yrs old my dad was a teacher at Seletar Junior school. My Mum also worked at CK2 as secretary to the then Station Commander. She said there was an Aussie & NZ contingent there during her time (1970-71) I remember She really enjoyed her time at CK 2. great team spirit between all and lots of laughs -, I seem to recall there was also a CK1 which was not functioning then and was only used as a storage facility. ?
I believe that sometime after the Brits left, CK 2 closed and the Aussies and NZ contingent moved to a new facility somewhere around Kranji, I don’t know if they are still there ?
I went back to Seletar 4 weeks ago, much has now changed, lots been demolished to make way for the new aerospace hub.
Have you been back Mike,? of course this your back yard for hols etc.
mikehume says:
Hi, Steve, it was nice to hear from you. The spooks as your mum used to know them have closed down in most of our foreign bases. The age of technology meant that the job of monitoring radios was replaced by the age of intercepting phones, especially mobile phones, and this can be done (by all nations) from within their national borders.
Tis a pity because life was great then and we lived the dream. We’re still living it in many ways because those of us who live in “good countries” have a lot to be thankful for.
Your mum was there a little bit after me but I can still picture the office, which would not have changed during those years, and she would have been teased unmercifully by my peers who had a great opinion of you and yours. I’m certain that those who worked there in her years would probably remember her.
I am going to a dinner at the mess at Cabarlah next month and if I run into any of the Singapore Club who were there at that time, I’ll mention your name.
While I travel a lot and I rarely get a chance to read the Remember Singapore blogs, you can get me on mikehume@bigpond.net.au if your or her feel like a chat.
Mike Hume in glorious Brisbane in the Land of Oz.
Janeil Vaswani says:
Hi Steve, bit of a long shot but any chance you would be willing to share your experience on growing up in Hyde Park for a school project?
Janeil
Fenella says:
My name is Fenella Woodhouse and i’m a third year student studying Film and Television Production at the University of York. For my final year, I am required to produce a documentary portfolio, including a taster tape which lasts no longer than 5 minutes.
Living in Singapore as an expatriate for the last 15 years, I am wanting to produce a documentary about post colonial Singapore, uncovering the richly human nostalgic society of Singapore through exploring the postcolonial behaviour and identities of individuals. I was wondering if anyone could put me in contact with any individuals who might remember Singapore in its colonial days as i’d love to interview them for my documentary (preferably still living in Singapore!)
Just to be clear, the documentary is for an assignment and is thus for internal examination only, it will not be published outside of the University!
Hi Fenella! When you mention post-colonial Singapore, are you referring to the post-1959 self-rule years? In fact, there are many individuals who certainly remember the particular turbulent era.
Bruce Bird says:
Hi Fenella please give me a call +65 9103-1201 regards bruce
Hello, Jean. I was at Seletar from from 1960-1963,. I was in the Australian Army and worked at a radio station on yui chu kang road. when i first arrived in singapore i went out for some time with a girl called valerie miller, who, by chance, lived in Chartwell (or a similar name) at Serangoon Gardens. I also saw a girl called Jean who lived at Seletar and I’m almost positive she lived in the street you mentioned. My name is Mike Hume and I would have been about 20 at the time. I had one of those gas-guzzling american cars (a black studebaker from memory), The Jean I knew had a younger sister. I have recently been in contact with one old friend from those days a teenager who lived near you called ROY MCCUBBIN.who now lives in Exeter. I now live in Brisbane australia and and write books about the Arthurian legends that are sold around the world. If you like I can be contacted on mikehume@bigpond.net.au and I would love to hear from you, especially if you are the Jean I knew. My English website for the books is mkhume.co.uk
I hope that all is well in your world. Mike Hume
Jean Devoy says:
Hi Mike, Thanks for the message but I don’t think I am the Jean you are looking for. I was only 11 in 1961 when we were there and I don’t have a younger sister, just a younger brother. Do you have any relations in Tasmania as I know a Greg Hume who lives there. Hope you manage to find the Jean you are looking for. Best wishes, Jean
We’re going back in March 2018, my partner David Thomas is celebrating his 70th birthday on the 27th March at his previous home 2 Park Lane (now Wheelers Estate) ( he is son of Wg Cdr F Thomas)
You will have a wonderful time. Pam
Qt Boi says:
Ehhhe this is nice. Anyone went out to back of Hyde park road houses to view planes land/take off?
Kit Rabson says:
Yes, in 1968 I used to watch Andovers, single- and twin-Pioneers take off and land. The Beverley’s were already in the scrap line by then…
I used to take my baby godson to watch the planes take off and land between 1957-1959! I was 14-16yrs; we were living there when Lee Kuan Yew got in and changed everything. And guess what? I’m on my way back to Singapore for a trip down my memory lane next week – 23rd January 2018! I’ll be there with my retired RAF husband (Wg Cdr Roger Payne) for six nights before moving on to Sri Lanka. My father was the Station Warrant Officer, WO David Allan (he died in 2000 and is much missed) and my mum, Dorothy Allan, who sadly died exactly one year ago. I had a wonderful English friend, Janet Hunter, who lived on Mornington Crescent. We lived in one of the little houses in Jalan Kayu for the whole two years, I’m pretty sure it was in Tong Lee Road. Janet and I attended the school on the base and I have photographs of so many old school friends – if any of you read this, do please get in touch. My favourite teacher was Mr Chatsfield, the English teacher; he inspired me and as a result I became a writer/journalist. I happened to meet him one day in a little Arab shop in Aden in 1965. I lost touch with Janet Hunter (I think her married name might have been Elliot) her father was John Hunter – I would love to find her again. I also had a wonderful Chinese friend called Gan Yew Bee (don’t know if the spelling is correct) but I lost touch with her too after she married, we met in the home of Ceylonese friends of my parents, Binnie and Rahim. Her father was a very rich man and they lived in a huge house in the middle of an estate of bungalows, all of which belonged to the family and, I believe, were given to Yew Bee upon her marriage! Again, it would be wonderful to see her again, like me Janet and Yew Bee will be in their mid-70’s. I’m so grateful for this wonderful site, I’ve spent hours reading it all. Many thanks. Pamela Payne (nee Pam Allan).
Hi Jean. I agree. The ages don’t add up. Not to worry, because I have run across six people now that I knew from those days and I’m happy just to renew their acquaintance.
I have a son in Tassie but not the one you mention. My boy has a pub in a little town just outside of Launceston. I don’t see him very often because it’s very cold down in that part of the world..
Have a good 201, Jean, and I hope that all goes well in your world.
I stayed at 31 Lambeth Walk in 2004 as part of my training with SIA. It’s good to see that the building is still there. SIA used to lease many of the houses there. 25, 27, 31, 33 Lambeth Walk, the big bungalow next to the parking lot across 31 Lambeth Walk (ground floor was the canteen), as well as the first house just as you enter Maida Vale and some others at The Oval.
We used to walk to the flying college past the big houses along Old Birdcage Walk, through the golf course and past Hawker Pacific. Our local watering hole was the Kingfisher Club which I believe was at Park Lane. If we felt energetic, we walked over to Sunset Grill. Lots of great food (still available) within walking distance at Jalan Kayu. We used to travel down to Serangoon or Yio Chu Kang using bus 103 from the entrance of Seletar Camp.
I went by the area a year ago. It’s sad that so many of the buildings are gone now. But, unfortunately, that’s the price of progress. Should have taken more photos back then.
My father was in the Navy (fleet air arm) and I went to Seletar Secondary school 1968-1971. One of my very good friends at school was the daughter of Wing Commander Broad at Seletar and lived at 2 Park Lane. I spent a lot of time at that house with my friend and remember having a big joint birthday party under the house as it was built up on pillars. I believe that house has now been demolished.
Dukestreetgirl says:
I used to stay on Duke Street when I was a teenager around 2002, it was so much fun doing teenager stuff like gatherings, house parties when the parents are away, BBQs every weekend, the garage sales, that pack of wild dogs that terrorized seletar camp, I’ll never forget that uncle who was always chasing his chickens as well it was always amusing watching the chickens cross the road… Exploring but it was hella spooky exploring, so many encounters, witnessed cults at the old interchange right behind the old bus stop, that huge widow tree at the roundabout really creeped us out and the bus stop behind the long stretch of road is definitely haunted. Rode bicycles into the ‘forest’ right behind the bus stop where there’s a lake to take a dip. Oh and they tore my house down 😦 but the memories will never be erased 🙂
The colonial houses at Halifax Road… Some are converted into child care centers, others are left abandoned.
In 2013, they were thought to be in danger of being pulled down for the construction of the new North South Expressway, but URA has clarified that they would be safe from demolition.
Does anyone know a family called Miller who lived at Serangoon Gardens in the years 1960 to 1963. The father, “Dusty” was a “muso” who worked at Seletar and the Millers had two daughters, Valeria and Erika. I’d like to catch up with them if at all possible.
Mike Hume, Brisbane, Australia.
KnightoftheBridge says:
And to view the “mountains” across the strait? Yes! (80s- early 90s) there was no fencing but nobody went onto the runway. Good ol’ days
Brian Davies says:
I was posted as a sergeant , to live in Jalan Kayu on the left as you approach camp.to RAF Seletar, to 6TSU at the end of 1969. After 4 days at a hotel (of doubtful reputation, but very friendly to my wife, little daughter & me) we moved into a house at the back of Jalan Kayu’s main street.
In less than 2 months I was promoted to Chief Technician (with loads of housing points) and moved onto camp to a delightful bungalow at the main gate end of Regant Street (it had been the Station Warrant Officer’s dwelling prior to his posting)
It was a happy time, even though I spent a lot of time up in Malayia on exercises and the odd Op.
The Seletar Sergents Mess was terrific and my wife Jackie and I loved it. Taxi trips into town were frequent for our crowd for shopping and eating. I remember 5 trips around the Tiger Brewery ( the last one completed in 45 minutes!!!) Also Robinson’s Apartment store before it burnt down.
After nearly 2 years 6TSU became a Tactical Signals Flight as it moved to Changi Airfield, and quartered in Duxford Road at the AMQ’s a few miles from camp. In October 1971 I closed down the Flight and handed in a vast inventory in to stores. We were operationally capable up to the last day
My son Alun was born in Changi Hospital in Jan 1971 and three years ago visited Changi just before the Hospital was demolished
Hi Brian, At first I thought you were a member of the Seletar Assn, similar name, but has he worked in the Inst Section obviously not the same. Still, interesting letter.
Jacqueline Irvine says:
It was amazing to have lunch at 2 Park Lane the home of my partner from 1952-1955.
Hello Jacqualine, Your partner must have been Wing Commader Flying then. Don’t have his name but the CO, in No1 would be Group Captain Marlow, Seymour, or King, depending.
No David is the son of Wg Cdr F Thomas decd and was just a child. He was sent ‘home’ in 1955 to go to Findon College.
Polly Rabbits says:
I lived in Ratus Rd, in the early to mid 80’s. We were in a 3 story block of 6 flats. We loved it there and its so sad to see that they are no longer there… we were with the RNZN and NZ armed forces.
Matt Peters says:
I grew up in Seletar back in 89-92, best years of my life. I was recently there last Monday to be precise, my heart was very sad to see all the development. It was a very special place for me. Does anyone know how much these house are going for ?
chance upon gilbartar cresc beautiful colonial house, hope they can be preserved.
any1 selling at cyprus road property? keen to puchase
Christine Sparks ,ne Young says:
I lived in Seleter Hills during 1962-63-64 returned to Uk 65 Ithink .
My father was Chief ERA young in the Royal Navy he served on H M S Woodbridge Haven ,The Manxmen ,and I believe The Pelu ,during those years .
My sister was born in Changhi Hospital whilst we lived there ,and I have a brother who was just a small boy whenwe went out there .
Weboth attended first the Naval Base School ,then where transfered to the R A F school later .
We lived in a flat over the top of the shops initially ,then moved to a bungalowe further up Seleter Hills .
I was only about 7 when we arrived in Singapore ,and 10 when we left .
I have many memories of our time in Singapore ,especially our Amha and her daughter who made me a lovely batik blouse ,that I had for years .
I remember Robinsons department store,it was a treat to go in the restaurant there for a cold lemonade ,it had lovely air conditioning .
The bungalow we lived in had a monsoon drain outside garden ,and my brother rode his trike into it ,and he was hauled out covered in stinking green slime .
Luckily none the worse for his experience .
My mother and her friend Margaret Shaw placed him and the trike fully clothed into the shower to clean him off .
We stil laugh about that to this day .
If there is anyone who can still remember going to school during that time ,or living in Seleter Hills about the same time I would love to hear from you .
Best wishes Christine Sparks ne Young .
Henry Yim says:
Nice site. Interesting and nostalgic. Although I ain’t Singaporean, I worked in Singapore in the 80’s and at a time in the 80’s and 90’s. half my family were calling Singapore home. We still have strong ties with Singapore so I do feel attached to her in many ways.
I remember Dover Road and all those colonial house. We drove over here often and then onto Gim Moh for dinner or South Buona Vista for boneless duck rice. What a time!
New life for 13 more colonial bungalows at aerospace park
Thirteen more conserved colonial bungalows at Seletar Aerospace Park are being refurbished for retail, F&B and office use.
They will join four other bungalows which were renovated as food outlets that opened last year at the park’s food and lifestyle hub, The Oval.
The latest works are expected to be completed next year, and statutory board JTC has launched a request-for-interest for their use.
The move was announced yesterday by JTC, the lead government agency behind the development of Seletar Aerospace Park – a 320ha plot of land housing Seletar Airport and a total of 32 conserved colonial bungalows, the remaining 15 of which are currently vacant.
It is also home to more than 60 multinational and local aerospace companies.
JTC said the second phase of The Oval follows positive reception for the first. Footfall at its existing cluster of food outlets – Wheeler’s Estate, The Summerhouse, Youngs Bar and Restaurant, and Di Wei Teochew Restaurant – can hit 3,000 over a weekend.
The Straits Times understands from one operator that his overheads run up to a six-figure amount, with rent comprising a small fraction of that. He also noted that footfall at his outlet has increased by 80 per cent year on year since it opened in late 2016.
Seletar still houses around 130 other residential colonial bungalows, which are located outside the aerospace park zone.
JTC said that over the next three years, it plans to introduce heritage storyboards and gathering points along the existing Round Island Route of the National Parks Board (NParks) for cyclists and pedestrians which runs around the aerospace park.
This leg of the route starts at Rower’s Bay at Lower Seletar Reservoir Park and ends at Piccadilly along Seletar Aerospace Drive. This will be done in partnership with NParks, the National Heritage Board and Seletar Hills Estate Residents’ Association (Shera).
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-life-for-13-more-colonial-bungalows-at-aerospace-park
Kim Lupo says:
I lived in Singapore from 1973 to 76 when my dad was in the military there. We started out in Changi, then moved to Seletar and lived in the oval – last house as you went out the oval I think. Then moved to a huge black and white house overlooking the causeway between Singapore and Malaysia. I still have photos of it and memories of a dining table that sat 24 people and being able to play cricket in one wing of the house. Such an amazing place to grow up. Except for the huge snakes and lizards in the gardens!
Rob Lovett says:
We lived on Seletar camp from 1962 to 64, firstly at Hampstead Gardens, overlooking the golf course and then at Knightsbridge. I went to the primary school on the camp and have many happy memories of times spent at the swimming pool and fishing from the yacht club slipway. My father was an AQM (later designated loadmaster) on 34 squadron, flying Blackburn Beverleys.
More of the colonial houses at Wessex Estate:
https://remembersingapore.org/2019/07/18/wessex-estate-black-white-houses/
Visited the beautiful colonial houses at Sembawang again:
https://remembersingapore.org/2020/02/22/sembawang-country-roads-colonial-bungalows/
Npr asiah says:
I wish i have the apportunity t rent colonial
Thelma Dixon ( was Thelma Stocks then) says:
I lived in Brompton Road on camp late 1969 to 1971.. I was gutted we were short toured as the R.A.F handed it over to Singapore…… loved it…Have been to Singapore many times since then….I have a love affair with the country…lovely to see these pictures. I visit the camp again next time I visit Singapore….
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Before Mr.Justice Hon’ble S.J.Vazifdar (Chief Justice) Hon’ble Mr. Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal (Judge) Punjab & Haryana High Court CHANDIGARH CWP -1685-2017 Decided on-01.02.2017 M/s Karun Enterprises ,Panchkula V The state of Haryana & Others The petitioner grievance is that having been held to be entitled to a refund of Rs.26 lacs, the respondent have failed to refund the amount as also to respond to their demand letter. The petition is disposed of by directing the respondent to take a decision on the petitioner’s application .If the amount is actually found /held to be due ,the respondents shall refund the amount together with the interest as per law upto the date of the payment. Advocate for the petitioner - Dr. Naveen Rattan. ...
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1. Auto calculation of route distance based on PIN code for generation of EWB Now, E-waybill system is being enabled to auto calculate the route distance for movement of goods, based on the Postal PIN codes of source and destination locations. That is, the e-waybill system will calculate and display the actual distance between the supplier and recipient addresses. User is allowed to enter the actual distance as per his movement of goods. However, it will be limited to 10% more than the displayed distance for entry. That is, if the system has displayed the distance between Place A and B, based on the PIN codes, as 655 KMs, then the user can enter the actual distance up to 720KMs (655KMs + 65KMs). In case, the source PIN and destination PIN are same, the user can enter up to a maximum of 100KMs only. If the PIN entered is incorrect, the system would alert the user as INVALID PIN CODE. However, he can continue entering the distance. Further, these e-waybills having INVALID PIN codes are flagged for review by the department. Route distance calculation between source and destination uses the data from various electronic sources. This data employs various attributes, for example: road class, direction of travel, average speed, traffic data etc. These attributes...
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Pre-Deposit for Hearing Appeal; Under GST Act . Right of Appeal: Section 79 of GST of Act grants a right to any person to file an appeal against any decision or order passed by the adjudicating authority under this Act to the prescribed First Authority within the period of three months from the date of communication of order in the prescribed form after the verification in prescribed manner. This right is essential organ and ingredient of justice. Here, the appellant can raise his legitimate grounds of appeal before the higher authorities so as to set aside the unlawful order passed by the authorities below. It is also control unbridled powers of the officers under law. Appeal is basically a continuation of assessment proceedings and the appellate authority can correct the faults of the assessing authority committed in the course of proceedings and decide the appeal on the merits of the case. The legislature has imposed basically two conditions for the exercise of right of appeal. Firstly, the appeal should be filed within the period of three months. It can be further extended by one month if the appellate authority is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause for not filing...
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(2017) 58 PHT 1 (P&H) PUNJAB & HARYANA HIGH COURT BEFORE S.J. VAZIFDAR, C.J. AND ANUPINDER SINGH GREWAL, J. CWP NO. 26425 OF 2016 Decided on 18th April , 2017 Rohan Rajdeep Tollways Ltd. v State of Punjab and others (A) Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005, Sections 62(5), 40 and 41 - Pre-deposit - Interest on delayed refund - Withholding of refund - Petitioner was held entitled to refund of Rs. 1.65 Crore, for A.Y. 2010-11-Department paid Rs. 1.20 Crore and withheld the balance - Petitioner through this writ claimed payment of balance amount of Rs. 45 lacs together with interest thereon from the expiry sixty days from the date of the order of refund i.e. 18.5.2015 - Petitioner also had filed an appeal of for A.Y. 2011-12 and had not pre-deposited sum of Rs. 10 Crores under sections 62(5) of the Act - Assessing authority under the circumstances whether is not entitled to retain the amount of refund without prior permission of the ETC u/s 41- Held, No - Now, that Rs 10 crore is due from petitioner against the refund of of only Rs 45 lacs plus interest, the State cannot be directed to pay over the balance amount of refund to petitioner....
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New Books Tuesday @ RRPL
January 12, 2021 syalvacLeave a comment
Here some of the new exciting releases for you to take a look at this week!
Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu – An award-winning essayist combines literary memoir and cultural history to examine her personal struggles with her mixed-heritage identity and the emotional trauma of her mother’s abandonment and father’s dark secrets.
The Captive by Fiona King Foster – A woman with elite skills from her violent past travels with her family and an escaped criminal through a harsh winter landscape to claim a bounty and safeguard her loved ones from murderous rivals.
Baby Detransition by Torrey Peters – A trans woman, her detransitioned ex and his cisgender lover build an unconventional family together in the wake of heartbreak and an unplanned pregnancy, in a debut by the author of the novella, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones.
The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin – The best-selling author of The Aviator’s Wife draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teachers, a servant and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders.
The Lost Boys by Faye Kellerman – Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son’s biological mother upends Decker’s home life.
Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey – PI Emma Djan investigates the death of a Ghanaian fashion icon and social media celebrity, Lady Araba, who was found murdered days after breaking up with her boyfriend, a womanizing talk-show host.
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey – The former FBI Director and best-selling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the U.S. justice system.
The Forever Girl by Jill Shalvis – Returning to her hometown to attend an estranged friend’s wedding, Maze navigates unexpected secrets with her childhood circle of friends while discovering that she still has feelings for a long-ago crush.
The Scorpion’s Tail by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – A sequel to Old Bones finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious 16th-century gold cross.
Spin by Patricia Daniels Cornwell – Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance.
~Semanur
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January 5, 2021 syalvacLeave a comment
Here are some of the new books coming to our shelves this week for you to add to your book list!
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson – A follow-up to the best-selling Be Frank with Me follows the experiences of a former Yale student whose life at a 1930s Reno divorce ranch is upended by a shy woman and a thrice-divorced pilot.
Martha Stewart’s Very Good Things: Simple Tips and Genius Ideas for an Easier and More Beautiful Life
by Martha Stewart – The premier American lifestyle expert and television personality shares practical tips and clever solutions for making life easier and more delicious such as infusing vinegar with herb blossoms and using lip balm to free a stuck zipper.
The Prophets by Robert Jr. Jones – Two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation find refuge in each other while transforming a quiet shed into a haven for their fellow slaves, before an enslaved preacher declares their bond sinful.
All the Colors of Night by Jayne Anne Krentz – A sequel to The Vanishing finds a young man with rare crystal-energy abilities partnering with a disgraced paranormal artifacts finder to track down a mysterious relic that may be tied to a parent’s sudden coma.
Neighbors by Danielle Steel – Opening her home to neighbors in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, a reclusive woman inadvertently triggers events that reveal secrets, divide relationships and forge new bonds among strangers. By the best-selling author of All That Glitters.
American Traitor by Brad Taylor – Assisting a witness’s flight from murderous foreign agents, Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill uncover a plot to trigger a war between China and Taiwan by destabilizing the latter’s government and digital defenses.
The Push by Ashley Audrain – A devoted mother with a painful past gradually realizes that something is very wrong with her daughter, a fear that is complicated by her husband’s dismissive views and the birth of a healthy son.
Twenty by James Grippando – A nightmarish shooting at their daughter’s school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect’s alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins – Supplementing her modest income by stealing small valuables from her gated-community clients, a broke dog-walker endeavors to win the heart of a wealthy bachelor before learning his late wife’s own rags-to-riches story.
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour – An unambitious college graduate accepts a job at Sumwun, the hottest NYC startup, and reimagines himself as “Buck” a ruthless salesman and begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force.
Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg – A sequel to Lost Hills finds Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide detective Eve Ronin investigating the cold-case disappearance and death of a woman whose remains are found in the aftermath of a Santa Monica Mountains fire.
~Semanur~
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Top FifTEeN of 2020 (Heh! No one will notice the extra five, right?)
December 18, 2020 December 4, 2020 staceyLeave a comment
This has been an unusual year (such an understatement!) and (not shockingly) it’s translated to what I wound up reading this year… (so much insight!) But like every previous year, it was a struggle to decide which books and why. Hopefully you’ll find a new book to try or you’ll have a happy “oh! meeee too!” moment! (Bonus comments in parentheses because you can’t see me doing eyerolls at myself. Enjoy!)
Now let’s get on to the goods, in alphabetical order by author, The Books:
Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders by Tessa Arlen
It felt like reading an excellent BBC series: engaging characters, smart mystery, and a great WWII time/place setting. The second book in the series will be out before the end of the year: Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers! (Historical Mystery)
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Mr. Backman can write a likable, curmudgeonly character like few can but this book is really more of an ensemble journey and each character has their own quirky personality. The beginning is a little dark but quickly becomes an uplifting story of how individuals can build their own supportive community. (General Fiction)
Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
Just like when you hear about any picture of a perfect wife, husband, or marriage, it becomes clear there is no such thing as perfect. Quiet and thoughtful, suspenseful and satisfying, this book was everything I wanted it to be. (General Fiction)
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
I loved Ready Player One and was a little worried the sequel wouldn’t live up to the original, what a waste of a decent worry! All the pop culture references, interesting future-thinking ideas, and plenty of exciting plot twists, this is *chef’s kiss* a delight! Fun extra -the IRL setting is Columbus, Ohio!(General Fiction/Science Fiction)
Weather by Jenny Offill
Odd, quirky, sometimes uncomfortable, and completely engaging. If you’re looking for a book short on pages and long on impact, this might be the one for you! (Literary Fiction)
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts was on my list last year and prompted me to read this older title by the same author. Yep, just as good! It’s a long-game mystery with shades of The Shining suspense. (Mystery)
The Daughters of Erietown by Connie Schultz
The family relationships, the wanting to be a part of something while also needing to be an individual, watching how society’s views on a variety of topics changed with the decades, all made each page of this book a pleasure. If you grew up in a small town, you’ll feel this story that much more deeply. (General Fiction)
Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
Mix a little Thin Man, Nick and Nora, with a little Mickey Spillane, add a female Sherlock Holmes and Watson, put World War II espionage into the background, and you’ll get close to understanding why you want to read this next. It’s a debut and I’m typing this with my fingers crossed that the second book will be coming soon! (Historical Mystery)
Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman
This author consistently connects her characters and action in smart and surprising ways, with conclusions that are unexpected and satisfying. I’ve only listened to the audio versions of Ms. Steadman’s books, and I don’t plan to change that, it’s like hearing a radio drama with all the sound effects a listener could hope for! (Mystery)
Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson
Charming and insightful, this is the story of a “bot” who has a degree of self-awareness that he needs to seek therapy before going on a journey to fulfill his dreams. It’s not a simple journey as he needs to hide his true nature as our society is prejudiced against AI and are as likely to attack him as help him. You might shed a tear or two along the way, but it’s worth it. (General Fiction)
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
If you like superhero/supervillain movies or you’ve watched The Boys on Amazon Prime, you will love every page of this book. Anna shows some small but special abilities with numbers but she’s tired of being a contract worker for whichever villain needs temporary help. Offered what seemed to be an easy and high paying gig changed everything, just not for the better. With engaging characters, interesting thoughts on how we think of good vs. evil, and some really clever surprises, this book checked all the boxes for me this year. (General or Science Fiction)
Barnstorming Ohio to Understand America by David Giffels
The 2020 General Election may have cost Ohio our “bellwether state” title but if you want a better understanding of how one state can represent so much of the entire USA, this book is the one to read. The author uses his own travels to different locations and conversations with individuals to make each experience engaging for the reader. (Nonfiction)
I’m embarrassed to say this is the first book I’ve read by Mr. Gladwell but this book sent me off on a “what else” deep dive, and now I’m a die-hard fan. I learned so much but reading the book felt more like I was reading a series of short, connected, stories. If you pick this one up, we can talk about how crazy it is that our brain defaults to what we want to believe even when the facts show a different reality. Just, so good!
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
Individually, they are funny and the laughs only increase as they tell how they became a couple. I listened to the audio version and highly recommend this option as Megan and Nick are the readers -it starts to feel like you’re in a candid conversation with new friends.
The Darkness Duology: Courting Darkness and Igniting Darkness by Robin LaFevers
The characters and setting are part of the His Fair Assassin series, and it feels like catching up with old friends (who can kick some serious hiney). Sybella must protect her younger sisters from being used as political pawns while also trying to keep the new Queen safe from enemies within the Royal House. The author always provides such strong women as main characters but remembers to give them flaws and quirks so they remain relatable. Ms. LaFevers never disappoints! (Historical Mystery)
Of course, I also think pretty highly of the books I suggested for the RRPL Gift Guide -ya know- and I might be counting those books as part of a bigger list for the year? Anyway… Happy Holidays, with books and snackies, for all!!
-Stacey
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Mary’s Top 10 of 2020
December 16, 2020 December 17, 2020 MaryLeave a comment
While I fell short of my personal reading challenge this year, I can say my top ten books of this year I thoroughly enjoyed. The Ferrante quartet I simply fell in love with, the historical fiction choices captured the details of the time period with eloquence, the thrillers kept me engaged and the nonfiction moved me beyond words. I took my time with each book and found moments of pause and new meaning in a world that can be overwhelming, and admiration and gratitude for sharing their story, albeit fiction or truth. Happy holidays and my best for a peaceful and bright 2021.
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New Books Tuesday @RRPL
December 15, 2020 December 15, 2020 syalvacLeave a comment
This week we have a collection of autobiography, horror, historical fiction, and much more for you to choose from. You can also find topics such as health & fitness, sports, and social science… Enjoy!
NYPD Red 6 by James Patterson & Marshall Karp – Available for the first time in print, a sixth entry in the series co-written by the award-winning author of Jackie Ha-Ha continues the story of top NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner, Detective Kylie MacDonald.
The Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston – This third installment in the Found Things series finds Xanthe taking responsibility for inadvertently transporting the dangerous Benedict Fairfax to her own time, while learning to use her skills as a spinner to keep her and Flora safe.
Future of Nutrition, The: An Insider’s Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right by T. Colin Campbell with Nelson Disla – A follow-up to the best-selling Whole presents a critique of the nutrition institution that identifies the systematic ways that even well-intentioned companies perpetuate misinformation, overlook key nutritional deficiencies and promote unhealthy levels of animal protein dependence.
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography by John Thompson – Provides the long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. 125,000 first printing. Illustrations.
Proquest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2021: The National Data Book by Proquest/ Bernan Press – The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference. As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the country, it is a snapshot of America and its people. It includes over 1,400 tables from hundreds of sources.
Kings of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street by Jeff John Roberts – The author covers subjects such as cryptocurrency, patent reform, blockchain technology, hacking, and privacy in the age of social media for Fortune. His work has also appeared in a variety of other outlets, including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Reuters, Fortune, and the New York Times.
Benedict XVI a Life: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927-1965 by Peter Seewald – The long-awaited and authoritative biography of Pope Benedict XVI. This necessary companion to Benedict’s own memoir, Last Testament, is the fullest account to date of the life of a radical Catholic leader who has continued to make news while cloistered in retirement in the Vatican gardens.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes – On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the definitive biography of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst-human rights champion, and radical feminist ahead of her time. In this enthralling biography, acclaimed author Rachel Holmes interweaves Pankhurst’s rebellious political and private lives to show how her astonishing achievements continue to resonate today.
The Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein – A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century… Written with tenderness and grace, The Berlin Shadow is a highly compelling story about time, trauma, family, and a father and son’s attempt to emerge from the shadows of history.
Remina by Junji Ito – Another of Junji Ito’s classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star, unfolding on a universal scale.
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December 8, 2020 syalvacLeave a comment
In this week’s special picks there are new exciting romance, mystery, suspense, and many more genres for you to choose from! Enjoy!
D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michel Faber – Baffled by the sudden disappearance of the letter D, a young woman is summoned to the home of a former history teacher before arriving in an enslaved, wintry land where free thinking is under threat.
The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson – Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Lennon’s assassination and based on insider interviews, a chronicle of the iconic music artist’s final days includes coverage of his last album and the life of Mark David Chapman.
Layla by Colleen Hoover – From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love in this engaging contemporary romance with a supernatural twist. It is part psychological thriller and part paranormal romance.
Cold Wind by Paige Shelton – A sequel to Thin Ice finds Beth investigating the discovery of a trapper’s secluded home in the woods near Benedict, Alaska, where a murder victim is linked to the owner of the local mercantile.
The How Not to Diet Cookbook by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM – The author of the New York Times bestseller How Not to Die, comes a four-color, fully illustrated cookbook that shares the science of long-term weight-loss success. This book is primed to be a revolutionary new addition to the cookbook industry: incredibly effective and designed for everyone looking to make changes to their dietary habits to improve their quality of life, weight loss notwithstanding.
Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the U.S.S. Plunkett by James Sullivan – Documents the true story of a U.S. Navy destroyer that inspired the writings of John Ford and Herman Wouk, drawing on the journals and other writings of five shipmates who witnessed the Anzio attacks and D-Day invasion.
Red Hands by Christopher Golden – Ben Walker, an expert in weird phenomena is asked by the Global Science Research Coalition to locate a woman who has been the victim of a devastating bioweapon that causes every person she touches to drop dead.
The Daydream Cabin by Carolyn Brown – A headstrong woman discovers it’s never too late for change in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s spirited novel about lost hope and second chances. Working as a summer counselor at an amenities-limited camp for at-risk teens, a public-school teacher employs a tough-love approach to intervene on behalf of three troubled girls while bonding with a hardened boot-camp drill instructor.
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt – The award-winning Grazia UK fashion director presents an evocative anthology of essays celebrating the timeless, thriving potential of being a Black woman, mother and global citizen in today’s dynamic world.
Blowing My Way to the Top: How to Break the Rules, Find Your Purpose, and Create the Life and Career You Deserve by Jen Atkin – The celebrity stylist and social media influencer discusses the challenges faced by today’s women entrepreneurs and the foundational values that shaped her rise from a conservative, isolated teen to the head of a multi-million-dollar empire.
Snowdrift by Helene Tursten – Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström puts her life on the line when a new lead breaks in the unsolved disappearance of her best friend, a cold case that is further complicated by the murder of a notorious gang member.
The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn – A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea’s neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family’s annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence.
Take It Back by Kia Abdullah – Leaving her high-profile law position for a job at a crisis center, Zara Kaleel becomes involved in the case of a deformed teenage girl who accuses four boys in her class of rape, tearing the community apart.
The System by Ryan Gattis – On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother’s house in South Central Los Angeles, a heroin addict fingers two drug dealers as the killers, but only one of them is guilty.
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RRPL Gift Guide
December 8, 2020 MaryLeave a comment
If I could be your personal shopper for books I would pick…
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, a fantastic coming-of-age novel by a best-selling author
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, a deeply moving and brilliantly imagined historical novel
The Guest List by Lucy Foley, a fast-paced thriller with a wonderful cast of characters
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune, a magical story, masterfully told.
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker, non-fiction written with clarity and compassion
Hopefully these picks will appeal to a variety of readers in your life, so get busy and shop at Bookshop.org, an online book store that supports local book shops, fill your cart and make the reader in your life happy. Happy Holidays!
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December 6, 2020 December 4, 2020 staceyLeave a comment
I love giving books and will take advantage of any occasion to find something I think will fit my giftee, and that includes pondering if there’s something you might want to gift yourself of course! I sorted the titles into broad ideas of who they might appeal to but left the heavy lifting of plot description to the reviews on bookshop.org (Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mishttps://bookshop.org/books/weather-9780345806901/9780385351102sion to financially support local, independent bookstores.) I hope this list helps you finish off your holiday shopping on a high note!
For your friend who wants something “different”
Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain
The Butterfly Lampshade by Amiee Bender
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
The Darkness Duology by Robin LaFevers
Miss Cecily’s Recipes for Exceptional Ladies by Vicky Zimmerman
For your friend who wants something “thoughtful”
Barnstorming Ohio by David Giffels
Do Nothing by Celeste Headless
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
For your friend who wants something “funny”
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy by Kevin Kwan
For your friend who wants to “solve the puzzle”
Death in Her Hands by Ottesa Moshfegh
Of Mutts and Men by Spencer Quinn
And if you’re looking for a way to do something extra, I just discovered the United States Postal Service has a program called “Operation Santa.” This won’t be news to everyone as it’s been going on for years but if you, like me, hadn’t heard of it before I’ll drop a link here.
I wish everyone a safe, healthy holiday season, with a book (or two) to help you keep feeling strong!
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The Awakening by Nora Roberts – An anxious young woman mired in student debt and working a hated job uses hidden funds to visit Ireland, where she uncovers truths about vivid dreams compelling her to embrace her destiny in a fantastical alternate world.
Dark Tides by Philippa Gregory – A sequel to Tidelands finds 17th-century London warehouse owner Alinor reuniting with a man from her past while reaching out to her brother in war-torn New England for proof of her son’s survival.
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce – A teacher and her unlikely assistant leave post-World War II London to search for a rare insect that may not exist, discovering the transformative power of friendship along the way. By the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline – A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. Movie tie-in.
War Lord by Bernard Cornwell – A latest entry in the best-selling series behind Netflix’s The Last Kingdom continues the history-based epic story of fan-favorite character Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his adventures in the turbulent early years of England.
Deadly Cross by James Patterson – Investigating the assassination of the vice president’s wife, Detective Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to uncover clues from the victim’s early life. By the best-selling author of Criss Cross.
The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff – Surviving a Nazi concentration camp before her child’s father dies in a plane crash, Marta marries a kind diplomat only to have her fleeting happiness sabotaged by the activities of a communist mole in British intelligence.
How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith – Precious Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency must come together to raise a small elephant, in this two-ton case that employs Precious’s maternal instincts.
Murder in Season by Jessica Fletcher – Supervising community holiday activities in Cabot Cove, Jessica Fletcher discovers two sets of bones, one recent and one ancient, before a tabloid reporter’s theories lead to a third death and revelations about a long-unsolved community mystery.
Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism by Sharyl Attkisson – The five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author of Stonewalled draws on insider accounts to detail how partisan bias, corporate interests and popular narratives are compromising journalistic integrity in today’s newsrooms.
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark/ Chuck Bryant – From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew.
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization by Joe Scarborough – The host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe examines the 33rd President’s diplomatic and military strategies to support democracy, chronicling the passage of the “Truman Doctrine” policy of containment and its ongoing role in international affairs.
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In this week’s special picks there are new exciting adventure, mystery, suspense, and many more genres for you to choose from! Enjoy!
Hot to Trot by M. C. Beaton & R. W. Greene – Jealously investigating an ex’s intended, Agatha Raisin crashes the wedding only to become implicated in the bride’s murder, a situation that immerses Agatha in the cutthroat equestrian world.
The Short, the Long and the Tall: Short Stories by Jeffrey Archer – Illustrated renderings of 20 top-selected short stories by the award-winning author of the Clifton Chronicles are complemented by a short parable about how war pointlessly puts good people in the crossfire of their leaders’ ambitions.
No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox – The award-winning actor shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality.
The Orchard by David Hopen – Reinventing himself upon moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, a student at an Orthodox Jewish academy is welcomed into a circle of popular students whose faith is unconventionally tested by their charismatic rabbi.
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson – Technological discoveries and an edict-violating arms race enmesh Dalinar Kholin and his knights in a conflict that reveals secrets about the original source of Radiant strength. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Oathbringer.
All That Glitters by Danielle Steel – When her life of privilege is upended by a terrorist attack that ends her parents’ lives, a college senior struggles to rebuild on her own terms, learning uplifting and heartbreaking life lessons throughout a series of relationships and opportunities.
Daylight by David Baldacci – When her search for her sister clashes with one of John Puller’s high-stakes investigations, FBI agent Atlee Pine confronts traumatizing forces in the world of organized crime. By the best-selling author of A Minute to Midnight.
Murder of Innocence by James Patterson – A latest series entry published in partnership with Discovery ID includes “Murder of Innocence,” in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and “A Murderous Affair,” in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.
Piece of My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke – A high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling You Don’t Own Me finds the nuptials of television producer Laurie Moran and investigative host Alex Buckley nightmarishly upended by the sudden disappearance of Alex’s 7-year-old nephew.
Tom Clancy Shadow of the Dragon by Marc Cameron – When a high-level mole infiltrates American Intelligence, President Jack Ryan dispatches John Clark and the Campus team to track down a missing scientist who holds critical aerospace and naval technology. By the award-winning author of the Jericho Quinn series.
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang – A trilogy conclusion finds an abandoned Rin returning to her home village, where with the Southern Army and millions of dedicated supporters she prepares for an ultimate battle against the Dragon Republic and other anti-shamanic enemies.
The Killer’s Shadow by John E. Douglas / Mark Olshaker – A legendary FBI criminal profiler and international best-selling author of Mindhunter returns with a book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer.
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Shané Schutte - Deputy Editor, Real Business
Erik Fairbairn
Role and company:
CEO of POD Point Ltd
Company turnover (and most recent ebitda/most relevant profitability metric):
£4m turnover and profitable
Employee numbers:
POD Point employs 25 people and is directly responsible for creating work for 50 suppliers, manufacturers and service staff.
Growth forecast for the next three years:
We are operating in a market that is growing at a phenomenal rate. Last year we grew at over 100 per cent, and that yearly doubling of size is continuing this year. Growth forecasts vary according to geography – for instance in Norway, electric cars account for five per cent of new car sales, whereas in the UK the percentage is lower, but growing at more than 40 per cent year on year. In addition to our successful hardware division, the growth trajectory of our custom software division is exceptional: overall we expect POD Point to be a turning over £16m within three years.
In under 50 words, what makes your business distinctive in its marketplace:
The single most distinctive feature in our product range is that all our electric vehicle charging equipment has the capability to be networked. This allows the electricity used to be monitored and controlled remotely – making it fully compatible with technologies that are emerging in the smart grid.
What’s the big vision for your business?
We are wiring up and connecting locations in Europe for the electric vehicle revolution.
Current level of international business, and future aspirations:
About a third of our business is conducted in Europe. We are intent on expanding our presence across the European markets and entrenching our relationships with renewable energy suppliers in that region.
Biggest career setback and what you learned from it:
I developed repetitive strain injury (RSI) in 2002. Before the onset of RSI, I was spending ten hours a day at my computer; afterwards I was unable to spend more than 20 minutes typing without taking a break. The result of this was that I learned to think very clearly about the amount of energy it took to generate a particular result. I try to instil this results-orientated attitude in my staff.
What makes you mad in business today?
The response of large corporates and the banking community to the economic downturn: this is particularly noticeable in the attitude towards carrying risk, which has see-sawed from the irresponsible to the positively risk-avoidant. We need a period of economic stability to allow industry to recover!
What will be the biggest change in your market in the next three years?
The biggest changes will result from the mainstream acceptability of electric vehicles, which will stimulate greater interest in charging equipment and public charging infrastructure. Currently, there are islands of charging infrastructure, and the major issues are of availability and of charging solutions for electric motorists. As these islands join up, the key issue will be compatibility and networking of charging equipment.
Can businesses in your sector/industry access the finance they need to grow? If not, what can be done to improve things?
Yes, finance is available, but you have to have everything spot on to access it.
How would others describe your leadership style?
I polled the office and words such as bold, visionary and inspirational were mentioned, but you’d have to ask other people when I’m not there!
Your biggest personal extravagance?
Gadgets. I love having the latest electronic toys. Everything has to communicate perfectly. I guess that is one reason why POD Point’s strategy is based around all our charge points communicating with each other.
You’ve got two minutes with the prime minister. Tell him how best to set the UK’s independent, entrepreneurial businesses free to prosper:
I’d explain to him that all his activity with the banking sector has zero effect on entrepreneurial business. Banks don’t enable small business. The government needs to encourage the flow of money to support the higher risk-reward profile of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are the engine of the country and they need to be nurtured and supported. We used to be a nation of shop keepers – we now need to be a nation of entrepreneurs.
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TNG Vol. 16 Chapter 2 Part 2
Baomultan.
Affectionately called “Baltan” by fans, it was a monster that, despite its horrendous looks, became so popular in THE NEW GATE that it was even turned into merchandise.
It was called “environmental protection monster”, as it visited polluted areas, absorbed the pollution and returned the areas to their normal state.
As a result, in the areas recently visited by Baomultan it was temporarily possible to find high-quality metal and rare plants.
If the player defeated Baomultan before it completely purified an area, it was possible to obtain parts for powerful equipment highly resistant to status ailments.
Because of this, conflicts often broke out between the players who wanted Baomultan’s parts and the players who wanted to gather the materials that appeared after the purification.
“This Baomultan monster isn’t strong?”
“So-so. At full power, it can be a match for Kagerou.”
“And you call that ‘so-so’!? It’s definitely dangerous!!”
“Before the Dusk of Majesty it wasn’t really dangerous. Besides, there were other circumstances in the conflict.”
In the game, a great number of players hunted Baomultans, so no one thought that it was dangerous.
Information about it was commonly available, so the players who couldn’t defeat it did not even try fighting.
There were also other players who chose not to fight it, for different reasons.
They were the “Baltan Protection Squad” and “Baltan Playpals”, organizations outside the scope of guilds.
It sounded like a silly joke, but they actually existed.
At first glance Baomultan looked like an undead dragon, but it actually had a mellow personality and did not attack approaching players unless provoked. It was even possible to touch it a little.
There was a certain player recorded footage of what various monsters did in their natural habitat, how they reacted when players approached etc. and posted it online.
Eventually, the player released a video with Baomultan as target.
A few days after the video was released, things began to unfold.
In the battle between the players who wanted Baomultan’s parts and the players who wanted the parts that appeared after purification of the area, the “Protection Squad” and the “Playpals” suddenly burst in.
The video had instigated the secretly formed community of Baomultan fans into action.
Their stance was close to the players who wanted the parts that appeared after the purification, so the balance of the two factions’ conflict changed greatly.
“Eh? What are you saying? Protecting monsters? Playpals…?”
Shin’s explanation utterly confused Tiera.
For this world’s denizens, monsters were creatures you either fight or run away from. Some made monsters their partners or worshipped them, but they were a very small minority.
“I know it sounds absurd but… Baomultan is just adorable…wait, adorable? No, that’s not it…anyway, it’s hard to just go fight it as soon as you see it.”
Shin didn’t quite know how to explain it.
Maybe it was one of the game settings or they used a simple AI, but Baomultan and some other monsters could recognize players.
In Baomultan’s case, if a player approached it in a peaceful manner and touched it enough times, it would start being interested in the player.
When the player entered Baomultan’s area it would spontaneously approach the player and walk together.
When the player left Baomultan’s area, it would follow them until the edge of the area and watch the player leave.
Many players were moved by the lonely expression on its face as they left.
The posted video contained such a scene too, so the players interested in interacting with Baomultan increased. What followed could be called the “Baomultan Boom”.
“We started considering Baomultan a source of ‘Moe’…we’re done for…”
“After playing a bit with Baomultan I started thinking that its nickname, ‘Baltan’, isn’t strange at all.”
“ITT: monsters and moe”
“In my head Baltan is a cute loli: degenerate and proud”
These and many other threads popped up like mushrooms. Baomultan’s popularity exceeded even the creators’ imagination.
The fact that it spawned randomly, disappeared after a certain time and was a Divine Beast-like monster, making it impossible to tame, also contributed to its popularity.
It never stayed always in the same place, so after a while the time to say goodbye would definitely come. It was a half forced series of meetings and farewells.
“It’s still a monster, though. There were always players who wanted to defeat it for its parts, so there were often fights between those who wanted to fight Baltan and those who wanted to protect it. Sometimes they both lost, though.”
“Eh? Why, what happened?”
“When Baltan goes into fight mode, it sees all players as enemies. So it would attack the Protection Squad and Playpals too. It doesn’t matter if they had become friends before. The players who wanted to defeat it attacked it like before, while the Protection Squad and Playpals tried to get in their way. And Baomultan attacked all the players. The players who didn’t want to defeat Baomultan were fine with being attacked, so sometimes they clung onto other players and were knocked out together.”
They could do so since they wouldn’t actually die, but it was an incredible episode nonetheless.
It was unknown whether Baomultan had an affection stat.
Maybe it was reset during battle, or maybe when it was attacked it considered those of the same species as the attacker -if the attacker was a monster, all monsters of the same species; if the attacker was a player, all players or all players of the same species as the attacker- as its enemies, or so the players theorized.
“Maybe Baomultan saw them all as the same person. If it was attacked by a certain species, it could see all people of the same species as potential attackers.”
“I wonder. We might know the truth if we could talk with it, but it’s only possible in unique cases.”
Shin replied to Tiera’s words while recalling the monsters he met until now.
The Element Tail and Kagutsuchi were primary examples. Kagerou understood what Shin and the others said, but it couldn’t talk.
Tamed monsters were the same. They even understood what the tamer wanted them to do from facial expressions and gestures.
“….wait, we could just have Yuzuha translate what it says.”
She did it for Kagerou before. If it was possible with Baomultan, they could communicate with it, Shin said excitedly.
“Kuu, I don’t think it’s possible.”
Yuzuha, however, mercilessly denied such a possibility.
“It’s not the same as you did with Kagerou?”
“Kagerou is like a comrade for me. That’s why I understand. Kagutsuchi is a Divine Beast and it understands human speech too. But Baltan is very different from us.”
Their role in the world, species, and ecology were all different. Yuzuha added that there was not a language common to all monsters.
“I can talk with monsters of my species or similar species, but Baltan and I are too different.”
In this world, most people spoke the same language.
Some species used unique alphabets, but they were only used on very rare occasions within the same species, so not knowing them would never be an inconvenience.
Among human-like creatures, then, there would never be a situation in which communication was impossible.
For Shin and the others, Yuzuha and Baomultan both belonged to the monster category, so they thought that they could communicate normally.
“I see…not all people speak in the same language either, after all. I guess it can’t be that easy.”
In Shin’s former world, it was common for people from different countries to speak different languages. To not be able to communicate with other human beings was a normal occurrence.
Considering this, Yuzuha’s explanation made sense.
They decided that they would try once, just in case, then moved to the next topic— or tried to, but Hydro and Oxygen stopped them.
“What’s wrong, you two?”
“Shin, You’re talking like it’s completely normal, but who is that boy? Or girl? I mean, I see the name, but it’s beyond our imaginations…”
“If what we see is not wrong, it’s an Element Tail? A real one?”
“Kuu?”
Oxygen and Hydro stared intently at Yuzuha, who was perplexed by their reaction. Shin’s party was used to her, but their reaction was the normal one.
Shin had asked them to stop calling him master, so both Oxygen and Hydro started addressing him without titles.
“Yes, she’s a real Element Tail. A lot of things happened, and now she’s my partner monster.”
“I thought Divine Beasts were impossible to tame, but you overcame even that…I’d like to know what happened in detail. Oh, and can we take some of her hair as a sample? I’d like to perform an endurance test.”
“I’m intrigued too. Could we have some tears too? There’s a concoction I would like to try.”
“Hey now, you two…”
Shin was sure that they were really interested only in experimenting. After hearing the conversation, Yuzuha hid behind him.
“Hahaha, we are just joking, of course. We would never use Shin’s partner for an experiment!”
“Of course not~.”
“It doesn’t sound like a joke when you two say it…”
“True, true.”
Filma commented with a sigh, followed by Sety nodding. They were a High Lord and High Pixie duo, so their words and movements were pretty similar.
“Hmm, I suppose we went a little overboard. Let us be a little more serious, then.”
“Just a little?”
Shin wondered if Hydro had always been like that, but he didn’t know the other support characters’ personalities in detail, so he concluded that she probably was always like this.
“Back to the topic of Baltan, then.”
Shin returned the conversation on the right track and Tiera raised a hand.
“Ehm, that…Baltan, right? It appears to purify the land, right? In that case, I might be able to help too.”
Shin had started calling Baomultan by its nickname, so Tiera adopted it too.
After learning about Baomultan’s abilities, she thought that maybe she could help it with her own.
Shin, however, shook his head.
“No, Baltan’s purification has nothing to do with miasma. Everyone started saying it absorbed pollution, so that became the common term, but it actually isn’t all bad stuff. I guess it would be more correct to say that…it takes in minerals that are oversaturated in one spot and redistribute them. When certain things accumulate too much in the same place, the environment and ecology can be damaged.”
“So it’s like when plants absorb too much nutrients and dry up instead?”
Tiera apparently grasped the concept and tried giving her own interpretation.
Its redistribution of materials was the reason why Baltan was called the “environmental protection” monster.
Probably because of the game settings, unnatural concentrations of specific materials sometimes randomly appeared. After Baomultan appeared, the affected area would return to normal.
The areas visited by Baomultan became rich in resources because their balance was restored and resources were better distributed, or so the players thought.
It wasn’t enough to explain the phenomenon, but in this world there were many elements that did not exist in reality, so accepting that explanation was the only way.
Baomultan could even restore haunted forests and cursed lands, so it definitely had abilities other than absorption.
“Yes, I think you got the gist of it. Of course, it also absorbs materials that would clearly have negative effects. I didn’t see it all with my own eyes, so you just need to remember that it doesn’t just remove impurities.”
“Okay. So does that mean that there is an unnatural concentration of something in Romenun now? If you say that the vegetation is currently receiving negative effects, I think I can see it…”
Tiera recalled the plants she saw on her way to the building.
Elves could sense the state of plants and the earth. She had felt that the situation was like what Shin explained.
“No, that’s not it. Baomultan didn’t come to purify Romenun.”
“I thought so. That’s the normal state of Romenun’s vegetation, after all.”
Oxygen answered Tiera’s question, then Schnee interjected.
Tiera was mildly shocked to learn that the plants she saw were in their “normal” state, and rightfully so.
Baomultan often appeared in areas so unnaturally changed that they seemed to be rotting, in decay.
Around Romenun there were many plants scattering status ailments only because of the effects of the guild house, but the land itself was in its normal state.
“…is it Durgin?”
Shin mentioned the name of a monster that formed a “duo” with Baomultan.
Durgin also removed pollution from the earth, but it didn’t purify it like Baomultan, it simply absorbed noxious elements into its body.
The difference was that it couldn’t purify the land like Baomultan did.
“Correct. I think it happened about 500 years ago, after there was a large tremor and Romenun’s position changed from its original one. A Durgin fell on the area next to Romenun, and it was larger than any Durgin I had ever seen.”
Hydro’s words suggested that she probably did not know about the Dusk of Majesty. The tremors and Romenun’s movement were probably caused by the crustal shift that occurred after the Dusk of Majesty.
Durgin fell into a lake formed by the crustal shift, but did not float to the surface or move.
Hydro added that the fall probably killed it, or it was already dead.
“After that, it was truly horrible. Maybe because it released everything it had absorbed until then, the lake turned a nasty color and the smell was foul too. The land around it started changing colors too. The area under Romenun’s influence was safe, but the rest turned a horrible color, a sort of greenish-black, in a radius of about 5 kemel.”
The land was dying: it was a scenery so horrible that such words came to mind.
The Durgin had probably absorbed noxious elements beyond its capacity and then turned into a poison itself.
It was said that some could contaminate the earth when they landed and could spoil the very air.
In such a situation, the original relationship of Durgin gathering pollution and Baomultan purifying would be broken.
Baomultan could not purify such an extent of pollution.
“If I recall correctly, the first Baomultan arrived about 1 year later, right?”
“Yes, I think that’s about right. The Durgin was pretty large, so the Baomultan was rather large too. We’re used to seeing it by now, so it doesn’t really feel big anymore.”
Oxygen thought for a bit, then replied to Hydro’s question.
“The first? Do you mean that others came?”
Shin thought that the first Baomultan probably failed to purify the pollution completely, but Hydro and Oxygen both shook their heads.
“No, only one Baomultan came. It probably reached full capacity, though, because it didn’t stay long.”
It couldn’t fully purify the pollution and was severely exhausted, so after about 1 year it died.
“From here started phenomenons outside our knowledge. We were really surprised, I tell you. We tried burying the dead Baomultan, but its corpse disappeared, replaced by another Baomultan.”
More precisely, the remains of the dead Baomultan slowly turned transparent and disappeared, then after it vanished completely another Baomultan appeared out of the empty space.
“After witnessing it, I thought that Baomultan had a phoenix-like ability, that allowed it to return to life after death.”
“I, instead, thought that Baomultan wasn’t a monster, but a purification device created by the planet to protect itself.”
They were both researchers at heart, so they started theorizing about Baomultan’s abilities.
Thinking about it, how did monsters increase?
Some monster species had both male and female versions, but they were rare cases.
Cashmere’s monster ranch mainly housed tamed monsters.
Shin had heard Cashmere mention about monster babies being born, so she might have been knowledgeable about it.
“Okay, setting Baomultan’s ecology aside for a moment…how’s the current situation?”
“The purification progressed, I’d like to say, but it looks like it will still take a long time. Just how much had that Durgin accumulated? Since we know how it looked like at first, we can tell that things are getting better, but I guess it will look different in your eyes. We can only stay in that area for 30 minutes max.”
Baomultan’s area was on the opposite side of the direction Shin’s party came from, beyond Romenun.
Shin knew that Hydro and Oxygen had high resistance to status ailments, as they had to perform all sorts of experiments, so if even they had a time limit the area had to be incredibly polluted.
“Should I go take a look?”
“It would be really helpful. We’ll explain what we discovered first. You’ll probably find it hard to believe, though.”
After this premise, Hydro started talking.
At first, not even moss would grow in the polluted area.
At present the lake looked very different, it changed from a mass of sludge to a blue surface.
Even if it looked clean, though, it was actually something like sulfuric acid, a liquid that would melt anything it touched. The lake was also continuously spewing toxic gas.
The land too had regained a natural-looking color, but it exhaled toxic gases too, different than the ones emanating from the lake.
The toxic gases from the lake and the ground interacted with each other and covered the ground in a sort of mist 1-2 cemel thick. It had to be cleared before you could see the actual ground.
Another phenomenon that Hydro and Oxygen did not know about also occurred.
“There are flowers blooming. A lot of flowers of all colors, covering the ground…or, considering how it looks, covering the fog.”
Various flowers in full bloom, without any respect for the season, their usual habitat or the original vegetation.
“Are they really flowers?”
“We wondered that too and researched them, but did not find any poison or elements they wouldn’t naturally have. The fact that they grow and bloom there is unnatural, but we could not find anything strange about the flowers themselves.”
“The vapors, poison gas and the mist emanated by the lake and the ground are all noxious for plants. We can say with certainty that there are no places in that area without poison. Normally, it would be impossible for any plant to grow there. We tried planting Bluehinnes and Harbellas, which can absorb poison, but they shriveled and died in half a day.”
Hydro mentioned plants that were also used as ingredients for antidotes and potions that gradually restored HP. Shin was familiar with them too and knew their effects well.
Those plants had strong antitoxin effects and should be able to withstand even very strong poison. If they could only live for half a day, the area they were planted in had to be a land of death.
“Is Baltan exhibiting any strange behavior?”
If the situation was so unnatural, it might have affected the Baomultan too, so Shin asked about it to Hydro.
“It isn’t acting differently from what I know about it, at least for now. It moves a bit in the area, but it generally simply stares at the lake.”
“Normally it just needs to be there for the purification to take place. As far as we have observed, it’s completely calm.”
Baomultan did not need to eat. It was so docile that you could approach it and touch it, so it hadn’t caused problems at the moment.
Its personality was just as Shin remembered; Hydro and Oxygen had interacted with it several times, so now it recognized them as individuals.
Shin noticed something in what Hydro and Oxygen said.
When Baomultan completed a purification, it normally lied down on the ground and disappeared. Then useful metals could be excavated from the ground and the ground itself grew richer.
Judging from the way it disappeared, it didn’t look like it died, but more like it completed its task and was teleported somewhere else.
It sometimes looked at the players before disappearing; there had been barely any reports that a Baomultan died before fully purifying an area, too.
“…you said that it died many times, right? Do its remains disappear every time?”
Shin thought that if its remains did not disappear Hydro and Oxygen would have collected them for research, so he asked them about it.
“That always goes according to knowledge. We have witnessed it collapse multiple times, but it turned transparent and disappeared every time.”
“…by the way, the flowers started blooming after the first Baltan died, right?”
“Yes, I think so?”
Hydro said that the first Baltan appeared about 1 year after the Durgin fell. It was more than 500 years ago already.
Hydro asked Oxygen for confirmation, but after such a long time he couldn’t say it with confidence either.
“Please wait a moment. The research records from that time….here they are. Let’s see, 351 days after Baltan died the first sprouts were found, which increased day by day. Eventually they increased so much that we couldn’t keep track of the exact number.”
Oxygen and Hydro could stay in the polluted area only for a limited time, so they couldn’t record the exact number of the flowers.
“As expected of a researcher, you kept really precise records.”
Shin was impressed, he knew he wouldn’t be that diligent.
“Observation and recording are the basis of research, after all. This is all we have observed in the polluted area. Then there’s one thing that we noticed.”
“It’s about the remains of the Durgin in the lake. Since Durgins and Baomultans are a set, we thought that the Durgin might come back to life too. It hasn’t moved at all in 500 years, though.”
It was a concern, but still just a possibility. Differently from Baomultans, Durgins were aggressive, so their ecology was still for the most part unknown.
“We’ve built a long relationship with that Baomultan, at this point. It looks like its memory resets every time it resurrects, but we’ve watched over it all this time, so we’re kind of attached. It’s nearing its limit now, so we might be getting a little nervous.”
About 10 years passed since the current Baomultan appeared, so based on past trends it should be nearing its death, Hydro continued.
Berett said that they couldn’t approach the area, but if Hydro and Oxygen wanted they could leave Romenun.
The reason why they did not do so was Baomultan’s presence. Even if it was a monster, they had grown attached to it.
“Let’s go take a look after lunch, then. I don’t know if I’ll be able to find out anything, but I want to see it with my own eyes. Even if it comes back to life, I’m sure I can chase it away.”
Shin trusted Hydro and Oxygen’s words, but after seeing the situation with his own eyes he could have a different impression.
Additionally, using skills such as 【Through Sight】, 【Far Sight】, and 【Clairvoyance】 he might also find out something about the Durgin’s remains.
“Thank you. We are pretty confident in our research skills, but as you know our fighting power is low!”
“Not much we can do about it.”
“No reason to be proud about it either…”
Hydro and Oxygen were far superior to average players in their field of research, but being specialized in research meant that their fighting power was low, or rather, they had little to no battle experience.
Even with level and stats inferior to theirs, it wouldn’t be difficult to defeat them with some battle experience.
Depending on the situation, Tiera could probably win too.
“Besides, if you use the items you invented you can even win against people with higher stats, right?”
“Well, that’s our job after all.”
Oxygen replied while blushing and Shin sighed.
They had little fighting experience and some of their stats were on the same level as advanced Chosen Ones, or a little lower. The stats they focused less on were probably around 300.
The tools they developed, however, covered such disadvantages more than enough. Battles weren’t only about punching each other, after all: they used all sorts of items causing status ailments.
Items that prevented status ailments were extremely rare and depending on the quality of the materials and skill of the creator, it could be possible to break through the protective effects of such items.
Hydro and Oxygen’s master was Hecate, the most knowledgeable among all Rokuten members about item crafting.
The items and materials she used had completely different rarity.
Normal resistances and immunities meant nothing: her items would break through them, inflict all sorts of status ailments and gradually lead the opponent to a nightmarish death.
Even Shin was careful not to risk having to fight her, despite being protected by most status ailments by his high immunities.
“I bet you made lots more in these 500 years.”
“Indeed, they have surely created dangerous items we have never heard of.”
“You know, there’s a word for people like you: “mad scientist”.”
Filma and Shibaid agreed that Hydro and Oxygen probably had many more dangerous tools up their sleeves, and Sety used a word she learned who knows where.
Shin mentally agreed with all three of them.
“Let’s talk again after lunch. I’ll borrow the kitchen, then.”
“Oh, it sure is nice to be able to eat Schnee’s cooking after all this time. Do you need me to show you the way?”
“No, I remember where it was. Do you have enough ingredients? I can bring more if you need anything.”
“I harvested this morning, but with these many people we’ll need a little more. I’ll go pick them up.”
“I’ll help you, then. I want to see what you have too.”
“Understood. Come this way, then.”
Hydro started walking in an affected way, maybe because she was leading Schnee.
Schnee sighed a little. Apparently Hydro’s passion for cute and beautiful things was still present.
“Sorry about her. Schnee is beautiful, so Hydro is feeling excited for the first time in a while.”
“I know she’s that kind of person, don’t worry.”
Oxygen explained apologetically, but Shin told him not to worry. His personality was not as extreme as Hydro: on the contrary, he was pretty normal.
“Hmm, what can I say, I’m speechless.”
“I truly lament my lack of vocabulary.”
Oxygen and Hydro both felt their expression loosen as they tasted Schnee’s cooking.
Schnee prepared a simple menu: salad, soup, and pasta (carbonara).
The ingredients grown in Romenun had very high quality, thanks to the soil, fertilizer, and environment. Cooked with Schnee’s expertise, they would surely turn delicious.
Shin and the others were very satisfied too, of course.
“Cooking, hmm. I always thought that as long as you could have the necessary nutrition you didn’t need anything else, but after tasting something so delicious I must change my mind.”
“We can’t recreate this ourselves, though.”
“You have the time, so why don’t you train your Cooking skill?”
“That time is for research!!”
Oxygen and Hydro turned down Schnee’s proposal in unison.
If they had the time to train their Cooking skill or anything else, they would use it for research. That was the basis for all their actions.
They were concerned about Baomultan also because it was a subject of research.
Many researchers cared little for anything they were not interested in. So Oxygen and Hydro had been created, and remained like that even now.
“That contradicts what you just said…”
“I said that I would have a change of mind, not that I would train my Cooking skill.”
“That’s just sophistry!”
Hydro did not seem to even register Filma and Sety’s interjections. In a way, she was refreshingly frank about it.
“We have had our enjoyment, now shall we proceed to the research? I’d like to observe you too, Shin, it’s been a while.”
“What did you say now, all casually like that?”
Even High Humans were subjects of observation. Oxygen and Hydro had not changed at all.
Shin checked how much poison resistance their equipment had. If it was higher than the equipment of Shin’s party, it would be dangerous for them to enter the area.
“I should have expected it, your equipment’s specs are higher than ours. To think there is such a gap between the items we made and the ones made by Shin.”
“The materials’ rarity is different too. The technique isn’t enough to cover for the base materials’ quality, after all.”
Hydro and Oxygen looked at Shin’s equipment and expressed their opinions.
Shin thought they were using equipment Hecate gave them, but they were both using gear they crafted themselves.
“If we used the equipment Mistress Hecate gave us, we could probably stay in the area longer. We have our pride as researchers, though. We cannot rely forever on something that was given to us, you see”
Both Oxygen and Hydro strove to continue their research in order to one day create something on par too, then superior to Hecate’s creations.
“We’re going to use it this time, though. We cannot become a burden for you.”
“Can I see that equipment too, then?”
“Yes, please. But I think you made these, Shin.”
Oxygen then showed Shin an accessory he knew well, the 『Age of Gods Earring』.
On request by Hecate, it was specialized to prevent and weaken status ailments caused via physical matter and even weaken the effects of attacks that broke through status ailment immunity, often used by the highest class of monsters.
Shin crafted them with the highest rarity materials available at the time, so paired with a High Human’s natural resistances they could prevent most status ailments not caused by magic.
“Your goal is this?”
“That’s right. The materials are too rare for us to obtain, so we’re trying to get closer to it with other methods.”
“We still have a long way to go, though.”
“The results are showing, though. At least, back then I couldn’t have attached so many effects to these materials.”
Shin talked while looking at the full-face gas masks Oxygen and Hydro had created, called Prototype 6522.
Even with a high crafting level and advanced facilities, if the quality of the materials was poor there was a limit to what one could do.
Shin knew more or less what effects could be attached to the materials used to make Prototype 6522, and concluded that he wouldn’t have been able to craft the items he was looking at.
It was the result of Oxygen and Hydro’s efforts.
“It truly feels rewarding to hear that.”
“That’s right…”
Oxygen and Hydro smiled proudly, praised by the creator of the items they were aspiring to one day overcome.
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‘Old Curiosity Shop’ history
Sir William Cholmeley 2nd Baronet (1625–1663) of Abbey House Whitby was the original landowner for the property. The Cholmeley family owned much of Whitby including several houses on what was known as Cliff Lane in the 1600’s. The ancient lease from 1654 shows the first leaseholders as Robert and Joan Bredcon. Will Cholmeleys signature appears at the bottom of the document, above the wax seal.
The ancient lease covered what is now No 14, No 15 and also the buildings in the yard behind. The lease changed hands many times over the years with the buildings remaining together until they were eventually split up into individual leases in 1964. In the nineteenth century, both No 14 and No 15 Cliff street were shops that were run by tenants of the leaseholders, and many historical Whitby newspaper ads show the two properties as one business.
In the nineteenth century, the coast around Whitby became a mecca for fossil hunters and collectors, and between 1840 and 1880, the business was ‘Chettleburgh’s Fossil and Shell Shop’, selling fossils and shells from the locality and from around the world. Chettleburgh’s successor was William Dalton, and the business then became ‘Old Curiosity Shop’, with trade moving to jewellery produced from jet and ammonites, together with antique fine china and glass. With William and Sarah Dalton in residence, the yard behind the shops became known as Daltons Yard, and a number of small business operated from tenements within this yard, which today is called Oswy Square.
Cliff lane is one of the oldest streets on Whitby’s West Cliff and was originally a dead end, it eventually became Cliff Street when the lane was opened up to the Khyber Pass. In the 1890’s an infant school was built on the land opposite No 14, and in the mid twentieth century the shop became a thriving confectionery business, which lasted into the 1970’s. The school eventually closed and was demolished in the 1980’s. By this time, the Cliff Street shops were in a very sorry state, and when No 14 was eventually renovated in 1990 much of the interior timber had to be replaced but the original cast iron kitchen range and lounge fireplace remain.
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Skidrow Codex » Games PC » To Hell with Hell v1.3.0.2029 (Purgatory Update)
To Hell with Hell v1.3.0.2029 (Purgatory Update)
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To Hell with Hell — is an adventure game project that will take you to the post-apocalyptic world and get acquainted with various challenges. Here you have to take on the role of a brave, fearless and professional warrior who sets off to meet her dangers in order to destroy all the monsters who came from hell. Cope with rivals will be difficult, for this you will need attentiveness, speed and ingenuity. The strength of the enemy will increase each time, so you must improve your skills and abilities in every way. Our main character has a lot of talents.
She can control any kind of murder weapon, cleverly copes with reincarnation into any creature, and can also outwit even the most powerful opponent. You will go to any actions and use the most terrible weapons to deal with all enemies and bring the world its former prosperity. Do everything possible to achieve a positive result, as well as save the life not only of yourself, but also of the few survivors who remained on the destroyed earth. You will become a participant in dynamic and ruthless battles, create real chaos for the world of monsters and destroy everything that brings evil into your world. The graphics in the game are executed well, you will also be pleased with the soundtrack, this will allow you to immerse yourself in a realistic atmosphere and become part of it.
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
Processor: Intel i3 Processor or higher
Graphics: GTX 760 or higher
Download the game files through torrent.
Run the installation file «[gamename].setup.exe», follow the instructions.
Choose a place on the disk, where the game will be installed.
Wait for the notification that the game is installed.
Сlick on the label of the game, Play!
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Bonobo - a musician, producer and DJ perfectly suited to soundtrack an evening spent reclining to some parallel beats. Wrapped in delicately programmed drums, Green's music is at once both sombre and reassuring. If what comes out the other end is the music of Bonobo, then this is the fuel that keeps the engine running: soul, jazz, classical, pop, funk, leftfield, rock. Pianos and brass are abundantly present. Our ivories are warmed and tickled by the classic, Bill Evans, and new school, with Matthew Bourne's mournfully beautiful 'Juliet' and Dustin O'Halloran's 'An Ending A Beginning'. The brass section comes courtesy of Menehan Street Band's jazzy 'The Traitor', 'Flipside' by the Hypnotic Brass Band. Exclusives include YouTube sensation 'One Thing' by Peter and Kerry. Not only that, but there's Bonobo's special LNT cover version, a brilliant reading of Donovan's 'Get Thy Bearings'. As the light dims, the unsettling sounds of Lapalux or maybe even Shlomo pierce the misty evening air, before giving way to the ethereal splendour of Eddi Front's 'Gigantic' or even Nina's paean to an imagined rural idyll 'Baltimore'.
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International Journal of Morphology
Int. J. Morphol. vol.34 no.3 Temuco set. 2016
Int. J. Morphol., 34(3):904-908, 2016.
Evaluation of Face Shape in Turkish Individuals
Evaluacion de la Forma de la Cara en Individuos Turcos
Esin Ozsahin*; Emine Kizilkanat**; Neslihan Boyan**; Roger Soames*** & Ozkan Oguz**
* Baskent University, Adana Research and Teaching Hospital, Department of Anatomy, Adana, Turkey.
** Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Adana, Turkey.
*** Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, College of Art, Science and Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
SUMMARY: The aim of this study was to determine the types of face shape in the Turkish population. Knowledge on face shape is important in anthropology and for planning medical procedures such as in aesthetic, maxillofacial and orthodontic surgery. The study group consisted of 1003 healthy subjects (470 male, 533 female) aged 1868 years. Mean height, weight and body mass index (BMI) were 1.74 m, 78.65 Kg, 25.80±3.50 kg/m2 and 1.62 m, 60.55 kg, 22.87±3.49 kg/m2 in males and females, respectively. Face length (FL; the distance from nasion to gnathion) and face width (FW; bizygomatic breadth) were measured, from which a Prosopic Index (PI) was determined using the following formula: (PI= FL/FW x 100). The types of face shape were classified according to Banister's classification Type I (hypereuryprosopic), Type II (euryprosopic), Type III (mesoprosopic), Type IV (leptoprosopic), Type V (hyperleptoprosopic) in both males and females. PI was 84.31 (FL: 12.07 cm; FW: 14.34 cm) in males and 85.25 (FL: 11.30 cm; FW: 13.28 cm) in females. In males and females Type I face shape was observed in 18.1 % and 15.6 %; Type II in 35.3 % and 34.3 %; Type III in 33.2 % and 34.3 %; Type IV in 8.7 % and 11.8 %; and Type V in 4.7 % and 3.9 %, respectively. The determination of types of face shape as presented in this study may be useful for aesthetic surgical procedures as well as medical and anthropological investigations.
KEY WORDS: Prosopic index; Face length; Face width; Face shape.
RESUMEN: El objetivo fue determinar los tipos de forma de la cara en la población turca. El conocimiento de la forma de la cara es importante en antropología y para la planificación de los procedimientos médicos como la cirugía estética, maxilofacial y ortodoncia. Se analizó un grupo de 1003 sujetos sanos (470 hombres y 533 mujeres), con edades entre 18 a 68 años. La talla, peso e índice de masa corporal (IMC) fueron 1,74 m, 78,65 kg, 25,80±3,50 kg/m2 y 1,62 m, 60,55 kg, 22,87±3,49 kg/m2 en hombres y mujeres, respectivamente. Se midió el índice prosopo (IP) y se determinó la longitud de la cara (LC: la distancia desde Nasion a Gnathion) y el ancho de la cara (ancho bicigomático: AC) utilizando las siguientes fórmulas: (IP = [LC/AC] x 100). Los tipos de forma de la cara se clasificaron de acuerdo a la clasificación de Banister [Tipo I (hipereuriprosopo), Tipo II (euriprosopo), tipo III (mesoprosopo), Tipo IV (leptoprosopo) y Tipo V (hiperleptoprosopo)], tanto en hombres como en mujeres. El IP fue de 84,31 (LC: 12,07 cm; AC: 14,34 cm) en los hombres y 85,25 (LC: 11,30 cm; AC: 13,28 cm) en las mujeres. En hombres y mujeres se observó la forma Tipo I en 18,1 % y 15,6 %; Tipo II en 35,3 % y 34,3 %; Tipo III en 33,2 % y 34,3 %; Tipo IV en 8,7 % y 11,8 %; y Tipo V en 4,7 % y 3,9 %, respectivamente. La determinación de los tipos de forma de la cara presentados en este estudio pueden ser útiles para los procedimientos quirúrgicos estéticos, así como para las investigaciones médicas y antropológicas.
PALABAS CLAVE: Indice prosópico; Largo de la cara; Ancho de la cara; Forma de la cara.
Most dimensions in the human body are determined by factors related to ecology, biology, geography, race, sex and age; therefore anthromopetry is by far the most important research tool in biological and forencis anthropology (Mane et al., 2010).
Many anthropometric studies on age, sex and race have been undertaken in certain regions of the world (Farkas et al., 2005). Studying the intra and interpopulational variations in morphological characteristics has long been an interest of anthropologists (Jahanshahi et al., 2008; Fang et al., 2011) who are aware of the differences of facial measurements between races and ethnic groups (Farkas et al.).
Morphological assessment parameters of the face are the results of cephalometric and anthropometric methods obtained from the skeleton and soft tissues, respectively (Arslan et al., 2008; Budai et al., 2003). An important component of physical anthropology is craniofacial morphometrics which includes the dimensions of head and face (Hossain et al., 2011; Oguz,1996).
A knowledge of facial measurements is essential to determine the degree of deviation from normal morphologic defects and anomalies of the head and face (Farkas et al.). In order to establish a precise method of surgery to maintain and preserve facial harmony surgeons demand objective parameters of the face (Özdemir et al., 2009). Anthropometric measurements are used in many medical branches, such as forensic medicine, plastic and oral surgery, pediatrics, dentistry and imaging procedures (Fang et al.; Hossain et al.; Jahanshahi et al.; Oguz; Raji et al., 2010).
The human face, with its compliacted and dynamic structure, is the initial step to get to recognizing an individual. The facial phenotype is biologically a product of genetics and the environment which in specific regions determines the features of populations (Mane et al.). Therefore anthropometric studies regarding the face are important in terms of both clinical and anthropologic perspectives.
We believe that the findings regarding face types for Turkish individuals obtained in this study can form the basis of a future database, as well as be used as a reference for many surgical procedures and anthropologic studies in this population.
MATERIAL AND METHOD
The study was conducted at Baskent University Adana Practice and Teaching Hospital on 1003 individuals (470 male, 533 female, aged 1868 years) admitted to the outpatient clinic in relation to occupational health. Informed consent of the participants were taken. The height and the weigth were measured and the body mass indexes of the cases were calculated. Face type, face length and face width of each participant was determined by using Martin spreading callipers. Face length was measured from nasion to gnathion and face width was taken as the bizygomatic distance (Fig. 1). Prosopic index was determined using the following formula:
Prosopic index: (Face length/Face width) x 100 (Jahanshahi et al.).
The prosopic index determined for each individual was grouped according to Bannisters' face typing classification (Table I) and then evaluated. The height and weight of each participant was also determined.
Fig. 1. The determination of face length (FL) and face width (FW).
Table I. Bannister's classification, based on the proscopic
The mean height, weight, body mass index, face length and face width were significantly different (p <0.001) between males and females, but there was no difference for mean PI (Table II). In females the most common face types were types II and III, each being 34.33% of the population studied, followed by Type I (15.6 %), Type IV (11.8 %) and Type V (3.94 %). In males Type II was the most common (35.3 %), followed by Type III (33.2 %), Type I (18.1 %), Type IV (8.7 %) and Type V (4.7 %) (Table III).
Table II. The mean, standard deviation and range of values for height, weight,
face length, face width and proscopic index of male and female participants.
Table III. The number and percentage of individulas in the present
study with each face type according to Bannister's classification.
Facial phenotype is a consequence of genetics and the environment that reflect features of populations in specific regions. Hence the face is a dynamic structure that can display a wide range of characteristics. A primary focus of facial identification research is to isolate features that can be considered as individualization factors (Mane et al.; Miyazato et al., 2014).
Morphologic features of the face between populations, as well as their diversity in any given society, have attracted attention from anthropologists and have also been significant in forensic science, maxillary, oral and plastic surgery (Mane et al.; Jahanshahi et al.).
It is perhaps not surprising that there were differences in height and weight between males and females as, in general, males tend to be taller and heavier in most populations. Given these differences in FL and FW would also be expected, as indeed was the case; however no difference in mean PI was observed suggesting that FL and FW remain proportional in the Turkish popluation as a whole. In this study, using Bannisters' face type classification, the most dominant face types in both males and females were Type II (Euryprosopic) (35.3 % male, 34.33 % female) and Type III (Mesoprosopic) (33.2 % male, 34.33 % female). This is different from the findings of Çiner (1960), which showed that the leptoprosopic type was dominant in Turkish females. Arslan et al., assessed face types in a Turkish population as leptoprosopic, euryprosopic, mesoprosopic with euryprosopic being dominant in females and leptoprosopic in males. In present study, dominancy for males was euryprosopic in 35.3 %, mesoprosopic in 33.2 %; for females; euryprosopic 34.33 % and mesoprosopic 34.3 %.
In other studies conducted on different races the observations were similar to those presented here. The dominant face type in both native Fars (37.7 %) and Turkman (51.7 %) females was euryprosopic, while in males the dominant face type in native Fars (44 %) and Turkman (38.4 %) was mesoprosopic (Jahanshahi et al.). Given that Turkish, Fars and Turkmans are races of related origin, this may account for the similarity.
Studies conducted using different methodologies have also been undertaken. A study on an Indian population showed that both males (20/50) and females (28/50) had a hyperleptoprosopic face type according to the Martin and Saller face type classification (Mane et al.). This classification of facial types is as follows; mesoprosopic type (84.087.9), euryprosopic type (79.083.9), hypereuryprosopic type (<78.9), leptoprosopic type (88.092.9), hyperleptoprosopic type (>93.0) (Mane et al.). India is the home of one of the oldest civilizations, and as such has laid the foundation for the development of multifaceted societies, resulting in a variety of complex face forms in individuals (Mane et al.). However, the hyperleptoproscopic face type was the least common in the present study, being only 3.94 % for females and 4.7 % for males. This suggests a different, racial origin of the Indian and Turkish populations.
The protohistoric Japanese population was long-headed, with a broad face and strong prognathism. Craniofacial morphology is commonly described by cephalic and prosopic indices (Hossain et al.). Hossain et al. reported that the face types for Japanese adult females was mesoprosopic (30.53 %), euryprosopic (25 %) and hypereuryprosopic (28.85 %), a finding different to the present study.
The report of dominant face type for Japanese males by Inaba et al. (2005) was analogous to this study, being mesoprosopic and for females euryprosopic according to Garson's facial index method. Garson's facial index is determined using the following formula: [the distance from the root of the nose to the chin/cheekbone width x 100]. In the Garson classification of facial index there are five types:
hypereuryprosopic (78.9), euryprosopic (79.0 to 83.9), mesoprosopic (84.0 to 87.9), leptoprosopic (88.0 to 92.9), and hyperleptoprosopic ( 93.0) (Inaba et al.). The studies of Hossain et al. and Inaba et al. raise the interesting question of why there should be similarities in face types between Turkish and Japanese people.
Bianchini et al. (2007), reported face types in a South American sample with ages between 15 and 18 years. They observed face type as leptoprosopic (13.45 %) for females and hyperleptoprosopic (27.73 %) for males in a Brazilian population. According to this study Turkish face types are somewhat different from this.
A study on a North-Eastern Nigerian population by Raji et al., showed that the hyperleptoprosopic face type was dominant in both sexes (70 % in males, 57.3 % in females). This shows diverse facial type compared with this study.
The face types of both the Fars and Turkman ethnic groups and the Japanese population appear to be similar, whereas the Turkish population exhibits diversity. The current study demonstrates that the Turkish race has a different face type than those of South American, African, Far Eastern and Asian populations. These differences most probably arise from racial and ethnic differences, which in turn are also influenced by ecological, biological and geographical factors, as well as gender, age and nutritional background (Raji et al.).
Studies on different races have shown considerable differences in facial proportions (Arslan et al.; Budai et al; Çiner; Farkas et al.). Therefore when planning maxillofacial surgery, surgeons must keep population specific factors in mind. For maxillofacial deformities the evaluation of soft and hard tissues is also essential. In order to obtain satisfactory aesthetic outcomes orthodontists, together with surgeons, must thoroughly assess skin changes, cartilaginous and soft tissues.
Orthodontists and maxillofacial surgeons can gain great benefit from the results presented here, especially with respect to Turkish patients. This study will also be of enormous benefit to plastic surgeons in enabling them to identify the most suitable nose type for the face of a given patient. Besides the present findings will be an important source of data for mandibular revision according to the face type of patients whose chewing function has detoriated either physiologically or traumatologically.
In conlusion the results of this study can be used in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery whenever a face related procedure is planned. They are also of value in forensic science and anthropological investigations.
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Adebayor says he may not play for Togo at African Cup
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LOME, Togo (AP) Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor has suggested he won’t be available for the African Cup of Nations if he is still without a club and out-of-practice by next month.
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Adebayor said in a radio interview in Togo: “If I feel that I am not ready to go to the next African Cup of Nations, I will not … This is a national team and it must go to the African Cup of Nations with players who are fit and ready.”
Adebayor said he may attend the tournament in January “to support my teammates and not to play.”
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Scottish Premiership title race over if Rangers beat Celtic, says Andy Walker
Andy Walker believes Rangers will all but have the Scottish Premiership title sewn up if they beat Celtic at Ibrox on Saturday.
Steven Gerrard’s side secured their 13th successive league victory at St Mirren in their final game of 2020 to ensure they go into the second Old Firm encounter of the season 16 points clear at the summit.
Rangers have won their last two league meetings with Celtic, last winning three in a row from March 2007 to March 2008, and Saturday’s mouth-watering clash at Ibrox – live on Sky Sports – was discussed by Kris Boyd and Andy Walker on the latest Scottish Football podcast.
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Celtic’s 2-0 defeat to Rangers at Parkhead in October began a poor run of form which saw the Hoops win only two games in 12, with some fans protesting for change outside the stadium.
However, boss Neil Lennon has turned it around with six wins in a row and they go to Ibrox on Saturday still confident of catching Rangers with three games in hand.
But Walker told Sky Sports: “If Rangers do win it, you’d have to say it would all but seal the title. Celtic surely couldn’t come back from that gap, and this is the one and only time that Celtic can affect Rangers. The level of consistency they’ve had, just drawing twice in the league campaign, is truly remarkable.
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“Everyone at Celtic has been really surprised so they can’t afford to lose the game. If they do, the league will be over. Rangers would have such a big cushion and they could then afford the odd mishap, but it doesn’t look likely. Celtic have to go there and win.”
Since his first league appearance against Rangers in March 2018, Odsonne Edouard has scored (six) and been directly involved in (eight – six goals, two assists) more goals than any other player in Scottish Premiership Old Firm derby matches.
Walker believes Celtic should go on the offensive, with the Frenchman partnering Leigh Griffiths to force their rivals on the back foot, and the Sky Sports pundit believes Lennon will opt for experience in midfield.
“Their biggest chance is the front two who can really test the Rangers defence,” Walker continued. “They need to come to life, and everyone has to be on top form. If that is the case, they’ve got every chance of winning.
“It’s important for Celtic to keep getting clean sheets but they’re a different team now because they’ve got two strikers. Griffiths has got his focus and his sharpness back and he’s linking up with Odsonne Edouard.
“I think that’s the main tool that Celtic will have to try to get at Rangers. They’ve got (Ismaila) Soro, David Turnbull, Callum McGregor or maybe Ryan Christie behind them, but Griffiths and Edouard up front is a threat for anyone.
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“Team selection is always interesting, and if I was Lennon I’d go with Ismaila Soro in this game. I feel he’s a breath of fresh air for Celtic, and he’s got great energy. But I suspect Lennon will go with experience and Scott Brown. He did it for the cup final, and he’s had a bit of a rest. I feel he’ll bring him back for this game as well knowing the experience he’s got.”
Rangers have won their last 13 league games, scoring 39 goals while conceding only three in this spell. It is their best top-flight winning run since another 13-game streak between December 2007 and March 2008 under Walter Smith.
The hosts will be without Ryan Jack and Scott Arfield, but Kris Boyd believes his former club can absorb their absence.
“The midfield three of Glen Kamara, Steven Davis and Joe Aribo is pretty settled, they know each other’s games,” Boyd said.
“The job that Kamara does goes under the radar a lot of the time in terms of closing off the full-back areas. His work allows James Tavernier and Borna Barisic to get forward. Davis is just an outstanding player so Rangers have got players who can cope with Arfield and Jack missing.
“If the game doesn’t start well for Rangers and Gerrard wants to make substitutions, I don’t think they would have so much strength in depth but the midfield has been one area where they have been strong.
“I feel Gerrard will be comfortable enough with those three going into the game, but there’s no doubt they’ll miss the running of Arfield. Jack is someone who keeps it simple and stops the opposition playing, but he always seems to be in the right position to pick up second balls and that’s something Rangers will miss.”
Gerrard urges fans to stay away from Ibrox
Steven Gerrard has urged Rangers fans to stay away on Saturday as the club marks the 50th anniversary of the Ibrox disaster ahead of the Old Firm derby with Celtic.
The coronavirus pandemic means Gers chiefs are planning a scaled-back tribute to remember the 66 fans who lost their lives in a crush at the stadium on January 2 1971, leading to Gerrard’s words of caution.
“In a normal situation, we’d have a lot of people around the ground and we’d obviously put a full service on so we could pay our respects that way,” he said.
“But because of Covid-19, things will look slightly different. However, as a club we still want to pay our full respects to everyone involved and to all the names that are no longer with us.
“It’s a very special day tomorrow (Saturday), myself and the players are all aware of that – but I would ask all our fans to stay away. I know that’s tough but we also have to pay respect to the situation we’re all in at the moment and stay safe at home.”
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March 9, 2019 by dereknewmanstille
A review of Lena Ng’s Love Transcendent in We Shall Be Monsters (Renaissance Press, 2018)
By Derek Newman-Stille
Lena Ng’s Love Transcendent is a belle mort tale of transformation. Exploring the Ancient Greek image of the soul represented as a butterfly, Ng explores the idea of death itself as a process of beautiful transformation, as a chrysalis in which the caterpillar of life becomes something majestic and winged after life.
This beautifully macabre tale explores the role of a young doctor seeking to understand the body, who ultimately becomes fascinated with what exists beyond the physical. As much as he is fascinated by the inner workings of the body, he is fascinated by the aesthetics of embodiment. Life evokes a passion for discovery in him that is all-consuming, a desire to understand things that are unfathomable.
This is a tale of a doctor’s obsession born of death and his desire to catch glimpses of the uncanny.
Ng’s tale is a meta tale with a young doctor seeking answers beyond science by picking up the text of Frankenstein, detailing Victor’s success in resurrection and using it for his own model. Yet, Ng complicates the text, illustrating the limits of science and that there is some ephemeral otherness that occurs in death and in resurrection.
This is a tale of a surgeon’s battle between professional detachment and love.
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June 20, 2018 by dereknewmanstille
A review of Jeff Lemire’s Thanos Vol 1: Thanos Returns (Marvel Comics, 2017).
Canadian comic book writer and artist Jeff Lemire has worked on independent comics, but has also worked with the comic company giants DC and Marvel. He tends to take his Canadian interest in grey areas and ambiguous endings into his comics for DC and Marvel, allowing for complex plots and characters.
In Thanos Vol 1: Thanos Returns, Lemire takes on one of the big villains in the Marvel universe, trying to add moral complexity to a character that has often appeared in comics as irreconcilably ‘bad’. Lemire is able to introduce some pathos for Thanos by portraying the villain in illness, creating a ‘god’ obsessed with Death… who is, himself, dying. Thanos is viewed as and views himself as a personification of strength, and Lemire explores what it means for someone who takes so much of his identity from his strength… to suddenly have to deal with vulnerability, with something that he would consider weak in others and would likely kill them for.
But what does the death of a powerful tyrant mean for others? This is a universal race to grab power in the perceived power vacuum that Thanos will leave, and Lemire uses this comic to comment on political power and the discourse of vulnerability on a universal scale. Revenge, the lust for power, and the desire to be significant are all wrapped together in the people who race to fill the perceived void that Thanos will leave. Lemire creates a race between villains to secure their place in a changing universe.
To find out more about Thanos Vol 1: Thanos Returns, visit http://marvel.com/comics/collection/62231/thanos_vol_1_thanos_returns_tpb_trade_paperback
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Tagged Comic Books, comics, death, graphic novels, illness, Jeff Lemire, Marvel Comics, power, Thanos, villains
July 8, 2017 by dereknewmanstille
Insectile Intimacies
A review of Edward Willett’s “The Mother’s Keeper” in The Sum of Us by Susan Forest and Lucas Law (Laksa Media Group, 2017)
Edward Willett takes a different perspective than many of the authors in the collection “The Sum of Us”, a collection about caregiving, and, instead LITERALLY dehumanizes caregiving. Instead of focusing on caregiving among humans, Willett focuses on the idea of insectile care, specifically that of a sentient alien race that has insectile characteristics.
Care is an important part of most colony insects that have a queen. In these colonies, various insects specialize in certain duties to ensure that the queen is able to continue reproducing and providing new members for the hive. These roles can be varied from protecting the hive from intruders, bringing food, removing waste, carrying larvae, cooling eggs, and maintaining the queen’s needs.
Willett’s “The Mother’s Keeper” centres around the growth of a young member of a hive society named Praella, whose caring role changes as she ages, but centres around the care she needs to provide for the Mother (who takes on an insect queen role). The Mother of this hive has a body that extends throughout all parts of the colony, and is needed for all aspects of life in the colony. The only problem is that Praella is witnessing the end of the Mother’s long life, something that her hive is unprepared to deal with. The Mother is gradually rotting throughout the city and the hive begins to dissipate, but Praella maintains her adherence to the Mother, staying with her through all of her changes even though she does not speak to Praella.
Although “The Mother’s Keeper” focusses on an insectile relationship, an adherence and total dependency on the hive queen and her total dependence on her children, Willett explores very human relationships, examining the way that our relationship to caregiving changes as we age, and the complexities involved in caring and, particularly, in being a sole caregiver. His narrative involves more than a civic duty to offer care, but, rather, a biological impulse, a fundamental NEED to offer care, which allows the reader to interrogate ideologies of caregiving in our society and contemplate what care could mean.
To discover more about Edward Willett, visit http://edwardwillett.com/
To discover more about The Sum of Us, visit http://laksamedia.com/the-sum-of-us-an-anthology-for-a-cause-2/
Tagged ageing, alien, care, caregiving, death, Edward Willett, insect colonies, insects, queen, reviews
A review of “Expiration Date” Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick (Edge, 2015).
Nancy Kilpatrick’s “Expiration Date” is a collection of stories that investigate one of our closest companions, an ever-present voyager on our path through life: Death. From Vampires to Banshee to the Grim Reaper him/herself, “Expiration Date” is an exploration of that inevitable force that shapes mortal life. The tales in this collection draw on folklore and modern speculations about death to create a complex tapestry of jagged life-threads, strings of tales cut off by the Morae (the Fates) and strung together into a death shroud of imagination and speculation.
These aren’t just morbid tales about the ends of lives, but speculations about this inevitable force that all of us have to eventually face. These are thought-provoking imaginings about issues of mortality, immortality, the fear of the unknown, grief, and fate. These tales explore the power of loss when someone dies, but they also explore the loss that immortality entails, the accumulation of losses over the course of years that make up the lives of the eternal.
“Expiration Date” is an interview with Death, an interrogation of those mysteries, and, like Death itself, these stories open up more questions than they answer. This is speculative fiction at its most powerful, speculating the greatest mystery and the final frontier.
To discover more about Expiration Date, visit Edge’s website at http://edgewebsite.com/books/expirationdate/expirationdate-catalog.html
Tagged banshee, death, Edge, edited collections, immortality, Nancy Kilpatrick, philosophy, reviews, vampires
Deadly Musings
A review of Mary E. Choo’s “That Brightness” in Expiration Date, Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick (Edge, 2015)
Having a gift for artistic expression is a challenging thing. It tends to come with a heavy dose of “imposter syndrome” and the feeling that one is never doing enough or that one’s work is not good enough. When Jess sees a woman in white tie red balloons around the necks of various artists, killing them and trapping part of them in the balloon, she begins to think that her psychological disability has changed to include delusions, but the experiences are seen by other artists, propelling them to produce more work and express their artistic gift.
Mary E. Choo’s “That Brightness” explores the complexity of artistic experience and the societal pressures surrounding the artist to create new works of art. This is work on the palette knife’s edge between life and death with a muse who inspires through threats to offset the incredible amounts of doubt that surround any artistic pursuit in a society that de-values art and presents the artist herself as a cultural consumable object.
To discover more about Expiration Date, visit Edge’s website at http://edgewebsite.com/books/expirationdate/expirationdate-catalog.html .
Tagged art, death, Edge, Mary E. Choo, Nancy Kilpatrick, reviews, Short Fiction, society and art, visual arts
February 10, 2016 by dereknewmanstille
Immortality Quest
A review of Kelley Armstrong’s “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word” from “Expiration Date”, Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick (Edge, 2015)
It is always exciting to see a collection on the notion of the “Expiration Date” open with a vampire story – a monster developed as a fundamental question to the notion of death itself and occupying a liminal status between life and death while complicating both ideas. Kelley Armstrong’s “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word” reintroduces some of the vampires from Kelley’s other fiction including Zoe, the Toronto vampire who people feel doesn’t really count as a vampire, and Cassandra, a vampire who has lived well beyond the date at which most vampires die. In Armstrong’s Otherworld stories, vampires are only able to live a certain number of years and each year, on their birthday, they must kill a human being and drink the last of their blood. As vampires age (still well beyond a human lifespan), they begin to experience the effects of aging and eventually die. Cassandra is seeking a replacement for herself on the supernatural council as the vampire representative and she has identified Zoe as a potential replacement.
Armstrong’s vampires, like many vampires in fiction, embody the clashing of past and present – figures who blur the understanding of the past by carrying memory into the present. Cassandra embodies this clash of temporalities by being an antique dealer, working with items from the past and bringing them into the present. Zoe embodies her resistance to the timeline by being an antique thief, stealing those moments of the past as she does by living beyond her years. But, Zoe and Cassandra’s strange relationship to time is most important in the notion of what is remembered and what is forgotten or left in the past. When Zoe’s young, human protage, Brittany the (former) Vampire Slayer (yes, she is definitely an Armstronged Buffy) begins asking Cassandra about Zoe’s past, the vampire obscures the details of Zoe’s past to hide the more unsavoury details of her life, hiding the rawness of Zoe’s memories and her previous identity from Brittany. This desire to hide the past only highlights how much Zoe has changed and how much she is concerned about her changes. Yet, this is also a narrative about wanting an apology for a past wrong done to Zoe and apologies are a way of coping with the past.
To further the issues of time and long life embodied by the vampire, Zoe is also facing an influx of “immortality questers” into the Toronto area – supernaturals who dissect vampires as a way to try to gain immortality. This act of questing for immortality underlines the role of the vampire as a question about immortality and survival as well as the obsession our society has with finding ways to life forever.
Armstrong’s “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word” is about the uncertainty of time and memory and about the loss that long lives can imprint on the undead. Situated in a collection about death, this story serves as a question about death and the social power it has.
To discover more about Kelley Armstrong, visit her website at http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com
To find out more about Expiration Date, visit Edge’s website at http://edgewebsite.com/books/expirationdate/expirationdate-catalog.html
Tagged ageing, death, Edge, Kelley Armstrong, memory, Nancy Kilpatrick, past, reviews, vampires
Transitional Words
A review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Falling in Love With Hominids (Tachyon Publications, 2015)
Falling in Love with Hominids illustrates Nalo Hopkinson’s playfulness with language, her characteristic exploration of the way that language shapes social interactions and develops plot. Hopkinson illustrates her fascination with ideas of sound and the power of mis-hearings, exploring stories that came from her own mis-hearings of things and the point of speculation that occurs when one tries to determine what was actually said. In stories like The Easthound which came from a mis-hearing of “The Eastbound”, Hopkinson examines what an Easthound would be and how this notion can create a figure of terror. In “The Smile on the Face”, she examines the relationship between names and identities, creating a character named Gilla who discovers a resonance to the reptilian (coming from the association with her name) and a connection to mythic stories about other reptiles.
Hopkinson plays with characters who question the way they are written, examining figures (for example) from Shakespearian plays such as Caliban from The Tempest and allowing them a place to resist the texts that have been written about them and providing a space for them to push their own meanings through the text. In Shift, she explores the way that racialised assumptions have been cast onto Caliban and his desire to escape from the narrative that has shaped his life.
Hopkinson enters into shared-world creations and disrupts the idea of a very white, Euro-centric fairy world in the Bordertown series by creating figures who challenge this focus on the European magical world by creating characters who come from non-European mythologies. In “Ours Is The Prettiest”, she asserts the multi-ethnic nature of characters, playing with previous reader assumptions about character ethnicity and examining the intersection of ethnicities and cultural identities.
Hopkinson illustrates her ability to represent the under-represented, bringing attention to those areas that are cast in the shadows of most mainstream ideas of science fiction. She brings attention to those characters who are largely left off from mainstream SF, populating her worlds with characters from an array of sexual and gender identities, challenging the white-centric worlds created by most SF authors, and inserting those presences that are Othered in so many SF narratives.
Falling in Love with Hominids is a text of transitions, examining those times when change is at its peak. She examines transitions between adulthood and youth, portraying the idea that adulthood is not always in a protective role over youth and can, in fact, be damaging to youth because of the excesses of power adults wield over the young. She plays with the transition between life and death, exploring notions of life after death and the way that we tend to be haunted by memory and guilt.
Hopkinson casts the light of speculation onto those ideas that are cast into shadow in everyday reality, those areas that can be seen best by the outsider, the oppressed, the erased. Falling in Love with Hominids represents a text of examining the human experience, an act of recovery of those aspects of humanity that are suppressed or repressed and a re-invigoration at the sense of wonder about human experience.
To read reviews of individual stories in the collection, click on the links below:
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2015/09/16/the-oddity-of-children-2/
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2015/07/28/growing-up-monstrous/
To listen to an Episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio about Falling in Love with Hominids visit:
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2015/07/26/speculating-canada-on-trent-radio-episode-45-a-discussion-of-the-work-of-nalo-hopkinson/
To read more about Falling in Love with Hominids, visit Tachyon Publications’ Website at https://tachyonpublications.com/product/falling-love-hominids/
Tagged aging, change, coming of age, death, ethnicity, gender, identity, language, memory, Nalo Hopkinson, reviews, youth
No Longer Invulnerable, But Not Vulnerable Enough
A review of Matthew Johnson’s “Heroic Measures” in Irregular Verbs and Other Stories (ChiZine, 2014)
Superheroes inspire the imagination. They are larger than life. They are impossible. They are figures of immortality, defying the touch of death and aging. So, what happens when our superheroes age? What happens when their bodies begin to change?
Matthew Johnson explores superhero mortality in “Heroic Measures”, presenting readers with an aging superhero who seems remarkably similar to Superman (with dark-framed glasses, invulnerable skin, a little s-curl of hair on his forehead, a bald, wealthy adversary, and plucky former reporter for a partner). This superheroic figure has had what may be a stroke and is experiencing the shut-down of all of his bodily organs.
Doctors, in their compulsion to ‘fix’ whatever they see as ‘broken’ try to intervene in his health care, but their medical technology is no more able to pierce his skin than a speeding bullet would be. They admit that even if they could see into his body with X-Rays or a scalpel, they still wouldn’t know what was normal for his alien biology. This Super body is medically defiant and resistant, unable to be ‘fixed’. But, his body is also trying to constantly heal itself. He is suspended in a liminal space between healing and death, his organs healing themselves only to have others fail.
What happens when our Supermen age and approach death? What happens when these icons of seeming eternal youth and virility meet age, something that our society imbues with the imagery of loss and eventual death?
To discover more about Matthew Johnson, visit his website at http://zatrikion.blogspot.ca
To discover more about Irregular Verbs and Other Stories, visit ChiZine’s website at http://chizinepub.com/books/irregular-verbs
Tagged aging, ChiZine, death, hospitals, Matthew Johnson, reviews, Superheroes
November 14, 2014 by dereknewmanstille
Spin The Bottle With Death
A review of Helen Marshall’s “Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta” in Gifts For The One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications, 2014).
Cover Art for Gifts For the One Who Comes After courtesy of ChiZine Publications
In horror films, sorority girls have a metaphorical relationship with death, perpetually constructed as figures who are courted by death. Helen Marshall, demonstrating her characteristic desire to play with tropes to disempower, subvert, and challenge expectations, makes that relationship literal in her short story “Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta”. Marshall’s subversion is as beautiful as it is powerful, shifting reader expectations from the often disempowering genre of horror to play with expected tropes.
Marshall constructs a scene of a typical frat boy party, the sort where women in horror films are often the victims of monstrous acts. She creates the typical scenes of frat boys objectifying sorority girls, in this case literally writing their claims to them on their shirts along with sexualized slogans. Death serves as a contrast to this activity, asked by Carissa to sign her shirt with a magic word. Instead of writing exploitative messages, he playfully writes “abracadabra”.
Death is given celebrity status and constantly asked for his signature by people who he has helped by releasing loved ones from painful lives. Yet, he serves as a romantic contrast to all of Carissa’s previous frat boy lovers by giving her flowers, being romantic, and proving himself a gentle and caring lover. Death is by far the better alternative to frat boys. Horror film, generally constructing frat boys as the typical audience, depicting their expectations on screen, is here reversed by Marshall, who depicts them as background characters serving only as a contrast to the beauty of Death.
Marshall’s sense of play shapes this short story as a thoughtful but exciting piece. Like many of her works, she plays with scenes we have accepted as ‘normal’ and illustrates the beauty in re-framing them and seeing the subversive potential in them. She masterfully plays with normative scenes like a frat party or sending out wedding invitations and inserts a touch of the macabre.
You can discover more about Helen Marshall’s work at http://www.helen-marshall.com/
To find out more about the collection Gifts For The One Who Comes After, visit ChiZine Publications’ website at http://chizinepub.com/
You can read this story online at its original place of publication, Lackington’s at http://lackingtons.com/2014/02/13/death-and-the-girl-from-pi-delta-zeta-by-helen-marshall/
Tagged ChiZine, college, death, Helen Marshall, horror, Lackington's, reviews, subversion
What Lay Beneath Modernity?
A Review of Kate Heartfield’s Their Dead So Near, Lackington’s issue one, Winter, 2014 (http://lackingtons.com/2014/02/13/their-dead-so-near-by-kate-heartfield/)
We are distant from our dead. In urban centres, we build over the dead, erasing the history of what came before us in our construction of the new. Kate Heartfield’s Their Dead So Near takes us into Ottawa’s Macdonald Gardens, called by those in the know, those who are fascinated by the macabre as the Boneyards and gives voice to the dead, buried over by a society that seeks to cover things over, hide them, bury them, and scrub them clean.
Heartfield reminds readers that we are always walking on the bones of the dead, supported by their detritus while we tread over history. Graveyards are places of discomfort for us – reminders of our own mortality – so we seek to render memory and place more “hygienic” by erasing the miasmic reminders of our own doom. We seek to forget names, forget history while giving token reminders in the form of small plaques that speak of a place we no longer want to recall.
Heartfield speaks for the dead, giving them voice in her short story Their Dead So Near, bringing readers close to those remnants of the past poking up into modernity, demanding to be heard, asking us to scrape the surface of urban reality to see what rests beneath the surface.
To read Their Dead So Near, visit Lackington’s website at http://lackingtons.com/2014/02/13/their-dead-so-near-by-kate-heartfield/ .
Artwork for Kate Heartfield’s Their Dead So Near in Lackington’s issue 1 by Luke Spooner
To explore more of Kate Heartfield’s work, visit her website at http://heartfieldfiction.wordpress.com/ .
Tagged dead, death, haunted by past, Kate Heartfield, Lackington's, modernity, Ottawa, past and present, reviews
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It’s week 6! Doesn’t feel like it, does it?
Indiana @ Ohio State (ESPN): Here’s the thing about Indiana. They’re Indiana. With Ohio State’s newfound penchant for beating up on less opponents, they should win easily.
Illinois @ Pennsylvania State (ESPN2): The Zook Era is probably over at Illinois anyway. But this game probably isn’t going to help things.
Texas Tech vs. Baylor (@Dallas, TX; FSN): Texas Tech was on the receiving end of an upset beatdown, while Baylor was on the giving end. College football blogger types have been waiting for Baylor QB Robert Griffin, who finally had his breakout game against Kansas, where Baylor rolled 55-7. Also fun is the fact that this game is being held at and during the Texas State fair, though unlike last week’s Red River Shootout I’m not aware of any good nickname for this game between two other Big 12 South rivals. At any rate, I’m going against all my college football instincts and picking Baylor to win.
Central Michigan @ Virginia Tech (ESPNU): VPI, unless they confuse CMU for JMU or something.
Minnesota @ Wisconsin (BTN): Wisconsin.
Tennessee @ Georgia (SEC): UGA is not running good right now, as they ended being trampled (ha-ha!) by a late Buffalo comeback last week. Tennessee, of course, lost as only a team can lose to LSU: in the most chaotic and crazy way possible. Presumably, the Vols have learned their lesson and probably will have no more than 11 folks on the field at any given time to secure the win.
Boston College @ North Carolina State (ACC): BC is always a decent team, but this year they seem to lack any decent quarterbacks. Russell Wilson should be able to get back on track in this one.
Alabama @ South Carolina (CBS): I feel pretty good about saying this is Alabama’s last major challenge until Auburn. Yes, I know LSU and Auburn are both higher ranked than South Carolina, but the mere idea of a Nick Saban team losing to Les Miles is almost enough to make my head explode. While South Carolina is a legit threat, I suspect the Tide will dispose of them the same way they do all their threats. As EDSBS’s Orson Swindle put it last week, Alabama plays football like they hate it, as though they’re bored with it. That ruthless efficiency will allow them to win again in Columbia, most likely.
Pittsburgh @ Notre Dame (NBC): The most recent image in my head for either of these teams is Pitt getting mercilessly pounded by Miami, so I’m going to take ND here.
Michigan State @ Michigan (ABC/ESPN): Two undefeated teams will enter, but only one will leave! This is shaping up to be the best iteration of this rivalry in years, and is fully worth your support. As a Tech fan, it’s hard not to sympathize with Michigan State, which along with GT and teams like Texas A&M have an arch-nemesis who doesn’t really reciprocate. Both these teams appear good from the available data. Michigan has one of the most electric quarterbacks in the country, and Michigan State has a coach who is back only a few weeks after a heart attack. Of course, as Doc Saturday points out, this undefeated starts bears a resemblance to last year’s 4-0 start for Michigan, a streak which was broken by the Spartans. That said, being the home team and possessing the superior offense, I have to pick Michigan.
Clemson @ North Carolina (ABC/ESPN/Gameplan): Clemson ended up losing by 9 to Miami last week, but there’s no real shame in that. UNC has rebounded from an 0-2 start to pull up to 2-2, with wins over moribund Rutgers and East Carolina. Against quality competition, I basically consider both these teams 0-2, and with all the drama surrounding Carolina right now I have to pick the Tigers.
Arkansas vs. Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (@Arlington, TX; ABC/Gameplan): Dallas is basically the capital of the college football world for the day, with the early game up at the Cotton Bowl and this game down at Jerry Jones’s Intergalactic Space Palace. Do not be fooled by TAMU’s 3-1 record, for the “3” part of that comes against teams like Stephen F. Austin, Louisiana Tech, and Florida International (whom they only beat by a touchdown). Arkansas has also had a bye week to recover from their last minute collapse against Alabama, and should be on the right track here to beat the Aggies.
California-Los Angeles @ California (FSN): Hey, remember that time Cal lost by three touchdowns to Nevada as the Wolfpack ran all over them for 316 yards? Hey, remember that time UCLA beat Texas by three touchdowns while rushing for 264 yards? Now recall that UCLA installed Nevada’s offense and, well, I’ll be taking the Bruins over the Bears.
Virginia @ Georgia Tech (ESPNU): It’s homecoming. I’m generally against scheduling homecoming against conference foes (especially we play MTSU at home next week), but I’m not in charge of these things. As for the football game? Well, we basically played like crap again until sometime around the 8-minute mark in the 4th quarter the offensive collectively woke up and realized, “hey wait, we’re losing to Wake Forest”. From there, GT went on a tear as it methodically came back. Dropped passes and missed blocks – two of GT’s main problems – are mostly issues of execution, not talent. This team has the talent to succeed if it plays four quarters of football. They just need to play like it if they want to beat UVA two years in a row for the first time since 1990 and 1991.
Wyoming @ Texas Christian (CBSCS): This is an away game for the Cowboys, so definite no brown tops. Boise beat these guys 51-6, so I figure that’s about where the bar is for TCU.
Colorado @ Missouri (FSN): We’ve talked plenty about 5th down. These Tigers are undefeated, but against, well, terrible teams. Fortunately for them, this edition of Colorado is pretty bad. I’ll take Mizzou.
Oregon State @ Arizona (Versus): I think Oregon State’s got what it takes to take down Arizona. Arizona is 4-0, which is all well and good, but I just can’t figure out what they’ve done to deserved to be ranked 9th in the country. Which is a major part of why I’m taking the Beavers.
Eastern Michigan @ Vanderbilt (ESPNU): I’m pretty sure Vandy can win this one against one of, if not the worst, Division I-A football team in the country.
Louisiana State @ Florida (ESPN): Don’t let Florida fans fool you, they’re still pretty good and undefeated against teams that aren’t Alabama over the past two seasons. I think they’ll beat LSU.
Auburn @ Kentucky (ESPN2): The Cam Newton Experience is back in action in Lexington, where Auburn should be able to beat Kentucky pretty thoroughly.
Purdue @ Northwestern (BTN): Purdue just lost to Toledo by 11. Toledo. I’ll take Northwestern to run it to a not really that improbable 6-0, considering the schedule they’ve played.
Southern California @ Stanford (ABC/Gameplan): If you’d told me even two years ago that Stanford would ever be a double-digit favorite over USC I’d have thought you were crazy. And yet, here we are. Andrew Luck and Co. should be ready to exploit USC’s entirely too forgiving defense while avenging their loss to Oregon.
Florida State @ Miami (ABC/Gameplan): FSU and Miami are ranked again! It’s everything the ACC ever wanted! Well, except that each of these teams lost to superior teams from other conferences already, so not so much. Also, FSU’s pass defense still seems to be somewhat terribly, giving nice, soft and juicy coverages for Jacory Harris to exploit mercilessly. Miami should win pretty easily, unless Harris has one of his “bad days”.
Mississippi State @ Houston (CBSCS): With their all-everything QB, Houston would have a very good chance to win this game, but since he isn’t have to take Miss State.
10:30: San Jose State @ Nevada (ESPNU): Last year’s edition of this game is what led to one of the quotes down at the bottom of this page. Oh, and last weekend SJSU let DI-AA UC-Davis score two unanswered touchdowns to rally and win 14-13. (I was eating dinner with some friends when I overheard someone else in the restaurant ask someone how SJSU did. They just said, “well, we lost” and left out the part about losing to Davis.) I would expect something similar to last year’s 62-7 route, but hey there’s nothing else on this late and watching Nevada run their offense can be pretty entertaining.
That’s all for now. Bowl predictions are almost here! They’ll debut after the BCS comes out next week (as in, after Week 7).
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Early in the Mornin’ (Dallas Bartley, Louis Jordan, Leo Hickman)
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five — #3 hit on the Billboard R&B (Race) singles chart, 1947.
Recorded 23 April 1947 NYC — Louis Jordan (as, voc, ldr); Wild Bill Davis (p, arr); Carl Hogan (eg); Dallas Bartley (b); Christopher Columbus [Joe Morris] (d); The Calypso Boys (maracas, claves).
The disc in the video below is Decca [Swi] 30640. Player credits (adapted) and disc identification courtesy of the Eddie Johnson discography at hubcap.clemson.edu. Of the five sides listed for the session, Johnson is credited on all but this one. Tympany Five trumpeter Aaron Izenhall is also uncredited on this track. But a note in the same discography says,
Our basic information comes from Tom Lord’s Jazz Discography…Lord also opines that The Calypso Boys are actually Aaron Izenhall and Eddie Johnson.
Bill Beau Trio, with vocal by Chi-Chi — from Live! at the Blueport Lounge, released 1958
Bill Beau – Hammond organ
Joe Stafford – guitar
Lorenzo Green – drums
Chi-Chi – vocal
Lorez Alexandria with the Ramsey Lewis Trio — under the title “Early In the Morning,” issued as the title track of the 1960 Argo Records album LP 663 (mono), also released in stereo as LPS 663
Ramsey Lewis – piano
Johnny Gray – guitar
Eldee Young – bass
Red Holt – drums
Harry Nilsson — track three on Nilsson Schmilsson — album recorded in June 1971, at Trident Studios, London, and released in November that year
B.B. King featuring Van Morrison — first track of the 2005 album B.B. King & Friends: 80. King had previously recorded the song for his 1999 LP Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan.
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The Online StopSmoking Clinic
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22 July 2020 30 December 2020
Smokers call UK’s first online stop smoking clinic (stopsmokingclinic.co.uk)
Smokers are concerned with media reports that they are more susceptible to coronavirus, says a leading stop smoking advisor in Hertfordshire.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/smokers-14-times-contract-coronavirus-200416071258252.html
22 April 2020 30 December 2020
Shortage of nicotine replacement products in UK
If you are a smoker trying to quit with patches or quickmist you may be having difficulty accessing your medications due to supply chain problems.
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8 April 2020 2 January 2021
Smoking and increased risks
Smoking and increased risks associated with COVID-19
Evidence has been published that indicates people who smoke are at significantly increased risk of contracting COVID-19. They are also more likely to have severe symptoms and 2-3 times more likely to be admitted to intensive care, need mechanical ventilation or die compared to non-smokers. Please see full details on the http://www.tobaccoinduceddiseases.org/COVID-19-and-smoking-A-systematic-review-of-the-evidence,119324,0,2.html
NHS Stop Smoking Advisors through out UK are urged to identify ALL SMOKERS and give brief intervention advice on the increased risks of smoking and COVID-19. Advisors are prompted to prioritise the over 70s or those who have organ transplants, diabetes, treatment for cancer, the immunosuppressed, those who have respiratory or cardiac disease or are pregnant.
Smokers can now get help at home at stopsmokingclinic.co.uk
‘No better time to quit’
No better time to quit
NHS Stop Smoking Advisor James Cameron says there’s no better time to kick the habit.
The coronavirus crisis could lead to a reduction in smoking
With COVID-19 attacking the lungs, smokers are at much higher risk of becoming severely ill if they get infected
“Many smokers are staying at home and looking for new challenges, new hobbies, something new to focus on besides the virus and the news cycle. So what better time to direct mental energies to something most smokers actually think about; quitting cigarettes.
The first UK online stop smoking clinic is launched this month to help smokers quit at home without attending a clinic in their GP surgery or pharmacy
The site is stopsmokingclinic.co.uk
3 April 2020 30 December 2020
New Vaping Campaign launched today- VAPRIL (http://www.vapril.org/)
Vapril 2020 launched today to encourage smokers to switch to vaping.
Vapers who want to quit tobacco can attend the only stop smoking clinic operating today. Simply click ‘Book Your Free Appointment’ on our homepage to get started.
stopsmokingclinic.co.uk
Demand for vape shops to stay open
Last week, representations were made to Government by vaping trade associations for vape shops to be allowed to stay open, in the light the Government’s widespread closure of retail businesses.
During the last few weeks, Government health bodies have proposed that vape shops should be left open to prevent smokers switching back to cigarettes. See current guidelines (see attached)
There is concern for the effect of second hand smoke on family members especially during self isolation
29 March 2020 30 December 2020
Study: Not smoking 4 weeks before surgery cuts risks
Patients who stop smoking at least four weeks before an operation significantly reduce the risk of having post-surgical complications, according to a new study by The World Health Organisation (WHO) the University of Newcastle in Australia and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA).
The study said that minor or non-essential operations on regular smokers could be delayed to give them time to quit and thereby improve outcomes such as wound healing and heart function. The study found that every additional tobacco-free week beyond the four weeks improved health outcomes by 19% due to improved blood flow throughout the body to essential organs.
“The report provides evidence that there are advantages to postponing minor or non-emergency surgery to give patients the opportunity to quit smoking, resulting in a better health outcome,” Dr Vinayak Prasad, head of the No Tobacco unit at WHO, said in a statement. WHO said that all countries should build cessation programmes and educational campaigns into their health systems to spread awareness and help people to quit smoking.
UN Health, Jan 20th 2020: Smokers who quit one month before surgery reap benefits
BBC, Jan 1st 2020: Smokers live in more pain
British vapers are safe
“We are quite clear that at this moment UK regulated e-cigarettes, and that’s an important point, are much less harmful than smoking tobacco and that is the message.”
Professor John Newton, Director of Health Improvements at Public Health England Saturday 12th October 2019
British vapers are safe, claim health experts after deaths in US
Outbreak of respiratory disease in the US, where five people have died, is blamed on lax controls and illicit fluid
A man exhales after vaping at the Vape Jam Convention in London in April 2018. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock
Health experts have moved to reassure British vapers in the wake of a severe respiratory illness that has killed at least five people and hospitalised many more in the US.
More than 450 possible cases – all linked to vaping – among otherwise “healthy young people” are being investigated, US officials said on Friday.
They have reported that affected individuals have experienced respiratory symptoms including a cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Some also experienced vomiting and diarrhoea. Symptoms worsened over a period of days or weeks before admission to hospital.
The outbreak has led to fears that vapers in the UK could also be affected. However, Martin Dockrell, head of Tobacco Control at Public Health England, drew a distinction between vaping in the US and the UK. He said reports suggested that most cases in the US had been linked to people using illicit vaping fluid, bought on the streets or homemade, some containing cannabis products, like THC, or synthetic cannabinoids, like spice.
“Unlike the US, all e-cigarette products in the UK are tightly regulated for quality and safety by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and they operate the yellow card scheme, encouraging vapers to report any bad experiences,” he said.
Deborah Arnott, the chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health, said that to date no serious side-effects had been reported in the UK. “In Britain, you can check on the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) website whether the product you’re using has been notified and can be legally sold.”
This point was backed by Prof Linda Bauld, a public health expert at Edinburgh University. “It seems highly unlikely that widely available nicotine-containing vaping products, particularly of the type regulated in Europe, are causing these cases,” she said. “All the evidence to date suggests that illicit marijuana vaping products (THC oils) are the cause. In particular, a compound called tocopherol acetate may be the culprit.”
Paul Aveyard, a professor of behavioural medicine at the University of Oxford, said: “These cases are worrying and need investigating but advice from all official bodies in the UK is that it is always preferable to vape than to smoke. These reports should not change that advice.”
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Washington State Women’s Swimming Inks Five to National Letters of Intent
The Cougars added Noelle Harvey, Sophie Macy, Noelle Marsh, Ilaria Moro and Taylor Schababerle each signed NLI’s to join the Cougars next fall. Archive photo via Washington State Athletics
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PULLMAN, Wash. (Nov. 13, 2020) – Washington State Women’s Swimming signed five to National Letters of Intent earlier this week, head coach Matt Leach announced Friday.
The Cougars added Noelle Harvey, Sophie Macy, Noelle Marsh, Ilaria Moro and Taylor Schababerle each signed NLI’s to join the Cougars next fall.
Harvey is a native of Carlsbad, Calif. and swims the freestyle and backstroke for La Costa Canyon High School and North Coast Aquatics. Harvey helped LCCHS to a CIF State Championship with wins in the 100 free and 100 back as a sophomore, placed second in the 200 back and third in the 100 back at the 2019 Speed Champions Series last December, and finished fourth in the 200 back at the 2020 Carlsbad Sectionals. In the classroom, Harvey was a Scholastic All-American as a sophomore.
Macy is a native of Chanhassen, Minn. and is expected to swim the backstroke. Macy was a four-time All-State selection, set the school record in the 100 breast, was a five-time Club State Champion and was a two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American. Macy, who swims for the WEST Express Swim Team, was a Winter Juniors qualifier in the 200 breast and 400 IM, opened 2020 with state championship wins in the 200 IM and 400 IM, and a third-place finish in the 200 breast. Out of the pool, Macy is a two-time Scholastic All-American and is interested in studying chemical engineering at Washington State.
Marsh is a native of Magnolia, Texas and swims sprint freestyle for the Magnolia Aquatic Club. Marsh is a four-time 5A State Championship finalist for Magnolia High School, finishing fifth in the 50 free and 100 free while also helping the 200 medley relay team to a third-place finish as a junior. Marsh was also a two-time qualifier in the 2016-17 NCSA Championships and will be a MHS team captain for the 2020-21 season. Out of the pool, Marsh served as the USA Gulf Swimming Treasurer last year and will serve on the USA Gulf Swimming Finance Committee this season.
Moro is out of Gigliano, Italy and swims the butterfly for Sinsport Rane Rosee club team. As a junior at the 2018 Italian Championships, Moro earned a medal in the 100 butterfly and was a part of the 4×100 free relay team that set an Italian junior record. As a senior at the 2019 Italian Championships, Moro earned a medal in the 200 fly and two medals in the 100 freestyle relay and 200 free relay.
Schababerle is out of Katy, Texas and swims the freestyle for James Taylor High School and Katy Aquatics. As a junior, Schababerle finished ninth in the 200 free at the 2020 Texas UIL 6A State Championships and later won the 1000 free, placed third in the 500 free and 200 free at the 2020 Gulf Short Course Championships. Schababerle is a two-time Academic All-District selection and was a member of the All-America 400 freestyle relay team. Out of the pool, Schababerle was a member of the National Honor Society and the Peer Assistance Leadership program.
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South African President announces extension of Covid-19 restrictions, closes land borders
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation following a special cabinet meeting on matters relating to the COVID-19 epidemic at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, on March 15, 2020. - President Cyril Ramaphosa on March 15, 2020, announced the closure from March 18, 2020 of South Africa's borders to all foreign nationals from countries highly impacted by the deadly coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa extended coronavirus restrictions in the country Monday, citing a "massive increase" in Covid-19 cases driven by a variant discovered there last year.
Johannesburg (CNN)South African President Cyril Ramaphosa extended coronavirus restrictions in the country Monday, citing a "massive increase" in Covid-19 cases driven by a variant discovered there last year.
The number of new infections, the number of hospital admissions, and the deaths that continue to take place come far higher than it has ever been since the first case was recorded in our country in March of 2020," Ramaphosa said in a live national address.
Ramaphosa said that the speed and intensity of the second wave in South Africa is due to the 501. v2 variant discovered by genomic scientists late last year.
This explains that many more people have become infected in a far shorter space of time," he said, adding that there was no evidence that the new strain caused people to get sicker.
Ramaphosa said the restrictions will be reassessed when the current peak of infections eases.
South Africa has reported at least 1,246,643 Covid-19 cases, including 33,579 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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Business Insider is looking for a reporter to cover the companies making, but mostly losing, billions as they create the backbone of the gig economy.
Companies like Uber and Lyft spent millions lobbying California voters to change employment law in their favor. Recently public companies like DoorDash and Airbnb have grown their delivery and short-term rental empires through shrewd and often controversial practices. Even with these relative successes, the companies have not been immune from loss. Uber has been forced to offload non-core businesses and layoff thousands of employees throughout the pandemic. Airbnb took on billions in debt. SoftBank, a prominent funder of global gig companies, has been met with increased scrutiny from investors.
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For The People 1×05 Promo “World’s Greatest Judge”
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Home Startups Extra Crunch is now available in Greece, Ireland and Portugal
Extra Crunch is now available in Greece, Ireland and Portugal
We’re excited to announce that we’ve added Extra Crunch support in Ireland, Portugal and Greece. That adds to our existing support in Europe as we are already in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the U.K.
Portugal’s 10 million citizens are no strangers to startup investment, with the country totting up 813 to date, according to Crunchbase. Notably, of that total, 113 have been announced in 2020 thus far.
That means that in 2020, despite COVID-19 and its ensuing economic impacts, Portugal is on track to best its 2019 startup round total of 206. And it’s not just small companies that Portugal is building. OutSystems, now based in Boston and worth north of $1 billion, was founded in the country, for example. As Europe recovers from COVID-19, perhaps Portugal can take a larger share of the continent’s startup activity. It appears to have the momentum it would need to do so.
There’s been data from the last few years to indicate that the Greek startup scene is also growing nicely. With larger seed deals and more deal volume, Greece has seen its startups raise more money, more quickly in recent years. It appears that 2020 is no exception to the trend. With 43 known startup rounds in the country so far in 2020, Greece is set to storm its 2019 total of 59. Indeed, the country could nearly double the number of startup deals it saw in 2019 during a pandemic-disrupted year.
In the past 18 months, the country has seen around 38% of its all-time total known startup deals. Surely that means the country is at a local maxima when it comes to startup activity.
Ireland is a startup powerhouse. Crunchbase has 2,327 known rounds for companies based in the country, including 539 in 2019 and 335 so far this year. So like our other two countries, we can spot acceleration in deal volume. Irish startups raised over $5 billion in 2020 so far, according to Crunchbase. There are going to be more names bubbling up from the island that are worth getting to know.
As a nation, Ireland has a history of startup successes. Software company FINEOS was founded in Ireland back in 1993, and today it’s a public company worth more than a billion dollars. Havok, another software company from the country sold to Microsoft in 2015. And Ireland has other neat tech startups that are still coming up, like Farmflo, to pick one from the list we made this morning.
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Anonymous Hacked Iceland Five Govt Sites For Good Reason
InShortViral: A Group of Anonymous Collective Hacktivist have brought down five Iceland government sites in the protest of Whale hunting in North Atlantic, one of the member have a claim of taking responsibility that they have broke down all five sites including the prime minister’s official website.
A Group of Anonymous Collective Hacktivist have brought down five Iceland government sites in the protest of Whale hunting in North Atlantic, one of the member have claimed taking responsibility that they have broke down all five sites including the prime minister’s official website. Environment and Interior Minister.
The Anonymous have already warned Iceland government against regular hunting down whales will cost them, on Friday the Anonymous hacktivist group hacked all five websites and most engaged site from the government made full clear down till the midnight of Saturday as 28th of November.
The Day before Iceland site hacked, Anonymous activist group have published a viral video related Whales hunting down as Anti-Whaling hashtag – in the video it represents the way Iceland government is behaving is a cruel way with the mammals or any kind of animals which lead them to an anti-environment act against the government – the group also said people to protest against the government – in spite of international ban on whale hunting – government is allowing the hunters to hunt down whale which the people of Iceland and others in England would not tolerate the same.
The Activist being loyal to the work they have done – they have published the sites as a screenshots of those sites which are hacked by them – the post published on Friday evening – the group openly says that they are collective hackers from Anonymous and will do this again and again if government will not revoke the current behaviour as they are doing. Iceland Government has not made any comments to the report.
Anonymous collective members explain its viewers about how government tracking their work:- as being an inter-governmental body part of International Whaling Commission (IWC) which genuinely applied a ban on commercial whale hunting from 1986 but as far our concern hunting whale is continued from both the member of IWC as Iceland and Norway.
Previously many times several charges are against Iceland and Norway government allowing commercial sectors for hunting whales. In the 1970s and 1980s Iceland has been charged for whaling hunting – the activists from Greenpeace and from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have managed to revoke whale hunting many times.
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Darn you, R2! When do we blame robots?
by Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University
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A recent study from North Carolina State University finds that people are likely to blame robots for workplace accidents, but only if they believe the robots are autonomous.
"Robots are an increasingly common feature in the workplace, and it's important for us to understand how people view robots in that context—including how people view robots when accidents occur at work," says Doug Gillan, a professor of psychology at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work.
To explore this issue, researchers conducted a study where 164 people were shown several workplace scenarios in which an accident occurred involving both a human and a robot.
When told the human was operating the robot, study participants usually blamed the human for the accident. When told the robot was autonomous, and that the human was only monitoring it, study participants usually blamed the robot.
"The finding is somewhat intuitive, but it addresses a fundamental issue: when do we transfer responsibility for an error from a human to a robot?" Gillen says.
"The study also raises questions about how quickly autonomous robots may be assimilated into the workplace. Do employers want to buy robots that may be more efficient, but can be blamed for errors—making it more difficult to hold human employees accountable? Or do employers want to stick to robots that are viewed solely as tools to be controlled by humans?"
The paper, "Attributing Blame to Robots: The Influence of Robot Autonomy," is published in the journal Human Factors.
When robots commit wrongdoing, people may incorrectly assign the blame
More information: Caleb Furlough et al. Attributing Blame to Robots: I. The Influence of Robot Autonomy, Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2019). DOI: 10.1177/0018720819880641
Citation: Darn you, R2! When do we blame robots? (2019, October 17) retrieved 15 January 2021 from https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-darn-r2-blame-robots.html
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The World Ends with You -Final Remix-
The highly stylised and critically acclaimed Nintendo DS game “The World Ends With You” is coming to Nintendo Switch.
Tear into each rhythmic battle using the game’s traditional touch controls or Joy-Con controllers for a fresh style of combat! The action-RPG will also include a sizeable new scenario that gets right to the heart of the story.
Release Date: 12th October 2018
When the main character, Neku, suddenly encounters the mysterious girl Shiki, he gets caught up in a deadly game – he’ll be erased from existence if he can’t complete a series of twisted tasks.
That's all Neku knows after regaining consciousness in the middle of a busy intersection without his memories. Now he and his partner must fight to survive a life-or-death game in this twisted tale with more turns than the urban labyrinth of Tokyo they're trapped in.
This definitive version of Square Enix's RPG classic brings the dark story to life on the Nintendo Switch system along with a new scenario and some killer, new remixed music.
In the crowded chaos of Tokyo, players of the Reapers' Game must complete daily missions or face total erasure. Neku might not be enthusiastic about forging relationships, but with his very life on the line, he'll need to learn how to work together with a partner—and fast: they only have seven days.
Gear up with stat-enhancing threads and collect mysterious pins to unleash psychic abilities in battle. Take control of real-time, action-fueled RPG battles using touch controls or Joy-Con controllers. The definitive version of this modern classic is finally here.
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Being an avid sports fan from Los Angeles and an alleged Swarthmore student, this post was inevitable.
TMZ first reported Sterling’s supposed racist diatribe to mistress/girl-friend V. Stiviano, which if verified might cement his position as the dumbest owner in the NBA. Per TMZ, Sterling allegedly said, “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that (instagram)…and not to bring them to my games.” The audio lasts about nine minutes, including all kinds of outdated philosophy reminiscent of early plantation politics.
But the most important question is why now? This isn’t a moment of lapse of judgment, Sterling has a long history of private vices. In 2006, “The U.S. Department of Justice sued Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling for housing discrimination, claiming he refused to rent apartments to blacks and families with children,” according to The Associated Press. But all of this was brushed aside soon enough, when three years later, Sterling, “agreed to pay a record $2.725 million to settle [the] allegations,” according to the LA Times. We would have seen it on Twitter, if he had not spent millions to cover it up (and if Twitter was actually invented). More recently in 2010, former LA Lakers great Elgin Baylor filed a wrongful termination suit against Sterling for exhibiting racism in the workplace. During deposition, Baylor spoke about Sterling’s ‘plantation mentality,’ alleging that in the 1990s, the owner rejected a coaching candidate, Jim Brewer, because of race. Baylor quoted Sterling as saying: ‘Personally, I would like to have a white Southern coach coaching poor black players.’ per the LA Times. This was all part of public record and the league never denounced him, the players continue to take his money, his business partners (NBA and its other owners) shared his immense wealth, and the fans were loyally subsidizing his business.
But why now? Better late than never right? Not quite.
What TMZ reported on tape had been long-standing practice and strongly-held personal belief for decades now. But the situation has received so much attention in social media and prime time news that his business partners can no longer play “hush-hush” to his vile views and overlook the fact that it is a serious risk to their prosperous enterprise. After all, as much as I like to believe otherwise, the NBA is a business and always has been.
Upon closer examination, some of the other owners in the league (Sterling’s partners and cohorts), aren’t exactly model citizens either.
Richard Devos, owner of the Orlando Magics, allegedly invested millions of dollars in anti-gay marriage initiatives, because gays “keep asking for favors” and “special treatment,” and marriage is “not vital to them, in my opinion.” per Orlando Sentinel.
Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers made his billions in the mortgage business, helping to pass along sub-prime loans to infamous thieves such as Countrywide, which then greased the derivatives that in part contributed to the economic crisis.
New owner of the Oklahoma City Thunders, Clay Bennett, got his billions through fracking, a practice that produces not only toxic drinking water but also irregular earthquakes. And when his business went bad, he simply left and the landowners out of their royalties.
Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian billionaire and stylish oligarch, got his piggy bank started using political connections to grab billions in state-owned-assets for pennies when Russia first opened up to the world after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Last but definitely not least, you have slum-lord Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers, who refused to rent apartments to minorities because they “black tenants smell and attract vermin,” and “Mexicans sit around and drink all day” per LA Times.
This is just a short list of the 30 or so individuals who own and operate the league that I support with my viewership, who pay the players who I grew up idolizing and fantasizing about, and who made a business out of the sport that I loved for all of my life. And I am not going to kill myself over this, the NBA has done much good to counter balance the many illegitimate practices of its owners. Though the owners reaped in massive profits in the realms of billions each year, its local and international charity through NBA CARES, which is mostly promotional in purpose and operate on meager millions, has had a great impact on the world. If not through monetary help, then at least through spreading the sport of basketball through icons like Yao Ming and Dikembe Mutombo to two of the largest continents in the world.
Like most large global enterprises, the business of sports is an ugly affair, and most of the time the public is left in the dark or too occupied to care.
PS: I understand that all this evidence of bigotry was obtained in an invasion of Sterling’s privacy, which most of his critics decided to address until further information has been disclosed. I will conformed to the norm in this regard.
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First Sunday Of Lent
March 4, 2017 Column Father De Celles
LENT. Fundamental to a fruitful observance of Lent is the reception of the Sacrament of Penance (also called “Confession” or “Reconciliation”). Last year I published a small pamphlet called “Making a Good Confession: A Brief Examination of Conscience and Guide to Going to Confession.” Copies of this purple pamphlet can be found by all the doors of the church and near the confessionals. I hope you will find it helpful in preparing for and making a good confession.
But what is the Sacrament of Penance itself all about? What follows are some short excerpts from the “CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH” to provide a brief refresher:
THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
1440 Sin is before all else an offense against God, a rupture of communion with him. At the same time it damages communion with the Church. For this reason conversion entails both God’s forgiveness and reconciliation with the Church, which are expressed and accomplished liturgically by the sacrament of Penance…
Reconciliation with the Church. 1444 In imparting to his apostles his own power to forgive sins the Lord also gives them the authority to reconcile sinners with the Church. This ecclesial dimension of their task is expressed most notably in Christ’s solemn words to Simon Peter: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” “The office of binding and loosing which was given to Peter was also assigned to the college of the apostles united to its head.”
1445 The words bind and loose mean: whomever you exclude from your communion, will be excluded from communion with God; whomever you receive anew into your communion, God will welcome back into His. Reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God….
The sacrament of forgiveness. 1446 Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance for all sinful members of his Church: above all for those who, since Baptism, have fallen into grave sin, and have thus lost their baptismal grace and wounded ecclesial communion. It is to them that the sacrament of Penance offers a new possibility to convert and to recover the grace of justification….
1447 Over the centuries the concrete form in which the Church has exercised this power received from the Lord has varied considerably. During the first centuries the reconciliation of Christians who had committed particularly grave sins after their Baptism…was tied to a very rigorous discipline, according to which penitents had to do public penance for their sins, often for years, before receiving reconciliation…During the seventh century Irish missionaries…took to continental Europe the “private” practice of penance, which does not require public and prolonged completion of penitential works before reconciliation with the Church. From that time on, the sacrament has been performed in secret between penitent and priest…
1448 Beneath the changes in discipline…that this sacrament has undergone over the centuries, the same fundamental structure is to be discerned. It comprises two equally essential elements: on the one hand, the acts of the man who undergoes conversion through the action of the Holy Spirit: namely, contrition, confession, and satisfaction; on the other, God’s action through the intervention of the Church. The Church, who through the bishop and his priests forgives sins in the name of Jesus Christ and determines the manner of satisfaction, also prays for the sinner and does penance with him. …
THE ACTS OF THE PENITENT. 1450 “Penance requires . . . the sinner to endure all things willingly, be contrite of heart, confess with the lips, and practice complete humility and fruitful satisfaction.”
Contrition. 1451 Among the penitent’s acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is “sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again.”
1452 When it arises from a love by which God is loved above all else, contrition is called “perfect” (contrition of charity). Such contrition remits venial sins; it also obtains forgiveness of mortal sins if it includes the firm resolution to have recourse to sacramental confession as soon as possible.
1453 The contrition called “imperfect” (or “attrition”) is also a gift of God, a prompting of the Holy Spirit. It is born of the consideration of sin’s ugliness or the fear of eternal damnation and the other penalties threatening the sinner (contrition of fear). Such a stirring of conscience can initiate an interior process which, under the prompting of grace, will be brought to completion by sacramental absolution. By itself however, imperfect contrition cannot obtain the forgiveness of grave sins, but it disposes one to obtain forgiveness in the sacrament of Penance.
1454 The reception of this sacrament ought to be prepared for by an examination of conscience made in the light of the Word of God.…
The Confession of Sins. 1455 The confession…of sins, even from a simply human point of view, frees us and facilitates our reconciliation with others. Through such an admission man looks squarely at the sins he is guilty of, takes responsibility for them, and thereby opens himself again to God and to the communion of the Church in order to make a new future possible.
1456 Confession to a priest is an essential part of the sacrament of Penance: “All mortal sins of which penitents after a diligent self-examination are conscious must be recounted by them in confession ….”
1457 According to the Church’s command, “after having attained the age of discretion, each of the faithful is bound by an obligation faithfully to confess serious sins at least once a year.” Anyone who is aware of having committed a mortal sin must not receive Holy Communion, even if he experiences deep contrition, without having first received sacramental absolution, unless he has a grave reason for receiving Communion and there is no possibility of going to confession. Children must go to the sacrament of Penance before receiving Holy Communion for the first time.
1458 Without being strictly necessary, confession of everyday faults (venial sins) is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church. Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit…
Satisfaction. 1459 Many sins wrong our neighbor. One must do what is possible in order to repair the harm (e.g., return stolen goods, restore the reputation of someone slandered…). Simple justice requires as much. But sin also injures…the sinner himself, as well as his relationships with God and neighbor. Absolution takes away sin, but it does not remedy all the disorders sin has caused. Raised up from sin, the sinner must still recover his full spiritual health by doing something more to make amends for the sin: he must “make satisfaction for” or “expiate” his sins. This satisfaction is also called “penance.”
1460 The penance …must correspond as far as possible with the gravity and nature of the sins committed. It can consist of prayer, an offering, works of mercy, service of neighbor, voluntary self-denial, sacrifices, and above all the patient acceptance of the cross we must bear…
Oremus pro invicem. Fr. De Celles
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Capcom Pro Tour North American Regional Finals 2019
January 17, 2020 · by mrtimtastic · in Events, FGC, Gaming. ·
On November 16th-17th, 2019, the last stop on the Capcom Pro Tour 2019 season for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition before Capcom Cup was at the E-Sports Arena at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a Super Premier event which meant people from all over the world would be competing from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Japan, Europe, and the various nations of Asia. It would award the same amount of points as EVO which made it a highly contested event.
Not only were people playing for massive amounts of points, they were jockeying for position to get favorable matchups for Capcom Cup. Most importantly, they were playing for a piece of the $50,000 prize pool, so this competition was very important especially since Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition was the lone game at this event.
Although it awarded the same amount of points as EVO, there weren’t as many competitors. Instead of having numerous amounts of people, it was compensated with quality of competitors. Every pool had multiple killers of top international players which meant if one were to make it out of pools, they certainly deserve to be among the best of the best.
Not only was there the Super Premier tournament, but there was also the regional finals for North America. The top 8 players from this particular region would duke it out to see who gets to go to Capcom Cup. Those that already qualified but were still in this tournament would be gatekeepers and some players’ fates, especially those that had not qualified yet rested in their hands.
I won’t go too much into details about who won and what placings everyone got. It was a decent experience because after getting eliminated, people could still go out to experience the rest of what Las Vegas has to offer.
Since this wasn’t EVO, there wasn’t much left of this event except the actual competition. There weren’t any games you could test out, panels, cosplays, or whatever else you experience at the other super major that occurs in Las Vegas.
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Letters to the Editor, May 28
Cartoon by Jim Meadows
If we knew then what we know now…
There is an absolute absurdity that keeps circulating in the halls of banality. Its primary function is to deflect responsibility for the actions of our nation, our people and our leaders and the press. It resurfaced a few weeks back with Jeb Bush and Mrs. Clinton, and again, recently, in NPR’s Brian Lehrer and All Things Considered, on Sunday, May 24 — but make no mistake, it is not limited to Mrs. Clinton, the Bushes and NPR’s people. So here it is: “If we knew then, what we know now…” (Finish with: “would we have invaded Iraq?”)
It is an American tragedy that the question was formed. It shows an induced loss of memory among those of us who are over 60, and ignorance on the part of everyone else.
So let’s go back to the Eisenhower years, specifically, May 1, 1960. That was the day one of our U2s was shot down twelve miles above the Soviet Union — we were stunned that the Russians had that ability. Recall its pilot, Gary Powers… put on display by Khrushchev to the utter embarrassment of President Eisenhower who could no longer deny our flying over Russia. I leave it to the reader to figure out what one of our high altitude U2 planes (hint) with cameras was doing over Russia. (End episode I.)
Let’s go forward to October, 1962. President Kennedy is on television. He is explaining the identity of objects and the significance of shadows in an 8 x10 photo of the ground in Cuba. The photo was taken by our aircraft flying over Cuba. Kennedy was about to take serious action and he wanted the American people to know why he was going to take the actions he was about to take: blockade Cuba and demand the removal of Russian missiles. (End episode II.)
Suffice now to recall that during the 50 years of the cold-war, we and the Soviets developed sophisticated technology with which to photograph each other’s country. On CBS news, Walter Cronkite described our technological capacity to photograph from space a pack of cigarettes in a man’s shirt.
The great advance in our ability to photograph the ground from space came with satellites whose speed would keep them over the same spot on Earth. We and the Russians knew every square inch of everything that was the other’s.
Let’s move ahead to 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003. George Bush is President of The United States.
Over the years, our media has served the wrong sets of questions. Rather than demanding: “Given our technology, how could we not have known about WMD in Iraq?” it insisted that while we know now, maybe, just maybe, back then maybe we did not know. But what we know now, we don’t know only now. We are not in a privileged position now compared to back then.
Sending our troops running around in the desert on wild goose chases established nothing new. What we know now is precisely what we knew back then.
John M. Giannone, ST
The need for local senior housing
The May 14th issue of Town & Village, with the lead article “Ravitch wants senior housing built at Brookdale site,” speaks to the real need to address the acute shortage of senior residences in our community that offer elders the possibility of assisted living as well as nursing care and senior services.
One of my friends, formerly of Stuyvesant Town, was a patient with Alzheimer’s for over a year at the Cabrini Nursing Home at 542 Fifth Street and Avenue B when we suddenly were informed that the developer Ben Shaoul had bought the nursing home and had given the residents and 273 staff two months to clear out so he could turn it into condos. With the help of the social work staff, our friend was able to be transferred to an East Side Nursing Home where she passed away in three months.
Another friend from East Midtown Plaza in her 80s needed residential nursing home care after Hurricane Sandy, and after a month’s stay in an expensive private nursing home on Manhattan’s West Side, we were finally able to get her into the Cabrini Nursing Home in Dobbs Ferry, NY, where she is now on Medicaid.
To visit her once a week in all kinds of weather, I need a bus to Grand Central, the Metro North train to Dobbs Ferry and a taxi from there to the nursing home.
If you want to be informed and have your voice heard on this issue, you can Google “Community Board 6 Manhattan” for dates, time, and place for the next meeting of the Land Use Committee.
The next meeting of the Committee is June 3 at the NYU Dental School at 345 East 24th Street and First Avenue in Room 614 A+B. This is the third of seven items to be on the agenda. For more information, contact: Dan Miner, district manager, CB6, at (212) 319-3750.
Joy Garland, ST
What about straphangers on Ave. C?
In a recent issue, Town & Village ran a story that indicated that local area elected-officials support and advocate a new entrance to the L Train at Avenue A. I strongly oppose this idea, because money spent on this project by the MTA is money not spent on other more important needs and it is well-known that the MTA is cash-strapped.
If any new L Train station is built east of First Avenue, it should be built at Avenue C for the tens of thousands of residents near the river who currently are under-served.
Name withheld, ST
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Re: Subway entrance at Avenue C:
While it makes logical sense that the Avenue C area is under-served by subway service, that area presents significant logistical complexity because the tunnel enters the East River near that point. The L train begins it’s decent under the river as it leaves the 1st Avenue station, however that station already spans to Avenue A. The construction job of adding entrances is fairly simple because the station area already exists within the tunnel. OTOH, Avenue C is adjacent to the Con Ed generating plant, and there are a maze of underground cables and steam conduits below the surface in that area. Trying to dig around them and tunnel through the bedrock down to the existing subway tunnel would be extraordinarily expensive and time consuming. It would make more sense to increase bus service and/or explore alternative cross town systems like light rail.
One only needs to look at the progress of the 2nd Avenue Subway project and extrapolate a time/cost line from that fiasco.
Agree whole heartedly with Joy Garland’s letter about using the Brookdale site for senior housing. It should have been there 20 years ago to serve The Greatest Generation as they aged, and could now serve those that remain if necessary, and the current senior population as well.
David Chowes says:
Re: Letter by Mr. John M. Giannone
Two comments . . .
(1) FDR knew how to deal with Stalin. He somehow manipulated Stalin into reopening the Russian Orthodox churches and had two Archbishops who had been in prison for two decades. Remember that se and the USSR were allies under their relationship. Then when FDR died… Truman… And then the Dulles Brothers (who neither understood Russia or Stalin) with the help of Winston Churchill really began the half century Cold War. If FDR remained, he would have known how to deal with Stalin. (And, yes Stalin was a paranoid mass murderer.)
We had nuclear weapons in Turkey and could have blasted Moscow off the map. So, when Fidel came to power, his allowing nukes there was tit for tat. JFK resolved this potential global holocaust by agreeing to remove his nukes in Turkey.
(2) As far as our most recent incursion into Iraq… Remember that North Korea had and has nuclear weapons and no oil. Iraq had plenty of oil. And “President Cheney” with the assistance of “W” was connected to Halliburton which was the main beneficiary of the toppling of Saddam Hussein leaving a vacuum … and eventually now ISIS>
Also, wars are rarely fought for freedom or to bring Western democracy to other parts of the world.. Just follow the money … as we sacrifice the lives of many and some how the hawks somehow almost never serve,
CORRECTION OF MY PRVIOUS COMMENT:
It should have written (First paragraph, 2nd sentence): “FDR … had two Archbishops who had been in prison for two decades RELEASED.”
And. also FDR had Stalin reopened all churches, synagogues and mosques. And the USSR is officially an atheist country.
We have worked with many brutal dictators before and continue to do so.
Greedy developers like Ben Shaoul have no heart and no soul. They really are a waste of space on this earth as they contribute nothing to humanity. They only take. Their mothers should have been fixed.
“Vickie,” And we all end up dead. Mean longevity for American males = 78; for females = 81. Suggestion: the greed mongers should reach for higher values which lead to a greater good for all humanity.
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February 4, 1936 Radium Girls
“There is no possible excuse for such a delay”, Lippmann wrote. “The women are dying. If ever a case called for prompt adjudication, it is the case of five crippled women who are fighting for a few miserable dollars to ease their last days on earth. This is a heartless proceeding. It is unmanly, unjust and cruel. This is a case which calls not for fine-spun litigation but for simple, quick, direct justice.” Walter Lippmann, New York World
In 1922, a bank teller named Grace Fryer began to feel soreness in her jaw. She was 23 at the time and too young to have her teeth falling out, yet that’s what was happening. Her doctor was able to identify the problem, but couldn’t explain it. Grace Fryer’s jawbones were so honeycombed with holes, they looked like moth eaten fabric.
On December 21, 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the 88th element of the Periodic Table. This new and radioactive element was Radium, one of the ‘alkaline earth metals’.
Curie’s work would make her the first female recipient of a Nobel Prize in 1906, and the only person of either sex to ever win two Nobels, in 1911.
We’ve seen some strange pop culture fads over the years, from goldfish swallowing to pole sitting, but none stranger than the radium craze of 1904. The stuff was an industrial wonder, a medical cure-all. Newspapers waxed rhapsodic about cities of the future, streets aglow in the light of radium lamps as smiling restaurant patrons sipped “liquid sunshine”. Radium plays and dances featured performers, dressed in glow-in-the-dark costumes. The smiling farmer of the future, tilled glowing fields. Bartender, I’ll have a Radium Highball.
Serious physicians had early success killing cancer cells, driving a quack medicine craze where charlatans sold radium creams, salts and suppositories claiming to to cure everything from impotence to acne to insanity, rickets, tooth decay, and warts.
Unseen at the time, one benefit of the craze was that demand for radium vastly outstripped actual production. Prices skyrocketed to $84,500 per gram by 1915, equivalent to $1.9 million today. Authorities warned consumers to be on the lookout for fake radium, while the business in bogus radium products, soared.
WWI broke out in 1914. It didn’t take long to recognize the advantages of glow in the dark instruments. Any number of companies stepped up to fill the need, but none larger than US Radium and its glow-in-the-dark paint, “Undark”.
Hundreds of women worked in US Radium’s Orange New Jersey factory, hand painting the stuff on watches, gun sights and other instruments. Radioactivity levels were so small as to be harmless to users of these objects, but not so to the people who made them.
The harmful effects of radiation were relatively well understood by 1917, though the information was withheld from factory workers. Camel hair brushes tended to splay out with use. Supervisors encouraged the women to sharpen brushes using lips and tongues for a nice, sharp point. The stuff was odorless and tasteless, and some couldn’t resist the fun of painting nails and even teeth with the luminous paint. The only side effects of all that radium, they were told, would be rosy cheeks.
They were paid eight cents a dial.
The active ingredient in Undark was a million times more active than Uranium, and company owners and scientists knew it. Company labs were equipped with lead screens, masks and tongs, while literally everything on the factory floor, glowed.
Frances Splettscher died in 1925 at age 21, suffering severe anemia and unbearable toothaches. At one point a dentist pulled a tooth. Part of her jaw, came with it.
Doctors began to suspect that Grace Fryer’s condition may be related to her previous employment in US Radium. By that time she was seriously ill, yet Columbia University “Specialist” Frederick Flinn and a “Colleague” pronounced her to be in “fine health”.
Only later were the two revealed to be company executives.
Grace Fryer
These US Radium guys must have been genuine, mustache twirling, villains. In the early 1920s, company officials hired physiologist and Harvard Professor Cecil Drinker to report on working conditions. Drinker’s report detailed catastrophically dangerous working conditions, with virtually every factory employee suffering serious blood or bone conditions.
The report filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor omitted all of it, describing conditions in glowing terms (pun not intended), claiming that “every girl is in perfect condition”.
Reports of illness among other women came flooding in. US Radium took to assassinating the character of these women, claiming that their symptoms resulted from syphilis.
Attorney Raymond Berry filed suit on Fryer’s behalf in 1927, the lawsuit joined by four other dial painters seeking $250,000 apiece, in damages.
The newspapers dubbed them “radium girls”. The health of all five plaintiffs was deteriorating rapidly, while one stratagem after another was used to delay proceedings. By the first courtroom appearance in January 1928, none could so much as raise her arm, to take the oath. Grace Fryer was altogether toothless by this time, unable to walk and requiring a back brace even to sit up.
One dial painter, Amelia “Mollie” Maggia, died on September 12, 1922. She was twenty-six. Mollie’s lower jaw was removed in the last months of her life, the cause of death ruled as syphilis. Mollie’s dentist wasn’t buying it. Dr. Joseph Knef placed her jawbone on a piece of dental film. The resulting image showed “absurd” levels of radiation.
Mollie Maggia was exhumed on October 15, 1927 in the presence of six-man teams of doctors and lawyers from both sides, two brothers-in-law and her father, Valerio. Her bones spoke from beyond the grave, words she herself could no longer say. To hell with the character assassins, doctors found zero evidence of syphilis. “Each and every portion of tissue and bone tested”, they said. “gave evidence of radioactivity.”
The radium girls were far too sick to attend the next hearing in April, when the judge ordered a continuation to September, an accommodation to several company witnesses “summering” in Europe.
Walter Lippmann of the New York World called the proceedings a “Damnable travesty of justice”. “There is no possible excuse for such a delay”, Lippmann wrote. “The women are dying. If ever a case called for prompt adjudication, it is the case of five crippled women who are fighting for a few miserable dollars to ease their last days on earth. This is a heartless proceeding. It is unmanly, unjust and cruel. This is a case which calls not for fine-spun litigation but for simple, quick, direct justice.”
Delay was a deliberate and sleazy tactic, and it worked. Plaintiffs accepted a settlement of $10,000 apiece plus legal fees, and a $600 annual annuity. The deal was mediated by Judge William Clarke, himself a US Radium stockholder. None of the plaintiffs lived long enough to cash more than one or two annuity checks.
Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky, the paint’s inventor, died of aplastic anemia in 1928, a victim of his own creation. Marie Curie herself was dead by 1934, poisoned by radiation. With a half-life of 1,600 years, her lab notebooks remain too hot to handle, to this day.
Radium was synthesized for the first time two years later, on February 4, 1936. One would hope that factory workers using the stuff, were no longer encouraged to sharpen their brushes, with their tongues.
Author Cape Cod CurmudgeonPosted on February 4, 2019 February 4, 2019 Categories American History, Medicine, Odds & Ends, Today in HistoryTags Glow in the Dark, Radium Girls, Today in History, Undark
13 thoughts on “February 4, 1936 Radium Girls”
deardigitaldramaturg says:
Thank you for your fascinating historical research. It’s awful that the radium girls were tricked, mistreated, and left to die!
Couldn’t agree more. The way those girls were treated was grotesquely unjust.
oiltranslator says:
Interesting proof that there really is collusion in a mixed economy. If memory serves, Herbert Hoover presented Marie Curie with a gram of radium… scratch that. That too was during The Crash and she actually received a nonradioactive bank draft with which to buy radium.
badfinger20 says:
Thanks for this story. I sent this link to a few people at work and this was the topic for a couple of days.
Lawyers haven’t changed.
Thank you for sharing. I think it important that we all understand our own history.
OMG. How awful.
The only bright spot in this story ( no pun intended) was that the stuff became so expensive that fakers began to use phosphorus instead of radium. Had the stuff been more widely available, the result could’ve been so much worse.
I am shocked and dumbstruck at the cold-hearted reaction of the company & courts.
I have a hard time understanding cruelty.
Aviationtrails says:
Often we were too quick to accept ‘revolutionary’ new things that would change the world, without testing them first. These girls suffered as a result of that and paid the price with their lives. I guess, as terrible as it was, that was life then and the way the world went. Another sad tale of wealth over health and the innocent pay.
Syphilis!!!! Come now! What a very fascinating read, I was both intrigued and enraged! Lol. Thanks for sharing it!
That one girl who was exhumed was seventeen when she went to work for those people. She was dead by twenty one. The people who ran that outfit were just vile.
Sounds like vile is putting it nicely!!
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Race Tour De Hitachinaka 5 Hour Enduro 2015
Thread starter Heath
Here’s my race write-up from yesterday that I intended to write last night, buuuut flaked it on the sofa instead. As usual, it’s a long write-up, so you may want to have a cup of coffee on the go whilst reading.
Hopefully there’s some useful information in it for those who race, or intend on doing these Bike Navi events.
This was my first race in twenty-one years.
Race: Tour De Hitachinaka
Category: 5 Hour King of Enduro (solo)
Course: A well designed, 4.2 km, winding circuit (a driver training venue) with a smooth surface and a variety of challenging turns. I rate the course as excellent.
Weather: Cool and cloudy with a fairly strong NE wind.
Getting To The Race
I got up at 4:00 a.m. which was way too early. I didn’t want to be in a rush.
Rode to Matsudo Station (8 km), got the bike into the bike bag and made my way to the platform. “Ah, still 30 minutes before my train arrives. Oh well, better to be early...but, this early?!”
Rode one train all the way to Katsuta Station, and then rode 8 km out to the venue.
I got there forty minutes before the race start time.
It was just enough time to get organized.
What with checking in, pinning your number on your jersey, putting the little GPS receiver on your front forks, getting your food and drinks sorted for the race, and doing that final toilet dash (it’s important to empty the bladder before a race), the time soon adds up.
Arriving an hour before the race starts would be the ideal scenario.
@Cory M. was there apparently, and I’d organized to catch up with him before the race but could not for the life of me find his car park.
The 5 hour enduro race is run over two races.
The first race is 3 hours.
Your laps completed and time on the last lap are calculated.
The second race is 2 hours (massed start), and again your laps completed and time on the last lap are calculated.
At the end of the 5 hours the statistics from the two races are joined to give you an overall total, kinda’ like a two stage tour except it’s laps and time as opposed to time only.
There is also a 5 hour teams race where riders race in relay fashion.
They race alongside us.
During my 3 hour race a separate race was starting half a lap behind us, and would line up behind us, this was the 3 hour enduro and @Cory M. was in that, so as I made my way to the start line I finally got to catch up with him.
On the start line, I realized that the color of my number was different to the others. I went back and had a chat to @Cory M. and discovered that I’d entered the flat bar category by mistake. I approached the officials, telling them that I’d made a mistake when I booked my race on the website and they said it was no problem. I found out after the race that they had already known I was in the sports category and had changed it just prior to the race start. A Stravr friend of mine was marshalling the race and had told them that I would never be riding a flat bar bike and that they should change my category.
Bang…and we were off!
They took off at a brisk pace like they were greyhounds chasing a fake rabbit.
I sat on the back of the peloton.
The pace was high and they were sustaining it.
One hour passed.
I couldn’t work out why guys were destroying themselves on the front like they were. It could’ve been nervous energy or they may have not wanted to be outside the top ten as the course was similar to a criterium, where being further back in the pack and accelerating out of corners is (and was) death on the legs.
Things continued as they were and we reached the halfway point of our race. I knew it was impossible to sustain a long solo breakaway from a peloton moving at that speed with the wind as strong as it was, and at this point I had already made a race plan to just save my energy for the last lap and break away on a section of the course that had a little hill in it.
Just then, four riders that I hadn’t seen before merged with our group, they were from the 3 hour race which had started behind us. Two of them were real goers and started constantly attacking our group, not to get rid of us, it was to ditch each other.
Here was my window of opportunity, and I seized it without hesitation as my race instinct cut in.
I went to the front and showed the 'two goers' that I was willing to work with them by switching a few turns of pace with them at their pace.
Then, for the next 30 minutes I did a series of seriously up-tempo, hard cornering turns of pace that ground the pack down.
The ‘two goers’ worked with me just as I knew they would.
The result of this grinding down of the peloton left just three of us out in front, the ‘two goers’ and I. We settled into a more sedate pace knowing that we’d done what we wanted to do.
Three other riders caught us, two of them were from the 3 hour race and one from the 5 hour teams race.
We still had one hour to ride and pushed on as a group of six at a steady pace with a sprint to the line.
I wanted to sprint with them, but as the push came during the last half a lap, my hamstrings started to lock up and I dropped off the group and finished 100 meters behind.
I was very happy with the way I’d ridden, but had no idea where I was in the standings because at this point I wasn’t familiar with the numbers and colors on the jerseys and what they meant.
After I saw the race results, I then knew what the numbers meant.
I went down to check the results and discovered to my surprise that I was first and held a two lap (8 km) lead on my nearest rival.
That thirty minute push-on had basically won me the race because I had dropped all of my competitors.
I knew that in the next race all I had to do was to stay upright.
Not an easy task, as you’ll read under the Crashes heading later.
We had a one hour lunch break and during that time I did a thirty minute stretch routine to cure the leg cramps and it worked.
It was all good for the next race.
Off we went for the last race of the day, the two hour race.
Half a lap behind us a separate race, ‘the 2 hour enduro’ was starting.
It was an uneventful race for me.
We were caught by the huge 2 hour group after three laps and joined them for the rest of the race.
Now that I knew what the race numbers and colors meant, I could scan the peloton for riders in my race and mark them.
Only two riders from my category did end up staying with the peloton, so I had an easy job of marking them.
We finished with the 2 hour race group that eventually shrunk to thirty percent of its original size by the end.
Of my group, I was the first to finish.
So, I had won both of my races and ended up about 8 km ahead of the second place-getter.
I got to stand on the podium, was awarded a medal, some goodies, and a massive cup which upon receival sent me into a panic about how the hell I would cart it home.
I later discovered that they send a replica in the mail. Phew!
I ended up covering 201 km at an average of around 38.7 km/hr.
The race results are here…
http://www.bikenavi.net/result/2015pdf/BN15_11TDH_521.pdf
The highlight of my day was being able to ride in a flying peloton again.
It felt soooo good and I was smiling to myself at various points of the two races.
Back to the station with a wrong turn (which added another 5 kms to my ride), on the train, down to Matsudo, 8 km ride home, and the day was over at 7:15 pm.
Without a doubt I’ve never seen so many crashes in a race as I did this day.
The course was technical, and as I mentioned earlier it is an excellent course…for experienced racers, not for the inexperienced.
I witnessed ten crashes.
Most were from guys pedaling around corners, the pedal hitting, and them jack-knifing.
Others were from guys changing their line in corners after misreading it and taking people out.
I was shocked that riders were still pedaling around corners after witnessing others crashing because of doing the very same thing.
Many were making the mistake of not carrying enough speed into the corner.
This meant that they were in a panic, pedaling to hold their position.
In that situation there’s no need to pedal in my opinion, because the lack of speed they were carrying in would enable them to get the power on earlier than the others as they exit.
Most were not seriously hurt, except for one guy who came down on his shoulder pretty hard and may have done his collarbone.
I dealt with ‘not being taken out’ by riding on the inside or the extreme outside of the peloton on the corners.
Being inside meant that no one could jack-knife into me.
Being on the extreme outside gave me time to react and room to move, I could also carry more speed on the outside which assisted when the jam came on after the corner.
I rode with a Bontrager R2 (strictly a dry road tyre) on the back and a Panaracer Race D on the front and the grip was sensational on the smooth surface, never had a moment throughout both races.
Totally Unrelated
Hitachinaka has the widest streets I’ve ever seen.
Even wider than Australian country towns, and that’s saying something!
Also, in the city center there are bike lanes, but they actually have a kerb to stop motorists from ever coming into it. That’s cool!
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Great stuff mate! Top result and well deserved after some serious lead up training.
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Monster of all monsters!
Great write up and great result mate. Thoroughly deserved.
Edogawakikkoman
One of my favorite courses... my last race was there as well. Well done.
Excellent. Sounds like you nailed it. Well done!
By the power of Grayskull,
He is HEATH-MAN!
Top stuff and clever riding.
Mlac Peek
Peek pace master
Excellent riding. Congrats on the win mate!
Forgot to add these pics the other day. A mate took em'.
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Great write up @Heath, and massive performance! I'll add my rookie two cents.
This was my first ever bike race, so I was a bit nervous heading into it. The nerves weren't helped much by (or perhaps caused by) an over active lower GI tract for a solid (not very, unfortunately) 24 hours leading up to the race. So I pulled up to the line figuring I would just do my best and hope to not have to pull a Greg LeMond and ask a friend for a hat during the race.
I headed to the front of the peloton during the first rolling half a lap figuring I would just go with them as long as I could, really not knowing how my fitness level would hold up to these guys. Turns out it was only about 25 minutes, but boy was that a fun 25 minutes! My fears of crashing quickly gave way to exhilaration for several laps. But the sprints following the really hard turns eventually got to me, and I found myself in the lonely place of falling off the back. Unfortunately, there was no one to join me for quite a while.
The initial hard effort made my lower back act up pretty early on, and that plus my gut worries had me wondering if I was going to make it the full three hours. I figured I would just carry on and see how far I got. I found a few groups here and there to ride with, but in general, it was not a crowd of guys that were really working together. Using my experience from ultrarunning, I accepted the discomfort and repeated the mantra, "it's not getting better, but it's not getting worse". Before I knew it, there was less than an hour left, and I had found a group going at about my pace. I found myself really enjoying some of the hard turns, and feeling more and more able to push through some of the faster sections.
I was pretty surprised to pull across the line at the end and saw that I had maintained an average speed of 35 kph for the three hours. That is fast for me, and much faster than I thought I was going considering how shitty I was feeling for most of it. Getting lapped twice by @Heath Monster was a bit depressing, but finding out that he won the whole damn thing was some small consolation. Overall an enjoyable race with an interesting course, a really manageable number of riders, but it sure seemed like a high concentration of fast guys.
On to the next challenge!
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Forsbrook
Excellent write up and many kudos.
Top job,well done mate!
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2021 GMC Sierra 2500 Price, Interiors and Release Date
The growth of Sierra HD versions is at the phase of development when we could estimate about the spy shots which were taken to get a few time in the past several months. Following a comprehensive redesign of the 1500 version that is foundation, it’s time for something. The 2021 GMC Sierra 2500 is going to come. The HD version was seen for a few times and, even though having a camouflage, it appears almost production ready. According to the reports, it will hit the market next year.
2021 GMC Sierra 2500 Exterior
The new-generation 2021 GMC Sierra 2500 is going to come with a great deal of novelties. Obviously, it all begins with the T1 platform that is newest. When compared with the outgoing model, the new one is going to feature footprint. It is going to be simpler, as a result of use of materials. Concerning styling, anticipate a hefty relying on the 1500 models that are foundation. The look will be close but hope to find a lot of details which will highlight its character that is functioning. A LED lighting is clearly shown by the testing version although using a camouflage. Additionally, expect to see each of those firm ‘s new functional features like a MultiPro tailgate, brand new box accessibility step . A CarbonPro box will be available. It’s also more resistant to corrosion and scratching, although it brings advantages concerning weight reduction.
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Can Interior Have New Design?
A cabin design is just another novelty which will include this redesign. Anticipate a connection. New dashboard designchairs and a tiny bit more room are unquestionably. We ought to see a lot of technology features. This refers to technology and gadgetry features, like the brand new infotainment system, in addition to on a great deal of tools which make hauling more easy and towing.
Engines — Exactly what ‘s new?
A news is for those who favor gas engines If it comes to powertrain. There’s an entirely new unit, which will change the present 6.0-liter V8 engine. The new version will include an all-new 6.6-liter V8, which ought to deliver approximately 400 hp and 450 lb-ft of torque, according to the most recent reports. It’ll come paired with 8- or 9-speed automated gearbox. On the opposing side, a 6.6-liter Duramax diesel V8 will likely stay untouched, with a maximum output of 445 horsepower along with 910 pound-feet of torque. This one will come in a couple with a fresh transmission.
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When will 2021 GMC Sierra 2500 be accessible, and how much Sierra price?
The 2021 GMC Sierra 2500 Heavy Duty is going to be the HD version of the generation to reach on the marketplace. It is going to arrive in the next quarter of the year. If it comes to the cost, don’t anticipate changes compared to.
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Palmdale lifeguards attain “World Class” score
by The AV Times Staff • August 1, 2014
(Photo courtesy: City of Palmdale)
PALMDALE – The City of Palmdale’s lifeguard team received a score of 96 from the National Aquatic Safety Company (NASCO) after the organization conducted a lifeguard inspection last week at DryTown Water Park.
The Palmdale lifeguards achieved their rating after being evaluated for:
Scanning time (how quickly and accurately the water surface is viewed);
Appearance (indicates that the lifeguard is prepared with proper equipment); and
Posture (rescue ready stance).
In addition, they were monitored at varying time intervals and position rotations throughout the Water Park. In all, the NASCO representative completed 100 observations in his full-day visit.
NASCO performs inspections at hundreds of water park facilities throughout the United States each year, and the organization is recognized as a leader and innovator in the safety procedures for aquatics and amusement park facilities.
“The NASCO representative acknowledged that the score earned by the lifeguard staff was the highest that he had awarded this season at any water park facility he has visited,” said Parks and Recreation Manager Keri Smith. “He was thoroughly impressed with the lifeguard management team’s ability to prepare and motivate the lifeguards to perform their duties at such a professional level. The DryTown lifeguard staff is considered to be one of the elite teams in the country and NASCO hopes to use the staff’s performance as a model for other lifeguard teams to emulate,” she said.
“This is an amazing achievement and a testament to the hard work and determination of our lifeguard team and staff,” Smith added. “Any score over 70 is considered a ‘World Class’ operation and to obtain a score of 96 is said to be ‘unheard of,’ but apparently not in Palmdale. This is the 13th time we have achieved a ‘World Class’ score.”
“I’m especially proud of the leadership provided by Head Lifeguards Jared Long and Rudy Urquizu and Senior Lifeguards Devon Nies, Alex Bigwood and Austin Stapp,” said Smith. “They have kept our program at a level that is among the highest in the nation. Furthermore, our residents who use our aquatic facilities have the satisfaction and peace of mind knowing that they have the best trained and best performing lifeguards available.”
For more information about Palmdale’s lifeguard program, contact the parks and recreation department at 267-5611.
[Information via press release from the city of Palmdale.]
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Man sentenced to 15-year-to-life term for crash that killed 3 in Lancaster
by City News Service • July 22, 2020 10 Comments
[Inset] Crash victims Yovany Salazar Calzada, his wife Rocio Perez Lopez, and his grandmother Virginia Martinez. [Main image] Collision scene on Jan. 11, 2018.
LANCASTER – A young man convicted of second-degree murder for a crash that killed three people at a Lancaster intersection was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years to life in state prison.
Davion Murphy, 22, apologized to the victims’ families before being sentenced, and two of the victims’ family members offered their forgiveness, according to Deputy District Attorney Yoobin Hernandez.
Jurors found Murphy guilty March 9 of three counts of second-degree murder stemming from the Jan. 11, 2018, collision at the corner of Avenue J-8 and Challenger Way that killed Yovany Salazar Calzada, 23, Rocio Perez Lopez, 26, and Calzada’s grandmother, Virginia Martinez, 61.
The victims, who were pronounced dead at the scene,were riding in a Subaru WRX that was struck by a silver Lexus driven by Murphy, according to Deputy District Attorney Casey Higgins, who along with Hernandez prosecuted the case.
The prosecution argued that evidence, including a post-crash blood test, showed that Murphy was driving under the influence of marijuana, and witnesses reported seeing him smoking the drug about 30 to 45 minutes beforehand.
Murphy — whose three passengers survived the collision — went through a red light and struck the driver’s side of the Subaru containing the victims, Higgins said. The defendant was driving at least 88 mph in a 40 mph zone at the time of the crash, according to the prosecutor.
Murphy has remained in jail since his November 2018 arrest.
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Random Stranger says
I drove past this as rescue was a few blocks away, and saw more then I ever wanted to. I’m 70 and I’ve seen things, yet I’ve been dealing with this horrid picture in my mind ever since. I can’t imagine the pain the family’s must have. I wish them comfort.
Yes. Justice. And once less spot on the streets of the AV.
Fifteen says
At least Davion won’t be able to slaughter anyone else for fifteen years…
Tina Kastner says
Good he got what he had coming for what he did, that was really really sad and could have been prevented, he knew better, but he just didn’t care.
You know 15 years really means he will do 4 to 6 years max. Got to love our system it only benefits the ones who do wrong.
Nobody says
Lmao 5 years with the chance of reduced sentencing due to programs inside prison so he might only do 3 and if he’s lucky he can get out because of the covid
to Clarify says
“15 years to life” does not mean he will do 4 to 6 years. Instead, it means he will have to do a minimun of 15 years before he gets a shot a parole.
No 15 years to life does not mean that at all. Since it’s a violent crime he will have to do a minimum of 80%. Since it’s 15- life that means he will have to go before a parole board to get out. That’s not easy. So he will be in there awhile!
Reform says
Tom: “15 to life” means he’ll serve 15 before he’s eligible for parole hearing.
Rosalyn says
Non of that is true they died 2018 time 2:00 i know because i am there daghter i was in school bug my grandma tolled me
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On this day in history 27th March
Born on this Day 27th March
1863 Sir Henry Royce
1899 Gloria Swanson
1924 Sarah Vaughan
1927 Stanislav Rostropovich
1927 Harry Belafonte
1935 Julian Glover
1942 Michael York
1950 Tony Banks
1963 Quentin Tarantino
1970 Mariah Carey
1971 David Coulthard
1625 King James
1968 Yuri Gagarin
1991 Ralph Bates
1965 Cliff Richard’s first recorded American single ‘The Minute You’re Gone’ entered the UK Top 20. It was recoded in Nashville with top country producer Billy Sherrill.
1968 British group Grapefruit, sponsored by John Lennon, made their debut at the Royal Albert Hall, supporting the Bee Gees.
1976 The Brotherhood Of Man topped the charts with their Eurovision song ‘Save Your Kisses For Me’.
1981 The Wanderers released their debut single ‘Ready To Snap’ in the UK.
1986 TV show ‘The Mix’ was launched.
1988 Second Division Reading, making their first appearance at Wembley in their 117 year history, beat Luton Town by 4 goals to 1 in the final of the Simod Cup.
People & Showbiz
1956 Two students showing particular promise at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts were Richard Briers and Albert Finney.
1990 Actress Glenda Jackson was chosen as the Labour Party candidate for Hampstead and Highgate.
1794 The US Navy was formed.
1914 The first successful blood transfusion took place in Brussels.
1977 574 people were killed in the world’s worst aviation disaster when two aircraft collided and exploded in foggy conditions on the airstrip at Los Rodeos Airport at Tenerife.
1984 The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was moved to Broadmoor Hospital from Parkhurst prison after being confirmed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
1989 A state of emergency was declared in Alaska when 11 million gallons of crude oil from the crippled tanker Exxon Valdez spread over an area covering 100 square miles.
1995 A £2 coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War was launched by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke.
1995 The Government allocated grants of £5 million for 100 schemes for closed circuit television cameras to protect town centres around the country.
1997 Hundreds of thousands of workers faced an Easter without pay after a computerized banking system crashed. The Association of Payment Clearing Services said that there was no way to tell how many accounts had been hit.
March 26, 2014 March 21, 2014 Jonathan L Davey
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‘Mank’: Sound Designer Ren Klyce Talks The Authenticity Of David Fincher’s Latest Film
Tomris Laffly
You are likely to feel whisked away to the Golden Age of Hollywood while watching “Mank,” David Fincher’s historical character study about legendary studio screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) and his painstaking process of writing Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” Still, Fincher’s Hollywood epic won’t necessarily register as tritely nostalgic or melancholic about the past in a way showbiz movies often do. That’s because “Mank” is far more concerned about seizing a frozen-in-time type of authenticity. It’s a picture one could swear to be of the era as opposed to an homage to the era—a quality its sound design gloriously emulates by ditching contemporary sonic attributes and embracing monaural sound in order to match that of “Citizen Kane.”
“That was one of the very first things David was most eager to speak about,” recalls 7-time Academy Award-nominated sound designer Ren Klyce, who worked on 10 out of 11 Fincher movies and might win his first Oscar with “Mank.” “The original words he said to me were, ‘I want this to feel like this film was literally on the shelf next to “Citizen Kane,” existing on actual celluloid with the soundtrack on it. And I want it to sound like somebody made it back in that period.’ And that was a very interesting idea to start off with. Authenticity is the perfect word for it actually—that’s a very important thing for David in all of his movies. He wants it to feel like it’s coming from a genuine place.”
For Klyce, designing the sound of a film that hypothetically has “always been there the whole time” meant using today’s technology to fabricate a set of means and methods for the past to ultimately telegraph the feeling that the film was made then, with the technology of then. “How do we still make it feel sophisticated, but limit ourselves with an imaginary toolset of the 1940s?”
In an interview with The Playlist, Klyce detailed out his technical process and collaboration with Fincher, explaining how he achieved the vintage sound of “Mank” as well as that old-timey aural grandeur, as if the film is bouncing off the walls of a majestic movie theater.
Author Leonard ZeligPosted on January 1, 2021 Categories 2020. MankTags Interview, Ren Klyce, Sound Design
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