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Quiver: The Green Arrow Podcast
Caity Lotz Talks “Birds of Prey” In A New Interview With IGN
Caity Lotz, who plays Sara Lance/Black Canary, recently did an interview with Eric Goldman over at IGN, where she talks about the upcoming episode “Birds of Prey,” Sara’s relationship with other characters on the show, and if she would one day like to see Black Canary get superpowers. Here is a portion of the interview:
IGN: In the comics, of course, Huntress and Black Canary are teammates, and Birds of Prey is them uniting together. Right now, the Huntress that we’ve seen is pretty unstable, but do you think there’s any hope in the longterm that things could get a little more on the same wavelength for these two?
Caity Lotz: You know, I could see it happening. Who knows, maybe they both could turn out to be bad. [Laughs] You never know. The Huntress is also kind of a redeemable character. We’ll see what this episode will bring for her. In terms of closure, I don’t know, or the evolution of her character… But I do think they’ll work together one day, or maybe it’s just because I want to, because I really like Jessica [De Gouw]. She’s so much fun to work with.
IGN: We’re seeing the universe of Arrow expanding, and obviously Barry Allen’s introduction is one of a couple different elements that’s bringing superpowers into this world. Sara’s got the electronic version of the Canary Cry, but do you think there’s any chance that we might see her actually get that power? Is that something you’d like to see happen?
Caity Lotz:I don’t know if I think it’s necessary. I kind of like how Arrow’s been more grounded in reality with things. It’s just kind of a different style, which I think, you know, the Flash will be there to satisfy that more supernatural, superpower thing. But I always kind of liked that Arrow — I know that we introduced Mirakuru this season — but I like that it’s been more grounded in the reality that we know now. But I wouldn’t mind it. It’d be kind of cool. I’d get to scream on set and things would shatter!
Be sure to check out the full interview with Caity Lotz over at IGN
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Quiver S8 Episode 9 – Green Arrow and the Canaries
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Columbus Public Safety Director Holds Hearing For Officer Who Killed Andre Hill
By Nick Evans & Gabe Rosenberg • 3 hours ago
On Monday, Columbus Public Safety Director Ned Pettus will decide whether to fire Columbus Police Officer Adam Coy, who killed Andre Hill during a service call last Tuesday morning.
Coy and another officer were responding to a non-emergency call on Oberlin Drive just before 2 a.m. on December 22 when they encountered Hill inside a neighbor's garage, where Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther says Hill was an "expected guest."
A Cranbrook resident had reported seeing a man inside a vehicle, turning it on and off repeatedly, but there's no indication whether Hill was the person referenced by the caller.
Body camera footage shows Coy shining a flashlight on an open garage, where Hill turns around with a cellphone in his hand. Hill takes a few steps towards the officers, but within five seconds, Coy raises his gun and shoots Hill.
Coy and the other officer did not activate their body cameras until after the shooting, so the first 60 seconds of the footage has no audio, meaning there is no sound of Coy's encounter with Hill.
On Christmas Eve, just two days after Hill's death, Columbus Police Chief Tom Quinlan recommended the division fire Coy, an action urged by Ginther and several members of Columbus City Council. Coy has already been relieved of duty, stripping him of his badge, gun and all police powers as the investigations move forward.
In a video statement, Quinlan explained how the charges will proceed.
“The next step in the process is a hearing before the Public Safety Director," Quinlan says. "That will happen Monday morning, after which the director will rule on my recommendation for termination.”
Quinlan bypassed the normal disciplinary process by issuing his recommendation before the hearing, but the final call on Coy's discipline lays with Pettus, who said he would conduct a "clear, impartial hearing" as required under the police union contract. Coy, a 19-year veteran of the Columbus Division of Police, will have the opportunity to attend the hearing with an attorney and representation from the union.
Quinlan says the division’s disciplinary investigation has actually been proceeding on two tracks.
“This first investigation is related to Officer Coy’s unreasonable use of deadly force, failure to activate his body worn camera and failure to render aid to Mr. Hill,” Quinlan describes. “The second investigation pertains to the additional officers involved in this incident who either failed to activate their body cameras or failed to render aid.”
It took more than five minutes for any officer to offer first aid to Hill, who later died after being transported to Riverside Hospital a few blocks away.
No internal charges have yet been announced against the other officers who responded to the scene, none of whom have been named.
State officials conducting a criminal investigation into Coy’s actions, and the U.S. Attorney is reviewing the case for potential civil rights charges. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost was named a special prosecutor in the case.
Hill's death was the second case this month of a white law enforcement officer in Columbus fatally shooting a Black man. The U.S. Attorney's Office is also conducting a federal criminal and civil rights investigation into the death of Casey Goodson Jr., who was killed at his home by Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Meade.
public safety director
Franklin County Sheriff Identifies Deputy Who Killed 23-Year-Old Casey Goodson Jr.
By Paige Pfleger • Dec 6, 2020
Raymond Wambsgans / Flickr
There is still much confusion surrounding the death of a 23-year-old Black Columbus resident shot Friday by a white Franklin County Sheriff's deputy.
U.S. Justice Department To Investigate Killing Of Casey Goodson Jr.
Federal authorities are launching an investigation into the death of Casey Goodson Jr., who was fatally shot by a Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy last Friday.
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Afghanistan + 1 more
Afghanistan: Rind asks international community to respond to UNHCR financial appeal
Govt. Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, May 12 (APP): Minister for States and Frontier Region (SAFRON) Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind Friday asked the international community and major donor countries to contribute generously towards the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)'s financial appeal for assisting the repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan. He said this while talking to the Representative of the UNHCR Janel Lim in Geneva, Switzerland. According to a message, he briefed the UNHCR representative about the government efforts for the voluntary repatriation of Afghans. He said around 205,000 non-registered Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from Pakistan in the last six-months, adding, this was made possible with the cooperation and support of the UNHCR. "Afghan refugees were offered an enhanced financial package of US $ 100 as compared to the earlier practice of paying US $ 7 to 30, per person. He said financial package is costing US $ 20 million, adding, Pakistan contributed US $ 5 million towards this first phase of repatriation programme. He hoped that international community and major countries would come forward and help UNHCR to meet the estimated costs of the project. The Minister informed that repatriation of registered Afghans would be completed within the next three-year. He underlined that better health, education, economic and security conditions in Afghanistan would highly facilitate the repatriation process. Janel Lim UNHCR also highlighted UNHCR's repatriation policy, which was based on "voluntary return with safety and dignity". She reiterated UNHCR's appeal for additional US $ 15 million to enable the repatriation for 100,000 Afghans initially. Afghan refugees repatriation programme was divided into two phase: return of non-registered Afghans, which had already completed and the return of registered Afghan nationals, scheduled to complete in the next three years.
Afghanistan + 14 more
R2P Monitor, Issue 55 (15 January 2021)
GCR2P
Pakistan + 2 more
Pakistan: Voluntary Repatriation of Afghan Refugees: South West Asia - Quarterly Update (October-December 2020)
UNHCR Asia and the Pacific COVID-19 External Update (15 January 2021)
Safe water saves lives and restores childhoods: Children have to walk 40 minutes to reach the water
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LOOK & SEEK TRIP
Information for transferees
Discover Queretaro
Queretaro has distinguished itself in recent years for being one of the two states in Mexico with the greatest economic growth dynamics thanks to national and transnational companies form the industrial, commercial and utility sectors that have settled in this State.
The aerospace industry is one with the most development in this city, making it the fourth largest center for aerospace activities in the world.
Queretaro has played an important role in the history of Mexico because in 1810 it was headquarters for the conspiracy where the movement that would lead to Mexico’s Independence was forged.
THINGS TO DO IN QUERETARO
TEATRO DE LA REPÚBLICA
Three important historical events have taken place here:
In 1854 the Mexican National Anthem was sung for the first time.
In 1867 the death sentence was handed down to Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg.
In 1917 Venustiano Carranza promulgated the Constitution that is in force until today. Today, this venue features several plays, concerts and shows.
CERRO DE LAS CAMPANAS
In 1867 Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg was executed here, and today it is a national park worth visiting for its natural landscape and panoramic views of the city.
ACUEDUCTO DE QUERÉTARO
This is the emblem of the city with its 74 arches and more than a kilometer long. Legend has it that a Marquis who fell in love with a Capuchin nun was the main benefactor of this project, in order to fulfill the request made by his beloved.
The Mexican snack market that cannot be missed!
REGISTERED ENTERPRISES:
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Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies (School of)
Philosophy Theses
Proper names and possible worlds
RodericGirlePhDThesis.pdf (40.05Mb)
Girle, Roderic Allen
Hunter, Geoffrey
In this essay a theory of proper names is developed and applied to the construction of quantified modal logics and to a discussion of problems concerning identity across possible worlds. The theory is then used to aid discussion of essentialism, empty singular terms, quantification into epistemic contexts, and Frege’ s problem with identity . In the first chapter, after a preliminary discussion of Russell’s and Frege’s theories of names, a theory is developed. It is argued that in the giving of a name a relation is established between the name and what is named. That relation is the sense of the name. It is also argued that names can be given to imaginary, fictional, and other such non-existent things. The second chapter is devoted to a discussion of Quine’s programme for eliminating singular terms. It is there argued that the programme cannot be justified. The third chapter centres around the construction of logical systems to deal with identity across possible worlds. It is assumed that once a name is given and its sense thereby established the name is a rigid designator. Quantificational systems are constructed without modal operators yet in terms of which cross world identity can be discussed. Modal operators are then introduced to facilitate a discussion of essentialism and identity. At each point the formal systems are constructed in accordance with clearly stated assumptions about constant singular terms, the domains of quantification, and the interpretation of modal operators
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Ultrasonication and the quality of human milk: variation of power and time of exposure
Christen, L., Lai, C. & Hartmann, P., 2012, In : Journal of Dairy Research. 79, p. 361–366
Ultrasonication of chitosan and chitosan nanoparticles
Tang, E. S. K., Huang, M. & Lim, L. Y., 2003, In : International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 265, p. 103-114
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Drug Carriers
Ultrasonic backscattering from non-uniform scatterers
Koch, I., 1982, In : Ultrasonic Imaging. 4, p. 140-162
Ultrasonic initiation of polystyrene latex synthesis
Ooi, S. K. & Biggs, S., 1 Jul 2000, In : Ultrasonics Sonochemistry. 7, 3, p. 125-133 9 p.
Latexes
Ultrasonic pretreatment of wheat straw in oxidative and nonoxidative conditions aided with microwave heating
Bussemaker, M. J., Mu, X. & Zhang, D., 2013, In : Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. 52, 35, p. 12514-12522
lignocellulose
Ultrasonic velocimetry for the in situ characterisation of particulate settling and sedimentation
Hunter, T. N., Peakall, J. & Biggs, S. R., 1 Apr 2011, In : Minerals Engineering. 24, 5, p. 416-423 8 p.
Velocity measurement
Ultrasonographic assessment of joint pathology in type 2 diabetes and hyperuricemia: The Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II
Keen, H. I., Davis, W. A., Latkovic, E., Drinkwater, J. J., Nossent, J. & Davis, T. M. E., 1 Apr 2018, In : Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications. 32, 4, p. 400-405 6 p.
Ultrasonographic assessment of splenic volume at presentation and after anti-malarial therapy in children with malarial anaemia
Laman, M., Aipit, S., Bona, C., Siba, P. M., Robinson, L. J., Manning, L. & Davis, T., 28 May 2015, In : Malaria Journal. 14, 219, p. 1-9
Hemoglobins
artemisinine
Ultrasonography detects deep tissue injuries in the subcutaneous layers of the buttocks following spinal cord injury
Swaine, J. M., Breidahl, W., Bader, D. L., Oomens, C. W. J., O'Loughlin, E., Santamaria, N. & Stacey, M. C., 1 Sep 2018, In : Topics In Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. 24, 4, p. 371-378 8 p.
Sitting Position
Ultrasound as an outcome measure in gout. A validation process by the OMERACT Ultrasound Working Group
Terslev, L., Gutierrez, M., Schmidt, W. A., Keen, H., Filippucci, E., Kane, D., Thiele, R., Kaeley, G., Balint, P., Mandl, P., Delle Sedie, A., Hammer, H. B., Christensen, R., Möller, I., Pineda, C., Kissin, E., Bruyn, G. A., Iagnocco, A., Naredo, E., D'Agostino, M. A. & 24 others, Aegerter, P., Aydin, S., Backhaus, M., Bong, D., Chary-Valckenaere, I., Collado, P., De Miguel, E., Dejaco, C., Epis, O., Freeston, J. E., Gandjbakhch, F., Grassi, W., Hanova, P., Jousse-Joulin, S., Joshua, F., Koski, J., Loeuille, D., Ravagnani, V., Reginato, A., Sharp, V., Swen, N., Szkudlarek, M., Wakefield, R. J. & Ziswiler, H. R., 2015, In : Journal of Rheumatology. 42, 11, p. 2177-2181
Ultrasound assessment of response to intra-articular therapy in osteoarthritis of the knee
Keen, H., Hensor, E. M. A., Wakefield, R. J., Mease, P. J., Bingham, C. O. & Conaghan, P. G., 2015, In : Rheumatology. 54, 8, p. 1385-1391
Ultrasound characterization of medial gastrocnemius composition in children with spastic cereral palsy.
Pitcher, C., Elliott, C., Panizzolo, F., Valentine, J., Stannage, K. & Reid, S., 2014, In : Muscle and Nerve. 52, 3, p. 397-403
Muscle Spasticity
Ultrasound estimation of amniotic fluid volume using the largest vertical pocket containing umbilical cord: measure to or through the cord?
Magann, P., Chauhan, S. P., Washington, W., Whitworth, N. S., Martin, J. N. & Morrison, J. C., 2002, In : Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 20, 5, p. 464-467
Ultrasound Examination of the Lymphatic Drainage Area and Regional Lymph Nodes in Melanoma Patients with In-Transit Metastases
Nijhuis, A., Chung, D., London, K., Uren, R., Thompson, J. & Nieweg, O., 27 Oct 2020, In : Annals of Surgical Oncology.
Ultrasound Features of Congenital Listeriosis - A Case Report
Quinlivan, J. A., Newnham, J. P. & Dickinson, J. E., 1998, In : Prental Diagnosis. 18, p. 1075-1078
Ultrasound-guided femoral nerve blocks are not superior to ultrasound-guided fascia iliaca blocks for fractured neck of femur
Cooper, A. L., Nagree, Y., Goudie, A., Watson, P. R. & Arendts, G., 9 Sep 2018, In : EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia.
Nerve Block
Femur Neck
Ultrasound-guided optical coherence tomography needle probe for the assessment of breast cancer tumor margins
Curatolo, A., Mclaughlin, R., Quirk, B., Kirk, R., Bourke, A., Wood, B., Robbins, P., Saunders, C. & Sampson, D., 2012, In : American Journal of Roentgenology. 199, 4, p. 520-522
Ultrasound-guided thoracentesis: Is it a safer method?
Jones, P. W., Moyers, J. P., Rogers, J. T., Rodriguez, R. M., Lee, G. & Light, R. W., 2003, In : Chest. 123, 2, p. 418-423
Thoracostomy
Ultrasound Imaging of Breastfeeding - A Window to the Inside: Methodology, Normal Appearances, and Application
Geddes, D. & Sakalidis, V. S., 2015, In : Journal of Human Lactation. 32, 2, p. 340-349
Ultrasound Imaging of Infant Sucking Dynamics during the Establishment of Lactation
Sakalidis, V., Williams, T., Garbin, C., Hepworth, A., Hartmann, P., Paech, M. & Geddes, D., 2013, In : Journal of Human Lactation. 29, p. 205-213
Ultrasound Imaging of Infant Swallowing During Breast-Feeding
Geddes, D., Chadwick, L., Kent, J., Garbin, C. & Hartmann, P., 2010, In : Dysphagia. 25, 3, p. 183-191
Ultrasound Imaging of Milk Ejection in the Breast of Lactating Women
Ramsay, D., Kent, J., Owens, R. & Hartmann, P., 2004, In : Pediatrics. 113, 2, p. 361-367
Milk Ejection
Ultrasound imaging of tissue overlying the ischial tuberosity: Does patient position matter?
Gabison, S., Hayes, K., Campbell, K. E., Swaine, J. M. & Craven, B. C., 16 Jul 2019, In : Journal of Tissue Viability.
Supine Position
Ultrasound in assessing disease severity and therapeutic response in rheumatoid arthritis
Keen, H., Wakefield, R. J. & Conaghan, P. G., 2006, In : Future Rheumatology. 1, 5, p. 579-85
Ultrasound in trauma
Rippey, J. & Royse, A. G., 2009, In : Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology. 23, 3, p. 343-362
Focused Assessment with Sonography of Trauma
Fetal Viability
Hemoperitoneum
Hemothorax
Ultrasound scanning as an effective tool in the conservation of chelonians
Kuchling, G., 2014, In : International Zoo Yearbook. 48, 1, p. 9
Ultrasound settings significantly alter arterial lumen and wall thickness measurements
Potter, K., Reed, C. J., Green, D., Hankey, G. & Arnolda, L., 2008, In : Cardiovascular Ultrasound. 6, 6, p. online - approx 5-20pp
Ultrasound technique for measuring mammary cistern size of dairy ewes
Nudda, A., Pulina, G., Vallebella, R., Bencini, R. & Enne, G., 2001, In : Journal of Dairy Research. 1, 67, p. 101-106
Ultrasound-triggered release from metal shell microcapsules
White, A. L., Langton, C., Wille, M. L., Hitchcock, J., Cayre, O. J., Biggs, S., Blakey, I., Whittaker, A. K., Rose, S. & Puttick, S., 15 Oct 2019, In : Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 554, p. 444-452 9 p.
Ultra-stable Cryogenic Sapphire Dielectric Microwave Resonators : Mode Frequency Temperature Compensation by Residual Paramagnetic Impurities
Mann, A., Giles, A. J., Blair, D. & Buckingham, M., 1992, In : Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics. 25, 7, p. 1105-1109
Ultra-Stable Sapphire Resonator-Oscillator
Luiten, A., Mann, A., Giles, A. J. & Blair, D., 1993, In : Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. p. 439-443
Ultra-Stable Very-Low Phase-Noise Signal Source for Very Long Baseline Interferometry Using a Cryocooled Sapphire Oscillator
Nand, N. R., Hartnett, J., Ivanov, E. & Santarelli, G., 2011, In : IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 59, 11, p. 2978-2986
Ultrastructural abnormalities in human diseased skeletal muscle
Papadimitriou, J., 1993, In : Microscopy Society of America Bulletin. 23, p. 298-305
Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical analysis of axonal regrowth and myelination in membranes which form over lesion sites in the rat visual system
Dyson, S. E., Harvey, A. R., Trapp, B. D. & Heath, J. W., 1 Dec 1988, In : Journal of Neurocytology. 17, 6, p. 797-808 12 p.
Myelin Sheath
Neuroglia
Ultrastructural and physiological responses of potato (Solanum tuberosum L) plantlets to gradient saline stress
Gao, H. J., Yang, H. Y., Bai, J. P., Liang, X. Y., Lou, Y., Zhang, J. L., Wang, D., Zhang, J-L., Niu, S. & Chen, Y., 2015, In : Frontiers in Plant Science. 5, JAN, p. 1-14
Solanum tuberosum
plantlets
salt stress
plant response
ULTRASTRUCTURAL BASIS FOR MAINTENANCE AND TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY
Garfield, RE., Rabideau, S., Challis, J. & Daniel, EE., 1979, In : American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 133, 3, p. 308-315
Ultrastructural evidence of intestinal mucosal macrophage activation after bone marrow transplantation
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Graft vs Host Disease
Ultrastructural findings in the human peripheral neuropathies
Ultra-structural localisation of hepatocellular PKR protein using immuno-gold labelling in chronic hepatitis C virus disease
Macquillan, G., Caterina, P., De Boer, B., Allan, J., Platten, M. A., Reed, W. D. & Jeffrey, G., 2009, In : Journal of Molecular Histology. 40, 3, p. 171-176
Chronic Hepatitis C
Hepacivirus
Hep G2 Cells
Ultrastructural observations on the unique paired capillaries of the opossum retina
Mcmenamin, P. & Krause, W. J., 1993, In : Cell and Tissue Research. 271, p. 461-468
Ultrastructural pathology of experimental autoimmune uveitis: quantitative evidence of activation and possible high endothelial-like changes in retinal vascular endotheloum
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Ultrastructural pathology of experimental autoimmune uveitis is the rat
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Retinal Pigment Epithelium
Retinal Vasculitis
Ultrastructure and motility pattern of the spermatozoa of Aleochara curtula (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
Werner, M., Tscheulin, T., Speck, T., Zissler, D. & Peschke, K., 2002, In : Arthropod Structure and Development. 31, p. 243-254
Ultrastructure and organisation of the cornea, lens and iris in the pipefish, Corythoichthys paxtoni (Syngnathidae, Teleostei)
Collin, H. B. & Collin, S., 1995, In : Histology and Histopathology. 10, p. 313-323
Ultrastructure and organisation of the retina and pigment epithelium in the cutlips minnow, Exoglossum maxillingua (Cyprinidae, Teleostei).
Collin, S., Collin, H. B. & Ali, M. A., 1996, In : Histology and Histopathology. 11, p. 55-69
Ultrastructure of spermatozoa of Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) exhibits heritable variation
Werner, M. & Simmons, L., 2011, In : Naturwissenschaften. 98, p. 213–223
Ultrastructure of the Epithelial Cells Associated with Tooth Biomineralization in the Chiton Acanthopleura hirtosa
Shaw, J., Macey, D. J., Brooker, L. R., Stockdale, E., Saunders, M. & Clode, P., 2009, In : Microscopy and Microanalysis. 15, 2, p. 154-165
Biomineralization
epithelium
Ultrastructure of the reticular basement membrane in asthmatic adults, children and infants
Saglani, S., Molyneux, C., Gong, H., Rogers, A., Malmstrom, K., Pelkonen, A., Makela, M., Adelroth, E., Bush, A., Payne, D. & Jeffery, P. K., 2006, In : European Respiratory Journal. 28, p. 505-512
Basement Membrane
Ultrastructure of the test wall in modern porcelaneous foraminifera: Implications for the classification of the miliolida
Parker, J. H., 1 Apr 2017, In : Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 47, 2, p. 136-174 39 p.
Dental Porcelain
ultrastructure
Ultrathin Fiber probes with extended depth of focus for optical coherence tomography
Lorenser, D., Yang, X. & Sampson, D., 2012, In : Optics Letters. 37, 10, p. 1616-1618
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Established in 2020 Saturday, January 16, 2021
Satellite to track rising seas as climate warms
Image: Fuu J, Unsplash.
by Marlowe Hood
PARIS (AFP).- An Earth-observation satellite developed by European and US space agencies set to lift off Saturday will measure sea level rise, tracking changes threatening to disrupt tens of millions of lives within a generation.
If all goes according to plan, the payload will be hoisted into a low-Earth 1,300-kilometre (800-mile) orbit by a Space X Falcon 9 rocket, with lift-off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 17:17 GMT.
Sentinel-6a will be the first of two identical satellites -- the second to be launched in five years -- that will provide measurements of unprecedented precision until at least 2030.
Each Sentinel-6 probe carries a radar altimeter, which measures the time it takes for radar pulses to travel to Earth’s surface and back again.
The satellites will circle the planet in the same orbit as earlier missions that supplied sea-surface height data over the last three decades, mapping 95 percent of Earth’s ice-free ocean every ten days.
Accelerating sea level rise is arguably the climate change impact that will affect the largest number of people over the next three decades.
Nearly 800 million people live within five metres of sea level, and even an increase in sea level of a few centimetres can translate into vastly more damage from high tides and storm surges.
Sea level rise accelerating
Already today, there are more than 100 million people living below high tide levels.
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"Extreme sea level events that are historically rare -- once per century in the recent past -- are projected to occur frequently, at least once per year, at many locations by 2050," especially in the tropics, the UN climate science advisory panel, the IPCC, concluded in a major report last year.
Satellites tracking the world's oceans since 1993 show that global mean sea level has risen, on average, by over three millimetres (more than a tenth of an inch) annually.
More recently, that rate has increased to 5 mm per year.
"It is crucial that we are able to see these accelerations," said Alain Ratier, outgoing Director-General of Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT.
China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand are home to the greatest number of people who today live on land that could be threatened by permanent inundation by 2100.
The IPCC forecasts an increase in global sea level rise of up to 1.1 metres (43 inches) by the end of the century.
The Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission is a collaboration of the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA), EUMETSAT, NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Sentinel satellites are each about the size and shape of a large minivan topped with slanted solar panels, and weigh nearly 1,200 kilos (2,600 pounds), including rocket fuel.
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The effect of silicon nitride on the laser surface alloying with Fe-Cr-Si3N4 powders
Chong Cheng Huang, Wen Ta Tsai, Ju Tung Lee
International Curriculum for Advanced Materials Program
Silicon which resulted from the decomposition of silicon nitride acts as a deoxidizer that results in a lower oxygen content in surface alloy produced by laser irradiation with Fe-Cr-Si3N4 powders. The lower dilution of the alloying elements in the surface alloy can also be attributed to the presence of silicon in the molten laser surface alloy.
Scripta Metallurgica et Materiala
https://doi.org/10.1016/0956-716X(95)00189-3
Published - 1995 May 1
10.1016/0956-716X(95)00189-3
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Why Not Force Somebody Who Hates You to Perform Your Wedding Ceremony?
Scott Shackford | 10.20.2014 10:45 AM
(The Hitching Post)
The Hitching Post
The headlines all say something similar—a variation of "Ministers in Idaho city told to marry gay couples or go to jail." Headlines being what they are, they're factually accurate while being a little incomplete. The conflict is worthwhile to examine: One of the big fears of religious conservatives is that the legalization of same-sex marriages would result in the government forcing churches to perform gay wedding ceremonies. Is that what's going on here?
On a certain level, that's not quite what's happening. Donald and Evelynn Knapp are ordained ministers in Coeur d'Aline, Idaho. They run a business called The Hitching Post where they conduct wedding ceremonies. It's not a church, per se. Idaho is now recognizing gay marriages, so does that mean The Hitching Post is providing a public accommodation? A deputy city attorney for the city thinks it is, meaning the Knapps would be violating the city's anti-discrimination ordinance should they refuse gay couples. They could face fines (very likely) or jail time (probably not). The debate started all the way back in May, when the Knapps threatened to close their small chapel if forced to marry gays. That was when the issue was still under debate. Now gay marriage recognition has come to Idaho, and a gay couple came to the Knapps wanting to get married. They were turned away.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group (mentioned last week in a fight between the City of Houston and Christian opponents of an anti-discrimination ordinance), is representing the Knapps against the city to halt enforcement of the law, and so there's lots of outrage to go around.
Eugene Volokh, over at The Washington Post, stepped away from all the outrage and emotional responses to explore whether the city could force a minister to marry a gay couple, even through the mechanism of a for-profit business rather than a church. His conclusion is that they probably could not:
Friday, the Knapps moved for a temporary restraining order, arguing that applying the antidiscrimination ordinance to them would be unconstitutional and would also violate Idaho's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. I think that has to be right: compelling them to speak words in ceremonies that they think are immoral is an unconstitutional speech compulsion. Given that the Free Speech Clause bars the government from requiring public school students to say the pledge of allegiance, or even from requiring drivers to display a slogan on their license plates (Wooley v. Maynard (1977)), the government can't require ministers — or other private citizens — to speak the words in a ceremony, on pain of either having to close their business or face fines and jail time. (If the minister is required to conduct a ceremony that contains religious language, that would violate the Establishment Clause as well.)
I think the Knapps are also entitled to an exemption under the Idaho RFRA. The Knapps allege that "sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit them from performing, officiating, or solemnizing a wedding ceremony between anyone other than one man and one woman"; I know of no reason to think they're lying about their beliefs. Requiring them to violate their beliefs (or close their business) is a substantial burden on their religious practice.
Read more analysis from Volokh here. He also weighed in on the Houston subpoena controversy from last week here.
We can argue whether baking a cake or taking photographs constitutes putting a stamp of approval on a wedding or if it's just a neutral service (not that it should matter to anybody who supports freedom of association). But certainly a minister performing a religious ceremony, regardless of whether the context is through a church or business, cannot be reasonably argued to be providing something that is content-neutral.
For heaven's sake, folks, don't try dragging somebody in to marry the two of you who doesn't want to marry the two of you. It's supposed to be the happiest day of your life. Here's a suggestion: If you're thinking of cutting out a distant relative from an invite to your wedding because he is posting anti-gay-marriage stuff on his Facebook wall, don't ask somebody with the exact same beliefs to perform the ceremony for you.
See my previous installments of "Why Not Force Somebody Who Hates You …" here and here.
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Scott Shackford is an associate editor at Reason.
Gay Marriage Religion Idaho Religious liberty
October.20.2014 at 10:49 am
Because, FYTW.
It’s not about equal treatment, but about teaching those troglodytes to heel.
Wait a second. Isn’t that illegal? I thought personal performance couldn’t be compelled due to the 13th Amendment (with exceptions, of course). I’m leaving aside for the moment the more obvious issue of this being compelled speech.
That’s specific performance of personal services, that is.
That is?
I hate Mondays. Especially the morning part.
Auric Demonocles
I thought you did it on purpose, for purposeful emphasis.
Maybe I did. There’s really no telling what my mind is doing on Monday mornings.
MegaloMonocle
Here’s the deal, folks:
Right now, there are thousands and thousands of pages of Federal Register that both (a) compel the performance of personal services and/or (b) compel speech of various kinds.
We crossed this Rubicon long, long ago.
Free Society
Burn the federal register. Burn the federal everything.
Scarecrow Repair
200 years, one month, 27 days late, you are.
Clearly the Brits weren’t on their A-game.
Sosalty
October.20.2014 at 4:31 pm
Sorry, I don’t read personal registars. Actually, I kinda think natural law and my conscience is all I have to follow. Can you and a billion buerocrats enforce petty laws if the populance doesn’t give a twit about half of ’em?
Something something state issued license.
Yo, fuck that shit.
There is precedent in the speech front for pretty hefty restrictions on licensed professions. Like attorney advertising, which used to be very restricted. Although I find myself wishing it was still that way, it’s a clear violation of speech rights.
it’s a clear violation of speech rights
Yes… and?
There’s nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t engage in violent nudging.
Sadly, most people think it works that way. “Doesn’t say we can’t kill SoCons.”
“Show me were it doesn’t say that I can’t engage in human hunts. Huh? HUH?”
Got me there. Go chase the most dangerous game at will.
Chasing fenced-in game at a reNedification camp isn’t very sporting.
Notorious G.K.C.
As I mentioned earlier today, the Supreme Court has gotten around that little technicality:
“”We find no merit in the remainder of appellant’s contentions, including that of “involuntary servitude.” As we have seen, 32 States prohibit racial discrimination in public accommodations. These laws but codify the common law innkeeper rule, which long predated the Thirteenth Amendment. It is difficult to believe that the Amendment was intended to abrogate this principle. Indeed, the opinion of the Court in the Civil Rights Cases is to the contrary as we have seen, it having noted with approval the laws of “all the States” prohibiting discrimination. We could not say that the requirements of the Act in this regard are in any way “akin to African slavery.” Butler v. Perry, 240 U.S. 328, 332 (1916).””
http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup…..79_0241_ZO
It’s a little different in this case, because it involves personal services, but you’re right, the precedent is set.
Public Accommodations is one of the worst ideas engrained in common law.
There are several holdovers in the common law that arise from its roots in medieval views of law, which were not exactly amenable to liberty.
You have to remember that parts (not all, but parts) of the common law are there both to codify traditional feudal relationships and to empower the world view of the feudal aristocracy and clerisy.
Feudal aristocrats and clerics who traveled around did not want innkeepers (mere commoners, and in trade to boot) to believe that they could decide whom to serve and whom not to serve. “Fuck you, commoner. Feed my fucking horse, and shut the fuck up,” would have been their attitude, without apology.
perlhaqr
I absolutely agree. I used to argue this one with an ex of mine all the time, regarding smoking bans. She has asthma, and so, it’s way more convenient for her personally if smoking is banned in places. And because restaurants, bars, etc, are all open to the public, it’s totally reasonable to regulate the fuck out of them despite whatever the owner might want to do with the space they pay rent on, because public accommodation. And then in other arguments, she used to say that libertarians were selfish. *eyeroll*
Bill Dalasio
And then in other arguments, she used to say that libertarians were selfish.
Well sure, perlhaqr. Your using your own property for your own benefit is selfishness. Their using your property for their own benefit is public-spiritedness.
Adans smith
October.20.2014 at 12:04 pm
no,you own a business ,your property rights are null and void.You work at the pleasure of the state
I think they should be allowed to not perform the ceremony but have to pay a penaltax.
/John “Fuckwad” Roberts
Let’s call it a jizya.
Ewww. Let’s not.
For heaven’s sake, folks, don’t try dragging somebody in to marry the two of you who doesn’t want to marry the two of you. It’s supposed to be the happiest day of your life.
If you’re a SJW malcontent, the only way you can be happy get any satisfaction at all, is to be able to get the government to force other people to do things they don’t want to do.
Need edit button. I should have said ‘the only way you can be happy get any satisfaction at all, is to be able to get the government to force other people to do things they don’t want to do, or stop other people from doing things you don’t like, just because‘
It’s funny. Such people used to be called “bullies”.
The Original Jason
Establish a SJW hotel. We’ll call it the Shitlord Hotel. It’ll charge a base fee that’s barely breaks even. Then, on top of that, it’ll charge “privilege fees”:
50$ for being cis
50$ for being straight
50$ for being white
50$ for being male
50$ for being able
Less see how well that holds up in court. 😀
mad.casual
Here’s a suggestion: If you’re thinking of cutting out a distant relative from an invite to your wedding because he is posting anti-gay-marriage stuff on his Facebook wall, don’t ask somebody with the exact same beliefs to perform the ceremony for you.
Are the Knapps posting anti-gay-marriage stuff on a Facebook wall?
Ahem'
Who cares if they are. Find someone who is WILLING to perform the ceremony and get on with with your miserable fucking lives.
The Late P Brooks
tedious.
SusanM
So, why did they offer civil and interfaith ceremonies up until about a month ago?
http://www.goodasyou.org/good_…..-case.html
Because that’s got nothing to do with gay ceremonies?
antisocial-ist
Maybe because up until about a month ago they could offer those services without the fear of being forced to perform a wedding that violates their religion. In any event who gives a flying fuck why they choose to do something? They have the right to offer whatever services to whoever they want.
So a former hooker can’t be raped as long as the rapist leaves money, right?
Yes, Mad, that’s right
Well, your original question sounded a lot like this to me.
Who cares? “I don’t want to” should be the end of every public interaction.
Consent is sexy.
trshmnster the terrible
Think what would happen if the SJWs’ affirmative consent laws were expanded out to economic consent as well. They would cry salty tears of social injustice. It would be so tasty.
Warren's Strapon
This is why I hope I live long enough to see prostitution legalized. All it will take is one prostitute to refuse to see black clients for the SJW heads to explode.
Damnit, there was supposed to be a series of text hearts after this.
And, I mean, I agree with this statement in the way the people who usually say it mean it, too, but fuck, I think turning it around to stab the SJWs with is glorious.
Yeah, the server squirrels don’t much care for angle brackets. However, your overall point is good.
How about they just fucking felt like changing their policies? How about they have a right to offer whatever the hell service to whoever the hell they feel like and, if you want to force them to do something they don’t want to, you’re a bullying piece of shit?
That work for you?
This Machine Wants Cake
Because the Law is a cudgel to beat down your enemies, not a shield to protect you from force or fraud. If you hide behind the Law, We will turn it against you and your ilk.
COMPLY. OBEY. THE INNOCENT HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.
“The debate started all the way back in May, when the Knapps threatened to close their small chapel if forced to marry gays. That was when the issue was still under debate. *Now gay marriage recognition has come to Idaho*…”
You mean theres a *connection* between government recognition of SSM and the coercion of private businesses?
Why didn’t someone warn us about this?
“They could face fines (very likely) or jail time (probably not).”
So the law authorizes imprisonment for violators, but that part of the law “probably” won’t be invoked against these ministers. OK, then, that’s all right.
“One of the big fears of religious conservatives is that the legalization of same-sex marriages would result in the government forcing churches to perform gay wedding ceremonies.”
Another fear is that the government will force business owners to violate their consciences. Well, at least *that* hasn’t happened yet!
Almanian!
Th e “slippery sloper?” is just a Vast, Right-Wing Kochspiracy, GKC.
We’ve been on the slippery slope for a long time. I’d rather be on the slippery slope with equal protection more intact. Why do people act like public accommodation laws never existed before gay marriage?
No, it’s that these sorts suits against bakers, florists, T-shirt makers, wedding-chapel owners, etc. seem to have grown with the growth of the SSM movement.
We’ve had public accomodation laws since 1965 (earlier in some states), but it wasn’t until the SSM movement that we began hearing about forcing bakers to make Jim and Jacob a wedding cake.
Not that this has any relevance to what the law should be, but I doubt many bakers would have given a shit if they were making a cake for some fags’ solemnization ceremony before it became a political issue. It’s definitely wrong to force someone to do something like that, but the harm caused is very small. In my view smaller than the harm caused by the unequal protection provided by old fashioned marriage laws.
I find the possibility of forcing people to perform ceremonies much more troubling as you get into real speech and religion issues. No one’s religion really forbids them from making a cake for a gay wedding, but performing a wedding is a whole other story.
I would expect courts to come out more on the right side in that case (I also expect to be disappointed a lot).
And I agree that it is really petty and assholey to try to get someone you know disapproves to solemnize you gay marriage. It’s not as if officiants are in short supply. Pretty much anyone can become one with almost no effort. There are even plenty of churches who are happy to do gay weddings.
“No one’s religion really forbids them from making a cake for a gay wedding”
How many gay weddings were catered by fundie bakers “before it became a political issue”? Unless we know that, we can’t say they don’t *really* have a religious objection.
kbolino
The only person to judge this effectively is the one who holds the belief. It is not your place nor mine to stand in coercive judgment of others with regard to the exercise of their own freedom.
Yes, which is why I said “Not that this has any relevance to what the law should be”. And of course people can (and probably do somewhere) believe anything. It’s probably best not to take universal declarations like that too seriously.
When it comes to religious freedom I believe that anything anyone claims to be their religion must be treated as such by the law. My comment about what people really believe about baking cakes is just a general observation and has nothing to do with what I think the law should be or how it should be applied.
but the harm caused is very small
It doesn’t matter. The harm may be small, but the justification for causing it is even smaller.
“But I really want that guy to bake me a cake!”
Tough shit. He doesn’t want to, and there is no way to justify forcing him to.
And believe me, I’m firmly in support of homosexuals having the same state-recognition of marriage as heterosexuals. I went to a wedding for a lesbian couple last Friday and was deliriously happy to see their joy. But I’d have not gone to their wedding, and told them exactly why, if they’d done something like this.
I agree. There is no justification for forcing anyone even if they just made up their objection on the spot to be a jerk.
People who want to force bigots to bake them cakes are just being assholes, I agree completely.
C. S. P. Schofield
If someone you despise does not have a civil right that prevents the State from correcting his behavior and sifting his opinion, neither do YOU.
Pulseguy
Unless of course the baker is a Cakeafarian.
Indeed, the public accomodation laws suddenly seem to have come out of the woodwork because all the people whose views were already trampled by them have already been silenced. This is a tacit admission of the effectiveness of the law by its opponents; so much so that they are willing to throw everyone already harmed by them under the bridge.
so much so that they are willing to throw everyone already harmed by the law under the bridge.
I can’t say what all the “fundies”* were doing when these laws were first passed, but from progressive commenters, I hear that they were racists who didn’t want to cater to blacks!
And those who were indifferent to the principles at stake probably hadn’t read their Niemoller.
*I’m deliberately adopting the term sarcastically to describe the kind of people with religious objections to SSM.
My point is that no one is going to champion the case of the racist who doesn’t want to serve people because of the color of their skin. So the end result is going to be a carve-out for specific types of people, rather than a greater affirmation of freedom of association. No, you didn’t initiate the injustice, but you are basically adopting the argument of “libertarian” proponents of same-sex marriage: yes, the law is unjust, but it should be unjust in my favor.
The original point of these laws – whether we agree with it or not – was to protect vulnerable and marginalized groups, especially African-Americans.
I think a consistent, nonlibertarian person can advocate laws for black people who had been sleeping in their cars because no motel would take them, without sliding all the way down the slope and passing laws to protect the feelings of people who have to go across the street to get a cake.
What is the “consistent, nonlibertarian” principle one can use to make this case?
To make exceptions to free association only to the extent necessary to protect vulnerable and marginalized groups from actual harm – eg, job loss and sleeping in your car as opposed to hurt feelings.
Calling “job loss” and “sleeping in your car” harm is implying that a person is owed a job or owed a place to stay. It imposes upon the provider a burden to provide. Even if you call out the specific forms of “harm”, it amounts to an entitlement for some and the forseeable consequence of creating entitlements is other people expanding them.
The distinction is arbitrary and thus ultimately subject to being undermined by the very same “equality” arguments.
“To make exceptions to free association only to the extent necessary to protect vulnerable and marginalized groups from actual harm…”
So, if someone judges gays “vulnerable and marginalized” and not having cake a “harm”, you’re down with it, right?
But, now you’re guilty of the same thing as Zeb: “It’s okay to coerce those icky old racists into renting black people a hotel room, but how dare you make me offer service to teh gehyz!” Either racists have rights or good Christian believers don’t. You can’t have it both ways.
The only way that the entirety of public accommodation and anti-discrimination can be tackled as a whole is from an “ends don’t justify the means” argument.
I try to highlight how hard it is to identify and avoid racists when you drive them underground. They’re free to subtly subvert and intimidate minorities, but have been driven underground by anti-discrimination statutes. Without those statutes, Jim Bob can open the Racist Confederate Lynch Diner, and I am free to avoid both that Diner and any other affiliation with Jim Bob that may currently support his racist ways, since he is currently forced to hide them.
It’s largely because of the slippery slope that I’m skeptical of these “antidiscrimination” laws. If there were a way to protect only groups which are marginalized and oppressed in measurable, objective ways (eg, getting frozen out of the economy like black people under Jim Crow), then that would be one thing.
But we now know that once we admit the principle of “antidiscrimination” laws, then the protected classes won’t be limited to those who are oppressed in the economy. So we start by looking at Jim Crow companies where blacks are all janitors and whites are engineers and managers, and to address that situation we create laws which end up protecting the hurt feelings of cake-buyers.
If there were some way to draw the line, I’d consider it. But whenever the people draw up laws to limit the scope of these laws, the courts say that the people themselves are being discriminatory.
1. You are conflating “the people” with “the government”; if “the people” were all in agreement, the law would not be necessary.
2. Setting aside that quibble, carving out specific cases is discriminatory by definition. Of course, discrimination is not inherently wrong, but the courts obviously have held that it is where “protected classes” are involved. Ultimately, if you’re not willing to go after the concept of “protected classes” itself, you will always be subject to the “equalization” of them.
At present, the only point I’m trying to make is that a non-libertarian, who isn’t an absolutist for free association, can actually have worthwhile contribution to make in this “I want cake” discussion.
If someone who isn’t a libertarian says that when faced by massive economic harm, a group can seek government protection from discrimination – then don’t cast that person out of civilized company – help them out with evidence that the latest candidate for protected status doesn’t face Jim Crow style harm and so shouldn’t have the “right” to violate free association.
Then it will be time enough to defend the free association of the segregated companies and restaurants back in the Jim Crow days.
Someone who separates these cases isn’t a wicked hypocrite to be cast out of civilized society, but a reasonable person who may be open to your persuasion! And an ally against the latest protected-class agitation.
I ain’t casting anybody out. But a fair-weather friend is only good to have when the weather is fair. And since I can’t control the weather…
Bluwater
Exactly! When it comes to discrimination, “wrong” and “illegal” are completely unrelated. Arguing that [and $2] will get you a coffee. One need not argue wrong/right. One must only obtain protected victim status. Instantly, now how you think/feel is the basis for such a claim. “I feel like I’m gay [prove me wrong], so you must do business with me.”
I being a white middle class male am not afforded the power of being in a victim class. The black baker can refuse my business… unless I claim that I am a gay white middle class male. I can now literally get around my whiteness by claiming to be gay, in which case, he must then do business with me and smile while doing so or the black baker is in violation of my civil rights [not because of my race, but because of how I claim that I think]. Ironic, huh?
Anyone in business has certain customers they’ rather lose. It doesn’t have to be anything associated with a protected class, but merely an attitude expressed by the prospect customer. However, we have now entered an age when a prospect customer can claim violation of a victim status that the merchant wouldn’t have even known existed and use that to punish the merchant. And we have put merchants in the position of having to prove a negative…. that the reason they didn’t want their business had nothing to do with whatever the accuser claims as their victim status.
Even under the current laws you could operate the Racist Confederate Lynch Diner?Niggers Welcome!
Was there a point to this bizarre non sequitur?
He’s answering my example from above, where I said it’s easier to avoid Jim Bob’s Racist Confederate Lynch Diner than the subtle underground racism of today.
I think the only way Robert’s example would be legal is if it were run by a black woman who was a racial studies professor. I think merely the name would get a white guy fined and delicensed.
He’s answering my example from above
Still, I think “niggers welcome” kind of undermines the concept of the “lynch diner”, no? Unless they’re welcome to be lynched, but then you’re getting into actual crimes.
I think merely the name would get a white guy fined and delicensed.
Not directly, of course. But health and safety inspectors would make awfully frequent visits to the diner.
“Jim Bob can open the Racist Confederate Lynch Diner, and I am free to avoid both that Diner and any other affiliation with Jim Bob that may currently support his racist ways, since he is currently forced to hide them.”
Allowing people to openly express themselves and accept/reject business on whatever grounds they happen to prefer is in the public’s best interests, especially those who they don’t want to do business with.
As per the cake baker, if you are a black or gay couple, would you prefer to know up front that the baker really doesn’t want your business? Or would you rather put something in your mouth that was prepared by someone who is forced to do business with you and you have no idea how badly he despises what you stand for?
There are subtle ways to really screw over anyone you are forced to do business with, and it really isn’t in your best interests to have this information hidden.
October.21.2014 at 7:54 am
Along with the SSM movement, a lot of other things have changed. For example, there is a sizeable percentage of atheists in the US now. So perhaps it’s high time we’re having that debate.
If atheists and homosexuals can be legally forced to do business with Christian conservatives, why should Christian conservatives not be forced to do business with atheists and homosexuals?
Personally, I think all these groups should be free to do business or not to do business with whoever they want, for whatever reasons they want to. But for Christian groups to demand to be allowed to discriminate while at the same time wanting to maintain legal protection against discrimination for themselves seems hypocritical.
(Note that freedom of religion does not mean that you are protected from private discrimination, so the Constitution is not the basis for these laws.)
I think in previous civil rights movements the slippery slope wasn’t nearly as converging with a race to the bottom.
Lot’s of the arguments I’ve heard in favor of marriage equality consist of picking out the parts of marriage that I don’t particularly like to begin with, declaring them obviously broken and inferior, and then arguing that they should be more inclusive.
Race to the bottom aside, forcing a racist innkeeper to house a black man so he doesn’t freeze to death is one thing, forcing a baker to perform for a gay wedding so they can have it and eat it too is quite different.
Now you’re just haggling about the price.
Once you accede that association can be violated, you lay the foundation for the slippery slope. Eminent domain started the same way.
Right enough. Forcing is the method at hand or under discussion not the method I would choose.
But I am no anarchist, regardless of means, I would put the value of a man’s life generally (though not exclusively) higher than a wedding cake (of any orientation).
Hey…prices matter!
Agreed, and any libertopia that doesn’t involve haggling is no libertopia at all, IMO.
Sure…. in the same way a girl who just lost her virginity to her boyfriend is now open season to any guy wanting sex. She terminated the status, so now it’s haggling over who, right?
Dumb argument. Principles [or exceptions to] always include limitations.
Would you care to explain how this is analogous? Because all I see is histrionics.
Principles [or exceptions to] always include limitations.
Then they’re not really principles, now are they?
Shorter Zeb: I stand fully behind the rights of people I like to do things I approve of. Otherwise, fuck’em.
” So the law authorizes imprisonment for violators, but that part of the law “probably” won’t be invoked against these ministers. OK, then, that’s all right.”
What gets overlooked in most articles like this is what happens when you refuse to pay the fine. They throw you in jail. If you refuse to go to jail, they shoot you. IMO, all articles regarding the enforcement of laws or passage of new laws should have the headline
“Government Threatens Death to All Who (fill in the blank).”
If you’re facing fines, you’re facing jail time (if you don’t pay the fines).
VG Zaytsev
You just don’t get it Eddie.
Expanding government recognition of marriage to the 0.25% of US residents that wants to be in a SSM is worth the cost of restricting the freedom of association for the other 99.75% of the population
Yeah, this is all about teh powerz. As if we didn’t know already.
Fuck these people. I hope I have the opportunity to spit on one of these people’s wedding cake someday.
Imagine I walk into one of my local cupcake joints where their website has Michelle Obama pictures plastered over it. Then I tell them I’d like them to make a bunch of No on I594 themed cupcakes for my upcoming open-carry rally.
They politely decline. I show up three weeks later flanked by three sheriff’s deputies with a court order in my hand demanding they’re going to do it or go to jail.
AND NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED
Of course, the answer is that this sort of thing is totally legal unless your views aren’t popular with the right people. In that case, what you propose is a hate crime.
One sure way to get to hear the crickets chirping is to ask a Liberal Lefty who is all worked up over this if he (or she) would require a Jewish baker to cater a neo-Nazi event. They’re SIURE there’s a difference other than “we like gays and we don’t like Nazis”, but they can’t quite figure out how to say it??.
“we like gays and we don’t like Nazis”, but they can’t quite figure out how to say it??.
That’s it. That’s what their argument comes down to. That’s the total logic behind it. They just have the wind at their back is all.
I would say that the wind is coming OUT of their back?..
Francisco d'Anconia
There you go again CSPS, comparing gahyz to Nazis.
Hater.
Yes, I do hate self-righteous twits who, while raining odium on the self-righteous twits of eras past, behave in exactly the same way, telling everybody what they must do and believe.
tarran
Actually, they have a pat answer: “gays are victims of discrimination and are therefore deserving of the status of ‘protected class’, Nazis aren’t.”
It becomes a bit of an exercise of rabbit hole spelunking to explore the implications.
Faceless Commenter
HAH. I’d like to see a Nazi get away with calling for the Fourth Reich in a public square or running for office on the Nazi Party ticket.
In fact, it’s time Nazis became a protected class, too! Same for child molesters, rapists, serial killers … anyone else I can add to the diverse lefty constituency fruit salad?
Middle class, middle aged white guys?
I said fruit salad, not mayonnaise on white bread platter.
See my comment re consent below.
It seems to be a tad MIA.
My personal variant of that is to demand The Stonewall lease itself out to the Westboro Baptist Church for Gay Pride Week.
But that gets to the heart of the matter: Christians can discriminate against gays, but gays cannot discriminate against Christians.
marshaul
Wrong. They would say “neo-Nazis aren’t a protected class.”
The correct rebuttal to their actual argument would be, “that means right and wrong is defined by the law, which is akin to might makes right.”
Or you could trash straw men all day. Either way.
Arizona_Guy
I’ve used the comparison that you run a catering company, and you’re gay.
Someone from a fundie church asks you to cater an event, you politely decline.
You get sued for religious discrimination.
This is nothing less than thoughtcrime.
Oooh, I’ve got another thought. What if a tee-shirt company forced to print Gay Pride tee shirts capitulated to the request but charged $1000 per tee-shirt? Would the court then also be forced to regulate pricing?
Ideas. Please don’t give them any. Thank you.
That would be discrimination, so ima say yes, unless they charged the same fee to straights.
I’m pretty sure this hypothetical shirt company was also charging straight people $1000 for gay pride shirts.
I doubt the court would buy it.
At $1K a shirt, the court can’t afford to buy any.
rimshot
That’s because the court is retarded.
ColonelEngineer
Dammit, don’t give them ideas!
+1 marihuana tax act
The wedding chapel could also issue a limited number of gay wedding “access stamps”, charge $100k for the access stamp, and only open slots for the wedding on the Tuesday before Christmas or on the Wednesday after Memorial day.
“Blackout restrictions may apply”
Marijuana tax act, National Firearms Act, etc. There’s all sorts of precedent for ridiculous taxes on things, I should think. But the practical answer would likely be “It’s illegal when individuals do it”.
One of the big fears of religious conservatives is that the legalization of same-sex marriages would result in the government forcing churches to perform gay wedding ceremonies. Is that what’s going on here?
This is like the first time I think I’ve ever seen a journalist even express that concern. Most everybody else just repeats “Zey Hates te Gayz!!!” which may be true but makes for a tiresome talking point.
So, what if a gay couple wants to be married in a mosque? Are the Muslims forced to do the wedding?
Really, why aren’t these zealots pursuing precisely this course of action?
For the same reason that PETA doesn’t go around spray painting the leather jackets of biker gangs.
Making Muslims support gay marriage is racist.
Let me guess. Because they don’t want their heads cut off? Hmm, that’s got me thinking, I hope they try it.
It’s sort of like this:
Illegal Immigrant Children guaranteed 3 meals and 2nd helpings
So, the first wookie wants American children to survive on one piece of raw broccoli and tofurkey on a cracker, and illegal immigrant children get guaranteed second helpings of meals?
Is there something wrong with our government? I’m just asking, maybe it’s just me.
This is the reason they won’t go after churches. They’d have to go after Mosques, too. And, we know they won’t do that.
Wait, so what happened to informed consent?
I thought consent was what so was so motherfucking, sparkle pony important.
It shows your power and dominance, like drinking mead out of your enemy’s skull.
“I now pronounce you sodomite sinners…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjqSRQoxnhs
That’s an interesting idea. Maybe performing a wedding is required under public accommodation laws. Sure, fine, whatever. But they could stipulate that they only perform a gay weddings following an unbearable 2-hour sermon about fire and brimstone and Sodom and Gomorrah, right?
And do you, hell-bound sinner, condemned by God, take this other hell-bound sinner, condemned by God, to have and to hold for all eternity in hateful sodomy hell?
Oh dad! We’re all Calvinists!
If there is anyone here–other than the Almighty Himself, who doth curseth this unnatural union–who objects to this sodomoneous venture, speak now and show your contempt for the sin. And keep thusly speaking, for thine curses are thrice blessed in the eyes of Jesus.
At what point in the ceremony would they bring out the ceremonial pillar of salt?
And lo, as God Himself did smite Sodom and Gomorrah with His divine wrath, so shall he smite this abomination and the community that allowed it.
And if it actually comes to them being forced to perform such a ceremony, that’s EXACTLY what I’d do.
And trust me, that wedding cake I was forced to bake would taste like sardines.
“Shockingly enough, when forced at gunpoint to bake a cake, I didn’t do a very good job.”
Sardines? You’re a much kinder soul than I am.
Entropy Void
THAT’S where the Pillar of Salt goes …
Speaking of sodomites, I’m sure you saw what the Jaguars did to your Browns. We going to say Johnny Money Manziel next week?
Queerly beloved we are gathered here..
cavalier973
Mawath ith whath bwingth uth together today *slurp*.
What’s hate got to do with it?
Yeah, “disagreement on socio-political issue” /= hate.
I disagree with people who want to trample on religious freedom, but I can’t say I *hate* them.
My options are limited, since I’m surrounded by such people, including family members.
“OMG, the Supreme Court says *corporations* can deny women their *birth control!*”
“I don’t work on Cadillacs. Take that shitbox to somebody else.”
Should I expect to get sued?
only if the customer is gay, black or a woman.
But that Cadillac had no choice but to be a Cadillac from birth!
Who else drives Cadillacs?
Bruce Springsteen? or was that his GF?
EDG reppin' LBC
Well it is a Cadillac. So the customer is at least one of those.
You can be sued if it’s a *pink* Cadillac.
Pope Jimbo
Has any gay organization spoken out against lawsuits like this? I’m thinking of the parallel between moderate gays and moderate muslims. Why aren’t they speaking out against the radicals who are making their name synonymous with intolerant douchebags? The vast majority of gay people I know all roll their eyes when these lawsuits come up. Has Andrew Sullivan publicly castigated these idiots?
I have to admit that I am one of the people who support SSM and thought that the people claiming that the gubbment would be forcing people to perform gay weddings were engaging in full on hyperbole. I guess I shouldn’t have been so naive about that.
Why aren’t they speaking out against the radicals who are making their name synonymous with intolerant douchebags?
There are plenty of people of whom you could ask that, aren’t there?
Once again, this is a business not a church. I don’t know for sure but if it were a church I’d think it a safe bet that a state like Idaho would have some robust religious exemptions and thus this wouldn’t be an issue.
And I hate to say this but I feel kinda let down that Reason would jump on the “homos hate Jeebus” bandwagon so quickly.
Reason is trying to report on cases of businesses being forced to celebrate same-sex marriages, print gay rights T-shirts, etc. and a municipal government demanding ministers give up their sermons, in the name of fighting for gay rights.
And Reason goes out of its way to signal that it hates what the religious nuts believe, but is just defending their right to believe it.
In this very article, see the reference to “hate,” to “outrage and emotional responses,” etc.
I would even add that Reason does a decent job of inaccurately equating a legitimate business disagreement with nutty rabid homophobic internet slander toward the end of the last full paragraph.
OldMexican
Re: SusanM,
Once again, this is a business not a church.
Meaningless distinction. Like saying “this is a house, not a church” or “this is a barn, not a church”. A church is a congregation of people of a same faith coming to hear a sermon from a religious leader or participate in rituals that celebrate a God. That’s a church. Who cares if the building makes money out of it? Only the state and statists care.
Who cares if the building makes money out of it?
But profit making is evulll.
Re: VG Zaytsev,
Jokes aside, you placed the finger on the (current) moral justification for differentiating between a church and a business: a business takes money from people.
You and I know very well that a business TRADES goods for money, but in the tiny mind of statists, anti-market zealots and little red Marxian Tonys, a business TAKES from US or the COMMUNITY, which means the laws apply differently in their care.
I’d take your point a step further. If the guy running the business organized as a non-profit (i.e. a church) and operated exactly as he has, only taking income as a salary, how would things be any different?
To clarify, it is only a meaningless distinction in a nation where freedom of association hasn’t been entirely eviscerated. If freedom of association is gone, then only freedom of religion stands in the way of imposing certain acts of Commerce.
So what? Does the First Amendment protect freedom of church or freedom of religion? Are you saying that if they’d organized as a non-profit, you’d support their stance?
When you attempt to bargin off religious rights for perceived civil rights, social unrest will revisit us.
But,here on Reason it’s just an opportunity to have some fun at everyone’s expense. These remarks strike close to home and are priceless.
KDN
Didn’t you get the memo? Douchebag now only applies to white, aflluent, heterosexual men.
I had no doubt that it would come to this. That’s not a reason to deny equal protection under the law.
But I’d love to see someone take this bullshit all the way to the SC and get the abominable Civil Rights Act thrown out…finally.
(Yeah, dreaming…but a good dream)
Do you really think equal state marriage is worth threatening innocent people with the loss of property, freedom,or (as I explained above) life?
That’s a utilitarian argument, and I won’t consider it.
Marriage equality was “bonum per se” ? right in and of itself.
If bad people have used it as a springboard to do bad things, then we should fight those bad people & things.
That being said, elimination of marriage licensure was always the most moral (and optimific, if that matters) means to the end.
Well, Francisco, you are at least willing to accept responsibility for the foreseeable results of the position you supported.
That puts you way ahead of most gay marriage proponents.
RC,
I’ve seen you make the case about “forseeable consequences are not unintended” w/r/t gay marriage and public accomodation, yet you vociferously defend your votes for third-party candidates even if the predictable consequence is an election of a candidate (regardless of party) who is less supportive of liberty than his major-party opponent.
Care to square that circle?
No prob, kb:
My one vote for a third-party candidate is so extremely unlikely to be the deciding vote that I don’t regard the Wrong Team Member winning as a foreseeable consequence of my choice.
Ok fair enough, but could not the same argument be made of a nominally libertarian person supportive of SSM? He may not support the public accomodation/protected class forseeable consequence but his vote is not decisive, either.
Sorry, not quite there.
When I vote for the third party candidate, I want him/her/it to actually win. In fact, my vote is against the Wrong Team Member(s). The Wrong Team Member winning is just not a foreseeable result of the position I am taking or an action I am taking.
If you support mandatory licensing of gay marriage through the EP, you are supporting public accommodation/protected class privileges because it is a package deal. Your individual support may not be decisive, but it is a foreseeable result of the position you are taking.
That sounds like an argument of convenience. When you want them to, your intentions can trump forseeable consequences. You may not support first-past-the-post and winner-takes-all but those are the electoral realities of this country. In a 3-way race, your vote for your #1 candidate (third party) splits the opposition to your #3 candidate (major party) resulting in him getting more votes than your #2 candidate (major party). You didn’t “intend” for #3 candidate to win, but you could have foreseen it.
Re: Francisco D’Aconia,
Would you agree that there’s a difference between equality under the law and being granted a privilege under the law? The privilege of successfully compelling a person to trade with you, for instance.
Would you agree that there’s a difference between equality under the law and being granted a privilege under the law?
Of course, the application of both results in where we are now. So which is kept and which is discarded?
Re: kbolino,
So which is kept and which is discarded?
Privileges are a total violation of the principle of equality under the law and a violation of individuals’ rights. Privileges must be discarded completely; that means no affirmative action, no “special protections”. Privileges are a Marxist construct, based on the assumption that our sense of being does not rest in the fact that we’re human but that we’re part of a group, defined in an arbitrary way.
Agreed, yet they exist. So if you aren’t willing to fight the existence so much as the expansion, then you’re really arguing against equality under the law.
So if you aren’t willing to fight the existence so much as the expansion, then you’re really arguing against equality under the law.
That’s a non sequitur. I just established the difference between equality under the law and privilege or special protection, and yet you argue that by being against privilege I am against equality under the law!
I just established the difference between equality under the law and privilege or special protection, and yet you argue that by being against privilege I am against equality under the law!
The question is to what extent are you actually against the privilege as opposed to simply being against its expansion.
Right now, it seems like gay marriage is the sum total of the war, rather than just one battle in a much broader war.
I have little doubt of your sincerity, but most opponents of gay marriage, gays as protected classes, etc. would fight no further than the abolition of just those things.
So then yes it is fair to say that they are opponents of equality under the law moreso than they are opponents of state-granted privileges.
OM…protected classes are an abomination. They are EXACTLY the opposite of what they claim to be.
Equal protection- yes
Special privilege- no
I imagine that reasonable gays don’t organize. They just go about their lives and accept various social limitations, same as I do as a female who’ll hold it in for a minute rather than charge into some reeking men’s room.
“reeking men’s room?”
I’ve been a bar owner and a hotel owner with public washrooms. Women’s toilets are generally way grosser than are toilets for men.
There’s only one way to settle it, but I’d rather just concede the point.
We start to punish people like this, we send a message that a belief test is required for those who want to be in the business of providing a service or accomodation to the public. How fair is that?
The law may ban discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, but I wonder if the Hitching Post is banned from putting up, say,
“Gays are disgusting perverts” signs on the walls, or if the ministers, while having to say the magic marriage words, are prohibited from adding -as most ministers do – words of their own choosing such as “The state of Idaho is forcing me to marry you
disgusting perverts, so here goes….”
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered hear today to keep me from going to jail because of this pair of litigious assholes and asshole fuckers…”
I wonder if the Hitching Post is banned from putting up, say, “Gays are disgusting perverts” signs on the walls,
Of course hate speech and creating a hostile environment against protected classes is prohibited. Duh.
Exactly. They could no more do that than hire black people and put up signs saying blacks are stupid. Hostile environment is the same as discrimination.
That is what the Cosmotarians are Reason refuse to understand. Public accommodation laws don’t just tell you who can do business with, they tell you what you can say about them.
RAHeinlein
Say, think, hire/fire, compensation levels, etc…
I don’t see why he couldn’t say:
“Despite this being against my religious beliefs these two people, while knowing that, on this most sacred and wonderful of days for them, on a day that is an expression of their love for each other, they chose instead to turn this into a political act. Accordingly I will perform their marriage under protest….”
Is that what’s going on here?
No. It’s not a church.
If religious non-church folks want to preserve their right to discriminate, they ought to put up “no gays” signs on their businesses. But of course they don’t do that because that would be mean.
They don’t do that because it’d get them just as sued, but more quickly.
Looks to me like that’s exactly what’s going on here.
Unless you want the State to get into the business of saying what a “real” church is and what isn’t. Because the “public accommodation” argument turns on sorting between “real” churches and “not-real” churches.
These folks are ordained ministers. That should be the end of the inquiry. But, obviously, its not.
You were warned, folks. And you laughed it off, believing that foreseeable consequences wouldn’t happen solely because you didn’t mean for them to happen. Which is just about the mental level of a five-year-old.
Try to do better next time.
I don’t think that many claimed that things like this wouldn’t happen. Just that it is an issue separate from whether marriages should be recognized legally.
I don’t think that many claimed that things like this wouldn’t happen.
All the Gay Marriage is a Constitutional Right crowd who refused to see that the Equal Protection argument for mandating licensing of gay marriages was a Trojan horse for making gaiety a protected class with all the privileges thereof.
Citing the inevitable attempt to get gays recognized as a protected class as an excuse to not provide equal protection under the law for gays is nothing more than a lame excuse to justify bigotry.
TWO SEPARATE ISSUES!
No they are not. They are the same issue. I and various others have only explained equal protection to you about a hundred times. Why do you refuse to listen?
They are exactly the same issue. When you say “gays deserve equal protection” you are saying “gays deserve protected class status. That is what equal protection means. It means the government can’t discriminate against certain classes of people. It does not for 1000th time mean the government can never make any distinctions and must treat everyone equal regardless of the circumstances.
Bigot.
When you say “gays deserve equal protection” you are saying “gays deserve protected class status
Did you just actually write that?
Red Tony thinks that “certain people”, I’m guessing they would be people HE believes to be “less”, are not entitled to equal protection under the law.
EVERYONE GETS EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW! BIGOT!
WHat they DON’T get is special privileges.
TWO SEPARATE ISSUES. But nice attempt to justify your bigotry. Too bad you are using a non sequitur. Guess you’ll need to find another excuse for your bigotry.
You are just trolling at this point. No one is this fucking stupid. Seriously, there is no way you are this dumb that you actually think that “equal protection” with in the context of the 14th Amendment does not revolve around who is and is not a protected class.
I don’t know what to tell you other than read a fucking book sometime and stop thinking words mean what you think they mean in every context and are not terms of art.
Let me give you a clue “equal protection” is a legal term of art. It means something more than just “everyone must be treated the same”. It is more complex that that.
So yes, I did just write that. And it only strikes you as funny because you are a pig ignorant moron who doesn’t even know enough about this subject to be dangerous.
Nice try, bigot.
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV. In other words, the laws of a state must treat an individual in the same manner as others in similar conditions and circumstances.
Generally, the question of whether the equal protection clause has been violated arises when a state grants a particular class of individuals the right to engage in an activity yet denies other individuals the same right. There is no clear rule for deciding when a classification is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has dictated the application of different tests depending on the type of classification and its effect on fundamental rights. Traditionally, the Court finds a state classification constitutional if it has “a rational basis” to a “legitimate state purpose.”
[emphasis mine]
Please state your rational basis to a legitimate state purpose for not allowing gays to marry.
Oh, and how many courts have sided with you, Red Tony? In case you aren’t keeping up, that would be…wait for it…ZERO!
Fuck off, bigot!
Still waiting for that rational basis…
Traditionally, the Court finds a state classification constitutional if it has “a rational basis” to a “legitimate state purpose.”
On second thought, don’t read a book. You are too fucking stupid to understand them.
You just gave the rational basis test. Here is a hint, there are too other tests called intermediate scrutiny and strict scrutiny.
And I am not a bigot. You in contrast are a complete fucking moron. You are so stupid you are not worth debating this with. And you have proven with this post, you are incapable of learning or getting any smarter.
You are the dumbest person on here. Dumber than shreek. Even shreek is smarter than this.
Arizona.
…this court hereby declares Article 30, Section 1, of the Arizona Constitution; A.R.S ? 25-101?; and A.R.S. ? 25-125(A) unconstitutional because they deny same-sex couples the equal protection of the law.
E. Equal Protection?Rational Basis Plaintiffs contend and the district court so found that the provisions cannot be sustained under rational basis review. Kitchen, 961 F. Supp. 2d at 1210-15. The State offered several rationales including (1) encouraging responsible procreation given the unique ability of opposite-gender couples to conceive, (2) effective parenting to benefit the offspring, and (3) proceeding with caution insofar as altering and expanding the definition of marriage. The district court rejected these rationales based on a lack of evidence and/or a lack of a rational connection between excluding same-gender couples from marriage and the asserted justification.2 Equal protection “is essentially a direction that all persons similarly situated should be treated alike.” City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Ctr., Inc., 473 U.S. 432, 439 (1985). Given the provisions in this case, we should look at the definition of marriage and the exclusion of same-gender couples and inquire whether “the classification . . . is rationally related to a legitimate state interest.” Id. at 440. To the extent the district court thought that the State had any obligation to produce evidence, surely it was incorrect. Vance v. Bradley, 440 U.S. 93, 110-11 (1979). Though the State is not precluded from relying upon evidence, rational basis analysis is a legal inquiry.
With this ruling, the Court hereby DECLARES that Alaska’s same-sex marriage laws are unconstitutional for violating the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
“Intentional discrimination on the basis of gender by state actors violates the Equal Protection Clause, particularly here, as here, the discrimination serves to ratify and perpetuate invidious, archaic, and overbroad stereotypes about the relative abilities of men and women.” J.E.B., 511 U.S. at 130?31. Idaho and Nevada’s same-sex marriage proscriptions are sex based, and these bans do serve to preserve “invidious, archaic, and overbroad stereotypes” concerning gender roles. The bans therefore must fail as impermissible gender discrimination.
You do realize that the “rational basis” test is probably one of the most liberty robbing tests applied by the federal judiciary, right? It’s like saying “separate but equal” and being oblivious to the racial connotations.
When the law ‘respects’ certain parties or classes, it has departed from being law and reverted to the whims of man.
They are a package deal, Francisco. Recent events should be making that perfectly clear to you, should they not?
Gay marriage supporters could have done it the hard way – state by state reformation of the laws.
They decided to do it the easy way – get the friendly federal judiciary to step in. And if that came at the “price” of further violations of freedom of speech, association, and religion, well, I suspect most of them saw that as a bonus.
I’d say it’s the real motivation.
I’ve asked many SSM proponents what they thought of a compromise that enacted it and eliminated the public accomodations section of the civil rights act. Every non-libertarian denounced that idea as worse than the status quo.
I’m sure it is some people’s motivation. But you know what? What I and some other political weirdos think has had no influence on what various states and federal courts have done regarding gay marriage. So there is no contradiction or hypocrisy at all in being happy about one of the outcomes and unhappy about another.
Actually, they aren’t a package deal.
Getting gays protected class status was going to happen whether gay marriage was allowed or not.
Two different things.
So the fascists were going to win anyway, so you just surrender early and helped them out. How very French of you.
And since when is “they are going to win anyway” and excuse to help out a bad cause?
They’ve already “won”. This battle was lost 40+ years ago.
This argument hinges on the notion that libertarian support for same-sex marriage is decisive to the existence of gays as a protected class. Sure, in a state where it’s a closely contested issue, you might be able to make that case. But when we’re talking about federal judges, libertarians are irrelevant. We “have” what, 1 or 2 senators? And they’re not even members of a libertarian party. Libertarians did not even enable any of this; let alone support it.
Non sequitur.
Fransisco,
You are too stupid to make that judgment. Shut up and let the adults talk you fucking moron.
MJGreen
Recognizing SSM is a bad cause?
Marshall Gill
Science that is convoluted! How do you get “equal protection” and fucking “protected class” in the same mother fucking sentence?!!
Sure, equal protection based on “class”.
I don’t write the law, Marshal, I just read it. And how you get there is this. The government makes all kinds of disctinctions. It has to to function. The question becomes which distinctions are okay and which ones are not.
What the courts have done is said that some kinds of distinction, those based on race and religion, are subject to a higher level of scrutiny such that they are more or less prohibited. It is getting being gay into that group that was the entire point of getting courts to mandate gay marriage.
Its a pretty simple concept, unless you are Fransisco. Then it might as well be quantum physics.
Gays were going to become a protected class in any case. It’s a separate fight.
Why do you say that? There is no support for that in Congress. The courts had never been willing to do it. The only way it is happening is through the backdoor of gay marriage. That is why the Left decided to support gay marriage.
Lots of states have done it. I don’t see how you wouldn’t see that that is the direction things are headed in.
The problem is the whole notion of protected classes.
Lots of states have done it.
Not true. Show me one that had. And even if they had, which I am unaware of one that did, it would have had religious conscience exceptions built in that this doesn’t have.
Lots have employment and housing anti-discrimination laws at least. You really think that it will never go any further than that?
I don’t know Zeb. Regardless, maybe it was a bad idea to help them out.
Maybe. I don’t think I helped anyone out, though. I just say what I think. I didn’t base any votes on the issue, or go out and campaign for it.
Why do you say that?
Well, consider that Colorado, where the baker refused the SSM, doesn’t allow SSM.
ou were warned, folks. And you laughed it off, believing that foreseeable consequences wouldn’t happen solely because you didn’t mean for them to happen. Which is just about the mental level of a five-year-old.
What about those of us who pretty much knew this would happen, knowing the current cultural/political climate, but didn’t give a shit about that argument because actual rights aren’t tangential to what malodorous cunts do to abuse those same rights on 3rd parties?
That makes us at least, what, at the tween level?
John calls us retards and says that we “own it”. 😉
Not retarded just mendacious. You knew it was going to happen and didn’t care. Never once did any Libertarian I have seen ever condition their support for gay marriage on it not turning into this.
The issue for Libertarians came down to one thing, they like gays and don’t like SOCONs so they were perfectly happy to support something they knew would infringe on the rights of people they didn’t like.
That is what Libertarians own. And from now on every one of them who supported gay marriage might as well say “I support rights for people I like first and foremost and for people I don’t when it doesn’t involve doing anything hard”.
*in retard voice*
Red Tony can’t distinguish between equal protection under the law and protected classes.
*end retard voice*
Red Tony is a bigot trying to justify his immoral position with unrelated, government induced consequences that will exist regardless of whether gay marriage is legal.
No. They are the same issue. If you don’t believe me ask Pro Liberate or RC or anyone else on this board who ever took a CONLAW class.
You are just wrong on this. And despite any number of threads where it has been explained to you in simple terms, you are too bull headed and too in love with your ideology to listen.
What exactly are you adding to this debate other than a completely erroneous and idiotic view of equal protection? You are making a complete fool of yourself to anyone who understands the issue. Yelling Red Tony doesn’t help you here.
What I will say is that the current lawless state of the law means that any favored class will get favored legal treatment. The more lawless we become, the more blatantly that will be so.
And on any number of threads I’ve rebuffed your claim.
Here is the legal definition of equal protection.
No court ever has claimed there is no rational basis. States think marriage is for having children. That wins. Rational basis is so low even the progs don’t think gay marriage bans don’t pass it.
The point was to raise the scrutiny to strict scrutiny like you do in cases involving race. And that is making them a protected class and the whole point.
Just fuck yourself. I can understand you being wrong. But you are so smug and so fucking wrong and so stupid and unable to comprehend much of anything it is just ridiculous.
You are just not a serious person. You are fucking moron who happens to mouth a few correct talking points. That is it.
Goalpost officially moved….yawn…
And how many times have gay marriage bans been struck down under 14A. How many have survived the challenge? Um…ZERO!
Here’s why that is bullshit. There was no choice between gay marriage and gays not becoming a special protected class. They would have become a protected class with or without legally recognized gay marriage. That was already well on its way to happening before anyone imagined that we would get to the point we are at now so quickly. Libertarians’ support or non-support for gay marriage would have made no difference to that at all, even assuming it made any difference at all to the gay marriage debate.
AGain. Zeb that is counter to the facts.
Facts? What about all of the states who have passed anti-discrimination laws that apply to gay people? And you really don’t think that federal law would eventually have gotten there?
The only way to fix it is to get rid of protected classes.
What about all of the states who have passed anti-discrimination laws that apply to gay people?
Which states? And see what kind of religious exemptions such states have.
here’s some
That’s for employment discrimination, but you don’t really believe that that’s as far as it will go.
John, I really doubt you have never seen any libertarians say that. I came up to that position on my own when Vermont was debating civil unions back in 1999/2000, and that was 6 years before I even heard the word libertarian. “Let gay people get married if they want, but don’t force churches to do it” is a pretty easy concept to come up with, even if it hasn’t been the majority view.
“Let gay people get married if they want, but don’t force churches to do it” is a pretty easy concept to come up with, even if it hasn’t been the majority view.
It is very hard for people who either really don’t care and are happy to see people they don’t like get stepped on or people like Fransisco who think “equal protection” means every always gets treated the same.
This was a real test for Libertarians. It is easy to defend the rights of people you like and identify with you. When it is hard is protecting the rights of people you don’t like. And the Libertarians failed. Its that simple.
“Let gay people get married if they want, but don’t force churches to do it” is a pretty easy concept to come up with,
Its possible, maybe even probable, that SCOTUS will ultimately rule that churches aren’t required to be public accommodations for gay marriage.
That courtesy won’t be extended to anyone else, though.
By then, of course, the hunt will be on for a new group to extend privileges to in order to buy their votes and punish their enemies. And I fully expect way too many “libertarians” to be on board with it, now that they have tasted the sweet nectar of moral superiority enforced with the jackboot.
Of course they will. A good number of Libertarians let their ideology make them stupid.
Freedom is losing on so many fronts, all while I keep reading here how everything is getting better. Government-permitted and regulated privileges do not equal freedom.
Aloysious
Government-permitted and regulated privileges do not equal freedom.
So much this.
It’s the fundamental flaw of leftists who think ALL STATE is worth it to buy a few of those privileges, and even some “libertarians” who make the same mistake at times.
To be fair, sometimes it can be difficult to distinguish between an intermediate step towards liberty and a step in the opposite direction.
I think that the entire privilege granting process is a step in the wrong direction, but I understand where people may disagree.
Here’s the thing, though. Allowing gay marriage and protected class status (whether those concepts are linked or not) simply grows the marriage and discrimination tendrils of government. This is one of the issues where I see value in zealotry on the part of libertarians. Holding out for delicensing or otherwise detangling marriage from the fedgov is much more principled than incrementally growing the fedgov’s personal relationship reach.
Yes, and the same argument goes for getting government out of education.
Except it really isn’t that difficult. If you’re asking the state to give you a “right” to someone else’s decision or action at gunpoint, you aren’t pushing for freedom.
Yes they do. Freedom is quantitative. If you don’t think so, then for you freedom is impossible in any society of at least, say, 1,000 people. You’ll never get all of them to allow you 100% freedom, which seems to be all you recognize. As long as there’s one who’s willing & able to steal from you, for instance, you don’t have that state.
Government and society are not the same thing, and so your objection is a red herring.
Im pretty sure there is no natural law right to be issued a license by the state.
There isn’t. But I knew you’d say that.
But, if you’re going to have the state passing them out, they can’t discriminate.
Which has nothing to do with who’s gonna do the marryin’.
Fuck, why can’t people discriminate? Government I get, but people? We discriminate on any number of characteristics every single day.
“They” being the state. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
SLD applies.
Very well then. Carry on with your hate.
Carry on with your hate.
Microaggressor!
We discriminate on any number of characteristics every single day.
“People with discriminating tastes”
Who knew car companies were racist… and HOMOPHOBIC?!
Fine Corinthian leather? That sounds pro-European and anti-everyone else to me! I demand non-European options!
I demand non-European options!
Well sir, over here we have this Buick. We also have several other GM cars.
Look, Mr. Libertate– can I call you Pro? It’s Pro, isn’t it? What’s it gonna take to get you into a car this afternoon?
*looks over at your wife, then looks back at you*
I’ll take it for $19,000, provided that’s my walk-out-of-here price and that you throw in a social justice warranty.
throw in a social justice warranty.
How about you take the social justice undercoating instead? It’s only $400 this week… but only if you buy today.
That’s one I can vouch for.
I was hoping for pubescent 14 year old at least.
It is almost as if the government recognition of personal relationships had nothing to do with Liberty.
Homple
“Unless you want the State to get into the business of saying what a “real” church is and what isn’t.”
The state is already in that business through allowing or disallowing tax exemptions. The IRS is the Pope in this matter.
This is why we need a very broad interpretation of religious freedom. No one should be forced to do anything that could violate anyone’s religious freedom.
If you go that far, you have to be anarchist. Every law can violate someone’s religious principles, even murder.
UnCivilServant
Tlaloc needs those childrens’ hearts and tears!
Sorry, I figured people would assume the “unless it violates another person’s rights” part. Of course in that case, you have instant minarchy, so the courts will never do that either. But that’s really the only way to have religious freedom. As long as top men are deciding what counts as religious activity, there can be no real religious freedom. Special exceptions to laws for religion are anathema to religious freedom.
Then you are actually saying that the religious freedom doesn’t matter, since you can violate it (which is fine). The correct statement is “Force should only be used to stop someone from violating another person’s rights.”
My broad interpretation of religious freedom says that state licensing of marriages is a violation of the 1st amendment.
Religious freedom is a sideshow. It’s about freedom.
No one should be forced to do anything that could violate anyone’s religious freedom morals.
Given a general codification of the NAP and property rights, this would be acceptable.
This, thank you.
Or perhaps “No one should be forced to do anything. Period.”
If the minister is required to conduct a ceremony that contains religious language, that would violate the Establishment Clause as well.
With all due respect, what is “religious language”?
Can the minister say “Dearly Beloved”? “Brothers and Sisters”? “Universe”?
All of this type of shit has only one purpose. It’s to turn differing groups of people against each other so that they fight among themselves and ignore the criminals who are now in charge of our government, lest they see the guy behind the curtain and start calling for heads on pikes.
Which type of shit are you referring to?
You could just as well say it’s to turn people against each other so they don’t have time to become criminals. What makes you sure that if those people weren’t fighting each other, they wouldn’t unite to get your head on a pike?
You know, doesn’t this line of reasoning give gays and any similarly treated protected class a huge veto power? Deny service to a gay person for any reason and face claims of discrimination? Where does this end?
In ovens. It always ends with people being shoved into ovens.
Ah, but what if that violates the religious beliefs of the people being shoveled?
Don’t worry, white debils and the patriarchy(white males, christians, tea baggers, libertarians, etc.) don’t have rights. Rights are for the oppressed and their savior ruling class. Now if they can just get rid of them joos…
people cake.
Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)
Hansel and Gretel?
From where I stand, it appears they already have that veto power.
It’s not a church, per se.
What did I tell you in the AM Links? That Reason will report on this while at the same time obfuscate the issue by saying “well, it isn’t really a church…”
I have the power of prescience!
You should start a church!
I was just going to quote your post 😉
Well the first amendment does say right of incorporated non profit religious institutions shall not be infringed…
If this wedding service is a small business that doesn’t have silent investors, they may be better off reorganizing as a church & paying themselves for their work. Some of their compensation could even become tax-exempt parsonage, but even if none of it is, it gets their business out from under crap like this.
We can argue whether baking a cake or taking photographs constitutes putting a stamp of approval on a wedding[…]
And the arguing would be a complete waste of time, as always, since the issue is not if people are entitled to a cake or a photo but what constitutes property and freedom of association; to compel a person to engage in trade against his will is a violation of both: it is thievery even if the person or persons engaging in the forced trade are paying, and it is slavery.
Now I expect Tony to come here to explain to me that slavery means being dragged from Africa to America in chains and not the unjustified privation of liberty in 3… 2… 1…
WillMG
Shame Goldwater isn’t around. He was worried about nonsense like this against private business back in the ’60s with the Civil Rights Act.
Fuck, why can’t people discriminate?
*clutches chest, falls to floor*
Re: Scott Shackford,
For heaven’s sake, folks, don’t try dragging somebody in to marry the two of you who doesn’t want to marry the two of you.
I don’t think you understand what is going on yet, Mr. Shackford. This isn’t about practicality. This isn’t about supporting someone’s competition when that someone refuses to comply or perform. This isn’t about market forces.
This is about COMPULSION. This is about COERCION. This is about POWER.
Did you really think the gay couple who placed the complaint cares about your argument? Did you really think that this case is about righting a perceived wrong and not punishing an unbeliever, to make him or her see who is running the show? Did you really think this was not about VENGEANCE?
One argument that might work is framing this as “Why do you insist on funding bigots?”
It’s about punishment. The idea that a gay couple can’t get married because this church won’t perform it is ludicrous. These are just like the ADA suits where a potential business is identified by lawyers, then the “victim” is sent in precisely to find violations. These suits are crafted for the specific function of punishing a political opposition.
The state is compelled to issue marriage licenses to all comers. The issue is finished. Done. Fin. Es Todo. No mas. El Punto Final.
This continued flogging doesn’t address gay marriage in any way shape or form. It merely addresses people in the community that disagree with you. That’s it, nothing more.
Yep, the gays are running the show. We denied ourselves equal rights just so we could come along later and slap our dicks in the faces of clergymen. Soon we will have UNLIMITED POWER. Today gay marriage, tomorrow blowing up Alderaan just for the lulz.
And it’s really just because we hate freedom. Just a taste issue. Yuck freedom. You are not allowed pleated trousers and you are not allowed freedom, because the gays say so.
Nevermind that your definition of freedom is a society in which government goons drag people from lunch counters because they are black or gay.
Blacks getting dragged from lunch counters happened because of Jim Crow LAWS, passed and enforced by THE GOVERNMENT.
Holy shit, you are more retarded every day.
It is a pretty weird assumption on your part that bigots are somehow less likely to try to influence public policy than others. I’d think they’d be more likely if anything, given their irrationally strong feelings.
It remains true that to favor a right to discriminate, you’re endorsing an entitlement to employ cops in enforcing discrimination. Does it not?
What you’ve just said… is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having seen it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul…
Its astonishing, really, that so many are still in denial about gay marriage – equal protection – privileged class, when it is playing out right in front of their eyes.
C’mon, Scott. Admit it. This is playing out the way some of us predicted it would, and not in the way you hoped it would. Just admit it.
Then you can move on to saying either (a) I was wrong and can no longer support gay marriage as an EP right because it is both intellectually dishonest and leads to violation of freedom or (b) yeah, fuck you bitter clingers, gay marriage is more important that your rights of association, speech, and religion.
Which is it, Scott? Because you are running out of room, here. These are the two sides, just as you have been told since the beginning. There is no longer the option of supporting gay marriage, so long as other people’s rights aren’t violated.
Exhaulting teh gays is much more important than your petty ‘rights’ of religion, association and free expression.
/ Cosmo
A handful of friends of mine are now married, and just a few years ago they never thought they’d be allowed to get married.
You will never, ever be affected by that in your entire life, unless you insist on getting your panties in a twist for no reason other than being a malcontent.
There is no reasonable argument against marriage equality. Public accommodation is a separate argument altogether, and gays are still working on having the same rights as racial minorities in that regard. Which is to say, some more-or-less equivalence to the access to all aspects of society that straight white guys get 100% of the time no questions asked no bitching and no moaning, ever.
Your friends are as stupid as you are Tony. They could have gone to another state and gotten married or they could have just gotten married and said fuck the state. All they really wanted was to shove their boot on someone’s throat.
But we already knew you are a fascist piece of shit Tony. You don’t need to remind us all of the time.
Why is getting the same rights as straight people shoving a boot on people’s throat, but denying equal rights is freedom?
Re: Tony,
YOU DON’T HAVE A RIGHT TO SOMEONE’S LABOR, YOU MORON!
You don’t have a right to being wed by someone who doesn’t want to.
But you have a right to the labor of cops who will be escorting stubborn gay couples out of the Hitching Post?
Note that I have not expressed an opinion either way on this specific issue (if you must know I think religious freedom should trump). But don’t throw out nonsense like “no right to someone else’s labor.” If you think you are entitled to a right, then you think you are entitled to the labor of the people who enforce that right.
fuck you Belinda Carlisle
For…trespassing I guess?
You’re against trespassing? Are you drunk?
I TOLD you, I don’t need no stinkin’ cops. You keep asking a question that has been answered many times.
But don’t throw out nonsense like “no right to someone else’s labor.”
It’s not nonsense and you’re an idiot for saying that it is nonsense, as if you worked for no remuneration.
If you think you are entitled to a right,
I don’t. Your argument is thus baseless. I already have my rights (life, liberty and property), so I don’t feel entitled to them or need to lay a claim on them. They’re already mine.
then you think you are entitled to the labor of the people who enforce that right.
That doesn’t even follow. If I feel entitled to something, I can always take it myself.
Second fallacy: If there are people in the business of enforcing your rights, as you said, then saying that you’re entitled to those services is a clich?, not an argument.
They are trespassing, he paid his taxes, and he is law-abiding. What’s so hard to understand about that?
Who said anything about having a right to someone else’s labor?
He said his friends could finally get married. He didn’t say his friends went out and found someone who didn’t want to do it to perform the ceremony, in a place they weren’t wanted.
As an ordained minister, for years I was prohibited by the state from performing wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples. And this is the status quo that you and John seem to be supporting, because of the tangential issue of CRA 1965.
Straight people had a right to marry someone of the same sex, but homosexual people didn’t?
Congratulations to them.
You will never, ever be affected by that in your entire life
, unless you insist on getting your panties in a twist for no reason other than being a malcontent.
What did I tell you, folks? That this is not about righting a perceived wrong but to punish the UNREPENTANT.
It takes a little bit of time before the cultural Marxists open their mouths to let us know what they’re really thinking. This is a religious crusade for them.
ClipperMiami
“For heaven’s sake, folks, don’t try dragging somebody in to marry the two of you who doesn’t want to marry the two of you. It’s supposed to be the happiest day of your life. ”
Because it has nothing whatsoever to do with “marriage” and “happy days” all al that … it has to do with forcing people to bend to YOUR will or punishing them for not dosing so.
Tolerance is no longer sufficient, active participation is now required.
The homophobes will die off and be remembered with contempt just as the racists. If you insist on making this a battle to the death, why choose the losing side when it’s so obvious which side that will be?
HazelMeade
We’re not choosing the losing side. We’re defending the rights of all sides to be treated equally under the law.
Gays have the right to get married. Bigots have the right to not bake them cakes. What is so unfair about that?
It’s unfair because in reality straight people will never have to suffer that indignity. But to me it’s not about fairness, it’s about for which purpose we’re deploying taxpayer funded government goons: forcing public accommodations not to discriminate on sexual orientation, or dragging gays out of public accommodations because the proprietors are bigots. That’s what having a right means–government enforces it.
It’s unfair because in reality straight people will never have to suffer that indignity.
What a stupid thing to say. Can you get married in a Catholic church by a Catholic priest if you’re NOT Catholic? You’re quite the solipsist, Tony.
it’s about for which purpose we’re deploying taxpayer funded government goons: forcing public accommodations not to discriminate on sexual orientation, or dragging gays out of public accommodations because the proprietors are bigots.
How about NEITHER, Tony? Government doesn’t have to be everywhere. The government is NOT God and people are NOT little children. Or maybe I spoke too soon in regards to you.
The government is NOT God and people are NOT little children.
Not to him.
Explain how neither is an option. You want proprietors of businesses that cater to the public to have the legal right to discriminate against customers based on race and sexual orientation. If they have that legal right, that means they get to call the cops to drag people out for being black or gay. I pay for those cops, and I don’t want to pay for that.
First off, the retarded don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it. Nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
“If they have that legal right, that means they get to call the cops to drag people out for being black or gay. ”
Nope, I don’t need the cops to escort trespassers off my property. And as a defense of slavery, Tony, that was pretty fucking weak.
Explain how neither is an option.
You can take your business somewhere else.
Lack of imagination, or just plain laziness, is part of a little red Marxian’s job description, I surmise.
You want proprietors of businesses that cater to the public to have the legal right to discriminate against customers based on race and sexual orientation.
Or because of body smell or excess hair or whatever the reason. The reason is meaningless as it is THEIR goods or services, Tony – NOT mine or yours.
Are you also against paying for cops to protect neo-Nazi marches from people who want to throw bricks at them?
I mean, hey it’s all about WHICH SIDE the government deploys it’s force on and I want it to be on MY SIDE, so let’s just say the cops should be throwing bricks at neo-Nazis instead of protecting them from brick throwers.
Racism is Bad! Therefore it should be ok to stone racists without government intervention.
I’m not making an argument about whether it’s OK to employ cops to protect rights. I assume that’s true. I’m making the argument that some libertarians fail to realize that they are arguing for employing cops to protect rights same as everyone else, except they’re claiming they’re taking the clearly nonaggressive position.
But to me it’s not about fairness, it’s about for which purpose we’re deploying taxpayer funded government goons: forcing public accommodations not to discriminate on sexual orientation, or dragging gays out of public accommodations because the proprietors are bigots
Are you not saying in this statement that you think government goon deployment should depend only on what you morally approve of or disapprove of?
So trespassing would no longer be a crime? If they were dragged out it would be because they were trespassing and refused the officers’ requests to obey a lawful order and leave. Is this really that hard for you?
Tony is either retarded, completely dishonest, or some combination of both.
ony is either retarded, completely dishonest, or some combination of both.
I’m not saying trespassing shouldn’t be a crime, I’m saying you guys need to stop being disingenuous and claiming that the rights you are supporting don’t come with any government goons. They do. You can’t escape that fact. So stop with the whole jackboot-on-neck thing. I tend to sympathize more with the black guy being dragged out by cops for the crime of being black at the wrong lunch counter than I do the proprietor employing them for such. But I’m a normal human being.
Well, the black guy is employing them too so it’s a wash, right?
Only in a hypothetical alternate universe in which the likelihood of being dragged from a lunch counter because of your race was equal regardless of your race. In such a universe, the public accommodation law might not be necessary. Active racism is a legitimate target of government action because of the problem of having a racial underclass, not because people are thinking the wrong thoughts.
See? Completely retarded, with a soupcon of dishonesty thrown in for flavor. Or maybe he really is so stupid he can’t see it. Whatever.
I’m saying you guys need to stop being disingenuous and claiming that the rights you are supporting don’t come with any government goons.
The right to say “No, I do not want to do business with you” doesn’t require government goons.
What if the patron insists?
Then they are trespassing, which is a separate issue.
The same thing that happens when a “patron” insists on forcing me into the “free electonics” business at my own residence. I invoke the “castle doctrine” and employ force in a way consistent with state law.
So rights should depend on which person we LIKE better?
In this case it’s a genuine conflict of rights claims. You either protect the right of the bigot to discriminate or you protect the right of the patron to be free from discrimination. The latter was chosen as more valuable to society. Libertarians think the opposite. I don’t know why, because as I’ve been saying neither side has the angels of nonaggression on its side.
Bullshit. You just said that nobody has a right to discriminate because the government defines all the rights.
My question is how do we define rights? And more importantly, how do we define them in a consistent, fair, and EQUAL way?
If the customer is free to discriminate against businesses they disapprove of, then the business should be free to discriminate against customers they disapprove of. That is equality.
If some people have freedom of association and other people don’t that is not equality.
Libertarians think the opposite. I don’t know why…
Because one comes with an implied threat of force and the other does not.
Can you tell which is which?
No, no you probably cannot.
That’s what having a right means–government enforces it
So, in a situation where say the government is forcing the citizens to comply with a law that violates a basic right, that basic right in fact doesn’t exist?
You have to define “exist.” If no people are allowed to practice a right, does it exist? Or does it exist as long as people can imagine it? Do I, thus, have a right to ride a unicorn to Jupiter?
This is not a particularly fruitful discussion to me because it’s about the meanings of words and thus rests on tautologies, but libertarians sure do obsess over it.
Sometimes that Derptard, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a Derptard, he’s got… lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’.
I get that you are not a natural rights person. Ok.
But does that mean that all right have to be defined by what we morally approve of? You want the police to only be used to defend activities you morally approve of. You’ve stated that flat out. So basically you are saying that nobody should have a right to do things you morally disapprove of. How does that make you different than the people who created laws against sodomy and homosexuality years ago?
I am only different in that my moral claims are better. But you don’t get to opt out of the decision–either you enforce discrimination or you enforce freedom from discrimination. What’s the nonaggressive third way?
But you’re not wrong to point out that all law is fundamentally based on some moral claims winning out over others. A liberal society does not take a legally enforceable position on all moral questions, of course. But in many cases, including this one, it doesn’t have a choice. Laws against sodomy are different in that there’s generally no private actor barging into bedrooms trying to enforce an anti-sodomy morality. But at a basic level, it really is about one moral system (secular liberalism) winning out over another (theocratic douchebaggery). It has always been so.
I am only different in that my moral claims are better.
Surely you realize that THEY thought that THEIR moral claims were better.
You aren’t different at all. You are exactly the same.
The advance that secular liberalism brought about was in fact to allow people with different moral views their own private spheres in which they could act on those views. That includes the right to discriminate against people with different moral views. What you are doing isn’t really secular liberalism, it is effectively the same as an establishment of religion. You are forcing other people to live according to your moral values, because you think your moral values are superior.
Meanings of words are critical to thinking, reasoning, and understanding. Don’t pretend you don’t believe that.
You believe in basic rights too, Tony.
You believe you have the right to not go hungry. I don’t but fair enough, the example will do. What you believe is that if the government decides you don’t have that right then you are obliged to starve to death – since that right now no longer exists you’re only recourse is to not eat until you die.
The right not to go hungry in practical reality means that government subsidizes food for people who can’t otherwise access it. It would be unnecessary if food were magically always available to everyone, but that’s not the case.
Correct. And if the government decided the right no longer existed then it would be under no obligation to provide subsidies, and hungry people would starve.
Do I, thus, have a right to ride a unicorn to Jupiter?
Yep. There’s nothing controversial about that right. What is controversial is whether you can realize that right.
I have the right to date a supermodel. That right in no way guarantees me a date. It only precludes the government from preventing me from going on that date, should hell freeze over.
There’s a difference between not preventing and actively enabling. One protects a right, the other creates a privilege.
In Tonyland, privileges and rights are the same thing depending on what the government says.
I understand that there is a semantic distinction between not preventing and enabling, but I don’t think there is a meaningful one with respect to a theory of government minimalism–especially one that allows for property rights enforcement, which is one of the rights at the heart of this debate. A business owner using public resources to enable his ability to run a business (having cops show up to boot out trespassers, for one) is by your definition a privilege.
Dismissing the difference between not preventing and enabling as mere semantic difference dismisses the entirety of the debate away. Not preventing (aka negative rights) are non-coercive. Enabling (aka privileges) are coercive.
The entirety of the libertarian movement hinges on the fact that a right is only a right if it involves action (or forebearance) by consenting parties only. For example, if a baker consents (absent force or fraud) to bake you a cake, you have a right to the cake sans government interference. Otherwise, you merely have a privilege, which is subject to the tides of public opinion, coercion, and other negative influences. For example, if a Baker does not consent to bake you a cake, but is forced to by the government.
Without acknowledging that distinction, you simply beg the question over and over and over.
Regarding trespass, one general privilege that is not often disputed is the privilege to have police stop people from infringing your rights, including your right to exclusive control of your property. This is a very pragmatic privilege, thus it’s uncontroversial nature. Generally, there is not a preprescribed proportionality between right violation and reactionary force. Having a neutral, (supposedly) level-headed arbiter is a practical way to avoid capital punishment for minor rights transgressions. IOW, it’s better for the black guy to be dragged off by the cops than for him to be at the mercy of the racist.
Tony:
A business owner using public resources to enable his ability to run a business (having cops show up to boot out trespassers, for one) is by your definition a privilege.
Email from customer: “Hi, I’m a black gay guy, and I want a big, black, gay wedding cake.”
Website response: “I’m sorry. I don’t make big black gay wedding cakes.”
Email from customer: “Oh yeah? We’ll, I’m going to email you like 100 times an hour until I get my big black wedding cake!”
Website response: “OK, I’m going to tell my email server to redirect all emails from you to oblivion. You enjoy yourself.”
Exactly where does the privilege of having cops show up to boot trespassers come into play?
Or how about this example:
Customer: “Oh, yeah? Well, I’m not leaving your store until I get my big, black, gay wedding cake!”
Store owner: “Knock yourself out.” Or “Watch this” as he kicks them out.
In short, I don’t need the government to discriminate against customers just because, if I want to have them thrown out for trespassing, I may avail myself of the police. First, I don’t need the state to throw them out for trespassing at all.
Y try to pretend that everyone’s availing themselves of some government “privilege” (which, conveniently, is always something that have no choice but to pay for, support or have available) and then claim “See? They use public resources. Therefore, everything about it is open for debate.” Not really. It’s just lazy arguing.
I don’t understand your argument. You’re saying business owners lose their rights to freedom of association because they use public resources. Just about every citizen uses some public resource so can the government strip them of their rights? Why does the fact that a business owner uses public resources mean that they can lose rights when their customers also use public resources but keep their rights? It makes no sense to me.
If no people are allowed to practice a right, does it exist? Or does it exist as long as people can imagine it? Do I, thus, have a right to ride a unicorn to Jupiter?
Just as long as I am not compelled to provide the unicorn.
Because, you know, I hate unicorns. Unnatural, God-forsaken perverts.
How about we let the proprieters hire a bouncer to throw people out.
There need not be a conflict of rights here. One group is actively seeking out opportunities for the conflict, the other is practicing their right in a peaceful manner.
Any indignity would be the result of attempting to force another to forego their religious freedom and getting turned away. Don’t try to state the religious sought out bigoted activities when it’s clear that the Gay couple (or some activist group) pushed this and are the aggressors of bigotry.
The homophobes will die off and be remembered with contempt just as the racists.
I beg to differ – bigots live forever, those that think in terms of groups. Like you, for instance.
And don’t tell me I’m wrong. You have accused me of atomistic thinking, by which you’re NOT wrong but also you set yourself as a tomist – i.e. someone who thinks in terms of groups, you bigot.
It doesn’t make sense to have a conversation about public policy and not talk about groups. If we were all islands, we could all set our own policy. Since we have to interact with other people, any policy we set will affect others. Realize that I think I’m on the side of individual freedom and that you’re not, no matter what you say.
Realize that I think I’m on the side of individual freedom and that you’re not, no matter what you say.
We realize you are too retarded to understand what individual freedom actually is.
Is it something they teach in kindergarten? Because that’s about the level you’ve raised this discussion to.
Tony, if you wait until the thread has gone cold to make your points then you won’t have to bother replying.
He supports individuals having the freedom to force bigots to do things against their will! Freedom is power! Power to the people!
Yes! How can you be free if you are not free to force others to bend to your will and do things for you?
Freedom is slavery!
Then go masturbate in the corner by yourself instead of subjecting the rest of us to it.
It doesn’t make sense to have a conversation about public policy and not talk about groups.
What did I just say? You’re a bigot.
If we were all islands, we could all set our own policy.
Non Sequitur. Even islands trade and deal with each other in peace.
Since we have to interact with other people, any policy we set will affect others.
I’m very tired of your Petitio Principii arguments, Tony. You keep framing all discussions around the inevitability of the State, which ipso facto turns any of your propositions into fallacies. It makes for very boring reading.
I think I’m on the side of individual freedom and that you’re not,
I’ve heard that many times from propagandists that it makes me puke: “We’re for real Democracy!” – Marxians. “We’re for real Markets!” – Keynesians. “We’re for the rights of the People!” – authoritarians.
Ah, here comes the communist to rush in and praise the Cultural Revolution.
The homophobes will die off
Ah, and as this result is desirable, then hurrying it along would also be desirable, I suppose?
Welfare for those who agree with me, death for those who don’t!
It’s those damn Jews Kulaks racists homophobes, ruining everything for the Enlightened.
I think the analysis that RFRA would probably take care of this is sound.
Although there is a pretty strong contradiction between the idea that you CAN force someone to bake a cake for a gay wedding, but you can’t force them to actually SAY THINGS that support the wedding.
What’s really the difference between forcing someone to perform actions with their hands, and forcing them to perform actions with their mouth?
Havn’t we long recognized that a non-verbal action can be “speech”? If baking a cake with a burning American flag on it is speech, then why is baking a cake with two grooms on the top not speech?
Isn’t cake decoration a form of artistic expression?
Of course it is. And as RC points out above not discriminating means more than just serving or hiring people. It means not creating a hostile environment. And that is going to prohibit a whole lot of speech.
Actually there is a pretty good solution to this.
You could say all they have to provide is an undecorated cake with no writing or figurines. The gay couple can pop the grooms on top themselves. Or do the writing of the names themselves.
I agree with your overall sentiment but we trap ourselves when we frame this as “religious” freedom. The idea that you can only have freedom if you have some documented and state recognized religious objection to being forced into labor by a third party is dubious.
A gay organization has (in my opinion) an absolute right to deny employment to someone they politically disagree with. Religion be damned.
If society decides that individuals literally have no right to withhold their labor, we’re entering a very scary place indeed.
Yes, freedom of conscience should be universally recognized, regardless of whether it is religiously based.
It’s like if you object to being drafted into a war for totally rational secular reasons, that doesn’t count. It only counts when you are doing it because God spoke to you in the form of a Dog and told you it was wrong.
. It only counts when you are doing it because God spoke to you in the form of a Dog and told you it was wrong.
The good thing about that is if your dog is speaking to you you’ll probably get a Section 8.
BuSab Agent
I am a pagan priestess. I have performed gay marriages, however I fully support the right of religious folks of all denominations to not be forced to do something they feel is wrong, because I want the right to not be forced to do something that I feel is wrong. The actions that I feel are wrong and that a Christian feels are wrong are two different spheres but the force of government used to violate our beliefs is the same.
AKCharle
Well you hit the nail on the head with the comment scolding gays to stop badgering, intimidating, and bulling people who do not agree with them. But the problem is badgering, intimidating, and bulling is what some elements of this group are out to do. They don’t care if they win the case or not they just want the attention. Why? Who knows. It’s infantile and annoying in “adults”.
We learned it from watching Christians do it to us for centuries.
You’re the Highlander now, are you?
And here you see the real motivation as well, using the coercive power of the state to punish those who dared to disagree with them.
The contradictions of this are so easy to see, I’m a bit shocked that the people pushing it don’t see it as well.
Imagine for a moment that you’re a consulting firm that caters specifically to LGBT businesses. Then Chick-Fil-A attempts to engage your firm to help boost sales and image. Given what we’re seeing with this utterly tangential issue to gay marriage (but which is being framed as a gay marriage issue), your firm would HAVE to provide consulting services.
The state has no moral ground to demand that any individual or group of individuals who have formed an association must “like” another because of some ephemeral goal of social harmony.
Well, if you think about where this goes, Nazism is no less legal than being a homosexual. So Nazi weddings can be compelled in synagogues.
Well according to Tony, he doesn’t want to pay for cops to force synagogues to perform Nazi weddings, so he’s totally fine THAT not being a right.
Tony thinks that forced used to compell people to do things he thinks are good is ok, and forced used to allow people to do things he things are bad is wrong. So basically he thinks that the correct system is one in which cops force people to do all the things he morally approved of and stop them from doing all the things he morally disapproves of. To him, Rights are basically about how much power you have to force people to obey your will.
s/forced/force
Can a Starbucks in an open-carry state refuse me service if I walk in carrying?
I was called a segregationist on the Volokh comments because I oppose forcing people to associate with me that don’t want to associate with me.
It’s shit like this that is going to make me withdraw my at-present unequivocal support for the movement.
If those people’s feelings of self worth are contingent on the validation of their lives by some government bureaucrat, they’re too fucking pathetic and worthless for me to give a shit about.
It’s really none of my business that you’ve never been married or intend to get married. Hey, I’m with you, but I’m not going to make assumptions about your emotional state based on that choice. Some people find value in marriage. No skin off my back. It is constitutionally necessary that people have equal protection of the law, though.
No skin off my back.
But if they’re paying less in taxes than they would individually, then it is skin off your back, isn’t it? I mean, you’re the guy who says tax breaks are handouts, so everyone who minimizes his tax burden is taking skin off your back, right?
Totally fair point. Ending the marriage subsidy is a truly noble aim. I do suggest waiting a while after gay people have finally gotten equal rights before arguing for sweeping the right away, for the sake of appearances. You don’t want your movement to be associated with that of the bigots. Won’t do you any good.
Truly, your vacuous superficiality never ceases to amaze.
It’s all about appearances with progressives. Social signalling and all that. One must make a big display of one’s social conscience in order to show everyone else how right-thinking one is.
I made an explicitly practical suggestion. Don’t associate your movement with that of bigots. You’re likely to get nowhere that way.
The left has associated with bigots and thugs for 100+ years and I’d hardly say they’ve gotten “nowhere”.
It is constitutionally necessary that people have equal protection of the law, though.
Agreed. How about, “No person shall be compelled to associate with any person that they don’t want to.” There, now we’re all equal in the eyes of the law. See how simple that is?
I fully support you and Rand Paul making a federal case out of repealing the public accommodation piece of the CRA. It’s so simple, and so freedomy. Why on earth does he pretend he never said that?
Why on earth does he pretend he never said that?
He never said he opposed every aspect of the Civil Rights Act, only the provisions concerning private, non-state actors. Since you are too stupid/mendacious to understand/admit that the government was the primary enforcer of racism prior to the 1960s, you of course do not understand the nuance of that position nor the importance of the CRA outside of its use as a cudgel to use against undesirables.
He said clearly that he believes that even public accommodations should be allowed to practice discrimination. He was embarrassed to say so but did anyway because he’s just that principled. Now he just bitches that he was ever asked the question (talk about entitled).
I get the argument, really. And I’ve said about a hundred times that the argument is not, in fact, more pro-freedom for individuals. Either you protect the individual right of business owners to discriminate or you protect the individual right of customers to be free of discrimination (a real social problem at the time, a real harm to them).
So you make a lot of baseless assertions then get upset when people call you out.
Rand Paul made a narrow and valid criticism of one part of the CRA which he has not repudiated. He has certainly done his best to make it clear that he is not supportive of businesses that discriminate, but it is their right to do so.
There is no right to force somebody else to do something for you against their will, so it’s not a conflict of rights, it’s a conflict of a right and an entitlement.
At least we have an admission that we’re just hanging the other villagers because they did it to us. Not because there’s any justice or righteousness in it.
It’s good to know humanity remains relatively unchanged since medieval times.
I supported same sex marriage when I naively thought it was about legal protections for same sex couples. Then I realized it was all about initiating force against people who disagree, and the movement lost my support.
You make me sad sarc.
Two separate issues. I can be for equal protection for blacks and be against the Civil Rights Act.
Ayn Random Variation
How can you not see that in practical terms, “equal protection” means affirmative action, as well as forcing people to provide their labor against their will?
DO you really think that the people pushing “equal protection” laws really want equal protection and not special privileges?
Free speech zones, free contraception, forcing businesses to provide services… I mean, as such an intelligent poster, how are you note seeing this?
Because the words mean different things, and we’re supposed to be intelligent enough here to make the distinction?
I mean, is it really that difficult to grasp the nuance of “I support the right of Bob’s Confederate Diner to not hire or serve black people, because it’s Bob’s business, but I think that his choice to do so makes him an asshole and I’ll never eat there, and I will suggest that others do the same.”
This is effectively the precise opposite of that. “equal protection under the law” means that the government cannot treat people differently. They can’t have different laws for black people, or Chinese people, or gay people. Someone who takes a paycheck made out of tax money cannot discriminate against certain people, for whatever reason, during the performance of their job. If the state is going to issue marriage licenses (whether or not them doing so is a good thing or not) then they should issue them to any two consenting adults who apply for one, irrespective of their genders. (Not to ignore the plight of the polygamists, but there is actually a concrete difference between issuing a license to form a partnership between two people, and doing so for three+ people.)
Affirmative action, protected classes for private business, etc; These are not required corollaries to equal protection. They have historically in this country accompanied them, but there is no logical necessity that they do so.
I can be for equal protection for blacks and be against the Civil Rights Act.
Theoretically, yes. But, given the way the law has evolved, you really don’t have that choice any more.
By pursuing this as an equal protection claim in our legal system, you must necessarily argue that gays are entitled to protected class status, because that’s the only way, in our legal system today, to win an equal protection argument.
Its a package deal.
And even if you don’t buy the legal analysis, the facts on the ground (namely, all these lawsuits against private parties) should convince you that, in reality, that’s the way it works.
As you were warned. Seriously, saying “I didn’t mean for this to happen” after you were warned it would, cuts no ice.
This is where the disconnect is at. “equal protection” has a layman’s meaning and a legal meaning. The layman’s meaning has an implied “under the law” as a suffix. The legal meaning has an implied “as enforced and monitored by the government” as a suffix.
Look at it this way, what if a group wanted to sacrifice their children to Molech? Would the gov’t say to the Christian churches, you must build an alter and accommodate these people irregardless of you belief system. Your open for Christians, you must be open for this group. Same thing, in the mind and heart of a Christian it will come to the same result. Our God would disown us and cast us out, and rightly so. God is sinless and cannot fellowship with sinners. Unless you have accepted the sacrifice of Jesus as atonement for your sins, repented of your sins, and live a life in obedience to Gods law, to love your neighbor as yourself and love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, you are separated like tares from the wheat and cast out to be burned up. I know this sounds hard to some people but as Christians we understand and accept the need for this kind of separation from deliberate sin. Being forced to sin is a death sentence to us.
Love thy neighbors, just not the gay ones? But they increased your property value!
Love thy neighbors, just not the gay ones?
You don’t have to love anybody, just respect their humanity by not committing acts of aggression against them – not taking their stuff, not hitting them or molesting them, not physically hurting them or murdering them. That’s it.
Unless they have the temerity to step into a restaurant without the knowledge that the owner is a racist.
Ok, and? You say it as if there was a conclusion which is self-evident. There ISN’T. I’m willing to bet half the BBQ places in Alabama are owned by some kind of bigot. That hasn’t stopped me from trading my dollars for their food, because I don’t have to love the owners and neither do they have to love me. Greed trumps stupid ideas about people.
But you want people to be Perfect, Tony, unaffected by greed. I get that.
They are perfectly entitled to be bigots, but not to act on it by forcing customers out because of their race. Discrimination is an action that harms people. We liberals have understood this for the better part of a century, and it’s been codified in nearly universally admired civil rights law for 50 years.
Discrimination is an action that harms people.
Even with the left’s redefinition of the word “discrimination” to mean “icky people not doing what we want”, you still haven’t demonstrated harm. You are not owed the services of another against his consent!
Liberals lose hit points whenever someone successfully avoids providing a service.
Thanks for the softball, Tony.
See, it would be much more likely that Racist Ralph would openly voice and act out his racism if he werent fined and delicensed for doing so. Then, it becomes much less of a problem to try and sniff out the racists and avoid them.
See, without anti-discrimination laws, Racist Ralph gets to test his bigotry in the marketplace of ideas. Either, he will succeed (in which case government, which is us, has no hope of being more moral than consumer, which is us) or he will fail (in which case, his business model has been rejected by the consumer, making government regulations superfluous).
With anti-discrimination laws, Racist Ralph hides as Redneck Ralph, and many unsuspecting black folks eat their food with an unexpected helping
Of tobaccy spit, courtesy of Racist Redneck Ralph.
It’s not about the marketplace of ideas, but the marketplace itself. The problem that needed addressing was that black people had a significantly diminished capacity to engage in the commerce of their own societies. They might not be able to use the bathroom anywhere on a long stretch of highway. That is not a matter of ideas competing, but of active harm to individual people. And if we waited for the marketplace of ideas, some parts of the South would still be enforcing Jim Crow to this day, I suspect. Why is the onus never on the awful racist assholes with you guys?
So you’re effectively saying that if it wasn’t for the government enforcing anti-discriminatory laws, the government would still be enforcing racist laws? At what point does the marketplace of ideas (or marketplace, period) come into play in this federalism issue?
The awful racist assholes are cloaked by the government into looking like normal people, when they’re still awful racist assholes. Now, instead of having an informed choice to not patronize awful racist assholes, I now pay the awful racist assholes with no knowledge. What you don’t know won’t hurt you, right?
You want to ignore the roaches behind the fridge, I want to pull the fridge out and watch the roaches scatter.
I want minorities to be able to have the same access to the commerce in their communities as I do. I don’t care if the owner is a bigot, I just care if he is entitled to have cops drag me out because of it.
I don’t care if the owner is a bigot, I just care if he is entitled to have cops drag me out because of it.
Then you should be OK if businesses that have no physical presence (I.e., web businesses) discriminate against people. After all, there’s way someone can trespass, right?
Oh wait, that’s just bullshit. You really just want to use violence against peaceful bigots because you think that’s cool, and the whole “cops” thing just sounds like a convenient excuse.
Yes, love your neighbor, hate their sin and don’t be a part of it and offer them eternal life with God. Simple.
If only you were talking about contract law. If you want to leave all your worldly goods to whomever you choose, there is no reason for me or any other person to be involved. If you want to formalize via contract the economic responsibilities of your household, however you choose to define it, there is no reason for me or any other person to be involved.
There’s your equal protection.
I know. My great aunt got “gay married” in the 50’s. She and Aunt Lily had reciprocal powers of attorney in case of incapacitating illness, had both names on the deed to the house and cars, and wills that left all their worldly good to each other. Of course no one in the family actually knew if they were lesbians or just really good friends.
Why aren’t you barking at all the straights who are married? Aren’t they the overwhelmingly bigger obstacle to this crusade to end marriage?
Not everybody who’s married to a member of the opposite sex is a hypocrite about this. They didn’t make the laws, they simply took advantage of something available to them. I can recognize that most federal employees and welfare recipients (but I repeat myself) should not exist without wanting to kill them.
However, insofar as “technocrats” would point to the large numbers of married people as evidence for the support of marriage, it is their own fallacious argument that is at fault, nothing more.
Look at this fucking retard, making the “you might call the cops to get trespassers off your property, therefore I can enslave you” argument.
What kind of fucking moron even tries something that stupid, much less commits it to text and posts it?
At least you’re addressing the point. It’s one that thoughtful libertarians seem to like to tiptoe around and pretend nobody made it.
The relevant distinction is between trespassing and being a customer at a business that counts as a public accommodation. Does a secular business doing marriages count? Up for debate. But whichever side you take, you don’t get to claim that you aren’t employing government agents to force people to do something against their will. It’s the self-served extra moral credit you guys give yourself that bugs the shit out of me.
The relevant distinction is between trespassing and being a customer at a business that counts as a public accommodation.
The differences disappear the moment the customer is no longer welcome.
Does a secular business doing marriages count?
All businesses count. You make a distinction were none exists. A proprietor has the same rights as any other person. Little red Marxians such as yourself want to believe that this is not the case, but nobody cares anymore what little red Marxians such as yourself say or think.
As I said above, I wholeheartedly endorse a national movement by libertarians (and please invite the Republicans along) to rectify the great injustice of public accommodation civil rights law. Call up Sen. Paul today and tell him to stop being such a pussy. Surely he realizes the political boon of fighting against 60s-era civil rights law. I can hardly think of anything more important, in fact.
But it still bugs the shit out of me when you claim that certain things ARE even when they’re not, because your feelings trump reality.
Re Tony,
But it still bugs the shit out of me when you claim that certain things ARE
Who has made such arguments? Those are positivist arguments, which are contrary to Natural Rights arguments.
Please, stop projecting.
“you don’t get to claim that you aren’t employing government agents to force people to do something against their will.”
As I have said, and you have avoided replying to, I don’t need the police to deal with trespassers.
That’s an idiotic evasion and you know it. Do you really want the determination of who is entitled to property to be which claimant has the biggest arsenal? Does that sound like a nice form of society to you?
“That’s an idiotic evasion and you know it”
That you can’t counter.
I win. Die in a hole now.
I just did counter it by pointing out that you are endorsing might-makes-right over civilized property law.
No, actually, you are. If I ask you to leave and you don’t, you’re the one aggressing. You’re the one endorsing might makes right.
I still win, and you can still die in a hole.
It’s my house. I say so, just like you say so. Who are you to tell me otherwise?
Me, by KO.
Damn, you really are a dishonest little shit.
@ Tony, of course.
Why would someone need an arsenal to politely escort someone out of their business?
“An armed society is a polite society.”
People tend to get much more reasonable when they see they don’t really have a choice.
That’s an idiotic evasion and you know it. Do you really want the determination of who is entitled to property to be which claimant has the biggest arsenal?
This is the same kind of shit that unsophisticated little red Marxians pull every single time the conversation turns to property rights, when they conflate claim to property with aggression.
The guy with the biggest guns does NOT have a claim to property, unless he uses the guns to stop anybody else from trespassing. If he uses it to take property, like the Soviets of old, then he’s a criminal.
Says the anarchist. Yeah anarchy would work great if everyone simply agreed on the terms of every engagement at all times. And to think you’re badmouthing utopians.
He said he doesn’t want the cops to enforce his claim to his property. All he needs is his gun. So if a “trespasser” shows up with a bigger gun, what is his claim, exactly? “I really must insist that you not trespass despite outgunning me, as I have declared that I have a right!”
” So if a “trespasser” shows up with a bigger gun, what is his claim, exactly?”
Um, that he still owns the property.
That you think showing up with a bigger gun confers ownership says all one needs to know about you and your obvious might makes right philosophy.
In the absence of a legal definition of ownership, whoever has the bigger gun will tend to get to park his ass on the property.
Don’t mistake me–I’m not engaging in this debate under the assumption that there exists a coherent counterargument. If you had one, I expect you’d have made it.
This appears to be an admission that you are actually saying might makes right.
I’d say I beat you like a rented mule, but I have more respect for my work animals.
Says the anarchist.
anarchy would work great if everyone simply agreed on the terms of every engagement at all times.
NOT trading is also agreeing, Tony. The rules are simple: Either we trade because we want to, or we don’t.
But the gay couple mentioned above did NOT like those simple rules, Tony – they felt entitled.
In essence, your criticism against anarchism exactly describes what that couple did: bend the rules of civility. They OUTGUNNED the owners of the chapel. The State IS chaos, not anarchy.
G’on, keep talking. The hole you’re digging is getting bigger by the minute.
In essence, your criticism against anarchism exactly describes what that couple did: bend the rules of civility.
Well shit, looks like anarchy won’t work then. What if we just exterminate everyone who might possibly disagree with you about the terms of something, and those who might at some point “bend the rules of civility”? It might work then.
It boggles the mind that you don’t see this unicorn shit for what it is. You actually believe in a political order that requires that no one ever be uncivil. You can’t make this shit up.
Well shit, looks like anarchy won’t work then.
Looks like the point that the gay couple used the power of the state to bend the rules of civility just went way past you.
Pfft! Over your head.
I want to think that your obfuscations indicate that you’re liar and a cheat and not that you’re deranged, but maybe I am wrong.
Wait, what rules of civility are you talking about? The ones you made up inside your skull? I go by Miss Manners, personally, and I think civility requires people not to be fucking bigots.
It’s quite easy to be civil and still be a bigot. At least, assuming you know what civility means.
Well nobody’s talking about policing people’s thoughts, only actions. And it is impossible to practice bigotry in a civil way.
I think you would specifically attempting to police the thoughts of other people. Maybe not right here, right now, but we’ve all seen how you think on other threads.
And it is impossible to practice bigotry in a civil way.
“I’m sorry, I don’t wish to do business with you, please leave my place of business.” is uncivil?
you don’t get to claim that you aren’t employing government agents to force people to do something against their will
How does someone saying “No, I will not do business with you.” require government agents using force?
It’s the people who say “Yes. Yes you will.” who require government agents using force.
Only if the law supports their position. You want the law to support the position of the business owner. If the customer insists on staying, you think that it should be legitimate to employ either private or public force to expel (or kill?) the customer.
Just nut up and acknowledge that. You’re entitled to that opinion. But not to decorate yourself in freedom medals because you took it.
You’re moving the goalposts.
It’s all he has.
You’re being out-argued.
You already lost.
Only if you consider fallacies to be valid arguments.
Oh, yeah. This is Tony we’re talking about. Mr fallacy fellator.
“If the customer insists on staying”
Then they are endorsing a might makes right philosophy.
You lose again.
You have two opinions on whether the customer has a right to be there, the owner’s and the customer’s. All you’re doing is assuming the owner wins. But who wins is the entire fucking debate.
“All you’re doing is assuming the owner wins”
I crushed you.
To be fair, Tony, you’re the one who said the customer refused to leave. No one is assuming anything there, I think, because that’s aggression, whether you believe the customer has a right to be there or not.
If the customer refuses to leave because the owner’s reason for asking him to leave was because of his race, then the customer has a legally enforceable right to sit there as long as he damn well wants (talking about public accommodations). Forcing him out, according to law, would be considered the aggressive act.
If the customer refuses to leave because the owner’s reason for asking him to leave was because of his race, then the customer has a legally enforceable right to sit there as long as he damn well wants
That’s still aggression, and still trespassing, and the proper legal remedy is to seek a proper legal remedy, i.e. file suit.
What you’re doing is skipping the proper legal remedy and jumping to might makes right again.
It’s very much not trespassing (again, talking about public accommodation). It would be trespassing if the owner’s reason was that the customer didn’t have a shirt on. If it’s because of race, the customer has the upper hand. Of course the example is simplified–filing suit would be the course of action, but the outcome of that is some form of government action against the owner, right?
You have two opinions on whether the customer has a right to be there, the owner’s and the customer’s. All you’re doing is assuming the owner wins.
He’s not assuming. If the person is the OWNER – as YOU concede above – then he gets to decide what happens in HIS property regarding the use of it.
Looks like you simply want to wish the concept of “ownership” away. Quite disturbing, almost pitiful.
You want to claim that ownership entitles absolute rights even though it never has, at least outside of absolute monarchies. Ownership comes with taxpayer funded entitlements (like government guns backing up your claim). It’s not illegitimate to say that it thus also comes with some public responsibility. Even you wouldn’t argue that someone has a right to commit murder on his property. Not an absolute right. There is no cosmic distinction between that and not allowing discrimination in public accommodations. There is just you not having yet caught up to modern liberal civilization.
Even you wouldn’t argue that someone has a right to commit murder on his property. Not an absolute right. There is no cosmic distinction between that and not allowing discrimination in public accommodations.
Ah. Murder is the same as discrimination, that’s a sophisticated argument that I’ll have to seriously consider.
Discrimination is not necessarily as morally wrong as murder, but we don’t just have laws against murder.
My goodness! You’re so right! I mean, saying “No” is a terrible crime! It’s the moral equivalent of taking a life! I mean, when I tell my four year old kid that she can’t stay up late, I might as well be killing her! I said “No” and saying “No” is just the same as murder! Oh the humanity!
I just said they weren’t morally equivalent you halfwit.
You want to claim that ownership entitles absolute rights
I don’t know what you mean by “absolute rights”. Ownership means you own the property and its use. That’s all.
Ownership comes with taxpayer funded entitlements
Yes, yes, and liberty exists because of the State, etc. etc. etc. Circular argument, all the way. Who gave the power to the State? The very same people who asked the State to grant them rights. Who grants rights to people? The State whose power comes from the People.
Do you think you’re the only little red Marxian parrot in the blogosphere, Tony? You can’t even come up with your own ideas.
“Legalized trespassing” is still trespassing. It’s still morally wrong, too.
I congratulate you Tony. That is the dumbest thing I have ever read. I am still laughing, so I thank you.
All you’re doing is assuming the owner wins. But who wins is the entire fucking debate.
Tony’s ethos in a nutshell.
The law should do whatever makes my side win. Fuck principles. Fuck rights. Fuck equality. I want to WIN.
Absolutely. I support people having the right to do things that I think are wrong.
I’m totally ok with government goons protecting Klan rallies and Neo-Nazi marches too.
Being willing to use force to protect the right of someone else to do things you disagree with is a point of honor.
The Klan can speak, print pamphlets, and march all they want according to the first amendment, and I very much like that this is so as well. What the Klan can’t do is prevent a Jew from going into a bakery.
Nice evasion. “A bakery.” This is not just some random bakery we’re talking about. We’re talking about whether a Klansman can stop a Jew from entering HIS bakery, that he personally owns and operates. Not blobking the door to some other person’s bakery who would be happy to do business with the Jew.
And again, not your evading my response to the larger point you brought up which is whether it’s ok to deploy government force in defense of people doing things you disapprove of.
He can’t deny service to the Jew. That is not speech, that is action, and we can legislate against bad actions.
It’s not action, it’s inaction.
Not doing something for someone else is not equivalent to harming them.
Not baking you a cake doesn’t harm you. You are free to go buy cake somewhere else.
What if all bakeries in town discriminated? What if there is only one bakery in town? The point is not to make it harder to live life for people because of how they were born.
I have explained this ad nauseum. Either side gets government goons to enforce its will. How do you people consistently come down on the side of the privileged and powerful on every single issue?
What if all bakeries in town discriminated? What if there is only one bakery in town?
Uh, so now we’re legislating based on highly unlikely scenarios? That’s smart policy making.
Hey, what if everyone was rich? What if everyone was poor? What if everyone was black? What if everyone was gay? What if there was only one person in the town, and he was a gay, black man?
I don’t know, Tony. What if?
The point is not to make it harder to live life for people because of how they were born.
Oh, gee. Glad you straightened that out. We had no idea what the point was.
I forget: intensions are all that matter. “Hey, we’re trying to protect minorities.” Sure, round up whoever you need to, then. WTF.
If we lived in an anarchic society, then the streets would be privately owned, and the owners could prevent the neo-Nazi’s from marching down their streets, if they so wished.
Why aren’t you barking at all the straights who are married?
Gosh, Tony, I’m just too fucking lazy to lay out my philosophical position in detail on every topic in every comment. Here:
Feel better now?
Should I be able to Force Simon and Schuster to publish my pornographic Judy Jetson comic, Tony? If not, why not.
Because there is no law or reasonable theoretical legal principle that says you are entitled to be published?
Well, if its gay porn, you can say that the refusal to publish it is illegal discrimination against gay folks, and you’ve got a running start on applying a fairly well-established legal principle.
According to you, if the government passed a law creating that right then he would be so entitled.
Is there some sort of principle you think defines what people should have the right to do, or not do, other than what you think is morally right or wrong?
Surely you recognize that in a pluralistic society different people are going to have different views of what is morally right, yes?
Morality is what the government says it is.
So, if the government decides the populace of District 4 no longer has the right to free speech, they no longer have that right and government coercion to silence District 4 is justified and moral.
If the government decides the populace of Province Orange no longer has the right to not go hungry, then government coercion to starve the population of Province Orange is justified and moral.
It’s all very simple.
Do you think there is some principle outside of moral axioms that you apply? Because libertarians are constantly droning on and on about morality, it seems to me.
Of course people will disagree. It’s why we don’t require votes on policy to be unanimous. Some people will lose on policy. It’s called living among other people.
Yep, it sucked for the Jews Kulaks gays blacks women shiites atheists homophobes when they lost on policy. But they live among other people, and those other people just don’t agree.
lap83
Democracy means never having to tolerate losers
Are you implying that a system is possible in which everyone gets his way?
No such system is possible with more than 1 person (and even 1 person by himself is subject to the laws of nature). Hence we seek to maximize freedom and minimize coercion. You redefine both terms, so your opinion on the matter is as worthless as the words you use.
The opposite of freedom is not coercion. Vast amounts of freedom exist in societies today because of coercion by governments.
Vast amounts of freedom exist in societies today because of coercion by governments.
“My fellow Earthicans, we enjoy so much freedom, it’s almost sickening. We’re free to choose which hand our sex-monitoring chip is implanted in. And if we don’t want to pay our taxes, why, we’re free to spend a weekend with the Pain Monster!”
Definition of Doublethink: The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. Example: We’re free because we’re coerced (i.e., not free).
Do you think there is some principle outside of moral axioms that you apply?
There are higher principles that govern how I think other people should be treated, beyond what I think is morally right. I want other people to be able to live by different moral codes than my own. And so I want a system that applies a higher principle of equality and non-discrimination amoung moral codes, to allow for a multitude of different philosophies and different communities to coexist side by side. The moral axioms that cannot be dispensed with must be distilled down to the minimal number required to allow people
with different moralities to live in peace.
I want other people to be able to live by different moral codes than mine as well–to a degree. Not those who think it’s morally permissible to murder. Not those who think it’s morally permissible to exclude black people from their restaurants because they are black. I believe that there is such a thing as a bad moral system that deserves to be stamped out by society.
But you’re not telling the whole truth. You want everyone to live by a low-tax, small-government, socially liberal ethos and you probably don’t want them to have much choice in the matter.
Are you seriously comparing not serving someone in a restaurant to murder?
Get some perspective. In the larger scheme of things, not having someone bake a cake for your gay wedding is infinitessimally fucking trivial. It’s NOTHING. On the other hand, not being able to open a business because you’ll be forced to violate your religious beliefs if you do is a HUGE DEAL. You have no fucking sense of perspective.
You want to turn this trivial thing – having to go shop somewhere else, into this massive injustice, and you’re actually willing to commit huge injustices to correct it because you have no fucking respect for the people whose rights you are violating.
God… man up and accept that not everyone in the universe is going to like you or accept you. And you don’t have to like or accept them either. You don’t have to force them entirely out of society in some sort of vendetta. Be a better human being.
In the larger scheme of things, not having someone bake a cake for your gay wedding is infinitessimally fucking trivial. It’s NOTHING.
Oh, how would you know? How many times have you tried to get gay married? How many other minority experiences do you feel entitled to speak for?
On the other hand, not being able to open a business because you’ll be forced to violate your religious beliefs if you do is a HUGE DEAL.
If your religious beliefs require you to violate the civil rights of minorities, then they don’t deserve government protection.
I believe that there is such a thing as a bad moral system that deserves to be stamped out by society.
That is, when you’re not objecting to the concept of morality altogether. Funny how that switches on and off.
I think it’s funny that you guys try to pretend that all social progress comes from the guns of the state. As if, seriously, all the progress gay people have made over the last several decades is due to allowing gays in the military, gay marriage, and now, making sure that cake bakers have to bake for gay people.
That’s a joke. Of course, you people don’t want to go to parties and sound like assholes, admitting that, hey, you just like shoving your preferences down people’s throats with state violence. So, you instead pretend that all social progress hinges on state violence, fines, penalties, etc. Which is laughable.
So, you offer your contradictory reasons for wanting freedom in gay marriage but regulation in gay weddings. Apparently, businesses use public resources and deserve regulation (as if gay couples don’t?), but gays deserve marriage because “equality”. Gays have to get wedding cakes because we have to legislate morality (whether or not non-violent options are available), but, if someone thinks being gay is immoral, well, we can’t go legislating morality, right? After all, not getting a wedding cake is like murder.
It’s all just bullshit excuses for pointing guns at people and making them comply. How progressive.
Only if its lesbian porn, P.
When I (Jewish) married my wife (not Jewish), we had two officiants, one Jewish and one Methodist. Our first choices were the Rabbi of the Synagogue I attended at the time, and a relative of my wife’s who is a minister. Both declined.
We decided to find others who were willing to do the ceremony. It went well. In Tony’s world, we should’ve just stomped our feet and sued because we were being discriminated against, right? I mean, look at how Jews have been mistreated by the Church over the last, say, 2000 years.
If you read carefully you’d notice I think that religious freedom should trump. Religious officials should be able to refuse to marry people if they don’t fit their religious criteria. Seems fair.
So what the fuck are you arguing then?
It should be evident. But it’s not that ministers should be forced to perform gay weddings.
Unless those ministers own a business where they perform weddings. Then you think they have no freedom of religion whatsoever because, somehow, the fact that those business owners use public services (just like ministers tied to a church also use public services) means the government can forget about freedom of religion.
Re: Andrew S.
Don’t trust Tony’s lip service to rights, religious or otherwise. He’s a mendacious little red Marxian, untrustworthy.
Rights don’t exist to Tony unless the government says they do.
If you read carefully you’d notice I think that religious freedom should trump.
Well this is new. So you reverse previously held positions out of convenience, now?
Or is it just that you see yourself in the role of religious arbiter, deciding what is and is not a “legitimate” religious belief?
I’ve never argued that clergy should be forced to defy their religions in weddings. These people believe in a space zombie who created the universe before fathering himself who for some reason cares about what members of the species homo sapiens do with their genitals. And this for some reason is afforded special protection by our government. Who they decide is entitled to be married using their weird rituals is a kind of minor point of doctrine considering all the other crazy shit.
I’ve never argued that clergy should be forced to defy their religions …
Who the fuck was talking about “clergy”? We’re talking about personal beliefs here, you fascist pig. People do not stop having a conscience and the right to follow it when they step outside of church.
The Resurrection spell revives the target; it doesn’t turn him into an undead creature. If you can’t even get something that simple correct, how am I supposed to take anything you say seriously?
Migrant Log Picker
You should really quit when you’re behind, dumbass. That you choose to make it so clear how abjectly stupid you really are boggles any rational mind.
Carol314
Not wanting to perform a service for someone and hating someone are two entirely different things. It is possible, and even likely, that a minister might not wish to marry a gay couple for reasons other than hatred. Christian ministers are following rules that they did not make. Part of subscribing to a faith is submitting your personal desires and beliefs to a code of morality that you believe comes from God.
Conservative Christians generally believe, that because of our fallen nature we have a tendency bend the rules according to what is easy, fashionable, or most personally desirable but that the morality put forth in the Bible comes from God and does not change. According to our U.S. Constitution they have every right to believe that and to live their lives accordingly. True, since the life of Jesus and the New Testament, all must be done in the spirit of love, but this does not mean condoning behavior that your beliefs tell you is objectionable.
It is quite possible for the owners of a wedding chapel to lovingly suggest that a gay couple seek their wedding services elsewhere. What is hateful is showing disrespect for other people’s beliefs by trying to force them to act against their conscience to further you own agenda.
Protagoronus
Tony-
Couple comes in, asks to be married. Owner says no and does not really care if they hang out in the shop until closing time. You are calling for violence to force the owner into labor, correct?
Is the owner asserting a religious objection or is the marriage service entirely secular?
Would anybody care to explain to me the precise moral difference between the 19th century Christian busybodies who wanted to suppress all mention of homosexuality and who urged child welfare services to take Irish Immigrant children from their families lest they grow up in a Papist atmosphere, and the modern Liberal/Progressive buttinskis who want to suppress all opposition to homosexuality and urge child welfare services to take smokers’ children from their families lest they grow up in a smokey atmosphere?
There is none.
One did so in the name of God. The other did so in the name of Tolerance?
Remember when “jailing your opposition” was something that was only said in the context of third world dictatorships?
Yeah, but that was only because the Liberal/Progressive/Radical Left would have a hissy fit if anyone pointed out that it was SOP for the U.S.S.R. and The Peoples Republic Of China.
We haven’t rubbed their noses in that NEARLY enough?..
*Goes to lunch, gets some work done, comes back*
BOOM! THREAD SHOT!
So close.
Don’t toss that nugget of truth away. Stare at it a little while longer. What do you see?
I’ll tell you what I see: I see a compelling reason to limit the number and scope of State dicta, in order to minimize the level of control vocal activists are permitted to have over their fellow citizens.
And I’m saying that on this specific issue there is no such thing as getting the state out of the matter. Either it enforces a right to discriminate or it enforces a right to be free from discrimination.
You throw that word “right” around, but it doesn’t mean what you think it means. Right =/= anything under the sun that you could want or need
And I’m saying that on this specific issue there is no such thing as getting the state out of the matter.
Because otherwise you’re going to tell on us, right?
Either it enforces a right to discriminate or it enforces a right to be free from discrimination.
You can’t be free from discrimination. That’s absurd. That calls for reading minds.
Do you even think about these things with at least a modicum of profundity, Tony? Because, and I’m sorry for having to say this, your discourse is banal.
I can be entitled to eat at a restaurant of my choice and not be humiliated and booted out because of my sexual orientation. I can’t make people decent and tolerant but I can have government prevent the systematic exclusion of vulnerable minorities from society. It’s a social harm just like any other, just like the social harm of trespassing.
But then you don’t want government protecting you from trespassers. You want to do it yourself with your gun. So since I believe in this right, do I get to shoot bigoted restauranteurs?
but I can have government prevent the systematic exclusion of vulnerable minorities from society.
You’d probably need government for “systematic” exclusion of minorities in the first place.
I mean, come on, be honest: it’s not like the entire “system” wants to exclude blacks and minorities from getting married, having cake, right?
It’s surely less of a problem than it used to be. Some parts of the country had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a decent standard of civilization by the federal government. Maybe they should have not been ignorant bigots and we wouldn’t have needed that. So, as with many other things, you take a success of activist government and use that as an argument that government isn’t needed.
So, as with many other things, you take a success of activist government and use that as an argument that government isn’t needed.
Right, because clearly, racists are in the majority, when the government clamps down on racists. That’s how democracy and the “will of the people” works…
if you’re not too stupid to notice the glaring contradiction.
I don’t know if this was intentional, but it’s sad that the argument appeals to the listener’s sense of arrogant entitlement. It’s like when you tell your dinner companion not to be a dick to the waiter so they don’t spit in your food, because appealing to a sense of common decency won’t work.
JFree
For you particularly stupid libertarians who simply went along with the ‘gay marriage’ parade thinking that it was ‘sign’ of growing libertarian beliefs; this is called ‘blowback’.
You had two freaking decades to frame the agenda here as – ‘government should get out of marriage’ rather than ‘government should get more into marriage and change the rules as well. You failed. And not only did you fail, you failed to even recognize that the underlying goal of most of the more active proponents of gay marriage was cultural Marxism – to undermine cultural institutions that fostered bourgeois attitudes and prevented the proletariat from blahblahblah. Those cultural Marxists created all the different academic ‘cultural studies’ thangs in the 1960’s – and those are the people who framed this issue in the way that met their needs.
And now that it’s done, they are free to use the instruments of legal force to compel their opponents to comply with the state’s whims. What a freaking surprise.
You libertarians are beyond stupid. You are an active menace to personal liberty.
Re: JFree,
And for us libertarians who warned about this? Give us some sugar, baby!
Yes – they existed. But they couldn’t even sway the rest of libertarians themselves to reframe this issue so that it could actually become a libertarian success story.
This issue was so ripe to be repositioned 8 or so years ago when it first really began to gather public attention via court cases. But instead, libertarians simply chose to join itself and ride along with the phrase/meme of ‘gay marriage’. And worse, propounded all sorts of nonsense about how tactically this would merely be a first step towards a longer-term ‘government out of marriage’ thang.
So no sugar until your sort of libertarian actually gains influence over what broadly gets called ‘libertarian’.
It’s “marriage equality”, not “gay marriage”.
No it isn’t. The issue is – it is none of the government’s business AT ALL. Marriage (the word) was a religious institution at the time of the constitution – that means blanket 1st amendment prohibition on federal involvement. The only English law re marriage at the time was the specific establishment of it according to Anglican precepts – and we specifically chose NOT to establish a religion. States were exempt from 1st amendment until 1947 – so some of them did create marriage laws – and ALL of them were originally written as ‘establishment’ legislation.
And the feds specifically got involved in marriage re a)their almost assuredly illegal war against Mormons and b)the first ‘licensing’ mandate on the states which was a direct result of pressure from Catholics (the Catholic Church refused to perform interdenominational marriages – so new immigrants immediately assumed the state should instead) and the 1920’s KKK and progressives (who wanted the village to own the kiddies).
Everything about this history says – undo all the previous mistakes. Instead we chose to compound all those mistakes and make the entanglement even worse
And what were you doing to oppose this “cultural Marxism”?
In their defense, libertarians were pretty fucking useless in the marriage equality movement.
As usual they were busy defending the real victims in America, billionaires who have to pay taxes.
What the Klan can’t do is prevent a Jew from going into a bakery.
Not unless the Klan owns the bakery in question. Then they can close their doors on the Jew’s face. As simple as that.
The whole premise of your argumentation rests on denying property rights, like a good little red Marxian. That is all, nothing else. You keep throwing these bombs like “racists” and “The Klan” to poison the well but it doesn’t work, Tony. Either an ethical principle is universal or it is not valid.
He seems to be arguing from moral outrage. How offensive it is that a bigot might be able to evict a homosexual from his premises! It’s offensive so therefore this right shouldn’t exist!
He’s like a mirror image of the anti-gay bigots on the right.
There was a time in this country’s history when the idea of preventing discrimination in public accommodations was mainstream enough to become enshrined in widely admired federal law, and it was the fucking 60s. I didn’t just make it up.
I get it. You think Nazis should be able to call the police and have them escort Jews out of their Nazi bakeries. Just say so. It’s a valid opinion in that at least it’s not self-contradictory like so much of what you believe.
Except the part about how you think you’re on the pro-individual-freedom side of things. You’re not, you’re just on the racist business owner’s side. Not having the same access to the businesses in your community as the majority race, religion, or sexual orientation is a harm. It makes it more difficult for those minorities to make their way in life. Then you want to slap them with unrestrained capitalism and scold them for not succeeding as well as the majority?
There is a faint moral underpinning that guides liberals’ approach to policy: government should, in general, watch out for the more vulnerable. You guys have the interests of the least vulnerable covered quite well. Just don’t call it freedom full stop. It’s more freedom for certain people and less freedom for others. More freedom for bigots to discriminate and less freedom for minorities to secure food and lodging in their communities. That’s pretty fucked up if you think about it.
I’m saying that on this specific issue there is no such thing as getting the state out of the matter.
You can say it ’til you’re blue in the face. You’re wrong.
So explain why. I’ve been asking for a third alternative all fucking day and nobody has offered it. Either the cops enforce discrimination or they enforce nondiscrimination. The only feeble possibility for a third way is to sprinkle unicorn dust on America and hope people behave “civilly.” (Meaning oppressed minorities have to be civil to bigots, of course.)
Either the cops enforce discrimination or they enforce nondiscrimination.
You know, it is possible to discriminate without the cops.
The fact that you can’t open your mind and imagine a “third way” is your problem, not everyone else’s.
Or, how about this, Tony:
“Oh, Tony, you want to marry Steve? I don’t want you to marry Steve. So, I’m coming over to your house and not leaving until you stop marrying Steve. Oh, you’re going to call the cops? NOW IT”S UP FOR A VOTE, STUPID BITCH!”
OK, so let’s let people vote on whether or not they like gay’s getting married. Sure, it’s more equal, but, if we’re going to have gay couples possibly calling the police from inside their homes, then they’re using public resources, and so it’s up for debate, and democracy. I mean, we can’t just arbitrarily claim some “equal right” now can we?
So enlighten me. You’re already typing, you might as well spell it out.
What alternate universe did you weirdos grow up in? Maybe I’m just incurably biased by an education about the civil rights era that championed the participants in sit-ins and rejected the perpetrators of segregation. Do I have it all backward? Are the real heroes those brave souls standing up for “freedom of association,” and the real villains those awful black trespassers?
So, basically we don’t have freedom of association because “civil rights movement, duh”?
Great argument. Right out of the mouth of a sixth grade social studies student.
We have freedom of association. It doesn’t extend to discriminating based on race and a handful of other protected statuses in public accommodations. It doesn’t extend to pedophile orgies either. Freedoms can conflict.
Funny, you could make the same case for letting democracy decide on whether gay marriage is a good idea. I mean, yeah, freedom of association, but, no pedophile orgies. Freedoms can conflict.
It’s funny how, one the one hand, you demand freedom of choice in association/marriage because equality, but, on the other, it has to be strictly regulated. You can decide not to do business with someone who’s a jerk, but not because you don’t like making gay wedding cakes. Because… equality. Whatever. Just be honest, and repeat after me: “I like government enforcing my subjective preferences.”
It’s subjective to prefer that people not harm minorities?
Yes, and for obvious reasons: why do you only prefer that people not harm minorities (i.e., implicitly certain, special minorities, instead of harming people, in general?
Or, more specifically, why do you endorse harming certain minorities, as long as it ostensibly favors one of your preferred minorities, erroneously passing that off as “not harming minorities”?
Listen, I agree with you on the main point: discriminating against blacks and gays sucks. It’s irrational and bigoted. But, then, right when we’re almost on the same page, you have to go all bully with state violence and start fining and shutting down businesses for no other reason then they consider greco-roman wrestling cakes as icky, and don’t want to bake them. That’s not exactly a cop shooting a firehose at you, you know.
So, right when I start feeling sorry for you as a victim, you go all state violence asshole, and it just kills the mood for me. It’s like watching a child playing on a playground and, thoroughly convinced that another child’s broken the rules and in the right, suddenly starts beating the shit out of him. Sorry, I know the rules, too, but you just went pure dick head, and any moral high ground you had, you just lost. Because I consider harming peaceful people more evil than thinking certain people are icky, yet not harming any of them.
Can you read? You want state violence too! To expel trespassers who otherwise would be protected from antidiscrimination law. Neither of us is advocating not using state violence.
And it’s not special protected minorities. If someone discriminates against you because you are white, male, heterosexual, or Christian, it still applies.
Huh? Being a gay man, I don’t see how cops are be involved when some Christian nut decides not to do business with me.
Nor, for that matter, do I see much benefit to cops trying to “enforce nondiscrimination”. I mean, how do you imagine that works? They point a gun at the minister while he marries me?
Your SJW stance is not just ineffective, it’s harmful to the people you are claiming to help.
Let’s see, to inspire your ceremony today, we take from the passages Romans, “__________” And just as soon as I’ve turned away from you and covered my eyes, you may kiss your bride, eh er groom, whatever. Now you may enjoy your cake made from horse manure.
This has a simple solution.
The Christians can continue to respect the gay person, including their rights to union/marriage, ie; they’ll recieve the same 1st rate service at Chick Filet, and the Gays can respect the Christians right to religion.
Neither group needs to seek out the other and seek vengence. Oh, except that one group has starting this conflict that need not exist.
Moon W. Trash
Seems to me the easy solution would be to refuse service, without stating a reason. What are they going to do, lock you in the Mindsqueezer 6000 and suck the thoughts from your brain? Am I missing something in the law that compels anyone to give a reason for any action they take, regardless of whether that reason can be judged “good or “ill”?
Of course, the response would soon be a legal requirement to provide a certified psych report to prove that you were NOT refusing service because of someone’s position on the Pre-Approve Persons list (which I assume would be ranked, with more Naughty Points on your record depending upon whom you dislike). I mean, if you can’t control your thoughts, the government has to, key-rrrrect?
Agent Cupcake
I hope you’re still reading this. I’ve only been reading Reason a few months and your comments confuse me. You’ve said in the past that you consider yourself more libertarian than most of the people here but I’m not sure how you can claim that since your opinions seem to jive more often with straight up progressives. In this instance, you’re claiming that the gay or racially disenfranchised are more deserving of special protection from the state. At what point is it enough in your opinion? When can we get rid of affirmative action, for example. And how does your answer maximize freedom?
How do you justify demanding labor from someone who doesn’t want to give it?
Please excuse typos, I’m on my iPad.
Oh I’m no libertarian. I have noted that often I agree with the columnist more than the commenters do.
At what point is it enough in your opinion?
When all people regardless of how they were born have an equal opportunity to participate and succeed in their communities.
But I’m not here to defend affirmative action policies (which I have some issues with), I’m here to point out that libertarians are in fact supporting “affirmative action” for people who would discriminate. Freedom of association is what it’s called; what it entails is that taxpayer funded cops show up to enforce a discriminatory regime. I don’t want to pay for cops who do that. That’s all.
I’m here to point out that libertarians are in fact supporting “affirmative action” for people who would discriminate. Freedom of association is what it’s called; what it entails is that taxpayer funded cops show up to enforce a discriminatory regime. I don’t want to pay for cops who do that. That’s all.
In what way does it require cops to show up if I don’t want to do business with you? What is there to “enforce”? How does my refusal to do business with someone cost you money?
You get to call people trespassers and cops get called on trespassers.
This law was not made up to address a nonexistent problem.
If I don’t want them on my property, they are trespassers.
Yes, it was: businesses denying gay men and women service or employment is not a problem, either morally or in the real world.
Your “I don’t want to pay for it” argument sounds like my arguement against welfare and other social programs (including Obamacare). In those cases, the taxpayer funded IRS also enforces a discriminatory regime.
I think someone else said it earlier, your moral argument seems to be that your side is right, mine is wrong, which seems to lack principle. If you could be assured that cops would not drag away a gay guy from a bakery that didn’t want to make his wedding cake, would you also be cool if the cops didn’t come when I refused to pay taxes that went to welfare recipients?
No. You pay taxes and they pay for some things you don’t like. Obviously it has to work that way. That is not my point: my point is that if you get rid of anti-discrimination laws for businesses that cater to the public, you’ll be paying for government to enforce discrimination. Discrimination being a bad thing? We are clear on that?
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…”my point is that if you get rid of anti-discrimination laws for businesses that cater to the public, you’ll be paying for government to enforce discrimination.”
Which, shitstain, is a bald-faced lie; exactly what you constantly post.
Try this scenario:
(phone rings) “Bigots Bakery, how may I help you?”
“Will you bake a cake for my gay wedding?”
“No, I don’t bake for gay weddings.”
(hangs up phone)
See, no third party needed to “enforce discrimination”
If I can’t marry a friend of mine so she can get her citizenship or get me some tax relief, I’m going to sue for being discriminated. The concept of “monogamy” or “commitment” is also definition of marriage that’s set by some right winger.
In the state of CA my right to eat a dog or shark fin soup is also restricted.
Discrimination….discrimination is everywhere!
Also, Tony, would you object to an imam being forced to perform a same sex wedding? How would you handle a same sex couple requesting such a ceremony, knowing homosexuality was not only not tolerated but actively despised in Islam?
I have already answered this question.
Generally, I think Christians businesses shouldn’t be forced to serve people they don’t like. However, I still find the Christian position a bit hypocritical, because there are strong anti-discrimination protections for Christians and I don’t see social conservatives offering to give those up. How can you argue that a Christian business owner should be able to discriminate against a gay man when a gay business owner is not allowed to discriminate against a Christian? Seems to me that if we want to uphold freedom of association for business owners, then it should work the same for everybody.
If a Christian walked into a gay-owned bakery and asked for a giant cake that said GOD HATES FAGS, I hope that the gay person would point to the door.
I think companies should be able to discriminate against anyone for any reason.
adimwoler
My roomate’s aunt makes $71 /hour on the laptop . She has been out of a job for six months but last month her income was $12021 just working on the laptop for a few hours.
You can try this out. ????? http://www.jobsfish.com
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I believe the readings for the service will come from the book of Deuteronomy.
When saying about New Year 2015, January 1 2015 is the very first day in the New Year 2015, in the Georgian Calendar and also falls exactly after a week after the previous year’s Christmas day. So people all over the world are celebrating the new year 2015 with high honor. People celebrate the New Year day by sending New Year 2015 Greetings, New Year SMS and Messages wishes and Quotes to their loved ones. Now a days some changes are occurred and most of the people are celebrating the Happy New Year with Social networking sites. They share Happy New Year 2015 Wallpapers, New Year Quotes and messages to friends via Facebook and WhatsApp.
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“Why Not Force Somebody Who Hates You To Perform Your Wedding Ceremony?” Um this is why you’re an idiot Scott Shackford. Cause this type of behavior will only lead to totalitarianism not unlike seen in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. You should as a religious minister have the right to marry or not to marry whoever you choose. This is an abhorrent violation of the 1st amendment.
TxJack 112
This article hits at the core of the real issue, marriage is a religious sacrament. The Bans passed across the US have asked the government to make a judgment on a moral issue, not a legal one. If we are truly to follow the Constitution, you cannot deny one group of people equal protection under the law because you have a moral objection to their lifestyle. Marriage is defined by the Church, not the Court. This ordinance is governmental overreach because it would be no different if a minister refused to marry two satanists, or a Christian minister, two Muslims. We need to fight to get the government out of the “business of marriage”. If every couple, straight or gay were issued the same document, a certificate of civil union to cover the LEGAL issues related to a committed relationship and left the MARRIAGE part to the Church, the fight fades because there is nothing to fight about. Gay couples cannot demand Churches be forced by the government to act in way counter to their spiritual beliefs since that is clearly a violation of the 1st amendment.
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New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar’s year count increments by one. Printable Coloring Pages And Sheets Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner.
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How AI Can Transform the Autism Services Industry
March 30, 2020 | Technology
Imagine providing parents with an app that enables them to upload videos of their children, analyzed by computers applying algorithms to diagnose autism earlier in their development than currently possible.
Imagine equipping autistic individuals with smart glasses that whisper instructions for navigating social situations in the user’s ear.
Imagine two-foot-tall humanoid robots that could serve as therapists for use in treating children with autism.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made all this possible today. AI, equipped with machine learning, is improving constantly, and is positioned to become a critical adjunct to the human element in the diagnosis and treatment of autism. The operational and clinical advantages these advances convey are creating added value propositions for those enterprises that embrace it.
AI Disruptors in Other Industries
The ground for these paradigm-shifting advances has been well-trod in other industries. Consider how Waze disrupted the navigation business less than a decade ago. When other mapping apps stumbled to diagnose traffic jams and redirect travelers, Waze crowd-sourced traffic reports and provided real-time data about traffic incidents, speed limits, speed traps, and other valuable trip information to navigate the fastest possible route. As a result, the navigation app captured market share from Google, Mapquest, and other providers, with 25.6 million monthly users by 2018.
Waze has exploited that unique value add by establishing a ride share component that allows users to find, connect and ride together at a fraction of the cost of Uber and Lyft, themselves industry disruptors. Waze is also being accessed by governments and researchers seeking real-time data collected by its users. In Israel, researchers are asking Waze users to report roadkill, so they can track animal collisions and reroute animal movements to avoid them. The city of Hampton Roads, VA is mining Waze traffic data to determine where flooding is most acute as they develop their flood maps.
We know OpenTable as the restaurant reservation system, but OpenTable has revolutionized the entire restaurant industry. By compiling a comprehensive database of dates, names, places, check size and so on, OpenTable creates operational advantages for its food and beverage customers. It provides the infrastructure to manage those reservations, assign tables, recognize repeat diners and remember diner preferences. It also allows restaurants to better manage costs by staffing correctly and minimizing food waste.
The Story of AI in Autism Services
The frame-breaking opportunities are similarly ripe in the autism services industry. The platform created by Cognoa, a Palo Alto-based pediatric behavioral health program, uses machine learning and predictive analytics to analyze parent input of behavioral information to diagnose autism earlier. This allows intervention and customized education to begin in the critical early years of a child’s brain development.
Another AI solution developed by Brain Power, helps autistic individuals manage their emotions with a wearable digital coach that recognizes social situations and guides the user towards appropriate responses. This facilitates increased functional independence, also enabling some to interact more effectively in a standard workplace setting.
Monitors and wearable devices can also deliver a plethora of health, activity, and geographic information about clients in real time. With some analysis, staff could correlate patient meltdowns with changes in physiological ratios such as a spike in blood sugar levels, increased heart rate and sweating.
As an example, for individuals whose sugar intake is correlated with aggression, making dietary changes and collaborating with parents to monitor sugar and carbohydrate intake could reduce the frequency of outbursts and the required interventions, and would improve client outcomes and quality of life.
AI’s Impact Is Clinical and Operational
The business imperative for artificial intelligence covers the operational aspects of the autism services business as well. Employing this new business intelligence would enable service providers to tackle issues such as scheduling in a more targeted manner. If traffic on Friday afternoons in one location is causing sessions to start late, for example, modifications can be made to maximize session time.
This avoids the current practice of implementing policy and process changes across the board that may have negative impacts on service delivery in a different location where Friday afternoon traffic is not an issue. It is an ongoing process: continuing use of these tools could help determine which modifications were working and whether they were creating cancellation bulges elsewhere in the schedule.
The artificial intelligence that drives these revelations is the business imperative of the future of autism services, if not the present. It will eventually be a normal part of every autism service enterprise, as it already is in many industries. The early adopters will exploit a market inefficiency to deliver services that their competitors lack.
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Is the shapeshifting druid an original D&D invention?
The Dungeons & Dragons druids have been largely defined by their ability to change into an animal form in every edition, e.g. through the Wild Shape ability in Dungeons & Dragons 5e.
Is the druid's role as a shapeshifter powered by nature an original creation of D&D, or is this trope borrowed from an earlier source?
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kviirikviiri
Druids have been shapeshifters from the beginning
The D&D Druid ability to shapechange showed up originally in their first appearance in the game, as a monster in the Greyhawk supplement for original D&D. At that time, they were known as "priests of a neutral-type religion", had both cleric and magic-user spellcasting, and had "barbaric followers". "Powered by nature" does not appear to have been included at that time. They were later added as a class in Eldritch Wizardry, where the connection to nature was made more clear.
Gary Gygax himself has stated that the druid was based on Caesar's description of druids in Commentarii de Bello Gallico (at least, according to James Maliszewski of Grognardia). That description did not involve shapeshifting, but it does draw the connection between D&D druids and Gaulish priests of that era.
Near-contemporary to Caeser's work, Pomponius Mela, writing De situ orbis libri III in AD 43 or so describes a group of female priests of a Gaulish god. "They call them Gallizenae, and they believe them to be endowed with extraordinary gifts to rouse the sea and the wind by their incantations, to turn themselves into whatsoever animal form they may choose, to cure diseases which among others are incurable, to know what is to come and to foretell it." As those were likewise priests of Gaul, they'd also have qualified as druids.
We can't know for absolute certain that the D&D shapeshifting druid was inspired by any other source, but we can at least be quite sure that they weren't the first to come up with the idea.
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Historically, the word druid generally refers to Celtic religious figures, but most of our legends around druids come through Roman conquerors and Greek historians who studied them. Most of the original legends were transmitted orally and corrupted (sometimes deliberately) by the Greeks and Romans who wrote about them. Exceptionally little of the original myths survives because the Celts of that period did not place a heavy emphasis on writing and much of what little was written by first party sources was destroyed. The word itself entered English from Latin. (Yes, there are some later historical Irish myths that grew up around druids, but many of those formed after the Romans largely exterminated the original druids and suppressed much of the oral history that the druids themselves were largely responsible for transmitting.)
With that noted, some historical legends do associate druids, or at least groups associated with druids with shapeshifting. The Gallizenae, which are arguably a specific group of druids, were associated with shapeshifting. Some Irish myths, which largely were developed after the original historical druids around which the myths grew had been effectively exterminated, discuss druids turning both themselves and others into animals. While animal transformations definitely appear in the old stories, druids were more associated with augury and were strongly associated with advisory positions. They were also strongly associated with Bards, in the old pre-D&D meaning of that word where they were associated with poetry, storytelling and entertainment, but also with the spreading of news.
If we look at modern literature, The Iron Druid Chronicles centers on druids and shapeshifting is one of their canonical powers. While this was written after the early versions of D&D and thus could not have possibly inspired them, Kevin Herne takes pains to reflect what is known of the original Celtic myths.
Now, for the direct connection to what inspired the designers of D&D, I have not found an interview that discusses it. However, it is likely they were inspired by the old myths or the Roman and Greek corruptions of them in which animal transformation did feature. I think it is safe to assume that later fictional appearances of druids, with certain exceptions for authors like Kevin Herne that do extensive historical research, are often largely inspired by D&D, which has now successfully suffused the culture.
TimothyAWisemanTimothyAWiseman
The idea of shapeshifting druids existed before D&D. According to Wikipedia:
Shapeshifting is a well-known trope in folklore, including Celtic mythology, which druidic legends came from:
The idea of shapeshifting is present in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest extant literature and epic poems, including works such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad, where the shapeshifting is usually induced by the act of a deity. The idea persisted through the Middle Ages, where the agency causing shapeshifting is usually a sorcerer or witch, and into the modern period.
Merlin the wizard has druidical characteristics:
early references to Merlin describe him as possessing characteristics which modern scholarship (but not that of the time the sources were written) would recognize as druidical
He also was a shapeshifter according to some medieval sources:
Robert de Boron lays great emphasis on Merlin's power to shapeshift
Druids had "assorted mystical abilities" in Irish folklore:
Druids also play a prominent role in Irish Folklore, generally serving lords and kings as high ranking priest-counselors with the gift of prophecy and other assorted mystical abilities
including shapeshifting:
Ulster cycle
This cycle is, in some respects, close to the mythological cycle. Some of the characters from the latter reappear, and the same sort of shape-shifting magic is much in evidence, side by side with a grim, almost callous realism.
enkryptorenkryptor
\$\begingroup\$ To be fair, in Irish mythology it's pretty common for wise and powerful people to just kinda randomly turn themselves into animals with no prior mention that they could do that, whether they're druids as such or not. It seems like transformation was something culturally seen as something you'd just automatically learn to do when you became wise enough. That's still likely the origin of the wild-shaping druid, but it wasn't limited to druids or people who could reasonably be read as druids. Fish transformations are particularly common. \$\endgroup\$ – Darth Pseudonym Aug 12 '20 at 19:23
At the time, it was the Riddlemaster Trilogy by Patricia McKillip that best defined the Druid's shapeshifting ability for us -- though I don't recall mention of the word "Druid" in those novels. Interestingly, it came out the same year as did Eldritch Wizardry, in which D&D's first PC Druid appeared. So not exactly an earlier source itself, but possibly suggestive of a common earlier source from which both originate. Either way, the trilogy is an excellent read for shapeshifting tropes.
\$\begingroup\$ Was that before or after "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld" was published? \$\endgroup\$ – KorvinStarmast Oct 16 '18 at 17:13
\$\begingroup\$ After! The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is from 1974, a year or two prior. It's my favorite book of McKillip's, but doesn't contain anything regarding shapechanging magic, as far as I recall. \$\endgroup\$ – user29876 Oct 17 '18 at 17:41
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Michael Franks: Greatest singer songwriter of all time!
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I've talked about and reviewed Michael Franks many times on the Rubenerd Show, but have never written anything about him. This is my attempt to do this amazing artist justice in the blog medium. Hope he would approve!
Michael Franks is an American jazz artist who sings songs with a great sense of humour and refreshingly interesting lyrics. If you have never heard of Michael Franks, you are missing out on hearing the greatest singer/songwriter of all time.
My family's frank obsession with Michael Franks (I thought the wording was clever!) started with my mum in the early 1980s. As the story goes, she was called over to a friend's house one afternoon after being told about an intriguing artist who sang, amonst other things, about cold toes and finding the perfect shampoo!
Since then, Michael Franks has quite literally been a family institution of the Schade family! Out of Michael's whopping 19 albums we have 8 on original records and the rest on CDs and purchased copies as MP3s on iTunes. I've personally got 1.8GB of Michael Franks music on my computer right now as I type this!
I really don't know much about music; I can't play an instrument, I can read scores and as I find when trying to articulate the sensation of drinking wine, I certainly don't know any of the fancy language people use to describe it, but what I do know is what I like, and I like Michael Franks' music.
My mum and I agree that whilst the tunes themselves are smooth and a pleasure to listen to in their own right, it is the lyrics in his work that really set him apart from any other artist. My mum says amongst other things it would probably be impossible to win an argument with someone like Michael Franks who obviously has such an extrodinary grasp of literature!
The wide and varying styles of his music are incredible, and really show off his versatility as an artist. His music ranges from the more up beat style in When Sly Calls, to the jazzy Monks New Tune and Sanpaku, to fun electronics in Now That Your Joystick's Broke, to the suave and sophisticated Alone At Night and Tiger in the Rain, the latter album by the same name still my favourite.
You can find out more about Michael Franks at his official website at MichaelFranks.com, his article on Wikipedia, on iTunes (do a search for Michael Franks), the aptly named Michael Franks Yahoo! Group and even his own CafePress store.
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A new MuddyWater Campaign spreads Powershell-based PRB-Backdoor
June 15, 2018 By Pierluigi Paganini
Trend Micro spotted a new attack relying on weaponized Word documents and PowerShell scripts that appears related to the MuddyWater APT.
Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new attack relying on weaponized Word documents and PowerShell scripts that appears related to the MuddyWater cyber-espionage campaign.
The first MuddyWater campaign was observed in late 2017, then researchers from Palo Alto Networks were investigating a mysterious wave of attacks in the Middle East.
The experts called the campaign ‘MuddyWater’ due to the confusion in attributing these attacks that took place between February and October 2017 targeting entities in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Georgia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United States to date.
Threat actors used PowerShell-based first stage backdoor named POWERSTATS, across the time the hackers changed tools and techniques.
In March 2018, experts at FireEye uncovered a massive phishing campaign conducted by TEMP.Zagros group (another name used by the experts to track the MuddyWater), targeting Asia and Middle East regions from January 2018 to March 2018.
Attackers used weaponized documents typically having geopolitical themes, such as documents purporting to be from the National Assembly of Pakistan or the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology.
The attacks have been mistakenly associated with the FIN7 group, when Palo Alto discovered the first campaign reported that a C&C server delivering the FIN7-linked DNSMessenger tool was involved in MuddyWater attacks as well.
The new campaign discovered by the experts presents many similarities with previous ones conducted by the same threat actor, attackers attempted to distribute a backdoor through weaponized Word documents that execute PowerShell scripts.
“In May 2018, we found a new sample (Detected as W2KM_DLOADR.UHAOEEN) that may be related to this campaign. Like the previous campaigns, these samples again involve a Microsoft Word document embedded with a malicious macro that is capable of executing PowerShell (PS) scripts leading to a backdoor payload.” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.
“One notable difference in the analyzed samples is that they do not directly download the Visual Basic Script(VBS) and PowerShell component files, and instead encode all the scripts on the document itself. The scripts will then be decoded and dropped to execute the payload without needing to download the component files.”
Unlike previous campaigns, the samples don’t directly download the malicious scripts because they are encoded in the document itself.
The bait document used in the campaign claims to be a reward or a promotion, a circumstance that suggests the hackers are targeting entities in other industries,
Once the victim opens the document, he is enticed into enabling the macro to view its full content.
“Once the macro is enabled, it will use the Document_Open() event to automatically execute the malicious routine if either a new document using the same template is opened or when the template itself is opened as a document0.” continues the analysis.
The code executes two PowerShell scripts, with the second is used by attackers to drop various components on the compromised machine.
The final payload delivered in the last campaign is the PRB-BackdoorRAT, it was controlled by the command and control (C&C) server at outl00k[.]net.
The backdoor can execute a broad range of commands, including gather browsing history from installed browsers, exfiltrate passwords found in the browser, read and write files, execute shell commands, log keystrokes and capture screenshots.
“If these samples are indeed related to MuddyWater, this means that the threat actors behind MuddyWater are continuously evolving their tools and techniques to make them more effective and persistent,” Trend Micro concludes.
(Security Affairs – MuddyWater, APT)
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A new Meltdown-like flaw tracked as LazyFP affects Intel CPUs
Singapore was hit by an unprecedented number of attacks during the Trump-Kim Summit
A new vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution on Intel chips, known as LazyFP, has been announced and assigned...
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Repubblica: New leader emerges as Arsenal, Man Utd join Milan in race for €50m forward
By Oliver Fisher - 2 June 2020, 17:50
Arsenal are the new frontrunners in the race to land reported AC Milan and Juventus target Arkadiusz Milik this summer, according to a report.
It was reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport last week that Milik – a name that has long been linked to Milan – has remained a target as the Rossoneri look to secure a new centre-forward this summer, with Juventus also keen.
According to the latest from the paper edition of La Repubblica – as cited by The Sun – it is in fact Arsenal who are now in pole position to land the unsettled forward.
Milik is set to enter the final year of his five-year deal which brought him to Serie A from Ajax in 2016 having refused to pen a new deal at the Stadio San Paolo.
The outlet states that Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis wants to avoid selling to a Serie A rival and would accept an offer below their €50million valuation.
La Repubblica go on to state that Manchester United are among ‘a number of Premier League clubs’ who are also believed to be admirers of the 26-year-old, who has 46 goals in 109 official games for the Partenopei (via Transfermarkt).
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Drones Paired with Thermal Cameras Spot Moisture under Roof Membranes
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Choosing the Right Antenna for GPR Investigations
By Jami Harmon, GSSI Antennas used with ground penetrating radar (GPR) come in different shapes and sizes. The largest antennas typically radiate the lower frequencies necessary to detect the deepest targets. The smallest antennas radiate the highest frequencies that provide the greatest resolution required to detect small, shallow targets. The “best” antenna for a job
Preparing to Integrate Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Technologies
As advances in technology make it more cost-effective to deploy IIoT, industries will need to acquire a strategic approach to integrating new sensor data with pre-existing data environments. Now, more than ever, industries are seeking simple integrations with controls, automation and data analytics visualization software to harness the power of the Industrial Internet of Things
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Esri Donating Software Licenses to URISA GISCorps Volunteers
Esri will donate personal-use licenses of its ArcGIS software for each GISCorps volunteer who takes a GIS Service Pledge to volunteer for a good cause. GISCorps is a program of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and has been providing a range of mapping and disaster response services for more than 14 years
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GIS to the Rescue: Unleashing the Power of Geospatial Technology to Plan for and Respond to Natural Disasters
By Dr. Ahmed Abukhater As Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast on Aug. 25, 2017, with winds topping 130 miles per hour, the situation signaled a disaster on the horizon. The winds and heavy rains caused significant flooding, toppled branches and power lines, and lead to massive blackouts across the region. With
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Vertical Images: From Film Making to Inspection, and Why the Future of Drones Doesn’t Lie in Flying
Successful drone entrepreneur Petr Lněnička went from award-winning filmmaker to drone inspection leader in his native Czech Republic. Here he lays out 3 pieces of advice and explains why for him, the transition seemed logical, and why he believes the future of drone mapping services will place less and less emphasis on drones and more
How Drone Data Delivers Real Bottom Line Value for SMBs in Construction
Headquartered in Beaumont, California, Bogh Engineering is a 3rd generation family owned construction and engineering company with 65 employees. It focuses on construction of public schools, and is currently working on 14 job sites including building the 1.4 million square foot Indio High School. “90% of our business is focused on schools because we understand
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How Do I Choose the Correct Image-Capture Settings for 3D Models?
What are the effects of the “angle between images” setting in circular missions when it comes to 3D reconstruction? Knowing which drone flight plan to design for 3D modeling can be challenging, but the good news is that Pix4Dcapture has automatic flight missions optimized for different scenarios. We tested circular missions with three image angle
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Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy
Author(s): Ami Ayalon; Anthony David (As told to); Dennis Ross (Foreword by)
A highly decorated Israeli military officer, leader, and former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet, sees the light on what his country must do to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for 'the enemy' and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian public will support violence, because they have nothing to lose.
Researching and writing Friendly Fire, he came to understand that his patriotic life had blinded him to the self-defeating nature of policies that have undermined Israel's civil society while heaping humiliation upon its Palestinian neighbours. 'If Israel becomes an Orwellian dystopia,' Ayalon writes, 'it won't be thanks to a handful of theologians dragging us into the dark past. The secular majority will lead us there motivated by fear and propelled by silence.'
Ayalon is a realist, not an idealist, and many who consider themselves Zionists will regard as radical his conclusions about what Israel must do to achieve relative peace and security and to sustain itself as a Jewish homeland and a liberal democracy.
Publication date : December 2020
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The Emerging Threat of Antifungal Resistance in Transplant Infectious Diseases
Ilan S. Schwartz, Thomas F Patterson
Purpose of Review: The global emergence of antifungal resistance among Candida spp. and Aspergillus spp. will disproportionately affect transplantation recipients, who are prone to invasive fungal disease. Recent Findings: Invasive candidiasis is increasingly caused by non-albicans Candida species with reduced susceptibility to first-line antifungals. Echinocandin resistance in Candida glabrata is increasing in some settings. Candida auris has rapidly emerged as a global concern due to multidrug resistance and efficient nosocomial spread in healthcare settings. Azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus is already an important concern in some European countries and is increasingly reported elsewhere, possibly driven by agricultural use of triazole fungicides. Summary: Antifungal resistance is anticipated to expand among these and other common fungal pathogens. Culture-independent detection methods will become more important for rapid diagnosis and to guide empiric therapy. Antifungal stewardship is of critical importance to conserve our limited antifungal armamentarium for transplantation recipients and other vulnerable patients.
Current Infectious Disease Reports
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-018-0608-y
Antifungal susceptibility
Azole
Echinocandin
Hematopoietic stem cell transplant
Solid organ transplant
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Schwartz, I. S., & Patterson, T. F. (2018). The Emerging Threat of Antifungal Resistance in Transplant Infectious Diseases. Current Infectious Disease Reports, 20(3), [2]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-018-0608-y
The Emerging Threat of Antifungal Resistance in Transplant Infectious Diseases. / Schwartz, Ilan S.; Patterson, Thomas F.
In: Current Infectious Disease Reports, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2, 01.03.2018.
Schwartz, IS & Patterson, TF 2018, 'The Emerging Threat of Antifungal Resistance in Transplant Infectious Diseases', Current Infectious Disease Reports, vol. 20, no. 3, 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-018-0608-y
Schwartz IS, Patterson TF. The Emerging Threat of Antifungal Resistance in Transplant Infectious Diseases. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 2018 Mar 1;20(3). 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-018-0608-y
Schwartz, Ilan S. ; Patterson, Thomas F. / The Emerging Threat of Antifungal Resistance in Transplant Infectious Diseases. In: Current Infectious Disease Reports. 2018 ; Vol. 20, No. 3.
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Bring on the noise
American noise pop duo Sleigh Bells debut new album: “Jessica Rabbit”
By Alex Woodliff, Staff Writer
Rate 4/5
“Sleigh Bells” is a worthy addition to the noise pop genre.
Hi-fi, indie, garbage pop, and noise-pop, are just a few of the names that have been used to describe Sleigh Bells since their 2010 debut “Treats.” Mixing band creator and guitarist Derek E. Miller’s blown out distorted heavy metal enthused guitar riffs and compositions with lead singer Alexis Krauss’ saccharin coated vocals and melodies gave birth to an interesting sound. One that should not have worked but despite all odds found an interesting harmony on “Treats.”
The Brooklyn based duo has kept silent since their third album, “Bitter Rivals” released in 2013. Both have admitted in interviews that this album was done in a series of short recording sessions. Miller, who was known for his trademark dark sunglasses and affinity for heavy metal guitar riffs comes from a metal-core background while Krauss has formal vocal training as well has being a part of small indie pop groups.
It is a sound clash that for all intents and purposes should not have worked. Combing Krauss vocals and Miller’s guitars gave way to a surprising sound and formula. “Treats” had a give-and-take nature that meshed. Their two-follow ups though found a battle of wills between their respective sounds. While they were serviceable, they lacked the symbiosis of their debut.
Sometimes Millers guitars and production would drown out Krauss vocals. Other times it seemed Krauss vocals were overpowering. This was mostly due to a mixture of personal issues and high expectations to recapture the mix that made “Treats” so surprising. That however has been fixed on “Jessica Rabbit.” Both have talked about in interviews how doing this album bit by bit after taking time off helped in the long run. That playful dueling clash of their respective sounds has finally returned.
“Jessica Rabbit” impresses fans on a musical level.
On “Jessica Rabbit” Miller gives Krauss more control. Keeping to the standard punk and pop formula of short infectious songs, “Jessica Rabbit” is both in your face yet playful. Opening with “It’s Just Us Now” opens with Miller’s trademark distortion before Krauss sings “And when you die/I wanna die, I wanna die with you/And lay us down for good.” The track works to establish that this is a band that would rather burn out brightly than go out flickering. I’ll show you how to shake the pain like it’s cinnamon.”
On “I Can’t Stand You Anymore” Miller lays a restrained melody while Krauss bluntly lays out her grievances with someone “God only knows the h#ll that I chose.” The Smiths inspired “I Can Only Stare” finds Krauss battling her emotions dealing with unrequited infatuation “Do you know how I feel/Knocking on your door till my knuckles bleed?”
While not completely on par with “Treats,” “Jessica Rabbit” is a step in the right direction. It is currently available for digital download on iTunes and their website.
(Image from consequenceofsound.net)
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Science Fair Project Ideas for Kids, Middle & High School Students ⋅
Does Argon Act as a Greenhouse Gas?
••• Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
What Causes Atmospheric Heating?
By John Papiewski
Argon, an element found in relative abundance in the Earth’s atmosphere, is not a greenhouse gas because, like oxygen, nitrogen and other gases, it is largely transparent to the wavelengths of light responsible for trapping heat. Argon does not form molecules large and complex enough to block infrared light, as known greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane do.
About Argon
A member of the noble gases, a group of elements that also includes helium, xenon and neon, argon does not normally combine with other atoms to make molecules -- not even with itself. Because of this property, argon gas consists of single atoms, unlike nitrogen and oxygen, which form pairs of atoms as well as more complex molecules. Argon makes up about 0.9 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere -- a significant amount, just behind nitrogen at 78 percent and oxygen at 21 percent.
The greenhouse effect is the result of a buildup of heat trapped in the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface. Gases such as carbon dioxide allow visible sunlight to pass through, but block the infrared light produced when the light warms the land and oceans. Greenhouses have large areas of glass that let in sunlight; like CO2, the glass blocks infrared light, warming the room. The planet Venus is an extreme example of the greenhouse effect; its atmosphere is 96.5 percent carbon dioxide and its surface temperature averages 457 degrees Celsius (855 degrees Fahrenheit).
Molecular Vibrations
Greenhouse gases have molecules that vibrate in sympathy with infrared but not visible light; they absorb and radiate infrared energy but allow normal light to pass through. Although argon absorbs certain wavelengths of light, it is virtually transparent to infrared. Because infrared light passes through argon, any warm object surrounded by the gas cools by radiating heat into the surrounding space.
Notorious Greenhouse Gases
Carbon dioxide is probably the most-discussed greenhouse gas, as coal-burning power plants and other human activities pump many billions of tons into the atmosphere each year. Methane is another, with 25 times the heat-trapping potential of carbon dioxide; however, methane lasts only 12 years in the atmosphere before breaking down. Nitrous oxides have a greenhouse effect nearly 300 times that of CO2 and persist for over 100 years. Also of concern are chlorinated fluorocarbons, although these are found in much smaller quantities than CO2 or methane.
University of Washington: Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast
University of Hawaii: Spectra in the Lab
European Association for Astronomy Education: Emission Lines Spectrum
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: CO2 Absorbs and Re-emits Infrared Radiation
University of Arizona: Venus
Chicago native John Papiewski has a physics degree and has been writing since 1991. He has contributed to "Foresight Update," a nanotechnology newsletter from the Foresight Institute. He also contributed to the book, "Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance." Please, no workplace calls/emails!
Importance of the Earth's Atmosphere
Does Mars Have a Greenhouse Effect?
What Elements Make Up the Air We Breathe?
What Are the Elements of Uranus?
What Are Some Unique Characteristics of Saturn?
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Bay Area Family Keeps Halloween Tradition Alive With Drive-Thru Haunted House
By Andrea Nakano October 16, 2020 at 11:28 pm
Filed Under:Alameda County, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Halloween, Haunted House
PLEASANTON (KPIX) — With COVID-19, Halloween will look very different this year. Trick-or-treating door-to-door is considered high risk and haunted houses are even riskier.
One Bay Area family found a way to carry on their family tradition.
Normally, people would be standing in line waiting to walk into the haunted house at the Alameda County Fairgrounds but the Fields family had to get creative this year to scare people while still maintaining social-distancing guidelines.
This is the 29th year the Fields family has operated the Pirates of Emerson haunted house but the first ever in a pandemic.
“We weren’t going to let Halloween get canceled in the Bay Area this year,” Brian Fields said.
A haunted house that started in their home has turned into a major attraction drawing thousands of people every year. With COVID-19, the Fields family had to think outside the box.
“We were either going to have to shut down this year or our creative family came up with an idea,” Fields added.
The Fields family converted 10 acres into a drive-thru haunted house. People who spoke to KPIX said they enjoyed this new experience.
“I thought it was great,” Elly Bishop said.
“It got me good a couple of times,” Sabina Kahn added, “It was wonderful. We had a really good time but I’m glad it’s over!”
Cars weaved in and out of the attractions at around two to three miles per hour. It offers all the thrills, chills and fright of a typical haunted house but avoids the dangers of coming into contact with crowds.
According to the Alameda County Health Department, many traditional Halloween celebrations carry a high risk of spreading the coronavirus. This haunted house allows many to have a taste of Halloween.
“This is so much fun for everything that’s been going on this year, this is great because I love Halloween!” said Trinity Bishop from San Jose.
Andrea Nakano
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Another Bridge, another “Cry” so to speak, as he was beginning to sense a somewhat comical, speed-of-sound entropy in the originally “classic” adventure he had initially become so enthralled with. It was Chaim’s words that really hammered this thought home- the line between the sublime and ridiculous did not fall slowly, like a snowflake floating gently from the sky above, but it was rather like the floor of the ocean dropping into an abyssal trench a few feet from the edge of the surf. Nevertheless, he was here, and his face was set- he would go on. What haunted him, at least for this current test, was the polar shift in Chaim’s words when he began to explain what he would be facing for his third “Peace Cry”.
“Now, Petka Fawcett,” began Chaim in a respectful, serious, and (at least as far as Petka had known him), overly honorific manner, “Flowery prose has tamed the wild heart of the eternal forest, but the next test will require a decidedly different tract.
“How so um…Spirit?” asked Petka on that night by the fire, trying to match his serious tone, which only elicited an odd glance from the bipedal-ghost-wolf-man amalgamation.
“You will be facing some very deadly enemies- serpents, in a sense, but perhaps basilisk is a more appropriate term for them. One scratch of their spine will surely turn you to stone- an agonizing death– how quickly depends on whether one is scratched or stung.”
“Living God above,” Petka had said with some apprehension.
“Indeed, may Providence shine upon you. Oh, and if you do get stung, try to assume a dignified appearance. I once ran across a gentleman who was…making use of a hand dug latrine, and his face is forever frozen in a mixed look of gastrointestinal relief and fear.” Here, Chaim made a face one might expect from a defecating man who feels a sting, hears a hiss, and then the voice of Saint Peter. It’s a good thing, Petka thought, that souls can’t turn to stone.
“Heed my words carefully, Sir Fawcett, you have one very important, and very distinct advantage over these malign and ugly beasts.”
“And what is that?” asked Petka eagerly, making a mental note to take care of any bathroom needs prior to entering that part of the wood.
“They are truly, densely, and irreversibly stupid.” replied Chaim.
Boom. Trench– the line between the sublime and ridiculous took another nosedive.
“Excuse me?” asked Petka, a bit taken aback by the sudden shift in the tone of the conversation.
“They lack any depth of thought, and they laugh like idiots sitting on a barrel. Their only advantage is that of surprise, and they sometime ruin even that by giggling, or dictatorial and territorial speeches.” Chaim said, reclining against a stump, placing his hand in his robe in a Napoleonic fashion.
“Got it. Deadly idiots.”
“The worst kind of deadly,” replied Chaim, “But it’s not as bad as it sounds. Plus, they’re ugly. If there was a Sadie Hawkin’s dance, they would go with a second cousin, or the beefy cook-lass.” The wolf looked profoundly sad for a moment and added, “Gods above, did she make the best Sloppy Joes. Extra Sloppy, those Joes…” This left Petka with nothing but questions about the apparently absurd world of spirit that Chaim, and the other denizens of dream inhabited, but he decided – and likely to the benefit of his own sanity- not to pry into anything beyond talks of trials and Peace Cries.
“Anyway Chief,” Chaim started, “You likely won’t see them outright, but they are eyeless, pale things, roughly 3 feet long, mostly tail, which ends in their stinger- a hollow thorn. The one foot that makes up their ‘head’, if it can even be called that, is like a big, dry, scaly, white lump- squishy and callous-y all at once.”
“Ugh,” Petka had replied in disgust.
“Disgust is indeed an appropriate reaction- I nearly blew my lunch when I saw my first one- figuratively I mean, I don’t eat.”
Chaim shook his head with a laugh.
“So more on these basilisks. They have large, toothless mouths, which is baffling, as their poison, which ostensibly helps them to catch prey, turns their victims to stone, which they cannot eat. I’m not sure what they eat, if anything- I’ve tried talking to them – I’m immune to their poison- but they have very little of value to say. Usually is world domination-middle-middle-middle, or that the lumpy-tail-monster-equivalent of Sarah Plain and Tall is as gorgeous as Aphrodite- she’s not– I’ve seen her. Then they giggled and fell asleep. Sheesh, you’ve got this one. Gods.”
“So what do you propose I do?” asked Petka, pencil at the ready.
“Simple- what do you do with a blind, bafflingly stupid, gluttonous thing?”
Petka had to think on that.
“Convince them to fight something else?”
Chaim winked, and touched his nose, then sneezed, much in the manner of a dog.
“Bless you,” replied Petka.
“Why…thanks Petka Fawcett, that means a lot. Etiquette is as dead as my career around these parts.”
This portion of the forest was very different from the previous two. It reminded him more of autumn, whereas the previous two tracts of lands reminded him of late spring or early summer- and this was not because of temperature, but because of the foliage.
The path before him was clearly lit by the noon-day sun, and most of the leaves had fallen onto the ground, very much dead, crunching in protest under Petka’s feet. The trees themselves had long ago shed them- and whether they were simply dead, or just sleeping due to the esoteric nature of his current locale, he couldn’t be sure. Making sure to relieve himself (he was not a vain man, but should he be turned to stone, he wanted to do so with at least a shred of dignity)– he realized it was a good idea that he did, as a quick survey of the area showed how little dignity the also-rans had departed this world with.
The once-living statues were actually quite a sight. He recognized some of the dress from history books- there was a Roman Centenarian and an Aztec warrior. A Native American had met his fate here, as well as a Spanish Conquistador; a Crusading Knight lay further up the path, and two scruffy Privateers had apparently wandered through this particular stretch of land. Finally, there was another man in a manner of dress he couldn’t place, thought the domed head, protruding, squarish back, and wrinkled skin made him think of a being from the moon or some other alien world.
Aside from serving as warnings writ in stone, and an interesting chronology (wholly anachronistic, of course), there was some grim humor to be found in the fate of his predecessors- a sort of guilty laughter tickled the pit of Petka’s stomach, though he stifled any sound and did his best to hid the little smile that formed between his beard and long mustache. If indeed, any of these people had met Chaim, they certainly didn’t heed his warning.
Only the Native American had passed with any sense of self respect, or dignity. He had been an older man, with a lined face. His now stony, immobile figure sat on a stump, head bowed and hands clasped, as if in prayer. He was the closet to Fawcett, roughly five feet away (or five feet too close for Petka’s comfort), had clearly succumbed to a surprise attack, and made sure his last moments were with the Living God above. The others had assumed…less dignified positions. Oddly enough (and this proved to be true for all the victims of this third test), the whole of a person’s being turned to stone- clothing and all.
The man making use of the latrine Chaim had mentioned seemed to be the Spanish Conquistador, and indeed his face was for all eternity scrunched in the rather unflattering fashion of relieving oneself into a pit. To his credit, he made no attempt to run- or perhaps, he had just took enough venom to prevent him from running. Next came the two scruffy Privateers, or as they had been in reality (at least to Fawcett’s perception) two scruffy pirates- puffy shirts, tri-cornered hat, once golden earnings and all- one even had a peg leg.
These two ragged gentleman had clearly heard Chaim’s words, and in the true nature of sea-faring scoundrels, decided to leave future wanderers with some comic relief. The taller of the two (the man with the peg leg) had, apparently realizing that he and his friend were about to turn to stone, performed on the shorter Privateer the dreaded “Rear-Admiral”- a wedgie so gruesome it could snap the tailbone right off an unwary victim– the face of the smaller pirate was one of horrible surprise and excruciating agony- his mouth was wide open, revealing sporadic teeth, which at one point had to have been rotting, and his eyes- even in the stone- seemed to reflect (even in their dull grey color) the agony of one’s coccyx snapping like a chicken bone. The taller of the two Pirates was smiling wryly and winking, as if to say,
“Hey, we didn’t make it, but if you take life to seriously, you’ll never get out alive!”
It was truly an odd sight to Petka, who had seen innumerable odd sights on his journey thus far- his wanderings had been wrought with untrod territory, unbelievable creatures, and an ubiquitous feeling of uncertainty. But now, standing in a dangerous stretch of forest, one thing was certain- only one of the pirates had a plan if they had been stung– and he had executed it well. This brought a strange comfort to Petka, in a place where comfort was hard to find.
The other once-living statues were spread sporadically in intervals closer to his goal- that now all-to-familiar wooden bridge– the rest of those that preceded Petka had hardly left the world a noble record of their person. The Aztec warrior was wincing and held his foot, undoubtedly the one that got stung; the Crusader looked as if he dropped his sword in the leaves, and was stung in some gap in his armor when he attempted to retrieve it; the Centenarian was frozen mid sneeze, and the moon-man had been adjusting his crotch at the time of his date with stone-ification.
Petka firmly resolved not to meet the same fate.
Heeding Chaim’s words, he let out a sharp whistle and awaited a reply- it came quickly, and sounded much to close to Petka for his own comfort- somewhere between the laugh-out-loud Pirates, and the unfortunate Conquistador. The sound itself was a grumbly giggle or giggly grumble, and came along with the dread-inducing shuffle of something moving hidden under a carpet of dead leaves– the disturbance in the fallen foliage marked the movement of vaguely serpentine slugs slithering slyly. Finally, one of them spoke, very much in the accent of an Australian, for reasons unknown.
“Oi! Describe yourself to us, so that we may fell you!” said a deep, gravelly voice.
“Yes, yes!” piped another, in a much higher tone, “Yes, yes!”
Petka remained silent, pondering his plan of action… at first, he wasn’t quite sure how to divert their attention away from him, as there seemed to be no other living thing in the part of the wood, save for himself, and the two oz-transplant death-monsters- in short, no other prey.
“You’re being very rude, you know,” piped in the lower voiced one, “I asked quite nicely.”
“You did not,” replied Petka nonchalantly, as he had formulated his plan, “Not in the slightest. I didn’t hear a ‘please’.”
A weighted sight came from somewhere in the the dead leaves.
“Fine,” growled the lower-voiced one, “Could you pretty please with gytalozirp on top, describe yourself to us.”
Did they eat ‘gytalozirp’, or was it merely a condiment? Petka did not dwell on this thought for long as he would not be able to find gytalozirp in an empty room.
“Very well, very well,” said Petka with an air of faux-exhaustion, “You have broken my steely will and gentle spirit with your vast intellect and honeyed words. I am thus, oh, and right between you both- a squat, fat, disturbingly dry and scaly lump of a thing, with a long whip-like tail, with a poison thorn on the end.”
“Clever thing!” belted the grumbly bass thorn-beast, “Disguising yourself as one of us! A clever ruse for sure, but you’ve played fast and loose with your hand. I will turn you into a stone for reasons I am not completely sure of myself! Have at thee!”
And with this, the two basilisks immediately entangled in battle with one another, cursing and grumbling; eventually their poison thorns pierced each others skin, and but a few moments later, they were little more than an eternal stalemate captured in a stony lump. Petka stepped gingerly over the pair, as further grumblings could be heard moving in, and bolted to the end of the forest, leaving a chorus of idiot voices behind him in some hapless state of confusion- apparently (at least according to the chorus in various pitched cadence), nobody knew that Nagoyakle-Tom and Bliander-Tom (the apparent names of the two basilisks he had “outwitted”- a term Petka used in its loosest definition) had it for each other- but hey, the throws of passion were evidently not fickle upon seemingly eunuch beasts, and their union (if one could call it that) was generally accepted.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” mused one, but their voices faded as Petka left and the singularly and strange conversation faded. Petka moved towards his next test, again over a rickety bridge, but instead of another patch of forest, he walked through a rusted iron gate into a sunny, clear opening. The trees had retreated it seemed, to reveal a large boulder which was, according to Chaim and his his Book of Ivory and Leaves, covering a cave he would need to pass through.
Chaim’s voice echoed in Petka’s thoughts as he neared the boulder.
“Approach the ancient sleeper and- oh Hades, it’s a giant snoring rock- just whistle and clap twice. If you are going to get him to move, you may have to solve some kind of riddle. Also he’s fond of ‘jests’, whatever that means. He’s really strange. Not in a good way.”
The sublime was now just a thin, meandering thread running through the abounding ridiculousness that was quickly becoming Petka’s escapade.
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TransLink and the Federal Gas Tax Fund
As you may know, TransLink receives 100% of the Federal Gas Tax Fund for Metro Vancouver. The federal program delivers about $2 billion annually to local governments in Canada. Metro Vancouver and TransLink receive about $122 million per year. The federal program does come with some strings attached; it can only be used for capital projects of regional significance which apparently excludes bike lanes. The Metro Vancouver board is encouraging local governments in the regional to write to their respective MPs to allow for the federal fund to be used for cycling improvements as well.
The Metro Vancouver board is also looking into whether or not the federal government would entertain using the gas tax fund to pay for ongoing operational costs as well. I have a feeling that the federal government has no desire to be funding transit operations and I don’t think anything will come of that. I do believe that we need a federal transit program that looks at funding a percentage of capital and operational costs, but I don’t think that is a priority for Harper and his Conservatives right now.
So as it currently stands, the Federal Gas Tax Fund will be used to replace aging buses in the TransLink fleet. Since the program started in 2005, TransLink has purchased 729 new conventional bus, 101 new community shuttles, 136 new HandyDART buses, 14 new SkyTrain cars, and 1 new SeaBus. The fund has also allowed for the refurbishment of 114 SkyTrain cars, SkyTrain and bus facility expansion, Expo Line power system upgrades, and the purchase of Compass Card equipment for buses.
Between 2013 and 2015, TransLink proposes to purchase 426 new conventional buses, 331 community shuttles, and 505 HandyDART buses with the Gas Tax Fund. This would result in TransLink having the most modern fleet in North America.
The big challenge with the Federal Gas Tax fund is even though we get a pretty good chunk of federal funding to pay for capital projects, these projects cannot increase operating costs. This basically takes transit expansion projects off the table currently as there is an impasse between the Province and local government on how to fund the operating costs at TransLink. Being able to spend some of this funding on cycling infrastructure would certainly be helpful because at some point we are going to run out of old buses to replace.
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OctaviusIII said...
Why not invest in bus infrastructure that maintains or decreases operating costs? Bus-only lanes, freeway bus pads, signal priority, queue-jumping lanes, bus bulb-outs...
If all these small projects are lumped into a large Transit Improvement Plan it might qualify as a "major" capital project. Investments in cycling infrastructure, especially along more rural routes, is a better plan, but I'd hate for the money to start to go to waste.
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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), the country’s leading telecom and ICT services provider, has announced its financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2020 at its Board of Directors’ meeting held in Islamabad on July 15, 2020.
After the onset of Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year, the country is witnessing a gradual come back to a new ‘normal’ in which the economic activities are carefully being resumed while adhering to due counter measures for containing the effects of the pandemic. With its extensive network footprint, PTCL has successfully played its role as the communication backbone of the country in these testing times. Our dedicated frontline workers, who have been continuously on the ground despite the pandemic and our diligent customer care teams have ensured uninterrupted service delivery for our valued customers.
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PTCL’s Operating Profit of Rs 1.4 billion and Net Profit After Tax of Rs 2.7 billion for the half-year have declined as compared to last year due to effects of Covid-19 pandemic, increase in operating costs and higher depreciation on fixed assets as a result of significant capital expenditure on network upgrade in the last year. However, increase in non-operating income on account of disposal of obsolete assets that had become redundant due to upgrade of legacy exchanges and fiberization of access network, has helped lessen the gap at the bottom-line level with comparative period.
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Mother’s Day #SolidarityFlowers Support Hmong Farmers and Those Excluded From Coronavirus Relief
on May 13, 2020 May 13, 2020 By sharonhchang
Throughout this coronavirus pandemic it’s been hard for me to feel positive about anything. I’m deeply frustrated with inadequate government response and the refusal of so many Americans to follow safety protocols. But THEN I have the chance to be on the ground and follow incredible grassroots efforts like Solidarity Flowers that provide covid relief by/for our local communities of color. And I feel a gazillion times better. Shout out to all the folks on the ground who don’t wait for inequitable US systems to protect their communities and take survival/resilience into their own hands–as they always have.
Mother’s Day #SolidarityFlowers Support Hmong Farmers and People Excluded From Coronavirus Relief
COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma: Damithia
Eventually, the country will force all of us to ‘reopen’ and, as it does, police will be more empowered than ever to stop and brutalize black and brown people…On the one side, Covid-19 will be waiting to kill us in even greater disproportion to white folks than it is now. On the other? Our alpha predator, the American police officer.
ELIE MYSTAL for the Nation
Outcries have erupted across the nation after a video emerged last week of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder by a former white police officer and his adult son while Arbery was jogging in February. On Tuesday, a new study was released showing African Americans may be dying from COVID-19 at a higher rate than any other group in the US. Meanwhile, police officers in New York were spotted kindly handing out masks in the West Village (a predominantly white neighborhood) while a Black man was brutally beaten in East Village for allegedly not social distancing. This pandemic is amplifying and exacerbating the racism that was already so rampant here. Re-opening will not make inequity magically disappear. You can help. Please share. Thank you.
I am the light
I am the darkness
I may sparkle you
And enlighten you in a fraction of a second
from “I am the light” by Robin Pandey
Pictured: Damithia is a mother, daydreamer, thought-thinker educator, yoga teacher, plant lover, cloud watcher, sun lover, liberators path seeker. She is the founder of Thrive Yoga which provides movement mindfulness and healing centered restorative practices to youth in schools and community. She works with Yoga Behind Bars as a trauma informed yoga training facilitator and is co-chair of the board of trustees for Space Between.
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COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma: hai shuixian
on May 6, 2020 May 24, 2020 By sharonhchang
People of colour, especially Black and Indigenous people, trans and queer Black and Indigenous people, and other trans and queer people of colour, are dying from COVID-19 at frighteningly disproportionate rates compared to whites, and not just in the US. In the US, Black Americans are making up the majority of the deaths from COVID-19 in places like Chicago (even though the city is only 30% Black), Louisiana, and countless other places in the US.Why? Because the often fatal effects of living as Black, Indigenous, and people of colour is a pre-existing condition.
HAI SUIXIAN
The growing impacts of coronavirus on communities of color is increasingly being revealed in reports and studies. The disparities are stark, the challenges are steep, and for QTPOC (Queer and Trans People of Color) in these communities–the challenges are even steeper. Last month, the Trump administration began finalizing a proposal that will allow health care providers to discriminate against patients based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Community centers and shelters serving LGBTQ+ people have been forced to shut down or are struggling to stay afloat. Meanwhile, fear over the coronavirus is also exacerbating homophobia and transphobia. You can help. Please share. Thank you.
i am a diaspora shanghainese chinese human being.
i am mentally ill & disabled.
i am a multiple suicide attempt & severe abuse survivor.
⁂ 海水仙 hai shuixian
Pictured: ⁂ 海水仙 hai shuixian [ pronouns: they/them/theirs ] is a diasporic shanghainese chinese • mentally ill • sick & disabled • queer • trans • nonbinary writer, artist, creator, & mental health advocate. u can follow them on instagram at @fuck_instgrm, & see more of their work at https://rose.blue
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COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma: Cecilia and Jabali
COVID19 has made more than evident the race-based inequities of this country, and the world. Continued adherence to the status quo or normal of pre-COVID19 times is active participation in the oppression of black and brown humans, the other creatures on this planet, and the Earth itself. If we don’t learn and change things this time, it’s going to be far more difficult next time.
JABALI
It’s been two months since coronavirus began spreading across the US and since then, our infection rate has soared. We have the highest case count in the world with over 1.1 million infections and yesterday recorded our highest daily death toll. Because of widespread racial inequity, those infections/deaths are hitting Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities unfairly hard. Yet some states are starting to reopen anyway which is causing many to sound the alarm. In Georgia (one of the states opening early), a study released Wednesday showed more than four fifth’s of the state’s hospitalized coronavirus patients were Black. Advocates and experts warn reopening states too early will continue to disproportionately harm/kill more Black and Brown people. You can help. Please share. Thank you.
We are love based
We are margin walkers
We are spirit-based and space dust fed
We are creative with words and music and dance
We are for real.
Cecilian and Jabali
Pictured: Cecilia is an eighth-grade student who will be graduating middle school in June and going to ninth grade. She loves to write novels as well as comic books. She tends to draw and sketch whenever she can even if it’s a small margin on her math homework. She plays D&D with her friends, but they rarely ever listen to her and burst into song every five seconds and sometimes it’s funny but not always. Jabali is an inclusion specialist utilizing Peacemaking Circle in schools (K-College), businesses, families, government, and community settings. He has trained in the lineage of Circle Keeping connected to Mark Wedge, Kay Pranis, and Barry Stuart for nearly a decade. His work is deeply informed by his belief and practice of sensible, love based leadership.
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COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma: Alex
on April 29, 2020 May 24, 2020 By sharonhchang
With all of the widespread hate, discrimination, violence, harassment, and fear the Asian Pacific American population has seen in the past two months…this is a time where people (myself included) are feeling the most isolated. Despite all the fear and negativity, in some ways I’ve also never felt more connected to my community seeing…how quickly folx have organized and mobilized to assist those who are most vulnerable. It is this that I will take with me and look back upon, as a constant reminder of how resilient communities of color can be.
According to a new survey out yesterday, 32 percent of Americans have witnessed someone blaming people of Asian descent for the coronavirus. Of Asian Americans surveyed, 60 percent said they’d seen the same. Overall, three in ten Americans blame China or Chinese people for the pandemic. Incidents of increased xenophobia and harassment are happening all over the country from New York to Iowa to California. Stop AAPI Hate reported around 1,500 instances of anti-Asian harassment in a one-month period since mid-March. Gratefully, POC-led groups across the US have been mobilizing to combat this rise in hate. You can help by finding and supporting those groups wherever you live. Please share. Thank you.
I am Asian American
I am supported
I am worthy
Pictured: Alex is a mixed race 3rd generation Japanese-American, born and raised in Seattle. He works as a civil engineer/construction manager supporting local agencies with their transportation, environmental, and infrastructure projects. He currently serves on the board of the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation as the President.
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Black Womxn Farmers Fight the Pandemic With a Food Revolution
on April 28, 2020 May 3, 2020 By sharonhchang
My latest for the South Seattle Emerald. It was such an honor to photograph and write about Seattle sisters Nyema Clark and Shanelle Donaldson farming for Black health and liberation. In a time of pandemic when Black lives are being ravaged because of centuries of racism, Shanelle’s and Nyema’s food/environmental justice work is more critical than ever. This piece continues a story series I started last summer on Womxn and Nonbinary Farmers of Color in Washington State. The series is supported by NW Journalists of Color and the Facebook COVID-19 Journalism Project.
Farming for Change: Black Womxn Farmers Fight the Pandemic With a Food Revolution
COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma: Marcus
Major catastrophes may not discriminate, but the suffering they cause lands disproportionately on communities of color. Racial and social inequities are inflamed, and those considered least during the good times remain neglected in bad ones.
MARCUS GREEN
Anti-blackness, orientalism, xenophobia, etc. People across the world are turning to racist ideologies to deal with their fear over the coronavirus pandemic. Since five Nigerians in China recently tested positive for COVID-19, reports have emerged of Africans facing alarming discrimination in the Asian country. Photos show signs banning Black people from buildings and businesses. Some Africans have been singled out for quarantine based on racial profiling. Others have been evicted from their apartments and forced to sleep on the street. Racism is a global problem, pointed out Eddy Zheng (New Breath Foundation) in a virtual townhall yesterday on safety and security hosted by The Peoples Collective for Justice & Liberation. Othering and criminalizing each other will not beat the coronavirus but humanizing and healing each other will. You can help. Please share. Thank you.
unafraid
Pictured: Marcus Harrison Green is the publisher of the South Seattle Emerald, and a columnist with Crosscut. Growing up in South Seattle, he experienced first-hand the neglect of news coverage in the area by local media, which taught him the value of narratives. After an unfulfilling stint working for a Los Angeles based hedge-fund in his twenties, Marcus returned to his community determined to tell its true story, which led him to found the South Seattle Emerald. He was named one of Seattle’s most influential people by Seattle Magazine in 2016.
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Safety Not Stigma Campaign Awarded a 4Culture Creative Response Grant!
Wonderful news to share–I’ve been awarded a 4Culture Creative Response Grant to support my COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma portrait campaign! My campaign, launched Apr 7, works to combat increased racism against people of color during the pandemic and raise awareness about the disproportionate impacts of coronavirus on communities of color. The grant I’ve been awarded is part of 4Culture’s Relief Fund to support cultural workers and organizations during this time of crisis. Thank you so much 4Culture!
You can see my portrait campaign by scrolling this blog, or on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma: Erin Shigaki
The “forever-foreigne” sentiment sticks with Asian Americans. It hurts to see this play out in the global pandemic, where once again, when it’s not convenient for us to be American, we’re foreign, and seen as causing something terrible.
ERIN SHIGAKI
Reports of coronavirus-related hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders keep coming in. Most hate incidents are verbal abuse, ethnic intimidation, and vandalism. But acts of violence are also taking place including the March 14 stabbing of a Hmong American family in Texas and April 5 acid attack on a Chinese American woman in Brooklyn. This week, actor John Cho published an essay in the LA Times, “Coronavirus reminds Asian Americans like me that belonging is conditional.” I took these images of Seattle-based artist Erin Shigaki as she did volunteer food deliveries in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (SCID). Erin said she felt comfortable wearing a mask in the SCID but when she wore a mask anywhere else, she was getting nasty looks. People of color deserve to stay safe from coronavirus too and not get stigmatized when they go out in public. You can help by sharing. Thank you.
I am Asian American.
I am grateful for and committed to my community.
I am powerful.
Pictured: Erin Shigaki creates murals and installations focused on the experiences of communities of color, often the incarceration of 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry, including her own family. Erin is passionate about highlighting similarities between that history, the inhumane detention and family separation immigrants face today, and other systemic injustices black and brown people continue to face. Erin is also a community activist with the Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee and Tsuru for Solidarity.
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Many of you have heard this week about the Ohio prison where 73 percent of inmates tested positive for COVID-19. Because of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, prisons, jails, detention centers are literal “tinderboxes” for the coronavirus. All over the country, we are seeing some of the biggest outbreaks happen behind bars. I spoke to activists and organizers about what’s been going on in Washington State’s incarceration facilities and it’s so worrisome. From lack of testing and lies about the virus, to inhumane treatment of people incarcerated, there’s a lot we all need to know. In my latest for the Emerald, please read about what’s happening to one of Washington’s most C-19 vulnerable populations–the thousands of human beings behind bars–and learn what you can do to help.
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Boys Basketball – Galvan’s Return Lifts No. 1 Manasquan Over No. 5 Holmdel
HOLMDEL - For three weeks, the Manasquan boys basketball team played without senior standout Alex Galvan and managed to not only survive, but to thrive.
On Thursday night against Holmdel - the No. 5 team in the Shore Sports Network Top 10 and newly-minuted No. 18 team in the NJ.com Top 20 - the Warriors looked like a team that needed Galvan to win. Good thing for them he made his return to the lineup just in time.
Galvan came off the bench, shook off some rust in the first half and dominated both ends of the floor in posting 18 points, eight rebounds and four blocks as No. 1 Manasquan held off Holmdel in its toughest Shore Conference challenge to date, 46-40.
Tuesday marked the second time these two Class A Central rivals have played this season and in the first meeting - a 67-40 home win for Manasquan - Galvan sustained an ankle injury that kept him out for eight games. During that stretch, Manasquan went 7-1 with its lone loss coming to perennial state power Roselle Catholic, 45-43.
"Watching every game has been tough," Galvan said. "Watching the Roselle Catholic game from the bench, watching Rumson the other night - I just wanted to be out there, but I just had to make sure I was ready.
"I'm a little out of shape right now after all the time off, but the ankle feels good. I think I'll be back to normal in a couple weeks."
Galvan suited up but did not play in Manasquan's 40-30 win over Rumson-Fair Haven on Monday and started Thursday on the bench before entering within the first two minutes.
Holmdel held Galvan without a field goal in the first half but the 6-foot-7 senior came alive on the offensive end in the second half, scoring 15 of his points after halftime.
"It took me a little bit in the beginning just to feel like it was real," Galvan said. "It almost felt like I wasn't even really playing at first but once I got into it, I felt fine."
After trailing, 21-20, at halftime and by as many as four points in the third quarter, Manasquan surged in front by the end of the third quarter behind Galvan and sophomore Ben Roy, who finished with 11 points and three assists.
Manasquan extended its lead to 40-32 thanks to a three-point play and a putback by senior Kieran Flanagan, which was part of his eight points and four assists for the game.
Holmdel, however, had one last push left and ripped off a 10-1 run to pull within a point, with senior Doug Chan nailing a three-pointer to cut the Manasquan lead to 41-40 and raise the noise-level in Holmdel's gym to its highest level of the night.
"They are a very well-coached team," said Galvan of Holmdel, led by veteran head coach Sean Devaney. "They're scrappy, they never give up and honestly, they are very physical. (The referees) can't call a foul on every play, so they (Holmdel) are going to get away with a bunch of stuff."
Galvan answered with a strong move inside to push the lead back to three and after a long Holmdel possession, the Warriors made a key defensive stop.
Holmdel junior Alex Baker stole the ball with under 30 seconds and senior Jack Giamanco got a clean look from the top of the key, but his potential game-tying three-pointer came up short. Chan tracked down the offensive rebound and got the ball back to Giamanco for another three-point attempt, but Galvan altered the shot and it came up well short.
Galvan still had to put the game away on the free-throw line with 5.3 seconds left and missed the front end of the 1-and-1. Warriors junior Connor Walsh, however, tipped the ball back to Galvan, who finished as he was fouled to effectively put the game out of reach on the ensuing free throw.
Giamanco led Holmdel with 14 points, including a trio of three-pointers and a big three-point play that cut Manasquan's lead to 40-37. Junior Alex Baker added 10 points and seven points while Chan chipped in eight points and three steals off the bench.
The Hornets defense shut down the interior during the first half, limiting Manasquan to 4-for-15 shooting with all four made field goals coming on three-point attempts.
"I thought we were terrible," Manasquan coach Andrew Bilodeau said. "Credit them (Holmdel) - they made us terrible. The ball didn't move, their defense was pretty solid.
This week, Manasquan has gone into the final minute against Rumson and Holmdel leading by one score after running up an average margin of victory of 29.4 in its first eight divisional games. During that eight-game stretch, and 18 point win over St. Rose was the closest margin of victory.
"You have a lot of moving parts with injuries and whatnot and you're playing good teams who are getting up to play (us)," Bilodeau said. "You're playing one of the best-coached teams in the state, the No. 18 team in the state, they are very good. That makes for a tough week."
Devaney has lost to Manasquan twice this season and five times in the past two seasons, but has been in Bilodeau's shoes before. He led Raritan to the Group II championship and an NJSIAA Tournament of Champions appearance in 2004, defeating Manasquan in the Group II final to get there.
"They are the best combination of talent and coaching that I have seen anywhere this year," Devaney said. "There are some teams that are well-coached, but none have the kind of talent they do, and then there are teams that have the talent, but they don't have that same cohesiveness that you see with this team. They remind me a lot of the teams we had at Raritan, just as far as having a really talented group that plays as a team."
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Question: How Many Chapters Should A Nonfiction Book Have?
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between 50,000 to 75,000 wordsGenerally speaking, traditional publishers expect completed nonfiction book manuscripts to be between 50,000 to 75,000 words.
Most traditional publishers will place restrictions on an author and require that the manuscript not exceed a specified word count, unless special concessions are made..
Though the average word count of a chapter is around 2,000 – 5,000 words, it all depends on your story. (We can’t emphasize this enough.) There are plenty of books that purposefully play with the word counts of their chapters. … So, don’t write a chapter with only one eye on your story and the other on your word count.
If you are choosing perfect binding or adhesive case wrap (hard cover) for your book, you need at least 24 pages. If you take a sheet of paper and fold it in half, you have an example of the 4 pages.
80.0 pagesThe answer is 40,000 words is 80.0 pages single-spaced or 160.0 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 40,000 words include include novels, novellas, and other published books.
In some cases it will slow the book down. In other cases it will grip the reader and keep them turning the pages. As long as your prose, plot, and characters fit your reasoning for the unique pacing a book without chapters provides, it can be a great decision.
A frame story begins at the end, moves into a flashback to tell how the characters came to be where they are, and (eventually) joins back up where the story moved into the past. … This has also been referred to as a story within a story. Another name for this technique is a prelude.
Most novels have between 10 to 12 chapters, but that’s not set in stone. You can have two chapters or 200 — it all depends on how comfortable you are with experimenting.
If so, these books need to be the 7” X 9” trim size, and the slightly larger pages can hold 400 to 450 words per page. Thus, 100 pages = 40,000 to 45,000 words and 200 pages yields 80,000 to 90,000 words for the main body of the text (this excludes the words used in the quotations down the sides of the book’s margins).
Big, epic stories get anywhere from 120,000 to 200,000 words.” But, he also mentions that “The Wizard of Oz was 40,000 words. The Old Man and the Sea was about 25 to 30,000 words, tops.” … If you’re working on a novel-length book, aim for 50,000 words at the very least — but it’s better to aim for 90,000.
37,500 wordsA 100-page book would be, then, about 25,000 words; a 150-page book would be roughly 37,500 words. For the larger, 6 x 9 trim size, would be about 300 words per page. These books are generally heftier in general, so for a 150-page book you can target 45,000 words and 60,000 words for a 200-page book.
When talking about book length, it’s common to talk about word count rather than page count. A typical manuscript page (8.5×11 paper, 1-inch margins, standard 11- or 12-point font, doublespaced—like you would type in Word) is considered to be 250 words. So a 25,000-word manuscript is about 100 pages.
Titles certainly aren’t necessary for individual chapters. Plenty of great novels simply use numbered chapters to break the story into sections. Titling each chapter with the name of the narrator helps establish who is speaking. …
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songs for seeds Scotch Plains is seeking a Guitarist/Singer/Lead Teacher for immediate hire!
Guitarist/Singer/Lead Teacher will be part of a three-piece band (guitar, keys and drums) that puts on an interactive, educational rock class for children newborn to 6-years old. Band members lead regularly scheduled weekly classes. This is an ideal job for a full or part-time musician. Classes are held during between the hours of 9:00am and 6:00pm. Additional opportunities to perform at birthday parties and events are also available.
demonstrate accomplished guitar AND vocal skills
possess a generous, patient and friendly attitude toward children
be an entertainer and possess a willingness to have fun and be silly
care about making a difference in a child's life through the power of music
To request an audition, please send cover letter and resume (performance and/or professional) and 2 mp3’s or links to videos of you playing your instrument and singing with the words "songs for seeds - audition" in the subject line to scotchplains@songsforseeds.com.
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Keyboardist/Singer will be part of a three-piece band (guitar, keys and drums) that puts on an interactive, educational rock class for children newborn to 6-years old. Band members lead regularly scheduled weekly classes. This is an ideal job for a full or part-time musician. Classes are held during between the hours of 9:00am and 6:00pm. Additional opportunities to perform at birthday parties and events are also available.
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To request an audition, please send cover letter and resume (performance and/or professional) and 2 mp3’s or links to videos of you playing your instrument with the words "songs for seeds - audition" in the subject line to scotchplains@songsforseeds.com.
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About Love Lies Bleeding
A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money and flees with it, provoking the fury of a corrupt DEA agent and arousing the suspicion of a detective who is determined to find out what's really going on before it's too late.
Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman and Clare Danes star in this sweeping epic of love, honor and obsession played out against the tumultuous backdrop.
Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria & Ryan Phillipe star as a trio of inept pot farmers try to go it alone when their boss is murdered.
When heavyweight champion George 'Iceman' Chambers (Ving Rhames) lands in prison, the resident gangster arranges a boxing match.
A former Nazi and a curious teenager engage in a game of psychological warfare. Ian McKellen stars.
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Items Entry 33: "A ranged weapon favored by hunters. It's capable of firing arrows with incredible accuracy."
Ranged Weapon
Shoots any arrows loaded into it.
Killing Yang, Tun, etc.
Stars Challenge
Usually comes with a Blue Crossbow Bolt, which can intstakill Vampires.
The Crossbow is a ranged Weapon in Spelunky 2. It can be bought from shops, or stolen from certain NPCs.
The Crossbow is a ranged weapon that shoots a single preloaded bolt away from the player. If a bolt comes into contact with a wall it will remain lodged for several seconds before falling down. Bolts must be retrieved by the player to reload the weapon, which then happens automatically. It is also possible to load a regular arrow into crossbow, which do not stick into walls, instead bouncing away. The crossbow does 2 damage by default, but the blue crossbow bolt is capable of killing Vampires (and Vlad) in a single shot. The bolt does not need to be fired to do this.
The bolt's ability to annihilate Vampires likely comes from the belief that a stake through the heart of Vampire is the only way to kill them for good.
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SPO welcomes new faculty member Natalia Castro Picón and Spanish lecturer Andrés Barba
Natalia Castro Picón joins the department as an assistant professor. She specializes in modern peninsular/Spanish culture. Her main fields of study are modern and contemporary Iberian literature and culture as well as transatlantic Iberian relations in the neoliberal context. She combines in her research and classes tools and methods from Cultural Studies with a Glottopolitical perspective, which focuses on the political condition of language and discourse. Read more on her bio page.
Co-authored chapter by Mariana Bono and Gorka Bilbao Terreros published by the AAUSC
Monday, Jan 11, 2021
Mariana Bono and Gorka Bilbao Terreros have co-authored the volume chapter, "Emerging discourses and practices in language education: Who is driving change?” published by The American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Foreign Languages Programs (AAUSC).
The text can openly be accessed via the ScholarSpace web site, and an abstract can be found below:
Sonic library Clarice 100 Ears created by Marília Librandi and the Brazil LAB
Thursday, Dec 10, 2020
Dec 10, 2020 was the centenary of Clarice Lispector. For the occasion, Professor Marília Librandi has created, with the Brazil LAB, the sonic library Clarice 100 Ears, where one can listen to Clarice’s luminous writing in multiple languages and in the voice of artists, scholars, and everyday readers.
Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones launches new website sharing his archive
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020
By Julie Clack
Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, the Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish, Emeritus, has recently published a new website that features an archive of materials from his expansive career.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese sat down (virtually) with Professor Díaz-Quiñones to learn more about the website, his creative process, and what else he has been working on throughout the last nine months of the pandemic.
Board approves appointment of Assistant Professor Natalia Castro Picón
Monday, Nov 30, 2020
Natalia Castro Picón, in Spanish and Portuguese, joins the faculty this winter. She specializes in modern peninsular/Spanish culture.
Read more on the Princeton University website.
Performing Brazilian Culture (Race and Gender on Stage)
By Michelle Tong
The concept and practice of performance spans a wide range from dance, music, and poetry to sports and film.
Professor Nicole Legnani features digitized materials from Special Collections: ‘Colonial Spanish American Literature: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’ in graduate seminar
In early summer, Nicole Legnani, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, anticipated a key hurdle in order to teach virtually in fall 2020. Legnani was planning her graduate seminar on colonial Spanish literature and the works of Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz — the most celebrated female, Spanish-language writer of the 17th century.
Rapid Response Magic Project led by Adriana Merino featured on Humanities Council website
Monday, Nov 9, 2020
Adriana Merino’s project titled “Promoting Cross-Cultural Understanding Through Exposure to (Online) Intercultural Spoken Interaction” was recently featured on the Humanities Council website.
The aim of this first-time project is to collect and analyze authentic multicultural conversation samples in an international setting with the goal of enhancing oral comprehension of Spanish learners.
Co-authored book chapter by Raquel Mattson-Prieto published by John Benjamins
Thursday, Oct 1, 2020
Raquel Mattson-Prieto, lecturer of Spanish, has co-authored the book chapter, "Languaging and grammatical terminology: Expressing linguistic concepts while co-constructing understandings."
The paper is an empirical study on how Spanish language learners formulated explicit understandings of the pronoun "se" during a series of communicative tasks in small-group interactions. This chapter and other chapters on "languaging" can be found on the John Benjamins website.
SPO welcomes new Spanish lecturer and new graduate students
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese welcomes new Spanish lecturer Iris Hauser. Hauser is originally from Chiapas, Mexico and studied Applied linguistics at the Universidad de las Americas in (Puebla) Mexico and at Georgia State University. Her research focused on students' cultural identity and second language competency inside academic communities of practice.
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A REF original. TJ has been with the station since January of 2002 and took over as Program Director in 2004. Then in 2005 came the most whacked out, dysfunctional sports talk show in the state as he started the “T.J. at 10 show.”
If you’re looking for someone to break down an offensive line or dive deep into stats he’s not your guy. But if your looking for cheerleader scandals, obscure 80’s movie quotes, a daily reminder that the University of Texas sucks, or a breakdown of why Tony Romo dumped Jessica Simpson then you’ve found your show.
TJ’s show wouldn’t be what it is however without the great callers that caught on quickly to his sense of humor and the direction he wanted to take the show. It was those same listeners that voted TJ the O.S.S.P-Oklahomas sexiest sports personality a title he is very still proud to hold.
TJ Perry grew up in the Arlington, TX area which explains his love for the Rangers, Mavericks, and Cowboys. His one sports wish is that the Rangers win a World Series before he dies. Yeah yeah laugh all you want, but it will happen! TJ has a beautiful wife named Katie, and one son named Bronx.
Listen to TJ along with Toby week day mornings from 6-9 on the “T-Row in the Morning Show” on 99.3 FM, SportsTalk 1400AM or state wide on sportstalk1400.com
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Home MLB Ballmer, A’s Step Closer To New Sports Facilities
Ballmer, A’s Step Closer To New Sports Facilities
By Evan Weiner -
It’s all about money.
Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and Oakland A’s ownership picked up key support from the California legislature in their bids to get new sports facilities in terms of challenges to their plans to build facilities. It may be more difficult to stop the building process. Ballmer wants to move his National Basketball Association Clippers franchise from downtown Los Angeles to Inglewood, California at a site near the former home of the NBA Lakers and the National Hockey League Kings. Ballmer’s lease at his present home ends in 2024 and it does take a number of years from conception to the opening of a building as various governmental approvals are needed and a lease with a local community has to be executed. Ballmer has Inglewood Mayor James Butts’ support but Ballmer has run into opposition.
New York Knicks owner James Dolan doesn’t want Ballmer’s building approved because he owns the Lakers/Kings old home, the Forum, and uses it for concerts. Dolan is suing to keep Ballmer out of the neighborhood but his court action is against the city of Inglewood, not Ballmer, over 15 acres that Dolan thought would be used for a technology center, instead Ballmer wants the mostly vacant lot and his Clippers arena would be competition for Dolan for concerts. The Uplift Inglewood Coalition wants the land to be used for housing. Ballmer’s proposal is not limited to an arena. He wants a parking lot, a practice facility, team offices, shops, and an outdoor plaza with basketball courts. People living on the property near the proposed arena village are concerned they will be evicted from the area. Landlords have begun to raise rents in the anticipation of an NFL stadium and Ballmer’s arena opening in the neighborhood. Oakland A’s ownership has not picked out a spot for a stadium as of yet. It’s all about politics.
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Bills and the Ravens meet in the AFC Playoffs for the first time tonight on NBC and 820 AM
AP source: LeMahieu, working on a $90 million, 6-year deal to stay with the Yankees.
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Participating in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, President Sirisena highlighted Sri Lanka’s blue-green growth strategy for sustainable development
April 22, 2018 admingajaba News, Uncategorized
President Maithripala Sirisena represented Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and participated in connected meetings and events in London from 16 to 21 April 2018. The formal Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting consists of the pre-meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the formal meeting of the Heads of Government and the Leaders Retreat. President Sirisena was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Tilak Marapana. » Read more
President attended the Cultural Ceremony at Harrow Leisure Centre, London
President Maitripala Sirisena attended the Cultural Pageant at the Harrow Leisure Centre in the afternoon of 21 April 2018, organised by the Sri Lanka Education, Cultural and Welfare Foundation and the Kingsbury Buddhist Temple, London presided over by its patron, Aggamahapanditha Ven. Galayaye Piyadassi Thero.
President, chief guest at opening of Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health
Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health was launched in London, today (20). President Maithripala Sirisena joined as the Chief Guest on the occasion.
President joins the special banquet hosted by the Queen
The special banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain in honour of the leaders attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) was held in Buckingham palace, yesterday (19).
Commonwealth member countries were present at this dinner.
Lanka to give leadership for Mangrove Conservation in Commonwealth countries
Sri Lanka has been named as the country to give leadership for the conservation of mangroves in Commonwealth countries.
This was stated during the 25th inaugural ceremony of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), held today (19) in London.
Sri Lanka’s main concern is achieving a sustainable future – President
Sustainability is a term in the development terminology. Therefore, every Government focuses on it. Achieving a Sustainable future is as in many other countries, a main concern of the Government of Sri Lanka, said President Maithripala Sirisena intervening in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Session, yesterday (19).
President thanks Lord Naseby for constant support
Lord Baron Naseby, a member of the British House of Lords, met with President Maithripala Sirisena in London, yesterday (18).
Lord Baron Naseby appreciating the development programme conducted by Sri Lanka ensured to provide fullest assistance as a true ally of Sri Lanka.
UK keen to expand direct investments in Sri Lanka
The UK’s Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox says that the Government of Britain is ready for direct investments in Sri Lanka, while increasing the investments in the country. He further said that the necessary process in this regard will be implemented in the near future. » Read more
President meets Sri Lankan community in London
President Maithripala Sirisena addressing the Sri Lankan community living in London said that the attempts made by some to hide the truth and promote the falsehood are a hindrance to the forward march of the Motherland. » Read more
President took part Oil Anointing Ceremony in London
President Maithripala Sirisena who is in London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2018 took part in the Oil Anointing Ceremony held at the London Buddhist Vihara, today (16). » Read more
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SC vision by Streetside Conversations January 1, 2020 January 13, 2020
Streetside Conversations reflects on conversations past and present as we ring in the new year and bring on a new team.
This year, our writers wrestled with complicated and timely topics.
In the face of injustice worldwide, we considered the path of civil disobedience. As polarization and violence persist, we shared stories about reconciliation and peacemaking. As climate change and environmental degradation create a more volatile world — especially for the vulnerable — we wrote about disaster recovery. And most recently, we considered how to exercise self care in a time when noise is abundant and attention in short supply.
These stories share a common thread: while engaging big issues, they usually start at a personal, relational level. This attention to relationships — how we place ourselves, our homes, and the people we know and meet into larger narratives — is foundational to what Streetside Conversations is all about. Even in a globalized society, everyday interactions matter as much as ever before.
In his essay “A Native Hill” about returning home to live in Kentucky, the author Wendell Berry describes the power of intimately knowing and reflecting on his own context:
“When I have thought of the welfare of the earth, the problems of its health and preservation, the care of its life, I have had this place before me, the part representing the whole more vividly and accurately, making clearer and more pressing demands, than any idea of the whole.”
Two years ago, Streetside Conversations was created by a group of young people led by Johanna Depenthal and Cyanea Poon. At SC we strive to represent “the whole” through vivid reflections and stories on “the part” — the personal narratives our international contributors share about their experiences. Our founders recognized that the conversations that touch us and bring us together happen on street corners between family, neighbors, or strangers. While embracing the local, SC has grown into a global community and includes writers and readers on nearly every continent and in over 30 countries.
At Streetside Conversations, we invite everyone (writers and viewers alike) to ask the question: What does it mean for you to practice justice today, in your home community and social context?
We’ve been moved by Ashley’s experience working with an organization in Thailand to combat human trafficking. We’ve been challenged by Faye’s critique of race and ethnicity in children’s picture books. We’ve been inspired by Orlando’s reflections on making mental health accessible in his work as a school counselor. And we’ve been instructed by many, many more.
We also believe in the power of stories to create mental and physical pathways to action. As Berry wrote, particular contexts have clear and pressing demands on us. Stories elicit a response. And ultimately this response unfolds in particular places and communities. Berry notes:
“Action — embodied thought— requires local and communal reference.”
At Streetside Conversations, we think that just as living is a communal act, so writing should be communal — written from and for a community, whether both groups are the same or different. Heading into the new year, we will continue featuring stories about relevant issues, written from different places and perspectives around the world, all ultimately aimed at sparking action.
As we carry these conversations into a new decade, welcoming 2020 also brings a significant transition for Streetside Conversations. As Johanna and Cyanea, the co-founders and longtime leaders of Streetside Conversations, shared in their last piece, they are pursuing other callings and stepping away from their current roles at SC. Now they are entrusting this site, and the many stories it contains, to new hands. And it’s about time we introduce ourselves:
Elisabeth Stringer is SC’s outreach coordinator. As a writer and anthropologist based near Chicago, she’s passionate about finding great stories and helping people tell them.
Sarah Holcomb will now lead the editorial team. Based in Washington D.C., she studied journalism and now works at the intersection of writing and social impact. She loves collaborating with writers to present their ideas in clear, compelling, challenging ways.
We are beyond grateful for the opportunity to lead SC. We hope that you will join us, or continue to accompany us, into this new season of Streetside Conversations.
As we begin, we want to know: what conversations should we be having? What stories or perspectives are being overlooked? How might we provide a space for you or someone you know to contribute?
Wishing you peace and joy in the new year.
Sarah and Elisabeth
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Pursuing racial justice beyond book lists June 17, 2020
Unmasking injustice: Reflections around the world May 25, 2020
Community in the age of Covid-19 May 18, 2020
Justice right now: Editor’s note May 13, 2020
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Developers Are Worried About How Xbox Series S Will Impact Next-Gen
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Developers fear that the recently announced Xbox Series S may bottleneck their future projects.
The Series S intends to lower the barrier of entry for consumers attempting to upgrade to the next generation of consoles. The specs of the consumer-friendly box have some developers feeling worried that they will be limited in what they want to make, and others feeling this is a non-issue.
Infinity Ward’s multiplayer designer, David Mickner, says “I can’t stop thinking about the fact that they’re releasing a lower spec console that will serve as a bottleneck (granted transition into next gen is always bottlenecked by last gen for a while).” Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Ghosts received its fair share of criticism for its performance on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Infinity Ward promised the game will show the power of the new generation of consoles, specifically the fish. Many assume the game was held back by the previous generation of consoles.
Id Software’s lead engine programmer, Billy Khan, says, “The memory situation is a big issue on the S. The much lower amount of memory and the split memory banks with drastically slower speeds will be a major issue. Aggressively lowering the render resolutions will marginally help but will not completely counteract the deficiencies.”
This statement is concerning considering Id developed Doom 2016, a game that can run on nearly any type of machine, including a calculator. If developers at Id are worried about being bottlenecked by the Series S, maybe everyone should.
Angel Kavazov from Dice adds, “Really nice to offer high-end and budget options. More people will be able to experience our games. To concerned and scared devs, it’s okay, you can stop questioning your life choices. If a demanding game like Battlefield can scale fine, I’m sure you’ll make it work too.” Clearly, she is not worried about future games being bottlenecked by the Series S. Battlefield, historically, is well-optimized to run on lower-end PCs. Naturally, the studio will transition this ability to the upcoming consoles.
It’s interesting to see the differences of opinion from developers on the Series S. The upcoming consoles affect game developers the most and it’s nice to see them voice their opinions. Only time will tell if the Series S will actually hold the next generation of games back.
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The Martis Camp home, designed by MWA, Inc. and built by NSM Construction, is a compilation of sleek arcs, rustic materials and modern elements, photo by Vance Fox
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Written by Alison Bender Posted at 04:50h in Mountain Homes, Summer 2018 0 Comments
Cascading water features highlight the outdoor spaces, photo by Vance Fox
Desire for a barrel-vaulted living room results in a spectacular Martis Camp design
Sleek. Curvy. Stunning.
The MWA-designed and NSM-built home in Truckee’s Martis Camp is a compilation of dramatic arcs, rustic materials and modern elements.
The clients first approached architect Kristi Thompson of Truckee’s MWA, Inc. in 2011. They liked the idea of a “mountain modern” home and had a basic design in mind, but the feature they were really set on was a barrel-vaulted living room.
“My thought was to play on that barrel and extend it over the whole house with these swoops and half barrels and another barrel for the entry,” Thompson says.
The 8,600-square-foot home spent about a year in design. The site, Thompson says, was ideal, with few trees and wide-open views to the east. “The whole back of the house gets the views,” she says. “That’s one of the reasons for the floor plan.”
“It’s a beautiful piece of architecture with very clean, elegant lines,” says contractor Mark Neave of Truckee’s NSM Construction. “The materials we used had to play into that architecture and harmonize with the environment.”
The massive great room features a two-story-high fireplace with stonework that matches the exterior, photo by Vance Fox
On the exterior, that translates to stacked ashlar-style stonework, clear cedar siding and hot-rolled steel. Timber radius columns mirror the surrounding trees. Large expanses of glass and exposed wood soffits that extend from the inside out give the striking curved roofs a sense of floating.
“We then used copper on the roof for all the barrel roof elements that has patinaed beautifully,” Neave says. “In the mountains, it takes on a brown hue. The house blends with the surroundings and nestles into the environment.”
The entrance is unencumbered by garages, both of which are tucked behind the home as to not affect the massing. A linear waterfall streamscape—which flows under the entry bridge and continues to the back of the home—provides a sense of tranquility. The remarkable entry procession culminates as one passes through the hefty, hand-forged front door, which opens into a massive great room. A window wall, the lift-and-slide doors of which open to an outside patio, looks east to the Carson Range, while the home’s exterior stonework repeats in the two-story-high stone fireplace.
A neutral palette of wall colors, furnishings and materials keep the feel warm and rustic, while metal and glass detailing add a modern touch.
“[The clients] wanted a modern, elegant home,” says designer Julie Johnson-Holland, owner of Truckee’s JJH Interior Design.
The team delivered.
The kitchen includes dual granite-topped islands, photo by Vance Fox
The great room is open to a breakfast nook and gourmet kitchen highlighted by dual granite-topped islands, which increase storage space and allow one to be used for prep work and the other, lit by oversize crystal pendants, for informal meals. Bavarian wide-plank oak flooring runs throughout, uniting the spaces. A dining room near the entry is set off by Montana stone walling; it is located under the open, upper-story bridge, creating a more intimate area for formal dining.
Though the great room space is big, it doesn’t feel cavernous. “This home really draws you in,” Neave says. “Even though some spaces are large, they have a warmth to them because the adjacent spaces are proportionally sized to harmonize with each other.”
A dramatic open stairwell—the wood treads contrasting with steel, glass and cables that suspend the stairs from the ceiling—leads to the upstairs master suite. This space encompasses a spa-like bathroom with a curving glassed-in shower, marble countertops and contemporary vertical tile accents, while the tub shares a two-sided fireplace with the master sitting area beyond. The curving rooflines and clerestory windows allow even the bathroom and the two master closets to receive natural light.
In the open stairwell, wood treads contrast with steel, glass and cables that suspend the stairs from the ceiling, photo by Vance Fox
“It’s not normal, not pedestrian,” Thompson says. “Nothing about the house is pedestrian.”
The bridge off the master suite utilizes unobtrusive glass and steel railings; dual chaise lounges create a seating area to stretch out and take in the fabulous views while still feeling connected with the great room below.
Furnishings, lighting and material choices like tile were all inspired by the direction of the architecture, Johnson-Holland says. “It’s very high quality,” she says. “Unique, modern and elegant.”
Designed to accommodate a crowd, the house also boasts a first-floor guest master suite, complete with fireplace and private access to a covered patio, plus two guest suites and a bunk room. Other features include a game room with ping pong table, executive office, fitness room and a TV area, perfect for movie nights.
A large upper-story bridge overlooking the great room includes unobtrusive glass and steel railings, photo by Vance Fox
Indoor-outdoor living was essential to the home’s design and executed flawlessly. The outdoor features, Thompson says, were a collaboration between herself and landscape architect John Pruyn of High West Landscape Architects.
“I laid out the different levels of patio and John ran with that theme and really went all out with some cool additions, like the little bridge that connects the two patios and the waterfall features and the grassy plateaus,” she says.
An outdoor kitchen just off the main indoor kitchen contains a wide grill and hood, refrigeration and plenty of counter space. The kitchen and dining areas total about 550 square feet; ceiling-mounted heaters allow for dining al fresco even in chillier weather. Covered patios add about another 1,200 square feet of outdoor living space, while a lower terrace includes a fire pit situated by one of the water feature’s pools.
The home’s outdoor living space was a collaboration between Kristi Thompson of MWA and John Pruyn of High West Landscape Architects, photo by Vance Fox
“It’s a big house that can live even bigger,” Neave says. “And everything takes in this 180-degree panoramic view.”
The home spent about a year and a half in construction, and the crew included many local subcontractors.
“NSM is proud to work whenever possible with local artisans and tradespeople who understand working in this challenging environment,” Neave says. “The thing I’m most proud of is we do our best to build the finest home that we can every day that we go to work. This is just another great example of an award-winning home, thanks to the energy and effort that we and our partners bring each day to the jobsite.”
The entire home is a testament to the care and dedication that went into its construction and design, from the dramatic rooflines to the outdoor water features to the premium indoor materials. This home has curves—and knows how to flaunt them.
Alison Bender writes from her home at the foot of Mt. Rose, www.alisonobender.com.
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Flor De Toloache puts their own spin on Mariachi genre with ‘Our Love’
The first female Mariachi ensemble to win a Latin Grammy returns with their own spin on the genre.
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Flor de Toloache made history as the first female ensemble to win a Latin Grammy for Best Ranchero/Mariachi album in 2017. The multi-ethnic group showcase their love of traditional Mexican music and put their own spin on the genre with “Our Love.”
The song is the fourth single off their latest album “Indestructible”, supported by renowned Spanish producer Rafa Sardina and several collaborations that include special guests such as Alex Cuba, Miguel, and John Legend.
With modern influences from rock, pop, and R&B, the album delivers a powerful sound leading to a first Grammy nomination in 2020.
Recorded and produced by Brian Slater, the music video for “Our Love” is a collage of tour footage images recorded in February 2020 during the last dates of the US leg of the Indestructible Tour throughout California, including a sold-out show at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles.
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Brothers Osborne Captivate With ‘Weed, Whiskey and Willie’ on ‘Seth Meyers’ [Watch]
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Brothers Osborne visited Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday (May 21) to perform "Weed, Whiskey and Willie." The bluesy track is featured on their sophomore album Port Saint Joe and highlights John Osborne's guitar prowess, while TJ's deep baritone brings the lyrics to life.
The duo sing about life throwing them curveballs and the things they can always count on during times of struggle are "weed, whiskey and Willie."
"I've got bottles and vinyl stacked to the ceilin' / I get stoned for survival, it helps with the healin' / And when it all goes to hell the only thing I believe in / Is weed, whiskey, and Willie," the rough-edged duo sing.
The first 20 seconds of their performance featured a memorable guitar part from John before TJ entered on the mic. With added pedal steel accompaniment and light percussion, they get their point across.
The reigning ACM and CMA Vocal Duo of the Year wrote this song with Laura Veltz. “Weed, Whiskey and Willie" has become a favorite in the live setting, and their late show performance showcased exactly why. It's a song Brothers Osborne have been performing for — there's even a T-shirt!
The duo show no sign of slowing their roll following a big win at the ACM Awards in April where the siblings took home two trophies for Vocal Duo of the Year and Video of the Year for their previous single, "It Ain’t My Fault." Brothers Osborne recently joined Dierks Bentley for his Mountain High Tour, which kicked off May 18 and runs through the fall.
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Ben Osborn: The missing man in Aitor Karanka’s Nottingham Forest midfield?
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The versatile Forest performer could now have the perfect chance to stake a claim for a midfield place.
The year was 2013. Nottingham Forest defender Gonzalo Jara had picked up an injury in training, and caretaker boss Gary Brazil was short of bodies for a tough-looking trip to face Ipswich Town in the Championship.
Academy prospect Ben Osborn travelled with a makeshift group of Forest players and, to the surprise of everyone, Brazil handed him a first-team debut as the Reds drew 1-1 with the Tractor Boys.
Then a relative novice, Osborn performed well enough to continue getting chances to play first-team football and finished the 2013/14 campaign with eight appearances under his belt.
The following season, Forest legend Stuart Pearce was handed the managerial reins and he saw Osborn as an influential part of his Nottingham Forest charges, with extra emphasis placed on ensuring academy players receive ample chances to play in the first-team.
On Saturday afternoon, the 24-year-old was left out of Aitor Karanka’s starting line-up and watched on from the substitutes bench as the Reds looked way out of sorts against Birmingham City.
The Reds came from two goals behind to claim a share of the spoils against the Blues, but it isn’t really a coincidence that Forest looked a much better outfit once Osborn had been introduced into the action.
Osborn remains something of an enigma around the banks of the River Trent. No player divides the club’s supporters more and even after almost 200 appearances he still hasn’t been able to hold down one position.
A jack of all trades, master of none. It speaks volumes that a last-minute winner in a 2-1 victory at Pride Park over fierce rivals Derby County back in 2015 is perhaps still the defining moment of his Forest career to date.
Of course, he still has flaws but certainly in the last six months he has shown enough to suggest that there is a very good footballer in there somewhere. The task now for Karanka is to ensure that he develops Osborn into the player that small flashes of brilliance have shown he is capable of.
There remains something about Osborn, however, that just makes him so crucial to how the Reds try to play. His passing statistics are usually among the best in the second tier, whilst his desire and determination are two traits that see him resonate with Forest faithful as being someone who actually cares deeply about doing well for the football club.
As with any footballer, there are chinks in Osborn’s armour. His height doesn’t help him win headers, whilst the fact he isn’t a natural left-back does see club’s target that side when he props up the left-hand side of the defence. Those, however, are outweighed by the evident qualities that he does bring to the side.
Part of the problem for Forest in the draw with Birmingham was that Ben Watson and Jack Colback were utilised as two holding midfielders. At home, in the Championship, that simply doesn’t work.
The Reds were extremely poor in the first-half and it wasn’t until Watson was withdrawn for Osborn that Karanka’s men actually looked like a team that could drive forwards, play some nice football and ultimately score goals.
Forest entertain Newcastle United in the EFL Cup on Tuesday night and his game-changing performance in the middle of the park on Saturday suggests that it could be the perfect chance for the Reds’ boss to hand Osborn the chance to shine in a more natural central midfield position.
Forest’s four currently fit central midfielders are all defence minded. Watson, Colback, Liam Bridcutt and Ryan Yates are all extremely similar and now would be the perfect chance for Osborn to step forwards, in the absence of Adlene Guedioura, and stake a firm claim to offer a more potent attacking threat in the Reds’ midfield.
Karanka’s current 4-2-3-1 strategy is only effective if his team can get the ball from the players in the middle of the park to the three attacking players and this is something that Forest have struggled with this season.
Both Watson and Colback are good players but playing the ball through the channels and getting it quickly into the likes of Joe Lolley and Matty Cash just doesn’t come naturally to them. This is where Osborn can step forward once again.
Over the years, Osborn must have been itching at the chance to return to a natural central midfield role and, if Saturday is anything to go by, his inclusion in the middle of the park could be a match made in heaven with the way his current boss wants to play.
Whilst he has done a solid job in various left-sided positions, the errors have crept in due to the role not being tailor-made to his strengths. Given his age, it is time he stood up to be counted and starts to stake a firm claim for a place in his actual position, especially considering that Watson (33) and Guedioura (32) won’t be around forever.
Osborn’s greatest strength is his ability to get the ball moving forwards quickly and his youthful exuberance would not allow opposition midfields the time to breath when in possession.
A player that the Reds label ‘their own’ burst onto the scene as a central midfielder and after several years deputising in other areas, the time is now for Osborn to show each and every Forest supporter that his very best football can be played in the engine room.
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News: Helfró proudly unveil a second track from self titled debut album!
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Icelandic Black Metal newcomers Helfró are now premiering the second song of their self titled debut album, which will be released on Season of Mist Underground Activists on April 24.
The song “Hin Forboðna Alsæla” is streaming at the Season of Mist Youtube channel.
Helfró comment: “We proudly unveil a second track, “Hin Forboðna Alsæla”. This one is about the experience of getting addicted to ecstatic pleasures that are all-consuming, yet noxious, and the struggle to be released from their grip.”
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Medicinal Plants / By Tim Guzman / November 17, 2020 November 17, 2020
Agar is the product of several species of seaweed. It is also known as agar-agar. In Japan, agar agar is referred to as kanten. Hundreds of years ago, the Japanese and Chinese learned how to freeze-dry and dehydrate the fern-like fronds of this seaweed and form them into kanten bars. These bars were used as gelatin.
Different from gelatin in some ways, agar does not melt easily. Its texture is also more firm. Agar has a slightly sweet flavor and contains no calories, which is useful if you are looking for a low calorie food. And it’s of course an amazing culinary ingredient. It’s a vegetarian gelatin substitute, a thickener for soups, in fruits preserves, ice cream and others desserts.
A jelly made from agar agar flavoured with lemon used to be food fit for invalids in the 19th and early 20th centuries, although now it is usually not used in medicine. Agar agar does have use as a mild laxative however, as it plumps up in water and in the gut, so can help to remove toxins, fats and sugars from it. You can mix it with fruit juice or milk for this purpose, and shreds of it are better than powder.
As you would expect from an algae, agar agar is rich in iodine and trace minerals, as are laver bread and bladderwrack. You can buy it in transparent strips or powder and use it for aspic jelly.
Nutritional Value of Agar
Agar agar is a good source of calcium and iron, and is very high in fiber. It contains no sugar, no fat and no carbohydrates. It is known for its ability to aid in digestion and weight loss. It carries toxic waste out of the body. It is also used in some parts of the world to treat hemorrhoids.
Other benefits associated with agar are its ability to reduce inflammation, calm the liver, and bring relief to the lungs. Agar agar is also considered a mild laxative and not recommended for those with weak digestion or loose stools.
In pharmaceutical industry agar agar can be treated as one of raw material for capsules packing medicines, vitamins, laxatives mix and toothpaste. Agar agarr is also specified for laboratory solidifying agent for microbiological medium and plant tissue cultures. It could be developed into agarose for molecular analysis.
Health Benefits of Agar Agar
Jello made from agar agar
Agar agar has no calories, no carbs, no sugar, not fat and is loaded with fiber. It’s free from starch, soy, corn, gluten, yeast, wheat, milk, egg and preservatives.
Agar agar absorbs glucose in the stomach, passes through digestive system quickly and inhibits the body from retaining and storing excess fat. Its water absorbing properties also aids in waste elimination. Agar agar absorbs bile, and by doing so, causes the body to dissolve more cholesterol.
Agar agar is the perfect substitute to traditional gelatin. It’s made from a plant source rather than from an animal one. That makes it suitable for vegetarian and vegan diets, and other diet restrictions.
Agar agar has no taste, no odor and no color, which makes it pretty convenient to use. It sets more firmly than gelatin, and stays firm even when the temperature heats up.
Health and Beauty of Agar Agar
Agar agar is a food ingredient of good source of soluble fiber diet for more healthy life. It serves as detoxifying agent. It can prevent blood vessel, coronary disorders, hypertension etc.. Agar agar is also acts as common therapeutic use such as a laxative, a potential treatment for hyperbilirubinemia and for glucose intolerance in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
In cosmetic industry, can be used to soften and moisturize skin and hair. Therefore, a number of cosmetic manufacturers are starting to use aagar agar as one of the raw material in making lipstick, soap, ointments, lotion and cream.
How to Use Agar Agar
Agar agar comes in powder, flakes or in kanten bars. There are a number of steps in preparing agar:
Break up kanten bars into pieces. Wash them and wring them out. Soak them in liquid for 30 minutes, then strain.
If using flakes or agar agar powder, soften them in liquid. Dissolve 1 tbsp agar flakes or 1 tsp agar powder in 4 tbsp hot water or you should definitively follow the package directions and the recipe to determine which quantity to use.
Dissolve agar agar in boiling water or broth.
Moisten a glass bowl and allow the agar to set in the refrigerator or at room temperature.
Serve agar in a glass bowl or cut it into slices or cubes.
Recipes for agar agar can be found for pies, fruit desserts, jams, jellies, custards, puddings, and vegetable molds. An example of a recipe for jelly made from agar would include water, agar powder, rose essence, vanilla and drops of food coloring. To sweeten, you would use sugar or a sugar replacement of your choice based on your particular diet regimen.
A good thing to know when working with agar is that agar agar will not set in wine vinegars or in distilled water. It will also not set in foods containing a large amount of oxalic acid, such as chocolate or spinach.
Overall, agar agar is a calorie-free food, agar agar has many benefits. Besides its health benefits, it allows you to create new desserts and snacks that are flavorful but do not contain unnecessary calories. Also, given that gelatin is often made from animal tissue, some vegetarians consider agar as a good alternative for preparing gelatin-based desserts.
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ALERT: Maxine Waters now RUNNING SCARED of President Trump [VIDEO]
In three days, the Democrat’s chant changed from “Impeach 45” to “The hell you say!”
I guess Waters got some much needed legal advice over the weekend. After months of demanding that Trump be impeached, the Left Coast lunatic has backtracked.
Something’s changed for leftists; their lying lacks the agility from years’ past. Even the leftist media now calls them out for making blatantly contradictory statements.
A case in point is Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).
As our team previously reported, she’s made news multiple times since President Trump was elected by calling for his impeachment.
Yesterday, Waters went on MSNBC to claim she never did. Here’s proof she’s an out and out liar:
Impeachment Call #1:
Back in February, Waters fumed against Trump’s policies, forecasting her strategy.
“I hope [Trump’s] not there for four years…hope that this man and who he is, the way that he has defined himself, the way that he’s acting. I am hoping that we are able to reveal all of this. And my greatest desire is to lead him right into impeachment.”
How do you “lead” someone to be impeached, exactly? Is she going to fabricate evidence of some malfeasance on Trump’s part?
In March, Waters tweeted:
“Get ready for impeachment.”
That’s a fairly straightforward indication that her goal is to impeach President Trump. But here’s more proof:
At a Tax Day anti-Trump rally, Waters again called for our president’s impeachment, in stereo.
“I don’t respect this president. I don’t trust this president. He’s not working in the best interests of the American people. His motives and his actions are contemptible. And I will fight every day until he is impeached.”
Incredibly, Waters then led the crowd in an impeachment chant.
“Impeach 45, Impeach 45. Go ahead, Impeach 45.”
Yet, three days later, we’re meant to believe she didn’t call for Trump’s impeachment? The more recent example of her hypocrisy was tweeted yesterday.
On Tuesday, Waters tweeted:
“The President is a liar, his actions are contemptible, and I’m going to fight every day until he’s impeached.”
That’s four separate incidents of Maxine Waters calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
But when MSNBC’s Craig Melvin asked Waters to name Trump’s impeachable offenses, she balked.
Instead, Waters falsely implied Trump’s campaign staff colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 presidential election.
Then, Melvin asked whether Waters’ calls for Trump’s impeachment were premature because she had no evidence.
In response, Waters directly contradicted her previous public pronouncements:
“I have not called for impeachment.”
Believe it or not, this is Maxine Waters walking it back.
I’m not sure who’s getting to her, but she is most definitely looking for wiggle room on President Trump. Let’s face it, the president has made some great moves, and his poll numbers are rising.
Trump represents the master brander and his accomplishments benefit blacks more already than 8 years of Obama. Despite that being a low bar, expect Trump to clear it like he’s running over high hurdles.
When that occurs, Maxine Waters may find herself kissing the ring.
In short, things will only get worse for Waters and the other racists of the Congressional Black Circus.
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Resurrection Gym
Seen in: Rocky, Rocky V
1114 S. Lorena Street
“You’re a bum! You know that? You’re a bum!”
The opening shot of the original Rocky – and the series – begins with a painting of Jesus overlooking the dark, dirty boxing ring where we’re introduced to club fighter Rocky Balboa, battling with opponent Spider Rico. Fourteen years later, Rocky (and Sylvester Stallone) returned to this location to film one of Tommy Gunn‘s fights for Rocky V.
These scenes were shot on location in East Los Angeles at the old Resurrection Gym, where boxer Oscar De La Hoya trained as a kid in the early 1980’s. Resurrection first opened in 1924 as a church, eventually ditching its pews and morphing into a boxing gym. In the mid-1990’s, it was purchased and renovated by De La Hoya who transformed it into the Oscar De La Hoya Youth Center whose aim is to help keep inner-city kids out of gangs.
An article at the time states: “The champion plans to refurbish the gym while keeping its quaint, “Requiem for a Heavyweight” appearance, including the old wooden beams that hold up the pitched roof. He plans to buy new equipment and install air conditioning and coed lockers and showers.”
Looks like that turned out to be true – while the portrait of Jesus seems to be gone, the old structure and beams that you can see behind Rocky and Spider still exist, now sporting a fresh coat of clean, white paint. Click here to watch a video to see what the interior looks like today.
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See what it looks like today in these photos!
Spider Rico on the floor after a #Rocky special. pic.twitter.com/c1l59VdMrs
— Rocky Balboa (@RockyBalboaNot) January 28, 2014
The Spectrum Arena
Bonwit Teller & Co.
Arched Bridge in Philly Training Montage
Laurel Hill Cemetery
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Trinity Lutheran Church - Hoyleton, Illinois
Compelled by the grace of God, Trinity Lutheran Church and School forgives, teaches, and serves in the name of Jesus
205 North Main, Hoyleton, Illinois 62803
Sunday School / Bible Class 8:30 a.m. Sunday Divine Service 9:30 a.m.
Visit our School's web site
Appointed Readings for January 24, 2021 "Third Sunday after the Epiphany"
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The Introit, Collect, and Gradual are from Lutheran Service Book: Altar Book, copyright © 2006 CPH. All Scripture quotations, including those from Lutheran Service Book, are from the ESV Bible® (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Antifa Beaten After They Allegedly Went After Man In Wheelchair: ‘You Guys Came To The Wrong City’ (VIDEO)
Protesters at a pro-police rally in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Saturday reportedly beat several far-left activists after the far-left activists allegedly went after a veteran who was in a wheelchair.
Several dozen pro-police protesters walked alongside the veteran in the wheelchair, who was carrying an American flag, as they seemingly forced the far-left activists out of the neighborhood. Numerous people who were on the pro-police side said that the far-left activists went after the man in the wheelchair and suggested that was what ended up starting the fight.
“Everybody keep your hands off your weapons. Keep punching each other in the face just don’t shoot anybody.”
Antifa had knives, and were swiftly disarmed.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 9, 2020
Antifa assaulted someone in a wheelchair. That’s what set off the beat down from residents. Police were on the scene to arrest the commies. pic.twitter.com/LhqHFztjV2
Several people among the pro-police protesters stated repeatedly throughout the video that there was a kid’s birthday party in the area and suggested that the far-left activists had disturbed the event. At another point in the video, an unidentifiable man said to the far-left activists that “as soon as you guys step away from the f***ing houses, we’re going to leave.”
The man who recorded the video said, “So, we are currently marching the Antifa commie bas****s out of the neighborhood because nobody wants Antifa in the neighborhood. Nobody wants them here, so we’re marching them out.” – READ MORE
Rioters splash paint on elderly woman, get in her face when she stands up to their police precinct attack: 'This isn't your world anymore!' (VIDEO)
Evidence Is Mounting That Governor Cuomo Is Targeting Bars That Criticize Him for Suspension
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The Digression Podcast
Chris and Jody are Air Force vets who enjoy military history and folklore. This is their podcast. They tell stories. They digress. A lot.
http://thedigressionpodcast.libsyn.com/website
41. "Guardians" of the Galaxy
IN THE NEWS: Farewell Caroline Creech; Space Force "Guardians"; Be Like Star Trek; Space Force wins first international tournament; Yolo, PS5 > letters of discipline; Is unclaimed money waiting for you?; Ghosts in the wires; Smaller paychecks for GI's; BMI is bad; The Galactic Federation is watching; USAF shopping for flying cars; Told you: Army has an NCO vacuum; Pentagon Wars Take 2; Accidental discharge for Lady Green Beret; Looking for Strategic Arctic Ports; Congress wants info on UFOs;...
40. Merry Christmas Drop
Merry Christmas! For 69-years the US Air Force has performed what has become the oldest continuing Department of Defense mission and the longest-running humanitarian airlift in the world. Every year, the multinational Operation Christmas Drop brings school supplies, clothing, rice, fishing equipment, and toys to more than 50 remote Pacific islands throughout the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Utilizing Air Force C-130J "Super...
39. I Want A Lawyer
IN THE NEWS: Spotify's #1 Podcast; Space Force has new Chiefs; China rivalry; Missile warnings; Vets in Congress at all-time low; Gen Mattis doesn't get it; Military's biggest AI challenge; DISA did Teams; Pandemic stirs bio-attack worries; Nasa says mystery object is not an asteroid; C130s to influence election runoff?; Old soldier aids terrorists; Soldier earns astronaut device; Holiday toy dive; This soldier is not a dad; Landing on six classes of carriers; $30-million to scrap the boat;...
38. Broken Arrow
Seven and a half hours into their training mission, Major Howard Richardson and his Boeing B-47B Stratojet flight crew finally began to relax after an evening of deploying electronic counter-measures and chaff to evade prowling North American F-86 fighters. The sky was clear and the moon was full. Heading south at 35,000 feet and 495 mph over Hampton County, S.C., their next stop was home. Suddenly and without warning, a massive jolt yawed their aircraft to the left, accompanied by a bright...
37. Pilot Protection Program
IN THE NEWS: Podcaster Stories; Space command gets a home; Space policy czar; Schriever Exercise; Space warfare and the secret X-37B space plane; Robots or Astronauts?; Space Force boot camp; International Space Station turns 20; DOD leaders acting like douchebags; Exercise in USFK; Welcome home troops; Like father, like son in the AOR; The United Federation of Planets is born; Taliban reset; Tuition assistance cuts; Pilot Protection Program; Bomb trucks and Military Minions; Army goes...
36. Top Secret Courage
In 1968, Chief Master Sergeant Richard "Dick Etchberger was part of a covert CIA and USAF team working out of a small radar site on a remote mountain in Laos called Lima Site 85. He was part of a highly-classified operation called "Project Heavy Green." At this time, Laos was a neutral country, so it was illegal for either the United States or North Vietnam to have military forces in the country, so, Chief Etchberger and his team had to "voluntarily" resign from the Air Force and become...
35. White Feather
He's the most famous sniper you’ve probably never heard of. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carlos N. Hathcock II was a Marine Scout Sniper who served two tours in Vietnam, first in 1966 and returning in 1969. Until the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq he held the record for the most confirmed kills in the United States military. During the course of his two tours in Vietnam he recorded 93 confirmed kills and over 300 unconfirmed kills, building a reputation that was so renowned the North Vietnamese...
34. YOU'RE FIRED!
IN THE NEWS: You're fired!; Space Force deploys; Charlie Brown in TIME's 100; Training for the new Cold War; What's old is new again; Nellis leads the way; Army's new A.I., sorta, not really; Three big Army deployments! What could it mean?; Beetle Bailey turns 70; The Navy has a real pirate ship; Big new mission for the Carl Vinson; Marines reshape from within; Diversity saves lives; Diversity quotas; Military couples still divorcing; SECDEF guts military healthcare; State Department...
33. Surviving COVID with The Fired-Up Chief
Chief Master Sergeant Juan Lewis served 28-years in the U.S. Air Force before retiring from active service. During his career, the former Services troop held many key billets on Joint Task Forces, NATO, and as the Wing Command Chief on several bases. He was given the moniker, the "Fired-Up Chief," by the Airmen he led due to his passion to serve and champion their interests. In retirement, the Fired-Up Chief continues to serve the Airmen he loves. To him, each one of them is HERO (Helping...
32. Fort Hoodlum w/ SFC Ron Barteau
The U.S. Army's Fort Hood is on track to have the biggest year yet in soldier deaths due to accidents, illness, suicide, and murder! The Texas military installation, on which Army psychiatrist Maj Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and injured 32 others in a 2009 mass shooting, has seen more than its share of bloodshed. In 2014, five years after Hasan’s killing rampage, Iraq War veteran and Army veteran SPC Ivan Lopez opened fire on the base, killing three soldiers and injuring another 16 before...
31. Military Murder
What drives military members to murder? Maybe it's the violent nature of the work; or some childhood trauma; or a psychological disorder; or maybe they're just bad people. Maybe it's all of these things or a combination or none of them. The truth is we often don't know what compels someone to kill. If you're looking for answers, you're not going to get them here. What you're going to get are six stories of military murder that will leave you shaking your head: The Infidelity Solution Murder;...
30: Semper 'Sup
IN THE NEWS: 'Sup with the Space Force motto?; A Space Force second; House wants Navy ranks in Space Force; Poland is the new Germany; F-16s moving out; Beirut blast; U.S. military delivers; Pentagon shuts down has-been colonels; Chinese military told to stand-down; Space X Splashdown; New UFO task force; Air Force helicopter takes fire over Virginia; New WTF Feature: Colonel Kiddie Porn; Bang! Bang!; Child molester asks Supreme Court for his job back; Insulin murders at the VA; and...
29. "The Bomb" is 75
Ever since the American occupation of the Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the main Japanese islands had been under constant bombardment by long-range bombers of the United States. The city of Tokyo and many other cities on the Japanese mainland were leveled by day-and-night firebomb raids. As Italy and Germany had already done, Japan was paying the price for its grandiose plans for world conquest. But the island nation wasn't ready to surrender. Then the United States unveiled the biggest...
28. Self Before Service
IN THE NEWS: Killer garden gnomes; Time wasters; The Space Force 2400; Space Force partners with the UK; What Trump knows about Roswell; Racial bias in grooming standards; Drawdown in Iraq; Moving troops in Germany; The military's assault on religious liberty; Congress "okays" senior leader promotions; Rogue leaders; New Senior NCOs in the Air Force; COVID19 grounds Thunderbirds; USFK tells GIs to follow beach rules; 40 Mark Strasse; The Ugly American Syndrome; Air Combat Command Chief takes...
27. Snooze You Loose
Most of you have probably heard of Antonio López de Santa Anna, the self-proclaimed "Napoleon of the West," and the story of the Alamo. What you probably haven't heard is how, just a few months after the Alamo, Santa Anna parked his army directly next to Sam Houston's much smaller American force by the San Jacinto River and ordered everyone to take a siesta. Houston literally caught the Mexican force napping and after convincing himself that the scene before him wasn't some heat-induced...
26. The Protest Episode
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, what may have begun as peaceful protests against racial injustice quickly turned violent, as riots and looting broke out throughout the city, then rapidly moved across the country. The military was not unaffected by this turmoil, as National Guard troops were called up to keep the peace, military leaders shared their perspectives on race, and the services march down the road of introspection. In this...
25. To Boldly Digress
The Amazing 25th Episode Podcast Spectacular! Of course, it's really no different than our regular episodes...okay, so it's a regular episode, but it's special because it's number 25--a podcast milestone! To celebrate #25, we talk about the origin of The Digression Podcast on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And, as if that wasn't enough, we share some stories about a favorite topic that has received several mentions throughout our podcasts: Star Trek, the sci-fi...
24. Bad Apple
In the news: The DOJ cracks the Pensacola terrorist iPhone and they’re pissed at Apple; Apple is also pissed at the DOJ; Corporations are People, too; A new Space Force Chief is enshrined on the Leadership Wall; Space Force goes on the road to explain Space Force; A new look at USAF mission-capable ratings; The United Federation of “Planet”; SkyBorg...it’s coming!; Pause for safety; Teddy Roosevelt heads back to sea; The Fired-Up Chief is still recovering; Stolen Valor takes a year; PLUS, an...
23. I Wanna Believe
The Pentagon “officially” releases three videos of UFOs encountered by US Navy F/A-18 pilots. Although these videos have been in the wild for years, the Department of Defense was always tight-lipped about the whole affair. Not surprising, really. After all, what is a government without secrets, right? So, we take a listen to these encounters and share a bit of insight into the tech involved, as well as a little background into the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was...
22. Still Talking 'Bout the 'Rona
The “I can’t believe we’re still talking about the damn virus” episode where we discuss: The jump in COVID cases in the military and growing recoveries; The “Fired-up Chief” is on the mend; Vets are dying; New military travel exemptions and no-movement hardships; New York didn’t need Comfort after all; Japan goes American-made, but the Indians go Russian; A Navy without aircraft carriers?; Military cuts MEDIVAC in West Africa and a Public health emergency in Djibouti; Thunderbirds and Blue...
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Home Hockey Mens World Cup 2018 Hockey World Cup: Ready Reckoner – Deep Dive at each of the...
Hockey World Cup: Ready Reckoner – Deep Dive at each of the 16 teams
Hockey's biggest extravaganza, The Hockey World Cup 2018 is here, and so is our ready reckoner.
Australia are hoping to become the first team to win three consecutive World Cups but their task will not be made easy by a resurgent Netherlands, a hungry Germany and the unpredictable Argentines.
India, after all the drama that overshadowed their preparation, will be keen to produce memorable moments in front of the home crowd. But can they go all the way?
Starting Wednesday, the world’s best hockey teams will go head-to-head in the men’s World Cup. The Dragflick profiles all 16 teams that are taking part in the November 28 to December 16 extravaganza in one of the cradles of world hockey.
Argentina : World Rank 2
Photo Credits : Getty Images
The Olympic champions enter the World Cup after a long period of instability, which ended with chief coach Carlos ‘Chapa’ Retegui parting ways with the team.
His successor German Orozco, a former Argentina international, inherits a talented squad that plays free-flowing, attacking brand of hockey. Whether the world no. 2 side can continue its surge, though, remains to be seen.
The mood of the fan is… one of hope.
The greatest thing about this team is… continuity in the playing group – 12 out of 18 players have 100+ international appearances.
Watch out for: Maico Casella – with all the focus on Gonzala Peillat and Lucas Villa, he might just inflict most damage.
Spain : World Rank 8
Photo Credits : FIH
Spain might not have managed a podium finish for some years, but they remain a team that has consistently punched above its weight in world hockey.
The squad has gone through a massive change after the Rio Olympics, but coach Frederic Soyez – a former French international – has managed to retain the core.
The mood of the fan is… don’t disappoint like the football team!
The greatest thing about this team is… creativity, they bring freshness to the physical style adopted by most teams with their flair.
Watch out for: Enrique Gonzalez, who moves like Enrique Iglesias and plays like Xavi.
New Zealand : World Rank 9
They’ll be keen to show they aren’t here just to make up the numbers. New Zealand are regulars at major international tournaments, but haven’t made their presence felt.
That changed at the Commonwealth Games this year, where they pushed Australia all the way back before settling for a silver. The performance set a benchmark for future tournaments, starting with the World Cup.
The mood of the fan is… do not be sheepish!
The greatest thing about this team is… they thrive in the underdog scenario.
Watch out for: Blair Tarrant. The captain, an attack-minded defender, returns after missing the CWG due to an injury
France : World Rank 20
Photo Credits : France Hockey
France are making their first World Cup appearance after 28 years, and among the lower-ranked teams, they have the most exciting bunch of players.
They have the potential to script an upset or two and, in Jeroen Delmee, have a coach who knows what it takes to win matches at this level.
The mood of the fan is… hockey, what?
The greatest thing about this team is… they have a never-say-die attitude.
Watch out for: Captain Victor Charlet, who will be a constant threat from penalty corner situations.
GROUP B : Australia, China, England, Ireland
Australia : World Rank 1
Photo Credits : Hockey Australia
Colin’s Batch of 2018 has a great potential to become the first side in history of the sport to win three back-to-back World Cup titles.
After surviving the transitory phase, Australia have bounced back in style, winning the World League Finals last year apart from the Commonwealth Games and Champions Trophy. They have a fairly young squad, but that should hardly dent their chances.
The mood of the fan is… go for gold or go home!
The greatest thing about this team is… they are ruthless, no matter who the opponent.
Watch out for: Matthew Swan, in a team brimming with quality attackers, his contribution in the defence often go unnoticed.
England : World Rank 7
They’ve come ever-so-close to podium finishes in the last two World Cups, finishing fourth on both occasions.
Whether they’ve built on those performances is debatable. England come into the tournament with a new coach – Danny Kerry, who guided GB women’s to a silver-medal finish in Rio and also coached them at the World Cup this year.
The squad was dealt with a huge blow after striker Sam Ward, highest scorer at the Gold Coast CWG, was ruled out due to injury.
The mood of the fan is... it’s (not) coming home!
The greatest thing about this team is... the ability to grit out a win.
Watch out for: Barry Middleton, the attacking midfielder with 400+ appearances for national team.
Ireland : World Rank 10
Hockey Ireland
Four years ago, one wouldn’t have paid much attention to an Irish team at the World Cup. But they come to Bhubaneswar with the reputation of being one of the fastest-improving side in the world.
The stunning performances by the Irish women’s team at the World Cup earlier this year, which made global headlines, would act as an inspiration to the men’s team.
The mood of the fan is… one of anticipation.
The greatest thing about this team is… they are fearless.
Watch out for: David Harte, the 2015 and 2016 FIH Goalkeeper of the Year will be vital to Irish hopes.
China : World Rank 17
China are the unknown quantity of the tournament, having never competed at all at a major international event before. In that perspective, it’ll be exciting to see what they bring to the table.
Almost three-fourth of the squad is aged under 25, which shows that coach Kim Sang Ryul is investing in the future.
The mood of the fan is… *opens the fool’s guide to hockey*
The greatest thing about this team is… they’ll be the mystery box challenge in the World Cup.
Watch out for: Du Talake. The drag-flicker has been China’s top goal-scorer in recent tournaments.
GROUP C : Belgium, Canada, India, South Africa
Belgium : World Rank 3
It’s tough to conclude what to make of this Belgian squad. On one hand, they are the Olympic silver medalists; a set of prodigious players who have the potential to be the world’s best.
On the other, they risk going down as an underachieving bunch who promised so much but won precious little. Bhubaneswar presents them with another chance to win something big. Question is, can they do it?
The mood of the fan is… one of anxiety.
The greatest thing about this team is… exceptionally talented in every aspect of the game.
Watch out for: John-John Dohmen – the engine that drives the Belgian juggernaut.
India : World Rank 5
They can best be described as a schizophrenic side; a team that can play some tantalizing hockey on one day and be the absolute worst on the next. Harendra Singh has named a rather inexperienced squad.
How they deal with the pressure of playing an event of this magnitude at home will go a long way in deciding where India finish this World Cup.
The mood of the fan is… no late goals, please!
The greatest thing about this team is… it’s quick and fit, hence a great counter-attacking unit.
Watch out for: Akashdeep Singh – might not score as many goals as he would like but has been setting up for his teammates consistently.
South Africa : World Rank 15
Coached by Englishman Mark Hopkins, South Africa won the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt last year, which secured their place in the World Cup.
Financial constraints and lack of regular competition have pegged them back in the last few years. The team, in fact, has trained together just for a week before the World Cup. Not an ideal scenario heading into the tournament.
The mood of the fan is… just happy they’re allowed to compete after repeated Olympic snubs!
The greatest thing about this team is… Several experienced players.
Watch out for: Maico Casella – Austin Smith, who holds the defence together and also a potent drag-flicker.
Canada : World Rank 11
Canada return to the World Cup after eight years, having missed on the 2014 edition. They’re an unpredictable side but have troubled some top sides, mostly India, in the last couple of years. Whether Canada, can repeat the same in Bhubaneswar remains to be seen.
The mood of the fan is… there’s hockey without ice too?
The greatest thing about this team is... ability to trouble higher-ranked teams.
Watch out for: Scott Tupper, a great tackler who can control the game from the back.
GROUP D : Germany, Netherlands, Pakistan, Malaysia
Germany : World Rank 6
By their own high standards, Germany have underachieved in the last two years. Like Australia, they too have endured an uncertain phase, which witnessed changes in the coaching staff.
Yet, they are among the favourites going into the tournament. Germany have always been the crowd favourites in Bhubaneswar, something that should work in their favour. Anything less than podium finish should be a disappointment for them.
The mood of the fan is… resurgent!
The greatest thing about this team is... the ability to comeback from the dead…ask New Zealand!
Watch out for: Tobias Hauke, a skillful and intelligent midfielder who was key to Germany winning the 2008 and 2012 Olympic titles.
Holland : World Rank 4
Their past performances in the World Cup make them an automatic favourite for the title. Holland have always stepped up their game during the quadrennial event regardless of their form in the build up to the tournament.
Coached by Max Caldas, they possess enough depth and quality in their side to go one better than their performance four years ago and lift the trophy on December 16.
The mood of the fan is… not another silver, please!
The greatest thing about this team is… solid defensive organisation.
Watch out for: With his powerful drag-flicks, Mink van der Weerden possesses a huge threat to all teams from penalty corner situations.
Pakistan : World Rank 13
The financial crisis that had gripped the Pakistan Hockey Federation nearly derailed the team’s World Cup journey. But they eventually got a sponsor on board, and after all the speculation, Pakistan are here.
After a disappointing year, they showed signs of promise at the Asian Champions Trophy but how much of a challenge they can pose at the World Cup remains to be seen.
The mood of the fan is... just glad to be here!
The greatest thing about this team is… its unpredictability and fighting spirit.
Watch out for: Muhammad Rizwan Sr, the attack-minded midfielder who routine creates chances for the strikers.
Malaysia : World Rank 12
They have punched above their weight for quite some time now but Malaysia have lacked the ability to consistently challenge the world’s best teams.
They hired former Holland, India and Pakistan coach Roelant Oltmans to lead the team at the World Cup, but the Dutchman has barely had any time with the team. Still, Malaysia can emerge as the surprise element of this World Cup.
The mood of the fan is… desperate for a big win!
The greatest thing about this team is… ability to punch above its weight.
Watch out for: Faizal Saari, a quick, skillful attacker who consistently gets into goal-scoring positions.
The World Cup 2018 schedule
The Hockey World Cup 2018 Schedule can be found here. Teams have been organized into four pools (A through D). You can check out the Hockey World Cup 2018 Squad Guide here. For all Hockey World Cup 2018 Live updates, follow us below:
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A failed player, Mehr turned to sports writing - with hockey as primary beat - a decade ago. Since then, he's covered the World Cup, Olympic Games, Asian and Commonwealth Games, apart from the Azlan Shah Cup. When not following hockey, Mehr is either eating, reading, listening to music or watching a movie - sometimes, doing everything at one time.
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LFW lowdown: here's what went down at London's first digital fashion week
Emma McCarthy
Haydon Perrior
History was made this weekend as London Fashion Week staged its first digital-only, gender neutral showcase.
But while catwalk shows, backstage dramas and sore feet were notably absent, it wasn’t short of memorable moments. From the opening speeches to the virtual after-party, here’s a recap of the highlights.
Ahluwalia's Jalebi (Ahluwalia Studio)
With catwalk shows off the agenda, the capital’s creatives sought to bring their work to life through ever more inventive means. Priya Ahluwalia created an interactive 3D exhibition in the form of a virtual reality art gallery. Drawing from her Indian-Nigerian heritage and London roots, the young designer presented works from her new book Jalebi, with snapshots of what it means to be a mixed heritage person living in modern Britain “hung” in a digital exhibition which visitors were invited to explore through their screens.
Many offered a behind-the-scenes look at their craft, including designer Robyn Lynch, via a homemade film documenting the making-of her collection using deadstock material donated by cycling brand Rapha, and design duo Marques’Almeida, whose documentary charts the creation of the first reM’Ade collection made entirely from scrap fabric leftover from previous seasons. For others, it was an opportunity to flex a creative muscle beyond clothing. Experimental genderless fashion label Pronounce chose their slot to tell a story in the form of an illustrated 350-page flip book entitled Slow Down, designed as a “visual response to 2020”.
(Daniel Fletcher)
“We need to reset” said British Fashion Council chief executive Caroline Rush in her opening speech on Friday, which was followed by a performance by spoken-word poet James Massiah, who sought “to get this party proper started — or restarted, so to speak”. This opened up the virtual floor to a schedule brimming with panel discussions and industry heavyweights weighing in on the topic of how to fashion the future.
“Us designers churning out product after product just doesn’t feel relevant anymore,” said stalwart menswear force Lou Dalton in a video conversation with former Topman creative chief Gordon Richardson, photographer Mark Neville and stylist Stuart Williamson; while Next in Fashion frontrunner Daniel Fletcher mused via Instagram Live that “the situation this year has pushed me to re-evaluate the way that I do things”, speaking of his collection created remotely with seamstresses via Zoom.
Inclusivity was at the heart of Teatum Jones’s panel discussion Round Table not Runway, while in a conversation entitled The Collaboration Worldview, menswear talent Bianca Saunders drew the conclusion: “I want the brand not to exist just as clothing, but to create conversations.”
(Central Saint Martins)
Given London Fashion Week’s reputation as an incubator of agenda-setting creative talent, it is perhaps unsurprising that the capital’s fashion schools served among the weekend’s best and brightest highlights.
Central Saint Martin’s MA graduates staged a takeover of yesterday morning’s schedule with a film reel offering an abstract view of creative processes throughout isolation, including one student crafting a pair of trousers out of masking tape and another weaving on a loom in their bedroom.
They were joined on the platform by students from 12 other colleges, including London College of Fashion, University of Westminster and Kingston University, in a collective outpouring of new talent which proved that the restrictions of lockdown have done little to hinder the next gen.
Charity begins at home
(Charles Jeffrey)
Until two weeks ago, designer Charles Jeffrey intended to use his Saturday evening slot on the schedule to throw a party. But as the anti-racism movement erupted around the world, he decided to cancel the planned celebration.
Instead, the designer passed the mic to POC voices in a live-streamed talent showcase intended to aid grassroots charities working to support marginalised communities. Featuring performances by the likes of dancer Malik Nashad Sharpe, Croydon-based singer songwriter Rachel Chinouriri and spoken word artist Kai-Isaiah Jamal, audience members were urged to donate to a fundraising effort for UK Black Pride, while sales of a tandem capsule collection — launching in December — will see proceeds donated to the Kaleidoscope Trust.
The biggest trend to come out of London Fashion Week? Post-apocalyptic merchandise. At least according to Matthew Miller.
In a satirical body of work masterminded by the Stoke-born, London-based designer, a dystopian view of what luxury could look like in 2027 took centre-stage on yesterday afternoon’s schedule via a film of archive footage intended to shock and question the future of our species. The corresponding concept-driven collection features t-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with bleak slogans such as The New Normal and The End Is Fear alongside survivalist commodities at grossly inflated prices, from fuel to a fully stocked drinks fridge and even space transportation.
“I feel an obligation as a designer and artist to release work that is both relative and relevant to the tumultuous, uncertain times that we find ourselves in,” said Miller. However, while the inclusion of a £99 cement brick may be an ironic statement, Miller’s dedication to sustainability — with every t-shirt and hoodie made to order in London in a bid to eradicate waste — provides a practical future-proof solution to consumption.
The after-party
What is London Fashion Week without a legendary after-party? Thankfully, the capital’s night owls weren’t left wanting — though they had to provide their own drinks.
On Friday night, presenter Miss Jason and Hasani B2B manned the decked at menswear designer Liam Hodges’s virtual after-party, supported by Beats by Dre, to raise funds for LGBTQIA+ POC projects in the UK, while on Saturday night the virtual f’row was treated to a live hour- long back-garden set by DJ royalty Fat Tony.
Meet the woman making menswear exclusively from deadstock fabrics
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Cube’s (G)I-dle Allegedly Copies 2ne1’s Intro Stage At Gaon Chart Music Awards
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After (G)I-dle faced criticisms for using Muslim’s sacred place on their stage performance at the Golden Disk Awards 2019, the K-pop girl group of Cube Entertainment is now facing another criticism for allegedly copying 2ne1’s intro stage on their stage performance at the 8th Gaon Chart Music Awards.
In an award show, aside from looking forward to their idol’s live performances, people also look forward to the idol’s special stages every year since it adds something new and creativity that makes every idol’s award show performance more special than their weekly show performances.
(G)I-dle’s intro stage performance at the 8th Gaon Chart Music Awards initially received great reactions due their edgy intro.
However, after (G)I-dle’s performance, people started to notice the similarity of (G)I-dle’s intro stage to 2ne1’s intro stage performance during 2ne1’s performance at MAMA 2011.
The highlight of (G)I-dle’s intro stage performance at the 8th Gaon Chart Music Awards is similar to 2ne1’s intro stage performance at MAMA 2011.
(Note: See the video at the end of the article)
Did Cube Entertainment really copy 2ne1’s intro stage performance at MAMA 2011 for (G)I-dle’s intro stage performance at Gaon Chart Music Awards?
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Droughts are often predictable: periods of unusual dryness are normal in all weather systems. Advance warning is possible (WHO).
By 2025, 1.8 billion people will experience absolute water scarcity, and 2/3 of the world will be living under water stressed conditions (UNCCD).
Drought can be defined according to meteorological, agricultural, hydrological and socio-economic criteria.
Meteorological, when precipitation departs from the long-term normal
Agricultural, when there is insufficient soil moisture to meet the needs of a particular crop at a particular time. Agricultural drought is typically evident after meteorological drought but before a hydrological drought
Hydrological, when deficiencies occur in surface and subsurface water supplies
Socio-economic, when human activities are affected by reduced precipitation and related water availability. This form of drought associates human activities with elements of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological drought (FAO).
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Facebook Connectivity Lab in collaboration with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Colombia University combines machine vision AI with satellite imagery and census information to create population density maps. With the integration of demographic information, specifically related to age and gender, these maps collectively provide information on both the location and the demographic of a population in a certain country. The population density maps cover the majority of countries around the world.
Mexico and Argentina align satellite networks to resolve regional challenges
In collaboration with the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE) of Argentina, the Mexican Space Agency (AEM) recently launched a digital platform to improve the integration of satellite data for environmental monitoring in Latin America. The Comprehensive Regional Satellite Information System (SIRIS) provides access to satellite information in order to enhance decision-making and facilitate disaster management.
The SIRIS platform provides access to satellite imagery for different areas. The platform supplies information on the agriculture and forestry sector to better monitor the impact of natural disasters on agricultural production and woodland. It also offers up-to-date and archived data on fires to strengthen early warning and build long-term resilience. On floods, information provided by SIRIS indicates the water level to improve damage evaluation of the impacted area and facilitate humanitarian relief. In... read more
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ESA and Thales Alenia Space sign contract for a new addition to Europe's Copernicus programme: ROSE-L mission
The European Commission plans to rapidly expand its environmental monitoring programme Copernicus. For this purpose, the European Space Agency (ESA) recently pledged 2.55 billion Euros towards contracts to advance the production of six new Copernicus satellite missions. The final of the six contracts was signed last Thursday between ESA and Thales Alenia Space for a mission that will provide new and important information to climate research and disaster management.
The high-priority Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) mission is planned to launch in 2028 for a period of 7.5 years. The ROSE-L mission will orbit Earth every few days at an altitude of 690km and will carry a L-Band synthetic aperture radar (SAR). With a wavelength of approximately 23cm... read more
NASA integrates soil moisture data into Disasters Mapping Portal
Officially launched in 2015 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the SMAP mission is an orbiting satellite that measures the amount of wetness in the top layer of soil incrementally every 2-3 days. These Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) measurements rely on radiation frequencies that point to different levels of moisture on the surface of earth’s soil and are useful for scientists because it allows them to construct maps indicating the level of soil moisture globally. Acknowledging the relevance and usability of this data for the field of disaster management, NASA recently integrated the SMAP data into its Disasters Mapping Portal.
The Disasters Mapping Portal has been developed by the Geographic Informations Systems (GIS) Team at NASA in an effort to make their satellite data... read more
World Disasters Report 2020 highlights role of smart financing and space-based information in humanitarian response
A new report by the world’s largest humanitarian aid network highlights global disasters, populations most vulnerable to them and the efforts of local institutions in preventing, preparing for and responding to them. The 2020 edition of the World Disasters Report, “Come Heat or High Water”, was launched virtually from the offices of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Vienna on November 16. This year’s report discusses climate- and weather-related disasters and their humanitarian impact. It argues for the usefulness of smart financing and space-based information in disaster management support.
The report warns that the global effort to address climate change is leaving behind countries most vulnerable to... read more
UN-SPIDER conducts virtual expert meeting for Latin America
In order to discuss and promote the use of space technologies in addressing natural hazards such as forest fires and landslides in Latin America, UN-SPIDER conducted a virtual regional expert meeting on the topic of “Space-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response in Latin America” from 22 to 24 September 2020. The meeting was jointly organized with UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices from Argentina (National Space Activities Commission, CONAE), Brazil (Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM), Colombia (Geographic Institute Agustin Condazzi, IGAC), and Mexico (Mexican Space Agency, AEM).
In Latin America, UN-SPIDER and its Regional Support Offices have regularly carried out regional expert meetings, training courses and other joint efforts since 2011. The last Regional Expert Meeting took place in 2017 in Mexico.
The meeting, which consisted of three two-hour-long sessions, brought together a total of over 200 disaster management stakeholders... read more
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IWMI wins award for innovative space-based drought monitoring work
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The South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS) provides maps of drought conditions that are produced and maintained at IWMI. Numerous drought indices - including the Integrated Drought Severity Index (IDSI), Standardized Precipitation Index, and Soil Moisture Index - have been developed to provide advanced drought monitoring and assessment information. The system has three components:... read more
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Google and FAO develop web-based tool to facilitate big data access
Google and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations have launched a new tool that provides access to multidimensional maps and statistics showing key climate and environmental trends. Earth Map draws on the processing power of Google Earth Engine and aims to help develop insights based on satellite and FAO’s agriculturally-relevant data alike. It follows the joint development by Google and FAO of the Collect Earth platform for forest and land cover assessments, and integrates with the recently launched FAO Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform.
Tapping into the wide range of multi-temporal and quasi real-time satellite data available through Google Earth Engine, Earth Map provides... read more
Reunión Regional Virtual de ONU-SPIDER - Soluciones espaciales para la gestión para la reducción de riesgos y la respuesta en caso de desastres para América Latina
En décadas recientes muchas comunidades en América Latina y el Caribe han experimentado desastres ocasionados por inundaciones, sequías, deslizamientos, terremotos, erupciones volcánicas y maremotos o tsunamis que han erosionado los logros asociados a procesos de desarrollo. Además, en este año 2020 la pandemia ocasionada por el virus COVID-19 ha impactado a muchos países del mundo, forzando a los gobiernos, al sector privado, a la sociedad civil y a organismos regionales e internacionales a modificar sus planes de trabajo. De manera paralela, varios países del Este de África, del Sudoeste de Asia y de América Latina están experimentando los impactos de la plaga de langosta.
Convencidos que las tecnologías espaciales pueden jugar un papel preponderante en apoyar los esfuerzos que llevan a cabo las instituciones en materia de gestión para la reducción de riesgos, la preparación, la respuesta y la recuperación en caso de desastres; la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas... read more
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Counting down the clock
Posted on 01/07/2011 by Sheree
As part of my preparations for The Tour, yesterday afternoon I watched the Tour de France team presentation held in the theatrical, Gallo-Roman, Parc du Puy-du-Fou. The spectacle was much enjoyed by the 6,000 capacity crowd. The riders were made to feel like gladiators when we… Continue Reading “Counting down the clock”
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Garibaldi’s Giro VII
It’s perhaps only fitting that on the Giro’s rest day I quickly reflect on the 3 day festival of pain and suffering the riders have just endured. Frankly, it was pretty exhausting just watching, let alone riding: long days in the saddle, lots and lots of tough… Continue Reading “Garibaldi’s Giro VII”
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Garibaldi’s Giro IV
Five, four, three, two, one and they’re away. It’s Omega Pharma-Lotto who kick off this year’s Giro. The team descends the starting ramp, rides out the gate of the Castello della Venaria Reale, 9km north of Turin, and speeds away in line along a road thronged with enthusiastic… Continue Reading “Garibaldi’s Giro IV”
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Full of promise
We’ve profited from the fine weather these past few days to log plenty of kilometers on the bike. The weather forecast keeps indicating adverse weather but it’s generally been holding off during the day. The combination of rain and warm sunshine has ensured that the… Continue Reading “Full of promise”
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Bit of a roundup
After four days off the bike, it was a pleasure to resume my training programme. I’ve been riding really strongly this week, particularly on the climbs, and feel on track for this week end’s brevet, the l’Antiboise, organised by a neighbouring club. Last year, I unwisely… Continue Reading “Bit of a roundup”
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Close run thing
I finally got around to taking my beloved BMC I down to my LBS (Local Bike Shop) to have the set up changed to that of my beloved BMC II. I also splashed out on a new saddle, as the old one was looking kinda… Continue Reading “Close run thing”
Category: Cycling, Cycling, FootballTags: AVFC, BMC, Cameron Meyer, Darren Bent, Euskatel Euskadi, Francisco Ventoso, Gamin-Cervelo, Gareth Barry, Gerard Houllier, Gorka Izagirre, James Milner, Lille, Manchester City, Matt Goss, Michael Matthews, Movistar, OGCN, Olympique Lyonnais, Santos Tour Down Under
Week one review
What a fabulous first week! Take a bow ASO. We’ve had confusion and controversy, thrills and spills, cobble calamity, tears and tantrums, rain, heatwaves, picturesque countryside, beautiful châteaux, fervent fans, the favourites are all still in contention and we’ve only just reached the first really lumpy… Continue Reading “Week one review”
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Our guests and my beloved have departed leaving me to savour being on my own once more. I probably sound as if I’ve got a touch of the Howard Hughes but there’s something very liberating about not being at anyone’s beck and call. I… Continue Reading “Home alone”
Category: Cycling, CyclingTags: Anthony Ravard, Circuit de la Sarthe, Euskatel Euskadi, Francesco Gavazzi, Luis Leon Sanchez, Oscar Freire, Robbie McEwan, Scheldeprijs, Tiago Machado, Tom Boonen, Tyler Farrar, Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco, Wouter Weylandt
Don’t call us
The teams for the Giro were announced today by RCS Sport and, as a result, there’s bound to be a few long-faced team managers and sponsors. Here’s the list of successful applicants, 15 Pro-Tour teams and 7 wild cards:- AG2R-La Mondiale Astana Caisse d’Epargne Footon-Servetto Garmin-Transitions HTC-Columbia Katusha… Continue Reading “Don’t call us”
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20 March: T-day
Christian Prudhomme has said that he will advise on the 22 teams to be invited to the Tour de France on 20 March, so that’s 35 days left for the rest to impress. The sixteen with an invite are those remaining teams which were Pro-tour back in September 2008: namely,… Continue Reading “20 March: T-day”
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A Shawn Fluharty (D - WV) LEGALIZE, TAX, AND REGULATE
Holds office State House District 3
Cosponsor of HB 4149 Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis in 2018
In response to Sessions rescinding the Cole Memo: "Fluharty — who supports the legalization of recreational cannabis — criticized the new federal position Thursday. He said, “My opinion is this is a direct attack on states’ rights and the will of the people in states. The same people who tell us they support states’ rights are taking away the decision of many people. … I don’t like any decisions made by public officials that go against the will of the voters.”
The delegate added, “It’s short-sighted and goes against the will of the people and the voters. It’s complete hypocrisy, really.”
He thinks the new policy contradicts Sessions’ and the Trump administration’s previous championing of states’ rights and individual liberties.
On the state level, Fluharty said, “West Virginia should always do what’s in the best interest of its people, not necessarily what the federal government dictates upon us.”
HB 2878: Defines Marijuana as a Schedule I Drug
SB 386: Authorizes the Use of Medical Marijuana
Contact Shawn Fluharty
Email: shawn.fluharty@wvhouse.gov
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BTS, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga & More Honored On 2019 “Time’s 100 Most Influential” List
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Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” list was revealed, and some of the biggest musical artists in the world were recognized for their impact.
BTS, Khalid, and Ariana Grande are among the musicians dubbed Time‘s “artists” of the year, while Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga are named as “icons” for 2019. As in past years, each star is featured alongside a blurb written by those around them about their widespread influence.
Among the other musical acts, Shawn Mendes pays homage to Taylor Swift while Celine Dion reflects on the greatness of Lady Gaga, and Alicia Keys writes about Khalid.
The full list appears in the April 29 issue of Time, but is now available online here.
Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, BTS Named to TIMEs 100 Most Influential List
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By Nindi Rini / October 18, 2020 /Categories Movie Star
In this modern era, there are a lot of Asians blood succeed in Amerika.
For the old generation, we can say Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Bruce Lee, and many other artists succeed in Hollywood.
Now, we can take a look into modern era, where there is a lot of Asian people become success in Amerika.
Ali Wong is one of the most successful artist, writer, and comedian in the United States with his husband Justin Hakuta.
We cannot take look for someone background just only from her or his successful career.
We need to go back into how they could achieve their biggest dream.
There must be a lot of things that you need to know about her, including about her personal life with her husband Justin.
Now, you can understand about both of them net worth that is surprisingly amazing to know.
You can get better learning from their journey.
What is Ali Wong Net Worth?
Who is Ali Wong Married to?
1. Justin Hakuta Nationality
2. Friends of Wong
3. Graduated from Harvard
4. Yoga Start Company
5. Multi-Million Dollar Tech Company GoodRX
6. Amazing net worth
How Tall is Ali Wong?
What is Ali Wong’s Nationality?
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Bring new stage of life might change couple of situation.
Wong has successful career in her life to become an actress, comedian, and writer.
It is not easy to her, once she has to begin everything from zero.
Before we talk about her net worth, it might be better to know her background.
She was born as half Asian-American identity.
She was studied in the University of California (UCLA) with Asian-American studies.
She was trying to seek major information about her identity as her mother comes from Vietnam.
During her junior year, she decided to go abroad to study in Hanoi, Vietnam.
She was trying to learn the language, as the reason she said that “I wanted to gain access to the Vietnamese-American community, I was seeking for my mother’s history and my own identity.”
She was coming far away from Amerika.
Up until 2019, Wong net worth has reached around $3 million.
It is not a small number for professional Hollywood actress as she is.
Appearing in numerous TV show and film, can bring better life quality to her.
Including in The Tonight Show 2011, Hey Girl 2013, Angry Birds Movie as the Voice Actor 2016, American Housewife 2017, Baby Cobra Stand-up comedy, and many other.
It is not something easy to appeared in the most famous TV program.
Most people know that Hollywood has very tricky competition for everyone who wants gain success. She did with big efforts and sacrifices.
source: allartist.uk
Before we go further to know about Justin Hakuta as one of the famous business man in Amerika.
We need to understand his background including his nationality.
Born in LA 18 October 1981, Hakuta now become successful business man in the United States.
There are not many people know about his basic background, including his family and many other information.
His father name is Ken Hakuta, which also quite success in the United States from his appearance in TV with Dr. Frad show.
His father is Japanese, that makes him had Japanese blood in his body.
About his mother, was coming from the Philippines.
Her name is Aki Hakuta, and there is not much information about his mother.
The truth is, Justin has half Japanese-Philippines bloods, with American nationality.
Most people know, if we wanted someone to be our partner means that they do need to understand each other.
Wong and Hakuta has become friend for so long, including during they are conducting their education background.
Hakuta could make Wong accept him to become her partner for entire life.
However, they are seeming very happy up until now, with all of their similar culture which become half Asian-American.
There is something that you should proud of Hakuta background.
He was graduated from Harvard, with Business School Degree.
It is also one of the beginning for his successful career in this future.
He could be able to control any business sector, which also become the best of his ability.
Justin Hakuta also become one of the owner of Yoga Start company.
He is one of the best CEO at that time, which also start to create and conduct his healthy life.
It must be better because he need to manage a lot of business sector, which require him to stay healthy.
Known as the best business man in the United States, Hakuta has biggest company called Multi-Million Dollar Tech Company GoodRX.
He became Researcher, Analyst, Sales, Marketing Associate and Product Manager.
It is not something easy to be in his position today, as he need to do a lot of efforts to gain success.
It is also one of the biggest things that could make his wife proud of his career.
Before we go further, you need to know that he has specific net worth which also amazing.
He could get specific net worth from what he has done within his career in business.
Officially, the news said that he has reached net worth around $20.0 million which quite big for success business man.
source: cnnnews.com
There is an interesting fact between Wong and Hakuta that you need to know.
Both of them was met at friends weeding, conducted at 2010.
Finally, both of them caught dating at 2014, which become the beginning between each other journey.
Both of them has two children, which can make their life become perfect.
The first child named Mari Hakuta, that was born at 2015.
No longer from that time, at 2018 both of them have their second children.
Regarding the height of Ali Wong, she has 1,6m which is quite standard for Asian people.
source: bbcnews.com
Back into the Nationality topic, Wong is a half Asian-American nationality.
She was born in LA, even that their father and mother was not coming from the United States.
Her father was coming from China, and her mother is Vietnamese.
The facts between Ali wong and Justin Hakuta is quite interesting to discuss.
Both of them has their successful life, even that none of them get their biggest dream easily.
They are need a lot of efforts and sacrifices that can bring success to their life.
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Alexei Tsvetcoff: A Supremely Intelligible Speech
Vladimir Putin, “Address to Russians on the 2018 Pension Reform,” 29 August 2018
Alexei Tsvetcoff
Putin’s speech was supremely intelligible. It boiled down to this. We could just as well not change the retirement age over the next ten years, but we are going to do it anyway merely because we want to do it. We are going to fuck each of you over to the tune of one million rubles at least, because we like lining our pockets with the money, and no opposition can do anything to stop it.
We are not going to raise the taxes of the oil and gas bourgeoisie, because we are the oil and gas bourgeoisie. The Pension Fund’s palaces and the palaces per se of the ruling class are beautiful, but there is no need to touch them. Let them be. Anyway, things could be a lot worse, believe you me.
The speech was an open declaration of class warfare on the majority on behalf of the ruling minority. It was a rude statement by the modern-day equivalent of Yuri Olesha’s Three Fat Men, a group of people rendered insolent by their impunity.
The tsar in his mercy granted indulgences. He took three years off the proposed new retirement age for women, and six months off the retirement age for the first cohort whom the reform will roll over, as well as promising guaranteed employment and property tax benefits for pre-pensioners, and so on.
This summer’s political upsurge has borne preliminary fruits, but they are decorative. The wave of opposition to the proposed reforms must rise higher and higher, and popular hatred must adopt really effective guises, meaning guises that frighten the regime.
A genuine mobilization of society would smash this reform, conceived by thieves, to smithereens, and maybe some other things as well—if such a mobilization occurred, of course.
If the entire country takes to the streets in September, we shall soon see a new speech by Putin, in which he says he has changed his mind. Now the authorities will be gagging, demonizing, isolating, and banning vigorous opponents of their mean-spirited reform on a daily basis. All of us, therefore, must become vigorous opponents of the reform.
Alexei Tsvetcoff is a well-known Marxist writer and manager of the Tsiolkovsky Bookstore in Moscow. Thanks to Valentin Urusov for the heads-up. Translated by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin capitalism, economy, leftists, politics, protest, putinism, society, solidarity, zeitgeist August 30, 2018 September 19, 2018 400 WordsLeave a comment
Russia, Great and Beautiful
Exhibition view of Vasya Lozhkin, Russia, Great and Beautiful (2010). Photo courtesy of Ekho Moskvy
The Case of the Repost Following a Picket: The Story of an Activist Who Has Sought Asylum in the US
Vladimir resident Victoria Lobova was involved in two events in the Don’t Call Him Dimon campaign, and now she has been forced to ask for political asylum in the US. The placard the activist took to the events caught the eye of law enforcement. Lobova faces criminal charges for posting images of it on the social media website VK. OVD Info asked Lobova to tell her own story.
I was involved in an anti-corruption rally on March 26, 2017. I was not punished in any way at the time. Then, on June 12, 2017, the country was swept by a wave of anti-corruption rallies, and I held a solo picket. I was approached by two policemen who asked me to identify myself. I told them my name, and they said I had to go with them. I refused, since I had not violated any laws. They telephoned somebody, asked him what to do, and read him the text of my placard over the phone.
I stood with the placard in downtown Vladimir. The slogan on the placard read, “I’m a young woman. I don’t want to decide anything. I want lace panties, and I want [Prime Minister Dmitry] Medvedev to respond to the country about yachts, vineyards, nonsense, malarkey, and hodgepodge.”
In the evening, I had a visit from the security services, who said I had to report to the police. When I arrived there I was written up for committing an administrative offense: violating the rules for public rallies. I won the court case. Later, in July, a policeman came to my home and said “extremist” matter had been spotted on my VK page.
I had told the police my address and my name during my solo picket. Subsequently, they staked out my social media page. That was how it all kicked off. If I had not carried out a solo picket and mixed with the crowd at the protest rally instead, othing would have come of it. Before I was involved in protest rally, I had a page on VK where I covered political news, but the authorities paid me no mind.
I was cited for a picture that drew a parallel between Putin’s politics and Hitler’s politics. There were Nazi symbols in the photo. Two weeks later, four police officers came and drove me to a temporary detention facility.
I didn’t know till the last minute I would be spending the night there. They took my fingerprints, catalogued the entire contents of my bag, and photographed me. I was told that an ethnic Russian would never publicly display Nazi symbols and that children could have seen them. I replied that the picture had a completely different message. If you read the text, you would easily conclude Nazism was condemned by the authors. I also said that children hardly became Nazis the second they saw a swastika somewhere. Then I was taken to a cell and locked up till morning.
Detail of Vasya Lozhkin’s Russia, Great and Beautiful. Russia is shown as surrounded by countries inhabited by “slant-eyed monkeys,” “wogs,” and other peoples identified by equally offensive terms for non-Russian peoples and ethnic groups. Image courtesy of New Chronicle of Current Events
There was a court hearing in the morning. I was sentenced to three days in jail. Then, in January 2018, the FSB filed criminal charges against me under Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code (“incitement of hatred or enmity”) for Vasya Lozhkin’s picture Russia, Great and Beautiful, which they had also found reposted on my VK page. (In August 2018, a court ruled the picture could not be considered “extremist.”)
The FSB investigator was unable to get me to confess, and the case seemingly died down. But then the police again paid visits to my house. I would not open the door, which they photographed, probably by way of reporting to their superiors. When they left they would first make the rounds of the neighbors. That was when I realized they would not leave me alone and would send me to prison come what may.
I left Russia in May. I just bought tickets and flew away. There are opportunities for obtaining political asylum. In this sense, I think everything will be fine. I have lots of evidence that I was persecuted.
VK handed over all the information needed to the FSB, so my case was no exception to established practice. I continue to use VK, but now I am somewhere safe. I advise people in Russia to be more careful.
By hecksinductionhourin art, censorship, nationalism, putinism, regime, regions, rights, zeitgeist August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018 792 WordsLeave a comment
I never saw that you did painting need
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet’s debt;
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself being extant well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory, being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life and bring a tomb.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in praise devise.
Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Photo by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin petrograd, photographs, poetry, random August 29, 2018 August 29, 2018 125 WordsLeave a comment
Kangaroo Courthouse Blues
Quotation courtesy of Mediazona. Translated by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin politics, protest, putinism, zeitgeist August 27, 2018 August 27, 2018 10 Words3 Comments
Guerillas Gone Mental: Why the Russian Secret Services Forced Kristina Snopp and Her Husband to Leave Russia
Refusing to Cooperate with the FSB and Pictures of Putin: The Story of a Couple Seeking Political Asylum in Georgia
Sofia Rusova
Kristina Snopp and her husband, Denis. Photo courtesy of Ms. Snopp and OVD Info
A young married couple from Krasnodar Territory have applied for political asylum in Georgia. So far, they have had two interviews with the immigration service. The couple are certain that if they weresent back to Russia they would face criminal charges and prison sentences. Sofia Rusova discovered how a reporter at a municipal newspaper and her bike mechanic husband attracted the notice of local FSB agents and the police.
Refusing to Cooperate with the FSB
“I am Kristina Snopp, and I am afraid to return to Russia.”
This was how the 32-year-old reporter from Tuapse prefaced her asylum request to the Georgian authorities. Snopp and her husband, Denis Snopp, are currently living in a refugee center in Georgia. Snopp made the decision to leave Russia after she learned her posts on the social media network VK had been examined for “extremism” and “insulting religious believers.”
Snopp never wanted to be involved in politics. She was never a member of a political party, permitting herself to have opinions only on a few issues like religion, the environment, and Russia’s foreign policy. If she did attend protest rallies, they mainly had to do with ecological issues. Like many residents of Tuapse she protested construction of a bulk shipping terminal by the company EuroChem in 2011.
Back in 2014, Snopp received a call on her mobile phone from an FSB officer who introduced himself as Denis. He wanted to talk with her.
“For around two hours, he grilled me about the people with whom I interacted. Moreover, he asked personal questions about my beliefs, what organizations I was involved with, and why,” Snopp recounts.
“I’m a very inquisitive person. I’m really interested in world religions and, at the time, I was hanging out with people from different confessions, with the Hindus (yogis), Muslims, Protestants, and pagans in our area. FSB agent Denis was really interested in information about people who practiced religions other than Russian Orthodoxy. He suggested I cooperate with the FSB in combating ‘cults.’ I turned him down. Denis copied down my details and said we should stay in touch, and I should contact him if I found out something new. He told me people in Russia should be religious believers, moreover they had better be Russian Orthodox Christians, since it was the ‘state religion and the most correct religion,’ as he put it. Denis also asked me questions about my political views. I replied I was basically uninterested in politics.”
As the saying goes, if you are not interested in politics, politics is interested in you. Roughly a month after the first informal meeting, the FSB agent came to the offices of the newspaper Chernomorye segodnya [Black Sea Today], where Snopp worked, and tried to make contact with her coworkers.
Chernomorye segodnya
In 2012, Snopp officially began working at Chernomorye segodnya, the local newspaper. After Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, the editorial policies of national media outlets changed radically. This change also affected the tiny newspaper in Tuapse. When she publicly criticized Putin’s foreign policies on social networks, local internet forums, and in discussions with friends, Snopp attracted the close scrutiny of her editors and once again came to the attention of Tuapse’s intelligence services.
“I was concerned about it, since I believed Russia’s actions were mean and unfair to Ukraine. Moreover, I had friends in Ukraine, who wrote to me on social networks about the real state of affairs there, about the presence of Russian troops in Crimea and Donbass, and the lawlessness they were perpetrating even as President Putin denied it was happening. I published posts on my page on VK in which Putin was compared with Hitler,” Snopp says.
Her editors at Chernomorye segodnya knew about Snopp’s stance on Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. When she labeled it annexation outright, her editor, Alexei Chamchev, said, “Then, what are you doing here? Leave the country.”
According to Snopp, her job became more and more emotionally complicated. The newspaper published numerous commissioned articles meant to defame specific people, as well as articles that openly encouraged hatred of Ukrainians and praised Russian politicians. Snopp would refuse to work on these articles. She mainly wrote about daily news, and cultural and religious events.
Devastated Tuapse
In 2015, under a pseudonym, Snopp published articles about environmental conditions in Tuapse on the website Proza.ru and VK. She wrote about environmentally harmful industrial facilities, the increase in incidences of cancer and high levels of unemployment in the city, and how city hall hushed up the problems.
“At press conferences, I would post straight, tough questions to regional ecologists who argued that all the indicators were well within the norms. My boss knew about it, of course. When I arrived in Tuapse as a student in 2001, the city was still beautiful and thriving. Lots of tourists visited the city. Gradually, the industrial estates expanded so much they literally consumed all the beauty of those places. The ugly oil tanks, the industrial buildings, the fumes, steam, and chemical dust produced by the factories, and the oil waste pouring into the river and the sea have disfigured and poisoned my beloved city. There is a lot to say about the harm caused to the locals,” says Snopp.
Dismissal from the Newspaper
There were no actual reasons to fire Snopp from her job at the newspaper, but immediately after the 2016 New Year’s holiday, she was urged to quit her job on her own, as it were.
The photograph that supposedly led to Kristina Snopp’s dismissal from her job. Courtesy of Ms. Snopp and OVD Info
The ostensible cause for her dismissal was a playful, artsy photo shoot in which Snopp and her husband, dressed in black leather, portrayed Satanist metalheads, an inverted pentagram hanging in the background.
“The editor told me privately the real reason I was fired was something else. People in city hall had long been advising him to get rid of such a politically unreliable reporter,” says Snopp.
After her dismissal from the newspaper in Tuapse, Snopp and her husband moved to Krasnodar. Snopp thought she would have no trouble finding work in the big city. At first, she looked for jobs in journalism. She had dozens of interviews and completed various assignments, but she was constantly turned down.
Snopp decided to write for her own pleasure while earning money another way. She got a job as a shop clerk at a tobacco chain store. Soon, however, the proprietor got a phone call from an anonymous caller who informed him Snopp was a member of an “extremist” organization. She was fired.
In February 2018, police officers telephoned Snopp’s relatives and her husband’s relatives, demanding they provide them with the couple’s exact address.
“On February 14, police showed up at Denis’s workplace. They wanted to see me as well. Denis called, and I went there. We were not given an official written summons. Nothing was explained to us. We were told we would have to go to the Interior Ministry’s main office for Krasnodar Territory. Police Captain Denis Polyantsev assured us both it was no big deal. He just needed information from us. However, Polyantsev joked I could have been as famous as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, meaning my amateur punk rock group Guerillas Gone Mental, which I founded in 2012. According to Polyantsev, it was the group that had provoked suspicions of ‘extremism,'” says Snopp.
A photo of Kristina Snopp’s punk rock group Guerillas Gone Mental. Courtesy of the band’s VK page
The couple were delivered to the Center for Extremism Prevention (Center “E”), whose officers asked about posts Snopp had published three years earlier on a social media page that had been deleted. Among the posts was a demotivator in which Putin was compared with Hitler, and parallels were drawn between Nazi Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Questions were also asked about post critical of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), for example, a demotivator in which an ROC priest blesses a missile dubbed Satan.
“I regarded these posts and cartoons more as political satire, the reaction of a concerned citizen to events in Russia. I had no intention of insulting anyone. Nevertheless, the Interior Ministry’s forensic examiners decided that by posting the cartoons I had incited hatred toward the president, Russian patriots, and Russian Orthodox Christians. I was shown a thick folder containing screenshots of my posts from various years and forensic findings I was not allowed to read,” says Snopp.
A photo of Kristina Snopp holding what looks to be a skull. According to a police forensic examination, the skull was real. Photo courtesy of Ms. Snopp and OVD Info
A photograph of Snopp holding a skull, taken in a cemetery during an amateur goth style photo shoot she published on her VK page, also caused suspicion among police officers. Polyantsev told Snopp forensic experts who examined the photos determined it was a real human skull. However, the online album containing the photos was captioned, and the captions clearly explained the skull was a fake. To be more precise, it was a piggy bank, purchased for 500 rubles at a souvenir stand in the railway station market in Tuapse.
Snopp says Polyantsev constantly put pressure on the couple during their questioning. He cited facts from her life and the lives of her relatives, suggesting he knew everything about them.
“Alas, my husband and I were so out of it that we went to the meeting without lawyers. We didn’t think about it from a legal viewpoint. We did not ask for copies of the summons, the forensic examinations or our own testimony. Basically, we had no written proof of what happened to us. However, the Russian police operate this way quite often, aware most people are illiterate when it comes to the law and lose their cool in these circumstances. Besides, we did not have the money to pay the fee the lawyer initially requested,” recounts Snopp.
Almost a month later, Polyantsev telephoned Snopp again. He informed her that the case file, containing her posts on VK, had been sent to Tuapse. She would need to go meet a police investigator on March 20, 2018, a meeting at which she would be given an official summons. Snopp realized if she signed for receipt of the summons, she would also be made to sign a form releasing her on her own recognizance and would probably be charged with several crimes, including “extremism.”
Snopp left Russia on March 18, the day of the last presidential election. Soon afterwards, her husband, who had stayed on in Krasnodar to work, got a call from Polyantsev, who told him that if he did not tell investigators where his wife was, he would be accused of harboring a criminal. Several days later, Denis Snopp left Russia as well.
When they arrived in Georgia, Kristina and Denis Snopp applied for political asylum. They have had their second interview with immigration officials.
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, journalism, putinism, regime, regions, rights, zeitgeist August 27, 2018 1,864 WordsLeave a comment
Judgement Day: Russia’s Rabid Crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses
Is Russian Jehovah’s Witness Yuri Zalipayev an “extremist”? Should he be imprisoned for five years for exercising his right to freedom of conscience, as guaranteed by the Russian Constitution? Photo courtesy of jw-russia.org
Not Everyone Shall Be Guaranteed the Freedom of Conscience: How Russia Has Been Persecuting Jehovah’s Witnesses
Marina Muratova
Believe what you will, but do not do it openly is how the freedom of religion should now be interpreted in Russia. The authorities have sent over fifty people to court for praying and reading the Bible together. Jehovah’s Witnesses have had their homes searched and been arrested like people suspected of grave offenses. The grounds for these actions is the argument that the practice of their faith is a “continuation of the activities of an extremist organization.” OVD Info investigated the charges.
Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of conscience, the freedom of religion, including the right to profess individually or together with others any religion or to profess no religion at all, to freely choose, possess and disseminate religious and other views, and act according to them.
—Article 28, Constitution of the Russian Federation
Russia vs. the Jehovah’s Witnesses
23 criminal cases in 18 regions of Russia, 53 people charged, 13 suspects. 31 people released on their own recognizance, 9 people under house arrest, 26 people in remand prisons. Several people assaulted by police during searches of their homes, the doors of those homes kicked down in nearly all cases. Nighttime interrogations, confiscated electronic devices, papers, and money, blocked bank accounts.
On April 20, 2017, the Russian Supreme Court shut down the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia for violating the law against “extremism.” All 395 official chapters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia were banned. The EU’s mission to Russia said the ruling could lead to arrests. That is what has happened.
The Charges
Believers gather to pray and read the Bible, meaning they continue the work of a banned organization, according to Russian police investigators. There are few exceptions: nearly all the Jehovah’s Witness who have been detained have been charged with violating Russian Criminal Code Article 282.2 (“organization of and involvement in the work of an extremist organization”).
Danish national and Jehovah’s Witness Dennis Christensen was, among other things, charged with financing extremist activities. The prosecutor submitted to the court records, allegedly showing that money was transferred from the account of the Jehovah’s Witnesses after the church was shut down. It transpired the transactions in question had been executed by the bank itself after the Jehovah’s Witnesses had been dissolved as a legal entity. Another Jehovah’s Witness, Yuri Zalipayev, stands accused of inciting assaults on Russian Orthodox Christians and Muslims. Zalipayev’s defense attorney is sure police investigators cooked up their evidence and then tried to conceal the frame-up. Arkadya Akopyan, a 70-year-old tailor, has also been charged with insulting Muslims and |Russian Orthodox Christians. There is no audio or video evidence, only a witness’s testimony.
Is Russian Jehovah’s Witness Arkady Akopyan an extremist? Photo by Diana Khachatryan. Courtesy of Takie Dela
Police Searches of Homes
Russian law enforcement authorities usually conduct searches simultaneously in the flats of several Jehovah’s Witnesses early in the morning. Jehovah’s Witness have often reported violations on the part of police during these searches. In the case of the Polyakov family in Omsk, the security services busted down the door to their flat, prevented the Polyakovs from telephoning relatives, and smashed Mr. Polyakov’s face. (Doctors recorded his injuries only two days later.) When the Polyakovs attempted to voice their disagreement with the actions of police in the official search report, police wrested the form from their grasp. During searches and interrogations in Penza, a police investigator forced six female Jehovah’s Witness detainees to strip naked. In Saratov Region, the security forces mistakenly sawed off the door of the wrong flat. In another flat the same day, the police discovered banned literature in the sleeve of a child’s overcoat. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe the police planted it there.
In the city of Shuya, Ivanovo Region, police interrogated a 10-year-old girl, and the list of items confiscated during the police search of her family’s flat included sheet music and a pupil’s grade book from a music school. In Kabardino-Balkaria, one group of security officers stormed a flat through the balcony, although the flat’s female occupant had opened the front door to another group of security officers. In Birobidzhan, 150 law enforcement officers took part in numerous searches carried out on the same day: the operation was codenamed “Judgement Day.” Police have seized digital gear, books, Bibles, diaries, photographs, and bank cards during the raids. The raids and subsequent interrogations have lasted several hours.
Jehovah’s Witnesses have not only been detained in their homes. Police caught up with Andrei Stupnikov of Krasnoyarsk at an airport at four in the morning as he and his wife were checking into a flight to Germany. A court later jailed Stupnikov, since he could have received political asylum, as the judge put it. Alexander Solovyov was detained when he stepped off a train after returning to Perm from holiday.
Custodial Measures
Most of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who have been charged with criminal offenses have been incarcerated in remand prisons. The defense attorney representing Sergei Klimov of Tomsk told OVD Info that Klimov spent two months in a solitary confinement cell measuring 1.7 meters by 2.8 meters, allegedly, because it was impossible to find room for him in an ordinary cell. On August 8, at an appeals hearing, Klimov was left in police custody, but he was transferred out of solitary into gen pop.
After time spent in remand prisons, several Jehovah’s Witnesses have been released and placed under house arrest. Konstantin Petrov of Magadan spent 64 days in jail, while several Jehovah’s Witnesses in Orenburg spent 78 days in jail each.
Vitaly Arsenyuk, a resident of the town of Dzhankoy in northern Crimea, was charged with engaging in illegal missionary work, a violation of Article 5.25 Part 4 of the Russian Federal Administrative Offenses Code. After the first hearing in his case, in June 2017, Arsenyuk died of a heart attack.
Some Jehovah’s Witnesses have spent months in pretrial custody. Danish national Dennis Christensen has spent over a year in a remand prison. No one has yet been sentenced to hard prison time, but the courts have been indulgent to Jehovah’s Witnesses only on rare occassions. In 2017, a court acquitted Vyacheslav Stepanov and Andrei Sivak of Sergiev Posad, who had been charged with inciting hatred or enmity on the strength of a video recording of worship services. In May, an appellate court freed 55-year-old Alam Aliyev. On August 9 and 10, a court in Kamchatka overturned earlier decisions remanding Mikhail Popov in custody and placing his wife Yelena under house arrest.
In all regions of Russia, buildings constructed or purchased by Jehovah’s Witnesses have generally been seized and turned over to the state. In Petersburg’s Resort District, the state took possession of a complex valued at around two billion rubles [approx. 25 million euros], a complex from which the authorities had received hefty tax payments for many years. Over the course of seventeen years, state inspectors never found a single violation at the complex, but now the local courts refuse to recognize the rights of Jehovah’s Witnesses to the property or the official deeds to the complex.
The EU delegation to the OSCE, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council, and human rights activists have spoken out against Russia’s persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Dennis Christensen’s arrest led to the initiation of legal proceedings at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. On May 15, 2015, the Kingdom of Denmark was admitted as a third party to the case of Christensen v. Russian Federation.
In response to the complaint filed with the ECHR, Russian envoys at the ECHR and UN claimed Jehovah’s Witnesses still had the right to practice their religion despite the dissolution of their congregations. It was at this same time, in the spring of this year, that the number of arrests of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia went through the roof.
The International Memorial Society has already recognized 29 Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses as political prisoners. A total of fifty Jehovah’s Witnesses have been subjected to persecution by the authorities.
Oryol: Dennis Christensen, Sergei Skrynnikov
Omsk: Sergei and Anastasia Polyakov
Penza: Vladimir Alushkin, Vladimir Kulyasov, Denis Timoshin, Andrei Magliv, and four more unnamed people
Tomsk: Sergei Klimov
Saratov: Konstantin Bazhenov, Felix Makhammadiyev
Village of Shirokoye, Saratov Region: Alexei Budenchuk
Magadan: Sergei Yerkin, Yevgeny Zyablov, Konstantin Petrov
Khabarovsk: Ivan Puyda, Vladimir Moskalenko
Naberezhnye Chelny: Ilkham Karimov, Konstantin Matrashov, Vladimir Myakushin, Aidar Yulmetiev
Orenburg: Vladimir Kochnev, Alexander Suvorov, Vyacheslav Kolbanov
Polyarny, Murmansk Region: Roman Markin, Viktor Trofimov
Shuya, Ivanovo Region, Dmitry and Yelena Mikhaylov, Svetlana Shishina, Alexei A., Svetlana P.
Vladivostok: Valentin Osadchuk
Nakhodka: Dmitry and Yelena Barmakin
Krasnoyarsk: Andrei Stupnikov
Perm: Alexander Solovyov
Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Region: Boris Andreyev
Village of Perevolotsky, Orenburg Region: Anatoly Vichkitov
Kostroma: Sergei and Valeria Rayman
Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Territory: Mikhail and Yelena Popov
Beryozovsky, Keremovo Region: Sergei Britvin, Vadim Levchuk
Maysky, Kabardina-Balkaria: Arkadya Akopyan
Lensk, Yakutia: Igor Ivashin
Pskov: Gennady Shpakovsky
Birobidzhan: Alam Aliyev
Yelizovo, Kamchatka Territory: Konstantin Bazhenov
Belgorod: Anatoly Shalyapin, Sergei Voykov
This list was supplied to us by the European Association of Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses and defense attorney Artur Leontiev.
OVD Info asked attorney Artur Leontiev, who has been handling the defense of Sergei Klimov and Andrei Stupnikov, as well as the case of the property owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in St. Petersburg, to comment on the persecution of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
“Law enforcement agencies have been criminally prosecuting believers for ordinary, peaceful professions of faith, as when they gather in small groups to read and discuss the Bible, watch videos on biblical topics, and so forth. The security forces got it into their heads that this constituted a continuation of the activities of an organization dissolved by the court. However, the believers who have been charged with these crimes had nothing to do with the legal entities that were dissolved and were not parties to the proceedings in the Russian Supreme Court.
“Believers’ phones were tapped, their letters were vetted, and they were followed. The security service thus amassed a fair amount of operational material. I think the heads of the various agencies decided to use it to improve their conviction rates, all the more so since the peaceable Jehovah’s Witnesses were easy targets. They have always tried to be law-abiding. Even now they do not regard themselves as criminals. They evince no aggression, imagining the injustice that has befallen them is a misunderstanding that will soon be cleared up. Actually, they are faced with a choice: refuse to practice their religion or be prepared to endure all the delights of criminal prosecution. However, the law enforcers doing the dirty work in the locales often understand what is really going on, but they are guided by the principle of ‘I have my orders, and I have a family to feed.’
“The complaint (Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia and Kalin v. Russian Federation, Case No. 10188/17) has been filed with the ECHR and accepted for review, the parties have exchanged comments, and the case has been expedited. Complaints have also been filed with the ECHR for each particular instance of criminal prosecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
“It is vital, however, the Russian legal system kicked into gear and operated not on the basis of expediency, but according to the law. Whatever you feel about the Jehovah’s Witnesses, they have the same right to their beliefs and the same right to a fair trial as other Russians.”
By hecksinductionhourin putinism, regime, regions, religion, rights, zeitgeist August 26, 2018 September 25, 2020 1,945 WordsLeave a comment
There Is a Party in Warsaw Tonight
All the retrospective, self-aggrandizing, virtual handwringing I have been seeing on Russophone social media in recent days, occasioned by the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, seems obscene on the part of people who have had nothing whatsoever to say, good or bad, about Russia’s signally destructive role in shoring up Assad’s brutal dictatorship in Syria.
What’s the difference between 1968 and now?
The difference is that the Czechs and Slovaks were “white” “Christian” Slavs, while Syria is, unfortunately, populated by people that Russians, many of whom hilariously regard “political correctness” as the greatest threat to civilization, would tend to think of as “blacks,” which is a term of real racist abuse in Russian.
Worse yet, most of those “blacks” are Muslims.
Syrians are thus sub-humans and, as such, were put in their place by a superior “white” nation.
Maybe very few Russians actually have bothered to think this through explicitly, but there is almost no evidence the vicious Russian bombing of opposition-held towns in Syria has bothered much of anyone in Russia at all, so the rest of us are free to impute any and all motives whatsoever to their actions and inaction. And remember, on this sad anniversary, that at the time only something less than a dozen brave Russians opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia publicly. {TRR}
Photo by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin history, international, soviet, supah powah, war and peace August 25, 2018 August 25, 2018 232 WordsLeave a comment
Smile! You’re on Hidden Camera
Center “E” Surveilled Belgorod Family or Nine Months via Camera Hidden in Flat
In Belgorod, officers of the Center for Extremism Prevention (aka Center “E”) watched a married couple for nine months using a camera hidden in their flat, reports TV Rain, citing defense attorney Anton Omelchenko.
The couple was suspected of involvement with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. A court gave Center “E” permission to use the camera for three months on three occasions.
“Law enforcement agencies put hidden cameras in homes to record people playing. Criminal charges were filed as a result. One of the cases in Belgorod simply slayed me: a married coupled in a one-room flat who were under surveillance for nine months round the clock. Everything was really noted in the case files. The couple would watch TV and say something negative about the regime, and the field officers would immediately write down, ‘Criticized regime.’ There was a complete transcript of the entire surveillance. I also found this shocking,” Omelchenko told the TV channel.
Since their case has not yet been heard in court, Omelchenko did not name the couple who were under surveillance. It is known they have left Russia.
Photo and translation by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin putinism, regime, regions, religion August 25, 2018 August 25, 2018 205 Words1 Comment
Krasnodar Environmentalist Diana Smirnova Detained by Police in Act of Revenge by Relatives of Kremlin Insider and Russian Latifundist Alexander Tkachov
Diana Smirnova, Defender of the Woodlands in the Lenin’s Farm District of Krasnodar, Detained: Police Crackdown Continues
Ecological Watch on the North Caucasus
Diana Smirnova
Last night, in the Lenin’s Farm district of Krasnodar, police raided the home of yet another defender of the district’s forest belt, clear-cut in July of this year at the behest of the Coastal Noncommercial Dacha Association, owned by Nikolai Tkachov and Anastasia Krattli, relatives of former Krasnodar Territory Governor and former Russian Federal Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachov.
Anzhelika Mastyayeva, after she allegedly “assaulted” a logger in July 2018.
The police had previously filed trumped-up charges against environmentalist Anzhelika Mastyayeva, claiming she had assaulted a logger. Prior to this, they had detained Mastyayeva without any legal grounds and held her for six hours in the lock-up at a police station.
This time, the police targeted Diana Smirnova, who had also vigorously defended the forest belt from the Tkachov family’s loggers and had testified at Mastyayeva’s court hearing.
At seven in the evening yesterday, two policemen arrived at Smirnova’s home. One of the officers was beat cop Alexander Sergiyenko, who had cooked up the case against Mastyayeva. The policemen asked Smirnova to come to the station with them for questioning regarding an allegedly unpaid fine. They assured here they would bring her back home in short order. However, Smirnova had no idea about any outstanding fines, since she had not been convicted of any administrative offenses.
Smirnova’s three-year-old daughter cried when her mother was driven away, but this did not stop the policemen.
However, instead of questioning Smirnova about the nonexistent unpaid fine, they took her from the Lenin’s Farm district to Karasunsky District Police Precinct at 205 Stavropol Street in Krasnodar and arrested. Smirnova was jailed overnight in the precinct’s detention facility. She was told she would be jailed until her court hearing.
An EWNC activist was able to phone the front desk of the Karasunsky District Police Precinct at +7 (861) 231-7071. He received confirmation Smirnova had been detained and charged with violating Article 20.25 of the Russian Federal Administrative Offenses Code (“Evasion of an Administrative Punishment”), although a search of the database of enforcement proceedings showed Smirnova had no outstanding fines.
Andrey Rudomakha, EWNC coordinator, had this to say about the incident.
“The people who run the Coastal Noncommercial Dacha Association are extremely vindictive. It was not enough they did not give a damn about the law, the wishes of local residents, and the deal they made with Krasnodar city hall, and cut down the forest belt. Now they have been harassing people who had the moxie to defend their own environment, since the forest belt that was cut down was the only green area near their homes.
“However, judging by the actions taken against Mastyayeva and Smirnova, who were charged with administrative offenses out of the blue by the beat cop Sergiyenko, the police are being used as a tool of revenge. The police used a special trick in their lawless raids on the homes of Mastyayeva and Smirnova. The former was arrested on a Saturday, while the latter was arrested on a Friday evening, times of the week when it is extremely hard to find defense lawyers. Why arrest a very young woman and mother of a small child late in the evening and jail her overnight in the pretrial holding tank, even if it were true she hadn’t paid a fine? The only point of all this is to intimidate the locals, to discourage them from wanting to defend their rights,” Rudomakha said.
Read more articles on ENWC’s website about the destruction of the woodlands in Lenin’s Farm (in Russian). For more information on the case of Diana Smirnova, call Anzhelika Mastyayeva, member of the Lenin’s Farm residents pressure group, at +7 (965) 470-8444, or Police Inspector Alexander Sergiyenko, who detained Diana Smirnova, at +7 (999) 437-3516.
Thanks to Andrey Rudomakha for the heads-up. Photos courtesy of EWNC. Translated by the Russian Reader
This realtor’s video about the charms of Lenin’s Farm makes it clear why sharks like the Tkachov family have sunk their teeth into the neighborhood.
By hecksinductionhourin capitalism, environment, putinism, regions, zeitgeist August 25, 2018 August 25, 2018 686 WordsLeave a comment
Vera Afanasyeva: Russophobia
A “public service” advertisement, paid by Petersburg city hall, advertising a celebration of “Cossack culture” on August 27. Historically, Petersburg and the surrounding area never had anything to do with Cossacks, except for the Cossack regiments quartered in the capital during the tsarist regime. Borovaya Street, Petersburg, August 8, 2018. Photo by the Russian Reader
Vera Afanasyeva
Russophobia
Russophobia is when you don’t know what makes Russians tick and how they live. You don’t walk the same streets they walk, you don’t take the bus, tram or subway with them, and you don’t eat the food they eat. You race down empty roads in your motorcade, while people are stuck for hours in traffic jams because of you. Before you visit the provinces, the roads are repaved with asphalt that will last a day, and the squalid sheds where people live are painted bright colors.
Russophobia is when you live in palaces while the majority of the populace huddle in ruins. You expropriate the people’s money, their lands, forests, water, and factories so you can bask in unimaginable luxury while depriving other people of the bare necessities. You are convinced people should work for years on end for kopecks so that you can sport a wristwatch that costs as much as a block of flats, and your dogs can fly on their own planes.
Russophobia is when you are afraid of your fellow Russians. During your meetings with them, you interact with shills and answer questions that have been rehearsed.
Russophobia is when you destroy everything Russian. You destroy education in Russia because ignoramuses are easier to govern, while your children study at Oxford. You destroy science and research in Russia because you could not care less about Russia’s future. You destroy culture in Russia to encourage lowlifes who will stop at nothing. You destroy morality in Russia because it is an utter mystery to you. You destroy manufacturing because all you want is an oil-dependent economy.
Russophobia is when you turn Russia’s expanses into giant dumps. You unnecessarily drain Russia’s natural resources without increasing the welfare of ordinary Russians. You clear-cut forests while admiring the plastic forests in Moscow.
Russophobia is when you rant and rave about patriotism while your family, real estate, and money have long been located abroad.
Russophobia is when your disrespect for your great, long-suffering country is so strong you casually rewrite its history to suit your purposes, resuscitating tyrants and reviving idols in the process.
Russophobia is when you despise the Russian people so much you replace their true virtues with absurd surrogates, thus spawning clowns and mummers.
Russophobia is when you crack down on all freethinking, cannot appreciate talented people, trample the best and the brightest, facilitate the nation’s degradation, and build a system of governance in which the nastiest folk flourish. You appoint your incompetent and vicious friends and relatives to the cushiest jobs.
Russophobia is when you rob Russia’s children of their future and hurry old people to their graves by depriving them of pensions and decent medical care.
Russophobia is when you quarrel with the entire world, plunging Russians into wars and even greater poverty.
Russophobia is when you pull out all the stops so Russians dream of living somewhere other than Russia.
Russophobia is when you regard all Russians as fools. You persistently and stubbornly lie to them while speaking on TV and in parliament.
Russophobia is when you take no notice of what is currently happening in Russia or you feign not to notice.
Russophobia is when you label everyone who tries to prevent all these outrages enemies.
That is what Russophobia is.
Vera Afanasyeva is a professor in the philosophy department at Saratov State University and a writer. Thanks to Yakov Gilinsky for the heads-up. Translated by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin petrograd, putinism, zeitgeist August 23, 2018 August 23, 2018 633 WordsLeave a comment
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Hit Music Studios Announce the New Single “Renovate” by Lily Jay
Aug 14, 2017 | Arts & Entertainment
Gold Coast, Australia, August 14, 2017 –(PR.com)– "Renovate" is a song in the Pop & RnB genre featuring Australian rapper and song writer Mazuradi.
Co-written by Mazuradi & XY LATU, a finalist from X-Factor, says "Renovate samples a generic pop hit feel on its verses, but spiritually, the track is closer to Beyonce's hit track 7/11." Mazuradi also mentions "The lyrics convey a similar message to The Pussy Cat Dolls hit song "Dont Ya."
Lily Jay is an internationally renowned singer, dancer, model and social media sensation who has grown popular on Instagram (@LilyJay.Official) for posting lifestyle and fashion photos. Her account has earned more than 300,000 followers since its inception. Lily has starred in Live shows, such as the hit musical "Chicago" and the Tony Award winning show "Hairspray." She has also been featured as a finalist in the popular TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance."
Mazuradi begins "Renovate" with his first rap verse, while Lily does the majority of the heavy lifting on this spicy single, handling chorus duties and most verses.
The video is directed by Tim Carr who works closely with Universal Studios and director Shanon Hound. First, you find Lily stepping out of her brand new red Ferrari California surrounded by many beautiful women dancing and partying. The clip is shot in different locations, including at the "Truth Night Club" in surfers' paradise and around the beautiful Gold Coast skyline and coast line.
Producers have not spared a cent with the music video showcasing over 1 million dollars worth of cars including the new convertible Ferrari California. Lily is seen dressed in various tight outfits and very flattering knee high boots with many outfit changes throughout.
Hit Music Studios, Sony Music and fans have declared "Renovate" as a potential Song of Spring in Australia.
Lily Jay Management
Zara Jade
lilyjay.com.au
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Cat Fight
by fyarlgiles
My work is going to be featured in a Los Angeles-based production this spring!
Vanessa Cate, critically acclaimed director, is developing her first independent production. The project,”Cat-Fight”, is an all female show which will explore the complexities of womanhood through a series of vignettes written by Vanessa, myself, Crystal Little Bird Salas, Cheryl Doyle, and Natalie Hyde! It will incorporate poetry, dance, music, scenes, and other performance art.We are all very excited about the project ! Please support if you can, even $1 will be useful!
Over the next couple of days I will be reposting some work that has been selected for the show in an effort to raise funds and draw attention to the project! This is the only official announcement I will post, however. I don’t want to spam anyone! Thank you!
Our L.A. Event Picks: Week of 7/1
July 4 from 2pm-5pm: $12
Lost & Found Film Club, a monthly showcase of ephemeral, industrial, and educational 16mm films, salutes some of the things that make this country great: Burgers? Check. Sparklers? Check. Amber waves of film grain from sea to shining sea? Double check.
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/lost-and-found-film-club#lost-found-film-club-july-4th-2013
May – Sept @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The exhibition Hans Richter: Encounters examines the career of painter, filmaker, and writer, Hans Richter, as both an innovator and a collaborator for the first time.
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/hans-richter-encounters
7/5-7/6 at 8pm: $12-$150
Looney Tunes projected on a giant screen, with their exhilarating scores played live by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/warner-bros-presents-bugs-bunny-symphony-ii/2013-07-05
Our L.A. Event Picks: 6/24/13
by meaghanmerrifield
Frank Henenlotter’s “That’s Sexploitation!: A Visual History” (WORLD PREMIERE!)
a documentary featuring rare and lost clips of the sexploitation genre
Tuesday 06/25/13 Doors open at 09:50 PM Show Time 10:15 PM
tickets: $12 http://www.cinefamily.org
Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen star as a a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend who slaughter her entire family and several others
Saturday 06/ 29 Doors open at 7:30PM Show Time 9:00 PM
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Tickets: $12 http://cinespia.org/event/badlands/
Bertrand Blier’s surreal cinematic exploration of the war of the sexes
Sunday 06/30/13 Doors open at 08:45 PM Show Time 9:15 PM
REVIEW OF LAST WEEK’S EVENT HERE
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For now, we are just offering information about cheap screenings & other unique, film-related events in the greater Los angeles Area, but in the next couple weeks we will begin posting film & television criticism, articles, and little blurbs about the interesting (and frequently bizarre) events that we attend! Follow the link below Max Fischer if this interests you 🙂
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WHO Chief Warns “Window Of Opportunity Is Narrowing” As Coronavirus Spreads To Lebanon, Iran & Israel; China Orders Millions Back To Work
by Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/21/2020 – 11:30
Update (1130ET): Epidemiologist had already warned that patients could be reinfected with the virus. But the Epoch Times’ Jennifer Zeng is sharing a report about a patient in Sichuan (notably one of the provinces visited by WHO experts) who was reinfected with the virus after recovering.
UPI reported earlier that everal patients in China who were discharged from hospitals after making a full recovery have been reinfected, citing reports in the People’s Daily on Friday.
One patient in Chengdu was discharged from a local hospital and was quarantined for 14 days at home, but somehow became reinfected. And doctors quoted in the story said her case isn’t unique.
It’s also possible to catch the flu twice in one season, but that is rare.
Update (1100ET): Epoch Times’ Jennifer Zeng is reporting that in parts of China, the government has signaled to workers that they will be “punished” if they don’t report back to work.
And for everyone who gets infected, don’t expect your employer to deal with it, Zeng adds. “if you get infected, it is not a work-related injury. You are on your own.”
#COVID2019 inspection officially ends. Employees who refuse to go back to work will be punished. In the meantime, gov. says if you get infected, it is not a work-related injury. You are on your own. #GDP is more important than human life in #China. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/vMLVobbx3S
— 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferatntd) February 21, 2020
That’s pretty chilling stuff, but as we pointed out yesterday, there’s an ongoing debate in parts of the country where case numbers aren’t as high (not that anybody trusts the government’s figures) about whether keeping the economy on lockdown might be doing more harm then good. And in order to prevent a repeat of what happened last time (when millions just simply didn’t show up), it’s upping the ante for citizens who don’t abide by the state’s command.
The New York Times is reporting that, for the first time since the outbreak began, Chinese health officials acknowledged on Friday that their constant changes to the ‘criteria’ for what constitutes a ‘confirmed case’ have sown confusion and mistrust.
As we have assiduously reported, officials in Hubei have revised their case tallies three times now because of these shifting definitions.
in the province hardest hit by the coronavirus acknowledged for the first time on Friday that their methods of confirming and reporting infection numbers had sown confusion and mistrust. They added that they would no longer subtract cases from the total. The message comes just hours after state media reported new breakouts in a handful of Chinese prisons.
Moving over to the WHO’s daily press conference from Switzerland, Director-General Dr. Tedros commented on the new cases and deaths reported in Iran, as well as Lebanon, which reported its first case this morning though hasn’t yet recorded a death.
Dr. Tedros said the new wave of outbreaks suggests that the world is at a “tipping point.”
“The window of opportunity is narrowing,” Dr. Tedros said, and humanity is running out of time to stop this virus before things get much, much worse.
You know, just some reassuring words to kick off the weekend with a little levity.
We’re starting to suspect that Dr. Tedros may have recently purchased some out-of-the-money S&P puts.
Seemingly responding to the growing number of ‘armchair cranks’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’ questioning why a WHO team of experts – a team that includes two Americans – hasn’t yet traveled to Wuhan, Dr. Tedros added that the team is planning to travel to the epicenter of the outbreak on Saturday.
So far, the team has traveled to Beijing, Sichuan and Guangdong provinces.
Update (1000ET): Check this out.
The NYT has published an interesting interactive illustrating the huge drop in flights departing from China to the US and other major economies.
The disappearance of tens of thousands of flights leaving China shows “how the coronavirus has hobbled a nation,” the NYT said.
Jan. 23:
Feb. 13:
Put another way:
As the NYT reports, Oxford Economics said in a recent report that the outbreak could wipe $1.1 trillion from global output, which kind of undercuts Larry Kudlow’s stammering on CNBC about this not being a ‘US story’: It’s difficult to imagine a scenario where the US economy would walk away unaffected by this.
See it here.
In other news, Beijing continues to push the ‘everything’s fine; we’re winning’ narrative.
After 500 prisoners in #China infected with #COVID19, Xu Xiaobo, Deputy Director of #Zhejiang Provincial Justice Department is still saying "the #epidemic is stable and under control". 监狱感染数百人，司法部厅长大人依然说「#疫情 平稳可控」#Coronavirus #武汉肺炎 #新冠肺炎 # pic.twitter.com/SzlYkTUd1L
Update (0725ET): Lebanon has confirmed its first case of COVID-9.
The tiny Levantine state, which has swollen with refugees from nearby Syria in recent years, is in the middle of an economic crisis, and its government is presently weighing whether to default on an upcoming loan payment, which could lead to deeply unpopular austerity measures, as Al Jazeera reports.
Earlier, Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed that an Israeli citizen contracted the virus while aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship (1 of 11 Israeli passengers). She is currently under supervision and isolation in Israel. All 11 were flown out of Japan and sent directly Friday into isolation at Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital, where they will remain during a 2-week quarantine period. Earlier this week, Israel’s government announced a temporary travel ban on all foreign nationals who had traveled to Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macao during the past 2 weeks.
Following reports yesterday that two Beijing hospitals had been put under quarantine amid fears of a wider outbreak, WaPo reported that one district in Beijing has been found to have an “infection density” second only to Wuhan on mainland China. This has served to further intensify concerns about what might happen when millions of Chinese return to work next week.
When historians look back at the COVID-19 outbreak, they’ll remember this week as an important turning point in the crisis, when international public-health experts and investors started to focus their attention on South Korea, Japan and other countries in the region that have seen the number of new cases accelerate markedly in recent days.
Put another way, evidence that the virus is spreading more rapidly within other Asian countries outside mainland China has become impossible to ignore, which is probably why US futures are pointing to a lower open for a second straight day.
As Bloomberg reminds us, South Korea has seen its total cases soar past 200 as the number of infections doubled in 24 hours.
Meanwhile, cases in Singapore and Japan have topped 85, and let’s not forget the 600+ from the ‘Diamond Princess’ who have been excluded from the ‘Japan’ total.
At least as far as deaths are concerned, the numbers outside of China remain small: out of 2,247 deaths, only 13 have occurred in other regions (this includes 2 more deaths in Iran announced just minutes ago).
But there’s no getting around it: the spread of the virus will undoubtedly worsen the economic blowback, as one economist explained to BBG.
“The sudden jump in infections in other parts of Asia, notably in Japan and South Korea, has sparked renewed concerns,” said Khoon Goh, Singapore-based head of Asia research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.
“This points to a new phase in the outbreak, and one which will see continued disruption and more economic impact than previously thought.”
Last night, we reported on the latest case numbers out of South Korea, and more have already been recorded. The current total is 204. Earlier this month, the WHO said China’s approach to tackling the virus should be a “model” for other governments facing similar outbreaks. At the time, experts criticized the organization for appearing to parrot Chinese propaganda. But it looks like they might have been on to something. Because as we reported late last night, the Blue House has ordered a ‘special management zones’ in the cities of Daegu and Cheongdo, or what appears to be a kind of ‘soft’ quarantine. The government said that since they’ve failed to prevent an outbreak, they’re pivoting decidedly to a strategy of containment.
Just a few hours ago, Chinese state media reported that 500 cases – roughly half of the new cases reported in China on Friday – involved prisoners at a handful of jails across the country, according to the Washington Post.
Infections have been confirmed at five prisons in Shandong, Hubei and Zhejiang, according to China’s Ministry of Justice. A prison in eastern Shandong province showed 207 out of 2,077 inmates and staff were infected, and the provincial justice department’s Communist Party secretary was dismissed as a result, the province announced. Another jail in Zhejiang province found 34 cases. Hubei province, at the center of the outbreak, said Friday it found 220 new cases inside penitentiaries.
According to the Washington Post, the prison outbreaks underscore the virus’s easy transmissibility in confined spaces.
Even the Global Times acknowledged that the prison outbreaks have “weakened” Beijing’s claims that the virus is receding…
…Even as local officials adopt ever-more bizarre and draconian restrictions on individual movement.
Tests at a prison in eastern Shandong province showed 207 out of 2,077 inmates and staff were infected, and the provincial justice department’s Communist Party secretary was dismissed as a result, the province announced. Another jail in Zhejiang province found 34 cases. Hubei province, at the center of the outbreak, said Friday it found 220 new cases inside penitentiaries.
The prison outbreaks underscored the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s high transmissibility in confined spaces after the disease ravaged the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan.
While overall numbers remain low, thousands who fear they may have come into contact with a ‘super-spreader’ in Daegu, a city of 2.5 million about 2 hours south of Seoul. The woman, who believed she was suffering from a simple cold because she had not traveled abroad, reportedly attended four church services at a “cult-like” church with 1,100 members in the city, as well as branches in other cities, including Seoul, where the mayor has ordered the local church closed until further notice.
Communist Party leaders made yet another public misstep overnight when health officials said they would once again change their ‘criteria’ for what constitutes a ‘confirmed’ case of COVID-19 back to the more inclusive and accurate definition. Officials said they decided on the switch because they couldn’t subtract already confirmed cases from the total, which sounds…almost plausible.
On CNBC Friday morning, Eunice Yoon, the network’s reporter on the ground in Beijing, interviewed the owner of a Beijing restaurant discussing his fears about going out of business. But as China slouches back to work, millions are worried that Beijing might sacrifice the public welfare to get a few factories up and running.
Looks like the cat’s out of the bag: North Korea has cancelled the Pyongyang Marathon, the country’s largest tourism money-maker, because of COVID-19, according to the operators of several tour companies who spoke with AFP.
Beijing-based Koryo Tours, the official partner of the marathon, said on its website it had “received official confirmation today that the Pyongyang Marathon 2020 is cancelled”.
“This is due to the ongoing closure of the North Korean border and COVID-19 virus situation in China and the greater region,” it added.
North Korean officials have vehemently denied reports that the virus had crossed the Yalu River, evening becoming enraged at the US in response to an offer of assistance from the State Department. Recently, a WHO official said there are “no indications” that the virus has arrived in North Korea, but considering that we’re talking about North Korea, that’s hardly surprising.
As the lockdowns in Beijing, Tianjin and other cities intensified over the last week, more Chinese were subjected to displays like this:
Meanwhile in Tianjin
– It‘s just a flu. Everybody shut the door now. pic.twitter.com/3Gye4P4STR
— Russian Market (@russian_market) February 21, 2020
On Friday, Japanese health officials and Carnival Japan will release the last batch of passengers and crew from their 14-day quarantine aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’ despite criticisms from the CDC that Japanese officials had failed to maintain the quarantine. Right now, infectious disease experts see Japan as one of the riskiest places outside China, according to BBG. Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Sunday that Japan had lost track of the route of some of the infection cases, which have tripled in the past week to more than 90.
Iran just confirmed 13 more cases and 2 new deaths, mostly in Qoms, the same city where some earlier cases had been detected, while also reporting that the virus has reached Tehran, according to Reuters. So far, seven Iranians have been diagnosed in Qom, four in Tehran and two in Gilan, according to a tweet from the Iranian health ministry. Iranian officials have acknowledged the possibility that the virus might have arrived in every major Iranian city.
Even in Korea, health officials say they their investigators can’t figure out how some of the outbreaks started. That’s not exactly reassuring.
Right now, the focus is on South Korea. Last week, it briefly shifted to the UK before moving on to Japan. Italy just reported another three cases, doubling its count from 3 to six. Will they be next? Maybe Africa?
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CBS reveals Official Synopsis of FBI episode Emotional Rescue
By Daniël Bevers
CBS Entertainment has released the Official Synopsis of FBI episode “Emotional Rescue” (2.19) that will be aired on Tuesday, March 31 at 09:00-10:00 PM.
Tracy Spiridakos Guest Stars as Detective Hailey Upton from “Chicago P.D.”
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
The FBI team investigates a drug deal gone bad after the body of a college student is found. Also, Detective Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) temporarily joins the team and finds her usual investigative methods clash with the Bureau’s more buttoned-up environment.
“FBI” is starring Missy Peregrym (Special Agent Maggie Bell), Zeeko Zaki (Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan), Ebonée Noel (Kristen Chazal), Jeremy Sisto (Jubal Valentine), Alana De La Garza (Isobel Castille) and John Boyd (Stuart Scola).
Recurring cast are Catherine Haena Kim (Emily Ryder), Taylor Anthony Miller (Kelly Moran).
Guest Cast are Tracy Spiridakos (Hailey Upton), Carolyn Braver (Harper Quinlan), Jon McCormick (Lucas Reed), Joseph Raymond Lucero (Marco), Mark Rowe (Tom Quinlan), Dhanish Karthik (Aman Patel), Nathaniel De La Rosa (Santiago Gonzales), Guy Wellman (Guard), Damian Buzzerio (Detective Lopez), Sarah Dacey-Charles (Provost Kaplan), Kenneth Lee (Professor Banks), Jason Cottle (Frank Prichard), Coledyn Garrow (Latin Kid), Rick Faugno (Officer Kindig).
FBI is a fast-paced drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This elite unit brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep New York and the country safe.
FBI is produced by Universal Television in association with CBS Television Studios with executive producers Dick Wolf, Greg Plageman, Terry Miller, Noberto Barba, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski
Emotional Rescue
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CBS Entertainment has released twenty-four Promotional Photos of FBI episode "Liar’s Poker" (3.03) that will be aired on Tuesday, December 8 at 09:00-10:00 PM. Get...
CBS reveals Official Synopsis of FBI episode Liar’s Poker
CBS Entertainment has released the Official Synopsis of FBI episode "Liar’s Poker" (3.03) that will be aired on Tuesday, December 8 at 09:00-10:00 PM. Guest...
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Waiter, there’s a bug in my food!
Pariah Brewing teams with The Good Seed Food Co. for a spooktacular pairing of beer with insect-laden delicacies
October 16, 2019 By Brandon Hernández
For most, discovering a winged or multi-legged crawler in their food would be a problem, but for a pair of adventurous culinarians entrenched in the local beer scene, a dung beetle in a pile of mashed potatoes doesn’t equate to a fly-in-the-ointment situation. It’s exactly what they’re going for.
Earlier this year, The Good Seed Food Co. chef and owner Jesus “Chuy” de la Torre and Cicerone and brewery vet Jesse Smith hatched an idea to take beer-and-food pairing to previously unexplored, creepy-crawly territory, by incorporating insects into an array of dishes. It was so outlandish that finding the right time frame and setting for such adventurous eating proved difficult. The impending arrival of All Hallow’s Eve and the openness of Pariah Brewing eventually provided the perfect buggy backdrop.
With details settled—four courses paired with four Pariah beers presented the Tuesday before Halloween—they marched like determined army ants into the unknown.
Working the Bugs Out
The first thing Chuy and Jesse had to do was find and sample a variety of bugs. A mail-order service allowed them to get their pincers into a varied stash of crawling, squirming, hopping, flying creatures, none of which they had ever tasted.
The duo met up at Pariah’s tasting room in North Park’s Brewery Igniter facility, pens and notepads in-hand, to work their way through the assortment and record their impressions. Tastes ranged from woody and earthy to toasty and herbaceous. It wasn’t all that different from the range of flavors present in edible flora, vegetables or mushrooms.
In the end, only one or two flavor profiles disqualified particular insects; what nixed most from contention was texture. The protective exoskeletons of many of the bugs they sampled were difficult to eat in some cases, leading Chuy and Jesse to select species that were easier to get down the hatch. The last-bugs-standing quartet included crickets, giant worms, dung beetles and weaver ants.
Chef Chuy
A Swarm of Options
With an admittedly fearsome foursome in place, it was time to see how this exotic fare would fare with Pariah’s beers. The majority of owner and brewmaster Brian Mitchell’s beers are flavored with spices, herbs and often-exotic adjuncts. This was advantageous in that they provided a wealth of supplementary flavors to raise up the somewhat bland bugs. After about an hour of flexing their palates, the following menu materialized:
Cricket Taco with Mole Salsa and Epazote paired with Dank Drank IPA
Giant Worm and Cucumber Nigiri paired with Passion of the Kiwi Berliner Weisse
Dung Beetle Mashed Potatoes and Gravy paired with Off White Wit
Weaver Ant Ice Cream with All the Bootleg Snacks Imperial Stout
Flavor compatibility wasn’t the only thing considered when developing pairings. Smith devoted a great deal of attention to creating contrast for three of the four dishes.
He deemed Off White Wit, a Belgian-style wheat ale brewed with honey, green tea, lemongrass, orange and ginger, a nice medium-low-bodied counter to the rich mashed potatoes. And while Dank Drank, a Mosaic-stocked American IPA, featured piney, “dank” flavors that synced with the corn tortilla and epazote (a lemony, bitter herb popular in Mexican cookery), it also helped cut through the accompanying, viscous, mole-like sauce.
But in the case of dessert, vanilla ice cream dusted with a top-layer of weaver ants, he went with the flow, marrying it with a pastry stout brewed with coffee, vanilla, coconut and numerous generic versions of popular childhood sweet treats.
But How Does It Taste?
As it turns out, despite widely different appearances and biological structures, insects can taste relatively similar. It’s not like beef, chicken and pork; the range of flavors is much narrower. Crickets are particularly neutral, making them a nice protein source that adds crunchy texture. Knowing this, Chuy introduced bold flavor with his salsa, like one might when working with another tamer star ingredient. The IPA beer pairing works well and makes for a quintessentially San Diego tandem.
The giant worms served sushi-style tied atop a finger of sticky rice with a thin strand of cucumber aren’t as gargantuan as their name implied. They are actually skinny, enough that it took two to take up substantial real estate atop its glutinous foundation. But they probably have the most flavor of the four, coming across as nutty with a mushroom-like, funky earthiness and a toasty aftertaste. The nigiri is served on its own, but some soy, yuzu Kewpie mayo or even sriracha could be a nice accouterment.
Next, they probably serve Chuy’s buttery mashed potatoes in heaven. Whether they come with a dung beetle floating in the gravy gracing them is something to be answered on the other side. Here on Earth, the beetle adds a touch of charred meatiness and substantial crunch. It works well enough that, like a teen from the sixties, it pretty much begs for more beetles. While the witbier does cut the richness of the dish, its lack of body makes it the least appealing pairing.
Then there’s the ice cream and pastry stout combo. It sounds ideal—especially if you’re an aardvark—and it tastes divine. Even the ants, the insides of which have an unexpected, faint lemony tartness, only detract as one tries to swallow them. They stick in the back of the throat, but thankfully there’s plenty of beer to help wash them down.
For a first-time collaboration, the likes of which likely won’t appeal to the average eater, this is quite the success and worth seeking out. Solid flavors, daring but calculated incorporation of stranger things and good beer to boot. Could this event scare up a trend? Probably not, but there’s something to be said for being the first to forge into new territory. And even more to be said for doing it as well as these pioneers did.
Tickets to Pariah Brewing’s “Spooktacular Beer Pairing” are available online. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 29 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. and guests can show up any time within that window for this self-guided experience.
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Writers & Words
a Baltimore Reading Series
5 BURNING QUESTIONS WITH TAVOR
June 20, 2018 June 20, 2018 Maria C. Goodson
What is your first memory of writing for fun?
I must have been six or seven years old. I was sitting under my desk in my bedroom with the coolest tiny notebook (I was, and am, still into notebooks) writing a fantasy story about a witch, and her broom, and their adventures. I still have that notebook tucked away in childhood home of Chicago. I must admit, I didn’t really grasp the concept of character development, but the plot was very clear.
How many drafts = done?
I’m not entirely convinced that a song can ever be “done.” What’s the fun in that? The way I sing a song varies every time I pick up the guitar, always looking for a stronger way to convey meaning. In songwriting, when I look at the words I’ve pieced together and the story or emotion I was attempting to portray, and I think to myself “there it is…” Well, that’s as close to finished as I’ll ever be. There was a song that I finished years ago, performed hundreds of times, and was completely happy with, it’s called “When the Rain Arrives.” As I was playing it a few weeks ago, I heard new words come out of my mouth to replace an old line. It wasn’t intentional or planned, but the improvised moment of creativity made me realize that what the song meant to me was entirely different now than it had been a few years ago. What I love about music is that it transforms with you and sometimes without you realizing it. It’s finished, but it continues to change.
What is your favorite book or favorite book-of-the-moment?
What is it about your discipline that gets you the most excited?
Performing and rehearsing are entirely different animals. I love the discovery that happens while I practice a song, finding ways to challenge my muscle memory, feeling safe to make terrible vocal mistakes. But performing is an altogether different beast. I am at my most vulnerable and passionate while performing and it’s the greatest cathartic exercise I’ve ever found. Unlike in practice, I hold nothing back on stage—mistakes and all. It feels amazing. It feels like such a true version of myself that I’m unable to express in normal situations.
What’s your favorite word or words? What about it/them appeals to you?
Honestly, I have no idea. But my favorite chords are E and AM, especially when paired up. There’s a darkness to the major E and a hopefulness to the minor A that connects to something deep inside of me.
Bonus question: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Ravens are symbolic of change, prophecy, sometimes bad luck. At least at my writing desk, all of those things can be true, too.
Darkness/hopefulness, what more could you want? I hope you play some of these chords for us next month.
Come out to Writers & Words next month, July 10th at 7pm at Charmington’s Cafe to hear Tavor and the rest of our awesome lineup!
Tavor is a folk and dirty-blues singer songwriter, based in Baltimore. Her fearless bluesy vocals and edgy lyrics illuminate the trials and triumphs of the everyday and the never-ending search for more.
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50% Of World’s Pineapples Now Contain Cocaine
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The latest statistics from the food industry suggest that approximately fifty percent of the world’s pineapples now contain large quantities of cocaine.
The shocking statistic comes after another shipment of cocaine-filled pineapples was intercepted by police, this time en route from Costa Rica to Ireland.
Interpol spokesperson Nelson Diaz spoke to Wunderground earlier, “Yet another large consignment of cocaine concealed in hollowed out pineapples and destined for the streets of Europe has been intercepted by our agents, this is a very big result in our war against drugs and criminal elements operating in the Northern Atlantic region.”
“The pineapple switcheroo has become the smuggling option of choice for these gangs and we currently estimate that up to fifty percent of the world’s pineapple could now contain cocaine,” continued Diaz. “We are appealing to everyone in the areas affected by these finds to be extra vigilant when buying pineapples as you could end up with a lot more than you bargained for when you get them home.”
European sources have confirmed that while the cocaine-filled pineapples have been removed from society, there is still fear that the pineapple flesh removed could make it’s way to Europe.
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“We might not have to worry about cocaine but the last thing we want is an influx of illegal pineapple chunks making their way onto our streets,” confirmed one concerned Irishman. “For all we know, our children could end up eating that pineapple, on pizzas, and that’s just wrong. Something needs to be done about this straight away.”
Experts are predicting a sharp rise in demand for pineapples across all major European cities as opportunistic drug dealers try to capitalise on any drug filled fruit that may have slipped through the authorities’ grip.
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HomeBuju BantonVybz Kartel will definitely be free in 2020, according to his attorneys.
Vybz Kartel will definitely be free in 2020, according to his attorneys.
With the release of Buju Banton from prison, attorneys for Vybz Kartel want to reassure his fans that 2019 is the year when the world boss will be released from prison.
Vybz Kartel’s attorneys are strongly confident that the world boss will be free in early 2019 after the appeal judges finish going over Kartel’s appeal case. Based on their understandings of the law and the way the whole Kartel conviction went down, they see absolutely no reason why the world boss will not be freed by the courts.
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Vybz Kartel was convicted of murder in 2014 and sentenced to life in prison. The deejay did not file his appeal until 2016 as he had problems coming up with the attorney fee after being forced to spend millions on his original trial. Another entertainer stepped in last year and contributed to Vybz Kartel’s legal fees and his appeal was heard in June.
In the appeal filing, Kartel’s attorneys argued that the entire case was tainted, from witness intimidation by the police to evidence tampering by the Government.
Related Article: Tommy Lee could be joining Vybz Kartel in prison.
Valerie Neita-Robertson, one of Kartel’s attorneys says that the corruption that is prevalent in the police force and the prosecutor’s office does not exist in the courts and that is why they are super confident about Kartel’s vindication.
The courts are expected to render their decision by the latest February of 2019.
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The Topic:
Walls Around the World
This 42eXplore project contains links to website resources for twenty-eight separate 'talking walls' introduced in the books of Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O'Brien.
Easier - Walls are structures that divide, surround, or protect an area. Do walls talk? If they could, what might they tell us?
'Talking walls' is an idea or theme that was added to literature by writer Margy Burns Knight and illustrator Anne Sibley O'Brien. In their books, they introduce different cultures of the world by examining walls, the people who built them, and their impact on the community.
Harder - Walls do tell a story about the history, politics, and culture of their community. They explain something about the people who built them. They also give a sense of the times in which they were built. The people and community where they are located are divided or unified by them.
Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O'Brien have authored Talking Walls (1992) and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue (1996) plus a Talking Walls Teacher's Guide.(1992).
Talking Walls at Edmark
http://www.riverdeep.net/talkingwalls/
Investigate walls that have been constructed and created by man; their historical, cultural, and political significance.
Talking Walls
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/ChurchillRoadES/crs9899/events/walls/index.htm
This links site connects to several websites related to 'talking walls.'
Similar Links-site:
2) Famous Walls http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/dms/library/cybrary/famous_walls.htm
Talking Walls Gallery
http://www.eyefoundation.net/new_site/paintings/pam5.html
Here you find a collection of the paintings by Anne Sibley O’Brien.
Related Website:
2) Biography of Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O'Brien http://home.gwi.net/~tilbury/knight.htm
Talking Walls Project (Grade 5) from Cape Elizabeth, Maine
http://www.cape.k12.me.us/Twalls/
This school project site explores the idea that communities of all sizes and styles have a need to share ideas and information via 'talking walls.'
After visiting several of the 'talking walls' websites, complete one or more of these projects:
Complete A 'Talking Walls' WebQuest. Follow or adapt the procedures found at one of the following webQuest sites:
1) Aboriginal Art by L. Warring (Grade 6)
http://www.ecc.ttu.edu/edit3318/Fall%202001/Fall%202001/Section%20004/Warring
%20L/web%20quest.htm
2) And They Came to the Streets That Were Paved With Gold: Chinese Immigration to
California, 1850-1882 by K.K. Lee (Grade 4)
http://home.flash.net/~sondrine/andtheycame.html
3) 'Cause They Don't Look Like You': A Study of Intolerance in America (Grades 4-5) by H. Lynch http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/hlynch/ToleranceWebQuest/tolerancewebqst.htm
4) Immigration: Angel Island vs. Ellis Island
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edad728/immigration/immigration.html
5) Public Art by V. Rosales http://www.csustan.edu/advstd/edtech/4710/vicente/quest.htm
6) Street Art: Murals Through the Ages by A. Lublin
http://www.homebase8.net/webquest8/Communication_Arts/Murals/
Analyze the 'Talking Walls'. Evaluate the talking walls sites. Which is your favorite? Explain why you chose it. Which walls should be torn down? Use spreadsheet or Inspiration software to show what you already knew and what new insights you gained form the 'Talking Walls' books and/or the websites.
Add A Missing 'Talking Wall'. There are other talking walls. What other wall would you add? Make a presentation that informs and convinces others of the importance of your wall.
Visit the Wall. Maybe you can't visit one of these famous walls, but can you take a virtual visit? Many of the websites below contain virtual visits through video, audio, and animation. Pretend you are someone visiting the wall. Create a character and write about why they might be visiting this particular wall and what they plan to do on their visit.
Compare Walls. Learn about one of these famous walls. Compare your wall with others. How are they alike and different? How does your wall reflect the social, political, or cultural aspects of the place it is located?
Create a Wall Poem. Create a poem that describes the feelings you have after learning about one of the walls. Write a paragraph that describes the wall and how you got your ideas for the poem. Post it on a class poem wall or create a poem wall web page.
Identify the Walls in Your Community. Examine your neighborhood to find the existing walls. Remember, talking walls are political, cultural, and historical. Some walls are relatively short-lived, others last for hundreds or even thousands of years. Look all the walls in your community. Should any of the walls be eliminated? Create a multimedia presentation about your community's walls and their impact.
Create a "Talking Walls' Poster. Inform others of your favorite wall by creating a poster about it. Display your completed work.
Have You Built Any Walls? Write in your journal about walls that you have helped to build. Remember walls can be actual physical constructions of stone, wood, metal, and concrete - - or they can be walls in our minds. Write about the walls that you have built.
For more ideas, check out the Talking Walls Teacher's Guide by Margy Burns Knight and Thomas V. Chan.
Websites By Kids For Kids
Cave of Lascaux by K. Crylen and M. Stedt
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/las/las.html
This website is a history project on the discovery of the ancient cave and its paintings.
Deltaworks, Ever Lasting Battle Against the Sea (1998 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge)
http://library.thinkquest.org/19846/data/en/disaster/schade.htm
This site presents the Deltaworks--a system involving locks, sluices, channels, and other control methods to prevent flooding. Many people in the Netherlands believe it is the eighth wonder of the world. The site provides the background of this project and explains how it was started because of a catastrophic flood on January 31, 1953.
First Grade Walls
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/ChurchillRoadES/crs9899/1st/walls/
The walls built by Pilgrims.
Great Wall of China (2000 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge)
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004451F/
This site provides an overview of the physics, science, and architectural construction involved in the construction of the Wall.
Wall of Inspiration (Grades K-5) from Aurora School, Oakland, CA
http://www.auroraschool.org/WAMWEB/Introduction.htm
This multiage student project created a visual and written work of art that teaches others about the lives of people who have inspired us and in various ways connected us with the greater human conscience.
More Websites for Walls
Aborigine of Australia from Alaska Native Knowledge Network
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/aborigine.html
This site houses a collection of web-links for Aborigine history and culture.
Related Websites on Aboriginal Art:
2) Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre at Alice Springs http://aboriginalart.com.au/
3) Aboriginal Art Online http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/
4) Aboriginal Fine Arts Gallery http://www.aaia.com.au/
5) Aboriginal Magic In The Land Of The Quinkans http://www.paganpilgrim.com/qunikans.htm
6) Aborigine Spirit Paintings by R. Scheer http://www.cedarcottage.com/powertrips/0900.htm
and http://www.newagejournal.com/rssept0.htm
7) Wall Painting in Australia http://www.kcn.ne.jp/~blue/a2.html
http://www.sandiego-online.com/forums/chinese/htmls/angel.htm
In 1905, construction of an Immigration Station began in China Cove. Surrounded by public controversy from its inception, the station was finally put into operation in 1910. Anticipated as the 'Ellis Island of the West', it was designed to handle a flood of European immigrants who were expected to begin arriving in California once the Panama Canal was opened.
2) Angel Island http://www.sfvisitor.org/travelmedia/html/AngelIsland.html
3) Angel Island: 'Guardian of the Western Gate' from National Archives and Records
Administration http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/angel1.html
4) Angel Island Immigration Station http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~atsai/term.html
5) Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation http://www.a-better.com/angel/island.htm
6) Angel Island: Journeys Remembered by Chinese Houstonians from Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/angelisland/bio.html
7) Angel Island Poems http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~asam121/poems.html
8) Immigration Station, Angel Island, CA (panoramic photograph)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/pan:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(+Angel+Islan
d++San+Francisco+Bay,+Calif.++))
9) Immigration Station at Angel Island Home Page http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html
10)Interrogations of Chinese Immigrants at Angel Island
http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~etang/termpaper.html
11)Poem from Angel Island from Houghton Mifflin Company
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/4/unit/act4.1blm.html
12)Welcome to Chinatown from Riverdeep (download video)
http://www.riverdeep.net/teaching_the_news/news_2001/july/070901_m_china.jhtml
Berlin Wall Online
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/
This comprehensive website on the history of the Berlin Wall contains photographs and texts.
Other Berlin Wall Websites:
2) Berlin Wall http://www.wall-berlin.org/
3) Berlin Wall http://www.the-berlin-wall.de/
4) Berlin Wall by B. Kirste http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html
5) Berlin Wall Interactive from Discovery Communications, Inc.
http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/escape/interactive.html
6) Chris DeWitt's Berlin Wall Website
http://www.appropriatesoftware.com/BerlinWall/welcome.html
7) Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 http://www.remote.org/frederik/culture/berlin/
8) Newseum: The Berlin Wall http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/
9) Vanishing Wall http://www.german-way.com/german/eastsidegal.html
10)Wall: 1958-1963 from CNN's Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/09/
Bonampak
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~dhixson/bonampak/bonampak.html
Bonampak is a Classic Period Maya site, located in the modern state of Chiapas, along the Usumacinta River. It is most notable for the magnificent murals.
2) Bonampak http://www.arts-civic.org/baca/text/bonampak.html
3) Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico
http://members.aol.com/yahawchan/ancmaya/archsites/mexico/yaxchilanarea/yaxsecen/bon
ampak/bongen/boncm.html
4) Forever Blue: Why Ancient Mayan . . . from Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/science/01/10/26/foreverblue/
5) Maya from National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/9608/bts/a063.html
6) (Section of wall mural from Bonampak, Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City)
http://www.jqjacobs.net/mesoamerica/images/bonampak.jpg
7) Silenced Hands by L. Dye, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DyeHard/dyehard010830.html
Canadian Museum of Civilization
http://www.civilization.ca/indexe.asp
The new home for the Museum opened on June 29, 1989, on a 9.6- hectare (24-acre) site on the Quebec bank of the Ottawa River. The building is approximately 100,000 square meters (1,076,430 sq. ft.) and comprises two distinct structures.
2) Canadian Museum of Civilization http://www.djcarchitect.com/BrochPages/CMC/cmc1.htm
3) Celebrate Cardinal http://www.celebratecardinal.com/
4) Douglas Cardinal - Architect http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/english/3013_e.html
4) Modern Architecture from Archivision http://www.archivision.com/index1A8.html
5) Soaring Like An eagle: Douglas Cardinal by D. Hum
http://pr.concordia.ca/ctr/archives/is100998/art3.html
Cave of Lascaux
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
On 12 September 1940, four teenagers in the Dordogne region of southwest France were out looking for their dog. As they searched through the undergrowth, they stumbled across the Lascaux Cave adorned with some of the most extraordinary prehistoric paintings ever discovered.
2) Cave Paintings at Lascaux (audio lecture)
http://sunsite.queensu.ca/memorypalace/parlour/caves/
3) Chauvet Cave (Another nearby cave art location) from National Geographic http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/08/01/html/ft_20010801.6.html
4) Grotte de Lascaux http://www.showcaves.com/english/fr/showcaves/Lascaux.html
5) Hidden Treasure of Lascaux Cave by J.M. Deem
http://www.jamesmdeem.com/cavestory3.htm
6) La grotte Chauvet
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/SCIENCES/CHAUVET/cha.html
7) Lascaux Cave http://www.cast-science.org/anpr_cov.htm
8) Lascaux Cave http://vm.kemsu.ru/en/palaeolith/lascaux.html
9) Lascaux Cave Paintings and Location http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterOne/LascauxCave.htm
City Out of Time: Fez, Morocco from National Geographic
http://pulseplanet.nationalgeographic.com/ax/features/0600/
Fez is one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, dating back to the early ninth century.
Other Websites for Old Fez:
2) Fez http://www.amse.net/fez.htm
3) Fez Reveals Morocco's Soul by M. Simons http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/fezt.htm
4) Hip Guide to Fez, Morocco http://www.hiptravelguide.com/morocco/fes.htm
5) Morroco, Fez http://www.rjpreston.freeserve.co.uk/text_pages/morocco4.htm#
6) Morocco - The Silence of the High Plateaus
http://www.lookat.ch/features/featuresview/44/
Cuzco, Peru by S. Underwood
http://www.culturefocus.com/peru1.htm
Explore the city of Cuzco, which in the 15th century became the powerful capital of an expanding Inca empire.
2) Cusco, Cuzco, Peru http://users.bestweb.net/~goyzueta/qosqo/
3) Cuzco - Capital of the Incas & Machuu Pichuu
http://newton.umsl.edu/%7Emway/trip.dec95/cuzco/
4) Cusco History http://www.thetrip.net/cuscohistory.htm
Diego Rivera from City College of San Francisco
http://www.riveramural.com/rivera/mural/index.html
Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of Mexico's most important painters and a major artist of the twentieth century.
Other Websites for Diego Rivera and Work:
2) Artist Diego Rivera from PBS's Online NewsHour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec99/rivera_7-15.html
3) Diego Rivera http://www.fbuch.com/diego.htm
4) Diego Rivera from PBS's American Masters http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/rivera_d.html
5) Diego Rivera on the Internet from Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rivera_diego.html
6) Diego Rivera Web Museum http://www.diegorivera.com/index.html
7) La Pinata in the Hospital Infantil de Mexico (Spanish) http://www.facmed.unam.mx/infantil/legado.htm
8) Museo Mural Diego Rivera http://www.arts-history.mx/museos/mu/index2.html
9) Visual Biography of Diego Rivera by M.T. Zacarías
http://www2.kenyon.edu/depts/mll/spanish/projects/trejo-zacarias/english.htm
Diwali: The Festival of Light
http://home.freeuk.com/elloughton13/dday.htm
Learn about this November Hindu celebration.
2) Build-up to Diwali http://www.indolinks.com/websights/diwali/buildup.htm
3) Diwali http://www.mahagujarat.com/festivals/diwali.htm
4) Diwali (Divali, Dewali) http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/ethnic_relig/diwali.html
5) Wall Painting http://www.upportal.com/culture/handi_fo_about.shtml
Great Wall of China Links
http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/main/bigsearch/wallofchina.html
Here you find a huge links collection to online resources on the Great Wall of China.
Related Websites for the Great Wall:
2) All About the Great Wall of China from Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/greatwall/
3) Great Wall http://abe.www.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/scengw.html#sfc01
4) Great Wall: A Virtual Tour http://www.chinavista.com/travel/greatwall/greatwall.html
5) Great Wall of China http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/
6) Great Wall of China http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa090100a.htm
7) Secrets of the Great Wall from Discovery Online http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/greatwall/greatwall.html
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/webchron/Africa/GreatZimbabwe.html
The city of Great Zimbabwe is located in the present day country of Zimbabwe, east of the Kalahari desert between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
2) Great Zimbabwe by G.P. Landow
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/zimbabwe/art/greatzim/gz1.html
3) Great Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe National Park from GORP
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/location/africa/zimbabwe/greatzim.htm
4) Mystery of Great Zimbabwe by P. Tyson from PBS NOVA Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/zimbabwe.html
5) Ruins of Great Zimbabwe http://www.tmeg.com/artifacts/zimbabwe/zimbabwe.htm
6) Slide Show (Zimbadwe) from Maricopa Community College District
http://www2.mc.maricopa.edu/anthro/lost_tribes/zimbabwe/index.html
http://www.hadrians-wall.org/
The Wall was built by order of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, probably given during his visit to Britain in AD 122. Over the next six years professional soldiers, legionaries, built a wall 80 Roman miles long (117 km or 73 modern miles).
2) Hadrian's Wall
http://www.great-britain.co.uk/regions/scots_english%20border/hadrians.htm
3) Hadrian's Wall http://www.aboutscotland.com/hadrian/
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/People/odlin.1/graphics/england/hadwall.htm
5) Hadrian's Wall from About.com
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa060600a.htm
6) Hadrian's Wall and the Romans http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/romans.html
7) Hadrian's Wall Education Website http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/wallnet/wall/index.htm
8) Hadrian's Wall Gallery from BBC History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/hadrian_gallery/index.shtml
9) Management Plan for the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site
http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/ArchRev/rev95_6/hadrian.htm
Holy Mosque in Makkah
http://www.iad.org/Makkah.html
The Holy Mosque in Makkah (Mecca) is the most revered place of worship for Muslims around the world. At the center of the Mosque is the Ka'aba, which literally means 'cube' in Arabic. All Muslims are required to face in the direction of the Ka'aba five times every day when offering their prayers.
2) Islam for Children http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/carolrb/islam/fivepillars.html
3) Islamic Pictures http://msa_msu.tripod.com/pics-kaaba.htm
4) Ka'aba http://www.al-islam.org/hajj/shariati/11.htm
5) Ka’aba: The House Of Allah http://www.al-islam.org/kaaba14/1.htm
Mahabalipuram (India; Arjuna's penance)
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7830/mahabalipuram.html
Here you can see photographs of the magnificent bas relief carvings found at the site of an ancient Indian seaport.
2) Mahabalipuram: A Symphony On Stones
http://www.britannicaindia.com/eb/spotdisplay.asp?spotid=462&cid=13
3) Mahabalipuram: Architecture of India
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Archit/Mahaba.html
4) Mahabalipuram City Guide http://travel.indiamart.com/places/cities/mamallapuram/
5) What A Relief http://edweb.bilkent.edu.tr/indiaframes/slide.arjuna.html
Metaphors and Meanings of House: African Painted House Traditions by R. Barris
http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfrb/paintedhouses.htm
Today the art of decorating houses is known throughout Africa. Some think that in early periods, house decorations did exist. But for a period of time, this practice was not tenable and the art of decoration may have been preserved but practiced in some other form--not on houses but perhaps on pottery, until conditions again favored the decoration of houses.
2) Commodification of Art: Women in the Stream of Change by A. Hoard
http://www.cs.org/publications/CSQ/244/hoard.htm
3) Ndebele Cultural Village in Botshabelo, South Africa
http://www.southafrica-travel.net/north/a1mpuma2.htm
4) Ndebele Family Compound (photograph)
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/resource/33ndebel.htm
5) Role of Decoration in Ndebele Society
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/kwamsiza/roleDecoration.htm
6) South Africa, Ndebele Wall Paintings http://www1.union.edu/~weidak/ipr/art_cs1.html
Mural Arts Program (Philadelphia, Jane Golden - Artistic Director)
http://www.gophila.com/murals/body.htm
Established in 1984 as part of the Anti-Graffiti Network and incorporated in 1996 as part of the Philadelphia Department of Recreation, MAP sees its role as a "public service," bringing art and art education at no charge to communities.
2) 21st Century Lives: Jane Golden by P. Jennings, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/WorldNewsTonight/wnt000728_21st_golden_feature.html
3) Art of Change http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/spring2001/art.html
4) Big Picture by M.E. O'Connor from WHYY http://www.whyy.org/tv12/mural/about.html
5) Celebrating Mural Arts Month in University City: MAP of Community Treasures
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v47/n09/murals.html
6) Mural Arts Program http://www.muralarts.org/
7) Mural Arts Video Tour http://gophila.philly.com/includes/mural.asp
8) Mural of Philadelphia by J. Tremblay
http://www.courses.psu.edu/art/art122w_jlh18/student/tremblay/index.html
9) Philadelphia Murals http://inquirer.philly.com/specials/2000/murals/default.asp
10)Tour of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~utzda/artcrit/viewer.html
New Deal for Ireland from Time for Kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,90769,00.html
Violence has divided Northern Ireland for years. Towns are split into sections. Painted lines, brick walls and barbed wire separate people of Protestant religions from their Irish Catholic enemies.
2) Ardoyne Stories: Peace Lines and Division from BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1522000/1522743.stm
3) Armed Vigilantes Patrol 'Peace Lines' from Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,473542,00.html
4) Counting the Cost Against the Children from BBC News
5) Directory of Murals in Northern Ireland by J. McCormick http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/mccormick/
6) Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Turmoil by S. McConnell
http://members.tripod.com/~audgen/turmoil/turmoil30years.htm
7) Peace Eludes Children of Fear reprinted from Chicago Sun Times http://www.hannahhayes.com/Children.htm
8) Twelve Depressing Weeks form BBC News
9) Walls That Divide Belfast from CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,309407-412,00.shtml
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/neruda.htm
Here you find a biography of the Chilean poet, diplomat, and Marxist, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.
2) Invisible Hand and Iron Fist by A. Ruess at Third World Traveler
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Latin_America/PinochetandChile.html
3) Pablo Neruda from The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=295
4) Pablo Neruda's Isla Negra by M. Filsnoël
http://www.literarytraveler.com/neruda/pabloneruda.htm
5) Pablo Neruda, Life and Times
http://www.aspirennies.com/private/SiteBody/Romance/Poetry/Neruda/NerudaLife.shtml
6) Poet's Places: The homes of Pablo Neruda (Chile) by C. Welsch from Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/stories/425/858154.html
7) Views of Pablo Neruda's House at Isla Negra, Chile
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/library/blIslaNegra.htm
Photos from Jewish Kazimierz
http://www.geocities.com/kazimierz_krakow/photos.html
This website provides photographs and a summary of Jewish history in Kazimierz, Krakow, Poland.
2) Cracow from Virtual Jewish History http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/vjw/Cracow.html
3) Holocaust - A Return to My Mother's Home by M. Dubiner
http://duby.com/MarchofLiving/Holocaust3.html
4) Holocaust Memorial near Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (photograph)
http://www.geocities.com/polsku/KazimierzDolnycemetary1.jpg
5) Jewish History in Poland During the Years 1939-1945 by M. Rosenzweig
http://members.core.com/~mikerose/waryears.htm
6) Poland Revisited by M. Rosenzweig http://webinfonet.net/heritage/poland.html
7) Places of Interest in Poland http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Poland.html
8) Rema Synagogue http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/rema.html
9) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html
Here you can find two biographies of the South African civil rights leader.
2) Long Walk of Nelson Mandela from PBS Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/
3) Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela from Time, Inc.
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/Mandela/Mandela.html
4) Nelson Mandela (Links-Site) http://www.taxpolicy.com/mandela.htm
5) Nelson Mandela by A. Brink from Time 100: Leaders & Revolutionaries
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mandela.html
6) Nelson Mandela Biography http://www.polity.org.za/people/mandela.html
7) Nelson Mandela from Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1993a.html
Other Sites Related to the Netherland Dikes:
2) Haarlem and the Netherlands http://www.antenna.nl/mutare/HlmnlE.htm
3) Polders and Dykes of the Netherlands from About.com
http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa033000a.htm
4) Special Dike with Doors . . . from Horizon Solutions
http://www.solutions-site.org/cat1_sol26.htm
Prayer Wheels: Tibetan Spiratual Technology
http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/prayer-wheel.htm
Tibetan prayer wheels (called Mani wheels by the Tibetans) are devices for spreading spiritual blessings and well being. Rolls of thin paper, imprinted with many, many copies of the mantra (prayer) Om Mani Padme Hum, printed in an ancient Indian script or in Tibetan script, are wound around an axle in a protective container, and spun around and around.
2) Dalai Lama: My Dream for Tibet's Freedom
http://www.meaus.com/Dalai_Lama_My_Dream_for_Ti.html
3) Tibetan Buddhism Archives http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/
4) Tibetan Government in Exile http://www.tibet.com/
5) Tibetan Prayer Wheel (Virtual prayer wheel) http://wtfaculty.wtamu.edu/~jrothfork/tibet.html
Story of Hachiko by C. Sicard
http://www.fabuloustravel.com/globe/hachiko/hachiko.html
Loyalty, faithfulness and unconditional love are qualities that have earned dogs the title of 'man's best friend'. One particular Akita dog took these qualities to the extreme; he earned a place in the hearts of all Japanese people and has kept that place for over sixty years!
2) Big in Japan: Hachiko by T. Young from Tokyo Classified
http://www.tokyoclassified.com/biginjapanarchive349/303/biginjapaninc.htm
3) Hachiko http://www.nylana.org/RRACI/hachiko.htm
4) Hachiko at Find A Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5951810
5) Hachiko: The Faithful Dog http://perso.worldonline.fr/japan/TokyoWeb/E-Hachiko.htm
http://www.taosis.com/tchs/index.html
The Pueblo at Taos is one of New Mexico's authentic examples of the survival of Pueblo Indian life, relatively unchanged since 1540 when Coronado saw buildings and customs closely resembling those which can be seen today.
2) Taos Indians http://nc.essortment.com/taosindian_rijr.htm
3) Taos Pueblo http://www.towson.edu/~brenda/newmexico/taos.htm
4) Taos Pueblo, New Mexico http://www.americaslibrary.gov/pages/es_nm_pueblo_1.html
5) Taos Pueblo http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Taos_Pueblo.html
6) Taos Pueblo http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/taos/taos.html
7) Taos Pueblo http://www.pueblodrums.com/taospueb.html
8) Pueblos: Masonry and Adobe Communal Housing http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/houses/pueblo.html
Wall: National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
http://www.vietvet.org/thewall.htm
This gallery contains pictures and stories of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
2) Experience the Wall from Virtual Wall
http://www.thevirtualwall.org/view/view_index.htm
3) Maya Lin: Notes, Pictures, Online Resources
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/lin/lin.html
4) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall http://thewall-usa.com/
5) Wall http://www.vietvet.org/thewall.htm
http://www.bu.ac.th/thailand/watpo.html
Wat Phra Chetupon, more popularly known as Wat Po, dates from long before Bangkok became the capital, having been founded in the 16th century.
Reclining Buddha at Wat Po (photograph)
2) http://www.savory.org/phil/images/Bangkok/Bangkok_Image1.htm
3) Wat Pho at Thailand Guidebook http://www.thaistudents.com/guidebook/watpho01.html
4) Wat Po (panoramic view) http://www.richardbarclay.com/pano_12/panorama_12.htm
5) Wat Po (Temple of the Reclining Buddha)
http://bangkok-hotelguide.com/guide/sightseeing/wat-po.htm
6) Wat Po http://www.wright-photo.com/bangkok%2011.htm
Western Wall Camera from Aish HaTorah
http://www.aish.com/wallcam/
The Western Wall is a surviving remnant of the Temple in Jerusalem. Here you find a picture from a live camera and information about the location.
2) Jerusalem - The Western Wall and its Tunnels from State of Israel
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00v00
3) Western Wall http://mosaic.lk.net/g-wall.html
4) Western Wall http://www.inisrael.com/3disrael/kotel.html
5) Western Wall from History Channel http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/unesco/jerusalem/about_wall.html
Websites For Teachers
Aboriginal Bark Painting (Grade 5) by T.S. Mason
http://homepage.mac.com/krohrer/iad/lessons/elem/AboriginalBarkPainting.htm
Students will compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures, specifically the primitive cave art of 15,000 b.c. and aboriginal art of Australia.
Bonampak Maya Murals from Milwaukee Public Schools
http://www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/pt3/voices/bonampak/Bonampak.htm
The Bonampak murals are in a delicate condition. After reading the excerpt from Talking Walls on the murals visit the website created on the Bonampak Murals. What can be done to save these murals and others that are in delicate condition?
Lesson Plans from Diego Rivera Mural Project
http://www.ccsf.org/Resources/Mural/
Find lessons and materials showing how teachers in art, history, science, technology and other areas can use the mural.
Linking People With Talking Walls
http://www.lite.iwarp.com/bltgr678.htm#talkwalls
This website provides a sample unit plan for integrating the 'talking walls' concept into the classroom.
Talking Over the Wall: A Lesson about Conflict Resolution from New York Times
(Grades 6-12) by R. McClain and J. Khan
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20010411wednesday.html
In this lesson, students will explore how conflict resolution techniques can be used to resolve differences of opinion, both on a global and local scale.
Talking Walls (Grades 5-6)
by R. Furumoto, L. Gamarra, J. Iguina, I. Reyes-Saldana, A. Rubalacva, and P. Scadron
http://tst.wiesenthal.com/resources/talkinghands.html
This lesson can be taught while the class reads the book Talking Walls by Margy Burns Knight. The lesson is designed as a vehicle for students to make a personal connection to the issue of how we build walls to divide us from others or how walls can bring us together.
Talking Walls: Countries Around the World (Grades 3-4) by J. Anderson
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~tech/ITS/ProfDev/TechPDlessons/techpd_anderson.htm
This lesson focuses on studying countries around the world in conjunction with using the book Talking Walls.
Talking Walls Project
http://www.cape.k12.me.us/Twalls/T.W.plan.html
Here you find a plan for creating a 'talking wall' unit or project in your school.
'They are not like us!': Teaching about Biases Against Immigration from Teacher Talk
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v2i2/they.html
This exercise helps students understand that xenophobic attitudes have existed throughout United States history and that our culture has survived and been enriched by each new wave of immigrants.
Understanding Primary Sources: The Chinese Experience at Angel Island
from Houghton Mifflin
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/4/unit/act4.1.html
Students read and analyze a poem written on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in California by an unknown Chinese immigrant, then research to learn more about the place where the poem was written.
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Chadians back on social media after 16 months net blockade
For sixteen odd months, Chadians were cut off social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp – with the main government justification hinged on protecting internal security.
No amount of appeals, protestations and even a legal challenge succeeded in getting connection to be restored to internet users.
In March 2019, an Appeals Court struck out an application to force the government to restore access to social media but the security consideration argument of the state was upheld.
It wasn’t until a week (July 13) that the restrictions was lifted after President Idriss Deby announced the lifting of social media restrictions imposed since March 2018.
Network measurement data confirm that previously blocked social media and messaging platforms in #Chad are now available via multiple internet providers that had complied with the censorship order ? pic.twitter.com/V6rKhC8BeT
— NetBlocks.org (@netblocks) July 17, 2019
The announcement was made at the closing of the Chad Digital Forum in N’Djamena. Deby reiterated that security requirements prompted the control measure for electronic communications.
However a recent review of the situation called for the lifting of the ban. The companies involved were accordingly directed to allow access to electronic communications.
By mid-afternoon same day, inhabitants of N’Djamena could access social networks, such as Whatsapp or Twitter according to reports.
The March 2018 blockade came as pressure mounted over Deby’s plans to push through constitutional changes that will keep him in office after three decades, access to social media was cut.
Access to networks remained possible only through the “virtual private networks”.
Despite repeated calls by internet rights groups for the ban to be lifted, the government serially dismissed them.
Chad is not the only African country to have switched off the internet for political and security reasons. Gabon did so briefly in the face of a coup attempt early this year.
Sudan, in the height of the post-Omar al-Bashir era imposed a similar measure but has since restored the signal.
Ethiopia, Mauritania, Zimbabwe are others to have clamped down on connectivity. Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, cut signal after the December 2018 polls. It was only restored after a president was declared in the person of Felix Tshisekedi.
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Dutch prosecutors have said for the first time that they have found possible parts of a BUK missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year, killing all 298 people on board.
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Dementia is not a disease in itself. Dementia is a word used to describe a group of symptoms that occur when brain cells stop working properly.
This happens inside specific areas of the brain, which can affect how you think, remember and communicate.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, but there are other types of dementia too. It is possible to have more than one type of dementia at the same time. Alzheimer’s is sometimes seen with vascular dementia or dementia with Lewy bodies. You might hear this called ‘mixed dementia’.
On these pages you will find information about the most common forms of dementia, including symptoms, diagnosis and treatments. This is not intended to replace the advice of doctors, pharmacists or nurses, but provides some background information which we hope you will find helpful.
Alzheimer’s is a disease that causes dementia. It is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for about two-thirds of cases in older people.
Although often thought of as a disease of older people, around 5% of people with Alzheimer’s disease are under 65.
Vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease.
Dementia with Lewy bodies is the third most common cause of dementia.
Frontotemporal dementia or FTD (sometimes called Pick’s disease) is a relatively rare form of dementia.
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a term used to describe early memory and thinking problems in older people. It is not a type of dementia.
Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a rare form of dementia that usually begins by affecting a person’s vision. It is also known as Benson’s syndrome.
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a condition caused by damage to parts of the brain that control our personality, emotions, language and behaviour.
There are several rarer conditions that can lead to dementia or dementia-like problems. Around 35,000 people in the UK are thought to be affected by these rarer causes of dementia.
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Home METRO Black Monday! Scores Feared Killed On Akure-Ilesha Expressway
Black Monday! Scores Feared Killed On Akure-Ilesha Expressway
The Editor October 13, 2020 METRO,
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says the fatal road accident that occurred at Igbelajewa Village along the Akure-Ilesa Expressway has left many lives dead.
It also said that no fewer than nine other persons who were in critical conditions had been taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The Osun Sector Commander of FRSC, Mrs Ibrahim Kudirat, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Osogbo.
Kudirat said that a tanker exploded and its effect had serious impact on no less than seven vehicles as well as nine persons who had been rushed to a hospital.
Kudirat said, “I want to tell you that seven vehicles that included a passengers’ bus were involved in the accident that occurred around 11:30a.m. due to a tanker vehicle that lost control.”
She said that some of the officers of the command took charge of the situation and ensured that traffic flow was not hampered as a result of the accident.
According to her, the command sympathises with the families of those who lost their lives in the accident and warned motorists against any form of dangerous driving and acts that could lead to accidents on the highways.
The Sector Commander also warned tanker drivers and other road users to always drive with caution and obey traffic regulations to avoid any loss of lives and properties .
She said that the command with the assistance of other security agencies had restored normalcy to the area.
Kudirat said that the command would not hesitate to deal with anyone who disobeys traffic rules and regulations as well as charged motorists to be careful ,especially, during the ember months.
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Recently I had the opportunity to photograph some architecture in Budapest and though I am a big fan of modern architecture, I must admit I was not only charmed and impressed by the Whale form the Dutch architect Kas Oosterhuis, but also from the beauty of the Parliament Building! This building was build by Imre Steindl, who won an architectural competition to design and build it in 1885 and while he designed it in a Neo-gothic/Gothic Revival style best recognised in its symmetrical façade, he also added a central dome clearly inspired by Renaissance Revival architecture. Tragically, Steindl went blind before the building was finished in 1904 and passed away two years before then. He would never lay eyes upon the completion of his most elegant work.
In between two jobs I had the opportunity to do some architectural photography in Vienna. With my homemade guide from Mimoa in one hand and the wallpaper City Guide Vienna app from Phaidon in the other, we limit ourselves to a few areas, like the WU, the Viertel Zwei, Gasometer City and the International Centre Vienna.
In February I had the privilege to photograph a week in Basel for Audi magazine. Despite we had bad weather most of the time, I enjoyed the architecture of the Vitra Campus and some remarkable buildings into the city itself, like the Messe and the stairs by Warteck
Daniel Hechter and AS Creation
With a nod to and in the same atmosphere as the latest fashion campaign from Daniel Hechter we had the honor to photograph his latest wallpaper collection, made by AS Creation.
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ARCHOVER RAISES THE BAR FOR P2P LENDER SECURITY WITH EXTENDED 3 YEAR CREDIT INSURANCE AGREEMENT
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ArchOver, the premier P2P business lending platform which successfully completed its second year in business in September with no borrower defaults, late payments or losses, has extended its exclusive partnership with international credit insurer and collections company Coface by a further three years.
The deal will enable ArchOver to maintain what is widely recognised within the industry as the highest standards of initial and ongoing due diligence and to provide continuous protection to all its lenders through the use of £100m of borrower turnover cover.
Commenting on the new arrangement, Ian Anderson, ArchOver’s Chief Operating Office, said: “The credit insurance element is central to our unique ‘Secured and Insured’ business model. We began our partnership with Coface a year ago because we identified the need to offer our lenders insurance cover and to bring a distinctive element to our offering which has allowed us to stand out in a sector that is heavily criticised for lax security and monitoring. The agreement has contributed to our ability to complete two years of operations without a single bad debt, late payment or default.”
“Building a relationship with a long-standing organisation such as Coface only complements our offering and we look forward to continuing to offer our lenders this type of protection. It will enable us to scale the business and expand our offering to borrowers who do business outside the UK.”
“Coface is a world leader in credit insurance, operating in 100 countries with over 40,000 clients and holding key financial data on 67 million companies worldwide. It is a true global giant with an acknowledged expertise in international trade risk. Coface is the perfect partner for our future expansion plans.”
Frédéric Bourgeois, Managing Director of Coface in the UK & Ireland, added: “The partnership between ArchOver and Coface goes from strength to strength and fits perfectly with our own corporate objectives. ArchOver’s business model demonstrates that, after our first year of operation, it is possible to protect lenders without compromising competitive edge. We are very much looking forward to the next stage of our collaboration.”
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South Armagh woman speaks of ‘absolutely horrendous’ toll illness is having on her and son
A young south Armagh mother – diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening disorder – has spoken of the “absolutely horrendous” toll it has had on her family and darling son as an online appeal continues to help cover medical fees.
Amanda McTaggart, originally from Camlough and now living in Mullaghbawn, suffers from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a rare genetic connective tissue disorder. It is a progressive condition with no current cure or specific treatment.
It requires attending consultants in London, and may necessitate surgery overseas, as only two surgeons worldwide will touch it.
To that end, a gofundme page has been launched to try and help access the specialised treatment which Amanda – who has a four-year-old son Ethan – needs.
Amanda told Armagh I : “This illness has cost us thousands and thousands as a family already and we have completely run dry of options.”
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome affects Amanda’s entire body including her joints which all dislocate daily and cause extreme pain and discomfort. All her vital organs are affected and these, or her organs, could rupture at any time.
She is under a private specialist based in London as he is the only one who knows about the condition and how to help her.
Amanda uses a wheelchair mostly along with rollators and crutches depending on her ability at that time and uses a cervical neck collar to stabilise her cervical spine.
There is no funding available on the NHS for any of this.
She also has many other conditions including Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, leaving her with a long list of life threatening allergies. This list and the severity of the reactions are growing daily.
Currently she relies on a carbon filter mask to help lessen the amount of triggers entering her body. She has multiple hernias and prolapses and struggles to swallow as cricopharangeal spasms make this difficult as the muscles do not coordinate as they should.
Amanda has spoken of the toll the condition has had on her family and on herself personally as a mum.
She said: “As a family this has been completely horrendous to cope with, my little boy being pulled from pillar to post while I am either in hospital or getting treatment.
“My parents live with me and my son full time and I have little say in his day to day life which is heartbreaking as a young mother.
“I miss out on his football, his swimming lessons and even so much as seeing him play outside.
“My allergies due to one of the list of conditions I have due to EDS, makes it almost impossible to have visitors and to basically go anywhere without the threat of an anaphylactic reaction.
“I can develop a reaction to anything at anytime, including sunlight and water.
“Every time I’m admitted over here, I’m teaching the Consultants about my condition. They really have no idea how very complex it really is.”
The most recent events for Amanda were being blue lighted to hospital by ambulance on January 15 and again on February 20.
On the first occasion Amanda was kept in the hospital for two days, due to her neck being unstable and causing excruciating nerve pain in the head and eyes and major issues with her jaws making it hard to even eat. These conditions are called Trigemenal Neuralgia (the worst pain known to medicine) and TMJ dysfunction.
Thankfully, the first time the A&E consultant and his team in Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry were able to manage the pain via IV morphine and administered IV fluids and Amanda got home quickly.
The second time however was a completely different story as she is now unfortunately allergic to morphine which meant it took them a lot longer to get her pain under control, which resulted in her being in the hospital for two weeks in pain.
The nursing team said they had not seen anyone in this level of pain for a very long time, bearing in mind this was a surgical ward. The two weeks were spent trialling medications while hoping she didn’t take a fatal reaction.
Amanda is now on 36 oral tablets per day – some being medications used for cancer patients – and four syringes of liquid pain relief. These are constantly being upped in strength as her condition worsens and has been told she will soon run out of medication options to control her pain.
The family want and need to help Amanda being able to enjoy seeing her beautiful wee man Ethan growing up.
Amanda had a private scan in London on Wednesday, January 23, as there is no machine here for this.
The specialist doctor confirmed Atlantoaxial Instability (internal decapitation) and Craniocervial Instability.
Family found out two days later the results and what the next step is regarding surgery and treatment as this condition can be fatal with any wrong movement of her neck.
Amanda now has to go back to London for another urgent scan and then to see her specialist straight after it.
This is combined with his team of specialist neurosurgeons and physios. Unfortunately none of these appointments are NHS funded and taking into consideration the travel and accommodation, is all amounting to a large sum.
Said Amanda: “This illness has cost us thousands and thousands as a family already and we have completely run dry of options.
“My own parents and family having to watch me in so much pain and as doctors trial drugs which may cause fatalities is so hard and I feel I am the strong one who tries to hold it all together.
“We have had some help with wheelchairs and walking aids off the NHS but after years of asking for help my house is still unfit for me.
“I spend my days up in my room or face the task of crawling back upstairs if I do come down. I usually only leave for appointments, which are a gruelling task as I’m screaming in pain trying to crawl back up to bed afterwards.
“I feel so sorry for my poor family having to witness this and trying their best to hold it together while in my room.
“Going forward I am going to need long term treatment from this team in London as no doctors are knowledgeable enough in my condition to treat me here.
“Every penny counts as this is going to be a back and forth journey between home and London and at this stage we have no idea how long they will need me there for, so hotel costs and travel will amount to a huge chunk alone.
“We expect multiple journeys. These scans and specialists are extremely expensive. The upright MRI only exists in London and Manchester and my team are world renowned specialists in Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
“We as a family are so grateful for everyone who has helped so far and anyone who helps us in the future with our journey with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.”
Amanda and her family are hoping to get as much help from the public as possible to help them ongoing treatment.
If the level of Atlantoaxial Instability – internal decapatation of the top neck joint – has worsened enough not to be managed with her neck brace and specialist physio alone, she is looking at major surgery.
This spinal neck fusion is only undertaken by two surgeons in the world, one in America and the second in Spain. This surgery alone is £100,000 so the amount needed on her page may change after this trip.
The family have thanked everyone for their support to date and appeal for more assistance as they aim to “get Amanda to where she needs to be – healthy and with her little man”.
Added Amanda: “We have had a good response and local support so far, I’m just afraid of running dry and not having access too certain specialists over there, such as genetics which may offer help with her metabolising medications ten times as fast as the normal person.
“It we reach any higher the money can towards making my house or car more accessible, and I will always have to travel back and forward, so as far as we can push this the better, I believe.”
“If we reach any higher the money can towards traveling back and forward, so as far as we can push this the better, I believe.”
If you can help in anyway please give what you can by visiting the link below: https://www.gofundme.com/action-4-amanda
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More Canadians planning to continue living at home as they age, survey suggests
Sixty per cent of respondents said the COVID-19 pandemic had changed their opinion
Oct. 14, 2020 10:30 a.m.
A new survey suggests more Canadians are planning to continue living at home as they age, rather than moving into a retirement or long-term care facility.
The survey of 1,517 Canadians was conducted online by the National Institute on Ageing at Toronto’s Ryerson University in late July.
Sixty per cent of respondents said the COVID-19 pandemic had changed their opinion on whether they’d arrange for themselves or an older loved one to live in a nursing or retirement home.
The number climbed to 70 per cent for respondents aged 65 and older.
Ninety-one per cent of respondents said they would try “to live safely and independently in their own home as long as possible.”
According to the institute’s tabulation of provincial data, more than three quarters of all deaths from COVID-19 in Canada have been among residents of long-term care homes.
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Internet providers in Parkersburg, WV
Shop the best Parkersburg internet providers. Compare internet plan pricing and speeds from cable, DSL and fiber-optic providers in your area.
Parkersburg, WV internet providers
Suddenlink Communications $30 50 - 1,000 Mbps Cable 100%
Community Antenna Service, Inc. - - Cable 77%
King Street Wireless - - Wireless 99%
Parkersburg internet service at a glance
Provider: Suddenlink Communications
At 100%, broadband coverage in Parkersburg is comparable to the rest of West Virginia - 97%, and comparable to broadband coverage across the U.S. - 95%.
The vast majority of those living in the Parkersburg area will have access to cable, which covers 100% of Parkersburg residents. DSL internet is also an option for many, offering service to 93% of the area. No fiber-optic providers are currently available in Parkersburg, but satellite or fixed-wireless providers may offer broadband options in your area.
There are six internet providers serving the Parkersburg area, and 97.35% of households will have internet options from more than one provider. Among Parkersburg's six internet providers, prices start at $27.99 and available download speeds reach up to 1,000 Mbps.
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Top high-speed internet providers in Parkersburg
The largest internet providers in Parkersburg are Frontier, Suddenlink Communications, and HughesNet bringing DSL, cable, and satellite options to Parkersburg.
DSL internet from Frontier is available to nearly all Parkersburg residents, covering 93% of households. Many will also have the option of cable from Suddenlink Communications, which covers 100% of the area. Parkersburg’s third most-available internet provider, HughesNet, offers satellite to around 100% of Parkersburg residents.
DSL from Frontier offers broadband to nearly all households in Parkersburg covering 93% of the area.
DSL internet from Frontier uses telephone lines in Parkersburg to deliver service, which often leads to lower prices and higher availability, though download speeds are likely to be slower than cable or fiber-optic internet.
Internet prices for Frontier start at $27.99/mo.*, which is significantly lower than the average starting price for internet in Parkersburg, $41.99.
Frontier customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 6 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $4.67 per Mbps, higher than the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Parkersburg, $1.83.
For those who value internet speed as much as cost, Frontier offers download speeds up to 24 Mbps and upload speeds up to 2 Mbps in Parkersburg. These download speeds are available to 93% of the area, and are much slower than the average max speeds from all Parkersburg's providers, 265 Mbps.
Suddenlink Communications cable internet
Suddenlink Communications
Cable from Suddenlink Communications offers broadband to all households in Parkersburg covering 100% of the area.
Suddenlink Communications’s cable network is likely to offer faster speeds than DSL or satellite service, but Parkersburg residents in densely populated areas may experience slowed speeds during peak usage times.
Internet prices for Suddenlink Communications start at $30/mo.*, which is significantly lower than the average starting price for internet in Parkersburg, $41.99.
Suddenlink Communications customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 50 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $0.60 per Mbps, lower than the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Parkersburg, $1.83.
For those who value internet speed as much as cost, Suddenlink Communications offers download speeds up to 1,000 Mbps and upload speeds up to 50 Mbps in Parkersburg. These download speeds are available to 100% of the area, and are much faster than the average max speeds from all Parkersburg's providers, 265 Mbps.
Satellite from HughesNet offers broadband to all households in Parkersburg covering 100% of the area.
HughesNet satellite internet offers reliable connection in areas of Parkersburg where other internet types may not be available, but service is likely to come with low monthly data allowances and high latency, making streaming binges and real-time online gaming impractical.
Internet prices for HughesNet start at $59.99/mo.*, which is significantly higher than the average starting price for internet in Parkersburg, $41.99.
HughesNet customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 25 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $2.40 per Mbps, about the same as the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Parkersburg, $1.83.
For those who value internet speed as much as cost, HughesNet offers download speeds up to 25 Mbps and upload speeds up to 3 Mbps in Parkersburg. These download speeds are available to 100% of the area, and are much slower than the average max speeds from all Parkersburg's providers, 265 Mbps.
What’s the fastest internet provider in Parkersburg?
Suddenlink Communications is the fastest internet provider in Parkersburg with download speeds up to 1,000 Mbps. These speeds are available to 100% of households in Parkersburg. The next fastest internet provider in Parkersburg is Community Antenna Service, Inc., offering download speeds up to 500 Mbps to 77% of the area.
What’s the cheapest internet provider in Parkersburg?
Frontier offers the cheapest internet in Parkersburg with plans starting at $27.99/mo. This is significantly less than the average starting price for internet in Parkersburg, $41.99.
What's a good internet speed for my home?
Download speeds of 25 Mbps and above are considered broadband speeds, and can handle most online activities including streaming and gaming. For households with multiple devices using a Wi-Fi connection, speeds of 100 Mbps and higher are likely to offer a better online experience. Learn more about what speeds are best for your home.
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Active is: Making complexity investable
Two ways credit can add relative value as the cycle turns
by Georgios Georgiou | 30/07/2020
The risk/reward profile of corporate bonds is less attractive now than when the coronavirus crisis began. Since then, bonds from higher-rated firms have been buoyed by central bank support. As the credit cycle turns, we suggest prioritising both issuer and security selection to seek outperformance – potentially with fallen angels and secured bonds.
The risk/reward balance in corporate credit remains attractive, but less so than in March and April
Multi-sector and high-yield strategies focused on relatively undervalued assets have the potential to outperform, whether the credit rally continues or turns out to be fragile
Healthy and improving debt dynamics are critically important for issuer selection
As we move into a new stage of the credit cycle, security selection will be key to adding relative value to credit portfolios
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According to the Bank for International Settlements, 50% of firms globally may have insufficient cash flows to cover debt-related and operating expenses for 2020. This may push many credit investors higher up the rating spectrum as they seek to avoid potential distress in lower-quality credits. However, such an approach brings two main risks to performance.
First, many of these higher-rated bonds are already back to trading close to par, or their full value. This means their prices are less likely to appreciate further, so investors may only get returns from the bonds’ coupon payments.
Second, high-yield investors may run the risk of not earning the full yield-to-maturity because issuers can “call”, or redeem earlier, a large share of bonds to refinance the debt at lower rates.
One possible solution is to invest selectively in so-called “fallen angels” – issuers that have been downgraded to high yield, but which may go on to regain investment-grade status.
Seek out selective and defensive exposure to fallen angels
Fallen angels consist largely of non-callable bonds that may offer relative value, in the sense that they trade at deeper discounts than would be suggested by their credit fundamentals and peers. Historically, fallen angels have outperformed the broader high-yield market, as illustrated in Chart 1.
Chart 1: Over time, “fallen angels” have done better than high-yield bonds in general
High-yield bond total returns (in %; weekly data; rebased to 100, December 2006 to July 2020)
Source: Bloomberg, ICE BofAML indices, Allianz Global Investors. Data as at 10 July 2020. See disclosure for index definitions.
However, fallen angels in aggregate may not be offering quite as much value as they have in the past. As Chart 2 shows, fallen-angel credit spreads have not widened, or “cheapened”, as much in the current crisis as in 2008-2009, indicating that these issuers may offer less relative value than they did in the past. One possible factor behind this has been the unprecedented move by central banks to buy, or accept as collateral, bonds issued by fallen angels. By pushing up the prices of these bonds, this form of systemic stimulus can mask the remaining risks that are specific to each firm, and it can cap the potential for excess returns from fallen angels as a group. Research shows that only around one quarter of fallen angels make it back to investment grade, so it’s important to take a highly selective approach when investing in these securities.
Chart 2: Credit spreads have not widened as much as in the 2008-2009 crisis
High-yield bond & CDS spreads (basis points; weekly data; December 2006 to July 2020)
Source: Bloomberg, ICE BofAML and IHS Markit indices, Allianz Global Investors. Data as at 10 July 2020. Bond spreads are option-adjusted (eg, to account for the early redemption risk of callable bonds) and indicate the yield difference between corporate bonds and equivalent-maturity government bonds. CDS index spreads indicate the price investors pay to insure against any of the index constituents failing to pay their debt. See disclosure for index definitions.
Moreover, a defensive way to add to or to hedge fallen-angel exposure is through “long” or “short” positions in corporate credit-default swap (CDS) indices. Long positions on these exchange-traded derivatives gain in value when there is an improvement in credit quality in the underlying unsecured bonds (which are insured against default by CDS contracts). CDS indices are relevant because fallen-angel and crossover securities tend to dominate CDS markets more than lower- or higher-rated securities. Also, CDS indices are usually more liquid than cash bonds, which can help CDS outperform as credit conditions improve.
There is value within the secured bonds universe
Secured bonds offer an alternative way to add relative value to credit portfolios, even if the segment may not look that attractive at first glance. Chart 1 shows that secured bonds have underperformed the fallen-angel universe and broader high-yield bond market – which are made up of approximately 5% and 20% of secured debt, respectively.
Intuitively this makes sense. Secured bonds offer greater loss protection, so they should command a lower risk premium. They have seniority over unsecured bonds and are collateralised with company assets and other guarantees – which has historically given them much higher recovery rates (more than 65%) in the event of default. For example, when an issuer is downgraded from a BB to a B rating, its secured bonds can trade at credit (risk) spreads as much as 200 basis points lower than their unsecured counterparts. Moreover, secured bonds have shorter duration on average, which can help smooth the impact of longer-term volatility in interest rates and spreads.
We think it’s particularly worthwhile to look at secured bonds now because major credit downturns usually prompt companies to pledge various forms of collateral in order to attract financing, potentially making their secured bonds even more attractive. For instance, in 2009, following the global financial crisis, the proportion of new corporate debt accounted for by secured bonds rose by several multiples year-on-year. This credit-cycle downturn has been similar, with April marking a record high so far in the volume of secured bonds issued globally each month.
However, unlike in 2009, credit spreads today more closely resemble those of the broader high-yield market. This means that on a loss- or recovery-adjusted basis, there will likely be bargains to be found within the secured bonds universe. This may be because many investors remain cautious, perceiving the increased issuance of secured debt as predominantly a sign of distress. But in a crisis as deep as the current one, healthier issuers are just as likely to issue secured debt as those that go on to default. Experienced credit managers with large research teams can often buy high-quality secured bonds at much higher-than-usual yields, especially in the primary market.
Since March this year, we have seen at least two examples of new secured bond issues that subsequently paid off on a relative value basis.
One firm with a B rating was under pressure to fund cash needs and refinance bank loans, so it issued new secured bonds at double-digit yields more typical of CCC rated debt.
Another high-yield issuer needed to pay down existing unsecured bonds that carried higher coupons, so it tapped the primary market with secured bonds that were rated investment-grade but actually yielded more than comparable securities.
Both issuers had at least one common characteristic: they did not issue as much secured debt in good times, leaving unencumbered assets at hand to pledge as collateral in bad times. A healthy loan-to-value ratio – ie, a relatively low level of debt compared to a company’s secured assets – became an important metric to consider when future earnings visibility vanished as economies went into lockdown.
Whether or not the credit rally continues, focus on relatively undervalued assets
Looking ahead, the risk-reward balance in corporate credit remains attractive, even if less so than in the first quarter of 2020. Higher-quality high-yield credit may be more skewed to income than capital gains for now, but we still see significant upside and lower downside in select fallen angels and secured bonds. Focusing on relatively undervalued assets may be more likely to deliver outperformance, whether or not the credit rally continues.
If credit spreads tighten further, identifying value relative to equivalent securities could help enhance returns for investors who feel they have missed out. Alternatively, if a “V-shaped” recovery does not materialise, repeated spread widening should push investors to prioritise liquidity and loss mitigation. Multi-sector and high-yield strategies – with a selective and defensive profile – have the potential to outperform in both scenarios.
Georgios Georgiou
Global Head of Fixed Income Product Specialists
Georgios is Global Head of Fixed Income Product Specialists and is responsible for communicating our fixed income strategies and active value proposition to clients. Previously, Georgios was Head of Investment Structuring across all asset classes and strategies. Before joining Allianz Global Investors in 2014, he was Head of Investment Risk at Invesco, and a Director in Global Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to that Georgios worked in private, corporate and investment banking at Deutsche Bank and UBS. He was also an economist at the European Central Bank and a financial markets regulator in the UK earlier in his career. Georgios graduated with a BSFS from Georgetown University and an MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Coronavirus: impact and analysis
China’s return to growth should help equities and corporate credit in North Asia
The coronavirus has accelerated changes in energy supply and demand
by Christian McCormick , Paul Schofield | 23/06/2020
China is positioned to lead Asia’s economic recovery from the coronavirus
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Active is: Sharing insights
by Christiaan Tuntono | 13/08/2020
With its successful containment of Covid-19, China’s ongoing recovery is likely to benefit its most closely connected neighbours.
Investing involves risk. Duration is a measure of the sensitivity of the price of a bond to a change in interest rates. ICE BofAML Global High Yield Index tracks the performance of USD, CAD, GBP and EUR denominated below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the major domestic or eurobond markets. ICE BofAML Global Fallen Angel High Yield Index is a subset of ICE BofAML Global High Yield Index including securities that were rated investment grade at the point of issuance. ICE BofAML BB-B Global High Yield Secured Bond Index is a subset of ICE BofAML Global High Yield Index including all secured securities rated BB1 through B3, inclusive. The Markit iTraxx Europe Crossover Index comprises 75 equally weighted credit default swaps on the most liquid sub-investment grade European corporate entities. The Markit CDX North America High Yield Index is composed of 100 non-investment grade entities, distributed among 2 sub-indices: B, BB. All entities are domiciled in North America. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
The value of an investment and the income from it will fluctuate and investors may not get back the principal invested. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. This is a marketing communication. It is for informational purposes only. This document does not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security and shall not be deemed an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.
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How to sign up for a chance to review the OnePlus 8 before it launches
Apply for "The Lab" to get a chance to review the OnePlus 8 before it hits the shelves.
Jason England
Source: Android Central
OnePlus has opened up applications for a chance to review the OnePlus 8 before it launches.
All you have to do is submit your personal information and a sample review for a chance to join "The Lab."
Ten applicants will be chosen to receive the OnePlus 8 ahead of the launch and required to create a review in order to keep the device.
Source: OnePlus
For several years now, OnePlus has offered mobile tech enthusiasts a shot at reviewing its latest phones before they are released. The initiative is known as "The Lab," and signups for the OnePlus 8 have recently opened up.
It works like this, until April 1, 2020, you have the chance to apply for a spot in "The Lab." Everyone is encouraged to apply, whether you're a OnePlus user or not. However, six out of ten of the slots are reserved for OnePlus community members, and you must be a member before the promotion was announced to meet that requirement.
Applicants will be required to provide personal information along with a sample review of your current smartphone. Applications that include creative answers, photos, and videos will have a higher chance of being selected by the judges.
On April 2, 2020, 10 reviewers will be announced and sent the new OnePlus 8 smartphone ahead of the official launch. Winners will then be required to prepare an unbiased review in time for it to go live after the OnePlus 8 has been announced.
Once the reviews go up, OnePlus will evaluate them, and if you followed all the guidelines, you'll be able to keep the phone. OnePlus will even send you a custom-made "The Lab" phone case. If it is determined you didn't meet the requirements, then you'll have to return the phone within one month.
So, what are you waiting for? Use the signup form now for a chance to be one of the first to get your hands on the OnePlus 8 and share your thoughts about it.
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HTC And Under Armour Return With The HealthBox—A Scale, Activity Tracker, And Heart Rate Monitor That Cost $400 Altogether
Bertel King, Jr.
At last year's Mobile World Congress, HTC and Under Armour announced the Grip, a fitness tracker that would never appear on store shelves. HTC scrapped the product to work on something better—its words, not ours. At this year's CES, HTC and Under Armour are back to show us what better means.
The two companies have partnered up to produce HealthBox, a three-part product for monitoring your health and fitness. The trio consists of a scale, a fitness band, and a heart rate monitor.
The UA Scale, UA Band, and UA Heart Rate all have Under Armour branding, but HTC has produced the hardware. The Scale measures your weight and BMI. It's wi-fi connected and supports up to eight users.
The Heart Rate goes around your chest during workouts. The Band is meant to go around your wrist all day long, where it will do the usual activity tracking job of counting steps and gauging your sleep.
Under Armour handles the software front. You manage everything from the UA Record app already available in the Play Store.
As for the HealthBox, it will go on sale on January 22nd. The full kit is available for pre-order from HTC or Under Armour for $400. That, mind you, is more than you would spend on an existing scale, activity tracker, and heart rate monitor from Fitbit, Runtastic, and others. But this is an integrated experience, and that's worth something.
Under Armour Record
Developer: Under Armour
HTC & UNDER ARMOUR UNVEIL UA HEALTHBOX
Pre-orders begin today for the first comprehensive connected fitness system
LAS VEGAS, CES – January 5, 2016 – Today, HTC and Under Armour unveiled UA HealthBox™, the world’s first connected fitness system that measures, monitors, and manages the most important drivers of health and fitness – sleep, fitness, activity and nutrition. Designed and manufactured by HTC and powered by UA Record™, UA HealthBox includes a fitness band, heart rate monitor and a smart scale that all connect seamlessly with UA Record to provide insights that empower individuals to improve their health and fitness. The new UA Record is available for download from the Google Play™ store and App Store.
With an HTC smartphone, or other Android or iOS smartphone, UA Record serves as the dashboard for daily activities that dictate how you feel. Following the same philosophy HTC takes when designing smartphones, UA HealthBox removes the barriers and complexity of technology with a simple to set up and easy to use system.
“This system contains everything a consumer needs to better manage their health and fitness,” said Wolfgang Muller, Executive Director - Connected Products, HTC. “Whether you are a high performance athlete or simply committed to improving your health, UA HealthBox is the only system that delivers the complete picture and provides the information and motivation needed to achieve your goals.”
UA BandTM is designed to be worn all-day, every day. It tracks daily activity, workouts and sleep. All day activity capture allows you to set a daily goal and track progress on the band. UA Band utilizes a seamless exterior shell with a display that is discreetly hidden under an outer layer allowing the technology to disappear when it is not in use. Designed with athletes in mind, the band offers an advanced workout mode with a display that stays on during the workout, as well as an LED that indicates heart rate zone when paired with UA Heart Rate. UA Band comes in black with a red textured underside to allow for moisture wicking.
UA Heart RateTM is a compact heart rate monitor with an innovative micro snap technology designed to make it undetectable during workouts. The chest strap and removable sensor helps individuals monitor intensity and train smarter. The UA Heart Rate was created to provide an accurate calculation of calories burned. Combined with the UA Record app, UA Heart Rate allows you to customize your heart rate zones.
UA ScaleTM is a beautifully crafted, Wi-Fi enabled scale with an iconic circular design. The scale utilizes a sheet of glass with advanced conductive paint technology that enables weight and body fat percentage readings. The hidden LED display behind the glass makes technology invisible when not in use. The scale can support up to eight users and syncs with the UA Record app for individuals to view trends with weight as part of their overall dashboard. UA Scale comes in black with a red textured underside.
“There are several options for consumers today when it comes to monitoring their daily activity, but no option when it comes to capturing and presenting information in a meaningful way. Most of us know more about the health of our car than we do about our own bodies,” said Robin Thurston, Chief Digital Officer, Under Armour. “Under Armour and HTC set out to change that by going far beyond the automation of data tracking. UA HealthBox provides custom health and fitness experiences designed to guide you towards your goals.”
Because of its unique approach, UA HealthBox is intended to be an integral part of an individual’s daily life, and as such the importance of design was paramount. UA HealthBox has been designed to unify the portfolio of products and the experience of using them.
“At HTC design is an uncompromising part of our culture. It is our DNA and we have an obsessive focus on delivering beautiful design not just on the outside but on the inside too,” said Muller. “UA HealthBox is beautifully designed with no detail overlooked, but it was also designed to be a comprehensive connected system that is easy to use throughout the day and every day. This is what sets it apart from anything on the market today.”
UA HealthBox will be available on January 22 in the U.S. with pre-orders beginning today on www.HTC.com, www.UA.com and at Under Armour Brand House locations. UA HealthBox (including UA Band, UA Heart Rate and UA Scale) will cost $400. UA HealthBox will roll out to additional US retailers in the first quarter and internationally throughout 2016.
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Huawei Announces Mate 8 With A 6-Inch 1080p Display, Android 6.0, And A 4000mAh Battery
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Ajin Anime's Mamoru Miyano Voices IBM in Live-Action Film
posted on 2017-07-11 03:20 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Miyano voiced protagonist Kei Nagai in anime series, films
The official website for the live-action film based on Gamon Sakurai's Ajin - Demi-Human manga revealed on Tuesday that Mamoru Miyano will voice the IBM (Invisible Black Matter) of the protagonist Kei Nagai. Miyano voiced Kei himself in the earlier anime series and films.
The site previously streamed a trailer for the film in June.
The film is slated to open in Japan on September 30.
Takeru Satoh as Kei Nagai (center left)
Gou Ayano as Satō (center right), the antagonist and member of an ajin terrorist group that wants to befriend Kei
Left column, top to bottom:
Tetsuji Tamayama as Yū Tosaki, a member of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Ajin Control Commission
Rina Kawaei as Izumi Shimomura, an ajin who is Tosaki's secretary and bodyguard
Minami Hamabe as Eriko Nagai, Kei's younger sister
Right column, top to bottom:
Yuu Shirota Kōji Tanaka, a member of an ajin terrorist group
Yudai Chiba as Okuyama, a member of an ajin terrorist group
Yūki Yamada as Takahashi, a member of an ajin terrorist group
The film's setting will be Tokyo in 2017. In the film, Kei is a medical intern, with his age changed to match Satoh's.
Katsuyuki Motohiro ( Psycho-Pass , Space Travelers, Bayside Shakedown ) is directing the film. The live-action film project has invited the action filming team of the live-action Rurouni Kenshin films to work on the project. The Oral Cigarettes ( Noragami Aragoto , Sagrada Reset ) is performing the film's theme song "BLACK MEMORY."
In the original manga's story, an immortal first appeared on an African battlefield 17 years ago. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student named Kei Nagai is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.
The manga already inspired a 3D CG anime film trilogy, two television anime seasons, and three original anime DVDs by Polygon Pictures.
Source: Comic Natalie
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This Week in Anime - The Night is Long is a 90 Minute Bender
Let's take a trip down memory lane where bars are open, booze is flowing, and impromptu musical theater is the name of the game. ― Let's take a trip down memory lane where bars are open, booze is flowing, and impromptu musical theater is the name of the game. Masaaki Yuasa returns to adapt another Tomihiko Morimi story after his work on Tatami Galaxy. Where will our heroine end up is her bar-hopping...
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International update: Global Covid infections pass 33 million – deaths exceed 997,000
28 September 2020 (Last Updated September 28th, 2020 10:11)
Global: global Covid-19 infections have passed 33 million. The global death toll has passed 997,799 according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. However, the true toll is likely already over one million, due to differing definitions, time lags and suspected underreporting in some countries. Mexico’s top coronavirus official said on Sunday that definitive data on the country’s death toll from Covid-19 won’t be available for a couple of years, AP reports.
India: India’s confirmed coronavirus tally reached six million cases on Monday, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases since the pandemic began.
Brazil: Brazil reported 14,318 cases, after a week in which the nation had the lowest number of infections since June, according to Health Ministry data. Total cases, in the country with the world’s third-highest number of infections, are now 4,732,309. Another 335 people died, for a total 141,741 fatalities.
South Korea: South Korea on Monday reported 50 new coronavirus cases, the lowest since 11 August, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said. Of the new cases, 40 were domestic and 10 imported.
UK: There have been a further 5,693 lab-confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK, according to government data, taking the total to 429,277. Government figures show a further 17 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus as of Sunday. This brings the official UK toll to 41,988.
Greece: Greece has recorded its first coronavirus fatality among its large migrant community.
Philippines: The Philippines cannot be complacent amid the slowdown in the spread of the coronavirus as clusters of infections still remain while critical cases have marginally increased, health authorities said.
Ireland: Ireland recorded 430 new infections on Sunday, the most in five months, with Dublin accounting for around half the cases.
France: France reported a third daily decline in new cases, falling to 11,123 on Sunday from 14,412 on Saturday. The seven-day average remained above 12,000 for the third day. France reported 27 additional deaths, taking the total to 31,727.
Myanmar: Myanmar has seen a spike in cases this month, prompting the government to order the construction of treatment and quarantine centres in Yangon and Mandalay. Some 743 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed on Sunday, boosting the South-East Asian nation’s total to 10,734, the Ministry of Health and Sports said. Fatalities increased by 28 to 226.
Italy: Italy reported 1,766 new cases on Sunday, down from 1,869 on Saturday, with 87,714 daily tests. The country reported 17 deaths, the same as Saturday. Patients in intensive care units rose to 254, from 247 a day earlier. Total cases reported since February increased to 309,870.
Lockdown updates
UK: The UK Government is planning to impose a total social lockdown across most of northern England and potentially London to combat a second coronavirus wave, the Times reports.
Ireland: The government has reintroduced restrictions in the Irish capital, Dublin, as well as in a region along the border, to try and curb the spread of the virus.
New Zealand: Travel between New Zealand and some states of Australia is possible before the end of the year, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.
Thailand: Thailand’s Covid-19 task force, which is chaired by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha, agreed to extend a nationwide state-of-emergency for one more month through 31 October, according to Deputy Premier Wissanu Krea-Ngam.
Lesotho: Lesotho will reopen the border with South Africa on Thursday for business people, students, workers and those with medical appointments, Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro said.
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At first, the ten small oil paintings on jute in Jennifer J. Lee’s exhibition “Day Trip” seemed entirely random in subject matter. What, for instance, does a mandala of spiraling pink turkey wings have to do with scenes of ocean waves? But the various juxtapositions created a stoned kind of logic. The poultry parts began to resemble legs on a beach, perhaps, their skin dimpled by a sudden chill. Nearby, a painting showing angled stacks of plastic chairs—Stacked Chairs (2018)—brought this narrative into backyard barbeque territory.
The trippy vibe continued with Tubas (2018), where a grouping of the title instruments hypnotizes with its gleaming surfaces, and with Dandelions (2017), an especially exciting work hung in a hallway. The colors in this latter painting stand in vivid contrast to the muted palette of the other scenes—the effect is intoxicating. Two dandelions bleed red and blue from their sides, as if you’re hallucinating, or as if this were an image meant to be viewed with 3D glasses or were a badly aligned offset print. More colorful flora is found in Standing Flowers (2018), in which an arrangement of purplish buds and scattered sunflowers is set against a neutral-colored corner of a room to striking effect. Adorned with a satiny violet rosette, the arrangement suggests acknowledgment of some kind of event—congratulations on getting married, condolences on the death of your loved one, welcome to this corporate summit. It is remarkably occasion-neutral and, like the rest of the show, encourages you to project your own web of associations.
What even is this place we’re day tripping to or tripping in? There’s a sense that Lee is painting results from Google image searches, just as a landscape painter might paint a lake vista. The prosaic, matter-of-fact titles of the works read like search-engine-optimized keywords, while the rough, gridded weave of the jute creates a certain low-resolution pixelation. Hito Steyerl’s concept of “poor images” might come to mind, but these paintings don’t feel like bad-quality copies or lossy JPEGs so much as dynamic transformations.
Lee excels at interiors and images of the man-made. Infinity Mirror (2018) shows the recursive effect suggested by the title playing out in a public restroom. The glass grows greener with every reflection, but instead of the precise rectangular mise en abyme you might expect, the image rotates and loosens a bit in each iteration to evoke a ripple in time and space. Also stunning are two larger paintings of glass bricks, Window II and Window III (both 2018), through which other scenes are blurrily glimpsed, tantalizingly out of view. Lee’s landscapes, whether the aforementioned wave works or a nice-enough portrayal of a garden, suffer in comparison. These vistas of nature are noticeably less tight, suggesting scenes zoomed in on by a camera. Their haphazard quality invokes the way you might take a trip to the beach only to drink beer with your back to the ocean.
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10 teams secure Hero Junior League final round spots, 2 places still up for grabs!
Press Release 2019-05-03 General, I-League, Indian Super League, Second Division League Comments Off on 10 teams secure Hero Junior League final round spots, 2 places still up for grabs! 571 Views
Ten teams across the country have already qualified for the Final Round of the Hero Junior League 2018-19 while two spots are yet to be filled up in the Bengaluru and Goa zones respectively.
Twelve other teams across the fifteen zones will advance to the Playoff round where they’ll get another chance to join the twelve teams in the Final Round.
KOLKATA Zone
ATK and Mohun Bagan, having finished their respective groups in the Kolkata zone, cemented their berths in the final round whereas the Playoff spot is snatched by East Bengal Club from the other group in the same zone. While Mohun Bagan (13) had supreme authority over their opponents, East Bengal (13) and ATK (17) had to go through a tough ride to grab the pole from their group.
MAHARASHTRA Zone
Reliance Foundation Young Champs had a stupendous run to solidify to confirm their final round berth ahead of Iron Born FC, Football School of India (FSI) and others. Iron Born FC have also followed the RFYC boys to qualify to the final round whereas FSI colts have qualified to the Playoff round. Iron Born FC have garnered 5 wins to wrap up their campaign with 15 points out of possible 18 whereas RFYC have maintained 100% winning record to confirm their qualification having played only 5 matches so far. Meanwhile, they have scored 30 goals in 5 matches having conceded zero until now.
BENGALURU Zone
Having scored 78 goals in eight matches, Bengaluru FC have also roared into the final round from Group A of the respective zone. Alongside the scintillating attacking prowess, their defensive unit has also shown immense authority over others. Having conceded zero goal in eight matches, their defensive unit will surely give opponent coaches many a sleepless night in the final round.
PUNJAB Zone
Three-time champions Minerva Punjab FC have kicked off their campaign in style. The Former I-League champions have scored 21 goals in 5 matches to grab maximum 15 points to advance to the final round. The Ludhiana-based side are yet to play their last fixture in the zonal round but it’s going to be nothing more than a dead rubber.
CHENNAI Zone
FC Madras have been enough clinical to confirm their participation in the final round whereas Chennaiyin FC colts have finished second in the group to qualify to the playoff round. FC Madras signed off with 18 points from 8 matches while Chennaiyin FC have amassed 14 points with one match in hand.
DELHI Zone
Sudeva FC, with 21 points form 7 outings so far, have had a brilliant run so far in the Delhi zone. While they have smacked 28 goals in the process to maintain an 8-point lead over second-placed Delhi Dynamos FC, DDA are giving the Hero ISL outfit a run for their money to grab the coveted second spot to advance to the playoff round.
SHILLONG-GUWAHATI Zone
Although Shillong Lajong FC senior team haven’t had a decent season in the I-League, their junior side has lived up to the expectations to confirm the pole position in their respective zone. With 4 wins and 1 draw, the Reds have already confirmed the top berth in the group.
IMPHAL Zone
Birchandra Memorial SC have pipped NEROCA FC, thanks to scoring one goal more in the zonal round. Both teams finished their campaign with 14 points from 6 matches with a goal difference of +4. The intriguing stalemate finally went into Birchandra Memorial SC’s (21) way owing to scoring one goal more than NEROCA FC (20).
GOA Zone
In the Goa zone, fates are yet to be sealed for all the five teams who have thrown their hats in the ring. Red Machines Churchill Brothers SC and Dempo SC are locked at the top with 9 points from 3 matches whereas FC Goa are Salgaocar FC not falling behind. Sporting Clube de Goa are yet to open their account after playing an equal number of matches.
REST OF INDIA (ROI) Zone
Out of the six ROI zones, five teams have already wrapped up their campaign at the top to qualify to the playoff round. SAG Football Academy (ROI:B), State Football Academy (ROI:C), Kerala Blasters FC (ROI:D), Gokulam Kerala FC (ROI:E) and Dhanbad FA (ROI:F) have already cemented themselves in the next round of the Hero Junior League 2018-19 where the group-topper from ROI:A will join them after their zonal round concludes.
PLAYOFF ROUND
Twelve teams, who will be divided into three groups, will battle amongst themselves to advance to the Final round eventually. After the single-leg league round, three group champions alongside the best second-placed team will join the twelve teams in the final round. Matches of Group A (Kalyani Stadium), Group B (Naihati Stadium) and Group C (Barrackpore Stadium) will be held between May 13 and 17.
Sixteen teams will be divided into four groups and the eventual group champions will qualify to the semifinals of the Hero Junior League 2018-19. The single-leg league round is scheduled at the Barrackpore Stadium and Kalyani Stadium between May 20 and 25.
SEMIFINALS AND FINAL
Both the semifinals are scheduled at the Naihati Stadium on May 27 before the subsequent winners lock their horns for the coveted Hero Junior League 2018-19 silverware at the same venue two days later, May 29.
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Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS was one of the first standards developed by ASAM, reaching back as far as the early 1990th. The initiators and main contributors of the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard were BMW, Daimler and Porsche. BMW deployed one of the first Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server installations for a wind tunnel, but otherwise early versions of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS did not reach a wide market acceptance. This changed with the release of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS 3.0 at the end of the 90th. The first commercially available installations became available from independent suppliers. Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS begun to be used as the test data management system for test beds across the European automotive industry. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard rapidly evolved and got several extensions in 2003 with version 5.0 such as an object-oriented Application Programming InterfaceAPI, an Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML-based data ex-change format (ATFX) and application specific data models for Noise, Vibration and HarshnessNVH and test bed The process of ECU parameter tuning. Tests with ECU hardware and software in the loop are carried out. ECU internal variables and external sensor data is recorded and analyzed. The values of internal ECU parameters are determined as a result of this process.calibration. The release 5.3.0 from 2013 includes a new Is an abstract model that organizes data and how they relate to one another via formal description elements such as entities, attributes, relations and tables.data model for bus data. With the major release 6.0 in 2017, ASAM added a modern web-service Application Programming InterfaceAPI using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol for client-server communication and Google Protocol Buffers for the serialization of data. The new Application Programming InterfaceAPI significantly eases communication via the Internet and is an important step towards enabling Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS for Big-Data systems.
Test systems in the automotive industry are expensive with respect to commissioning and operation. Furthermore, they produce a lot of data. In the early 90th, vendors of test automation system supplied their own data evaluation tools operating on data storage solutions as part of their automation system. Those systems were proprietary and tailored-made for customer needs. As a consequence, many diverse systems existed, which were mostly incompatible to each other. Stored data were usually only accessible and understandable by those who produced the data. A wide variety of tools with data models, APIs and data exchange formats made it very hard to reuse test results. Wrapper-APIs were needed to link different tools, causing instability of the tool chain. Data converters had to transform data to different formats, which bore the potential to caused unintended modification, re-interpretation or loss of data.
Besides those issues, the most critical problem was data ambiguity. If the nomenclature, scope and semantics of data is not well defined, then users cannot trust the data or even misinterpret it. For example in the Noise, Vibration and HarshnessNVH application area, the The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement of loudness levels (phon) are dependent on the choice of sound pressure levels and frequencies. Loudness level measurements may follow standardized contours for equal loudness and may use filters with specific threshold parameters. Such meta data needs to be known before Noise, Vibration and HarshnessNVH specialists can correctly interpret loudness The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement data. Furthermore, they need accompanying data about the test such as the location and type of microphones. Creators of test data typically used the names of The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement channels to describe such accompanying data. Mnemonics, abbreviations and letter codes were used to convey meta information via the name of The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement channels. If those codes were not clearly and systematically documented, then consumers of such testing data had to speculate about the meaning of such names. Over an extended period of time, such name coding schemes have caused confusion of Babylonian dimensions. Other sources of error were the use of different data types, physical units or scaling formulas, which further led to misinterpretation of The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement values. All those potential pitfalls could cause costly re-testing at best, or even more costly recalls of released products at worst.
Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS solves the problems of data interpretation through the A document, which describes in detail the interfaces and behavior of a technical system for the purpose of implementing, integrating and operating the system.specification of data models with well-defined semantics. This allows to avoid redundant testing and misinterpretation of existing test data. Furthermore, within one Is an abstract model that organizes data and how they relate to one another via formal description elements such as entities, attributes, relations and tables.data model, the same testing data uses the same labels, data types, units and conversion methods. There is little room for misinterpretation. Standardized APIs and data exchange file formats further avoid the above mentioned wrapper APIs and data converters, hence saving costs for their development and the time losses that they would cause due to instable tool chains and degraded data quality.
There are many further advantages of a standardized test Is an organized collection of data.database. Test bed operators and development experts can more easily determine, if they have a sufficient amount of data to stop further testing. Furthermore, since prototypes are increasingly scarce and test rigs are booked out for months, users of test beds can produce test data ahead and easily retrieve it once needed at a later time. Data becomes available for cross-functional teams, e.g. for Noise, Vibration and HarshnessNVH and engine task-force teams, who have to jointly investigate a field issue of unexpected high noise levels in production vehicles. An Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server promotes collaboration by making the data available across department boundaries and allow their unambiguous interpretation by experts of different professions.
The Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard focuses on the persistent storage and retrieval of data. It broadly covers all use cases in the testing area and is primarily used in conjunction with test automation systems. Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS servers were first used in chassis dynamometers, powertrain dynamometers, Noise, Vibration and HarshnessNVH test labs and crash test labs.
The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard allows to create application specific data models, so that a wide area of test applications can be covered. Typical application areas of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS servers are component test beds for brakes, shock absorbers, fuel injectors, catalytic converters and other automotive components. Quality assurance test beds use Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS servers for storing raw data and classification data. Furthermore, Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS servers capture The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement data from climate chambers, wind tunnels, stress and endurance test rigs, hydro-pulse test systems, proving ground vehicle tests and fleet tests on public roads. More recently, Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS has been used for testing components of alternative propulsion systems, e.g. testing of electrical motors, batteries and power electronics. Another strength of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS is the capability to combine test data with data about the Unit Under TestUUT (unit-under-test), hence it is possible to track the development progress of components over time.
Large OEMs use enterprise-wide Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS databases, e.g. one Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server system for the complete engine development area. Data can be retrieved independently of who produced the data. In some areas, the amount of raw data is too large to be viewed and evaluated by humans. Automated client applications can browse through the Is an abstract model that organizes data and how they relate to one another via formal description elements such as entities, attributes, relations and tables.data model, retrieve data, evaluate results, generate test reports and archive data without human interaction. Generic Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS clients can work with Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS servers from different vendors without major integration efforts.
Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS is further used for test data exchange in a manufacturer/supplier relationship. This typically requires the exchange of data via files. The content or part of the content of an Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS Is an organized collection of data.database can be exported in an Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML-compliant Is a description about how information is encoded and structured and given a specific syntax for storage in a computer file.file format. The format contains the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS Is an abstract model that organizes data and how they relate to one another via formal description elements such as entities, attributes, relations and tables.data model and testing data. The receiver of the files can import the data via Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML-importers and are able to correctly understand and store the data in their own data processing tools or databases.
Data models in Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS provide a storage location and a meaning for data. The latter is very important. Testing data can only be understood and applied correctly, if the following information is known (→ corresponding base model element given below each question):
Where is my data?
→ AoMeasurement
What was tested?
→ AoUnitUnderTest
What test equipment was used?
→ AoTestEquipment
Which test was performed?
→ AoTestSequence
What was the purpose of the test?
→ AoAny
Which person ran the test?
→ AoUser
When was the test carried out?
→ AoMeasurement - measurement_start, measurement_end
A user, who queries testing data from an Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server, is able to get an answer on these questions. Prerequisite for this is a meaningful and well-defined application model. While the definition of such an application model is the responsibility of the user when he sets up an Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server, the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard provides several aids for this job:
Base Model: Foundation and reference for application models.
Predefined Application Models: Provide a starting point for the definition of customer-specific application models. Given for test object geometry, NVH testing, test stand calibration data, bus data, testing workflows.
The base model can be viewed as a rough data classification of testing data. The elements of the base model are well-defined with respect to syntax and semantics. The syntactical definition of elements makes sure that they can be read by all Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS clients. The semantic definition of the elements ensures that they are understood the same way by each client.
ODS base model
This shall be demonstrated by an example: AoMeasurementQuantity is the base element that represents the values of a measured physical quantity organized as a column in a The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement matrix. This is the "meaning" or "semantics" forAoMeasurementQuantity, which allows clients to correctly interpret and categorize the data.AoMeasurementQuantity has further attributes, which define the syntax of its data. For example, the attributedatatype describes the storage format on bit-level for the measured values (e.g. DT_BOOLEAN, DT_BYTE or DT_FLOAT, etc.) and the attribute dimensiondescribes the number of values in the matrix column. This is the "format" or "syntax" forAoMeasurementQuantity, which allows clients to correctly read and process the data.
Furthermore, the base model describes relations between elements. For example, AoMeasurementQuantity references AoPhysicalDimension, which is the base element that represents information about the kind of quantity, e.g. force or temperature. It also references AoUnit, which is the base element that represents information about the unit, e.g. Newton or Kelvin. With such information, a client is now well informed how to interpret and process the data that it has received from an Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server. For example, a client knows now how to correctly convert data so that the physical units match (prevent comparing Degree Celsius with Kelvin) and categorize data of the same type (prevent displaying temperature data and force data in the same diagram).
The elements of the base model are briefly described in the following table.
AoTest
AoSubTest
AoMeasurement Used to organize measurements and corresponding input/output data.
AoSubmatrix
AoLocalColumn Are the base elements where test results are stored.
AoQuantity
AoQuantityGroup Is used to keep information on a physical quantity that may be of relevance for any or all of the tests kept in the database.
AoMeasurementQuantity Represents those quantities that are used in a measurement.
AoUnit
AoUnitGroup
AoPhysicalDimension Are used to keep information on the relationship between result values (plain numbers) and the corresponding units, thereby allowing for correct arithmetic or relational operations.
AoUnitUnderTest
AoUnitUnderTestPart Contains information about what has been tested.
AoTestEquipment
AoTestEquipmentPart Contains information about which equipment has been used.
AoTestSequence
AoTestSequencePart Contains information about which sequence of steps has been processed during testing.
AoTestDevice Contains information about which test device was used.
AoUser
AoUserGroup Are base elements used for handling security aspects.
AoLog Is used for logging purposes.
AoParameter,
AoParameterSet Can be used e.g. to avoid redundancy by storing information that is used by several elements only once.
AoNameMap, AoAttributeMap Holds alias names for an application element, e.g. for names in different languages. Specifies alias names for an application attribute.
AoAny Is a base element that does not carry a specific meaning and which may be used to store information that does not fit to the other base elements’ meanings.
The base model is actually not directly used as a model for databases. It is typically too generic for this purpose. However, the base model is used as a parent for deriving specific application models. An element of an application model always has a reference to a base model element, thereby giving it the meaning of the base model element.
Application Model
Application models cover specific application areas such as Noise, Vibration and HarshnessNVH testing or engine testing. They are derived from the base model and define, which of the base model elements are really used in a Is an organized collection of data.database. Each element of an application model references an element of the well-defined base model, thereby adding meaning to the data.
So, building an application model in Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS means to 2D-table with three axes.map application-specific elements to elements of the base model. For example, an "engine" test bed tests engines with the components "intake manifold", "piston" and "engine block". We 2D-table with three axes.map the "engine" to the base model element AoUnitUnderTest and the components "intake manifold", "piston" and "engine block" are mapped to AoUnitUnderTestPart. Furthermore, we want to measure the temperature for each component and store the data in the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS Is an organized collection of data.database. So, we link the elements "intake manifold", "piston" and "engine block" to "The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement" (which maps to the base model element: AoMeasurement). "The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement" shall contain "TemperatureInstantaneous" (maps to base model element: AoMeasurementQuantity). "TemperatureInstantaneous" shall references to "Kelvin" (base model element: AoUnit), which has a reference to "Temperature" (maps to base model element: AoPhysicalDimension).
Example of a mapping of application model elements to base model elements
Client applications that query the application model can still understand the meaning of the specific application Is an abstract model that organizes data and how they relate to one another via formal description elements such as entities, attributes, relations and tables.data model elements through those relations to the base model. This allows users of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS-compliant databases to create tailored application data models for their specific testing use-cases, and client applications are still able to correctly process the data from such tailored databases due to the well-defined syntax and semantics of the referenced base model elements.
Besides those base relations, the designer of an application model may introduce new relations between application elements. He may also add attributes that are specific for his test Describes how an actor interacts with a system to achieve a goal by carrying out specific steps of actions or events. The actor can be a human or another system. ASAM's use of the term 'use-case' is based upon the definition in UML.use-case. So, the application model can have additional relations an attributes, which do not exist in the base model. They are still understandable for a client, since they exist in the context of their element, which always has a relation to the base model.
Continuing the example from above, we want to document the customer to whom the engine under test belongs to. So, we add a reference to "Engine" that points to the element "Customer" (which maps to the base model element: AoUser). This relation does not exist in the base model. We may further add to our application model element "intake manifold" the attributes "weight" and "material", and do the same for the other components "piston" and "engine block". This allows to store weight and material information to the unit-under-test.
The Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard contains five pre-specified application models for specific application areas:
test object geometry
NVH testing
test stand calibration data
bus data
testing workflows
International Organization for StandardizationISO 22240 specifies a sixth model with the name "Vehicle Safety Information Model" (VSIM), which standardizes the data storage of vehicle safety tests. This model is Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS-compliant, but it is owned by International Organization for StandardizationISO and as such is not included in the ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard.
Using such an application model guarantees that clients store the same information with the same data formats in the same way, and thus the meaning of the stored information can be generally understood by different clients. The pre-specified application models are ready-for-use, however, it is expected that users will tailor them for their needs by adding company-specific items.
Application models just provide meta-information about the structure of the data to be stored and retrieved. They need to be instantiated as a Is an organized collection of data.database on an Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server. This allows to store and retrieve actual data, i.e. client applications can then create specific instances of application model elements and begin to store values in its attributes. Furthermore, clients can even create new instance attributes and new relations between two instances in the instantiated Is an abstract model that organizes data and how they relate to one another via formal description elements such as entities, attributes, relations and tables.data model that do not exist in the underlying application model.
Physical Database Model
The Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard specifies how a Is an organized collection of data.database should initially be constructed to physically store data in a compliant way. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard focuses on relational databases as this is the most commonly used Is an organized collection of data.database technology in the industry.
Storing information using a relational Is an organized collection of data.database requires to specify which tables must be available in the Is an organized collection of data.database, what columns they need to have, which table entries must be unique (because they are used as keys) and much more. An Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS-compliant Is an organized collection of data.database clearly distinguishes between meta information about the application model on the one side and the actual values on the other side. They are stored in different tables.
The meta information about the application model is stored in three static tables.
SVCENT: Table of application model elements
Holds for each element a unique ID, a name, a reference to the base model element and the name of the table where the instances of the application elements are stored.
SVCATTR: Table of application model attributes
Contains a list of the application attributes of all application elements and all unidirectional [1,n] application relations. For attributes, the table allows to identify the attribute by name, to which application model element they belong to and (if available) to which base model element they belong to. For relations, the table contains the ID of the target element. Furthermore, the table contains the data type of the attribute values and the column name in which the attribute values are stored.
SVCREF: Table of application relations
Contains all bidirectional [n,m] application relations.
Values of application model instances are stored in instance tables.
Tables containing instance attributes Contains attributes and relations that are added to instances and thus do not exist in the application model.
Tables containing instance relations of bidirectional [n,m]-relation types Contains a matrix that relates instances of elements to each other.
Tables containing instances and their attributes Is referenced by SVCENT and SVCATTR and contains the actual values for each attribute.
Tables containing security information Contains tables to restrict access to instances, elements and attributes, as well as providing access control templates.
The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard defines three distinct APIs for access to the Is an organized collection of data.database. They abstract client access from the actual implementation of the Is an organized collection of data.database on the server. Furthermore, the Application Programming InterfaceAPI commands allow to retrieve actual test data and to access meta information about the application model. The meta information allows a client to interpret and understand the application model, thus allowing it to operate with different ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS data models.
The first ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS interface specifications historically used Remote Procedure CallRPC (Remote Procedure Call) and some of today's implementations are still base on the Remote Procedure CallRPC-Application Programming InterfaceAPI. The object oriented Object-OrientedOO-Application Programming InterfaceAPI based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (OMG Standard)CORBA architecture (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) succeeded the Remote Procedure CallRPC-Application Programming InterfaceAPI. For compatibility reasons, both legacy APIs are still included in ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS.
Since version 6.0.0, Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS includes a web-service Application Programming InterfaceAPI using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The new Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Application Programming InterfaceAPI furthermore uses the Google Protocol Buffers A document, which describes in detail the interfaces and behavior of a technical system for the purpose of implementing, integrating and operating the system.specification for the serialization of application data. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Application Programming InterfaceAPI includes most of the functionality of the Object-OrientedOO-Application Programming InterfaceAPI and Remote Procedure CallRPC-Application Programming InterfaceAPI, and is capable of replacing it in typical communication scenarios. The new Application Programming InterfaceAPI significantly eases client-server communication via the Internet and is an important step towards enabling Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS for Big-Data systems. The recommended way to access ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS is to use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Application Programming InterfaceAPI.
Major characteristics of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Application Programming InterfaceAPI are:
Based upon the REST architectural style
W3C HTTP 1.0 compliant
Binary & JSON data serialization via Google Protocol Buffers 3.0 (proto3)
W3C SSE notifications for change events
Usable with reverse proxy
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Application Programming InterfaceAPI consist of 30 methods for establishing a web-service based request-response type of communication between the client application and the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server. The majority of methods use the POST command, as this command already exists since Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP 1.0 and is supported by even older network infrastructures. Furthermore, the POST command allows an efficient transfer of method parameters in the proto3-format. Three methods of the Application Programming InterfaceAPI use the DELETE and GET command of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP.
The body of the Application Programming InterfaceAPI method can have two alternative content-types for transfering structured data in a serialized format:
Proto3: the recommended and most efficient format for data serialization
JSON: JSON representation of the protobuf message
Each communication session between client and server is identified via a connection identifier (conI), which is generated by the server as a response to the "POST {baseURI}/Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ods" command. All subsequent commands contain the connection identifier.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Application Programming InterfaceAPI methods have the basic structure "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Command", "Path" and "Action". The Action contain the actual functionality specified in ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS. The Application Programming InterfaceAPI defines twentyfour A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard methods for common functions such as opening and closing a connection to the server, read/write/modify instance data (i.e. meta-data and The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement-data), modification of the application model, functions for a client to handle transactions, and other functions. Transactions consist of a sequence of actions, which are performed as if they were just one action, thus ensuring data consistency. If actions of one transaction did not fully complete, then the server can be rolled back, ensuring the original condition before the start of the transaction. The next table lists all A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard methods and provides a brief description of the Action.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (IETF/W3C Standard)HTTP-Command
POST {baseURI}/ ods
Request a connection ID to establish a communication session between client and server.
DELETE {baseURI}/ ods/{conI}
Close the session.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ context-read
Retrieve all or a subset of context variables (name-value pairs that specify settings for the server).
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ context-update
Set the value of one or more context variables.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ data-read
Read instance data, e.g. attribute values, relations, and The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement data through 'values', 'flags', and 'generation_parameters' of the local column.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ valuematrix-read
Read the mass data of a complete The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement or of a subset of it.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ data-create
Create new instance, set attribute values and relations.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ data-update
Modify new instance, set attribute values and relations, write mass data.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ data-copy
Copy an instance.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ data-delete
Delete one or multiple instance.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ n-m-relation-read
Get a list of all instances that are related to a given instance through an n:m relation.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ n-m-relation-write
Set, add, or delete the n:m relations of an instance to other instances.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ transaction-create This method starts a transaction.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ transaction-commit This method is used to signal to the ODS server that all activities within the current transaction are submitted, and that the client wants the server to make all resulting changes persistent in the ODS data storage.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ transaction-abort This method may be invoked by a client if it wants all activities within the current transaction to be rolled back.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ model-read This method retrieves the application model that is currently stored at the ODS server.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ model-delete This method allows to remove application elements completely or remove application attributes from an application element or application relations between two application elements.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ model-update This method allows to create a new and modify an existing application model and its parts at the ODS server.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ model-check This method allows to determine whether the application model as it is currently held on the ODS server for this {conI} obeys the rules of ASAM ODS.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ basemodel-read This method allows to retrieve the ASAM ODS base model from the ODS server.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ asampath-create This method may be used to determine the ASAM path for a specific instance of an application element.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ asampath-resolve This method allows to retrieve an instance of an application element, if only its ASAM path is known.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ file-access This method may be used to retrieve an URI for accessing files, blobs and bytestreams.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ file-control This method may be used to take a file under control or remove it from control of an ODS server.
The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard also defines six special methods to register clients to receive event notifications from the server and for security administration. A server can sent notifications if:
a new instance of an application element has been inserted (NEW)
an existing instance of an application element has been modified (MODIFY)
a existing instance of an application element has been deleted (DELETE)
the application model has been modified (MODEL)
any settings of the ODS security were modified (SECURITY)
The server can identify a specific client by the client-generated unique receiver identifier {recI}. The next table lists all special methods and provides a brief description of the Action.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ security-read This method allows to retrieve information on the ACL-entries (access control list) to an application element, or to one or more attributes or relations of an application element or to one or more instances of an application element.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ security-update This method allows to attach ACL-entries to an application element, or to one or more attributes or relations of an application element or to one or more instances of an application element, or to modify or remove already existing ACL-entries.
POST {baseURI}/ods/{conI}/ initial-rights This method allows to set, remove, or modify a set of session-specific ACL-templates.
POST {baseURI}/ events/{recI} This method allows a client to register with the ODS server for a set of events.
DELETE {baseURI}/ events/{recI} This method allows a client to unregister from the ODS server.
GET {baseURI}/ events/{recI} This method allows a POOL-mode client to retrieve a set of events from the ODS server. Once the client has registered as a receiver for events at an ODS server, that server collects all matching events and stores them in a receiver-specific persistent event pool. Each time the client calls this method and thereby references a receiver through the unique {recI}, the ODS server will retrieve all events currently in the event pool for that receiver, and returns them in the response body.
Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS offers several more features, which makes client-server access efficient and safe:
Mixed-Mode Server: ODS uses external files like the ASAM MDF binary file format to store mass data. Instead of importing such data into the database, the external file is just referenced in there. Access to the data is completely abstracted through the API, i.e. clients access data in external files exactly the same way as they access data stored internally in the database. This makes storing large amounts of data transparent to clients and very efficient for the server.
Queries: Client requests may be narrowed through a set of relational ('>', '<', '=', etc.) and logical ('AND', 'OR', 'NOT', etc.) operators, which eases access to huge amounts of data.
File Description Formats
The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard defines the ATF format (ASAM Transport Format), which is a text-based description format for file-based data exchange between tools. ATF allows to transport the complete application model as well as the instances with their attributes, relations and values.
The A document, which describes in detail the interfaces and behavior of a technical system for the purpose of implementing, integrating and operating the system.specification allows to split the information into a set of individual files that are linked together via an include mechanism. Furthermore, the Is a description about how information is encoded and structured and given a specific syntax for storage in a computer file.file format allows to transport mass data in a binary format, e.g. via ASAM Measurement Data Format (ASAM Standard)MDF. Such data would otherwise appear in AoLocalColumn. Instead of storing mass data as text in ATF, which is not very efficient, the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard allows to describe the structure of the data in ATF and then contain references to Measurement Data Format (ASAM Standard)MDF files. Consequently, ATF and binary files such as Measurement Data Format (ASAM Standard)MDF/MD4 can be used to transport huge amounts of data quite efficiently between different Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS applications.
The ATF description format comes in two variants. The classic ATF/CLA format is a non-Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML-based description format that is still kept in the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard for legacy reasons, but is not expected to be updated in future revisions of the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard. The same information can also be transported via the newer ATF/Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML description format, which shall be preferably used in new tools and will be further developed in future revisions of the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS standards.
ATF/CLA uses plain American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ANSI Standard)ASCII text and is still supported by most of the available Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS tools on the market. It has a simple five-tier structure:
Version: provides information on the ATF/CLA version.
Files (optional): provides a list of physical files that together build the complete ATF/CLA file.
Applelem: is a description of an application model element and may be repeated for each element that is going to be transported by this ATF/CLA file.
Instelem (optional): is a description of an instance of an application model element and may be repeated for each instance that is transported by this ATF/CLA file.
Endfile: marks the end of the ATF-file.
ATF/Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML uses the UTF8 character set. Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML allows for a more detailed automatic The process of determining that a system meets defined specifications, technical or regulatory requirements.verification of the content of file than what is possible with ATF/CLA. Furthermore, there are plenty of Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML tools on the market for viewing, editing and processing of Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML files. Also ATF/Extensible Markup Language (W3C Standard)XML is organized in five top-level elements:
Documentation: Contains general information about the origin of the file(s) and some description texts.
BaseModelVersion: Provides the ODS release number of the base model used for the application model in this file(s).
Files: List of external files containing binary data.
ApplicationModel: Contains a description of the application specific data model, consisting of elements and their relationships to one another.
InstanceData: Contains the actual values of the application model. May also contain references to external binary files that contain the values.
Structure of the ATF/XML file
The main benefit of the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard is to get rid of the variety that databases, APIs and description format can potentially have, and combine best industry practices of such variations to one A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard. One of the major benefits of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS is that The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement data is safely understood by all users. This is achieved by a semantically well-defined Is an abstract model that organizes data and how they relate to one another via formal description elements such as entities, attributes, relations and tables.data model. The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement data is amended with meta-data about their origin, sensors, sensor positions, The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement methods, environment conditions and other descriptive data of the circumstances of the data acquisition. This data can be linked with details about the Unit Under TestUUT, e.g. version and configuration. Even though the user of the data might not have been present during the time of testing, which may occurred half a year ago, and the Unit Under TestUUT does not exist any longer, the test data is still understandable and can be used. Tests do not have to be repeated and projects can move on without delays.
The access to the data is completely abstracted from its origin, e.g. it is independent of the person, who designed and carried out the tests, independent of the equipment that was used to produce the The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.measurement values, independent of the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server vendor and independent of the IT and communication infrastructure between the server and the clients. Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS establishes a true, enterprise-enabled infrastructure of data storage and retrieval.
Another important aspect is the capability of long-term archiving of data in accordance with legal requirements. ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS ensures long-term stability through standardized technologies. This is typically accepted as a proof by OEMs, The process of confirmation that a system complies to a specific standard or a specified subset of a standard.certification agencies or legal institutions.
Furthermore, long-term archiving can become prohibitively expensive. For example, modern engine test beds are capable of producing several terabytes of data per day. However, not all the data is used later one. Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS allows to track, whether data actually has been accessed and who accessed it. This allows to only move data to a long-term archive that was actually used by relevant people or development tools.
Industry Adoption
Today, Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS is typically part of a comprehensive system for enterprise-wide storage and retrieval of test-related data. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard is widely used by German OEMs, including BMW, Daimler and Porsche, who initiated the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard. Audi started in 1999 the "The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement Data Management" project based upon ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS and moved major parts of the system software to an open source project by 2008. 30 companies participate in this project as of 2012.
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Since OS 3.0, several Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server suppliers have evolved and provide Commercial Off the ShelfCOTS products. Engineering service providers and system integrators exist to set up comprehensive Is an organized collection of data.database solutions, who work either independently or have strategic alliances with one of the Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS server vendors. Some service providers have specialized in specific application areas, such as Noise, Vibration and HarshnessNVH. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard and available tools can be considered as mature and stable.
The adoption of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS continually increases across Europe and North America. Since 2011, ASAM supports a regional project group in the US, who is developing a A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard for Web-access to Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS servers. This effort will further leverage the position of Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS in North America.
List of Deliverables
The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.standard includes the following deliverables:
Standard documents
XML schema files
EXPRESS schema file
Google Protocol Buffers definition files
IDL interface definition file
ONC RPC interface definition file
HTTP-API example code in C++, C#, Java and Python
ATF and ATFX example files
Example_ATF_CLA.atf Example of an ATF file in the classic, non-XML format.
Example_ATF_XML.atfx Example of an ATF file in the XML format.
Example_Geometry.atfx Example of an ATF file in the XML format, containing data from the test object geometry application model.
Workflow for automotive test data analysis based on Petri nets and stored by ASAM ODS; Rainer Bartz; IEEE/ICIT; 2009; ISBN: 9781424435074
Contribution to a workflow-based information management in automotive testing and data analysis; Rainer Bartz; IEEE/ICIT; 2010; ISBN: 9781424456963
Description of the ASAM ODS 5.3 Base Model.
Open source Measurement Data Management project OpenMDM.
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Yogesh Patel was beaten to death in his hotel by an evicted guest
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Cleveland, Mississippi, hotelier Yogesh Patel was beaten to death by a guest he had had evicted from his hotel, the Delta Inn Motel, last week. The advocacy group Reform Lodging wrote a letter to local law enforcement demanding swift justice for Patel on behalf of his wife Sonam and their young daughter.
LAST WEEK, CLEVELAND, Mississippi, hotelier Yogesh Patel was beaten to death by a guest he had had evicted from his hotel earlier in the day. Now a group of his fellow hotel owners have written a letter to local law enforcement demanding swift justice.
The group, Reform Lodging, sent the letter to Cleveland Police Chief Charles “Buster” Bingham and two officials with surrounding Bolivar County, Sheriff Kelvin Williams and District Attorney Brenda Mitchell, on Aug. 15.
“We are absolutely appalled at this heinous criminal act and condemn it in the strongest possible sense,” the letter said. “Our group seeks justice for Mr. Patel and trust that your investigations lead to the immediate apprehension of this dangerous criminal.”
The Cleveland Police Department has arrested Kentarrus Williams in connection with Patel’s death. According to a police report, officers were originally called to 45-year-old Patel’s hotel, the Delta Inn Motel, on Aug. 11 because Williams caused a disturbance and damaged the door. The hotel refunded his money and asked him to leave.
“Officers had Mr. Williams gather his belongings from the room and leave the property,” the report said. “Once Mr. Williams left the property officers left the scene.”
Police were called back to the scene less than an hour later to find that Patel had been assaulted. A witness told police Williams returned to the room and when Patel came to tell him he had to leave the two began to fight until Williams hit Patel with a bottle.
Patel was airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in nearby Jackson, Mississippi, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
The next day, police received a call that there was a fight at the Delta Inn involving guns. While there was no fight occurring, the responding officer traced the call to a Rodeway Inn near the Delta Inn because he recognized the voice of the caller as Williams. After a brief investigation they found Williams staying in a room at the Rodeway Inn and took him into custody.
Williams has been charged with homicide and is being held on $500,000 bail, according to Sagar Shah, Reform Lodging’s president and co-founder who received the information from the Cleveland police.
“They have several witnesses who also saw what happened,” Sha said. “They are going to do whatever they can to keep this dangerous criminal behind bars.”
It is Reform Lodging’s concern that the case may fall by the wayside, said Rich Gandhi, the group’s chairman and co-founder. He wants justice for Patel’s wife and co-owner of the Delta Inn Sonam.
“The reason this letter was written was because the police department needed to take swift action against the perpetrator and put [Yogesh Patel’s] family’s mind at ease,” Gandhi said. “Being an immigrant family, they’ve worked very hard. For them to be in a situation like this, it’s pretty sad.”
Reform Lodging, which bills itself as a hospitality industry think tank and advocacy organization, wants to have a dialogue with local officials about Patel’s murder, Shah said. The scenario surrounding the murder is one many hoteliers face regularly, he said.
“Many hoteliers across the U.S. run into situations where guests need to be evicted for failing to pay their bills or for a multitude of reasons. In some cases, this can be a very dangerous exercise for hotel team members, or occasionally the owner/operator, who is conducting the eviction,” Shah said. “We are of the opinion that law enforcement should always be on standby when this occurs, especially if the former guest returns on site.”
Recent protests over police brutality brought on by the death of George Floyd at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25 have complicated police response to such situations, Shah said.
“We’re living in extremely sensitive times where law enforcement have to be more careful with how they approach situations and I think due to that, some areas may see an uptick in crime unfortunately,” Shah said. “This concerns us very much.”
The story is similar to an incident in November 2017 when Akash Talati, owner of a Knights Inn in Fayetteville, North Carolina. was killed in a shootout between an armed intruder and a security guard at a club Talati owned across the street from his Knights Inn. His wife, Mital Talati, took over operating the hotel and in 2018 received recognition and media attention for helping victims of Hurricane Florence.
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Frailty Affects Treatment Decisions and Outcomes for Patients with CKD
November 03, 2017 | 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Abstract: FR-PO507
CKD: Epidemiology, Outcomes - Non-Cardiovascular - I
November 03, 2017 | Location: Hall H, Morial Convention Center
Abstract Time: 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Category: Chronic Kidney Disease (Non-Dialysis)
304 CKD: Epidemiology, Outcomes - Non-Cardiovascular
Whitlock, Reid, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Reid Whitlock,
Eng, Frederick, Seven Oaks General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Frederick Eng,
Brar, Ranveer Singh, Seven Oaks General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Ranveer Singh Brar,
Rigatto, Claudio, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Claudio Rigatto,
Komenda, Paul, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Paul Komenda,
Bohm, Clara, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Clara Bohm,
Tangri, Navdeep, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Navdeep Tangri,
Frailty is common in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and leads to accelerated aging. While there have been several studies examining frailty in patients with earlier stages of CKD and those on dialysis, little is known about the prevalence and impact of frailty on outcomes in patients with advanced CKD. We sought to determine the agreement between 3 different frailty measures and the association of these measures with dialysis modality decisions and mortality.
We studied 508 patients with advanced CKD who were enrolled in CKD clinics at 4 centers. We collected demographics, comorbid conditions, and laboratory results in addition to objective [Modified Fried Frailty Criteria (Fried) and Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB)], and subjective measures (physician and nurse impression) of frailty. Our primary outcomes were choice of dialysis modality and all-cause mortality.
Our cohort had a median age of 68 (interquartile range: 58, 77) and was 42.9% female. Estimates of frailty prevalence varied as 49.9% of the cohort were considered frail according to SPPB, 29.9% according to Fried, 33.4% according to physician impression, and 28.7% according to nursing impression. Agreement between objective frailty assessments (κ = 0.48) and subjective frailty assessments (κ = 0.46) was moderate. The objective frailty measures were not associated with choice of dialysis modality. In contrast, the subjective physician impression of frailty was associated with choosing hemodialysis (OR 3.74 [95% CI: 1.02-13.66]). The subjective frailty measures were not associated with choice of dialysis modality. Frailty measured objectively using Fried trended toward an association with mortality (OR 1.94 [95% CI: 0.97-3.88]).
In summary, we have demonstrated that the definition of frailty is important, as there is limited agreement between frailty construct and important differences in the relationship of each construct with clinical outcomes. Patients diagnosed as frail by Fried were more likely to die, and patients considered frail by physicians were more likely to choose in-center hemodialysis. Further research to understand the longitudinal trajectory of frailty and its impact on therapeutic choices, morbidity, mortality, and quality of life after initiation of dialysis is needed.
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Third Intermediate League Win for Broadford
Broadford achieved their third win in the Clare Cup Intermediate League on Sunday 24th April when they met Smith O’Briens at home in Broadford.
The scene was set after Broadford took their first point from a free in the first sixty seconds of the match. Both teams were settling down in to play for the next five minutes with the scores reaching 0-03 to 0-03 thanks on Broadford’s part to another free from Padraig Hickey and a point from play from Darren Chaplin. Broadford however then broke away with a straight run of eleven points from players from across the team (Diarmuid Moloney, Aonghus O’Brien, Padraig Hickey, Stiofain McMahon and Shane Taylor), before Smith O’Brien’s added a point to their tally with a free just before the half-time whistle. Half-time score 0-14 – 0-04.
The second half started as the first had with a point going to Broadford from another Hickey free in the first minute and this was closely followed by a further free and two points from play for Smith O’Brien’s. With the scores at 0-16 to 0-06 any opportunity for the visitors to mount a comeback was dealt a blow with a goal from Donnie Whelan after a pass from Stiofain McMahon and this heralded an eventual victory for Broadford with a score line of 1-20 to 0-10
Broadford will meet Cratloe in their next Intermediate League match on Friday 29th April at 6:30pm in Broadford.
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Wanted Series # 2, Saved
By: Kelly Elliott
Narrated by: Arika Rapson, Nelson Hobbs
Series: Wanted Series, Book 2
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction
Wanted Series, Book 1
Narrated by: Nelson Hobbs, Arika Rapson
Verbally abused by her mother for years, 18-year-old Ellie Johnson always believed she would never be loved or wanted by anyone. She focused all of her attention on her grades and getting into the University of Texas to start a new life away from her mother. The last thing Ellie expected was to fall in love with Gunner Mathews, a starting linebacker for the University of Texas football team and not to mention, her brother's best friend. Gunner only has two passions in life, football and his grandfather's ranch, until he falls for his best friend's little sister.
After Heather Lambert's parents die in a tragic car accident her senior year of high school, she refuses to let anyone into her heart for fear of being hurt again. Focusing only on school to follow her dreams of becoming an elementary school teacher, the last thing Heather intends to do is fall in love with Josh Hayes. Josh knows the moment he lays eyes on Heather that she is the one he's been waiting for. During months of obstacles and denied feelings, he is rejected by her time and time again.
Wanted, Book 4
Jessie Rhodes has been in love with Scott Reynolds for most of her life. But he ran away from her once, leaving her heartbroken. When they find their way back to each other, things seem to fall into place, and they begin to plan their future together.... Until Scott's ex-fiancée deceives them all. With yet another broken heart, it is Jessie's turn to run away. During her retreat, she meets an intriguing man, and they form a bond that makes Jessie question everything.
Broken Series, Book 1
Narrated by: Shirl Rae, Nelson Hobbs
Layton Morris and his brother Mike grew up not knowing what it would be like to live in a normal home. With no running water or electricity in their home and no parents around to protect them, they quickly learned how to survive and depend only on each other. When a tragic accident took Mike away from Layton and the only other person that he ever let into his heart walked away from him, leaving his heart shattered, Layton focused all of his time and energy into the ranch he and his brother dreamed of.
Meet Me in Montana, Book 1
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Gabrielle Cendese
Longing to forget the pain of his wife’s death, Brock Shaw has immersed himself in the one thing that lets him escape the guilt. Bull riding. But life on the road means leaving his young son at home with his parents. They want him to give up his career and be a father to his child, but Brock needs the adrenaline to get through each day…or so he thinks. Lincoln Pratt needs a fresh start. As a top interior designer in Atlanta, she has everything she could ever want, but she’s always at her father’s mercy. Something’s missing, and she knows she’ll find it somewhere far away.
Love Wanted in Texas, Book 1
Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Erin Mallon
Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
Alex and Will have spent months keeping their relationship hidden from their families. Getting caught prematurely causes them to admit their love for each other to their parents. One decision made by Alex's father changes her entire world, shattering her plans for the future. Alex always thought Will was the very air she breathed, but life has a way of causing doubts for the one thing she thought was absolute...their love.
Saving You
Narrated by: Erin Mallon, Stephen Dexter
What happens when your head and heart contradict each other regarding the one person you've always wanted? Growing up, Luke Johnson and Libby Hayes thought they would be best friends forever. One kiss changed everything. Fearing his love for Libby could cost him their friendship, Luke chooses to listen to his head - instead of his heart. Will the regrets of denying the one person Luke wants to give himself to, end up leaving him lost and alone? Or will Libby be able to save him with her love?
Holding You
Lauren Reynolds wanted only two things in life - to run her father's horse breeding business and Colt Mathews. Fearing Colt would take her position within the family business, she tried to push him far away from her heart. When life could no longer keep Lauren and Colt apart, their two worlds became one. Every second of every moment they spent together. Their love bloomed into something neither of them imagined - a bond so strong Lauren and Colt believed nothing would ever stand in their way.
Make Me Yours
By: Melanie Harlow
Narrated by: Aiden Snow, Andi Arndt
Length: 10 hrs
He’s my brother’s best friend, the hot single dad next door. And one accidental sext later, my massive crush on him is no longer a secret. It’s my own damn fault. I’m 30 years old, for heaven’s sake. I’m a kindergarten teacher and a (reasonably) responsible adult. I should know better than to get tipsy and draft a fake text listing all the dirty things I wish Officer Cole Mitchell would do to me. I wasn’t supposed to hit send. And he wasn’t supposed to see it.
By Jade B on 08-12-2020
Narrated by: K.C. Sheridan, Alexander Cendese
I was a self-appointed bachelor and happy to have the title. Everyone thought it was time for me to settle down and find a nice girl. Well, no thank you. This cowboy wanted to stay clear of relationships. I wanted the freedom that came with no strings. But what did I know? Nothing, apparently. Everything changed when I looked into her green eyes; my world tilted when she smiled at me. What was this feeling? Whatever was happening had me losing my damn mind. I fumbled with my words. My body wasn’t my own. I wanted her...desperately.
Love this family ❤️💕❤️
By Barbra Lazzarini on 06-06-2019
Reckless Love
Narrated by: Holly Warren, Stephen Dexter
The first time I kissed Scarlet, I knew I was in trouble. The night I slept with her, my life changed forever. The day I found out I was going to be a father, I ran from her. Now that I’ve been given a second chance I won’t be so reckless. Will my love be enough to prove to her that even in the darkest times I won’t repeat the past?
Omg this can’t be it ❤️😢😘❤️
Always Enough
Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi, Nelson Hobbs
Grieving the loss of her fiancé two years ago, Kaylee longs for a fresh start. When she follows her best friend from Atlanta to Hamilton, Montana, Kaylee looks forward to the wild terrain and a new town to help her forget the memories and dreams of a life that will never be hers. After a tragic car accident, Ty Shaw is told he may never walk again. But Ty doesn't easily accept defeat, and through grit, determination, and more physical therapy than any man should ever endure, he beats the odds.
Finding You
If Grace Johnson knew one thing at all, it was that all men were dirt bags. All men...except Noah. "I was lost in his eyes. Lost in his tears. My goal was to pull him out of the darkness...if even if it dragged me in as well." If Noah Bennet knew one thing at all, it was he needed Grace Johnson. Needed her...desperately. "My pain was pulling me under...she was my only saving grace."
Chasing You
I chased, you pushed. I chased, you friend zoned. I chased, you fell. Now I chase to protect you. You chased, I resisted. You chased, I accepted. You chased, I fell. Now I pray you're not too late. After finally winning the heart of the woman I loved, there was no way in hell he was taking her from me.
Taylor Atwood and Jase Morris finally found their way to one another. Life couldn't have been more perfect for either one of them as they began to build a future together. When tragedy strikes, Taylor's perfect world is gone in an instant, leaving her with nothing but unanswered questions. Will she find the strength to go on, or will the idea of Jase possibly being gone forever prove to be more than Taylor can handle?
Broken, Book 3
Pain. Hurt. Regret. All of these are results of broken promises. Love. Joy. Happiness. All of these are results of finding someone's way. Love has two paths: happiness and heartbreak. Sometimes those paths intertwine. Sometimes we choose the wrong path. And sometimes we're given the second chance to pick the right path. Which path will Walker and Taylor go down? Only time will tell.
Love Profound
Narrated by: Bruce Cullen, Bree Summers
I write about love, but I've never experienced it. Sure, I've been with guys that I cared about. Even thought I found "the one". He turned out to be the frog and not the prince. A few Frank Sinatra songs and a wildly handsome cowboy who calls me darlin' will have me second guessing everything I ever thought I knew about love. Does happily ever after really exist...or is it only something I write about in books?
Australian accent
By Amazon Customer on 22-10-2019
Tempting Love
Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Yvonne Syn
Can a woman actually make you feel like you're losing your damn mind? Yes. If she is Corina Miller. The only woman who has ever made me long for something more, and let me tell you, that has me all kinds of messed up. After months of ignoring my feelings, it's clear to me I've fallen for those piercing blue eyes and sexy smile. But is it too late? Have I pushed her into the arms of someone else?
Beautiful 😍😍😍
Ari, who comes from a loving family that has had more than its share of difficulties, is faced with the possibility of losing the love of her life. All she dreams of is growing old and having children with Jeff, but a family history and a conniving Rebecca could shatter that dream.
Trying to support Jeff and cope with all the truths and possibilities of her own destiny may prove to be more than Ari can handle.
Jeff's dream is to raise horses on his ranch in Mason with the only woman who has ever filled his heart and soul. But he's running the risk of losing her by trying to be the man he knows he should be. He's completely bewitched by the passionate and ever outspoken Ari, but needs to do right for the child that could possibly be his.
Despite all the odds stacked against them, can their relationship be saved?
©2013 Kelly Elliott (P)2013 Tantor
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What listeners say about Wanted Series # 2, Saved
Jordy ♡♡♡♡
prepare to need a roll of antacids
Who ends a book like that ? Ohh wait Kelly Elliott does , that was no epilogue that was the worse Teaser EVER! Saved starts off exactly where Wanted ended. With a whole bunch of drama! Up. Down. Up. Down. It has hook ups, break ups, discovering new loves, losing your first love, birth, death…well you get the picture…up…down. What an emotional roller coaster!! This story will bring to the highest highs and then BAM, you are hit with the lowest lows. And just when you think there is no hope, there you go back up on those highs. A complete bunch of emotions run through you with this book. In this book, Ellie and Gunner are happily married. Ari and Jeff are determined to live a life together, which is easier said than done when Rebecca is equally determined to snare herself a baby daddy. Meanwhile, another pair of secondary characters, Josh and Heather, are flip flopping in a love/hate relationship themselves. Basically, some important storylines are neatly tied up with a bow, but at the same time, there is a whole new gift box full of questions and what ifs. This is a good book and an angst lover’s dream. Elliott has really stepped up her game with Saved.
Good But SO MUCH DRAMA!
If you're looking for easy romance to listen to, this one's not for you. About half of the characters have had car accidents and about a dozen misunderstandings that almost end relationships between the 2 books in this series. (And there's still one more book to go) Just when you're setting in from one drama another happens. It's too much. However as one feels when a train wretch happens I can't look away even though I should. Perhaps this shows how great the author is in developing the characters that you can't help but follow them. So if you can handle drama and non-stops roller coaster rides, and not necessarily the fun kinds, then give this series a try.
Lacks creativity repeated of dialogue
A lot of the story line repeated it self in different ways from the first book. The irony of similarity between Jason and heather relationship and Ari and Jeff from book one. To the accidents such as Eli and then josh, Josh's had a bit of a twist but then heather's mess up similar to jeffs just not as extreme as jeffs the story was a lot alike. Some of the love scenes seemed to lack creativity in difference from other scenes. Apparently everybody in the book loves the same and has the same moments.
Anna Hampton
A must READ
This is the best series I've read in a long time. I love how all the characters follow up in each book!
Bookaday
potential but..
story premise is good but the characters are insecure as much so to that it is unrealistic to believe their insecurities will end with marriage. Good stories have conflict but these group if friends don't see the similarities of their issues. makes zero sense. it has promise. it is well written. if you like insecure characters that are constantly misinterpretting sutuations always apologizing and crying. this is the book for you. Narrators was the reason I tried this series. the first book was the same. thought I too would be different ifor this couple.
TSTL
Some of the book was a decent story but the main H was actually TSTL and not just a little. I can’t imagine writing a character of that caliber
I really enjoyed this book. the author did a great job leaving you ready for the next one.
I'm torn.
he married her despite never being fully honest about how far things went with the OW. He should've wised up to her antics the moment she kissed him talking about how it was ok to be attracted to her. I was ticked when he stayed with her till she woke up after the baby was born despite knowing urgent messages had been checked earlier on his phone. Ari caved way too easily at the hospital. I feel like she needed to seriously Express her emotions then instead of bottling it up as she ended up doing. also no romantic scene was needed at the hospital considering what her body was going through. That wasn't realistic at all. I was glad that he stood by her and finally grew a pair. I was excited to see their family grow and how they moved forward. The different perspectives throws me off at times. The Josh and Heather story is good but he was wrong when it came to Linda. You don't convince a girl you're in love with her and ready to stop playing games with girls by running off with one when she's not convinced due to your running off with one.
Lance henshaw
Storyline is no different than first book
Author needs new content and unique story line. First book was a good read. This book is the same.
Well written stories about interconnected friends. Love the male characters and how they treat their women. Well worth a credit!
Lucyanna
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Because it's started as a love hate relationship step up in wanted
And now things and gotten better but there still big lumps in the road ahead
I know friends who will love this kinda love story
What other book might you compare Wanted Series # 2, Saved to, and why?
Kelly Elliott's Broken book 2 the love Story of Reid and Courtney set up in broken 1
They at first have the same love hate relationship before getting together as a couple
What does Arika Rapson and Nelson Hobbs bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
more realistic emotions and reactions
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Together Saved
if you enjoyed this book/series
Check out Kelly Elliott's Broken series
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Lord Valentine's Castle
Autor: Robert Silverberg
Sprecher: Stefan Rudnicki
Beschreibung von Audible
This classic science-fantasy novel by legendary author Robert Silverberg tells the story of a man named Valentine, an amnesiac on the world of Majipoor who must find out who he is and what has been done to him. Given that he shares a name with the Coronal (King) of Majipoor, and the name of the book is Lord Valentine's Castle, it is reasonable to assume that this man with no memory is the deposed, rightful ruler of Majipoor, and Valentine slowly learns that this is, in fact, the case. Although that plotline was not the most original of ideas even 30 years ago when Silverberg wrote the novel, the brilliance of the story is in the journey, not the destination both in the literal and figurative sense. For Valentine's journey from amnesiac peasant to rightful king does take him on quite a literal journey a fascinating travelogue of the strange, magical world of Majipoor in which Valentine, and the rag-tag troop of jugglers he associates with, eventually uncover the truth of Valentine's heritage.
Some authors write prose that speaks so distinctly that it needs no embellishment from a narrator. Silverberg is such an author, and so Rudnicki, being one of those no-frills narrators who basically acts as a conduit for the listener, is an ideal choice for narrator. His performance is understated but compelling and it is that understated nature of his reading that is largely responsible for his appeal. Rudnicki is not going to dazzle you with his range of voices or other vocal trickery; instead, he keeps things basic, and for the most part just conveys the author's text and keeps out of the way, making listening to an audiobook read by him akin to reading the book yourself.
Some folks just know how to tell a story. And when you get two natural-born storytellers like Silverberg and Rudnicki together on the same project, the result is quite an unforgettable journey. John Joseph Adams
The planet Majipoor is shared by humans and several alien races, including four-armed Skandars, three-eyed Liiman, and the native, shape-shifting Metamorphs. All are watched over by the King of Dreams, the labyrinth-dwelling Pontifex, and the priestess of the Isle of Sleep, while the Coronal officially rules from atop Castle Mount.
The Majipoor Cycle begins as young Valentine, a man with no memory, is hired as an apprentice juggler by a group of eccentric performers. While the traveling troupe takes to the road, Valentine's sleep is disturbed by nightmare visions of warring brothers and difficulties on faraway Castle Mount. In a quest to discover who Valentine really is, his wise and peculiar companions resolve to help him claim the rewards of his birth. But another trial awaits Valentine that will test his belief, resolve, and strength of character.
©1980 Robert Silverberg (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Autor: Brian Aldiss
Sprecher: Saul Reichlin
Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife, Martha, are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children.
The Man in the Maze
Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact with the first-known race of intelligent aliens. But those aliens left a mark on him: a psychic wound that emanates a telepathic miasma that his fellow humans can neither cure nor endure. Muller is exiled to the remote planet of Lemnos, where he is left, deeply embittered, at the heart of a deadly maze - until a new alien race appears, seemingly intent on exterminating humanity.
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Book of the New Sun, Book 1
Autor: Gene Wolfe
Sprecher: Jonathan Davis
Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 7 Min.
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy towards his victim.
Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.
Mediocre, a bit weird, not deep enough
Von Bavarikaner Am hilfreichsten 02.09.2014
The Atrocity Archives
Book 1 in The Laundry Files
Autor: Charles Stross
Sprecher: Jack Hawkins
Never volunteer for active duty... Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe; but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than 'control+alt+delete' to sort this mess out...
Geekige Mischung
Von Oli Am hilfreichsten 19.05.2017
Echoes of the Great Song
Autor: David Gemmell
Sprecher: Charles Armstrong
The Great Bear will descend from the skies and with his paw lash at the ocean. He will devour all the works of Man. Then he will sleep for 10,000 years, and the breath of his sleep will be death. The prophecy had come true. The world spun. Tidal waves lashed the planet, and a new ice age dawned. The few survivors of a once-great empire struggled to rebuild. Then two moons appeared in the skies, unleashing a terrible evil that threatened not only the new empire but the survival of the world itself.
Methuselah's Children
Autor: Robert A. Heinlein
Sprecher: MacLeod Andrews
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality…
Autor: Christopher Paolini
Sprecher: Jennifer Hale
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she’s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn’t at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity’s greatest and final hope....
Langatmig & langweilig
Von Dan Am hilfreichsten 25.12.2020
24 Hours in Ancient Athens
Autor: Philip Matyszak
Sprecher: John Telfer
Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the bathroom, argue with their spouse and enjoy a drink with friends. Few of the city's other inhabitants enjoy the benefits of such a civilised society, though - as multicultural and progressive as Athens can be, many are barred from citizenship.
Autor: Isaac Asimov
Sprecher: Scott Brick
For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future, to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last 30,000 years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire, both scientists and scholars, and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations.
etwas veraltet
Von Eric B Am hilfreichsten 24.09.2018
The Gutter Prayer
The Black Iron Legacy, Book 1
Autor: Gareth Hanrahan
Sprecher: John Banks
In the ancient city of Guerdon, three thieves - an orphan, a ghoul and a cursed man - are accused of a crime they didn't commit. Their quest for revenge exposes a perilous conspiracy, the seeds of which were sown long before they were born. A centuries-old magical war is on the verge of reigniting, and in the tunnels deep below the city, a malevolent power stirs. Only by standing together can the three friends prevent a conflict that would bring total devastation to their city - and the world beyond.
The City We Became
Autor: N. K. Jemisin
Sprecher: Robin Miles
Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.
Von asena german Am hilfreichsten 22.08.2020
The City and the Stars
Autor: Arthur C. Clarke
Sprecher: Mike Grady
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it ruled the stars. But then, as legend had it, the Invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.
Not engaging enough
Von pitpat Am hilfreichsten 22.06.2016
By Force Alone
Autor: Lavie Tidhar
Sprecher: Toby Longworth
Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, but they don't know sh*t. There was never a painting that showed the true Britain, that clogged sewer Rome abandoned just as soon as it could. A Britain where petty warlords murdered each other in the mud, while all the while the Angles and Saxons and worst of all the Jutes, were coming over here and taking our lands and taking our jobs and taking our women.
Autor: Alastair Reynolds
Sprecher: Clare Corbett
The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them.... Captain Rackamore and his crew do.
I assumed this would be read by John Lee.
Von Amazonkunde Am hilfreichsten 12.01.2018
Cage of Souls
Autor: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sprecher: David Thorpe
The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts and into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld.
Amazing build up of a world
Von Norger Am hilfreichsten 10.08.2020
Drenai Series
Sprecher: Sean Barrett
Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy, death.
A Deadly Education
A Novel (The Scholomance, Book 1)
Autor: Naomi Novik
Sprecher: Anisha Dadia
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place.
too much explaining
Von Anonymer Hörer Am hilfreichsten 26.12.2020
Discworld, Book 1
Sprecher: Nigel Planer
The Colour of Magic, the first novel in Terry Pratchett's wildly imaginative Discworld series, takes the listener on a remarkable journey. The magical planet of Discworld is supported by four massive elephants who stand on the back of the Great A'Tuin, a giant turtle swimming slowly through the mysterious interstellar gulf. An eccentric expedition sets out to explore the planet, encountering dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and, of course, 'The Edge' of the planet.
Miserable Tonqualität - schade um die tolle Geschichte...
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Hair Love (Hardcover)
By Matthew A. Cherry, Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
"I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. We need this."
- Jordan Peele, Actor & Filmmaker
It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters, from Academy-Award winning director and former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. Cherry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Vashti Harrison.
Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her -- and her hair -- happy.
Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair -- and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.
Chicago native Matthew A. Cherry is a former NFL wide receiver turned filmmaker who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers, and the Baltimore Ravens. In 2007 he retired and moved to LA to pursue a career in entertainment. Now, he directs music videos and short films, including "Hair Love," the animated short film on which this book is based. Matthew was named to Paste Magazine's list of Directors to Watch in 2016.
Vashti Harrison is the author-illustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture book Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, which is also a NAACP Image Award winner. She earned her BA from the University of Virginia with a double major in Media Studies and Studio Art, and received her MFA in Film and Video from CalArts where she snuck into Animation classes to learn from Disney and Dreamworks legends. There she rekindled a love for drawing and painting. Now, utilizing both skill sets, she is passionate about crafting beautiful stories in both the film and picture book worlds.
PRAISE FOR HAIR LOVE
2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project - Top Ten List
NAACP Image Award Nominee
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“[A]n important moment for representation and encouraging positive paternal moments.” – Refinery29
Hair Love is a dedication to black and brown boys and girls everywhere to learn to love their natural hair.” – Blavity
“We’re always here for a father and daughter beauty adventure…” – Essence.com
“Seeing such a positive representation of black men and their daughters is such a breath of fresh air…The world definitely needs more of this.” – TeenVogue.com
"A wonderful slice-of-life tale about family support, black hair, and embracing individuality." --School Library Journal, starred review
“This delightful debut encourages self-affirmation and celebrates a loving, respectful relationship between a nurturing father and his cool, confident daughter.” – Shelf Awareness, starred review
"This authentic depiction of a loving and whole black family broadens the scope of representation." --Kirkus Reviews
"Unforgettable." --Booklist
"A bighearted ode to individuality and father-daughter collaboration." --Publishers Weekly
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Six years of police reforms
Six years after the tragic shooting death of Oscar Grant III focused attention on the BART Police Department (BPD), BART and BPD continue their efforts to reshape and reform themselves to meet the needs of the community BART serves.
Among the steps BART took immediately after the January 1, 2009 tragedy was to hire the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) to conduct a top-to-bottom review of BPD.
The NOBLE report has led to ongoing changes within BPD as well as the creation of an independent mechanism to ensure accountability.
The BPD has embraced a vision to be a leader in innovative police. Chief Kenton W. Rainey, hired in June 2010, has reorganized the department in an effort to ensure BPD’s actions align with its vision. An increased focus on community policing, expanded training, increased visibility of officers on trains and greater transparency are among the reforms, as noted in a 2013 audit discussed below.
Another key area of concern the NOBLE report addressed was the lack of civilian oversight of BPD.
In response, the BART Board of Directors adopted a two part civilian oversight system. It consists of the Office of the Independent Police Auditor (OIPA) and the Citizen Review Board (CRB). Each has its own responsibilities and functions but they share a common goal: increasing transparency and accountability.
The Office of the Independent Police Auditor reports directly to the BART Board. The OIPA receives complaints of misconduct, investigates complaints involving excessive force, racial profiling, sexual harassment, sexual orientation bias, use of deadly force and suspicious/wrongful deaths.
It also reviews BPD’s own complaint investigations that are conducted by BPD’s Internal Affairs division, monitors officer-involved shootings, makes policy recommendations, publishes reports about complaint investigations and their findings and conducts public outreach.
The Citizen Review Board, unlike the OIPA, is an all-volunteer organization. The 11-member CRB receives complaints of misconduct, reviews OIPA’s investigative findings, reviews all changes to BPD policy, reports on BPD progress in implementing recommendations such as those in the NOBLE report, will participate in selection of future Chiefs of Police and conducts public outreach.
Several key aspects of this two-pronged approach make civilian oversight of BPD particularly effective. BART civilian oversight structure includes disciplinary recommendations up to and including termination, where appropriate. Officers are required to cooperate at penalty of discipline and the Chief of Police cannot unilaterally overrule civilian oversight findings. OIPA has unfettered access to BPD records. Perhaps most important, the civilian oversight structure is wholly independent of BPD.
While the civilian oversight structure and the police department are separate, they share a commitment to improvement. In January 2014, an independent auditor praised BPD’s progress on NOBLE recommendations under the leadership of Chief Kenton W. Rainey. The audit evaluated the progress BPD has made in implementing 55 NOBLE recommendations.
"This audit serves as a barometer of our organizational change efforts—and it states BART PD has made significant and substantial progress since the original 2009 NOBLE Management Audit," BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said. “Not only did we adopt a strategic direction, we reorganized the department, implemented stronger community policing initiatives, updated our policies and procedures and enhanced training of our officers.”
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BCG actively seeks partnerships that deliver on BCG’s key values including sustainable and diversified agricultural communities, leadership in work and communities and independent, science-based research and extension. The impact generated from these projects includes new relationships and opportunities for BCG members, their families and the communities they live in and support.
Want to learn more about our Community Development activities?
BCG Community Network
The Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) Community Network was launched in August 2017 in response to emerging trends being observed in the Wimmera and Mallee. Population decline, the impact of technology, ageing infrastructure, climate change, farmer wellbeing and a declining ecosystem are all major issues which to date have not been solved by traditional mechanisms. These problems have a major impact on rural populations and challenge the building of thriving communities.
A shared focus is required to address such challenges: to unpack how to address rural population change and protect and grow communities in these areas. With support from the William Buckland Foundation, the BCG Community Network was born out of this challenge, a commitment by the BCG Board to try and tackle some of the broader problems faced by the farming community.
John T Reid
Between 2017 and 2019, the Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) partnered with John T Reid Charitable Trusts to bring an exciting project to secondary school classrooms in North-Western Victoria. In-class demonstrations and content delivery by BCG staff included drone flight demonstrations and using and interpreting the data collected by drones for practical on-farm use.
Throughout 2019, BCG created and distributed a teacher compendium dedicated to precision agriculture and current and emerging on-farm technologies. This resource is full of helpful links to video, audio and written articles on various aspects of the technologies used in precision agriculture, as well as some of the factors which impact the viability and applicability of them in a rural setting. The compendium was designed specifically with the VCE Agricultural and Horticultural Studies study guide in mind, but it is also suitable for agricultural classes across other secondary school year levels.
Building Climate Resilience
Rural communities must work together to adapt to a varying climate, this was the recurring theme delivered by presenters at Building Climate Resilience event held at the Birchip Public Hall on Tuesday 29 October 2019.
In this event, produced through a collaboration between BCG, Buloke Shire Council, The North Central CMA and Mallee CMA, 24 speakers over 19 separate sessions explained the latest climate science, presented tools to adapt to the changes and explored the business opportunities it presents to over 130 local farmers, small businesses and members of the local community.
Donations and Bequests to BCG
Agricultural research is a long-term, ongoing process. It takes dedication, resources and significant support.
A donation to BCG is a gift for the future of broadacre farming in your local area. Your contribution can be made as a once-off donation in memory of a loved one or left as a bequest in your will. We take a high level of care to make sure your donations have the greatest impact. Donations made to the BCG Research Account are tax deductible due to Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. It’s managed by the BCG Research Committee to ensure the long-term benefits for farmers continue to grow.
To learn more about Donations and Bequest to BCG, contact Fiona Best on 0427 922 786 or fiona.best@bcg.org.au
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The Melbourne Cup is one of the most prestigious races on the horse racing calendar. Held in Melbourne, Australia, it is one of the oldest races in the world, dating back to 1861. It’s an annual thoroughbred horse race run over 3,200 metres and open to horses older than 3 years.
The annual race has a long tradition. Run at the Flemington racecourse in Melbourne, the Cup has been graced by many great champions in the past. The Melbourne Cup is the world’s richest “2-mile” handicap race, with a prize purse of A$730,000 in 2018. A big portion of that goes to the winner, which is why every jockey and trainer is hoping to score a win in the Melbourne Cup.
The winner in 2018, Cross Counter, got A$4 million as the main prize. The first twelve horses to finish share the prize purse as well, with the trophies being valued at over A$250,000. As you can see, it’s definitely an incentive for all jockeys and trainers to enter the Melbourne Cup.
The Melbourne Cup underwent many alterations over the years. After Australia adopted the metric system in 1972, the race was shortened to 3,200 m. (it was previously run over 2 miles).
In terms of winnings, Makybe Diva leads the list with 3 wins (03, 04, and 05). Think Big is second on the list 2 wins, sharing the number of cups with legends such as Archer and Peter Pan. When it comes to trainer wins, Bartholomew “Bart” Cummings tops the list with 12 wins – it’s why he’s nicknamed the Cup King.
The 2018 Melbourne Cup was won by Cross Counter. The race was stressful due to the injury Cliffs of Moher sustained which resulted in the horse being put down. This year, Cross Counter is the odds-on favourite for another win, but horse race betting fans should take a look at all options as there are plenty of enticing ones.
Event Date: 5 November, 2019
BetVision
Established in 2014, BetVision is a veteran in the online bookmaker business and a favourite of many punters. There are well over 20 sports in BetVision’s offer including football and horse racing. The bookmaker is constantly running interesting promos on the Premier League and popular horse races, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise why it’s so popular among UK punters.
From all the horse races in BetVision’s impressive offer, the Melbourne Cup might have the best odds. The upcoming cup that takes place in April has listed all the horses entering with pretty enticing odds. Cross Counter may lead the list, but his odds surely don’t make him a major favourite. The 4-year old is listed at 22/1, which certainly don’t look like the odds of a favourite. In this case he is, leaving the other horses down the list.
Jockey Kerrin McEvoy earned his 3rd Melbourne Cup last year riding Cross Counter. The horse is favoured by many racing experts for this year’s Cup as well, but it remains to be seen if the can outrun the competition and go through the finish line first. It surely won’t be an easy feat.
Asian bookie is a big operator with offices in six countries. The bookie has a great depth of betting markets and sports, heavily featuring handicaps. The site runs regular promotions such as acca boosts that bring enticing bonuses and has live betting as well, which is all the rage these days. When it comes to the odds, BetEast ranks among the best in the industry, horse betting or otherwise.
For the Melbourne Cup, BetEast has identified last year’s winner Cross Counter as the main favourite at odds of 22/1. The 4-year old Gelding comes in front of A Prince of Arran, Finche, and Marmelo, all available for 28/1. Rostropovich comes next at 33/1, odds which he shares with Youngstar.
It all goes downhill from there – Yukatan is placed at 40/1, while Verdana Blue has odds of 66/1 down the list. As you can see, the bookie can’t quite separate the second and third favourites. Apart from Cross Counter, the other horses aren’t being given big chances of winning the race.
If you closely follow horse racing tips, though, you know that this is the kind of race you should bet on. With such high odds, you should pick your favourite carefully, as there’s too much at stake.
Better known as Newcastle United’s shirt sponsor, Fun88 is a fun and promising bookie with offices in the Isle of Man. Regulated by the UK Gambling Commission, it offers a variety of choices in terms of sports and betting markets. Take a look at Fun88’s promotions as well – they often offer great deals you shouldn’t miss.
Horse racing is included in Fun88’s offer, the Melbourne Cup in tow. No surprises in the favourite list, though. Cross Counter is still sitting at top of the list with odds of 22/1. A Prince of Arran, Finche, and Marmelo come next at 28/1, before giving way to the ever-present Rostropovich and Youngstar at 33/1.
Further down the list, Durretto and Magic Circle are stuck in the middle with odds of 50/1, while Ace High, Libran, and Red Cardinal are nailed at the bottom at 250/1.
If you don’t believe that Cross Counter will repeat last year’s success, go for one of the three horses behind him. There are plenty of great choices and odds for this year’s Melbourne Cup, so don’t rush your decision. Take things slowly and you might end up winning a sum 30 times bigger than your deposit.
10Bet is a veteran in the bookmaker industry. Present on the market since 2003, it has constantly improved its services and range of sports, becoming a home for thousands of punters. Widely considered a premium bookmaker, 10Bet has extensive coverage of over 20 sports, including horse racing, football, and basketball.
The Melbourne Cup is featured in this bookie’s offer, although with only one market – winning horse. Cross Counter is once again leading the list with odds of 22/1, with the trio of A Prince of Arran, Finche, and Marmelo sharing the second spot at 28/1.
Rostropovich and Youngstar conclude the list of highest-rated possible winners at 33/1 each, with the horses below them not going under 40/1. Cross Counter is the obvious favourite at bookies this year, even with such high odds. If you’re not swayed by the opinion of bookies, try with some of the other options. The trio on the second spot looks like a great pick, and even Rostropovich’s chances shouldn’t be dismissed.
If bookies are to be believed, this year’s Melbourne Cup will be pretty exciting, with more than one favourite vying for the top spot. Pick your options carefully, as there’s a lot of money to be made.
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Bible > CEV > Genesis 10
◄ Genesis 10 ►
The Descendants of Noah
1After the flood Shem, Ham, and Japheth had many descendants.
The Descendants of Japheth
2-5Japheth's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. They were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Gomer was the ancestor of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Javan was the ancestor of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim,+ who settled along the coast.
The Descendants of Ham
6-20Ham's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. They were Ethiopia,+ Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
Cush+ was the ancestor of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.
Raamah was the ancestor of Sheba and Dedan.
Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, a mighty warrior whose strength came from the Lord. This is why people say: “You hunt like Nimrod with the strength of the Lord!” Nimrod first ruled in Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all of+ which were in Babylonia.+ From there Nimrod went to Assyria and built the great city of Nineveh. He also built Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, as well as Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah.
Egypt was the ancestor of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, the ancestor of the Philistines.+
Canaan's sons were Sidon and Heth. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
Later the Canaanites spread from the territory of Sidon and settled as far away as Gaza in the direction of Gerar. They also went as far as Lasha in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim.
The Descendants of Shem
21-31Shem's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. He was the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of the tribes of Eber.
Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Aram was the ancestor of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Arpachshad was the father of Shelah and the grandfather of Eber, whose first son was named Peleg,+ because it was during his time that tribes divided up the earth. Eber's second son was Joktan.
Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. Their land reached from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country in the east.
32This completes the list of Noah's descendants. After the flood their descendants became nations and spread all over the world.
10.2-5 Dodanim: Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and one ancient translation have “Rodanim.”
10.6-20 Ethiopia: See the note at 2.13.
10.6-20 Cush: See the note at 2.13.
10.6-20 and Accad, all of: Or “Accad, and Calneh.”
10.6-20 Babylonia: The Hebrew text has “Shinar,” another name for Babylonia.
10.6-20 Casluhim, and Caphtorim, the ancestor of the Philistines: Hebrew “Caphtorim, and Casluhim, the ancestor of the Philistines.” The Philistines were from Caphtor (see Jeremiah 47.4; Amos 9.7), better known as Crete.
10.21-31 Peleg: In Hebrew “Peleg” means “divided.”
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Background to the Long Search - Ninian Smart
British Broadcasting Corporation [B.B.C./BBC], 1977, Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Ex-College library with a few marks. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Diagrams; Maps;
From the cover: “This book is published to accompany the BBC television programmes The Long Search and the Radio 3 series The Long Search Continued. It stands in its own right as an introduction to the living religions of the world.
The central chapters (Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Religions within Hinduism, Beyond the White Frontier, China, and Japan) describe the practices and beliefs of a religion or group of religions. Ninian Smart examines the social, philosophical and historical factors which have shaped them and identifies the contributions each has made to man’s religious experience.
The common ground which underlies much mystical writing from quite different traditions, the particular ethical, intellectual or aesthetic glories of each faith, are here used to celebrate the living fact of religion, not just to analyse its remains.
The pictures are grouped in thematic sections to illustrate such subjects as holy places, prophets and teachers, temples, symbols, faces of heaven, or priests. The book is a magnificent introduction to a rich and varied field.”
Size: 10" x 7". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 315 pages.
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Tourism News / Organisations & Operators
Maldives puts niche markets at centre of 2020 tourism strategy
The Maldives Marketing & Public Relations Corporation has announced a new tourism strategy for 2020.
The plan includes a stronger focus on promoting the rich culture of the destination, as well as developing niche markets such as MICE, culture and sports tourism.
The Maldives is a destination traditionally known for its high-end resort accommodation popular with honeymooners, however next year will see a stronger focus by MMPRC on promoting the diverse range of activities available to tourists such as beach volleyball, badminton and surfing.
Furthermore, with the growing demand for experiential travel by holidaymakers, corporation’s marketing activities will also aim to promote the rich local culture of the inhabited islands that surround the destination’s resort islands.
This will be achieved by developing a strategy centred around cultural tourism to help showcase Maldivian life to visitors through local cuisine, cultural performances, traditional handicrafts and heritage sites.
In terms of MICE tourism, the country is encouraging the growth of hotels and resorts with infrastructure for events and conferences in order to attract business events as well as special interest groups keen on culture and sports.
Maldives is already considered the World’s Leading Dive Destination by voters at the World Travel Awards.
The marketing strategy will be implemented through activities such as trade roadshows, media familiarisation trips, plus joint marketing campaigns with airlines and trade partners.
Speaking about the new tourism strategy, Thoyyib Mohamed, managing director for MMPRC, said: “The Maldives is well-known for its luxury and honeymoon product however during the last five years, the destination has also seen a growth in the number of families who visit, plus an increased interest in diving and our local island culture.
“We have welcomed 19 new properties during last year and this increase in hotel product is testament to the huge growth in the market and is a positive move for the economy.”
Thoyyib also commented on the visitor arrivals to the Maldives.
He added: “The UK is an extremely important market for us and has seen the strongest progress for year-round growth.
“We welcomed a total of 114,602 UK visitors in 2018 which saw a ten per cent increase compared to visitor arrivals in 2017, and this year alone seen over 1.2 million tourists visit from all markets already.”
In total, the Maldives has projected that the destination will welcome 1.5 million international tourists in 2019, and it is hoped this figured will increase to 2.5 million tourists per year by the end of 2023.
Breaking Travel News spoke with Thoyyib Mohamed, managing director of the Maldives Marketing & Public Relations Corporation earlier this month as he looked ahead to 2020.
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A man waters plants outside the Indian headquarters of Vedanta Resources Plc in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Adeel Halim/Bloomberg News)
Proxy Firm Questions If Hoax Bids Led To Vedanta’s Delisting Failure
BQ Desk@bloombergquint
Oct 12 2020, 6:06 PM Oct 12 2020, 6:49 PM October 12 2020, 6:06 PM October 12 2020, 6:49 PM
Vedanta Ltd.’s delisting failed as 12.3 crore shares offered were deemed invalid bids by custodians. And these remained unconfirmed despite a four-hour extension. According to proxy advisory firm SES, that raises a question if these bids were real and backed by shares or hoax bids to give a false sense that the required 90% threshold had been met.The Securities and Exchange Board of India must call for data and examine who placed the...
Vedanta Ltd.’s delisting failed as 12.3 crore shares offered were deemed invalid bids by custodians. And these remained unconfirmed despite a four-hour extension. According to proxy advisory firm SES, that raises a question if these bids were real and backed by shares or hoax bids to give a false sense that the required 90% threshold had been met.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India must call for data and examine who placed these bids and why they remained unconfirmed, Stakeholders Empowerment Services said in a report. The answer, it said, will be crucial for other companies, namely Adani Power Ltd., Hexaware Technologies Ltd., Allcargo Logistics Ltd., which are also queued up for delisting from the exchanges.
Vedanta’s reverse book-building process for public shareholders to tender their shares had begun on Oct. 5 and concluded on Oct. 9. At 3:30 p.m. on Friday, 137.78 crore shares had been tendered by public shareholders, more than the 134.12 crore needed for the promoter to cross the requisite 90% shareholding threshold as per the delisting regulations. But, of these, only 125.47 crore worth of shares were confirmed.
Since the delisting failed, the equity shares, according to SEBI’s regulations, will need to be returned to shareholders within 10 days. This time period, SES said, must be shortened by the market regulator. Barring a few exceptions, all shares are held in dematerialised form.
For instance, more than 99% of public shares of Vedanta are held in demat form. Therefore, the report said, equity shares held in demat form must be returned the same day once the announcement of delisting failure is made.
Also read: Vedanta's Failed Delisting Bares Systemic Gaps
SES has made another interesting observation in its report.
According to the bidding disclosures, 42 lakh equity shares had been tendered at a price of Rs 90 or less. Compare this to the low of Rs 110 that Vedanta’s share price hit during the tender period.
Why would a sane investor tender his / her shareholding at such a significant discount? Was it an error of judgement or lack of proper education? Or it was a ploy to project a negative sentiment to everyone?
SES Report
Unless the matter is investigated by the regulator, it is hard to justify such an unrealistic bid price, SES said.
Also read: Brokerages’ View On What’s Next For Vedanta After Delisting Fails
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