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The Water Cooler Theory
October 3, 2017 Mabs RahmanLeave a Comment on The Generational Gap: Cricket Edition
The Generational Gap: Cricket Edition
We as a society have a tendency to become nostalgic. We don’t live in the present; we contemplate the greatness (often without context) of the past. There is reassurance about the past. Our principles were upheld by more (or so we believe) honourable men/women. The future is full of uncertainty, and that uncertainty evolves into pessimism. This concept is certainly prevalent throughout the landscape of sports.
Although at TWCT we pride ourselves on pragmatism and progressiveness, there is benefit to writing about sports nostalgia. I mean how can we move forward without knowing where we have been, right? We can identify problems by looking back, thus progress forward.
For example if you and I were to discuss what South African cricket is lacking right now, we both might say, “a Jacques Kallis figure” correct? What South Africa lack is an all-rounder which balances out the team, and although Kallis is arguably the greatest player ever, the notion is correct.
This begs the question: if you could choose one player from the past – to make your team better- who would it be, and why?
In this article we will explore that question in depth. We will investigate the fundamental flaws of current Test cricket teams, examine which former player would have the greatest impact and teleport them into the line-up. There will be no generational gaps. However we will not put in former legends if they hinder developing talent. For example Sir Don Bradman will not replace Usman Khawaja (even though he is a higher calibre player) because Khawaja is excelling in Test cricket right now. The former player will be an emergency signing, so to speak, because of the lack of depth at that specific position. Got it? Great!
After using that Khawaja example, I think it is best that we start with Australia. Also we are going alphabetical order, but I digress. I think the weakest position in the current Australian team, not just in Test cricket but in ODI and T20, is the wicketkeeper-batsman position.
Gone are the days of Jack Russell, where wicket-keeping was an art in itself. In the modern day the wicketkeeper must be an excellent batsman. This creates a longer and more dynamic batting line-up.
Since Brad Haddin’s retirement, Australia have struggled to fill that void. Peter Nevill’s wicket-keeping skills need to honed, and Matthew Wade’s batting has deteriorated to the point of embarrassment. Enter Adam Gilchrist.
One of the most destructive players in the history of Test cricket, he would add impetus at the back end of a Test innings, and obliterate bowlers as an opener in ODIs. He was also one of the greatest gloveman in the history of the game. Not only does he balance the team out, but adds another inspirational leader in the dressing room. What more could you ask for?
Seeing as how this article explores the teleportation of former players from past generations into current teams, does scientific logic need to be sustained? Because I want to invest all of Bangladesh’s future revenue into a rejuvenation machine for Shakib Al Hasan.
It’s not often we can witness the greatest cricket player in an entire nation’s history. Shakib holds so many of the countries records in bowling, and batting. He is a idolise figure in Bangladesh, and has helped a nation dream of success.
When he retires, Bangladeshi cricket will suffer, and for that reason we wish to prolong his longevity in the game. The painful truth is that Bangladesh will never produce another all-rounder like Shakib.
England have a plethora of nuisances attached to them for a team rated so highly in the Test match arena. They have not replaced Andrew Strauss as an opener, they have problems at the 3 and they have a very similar pace attack that lacks variety. Not to mention an all-rounder who has put his team’s success in the Ashes at peril. However I believe the biggest problem England need to address is at the number 5 batting position.
I believe the number 5 batting position is the most versatile in Test cricket. Your number 5 needs to be able to adapt to the match situation, but also have the instinct and tenacity to progress to game along. AB De Villiers is a prime example of a player that bats at 5 and can read match situations, however he‘s an explosive batsman that dictates the tempo and over-rate.
The perfect man to transition into this England team would be Grahame Thorpe.
The art of routing the strike is slowly fading in international cricket, and a man like Thorpe could frustrate bowling attacks by building solid partnerships. He has a solid technique but his temperament and cricketing IQ is far superior to most cricketers. Thorpe’s grittiness would be a welcomed addition into England’s fragile middle-order.
Although historically India struggle away from the sub-continent in Test cricket, they may have the most complete starting 11 in their entire history. Not only have they produced elegant and transformative Test batsman in Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara but they have not lost any of their explosiveness either with Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma. Even their pace bowling is half decent with Bhuvi Kumar leading the way as a premier swing bowler. India have also produced what seems like their first legit fast bowling all-rounder since Kapil Dev, in Hardik Pandya. The prospect of him becoming a talisman for India is extremely fascinating.
The one area which they need to address is the wicket-keeping position. Since MS Dhoni has retired, no wicketkeeper has been able to solidify a spot in the team. For that reason we will ask MS Dhoni to come out of retirement and help India to dominate in the Test match arena again.
But Indian fans should be very happy with their team’s progress. I think they will challenge in every format of the game for years to come.
New Zealand cricket is in a precarious position right now. They have a team that’s half filled with star players such as Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Trent Boult and Cory Anderson. However they have not progressed at the accelerated rate we were expecting. Maybe this is because of the retirement of captain Brendon McCullum? But even though New Zealand has the talent, it has not quite clicked yet.
I would transfer Daniel Vettori from the past into this New Zealand team for two reasons:
The first reason is because New Zealand are exceptionally depleted in the spinning bowling department. Adding a Vettori, who can play as an economical or an attacking bowler, adds experience and quality into the bowling attack.
The second reason is because of his leadership qualities. Vettori had been the New Zealand captain in all formats of the game from 2007 until 2013. He is held in high esteem by New Zealand cricketers, and had it not been for injury, he would have been one of the greatest all-rounders in cricketing history. Having such a character in the dressing room could galvanise the team and help them reach their undoubted potential.
Is there a more controversial cricket playing nation then Pakistan? Constantly embroiled in drama and unethical behaviour; the fact that they are a superior Test match team is nothing short of miraculous. But with the retirement of Younis Khan and Misbah Ul-Haq, they are lacking in the batting department. I decided to teleport a figure from Pakistan’s past which exemplifies the qualities of a Test batsman, but that also epitomises the qualities of principled man. That man is Hanif Mohammad.
Although Hanif’s style of cricket is antithetical to the current trajectory of modern cricket, (he holds the record for slowest Test innings – 20 runs off 223 balls) he was a sophisticated batsman who played the game with sportsmanship and grace. His Test average of 43.98 indicates a batsman filled with grit and obstinacy, but his first class record (an average of 52.32 and 17,059 runs scored) signifies a refined batsman.
Pakistan would be lucky to have a batsman of Hanif’s excellence, but he was also a man who played the game of cricket in a respectful way. Something that Pakistan have lacked over the past decade or so.
Although we discussed earlier that South Africa are lacking a ‘Jacques Kallis’ figure in the current Test team, I have decided to choose a different all-rounder. Kallis, arguably one of the 5 greatest batsman ever, would have to bat in either the 3,4 or 5 batting positions. This would mean demotions for Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis or AB de Villiers, which goes against our rule of hindering current talent. Also I believe there needs to be more variety in South Africa’s pace attack, even though it may the greatest in history (if Dale Steyn is fit). The man I have decided to extract from the past is Trevor Goddard.
Trevor Goddard was an all-rounder of the uppermost proficiency. His first class batting average of 40.57 (11,279 runs) signals his calibre with the bat, but it was his lethal swing balling that captivated the cricketing world.
A left-arm medium fast bowler, Goddard produced devastating swing-bowling spells which hypnotised batting line-ups. This left-arm bowling option would be a crucial element to the current bowling line-up. With Kasio Rabada and Dale Steyn producing hostile fast bowling spells, players like Goddard and Vernon Phillander would perplex sides with their ability to subtly swing the ball in both directions. His left-arm bowling would also create a different angle for batsman too.
What doesn’t Sri Lanka need? They have problems with their openers, their middle-order and pace bowling attack. Honestly Sri Lanka may need to obtain four or five former players to become a competitive nation again. I don’t care about how they dismantled Australia at home, or how the beat Pakistan a few days ago. Rangana Herath can’t be expected to take 20 wickets every match for Sri Lanka to be a sustainable cricket team.
This proved to be a contentious choice because of all the holes in the current team. I believe the team would benefit from a multifaceted player, but one who could be a menace on the fast bowling end. For that reason I have decided to select Chaminda Vaas.
In this batting line-up Vaas might bat as high as 6 but now lower than 8, boosting a Test average of 24.32 with 1 Test century and 12 Test half-centuries. He would also be a devastating bowler in all conditions, have taking 355 Test wickets when he was in a team with a guy who bagged 10 wickets every game like it was nothing!
Sure Kumar Sangakara would help this team immensely; however you need to take 20 wickets to win a match. And with Sri Lanka’s over reliance on Herath, they need another wicket taking bowler; Vaas is by far the greatest fast bowler in their history.
The West Indies are one batsman and one bowler away from being a truly competitive side in the Test arena. I truly believe that. With Shai Hope, Carlos Braithwaite, Evan Lewis and Shannon Gabriel, there is much optimism for their future. If they could bring back a few of their T20i and ODI players (mainly Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo) back into the Test fold; this could be a destructive team. So who do I bring back from their illustrious past?
It was a difficult deliberation between Sir Viv Richards or Malcom Marshall. I decided to let substance to prevail over style, and choose Malcolm Marshall. Tflamboyance that exuberated from Viv was contagious. The bravery to play without a helmet, in era of true fast-bowling giants, is still astonishing.
However you still need 20 wickets to win a match, and Malcolm Marshall might be able to get 10 of those each game so you’re halfway home. Marshall’s express pace, which Brian Lara described as “scary”, would rattle some of the batsman in this generation. A true match winner, and someone who could be transformative to this current West Indian team.
Heath Streak. He is one the greatest player in their history. Along with his impeccable bowling and admirable batting, he possessed a bullet throw from the boundary. Something I’d pay to see.
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Published by Mabs Rahman
I attended the University of Lincoln for my BA in History and at the University of Kent for my MA in International Relations with International Law. The Water Cooler Theory was produced to be a creative outlet for me, and my friends. A place where we could discuss a plethora of ideas, without filter. I hope it opens up a new stimulus of discussion from all areas of the socio-political spectrum. View all posts by Mabs Rahman
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* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff:
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)
=Participants=
==Participants==
Organizational pages:
#[[ContactCon List of Participants]]
=Projects=
==Projects==
=='''Initiative: Building a Distributed Internet'''==
See: [[List of ContactCon Related Projects]]
*Quora
==Discussions==
- [http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-fundamental-requirements-and-building-blocks-of-a-distributed-internet What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?]
*Google Groups
[[Potential Discussion Topics at Contact]]
- [http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet?pli=1 Building a Distributed Decentralized Internet]
*Workflow on Bettermeans
Contact forums here:
- [https://secure.bettermeans.com/projects/1392 The Next Net]
*References
* the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit
- [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure List of projects building distributed P2P internet infrastructures]
- [http://emergentbydesign.com/2011/02/11/16-projects-initiatives-building-ad-hoc-wireless-mesh-networks/ List of projects building ad-hoc wireless mesh networks]
to participate in threaded discussions about p2p currency, open government, networked culture, and more. This is the place to begin working on ideas and projects that you might want to develop at Contact, to educate yourself about these ideas, or to suggest anything for the conference itself.
- article: [http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_30144.php# How to Communicate if the US Government Shuts Down the Internet]
* The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet
- article: [http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-set-up-a-open-mesh-network-in-your-neighborhood How to Set Up an Open Mesh Network in Your Neighborhood]
dedicated to discussions about actually building the next net - a distributed, decentralized version of the Internet, as described in Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "The Next Net" on Shareable.net. This conversation is more technical in nature.
- article: [http://gigaom.com/2011/02/17/building-the-technology-stack-for-internet-freedom/ Building the Technology Stack for Internet Freedom]
==Global Network==
=='''OpenKollab & Coalition of the Willing Project: Open Collaboration and Project Matching Infrastructure'''==
Message from Contact:
*Project Mapping wiki
From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.
- [http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching ProM wiki]
*Google Group
- [https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/cc-pms Project Mapping group]
*OpenKollab website
- [http://mudball.net/openkollab/ OpenKollab]
*OpenKollab Google Group
- [http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab?hl=en OpenKollab]
*Coalition of the Willing blog
- [http://www.coalitionblog.org/ Coalition of the Willing]
*CoTW Google Group
- [https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/coalition CoTW]
Organize [[Global Contact Meetups]] in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs through the [https://groups.google.com/group/contact-global?hl=en Contact Global Meetups Google Group].
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on the [[Global Contact Meetups]] section of this wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at [email protected]
Discussions also being facilitated in the Contact forums here: http://contactcon.com/forum/2
If you're unable to join us in person for Contact this October, we hope you'll create a Meetup that day in your own area so that this becomes a truly global event.
*San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/
==More Information about related topics==
*[[Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas]]
*[[Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods]]
*[[Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model]]
*[[Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach]]
*[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]
[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]
=More Information=
Contact with Contact:
* For press inquiries please contact: [email protected]
* For sponsorship inquiries please contact: [email protected]
* For general/registration inquires please contact: [email protected]
Form available via http://contactcon.com/contact/
* Discussion forum, http://contactcon.com/forum/2
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= A conference and summit to restore the true p2p nature of the internet, social media, and all that it enables in culture and society, initiated by Douglas Rushkoff
5 Global Network
6 More Information about related topics
Excerpted from Motivation for the Contact Summit, by Douglas Rushkoff:
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality." (http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)
"At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda." (http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)
ContactCon List of Participants
See: List of ContactCon Related Projects
Potential Discussion Topics at Contact
the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit
The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet
Message from Contact: From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.
Organize Global Contact Meetups in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs through the Contact Global Meetups Google Group.
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on the Global Contact Meetups section of this wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at [email protected]
San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/
More Information about related topics
Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas
Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods
Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model
Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach
Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others
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=Context=
==Introductory Citation==
- Joe Corbett [http://www.integralworld.net/corbett31.html]
'''* I (Michel Bauwens) fully endorse this as the spiritual theory behind an integrative p2p theory for social and personal change: A [[P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality]]. By Joe Corbett.'''
==Discussion==
* '''3. Key Essay:''' The relational ground of human consciousness. John Heron: [[Notes on Spiritual Leadership and Relational Spirituality]]
John Heron:
[[John Heron]]:
"I prefer to think of the spiritual development of human culture as rooted in degrees of relational, moral insight and not in an evolutionary logic. Evolution as a concept seems best left to natural processes. Otherwise intellectual bids to know what evolution is up to and what is coming next culturally, rapidly convert into hegemonic arrogance and attempts at social and intellectual control. The developing of the human spirit in cultural forms is a different category and is very close in my view to the way in which our realization of an extended doctrine of rights, in theory and practice, unfolds.
There seem to be at least four degrees of such unfolding:
# Autocratic cultures which define rights in a limited and oppressive way and there are no rights of political participation.
1. Autocratic cultures which define rights in a limited and oppressive way and there are no rights of political participation.
# Narrow democratic cultures which practise political participation through representation, but have no or very limited participation of people in decision-making in all other realms, such as research, religion, education, industry, etc.
# Wider democratic cultures which practice both political participation and varying degree of wider kinds of participation.
2. Narrow democratic cultures which practise political participation through representation, but have no or very limited participation of people in decision-making in all other realms, such as research, religion, education, industry, etc.
# Commons peer-to-peer cultures in a libertarian and abundance-oriented global network with equipotential rights of participation in decision-making of everyone in every field of human endeavour, in relation to nature, culture, the subtle and the spiritual.
3. Wider democratic cultures which practice both political participation and varying degree of wider kinds of participation.
4. Commons peer-to-peer cultures in a libertarian and abundance-oriented global network with equipotential rights of participation in decision-making of everyone in every field of human endeavour, in relation to nature, culture, the subtle and the spiritual.
These four degrees could be stated in terms of the relations between hierarchy, co-operation and autonomy (deciding for others, deciding with others, deciding by oneself).
1.Hierarchy defines, controls and constrains co-operation and autonomy.
# Hierarchy defines, controls and constrains co-operation and autonomy.
# Hierarchy empowers a measure of co-operation and autonomy in the political sphere only.
# Hierarchy empowers a measure of co-operation and autonomy in the political sphere and in varying degrees in other spheres.
# The sole role of hierarchy is in its spontaneous emergence in (a) the initiation , and (b) the continuous flowering, of autonomy-in-co-operation, of spirit-in-manifestation, in all spheres of human endeavour."
2. Hierarchy empowers a measure of co-operation and autonomy in the political sphere only.
(http://www.human-inquiry.com/slrs.htm)
3. Hierarchy empowers a measure of co-operation and autonomy in the political sphere and in varying degrees in other spheres.
4. The sole role of hierarchy is in its spontaneous emergence in (a) the initiation , and (b) the continuous flowering, of autonomy-in-co-operation, of spirit-in-manifestation, in all spheres of human endeavour."
=The Fourteen Precepts of Interbeing=
Source: Thich Nhat Hanh, The Fourteen Precepts from Interbeing , 2003
=Long Citations=
* Peer production as consciousness:
==Jorge Ferrer on [[Dismantling Rankism and the Comparing Mind]]==
"Integrative and embodied spirituality would effectively undermine the current model of human relations based on comparison, which easily leads to competition, rivalry, envy, jealousy, conflict, and hatred. When individuals develop in harmony with their most genuine vital potentials, human relationships characterized by mutual exchange and enrichment would naturally emerge because people would not need to project their own needs and lacks onto others. More specifically, the turning off of the comparing mind would dismantle the prevalent hierarchical mode of social interaction paradoxically so extended in spiritual circles in which people automatically look upon others as being either superior or inferior, as a whole or in some privileged respect. This model which ultimately leads to inauthentic and unfulfilling relationships, not to mention hubris and spiritual narcissism would naturally pave the way for an I-Thou mode of encounter in which people would experience others as equals in the sense of their being both superior and inferior to themselves in varying skills and areas of endeavor (intellectually, emotionally, artistically, mechanically, interpersonally, and so forth), but with none of those skills being absolutely higher or better than others. It is important to experience human equality from this perspective to avoid trivializing our encounter with others as being merely equal. It also would bring a renewed sense of significance and excitement to our interactions because we would be genuinely open to the fact that not only can everybody learn something important from us, but we can learn from them as well. In sum, an integral development of the person would lead to a horizontalization of love.? We would see others not as rivals or competitors but as unique embodiments of the Mystery, in both its immanent and transcendent dimension, who could offer us something that no one else could offer and to whom we could give something that no one else could give."
"I advocate a shift in emphasis from the epistemological talk of mystically “being in touch with Reality” and “knowing the Truth” and a greater emphasis on the ethical by asking what kind of person we become through whatever self-development practices we do. If a fundamentalist Christian - who thinks a non-believer like myself is going to burn in hell - spends their days helping people then I like that latter part of what their religion leads them to, while fearing that their anti-scientific, literal reading of the Bible has bad consequences for society's fruitful understanding of the world. The results of people's actions should concern us more than the content of their beliefs; unless the content of their beliefs result in bad consequences."
(http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff16.html)
==Fritjof Capra on the Unity of All Things in Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism==
(...) "Although the spiritual traditions described in the last five chapters differ in many details, their view of the world is essentially the same. It is a view which is based on mystical experience - on a direct non-intellectual experience of reality - and this experience has a number of fundamental characteristics which are independent of the mystic’s geographical, historical, or cultural background.
The principal aim of the Eastern mystical traditions is therefore to readjust the mind by centering and quietening it through meditation. The Sanskrit term for meditation - samadhi - means literally ‘mental equilibrium’.
It refers to the balanced and tranquil state of mind in which the basic unity of the universe is experienced:
— Clare Graves [https://medium.com/@designforsustainability/design-for-human-and-planetary-health-a-transdisciplinary-approach-to-sustainability-e83ed741c63d]
=Short Citations=
See our entry: [[Paganism]]
=Resources=
==Key Articles==
Gregory Wilpert wrote: [[Consciousness and the Post-Capitalist Commons]], see in particular:
#[[Forms of Consciousness and the Forms of the Commons]]
# [[Forms of Consciousness and the Forms of the Commons]]
#[[On the Differences between the Pre-Capitalist Commons and the Post-Capitalist Commons]]
# [[On the Differences between the Pre-Capitalist Commons and the Post-Capitalist Commons]]
* Recommended: [http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/12/spirit-inc-the-politics-of-modern-spirituality-the-stalled-revolution-vanessa-d-fisher/ The Politics of Modern Spirituality]]. By Vanessa Fisher. From spiritual to political awakening.
====Further reading====
'''Further reading''':
# Bruce Aldermann's three part introduction to intersubjective spirituality [http://brucealderman.zaadz.com/blog/2007/5/nondual_community_the_flowering_of_intersubjectivity_part_1]
# Gregg Lahood and John Heron with a case study of [http://gregglahood.com/index.php?section=21 Collaborative Charismatic Inquiry]
#Bruce Aldermann's three part introduction to intersubjective spirituality [http://brucealderman.zaadz.com/blog/2007/5/nondual_community_the_flowering_of_intersubjectivity_part_1]
# [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/jopp_235.pdf Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue]: Yochai Benkler and Hellen Nissenbaum on the ethical values underlying peer production.
#Gregg Lahood and John Heron with a case study of [http://gregglahood.com/index.php?section=21 Collaborative Charismatic Inquiry]
# Commentary on the above Benkler/Nissenbaum text by catholic author Julian Fox: [[Virtue and the Digital Commons]]
#[http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/jopp_235.pdf Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue]: Yochai Benkler and Hellen Nissenbaum on the ethical values underlying peer production.
# John Heron warns us of the dangers of spiritual authoritarianism. Read [[Spiritual Projection and Authority]], chapter 14 of his foundational book on [[Participatory Spirituality]]; also: Chapter 13: The [[Authoritarian Blight in Spirituality]]
#Commentary on the above Benkler/Nissenbaum text by catholic author Julian Fox: [[Virtue and the Digital Commons]]
# Jean-Francois Noubel: [[Creating Invisible Architectures for Collective Wisdom]]
#John Heron warns us of the dangers of spiritual authoritarianism. Read [[Spiritual Projection and Authority]], chapter 14 of his foundational book on [[Participatory Spirituality]]; also: Chapter 13: The [[Authoritarian Blight in Spirituality]]
# Nova Spivack: [[Towards Healthy Virtual Selves for Collective Groups]] [http://www.twine.com/item/11ktvpjz6-rl/how-to-build-the-global-mind]
#Jean-Francois Noubel: [[Creating Invisible Architectures for Collective Wisdom]]
# John Stewart: The [http://cogprints.org/5270/1/Consciousness-Evolution.pdf evolution of consciousness], rooted in complexity and cognitive sciences. See Stewart, J. E. (2007) The future evolution of consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 14, No. 8, Pp. 58-92.
#Nova Spivack: [[Towards Healthy Virtual Selves for Collective Groups]] [http://www.twine.com/item/11ktvpjz6-rl/how-to-build-the-global-mind]
# Stuart Kauffman: A [[Shareable God]]
#John Stewart: The [http://cogprints.org/5270/1/Consciousness-Evolution.pdf evolution of consciousness], rooted in complexity and cognitive sciences. See Stewart, J. E. (2007) The future evolution of consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 14, No. 8, Pp. 58-92.
# [[Madronna Holden on the Agency of Nature and the Partnership View]]
#Stuart Kauffman: A [[Shareable God]]
# The [[Revival of Peering with Nature]]. By James William Gibson
#[[Madronna Holden on the Agency of Nature and the Partnership View]]
# Jorge Ferrer: [[Participatory Vision of the Future of Religion]]: on "The Plurality of Religions and the Spirit of Pluralism"
#The [[Revival of Peering with Nature]]. By James William Gibson
# Paul Hartzog: [[Oneness, Nihilism, and the Multitude]]
#Jorge Ferrer: [[Participatory Vision of the Future of Religion]]: on "The Plurality of Religions and the Spirit of Pluralism"
# Denis Postle: [[Psychological Commons, Peer to Peer Networks and Post-Professional Psychopractice]]
#Paul Hartzog: [[Oneness, Nihilism, and the Multitude]]
#Denis Postle: [[Psychological Commons, Peer to Peer Networks and Post-Professional Psychopractice]]
# Micheal Daniels: '''The [[Difference between Descending Depth-Psychological vs. Relational-Participatory Extending Aprroach to Spirituality]].''' From the Paper: Perspectives and vectors in transpersonal development. Michael Daniels. Transpersonal Psychology Review, Vol 13, No. 1, 87-99. (April, 2009)
#Kingsley Dennis: [[How the Internet Creates Relational/Ecological Forms of Awareness]]
# Kingsley Dennis: [[How the Internet Creates Relational/Ecological Forms of Awareness]]
#The [https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge Broken Bridge between Rationality and Meta-Rationality]. By David Chapman. (background: the [https://vividness.live/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence/ five stages in developing ethical, social and cognitive competetence])
# The [https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge Broken Bridge between Rationality and Meta-Rationality]. By David Chapman. (background: the [https://vividness.live/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence/ five stages in developing ethical, social and cognitive competetence])
==Key Books==
====Spiritual Theory:====
'''Spiritual Theory:'''
#John Heron's [[Participatory Spirituality - A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion]].
# Richard Tarnas. The [[Passion of the Western Mind]] — Understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view: how separation and participation can be integrated.
====Sociological/Descriptive Approaches:====
Sociological/Descriptive Approaches:
#[[Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution]]: technology and the global church
====Also of note:====
# The [[Alphabet versus the Goddess]]
'''Also of note:'''
# The [[Ascent of Humanity]]
# [[Digital Dharma]]. Steven Vedro.
#The [[Alphabet versus the Goddess]]
# [[Occupy Consciousness]]: Essays on the Global Insurrection. Evolver, 2012. [http://www.realitysandwich.com/occupy_consciousness_book]
#The [[Ascent of Humanity]]
#[[Digital Dharma]]. Steven Vedro.
#[[Occupy Consciousness]]: Essays on the Global Insurrection. Evolver, 2012. [http://www.realitysandwich.com/occupy_consciousness_book]
==Key Resources==
#A [http://www.eleutheros.it/ Catholic approach to ICT]
# A [http://www.eleutheros.it/ Catholic approach to ICT]
==Key Thematic Issues of P2P News==
* '''P2P and Nature''', Issue 96 of P2P News at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p96
* '''P2P Epistemology''', Issue 89 of P2P News at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p89
* '''P2P Spirituality''', Issue 88 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p88
* '''P2P Epistemology''', Issue of P2P News at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p77
'''P2P and Nature''', Issue 96 of P2P News at,
==Key Webcasts==
http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p96
'''P2P Epistemology''', Issue 89 of P2P News, at
#[[Sister Judith Zoebelein on the Virtual, the Actual, and the Spiritual]]. Sister Judith Zoebelein is Editorial director at Internet Office of the Holy See.
'''P2P Spirituality''', Issue 88 of P2P News, at
'''P2P Epistemology''', Issue of P2P News, at
=The DIRECTORY=
[[Category:P2P Domains]]
1 Context
1.1 Introductory Citation
1.3 Discussion
2 The Fourteen Precepts of Interbeing
3.1 When all religions are available to everyone, the time of no religion has arrived
3.2 Jorge Ferrer on Dismantling Rankism and the Comparing Mind
3.3 Jeff Meyerhoff on a ethics of consequences
3.4 Dana Klisanin on Transception
3.5 On the Circle in Worship
3.6 Adam Miller on Peer to Peer Grace
3.7 Mark Pesce on Global Interconnection
3.8 Meta-theory as humanity’s vocabulary of self-transformation
3.9 Fritjof Capra on the Unity of All Things in Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
3.10 Individuals can't think non-linearly, only collectives can
3.11 Clare Graves on the Spiral Process of psycho-spiritual development
5 Technology and Spiritual Traditions
5.1 Secular Humanism
5.2 Buddhism
5.3 Christianity
5.4 Paganism
6.1 Key Articles
6.1.1 Further reading
6.2 Key Approaches
6.3 Key Books
6.3.1 Spiritual Theory:
6.3.2 Sociological/Descriptive Approaches:
6.3.3 Also of note:
6.4 Key Resources
6.5 Key Thematic Issues of P2P News
6.6 Key Webcasts
7 The DIRECTORY
Introductory Citation
* Peer production as the consciousness of the new civilization:
"peer production and the emerging economy of the Commons may (and already do) provide the material conditions of an alternative future spirituality and self. An identity based on networks of cooperation rather than competition, and common property and sharing rather than privatization and commodification, has no need to generate a collective will that puts human systems in balance with eco-systems because that will is already built-in to the foundation of the consciousness and practices of peer production as a collective, commons project. There is no sense of the individual part standing separate from the collective whole or in a dominant relation to others, so there is no gap to mend and heal, there is only an in-built spiritual consciousness and self practice of ‘We’ and ‘I’ in nature and society as a unified (yet diverse) integral practice."
- Joe Corbett [1]
* 'How could we call a coming age of participation?'
Philippe Van Nedervelde suggests two possible names, both drawn from classical Greek:
1) Synergos, from "sun/syn" = together; "ergos" = work
2) Metechos, denotes sharing/participating
Inspired by the work of Dana Klisanin, the P2P Foundation favors the development of Evolutionary Guidance Media which posits the pairing of compassionate-seeing/action with that of Cyberception, or humankind’s rapidly advancing technological abilities, resulting in Transception, [2]
* I (Michel Bauwens) fully endorse this as the spiritual theory behind an integrative p2p theory for social and personal change: A P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality. By Joe Corbett.
For an intro, read Michel Bauwens on the Great Cosmic Mash-Up, which focuses on P2P and common projects and their role in the construction of our identity:
"Postmodernism was all about deconstructing oppressive mental structures that we inherited from modernity. Amongst other things the Cartesian subject/object split and the alienating effects of Kantian's impossibility of knowing true reality; it was a necessary destructive passage, a cleaning out process, but it didn't, as its names "post"- indicate, construct anything. So in my view, if modernity was about constructing the individual (along subject/object divisions), and postmodernity about deconstructing this, then this new era, which I'ld like to call the era of participation, is about constructing relationality or participation. We are not going back to the premodern wholistic era and feelings, but just as modernity was about rigorously individualising everything, eventually reaching the current dead-end of hyper-individualism, we are now just as rigorously 'relationising' everything. If in premodernity we thought, we are parts of a whole that is one and above us, and in modernity we thought we are separate and unified individuals, a world onto ourselves, and in postmodernity saw ourselves fragmenting, and pretty much lamented this, then this is the mash-up era. We now know that all this fragments can be reconstructed with the zillions of fragment of the others, into zillions of commonalities, into temporary wholes that are so many new creative projects, but all united in a ever-moving Commons that is open to all of us..
So the fragmentation of postmodernity is a given for us now, but we are no longer lamenting, we are discovering the technologies (infrastructural, collaborative-software-ish, political, but above all the mental and epistemological) that allow us to use this fragmentation to create the Great Cosmic Mash-Up. That is the historical task of the emerging Peer to Peer Era."
2. From: The Next Buddha Will Be A Collective. By Michel Bauwens
"the 3 paradigm shifts (open/free, participatory, commons), although only emerging as seed forms at this stage, are letting themselves be felt through contemporary spiritual practices. It suggests a new approach to spirituality which I would like to call a contributory spirituality. This approach would consider that each tradition is a set of injunctions set from within a specific framework, and which can disclose different facets of reality. This framework may be influenced by a set of values (patriarchy, exclusive truth doctrines, etc…), which might be rejected today, but also contains psycho-spiritual practices which disclose particular truths about our relationship with the universe. Discovering spiritual truth then, requires at least a partial exposure to these differential methods of truth discovery, within a comparative framework, but it also requires intersubjective feedback, so it is a quest that cannot be undertaken alone, but along with others on the same path. Tradition is thereby not rejected, but critically experienced and evaluated. The modern spiritual practicioner can hold himself beholden to such a particular tradition, but need not feel confined to it. He/she can create spiritual inquiry circles that approach the different traditions with an open mind, experience them individually and collectively, and where the different individual experiences can be exchanged. In this way, a new collective body of spiritual experiences is created, which is continuously co-created by the inquiring spiritual communities and individuals. The outcome of that process will be a co-created reality that is unpredictable and will create new, as yet unpredictable spiritual formats. But one thing is sure: it will be an open, participatory, approach leading to a commons of spiritual knowledge, from which all humanity can draw from."
3. Key Essay: The relational ground of human consciousness. John Heron: Notes on Spiritual Leadership and Relational Spirituality
Autocratic cultures which define rights in a limited and oppressive way and there are no rights of political participation.
Narrow democratic cultures which practise political participation through representation, but have no or very limited participation of people in decision-making in all other realms, such as research, religion, education, industry, etc.
Wider democratic cultures which practice both political participation and varying degree of wider kinds of participation.
Commons peer-to-peer cultures in a libertarian and abundance-oriented global network with equipotential rights of participation in decision-making of everyone in every field of human endeavour, in relation to nature, culture, the subtle and the spiritual.
Hierarchy defines, controls and constrains co-operation and autonomy.
Hierarchy empowers a measure of co-operation and autonomy in the political sphere only.
Hierarchy empowers a measure of co-operation and autonomy in the political sphere and in varying degrees in other spheres.
The sole role of hierarchy is in its spontaneous emergence in (a) the initiation , and (b) the continuous flowering, of autonomy-in-co-operation, of spirit-in-manifestation, in all spheres of human endeavour."
The Fourteen Precepts of Interbeing
Read also: Gebser’s 19 Criteria to Appraise Aperspectival Movements and Tendencies!
As proposed by Thich Nhat Hanh:
1. Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology
2. Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth
3. Do not force others, including children, by any means whatsoever, to adopt your views
4. Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering
5. Do not accumulate wealth while millions are hungry
6. Do not maintain anger or hatred
7. Do not lose yourself in dispersion and in your surroundings
8. Do not utter words that can create discord and cause the community to break
9. Do not say untruthful things for the sake of personal interest or to impress people
10. Do not use the community for personal gain or profit
11. Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature
12. Do not kill, do not let others kill
13. Possess nothing that should belong to others
14. Do not mistreat your body, learn to handle it with respect"
Peer production as consciousness:
The liberation of the self involves, above all, a social process. In a society that has shriveled the self into a commodity — into an object manufactured for exchange — there can be no fulfilled self. There can only be the beginnings of selfhood, the emergence of a self that seeks fulfillment — a self that is largely defined by the obstacles it must overcome to achieve realization.
- Murray Bookchin [4]
"The reference to “northward arm” and “southward arm” is typically Wintu, and its usage suggests a cultural wisdom so deep and unconscious that it was embedded in the very structure of language. In English we refer to the right arm and left arm, and we might describe a certain mountain as being to our right or left, in front or in back of us depending on which way we are facing at the moment. We use the body — the self — as the point of reference against which we describe the world. The Wintu would never do this, and indeed the Wintu language would not permit it. If a certain mountain was to the north, say, the arm nearest that mountain would be called the northward arm. If the Wintu turned around, the arm that had previously been referred to as the northward arm would now be called the southward arm. In other words, the features of the world remained the constant reference, the sense of self was what changed — a self that continually accommodated and adjusted to a world in which the individual was not the center of all creation."
- From the Book: The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs and Reminiscences. [5]
Jesus, in the Gospel, did not say, "My kingdom is not of this world; that was the bad translators who, by suppressing three words in one phrase of St. John, have made it say this. Jesus said literally, "My kingdom is not yet of these times." And as his kingdom, as it is explained in the same passage, is the reign of justice and truth, and as it adds that this kingdom will come on the earth, it follows that, very far from have prophesied that the principles of equality will never be realized on earth, Jesus on the contrary prophesied their realization, their reign, their arrival.
- Pierre Leroux [6]
"If what we are calling the ontology of the One rejects what is not itself – by positing a radical commensurability by which only that which is its Self is valued, and all that is Other is devalued – and what we are calling the ontology of the Zero rejects everything – by positing a radical incommensurability by which nothing can be valued at all – then the ontology of the Many succeeds because it rejects nothing (out of hand) – by positing a perpetual flux of commensurables and incommensurables by which subjects/objects, Nature/Society, humans/nonhumans, are continually constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed, in other words, e-value-ated."
- Paul B. Hartzog
“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [7]
When all religions are available to everyone, the time of no religion has arrived
" All the forms of Buddhism that have ever been put into written form (or electronic media) are now simultaneously available to everyone in the world who can read and has a connection to the internet. There are no more boundaries between forms of Buddhism, which were formerly divided and contained by historic period, sect, culture, language, etc. You are free to learn any kind of Buddhist dharma or practice you can lay eyes on. The historical sangha, which was an enclosed society based on “secret” teachings and practices, is gone. There are no secrets anymore. Anyone can learn any kind of Buddhism, anywhere, any time. The Buddhisms we practice now are forms of a global Buddhism that is growing, spreading and intensifying: it is not scarce, it is ubiquitous."
- Shaun Bartone [8]
Jorge Ferrer on Dismantling Rankism and the Comparing Mind
"Integrative and embodied spirituality would effectively undermine the current model of human relations based on comparison, which easily leads to competition, rivalry, envy, jealousy, conflict, and hatred. When individuals develop in harmony with their most genuine vital potentials, human relationships characterized by mutual exchange and enrichment would naturally emerge because people would not need to project their own needs and lacks onto others. More specifically, the turning off of the comparing mind would dismantle the prevalent hierarchical mode of social interaction paradoxically so extended in spiritual circles in which people automatically look upon others as being either superior or inferior, as a whole or in some privileged respect. This model which ultimately leads to inauthentic and unfulfilling relationships, not to mention hubris and spiritual narcissism would naturally pave the way for an I-Thou mode of encounter in which people would experience others as equals in the sense of their being both superior and inferior to themselves in varying skills and areas of endeavor (intellectually, emotionally, artistically, mechanically, interpersonally, and so forth), but with none of those skills being absolutely higher or better than others. It is important to experience human equality from this perspective to avoid trivializing our encounter with others as being merely equal. It also would bring a renewed sense of significance and excitement to our interactions because we would be genuinely open to the fact that not only can everybody learn something important from us, but we can learn from them as well. In sum, an integral development of the person would lead to a horizontalization of love.? We would see others not as rivals or competitors but as unique embodiments of the Mystery, in both its immanent and transcendent dimension, who could offer us something that no one else could offer and to whom we could give something that no one else could give." - Jorge Ferrer [9]
Jeff Meyerhoff on a ethics of consequences
"I advocate a shift in emphasis from the epistemological talk of mystically “being in touch with Reality” and “knowing the Truth” and a greater emphasis on the ethical by asking what kind of person we become through whatever self-development practices we do. If a fundamentalist Christian - who thinks a non-believer like myself is going to burn in hell - spends their days helping people then I like that latter part of what their religion leads them to, while fearing that their anti-scientific, literal reading of the Bible has bad consequences for society's fruitful understanding of the world. The results of people's actions should concern us more than the content of their beliefs; unless the content of their beliefs result in bad consequences." (http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff16.html)
Dana Klisanin on Transception
"It is not surprising then, that as our sphere of concern expands (i.e., from the personal to the global-planetary) we are creating technological means through which to address those concerns. Transception, described as, “Internet technologies fused with moral concerns,” is one embodiment of that evolution (Klisanin, 2005; 2007). Transception enables digital altruism, for example through websites designed to support caring and sharing behaviors, i.e., the ability to add content to informational sites such as Wikipedia (2011); the ability to contribute to charity through viewing advertisements via “click-to-donate” formats such as available at Care2.com (2011); the ability to help solve complex problems through donating unused (idle) computer time to scientific research, for example, through the World Community Grid (2011). Transception enables individuals to reach beyond the confines of the physical body not simply to act, but to act compassionately on behalf of other sentient beings."
- Dana Klisanin [10]
On the Circle in Worship
"The Quaker choice of being in a circle, seated around a table on which one may find a bible or a bunch of flowers, corresponds to an ancient human custom of meeting to communicate with each other at the same level. It is not a gimmick, trying to be different, or just another form of religious suggestion: it is a proven means of communion between people in a relationship that is closer together, more aware, more tightly bound. Those of different social backgrounds or levels of cultural experience feel themselves more equal with each other, more humble and more open, and all equally placed before God. The distances between the pulpit, the preacher, the front pews, the back pews, which imply separation between people and an (even if slight) suggestion of who presides over the worship; the isolation of the anguished individual who does not manage to communicate from his static Sunday place; these have vanished when one worships in a circle. There is no pulpit except the ideal one of Christ; there are no elements of distraction."
- Davide Melodia [11] ; translation from Italian by Simon Grant
Adam Miller on Peer to Peer Grace
"I want to operationalize grace. I want to port it out of a traditional theistic frame-work and into the immanent domain of a non-theistic ontology. Doing so will involve a shift from thinking about grace in terms of unavailable and transcendent "large-scale forces of cosmic progress" to treating it as a palpable, ubiquitous, and available "small-scale force." Rather than being an unknowable force operating behind the scenes, might grace instead be what characterizes-- here and now and in plain sight-- the whole of this world's self-organizing complexity? Is grace such a thing that its real power could only come via a supernatural investment of divine, theistic intent? Or is grace such that, in its small scale, localized, and temporally distended operation is hidden, as with natural selection, a world-shaping strength?"
~ Adam Miller, "Speculative Grace" [12]
Mark Pesce on Global Interconnection
"Now there are five billion of us, directly connected, none of us further apart than the time it takes to type a short string of digits. Even the Urban Revolution did not bring us together like this: individuals on opposite sides of a great city might never meet. We continuously carry with us a connection to the greater part of humanity, and the greater part of humanity, likewise equipped, connects to us. This is not a conurbation; this is a zero-dimension humanity, every point directly connected to every other point, because there is only a single point, pervasive and unified.
Dunbar’s Number has been both amplified and extended beyond any human capacity ever imagined. We moved from hundreds to billions in a single gesture, a quantum leap which in retrospect will appear nearly instantaneous. We enjoy the curious privilege of being part of this transition, the generations experiencing life before, during and after the billion seconds which encompass the entire scope of this transition. A billion seconds is sufficient to change everything.
We are already connected. This amplification and extension has already happened., an event that lies behind us, in our history, a fait accompli. That may be the most shocking feature of the present moment: we think ourselves striding confidently on the ground, only to look down and find ourselves in orbit. How did we get here? We do not remember feeling the blast rocket engines lifting us above the atmosphere. Everything seemed so gradual, we failed to note the gentle but steady tug of acceleration which led inexorably to liftoff, pushing us ever higher.
Yet here we are, far out of our depth, each of us connected, sharing with and learning from five billion others. By itself, this would be among the most remarkable events in human history. But past is prologue. We each now have the learning and experience of five billion others to draw upon" (via fb, no source)
Meta-theory as humanity’s vocabulary of self-transformation
[With] self-consciousness comes the possibility of transforming ourselves by adopting new vocabularies, redescribing, and so reconstructing our selves and discursive institutions. While all of us are in some sense consumers of such new vocabularies, it is the special calling of some to produce them. And among those producers some take the construction of unique, potentially transformative vocabularies as the project by commitment to which they understand and define themselves. Among that group, some seek to produce those new vocabularies precisely by trying to understated the phenomena of sapience, normativity, conceptuality, reason, freedom, expression, self-consciousness, self-constitution, and historical transformation by subversive, empowering vocabularies. Those are the philosophers. They are charged neither with simply understanding human nature (human history), nor with simply changing it, but with changing it by understanding it.
—Robert B. Brandom (2009, p. 150) [13]
Fritjof Capra on the Unity of All Things in Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
A Hindu and a Taoist may stress different aspects of the experience; a Japanese Buddhist may interpret his or her experience in terms which are very different from those used by an Indian Buddhist; but the basic elements of the world view which has been developed in all these traditions are the same. These elements also seem to be the fundamental features of the world view emerging from modern physics.
The most important characteristic of the Eastern world view - one could almost say the essence of it - is the awareness of the unity and mutual interrelation of all things and events, the experience of all phenomena in the world as manifestations of a basic oneness. All things are seen as interdependent and inseparable parts of this cosmic whole; as different manifestations of the same ultimate reality.
The Eastern traditions constantly refer to this ultimate, indivisible reality which manifests itself in all things, and of which all things are parts. It is called 'Brahman' in Hinduism, 'Dharmakaya' in Buddhism, 'Tao' in Taoism. Because it transcends all concepts and categories, Buddhists also call it 'Tathata', or 'Suchness':
- 'What is meant by the soul as suchness, is the oneness of the totality of all things, the great all-including whole.’
In ordinary life, we are not aware of this unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is, of course, useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorizing intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate ‘things’ and ‘events’ are realities of nature is an illusion. Hindus and Buddhists tell us that this illusion is based on 'avidya', or 'ignorance', produced by a mind under the spell of 'maya'.
- 'Entering into the samadhi of purity, (one obtains) all-penetrating insight that enables one to become conscious of the absolute oneness of the universe.'
The basic oneness of the universe is not only the central characteristic of the mystical experience, but is also one of the most important revelations of modern physics. It becomes apparent at the atomic level and manifests itself more and more as one penetrates deeper into matter, down into the realm of subatomic particles.
The unity of all things and events will be a recurring theme throughout our comparison of modern physics and Eastern philosophy. As we study the various models of subatomic physics we shall see that they express again and again, in different ways, the same insight - that the constituents of matter and the basic phenomena involving them are all interconnected, interrelated and interdependent; that they cannot be understood as isolated entities, but only as integrated parts of the whole."
(Source: 'The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism', Fritjof Capra, Shambhala Publications, 1975)
Individuals can't think non-linearly, only collectives can
"By yourself, you can’t think non-linearly. This isn’t your fault. Individual human beings can’t think non-linearly. Only “collective intelligences,” those agents of “inter-subjective consciousness” can. To put it more simply, we implement and do things as individuals. We innovate as tribes. And the world we live in today — the world of the 21st Century — is a world of continuous innovation. In this environment, for the first time ever in history, the ability to innovate is decisively superior to the ability to deploy power."
- Jordan Greenhall [14]
Clare Graves on the Spiral Process of psycho-spiritual development
“Briefly what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiralling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower order behavioural systems to newer, higher-order systems as an individual’s existential problems change. Each successive stage, wave, or level of existence is a state through which people pass on their way to other stages of being. When the human is centralized in one state of existence, he or she has a psychology which is particular to that state. His or her feelings, motivations, ethics and values, biochemistry, degree of neurological activation, learning system, belief system, conception of mental health, ideas to what mental illness is and how it should be treated, conceptions of and preferences for management, education, economics, political theory and practice are all appropriate to that stage”
— Clare Graves [15]
Man, derived from the Sanskrit word manas meaning the consciousness that can reflect upon itself.
The universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.
— Thomas Berry [16]
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man [17]
"Moral insight is not, like mathematics, a product of rational reflection. It is instead a matter of imagining a better future, and observing the results of attempts to bring that future into existence."
- Richard Rorty [18]
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
- Hindu Proverb
Simply I learned about her, and ungrudgingly do I share -- her riches I do not hide away
- Old Testament, The Book of Wisdom 7,13 [19]
Technology and Spiritual Traditions
See also: Neotraditional Economics
Secular Humanism
Read this interview on the New Desires of Post-Capitalism:
Article: ‘THIS SYSTEM DOES NOT PRODUCE PLEASURE ANYMORE’. AN INTERVIEW WITH BERNARD STIEGLER. Pieter Lemmens. Krisis, 2011, Issue 1
URL = http://www.krisis.eu/content/2011-1/krisis-2011-1-05-lemmens.pdf
"Notwithstanding his rather bleak diagnosis of contemporary society, Stiegler is not pessimistic with regard to the future. Whereas today’s capitalism is headed for destruction, it is precisely in the digitalized networks through which it tries to control the populations that a new kind of economy is emerging, one that is not only inventing new modes of production like open source and peer-to-peer, but that is also slowly creating a new economy of desire that could lead to the invention of new ways of life, new modes of individual and collective existence. A new society could arise on the same technological base that is now still predominantly destroying the social bonds. The digital networks might be the prime catalysts in the transformation from today’s consumer society into what he calls a ‘society of contribution’. In this context he talks in this interview about technologies in terms of pharmaka (a term derived from Plato and from his teacher Derrida) that can act both as a poison, destroying sociality and proletarianizing human existence, as well as a medicine, producing social ties and deproletarianzing human existence."
Participative_Technology_and_the_Ecclesial_Revolution, book
Episcopal Theological Support for the Free Software Movement
Hacking the Way to Heaven. Julian Fox. Lulu, 2009.
Open Anabaptism
Sabbath Economics Collaborative ; Sabbath Economics and Community Investing
Sister Judith Zoebelein on the Virtual, the Actual, and the Spiritual
Christianity and the History of Technology. By Michael Sacasas.
Ethics in Internet: statement by the PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
See our entry: Paganism
Our own contribution:
Michel Bauwens: The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective: spiritual expression in the peer to peer era. Draft of an essay written for ReVision journal.
Gregory Wilpert wrote: Consciousness and the Post-Capitalist Commons, see in particular:
Forms of Consciousness and the Forms of the Commons
On the Differences between the Pre-Capitalist Commons and the Post-Capitalist Commons
Charles Eisenstein: Why the Age of the Guru is Over [20], on Collective Spiritual Leadership
Essay / Book in progress: Paradise Unbound. Relational Spirituality and other Heresies in New Age Transpersonalism. G. A. Lahood, a critique of new age narcissism, and the emergence of relational spirituality as an alternative
John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality
Kingsley Dennis on The Great Acceleration: The Astounding Growth in the Psychological Evolution of the Human Self.
What Does It Mean to Live a Fully Embodied Spiritual Life? Jorge N. Ferrer, California Institute of Integral Studies: "This essay discusses the meaning of embodied spirituality — based on the integration of all human attributes, including the body and sexuality—and contrasts it with the disembodied spirituality—based on dissociation and/or sublimation — prevailing in human religious history."
On Balancing Horizontal and Vertical Spiritual Development. Kenneth Folk.
Moving from Binary to Ternary Thinking. John Michael Greer
Recommended: The Politics of Modern Spirituality]. By Vanessa Fisher. From spiritual to political awakening.
Bruce Aldermann's three part introduction to intersubjective spirituality [21]
Gregg Lahood and John Heron with a case study of Collaborative Charismatic Inquiry
Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue: Yochai Benkler and Hellen Nissenbaum on the ethical values underlying peer production.
Commentary on the above Benkler/Nissenbaum text by catholic author Julian Fox: Virtue and the Digital Commons
John Heron warns us of the dangers of spiritual authoritarianism. Read Spiritual Projection and Authority, chapter 14 of his foundational book on Participatory Spirituality; also: Chapter 13: The Authoritarian Blight in Spirituality
Jean-Francois Noubel: Creating Invisible Architectures for Collective Wisdom
Nova Spivack: Towards Healthy Virtual Selves for Collective Groups [22]
John Stewart: The evolution of consciousness, rooted in complexity and cognitive sciences. See Stewart, J. E. (2007) The future evolution of consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 14, No. 8, Pp. 58-92.
Stuart Kauffman: A Shareable God
Madronna Holden on the Agency of Nature and the Partnership View
The Revival of Peering with Nature. By James William Gibson
Jorge Ferrer: Participatory Vision of the Future of Religion: on "The Plurality of Religions and the Spirit of Pluralism"
Paul Hartzog: Oneness, Nihilism, and the Multitude
Denis Postle: Psychological Commons, Peer to Peer Networks and Post-Professional Psychopractice
Micheal Daniels: The Difference between Descending Depth-Psychological vs. Relational-Participatory Extending Aprroach to Spirituality. From the Paper: Perspectives and vectors in transpersonal development. Michael Daniels. Transpersonal Psychology Review, Vol 13, No. 1, 87-99. (April, 2009)
Kingsley Dennis: How the Internet Creates Relational/Ecological Forms of Awareness
The Broken Bridge between Rationality and Meta-Rationality. By David Chapman. (background: the five stages in developing ethical, social and cognitive competetence)
Read our entries on Relational Spirituality and Participatory Spirituality
Participative Epistemology, and Transdisciplinarity
Key Approaches
The emergence of interspiritual wisdom:
- Hans Kung's proposal for Global Ethics - Brother Wayne Teasdale proposal for a universal mysticism grounded in the practice of 'interspirituality' - Beverly Lanzetta's proposal for an 'intercontemplative global spirituality' - Robert Forman's 'trans-traditional spirituality'
(suggestions from Jorge Ferrer)
Spiritual Theory:
John Heron's Participatory Spirituality - A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion.
John Heron's Sacred Science
Jorge Ferrer's Revisioning Transpersonal Psychology.
Christian De Quincey. Radical Knowing
Beatrice Bruteau. The Many and the One
The Participatory Mind
Evolution's Arrow. John Stewart (the evolution of cooperation as rooted in science)
Robert Wright. The Evolution of God: how the image of the divine humanizes in the course of history, under the influence of increased human cooperation.
A Reenchanted World: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson. Metropolitan Books, 2009
Richard Tarnas. The Passion of the Western Mind — Understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view: how separation and participation can be integrated.
Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution: technology and the global church
The Alphabet versus the Goddess
The Ascent of Humanity
Digital Dharma. Steven Vedro.
Occupy Consciousness: Essays on the Global Insurrection. Evolver, 2012. [23]
A Catholic approach to ICT
Key Thematic Issues of P2P News
P2P and Nature, Issue 96 of P2P News at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p96
P2P Epistemology, Issue 89 of P2P News at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p89
P2P Spirituality, Issue 88 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p88
P2P Epistemology, Issue of P2P News at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p77
Key Webcasts
Sister Judith Zoebelein on the Virtual, the Actual, and the Spiritual. Sister Judith Zoebelein is Editorial director at Internet Office of the Holy See.
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Curing fatigue with coffee and a kindheartedness
By Scott Enman on April 16, 2013
James Garrity’s job involves flipping, singing and dancing. Is he a circus performer? No. Professional gymnast? Nope. Acrobat? Guess again.
Widely praised by his patrons as the best barista in New England, “Jay,” 42, of North Attleboro, Mass., can be found tossing cups into the air, pouring coffee without looking, singing to the radio and even dancing behind the counter at the Hood Café at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.
Just one sip of his delectable drip coffee lifts one from a morning fog. With a smile and perhaps a witty joke, Jay is able to revitalize everyone’s morning and send them off, ready to face the day ahead.
As the school day begins, students and staff herd into the Hood Café to start their day off with a coffee, a muffin, or maybe a bagel with cream cheese. Got an 8 a.m. class? No worries. Not a morning person? No problem. Jay’s got you covered.
“I know everyone. I know their names and I know their orders,” said Jay. “Like you! You like an iced coffee with whole milk, right? That’s what I love about Wheaton. It’s small, closely knit and everyone’s friendly.”
He pauses. A grin appears at the corner of his mouth. “Well, mostly everyone.”
Jay is the manager at the café, and he loves working there. Upon entering the small, homey café, one is sure to hear Jay’s incessant banter.
Whether speaking in Japanese to his colleague Katsumi, singing the lyrics to the song on the overhead, or attempting to playfully kiss his female colleagues, Jay provides the true Hood Café experience.
Jay handpicked his staff at the café and refers to them as his “all-star team.”
“I couldn’t ask for a better staff. They are a group of all-stars. They keep me going.”
Apparently, the feeling is mutual.
Rachel Foster, a coworker with Jay for three years, loves working with him.
“Jay’s really energetic and sarcastic, but he’s a great guy. He makes working here so much easier.”
Rico Salmon, another coworker and close friend of Jay, has worked with him for 10 years.
“The guy’s nuts! He’s crazy but he’s a very sincere, kind-hearted, generous guy who loves helping others. He’s like a best friend to me,” Salmon said. “He gives great advice and he has helped me through some tough times.”
Frequent customers of the Hood Café know Jay for his eccentric antics at work, but who is Jay Garrity outside the café walls?
“Who Jay is at work, is who he is outside of work,” said Foster. “He’s still the same energetic, funny, caring guy.”
Maybe so, but there are many other qualities to Jay.
For starters, Jay rides a motorcycle and dates a woman much younger than himself: 14 years younger to be exact.Though he refers to his significant other as “my girl,” others know her as Danielle.
On any given Friday, one can find Jay riding his motorcycle with Danielle, in the back, clinging to his waist. Wind through their hair, they will later be dancing the night away, enjoying some “booze with bite.”
“Life is too short to be held back,” Jay said. “You won’t get anything done in life if you’re shy.”
Jay is anything but shy. Just ask him how he met his girlfriend.
Out one evening at his favorite restaurant, Jay approached Danielle. He sparked up conversation by asking her if she wanted to come for a ride on his motorcycle sometime. Instantly wooed by Jay’s confidence, Danielle eventually accepted that offer.
“That’s pretty juicy huh? I couldn’t script a better pick-up line if I tried,” Jay said.
In addition to being an outgoing boyfriend and a skilled barista, Jay is also a family man who cares immensely about his kids: a 13-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son.
“You know that dad at the park with the kids being pushed on the swings? That’s me,” Jay said. “My number one priority has to be my children. Manual not included by the way.”
Loyal customers of the Café know Jay, as the funny, outgoing, skilled barista behind the counter, but what they don’t know is just how much he cares for others.
“I have been here a long time, and Jay’s got the kindest heart,” said Salmon. “As much as he jokes around, he always makes sure the student gets what they want, even if they don’t have enough money.”
Once, when Foster was having car troubles, Jay went above and beyond expectations and offered his unconditional help.
“Jay not only brought me to and from work,” said Foster, “but he also took my son to school.”
Jeff Paer ’15 provided a final example of Jay’s generosity.
“It was finals week and I was extremely stressed,” Paer said. “Jay asked me how my studying was going and I explained that I had a long night ahead of me. Jay not only wished me good luck, but he gave me my coffee free of charge and threw in two shots of espresso to keep me awake.”
Why people should think twice before posting an internet confession: Anonimity in social media
Student humor shines in production of Rumors
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November 1, 2015 November 1, 2015 ~ thewatermother
Sinking down today, I am preparing for the changes my family and I will be making over the next couple of months.
Sinking down, today I make space to feel the depth of my sadness at saying farewell.
Sinking down today, I am connecting to old goodbyes that I can’t yet put into words but those I know left me feeling fragile, powerless and lost.
Sinking down, today I can go no other way.
We are moving. Out of London. After years of talking, dreaming and aching, finally it is happening. I’m excited and scared. In the last week I have observed myself starting to quietly unhook, detaching energetic lines from elements of our life here. I’m preparing. Today is another day in which all I can do is weep and feel the heaviness of my heart.
My romance with this city started at the beginning of my adulthood. It is where I began to fully learn me. One friend, many moons ago, called me “The United Colours of Sophie” and London, in all her beauty and darker sides, has been my playground for the last quarter of a century to explore the colours that I am. I have cherished the city for this. I have cherished the hundreds of souls I have been fortunate to encounter who have strode with me, and I with them, in these days with no end.
But I have struggled to embrace London with children. It has changed so significantly in these last years and I, with two small folk in tow, haven’t been able to ride this wave. Since austerity, in which London “lifestyle” is governed by an incessant need to spend. Since the Olympics, in which the city capitalised on all being uber. I can’t run with it. It goes against me. With my choice to stay with our children in the early years, I feel we live in a bubble. A different choice would have meant a two-income household, which could have afforded the pace of life that leaks coffee, croissants and cocktails, from every crack in the pavement. We could have then maybe kept up with the pressure to keep up. But what we might have gained in acquisitions and mini-breaks every weekend, we would have lost in connection with the two most important people in our lives.
Already I wish I could pickle them. Six and three years are such glorious ages. I want to cement them in this magnificence. Every big eyed smile and sweet words my daughter gurgles I drink, drink, drink it in because, as so many wise folk have whispered before us, blink and this time will be gone before we know it.
So, as much as this city has fed me, as a mother I have outgrown it. It serves me less well. Still, it’s crazy beat beats inside my heart but our rhythms are less aligned. Oh how I have loved finding myself, losing myself, finding myself here again and again and again. In it’s sprawling mass, in the backstreets I have learned in my awe of Black Cab drivers, in the nights that have led to dawn and friendships in all shapes and hues, my gratitude has been immense. But now I struggle to meet myself as I hanker for somewhere calmer and a more harmonious life-content.
East London was my spiritual homeland for many years. My forebearers had been it’s inhabitants not so long ago. Moving only three miles away, five years ago, I grieved deeply for a place that had so nurtured me for the first two in our present dwelling. So today, with this lesson understood, I understand what is to come as we adjust to a new life and make space for my tears. And know this place west, that has called us since the start of the year, beckoning us to move, was too the place of earlier forebearers and I sense them urging me home. I feel them paving a way for me to truly sink into my colours and, with wider spaces around and sea so close, to find a new refuge for myself and beautiful family.
Illustration: Inga Moore
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(Kuroshitsuji)
Dark fantasy,[1] thriller[2]
Monthly GFantasy
Yen Plus
Original run
September 16, 2006 – present
27 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Toshiya Shinohara (season 1)
Hirofumi Ogura (season 2)
Hiroko Takahashi
Mari Okada
Taku Iwasaki
Aniplex of America
MBS, CBC, TBS, TBC, SBS, RCC, HBC, RKB, Animax
English network
Animax Asia
Funimation Channel
October 3, 2008 – September 17, 2010
36 + 7 OVA (List of episodes)
Black Butler: Book of Circus
Noriyuki Abe
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Yasunori Mitsuda
Anime Limited
MBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS
July 10, 2014 – September 12, 2014
Original video animation
Black Butler: Book of Murder
60 minutes (each)
2 (List of episodes)
Black Butler (live-action)
Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
Black Butler is a manga series by Yana Toboso. The manga started in 2006.
In Victorian era London, the butler Sebastian Michaelis takes care of his 12 year old master, Ciel Phantomhive. Ciel is the earl of the aristocratic Phantomhive family, which is well-known in England for be the Queen's Guarddogs. Ciel's parents were killed in arson when he was 10 years old. He made a deal with a demon (which is in fact his butler Sebastian) to help him get revenge on his enemies. The demon butler can have his soul in return.
A radio drama was released on CDs on August 10, 2007[3] and November 26, 2008.[4] The anime was first shown in October 2008.[5] The English version is produced by Funimation.[6] Two musicals are based on the manga called That Butler, Friendship and [7] Musical Black Butler, The Most Beautiful Death in The World, A Thousand Souls and The Fallen Grim Reaper.[8] A video game called Black Butler: Phantom & Ghost was released in 2009.[9]
The manga has printed over 10 million copies in Japan.[10] A music distributor in Japan took a poll of anime characters that people would like to marry. The demon butler Sebastian was included in the final results.[11]
↑ "Black Butler's 10th Anniversary Celebrates with New Goodies". Anime News Network. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-05-29/black-butler-10th-anniversary-celebrates-with-new-goodies/.88648. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
↑ "Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) Season 1 Collection (Blu-Ray)". Madman Entertainment. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018. http://archive.li/LDryW. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
↑ "ドラマCD 黒執事: イメージ・アルバム, セバスチャン・ミカエリス(森川智之), シエル・ファントムハイヴ(沢城みゆき), タナカ(麦人), バルド(小山力也), メイリン(折笠富美子), フィニ(高城元気), エリザベス(斎藤千和), アズーロ(平田広明), クラウス(染田清之), マダム・レッド(勝生真沙子), 森川智之, 沢城みゆき, 勝生真沙子, 遊佐浩二, 麦人: 音楽" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000RG1362/. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
↑ "黒執事 華麗なるドラマCD: ドラマ, 小野大輔, 福山潤, 坂本真綾: 音楽" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B001H37B92/. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
↑ "Kuroshitsuji Anime Confirmed to Premiere this Fall". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-11/kuroshitsuji-anime-confirmed-to-premiere-this-fall. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
↑ "Funimation Adds Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji TV Anime". Anime News Network. 2010-03-29. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-29/funimation-adds-black-butler/kuroshitsuji-tv-anime. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
↑ "音楽舞闘会 黒執事 〜その執事、友好〜" (in Japanese). Entertainment Plus Inc.. http://eplus.jp/sys/web/s/kuro/index.html. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
↑ "Cast & Staff" (in Japanese). Entertainment Plus Inc.. http://eplus.jp/sys/web/s/kuro/cast.html. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
↑ "黒執事 Phantom & Ghost" (in Japanese). Square Enix. http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kuroshitsuji/. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
↑ "Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji Manga Will Have 10 Million+ Copies". Anime News Network. 2011-12-18. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-18/black-butler/kuroshitsuji-manga-will-have-10-million+copies. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
↑ "Survey: K-ON's Mio, Reborn's Hibari are #1 Bride, Groom". Anime News Network. 2009-06-12. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-06-12/survey/k-on-mio-reborn-hibari-are-no.1-bride-and-groom. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
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Other QB Battle: Jeff Driskel vs Thad Lewis
By Site Staff follow
Aug 2, 2016 at 4:00 PM • --
While much of the focus from San Francisco 49ers training camp has been on the competition between Blaine Gabbert and Colin Kaepernick, there is another quarterback battle going on. Whoever loses the battle for the starting job will likely be the backup for the team – unless the 49ers decide to trade someone away. Behind the two quarterbacks, buried in the depth chart, will either be Jeff Driskel or Thad Lewis, who have not been discussed as much.
Which of the two has impressed the most – or disappointed the least – during the team's first three practices of training camp?
Grant Cohn of the Press Democrat was impressed with Driskel during Tuesday's practice – the 49ers' first with pads on. "Completed 11-of-14 passes with the third-team offense and made the throw of the day," said Cohn. "Torrey Smith was running a corner route against Cover 2 zone defense. Driskel threw the pass before Smith made his break, the ball floated over leaping cornerback Keith Reaser, who was covering a zone in the flat, and hit Smith's hands before the safety could run over and knock it down. Perfect throw."
"Rookie Jeff Driskel finished the [route-running] period with a pair of back-to-back completions to [Jerome] Simpson and [Torrey] Smith on downfield throws," said Joe Fann of 49ers Media.
A pretty slick throw from Jeff Driskel to Torrey Smith, along with a cameo from @Rand_Getlin. Sweet backpack. #49ers pic.twitter.com/UIi5X8jM25
— Rob Lowder (@Rob_Lowder) August 3, 2016
"I look forward to competing with whoever is in the meeting room with me," Driskel said following his selection in May. He spent time with Florida from 2011 through 2014. Driskel played for Louisiana Tech in 2015 where he completed 62.3-percent of his passes for 4,026 yards, 27 touchdowns, eight interceptions and a rating of 154.1 in 13 games. head coach Chip Kelly values accuracy and Driskel had that during his one year at Louisiana Tech.
Back in May during the 49ers' three-day minicamp, Kelly spoke highly of Driskel. "I think he's done a really nice job. He's really intelligent. Picked things up conceptually very quickly," said Kelly. "He's very athletic. I think he was the fastest quarterback at the combine. He's big. He's got a good arm."
Of course, not everyone has been quick to praise the potential of Driskel. Lance Zierlein of NFL Media doesn't believe that Driskel will ever emerge as anything more than a backup signal caller. "The problem I saw on tape with him on my draft board is that when the bullets fly and it gets a little noisy in the pocket, he turns into a different guy," Zierlein explained. "The head drops down, the eyes drop and he becomes a more rushed, impatient player. I don't think that changes. Honestly, I think it's in you – that level of confidence and poise. You either have it or you don't and you can get a little bit better with it, but the NFL is all about heating you up at the quarterback position."
As for Lewis, who spent last season on the Philadelphia Eagles' roster with Kelly, not all of the news out of training camp has been positive. Of course, Lewis may not have gotten much help on Tuesday. "Tight end Busta Anderson dropped a Thad Lewis pass at the start of 11-on-11 action with the third string," said Cam Inman of Bay Area Sports Group.
"Veteran Thad Lewis, who served as Kelly's No. 3 quarterback most of last season with the Eagles, got off to a rough start with four consecutive incomplete passes on four apparent miscommunications with his intended targets to open the first 7-on-7 session of practice," said Matt Maiocco of CSN Bay Area when describing Lewis' performance during Monday's practice.
Kelly had kept three quarterbacks on his 53-man roster during each of his three seasons in Philadelphia.
49ers RB Jeff Wilson shrugs off 10-touchdown season, looks ahead to offseason of work
By Kirk Larrabee
Even if he doesn't seem overly impressed with what he accomplished in his third NFL season, Jeff Wilson certainly made his case throughout the year that he belongs as one of the top two running backs for the San Francisco 49ers in the foreseeable future. Wilson capped his season with a touchdown run and a touchdown catch in the 49ers' 26-23 loss to the Seahawks on Sunday, giving him a total of ten on the season (seven rushing, three receiving). Those are impressive numbers, but that accomplishment was overshadowed in his mind by what the team wasn't able to do in 2020. "That's not a big a deal. I guess it's nice, but we didn't win," Wilson said after the loss to the Seahawks. "We didn't have a winning season because of it, so that's pretty much
49ers activate Tom Compton off injured reserve, sign punter, announce other roster moves
The San Francisco 49ers announced the following roster moves ahead of the team's Week 17 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks. The 49ers have signed P Drew Kaser to the practice squad. OL Tom Compton has been activated off injured reserve. The 49ers opened his practice window this week. DL Josiah Coatney and OL Isaiah Williams have been activated off the practice squad as COVID-19 replacements. WR Jordan Matthews and K Tristan Vizcaino have been activated off the practice squad. OL Aaron Neary has been released from the practice squad. The 49ers Communications staff provided the following rundown
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Women’s Super League preview & predictions: Gameweek 12
Eddie Howe Insists His Focus Is on Bournemouth Despite Everton & West Ham Links
Kaya Kaynak 29 Nov 2019
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe has insisted that he is not distracted by rumours linking him to both Everton and West Ham.
Rumours emerged this week that Howe is being lined up to replace Marco Silva at Everton, following a poor run of form that has seen the Toffees slip to 16th.
He has also been touted for the West Ham job, where Manuel Pellegrini is under severe pressure after dropping to 17th in the Premier League table.
But speaking in his pre-match press conference ahead of the trip to Tottenham (via Sky Sports), Howe insisted that his focus is still very much on his current employers.
"I would say it [managerial speculation] is definitely not distracting for me." Howe began. "I would always shelter myself from any news that isn't about the team I am preparing to play.
"I always say if I am linked with other clubs and my players are too, then that has to be flattering. I have been spending no time on those things and all week it has been about preparing for Tottenham."
The 41-year-old has a contract at the Vitality Stadium until the end of this season, and has never won major silverware with the Cherries.
When asked about the opportunity to move on and win a trophy at another club, Howe claimed he still feels he can do it at the south coast club.
He added: "People would have put a glass ceiling on us in the Championship and for never being able to get to the Premier League, we've done all of those things.
"Now we are fighting to create new memories towards the top of the Premier League and that's the message to my players, we have to believe we can do that. I always have the approach to my work and to life really that you can achieve anything if you work hard enough, if you truly believe you can do it then you can."
Despite rumours that Everton were looking to speak to Howe about their managerial position, Bournemouth confirmed that no contact had actually been made. It is thought, therefore, that David Moyes is favourite to take over, should the Toffees part way with Silva.
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Observational documentary series revealing the dramas and dilemmas faced by staff of some of the UK's largest ambulance services on a daily basis.
Season 1 - Ambulance
1 "The Day Shift"
"An unexpected spike in 999 calls means drastic action has to be taken."
2 "The Night Shift"
"We join the staff in the nerve-centre control room on the night shift. Amongst the thousands of calls they receive, they also have to contend with hoaxers, frequent callers and run-away patients."
3 "The Weekend Shift"
4 "Episode 04"
1 "Episode 1"
"It is Saturday night and Katie and Sarah race to help a man who has collapsed at home. By midnight, revellers spilling out of bars and clubs start to impact the service as calls flood in of brawls and accidents."
"1 hour into the night-shift the control centre is already onto its 3rd cardiac arrest and the 12th stabbing victim of the weekend. Other crews are tied up caring for an alcoholic and an elderly man."
"A crew are dispatched to attend to a woman complaining of stomach pains, but she has actually suffered a massive heart attack. Terminal cancer patient Nigel is philosophical about his life."
"Jo and Suki are involved in high drama as they take a patient to hospital when a car crashes right in front of them. Call-handlers deal with two suicidal patients. In Birmingham a woman has had her finger bitten off."
"The air ambulance is dispatched to a woman struggling to breathe after falling, but the helicopter is soon also needed at a road accident in Staffordshire. Reports of a hanging come in but is the call a hoax?"
"Justin and Dawn's first call of the day is to a woman whose waters have broken. A drunken man, repeat callers and a woman unable to leave her home all test the crews patience."
"Two brothers battling with addiction strikes a personal chord for paramedic Nina."
"The West Midlands Ambulance Service must deal with the severe consequences of Storm Doris."
"A day shift takes an unexpected turn for West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedics, Nat and Nat, when a 999 call about an unconscious patient suddenly becomes very personal. In the meantime, a 19-year-old girl has been taken ill at school."
"New Year's Eve is the busiest shift of the year for West Midlands Ambulance Service. Extra staff is brought in to care for those in need, but the night does not go as planned."
"Pete and Matt, a specialist trauma team, are called to treat the victim of a brutal knife attack. Paramedics Christine and Chris start their day shift with a man who has collapsed in Worcester town centre after a suspected drug overdose. Jo and Tracey are called to 90-year-old Dennis, who's been vomiting. Christine and Chris are dispatched to Theresa, a terminally ill patient with suspected neutropenic sepsis caused by her cancer treatment. Crewmates Mark and Nieaal drive 20 minutes on blue lights to Ledbury in the dead of night to treat 96-year-old Jim."
"Nina and Lauren respond to a caller whose mother has stopped breathing and is in cardiac arrest. The call handler in the control centre gives CPR advice over the phone while paramedics travel on blue lights to the scene."
"At the start of a night shift, West Midlands Ambulance Service is receiving a High volume of emergency calls and is struggling to cope. A specialist paramedic attends a machete attack but his less urgent jobs are even more time-consuming."
"The last Saturday before Christmas is a busy, with controller Sui having to prioritise stabbing victims and reports of drowning over patient's like Betty, whose daughter says she's fine but needs help getting up having fallen to the floor."
"Over a busy weekend in Manchester, North West Ambulance Service paramedics Andrea and Glynn attend an RTC, while Debbie and Shaun try to persuade a homeless man to go to hospital."
"During a 12-hour night shift with North West Ambulance Service, call handler Elly tackles an increasing volume of calls, and there are surprises for paramedics April and Clare."
"A suspected terror incident requires a large-scale response and brings back memories of the Manchester Arena attack for the paramedics."
"West Midlands Ambulance Service must manage problems of a winter NHS crisis that has left patients queuing in the corridors of Royal Stoke Hospital."
"A Friday night shift takes an unexpected turn for paramedic Jon. A panicked caller needs help for a friend who has given birth in a hotel room despite not knowing she was pregnant."
"Call handler Joe faces his first unsupervised shift answering 999 calls on a busy night for the North West Ambulance Service."
"This episode follows staff on a Friday night shift. Saj, the performance manager, is concerned there aren\u2019t enough ambulances for all the patients needing them."
"Call handler Laura offers life saving advice to a panicked 999 caller, the call makes such a deep impact that she decides on the spot to change the direction of her life."
"As senior paramedic Rich waits for his first job, he comments on the increase in homelessness in Greater Manchester. A category one response is needed for a man lying unconscious on the street because it is believed he has taken synthetic cannabis."
"Doctor Ian and paramedic Nikki see the human consequences of youth violence when they attend a 13-year-old who has been stabbed and two young men who\u2019ve been shot."
"Joining ambulance crews in Greater Manchester as they tackle the freezing winter conditions. Advanced paramedic Jon treats a homeless man who has spent the night in a van."
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‘KBC 8’ to launches in August, reveals Big B
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The “new face” of “Kaun Banega Crorepati” will hit on screen in August, as per reported by Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who host of the popular game show and changed the face of Indian television when he began hosting “Kaun Banega Crorepati”.
Big B posted on his official Facebook page that “Yeh hai KBC ka naya aakaar… the new face of KBC starting in August…now been on since 2000, with a break in between and one season done by Shah Rukh Khan.”.
Bollywood megastar also added “Yahaan sirf paise hi nahin jeete jaate…yahan dil bhi jeete jaate hain…You not just win money here…you win hearts too…At least my heart is always won over by the contestants! love all of you”.
In-spite of being too busy Big B manages to establish a strong connection with the contestants who come from different corners of the country to try their luck to become a ‘crorepati’. This becomes a great mode of attraction to viewers.
The show is shot at the Yash Raj Films studio, will be aired on Sony Entertainment Television.
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ACLU sues state police, alleging they’re acting as immigration authorities
By Jeff Gammage and Angela Couloumbis, the Philadelphia Inquirer and ProPublica
July 9, 2019, 1:29 pm CDT
Pennsylvania State Police troopers have routinely violated the law by stopping and holding people based solely on their Latino appearance, terrifying drivers and passengers while usurping federal authority to investigate supposed immigration violations, the ACLU claims in a federal lawsuit filed recently.
The troopers’ conduct, the suit says, has sent a clear message to communities across Pennsylvania: The state police are in the immigration-enforcement business.
The 10 Latino plaintiffs—family members traveling to visit loved ones, farmworkers finishing their day, a victim of a car accident—are challenging what they contend is a pattern of police misconduct that follows a common script. Latino motorists, the suit says, were pulled over by troopers who immediately sought to ascertain the immigration status of the car’s occupants.
In some cases recounted in the ACLU filing, a trooper immediately asked if the driver was a U.S. citizen, even before requesting a driver’s license. Troopers have taken it upon themselves to act as enforcers of the complex system of federal civil immigration laws, according to the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
“The Pennsylvania state police have neither the training, expertise nor lawful authority to play immigration cops,” says Witold Walczak, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. “And well-run police departments recognize that terrorizing immigrant communities scares crime victims and witnesses from cooperating, thus undermining public safety.”
The suit follows an investigative series in 2018 by the Inquirer and ProPublica that raised questions of racial profiling and unlawful arrest of immigrants by state troopers.
Trooper Brent Miller, director of the state police communications office, says the department had not yet received any court documents related to the lawsuit.
He points to an agency regulation established this year that sets out what troopers can and cannot do when they encounter undocumented migrants while on duty.
That policy “strikes the appropriate balance between a trooper’s role as a law-enforcement officer and public servant,” Miller says, and brings the department into compliance with federal and state laws and applicable court decisions. The agency has trained its members on the regulation and set up internal-reporting mechanisms, he says.
Until recently, the state police had no guidelines for how officers should handle encounters with undocumented immigrants.
Law-enforcement officials in Pennsylvania typically are not trained or deputized as federal immigration officers, unlike those in places like Georgia and Texas, where many sheriffs’ offices have formal partnerships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The plaintiffs seek both damages and vindication of their constitutional right to be free from unlawful detention. Their hope, the suit says, is that the state police will improve training and supervision to prevent similar conduct in the future.
Named as defendants are the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the state police and six individual troopers, allegedly complicit in a pattern of wrongful stops that has gone on since at least early 2017, after President Donald Trump took office.
Vanessa Stine, the ACLU immigrants’ rights legal fellow, says the group analyzed 30 incidents involving state troopers that affected nearly 200 people. Some chose not to proceed with a lawsuit out of fear—“that asserting or exercising their rights might actually cause them more harm, after they already have been harmed,” she says.
‘We’re not safe’
At a news conference announcing the suit at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Rebecca Castro read a statement about how she was stopped in May 2018 by Trooper Luke Macke just outside the city. That supposedly routine traffic stop led to her and her two passengers, one her fiance, being held for three hours until ICE agents arrived and placed the passengers into deportation proceedings.
“I’m sorry,” she said, stopping short as her eyes filled with tears after reading a few sentences. “I can’t talk.”
Castro and her now-husband, Carlos Amaya-Castellanos, are among the plaintiffs who contend they were targeted because of their Latino appearance.
Castro described how, after she was stopped, Macke directed her to pull over to a side road, saying her car looked “suspicious.”
“He was telling me there was human trafficking in the area,” she said. “I was like, OK … I’m on my way to work. I was like, how am I human trafficking? And he just didn’t say nothing after that.”
Instead, she said, Macke asked her two passengers to check if they had documents that showed their immigration status. Macke then called immigration authorities, she said.
“I was really scared because I knew something was going to happen,” she said recently. “My [husband] told me not to worry, that everything was going to be fine, that we were going to be able to go home like every other day. Well, it wasn’t the case.”
What she wants from the lawsuit, she said, is to be able to drive like anyone else, without fear.
“Right now, I’m scared to go out driving just because of my skin color,” said Castro, a U.S. citizen born and raised in Idaho. “They think I’m from Mexico or another foreign country. And it’s harassment. … We’re not safe. And we’re supposed to feel safe with our troopers, our police officers.”
State police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Macke.
The news organizations’ 2018 series and follow-up stories chronicled how:
•U.S.-born Latinos said they were pulled over and asked whether they were in the country legally.
•Two men sharing a smoke break in a parking lot were questioned about their immigration status by a trooper, who discovered they were undocumented and arrested them.
•A trooper stopped a U.S. citizen for a traffic violation, but then zeroed in on the passengers, who did not have documentation. The trooper held the group for hours until immigration officials showed up.
After publication of the series, that type of action was banned under state police regulations enacted this year, aimed at halting unlawful searches and detentions. Now, for example, if a car is stopped for a traffic violation, passengers are not to be questioned or asked for identification solely to verify whether they are in the United States legally. The policy says troopers may not detain or arrest foreign nationals simply for being in the country without official permission.
ICE assistance
The extent to which local and state police should cooperate with ICE has become a combative issue nationally and in Pennsylvania.
Last month, the Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple University and the Latino activist group Juntos released a study describing how some county and municipal governments in Pennsylvania actively assist federal immigration agents, often alerting those authorities to undocumented migrants in their custody.
At least 19 counties either had formal contracts with ICE to hold migrants; shared jail information; provided jail access to federal agents; supplied times that ICE could pick up a migrant; had the probation office work with ICE; or wished to pursue a stronger relationship with the agency, the study said.
Critics of those alliances say it turns local police into immigration agents, creating potential liability for local governments and damaging police-community relations. It creates uncertainty for immigrants about encounters with local and state authorities who might take it upon themselves to act as surrogates for ICE, they say.
Ten states now have laws that limit enforcement of federal immigration laws by cities and counties, and more than 400 counties around the country restrict their engagement with ICE. At the same time, nine states, mostly in the South and West, have passed laws requiring local agencies to help with immigration enforcement, according to a national survey.
In the year after Trump took office, state and local police officers across Pennsylvania swept carloads of Latino immigrants into ICE’s grasp. That helped the ICE Philadelphia field office, which covers Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia, compile more “at-large” arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions than any of the nation’s 23 other field offices.
The new lawsuit cites five incidents of immigration enforcement that it says were neither instigated nor requested by ICE.
Named in two of those is Macke, who the Inquirer and ProPublica found had converted routine traffic stops into immigration arrests. In 2017, he turned over at least 19 undocumented migrants to federal deportation officers after interrogating them about their legal status and detaining them without warrants, the investigation found.
None of the migrants had criminal records. Macke encountered some of them not in cars on the roads he patrols, but randomly—as they had a smoke before a night shift outside a shipping company warehouse or bought a soda inside his own police barracks in Carlisle.
Other troopers committed similar violations, the suit alleges. “The law is clear: It is illegal for police officers, including PSP troopers, to unilaterally stop or detain a person simply because they suspect that a person may be subject to civil immigration enforcement.”
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Elkhart County health officer signs mandate requiring use of face masks
By: Shannon Nolan Facebook | Twitter
Posted: Jun 29, 2020 10:52 AM EST | Updated: Jun 29, 2020 1:54 PM EST
GOSHEN, Ind.— Elkhart County will now require people to wear face masks in all spaces where social distancing is not possible, according to a mandate signed by the county's top health official on Monday.
Elkhart County’s health officer, Dr. Lydia Mertz, signed a mandate requiring that people wear masks in areas where they can’t distance themselves from others outside of their own immediate households, including indoor areas open to the public, public transportation, and outdoor areas where social distancing is not possible.
The mandate will go into effect on Tuesday, June 30 at 12:01 a.m. It will remain in effect until further notice.
According to the mandate, adults should supervise children aged 3 to 12 with the use of face masks to avoid misuse.
Exceptions to the face mask requirement include but are not limited to individuals who have been advised by a medical professional not to wear one, children age 2 and younger, and individuals who are deaf and need to remove the face covering to use facial and mouth movements to communicate.
According to the mandate, people who are not in compliance with the order cannot be issued a citation or arrested by law enforcement or other residents.
The order is meant to educate, encourage and persuade individuals to wear face coverings, the mandate said.
Dr. Michelle Bache, Vice President of Medical Affairs for Elkhart General Hospital said she agrees with Mertz's mandate and is "the right move."
According to the mandate, Elkhart County's ICU bed availability has "fallen significantly."
As of Monday, Elkhart County had the third most cases of COVID-19 out of all Indiana counties.
"We're starting to see our percentage of positive cases coming down," Bache said but added that Elkhart General is still seeing the effects of the past two weeks, with the highest number of COVID-19 cases that the hospital has seen since the pandemic began.
The Elkhart County face mask requirement follows a recent surge in COVID-19 cases confirmed throughout the county.
St. Joseph County implemented a similar face mask requirement meant to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
The Elkhart Truth reported that the mandate was signed by Mertz on Monday at an Elkhart County Board of Commissioners meeting.
Read the full Elkhart County Public Health order 01-2020 below.
Read the public health order in Spanish below.
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ABI Office in Full Swing on the West Coast
As many of you know, A. Bright Idea is expanding its creative services to Northern California and is busy setting up our West Coast office this week. The ABI team will enjoy some new digs in Sonoma, inside the village of Glen Ellen. We are happy to announce a new relationship with Peter Mathis Wines of Sonoma. The A. Bright Idea creatives have just completed a new label redesign of the Peter Mathis Sonoma Valley Grenache and are working on some new projects for this boutique winery.
This weekend, T.J. and I were honored to attend an exclusive wine event, “The Cult Cab Party,” benefiting the Sonoma Valley Teen Center. A. Bright Idea supported the evening by creating several pieces of collateral materials promoting a vertical tasting of some Sonoma and Napa Valley’s legendary wines including Beringer Private Reserve, Chateau Montelena, Dunn and Spottwoode. Guests included Ed Sbragia, former rock-star winemaker at Beringer and now owner and winemaker at Sbragia Family Vineyards, Dick Arrowood from Arrowood Vineyards and Winery, Philippe Thibault of Chateau St. Jean in Sonoma and other local VIPs.
As for A. Bright Idea’s new expansion on the Golden Coast, Bel Air, Maryland and Sonoma, California may be on opposite parts of the country but are more similar than you might expect. It was these similarities that drew us to the area (not to mention our love of wine) and what made us decide to expand our business services on the West Coast and put down stakes in “real wine country”. Both areas offer rich agricultural history and take pride in small, family-owned farms and businesses passed down through generations.
Sonoma Plaza and Downtown Bel Air are small, but thriving hubs of activities with restaurants, boutiques , government buildings, festivals and Farmer’s markets. Sonoma County, California and Harford County, Maryland are both rich with history and made up of small nearby towns and cities like Healdsburg, Glen Ellen, Petaluma, Sebastopol in California to Bel Air, Havre de Grace, Aberdeen in Maryland. It’s a quiet and safe place for families, where you know many of the people walking down the street and you do more than just wave and nod, you stop and catch up or reminisce and time stands still for just a moment.
These areas are in a state of metamorphous. The once quiet, rural and agricultural regions are being transformed. Sonoma is becoming a lifestyle destination and Harford a busting suburb supporting military growth as a result of Base Realignment and Closure. However, with change, they retain their history and quaint charm that make people want to call it home.
We’re lucky that we can work and live in both locations. We can truly call both places on either cost HOME!
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We have been selected as finalists in three categories: Top Small Fleet Operator, Domestic Coach Travel Programme (UK Holidays & Day Excursions) and an individual Customer Service award for our tour escort, Teresa Kearns. It should be a wonderful evening and we hope to bring back an award.
In the words of UK Coach Awards chairman John Gilbert, "Our awards recognise and reward excellence and good practice at all levels in the industry, amongst all operators, large or small, and in all types of work. Winning is about what you do and how you do it, not the size of your business."
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Another Award!
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Brand New Woods Video
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45 Year Open Day Success!
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New Private Hire Website
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Woods Celebrate UK Coach Awards Win!
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Office staff joined in with the Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day on the 18th December 2015. The total raised was £45.00. Woods staff would…
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On Friday 13th November businesses throughout the Arun District area gathered at Butlins, Bognor Regis, to celebrate the Arun Business Partnership, Business of the…
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A special recognition for Roger Elsmere
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Woods Travel Blog Short-listed for UK Blog Awards 2016!
We are very excited to announce that our travel blog has been short-listed for the UK Blog Awards 2016! The UK Blog Awards recognise…
Woods launch Travel Blog
We are pleased to announce that in celebration of our 45 year anniversary we have launched our very own travel blog. The aim of this…
A Lifetime of Work Given Recognition!
We are delighted to announce that our very own Roger Elsmere took home the lifetime achievement award at this year's Johnston Press South Business…
Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit played hosts to the 8th Supreme Box Kart Championships held on Sunday 27th September and Woods Travel were proud…
To Susan of Bognor Regis who won the IPad Mini in our Raffle held during the Woods Open Day & Summer Brochure Launch on…
AWARD WINNING DAY EXCURSIONS
Winner - Day Excursion Programme Judges comments; Woods Travel, based in Bognor Regis, operates around 350 departures on its day excursion programme each year. The judges noted…
MORE NATIONAL AWARDS!
Winner - Coach Tour Operator – Medium Fleet The Judges Said; Woods Travel operates a mix of coach and air tours, and day excursions. It…
WOODS WIN AGAIN!
Fantastic news to report - Woods won yet another prestigious title at the UK Coach Awards on the 23rd April! This year we won the…
And the Winner is.......Roger Elsmere!
The Managing Director of Woods Travel Ltd won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Observer & Gazette Business Awards held at The Hilton, Avisford…
Office staff joined in with the Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day on the 12th December 2014. Each member of staff donated £2.00 for…
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Recently Woods ran day trips to view the 888,246 ceramic poppies at the Tower of London. This installation titled Blood Swept Lands and…
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UK Coach Awards - Top UK Coach Driver
Bronze Award Winner: Paul Smyth The judges said; This award is presented to the coach driver who has best demonstrated excellent performance from the customer perspective…
UK Coach Awards - Top for Customer Service!
Gold Award Winner: Denise Fry - Private Group Organiser The judges said; Coaches are a people business and we rely on our customer-facing staff to provide…
UK Coach Awards - Woods Win Again!
Top Small Fleet Operator for the Second Year Running! The judges said; The winner of this award delivers consistently excellent customer service. Woods demonstrated their success…
Woods Travel Group - Most Loved Business for the Second Year!
Woods have been awarded the "most loved" Travel Agency and Holiday Company in Sussex. The business also came second in this category for the…
Woods School of the Year - Announced
Woods School of the Year for 2014 is..................................................... Laburnum Grove Junior School in Bognor Regis. After sifting through the overwhelming number of entries to the competition,…
Movember Total
Woods Movember team raised a total of £474.00! Thank you to all our customers for giving generously and to the drivers who entered into the…
Woods Sponsor the Arun Business Partnership Awards
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Woodsy Joins the Movember Brothers
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The 6th Supreme Box Kart Championships were held on Sunday 11th August at Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit and Woods were proud to be the…
Success for Woods at National Tourism Awards
Woods Travel has beaten off competition from coach operators from across the UK to win a national tourism award at the Coach Tourism Awards…
Coach Awards - Woods are Number 1 in the UK!
There was much to celebrate as individuals, companies and organisations across the UK coach and coach tourism industry were recognised and rewarded at the…
Finalists & Highly Commended!
Woods were confirmed as finalists for the Customer Service Award at the ceremony on the 19th April at Avisford Park Hotel. As if this were…
Woods Travel Group - Most Loved Business!
Woods have been awarded the "most loved" Travel Agency and Holiday Company in the South East. The business also came second in this category…
BUSK Simply Safe Benchmark Scheme
Woods are proud to announce our membership of BUSK’s simply safe and benchmark schemes. We have been awarded the highest safety rating possible –…
Arun Business Partnership - Business of the Year Awards
Woods Travel are proud to announce that they were the winners of three separate categories at the annual Arun Business Partnership Awards held at…
Woods Sponsor Cub Scouts Supreme Box Kart Championships
Here is Woods coach 348 FYY and its mini me (Monkey Madness) at the 2012 Supreme box Kart Championships on Sunday 2nd September at…
Woods Have a Coach that Tweets!
You have heard of the boat that rocks, now follow the coach that tweets! Bova Magiq (Woodsy), new to the Woods fleet, is excited to…
Success at the National Tourism Awards Again!
Woods Travel were recognised as a finalist at the Coach Tourism Awards, held in Stratford-upon-Avon on 10th May 2012. The awards, organised by trade magazine…
UK Coach Awards - Finalist
Hot on the heels of the Companys success at the Observer Business Awards, Woods would like to announce being confirmed as a finalist at…
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The Battle for Climate Change Accountability
Winnie Stachelberg
Caroline Fredrickson
American Constitution Society
BuckleySandler LLP
Ben Hulac
Veronica Eady
Elizabeth Wydra
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Bevis Longstreth
Neil Kinkopf
In late 2015 InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times laid out groundbreaking reports showing ExxonMobil’s deliberate campaign to spread misinformation about climate science in spite of knowing about the problem since the 1970s. Since then, state and local leaders have initiated investigations and are taking the oil giant to court, seeking justice for investors, communities, and the public.
On Nov. 30, 2016 the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, the Center for American Progress Action Fund hosted distinguished panelists for a discussion of the legal foundations for seeking accountability from fossil fuel companies, as well as the importance of state attorney general investigations in the face of federal opposition or inaction.
Winnie Stachelberg, executive vice president, External Affairs, Center for American Progress, welcomed the audience. Caroline Fredrickson, president, American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, introduced the keynote speaker, Hon. Douglas F. Gansler, former attorney general of Maryland; partner, BuckleySandler LLP.
Ben Hulac, reporter for ClimateWire, Moderator
Veronica Eady, vice president, Conservation Law Foundation
Neil Kinkopf, professor of law, Georgia State University
Bevis Longstreth, former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Elizabeth Wydra, president, Constitutional Accountability Center
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Belief key to Sunderland Premier League survival – Poyet
October 18, 2013 May 15, 2015 Adl Admin
Gus Poyet has expressed that the key to his Sunderland players winning games and surviving in the Premier League is to believe, writes Sky Sports.
Despite sitting bottom of the Premier League following six defeats and a draw in their opening seven matches of the season, Poyet is confident Sunderland have enough quality to lift the team off the bottom of the table.
Poyet, who took over after Paolo Di Canio was sacked following the poor start, said: “I have no doubt. The idea is to believe. The key is to convince the players. They are the ones who need to feel on the pitch that they have got a chance to win the game.
“It’s well-known in football that when you are at the bottom, you get no luck, no help, everything goes against you. We need to expect that, we need to be ready for that.
“Whatever happens, it doesn’t matter. We need to keep believing that this is the way. I am responsible for that. The key is that they are convinced and they believe that is possible. We will see.”
The 45-year-old was sacked from his managerial role at Brighton following a complicated disciplinary process, but is back in management and relishing the challenge at the Stadium of Light.
“I am happy and looking forward to it,” Poyet said. “In the situation we are in, I am not going to make any excuses. I am going to take whatever comes. This is where we are, we cannot complain.
“In the position we are in, we need to be respectful to everybody and show that we really care. That balance is not easy, especially for them. They have had one manager, an interim manager and then a new another manager. We are all different and they need to adapt. The quicker they adapt, the better for everyone.”
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Being Totally Social: 6 Key Learnings from BTS and How to Turn your Brand’s Fans into an ARMY of Advocates
BTS at the MelOn Music Awards
BTS, the mega K-Pop group, has remained on the top of the charts for years. But their success would not be possible without the hard work of their fans who call themselves ARMY. So, what is ARMY? How did they turn a little-known boy band into the international stars of today? And, most importantly, how do you apply their success to making an army of your own?
Some BTS ARMY
#1 ARMY stands for Adorable Representative MC for Youth
… and boy, are they an army. They are organized, strategic, and 100% dedicated – everything you want out of a fan. But how did it all begin?
BTS started out without the financial backing of a major label so they turned to social with an underdog’s perseverance. There were few barriers between them and their fans. No one sat on a throne from on high. That quickly created an intimate relationship between fans and the band, something that set them apart from other K-Pop stars. Now, BTS had more followers on Twitter than any other K-Pop group.
Takeaway: Start with Social, End with Social Do not sit up in the tower. Get on the ground. Make connections. That’s how communication works in 2019. Be real. Be a little vulnerable. That’s how you win people over.
BTS in concert at Wembley Stadium
#2 Fans spend hundreds of hours on BTS activities, no joke.
Showing your love for BTS is pretty much free game. BTS encourages fan sites, message boards, #hashtags and any other outlet to show fan love (as long as it doesn’t include the stalking type). Corporate isn’t coming down hard on copyrights or branding, and their encouragement has inspired fans to do incredible outreach. Millions flock to social communities and Facebook alone has hundreds of pages dedicated to the group – all fan-based.
Takeaway: Empower your Fans Don’t be a snob and push away the people that love you the most. Encourage free expression. With the rise of TikTok and other fan-based platforms and activities, you’re not going to see the end of “borrowing” intellectual property so instead of whining and complaining when Jenn from Arkansas lip syncs your song, get ahead of it and join the conversation.
#3 Being a fan is free – sort of
There’s BTS fans and there’s BTS official ARMY. For $30, you can gain official membership where insider perks may be afforded to you; birthday wishes, early access to concerts and other minor but impactful-for-fans benefits. In return, ARMY expects your dedication (put some elbow grease into that streaming), your decorum (behave yourself) and your innovation (get out there and recruit!).
Takeaway: Create Exclusivity Everyone loves to be a part of the club. It’s not a new idea to have official fan membership or offer insider-perks, but just because it’s old doesn’t mean it can’t be fun and relevant. What do you offer your audience for their loyalty? What love do you give back?
BTS ARMY Purple Ocean
#4 ARMY is up on Social – like crazy
It’s not just about Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. Though they are internationally known, BTS has a heavy population of their fandom from Asian communities. After all, that’s their hometown territory. So, ignoring the platforms that overlap cultural lines is unthinkable. Kakao Talk, WeChat, and Weibo are just a few platforms putting American platforms to the test with their numbers.
Takeaway: Get on ALL the Platforms In this day and age, not expanding into new platforms will quickly turn you into a dinosaur. Asians and Asian Americans account for the highest rates of buying power and most of that is done on super-app WeChat. Get out there. Expand your tools.
#5 ARMY has Official Missions and Goals
Did we mention that ARMY is dedicated? Because we have to mention it again. Many of these ARMY folks make a mission of getting streaming numbers up. They’ve learned how to hack the system and they capitalize on it. They set their phones, their friends’ phones, their parents’ phones (and laptops, and smart TVs) to stream 24/7. And that’s not all. They communicate to each other what song they want to push, what video needs a lift, what page needs a like, so that efforts are strategic and impactful.
Takeaway: It’s all about Organization Don’t leave the social strategy up to destiny. Your goals should be your audience’s goal and vice versa. Set tasks and goals as a team effort, even down to the most minute details. If ARMY can do it, so can you.
BTS at the 31st Golden Disk Awards
#6 You Can’t Sing Along at Concerts
If you think it’s all ARMY and BTS sits back reaping the benefits without the legwork, you’d be wrong. BTS and their label, Big Hit Entertainment, are all up in everyone’s business making sure that when communication goes out, it goes out the way they want it.
When a South Korean BTS concert commences, singing along is prohibited, as fans and label find it ruins the experience. This is just one of the many branding requirements and expectations Big Hit has put out, communicating directly with its most influential ARMY members and, in turn, those members spread the word and enforce. From banner slogans to pre-concert chants, everything is thoughtfully curated with constant communication with the fans.
Takeaway: Communication is Key but Stand your Ground Don’t just plug and play your messaging. Stay on the pulse of the conversation. Relay to your audience, create trust and transparency. Like any good relationship, people need to feel heard and recognized for being good listeners. Radio silence is unacceptable not to mention dangerous to your brand image. It’s your brand. Take control of it.
If you found this list helpful and insightful, we have plenty more. Look back at our latest industry reports developed by ADMERASIA Intelligence Division (AID) for more information on bettering your brand.
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Bricks and mortar rebound won't reverse online shift
Sue MitchellSenior reporter
Updated Dec 1, 2020 – 2.48pm, first published at 2.32pm
Former Myer chief executive Richard Umbers believes consumers who started shopping online for the first time during the pandemic will continue to embrace e-commerce, despite early signs that shoppers are returning to bricks and mortar stores.
Online sales grew more than 60 per cent year-on-year at the height of the pandemic and online penetration reached 12 per cent of total retail spending, up from about 8 per cent before COVID-19, according to the National Australia Bank retail sales index.
Richard Umbers: "Online is a much more convenient and a much more logical way to shop." Jesse Marlow
However, a report by Evans & Partners suggests that penetration is quickly falling back to pre-pandemic levels as stores reopen and shoppers regain confidence.
Citing ANZ credit card data, Evans & Partners analyst Phil Kimber said online penetration peaked at 30 per cent in April and had fallen to 17 per cent post-lockdown, compared with 15 per cent pre-COVID-19.
"There's inevitably some slippage, but in quantum I think a large proportion of the online trade will continue," said Mr Umbers, who invested heavily in e-commerce during his tenure as chief executive of Myer between 2015 and 2018.
He was chief executive of Australia Post's StarTrack and general manager of the parcel and express division for four years until 2014, during which time he restructured the parcels and logistics business to capitalise on the growth of e-commerce.
"So many people have now shopped online for the first time as a result of COVID, and they like the experience," Mr Umbers said.
"In parallel with that, the services retailers now provide in order to service that market have lifted so dramatically over the course of the last few months that even people who were sceptical previously suddenly realise it's a much more convenient and a much more logical way to shop.
"The pandemic has been a disaster for so many sectors ... but for e-tail and e-commerce it's been an absolute gift, and it's been an accelerant of all the shifts to digital.
"You only have to look at [the strength of] Black Friday and Cyber Monday ... I think what we'll find is there is a significant shift to online.
"The consumer will engage quite strongly with Christmas, albeit there will be a strong shift to digital channels and I think that shift will in most part be a permanent shift.
"Businesses that have prepared well and have invested significantly in new online channels and all the systems to support that are set up very well for the recovery phase."
Mr Umbers returned to Australia in March and finished his role with German discounter Kaufland in July.
He was advising a large e-commerce company during the lockdown in Melbourne and is now putting out feelers for a new executive role after joining the board of Advance, an organisation that nurtures connections between expatriates in Australia and overseas, and being appointed to the board of start-up and innovation hub Stone & Chalk (from January 1).
Mr Umbers urged corporates to tap the expertise of 300,000 expats who had returned to Australia during the pandemic and to foster innovation by collaborating with start-ups.
"The level of immigration has already fallen and we are going to need the skills [of returned expats] to rebuild the economy and industry," he said.
"I'm passionate about the transformative power of emerging technology. Right now it's more important than ever because innovation is the key ingredient of that change we need to see taking place to be able to rebuild from COVID as we go into recovery phase.
"In a post-COVID world, we're doing rather better than much of the world and potentially we're in a good position to have a much more V-shaped recession than other countries."
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Jewish Legal Dictionary: Jewish Vs. Not Jewish
by Marnie Winston-Macauley
It’s time for We Jews to create our own legal system.
We Jews love laws. We have a rule, an opinion, a right and a wrong for everything from the use of poison to picking from a salad bar. After 3,000 years of the most brilliant minds, rabbis, philosophers, tailors, sitting, studying, and geshrie-ing over each possibility, We Jews need some congressman named Billy Bob from Bazooka, population 37 to tell us what we can and can’t do?
I say “Feh!” Especially, as U.S. law is mostly based on Roman Law, made by people who, in 70 C.E. destroyed our Temple, stole our treasures and had the chutzpah to show them off to their neighbors. And they should make laws for us?!
Having spent many years in the justice system, the fact that there are fewer Jews in jumpsuits than in law school, I asked myself, why don’t we create our own legal definitions? This we’re absolutely entitled to! Enjoy!
Seven Legal terms: “Theirs” vs. “Ours.”
1- Them: Abandonment:
When a parent leaves a minor child without enough care, supervision, support, or contact for an excessive period of time. Examples might include:
*failing to be present and supervise a minor, e.g. a parent who runs away
*failing to feed or clothe a minor
*failing to send said child to school
*failing to provide schooling or medical care for a minor child.
Us: Abantonement
Our law is a child leaving us without enough care, support, or contact for an excessive period of time. Minor or “major,” age is irrelevant. For this, they are expected to atone. Examples include but are not limited to the child’s:
*failure to show up within 15 minutes of appointed time
*failure to move no further than two delis away (Exceptions: an Ivy League college, a Jewish camp or a tour group going to Israel),
*failure to notify us they haven’t been kidnapped by 8 pm daily
2-Them: Burden Of Proof:
When one person in a case has the responsibility to give more evidence than the other person.
Us: Suspicion of Proof:
Only a yutz would wait for a burden. A burden means tsouris has already happened. What? We’re going to let a nasty neighbor with shifty eyes maybe put a match to our house so we can hand the judge 5000 pounds of ash-“burdens”? Or be poisoned by that shmeggege deli man who opened around the corner we heard was thrown out of the Lower East Side for having a heavy thumb with the lox? No. Suspicion is proof enough for intention-prevention.
3-Them: Caveat emptor:
A theory that says you buy things at your own risk from the Latin for "let the buyer beware." Simply, if you’re stupid enough to pay 3,000 dollars for an “antique” rug from a guy with a cart selling chazzerai you deserve to see that rug at Walmart for $15.65. It’s your fault.
Us: Shlockemptor:
It’s their fault. Period. We Jews don’t buy anything without looking, reading, researching, feeling, tasting, smelling, comparing. Allergy testing may be involved. The other day I got a full refund plus 10 coupons for pain and suffering from a supermarket because a piece of their rice got under my bridgework! Clearly, the rice was uneven. As We Jews are “aware,” the manufacturer should be “emptored” for trying to sell a Jew shoddy merchandise.
4- Them: Opinion:
A judge's written explanation of the court’s decision on appeal. Only the majority opinion can be used as binding precedent in future cases. For example: “It is the opinion of this court that the complainant has not shown sufficient evidence” etc. etc.
Us: Matter of Opinion:
We Jews are masters of “the opinion.” Show me a Jew without one, whether a skirt is too short, or solving the Middle East crisis. We discuss, present oral arguments, holler, eat, walk out and then eat. We can turn anything into a debate of Talmudic proportion. Listen …
“That, you call an opinion? I spit on your opinion!”
“Your opinion doesn’t even rise to the level of ‘opinion.’”
“Only a nudnik would have the chutzpah to actually offer that opinion!”
Not only can’t a group of Jews get a majority, we can’t get a minority. Face it. The head of the shul has the only Jewpinion that matters. Right?
5- Them: Statute of Limitations:
A law that sets the deadline for parties to file suit to enforce their rights. For example, if a state has a 4-year statute of limitations for breach of a written contract, and "John," the girl’s boyfriend took Susan’s apps on January 1, 1996, Susan must file her lawsuit by January 1, 2000. If the deadline passes, the "statute of limitations has run out" and "Susan" may not be allowed to sue.
Us: Statute of Unlimitations:
We Jews remember – and keep notes. We don’t know from time limits. On Pesach we’re still talking slavery! Does it become less an injury after 3000 years? Of course not. We Jews have learned never to forget. Face, it. People don’t change. If a distant cousin, Morty, called my daughter “zaftig,” spread the word, and my Sheila still can’t get a date with a respectable Jewish prospect, ten years later, may he Zol er krenken un gedenken. (Let him suffer and remember).
6- Them: Will:
A legal paper that lists a person's wishes about what will happen to his or her personal property after death. For example, the wife gets half, and the rest is divided equally among the children.
Us: Maybe I Will:
One terrific bartering tool that works better than guilt. “You don’t care to visit once a week? Where’s my will?” “You’re changing your major from law to miming? Oy. I’m calling cousin Myron to look at my will.” We Jews need adjustable wills – written on a napkin, said in the heat of the moment to make it truly a “living will.”
7-Them: Separate Property:
Everything that a husband or wife owns separately.
Not familiar with this term.
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Grieving son tells South Dakota Gov. Noem she 'lost another vote for president in 2024' over her handling of COVID-19 /
Grieving son tells South Dakota Gov. Noem she 'lost another vote for president in 2024' over her handling of COVID-19
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Meaghan Ellis
A son in mourning opted to share his grievances with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) after his father became yet another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to The Daily Beast, Mike Sliper, son of Robert Sliper, penned a letter to the Republican governor following his 84-year-old father's death to COVID-19. He announced his father's death as he noted Noem "lost yet another vote for president in 2024." Although Noem has repeatedly said she bases her COVID-19 decisions on hospital capacity as opposed to the rise in cases, Sliper highlighted the problem with her approach which appears to downplay the pandemic.
"So, what's my point in telling you all of this about someone you've never met? Well, I'm one of those that believe you didn't have to lose his vote quite yet. He believed in you. He listened to you. He followed your lead. Some of my family, including myself, moved to Colorado at some point then returned to South Dakota to settle down. I tell you this because my dad too went to CO before returning home. Except he went on a Life Flight plane due to COVID.
Sliper recalled how his family witnessed the grim side of COVID-19 when his father had to be airlifted to a hospital two states away from home due to hospital capacity being reached in South Dakota. But as families throughout the state are faced with few options to combat the coronavirus, Sliper noted that a "Noem for Governor" website is already selling $35.00 t-shirts that read, "Less COVID More Hunting." He argued her stance, once again, appears to be an attempt to boost her own popularity on the backs of those suffering.
"While I admire your tenacity in recruiting businesses and constituents to come to SD, I think it is abhorrent that you are doing it on the backs of South Dakotans dying from COVID. Selling t-shirts? Really?" he asked.
Sliper went on to criticize Noem's opposition toward incorporating a statewide mask mandate.
"I believe in Freedom for all, but I understand that to remain civilized we do need some rules. I feel that Freedom does not come without some sacrifice," Sliper explained. "I also do not believe we need a total shutdown, although if that is what it takes, I will abide. I believe that if we all make a little sacrifice, so many South Dakotans won't have to make the ultimate sacrifice. I also believe that sometimes Leadership means telling those you are responsible for that we have to change our lives a little for the short term to preserve the lives and livelihoods of friends and family for the long term. And I know it is possible to reduce our risk."
As of Tuesday, Dec. 8, South Dakota has reported a total of 86,500 coronavirus cases. The state has a 49.7% COVID positivity rate, one of the highest in the world.
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Sugrue, Kanaya come up one short of Open Championship cut
see also: View results for British Open, Royal St George's Golf Club, James Sugrue Rankings
James Sugrue (R&A/Twitter photo)
It was a promising start for James Sugrue, but a lackluster finish. After impressing in his first-round pairing alongside Northern Irishman Darren Clarke, the 22-year-old Sugrue posted a second-round 73 that wasn’t quite enough to get him to the weekend at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
Sugrue has plenty of company in that, however. Of the six amateurs who teed it up this week in the year’s final major, not one will play the weekend.
Sugrue, the Amateur Championship winner, and Takumi Kanaya, the Asia-Pacific Amateur champion, came the closest. Both finished 36 holes at 2 over and missed the cut by one shot.
Matthias Schmid, the European Amateur winner, was 5 over for 36 holes.
As for American Brandon Wu, the recent Stanford grad, rounds of 73-76 left him 7 over and well back.
Curtis Knipes was 9 over while Thomas Thurloway was 14 over.
ROUND ONE RECAP It has been quite a month for James Sugrue, the 22-year-old Irishman. Not quite a month after winning the Amateur Championship – and in front of a home crowd, no less, at Portmarnock Golf Club – Sugrue had a spot in the starting group at Royal Portrush for the Open Championship.
Northern Irishman Darren Clarke, a man instrumental in bringing the Open Championship back to Portrush, hit the opening shot. Sugrue and Charley Hoffman were next.
Sugrue parred that first hole and went on to birdie the par-5 second. He played the opening round in even-par 71 and is tied for 42nd. That was the best showing among the six amateurs in the field.
Here’s how the other amateurs ended up:
Curtis Knipes, 1-over 72, T-54
Brandon Wu, 2-over 73, T-72
Takumi Kanaya, 2-over 73, T-72
Matthias Schmid, 5-over 76, T-128
Thomas Thurloway, 12-over 83, T-153
Sugrue talked about his experience in an article for the Open Championship site.
“It's cool, really, to just be in the locker room,” he said of being at Portrush. “There’s this little corner where it's like the champions corner and Tiger's locker is behind mine and Ernie Els is next to me. It's a bit surreal.”
Results: British Open
MC Takumi Kanaya Japan 0 73-71=144
MC James Sugrue Ireland 0 71-73=144
MC Matthias Schmid Germany 0 76-71=147
MC Brandon Wu Scarsdale, NY 0 73-76=149
MC Curtis Knipes England 0 72-79=151
View full results for British Open
ABOUT THE British Open
The most coveted trophy in the game and one of the most iconic in all of sport: more commonly referred to as the Claret Jug. Within minutes of winning the British Open, the "Champion Golfer of the World" gets his name engraved on that cup, and a place in golfing history.
Amateurs have played an important role in the tournament over the years, with players like Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, and more recently Alfie Plant stepping into the international limelight with their golfing performances.
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Imo Senatorial Candidate, Ndubuisi Emenike, Accidentally Shot Dead By His Own Security Escort
Imo state police command spokesperson, Orlando Ikeokwu, who confirmed the incident, said Emenike had gone to the home of the All Progressives Congress candidate, Miriam Onuoha, to celebrate her victory at the rerun election in the Okigwe North Federal constituency rerun election which occurred on Saturday, January 25th, when he was mistakenly shot dead by the NSCDC official who was his security escort.
Ndubuisi fell and lost consciousness and was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, St Joseph’s Hospital, Umunachi, before he was later rushed to the Federal Medical Center, Owerri, where he was confirmed dead.
” Ndubuisi Emenike has been shot by one of his security aides. He was shot during APC victory party at Isiala Mbano LGA. He was shot at his lower abdomen by his aide, an NSCDC officer. This is very tragic and very unbelievable. We pray he makes it. The incident has shattered our victory party.” an eyewitness said
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Karin Henriksson
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30 oktober 2017 / Karin Henriksson
Det republikanska partiet grundades 1854 i Ripon i Wisconsin. I förra årets val röstade 61 procent på Donald Trump i kommunen Fond du Lac.
RIPON Hur står det till i Grand Old Party?
Fullt krig – enligt förre chefsstrategen i Vita huset Steve Bannon.
Enighet – enligt president Donald Trump.
Efter de uppseendeväckande avhyvlingarna av Trump från tre republikanska senatorer kan konstateras att övriga i kongressen håller inne med eventuell kritik och fler drar slutsatsen att GOP förvandlats till Trumps parti.
Det republikanska partiet, Grand Old Party, var splittrat redan innan Donald Trump dök upp på scenen. Tea party-falangens framfart i valet 2010 ledde så småningom till en maktkamp. Talmannen John Boehner anklagades för att ha kompromissat för mycket med den demokratiske presidenten Barack Obama och tvingades avgå 2015.
Efterträdaren Paul Ryan tillhörde dem som försökte bromsa Trump under valåret och tvingas nu gå en besvärlig balansgång tillsammans med majoritetsledaren i senaten Mitch McConnell. Trump hånar dem för att inte ha baxat igenom några lagförslag och de måtte bita sig i tungan varenda dag för att inte fräsa tillbaka att hans eget agerande inte hjälper – varken det aggressiva tweetandet eller motsägelsefulla uttalanden.
Det var meningen att både Trump, hans ekonomirådgivare och kongressledarna skulle koncentrera sig stenhårt på skatterna denna vecka. Ambitiösa utfästelser om ett klubbande av ett paket före jul utfärdas trots att man är långt ifrån ense om kontroversiella inslag för att få det hela att gå ihop, som begränsningar av avdrag för villalån, pensionssparande och lokala skatter (länk till Stefan de Vylders inlägg på bloggen).
Donald Trump gick ju till attack mot ”etablissemanget” i Washington och har fått i alla fall två respekterade – konservativa – senatorer att lämna fältet inför nästa års mellanårsval. Utöver Bob Corker och Jeff Flake är det i synnerhet John McCain, 81 år gammal och märkt av cancer, som gått emot Trump. Utöver denna trio finns en liten skara till som motsatt sig presidenten, däribland Susan Collins och Ben Sasse. Den republikanska övervikten i senaten är liten, 52-48, så Trump kan inte förlora några av de egna (och demokraterna har hittills hållit ihop och lär knappast rösta för skattesänkningar för höginkomsttagare).
Steve Bannon gick ut häromveckan ut budskap i samma anda som i vintras. Då talade han om att riva ner ”den administrativa staten”, nu förklarade han att han leder ett krig mot partietablissemanget i Washington eller ”McConnell-industriella komplexet”. Han kunde luta sig mot framgångar i primärvalet i Alabama i september där hans, minst sagt udda, favorit Roy Moore segrade. Inte main stream-kandidaten Luther Strange som Trump med tvekan (och utan att ha behövt göra det) ställt sig bakom. Bannon reser runt och raggar både namn och pengar inför 2018. I hans krav ingår stöd för skärpt invandring, bort med frihandelsavtal och regeländring i senaten så att lagar kan antas med enkel majoritet.
– Jag gillar Steve, sa Trump vid den gemensamma presskonferensen med McConnell för ett tag sedan (samma tillfälle där den senare spetsigt framhöll att det handlar om att bevara majoriteten). Trump och Bannon håller tät telefonkontakt, och den som vill veta mer om deras förhållande bör läsa Joshua Greens Devil’s Bargain.
Bannon är tillbaka i sin gamla roll på konservativa nyhetssajten Breitbart News som deltar i kampanjen mot etablissemanget, samma sak kan sägas om Laura Ingraham som från och med måndagen får en egen show i Fox News, kl. 22.00. Förste gästen blir stabschefen John Kelly som drog ut i försvar för Trump efter konflikten med änkan efter en stupad soldat och en kongressledamot. Efteråt har det konstaterats att Kelly inte bara är den ”vuxne” exgeneralen, utan att han delar Trumps åsikter i frågor som invandring.
Vapendragaren Andy Surabian har gått ett steg längre än Bannon och öppet sagt om McConnell att ”målsättningen är att bli av med honom”. Senaten, fortsatte han, är det ställe där Trumps agenda dött. Lite bittert för McConnell, som tack vare sin envisa vägran att låta Obama tillsätta en HD-domare bjöd Trump på den främsta segern hittills.
Bland invändningarna som reses mot Bannons planer finns att Franklin D. Roosevelt förgäves försökte något liknande (mer här, i New York Times) samt att kandidater som Roy Moore kan avskräcka väljare. Moore passar in ganska bra på begreppet mörkerman, läs urvalet av kommentarer från honom, här.
Rönen i en färsk opinionsmätning.
Än så länge förblir stödet för Trump solitt i hans s.k. bas och det är därifrån negativa signaler måste komma om gamla och nya #NeverTrump-krafter ska kunna göra framryckningar. Det dramatiska händelseförloppet i specialåklagaren Robert Muellers utredning kan påverka stämningsläget. Oavsett hur det visar sig vara med Trumps personliga inblandning tyder rubriker som måndagens ”Trumps kampanjchef Paul Manafort åtalad” och ”Rådgivaren George Papadoupolos åtalseftergift större problem” på dåligt omdöme i personalärenden… Spänningarna inom GOP lär alltså fortsätta, mellan olika block, från det s.k. kulturkriget (där Trump varit oerhört aktiv med sin näsa som fångar upp motstånd mot påstått överbetalda bortskämda fotbollsspelare som inte visar tillräcklig respekt för flaggan) till blocket som vill banta budgetunderskottet och statsskulden. Ett nytt budgetår inleddes den 1 oktober, och här följer facit av förra året, enligt CBS News:
”Real federal spending in fiscal 2017, which ended on Sept. 30, was higher than in any year in the history of the United States other than fiscal 2009, which was the year that President Barack Obama’s $840 billion stimulus law was enacted. Fiscal 2017 also saw the second highest real federal individual income tax totals of any year in U.S. history, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. Total federal tax revenues were the third highest in U.S. history. While it was collecting the third highest total tax revenues in U.S. history, the federal government ran a deficit $665,712,000,000 because of its high total spending. Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives since 2011, after winning a majority of seats in the 2010 election. They have controlled the Senate since 2015, after winning a majority in the 2014 election. In fiscal years 2016 and 2017, a Congress in which the Republican Party controls both houses was responsible for enacting all federal spending legislation.”
Forts. följer.
Nu lite bokreklam. Min biografi Trump – miljarderna, medierna och makten finns i bokhandeln och på nätet, såväl e- som ljudbok.
Här på bloggen har vi ibland återgett intervjuer i sin helhet. Nedan följer en utskrift av ett samtal nyligen mellan Donald Trump och tv-profilen Maria Bartiromo i Fox Business News. Som framgår är frågorna ställda i vänlig ton och utan jobbiga uppföljningar.
Titta särskilt på Trumps förklaringar om hur och varför han använder sig av Twitter – ”bing, bing, bing”, både som vapen och underhållning. Vidare de egendomliga ordvändningarna om centralbanken Federal Reserve – om att ”take the Fed out”, med vilket han egentligen menar Fed-ordföranden. Trump uppvisar bristande kunskaper på många områden, t.ex. om bnp-siffror och handelsunderskottet med Mexiko. Han uttrycker sig motstridigt om Iranavtalet och hävdar att han gjort mer i kampen mot IS än vad föregångaren gjorde på åtta år – men dels har IS inte funnit i åtta år, dels hävdar de flesta att det var Obamaadministrationen som drog upp gällande strategi och att Trump som mest intensifierat kampen.
MARIA BARTIROMO, FBN HOST: Mr. President, thanks so much for sitting down with me today.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you.
BARTIROMO: Here we are on the week that the Dow Jones Industrial Average just hit 23,000, $5 and 1/3 trillion of market value created since your election. And largely, because of this anticipation and hope that your policies will get implemented. Tell us where we stand on the tax plan right now.
TRUMP: We’re doing very well. We will — we had a fantastic vote, as you know, and was — budget is indirectly passed. Now it’s going to go through a little bit of an iteration but it’s going to end up, I think, again doing very well. And I think we’re going to get our taxes.
I think it’s going to be — well, hopefully before the end of the year, but maybe much sooner than that. So there’s a great spirit for it, people want to see it, and I call it tax cuts. It is tax reform also, but I call it tax cuts. It’ll be the biggest cuts ever in the history of this country.
And I think that there’s tremendous appetite. There’s tremendous spirit for it, not only by the people we’re dealing with in Congress, but for the people out there that want to see something — $5,000, almost. It can be $5,000 average per individual, — per group. And so, I’m really looking forward to it. Let’s see what happens.
BARTIROMO: It — it could be quite historic.
BARTIROMO: that’s a big deal, that — on Sunday, exactly. Do you think you have the votes?
TRUMP: I think we have the votes. I think that Rand Paul actually is going to vote for the tax cuts. I think that other people — you know, we had tremendous enthusiasm this time. Health care,
I was told was tougher but it was close. I mean, so far, I would say it’s not even a contest.
And I will tell you — speaking of health care, I believe we’re going to get that also. It’ll be in the form of block grants to the different states. And it’ll be a wonderful health care. It’ll be a tremendous health care, managed properly in smaller doses where you can really do it much more individually.
So I think we’re going to get that also. And a little bit later, probably in three or four months from now, but I do believe we’ll have that long before the election in ’18. As far as taxes are concerned, you see what’s happening. It’s really doing well, great enthusiasm.
BARTIROMO: Yes. You soured on the health care bipartisan plan a bit — right — from Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray?
TRUMP: Well I’ve — I have looked at it very, very strongly. And pretty much, we can do almost what they’re getting. I — I think he is a tremendous person. I don’t know Senator Murray. I hear very, very good things.
I know that Lamar Alexander’s a fine man and he is really in there to do good for the people. We can do pretty much what we have to do without, you know, the Secretary has tremendous leeway in the — under the Obama plans. One of the things that they did, because they were so messed up, they had no choice but to give the Secretary leeway because they knew he’d have to be — he or she would have to be changing all the time.
And we can pretty much do whatever we have to do just the way it is. So this was going to be temporary, prior to repeal and replace. We’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare.
And I think we actually have the votes. People are criticizing me for saying that. I think we actually have the votes for that. You know, we were basically one short and I think we’re going to have the votes for that also, Maria.
BARTIROMO: Yes, I’m interested about that because even your supporters say, you know, he’s got fantastic policies. We want to see this through. But the bickering and the feuding actually gets in the way. So obviously the feuding with Senator Corker — I think there’s a personal thing going on between you and Senator McCain. Do you worry that this bickering and feuding gets in the way of your agenda?
TRUMP: No, and sometimes it helps, to be honest with you. So we’ll see what happens in the end. But I think, actually sometimes it helps. Sometimes it gets people to do what they’re supposed to be doing. And you know, that’s the way it is.
I just want what’s right. And I think, for the most part, they want what’s right too. So we’ll see what happens but I do believe we have the votes for health care at the appropriate time. And I think we’re going to have the votes for taxes and I will say the fact that healthcare is so difficult, I think, makes the taxes easier. The republicans want to get it done and it’s a tremendous tax cut. I mean, especially for the middle class and especially for business.
We have — we’re loosing our companies. We have companies leaving and I have to say since I’ve been elected, that’s really stopped, it’s really slowed down. There’s a tremendous enthusiasm for business in this country. So, a lot of things have changed.
BARTIROMO: And, you see the job creation, as well this year.
TRUMP: It’s been fantastic.
BARTIROMO: If they can’t get this tax bill done this year, should they forego Thanksgiving and Christmas? Should they be here if they don’t have a bill on your desk by Thanksgiving?
TRUMP: Well I think they should and I think they will. I think a lot of things are happening unless, you know, it’s going to be right after that. But I don’t even like them leaving. But I will say this, I want to get it by the end of the year but I’d be very disappointed if it took that long.
It could be substantially less than that depending on what happens when we send the bill back to the House. You know, they’ll send it back and people are going to go and make 200 suggestions as opposed to maybe no suggestions because it’s a great bill. It’s going to be a great bill. And we’re adjusting.
We’re adjusting so that there’s no way that the middle class doesn’t greatly benefit. Every once in a while there’s a method under which, you know, it could be that some people in the middle class won’t benefit as much as we want them to benefit and we’re making certain adjustments but I think we’re going to have it sooner rather than later.
BARTIROMO: Paul Ryan did an interview this week and said you are insisting that they have a fourth bracket. It’s on your insistence that they have a fourth bracket. I know that you’re very focused on the middle class but do you want to raise taxes on the rich with the fourth bracket?
TRUMP: Well, he really said that on the basis that I wanted it or was thinking about it because I want to make sure the middle class gets taken care of. So, in that way, yes, but actually we do have four brackets because we have a zero bracket and people aren’t including that.
So, that would actually make it a fifth bracket as opposed to an eight bracket on the other side, on the other way. I call that our competition which is the competition from the past. No, I think that when Paul says that — we may not have that. I would rather do that than do anything to hurt the middle class.
BARTIROMO: But, see, that’s what I don’t understand and I followed your policies really closely. The state and local income tax deduction eliminations you take that away and then you go to a fifth bracket or a fourth bracket however you want to say it and you get a higher rate for their top earners.
TRUMP: Right.
BARTIROMO: If the top earners pay 80 percent of the taxes why are you so afraid to cut taxes on the top earners?
TRUMP: I think this, look, you know, I am very happy with the way I’ve done part of this in my civilian life, all right.
BARTIROMO: Of course. This is not about —
TRUMP: Other people — well it’s about me representing rich people.
BARTIROMO: OK.
TRUMP: Representing — being representative of rich people. Very interesting to me Bob Kraft was down. He was very nice. He owns the Patriots. He gave me a Super Bowl ring a month ago. And he —
BARTIROMO: We’ll Putin took his
TRUMP: Which was very nice. That’s right. But he left this beautiful ring and I immediately give it to the White House and they put it some place and that’s the way it is.
BARTIROMO: That’s great.
TRUMP: He said to me — he’s a good man. He said to me you have to do us all a favor, give the tax decrease to the middle class, we don’t need it. We don’t need it. We don’t want it. Give it to the middle class. And, I’ve had many people, very wealthy people tell me the very same thing. I’ve had very few say I want more, I want more.
They really want to see — you know the middle class has really not done very well over the last long period of time. And, so when Paul mentions maybe one more category which I’d rather not have, it may not happen. But the only reason I would have — and he does say this, he’s very plain on what he said is that if for any reason that the other middle class is not being properly taken care of.
So, that’s a big factor but we have so many things that are going to be so great bringing the corporate tax down maybe is the most important. And, we have a lot of most important but bringing it down from 35 down to 20 percent that’s a massive — that’ the biggest that we’ve ever done.
BARTIROMO: It’s a big deal in the corporate rate for sure.
TRUMP: That’s a big deal for companies; that’s a big deal for investment. I think one of the other ones is expensing, you know when you write something off in one year as opposed to you know over many years, I think that’s going to be tremendous.
We have so many things in this plan that are going to be for growth and you know your next questions going to be deficit so and on, and I fully understand that we all understand it, and growth, if we pick up one point on GDP that’s $2.5 trillion if you think of.
Two point five it more than pays for everything and I think we pick up much more than 1 point, and I’ve been the one that’s saying we’re going to hit 3 sooner later than later, in the last quarter we 3.2.
BARTIROMO: Yeah.
TRUMP: We haven’t been there real — we haven’t been there in a long time, it’s been a long time.
As you know the previous administration didn’t hit it for the year for 8 years. In 8 years it didn’t hit it at all. Here we hit it you know an early quarter for me, and actually before that it was down in the ones, it was down in the ones.
BARTIROMO: People got used to like 1.5% growth for a long time.
TRUMP: Well, you know I call up — I become friendly with leaders of other very, very large countries and say how’re you doing, and they would say “We’re not doing well, we are not doing well. GDP is at 7%, GDP is at 8%, we are not happy.”
And I’m saying you know we had it a 1% so I really think we can do much more than a –let’s see what happens, but 1 point is 2.5 trillion and millions of jobs.
BARTIROMO: Let me ask about your courting of the Democrats recently I mean the reason that I brought up this other bracket is because I feel like the Republicans get bullied by the left, by this whole talking point of it’s always tax cuts for the rich.
TRUMP: Yeah.
BARTIROMO: You been —
TRUMP: By the way that’s an automatic talking point.
BARTIROMO: Exactly.
TRUMP: I mean for sure I get along with Schumer —
BARTIROMO: Are you getting bullied again, are you getting bullied again?
TRUMP: I don’t think so– it doesn’t seem like it we got the budget passed.
BARTIROMO: I you get a fifth bracket, are you getting bullied?
TRUMP: So here’s the thing Schumer, I like Schumer, but before he even knows the plan he’ll say “Oh this is for the rich” so he doesn’t even know what the plan is, and he’s screaming it for the rich.
He did it with healthcare too, he said “This is for the rich, this is for the rich you’re not going to get your coverage.” Everybody is going to go into hospitals; that’s going to be terrible, the world is coming to an end, OK.
Do you know what the plan was. That’s OK you know we’re all learning politics right, and he said that well, he says the same thing because I saw him two days ago before he really knew what was happening, he said “Oh no it’s for the rich.”
So it’s an automatic statement, it’s like in business you ask for twice as much I mean.
BARTIROMO: Right, well you go back with Chuck Schumer.
TRUMP: I do.
BARTIROMO: You both from New York —
TRUMP: You know I’ve always gotten along with him.
BARTIROMO: Is this helpful in terms of negotiations?
TRUMP: I don’t think it matters, I mean I really don’t, but I met with the Senate Finance Committee, I met with the Republicans, Democrats together right across the hallway two days ago we had a great meeting.
Ron Wyden was — is their Chairman we had a fantastic meeting, there’s a lot of similarity they want tax cuts also Maria. They want tax cuts and they want them as fast as possible.
Now they don’t want to say it and their saying “Oh gee, you know the — the — the middle class I call them the working people because they really are the working people, but the middle class doesn’t benefit that’s — that’s their standard but they know it they do benefit.
They’re the big beneficiaries, the other thing — the other big beneficiary are jobs, wages —
BARTIROMO: Right.
TRUMP: Jobs.
BARTIROMO: And that’s been your priority.
TRUMP: So it’s been my priority and if you look at what I’ve done between regulations, I’ve cut more regulations in nine months then any president has cut during the entire term that they were — nobody’s cut that —
BARTIROMO: You’re better than President Bush, I mean the Federal pages are down 30% under your leadership.
TRUMP: Well, and — and by the way I’ve just begun because —
BARTIROMO: So there are more regulations rollback —
TRUMP: Well, there’s a lot more I mean really lot more, I mean I think I can double it before it’s over, but a lot of it’s statutory where you have to give a 90 day notice and then you have give 120 day, we’ve given those notices I mean we’re going to be doing a lot more.
But you look at — at you know Keystone Pipeline, Dakota Access Pipeline these were all dead projects that I approved them in my first few days — I mean literally in my first few days 48 thousand –
BARTIROMO: — see I think that’s why we’ve had a 3.1 percent GDP. Because of the regulation roll back that you did — there are some industries that are not that regulated. I’m wondering what you think about tech right now?
Because you have these companies that are more powerful than ever before, they’ve got everything all the data on us. They’re selling the data. To the tech companies these more regulated?
TRUMP: Well I guess some people talk about freedom and other people talk about we want to know who’s taking adds or doing whatever and I would imagine something’s going to come down along the lines of like we are doing right now. For regular — you know whether it’s commercial or not for a normal broadcast company.
It’ll be very interesting to see. You know that’s a argument that’s happening right now. It’ll be very interesting to see what — there are two very distinct views on that. I can go — honestly I can go either way on it.
BARTIROMO: Mr. President who do you want to see running the Fed?
TRUMP: Well as you know I — I’ve been seeing a number of people and most people are saying it’s down to two, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Powell. I also met with Janet Yellen, who I like a lot. I really like her a lot. So I have three people that I’m looking at. And there are a couple of others.
I said I will make my decision very shortly, pretty shortly.
BARTIROMO: Isn’t there a way that you can get Taylor and Powell in there? Because you’ve got a vice chairman opening as well, you can actually put them both in there. Is that in your thinking?
TRUMP: It is in my thinking. And I have a couple of other things in my thinking. But I like talent. And they are both very talented people. And it’s a hard decision. It’s actually a very important decision. People have no — most people have no idea how important that position is. That position is actually — more — a lot of people get rid of the Fed.
Take the Fed out. That’s a very important position. It’s also important psychotically. If the right person is there a lot of good things can happen. I think I’m doing a good job for businesses in that way. People are coming into the country; you saw what happened with Foxconn going to Wisconsin.
You see what’s happening with Apple where there — I said to Tim — I said to Tim Cook, I said Tim I want some of those beautiful plants that I see in China. They have to open in the country. You got to give me some big beautiful plants, it’s happening. It’s all happening.
The auto companies are coming back into our country. Coming up to Michigan again, they are going back. We’re not going to be taken advantage of. We were taken advantage of — I wouldn’t say the companies so much, but by other countries. We were so badly taken advantage of.
As you know we’re negotiating with NAFTA. And they have an election right now, and lots of things. But at some point either NAFTA will be renegotiated so that it’s fair to the United States or it will be terminated. It was very simple. People think that’s a very tough statement. But it will probably be renegotiated but if it’s not successfully renegotiated so it’s fair for the United States, it will be terminated.
BARTIROMO: Look you had a very good victory this week in terms of the Senate vote on the budget, I know that. But you’ve had all this money going out, new money that people weren’t expected, right? You have money now going to California with the wildfires, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida.
Many have got defense you want to build up the military. You’ve said many times the present President Obama underfunded defense. Where does this money come from? And how are you going to get control longer term of the debt and deficit in this country? When is that conversation going to pick up?
TRUMP: Well it’s going to be all growth. Look it’s going to be growth. I think that growth can be staggering. I also think we have a lot of waste in this country. And we’ll be doing other things. We will be doing welfare reform. I mean that’s coming up.
Okay, and whether people like it or not. You know people don’t like having a house and working three jobs and having somebody nearby where their living better than the person with the three jobs. It’s not fair. And that’s all coming up, believe me that’s going to be out there very soon.
I want to get the taxes first. I want to get health care. We’re doing a big infrastructure bill which will be a very positive thing. But we’re going to have tremendous growth.
BARTIROMO: Are you going to tie the infrastructure to the tax plan?
TRUMP: I could tie it. I was thinking about tying it but there’s too many honestly. You lose a few votes, you gain a few votes. I don’t want to take any chances cause I feel we have the votes right now the way it is.
So the tax will come up, the infrastructure will come up, the health care will come up, I have an economic develop plan, that I would like to propose that I think will be, you know very, very good for our country. I think the growth in the country is going to be tremendous. I think we have tremendous potential, it’s hard to believe because it has been, you know going for a long time.
But the waste, the trade deals we have, that are so bad. You know, the money you’re taking about is, peanuts compared to the trade deals. We lose with Mexico, almost 70 in terms of trade deficits, almost $70 billion dollars a year. We lose with China $100s of billions a year, we lose almost every country. If you look at I mean there is hardly a country. I can name two, and it is tiny surpluses, tiny.
We lose with almost every country, we have massive deficits. And that is gonna change, we can’t allow the world to look at us as a whipping post. Not gonna happen, anymore.
BARTIROMO: Are you gonna remove the budget caps, in terms of defense spending?
TRUMP: Well I wanna do it, because one the one thing have do, is have to spend on defense. This is a very rough time out there. I was left a mess, whether the people like or not, I think we can say it in different ways. I was left a mess, whether it was North Korea or the Middle East, where we have made more progress against ISIS.
Literally Maria, we have made more progress against ISIS in the last 9 months, than in the last 8 years, as you know. I mean as everybody—
BARTIROMO: You have had tough talk on everybody.
TRUMP: I mean it’s not a question of tough talk, we have also produced, I mean the Middle East is a whole different ball game right now as far as ISIS is now, is concerned. But, but we have to…we are in a world, there’s a lot hatred in this world. There is a lot of hatred towards us in the world. We need a strong military, stronger than ever before, and we are going to have that.
So I do want to get rid of the caps at least at some point in the near future.
BARTIROMO: Do you ever feel like sometimes, some of your unscripted Tweets, unscripted comments get in the way of the larger message? I have spoken with a lot of supporters of yours and while they love the policies; they say we, you know we feel like we are always defending something he said, that he really didn’t mean, to say that way. Do you think that is getting in the way of your agenda and the overall message? You need bully pulpit to tell the American people why tax reform is important
TRUMP: It is such an interesting question, because I have friends that say, oh, don’t use social media. See I don’t call it Tweets, Tweeting is like a typewriter — when I put it out, you put it immediately on your show. I mean the other day, I put something out, two seconds later I am watching your show, it’s up —
BARTIROMO: You’re right. We’re watching your Twitter feed
TRUMP: OK, and then, you know they are well crafted. I was always good student, I am like a person that does well with that kind of thing. And I doubt I would be here if weren’t for social media, to be honest with you. Because there is a fake media out there, I get treated very unfairly by the media.
And I have a tremendous platform. I think I have a 125 million people between Twitter and Intsagram and all of them and Facebook. I have a tremendous platform.
BARTIROMO: So you —
TRUMP: So when somebody, says something about me, I am able to go bing, bing, bing and I take care of it. The other way, I would never be get the word out. I had a big rally, we were in Texas for something and I then I went back unfortunately for the hurricanes.
But one women was standing, I had thousands and thousands of people, but woman was saying ‘keep tweeting, it matters.’ It is sorta of an interesting — I really believe, again I don’t call it, I call it social media.
BARTIROMO: It’s not just the Tweets, Tweeting is good. I mean having that direct relationship. It’s just tweeting on other subjects other than the message that you really want to focus on.
TRUMP: You have to keep people interested also. You know, you have to keep people interested. But, social media, without social media, I am not sure that would be here talking. I would probably not be here talking.
BARTIROMO: You definitely have an incredible connection to voters and to supporters —
TRUMP: They want me to
BARTIROMO: the American people. Period.
TRUMP: You know what I find; the ones don’t want me to are the enemies. The people who really don’t like, what happened with me and winning the election and all of the things. Those are the ones who say he should, I remember, I was in — I was in a faraway land and I was tweeting. And I said very little. I said like, “I’m in Italy right now,” you know, for the summits. So “I’m in Italy right now and the weather is wonderful.” And one of the — one of the dishonest networks said “Donald Trump is on a Twitter stomp again — President Trump.”
They say “President Trump is on a Twitter stomp” within one tweet. It is such dishonesty. But without social media, I’m not sure that I’d be here today, so I don’t…
BARTIROMO: I understand.
TRUMP: I don’t think I want to take any chances. And we do get points out there — I mean, we get tremendous points. I can express my views when somebody expresses maybe a false view that they said I gave.
BARTIROMO: It’s totally unconventional. But it works
TRUMP: It works — It just seems to work. I mean, it is a little unconventional.
BARTIROMO: I have to ask you about that emotional press conference yesterday with General Kelly, your chief of staff. The way he came out and talked about his son and defended you getting criticism from the Gold Star family — well, the media, really. Were you expecting that?
TRUMP: He is a — a very elegant man. He is a tough, strong four-star Marine. You’re a four-star Marine, you’ve got something special to start off with, OK? General Mattis, General Dunford also, but very few. He — he was so offended, because he was in the room when I made the call and so were other people. And the call was a very nice call. He was so offended that a woman would be — that somebody would be listening to that call.
He was — he actually couldn’t believe it. Actually, he said to me “Sir, this is not acceptable. This is really not” — and he knew — I was so nice. Look, I’ve called many people. And I would think that every one of them appreciated it. I was very surprised to see this to be honest with you.
BARTIROMO: He spoke very well yesterday.
TRUMP: And by the way, I spoke of the name of the young man and I — it was a really — it’s a very tough call. Those are the toughest calls.
BARTIROMO It’s a very tough —
TRUMP: These are tougher than dealing with the heads of countries, believe me. These are very, very hard calls. They’re sad. And sometimes, you know, the grieving is so incredible. But he’s just an elegant man and a wonderful man and he’s doing a fantastic job as chief.
BARTIROMO: The Congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, she said “Oh, everything he said was because he’s just trying to keep his job.”
TRUMP: He doesn’t need this job. In fact, he didn’t really want this job. He was so happy, you know, he’s a military guy. He was doing this incredible job on the border and elsewhere, you know, he ran homeland like nobody has ever run it, down 78 percent of the border crossings.
BARTIROMO: That’s incredible.
TRUMP: That’s before the wall — he — there’s nobody close. You go to the original first day, there was nobody close to doing the job. And I said “I’d like to take you. How would you like it?” And it’s not that he wanted it. Actually, he would have preferred doing and staying where he was. He’s a man that felt it would be important for the country. He does it for the country. He’s not doing it for what he wants. He does it for the country.
He’s a very unusual man. So when she made that statement, I thought it was sickening, actually.
BARTIROMO: I just want to ask you before I lose you, about the border. And you’ve said you want a legislative fix for DACA. What else do you need to see in terms of the border? What do you want overall
TRUMP: What we’re going to see — we are working on DACA, we’ll see if we can get something with DACA. We have to build the wall, we have to — all you have to do is look at what’s happening in Mexico. We have to build a wall. Going to stop drug traffic in to a large extent. I mean, what’s happening with drugs — and I’ll be making a big announcement on that next week.
What’s happening with drugs in our country — and by the way, in the world. It’s not like we’re singled out. But it’s never been like this. And a lot of the drugs come through that southern border. And we need a wall. We’re going to have a wall. We have to — I would like to do something with DACA and we are negotiating, right with the Democrats, and we’ll see if we can come up with a solution. But I can tell you, I and the Republicans are very open to it. We have to get something in return.
BARTIROMO: And last week on this program we had Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
BARTIROMO: He commended you. He congratulated you for decertifying Iran in — what you did last week. Do you think they’re going to get Europeans to support you in terms of sanctions, in terms of not selling technology to Iran?
TRUMP: Honestly, I told them. They’re friends of mine. They really are. I get along with all of them. Whether it’s Emmanuel, or whether it’s Angela, I get along — I really like those people.
I told them, just keep making money. Don’t worry about it. We don’t need you on this. You just keep making money. When Iran buys things from Germany and from France and from the various — by billions of dollars, even us, they were going to buy Boeings. I don’t know what’s going to happen with the deal.
We’ll see what happens with the deal, but — but when they buy those things, it’s a little harder for those countries to do something. Would they do it if I really was insistent? I believe they would.
I told them just keep making money. Don’t worry. We don’t need you on this one.
BARTIROMO: And on North Korea, is our policy with China just about what it does with North Korea or do we have a separate policy with China for something else?
TRUMP: China has been — I’ve developed a very good relationship with President Xi. President Xi is right now going through his Congress and it’s going to be something very soon is going to happen.
TRUMP: That gives him something that few leaders of China have ever had, and I’m really good with that. And to be honest with — I told you on this, I want to keep things very, very low key until such time as he gets that. I want him to get that.
I think he deserves that. He’s a good man. But they have been helping us. They’re closing off their banking systems to North Korea. They have cut the oil way down. Now, the banking systems we can see, because they all come through here as you know. The oil you can never really see what’s going on, but the oil is way down. The oil is — they’re doing a lot of things.
BARTIROMO: For the first time ever
TRUMP: For the first time ever. Those are the recent article that said I have the greatest relationship of any president — the two of us, and I think we do. I really do. I think — I don’t want to be foolish.
He’s for China and I’m for the U.S., OK? So we start off with that, but we do have a very good — I would say an exceptional relationship. And China’s really helping us, and — well, also with respect to North Korea, 93 percent of things going into North Korea come through China. China is big stuff.
I believe he’s got — he’s got the power to do something very significant with respect to North Korea. We’ll see what happens. Now with that being said, we’re prepared for anything. We are so prepared, like you wouldn’t believe.
You would be shocked to see how totally prepared we are if we need to be. Would it be nice not to do that? The answer is yes. Will that happen? Who knows, who knows, Maria.
BARTIROMO: Mr. President, would you like to add anything else that I may have missed?
TRUMP: No. I’m not — I think you’ve covered just about everything…
BARTIROMO: When we end, then where we begin and that’s taxes. You can’t tell companies what to do, right? Are you sure they’re going to get that savings in the taxes in terms of bringing that $3 trillion back and use it to hire people? Or are they going to buy back stock?
TRUMP: Well, I think whatever they do, it’s a positive. Honestly, whatever they do, it’s a positive. Even if they buy back, they buy back and they give people money and the people are going to go spend the money, okay? And that’s okay too.
So you know that people have said that, oh, supposedly, they keep the money or supposedly, they buy back stock. Well, they buy back stock, the stock — the money’s going to people and they’re going to go out and buy a something — I won’t say — I was almost going to say something, but I won’t say it. We have minimum, in my opinion, $3 trillion—
BARTIROMO: Overseas
TRUMP: Overseas or however you define it. In some cases not necessarily totally over – but overseas. We have minimum $3 trillion — it can never come back. You know what’s interesting? That’s something that Democrats for years. Democrats and republicans agree the money should come back. Who’s not going to say the money should stay there, right?
Everybody agrees — I would say unanimously, it was never done, it was never done. Because of lack of leadership. Because of something.
Now, it was not only the high tax — it was a very high tax, nobody would pay it. I mean, unless you were desperate to get money, you wouldn’t pay it, so it was a high tax. It was also bureaucratic boondoggle; you never saw anything like it. You couldn’t — I looked at the amount of work you had to do to get that money in, aside from the tax — OK, all of that is going to be solved and we’re going to have 3 trillion and I think it could be much more than that.
You know, we’ve been saying 2.5 trillion for years — you’ve been saying it. For years, we’ve been saying 2.5 trillion — well it’s not 2.5 trillion anymore, I think it could be much more than that and it could be up to five, we’ll see. We’re going to know fairly soon because for the most past, with the deeming and everything else that’s going to come in very soon, I think it’s going to come in very quickly. But there’s — at a minimum three $3 trillion coming into our country and that money is going to put to work one way or the other. So the great thing is, it’s a great plan, there’s never been anything like it, it’s the biggest and it’s the best and I think you’re going to be very happy, you’ll be impressed.
BARTIROMO: Mr. President thanks so much for joining us.
TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you very much, Maria.
BARTIROMO: So appreciated.
MARIA BARTIROMO, FBN HOST: I’m so excited to be here.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Oh, yes, isn’t’ it great?
BARTIROMO: It’s incredible. Ready? OK. So Mr. President, it’s been nine months, have you changed? Have you changed being president?
TRUMP: Well, I think you see the extent of what we have to do. And it’s far greater than anybody would understand, whether its countries, or whether it’s war and peace, and protection. The most important thing is protecting our people. And you protect them from lots of different things and elements.
We’ve done a great job with ISIS. We’ve done a great job with – I think our military is getting stronger, stronger, stronger. I want to have it to a point where it’s the strongest by far that has ever been. But number one is always going to be protection. But if you look at the economy – what we’ve done with the economy has been great.
And regulations down to a level that nobody’s ever seen. I mean nobody’s done anything near what we’ve done. We’ve actually had a lot of legislation pass. A lot of people say, oh, gee, you have to get the taxes – you have to get the healthcare. They’re two very biggies, but we have – we’ve passed legislation that I think more than almost any, out of the four to nine month period, more than any other president, they said Harry Truman –
BARTIROMO: You have –
TRUMP: — but now we passed Harry Truman in this very short period of time –
BARTIROMO: I look at the federal registry, you’re absolutely right.
TRUMP: Yes.
BARTIROMO: You’re down 30 percent. You mentioned the tax planning side. Can you give us any sense of this fifth bracket? I mean if you do a fifth a bracket, is that a million dollars, is it $2 million?
BARTIROMO: What’s the number?
TRUMP: I don’t think we’ll use a fifth bracket. I only want to use the fifth bracket if at any reason I feel the middle class is not getting as much as I thought they would or as much as they are entitled to. They’re entitled to a lot.
This is about the middle class. It’s really about the middle class and about jobs. And if I feel that the middle class is not getting what I want them to get, and that’s going to be a lot, because I want them to get really a lot. Then I’m going to do a fifth bracket, which will give them more.
BARTIROMO: Mr. President, thank you so much.
TRUMP: Thank you very much.
BARTIROMO: It’s really good to see you.
TRUMP: Great to have you.
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The Early Life of Jean Louisa Kelly:
Jean was born on March 9, 1972. Her birthplace is Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. As of now, Jean is 48 years old. Her full name is Jean Louisa Kelly and her nickname is Jean. She belongs to American Nationality. Her zodiac sign is Pisces.
Coming to her parents, she was born to J. Joseph Kelly and Wendy I. Kelly. There is no information regarding her brothers and sisters.
Education Life of Jean Louisa Kelly:
Jean joined Easton High School to complete her high schooling. The actress completed her schooling at Professional Children’s School. For her graduation, she joined Columbia University.
Kelly had an interest in acting from her childhood days. Jean completed her graduation without discontinuing her education. She graduated from the university in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in English.
Personal Life of Jean Louisa Kelly:
There is no data regarding her ex-boyfriends on the net. Jean married James Pitaro in 1997. James is an American media personality and attorney too. He became the president of ESPN. James is the co-chair of Disney Media Networks.
The couple has two children. Jean’s son’s name is Sean Pitaro and her daughter’s name is Josey Pitaro.
A note on Jean’s Career:
The actress started her career as a model. She became an actress, singer, and dancer in the entertainment industry. She made her debut act in Uncle Buck at the age of 14. The actress got a breakthrough with her role as Tia Russell in 1989.
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Kelly concentrated on her education to complete her graduation. After her graduation, she got back to the acting profession full-time. She got the chance to act in several movies including
Breathing Lessons (1994)
Harvest of Fire (1996)
The Cyberstalking (1999)
In 1995, the actress acted in a movie, ‘Origin of the Species’ where Jean Louisa Kelly’s naked scenes are there. As she is a multi-talented actress, she too sang in the movie ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’.
Jean Louisa Kelly ‘Ant-Man’ is an action and adventure film where her role is Buyer #2.
Body Measurements of Jean Louisa Kelly:
Kelly stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches. Her body weight is 53 kg. Her body measurements are 34-24-35 inches.
Net Worth of Jean Louisa Kelly:
The net worth of Jean Kelly is around 6 million USD. Her salary is under review now.
To sum it up, Jean Kelly is one of the popular actresses in the entertainment industry. The actress is a multi-talented personality continuing her career in acting today.
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Parents Asking Parents: The Way to Day Care
Project duration: 01/02/2015 - 31/01/2018
Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär, Prof. Dr. Theda Borde
Project staff: Ina Schaefer, Bettina Oesterle (until 30/04/2016), Louisa Bezela (until 14/07/2017), Azize Kasberg (until 01/10/2017)
Association of Health Promotion in Berlin
Municipal district Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin
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“ElfE: The Way to Day Care” is a subproject of the Research Consortium PartKommPlus - Healthy Communities through Integrated, Participatory Health Promotion Germany. PartKommPlus is a project of the German Network for Participatory Health Research (PartNet).
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In Germany, a growing interest in combating health inequities at the local level is stated. The project “Parents asking Parents” (in German: „Eltern fragen Eltern“ (abbr. ElfE)) was part of the publicly funded PartKommPlus Research Consortium and initiated by the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences and the Consortium for Health Promotion Gesundheit Berlin-Brandenburg .V.. The background of the project was formed by present health reports in Germany regularly reveal developmental differences associated with the social living circumstances in early childhood. Due to these reports the research project “ElfE” aimed to examine health equities in families together with parents with pre-school children as peers. Embedded in the overall objective of supporting health equity in early childhood, the following project targets have been defined:
Enhancement of the participation of vulnerable families in developing integrated municipal strategies (IMS) in health promotion.
Integrating peer-research at the municipal level to develop strategies and products as instruments to enforce parental participation in decision making processes.
Development and refinement of methods which can be used by the municipality and other relevant stakeholders to implement peer research in the context of strategy development.
There were two basic working forms in two local case studies: A community advisory board and three peer-research teams. The entire research process was conducted by the research teams according to the leading principle: “Shared power to decide”. Thereby, the overarching theme was defined as the relationship of parents to their children’s pre-school teachers. According to the principals of the peer-research approach, several workshops were conducted in which parents developed the research questions, decided on semi-structured interviews as the methodology and analysed the 27 interviews based on the DEPICIT method and the Grounded Theory Methodology. The results were discussed with professionals in the field of childcare and relevant local stakeholders. Derived from the interviews and the reflexion within the research workshops the main results are the following:
Preschools should be further strengthened as a key setting for supporting health equity. This enhances their integration in the IMS.
Well-established organisations (e.g. family centres) are important to integrate all relevant groups. Staff members need to be open to participation and to encourage all parents.
The evolving communication between the community members and the local authorities must be based on trust. Transparent information about the progress of the research process is indispensable.
A selection of research products as communication instruments are needed to communicate the results to parents, childcare professionals, and policy developers.
The results of the first funding period under the title “Parents Asking Parents: A Way to Day Care” were the starting point and foundation for the second funding period called “Parents Asking Parents²: From Model Project to the Field”.
A comprehensive overview of all publications and results (mainly in German) of the first and second project funding period is accessible on the open access publication server aliceOpen of the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences.
(First funding period)
in English (2015-2017)
Schaefer, I., Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Gesundheit Berlin-Brandenburg e.V., Bezirk Marzahn-Hellersdorf von Berlin; Stadt Lauchhammer, Netzwerk für gesunde Kinder in Lauchhammer & the ElfE-co-researchers (2018): Parents asking parents – An Inclusive Architecture for Local Research Co-operation in Germany. Poster for the workshop at University of Applied Sciences of Western Norway (HVL) in Bergen/Norwegen, on the 23rd of March 2018, [online] [04.10.2019]
Schaefer, I., Bär, G., Bezela, L., Eder, C., Haldenwang, U., Hermann, S. & Meyer, R. (2017): What motivated the ElfE parents to take part in PHR and what benefit is there for the individual? Präsentation von ElfE auf der CARN-Konferenz am 20.-22. Oktober 2017 in Rethymno, Griechenland, [online] [04.10.2019].
Schaefer, I., Bär, G., Haldenwang, U. & Koster, J. (2016): An inclusive structure for municipal research collaborations in Germany. Präsentation von ElfE bei der Jahrestagung des Collaborative Action Research Networks (CARN) vom 11.-13.11.2016 in Lincoln/UK [online] [04.10.2019]
Schaefer, I., Bär, G. & the members of the research project ElfE (2019): The Analysis of Qualitative Data With Peer Researchers: An Example From Participatory Health Research. [Abstract in English] Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, v. 20, n. 3. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.3.3350. Available under: www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3350. [03.12.2018].
Publications that were published in the second funding phase can be found here.
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Project webseite: partkommplus.de/teilprojekte/elfe
Key words: Participatory Health Research, Peer Research, Marginalised Groups, Daycare/Childcare Centres
Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär
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ATARI CLASSICS Volume 2, Issue 3 / June 1993 / PAGE 29
MOONliGhT WORkshop
ThE XL/XE GUidE TO EXpANdEd MEMORy, PART 2
JEff McWilliAMS, AC STAff ColUMNiST
In Part 1 of this series I dug into the technical specifics of how expanded RAM worked. You might be wondering why. After all, the main focus of this series is supposed to be about expanded RAM applications, not programming. Using applications is supposed to be simple. You boot them or load them from DOS, do what you have to do, and then forget about them. Nothing could be easier, right?
Two At One Time?
Suppose you were running two programs at the same time. Things might get complicated then because both applications could try to use the same areas of memory and wipe each other out. That's not a problem for us, though, because we don't run two programs at the same time, do we? Sure we do, all the time! Sometimes I run three at the same time. Have I lost my mind? Humble Atari 8 -bit computers can't do that! Or can they?
What happens when you boot DOS 2.5 on a 130XE? RAMDISK.SYS loads, sees that you have at least 128K of memory, and takes that extra RAM and makes it act like a disk drive. Ever thought about how it does that? It works like this: RAMDISK.SYS loads into memory and stays there, loitering around until DOS or another application requests disk access to D8:. In other words, RAMDISK.SYS is **always** in memory doing its thing. When you load an application from DOS 2.5, you then have two programs running: RAMDISK.SYS and the program you just loaded.
There are other programs that get loaded into memory and stay there, like the R: handler for your P:R: Connection or 850 interface, or the 80 column handler for the XEP80. With all this stuff hanging around in your computer's RAM, something is bound to go wrong sooner or later. Murphy's Law says so, and believe me it does happen. When things go awry for seemingly no logical reason, it's better to have a host of technical information at your command than to languish in frustration not knowing what went wrong or how to fix it. Dealing with expanded RAM is especially tricky because of the way it's implemented on our Ataris. When Atari created the 130XE with 128K, they should have added some routines to the Operating System to manage that extra memory.
Suppose you boot SpartaDOS on a stock 130XE, load RD.COM to set up a RAMdisk as D8:, and copy some files to it. Your files are now stored in expanded memory, which is emulating a floppy drive. Now you load up Textpro XE and load a 40K file from your D1: drive. A 40K file would occupy the main bank, and banks 1 and 2 of Textpro XE. You edit it, move some stuff around, and then save it back to your floppy drive. You exit back to DOS, and examine the files you have stored on D8:, your RAMdisk. Surprise! They're corrupted!
What happened? Both RD.COM and Textpro wanted to use the same memory for their own purposes. The RAMdisk driver was using the extra 64K to emulate a disk drive and store files, while Textpro was trying to use that same RAM to hold your document. Neither one has much consideration for the other, so Textpro simply clobbered your RAMdisk, and all the files that were in it. What if those files represented hours of work you hadn't saved to disk yet? You'd be pretty mad, wouldn't you?
Another Sunnyvale Legacy
If Atari had put memory management routines into the 130XE Operating System (OS), these nasty things wouldn't happen. The RAMdisk program would have let the OS know that it was reserving the expanded RAM for its own uses. When you loaded Textpro XE, it would have asked the OS if it was okay to reserve some RAM to hold your 40K file. The OS would have denied Textpro's request because all expanded memory was already being used by the RAMdisk handler. Textpro would have refused to load your 40K file from disk because it wouldn't have enough room of its own to hold it.
That wouldn't be as bad as Textpro clobbering the RAMdisk! Those memory management routines would have been easy to implement too. This isn't a totally new concept to Atari 8-bit developers. The OS that comes with the Turbo816 card has memory management routines for its 16-megabyte addressing capability as well as memory management routines for standard 130XE banked RAM. The Diamond GOS also had its own HIMEM drivers for 130XE expanded RAM. Programs written explicitly for Diamond were supposed to use the Diamond HIMEM drivers when using any expanded RAM.
I mentioned in Part 1 that Claus Bucholz had changed his 256K upgrade immediately after hearing about the 130XE. Initially his method used 32K sized banks. When the specs for the 130XE became available, Claus modified his upgrade so that it would be compatible with the 130XE. He did this because Atari set the standard for expanded memory. If they had put in memory management, it would have been the standard too. Software written to utilize expanded memory would have done so through the memory management routines in the operating system. Your wordprocessor wouldn't clobber your RAMdisk because it would query the OS for available memory and only use it if the OS said some was available. Atariwriter+ wouldn't clobber your DOS 2.5 RAMdisk, and Textpro XE, the X-COM Wedge, and Snapshot 1.5M would all be happy running at the same time, assuming you had enough RAM to support all three programs.
Atari didn't put those routines into the OS, and there isn't much that can be done about it now. Suppose we all convinced CSS to revise the Ultraspeed+ OS to include memory manage ment routines, or for MyDOS to have them? It wouldn't make a difference because you would have to patch all your programs so they "behave" and use those routines. If you used even one program that ignored the memory management calls, you might as well not use them at all. That one misbehaved program might wipe out all the data that was supposedly reserved by the other utilities you have running. The chances are practically nil that the 8 bit community could patch each and every expanded memory program so they all behaved.
Not having memory management isn't the end of the world. We get by. We've been getting by for years, and we'll continue to do so. Since the computer can't make sure programs and data "collide" by attempting to use the same RAM areas, we have to do it ourselves.
This means knowing which utilities and applications work together, and which ones don't. It may also involve taking extra measures to configure your programs in special ways so that you can use two or more of them together. Being able to do all that requires you, the user, to have that all-important knowledge about how expanded RAM works. You have to be able to call upon those technical details about banked RAM we discussed earlier.
"XE" Banks
Recall that in Part 1 of this series we talked about "Port B". This was the hardware location we wrote to in order to enable BANKED RAM, and to indicate which bank was supposed to appear in that memory window from 16384-32767 ($4000-$7FFF in base 16 notation). The 130XE has 64K of expanded RAM, divided into 4 banks of of 16K each. Thus, one of 4 different values can be written to Port B, each value enabling one of the 4 available banks of RAM. On upgrades between 256K and 1088K, you have 12 to 64 banks of RAM that can be enabled by writing to Port B. If you take the 4 numbers that you wrote to Port B on a stock 130XE, and wrote those same numbers to Port B on a machine with 256K or more memory, the effect should still be the enabling of 4 different banks of expanded RAM. That's what makes these machines "130XE compatible". All expanded memory computers have at least these 4 memory banks in common. Because of this commonality these banks are named the 130XE banks. These XE banks are numbered 0-3.
Some programs only assume you have a 128K 130XE, and so they only use those 4 banks. Other programs with loftier goals can access any and all expanded RAM, and can be specifically told to leave banks 0-3 alone. If you have one program that only uses the 130XE banks, and another like a RAMdisk driver that uses everything **but** the 130XE banks, then those two programs should work together. This is the key to managing your memory. The trick of course, is to determine what parts of expanded RAM each program uses, so you can determine if they're compatible with each other.
Expanded RAM programs can be divided into three basic categories, as shown in Table 1. Once you've categorized your programs, figuring out whether two expanded RAM programs will work together is easy. I've created a little memory compatibility chart you can use to determine which programs should work together. First determine which category each of the two programs in question fall into from Table 1. Then go to the chart in Table 2, following one program type horizontally and the other vertically until they meet. The YES or NO in that box will tell you whether or not the programs should work together. You'll notice mostly "NO"s in the squares. That's partly because my chart is rather conservative. In general, the information in Table 2 is true, but there are tricks you can do with certain programs to make them work together even though the chart predicts otherwise.
Category Description Category Type
Use only the XE banks
Use any banks except the XE banks
Use any and all banks
XE Programs
PLUS Programs
XE+ Programs
Table 1. Categorizing Programs According to Memory Usage
Table 2. Simple Compatibility Chart by Program Type
Some programs can operate in one of several modes. The Disk Communicator by Bob Puff is one. When you first load the program, it asks if you want to use XE memory. It then asks if you want to use ALL XE memory. If you answer NO to the first question, Disk Communicator wont touch any expanded RAM. If you answer YES to the first and NO to the second, then Disk Communicator will operate as an "XE Program". If you answer yes to both questions, assuming you have more than a stock 130XE, Disk Communicator will operate as an "XE+ Program". Later on when we start looking at individual programs, I'll include tips and tricks that will make certain combinations of programs more compatible. We're almost there. It's time to explore how programs use expanded RAM, starting with one way that's guaranteed to significantly boost your 8 bit computing productivity no matter what you do with your Atari.
RAMdisks: Faster Than Warpdrive!
From the beginning, RAMdisk programs have been the biggest users of expanded RAM. A RAMdisk emulates a floppy drive. Instead of data being read or written to a disk, it's read or written to expanded RAM. In Claus Bucholz's "Quarter Meg 800XL" article in BYTE magazine, he provided code that created two 90K RAMdisks as D7: and D8: for DOS 2.0s. Now just about every DOS currently in use has a RAMdisk driver in one form or another. A RAMdisk is a super high speed device that can drastically reduce the time you wait to load applications and read or write data. It can also reduce unnecessary wear and tear on your floppy drives when doing database operations or when compressing or uncompressing files. Additionally, a RAMdisk can increase the versatility and usability of your computing system, especially if you only own one floppy drive.
When Ben Poehland and I were running the 1992 Mail Campaign to get AC started, I used a database program called TurboFile from Micromiser Software. TurboFile was responsible for all the mailing lists, and for collecting the data written on those 600-odd postcards people sent back to me. When AC became a reality, I dumped my database files onto a disk and sent them to Ben. To this day, TurboFile is still handling all the mailing lists for this magazine. Despite a few bugs and quirks, there is no other database that can do for AC what TurboFile does. [Editor's Note: this fellow is much too modest; see "Saga of the AC Database" elsewhere in this issue for how Jeff solved a TurboFile problem that had this magazine on the ropes - BLP]
TurboFile is a disk intensive program. Along with its companion application Turboword+, it consumes at least 200K worth of disk space because of all the little modules and support files that make up these two applications. There are different modules that get loaded to accomplish different tasks, like account set-up, data entry, sorting, and printing. What's more, database records are divided and put into 26 separate files. As you move about in TurboFile, doing the things that databases do, your computer is constantly reading and writing data and modules to and from the disk. Using TurboFile from a floppy drive- even with Ultraspeed- is just awful. You constantly wait as the drive grinds away reading and writing all that data. Entering new records into the database is unbearable!
My 800XL has the Newell 1088K memory upgrade installed in it. I set up a 960K RAMdisk as drive #1 under SpartaDOS-X and copied all my applications and data from floppy to the RAMdisk. From that point on, all TurboFile operations were done completely from the RAMdisk. Menus appeared instantly because each module loaded at electronic machine speed instead of the slow mechanical speed of a floppy drive. Searching a database of 800 people took only a few seconds instead of several minutes. The speed difference was like going from a 10-speed bike to an F-15 Strike Eagle screaming along at Mach 1.5.
UNARCing a file takes very little time compared to doing the same operation from a floppy disk drive. Even uncompressing a file as large as 80K is no big deal. The same applies to running a UUdecoder on stuff obtained from the Internet, or running SDVERT to change those Line Feed/Carriage Return codes into Atari 8-bit End Of Line codes.
Poor Man's Hard Drive
A RAMdisk is also great if you only own one disk drive and need to copy lots of files around. My 256K 1200XL has an XF551 disk drive attached to it, upgraded by CSS to a 3.5" 720K drive. With this upgrade I can read files written to MS-DOS formatted disks. Since I only have the one disk drive attached to my 1200XL, the easiest way to copy MSDOS files to an Atari disk is to first copy them to a RAMdisk, and then from the RAMdisk back to an Atari disk.
If you have a really large RAMdisk, like the 960K one in my 800XL, it can act like a poor man's hard drive. I'm using Turboword+ to write this article. Turboword+, TurboFile, and the TW+ spelling dictionary are all sitting comfortably in RAM along with Omnicom, BobTerm, Textpro XE, and some miscellaneous utilities. All tolled, I have over 140 files consuming 668K of my RAMdisk. No problem, I still have more than 250K free for anything else that needs to be loaded. Transferring a program from the University of Michigan Atari Archive on the Internet to my Atari goes something like this:
Load OmniCom, my VT100 emulator. Log onto the Unix system, find and transfer the desired file from the Atari Archive to the Unix system.
Quit OmniCom and load BobTerm, while the modem remains connected to the university computer. Use Ymodem protocol to download the file.
Use the SpartaDOS-x ARC utility to de-ARC the file.
Use SDVERT if necessary on the documentation file to convert ASCII carriage returns into Atari 8-bit End of Line codes.
Jump into Textpro and execute a macro that removes any extraneous linefeeds from the documentation file, leaving linefeeds only at paragraph breaks.
Load Turboword+ to view and edit the file in the comfort of an 80-column display. When done, print the documentation, staple the pages together, and file it away in my doc folder.
If I had only a floppy drive, even an Ultraspeed floppy, the above process would be quite tedious because so much time would be wasted waiting for the different applications to load. With every application immediately available in the RAMdisk there's a huge savings in the time needed to perform the above tasks.
As we've seen, a RAMdisk can be extremely valuable in all sorts of situations. It saved me both time and wear and tear on my floppy drives when using the Mail Campaign database. It makes copying files easier when you only have one disk drive. Best of all for me, it acts like a built-in warpspeed hard drive. Considering the modest cost of DRAM chips these days, all this added performance comes at a bargain-basement price.
RAM Volatility
It's important to remember that the contents of RAM disappear when you turn off your computer. That's one of the bad things about RAMdisks. If you really like having a certain set of applications constantly available in RAM, you will have to put them on your RAMdisk every time you turn on your computer. With a big 960K RAMdisk like mine, it can take a good 15 minutes to load all 600K worth of programs and data files from floppy into RAM. What I do is leave the computer on for days at a time to spare myself from this annoyance. This way my favorite applications are always loaded into the RAMdisk without that 15 minute wait.
Important files like downloads and manuscripts in progress are always saved to floppy at regular intervals. The last thing I need is to lose hours of work due to a power outage, surge, or a program that crashes and corrupts parts of my RAMdisk. I reduce the chance of that occurring as much as possible by making sure my power line and my phone line are connected to surge suppressors. A line conditioner with brownout protection would be much better, but also a lot more expensive. Having a TransKey and the TKFreeze circuit installed in my computer also helps. The Transkey is a product that lets me use an IBM keyboard with my 800XL. The TKFreeze is an additional circuit for the Transkey that forces a cold boot of the computer when I press [ESC]-[SHIFT]-[DELETE] all at the same time. There have been many occasions when this has saved my day by allowing me to reboot from a crashed program without wiping out the contents of my RAMdisk.
Next Time. The AC Guide To Expanded Memory continues with a look
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Agender is an unfamiliar term to many folks, even within the queer community. I didn’t even really take the time to understand the meaning of this label until last year, but when I did I realized I was looking in a mirror.
If you aren’t familiar with the wider concepts of transgender identities and binary and non-binary genders, start here. It provides an important foundation to understand this post.
For a long time I simply identified myself as non-binary – I knew I didn’t fit into either binary side of the spectrum and so neither “woman” or “man” felt like me. I’m still fine with the label, I consider it an umbrella term that isn’t inaccurate but simply incomplete for me. Many of my non-binary friends described their gender as something towards the middle of the spectrum, as a mixing and combining of masculine and feminine. This didn’t sound like me.
At a panel on gender identity, a non-binary person on stage described their own imagining of the gender spectrum as a wiggly line from masculine to feminine (this is just one of many interpretations of the gender spectrum and not something all non-binary folks identify with), placing themselves somewhere towards the middle or slightly on one side of center. When I tried to imagine myself on that conceptualization of the gender spectrum, I decided I belonged somewhere off the scale entirely, floating in space! 🙂 Anytime anyone described their gender in descriptive word pictures or beautiful imaginings of identity, I felt a little lost. I would search my brain for an illustration of my gender and come up with “ERROR 404: Gender not found.”
I was fine with that. I didn’t need to explain myself to anybody and was content under the non-binary umbrella. At the time only a few close people in my life knew that I wasn’t cis, and that felt like a much bigger issue than attempting to pinpoint a perfect label. A label didn’t matter, right? It wasn’t going to change anything, it was just a word.
Sometime in late 2017 or early 2018, I came across a video of a young person who described themselves as “agender”. While I’d heard the term before, it never really rang a bell for me until that moment. I started researching and reading the stories of other folks who identify as agender, and the feelings they described were so similar to my own. Chandler Wilson is an agender content creator who gave an analogy in an interview that really struck me. “Imagine gender as a sweater. You have this uncomfortable sweater that just doesn’t feel right, so you take it off and start trying on other sweaters and every single one just fits weirdly or feels itchy; nothing quite works. And then you realize – you don’t have to have a sweater. You don’t have to find one that fits, you’re just not a sweater person and that’s ok!”
That lighthearted little analogy was exactly what I needed to hear. Agender felt right as an identity, and I no longer feel that discomfort of not having a spot that felt like mine. Labels may only be words and having a label may change nothing about the way I live my life, but it feels comforting to know that there are others who feel the same way I do and to finally have a word that feels right.
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Updated Feb 12, 2020 - Politics & Policy
Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire primary
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Data: Real Clear Politics average; Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios
Sen. Bernie Sanders is projected to win the New Hampshire Democratic primary, according to NBC News, ABC News and Decision Desk HQ.
State of play: Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg narrowly trails Sanders, with Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 3rd.
Why it matters: Tuesday's results usher in the first concrete win of the 2020 primary season. Sanders and Buttigieg each claimed victory in Iowa following errors in caucus reporting and have asked for partial recanvasses.
Based on current results released by the Iowa Democratic Party, Buttigieg narrowly took home the most pledged delegates, which ultimately determine the party nominee.
Next up are the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primaries, both states where Sanders is polling well.
Buttigieg is likely to face a tough go in those two states, which are significantly less white than Iowa and New Hampshire. The former mayor has largely struggled to gain traction with voters of color.
The big picture: New Hampshire was a sort of homecoming for Sanders after he firmly won the state in the 2016 primaries against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
While Sanders has faced concerns over electability, polling shows him making gains nationally. A national Quinnipac poll released Monday showed the senator in a commanding lead at 25% while former Vice President Joe Biden trailed in second at 17%.
Sanders at his speech tonight: "With victories behind us, popular vote in Iowa and the victory here tonight, we're going to Nevada. We're going to South Carolina. We're going to win those states as well."
"I want to take the opportunity to express my appreciation and respect for all of the Democratic candidates we ran against ... I can tell you with absolute certainty, and I know I speak for every one of the Democratic candidates, is that no matter who wins — and we certainly hope it's going to be us — we're going to unite together."
Go deeper: Bernie Sanders on the issues, in under 500 words
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The Big Give 2019: support Akram Khan’s Creature
Image: Jeffrey Cirio and Noam Durand during a Research & Development session for Creature © Laurent Liotardo.
The Big Give Christmas Challenge is here once again, and we’re delighted to announce that we are raising funds for a new commission Creature by renowned choreographer Akram Khan. Find out how you can support this innovative production.
Donate before Tuesday 10 December 12pm here, and your donation will be matched.
Creature will be our second full-length production created by Akram Khan for English National Ballet, following his award-winning and internationally successful reimagining of Giselle that premiered at Manchester International Festival 2016.
The highly-anticipated new work, Creature, is a monstrous tale of human ambition and overreaching inspired by Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece Frankenstein, the classical myth of Prometheus, and strongly influenced by Georg Buchner’s expressionist classic play Woyzeck.
Creature will seek to tap into a collective consciousness, by addressing the creature’s confused feelings towards his creator(s), sense of abandonment, endeavour and the need for parental love. This delivers an original spin on the work, bringing the creature into the 21st Century.
Akram Khan leading a Research & Development session for Creature with Jeffrey Cirio © Laurent Liotardo.
Since I was a child, I have been obsessed and fascinated with the story of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. The outcast, the monster, or the stranger has always been a common theme in my works. But in this new creation, I am looking further into the areas related to the sense of abandonment, rage and loss.
Jeffrey Cirio and Noam Durand during a Research & Development session for Creature © Laurent Liotardo.
Creature will once again blend the precision and technique of our dancers with Khan’s contemporary style, resulting in an extraordinary and unique combination intertwining the movement and gestures seen in Kathak with the rigour and skill of classical ballet.
Khan is joined by a brilliant creative team of Academy Award-winning designer Tim Yip, composer and sound designer Vincenzo Lamagna, lighting designer Michael Hulls and dramaturg Ruth Little.
It continues Artistic Director Tamara Rojo’s vision to celebrate the tradition of classical ballet but develop the art form to inspire and engage the widest audience possible with ballet.
Akram Khan leading a Research & Development session for Creature with Mavin Khoo and Noam Durand © Laurent Liotardo.
Please show your support by donating during The Big Give Christmas Challenge (12pm on 3 Dec – 12pm on 10 Dec). Your gift, whatever the size, will make a real difference. Each £1 raised will be matched-funded so any donations we receive will be doubled. We have a fundraising target of £80,000, so all donations – big and small are gratefully received.
The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019 opens at 12pm (midday) on Tuesday 3 December (#GivingTuesday) and closes 7 days later, at 12pm (midday) on Tuesday 10 December. Click here to donate.
Donate any amount from £5 to £5,000. All major debit and credit cards (including American Express) are accepted. Donations of £5,000 will automatically join you up to the Creature Production Syndicate, giving you access to the creative process.
If you are a UK tax-payer, we would be very grateful if you tick the gift aid box so that we also receive the tax paid on your donation.
Help us to spread the word! We will be promoting the campaign on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share and help us to reach as many people as possible so that we can hit our fundraising target and double our donations this Christmas.
Creature by Akram Khan premieres at Sadler’s Wells in London on 1 – 8 April 2020. Book your tickets here.
2020/2021 Season Announcement
Following our 70th Anniversary Gala earlier this month, we look to the future by announcing our new 2020/2021 season. Highlights include: Tamara Rojo’s first foray into choreography and direction as she adapts Raymonda, a triple bill of works by William Forsythe, and the 10th Anniversary of our Dance for Parkinson’s programme.
We're delighted to announce plans for our 2019/2020 season. Highlights include our 70th Anniversary, a second full-length production created by Akram Khan with English National Ballet, and national tours of Le Corsaire and Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella. This will be our first full season after moving into our new home on London City Island.
The Big Give 2018: show your support for female choreography
The Big Give Christmas Challenge is here once again and this time we are raising funds to support our new commission Nora, by English National Ballet First Artist and talented choreographer Stina Quagebeur.
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The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: BBC Radio Casebook Vol.1: Eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations
Written By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated By: Claire Benedict
Claire Benedict and Nadine Marshall star in these eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas adapted by Alexander McCall Smith
Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile
‘Must-listen...beautifully cast, precisely timed, simply wonderful' Daily Telegraph
Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana's only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers. These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exotic world of the books to life.
In these eight episodes, Mma Ramotswe takes on her first case – and a new secretary; tries to solve a bone mystery; tackles a domestic drama and a doctor's erratic behaviour; and investigates the case of a missing American. In addition, she is hired by a beauty contest judge to check the integrity of the finalists; looks for two women wronged by her client, Mr Molefelo; learns of a rival detective agency; and is commissioned by a physiotherapist to find out what her errant husband is up to. The stories included are: The Daddy; The Bone; The Maid; Tears of the Giraffe; The Chief Justice of Beauty; The Confession; The Kalahari Typing School for Men and The Admirer.
Claire Benedict stars as Mma Ramotswe, with Nadine Marshall as Mma Makutsi and Joseph Marcell as Mr JLB Matekoni.
Duration: 6 hours approx
No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: BBC Radio Casebook Vol.1: Eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations
by Alexander McCall Smith
This title is due for release on July 6, 2017.
This title is due for release on July 6, 2017
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The Revenge of the Beetle Queen
Audiobook Club
Written By: M.G. Leonard
Narrated By: M.G. Leonard
Date: February 2018
Empire Strikes Back meets beetles in the second book of a series about one amazing boy, his loyal friends, and some amazingly intelligent beetles... perfect for fans of Roald Dahl! Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her deadly yellow ladybug spies -- and she has a devious plan. When Darkus, Virginia, and Bertolt discover further evidence of her evil, they're determined to stop her. But the three friends are in trouble. Darkus's dad has forbidden them to investigate any further -- and disguesting crooks Humphrey and Pickering are out of prison. Hope rests on Novak, Lucretia's daughter and a Hollywood actress, but the beetle villainess is always one scuttle ahead... Beetles are back in an even-more-thrilling, chilling, and darkly funny sequel that will have readers clamoring for more.
Fairy Tales & Folklore
Revenge of the Beetle Queen
by M.G. Leonard
This title is due for release on February 27, 2018.
This title is due for release on February 27, 2018
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Watch Willie Nelson’s Son Perform “Always On My Mind” With A Voice Like His Dad
Watch Dog Walk Into Supermarket To Buy Treats And Leave The Shoppers Surprised
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Mom-To-Be Breaks Down In Tears At White Balloons During Gender Reveal 6k
No one’s more excited to find out what their baby is going to be like than the parents. This couple wanted to throw a family and friends get together for their big gender reveal, but didn’t have a clue themselves. Thy left it to their close friend. Tiniki, to be in charge of everything. While they were excited to open the box to see either a pink or blue balloon, they weren’t ready to see three while balloon float out.
Tied to them was a note, which the dad-to-be grabbed and started reading to make sense of what was going on. It was then that they realized what the white balloons meant, each white balloon to signify 1 of the three miscarriages they had suffered from in the family. Angela, the pregnant wife, has suffered two miscarriages herself, while her sister had also had one. It served as a memorial for their lost children.
It didn’t end there though, the real gender reveal was ready, and the expecting mom was overjoyed at the outcome.
© 2021 Best Worthy
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Detective and mystery stories, American
Detective and mystery stories, English
In Search of the Paper Tiger: A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium
by Gary Hoppenstand
Library of Congress Classification PS374.D4H6 1987
The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience of popular fiction. Social-psychological analysis is focused on the mystery genre and examines its taxonomy, including the supernatural, fiction noir, gangster, thief, thriller, and detective formulas.
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Jackson, Carlton
Picking Up the Tab: The Life and Movies of Martin Ritt
by Carlton Jackson
Library of Congress Classification PN1998.3.R578J3 1994
Martin Ritt has been hailed as the United States’s greatest maker of social films. From No Down Payment early in his career to Stanley and Iris, his last production, he delineated the nuances of American society. In between were other social statements such as Hud, Sounder, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, Norma Rae, and The Great White Hope.
See other books on: Jackson, Carlton | Life | Motion picture producers and directors | Movies | Popular Culture
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Aerial operations, American
Personal narratives, American
World War, 1914-1918
Flying for the Air Service: The Hughes Brothers in World War I
by David K. Vaughan
Library of Congress Classification D606.V38 1998
Flying for the Air Service provides a realistic picture of the typical flying experiences of the pilots who flew for the fledgling American Air Service during World War I. The narrative describes two brothers from Boston, George and Gerard Hughes, as they progress from apprentice pilots to flight instructors and combat pilots. After completing their pilot training program together, both were assigned as instructors. Then George was sent to France with the 12th Aero Squadrom, where he flew two-place observation aircraft over the front lines. Gerard, meanwhile, remained in America, instructing students in Texas. Eventually Gerard joined his brother's squadron in France as the war ended. Through the detailed letters and narrative comments of these two pilots, we can see clearly the hazards and challenges that were faced by those who flew in the early years of American aviation.
See other books on: Aerial operations, American | Personal narratives, American | United States. Army Air Forces | World War | World War, 1914-1918
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This title is no longer available from this publisher at this time. To let the publisher know you are interested in the title, please email bv-help@uchicago.edu.
Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films
Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.S26H37 1999
Cyndy Hendershot argues that 1950s science fiction films open a window on the cultural paranoia that characterized 1950s America, a phenomenon largely triggered by use of nuclear weapons during World War II. This study uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the various monsters that inhabit 1950s sci-fi movies—giant insects, prehistoric creatures, mutants, uncanny doubles, to name a few—which serve as metaphorical embodiments of a varied and complex cultural paranoia. Postwar paranoia may have stemmed from the bomb, but it came to correlate with a wider range of issues such as anti-communism, internal totalitarianism, scientific progress, domestic problems, gender roles, and sexuality.
See other books on: Bomb | Hendershot, Cyndy | Paranoia | Popular Culture | Science fiction films
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I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination
Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.H6H46 2001
Horror films provide a guide to many of the sociological fears of the Cold War era. In an age when warning audiences of impending death was the order of the day for popular nonfiction, horror films provided an area where this fear could be lived out to its ghastly conclusion. Because enemies and potential situations of fear lurked everywhere, within the home, the government, the family, and the very self, horror films could speak to the invasive fears of the cold war era. I Was a Cold War Monster examines cold war anxieties as they were reflected in British and American films from the fifties through the early sixties. This study examines how cold war horror films combined anxiety over social change with the erotic in such films as Psycho, The Tingler, The Horror of Dracula, and House of Wax.
See other books on: Eroticism | Hendershot, Cyndy | Horror films | Imagination | Was
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Intramedullary reaming and irrigation and antibiotic-loaded calcium sulfate implantation for the treatment of infection after intramedullary nailing: a retrospective study of 19 cases
Hong-An Zhang, Chun-Hao Zhou, Xiang-Qing Meng, Jia Fang & Cheng-He Qin. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders volume 21, Article number: 710 (2020).
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Infection after intramedullary nailing has a reported infection rate in the literature of between 0.9% and 3.8%. Although the infection rate is not high, the management of this type of infection remains controversial. In this study the records of patients diagnosed with an infection after intramedullary nail fixation from 2014 to 2017 were retrospectively analysed. The management of these patients included intramedullary nail removal, local debridement, medullary canal reaming, irrigation and antibiotic loaded STIMULAN (500mg Vancomycin/80mg Gentamicin per 5cc) implantation with or without secondary osteotomy and distraction osteogenesis. Infection remission, bone union and drainage rates were all evaluated. A total of 19 patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in the analysis. Results showed 18/19 (94.7%) achieved infection remission; 1 patient developed a reinfection which resolved after repeat debridement. Postoperative complications mainly included prolonged aseptic drainage (7/19; 36.8%), re-fracture (1/19; 5.3%) and joint stiffness, which were successfully managed by regular dressing changes and re-fixation, respectively. This study describes an effective method to eliminate infection after intramedullary nailing. All patients received the same surgical management as detailed previously and overall, the outcomes were good. Further prospective studies with larger case numbers are necessary to confirm these findings. The abstract can be read, and the full paper can be obtained here
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Masrouha, K.Z., M.E. Raad, and S.S. Saghieh. Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr, 2018.
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Bird Two Launches in Bordeaux to Help City Meet Sustainability Goals
Bordeaux’s new Mayor Pierre Hurmic made one thing clear shortly after being elected earlier this summer: the days of car-dominated city streets are numbered.
“In urban development, 70% of roadways are dedicated to cars even though they represent just 29% of trips in Bordeaux,” he said in July. “I don’t necessarily want to prohibit cars, but instead create a new balance, even if, in the long term, I think we’ll move towards a ban.”
To help the city’s new administration make this ambitious initiative a reality, Bird is launching a fleet of new Bird Two electric scooters in Bordeaux this week. Equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostics running millions of scans per vehicle per day, a waterproof, best-in-class battery with a 14,000 mile lifespan and a custom designed frame capable of withstanding 60,000 curbside impacts, Bird Two is the most advanced and sustainable shared e-scooter available.
“Bird shares Mayor Hurmic’s strong concern for the environment, and we’re committed to helping the City of Bordeaux achieve its goal of creating a green and sustainable city for all residents to enjoy,” said Driss Ibenmansour, GM of Bird in France. “Our Bird Two electric scooters will make it easier, safer and more ecological to get around all while helping reduce dependence on private cars in Bordeaux.”
Bird’s local operations team will be focused on keeping streets neat and orderly. To that end, we’ve implemented our integrated parking solution starting on Day 1 in Bordeaux which will only allow riders to finish a trip in an approved parking zone designated by the city. We’ll also be continuing our work with local French recycling organizations to maintain recycling rates above 95% for ferrous and non-ferrous materials and 86% for e-waste components.
The first B2s are set to launch in Bordeaux on Friday, August 14, giving riders another way to enjoy the city and make the most of Mayor Hurmic’s expanded cycling infrastructure.
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Facebook’s Mysterious Crypto Project Is Approaching: Here’s What to Expect
Mar 29, 2019, 12:44PM
Industry 4 min, 27 sec READ
by Mike Dalton
Facebook has been working on a blockchain project for almost a year. Rumors about a crypto payment tool are emerging...what do we know so far?
Facebook's mysterious blockchain project is drawing closer. Although the precise details are still unknown, mainstream news sources have managed to dig up some revealing information. What's more than certain is that when Facebook breaks into the crypto world, everyone will take note.
Here is what is known so far, what has been speculated, and what you should expect.
What Will Facebook Create?
Facebook hasn't revealed its plans yet, but the New York Times has looked into the matter. Reportedly, Facebook plans to allow users to send money between family and friends with a crypto-based payment tool. However, this feature is destined for WhatsApp rather than Facebook itself, according to the newspaper's anonymous sources.
The New York Times article, which was published in February, reaffirms details that have been known for some time. Similar information arose in December when Bloomberg reported that Facebook had plans to create a stablecoin for WhatsApp customers in India. This new article clinches the facts: WhatsApp is almost certainly involved.
Facebook, for its part, has not made any public statements. However, Mark Zuckerberg has hinted about building related features into WhatsApp in a recent blog post. There, he mentions integrating "business, payments, [and] commerce" into the app. Although he does not mention cryptocurrency, his statements are a sign that the rumors are on the right track.
Of course, WhatsApp is just one of the messaging apps that Facebook owns. It is possible that the payment service could be added to Facebook's other apps: Facebook Messenger and Instagram. It is also not clear whether the product will be rolled out worldwide, and this will become a pressing question as more details emerge.
What Do People Want?
In the absence of any definitive statements, there has been plenty of speculation about Facebook, and not all of it is likely to come true. Some have suggested that Facebook should reward its new customers with cryptocurrency, using it as a way to encourage users to endure its controversial privacy policies. One contributor to Fortune writes:
Consumers could be swayed by monetary incentives...Use Facebook? Here’s a kickback for your loyalty. This is an idea that ... could redefine the company’s relationship with consumers and become the basis for a new economic model for the company. / Robert Hackett
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Others have pessimistic expectations regarding Facebook's respect for its users. Erik Vorhees, the CEO of Shapeshift, has suggested that Facebook's payment processor will "look a lot like Venmo." He believes that Facebook's new service will provide a flashy user experience but will be censored—which is bad news for decentralization advocates.
It is likely that Facebook's services will be centralized. Crypto transactions are performed on a decentralized peer-to-peer network by default, but many of the third-party services that have been built for cryptocurrency are entirely centralized. This gives centralized crypto services the ability to block or ban users, which has happened in the past.
However, centralized services also act as middlemen—although they reduce user freedom, they simplify transactions. Centralization is a logical move for Facebook, as the company caters to mainstream audiences. This is a defeat for decentralization advocates, but, as Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has noted, nobody is being forced to use Facebook's products.
What Has Facebook Done So Far?
The road to Facebook's crypto project has been surprisingly short. Facebook's efforts began just over a year ago—last May, the company created a new blockchain department. David Marcus, who is both Facebook's former VP of Messaging Products and a past president of PayPal, was appointed to lead the blockchain division.
Those events suggested that Facebook was planning a messaging-based crypto product. By August, Marcus had left his secondary post at Coinbase to avoid a conflict of interest, leading many to conclude that the project was well underway. Several important hires then took place in December, at which point rumors about a WhatsApp stablecoin emerged.
Then, in February, Facebook acquired a startup called Chainspace, which develops a crypto transaction platform. Once again, these signs pointed toward the notion that Facebook is indeed building a crypto-based payment tool. Now, in March, rumors of the WhatsApp payment platform and token are coming to light once again.
When Will a Product Be Released?
Nobody knows when Facebook plans to release, or even announce, a product or token. The New York Times, which has published the most recent insider reports, indicates that Facebook is already talking about selling its cryptocurrency to consumers. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that anything is happening soon, only that the matter is being discussed.
In any case, it has been less than a year since the inception of the project, meaning that things are progressing very quickly. Perhaps there is no need to hurry: Facebook has already been beaten to the punch by several minor competitors that have produced crypto projects, and it has not suffered one bit.
Messaging apps like Line, Kik, and Kakao have all released or announced crypto projects over the past year. Even Telegram, which attempted an ill-fated ICO last year, is trying to break into blockchain for a second time. It seems that no company has as much power behind it as Facebook, which will definitely do something monumental sooner or later.
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Entrepreneur Inspired By Her Daughter Creates First Ever Patois-Talking Jamaican Doll
Saffron Jackson, founder of Zuree Dolls, with her daughter
Saffron Jackson, a 38-year old Jamaican entrepreneur, is making headlines for creating Zuree Dolls - unique baby dolls that look Jamaican and speak the language of Jamaican Patois. She says she wanted her daughter to have a doll that looked like her, spoke like her, and connected her to her own culture and heritage.
Overwhelmed with orders
Although she is a Jamaican native, Jackson actually who lives in England, and first presented her dolls to the Jamaican High Commission in London. One week later, they were available online for the public to purchase... and they instantly sold out!
She was taken back by the huge demand for Patois-speaking dolls. She far exceeded her initial goal to sell 400 dolls, and even started to received orders from the U.S. - her first being an order from Miami, Florida for 50 dolls.
Jamaican culture is in demand
Hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans live all over the world, so Jackson wants to get her Zuree Dolls into all major stores that sell dolls. She is also working on a Zuree Girls book series; the first book has already been published. In March, she will also introduce her new Rasta-talking bear.
Jackson says she is already getting sales from countries like Australia, Estonia, Amsterdam, and Germany. She says that this show that "there is a massive demand for our culture."
To learn more about her and/or Zuree Dolls, visit www.zuree.co.uk
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This 5-Year Old is the Youngest CEO to Have Her Products Sold in Target Stores Nationwide
Lily Adeleye, a 5-year old young entrepreneur, is the youngest CEO to have her products hit the shelves of retail giant Target. Her company, a girls' fashion brand call Lily Frilly, has accessories now available for purchase at select locations across the country.
Lily Frilly offers hair bows, backpacks, lunch boxes, and dresses for little girls. The brand features glitzy and colorful little girl essentials that aim to instill pride and confidence to young girls. Lily exudes the same confidence in her very own company.
"I own my own company. I don’t just like it, I love it," Lily told Black Enterprise.
Lily got the support she needed to start the business from her mother, Courtney Adeleye, who is an entrepreneur herself. She is the founder and CEO of The Mane Choice, a well-known haircare company also available in Target. She has been encouraging women to be their own boss and that includes her own daughter.
"From the time Lily was 3, I knew then she had a business mindset," Courtney said. "At an early age, as she watched me build a successful business from the ground up, it exposed her to many possibilities and goals, so with that, we didn't wait until she was an adult to help her pursue them."
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What’s New in Dandara’s Free “Trials of Fear Edition” Update, Out Tomorrow
When Dandara launched on PS4 two years ago, we were elated to finally share it with the world. After the launch, the huge reception to the game felt magical and we were just floored by it. Something about Dandara and the world of Salt spoke to people and it amazed us. Alongside this mind-blowing reception, we also received a lot of incredibly positive feedback. And we also got a fair amount of constructive criticism, some of it aligned with what we were already feeling and other bits were of things that never occurred to us. Since then, we’ve been tinkering on Dandara implementing some of this into our ultimate version of the game which we’re calling Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition.
When we started to think about how to continue developing and improving Dandara, our first thought was about the cuts we had to make before shipping the original version — every game has some sort of compromise it needs in order to launch — and the most interesting one was, by far, the secret ending we had originally planned. Our vision for this true path was a little too ambitious and we, unfortunately, had to keep it out in order to launch a quality game. We started jotting down ideas about how we would include it in the existing base game but in an interesting way.
Based on ideas that came to us from the community themselves, we thought that Trials of Fear could be not only about awesome new content but also address some of that feedback we received. One of the most asked topics was the narrative itself, lots of people wanted to see more from the Salt and its inhabitants. We promise that the Trials of Fear Edition now delivers on this!
The original content in Dandara has got some buffed-up descriptions and more detailed conversations that weren’t included in the vanilla edition, and it lines up really well with the new content present in Trials of Fear. When creating Dandara the first time, we inserted a lot of references to our Brazilian culture (and these are, of course, still in here) and with Trials of Fear, you could think of it as us inserting the community into Dandara. Take a look, you may find something you suggested!
On the art side of the game, you can see how much the artists evolved as they continued development after Dandara launched. The new music tracks, sound effects, and píxel art featured are on another level. Thommaz, the composer for Dandara, even went so far as to remaster all the original tracks as well!
If you’ve experienced Dandara before, we encourage you to dive back in for another playthrough because the new content and extra details to the story really make it shine again. Plus, we reworked its difficulty curve, and the new content intertwines with the original path in a way that things can play a lot differently this time. If you’ve yet to experience the world of Salt, now is a perfect time.
Dandara’s actions will not be forgotten! And we will not forget the passion of you the players, that led to us creating this new edition.
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Gothic Novel
Terry Hale
...Introduction André Breton’s condemnation of the novel, pronounced at length in the first Manifeste du surréalisme (1924), clearly didn’t extend to the English Gothic novel. Even a brief overview of the Gothic in surrealist context must...
Petr Král
Petr Král is a poet and essayist. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Walking is a key phenomenon of modern poetry, and surrealism in its turn, to the extent that it participates in it, naturally includes walking in its arsenal. It has been claimed, with some justification, and precisely on the subject...
Tim Mathews
...Guillaume Apollinaire coined the word ‘surréaliste’ to describe a play that was neither symbolic nor idealist: his own play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, first performed in 1917. The encouragement Guillaume Apollinaire created for surrealists...
Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita at the University of Essex. Her publications include Dada and Surrealism (1974), Photomontage (1976), Salvador Dali (1982), Andre Masson (1994), Marcel Duchamp (with Neil Cox and David Hopkins, 1999), Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo muerto (with Rita Eder and Gabriela Speranza) (2012). She has curated or co-curated many major exhibitions on surrealism and linked themes. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...“How is one to define . . . a movement which cannot be identified with any one personality or place, viewpoint or subject, which affects all of the arts, which has a continually shifting focus and is moreover intentionally negative...
Abigail Susik
...The First World War-era neologism “surrealism” results directly from a history of heated debates about aesthetic definitions and applications of beauty in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France. Above all, surrealist beauty...
Vincent Gille
...France has a tradition of literary currents—and artistic avant-gardes—which follow one another and sometimes fit together so as ultimately to form a kind of construction pleasing to the eye—while reassuring literature teachers. Surrealism...
André Breton: The Memory of the Future
Georges Sebbag
A writer with a doctorate in philosophy, Georges Sebbag participated in the activities of the surrealist group in Paris from 1964 to 1969. He has written texts on time and many books about surrealism. His most recent are Potence avec paratonnerre, Surréalisme et philosophie (2012) and Foucault Deleuze, Nouvelles Impressions du Surréalisme (2015). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...André Breton intentionally upset classic and modern temporal frameworks. He played with time. His life and his writings went beyond the limits of his existence. This, quite apart from the obvious ways in which Breton steered the surrealist...
S.U.RR . . .
Bertrand Schmitt
...At the beginning of the 1990s, new participants came to join those around Vincent Bounoure who had refused the dissolution of the Parisian surrealist group in 1969, leading to a resurgence of activity. Between 1990 and 1992, four issues...
Raymond Spiteri
...Although the city was not a clearly defined category within surrealism, the modern urban environment, with its shop windows, billboards, kiosks, cafes, and inhabitants, functioned as a field of encounters, an unpredictable labyrinth open...
...At times the theatre was a controversial domain for the early surrealists, one that fascinated and repelled them in equal measure. The reason for this ambivalence is perhaps conveyed well by the film Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), penned...
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Football Semi-Final Report
SEMI-FINAL COUNTY CUP
Bredon Hill Academy v Droitwich School
Football Match Report
By Taylor D
On Tuesday 6th February 2018 Bredon Hill Acadamy played in the Semi-Final County Cup football match against Droitwich School, the venue was at Bredon Hill Academy. Bredon Hill’s team met on the bottom field to have their team talk with Mr Haines. They had a little kick about beforehand to warm up.
Kick off was 3.15pm. Bredon Hill played in blue and Droitwich played in red and black.
Bredon Hill started playing and passing the ball well between team mates and nearly netted some early goals. Unfortunately, Droitwich scored a few goals in the first half.
At half time, Mr Haines brought on some of Bredon Hill’s substitutes so they had some fresh legs on the pitch so they could try and get up the scoreboard and score a few more goals.
Luckily, sometime in the second half, Bredon started to wake up and Jack M scored a header which went in the top right of the goal. Bredon Hill started to cheer and congratulated Jack for his great goal.
As time went on luck struck again for Bredon Hill. Taylor D scored from outside of the box, using his left foot, straight past Droitwich’s goalie, into the bottom left of the goal.
The referee blew his whistle for the last time in the game and, sadly for Bredon Hill, Droitwich beat them and will go on to play in the final of the County Cup.
Good luck Droitwich boys!!
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China Declares Its 50-Percent Effective Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate ‘Good Enough’
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China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday put the happiest possible spin on a dismaying Brazilian study that showed China’s Sinovac vaccine candidate for the Chinese coronavirus is only 50 percent effective.
Even though the results were far below the 80 percent effectiveness originally claimed — and that, in turn, was far below the estimates for vaccines like the one made by Pfizer — the Global Times declared it was “good enough.”
Sao Paulo-based Instituto Butantan, the research institute developing the Sinovac product for distribution in Brazil, announced last week that clinical tests showed it to be 78 percent effective overall. On Tuesday, the institute revealed at a press conference that late-stage trials involving over 12,000 volunteers showed it was only 50.38 percent effective overall, although the Brazilian researchers said it was much more effective at treating “severe” cases of Chinese coronavirus than mild infections.
“This is an efficient vaccine. We have a vaccine that is able to control the pandemic through this expected effect, which is the decrease in the disease’s intensity,” insisted chief researcher Ricardo Palacios of Instituto Butantan at a press conference Tuesday.
Voice of America News (VOA) noted the Brazilian government is under tremendous pressure to bring a vaccine into play after a series of delays, while neighbors like Chile and Argentina have already launched vaccination campaigns using Pfizer’s product and Russia’s Sputnik V, respectively.
“Last week, Bolsonaro’s government closed an exclusive deal with Instituto Butantan for 100 million doses to be distributed by the end of 2021. The vaccine, however, still needs the approval of the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA),” VOA reported.
The Global Times heavily touted upbeat comments from Brazilian researchers, highlighted the lack of side effects, and noted the Sinovac vaccine candidate was given higher ratings in trials conducted outside Brazil, “which is normal and shows the objectivity of clinical trials,” according to a Sinovac document.
The Chinese state media article quoted Chinese experts who explained why Sinovac is “good enough” to combat Brazil’s coronavirus epidemic:
Experts say the result is good enough considering almost all participants in Brazil are high-risk medical workers, and the 77.96 efficacy for mild-case protection means the vaccine can reduce 78 percent of people from needing hospitalization.
We have today one of the best vaccines in the world, Dimas Covas, director of the Butantan Institute in Brazil, said during a news conference on Tuesday.
Almost all of participants in the trials are medical workers at high risk of contracting the coronavirus. “The vaccine was able to 100 percent prevent severe illness in such a high-risk population, and effectively control the morbidity, and protect at least 50% of people from infection, which is good enough,” Wang Guiqiang, director of the Infectious Disease Department at Peking University First Hospital, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
Wang further argued that the Sinovac vaccine candidate could avert “medical system collapse” in Brazil by reducing the number of people who need hospitalization, while vaccine developer Shao Yiming suggested the low overall effectiveness rating could be a result of the high infection risk of its trial environment.
Sinovac says its Phase Three trial is the first one conducted entirely with medical workers, creating an infection risk environment “three times higher than Pfizer’s and six times higher than Moderna’s.”
VOA noted that 50 percent overall effectiveness is the bare minimum threshold recommended by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA).
The British government hinted Wednesday that it could ban flights from Brazil because a dangerous new variant of the coronavirus is spreading there, potentially threatening the U.K.’s vaccination program if it reaches Britain’s shores.
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CBS News Poll: 85 Percent of Republicans Oppose Impeaching Trump
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Kristina Wong
A CBS News/YouGov poll published Wednesday showed 85 percent of Republicans opposed impeaching President Donald Trump.
The poll also showed only 15 percent of Republicans favored it.
The percentages are flipped among Democrats, with 88 percent favoring impeaching Trump, and 12 percent opposing it. Among Independents, 54 percent favored it versus 46 percent opposing impeachment.
The poll was taken January 11-12, and had a margin of error of 2.9 percent.
The poll comes as House Democrats are planning to impeach Trump for a second time. So far, a small number of House Republicans have joined, led by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).
Combined, 55 percent of everyone polled favored impeaching Trump while 45 percent opposed. However, of all those polled, 83 percent thought impeachment would cause Trump’s supporters to protest more and 69 percent thought it would cause more division in the country.
Sen. Joe Manchin blasts his party’s latest impeachment stunt. “I think this is so ill-advised….” https://t.co/gphTt1aCu1
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 13, 2021
Of the 55 percent who said Trump should be impeached, 39 percent favored removing him from office immediately, while 16 percent thought he should resign.
Of the 44 percent who said Trump should serve out the remainder of his term, 61 percent said it was because he did nothing wrong.
Democrats moved to impeach Trump after some Trump supporters became violent and clashed with police officers and vandalized offices during a protest at the Capitol last week.
Democrats and some Republicans have accused Trump of inciting the violence with a speech he gave earlier in the day. Trump said Tuesday during a trip to the southwestern border that he did not say anything inappropriate.
“If you read my speech — and many people have done it, and I’ve seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television — it’s been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate,” he said.
“And if you look at what other people have said — politicians at a high level — about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle, in various other — other places, that was a real problem — what they said,” he added.
“But they’ve analyzed my speech and words and my final paragraph, my final sentence, and everybody, to the T, thought it was totally appropriate,” he said.
Follow Breitbart News’s Kristina Wong on Twitter or on Facebook.
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ABC News Executive Placed on Leave over Alleged Racist Language About Black Staff
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Katherine Rodriguez
An ABC News executive was placed on administrative leave for allegedly using racist language about the black employees at the network, including Good Morning America host Robin Roberts.
Axios reported that Barbara Fedida is the executive that oversees hiring and diversity programs. Fedida “wielded arguably the most power at the network in determining the fates of Black employees in terms of hiring and contracts,” according to a statement from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
A HuffPost report accused Fedida of “enabling a ‘toxic’ and ‘abusive’ work environment.”
During 2018 contract negotiations in which Roberts, a black woman, asked for a raise, Fedida allegedly said that it was not as if the network was asking her to “pick cotton,” the HuffPost reported.
After speaking with 34 sources over six months, HuffPost found that there was “a long pattern of insensitive statements, including racist comments, made by Fedida to people who report to her.”
Fedida allegedly actively sought to sabotage diversity efforts, such as putting on a 2016 town hall event with President Barack Obama on race with an all-white planning committee and no people of color moderating.
ABC News said in a statement that Fedida was put on administrative leave while the company conducts “a thorough and complete investigation.”
“These allegations do not represent the values and culture of ABC News, where we strive to make everyone feel respected in a thriving, diverse and inclusive workplace,” the statement added.
Fedida claimed in a statement through her attorney via HuffPost that she was a “champion for increased diversity in network news.”
“Building a news division where everyone can thrive has been my life’s mission,” the statement continued. “I am proud of my decades of work of hiring, supporting and promoting talented journalists of color. And, unlike these heartbreaking and incredibly misleading claims about me, that track record is well-documented and undeniable.”
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A Modern Wedding at the Bride’s Nashville Home
The backyard tent, created by Big Events Inc., is totally unique
Jaimie Mackey
Jaimie Mackey was the Brides real weddings editor from 2013 to 2015. She also worked as a luxury wedding planning producing over 100 high-end weddings and events over four wedding seasons in Colorado.
Photo by Clark Brewer Photography
When Caroline King and Derek Dedeker first met as freshmen at Texas Christian University, they were both dating other people. But their friend groups collided and merged over the following years, and in the summer of 2014, they found themselves single and interning in New York City. That summer, Derek patiently pursued Caroline—and in July, he took her on their first date.
By December of 2016, Derek and Caroline were talking marriage, and she admits that she was anticipating a late spring proposal. But Derek had other plans. “Unbeknownst to me, he’d been planning a New Year’s Eve proposal all fall, flying to Nashville to talk to my dad and even going with me to go ring shopping after he’d already purchased a ring,” says Caroline with a laugh. When Derek asked Caroline to join him for a drink before meeting up with her family for dinner, she didn’t think much of it as Derek took off to get ready. “When I came downstairs, my mom was picking up a box on the porch that was addressed to me. As soon as I opened it and saw Derek’s note to follow the signs, I knew a proposal was coming,” she says. Quotes and arrows led her from the front door to her family’s barn, where Caroline followed a path of candles to a table and a laptop. “He’d made a slideshow of every photo of us together, from friends to best friends to forever, and as it came to an end, I heard him walk up behind me. My heart absolutely exploded as he got down on one knee!”
Caroline had always dreamed of getting married at her childhood home near Nashville, so she and Derek turned to Big Events Inc. to create a chic, modern celebration with a residential aesthetic. “I didn’t want it to feel like a Southern barn wedding, but instead be something that was design-focused but still comfortable,” Caroline explains. On October 21, 2017, they invited 350 guests to join them for a church ceremony, followed by cocktails in the drive and a tented reception that felt like an extension of the King family home. Don’t miss this gorgeous fall wedding, photographed by Clark Brewer Photography!
When Derek took Caroline "ring shopping" in the fall of 2016, she had no idea that he had already designed and purchased her vintage-style engagement ring. But, lucky for her, he knew his bride. “The ring he designed is absolutely perfect,” she says. Caroline donned a gauzy lace robe and beaded slippers as she and her bridesmaids got ready for the big day.
Caroline’s Carolina Herrera dress featured a floating tulle skirt and an illusion neckline topped with embroidered leaves and flowers. Her bouquet of calla lilies, orchids, and garden roses matched the veil and the day's botanical theme.
“Derek hesitated about having a first look because he didn’t want to sacrifice the emotion of me walking down the aisle, but in the end we were both so glad we did it," Caroline says. "We’re so grateful we had the chance to laugh and hold hands together before the ceremony.” (And, yes, Derek still got his emotional moment.)
A first look also meant plenty of time for fun photos before the big moment. The bridesmaids wore beaded charcoal gowns by Adrianna Papell. “My friends and I have been in quite a few weddings over the last few years, so I wanted to pick a dress that stood out from the others in our closets,” says the bride.
Derek and Caroline exchanged letters to each another before the ceremony, then tied the knot with traditional vows at the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville. “We had the Nashville country group, Mamadear, sing a compilation during the ceremony,” Caroline says.
Back at the King family home, the state flags of Tennessee (the bride’s home) and Minnesota (the groom’s) hung from the balcony, welcoming family and friends with true Southern hospitality. Cocktail hour took place around the fountain in the front drive, where garden roses and strands of orchids spilled from each tier. A jazz trio played as guests mingled beneath strings of café lights.
For the reception, the group was invited through a floral-draped arch into a dramatic clear tent set over a wood grain floor. “We added some New York edginess with Sputnik chandeliers, swirling metallic linens, and brass accents,” Caroline describes. Clusters of lounge furniture kept the tent feeling like an extension of the family home.
Dark taper candles in marble holders lit glass dining tables, which were set beneath chandeliers covered in eucalyptus. Pieces of modern art also hung along the perimeter of the tent to reiterate the modern residential setting.
With such a large crowd, a series of buffet stations turned out to be the perfect choice for dinner service. Guests were able to choose between bourbon salmon and herb-encrusted beef tenderloin, with harvest salad, Mexican street corn, and pimento mac ’ n’ cheese. Later in the evening, a coffee station served up a dose of caffeine alongside Bailey’s and beignets, while waiters passed bite-sized chicken and waffles as a nod to the Nashville setting.
After spinning–literally!–around the dance floor to “You Are” by Lionel Richie, Derek invited his family to the floor for a surprise performance to “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars. “They all know how much I love Bruno Mars, and they’d spent weeks on FaceTime going over the moves,” says Caroline. “One night Derek kicked me out of our apartment and wouldn’t tell me why I had to leave. It turns out they were rehearsing!”
As the night came to a close, Caroline and Derek gathered on the front porch with family and friends—only to be surprised when all of a sudden the sky illuminated with fireworks. “My parents hadn’t told anyone about the fireworks, so it was a huge surprise," Caroline says. "It was a moment of pure magic we will never forget!” Finally, the couple ended the night with more lights—this time, a planned sparkler exit!
Wedding Team
Wedding Planner: Big Events Inc.
Ceremony Venue: First Presbyterian Church
Bride's Dress: Carolina Herrera
Bride's Shoes: BHLDN
Hair & Makeup: Parlour 3
Bridesmaids' Dresses: Adrianna Papell
Groom's Attire: Alton Lane, Hugo Boss
Groomsmen's Attire: The Black Tux
Engagement Ring & Wedding Bands: Suzy B Jewels
Floral Design: Big Events Inc.
Paper Products: Emily Holmes
Catering: G Catering & Events
Cake: Dessert Designs by Leland
Ceremony Music: Sam Levine Music
Reception Music: Atlanta All-Stars
Rentals: Liberty Party Rentals, 12th Table, Please Be Seated
Lighting: Bright Event Productions
Tent: Nashville Tent & Awning
Draping: Quest Events
Transportation: Matchless Transportation
Videography: Dallas Wilson
Photography: Clark Brewer Photography
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The data will likely increase confidence that more vaccines will work and that the world may soon find a way to get the coronavirus under control
James Paton | Bloomberg November 16, 2020 Last Updated at 19:19 IST
In this July 27, 2020, file photo, a nurse prepares a shot that is part of a possible Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
The first two Covid-19 vaccines out of the gate have now delivered positive news in the quest to end the pandemic. The encouraging late-stage trial results from Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. set a high bar for rivals such as AstraZeneca Plc that are expected to follow soon with their own pivotal reports.
The data will likely increase confidence that more vaccines will work and that the world may soon find a way to get the coronavirus under control. Here’s what we know about the two shots.
How do the results compare?
Moderna said Monday its vaccine was 94.5% effective in a preliminary analysis. That compares favorably with the lofty level achieved a week earlier by Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech SE. The shot created by the US and German companies was found to be more than 90% effective. Moderna data showed that side effects were generally short-lived and there were no significant safety concerns, while no serious Covid cases developed among trial participants who got the vaccine. US regulators earlier this year released guidance that said any shot should be at least 50% effective.
What do the two vaccines have in common?
Both shots rely on a technology called messenger RNA that has never been used before to develop an approved vaccine. The approach is designed to transform the body’s own cells into vaccine-making factories. The vaccines instruct cells to make copies of the spike protein of the coronavirus, stimulating the creation of protective antibodies.
How are they different?
Moderna received $955 million from the US Operation Warp Speed program. Pfizer has said it didn’t receive any federal funding to develop its vaccine, though BioNTech got as much as 375 million euros ($444 million) in German government assistance. Still, Pfizer has struck a supply agreement with the US worth nearly $2 billion. The US has agreed to pay up to $1.53 billion to purchase supply of the Moderna shot.
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What are the storage and distribution challenges?
After vaccines are approved, the effort to immunize hundreds of millions of people will need to overcome a series of other hurdles. Storage and distribution for some of the products is complex. Pfizer’s vaccine must be stored ultra-cold until a few days before it is used, but can be kept at refrigerator temperatures for as much as five days. Moderna, meanwhile, pointed to new data showing its vaccine is stable at refrigerator temperatures for 30 days, much longer than a previously estimated seven days. It can be kept in freezers over the longer term and doesn’t need the special facilities required for the Pfizer vaccine.
Where will vaccines go first?
Global demand for vaccines initially is expected to far exceed supplies despite significant efforts to ramp up production ahead of time. Moderna has already reached agreements to supply 100 million doses to the US and 80 million to the European Union, among others. The U.K. said Monday that it’s negotiating with the company but any doses wouldn’t become available in the country until next spring, at the earliest. Pfizer and BioNTech have their own deals for hundreds of millions of shots.
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When could they be ready to deploy?
The results are preliminary, but both Moderna and Pfizer are expected to seek emergency-use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration if further review demonstrates their vaccines are safe. Moderna said it could seek clearance from regulators in the coming weeks. Pfizer expects to get two months of safety follow-up data in the third week in November. If all goes well, Pfizer could apply for an authorization in the US this month.
(With assistance from Naomi Kresge.)
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New company to host municipal network in St. Clair Shores
By: Kristyne E. Demske | St. Clair Shores Sentinel | Published January 12, 2021
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ST. CLAIR SHORES — In an effort to improve connectivity and services, while saving money, City Council voted to switch from WOW to another service provider for its multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) service, which connects city buildings to each other over a private network.
City Manager Matthew Coppler explained Jan. 4 that the city currently pays WOW $4,421.99 per month for that service, which is a fiber optic line attached to coaxial cable once it hits the city buildings. The city’s contract with WOW expired late in 2020. Instead of signing a one-year renewal with the company, Coppler decided to seek bids on services from other providers in an effort to increase the speed and capacity of the connections, reduce costs, and get the city ready to move to the next level of services that will provide more robust connectivity while addressing security and redundancy concerns on the network.
Coppler said the network, internet, cable and phone lines in the city had been added in a disjointed fashion with “no rhyme or reason.”
“We have a really good handle on all these things now, and we see where we can provide a higher level of service for less money,” he said.
The company put forward for City Council’s consideration, ManagedWay of Troy, will increase the city’s network capacity from 100Mbps to 500Mbps and increase the internet connection from 300Mbps to 500Mbps for $4,216 per month.
In addition, ManagedWay will provide the city with its own fiber optic network from point to point so the city will get higher capacity and better control of its information.
“Going with ManagedWay, that is actually going to be fiber, end to end. Between Comcast and WOW, their last mile is coaxial,” he said. “When you look at the way — even though it’s a private system on WOW right now — we are commingled on fiber with other entities. When we go with ManagedWay, we won’t be commingled.”
Coppler acknowledged that WOW’s new bid for the services was about $300 cheaper per month than ManagedWay, but Wow would still be using a combination of fiber optic and coaxial cable and ManagedWay had better technology moving forward whenever the city was ready to upgrade its networks. The ManagedWay quote is still less than what the city is currently paying WOW, he said.
Because of the increased speed, security and capacity, “it makes a lot more sense to spend a few extra bucks to have that robust service,” he said.
City Council voted 7-0 to approve the three-year contract with ManagedWay.
Councilwoman Candice Rusie said she appreciated that Coppler wasn’t satisfied with the status quo.
“With a fresh set of eyes ... you’re finding not only different ways of doing things, but savings,” she said.
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Brooke's 60 Second Sleaze - March 2
By Brooke and Jubal Mar 2, 2020
Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus Tour With Special Guest Jennifer Lopez
Oprah fell while literally talking about balance & the internet can’t get enough
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Public Team Prevails In 4th Annual All Star Event
Written by Rick Duteau on June 1st, 2014
There was plenty to celebrate for Broward’s all stars on Saturday.
All Star Event Gallery
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It was a fitting swan song.
The 2014 Broward graduating class is the first of its kind during the history of High School Baseball Network. Playing their final high school baseball of their careers, accomplished seniors from across Broward County converged for the fourth annual HSBN Broward High School Baseball Senior All Star Game Saturday at Westminster Academy Sports Complex in Lauderdale Lakes. This pinnacle event has been a staple to close out each baseball season over the past four years, and this group of seniors was the first to enjoy HSBN coverage for their entire high school careers.
In return, the seniors rewarded HSBN and several hundred fans in attendance with one last memorable baseball game. Using a new format this year, it was the blue team representing the Public Schools who won 11-5 over the team in red that represented the Private Schools.
Offense has always been a big staple of this event, and that legacy continued to rein true as the Blue Team racked up 11 total hits and several big innings. Coral Springs’ Davis Alessio had a three-run home run that scored Flanagan’s Oscar Rodriguez and Ryan Dodge in the top of the sixth, and Dodge added a two-run shot of his own in the ninth, also scoring Rodriguez on the hit. It was a fitting final at bat for Dodge, as he was also the player who won the HSBN home run derby as a sophomore in 2012.
McArthur’s Jorge Alvarez also had a big shot in the contest, crushing the ball deep to left-center field and racing around the bases for an RBI double that drove in Monarch’s Nick Alonzo. Alvarez was just caught as he tried to stretch his hit into a triple, but still managed to put the Blue Team back on top for good.
Offense continued to set the tone in the history of this event.
The Blue squad had taken an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first. Nova’s Kyle Pangallo led off with a single that got lost in the sun on the defense, and Rodriguez lined a single into center field for his first hit on a 2-for-2 day that saw him reach base three times. Dodge was hit by a pitch to load the bags, and Nova’s Brandon McCalla opened the scoring with an RBI single smacked through the left side. Cooper City’s Phil Tomasulo had a fielder’s choice RBI to follow and Douglas’ Max Boling scored McCalla on an infield ground out.
The Red Team battled back to even things up. Sagemont’s Brynn Martinez drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the first and eventually scored on a wild pitch, and Archbishop McCarthy’s Ryan Sinzenich was hit by a pitch and then came home on a balk to pull within 3-2. Pembroke Pines Charter’s Jake Jacobs bounced a single to third base in the third, then worked his way around the bases and scored on a throwing error to even things back up.
Pitching locked in from there for the Blue Team. Cypress Bay’s Ben Fitts, Taravella’s Chris Verardi and Monarch’s Brennan Bosworth all tossed 1-2-3 frames, and Nova’s Nick Martinez shook off a leadoff error that allowed Archbishop McCarthy’s Micheal Gigliotti to reach by retiring the next three hitters.
After Alessio’s homer gave the Blue Team the margin of victory, Taravella’s Joseph Libio added some insurance with a big two-RBI single with the bases loaded in the seventh. Hollywood Hills’ Danny Pena singled to lead off the frame, Coral Glades’ John Mendez blooped a single to right to follow, and Nova’s Cole Habig walked to fill the bases and bring Libio to the dish.
The Red Team mounted one final comeback bid in the eighth. Sinzenich was hit by a pitch for the second time, and then gave way to Westminster Academy’s Jeremy Viveros as a pinch runner. Coral Springs Charter’s Brandon Laboy and Westminster’s Weston Clemente both walked to load the bases, and St. Thomas Aquinas’ Teddy Meissner pushed Viveros home when he also drew a walk. Laboy closed out their scoring by coming in on a wild pitch.
McArthur’s Jorge Alvarez tries to stretch to third on his big hit in the fifth inning.
The Red Team also got some memorable pitching performances. Cardinal Gibbons’ Mark Nowatnick struck out the side in the second, needing just 14 pitches to mow through his three batters. Clemente, St. Thomas’ Kevin Balfour and Highland Christian’s Raygelo Melfor all tossed scoreless frames as well.
Flanagan’s Chris Rodriguez also tossed a perfect ninth for the Blue Team, recording a pair of strikeouts to close out the contest and bring his teammates out to dogpile on the mound in victory celebration.
It was a beautiful day of baseball, filled with many big final moments to leave fans with one last time. As these All Stars prepare to move on to the next chapters of their lives, the day provided one last glimpse into the magic that has helped move them along on their respective paths. High School Baseball Network had the privilege to see them through their entire high school careers, and hopefully every graduating class to follow will be able to say the same thing.
*HSBN sends a big thank you to all those who generously donated used baseball equipment to area Chicago White Sox Scout Pepe Ortega. The equipment will be shipped to the Dominican Republic to help underprivileged ballplayers.
*Leftover meals from the All County Dinners were donated to All Saints Soup Kitchen in Oakland Park. Follow the link to see how you can provide assistance to their cause.
All-Time Broward All-Star Game Results
2011 – 1A-4A 10, 5A-6A 9
2012 – 7A-8A 7, 2A-6A 4
2014 – Public 11, Private 5
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Posted on June 19, 2018 by Omar Ali
Indian Religious Landscape Survey
By Omar Ali 69 Comments
This is a very simple poll. I posted a couple of these questions on Twitter (@omarali50) and want to do the same here. The idea is to test a hypothesis (not about what will happen to the Indian religious landscape, but what do readers of this blog THINK will happen to it, and why) which will be part of a later blog post I plan. For now, please take this very simple 3 question survey by scrolling down within the survey below.. and comment on the post as you see fit.. We may learn something, or at least have some interesting discussions..
CategoriesIndia, Religion TagsChristianity, Hinduism, Islam, Two Nation Theory
69 Replies to “Indian Religious Landscape Survey”
V.C.Vijayaraghavan says:
The relative positions of H/I/X pops will be maintained , take or leave 5%. That was my answer.
More interesting question would be what will be the position of Islam world over in 100 years time.
There was a small chance that Hindus will be reduced to less than 50 percent.
How exactly is this going to happen? Sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Hindu population is already around 70 percent if you include crypto Christians.
70% is still a huge majority. I really don’t see what your problem is.
A word or two about Christianity.
There is no chance that Christianity will overtake Islam. What is Christianity? There is not only one Christianity. Catholicism is a very rigid kind of Christianity which very much interferes with people’s private lives. It is actually a big corporation which operates as a state within the state. They have their own banks, media, political parties, think tanks, secret service, properties (the largest real estate owner) etc. They have a direct influence on politics and politicians in countries where they are majority. However, their influence is decreasing in Western countries and less and less people going to the church. Their influence is still strong in Latin America’s countries. They will try to do missionary work, i.e. to aggressively conquer new territories in Africa and Asia. India will be one of their targets. They see Orthodox Christianity as enemies and several times in AC history inspired genocides against them and against indigenous people in Latin America. They have long term imperial strategies, operate on Machiavellian principles, often falsifying history.
Anglican Church led by English royals is really pathetic. The strongest base they have in Nigeria and some poor Commonwealth countries. They may also try to revive themselves in India based on glorifications of colonial past and people’s short memory or Stockholm’s syndrome. They should be reminded by thinking people to recognise 85 million killed and starved in India under their colonial rule and to work on reconciliation and forgiveness. Sooner or later, they will reunite again with Catholics.
Orthodox Church is trying to follow original tenets of Christianity, sometimes looks old fashioned and anachronistic but, paradoxically, this is its strength. They resist modernity (and post modernity), sincerely believe and preach the brotherhood and love among the people. Very passive, sometime look masochistic. They remain us on our old lovable grandfathers whose time is over but they are still around acting as guardians of ancient knowledge. Not interested to conquer new territories, o0perate often within national boundaries.
Protestant churches try to follow the modernity, giving positions to gays and lesbians, moving further from original tenets will finish as interest or community based social groups, who practice Christmas/Easter celebrations, and that’s it. American style protestant churches are aggressive to enter new markets, attract younger with show style services, modern music and actually they do not have anything with Christianity, they even do not have a cross. Sometimes they are organised as aggressive sects, you can expect them to conduct strong marketing and recruitment campaign.
Milan, I agree with you about RC . It is the most sophisticated and long lived organization with a prestige and clout at all levels of the society. I mean ‘sophisticated’ partly in a cynical sense and partly as an appreciation. Even one hundredth of it’s scandals and persecutions of it’s opponents and it’s own followers would have sunk any other organization long time back ; communism could not even last 80 years. From it’s early persecution of pagans to pedophile scandals of recent decades, it is mired in some scandal or other. Yet it commands the allegiance , overt and covert , of sizable and influential sections of society , especially in India. So far it has grown and maintained by hitching it’s stars to the bandwagon of western imperialism ;no, in fact more than hitching ; it has been an ideological fuel of western imperialism. With it’s involvement in education and hospital sector in India , it has got a strong clout in India , still it’s heart is the west I think.
Indian RC’s heart is in the west since it’s primary allegiance is to the Pope and we know where his heart lies. Below layers of soft papal verbiage is a contempt for non-European cultures and other religions
@Omar
While it is always silly to predict human behaviour, let me be a little silly and bold and claim that “Christianity” could well become the 2nd largest religion in India by 22c by gaining converts from both Hindus and Muslims (obv more from Hindus as they are more in number). In fact, I expect native Christian churches to have Mormonic characteristics – so not quite the model we are used to.
In fact, I expect many local Christian and other Hindu (or even mixed doctrine) churches/deras in India – the Gurmeet Ram Rahim effect. I expect most of them to plateau off at some stable equilibrium size, but a few to really grow, in effect spawning off novel religious denominations.
Jews/Arabs stole the march from us with their funky products in late antiquity. But the real innovator and disruptor in this space always has been (and will be) us 🙂
i think this is most likely if christianity becomes a de facto ‘new religious movement’, not christianity tied to western motifs or the indigenous traditions of india (syriac).
Christianity in India, esp new evangelical churches, are already at a remove from Western motifs. One of the features of Christianity is the ability to shed cultural baggage and preach in local languages (after all the Ethnologue is an entirely Christian invention). Makes the faith less prone to elitism and more adaptable – easier to plug and play and more amenable to the franchise model. That is why I would bet on its longer-term future in heathen India (and China).
Also I am betting on Indian creativity (and real out-of-the-box thinking) to come up with whacky versions of the faith, some of which will stick and grow. All speculative of course.
sbarrkum says:
Evangelical Christianity is a few steps removed from Wahabbism. However, it has two attractions to the disenfranchised.
a) Everyone is Brother/Sister with physical hugs and kisses including the visiting Americans. They also visit every home, sit, eat, help out, specially in the poorer homes. Upper caste Hindus (and Buddhists Priests in Sri Lanka) are going to have a hard time competing with that physical and community spirit.
b) Evangelicals invest, i.e. Education/schools set up jobs thru connections and then collect later on in tithes. Saudi Arabia/Wahabbi does similar, but will just teaching the Koran/Arabic result in employable people, and tithes/donations thereof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe#Islam
Razib and Slapstik, wouldn’t a ‘new religious movement’ simply be a Hindu with Jesus as Ishta Devata? This is already true for a large number of Hindus; and Hindus have no problem with this since Hindus revere Jesus. The most radical hard right Hindus (whatever that means) have no issue with Hindus worshiping Jesus as their Ishta Devata.
Zack Zavid says:
It will be the Bahai faith – Baha’u’llah is now Baha Bhagwan in India.
Bahai Faith will have to dramatically Saffronjse but it can do that; I wanted to share a video
Im not able to directly link to the exact time but go to 18:39 and one can see how Bahá’í Faith can complement India.
My only worry is the extent to which the Faith will have to Dharmacise; we are going to have to discard a lot of Persian cultural baggage (garbage?) as we transform (and are transformed) by India.
I for one don’t see any incompatibility between idol worship and the Faith.. The exactitude of Bahai teachings will have to tempered in the more relaxed Eastern climes.
Islam of course will always prove to the most difficult to the Faith but nothing can stop the tide of the New World Order.
Video hyperlink?
How is Bahá’í faith different from Hinduism? Or is it not different? I already think of Bahá’í as a syncretic faith within the broader Arya Sanathana Dharma open source architecture ecosystem. Can someone be Bahá’í and many other religions at once? [Hindus can and often claim to be. This is why Gandhi claimed to be a muslim, christian, buddhist etc.] I so, can a Hindu just claim to be Bahá’í without having to change anything? If so, I want to join!
Yes Bahais can marry under Any religious ceremony except Islam. Because in the Niqah there is a condition that Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) is the last messenger, which we of course don’t accept.
We have Ganesh idol and we are waiting on the Nataraj and they coexist happily with a picture of Abdul Baha..
Baha Bhagwan in India
If it is any consolation, Ahura Mazda was typically referred to as Baga or Baga-vant (lit. endowed with grace, dignity) in Old Persian inscriptions (OP suffix -vant > -vand in Modern Persian; cf. bog = God in Russian).
bhagavAn is coming full-circle via a rather circuitous route.
Why would I have to be consoled about that?
@AnAn
Not necessarily. You are thinking about it using a traditional Hindu straitjacket. But reality is FAR more messy and Indians can be WAY more heterodox than you (or anyone) can predict. The birth and branching-off of Sikhism from Hindus (and various quasi-Sikh cults off Sikhism proper in turn) is an obvious case in point.
In general, India has always had a variation of deras and baba-cults spawning off organically. Most do not follow (or care about) what iSTadeva refers to. That is entirely your theological categorization.
(PS: You keep an open mind, but only in some directions :))
Hmmm. So let us ignore the terminology linguistic gymnastics. Maybe we are speaking of the same thing? Perhaps you mean deras and baba-cults spawning off organically that reject Sarva Dharma [all paths might (or do) lead to the same goal]. Hinduism already has many deras, baba-cults and sects of this type.
What is an example of quasi-Sikh cults splitting off of Sikhism proper?
Many Hindus attend Gurudwaras. Sikhs welcome them. Have these Sikhs branched off of Hinduism? Is the answer complicated and nuanced?
Dera Sach Khand (Ravidasis), Radha Svamis, Dera Sacha Sauda, Nirankaris…
Have these Sikhs branched off of Hinduism?
Sikhs are not Hindus, mate. That boat sailed long ago. My family is related to (lapsed) Jatt Sikhs by marriage so I intimately know what I am talking about.
However, Sikhs and Hindus in N India are connected by close cultural and kinship ties. So you can speak of Sikhi and Hinduism (and Jains etc) belonging to some sort of Dharmic zeitgeist, just as you have Judeo-Christian zeitgeist in the West.
Would Udasis be considered one of them, since founded by Nanak’s brother? One of the primary reason of the original resentment of sikhs vis-a-vis hindus i feel is the role of Udasis. Without them i wonder what would have been the hindu-sikh relationship.
Don’t know about them. Wow you are informed!
“Ahura Mazda was typically referred to as Baga or Baga-vant”
True. Isn’t this the same as modern Bhagavan but pronounced differently?
Many Zorastrians have said they believe Zoroaster was born before 1000 BC. Do you think this could be correct? [Obviously we don’t know for sure.]
I have read Indologist papers suggesting that Iranians worshiped the Daityas and Danavas before the birth of Zoroaster. What are your thoughts on this?
Slapstik, you are extraordinarily knowledgeable and intelligent. This is an observation without any virtue signaling or political correctness.
I think there is a typo. Udasis were formed by Nanaka’s son Sri Chand–who I think the world of.
Saurav, Karan, Slapstik: Something happened in the early 1900s (some say 1906) that caused a split:
–between Hinduism and Sikhism
–caused many famous Sikh Gurudhwaras to remove Hindu deities and worship of Hindu deities from inside their shrines
–caused a split with the Udasis
–caused a split with the Sanathana Sikhs
–caused a split between Khalsa and non Khalsa Sikhs
Is anyone willing to write an article about what the heck happened? Not that it matters much. Hindus still attend Sikh Gurudwaras in large numbers. Including Hindus who understand Punjabi.
I see examples of hindu heterodoxy as well as rise of countervailing forces of hindu monotheism at play as well. The rise of ethno-religious hindu, less spiritual /religious more interested in real world issues like politics and power for Hindu-dom.
Slapstik +1 great comment, mate
All those who say that Sikhs are the same as Hindus are basically denying them their identity. For most south Indian hindus like myself, Sikhs are an exotic bunch with a fuzzy connection (the golden temple being called Harimandir sahib, for example) but this is probably no more than say the connection of Islam to Judaism – an overlapping set of beliefs and gods/prophets but a divergence ever since. And this ‘Dharmic Zeitgeist’ is again a problematic concept in India, since the majority of Indian Buddhists for example are recent low caste converts who explicitly reject Hindu beliefs. So any efforts to consider them ‘one of us’ is again a denial of this basic reality.
The way I see Hindu identity evolving in India is less through a ritualistic and more through a nationalistic channel like other commenters have mentioned. In parallel, I also see Christianity (and maybe even Islam to a smaller extent) ‘Indianising’. Most south indian christians for example have ‘hindu’ names and aren’t very outwardly religious.
Another possible trajectory is that many castes may want to split off and claim a separate religion status, at least on paper – like the Lingayats in Karnataka. This may help them get around the oft-lamented (and in my view justified) hindu complaint of not having any autonomy over educational and religious institutions.
I have been saying for months that Sikhs are not a type of Hindu and to insist that they are is really offensive to them. AnAn didn’t seem to get it until it was pointed out by Slapstik. Well, hope he gets it now.
And this ‘Dharmic Zeitgeist’ is again a problematic concept in India, since the majority of Indian Buddhists for example are recent low caste converts who explicitly reject Hindu beliefs.
Thanks Siddharth.
I think you are conflating an “is” with an “ought” above. If the question is whether Sikhs are Hindus, the answer is obviously NO. But if the question is whether Sikh Panth is “Dharmic” (a broader category of Indic faiths, with certain broad commonalities) then the answer is YES.
However, the above is a statement of sociological fact (or a good approximation thereof), not a normative moral judgement. A Sikh may simply identify as non-Dharmic (she/he’d have to jump through a LOT of theological hoops, but may be possible) and the above statement will not contradict her/his right to self-identify as such. Nor would the Indian Constitution, in fact.
Similarly, a Hindu may see his religion in a very expansive light, encompassing Sikhism or even Christianity. AnAn is probably an example of such a person (apologies to him, if I have misconstrued). And she/he has full right to think so – again a lot of mental and theological gymnastics required to defend such a position, but may be possible.
Ultimately, who is a Hindu or a Sikh and what kind of algebra relates the two sets is a classification problem, and the set definitions used in legal, moral, theological, social etc uses may not be exactly congruent. The definition I typically use for such sets of Hindus and Sikhs is social/anthropological. Hindus and Sikhs form a single large sociological group in India – who inter-dine, inter-marry and inter-inebriate (:D) – and yet keep clear religious distinction. Hindus can (and do) choose to baptize as Sikhs, for example. Label this commonality Dharmic, or Indic or whatever you fancy.
So any efforts to consider them ‘one of us’ is again a denial of this basic reality.
Comparison with Dalit Buddhists is not a neat analogy, because the Dalit identity typically trumps religion in India. E.g. Dalit (chamar) Ravidasi Sikhs branched out of Sikhism for precisely the same reason.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1900882,00.html
“you can speak of Sikhi and Hinduism (and Jains etc) belonging to some sort of Dharmic zeitgeist, just as you have Judeo-Christian zeitgeist in the West.”
Till recently , Judeo-Christian zeitgeist in the West was a non-starter ; Jews were severely persecuted in all Christian western countries , with occasional lapses in persecution. Actually western anti-antisemitism can be traced to bring about a monolithic Christian civ in the west.
Only after the horrors of the World Wars in the 20th century , there is an accent on Judeo-Christian – especially in contrast to the rest of the world.
Secular Indian says:
Going by the increasingly large proportion of Indian (mostly Hindu) youth becoming atheist or only having nominal importance for religion(most BJP supporters among the youth IMO do so out of a sense of cultural nationalism), I feel India will be a largely godless (but still very spiritual) country by the turn of the century (which is a good thing). IMHO I’m not confident the same can be said about Muslim youth. I see a largely agnostic population that is struggling with islamist elements by the turn of the century (if the world survives till then, that is). But I also see India’s assimilative power improve with time (as India becomes more confident with her rising economic status), though I’m not sure if it will be enough to assimilate those elements. Only time will tell.
Secular Indian, many of Hinduism’s most respected scriptures, sects and saints have been called “atheist”; and they are “atheist” from a certain point of view. This has been true from the beginning and remains true.
What is the difference between religion and spirituality?
Two questions before I venture an answer-
1. Do you mean India, the state that exists today or India the geography/civilization? The former is 80% H today, the latter ~66%. If you mean the former, it may not exist in its current form in the 22nd century.
2. By 22nd century, do you mean 2100 or 2199 or say mid-22nd century?
V.C. Vijayaraghavan says:
Anyway, short to medium term future for corporate gurus and self-help gurus is assured.
Deep Bhatnagar says:
At this moment i don’t care about anything religion, world, revolution or change because i am dead inside as i see no future for world with humans {as nilhilistic non-conformist person} & actually feel that world would be better off without humans hence i don’t like to speculate but i do want to say one thing – End of Hinduism would be the final chapter of Orientalism started by Abrahamic religions.
Catholic Orientalism: Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge (16th – 18th Centuries) (Oxford Theology and Religion M)
Vikram says:
I think any such analysis has to incorporate the point that ‘religion’ in India is usually a proxy for orthogonal political/economic/cultural interests and is quite distinct from actual ‘felt’ culture and traditions. Talk to middle class Indian Hindus and Muslims from UP, who have a reasonably secular outlook, and you will hardly be able to tell the difference. Even in the past, apart from the all the theological homilies, the reason for the political chasm between these groups was language (more precisely the script and vocabulary to be used for the common language), and once that conflict was resolved, politics was dominated by the more natural inter caste conflicts, since caste coincides much more strongly with economic (and sometimes cultural) interests.
Something like race in the US, which coincides with economic interests tremendously, but would certainly take a back seat if Hispanics in a particular region of the US sought to make Spanish the sole official language, which would pit blacks and whites against Hispanics.
There are two sides to the current political scenario in North India. On the ground, caste is completely dominant, and only charismatic leaders (which could have also come from the Congress were it a meritocratic party), and localized (usually manufactured) riots overcome it temporarily. In the internet world, where there is a preponderance of upper caste Hindu males herded into jobs they dont particularly like (H1B/IT/money allure and legacy of colonialism), and deprived of an organic Indic education due to insistence on English medium, do we see a desire for a strident ‘Hindu politics’. But I doubt these guys can even convince their own wives and girlfriends to fully come on board with such a project.
This is not to say that there is no threat from religious extremism, especially that rooted in rather non-accommodating Abrahamic faiths, alongwith reactionary Indic nativism, but at the end of the day this is a security issue in India, simply because of the overwhelming prepodarance of Indic faiths, both in terms of numbers and economic power, and the well established mode of constitutional governance.
Having said all this, I think we are going to see a more marked ‘Indianization’ of most groups in India. This will happen through intermarriage with Hindus, more and more sophisticated Indic literature (graduating from the rather fluffy Amish Tripathi type work and suffocating social realism) being able to expose more nuances of more recent Indian philosophy and history to people (something like Ramayana and Mahabharata did for Vedas and Upanishads) and more pride in an increasingly powerful Indian economy and state.
So in some sense, I expect the vast majority of Indians to be ‘Hindus’ in the decades to come.
“Something like race in the US, which coincides with economic interests tremendously”
How so? Do you think over time Latino Americans will socio-economically outperform caucasions leading to a jealous nativist backlash?
As Indians become richer I think Indians will become more religious/spiritual. This is because people will search for the truth, and because people will search for love and happiness. When the gross thoughts slow or stop . . . stuff happens. And not just deeper control over the concious brain, subconcious brain, unconcious brain and nervous system.
AnAn, I meant that in the US, whites are the professional and business classes (with a small but vocal Asian attached service class), while blacks and Hispanics are the working classes. This ensures that black and Hispanic vote predominantly goes to Democrats, while a majority of whites vote Republican.
I think as Indians become richer. if they are in India, they have plenty of avenues to engage their brains, but the society lacks a recent, relevant literature that can act as a cultural pole star. We are yet to produce Tolkiens, Rowlings and George RR Martins, although to be honest, nobody has such figures in the modern era except the Anglos, but Indians might produce one soon. This will be a turning point, and play a major part in the ‘Indicization’ of India, as well the spread of Indic thought and culture abroad.
India has produced Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Arundathi Roy, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Arvind Adiga. The list goes on, and this is just in English.
Kabir, I would argue that with the possible exception of Salman Rushdie, all these authors are heavily invested in the social realism category. I have no problem with social realism as such, and recognize its importance in a literature, but I do think that there should be room for imagination and more epic literary work. Indeed, social realism can be smartly incorporated in such work (think Karna in Mahabharata).
Its a bit like Indians only producing good batsmen, which is important and difficult, but doesnt complete a cricket team.
As a young Indian teenager, the only ‘non heavy’ but smart, imaginative literature I had access to were works like Tintin, Famous Five, Hardy Boys etc. Then in college in the US, I came across scifi work like ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ and ‘Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep’. People a bit younger than me (who did college in India) have usually read like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. The current generation’s polestar is probably George RR Martin’s work.
There is virtually no work of any of these kinds in any Indian language and context. The only works that came close in themes but not in scope, were Chacha Chaudhary and Byomkesh Bakshi. Forget anything even remotely near Tolkien, Rowling and Martin.
Well, I don’t like fantasy literature at all. I like stories to be semi-plausible. Of course, as a child I read “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “Harry Potter” (but even Harry Potter is basically a boarding school story with Potions instead of Chemistry and evil being defeated every year).
India has produced “Midnight’s Children” and “A Suitable Boy” (which in my opinion is one of the best novels ever and it is quite epic in scope). I’d say Indian Literature in English is not doing too badly.
Kabir, I guess fantasy literature manages to capture a population’s fancy in a way that various forms of realism just cant. Perhaps, they also allow a wider range of interpretations which enable their use as reference points in varied scenarios.
I have no doubts about the literary quality of the works you mentioned. But I can tell you that none of these works or authors have the kind of cultural impact in India that Tolkien and George RR Martin have had in the Anglo world.
Also, the original comment was literature in the context of India’s overall literary heritage. And none of the authors you have quoted (with the exception of Rushdie) really locate themselves in that heritage. Their stories are certainly based in India, and describe specific aspects of Indian society and culture, but they are not connected to India’s heritage the way, for example, Tolkien’s work is influenced by Norse mythology (this is well attested) and Martin’s work by Christianity (‘resurrection’ of Jon Snow, Jon being the only biblical character name, Jon preaching love thy neighbor via Wildlings).
George R R Martin is hardly “Literature”. Literary Fiction has to have some merit in it and be of a certain quality. Martin is genre stuff. People will not be reading him 100 years from now. Harry Potter is for children. “Game of Thrones” from what I saw on TV is full of unnecessary scenes of violence against women and unnecessary deaths. In any case, your tradition of fantasy goes back to the Ramayana which is hardly realistic, what with the demons and the flying monkeys. In Urdu, we had the Dastan-e-Amir Hamza, which has magicians and fairy princesses and other such fantastic elements.
How is “A Suitable Boy” not connected to India’s literary heritage? The entire thing is about Ghazals, courtesans, the Hindu-Muslim question, Nawabs, Zamindari, and arranged marriages–all very Indian concerns. Yes, it is a novel in the tradition of “Bleak House” and “Middlemarch”, but that is what the serious novel is supposed to be like.
As for impact, how many Indians read English language fiction and that too serious Literature? In Pakistan, English is read by a small social class and Fiction (or any other form of non-school related reading) is read by an even smaller fraction of that class. Even in the US, there were surveys recently showing that a surprising number of people had not read a single book in the past year. Reading fiction is an acquired taste and it demands educated parents who inculcate that habit early. Not everyone has parents like mine who hand you a Complete Works of Shakespeare at age 10. Before approaching the original, there was Charles and Mary Lamb’s “Tales from Shakespeare”. Which is not to say that as a child, I didn’t read some quite stupid things too, but I knew early on what was Literature with a capital L.
In any case, for a long time literacy rates in India were so low that you probably wouldn’t expect people to read anything. Film is much more of a mass medium.
Vikram, in America Asians substantially outperform caucasions by every socio-economic measure and the extent of that outperformance is growing rapidly. Within caucasions and hispanics (most of whom are also caucasions) are are several “ethnic” subsets that are rapidly growing in their socio-economic outperformance of most American caucasions.
One of America’s greatest features or secret sauces from 1775-1980s was that the US did not have economically dominant minorities. Now America increasingly has ethnic groups (immigrants, children of immigrants, Asians, subgroups within the broader hispanic, caucasion community,) that socio-economically substantially outperform the caucasion mainstream.
“Hispanics” as a group are socio-economically improving the fastest of any group in America. They are likely to converge on caucasion levels soon, although this hasn’t happened yet. If hispanics can keep their cultural secret sauce, they might significantly outperform caucasions in the future . . . but perhaps it is more likely that hispanics will be absorbed into caucasion culture and lose their cultural economic advantages.
Of course there is no such thing as caucasion or hispanic anywhere in the world. Both of these are extremely diverse groupings with large numbers of subgroups, ethnicities and races. Most “hispanics” self identify and are identified by the general population as caucasion. Because hispanics increasingly outperform caucasions in various domains, many hispanics identify as “white” to avoid being discriminated against for affirmative action and “diversity” purposes. At other times they identify as “hispanic” when being identified as “hispanic” is more useful.
Males without college degrees in America overwhelmingly support Trump. But Trump is not a Republican (except in name).
Please see the article series on American culture at BP. More detail on these subjects is coming.
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Literature is a different unrelated matter. Would you include Tagore in this category? How about Laskhman Joo? I have many of Lakshman Joo’s books and think more highly of him than all the authors you mentioned above. Of course many of my closest friends are Kashmiri. India has many great Sufi masters too . . . but they try to keep a low profile (maybe for fear of assassination?) Many millions of foreigners visit India for spiritual reasons every year. This is India’s greatest strength.
In the east; culture, secularism, literature, religion, spirituality, music, songs, poetry, sculpture, painting and art are the same thing. There is no difference. The idea that there might be a difference is a 1500s Abrahamic concept related to Christian and Muslim concepts of blasphemy. In eastern philosophy these concepts don’t exist. The East is built on freedom of art, thought, intuition and feeling. Anyone can sing, say, write anything about anything. Europe and Canada don’t have as much freedom because of post modernism, political correctness and quaint ideas about things such as speech can be violence, “racism”, “bigotry”, “sectarianism”, “oppression”, “imperialism”, “exploitation” etc. The east is built on “love” and freedom; not fake virtue signaling and politically correct linguistic gymnastics.
I think India is at the cusp of an art revolution which might be the subject of future articles.
With due respect, I feel that litterateurs like Tagore and even Premchand were overly focused on social realism, and in my opinion, this has severely curtailed the potential of Indian literature.
Just imagine if every Hindi movie was only about social realism, no Sholay, no Deewar, no Shakti, no Andaaz Apna Apna. Even a script like that of Dangal would be beyond the acceptable parameters for such authors, and their descendants mentioned by Kabir earlier.
Very interesting Vikram. Some of my friends are leading scholars of Tagore; so I hesitate to say too much about him . . . because I might be wrong and so informed.
Tagore created a very wide spectrum of content. Have you listened to his Bengali songs and poetry? Tagore spoke to the heart of the human experience with extensive de facto discussions of religion, spirituality, meditation, samadhi, mysticism. The only way Tagore could have composed these peaces of art is if he had extensively experienced meditation, samadhi, kundalini, love. Part of his genius is that he was able to express them through what the world regarded as “secular” artistry. Of course the vast majority of those who read him understand less than 1 basis point (1/10,000th) of the full meaning. But that is okay 🙂
Vikram, like me you should try to read the 18 Maha Purana Itihasas (some of which have 12 volume english translations), the Valmiki Ramayana Itihasa, Mahabharata Itihasa, Hari Vamsha Itihasa, the Vedas, Agamas, Kashmiri Shaivism scriptures, Nath Sampradaya scriptures, Tirumantiram, Buddhist scriptures (hundreds of books on this alone), Gaudapada Karika, Shankaracharya’s works, Sufi works, Tulsidasa, Kamban, Yoga Sutras, and too many others to mention. Read these together with ancient Iranian, Turanian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Germanic,Norse texts. The commonalities and inter-connectedness is breathtaking.
There is an extraordinarily vast quantity of interlocking story, narrative, art, logos, heart, character, mystery, wonder, mythos (all good mythos is partly real), humor in them.
I don’t know about Premchand.
AnAn, I do find Tagore’s Bengali poetry stirring and inspiring. But I find his stories, out of date, if that makes any sense. I am not exposed to all of his corpus of work, so might be wrong on this though.
In any case, Tagore’s literature has been unable to fulfil the role of a literary cultural pole in India. Few young Indians, especially outside Bengal, care to read him.
If what is happening in Sri Lanka is anything to go by, then Evangelical Christianity is on the rise. Why, because they Evangelize and reach out people at all levels of society.
Roman Catholics generally dont change faith. Significant number of establishment Protestant Christians (Anglicans/Methodists) are at the very least attending Evangelical churches.
Evangelicals are making inroad among the Hindu Tea estate workers. Buddhist families facing crises or poor are also joining the Evangelicals.
If I was an oppressed Shudra/Dalit in India I would become a Evangelical Christian. A westernized organizations with backing by the US. In contrast Buddhism is “intellectual” and essentialy a self help program. Neither can Buddha provide divine help as he is not a God.
Another issue, Roman Catholics and Protestants are lumped together as Christians. Catholic/Protestant divide is probably bigger than Sunni/Shia. Evangelicals have a distinct loathing for Catholicism, and often refer to the Pope as Satan.
Disclosure: Paternal and Maternal families are Protestant (Anglican/Methodist). Quite a few of them have moved on to become Evangelical Christians, including my parent and sisters. One of my Brother in Law is a Catholic and that sparks “interesting” comments from my mother (now 92).
I understand why conversion to Christianity would make sense but it faces two roadblocks in India
1. Your personal social standing will hardly change(separate church/mosque for dalit converts), you will still have to move in the same social circles , face the same issues, the conversion may remove the social stigma but only after couple of generation where no one can trace it back to your original caste, and even that would happen if you drop your surname. No one plans that long term.
2. If you are poor the immediate access to caste quotas in jobs/education vis-a-vi small number of quota in few institution set up up Christians. If you convert you lose immediate access to affirmative action. In the south to circumvent this,entire christian and muslim dalits/OBCs are grouped under caste quotas and the percentage is jacked up to 70-80 percent (Tamil Nadu has 90 percent i think), so that conversion is not an issue for quota jobs/education.
sbarrkum, why do you think Shudras are discriminated against? Is PM Modi discriminated against?
Isnt 30%-40% of India illiterate. Any idea as to what community has the most illiterate.
https://thewire.in/education/education-and-exclusion-of-dalits-a-history-of-hurt-and-humiliation
1) why Shudra + Dalit/Harijan/untouchable versus only Dalit/Harijan/untouchable? [Maybe Shudra are not harmed much by caste?]
2) Dalit/Harijan/untouchable economic empowerment is almost completely unrelated to caste, racism, bigotry, sectarianism, exploitation, oppression, imperialism, hegemony etc. Often the most oppressed/harmed groups perform the best.
This I didn’t know. Too many people very close to me have are deeply embedded in Tagore. I suspect part of the issue is that both of us have seen a very small fraction of his work. If you are interested, I can put you in touch with the foremost living experts on Tagore.
I find some of Tagore’s stories very moving. I was moved to tears to Tagore’s words on Imam Hussein.
I forgot to mention most of the works that have moved me in the above list.
I would add many books from the Ramakrishna order.
Slapstik Pandit 😉 . . . have you read Dara Shikoh and Jahanara’s books. I have heard amazing things about them but don’t know how to read Parsi/Dari 🙁
I mean many of us can figure out large chunks of the spoken language because it is so similar to our own.
Have you read Kashmir’s great Sufi works? Lakshman Joo’s works?
Vikram, I have thousands of books on shelf. How can someone find time to read new books?
VioletTwilight says:
Vikram,
Do you think Indian Literature will ever have popularity of Tolkien given that there is no unified language?
Just recently a Telugu movie was made from an old popular novel and was a great hit. But the popular novels tend to be only the romantic ones since women are seen as the ones with enough time for enjoying fiction.
Men read serious items as spiritual or social reality ones. Do you think this is conducive for fantasy books to be universally popular?
The latest popular English fiction is not written for serious readers. It was such a pain to read Amish Tripathi even though he had many creative and interesting ideas.
So, should we expect fantasy genre in Indian English at all when so many alternatives exist to experience fantasy (eg. Bahubali)?
VioletTwilight, in my opinion, language is not a problem. In the cinema world, we see ideas from Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marathi cinemas getting transplanted quite often. Ideas clearly matter more than language, even though each language has its own singular experience.
There are elements of fantasy and magic in extant Indian literature, and these are ideas Indian audiences are well familiar with, even if they are masked under divine/religious justifications. I dont think eschewing the religious background for fantasy will be a great disconnect.
I think the bigger problem is simply the desire to write books with imaginative content, free of choke hold of social realism, and in tune with heritage of Indian literature. The psychological scars of colonialism were immense (and we are not the only ones who have suffered), and there remains the lure of Western readers who pay in dollars, but will only consume social realism themed books from Indian authors.
Just so I understand you better, is it your expectation that Bahubali movie like story be well-written as a book rather than being a film medium?
Because, writers for movies are likely to make more profit than fiction writers. This is driven by large population being non-English speakers who like their entertainment in their native tongue.
For example, Yandamoori Veerendranath in Telugu wrote about black magic fantasy which sold well. I brought up Amish Tripathi because he did fantasy well but fell very short of language command.
Were you expecting non-religious fantasy stories to be popular world-wide instead? But, won’t that depend on playing the publishing game well? I see a lot of Indian cook book writers doing that game with a mix of grandma recipes and memories combined.
Also, want to let you know that Kiran Desai wrote Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard, which is more magic realism/fantasy (and quite fun) but got the Booker prize for the Inheritance of Loss. So…it’s not really the lack of writing but more of popularity.
VioletTwilight,the underlying reason for the lack of popularity is that modern Indian authors have been overly committed to social realism. Authors as a group are not seen as popular figures (there are some exceptions). There is a disconnect between the middle/lower middle classes (the major potential market) and the authors, since all too often authors only fulfil the role of native informants for Westerners, especially when it comes to English language writing.
Note that I am speaking as a Haryanvi origin English medium educated Mumbaikar, so might be lacking a lot of information of how the Indian language literature scene outside of Hindi and Marathi work.
Another way of thinking about it is this. Until private TV channels came along, Hindiphone Indians only had social realism serials like Shanti and Hum Log on DD to choose from. Once the native market had a bigger say, the content of the shows changed dramatically (whether the English medium classes like these shows is a different discussion). But it is only an evolution of these shows which can be a genuinely decolonized Indian television series.
Note that as soon as Netflix and Western money entered the fray, the Anurag Kashyap types offer up social realism (with some blood and sex) on TV again.
We’ve simply never had a proper Indian market develop for expansive, modern Indic literature. I would say that folks like Chetan Bhagat and Tripathi really created this market, and it will take some time for it to mature and motivate more complex work.
The job of writers is to produce Literature. Not to cater to the tastes of the lower and middle classes. If the lower middle classes don’t appreciate good Literature, they need to be educated. Bollywood is there to keep the middle classes entertained.
Even in the US, the lower classes aren’t exactly reading “The Great Gatsby”.
Kabir, this logic does not explain why Anglos have so much high quality non ‘Great Gatsby’ type literature.
One of Ashis Nandy’s key contributions was to show how colonialism had a psychological, and not just economic/political impact. Colonialism left elite Indians with a distinct sense of feeling to justify everything they consumed and enjoyed to the colonizers. This is understandable since employment in the Raj was the most popular path to economic mobility and industrial life.
Indian cinema did not have to obey such constraints since the early entrepreneurial entertainers were able to create a market outside the colonized classes. For example, Prithivraj Kapoor used to do street plays across India during the Quit India movement. And the result is that Indian cinema has produced a truly expansive spectrum of work, ranging from ‘Court’ (movie of record for Mumbai) to HAHK/DDLJ types (likely to be forgotten once a generation grows up with no conception of marriage restrictions) to Baahubali (epic).
Indian literature has no such expansive footprint. Due to the psychological and economic dependence on the Western ‘India social realism’ market, a large chunk of thoughtful writers remain disconnected from the market in India and the authors who serve it.
A similar scenario is seen in journalism as well, where the elite English language media (which has many assets) is more connected to the international English media (BBC, NYT, WaPo) than Indian language media. One can check how many times leading English language journalists like Barkha Dutt cite articles from NYT/WaPo etc on their twitter lines compared to those from Indian language media. India must be the only country in the world where foreign news media relies on authors from media houses with a miniscule readership in their home country for op-eds etc. I have never seen NYT/WaPo carry a piece from a Dainik Jagran, Daily Thanthi, ABP journalist.
They would have done similar things with Indian cinema, but Bollywood forces them to pay attention and acknowledge a broader India.
But I doubt that DDLJ is ever going to be forgotten etc
Why would an American newspaper cite a Hindi newspaper? American newspapers are just better, especially papers of record like the New York Times and the Washington Post. It’s not all just colonialism. Journalism is of a higher quality in the West as is Literature. Also, obviously foreign media is going to get op-eds from people who write in correct English. English is what matters.
Yes, it is true that the West has a lot of genre literature. But those of us who study Literature don’t take it seriously. There is the Western Canon and then there are books that the average person reads for entertainment. Don’t confuse the categories.
The good thing about the US is that over four years of English Literature classes in high school even people who are never going to read a non-required book in their lives at least know who Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald are. That is what the standard of good writing is. In Pakistan, supposedly “educated” people cannot quote a single couplet of Ghalib, which is frankly pathetic.
MadhSang says:
@Vikram
Good points! The op-ed pages of western newspapers will continue to highlight the adherents of the “universal civilization” who are only ethnically Indian, and understandably. A surfeit of upper middle class Indians who have seceded from the very society they live in do cloud more organic voices from appearing in such media. On the other hand, the relevance of such western validation is in precipitous decline and Indian writers, even in English, will begin to write primarily for Indians. Aatish Taseer wrote in 2015 of the boatman he met in Varanasi who looked forward to sending “this government of the English packing” with the rise of Modi. That hasn’t quite happened but the market for Indian authors, even those whose rise was mediated by the “universal” establishment is shifting homewards as Taseer himself wrote, wistfully, this month that after the rape of colonialsm ended 70 years ago, the seduction of cultural authority is also now ending. I am, however, skeptical if an Indianized English can ever be a medium for an authentic Indian conversation or a nursery of organic Indian ideas.
Extensive translation between Indian languages (as a web, not hub and spoke through English medium) is necessary to stimulate a shared Indian literature. Vivek Shanbaug’s recent Kannada novel Ghachar Gochar read as an Indian work written for an Indian audience on its own terms. Many of the cherished novels in Malayalam draw on myths (pan-Indian as well as Yakshi/Chattan etc…), one of the most famous being M.T’s Randaam-Oozham which tells Mahabharata from Bhima’s perspective. I’d love to discover the best authentic voices from the Indo-Gangetic heartland; unfortunately the Malayalam literati still translate very little Indian work that hasn’t been validated abroad.
Thanks Zack. Mehendi Laga ke Rakhna wont be forgotten for sure.
@MadhSang, agree with almost everything you say. Regarding Indian English, I think it is here to stay. As sophisticated as Indian languages are, English can currently express far more complex thought due to its much larger vocabulary. It is also part of the resistance against Hindi by non-Hindi wallahs.
I dont see any possibility of a diminishing of English’s role until North Indians give up trying to impose Hindi, and truly embrace multilingualism.
Regarding authentic voices from the Gangetic plains, I would try Adha Gaon by Masoon Raza and Raag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla.
MadhSang,
Agreed on the need for translation. Often I get to know the literary work in a different language through a dubbed movie.
I think you are underestimating the awesome serials DD (Stone Boy, Farmaan, Chanakya, Malgudi days etc) did before private channels and excessive zoom lens ruined TV. Everyone watched RajasekharaCharithamu (first Telugu Novel) on DD. It was as good as Pride and Prejudice by BBC imho.
Netflix is opening doors but won’t sponsor anything that won’t sell. I think ithihaas ki thaali se and RajaRasoiAurAnyaKahani to be very entertaining.
You are also underestimating the disconnect in language. A lot of Indians have English as second language. Do you pick Chaucer or Tolkien when you want to be entertained?
Reading in mother tongue vs. English would be as difficult for many unless it is written in slang style of Tripathi.
There are a lot of great Indian writers but like I said dubbed movie is much easier than translating a book.
Garcia Marquez won’t be as popular without translations. We should perhaps start there.
Cannot really comment on South Asian Literature vs European Lit. I just know (a few) translations of SA Literature.
However, there is a huge difference in how science and engineering evolved in Europe vs South Asia.
Two basic concepts in Europe (England?)
a) Scientific Publications
b) Patents and Copyright
So in the west one could stand on the shoulders of Giants (Issac Newton?). There was no necessity to reinvent the wheel. In Engineering/Inventions there was an assured period of “monopoly” and then the concept/invention reverted to the public.
In contrast, out here in South Asia there are plenty of superb Engineering work. However, no record as to how it was measured and built/created. Most were done by caste/craftsmen and they kept their knowledge within the family/community. If possibly techniques were written, termites and climate would have destroyed them in a few decades.
sbarrkum;
Most were done by caste/craftsmen and they kept their knowledge within the family/community.
watch from 21.40 onwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5S5nu81oV4
rohit,
I live in the boondocks. 100kbs-200kbs connection.
Half hour (approx) might work if electricity and internet connection does not break. And most often it does.
Frustrating at times. Then also I look at it as a blessing, need to stick to the writing, which sticks in the mind.
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Heartbeat Bill Re-Introduced at the Ohio Statehouse
Feb 12, 2019 | Breaking News
COLUMBUS – State Senator Kristina Roegner has reintroduced the Heartbeat Bill in the Ohio Senate and State Representatives Ron Hood and Candice Keller have reintroduced the Heartbeat Bill in the House.
“In the wake of New York passing one of the most heinous bills in American history, Ohio has the opportunity to protect the most vulnerable in our society by enacting the Heartbeat Bill,” said Aaron Baer, president of Citizens for Community Values. “Ohioans sent a clear message in 2018 that this is a pro-life state. That’s why we have such strong pro-life advocates like Governor Mike DeWine, Senate President
Larry Obhof, and Speaker Larry Householder in positions of leadership.”
For more than 8 years, the General Assembly has been considering the Heartbeat Bill, passing the bill twice. Unfortunately, former Governor John Kasich vetoed the bill both times.
“The tragic New York bill and horrific statements by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam show the true extremism driving the pro-abortion movement. New York believes it’s okay to abort children moments before they are born. Gov. Northam believes it’s ‘up to the parents’ on what to do with their newborn child even after he or she is born. Now is the time for Ohio to respond and say, ‘We value ALL life!'”
For questions, contact Citizens for Community Values at [email protected], or 513.733.5775.
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Why The Noble M12 Is The Ultimate British Sports Car
You probably think I’ve taken a crazy pill, but the Noble M12 is my ultimate British sports car
Proper British sports cars need to be four things: 1) lightweight 2) nippy 3) bloody good fun to drive and 4) usable on road and track. So what’s more deserving of the ‘ultimate British sports car’ crown than the mighty Noble M12? Shall we start with weight, then? At a touch over 1000kg, it’s certainly light enough to be incredibly nimble and devastatingly rapid in a straight line. Just how devastating will become apparent now... You see, plonked directly over the rear axle of this ultimate flyweight weapon is a twin-turbocharged version of the meaty 3.0-litre Ford V6 engine you’ll find in Mk III police-spec Mondeos. Very nice. Numbers? Where the standard cop-mobile produced around 220 horses, the GTO-3R (pictured) cranks out a monumental 415bhp. In layman’s terms then, the M12 is hugely fast; 0-62mph is demolished in 3.5sec and flat out it'll pull 185mph! And that’s before you factor in the necessary modifications that endow this orange rocket with 450bhp. Driving fun then, is a given. Up to third gear, the M12’s whistling engine will light up the rear tyres in an instant, with pin-sharp steering responses ensuring you stay on the black stuff. Acceleration is brutal enough to make you laugh, cry and soil yourself all at the same time. There's a reason these things are called 'Ferrari killers', you know. Then there’s the M12’s interior. It’s more basic than an Ikea side table and is littered with knobs and dials borrowed from a Fiesta. There are no distractions, just a round steering wheel, box of pedals, manual gearbox and a phallic handbrake. There is an Alpine CD player, but it’s so far away that you daren’t lean over. Not that the engine and road roar would let you listen to it, mind… And the looks? Admittedly, it’s not the prettiest British sports car to have graced our tiny island, but it is very impressive to look at nonetheless. It’s ultra-low (but does clear speed bumps happily), super small and extremely purposeful looking. From the cooling ducts to the massive rear spoiler (no, this one isn’t standard), driving the M12 won’t result in ‘what-a-cock’ glances from passers by, rather ‘what-the-hell-is-that-barrel-of-awesomeness’ exclamations. And that's why - to me at least - the Noble M12 is the ultimate British sports car. Huge shout out to Louis for lending us his awesome motor! If you think we should feature your car next, we'd love to hear from you.
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When First Responders Fail to Use Reasonable Care, They Can be Liable for New Mexico Car Accidents Causing Personal Injuries
We all know that when we see an emergency vehicle on the roadway with its flashing lights on or sirens on, we need to yield to the right of way. And we also know that emergency vehicles get certain exceptions from complying with the vehicle and traffic law. If we get into a collision with an emergency vehicle, we may immediately feel like this is our fault and we are the cause of the accident. After all, aren’t we supposed to always yield to the right of way of an emergency vehicle?
Not always. In fact, sometimes emergency vehicles can be the sole cause of a New Mexico car accident. If you or a loved one have been injured in a New Mexico car accident caused by an emergency vehicle, do not guess whether it was or was not your fault—call our experienced New Mexico car accident attorneys at the Mark Caruso to learn how we can help you obtain compensation for your injuries by dialing (505) 883-5000. Emergency responders must follow certain laws in able to use the exceptions to the vehicle and traffic law. When they fail to do this, it can result in very serious car accidents and personal injuries to victims.
Emergency Vehicles Needs to Use Either Flashing Lights or a Siren to Get Us to Yield to Their Right of Way
We know that we are supposed to yield to emergency vehicles. This is both common sense and under NM Stat. Section 66-7-332 which requires under subdivision (A) “[u]pon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle displaying flashing emergency lights or when the driver is giving audible signal by siren, exhaust whistle or bell, the driver of every other vehicle shall yield to the right of way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in that position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed except when otherwise directed by a police officer.”
The important part of this law is that the emergency vehicle must be using either its lights or sirens for us to yield. If the emergency vehicle is not using either, then we do not have to legally yield. However, sometimes emergency vehicles still proceed as if we all have to still yield to them without their lights or sirens on. This can result in serious New Mexico car accident and whoever is at fault—including an emergency vehicle—will be liable for the victim’s injuries.
Emergency Vehicles Need BOTH a Flashing Light and Siren to Run Red Lights or Stop Signs and to Exceed the Speed Limit
Some of the the common traffic laws that we know emergency vehicles can violate are red lights or stop signs and the speed limit. Indeed, NM Stat. 66-7-6 (B) permit “[t]he driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may: 2) proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down as necessary for safe operation; 3) exceed the maximum speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or property . . . .”
Further, subdivision (C) requires that an authorized emergency vehicle may only violate these two sets of traffic laws only when it “sounds an audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle as reasonably necessary when the vehicle is equipped with at least one lighted lamp displaying a red light visible . . . .” Moreover, subdivision (d) provides that “[t]his section does not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons nor does it protect the driver from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others.”
There are several important points to note. First, an emergency vehicle running a red light or stop sign must still slow down as necessary to go through the light safely. Second, an emergency vehicle may only exceed the speed limit when the driver can still do so safely in a manner that does not endanger life or property such as losing control or not being able to stop or maneuver properly.
Third, an emergency vehicle MUST have both its lights and siren on in order to violate the traffic law. This is to provide both an audible and visual cue to other drivers. The failure of having both is dangerous and does not allow an emergency vehicle to break the law. Fourth and finally, an emergency vehicle—even if both the lights and siren are on—still must act in a way that is not reckless.
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On April 17th, 2018, a global security company published the "2018 G4S World Cash Report", concluding that "demand for cash continues to rise globally, despite the increase in electronic payment options".
According to the World Cash Report, first of its kind, "Cash is still by far the most widely used form of payment in all regions of the world and cash in circulation is growing." As it turns out, all this "cash is dead or dying" cashless overhype is misinformation. When it comes to the public's relationship with cash, both per continent and on a global level, it is clear that cash is not just important... it is increasingly important.
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None of the sites visited are difficult for anyone of average fitness. Sites on hill tops typically require an uphill walk on a rough path, but they are not particularly steep.
Aguilar — — Cathar Château.
Albi — — picturesque town which gave its name to the Albigensian Crusade, Cathedral, palace, viestiges of Cité and site of medieval castles.
Alet-les-Bains — — Natural spring, Medieval Cité, Ruined Abbey / Cathedral.
Arques — — Crusader Château & museum. Click for more about tours of the Château at Arques
Avignonet — — Site of a Château belonging to the Count of Toulouse where a team of inquisitors were murdered in 1242.
Béziers — — City and Cathedral. Site of the famous massacre of 1209.
Bram — — Circulade & site of an atrocity during the War against the Cathars.
Cabaret (Lastours) — — 3 Cathar Châteaux + medieval village.
Carcassonne — — Cathar Château (Château Comtal), Cité, Basilica, museum, Canal du Midi. Click for more about tours of Carcassonne
Cordes-sur-Ciel — — Bastide founded by Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, as a stronghold and refuge for dispossessed Cathars.
Foix — — Cathar Château, Capital of the medieval county of Foix.
Fontfroide — — Cistercian Abbey.
Hautpoul — — Cathar stronghold besieged by Simon de Montfort. Vestiges of two castles.
Lagrasse — — Benedictine Abbey.
Lastours (Cabaret) — — 3 Cathar Châteaux + medieval village. Click for more about Lastours
Lavaur — — Cathedral, site of atrocity during the Cathar Wars.
Le Bezu — — Cathar Château.
Les Casses— — Vestiges of Cathar town and site of a mass burning of Cathar Perfects.
Mazamet — — Museum of Catharism.
Minerve — — Cathar City and Château.
Montaillou — — the famous Cathar village where everyone was arrested by the Bishop of Pamiers.
Montsegur — — Cathar Château, medieval village & museum. Click for more about Montségur
Muret — — Site of an open battle where King Peter II of Aragon was killed.
Peyrepertuse — — Cathar Château.
Prouille — — The first Dominican convent, founded by St Dominic.
Puilaurens — — Cathar Château.
Puivert — — Cathar Château & museum. Click for more about tours of Puivert
Queribus — — Cathar Château.
Rennes-le-Château — — Roman town, now a Hilltop Village with a notable church & museum.
St Hilaire — — Benedictine Abbey.
Termes — — Cathar Château + medieval village. Click for more about Termes
Toulouse — — Capital of the county of Toulouse,Museums, Cathedral, important Churches.
Villerouge Termenes — — Château of the Archbishop of Narbonne where the last known Cathar parfait was burned alive.
— Very easy walk on the flat, OK for wheelchair users
— Easy walk on the flat, with steps
— Easy walk, c15 mins
— Moderate walk, rough paths, hilly. c30 mins.
The walks are not particularly steep or dangerous, but stones can be slippery in wet weather. French standards of maintenance and the provision of safety rails might not be what you are used to at home. We recommend taking hiking sticks for sites rated and above.
The Languedoc is highly seasonal, but over the last few years weather has become less predictable. You should therefore bring a range of clothing, including waterproofs. You should also allow for extremely hot weather in the summer (light clothing, sun hats, sun cream, etc). Some Cathar Castles are located on mountain tops. Climbs are not too demanding - 10-40 mins. Safety precautions in France are not the same as those in most English speaking countries, so sturdy footware and hiking sticks are recommended as a few of the paths are very uneven. Holiday Insurance is recommended, as is a mobile telephone (cellphone).
Other things you might find useful: camera, torch, binoculars, map of the languedoc, compass, books on the Cathars or Cathar Castles. (see Books)
You do not need to know anything at all about Catharism or the Cathars to come on our tours, but you might get more out of it if you have some familiarity with the subject.
There are lots of books on the subject in English as well as in French. Many are very good. Below are some of our recommendations for books in English, divided into general reading and advanced reading. If you click on the links you will go to reviews in a new window, which in turn will link to Amazon if you like the look of any of them (both com and co.uk)
Zoë Oldenburg, Massacre at Montsegur: a history of the Albigensian Crusade
Malcolm Barber, The Cathars, Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages
Malcolm Lambert, The Cathars
Stephen O'Shea, The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathar
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: village Occitan, 1294-1324
Jonathan Sumption, The Albigensian Crusade
René Weis, The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars, 1290-1329
Michael Costen, The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
Marcus Cowper, Cathar Castles, Fortresses of the albigensian Crusade 1209-1300
Scholarly Texts on the Cathars
William of Tudela and an Anonymous Successor (J. Shirley, translator,) The Song of the Cathar Wars
Peter des Vaux de Cerney (English translation by W.A. & M.D. Sibly) The History of the Albigensian Crusade
William of Puylaurens (English translation by WA Sibly and MD Sibly), The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens
Walter L Wakefield and Austin P Evans, Heresies of the High Middle Ages
H J Warner, Albigensian Heresy (2 vols)
Steven Runciman, The Medieval Manichee, A Study in the Christian Dualist Heresy
I know some of the classic "Cathar Castles" are on mountain tops. How difficult are the climbs?
None of the sites we visit are inaccessible for participants of average fitness. While sites on hill tops typically require uphill walks on rough paths, most take less than 30 minutes. (Incidentally, in photographs the walks tend to look harder than they really are).
The walks are not particularly steep or dangerous, but stones can be slippery in wet weather. Montsegur and Peyrepertuse are more difficult a climb than the other sites. The paths we use are maintained in a relatively natural form – meaning that you will find few concrete steps or railings, but they also lack chasms, pot-holes or slippery gravel. They are often lined with box trees that serve as hand rails in turns and other key points. The things we caution guests about include the occasional tree trunk semi-buried on the path and narrow portions of trail.
French standards of maintenance and the provision of safety rails might not be what you are used to at home, so we recommend bringing hiking sticks.
For ratings showing the relative difficulty of all sites included on our tours, see the list at Locations
Could you give me more detail about what James does on a tour to a château or other historic site versus an ordinary tour guide?
James offers the insights of a historian to Cathar Country Tour participants. Think of him as the history teacher you always wished you had had. Better yet, James brings his deep knowledge of the history and the sites of the Cathar region out of the classroom and to the very places where history was made. His broad and deep understanding of the region’s history is based on decades of meticulous, research into the theological, academic and scholarly sources that illuminate the region and its history. Our clients praise his erudition, enthusiasm and flair for addressing the level of his audience.
James will paint a coherent picture of both the specific events and personalities linked to each site you visit with him and its contribution to the bigger historical tableau. His combination of wit and erudition enable him to make complex historical themes accessible in a way that is unique and memorable. He does not need or use scripts, and is unlikely to be unable to answer any question you might have.
We have children of various ages, can they be accommodated on a tour?
As the father of an inquisitive young son, James is comfortable answering the many questions younger family members have (in fact, he reports that they pose some of the best questions). So feel free to include them in the tour if you feel they would benefit from the experience (children under age 16 are half price). On the other hand, because not every child is looking for this kind of experience we can arrange day-care with a trusted and registered nanny.
I have already visited Carcassonne. Why should I see it again?
We guarantee that 75% of what you will see and learn will be different from from what you have seen and heard before. It is likely to be more like 90%. Most of our clients have previously seen Carcassonne, and not one has so far been disappointed by their tour with James.
Cathar history is fascinating, but our interests extend well beyond that to include other historical periods, architecture, the Languedoc’s legendary natural beauty and much more, can James include those topics in a tour?
While our tours will always highlight key Cathar sites and history, James has lived in the region for decades and shares your passion for those (and many other) topics. He is delighted by the opportunity to explore these themes with our guests. Ancient hominids, Greeks, Etruscans, Romans, Celts, Visigoths, Moors, Knights Templar, Medieval Counts, Troubadours and others have all left traces behind and James is uniquely qualified to bring this rich heritage to life. The Languedoc is studded with spectacular mountains, megaliths, caves, castles, churches, abbeys, wildlife, thermal springs and even dinosaur fossils. As an Oxford-educated scholar like James, this region is a living library of human and natural history that he passionately believes must be shared with a wider audience.
What about regional cuisine, wine, contemporary culture and the other opportunities that can enrich our scholarly pursuits?
Because our goal is to make your visit the most memorable experience possible, we offer tour options that include aperitifs, local wines, local delicacies, and other enhancements in carefully selected venues.
We will be part of an organized coach tour of the region and would like to have James join us for a day or two; what arrangements can you make for us?
James can meet your group anywhere in the Languedoc and adjacent regions to provide expert insights tailored to your touring plans. Because we are a small, family-owned business we have the flexibility to adjust to your needs. In fact, part of what makes Cathar Country Tours unique is our ability to work with guests (and tour organizers) to customize our services. Pricing information is available for a variety of options.
We want James all to ourselves for a day or more of touring; what arrangements can you make for us?
In addition to scheduled tours, which generally accommodate up to 7 guests, we offer customized tours limited to you and other members of your party. We guarantee both exclusivity and the flexibility to match your specific interests. To explore all the options available, Contact Us.
What happens if I’m the only person who signs up for a scheduled tour?
We set the scheduled tour dates ourselves and are committed to doing each of these tours regardless of the number of participants.
What happens if the weather is bad?
Fortunately, the weather here is good most days of the year. Like everywhere else, blustery weather occasionally occurs but it is rarely severe enough to cancel an outing. On those rare days when weather conditions force a cancellation, the tour can be either rescheduled or we visit one of the sites indoors. Participants are encouraged to wear sensible walking shoes for all weather conditions and to bring wind breakers or other suitable attire in the case of showers or windy weather. To date we have never had to cancel a tour.
What happens if I get ill or have some other emergency that prevents my participation?
Should you have unexpected, unavoidable alterations to your holiday plans we can offer an alternative scheduled tour or provide a letter required for your travel insurance claim.
Does Cathar Country Tours offer special arrangements for pre-existing groups?
Yes, we have found that pre-existing groups work well for all parties and we can offer discounted rates. Contact us to discuss potential arrangements.
Do the scheduled group tours offer opportunities to shop, buy postage stamps and do other non-tour related activities?
Many museums, abbeys and castles we visit sell themed items and time will be available to do some quick shopping in those cases, but to accommodate the schedules of all participants, post office stops and the like are limited on scheduled group tours. Adequate time is allowed in all our schedules for rest stops. Customized tours can, of course, be designed to address any of your special wishes, including our insights on shopping for wine, cheese and other local temptations. Please enquire in advance.
Is there a way of avoiding the summer queues?
Yes. We make special arrangements to avoid queues and crowds.
A selection of our tours and other services. Click on one of the boxes for more information
Scheduled One-Week Tours
Join one of our scheduled week-long tours which take place in May/June and September each year, including iconic sites such as Montsegur.
Private Tours for Individuals
Customised Tours for 1 person to 5 people: you get to chose how long the tour is, where you visit, and what topics you want to learn about.
Customised Tours for groups of 6 or more: you get to chose how long the tour is, where you visit, what topics you want to learn about, and where you stay.
One-Day Scheduled Tours
Join one of our limited number of scheduled day-tours which take place in May/June and September each year, including iconic Cathar sites such as Montsegur.
Talks, Lectures, Seminars
If you want an entertaining but intellectually rigorous and historically accurate account of Catharism, the Albigensian Crusade and the Medieval Languedoc..
We offer a Concierge service to help you plan tours focused on the Languedoc / Occitania (including topics other than the Cathars). We also offer services to established Tour Operators organising visits to Cathar Country.
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Bisons Hooped by Hotel Woes in Saskatchewan
November 6, 2014 8:49 AM | Sports
U of M Bisons football head coach Brian Dobie, QB Jordan Yantz, RB Alex Christie and SB Nic Demski. (CHRISD.CA)
WINNIPEG — A travelling sports team usually has a host hotel to call home when playing on the road, but for the Manitoba Bisons this weekend, it’s turning into a John Candy-like travel experience.
The Bison football squad is playing their first playoff game of the season on Friday against the Saskatchewan Huskies in Saskatoon.
With no available rooms in the western city, head coach Brian Dobie and his players are having to make the roughly 90-minute trek north to Prince Albert to find accommodation.
“I’m not happy about it. You know, I get it, it’s a smaller centre,” Dobie said hesitantly when asked about the situation. “I guess I’ll leave that to the athletic directors.”
The team was to depart Winnipeg today by bus and travel about six hours before stopping in Yorkton to practice, but arrangements have since been made to fly directly to Saskatoon instead. The Bisons will practice when they land, before busing to Prince Albert to sleep.
Bisons’ quarterback Jordan Yantz reacts:
“We’ll get up the next morning and will have to kill time because we can’t go into Saskatoon too early and walk around in shopping malls,” added Dobie. “They’ve (University of Saskatchewan) known they’re hosting a playoff game for a couple weeks. Yeah, it’s just… you know, I’m probably going into territory I shouldn’t go in to. It’s disappointing that we have to do this, but we are going to do the best we can to make the best of a disadvantaged situation.”
A large conference and ringette tournament are being blamed as reasons for the hotel shortage.
Dobie said Saskatchewan does actually have a host hotel, but arrangements weren’t made in advance to book a block of rooms for the visiting team.
The Herd has yet to win a road game this season, something Dobie hopes to turn around by defeating the Huskies.
The Bisons finished third in conference standings with a 4-4 record, while Saskatchewan (6-2) finished in second place.
Game time on Friday is 7 p.m. CT (Shaw TV, CanadaWest.tv).
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Warhammer Chaosbane (PC) (Preview)
Written by ArcticFox
Warhammer Chaosbane
Released: June 4, 2019
Published By: BigBen Interactive
Developed By: Eko Software
ESRB Rating: Not Yet Rated (M)
Reviewed On: Windows 10 PC
Available On: Windows PC, PlayStation 4, XBox One
Number of Players: Up to four
Many thanks to HomeRunPR and BigBen for the review copy!
Chaosbane is an adventure game set in the Warhammer Old World. That's right, pre-Cataclysm, Pre-Age of Sigmar. The player can choose to go as one of four possible characters: A Wood Elf Scout, a Human Soldier, a Dwarf Berserker or a High Elf Mage. The game begins in Nuln, an Imperial city experiencing an attack by creatures that appear to be coming from Nurgle, chaos god of plague.
The player reports to Teclis, a well-known High Elf character from the Warhammer lore who functions as the quest giver in the main tower, which is the "home base" the player starts each quest from. Once a quest is given, the player heads over to the quest area by running through the appropriate illuminated archway. New archways unlock as the player progresses through the game.
The game is played form an orthographic point of view. Movement is controlled by clicking the mouse button which will cause the character to move to the spot pointed to by the cursor. Clicking on items or enemies will cause the character to interact with them - attacking enemies and barrels, opening chests or picking up items. The player clears each map of enemies, picking up treasure and items along the way. At the end of the quest, the player goes through an exit doorway to return to the tower.
As the character levels, new attacks and abilities are unlocked, and are unique to the character class chosen. For example, the Scout can fire a spread of arrows that covers a wide area, while the Soldier gets a shield bash that can cause damage and push enemies back, even at a short distance. It takes energy to use these special attacks, however, and the energy reserve depletes quickly. It can be replenished by using normal attacks to slay enemies.
Strong Points: Quick to learn; good graphics quality
Weak Points: Not very original
Moral Warnings: Lots of combat and bloodshed; occult themes
I found that gameplay wasn't very different between a melee class and a ranged class. In either case, enemies close in on you so quickly that you can't kill all of them before they're in melee anyway. The Scout seems to be equally effective in both ranged and melee which makes it feel more powerful than say, the Soldier, which has almost exclusively melee attacks. Again, since the enemies close in so quickly it's not a huge advantage, but it does feel more restrictive.
The character can also find items to upgrade, such as weapons, armor talismans, etc. These are normally found in crates and barrels that can be broken in the various quests. Breaking barrels also frequently rewards the player with small amounts of gold.
Game difficulty is set by a slider, which I found to be an interesting way to go. By default, it's on the light end of medium difficulty, which I found to be incredibly easy. I mean effortlessly easy. Early in the tutorial you have to drink a healing potion whether you need it or not, and I felt like it was a waste because my health was still completely full.
There is a multiplayer component to the game, though I never seemed to pick a time when others were playing so I could try it out. This is still in beta testing, however, so that isn't too surprising.
Chaosbane is currently in beta so there are a few minor technical issues that still need attention. I'll list my observations here in the hopes that the development team finds them useful.
If you click beyond an obstacle the character will run up to the obstacle and run in place as he or she tries to reach the point clicked on. The 'use potion' key seems to be mislabeled in the UI (It says 'Q' whereas the tutorial tells you to use 'A.' The tutorial is correct.) None of these problems hampered the ability to play the game, however.
The load times are a bit long for a game in 2019, especially one that doesn't seem to need a huge amount of system resources.
The game does play smoothly and I didn't notice any graphical glitches, though it would benefit from having the gamma bumped up a bit. Some of the breakable barrels in the sewer were hard to see. The same would be true of the enemies, though they're highlighted in red to help with that.
Controls - 4/5
Language - 10/10
Occult/Supernatural - 5/10
Cultural/Moral/Ethical - 9/10
The sound effects are good enough to convey the point, and the music supports the gloomy feel of a Warhammer game. I do think the voice acting could use some work, particularly the Wood Elf. Her lines and tone would actually be perfect if the tone of the game itself were more lighthearted. More on that later.
Moral warnings here are the usual ones expected from a Warhammer game. It's a high fantasy setting, so there will be magic, monsters and plenty of action. Most of what you fight are different types of monsters, but there are humanoid enemies too and there's plenty of blood splatter from hits. There was no profanity that I observed, and no sexual content of any kind. The Warhammer world does have the idea of gods and goddesses, both benevolent and evil, though there is no playable class that would have the player interacting directly with any of that.
Morally, the game does better than most licensed Warhammer titles. The character is always of one of the "good guy" factions and is working to destroy evil. Some may be uncomfortable with the mage class, however, since it means the direct use of magic spells.
So this is a game in which you play as one of four archetypes, get quests from a wizard in a tower, and clear hordes of monsters from mazes. Does any of this sound familiar? It should, if you've ever played Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. It's essentially the same game. You get a choice of (initially) 4 possible characters consisting of an elf, a wizard, a warrior or a valkyrie, and off you go, working your way through the mazes as hordes of enemies attack you. There are breakable barrels with loot items and gold, and a powerful wizard in a tower sends you on the quests.
Is that meant as a criticism? Well, yes and no. Chaosbane is not the most original game concept ever, but people who played Gauntlet: Dark Legacy remember it fondly for the good time they had with friends, playing a whimsical game and just having fun. If you'd like to play a game like that again but aren't looking to get an old GameCube or PS2, this might just scratch the itch. The problem is, it would still have to be played over Steam, as opposed to everybody being together on the sofa. The only other problem is this isn't Gauntlet, this is Warhammer. So there isn't much of a whimsical element in this game. Old Warhammer, like from the 80s and 90s, had a light, silly tone to some of it and I really think this game would benefit from reaching back and incorporating that tone. That would have made it much more fun. Instead, it has more of a "modern" Warhammer feel which is more grim, depressing and dark.
My beloved Bretonnia does not appear in the game, much to my sadness.
So is this a good game? Yes, I would recommend it to Warhammer fans and to fans of games like Gauntlet: Dark Legacy or Diablo. It's fast, it's smooth and can be a lot of fun with friends as well. It isn't going to blow any minds but it's a solid game.
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CDC Director, President Trump Push for Schools to Reopen in the Fall
Amanda Casanova | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Wednesday, July 8, 2020
President Donald Trump said this week he wants students to head back to the classroom this fall.
His announcement comes as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and as many states in the country show increases in cases.
Still, according to CBN News, Trump said this week that he is hopeful students will be able to physically attend school in a few weeks.
"We want our schools open. We want to get them open quickly, beautifully in the fall," Trump said. "As you know this is a disease, a horrible disease but young people do extraordinarily well."
Many school districts across the country have already announced tentative plans for the fall, allowing either in-person or virtual learning.
Also, in June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its guidance for schools, including recommendations such as staggering schedules, spreading out desks, having meals in classrooms instead of the cafeteria, adding physical barriers between bathroom sinks and cleaning and disinfecting surfaces.
The CDC has also said children tend to have milder symptoms of COVID-19, but they can transmit the virus to others.
"It's clear that the greater risk to our society is to have these schools close," Dr. Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, said. "The CDC encourages all schools to do what they need to reopen, and to have plans that anticipate that COVID-19 cases will in fact occur.”
But it’s unclear what the school year will look like and how that will impact students as well as teachers.
Former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden says teachers and school staff have already faced cuts because of the pandemic.
"We could have kept every educator employed, but instead, we lost more than 900,000 state and local education jobs since the pandemic started due to budget cuts," Biden said. "This is absolutely unacceptable. We are already short the number of teachers we need nationally."
Photo courtesy: ©Getty Images/Antonio Diaz
Amanda Casanova is a writer living in Dallas, Texas. She has covered news for ChristianHeadlines.com since 2014. She has also contributed to The Houston Chronicle, U.S. News and World Report and IBelieve.com. She blogs at The Migraine Runner.
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A testament to the Gilded Age, the Upper East Side has been a draw for America’s most affluent since the Rockefellers, Astors, Dukes, and Vanderbilts built their grand Neoclassical mansions along Fifth Avenue, east of Central Park between 59th and 79th Streets. One of New York’s largest historic districts, the Upper East Side’s elegant streets are graced with Beaux Arts mansions, Victorian brownstone townhouses, and Art Deco and Neo-Gothic residential buildings, along with boutique shops, and outstanding restaurants. Fifth Avenue forms the eastern entrance to Central Park. This oasis in the city has an array of recreational options for the whole family: Central Park Zoo, Wollman Rink, ballparks, the boating lake, and such fine dining establishments as Tavern on the Green and the Loeb Boathouse. Afterwards, stroll over to Museum Mile, home to such world-renowned cultural institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim....
Home to Central Park, Museum Mile, the white-glove doorman, and some of the finest Beaux Arts architecture in the United States, the Upper East Side is New York City’s most prestigious neighborhood. Since the late 1800s, living east of Central Park has drawn America’s most affluent and influential—names like Rockefeller, Astor, Duke, and Vanderbilt—who built their limestone palaces along the “Gold Coast,” between 59th and 78th Streets from Fifth to Lexington Avenues. The area is one of New York City’s largest landmark districts. The Neoclassical Revival mansions and elegant brownstone townhouses, designed by the likes of Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, and C.P.H. Gilbert, are a testament to Gilded Age America. Today, the historic architecture blends with postmodern and contemporary residential and commercial space. But with Central Park on the doorstep, the Upper East Side remains a highly coveted sanctuary away from the bustle of Midtown.
Where is the Upper East Side Located in NYC?
The Upper East Side is located in Uptown Manhattan, east of Central Park, from Fifth Avenue to the East River, and extending north from East 59th Street to East 96th Street.
East to West Boundaries: The East River to Fifth Avenue
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What to Do on the Upper East Side?
The Upper East Side is synonymous with prestige; its denizens are an eclectic mix of old families, celebrities, and private-sector professionals. As the gateway to Central Park, home to such famous attractions as the zoo, carousel, ballfields, boating lake, ice rink, running loop, and Sheep Meadow, it’s also a great place for families and those seeking a taste of the outdoors in one of the world’s greatest cities.
For world-leading museums, head to the aptly named Museum Mile. Cultural heavyweights such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with its permanent collection of over two million artworks, and the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum lead other notables such as the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Jewish Museum, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, Goethe House German Cultural Center, El Museo del Barrio, and the Museum of the City of New York. Just off Fifth Avenue is the Frick Collection, renowned for its distinguished collection of Old Master paintings and European decorative arts, and sculpture. Icons of modern art, such as Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol have all lived here at one time or another. Warhol created some of his most influential Pop Art in a townhouse on Lexington Avenue.
What to See on the Upper East Side?
The Upper East Side is one of New York’s largest historic districts. The architecture has evolved over time, but the Beaux Arts mansions, Victorian brownstone townhouses, and white-glove Park Avenue cooperatives are its hallmarks. To witness the evolution of the Upper East Side first hand, step into the splendor of the Gilded Age by walking through the marble halls of its historic landmarks, then head a block east to shop in Madison Avenue’s designer emporiums.
The most desirable real estate offerings on the UES are the palatial homes lining Fifth Avenue, revered for their architectural provenance and Central Park views. Farther east, luxury home buyers can choose from elegant three- to six-story townhouses with private gardens or luxury-serviced high rises with enviable East River views.
Where to Eat on the Upper East Side?
Even the culinary delights on the UES are opulent. Stop by Serendipity 3 for the world’s most expensive (and decadent) dessert—the gold leaf and truffle sundae—or try their signature frozen hot chocolate. For Michelin-star dining, visit acclaimed French chef and leading culinary authority Daniel Boulud’s two Upper East Side locations, two-star rated Daniel on East 65th and the casually elegant Café Boulud in the Surrey Hotel at East 76th. For a contemporary twist on sushi, try the outstanding one-Michelin-starred Sushi of Gari, in Yorkville.
Of course, brunch is a must for any New Yorker and the UES provides the perfect setting to enjoy a mimosa or bloody mary before a leisurely stroll through the park or shopping on Madison Avenue. Count on neighborhood classics such as Sarabeth’s and The Barking Dog to serve up contemporary American fare in a casual setting.
How Many People Live in New York City?
As of 2017, the estimated population of New York City is 8,622,698 people.
What Language Is Spoken in New York City?
The United States has no official langugae, however, in Manhattan the most common language spoken by far is English, followed by Spanish, French, and Chinese. African Kru, Creole, Russian, and Yiddish are also popular in certain neighborhoods.
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A Funny Story About Socks
Everyone knows that I like Socks. It's one of the things that I regularly get sent links to via DM's, Facebook and email of different socks that people think I might like. It's a bit like how Jay likes Bacon and Rum and Nickie loves Stationary and Running (and her fitbit) and Sian loves the London Underground and Morrissey...
I like socks and Dan Jon Jr mentioned the other day that he'd been reading my blog, but hadn't found enough pictures or stories about my socks and was disappointed. So, partly just to appease him here is a story about my socks and some pictures too!
Earlier this year I went to a Relief Society evening. The Relief Society is an auxiliary for women at the Church I go to (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) and we were celebrating our Birthday/Anniversary by having a little party and getting to know everyone a little better. Previous to the evening we had emailed one of the women (we'll call her Dorothy) organising the event with two things we liked, two things we didn't like and two things that people might not know about us.
All the women were sat in a sort of semi-circle and me and a few of my friends were clumped together in one corner. We started playing the game, where a parcel was passed round and as we unwrapped it, we read the clues that were wrapped up and as a group we had to work out who we were talking about. Dorothy was in charge, confirming when we'd got people who hadn't been able to make the evening and keeping us moving along, because we ladies do have a tendency to go off topic.
The evening was progressing nicely. We were all having a giggle and loved finding out things about our friends that we hadn't known before, or we had known but had forgotten in the case of one of my pole dancing friends!
Eventually it got to a lady just a one seat away from me. This lady was a little older and I love her lots so I'm going to call her Rose (Yes I am referencing the Golden Girls for names here!) as she read out the list of things that were on the paper I realised that it was me and so tried really hard to make myself look like I was wondering who it could be.
Rose started reading out the list, which Dorothy had lovingly handwritten in her bestest neatest handwriting. It started well.
"I once dated an Italian Prince, he was a red head." (It's true I did, although my understanding is that every other family in Italy is related to a Royal Family and so it's not like I dated Prince William or anything)
"I'm not keen on driving." (Again it's true, unless it's Flyfour's new car)
And then it took a turn.
"Do I really read this?" asked Rose
"Yes!" said Dorothy
There was a pause and I swear the room went quieter than a room of women has ever been.
"I love Bed Sex"
In that moment some of the older women were horrified. We were at Church and someone was mentioned S-E-X?
The younger women started to laugh hysterically and the group in the middle who were sort of shocked also started laughing.
I was wetting myself. My friend Sophia sitting next to me lent over and read over Rose's shoulder and clarified that it said;
"Bed SOXS. It says that she loves bed SOXS!" said Sophia
"Oh! I haven't got my glasses on." Said a shocked Rose
This of course started everyone laughing, even the people who had been a little shocked to start with. I'm sure that the laughter only lasted for a minute, but I swear it seemed like ten minutes passed before we were all able to stop laughing.
That night I posted this picture on to Facebook, and had it confirmed that the evening had bonded us women together thanks to the accidental misreading of Dorothy's handwriting and choice to spell socks as sox.
And as a last thought on the subject, every single woman that attends my Church is going to get a pair of Bed Socks from me for Christmas this year. I can't wait for them to open them up come Christmas Morning and start corpsing in front of their family, unable to explain why a pair of socks is so funny!
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Topping off ceremony marks milestone, draws media coverage!
by Catherine | Feb 6, 2019 | HOMEPAGE - Blogs, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, Inc. celebrated a “topping off” ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 5 that drew a big crowd and represents a milestone in construction of our new Schleifer Adult Independent Living (SAIL) center.
Students, parents, staff and friends signed the construction beam, which was on display in our courtyard leading up to the event. At the event, the crowd cheered as our team from S/L/A/M Collaborative secured the beam to a crane and hoisted into place on the very top of the new, four-story building under construction.
The event drew some wonderful news coverage!
WTNH News Channel 8 was on hand and covered the event. Click here:
Paul S., a community member who has been at Chapel Haven for 30-plus years, was interviewed by Channel 8 and did a great job talking about why lifelong care is a primary part of Chapel Haven’s mission.
Publisher Michael Bingham, who has launched a new magazine dedicated to business news called NewHavenBiz, was also on hand and wrote this story. Click here to read the story!
Staff and adults at Chapel Haven Schleifer Center have been watching with daily amazement as a crane drops 150 tons of structural steel in place to form the shell of the new Schleifer Adult Independent Living (SAIL) Universal building.
The building is literally rising into the sky!
The topping off ceremony, in the building construction field, is a builders’ rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed atop a structure during its construction. It has since come to mean more generally finishing the structure of the building.
The Schleifer Adult Independent Living (SAIL) building is a state-of-the-art, four-story 48,500 SF residential, community and engagement building which is designed for residents to age in place. This new building will be universal in design and layout, and will be intergenerational, where adults with disabilities can flourish into their senior years in a vibrant and non-institutional setting.
Chapel Haven has been implementing a $41.5 million campus transformation with the design-build team from the S/L/A/M Collaborative.
Phase 1 of Chapel Haven’s expansion is now complete and features:
A new, 32,500-square-foot residential and classroom building to house Chapel Haven’s REACHprogram, which for 46 years has helped adults with cognitive and social disabilities learn to
live independently.
A new outdoor courtyard, dubbed the “outdoor living room” by Chapel Haven’s design/build team, the S/L/A/M Collaborative.
A new Welcome Center, punctuated by a curved glass lobby and reception space that immediately draws you in from the outdoor “living room.” A stone hearth and built-in seating provide a warm welcome to families.
Questions? Contact Catherine DeCarlo at (203) 397-1714, ext. 148 or Catherine
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VINYL SERIES
CORE SERIES
Combined Confront releases review in THE WIRE by JULIAN COWLEY
Six Studies, recorded in 2012, is a welcomed yet mildly frustrating solo release from violinist Angharad Davies. There's a certain fascination in hearing her hone unorthodox techniques on tracks such as "Circular Bowing Study" and "Tremolo And Plastic Peg Study". But these eludes seem provisional, almost tentative steps along the way, not unlike Joan La Barbara's debut Voice Is The Original Instrumnet (1976), which presented demonstration pieces such as "Circular Song" and "One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation". Prefatory statements, maybe, with more fulfilling solo work from Davis to follow. The disc is part of the Collectors Series, issued by Mark Wastell's recently reactivated Confront imprint. "The collector's passion," Walter Benjamin observed, "borders on the chaos of memories." Within the formal neatness of this series Wastell appears to be taking stock of precious moments from his past in improvised music, granting them a kind of order and a catalogue number. Each CD is designed to resemble a vinyl record - with faked grooves and gaps between tracks - to draw attention to itself as a material object rather than simply a medium of transmission, each is packaged in a square metal box ideally suited to insulate the artefact from chaos. The two other additions to the catalogue have been issued before. Davis, Wastell and Durrant's trumpet, cello and violin trio was captured in a West London church in 2000; the IST trio, featuring Wastell, bassist Simon Fell and harpist Rhodri Davies was recorded at a South London club in 1997. Both represent the now familiar turn to undemonstrative, lowercase yet concentrated and spontaneously intricate music making of the time. The church ambience suggests patterns of sparks and gleams in surrounding darkness. The club recording thrives on tensions that build from Fell resolutely reining in. We listen differently today, in part because of recordings such as these. In itself that is sufficient justification for an archive of improvised music, and Wastell has undoubtedly named his series with appropriate irony, while pitching towards some point where a collector's passion and an improvisor's passion might coincide.
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Federal Circuit Reverses Metcalf v. U.S.
Holds Government Cannot Bar Differing Site Conditions Claims with Broad Disclaimer Language, AND Government is Bound by a Broad Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
In a major victory, not only for the contractor, but also for historic federal contract principles, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a decision of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (hereinafter “claims court” or “trial court”) that had permitted the Government to use broad disclaimer language in the contract to disavow reliance on government provided reports and data, and to thereby deny any chance of contractor relief on a differing site condition claim. This new decision also held that the Government is held to a higher standard with regard to the duty of good faith and fair dealing owed to the contractor than had been applied by the Claims Court. Specifically, the court states that the government can be found liable for breach of this duty without a showing that the government specifically targeted the contractor to reappropriate the contractor’s contract benefits to the government and abrogate the government’s obligations under the contract. Much less than that is required to prove breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing.
This is an important aspect of the decision because it clarifies (almost reverses without saying so) a standard that had become increasingly onerous through a line of cases beginning with Precision Pine & Timber v. U.S. The importance of this new decision correcting several problems that have developed in government contracts in recent years cannot be overemphasized. It will be one of the most cited cases for years to come, and is truly one of the most important decisions. It comes at a critical time as the government (perhaps due to budgetary reasons), seems to have adopted increasingly unfortunate and aggressive strategies to avoid paying reasonable contractor claims. Metcalf Construction Co. v. United States, (U.S Ct. of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Case No. 2013-5041, Feb. 11, 2014).
The factual background of the case is similar to what contractor’s often experience on projects when, in reliance upon subsurface conditions reports provided by the Government, they have provided a fixed-price bid to design and construct a building based on reasonable assumptions about the nature of the underlying soil and the types of footings, foundations, and structures that can be built.
In this case, Metcalf was a design-build contractor. It was awarded a contract to design and build housing units at a Marine base in Hawaii. Almost immediately after notice to proceed, Metcalf encountered “expansive soil” swells that, when wet, can lead to cracks in concrete foundations and other damage. The extent of the expansive soil was far greater than had been indicated in a government-commissioned report that had been prepared prior to bidding. That report found that the soil had only a “slight expansion potential.”
The Government Request for Proposals (RFP) cited the soil report as relevant to certain features of the project such as concrete foundations. But, as explained by the court, the government made clear that its pre-request soil report was not the final work on the soil conditions. In fact, a revised RFP stated that the requirements in the soil report were “for preliminary information only.” The design-build contract required the contractor to conduct its own independent soil investigation and it incorporated FAR 52.236-2 that addresses site conditions that differ from those disclosed in the contract (i.e., Type I differing site conditions).
Once the contractor began its work, it did as required under the contract with regard to conducting its own investigations of the soil and other aspects of the project that would be needed to finalize the design and then perform the construction. It retained a geotechnical firm (Geolabs, Inc.) to further investigate the soil. After several months of doing soil borings and testing the soil, the geotech firm determined that the soil’s swelling potential was “moderate to high” and not “slight” as had been indicated in the government’s soil report.
This constituted soil conditions differing materially from what was indicated by the government’s soil report, and the Geolabs recommended a different design and construction to accommodate this different soil condition. Metcalf promptly notified the government of the differing condition of the alternative design that would be necessary. Incredibly, the government insisted that Metcalf follow the construction requirements set out in the original contract despite Metcalf’s evidence that this would be inappropriate in view of the actual soil conditions. As explained in the underlying claims court decision, the government inspector acted unreasonably on this and other matters affecting the contractor.
In any event, after being delayed by almost a year while the government refused to act upon the new soil information, “Metcalf decided that the cost of waiting for the Navy to approve the Geolabs-recommended design changes had become too high, and it began to implement those changes by over-excavating the soil and replacing it with non-expansive fill, despite awareness of the risk of proceeding without a contract modification.”
A few months later, the Navy apparently realized the work needed to proceed as modified by the contractor and the Navy approved contract modifications accordingly. In doing so, however, the Navy came up with another idea for how it could deny relief to Metcalf. “The Navy denied that there was any material difference between the pre-bid and post-award soil assessments and thus concluded that no additional compensation was warranted.” Metcalf’s claim for the expansive-soil problems was over $4.8 million – mostly for over-excavating the soil under certain building units and using post-tension concrete slabs.
Metcalf alleged that its final cost of construction was roughly $76 million and the government only paid it $50 million. The court explains that in addition to the differing site condition, there were other disputes and interruptions along the way – with Metcalf alleging for example that the Navy imposed requirements not found in the written contract and that an uncooperative inspector hindered the project. The court does not go into the allegations concerning the inspector, but from the description of his actions in the underlying Claims Court decision, it seems generous and charitable to call his actions merely uncooperative.
Metcalf filed a claim with the Navy’s contracting officer, and he issued an adverse decision. Metcalf then filed suit in the Court of Federal Claims (“Claims Court”). The Navy countersued for liquidated damages. The claims court found that Metcalf was not entitled to damages for the differing site condition. But the court found that Navy violated the contract by failing to investigate the expansiveness of the soil in a timely manner.
The claims court also held that the Navy failed to issue a proper notice to proceed until months later than contractually required. This delay was deemed by the trial court to be a contract breach that rendered Metcalf unable to work for a period of time, but did not excuse Metcalf for all delays. The court awarded Metcalf about $300,000 on the notice-to-proceed breach, and awarded the government about $2.6 million in liquidated damages because Metcalf failed to complete the project by the agreed upon completion date.
In reaching that decision, the trial court rejected Metcalf’s argument that the two delay-causing breaches by the government nullified any liquidated damages based on late delivery. It also rejected Metcalf’s argument that the government breached its duty to act toward the contractor with good faith and fair dealing.
In its appellate decision vacating and remanding the trial court decision, the Federal Circuit decided the court applied an incorrect standard when deciding that the government did not violate its duty of good faith and fair dealing, and that the court misinterpreted the provisions of the contract pertaining to differing site conditions and conducting site inspections.
On the question of the duty of good faith and fair dealing, the court explicitly rejected the trial court’s holding that “a breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing claim against the Government can only be established by a showing that it ‘specifically designed to reappropriate the benefits [that] the other party expected to obtain from the transaction, thereby abrogating the government’s obligations under the contract.’”
The trial court had found that “incompetence and/or the failure to cooperate or accommodate a contractor’s request do not trigger the duty of good faith and fair dealing, unless the Government ‘specifically targeted’ action to obtain the ‘benefit of the contract’ or where Government actions were ‘undertaken for the purpose of delaying or hampering performance of the contract.’”
The Federal Circuit court concluded, “The trial court misread Precision Pine, which does not impose a specific-targeting requirement applicable across the board or in this case.” The court went on to say, “neither Precision Pine nor other authority supports the trial court’s holding that specific targeting is required generally or in the present context ….” The government argued that almost impossible legal standard established by the claims court was correct because the precedent relied upon from Precision Pine held the duty “cannot expand a party’s contractual duties beyond those in the express contract or create duties inconsistent with the contract’s provisions.” In rejecting that argument, the Federal Circuit stated:
“As we have already explained, all that the quoted language means is that the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing depends on the parties’ bargain in the particular contract at issue…. The government suggests a more constraining view when it argues, for example, that there was no breach of the implied duty because, ‘Metcalf cannot identify a contract provision that the Navy’s inspection process violated….’ That goes too far: a breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing does not require a violation of an express provision in the contract.” (Emphasis in original).
Proper application of the implied-duty standard thus depends on a correct understanding of the contract. Metcalf contends that the trial court misinterpreted several contract provisions related to its claim. We agree. The first set of provisions pertains to site conditions….”
The contract contained the standard “Differing Site Conditions” clause of FAR 52.236-2. The trial court interpreted the pre-bid site representations and related RFP provisions to be nullified by Metcalf’s investigative responsibilities during performance, concluding, “the Contract required Metcalf to conduct an independent soil analysis [and so] Metcalf was on notice that it could not rely on the ‘information only’ report.” The trial court said Metcalf was entitled to rely on the government soils report only “for bidding purposes,” but not in performing the project. Similarly, with respect to the chlordane contaminant, the trial court found that because Metcalf could assess the soil after its contract award, it could not rely on the representations that remediation was not required since Metcalf “was on notice to seek more information.” In rejecting the trial court reasoning, the Federal Circuit stated:
“The Court thus treated the contract as placing on Metcalf the risk and costs of dealing with newly discovered conditions different from those stated by the government before the contract became binding…. These rulings about an important allocation of risk were based on a misinterpretation of the contract. Nothing in the contract’s general requirements that Metcalf check the site as party of designing and building the housing units, after the contract was entered into, expressly or impliedly warned Metcalf that it could not rely on, and that instead it bore the risk of error in, the government’s affirmative representations about the soil conditions.
To the contrary, the government made those representations in the RFP and in pre-bid questions-and-answers for bidders’ use in estimating costs and therefore in submitting bids that, if accepted would create a binding contract. The natural meaning for the representations was that, while Metcalf would investigate conditions once the work began, it did not bear the risk of significant errors in the pre-contract assertions by the government about the subsurface site conditions.”
The Federal Circuit went on to explain that the Differing Site Conditions clause of the contract exists precisely to take some of the gamble on subsurface conditions out of bidding instead of requiring the contractors to submit high prices to insure against the risk. The court explains,
“For that reason, even requirements for pre-bid inspection by the contractor have been interpreted cautiously regarding conditions that are hard to identify accurately before work begins, so that ‘the duty to make an inspection of the site does not negate the changed conditions clause by putting the contractor at peril to discover hidden subsurface conditions or those beyond the limits of an inspection appropriate to the time available.” (citing Foster v. U.S. and Hollerbach v. U.S.)
And finally, of great importance for future federal contractors asserting differing site conditions claims, the Court reiterates that the government cannot avoid contractor reliance on data and reports provided by the government merely by including broad disclaimers of liability for differing site conditions in the contract. That is not acceptable to the court. With regard to government’s legal responsibility for pre-bid information, the court stated,
“The conclusion is not changed by the statement in a revised RFP that the expansive-soil report was ‘for preliminary information only…. That statement merely signals that the information might change (it is ‘preliminary’). It does not say that Metcalf bears the risk if the ‘preliminary information turns out to be inaccurate. We do not think that the language can fairly be taken to shift that risk to Metcalf, especially when read together with the other government pronouncements, much less when read against the longstanding background presumption against finding broad disclaimers ‘of liability for changed conditions. United Contractors v. United States, 368 F.2d, 585, 598 (Ct.Cl. 1966).”
For these reasons, the court vacated and remanded the case for further review and decision by the claims court.
Comment: This may be one of the most important decisions affecting government contractors to be decided by the courts in the last 10 years.
The government’s misinterpretation of the law pertaining to its duty of good faith and fair dealing has been most unfortunate, and it seems the court seized on the opportunity of this case to right what had become a serious wrong.
On the issue of differing site conditions claim, the government has been increasingly relying upon broad disclaimer language in contracts to attempt to avoid paying for legitimate differing site conditions claims.
In the context of design-build contracts, the government has been adding insult to injury by insisting that a design-builder, by virtue of having to do further site investigation and final design after contract award, is assuming all the risk of the site and cannot rely upon initial subsurface information and reports provided by the government. This decision lays that spurious argument to rest.
Such broad disclaimers will not be tolerated to excuse the government from honoring the intent of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to pay claims where the subsurface conditions are materially different from those indicated in the contract and pre-bid information.
About the author: Article written by J. Kent Holland, Jr., a construction lawyer located in Tysons Corner, Virginia, with a national practice (formerly with Wickwire Gavin, P.C. and now with Construction Risk Counsel, PLLC) representing design professionals, contractors and project owners. He is founder and president of a consulting firm, ConstructionRisk, LLC, providing consulting services to owners, design professionals, contractors and attorneys on construction projects. He is publisher of ConstructionRisk.com Report and may be reached at Kent@ConstructionRisk.com or by calling 703-623-1932. This article is published in ConstructionRisk.com Report (February 2014 Special Edition).
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Philosophy of Creativity
Simple Tests for Right Living
Written by Brian Plachta on April 6, 2019
Making decisions in life can be complicated, sometimes overwhelming. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a simple test to help you make the right decision—a way you could know which of the competing options were best?
Centuries ago, Saint Ignatius gave us three simple tests to help make a life decision.
The first is a simple question:
Will the choice I make lead me closer to God or further away from him?
The second is more of a reflection:
At the end of my life, when I stand before God and explain why I made a certain decision, what will I tell him was the basis for my choice?
The third tool is a pros and cons list.
Make two columns on a sheet of paper and write the pros on one side and the cons on the other of a decision you’re considering. Then, add up each column to determine which one outweighs the other.
It might seem odd to use Ignatius’ tests to decide whether to ask your girlfriend to marry you, but years ago, I figured if these tests worked for him, maybe they’d work for me, too. So, as I was discerning whether to ask my girlfriend—whom I’d been dating for a year—to marry me, I pondered Ignatius’ tests.
Would marrying my girlfriend lead me closer to God? She was a faith-filled person. She believed in God, went to church regularly, and wanted to raise children in our faith tradition. Given these facts, I was certain she passed the first test.
What would I tell God was the reason I asked this lovely woman to marry me? That one was simple, too. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her so we could raise a family and share our love with each other and the world.
The pros and cons list was tougher. As I jotted down my thoughts in each column, both columns were almost equal in number. Balanced against the con of giving up the freedom of being a single guy was the pro of having someone with whom to share my days. A life filled with raising children outweighed a life of celibacy. But, one simple item on the pros side tilted the balance toward seeking my girlfriend’s hand in marriage—I loved her.
I was excited to show my bride-to-be the results. “Look, honey, you came out on the winning side of my pros and cons test.” I proudly handed her the list. She glanced at it, breathed one of those are-you-kidding-me? sighs, and then rolled her eyes. My heart sank as I realized this wasn’t the “Oh, Romeo” moment I’d hoped.
But when I got down on bended knee and gave her a heart-shaped box of candy with an engagement ring in it, she still said yes. And after thirty-five years of marriage, our unfolding love story continues.
The ancient wisdom of Saint Ignatius still applies in our modern age. It provides a time-tested approach for discerning which way to turn.
So, when you’re faced with a life decision—or a simple choice between two competing options—consider Ignatius’ three tests as a handy tool to help you walk down the path of right living.
Brian Plachta
Brian Plachta holds a Masters in Pastoral Counseling, and is a certified Spiritual Director. He is a frequent workshop speaker on spirituality topics for churches, spiritual life centers and men’s conferences throughout the state of Michigan. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Dominican Center at Marywood, an ecumenical spiritual life center in West Michigan. He is lawyer with the law firm of Plachta, Murphy & Associates, P.C. in Grand Rapids, Michigan. You can read more from Brian at his site www.brianplachta.net.
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A capital gain arises when certain capital assets are sold at a profit. We consider the taxation of gains and outline the reliefs available.
Call 01789 205916 or email enquiries@cooperadams.co.uk
We consider the taxation of capital gains and outline the reliefs available. If you live in the Warwickshire area we, at Cooper Adams, can provide taxation advice to ensure that maximum opportunity is taken of the reliefs available for capital gains tax.
A capital gain arises when certain capital (or 'chargeable') assets are sold at a profit. The gain is the sale proceeds (net of selling costs) less the purchase price (including acquisition costs).
What are the main features of the current system?
Capital gains tax (CGT) is charged at the rate of 10% on gains (including any held over gains coming into charge) where net total taxable gains and income is below the income tax basic rate band threshold. Gains or any parts of gains above the basic rate band are charged at 20% with a few exceptions which are considered in the ‘Exceptions to the CGT rates section’ below.
Business asset disposal relief (formerly known as Entrepreneurs’ Relief) or Investors’ Relief (IR) may be available on certain business disposals.
Business asset disposal relief (BADR)
BADR may be available for certain business disposals and has the effect of charging the first £1 million of gains qualifying for the relief at an effective rate of 10%.
The relief is available to individuals on the disposal of:
the whole, or part, of a trading business that is carried on by the individual, either alone or in partnership
shares in an individual’s ‘personal company’
assets used by a business or a company which has ceased within the last three years
Where an individual makes a qualifying business disposal, relief may also be available on an ‘associated disposal’. An ‘associated disposal’ is a disposal of an asset:
used in a qualifying company or group of companies of the individual or
used in a partnership, where the individual is a partner.
Restrictions on obtaining the relief on an ‘associated disposal’ are likely to apply in certain specific situations. This includes the common situation where a property is in personal ownership but is used in an unquoted company or partnership trade in return for a rent. Under BADR the availability of relief is restricted where rent is paid.
Ownership period of two years
Ownership conditions apply throughout the period up to the date of disposal. For disposals on or after 6 April 2019, the necessary qualifying period of ownership is two years.
The 5% rule for company shareholders
To qualify for BADR, the company needs to be an individual’s ‘personal company’ where the individual must:
be a company employee or office holder
hold at least 5% of the company’s ordinary share capital and
be able to exercise at least 5% of the voting rights.
For disposals on or after 29 October 2018, they must also satisfy one of the following tests:
a distribution test – an individual is entitled to at least 5% of the company's profit available for distribution to equity holders and 5% of the assets available for distribution to equity holders in a winding up; or
a proceeds test – an individual is entitled to at least 5% of the proceeds in the event of a disposal of the whole of the ordinary share capital of the company.
From 6 April 2019 those shareholders whose holding in their company is reduced below the normal 5% qualifying level as a result of raising funds for commercial purposes by means of an issue of new shares may still obtain BADR. An election can be made which allows shareholders to crystallise a gain on their shares before the dilution occurs. This would be achieved by treating the shareholding as having been sold and immediately re-purchased at the prevailing market value. The election will have to be made in their tax return for the year in which the dilution takes place. The shareholder may also elect to defer the accrued gain until their shares are actually disposed of.
Careful planning will be required with BADR but if you would like to discuss BADR in detail and how it might affect your business, please do get in touch.
Investors' Relief (IR)
IR is aimed at external investors (other than certain employees or officers of the company) in unlisted trading companies. To qualify for the 10% CGT rate under ‘investors’ relief’ the following conditions need to be met:
shares must be newly issued and subscribed for by the individual for new consideration
be in an unlisted trading company, or an unlisted holding company of a trading group
have been issued by the company on or after 17 March 2016 and have been held for a period of three years from 6 April 2016
have been held continuously for a period of three years before disposal.
An individual’s qualifying gains for IR are subject to a lifetime cap of £10 million.
Share identification rules
All shares of the same class in the same company are treated as forming a single asset, regardless of when they were originally acquired. However, ‘same day’ transactions are matched and there are ‘30 day’ anti-avoidance rules.
On 15 April 2020 Jeff sold 2000 shares in A plc from his holding of 4000 shares which he had acquired as follows:
1000 in January 1990
1500 in March 2001
1500 in July 2005
Due to significant stock market changes, he decided to purchase 500 shares on 30 April 2020 in the same company.
The disposal of 2000 shares will be matched firstly with the later transaction of 500 shares as it is within the following 30 days and then with 1,500/4,000 (1000+1500+1500) of the single asset pool on an average cost basis.
CGT annual exemption
Every tax year each individual is allowed to make gains up to the annual exemption without paying any CGT. The annual exemption for 2020/21 is £12,300 (£12,000 in 2019/20). Consideration should be given to ensuring both spouses/civil partners utilise this facility.
Exceptions to the CGT rates
The rates of CGT are generally 10% and 20%. However 18% and 28% rates apply for carried interest and for chargeable gains on residential property that does not qualify for private residence relief.
Other more complex areas
Capital gains can arise in many other situations. Some of these, such as gains on Enterprise Investment Scheme and Venture Capital Trust shares, and deferred gains on share for share or share for loan note exchanges, can be complex. Please talk to us before making any decisions.
Other reliefs which you may be entitled to
And finally, many existing reliefs continue to be available, such as:
private residence relief;
business asset rollover relief, which enables the gain on a business asset to be deferred until a point in the future;
business asset gift relief, which allows the gain on business assets that are given away to be held over until the assets are disposed of by the donee; and
any unused allowable losses from previous years, which can be brought forward in order to reduce any gains.
Careful planning of capital asset disposals is essential in order to minimise capital gains tax. If you live in the Warwickshire area we, at Cooper Adams, would be happy to discuss the options with you. Please contact us if you would like further advice.
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In addition to your professional qualifications, do you also communicate enthusiasm as a manager? Can you motivate your team? Are you available to listen to your staff’s concerns at all times and support them in their continuing development?
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Then become a part of the Coroplast family, and we look forward to receiving your application!
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A look behind the scenes Portrait of a career at Coroplast Group
Marco Dittermann, Team Leader of Production Engineering for Adhesive Tapes
The passionate engineer has been working in the field of technical adhesive tapes at Coroplast Tape since 2016. His hobby is Industry 4.0, and consequently he is primarily responsible for automation and digitalization projects in the area of adhesive tape production. You can find out more by clicking on the video.
Norbert Gries-Dietrich, Quality Engineer for Projects & Systems
The experienced engineer is a key point of contact when it comes to ensuring the same quality of the Coroplast Group's products worldwide and at all locations. As a result, he goes on business trips throughout the world. Watch the video to see what he likes doing most in addition to his main role at the Coroplast Group.
Daniel Oliveira Rodrigues, Global Project Manager for Wires & Cables
At the age of 34, the project manager has been at Coroplast since the start of his career. He has been actively involved in shaping the future of the Business Unit Coroflex in various positions for nine years. Watch the video to find out why he still likes working at Coroflex after such a long time.
Your contact Careers – experienced professionals
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Recruiter & Talent Acquisition Expert
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Muckross Creamery Brand Packaging
#Branding, #Design, #Packaging
Muckross Creamery is an Irish ice cream brand range, hand-crafted by the Fleming family. Their strap-line is ‘From Cow to Cone’ – communicating the freshness of their delicious ice cream.
Catherine and John Fleming live with their lovely family of six children, and of course… all their friendly farm cows, on their charming farm in Muckross, Killarney. John Fleming is a fifth-generation dairy farmer. His family have been farming in Muckross, Killarney since the 1840’s. Their mouth-watering ice cream is made using their own fresh milk, fresh cream and free-range eggs. Being a farm-based enterprise in Killarney, they source all the fresh ingredients and supplies for each scrumptious flavour of their artisan range locally, to support the local economy. Their short supply chain and values of commitment to quality and sustainable production contribute to the great taste of their ice-cream.
When they reached out to Clare Lynch Creative on re-branding, key aspects they wanted to convey were the natural and fresh qualities of their ice cream. Therefore, featuring one of their resident, friendly farm cows in their brand and packaging design was a natural progression. It was important to implement this in a well-crafted manner, to denote that they are a quality brand range of ice cream.
Further to that, the colours from the fresh ingredients used in the ice cream were used as an inspiration source to form the colour palette for the brand, along with the traditionally-associated dairy colour of blue – but freshened up in a slightly brighter and modern tone, linking with the summery feeling associated with ice cream.
Muckross Creamery Ice Cream Brand Identity & Packaging Design
The brand typography has a traditional feel to it – with a bold, rustic font selected and hand-tailored for the bespoke brandmark along with hand-written descriptors; to support the values the client wanted to convey of how the ice cream is hand-made on their farm with fresh, local ingredients. The grain texture and the hand-drawn fruit silhouettes on the packaging further support and highlight this. As their brand story is an important aspect to the brand, it is featured on the packs with a photo of the family (which has since gained a new little member!). Muckross Creamery is a Listowel Food Fair winner for it’s flavoursome and tasty ice cream, and this key USP is highlighted on the packaging. The cute tubs are earthy and recyclable, which adds to their popularity, both as it communicates the rustic, traditional qualities to consumers, and also to how they are a conscientious and sustainable company.
You can follow them on Instagram @muckrosscreamery
Katie’s Kombucha Brand Packaging
Katie’s Kombucha Packaging Design
Katie’s Kombucha is a healthy probiotic drink, which is good for the gut and immune system. It is a delicious, refreshing vegan soft drink range, made with love by Ballymaloe-trained chef, Katie McCann.
When it comes to health, the gut is a key area to begin with, known as the body’s ‘second brain’ – it is trusted to support the body to fuel our happiness, health and wellness. The drink is alive and contains a community of healthy bacteria living inside which is beneficial to our bodies. When you feel alive, you can create what you love and love what you create.
Katie’s Kombucha is naturally fermented in small batches and is a naturally functional food. There are two flavours launched to date – ‘Raspberry’ (flavoured with 100% Wicklow raspberries) and ‘Apple & Dandelion’ (flavoured with 100% organic apples). It is unpasteurised, sustainably produced, vegan, gluten free and has recyclable packaging. Katie’s Kombucha refreshes, rebalances, replenishes the body.
Some key factors Katie wanted to communicate with the brand was her passion for creating kombucha, how it is a healthy product that’s good for you and that it’s wholesome and natural.
As Katie and the passion she has for what she does is the essence of the brand, the design outcome created for the brand packaging design uses the silhouette of a woman, representing Katie. The silhouette of the woman (Katie) has the fruits which the kombucha consists of intertwined into the shape of her hair, in a natural and organic style.
To make the word ‘kombucha’ easy to read for those unfamiliar with it, the three syllables are in a stacked block reading ‘KOM-BU-CHA’ to make up the brandmark. The hand-tailored font in the logo is earthy and rustic, communicating the natural ethos and ingredients of the kombucha. A texture with a subtle grain has been integrated with the typography and silhouette to further accentuate the wholesome qualities of the brand.
Each favour is differentiated by colour (guided by the fruits each contains), along with it’s own fruit icon. There was a third flavour ‘ginger’ created, to be launched at a later date. A hand-written font is used for the flavour descriptions, further emphasising the hand-made and personal process to how Katie’s Kombucha is created. An additional detail created is the unique barcode, showcasing the silhouette of leaves and berries. A hand-drawn heart highlights the noteworthy feature that the kombucha is 100% Vegan.
Another key factor to consider when designing the kombucha was Katie’s highly conscientious nature in relation to being sustainable and the environment. Therefore, she chose a uniquely-shaped bottle which is easy to recycle and we ensured to work with the printer to use the earthy, recycled paper stock ‘Shiro’ rather than a sticker to make them easily re-usable and recyclable. They are then sealed with a tamper-proof seal.
Katie loved how the results communicate her brand essence and values, with strong visual impact on shelves in stores and has received much positive feedback on the new packaging from her customers and on social media. It’s sales have grown to a wide range of stores such as many of the SuperValu’s throughout Dublin, online deliveries stockist Neighbourfood, 3FE cafes and a number of other unique stores and cafes around Dublin and Wicklow.
Follow Katie’s Kombucha on Instagram @katiekombucha
See the positive feedback I received from Katie here.
Marino Institute Annual Report
#brochure, #Design
Marino Institute of Education is an Irish College of Education, an associated college of Trinity College Dublin, focused on providing education courses. Established in 1905, the college became a recognised provider of teacher education in 1929, with a proud heritage as a provider of higher education for more than one hundred years. It’s degrees and diplomas are awarded by the University of Dublin, Trinity College.
Clare Lynch Creative was contracted by Marino Institute to create their 2018-2019 Annual Report. They required the style to be clean and modern, with a fresh new look. The institute is set in the grounds of Lord Charlemont’s Estate, on Griffith Avenue, and offers state of the art facilities in this unique setting and the client wanted the report to showcase images of the campus and the student life. They also required a version of the report in Irish (Gaeilge), with the overall report incorporating both versions, back to back.The result is fresh and visually engaging, showcasing the institute’s activity for the year in a clear, attractive and easy to read manner.
The client was easy to work with and really pleased with the final outcome.
Tales for Tadpoles Bookmark Range
Tales for Tadpoles Bookmarks Set
This set of bookmarks was designed for Tales for Tadpoles, a children’s bookstore on Drury Street in Dublin city centre. The bookstore features classic tales in picture books and related merchandise.
The brief was to design a set of bookmarks, to display at the counter in-store and to give as a takeaway for customers with their purchases, as a friendly and useful reminder of the store and to show appreciation for their business.
The monotone images used on the bookmarks are the much-loved characters from classic tales (available for public use as out-of-copyright). They have been intertwined with the ‘T’ from the Tales for Tadpoles logo to create strong brand association. Each bookmark features a unique tagline, linking to the joys of reading and the pleasure found in the world of books. The colour palette is soft pastels, in-line with the brand colours and to appeal to the target audience of children. They have been designed for customers to cherish as a keepsake and to encourage repeat business, as customers can collect a different bookmark with each purchase until they have acquired the full set.
The client loved the results and they have received positive feedback from their customers.
Flying Squirrel Vegan Cheese Packaging
Flying Squirrel Plant-based Cheese
Flying Squirrel are a range of delicious, plant-based cheese alternatives, new to the market. The brand packaging and identity is fun, happy and vibrant; showcasing a quality, sophisticated product.
The artisan producer, Colm Farrell, grew up in the Irish countryside where he where he first fell in love with nature and animals and gained an appreciation for the environment. He went vegan in 2014 and one food he really missed was cheese. He noticed a gap in the market for plant-based cheese that tasted good and began attending cookery schools in the UK and Germany, studying traditional, centuries old techniques of the craft such as culturing, fermentation, coagulation and ageing and developed a real passion for food and cooking. His hand-made artisan range is carefully crafted in his Dublin kitchen with love and passion, using traditional techniques. All Flying Squirrel products are dairy and lactose-free and are suitable for vegans, vegetarians and those making a conscious decision to change their eating habits for health, ethical or environmental reasons.
We worked together in the naming process to define the name ‘Flying Squirrel’. It is inspired by the free-spirited energy of animals such as the flying squirrel, left to roam happy and freely in nature. This ‘cheese from trees’ is made mainly from nuts, and as squirrels are known to gather nuts, this is a further connection with the name to the cheese brand.
In the packaging, the illustration created depicts a flying squirrel character soaring over the natural outdoor landscape, connecting with how the cheese is made using 100 per cent natural ingredients and is naturally kind to the planet. We worked with Farrell to create a visual brand and packaging identity which best represents this philosophy. Although one of the key aims of Flying Squirrel is to provide a solution for consumers looking for a delicious alternative to dairy cheese, all cheese lovers can enjoy it. For this reason, the ‘v’ to signify it’s vegan appeal, is highlighted in a subtle manner within the ‘y’ in the brandmark typography. A small Irish shamrock symbol is included on the front of the packaging to signify its origin for consumers who like to buy local.
There are three flavours – Original (camembert) 150g, Almond 110g and Almond & Cheese 110g. Each have been separated visually using the brand’s colour palette and featuring illustrative taste cues. Each product has it’s own unique barcode, incorporating the squirrel character and nuts. Originally, we had mocked up plastic jars for two of the flavours. However, we then moved to glass jars, to become more environmentally friendly so that the packaging can all be recycled and have a lower carbon footprint. We art-directed the photoshoot with photographer Brendan Ryan, bringing out the bright, fun and vibrant essence of the brand, with colour paper backgrounds, linking with each flavour and the ingredients each flavour contains and taste cues, displayed around the packs playfully.
The combination of the elegant and clean typography with the vibrant and natural illustrations come together to create a fresh, memorable, and essentially, unique brand that consumers can align with. The results have proved successful, with market research showing that those purchasing Flying Squirrel in supermarkets are a mix of vegan and non-vegan consumers. Demand is high since its launch and it has already been requested for select health food stores and cafes.
See the positive feedback I received from the client Colm Farrell here.
***This project is featured on the Packaging of the World website and was a Gold Winner of the Muse 2020 Design Awards.
Follow Flying Squirrel on Instagram @flyingsquirrel.ie
Origin Chain Brand Identity
#Branding, #brochure, #Design
Origin Chain addresses a key consumer need: trust, offering blockchain-enabled software solutions to problems of real world asset authentication / proof-of-origin in export markets. In a distributed trust system this info-flow is called the value chain.
Origin Chain needed a brand identity created as they entered a more public phase of their company, where they would be business networking at events such as Enterprise Ireland’s ‘Innovation Arena’ at the National Ploughing Championships and tech summit event ‘Uprise’.
Not everyone understands areas such as blockchain, therefore they wanted the brand to be so well communicated that even a child could understand it, with the viewpoint that children are often quicker to absorb new technologies and communicate them to adults.
They have two sub-brands that sit under Origin Chain (Volunteer Passport and Verify by O.C.), and needed brandmarks for these in order for all three to work together as a family.
On reviewing Origin Chain’s needs and values, they wanted to be perceived as trustworthy, new-tech and user-friendly. Their software allows direct online transactions along a secure blockchain. These transactions are transparent and can be viewed by anyone.
A good way to envision this is to picture a value chain of a food item. E.g.; a banana you purchase with a barcode. On scanning the barcode, you can view the trail of where it has originally come from – from the farmer who picked it, to each input along the way, up until to the store delivery. It provides a sense of reassurance of knowing the root source of an item along the chain and be able to openly view it’s journey. With Volunteer Passport, it enables people in the volunteer sector to track and share their voluntary work. It enables a verification system, which allows one easy authorized and verified passport for all workplaces.
Factors considered were as follows:
Representing the links of a block chain as a strong, graphic symbol. The links also representing trust and security, a key value of Origin Chain.
The feeling of movement within the chain, emphasizing the interactive process of the blockchain technology.
Overlays of colours within the logo represent the transparency within Origin Chain’s software – the trust of anyone being able to see everything within the process.
Subtle hidden circles within the links represent eyes – the observing eye of the open visibility features of blockchain.
Closed links locked in to each-other to show solidarity of how when data is entered into a blockchain, it cannot be removed and is there forever.
Use of blue as the link colour, to further denote trust, the green tones signify the verification of the green light signaling approval.
For ‘Verify by O.C.’, the same brand style is used to create a tick of approval of the verification process.
The client was very happy with how the end result met the brief requirements, her feedback was as follows:
“I’m very pleased with how they look together. It’s been a real pleasure to work with you. As well as being a wonderful talent, you’re sort of unflappable too. The very best kind of designer in my book.”
*This work received a graphic design award in the International Design Awards with an Honorable Mention for brand identity.
Inishbofin Guide Book
#brochure, #Design, #Vector
Inishbofin Guide
This is a guide to Inishbofin, a small island off the coast of Ireland. Inishbofin has a population of 180 people and relies heavily on tourism. This project explored a way of attracting more tourists to the island. The concept behind it is to create a series of landmarks around the island, which honour Inishbofin’s history and culture. As Inishbofin is an eco-friendly island, they seek to achieve sustainable tourism that does not negatively impact upon the island’s natural environment, while at the same time benefits and supports the local community. Therefore, the concept was each sculpture would be created with eco-friendly, sustainable materials such as wood, bog oak, stone and earthy materials which would be in harmony with the local landscape and for each one to be clever and creatively designed. Some of the landmarks/highlights I thought of were the famous Grace O’Malley, the Cleggan Disaster, the island’s Flora & Fauna wildlife, the Patron Saint of Bofin, Cromwell’s Barracks, the White Cow (the island’s name) and Cockles & Mussels. I explored different ways in which these sculptures would be created. The idea being that visitors can interact with the sculptures and will want to find each one, to take photographs with them and tick them off their list of cultural things to see on the island. Beside each sculpture would be a small plaque which also naturally blends in with the local environment, which tells the story behind the sculpture.
Taking visual cues from the Camino de Santiago, where there is the a subtle shell with an arrow showing the direction to walk, I designed an icon which would work in the same way for Inishbofin’s sculptures. It is a simple boat shape, where the sail is an arrow – the direction of the arrow indicates which way to walk to each attraction. These would be set subtly in stone around the island, to ensure not to impact the island’s beautiful and natural landscape.
The main piece was an A5, side-stitched booklet with a fold-out A3 map showing the location of each sculpture around the island in the centre-fold. It was riso-printed using a rigorous 7-colour process, with some lovely ‘happy accidents’ of colour offsets in the finished booklet. The cover was then debossed with the shape of the map. Each page uses modern typography and layouts. On researching the island, many people said how Inishbofin was a place that people come to get lost and find themselves in, enjoying the slower pace of life and the fresh sea air and nature. The expression ‘There’s plenty of time on the island’ is a commonly used expression. This inspired the name for this booklet, with the play of words ‘A Guide to Getting Lost’. I created an icon for each sculpture, which visitors can easily find on the map, and used some expressions throughout which represent the essence of life on Bofin.
At this stage of the project, I created a 3D wooden stylised map of the island, with laser etchings of the icons, and also created 3D-printed icons to represent each sculpture (although not aimed to be the finished sculpture design). For the numbers on the map, I tailored an old Irish Celtic font to create individual, unique numbers which still embody the Celtic feel, but with a modern twist. I then laser printed these personally-designed numbers on to wood, to have as physical items to display as part of the overall proposed exhibition display. The use of wood for the display stand added to the sustainability, eco-friendly culture with which Inishbofin is proud of.
Marilyn Mansion Branding
#Branding, #Design
Marilyn Mansion Guesthouse Brand Identity
Marilyn Mansion Guesthouse Branding
Marilyn Mansion Guesthouse is located in a beautiful, green street in Rathgar – one of the quietest area of Dublin, only 10 min bus away from the city centre. They have a fun, friendly, welcoming and calm environment.
Their unique point of difference is that their name and rooms are designed to celebrate some of Hollywood’s famous celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Manson. Clare Lynch Creative worked with them on developing the concept behind their name by re-creating their rooms to highlight and pay tribute to these Hollywood greats, by using touches such as pop-art prints and graphics and movie-star style mirrors (Monroe-inspired) and gothic dark colour schemes with black, white and red finishing touches and accessories (Manson). This is a current work-in-progress on developing rooms one by one to embody this concept.
The visual identity incorporates the classic shape of the actual guesthouse, as a compact, memorable shape, which holds the ‘Marilyn Mansion’ name and uses a classic 50s-style script font and 50’s style classic pastel colour palette to create a dreamy, fantastical feel connecting to people’s love of Hollywood glamour and stardom. The business cards include a map as a practical, compact leave-behind sales tool for tourist offices in Dublin.
The client was very happy with the additional input and ideas that developed for their guesthouse, from working together on the brand identity.
BK Coaching Branding
Brid Kehoe Coaching
Brid Kehoe Coaching are a holistic coaching practise who support clients in taking steps forward to change for the better and help them to uncover new routes to get there. They guide clients to improve wellbeing and focus, change career and much more through support, encouragement and introducing new creative strategies.
The arrow in this identity lockup represents how Brid Kehoe Coaching focus clients in an upwards direction in their life; the subtle smile and bright colours communicate the positivity and fresh outlook that they bring to all their clients.
The visual identity kit includes the stationery suite and brand guidelines featuring the photography style, visual language, typography and colour palette which maintain a consistent brand style through all BK Coaching’s communication and points of contact with their potential clients.
See also Brid Kehoe Coaching Brand Booklet and BK Coaching Client Toolkit is to follow soon.
*This work received a graphic design award in the International Design Awards with an Honorable Mention.
CashAnalytics Re-Brand
#Branding, #Design, #Illustration
CashAnalytics Re-Brand & Brand Guidelines
CashAnalytics Re-brand, Brand Guidelines & Marketing Collateral
CashAnalytics build software that solves problems using the latest cloud and web based technologies, that help large companies manage their day-to-day treasury, risk and compliance challenges in an efficient and controlled manner. They work with a broad spectrum of organisations ranging from mid-tier private equity backed companies to stock market listed multinational enterprises. They are experts in corporate cash and treasury management, compliance, software development, customer service and project management.
They liked their existing logo to some extent, but wanted a more modernised look and feel, to ensure their logo was contemporary and communicated how the services they offer use the latest software technology to create results in a fast time-frame compared to their competitors. To create this, the bars from the treasury building in the original logo were used to stand alone as a strong analytics symbol, along with the cleaner, modernised Futura typeface. This created a new, modern CashAnalytics logo, which still easily links to be an evolution of their previous logo. There is a secondary version of their logo, which includes their strapline ‘Cash and Liquidity Forecasting’, for more specific uses.
The brand was then further developed across stationery, infographics, web graphics, eNewsletters, eBooks, brochures, exhibition graphics and brand guidelines, to roll out the re-brand in a consistent manner across all CashAnalytics collateral. The client was very happy with the new streamlined result across all their points of contact with clients.
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1952 Lancia Aurelia - B20 Series II
Sports Purpose
GBP 195 000 (listed)
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1952 Lancia Aurelia
B20 Series II
95 533 km / 59 362 mi
Anzahl der Türen
This highly original Aurelia B20 Series II Berlinetta is one of just 731 produced and boasts a continuous history from new, with as complete a history file as one could hope for – including every MOT and bill for work carried out, including an engine rebuild and two glass-out repaints by Ashton Keynes Vehicle Restoration.
First registered in Milan on 30 July 1952, the original Italian registration with the car documents its ownership history through to 1963, at which point it was taken off the road for 11 years, before it was purchased by Peter Agg of Trojan Cars. Mr Agg imported the car to the UK, where it was registered as WYM 493M in 5 June 1974.
Three days later it was bought at auction at Alexandra Palace by Dr. David Leech of Fairford, Gloucestershire, on behalf of his friend, Dr Laite, who eventually sold it onto David in the mid-1980s. Dr Leach meticulously maintained the car over years of dedicated ownership.
The claimed mileage upon arrival in the UK in the 1970s of 89,510km is considered the genuine total and the car has only done an additional 6,000km since, which is quite remarkable and testament to what a pampered life it has enjoyed.
Since arriving with us, the car – re-registered 150 GXG since 2004 – has undergone a further £24,500 worth of work with Lancia specialists Thornley Kelham to restore it to its ultimately original form: in period (the late 1950’s) early Italian cars were modified to comply with new road laws regarding indicators; in the case of our car, the beautiful flying wings were adapted to accept a stack of rear lights with built in indicators. We were determined to reinstate this most elegant feature, unique to the Series II, and return it to original condition.
These cars cost the same as Aston Martins and Mercedes in period and were the preserve of the wealthy and knowledgeable enthusiast driver and, famously, were used as road cars by professionals such as Fangio and Hawthorne.
The early, lighter cars with the live rear axle were the design favoured by the factory racing drivers and are a joy to drive. So, we like them first and foremost as a driver’s car but also, due to their rarity and their period race results, we like them as cars most likely to gain entry to our favourite events today.
We do not say this lightly, or about many cars, but we think that this is as good a Series II as you will find anywhere in the world and accordingly we would rank it as a true collector level car.
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Athersys’, Pluristem’s and Mesoblast’s mesenchymal stromal cell therapies vie for efficacy in Covid-19
GlobalData Healthcare 20th April 2020 (Last Updated April 23rd, 2020 17:43)
by Manasi Vaidya in New York.
Mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapies have experts noting that the field is still grappling with questions on the ideal source for MSCs and optimal dosing strategies. Hence, calling a potential winner between the three key players, Athersys, Mesoblast and Pluristem Therapeutics, is tough. Also, unlike biologics or antivirals being tested in Covid-19, the ability to scale-up manufacturing will be a critical component if MSCs are to be a panacea to all patients with Covid-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
While an ideal tissue source for the MSCs to be effective is not clear, each product may have to be weighed against supply constraints for the source material. In terms of dosing, a strategy that allows multiple dosing may be beneficial but could be logistically difficult given the critical nature of these ARDS patients. Furthermore, while companies are largely evaluating these therapies in patients with moderate-to-severe ARDS, the ideal timing for initiating treatment given the varying levels of lung damage still needs to be understood.
On 13 April, Athersys, which has a $353.7m market cap, received an IND approval for MultiStem, and the study is planned to start this quarter. Mesoblast received its IND approval for remestemcel-L on 6 April, sending its stock up 65%. Mesoblast’s market cap is ($694m). The company expects to initiate its study imminently, CEO Silviu Itescu told this news service. On 13 April, Pluristem said it intends to file for the initiation of a multinational clinical trial using its PLX cells, which resulted in the stock peaking at 37% on that day. Pluristem’s market cap is $150.8.
Other MSC-focused companies in the fray include Hope Biosciences, which has filed an IND for a therapeutic trial in Covid-19 patients and is initiating a Covid-19 prevention study, as reported by this news service on 10 April. Orbsen Therapeutics initiated a Phase IIa trial (NCT03042143) in the UK last week.
This news service reported that data from a clinical study in China and Pluristem’s compassionate use program were encouraging to support the exploration of MSCs in patients with ARDS due to Covid-19, but the data was to be interpreted cautiously due to small patient numbers and the nonrandomised nature of the data.
Athersys did not respond by press time, while Pluristem did not respond to a request for comment.
Answers needed on MSCs source and dosing specifics
The jury is out on whether cord blood, fat or bone marrow is the best source of MSCs, said Dr David Thickett, professor, Respiratory Medicine, Birmingham Acute Care Research Group, UK. The difficulty is unique to MSCs compared to other biologics being explored for Covid-19, noted Dr Daniel Weiss, professor, Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington.
MultiStem and remestemcel-L are both bone marrow-derived, while PLX cells are prepared from placenta and all three are allogeneic therapies. MultiStem is derived from multipotent adult progenitor cells, while remestemcel-L comprises culture-expanded mesenchymal stem cells. PLX cells are described as mesenchymal-like stem cells.
Hope Biosciences’ HB-adMSCs are manufactured from adipose tissue, while Orbsen’s ORBCEL is made from umbilical cord tissue. As long as the MSCs are purified, the source should not matter, said Hope CEO Donna Chang. However, the source needs to be consistent, and getting MSCs from the bone marrow of older patients can be challenging, she noted on the rationale behind the company’s focus on fat cells, which are easier to obtain from any patient no matter how sick they are.
Yet, Dr Partow Kebriaei, professor, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, pointed out, MSCs are thought to have different properties based on which tissues they originate from, adding clinical experience has been the most with MSCs derived from bone marrow. Nonetheless, using the umbilical cord as a source is reasonable, said Dr Michael Matthay, professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego. Umbilical cord tissue also has the benefit of being in continuous supply, Thickett added.
Besides questions on the optimal source for MSCs, it is also not clear how many cells need to be used, and the dosing strategies with various approaches being explored in ARDS studies range from a single administration to four doses, said Weiss. While Pluristem has not divulged details for its planned trial or from use under compassionate use protocols, Athersys will evaluate two MultiStem doses in the open-label portion of its Phase II/III. The randomised part of its previous Phase I/II trial evaluated a 900-million-cell dose infusion. The Mesoblast study will assess two remestemcel-L infusions several days apart in the first week, this news service reported yesterday, with CEO Silviu Itescu noting the strategy is based on the company’s positive Phase III graft versus host disease trial, which tested two doses per week for four weeks.
Most MSC studies in various indications have assessed single infusions, but it is not clear whether one, high-dose infusion would be better than frequent, lower-dose infusions, said Thickett. There is rationale from non-ARDS studies using MSCs to give multiple infusions but that could be difficult considering the window for a severely ill patient may be narrow, he added. Hope’s proposed protocol for a study in Covid-19 patients is for multiple infusions of 100 million cells per dose, Chang said.
Additionally, the ideal administration time is not clear, said Weiss. Thus far, most clinical data with therapeutic interventions in Covid-19 patients, including cell therapies, has been in critically ill patients, who receive mechanical ventilation. But even for patients on a ventilator, lung damage is not uniform, Kebriaei explained. So the minimum oxygen requirement to determine patient eligibility or the maximum level that indicates fibrosis has taken place is not known, she said.
Manufacturing capacity for widespread use a potential hurdle
While companies seem to have enough capacity to manufacture their MSC products for clinical trial evaluation, the ability to produce the required number of doses if they get approved for widespread use is the real issue, Thickett added. Nonetheless, following the pandemic, there has been a strong ramp-up in activity in the US and Europe by cell therapy companies, according to Weiss. Also, in recent years, companies have improved their manufacturing protocols such that the final MSC product is uniform and that is no longer a limitation, said Kebriaei.
Orbsen can get 2,000 or more doses per umbilical cord and has a system set up for multiple sources of the tissue, said CEO Larry Couture. The company may consider conducting a Phase IIb ARDS study in the US, depending on strategic decisions taking into account its assets in other indications, Couture said. Yet, he pointed out, the FDA bans the import of cells from the UK due to a regulation put in place more than two decades ago in response to mad cow disease. That element of the manufacturing process would still need to be sorted before conducting a US study, he said.
Mesoblast has a strong supply chain to meet the expected demand and the ability to scale up as required, said Itescu. Proprietary technology on growth media that increases the yield and the ability to move from 2D to 3D bioreactors should address any increased demand, he added. As the company improves its technology, an increase in production is expected as well, said Itescu.
Manasi Vaidya is a Senior Reporter for Clinical Trials Arena parent company GlobalData’s investigative journalism team. A version of this article originally appeared on the Insights module of GlobalData’s Pharmaceutical Intelligence Center. To access more articles like this, visit GlobalData.
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SiteGround vs Bluehost: Going to the Mattresses in 2021
Setting Up a Fight: SiteGround vs. Bluehost
1. Features
Round One Thoughts
Round Two Thoughts
3. Ease of Use
Round Three Thoughts
4. Speed and Uptime
Round Four Thoughts
5. Security and Privacy
Round Five Thoughts
6. Final Thoughts
By Jacob Roach (Writer)
— Last Updated: 12 Jul'19 2019-07-12T09:38:25+00:00
In this SiteGround vs Bluehost comparison, we’re going to pit these two powerhouse services against each other to see which comes out on top. Over five rounds, we’ll try to determine if SiteGround’s excellent feature list can beat Bluehost’s unparalleled usability so you can find the best service for you.
SiteGround ranked on our list of the best web hosting providers, and for good reason. Between its no-nonsense pricing, excellent speed and many features, it’s an ideal choice for almost any website. That said, it was nearly knocked out of contention by Bluehost in our best web hosting for WordPress guide.
This comparison takes place in a vacuum, though. We’ll pull in other providers throughout the piece, but we’re focused on how the competitors stack up against each other. If you want to see how they perform in the real world, read our SiteGround review and Bluehost review.
The comparison will take place over five rounds: features, pricing, ease of use, speed and uptime and security and privacy. At the beginning of each round, we’ll specify what we’re looking for, then proceed to see how well each provider satisfies our criteria. At the end, we’ll provide our thoughts and declare a winner.
Whichever service wins three or more rounds will take the crown overall. That said, it’s usually not that straightforward, as you can see in our DreamHost vs. Bluehost comparison. Though we try our best to find the optimal choice for most situations, we can’t find the best option for all situations.
The service you go with will depend on what your website needs. Because of that, we recommend reading through each section completely so you can understand why we declared the winner we did. In some rounds, the better choice is clear, but others are more nuanced.
Features are the cornerstone of any good web hosting service. When picking between providers, it often comes down to the extras you get because the differences in pricing and speed are minimal. This round will address which features are included with your plan, as well as how useful those features are to growing your website.
When it comes to goodies, there’s no service is quite like SiteGround. While Hostinger edges it out by a hair, but almost all other providers fall short (read our Hostinger review). No matter which type or tier of hosting you purchase, SiteGround ensures that you have the essentials to keep your website functioning while adding a few extras for the particular service you’re using.
For example, the managed WordPress plans have a long list of WordPress-specific features, including staging, Jetpack, SuperCacher and managed updates. Though nothing special for a WordPress-focused web host such as Kinsta (read our Kinsta review), SiteGround’s low price point makes the WordPress features shine.
Non-WordPress users aren’t left in the cold, though. SiteGround, like many web hosts, includes a website builder, but it’s not a mediocre addition like we saw with 1&1 IONOS (read our 1&1 IONOS review). Rather, you have access to Weebly, which is probably the best website builder you can buy, as you can read in our Weebly review.
Outside of building tools, the essentials are accounted for, including automated daily backups, a free SSL/TLS certificate, Cloudflare integration and unlimited email addresses at your domain. SiteGround includes everything, and it includes it across all plans. Though specific features are present on certain tiers, the essentials span the range.
Bluehost is as excellent when it comes to features. Out of the web hosts Endurance International Group owns, Bluehost is the most feature-rich, unlike, say, iPage (read our iPage review). That said, you often have to pay extra for those features, putting Bluehost at a slight disadvantage for this round.
Many of the same features are present, though. With Bluehost, you can still use Weebly with your domain for free, and WordPress users still get staging. Plus, the control panel is built for WordPress, making it easier than ever to manage your website.
The goodies are equal, but the essentials aren’t. Though Bluehost offers daily backups, domain privacy, an SSL/TLS certificate and spam prevention, it doesn’t offer all those features across plans. To get CodeGuard, which is a daily backup tool, domain privacy and SpamExperts, you’ll need to upgrade to the most expensive shared plan.
That said, many of the essentials are included across tiers, which most of Bluehost’s EIG siblings can’t boast (read our FatCow review for an example). All users get daily backups and a free SSL/TLS certificate, which is more than enough to satisfy us for this round.
This round is one of the closest we’ve had in our comparison articles because Bluehost and SiteGround go blow for blow with their features. Bluehost puts up a barrier for some features, but they’re not essential to running a website. Though we tried our best to avoid it, this round is going to have to be a tie.
Round: Features
No clear winner, points for all
Web hosting is unusual when it comes to pricing. Though in, say, our best VPN services, we look at the price alone, there are more factors to consider with web hosting, namely transparency. The industry is notorious for misleading and deceptive pricing, meaning this round will not only consist of the price you’ll be paying, but also how clear that price is through checkout.
SiteGround isn’t as transparent as, say, DreamHost when it comes to pricing, but it’s better than most (read our DreamHost review). As is the case with almost all web hosts, there’s an introductory rate that you’ll pay for the initial term, meaning your monthly price will jump when it comes time to renew.
Unlimited GB Disk Space
120 GB Disk Space
$ 80.00/ month
1920 GB Disk Space
$ 269.00/ month
Unfortunately, there’s no dodging that, but SiteGround helps ease the burden. Unlike with Arvixe, your monthly rate doesn’t change depending on duration (read our Arvixe review). That means no matter if you buy one, two or three years of shared hosting, you get the same discounted rate for your initial term.
Though SiteGround’s rates aren’t as low as Hosting24’s (read our Hosting24 review), they’re in line with what we’d expect. That said, the WordPress plans are the same price as the normal shared plans while being managed, which makes SiteGround much more attractive than a pricey managed WordPress web host, such as Pagely (read our Pagely review).
If you try the service and decide it’s not for you, there’s a 30-day refund window, but it only applies to shared hosting and its variants, such as WordPress and WooCommerce. Cloud plans only get a 15-day window and dedicated hosting doesn’t get one. The shorter period is a letdown compared to InMotion Hosting’s 90-day refund policy (read our InMotion Hosting review).
Glancing through both product pages, you’d be forgiven for thinking Bluehost and SiteGround cost the same. While certain plans line up, Bluehost’s misleading pricing model means you’ll often end up paying more. As with SiteGround, there’s an introductory rate that’ll save you money on your initial term, but that rate isn’t static.
Price for longest term
The shorter the duration you go with, the higher the price. The rate advertised, and the rate listed above, is only if you purchase three years of hosting. Shared packages are only offered in one, two and three-year durations, and a dollar is added to the monthly price as you step down.
Plus, multiple add-ons are preselected at checkout, which makes your hosting package even more expensive. The final rate isn’t clear until checkout, either. When put together, you’re often paying much more than the competition, despite the advertised monthly rate looking similar to those offered by other web hosts.
As for a refund window, Bluehost offers you 30 days like SiteGround. It’s not impressive compared to InMotion Hosting or A2 Hosting (read our A2 Hosting review), but it’s difficult to complain when SiteGround offers the same duration.
Rates, refund windows and durations are evenly matched for Bluehost and SiteGround. The difference comes down to how clear the price is. Bluehost makes you commit to checkout before clarifying that shorter durations cost more, while SiteGround is clear throughout the process, making this round straightforward.
Round: Pricing
Point for SiteGround
Though there’s configuration that needs to be done, you won’t be accessing your web hosting control panel on a daily basis. It often works in the background, and though that’s true, it doesn’t excuse a poorly designed interface. This round, we’ll look at how easy it is to manage your hosting package, as well as how simple it is to get through checkout.
As mentioned, SiteGround is clear throughout checkout about the price you’re paying, which helps ease of use a lot. Choosing a hosting package is simple, too, with a side-by-side comparison of features for each tier of hosting. That said, the dated control panel puts a damper on the otherwise seamless experience.
The checkout process is simple, unlike Namecheap’s, which subjects you to a painfully long checkout (read Namecheap review). Once you’re done, you can access the control panel, which allows you to view your account details, update billing information and purchase additional services.
It’s in desperate need of a facelift, though. Even budget web hosts, such as WebHostingBuzz, manage an intuitive and inviting interface, while SiteGround just feels dull and drab (read our WebHostingBuzz review). The functionality is there, but a pretty face doesn’t hurt.
Once you find cPanel — it’s a bit of a process, as you can read in our review — the experience ticks up, but only slightly. cPanel is just as dated, despite being as usable as any other implementation. The same verdict applies with it: SiteGround doesn’t limit your functionality, but more effort in the design would help.
Bluehost struggles more when it comes to checkout because of the misleading pricing and preselected add-ons, but the control panel is so excellent that the grueling process is more than made up for. After paying for your account, you’ll set your password and proceed to the control panel.
If you’re using one of our best password managers, though, you’ll have issues. We used LastPass to generate a secure password, but copying and pasting it wouldn’t work (read our LastPass review). It seems that on the password creation screen, you can only type in your password, which is ridiculous considering how useful and widespread password managers are.
Thankfully, those issues are quickly forgotten once you hit the control panel. Bluehost uses a modified cPanel to mix your billing and hosting management into a single interface, and it works so well that Bluehost earned a spot on our best web hosting with cPanel guide.
That said, WordPress users will find the control panel the most useful. Bluehost allows you to manage many aspects of your WordPress website from the control panel, including plugins and themes. Plus, you can set up staging for your WordPress website without logging in to the WordPress back-end.
Bluehost stumbles through checkout, while SiteGround is rock solid. You’ll only need to endure checkout once, though, and Bluehost has the clear edge once the payment has been processed. Though SiteGround has the same functionality, Bluehost shows that a modern interface can go a long way in usability.
Round: Ease of Use
Point for Bluehost
Of all the areas we look at with web hosting providers, speed and uptime is perhaps the most important. We use two tools to gauge a web host’s speed: Pingdom Speed Test and Load Impact. Between them, we can see not only how quickly the website loads, but also how well it performs when multiple users are trying to access it at the same time.
SiteGround is one of the fastest web hosts we’ve tested. It earned a 96 out of 100 from Pingdom Speed Test, largely thanks to SuperCacher. That in-house caching tool significantly cuts down on load times, which is especially useful for database-driven websites, such as those using WordPress.
As you can see in the chart above, SiteGround had a long load time, but most of that was because of DNS resolution, which just means the domain provider we were using — in this case, GoDaddy (read our GoDaddy review) — was slow. The “wait” metric, which is most important, accounted for little time.
Moving on, we used Load Impact to send 50 virtual users to the server over the course of five minutes. As the users pile up, we want to see the web host return little to no HTTP errors and maintain a consistent response time. As you can see in the graph below, SiteGround was up to the task.
SiteGround also has the most generous uptime guarantee we’ve seen. You’re guaranteed 99.9 percent uptime, down to 99 percent. If you fall in that range, you’ll receive a month of free hosting. Every percentage point below that also awards you a free month of hosting, which is excellent.
Bluehost performed well in our speed test, too, but not as well as SiteGround. It scored a 94 out of 100, with twice as much time given to the “wait” metric. Though not as good as SiteGround, Bluehost is faster than most web hosting providers, meaning you can achieve optimal performance with it as long as you follow our how to improve website loading times guide.
Like SiteGround, it was a lot of caching going on, though it seems SuperCacher performs better, if only slightly. You can improve your load times on a platform such as WordPress by installing an additional caching plugin (read our beginner’s guide to using WordPress to learn how).
We ran the same Load Impact test on Bluehost as we did on SiteGround, but with much different results. Bluehost had a high number of HTTP errors throughout, suggesting there are too many users stuffed onto the server. For much of the time, our website had a 0-millisecond response time, meaning the user couldn’t access it.
That combined with the uptime guarantee, or lack thereof, ends this round on a low note. Bluehost cites the “complexity” of shared hosting as a reason not to guarantee uptime. As we said in our review, though, if other web hosts can offer an uptime guarantee, a web host of Bluehost’s caliber should be able to, as well.
Though the Pingdom Speed Test results for both providers are evenly matched, SiteGround has a clear edge when it comes to the uptime guarantee and our Load Impact test. You can get similar speed with Bluehost, but you’ll probably need to upgrade to a more expensive plan to see similar load handling to SiteGround.
Round: Speed and Uptime
Our fifth and final round will look at the security features SiteGround and Bluehost include, as well as how concerned they are with protecting your privacy. Between those two areas, we can see how well each web host not only protects your website from threats, but also how it protects you.
SiteGround has an excellent list of security features, especially for shared users. One concern with shared hosting is that a bad apple can infect the lot, with malware moving to other websites on the server. SiteGround uses isolated directories for each of its websites, though, meaning one infected website won’t spoil the rest.
Plus, a great security package is included. The trifecta of security features are present, meaning you get daily backups, malware scanning and a free SSL/TLS certificate. There’s a web application firewall, AI-driven anti-bot system and SpamExperts, too.
Privacy isn’t as good, but it’s not bad, either. Though SiteGround doesn’t include free domain privacy like Midphase and WestHost (read our Midphase review and WestHost review), it only charges you $1 per month for it. We’re not jazzed about paying for domain privacy, but the privacy policy is sound.
SiteGround says it won’t “sell, rent, share or otherwise disclose personally identifiable information for commercial purposes in any way.” It doesn’t get much clearer than that. Though SiteGround collects standard information from you, that information isn’t used for profit, which a lot of web hosts can’t say (read our HostGator review for more on that).
Bluehost has a solid list of security features, unlike its EIG siblings. It includes free daily backups across plans, as well as an SSL/TLS certificate. Many of the server-side security features are unclear, though, despite our attempts at clarification.
We asked several times about a web application firewall, distributed denial-of-service attack prevention and server-side malware protection. Though most web hosts include those features, Bluehost dodged the question. We’d like to believe those features are present because they usually are, but we can’t say for sure.
The privacy is much more concerning, though. As mentioned, Bluehost is owned by EIG, which is bad for privacy. Domain privacy costs extra and your personal information is treated as an asset rather than sensitive data.
EIG can share information with Google, Facebook, Verizon, WP Beginner, Bing and more, which is outlined in its extensive privacy policy. There’s plenty of legal jargon, but no amount of smoke and mirrors can mask that EIG is in the business of selling your data. If you’re concerned about privacy, Bluehost, as well as all other EIG brands, should be your last consideration.
SiteGround is better on security and privacy than Bluehost, despite Bluehost including more than its EIG siblings. Though Bluehost isn’t bad in most regards, its privacy is abysmal, pushing SiteGround into the winner’s chair in this final round.
Round: Security and Privacy
With three wins and one tie, SiteGround is our champion. The first few rounds saw a close battle between the two, but as the comparison continued, it became clear that SiteGround was superior. Though not leaps and bounds better, it has enough slight advantages to be an overall better web host.
Winner: SiteGround
What killed Bluehost, though, was its privacy. All EIG brands lose massive points for privacy, which is a bummer considering Bluehost is a solid option otherwise.
Do you agree that SiteGround is the better option? If not, why do you like Bluehost? Let us know in the comments below and, as always, thanks for reading.
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Jacob Roach is a Midwesterner with a love for technology, an odd combination given his corn field-ridden setting. After finishing a degree in English at Southern New Hampshire University, Jacob settled back under the Arch in his hometown of St. Louis, MO, where he now writes about anything tech. His main interests are web technologies and online privacy, though he dips his toes in photography and the occasional card game as well. You can reach him at jacob[at]cloudwards.net.
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Handheld Barcode Readers Join the Factory Network
More and more 1-D and 2-D barcodes are used during the manufacturing process and throughout the supply chain to identify and track specific components, sub-assemblies or products. The process of tracking items through manufacturing and distribution is known as traceability. The majority of these codes are read automatically by fixed-mount barcode readers. However, many applications require the flexibility of handheld barcode readers. These applications require extensive mobility to ensure codes can be read wherever they may be located. The result is that large numbers of handheld ID readers are being deployed in factories and distribution centers around the world.
As the numbers of handheld readers in factory automation have increased, integrators are faced with the challenge of connecting readers with a wide range of local and enterprise-level computing systems. Conventional handheld barcode readers provide little or no communication capabilities with networks or factory automation equipment, such as PLC’s. This shortfall limits the areas where handheld readers can be used and increases the integration complexity.
Cognex® is addressing this challenge with the DataMan® 8000 series, the first handheld readers to offer industrial Ethernet communications. DataMan 8000 series readers can be integrated directly into the factory network for real-time traceability with the Cognex Connect suite of industry protocols. Cognex Connect provides a seamless and reliable link between DataMan 8000 series handheld readers and virtually all factory automation and computing systems, making it possible to transmit results and communicate directly with an integrated process control system. The following lists some of the protocols supported by the new DataMan 8600 handheld readers:
EtherNet/IP with Rockwell® Add On Profile (AOP)
PROFINET with Siemens® GSD
Modbus/TCP
MCProtocol
The DataMan 8000 series readers are also the first readers with interchangeable communications modules that provide RS-232/USB, Ethernet and wireless connectivity. This flexibility makes it possible to easily modify a handheld reader to meet future requirements or move it to a different application.
Download the Cognex Barcode Reader Product Guide to find out more about Handheld barcode readers. If you'd like purchasing information, get Product Pricing or contact your local Cognex sales representative.
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Senate Race, Texas-Style
Pinning down candidates in this state race is like lassoing bucking broncos
By Louis Dubose. Louis Dubose is the editor of the Texas Observer published in Austin, Texas.
AS winter gives way to spring in Kansas, late-night drivers on I-70 might be surprised to hear Democrat Jose Angel Gutierrez on the radio, explaining in Spanish and English why he should be the next US senator - for Texas. Outspent by Republicans and other Democrats in the campaign to fill Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's vacant seat, Mr. Gutierrez has been conducting a "borderblasting" campaign.
Some 24 candidates have entered the race. If no one wins a majority in this May 1 "ya'll come" election, the two top finishers hold a June runoff.
Twenty-four is a large field when you consider no one wanted the job when it first became open. The process by which Democratic Gov. Ann Richards filled the seat, which was legally subject to no one's approval but her own, made Bill Clinton's search for an attorney general seem hasty. Governor Richards' protracted process probably alienated more people - particularly progressives who were shut out of the process.
After Bentsen left, "sources close to Richards," began talking up retired Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, a Houston patrician whose mother held a Cabinet position in the Eisenhower administration and whose father was governor 70 years ago. When Mr. Hobby's name was withdrawn, word circulated that his 33-year-old son, who had never held elected office, would be named to the seat.
Focus then shifted to Henry Cisneros, who after weeks of consideration said he didn't want to put a strain on his family. The governor turned to the state comptroller. But he requested his name be removed. Rumors then circulated that Richards would appoint the Texas attorney general, a Mexican American elected with Richards in 1990. Or even herself.
Then came the Democratic congressional delegation, including Houston Rep. Mike Andrews, who seemed to be the governor's choice when she argued publicly that Mr. Andrews' record of hot checks at the House Bank (121 for $103,946) might not be an issue in a special election.
Meanwhile, progressives began to understand that Mr. Bentsen had veto power over candidates, and one leading progressive, a justice on the state Supreme Court, said he was not interested in running. Another, Dallas Congressman John Bryant, said he was.
Columnists began to feed on the governor's appointment debacle and headlines continued to read: "Bentsen Seat Still Unfilled." All the while, Republicans were jockeying for position, and Rep. Joe Barton, now one of three Republican frontrunners, even suggested that Richards appoint him, citing the "obvious lack of qualified candidates in her party."
This was not Ann Richards' finest hour. It seemed she could only save herself by appointing someone who could silence her critics, unite her party, and hamstring the Republicans. Instead, she chose Bob Krueger. Mr. Krueger, a conservative Democrat from the hill country north of San Antonio, is known for his dogged pursuit of elected offices (this is his third Senate campaign) and his two-term tenure in the House, where he consistently voted against Jimmy Carter.
THE Krueger choice brought former congressman and Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox to the edge of the race, where he remained for six weeks, relentlessly attacking Krueger's conservative record.
But after the appointment of Krueger, Richards, a popular governor with a national following found her second wind and within days united her party's diverse groups - labor, African-Americans, Hispanics and trial lawyers - behind Krueger.
If the current Krueger campaign has not caught fire, it is because Bob Krueger is something less than an incendiary candidate. The former literature professor, known for his ponderous oratory, even managed to turn his incumbency into a liability. At least that is what Mr. Gutierrez hopes as he tries to get progressives to join the 200,000 Latinos he thinks will vote for him. Krueger voted twice against Clinton's economic package, joining such Deep South defectors as John Breaux (D) of Louisiana and Richa rd Shelby (D) of Alabama. Krueger's name never appeared among Democratic senators voting to break the recent Republican filibuster of the president's stimulus package.
Other than Krueger's vote on the Family Leave Bill, there is not much to distinguish him from Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm. Even those supporting Krueger have a hard time explaining why. "Give him all the indulgences you can," the state director of the NAACP said at a filing-day rally, explaining to an Austin crowd that Krueger voted the way he did because he's running for election. This is not the sort of endorsement needed by someone as ill-defined as Krueger, who lost his last Senate primary to
a candidate who used a rubber spine to represent him in 1984.
Among Democratic candidates only Gutierrez and Richard Fisher seem to have enough machinery or money to contend. Mr. Fisher, a multi-millionaire Dallas investment banker who held a low-level position in the Carter administration, more recently served as economic adviser to Ross Perot's presidential campaign. His "lets-make-government-work" campaign would probably go unnoticed if not for the Perot job and Fisher's use of his own money to buy $2 million of TV time.
Kay Bailey Hutchison, the state treasurer elected when Richards left that post in 1990, was considered the early favorite among a Republican field of three contenders: Ms. Bailey Hutchison, Houston Congressman Jack Fields, and central Texas Congressman Joe Barton.
The Fields campaign eclipsed Bailey Hutchison's, and two weeks before the election she was confronted with charges that she had repeatedly struck a Treasury Department employee who had been required to perform personal chores for her. The woman who claims she was assaulted is the daughter of former Texas Gov. John Connally.
Polling figures have Krueger making the runoff with 23 percent; Bailey Hutchison and Fields both poll just above 10 percent in a fight for the second spot.
As the race concludes, Democrat Fisher and Bailey Hutchison are running against government; Fields against undocumented aliens on welfare; and Barton against gays and abortion. Bob Krueger is running from the president, whose endorsement he solicited and won; Jose Angel Gutierrez is vanstorming the state, taking his message to courthouses, Dairy Queens, and smalltown weekly newspapers.
You may hear from him soon.
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New Yorkers Forget Troubles As Sports Teams Take the Lead
Winning in basketball, hockey, and basebell makes the Big Apple a bit nutty
By Ron Scherer
STOCKBROKER Mark Boutote was supposed to take a client out to dinner, but had to cancel when his wife insisted he come home that night.
``She has suddenly become a die-hard Knicks fan and wanted us to watch the game together,'' he says.
Glen Paporello's wife was due to have her first baby. But Mr. Paporello had something else on his mind: He had a ticket to the final game of the New York Rangers-New Jersey Devils semi-final series. He proudly displayed a celluar telephone he had brought to the game.
``I can call between periods,'' he announces with pride.
Wall Street brokers skipping a night out on the town. Husbands pacing Madison Square Garden instead of delivery rooms. What's going on here?
What's happening is that New York teams are winning, giving the Big Apple a sports-crazed look.
For the first time since 1979, the Rangers are in the Stanley Cup finals, this time facing the Vancouver Canucks.
And, at the same time, the New York Knickerbockers have kept their fans on the edge of their seats as they defeated the arch-rival Chicago Bulls in seven games and went to a seventh game in the semifinals against the Indiana Pacers last night.
For New Yorkers it's been a long time since this kind of season. In fact, the Rangers have not won a Stanley Cup - the ultimate hockey trophy - since 1940. As a result, newspapers usually use the word ``long-suffering'' when referring to Rangers fans.
Outside Madison Square Garden, Rangers fans, wearing the jerseys of their favorite team members, are more than happy to tell you about their years of suffering.
Having gone through 25 years of Ranger's season tickets, Mike Kushner says he has lived through ``all the peaks and valleys.''
Last year was a deep valley since the Rangers did not make the playoffs. Two years ago, the Ranger's goalie, Mike Richter, let a 62-foot shot - very long for hockey - get past him.
The shot demoralized the team, which went on to lose the playoff round to the Pittsburgh Penguins. And, there have been years of losses for the New York Islanders, whose fans love to taunt the Rangers by chanting ``19-40,'' the last year the Rangers won the Cup.
But that's all history.
Now the fans are optimistic that this is the Rangers' year. In fact, outside the Garden, Larry Gordon announces he has bought his ticket to travel to Vancouver for the games.
``You have to have priorities,'' he tells fellow Ranger fans.
The Rangers are a priority on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where trading recently slowed when a pair of visiting Canuck players showed up on a tour. ``We started chanting, `LET'S GO RANGERS,''' says Steve Schnibbe, a clerk.
The sports craze is affecting New Yorkers in different ways. Lawyer Bruce Garrison, a longtime Rangers fan, couldn't sleep after the Rangers lost the first game of the Stanley Cup playoffs. ``After listening to WFAN [an all-talk sports radio channel], I realized what I needed was a hockey support group - someone to call and talk to after the games,'' Mr. Garrison says.
In fact, hockey chatter is ``overwhelming'' WFAN, says executive producer Steve Cohen. On a late night show, a woman who is an Islander fan calls in to say she is married to a Ranger fanatic. The radio emcee says he is doubtful the marriage will survive.
Computer programmer Bob Jeraci - a fan of both the Knicks and Rangers - now believes he may be spending too much time in front of the television set.
``I'm happy they are winning but it has occupied too much of my life,'' he remarks.
But Nancy Lemann, author of a book, Sportsman's Paradise, says such sports loyalty is normal. ``This is how sports-crazed guys relax,'' she explains.
And, some New Yorkers have started to shift their attention to baseball. With glee they note the Yankees, despite losing their third straight game on Saturday, are in first place. This is their strongest start in decades. Outfielder Paul O'Neil is batting over .400. Is it too early to talk about a World Series?
Stanley Cup fever in New York and L.A.: 3,000 miles and worlds apart
Improbable vs. unstoppable: How NHL got its dream Stanley Cup final
NHL playoffs: Bruins, Rangers advance in very different Game 7 victories
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Wind and fuel cell power backed by state
Bill Cummings
June 13, 2018 Updated: June 14, 2018 8:35 a.m.
1of11FuelCell Energy of Danbury was selected from among 27 bidders vying to provide renewable power under a request for clean energy.Chris Bosak / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
2of11Anthony Rauseo, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for FuelCell Energy, leads U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty on a tour of the companyís facility in Danbury in 2014. FuelCell Energy was selected from among 27 bidders vying to provide renewable power under a request for clean energy.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
3of11Three of Deepwater Wind's five turbines stand in the water off Block Island, R.I, the nation's first offshore wind farm. Deepwater Wind was selected from among 27 bidders vying to provide renewable power under a request for clean energy.Michael Dwyer / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
4of11U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, visited FuelCell Energy in Torrington to discuss a fresh tax credit for the industry and tour the recently-expanded factory.Ben Lambert / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
6of11U.S. Senator Senator Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Tony Rauseo, chief operating officer of Danbury-based FuelCell Energy toured the company's manufacturing plant in Torrington.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
7of11Fuel cells from FuelCell Energy behind Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge power a microgrid serving Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge Town Hall, the library, senior center, police headquarters, fire department and public works department.Arnold Gold / New Haven RegisterShow MoreShow Less
8of11Janet Hixson completes the work on a 400 cell fuel cell stack at the FuelCell Energy manufacturing plant in Torrington, Conn. Wednesday, February 1, 2017.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
9of11A Tri-Generation fuel cell used at the FuelCell Energy manufacturing plant in Torrington, Conn. Wednesday, February 1, 2017. The unit, which uses one fuel cell stack, provides electricity, heat and hydrogen.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
10of11Four fuel cell stacks inside a fuel cell unit at the FuelCell Energy manufacturing plant in Torrington, Conn. Wednesday, February 1, 2017. A steel cover will be added.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
11of11A view of a FuelCell Energy power plant in March 2016 at Dominion’s Eco-Technology Park in Bridgeport, Conn.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
DANBURY — The state has selected a city fuel cell company and a major offshore wind farm developer to help bring more than 250 megawatts of clean electricity to Connecticut consumers.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other officials announced Wednesday in Hartford that FuelCell Energy of Danbury and Deepwater Wind were selected from among 27 bidders vying to provide renewable power under a request for clean energy.
FuelCell Energy was selected to supply 14.8 megawatts of power from a facility in Derby and 7.4 megawatts in Hartford. The company makes power generation equipment.
State officials also selected fuel cell projects based in Colchester and New Britain, bringing the total to 52 megawatts.
Deepwater Wind will provide 200 megawatts from it’s Revolution Wind project, a 25-turbine wind farm to be built in federal water near Martha’s Vineyard. Construction of the wind farm is slated to begin in 2021 and power is to be delivered by 2023.
"We have an obligation to our children and grandchildren to invest in energy projects that reduce the impacts of harmful emissions," Malloy said.
"That’s why Connecticut is making investments in the technologies of the future, not of the past," Malloy said. "These projects will result in thousands of new Connecticut jobs, helping to grow our economy, while doing so in a clean and sustainable way."
The price of the electricity has not been determined and the selected companies will enter into negotiations with Eversource and United Illuminating for 20-year contracts.
The Deepwater selection marks the state’s first procurement of power from an offshore wind farm. The company built the nation’s first offshore wind farm near Block Island, R.I.
“Our Revolution Wind project will bring hundreds of new jobs to Connecticut and deliver affordable, homegrown energy to ratepayers," said Jeffery Grybowski, chief executive officer for Deepwater Wind.
The state has committed spending $15 million to upgrade the New London State Pier to accommodate construction of the Deepwater project, including providing an area to stage and manufacture components.
The updated pier will also be used for shipments to the offshore construction site.
The fuel cell project will also create jobs and bring economic development to the host communities.
"We are pleased that DEEP has decided to award these projects," said Chip Bottone, president of FuelCell Energy.
"Fuel cells are one of the most space-efficient, resilient clean energy technologies," Bottone said. "These projects will provide local tax revenue, high tech manufacturing jobs, economic development benefits and clean energy resources."
A proposal to provide 1.6 megawatts of Anaerobic Digestion power in Southington was also selected. The process converts plant materials into methane gas for heating and power.
bcummings@ctpost.com
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Bill Cummings is a veteran newspaper reporter who first joined the Connecticut Post in 1989 as a town reporter. He has served as a bureau chief, manned the Capitol Bureau, covered Bridgeport City Hall and was later named group Investigative Reporter. Bill also covers environmental issues for Hearst. He previously worked for the Watertown Daily Times in New York State and the Star Herald, a weekly in northern Maine.
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QOTD: What’s An Automotive Urban Legend Or Misconception You’d Like To Clear Up?
There’s a prolific mistruth that has been spread far and wide. I’ve read it in magazines, on automotive blogs, I’ve even read it in university text books. The legend goes the Chevrolet Nova sold poorly in Latin America because “nova” means “no go”. Snopes’ article on this urban legend details the various reasons that is, to put it lightly, a crock; nova and “no va” are pronounced differently, for example, and Spanish speakers would generally say a car “no marcha” or “no funciona” anyway. The way I explain it is simple: as an English speaker, are you terrified of visiting a therapist because you fear, based on their job title, you will be sexually assaulted? If there’s any urban legend that gets under my skin, it’s this one. Seriously, Google “Chevy Nova” and “Latin America” and look at all the identical, spurious claims. Also, as Snopes notes, the Nova actually sold well in Mexico and Venezuela.
Tell me: are there any automotive urban legends, myths, falsehoods, or misconceptions you would like to clear up?
Rafael Fabius
Posted August 18, 2017 at 12:18 PM
There’s a small error in Snopes’ article, which doesn’t detract from the fact that “Nova” sound perfectly well in Spanish. The original, 62-65 Chevy II was produced in Argentina under the name Chevrolet 400 until the mid-70’s. The ’68 Chevy II (the first one to be called Nova in all its series) was produced from 1969 to 1978 as “Chevy”, using even the same type as “Nova” (from about ’73 to ’77 or so there was a luxury version called “Malibu”. I don’t have a clue as the reason for the name change, but it’s not true that the same car used the same name in all of South America. I’m sure, anyway, that the reason was not the “No va” legend.
jon7190
Posted August 18, 2017 at 1:40 PM
Most here have probably heard it before, but I’ll mention anyway the other neat fact about the X-car names. They had the Nova, Omega (Olds), Ventura (Pontiac), and Apollo (Buick). The first letters together spell NOVA.
Payam
Actually As I Had Mentioned Before Nova And It’s Sisters Skylark&Seville Had Done Great Here( Mainly because We Don’t Speak Spanish,Just Kidding) They are Great&Reliable Cars&I Am Very Surprised That They Didn’t Do Good Over there.I Guess Different Nations Have Different Taste In Cars.
Johannes Dutch
…”terrified of visiting a therapist…terrified of visiting a therapist”…?? And then I remembered Benny Hill.
In a similar vein, Tobias Funke was the worlds first combination analyst/therapist.
https://youtu.be/UrIpPqcln6Y
StairCar
After the Therapist anology, I was waiting for it. 😀 Didn’t have to scroll down too far to find it, thanks! It’ll be a cold day in hell before I make an appointment with Dr Funke, a self-proclaimed Combination Analyst and Therapist.. (Anal-rapist, as his card proclaims). Eeeeew
BTW, you’ll get used to the gas smell, and watch out for hop-ons.. you’re gonna get hop-ons
Username checks out!
I have two: First – That Studebaker used a Ford 289 V8. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. The Studebaker 289 predated the Ford engine of similar displacement by 7 years.
Second – That Chevrolet invented PosiTraction. Wrong again. The Packard Division of Studebaker-Packard first introduced the limited slip differential in the U.S.in 1956 cars, which it called Twin Traction. This was a full year before Positraction was offered on Chevrolets.
Ditto for the Rambler 327. There are some who swear up down and sideways that AMC used a “Chevy engine” — despite the fact that the Rambler 327 debuted in 1957 and Chevy’s was issued in 1962, and they do not even superficially resemble each other.
Lgbpop
Even further…The Nash 327 was an undersquare engine (stroke greater than the bore), a bit lower in horsepower than the later Chevy version but it had gobs of torque. A perfect engine for the fuel-economy conscious buyer. A later variant in 1964 or so was the 287 de-bored version (by a quarter-inch) which kept dealers happy when customers demanded a V8 for the mid-range Rambler Classic .
The Chevy 327 was the second over-bore of Chevy’s 265 – the first was the famous 283 – and was quite OVERsquare. A great-revving, great-breathing, horsepower-laden V8 which bore no physical or specifications resemblance whatsoever to the older Nash engine that AMC produced until 1966.
1964bler
Here’s an AMC 327 (this one in a ’65 Marlin). Truly has no resemblance to a Chevy motor.
I have heard so much misinformation about AMC, up to and including that they didn’t actually build their own cars.
Millmech
Posted August 20, 2017 at 10:47 AM
I overheard some motor wizards observing an AMC V8 in a Rambler & concluding that it was a Ford engine… because it was blue.
Obviously that engine in the picture is a Chevy… it’s red.
Tomcatt630
Drive me nuts when a so called “car guy” says two car brands motors are “the same”, since they got same displacement!
Examples: Mazda and Ford 2.5 L v6’s or the many 2.0 liter fours.
I recall the Ford and Mazda 2.5s ARE related designs (though hardly identical).
Jon Dough
Ok, add this. In the late 70’s when GM downsized, My father-in-law bought a 78′ or ’79 Malibu wagon. It had the rear window defroster. One, mind you One mechanic, told him that you should NEVER use it, as it “runs the battery down” or hurts the alternator. GM if I recall, did have a problem with the rear defrosters for about a minute, but corrected it. The whole time he owned the car, about 3 years, he never used the feature despite living in east coast New Jersey. Because, one guy told him not too.
tonyola
“The Big Three automakers conspired to kill the Tucker car”. Preston Tucker made enough of his own mistakes and often skirted the edge of what was legal and prudent. Also, the Big Three at the time were selling every single car they could make. The Tucker might have been a great idea but it was doomed from the start. Here’s just one article that tells the story – there are many others.
http://www.autofocus.ca/news-events/auto-retro/who-really-killed-the-tucker
Another classic is the myth of the 200 mpg carburetor that the Big Three (in collusion with Big Oil) kept under wraps.
Gasoline does not have enough potential energy in a gallon to move a car 200 miles. Gasoline has 33.41 KWH, 120.3 MJ or 114,000 BTUs per gallon.
It takes 30KWH to move a Nissan Leaf 100 miles, therefore the maximum possible efficiency for a compact car would be 111 miles, not accounting for thermal loss in the exhaust gases and other inefficiencies that I don’t have time to google. That we can get 50 mpg is darned close to what we’ll be able to get unless we go for smaller engines with turbo or supercharging, weird combustion cycles and other tricks.
A 1 ltr 3 cyl diesel with both turbo and supercharging would get the best mileage while still having enough torque to move a subcompact car. Plus, #2 has 37.95 KHW of energy in it.
You can’t use science to disuade a conspiracy believer, because if they understood science they wouldn’t believe in this krap.
Paul Niedermeyer
Combustion engine maximum efficiency is about 40%.. An electric motor is about 90% efficient. Combustion engines are getting more efficient, but that’s a huge gap.
How efficient are the various types of electrical generating methods which will be used to charge up the electric cars?
Our choices are Hydro, Coal or Nuclear,and in some cases, Gas.
None of these are exactly cheap to implement, and some have downright fallen out of favor (Nuclear, if it ever was in favor in the first place)
Solar will only play a supplemental role. Even if a breakthrough were discovered & cells were 100 percent efficient, the solar constant is the limiting factor.
Yeah, I loved that one! Wouldn’t you think that the independents Packard, Studebaker and AMC would have jumped on that like a dog on a steak? Advertising their cars where capable of outrageous MPG, because of their “secret” mechanical patent? They’d have buried the big three. My somewhat whacko family… loved them anyway :-)… Also subscribed to that, and also believed that their was a absolute “cure” for cancer, but those “damn greedy doctors suppressed it cause they’d loose money!”
Beyond the impossibility of a magic carburetor that would make a car get 100 mpg is the ridiculous notion that the auto industry had some collusion with “big oil” that resulted in suppressing that technology. Think about how much car manufacturers spent – and still do spend – trying to eek an extra 1 or 2 mpg from their vehicles.
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/hrdp-1009-what-ever-happened-to-smokeys-hot-vapor-engine/
Automakers KNOW how to make engines get better mileage. You don’t believe they are in bed, with Big Oil? Sp, why were these designs NEVER adopted by The Big Three? This design was done, by a man that only had a 10th-Grade education.
Oh, and to further support how they are in bed with oil companies, then feel free to explain why Ford took bailout loans from the U.S. Department of Energy?
Or, maybe we can wonder why some technology, from 1984, isn’t being used on trucks and SUV gas guzzlers. Maybe, because excise taxes on gasoline are a TRILLION-dollar-per-year source of tax revenue for the federal and state governments…..
https://www.cars.com/articles/2010/12/report-ford-took-federal-funds-too/
https://taxfoundation.org/state-and-federal-treasuries-profit-more-gasoline-sales-us-oil-industry/
That the Chrysler LX/LY cars are “based on some obsolete 1990s Mercedes platform”. Yes, they initially utilized some Mercedes parts that were already in production (it was DaimlerChrysler after all), so of course a few interchange with older MB cars. But if anything, the LX/LY was developed alongside the ’03-’09 W211 E-Class and is not a reconstituted W210 or W124. In fact, the project began before the DaimlerChrysler merger.
https://www.allpar.com/history/interviews/burke-brown-lx.html
Oh, and speaking of Snopes, here’s a funny one:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/57chevy.asp
BuzzDog
The CC Effect, again: I read that yarn in The People’s Almanac when the book came out in the mid-70s, and again a few days ago when I received a perfect, three-volume set of all three books in the series.
I always thought that keeping the ’57 Chevy in production would have been a hard thing to pull off with GM’s bevy of attorneys, not to mention that the ’57 was not all that well regarded in the years immediately after 1957. At that time they were just used cars; I don’t see how it would’ve been cost effective to sell a limited-production new car at used car prices.
Here is a variation of the 57 Chevy Continuation legend:
A Turkish company bought the dies from General Motors and makes “new” 1957 Chevys.
http://glennbknight.blogspot.com/2009/07/1957-chevrolet.html
James Slick
That article lost me when the writer asserts that Cadillac started the “fin war” in 1951. Hell, They were already on to a reskin of the original “fin” Cadillac by 51.
Jose Delgadillo
One of my older, non car guy, coworkers had a conversation with an equally non car guy, older client where he asserted that if GM could build a new ’56 Chevy, they would sell like hotcakes! Of course the old guy client agreed enthusiastically! Just another expression of old folk’s nostalgia.
nlpnt
If it had happened, it would *look* like a CKD/export car. Four-door post sedan only or *maybe* also a four-door wagon, plain-jane exterior, interior trimmed to appeal to sober middle-aged types somewhat upmarket than Chevy buyers at home, eventually some doing-their-best attempts at updates.
Roger Carr
That the Austin Allegro
1 – was more aerodynamic going backwards – so was any car of the time with a front mounted radiator
2 – had windscreens and rear windows that popped out, but only if you jacked it up wrongly
3 – that the wheels dropped off, but only if you treated them as if they were the same as the ADO16, which they weren’t
But it still wasn’t a good car.
kernals
Actually, Mythbusters, debunked that first one, although they used a Porsche 928.
justy baum
Oops! I thought the Allegro rear-window pop on early ones was actually true! (I should add I’ve never seen an Allegro in real life). Perhaps it’s because I remember reading a Wheels (Aus) magazine article testing a Mark 5 Cortina in about ’81, where they drove over a bump and the rear window simply fell out.
The Aussie Cortina wasnt very good it only resembled the car every other market got which were ok.
That must be round about right, because the cars I drove and passengered were pretty horrid, though most were the stupidly overburdened 4.1 litre straight 6 ones. They made a lead-topped arrow seem athletic, and a jet engine quiet. They had the added joy of late-’70’s English electrics and fittings; all up, a loud, poor-handling, good-looking, unreliable pile. Kind of a Jag for the poor, maybe?
Cars being run backwards reportedly being more Aerodynamic was part of the development of the Chrysler Airflow.
My best myth is “Premium Gas is better for your car.”, Yeah,it usually isn’t – unless you own a gas station!
PS; When I was a ‘kid” in the late 70s, I pumped gas (yes, that was a “thing”, LOL!) at an “independent” (not gonna name it, It’s long gone.) station. We sold 3 grades of gas: Regular,Regular Premium and Unleaded. Amazing feat for a place with 2 underground tanks!??
slow_joe_crow
Did the gas station have pumps capable of mixing regular and premium to get the middle grade? Sunoco used to sell multiple grades of gasoline by mixing regular and premium at the pump to get the desired octane.
No, It was an independent station, (not Sunoco or any other known branded station) We sold whatever the owner bought from whatever supplier he got a “deal” ftom. The pumps were of the 1950s type, no “Sun Dial” or other mixing type. Just a simple case of the two Unleaded types coming from the same tank, The other tank was regular (ethyl leaded). I used to take the measure of the tanks using a wooden pole (about 8′ long, So I clearly remember there being only 2!)
PS, In my original post, I implied we had 2 “grades’ of regular gas, The line up actually was: Regular (Ethyl leaded) Regular Unleaded, Premium Unleaded. But only had 2 tanks: Regular (leaded) and Unleaded.
Mid-grade is a mix from the regular and premium tanks, that is pretty standard everywhere.
SomeOneInTheWildWest
Here we have 3 grades of gasoline with various octane ratings. Some are pure gasoline with regular 85 octane (we are high altitude), mid grade that is 87 or 88 octane with ethanol, and 91 octane. The mid grade is usually ethanol, while some regular is ethanol and may be either 85 or 87 octane. The premium is 91 octane and may be pure gasoline or ethanol. I usually mix the pure 85 with pure 91 to get 87.5 or so.
Where do you you live?
About 3000 feet or so above sea level near the Homestake gold mine (now a neutrino catcher). Mt Rushmore is also near.
Washington, right? Is pure gas typically available there? I noticed driving through Oklahoma that they had pure gas available alongside e90. I’ve not seen that before and definitely never seen it where I live in Texas.
South Dakota I meant:)
I think here that the Exxon stations are all ethanol, but I have not bought gas there for some time, so I am not sure. Mobil and Exxon are the same company at the corporate level. Conoco and Phillips 66 are also the same company. Mobil pulled out of here some time ago, but now are back, but BP left. Some of the BP station went to Mobil and some are Phillips 66.
I usually buy from a Phillips 66 that was BP and it sells 85 and 91 octane pure gasoline and a 10% ethanol mid grade 87 octane. If I want ethanol I go to a Mobil station that has 87 and 88 octane Regular and mid grade that are both ethanol, but the premium 91 octane is pure gasoline. We also have Sinclair but I am not sure what they have. Since oil prices dropped there seems to be more pure gasoline but I am not sure of that. The ethanol is cheaper.
I think that my CTS got about 1 MPG less on ethanol but I am not sure.
I remember reading in a history of Rolls Royce that the Silver Mist model sold poorly in German speaking markets because mist translates as manure. Can anybody confirm or deny this?
You remind me of the other Rolls Royce urban legend: That the Rolls Royce [insert model here] came from the factory with a sealed hood/bonnet.
No. They. Didn’t.
Yes. They did. English build quality meets hood catch.[Insert fingers here to prise recalcitrant hood].
Some RR had Yale locks on the bonnet. I would speculate that it was just to keep out the riffraff looking for a battery or something.
It always puzzled me why hoods didn’t lock (on cars without inside hood release). My battery, Spark plug wires and distributer cap was usually worth more than the crap in my trunk! ?
The successor model to the Silver Cloud in the 1960s was to be named the Silver Mist, until the German translation was brought up.
The car was named the Silver Shadow, and no Silver Mist had ever been released – a fact that you could find easily if you bothered to search at all.
What we really want to know is how well the Buick LaCrosse sells in Quebec.
Frank Bray
Doesn’t LaCrosse in Quebecois have something do with pleasuring yourself?
Carter Gorman
I think it has more to do with in Quebec with those railroad gate guards. “You must not LaCrosse the tracks when the gates go down! It means a LaTrain is coming!”
Likewise the Mitsubishi Pajero in Latin American countries, or so the legend goes.
Ramon Rivera Notario
That is not a myth. Those Mitsubishi are sold as Montero in many markets, like Chile.
We had a lot of jokes in the office about the Mitsumishi W when someone confirmed that Pajero translates to English as W… (you can fill the blanks yourself)
It is good think they used the Montero name in Spanish speaking countries.
However as Mitsubishi sold it in Brazil as Pajero, there were cars enough from tourists to make the joke in Argentina and Uruguay.
Although it’s not a myth, it’s funny anyway – When Ford do Brasil released the Willys project made with Renault, Ford’s president wanted it was called Ford Pinto, however Pinto in Brazil is cock, and not that found in the farmers…
So a car reporter suggested the name Corcel, which means in some ways Mustang in portuguese.
That the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL was the first production car with a fuel-injected engine.
Both the Goliath GP700 and Gutbrod Superior were available with fuel injection from 1952.
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cohort-sighting-1951-goliath-gp-700-rometsch-looks-like-a-porsche-but-this-fwd-coupe-pioneered-fuel-injection/
George Ferencz
A zillion things about the Ford Pinto case–where to begin? http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf
Mark D.
As the one-time owner of a ’77 Pinto hatchback, equipped with the gas-tank protection package, I found this interesting.
Note that on page 1033 of the Rutger’s Law Review article posted here, the author seems to contradict himself when he states “a limited core of the firetrap myth seems fair enough: the Pinto’s record in rear end fire fatalities was not only much worse than the all-car average but was apparently somewhat worse than the record of most (if not all) of it’s competitors.”
Happy Motoring, Mark
Oh, and this one:
Or that all Model Ts were black. No, No, No.
Yeppers! Prior to 1914, Model Ts were all kinds of colors. I also believe that was the case from 1924 on.
Robert Swartz
Not sure about 1924, but definitely by ’26.
Perhaps it’s not as common today, but the belief that it’s safer not to wear a seatbelt because “I’ll be thrown clear in a crash” is a myth I’d like to see vanish. Designers and engineers have expended a ton of effort so those seatbelts and airbags and crumple zones help keep you safe; take advantage of it.
True about seat belts. Back when it wasn’t “cool” to use them, my argument FOR using them was: Race car drivers use seat belts, Why wouldn’t I? OTOH, it took me a long time to get used to airbags. I’m still not “crazy” about driving with a “bomb” in my face. What if a glitch sets that thing off for no reason…….Best not to think about it!
XR7Matt
Note that I am an avid seatbelt wearer, but I also have a tendency to be the contrarian as well, so my response to: “Race car drivers wear seatbelts, why wouldn’t I?” would be, well race car drivers don’t fiddle with the radio or dick around on the phone when wearing them either. 🙂
I hear ya, OTOH, I never fiddle with the radio in the car as I have 730 mp3s in “shuffle” anyhow! ?
I have no beef with seat belts, but airbags are something I neither want nor need in any automobile I own. Airbags should be *optional* on motor cars. If a buyer wants them — fine. I don’t like airbags being mandatory on all U.S. vehicles. No thank you.
I have lap belts in the front seat of my ’64 Falcon. That’s it for ‘modern safety features’. I *think* shoulder belts were mandatory on U.S. cars starting with the 1968 model year if I’m not mistaken. I owned a 1967 Lincoln Continental that didn’t have them; just lap belts. Shoulder belts were optional and I could see where they would have been installed had the Lincoln’s 1st owner desired them.
volvoguy
My ’72 Buick Skylark only had lap belts in the front.
It had to have have front outboard shoulder harnesses as they were mandatory after January 1, 1968 per Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208.
My last car without an airbag was an 89 Cadillac Brougham (Made until 92 without one!) It was the last time I felt like I wasn’t gonna get killed by my own steering wheel!, Weird as my first car was a 50 Buick Super, whose column, being non collapsible (natch) woulda impaled my (non belted) innards. Still, It should be an option. I seriously hate having a “claymore mine” in my face while driving.?
Dan Strayer
Henry Ford did NOT invent the assembly line, contrary to popular opinion.
Along those lines: Thomas Edison DIDN’T invent the incandescent electric light and Apple was NOT the first personal computer. But people STILL believe this BS.
An oldie–the (1930s) Pogue carburetor, “revived” in the 1970s:
The current myth is that nitrogen filled tires leak slower, resist overinflation from frictional heating and that they help you get better mileage. Not a bad trick since ordinary air has just over 78% nitrogen already. Oh, the other tale is that the moisture in ordinary air will make your TPS sensors rust and fail. And supposedly helps keep the tire from rotting on the inside. You know, if my TPS sensors suck that badly, I’ll ignore them and check my pressure like I do anyhow.
IKR??
Don Page
I read all the good, the bad and the ugly about nitrogen 4 years ago before I bought a new car. I decide to try it. For $35 out the door (with free top offs) I figured it was worth a try. I can honestly say it’s definitely worth it. I’ve had to have them topped off twice in 4 years and never more than 3 pounds were added each time. With the wild fluctuations in temperatures we have in northern Ohio, I’ve never seen more than a 5 or 6 pound difference between hot and cold temperatures. Try that with just air. Besides that, there’s a reason why they use it in tires on race cars and airplanes !!!!! See attached photo of my “not a race car” 2014 Chevy Cruze 2LT with a 6 speed manual transmission. P.S. I’m 65 years old and as long as I’m alive, the manual transmission will not die.
No, you really can’t honestly say it’s definitely worth it—not with any veracity, not til you put purest special $35 nitrogen in the tires on one side of the car and terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad, dirty, plain old regular old boring old normal old air in the tires on the other side of the car and keep careful records of the (non-)difference in pressure variation and loss vs. temperature and time between the two sides.
100% Nitrogen really is better.
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Here’s a good one: https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?gclid=CjwKCAjww9_MBRAWEiwAlaMJZqDfNZw50Lx6Mzr1WTR0tGKvSgJ5eLU71fBl4W9eqJ3E6MTY9e0AGhoCWc8QAvD_BwE&techid=191&s_kwcid=AL!3756!3!200245277272!e!!!!nitrogen%20in%20tires&ef_id=VVozrgAABe-0Qjx@:20170819194652:s
I’m sure there are others. The facts are obvious: nitrogen permeates rubber at 1/3 the speed of air, hence pressure holds longer. There are other advantages too, but that one alone is considerable, given how lax folks are about checking their tire pressure.
Wait a sec, hold on. The linked piece doesn’t say nitrogen permeates rubber at 1/3 the speed of air. It says, “Nitrogen reduces the loss of tire pressure due to permeation through rubber over time by about 1/3.” So roughly 30% slower air loss. Which means if your tires lose a pound of air in 60 days’ time, they’ll lose a pound of nitrogen in about 85 days’ time. I agree with you that Americans tend to neglect basic car maintenance, so I doubt people who won’t check their tire pressure every 2 months are going to check it every 3.
That linked article concludes (emphasis added):
Overall, inflating tires with nitrogen won’t hurt them and may provide some minimal benefits.
Is it worth it? If you go someplace that provides free nitrogen with new tires, why not? Additionally we’ve seen some service providers offering reasonable prices of about $5 per tire (including periodic adjustments for the life of the tire) to a less reasonable $10 per tire (with additional costs for subsequent pressure adjustments) or more as part of a service contract, which we believe exceeds the value of nitrogen’s benefit.
Rather than pay extra for nitrogen, most drivers would be better off buying an accurate tire pressure gauge and checking and adjusting their tire pressures regularly.
Actually Consumers reports did the experiment with the result being that air filled tires dropped about 3.5 PSI and nitrogen filled tires 2.2 PSI.
Yes, 3.5 versus 2.2…over a year’s time. The relevant portion of the CR article:
Consumer Reports wanted to find out if nitrogen is worth the price, so we purchased a Nitrogen Inflation System and checked out how well the inflation held up over a one year period. We evaluated pairs of 31 tire models of H- and V-speed rated, all-season tires used in our tread wear test from 2006. We filled one tire per model with air and the other with nitrogen. The test was quite simple: fill and set the inflation pressure at room temperature to 30 psi (pounds per square inch); set the tire outdoors for one year; and then recheck the inflation pressure at room temperature after a one year period.
The tires were filled and deflated three times with nitrogen to purge the air out of the tire cavity. We also used an oxygen analyzer to be sure we had 95-percent nitrogen purity in the tire–the claimed purity limit of our nitrogen system, which generates nitrogen gas from ambient air.
The test started on September 20, 2006 and the final measurements were taken on September 20, 2007. The results show nitrogen does reduce pressure loss over time, but the reduction is only a 1.3 psi difference from air-filled tires. The average loss of air-filled tires was just 3.5 psi from the initial 30 pressure setting. Nitrogen-filled tires lost an average of 2.2 psi from the initial 30 psi setting. More important, all tires lost air pressure regardless of the inflation medium, so consumers should check their tires’ air pressure routinely. No evaluation was done to assess the aging claim.
Bottom line: Overall, consumers can use nitrogen and might enjoy the slight improvement in air retention provided, but it’s not a substitute for regular inflation checks.
Ok; so I got that number wrong. But it still doesn’t negate the fact that nitrogen really is better than just air. Maybe just not very much.
I wouldn’t pay any money for nitrogen, but if I had two pumps at my disposal, one air and one nitrogen, guess which one I’d use?
67Conti
Nitrogen is also claimed to reduce or eliminate moisture buildup in the tire, eliminating rust out of steel wheels. I once got a flat in a 15 year old travel travel trailer, it was because the wheel rusted out from the inside from moisture build up.
Rv’s tend to sit a longtime between uses, nitrogen would probably be a good idea in trailers and motorhomes to help prevent wheel damage and flats.
Moisture does not really build up in the tires but if you fill the tires in warmer weather when the dew point is say 50 degrees F, then the air compressor will pump that air into the tires so the tires will have a 50 degree dew point. Then in winter, when the temperature drops below 50 degrees, the moisture will condense to water inside the tire. With water and oxygen inside the tire corrosion can start.
I tell my friends that I use a “special nitrogen-oxygen blend”in my tires. I say that it’s 78 percent nitrogen, 20 percent oxygen and has a two percent mix of special trace gases for reasons only scientists understand.
If I can keep a straight face 90 percent of people fall for it.
MikePDX
Ha! That’s a good one.
In a similar vein, I convinced a (person younger than me) that I had invented a new, ad supported streaming music,news and information service that only required a one time hardware purchase. – They asked me what I’d call this new tech…..I called it.., Radio!
In the same vein…
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Retro-Stang Rick
I’ve always felt if you are going to play that game with chemically naming water, it should be called Hydrogen Hydroxide… think about it: PH is a neutral 7, making it an acid (H)-something, and a base (caustic) something OH (hydroxide).
H2O breaks down to H-OH (hydrogen hydroxide) not Di-Hydrogen Oxide, as would be implied by H2O.
But either way, it’s still fun to mess with someone who’s forgotten everything they learned in science class. Hell, I might be ‘all wet’ here, and yes, the pun was intended, because high scool chemistry was just about 40 years ago now for me. ?
Steve Crutchfield
There is a parody page on Facebook devoted to the perils of DiHydrogen Monoxide.
Oh, but it is called Hydrogen Hydroxide (or HHO, or “Brown’s Gas”) by the con artists selling “HHO generators” fraudulently claimed to magically boost fuel economy and power using nothing but water, handwaving, electricity (which is free! The battery’s always full of it, and the alternator just sits there making more than it knows what to do with whenever the engine’s running!), and handwaving.
Twofer: toilet paper oil “filters”.
Threefer: Scamsoil products and the pyramid-scheme “dealer” network they’re sold through.
Fourfer: K&N air “filters” (thoroughly debunked here and here within ready reach, and many other times besides).
I Just reread your post,and yeah! your right!?
If there is an advantage to nitrogen it would be that the oxygen in air will probably combine with the rubber in the tires, which is not good, but occurs slowly. Also the nitrogen generators get rid of all other gases, water in particular, which helps too. So the rate of nitrogen loss being 1/3 that of air probably has more to do with the oxygen combining with the rubber. Moisture in the tire can condense in cold weather, which then lowers the pressure a lot.
Following up: Nitrogen molecules are bigger than Oxygen by a small amount, with water even smaller – 300 vs 292 vs 285 units.
“Driving without shoes is against the law.”
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but this has been thoroughly researched by AAA, and barefoot driving of a car (motorcycles are a different story) is 100% legal in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, territories, possessions…the works, period. I can link to sources, if necessary.
This same statement resulted in some rather odd comments on TTAC a few years ago; people insisted that it’s illegal, unsafe, stupid, or just plain wrong. I’m pretty passionate about this; I don’t understand why shoeless or barefoot driving rubs some people the wrong way. I drive in my stocking feet sometimes, and know I have a better tactile relationship with the pedals.
Methinks it was either illegal at some point in the distant past, or someone’s parents made up this “law” to keep their kids in line!
Paco Rodriguez
It is illegal in Spain, I was born there and I still read automotive news from the old country and yes you can get a ticket for driving without shoes. You can’t also drive with your elbow out of the window.
No elbow out of the window? Then I assume the Opel Manta was a slow-seller in Spain.
Alright, I laughed.
This. I love barefoot driving, especially this time a year. I long thought it was illegal and did it anyway until I confirmed it was in fact perfectly legal. In contrast i’ve had near accidents due to wearing heavy work boots, the large sole would occasionally get caught under the brake pedal while using the accelerator.
in Brazil it is legal. I do it a lot, mostly on weekends when usuallly I wear slippers (current car: Renault Logan with 5 speed manual). Here 99% of highway truckers drive barefoot too. Usually they only wear slippers.
Not quite. Barefoot driving is allowed in Brazil. But open-heeled shoes (flip-flops, sandals etc) are forbidden and subject to heavy fine. If caught wearing such apparel your car will be retained until you change into the correct outfit.
If barefoot driving is allowed, wouldn’t changing into the correct outfit simply be removing your sandals?
That rule I agree with btw. Driving with flip flops does not work, I drive barefoot in the summer specifically because I often wear flip flops, they get thrown in the back seat before I set off.
XR7Matt, That’s what I meant, I do just the same as you.
Driving wearing flip flops is way dangerous, not comfortable and ilegal here. But as I was saying, driving barefoot is legal indeed.
OntarioMike
The myth about not buying a car made on a Monday or Friday, because the assembly workers are distracted or impaired on those days. I still hear about this one. Some people use it as a funny cliche, but others take it seriously.
Obviously cars are very complex with many subassemblies that can be made anytime. Also many car plants operate 7 days a week with multiple shifts. So there’s no relevance for yhe day of the week it rolls off the line.
This is one of those things that I believe at a time could have been some truth to. When people say it now it just sounds anachronistic, since so much of the process that actually affects quality is automated now
This was not a myth in the 1970’s at the U.S. “Big Three” automakers.
Here is an except that explains the situation
GM absenteeism jumped from 2% in 1960 to 6% in 1970 (‘GM:The Price of Being Responsible’, Fortune, January 1972). It rose another 11%, in 5 months, in early 1972. According to Malcolm L. Denise, Vice President of Labour Relations at Ford Motor Company, the rate of absenteeism for hourly-rated workers at Ford in the USA ‘more than doubled’ between 1960 and 1968. Every day at GM 5% of workers are absent ‘with no explanation whatsoever’ – On Mondays and Fridays the percentage doubles, 10% are out (Fortune, June, 1970). The Wall Street Journal of September 29, 1970 quoted a GM statement: ‘many workers who become ill in midweek don’t come back to work till the following Monday. Now it’s just not normal that everybody should recover the same day!’ At Chrysler absenteeism has reached 18.6%. During the summer months, at Lordstown, it had reached as high as 20%. When a worker at Lords town was asked ‘What is it like on a Monday, in summer, then?’, he replied, ‘I don’t know, I’ve never been in for one’. (Sunday Telegraph, December 2, 1973) Another worker, when asked ‘how come you’re only working four days a week?’ replied, ‘because I can’t make enough money in three’. (Newsweek February 7, 1973)
Absenteeism has important effects on production. A local Lordstown official put it this way: ‘When absenteeism gets really high, they go on general break and bring in the relief men. If that’s not enough they pull in everybody they can get–cleaners, drivers, maintenance men, anybody. They’re supposed to have 3 days’ training, but they just shove them in as welders, though they may never have held a gun before in their lives. Then, of course, the vehicle is garbage.’ This kind of thing can happen ‘a couple of times a week or more’. (Sunday Telegraph, December 2,1973)
https://libcom.org/library/lordstown-struggle-ken-weller
Considering this week I dealt with a 2016 Moto Guzzi that had both oil pickups left out of the engine from factory, I’d say it’s still relevant, at least among Italian motorcycle brands…
“Corvairs are unsafe.”
After Ralph Nader published Unsafe at any Speed and testified before Congress, the Corvair was thoroughly studied by the Federal government and found to be no less safe than other compact cars produced at the same time.
Because of this, the Corvair is technically the only car to actually be certified by the Federal government as being safe!
This from a guy who didn’t himself have a driver’s licence!
Ralph Nader had a driver’s licence. He wrote an anecdote that an old man walked in front of his Studebaker while he was driving across his university campus in the early’50’s. He jammed on the brakes so hard he popped a wheel cylinder (maybe his brakes needed adjustment) , but he avoided hitting the man….. who turned out to be Albert Einstein.
He never discussed his driving publically once he became well-known because he didn’t want his choice of car to become an endorsement.
Ah, I’m sure had he hit him he’d have an excerpt in his book blaming the car and by extension the automakers for running down the greatest mind of the 20th century, rather than his own clear lack of attentiveness behind the wheel.
There are some clouds over that study. As in, it was funded and instigated by an outside source (guess who?). I’ve read some good debunking o their methodology.
The simple truth was that the Corvair really could be relatively more dangerous in the hands of drivers not accustomed to the oversteer of a rear engine car, meaning most Amercans at the time. And the Corvair’s issues were greatly exacerbated by not adhering to its extreme front/rear inflation bias (15/26).
You know, there really was a reason GM introduced various fixes to the Corvair, including shock rebound limiters (1962, to minimize tuck-under, and an anti-sway bar, and then a camber-compensating spring in 1964. And then a fully-articulating rear suspension n 1965. This was all before Nader’s book came out in 1965. GM had to settle lots of expensive law suits, and the bad PR/rep the Corvair was developing about its snap oversteer was becoming a real problem.
By the time Nader’s book came out, it was already over for the Corvair. So the real myth to be busted here is that “Nader killed the Corvair’. Not.
The Renault dauphine is considered a extremely slow car in the USA, but strangely in France and Spain got a reputation as a dangerous car for the same reasons as the corvair. In Spain it was called the window maker.
I know roads were dangerous in the 50s and 60s in Spain, with trees along the road, but I don’t think it was a fast car at all.
It doesn’t have much to do with speed. One can experience snap oversteer and flipping at 35 mph or less.
Triumph Heralds have shocking wheel tuck under when cornering hard and they sure arent fast,
Military M151 trucks were supposed to be ready to flip around 15mph.
As a Corvair owner who goes to car shows once in a while, it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I hear comments about Nader killing the Corvair.
And Paul your comment about the average driver not being accustomed to the handling of Corvairs is true. For some reason I can’t find it on the ‘net, but an automotive writer for Haggerty Insurance’s car magazine and race car driver who was born about 1970 was able to borrow a really nicely preserved original, completely stock 1960 Corvair sometime within the last year. With the car checked over thoroughly and a new set of Coker period correct bias ply tires, he proceeded to run the Corvair hard at an old airport. He spun it and did all kinds of other high speed handling . Never flipped it. His comment was that he had driven race cars with wicked snap oversteer. The Corvair did none of that.
His conclusion was that it does handle differently from a conventional American car to an American driver, but he found it to be safe, quite fun to drive and he decided to start looking for one!
The name of the article was “Will a Corvair kill you?”
Sorry, but that doesn’t prove anything. I’ve watched way too many hours of GM’s own films flipping Corvairs to know that under the right circumstances snap oversteer does happen. But a good driver can avoid it.
Anyway, trying to replicate on a track by an experienced driver exactly what Mom did on the way home from visiting her sister in the next town when she flipped her Corvair is a futile exercise.
The simple fact is that the Corvair was prone to that, and did it, all too often. And I say that as a die hard Corvair lover and former ’62 Monza driver.
I think the point was that with someone with experience the ‘Vair was no problem. To a novice, not so much. Even Porsche was struggling with drivers (mainly celebraties) crashing rear engine cars and complaining. If you have driven rear engine cars and know how they handle you will do well.
Please read the article when you can Paul. And form you opinion from there. You may still be right. 🙂
Paul has already researched the Corvair, and written about the problem in
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-1960-1963chevrolet-corvair-gms-deadliest-sin/
Here’s an extract
By 1963, sports car racer and writer Denise McCluggage could begin an article on Corvair handling idiosyncrasies with words that assumed a knowing familiarity by her auto buff readers: “Seen any Corvairs lately with the back end smashed in? Chances are they weren’t run into, but rather ran into something while going backwards. And not in reverse gear, either.”
…Then Miss McCluggage went on to describe a phenomenon she termed a “sashay through the boonies, back-end first.” “The classic Corvair accident is a quick spin in a turn and swoosh! — off the road backwards. Or, perhaps, if half- corrective measures are applied, the backward motion is arrested, the tires claw at the pavement and the car is sent darting across the road to the other side. In this case there might be some front end damage instead.”
Popular entertainer Ernie Kovacs was killed in his 1961 Corvair Lakewood wagon (which had an even more exaggerated rear-weight bias) when he lost control on a rainy evening in Los Angeles (picture at top of article). Note the right rear tire that is off the rim; it’s possible that happened from the curb, but it is typical of numerous similar incidents where the rear tire rolled off the rim during an emergency maneuver and caused the Corvair to be essentially uncontrollable.
Corvair engineers knew about this problem and considered raising the recommended rear tire pressures. Once again, however, they succumbed to the great imperative-a soft ride. Rubly recounts it plainly enough: “The twenty-eight psi would reduce the rear-tire deflection enough but we did not feel that we should compromise ride and add harshness because under hot conditions tire pressures will increase three to four psi.”
Even if the recommended inflation numbers had been increased with a similar differential, say 19/28, there was still another huge obstacle: essentially no one in America was used to the concept of a differential tire pressure. When I was a gasoline station attendant in 1968-1970, we inflated all car tires to 24-26 lbs, unless told otherwise. Which we never were, except the occasional sports car fanatic who knew and cared about such things.
I believe Ernie Kovacs had just left a party that night and was a lil’ tipsy and a lil’ tired when the accident happened so his senses were not at full capacity. He was 42.
The History Channel just had a show called the History of Cars. In it they attributed the demise of the Corvair to Ralph Nader.
That’s why I don’t watch tv. Especially car shows.
I find that I can’t watch any computer or law related shows because of this- just get too upset at all the absolute wrong. “You can’t object to that,” “there’s no way you could get the IP address that way,” etc etc.
I don’t really watch a whole lot of TV anyway. Pretty much Rick and Morty and hockey or basketball for the most part.
Ah, TV crime/law shows (where everyone learns about police work ,law and forensic science!) Also where new technology exists like “zoom and inhance” where a black and white betamax tape from a camera in Brooklyn can clearly record a license plate number in Hoboken! Or non existent things like “Glock revolvers” can be discussed!
TV car shows are the worst. Historic pieces are always horribly misinformed, reviews are either nonsense “POWER!!!!” or dull ” this car has the cargo capacity of 75 cubic feet, pulls 28G on the skidpad slalom test with acceleration from 0-38mph in 1.375645 seconds”, and “reality” is more about staged hijinks featuring some build for some corporate marketing crap.
I did like Top Gear admittedly, but only because there was a clear tongue and cheek suspension of credibility that made it fun and watchable. I enjoyed that show from the same side of my brain that enjoys car chases in movies – I know jumping a bridge in a getaway will total the car on landing in real life, if not cripple the protagonist for the remainder of the film, but that suspension of disbelief is the entertainment, I love all those old 70s carsploitation movies. I say this as a died in the wool enthusiast but cars as objects just aren’t interesting enough to fill up a half hour or hour per week.
Oh, The History Channel! If purveyors of ancient aliens reality show pawn shops say so it must be fact!
Oh yeah, The start of the “Mommy State”. OH,MY!!! Rear engine cars handle differently than front engine cars! HELP ME MOMMY! Coffee is hot! Pop has sugar! Burning s%*^ makes smoke! Cripes! Cars are as dangerous or not as (and I hate to bring this up, because,Politics) guns.
Can I kill myself with a 1962 Corvair? – Yes
Can I kill myself with a Colt M1911? – Yes
Can I kill myself with a Smith & Wesson Model 19? – Yes
Can I kill myself with a Hamilton Beach Blender? – Yes
Can I kill Myself with a Westinghouse Toaster? – Yes
Well now one can see how DANGEROUS having blenders and toasters can be! DO NOT ENTER THE KITCHEN!
You’ve shown absolutely nothing except your own very limited ability to grasp the concept of risk, and that some things really are relatively more risky than others.
I’d still like a Corvair as my hobby car. There’s enough aftermarket support to keep it running and replace the rusted bits and restore to a nice looking car level. I just wouldn’t go autocrossing with it. That’s what Ghias are for 🙂
There’s a reason that US automakers always took a conservative approach to car design before the Corvair. An understeering, slow steering response car is much more stable and easy to control than an twitchy auto cross type car. It will scrub off speed as it slows instead of whipping the rear end around. Not to say that it is better at avoiding sudden obstacles. I guess Detroit knew that the average driver would just lock up the brakes and skid, so the car might as well skid in a straight line.
For the most part, original spec, vintage cars don’t drive nearly as well, or as safely, as the average low spec modern car.
Of course somethings are more risky than others, That in and of itself doesn’t mean that they are abnormally dangerous. People don’t actually rate how dangerous something is based on actual reality. Due to media,for example people think (to this day) that New York City is “dangerous”…In reality it is actually no more “dangerous” than Pittsburgh, (in certain years it’s been less so!) OTOH, People fail to accurately see real danger. Taking a shower is more hazardous than a flight on a 737. More people die from falling down stairs than die of gunshots, But that doesn’t “play” well on TV. Is a 1st Generation Corvair safe? Yes, as about as safe a a 1960 RE swing axle car was! If driven properly. Alot people had to get used to FWD too.
120+ OnLargerTires
As usual, the comments are as entertaining as the article. These are all great, and very valid. For my two cents worth, what grinds my gears are the knuckleheads who think that the highest digit on a classic car’s speedometer (analog, IE needle type) was as fast as the car in question could ever go, and/or was a “guarantee” that the car could go that fast. How mindless, unthinking, inexperienced and gullible do you have to be to believe such a thing??? While all of the sleds I’ve had would bury (and a couple have “broken” the needle), there are cars that can’t even hit the top speed displayed on the speedo. Not to mention the usual inherent speedo errors, and often-significant errors caused by changing the tire size (as we all know, larger-diameter tires than original make the speedo read slower than your actual speed, smaller-diameter tires make it read faster). Not too mention any owner-installed drivetrain modifications. Dopes who think the speedometer is the last word on a car’s top speed are dumb as a rock. End of rant. Now get off my lawn!
LOL. Who in their right mind would think that my 79 Buick Century Turbo Coupe (with a 3.08 gears) would only go 85 MPH. I also heard a guy tell his buddies that my car was Buick’s version of the Citation. I’m guessing his parents were brother & sister !!!!!
Back when my ’78 302 powered Fairmont was dead stock it would bury the speedo even with its anemic 134 horsepower and 2.48 gears!
L. E. Sabre
Very nice Century Turbo Coupe! While I love the fastbacks of the 30s, 40s and 50s, the run of the mill ’79-’80 GM “civilian” slopebacks never did much for me. BUT the Century Turbo Coupe Aerobacks are great-looking cars. That body style is “meh” on a stripper or brougham, but really looks great as a performance coupe. They look best in that color too, IMO. Beautiful car.
The spoiler on the rear does help it look better from some angles. Thanks for your interest. When I’m at car shows or cruise ins, a lot of people show no interest in it. I’m a car guy & love a lot of cars but I’m drawn to the cars that you don’t see all the time.
This is the worst picture I have of the rear of the Century. They could of done more to improve the look of it from that angle.
Yep, Anyone who confuses a ’79 Century with an Citation (or even an FWD X body Skylark.) is either inbred,on drugs or just not a “car guy”!. But then there’s “flat Earthers” and people who say “we didn’t go to the Moon” too. Either way, Nice Ride!!???
On that point, here’s a myth perpetuated by the manufacturer — in this case, Toyota, altho it likely applies to them all —
As a kid, my eyes popped out when I saw a ’63 Sting Ray with a 160 mph speedometer.
45 years later, a 2009 Camry 6-cyl. shows up with …… you guessed it …… a 160 mph speedometer. False advertising!
The Camry could much faster if it didn’t have a speed limiter. The Camry had 268 horsepower.
The speedometer on my 1964 Falcon goes up to 120 mph. The car itself only goes up to 65 mph before it gets . . . angry. It contains a ‘170’ CID engine with a 2-speed Ford-O-Matic. → I’m guessing there’s some engine/transmission combo one could have purchased for a ’64 Falcon that could get the car to hit 120, but I don’t know which?
Eduardo Rodrigues
This is the speedometer from a VW Gol 1.6 sold here in Brazil. It marks till 260 km/h (160 mph) but this car barely reaches 190 km/h (120 mph). Probably is the most optimistic speedometer I ever see
How about 140mph/220kph in a…motorhome! Six tons, 130hp.
THANK YOU! I’m from Chile, and the Nova myth was the thing that came to me at once as I read the title of the article, before seeing the picture!
I don’t know if it is a myth, but I’ve always thought it didn’t make sense to believe bigger cars are necessarily safer. Are they?
It’s not as simple as that. Certainly not necessarily so. Safety comes about from many characteristics. It’s impossible to reduce it to that degree of simplicity.
I’m thinking in the age before safety standards there was some degree of truth to it, there were a lot more variables though because engineering and construction for any given car could vary so much between makers, but as a generality I’d wager the aftermath of an Electra 225 vs a Beetle would favor the Buick. Now a days not so much, but then again modern cars also have a great deal more mass than they used to too, so…
Well, I’d rather have a wreck under the same circumstances in an Impala than in a Mitsubishi Mirage.
People seem to assume that all car crashes happen in the same way, but certain cars might do better in a rollover, others in a head-on, etc.
A smaller car could be more rigid, less likely to roll over, carries less momentum and might allow the driver to evade the collision in the first place.
I laughed when visiting a friend in Minnesota who loaned me a Mini Cooper S, then when was finished using it for work, offered me his Avalanche “because you have your kid with you and it will be safer”. The Avalanche was a rustbucket, the suspension creaked and rattled, the ABS light was on and the brakes were doing something weird (can’t quite remember what). On top of all that, a blowout over a year previously had caused damage to the fuel tank meaning if it was filled over halfway, fuel spilled everwhere. To fill it, you had to reach around inside the wheelarch for the makeshift pipe rattling around in there. The Mini had no faults at all, but to him the Avalanche was the safe option.
More on AMCs. The 390 was NOT a Ford, the 360 was NOT a Mopar and the 327 was NOT a Chevy.
MoparDave
…and the 401 was not a Buick.
Hardboiled Eggs and Nuts
They used to say that the batwing fins on a 59 Chevy lift the rear of the car like airplane wings at high speeds reducing traction. Yeah, right.
The way I heard it as a kid was a ’59 Chevy state patrol car in hot pursuit on the Ohio Turnpike lifted its rear end and crashed, killing the driver.
Oddly, Snopes doesn’t seem to have anything about the ’59 bat wings, but some Googling turned up this Motor Trend page. They got some time on GM’s giant wind tunnel and disproved the lift theory once and for all. There’s a good video on that page.
The batwing myth must have been widespread — I recall that one from the ’60’s too; and Mike PDX listed it below, as well.
Maybe if the car went into a spin at 100+ MPH the fins look like they would generate some lift as the car headed backwards at a high speed.
-Nate
All great reading on a lazy Friday afternoon .
Malcolm Marshall
To get off subject briefly, the 80s “Coke Adds Life!” Ad slogan was translated in Chinese as “Coke Brings Your Dead Relatives Back From the Grave;” a Swedish vacuum cleaner ad hype translated to English as “Electrolux really sucks!”
Corvette bodies will crack in cold weather.
When lifting a vette on a hoist, you have to leave the doors open, unknown reason.
KadeKo
Citroen, in Dutch, translates to “lemon”, and that hurt sales. Yea or may?
Citroen was the name of the originally Dutch family. Translated that’s a lemon for sure, but like many other last names they can be traced back to a profession or line of business. Just like Smith. Or Carpenter.
Once in France it became Citroën. So the name got more cachet, you know…
IIRC, the Citroën family came from Poland. One antecessor sold tropical fruit and was named “Limoenmann” in yidish. The grandfather of André Citroën entered the jewelry busines, moved to Amsterdam and changed his name to the Dutch “Citroen”. The diaeresis was provided by a teacher of André, to avoid the “an” sounding of “en” in French.
André Citroën’s great-grandfather, Roelof, was Dutch-Jewish. He got the name Limoenman in 1811, at the introduction of the vital records.
Roelof’s son Barend changed the last name into Citroen (Dutch for lemon). At least, his father in law thought that was a good idea.
Barend’s son Levie married a Polish-Jewish wife, and the couple moved from Amsterdam to Paris in 1873. André was born in 1878. And the rest in history.
That’s how I’ve learned/read it.
Your username checks out. I believe it!
Can’t believe nobody has mentioned that;
“You can get a ticket for driving with the dome light on”
I was recently enlightened that that is not the truth. It was was common knowledge among my peers, however.
That sounds like something a mother would tell her kids to keep them from turning the dome lights on at night.
That makes sense for the parents of a new young driver. Why do you turn on the dome light at night? To read or look for something in the car. Distracted driving is dangerous day or night but probably a little worse at night.
Nowadays everyone’s texting all the time. Where will it end? I guess that’s why those people want a self driving car.
I had heard a conspiracy theory that the US Army, at the behest of the Big 3, dumped thousands of Jeeps into the ocean after World War 2 rather than sell them.
I’ve heard that myth… and the explanation is that the logistics of cataloging, shipping and possibly refurbishing thousands and thousands of equipment would have cost more than the residual value that could be made back by the government. I don’t know how true that is but there are indeed piles of Jeeps and other craft on the ocean floor from WWII.
I think that explanation is probably the correct one.
They dumped planes too, or bulldozed them into heaps on various islands. Sometimes they left them for the local government to scrap. I mean, why bother to return and refurbish a few hundred worn out F6F Hellcats with bunches of wartime hours when Grumman is turning out new F8F Bearcats and the jet powered Panther is undergoing testing?
The singer John Prine claimed that when serving in a motor pool in Germany in the 60s, it was discovered that they had one more truck than they were supposed to. “In the army, one too many is just as bad as one missing, so we just buried it”.
Under the terms of the lend lease agreements vehicles that left the US could not return it was a clause insisted on by the vehicle manufacturers who feared a vast array of war surplus cars and trucks hurting their new car sales and yes thousands of brand new vehicles were dumped at sea google million dollat point.
There was a similar urban legend in England with the Vauxhall Nova selling poorly in Spain. In fact, the car was sold in Spain (and everywhere else in Europe) as the Opel Corsa. Also that the Triumph Acclaim sold poorly in Germany because its name translated as “Seig Heil”, the car was never actually sold in Germany.
There was another story about Yamaha motorcycles that I heard in the late 70’s or early 80’s. The economy was bad in the U.S. and motorcycle sales were way down, so Yamaha dumped a lot of motorcycles in the ocean because it was cheaper and better for business than stockpiling them.
In reality, Ferruccio Lamborghini’s entry into the car business had a lot more to do with money (sports cars were a lot more profitable than tractors) than hatred for Enzo Ferrari.
I remember when I was a kid in the 70s, a few sources used to claim that white cars rusted faster. I didn’t know the basis for this claim, given I knew then all cars had primer between the paint and bare metal. Perhaps it was because white paint showed the smallest rust spots so easily, compared to darker colors.
tiredoldmechanic
OK, I’ll play. How about all those articles out there about the 10 (20, 50, whatever) fastest muscle cars that use 45 or 50 year old road test acceleration figures for documentation. Having spent a lot of time at dragstrips and around these cars when they were just cars and not trophys I can tell you that stockers did not run anything like the magazine numbers said. Ringers, rigged tests, skewed results to please advertisers and questionable testing methods were all S.O.P in those days as even the magazines themselves sometimes admit.
Some of these cars are particularly prone to myths about their performance that still persist today. Early Z-28s and Hemi powered anything spring to mind. The only sure way to know is run ’em at the strip, and most of today’s owners wouldn’t want traction compound on the quarter fenders or heat discoloured engine paint…
My rant for the day, since you asked. Cool topic!
If they raced them today they’d more likely hit or exceed those numbers. (Over)Restorations tend to overbore tired but numbers matching engines, blueprint them and get the timing and jetting dead on. Not to mention running modern tires. They’re not blisteringly fast like the best of today but 13s and low 14s in “restored” examples of what used to run mid-high 15s is pretty common from my observations at the local dragstrip.
Yeah, I’ve seen the same thing but if it’s bored and “blueprinted” (which can mean a lot of things), it ain’t stock. You could always pick up a few tenths or maybe even a full second this way even back when. Cheater cams, massaged cylinder heads and so on are part of the game too, just like they always were.
And I suspect some of these 383s and 396s are in fact 440s and 427s. Just like the manufacturers used to do for the magazine test cars. One of the biggest factors is, as you say, tires. Traction was always harder to get than power. But I take your point. At least you are looking at real live numbers instead of decades old road tests.
I agree, if you’re going to the trouble to provide a ringer to C/D, why not sneak in a 350 with stock specs and call it a 327? They won’t know the difference unless they tear down the motor. And it’s cheaper than having their ringer prep folks blueprint a 327
Julie Pennington runs 11s in a 427 Corvette…it is stock, and proven so by a teardown!
BMW Isetta had 4 wheels, not 3. Isettas made by other companies under license had 3 wheels.
jonco43
Probably doesn’t need clearing up these days, but just for historical context.
When the first Holden was released in 1948 some were suspicious of its unit construction and a myth started going around that you couldn’t tow a caravan with a Holden as the body would “stretch” and the back doors wouldn’t open.
Of course it was completely false and the Holden proved to be as tough as nails and the perfect car for Australia.
Never heard that about the 1948, but did hear it about the ’79 Commodore. It WAS true that a beefy towpack for the Commode had a stout bar from towbar back to the diff area, and bars inside the boot from where the c-pillars join to the bottom back corners of the boot, and (I think) a bar across the back bottom of the boot floor, making all up a kind of crude chassis.
It was way before my time as well, but I have read a couple of Don Loffler’s books on these cars and he seems to be THE expert on early Holdens, going into incredible details.
Yeah my VH Commodore had a factory towbar that began its bolting above the rear axle I towed double horse floats with two horses in with no ill effects, Those early Holdens are copied structurally from Vauxhalls which were unitary from 38 onwards but the same urban myths surrounded LIPand EIP Vauxhalls and MK1 Zephyrs in NZ we didnt get Holdens untill the FJ.
That Cadillac is the best car in america.,
That German cars are better than amarican cars,
Adam Simpson
That Adolf Hitler designed the Beetle. He (like Ralph Nader) never had a driver’s license for one thing. Ferdinand Porsche already had designs and had built a prototype before he ever met with Hitler. It was knowledge of those designs that lead Hitler to seek out Porsche.
Another urban legend that Ralph Nader didn’t have a drivers license. Nader certainly did have a drivers license and drove a Studebaker while at Yale.
Probably he asked Porsche to make the Beetle seemed to his favorite car, the Tatra 87.
I’ve just read “The Devil’s Mercedes” by Robert Klara. Adolf Hitler took lessons and could drive a car, it is not mentioned whether he actually held a licence.
Post 1933, Ol’ Adolf wouldn’t need a license.
How is this one that low ratio rear ends and small engines save gas.
Yellow cars attract bees, My texas yellow ’73 Sport Bug had many fly inside, I’d say true.
A red car is more likely to be pulled over if speeding with the flow of traffic. I did get a couple of tickets in my red “75 Rabbit, I don’t think I ever got tickets in my other Rabbits, could be true.
Some scientist figured out how to make gas out of water, when he threatened to make this public he was never heard from or seen again. Big oil companies and all that. Not.
A full gas tank is safer if it ruptures in an accident then a nearly empty tank due to fumes exploding. Not sure, less gas less fuel, good one for debate.
You get better fuel mileage if you floor the pedal and short shift, bogging the engine until you are up to the speed limit. Less pumping losses because of wide open throttle. Maybe with a low powered engine, again a good one for debate.
It’s better to downshift and use engine braking as much as possible to save wear on your brakes. I think the wear and tear on the transmission and clutch, both of which are more expensive than brakes to repair makes this a bad idea. Unless of course you are going down steep long hills.
A car will use the last quart of oil much more quickly than the rest. If you run a quart low you will use less oil. I doubt this, but have heard it long ago.
A raw egg will stop a brake or clutch fluid leak. Never tried this.
You will get better MPG using premium gas in a car designed for regular. I’d say not.
If you get low on gas drive faster to the gas station before you run out. Not.
Due to aerodynamics using AC on the highway will get better MPG than rolling down the windows. Good one for debate.
Diesel smoke smells bad but is much safer to breathe than gas exhaust fumes. This was repeated a lot in the ’70’s when Diesels were really smokey. Not.
Auto manufactures can easily design 100 MPG cars but the oil companies pay them not to build them. Yeah, right.
Some guy in a ’67 Impala bolted a rocket engine to his roof and hit a mountain side at 200 MPH. Not true but widely believed.
A small car is more likely to be cut off than a SUV or large pickup. Owning and driving both, this is indeed often true.
Any time a VW malfunctions or wrecks it’s Hitler’s revenge.
Back in the days of crappy drum brakes, downshifting had some validity.
Nowadays, not so much.
And, IMHO the Audi 100LS really WAS Hitler’s revenge.
“It’s better to downshift and use engine braking as much as possible to save wear on your brakes. I think the wear and tear on the transmission and clutch, both of which are more expensive than brakes to repair makes this a bad idea.”
There is some truth to this based on my long-term ownership of three stickshift Hondas. I used the downshift method all the time when coming up to a foreseen stop. Brakes do last longer the less they are used. As for the tranny and clutch, I knew how to carefully rev-match when downshifting. I never had to repair transmissions and clutches only needed occasional adjustment, not replacement.
If you rev match and double clutch the downshifts you’ll save both the clutch and the syncros from premature wear. The trouble is most people don’t do this because it takes practice to master, and when they hear “downshifting saves brake pads” they don’t educate themselves on the technique past that line. So it’s not a myth, but it absolutely is a statement that shouldn’t be parroted to the level it is.
Mythbusters confirmed that A/C returns better MPG at highway speeds than windows down. I think they also confirmed the inverse, that windows down under 50mph returned better mileage than A/C on at those lower speeds
I’m going to slightly dispute the second to last observation. I’m more often cut off by smaller cars, yes, but pickup drivers are the WORST tailgaters in my experience.
“General Motors destroyed the LA public transit system so people would buy more cars”: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/25/story-cities-los-angeles-great-american-streetcar-scandal
That GM was considering releasing the new Astra in Brazil (imported from Belgium) in the 1990’s but it would have another name as ASTRA was (still is) a toilet bowl brand!
Here’s a couple.
At a certain speed The logo in a spinning VW beetle hub cap turns into swastika.
The RR lettering on the badge of early Rolls Royce cars was in red, This was changed to black lettering after one of the founders died. I have read other reports saying it was changed to black to blend in better with the color of the car.
Its not surprising that myths get spread around some of them can be more entertaining than real life., but in the end its good to know the real facts.
At the start of the Beetle production they were named KDF cars, from the Nazi organization that financed the factory. On the hubcaps they sported a badge resembling the swastika, also related to the “Kraft durch Freude” slogan. Naturally this would disappear once the car was moving and it was not used on the final production.
As someone who works in auto parts, the classic customer reply is “They’re all the same!” after asking the year/make/model/displacement/part that they are looking for.(more often than not-somebody asking for a rear main seal for a small block Chevy when they don’t believe you that their 1987 305 does not take the same one as their Uncle Ed’s 1966 283…)
I knew someone who felt that way about getting a Chevy water pump at the parts store.
I really can’t stand all the exaggerated claims that 80 IQ BS artists make up about non-existent options or engine choices that their friend’s uncles cousin was able to get because “his uncle worked on the line”. Or the “factory made a mistake”.
Of course, the aforementioned vehicle had performance that defied all physics. Ran 10 second quarters, topped out at 174 mph, and got 30 mpg. It was so fast that the drag strip “kicked him off the track because it was too fast”. In fact, when the cops encountered him, they “just waved at him because there was no point chasing him because he could outrun them”. Of course, people were always after him to sell, but nope. In fact, (insert name of famous racer here eg Cale Yarborough) offered him a million dollars but he still would sell. An alternate story is that “the factory tried to buy it back because it was a) too fast and not street legal or b) had a special 100 mpg carb and was accidentally sold retail.
Case study from a recent post. No names will be mentioned:
Somehow a leftover Ford 428 CJ R-code engine, the last of which would have left the foundry in the summer of 1970 (not 1971 as the poster claimed) ends up at the Wixom T-Bird/Lincoln plant in the fall of 1971. Never mind that no FE engines of any kind had been delivered to this plant since about the late summer of ’67, when the 429 was implemented for T-Birds. Okay, so we have this lone 428-CJ turning up at Wixom. If you buy this so far, we are to believe that a decision was made to send this “leftover” one-off to Wixom, of all places. Of course, a lone non-standard engine, not in a pallet of several, which is SOP, somehow makes it into inventory.
We are then somehow to believe that this engine, which is completely incompatible with the line machinery installing 385s in a frame design that wasn’t meant to accept it, doesn’t get rejected and is put into the cue for installation. Never mind that it’s not emissions legal.
Never mind that not a single employee notices the “mistake”. Never mind that the ancillary components and brackets etc like AC, PS, the proper carb, alternator designed for 385 series (or, believe or not, the 400 CID -335 Series engines which actually DID end up in exactly 2006 ’72 T-Birds)
aren’t plug and play for an FE. Nope, we have to believe that some line guys were able to custom fab the necessary brackets etc to fit the accessories to the 428 without questioning that something funny is going on here. Then they unquestioningly fab up a dual exhaust for it even though the parts pipeline has only singles (which is true for any ’72 T-Bird or Lincoln product). Finally, even though every vehicle left the plant with an A (460), N(429) or S(the minuscule number of 400s), nobody questions one lone job needing a Q-code to be kosher.
Of course, a boo-boo (or deliberate move, according to him) of this magnitude would never turn in a Marti Report either. It got under the radar of that, for sure.
In other words, BS BINGO!, Grand Prize!
I once met a man whose garage collection included a real “one-of-none”; a John Deere outboard motor! He freely admitted to those who showed bafflement that he cobbled it together from parts of different outboards, painted it green and yellow and added the logo decals.
But he said you’d be surprised how many guys made up stories about a JD outboard on the spot…he called it his “BS detector.”
These types of stories have been around forever it seems. I always counter with a request to see the car, which is invariably not available.
A similar story involves people who think the presence of a Holley 4 barrel on thier 350 Chevy makes it an “LT-1”, or that any 4 barrel FE series V-8 is a “Cobra Jet” and so on. I just smile and move on.
The thing is, a lot of guys really believe the story they are telling and trying to convince them otherwise just leads to avoidable conflict. Who needs it.
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race
When Fords and Lincolns was settin’ the pace?
That story is true, I’m here to say
I was drivin’ that Model A……
You know the rest .
The funny thing is that “Hot Rod Lincoln” is about a Ford Model A that has a Lincoln engine in it. Early recordings mention it having 12 cylinders, later recording mention 8. It’s not about a Lincoln car.
It was a real car…Model A body on a shortened Lincoln Zephyr chassis.
Lincoln Zephyr didn’t have a chassis. It was a unit body.
K. Holm, Denmark
There was no Rolls-Royce Silver Mist.
But what about Toyota MR2 in France?
maynard's dad
Mort de rire!
Hitler/Nazi-Germany “invented” the Autobahn. No.
There’s the 1921 AVUS nearby Berlin. OK, partly a race-circuit.
Then, completed in 1923, the connection between Milan and Varese in Italy.
The first full-Autobahn (not partly a race-circuit): Köln-Bonn, in 1932. A year prior to Hitler’s takeover.
DweezilAZ
“Manufacturers are required by law to keep parts in production for 10 years after discontinuing a car”. I’ve heard this nugget since the 60s. It’s not true and never was true. [Emissions parts are a different story as they have longer warranties in general].
Even on the federal website that has a pdf of laws applying to automobile manufacturing, there is no reference to a 10 year rule.
That a pillared sedan or coupe or wagon is a “post”. There was never a “post” anything sold only two and four door door sedans, coupes and wagons. Those vehicles without a B-Pillar are hardtops [fixed rear window or not] .
That short rear wheel openings are “skirted” fenders. Only a fender with a detachable skirt has a skirted fender. Nashes and others had an envelope body with enclosed front and rear wheel wells. They had no “permanent skirts” as referred to on Wikipedia.
Maybe it’s just me, but using the proper terminology when discussing something seems pretty important from an informational standpoint.
Using synthetic oil on an older car will cause oil leaks: debatable.
You don’t really need to have a thermostat in your car.
In the 70s: Putting radials on a car not designed for them will destroy the front end. They have done amazing things to to ride and handling on my 63 Valiant over the past 25 years. Any suspension problems I have had have been age and mileage related.
The old widow selling her husband’s unicorn [fill in the blank: Corvette, Hemi, etc. ] for $1000 “and when I went to look at it, she’d sold it”.
My favorites are the fish stories about how “I went into the dealer and made them cry and they lost their shirts one me..etc etc etc”… Forgetting the fact that the salespeople do this everyday and a good one will make the fish story teller feel like he just made the deal of a lifetime, while the dealer laughs all the way to the bank.
People forget there’s an entire system at work in the business operating daily vs the poor slob that walks in every 3-5 years.
I’m sure there are many more.
I have an old Chilton Mercedes-Benz repair book, and it states that radial tires are not recommended for the older swing-axle Mercedes!
Legend: Citroën stopped selling 2CV in Sweeden because it was unsafe.
Fact: They stopped because they had to add headlight wipers/ washers.
It’s often little things like that. One of the final nails in the coffin of the Panther platform was the mandate for all cars to have stability control–it would have been expensive to add and they didn’t want to spend the money on such an old design, even if it was still selling to law enforcement.
That was also what did it for the Ranger.
I despise the forumites who claim that regular oil changes are a scam and that modern synthetic oils can go 20,000 plus miles between changes. They often claim to have some engineering or fleet management backround and say you should send oil samples out for analysis before you change, because the oil will still be “good” and not need to be dumped.
Really? So engine sludging in BMWs and Audis and VWs is just a myth? Have you ever seen the slime that comes out of an engine that has been run without an oil change for too long?
Regular changes are cheap insurance and will prolong engine life, especially in high-performance applications. Why anyone would try to convince someone otherwise is beyond me. Sure 3000 mile changes are excessive on most cars (motorcycles definitely benefit, given most have small sump capacities and high strung engines) but claiming you basically never need to change your oil is ludicrous.
Good synthetic oil may theoretically not break down as easily as older formulations, but the fact remains that oil traps particulates from combustion, heat and friction, and you need to get that crap out of the engine regularly even if the lubricity is still good. Otherwise your cheapness is going to be terminal for the engine in the long run.
I change mine every 5000 kms (3100 mi) because it takes a year to put that on, and it’s 90% short trip (very, as in I can my WP from my 22nd floor apt) & engine cold.
My 2007 SRX with a Northstar V8 required synthetic oil (about 8 quarts) and for mostly highway driving would do 15,000 between changes according to the oil monitor, although I changed at 12,000 mile intervals with about 20% or so of the oil life left.
While the oil does not wear out, the additives that prevent bad things from happening get used up. Oil coats the cylinder walls and some of it burns producing by products. Conventional oil burns with more ash than synthetic and so oil life is reduced for conventional oil even if it is a blend.
KalapanaBlack
Oh Lord, and the Northstar is one of the sloppiest modern engines out there WRT oil contamination. Change it, run the new oil for 30 sec, dark brown again. Take a look at 3000 mile old oil out of a Toyota 1MZ with 200k sometime (that had regular oil changes its whole life) and compare. And keep in mind, at 8000 mile intervals the Northstar oil is probably at least half refreshed due to oil use.
Still, very few engines sound as mechanically elegant as a Northstar firing up. Honda J V6s also have a harmonious starting sound.
My RWD Northstar did not use more than about a half quart between changes. Now my FWD Northstar was another matter. I don’t recall that either one seemed to have dirty oil though.
Yeah, what JEC said! Truly, any and all dumb ol’ “forumites” are worthy of being despised who base their oil change intervals on facts and science and data rather than random numbers, guesses, and assumptions.*
*-“Myth” is a handy single word for these random numbers, guesses, and assumptions you espouse.
An oil monitor that actually monitors how the car is driven, that is to say does it monitor cold vs warm starts, how long the engine is driven and how long it’s at operating temperature before shut down etc etc etc….. is the best thing
GM’s oil monitors do this.
I don’t know that I’d call it the best. It’s certainly more convenient than drawing a sample of oil and sending it in, but doing so gives much finer-grained information on the condition of the oil than even the best of today’s onboard oil-life monitors can provide. I’d say the best and most cost-effective would be enough (real) oil analysis to get a portrait of how a given vehicle/conditions/oil/filter combination holds up and to check the veracity of a good onboard oil-life monitor. If that test is passed, then I’d rely on the oil-life monitor, perhaps adjusted in accord with whatever the results were of the oil analysis.
If you always drive your vehicle exactly the same way, then the oil analysis may tell you how often to change your oil. But if you deviate from what you did when you were getting the oil analysis done, then it’s no longer valid.
My Aurora’s oil monitor would give me a shorter interval in the winter than in the summer, by about 1000 miles. Plus much longer for a long trip.
RogueInLA
“Putting your battery on concrete/dirt will cause it to go dead faster”. Maybe true in the days of the Model T with wooden battery cases, but not today. I still know people who put their batteries on pieces of wood because they KNOW it’ll go dead if they don’t.
“Putting sugar in a gas tank will ruin an engine”. Wrong on so many levels. In the 70s R&T did an article on ‘automotive myths’, they put 5 pounds of sugar in a gas tank, drove it around, removed the tank, and found 4.99 pounds of sugar still in the tank. Then they poured 5 pounds of sugar directly into the carb, ran the engine, had it torn down, and there was no wear. As far as personal experience, a girl I knew back in the 80s put a pound of sugar in her ex’s gas tank, the car was still running several years later.
This is probably one of the most long lasting urban myths about cars.
I saw Logan Lucky last night and the old No-Va thing was brought up again. Now even more people will believe that line.
Since we’re talking urban legends….”Elvis gave my aunt her Cadillac when she told him how nice it was”
Is there a genuine market for celebrity owned cars? Undoubtedly. Can 90% of them pass provenance? Doubtful.
The one that bothers me the most by people who practice it, is that you have to leave diesels idling for a long time after driving. Sure, a turbo might like some oil for lubrication and cooling as it spins down. Sure, restarting a big Cummins or Cat at 20 below zero if it sits overnight may be a challenge. But to all the yahoo’s who,leave their 3/4 ton diesel trucks idling outside construction sites, minimarts and while pumping diesel at the service station: we don’t want to hear your clatter, breathe your exhaust, or pay more for fuel because you like to consume it. Not a diesel hater, but ….
181 comments and not one “sugar in the gas tank will destroy an engine”?
Or did I miss it?
you missed it. it was in the post 4 above yours.
Kiwi Alistair
FDR led to the failure of Packard because he forced that company to sell all the dies for its senior line to the Russians. This was to appease Uncle Joe Stalin who fancied Packard limos. The lack of a prestige line then led to the disastrous loss in status of Packard as a luxury brand post-war. A conspiracy theory that has been well debunked by Paul among others. ZIS is similar but different in many details, Packard’s abysmal marketing and product decisions did the damage not FDR.
While Xerox didn’t invent the mouse itself, It’s true that Xerox DID come up with the Windowed OS – And the desktop metaphor of folders,trash can, icons. Infact they did it an entire decade before the McIntosh came out! Also Apple didn’t invent the “smartphone” either I had a Palm Treo that had a color touchscreen (and a keyboard) full internet access (cellular and Wifi) a camera,an email client, ETC several years before the iPhone hit the streets.
Thought of another one as I was on a long drive today: “Radial tires should never be cross-rotated. It’ll damage the belts, once they’re ‘set’ into turning into a certain direction.”
While that may have been true of early radials, unless they’re directional there is usually no reason why a modern radial tire can’t be cross-rotated.
The owner’s manual for my ’07 VW recommends rotating the tires front to back on the same side only, so that’s what I’ve done. Any idea why they don’t recommend cross-rotated? The tires aren’t directional. Also, I have the standard 15″ steelies and the spare is a full-size, full-service tire, but they don’t recommend including it in the rotation. This may be just so they can save a few bucks by not putting a TPMS sensor in the spare.
I would like clear up the misconception, that Chrysler products are “good, reliable” vehicles…….
http://www.businessinsider.com/consumer-reports-just-called-out-chrysler-for-its-alarmingly-bad-quality-2016-2
As quoted: “The reasons why most FCA products are at the bottom of our Ratings is mostly due to POOR RELIABILITY and sub-par performance in our testing. Only the Durango is recommended,” Consumer Reports automotive specialist Mike Quincy told Business Insider in an email.”
I have two:
– That the infamous Oldsmobile 350 diesel was hastily converted from a gasoline engine
– this peaked in the ’90s – the inherent inferiority of factory stereos. Certain aftermarket head units, amps, and speakers outperformed good factory units, but as many times as not a higher-end factory unit delivered equal or better sound and had more sensitive tuners. Don’t even get me started on the awful ergonomics of most aftermarket head units then and now, with their tiny buttons and flashy and distracting Tokyo/Las Vegas-at-nighttime displays.
I absolutely agree with you on after market stereos! Beyond the fact that ergonomics take a back seat to styling, the styling never blends well with the rest of the car. And you’re also right on the tuners. The radio part is neglected on most of these. I only ever installed one when I couldn’t replace or repair a factory unit.
Umm; the Olds 350 diesel WAS hastily converted from a gasoline engine. Which is not intrinsically a bad thing, except for the “hasty” part.
While I’ll readily acknowledge that (a) you know way more about cars than I do and (b) a bunch of stuff that’s posted in online FAQs and fan sites is inaccurate, the majority of descriptions I’ve read about the 350 diesel claim that although the bore, stroke, and bolt pattern were shared with the gasoline Rocket 350, it still was basically a new design that misguidedly took advantage of some existing parts and engineering. A quick Google search turns up these near the top hits asserting it was not a “converted” gas engine – are they all wrong?
http://www.dieselhub.com/idi/5.7-olds-diesel.html
http://a350diesel.tripod.com/faqs.html
http://www.autosavant.com/2009/08/11/the-cars-that-killed-gm-the-oldsmobile-diesel
Yes. The Olds diesel was a modified gas Olds engine…it was a small-block with larger big-block size mains, special heads, a heavier (though not enough) block casting, an injection pump in place of the distributor, and high-compression heads. Note that racers used to love the blocks for building hot rod Olds engines…a diesel 350 block with a 455 crank is shorter and narrower than a 455, and stronger…it is, fittingly, 442 cubic inches.
John gave you some details. I only quickly read the first article you linked too; they’re obviously defensive. Nobody said the 5.7 diesel was a 5.7 gas engine that was modified in the most minimal way to run as a diesel. Yes, it had a new block and most other components. But the Olds gas 350 was the starting point; the modified (beefed up) all of its components as necessary to make it stronger. But that’s really no different than what was often done for high-performance or truck versions of gas engines.
The point is this: Olds didn’t start out with a clean-sheet design; it started with a gas 350. And there’s nothing wrong with that in principle; it’s exactly what VW did with their first diesel in 1975, and others have done it too. And modern gas and diesel engines often share basic architectures.
The fact is that Olds didn’t take the time to test the diesel long enough to make sure there were no fundamental flaws in it. Which there were. But that’s not to say that the same thing might have happened with a clean-sheet engine.
As a matter of fact though, the engineers at Detroit Diesel were not asked to be actively involved in the development of the 5.7. Yet when they did design a new clean-sheet diesel V8, the 6.2, it avoided most of the pitfalls of the Olds 5.7, although it had its share of problems too.
‘Yes, it had a new block and most other components”, So, Yeah it in that regard shares the same design qualities as the BASCO engine in my lawn mower as it does with the Rocket 350.
Now you’re just trolling.
Welp, the 350D was a modified gas engine after all. I need to stop believing all the revisionist history I read on the internets. I just didn’t expect there to be so many Olds Diesel fanboys….
Favorite is any “Big 3 Collusion” story, as if there are no other automotive companies in the world.
JimDandy
Can we put the “501” Cadillac engine to rest?
The correct, as advertised, displacement of 500 cubes is enough.
mercury6768
The fact that, regardless of what factory literature says, that the only FoMoCo cars which actually received 427 engines in ’68 were Cougars. This has been verified by Marti Auto Works, who own the rights to the FoMoCo production database.
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For Those About to Squawk: Waldo Pecks on Enslaved, Repuked and Incinceration
A Fucking Parrot Previewing New Releases Enslaved, hatebeak, Incinceration, Repuked, waldo.
What’s up, guys? Sometimes I have some positive things to say, sometimes I don’t. Looks like this one is well… maybe you should just read on.
Ever like not get into a band and then try to review it? This is me with Enslaved’s new one Utgard via Nuclear Blast. I’m not sure how I feel about this, I’m sure that I shouldn’t really start on their 15th release, but I’ll try to keep an open birdbrain here. There is some cool stuff here, notably “Jettegryta” is the standout track for me, with a more pounding, sorta thrashy thing going on. There is some more “atmospheric” stuff on here, and it breaks up the sound here. I’m not really sure here, this is very “middling” at times, and not super exciting, but it’s not awash in monotony either. This is one of those records that Enslaved fans will find very exciting, but for me, it’s just OK. So, just so I don’t get any hate, I’ll give it 7 Fucking Pecks.
When you call your band Repuked you had BETTER deliver. And on their third effort, Dawn of Reintoxication, these swedes DE-LIVER (get it?). So, what about this? When your lead track is called “Vodka Til the Grave” it better be fun. Fun it is. This is that sorta “easy to head bang to” metal that sports studs and leather. Odes to drinking, sado masochism, and well… drinking. These guys, although they rip, don’t take themselves that seriously. The more I’m listening to this, the more I’m kinda digging on it. Musically, this is kind of akin to old Swedish thrash death with the emphasis on the “thrash.” Think like a SUPER fun Niphilhiem, OR like a blackened thrash Municipal Waste from Sweden. Complete with puking “effects”, I dig it. 7 Fucking Pecks.
Do you want some BROOTAL death metal? Incinerate is hitting us with Sacrilegivm on Comatose. This is NOT to be confused with the 8,000 other bands called Incinerate. This is the Incinerate from Minneapolis/California and now Canada? Does that clear anything up? This is not super tech, not super caveman. Planted firmly in the middle of that, is some slamz, and some AMAZING solos here. This is a decent record, but what is really sticking out here are the solos. This guy is incredible. The production here is a little warm for my taste and could benefit from a little more “teeth.” All in all, this is a solid record, but just like most slam/brutal death records, there’s not a lot here (except for the solos) to differentiate itself from others in the genre. 6 Fucking Pecks.
Until next time… Waldo out!
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An agent who invests $20,000 out of $100,000 in commissions would receive $26,000 in stock options, according to TRD. If agreed upon, the agent is only eligible to collect the shares if they are still with the brokerage in 2020.
Worth Noting: Compass raised $400 million in a Series F round last month at an astonishing $4.4 billion valuation. The round was led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund and Qatar Investment Authority.
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid: Even if Compass continues its artificial growth, the startup is clearly overvalued. Some perspective… Realogy, which owns brokerages such as Coldwell Banker, the Corcoran Group, and Sotheby’s International Realty, has a market cap of $2.51 billion. Redfin has a market cap of $1.4 billion, while RE/MAX is worth $686 million.
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'Not beating United stung. But the consolation was winning European Cups!': Mark Lawrenson was key to the brilliant trophy-laden 80s Liverpool team - but they had a surprising blind spot against their bitter rivals
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Booed on court and heckled... but not even France's favourite could stop Murray
By Mike Dickson for the Daily Mail
If only every crowd and every opponent could start treating Andy Murray like a pantomime villain, we really might be on to something.
Booed on to the main Court Phillipe Chatrier and seemingly happy to wind up his opponent, the British No 1’s eventual response was to blast defiance and send Richard Gasquet and his highly partisan Roland Garros crowd scurrying away into the chill night, defeated.
Some of the tennis he produced in the last two sets of a 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 fourth-round victory took the breath away. 'Beau cinema,' complained Gasquet to his bench after Murray had clutched at one body part too many in the second set, but he could also have been referring to some of the stunning strokeplay produced thereafter.
Fightback: Andy Murray started slowly but came through to ease past home favourite Richard Gasquet
If hostility is to bring out his best then perhaps it will work against Murray that his next match will be more neutral, against Spain's David Ferrer, because nothing less than another bravura performance will do if he is to beat a man he has never overcome on clay.
After that would surely be the small necessity of a semi-final victory over Rafael Nadal, who was in quite stunning form as he allowed the extremely useful Argentine Juan Monaco only two games in making the last eight.
Bad start: Murray began the match poorly as Gasquet took control from the off
But then strange things have been happening to the 25-year-old Scot in this tournament, from his Lazarus-like second-round recovery this acute reversal of fortune which saw him roar back against the talented Frenchman.
WIN DOUBLE
Yorkshire’s Kyle Edmund reached the juniors’ third round with a 7-6, 7-5 win over France’s Maxime Tchoutakian. Stockport’s Liam Broady beat Egypt’s Karim Hossan 6-4, 7-5, but Nottingham’s Luke Bambridge went out at the same stage.
‘I started to use the energy from the crowd, it was like playing in a football match and I like football,’ he said. ‘I haven’t played in an atmosphere like that and it was the most fun I’ve had in a while. I went for my shots and deserved to get back into it. My back is a bit stiff but it is much better than it was.’
Murray is one match away from what would be his sixth consecutive Grand Slam semi-final and this was a difficult test, even if Gasquet’s renowned mental fragility was a factor.
Chance: Gasquet began well but was unable to maintain his dominance and faded away
When they have met in major matches Murray has bullied the mercurial Frenchman and he did so again, but not before he had flirted with a repeat of the defeat inflicted on him by the same player in Rome three weeks ago.
FERRER IS NEXT IN LINE
David Ferrer is the 30-year-old Spaniard who just seems to get better with age. Now at world No 6, Murray holds a 5-4 advantage in their career meetings and lost when they last met at London’s O2 Arena in November. The hallmark of Ferrer is relentless baseline hitting and sheer consistency, and he has got to the last eight without dropping a set.
Word of the ‘drama queen’ controversy appeared to have drifted across the Channel and the crowd whistled when Murray indulged in his irritating habit of clutching at his back immediately after making a mistake.
It spread down on to the court and clearly aggravated Gasquet at the critical juncture of the match, when he missed two break points, one of them a marginal line call, to go 5-4 up in the second. The Frenchman had become annoyed when Murray summoned the umpire to check a mark on the court but got little sympathy afterwards. ‘If he’s upset with that then it’s his problem,’ said Murray.
Back on top: Murray recovered his form to brush Gasquet aside in the final three sets in Paris
He was to force two set points in the next game, the second of which saw the home player double fault, and from there on Gasquet crumpled like one of the blankets the courtside corporates were wearing to ward off the unseasonal cold.
The match then changed completely, Murray mixing glorious winners with delicate dropshots and running off the third in just 24 minutes. Both here and at Wimbledon he has come back from two sets down to beat Gasquet, and it was as if both saw the outcome as inevitable once he had got a foothold back in the match.
The Roland Garros crowd know what they are watching, and while they stuck with their man to the end and continued catcalling Murray, they also, grudgingly, seemed to acknowledge they were witnessing quality.
Over and out: Murray and Gasquet shake hands after an absorbing encounter
Despite a frosty handshake at the end, Gasquet did not complain. ‘I was not happy I lost,’ he said. ‘It was not about him, I was unlucky. He was moving everywhere, so I had the impression he was not very much injured.’
Earlier Jo-Wilfried Tsonga picked up from 4-2 up in the decider to come through 6-4, 7-6, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4 against Stan Wawrinka and set up a match against Novak Djokovic.
Roger Federer also has a tough task in his quarter-final, taking on Juan Martin del Potro, the one interloper on to the Grand Slam honours board in recent years when he won the 2009 Australian Open.
The women’s event is wide open and there is a guaranteed first-time winner after Li Na collapsed against Kazakhstan’s Russian import Yaroslav Shvedova to lose 3-6, 6-2, 6-0. Maria Sharapova will surely never have a better chance of completing her set of all four Grand Slam titles despite an error-strewn 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 victory against Klara Zakopalova.
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How are you creating hope in 2020? Your responses
We asked and readers answered.
By Elizabeth Souder
1:13 AM on Dec 5, 2020 CST
Recently in the Living Our Faith feature, we asked readers to respond to the question: How are you creating hope in 2020? The following are some of the thoughtful responses.
This column is part of our ongoing opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Get weekly roundups of the project in your email inbox by signing up for the Living Our Faith newsletter.
In praise of singing
On Nov. 30 we got to the OR at 6:30 a.m. for robotic day surgery at Presbyterian Hospital. No one likes to have the IV port placed on top of the wrist because it plain hurts. So to distract our daughter, who was turning pale, I burst into “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and she sang along with me. The assisting technicians joined in as well.
The insertion of the port took a bit longer so we then sang “Jingle Bells.” We asked what we should sing next. One of the nurses said “Joy to the World”. So here we are, mere feet from the OR, getting ready for surgery, and we are singing behind our masks. Our anxiety lessened.
As I drove home that afternoon after our daughter’s successful procedure, I wondered how many other families burst into song outside the operating room. I decided that singing, which has been frowned on because it spreads droplets, necessitates a new way of doing it.
Did you know there are singers’ masks? They look strange with a heightened duck bill that allows the sounds to reverberate in the extension so that singing does not infect anyone. I will wear one when I give a program of Christmas music for one of my groups. They will be masked. I will be masked. We will sit 6 feet apart and still have Christmas music.
Music is one of the ways to give hope this year. I don’t even mind that the Christmas carols started in November. As my mom taught me, sometimes you just have to sing.
MiMi Douglass Clark, Dallas
Rebuilding Mesquite
It was a sobering experience. It was the fall of 2012, and I had returned to my Mesquite High School class reunion with a mission to find 11 other people willing to band together to rebuild our decayed and declining hometown, especially downtown Mesquite.
Not only could I not find 11 (for a total biblical number of 12, along with me), I could not even find one. The following reasons were unanimously given: “Too late,” “too much socioeconomic decline,” “too much cultural decay,” “too much of a transient, apathetic, nonowner/non-investor population,” “anti-business/anti-success bureaucracy.”
What a difference eight years, hope, creative thinking and bold, fresh, energetic leadership makes.
Here are things creating hope for our city in 2020: hundreds of engaged citizens, the mayor and a new city economic team creating success, a downtown manager, a totally new city council since 2012, bold urban planning, public-private partnerships, a magnificent new Mesquite Veterans Memorial, downtown infrastructure rebuilding not seen in 75 years.
I’ll close with lyrics to a song by the Light Crust Doughboys: “Some New Day we’ll come back to this city, To a city that once was so bright, and we’ll build once again homes and businesses, and we’ll fight one more day the good fight.”
Art Greenhaw, Mesquite
Elizabeth Souder. Elizabeth edits opinion commentary for the daily Viewpoints page and the Sunday Points section. She started with the Dallas Morning News in 2005 as the energy reporter. After seven years, left for the marketing world, before returning in 2015 to the editorial board. Prior to returning home to Dallas, she worked for Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal in New York covering airlines and in Frankfurt covering German bonds and banks. She holds Plan II liberal arts and journalism degrees from the University of Texas.
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Photo Tour of the DHS Stadium
in: Budget/Taxes
Given the controversy in some circles about Davis School Board’s decision to renovate the Davis High School Stadium, the Vanguard decided to tour the facility and photograph it to view it first hand and to show the community. To be very frank, the stadium is not in good condition. To illustrate the point, at one point while taking pictures, I nearly broke my ankle on uneven ground. I certainly would be reluctant to have my child use the track although at the time, there were probably several dozen elementary school children using the track for National Fitness Testing, to illustrate that this is not simply a high school football facility.
The first two pictures demonstrate the condition of the tracks after a moderate but not excessive amount of rain. There were portions of the track that were completely muddy. Once these ruts dry, they become hard and uneven grooves. This is just not a great surface. The plan calls for a completely new surface and to expand it from the current five lanes to eight lanes to better accomodate track meets.
Here is a child running on the track. The mother was there and gave permission to photograph him. I would have been a bit reluctant to allow my children to run on this surface. Incidentally that child is probably half a track ahead of the rest of his group of runners, college recruiters might want to take note.
The restrooms are not ADA compliant. This is another case where as soon as they upgrade the facility, the new ADA standards will kick in.
The scoreboard is not great condition and apparently does not work all the time. They want to bring in a new score board and move it from this location to a location where the other fields can utilize it as well. The Vanguard has been brought to you today by…
That brings us to the bleachers which in my mind are fairly appalling.
You’ll notice part of the sign says ramp accessible, in a moment I’ll show you where you get to sit if you are unfortunate enough to be in a wheel chair.
Meanwhile you can see what the bleachers look like, notice there are no rows in the bleachers to walk up.
They are not easy to walk up for anyone older than 12.
And they are not in great shape either. Don’t worry, they don’t need to wait for the new funding to repair this, but it does illustrate the overall condition of the stands.
I mentioned where you get to sit if you are in a wheel chair… here you go…
At least it’s painted nicely.
Actually the stands are an improvement over the press box, if you happen to be disabled.
I actually don’t think this picture does justice to just how ugly this press box is, although you do get a sense for it. It’s a monstrocity.
And don’t even think about it if you are not a perfectly fit person.
That brings us to the condition of the field itself which is not great.
That would be about the twenty yardline if it were striped for football. The entire field pretty much was a muddy mess. And yes, it rained, but not exactly a monsoon.
There is nothing actually wrong with the lights except that they are going to have to move them when they widen the field. So might as well replace them, they’ll need it at some point.
My overall impression is that the entire field is a safety hazard to players, athletes, students, and the public alike. This is a facility that could be utilized by the public for recreation and running. Not only is it a safety hazard, it is an eyesore. It just does not look up to the standards of this community. The bottom line is that the district faces real liability. I was joking with the facilities person that they should have made me sign a waiver of liability release before I toured the facilities. Meanwhile a several dozen elementary school age children are running on the track. The funding source is available, we ought to utlize it and fix this facility once and for all.
—David M. Greenwald reporting
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39 thoughts on “Photo Tour of the DHS Stadium”
Barbara May 4, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Thanks for taking and posting the photos, David. It reminds me of the recreation yard at Alcatraz, minus the view. I agree that it is not at all up to our community standards, or at least what I thought they were.
justacomment May 5, 2009 at 1:12 am
nice to read one of your blogs that talks about a problem and what the real issues are with just the facts: without blaming Target or “overly compensated city staff” (your opinion, not mine) for the problems
nancy May 5, 2009 at 1:44 am
I sincerely hope that if and when naming rights are sold for the stadium, or any part and for the sign-board that a careful vetting process is established based on a clear set of principles. This would be a fine time for students to research the history of corporations and the record of any one on human and labor rights and on real environmental stewardship (not just green-washing). I, for one. would not want the name of a corporation attached to the school and district that has a proven and poor record on these issues.
differentview May 5, 2009 at 1:54 am
I’m a bit surprised about the poor maintenance. Whether being replaced or not, why haven’t the weeds been trimmed under the bleachers, the bleachers painted and broken boards replaced, and new gravel been put on the track to eliminate muddy spots? Based on the photos, it would appear that DHS is not very focused on maintaining these facilities.
wdf May 5, 2009 at 2:06 am
Budget cuts? I don’t know about grounds maintenance specifically, but classified staff have been hit hard by cuts in recent years. At the school board meeting held at Harper JH a couple of months ago, one gentleman who did grounds maintenance for the district spoke during public comment that his position was being eliminated. So I can’t imagine things would improve in the near future.
Ok, that may be, but it’s still pretty shocking. Maybe the Blue and White folks should spend a weekend with some clippers, paint brushes and wheelbarrows.
Rich Rifkin May 5, 2009 at 3:34 am
[b]”I, for one. would not want the name of a corporation attached to the school and district that has a proven and poor record on these issues.”[/b]
Are there any high schools in our area which have sold naming rights to corporations? Is there a Chevron Coliseum? An AIG Arena? Wal-Mart Field? Monsanto Park? Shell Oil Stadium?
If Davis High selects an unpopular, politically incorrect company to sell its naming right to, the groups that love to hold protest rallies would have an ideal local locale for a demonstration. Instead of having to flood the atmosphere with thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide driving to San Francisco to decry Chevron’s activities in Ecuador, for example, they could walk or bike over to Oak Avenue and show their displeasure right at the DHS Chevron Coliseum. That would seem to kill two birds with one stone, not that I am advocating bird-killing, mind you.
[img]http://jenangel.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/chevronprotest1.jpg[/img]
Get Real! May 5, 2009 at 3:52 am
What good does it do to waste precious tax dollars fixing up a new stadium, and a Cadillac stadium version I might add, if physical education teachers are fired bc of budget cuts, so can’t teach physical education?
If the budget crisis becomes as bad as I think it is going to get, there is going to be another round of massive teacher layoffs. After-school activities like football games will have to go. Many physical education teachers will be laid off. But oh my, we have a wonderful new stadium that students can gawk at! How wonderful!
A new stadium right now is just stupid! I feel as if too many in this town are clueless about the dire consequences of this economy…
I didn’t know PE teachers were cut in recent rounds. I know that athletic stipends (to coach varsity, extramural teams) were threatened last year, but I think were covered in Measure W.
In a budget cutting environment, often utilitarian arguments win the day — “the greatest good for the greatest number”. So that means that smaller class sizes are less tolerated. P.E. teachers typically teach larger classes, say ~40 students. So P.E. teachers would seem to be more likely spared.
Here’s the overview of Measure W. Doesn’t have the specific totals for each category, but it mentions funds covering athletic programs and PE classes. Measure W is in effect for the next 3 years.
[url]http://www.djusd.net/district/measurew/measure_w/?searchterm=measure w[/url]
David M. Greenwald May 5, 2009 at 4:25 am
Someone referred to this as a Cadillac stadium version. I’ve seen the luxury stadium/ track models down at say USC, this is not that. This is a nice new Toyota Prius. Let’s not exaggerate. If we do this right it should last us 30 years if not longer.
Slightly off-topic:
“US no longer advising schools close for swine flu”
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090505/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_schools[/url]
Government policy should be made on the basis of sound science. The closing of schools was based on irrational fears. There has yet to be evidence presented which ever suggested that the swine flu was as dangerous as the regular flu, let alone more dangerous. What’s unfortunate is that our local officials shut their eyes to the evidence, failed to ask sensible questions, and cowed to the mass hysteria. Anyone at CDC who told local officials to shut a school deserves to be fired. It is ridiculous for anyone to say, “they should err on the side of caution.” No, they should err on the side of reason, science and evidence. The presumption that rashly closing a school is cautious, when all the science suggested there was no rationale for doing so, is wrong. Closing a school brings with it costs and even dangers. It disrupts lives and steals resources from schools for no benefit. Hopefully, next time there is a media-fed hysteria, our officials will ask reasonable questions based on science.
Caine-607 May 5, 2009 at 12:07 pm
If the quality of the football stadium is that bad, then it should have been taken care of long ago. To allow it to deteriorate like that is where these people have failed. It could have been done for real cheap. A few fresh pieces of wood and some paint. This goes to show how neglectful our school board is. Yet they let it deteriorate until they think of some super-expensive way to fix the problem.
a mom May 5, 2009 at 2:03 pm
We can and probably will quibble about this issue long after a new stadium is built. But the only thing that matters is that kid out there, and the the thousands like him, who excel in school in order to do what they love and succeed at most. Life isn’t purely academic. It’s passion, skill, commitment, and overcoming adversity. It’s goal-setting, teamwork, and digging deep. It’s being celebrated for your achievements, and being able to celebrate the achievements of others, even when they aren’t your own.
I applaud David for taking the initiative to see the problem firsthand. Others should do the same.
By the way, Blue and White has supported the stadium in all ways that don’t violate union rules. Why would we criticize volunteers who are looking for creative ways to support all students? Do we really want to live up to the negative reputation assigned by neighboring cities?
As for naming rights, there is board policy about what is permitted, and what is not, and these rights have to be approved before being finalized.
And for the oh, I don’t know, umteenth time, P.E. is a state mandated educational requirement, just like math, English, and science. Would any of us suggest justification of those subjects?
Bud May 5, 2009 at 4:08 pm
In David’s photos and when I have visited the stadium for events, I see recent paint and fresh wood in place replacing old boards. I don’t get your point. It seems like the district has been doing all it can do to keep it maintained.
To me it’s a facility that is too small for current student population. DHS is bigger than it has ever been. The stadium was built for a student body that was about one fourth the current size.
I remember there was a big uproar about opening up the current Emerson campus. It was built and opened up during bad budget times and declining enrollments. Now people insist that it never be closed. Once this stadium is built, you’ll probably wonder why you were complaining.
skeptic May 5, 2009 at 4:30 pm
“It is ridiculous for anyone to say, “they should err on the side of caution.” No, they should err on the side of reason, science and evidence.”
What does that mean? Wait to see how many people die first before you decide how deadly the flu strain is? After it already looked pretty bad in Mexico when it first showed up?
I’m glad you’re not in a position to be making those decisions for us.
elementary parent May 6, 2009 at 12:23 am
Personally I concede that there are probably very good reasons for building a new stadium at DHS. And I don’t fully buy in to the criticisms put forth on the project. But I have concerns at how I see things play out.
Lost in the discussions over spending priorities to build a new stadium or upgrading Emerson or the DHS MPR are a number of smaller projects waiting in the wings at elementary sites. For instance, at least a couple of older elementary sites, Chavez and Birch Lane, could really use an expanded MPR like many newer elementaries have. These are older campuses that actually enroll some of the larger populations of students. It is impossible to fit a lot of people in those places for community and all-school events.
When I look at the Blue and White Foundation, they say up front that they are a DHS alumni organization, dedicated to serving Davis HS. B&W was key in advocating for the stadium project for months and years; probably without their efforts, this wouldn’t be the focus right now.
But what happens after the stadium is built? Does B&W then push for upgrading the DHS MPR? and then some other DHS facilities project? I worry that other older facilities will languish many years longer while DHS sucks up available facilities money because of the stronger emotional connection that community members have with their HS over JH or elementary campuses.
It’s like the way we have first class universities but often a 3rd class k-12 systems. But more often, money spent on the foundation (elementaries, for instance) will yield a better investment than lots of money spent on the very last years of education.
Chavez parent May 6, 2009 at 2:08 am
Regarding MPR’s at Chavez (where my child attends) and other site needs, as far as I know, those facilities aren’t injuring anyone. Safety first, in my book.
I’m grateful there is a foundation looking out for the school most Davis children will end up. And as I understand, BWF can and will raise funds not just for high school facilities, but for scholarships, and other student support needs. This is merely their first major fundraising endeavor.If I’m not mistaken, anyone who would like to see the DHS MPR upgraded can give their money to BWF and target it for that purpose.
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[i]What does that mean? Wait to see how many people die first before you decide how deadly the flu strain is? After it already looked pretty bad in Mexico when it first showed up? [/i]
That’s just it. It never looked bad in Mexico. The death rate was very low as a percentage of those who caught this flu. This variant of H1N1 is not a great public health hazard and never has been. It is less deadly than normal seasonal flu. The first blood samples studied at CDC confirmed that it was mild. However, because the media played up the story, a panic set in and irrational policies followed.
There are consequences to the government crying wolf too often. For example, the panicky reaction to the 1976 swine flu is thought to have set back public health tremendously. A number of researchers in the early 1980s found that the public’s skepticism over warnings about AIDS were ignored, in part because they had lost faith in the CDC in the late 1970s. Even normal precautions to prevent the transmission of the regular flu were ignored (in greater numbers) in the years following the 1976 false swine flu epidemic scare.
It is therefore not unlikely, in the coming years, that people will lose faith in public health warnings because this one was false and known (by science) to be false more than a month ago.
It is being reported this morning, by the way, that a Texas woman with this flu died, becoming the first death of an American who had this virus. The stories say that while it is certain she had this form of H1N1, it’s not known if that is actually what killed her. She was pregnant and had “chronic underlying health conditions.” What is important to understand is that during flu season about 12,000 Americans die every month from the flu and about 200,000 are hospitalized. In that context, the tragedy for this woman and her family suggests we don’t need to react with any more caution than we do to the regular flu. Individuals should always be cautious–the flu is dangerous for very old people, infants and people with compromised immune systems. But we should not panic and close schools, unless the form of the flu is especially virulent and a school has a widespread outbreak.
Good Grief! May 6, 2009 at 5:11 am
Amen! I cannot see the sense to building a new stadium, when we have more pressing needs by far. But the “frills first” crowd is in the ascendency, as usual. Well at some point, the piper will have to be paid, the chickens will come home to roost, for every action there is a consequence, etc. Woodland has just laid off 50 teachers. Do you really think Davis is going to dodge the bad budget bullet? I very much doubt it. I refuse to waste any more of my efforts stating the obvious – the stadium is a collosal waste of money at the wrong time. I’ll just give my “I told you so’s” when the time comes…just like I did when the School Board gave a raise to Bruce Colby! The “frills first” crowd is stuck on stupid IMHO!
“Woodland has just laid off 50 teachers.”
And Woodland JUSD is also building a stadium for Pioneer HS right now.
skeptic May 6, 2009 at 9:22 am
Have you ever made pronouncements like this and been wrong? By chance were you one of those people last summer posting comments saying that Measure W was going down in flames?
If you are indeed so prescient, please run for school board and straighten us all out.
Heidy May 6, 2009 at 10:06 am
First, the proposed stadium contains no luxuries and it’s not a frill. It’s an educational facility. Teachers are vital, and so are safe, accessible facilities. Together they make education possible.
Second, coaches first identified the need for the stadium back in the 80’s. It was discussed throughout the 90’s while other facility needs were met, and now we finally have a board and staff that sees the need. You can’t blame current leadership for the inaction of boards and staff in the past. They’re working as hard and fast as possible to solve the endless issues needing attention in this district, at a time when resources are scarce.
Finally, this stadium would have cost much more a few years ago. The current economy shaves millions in borrowing and building costs. Fiscally, the timing is brilliant. And much of that has to do with Bruce Colby who is worth much more than he is paid. We’re lucky to have him.
I voted against Measure W – precisely bc of things like Bruce Colby being given a raise during a serious economic downturn. People in this town follow the School Board/DJUSD blindly, and that is how we got the Tahir Ahad/Total School Solutions mess. Well I told you so after the Total School Solutions debacle, the Bruce Colby incident, and I’ll tell you so again when it turns out upgrading the stadium was not such a good move.
Another school district stuck on stupid, IMHO. “Lay off 50 teachers, but build a stadium and they shall come!” Argggggghhhhhhh!
“Fiscally, the timing is brilliant. And much of that has to do with Bruce Colby who is worth much more than he is paid. We’re lucky to have him.”
He should not have been given a raise at the same time they were contemplating laying off teachers. What is this, ethics be damned? For shame!
“Another school district stuck on stupid, IMHO. “Lay off 50 teachers, but build a stadium and they shall come!” Argggggghhhhhhh! “
Once again, the funding for stadiums is facilities money funded by facilities bond measures. That money was voted for by the voters specifically to build schools and facilities. To use it on teacher salaries is to violate the will of the voters who passed the bond measure.
Unless of course you live in “Good Grief!” world and think democracy and the will of the voters is stupid.
“Good Grief!” makes nice rabble rousing comments, but they’re based on false premises.
A couple of stories on budget solutions:
Turlock school employees, administrators agree to 3% salary cuts:
[url]http://www.modbee.com/local/story/691820.html[/url]
Bay Area school districts go to ballot box
[url]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/01/BAI317CF8D.DTL&hw=bay+area+schools&sn=032&sc=200[/url]
Caine-607 May 8, 2009 at 2:06 am
I voted for measure W, but never again!!
Cut the garbage!!! Just cut the garbage!!! I know the argument!! You have said this over and over!!! Setting aside the facilities $, the Blue and White foundation, and other organizations managed to come up with additional funds for this. Somehow, there is always a revenue stream for this garbage!!! Somehow the $ will always be there!! Just remember the school board voted to close valley oak and didn’t lift a finger to find these other revenue streams like private donations, some sort of blue and white foundation equivalent that could work hard to come up with 1.5million!! Somehow, when it comes to a fancy new stadium, the school board makes it work!! somehow it just happens. In this economic downturn, its amazing how $ just shows up! But they can give anyone a pink slip without lifting a finger because “their hands are tied.” Facilites $ can’t be touched, so we are helpless and out of options, poor us! We have no alternative! Teachers will just have to go and there is nothing we can do!! Yet all kinds of options materialize for the stadium! The blue and white $, and the private donations $. Somehow, it is just there! Here it is on a silver platter! $ has a habit if just showing up when it is convenient, and not being there when it is not!!!! So once again this hand wringing over the facilities $ is garbage disingenous to say the least!!
So once again just cut the garbage!!!! It is dishonest.
The voters make decisions. Doesn’t mean they are all right, and doesn’t mean they are all wrong. I’m sure you have been on the losing side of an issue before and left wondering, “what were they thinking!”
“Just remember the school board voted to close valley oak and didn’t lift a finger to find these other revenue streams like private donations, some sort of blue and white foundation equivalent that could work hard to come up with 1.5million!! Somehow, when it comes to a fancy new stadium, the school board makes it work!! somehow it just happens. In this economic downturn, its amazing how $ just shows up! But they can give anyone a pink slip without lifting a finger because “their hands are tied.”
Closing Valley Oak Elementary wasn’t a facilities issue. It was a consolidation so that the district wouldn’t have to pay as much overhead for salaries — one fewer principal, fewer admin. staff, librarian, etc. I understand that they saved ~$600K this year because of it, and will save roughly that much next year. That saves a few more teachers from being cut.
Facilities are one time expenditures. Salaries are a are an ongoing expense that has to be paid year after year. It makes a big difference in how you budget, and it’s what makes public fundraising (DSF) for teachers’ positions difficult. If you save teachers’ jobs this year for fundraising, then you enter into a commitment to fundraise for them again next year and then you have additional cuts coming next year on top of that.
One solution is to propose yet another parcel tax in the next year. I suspect the voting public won’t go for it, but if it’s a cause you really believe in, I’m sure you’d find folks in Davis who would go for it.
It isn’t garbage, it isn’t dishonest. It’s the rules and realities of the moment, as uncomfortable as it is. If you think there is money to tap into, you as a public voting taxpayer have a right to see the budget and ask questions.
Yes, I do think voters are often stupid. When frills become more important than essentials, I have a problem w that sort of thinking. Wait until the “hit fits the shan” and there is another round of layoffs of teachers. If the budget gets bad enough, the last thing citizens will be worried about is a new stadium.
I also heartily agree w the previous poster, who points out the $$$ are always there for the frills, but not for essentials. This town allowed an entire school to be destroyed (Vally Oak), and nearly allowed a Junior High to be closed, because of their own stupidity. When Emerson was going to be closed by our idiot DJUSD/School Board, the public finally woke up and protested loudly. Too often citizens wake up and smell the coffee TOO LATE.
And by the way, IMHO, the School Board told the private funders not to raise funds for teachers, bc it undermines the DJUSD/School Board’s leverage to demand teachers take a pay cut. That is now how the DJUSD/School Board figures it is going to balance its budget, while it goes merrily along its way giving salary increases to upper management a la Bruce Colby. It will build a new stadium as it cuts after school athletic programs, and Emerson falls into dangerous disrepair. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!
Curious May 8, 2009 at 3:36 am
I don’t get this so back up and explain this to me.
You seem to understand that there is a difference between facilities and general fund money and that facilities cannot be spent in the classroom.
You also seem to see the pictures and realize that this is a dangerous facility that many students utilize on a daily basis.
So why do you view this as a “frill” expenditure? What choice do you believe the district had?
News items on area schools/districts:
“Davis slashes its admin, teaching staff by 37-plus”
available online to Enterprise subscribers at
[url]http://www.davisenterprise.com/story.php?id=101.3[/url]
Basically school board officially enacted the proposed cuts in order to meet a mid-month deadline to submit its budget. Classified staff (non-admin/teacher employees) cuts will be announced later.
San Leandro school board approves 31 layoffs:
[url]http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_12319998?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com[/url]
School-tax gamble pays off for 5 districts:
[url]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/06/BA1917EUVD.DTL&hw=schools+budget&sn=007&sc=523[/url]
Vacaville school board approves cuts for ~58 teachers. May reach a decision with classified staff union to save some positions:
[url]http://www.thereporter.com/ci_12324414?IADID=Search-www.thereporter.com-www.thereporter.com[/url]
Parcel tax defeated for Daly City schools (Jefferson school district):
“It will build a new stadium as it cuts after school athletic programs, and Emerson falls into dangerous disrepair.”
Again, athletics programs are funded by Measure W for the next three years. See link for Measure W programs above.
The stadium was built in ~1960 and hasn’t had any major upgrades since. Emerson was built in ~1980. The wear and tear that Emerson has doesn’t put students in danger and doesn’t prevent classes from being taught there.
Also Emerson isn’t in disrepair (and certainly not dangerous disrepair). Please cite your sources if you want to make assertions.
wdf May 8, 2009 at 4:04 pm
“”Just remember the school board voted to close valley oak and didn’t lift a finger to find these other revenue streams like private donations, some sort of blue and white foundation equivalent that could work hard to come up with 1.5million!!”
It’s easy to lament the closing of Valley Oak elementary in isolation. But school closings are all too common these days. Dixon is closing an elementary, Woodland two elementaries, Sacramento Unified is closing four schools. Those are the ones I know of in the area; probably plenty more in the state. It’s the result of limited funds to cover ongoing costs in salaries.
Come off it. We closed Valley Oak bc we built one too many elementary schools/the Tahir Ahad-Total School Solutions scandal. Had the School Board done proper oversight, there would have been no need to close Valley Oak.
“I don’t get this so back up and explain this to me. You seem to understand that there is a difference between facilities and general fund money and that facilities cannot be spent in the classroom. You also seem to see the pictures and realize that this is a dangerous facility that many students utilize on a daily basis. So why do you view this as a “frill” expenditure? What choice do you believe the district had?”
Like Caine (a previous poster), I consider math, English, social studies, science, the primary core courses that need to be protected. I do not consider the Crunch Lunch program, Chinese Mandarin 5, Stage Technician, Ornamental Horticulture to be “core curricula”. Nor do I think Emerson should have had a swimming pool. In my day the high school had a gym and an outdoor practice field. No stadium. And I will stack my education up against anyone’s anyday. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Math, and hold two advanced degrees.
A stadium is NOT a necessity. But what has happened over the years is that the gov’t has given money for more and more of these extra frills, so that we now as a society have become dependent on them and think of them as “necessities”. As I have analogized before, our schools have become like an ice cream store, with new flavors constantly being created. At some point, the store will not hold any more new flavors, and still remain financially viable. Something has got to give…
The problem is, w all these newly created “necessities”, when the economy takes a downturn, there is not enough money to keep all these new programs/facilities afloat. I think the far better approach is for the gov’t to stick to the basics, and let private enterprise provide the frills. If parents want frills, then they can raise the money for them. That is what my old high school eventually did when parents wanted a stadium. It was entirely paid for by private donations – NOT BY THE GOV’T.
Farwester May 11, 2009 at 7:23 am
Whomever is responsible for maintaining DHS stadium facilities should be fired for dereliction of duties, along with the administrator who supervises the facilities maintenance. I don’t care how old the stadium is, there is no reason to allow it to degrade through neglect! Annual application of paint,lumber and sod are relatively cheap compared to a $10 million dollar renovation. Somebody is not doing their job, or they are not being allocated the funds to do it properly. Will they neglect the required maintenance of this new facility? And I’m sorry, blaming the unions for the inability of the B&W volunteers to help with the maintenance is a really weak excuse . . .
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We’ve all been hearing recently of the step change that broadband will bring to New Zealand – it seems to be one of the big election issues with both main parties coming to it from different angles. Both of these angles have however main the mistake of assuming economic benefits from broadband as a given – without the empirical analysis and data to back that claim up.
Into that breech comes Arthur Grimes, of the Motu Research and Education Trust. Grimes spoke last week at Victoria University’s Institute of Policy Studies and discussed infrastructure in general and had some interesting points about broadband.
In essence grimes stated that unlike traditional infrastructure (roads, water etc), broadband has no clearly defined purpose and as such falls under the “general-purpose technology” category rather than pure infrastructure.
We’re trying to get a handle on what are the benefits of broadband and who might they accrue to. Give me another six months. At present I wouldn’t have any particular answers; but the conceptual answer is that there is a difference between broadband and road straightening. With broadband we just don’t know what the benefits will be. I suspect that under traditional cost-benefit analysis, we would say it’s hardly worth rolling out broadband. We’d look at what benefits we know about and apply appropriate discounts and consider that it’s very expensive anyway and we’d say ‘those numbers don’t add up’. But if I look at the uncertainty and its role as more of a general-purpose technology, then maybe the answers are very different. At the moment, there doesn’t seem to be much of a framework for thinking about it. We’ve just got two parties saying ‘we’ll spend’ and ‘we’ll spend more’. I don’t think there’s much real thought been given to why you would do that; but maybe there is a reason that justifies that approach.
Like I said – a brave man indeed. Not quite as pointed as Telstra-Clear CEO Allan Freeth who claimed that;
the main result of faster broadband links to the home may be more downloads of pornography and movies rather than improvements to productivity
Which is something neither Helen Clark nor John Key particularly wanted to hear.
My take on this? I believe widespread broadband is an enabling technology that is beneficial for the country – this however is a different statement from those who seek to differentiate the general benefits of broadband per se with the supra benefits of FTTH.
The jury’s out but we’re fools if we think they’re able to make a decision without the full data.
Bring it on Arthur Grimes and Motu!
robin | September 30, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Too late. Like many investments, there is an element of risk, and the longer the investment is left, the higher the risk of being at a competitive disadvantage as a result of not minimising the risk, but being decisive about making the investment. I’m not saying I know what will happen but I support a significant governmental investment in network infrastructure as opposed to wait-and-see or reliance on the private sector to sort it out.
The porn and movies arguement is tied. It’s porn and movies that contributed in part to what is now a good chunk Freeth’s (TC’s) revenues.
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Telegram Open Network – What is going on?
By Zoran Spirkovski -
Telegram Open Network is a project orchestrated by Pavel Durov, the creator, and sponsor of the Telegram messenger. Unofficial sources claimed that a public ICO was in the works, following two private sales undertaken by the company.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported on the topic of Telegram abandoning the plans for a public ICO. They do not reveal the source, but they claim that Pavel Durov and company are going to go exclusively with private investments to fuel the production of the Telegram Open Network.
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Having the source of such information unknown, it makes it difficult to understand whether or not this is simply a rumor, or it is an accurate representation of the truth. We believe there is still room to open the doors for individual investors for the TON ICO.
Having collected over $1.7 billion dollars in private investments, they have more than enough money to fuel the development, testing, and marketing of the Telegram Open Network, and evaluate the performance of the GRAM token.
Will the ICO become public?
No matter what main news outlets say, Telegram has not released a public opinion on the ICO. As far as we are concerned, anything is still possible.
One thing is certain, Telegram is not in it for the money. They’ve self sufficiently hosted their application and shared it with the world, which is why so many people have fallen in love with the Telegram Messenger. It’s encrypted and secure, and uncompromisingly refusing to share vital information with governments, simply due to their tendency to abuse information technologies.
For now, there is no official response to this question, and anything that we have is considered a rumor. The company has raised funds privately, and they have enough resources. There is merit to opening the doors for the public as well, but there are also strong reasons why it might not happen.
Recently, Telegram has been under fire in terms of hacking and scamming attempts. This makes a public ICO difficult to manage, secure, and protect. We wonder what kind of effect these hacking attempts had over the decision to stop the public ICO completely.
Would like to use this opportunity to remind that the public ICO may happen eventually, but we all need to be very careful and use multiple sources to confirm our information.
Hacking Attempts
In the last couple of months, multiple security red alerts have arisen regarding the Telegram ICO, with phishing websites and Twitter account hijacking, we’ve seen a lot of pressure put on potential investors.
Having Telegram and Pavel silent on the intentions and direction of the TON project is not helping the public at all, with impatient investors potentially getting abused by would-be scammers.
Telegram has more than 200 million users worldwide, it is also commonly used by investors and the crypto-community as the “go-to” messenger app. This makes it a perfect target for scammers, due to the large user base, as well as limited communication from the company itself.
Emails, crypto websites, exchanges, as well as social networks have fallen victim to phishing attempts designed to take advantage of the TON ICO. Investors beware and make sure to use multiple sources, and re-check websites. It’s easy to think that we are not going to get affected by this kind of scam, but it can happen to anybody that is not paying full attention.
Various websites have been propped up, and there is potential for this to continue, as one rogue “Telegram Open Network – Public ICO sale is live.” can cause relative harm to users.
Especially if it doesn’t get caught in time.
Fake company
Motivated by the Telegram’s raised funds and numerous community, hackers’ first initiative in scamming Telegram was by opening a bogus company Telegram Open Network Limited located in London.
This company stated Pavel Durov as the founder, CEO, and secretary, while at the same time creating a fake website providing necessary account information in an attempt to redirect part of the potential investors’ money away from the real project.
Fortunately, this scam was almost immediately exposed and failed to hurt people.
Verified Twitter accounts
Capitalizing on a flaw in Twitter’s editing options, the hackers hijack another verified account and use it to scam people into making investments.
This hacking attempt on Telegram happened was a bold one. Pavel Durov publicly apologized on Twitter to the app’s users for the inconvenience of having a network glitch due to server clusters overheating.
Seizing the opportunity, hackers managed to hijack a verified twitter account of a not-widely-known Swedish band and recreating it almost identically as Pavel Durov’s original account.
In his name, the scammers posted a giveaway tweet of 5000 ETH and 1000 BTC in return for the app’s technical problem. They provided their own wallet addresses and as soon as someone clicks the link, there is a request for sending a small amount of crypto to get a big prize. (for ETH, it’s from 0.5 to 10)
Using this method they managed to steal about 60 000 dollar value in cryptocurrency until they were discovered and stopped. MetaMask phishing detector raised the alert on the false account.
The decision to cancel the public ICO
We believe that due to the repeating attacks and the significant investment amounts collected in the private sale, Telegram’s CEO may have decided to stop the ICO and mitigate any future risks to the company and audience.
Hacking events happen constantly, and every valuable company on this planet is going to get imitated at one point, with the purpose of exploiting the loyal customer base they have generated. This is why KYC is becoming more relevant, and it’s helping businesses become more secure.
Private sales must have contributed to this decision as well. $1.7 billion is vested for two years, so these big investors are committing their funds for the entirety of the period. This is a significant commitment, and an enormous amount of money, hopefully, to be used for purposes that benefit humankind.
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With New Biopic Diana Set to Hit the Big Screen, We Look Back at the Princess's Iconic Style (and Meet the Man Responsible for It)
Revisit Diana's iconic style, and hear how her favorite red carpet designer, Jacques Azagury, reinterpreted her style for the Naomi Watts-helmed biopic
By Victoria Dawson Hoff
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With a new biopic hitting the big screen, Diana's favorite red carpet designer takes a look back at her iconic style
We all remember where we were on August 31, 1997: the day that Princess Diana died tragically in Paris. But even more so, we remember her legacy—her philanthropic pursuits, her relatability, and her classic, iconic style. Naomi Watts takes on the task of embodying these qualities in the much-buzzed about biopic, Diana, which hits theaters on November 1.
While we’re sure Watts’ acting chops aided her in taking on the role, she got some help on the fashion front from a man who not only witnessed the late princess’s style, but had a direct hand in it. Jacques Azagury was Di’s go-to red carpet designer, so it was only fitting, so to speak, that he was asked to create the film’s costumes.
"At first I was a bit apprehensive about taking this on," Azagury told us. "We have moved on. Did I really want to go back in time?"
It’s certainly understandable that given Azagury’s friendship with Diana would make it particularly painful to revisit his work with her, but, as the designer emphasized, style is such an essential part of her story. "She absolutely loved getting dressed up and was always exited when discussing a new event or dress. She would take so much care not to disappoint her public who would always be waiting to see her emerge."
In spite of this, Azagury told us that the princess had a charming effortlessness about her, which extended to her personal style. "From the moment I met Diana, I loved the way she made you feel immediately—as if you had known her forever. She had a very laid back attitude to being a princess."
"Diana never thought of herself as an icon," he continued. "She just loved the fun of it all."
Flip through to see some of Diana’s most memorable looks, followed by a selection of the film’s costumes with more commentary from Azagury.
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For the biopic, it was more important for Azagury to capture the essence of the princess’s style than exactly copy her favorite designs. "For the film, I decided to replicate just two of the more iconic Diana dresses for Naomi, which in fact were identical right down to the lace and beading. For the other six dresses I decided to make Diana-esque dresses. Dresses we would have possibly chosen to cover those events. I didn’t want to make it a costume for costume drama."
"During the period covered in the film I had already got Diana to think in a much simpler and streamlined style. It would be about cut, fabric and construction as opposed to fuss. And of course, with Diana in the dress, it was difficult to fail."
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Hoover Sings His Own Praises
By Bryan Caplan
Murray Rothbard opened my eyes to the real story about Herbert Hoover, but his quotation splicing makes me wince. In my next two posts, I’m going to dissect one of Hoover’s last major speeches before the 1932 election – his November 5, 1932 address in St. Paul. In this speech, Hoover gives two long lists: The first about “our long-view policies to cement that recovery and to stimulate progress in our country for the future”, the second about “the measures, lack of measures, or destructive measures proposed by our opponents.”
In this post, I’m going to review all 21 items on Hoover’s list of what he did right; in the next, I’ll turn to all 19 items on his list of what his opponents did wrong. Ready? OK, here are the 21 policies Hoover wanted the whole country to know about:
1. The revision of the tariff:
By this act we gave protection to our agriculture from a world
demoralization which would have been infinitely worse than anything we
have suffered, and we prevented unemployment of millions of workmen.
2. Extension of the authority of the Tariff Commission…
which the adjustments can be made to correct inequities in the tariff,
and to make changes to meet economic tides and emergencies, thereby
avoiding the national disturbance of general revision of the tariff
with all its greed and logrolling…
3. Informal pressure to maintain wages and control strikes:
At the outset of the depression we brought about an understanding
between employers and employees that wages should be maintained. They
were maintained until the cost of living had decreased and the profits
had practically vanished. They are now the highest real wages in the
With the concurrent agreement of labor leaders at that
time to minimize strikes, we have had a degree of social stability
hitherto unknown in the history of any depression in our country. We
have not once in this depression had Federal troops under arms to quell
conflicts which is the first time in 15 depressions over a century…
4. Informal pressure to “share the work”:
An agreement to a spread of work where
employers were compelled to reduce production was brought about in
order that none might be deprived of all their living and all might
participate in the existing jobs and thus give real aid to millions of
5. “Mobilization” of private charity and local and state government relief.
6. An increase in Federal construction spending (plus an attempt to claim credit for other construction spending):
expansion of State, municipal, and private construction work as an aid
to employment, and by the development of an enlarged program of Federal
construction which has been maintained at the rate of $600 million a
year throughout the depression, we have given support to hundreds of
thousands of families.
7. Debt renegotiations with Germany:
By the negotiation of the German
moratorium and the standstill agreements upon external debts of that
country, we saved their people from a collapse that would have set a
prairie fire and possibly have involved the whole of our civilization.
8. Creation of the National Credit Association:
We created the National Credit Association by cooperation of the
bankers of the country, with a capital of $500 million which prevented
the failure of a thousand banks with all the tragedies to their
depositors and their borrowers.
9. Trying to balance the budget by cutting “ordinary operating expenses” of the Federal government and raising taxes (with the top rate rising from 25% to 63%, though Hoover doesn’t specify):
By drastic reduction in the
ordinary operating expenses of the Federal Government, together with
the increasing of the revenues in the year 1932, we contributed to
balancing the Federal budget and thus held impregnable the credit of
the United States.
10. Creation of the RFC:
We created the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, originally with $2 billion of resources, in order that,
having maintained national credit, we should thrust the full resources
of public credit behind private credit of the country and thus
reestablish and maintain private enterprise in an unassailable
position; that with this backing of the Federal credit, acting through
existing institutions, we might protect depositors in savings banks,
insurance policyholders, both lenders and borrowers in building and
loan associations…
11. Using the RFC to strengthen Federal land banks and other lenders:
addition to strengthening the capital of the Federal land banks by $125
million we have, through the Reconstruction Corporation, made large
loans to mortgage associations for the same purpose, and lately we have
organized all lending agencies into cooperative action to give the
farmer who wants to make a fight for his home a chance to hold it from
foreclosure.
12. Extending authority under the Federal Reserve Act to protect the gold standard:
We extended authorities under the Federal
Reserve Act to protect beyond all question the gold standard of the
United States and at the same time expand the credit in counteraction
to the strangulation due to hoarding and foreign withdrawals of gold.
13. Creation of home loan discount banks:
We created the home loan discount banks with direct and indirect
resources of several hundred millions, also acting through existing
institutions in such fashion as to mobilize the resources of building
and loan associations and savings banks and other institutions…
14. Using the RFC to help depositors in closed banks:
We secured further authorities
to the Reconstruction Corporation to assist in the earlier liquidation
of deposits in closed banks in order that we might relieve distress to
millions of depositors…
15. Using the RFC to subsidize state-level relief:
We secured increased authorities to the
Reconstruction Corporation to loan up to $300 million to the States
whose resources had been exhausted, to enable them to extend full
relief to distress, and to prevent any hunger and cold in the United
States over this winter.
16. Using the RFC to fund public works (which are going to pay for themselves!):
We increased the resources to the
Reconstruction Corporation by a further $1,500 million for the
undertaking of great public works which otherwise would have been
delayed awaiting finance, due to the stringency of credit. These works
are of a character which by their own earnings will enable disposal of
the repayment of these loans without charge upon the taxpayer.
17. Creation of a new system of agricultural banks:
We have erected a new system of agricultural credit banks with indirect
resources of $300 million to reinforce the work of the intermediate
credit banks and our other financing institutions in the financing of
production and livestock loans to farmers…
18. Using the RFC to make agricultural commodity loans:
We have extended the
authority to the Reconstruction Corporation to make loans for financing
the normal movement of agricultural commodities to markets both at home
19. “Mobilization” of banking, industry, business, labor, and agriculture:
We have systematically mobilized banking and
industry and business of the country with the cooperation of labor and
agricultural leaders to attack the depression on every front…
20. Developing a worldwide economic conference:
…with view to
relieving pressure upon us from foreign countries, to increase their
stability, to deal with the problems of silver, and to prevent
recurrence of these calamities if it can be humanly done.
21. Disarmament.
have given American leadership in development of drastic reductions of
armament in order to reduce our own expenditures by $200 million a year
and to increase the financial stability of foreign nations and, above
all, to relieve the world of fear and political friction.
Now I ask you: Out of Hoover’s full list of 21 policy achievements, how many remotely resemble the “do-nothing” “laissez-faire” stereotype of the history textbooks? #12, where he says
he tried to protect the gold standard, and #21 –
disarmament.* You might also count part of #5, where he talks about mobilizing private charity (in the same breath as local and state government relief), and parts of #9, where he brags about fighting to balance the budget (and only hinting at his massive tax increase).
In short, out of 21 measures, we have two matches with Hoover’s stereotype, plus two partial matches. The remaining 17 measures directly contradict the stereotype. If liberal historians focused on policy instead of party, they would cast Hoover as John the Baptist to FDR’s Jesus – not Satan.
* Although Rothbard must have supported Hoover’s disarmament policies, America’s Great Depression never even mentions the word.
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Nov 11 2008 at 6:24pm
Bryan, did you mean for “21 items on Hoover’s list of what he did right” to be “21 items on Hoover’s list of what he said he did right”?
James A. Donald
And Bush is the John the Baptist of Obama
The folks who support a gold standard have their hearts in the right place, but you have to wonder whether even FDR didn’t think, when he felt compelled to outlaw the possession of a completely harmless and generally innocuous metal, whether something wasn’t kind of strange about the economic structure that would make that seem like an important thing to do.
Jayson Virissimo
Bryan, is there a good scholarly article documenting the public policy of Hoover that you could refer me to? This Hoover myth desperately needs to be exploded. I fear this misunderstanding of history has dire consequences for the present and future.
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I’ve always been under the impression that it was Coolidge that was the true laissez faire President and that Hoover was an engineer that flailed mightily and wrongly during the early part of the depression. Check the Wikipedia entry:..mining engineer..as Secretary of Commerce under Coolidge… he promoted government intervention under the rubric “economic modernization”. He sounds like an inverterate tinkerer that couldn’t leave anything alone. Also, note his support of prohibition. Libertarian this man was not.
Awesome post, Bryan. Do you know if Hoover really did do all these things? I mean, just the fact that he was claiming he did these things, is good enough to refute the stereotype. But what if a liberal die-hard said, “So what, the guy is a crook and a liar. He was making up stuff because FDR was beating him in the polls.” ?
Nov 12 2008 at 12:29am
To me you have lots of little policies, mostly bad mixed in with a couple of humongous policies. Since many (most?) macroeconomists since Milton Friedman think that the great depression was caused by the great monetary contraction from working to maintain the gold standard, and adding to that harm by managing counter-cyclical fiscal policies, is it so misleading he is remembered for that?
Frank Howland
Nov 12 2008 at 9:17am
Do you have particular liberal historians in mind? I think it’s quite possible that Hoover was more activist than the stereotype of him as President (almost everybody knows he was an activist during his war relief efforts), but his summary of what he did during an election campaign strikes me as rather weak evidence. It is colored by his retrospective effort to put his actions in the best possible light, given what had happened in the intervening disastrous months and years.
I also think that the history of things like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is very much worth investigating, especially in our current situation.
I think the common conception is that Hoover did something, but it was far too little to be meaningful, and was far too out of touch to ‘care’. This was exemplified by his interaction with the Bonus Army.
Amity Shlaes in her ‘The Forgotten Man’ narrates the historical record of Hoover implementing public works programs, pressuring railroad executives to sustain construction, and so on.
Jayson Virissimo writes:
Other than Rothbard’s work, none of which I’m aware.
ionides
Regarding documentation, George Reisman discusses Hoover’s policies in “Capitalism”.
But relating this to Kling’s Lecture 4 on macro: doesn’t it appear that Kling is supporting the idea of keeping wages up during a depression?
Until George W Bush came to his rescue, Herbert Hoover was widely regarded as the worst President of the last 100+ years. I have always thought this unfair to a man with many progressive instincts, who came to the presidency better qualified than most presidents – and who hit the worst luck of any president, perhaps ever.
At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, for example, Herbert Hoover was a champion of international economic cooperative efforts, including famine relief which he organised (saving millions of lives), and supporting J M Keynes in his opposition to excessive and counter-productive reparations demands against Germany. Read Markwell’s “Keynes and International Relations” on all this.
Matthew Holbrook
The first time I read this revisionist view of Hoover was in Paul Johnson’s history “Modern Times,” which used Rothbard for its analysis of Hoover and his depression policies.
Regarding liberal historians, Arthur Sschlesinger provides the classic stereotype of Hoover as rugged individualist. See “The Crisis of the Old Order.” I found it amusing when Schlesinger lets the cat out of the bag, and shows how much of an interventionist Hoover was:
Yet the same man who could invoke the healing powers of nature and warn with passion against centralization could also, in another mood, boast of “the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic.” For all his faith in individualism, he brought great areas of the economy – the banks, the railroads, the insurance companies, the farmers, even, toward the end, the unemployed – into the orbit of national action. No doubt, he entered on these programs grudingly, and did as little as he could to develop their possibilities. Yet he breached the walls of local responsibility as had no President in American history. (The Crisis of the Old Order, p. 246)
This “grudging” interventionist increased federal spending such that by the time he left office it had doubled in size in terms of percent of GDP from where it was in 1929.
Joseph Somsel
Milton Friedman did a book on the monetary origins of the Depression that lays much of the blame on the Federal Reserve Board that deliberately REMOVED liquidity from the money supply. Supporting the gold standard didn’t help either.
Here’s a book on Coolidge that sets the stage for Hoover although the author doesn’t know his head from a hole in the ground when it comes to economics:
http://www.amazon.com/Calvin-Coolidge-David-Greenberg/dp/0805069577/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229016890&sr=8-8
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Daf HaShavuah: Parsha Vayigash
In an act of great integrity, Judah steps forward and explains that he will allow himself to become a slave so that Benjamin will not have to do so, because their father so loves Benjamin that losing his favourite son, to whom his soul is bound, would kill him. Joseph is so moved by this clear evidence of Judah’s repentance that he reveals himself to his brothers, crying so loudly that it can be heard even in Pharaoh’s palace. Joseph explains that it was God’s plan to send him to Egypt to make sure the family wouldn’t starve during the famine, “so it was not you who sent me here, but God”. He tells his brothers to hurry back to get their father, and invites them all to live in Egypt, in the region of Goshen.
Pharaoh is pleased to learn of the reunion of Joseph’s family, and he, too, invites them to move to Egypt. The brothers prepare to fetch Jacob, and Joseph instructs them to not be quarrelsome on the way.
Jacob and his family sleep in Beersheva overnight, and God visits Jacob one more time, assuring him that he need to fear going down to Egypt, for “I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you back”. Jacob descends on Egypt with a party of seventy people. Joseph rides his chariot to greet his father, and the two men embrace and weep, as Jacob says, “Now I can die, having seen for myself that you are still alive”.
Joseph instructs his family to claim that they are shepherds, whom the Egyptians abhor, since this will allow the Israelites to dwell apart in Goshen. Indeed, when Pharaoh has an audience with the brothers and Jacob, he does grant them the region of Goseh. When Jacob appears before Pharaoh, he tells him, “the years of my sojourn (on earth) are 130. Few and hard have been the years of my life, nor do they come up to the life spans of my fathers during their sojourns”.
During the remainder of the famine, Joseph sustains his family and manages Egypt for Pharaoh. Under his guidance, Pharaoh acquires all the land in Egypt, as well as its people, who sell first their real estate, and then themselves, in exchange for sustenance.
Based on The Bedside Torah by Rabbi Bradley Artson
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2- Why does Joseph choose to say “don’t be quarrelsome” to his brothers before their departure to their father?
3- What does Jacob mean using “sojourns” as a measure for his’ and his forefathers’ lives?
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Grid attack exercise exposes threat-sharing issues
Peter Behr, E&E News reporter
Published: Friday, April 1, 2016
A simulated terrorist attack on the North American power grid last November exposed weaknesses in handling cyberthreat data and marshaling emergency support to restore electric power service to blacked-out cities, according to a report released yesterday.
The North American Electric Reliability Corp., the high-voltage grid's security monitor, released its evaluation of the GridEx III "war games," a closed-door training event involving 4,400 industry and government participants that confronted grid operators with hypothetical cyberattacks and armed assaults on substations across the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
NERC said the exercise gave a large segment of the grid industry a vivid, hands-on experience with the unprecedented fallout from the attack scenarios, which ended with extended power losses to certain cities.
Although the game plan included sophisticated cyber warfare tactics, it was not an actual penetration test on utilities' cyber defenses, said Bill Lawrence, associate director of NERC's cyberthreat information sharing portal. "There was nothing that came out of the exercise that would point at a widespread [cyber] vulnerability" around the industry, Lawrence said.
The exercise revealed problems with NERC's cyberthreat-sharing portal, the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), NERC said. The center's job is to collect malware indicators as they are discovered by utilities or government agencies and rapidly share these with the electric power sector.
For GridEx III, NERC created a "mirrored" version of the E-ISAC portal with the same functionality as the real portal. It could not keep up with the flood of distress calls coming in from power companies in the exercise, NERC's report said.
Responding after the event, power companies said the portal "needed enhancements to handle real-time, urgent communication with portal members. During the exercise, information was quickly buried within the portal and it became difficult to highlight important information."
GridEx III participants reported that some of the industry's information-sharing and reporting practices "are redundant, time-consuming to use, and provide no feedback mechanism to those who most need the information."
A second major conclusion from the exercise was the need for a master plan to coordinate federal, state and local government support for the electric power industry if it ever did face a widespread, lasting outage, NERC said.
After an attack, the recovery resources of federal agencies, governors and national guard units, communications and other crucial infrastructure providers would have to come together, as seamlessly as possible, to help utilities restore power, said Paul Stockton, former assistant secretary of the Defense Department for homeland defense.
"It's important to reiterate that the electric power industry is in charge of electric power restoration and will always be so. The question is, how can federal, state, local and tribal governments forge a unity of effort" to help the power sector, Stockton said in an interview. "It's a great challenge," he said (EnergyWire, March 9).
On the second day of the Nov. 18-19 exercise, 32 power company senior executives and government officials wrestled with question of a coordinated restoration of the grid, including unresolved issues of who gets power first if there isn't enough to go around and how scarce replacement equipment would be distributed.
"I know there's been work on the classified level with Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, as well as some select industry members, in terms of prioritizing [recovery actions], at least from federal government side," Lawrence said.
"So it is definitely fertile ground to talk about the prioritization," he said, "because even though the grid goes across borders and goes across state boundaries, it would definitely be a challenge to, say, rob Peter to pay Paul, if certain assets need to be moved across those boundaries."
Following the exercise, the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, the industry's security leadership group, is revising its attack response playbook of what the chief executives would do in a crisis to help each other's companies, and whether new policies or legislation is needed, said NERC chief security officer Marcus Sachs. "We all agreed the playbook should be updated within a year," he said.
Thinking the 'unthinkable'
Recent cyber ransomware attacks on hospitals illustrate the challenge of defining industry and government responsibilities in restoring vital services, Sachs said. The same issues would confront the power sector after a major attack: "Whose lane is this in? Does Congress need to help out? What authority would government have to mandate actions?" These are emerging questions, Sachs said. "We really haven't thought it through at a policy level."
A third focus of GridEx III was on the role of the 16 regional reliability coordinators on the North American grid that would have to manage grid crises in their areas. Under NERC's procedures, the coordinators have the highest authority for running day-to-day grid operations.
"What we wanted to do is challenge the reliability coordinators to be on that ragged edge of making decisions on [where] to roll things back or keep the lights on, in order to maximize the reliability of the system," Lawrence said.
There was plenty of value for power companies that took part, said Brian Harrell, a former NERC executive who developed the GridEx program and is now a security consultant at Navigant. "Cyber and physical threats are constantly evolving and require quick action and flexibility that comes from constant vigilance and collaboration. Exercising security response as an industry will strengthen relationships, improve security policy and increase the flow of critical information to the sector," he said.
However, only one-quarter of the utility participants sent in "lessons learned" reports requested by NERC, a "relatively low number" that NERC said it will seek to improve in the next exercise in 2017.
E&ETV's The Cutting Edge: EnergyWire's Behr discusses new details on NERC cyberattack exercise
This week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. released its unclassified summary of its latest GridEx exercise, which tested how utility participants would handle a blackout following a cyber and physical attack on the U.S. grid. How vulnerable is the grid to an attack like the one simulated at GridEx, and how should state regulators take the lessons learned from the exercise to formulate a plan of action? On today's The Cutting Edge, EnergyWire reporter Peter Behr discusses the unclassified summary's details and next steps. Today's The Cutting Edge will air on E&ETV at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Twitter: @PeteBehrEENewsEmail: pbehr@eenews.net
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Weakened Lehar crosses Andhra coast at Machillipatnam
The very severe cyclonic storm lost its intensity by Thursday morning
By M Suchitra
Published: Thursday 28 November 2013
Lehar, a very severe cyclonic storm that formed over west-central Bay of Bengal, weakened into a depression and crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast close to Machillipatnam at 2.15 pm Thursday.
The cyclonic storm was initially predicted to be a very severe storm that would cause extensive damage. But by Wednesday evening, the storm started weakening and by Thursday morning it became a deep depression.
When the depression crossed the coast, it had a wind speed of 30-40 km/hr. The initial prediction was that the maximum surface wind speed could be as high as 170-180 km/hr, gusting up to 200 km/hr.
In the open sea, Lehar was seen as intense as Phailin, a very severe cyclone that struck south Odisha coast on October 12 this year. “Winds blowing from central India, the low winter temperature of water near the coast and wind shear had resulted in Lehar weakening,” says G Sudhakar Rao, scientist and director in-charge of the meteorological department at Hyderabad. “ We had expected this but we cannot take risk since there is no certainty about whether the cyclonic storm will lose its intensity while approaching the coast,” says Rao. Phailin did not have favourable conditions for weakening, he adds.
“Besides the ocean, lots of atmospheric factors influence the intensity of the cyclone,” says T M Balakrishnan Nair, scientist & head of Ocean Science and Information Services of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) in Hyderabad.
Not wanting to take chances, government agencies continued with preparations for facing a severe cyclone. Despite the storm losing its intensity, the coastal areas were on high alert. More than 45,200 people were evacuated from south of Machillipatnam. Thirty teams of the National Disaster Response Force and 450 personnel of the State Disaster Response Force had been deployed for rescue operations. The state had opened more than 100 relief camps. There was high alert in the coastal areas that could be inundated in heavy rains following the cyclone.
"No damage has been reported," informed C Parthasarathi, commissioner, state disaster management department. A few places on the coastal areas got moderate rains. Some low-lying areas, especially in East Godavari district, got inundated. Since the sea turned rough, fishers have been advised not to venture into the sea for some more time.
Web edition Web edition News News News T M Balakrishnan Nair Phailin Phailin Ocean Science and … National Disaster … Meteorological … Machillipatnam Landfall INCOIS G Sudhakar Rao Down to earth Cyclone Lehar Bay Of Bengal Andhra Pradesh
Cyclone Helen hits Andhra coast
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