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SUICIDAL ANGELS – second single & lyric video
by NorthWar 07/12/2019 17:09 07/12/2019 17:09 0194
The new album of Greek thrash metal tank SUICIDAL ANGELS will be entitled “Years Of Aggression”. The follow up to their highly acclaimed 2016 album, ‘Division Of Blood’ will be released on August 9th, 2019 via NoiseArt Records.
Today, the band releases the second single entitled, “Endless War“. Watch the lyric video here:
https://youtu.be/6NEPYq5rRBw
The band states:
“As we are getting closer to the release of our new album, we gladly present you the 2nd single out of it! Its name is “Endless War”, its meaning powerful thrash! The battle never ended, no fight was for granted…”
Pre-order the album here: www.yearsofaggression.noiseart.eu
ICYM:
“Born Of Hate” (OFFICIAL VIDEO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk4Rtzlgl2c
Trailer #1: https://youtu.be/vo3NwPxwljc
“Years Of Aggression” Tracklist:
1 Endless War
2 Born of Hate
3 Years of Aggression
4 Bloody Ground
5 D.I.V.A
6 From all the One
7 Order of Death
8 The Roof of Rats
9 The Sacred dance with Chaos
The stunning cover artwork was created by acclaimed artist Ed Repka (MEGADETH, DEATH, MUNICIPAL WASTE).
Founding member, guitarist and singer Nick Melissourgos has prepared the songs, which were subsequently recorded in the Zero Gravity Studios in Athens, Greece, and, in case of the drums, in the Soundlodge Studios in Papenburg, Germany. The album was produced by the band itself, which has for the first time in years a consistent line-up – making them stronger than ever before. Nine songs, driven by irrepressible rage, were finally mixed by Jens Bogren at the Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, and mastered by Tony Lindgren.
More information coming soon – stay tuned.
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Sophia Gesmundo, Co-Editor in Chief
With coronavirus continuing to spread in the US, schools in different states are starting to reopen, some with new guidelines, others entirely online, and many with a mix of both. Here at Lakes, the school has decided to start with eLearning and eventually reevaluate, moving into a blended plan of eLearning and in-person, with the student body broken into three groups, one entering every three weeks. These groups are further broken down into two, with an A and a B group.
Schools in states including Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Indiana opened their doors for students full-time. One school in Dallas, Georgia, North Paulding High School sparked controversy and garnered national attention when a student posted a photo of a hallway crowded with students, body on body. After six students and three staff members tested positive for coronavirus, the school was closed for cleaning.
The decision of when and how to open schools has been in conversation with many districts since the close of most schools at the end of the 2019-2020 school year. Many schools, however, were forced to alter their plans and ideas still remain up in the air.
Whichever way schools have chosen to start the year, the traditional school day is no longer the same, and it is uncertain whether or not we will see it again soon.
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Sophia Gesmundo is a senior at Lakes Community High School. This is her second year on staff and first as a Co-Editor in Chief.
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Slinger Bag Announces Multi-Year Deal With Dunlop
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Slinger Bag, a sports brand focused on innovating game improvement equipment for all ball sports with an initial focus on the global tennis market, today announced an unprecedented multi year, distribution agreement across nine key markets in Europe with global tennis giant, Dunlop. This announcement follows similar global strategic agreements in key tennis markets including Ireland, Japan, UK, Ireland, Switzerland and all four Scandinavian markets, bringing the total value of Slinger Bag’s international distribution partnerships to a cumulative five year retail value of $200 million.
Under the terms of the new agreement, Dunlop International Europe Ltd (Dunlop), whose parent company is Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Japan, will be granted exclusive distribution rights for Slinger Bag’s innovative tennis ball launcher in the core European markets of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg Portugal, Netherlands, and Spain.
“There is no bigger endorsement of how far Slinger Bag has come in a short space of time than this new commercial association with Dunlop, a global giant in tennis with an unequalled market reach and a reputation to match. We have the utmost confidence in the sales and marketing strategy provided by the Dunlop team to rapidly build Slinger Bag brand awareness in the core markets covered by this deal and to activate this partnership through a multitude of traditional grassroots marketing activities allied with aggressive online marketing to European tennis consumers,” says Mike Ballardie, CEO of Slinger Bag. “Without a doubt this is a landmark deal for us and a real vindication of our faith in the long term global growth potential of Slinger Bag.”
This strategic alliance will see the two companies working closely together on a day to day basis to maximise the potential of Slinger Bag across these key territories, with Dunlop leveraging Slinger Bag growth supporting its comprehensive tennis ball market share, brand presence across European tennis and its recognition as a highly respected tennis brand. Dunlop will integrate a dedicated Slinger Bag team to oversee sales and marketing operations, including affiliate marketing programs, major tennis tournaments and events, local federations and organisation partnerships, and in market tennis coaching networks. In addition, Dunlop will adopt Slinger Bag’s preferred direct to consumer go-to-market sales strategy and will establish its own e-commerce platform (to be launched Q1 2021) to complement direct to consumer sales currently made via www.slingerbag.com
Dunlop’s territories represent the largest and most important tennis markets in Europe and include the third and fourth largest tennis markets (Germany and France) globally. In Germany alone, where tennis is one of the most popular sports, over five percent of the population plays tennis with around 3 million players recognised as avid players playing at least 1 time per week. The German Tennis Federation is the largest tennis federation in the world with around 1.4 million members. Across all other markets where Dunlop will operate the avid player number totals around 3.6 million players, making these regular players the core target market for Slinger Bag.
Dunlop is investing heavily into supporting its brand with player sponsorships and strategic partnerships including being the official tennis ball of both the ATP and the Australian Open and is the number one ball brand in Asia, Australasia and Europe. The brand sponsors many of the world’s top professional players including Kevin Anderson, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Roberto Marcora, Michael Mmoh, Jamie Murray, Qiang Wang, and Heather Watson, amongst many others.
Slinger Bag is now widely recognised as the hot new product in Tennis since launching in Spring 2020, and continues to receive widespread critical acclaim. The product has surpassed all order forecasts in each market where the product has already been launched, none more important than the world’s largest tennis market, the USA, where orders have reached $2 million over the past 110 days.
Slinger Bag enables tennis players to get out on court to play at any time without the need to find a playing partner - whether that be at their club, local park, on their driveways or in any other available open space. Slinger Bag is lightweight, wheeled like a trolley bag, and easily transported in the trunk of the smallest saloon or sedan car. It offers players the versatility to store all of their tennis gear including racquets, shoes, towels and accessories. At the average price of two to three performance tennis racquets it is highly affordable when compared to comparable performing traditional ball machines.
Frans Swinkels, Dunlop Managing Director commented, “Following the highly successful launch of Slinger Bag in the USA and intensive product testing by our sales and marketing teams, we are delighted to leverage Dunlop’s network across the largest tennis markets in Europe. Our premium status as the number one ball on the ATP Tour and official ball of the Australian Open, coupled with Slinger Bag’s dynamic and high performance ball launcher is an exciting proposition for the market. The partnership further enhances Dunlop’s complete offering in the tennis ball market as a complete equipment supplier.”
Yasutaka Doko, COO, Dunlop International Europe Ltd. commented, “Having seen the successful introduction of Slinger Bag to the Japanese market and further extensive research in our operations, we are very excited to partner with Slinger Bag. They share our drive and passion for innovation, to offer this revolutionary new tennis product to our customers and consumers across our European territories.”
The Slinger Bag is available to order now - to find out more about Slinger Bag, visit https://slingerbag.com.
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How does Obama Plan to Sell the Iran Nuclear Deal?
Posted by David Gerstman Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 6:40pm | 8/9/2015 - 6:40pm
He only needs to convince 180 people.
The approach of the President Barack Obama and his administration to the nuclear deal with Iran has been one of knocking down straw men and vilifying opponents of the deal as beholden to lobbyists, following mindless partisanship, and working against America’s national security. These are “dog whistle” remarks, which have brought out a rather nasty response Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D – N.Y.) decision last week to oppose the deal.
The administration’s nastiness even earned condemnation from Tablet Magazine:
This use of anti-Jewish incitement as a political tool is a sickening new development in American political discourse, and we have heard too much of it lately—some coming, ominously, from our own White House and its representatives. Let’s not mince words: Murmuring about “money” and “lobbying” and “foreign interests” who seek to drag America into war is a direct attempt to play the dual-loyalty card. It’s the kind of dark, nasty stuff we might expect to hear at a white power rally, not from the President of the United States—and it’s gotten so blatant that even many of us who are generally sympathetic to the administration, and even this deal, have been shaken by it.
But I think it’s a mistake to think that Obama’s strategy is counterproductive because it won’t build support for the deal.
I don’t think that the president’s approach to the deal is working to convince more and more Americans to support the deal. Indeed polling seems to indicate that the more people learn about the deal, the less they like it.
But Obama’s strategy isn’t to address the public’s skepticism with the deal, it’s to consolidate the support of his hardest line supporters. Obama only needs to convince 180 people to support the deal (146 in the House and 34 in the Senate to block an override of his veto) and most of those are probably leaning towards supporting the deal. (I believe I wrote 209 in an e-mail last week, but I made a math error or two.) He doesn’t need them to be absolutely convinced that the deal is good from an American security standpoint, he just needs them to believe that there’s no alternative, that they’re on the side of angels and that the other side doesn’t have America’s best interests in mind.
The “no alternative” argument seems to have swayed both Senators Tim Kaine (D – Va.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D – N.Y.)
But a look at Schumer’s arguments against the deal, it shows that he doesn’t take the administration’s arguments at face value.
For example, in his American University speech last week, Obama said:
First, there are those who say the inspections are not strong enough because inspectors can’t go anywhere in Iran at any time with no notice.
Well, here’s the truth: Inspectors will be allowed daily access to Iran’s key nuclear sites. If there is a reason for inspecting a suspicious, undeclared site anywhere in Iran, inspectors will get that access, even if Iran objects. This access can be with as little as 24 hours’ notice. And while the process for resolving a dispute about access can take up to 24 days, once we’ve identified a site that raises suspicion, we will be watching it continuously until inspectors get in. And by the way, nuclear material isn’t something you hide in the closet. It can leave a trace for years. The bottom line is, if Iran cheats, we can catch them — and we will.
Schumer wrote:
In the first ten years of the deal, there are serious weaknesses in the agreement. First, inspections are not “anywhere, anytime”; the 24-day delay before we can inspect is troubling. While inspectors would likely be able to detect radioactive isotopes at a site after 24 days, that delay would enable Iran to escape detection of any illicit building and improving of possible military dimensions (PMD) – the tools that go into building a bomb but don’t emit radioactivity.
Furthermore, even when we detect radioactivity at a site where Iran is illicitly advancing its bomb-making capability, the 24-day delay would hinder our ability to determine precisely what was being done at that site.
I know that Obama dismisses people who question Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, but Schumer here is citing nuclear scientists who are outside the administration.
Moniz has been citing the case of the Kalaye electric company as proof that radioactivity can be detected even after Iran has sanitized a suspected nuclear site. (This is the 2003 incident that he has often referred to.) Schumer was citing the findings of David Albright and Olli Heinonen, who, unlike Moniz, were involved in weapons inspections. Albright has also said that in the case of Kalaye that the reason radioactivity was detected was because Iran was careless in sanitizing the site and that “They are practiced at cheating. You can’t count on them to make a mistake.”
Schumer also pushed back against Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that without the deal Iran will become a nuclear threshold state right now instead of in 10 to 15 years.
Supporters argue that after ten years, a future President would be in no weaker a position than we are today to prevent Iran from racing to the bomb. That argument discounts the current sanctions regime. After fifteen years of relief from sanctions, Iran would be stronger financially and better able to advance a robust nuclear program. Even more importantly, the agreement would allow Iran, after ten to fifteen years, to be a nuclear threshold state with the blessing of the world community. Iran would have a green light to be as close, if not closer to possessing a nuclear weapon than it is today. And the ability to thwart Iran if it is intent on becoming a nuclear power would have less moral and economic force.
If Iran’s true intent is to get a nuclear weapon, under this agreement, it must simply exercise patience. After ten years, it can be very close to achieving that goal, and, unlike its current unsanctioned pursuit of a nuclear weapon, Iran’s nuclear program will be codified in an agreement signed by the United States and other nations. To me, after ten years, if Iran is the same nation as it is today, we will be worse off with this agreement than without it.
Iran is a much weaker position now than it will be after 10 to 15 of the agreement. There is a risk that Iran could reach breakout time without the deal, but there is a certainty that it will after ten years – even Obama has admitted as much – and then it will be a lot harder to do anything about the threat.
These were two very strong arguments from Schumer, but Obama wasn’t addressing himself to people who might listen to Schumer. Obama was addressing the true believers and he believes he has nearly enough of them to sustain a veto.
This approach is working even with politicians who have announced support for the deal despite they’re having an obvious disagreement with president. In the American University speech, Obama said:
I’ve had to make a lot of tough calls as President, but whether or not this deal is good for American security is not one of those calls. It’s not even close.
Do Kaine and Gillibrand believe that the call wasn’t even close? If they do I hope they come out and say so. If not they have an obligation to explain why they support the deal despite such a fundamental disagreement with the president on its value.
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Ragspierre | August 9, 2015 at 6:51 pm
Seriously, at this point in time, NOBODY can believe what this lying rat-bastard says.
Estragon | August 9, 2015 at 10:02 pm
Looking back, virtually everything he ever said was a lie.
He knew he wouldn’t be a “post-partisan President,” more like “MOST” partisan ever. And he knew you couldn’t keep your doctor or health plan, and should have known costs would expand.
The only honest thing he ever said was, “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket.”
JP | August 9, 2015 at 7:15 pm
The worst is yet to come.
EBL | August 9, 2015 at 8:23 pm
If he manages to stymie one house (below veto override threshold) doesn’t Obama win? So he really only needs to win in the Senate (hence why the Schumer defection has his worried).
David Gerstman | August 10, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Good point, I guess my math is still deficient.
Don’t worry Mr. President, Bob Corker and Mitch McConnell will find a way to let you prevail.
Milhouse | August 10, 2015 at 1:52 am
This again?! If you think Corker-Menendez helped 0bama, please explain how. It didn’t hurt him very much, but it was the best that could be achieved at the time, and it’s better than nothing, which was the only alternative. There was a serious effort to get 2/3 of each house to block a bad Iran deal in advance, but it failed. The numbers just weren’t there. Coker-Menendez was the best that could be done; it only blocks the deal for 60 days, or 10 days from the veto, but it buys time to put together a 2/3 majority against it.
The thing is, this is what we face on EVERY issue.
Just as there was no way to force Obama to submit the deal as a treaty (and we knew he wouldn’t because he has said so consistently since before the negotiations began), to do anything over his objection requires veto-proof majorities, which we certainly can’t get on anything else.
The only alternative is to shut down the government, which even Republican voters have never approved of, and independents oppose 2-1 steadily, even over Obamacare which they all hated.
This is another reason it is so important to control the White House, it’s not called the most powerful job in the world for nothing. Elections matter.
Yet, the whiners and complainers just blame our side for “not doing anything.” They have no actual plan themselves, of course, but making sense isn’t part of their ideology, apparently.
We can’t get veto-proof majorities on anything else, but we may get one on this. At least it’s worth trying. And Corker-Menendez may buy some of the time needed to pry away from 0bama those last few D votes.
georgfelis | August 9, 2015 at 11:04 pm
“Sell” appears to be the right phrase here. Tens of billions of Iranian assets freed up by his actions, and it will take years to track the resulting flow of cash as a reward. That’s a lot of golf clubs.
Neo | August 10, 2015 at 11:56 am
By Obama’s logic …
No Iranian hardliners voted against Obama in 2008 or 2012, so …
so they like him more than Republicans.
Ambrosia Bierce | August 10, 2015 at 12:22 pm
A white or Republican president would have been impeached long ago and we wouldn’t be having this problem.
DanJ1 | August 10, 2015 at 3:04 pm
In Obama’s bizarro world students getting a 34% on tests should be rewarded. His previous passing grade of 40% affected 13% of our economy. This 34% passing grade affects the whole world and millions of lives. He doesn’t even have to get 34% correct. He just has to convince the teacher that 34% are not wrong. Or worse, 34% of the multiple choice questions only have one answer.
Obama only needs to convince 32 Senators. Michigan has two brain dead Senators that have never once voted against Obama. They would have to actually read and understand the issue to vote against it but they haven’t read or understood anything that didn’t involve their union puppet masters.
buckeyeminuteman | August 11, 2015 at 7:55 am
“Unlike flashbang grenades, nuclear weapons can and do hurt people…” Maybe he’s finally getting some sense.
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In the analysed dispute, the tax authority did not allow the taxable person to deduct input VAT for the reason that the buyer’s VAT registration number and address were missing from the invoice submitted for inspection. This means that the invoice did not comply with the requirements set out in § 37 of the Value Added Tax Act. The taxable person resubmitted the invoices in the course of the inspection after the necessary data had been written overleaf, but the tax authority did not accept them anymore. The tax authority explained that as input VAT can only be declared on the basis of an invoice, it is of no importance from the viewpoint of taxation whether the details missing from the invoice had been given in another document. The tax authority emphasised that the fact whether or not the service noted on the invoice was received is not the object of the dispute. The details on the invoice are the only issue. Or the lack thereof, to be more precise.
The Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court disagreed with the tax authority’s position that the data set out in subsection 37 (7) of the Value Added Tax Act are equally important in all cases and the absence of any data whatsoever from an invoice excludes the calculation of input VAT on the basis of such an invoice. The Chamber has repeatedly emphasised in its earlier rulings that important and unimportant formal mistakes in tax accounting have to be distinguished1. As a rule, the absence of the seller’s VAT registration number and address is regarded as an unimportant formal mistake by the Chamber. This conclusion arises from the fact that Estonia has a single, not a regional, register of VAT payers2. The name and registration code of the company are generally enough to reliably identify the seller and verify whether they are a registered VAT payer. The data of the seller’s identity and the goods or services, however, must be considered important and their absence means that input VAT cannot be calculated on the basis of such an invoice that does not meet requirements3.
The European Court of Justice has already found that the principle of neutrality of VAT requires that the right to deduct input VAT be given when the substantive requirements are met, even if the taxable person has failed to fulfil some formal requirements4. Consequently, if the tax authority has the data required to ascertain that the substantive requirements have been met, it cannot establish any restrictions on the VAT payer’s right to deduct input VAT, which may make this right non-existent5.
The Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court is of the opinion that the settled case law of the European Court of Justice clearly indicates that noting the issuer’s address and VAT number on the invoice is a formal requirement ignoring which is not a sufficient basis for prohibiting immediate deduction of input VAT. This means that the relevant provisions of the Value Added Tax Act must be interpreted in such a manner that an invoice with formal omissions can be the basis for deducting input VAT. As a rule, the absence of the seller’s VAT registration number and address is regarded as an unimportant formal mistake. The data of the seller’s identity and the goods or services, however, are important and their absence means that input VAT cannot be calculated on the basis of such an invoice that does not meet the requirements.
1 See point 9 of the judgment made in case 3-3-1-59-15 and the settled case law referred to therein.
2 See 3-3-1-59-15, point 11.
3 See, e.g. 3-3-1-81-12, point 11, and 3-3-1-57-13, points 11–13.
4 See judgments Ecotrade, C 95/07 and C 96/07, point 63; Uszodaépítő, C 392/09 point, 39; Nidera Handelscompagnie, C 385/09, points 42 and 43, and Idexx Laboratories Italia, C 590/13, point 38.
5 See judgment Idexx LaboratoriesItalia, C 590/13, point 40.
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This post checks out the present state of floating solar PV (FPV), briefly highlighting numerous leading markets, and also reviewing advantages and also benefits in detail along with common applications and also service version considerations. The expectation for FPV is positive and also is set to damage without its particular niche understanding. It might well become the third column of the solar PV market in future.
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Along with ground-mounted and roof PV, floating solar PV (FPV) is often hailed as the future 3rd column of the international solar PV market. At present, amongst the 60+ countries proactively going after the release of FPV (see Map 1 listed below), greater than 35 countries are house to an approximated 350 functional FPV systems, which up till the end of August 2020 had a cumulative capability of around 2.6 GW. Although still considered a niche, FPV is projected to experience an average growth price of over 20% in the coming 5 years.
In this context, Asia is anticipated to make up about 2 thirds of the international need, mostly driven by China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand as well as Vietnam.
Map 1: Countries with current FPV setups
China: To day, China is the world's largest market for FPV. Presently, FPV systems are either deployed as a result of a bidding process system, therefore qualified for a FIT given over 20 years or as a so-called grid-parity project, i.e., with no type of subsidy support. To highlight the on-going need for FPV, in June this year, China's Datang Power launched a tender looking for numerous bids for a total capability of 820 MW of FPV to be mounted throughout China by December 2021.
India: India's residential solar PV market, considered to be one of the most affordable on the planet, observed a 45% decrease in bid costs for FPV tenders from 2016-- 2018. For instance, the lowest proposal priced estimate by developers for a 70 MW FPV system previously this year was as low as INR 35/W (EUR cents 4/W). The are a number of reasons for such a rather reduced quote, e.g., improvement of making procedures, reduction of material prices, decrease in thickness of floaters as well as aggressive bidding by programmers in order to gain FPV associated experience. The latter could be the major reason, considered that between 2018 and completion of 2019, the government of India released a collection of tenders for FPV systems amounting to around 2 GW. Presently, around 1.7 GW remain in numerous phases of advancement.
South Korea: Located on South Korea's southwest shore, the tidal flats of Saemangeum have been identified as the site for the world's largest FPV setup of 2.1 GW by 2025, requiring a financial investment of roughly US$ 4 billion. South Korea's third largest empire, SK Group, has been chosen as a preferred bidder to construct 200 MW as part of Phase 1 with 1.2 GW, arranged to begin in the last half of 2020. These nearshore/maritime and also coastal or overseas floating PV undertakings are in addition to South Korea's approximated onshore FPV market potential of around 9.7 GW, which depending upon the body of water (tanks, freshwater lakes, dams, watering & drainpipe channels), would certainly see between 2-- 20% of the water surface area covered by FPV.
Taiwan: The Taiwanese government has supplied FITs specifically for FPV systems because 2017. Accordingly, FPV systems coming online in the 2nd half of 2020 are qualified to obtain a FIT of NTD 4.2709-- 4.7067/ kWh (EUR cents 12-- 14/kWh) for 20 years. Local developer Chenya Energy, owned by Marubeni, is constructing what will certainly be the globe's biggest FPV with an ability of 180 MW set up to be grid-connected by the end of 2020 (and as stated above, the title of the "globe's largest FPV" will certainly after that go to the planned South Korean installation of 2.1 GW in 2025).
Thailand: A national FPV target is favoured for instance, by the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand (EGAT), which announced in March 2019 that it intends to develop a total of 16 FPV systems on dams with an incorporated capability of 2.7 GW by 2037. Specific abilities of the imagined FPV systems range from 24 MW up to 325 MW. In June 2019, EGAT launched a tender for a 58.5 MW FPV project, which will be financed by its very own fund to the tune of around EUR 51M. According to the World Bank, the CAPEX of this 58.5 MW FPV project totals up to USD 0.48/ Wp (EUR cents 0.41/ Wp). In November 2019, the Bangkok-based BCPG company appointed a 200 kW FPV on an exclusive Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA) basis signed with the neighborhood Bangchak Biofuel Company.
Vietnam: In order to de-risk financial investments in FPV, the Asian Development Bank together with the Canadian Climate Fund, supplied a $37 million concessional lending in fall last year for a 47.5 MW FPV to be constructed in southern Vietnam. The project is prepared to be improved a man-made tank co-located with an existing 175 MW hydro-power plant. In April, the government of Vietnam announced its plan to hold 2 auctions, one focusing on a 50-- 100 MW ability planned for 2020 and also the second for a 300 MW FPV project in 2021. On May 22, the federal government revealed a FIT for FPVs. As necessary, a tariff of VND 1,783/ kWh, comparable to EUR cents 0,65/ kWh will be applied from the industrial operation date onwards for 20 years.
Early starts and also motivations
Floating PV systems are not new, given that the very first system (for R&D) was already mounted in Aichi, Japan in 2007. The list below year, the first FPV-related license was formally signed up and the world's first commercial installment, a 175 kWp system developed at the Far Niente Winery in Napa Valley, California, came to be functional. The proprietor's key inspiration to release a FPV system was to avoid occupying land and to minimize water evaporation.
Geographical factors to consider are naturally a crucial motorist for FPV. Countries subject to high population density, low portion of level surface, completing usage for available land, etc., yet at the same time, home to a substantial number of offered water bodies, both often in proximity to tons facilities as well as existing grid facilities, were among the very first to take into consideration FPV systems as a means to further scale-up solar energy generation capabilities. Land shortage is an ever before pushing problem, as shown by South Korea, where 70% of the land is hilly. Throughout the early years, appointed FPV systems were of a smaller scale and also largely designed for research and development objectives. Today, located in the Province of Anhui, China, the globe's biggest mounted FPV system currently has a capacity of 150 MW as well as has functioned given that November 2017.
Benefits as well as advantages of floating solar PV
Floating solar PV systems have specific advantages and benefits when compared with traditional ground-mounted solar PV systems. Below in Table 1 is a non-exhaustive list:
Advantage / Benefit Evidence / Verification
Higher land use efficiency Yes, approx. 1.33 MW / hectare vs. approx. 1.6 MW / hectare on land
(note: site-specific)
Increased energy yield Yes, due to the cooling effect of water & wind, in a low(er) single-digit range (note: site-specific)
Higher yield with bifacial modules No, due to the low albedo of water, but glass-glass modules will offer a longer durability
Lower module degradation
Initial data suggests that the lower operating temperature leads to a slower degradation, however more research is considered necessary
Reduced water evaporation Potentially yes, but it depends on technology, water body coverage and characteristics, applied calculation methodology, etc.
Improved water quality In theory yes, but it requires more long-term environmental impact studies
Reduced algae growth Yes, in theory, but needs more long-term environmental impact monitoring
Less prone to dust pollution Yes, but possibly more prone to other forms of soiling, such as bird droppings
Hydro-FPV-Hybrid has a lower CAPEX Yes, due to the existing grid infrastructure, but subject to specific site characteristics
Ease of installation Yes, e.g., 30 MW can be installed in only 8 weeks, due to high degree of modularity, no land levelling/elimination of surroundings causing shading needed, etc. (note: site-specific)
Simple(r) decommissioning Yes, in theory, but lacks sufficient verified data
To date, the global record of functional FPV is limited. As a result, a number of the above stated efficiency benefits have yet to be verified by bigger setups, preferably over longer amount of time and across varies locations. Nonetheless, very first monitoring searchings for suggest that in many cases such advantages may exceed the boosted capital expense.
What are the expenses of FPV systems?
Generally, expenses sustained for creating a FPV system, not just differ from project to project, yet are as well extremely site-specific. Factors affecting the cost framework consist of water level variation, depth, top quality and also salinity. The bathymetry of the water body establishes the design format of the anchoring as well as mooring system. Depending upon the locally dominating wind regimen, the FPV plant layout needs the capacity to endure stronger wind loads.
Also the overall logistics, other elements to think about consist of range to the coast, website ease of access, regional infrastructure, as well as vicinity to the grid. Additionally, water-based electric facilities not only triggers greater O&M costs, yet also as an example, set up cabling might call for a higher dampness resistance. Moreover, due to the absence of empirical information, projects often tend to require a more extensive technological due persistance.
Generally water bodies undergo boosted analysis procedures enforced by pertinent governmental authorities, thus developers may be needed to regularly perform extensive ecological influence analyses (EIA), which could be an added cost vehicle driver. As a whole, the CAPEX of FPV systems are presently around 5-- 15% higher contrasted to a ground-mounted PV system, but in some European countries, a 20+ MW system is currently considered affordable. Below in Figure 1 is an overview of proposed bids for different tendered FPV projects.
State of FPV associated knowledge and also general threat assumption
Despite the fact that FPV systems have actually been released for greater than a years, as well as while the huge majority of today's 2.6 GW was just built during the last 5 to 6 years, the present state of expertise relating to FPV systems differs considerably. Certain areas, such as PV components, cabling, materials & components are well comprehended. On the other hand, understanding is still lacking in areas such as O&M procedures, lasting environmental impact, as well laws and also allowing. Other areas, nevertheless, are better recognized, such as floats, mooring and anchoring, electrical layout, lasting energy return projecting and security problems, thanks to considerable experience obtained specifically in the maritime market (see Figure 2 for a review of some of the present gamers energetic in the FPV sector).
Versus this history, it is not surprising that FPV systems are viewed as reasonably high danger. However, work is currently being done, for example, by the International Electrotechnical Commission via its Technical Committee 82 for Solar PV Systems to specify a relevant requirement. Likewise, a number of national research study entities and also sector initiatives are proactively taken part in developing recommended finest method as well as guidelines concerning floats, sites, permitting, energy yield estimations, anchoring and also mooring, and technological demands, to name a few, for both onshore and also nearshore/maritime overseas FPV.
Furthermore, in recent months a number of multi-year lengthy research study projects have actually been introduced, involving many firms standing for nearly a lots nations. Below in Table 2 is an introduction concerning FPV systems associated research study & growth currently being undertaken.
Subject Research activities
Durability of materials Fatigue, wear and tear, corrosion, bio-fouling, ensuring environmental friendliness
System durability Determine reliability / degradation rates in a harsher environment
Performance / energy yield Comparison with land-based PV systems, assessing the cooling effect, lower operating temperatures may slow down module degradation process, minimize mismatch loss, etc.
Optimize floats/modules CFD based designs, anti-bird-dropping coatings, east-west orientation vs. south-facing, etc.
Water bathymetry Optimized solutions for anchoring / mooring technologies for both land-based and nearshore / maritime water bodies
Anchoring & mooring Solutions securing the mooring system, anchors that keep the FPV in position
Water quality impact Reduced growth of both algae, giardia and cryptosporidium bacteria
Biodiversity interaction Impact of aquatic flora & fauna, understanding heat transfer between panels and water surface
Hydro-FPV hybrid-system Developing a methodology to assess the technical potential / operational benefits
Off-shore FPV Understanding the hydrodynamic interaction btw. elastic bodies and flexibility of systems
Present as well as arising company models
The early set of business FPV systems were installed onshore, as stand-alone on ponds, in storage tanks and pit mine lakes, etc. The preliminary company design, FPV 1.0, was to generate power, typically fed into the neighboring grid.
Today, FPV 2.0, entailing the co-location of a FPV system with an existing hydropower plant is getting grip, particularly, if integrated with larger hydropower sites that can be flexibly run. The advantages of such hybrid systems are manifold, e.g., the FPV system boosts the overall power yield of the property, it may promote the monitoring of seasonal durations of reduced( emergency room) water accessibility, thus making up a reduced power outcome of the hydropower plant. Additionally, the reduced amount of vaporized water could be utilized for irrigation objectives, as opposed to being lost. Furthermore, a FPV system can support daytime optimal lots, enabling more hydropower to be scheduled for a raised tons throughout night times. One of the most substantial benefit, however, is that such a FPV system would certainly use the existing power transmission framework of the hydropower plant, as a result decreasing the total CAPEX of the FPV system.
Presently, the World Bank is proactively associated with discovering prospective sites and carrying out mapping as well as technological usefulness tasks in countries like Myanmar, Pakistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Mali and the Ivory Coast for such hydropower-FPV crossbreed nuclear power plant. In addition, the Global Solar Atlas has actually identified 1889 such possible international sites in February this year.
A report, jointly released by the World Bank Group, the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme as well as the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore in autumn 2018, specifies that the most conventional quote of the international FPV capacity based upon available synthetic water surfaces exceeds 400 GWp, which corresponds roughly to 65% of the global cumulative set up solar PV ability in 2019.
Recently, developers started discovering new potential company designs, let us call it "FPV 3.0". Here, the power generated by a floating PV system is to be eaten onsite, in order to sustain the so-called "blue economic climate". This is divided right into "power at sea", i.e. offshore marine aquaculture, sea water mining, sea observation, underwater vehicle charging or algae ranch procedures and also "seaside communities", where FPV created power would be made use of for e.g., for water desalination or resiliency and calamity recoveries. In Thailand, various designers are assessing project propositions to combine nearshore/coastal maritime fish/shrimp ranches with FPV systems. Typically, such overseas "blue economic climate" procedures are primarily powered by diesel generators. The potential of replacing such diesel gensets with FPV systems is approximated to be in the several GW range each year.
In the context of food supply, one consequence of the continued international urbanization is the shrinking area per capita readily available for farming functions. In order to compensate a prospective future food supply restriction, nearshore/coastal maritime agri-farming powered by floating PV systems could be one more organization design we will certainly see emerging in a few years.
Today, greater than 40% of the international population lives within 100 km of the coastline. Taking into account a significantly linked as well as digitalized world, cloud servers near where people live assist in the short travel distance of data, hence, immersed data centres, currently a truth off the shore of Scotland because June 2018, powered by FPV systems could be the standard in future. As an instance, Singapore, a country facing land restrictions, however whose data centres take in about 12% of the nation's electric power today, will need to include more data centres to meet future demand, is therefore proactively checking into FPV powered data centres. The global information centre market has been estimated to expand to a value of $58 billion by 2025.
Today, a number of companies are pressing the limits of FPV, i.e., to run overseas FPV systems in areas with water depths of less than 100 m. One favoured concept is to combine existing and future offshore wind parks with FPV. The basic idea is to cover the open space in between the individual offshore wind turbines with FPV, therefore boosting the land use performance as well as adding to the total power outcome, while using the very same grid infrastructure. The Italian business Saipem with its Norwegian subsidiary Moss Maritime in cooperation with Equinor is presently creating a potential project, nevertheless, it might take an additional a couple of years until proof of idea has actually been developed.
In the meantime, FPV 2.0 as discussed over is anticipated to experience the greatest development in the near to midterm. A larger share of the international project pipe does favour the co-location of a FPV system with an existing hydropower plant, as a result of the apparent advantages.
When worldwide finest practice, guidelines as well as even criteria will certainly be readily available, accreditation, examination, acceptance treatments developed and guarantees and also performance warranties supplied, and the ecological sustainability of FPV systems made certain to name a few problems, floating PV has the prospective to come to be the third pillar of the worldwide solar PV market.
By Frank Haugwitz, elderly consultant at Apricum-- The Cleantech Advisory
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Can Rate Hikes Save these Emerging Market ETFs?
The going was extremely tough for emerging market currencies in 2013 with theWisdomTree Emerging Currency Fund (CEW) shedding about 6% of its value. Steeper decline had been noticed in some currencies like Indian rupee (down 12.6%), Turkish lira (down 18.6%) and South African rand (down 20.4%). The firmness in dollar following the onset of QE taper talk in 2013 and a general risk off trade created this malaise.
On top of it, all these currencies were down in low-single digit in the last 15 days of January thanks to the Fed’s long-apprehended (by investors) decision to scale back QE program from January. With a bit of risk off trade, Emerging markets seem to have lost their appeal, especially as U.S. treasury yields continue to rise. With a possibility of a faster QE trimming in the course of 2014 and flight of foreign investments from these developing nations, currencies are likely to weaken further in the coming days (read: Where Will Global Currency ETFs Go in 2014?).
Rate Hike a Common Resort
Amid such a backdrop, central banks in Turkey and South Africa stunned investors by raising key rates, to prop up their struggling currencies on January 28 and 29 respectively. India also joined the bandwagon around the same time, but the step was taken to contain its stubbornly high inflation. Whatever be the prime cause, Indian rate hike should support its ailing currency.
Let’s see in details how proactive the individual central bank was in shoring up their stressed currencies (read: 3 Currency ETFs Crushed in Emerging Market Rout):
Turkey raised its overnight lending rate sharply on January 28 from 7.75% to 12%, one week repo-rate from 4.5% to 10% and overnight borrowing rate from 3.5% to 8%. Soon after the announcement, Turkish currency lira went to rallying and gained as much as 3%, though it lost some of those gains later.
Higher rates will attract foreign investors to lira-denominated investments which will in turn boost the value of the currency (read: Turkey ETF Continues to Struggle as Currency Tumbles).
The scenario was little convincing for South Africa which went for just 50 bps rate hike to 5.5% on January 29 long after 2008. Notably, the South African rand has depreciated to a five-year low against the dollar in recent days losing about 25% in the last eight months. As per analysts, countries like South Africa need to protect its currency desperately as 40% of its total outstanding stock of debt is held by non-residents. Without such measure, it will be hard to keep up the inflow of foreign capital over the long term.
On January 28, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unexpectedly hiked its repo rate by 25 bps to 8% in a bid to contain inflation. With the latest hike, India has raised its repo rate by the same quantum thrice in the five trailing months (read: A Weaker Rupee–Boon or Bane for India ETFs?).
Are Rate Hike Measures Justified?
No doubt, rate hike will rein in these countries’ growth rates. This is surely no good news especially at a moment when growth rates of emerging nations are slowing and investor focus has shifted toward developed nations where the economic dynamics are improving steadily. Quite expectedly, markets of the concerned nations did not welcome the step on the possibility of sluggish growth. A substantial fall in ETFs related to the respective countries affirms this fact.
Investors should note that the only pure-play on Turkey iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market ETF (TUR) slumped 3.24% at the close of January 29, the biggest South African fund iShares MSCI South Africa ETF (EZA) tumbled 3.79% while major Indian ETFs like WisdomTree India Earnings Fund (EPI), iShares India 50 (INDY), iShares MSCI India (INDA) and PowerShares India (PIN) lost 1.61%, 2.25%, 1.91% and 2.20% respectively.
Such measures might help in boosting investors’ confidence in the emerging markets, though at the cost of
reduced growth, especially in the current environment when emerging currency devaluation is a large factor.
On a positive note, even after being reduced, growth rates are still decent at about 4% to 5% in emerging nations, better than many fast-growing developed countries.
However, barring some initial euphoria, Turkish lira and South African rand failed to hold up the rally versus the greenback. With the Fed announcing another round of $ 10 billion cut in the QE program, the USD has once again taken the center stage.
In a nutshell, the greenback will rule the year 2014. Apart from the dollar, no other currency is promising outright appreciation relative to the USD. It is advisable to stave off the emerging market currency exposure. Investors with high risk appetite wanting to tap these markets, should be extremely choosy and take closer look at each and every Fed move.
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— Peter Lynch
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Sermon 385. Exposition of the Doctrines of Grace
Nos. 385-88.
Thursday, April 11th, 1861.
EDITOR'S NOTE: These messages are part of the inaugural ceremonies held at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, when it firstopened. Spurgeon had already preached the first sermons there, beginning March 25, while the building was not yet quite finished.This, however, was the official opening ceremony, and Spurgeon presided, choosing several fellow pastors to expound the doctrinesof Calvinism. This guide is offered the reader wishing to follow the familiar TULIPacronym:
? Total depravity-"Human Depravity," by Evan Probert (message 2).
? Unconditional Election-"Election", by John Bloomfield (message 1).
? Limited Atonement-"Particular Redemption," by J. A. Spurgeon (message 3).
? Irresistible Grace-"Effectual Calling," by James Smith (message 4).
? Perseverance of the Saints-"The Final Perseverance of Believers in Christ Jesus," by William O'Neill (message 5).
The Rev. C. H. SPURGEON took the chair at 3 o'clock.
The proceedings were commenced by singing the 21st Hymn-
Saved from the damning power of sin,
The law's tremendous curse,
We'll now the sacred song begin
Where God began with us.
We'll sing the vast unmeasured grace
Which, from the days of old,
Did all his chosen sons embrace,
As sheep within the fold.
The basis of eternal love
Shall mercy's frame sustain;
Earth, hell, or sin, the same to move
Shall all conspire in vain.
Sing, O ye sinners bought with blood,
Hail the Great Three in One;
Tell how secure the cov'nant stood
Ere time its race begun.
Ne'er had ye felt the guilt of sin,
Nor sweets of pard'ning love,
Unless your worthless names had been
Enroll'd to life above.
O what a sweet exalted son
Shall rend the vaulted skies,
When, shouting, grace, the blood-wash'd throng
Shall see the Top Stone rise.
The Rev. George Wyard, of Deptford, offered prayer.
The REV. C. H. Spurgeon in opening the proceedings said, we have met together beneath this roof already to set forth mostof those truths in which consists the peculiarity of this Church. Last evening we endeavoured to show to the world, that weheartily recognised the essential union of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now, this afternoon and evening, it isour intention, through the lips of our brethren, to set forth those things which are verily received amongus, and especially those great points which have been so often attacked, but which are still upheld and maintained,-truthswhich we have proved in our experience to be full of grace and truth. My only business upon this occasion is to introducethe brethren who shall address you, and I shall do so as briefly as possible, making what I shall say a preface to their remarks.
The controversy which has been carried on between the Calvinist and the Arminian is exceedingly important, but it does notso involve the vital point of personal godliness as to make eternal life depend upon our holding either system of theology.Between the Protestant and the Papist there is a controversy of such a character, that he who is saved on the one side byfaith in Jesus, dare not allow that his opponent on the opposite side can be saved while depending on hisown works. There the controversy is for life or death, because it hinges mainly upon the doctrine of justification byfaith, which Luther so properly called the test doctrine, by which a Church either stands or falls. The controversy againbetween the believer in Christ and the Socinian, is one which affects a vital point. If the Socinian be right, we are mostfrightfully in error; we are, in fact, idolaters, and how dwelleth eternal life in us? and if we be right, our largest charitywill notpermit us to imagine that a man can enter heaven who does not believe the real divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thereare other controversies which thus cut at the very core, and touch the very essence of the whole subject. But, I think weare free to admit, that while John Wesley, for instance, in modern times zealously defended Arminianism, and on the otherhand, George Whitfield with equal fervour fought for Calvinism, we should not be prepared either of us, on either side ofthe question,to deny the vital godliness of either the one or the other. We cannot shut our eyes to what we believe to be the grossmistakes of our opponents, and should think ourselves unworthy of the name of honest men, if we could admit that they areright in all things and ourselves right too. An honest man has an intellect which does not permit him to believe that "yes"and "no" can both subsist at the same hour and both be true. I cannot say, "It is," and my brother point blank say, "It isnot," andyet both of us be right on that point. We are willing to admit, in fact, we dare not do otherwise, that opinion upon thiscontroversy does not determine the future of even the present state of any man; but still, we think it to be so important,that in maintaining our views, we advance with all courage and fervency if spirit, believing that we are doing God's workand upholding most important truth. It may not be misunderstood, we only use the term for shortness. That doctrine which iscalled"Calvinism" did not spring from Calvin; we believe that it sprang from the great founder of all truth. Perhaps Calvinhimself derived it mainly from the writings of Augustine. Augustine obtained his views, without doubt, through the Spiritof God, from the diligent study of the writings of Paul, and Paul received them of the Holy Ghost, from Jesus Christ the greatfounder of the Christian dispensation. We use the term then, not because we impute any extraordinary importance to Calvin'shavingtaught these doctrines. We would be just as willing to call them by any other name, if we could find one which would bebetter understood, and which on the whole would be as consistent with fact. And then again, this afternoon, we shall havevery likely to speak of Arminians, and by that, we would not for a moment insinuate that all who are in membership with theArminian body, hold those particular views. There are Calvinists in connection with Calvinistic Churches, who are not Calvinistic,bearing the name but discarding the system. There are, on the other hand, not a few in the Methodist Churches, who, inmost points perfectly agree with us, and I believe that if the matter came to be thoroughly sifted, it would be found thatwe are more agreed in our private opinions than in our public confessions, and our devotional religion is more uniform thanour theology. For instance, Mr. Wesley's hymn-book, which may be looked upon as being the standard of his divinity, has init uponsome topics higher Calvinism than many books used by ourselves. I have been exceedingly struck with the very forcibleexpressions there used, some of which I might have hesitated to employ myself. I shall ask your attention while I quote versesfrom the hymns of Mr. Wesley, which we can all endorse as fully and plainly in harmony with the doctrines of grace, far moreso than the preaching of some modern Calvinists. I do this because our low-doctrine Baptists and Morisonians ought to be awareofthe vast difference between themselves and the Evangelical Arminians.
HYMN 131, verses 1, 2, 3.
"Lord, I despair myself to heal:
I see my sin, but cannot feel;
I cannot, till thy Spirit blow,
And bid the obedient waters flow.
'Tis thine a heart of flesh to give;
Thy gifts I only can receive:
Here, then, to thee I all resign;
To draw, redeem, and seal,-is thine.
With simple faith on thee I call,
My Light, my Life, my Lord, my all:
I wait the moving of the pool;
I wait the word that speaks me whole."
HYMN 133, verse 4.
"Thy golden sceptre from above
Reach forth; lo! my whole heart I bow;
Say to my soul, Thou art my love;
My chosen midst ten thousand, thou."
This is very like election.
HYMN 136, verses 8, 9, 10.
"I cannot rest, till in thy blood
I full redemption have:
But thou, through whom I come to God,
Canst to the utmost save.
From sin, the guilt, the power, the pain,
Thou wilt redeem my soul:
Lord, I believe, and not in vain;
My faith shall make me whole.
I too, with thee, shall walk in white;
With all thy saints shall prove,
What is the length, and breadth, and height,
And depth of perfect love."
Brethren, is not this somewhat like final perseverance? and what is meant by the next quotation, if people of God can perishat all?
HYMN 138, verses 6, 7.
"Who, who shall in thy presence stand,
And match Omnipotence?
Ungrasp the hold of thy right hand,
Or pluck the sinner thence?
Sworn to destroy, let earth assail;
Nearer to save thou art:
Stronger than all the powers of hell,
And greater than my heart."
The following is remarkably strong, especially in the expression "force." I give it in full:-
HYMN 158
"O my God, what must I do?
Thou alone the way canst show;
Thou canst save me in this hour;
I have neither will nor power:
God, if over all thou art,
Greater than my sinful heart,
All thy power on me be shown,
Take away the heart of stone.
Take away my darling sin,
Make me willing to be clean;
Make me willing to receive
All thy goodness waits to give.
Force me, Lord, with all to part;
Tear these idols from my heart;
Now thy love almighty show,
Make even me a creature new.
Jesus, mighty to renew,
Work in me to will and do;
Turn my nature's rapid tide,
Stem the torrent of my pride;
Stop the whirlwind of my will;
Speak, and bid the sun stand still;
Arm of God, thy strength put on;
Bow the heavens, and come down;
All my unbelief o'erthrow;
Lay th' aspiring mountain low:
Conquer thy worst foe in me,
Get thyself the victory;
Save the vilest of the race;
Force me to be saved by grace."
"What am I, O thou glorious God!
And what my father's house to thee,
That thou such mercies hast bestow'd
On me, the vilest reptile, me!
I take the blessing from above,
And wonder at the boundless love.
Me in my blood the love pass'd by,
And stopp'd, my ruin to retrieve;
Wept o'er my soul thy pitying eye;
Thy bowels yearn'd, and sounded, "Live!"
Dying, I heard the welcome sound,
And pardon in thy mercy found."
Nor are these all, for such good things as these abound, and they constrain me to say, that in attacking Arminianism we haveno hostility towards the men who bear the name rather than the nature of that error, and we are opposed not to any body ofmen, but to the notions which they have espoused.
And now, having made these remarks upon terms used, we must observe that there is nothing upon which men need to be more instructedthan upon the question of what Calvinism really is. The most infamous allegations have been brought against us, and sometime,I must fear, by men who knew them to be utterly untrue; and, to this day, there are many of our opponents, who, when theyrun short of matter, invent and make for themselves a man of straw, call that John Calvin, andthen shoot all their arrows at it. We are not come here to defend your man of straw-shoot at it or burn it as you will,and, if it suit your convenience, still oppose doctrines which were never taught, and rail at fictions which, save in yourown brain, were never in existence. We come here to state what our views really are, and we trust that any who do not agreewith us will do us the justice of not misrepresenting us. If they can disprove our doctrines, let them state them fairly andthenoverthrow them, but why should they first caricature our opinions and then afterwards attempt to put them down? Amongthe gross falsehoods which have been uttered against the Calvinists proper, is the wicked calumny that we hold the damnation of little infants. A baser lie was never uttered. There may have existed somewhere, in some corner of the earth, a miscreant who would dareto say that there were infants in hell, but I have never met with him, nor have I met with a man who ever sawsuch a person. We say, with regard to infants, Scripture saith but little, and, therefore, where Scripture is confessedlyscant, it is for no man to determine dogmatically. But I think I speak for the entire body, or certainly with exceedinglyfew exceptions, and those unknown to me, when I say, we hold that all infants are elect of God and are therefore saved, andwe look to this as being the means by which Christ shall see of the travail of his soul to a great degree, and we do sometimeshopethat thus the multitude of the saved shall be made to exceed the multitude of the lost. Whatever views our friends may hold upon the point, they are not necessarily connected with Calvinistic doctrine. I believethat the Lord Jesus, who said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," doth daily and constantly receive into his loving armsthose tender ones who are only shown, and then snatched away to heaven. Our hymns are no ill witness to our faith on thispoint, and one of them runs thus:
"Millions of infant souls compose
The family above."
"Toplady, one of the keenest of Calvinists, was of this number. "In my remarks," says he, "on Dr. Nowell, I testified my firmbelief that the souls of all departed infants are with God in glory; that in the decree of predestination to life, God hath included all whom he decreed to take away ininfancy, and that the decree of reprobation hath nothing to do with them." Nay, he proceeds farther, and asks, with reason,how the anti-Calvinistic system of conditionalsalvation and election, or good works foreseen, will suit with the salvation of infants? It is plain that Arminians andPelagians must introduce a new principle of election; and in so far as the salvation of infants is concerned, become Calvinists. Is it not an argument in behalf ofCalvinism, that its principle is uniform throughout, and that no change is needed on the ground on which man is saved, whetheryoung or old? John Newton, of London, the friend of Cowper, noted for hisCalvinism, holds that the children in heaven exceed its adult inhabitants in all their multitudinous array. Gill, a verychampion of Calvinism, held the doctrine, that all dying in infancy are saved. An intelligent modern writer, (Dr. Russell,of Dundee,) also a Calvinist, maintains the same views; and when it is considered that nearly one-half of the human race die in early years, it is easy to see what a vast accession must be daily and hourly making to the blessedpopulation ofheaven."
A more common charge, brought by more decent people,-for I must say that the last charge is never brought, except by disreputablepersons,-a more common charge is, that we hold clear fatalism. Now, there may be Calvinists who are fatalists, but Calvinism and fatalism are two distinct things. Do not most Christianshold the doctrine of the providence of God? Do not all Christians, do not all believers in a God hold the doctrine of hisforeknowledge? All thedifficulties which are laid against the doctrine of predestination might, with equal force, be laid against that of Divineforeknowledge. We believe that God hath predestinated all things from the beginning, but there is a difference between thepredestination of an intelligent, all-wise, all-bounteous God, and that blind fatalism which simple says, "It is because itis to be." Between the predestination of Scripture and the fate of the Koran, every sensible man must perceive adifference of the most essential character. We do not deny that the thing is so ordained that it must be, but why is itto be, but that the Father, God, whose name is love, ordained it; not because of any necessity in circumstances that suchand such a thing should take place. Though the wheels of providence revolve with rigid exactness, yet not without purposeand wisdom. The wheels are full of eyes, and everything ordained is so ordained that it shall conduce to the grandest of allends, theglory of God, and the next to that the good of his creatures. But we are next met by some who tell us that we preach thewicked and horrible doctrine of sovereign and unmerited reprobation. "Oh," say they, "you teach that men are damned because God made them to be damned, and that they go to hell, not becauseof sin, not because of unbelief, but because of some dark decree with which God has stamped their destiny." Brethren, thisis an unfair charge again. Election does not involvereprobation. There may be some who hold unconditional reprobation. I stand not here as their defender, let them defendthemselves as best they can; I hold God's election, but I testify just as clearly that if any man be lost he is lost for sin;and this has been the uniform statement of Calvinistic ministers. I might refer you to our standards, such as "The WestminsterAssembly's Catechism," and to all our Confession, for they all distinctly state that man is lost for sin, and that there isnopunishment put on any man except that which he richly and righteously deserves. If any of you have ever uttered that libelagainst us, do it not again, for we are as guiltless of that as you are yourselves. I am speaking personally-and I think inthis I would command the suffrages of my brethren-I do know that the appointment of God extendeth to all things; but I standnot in this pulpit, nor in any other, to lay the damnation of any man anywhere but upon himself. If he be lost, damnationis all of man; but, if he be saved, still salvation is all of God. To state this important point yet more clearly andexplicitly, I shall quote at large from an able Presbyterian divine:
"The pious Methodist is taught that the Calvinist represents God as creating men in order to destroy them. He is taught thatCalvinists hold that men are lost, not because they sin, but because they are nonelected. Believing this to be a true statement,it is not wonderful that the Methodist stops short, and declares himself, if not an Arminian, at least an AntiPredestinarian.But no statement can be more scandalously untrue. It is the uniform doctrine of Calvinism, thatGod creates all for his own glory; that he is infinitely righteous and benignant, and that where men perish it is onlyfor their sins.
In speaking of suffering, whether in this world or in the world to come; whether it respects angels or men, the Westminsterstandards (which may be considered as the most authoritative modern statement of the system) invariably connect the punishmentwith previous sin, and sin only. "As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God as a righteous judge FOR FORMER SINS doth blind and harden, from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have beenenlightened in their understandings and wrought upon in their hearts, but sometimes also with draweth the gifts whichthey had, and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin; and withal gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan,whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves even under those means which God useth for the softening of others." The Larger Catechism, speaking of the unsaved amongangels and men, says, "God according to his Sovereign power and the unsearchable counsel of his own will (whereby he extendethor withholdeth favour as he pleaseth) hath passed by and fore-ordained the rest to dishonour and wrath, to be for their sin inflicted, to the praise of the glory of his justice." Again, "the end of God appointing this day (of the last judgment) is for themanifestation of the glory of his mercy, in the eternal salvation of the elect, and of his justice in thedamnation of the reprobate who are wicked and disobedient." This is no more than what the Methodist and all other Evangelical bodies acknowledge-that where men perish it is in consequenceof their sin. If it be asked, why sin which destroys, is permitted to enter the world, that is a question which bears notonly on the Calvinist, but equally on all other parties. They are as much concerned and bound to answer it as he; nay, thequestion in not confined to Christians. All who believein the existence of God-in his righteous character and perfect providence, are equally under obligation to answer it.Whatever may be the reply of others, that of the Calvinist may be regarded as given in the statement of the Confession ofFaith, which declares that God's providence extendeth itself even to the first fall, and other sins of angels and men, &c.;"yet so as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous,neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin." It is difficult to see what more could be said upon the subject; and if such be the undoubted sentiments of Calvinists, thenwhat misrepresentation can be more gross than that which describes them as holding that sinners perish irrespective of theirsin, or that God is the author of their sin? What is the declaration of Calvin? "Every soul departs (at death) to that place which it has prepared for itself while in thisworld."
It is hard to be charged with holding as sacred truth what one abhors as horrid blasphemy, and yet this is the treatment whichhas been perseveringly meted out to Calvinists in spite of the most solemn and indignant disclaimers. Against nothing havethey more stoutly protested than the thought that the infinitely holy, and righteous, and amiable Jehovah is the author ofsin; and yet how often do the supporters of rival systems charge them with this as an article of faith?
A yet further charge against us is, that we dare not preach the gospel to the unregenerate, that, in fact, our theology is so narrow and cramped that we cannot preach to sinners. Gentlemen, if you dare to say this,I would take you to any library in the world where the old Puritan fathers are stored up, and I would let you take down anyone volume and tell me if you ever read more telling exhortations and addresses to sinners in any of your own books. Did notBunyanplead with sinners, and whoever classed him with any but the Calvinist? Did not Charnock, Goodwin, and Howe agonise forsouls, and what were they but Calvinist? Did not Jonathan Edwards preach to sinners, and who more clear and explicit on thesedoctrinal matters. The works of our innumerable divines teem with passionate appeals to the unconverted. Oh, sirs, if I shouldbegin the list, time should fail me. It is an indisputable fact that we have laboured more than they all for the winning ofsouls. Was George Whitfield any the less seraphic? Did his eyes weep the fewer tears or his bowels move with the lesscompassion because he believed in God's electing love and preached the sovereignty of the Most High? It is an unfounded calumny.Our souls are not stony; our bowels are not withdrawn the compassion which we ought to feel for our fellowmen; we can holdall our views firmly, and yet can weep as Christ did over a Jerusalem which was certainly to be destroyed. Again, I must say,Iam not defending certain brethren who have exaggerated Calvinism. I speak of Calvinism proper, not that which has runto seed, and outgrown its beauty and verdure. I speak of it as I find it in Calvin's Institutes, and especially in his Expositions.I have read them carefully. I take not my views of Calvinism from common repute but from his books. Nor do I, in this speaking,even vindicate Calvinism as if I cared for the name, but I mean that glorious system which teaches that salvation is ofgrace from first to last. And again, then, I say it is an utterly unfounded charge that we dare not preach to sinners.
And then further, that I may clear up these points and leave the less rubbish for my brethren to wheel away, we have sometimesheard it said, but those who say it ought to go to school to read the first book of history, that we who hold Calvinisticviews are the enemies of revivals. Why, sirs, in the history of the Church, with but few exceptions, you could not find arevival at all that was not produced by the orthodox faith. What was the great work which was done byAugustine, when the Church suddenly woke up from the pestiferous and deadly sleep into which Pelagian doctrine had castit? What was the Reformation itself but the waking up of men's minds to those old truths? However far modern Lutherans mayhave turned aside from their ancient doctrines, and I must confess some of them would not agree with what I now say, yet,at any rate, Luther and Calvin had no dispute about Predestination. Their views were identical, and Luther, "On the bondageof thewill," is as strong a book upon the free grace of God as Calvin himself could have written. Hear that great thundererwhile he cries in that book, "Let the Christian reader know then, that God foresees nothing in a contingent manner; but thathe foresees, proposes, and acts, from his eternal and unchangeable will. This is the thunder stroke which breaks and overturnsFree Will." Need I mention to you better names than Huss, Jerome of Prague, Farrel, John Knox, Wickliffe, Wishart, and Bradford?Need I do more than say that these held the same views, and that in their day anything like an Arminian revival was utterlyunheard of and undreamed of. And then, to come to more modern times, there is the great exception, that wondrous revival underMr. Wesley, in which the Wesleyan Methodists had so large a share; but permit me to say, that the strength of the doctrineof Wesleyan Methodism lay in its Calvinism. The great body of the Methodists disclaimed Palagianism, in whole and in part.They contended for man's entire depravity, the necessity of the direct agency of the Holy Spirit, and that the first stepin the change proceeds not from the sinner, but from God. They denied at the time that they were Pelagians. Does not the Methodisthold as firmly as ever we do, that man is saved by the operation of the holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost alone? And are notmany of Mr. Wesley's sermons full of that great truth, that the Holy Ghost is necessary to regeneration? Whatever mistakeshe may have made, he continually preached the absolute necessity of the new birth by the Holy Ghost, and there are someother points of exceedingly close agreement; for instance, even that of human inability. It matters not how some may abuseus, when we say man could not of himself repent or believe; yet, the old Arminian standards said the same. True, they affirmthat God has given grace to every man, but they do not dispute the fact, that apart from that grace there was no ability inman todo that which was good in his own salvation. And then, let me say, if you turn to the continent of America, how grossthe falsehood, that Calvinistic doctrine is unfavourable to revivals. Look at that wondrous shaking under Jonathan Edwards,and others which we might quote. Or turn to Scotland-what shall we say of M'Cheyne? What shall we say of those renowned Calvinists,Dr. Chalmers, Dr. Wardlow, and before them Livingstone, Haldane, Erskine, and the like? What shall we say of the men oftheir school, but that, while they held and preached unflinchingly the great truths which we would propound to-day, yetGod owned their word, and multitudes were saved. And if it were not perhaps too much like boasting of one's own work underGod, I might say, personally I have never found the preaching of these doctrines lull this Church to sleep, but ever whilethey have loved to maintain these truths, they have agonised for the souls of men, and the 1600 or more of whom I have myselfbaptized, upon profession of their faith, are living testimonies that these old truths in modern times have not lost theirpower to promote a revival of religion.
I have thus cleared away these allegations at the outset; I shall now need a few minutes more to say, with regard to the Calvinisticsystem, that there are some things to be said in its favour, to which of course I attach but little comparative importance,but they ought not to be ignored. It is a fact that the system of doctrines called the Calvinistic, is so exceedingly simple and so readily learned, that as a system of Divinity it is more easily taught and moreeasily grasped by unlettered minds than any other. The poor have the Gospel preached to them in a style which assiststheir memories and commends itself to their judgments. It is a system which was practically acknowledged an high philosophicgrounds by such men as Bacon, Leibnitz, and Newton, and yet it can charm the soul of a child and expand the intellect of apeasant. And then it has another virtue. I take it that the last is no mean one, but it has another-that when it is preachedthereis a something in it which excites thought. A man may hear sermons upon the other theory which shall glance over him as the swallow's wing gently sweeps the brook, butthese old doctrines either make a man so angry that he goes home and cannot sleep for very hatred, or else they bring himdown into lowliness of thought, feeling the immensity of the things which he has heard. Either way it excites and stirs himup not temporarily, but in a most lasting manner. These doctrines haunt him,he kicks against the pricks, and full often the word forces a way into his soul. And I think this is no small thing forany doctrine to do, in an age given to slumber, and with human hearts so indifferent to the truth of God. I know that manymen have gained more good by being made angry under a sermon than by being pleased by it, for being angry they have turnedthe truth over and over again, and at last the truth has burned its way right into their hearts. They have played with edge-tools,but they have cut themselves at last.
It has this singular virtue also-it is so coherent in all its parts. You cannot vanquish a Calvinist. You may think you can, but you cannot. The stones of the great doctrines so fit into eachother, that the more pressure there is applied to remove them the more strenuously do they adhere. And you may mark, thatyou cannot receive one of these doctrines without believing all. Hold for instance that man is utterly depraved, and you drawthe inference then thatcertainly if God has such a creature to deal with salvation must come from God alone, and if from him, the offended one,to an offending creature, then he has a right to give or withhold his mercy as he wills; you are this forced upon election,and when you have gotten that you have all: the others must follow. Some by putting the strain upon their judgments may manageto hold two or three points and not the rest, but sound logic I take it requires a man to hold the whole or reject the whole;the doctrines stand like soldiers in a square, presenting on every side a line of defence which it is hazardous to attack,but easy to maintain. And mark you, in these times when error is so rife and neology strives to be so rampant, it is no littlething to put into the hands of a young man a weapon which can slay his foe, which he can easily learn to handle, which hemay grasp tenaciously, wield readily, and carry without fatigue; a weapon, I may add, which no rust can corrode and no blowscan break, trenchant, and well annealed, a true Jerusalem blade of a temper fit for deeds of renown. The coherency ofthe parts, though it be of course but a trifle in comparison with other things, is not unimportant. And then, I add,-but thisis the point my brethren will take up-it has this excellency, that it is scriptural, and that it is consistent with the experienceof believers. Men generally grow more Calvinistic as they advance in years. Is not that a sign that the doctrine isright. As they are growing riper for heaven, as they are getting nearer to the rest that remaineth for the people of God,the soul longs to feed on the finest of the wheat, and abhors chaff and husks. And then, I add-and, in so doing, I would refutea calumny that has sometimes been urged,-this glorious truth has this excellency, that it produces the holiest of men. Wecan look back through all our annals, and say, to those who oppose us, you can mention no names of men more holy, moredevoted, more loving, more generous than those which we can mention. The saints of our calendar, though uncanonized byRome, rank first in the book of life. The names of Puritan needs only to be heard to constrain our reverence. Holiness hadreached a height among them which is rare indeed, and well it might for they loved and lived the truth. And if you say thatour doctrine is inimical to human liberty, we point you to Oliver Cromwell and to his brave Ironsides, Calvinists to a man.If yousay, it leads to inaction, we point you to the Pilgrim Fathers and the wildernesses they subdued. We can put our fingerupon every spot of land, the wide world o'er, and say, "Here was something done by a man who believed in God's decrees; and,inasmuch as he did this, it is proof it did not make him inactive, it did not lull him to sloth."
The better way, however of proving this point is for each of us who hold these truths, to be more prayerful, more watchful,more holy, more active than we have ever been before, and by so doing, we shall put to silence the gainsaying of foolish men.A living argument, is an argument which tells upon every man; we cannot deny what we see and feel. Be it ours, if aspersedand calumniated, to disprove it by a blameless life, and it shall yet come to pass, that our Church andits sentiments too shall come forth "Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners."
Rev. JOHN BLOOMFIELD,
OF MEARD'S COURT, SOHO.
My dear Christian friends, those who best know my cast of mind and ministry will readily believe me when I say I would ratherhave spoken on the majesty and mystery of the person of Christ, or I would rather have spoken on the perfection and intrinsicworth of the mediation of Christ, or on the great attraction of Christ as a gracious and omnipotent Saviour, than on the subjectthat has been assigned to me. The subject that has been given me is that of the doctrine ofeternal and personal election; I have to prove that the doctrine of election is a scriptural truth; and, at the commencementof my few remarks on this profound subject, allow me to say that I hold and firmly believe the Bible to be revelation fromGod, that the revelations of God's mind are essentially and infallibly true, that its ancient historical records are of thegreatest value, that its prophecies are to be studied and to be venerated, that the doctrines of the Bible are in harmonywiththe majesty, wisdom, holiness and goodness of their Author. Now it should not be a point with us whether a doctrine islike or disliked, whether it is believed or disbelieved, but whether it is a doctrine according to godliness, whether it isthe doctrine of the Word of God. Truth has never been popular in this world: Jesus Christ when on earth was by no means popular.Truth never will be popular in this world while men are influenced by sin, and enmity against God. Perhaps no doctrine hasmetwith such bitter opposition as the doctrine on which I have to speak. It has been fearfully misunderstood for a want ofprayerful and independent study of the Holy Scriptures, or perhaps from the miserable misrepresentations that have been givenof it by some public men. It is a truth which has been bitterly opposed; we may oppose a doctrine which we cannot with allour puny efforts depose. We may dispute in our blindness and enmity a doctrine which we cannot refute. We believe firmly thatthedoctrine of election to salvation in Jesus Christ is a doctrine of the Scriptures. We believe in sovereign love, but notin sovereign hatred. We believe in salvation by the grace of God without works, but not in damnation without sin. We believefirmly in election to salvation by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but we discard from our creed the miserable, wretched doctrineof reprobation without sin. Is the doctrine of election a Scriptural doctrine? Can we prove it from the word of God? It isone thing to believe it to be a doctrine of Divine revelation, and it is another thing to have the sanctifying grace andpower of it in our hearts. The election we read of in the Scriptures is inseparably connected with holiness, and we believein no election to salvation without faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He who has appointed salvation as an end has appointedthe methods by which that end shall be accomplished. Perhaps no man possessed of his reasoning powers questions the truththat Godhas predestinated harvest as long as this world shall continue. But without sowing of seed, without the agricultural labourthat is given to the land, we should have no harvest, because he who predestinated harvest predestinated the sowing of theseed as much. And God has appointed us not unto wrath, but to obtain salvation through Jesus Christ. I shall endeavour nowto prove, from the quotation of a few Scriptures, that the doctrine of eternal and personal election is a Scriptural and Divinetruth. Jesus Christ himself was said to be "chosen of God and precious." He is God's elect, for Jehovah himself says,"Behold my servant, mine elect in whom my soul delighteth." Angels that continue in their unfallen dignity and felicity aretermed elect angels. Elect angels are employed as ministering spirits to those that shall be heirs of salvation. Elect angelswill be employed in the gathering of God's elect into the heavenly world. The Jewish nation was a chosen nation, and as suchtheywere privileged with the oracles of God, and stood as a representative people. They were chosen not because of their personalworth, they were chosen not because of their goodness, but they were chosen to be a separated people, a people that shouldbe God's peculiar treasure, and should be holiness unto the Lord; of them it was said, "For thou art a holy people unto theLord thy God-the Lord hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of theearth." Jesus Christ himself, in the 24th chapter of Matthew, speaks of certain days being shortened because of God'select. The Psalmist craved to be remembered with the favour that God was pleased to bear towards his people, that he mightsee the good of his chosen. And Jesus Christ himself said to his disciples, "Ye have not chose me, but I have chosen you."And the Apostle Paul very often in his writings has brought out this great and profound doctrine. He says, "There is a remnantaccording to the election of grace." He speaks to the Ephesian Church, and says, "Ye are chosen in Christ before the foundationof the world that ye may be holy, and that ye may stand before God without blame in love." God hath in the exercise of hissovereignty chosen a people in Christ to salvation before time began-it was before the foundation of the world, here is its antiquity-it is in Christ according to the riches of God's grace, and it is toholiness and salvation. He, in his addresses to the Church at Thessalonica, said he could but thank God "that they were chosen tosalvation through sanctification of the Spirit and the belief of the truth." Peter speaks of the people of God as a chosengeneration and a royal priesthood. He wrote to the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. More Scriptures might be given upon this subject, but I think they wouldbe unnecessary. If we would only give our attentionto the simple teachings of the Spirit of God by the prophets, by the Psalmist, by Christ, and by the Apostles, we couldnot have one moment's doubt as to the doctrine of Divine election being a Scriptural truth.
My second point is to show that God has chosen his people to the highest possible relation to himself, and to the enjoymentof the most precious blessings in Christ. All spiritual relations stand in Christ; all spiritual relations originated in God'sgrace; and all spiritual relations are standing manifestations of the sovereignty of God's favour and of the immutabilityof God's love. If we are the sons of God, what has constituted us the sons of God? We are sons of God byGod's sovereign love; it is by an act of adoption, it is by an act of Jehovah's will, that we are constituted his sonsand his daughters. Adoption is relation established to which we have no natural right; adoption is one thing, and the spiritof adoption is another. Now Christ is God's first-born, and all the family are chose in him; Christ is the glorious Head ofthe Church, and all the family of God are chosen members in him; Christ is the everlasting Priest of his Church, and he representsall the family, just as the Jewish priest represented by his breast-plate and in the fulfilment of his office the wholeof the Jewish nation. All relation to God then stands in Christ, originated in the sovereignty of Jehovah's will, and is expressiveof the infinite love of Jehovah's heart. We are chose to salvation-that is the end; the means by which that end is accomplishedis by the "sanctification of the Spirit, and the belief of the truth." We are chose to usefulness; every Christianshould seek to be useful; every Christian in his right mind is a witness for God; every Christian, as he is influencedby Christian principles, bears testimony to the dignity of the relation that God has established, and bears testimony to theholiness of the principles by which his heart is influenced; every Christian should be a living gospel, his life should beartestimony to the holiness of that Christianity that he studies and is influenced by. We are chosen to eternal life, but itiseternal life through Christ. Without faith there is no evidence of interest in Christ, without faith there is no enjoymentof salvation by Christ. Without faith, a man has no evidence of interest in the Lamb's Book of Life; but he who believes inChrist, however weak and trembling his faith has evidence in his own heart that his name is written in the Lamb's Book ofLife; and his conduct corresponding with the holiness of the gospel, he carries in his life a witness to his interest in allthepurposes of heaven, and in all the redemptive excellency of the Lord Jesus Christ. The great evidence of interest in electionis holiness. A man to talk of believing in election, and going to heaven, because he is one of God's elect, and yet livingin sin, and in enmity to God, this can never, never be. We are chosen unto salvation, it is said, "through sanctificationof the Spirit and the belief of the truth;" and, without this sanctification of the Spirit and the belief of the truth, thereisno holiness; and, "without holiness, no man can see the Lord." Without holiness, no man would be capable of serving Godin heaven; without holiness, no man would be capable of beholding the glories of Jesus Christ there; without holiness, noman can serve God with power and success here; without holiness, no man can have fellowship with God, and so have fellowshipwith us, for truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ. It is only by practical life of consistencywithfaith in Christ Jesus, that we have evidence of our interest in election. We are chosen, not because we are holy, butthat we might be holy; we are chosen, not because we are good, but that by the principles of the everlasting Gospel, we mightbecome so; we are chosen, not because we are saved, but that we may be saved through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I hold,dear friends, that the great doctrine of election should be preached. It should be preached, because it is part of a grandsystemof truth. Truth is not one doctrine, but it is a grand system, and you cannot leave out one part without impairing itsbeauty, nor leave out one part of this system without weakening its strength. The beauty of truth lies in its perfection,and in that harmony of its connection; the strength of truth lies in the unity of its parts, and it is like gold dust-it isall precious. If Election be not a truth inspired by the Spirit of the living God-if it be not a truth proclaimed by the prophetsthat were inspired-if it be not a truth published by the Apostles-if it be not a truth found in the teachings of the wordof God, let us never say one word about it; but if it was truth in the days of the Apostles, then it is no less a truth now.What the Apostles preached, I hold, we ought to preach in the spirit of love, in the spirit of faith, in the spirit of meekness,entirely depending on the power of the Holy Spirit to give us success in the conversion of immortal souls. One momentlonger, and I have done. There is nothing in the doctrine of election that is discouraging to a penitent, seeking sinner.There is everything in the Gospel to welcome the returning prodigal to his Father's house; there is everything to meet thenecessities of an awakened conscience; there is everything in the Gospel to satisfy the longing of a penitent soul. I knowsome may say, "I fear, Sir, I shall not be saved because I am not one of God's elect." Art thou a sinner? art thou a penitentsinner? art thou a seeking sinner? If thou art a seeking, penitent sinner, you cannot imagine how welcome you are to theprovisions of infinite love. Every truth in the Gospel is open to you; every promise in the Gospel is open to you; every invitationin Scripture speaks to you. If thou art a sinner seeking mercy, let this cheer thy heart-that God delighteth in mercy. Ifthou art seeking salvation, Jesus is a willing and an able Saviour, and he has said, "All that the Father giveth to meshall come to me, and him that cometh I will in no wise cast out." There is nothing, dear friends, in the doctrine ofelection as it stands in the Scriptures that should discourage any penitent in seeking after mercy through Jesus Christ. Iknow, in the miserable misrepresentation of this great and glorious truth, men might well be discouraged from seeking mercythrough the Saviour. But see it in its Scriptural connection; see it in the simplicity of it as it is put before us by thegreatApostles; see it in the teachings of the Saviour himself, and there is nothing in it but that which welcomes a penitentsinner. It is a great encouragement to a seeking soul. Does the farmer who sows his seed sow that seed with less or more encouragementbecause he knows that God has ordained that harvest shall be? He sows his seed with a heart brimfull with hope, because Godhas promised that a harvest shall be as long as the world continues. Only let the means be used according to the HolyScriptures; only let the poor awakened, penitent sinner renounce everything but Christ and him crucified, mercy will rollinto his troubled heart and fill his spirit with peace, and he shall come off more than conqueror, shouting, Victory throughthe blood of the Lamb-Victory, victory through Jesus Christ.
Rev. EVAN PROBERT,
OF BRISTOL.
My Christian friends, you are quite aware that the subject which is to engage our further attention this afternoon, is HUMANDEPRAVITY-a subject about which there are different opinions, which I shall not attempt to examine at the present time, butI shall confine myself to the teachings of God's word, which is the only infallible rule of faith and practice, and from whichwe learn what man was when he came from the hands of his Maker, and what he is now as a fallencreature. It is explicitly declared by the sacred writers, that God made man upright, and therefore his condition wasone of perfect innocence and high moral excellence. There was no tendency to evil in any part of his nature, nothing thatdeviated in the least from the rule of moral rectitude. Whatever his duty was, it was to him his invariable and delightfulemployment. But, alas! man in honour did not long continue. Through the insinuating wiles of the devil, our first parentswere inducedto violate the positive command of their Maker, the observance of which was the condition of their happiness, and, aspunishment for their transgression, they were driven out of Paradise, and became liable to be cut off by the sentence of death,and consigned to everlasting misery; and, in consequence of our connection with Adam, as our federal head and representative,we became subject to the dreadful consequences of his fall. This is evident from the testimony of the Apostle Paul, in thefifth Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans. There we read, "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, sothat death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." And, again, "By the offence of one, judgment came upon all mento condemnation, and by the disobedience of one, many were made sinners." It is evident from these passages that God viewedAdam in the covenant of works as the head and representative of his natural posterity, and consequently, when he fell we fellin him,and became subject to the tremendous consequences of his fall. Here it may be asked, what are the consequences of hisfall? what were they to him, and what are they to us? To answer this question, we must ascertain what the Apostle means whenhe uses the words death, judgment, and condemnation. I think that he uses these words in opposition to the grace of God, tojustification of life, and to the reign of the redeemed in life by Jesus Christ. These are the benefits which result fromthe graceof God through Christ, and which stand opposed to the evils which sin has introduced into our world; and, as it cannotbe supposed that these benefits relate to temporal life, or solely to the resurrection of the body, it cannot be that theevils involved in the words, death, judgment, and condemnation, relate simply to temporal death, but they must be consideredas including temporal, legal, and spiritual death.
From the very hour that Adam transgressed, he became mortal,-the sentence of death was pronounced upon him, and the seedsof depravity were sown in his system; thus the fair and beautiful and glorious creature began to fade, wither, and die, andall his posterity became mortal in him, and have from that day to this come into the world dying. Whatever the case of manmight have been if he had not sinned we cannot say. This however we know, that he would not have died; fordeath is the result of the federal failure of the father of our race. "Dust thou are," God said to him, "and unto dustshalt thou return." "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin." "In Adam all died." So that it may be saidto every one of Adam's sons and daughters, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
But Adam by his transgression not only brought temporal death upon himself and his posterity, he also brought legal death.Having violated the law that was given him to observe, he became under the curse of that law, which involved not only temporaldeath and expulsion from Paradise, but an exposure to suffer the just demerits of his transgression; and, in consequence ofour connection with him as our federal head, we are under the curse of the same law-"By one man'sdisobedience judgment came upon all men to condemnation;" and further, "By the offence of one many were made sinners."The very moment our progenitor transgressed, all his descendants became subject to the curse. The holy nature of God abhorredthe apostate race; the curse of his holy and righteous law has ever rested upon that race; judgment has been given and recordedagainst us as a fallen world, in the court of Heaven, and unless it is reversed it must fall upon us with all its tremendousconsequences.
We are also, in consequence of Adam's transgression, become the subjects of spiritual death, which consists not merely inthe deprivation of the principle of life; but in having become depraved creatures, all the faculties of our souls and membersof our bodies are depraved, so that it may be said of us, as the prophet says of the Jewish nation, "The head is sick, thewhole heart is faint; from the sole of the foot unto the head there is no soundness." What! no soundnessin any part? nothing good in any part? nothing spiritually good? nothing if cherished and fostered that will not leadto God, to Heaven, and to happiness? Nothing whatever. Let no one mistake me. I do not mean to say for a single moment, thatsin has destroyed any of the faculties of man's soul, for they are all there. They all exist as they did when they were produced;but I mean to say, that sin has deprived man of the principle of spiritual life, and made him a depraved and debased creature;and we believe that we can prove this from the word of God, as well as from observation.
First,-From the conduct of little children. Children begin to sin very early in life. If there were any good in us, it wouldshow itself in infancy, before good habits became corrupted, and evil principles were produced by our connection with theworld. But do little children prefer good? Are they inclined to the good and the excellent? Do you see from the earliest periodof their existence that they are desirous of good? On the contrary, I say, as soon as they begin toact, they prove by their action, that in them there is a depraved nature, from which they act. "Madness," says a wiseman, "is bound up in the heart of a child," they go astray from the womb telling lies. But it may be said, in the way of objection,that this may arise from the unfavourable circumstance in which some children are placed. No doubt, unfavourable circumstanceshave a bad influence upon the minds of children; but it is not so with the whole race. Point out to me, one child who isdisposed from infancy to seek that which is good, that which is holy. And surely, if the tendency of infants from theirearliest history is to evil, it is a proof that it must arise from the evil propensities within them, which grow with theirgrowth, and strengthen with their strength.
Secondly,-We have further proof of human depravity from the aversion of sinners to come to Christ. They are invited to come,persuaded to come, and are assured that they shall find pardon, acceptance, and salvation. But they cannot be induced to cometo him; and why will they not come? Is it because he is not willing to receive them, or because there is anything in him toprevent them? No, but it is because of the deep-rooted depravity in their hearts. The heart isaverse to all that is good, and therefore rejects the Saviour and turns away from him. Hence he complained when in ourworld, "How often would I have gathered you, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." "Yewill not come to me, that ye might have life." What more needed to be added? Man turns away in proud disdain from all theblessings of the gospel, and the glories of heaven brought before him, and rushes on with steady purpose to damnation. "Lightis comeinto the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." Oh, to how many in this landmay it be said, "They hate knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord; they would none of his counsel, they despisedall his reproof."
Thirdly,-We have further evidence of native depravity from the testimony of Scripture. In the first place, let me refer youto the fifth chapter of the Book of Genesis, and the third verse. There we read, that Adam, after he had lived one hundredand thirty years, begat a son in his own likeness after his image. Mind, the image in which Adam was created was the imageof God, but that image he had lost before he begat Seth; therefore, the image in which Seth was born musthave been the image of his progenitor, as a fallen and depraved creature. Let me refer you, in the second place, to thethird chapter of the Gospel of John. "He that is born of the flesh," said the Saviour to Nicodemus, "is flesh, and he thatis born of the Spirit is spirit." To be born of the flesh, according to the wisest interpretation of that passage, is to beborn of a depraved nature; to be born of the Spirit is to be born of the Holy Spirit of God-which birth, the Saviour toldNicodemus he must experience before he could see the kingdom of God. And again, we have several passages in proof of thispoint. In the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, at the fifth verse of that chapter, the Apostle says, "When wewere in the flesh, the motions of sin by the law which worked in us to bring forth fruit unto death." "When we were in theflesh," means this-when we were in an unrenewed depraved state. In the same chapter he says, at the 14th verse, "We know thatthelaw is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin;" as if he had said, "I am as a sinner, a depraved creature." In accordancewith this the Apostle says, at the 18th verse of the same chapter, "In me-that is, in my flesh-there dwelleth no good thing."No love to God, no holy aspirations! No, none whatever. At the beginning of the eighth chapter the same Epistle, we find theterms "flesh" and "Spirit" placed in opposition to each other, "Who walk not after the flesh,' says the Apostle,describing Christians, "but after the Spirit." To be in the flesh is to be in a depraved state, to be in the Spirit isto be a partaker of his grace; to walk after the flesh is to walk after the dictates of corrupt principles and propensities,to walk after the Spirit is to be governed by spiritual principles and by the Holy Spirit of God; and the Apostle, in writingto the Galatians, says to them, "Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh." These passages, I think,prove beyond all contradiction, that man as a fallen creature, is a depraved creature, destitute of any good. There aremany other passages of Scripture that confirm this doctrine, such as the following, "Who can bring a clean thing out of aunclean." Not one. What is man that he should be clean, or the son of man that he should be just. "Behold," says a Psalmist,"I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." Read the account of man before the deluge, and there wefind thatevery imagination and the thought of his heart were only evil, and that continually. The same account is given of himafter the flood. The deluge could not wipe away the stains of moral pollution, could not destroy in man the deep-rooted depravityof his heart. "The heart," says Jeremiah, "is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it." I thinkthat what our blessed Lord said to the Jews of old, is applicable to every unconverted man under heaven-"But I know you thatye have not the love of God in you." Some of you may be more humane that others, more benevolent than other, more compassionatethan other, as men, and as women, but one has as much of the love of God in him as others. "The carnal mind is enmity againstGod," against the being of God, against the government of God, against the gospel of God, against the purposes of God. Theenmity of the human heart is unconquerable by any human agency whatever. It is mortal enmity, it strikes at the being ofGod, and, therefore, as President Edwards, of America, justly observes, "that when it found God in our nature, in ourworld, it put him to death on the accursed tree." Such, my brethren, is the enmity of the heart of man, such is its deeprooteddepravity, that in him there is no good thing. We can never speak too bad of what sin has done for us, and we can never speaktoo much, or too well, of what God has done for us, in the person of his Son, and in us, by the agency of his Holy Spirit.
Fourthly-The doctrine of human depravity may be proved from those passages which assert the universal necessity of redemptionby Jesus Christ. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus," said the angel, "because he shall save his people from their sins," "Inhim we have redemption through his blood," says St. Paul, "even the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of his grace."Now, the work of redemption pre-supposes the sinful state of man, and implies a deliverance fromthat state and from the punishment to which man is exposed. Hence it is said of Christ, that he came into the world tosave sinners, to seek and to save that which was lost, and that he died-the just for the unjust-that he might bring us toGod. Now, if redemption by Christ is necessary, it is evident that man is a sinner; and, if man is a sinner, it is evidentthat man has a depraved nature. You cannot make anything else of it. Say what you like about man and about his excellencies,youmust come to this conclusion, that he is a condemned and a depraved creature, or else he would not need redemption throughthe blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Fifthly,-The passages that assert the universal necessity of the new birth prove this very truth-"Except a man be born ofwater," said the Saviour, "and of the Spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Marvel not that I said unto you, ye must beborn again." But if a man has some good in him, and if that good could be cherished, and be increased, and worked up so asto make men fit for heaven, what need of the new birth? what need of the Spirit of all grace to renewhim in the spirit of his mind? Whenever, my brethren, you pray to God for the Spirit to change the human heart, whetheryou believe the doctrine or not, you imply it in your petition before the mercy-seat. They are represented by the sacred writersas having been called from darkness into light, as having an unction from the Holy One whereby they know all things, and thoseof them who have been called readily acknowledge that they were once foolish, once deceived and deceiving, once depraved- very depraved; and not only so, but the very best of Christians in the world confess with humility the depravity oftheir hearts, and I believe that the man who knows himself best is the man who is most ready to confess this and to humblehimself before God-"Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" And while Christians feelthis, their language is, "Create within me a clean heart, oh God! and renew a right spirit within me; purge me with hysopand Ishall be clean, wash me and I shall be whiter than snow." Apply the blood of sprinkling to my guilty conscience, and letthe Spirit of all grace work in my polluted and depraved heart, and form me to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ, and meetenmy immortal spirit for the inheritance of the saints in light, and of angels in glory. My dear friends, I need not say more.I should not think there is an individual here this afternoon who is not disposed to agree with me, when I say that man isfallen creature, is a depraved creature, is a condemned creature: he is under the curse of God's righteous law, and atthe same time the subject of the reigning power of depravity, the subject of the effects of sin throughout his whole nature;and that, as a sinner, let it be recorded in high heaven there is no good in man's nature until God puts it there, and youwill never be brought, by beloved hearers, into a right state of mind before God, until you are brought to feel that you havenothing, and that you must have all in the Lord Jesus Christ. "Oh! Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself!" But here areblessed tidings, "But in me is their help found." Does not this subject, my hearers, teach us, in the first place, the amazinglong suffering of God towards our race. God might, as soon as man sinned, without the least imputation of injustice to hischaracter, have cut him down, because the fall was the result of his criminal choice, and attended by the most aggravatingcircumstances; but God has borne with us, and is bearing still, which shows that he has no pleasure in the death of thesinner, but rather that he should turn from his ways and live. "Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die, oh! house of Israel?"And does not the subject teach us also the helplessness of man as a sinner? He is unable to atone for his sins or to renewhis heart. Many attempts have been made to atone for human transgression, and to cleans and purify the human heart, but theyhaveall failed, not one has succeeded. No sacrifice, short of an infinite one, could satisfy Divine justice
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Everyday Cultures of Dying within Family Life in Britain, 1900-50s
In twentieth-century Britain, dying was both extraordinary and an ‘everyday’ experience. Whilst the death of a loved one was a momentous emotional event for the family involved, within the wider community death occurred regularly.
The period between 1900 and 1950 saw significant changes in death and remembrance:
The formal mourning rituals common amongst much of Victorian Britain gradually declined.
The two world wars resulted in huge military and civilian casualties and established new remembrance practices. The period ended with the advent of the nuclear age and the Cold War.
Life expectancy was increasing for most groups. The crude death rate fell from 16.0 per thousand in 1901-05 to 12.8 in 1941-5, and infant mortality dropped rapidly – though mortality rates remained highly dependent on region and social class.
These decades saw the development of different medical technologies and care options for individuals who were elderly and dying. This process culminated in the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, as the welfare state brought about a new level of care for all, ‘from cradle to grave’.
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As part of this project, we’ll be researching people’s experiences of death, dying and remembrance in Britain, c.1900-50s. The focus is on the voices of individuals themselves, and recovering those through detailed examination of autobiographies, archived interviews, and our work with our group of family historians. Through the blog we’re posting updates on the research as it happens.
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Articles and books pertaining to the history of Palmerston North and surrounding areas.
Skandia No. 1, 18 November 1875
This Danish-Norwegian newspaper was produced in Palmerston North on 18 November 1875. The editor was Hjalmar Graff. It is believed that this was the only volume produced. This copy was presented to the Manawatu Evening Standard offices in the 1950s. That organisation passed the copy on to the Palmerston North City Council.
Hjalmar Graff
scandinavians
The Shannon Detention Camps: The Stories of WWII Conscientious Objectors and Their Families
This account of the Shannon World War Two Detention Camps is based on contributions from a large number of family members and descendants of those who were in the camps. it also offers an overview of the history of the camps based on research by Margaret Tate.
Margaret Tate
Palmerston North War Memorial - list of names of war dead
A complete list of all the people named on the Palmerston North War Memorial Cenotaph in The Square, in two parts. The first part is the original WWI names from the 1926 Memorial opening, transcribed in 1990. The second part is a list of names found by the War Research Group set up in 2005 to find all additional known war dead for Palmerston North to that date. The War Research Group consisted of representatives from the Palmerston North City Council, Palmerston North RSA, Palmerston North Officers Club and the Manawatu Standard. Trevor Richards was the researcher
PNCC and War Research Group
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Old Manawatu
Written by T Lindsay Buick, and sub titled The Wild Days of the West. A history of the Manawatū area, through to 1903 when it was first published. Much of the content is first hand accounts. Chapters entitled: The Land of the Rangitāne; The Second Conquest; The Pakeha; The Rāngitikei-Manawatū Block; The Early Days. Some illustrations contained.
T. Lindsay Buick
Display: P K Fowler – wartime aviator
A brief history of Philip's Fowlers wartime service. His archives, mainly on his flying career in World War One and Two, are held at the Ian Matheson City Archives
Palmerston North City Council
electronic texts
Time to Speak: Breaking the Silence on the Shannon Military Defaulters' Camps and their Aftermath
An article about Whitaunui and Paiaka camps for conscientious objectors during WWII, officially called military defaulter camps. It complements an article based on local information drawn from a range of archival and published sources, that appeared in the 2016 issue of the Manawatū Journal of History. After that publication and a subsequent lecture the author was approached by a number of people who had memories of the camp and this article is based on this new material. This article was originally published in the 2018 "Manawatu Journal of History", and this copy extracted from that Journal for publication. It is a proof copy, although it is believed to be free of proofing errors.
near Shannon, Horowheuna
military defaulter camp
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Thorrold – Jaggard’s Caravans
Notes on the caravans built by Reginald Thorrold - Jaggard, a Palmerston North architect. The archives of the architectural firm of Reginald and William Thorrold-Jaggard are held in the Ian Matheson City Archives
Awapuni Memorial Rededication
The Awapuni Memorial was rededicated at the ceremony at the Palmerston North Race Course on Thursday 20 October
Lesley Courtney
awapuni memorial
Manawatū Roll of Honour 2014 - 2018
This alphabetical list encompasses new research that collates the names of all Manawatū connected deaths during World War I, as can be best ascertained. The list was compiled from Manawatū War Memorials and Rolls of Honour based on the original Manawatū counties in 1914. Supplementary information and verification of names was obtained from the NZ History website, collections of the NZ Society of Genealogists, _“Communities Remember World War One: Memorials of the Manawatū Districts”_ by Peter Olsen and Janet Doyle, newspaper reports, school and electoral rolls, Commonwealth War Graves website and military files of Archives NZ, National Archives of Australia, and National Archives (UK). As can be seen on the list there are questions around some of the entries, e.g. some of the names on memorials have been unable to to be traced and confirmed, there are questions about their connection to Manawatū, etc, but the list has been uploaded in its entirety.
Christine Clements
Manawatū
Manawatu Journal of History: Volume 1
The Manawatu Journal of History contains articles on the history of the wider Manawatu area, written by a variety of contributors. The Journal is published annually. Conditions of use: This journal is made available for personal use, study and research and all articles remain copyrighted to their original authors. For permission to reuse or publish please contact: The Editor, Manawatu Journal Associates, PO Box 1702, Palmerston North 4440.
Manawatu Historic Journal Associates
"John Jarvie 'Jack' Gillies"
Article on John Gillies (1866 - 1940). In the 19th century he was involved in the sawmilling and dairy industries in the Manawatū, and later began a taxi service.
Val Burr
From Swamp To City
Official souvenir, commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of Palmerston North. The illustrated book was compiled by Robert H Billens and H Leslie Verry and the Organiser was H E Taylor, under the auspices of the Diamond Jubilee of Palmerston North and District Committee, headed by the Mayor, A E Mansford. The book contains a short history of the area, as well as potted histories of some businesses, organisations and institutions, up until 1937. The 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Borough of Palmerston North was celebrated in 1937.
Billens and Verry
Brief history of the Establishment of Palmerston North
Palmerston North was surveyed and opened for settlement in 1866. Ian Matheson, City Archivist, created a series of manuscripts on the local history of Palmerston North in the course of his work.
Ian Matheson
circa 1980 to circa 1989
The Houses of Bernard Cox
Bernard Cox (1905 - 1970) was a Palmerston North architect. The houses designed by Cox are important as examples of modernism, a major twentieth century movement that revolutionised the way houses are designed and constructed and which expressed the social vision of the mid-twentieth century. This booklet, detailing Cox's life and some of his buildings, was written to accompany an exhibition mounted by the Manawatu Branch of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
Margaret Tate - Manawatu Branch of New Zealand Histroic Places Trust
Origins of street names of Palmerston North
Typewritten list of the names of streets in Palmerston North and their origins, as in 1953. Includes some alterations and additions in the hand writing of A G S Bradfield. An amended version of this list was published in 'Fogotten Days' by Bradfield in 1956
A G S Bradfield
Palmerston North Houses 1880 - Present Day
Styles included in this booklet, published by the Planning Department of the Palmerston North City Council City in 1986, are: Cottages (1880-1890), Square Villas (1890-1905), Bay Villas (1900-1910), Late Villas/Early Bungalows (1910-1920), Bungalows (1920-1935), Grand Houses (1918-1938), Flat Roof Styles (1937-1943) and the variety of styles that were popular in the 1940s-1984.
Streets and Footpaths in Palmerston North
This documents details how roading amenities were developed in the early days of the borough of Palmerston.
Brian Mather
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Palmerston North City Council History
A brief history of the development of the local authority that has administered Palmerston North since 1877 - Palmerton North Borough Council 1877-1930 and Palmerston North City Council 1930 onwards. Ian Matheson, City Archivist, created a series of manuscripts on the local history of Palmerston North in the course of his work.
‘Milson Pioneers: Milson and Linklater Families and Farms’
An historical record of the pioneers of the Milson and Linklater familes, who settled in the Palmerston North area.
Contents: Editorial - Cushla Scrivens Spending a Penny: Public Rest Rooms for Women in Palmerston North and Feilding - Dorothy Pilkington Veteran Curator: Charles Hirtzel and the Manawatu Philosophical Society Museum - Fiona McKergow Olga Maria Monrad: Danish Pioneer, Mother and Wife - Lise Toenner Researching the History of a House: A Glimpse of Early Feilding - Cushla Scrivens The Choral Societies of Palmerston North - Graham Parsons A Post Office Preserved - Margaret Tate A Life in Photography - Ivan Mandahl, as told to Betty Williamson The Palmerston North Squash Club: The Golden Early Years - Grant Smith Request for Information: The Bridle Track - Noelene Wevell Book Reviews: Monro: The Life and Times of the Man who Gave New Zealand Rugby by Clive Akers (Reviewed by Lucy Marsden) We See What Your Mean... A History of St Dominic's School for Deaf Children and the Catholic Deaf Ministry in New Zealand by Dorothy Pilkington (Reviewed by Kathy Broadley) Terrace End: The Story of Palmerston North's First Suburb by Garry O'Neill (Reviewed by James Watson) Notable Lives Brian Mather Jim Lundy The Manawatu Journal of History contains articles on the history of the wider Manawatu area, written by a variety of contributors. The Journal is published annually. Conditions of use: This journal is made available for personal use, study and research and all articles remain copyrighted to their original authors. For permission to reuse or publish please contact: The Editor, Manawatu Journal Associates, PO Box 1702, Palmerston North 4440.
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Ipad Screen Recording
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3 Ways to Record from iPhone and iPad Screen
Select Settings Control Center Customize Items. And tap next to Screen Recording.
Swipe up from the bottom of any screen. On iPhone X or later, or iPad with iOS 12 or later, or iPadOS, swipe down from the top-right edge of the screen.
Press firmly and press Microphone.
Click Start Recording and wait for the 3-second countdown to complete.
Open Control Center and tap. Alternatively, tap the red status bar at the top of the screen and select Stop.
Open the Photos app and select the saved screen recording.
Not all iOS device owners need to create their own screencasts, or, more simply, record from the iPhone screen. However, sometimes such a need may arise. For example, when creating short informations, recording overviews, etc. In this article, we will look at several methods of recording screencasts from iPhone.
A few years ago, the process of recording what was happening on the screen of an apple gadget was quite complicated. Users had to either jailbreak or install a number of third-party applications. Now the situation has changed somewhat.
If you need to record from the screen of your iOS device, there are several ways to do this. over, one of them, recording from the iPhone and iPad screen (including with sound) on the device itself (without the need to use third-party programs) appeared quite recently: in iOS 11 there was a built-in function for this. However, in earlier versions, recording is also possible.
This manual details how to record from the iPhone (iPad) screen in three different ways: using the built-in recording function, as well as from a Mac computer and from a Windows PC or laptop (i.E. The device is connected to a computer and is already produced on it recording of what is happening on the screen).
Note: to use the method, both the iPhone (iPad) and the computer must be connected to the same network, it does not matter via Wi-Fi or using a wired connection.
If necessary, you can record from the screen of your iOS device from a Windows computer or laptop, but this will require third-party software that allows you to receive broadcast via AirPlay.
I recommend using the free program LonelyScreen AirPlay Receiver, which you can download from the official website http://eu.Lonelyscreen.com/download.html (after installing the program, you will see a request to allow it to access public and private networks, you should allow it).
The steps for recording will be as follows:
Launch LonelyScreen AirPlay Receiver.
On your iPhone or iPad connected to the same network as the computer, go to Control Center (swipe from bottom to top) and click Screen Repeat.
The list will show the available devices to which you can broadcast the image via AirPlay, select LonelyScreen.
The iOS screen will be displayed on the computer in the program window.
After that, you can record screen recordings using the built-in Windows 10 tools (by default, you can call the recording panel with the WinG keyboard shortcut) or using third-party programs (see Best programs for recording from a computer or laptop screen).
After the release of OS X Yosemite, owners of apple computers have the opportunity to remove from the iPhone screen without resorting to third-party applications. To record you need:
1. Connect your mobile device to Mac using the supplied cable.
2. Launch QuickTime application.
3. From the File menu, select New Record.
4. In the window that opens at the bottom, press the button (checkmark) located to the right of the start recording button.
5. In the drop-down list that opens, select iPhone as the camera. Users can also select the sound source from the stock Mac microphone, sound from a mobile device, or a third-party source.
6. Click on the record button.
A distinctive feature of this method is a stable connection between the i-device and the computer, due to which there will be no noticeable freezes. However, this method is only suitable for owners of apple computers with OS X Yosemite (and higher). You will also need an iPhone running iOS 8 to record.
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1. Launch the QuickTime Player application, which comes standard with OS X.
2. We connect the iDevice via the Lightning wire to the computer. As I understand it, iPad 1,2,3 with the old connector in the span
3. In QuickTime Player, select File-New Record from the menu.
Attention! Follow steps 1, 2 and 3 in that order. If you do the opposite, then for some reason it does not always work.
4. In the player’s control panel, click on the small checkmark to the right of the record button.
In the drop-down menu, select your device in the Camera and Microphone sections. In the Quality section you can change the quality of the recording. If you set the Maximum, then everything will be absolutely superb, but the size of what was received can go off scale (I managed to write down 1 minute for 200 megabytes). Decide the quality for yourself, experiment.
5. We press the record button. Quicktime Player will show in real time the size of the recording.
6. After stopping the recording, go to the File-Save menu. We save the received to the hard disk. Or by means of QuickTime Player we share the received.
For example, directly from the player you can upload to Youtube:
The described method is convenient in that the recording takes place via a wire, and not Wi-Fi, therefore there are much less glitches. I did not find out of sync in the tests. The downside is that so far, the sound during recording is not played either on the iPad or on the computer, although then there is sound during playback.
It remains to wait for the fall and the official release of OS X and iOS 8, and then use your health!
IOS 8 introduces one useful and poorly advertised feature that only works in conjunction with the new OS X 10.10 Yosemite. We are talking about recording from the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch using the operating system. Before that, in order to record from the screen, you had to use third-party tools. For example, many on our site are recorded using the Reflector application.
Reflector works over Wi-Fi and uses AirPlay technology. I wrote about this in detail in a separate instruction article. Reflector has several drawbacks when compared to the method described below:
The Air Play icon does not always appear on iPad. I am a shaman in such cases: I restart Wi-Fi, change the quality, etc.
Reflector costs 13. So you need to either buy or use a pirated version, which is periodically buggy
Since Reflector uses Wi-Fi, the program records with errors on colorful applications: for example, out of sync and sound is a common thing for Reflector.
With the advent of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, the headaches for me (and for everyone who is going to record a stream from the screen) should be reduced. I will give instructions on how to do this, so that readers have an idea of the innovation.
The preinstalled capture utility appeared in the system with the release of the iOS 11 update. For the recording function to appear in the system interface, it must be activated:
Launch the Settings app;
Go to the menu “Control points”;
Tap on the key “Set up ale. Management”;
Click on the plus button opposite the item “Screen recording”.
To start recording, open the control panel (swipe from the top right) and click on the round recording icon. Pressing hard will open the settings window where you can turn the microphone on or off. To stop recording, touch the red status icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
Screen recording has been a real challenge for owners of portable gadgets for a long time. Fortunately, realizing the need for this functionality, Apple engineers have equipped iOS with convenient image capture tools. You will learn how to record from the iPhone X screen without additional preparation and third-party programs in our new post.
Attention! If you can’t record the screen. You need to reinstall iOS. It is an easy software iPhone X repair
Screen recording on iOS is not a new feature. For a long time, there have been formal and informal ways to do this. The difference today is that iOS 11 is the first of Apple’s mobile operating systems to introduce screen recording as a built-in feature.
IOS 11 is currently in beta testing, so this feature may change or even be canceled before the final version is released, but this is a great feature that is already available for everyone to participate in the beta testing program.
Previously, iOS users who wanted to record the screen of their device had to do so by connecting it to their Mac. In iOS 11, the process is much simpler and does not require the involvement of third-party devices. There’s even a switch in Control Center for the new feature. With iOS 11 Screen Recorder, you can help family members with their app problems, record bugs to send to developers, or even build using apps. Let’s see how you can enable iOS 11 screen recording.
Read more: iOS 12 iPad Update
Launch Settings and select Control Center
Scroll down and click the plus sign next to Screen Recording
Close Settings
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open Control Center
Click the new Screen Recorder button that appears to start recording iOS 11
Since screen recording in iOS 11 captures everything you do, it also captures the moments when you close Control Center or stop recording. To make yours look a little cleaner, be sure to crop the first and last few seconds in the Photos app.
Another potential annoyance with screen recording will be notifications. Turn on Do Not Disturb or switch your device to Airplane Mode so that notifications do not interfere with the recording process.
When you start screen recording on an iOS device, the function also captures the current status bar. Low battery and low signal can be captured in the frame. If you want the clean appearance of 100% battery and full signal, your best bet. Connect it to your mac.
To do this, you have to start all the actions as if you are about to record the device screen on your Mac, but instead start recording from your iOS device. Using this method, iOS will show your battery is 100% full and will also show a full cellular signal.
On iOS 11, screen recording only captures what’s shown on your display, not audio coming from the app you’re viewing. However, you have the option to enable microphone recording. To do this, using 3D Touch, select Microphone Audio in the Screen Recording switch.
Now you know how to use another new feature in iOS 11 and higher. If you have any additions, write them in the comments.
Starting with iOS 11, a capture function appeared in the Apple mobile OS, which allows you to capture everything that happens on the iPhone or iPad screen, and then save the file to the gallery. Here’s what you need to do.
Open Settings, go to Control Center, and click Customize Controls. Find the Screen Recording item in the list and tap the green plus sign next to it. If this item is already in the upper Include list, go to the next step.
Bring up Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen on iPhone 8 and earlier, or swiping down from the top-right corner of the display on iPhone X and later. Click the Screen Recorder icon in the bottom row or hold your finger on it to open an additional menu where you can turn on the microphone.
Three seconds after the countdown, recording will begin, and the status bar or area with the clock will turn red.
To end the recording, click on the status bar or clock area, or on the button in the Control Center. After a couple of seconds, the saved file will appear in the gallery. There it can be edited, uploaded to the cloud or sent via the Share menu.
If you wish, you can also record the screen using a Mac. In this case, earlier versions of iOS will do as well. In addition, the status bar will not turn red, and the time and network indicators on it will be like in all Apple presentations and advertisements. To record iPhone or iPad screen via QuickTime on Mac, do the following.
Connect your iOS device to your Mac using a cable. Launch QuickTime and select the File menu → New entry.
In the window that opens, click on the arrow next to the record button and specify the iPhone as the camera. Here you can select the sound source and quality.
To start recording, press the red button, and at the end, press it again and save the to disk.
This material was first published in August 2014. In April 2020, we updated the text.
The need to use separate equipment for recording sound from the device (see above) and manually mixing the received. And scale.
The impossibility of specifying the resolution of the output image to get the maximum resolution of iPad 4, you simply will not work.
Automatic compression of the received directly on the device.
Ability to automatically post to YouTube.
Ability to create software manuals, provided that you use the fingertip and microphone functions.
Starting with iOS 11, a built-in function for screen recording has appeared on the iPhone and iPad, but a novice owner of an Apple device may not even notice it.
To enable the function, use the following steps (remember, you must have iOS version 11 or higher).
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Go to Settings and open Control Center.
Click Customize Controls.
Pay attention to the list of controls, there you will see the Screen Recording item. Click the plus sign to the left of it.
Exit the settings (press the Home button) and drag the bottom of the screen: in the control center you will see a new button for screen recording. By default, pressing the screen recording button starts recording the screen of the device without sound
However, if you use a strong press (or long press on iPhone and iPad without Force Touch support), a menu will open like in the screenshot, in which you can enable sound recording from the device’s microphone
By default, pressing the screen recording button starts recording the screen of the device without sound. However, if you use a strong press (or long press on iPhone and iPad without Force Touch support), a menu will open like in the screenshot, in which you can enable sound recording from the device’s microphone.
After the end of the recording (performed by pressing the record button again), the file is saved in.Mp4 format, 50 frames per second and stereo sound (at least on my iPhone this is the case).
Below is an instruction on using the function, if something remained unclear after reading this method.
Two proven ways to grip without the hassle.
There are at least two ways to record from the screen of iOS devices, allowing you to create screencasts for streaming games, instructions, and other needs. Fortunately, you don’t need to jailbreak them to use them. Let’s take a closer look at each of them.
Owners of older phones, starting with the iPhone 3GS, will have to download a special utility before making a screen on the iPhone. Among the most popular programs are Display Recorder, iREC and RecordMyScreen. over, if the first two are suitable for officially supported versions of iOS, the latter is intended for jailbreaks.
Open Settings → Command centre → Customize controls.
Find the Screen Recording item in the list and click on the green plus next to it.
Exit Settings and open Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
The Screen Recorder icon appears in the bottom row of icons.
Click on it and exactly three seconds after the countdown, recording will begin.
During recording, the status bar will turn red, signaling the capture process. After finishing, it will be saved in the standard Photo application, from where it can be shared in any convenient way or uploaded to the cloud.
How to Record from Iphone Screen with Sound? This question is very often interested in the newly-minted owners of brand new models Iphone 5s 6 7 8 X. In today’s article I will tell you about the different ways to record from the Iphone screen with and without sound using standard programs and third-party applications.
If you wish, you can also record the screen using a Mac. In this case, you can use earlier versions of iOS as well. In addition, the status bar will not turn red, and the time and network indicators on it will be like in all Apple presentations and advertisements. To record iPhone or iPad screen via QuickTime on Mac, do the following.
Connect iOS device to Mac with cable.
Launch QuickTime and select the File menu → New entry.
In the preview window that opens, click the record button.
When finished recording, press the button again and save the clip to disk.
In the drop-down menu, by clicking the arrow next to the record button, you can optionally select the built-in Mac microphone or the microphone of your mobile device as the audio source for recording. Quality is also set there.
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Unisys Expands Wintel Mainframe Line
In the wake of Intel's launch of its second-generation 64-bit processors, Unisys this week unveiled its plans for its next generation of Wintel mainframes. Unisys is packaging a new line of its big boxes to make it attractive in more cost-conscious markets. The new servers will roll out over the next few months.
Right around the Windows 2000 launch, Unisys began shipping its 32-processor ES7000 servers, which remain the largest servers on the market running Intel processors. The ES7000 was closely associated with Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. The 32-processor support built into Datacenter was engineered expressly to accommodate the Unisys servers.
Since then Unisys has installed nearly 700 systems, says Mark Feverston, Unisys vice president of enterprise server marketing.
Unisys plans to break into larger volume sales by splitting the Cellular Multi-Processing technology that is the foundation for the ES7000 across two new Intel-based server lines: a high-end line called Orion and a lower-end line called Aries, which remains quite high-end for the Wintel market.
"We pointed the original ES7000 … toward customers who need the highest level of scalability and availability. That's the market where you'd find all the traditional proprietary Unix platforms," Feverston says.
Addressing that need will be the Orion series of servers, which will range in price from $140,000 to $700,000 for fully-configured systems.
"As we've been working with our customers implementing applications in that traditional Unix space, we find that we're getting our second, third or fourth order. But we're getting pulled into the rack-and stack space. People want to consolidate," Feverston says.
Unisys will try to address that market with the Aries line that ranges in price from about $75,000 to $300,000.
With both products lines, Unisys expects to compete with IBM's new x440, which is supposed to begin shipping in 16-way configurations in the next few weeks, and with HP ProLiant 8-ways, as well as with lower-end Unix systems.
Both the Aries and Orion lines will ship in 32-bit and 64-bit models.
The Orion 200, which Unisys unveiled back in April as the ES7000 200, is shipping already. That server scales to 32 processors and supports a mixed load of processors ranging from Pentium III Xeons to Xeon MPs to original Itanium processors.
Xeon MP-only models for each line -- the Orion 230 and the Aries 230 -- will ship in August. Itanium 2-only models for each line -- the Orion 130 and the Aries 130 -- are supposed to ship by October, although Unisys doesn't anticipate a rush. "We're not foreseeing a lot of uptake until people can get their hands on .NET," Feverston says, referring to the 64-bit editions of Windows .NET Enterprise Server and Windows .NET Datacenter Server. The two 64-bit operating systems are supposed to ship at the end of 2002 with the rest of the Windows .NET Server family.
The Aries models will be field-upgradeable to Orion series. Both series will support the next generation of Intel processors that follow Xeon MP and Itanium 2.
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In Memory of Vernon “Tank” Wilson
Vernon “Tank” Wilson was one of the kindest individuals I have ever met in my 38 years on this Earth. A gentleman in every sense of the word, he was giving, genuine, and treated everyone with dignity and respect. His life was filled with friends, family, and a career working in Education. Tank was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather. Whether he knew it or not, he made a major impact in my life as well. When my family first moved to Meade County, I got my first taste of golf at Hillcrest CC. “Mr. Wilson” was one of the first adults that I remember encouraging youngsters to get out and play or practice. In a roundabout way, he may have had as big of an impact on me as a junior golfer as anyone else in my life.
After retiring from Meade County Schools, Tank was one of the primary staff members that ran the “golf shop” at HCC. I think he did it out of joy and his love for golf more anything else. His family had been longtime members at HCC, and this gave him time to work on another hobby of his….tinkering with golf equipment. During the summer after my 3rd grade year in school I started periodically hitting range balls with some friends and their junior clubs. Mr. Wilson always let us hit balls……Even if we didn’t have any money. My parents weren’t about to shell out big bucks on new clubs that I would quickly outgrow, but lucky for me I would soon learn that “Mr. Wilson” had acquired or built more golf clubs than some small golf shops. Ironically, my first set of clubs was Wilson brand and came from Mr. Wilson. His price for the whole set was $15. (If he knew I would fall in love with the game of golf like I did, I have no doubt he would have given them to me for free.) Once I knew that Mr. Wilson liked messing with clubs he was always the first person that I would show a new driver, or ask about a new putter. He always let me hit his clubs as I got older, and I’ll always remember him saying “Get out there and hit that rascal!” Tank was a big believer in legendary golf instructor Harvey Pennick and always had a pointer he would throw our way that he had picked up over the years. When I teach kids today, I still teach posture the way Mr. Wilson taught me, and I teach better players that “If you want to hit a draw, then the toe of the club has to win the race vs. the heel. If you want to hit a fade, then just get good and nervous!”
Years after that little building shut its doors you could still count on Tank to have a hand written note on the peg board at the restaurant with 4 or 5 things for sale:) My Dad may have been his best customer, and I can say without a doubt that in an era without the internet and google, Mr. Wilson was my wealth of knowledge when it came to golf equipment and technology. He loved to talk about clubs with people, and I think deep down he sold equipment to have an excuse to continue those conversations. 20 years after I first met Mr. Wilson, I took the job as the director of the Meade Activity Center and River Trace GC. Once we became a First Tee location, no one donated more equipment to help support junior golf than Tank. In the 7 years that we have offered golf camps and First Tee programming Mr. Wilson donated over 100 clubs to be utilized by young boys and girls learning a game that he loved.
We lost Tank on Friday, May 1st. He will be missed by many, and will always hold a spot in my heart as “Mr. Wilson”: a man who let hit a young boy hit range balls with him while sliding in subtle pointers and advice. It’s amazing what sticks with you for 30 years when it comes from a caring individual who took the time to listen and teach. I can only imagine the impact that Tank Wilson had on the thousands of people that had the pleasure to know him.
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Khaled Bushnaq appointed regional chair of WorldGBC’s MENA network
By Jason Saundalkar
WorldGBC is committed to advancing green buildings within the region and beyond
The Emirates Green Building Council’s (EmiratesGBC) Khaled Bushnaq has been appointed regional chair of the MENA network of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC).
Bushnaq was appointed thanks to his experience and leadership in the region’s green building movement, as well as for his dedication to improving the sustainability of buildings in the UAE, and wider Middle East region.
Terri Wills, CEO of the World Green Building Council said, “Whilst climate change is a global challenge, the solutions to it are often local and regional. Championing green building at these levels through our regional networks is therefore essential, in order to deliver on our mission of green buildings for everyone, everywhere. Khaled has been a true champion of sustainability across MENA, and his leadership as chair will help to strengthen the network of green building councils in the region.”
The WorldGBC’s MENA network comprises nine councils: Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, amongst others.
Speaking about his appointment, Bushnaq said, “It is my honour to have been chosen as the regional chair and I thank the World Green Building Council and Emirates Green Building Council for this recognition. The MENA region has tremendous potential to implement green building best practices, and one of the important remits of the MENA network is to facilitate greater collaboration and partnership to promote sustainable built environments. The path-breaking achievements by EmiratesGBC in this regard will serve as a benchmark for the region.”
EmiratesGBC says that the MENA region will be critical to the growth of green buildings in the next few years. The organisation states that green building councils in the WorldGBC’s MENA network are already responding to challenges and opportunities on the ground, with the goal of ensuring that buildings deliver a high quality of life for people, while simultaneously minimising environmental impacts and maximising economic benefits.
Saeed Al Abbar, Chairman of Emirates Green Building Council added, “Khaled’s appointment as regional chair for the MENA network is a strong statement on his dedication to promoting sustainable built environments in the region. We at EmiratesGBC congratulate Khaled on this recognition, which will further drive our work in promoting green building best practices. EmiratesGBC has been at the forefront in driving transformational change in sustainable buildings, and we will continue to work with our stakeholders in promoting a green building culture across the MENA region, which today focuses on energy diversification, efficiency and sustainability as important growth drivers.”
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Review by Tom Seymour
Garrett Hedlund Jeff Bridges Olivier Wilde
Five years of development and $300 million, all for this.
As immediate and immersive as a dream, but just as easily forgettable.
A wash of light, colour and sound that forgoes the most basic elements of cinema.
The screen may glow in Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi spectacle, but the soul lies cold.
A seductive opening sequence to Joseph Kosinski’s ambitious TRON sequel sees our hero Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) weave his way down a freeway on a Ducati before he breaks into his father’s company and releases secret software onto the internet, just as ENCOM’s CEO is about to launch a grand trade announcement. The inference is clear – these days, the kids want it for free. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), for those unversed in the original, was a visionary programmer who became trapped in his own virtual creation, and the ‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’ moment arrives swiftly when Sam joins him.
Within minutes, Sam discovers his father’s hidden office and is launched from 2D reality into The Grid, a circuit board world of chromed cityscapes and charcoal skies streaked with pulsing light that morphs and stretches out of the screen towards you.
The ensuing action sequences are as impressive as they are prolonged. The camera swoops and dives in impossible curlicues as Sam tries to survive ‘the game’, while the first light cycle chase switches in the blink of an eye from one mutable platform to another. With jet-streams of electric colour coursing behind and igniting the screen, it is a truly remarkable use of 3D technology. When the narrative eventually kicks in it’s easy to sit back and expect some comment on our increasingly intimate relationship with technology. But TRON: Legacy declines to go down that route. Instead, it tries to bring eugenics back into fashion.
The Grid, in Kosinski’s telling, is a fascist state controlled by CLU, a computer program created in the image of Kevin Flynn. Flynn programmed CLU to remorselessly pursue perfection, and subsequently it destroys anything organic and raw. The world of TRON: Legacy is one where colour defines allegiance – tangerine-red for the authorities loyal to CLU; bleach-blue for the repressed underlings – the whole place is replete with Third Reich architecture and uniformed militaristic rallies.
This digital riff on Nietzsche isn’t new, as the remastered version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis will attest, yet theme-park cinema like TRON: Legacy seems a little too comfortable with repackaging established images of genocide – like a stream of crocodiling refugees, or tumbling buildings full of people – to advance a narrative that revolves around killer games of ultimate frisbee, all set to the thumping beats of Daft Punk.
That is post-modernism at its most vapid.
Granted, this was never going to be an opus of profundity, but what really is inexcusable about TRON: Legacy is the android standard of performance. Garrett Hedlund performs the physical scenes well but fails comprehensively on the rare occasions when he’s required to convey empathy. Olivia Wilde, the love interest, has a lego bob and milk-white skin, but her role is largely reduced to fixing her giant sapphire eyes on Sam before Kosinski cuts away. Jeff Bridges, dressed like The Dude in a sauna, rhapsodises about uber-concepts with the credibility of a Goan hippie. Michael Sheen, obviously appreciating the depression of his surroundings, adds his impersonation of Ziggy Stardust, but is more like some awful hybrid of The Mad Hatter and Tony Blair.
It’s clear that Kosinski, a trained architect, has designs on the eyes rather than your mind. He has created a digital world of graphite and neon in which a lexicon of disparate ideas exists, but it’s difficult to compliment him for the overall direction of the film. TRON: Legacy undoubtably pushes at the aesthetics of cinema. It’s as dystopian as Blade Runner and as mystical as Avatar, but without James Cameron’s command of melodrama or Ridley Scott’s melding of thematics.
Published 16 Dec 2010
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The AI List
By Adam Woodward
It’s the new technology that has hollywood’s top stars running scared, but will virtual actors ever take the place of the real thing?
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Tomorrowland A World Beyond
By David Jenkins
Brad Bird’s sparkling sci-fi blockbuster is powered by big ideas and wide-eyed inquiry.
A weedy Crusier is dropped into a time-switching sci-fi set-up, with undeniably interesting results.
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ASM Vol.8 No.1 , January 2018
Female Sexual Dysfunction in Elfayoum Governorate
Samar El-Tahlawi1, Noha Ezzat Mohammad2, Asmaa Younes Elsary3, Noha Mohamed Yousef2, Talal Abdelreheem2
1 Dermatology and Venereology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
2 Dermatology and Venereology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Elfayoum University, Elfayoum, Egypt.
3 Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt.
Abstract: Introduction: female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is a complex and poorly understood condition that affects females of all ages. Female sexual dysfunction has been a cyclic rather than a linear process that emphasizes biologic, psychological, social, hormonal, and environmental factors. Female sexual dysfunction is a high prevalent disorder reaching up to 60% of females with reported higher levels in postmenopausal. Aim of the work: was to estimate prevalence of FSD and its related factors in Elfayoum city. Subject and Method: This study was a cross sectional descriptive study conducted in Elfayoum city included 508 married females (above 21 years old) during the period from September 2016 to March 2017. Results: The prevalence of FSD among studied group was 61.2% versus 38.8% had normal sexual function, desire dysfunction was 42.3%, arousal dysfunction was 39.2%, lubrication dysfunction was 25%, orgasm dysfunction was 58.5%, satisfaction dysfunction was 58.1% and pain was 43.3%. There was statistically significant negative correlation between Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) score and each of female and husband age, duration of marriage, and number of children. Low mean of FSFI score was found among females with irregular menstrual cycle, using contraceptive, not pregnant, mutilated and females who’s their husband had erectile or ejaculation disorders. Conclusion and recommendation: High prevalence of FSD among females in Elfayoum governorate. Many factors are found to affect FSD as FGM, each of female and husband age, duration of marriage, and number of children.
Keywords: Female Sexual Dysfunction, Elfayoum
Sexuality represents an important and integral part of every female life [1] . It is a common problem with significant impact on women, their relationships as well as their overall quality of life [2] .
Prevalence of FSD ranges from 26.6% to 63% worldwide and even higher in post-menopausal women [3] .
Female sexual dysfunction is a multifactor-related problem including psychological and socioeconomic factors. Moreover, female sexual function is usually significantly affected by endocrine factors (prolactin, gonadal hormone] [4] .
Partner factors (such as partner’s sexual problems and partner’s health status) are considered a very important issue that should be sought for after exclusion of other factors [5] .
Female genital mutilation defined as partial or complete removal of external female genitals. Four types are recognized varying from removal of clitoral foreskin to removal of all external tissues with sewing up of vaginal opening leaving a small opening for urination and menstruation.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) classification of female sexual dysfunction [6] .
・ Female orgasmic disorder (FOD).
・ Female sexual interest/arousal disorder.
・ Genito pelvic pain/penetration disorder.
・ Substance/medication-induced sexual dysfunction (in women).
・ Other specified sexual dysfunction.
・ Unspecified sexual dysfunction.
Many methods estimating FSD in clinical and research settings were established, including questionnaires, structured interviews, and detailed case histories. Questionnaires have been considered an easy first choice to screen individuals and putting them in different classes of FSD [7] .
2. Patients and Method
Study design: This study was a cross sectional descriptive study conducted on women living in Elfayoum city during the period of 6 months from September 2016 to March 2017 to evaluate the FSD and related risk factor.
Study population: married females (above 15 years old) in Elfayoum city.
Sampling: clustered random sample (represented by married females in reproductive age) from health care facilities (outpatient clinic of Dermatology, STDs and Andrology department―Faculty of Medicine Elfayoum University and 2 Primary health care centers PHC in Elfayoum city).
Sample size: Study included 508 women (had the inclusion criteria).
1) Females with any gynecological disorder causing FSD.
2) Females with psychosis or on antipsychotic drugs.
3) Females with neurological disorder.
Data were collected by personal interview with self- structured Arabic questionnaire which completed and filled for illiterate females through clarification and explanation provided by researcher.
Female sexual dysfunction was assessed by a detailed 19-item Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) [8] .
Written and Informed consent was obtained from all females. FSFI pro forma was given to females according to their preferred language. Pro forma was pilot tested for cultural appropriateness and linguistic accuracy. Illiterate women were interviewed in person. All six domains of sexual dysfunction, i.e., desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain were studied, as shown in Table 1.
Table 1 FSFI total score of ≤23.55 to be diagnostic of FSD [9] .
The optimal CVFSFI cutoff score for the FSFI total score was 23.45
≤2.7 low desire
≤3.15 arousal
≤4.05 lubrication disorder
≤3.8 orgasm disorder
≤3.8 sexual pain
The optimal CVFSFI cutoff score for the FSFI total score was 23.45 (sensitivity = 66.9%; specificity = 72.7%; area under curve [AUC] = 0.75). The cutoff score for each domain was also established as follows: ≤2.7 low desire (sensitivity = 55.2%; specificity = 78.3%; AUC = 0.73); ≤3.15 arousal disorder (sensitivity = 62.1%; specificity = 76.9%; AUC = 0.74); ≤4.05 lubrication disorder (sensitivity = 86.4%; specificity = 69.8%; AUC = 0.85); ≤3.8 orgasm disorder (sensitivity = 83.3%; specificity = 74.2%; AUC = 0.85); and ≤3.8 sexual pain (sensitivity = 65.4%; specificity = 80.6%; AUC = 0.79). Using these cutoff scores, we determined the prevalence for FSD, low desire, arousal disorder, lubrication disorder, orgasm disorder, and sexual pain to be 37.6%, 23.6%, 25.4%, 36.8%, 30.6%, and 21.8% in urban Chinese women [9] .
General examination was conducted as part of evaluation process with em-
Table 1. Domain Scoring of Female Sexual Function Index.
phasis on signs of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, liver disorder.
Local examination of external genitalia was conducted to detect degree of circumcision and to exclude any gynecological disorder.
Ethical consideration:
In order, to obtain informed by a verbal consent from the participant, first full explanation to women that the study is about women sexual health, they were informed about the aim of the study and they had the right not to participate or end their participation at any stage of the interview and we also take a permission from the doctor responsible for the PHC, all participants were assured of confidentially.
This study was approved from Ethical committee of faculty of medicine, Elfayoum University.
・ Data were collected and coded to facilitate data manipulation and double entered into Microsoft Access and data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 18 in windows 7.
・ Simple descriptive analysis in the form of numbers and percentages for qualitative data, and arithmetic means as central tendency measurement, standard deviations as measure of dispersion for quantitative parametric data, and inferential statistic test:
- For quantitative parametric data:
・ In-depended student T-test used to compare measures of two independent groups of quantitative data.
・ One way ANOVA test in comparing more than two independent groups of quantitative data with bonferroni Post-HOC to test significance between each two groups.
- For qualitative data
・ Chi square test to compare two of more than two qualitative groups.
- Bivariate person correlation test to test association between variables.
・ The P-value 0.05 was considered the cut-off value for significance.
This study included (508) females from the attendants of the health care facilities (outpatient clinic of Dermatology, STDs and Andrology of faculty of medicine, Elfayoum University, Primary health care and Maternity and child health in EL Fayoum city) during the period from September 2016 to march 2017. The results can be shown in Tables 2-10.
The prevalence of FSD among study group was 61.2% versus 38.8% had normal sexual function, desire dysfunction was 42.3%, arousal dysfunction was 39.2%, lubrication dysfunction was 25%, orgasm dysfunction was 58.5%, satisfaction dysfunction was 58.1% and pain dysfunction was 43.3%, as shown in Table 6.
Table 2. Description of age, age of marriage, duration of marriage and number of children among study group.
Table 3. Comparison of working and educational level among study group.
Table 4. Description of gynecological history, genital mutilation and its degree among study group, frequency of smoking and sexual problems among husbands of study group.
Table 5. Description of FSFI scores domains and its total score.
Table 6. Prevalence of FSD among study group.
There was statistically significant negative correlation between FSFI score and each of female, and husband age, duration of marriage, and number of children. While, there is statistically significant positive correlation between FSFI score and age of marriage, as shown in Table 7.
There was statistically significant difference between different residences in FSFI score with high mean females in habitat urban area, also there was statistically significant difference between different education level, working status of females and their husbands in FSFI score with high mean of FSFI score among highly educated couples and working couples. Regarding smoking FSFI showed no statistical difference, as shown in Table 8.
There was statistically significant difference between different gynecological history of females in FSFI score with high mean of FSFI score among females with regular menstrual cycle, not using contraceptives, pregnant, and non-mutilated. Mutilated females with first degree have higher FSFI score than those with second degree, as shown in Table 9.
Table 7. Correlation between total FSFI score with age and marital variables among study group.
Table 8. Comparisons of total FSFI score in different residence, smoking, educational level and working.
Table 9. Comparisons of total FSFI score with gynecological variables.
There was statistically significant difference between different husbands sexual problems in FSFI score of their wives, with high mean of FSFI score among females whose husbands had no erectile, or ejaculation problems and feel sexual satisfaction, as shown in Table 10 and Figure 1.
Female sexual dysfunction is a worldwide common problem, its prevalence ranges from 26.6% to 63% worldwide [4] .
This disorder affects sexual response cycle causing stresses and relationship
Table 10. Comparisons of total FSFI score in husband sexual problems.
Figure 1. The mean FSFI score in different husband sexual problems.
problems including decrease in sexual desire, sexual arousal disorder, and orgasmic disorder [10] .
Female sexual dysfunction is a combination of biological, psychological, social and cultural factors, which makes a total or partial loss of the sexual response [11] .
There are many factors contribute to the sexual response, including age, marriage duration, relationship quality, individual psychological problems that roots on childhood relations with parents, and how to cope with emotions [12] .
Many methods such as questionnaires, structured interviews, and detailed case histories are used to survey and classification of subjects according to affected sexual domain [7] .
The aim of this study was to asses FSD prevalence and associated risk factors among Elfayoum city females. Our study included (508) females from the attendants of the health care facilities (outpatient clinic of Dermatology, STDs and Andrology of faculty of medicine Elfayoum University, Primary health care and Maternity and child health in Elfayoum city) during the period from September 2016 to march 2017. Females were questioned about FSD by using FSFI and associated factors [8] .
In this study the prevalence of FSD among study group was 61.2%. Desire dysfunction was 42.3%, arousal dysfunction was 39.2%, lubrication dysfunction was 25%, orgasm dysfunction was 58.5%, satisfaction dysfunction was 58.1% and pain dysfunction was 43.3%. In a study by Mamdouh et al.: The FSD prevalence was found to be 53.7% of women. These variations may reflect medical and psychological factors, particularly in the setting of possible socio-economic and cultural differences, the clinical definition used for each dysfunction, methodology used in data collection and the characteristic of samples studied (general population or gynecology clinics) [13] .
In this study orgasm and satisfaction dysfunctions were the most frequent domains of FSD (58.5% and 58.1% respectively). Varghese et al. in 2012 had reported orgasm being most common and pain least common disorder among different domains. In another study done by Esfehani et al. in 2016, sexual desire was the most frequent domain of FSD 49.2%. This difference could be due to variations in cut-off points determined for FSD domains [14] [15] .
In this thesis, FGM had a bad impact on FSFI score; mutilated females especially with 2nd degree had worse FSFI score. This result was in agreement with the findings by Mahmoud in 2016 as her work revealed a significant association between FGM and reduction of all aspects of sexual act. This could be explained by the fibrosis and rigid scar tissue following FGM which predisposes to narrowing of the vaginal orifice and muscular spasm which makes intercourse painful and difficult. These physical factors will predispose to psychological one, where the painful experience will drive women to lose both sexual desire and satisfaction [16] .
In our study FSFI score significant affection was reported in females whose partners having sexual problems. This was in line with Grewal et al. who reported a significant impact of male partner’s sexual functioning on female sexual dysfunction and it was the main predictor for female sexual dysfunction after controlling other variables [17] .
On the same line, a study by Jiann and his colleagues confirmed that ED is considered as a risk factor for female dysfunction, including impairment in arousal, orgasm, sexual satisfaction and sexual pain, this may lead to frustration and tension within the relationship, and impact upon her sexual functioning. The impact of ED on a woman sexual function is significant and warrants further attention [18] .
In this study, females in urban area had significant higher FSFI score than females in rural area. Also, there is a negative correlation between FSFI score and female age. This result was in agreement with Kunkeri et al. as they found that; desire and orgasm problem were more among women with age > 35 years, lower education level and those belonging to rural background. Various reasons for this significant finding could be lack of sexual knowledge among these women, especially those coming from a rural background and who are uneducated [19] .
FSFI score was found to be negatively correlated with duration of marriage and number of children. This result was in agreement with Tehrani et al. in 2014 who had determined that a long marriage life negatively affected the sexual functions. Advancing age of the woman or the couple’s loss of interest for each other, or problems arising between the man and wife, increased economic problems in families with larger numbers of children may affect the sexual life of couples [20] .
There was statistically significant difference regarding FSFI score in different education level of females and their husbands with high score among highly educated couples. Tekin et al. in 2014 found that the level of sexual function was found to be higher in women with secondary school education than in women with primary school and lower education and in women with university and higher education. This discrepancy in findings can be explained by the interaction of other factors such as age, working status, and duration of marriage, with the educational level. The positive association between FSFI score and education level in our study can explained as a higher educational level may also be associated with an increase in the women’s ability freely to express their dissatisfaction which help the woman to solve this problem [21] .
In this study, FSFI score was statistically higher among working couples. Work of the wife and her husband plays a role in increasing their income which certainly has a role on their sexual functions. In addition, working is usually associated with good educational level which permits better interconnection.
This result agrees with studies performed in Turkey by Özerdoğan et al. in 2009 as they found close association between income levels with sexual functions [22] . On the contrary, Özkan et al. in 2009 reported that as the income increased, the sexual desire, lubrication and satisfaction decreased [23] .
In this study pregnant females had statistically significant higher FSFI score than non pregnant. This is an inconsistent finding with another study by Kuljarusnont et al. [24] . Low percentage of pregnant females (only 19.5%) in our study doesn’t help us to have an appropriate idea about effect of pregnancy on female sexual function.
In this study, females’ not using contraceptives had statistically significant higher mean of FSFI score than those using contraceptive methods. Hormonal contraceptive has a well known role in impairing desire domain that negatively affected other domains. This was in agree with İbrahim et al. in 2013 who reported that women practicing hormonal contraception and using intrauterine device had worse FSFI, whereas FSFI was not affected in women practicing no contraception [25] .
On the contrary, a study carried out in Colombia reported that the total FSFI score was low in women practicing natural contraception, whereas it was higher in women using modern contraception methods; however, the difference between these two groups was insignificant [26] .
5. Conclusion and Recommendation
There is a high prevalence of FSD among females in Elfayoum governorate. Many factors are found to affect FSD as FGM, each of female and husband age, duration of marriage, and number of children. Large scale studies are recommended to seek for other factors related to FSD.
Cite this paper: El-Tahlawi, S. , Ezzat Mohammad, N. , Elsary, A. , Yousef, N. and Abdelreheem, T. (2018) Female Sexual Dysfunction in Elfayoum Governorate. Advances in Sexual Medicine, 8, 1-13. doi: 10.4236/asm.2018.81001.
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It's been a month since I explained Sansa the situation we were in, she understood with simplicity of what was going on but reacted as one would expect of a child, panicking, but like me, she shared the idea that I should contact the King.
But considering Lady Stark wanted to end our betrothal this was quite a delicate situation, so I decided to send a Raven to deliver the message.
Telling Lord Stark about the plots the lions were cooking, While I focused on other important matters, getting my silkworms, apparently there was one merchant in Essos that sold the little bastards, and he happened to be the one that had something I wanted.
Three dragon eggs.
Magister Illyrio, not only he had a contact with someone that distributed silkworms for silk farms but also had three dragon eggs at his disposal, and he didn't know about their real value.
If I managed to buy those little eggs I would ensure that Daenerys never became a threat, to me at least.
But those weren't the only Dragons eggs in the world, in total there were five eggs in this world, according to the books at least.
One would be found or will be found by Euron Greyjoy who will proceed to be an idiot and throw it into the sea, and the last one location is unknown, some say is in Dragonstone others say in beyond the wall, but no one can say for sure.
With this in mind I ordered one of my krakens, two Ravens, and many other fish to find Euron, and keep an eye on him, should he find the dragon egg I would take it from him and kill the last Greyjoy.
If I managed to collect all the dragon eggs I would acquire five dragons, five mythical flying fire breathing beasts.
And I would become nearly unstoppable.
"I heard you are leaving, to Essos," Sansa said, entering my solar. It has been a month since we got back to Bear Island and she was clearly not happy with me leaving so soon, but things had to be done, and I needed her in Winterfell to advocate against the Lannister's plans.
"I'll be back, besides you get to be with your family for a bit, I know you miss Jeyne," I smiled as I whispered with a smirk, "and Arya,"
"Fine, but just so you know, mother will try to persuade me, to break our betrothal," Sansa pouted.
"That's why you will talk with your father, only he can convince the King, as of now he hasn't break anything," I knew Sansa would talk with her father, and that Lord Stark knew thanks to my messenger what the Lannister's were plotting, and the wolves hated the lions, so with all this information he would at the very least show resistance to any idea about breaking my betrothal.
"I know, I have to be the one in our side, now that mother is against us," Sansa sighed, grabbing my hand softly.
"Yes, you have, until we marry," I nodded, reciprocating her gesture, "Be safe, I'll be back in a couple months, after I ensure some trading routes with Essos,"
"And I'll be waiting," Sansa smiled.
With Sansa going to stay with her family for a bit, and with me going over to Essos things were starting to align in my favor.
Everyone kept pushing into the game, one way or another they wanted me to play, so perhaps I had to play, so that I could destroy the game once and for all.
I wasn't entirely sure, but one thing was sure, if I didn't play, they would keep poking me, testing my limit until I snapped.
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But to play the game I needed more than what I had, so I was determined to buy the Dragon eggs the magister had, and by the information I had, those three babies were quite expensive.
But I would pay their hatched weight in gold if I had too, three dragons would highly increase my possibilities of winning.
"Sir the ship is ready," One of the iron born said, respect and some light adoration in his eyes, no one would believe they wanted to kill me a couple of months ago.
"Then let's go," I ordered, getting inside the ship.
My trip to Essos was, as I expected to be, boring and incredibly long.
It would take a couple more days to arrive, part of me was excited to see this new unknown land but another part of me was stressed.
The possibilities of finding my father and the bitch he married to were big.
But I didn't have time to cling into the past, without him being an idiot letting his dick control him I wouldn't be here, I needed control to have success, and by no means the idiot of a father I was given in this life had the brain nor vision to understand that.
"We should be there in five days, my lord," The captain informed me.
"Good," I nodded, letting him know I wanted to be alone.
But other thoughts crowded my mind, what if Sansa didn't succeed and Tywin managed to whisper the right words to the King?
I had no political power to stop that, if the King said so I was destined to lose her, perhaps this was the way of the gods to show me, I should be King, only then, I would have the power to break this wretched wheel of plots and power.
"Ronard Mormont I, the first of his name," I chuckled as I served a cup of wine, "The things these political sharks push me to do,"
Perhaps this was the only way, why aim for lordship when you can aim for kingship.
"Well I hope you are happy Tywin, because I'm in, let the game begin,"
[Cersei Lannister POV]
Father wanted to break the betrothal between Ronard and Sansa, saying we needed to strengthen our bonds with the north.
And had succeeded in manipulating the idiot I have for a husband, all it took was a couple of words to revive his emotions to what happened with Lyanna and Robert started to consider breaking the betrothal.
I don't know how, but he convinced Joffrey of supporting this charade, probably appealing to his sadistic side, Joffrey is into this just because it will bring sorrow to others.
Robert has yet to make a decision, but one way or another the old lion gets his way.
[Robert Baratheon POV]
Tywin came to visit, that old lion is nothing but trouble, but brought something to my attention that it was worth noticing.
Tywin said that Sansa should be betrothed to Joffrey, at first I didn't mind, but Joffrey all of the sudden was infatuated with her.
What if this was like Lyanna and me, I can't allow that to happen!
What should I do?!
"Damn it! Ned! It should've been you in this fucking chair!" I growled as the wine boy poured more wine in my cup.
*Hrmmmm idiot the king is, Yrsss* Unbeknownst to the king an incredibly wise and powerful raven was seeing everything.
[Joffrey Baratheon POV]
Grandfather came and offered me a deal, he said I would make two important people suffer if I accepted.
All I had to do was to make father believe I wanted Sansa Stark.
I was delighted with the idea, the only bad part was I had to marry an ugly northerner, but I was to be king! And a king can do as he pleases, after I'm done with her I'll just kill her and make that bastard in the north suffer even more knowing he never had her.
"I can't wait to see them suffer,"
[Varys POV]
Tywin had made his play, quite a dangerous one might I add.
He is manipulating the King to do his bidding, so that the crown has the north, and so that he can betrothed his granddaughter to the young lord.
This will end bad, I can feel it.
The tides of the game are changing, and the realm is in danger.
I wonder if this will make Lord Mormont enter the game? He is now one of the big players, things are just getting complicated.
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U.S. tells Iran to send plane so Washington can deport 11 Iranian nationals
Humeyra Pamuk
Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "Confronting the Coronavirus: The Federal Response" on Capitol Hill in Washington
By Humeyra Pamuk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States urged Tehran on Monday to send a charter plane to take home 11 Iranian nationals whom Washington wants to deport, and accused the Islamic Republic of stalling the repatriation process.
"We have 11 of your citizens who are illegal aliens who we have been trying to return to your country. You suddenly SAY you want them back, so how about you send a charter plane over and we’ll return all 11 at once?" Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the U.S. Homeland Security Department, said in Twitter posts.
He said Washington had been trying for months to return Sirous Asgari, an Iranian science professor who was acquitted in November of stealing trade secrets but was still under U.S. custody, and that Tehran was delaying the process.
Cuccinelli did not make any mention of a prisoner swap between the two countries that cut diplomatic relations 40 years ago - something Iranian sources have said was in the works.
"Stop talking rubbish!" Abbas Mousavi, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, tweeted. "Since Sep2018, @JZarif has put 'universal prisoners swap' on the table, urged U.S. act responsibly abt the Iranian HOSTAGES in & elsewhere. Your regime has reacted callously & risked their lives....Let our citizens go!"
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said earlier that Tehran had been ready for a prisoner exchange for some time and that it was the United States that had not responded yet, Iran’s Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying.
Both countries have called for the release of prisoners because of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Iran is the worst-hit country in the Middle East, while the United States has reported the highest number of deaths and infections worldwide from the virus.
Reuters reported last week that the United States was expected to deport Asgari, who tested positive for the coronavirus more than two weeks ago, once he received medical clearance to travel.
Iranian sources have said talks for a prisoner swap between the United States and Iran have been in the works for some time and that Washington was negotiating for the release of Michael White, a U.S. Navy veteran who has been detained in Iran since 2018. He was released from prison in mid-March to Swiss custody and is on medical furlough, but remains in Iran.
It was not immediately clear who would be exchanged for White, but a U.S. official denied that Washington was negotiating to swap Asgari for White as Iranian officials have suggested.
As the United States and Iran lack diplomatic relations, Switzerland looks after U.S. interests with Tehran.
On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had a telephone conversation with his Swiss counterpart, Ignazio Cassis, and thanked him for Switzerland's "continued and constructive role" as Washington's protecting power in Iran and its assistance in repatriating U.S. citizens from that country.
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Mary Milliken and Peter Cooney)
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An Act relative to the lawful return of property
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Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
8/22/2019 Joint Hearing rescheduled to 08/28/2019 from 10:00 AM-03:00 PM in A-2
2/24/2020 House Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
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LENIN'S NOTES
I. The principal economic fea-
ture of present day society is the
domination of capitalist pro-
duction relations in it,
i.e., ownership of the means of
production and of commodity
circulation by the numerically
very small class of capitalists,
while the majority of the popu-
lation consists of proletarians,
who have no other possession but
their labour-power, and cannot
subsist except by selling it.
In consequence of this, the ma-
jority of the population is reduced
to the dependent position of
wage-workers, whose labour cre-
ates the income of the capitalists.
II. The sphere of domination
of capitalist production relations
is constantly expanding, as con-
tinuous technical progress
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is not a "feature" of present-
day society, but its economic
system or mode, etc.
No. 2 -- The means of pro-
duction belong not only to
the capitalists, but to the
landowners and small pro-
ducers as well.
No. 3 -- The proletariat is
not the majority of the pop-
ulation in many countries.
No. 4 -- The proletariat
possesses certain articles
of consumption (and partly
means of production too).
Page 2. No. 5 + of the
landowners.
To page 2. Not technical
progress but private owner-
ship expropriates and ver-
elendet* the small producer.
* Impoverishes. --Ed.
increases the economic importance
of the big enterprises and thereby
decreases the number of independ-
ent small producers, reduces
their role in the economic life
of society,
and at places turns them directly
into vassals and tributaries of
the big manufacturers.
III. Capitalist production re-
lations weigh more and more
heavily on the working class,
as technical progress, by incre-
asing the productivity of labour,
not only makes it materially
possible for the capitalists to
intensify the exploitation of the
workers, but converts this possi-
bility into reality, occasioning
a relative reduction in the demand
No. 6 -- "and thereby"?? Of
itself technical progress can-
not increase the economic
importance of the big enter-
prises. As the result of tech-
nical progress (+ a number of
economic changes, such as in
market conditions, etc.) small-
scale production is being oust-
ed by large-scale production.
No. 6-7. Capitalism does
not always "decrease the
n u m b e r of small producers"
(relatively, and not necessar-
ily absolutely, particularly in
Russia).
(Capitalism expropriates
and leads him -- the small
producer -- to degradation
and impoverishment. . . .)
Page 2. No. 7. Reduces the
role of the small = increases
the economic importance of
the big (one and the same
thing).
No. 8 -- Directly -- delete.
The process of the separa-
tion of the producer from the
means of production is not
indicated.
Page 3 of the original draft.
No. 9.+and on the small
producers (the peasants in
general should be specially
mentioned).
No. 10 -- giving rise to, or
engendering.
for labour-power simultaneously
with a relative and absolute
increase in its supply.
IV. The development of
labour productivity does not raise
the price of labour-power, but,
on the contrary, is very often
the direct cause of its reduction.
Thus, technical progress, which
signifies an increase in social
wealth causes greater social
inequality in capitalist society,
widens the distance between the
propertied and the property-
less, and increases the workers'
economic dependence on the
capitalists.
V. With such a state of affairs
in capitalist society and with the
constantly growing mutual rival-
ry among the capitalist countries
on the world market, the sale of
commodities necessarily lags
behind their production, and this
periodically causes more or less
severe industrial crises attended
by more or less lengthy periods
of industrial stagnation, leading
to a further
Page 3 expressed in an
extremely unpopular, ab-
stract way. Far better in the
Erfurt Programme[2] ". . .the
army of surplus-workers is
growing", "insecurity of
existence is increasing.
Page 4 -- "the price of la-
bour-power" is very often re-
duced (also expressed in a very
abstract way; = the growth
of exploitation, oppression,
poverty, degradation). "Thus"
causes greater inequality. It
would appear from this that
greater inequality is engen-
dered only by the increase
(intensification) in the ex-
ploitation of the wage-work-
er, whereas it is engendered:
1) by the expropriation
of the small producer + 2)
by the impoverishment of
the small producer + 3) by
the increase in exploitation
+ 4) by the growth of the
reserve army.
Page 5. Is it necessary to
indicate the causes of crises
in the programme? If so,
the shortcoming is that two
causes are indicated: 1) great-
er social inequality ("with
such a state of affairs," p. 4)
+ 2) the growth of rivalry.
The basic cause of crises =
Planlosigkeit,* private
appropriation under so-
* Planlessness. --Ed.
reduction in the number and eco-
nomic importance of the small
producers,
to a still greater dependence of
wage-labour upon capital,
and to a still more rapid relative
and at places even absolute, dete-
rioration of the conditions of the
proletariat and the small produ-
cers.
VI. But as these inevitable
contradictions of capitalism
grow and develop, the discontent
of the working class with the
existing order of things also
grows, its struggle against the
capitalist class becomes sharper,
and in its midst the realisation
spreads ever more widely and
that the yoke of economic depend-
ence, which lies on its shoulders,
can be thrown off only through
its own efforts, and that to throw
off this yoke a social revolution
cial production, is not indicat-
Pages 5-6: reduction of the
"e c o n o m i c i m p o r t -
a n c e " of the small produ-
cers is too abstract a term.
Expropriates ( = reduces the
number?) and verelendet.
Page 6 -- of wage-"labour" ?
Isn't it better to say of the
workers ?
Page 6 -- consequences of
a crisis -- relative and ab-
solute deterioration of the
conditions. Isn't it better to
say plainly: unemployment,
poverty of the workers and
the small producers.
Page 7 -- instead of discon-
tent -- indignation.
Page 7 -- the spreading of
a realisation (-- ) is placed
on a par with the growth
of indignation (-- ) and
the aggravation of the strug-
gle (-- ). But and
are spontaneous, whereas
should be introduced by us.
Page 7 -- "only through its
own efforts". This should be
expressed in a more general
way: can be the act only
is necessary, i.e., the destruction
of capitalists production re-
lations and the conversion of the
means of production and of the
circulation of products into pub-
lic property.
VII. This revolution of the
proletariat will emancipate the
whole off mankind, now oppressed
and suffering, since it will put
an end to all forms of oppression
and exploitation of man by man.
VIII. In order to replace capi-
talist commodity production by
the socialist organisation of the
production of articles to satisfy
the needs of society and ensure the
well-being of all its members, in
order to effect its revolution,
the proletariat must have
command of political power,
which will make it master of the
situation and enable it ruthlessly
to smash all the obstacles it will
come up against on the road to
its great goal. In this sense the
dictatorship of the proletariat
is an essential political condition
of the social revolution.
of the working class, etc.
Pages 7-8. 1) destruction
of capitalist production re-
lations? -- Socialist pro-
duction[*] t a k i n g t h e
p l a c e[**] of commodity
production, 2) the expro-
priation of the exploiters,
3) the conversion of the
means of production into
public property ? The conver-
sion of private into public
Page 9 -- unclear***: "to
satisfy the needs of society
and ensure the well-being of
all its members." This is
insufficient : (cf. the Erfurt
Programme: "the greatest
well-being and all-round har-
monious perfection").
Page 9. "Master of the
situation," "ruthlessly to
smash," "dictatorship"???
(The social revolution is
enough for us.)
* It is necessary to explain what this socialist production is. --Ed.
** As is stated on pages 8-9. --Ed.
*** In Lenin's manuscript the word "unclear" is written above the words"to
satisfy the needs". --Ed.
IX. But the development of
international exchange and the
world market has established such
close ties among all nations
of the civilised world, that this
great goal can be attained only
through the united efforts of the
proletarians of all countries.
Hence the present-day working-
class movement had to become,
and has long become, an interna-
tional movement.
X. Russian Social-Democracy
regards itself as one of the detach-
ments of the world army of the
proletariat, as part of interna-
tional Social-Democracy.
XI. It pursues the same ulti-
mate aim as the Social-Demo-
crats of all other countries set
It discloses to the workers the
irreconcilable antagonism be-
tween their interests and those of
the capitalists, explains to them
the historical significance, nature,
and prerequisites of the social
revolution which the proletariat
is to carry out, and organises
their forces for an unremitting
struggle against their exploiters.
Page 10 -- nil.
Page 11. -- "The same End-
ziel[*]." Why the repetition?
Page 11. Might there not
be confusion? -- "The same
Endziel " -- and right along-
side the t a s k of the
Social-Democratic Party:
1) To disclose to (?) the
workers the irreconcilable
antagonism between their
interests and those of the
capitalists. 2) To explain to
them the significance, nature,
revolution (+ the necessity
of revolution?).
The Germans put this
more forcibly: weisen natur-
notwendiges Ziel.** 3) To
organise their forces for an
unremitting struggle against
* Ultimate aim. --Ed.
** To indicate the naturally necessary aim. --Ed.
XII . But its immediate aims
are considerably modified by
the fact that in our country
numerous remnants of the pre-
capitalist�serf-owning�social
system are an oppressive burden
on the entire working population
and are the most difficult of
all the obstacles hindering the
progress of the Russian working-
class movement.
The Russian Social-Democrats
still have to work for the estab-
lishment of those juridical in-
stitutions which, constituting a
natural legal complement to
capitalist production relations,
already exist in the advanced
capitalist countries
and are necessary for the complete
and comprehensive development
of the class struggle of wage-
labour against capital.
t h e i r e x p l o i t e r s
(N.B.? + a g a i n s t t h e
g o v e r n m e n t?) + ? t o
d i r e c t the struggle of the
proletariat.
1) is included in 2). 1) --
too limited. It should be:
A to indicate the ultimate
aim, B to create an organi-
sation of revolutionaries to
direct the struggle of the
Page 12. "Remnants of the
serf-owning system . . . are an
oppressive burden on the
entire working population"
( + the retardation of the
development of productive
forces + the deterioration of
living conditions + keeping
the whole people in a state
of ignorance and subjection)
-- the most difficult ob-
stacle ( = remnants)? (What
are these remnants? The
autocracy + all the rest? This
is said b e l o w.)
12-13: necessary to work
for the establishment of
t h o s e (?) j u r i d i c a l
institutions which already
(?) exist in the advanced
countries. (These should be
named more concretely. Un-
popular.)
Page 13 -- of wage-labour?
-- of the workers, of the
struggle of the working class
against the capitalist class
And since the tsarist autoc-
racy, which is the most out-
standing remnant of the old
serf-owning system and the most
harmful in respect of further
social development, is wholly
incompatible with these juridical
institutions, and since by its
very nature it cannot but be the
bitterest and most dangerous
enemy of the proletarian emanci-
pation movement,
the Russian Social-Democrats ad-
vance as their immediate polit-
ical task the overthrow of the
monarchy.
for its complete emancipa-
Page 13. The autocracy is
incompatible with these
juridical institutions (with
political liberty??).
Page 14. Since the a u t o c-
r a c y is incompatible�
the overthrow of the mon-
archy (inconsistent).
Written in early January 1902
DRAFT PROGRAMME
OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC
LABOUR PARTY[*]
I. Commodity production is ever more rapidly developing in Russia, the capitalist mode of production becoming increasingly dominant in it.
II. As the result of continuous technical progress, small-scale production is being ousted to an ever greater degree by large-scale production. The most important part of the means of production (of the land and factories, tools and machinery, railways and other means of communication) is becoming concentrated in the hands of a relatively insignificant number of capitalists and big landowners as their private property. The independent small producers (peasants, handicraftsmen, and artisans) are being ruined in growing numbers, losing their means of production and thus turning into proletarians, or else becoming servants and tributaries of capital. Increasing numbers of working people are compelled to sell their labour-power and become wage-workers, who are dependent on the property-owners and by their labour create the wealth of the latter.
III. The greater the degree of technical progress, the more the growth of the demand for labour-power lags behind the growth of its supply, and the greater are the opportunities for the capitalists to intensify exploitation of the workers. Insecurity of existence and unemployment, the yoke of
* The theoretical part of this programme constitutes the draft proposed by one of the editors, Frey[3] (and drawn up by him on the basis of G. V. Plekhanov's original draft). The practical part of the programme (from the point indicated below to the end) is proposed by the whole committee, i.e., by the five editors.
exploitation, and humiliation of every kind are becoming the lot of ever wider sections of the working population.
IV. This process is being still more aggravated by industrial crises, which are the inevitable outcome of the basic contradictions of capitalism. Poverty and destitution among the masses exist side by side with wastage of social wealth in consequence of the impossibility of finding markets for commodities produced.
V. Thus, the gigantic development of the productive forces of social labour, which is constantly becoming more socialised labour, is attended by monopolisation of all the principal advantages of this development by a negligible minority of the population. The growth of social wealth proceeds side by side with the growth of social inequality; the gulf between the class of property-owners (the bourgeoisie) and the class of the proletariat is growing.
VI. But as all these inevitable contradictions of capitalism increase and develop, the number and the solidarity of the proletarians, their discontent and indignation also grow, the struggle between the working class and the capitalist class becomes sharper, and the urge to throw off the intolerable yoke of capitalism mounts.
VII. The emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself. All the other classes of present-day society stand for the preservation of the foundations of the existing economic system. The real emancipation of the working class requires a social revolution�which is being prepared by the entire development of capitalism�i.e., the abolition of private ownership of the means of production, their conversion into public property, and the replacement of capitalist production of commodities by the socialist organisation of the production of articles by society as a whole, with the object of ensuring full well-being and free, all-round development for all its members.
VIII. This proletarian revolution will completely abolish the division of society into classes and, consequently, all social and political inequality arising from that division
IX. To effect this social revolution the proletariat must win political power, which will make it master of the situa-
tion and enable it to remove all obstacles along the road to its great goal. In this sense the dictatorship of the proletariat is an essential political condition of the social revolution.
X. Russian Social-Democracy undertakes the task of disclosing to the workers the irreconcilable antagonism between their interests and those of the capitalists, of explaining to the proletariat the historical significance, nature, and prerequisites of the social revolution it will have to carry out, and of organising a revolutionary class party capable of directing the struggle of the proletariat in all its forms.
XI. But the development of international exchange and of production for the world market has established such close ties among all nations of the civilised world, that the present-day working-class movement had to become, and has long become, an international movement. That is why Russian Social-Democracy regards itself as one of the detachments of the world army of the proletariat, as part of international Social-Democracy.
XII. The immediate aims of Russian Social-Democracy are, however, considerably modified by the fact that in our country numerous remnants of the pre-capitalist, serf-owning social system, retard the development of the productive forces in the highest degree, render impossible the complete and all-round development of the proletariat's class struggle, and lower the working population's standard of living; they are responsible for the Asiatically barbarous way in which the many-million-strong peasantry is dying out, and keep the entire people in a state of ignorance and subjection, denying them all rights.
XIII. The tsarist autocracy is the most outstanding of these remnants of the serf-owning system and the most formidable bulwark of all this barbarism. It is the bitterest and most dangerous enemy of the proletarian emancipation movement and the cultural development of the entire people.
For these reasons* the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party advances as its immediate political task the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy and its replacement by a
* Here begins the text adopted by the committee as a whole.
republic based on a democratic constitution that would ensure:
1) the people's sovereignty, i.e., concentration of supreme state power in the hands of a legislative assembly consisting of representatives of the people;
2) universal, equal, and direct suffrage, both in elections to the legislative assembly and in elections to all local organs of self-government, for every citizen who has reached the age of twenty-one; the secret ballot at all elections; the right of every voter to be elected to any of the representative assemblies; remuneration for representatives of the people;
3) inviolability of the person and domicile of citizens;
4) unrestricted freedom of conscience, speech, the press and of assembly, the right to strike and to organise unions;
5) freedom of movement and occupation;
6) abolition of social-estates; full equality for all citizens, irrespective of sex, religion or race;
7) recognition of the right to self-determination for all nations forming part of the state;
8) the right of every citizen to prosecute any official, without previously complaining to the latter's superiors;
9) general arming of the people instead of maintaining a standing army;
10) separation of the church from the state and of the school from the church;
11) universal, free, and compulsory education up to the age of sixteen; state provision of food, clothing, and school supplies to needy children.
To protect the working class and to raise its fighting capacity,* the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party demands:
1) that the working day be limited to eight hours for all wage-workers;
* Frey moved that the beginning of this paragraph be altered to read as follows: "To safeguard the working class from physical and moral degeneration, and also to raise its fighting capacity in the struggle for its emancipation. . . ."
2) that a weekly rest period of not less than thirty-six consecutive hours for wage-workers of both sexes employed in all branches of the national economy be established by law;
3) that all overtime be prohibited;
4) that night-work (from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.) in all branches of the national economy be prohibited, with the exception of those branches in which it is essential for technical reasons;
5) that employers be forbidden to employ children under the age of fifteen;
6) that female labour be forbidden in industries specifically injurious to the health of women;
7) that the law establish employers' civil liability for workers' complete or partial disability caused by accidents or by harmful working conditions; that the worker should not be required to prove his employer's responsibility for disability;
8) that payment of wages in kind be prohibited*;
9) that state pensions be paid to aged workers, who have become incapacitated;
10) that the number of factory inspectors be increased; that female inspectors be appointed in industries in which female labour predominates; that observance of the factory laws be supervised by representatives elected by the workers and paid by the state; piece rates and rejection of work done should also be supervised by elected representatives of the workers;
11) that local self-government bodies, in co-operation with elected representatives of the workers, supervise sanitary conditions in living quarters provided for workers by employers, and also see to the observance of rules operating in such living quarters and the terms on which they are leased, with the object of protecting the wage-workers from employers' interference in their lives and activities as private persons and citizens;
12) that a properly organised and comprehensive system of health inspection be instituted to supervise working conditions at all enterprises employing wage-labour;
* Frey moved that the following be inserted here (in the same clause): "that the law should establish weekly payment for all workers employed on a contract basis."
13) that the Factory Inspectorate's activities be extended to artisan, home, and handicraft industries, and to state-owned enterprises;
14) that any breach of the labour protection laws be punishable by law;
15) that employers be forbidden to make any deductions from wages, on any grounds or for any purpose whatsoever (fines, rejections, etc.);
16) that factory courts be set up in all branches of the national economy, with equal representation of workers and employers.
Besides, with the object of democratising Russia's state economy, the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party demands that all indirect taxation be abolished and progressive income-tax be introduced.
With a view to eradicating the remnants of the old serf-owning system, the Party will work for*:
1) abolition of land redemption and quit-rent payments, as well as of all services now imposed on the peasantry as a taxable social-estate;
2) annulment of collective liability[4] and of all laws restricting the peasant in the free disposal of his land;
3) restitution to the people of all sums taken from them in the form of land redemption and quit-rent payments; confiscation for this purpose of monasterial property and of the royal demesnes, and imposition of a special land-tax on members of the big landed nobility who received land redemption loans, the revenue thus obtained to be credited to a special public fund for the cultural and charitable needs of the village communes;
4) establishment of peasant committees
a) for the restitution to the village communes (by expropriation, or, when the land has changed hands, by
* Frey moved that the following words be inserted here: "and for the purpose of facilitating the free development of the class struggle in the countryside," so that the whole paragraph would read as follows: "With a view to eradicating the remnants of the old serf-owning system and for the purpose of facilitating the free development of the class struggle in the countryside, the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party will work for."
redemption, etc.) of the land cut off from the peasants when serfdom was abolished and now used by the landlords as a means of keeping the peasants in bondage;
b) for the eradication of the remnants of the serf-owning system which still exist in the Urals, the Altai, the Western territory, and other regions of the country;
5) empowerment of courts to reduce exorbitant rents and declare null and void all contracts entailing bondage.
Working for the achievement of its immediate political and economic aims,[*] the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party supports every oppositional and revolutionary movement directed against the existing social and political order in Russia, but emphatically rejects all those reformist plans which depict every extension of police tutelage over the working masses as a step towards the solution of the social problem.**
For its part, the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party is firmly convinced that the complete, consistent, and lasting implementation of the indicated political and social changes can be achieved only by overthrowing the autocracy and convoking a Constituent Assembly, freely elected by the whole people.
Written in late January-
early February 1902
* Frey moved that the beginning of the paragraph be altered to read as follows: "Fighting for these demands, the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party," etc.
** Frey moved that the end of this paragraph be altered to read as follows: ". . . plans connected with any extension or consolidation of tutelage of the working masses by the police and officials."
THREE AMENDMENTS
TO THE DRAFT PROGRAMME
No. 1. In Paragraph (A) II, instead of: "As the result of continuous technical progress, small-scale production is being ousted to an ever greater degree by large-scale production"
insert the following:
"Technical progress is making constant headway, large-scale production is developing to an ever-increasing extent, small-scale production is being ousted more and more or is declining."
No. 2. In Paragraph (B) VII, after: "All the other classes of present-day society stand for the preservation of the foundations of the existing economic system"
"and the small producer, who is being ruined under the yoke of capitalism, becomes truly revolutionary only to the extent that he realises the hopelessness of his position and places himself at the standpoint of the proletariat"�
and further begin with a new paragraph.
No. 3. In Paragraph (B) XII, instead of: "are responsible for the Asiatically barbarous way in which the many-million-strong peasantry is dying out"
"are responsible for the Asiatically barbarous forms of exploitation and the agonising extinction of the many-million-strong peasantry."
Written in the second half
of February 1902
[facsimile] page 35
NOTES ON PLEKHANOV'S SECOND
The entire character of the programme is, in my opinion, the most general and basic defect of this draft, one that makes it unacceptable. Specifically, it is not the programme of a party engaged in a practical struggle, but a Prinzipienerkl�rung[*]; it is rather a programme for students (especially its most important section, which is devoted to a definition of capitalism), moreover for first-year students, who are acquainted with capitalism in general, but not yet with Russian capitalism. This basic defect leads also to a great deal of repetition, and the programme tends to become a commentary. I shall endeavour to prove this by analysing the draft point by point, and shall then draw the general conclusions.
"The development of international exchange," etc., to the words "has long become an international movement" (§ I -- for convenience in quoting I shall number each paragraph in consecutive order).
In essence there is nothing to which objection can be taken here. Only the words: "the great emancipation movement of our times" are superfluous, for the emancipatory nature of the working-class movement is dealt with below at length and concretely.
Further, in my opinion, this paragraph is not in its proper place. The programme of the Russian Social-Democratic Party should begin with a definition (and indictment) of Russian capitalism -- and only then stress the international character of the movement, which in form -- to use the words of the Communist Manifesto -- is of necessity at first a national struggle.[5]
* A declaration of principles. --Ed.
§ II. "Like the Social-Democrats of all other countries, the Russian Social-Democrats take an international stand. They regard their Party as one of the detachments of the world army of the proletariat, as part of international Social-Democracy."
The words I have underlined are superfluous, since they add absolutely nothing to what has been said prior to and after this. These superfluous words merely weaken the wholly adequate and graphic expression of thought contained in the words "detachment" and "part."
§ III. "They pursue the same ultimate aim as the Social-Democrats of all other countries."
These too are superfluous words, repeated t w i c e below in §§ XIII ("the ultimate aim of all the efforts of international Social-Democracy," etc.) and XVII ("the identity of the common ultimate aim"). A "detachment" of an army is a detachment for the very reason that it pursues the same aim.
§ IV. "This ultimate aim, which is common to the Social-Democrats of all countries" (again superfluous repetition), "is determined by bourgeois society's nature and course of development."
Also superfluous words, precisely because it is shown further how bourgeois society's nature and course of development "determine" this ultimate aim. This paragraph is something in the nature of a heading or section title. But headings, which are necessary in textbooks or articles, are quite unnecessary in a programme. Alles, was im Programm �berfl�ssig, schw�cht es* (Engels in his notes on the draft of the Erfurt Programme).[6]
§§ V and VI (as well as the beginning of VII) evoke, in addition to formal remarks, one general and fundamental objection to the whole character of the programme as outlined in the draft.
I shall first state this general objection (for which purpose it will be necessary in part to defend the counterdraft), and then I shall proceed to the formal remarks.
§ V gives an academic definition of "developed" capitalism in general; § VI speaks of the "expansion" of capitalist production relations together with technical progress and the
* All that is superfluous in a programme weakens it. --Ed.
growth of big enterprises to the detriment of small enterprises (or at the expense of the latter), i.e., as small-scale production is being ousted by large-scale production. This method of exposition is illogical and incorrect.
It is incorrect because the fighting proletariat learns what capitalism is, not from academic definitions (as one learns from textbooks), but from practical acquaintance with the contradictions of capitalism, with the development of society and its consequences. And in our programme we must define this development, and state -- as briefly and graphically as possible -- that matters are proceeding in a certain way. We should leave to commentaries all explanations of why things are proceeding in just this way and no other, and all details of the forms in which the basic tendencies find expression. As to what capitalism is -- that will of itself follow from our definition of exactly how matters stand (resp.[*] are proceeding).
It is illogical because the process of the ousting of small-scale production by large-scale production (§ VI) and that of the division of society into property-owners and proletarians (§ V) are one and the same process. And this is not expressed by the formulation given in the draft. According to the draft we have the following: First proposition. Developed capitalism consists in a considerable section of independent small-scale production having been ousted by large-scale production employing wage-workers. Second proposition. The domination of capitalism spreads in the degree that large-scale production ousts small-scale production. . . .
In my opinion, these two paragraphs should be combined in one, for the reason indicated, and the process should be expressed as follows: technical progress -- the ousting of small-scale production by large-scale production -- the concentration of the means of production in the hands of the capitalists and the landowners -- the ruin of the independent small producers: their conversion into proletarians or into dependents of capital.
The following objections are raised to this formulation (which the counterdraft has attempted to give):
* Respective (Lat.). --Ed.
(1) It alleges that the ruin of the Russian peasantry (resp. the formation of large-scale landownership in Russia, etc.) depends solely on the growth of capitalism.
This objection is, I believe, groundless. It is stated quite clearly in the appropriate place (viz., at the end of the programme) that there exists in our country a host of remnants of the serf-owning system, and that these remnants "barbarise" the process of development. But once we consider the process of the development of capitalism the basic process in Russia's social and economic evolution, we must begin precisely by describing this process, as well as its contradictions and consequences. Only in this way can we give graphic expression to our thought that the process of the development of capitalism, the ousting of small-scale production, the concentration of property, etc., is proceeding and will continue, despite all the remnants of the serf-owning system, and through all these remnants.
(2) It is said that the proposition "small-scale production is being ousted to an ever greater degree by large-scale production" is "too categorical," "stereotyped," etc.
I must, therefore, explain the reasons which lead me to consider this formulation no less correct and far more apt than the formulation given in the draft under discussion: "an increase in the economic importance of the big enterprises, a decrease in the relative number of the small enterprises, reduction of their role in the social and economic life of the country."
From the purely theoretical aspect, both these formulations are absolutely identical in meaning, and all attempts to establish a difference in substance between them are wholly arbitrary.* "An increase in the importance of the big and the reduction of the role of the small" -- is equivalent to ousting. Ousting can consist in nothing else. The complexity and confusion in the question of small-scale production being ousted by large-scale production do not at all depend on anyone being unable (in good faith) to understand that
* We would challenge anyone who does not agree with this to cite or even imagine a single example of any "increase in the economic importance of the big enterprises and reduction of the role of the small enterprises" that would not make it obvious that the latter are being ousted by the former.
ousting means "an increase in the importance of the big and reduction of the role of the small" -- but depend wholly and exclusively on the difficulty of agreement on a choice of the indices and symptoms of the ousting, resp. of the increase in the importance of the one, resp. the reduction of the role of the other.
In its most general form, the process of the development of capitalism in this respect may be expressed as follows:
Initial period :
Total production = 100.
Large-scale = a. Small-scale = 100-a.
Subsequent period.
Large-scale = 2a+b. Small-scale = 200-2a-b.
It can be said with confidence that all and every kind of data on the proportional relation between large-scale and small-scale production will fit into this formula. Nobody out to understand the process can doubt that this is indeed ousting. Whether 200-2a-b will be greater in size than 100-a (relative ousting) or smaller (absolute ousting) -- this is ousting in any case. Only a "critic" who does not wish to understand this will be "unable to understand" -- and such people are very hard to please. Moreover, the commentary will give the proper rebuff to such people.
The difficulty of the question does not at all lie in understanding that the indicated modification is equivalent to "ousting," but in the exact definition of the magnitudes 100, a, etc. This is a concrete question, a question of fact, and the formulation: "an increase in the importance and the reduction of the role" does not bring us a hair's breadth closer to its solution.
For example, in the overwhelming majority of cases, all European industrial statistics determine this "importance" and this "role" by the number of workers (and agrarian statistics do so by the amount of land). And no one has yet ventured to doubt that a decrease in the proportionate number of workers (resp. the amount of land) means precisely ousting. The trouble, however, is that very often such indices as the number of workers (resp. the amount of land) are insufficient. Small enterprises may be ousted, while the number of workers there (the amount of land) increases -- if, for instance,
these workers are handling outside materials, or if this land is cultivated by inferior draught animals, or by workers in inferior conditions, or is cultivated and fertilised in a worse way, and so on, and so forth. It is common knowledge that the "critical" arguments against "Marxist dogma" teem with just such "misunderstandings," and these "misunderstandings " are not eliminated one iota by saying "an increase in the importance and the reduction of the role" instead of "ousting," since it is "generally accepted" that the "importance" and "role" are expressed quite simply by the number of workers and the amount of land.
No one will doubt that such processes as the differentiation of the peasantry, increasing use of machinery especially by big proprietors, improvements in the stock of draught animals used by the big proprietors and deterioration of that used by smallholders (the substitution of cows for horses, etc.), growing "importunities" of the hired worker at the big enterprises and the longer working hours there, resp. the small peasant's diminishing consumption, improved cultivation and fertilisation of the big proprietor's land, and poorer cultivation and fertilisation of the smallholder's land, the big proprietor's advantage over the latter in the field of credits and association, and so on and so forth -- all these are precisely an ousting of small-scale production by large-scale production (in agriculture). It is not at all difficult (or even necessary) to prove that all these processes amount to "ousting" -- it is difficult to prove that it is precisely to these processes that attention should be paid, that these processes are actually taking place. This difficulty is not made easier in the least by the words: "an increase in the importance and the reduction of the role"; it can be made easier only by a commentary, only by examples of how people are unable to define (do not want to define) the true expression of the process of ousting (= an increase in the importance and the reduction of the role).
It is a sheer illusion to imagine that the words "an increase in the importance and the reduction of the role" are deeper, more meaningful, and broader than the "narrow" and "stereotyped" word "ousting." These words do not contribute in the least towards a more profound understanding of the process -- they merely express this process more hazily and more vaguely. And the reason I am contesting these words so
vigorously is not because they are theoretically incorrect, but just because they lend an appearance of profundity to sheer haziness.
A person who has "attended a seminary" and nothing more and is aware that a proportionate decrease (and not necessarily an absolute decrease) is tantamount to ousting will see in this haziness a desire to cover up the nakedness of the "Marxist dogma," which has been compromised by the critics.[*] A person who has not attended a seminary will only sigh over such masterly and "fathomless wisdom" -- whereas the word "ousting" will remind every worker and every peasant of scores and hundreds of familiar instances. It is no harm if he does not immediately grasp the full import of this expression: selbst wenn einmal ein Fremdwort oder ein nicht auf den ersten Blick in seiner ganzen Tragweite zu erfassender Satz vorkommt, schadet das nichts. Der m�ndliche Vortrag in den Versammlungen, die schriftliche Erkl�rung in der Presse tut da alles N�tige, und der kurze, pr�gnante Satz befestigt sich dann, einmal verstanden, im Ged�chtniss, wird Schlagwort, und das passiert der breiteren Auseinandersetzung nie.** (Engels in his criticism of the Erfurt Draft.)
From the standpoint of style, too, the words "an increase in the importance and the reduction of the role" instead of "ousting" are undesirable. This is not the language of a revolutionary party, but the language of Russkiye Vedomosti.[7] This is the terminology not of socialist propaganda, but of a statistical abstract. These words seem, as it were, deliberately chosen with a view to giving the reader the impression that the process described is a mild one, culmi-
* Such an interpretation of haziness is all the more inevitable the more widely such a definite formulation as, for instance, in the Erfurt Programme, becomes known: ". . . geht die Verdr�ngung der zersplitterten Kleinbetriebe durch kolossale Grossbetriebe. . . ." (". . . the scattered small enterprises are being ousted by colossal large-scale enterprises. . ." --Ed.)
** There is no harm in one's occasionally coming across a foreign word or a sentence whose full import one cannot grasp at first glance. Oral reports at meetings and written statements in the press do all that is necessary, and a brief but pithy sentence, once understood, will impress itself on the mind and become a slogan, which is never the case with a broader exposition. --Ed.
nating in nothing definite, a painless process. Since in reality the reverse is true, these words are to that extent quite wrong. We cannot and should not choose the most abstract formulations, for what we are writing is not an article directed against the critics, but the programme of a militant party, which makes its appeal to the masses of handicraftsmen and peasants. In this appeal, we must say klipp und klar[*] that capital "makes servants and tributaries of them," "ruins" them and "ousts" them, driving them into the ranks of the proletariat. This is the only formulation that would be a true expression of what every handicraftsman and every peasant knows from thousands of instances. And only this formulation will inevitably suggest the conclusion: your only salvation lies in joining the party of the proletariat.
In passing to the formal remarks against § V and § VI, I shall note the following.
§ V speaks of bourgeois society "in developed form," and at the same time states that both a "section of the artisans" and "the small peasantry" have survived in this society. What follows is an inaccuracy. If one is to understand the words "developed form" in a strictly theoretical sense, then there will be neither artisans nor small peasants in such a society. And even if these words are taken in their usual sense to mean the most developed countries -- even then we will find that in Britain, for example, "the small peasantry" as a separate section of society has in essence practically ceased to exist.
"The domination of commodity production on the basis of capitalist production relations." That is rather incongruous. Of course, fully developed commodity production is possible only in capitalist society, but "commodity production" in general is both logically and historically prius to capitalism.
The term "capitalist production relations" is not used consistently in the draft. It is occasionally replaced by the term "the capitalist mode of production" (§ XI). To lessen the difficulty of understanding the programme, one term should, in my opinion, be used throughout, namely, the
* Clearly and distinctly. --Ed.
latter, since the former is more theoretical, and without the addition of the word "system," etc. (of relations), does not indicate anything complete or integral.
"The feudal-handicraft period. . . ." Here, an expression seems to have been chosen, as though deliberately, which is least applicable to Russia, for it is questionable whether the term "feudalism" is applicable to our Middle Ages. And yet, the description given of "developed" bourgeois society is in substance applicable to Russia as well (independent small producers and the small peasants "have survived," they sell "their labour-power periodically or constantly," etc.). Hence, by its own formulation the draft refutes the opinion that no definition of the development of capitalism can be written, which will clearly and directly have Russia in view.
"The small producers, artisan-producers, who work to order. . . ." To order from consumers or from the merchants who give out work? Probably the former. But precisely in Russia most small producers in industry work for the market and not to order.
". . . The major part of the articles of consumption". . . (why not also "of the means of production"?). . . "is produced for sale on the home or world market. . . ." The words underlined are unnecessary repetition, since the increase in international exchange is dealt with in § 1.
". . . The means of production and of circulation " of commodities. I believe that the words underlined should be transferred from the programme to the commentary, since one can infer that the capitalists own the means of circulation from the fact that they own the means of production in a society with a commodity economy.
". . . Of persons who possess no means of production and of circulation except their labour-power. . . ." That is not the way to put it.
The reference to "constant or periodical" sale of labour-power -- "for a whole year or several months" -- is a superfluous detail, which should be transferred to the commentary.
(§ VI) ". . . An increase in the economic importance of the big industrial enterprises" -- and below: the reduction of the role of independent small producers in general. Is the omission of big agricultural enterprises accidental? Or was it intended to say that the economic importance of
big enterprises increases only in industry, whereas the role of small enterprises is diminishing both in industry and in agriculture? If the latter is the case -- then that would be absolutely wrong. The "economic importance of the big enterprises" is increasing in agriculture too (it will suffice to mention machinery as one example -- and other examples are given above). Naturally, the process here is immeasurably more complex, but this will have to be said (and said with concrete explanations) in the commentary.
. . . Dependent "more or less completely, more or less obviously, more or less onerously . . ." -- these are words which, in my opinion, are redundant and weaken the meaning. The phrasing in the original draft -- "servants and tributaries" -- is stronger and more graphic.
§ VII begins with superfluous reiteration, again referring to the "conversion of the small producers into proletarians," although this has already been noted in §§ V and VI.
§ VII gives an elaborate explanation of the fact that the growth of the demand for labour-power lags behind the growth of its supply. The exposition, in this case, can hardly benefit from such "elaborateness." In any case, no full explanation of the process is, of course, given (e.g., mention is made of the growing employment of female and child labour, but no mention is made of the growing intensification of labour, etc.). It would therefore be more correct to refer all explanations (with concrete examples) to the commentary, and to formulate in the programme only what the contradiction of capitalism consists in and what its tendency is.
The objection is raised that, by saying that "the greater the degree of technical progress, the more the growth of the demand for labour-power lags behind the growth of its supply," the question is presented in an incorrect light, since the "growth of supply" is far from being dependent on "technical progress" alone. But this objection is not sound, for the words "the greater -- the more" are by no means equivalent to the words "since -- consequently." The preceding paragraph explains what causes the "growth of supply" ("ruin," "ousting," etc.), and this will be explained more concretely in the commentary.
". . . The share of the working class in the sum-total of the material wealth created by its labour is constantly dimin-
ishing. . . ." These words appear in the paragraph dealing with the intensification of exploitation (compare the quotation with the text directly preceding it). One might think therefore that what is meant by "share" is the relation of v to v+m. But in that event this is superfluous and does not correspond to the words "sum-total of wealth."
If, however, the sum-total = c+v+m, then, first, it is not quite proper to term c+m (as against v) the "share," for by "share" is meant what is shared, i.e., articles of consumption. Further, in that case this proposition belongs in substance to the next paragraph, which deals with the increase in social wealth (c+v+m) and social inequality. In view of this, it would be better to omit the words quoted as superfluous repetition.
Moreover, these words, as formulated, presuppose a society that is so developed as to consist only of wage-workers and capitalists (for the share of the small producers also decreases), and this does not accord with § V, which keeps small producers in a "developed" society too.
§ VIII should come after §§ IX and X: these latter deal with crises, i.e., with one of the contradictions of capitalism, whereas § VIII sums up all the contradictions of capitalism and all tendencies in its development.
To the words "increase in the productivity of labour" should be added: "of social labour, which is constantly becoming more socialised labour." The draft speaks in the wrong place of the process of the socialisation of labour (§ XI) and in too narrow a form ("the process of technical progress combines the workers' labour more and more"). Capitalism's socialisation of labour does not consist solely in the "combination of the labour of the workers."
The words: "A widening of the distance between the propertied and the propertyless" following the words "an increase in social inequality" are a superfluous repetition. On the other hand, reference to the "growing gulf" between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie must of necessity be added so as to define the chief social consequence of all the indicated contradictions of capitalism and pass over to the class struggle.
Incidentally, with regard to a definition of the social consequences of capitalism, it must be stated that here particularly the draft suffers from abstractness, limiting itself as
it does to the utterly inadequate proposition: "multiplication of the difficulties in the struggle for existence and of all the privations and sufferings attendant on this struggle." In my opinion it is absolutely essential to indicate more definitely those social consequences which weigh most heavily both upon the working class and the small producers.
An objection raised against the formulation of these consequences in the counterdraft, is, for instance, that the words "humiliation of every kind" are not true. I believe they are true, embracing as they do such phenomena as prostitution, the conversion of the "intelligentsia" into mere hirelings, the conversion of the worker into a seller of his wife and children, submission to the iron discipline of capital, the use of economic power for political oppression, for pressure on the freedom of opinion, and so on and so forth. In exactly the same way it seems to me absolutely essential to point to the "poverty and destitution of the masses" under capitalism. I am not proposing to speak of the absolute growth of poverty and destitution, but I fully share Kautsky's opinion that "ein ausf�hrliches s.-d. Programm, welches nicht erkennen l�sst, dass der Kapitalismus naturnotwendig Massenarmut und Massenelend erzeugt, das nicht als den Inhalt des Strebens der Sd-tie den Kampf gegen diese Armut und dieses Elend bezeichnet, verschweigt die entscheidende Seite unserer Bewegung und enth�lt also eine empfindliche L�cke "* (against the Austrian draft).
It is just as essential, as I see it, to point out that "all the principal" (hence, not absolutely all) "advantages of the process of development of the productive forces are monopolised by a negligible minority of the population."
§§ IX and X deal with crises. In view of the changed formulation, there is nothing in substance here to which exception could be taken. In form, however, these paragraphs suffer from repetitions (again "world market," again "capitalist production relations"). It would be far better to complete-
* ". . . a detailed Social-Democratic programme which does not make it clear that capitalism must naturally lead to mass poverty and mass destitution, and does not regard the struggle against this poverty and this destitution as the content of Social-Democracy's aspirations, ignores the decisive aspect of our movement and thus has a conspicuous deficiency". --Ed.
ly delete from the programme an attempt to explain crises, limiting it to noting that they are inevitable, and leaving explanation and elaboration to the commentary. As it is, reference is made, for example, to crises and to "periods of stagnation," but on the whole the entire cycle of capitalist industry is not encompassed in any way.
The social consequences of crises are indicated, but again with repetitions (it is enough to mention the "aggravation" of the process, etc.) and again too vaguely: crises not only render the position of the small producers difficult, not only lead to the relative and absolute deterioration of their conditions, but actually ruin them and drive them into the ranks of the proletariat.
Against §§ XI and XII I have an extremely important objection in principle: these paragraphs present the relation of the proletariat to the small producers in an altogether one-sided and incorrect way (for "the working and exploited masses" consist of precisely the proletariat and the small producers). The two paragraphs are directly at variance with the fundamental theses of the Communist Manifesto, the General Rules of the International[8], and the majority of present-day Social-Democratic programmes; they leave the way open to Narodnik, "critical," and all sorts of petty-bourgeois misapprehensions.
". . . The discontent of the working and exploited masses is growing" -- that is true, but it is absolutely incorrect to identify the proletariat's discontent with that of the small producer, and merge the two as has been done here. The small producers' discontent very often engenders (and inevitably must engender in them or among a considerable section of them) an urge to defend their existence as small proprietors, i.e., to defend the foundations of the present-day order, and even to turn it back.
". . . Their struggle and, above all, the struggle of their foremost representative, the proletariat, is becoming sharper. . . ." The struggle is growing sharper among the small producers too, of course. But their "struggle" is very often directed against the proletariat, for in many respects the very position of the small producers sharply contraposes their interests to those of the proletariat. Generally speaking, the proletariat is not at all the petty bourgeoisie's "foremost rep-
resentative." If that does occur, it is only when the small producers realise that their doom is inevitable, when they "d e s e r t their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat." It happens very often, on the other hand, that the anti-Semite and the big landowner, the nationalist and the Narodnik, the social-reformer and the "critic of Marxism" are the foremost representatives of the present-day small producer who has not yet deserted "his own standpoint." It is least of all appropriate to lump together each and every kind of sharpening, particularly at the present time, when the "sharpening of the struggle" of the small producers is accompanied by "sharpening of the struggle" of the "socialist Gironde" against the "Mountain."[9]
". . . International Social-Democracy stands at the head of the emancipation movement of the working and exploited masses. . . ." Not at all. It stands at the head of the working c l a s s alone, of the working-class movement alone, and if other elements join this class these are only elements and not classes. And they come over completely and absolutely only when they "desert their own standpoint."
". . . It organises t h e i r fighting forces. . . ." Wrong again. Nowhere does Social-Democracy organise the "fighting forces" of the small producers. It organises the fighting forces of the working class alone. The formulation chosen in the draft is all the less appropriate the less it applies to Russia, the more restricted the exposition (cf. § V) is to "d e v e l o p e d " bourgeois society.
Summa summarum. The draft speaks in positive form of the revolutionary spirit of the petty bourgeoisie (if it "supports" the proletariat, does this not signify that it is revolutionary?) without a single word about its conservatism (and even reactionary spirit). This is entirely one-sided and incorrect.
We can (and must) point in positive form to the conservatism of the petty bourgeoisie. And o n l y i n c o n d i t i o n a l f o r m should we point to its revolutionary spirit. Only such a formulation will coincide in full with the entire spirit of Marx's teachings. For example, the Communist Manifesto declares outright that "of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie . . . the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. . . . The small manufac-
turer . . . the artisan, the peasant . . . are not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary. . . . If by chance they are revolutionary, ["if"][*] they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat . . . they d e s e r t their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat."[10]
Let it not be said that matters have changed substantially in the half century since the Communist Manifesto. It is precisely in this respect that nothing has changed: and theoreticians have always and constantly recognised this proposition (for instance, Engels in 1894 refuted the French agrarian programme from this very standpoint.[11] He stated outright that until the small peasant deserts his standpoint, he is not with us; his place is with the anti-Semites; let them put him through the mill, and the more the bourgeois parties dupe him, the more surely he will come over to us) -- moreover, history furnishes a wealth of factual confirmation of this theory, right down to the most recent times, right down to nos chers amis, Messrs. the "Critics."
Besides, reference to the dictatorship of the proletariat contained in the original draft is missing here. Even if this were done accidentally, through an oversight, it is still indubitable that the concept of "dictatorship" is incompatible with positive recognition of outside support for the proletariat. If we really knew positively that the petty bourgeoisie will support the proletariat in the accomplishment of its, the proletariat's, revolution it would be pointless to speak of a "dictatorship," for we would then be fully guaranteed so overwhelming a majority that we could get on very well without a dictatorship (as the "critics" would have us believe). The recognition of the necessity for the dictatorship of the proletariat is most closely and inseparably bound up with the thesis of the Communist Manifesto that the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class.
(Parenthetically -- just how "jealous" Engels was about this part is evident from the following passus from his criticism of the Erfurt Draft. "Der Ruin welter Volksschich-
* Interpolations in square brackets (within passages quoted by Lenin) have been introduced by Lenin, unless otherwise indicated. --Ed.
ten,"* Engels cites from the draft, and remarks; "statt dieser deklamatorischen Phrase, die aussieht als t�te uns der Ruin von Bourgeois und Kleinb�rgern noch leid [!!], w�rde ich die einfache Tatsache erz�hlen: die durch den Ruin der st�dtischen und l�ndlichen Mittelst�nde, der Kleinb�rger und Kleinbauern, den Abgrund zwischen Besitzenden und Besitzlosen erweitern oder vertiefen."**)
I may be told that the counterdraft gives positive expression to the small producer's conservatism ("all the other classes of present-day society stand for the preservation of the foundations of the existing economic system"), whereas revolutionariness is not expressed even conditionally.
This objection is entirely unfounded. The small producer's conditional revolutionariness is expressed in the counterdraft in the only way it can be expressed, i.e., in the wording of the indictment against capitalism. The conditional revolutionariness of the small producer is expressed:
(1) in the words about his ousting and ruin by capitalism. We, the proletariat, accuse capitalism of bringing about
* The ruin of the broad masses of the people." --Ed.
** ("in place of this declamatory phrase, which sounds as if we were in fact distressed by the ruin of the bourgeois and the petty bourgeois [!!], I would state the simple fact: through the ruin of the urban and rural middle estates -- the petty bourgeois and the small peasants -- the gulf between the propertied and the propertyless grows. --Ed.)[12]
The Erfurt draft programme contained the following passus "In diesem Befreiungskampf verficht die Sozialdemokratie als die Verfechterin (or Vertreterin -- Neue Zeit,[13] IX, 2, 789) nicht bloss der Lohnarbeiter, sondern der Ausgebeuteten und Unterdr�ckten insgesamt alle Forderungen, Massregeln und Einrichtungen, welche die Lage des Volkes vm allgemetnen und der Arbeiterklasse im besondern zu verbessern geeignet sind." ["In this struggle for emancipation, Social-Democracy fights as the champion (or representative) not only of the wage-workers, but of all the exploited and oppressed, for all demands, measures, and institutions that could improve the position of the people in general, and of the working class in particular." --Ed.] And Engels positively advised that this entire passus be deleted, asking sarcastically: "des Volkes im allgemeinen (wer ist das?)" ["The people in general (what does that mean?)." --Ed.] And, in accordance with Engels' advice, this passus was< completely scrapped ; the paragraph stating that "the emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself, since a l l the o t h e r classes stand for private ownership of the means of production and have the common aim of preserving the foundations of present-day society -- under the direct influence of Engels this paragraph was adopted in a sharper form than in the original draft.
large-scale production through the ruin of the peasant. Hence, the direct conclusion that i f the peasant grasps the inevitability of this process, he will "desert his own standpoint and place himself at ours."
(2) -- in the words: "Insecurity of existence and unemployment, the yoke of exploitation, and humiliation of every kind and becoming the lot" (not only of the proletariat, but) "of ever wider sections of the working population." This very formulation expresses the fact that the proletariat provides representation of the entire working population, and moreover a representation under which we urge (and compel) all to desert their own standpoint and place themselves at ours, and not vice versa -- we do not desert our own standpoint, and we do not merge our class struggle with the struggle of all sorts of weathercocks.
And the idea of representation is expressed in exactly the same way
(3) -- in the words about the poverty and destitution of the masses (the masses in general, and not the workers alone).
It is o n l y i n s u c h f o r m that the party of the revolutionary class can express the conditional revolutionariness of the other classes, in order to lay before them i t s understanding of their destitution and the way to remedy that destitution, and, in i t s declaration of war on capitalism, to speak not only in its own name, but in the name of all the "poverty-stricken and destitute" masses. Hence it follows that whoever accepts this doctrine must join us. It would be simply ridiculous for us to make a special point of this in the programme and declare that if certain unreliable elements adopt our standpoint they too will be revolutionary! That would be the best way to destroy faith in us precisely among those half-hearted and flabby allies who, as it is, lack faith in us.*
* The more "indulgence" we show, in the practical part of our programme, towards the small producer (e.g., to the peasant), the "more strictly" must we treat these unreliable and double-faced social elements in the theoretical part of the programme, without sacrificing one iota of o u r standpoint. Now then, we say, if you adopt this, our, standpoint, you can count on "indulgence" of every kind, but if you don't, well then, don't get angry with us! Under the "dictatorship" we shall say about you: there is no point in wasting words where the use of power is required. . . .
In addition to this objection to §§ XI and XII in principle, I also have a minor formal remark to make against § XI. This is not the proper place to speak about the "material possibility of doing away with capitalism"; what this paragraph deals with is not the material but the ideological prerequisites for capitalism to be done away with. If the material prerequisites are mentioned, then reference should also be made to the ideological (moral, etc.) prerequisites. It would, however, be far more correct to transfer this "material possibility" to the paragraph that deals with capitalism's evolution and tendencies, and not with the class struggle.
It is illogical to speak in § XII of the forthcoming social revolution -- and only in § XV of this revolution itself and the necessity for it. The order should be reversed.
In § XIII, the substitution of the expression "expropriation of the exploiters" for the words "abolition (or elimination) of private ownership" is, in my opinion, not a happy one. It is less clear and precise. Nor is the end of the paragraph properly expressed: "the planned organisation of the social process of production so as to satisfy the needs of society as a whole, as well as its individual members". That is not enough. Organisation of that kind will, perhaps, be provided even by the trusts. It would be more definite to say "by society as a whole " (for this covers planning and indicates who is responsible for that planning), and not merely to satisfy the needs of its members, but with the object of ensuring full well-being and free, all-round development for a l l the members of society.
§ XIV is, in my opinion, indefinite (I do not yet know whether we shall emancipate "all" oppressed "humanity": as, for instance, the oppression of people of weak character by those of very strong character). If would be better to use the formulation given by Marx in his criticism of the Gotha Programme: the abolition of division into classes and of the inequality arising therefrom.[14] Engels too, in his criticism of the Erfurt Programme, insisted that die Abschaflung der Klassen ist unsere Grundforderung,* and that only by a precise and outright reference to this "fundamental demand"
* The abolition of classes is our fundamental demand.[15] --Ed.
shall we impart an absolutely definite (and not exaggerated) meaning to our promises to emancipate all and to rid all of all evils.
§ XV -- I have already dealt above with "support of the proletariat by other sections of the population" and with the omission of the "dictatorship of the proletariat."
§ XVI is altogether strange and out of place. "The political education" of the proletariat consists in our enlightening it, organising it and directing its struggle -- and that has already been dealt with in § XII (to which only "leadership of its struggle" should be added).
§ XVII also seems to me superfluous verbosity. What is the point of speaking generally about the dependence of our immediate tasks on various social and political situations? Let this be dealt with in treatises, whereas we should say plainly that certain definite peculiarities (remnants of serf-ownership, tbe autocracy, etc.) modify our immediate task in a certain definite way.
§ XVIII: "In Russia capitalism is more and more becoming the predominant mode of production. . . ."That is unquestionably insufficient. It has already become predominant (if I say that 60 has already become predominant over 40, it does not at all mean that 40 does not exist or that it has been reduced to insignificance). We still have so many Narodniks, pro-Narodnik liberals, and "critics" rapidly reverting to Narodnik ideas that it is impermissible to leave room for the slightest vagueness on this point. And if capitalism has not yet even become "predominant," then it would be better perhaps to wait awhile with Social-Democracy as well.
". . . advancing Social-Democracy to the very first place. . . ." Capitalism is only just becoming predominant, but we are already in the "very first" place. . . . In my opinion, we should not talk at all about the very first place: that is self-evident from the entire programme. Let us leave it to history to say this about us, rather than say it ourselves.
The draft evidently rejects the expression: the old, serf-owning social system, considering the expression "serf-ownership" applicable only to the legal structure. I believe that this distinction is groundless: "serf-ownership" was, of course, a juridical institution, but it also corresponded to a specific
system of landlord (and peasant) economy, and, besides, it manifested itself in numerous day-by-day relationships that were not provided for "by law." For this reason it is scarcely advisable to avoid the expression: "the pre-capitalist, serf-owning social system."
The "description" of serfdom (that the masses were, so to speak, baptised chattels) is utterly out of place and superfluous in our programme.
On the other hand, it is insufficient to say about the influence of the remnants of the serf-owning system that they weigh heavily upon the mass of working people. We must also indicate the retardation in the development of the country's productive forces, and other social consequences of serfdom.[*]
§ XIX. In my opinion, it is quite superfluous to state that to us democracy (resp. political liberty) is a "transitional stage" (transitional to what? After all, we openly say below that a republic is our immediate practical demand) -- and that a constitution is "the natural legal complement ["property" of -- obviously a mistake in copying] to capitalist production relations." This is absolutely out of place in the programme. It would be wholly sufficient for us to say that the autocracy retards or restricts "a l l social development": hence, the development of capitalism is also incompatible with it. Details on this score should be relegated to the commentary, for in the programme they even weaken our declaration of war on the autocracy, imparting a bookish and abstract air to the programme.
Moreover, what is the point of these general passages about legal complements to capitalism and about a "legal structure" (§ XX), when later we speak much more directly and definitely about a republic? (Besides, § XX contains the expression "the old serf-owning system," i.e., here the draft itself attributes to the word "serf-ownership" a broader meaning than the purely juridical.)
Nor is there any point in speaking about the autocracy being incompatible with a legal structure, since the demand for the former's overthrow and replacement by a
* Incidentally. The expression in the counterdraft: "the Asiatically barbarous way in which the peasantry is dying out " is a poor one. Way of disappearance, or something like that, could be said.
republic follows immediately. It would be better to express ourselves more definitely about the people's "lack of rights" under the autocracy, etc. ". . . The autocracy is the bitterest enemy of the aspirations of the working class towards emancipation. . . ." To this should be added: "and of the cultural development of the whole people," or words to that effect. In this way (and not by talking about "representation") we shall indicate that Social-Democracy represents the interests not only of the working class, but of all social progress.
Summing up all the above notes, I find four basic shortcomings in the draft, which, in my opinion, render it unacceptable:
1) extreme abstractness of many of the formulations, so that they might seem intended for a series of lectures rather than for a militant party;
2) evasion and obscuring of the question of specifically Russian capitalism are a particularly serious shortcoming, since the programme should provide a compendium and guide for agitation against Russian capitalism. We must come out with a direct appraisal of Russian capitalism and with an open declaration of war against it specifically;
3) the altogether one-sided and incorrect presentation of the relation of the proletariat to the small producers, which cuts the ground from under our feet in the war against the "critics" and many others;
4) the constant endeavour in the programme to give explanations of the process. The explanations fail in their purpose anyway, and the exposition becomes prolix, numerous repetitions occur, and the programme constantly lapses into a commentary.
Written in late February-
early March 1902
OPINION ON PLEKHANOV'S SECOND DRAFT
Four basic shortcomings pervade the whole draft and, in my opinion, make it entirely unacceptable:
1) In the manner of formulation of the most important section, which contains a definition of capitalism, this draft is a programme of an economic textbook on capitalism in general rather than a programme for the proletariat, which is fighting against very real manifestations of a very definite capitalism.
2) The programme is particularly unsuitable for the party of the Russian proletariat, because the evolution of Russian capitalism and the antagonisms and social evils engendered by Russian capitalism are almost entirely evaded and obscured by the selfsame system of defining capitalism in general. In its programme the party of the Russian proletariat should formulate in the most unambiguous manner its arraignment of Russian capitalism, its declaration of war on Russian capitalism. This is all the more necessary inasmuch as the Russian programme cannot be identical in this respect with the European programmes: the latter speak of capitalism and of bourgeois society without indicating that these concepts are equally applicable to Austria, Germany, and so on, because that goes without saying. In relation to Russia this cannot be taken for granted.
To dispense with the question by saying that capitalism "in its developed form" is distinguished in general by such and such features�and in Russia capitalism "is becoming predominant"�is to evade making the concrete arraignment and declaration of war that is most important for a party engaged in a practical struggle.
That is why the draft fails to achieve one of the principal aims of a programme: to provide the Party with a directive for its day-by-day propaganda and agitation concerning all the various manifestations of Russian capitalism.
3) Some of the most important paragraphs are formulated in the draft with an inaccuracy which will inevitably engender most dangerous misinterpretations and hamper our theoretical struggle and propaganda. Thus, for example, the growth of large-scale production is limited to "industrial" enterprises. The evolution of agrarian capitalism is disregarded or even evaded. Further, instead of "the dictatorship of the proletariat" there is "the revolution which the proletariat will have to effect with the support of other sections of the population which are suffering from capitalist exploitation," and even the class struggle of the proletariat has been replaced by "the struggle of the working and exploited masses." This formulation contradicts the basic principle of the International: "The emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself." Besides the proletariat, the other part of the "working and exploited masses" (i.e., mainly the small producers) is only partially revolutionary in its struggle against the bourgeoisie. It is revolutionary only when, "with a view to joining the proletariat," it "places itself at the standpoint of the proletariat " (The Communist Manifesto). As for the reactionary nature of the small producers, that is not brought out in the draft, so that on the whole the relation of the proletariat to the "working and exploited masses" is presented incorrectly. [For example, the draft reads: "their struggle (the struggle of the working and exploited masses) and, above all, the struggle of their foremost representative, the proletariat, is becoming sharper." "The sharpening of the struggle" of the small producers is expressed in anti-Semitism, in Caesarism, in peasant unions against the farm labourers, and even in the struggle of the socialist Gironde against the Mountain. Representation of all the working and exploited masses by the proletariat should be expressed in the programme in our arraignment of capitalism for the poverty of the m a s s e s (and not only for the poverty of the working class), for unemployment among "ever wider sections of the working population" (and not of the working class).]
4) The draft constantly slips away from a programme in the strict sense of the word towards a commentary A programme should give concise statements, without a single superfluous word, and leave all explanations to commentaries, pamphlets, agitation, etc. Engels was therefore fully justified when he accused the Erfurt Programme of being too long, abounding in too much detail and repetition, so as to tend towards becoming a commentary.
In the draft this shortcoming is still more manifest; there is a dreadful amount of repetition; in any case, the attempts made to introduce explanations of the process into the programme (instead of merely giving a definition of the process) fail to achieve their purpose and render the programme impossibly prolix.
REMARKS ON THE COMMITTEE'S
DRAFT PROGRAMME[16]
TEXT OF THE COMMITTEE'S
LENIN'S REMARKS
A question mark indicates a
desire to improve the style.
1. The development of in-
ternational exchange has es-
tablished such close ties among
all nations of the civilised world,
that the great emancipation
movement of the proletariat had
to become, and has long become,
an international movement.
2. For this reason the Russian
Social-Democrats regard their
Party as one of the detachments
of the world army of the prole-
tariat, as part of international
Social-Democracy, and pursue the
same ultimate aim as the Social-
Democrats of all other countries.
3. This ultimate aim is de-
termined by bourgeois society's
nature and course of development.
The style needs brushing
This "as" is not good Rus-
sian. Clumsy style. "They pur-
sue the same ultimate aim as
the Social-Democrats of all
other countries have set them-
selves," or something to that
I would recommend that
"nature and" be deleted as
superfluous words. The u l-
t i m a t e a i m is deter-
mined by the course and
not by the modifications of
This society is characterised
by the domination of commodity
production under capitalist pro-
duction relations, i.e., by the
fact that the most important and
most considerable part of the
articles of consumption is pro-
duced
for sale on the home or world
market, and the most important
and most considerable part of
the means
of production and of circulation
of these articles of consumption --
commodities --
belongs to a relatively small
class of persons, V whereas the
overwhelming majority of the
population consists partly of
persons who possess no means
of production
this general "course" that are
explained by the concept of
"nature of development."
Hence, these superfluous
words are also not quite accu-
rate.
Why only "articles of con-
sumption"? What about
means of production? "Pro-
ducts," etc., would be better.
These words should, in
my opinion, be deleted.
Unnecessary repetition.
These words should be de-
leted. Commodities are not
limited to articles of con-
sumption.
(Instead of "relatively
small," perhaps negligible,
since the words: "most im-
portant and most consider-
able part" are sufficiently
restrictive. But this is not
important.)
The words "to the capital-
ists and landowners" should
be added. Otherwise the result
is an abstract concept which
is particularly out of place in
conjunction with the subse-
quent "peasants and handi-
craftsmen."
and of circulation whatever (pro-
letarians) and partly of those
who have at their disposal only
insignificant means of production,
which do not ensure their exist-
ence (certain sections of small
producers, as, for instance, small
peasants and handicraftsmen).
All these persons are forced
by their economic position to
sell their labour-power constantly
or periodically i.e., to hire
themselves to the owners of the
means of production and of cir-
culation of commodities, and
by their labour create the lat-
ter's income.
4. The domination of capi-
talist production relations grows
more and more as constant
technical progress, by increasing
the economic importance of the
big enterprises, ousts the inde-
pendent small producers, that
is, causes a relative decline in
their number by converting part
of them into proletarians, di-
minishes the role of the others in
social and economic life, and at
places makes them more or less
completely, more or less obvious-
ly, more or less onerously, de-
pendent upon the big manu-
facturers.
5. By converting part of the
independent small producers into
proletarians, this technical pro-
gress leads to a still greater
"And of circulation" should
be deleted. Proletarians of
the purest water can have and
do have "means of circulation"
which are exchanged for art-
icles o f c o n s u m p t i o n.
The style requires brush-
ing up! "Means of production"
ensure (?) existence.
"Upon capital" -- not only
upon big capital.
increase in the supply of labour-
power, making it possible for
the manufacturers to employ fe-
male and child labour to an
ever greater extent in the process
of commodity production and
circulation. And since, on the
other hand, this same process of
technical (machine) progress leads
to a relative decrease in the
manufacturers' need of the work-
ers' physical labour, the demand
for labour-power necessarily lags
behind its supply, as a conse-
quence of which the dependence of
wage-labour on capital increases
and the exploitation of the former
by capital is intensified. The
share of the working class in
the sum-total of the social income
created by its labour is constantly
diminishing.
These words should be
deleted as a needless repe-
tition of the idea already
expressed in the preceding
proposition.
In general, § 5 brings out
in particular relief the gen-
eral defect of the draft:
long periods and an undesir-
able prolixity of exposition.
Incidentally: this results in
what Engels in his criticism
of the Erfurt Draft called
"schiefe Nebenbedeutung."*
For instance, it appears as if
the increase in the employ-
ment of female and child
labour is due solely to the
"conversion" of the independ-
ent small producers into
proletarians, whereas this is
not so; it also takes place
prior to such "c o n ve r-
s i o n." The beginning of
§ 5 is a superfluous repeti-
* "The possibility of misinterpretation." --Ed.
6. This state of affairs with-
in bourgeois so-
Over-production, which causes
more or less severe indus-
trial crises, followed by more or
less lengthy periods of industrial
stagnation, is an inevitable re-
sult of the growth of the produc-
tive forces, in the absence of
planning, which is characteris-
tic of commodity production,
and under the capitalist produc-
tion relations inherent in
present-day society. In their turn
crises and periods of industrial
stagnation render the position
of the independent small pro-
ducers still more difficult, and
lead still more rapidly to the
relative and, in some places,
even the absolute deterioration
in the proletarians' conditions.
Omission.
Repetition again!!
This is insufficient. Not
only do they "render their
position difficult," but ruin
them outright on a mass
scale.
The first part of § 6 would
gain a great deal if it were
made shorter.
7. Thus, technical progress,
which implies an increase in
labour productivity and the
growth of social wealth, entails,
in bourgeois society, an increase
in social inequality, a widening
of the distance between the prop-
ertied and the propertyless, a
growth of insecurity of existence,
unemployment and poverty of
every description.
"Growth of poverty of
every description" -- this bor-
rowing from my draft is not
a very apt one. I did not
speak about the g r o w t h
of poverty. "Of every descrip-
tion" includes "absolute"
too. The reference to the
poverty of the masses should
therefore be worded some-
what differently.
8. But, as all these contra-
dictions, inherent in the capital-
ist mode of production, grow and
develop, the working and exploit-
ed masses' discontent with the
grows, and the struggle of their
foremost representative -- the pro-
letariat -- against the champions
of this order becomes sharper.
§ 8 shows the committee's
stubborn disinclination to ob-
serve the precise and unam-
biguous c o n d i t i o n it
was set at its very "birth."
On the basis of this condi-
tion an insertion should have
been made (which the com-
mittee has done in §10), and,
m o r e o v e r, before the
insertion the text should
deal only with the class
struggle of the proletariat
a l o n e. This latter demand,
clearly expressed in the con-
ciliation agreement, was not
carried out by the commit-
tee, and I consider that I
am within my rights in
insisting that it be carried
Prior to what is stated at
the end of § 10, it is i n-
c o r r e c t to speak of the
discontent of all the working
masses in general and to
call the proletariat their
"foremost representative,"
since this is true o n l y
u n d e r t h e c o n d i-
t i o n expressed at the end
of § 10. The committee pre-
sents the conditional as some-
thing unconditional. The
half-heartedness of the
small producer and his s e m i-
r e a c t i o n a r y s p i r-
i t have not been in any
way expressed by the commit-
tee: this is quite impermis-
sible. The result is that the
At the same time, technical
progress, by socialising the pro-
cess of labour within the workshop
and concentrating production,
possibility of finding this
small producer (or a part
of this section) among the
principled "champions of this
order" (the same phrase in
§ 8 !!) has been entirely
f o r g o t t e n ! ! And yet
this possibility v e r y often
becomes a reality before our
very eyes.
In order to have the right
to speak of the movement
of the proletariat, its class
struggle and even the class
dictatorship, it is necessary
first to single out this o n e
class, and then only to add
something about its role as
a representative. Otherwise
the result is a lack of coher-
ence in the draft; § 8 is not
connected in strict logic
either with the continua-
tion (why not a "dictatorship
of the working masses"??),
or with the beginning (if
all the social antagonisms
are aggravated, that
m e a n s that the struggle of
the t w o c l a s s e s grows
ever sharper, and this is
something the committee
has forgotten to point out!!).
It does not hang together.
The socialisation of la-
bour is far from being limit-
ed to what takes place
within the workshop: this
passage must be corrected.
more and more rapidly creates the
possibility of the social revolu-
tion, which constitutes the ulti-
mate aim of the entire activity
of international Social-Democ-
racy, as the conscious spokesman
of the class movement of the pro-
letariat.
9. This social revolution will
consist in the removal of capi-
talist production relations and
their substitution by socialist
production relations, i.e., it
will consist in the expropriation
of the exploiters for the purpose
of converting the means of pro-
duction and of circulation of pro-
ducts into public property, and
in the planned organisation of
the social production process so
as to satisfy the needs of both
society as a whole and its indi-
vidual members. The achieve-
ment of this aim will emancipate
all of oppressed humanity,
since it will put an end to all
forms of the exploitation of one
part of society by another.
10. To effect its social
revolution, the proletariat must
win political power (the class
dictatorship), which will make
it master of the situation and
enable it to surmount all obsta-
cles. Organising for this purpose
into an independent political
party, which is opposed to all
bourgeois parties,
+ "and the necessity " (for
the social revolution).
Cf. No. 13. N. B.
Not accurate. Such "sat-
isfaction" is "given" by cap-
italism as well, but not
to all members of society
and not in equal degree.
-- My objections have al-
ready been set forth -- N.B.*
"Opposed to a l l bourgeois
parties" means to the petty-
bourgeois parties as well,
does it not?? But the majority
of the petty bourgeois are
"working and exploited."
That does not hang together.
* See pp. 28, 54 of this volume. --Ed.
the proletariat calls upon all
other sections of the population
which are suffering from capitalist
exploitation to join its ranks,
counting on their support, inas-
much as they are conscious of the
hopelessness of their position
in present-day society and place
themselves at the standpoint of
the proletariat.
11. The Social-Democratic
Party, the party of the fighting
proletariat directs all manifes-
tations of its class struggle,
discloses to the whole of the work-
ing and exploited masses the
tween the interests of the exploit-
ers and the interests of the exploit-
ed, and explains to them the
historical significance and the
indespensable prerequisites for
the future social revolution.
Social-Democracy organ-
ises and calls upon. "The pro-
letariat . . . calls into its [!]
sections" -- ganz unm�glich! [*]
The words "counting on
their support" should be de-
leted. They are redundant
(if it calls upon, that means
it counts on) and have schie-
fe Nebenbedeutung. It calls
upon those who are conscious,
inasmuch as they are con-
scious, das genügt.[**]
"Irreconcilability of their
(the masses) interests with
the very existence of capital-
ism," or a similar correction.
Not all the working people
find themselves in a posi-
tion wherein their inter-
ests" are "irreconcilably"
opposed to the interests of
the exploiters. The working
peasant has s o m e t h in g,
somewhat, a/n, in common
with the big landowner. We
need more general and broad-
er statements, lest the result
be an inaccuracy and amount
to phrase-mongering.
* Quite impossible! -- The reference is to an infelicity in the Russian style. --Ed.
** That is enough. --Ed.
12. But despite the identity
of their common ultimate aim,
an identity conditioned by the
dominance of the same mode
of production throughout the
civilised world, the Social-
Democrats of different countries
do not set themselves the same
immediate tasks, both because
this mode is not everywhere de-
veloped in equal degree and also
because its development in diffe-
rent countries takes place under
varying social and political con-
ditions.
13. In Russia, side by side
with capitalism, which is rapidly
extending the sphere of its do-
mination and more and more
becoming the predominant mode
of production, we still meet at
every step remnants of our old,
pre-capitalist social order, which
was based on bondage of the masses
of working people to the land-
lords, to the state, or to the
bead of the state. These remnants
retard the development of the
productive forces in the highest
degree, hamper the all-round
development of the proletariat's
class struggle, lower the working
population's standard of living,
are responsible for the Asiati-
cally barbarous way in which the
many-million-strong peasantry
is being ruined and reduced to
? Style!!
§12 -- the end. An attempt
should be made to shorten
this. It would by very useful
for this paragraph to shrink.
Would it not be possible to
condense ten words into two
by saying "national features,"
or a similar expression?
§ 13 -- the beginning. My
most humble thanks for the
tiny step in my direction.
But "becoming the predomi-
nant. . . ."*
? Style!
§ 13 -- the end. Correction
desirable: I have already sug-
* At this point Lenin expresses his opinion of a piece of infelicitous phrasing in the draft. --Ed.
degradation, and keep entire
people in a state of ignorance
total absence of rights, and
subjection.
14. As the most outstanding
of all survivals of our serf-owning
system and the most formidable
bulwark of all this barbarism,
the tsarist autocracy is wholly
incompatible with political and
civil liberties, which have long
been in existence in the advanced
countries of capitalist produc-
tion, as the natural legal com-
plement to that production. By
its very nature it must crush
every social movement and is
bound to be the bitterest enemy
of all the proletariat's emanci-
patory aspirations.
For these reasons, Russian
Social-Democracy advances as
its immediate political task the
overthrow of the tsarist autocracy
and its replacement by a republic
based on a democratic constitu-
tion that would ensure, etc.
gested how (my amendments
to my draft[*]), or you get
". . . barbarous way in which . . .
is being ruined and re-
duced to degradation. . ."?
? Style.
This won't do. Not every:
bimetallism and pre-
Raphaelitism are also "social
movements." This must be
amended.
"Natural legal comple-
ment" -- a correct thought
very badly expressed. For
capitalism the "naturalness"
of liberty is complicated by
1,001 social and historical
factors, which the word "nat-
ural" does not bring out.
Moreover, it smacks, reeks,
of a sort of liberalism. Some-
thing should be said to
the effect that the "autocra-
cy is inevitably doomed to
death by the entire develop-
ment of capitalism, which
imperatively requires civil
and political liberties for
the expression of its increas-
ingly complex interests," or
* See p. 34 of this volume. --Ed.
something like that, in short,
the idea of inevitability should
be expressed, without giving
rise to misunderstandings by
attributing this inevitabil-
ity to "natural" developments.
On the whole, the more
one reads the Committee's
draft, the more one is con-
vinced of the fact that it is,
so to say, semi-digested.
I take it upon myself to pre-
dict that this quality in the
draft will bring down upon
us a great deal of justified
reproaches, if we publish it
in such a form. Everyone
will see that it is just
"pasted together."
If the Lord God has chosen
to punish us for our sins by
obliging us to come out
with a "mongrel" draft, we
should at least do every-
thing in our power to reduce
the unhappy consequences.
Therefore, those who are
above all guided by a desire
to "get through with it as
quickly as possible" are
quite wrong. It may be taken
for granted that now, giv-
en such a constellation,
nothing but evil will come of
haste, and our editorial
draft will be unsatisfactory.
It is not absolutely necessary
to publish it in No. 4 of
Zarya[17]: we can publish it
in No. 5 and in a special
impression before No. 5 ap-
pears. If we do this, a delay of
a month or so will do no harm
at all to the Party. And, in-
deed, it would be better if the
illustrious committee goes
over it again thoroughly,
thinks it over, digests it,
and gives us a draft of
its own, an integral draft,
rather than one that has
been pasted together. Let me
repeat: if this task is unreal-
isable, it would be far bet-
ter to revert to the plan of
two drafts (and we shall be
fully able to carry out this
plan without any "awkward-
ness": Plekhanov publishes
his draft over his signature in
Zarya, and I publish mine
"on the side," in Geneva, as
X, Y or Z). I hereby most
respectfully request the au-
gust Board to give its close
consideration to "all the cir-
cumstances of the case."
12.IV.1902 -- I am writ-
ing in the train: I apolo-
gise for the scribble. If I
have time, I shall write
again and more clearly.
Written on April 12, 1902
ON THE COMMITTEE'S DRAFT PROGRAMME
Besides my remarks written on the draft itself, I should like to note the following:
§ 3. "Society (bourgeois) is characterised by the domination of commodity production under capitalist production relations, i.e." . . . then follows a description of the basic features of capitalism. The result is an incongruity: the "i.e." connects dissimilar, unequal concepts, namely, i) the modification of commodity production in a form conditioned by the domination of capitalist production relations, and 2) the sale of products on the market and the sale of their labour-power by the masses of the population.
This incongruity, this equating of the b a s i c and most general features of commodity production in general and of capitalism in general -- and the modifications of commodity production on the basis of capitalist production relations (then commodities are no longer exchanged simply according to value) -- clearly shows how poor G. V. Plekhanov's formulation is (and yet the committee adopted this formulation, merely rephrasing it). In a programme that presents only the most general and basic features of capitalism and does not set forth even the theory of surplus-value, we suddenly "nod" to B�hm-Bawerk by calling to mind that "commodity production on the basis of capitalism" is not quite the same as simple commodity production! If so, then why not add to the programme special references to Mikhailovsky, Berdayev, and the like? On the one hand, only one very general socialist expression is used to cover even all of Marx's teachings about the exploitation of labour by capital: "create by their labour the latter's income" (end of § 3) -- and
on the other hand, note is made of the specific transformation of surplus-value into profit under "commodity production on the basis of capitalist production relations."
G. V. Plekhanov is quite right when he states that the words "commodity production on the basis of capitalist production relations" express the fundamental idea of Volume III.[18] But that is all. There is no point in including this idea in the programme -- just as there is no point in describing in the programme the mechanism of realisation, which is the fundamental idea of Volume II, or in describing the conversion of excess profit into ground rent. In the programme it is sufficient to n o t e the exploitation of labour by capital = the creation of surplus-value, whereas to speak of every kind of transformation and modification of the forms of this surplus-value is out of place (and impossible in a few short propositions).
ADDITION CONCERNING THE CLASS STRUGGLE
I fully share V. Zasulich's opinion that in our country it is possible to attract a much larger proportion of small producers into the ranks of Social-Democracy and much more rapidly (than in the West), that to achieve this we must do a l l in our power, and that this "wish" should be expressed in the programme "against" the Martynovs and Co. I am in full agreement with all this. I w e I c o m e the addition that has been made at the end of §10 -- I emphasise this to avoid any misunderstanding.
However, there is no need to go to the other extreme, as V. Zasulich does! A "wish" should not be confused with reality, and with immanently necessary reality at that, to which alone our Prinzipienerkl�rung* is devoted. It would be desirable to attract a l l the small producers -- naturally. But we know that they constitute a special class, even if bound to the proletariat by a thousand ties and intermediate grades, but nevertheless a special class.
In the first place it is essential to draw a line of demarcation between ourselves and all others, to single out the proletariat alone and e x c l u s i v e l y, and only t h e n declare
that the proletariat will emancipate all, that it calls on all, invites all.
I agree to this "then," but I demand that this "in the first place" should come first!
Here in Russia the monstrous sufferings of the "working and exploited masses" did not rouse any popular movement until a "handful" of factory workers began the struggle, the class struggle. And o n l y this "handful" guarantees the conduct, continuation, and extension of this struggle. It is in Russia, where the critics (Bulgakov) accuse the Social-Democrats of "peasantophobia", and the Socialist-Revolutionaries[19] shout of the need for r e p l a c i n g the concept of the class struggle by the concept of "the struggle of a l l the working and exploited" (Vestnik Russkoi Revolutsii, No. 2[20]) -- it is in Russia that we must, in the first place, draw a line of demarcation between ourselves and all this riffraf, by means of the most clear-cut definition of the class struggle alone of the proletariat a l o n e -- and only then declare that we call on all, that we shall undertake everything, take everything, extend to include everything. But the committee "extends," while forgetting to draw a line of demarcation!! And I am accused of being narrow-minded because I demand that this extension be preceded by "demarcation"?! But that is trickery, gentlemen!!
The struggle inevitably facing us tomorrow against the combined forces of the critics+the more Leftist gentlemen of Russkiye Vedomosti and Russkoye Bogatstvo[21] + the Socialist-Revolutionaries will most imperatively demand of us that very demarcation between the class struggle of the proletariat and the "struggle" (is it a struggle?) "of the working and exploited masses." Phrase-mongering about these masses is a trump card in the hands of all the unsicheren Kantonisten,* and the committee is playing into their hands and depriving us of a weapon for the struggle against half-heartedness, in order to emphasise one half! But do not forget the other half!
Written in April 1902
* Unreliable cantonists. In this context -- "unreliable allies." --Ed.
AN AMENDMENT TO THE AGRARIAN SECTION
OF THE PROGRAMME[22]
I propose the following amendment to Clause 4 of our agrarian programme: instead of "Establishment of peasant committees (a) for the restitution to the village communes (by expropriation, or, when the land has changed hands, by redemption, etc.) of the land," etc., to state: "Establishment of peasant committees (a) for the restitution to the village communes (by expropriation) of the land which . . ." etc.,
i.e., t o s c r a p t h e i t a l i c i s e d w o r d s.
It seems to me that this amendment should be made for the following considerations:
1. In the agrarian programme we present our "maximum," our "socio-revolutionary demands" (see my commentary[23]). Allowing land redemption, however, runs counter to the socio-revolutionary nature of the entire demand.
2. Both the historical tradition of "redemption" (that of 1861)[24] and its very content (cf. the well-known phrase: "redemption is nothing but purchase")[25] give it the specific flavour of a mawkishly well-intentioned and bourgeois measure. Our allowing land redemption makes it not impossible for the entire essence of our demand to be discredited (and there will be more than enough vilifiers prepared to do this.)*
3. The fear that an "injustice" would be committed by taking away the cut-off lands from people who have paid money for them is groundless. We have in any case set two restrictive conditions for this measure of restituting the
* By allowing land redemption, we are degrading the restitution of the cut-off lands from an extraordinary, revolutionary measure to the most petty "reform."
cut-off lands: [(1) -- "the lands cut off in 1861," and (2) -- "now used as a means of keeping the peasants in bondage."] It is absolutely right to confiscate property serving the purposes of feudal exploitation, and to do so without compensation. (Let the purchaser of the cut-off lands then sue the seller -- that is no affair of ours.)
4. By allowing "redemption," we are placing the onus of monetary payment on the peasants, who by reason of labour rent were most deeply involved in natural economy: the abruptness of the transition to monetary payments may ruin the peasants in an e s p e c i a l l y rapid way, and this would run counter to the entire spirit of our programme.
5. Even if a purchaser of cut-off lands is to be "compensated" by way of exception, this should by no means be done at the expense of the peasants, who have the moral and historical right to these cut-off lands. "Compensation" can be made by giving a corresponding plot somewhere in the border regions, etc.; but that does not concern us.
I ask everyone to vote: F o r = discarding the words about redemption, deleting the words I have indicated.
A g a i n s t = endorsing of the old text.
1) G. V. --
2) P. B. --
3) V. I. --
4) Berg --
5) A. N. --
6) Frey -- for.
[1] The Party programme adopted at the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. in 1903 was drawn up by the Editorial Board of Lenin's Iskra at the end of 1901 and the first half of 1902. V I. Lenin played a prominent part in drawing up the draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P
As early as 1895-96, while in prison, Lenin wrote the "Draft and Explanation of a Programme for the Social-Democratic Party" (see present edition, Vol. 2, pp. 93-121); at the end of 1899, while in exile in Siberia, he prepared a new draft programme (see present edition, Vol. 4, pp. 227-54 [Transcriber's Note: See Lenin's "A Draft Programme of Our Party". -- DJR]). When he began publication of Iskra, Lenin considered its most important task to be the struggle to achieve and consolidate the ideological unity of Russian Social-Democracy and to embody this unity in the Party programme. "The discussion of questions of theory and policy," he wrote, "will be connected with the drafting of a Party programme . . ." (see present edition, Vol 4, "Draft of a Declaration of the Editorial Board of Iskra and Zarya," p. 324).
The question of drawing up a draft of the Party programme became particularly acute in the summer of 1901: "We were informed in letters from Russia that talk about the congress had intensified," V. I. Lenin wrote to P. B. Axelrod on July 9, 1901. "This forces us more and more to think about the programme. Publication of a draft programme is extremely necessary and would be of tremendous importance" (see present edition, Vol. 36, "To P. B. Axelrod"). On Lenin's suggestion, the original draft of the theoretical part of the programme was written by G. V. Plekhanov.
At a conference of the Iskra Editorial Board held in Munich in January 1902, Lenin sharply criticised Plekhanov's draft; he made over 30 notes, pointing out a series of propositions in the draft that were incorrect in principle (see pp. 19-26 of this volume). Under the influence of criticism by Lenin and other members of the Editorial Board, Plekhanov rewrote the first two paragraphs of his draft, but he did not agree with most of the other notes and proposals. During discussion of Plekhanov's draft by the Iskra Editorial Board, big differences of opinion were revealed; one of the most serious was evoked by Lenin's proposal to begin the programme by pointing to the development of capitalism in Russia; in notes written after the conference Lenin wrote: "The question whether or not to begin by pointing to Russia has been left open (3 votes in favour and 3 against)." (Lenin Miscellany II, 1924, p. 15.)
Convinced that Plekhanov's draft of the theoretical part of the programme was unacceptable, Lenin set about writing his own
draft. The initial version of Lenin's draft (in the correspondence of the members of the Iskra Editorial Board -- "Frey's draft") was written by January 25 (February 7), 1902; Lenin completed work on his draft by February 18 (March 3), 1902 (see pp. 27-33 and 34 of this volume). Simultaneously Plekhanov was also working on his second draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P. This too came in for serious critical analysis by Lenin (see pp. 37-57 and 58-60 of this volume). To co-ordinate Lenin's and Plekhanov's drafts of the programme and draw up a joint draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P. the Iskra Editorial Board set up a "Co-ordinating" Committee.
In its work this Committee took Plekhanov's draft as a basis. However, as a result of Lenin's insistent demands, a number of very important propositions were included in the Committee's draft: the thesis of the ousting of small-scale production by large-scale production replaced Plekhanov's indefinite and vague formulation; a definition more precise than in Plekhanov's draft was given of the purely proletarian character of the Party; the thesis of the dictatorship of the proletariat as an essential condition of the socialist revolution became a point of the highest importance in the programme. Lenin got acquainted with the Committee's draft programme on April 12, 1902, while travelling from Munich to London, and he wrote his remarks on it during the journey (see pp. 61-73 of this volume)
At the conference of the Iskra Editorial Board held in Zurich on April 14, 1902, which Lenin did not attend, the general editorial draft of the programme was confirmed: its theoretical part (the Committee's) and the practical Part (already agreed to by all the members of the Iskra Editorial Board in early March 1902). Most of the notes, amendments, and additions proposed by Lenin were taken into account by the authors of the draft programme, when it was discussed at the Zurich conference.
The draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P. drawn up by the Editorial Board of Iskra and Zarya was published in Iskra, No. 21 June 1, 1902, and the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., held July 17-August 10 (July 30-August 23), 1903, adopted the Iskra draft programme of the Party, with minor changes. The programme of the R.S.D.L.P. existed until 1919, when a new programme was adopted at the Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.).The theoretical part of the programme of the R.S.D.L.P., which described the general laws and tendencies of capitalist development, was included in the new programme of the R.C.P.(B.) on V. I. Lenin's proposal. [p. 17]
[2] The Erfurt Programme of the German Social-Democratic Party was adopted in October 1891 at the Congress in Erfurt. Compared with the Gotha Programme (1875), it was a step forward, being based on the Marxist doctrine that the capitalist mode of production must inevitably yield place to the socialist; it stressed the need for the working class to wage a political struggle, indicating the party's role as the organiser of this struggle, etc. However,
the Erfurt Programme, too, contained serious concessions to opportunism. It was extensively criticised by Frederick Engels ("Criticism of the Draft Social-Democratic Programme of 1891") this being in essence a criticism of the opportunism of the entire Second International, for whose parties the Erfurt Programme was a kind of model. However, the leadership of German Social-Democracy concealed Engels' criticism from the party rank and file, while his most important remarks were ignored when the final text of the programme was drawn up. V. I. Lenin and G. V. Plekhanov considered that the Erfurt Programme's silence on the dictatorship of the proletariat was its chief defect and a cowardly concession to opportunism. [p. 21]
[3] Frey -- V. I. Lenin's pseudonym. [p. 27]
[4] Collective liability was a compulsory measure making the peasants of each village commune collectively liable for timely and full payments and for the fulfilment of all sorts of services to the state and the landlords (payment of taxes and land redemption instalments, provision of recruits for the army, etc.). This form of bondage was retained even after serfdom had been abolished, and remained in force until 1906. [p. 32]
[5] This refers to the following proposition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: "Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle. The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie." (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. I, Moscow, 1958, p. 45.) [p. 37]
[6] Lenin is referring to Frederick Engels' article "Criticism of the Draft Social-Democratic Programme of 1891." [p. 38]
[7] Russkiye Vedomosti (Russian Recorder) -- a newspaper published in Moscow from 1863 onwards; it expressed the views of the moderate liberal intelligentsia, and insisted on the need for reforms that would transform Russia into a constitutional monarchy. Among its contributors in the 1880s and 1890s were the democratic writers M. Y. Saltykov-Shchedrin, G. I. Uspensky, and V. G. Korolenko. It also published items written by liberal Narodniks. In 1905 it became the organ of the Right wing of the bourgeois Constitutional-Democratic (Cadet) Party. Lenin said that Russkiye Vedomosti was a peculiar combination of "Right-wing Cadetism and a strain of Narodism" (see present edition, Vol. 19, "Frank Speeches of a Liberal"). In 1918 the publication was closed down together with other counter-revolutionary newspapers. [p. 43]
[8] This refers to Karl Marx's Provisional Rules of the International Working Men's Association adopted on November 1, 1864, at a session of the General Council of the First International, and the General Rules of the International Working Men's Association
adopted in September 1871 by the London Conference of the First International, which took the Provisional Rules of the International as its basis (see Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. I, Moscow, 1958, pp. 386-89). [p. 49]
[9] The Mountain (la Montagne) and the Gironde were the names of two political groupings of the bourgeoisie at the time of the French bourgeois revolution of the end of the eighteenth century. The Mountain -- the Jacobins -- was the name given to the more determined representatives of the revolutionary class of the time -- the bourgeoisie -- who advocated the abolition of absolutism and feudalism. Unlike the Jacobins, the Girondists wavered between revolution and counter-revolution, and entered into deals with the monarchy.
Lenin called the opportunist trend in Social-Democracy the "socialist Gironde," and the revolutionary Social-Democrats -- "proletarian Jacobins," the "Mountain." After the R.S.D.L.P. split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, Lenin frequently stressed that the Mensheviks were the Girondist trend of the working-class movement. [p. 50]
[10] Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. I, Moscow, 1958, pp. 43-44. [p. 51]
[11] This refers to Frederick Engels' article, "The Peasant Question in France and Germany," in which he criticised the agrarian programme of the Workers' Party of France, adopted at the Marseilles Party Congress in 1892 and enlarged at the Nantes Party Congress in 1894 (see Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. II, Moscow, 1958, pp. 420-40). [p. 51]
[12] Frederick Engels, "Criticism of the Draft Social-Democratic Programme of 1891." [p. 52]
[13] Die Neue Zeit (New Times) -- a theoretical magazine of the German Social-Democratic Party, published in Stuttgart from 1883 to 1923. Before October 1917, it was edited by Karl Kautsky, later by Heinrich Cunow. Some of the writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were first published in Die Neue Zeit : "Critique of the Gotha Programme" by Karl Marx (in No 18, 1890-91) "Criticism of the Draft Social-Democratic Programme of 1891" by Frederick Engels (in No 1, 1901-02) and others. Engels constantly helped the Editorial Board of the magazine with his advise, and not infrequently criticised it for allowing deviations from Marxism to appear in it. Contributors to Die Neue Zeit included prominent leaders of the German and international working-class movement at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, such as August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Clara Zetkin, G. V. Plekhanov, Paul Lafargue, and Victor Adler. From the second half of the nineties, the periodical began systematically publishing article by revision-
ists, including a series of articles by Eduard Bernstein entitled "Problems of Socialism," which opened the revisionists' campaign against Marxism. During the First World War the magazine adopted a Centrist, Kautskian position, in actual fact supporting the social-chauvinists. [p. 52]
[14] Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. II, Moscow, 1958, p. 30. [p. 54]
[16] V. I. Lenin's remarks on the Committee's draft of the theoretical part of the programme were written in the margins and between the lines of the manuscript of the Committee's draft, and also on the backs of the manuscript pages. Particular points in the Committee's draft which Lenin singled out (by underlining, brackets, vertical lines in the margin, etc.) are underscored with fine lines. [p. 61]
[17] Zarya (Dawn) -- a Marxist scientific and political magazine, was published in 1901-02 in Stuttgart by the Iskra Editorial Board Only four numbers (three books) of Zarya were issued: No. 1 -- in April 1901 (which actually appeared on March 23, New Style); No. 2-3 -- in December 1901; No. 4 -- in August 1902.
The tasks of Zarya were defined in the draft declaration of Iskra and Zarya which V. I. Lenin wrote in Russia (see present edition, Vol. 4, pp. 320-30 [Transcriber's Note: See Lenin's "Draft of a Declaration of the Editorial Board of Iskra and Zarya". -- DJR]). However, when the question of joint publication of these organs abroad was discussed with the Emancipation of Labour group, it was decided to publish Zarya legally and Iskra illegally; consequently there was no mention of Zarya in the declaration of the Editorial Board of Iskra, a declaration published in October 1900.
Zarya criticised international and Russian revisionism, and defended the theoretical principles of Marxism. It published V. I. Lenin's writings: "Casual Notes," "The Persecutors of the Zemstvo and the Hannibals of Liberalism," "Messrs. the 'Critics' on the Agrarian Question" (the first four chapters of "The Agrarian Question and 'the Critics of Marx"'), "Review of Internal Affairs," "The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy" and also G. V. Plekhanov's "Criticism of Our Critics. Part 1. Mr. Struve as Critic of Marx's Theory of Social Development," "Kant versus Kant, or Herr Bernstein's Spiritual Testament," and others. [p. 72]
[18] This refers to the third volume of Karl Marx's Capital. Below is a reference to the second volume of Capital. [p. 75]
[19] Socialist-Revolutionaries (S.R.s) -- a petty-bourgeois party in Russia, which arose at the end of 1901 and beginning of 1902 as a result of the union of Narodnik groups and circles. The newspaper Revolutsionnaya Rossiya (Revolutionary Russia) (1900-05) and the magazine Vestnik Russkoi Revolutsii (Herald of the Russian Revolution) (1901-05) became its official organs. The views
of the Socialist-Revolutionaries were an eclectic mixture of the ideas of Narodism and revisionism, they tried, as Lenin put it to mend "the rents of Narodism with the patches of fashionable opportunist 'criticism' of Marxism" (see present edition, Vol. 9, "Socialism and the Peasantry"). The Socialist-Revolutionaries did not see the class distinctions between proletariat and peasantry, glossed over the class differentiation and contradictions within the peasantry, and rejected the proletariat's leading role in the revolution. The tactic of individual terrorism which the Socialist-Revolutionaries advocated as a basic method of struggle against the autocracy caused great detriment to the revolutionary movement and made it difficult to organise the masses for the revolutionary struggle.
The agrarian programme of the Socialist-Revolutionaries envisaged the abolition of private ownership of the land and its transfer to the village communes on the basis of equalitarian tenure, and also the development of all forms of co-operatives. There was nothing socialist in this programme, which the Socialist-Revolutionaries tried to present as a programme for "socialising the land," since abolition of private ownership of the land, as Lenin pointed out, cannot of itself abolish the domination of capital and the poverty of the masses. The struggle for the abolition of landlord ownership was the real, historically progressive content of the agrarian programme of the Socialist-Revolutionaries. This demand objectively expressed the interests and aspirations of the peasantry at the stage of the bourgeois-democratic revolution.
The Bolshevik Party exposed the attempts of the Socialist-Revolutionaries to camouflage themselves as socialists, waged a stubborn struggle against the Socialist-Revolutionaries to gain influence over the peasantry, and laid bare the harmful consequences for the working-class movement of their tactic of individual terrorism. At the same time, on definite conditions, the Bolsheviks concluded temporary agreements with the Socialist-Revolutionaries in the struggle against tsarism.
In the final analysis, the absence of class homogeneousness in the peasantry was responsible for the political and ideological instability and organisational confusion in the Socialist-Revolutionary party, and their constant vacillation between the liberal bourgeoisie and the proletariat. There was a split in the Socialist-Revolutionary Party already in the years of the first Russian revolution: its Right wing formed the legal Labour Popular-Socialist Party, which held views close to those of the Constitutional Democrats (Cadets); the "Left" wing took shape as the semi-anarchist league of "Maximalists." During the Stolypin reaction, the Socialist-Revolutionary party experienced a complete ideological and organisational break-down, and the First World War saw most Socialist-Revolutionaries adopt the standpoint of social-chauvinism.
After the victory of the February bourgeois-democratic revolution in 1917, the Socialist-Revolutionaries, together with the Mensheviks and Cadets, were the mainstay of the counter-revolutionary bourgeois-landlord Provisional Government, of which leaders
of the party (Kerensky, Avxentyev, Chernov) were members. Influenced by the revolutionising of the peasantry, the "Left" wing of the Socialist-Revolutionaries founded an independent party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries at the end of November 1917. Striving to maintain their influence among the peasant masses, the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries formally recognised Soviet power and entered into an agreement with the Bolsheviks, but soon began a struggle against Soviet power. During the years of foreign military intervention and civil war, the Socialist-Revolutionaries carried on counter-revolutionary subversive activity, strongly supported the interventionists and whiteguard generals, took part in counter-revolutionary plots, and organised terrorist acts against leaders of the Soviet state and the Communist Party. After the civil war, the Socialist-Revolutionaries continued their hostile activity against the Soviet state within the country and abroad among whiteguard émigrés. [p. 76]
[20] Vestnik Russkoi Revolutsii. Sotsialno-Politicheskoye Obozreniye (Herald of the Russian Revolution. Socio-Political Review) -- an illegal magazine published abroad (Paris-Geneva) in 1901-05; four numbers were issued. Beginning with No. 2 it became the theoretical organ of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Among contributors to the periodical were M. R. Gots (A. Levitsky), I. A. Rubanovich, V. M. Chernov (Y. Gardenin), Y. K. Breshko-Breshkovskaya. [p. 76]
[21] Russkoye Bogatstvo (Russian Wealth) -- a monthly magazine published in St. Petersburg from 1876 to 1918. In the early nineties it passed into the hands of the liberal Narodniks headed by N. K. Mikhailovsky, and became the chief Narodnik organ. As such, in 1893, it began a campaign against the Russian Social-Democrats. In its distortion and falsification of Marxism, Russkoye Bogatstvo relied on the West-European revisionists; grouped round it were publicists who subsequently became prominent members of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, the "Popular Socialists" and the Trudovik (Labour) groups in the State Dumas.
From 1906 Russkoye Bogatstvo became the organ of the semi-Cadet party of "Popular Socialists." The magazine changed its title several times: Sovremenniye Zapiski (Contemporary Notes), Sovremennost (Modern Times), Russkiye Zapiski (Russian Notes); from April 1917 it again became Russkoye Bogatstvo. [p. 76]
[22] "An Amendment to the Agrarian Section of the Programme" was presented by Lenin for discussion by the other members of the Iskra Editorial Board.
To conduct a vote on this amendment, Lenin wrote at the end of the manuscript the pseudonyms or initials of the members of the Iskra Editorial Board: G. V. -- Plekhanov; P. B. -- Axelrod; V. I. -- Zasulich; Berg -- pseudonym of Y. 0. Martov; A. N. -- Potresov. [p. 77]
[23] Lenin calls his work entitled The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy a commentary on the agrarian section of the Party programme (see pp. 107-50 of this volume). [p. 77]
[24] According to the "Regulation Governing Redemption by Peasants Who Have Emerged from Serf Dependence . . ." adopted on February 19, 1861 the peasants were obliged to pay compensation to the landlords for land allotted to them. In concluding the land redemption deal, the tsarist government paid over to the landlords the compensation money, which was regarded as a debt of the peasants payable over a period of 49 years. The instalments of this debt, which the peasants paid annually, were called land redemption payments, whose heavy and intolerable burden resulted in mass ruination and impoverishment of the peasants. The landlords' former peasants alone paid the tsarist government about 2,000 million rubles at a time when the market price of the land which had passed to the peasants did not exceed 544 million rubles. As all the peasants did not come under the land redemption scheme at once, but at various times until 1883, the land redemption payments were to be completed only by 1932. However, the peasant movement during the first Russian revolution of 1905-07 compelled the tsarist government to abolish land redemption payments as from January 1907. [p. 77]
[25] "Redemption is nothing but purchase" was said by Volgin, one of the characters in N. G. Chernyshevsky's Prologue, which expressed N. G. Chernyshevsky's own attitude to the "emancipation" of the peasants in 1861. [p. 77]
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John’s Horror Corner presents Strong Opinions: on remaking Poltergeist (2015), a second opinion now that we have producer Sam Raimi and a trailer to comfort us
tags: Director Gil Kenan, James Wan, Poltergeist remake, Sam Rockwell, The Conjuring
Two rather related horror franchises have recently been gaining traction in the movie rumor mills: Poltergeist and Paranormal Activity. Now, Poltergeist (1982) and Poltergeist II (1986) stand as excellent proof that the best horror came from the 80s. But Poltergeist III (1988), while watchable, suffered a noticeable drop in quality. Similarly, I loved Paranormal Activity (2007) and Paranormal Activity 2 (2010). But sadly, just as with the Poltergeist franchise, things started to fall apart with PA 3 (2011), and PA 4 (2012) really just upset me. Today I want to focus on Poltergeist.
Let’s be clear here, though. I’m going to see every movie that they will ever make in these horror franchises, despite my skepticism of future installments, spin-offs, reboots or remakes. And I hope they turn out well. But cinematic history harbingers a disappointing future. Back in 2013 I wrote John’s Horror Corner presents Strong Opinions: on the Poltergeist remake when the first announcements of the new Poltergeist project were being made there was obviously no trailer…nor a set or a completed script for that matter. I was quite skeptical and presented some of my rantings on the issue of the Poltergeist remake. But now we have a trailer and a July 24, 2015 release date….and it has perked my interest. Sure, lots of trailers may look great and promise the moon and then deliver crap (e.g., Annabelle), so I won’t get my hopes too high just yet.
Here are some of my concerns…
1. Before I simply didn’t think this movie was ready for a remake/reboot. In fact, perhaps it would never be. Why? In 2013 I had originally thought this because, despite the complete lack of CGI, the effects remain effective and creepy even to today’s audiences. Just look at The Thing (1982); another EPIC horror movie with dated yet amazingly creepy effects that hold up to this day. They prequeled/remade/rebooted The Thing (2011) and focused all of their attention to filling the film with CGI monsters while paying no attention to the ever-tooth-grinding tension of the original. They screwed up iconic scenes (e.g., the blood test), presented allegedly “different” characters who looked and acted just like the characters from the original (except for one female character), and gave me no reason to care when any of them were slaughtered. I actually give a play by play of how they screwed up that remake, and back in 2013 I was horrified that this may happen to Poltergeist. But in 2013, when I was praising the scary quality of Tobe Hooper’s original film, I had not seen it in a looong time. Having seen it this year, I agree that it is still a great film but I no longer consider it an effective “scary” movie to an adult audience. To kids, yes, very scary. To adults…? Nope. Not horror fans anyway. The upcoming remake was criticized on Cinema Blend and other horror forums as being a horror movie for kids. But that’s actually what the original would serve to be today! I still love the original, but it is no longer scary, I no longer feel tension or urgency, and no–it’s not because I’ve seen it before and know what’s going to happen. It’s just more youth-centric in its effectiveness and execution. So maybe, just maybe a contemporary approach is exactly what we need. Yes. A contemporary approach directed by someone who was scared of Poltergeist as a child, but now finds it to be more of a “great horror story” than a “scary movie” (for a general audience).
Poltergeist certainly had some influence on other films. Hmmm…seems evil dolls have become a thing since 1982. Not that Poltergeist was the only evil doll movie of its time.
Here’s a scene with uber-limited special effects–basically none. Yet, this scene is waaaaay creepy back in the day. You wouldn’t think it by the image, but when you watch you see it–that clown doll is effing EVIL!
This was done with some sort of greenscreening and it took me off guard. It also looks really cool and weird. When it moves those stilty legs, it looks creepy and scary to kids. To today’s adults, however, it may fail to impress.
Okay, I’ll admit this looks fake. But the clay-faced fakeness of this actually made it seem more surreal and off-putting. This was really hard to watch as he tore his own face apart! This scene may have stood the test of time…and the test of gross-outs. But in all fairness, this scene would have never been MPAA-approved for a PG movie today. Really hard to watch!
Below is another scene that just wouldn’t scare adults today. In 1982 the effects were not worn out yet and this trick had not been played so much before.
2. Back in 2013 I feared that Director Gil Kenan doesn’t have much experience. Sure, he directed Monster House (2006) which is a children’s family-friendly horror comedy, and he did City of Ember (2008) which is a family fantasy-adventure movie. Note the theme here, though…happy smiley family stuff. Poltergeist may have been rated PG, but it was scary (back in 1982) and would easily give even today’s PG-aged children nightmares. There’s just not enough evidence to suggest that Kenan can handle this project. HOWEVER, that’s not to say that fledgling directors don’t occasionally accomplish great things. I love being surprised by young directors and I hope to be surprised this summer!
3. Speaking of proven track records, James Wan was originally slated to helm this project. His work with Saw (2004), Dead silence (2007) and The Conjuring (2013) demonstrates the considerable attention he pays to building painful suspense, chilling moods, cold calculating evil characters and strong family unity when faced with supernatural adversity. He has also shown us (in The Conjuring) that he will not tolerate his characters making idiotic mistakes, nor does he allow them to become impractically strong, smart, etcetera. He plays his cards just right and I love him for it. But, even without Wan things may be working out in horror fans’ favor. After all, Sam Raimi produced our upcoming remake! And that actually brings me a lot of comfort. I’d like to think Kenan listened when Raimi offered his advice.
Wan would have been perfect to remake this classic in which restless spirits from the other side reach out to a vulnerable little girl, Carol Ann.
4. AICN had long ago released casting announcements for the Poltergeist remake, which now includes Saxon Sharbino as the older teenage daughter, Kyle Catlett and Kennedi Clements as their youngest. But I’m most comforted by the casting of Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt as the parents. These strike me as smart choices–talented, grounded actors who don’t do horror. Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor fit this mold well in The Conjuring. Likewise Jared Harris (The Quiet Ones) and Jane Adams should serve as a good paranormal team akin to, but less attractive than, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. This wise casting could save this movie if the director can keep up with the actors.
The original casting in Poltergeist felt perfect. But this portrait of an American family is, in fact, reproducible.
She was perfectly weird. She is NOT reproducible! I hope they don’t even try. Any medium can be a weird character, but if they go super short then they’re just trying too hard.
Some unawkward paranormal investigators for a change in The Conjuring, which has some Poltergeist-y elements. I trust Jared Harris and Jane Adams are sculpted into their own unique characters, even though Adams seems a LOT like the big-haired spectacled academic lady from Poltergeist.
JoBeth Williams was a regular, good mom. Vulnerable to the thought of losing her daughter, but appropriately strong to get her back. Lili Taylor felt exactly like that in The Conjuring. I hope Rosemarie DeWitt can hold the role as well.
5. But even with good casting another question comes to mind…hasn’t Poltergeist sort of already been remade–even if only in pieces of recent movies? I mean, there was no solid Cain-analogous character (Cain was in part II), but between the Insidious series and The Conjuring, not to mention the strange domestic occurrences in Dark Skies (2013) or the PA series, I can’t help but to feel that we’ve covered most of the integral scenes. I’m afraid people will compare the Poltergeist remake to these aforementioned movies which are, at least in part, Poltergeist remakes already. You know what? I don’t care. I enjoyed all of those movies, borrowed or not. BRING ON THE REMAKE!
Hmmmm….this does feel familiar, though.
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Awesome article, put a lot of work into it. Check out my opinion of the remake – http://horrorfilmz4you.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/five-reasons-why-poltergeist-remake.html
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So pessimistic…yet I fear your pessimism is all well-founded. I just hope you’re wrong.
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DOOM’s multiplayer is not for the faint of heart. It’s bloody. It’s brutal. And it's VERY FAST. Prepare yourself with a glimpse into DOOM’s multiplayer mayhem in the latest trailer.
Players eligible for the DOOM Beta through their purchase of Wolfenstein: The New Order, your chance to play DOOM Multiplayer is coming! We will be running the Closed Beta between March 31 and April 3. To check eligibility requirements, please visit www.doom.com/beta. Participants will be able to try out Team Deathmatch and the recently revealed Warpath mode on two maps: Heatwave and Infernal.
DOOM releases on Xbox One on Friday, May 13. Learn more about DOOM’s multiplayer, single-player, and its community tool, SnapMap, at the game’s official website, DOOM.com, and through featured content on Bethesda.net. You can also follow DOOM through these social channels.
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Baroness Morgan of Huyton
Baroness Morgan of Huyton is a Labour Life peer who has sat under this title in the Lords since 21 June 2001. Her full title is The Baroness Morgan of Huyton, and her given name is Sally Morgan.
Review the House of Lords voting record of Baroness Morgan of Huyton.
Members may not vote in every division of the House. This can be due to a number of reasons; for example the Lord Speaker, Senior Deputy Speaker and Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees do not vote because of the impartiality of their positions. Otherwise, a Member could be absent undertaking other parliamentary business or unable to attend for other reasons. There is no procedure for recording intentional abstentions but a member may be present in the House and choose not to vote.
To perform a more comprehensive search of vote/division results, use the House of Lords votes in Parliament pages.
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Hotel Belvédère – The Iconic Swiss Hotel in Belvédère Obergoms
Abandoned Places Belvédère Obergoms Central Europe Europe Switzerland
The Hotel was built in 1882 and was a popular attraction for the adventure-minded. Located in one of the snowiest regions in Switzerland, the Furka Pass, connecting the cantons of Uri and Valais in the country’s south-central region, is considered to be one of the “most iconic, exhilarating and exciting drives” through the Swiss Alps.
The Belvedere Hotel in the Furka Pass 1950. In 1882, the hotelier, Josef Seiler, built a hotel in one of the hairpin bends / Image: via historischehotels.ch
The building of Hotel Belvédère belongs to the last major wave of development that began in the whole of Switzerland in the 1880s. Over the decades Hotel Belvédère became one of the most iconic hotels of the Swiss Alps. Since the end of the 19th century, when the Furka Pass road was built, tourists have flocked to the hotel for its panoramic views over the icy landscape. The Rhone Glacier was once 180 meter walk from the hotel and a 300-foot long grotto carved into the glacier allowed guests to journey inside.
A couple of years ago, the hotel closed. Some speculate that the Glacier has retreated so much in the past years that it’s no longer an attraction.
Hotel Belvédère makes a brief appearance in Goldfinger / Goldfinger film 1964 – Production company: Eon Productions
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Caledonia Mining soldiers on with Blanket despite mounting Zimbabwe problems
CALEDONIA Mining continues to make money whilst placing the bravest of faces on operations in Zimbabwe where it operates its Blanket gold mine. It is helped by the devaluation in the southern African country’s currency, but the firm scores highly for grit in any case.
Earlier this week, it reported lower adjusted interim earnings year-on-year, but an improved cash position of $8m. This augurs well for the continuance of dividend payouts which is not common for a Zimbabwean gold producer.
Its June quarter and interim results published earlier this week give some insight into the difficulties faced by mining firms in Zimbabwe.
Briefly lit by hope following the toppling of dictator Robert Mugabe in November 2017, Zimbabwe has under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, slipped backwards with inflation back on the agenda amid a currency crisis and near round-the-clock blackouts.
Caledonia cut production guidance for the year to a maximum of 53,000 ounces compared to a previous 56,000 oz at the high end of its guided range owing to low grade at its Blanket mine, which it is expanding for $45m, but also owing to electricity shortages in July and early August.
Luckily, an improvement in the dollar gold price and lower than expected costs are expected to result in no surprise changes to share earnings guidance forecast to come in at 86 to 117 cents for the year. But the problems of operating in Zimbabwe are significant.
The flip side of the 10-fold devaluation in the Zimbabwean dollar since February – which with rand and sterling weakness reduces the dollar value of expenses incurred in them – is the impact of inflation.
Steve Curtis, CEO of Caledonia, said inflation had “made life difficult” for the firm’s staff, but he was convinced it was the function of fiscal ill-discipline of the previous regime, not the Mnangagwa administration where recent tax incentives, such as the deductibility of royalty payments, was welcomed by the company.
In order to combat the likelihood of continued disturbed electricity supply, however, Caledonia is considering building solar power. “Although the electricity situation has improved in recent days, we feel it prudent to continue to implement plans to protect Blanket from any recurrence of this problem,” said Curtis.
In the meantime, it had bought diesel generators as a back-up and recently signed a new electricity agreement in terms of which it will receive uninterrupted power at a lower cost than it previously paid.
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2,000th post-war council home built in 1955
Mitcham and Tooting Advertiser
TWO THOUSAND HOUSES – AND NOBODY NOTICED
Housing chairman unable to give Phipps Bridge date
‘Impossible to say when work will start’
Mitcham Council have built their 2,000th post-war permanent home – but no one realised it at the time.
It happened a few weeks ago. Calculations show that the 2,000th home is a flat on the Ravensbury Estate.
When the town’s 1,000th post-war home was opend at Pollards Hill several years ago, there was a special celebration to mark the event.
Up to date, 2,128 permanent houses have been provided by the council since 1945. In addition, 345 temporary Arcon bungalows were erected shortly after the war, as well as 107 short-term hutments.
Now, the council are waiting to go ahead with their big Phipps Bridge redevelopment programme. They plan to build 636 new flats and houses at a cost of more than £1.75 million on land at present occupied by the closed-down dust destructor and old property.
Planning problems
Ald. Fido said it was impossible to say when work would start. There had been delays because of planning problems. It had been hoped to obtain the Mitcham Stadium site for building to fill in the gap until the Phipps Bridge scheme could go ahead.
The eight-acre stadium site has been bought by Wates Ltd., the local building firms, who intended to build blocks of flats there.
Because of shortage of land the council’s future building plans – apart from Phipps Bridge – are restricted to one or two small sites such as Pitcairn Road where 17 flats and houses are to be built, and Inglemere Road where a dozen flats are to go up.
A number of old people’s bungalows and flats are being, or will be, built on existing estates. These include 17 cottage flats on the Short Bolstead Estate, where work should start soon. The Elm Nursery Estate will be completed when 20 homes for old people have been erected, and work is in progress on 36 more at the Glebe Estate.
In addition Mitcham has 184 flats under construction at the Banstead joint housing estate.
The 2,500th home was celebrated in 1956, see Completion of 2,500th Post-War Dwelling
See also this Engineering website about the Arcon design, and this website for details about Nissen huts, or ‘hutments’.
This entry was posted in Borough, Buildings, People, Roads and tagged 1955, Arcon, Banstead, Elm Nursery, Fido, Glebe, hutments, Inglemere Road, Phipps Bridge, Pitcairn Road, Ravensbury, Short Bolstead, Wates Ltd on April 24, 2016 by Mitcham History Team.
Calico House
New build in 2015 of a block of flats on the west side of Armfield Crescent, between children’s playing ground and the Elm Nursery Cottages. The site was previously two blocks of garages.
Postcode is CR4 3FB
Consists of 7 flats, of which 4 are 2-bed and 3 are 1-bed.
Calico House, on left (west) side of Armfield Crescent. 8th March 2016
Garage blocks before demolition
This entry was posted in Buildings, Roads and tagged Armfield Crescent, Calico House, Elm Nursery on March 9, 2016 by Mitcham History Team.
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Sex in Film - An Illustrated Cinematic History: In the following illustrated compilation are some of the most significant, memorable, and influential films in the display of sex and eroticism on the screen throughout cinematic history. The following listing of these influential, memorable and classic sex scenes and films chronologically by year takes into account all of the available surveys of this type of material, and attempts to provide an informed, detailed, unranked grouping of the most influential and groundbreaking films and scenes. Some of the most notorious or infamous films are quite mediocre, usually made as an excuse to display nudity or eroticism of a star performer. Please do not proceed any further if you are not interested in this kind of material. Brief Historical Overview Reference Introduction. All rights reserved.
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Article: Mandamus Lawsuits on Delayed EB-5 Adjudications By Joseph Barnett
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<p><span style=”color: #000000;”>Writ of mandamus lawsuits against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) are <em>en vogue</em>, and for good reason: as of December 2, 2019, the estimated time range to process a Form I-526 petition has skyrocketed to 31.5 months to 52 months, and online case inquiries are only accepted for petitions filed before September 7, 2015. This is just wrong, and a travesty to those who have invested at least $500,000 and paid thousands of dollars more in fees to get their applications processed. Extended processing times can cause a detrimental effect on those who are patiently (and nervously) waiting in nonimmigrant status for I-526 approval or for those whose children will “age out”, and a writ of mandamus may be necessary to get USCIS to act when its unstated stated goal is to</span> <span style=”color: #0000ff;”><a style=”color: #0000ff;” href=”https://wolfsdorf.com/blog/2019/02/06/delays-in-u-s-immigration-applications-remedies-for-past-due-adjudications/”>delay, discourage, and deny</a></span><span style=”color: #000000;”>. Here are five things to know about lawsuits in federal court on delayed EB-5 adjudications. </span></p>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong><u>USCIS Employee Hours to Process Form I-526 Petitions.</u></strong> When USCIS increased the filing fee for a Form I-526 petition in 2016 from $1,500 to $3,675, it stated the increase would further “efforts with the goal of improving operational efficiencies while enhancing predictability and transparency in the adjudication process.” It hasn’t. The government also stated that it would only take 6.5 hours to complete a Form I-526 adjudication. Yet, even as IPO continues to hire more staff and adjudicators, processing times continue to surge. </span></li>
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<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong><u>First In, First Out?</u> </strong>Based on Form I-526 approvals that our firm has received, it’s clear that USCIS does not adjudicate petitions on a first-in, first-out basis. WR has recently received approvals for Form I-526 petitions filed as late as March 2018 but still have cases from early 2016 pending. Factors that appear to impact processing times include exemplar-approved projects, complex source of funds scenarios, and inconsistencies with prior immigration filings with USCIS and the State Department. </span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong><u>Filing Prior to Average Processing Times.</u></strong> Some attorneys are reluctant to file a mandamus lawsuit prior to the average Form I-526 processing time listed at the time of filing, with the thought that a federal judge may not determine that the delay to adjudicate is “unreasonable,” if all other immigrant investors are equally situated. While every case must be evaluated on its own, a plaintiff must adequately describe in the complaint how USCIS’ stated processing times have inexplicably hit the roof in recent months. </span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong><u>Build the Record</u>.</strong> A federal judge will likely be more sympathetic to a plaintiff who can demonstrate that the writ of mandamus lawsuit was the last resort after multiple attempts to resolve the matter, and that he/she is stuck in administrative limbo with clear detrimental effects to his/her family. Review our</span> <a href=”https://wolfsdorf.com/blog/2016/06/08/options-eb-5-investors-form-526-petitions-pending-long/”>blog from 2016</a> <span style=”color: #000000;”>on steps that can be taken before resorting to litigation.</span></li>
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<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong><u>Action for Unreasonable Delay by Agency under Administrative Procedures Act</u>.</strong> Aside from a writ of mandamus, a plaintiff has a cause of action to compel “agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed” under the Administrative Procedures Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. § 706. Generally, when there is no specific statutory or regulatory deadline to make a decision, courts will follow the “TRAC” factors, from <em>Telecommunications Research & Action Center v. FCC</em>, to determine whether a delay is unreasonable, which include the following:</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>The time agencies take to make decisions must be governed by a “rule of reason;”</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Where Congress has provided a timetable or other indication of the speed with which it expects the agency to proceed in the enabling statute, that statutory scheme may supply content for this rule of reason;</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Delays that might be reasonable in the sphere of economic regulation are less tolerable when human health and welfare are at stake;</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>The court should consider the effect of expediting delayed action on agency activities of a higher or competing priority;</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>The court should also take into account the nature and extent of the interests prejudiced by delay;</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>The court need not find any impropriety lurking behind agency lassitude in order to hold that agency action is unreasonably delayed</span></li>
<p><span style=”color: #000000;”>Wolfsdorf Rosenthal, LLP was recently recognized by U.S. News – Best Lawyers 2020 “Best Law Firms” for its expertise in immigration law and has the experience, expertise, and infrastructure to help with all your immigration needs. As one of the fastest growing U.S. law firms specializing exclusively in immigration and nationality law, Wolfsdorf Rosenthal, LLP can assist in mandamus representation throughout the United States.</span></p>
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UFC Moscow: Mairbek Taisumov gives an update on his quest to get a U.S. visa
By Steven Marrocco, John Morgan September 14, 2018 10:30 am
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MOSCOW – The only thing that’s holding back Mairbek Taisumov’s UFC career is his visa status.
Taisumov, a resident of Vienna, Austria who hails from Grozny, Chechnya, continues to wait for good news from his immigration attorneys. They tell him he should eventually get a visa, but can’t offer much else in the way of information.
“Before, I had a visa and fought in America and paid taxes,” Taisumov (27-5 MMA, 6-1 UFC), who on Saturday meets Desmond Green (21-7 MMA, 2-2 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 136, told MMAjunkie. “Everything was OK. But now, I can’t get it.
“It’s so difficult to get a visa for the U.S. I’m not a criminal. I’m not sure why they don’t give me a visa, but hopefully I’ll get it.”
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A second job means Taisumov doesn’t struggle to pay his bills while he waits. It’s the lack of answers and his desire to be UFC champion that leaves him frustrated.
On three occasions, he’s had scheduled fights taken away because of his visa status. Most recently, a meeting with Evan Dunham at UFC 223 was canceled. The UFC once hired two attorneys to get him into the U.S. for a bout a UFC 203. They were unsuccessful at removing the roadblock.
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“It’s very painful,” he said. “Because of one piece of paper, I can’t fight in the U.S. I can’t fight the top guys, the ranked guys.
“I don’t have any injuries. All this year, I was training and asking for a fight. I hope somebody I will have this visa. The visa makes a big problem for me and my career.”
Taisumov said he’s not in the UFC to become rich. He only wants to face the best competition and win. With five UFC wins under his belt, he should be in line for a big fight.
Instead, he’ll continue to toil on cards overseas as he waits for a break in his case. (Earlier today, though, he badly missed weight for his fight with Green. Taisumov came in at 161 pounds and will surrender 40 percent of his fight purse to his opponent Saturday night.)
“I’m fighting to be a champion, and I believe I can be a champion,” he said. “This is my motivation.
April 10, 2016; Zagreb, Croatia; Mairbek Taisumov is declared the winner by knockout against Damir Hadzovic during UFC Fight Night at Zagreb Arena. Mandatory Credit: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports
April 10, 2016; Zagreb, Croatia; Mairbek Taisumov lands a punch to knock out Damir Hadzovic during UFC Fight Night at Zagreb Arena. Mandatory Credit: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports
April 10, 2016; Zagreb, Croatia; Mairbek Taisumov moves in with a kick against Damir Hadzovic during UFC Fight Night at Zagreb Arena. Mandatory Credit: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports
April 10, 2016; Zagreb, Croatia; Mairbek Taisumov moves in with a punch against Damir Hadzovic during UFC Fight Night at Zagreb Arena. Mandatory Credit: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports
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Junkers Ju 88 Vol. 2
by: Rowan Baylis [ MERLIN ]
The softbound A-4 book has 108 pages of bi-lingual text with 175 B&W photos and 14 vintage colour photos. The book breaks down into 3 basic sections:
1. A detailed operational history of the Ju 88 bomber variants
2. A comprehensive set of scale drawings
3. Colour profiles for 10 aircraft, 4 of which are also the subjects of a sheet of decals included with the book.
The larger part of the book is devoted to the operational history. This is bi-lingual Polish/English and written in a very accessible style. The English translation is very well done, but one or two typos have crept in and I spotted one part where a target got lost in translation - Ventnor Radar station becoming a railway station.
The Ju 88 is often called the Luftwaffe's most versatile aircraft and this account of bomber operations is packed with fascinating details of the development of tactics in the various theatres of war from the outbreak of hostilities to the War's end. Chapters are devoted to areas of operations as follows:
North Sea Debut
Fire Over Norway
Campaign In The West
Nachtblitz
In the Mediterranean Theatre
The West 1942-45
Other Users takes a look at the Ju 88's career in the air forces of France, Finland, Spain, Romania, Hungary and Italy.
The text section ends with a list of every Luftwaffe bomber unit equipped with the Ju 88 and an explanation of the use of Staffel code letters.
It's probably worth pointing out that the text doesn't deal with the technical developments, which have been widely covered elsewhere - this an operational history, pure and simple - and the most detailed one I've read for the Ju 88.
Scale Drawings
The plans section is quite remarkable, consisting of 18 sheets of drawings covering the following series:
Ju 88A-4 to -17 (surprisingly, no A-1 to A-3)
Ju 88B-0 & E - the forerunner of the Ju 188 with a distinctive new crew compartment
Ju 88D-0 to -6
Ju 88H-1 & -2 - with a stretched fuselage
Ju 88P-1 to -4 - tankbusters
Ju 88S-1 to -3
Ju 88T-1 to -3
The drawings are basically in 1/72 scale with addition 1/48 and 1/96 scale diagrams, plus 1/16 enlargements of some details. Additionally, sheets 1 & 2 are also enlarged to 1/48 scale, which will be boon for anyone tackling Revell-Monogram's A-4. This completes a very comprehensive set of bomber version plans.
Kagero have also included something a bit different, which is a huge help to modellers; 8 sheets of diagrams with highlights of the various changes in engines, armament and other equipment between versions.
Colour Section & decals
The colour section consists of 7 pages of excellent profiles accompanied by useful captions describing the featured schemes. Also included are a set of 14 original wartime colour photos - some are definitely tinted - which provide a useful reference for modellers.
Last but not least is the set of decals, printed in 1/72 and 1/48 scales. Kagero describe this as a bonus, but I'm sure they will be a major draw for many modellers. The decals are beautifully printed - thin, glossy and in perfect register. The subjects are well chosen to give a variety of versions and colour schemes from the Ju 88's career as a bomber:
Ju 88A-14 - S4+AL - 3./KGr. 106, France, Summer 1942 in standard RLM 70/71/ 65 camouflage
Ju 88A-4 - 3Z+AC - Stab II./KG 77, Sicily, October 1942 in a spectacular disruptive tropical scheme.
Ju 88S-3 - B - I./KG 66, France, Winter 1943-44 in a spots and mirror-wave scheme.
Ju 88A-4 4D+DN - 5./KG 30, Italy, Autumn 1943 in a mirror-wave pattern.
Kagero have come up with a very neat package. The style is certainly different from the many other books available about the Ju 88 and the combination of an operational history, plans pack and set of decals should ensure that this volume appeals equally to historians and modellers alike. Recommended.
Thank you to Kagero Books for kindly supplying the review sample.
Kagero Books are distributed in the US by MMD-Squadron.
Much has been written about the Ju 88, but Kagero have come up with a fresh approach in Vol. 2 of their Ju 88 series, by Krzysztof Janowicz, devoted to type's use as a bomber with the Luftwaffe and other air forces.
TEXT: 80%
SCALE DRAWINGS: 90%
DECALS: 80%
Scale: Other
Mfg. ID: ISBN 83-98088-59-2
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Baran-Sweezy Letters
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"Communications in Capitalist Society" by Ralph Miliband
"The Existing Alternatives in Communications" by Raymond Williams
"Introduction to the Second Edition of The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism" by John Bellamy Foster
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Rosehaven
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Watch Rosehaven Full Series Online. When Daniel returns to his hometown, Rosehaven, to take over his family’s troubled real estate business, he’s surprisingly joined by his best (city) friend Emma – who’s on the run from a marriage that didn’t last the honeymoon. Between Daniel’s crippling anxiety and Emma’s exuberant irresponsibility will they be able to save the business? It seems unlikely, but it will be fun to watch them try. And might their friendship mean more than they realise?
Director: Celia Pacquola, Luke McGregor
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Giant tidal turbine arrives in Saint John on its way to the Minas Passage
by Bruce Wark
Photo from Cape Sharp Tidal Inc.
Cape Sharp Tidal Inc. has confirmed that the first of two test turbines has arrived in Saint John aboard the barge Scotia Tide.
The five-storey, 1,000 tonne turbine reached New Brunswick this week from Halifax Harbour on its journey to the tidal test site in the Minas Passage near Parrsboro, N.S.
Sarah Dawson, who speaks for the company, says Cape Sharp is trying to figure out how to replace fastening components that are needed to secure part of the turbine generator in position. Repairs are already underway on the fasteners in a second turbine that is being built at Pictou, N.S.
In June, the Nova Scotia environment minister approved installation of the two Cape Sharp turbines, but also called for improved environmental monitoring to assess the potential impact on fish and sea mammals.
The Bay of Fundy Inshore Fisherman’s Association has filed an application with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court seeking to overturn the minister’s decision. The association argues that there isn’t enough baseline data to measure the impact of turbines on marine life and that underwater monitoring plans aren’t sophisticated enough to determine the environmental effects of the turbines.
Cape Sharp Tidal is still planning to install its turbines this year once the fastening components are replaced, but as yet, there is no timeline for deployment.
In 2009, the blades on the first turbine to be deployed at the site were wrecked within days by the fierce Fundy tides.
A number of other companies are also planning to test turbines at the Minas Passage site, but none of them will be going into the water this year.
Bruce Wark worked in broadcasting and journalism education for more than 35 years. He was at CBC Radio for nearly 20 years as senior editor of network programs such as The World at Six and World Report. He was the first producer of The House, a Saturday morning program on national politics. He currently resides in Sackville where he publishes Warktimes.
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£16 million superyacht wrapped in gold docks at Canary Wharf
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A £16 million luxury superyacht has been wrapped in gold vinyl while moored at Canary Wharf.
Ostentatious: The superyacht has been encased in gold vinyl. (SWNS)
The Bellami yacht, which can host up to 12 guests and is fitted with a spa, pool and glass waterfall is being restored to its ‘former glory’ by organisers.
The ostentatious vessel is wrapped with vinyl, a popular way for car and small boat lovers to glam up their vehicle’s appearance, as it is far cheaper and easier than paint.
Company LuxWrap have said the mirrored hull on the superyacht is the “the world’s largest chrome wrap”.
Wowza! The shining vessel named Bellami is covered in yards of gold vinyl wrap and is currently being patched up. (SWNS)
Decked out: On board is a large pool, a spa and a glass waterfall. There is also a fully stocked hair salon so super-rich guests can always look their best.
Extravagant: Workers were seen wrapping the huge yacht in gold vinyl wrap as they prepare to host influencers for London Fashion Week (SWNS)
Accommodating 12 guests across six stateroom, the sailboat boasts a large pool, a spa and a glass waterfall.
There is also a fully stocked hair salon so super-rich guests can always look their best.
The yacht also comes complete with a large Jacuzzi, sun loungers and even matching gold jet-skis.
But the yacht, which accommodates 12 guests, is not exactly a hit with locals.
One local said: “It’s grotesque. It just shows that some people have more money than sense.”
All that glitters! Wrapping with vinyl is a popular way for car and small boat lovers to glam up their vehicle’s appearance, as it is far cheaper and easier than paint. (SWNS)
Another said: “This is all that is wrong with the world. You can’t buy class.”
The boat did have one fan.
They said: “I have to admit to being a little jealous.
“If I was a billionaire, I’d have a gold boat too.”
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Nick Hahn started his career as a writer while a student at the University of Notre Dame. He went on to become President and CEO of New York-based Cotton Incorporated (Cotton, The Fabric of Our Lives). Leaving Cotton in 1997, he formed Hahn International, LTD, an agribusiness consulting group focused on the Third World. For twenty-one years, Nick has lived and worked among indigenous peoples from Africa to Latin America, his travel diaries often reflecting social and political unrest. Under the Skin is his first novel. Nick is married with four children and six grandchildren. He makes his home in rural eastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound, where he writes and narrates audiobooks
UNDER THE SKIN, a political drama by Nick Hahn
June 2, 2013 hahnco1st Leave a comment
“Do you want to be there, Simon?”
“In the operating room during delivery.”
“I’m not very good with blood, Max. Do I have to be there? Doubt that I could add value to the occasion.”
“You’re too funny, Simon. This is not a business deal. This is the birth of your first child. You added value that night in Cleveland three weeks before our wedding. You do remember, don’t you?”
Simon grinned. He took my hands and assured me he’d be there. He was certain the doctor couldn’t do it without him.
Margaret Katherine Kincaid entered this world at 11:00 am Friday, January 15, 1978, at Lenox Hill Hospital on East 77th Street. From the moment she was born, Maggie would have the proper address.
The Cesarean was flawless, with Simon the perfect spectator. He kept his mouth shut for once, and stared in awed silence. He had wanted a boy, of course, but his disappointment was mitigated by the magic of the moment. He coughed nervously, rubbed his eyes, and smiled. “Congratulations, Max,” he whispered, “she’s beautiful, just like her Mother.”
Ten days later at 2:46 am, another child entered the world. She was born on a straw mat in a mud hut near the Ugandan/Sudanese border in East Africa. Her father, Erastus Kibugu, was also disappointed. He, too, wanted a boy. After seeing her in the midwife’s arms, he smiled and named her Nabulungi. It means ‘beautiful’ in Swahili.
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Who Is Nick Hahn (part-2)
NYC Marathon 1979
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.’”
― Hugh MacLeod,
Julie Hahn 1979
Like most young men of my era, we served our time in the military. I was US Army Armor School at Ft. Knox, KY. It was after Korea but before Vietnam. I was fortunate. Before embarking on basic training, I fell in love, married the most beautiful woman in the world, and conceived our first son. Followed in short order by two more sons and an amazing daughter. Yes, I gave up my crayons!!
In the late 60’s I began a successful business career in textiles, moved to New York from my home in Cleveland, Ohio, and became President and CEO of NY based Cotton Incorporated. During my watch, Ogilvy & Mather NY created and I approved the now iconic “Cotton The Fabric of Our Lives” advertising campaign and tagline sung by the late Richie Havens.
I left Cotton in the late 90’s and founded Hahn International, Ltd, a third world economic development consultancy. I began the most exciting and satisfying period of my career.
For the past 13 years, I have lived and worked in economically and socially depressed countries. Some of these, like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Uganda, are suffering from internal conflict, posing serious challenges to expat professionals like myself.
One of the men I worked with in Lahore Pakistan, Dr. Warren Weinstein, PHD, is a brilliant Harvard economist. He was kidnapped 18 months ago, 3 days before his scheduled return to the US. He is still missing, in the hands of the Taliban. The Taliban paid a ransom to the criminal gang that snatched him, a common occurrence in Pakistan and Afganistan.
During long weeks and months on these assignments, I began to write. I kept journals in every country. That was when I got my crayons back, one color at a time.
UNDER THE SKIN takes place in East Africa, a region in which I lived and worked for 6 mos. The novel is an exciting tale of political intrigue, global relationships, romance, and corruption. The book is finished and in final editing.
I’ll continue to peal the skins from this character, aka Nick Hahn, as I sharpen my crayons!
Will we ever forget him in Capote, Charlie Wilson’s War, or on stage in Death Of A Salesman?
He’s a gifted actor with the all too common defense against excess celebrity. It’s hard to put yourself out there for all of the world to see, chew and critique. In Hoffman’s case it was public adulation and praise for his work.
Easing the tension in a cloud of alcohol or drugs seems an easy answer. As Mr Hoffman discovered, it’s the wrong answer.
“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you’re completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction, there’s no point to continue. ” ― Jennifer Salaiz
Hoffman was obsessed with his characters and it showed in his riveting work. Hopefully rehab has put him on the road to recovery and a realization that “loving himself” is the cure. We all have demons. How we deal with them makes the difference between being good and being brilliant. Hoffman is brilliant.
City of Women by David Gillham
June 1, 2013 hahnco1st 1 Comment
Listened to David describe his new novel at R J Julia Booksellers in Madison CT this evening. Can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday night. I go to quite a few of these,thanks to Roxanne Coady and her amazing staff at this iconic store on the Eastern CT Shoreline. RJJ is a state treasure and a shining example for independent booksellers across the country on how to keep the big A at bay, it’s all about branding and service. They deserve our support.
David Gillham was wonderful. Very articulate as he described his book and the research that went in to it.
The story takes place in 1943 at the height of the 2nd world war in Berlin. The lead character, Ingrid, is faced with a serious moral dilemma that would shatter her life if she made the wrong decision at a critical moment when faced with arrest and imprisonment by SS officers.
The title stems from life in Berlin in those years. The men were at the Eastern Front fighting Russians while the women stayed home fighting a humdrum existence as wives and lovers waiting for the war to end.
Berlin was a City of Women!
Interestingly, David Gillham writes from a woman’s point of view (POV), bringing intuitive insight to that forever complex subject.
My book, UNDER THE SKIN, is also written from a woman’s point of view. Listening to David was like going to school.
City of Women is a great read.
Nick Speaks From Sri Lanka
May 30, 2013 hahnco1st 1 Comment
I’ve written in journals for past 12 years from interesting and sometimes dangerous third world countries. I’ll be sharing these thoughts on nickspeak.
The first one will come from Sri Lanka (aka Ceylon) that beautiful island nation floating like a tear-drop in the Indian Ocean just off the southern tip of East India.
The country is predominantly Sinhalese Buddhist. There is a small population of Tamil Hindu’s that immigrated from East India to the North Western coast.
Known for their plantation economy, it is generally accepted, though arguably, that Ceylon teas and cinnamon are the best in the world.
I spent 4 mos there in 2004 working with coir (coconut) fiber, spice and tea plantation owners.They required supply chain enhancement and improved marketing skills. I’ll describe the plantations, tea tasting houses and the fascinating systems ufor harvesting cinnamon and coconut fibers.
We created sales & marketing cooperatives enabling farmers to leverage their strengths collectively while minimizing their weaknesses as small individual landowners.
My story will follow in days to come.
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Who Is Nick Hahn?
May 29, 2013 hahnco1st Leave a comment
I’ve been asked what demons must haunt a septuagenarian for him to think he could begin a writing career at this hallowed point in his life? Good question and maybe Hugh MacLeod has the best answer:
Yes, thank you, I want my crayons back.
In prep school and university all I ever wanted to do was write. Like others before me the Americans Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald dominated my thoughts until the great Irish, English and Russian authors took center stage in my life,
I would be another Hemingway, right, the Pulitzer Prize winner. That macho icon of American letters. He loved manly pursuits in bullrings, fishing boats, big game hunts and, of course, the bedrooms that surrounded those.
I met Hemingway in 1961 shortly before he committed suicide . I was traveling for a women’s apparel company selling skirts and matching sweaters to small retailers in the North West. I was in the bar (my usual location in those days) of the Sun Valley Lodge in Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway had a home there and was a regular at the lodge. The bartender told me Hemingway would be in later that evening as was his habit. I waited, it was about 10:30 Mountain Time, the bartender was a man of his word and introduced us.
The great man barely said hello to this kid suffering from hero worship. He probably wondered if I was old enough to drink. He turned back to his scotch, double, straight up, no ice and ignored me.
It was just months later that he took his own life with a shotgun. He had lost much of the virility that had sustained him over the years, at 61 he couldn’t bear the thought of not being the man he once was.
The 1950’s and 60’s were a romantic period in my life. All I thought about was becoming a celebrity author and emulating the best sellers in both writing and, of course, lifestyle. I would fantasize about the Algonquin Round Table in NY where Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Harold Ross et al would hold court and drink themselves into a creative milieu that more often than not only they understood!
Those were heydays for the great American writers and their romanticized way of life.
My god, how I wanted that, still do.
(will continue this odyssey in days to come, stay tuned)
My first full novel narration, available on Audible.com
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Nick’s narration
My new blog where I’ll be posting news, reviews and original content on narrating and writing.
Here you will experience Nick’s intuition and loves for all that is creative and wonderful.
I’ll be posting excerpts from my new book: UNDER THE SKIN, due out later this year and passages from a new short story I’m working on: DRONE, a dark and exciting tale about a female agent working for Interpol, the international investigative group tracking the global supply chain for human trafficking~ informative and frightening, stay tuned.
Hope you like the site, improvements as I become more facile with WordPress
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Sheriff Must Leave Office In May, PDP Bot Insists
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The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday, insisted that the National Chairman of the party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, must leave office on May 21.
The BoT vowed to resist any move by the former Borno State governor or his loyalists to extend his tenure beyond the agreed date (May 21).
Acting Chairman of the board, Sen. Jibril Walid, stated this at a briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.
Walid spoke reacting to alleged moves by Sheriff and other members of the National Working Committee of the party to extend their tenure beyond May 21.
The National Executive Committee of the party had at its meeting on March 7 fixed May 21 for the party’s national convention when new national officers would be elected.
The convention is to hold Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
At the meeting, NEC also mandated the Sheriff-led NWC to set up four committees in preparation for the convention.
These committees are those of national convention, reconciliation, finance and zoning.
But Sheriff’s refusal to name the members of the committees has fuelled speculation that the ex-governor is planning to stay beyond his tenure.
Sheriff, the former All Progressives Congress chief has also claimed that some members of the PDP wants him to remain in office till 2019.
But Walid warned Sheriff against listening to those he described as “praise singers”.
He said, “I want to offer some advice to Sheriff on the consequences of the machinations of praise singers and prophets of doom on the unanimous approval of the PDP Governors’ Forum, national caucus, BoT and the NEC terminating his tenure and that of the NWC on May 21, 2016.
“The above responsible bodies have approved that the tenure of the national officers will end immediately after the convention when the new officers are duly elected.
“The present NWC received an ovation at the meeting of the national caucus, BoT and NEC by overlooking their 2017 tenure in support of the three-month approval of the respected organs of the party which should strictly be complied with.
“Instead of listening to the praise singers, Sherif should follow the path of honour and integrity by simply taking a bow in May 2016 after the convention.
“The recent courtesy calls to the national chairman and the presentations being made, especially calling him to continue beyond the stipulated three-month tenure, is an invitation to trouble, anarchy and the return of impunity to the PDP.”
Walid also warned on the dangers of not adhering to the recommendations of the Ike Ekweremadu’s Post Election Review Committee that the party should seek its 2019 presidential candidate from the North.
He said this was done to compensate for the alleged violation of the zoning arrangement in the 2011 election, which led to a major apathy against the party in the north from 2011 culminating in its poor performance in 2015 general elections.
The party chief said the national caucus, BoT and the NEC had already approved this recommendation by unanimously zoning 2019 presidency to the North.
He said, “To change this decision now is a further invitation to impunity, a lack of party democracy, non-adherence to the party’s zoning principles, influence of ‘god-fatherism’, a lack of respect for the decision of constituted party organs, self-imposition and killing the PDP.”
Walid warned that anyone trying to reverse the position would “ever remain an enemy to the North, a mercenary and killer of the PDP”.
He added, “The BoT strongly advises Sheriff to respect his oath and acceptance of the powerful organs of the PDP that he will stay for only three months, and allow his name to be written in gold by honourably leaving the scene in May after the convention.
“The BoT shall resist any move by anybody to destroy the good foundation set by our founding fathers and mothers and shall remain the conscience of the party.”
He said the BoT would meet next week to further strengthen its position in support of the last decision of caucus, BoT, and the NEC.
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Acai Express invests $350K in 4 new locations in P.R.
Contributor October 19, 2018
Acai Express Marketing Director Ricardo Mercadé stressed that the company has also devoted its resources to innovate, creating new recipes for acai bowls that will be part of the menu for a limited time.
Healthy food chain Acai Express announced the opening of two new locations in Gurabo and Ponce, which will join two other stores in San Juan and Canóvanas, representing a combined $350,000 investment.
The new stores will generate 40 direct jobs, and are part of the company’s plans to finish the year with a total of 17 locations on the island, Héctor Westerband, Acai Express president said.
“We’re proud to continue receiving the support of consumers. Our company is focused on providing an extensive menu of fresh and nutrient-rich products to facilitate the adoption of a healthy lifestyle,” said Westerband.
“Consumers are paying increasing attention to the consumption of organic foods as part of their daily routine, which presents a growth opportunity for us,” he added.
The new store in Ponce, operated by a franchisee, is the first in the southern area of the island.
“We expect that the pace we have experienced in our expansion this year will remain consistent in the mid- and long-term,” said Westerband. “Acai consumption has proven to be more than a passing fad.”
The economic environment following Hurricane María has been favorable to Acai Express’s expansion plans, Westerband said. Sales have remained consistently above 2017 and the pace in which it has opened locations has not stopped. Last April, the chain opened a location at the Borinquen Towers, in the Puerto Nuevo area of San Juan.
Meanwhile, Acai Express Marketing Director Ricardo Mercadé stressed that the company has also devoted its resources to innovate, creating new recipes for acai bowls that will be part of the menu for a limited time.
Recently, Acai Express launched its franchise in the United States, after almost five years of operation in Puerto Rico.
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MLAs likely to begrudgingly pass carbon tax
by Nick Pearce August 16, 2019 August 18, 2019
Two things were clear in the legislative assembly Thursday: the territory’s made-in-the North carbox tax was set to pass, and no one was happy about it.
Thursday marked the final house discussion before the carbon tax’s slated Sept. 1 roll out. MLAs – including Finance Minister Robert C. McLeod, who shepherded the plan – either derided the tax as a lesser of two evils against a possibly more punishing federal carbon tax if they didn’t approve their own, or in the case of MLAs Kevin O’Reilly, Kieron Testart, and Cory Vanthuyne, suggesting it should be scrapped entirely.
If a new federal government came to power and repealed the tax, McLeod told the assembly he assumed a future government “would make an amendment to their legislation so quickly it would probably be one of the fastest pieces of legislation ever to go through this assembly, and rightfully so.”
Finance Minister Robert C. McLeod says if a new federal government takes power, the next assembly will nix the current carbon tax plan. NNSL file photo
The territory’s made-in-the-North plan, an alternative to a proposed federal tax, would price greenhouse gasses at $20 per tonne. That would rise annually until reaching $50 per tonne in 2022. The territory would rebate the carbon tax on heating fuel, which residents would file for at tax time, and aviation fuel would also be exempt.
A cost of living benefit would aim to ease the strain on residents’ paying more at the pump.
However, the mode of transportation for transporting that fuel would still be taxed. Suggesting it may be cheaper to fly-in fuel than shipping it by sea to communities, Nunakput MLA Herbert Nakimayak noted the already high cost of living in his constituency would be adversely affected.
“It might be a good idea to look into buying an airplane, now that we have barges,” he said to laughter.
The plan also aims to hand large emitters like mines a 72 per cent rebate on their taxes,with 12 per cent going into individual trusts. Those large emitters can use the trusts to invest in further greenhouse gas emissions.
Cabinet would manage remaining funds – the limited public reporting of which O’Reilly has repeatedly panned.
“Unfortunately, the bill really does not contain any provisions for any kind of public reporting, and all of the rebates or grants are going to be determined by regulations set afterwards,” he told the assembly, calling it “a made-by-cabinet approach” that lacked consultation.
He, along with Testart and Vanthuyne opposed the plan outright. Testart reiterated criticism that the MLA committee assigned to the plan lacked teeth, and was frustrated at its inability to influence the legislation.
He and O’Reilly also noted there hasn’t been a costed NWT-oriented federal plan that can be compared to the GNWT’s plan. Yellowknife Centre MLA Julie Green added the Yukon worked with the federal government to create its carbon tax plan, which she said had “distinct advantages.”
Despite their objections, the vote is set to pass. That’s largely because MLAs Nakimayak, Frederick Blake, Shane Thompson and Danny McNeely all arrived at McLeod’s conclusion: between the feds and the GNWT, the territory’s tax, imperfections aside, would make the best of a bad situation.
Blake told the assembly the tax would be difficult for his region, where a road trip to Inuvik from Aklavik or Tsiigehtchic, could easily cost $150 or $200. The federal elections could be a change of circumstances, he said.
“I believe this is the best plan we have moving forward. Who knows what will happen in the next federal election,” he told the assembly.
As debate continues on the plan, the current assembly must pass it before next Friday, or risk Ottawa imposing a plan after the Sept. 1 deadline.
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I'm singing Jin Kazama's theme song in Tekken 3rd
By DJ Crono,
May 22, 2014 in Community
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Since it's game related, I thought I'd post here about the new Tekken 3rd Pachinko Slot game that's debuting July 6th 2014.
I'm performing Jin Kazama's theme song. The song name is Black Blood Destiny.
You can hear it (albeit briefly) here @ 5:05.
And the homepage is here:
http://www1.yamasa.co.jp/tk3/
Although there's still not much information yet.
I recorded the song at the Namco Bandai studio here in Tokyo last year.
It was great fun to chat with the songwriters and music directors at Namco.
There was a big pre-release launch event yesterday, so I went to that and was able to finally hear the song in-game for the first time.
I'm sure there's some Tekken fans here at OCRemix, so there you go.
I'm also singing in another famous fighting game series, but there's no official info yet so I can't say anything...
Check out my new musical project SFAIRA!
https://www.youtube.com/user/SFAIRAOFFICIAL
Rebellion/OK, We'll Groove Director
Awesome!! Congratulations!
It's hard to hear over all the explosions but from what I could tell it seemed awesome.
Would you ever be open to collaborating with vocals for OCR?
Chernabogue
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That's awesome! Congrats!
Phonetic Hero
Temporal Duality Asst. Director
Dude this is AWESOME, congrats! Tekken 2 is one of my earliest game memories, and as such I've always had a soft spot for the series <3
I've actually never collab'd with another OCRemixer.
I guess it would depend on the song and if I really liked the mix I was presented with. I'm not closed to the idea though.
Chernabogue, Phonetic Hero
Thanks guys. Once the official version gets released, I'll try to add a link to a video or soundcloud etc.
The Legendary Zoltan
Japanese Translator
It sounded cool to me. Congratulations, DJ Crono!
Salluz
Chrono (+3000)
I'll have to check this out. Always loved your remixes too.
AngelCityOutlaw
Holy hell, that's awesome! Congrats!
Salluz, thanks man! I remember you from back in the day.
Good to see you're still here too.
Meteo Xavier
Songs of Light and Darkness Asst. Director, Impulse Composer
I always enjoy it when lesser-known artists get bigger breaks like these. Much respect and congratulations.
Very cool! I've never even PLAYED pachinko once in my life, but I know it's huge over there... cool break/opportunity!
TillyFun
That is so cool! Congrats
Thank Dave. Yeah it's absolutely EVERYWHERE here. The best part was spending the time with the Namco Bandai staff at there building, that was interesting.
The soundtrack for the album has been turned into a video at
http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm23917781
Just push the play button on the embedded video and another small window will open. Push that play button and the songs will play back to back.
BLACK BLOOD DESTINY is track #2 starting at 02:04. It's almost the full song, it's only missing the 2nd verse and 2nd B melody (maybe a full release in the future??)
Edited July 7, 2014 by DJ Crono
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All public bodies must comply with the law and have regard for the rights of those concerned. They should act according to their statutory powers and duties, and any other rules governing the service they provide. They should follow their own policy and procedural guidance on complaint handling, whether published or internal.
Good complaint handling requires strong and effective leadership. Those at the top of the public body should take the lead in ensuring good complaint handling, with regard to both the practice and the culture. Senior managers should:
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ensure the policy is delivered through a clear and accountable complaint handling process
ensure learning from complaints is used to improve service.
Public bodies should consider the policy and practice of complaint handling as an integral part of the service they provide to customers.
Staff should be properly equipped and empowered to put things right promptly where something has gone wrong. They should be supported by clear lines of authority and decision making that are flexible enough to respond to complaints effectively and authoritatively.
Complaint handling should focus on the outcomes for the complainant and, where appropriate, others affected. Public bodies should put in place policies and procedures to ensure complainants are treated fairly, to aid decision making and to ensure fair outcomes. Those policies and procedures should allow staff the flexibility to resolve complaints promptly and in the most appropriate way while still learning from complaints.
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A Winning Combination: Able Sport Relies on DB Schenker for Domestic and International Logistics
Six-time Paralympian Krige Schabort knows that all of his company’s racing wheelchairs, wheels, travel boxes, and accessories will get to their destinations on time and within budget… every time.
Krige Schabort is a six-time Paralympian, an Ironman triathlon record-breaker, a 5-time Falmouth Road Race wheelchair division champion, and the winner of numerous marathon world championships medals. He’s won an Espy and is widely recognized as an elite athlete.
As president of Able Sport, Schabort is also a DB Schenker customer who relies on the global logistics provider to ship his company’s products to athletes around the world. An extremely accomplished individual both on and off the race course, Schabort lost his legs in 1987 during the South African Border War when a bomb exploded just six feet away from him.
Now, he’s putting advanced racing equipment into the hands of disabled racers who need those products to be able to compete in and win races. Located worldwide, his customer base includes individuals, organizations, and countries like Argentina and China, both of which have current orders in the pipeline for multiple sets of racing chairs and wheels.
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Having previously owned a wheelchair manufacturing firm, Schabort shifted gears in 2017 and started making equipment for athletes with disabilities. Today, Able Sport makes racing chairs, wheels, and the travel boxes used to ship that equipment to and from races.
“My customers want their equipment on time and in good shape,” says Schabort. “I always try my best to live up to those expectations.” When Able Sport’s previous logistics provider was unable to get a shipment to a customer in Israel within a workable budget, Schabort knew it was time to align with a new logistics partner.
“That shipment to Israel was just too expensive,” says Schabort. “We couldn’t make it work.”
The customer stepped in to help, and pointed Schabort to DB Schenker as a viable alternative.
“DB Schenker called me, organized a pickup date, and got the shipment to my customer on time and within budget,” he recalls.
With that problem behind him, Schabort realized the new logistics provider would be a great partner for all of Able Sport’s export and import shipments. “At that point, I started moving all of my business over to DB Schenker,” says Schabort.
Initially that meant managing only exports of racing wheelchairs, which are manufactured by Top End. “We’re Top End’s biggest sellers of racing wheelchairs,” he adds, “and we ship their equipment all over the world.” Over time, Schabort has shifted all of his company’s import and export logistics over to DB Schenker.
In another example of how Able Sport’s previous provider was unable to meet its needs, the company packed and shipped two wheelchairs for transport to two different customer in France. By the time the shipments arrived at their destinations, they’d been mixed up and sent to the wrong recipients.
Schabort had to step in and work quickly to fix the problem. “Those are the kinds of mistakes that I’m not at all concerned about now,” he says, “with DB Schenker handling the end-to-end process.”
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Schabort especially likes the high levels of customer service and prompt attention that DB Schenker provides. “I just leave it to DB Schenker,” says Schabort. “They handle all of my importing and customs clearance, which I thankfully don’t ever have to worry about.”
He also likes the prompt attention paid to his email requests—a “plus” that allows him to go about his busy day without worrying about having to retrace his steps and follow up later. “I send them a request for quote via email, I get an immediate reply and then a prompt response to my request,” says Schabort, who didn’t get that level of attention from his previous logistics company.
Because many of Able Sport’s shipments are large and bulky (e.g., including boxes up to 70 inches in length), freight costs were also a constant concern. That issue was solved when Able Sport began working with DB Schenker. “Compared to the service I was using previously, DB Schenker’s pricing and service are both better,” says Schabort. “It’s been a win-win situation for us.”
A Winning Approach
In 2020, Able Sport began making and selling its own line of travel cases and carbon fiber racing wheels. Right now, he’s developed a line of training rollers (which athletes use to train indoors) and specialized gloves used for training and racing.
“It looks as if COVID is going to keep us indoors for a bit longer,” says Schabort, “so we came up with some products that support more indoor, Zoom-based training and racing.”
Eager to launch a few more products by the end of the year and ready to resume his typical travel schedule, Schabort says he’ll be resting easy, knowing that DB Schenker is handling the logistics and transportation for Able Sport’s inbound and outbound shipments.
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#12 Compatibility Numbers & June 12 Birthday & World Numeorlogy Forecast & Analysis for 2011
June 12, 2011…a #4 World-Wide Day. Today “a penny saved is a penny earned.” Public Servants try to be realistic and practical. Useful products are patented. In your lifestyle: Do the things that must be done to maintain what you have. Correct mistakes. Socialize and shop within your budget. Nothing comes easy…there’s work to be done.
Generally compatible Birthday numbers for #12 are: #1, #2, #5, #6, #8, #10, #11, #14, #15, #17, #19, #20, #23, #26, #28, #29. With all other numbers: The #12 will need to concentrate on one goal, be disciplined for practicality and talk less and do more to maintain a harmonious, materially successful combination.
If #12 is your birthday, find your passion, stick with it and there’s no stopping you. You’re artistic, sociable and have a fine mind. Avoid sugar and alcoholic beverages to curb your frequent highs and lows. Finish what you begin and “don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” You are multi-talented, have a vivid, creative imagination and are wise in surprising ways. Learn to accept the world as it really is and people for what they really are. You find peace, happiness and security through acceptance.
In 2011, curb your flights of fancy and get down to brass tacks. Work, build and plan for tomorrow today. Schedule time, money and effort. Correct mistaken ideas and over-expenditures and put yourself, your body and your life in working order. No vacations now…you’ll have more freedom next year.
In 2011 wear the color green to attract sensible, enduring, stable, honest relationships.
Emerald is your gem in 2011.
People whose names begin with the letters D, M and V 2011.
Celebrities born on June 12 are: Marv Albert (Sportscaster), Timothy Busfield (Actor), George H Bush (43rd US President is 86 Years old), Briged Brophy (Novelist), Chick Corea (Jazz Musician), Tim DeKay (Actor/”White Collar”), Vic Damone (SInger), Anthony Eden (British Prime Minister (1955-57), John Enos III (Actor/”Melrose Place”), Anne Frank (Author/Holocaust victim), Uta Hagen (Actor/”Boys From Brazil”/Acting Teacher), Rona Jaffe (Novelist), Priscilla Lane (Actor), Paula Marshall (Actor), Finesse Mitchell (Comedian/SNL), Michael Muhney (Actor/”Veronica Mars”), Jim Nabors (Singer/Actor), D J Qualls (Actor/”Hustle and Flow”), Vera Hruba Ralston (Actor), Robyn (Singer), Ally Sheedy (Actor), Eamonn Walker (Actor/”Oz”, “Kings”), Kendra Wilkinson (Model/TV Personality), Chris Young (Country Singer).
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#10 Compatibility Numbers & June 10 Birthday Numerology Forecast & Analysis for 2011
Generally compatible Birthday numbers for #10 are: #2 (supportive in lifestyle and business), #3 (materially successful with concentration on one goal), #4 (comfortable in business only), #5 (all around dynamic duo), #8 (when cooperative (not challenging), powerful business combo), #9 (financially sound when stimulated to take action by #10), #11 (excellent in lifestyle and for #10 ambitions), #12, socially sound, lack ability to finish projects), #13 (material projects only), #14 (all around dynamic duo), #17 (lucky in goals when one does not try to control the other), #18 (good when 18 is spurred on to take action by the 10), #20, (excellent combo), #21 (socially extraordinary), #22 (exceptional with common ambitions and desires for lifestyle comforts), #23 (magical combination), #26 (wonderful in all areas), #29 (excellent combination for happiness and growth), #30 (socially and commercially very successful when practicality is applied to one focus), #31 (requires material organization as social ambitions may scatter the talents and energy of the combo).
If #10 is your birthday, you are a clear thinking leader and the instigator who brings people together and strives to do good for others. In love, marriage and family affairs, you do well with a supportive partner who helps you finish what you start and does not challenge your ideas and timing. Maintain your faith and confidence: When you are patient, pay attention to everyday maintenance details and do not expect instant gratification, your success is assured.
In 2011 there may be slow downs and petty problems as the plans and goals you made in 2010 need time to gel and your emotions need time to catch-up with the changes you are contemplating and making. Be receptive to help from others and be a cooperative listener. A little humility and modesty goes a long way to making and keeping friends and allies. June is your best month for getting things done and for solving problems. You may want to make changes in August. It is best to maintain the situation and the relationships you have until the vibrations change to a luckier, more optimistic viewpoint in October.
In 2011 wear the color orange red to attract supportive, gentle, intimate relationships.
Moonstone is your gem in 2011.
People whose names begin with the letters B, K and T make petty issues important and annoying in 2011.
Monday is your lucky day of the week in 2011.
Celebrities born on June 10 are: Kristina Apgar (Actor), F Lee Bailey (Celebrity Attorney), Saul Bellow (Author), John Edwards (Former US Senator), Linda Evangelista (Super Model), Faith Evans (Singer), Frankie Faison (Actor), Terry Fator (Comedian/Ventriloquist), Kate Flannery (Actor/”The Office”), Judy Garland (Actor), Gina Gershon (Actor), Jeff Greenfield (Political Journalist), Ron Glass (Actor), June Haver (Actor), Sessue Hayakawa (Actor/”Bridge Over the River Kwai”), Carolyn Hennesy (Actor/”General Hospital”), Hoku (Singer/Daughter of Don Ho), Elizabeth Hurley (Super Model), Bobby Jindal (US Governor of Louisiana), Chelsea Korka (Singer), Tara Lapinski (Olympic Figure Skater), Frederick Loewe (Composer), Hattie McDaniel (Actor), Barry Morse (Actor), Vincent Perez (Actor), Prince Philip, Husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain), Maxi Priest (Singer), Maurice Sendak (Children’s Author), Leelee Sobieski (Actor), Eliot Spitzer (Former NY Governor), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Actor/”Big Love”), Timothy Van Patten (Actor), Shane West (Actor).
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#6 Compatibility Numbers & June 6 Birthday Numerology Forecasts & Analysis for 2011
Generally compatible Birthday numbers for #6 are: 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31. #6 provides the roots of home and takes on social and family obligations for all numbers. It is a domestic and artistic number that provides companionship, strives for group harmony and wants to raise standards for everyone in their life. #6 settles other numbers down, and blends into the community. Numbers that are not compatible will feel smothered or fenced-in by the caring, nurturing, always attentive and loving, parental #6.
If June #6 is your birthday, the artist in you should be encouraged. Whether as a career or hobby talent, you bring beauty and uplift to all you touch. It’s challenging to the #6 to let family members and others they feel are near and dear to express their own desires in life…#6 always thinks it “knows better.” Even if #6 does not agree with the choices of others, #6 should learn to “live and let live,” Overall, the emotionally balanced #6 brings beauty, harmony, truth and justice and peace and a sense of balance to its environment.
In 2011 expect to spend more time alone and to reflect upon the past and contemplate your future. Commercial ambitions and changes should be shelved until next year when the surrounding vibrations will make your actions successful. Money comes in if you do not pursue it. March through September have spiritual, intellectual, low physical energy-high mental energy vibes. The things you need will come to you – it’s best to wait until after February 2012 to activate financial ambitions or make major life-altering changes. Reflect, rest, take vacations, ease up on stressful physical activity, take courses to improve your professional skills and talents and decide what you want to be when you grow up. October changes your mood and tempo to make you feel more connected socially and in control of your material goals and ambitions.
In 2011 wear the color purple to attract people that command your respect.
People whose names begin with the letters G, P and Y compliment your introspective mood in 2011.
Saturday and Sunday are your lucky days of the week in 2011.
Celebrities born on June 6 are: Walter Abel (Actor), Sandra Bernhard (Comedienne), Bjorn Borg (Tennis Star), Chelsea Brown (Comedienne), Dana Carvey (Comedian), Bill Dickey (Baseball Hall of Fame), David Dukes (Actor), Marion Wright Edelman (Health Care President, Children’s Defense Fund), Robert Englund(Actor/”Freddie Kreuger”), Harvey Fierstein (Actor/Playwright), Nathan Hale (American Patriot), Jason Isaacs (Actor), Paul Giamatti (Actor), Staci Keenan (Actor), Dee C Lee (Rocker), Dalai Lama (Buddhist Spiritual Leader), Thomas Mann (Novelist), Maria Montez (Actor), David Scott (Astronaut), Dwight Twilley (Country Singer), Colin Quinn (Comedian/Writer), Sonya Walger (Actor/”Lost”), David Whyte (Rocker).
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Generally compatible Birthday numbers for #5 are: 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 are outgoing and sociable and they are successful together for various reasons. However, #5 is a catalyst for change and stimulates all numbers.
If June #5 is your birthday,Clever, sociable and curious, you are where the action is! You’re versatile, adaptable, imaginative – lucky more often than not – and enjoy the glitz of life. You’re a quick-study and when you have experienced something or someone and understand them, your enthusiasm wanes and you lose interest. You want to be married or have a intimate partnership. However, it’s difficult to tie you down for very long…you’re changeable, love to travel mentally and physically – need challenges – and you bore easily. Since your not a “builder” and you live in the now, your personality adapts to the company you keep and the environment you’re in, you are sensually attractive, can promote anything and do anything that captures your interest and you can be “all things to all people” — stability may be illusive in your changeable, often unconventional lifestyle.
In 2011 your focus is closer to home and family. Material issues arise, there are decisions to make and your adaptability is a blessing. Expect favors and gifts and opportunities for progressive change. Be discerning in the responsibilities you accept – check the facts and figures and don’t take things at face value to be sure you can fulfill your obligations. Call upon your sense of humor and remember = human being are just that = we’re all human and therefore, not perfect. February and November are problem-solving material action months. A loss of freedom begins in April and eases up after September and may change your perspective on your future ambitions.
In 2011 wear the color blue to attract comforting, nurturing, artistic friends.
People whose names begin with the letters F, O and X may not be responsive in 2011.
Your lottery numbers are: 3, 6, 14, 15, 21, 23.
Celebrities born on June 5 are: Jeremy Abbott (Olympic Figure Skater), Chad Allen (Actor), Jill Biden (Wife of US Vice President Joseph Biden), William Bill Boyd (Cowboy Actor/”Hopalong Cassidy”), Thomas Chippendale (Furniture Maker), Amanda Crew (Actor), Ken Follett (Author), Pat Garrett (Wild West Lawman who killed Billy the Kid), Joey Gilbert (Boxer), Spalding Gray (Actor), Fallon King (Singer/”Cherish”), Felisha King (Singer/”Cherish”), Ron Livingston (Actor), Brian McKnight (Singer), Bill Moyers (TV Journalist), Suze Orman (TV Financial Advisor), Navi Rawat (Actor/”Numb3rs”), Don Reid (Singer/Statler Brothers), Richard Scarry (Children’s Author), Igor F Stravinsky (Russian Composer), Pancho Villa (Mexican Revolutionary), Mark Wahlberg (Actor/Rap Singer), Lancelot Ware (Founder of MENSA), Liza Weil (Actor/”Gilmore Girls”).
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party town Oct. 12, 2006
Directors! Horses! LES Hipsters!
We’re not saying they’re open to the public, and we’re not saying you’ll necessarily be able to get in if you show up. But here are the big-name parties on tap for tonight. Expect to hear about them in the next few days’ gossip columns.
Only a few days in, we’ve already figured out that the New York party scene seems to support three distinct boldface events a night. There’s one for Hollywood types, moguls, and Lou Reed; there’s one for socialites, fashionistas, and their patrons; and there’s one for people who surreptitiously scan Us Weekly looking for their own names. Events in this last category typically seem to be planned by people who didn’t quite “get” Zoolander. Beyond these, it’s all desperate gimmicks swimming in search of party reporters. Without further comment, then, tonight’s events:
• 2006 Directors Guild of America Honors. DGA Theatre, 110 W. 57th St., nr. Sixth Ave., 6 p.m. Promised guests: Don Cheadle, Danny Glover, Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford, Jack Valenti, Michael Apted, Julie Taymor, and, sadly, not Lou Reed.
• Donna Karan “Gold” perfume launch. Donna Karan store, 819 Madison Ave., at 68th St., 8 p.m. Promised guests: Uma Thurman, Amy Sacco, Angie Harmon, Beth Ostrosky.
• The ASCA’s Young Friends Horse’n Around Benefit. Lotus Space, 122 W. 26th St., nr. Sixth Ave., 9 p.m. Wearing of denim encouraged. Promised guests: Jason Binn, Tinsley Mortimer, Alison Kelly of Project Runway, Prince Lorenzo Borghese of The Bachelor: Rome.
• Grand opening of Revolver. Revolver, 210 Rivington St., nr. Pitt St., 10 p.m. D.J.-ing by members of Good Charlotte.
Looking for something lower-key and more accessible? Check out all our Agenda listings for tonight, selected by New York’s culture editors.
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The Most Important Takeaways From Big Tech’s Deplatforming of Trump
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Federal prosecutors in Phoenix said rioters intended to harm government officials, pointing to a note the “QAnon Shaman” left for Mike Pence.
A broken president leaves the White House twice impeached, on the brink of bankruptcy, and criminally exposed.
With Democrats controlling Congress and the White House, odds are high for more stimulus and a third check. But timing will be tricky.
The Trump administration had already depleted the vaccine stockpile it said it would release, sowing more confusion for state and local authorities.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Odd in Biden’s Stimulus Plan
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Uncle Joe is turning the money printer up to 11 — at least, if 10 Senate Republicans let him.
Trump unveils his Inauguration Day plans
Trump will depart Washington on Wednesday morning before Biden is sworn in, becoming the first modern-day president to skip his successor’s inauguration.
Instead, Trump will attend an unprecedented farewell event at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, where Air Force One is kept. No recent president has had his own sendoff ceremony at Andrews.
Trump to leave Washington morning of Biden’s inauguration, plans sendoff event at military airbase
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All of President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet Nominees
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How to Sign Up for a COVID Vaccine in New York
By Matt Stieb
After a sluggish start, New York is ramping up vaccination efforts, making more people eligible for the shot and opening new mass vaccination sites.
Don’t believe the rumors: Trump and Giuliani are still pals (though it’s unclear if Trump is paying his legal fees)
When Rudolph W. Giuliani was treating his efforts to carry out President Trump’s wishes to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election as a payment opportunity — he proposed a daily retainer of $20,000 for his legal services from the burgeoning Trump campaign legal fund — the president dismissed it and responded by demanding to personally approve each expense.
Nine weeks and another impeachment later, Mr. Trump began the day on Thursday by asking aides to erase any sign of a rift. Stripped of his Twitter account, Mr. Trump conveyed his praise through an adviser, Jason Miller, who tweeted: “Just spoke with President Trump, and he told me that @RudyGiuliani is a great guy and a Patriot who devoted his services to the country! We all love America’s Mayor!”
White House officials are universally angry with Mr. Giuliani and blame him for both of Mr. Trump’s impeachments. But the president is another story.
Even as he complains about Mr. Giuliani’s latest efforts as fruitless, the president remains unusually deferential to him in public and in private. “Don’t underestimate him,” Mr. Trump has told advisers.
But only up to a point. While Mr. Trump and his advisers balked at the $20,000 request weeks ago, it is unclear whether the president will sign off on Mr. Giuliani being paid anything other than expenses.
After 2 Impeachments, Giuliani Vows to Continue His Fervor for Trump
Who Will Be in Charge of Trump’s Impeachment Trial?
Why it may not be Chief Justice John Roberts this time around.
Trump Faces Senate Trial After Second Impeachment
The House impeached Trump for inciting insurrection, with the support of 10 Republicans. The trial will take place during Biden’s administration.
“I could have never imagined that he could have gone down this road.”
What Is in Joe Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package Plan?
The proposal includes $1,400 checks for most Americans and $400 federal weekly unemployment benefits through September.
By Jeff Andrews
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New York Attorney General Sues NYPD for ‘Pattern of Abuse’ at BLM Protests
The state attorney general asserts that cops illegally used “excessive force and [made] false arrests” during last summer’s demonstrations.
An ambitious plan out of the gate
NEW: Biden has unveiled his proposal for a new $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill.
Among other things, it includes a new round of $1,400 checks, $50 billion for testing, $20 billion for vaccines, $350 billion for states, local and territorial governments.
—@josh_wingrove
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Biden’s inauguration was already set to look drastically different due to COVID, and after the Capitol riot, security concerns have skyrocketed.
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By Jesse Singal
The science isn’t clear yet — but there might be a moderating effect to more public forums like Facebook and Twitter
A History of the Trump Era Through Stories About Toilets
Trump’s motive was right in front of us all along.
Are There Enough Senate Republican Votes to Convict Trump?
With the MAGA base still strong and plenty of excuses for Republicans to say no, conviction faces steep odds.
Murkowski doesn’t exactly sound like a “no”
Wow, Murkowski on impeachment: “Trump’s words incited violence, which led to the injury and deaths of Americans … unlawful actions cannot go without consequence and the House has responded swiftly, and I believe, appropriately, with impeachment.”
Doesn’t say how she’ll vote
—@burgessev
Jaime Harrison, who proved his fundraising prowess in his race against Lindsey Graham, will be the next DNC chair
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Senate candidate Jaime Harrison of South Carolina as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, as he moves to remake the national party infrastructure to better compete with Republicans.
Harrison, 44, a former chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, raised more than $130 million in his effort to defeat Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R) last year, making himself a well-known name among Democrats nationwide. His candidacy for the DNC chairmanship had been promoted by Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), a close Biden ally who played an instrumental role for Biden during the Democratic primary contest. Harrison’s selection was confirmed by two Democrats familiar with Biden’s decision.
President-elect Biden picks Jaime Harrison as next chair of Democratic National Committee
The mark of a healthy society
Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach, tells @HallieJackson on @MSNBC that he’s buying body armor and altering his daily routines because his life is in danger.
—@PhilipRucker
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) claims that accidents involving motor coaches are rare and that these vehicles are among the safest on the road. The industry transports 750 million passengers per year, with each bus carrying large numbers of people. But, despite this glowing report, an article in USA Today recently charged the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) with undercounting motor coach accidents and deaths at least since 1995. The article further states that inaccurate numbers given by the NHTSA in testimony before Congress creates a false impression that buses are safer than they really are.
Although the NTSB has made recommendations designed to improve motor coach safety, the actual implementation of these changes has languished for more than a decade. The only significant recent improvement, a ban on texting by all commercial drivers, dates from January 2010. An additional proposal would prohibit reaching for, holding, or dialing a cell phone while operating a commercial vehicle. This rule has yet to go into effect.
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Government audits of tour bus companies have been incomplete at best. The purpose of these audits is to check compliance with certain rules, such as testing drivers for drugs and alcohol and limiting their time behind the wheel in order to prevent fatigue. But there seems to be no law that specifies how often such inspections must occur. New bus companies can operate for as long as 18 months without a full audit.
In addition, even multiple violations will not necessarily result in the shut-down of a bus company. In 2011, a World Wide Travel bus crash killed 15 passengers near New York City. The company had last been fully audited in 2008 and had been cited for 5 violations of “fatigued driver” since 2009. The Federal Motor Coach Safety Administration (FMCSA) places bus companies on “alert” when spot inspections find repeated safety violations. FMCSA lists 433 out of 3,100 motor coach companies as on “alert.” And, although these companies present a higher level of passenger safety risk, they can continue operating for 9 months or more before receiving a full safety audit.
New Safety Recommendations
In response to a recent rash of fatal bus crashes Congress introduced the Motorcoach Enhancement Safety Act of 2011. Among the NTSB safety recommendations that the legislation seeks to implement are:
Requiring seat belts for all passengers.
Electric on-board recorders that monitor the number of hours a driver has been on the road. Driver fatigue is the number one cause of bus accidents and accounts for 36 percent of motor coach fatalities.
Stronger roofs that resist being sheared off or crushed and prevent passengers from being ejected during a rollover. About half of all motor coach fatalities result from rollovers, with a 70 percent death rate for passengers ejected from the bus.
Improved glazing for bus windows to prevent shattering.
Windows and exits that are easier for passengers to open.
In the fall of 2011, federal, state and local police began an intensive, two-week inspection sweep, conducting thousands of surprise safety inspections of motor coaches, tour buses, school buses, and other passenger vehicles. In spite of its shortcomings on safety audits, the FMCSA has actually doubled the number of roadside motor coach inspections and safety reviews over the past 5 years. Since 2008, FMCSA has also stepped up its enforcement against unsafe passenger carriers.
These developments are promising, but the NHSTA needs to tell the whole story when reporting on motor coach safety statistics. From 2003 to 2009, the agency failed to include at least 14 motor coach accidents and 32 passenger fatalities among its official tally. Members of the public deserve a more accurate reality check on safety each time they decide to board a motor coach.
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Boehringer submits Pradaxa antidote to regulators
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A new product which can rapidly reverse the effects of Boehringer Ingelheim’s (BI) anticoagulant Pradaxa has been filed with regulators in the US and Europe.
The drug, idarucizumab, is the first to be developed to provide an antidote to a novel oral anticoagulant (NOAC), the new class of treatments of which BI’s Pradaxa is one.
Others in the market include Bayer and Johnson & Johnson’s Xarelto, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Eliquis, and a new entrant, Daiichi Sankyo’s Savaysa.
The drugs have been heralded as a major step forward in treating numerous conditions, including preventing blood clots after major surgery, and treating the serious heart condition atrial fibrillation, but concerns have also been raised about the raised risk of bleeding and strokes in patients.
BI’s development offers patients who experience bleeding or risk of bleeding after taking Pradaxa another way of having it brought under control.
Professor Jörg Kreuzer, vice president, Medicine Therapeutic Area Cardiovascular at BI said idarucizumab would help in “rare emergency situations”.
The need for antidotes for the new drugs led the US FDA to grant idarucizumab with a Breakthrough Therapy Designation, helping it to be developed and approved faster.
Concerns about the safety of Pradaxa have seen the drug lose market share to Bayer’s similar treatment Xarelto. BI is continuing to carry out safety and efficacy studies for the drug, including two large real world studies released in November, which showed Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) to be associated with fewer major bleeds and strokes compared to warfarin.
Bayer saw Xarelto sales rise to €1.67 billion in 2014, up nearly 77 per cent. BI hasn’t yet announced its annual results for 2014, but Pradaxa sales – which stood at €1.20 billion in 2013 – will be one of the key figures to watch out for on when results are announced on 22 April.
NICE draft guidance recommends dabigatran (Pradaxa) for blood clots
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PSP Invests in Transformation of SS John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School
$300,000 grant will fund comprehensive plan to provide new supports for teachers and strategies to help close the academic achievement gap The Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) today announced it has awarded a $300,000 grant from its Great School Fund to Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School (Neumann-Goretti) in South Philadelphia. In 2015, …
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Metro: Philly High School fair to be held at Pennsylvania Convention Center
More than 100 schools will be on hand to help students figure our their options. For about nine years, Philadelphia’s 8,500 8th graders have done all (well, most?) of their homework. Now comes the biggest project yet. Finding a high school. More than 100 public, private, charter and Catholic high schools will be on hand …
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Inquirer: S. Phila. Catholic school to get $1.4 million grant
By Kristen A. Graham, Inquirer Staff Writer It’s a grant the pontiff would appreciate: A South Philadelphia Catholic school that serves predominantly poor immigrant students is getting $1.4 million to improve and expand. The gift to Independence Mission Schools – the network that runs St. Thomas Aquinas and 14 other former Archdiocese of Philadelphia parish …
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The Philadelphia Citizen: Meet the Problem Solver
Michael Gomez, Principal of Cristo Rey Philadelphia High, on the North Philly school’s innovative model It wasn’t a (real life) teacher who originally inspired Michael Gomez to teach. Or a particular class. Or even his passion to help children learn. It was Robin Williams—or at least John Keating, the character he plays in Dead Poets …
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PSP Makes Transformation Grants to Two City High Schools, One Catholic and One District
The Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) today announced it has awarded $375,000 in grants from its Great Schools Fund, including incubation grants to support turnaround plans at two Philadelphia high schools. This latest round of grants brings the total investments of the Great Schools Fund to $35.8 million to create better educational opportunities for nearly 16,000 …
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In the iconic Rocky II, Rocky Balboa stops at his Catholic parish on the way to the Spectrum to get his priest’s blessing prior to the World Heavyweight Championship rematch. For over 30 years, Rocky has symbolized hard work, struggle and success on a personal, neighborhood and city level. That scene was filmed at St. …
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DePaul Catholic shows strong results in first year using blended learning
The story of the DePaul Catholic School once mirrored that of urban Catholic schools nationally. Over the course of fifty years, DePaul, located in Germantown, faced declines in enrollment, faculty, programs, and test scores. In 2001, DePaul Catholic was under-enrolled at 200 students with no enrichment classes and few student supports. The school routinely performed in the 20th and 30th …
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Yesterday, we announced that our Great Schools Fund is investing $2.6 million to create more than 850 new seats in innovative, high-quality district, charter and Catholic schools. Read more about it in today’s Inquirer and on WHYY. The grants will fuel the startup of a new innovative district high school, the expansion of a high-performing …
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Philadelphia School Partnership to award $2.6 million in grants
The influential Philadelphia School Partnership, organized to raise $100 million for high-performing city schools, Tuesday announced it would award $2.6 million more in grants.
Its largest gift, $2 million over four years, will support Building 21, a Philadelphia School District high school slated to open in September.
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Leela james and anthony hamilton
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Leela James Set Releases 'Say That', Featuring Anthony Hamilton, Today
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Browsing subject area: Electronic books -- Europe (Include extended shelves)
Electronic books -- Europe
Filed under: Electronic books -- Europe
Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)
Filed under: Electronic books
Ebooks in Education: Realising the Vision (London: Ubiquity Press, c2014), ed. by Hazel M. Woodward, contrib. by Madeleine Atkins (multiple formats at Ubiquity Press)
Filed under: Electronic books -- Reviews -- Periodicals
Electronic Book Review (partial serial archives)
Filed under: Electronic books -- United States
Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books (2005), by Denise Troll Covey (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
Filed under: Europe -- Antiquities
Altering the Earth: The Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1993), by Richard Bradley (PDF files at ADS)
A Text-Book of European Archaelogy, Volume I: The Palaeolithic Period (only volume published; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Cave Hunting: Researches on the Evidence of Caves Respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe (London: Macmillan and Co., 1874), by William Boyd Dawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Filed under: Europe -- Biography
Famous Men of the Middle Ages , by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland
illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
Filed under: Europe -- Church history
Bishop Burnet's Travels Through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: Describing Their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade, etc. (London: Printed for T. Payne, 1750), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)
Filed under: Europe -- Civilization
A People's History of Modern Europe (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by William A. Pelz
PDF with commentary at oapen.org
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (second edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1864), by John William Draper
page images at MOA
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876), by John William Draper (page images at MOA)
Evropa I Chelovi͡echestvo (in Russian; Sofia: Rossīĭsko-bolgarskoe knigoizdatelśtvo, 1920), by Nikolaĭ Sergeevich Trubet͡skoĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
National Life and Thought of the Various Nations Throughout the World: A Series of Addresses (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1891), ed. by South Place Ethical Society (London, England), contrib. by Eiríkr Magnússon, James E. Thorold Rogers, J. Theodore Bent, Francis Hindes Groome, Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, Ágost Pulszky, William Richard Morfill, Miran Sevasly, S. Schidrowitz, Sidney Whitman, Adam Gielgud, J. Stephen Jeans, H. L. Braekstad, Alfred Wathelet, Howard Hodgkin, H. Anthony Salmoné, J. C. McCoan, J. C. Cotton Minchin, and Simeon Singer
Orient and Occident; A Comparative Study (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, c1913), by Manmath C. Mallik
America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
A View of the Arts and Sciences, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great (London: J. Bell, 1785), by James Bannister
Confessions of a Barbarian (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by George Sylvester Viereck
Filed under: Europe -- Defenses
New Technology for NATO: Implementing Follow-On Force Attack (OTA-ISC-309; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
PDF files with commentary at Princeton
The War of Steel and Gold: A Study of the Armed Peace (10th edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1918), by Henry Noel Brailsford (HTML at BYU)
Filed under: Europe -- Description and travel
A Colored Man Round the World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by David F. Dorr, ed. by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
Europe: Whither Bound? (Quo Vadis Europa?) Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1922), by Stephen Graham (Gutenberg text)
Afoot and Awheel in Europe (Garden City, NY: Country Life Press, 1916), by Mary S. Lockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel, 1815-1819 , by William Edward Frye, ed. by Salomon Reinach (Gutenberg text)
An American Woman in Europe: The Journal of Two Years and a Half Sojourn in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869), by L. B. Urbino (page images at Google)
Auropa Rasalasy (paper on Europe by a Turk tourist, in Ottoman Turkish; 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Automobilist Abroad (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1907), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text)
Bits of Travel; Bits of Travel at Home (combined edition of 1874 and 1890 texts, with added illustrations), by Helen Hunt Jackson, ed. by Louise Hope (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
The Budget Closed (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Jane Anthony Eames (page images at Google)
A Budget of Letters: or, Things Which I Saw Abroad (Boston: W. D. Ticknor and Co., 1847), by Jane Anthony Eames (page images at Google)
A Bundle of Letters from Over the Sea (Boston: J. G. Cupples Co., 1890), by Louise B. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
A Colored Man Round the World: By a Quadroon (printed for the author, 1858), by David F. Dorr
Europe, Its Past and Present Condition: Being a Comprehensive Manual of European Geography and History (Home Cyclopedia v8; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), by F. H. Ungewitter
Europe Revised , by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text)
A Girl's Journey Through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land (Nashville: Printed for the author, 1889), by Lenamay Green (multiple formats at archive.org)
Hills and the Sea , by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni (London: T. Hookham et al., 1817), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Holiday Letters from Athens, Cairo, and Weimar (London: Strahan and Co., 1873), by Matilda Betham-Edwards
Idyls and Impressions of Travel, From the Note-Books of Two Friends (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1904), by Anna Cogswell Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Innocence Abroad , by Irv Thomas (HTML at irvthomas.com)
The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Co., et al., 1869), by Mark Twain
A Journal Kept During a Summer Tour for the Children of a Village School (3 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy, During the Years 1819, 20, and 21 (2 volumes; Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1822), by Marianne Colston
Volume I: multiple formats at Google
Volume II: multiple formats at Google
Letters of a Traveller: or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America (1850), by William Cullen Bryant (Gutenberg text)
Letters to My Sister of Our Experiences on Our First Trip to Europe, 1913 , by Lilian McCarron (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Mad Tour (New York: United States Book Co., c1891), by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)
A Narrative of Travels to Vienna, Constantinople, Athens, Naples, &c. (London: H. Colburn, 1842), by Frances Anne Vane Londonderry (page images at HathiTrust)
One Year Abroad (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1877), by Blanche Willis Howard
One Year Abroad (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1878), by Blanche Willis Howard (Gutenberg text)
The Rhone, the Darro, and the Guadalquivir: A Summer Ramble in 1842 (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1843), by Isabella F. Romer
A Ride on Horseback to Florence through France and Switzerland: Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1842), by Augusta Macgregor Holmes
Volume I: page images at Google
Volume II: page images at Google
Saunterings , by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
Sights and Scenes in Europe: A Series of Letters From England, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, in 1850 (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1852), by A. T. J. Bullard (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Sights and Sensations in France, Germany and Switzerland (New York: Harper and Bros., 1869), by E. Gould Buffum, ed. by William Arnold Buffum
HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life, Selected From the Journals of Marianne North, Chiefly Between the Years 1859 and 1869 (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by Marianne North, ed. by Janet Catherine North Symonds (multiple formats at archive.org)
Souvenirs of Travel (2 volumes; Mobile and New York: S. H. Goetzel and co., 1857), by Octavia Walton Le Vert (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (2 volumes; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Hammatt Billings (page images at MOA)
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
volume II: Gutenberg text
Tales and Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe, by a Lady of Virginia (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842), by Judith Page Walker Rives (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Tramp Abroad (Hartford: American Pub. Co.; London: Chatto and Windus, 1880), by Mark Twain
illustrated HTML at WikiSource
A Tramp Trip: How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day (fifth edition or later; New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1887), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Traveler at Forty (New York: The Century Co., 1920), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by William J. Glackens (multiple formats at Indiana)
A Woman's First Impressions of Europe: Being Wayside Sketches Made During a Short Tour in the Year 1863 (New York: Derby and Miller, 1865), by Mrs. E. A. Forbes (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Youthful Wanderer: or, An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt (1876), by George H. Heffner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Journal Up the Straits, October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857 (New York: The Colophon, 1935), by Herman Melville, ed. by Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
Man in Europe, Here and There (1924), by Mark Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery, and Men , by Bayard Taylor (page images at MOA)
At Home and Abroad: or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe (New York: The Tribune association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Glimpses of Three Coasts (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1886), by Helen Hunt Jackson (Gutenberg text)
A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867), by Lizzie Selina Eden (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Notes From a Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine, By Way of Italy and the Mediterranean (second edition; London: Printed by Wertheimer, Lea, and Co., 1885), by Judith Cohen Montefiore (multiple formats at archive.org)
Studying Art Abroad, and How to Do It Cheaply (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879), by May Alcott
The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon (London: J. Madden, 1853), by Habeeb Risk Allah (page images at HathiTrust)
A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866), by John MacGregor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Hartford: J.B. Burr and Hyde, 1871), by Mrs. Stephen M. Griswold (multiple formats at archive.org)
My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 (2 volumes; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, contrib. by Lady Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
Diary of a Pilgrimage , by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
The Discovery of Muscovy Etc. , contrib. by Richard Hakluyt (Gutenberg text)
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NEW VIDEO: YG ft. 2 Chainz, Big Sean, Nicki Minaj – Big Bank
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Rapper YG released a visual for the track “Big Bank” featuring Nicki Minaj, Big Sean and 2 Chainz. The track will be featured on his Stay Dangerous upcoming album.
The non-stop visual feast features 2 Chainz delivering his verse while two police officers hold him at gunpoint, Big Sean parading around the Oval Office in a Colin Kaepernick jersey and Nicki Minaj atop a pink plastic horse.
The song’s producer DJ Mustard also makes a cameo; “Big Bank” marks a reunion of sorts between the rapper and the producer behind his 2014 debut LP My Krazy Life, after which the two had a much-publicized rift. According to DJ Mustard, the pair made the song “in 20 minutes.”
Stay Dangerous, YG’s follow-up to 2016’s Still Brazy, arrives “Summer 2018,” according to the album’s preorder page. On August 5th, YG will host a Stay Dangerous concert and 4Hunnid fashion show at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theatre; every ticket to the show comes with a digital download of the rapper’s new LP.
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Lee announces Tennessee will keep accepting resettled refugees
Gov. Bill Lee speaks at a groundbreaking event in Nashville on Dec. 13, 2019. (Erik Schelzig, Tennessee Journal)
First-year Gov. Bill Lee says he won’t seek to opt-out of the federal government’s refugee resettlement program in Tennessee. President Trump in September issued an executive order giving state and local governments control over whether to continue to allow refugees to be resettled in their areas.
“The United States and Tennessee have always been, since the very founding of our nation, a shining beacon of freedom and opportunity for the persecuted and oppressed, particularly those suffering religious persecution,” Lee said in a release. “My administration has worked extensively to determine the best outcome for Tennessee, and I will consent to working with President Trump and his administration to responsibly resettle refugees.”
Senate Speaker Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) and House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) issued a joint statement to say their preference would have been for Lee to reject further resettlement:
“Both our nation and the state of Tennessee have been extremely welcoming to immigrants throughout modern history. In 2016, the General Assembly adopted a resolution expressing the desire of our citizens to file a federal lawsuit to halt refugee resettlement in Tennessee. Our opinion has not changed on this issue since legal action was taken, and our personal preference would have been to exercise the option to hit the pause button on accepting additional refugees in our state. However, the federal order makes this the sole decision of the Governor, and he has made his call.”
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79 Responses to Lee announces Tennessee will keep accepting resettled refugees
LeeAnn C. says:
Very disappointing. I’m afraid many will respond to this situation now – when it’s too late. Thankful for House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Governor Randy McNally’s stance.
Those welfare queens are getting nice per diems during these “budget hearings”. Merry Christmas!
Welfare queens in the general assembly – NOT immigants – need MORE per diem money. They have to buy them taxis after they leave all their liquor Christmas Parties in Nashville. Mmm Eggnog
Pam webb says:
Agree .. Lee should have never agreed to this .. he will be a 1 term govern
Stuart I. Anderson says:
Pam, do you like to do research into ancient history? When is the last time Tennessee had a one term governor? I agree with your sentiment, however, I just think it would be better if Tennesseans simply stopped voting for wealthy political novices to the highest political offices in this state in the first place.
John W Niven Jr says:
You know what people keep forgetting ?
When this nation was first founded with immigrants, many years ago, there was no public assistance. Health insurance didn’t exist. Those immigrants came knowing they would have to make their own way; fend for themselves, because the government wasn’t going to do it. Well, they did make their own way and they should be proud if it. That is not to say that all immigrants coming in today expect government assistance. Most don’t But I’m really tired of hearing about this is a nation of immigrants and all those references to the immigrants that started this country. That was an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT group of people.
You know what people keep forgetting?
The true meaning of CHRISTmas. It’s not immigrants, pre diems nor Nashville interns and eggnog.
I hope we don’t see any legislators at the bars with an elf on their lap.
Christina Norris says:
Thank you, Lenny.
You’re welcome, Glen Casada. I’ll be seeing you at the bars. How many interns should I invite?
Very disappointed! I supported you but will not now!
But Steven, have you learned something for the future? Do you see how foolish it was to support a No Record Candidate like Bill Lee for a high office like governor when there was a reasonable proven tepid conservative alternative like Diane Black? Hopefully this disappointment will lead you to vote against No Record Candidate Chairman Manny next August.
Stuart likes to KNOW ahead of time how his candidates will vote and that’s why he supported the Wishy Washy Rep Candidate for Senate who ran on the promise of deporting ONLY the Criminals (she apparently doesn’t consider breaking into the country criminal) and leaving the other 18 Million to continue to live and work here forever. So we see where Stuart stands on the issue of illegal immigration.
Right you are MARLE, Stuart indeed “. . .likes to know ahead of time how his candidates will vote. . .” but the reasonable person understands that predicting the future is a game fraught with uncertainty especially regarding human behavior. In the case of Marsha, unfortunately she is to the left of me regarding immigration but then again I have no fear of alienating cheap labor advocates because I don’t hold public office. Marsha has disappointed me before, how can I forget her capitulation to “Uniter” Bush by being one of the deciding votes that inflicted the expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs on this country, and she will do so again. Marsha has a Heritage score of 85%. My Heritage score would be in the mid to high 90’s if I were in Congress. On the other hand, the last time I supported her she had a Heritage score of about 82% as I recall which has now risen to 85% so I am happy to report I thought I was going to get a solid conservative when I last voted for Marsha and by gosh that’s exactly what I got.
James White says:
Stuart supports the ‘War Party’, Republicans/Democrats that always vote for more war.
Stuart. all of your record Heritage traitors voted for the NDDA 2020 bill. 3,500 pages long, only 19 hours to read, The $738 Billion bill, Surveillance, Space Force, and Indefinite Detention bill is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle masquerading as a defense appropriation. Shameful unconstitutional votes of Heritage puppets.
Larry K Frankenbach says:
Just when Governor Lee had an opportunity to interrupt the flow of illegal immigrants into our state, he settles for status quo. Wrong call, sir. Our history is just that…history. Our future is what is at stake here and we do not need more illegal immigrants from any country, of any race, or with any particular religion in Tennessee until we debate specific reforms of the immigration laws. Our liberal laws are being abused and the communities of Islamic immigrants, in particular, are growing more dangerous every year. This would have been a good time to shut it down so the legislators could hear the voices and positions of their constituents on this issue.
Don’t confuse Federal settled refugees with illegal immigrants.
I am not confusing them. I am simply saying that “knowing what a politician says”, opposing it on principle, then voting for them anyway is just as misguided as voting for them without a record. Either way, on Major issues, you get something that is bad, very bad, for the country. Marsha has been wrong on the TaxPlan ’17, wrong on trade war in supporting Trump’s tariffs-on-the-world approach (Club for Growth does like it either BTW) wrong on immigration etc etc etc.
Perry Aubric says:
James is right here. Refugee is a specific category of legal immigration, requiring pretty rigorous screening and specific standards, which have been toughened under the current administration. You would think from the comments here that Lee declared Tennessee a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants. That is simply false.
Those on the right are always saying they are for legal immigration and that they welcome those who come here legally and obey the laws to get here. Anyone with refugee status has done that. But the comments from the right on this thread reveal a sad reality: they are just against immigrants period. All immigrants.
I think a majority of conservatives want a complete immigration moratorium until we have a chance to integrate the immigrants who have come here through our porous borders over the previous decades making an exception for those with skills REALLY in critical need by this country i.e. no more H1b cheap labor scams.
Not Marsha, she loves immigration
Donna Locke says:
It is not possible to do rigorous screening on refugees. You put out a lot of inaccurate statements, Perry. When I have time later, I will comment further, perhaps on the newer post.
Robert Branam says:
Screened by who? Do you consider all those Sammies in Minnesota to be law abiding?
How about little Mecca up there in Michigan? Is that what you want here?
Id rather have the illegal Latinos than I would the federal refugees. At least they believe in the same God. Most of them are Catholics, not women beating, child bride raping Muslims who will never intigrate into our way of life.
You are correct
I’m from immigrants who came to this country around 1900. My grandfathers father had to get a job felling trees in Michigan to support his family, he kept very little of his paycheck for himself and sent the bulk of it to support his family in New York City. There weren’t all these federal handouts back then, so they took care of themselves.
Fast forward some years and his lumber jack job eventually paid for a 600 acre farm in Michigan, something unattainable back in Ireland. While being proud of his Irish heritage, he was prouder of being a free American.
Jeanne Sapp says:
Why in the world would Tennessee accept more refugees when the literacy rate is below the national average and there are poor families who need help. Accepting refugees is a recipe for disaster. It depletes welfare and other kinds of Aid that our own Citizens need. Do not accept more refugees, especially those who refuse to assimilate and who come only to abuse our system and not become productive members of our society.
Frankie Duke says:
I voted for you but will not vote for you again
Too late Frankie, he’s in for another seven years. The only thing to do is to resolve NEVER, EVER to support a No Record Candidate for high office again. The next chance to not vote for a No Record Candidate will come next August when Chairman Manny is on the ballot for U. S. Senator by voting for Bill Hagerty.
Chiron Venizelos says:
Governor Lee:
I am so very sad to learn you have sold out your principles in exchange for some Federal tax dollars. You have betrayed your promise to the people who valiantly supported you and worked to elect you. I am ashamed to admit that I was one of those people.
Chiron Venizelos
“Promises” made during a campaign are not promises in terms of commitments that normal people make to each other. They are nothing but tactics conjured up by campaign managers with the aid of their campaign staff. That’s why its a mug’s game to choose a candidate for high office like governor by paying attention to campaign promises.
The best way to judge what a candidate will do once elected is to learn what he has done POLITICALLY before deciding to run. In the case of Gov. Lee he did NOTHING politically before deciding to buy himself a governorship. His campaign promises were conjured up by Chris Devaney who managed Lee’s campaign. Chris is doing the same thing for No Record Candidate Chairman Manny. Have you learned a lesson that will serve you well come next August?
Arnold Tayes says:
Gov. Lee, Do you have the money for them to live off welfare for the rest of their lives?
Kathy J Everetts says:
What’s the real reason for this betrayal of the American citizens, did you find out you can make more money by selling out to the likes of George Soros? How shamful!
Lee’s a very wealthy man with obviously no guiding political philosophy so he doesn’t need Soros’ money nor is he constrained by any political convictions. He is in this thing for ADULATION and you don’t get adulation by going against a major tenet of out state religion, viz. “DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH.”
Politicians who try to earn their way to heaven with other people’s money are the worst. When I listened to interviews with John Kasich as he ran for presidential nomination I thought the very same thing.
Soros is behind this, and not only Tennessee, but has targeted other states as well.
Not much the State can do if the Feds put refugees here.
James, the whole point of the article is “President Trump in September issued an executive order giving state and local governments control over whether to continue to allow refugees to be settled in their areas.” Lee has made a decision pursuant to that control and you are saying “Never mind you don’t have that control.” Who’s right, Erik and Gov. Lee or you?
The President does not have that authority listed in the Constitution.
looks like the supreme court told Tennessee to take a hike and allowed the Feds to do this, as I said.
B. Amish says:
We have actively been considering relocating to Tennessee.
This development is one that will most likely steer us to another state we have been considering.
The research I have done while considering Tennessee as our retirement location has turned up a few disturbing things but this decision will likely make our decision to spend our $ in another state.
If you are a solid conservative please reconsider! Lee was only elected with 37% of the votes so it won’t take too many more of us who would never consider voting for a No Record Candidate like Lee for a high office like governor.
John Stewart says:
One can’t help but be struck by all these anti-immigrant comments arising from Gov. Lee’s decision to keep Tennessee as one of the states willing to accept immigrants. With Christmas just days away, the Governor opted not to hang out a “no room at the inn” sign at our border. That strikes me as entirely appropriate for the Christmas season. Those who apparently do not share this belief, or who are totally blind to the actual facts related to immigrants, the vast majority of whom become tax-paying contributing members of our state, need to brush up on what the Bible actually says–repeatedly– about welcoming the foreigner or the dispossessed. It’s clear and it’s basic. I applaud the governor’s decision.
steve cates says:
Thanks so much for this well-stated comment, with which I totally agree. This is a side of Lee I have not seen in action and I hope this may lead him to reconsider his decision NOT to support medicaid expansion.
I sort of agree with you Steve, I would like conservatives who were misguided enough to support No Record Candidate Lee instead of Black to really learn their lesson. What is done is done, Lee will be in for the usual eight years that Tennessee governors serve in office and there is no chance that our conservative General Assembly will agree to medicaid expansion so if Lee is going to be a Republican “wet” let him be soaking “wet” so the lesson hits home with full force.
Bad decision.
Very true Donna, but I hope the 37% of the voters who elected No Record Candidate Bill Lee didn’t elect him because they thought he would stand up to the bien pensant and do the right thing.
https://cis.org/Rush/Private-Refugee-Resettlement-Agencies-Mostly-Funded-Government
https://cis.org/Oped/Costs-refugee-resettlement-unclear-taxpayers
Be sure to read Don Barnett’s piece in that second link above.
D Boyd says:
charity begins at home,not in another place!
Dion Mountain says:
We have had immigration into this country until there very little of the country I once knew. As a kid we actually were taught to appreciate what we had and not look to the government for our needs. It was a much better way of life then. Being tough didn’t hurt anyone if fact it is needed. I would hate to have to depend on these free loaders if war came. They have no skin in the game and would only serve to keep the original people depressed. They bring such burdens Why do you think they want to leave their country. Because they have to actually work there!
When these refugees you are bringing in start killing, raping and robbing it is on you Gov.
Penny Hawk says:
Will not vote for Lee next election. We don’t need more welfare recipients in TN.
Leading up to the 2018 elections I begged conservatives not to vote for Lee for the simple reason that you don’t let some rich bloke who has shown little to no interest in politics stroll up and buy himself a governorship just because his campaign manager has come up with an appealing campaign. It doesn’t make any difference who you vote for in 2022, LEE DOESN’T NEED YOUR VOTE ANYMORE. Now the question is watcha gonna do in 2020 re: the U. S. Senate race?
Will not vote for him either.
Just another politician not representing his constituents. Vote him out.
Not a chance Billy! Just don’t vote Chairman Manny IN!
AND don’t vote for ‘no record’ Hagerty!
Who are you voting for James? Any names?
There will be MANY to choose from, it ain’t over till its over
None of whom have any possibility of getting more than 5% of the vote. A purposeless waste of a vote? YOU BET IT IS! That’s simply how James enjoys doing politics.
Well I am NOT voting for another NeoCon WarParty like Marsha or Mark Green…Or Kustoff…
Edmund Rogers says:
Terrible decision. Tennessee doesn’t need the world’s largely illiterate, almost wholly unskilled rubbish. No state does.
Jim Ward says:
Guess we should have voted for Randy……
NOOOOOOOO Jim. BLACK (Heritage – 77%). Proven tepid conservative trumps No Record Candidate any day. Besides, don’t you remember, its “Randy(!)”
This Governor officially sucks and is a sell out and has no idea what he is inviting into our State. Screw talk of compassion, etc.
Robert Kimble says:
Huge disappointment! I can’t believe he is doing this. Can he not see what this is doing to other communities?
No Robert he can’t. He is a very rich politically unsophisticated man who lives on a big farm or perhaps in a seriously gated community and is in this for adoration so I bet he doesn’t really care. The question to ask any individual who was part of the 37% that voted for him is “I know what you were feeling, but man, what were you thinking”?
Ricky Hatcher says:
What’s the matter with this fool! Will not get my vote again!
Lee will win again, if he runs, because he is a Republican and people are sleeping.
Yes, Mickey, people are sleeping and are in for the “Slow Surprise.”
Good move, Governor Lee. I have seen some really right wing things here in Tennessee, but you continually impress me as a voice of reason. We need to accept refugees and help them with food, housing and free tuition….things they would never have access to in their home countries. Tennessee is really showing itself to be different than the good ole boy country image it’s ha with country music, KK and anti labor. Does anyone know where I can go volunteer or donate to help refugees?
How about Stockholm Beatrice, they love refugees there! So much in fact that Swedes should be a minority in their own country by about 2040. As for Gov. Lee, he will win a second term even with Bleeding Heart Beatrice’s support though it will admittedly be a bit more difficult.
David Collins says:
Most of you seem to forget. If you are not a member or descendant of one of the original American Indian tribes, then you are an immigrant or the descendant of an immigrant.
Which I am sure means something to someone, somewhere. Mass immigration is so indefensible that its advocates are forced to rely on meaningless unarguments such as the one offered by David as if the conditions in the U. S. today bear any resemblance to the conditions that were present in 1840, 1890, or even 1920 or 1950.
It is not indefensible at all. It’s the truth. I find it amusing that your argument in this case is that my statement does not apply because it is “as if the conditions in the U.S. today bear any resemblance to the conditions that were present in 1840, 1890, or even 1920 or 1950.” Yet you are quick to condemn the Supreme Court if they give a contemporary interpretation to a provision of the Constitution and insisting that the document must always be deemed to mean what it meant in 1776. Can’t have it both ways Stuart Face it. This country was established (I’m sure the Native Indian tribes would say “stolen”) by immigrants. Your fore bearers came here to make a better way of life for themselves and their families. And in most cases they succeeded. Yet you want to deny this opportunity to anyone else who wants to come here for the same reasons.
Mass immigration and a welfare state don’t mix. For long.
Donna, you may want to check the #USMCA, Chapter 15 of the USMCA, entitled “Cross-Border Trade in Services,” and specifically, Article 23.8, under the section labeled “Migrant Workers” in Chapter 23 of the #USMCA, requires the United States, Mexico, and Canada to “ensure that migrant workers are protected under its labor laws, whether they are nationals or non-nationals” of the country they are residing in. The term “non-nationals” could easily be applied to not just undocumented aliens or “Dreamers” from Mexico, but also to illegal migrants from non-USMCA countries, such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, India, or China.
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REVIEW: “THE NIGHTINGALE” (2019) IFC FILMS
Has a film ever shook you to your core, I mean really shook you to the point where even months later, it still resonates with you when thinking of it? Only a few films have done that for me, and the latest from the director who brought us ‘The Babadook’, Jennifer Kent does exactly that. She steps away from horror genre here with ‘THE NIGHTINGALE’ to give us almost a different type of terror. The real life kind, and with that she has created a film that will haunt you in a very different way. The only thing holding it back is the historical subject matter and the no-holds-barred approach that will surely limit its audience. From an emotional aspect, the film is extraordinarily uncomfortable and disturbing to watch; however, from a film making perspective, it’s a thing of beauty, with both sides of my brain being at war with it the entire time.
The film takes place in Tasmania in 1825, where an Irish convict Clare (Aisling Franciosi), is raped while her husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) and infant child are murdered by corrupt and sadistic British officers Hawkins (Sam Clafin), Ruse (Damon Herriman) & Jago (Harry Greenwood), who pillage and plunder whomever and whatever they like. Claire goes on a journey of vengeance to bring bloodshed to those responsible. She enlists the help of an Aboriginal man Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), who knows how to track in the wilderness. Together, the pair go through a tale of survival in the hopes of revenge and bringing justice to the men who have left a day prior.
The film is definitely going to split viewers due to its violent nature. There are a few scenes of detailed rape in it and murder that will be uncomfortable for some viewers as they are an extremely difficult to sit thru. Otherwise the film is quite an engorging watch. Franciosi is a terrific lead, as well as Ganambarr is downright amazing in his performance. Right after her rape, you see the strength in her character develop and the lengths she would go to bring justice. Her development is rapid but unwavering.
The film comes from a different time and place that we really know nothing about and its interesting to see a film depicting these events. It’s a gripping tale focused on the reaction to the deepest of personal loss. The reward is there for those brave enough to give it a watch.
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The Babadook was well done and a creepy horror film. Look forward to Kent’s follow-up which based on your review sounds divisive. You’ve sold me with the ” real life” aspect which is scarier than imaginary monsters.
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It’s very ‘real’ again, this is a hard watch, I think especially as a woman watching another woman go thru what she does.. it’s brutal, yet it’s very good. odd I know, but you won’t forget it anytime soon. It’s been months now since I’ve seen it, and I still think of it.
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National book ratings for parents?
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By Maria Kennefick, Library Media Assistant | November 2018
Should books be rated the same way we rate movies and television? We’ve all heard comments such as this:
“The ‘Smut Patrol’ doesn’t want you to read the novel The Kite Runner because it includes sexual violence, and others believe it promotes Islam and terrorism. I don’t see how it can promote both of those at the same time, but what do I know?”
– Public school library media assistant
Parents are constantly challenging books and demanding they be banned in K-12 schools nationwide. These parents are worried about the contents’ influence on their children and are attempting to protect them. Other parents believe that each family has the right to decline the use of a specific title assigned to their child for homework. There’s a slippery slope between parents wishing to restrict access to books for their child and censorship of books accessible to the student body at large.
Common complaints for book themes are vast; profanity, suicide, sexuality, nudity, violence, racism, witchcraft, undermining religious beliefs, euthanasia, drugs and death are just the tip of the iceberg.
How do parents and educators decide what books are appropriate for K-12 students? Schools today have a wider variety of books to choose from than ever before.
Parents have a hard time keeping up with the subject matter, can’t possibly read each title beforehand and get overwhelmed when looking up the books online.
“My sixth grade child has the reading ability of a 12th grader. She may be able to read a novel being used in 12th grade, but I’d like to be sure the maturity level is appropriate for her age.”
– Public school parent
There are three tools often used for choosing books for young readers: Lexile measure, star rating and ATOS levels. But do these tools address the content or child development?
The Lexile measure is only an indicator of student literacy and is not a reference assessing content. Many teachers use the Lexile measure to help decide which titles are best for their students. Generally, this “student reading ability” is measured in ranges from 0L-2000L:
For example, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling is measured 880L and considered to be at the ability of grades 5-6. What if the child’s only in third grade, but can read at grade six? This tool isn’t designed to answer this question.
The star-rating system is used by Amazon and based on popularity. Amazon.com rates juvenile and young adult books with 1-5 stars. Typically, one star is a poor rating and five stars is a superior rating. Amazon, and most others using the star-rating system, allows any and all users to rate books.
For example, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is rated almost five stars (as of Nov. 6, 2018). Parents may find popularity an inappropriate way to decide whether their child should read a five-star book, especially when this title’s appeared on many banned book lists.
ATOS levels are similar to Lexile measures and rate books based on reading ability.
The ATOS level specifies the difficulty of text using a range of 0.1-12.0. For example, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a 5.3 and prime for fifth grade readers.
These tools don’t address parental concerns about themes. A maturity or content-specific rating system hasn’t been developed on a national level and is needed to guide parents – and may be able to prevent censorship.
Common Sense Media does have content ratings for books. This nonprofit organization provides education to families to promote safe technology and media for children.
There are eight categories used on the Common Sense Media website for book reviews, with each category rated on a scale of 0-5 (three being a fair amount of content and five meaning a large amount of content):
Educational Values
Positive Messages
Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
Positive Role Models & Representations
For example, Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is recommended with a checkmark of approval for ages 16 and older. This novel isn’t developmentally appropriate for readers younger than 16, according to Common Sense Media’s ratings.
The Kite Runner is given a five for violence, educational material and language, a two for consumerism and a one for language. This title’s also rated five stars for overall quality and learning potential.
Wouldn’t it be easier for parents if ratings were simplified and found in one place?
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. A nationwide book rating system could be created that emulates the film or television rating systems. These two rating systems have trained us for decades to recognize whether there is profanity, nudity, sex or violence.
The Motion Picture Association of America film rating system:
G – General Audience. All ages admitted.
PG – Parental Guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
R – Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
NC-17 – No one 17 and under admitted.
We could even get as specific as the television content rating system :
TV-Y – Programs aimed at a very young audience, including children from ages 2-6.
TV-Y7 – Programs most appropriate for children age 7 and up.
TV-Y7-FV – Programming with fantasy violence that may be more intense or more combative than other programming in the TV-Y7 category.
TV-G – Programs suitable for all ages; these are not necessarily children’s shows.
TV-PG – Parental guidance is recommended; these programs may be unsuitable for younger children.
TV-14 – These shows may be unsuitable for children under 14.
TV-MA – These programs are intended to be viewed by mature, adult audiences and may be unsuitable for children under 17.
If we had a national book ratings system in place, teachers could then design their curriculum and include this information for parents to reference. This would be less time consuming for parents.
“As a mother I could say, ‘You can’t watch that R movie, but you can watch any PG movie.'”
– Private school parent
But not everyone agrees.
“Any rating system is highly subjective, even arbitrary. We live in such a multicultural society, I am not sure there is a way to standardize it. It is an issue I run into frequently here, with sixth graders wanting to read the books their high school friends recommend. I prefer not to do any formal rating system. I want the students who are looking for it to be able to find it, and I want the students who wish to avoid it to be able to do so with ease. The very best way for a parent to monitor a kid’s reading material is to simply read it themselves.”
– Library media assistant at a 6-12 public school
Is a national book rating system a good idea?
Tell us why or why not in the comments section.
Maria Kennefick is the mother of two children and a library media assistant at the Beaverton School District (OR), where she focuses on digital technology.
“Imagine a world in which all children can see themselves in the pages of a book.”
Point of View: Nick Buron, Chief Librarian at the Queens Library
Bryan Villegas September 22, 2020
7 thoughts on “National book ratings for parents?”
Wamiq Ansari says:
I like the information on common Sense Media, it has greatly helped me to choose books for my 6th grader son. For me anything sexual is out of bounds.
I agree with Larena, in that the Movie rating system is simple and concise. And, as they also do with TV shows, have the letters similar to the South African rating system available: D (Drugs), L (Language), P (Prejudice), S (Sexual Situations), V (Violence). Just as Nutrition Information is required on food packaging and available from the USDA, retailers should be able to obtain this information easily, such as using the ISBN number to get information from the Library of Congress,
As far as the Word Police, parents and guardians should be taking an active role in what is available to their children. With regards to adults, we can be forewarned before purchase or rental.
Rating books like movies is an interesting thought and I hope there will be more discussion on it. Since the general public is already accustomed to understanding that rating system. ANYthing would be better than to allow a few to make a decision for the masses to burn books! Thank you for an enlightening article, Ms Kennefick.
Larina Hoffbeck says:
Of the examples listed in the article, I would prefer the television content ratings system style, but adapted to literature. I like to see the different aspects broken out so that parents and students can determine which type of content they may find objectionable or educational. I would include trigger warnings in these ratings as well. I think it is important to include the students in the process of choosing what is and is not appropriate as they often know better than their parents what they’ve already been exposed to, especially for high school and middle school aged children. So, if a general ratings system were introduced, I would hope that it would be determined by professional educators, professionals in mental health, sociologists, parents, and perhaps most importantly, by students themselves.
Wish we would have had this rating when my kids were in middle school. Many of the recommended books for our daughter in 7th grade had either violence or detailed sexual scenes.
Cammie Grace says:
Ms. Kennefick makes some excellent points. I agree, parents and students would benefit from a national
LINDA DEAN says:
Very clear and concise piece. Working as a library media assistance at a high school, I too have had to help students and parents with age appropriate content. Would a rating system for literature be a crutch or benefit? Who would then become the word police?
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EconTalk Archives, 2010
Selgin on the Fed
George Selgin, of the University of Georgia, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 has been a boon or a bust for the U.S. economy. Drawing on a recent paper by William Lastrapes and Lawrence White recently released by the Cato Institute, "Has the Fed Been a Failure?" Selgin argues that the Fed has done poorly at two missions often deemed to justify a central bank: lender of last resort and smoother of the business cycle. Selgin makes the case that avoiding bank runs and bank panics does not require a central bank and that contrary to received wisdom, it is hard to argue that the Fed has smoothed the business cycle. Additional topics discussed include whether the Fed has the information to do its jobs well, the role of the Fed in moral hazard, and the potential for the gold standard to outperform the Fed.
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Policy Register > Document > Admission Procedure
Admission Standards
Publication of Information for Applicants
Minimum Entry Requirements
Exceptions and Cases of Equivalence
Deferment
Cancellation of Program Intake
Withdrawal or Refusal of Admission
Review of Selection Decisions
(1) This procedure provides requirements relating to the:
publication of admissions standards
minimum criteria for admission and selection of applicants into programs and courses at RMIT and the authority to determine those rules
requirements for acceptance, deferral or withdrawal of offers for admission, and readmission.
(2) Authority for this document is established by the Admission Policy.
(3) The Admission Procedure applies to all programs, courses and non-award study offered by the RMIT Group and RMIT partner institutions.
(4) Admission standards comprise:
the University entry requirements for that level of program
award and non-award program entry requirements, and
selection methodology.
(5) The program guide is the authoritative source of approved program entry requirements.
All published information for applicants must accurately reflect the approved program entry requirements.
Any other admissions information provided to applicants must be consistent with program guides.
Colleges are accountable for ensuring that all published information is consistent across all platforms.
(6) Application and submission deadlines are published in program brochures and on the University website. If application is offered through VTAC, application deadlines are published on the VTAC website.
(7) Application deadlines may be changed with the approval of the relevant college admissions office. If these deadlines are changed, college admissions offices update published information.
(8) In collaboration with colleges, Domestic Admissions determines:
the VTAC program review and approval timelines and processes annually
timelines and processes for managing direct applications.
(9) The School of Graduate Research determines timelines and processes for domestic and international higher degrees by research (HDR) applications.
(10) The University sets minimum age requirements, minimum academic entry requirements, and minimum English language entry requirements designed for students to have the academic preparation and proficiency in English language required to complete their program.
Individual programs may have entry requirements that are higher than the University minimum entry requirements and these will be published in program guides.
(11) To be considered for selection to an RMIT program or course, domestic and international applicants must meet the following minimum entry requirements:
English language proficiency as detailed in the English Language Proficiency Procedure
Academic entry requirements as detailed in the Academic Entry Requirements Procedure.
Minimum Age Requirement
(12) In accordance with the Enrolment Policy, applicants for admission to RMIT must be at least 16 years of age on the commencement date of the program in which they will enrol as a student.
Program Entry Requirements
(13) Program entry requirements are compliant with minimum entry requirements and may include:
a specified level of previous study, or equivalent
a specified minimum level of achievement in previous study
a specified age requirement
selection tasks to assess specified entry requirements, and/or
pre-requisite courses or subjects, and minimum scores in these.
(14) The same program entry requirements apply at all locations where the program is offered.
(15) Colleges may submit a case of equivalence when an individual does not meet the minimum program entry requirements but can demonstrate by other means that they are capable of success in the program.
(16) The following officers may approve a case of equivalence:
for applicants to coursework programs: Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education or the Academic Registrar as the nominee. Such decisions and the reasons for them must be reported to the next meeting of the Programs Committee.
for applicants to HDR programs: Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation or nominee. Such decisions and the reasons for them must be reported to the next meeting of the Research Committee.
(17) The Programs Committee may waive University entry requirements and/or program entry requirements for a program or specific cohorts of applicants to a program. The relevant College Deputy Vice-Chancellor (or nominee) may request such decisions.
(18) International Admissions may deny an application under Simplified Student Visa Framework (SSVF) obligations if an international applicant:
fails to meet the minimum entry requirements stipulated by the Australian Government to have a visa granted, or
is deemed high risk under the SSVF or Migration Regulations 1994.
(19) Applicants intending to study in Australia on a student visa are assessed against Australian Government requirements for a genuine temporary entrant.
(20) Applicants who will study on an international student visa and will be under 18 years of age at the time they commence their program must satisfy additional requirements and provide written consent to their admission from a parent or guardian. The additional requirements will be advised at the time of offer.
(21) Where deferment is available in coursework programs:
An applicant may defer only once before they have enrolled.
If an applicant has been offered a place in a sequenced program, there is only one opportunity for deferment.
The maximum period of deferment is until the start of the next academic year.
The officers listed in (24) below may approve a longer period of deferment in exceptional circumstances.
(22) Applicants for HDR programs may defer for six or 12 months if:
deferment is available in the program
their request is supported by the relevant Dean/Head of School/Head of Centre (or nominee) and their senior supervisor, and
in the case they are recipients of a research scholarship, they will still commence their program in the year in which the scholarship is to commence.
(23) Where an applicant defers but does not take up the place by the end of the deferment period, and no extension has been approved, the offer will lapse. If the applicant later wishes to be admitted to the program they must reapply for admission.
(24) The following officers decide whether deferment is available in program offerings at specific locations:
for coursework programs: the relevant College Director, Planning and Resources
for HDR programs: the Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research Training and Development
for RMIT Training ELICOS and Foundation Studies programs delivered at RMIT Training: RMIT Training Executive Director Academic.
(25) The College Deputy Vice-Chancellor or nominee may make a decision to cancel a program intake.
(26) Decisions to cancel a program intake should be finalised before any offers are made to applicants, wherever possible.
(27) If no offers have been made for a program intake, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education or the Academic Registrar as nominee (for coursework programs) or the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation (for research programs) will be advised of any program cancellation.
(28) If considering cancelling a program intake after offers have been made, colleges must seek approval from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education or the Academic Registrar as nominee (for coursework programs), or the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation (for research programs) to cancel both the program intake and any offers already made.
The following factors are considered in the decision:
the reason for the program intake cancellation
the reason the program intake was not cancelled before offers were made
the number of applicants who have received offers
the number of students already enrolled (including in pathway programs), and
alternative programs in which applicants can be offered a place.
(29) Communication to applicants that their offer has been revoked due to a cancelled program intake must include the reason for the cancellation and advice about any suitable alternative program or future intake to the same program.
(30) If offers have been made to students intending to study in Australia on a student visa the decision to cancel must be made after consultation with International Compliance to ensure ESOS compliance.
(31) RMIT may refuse admission to applicants who would otherwise be eligible if:
the applicant has outstanding fees owing to the University (the applicant may still be offered a place, but will not be permitted to enrol until the debt is cleared)
the applicant has been excluded from the same program for unsatisfactory academic progress
the applicant has been expelled, excluded or is subject to an executive suspension or revocation of license order from any RMIT institution due to misconduct or in order to comply with the University's obligations of occupational health and safety
the applicant has a formally documented history of having contravened the Student Charter or displayed otherwise unacceptable behaviour during a previous admission or enrolment in an RMIT institution
the applicant has been expelled or excluded from another education institution misconduct
the applicant has been excluded from the same or similar program at another education institution for unsatisfactory academic progress
in the opinion of the relevant College Deputy Vice-Chancellor, or the RMIT Training Executive Director Academic:
the applicant's conduct during the application process would provide reasonable grounds to exclude them from study for misconduct had they been a student of the University; or
the applicant does not have a reasonable likelihood of completing the program.
admission of the applicant would be contrary to Australian law or the law of the country in which the program is delivered
in the case of an application to study in Australia on a student visa, the applicant does not satisfy RMIT’s SSVF risk assessment
admission of the applicant would be contrary to the policies of an RMIT partner institution with whom the program is being delivered
for admission into Foundation Studies, the applicant:
has already completed the Foundation Studies program in another stream, or with another provider
has had poor academic performance with another provider, or at RMIT Training
has a record of poor attendance at RMIT Training or another provider
is close to completing their Foundation Studies program with another provider
is not in an eligible age group for the program
for admission into RMIT English Worldwide, the applicant has had poor performance with another provider
for RMIT Training, the applicant has a record of poor attendance either with RMIT Training or another provider.
(32) RMIT may impose additional requirements on applicants who will require Australian student visas to commence study. Applicants who do not meet these requirements at the time of application or acceptance will be refused admission.
(33) RMIT may withdraw an offer of admission and/or cancel the enrolment of a student where such an offer:
was made on the basis of incomplete, inaccurate or fraudulent information supplied by the applicant or a certifying authority
would be contrary to Australian law or, if relevant, the law of another country in which the program is delivered
would be contrary to the University’s contractual obligations, or
has been made and a program intake is full.
(34) RMIT may withdraw an offer of admission where it has been made through administrative error and the applicant does not meet the program entry requirements in accordance with the Selection Procedure.
If a withdrawn offer was made to an international applicant and the applicant has accepted the offer, alternatives must be provided that do not involve greater cost to the applicant.
(35) A student whose enrolment lapses may apply for readmission.
(36) Applicants for readmission to a program are subject to the same requirements and selection methodology as any other applicant.
(37) Applicants who have previously studied at RMIT may be given preference over applicants who have not previously been RMIT students provided they meet all current entry requirements. The applicant’s academic performance in their previous RMIT program is a factor in the selection decision.
(38) The applicant must meet current University and program entry requirements and the selection officer must be satisfied that the applicant has a reasonable likelihood of success in the program.
(39) Applicants who have previously been excluded from an RMIT program are eligible to apply for readmission to the program or a replacement program in the admission period before their period of exclusion will end. Their previous results in the program will be a factor in the selection decision.
(40) International applicants whose enrolments have been cancelled for non-payment of fees are assessed against SSVF requirements and may be refused readmission on the basis of their potential risk to the University.
(41) HDR applicants seeking readmission for examination of their thesis/project should refer to the HDR Submission and Examination Procedure.
(42) An unsuccessful applicant may seek a review of a selection decision in accordance with the Selection Procedure.
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Policy, Politics and Practices
By Jacqueline Baxter
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What impact have the unprecedented and rapid changes to the structure of education in England had on school governors and policy makers? And what effect has the intensifying media and regulatory focus had on the volunteers who take on the job?
Jacqueline Baxter takes the 2014 ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal, in which it was alleged that governors at 25 Birmingham schools were involved in the “Islamisation” of secular state schools, as a focus point to examine the pressures and challenges in the current system. Informed by her twenty years’ experience as a school governor, she considers both media analysis and policy as well as the implications for the future of a democratic system of education in England.
“Brings new insight into how & why governors are positioned within society and how shifting attitudes to the purpose of school have shaped the future of governance.” Ian Usher, ModernGovernor.com
"An interesting account of shifting priorities between different Conservative governments, and the impact that this has on local accountability, choice and the voices of parents." Governing Matters
"A succinct, and fascinating, document on the many challenges we have faced as 'Hidden Givers' over the last few years. The changing landscape of legislation is fully captured along with the increased accountability measures the largest volunteer workforce in the country attempts to meet whilst remaining focused on improvement in their schools." Jane Owens, National Leader of Governance, Wirral
“Expertly explores the key issues surrounding modern school governance by combining analysis of recent developments with findings from Baxter’s own research into governors’ sense-making. A stimulating and informative read for anyone interested in school governance and leadership.” Ellie Cotgrave, Research and Projects Manager, National Governors’ Association
Jacqueline Baxter is a Lecturer in Public Policy and Management in the Open University Faculty of Business and Law and a module leader on the MBA programme. Her current research investigates the role of education and development in the formation of female leadership identities.
The Trojan Horse: catastrophe or catalyst for change?;
Media representations of school governance today;
Opening up The Trojan Horse;
Governors today: Identities and perceptions;
Regulating the Governors?;
School Governing in England, a whole new chapter?.
School Scandals
By Pat Thomson
Leadership and the reform of education
By Helen M. Gunter
By Malcolm Dean
Networks, New Governance and Education
By Stephen J. Ball and Carolina Junemann
The Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection
By Joanne Warner
The Politics of Public Education
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FDA RECALLS & COURT ACTIONS: April 15, 1992
CLASS II -- DISOPYRAMIDE PHOSPHATE 100 MG & 150 MG ORAL CAPSULES An Rx antiarrhythmic. Recall number: D-291/292-2. Lot numbers: L00190 and L00290. Manufacturer: Interpharm, Inc., Plainview, New York. Recalled by: Manufacturer, by telephone followed by letter March 13, 1992. Firm-initiated recall ongoing. Distribution: Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New York, Tennessee. 200 units of lot L00190 and 4000 units of lot L00290. Reason: Lack of assurance of bioequivalency and abbreviated new drug application discrepancies. CLASS III -- LEVOTHROID 200 MCG, LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM USP In 100 tablet bottles, a Rx oral drug for use as replacement or substitution therapy for diminished or absent thyroid function. Recall number: D-293-2. Code 417-1 EXP 2/1/94. Manufacturer: Pharmacy Dispensing Quantities, Inc., Fort Scott, Kansas (repacker/responsible firm). Recalled by: Repacker, by letter March 27, 1992. Firm-initiated recall ongoing. Distribution: Texas, North Dakota, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Puerto Rico. 123 bottles were distributed. Reason: Repacking firm used incorrect expiration date of 2/1/94 instead of 2/1/93. CLASS III -- PHENOLATED CALAMINE LOTION, USP In 4 ounce bottles. Recall number: D-290-2. Lot number 5486. Manufacturer: Hydrox Laboratories, Elgin, Illinois. Recalled by: Manufacturer, by letter March 20, 1992. Firm-initiated recall ongoing. Distribution: Pennsylvania. 25,400 bottles were distributed. Reason: Subpotency of phenol ingredient. DISPOSITION OF PROSECUTION -- ANALYSIS ON MULTI SHIELD Defendant: Dr. Robert E. Sacher, doing business as Ressel Scientific Company, Weston, Massachusetts. Charges and Disposition: Dr. Sacher pleaded guilty to one count of a three- count indictment that was handed up by a federal grand jury on Nov. 20, 1991. Dr. Sacher entered his plea to count three, charging him with obstruction of an FDA administrative proceeding by performance of a fraudulent demonstration of an analysis on Multi Shield before FDA scientists and investigators. The maximum penalties facing Dr. Sacher are five years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000. Sentencing for Dr. Sacher is scheduled for June 1, 1992. This joint investigation was done by the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense. Filed: April 6, 1992 -- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; Criminal number 91-10310-K, FDC number 66143.
Subject: FDA RECALLS & COURT ACTIONS: April 15, 1992
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Brexit and the cost to the UK small press community
Olly MacNamee
We don’t normally get involved in politics, but with recent events in the UK reaching far beyond the polling booths and the palace of Westminster, we sent our intrepid reporter Olly MacNamee to look at the impact that a Vote to Leave The EU, has had on the UK Comic Community. He talks to comic creators and comic con organisers to find out the true impact that Brexit is having on the world of small press comics.
What started off as a desperate attempt by David Cameron to claw back votes from UKIP (and in doing so save his own bacon at last year’s general elections – there’s a joke there somewhere), the idea of a referendum on the EU has now resulted in the catastrophe that is Brexit. The fallout seems to have been immediate for many of those in the UK, but what does this mean for small press and indie comic creators?
On the whole indie comic creators, tend to make comics in between full time jobs outside of the comics’ community, but are passionate enough to get their titles out there, whether through crowdfunding routes or out of their own pocket. Even if you are a bigger indie publisher in the UK today (e.g. Tpub), you’re still not going to have the limitless resources of DC or Marvel, now are you? Margins are already pretty slim, if they exist at all, and I think most people will be happy to break even. Certainly, no-one can expect any more hand-outs by the EU, that’s for sure. If there were any to be had in the first place that is.
“A lot of the raw materials used in the creation of a comic could very well be coming in from abroad already and so, whether from the EU or further afield, costs will rise” Joe Cape’s Sam Webster
Printing costs will rise, if they haven’t done so already, whether you’re printing here or abroad. Sam Webster (Joe Cape) makes an interesting point about the whole production process from pencils to inks to printing. “A lot of the raw materials used in the creation of a comic could very well be coming in from abroad already and so, whether from the EU or further afield, costs will rise in ways that are far too complicated to get into here and now. Let’s just say, it’s all about tariffs and all agree to nod collectively and sagely.”
We’ve seen it before: when costs go up, the customer will bear the brunt of these before the company producing the product. It all adds up. I’ve seen the price of petrol start creeping up already and it won’t be long before we are being told the price of grain and other essentials will have to go up, just like they did at the start of the recession back in 2008. I can’t remember prices going down, can you? Not everything that goes up comes down and the myth that was trickle down economics has really been shown up for the fraudulent claim that it was. You only need to take the current case of billionaire and infamous tax-dodger Phillip Green and his Machiavellian squeezing of BHS to the sum of £571 million to see the reality of this nonsense economic theory. While 11,000 people lost their jobs, and 20,000 people their pensions, good old Phil took receipt of his £100 million super yacht this week. Happy holidays, Phil. I hope your crew forgot to pack the life preservers at least.
But, if the creators raise their prices, they could find themselves pricing themselves out of the market as fans, with less and less money to spend on their hobby, start rethinking their pull lists and any additional titles on top of these. I’m doing exactly that this summer. I was already going to use the DC Rebirth as an excuse to revise my spending, and that was before Diamond had no other choice but to raise their prices. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have their own Nostalgia and Comics (Birmingham) who have very publicly let all its customers know that they ain’t raising prices. Like DC, they’re holding the line. But, for how long will they be able to do this? Neil Sambrook (Fly Comics) says he has even considered cutting back on page counts to keep his prices at the same price point. it’s only what DC did to help tow the line at $2.99, dropping form 25 pages to 22, and saving the punters a dollar in return. It worked, so why not use this game business model in the small press arena too?
“‘All those cross European partnerships for Arts projects and funding – gone. Collaboration – gone. And that isn’t scare-mongering.’ Blood’s Joe Krawec
Other downsides? The Arts, under the Tories, have always been historically underfunded. No-one I spoke to can see this getting any better. Certainly, even before the Brexit debacle, the Tories have made it their mission to phase out the Arts from the curriculum, and succeeding too if my school is a snapshot of what is happening nationally. This is a sentiment shared by others too, just incase I was coming off as a reactionary Socialist (I’m not, I’m a pro-active Socialist, but don’t tell the government), Joe Krawec, a newly minted comic book creator of the semi-autobiographical tale, Blood, agreed with me and stated that, ‘all those cross European partnerships for Arts projects and funding – gone. Collaboration – gone. And that isn’t scare-mongering.’
I only need to look at the Cumberbatches and Hiddlestons of this world, and their own privileged backgrounds, to realise that The Arts has, on the whole, always been for the elite. Without funding, we could lose those opportunities that such funding can bring about. Certainly, for a comic-con to be a comic-con in the UK today, I believe Arts Council and EU funding, is essential. One organiser, Shane Chebsey (ICE, Shrewsbury International Comic Art Festival), told me that the cost of flying international guests over have just gone up, as the pound continues to get sand kicked in its face by the more muscular Euro and Dollar. When you consider that spread across a number of guests, how can that be sustained? Cut back on guests, maybe? Meaning, cutting back on quality, which is the bottom line here if we are talking about cutting back as one option. Cutting back on pages, on guests, on quality? Many comics on the indie scene are already black and white, so they couldn’t even consider ditching colour as an option. How cheap would that look anyway, if your favourite indie comic suddenly went from full colour to black and white?
Are there any upsides? Well, yes. If you are trying to sell your comics to an American readership, well you’re comics just got cheaper, and hopefully, more desirable as a result. And, in this global village of ours setting up your stall, so to speak, and promoting it via social media is more time consuming that costly. For those publishers who have a fixed page rate, the opportunity to work on a UK small press comic has just got more appealing, don’t forget, as Steve Tanner (Time Bomb Comics) and others have let me know. It’s Tanner who also points, optimistically, to the hope that foreign fans may very well take a punt on a UK indie title, that can often offer a bigger page count when compared to mainstream publishers, or simply be more appealing as their US comics soar up in price, like a bird, or a plane. Mike Garley (Samurai Slasher) has taken a novel approach to support smaller comic book stores by offering 5 issue of Samurai Slasher for free! That’s a win-win situation, surely?
Samurai Slasher creator Mike Garley has offered to send out free copies of his book to struggling comic shops
And, there’s always crowdfunding, right? At this time of writing, the daily statistics published by Kickstarter would suggest only a 51.25% success rate, albeit comics as a category does better than most, but it’s still pretty much a 50/50 split. That’s a lot of unsuccessful campaigns and, one imagines, 50% less crowdfunded comic book titles out there too. The count for unsuccessful comics is 3,820! 4,094 were successful, however.
Of course, these are raw, cold, hard fact and can be interpreted in many different ways when on drills down to look at it more qualitatively. For example, out of those 3,820 failed campaigns, how many were any good? The problem, one can suppose confidently, is that Kickstarter can be something of a vanity project, Hell, your project might even be funded by friends and family only and unleashed into a market that simply doesn’t want it.
But, us comic book readers can be a resilient bunch. Or stubbornly habitual at least. On average, the comic book readers of the world tend to be an educated bunch and therefore, possibly have more money in their back pockets? Maybe, just maybe, there is an argument for digital distribution to finally take root as a means to cut back even further on the print and distribution costs? But then, most indie titles can already be purchased electronically either through big online distributors like Comixology or as pdf copies and the like through creators’ own sites. Whichever way you look at it, the thought of Brexit creating a situation on which more and more small press creators are squeezed out of the market, or don’t even bother in the first place, is a far worse world that the current one; a small press industry where diversity thrives and even challenge the spandex and cape crowds. Maybe, Stuart Mulrain (True Believers Comic Con) sums it up best when he told me that, ‘the comic book community is a great and truly supportive community to be in (which is why we love being a part of it so much), so as the Brexit fallout levels out, things will get back to some kind of normality, but until that happens, it’s up to the community to come together and keep the industry thriving.’
Rising prices all round, a weakened pound, less comic content, less comics even; it’s never has it been a better time to go out there and support your local comic book creators. Ask at your LCBS too and see what indie titles they currently have in? If they haven’t got the one you’re looking for, ask ‘em to get it in. Every sale is one sale more that tells the creators that what they’re doing is worth it. The small press scene in the UK today is thriving with diverse, distance voices. Long may that be the case.
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day4 military museum
A US training/reconnisance helicopter that was given to the Turkish in the 1960s.
Cannon!
Old tank. I think it was a Soviet tank from the 1930s.
Far out, dude! Obviously a poor translation. Perhaps "outstanding"?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Shield.
It's a sword! It's a gun! It slices and dices. But wait, there's more!
Pew pew. Now that's a rifle.
Detailwork on a rifle butt.
This machine makes rifle stocks. The plaque says it's on loan to the museum but is still in working condition.
Crescent and star on an interior gate.
Fancypants desk set of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who ruled 1876-1909.
The "Armenian Issue". No, this won't be awkward.
"So-called genocide", "Armenian issue".
Blaming the Armenians for damage.
There were some gory pictures, accompanied with descriptions of Armenian massacre.
CANNON! And FYYFF.
SMALL CANNON! And FYYFF.
Tamara with Emperor Constantine XI's chain, stretched across the Golden Horn in 1453. It didn't work.
It's a diving suit! Dive!
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The scincid genus Caledoniscincus (Repti
The scincid genus Caledoniscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific: a review of Caledoniscincus orestes Sadlier
Sadlier, R.A; A.M. Bauer
Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle - Zoologia Neocaledonica 5
A New Genus and Species of Live-Bearing Scincid Lizard (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia
A new genus and species of Lizard (Squamata, Scincidae) from New Caledonia, Southwest Pacific
Caledoniscincus austrocaledonicus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Ile Surprise, D'Entrecasteaux Reefs, New Caledonia
A New Genus and Species of Lizard (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia, Southwest Pacific
The scincid Graciliscincus shonae (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific: a review of the species' morphology, distribution and conservation status
The scincid lizard genus Sigaloseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific: description of a new species and review of the biology, distribution, and morphology of Sigaloseps deplanchei (Bavay)
A review of the morphology, biology, distribution and conservation status of the New Caledonian scincid lizard Simiscincus aurantiacus (Reptilia: Scincidae)
The scincid lizard genus Nannoscincus Gunther from New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific: a review of the morphology and distribution of species in the Nannoscincus mariei species group, including the description of three new species fr
A new species of scincid Lizard from New Caledonia (Reptilia:Lacertilia:Scincidae)
The scincid lizard genus Caledoniscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific: a review of Caledoniscincus austrocaledonicus (Bavay) and description of six new species from Province Nord
The scincid Lizard Genus Marmorosphax (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: Description of a New species Restricted to High-Altitude Forest in Province Sud
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Risk of myocardial infarction associated with selective COX-2 inhibitors: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2007 Jul;16(7):762-72. doi: 10.1002/pds.1409.
Li-Chia Chen 1 , Darren M Ashcroft
1 School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK.
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1409
Purpose: To evaluate the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) associated with the use of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors (coxibs).
Methods: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) using a fixed-effect model to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) for risk of MI associated with coxibs compared against placebo, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and other coxibs.
Results: Fifty-five trials (99 087 patients) were included in the meta-analysis. The overall pooled OR for MI risk for any coxib compared against placebo was 1.46 (95%CI: 1.02, 2.09). We found celecoxib, rofecoxib, etoricoxib, valdecoxib and lumiracoxib were associated with higher MI risks compared against placebo. The pooled OR for any coxib compared against other NSAIDs was 1.45 (95%CI: 1.09, 1.93). Rofecoxib had a significantly higher risk of MI than naproxen (OR: 5.39; 95%: 2.08, 14.02) and valdecoxib had lower MI risk than diclofenac (OR: 0.14, 95%CI: 0.03, 0.73). There were no significant differences identified in the risk of MI from the available head-to-head comparisons of coxibs.
Conclusions: Coxibs were associated with increased risks of MI when compared against placebo or non-selective NSAIDs. Differences in MI risk were also apparent between comparisons of individual NSAIDs. Future work should consider using individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis to explore differences in MI risk between different subgroups of patients.
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / administration & dosage
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / adverse effects*
Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors / administration & dosage
Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors / adverse effects*
Diclofenac / administration & dosage
Diclofenac / adverse effects
Diclofenac / analogs & derivatives
Isoxazoles / administration & dosage
Isoxazoles / adverse effects
Lactones / administration & dosage
Lactones / adverse effects
Myocardial Infarction / chemically induced*
Myocardial Infarction / epidemiology
Naproxen / adverse effects
Pyrazoles / administration & dosage
Pyrazoles / adverse effects
Pyridines / administration & dosage
Pyridines / adverse effects
Sulfonamides / administration & dosage
Sulfonamides / adverse effects
Sulfones / administration & dosage
Sulfones / adverse effects
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors
Lactones
Sulfones
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Echocardiographic surveillance of aortic valve stenosis: towards a standardized approach
J Heart Valve Dis. 2012 Nov;21(6):707-13.
Abbas Zaidi 1 , Adrian Ionescu, Rajan Sharma, Martyn Heatley
1 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, UK. azaidi@sgul.ac.uk
Background and aim of the study: Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) portends a poor prognosis, and there is growing evidence that even mild disease carries significant morbidity. Systematic echocardiographic monitoring of asymptomatic disease is therefore essential to optimize the effectiveness of interventions. Inconsistencies exist, however, between different guidelines, and this may lead to inefficient resource utilization or, conversely, to inadequate monitoring. The study aim was to assess the appropriateness of AS surveillance echocardiography at the authors' institution. An additional aim was to document AS progression patterns in a contemporary British population, for which few data currently exist.
Methods: British, European, and North American guidelines relating to echocardiographic surveillance of asymptomatic AS were examined. A retrospective analysis of practice at the authors' institution was conducted, with timing of surveillance compared to guidelines. Progression was documented by monitoring the effective orifice area (EOA) and peak pressure gradient (PPG).
Results: Mean progression rates were consistent with published data (deltaEOA = -0.15 +/- 0.49 cm2/year; deltaPPG = +6.67 +/- 24.76 mmHg/year), with wide variation, and poor correlation between surveillance interval and disease progression. Progression of mild AS was significantly faster than severe AS (deltaEOA = -0.33 +/- 0.53 versus +0.04 +/- 0.41 cm2/year, respectively; p < 0.001). Of 169 echocardiograms evaluated, 60.9% were appropriately timed, 33.1% were early, and 6.0% were late. Surveillance of mild AS was less often appropriate than that of moderate or severe AS (12.0% versus 78.3% versus 84.7% appropriate, respectively; p < 0.001). On extrapolating these results nationally, an excess expenditure of pound 4.6 million (US$ 6.0 million) per year was estimated for this indication alone.
Conclusion: Echocardiographic surveillance of asymptomatic AS is often non-compliant with published guidance, which may be attributable to ambiguities and conflicts between different guidelines. The variable natural history of AS necessitates systematic surveillance at all stages of the disease spectrum, which in turn requires unambiguous, standardized guidelines to minimize variation in quality of care, while providing a clear framework to maximize the impact of investigations.
Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnostic imaging*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / physiopathology
Asymptomatic Diseases
Echocardiography, Doppler / standards*
Guideline Adherence / standards
Hemodynamics
Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards*
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Pulse News Mexico
News from Mexico and around the world
Baja Governor Term Extension Law Approved
Posted on July 25, 2019 November 2, 2020 by Ricardo CastilloIn Mexico, Opinion, Politics
Photo: Leafly
By RICARDO CASTILLO
The Baja California state electoral controversy may have finally come to an end.
Late Tuesday, July 23, the Baja state congress met at the municipality of Rosarito Beach to confirm that the governance period for Governor-elect Jaime Bonilla Valdéz from two to five years is valid.
Early the next day, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) in Mexico City threw out the case “for being notoriously not proceeding” on the constitutional controversies filed at the start of the week by the mayors of Tijuana and Mexicali against the extension.
(For previous background, please check articles on the subject published by Pulse News Mexico on July 15 and July 23.)
This issue represents a major jurisdictional fight between a state congress and the federal Congress.
In the Rosarito Beach meeting, the majority of the state congress tackled two issues that may fully validate the governance period extension for Jaime Bonilla, who will be sworn in on Nov. 1.
The first issue was a direct answer to a demand from the Permanent Committee of the Union Congress (federal) which “exhorted” the Baja deputies to revoke the extension that had been approved by 21 out of the 26 voting members of the state congress last July 8. The deputies voted once again “unanimously” against the exhort challenging from the federal Chamber of Deputies at large.
Regarding the second item of the Tuesday night “secret” meeting, the Baja California Chamber of Deputies did not have to vote again on the extension because it had previously voted on the matter, and did not need a new vote. Simply, the deputies said, “it proceeds.”
Twelve hours later, the SCJ in Mexico City literally validated the extension by rejecting the suits filed by the mayors of Tijuana and Mexicali against the mandate extension. In its twitter page, the SCJ published the following notice:
“Constitutional controversies 269/2019 and 271/2019 were discarded due to notorious inadmissibility as they were promoted against acts that are not definitive since the respective decree has not been published.”
The Mexicali and Tijuana mayors claimed that they had not been summoned to state their point of view during the July 8 voting meeting, hence calling the vote “unconstitutional.”
What the SCJ said that bill, now-touted as the “Bonilla Law,” is not official since current Baja California Governor Kiko Vega has refused to publish the approved congressional mandate in the state’s official gazette in obvious disagreement with it. He may continue to refuse to publish it, in which case the majority in the state’s Chamber of Deputies can override him and run the mandate and make it official.
There were several aspects regarding the law that Mexico City media columnists consider shady: In their view, the meeting was held “in the dark” because it was not carried out in the state capital, Mexicali, but in a municipality, Rosarito Beach, because the bulk of the opposition to this move was centered in Mexicali.
Also, there is the fact that the first point of order in the Rosarito meeting was to relieve Deputy Eva María Vázquez from the presidency of the Political Coordination Junta and replace her with Claudia Agatón.
Vázquez summoned the press previous to the meeting to proclaim it illegal, but to no avail. She was easily ousted and replaced in what appeared to be a legal move, for now.
On Wednesday, July 24, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) washed his hands of the “Bonillazo coup,” claiming he “had nothing to do with it.” Asked whether this was “a rehearsal” for his reelection in 2024 as some of his most avowed political foes have claimed, AMLO said that he’d sign “before a notary public, I will not seek reelection.”
At the Chamber of Deputies, Deputy Tatiana Clouthier Carrillo, who promoted the “exhort” that the Baja California Chamber of Deputies withdraw from voting on the go-ahead for the mandate extension, said “These guys are going to hear my gun pop.”
The next move by the Baja California Chamber of Deputies to bring to an end this very real challenge to the federal authority by a state government will be to publish the mandate extension into law in the official gazette.
Once they do that, they plaintiffs may proceed, again, at the SCJ to request that their suit be deemed admissible.
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Delhi University Third Cut Off List released, check seats available in top colleges
Sunidhi Bhatti July 9, 2019
Delhi University has released its third cut-off list for undergraduate courses for admission as seats are still available in the North Campus colleges for courses such as BA (Honours) Economics, BCom (Honours) and science stream for the general category aspirants.
After second cut off, more than 30,000 seats are still vacant at Delhi University. The highest cut off in the third list is for BA Economics at Hindu College at 98 per cent. Apart from Economics, BA Sociology is available at 97 per cent. This is the only arts course which is available at Hindu College.
Lady Shri Ram College had closed its admission process for B.Com. in the second list, whereas it has opened their admissions again at 97.75 per cent.
Hans Raj has closed their admission at 97.75 per cent cut off for BA Economics, whereas 97.25 per cent cut off for B.Com.
Miranda House has set the cut-off for BA (Honours) Economics same as the second list. The cut-off remains at 97.75 per cent while the cut-off for BA (Honours)Sociology and BA Geography it has dropped. BA (Honours)Sociology has dropped from 96.50 per cent to 96.25 per cent, whereas for BA (Honours) Geography, it has come down from 98 per cent to 97.50 per cent.
Daulat Ram College has admissions open for BA (Honours) English. The cut off percentage has come down from 95.75 per cent to 94.75 per cent. For BA (Honours) History, the cut-off has also come down to 94.50 per cent from 94.75 per cent.
An approximate of 43,854 admissions have taken place after 778 withdrawals after the the admission process has begun, according to the data shared by DU.
Sunidhi Bhatti
Sunidhi Bhatti is a Post graduate in Mass Communications and Electronic Media. She is a young enthusiast who loves to write on political affairs and always satisfied with her work. Besides a content writer, she is a vocalist also.
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Critical Resistance’s ‘Attica Interview Project’ Coincides with Calls for Transparency and Truth
September 15, 2014 in Historical, Press, Words | Tags: Attica, Attica Interview Project, Critical Resistance, NY, NYSCOPBA
Photo: Bob Schutz. Inmates at Attica State Prison in Attica, N.Y., raise their hands in clenched fists in a show of unity, Sept. 1971, during the Attica uprising, which took the lives of 43 people.
Last week marked the 43rd anniversary of the historic Attica Rebellion. In conjunction with the anniversary, Critical Resistance New York City (CRNYC) has launched the Attica Interview Project, to support prison closure organizing in New York. CRNYC is looking for people with personal archives stories and will collect and facilitate oral history, video and audio recordings, and still images.
CRNYC’s documentation is grounded in a philosophy of self-representation.
“People who participate determine how and when they are photographed and recorded,” says a CRNYC statement. “We strive to represent interview participants not as victims, but as agents of social change struggling individually and collectively to improve their lives and conditions.”
ATTICA INTERVIEW PROJECT
Bryan Welton, a member with Critical Resistance New York City wrote:
At the time of the rebellion, the US prison population was less than 200,000. On the fourth day of the prisoner-led takeover of Attica, September 13th, 1971, then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller deployed New York State Troopers to set murderous siege on the prison. A campaign of sustained terror and repression to restore the power of guards and administrators at Attica followed. The systematic attack against the gains won by struggles inside and outside prison walls, which nourished the spirit of revolt in Attica and the broader prisoner movement of the period, parallels the rise of the prison industrial complex to where we stand today. Few people then imagined that the imprisoned population in the US would explode to 2.4 million.
The Attica Rebellion developed not only in response to conditions of dehumanizing racism and violence in the prison, but was strengthened by the confluence of imprisoned revolutionaries from Black liberation, Native and Puerto Rican anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist movements. The demands articulated by the Attica Liberation Faction unleashed an abolitionist imagination that continues to propel prisoner-led struggles up to today. Through oral history, the project seeks to document the legacy of repression, survival and resistance at Attica, while using material to shape a broader narrative about the PIC and abolition and fuel ongoing demands to close Attica.
Supported by sentencing reforms won through organized opposition to the Rockefeller Drug Laws and fights over deadly conditions in New York prisons and jails, prison populations in New York have decreased by 15,000 people since 2000. This decrease combined with the costs of maintaining staffing and infrastructure for empty prisons moved Governor Andrew Cuomo to close nine prisons in four years, with four more closures projected within the year. Although dispersed across the state and including both men’s and women’s prisons, what is common among these closure targets is their classification as minimum or medium security prisons holding people convicted of low-level drug offenses and “nonviolent crimes.” As we seize on any and all opportunities for prison closures, we understand the threat of cementing the “worst of the worst” classification for people held in maximum security, supermax and solitary confinement units and how the deepening of that logic enables the disappearance, dehumanization, torture and death of people in prisons everywhere. This criminalization is being amplified as prison-dependent economies, from the political representatives of prison towns to the 26,000 member guards’ unions (NYSCOPBA), desperately mobilize against decarceration and prison closures.
The stories of resistance, resilience, and struggle coming from the survivors of Attica and prisons across the country can offer not only a reminder of the history in which our movement is rooted, but a signal fire of which direction we should head. In the words of Attica Brother, LD Barkley, “The entire prison populace has set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the prisoners here and throughout the United States. What has happened here is but the sound before the fury of those that are oppressed.”
To get involved contact:
Critical Resistance New York City
Email: crnyc@criticalresistance.org
Photo: AP. Prisoners of Attica state prison, right, negotiate with state prisons Commissioner Russell Oswald, lower left, at the facility in Attica, N.Y., where prisoners had taken control of the maximum-security prison in rural western New York. Sept. 10, 1971.
Such a careful approach and revisiting of Attica’s history is timely and essential. An accurate version — and not the official state version — must be established. Following Attica, there were a number of inquiries (for example, Cornell Capa’s photographic survey of the facility here and here), however, not all inquiries met or served public need. Suspicions of a cover up of excessive violence and extrajudicial murder during the retaking of the prison have been constant.
The second and third parts of the Meyer Report (1975), an investigation of a commission headed by New York State Supreme Court JusticeBernard Meyer, were sealed and never released to the public.
The Democrat & Chronicle reports:
The focused on claims of a cover-up of crimes committed by police who seized control of the prison with a deadly fusillade of gunfire. Those allegations came from Assistant Attorney General Malcolm Bell, who had been part of an investigation into fatal shootings and other possible crimes committed during the retaking.
Wikipedia, quoted civil rights documentary Eyes On The Prize, triangulates the claims:
Elliot L.D. Barkley, was a strong force during the negotiations, speaking with great articulation to the inmates, the camera crews, and outsiders at home. Barkley was killed during the recapturing of the prison. Assemblyman Arthur Eve testified that Barkley was alive after the prisoners had surrendered and the state regained control; another inmate stated that the officers searched him out, yelling for Barkley, and shot him in the back.
It is believed parts two and three of the Meyer Report detail grand jury testimony given during an investigation into the riot and retaking. Late last year, a New York judge ruled the documents could be opened. It came at a request of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The majority of people are in support of the move, understandably given the length of time since the murders. The state troopers are opposed.
It’s high time the people had access to the same information the state has had for nearly four decades. Only then can we confirm or dismiss a state cover-up and the protection of law enforcement individuals and those from whom they took orders, namely then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
Photo: Goran Hugo Olsson. Source.
Bobby Seale, 11 Sept 1971. Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther movement, was brought in at one point during the rebellion to help with negotiations.
A prisoners’ make-shift hospital during the rebellion.
Source: Salon, Empire State disgrace: The dark, secret history of the Attica Prison tragedy
Law enforcement, civilians and press cover their nostrils from the airborne teargas following the state’s storming of Attica Prison, Sept. 13th, 1971.
Photo: John Shearer. Law enforcement escort a prisoner out of Attica following the storming of the facility. (Source)
This gruesome photo is one of several of murdered corpses included on this webpage. The images are uncredited, so I cannot verify there veracity. I’ve not seen them elsewhere. The boots, railings and sunken yard look consistent with Attica.
Prisoners are regimented following the state’s retaking of control of Attica Prison. (I have no idea when the trench was dug, by whom or for what purpose).
An injured prisoner is assisted out of D-Yard, following the state’s teargassing and assault upon the prisoners.
The aftermath.
Clean up.
There’s so much out there online for you to dig into, so I humbly recommend these starting points:
Attica Uprising 101, is the best brief description of the events those 5 days in September 1971.
Forgotten Survivors of Attica, a group of guards and prisoners’ families alike who are in search of transparency and believe there was a state cover up.
Project Attica, a recent project with school children to teach them about racial politics, oral histories and Black America using Attica as a prism through which to do so.
Attica Rebellion Film Collection
Here is one of the better collection of images online in a single place.
Finally, I’d like to know if these photographs of prisoners’ corpses can be verified as being from Attica on the 13th, September, 1971. They are presented as images of those killed as a result of the state assault on the prison.
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1gwb
STRUCTURE OF GLYCOPROTEIN 1B
PDB ID 1gwb
1gwb is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Ligands: , , ,
NonStd Res:
Related: 1k13, 1m0z, 1m10
[GP1BA_HUMAN] Genetic variations in GP1BA may be a cause of susceptibility to non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) [MIM:258660]. NAION is an ocular disease due to ischemic injury to the optic nerve. It usually affects the optic disk and leads to visual loss and optic disk swelling of a pallid nature. Visual loss is usually sudden, or over a few days at most and is usually permanent, with some recovery possibly occurring within the first weeks or months. Patients with small disks having smaller or non-existent cups have an anatomical predisposition for non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. As an ischemic episode evolves, the swelling compromises circulation, with a spiral of ischemia resulting in further neuronal damage.[1] Defects in GP1BA are a cause of Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS) [MIM:231200]; also known as giant platelet disease (GPD). BSS patients have unusually large platelets and have a clinical bleeding tendency.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Defects in GP1BA are the cause of benign mediterranean macrothrombocytopenia (BMM) [MIM:153670]; also known as autosomal dominant benign Bernard-Soulier syndrome. BMM is characterized by mild or no clinical symptoms, normal platelet function, and normal megakaryocyte count.[8] Defects in GP1BA are the cause of pseudo-von Willebrand disease (VWDP) [MIM:177820]. A bleeding disorder is caused by an increased affinity of GP-Ib for soluble vWF resulting in impaired hemostatic function due to the removal of vWF from the circulation.[9] [10] [11] [12]
[GP1BA_HUMAN] GP-Ib, a surface membrane protein of platelets, participates in the formation of platelet plugs by binding to the A1 domain of vWF, which is already bound to the subendothelium.
Glycoprotein Ib (GPIb) is a platelet receptor with a critical role in mediating the arrest of platelets at sites of vascular damage. GPIb binds to the A1 domain of von Willebrand factor (vWF-A1) at high blood shear, initiating platelet adhesion and contributing to the formation of a thrombus. To investigate the molecular basis of GPIb regulation and ligand binding, we have determined the structure of the N-terminal domain of the GPIb(alpha) chain (residues 1-279). This structure is the first determined from the cell adhesion/signaling class of leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins and reveals the topology of the characteristic disulfide-bonded flanking regions. The fold consists of an N-terminal beta-hairpin, eight leucine-rich repeats, a disulfide-bonded loop, and a C-terminal anionic region. The structure also demonstrates a novel LRR motif in the form of an M-shaped arrangement of three tandem beta-turns. Negatively charged binding surfaces on the LRR concave face and anionic region indicate two-step binding kinetics to vWF-A1, which can be regulated by an unmasking mechanism involving conformational change of a key loop. Using molecular docking of the GPIb and vWF-A1 crystal structures, we were also able to model the GPIb.vWF-A1 complex.
Crystal structure of the platelet glycoprotein Ib(alpha) N-terminal domain reveals an unmasking mechanism for receptor activation.,Uff S, Clemetson JM, Harrison T, Clemetson KJ, Emsley J J Biol Chem. 2002 Sep 20;277(38):35657-63. Epub 2002 Jun 26. PMID:12087105[13]
Platelet glycoprotein
↑ Salomon O, Rosenberg N, Steinberg DM, Huna-Baron R, Moisseiev J, Dardik R, Goldan O, Kurtz S, Ifrah A, Seligsohn U. Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is associated with a specific platelet polymorphism located on the glycoprotein Ibalpha gene. Ophthalmology. 2004 Jan;111(1):184-8. PMID:14711733 doi:10.1016/j.ophtha.2003.05.006
↑ Miller JL, Lyle VA, Cunningham D. Mutation of leucine-57 to phenylalanine in a platelet glycoprotein Ib alpha leucine tandem repeat occurring in patients with an autosomal dominant variant of Bernard-Soulier disease. Blood. 1992 Jan 15;79(2):439-46. PMID:1730088
↑ Ware J, Russell SR, Marchese P, Murata M, Mazzucato M, De Marco L, Ruggeri ZM. Point mutation in a leucine-rich repeat of platelet glycoprotein Ib alpha resulting in the Bernard-Soulier syndrome. J Clin Invest. 1993 Sep;92(3):1213-20. PMID:7690774 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1172/JCI116692
↑ Simsek S, Noris P, Lozano M, Pico M, von dem Borne AE, Ribera A, Gallardo D. Cys209 Ser mutation in the platelet membrane glycoprotein Ib alpha gene is associated with Bernard-Soulier syndrome. Br J Haematol. 1994 Dec;88(4):839-44. PMID:7819107
↑ de la Salle C, Baas MJ, Lanza F, Schwartz A, Hanau D, Chevalier J, Gachet C, Briquel ME, Cazenave JP. A three-base deletion removing a leucine residue in a leucine-rich repeat of platelet glycoprotein Ib alpha associated with a variant of Bernard-Soulier syndrome (Nancy I). Br J Haematol. 1995 Feb;89(2):386-96. PMID:7873390
↑ Kenny D, Jonsson OG, Morateck PA, Montgomery RR. Naturally occurring mutations in glycoprotein Ibalpha that result in defective ligand binding and synthesis of a truncated protein. Blood. 1998 Jul 1;92(1):175-83. PMID:9639514
↑ Koskela S, Partanen J, Salmi TT, Kekomaki R. Molecular characterization of two mutations in platelet glycoprotein (GP) Ib alpha in two Finnish Bernard-Soulier syndrome families. Eur J Haematol. 1999 Mar;62(3):160-8. PMID:10089893
↑ Savoia A, Balduini CL, Savino M, Noris P, Del Vecchio M, Perrotta S, Belletti S, Poggi, Iolascon A. Autosomal dominant macrothrombocytopenia in Italy is most frequently a type of heterozygous Bernard-Soulier syndrome. Blood. 2001 Mar 1;97(5):1330-5. PMID:11222377
↑ Matsubara Y, Murata M, Sugita K, Ikeda Y. Identification of a novel point mutation in platelet glycoprotein Ibalpha, Gly to Ser at residue 233, in a Japanese family with platelet-type von Willebrand disease. J Thromb Haemost. 2003 Oct;1(10):2198-205. PMID:14521605
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Monarch 16.13
Posted on January 5, 2013 by wildbow
With Grue’s help, I seated myself on the intact edge of the destroyed swarmbox, scattering my insects to the walls and ceiling of the room. Grue paced a little, while I eyed Imp and Bitch. My female teammates didn’t look entirely convinced, and I couldn’t blame them. They’d just seen someone who matched my description attacking them. The nighttime darkness and the lack of city lights hadn’t helped, and the obscuring swarm of bugs had helped hide the details from the moment the impostor gave them reason to suspect her.
“What happened?” Grue asked me.
“We arrived at the place he was keeping Dinah, she grabbed my hand, we turned around, and the headlights flashed. Then I was somewhere else.”
“He switched to his highbeams, momentarily. Don’t know about the others, but my eyes had adjusted to the dark. I couldn’t see anything, used my darkness to try to cover us in case he was pulling something, but nothing happened. Turned around and you were fine.”
“Except it wasn’t me.”
Grue nodded slowly. “Looked like you, sounded like you.”
“I don’t know how. Genesis?”
“Didn’t strike me as much of an actor.”
“Then I don’t know,” I said, feeling lame. I knew I didn’t sound convincing.
“What happened? Was he only trying to separate you from us?”
“I’m ninety-five percent sure he tried to kill me.”
“What’s the other five percent?” Grue asked.
“I’m not a hundred percent sure of anything. But he didn’t have a bomb waiting to go off when I arrived, so that leaves me with some doubt. He did shoot me, and set the building on fire around me. And he had soldiers waiting to gun me down if I stepped outside.”
“Did he want you to come here, to frame you?”
“No,” I said, shaking my head. “Doesn’t make sense. Just as easy for ‘Skitter’ to disappear with Dinah, leaving you guys angry but still loyal. I think the way he wanted it, I’d die of the gunshot or burn up in a housefire, and he could use the lack of living reporters in Brockton Bay alongside some bribe money for the Travelers to ensure you guys didn’t know what he’d pulled. Maybe something comes out later about me betraying you, to put it in perspective and put any lingering doubts to rest.”
“He teleported you into a burning house, shot you, surrounded you with soldiers. And you escaped,” Imp said.
“Barely.” I touched the knot of metal where the bullet had settled in my armor. “I guess it’s bulletproof after all. I got away because of stuff he wasn’t aware of, mainly. My costume, tactics I’ve been using in the field, the fact I had a gun. Don’t know if Calvert knew about that. Are you okay, Rachel?”
Rachel didn’t respond. Her head was turned my way, and I could imagine her staring, trying to read me. Her hand gripped the chain at Bastard’s neck.
“It wasn’t me,” I told her.
“It wasn’t her,” Grue confirmed. “I saw with her power. That box was controlling the bugs.”
Bitch nodded slowly. I couldn’t see her expression to know whether she was glaring at me or narrowing her eyes behind her mask.
“If you have any doubts,” I said, “You can stay in a position to attack me if something happens. One whistle or one hand signal away from commanding Bastard or Bentley to tear me apart. I hope you won’t leap to any conclusions, but-”
“It’s fine.”
“Are you sure? Because I don’t want there to be any hard feelings or… I don’t want there to be hard feelings.” I’d almost said retaliation, but I’d decided I didn’t want to bring that up.
“It’s fine,” she said, and there was a touch of anger to the words. “This shadow and dagger shit pisses me off.”
“Cloak and dagger,” Imp offered.
Bitch made a low, grunting noise in her throat that fell somewhere between a huff of anger, a belch and a grunt. “The way you acted before, the way that person acted when she shot me and the way you’re acting now, none of it makes sense, and maybe that’s ’cause I’m stupid. But I’m going to handle this my way. Next time someone shoots at me, I kill them. Or I have Bastard eat their hands and feet.”
“You shouldn’t maim people,” I said.
“Says the person who just emptied a gun clip at us,” Imp said. When Grue and I turned her way, she raised her hands, “Kidding. I’m just kidding.”
“…Want me to kill them instead?” Bitch asked.
“No! No. Just… nevermind. But hold back a bit for now. And don’t call yourself stupid. You think in a different way, that’s all.”
She offered a noncommittal grunt in response.
“We should talk rescue plans,” I said. “Calvert invited Tattletale to join him, probably so she wouldn’t tip us off about the body double. That means she’s probably caught. Regent too, since we sent him to look after her. This is the kind of situation we were hoping to avoid by playing along with his grand plan.”
“Having to tackle his full forces to save Tattletale, Regent and Dinah.”
“Right. If we go charging into this, we or one of his hostages will get killed.”
“I could go in,” Imp said. “Get them, walk them out.”
“No. He knows us. He’s anticipated something like this. Probably has for the Travelers, too. He’ll have planned around our powers, with counters in mind for each of us. That means video cameras to keep an eye out for you.”
“Pain in the ass.”
“Indirect attack?” Grue suggested.
“It won’t work if he’s holed up somewhere safe. Not with the countermeasures he’ll have put in place. If he’s in his underground base until this all blows over, then he’ll be impossible to access,” I said. I had to stop to cough.
Nobody chimed in with an answer or idea while I recovered.
I went on. “If he’s in the PRT offices, then we’ll probably have to get past the Travelers, his soldiers, his PRT officers, any countermeasures he’s put in place and any countermeasures the PRT put in place. It’d be a question of staggering out his various lines of defense so the more questionable ones are out of sight of the good guys.”
“And he still has his hostages,” Grue said.
“Fuck it,” I groaned, then I coughed more.
“You need a hospital,” Grue told me.
I shook my head, then regretted it. I felt dizzy. Vaguely nauseous. It was as though simply stopping and letting the adrenaline kick down a notch was letting symptoms emerge. “Can’t. Not now.”
“You’re nearly dead on your feet.”
“I’ll manage,” I said. I turned my eyes to the place I’d been lying while Imp stood over me. “What if I was dead?”
“Calvert doesn’t have a way to know how this turned out. Do you have phone service?”
Grue reached for his phone, but Imp had hers out first. “Sure.”
“He cut my phone off. I threw it away in case it could be used to track me, or in case it was how he was getting a hold on me with that teleportation device. If he suspected you, wouldn’t he do the same, limit your options?”
“So you think he thinks maybe something happened. Or he’s waiting to see if we bought his ruse.”
“He knows I was in the area. I attacked his men trying to save you guys. He had gunmen and explosives teams ready to wipe you off the map if you caught on to what that impostor was doing. So what happens if you call him and tell him you killed me?”
“He asks us to meet him at one of those secure locations you mentioned, and we can’t refuse without revealing that we know what he tried to pull. And destroying that box might have clued him in anyways.”
“Fuck,” I muttered.
“When the other Skitter disappeared with the girl, how did she do it? Exactly.”
“Teleporting,” I said. “Threw the first flashbang, teleported out, leaving rubble and another flashbang behind.”
“Mm,” he said, “Okay.”
“Why are you so curious about that?”
“Just thinking something through. Give me a second to think.” He pointed at me, “Make sure you’re taking deep breaths in the meantime. Even if it hurts.”
I nodded and did as he asked. For a little while, I ignored my bugs and focused on tallying the damage I’d sustained. My breath wheezed and rattled, my chest hurt every time it or something attached to it moved, and my eyes stung when I opened them. Not that there was any point.
Grue was pacing, breathing hard, while Imp and Bitch stood by. It was a bit of a reversal of the norm. I could sense Bitch scratching around Bastard’s ears, her fingernails digging in deep to get past the areas with armor and bony spikes. Imp was on the other side of the room, leaning against one of the wooden pillars and watching her brother.
“I’m calling him,” Grue announced, still panting a bit. Before any of us could protest, he said, “Quiet.”
I closed my mouth.
He put the phone on speaker. I could hear it ring.
Funny how something so mundane as the ring of a phone could sound so ominous and eerie, given the context of a situation.
“Grue,” It was Calvert’s voice. “What-”
When Grue spoke, his words were growls, barks. “You better not have had anything to do with this, or I swear, this is over. We’re done, gone.”
I could virtually hear Calvert switching mental gears to try to adapt to this. “Slow down and then explain. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Skitter attacked us and then she used your technology to leave the scene. I know you wanted to keep that girl, but going so far as to fucking turn on us-”
“Grue,” Calvert’s voice was hard, firm, “Slow down. It doesn’t make sense that I’d arrange things that way. Why go through the motions of giving my pet to Skitter, only to… you haven’t fully explained what happened. You said she attacked you? Are you sure?”
“Pretty fucking sure, Coil. She shot Rachel and then turned on me. Imp disarmed her. Then she teleported away using the same device you described to us an hour ago.”
“I… I see. Is Rachel all right? And who else was with you, my driver? You’re all unharmed?”
“Your driver went ahead. No, we’re all fine, except for Skitter.”
“You said she teleported away.”
“She didn’t get more than two blocks away. We chased her down and stopped her.”
My eyes widened a bit. I could imagine Calvert’s next words before he spoke them, was already moving.
“Show me. Send a picture through the phone.”
I shifted position so I lay in the depression that Bastard’s front paws had made in the swarm box. It was a scene I had to stage in seconds, using dragonflies and wasps to carry hairs across my mask, moving my hand so my wrist bent at an awkward angle where the metal folded. The final touch was bringing all the bugs from around the swarm box to carpet me and the floor.
Not a half second after I finished, I heard the digitized camera sound.
“I see. That’s quite unfortunate. Where’s Dinah?”
You know where Dinah is.
“I don’t know,” Grue said. “I’m far more interested in hearing how Skitter managed to use your technology to do this.”
“You’re sure?”
“I saw it with my own two eyes,” Grue said. “She threw a flashbang, but light and darkness don’t affect me the way they do others. You know that much.”
Grue was lying, adding an element Calvert wasn’t aware of, to throw him off track. Good.
“I didn’t, believe it or not,” Calvert said. “And I don’t know how she would have gotten access to the controls. One moment. I’ll have to call you right back.”
My swarm felt Grue stiffen. He raised his voice, “Don’t hang up on me!”
The speaker phone buzzed with the dial tone.
We stared at each other. Or the others stared and I used my swarm sense to observe. As a group, we were still and quiet for long seconds, the dial tone still blaring.
Grue hit the button.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“Being aggressive, keeping him on his heels. If he’s constantly defending himself, he won’t be able to turn things back on us.”
“Except he hung up. He’s going to think through his options and give you an excuse when he’s ready.”
“I didn’t think he’d hang up.”
I frowned. I was thinking back to the meeting I’d had with the school, when my dad had been with me and we’d accused the trio of bullying. Both Emma’s dad and the school had played their little power games.
“It’s a tactic,” I said. “He regains control of the situation by being the one who can call back, and it helps establish the idea of him being an authority figure.”
“Damn,” he said. “Sorry. It made sense in my head, but I didn’t think it through, I’m tired. Didn’t sleep last night. I figured it was better to call sooner than later.”
“It’s okay. Maybe call him back?”
He didn’t get a chance. The phone rang.
“This wasn’t the kind of response I wanted, Coil,” Grue growled into the phone, the second he’d answered.
I heard the beep as he switched it to speaker phone. Calvert was already talking. “- have sequestered Regent in my custody, out of concern that he controlled Victor to have the young man hack into my systems.”
“You and I both know that Victor didn’t have that kind of access, and we didn’t know about your teleportation technology until an hour ago.”
“I fear Skitter may have known, and I’m simply covering my bases. Once we’ve verified what happened and that Regent wasn’t complicit, I’ll release him. You can understand where I’m wanting to be careful, given this turn of events.”
“I don’t understand anything, Coil,” I heard a tremor of emotion in Grue’s voice. “I liked Skitter, and she’s dead. The use of the teleporter says you’re complicit. I want to look you in the eye and believe you weren’t a part of this.”
“We’ll sort this matter out. If you’ll come to my headquarters, we can discuss this.”
“No. Not your headquarters. Not with the possibility you pulled this shit on us. We’ll meet somewhere else. Somewhere open.”
There was a pause. “As you wish. Name a location.”
Grue, this time, was the one caught off guard. Calvert’s response was fast, and Grue clearly didn’t have an area in mind.
A place where we’d be able to set up faster than Calvert, ideally open, not riddled with attack routes and vantage points for his soldiers…
I thought of a spot, and the air caught in my throat as I suppressed a small noise. I almost coughed. I drew the word in the air with my bugs.
“The market, north end,” Grue said, reading it. “You know it?”
“I do. It’s shut down at present.”
“Right. You come with only one small squad of soldiers, bring Tattletale and Regent.”
“If-” Calvert started.
Grue hung up on him. He looked at me, “Authority, right?”
“Right,” I said. But all I could hear was the emotion in his voice when he’d been talking about the idea that I’d been dead. Pretending. Grue wasn’t a guy who showed his emotions, he didn’t strike me as an actor. Hearing that had affected me more than I thought it would. I didn’t want to ask if it was because he really cared or if it was because he’d tapped into something else, some vulnerability that his recent trauma had left open to him.
I coughed lightly. “The market’s a good spot. His people were at the south end of town. It’ll take him a bit to get there, so he won’t be able to stage any kind of ambush.”
“It works. But if we’re meeting him, what are you doing?”
“Staying nearby,” I said. “I’ll wait in the wings. In the meantime, we should see if we can get our hands on something that we could have Bastard maul to the point that it looks like my mutilated remains.”
“There a butcher still in service anywhere?” Grue asked.
“We’ll figure something out,” I replied.
The market was almost empty, an expanse of asphalt devoid of cars, surrounded by tall grass. There were still faint marks where the treads and scoops of bulldozers had pushed the dirt and debris to the far side of the lot. Only a few stalls were standing, but the displays were empty.
I felt exposed, naked. I was wearing only my old costume and the built-in makeshift skirt to cover me where the fire had eaten away at the leggings. My utility compartment was the one that had been damaged during our altercation with the Nine, holding the bare essentials, while my new mask and the upper half of my remade costume were presently being worn by the fake we’d made. The sacrifice of the costume hurt, and the process of putting the fake together hadn’t been pretty.
The head, upper body and arms were simply taken from a child’s mannequin we’d salvaged from the inside of a store display and stuffed into the top of my costume. To get the meat for the torn midsection, I’d had to use my bugs to root out and kill a raccoon from the bins of a dumpster. I’d cut it open and tied the entrails to the base of the mannequin’s torso with my spiders. A wig that vaguely matched my own hair was simply bound to the head. We soaked the body, the wig in particular, with the blood of the dead raccoon.
Bentley’s tail wagged as he carried the thing delicately in his heavy jaws, one arm and a bloody mess of hair dangling from the left side of his mouth, raccoon intestines hanging out the other.
I headed into the tall grass and hunkered down. Volumes of insects and arachnids that I’d picked up during our trek to the market settled around me, hidden at the base of the grass.
Adrenaline kept me awake, despite the fatigue that I was experiencing. It had been an intense few days, an intense few weeks, with minimal chance to rest. My body was probably struggling to heal, and draining what little reserves I had remaining. Still, I wasn’t about to doze off.
Calvert arrived after ten or fifteen minutes, pulling up with one armored van. All in all, he had only four soldiers with him. He walked within twenty feet of me as he crossed the tall grass. I was aware of his footsteps crushing my bugs as he passed over the swarm.
Oblivious, he approached Grue, Imp, Bitch and the dogs.
“Ah. You brought Skitter. It seems there’s little doubt she’s dead. A terrible shame.”
“No kidding,” Imp said.
“I’d suggest my man look over the body, verify that it was her, but I suppose there’s no point trying.”
“Bentley wouldn’t let you get that close to his treat,” Bitch said.
Bentley growled, as if he understood the words and wanted to make it absolutely clear.
“Don’t talk about her like that,” Grue said. “Calling her a treat?”
“She betrayed us,” Imp said. “Why do you care?”
“Enough,” Calvert said, his voice hard. “Enough bickering. My time is valuable, and I’m not willing to waste it on entertaining this ruse.”
I didn’t have many bugs deployed on my allies or on Calvert, but I could still feel the others tense in surprise.
“Yes, I know. I commend you for trying, I might have believed you, but I do have other resources on hand.”
“Then-” Grue started.
“Ah, bup bup,” Calvert raised a hand, “I was talking. As I was saying, I have other resources available. I have a small cadre of supervillains, a small group of heroes, all the resources of the PRT and PRT computer systems, and all of their tools.”
He snapped his fingers, and soldiers began to teleport down to the edges of the market. Most were positioned so that the Undersiders would have to run off the edge of the pavement, over the grass and into the water if they wanted to get away. Surrounding a target while holding guns only promised to get people shot. The effect, as it was, was good enough.
The Travelers teleported in behind Calvert, followed by Chariot, Circus, Über and Leet, and a few of his lieutenants. People in suits. One held a laptop while the other typed on it.
Every gun, tinker made or otherwise, was pointed at my teammates.
Another gun pressed against the back of my head. Soldiers had teleported in behind me.
I felt despair sweep through me. No. Too many. Didn’t think he could teleport this many in.
The gun barrel prodded me, and I stood. I walked with the gun pressed between my shoulderblades, just above the spot where my utility compartment hung.
“Skitter. How nice of you to join us.”
“Cut the fake civility,” I said. “Where are our teammates?”
“Regent and Tattletale are safe and locked up, rest assured. I must say, I’m quite disappointed. I really had hoped this would work out, and the loss of the Undersiders sets me back by weeks or months in the grand scheme of my plan. Imp, you can cease trying to run. My men have cameras on you,” Calvert gestured toward the laptop.
Imp moved her mask to spit on the ground, just to my right. It was a bit of a shock to find her standing there.
“Farewell, Under-“
“Wait.” I said. Raising my voice made me cough.
“I don’t see any point to waiting.”
I hurried to recover and speak before he could give the order. “Dead man’s switch.”
Calvert sighed. “Ah. You are irritating, you know? On more than one occasion, I know, you’ve argued for the sake of the greater good. I’ve viewed the recordings the PRT has of your appearances at major events and I’ve come to know you fairly well. It’s rather hypocritical that you’re now working so hard to fight against the greater good.”
“Against your rule.”
“Essentially so. If you simply would have died quietly, the Undersiders wouldn’t have been stirred to rebellion, I could have established a peace we haven’t seen since the day Scion arrived and everyone involved here could have walked away happier and healthier. Your friends included.”
“Tattletale excepted,” I responded.
“Tattletale excepted, I admit. Too dangerous to be left unchecked. A shame. Now, you were saying?”
“I arranged a dead man’s switch. Kind of. Unless one of my subordinates receives a message from me every twenty minutes, she’ll mass-send emails to everyone important and even a few unimportant people.”
“Detailing the true nature of Thomas Calvert, I suspect?”
“I hate to break it to you, dear Skitter, but this isn’t enough leverage for me to let you walk away.”
I turned my head in the direction of my teammates. With my power, I noted their presence. Grue, Imp, Bitch, her dog.
“None of us?” I asked.
“No. I’m more confident in my ability to handle the chaos that any email creates than I am in my ability to get you and your teammates under my thumb again.”
“Okay,” I said. I could feel sweat running cold down the back of my neck. “Then I have a few questions, and a couple of requests. Satisfy that, and I can disable the dead man’s switch.”
“The requests first, if you please.”
“Dinah goes free when you’re done. You don’t keep her forever.”
“My dad, you don’t touch him.”
“I haven’t and I won’t have reason to.”
“And you take care of Rachel’s dogs.”
Calvert nodded, but I could sense his patience was running out.
“You do what you can to stop Jack from doing what he can to end the world. If you have capes at your disposal, you give them some job related to that. To stopping it.”
“Fine. Is that it?”
“If none of us here get to live, at least promise Tattletale gets to.”
“Fine. That can be arranged.”
“I’ll need to see her, to verify she’s okay. I get that you can’t prove you haven’t gone after my dad in retaliation for earlier, but you can bring her here.”
Calvert nodded at Chariot, who pressed a button on his wrist.
Tattletale appeared in a flash of light, arms bound behind her, legs shackled. She wore headgear that had her blindfolded and gagged. I couldn’t quite tell, but it looked like the ears were plugged too.
“Satisfied?” Calvert asked.
“No. It could be a body double, like you arranged for me. I’d like to confirm with her.”
“No. The restraints are in place for a reason.”
“Then it’s a body double,” I said. “And I’ll let the timer run down on this damaging piece of email.”
“I’m willing to run that risk.”
“Use your power,” I told him. “I’m going to say the words rose-L. She’ll reply with something green, followed by the letter A.”
“I’m familiar with your codes.”
“Great. And if she doesn’t, shoot us. If there’s a problem, go with your other world.”
“You know how my power works?” Calvert sighed. “I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised in the end, with the name she chose. No.”
“It’s all I’m asking for. You can send your computer experts to the destination I name, they’ll check the computer memory to verify no messages were sent, check the phones of everyone on my call history that you don’t already know, and then you’ll know you’re in the clear. That’s what I’m offering you in exchange for the assurance that at least Tattletale will get to live. Peace of mind.”
“I could kill your liaison, you realize. She’s a loose end.”
I thought of Charlotte, hoped I wouldn’t regret getting her involved. “I hope you won’t. All I’ve told her is that she should await my message and send the file I composed if she doesn’t hear from me regularly. I hope you’ll let Tattletale and my civilian live, but if you won’t, if you break your word, I guess I’ll have to live with you looking a little worse in the eyes of the people who work for you. Like the Travelers.”
“Don’t bring us into this, Skitter,” Trickster said. “This is your mess. Your consequences.”
“I didn’t do anything. He was the one who turned on us first,” I protested.
I sensed Trickster turn Calvert’s way.
Calvert sighed audibly. “As Skitter knows about my power and ever so kindly revealed the broad strokes of it to everyone in earshot, I suppose there’s no loss in explaining. I tortured one member of the Undersiders for information, in another world, days ago. They revealed that you were plotting to turn on me if I refused to release Dinah. I cannot afford to release her, so my hand was forced.”
“So it’s our fault?” Imp asked.
“Ultimately, yes.”
“How did you make those body doubles? Genesis?”
“The old-fashioned way. The one that replaced you was a Sudanese child soldier. I was preparing for the eventuality of your betrayal since the day after Leviathan attacked and your… wobbly allegiances became perfectly clear. It’s amusing, but the files you stole from the PRT offices after rejoining the Undersiders supplied much of the video footage my hired experts used to coach her in the particulars of how you move and speak. When you went to convince the Mayor of our way of thinking, Trickster carried the devices Leet designed to record the particular signals you use to command your bugs.”
“Which is how you built the swarm box.”
“The Famine Engine,” Leet said.
“Any further questions?”
“Why didn’t you drop me on top of a bomb?”
“An unfortunate side effect of Leet’s power. Leet believes it was the proximity to the bomb or the particular signature of the vat of acid that made it so likely to occur, but with my power I observed that it wasn’t merely a chance that the teleportation would fail and your well-trained body double would be caught instead, but a surety. No less than twelve tries with the variables changed slightly. Leet’s power sabotages him, it seems.”
“Is that Leet’s passenger at work?”
“Passenger? Ah, that’s what Bonesaw calls the agents. Yes, I suppose that might be the case. In any event, we nearly ran out of time before verifying that guns, fire and alcohol wouldn’t skew his power. Whatever the cause of the errors was.”
“Okay. So I don’t suppose you want to let me confirm it’s Tattletale and tell you who to contact to cancel the dead man’s switch?”
“You’ve been careful every step of the way. Thinking five steps ahead, amassing resources, amassing top-notch underlings, getting us working for you, getting the Travelers. I’m surprised you’re willing to let things go ass-backwards when you’re so close to tying up the last loose end.”
“It’s precisely because I’m careful that I’m not willing to let Tattletale open her mouth and speak.”
“You’re still pretending it’s Tattletale,” I said.
“It is. I had no reason to arrange a body double for her as I did for you.”
“You had every reason. Like you said, you didn’t trust her, you couldn’t let her work unchecked, and it would have been too unusual if the two members of the Undersiders that posed the biggest threat to your goals happened to disappear at once.”
Calvert shook his head and touched fingers to his forehead, as if exasperated. “Your underling and Tattletale can live. That’s all I’m willing to offer. You’ll have to take my word on both points”
“Your word is worth nothing,” Bitch spat the words.
Calvert reacted as if he’d been slapped.
“You promised me safety, security, so long as I joined this team. I’ve never been less safe, less secure. Everybody lies through their teeth. Maybe there’s a couple of them I can stand anyways, but they’re still liars, they’ve made me a liar, and you’re the worst liar of them all. It’s fitting you wear a snake on your costume.”
“Enough,” Calvert said, “Anything more and I’ll order my men to shoot you.”
“Shoot her and you’ll never get the info you need from me,” I said.
“You’re a cheat, Coil!” Bitch barked.
“I’ll have your dogs shot if you say another word,” Calvert said.
Bitch fell silent.
Silence reigned for long seconds. I was aware of my bugs, knew that I couldn’t have them attack without us getting shot. I knew my armor was bulletproof, Bitch’s armored jacket was the same way, but the thinner fabric, or a bullet through the lens or eyehole of a mask? There were a lot of soldiers here. Even if the suits could stop the bullets from penetrating, we could be pulverized anyways.
I heard a wave crash against the shore, not far away. Long seconds passed.
“If it settles the matter, then fine,” Calvert said. He signaled Chariot.
Another Tattletale appeared. She dropped to her knees the second she materialized. She wore a similar headset and bindings.
“Free her mouth and one ear. Be ready to gag her again the second she speaks.”
One of his soldiers approached the kneeling Tattletale. He undid the gag and freed her ear of the plug that was held in place with wire.
“Rose-L,” I called out.
“Stringbean-A,” she replied. She grunted as the soldier forced the gag back into her mouth.
“She gets to live,” I told Calvert. “If nothing else, you guys are going to need her help to figure out how Jack Slash ends the world in twenty-three months.”
“It’s amusing,” Calvert said, “That you keep asking me for things I was already prepared to do. You wanted me to improve the city, to restore it to a working state. Already planned. And this? Killing Tattletale was never in the cards. I intend to keep her like I do my pet. Her power will be invaluable. Rest assured, I will offer every bit of assistance I can when the end of the world approaches.”
“I suppose it was too much to expect that you’d let her go,” I said. My heart pounded in my chest. I wasn’t exactly feeling top-notch, so simply standing was feeling like a bit of a challenge. Fighting back, acting? No. No use. “Her name is Charlotte. She’s staying in the red brick house a block to the east of my dad’s place. She has a laptop, but she doesn’t know what I put on it.”
“Very well. Men? Ready-“
“-You’re not going to check?”
“Calvert!” I said, “Coil!”
The sound of the gunshots was deafening, debilitating when I was already missing my sense of sight, my bugs not present enough to give me a sense of the surroundings. I sensed Grue get hit, then Bentley… I took one in the stomach and folded over.
When the smoke cleared, for lack of a better term, we were still standing. There was the sound of a few isolated scuffles in the ranks of the soldiers. My bugs moved to the ends of gun barrels and to the soldiers themselves, noting their postures and positions.
Roughly half of the soldiers that surrounded us were holding the other half hostage. A few had managed to get shots off, but a quick feel-around with my bugs verified that nobody had been hurt enough to be knocked to the ground. Most of the bullets had gone over our heads.
“What is this?” Calvert asked. “Travelers-“
“Don’t do a thing, Travelers,” Grue boomed out, in his eerie, hollow voice. “Someone remove Tattletale’s bindings.”
One of the soldiers approached Tattletale and began undoing the restrictive binding. She wobbled slightly as she stood, working her jaw in the absence of the gag.
“Glad to see the stringbean plan worked out in the end,” she said. “Those of you I haven’t been in contact with, please hear me out. I’m paying twice what Calvert is for a year’s salary, and I’m paying it all upfront. Look to the other team captains if you don’t believe me. Fish, Minor, Richards, Meck, I’ve talked to them, and they’ve agreed.”
There was a slight shift in the tension among the soldiers. The ones at gunpoint began slowly lowering their weapons, and the ones holding them there similarly let it calm a notch.
“Lies,” Calvert said. There was an uncharacteristic degree of emotion in his voice. “I’ve tracked your funding. I know exactly how much money you have.”
“Not exactly. See, I revealed this to my team, just a little while ago, but I’ve sort of been skimming.”
“From me?”
“A bit. Not as much as you’d think. You keep good accounts. But our targets? For sure. Like, we go rob the Brockton Bay central bank, and maybe I skip off for five minutes to go visit the CEO’s room, use his computer to get access to more funds, and shift them into a personal account. Or I keep a few of the more valuable pieces of paperwork, or I pocket something expensive during a job. Funny thing about a power like mine, it helps me figure out what I can get away with.”
“You haven’t taken enough to pay twice what I can.”
“You’d be surprised. And some of your assets are in a position to be picked up by yours truly. Safe deposit boxes and safes don’t mean much against me. So that’s a bit more funding of yours that I can borrow to pay these guys. A year up front, and I’m not asking them to do a single thing. Most of them, anyways. I’m just asking that they ship out of Brockton Bay or they stay on the down-low.”
“I’ll pay triple,” Calvert said.
“You can’t pay triple,” Tattletale said, stretching as the chains around her wrists and ankles were undone. “You’ve dented your coffers too much with the city revitalization. Didn’t help that you paid such an exorbitant sum to the Dragonslayers for the information they were offering.”
“That was your idea.”
“Yeah,” Tattletale said. “You were desperate enough to deal with the Dragon threat before your big show at the debate that you didn’t make too big an issue of it. Either way, you forgot the cardinal rule of employing mercenaries. They follow the person with the money.”
“I didn’t forget,” Calvert said, “I had that in mind every step of the way. I was exceedingly careful of how much funding I provided.”
“Okay,” Tattletale sounded almost chirpy. “But you didn’t account for the possibility that I was picking up as much on my own as I was.”
Calvert made a noise that was a borderline snarl.
“Undersiders,” Trickster said. “This goes no further. Call it a stalemate, but we need his assistance.”
“Calvert’s lying, you know,” Tattletale said. “He can maybe help you, but he can’t help Noelle. None of the plans he’s been talking about will work, and he knows they won’t work. He wants Noelle for entirely different reasons. He thinks he can get her on a leash, so he’s got firepower even if he gets rid of the supervillains working under him. A threat that only the great PRT leader Thomas Calvert can address.”
“I’d rather see the truth of that for myself. You touch him and we kill you.”
“You guys aren’t wearing the same kind of durable costume we are,” Tattletale said. “If you want to make a point of it, my soldiers can gun you down.”
“I can swap your group with mine the second the gunshots happen,” Trickster replied, unfazed. “You don’t want to do that.”
I tried to speak, coughed once instead. When I finally had my voice, I said, “Ballistic. Sundancer. Any other Traveler with doubts, I know you guys aren’t happy with the status quo. If you want to stop running, stop moving constantly and move to Brockton Bay permanently, we’ll have you. We need you, even.”
A long pause stretched out, then Ballistic stepped forward.
“Hey, man,” Trickster said. “No.”
“I’m done. This was a doomed quest from the start,” Ballistic said. He stopped at Grue’s side, turned around to face his teammates.
“Sundancer?” I asked. “You said before that you were lonely, that all of this was too intense for you. Even the stuff I’ve done, it didn’t sit right with you. I get that. Don’t you want to stop? To say goodbye to this life?”
Trickster looked at Sundancer, “Mars.”
She shook her head. “No. No, Skitter. I’m staying. Don’t have another choice.”
“Genesis?”
She was in the form of a girl, but wore a simple mask. “Someone’s got to stay and be a real leader to this team. No. I’m standing by Trickster.”
“Teleport me to safety,” Calvert said. “Escort me away, and everything I have is yours.”
“Everything you have is mine already,” Tattletale cut in. “You’ve been dethroned, C-man. I’m going to rule as the mastermind behind the scene in Brockton Bay, organize the territories, pay the bills. My partners will see to the territories themselves. I suppose I won’t be head of the PRT, but I’m suspicious we’ll be able to work out a truce of sorts with the good guys. Hopefully we’ll get someone more sensible than Piggot and less shady than you.”
“Trickster,” Calvert said. “I can put you in touch with the woman who can cure her. Someone who knows as much or more about Parahumans than anyone on the planet. It won’t be free, but I can subsidize the costs. But I have to be alive to-“
Trickster collapsed to the ground. Sundancer and Genesis turned, confused, and Ballistic caught Genesis with a spray of pellets. She dissipated into gory wisps of whatever substance formed her body.
Sundancer was only just creating her sun when she collapsed as well. I could see Imp bending over, prodding the bodies. Über, Leet and Chariot backed away as guns turned to point at them.
“Anyone who shoots one of the Undersiders will receive one million dollars!” Calvert shouted.
I waited for the inevitable bullet. It didn’t come.
“Skitter and I had a little talk,” Tattletale said. “Way back when the city had been freshly sieged by the Endbringer and rejoining the team wasn’t even a consideration. I raised the idea of going after you, of taking you down. We knew that if you were going to let down your guard, if you were going to slip up at all, it would be when you were closest to achieving your goals.”
Calvert only glared.
“If you made any one mistake, it was keeping me at your base towards the end of the fiasco with the Nine. The problem with keeping your friends close and your enemies closer? It puts your enemies in the midst of your friends, so they can discuss better means of payment with the right team captains. Or they can maybe arrange to put something in Noelle’s vault during one of the feeding times, a few fire alarms with a low battery, tucked in where the door meets the wall. Irritate her, so she’s awake that much more, and she then costs you sleep.”
“That metaphor fell apart,” Imp commented.
Tattletale shrugged. “Not so much a metaphor, but I got off track.”
“Pettiness,” Calvert said.
“Strategic. Lots of little things add up. Seeding doubts. Making you second guess plans. Keep you up at night wondering, planning just a bit more, in both your realities. You were too focused on the big picture, on the thing I could find out, keeping me off-balance, that you missed out on my ability to see the little things, to exploit them. And it wore on you. You didn’t realize how much, but it did, and maybe that’s why you were that much more susceptible to making the critical mistake here.”
“Damn you,” Calvert said.
“But you made the mistake we needed you to make, using your power here, while you were talking to us. There’s no escape routes, now. The only loyalty you have is bought with coin, and I have more cash than you do.”
“Then send me to the Birdcage and be done with it,” Calvert said.
“To jail?” Tattletale asked. “No, no no no. I know you have contingency plans. Arrangements. We send you to prison and someone breaks you out before you get there.”
I took a step forward, then made myself take another.
“It doesn’t have to be you,” Tattletale told me.
“No,” I told her. “I think it does.”
Calvert turned my way, let his head sink back so it rested against the ground. “So it comes down to this.”
I thought of the countless lives I’d put at risk, if not directly, then indirectly: the ABB blowing up parts of the city, the ensuing gang war, Purity leveling buildings because she blamed us for the loss of her daughter.
There was the fat superhero I’d left to die when the tidal wave was incoming. I recalled leaving the dying Merchant to bleed out when I’d rescued Bryce from the merchant’s festival of blood. There were the people in my territory, the old doctor who’d had her throat cut because I hadn’t realized Mannequin was close until it was too late. The gas attack that killed nearly twenty people and the fires Burnscar had set in my territory, both because I’d provoked them and failed to consider how readily they’d go after the vulnerable point that was all the people I’d been trying to protect.
I remembered trying to kill Mannequin with grenades, going all-out in attempting to end a man’s life. A madman, a monster, but it was what it was.
And, much more recently, there was the case of me bringing Triumph so close to death that he’d needed life support.
I’d come to terms with so much of that by telling myself it was leading to this. I’d known deep down it would happen. That my fight against Calvert would have to end here.
I walked forward until Calvert was beneath me. I drew my gun, checked there was ammo in the clip.
“You’re not a killer,” Calvert said.
“No…” I replied. I couldn’t see, so I screwed my eyes closed, felt the moisture of tears threatening to spill forth. I took in a deep breath.
“…But I suppose, in a roundabout way, you made me into one,” I finished. I aimed the gun and fired.
The gun dropped from my hand as the recoil jarred it. It clattered to the pavement. It was quiet enough that I could only hear the ocean water crashing against the shore, just off the beach.
As an afterthought, I kicked the gun a distance away from where Calvert lay. Not that there was much point. I tried to learn from my mistakes.
I felt Tattletale’s arm settle around my shoulders. “We’re done. This is over.”
“The Travelers will be pissed. I can’t- we can’t kill them,” I said.
“We won’t. They’ll move on. They have no more reason to stay.”
Grue stepped around my left side, bent down, took Calvert’s cell phone from the man’s belt and then tossed it to Tattletale. As Tattletale withdrew her arm from my shoulders, he stepped forward to give me a hug. “Let’s go.”
I nodded into his shoulder.
We turned away. With my swarm sense I was able to recognize Minor, Tattletale’s man, helmetless, opening the doors of one van for us. I took a seat.
It wasn’t Tattletale or Grue that sat down beside me, but Rachel. She took my hand in hers, held it fiercely. I wasn’t sure what to make of it, so I simply accepted it.
We stopped at Coil’s underground base. Tattletale’s underground base. It was a relief to escape the silence of the van, surreal to be in the dim noise of downtown again. Much of the area still lacked power, but there were the noises of the occasional car, of people clamoring on the bottom floor of an apartment building. City noises.
“You okay?” Grue asked.
“More bothered by the fact that I’m not bothered,” I said. I knew how little sense I was making, but I didn’t feel like elaborating.
“But you’re okay?”
I nodded, coughed fiercely for a few seconds.
“Our next stop after this is the hospital.”
“Okay,” I agreed.
As it had been at sunset, the base was empty. The metal walkway sang with my footsteps as I walked to the far end of the complex. I stopped at a door without a handle.
“Here,” Tattletale said. She held Calvert’s cell phone. Held it up and pressed a sequence of buttons.
The door clicked open. I forced my fingers into the gap and hauled it open. Heavy and metal.
There was one more door, one with a key lock. Tattletale stepped over to the desk and got the key, opened it.
Dinah was inside with an unassuming man in a turtleneck sweater and corduroy pants.
“Go,” Tattletale told the man. “Your boss is dead. Just go.”
He fled.
“I’m going to get Regent,” she said. “Think we’ll leave Shatterbird in her soundproof cage for now, just to be safe.”
I nodded absently. I was holding on to Grue for support, watched as Dinah stood from the bed and slowly approached.
Her voice was barely above a whisper as she stared down at the ground between us, “I’ve been waiting for this for so very long.”
It didn’t sound like an accusation. More the words of someone who had been forced to watch the clock for days, weeks, months. Anticipating a possible moment that might never come.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I’m sorry it took so long.”
She shook her head, “I’m the one who’s sorry, you were trying hard and I set you up, so you’d go the way where your friends tried to kill you. I shouldn’t have-“
“Hey, it’s okay. It offered us the best chances in the end, right?”
She bobbed her head in a nod.
A second later, she was running to me, wrapping her arms around my midsection. I winced in pain as her forehead banged against my chest.
“Medical care,” Grue said.
“For both of us,” I replied. “Dinah and me.”
As a trio, we stepped out onto the walkway, where Tattletale and Regent should have been waiting.
But I could see Regent at the end of the walkway, and Tattletale wasn’t with him. She was hurrying down the spiral stairs just to Regent’s left.
I leaned over the walkway, as much as I was able with the pain in my chest and Dinah clinging to my midsection. My eyes went wide. A moment later, I was hurrying after Tattletale, holding Dinah’s hand in one of my own and Grue’s elbow in the other.
We stopped when we reached Tattletale. She stood facing the vault door. The one that was used to seal Noelle within.
There were two vault doors, one set behind the other, and both were ruined, the one closest to us nearly folded in half, hanging by one hinge.
“A final act of spite,” Tattletale said. She looked at the phone in her hand. “He made sure she heard our conversation.”
“You didn’t notice?”
“He was using his ability to create alternate worlds to throw my power for a bit of a loop. I was more focused on the possibility that he had a loyal soldier in the ranks or a sniper waiting in the distance, ready to take a shot at one of us.”
The odor that wafted from the open vault was like sweat and rotten meat. It was dark. Nothing about it gave the sense of a teenage girl’s living space.
“On a scale of one to ten,” I asked, “Just how bad is this?”
“Let me answer your question with another question,” Tattletale said. “You think we could convince the PRT to turn on the air raid sirens?”
This entry was posted in 16.13 and tagged Über, Ballistic, Bastard, Bentley, Bitch, Chariot, Circus, Coil, Genesis, Grue, Imp, Leet, Regent, Sundancer, Tattletale, Taylor, Trickster by wildbow. Bookmark the permalink.
188 thoughts on “Monarch 16.13”
mc2rpg on January 5, 2013 at 00:11 said:
“Mm,” he said, “I remember.”
“I’m thinking. Stay quiet for a second. You,” he pointed at me, “Should lean back and make sure you’re breathing deep. Even if it hurts.”
In this little bit Taylor asked why he asked right? It just seems awkward for him to be addressing her about staying quiet, and then to point out he was adressing her for leaning back. That might just be in my head though.
wildbow on January 5, 2013 at 00:17 said:
Rewrote for clarity. I think some of that might have been a small editing snafu.
endochrom on January 5, 2013 at 00:21 said:
Wow, the Undersiders now control the city’s underworld… nominally speaking. I’m guessing Noelle is gonna turn out just as dangerous as any Endbringer. Can’t wait for the next chapter!
This is the last chapter of the arc. Coming up next is the event week.
I meant the next arc.
Which I cannot wait for.
dreamfarer on January 5, 2013 at 00:32 said:
Wow! That was an amazing chapter! Once again, did not see any of that coming, and yet it all fits so perfectly,
Noelle on the loose is a pretty terrifying setup for the next chapter, but the bit that hit me the most? Bitch grabbing Taylor’s hand after the final showdown. That one sentence spoke volumes and was pitch perfect for the moment.
dubloe7 on December 25, 2013 at 02:44 said:
As soon as it looked like Taylor convinced Coil to use his power, I knew they were going to at least TRY to kill him, I just couldn’t come up with any of the specifics.
Three Lefts Make a Right on January 5, 2013 at 00:36 said:
Very good chapter. Noelle is finally out, time to see what she can do.
taliesinskye on January 5, 2013 at 05:30 said:
I’m wondering if she’s related to the Endbringers (an Endbringer herself) or if she’s just a scary uncontrolled powerset.
Given that Leviathan was revealed to have never been human, I think it’s the latter.
Individuo on January 5, 2013 at 00:43 said:
After the event week, the shitstorm will be a sight to see.
What do we know about Noelle powers?
Matthew on January 5, 2013 at 04:45 said:
Some kind of brute/breaker/changer combo, most likely, has something to do with cannibalism, and Dinah reckoned she could fight the Siberian toe-to-toe and live, which should tell you all you need to know.
Mr Walaa on January 5, 2013 at 00:44 said:
Damm the suspense just dos not stop.
Gleam on January 5, 2013 at 00:46 said:
What happened to Chariot, Circus, Uber and Leet?
Reveen on January 5, 2013 at 01:00 said:
I’m abit more confused what happened to the other Travelers. It says they’re alive, so Did Ballistic figure out how to reduce the velocity of his projectiles, or was he using rubber rounds or something?
I’d feel pretty bad if Genesis and Sundancer ended up dead. Not so much Trickster, screw that guy.
Is genesis dead? I thought ballistic just destroyed her temporary body. I didn’t realize Sundancer was dead Thought she was just knocked out I agree that is a shame. Besides those three who is left?
Sundancer was tased. Genesis had a ‘walking body’ and simply had her created body destroyed.
Held at gunpoint. Briefly mentioned.
Around the time the Undersiders were surrounded with by soldiers and villains I was very seriously considering the idea that this might have all been one giant ruse. That this was the final chapter of the story, with a bunch of little epilogues for event week. I didn’t think it was likely, but it seemed possible that everyone would die there.
Pinkhair on January 5, 2013 at 00:51 said:
I’ll admit that the thought crossed my mind as well. Also, the thought that Coil might be the actual ‘Worm’ of the title.(It is interesting how many worms dragons and snakes and wyrms taylor fights…)
Well, that says a lot for the suspense of the moment, there, when you really truly believe that the protagonists could bite the dust.
Kagedviper on January 5, 2013 at 07:58 said:
The best protagonists die.
Kim on January 7, 2013 at 10:22 said:
How nordic
Hexa on July 4, 2016 at 11:22 said:
Sadly, that only really works when you can’t tell if it’s the end: reading later I was certain that at least Taylor would survive for the remaining arcs. I suppose it’s a major advantage of serials, to have that option (though other mediums could do it at the end of a book/film/whatever).
Also, if it had ended there, the event arc would have needed a MASSIVE amount of plot advancement if it wanted to resolve some of the Entity-Cauldron-Scion-endbringer mess.
Jeytrops on October 12, 2017 at 21:56 said:
To be fair, Wildbow rolled dice to see if people would live from the Levaithan fight. Including Taylor. So it wouldn’t have been out of character
Absolutely amazing. They were incredibly lucky- but they made enough of their own luck the hard way to… Oh man, this was just great. And then that ending. You’ve answered the question, “What do you get the reader who has everything?” in a few lines.
“The Famine Engine,” Leet said. “Whatever.” Perfect.
“It’s fitting you wear a snake on your costume.”” I love when Rachel bursts out with comments like that. They are much more powerful coming from her.
Is tomorrow part of event week? Or does it start monday?
Starts Tuesday.
Damali on January 5, 2013 at 00:56 said:
This chapter feels a bit rushed. The only one who did any good here was Bitch. So glad she told Coil about himself, got it where he hurts. Skitter talks too much sometimes. Like someone you once trusted is attempting to kill you for the second time that day, and that’s what you say to them? Calmly managing your affairs? Weird to me her insistence to get the real tattletale especially since she/we didn’t know tattletale’s plan? Or did she? And the thing with Bitch, telling her to feel free to keep her dogs in an attack position if it makes her feel better. That sounds so….I dunno. But I’m really tired of skitter being seriously injured and still running around trying to save the world. The whole Dinah affair feels a bit hollow to me. What about her Dad? She’s always choosing something else over her dad. So much to say, can’t even think of it all. But I do very much love Bitch.
Don on January 5, 2013 at 05:31 said:
http://www.oddityjournal.com/2012/04/survival-stories.html
It happens in real life, too.
I really can imagine this happening as it does. With the people saying the things they do, and doing the things they do, given the circumstances. It’s actually pretty amazing how consistently these characters are drawn, imo.
I’m putting some of Skitter’s perpetual calm down to side-effects of her Thinker power, like the shift in personality between Taylor and Skitter (though Taylor hasn’t been appearing much lately, uncostumed Skitter has been more common. Well, apart from the major events with Brian and her father, anyway).
I’d feel bad about Skitter ending up killing someone, but the words “child soldier” kind of nix that.
And honestly, the way he plotted everything, backed his enemies into a corner, and the way he was hoodwinked by Tattletale there’s no real way he could have lost the gambit and kept his head. H brought this all on himself, and it didn’t matter who eventually pulled the trigger.
Rest in piece, you rat bastard.
You really think Coil is dead?
Anzer'ke on January 5, 2013 at 08:41 said:
Yeah, the bit about him torturing one of the Undersiders was the end point for him.
Grue, Skitter and Bitch would have given him nothing. Tattletale would only have given him false info. Assuming he’s at least part way to sociopathic Regent would also have been a dead end.
Which leaves one member who we know is much less smart when heavily wounded. And as tough as she acts, Imp is their youngest member…torturing her is unforgivable.
Hobbes on January 5, 2013 at 10:56 said:
If Regent’s a sociopath, which he pretty much is, he would feel no remorse over turning on his teammates. But Coil probably wasn’t willing to take that chance, and tortured Imp instead. She’s less likely to use her power to escape, too.
True sociopathy is often associated with a great deal of resistance to pain, the same brain chemistry that nulls empathetic reactions makes such people extremely hard to torture.
Furthermore remorse is not a factor, which is different from it simply being absent. We know Regent values his teammates and will put himself at risk for them. Thus we can safely assume that his actions are drive by something other then whether or not he will feel bad over them getting hurt.
End result, torturing him would be ineffective, he doesn’t want to give them away and wouldn’t be as…duressed by the pain as a normal person.
celer on January 5, 2013 at 20:26 said:
If psycopathy is innate, not learned, and Regent really was psychologically damaged by Heartbreaker to the point that he started exhibiting psycopathic tendencies, then he might not have the pain resistance.
Dread Pirate on July 9, 2017 at 15:01 said:
Specifically, Regent seems to be a sociopath, not a psychopath. Same inability to feel guilt, but still capable of forming bonds and even feeling love and friendship. I don’t know if sociopaths are resistant to pain, but the condition is similar enough to psycopathy I’d be inclined to guess they share the pain resistance.
Innate doesn’t match psych damage. However this is a point, though in any case the emotional deadening could easily also come with something like that, what’s more remember how he mentioned his own sensations seeming distant after how hedonistic he once was.
On a side note his current interests (art etc) struck me as a fascinating take on this. Akin to the evolution from lower to higher pleasures discussed in Mill’s expansion on hedonic calculus, it suggests that Regent responded to the deadening of base joys by seeking (on some level) more cerebral pursuits which would remain open to him.
This makes me wonder how many other times he did horrible things in his other timeline, killing Taylor’s dad, killing Rachel’s dogs etc. While whatever he did never technically “happened” the nature of his powers means that he’s still the same person who tortured a teenager for information.
I’m a bit disappointed that Calvert’s wasn’t outed to the heroes, but there’s still time for that. With Coil’s resources and Tattletale’s general contempt for secrecy she should probably lift the fog of war on the Siders scary rep before things get more out of hand.
Well, once Noelle is stopped, anyway.
Bluekazoo on January 5, 2013 at 20:44 said:
I thought this point was well-made during one of the bonus chapters from Coil’s perspective. In it, if you’ll recall, Coil starts a reality in which he kills the not-so-good doctor, simply because he can. It was written to suggest that this was how Coil ‘relaxed’. Any possibility of him being anything but a psycho pretty much went out the window after that, in my mind.
Now I’m wondering whether he was always this way, or if he’s like Bitch or Burnscar in that the nature of his powers changed the way his mind works.
The ability to do whatever horrible things you want in a separate reality and collapse it with no remaining damage and consequences might turn any of us into a monster. It makes too much sense considering how ultimately willing he is to throw lives away like they’re nothing.
Psycho Gecko on January 5, 2013 at 20:57 said:
Regarding psychopathy, I’m just gonna leave this here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUsGDVOCLVQ
Loki-L on January 5, 2013 at 01:14 said:
Well, that didn’t go at all like I expected.
Now Taylor who wanted to be superhero is a killer. It might have been necessary, but it doesn’t stop the fact that she killed in cold blood. It is a major turning point.
If words get out that she killed the new PRT-director she will have a hard time ever getting one of the good guys or neutral to cooperate with her ever again.
Also since Tattletale expects to rule from the shadows, they will need a face to present as the leader of the underworld to the outside world. Skitter recently got promoted to team leader by Grue so that means, she will likely become the one everyone thinks is running things.
On the plus side, she seems to finally be bonding with bitch and Dinah is free and everyone she cares about appears to be safe for now except for that thing with Noelle going on a killing spree.
On the minus side Coil was part of Cauldron’s plan and they are going to be upset about this. They might use their influence to at least discredit her if they don’t simply send in A-List capes to deal with her.
From the perspective of an outside Skitter has since her début dealt with rival gang leaders like Lung in a brutal way, and chased the remaining gangs out of town. She was involved in the downfall of Armsmaster, Glorygirl, Panacea, Shadowstalker and will probably get Blamed for some deaths like Battery. Her attack against Triumph in his civilian identity combined with her previous infractions against the code also will count against her. Add in her abduction of one PRT-Director and her assassination of her successor and you don’t really get a pretty picture.
Getting the good guys help for whatever is going on with Noelle and dealing with Jack’s end of the world and the Endbringers will be hard. Once she finds out that the major heroes are under control or part of a sinister organisation that she has to confront she will get a real PR problem for who would support notorious Evil Villain Skitter against the good guys….
To be fair getting the good guys to help with Noelle should actually be pretty easy. She is going to be running around eating people all over the place, the heroes HAVE to try to stop her, and if she is as dangerous as people keep saying she is they will end up taking any help they can get. They already have experience allying with villains, they are sure to do it again if things get bad enough.
TheAnt on January 5, 2013 at 01:18 said:
Oh the irony of how he died. So Skitter is officially a killer, but the scum sucker more than deserved it. Bitch is her wonderful self, with a huge step of holding Taylor’s hand in comfort. Now they have to deal with someone who A. Eats people, B. The Endbringers specifically targeted to cause widespread death/destruction and C. Is VERY pissed off. I like that Dinah knew very well who did so much for her. If she ever joins the PRT, she will have an interesting relationship with the criminals of Brockton Bay.
Hydrargentium on January 7, 2013 at 11:02 said:
You mean: B. The Slaughterhouse Nine specifically targeted….
Both the Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse Nine sought her out. Crawler’s motivations were fairly clear, but Leviathan’s, maybe a little less so.
Hmmm, must have missed that in all the chaos.
Someone (Coil?) mentioned a bit after the event that Leviathan came close to breaking Noelle out before Scion turned up.
So while it could have been a coincidence that Leviathan headed for her; probability, plot, and the author just above suggest otherwise.
Easy to miss though, since it was only mentioned a bit later.
Yog on January 5, 2013 at 01:35 said:
First of all, they should have shot him first, then monologued (to his subordinates or themselves) later – like he did to Skitter.
Secondly – I really, really hope and pray that he’s dead and IS GOING TO STAY DEAD.
Tattletale had to make sure that both realities synced up.
This is especially worrying since it goes against the Evil Overlord List rules but also because as Terry Prarchett wrote:
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat.
They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
In their defence they had to talk everyone else around first and skitter probably had to psych herself up for it and lets not forget Coil’s power.
Once he was trapped with both realities in a timeline without an escape all he could do is try to shift things around and create splits to ensure that he survived longer. In one timeline he would say things and in another he would stay silent and every time one of them ended with him getting killed he created another split. The final actual timeline is the one where he lived the longest and he was probably still splitting timelines as she fired in hopes that one of them would miss.
You’d think it’d be more impressive to put a sword into a stone than it would to pull one out.
deuseldorf on January 5, 2013 at 19:23 said:
Swords aren’t that sharp. I’m way more impressed with Merlin putting it in compared to Arthur puling it out.
Ah, any man properly equipped can put it in. It takes a will of iron to pull out.
It’s like the entendre split into two, doubled if you will, right before my eyes.
Um the Muse on January 7, 2013 at 17:49 said:
Not that hard. Just pour cement around the sword and there you go.
I wonder why nobody tried to break the stone, though.
Because it was God-ian, not Gordian, and Arthur, not Alexander….
Also, the sword was driven through, not cleaving through.
Excellent point. No possible way he could have escaped.
If only he had a history of using nigh-perfect body doubles or something… 😉
(Not that I expect that’s actually happened, but with Coil, who knows?)
For the people doubting that he is dead, he absolutely has to be. If Coil had an alternate timeline where he was still alive he would have defaulted over to it, and so this entire event wouldn’t have happened. He already used his body double and my suspension of disbelief would be absolutely shattered if Tattletale didn’t check the body to be absolutely sure it was him. It doesn’t make sense for him to still be alive.
I’m not thinking alternative timelines or body doubles. I’m thinking bonesaw-like bodymods. We already know that he has some – he wasn’t bothered by spider poison at all, after all.
But yes, it would be very irritating.
The resistance to spider poison was good ‘ol horse serum.
Even if he had bodymods that let him survive a gunshot to the head, surely Tattletale will check his corpse.
MrMoray on January 5, 2013 at 02:38 said:
He’s gone. And what’s this? A new codicil in his last will and testament? His body is to be catapulted into the town of Ellsworth instead of buried with honors? Sounds appropriate. 🙂
And then Nilbog had alternate timelines! Huzzah!
Skitter popped a cap in Coil’s crown. I don’t think there’s any way of stealing Coil’s power now. Even Bonesaw needs the brain fairly intact to Tinker with.
ironfalconlives on January 5, 2013 at 05:06 said:
maybe glaistig uaine could do something with that mess, if only she was free.
anonymus on January 5, 2013 at 11:27 said:
just gonna say “Amy/Panacea”
Now that I think about it, I can’t help but wonder if Dinah is even going to want to go back to her parents. She couldn’t convince them she had a power, and they couldn’t protect her when Coil came calling. Skitter is a pretty big heroic figure for her right now, especially when you consider just how long Dinah has known she was her only hope for freedom. I can very easily see Dinah latching onto Skitter as a protector/parent/sister figure and not wanting to leave her.
eduardo on January 5, 2013 at 02:50 said:
I agree, this is quite possible.
Well there is the fact that she is also still a drug addict. Hopefully she can use her powers to realize that her own chances of survival are better if she kicks the habit, but addicts are not always rational, she might very well choose to go where there is the highest chance of getting more ‘candy’.
There is also the danger that in another extreme situation Skitter might be forced to use her like Coil used her. If there is another attack by an Endbringer or somebody like the nine or even Noelle if it gets bad enough. Skitter might have to pressure Dinah to use her powers even if it hurts her ‘for the greater good’.
Then again, if Dinah is smart enough she might even look at the really big picture and try to figure out which move was better not just for herself but also for the world. If staying and supporting the Undersiders will affect the end of the world she might go for that.
Depends on what happened to her parents. But yeah I can see her deciding to stay at least for a little while. I can’t wait to see where we go next after Noelle. Will they join Dragon in hunting the 9 to save the world? How will the Undersiders rule the city now that they are in charge? How will the heroes/world react to them now? WIll Taylor ever tell her Dad? Will Cauldron decide to seek revenge of some kind? The fact that Taylor has finally killed someone, and felt no real difference is a big step. A Skitter who isn’t afraid to kill is a very scary proposition.
So Dinah will feel much safer with her.
Well, so when Coil teleported the real Tatetale in, he lost. I could bet that Taylor’s dad is dead or about to die, after all, Coil can make his own dead man switch.
Trickster gained the title of most stupid ever.
Gnarker on January 5, 2013 at 03:03 said:
Magnificiently played, Tattle. Stealing out his city and private army from right under his nose. Looks like there will be a new Director needed.
About Noelle, I take it her running free qualifies as something like an Endbringer Level Event?
Sure seems like team-ups between Heroes and Villains are becoming something of a common occurence in Brockton Bay.
You know, I think the Undersiders would do well to publicly announce that Coil was Calvert. Ideally provide some proof (account information, timeline of his locations, this kind of corroborating stuff).
They shouldn’t tell that he was killed, but instead tell that he escaped and is at large. That he tried to double-cross them (and broke the Rules), and that they are exposing him as the retaliation.
Aw man, I liked Coil, he was a magnificent bastard and grandmaster of the Xanatos Gambit, unfortunately Tattletale plays Xanatos Speed Chess.
Tattletale is so dangerous because she can play Xanatos Speed Chess as well as the more sedate regular variety, in addition to having super information gathering to work with.
Interestingly, there’s virtually no limit to what Tattletale and Dinah could accomplish together. And no limit whatsoever to what they could accomplish if they got working with Dragon.
Add in Skitter and these four are ludicrously difficult to deal with.
Skitter-Rapid fire planning and adaptation.
Tattletale and Dinah-Absolute information capacity.
Dragon-Global scale manipulation.
You forgot Skitters field coordination capabilities.
As long as you’re within her range, you got GPS’ older brother, near perfect scouting, and multitasking mission control all together on a line that’s very difficult to intercept.
Starry Sky on January 5, 2013 at 05:47 said:
Coil was definitely a bastard, but really, there really wasn’t anything magnificent about him. Quite frankly, he had all the charisma of a wet blanket.
Guy had style though, and smarts, and fractal plans-within-plans and all that goodness that a decent mastermind villain should have. I’m fine with him dying though, especially as Taylor was the one who pulled the trigger, which just cements Worm as the Breaking Bad of superhero stories.
Skitter – The One Who Knocks
Coil may be a mastermind, but his plans were a little worm out at the end.
Couldn`t resist this one.
Punk ass Coil didn’t even know any Latin.
Canis Canem Edit, bitch.
Korakys on February 8, 2016 at 02:01 said:
I liked his character too. If you removed his oddly written and jarring kick-the-puppy moments (shooting his PRT captain, torturing people in his false realities, giving children to that paedophile employee) that seemed tacked on and apart from the thing with Dinah which was just a bit over the line he came across to me as a good guy. I kept expecting to reveal a grand plan in which he does become the ruling cape of Brockton Bay and does actually clean up the city and then tries to woo other cities to his authority. Seems like there would be a lot easier ways of becoming PRT director and then forging control over the gangs from that position, I mean that sometimes happens in real life doesn’t it?
Oh well I like where Skitter’s story is going now, the threat escalation is getting kind of ridiculous and unrelenting though. I’m kind of expecting all 3 Endbringers to show up at the same time soon, or Skitter fights Scion in a one-on-one duel, on a ship, in the middle of the ocean, while chained up.
… In a vacuum, with Shamrock and Simurgh on the other side, and a time limit to the end of the multiverse.
Not that Taylor is one (though Skitter occasionally gets close), but imagine a Wormverse cape called Mary Sue who’s powers are to never make a mistake (other that grammar) and to draw attention.
acediamonds on January 5, 2013 at 05:44 said:
Well damn, this is the reason why all the characters in the interludes are more worried about Tattletale than Skitter. She fucked up Coil’s shit pretty badly and did it so cleanly Coil hadn’t suspected a thing until it happened.
It was a nice touch that Taylor was the one that pulled the trigger. Tattletale wouldn’t have come up with the plan if it wasn’t for Taylor anyway. It’s a line she can’t uncross and it’d be interesting to see how this will effect her in the long run.
Cool to see Bitch softening up finally, all Taylor’s work on befriending her wasn’t wasted.
Now that Coil’s dead, I wonder how that’s going to effect this end of the world thing. He was apparently their only hope and now he’s dead.
But yeah, awesome update.
Dis on January 7, 2013 at 21:27 said:
Coil was Cauldron’s only hope, but Cauldron wanted to make sure Jack could leave the city so…
The whole thing is suspect, basically.
Well, to be clear, Cauldron wanted Shatterbird and Siberian to leave the city, not necessarily Jack.
Indigo on January 5, 2013 at 06:48 said:
Coil is dead that’s good, Noelle is out that’s bad.
Don’t know if it’s still around at this point, but “Cut the fake civility,” I said. Where are our teammates?”
missing a quotation mark there.
Very interesting chapter. Good job at the credible death attempt. And I’m tempted to say Coil is really dead. After all this time, the speculation on how to kill Coil missed this possibility. At least we were right on how bad it is to fry your own mercenaries and expect them to stay especially loyal to you. Not sure if that comment I made on that actually got past moderation, but whatever. I don’t make a big deal over those.
Because money is a powerful motivator, sure, but it’s a loyalty that can be bought, ESPECIALLY if the boss might just kill one of them when a plan starts to go sour. You want expendable minions, you have to make sure they’re willing to give their life for you. They damn sure know you can’t spend a dime when you’re dead. And for mercenaries, you can’t rely on fear if love fails because they guard you and can up and fucking let someone kill you if they don’t like you. Fear can make people rather unpredictable.
Of course, having a power like Tattletale’s also helps to amass a lot of cash if needed, and Coil’s just been outspent in part thanks to the pricey necessity of dealing with Dragon. Looks like Dragon was good for something after all.
Damn, Coil really knew how to almost go the distance. I guess we can still give him a trophy for trying. How about something made of silver? No, no, too fancy. Maybe bronze? No, he’s not even in third place as a threat here now. I know, we’ll get him something made of lead!
He really should have taken pills for that premature assassination problem though. And with that snake in the grass gone, things are about to get way more interesting in Brockton Bay.
Oh, and by the way Coil? Bad move saying you’d keep Tattletale around as your pet the same way you kept Dinah. When I’m typing this, I don’t think I noticed too many people pointing out the implications, but that wasn’t a smart thing to say in any universe. Shouldn’t pick on Skitter’s girlfriend like that.
But if you’re done with that other lookalike who’s ok with being bound and gagged, and I know you are, maybe I can find a job for her. I’m just saying, not too many people are ok being paid to be bound, gagged, and unable to hear. Ok, not too many people outside of those websites.
I’m more thinking that it was a dumbass move not to realise that Tattletale would be better with people then him.
He did pretty much run down the list of scumbag options in that encounter.
Less a dumbass move and more a dumbass mindset. Coil see’s people as tools to be used and disposed of when he doesn’t need them anymore and doesn’t see the use in having friend and partners.
I like to think that this arc as a big deconstruction of the kind of villain that operates from that kind of self-centered, unprincipled attitude.
There are lots of baddies like that in fiction who unfortunately go unheadshotted because of a perception that cold, brutal pragmatism = smart.
A pretty good point, if he’d been a smidge more principled and tried to build something more positive then this would have all worked out much more in his favour. Heck, even just not trying to kill Skitter might have been enough.
I think that deconstruction is furthered by the winners being the ones who cultivated people instead of just resources.
Though you also have to love Tattletale’s constant schemings. She just loves playing the long game. Now then Lisa, please go play Go with Dinah.
The same message has shown up somewhat recently. Mass Effect (and probably a few of Bioware’s other games) and Fallout: New Vegas for example.
And if you want to see something funny, have Tattletale and Dinah play rock, paper, scissors. Long tie streak ever.
Even better, play poker. No-one else would be willing to…
Actually, thinking on their powers I think the Undersiders’ poker game would be more like a game of who could cheat the best 😉
ShawnMorgan on February 24, 2014 at 00:00 said:
Imp.
fghjconner on June 26, 2016 at 13:13 said:
Just walks away with all the money.
Oh snap, Coil, looks like it got a little hot in that brain of yours thinking up ways out of this. Here, let Skitter ventilate that for you.
It’s ok if you didn’t make it through the boss fight with two lives. You got the game set on Skitter difficulty.
By the way, while you’re down there, how about you shine my shoes. You know, with that bit of brain hanging out.
I haven’t had as much motivation to find this site again in a long time, but here is a small montage in memory of our dear departed Coil.
http://coil.just.got.owned.aninote.com/
I want to know what the story is on that one with the wood chipper.
“Teleport me to safety,” Calvert said. ”Escort me away, and everything I have is yours. Even the base.”
“All your base are belong to us,” Tattletale cut in. ”You have no chance to survive make your time.”
“Trickster,” Calvert said. ”Move Zig. For great justice-.”
Trickster collapsed to the ground. Sundancer and Genesis turned, confused, and Genesis dissipated into gory wisps of whatever substance formed her body.
“I knew I shouldn’t have let you cook the chili last night, Tattletale. Anyone who shoots one of the Undersiders will receive one million dollars!” Calvert shouted.
I waited for the inevitable bullet. Like a guy being told to “Fuck me like my grandpa’s seeing-eye dog” in bed, it didn’t come.
One of the guards called out in response, “Hey fuck you, man, you killed Charlie back at the warehouse. Now who am I going to tell dick jokes with?”
“Skitter and I had a little talk,” Tattletale said. ”Way back when the city had been freshly sieged by the Endbringer and rejoining the team wasn’t even a consideration. We discussed flowers, Durian fruit, pearl polishing, and spelunking, then I raised the idea of going after you, of taking you down. We knew that if you were going to let down your guard, if you were going to slip up at all, it would be when you were closest to achieving your goals and too busy watching those tapes from the women’s locker room.”
“If you made any one mistake, it was keeping me at your base towards the end of the fiasco with the Nine. The problem with keeping your friends close and your enemies closer? It puts your enemies in the midst of your friends, so they can discuss better means of payment with the right team captains. Or they can maybe arrange to put something in Noelle’s vault during one of the feeding times, a talkative Jar Jar Binks figure with long battery life, a Furby, tucked in where the door meets the wall. Irritate her, so she’s awake that much more, and she then costs you sleep.”
“That’s metaphorgotten,” Imp commented.
Tattletale shrugged. ”It was like a metaphor, but actually a simile.”
“Bitchiness. I know what every one of my periods is going to be like ahead of time. Lots of little things add up. Seeding doubts. Making you second guess plans. Keep you up at night wondering, planning just a bit more, in both your realities. Replacing that hand lotion on your night stand with poison ivy extract. Yeah, that was me. You were too focused on the big picture, on the thing I could find out, keeping me off-balance, that you missed out on my ability to see the little things, to exploit them. That’s how I found out you had a dick, after all.” She was briefly interrupted by some of the soliders going “Ooooooh,” “Oh snap!,” and “You need some more lotion for that burn, needledick!” She gave them a moment, then continued, “And it wore on you like an itch you can’t scratch in public. You didn’t realize how much, but it did, and maybe that’s why you were that much more susceptible to making the critical mistake here.”
“Everybody here who’s going to be alive in 10 minutes, raise your hand.” said Tattletale. Grue, Imp, Bitch, everyone really, we all raised our hands. Including Calvert. Tattle tale motioned to him, “Ok now Coil, put your hand down.”
“…pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,” I finished.
I aimed the gun and fired.
(or take 2!)
“deadguysayswhat?,” I finished quickly. He said, “What?” I aimed the gun and fired.
I found this to be the funniest thing you’ve written so far. I actually laughed out loud.
“discussed flowers, Durian fruit, pearl polishing, and spelunking”
Never heard pearl polishing before.
Flowers are often said to look like some anatomy in some situations. Durian fruit smells quite pungent and unappealing, but supposedly tastes great and in at lease one instance that I read, like certain anatomy. Polishing a pearl is a term for actions directed at certain anatomy. And spelunking is when someone explores a cave.
All perfectly innocent. Just like that phrase “Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo” which I chose because it is the nickname and opening line of a poem from the time of the Roman Republic.
I believe it translates, quite innocently remember, as “I will sodomize you and facefuck you.”
Remember, kids, Latin is a wonderful thing if you want to insult someone who doesn’t know it at all right to their face.
STH on January 7, 2013 at 18:15 said:
“That’s how I found out you had a dick, after all.”
Headcannon. Tattletale now said this. I don’t care how much it would kill the moment or be out of character, it is too damn funny not to have happened. So from now on it did.
Oh god time travel tense trouble…
zoetewey on January 5, 2013 at 10:16 said:
You know what amused me. That Tattletale was monologueing at the end (well, at Coil’s end).
I’ve always enjoyed that Tattletale is way more “classic villain” in this sense–except that long monologues are almost part of her power.
Which is awesome.
Max on October 7, 2014 at 23:14 said:
Almost? She set off a chain reaction of events that doomed two heroes to a fate worse than death by just talking for less than five minutes. Then she called off a supervillain group destroying the city neighborhood by talking. Then she convinced the Nine to play by some rules by just talking. Then she performed a hostile takeover of a citywide villain network by just talking.
Monologues ARE her power.
Leave her ungagged and she’s potentially the most dangerous member of the group!
You know, I wonder if Tattletale’s power was bought from Cauldron. Her family was rich enough to afford it probably and it would explain why she didn’t want to tell anyone her trigger event.
Walker on January 27, 2015 at 17:31 said:
Having a trigger event would explain not wanting to tell anyone the trigger event.
acediamonds on January 29, 2015 at 01:23 said:
I don’t typically respond to any replies to posts I’ve made on Worm now that’s it over but eh, I’ll make an exception. Also, wow, can’t believe it’s been 2 years.
I don’t know if this is your first read through but up to this point Tattletale has avoided telling the story of her trigger event, more so than every Undersiders so far. She’s also the only one whose we didn’t know, so that’s just suspicious from a narrative sense.
Well, Undersiders have faced tragedy and grit and mishaps together. Now they are facing the worst challenge of them all – victory. How long will their friendship continue, I wonder?
Kessler on January 5, 2013 at 16:42 said:
One reason for Telltale monlouge could have been she was using her power to see, if Coil had any more plans. When he is dead, she can’t read any more information from him.
I am sure that Coil was using his power too.
He might have been trapped in a hopeless situation no matter what he did, but he was probably splitting time-lines like crazy towards the end. If he spawned a new time line every time he got killed, the one time line that became reality is the one where he lived the longest.
Thank you to Anthony for his donation.
Coil went to the rock to hide his face but the rock cried out “No Hiding Place”
To once again throw a clip at y’all, Coil’s death reminded me of one of the best scenes out of Babylon 5 that I’ve ever seen. Just so wonderfully perfect AND quite fitting here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYKloZRwLu4
Wonderful- though I would also think of Vir’s little wiggly fingered wave to a certain head-on-a-pole. Maybe from Dinah.
Thank you to Daniel for his donation. I hope that next week’s event gets you your Worm fix.
Thank you to Orlando, as well.
ivolucien on January 6, 2013 at 15:26 said:
Absolutely devastating! Well done, very well done.
I imagine that the reason we didn’t see the reality in which Coil aimed the deadman’s switch threat at Skitter’s Dad is that Tattletale had hired Coil’s assasin in advance to negate that tactic. And Skitter would kill him even faster in that timeline.
It had to be easier to pull the trigger while blind.
Wageslave on January 6, 2013 at 22:32 said:
I would think it would be *harder* to pull the trigger while blind. Not mechanically, but making sure that the round was going to go where one wanted it to.
Overall, though, honestly relieved Calvert ‘got his’. Far too often in this setting morally and ethically challenged folks are given a ‘pass’ for things they have done… it was nice to see someone who had no qualms about slaughtering his superior become undone by underlings.
I think what evolution was getting at was that it’s morally harder when you can see your target’s face.
Morally it’s exactly the same, I think you meant to say emotionally harder.
Coil looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, ’cause Coil came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it!
Thank you for the donation, Hannah. Appreciated.
Andrew as well. Thank you.
If this is what happens when you run into a moment of writer’s block, I’m going to have to nitpick more 😉 Seriously, though, awesome chapter.
Packbat on March 26, 2013 at 16:57 said:
Another continuity bobble – guessing this should say she probed with her swarm.
Christopher Evans on July 3, 2013 at 13:24 said:
So what really happened to coil? In the past interlude, coill was a LABORER in the vincinity of that city. Him having an identity as a prt officer doesn’t make sense.
His prt identity was his real identity,which the prt itself prolly helped him bury (see:Piggot’s interlude)
YES!!!!!!
You are a god amongst writers!
This does mean that Taylor no longer has any motivation to do villainous deeds though…
I think by this point you should realise that the heroes don’t have any motivation for doing good deeds.
rmcd94 on September 21, 2013 at 09:54 said:
Hope they double tapped Coil, people don’t do that enough, leads to trouble.
If I was Coil I would have tortured Tattledale, not whoever he choose to torture, unless we’re meant to believe that she flipped every captain within a couple of days.
Jacob Anthony on October 23, 2013 at 04:16 said:
That was a fantastic chapter! I wasn’t sure how they were going to get out of that situation, but you pulled it off. And now Tattletale is the one in charge. Totally. Awesome.
starspawn on November 3, 2013 at 09:53 said:
Hi, I’ve been enjoying this series since the beginning ! 🙂
This is the first time I’m commenting, and that’s because to me this chapter is specially significant.
Here one of the highest antagonists throughout the series has been defeated.
One of the protagonist’s main goals throughout the series has been achieved.
If Worm were a TV serial, this will be a fitting finale to Season One.
The Simurgh’s awakening, Noelle’s escape etc are the mysteries that arouse the audience’s anticipation for Season Two.
Indeed, I am excited to read the following arcs 🙂
One small disappointment:
How come Coil only gets a bullet to the head? imo he deserves a more brutal end ! 😦
Anyways,
All the best ! 🙂
How come Coil only gets a bullet to the head? imo he deserves a more brutal end ! :(”
Yes, maybe Skitter should try burning a building down around him. Oh wait.
Coil’s smart, and his power basically lets him save scum. He could escape from complicated, brutal, or whatever scenarios. Taylor’s only shot (ha ha) is to shoot him now.
And this wouldn’t be the end of Season 1, not unless it was an oddly long season. Lung’s capture would be a good season-1-ender; the ABB were the antagonists for a while. That was what, arc 6? Then maybe the Nine through here would be a season, so this would end Season 3.
Jeremy Young on November 28, 2013 at 04:05 said:
Dead. I was reading this in the middle of work, and I died. Had to excuse myself for a bit and fix my mascara.
My heart breaks for Taylor here, but I’m glad she has the moral courage not to pass the buck when the time comes, even if I’m not glad that taking out Coil is necessary.
Then the scene with Dinah happens. I’m not going to lie, I cried a bit at that. For both Taylor and Dinah, I think. This may be my single favorite chapter in all of Worm; it’s certainly up there.
Between Grue, Bitch, and Imp last chapter and Tattletale, Bitch, and Dinah this chapter, there’s a hell of a lot of emotional stuff happening. I mean that in a good way.
This is the answer to anyone who thinks that Taylor has left her morals behind, I think. This one moment. And I like Dinah a lot more because she apologized, too.
It seems to me that Taylor has come pretty far in terms of saving the souls of the Undersiders. That’s no small feat.
Senalishia on December 5, 2013 at 12:06 said:
…Guess he was really trying to kill her. Guess she’s better at it than he is. Really I think the decision that sealed his fate was thinking he could keep Tattletale as a pet.
Sweet end to many of the arcs, sweet beginning to new ones! We finally get to see Noelle in action! I also can’t wait to see just how deep Tattletale’s scheming goes–we haven’t even come close to figuring her out, I don’t think.
Khaim on December 5, 2013 at 19:40 said:
I think I missed the part where Coil fell down?
Androkguz on February 2, 2014 at 12:22 said:
Me too. That was weird. There doesn’t seem to be such a part.
Mockingbuddha on December 8, 2013 at 22:18 said:
I’m late to this game, and reading this after it is complete. I won’t pretend I’ve read all the comments as I am addicted to this story too desperately to spend much time reading the comments. If someone else already expressed similar thoughts, apologies.
Having said that, I am SO glad that Coil is dead! Right after I read the scene where he created a separate world for the express purpose of commiting some horrid act on one of his subordinates, I have had multiple nightmares about him getting ahold of Taylor and repeatedly abusing her, over and over without her ever becoming aware of it.
A few times in the actual story, I imagined it was happening, but not being shown to us. I finally realized that Tattletale would probay figure it out if it was happening. Though I remain suspicious of her ultimate motives.
Either way, I’m glad the freak is dead. And congratulations Wildbow for creating the spookiest villan ever, even if some of the spooky was only in my mind!
Absolutely fantastic climax. I did think something was off about Skitter really wanting to have Tattletale present… and then when she described the code to Coil I thought “Wait, Lisa would answer with something green? When she’s bound, gagged, and going to be kept as a prisoner?” It certainly wasn’t enough to figure out the dénouement ahead of time, but just to have a little hint of the area it was in was satisfying.
Wow… that was a magnificent ending. To a magnificent villain who thoroughly deserved what came to him.
And then you had to have a cliffhanger even after a victory like that, hahaha 🙂 I reckon I can count the number of non-Interlude chapters that didn’t end with cliffhangers on one hand. (And if I’ve underestimated, well, I can count to 31 on one hand if I need to…)
Fantastic stuff, wildbow. I really hope to find out when we can buy this story in hardcopy form.
Megafire on May 1, 2014 at 09:27 said:
I see you also taught yourself to count in binary, nice.
hammerade on December 30, 2013 at 19:48 said:
This was fantastic. Tattletale is absolutely brilliant; the twist was totally unexpected but completely justified. How long did you have this planned out?
”Your underling and Tattletale can live. That’s all I’m willing to offer. You’ll have to take my word on both points” is missing punctuation.
Clumber on January 8, 2014 at 23:58 said:
Eh, it’s moments like these that I start to lose interest in the story. You set up an interesting villain that’s supposedly very intelligent, but the heroes win by him acting stupidly rather than through them really outsmarting him. The only thing that got me this far was interpreting Skitter’s escape from his “trap” to kill her as him having planned for her to escape and think he wanted her dead for whatever reason. Instead he’s just massively incompetent.
“inteligent”
He is not an idiot,I’d give him that,but I’d say,half of his intelligence comes from save scumming
“escape part of the plan”
it was explainedthat it was due to Leet’s power that he didn’t go more overkill,so its not incopotence on his part
Are you freaking kidding me?theiir complicated plan to take him down was foreshadowed since before its conception (at the bank robery)and consistent on many ingenius moves none of the savvy readers have picked up (dont underestimate it,the average reader of this story could take Light Yagami for a ride).Basically,this one chapter was,if you paid attention,the culmination of the plan,the point when Coil’s short range time scumming failed because he backed himself into a corner thanks to Tattletale’s thousand cuts of doing things too small for him to notice or savescum to,yet ,culminated,big enough to take him down.If that was not a masterplan worthy of taking down a mastermind,I duno what is.
davidgro on January 15, 2014 at 21:10 said:
One small error:
He raised his voice, “Don’t hang up on me!”
Phones don’t do that. Especially not cell phones! It’s a TV/Movie cliche.
“made a small beep and turned off” could work, some phones do that.
Ok, so explain em something:
Coil slipts realities, in one of them he tells Chariot to bring the real TT. In the other… what?
Logically, in the other he just doesn’t risk it and simply orders for the Undersiders to be killed.
But that reality had to have been worse for Coil to cancel it.
So what? How to the Undersiders win in the reality where Tattletale is not present? Maybe the traitor mercenaries betray Coil faster, more aggressively.
Maybe Skitter had planned to kamikaze in that reality where Tattletale is not present.
I am seriously confused of how they managed to fuck Coil in both realities here. I mean, I get it that they managed to get him to be in the same place both times, but how is the reality with TT present *worse* for him?
He prolly picked the reality where he survived the longer
He proly did more collateral in the reality you describe,but he died earlier,so poof,discarded.A cache of traitor mercenaries and/or kamikaze attaks would do that to you.
David Burns on February 28, 2014 at 03:10 said:
It’s not worse, that’s the point. He’s constantly using his power after the mercenaries betray him, and it always results in failure, probably he dies each time. The universe where he survives longest is the one where he stands there trying to talk Skitter out of killing him.
The critical thing is, how does Tattletale know that he arrived at the meeting in bi universes? If, in one universe, he did not come to the meeting at all, or came late, he could collapse the universe where the betrayal happened as planned. The fact that he knew that Skitter was alive and hiding nearby implies that he probably used his spare universe to counter Skitter’s surprise attack. But that does not guarantee that he is attending the meeting in both universes.
Here’s how Coil should have played it. Arrive near the meeting place but out of sight, split universes, in one universe proceed, in the other stay put. Collapse the universe where he gets surprised by Skitter, split universes again, go capture Skitter, again leaving one universe where he is out of range. Go through the negotiation, find out he was betrayed, collapse that universe. Now he knows he is in trouble, I’m not sure what he should do. Somehow he needs to deal with the disloyal mercs and the Undersiders. If he takes Trickster, Chariot, and the least disloyal mercs back to his lair and kills Tattletale, he is still in trouble, but at least he is still alive. Or he could pull the “torture Tattletale in an alternate universe” trick?
Maybe Skitter would notice that Coil had arrived in the “stay put” universe, if he’s within her bugs’ range. She figures out that Coil is probing their plans in another universe, so they need to attack immediately, or change tactics at the least.
Maybe Wildbow could come up with some time constraint, so Coil *must* arrive on time?
Because Skitter tricked him into discarding his other timeline to open another one in the middle of the negotiation
Pretty stupid move,but to be fair,he thought he had them…the worse TT could do,is say something that dropped a bomb,but her plan was not reliant on verbal communication,so once he missed the bait he was doomed.Plus,TT had been using psyhological war on him for months,so its excusable.
anKLJ on March 6, 2014 at 07:08 said:
“Calvert turned my way, let his head sink back so it rested against the ground.” This was the first I realized he was not standing. You might want to be more specific about where he is before/during/after the shooting.
I’m really amazed at how relentlessly the Wormverse just gets more snarled and dark and tangled in its own webs. Though, like many of the commenters above, I’m still a bit stuck about how Coil didn’t slip the noose in another split reality in this scene.
I’m still a little fuzzy about his power, and TT’s, and Dinah’s for that matter. I guess I’m just going to have to read on … and then re-read the archive, for Gaia’s sake! See ya in a few years, Life!
Two realities only,they operate simutulaneously,They tricked him to discard the one he surely had in reserve on the middle ofnegotiation,so his fate was doomed.Yes,stupid mistake,but also see my above comments.
Firstly, props on having been leading to this since before Taylor rejoined the Undersiders. Those are some seriously mad planning skillz!
I think I’m just going to decide that Dinah knew about the switcheroo (Taylor was teleported away while holding her hand, after all) but deemed it too risky to let the Undersiders know.
So Taylor *did* go with my “Dead Man’s switch” idea after all. 😀 I’m going to assume that the main reason she didn’t use that ploy *before* going to get Dinah was specifically to overextend Coil and lure him into this trap.
Still not clear about how Taylor being captured and coming within a hair’s breadth of being killed by Coil fits in, though. If that was part of their plan it’s a *serious* gamble to take. But without it, how were they planning to feint Coil out so he could be killed? Did Lisa just consider Taylor’s likely death an acceptable risk for pulling off the plan?
Reading this for the third time, and having paid attention to all the small details ahead of time, makes Coil’s comeuppance here easily one of the most satisfying moments in the series.
Zach on May 10, 2014 at 11:05 said:
Hi! I assume/hope you get notified for posts on old content like this one…
Just finished the second arc after discovering “Worm” a month+ or so ago. ****THANK YOU**** for reminding me why I spent the first 25+ years of my life reading (before the internet helped ruin my attention span :-P), which is sorta ironic, since I’m reading your story online 😉
I can’t tell you how much I’ve been enjoying this story. I’m finding excuses all day long, every day, to read a page or two (or more) of Worm. I’m occasionally skipping work to read it, I’m staying up late to read just one… more… page…., only to wake up early, and read another 😉 Every time I go to take a ‘break’, there’s a cliff-hanger that *forces* me to click “Next” (“What? Another ‘bonus interlude’?!?! Guess I have to read that first too!!!!!” ;-))
So again, as a life-long sci-fi/fantasy/super-hero fan, who has read/watched *countless* stories/plots/etc., *THANK YOU* for what is one of the most interesting, unpredictable, well-written and captivating stories with characters so real and believable I feel like I’ve actually met some of them.
I know it’s going to take me looong time to read from here to Chapter 27, but I’m already starting to feel sad that I’m halfway done one of the greatest stories I’ve ever read! No real comments or questions from me, I just can’t finish another arc without leaving a message behind to let you know this amazing story is still bringing joy to people out in the world 🙂
— your newest life-long fan, Zach 🙂
angrydrake on June 25, 2014 at 19:46 said:
Poor Coil.
bundle on July 17, 2014 at 11:06 said:
i love how leet’s power basically saved skitter. i think that any plan that would have killed skitter is instead foiled by leet’s power. that’s just adorable.
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“I could see Regent at the end of the walkway, and Tattletale wasn’t with him. She was hurrying down the spiral stairs just to Regent’s left.
I leaned over the walkway, as much as I was able with the pain in my chest and Dinah clinging to my midsection”
skitter should still be blind here, leaning over walkways is for people who need eyes.
Insect sense allowed her to drive,soooooo we’ll have to assume its better/as good as vision.
jwweather4 on August 1, 2014 at 16:27 said:
What vat of acid? This sounds like a dangling reference to something that didn’t actually happen. Or is it a hypothetical vat of acid, ie, “Why didn’t you drop me on top of a bomb or a vat of acid?”
Prolly because,since the comments asked a lot about a vat of acid,Wilbow thought of adding that to the reference about the bomb,which Wilbow prolly thought of Wilbow’s own,so that readers could not yell “plot hole”
Thats just my guess though
greatwyrmgold on January 2, 2020 at 02:41 said:
I’m guessing it’s something supervillainy that Coil set up just in case it was helpful. Possibly after being badgered by underlings that it could be useful to destroy someone/something that a bomb wouldn’t.
Wow way to go Tattletale! Talk about thinking ahead. I was hoping that maybe they had swayed people like Minor and Fish by shear charisma but knew that had little chance of succeeding so skimming for however long they were in existence was friggin brilliant. As smart as Coil is I can totally see him being arrogant enough to decide to use his powers right there and trap himself. It’s a bit idiotic but considering the day he’s had I can believe it. I find myself wondering just how much of that final part was planned. I know it didn’t exactly go as expected considering everything but Tattle and Skitter obviously had the secret plan worked out since she was so adamant about letting her speak.
I was a little disappointed that neither Genesis nor Sundancer joined the Undersiders. They both seemed the most moral/tired in that group and I’ve felt that Ballistic really hasn’t had enough characterization to swap sides while both of those two have.
I wonder which Undersider Coil tortured. Not Rachel, she wouldn’t break. Probably not Regent since he would hold out just to be a dick. I’d say Grue but considering the man made it through Bonesaw I don’t think Coil could do much. Not Skitter. Likely not Imp since while I can see her breaking easily, her power would seemingly make actual interrogation hard even with cameras and such. Was it Tattle?
It was nice to see Bitch pretty much default to believing Taylor almost immediately rather than spending tons of time hating her again when they had finally started to be actual friends. It was very sweet that the socially incapable one was the one to comfort Taylor after the mess went down.
Dick move Coil, dick move. Really just because you lost the game doesn’t mean you have to destroy the playground out of spite.
MisterTeatime on November 3, 2014 at 23:34 said:
Ballistic! Welcome to the Undersiders.
You’re gonna hate it here.
srave on December 31, 2014 at 01:19 said:
“I recalled leaving the dying Merchant to bleed out when I’d rescued Bryce from the merchant’s festival of blood.”
“Merchant’s” should be capitalised?
John Campbell on June 11, 2015 at 11:24 said:
Not only that, it should be the plural possessive: Merchants’.
Blikiendent on May 22, 2015 at 10:29 said:
didn’t catch who the woman was first read, figured it was coil bullshitting. but that might have actually stopped this.
axle on July 12, 2015 at 00:24 said:
Loved Taylor’s line,”in a roundabout sort of way, you’ve made me into one. “Perfect ending for Coil! Killed by the one person he thought he could control, turning a hero into a killer. Tattletale really came out on top of things, glad to know they both had master plan since the beginning.
Also, Tattletale should’ve used Noelle as extra leverage to get the Travelers on her side.
“Coil has had months of false hope ready to keep you guys stuck on his side long enough until he could betray you. How about a deal? I’ll use every resource he had available to help Noelle. If I can’t help Noelle in two weeks, it means Coil’s resources were never enough anyway. So what do you say? Wanna stick around for an extra two weeks? Seems like you could at least use the pay.”
inventorfrog on November 10, 2015 at 12:10 said:
Zachary Sloan on June 17, 2016 at 17:54 said:
Thank god, I’m assuming Coil is actually dead (I’ve been traumatized by situations in fiction where the protagonists monologue-ing means they’re about to mess up in some way). I’m not a big fan of “heh I have already countered all your plans” enemies, even though Coil is a well written one.
I like how Coil mentioned the torturing for info thing, because I had actually thought of that exact thing some chapters back. There’s no reason why he can’t create a reality where he tortures someone and then cancel it, keeping the info without the downsides.
shitfanboy on July 9, 2016 at 12:32 said:
Respect,skitter(wildbow). you,motherfucking batman this teenage girl has balls than you.if you kill joker first day,thousands of innocennts will live.instead he spend monney on battashits and abuse orphan robin.stupid,pedo,racist,fucking batman
Jonah on September 23, 2016 at 20:46 said:
I started reading this a couple weeks ago and this is my first comment. Good shit, wildbow.
Quinn on November 11, 2016 at 06:24 said:
Oh I could kiss Tattletale. On the one hand, I’m glad for the explanation, for all the info that needed to be revealed to readers. On the other hand, I was just waiting that whole time, wondering why she was giving him even a second of extra time in which he could figure a way out of the trap while she monologued.
Villains. Go figure.
«You come with only one small squad of soldiers, bring Tattletale and Regent.» comma splice. To puctuate the spoken words in writing, use a full stop or an em dash between the sentences. The latter conveys the tone well: “You come with only one small squad of soldiers — bring Tattletale and Regent.”
«I’m paying it all upfront.» should be “up front”, two words.
Daryl Katana Algarra on July 9, 2017 at 16:26 said:
My Rache x Taylor Ship
I want it so badly
Jason Sng on December 3, 2017 at 15:02 said:
Super late but a slight continuity error. there wasn’t an indication that Coil was knocked to be ground. Not till right before he’s killed.
qwpanda on January 10, 2018 at 22:11 said:
If coil is dead, lol what now? The’re close to taking over the city
ALKATYN on March 16, 2018 at 11:02 said:
In the end the best power was money
Hey it’s me on August 20, 2018 at 07:51 said:
Spoilers incoming
As someone who’s been kinda waiting for Skitter to finally kill, I’m kinda glad it’s Coil. Finish out her mission
Again shitty plot armor.
It would have been more efficient if he would have killed her immediately.
McBehrer on October 8, 2018 at 16:04 said:
“It’s fitting you wear a snake on your costume.”
Now that was a great line.
Karalyn on November 19, 2019 at 12:43 said:
Tattletale has been my favorite character for a while. She seemed less featured in the story recently, but it paid off. Outmasterminding the timeline-splitting mastermind with her own long-term plans. I’m sure she’s holding back plenty of other secrets as well.
I do wonder how much of this “stringbean plan” was arranged with Skitter in advance, but not narrated.
The scene in (formerly) Coil’s base at the end implies Skitter has some form of vision, but doesn’t consciously realize it. Particularly when she leans over the balcony to look at the lower floor, which she wouldn’t need to do if relying on her bug sense.
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KENYA: CHURCH STRUGGLING AFTER ISLAMISTS DESTROY BUILDING
Posted on March 6, 2009 by particularkev
Six months after attack, Muslim assailants still at large; weary congregation faces heat, rain.
GARISSA, Kenya, March 5 (Compass Direct News) – Six months after a gang of Muslim youths ruined a church building in this town in northern Kenya, Christians still worshipping in the sweltering heat of the open air say they feel disillusioned that officials have done nothing to punish the culprits or restore their structure.
On a sunny afternoon last Sept. 14, when angry Muslim youths threw more than 400 members of the Redeemed Gospel Church out of their church building, the Christians hoped they would be able to return to the ruins of their former structure. That hope is quickly giving way to anger, hopelessness and despair.
“After six months in the open, the church feels tired and cheated,” said pastor David Matolo. “We are fed up with the empty promises from the government administration.”
He said the church, which began worshipping in Garissa in early 2001 with only a dozen members, is fast shrinking.
“Our church membership has decreased, which is of great concern to me,” he told Compass. “The church thinks that the government has decided to buy time – almost every month I do book appointments with the relevant authorities, who on several occasions have given us a deaf ear.”
Since the attack, church members have been meeting at the town show grounds. Just a few miles from the Somali border, the site has few trees to protect the congregation from the scorching sun, with temperatures ranging from 92 to 104 degrees F (30 to 40 degrees C).
Asked why he thought government officials were reluctant to grant the church a permanent place of worship as promised, an irritated Matolo did not hesitate to reply.
“The administration has decided, ‘kutesa [inflict pain on us],’ always making promises that never come to pass,” he said. “At times the provincial commissioner deliberately decides not to take my phone calls. I have had a painful experience.”
Matolo said he has asked the administration either to allow the church to build a new structure on land lying idle near a police training college or to let them return to their original site. “We are ready for any eventuality,” he said. “We feel that the administration is not concerned about our spiritual welfare.”
Asked about the pastor’s complaints, provincial police officer Stephen Chelimo told Compass, “The issue at the moment is not within my docket, but wholly rests upon the provincial commissioner.”
But Provincial Commissioner Stephen Maingi said the onus rested on the district commissioner. “Let the district commissioner sort this issue with the pastor,” Maingi said.
District Commissioner Onyango Ogango, in turn, indicated the church itself was the source of problems.
“If the church is allowed to return to their original site, we will expect a fight to erupt with the Muslims,” Ogango said. “Earlier on, the church began very well during its initial stage of inception with controlled worship, but later it turned out to hold noisy prayers and loud songs.”
Further questioned about these allegations, however, Ogango said he would call the pastor to discuss a resolution. Even so, Matolo said previous contact with the district commissioner did not leave him with high expectations.
“Our district commissioner seemed to have no feelings for our predicament,” he said. “The faces of the congregation members speak a lot.”
A glance at the worshippers confirmed his appraisal. They looked weary and anxious, with impending April rains expected to add to the indignity of their situation. Matolo said his congregation feels that soon it will be difficult to worship at all.
Even a temporary home did not appear to be forthcoming. The pastor said their request for a site near the provincial commissioner’s residence was dismissed on the grounds that it would create a security concern.
Radical Islamic Influence
Tensions between Christians and the Muslim-majority population in the semi-desert town of 20,000 people began in June 2007, when Muslims built a mosque too close to the church building – only three meters separated the two structures.
Matolo said pleas to District Commissioner Ogango did nothing to reverse the encroachment of Muslim worshippers.
Land issues alone have not been responsible for tensions in the area. The Rev. Ibrahim Kamwaro, chairman of the Pastors’ Fellowship in Garissa, said Matolo had offended Muslims when he preached to a lame Muslim man. Muslims were said to be upset that the pastor persuaded the disabled man to stop going to the mosque and instead join his church.
Matolo’s alleged promise to the disabled man of a better life offended area Muslims, Rev. Kamwaro said.
Christians feel increasingly hunted and haunted as the spread of Islamic extremism is fast gaining ground in this town, located about 400 kilometers (249 miles) from Nairobi, the capital. In neighboring Somalia, newly elected President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Feb. 28 offered the introduction of sharia (Islamic law) in exchange for a truce with a rebel extremist group said to have ties to al Qaeda, al Shabaab; the rebels said they would keep fighting. Many fear that Muslim youths in this lawless part of Kenya will be tempted to adopt the radical, uncompromising posture of the fighters.
To date, the gang of more than 50 Muslim youths who attacked worshippers and brought their church to ruins have not been apprehended. Members of the congregation feel justice is increasingly elusive.
In Garissa, Muslims restrict churches in other ways. Christians are not allowed to pray, sing or use musical instruments in rented homes owned by Muslims. No teaching of Christian Religious Education in schools is allowed; only Islamic Religious Knowledge is taught.
Garissa has more than 15 Christian denominations, including the East Africa Pentecostal Church, the Redeemed Gospel Church, the Anglican Church, Deliverance Church, Full Gospel Churches of Kenya and the African Inland Church.
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Quoddy’s Run heads up Finlayson Channel
21 July 2012 Klemtu to Khutze Inlet
A pattering of rain all night, but come morning, there were glimmers of sun. The fog lifted, the wind rose; we could see and count the mountaintops. And then they disappeared: fog and rain closed over Klemtu and Tolmie Channel as we passed the village and ran on out and up the far reaches of Finlayson Channel to Heikish Narrows.
Ocean Harvest building, Klemtu
We had intended to stop at Klemtu village to see the town and take on water, but could not sort out where we could dock. Several sailing vessels were pulled in to a dock near shore, but there didn’t seem to be room for another boat; a little further along we saw a large wharf and buildings that belonged to Ocean Harvest, a Norwegian open pen salmon feedlot operation. It looked like fish were offloaded here from nearby pens and processed for shipping out on the ferry.
BC Ferry Dock, Klemtu
A grand new BC ferry dock towered over us just outside of town and power transmission lines ran over the mountain from a hydroelectric dam. Wifi—messages thumped into the telephone’s inbox as we passed by Klemtu.
Road to the Ferry Dock, Swindle Island, Klemtu
The village is home to around 500 people who are descended from the Kitasoo tribe of Tsimshians, originally from Kitasu Bay, and the Xai’xais of Kynoc Inlet, who are Heiltsuk. Residents of Klemtu live together as the Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nation, which is a member of the Oweekeno-Kitasoo-Nuxalk Tribal Council. Apparently, Klemtu gets its name from “klemdoo-oolk,” a word which means “impassable” in the Coast Tsimshian language, though whether this refers to the steepness of the terrain, the narrowness of Klemtu Passage, which runs between Swindle Island, where the village is located, and Cone Island, or the sometimes dense fog we saw there, we couldn’t say.
Tools of the trade–chart, guidebooks, binoculars, gloves
Most of the fjords and waterways of the Inside Passage in British Columbia are extremely deep, with few hidden reefs. But one rock in Finlayson Channel interested us, perhaps because of its name. As Quoddy’s Run pinched around Ohio Rock, Karin, who was born and raised far from the sea in the US state of Ohio, read aloud from our cruising guide. Here, in 1909, the Alaska Steamship Company Ship, the SS Ohio, struck an uncharted rock. To avoid sinking in the deep water, the captain ran the vessel across the channel to Carter Bay, where he managed to ground her in time to save the lives of all but four of his 214 passengers and crew. We read that the same captain foundered a second time in Haida Gwaii. Then on the way back to Vancouver as a passenger on another ship, he committed suicide by jumping overboard. It was not hard to identify with that man, we thought. Despite the support of GPS, radar, accurate mapping and all sorts of navigational aids, as well as pretty accurate weather forecasts, we still had to be on our toes in these waters. Anything could happen, and sometimes did.
One of hundreds of cascades
As we motored up Finlayson Channel, overcast skies gradually thinned; although the weather forecast spoke of rain offshore, we were headed inland, into the mountains. We found that changing currents took a long time to catch up with a change in tide. We were slowed down by the current pushing against us for a long while, but finally, happily, screamed through Heikish Narrows with a boost of 3 knots. We got quite a ride; strong eddies swirled all around us. Apparently a few years ago, so our guidebook said, a NOAA research vessel underestimated the power of the currents and was washed up against the rock wall on one side of the narrows. We saw that vegetation was still scraped away where the boat had struck. Here, too, we saw many logs and deadheads–ours to avoid, while the gulls gleefully rodeoed them through the eddies.
We cross paths with Northern Expedition
As Quoddy’s Run shot out into Graham Channel, the clouds lifted, the sun came out, and we were surrounded by glistening snow-capped mountains and steep cascades. Meltwater. BC Ferry, Northern Expedition, passed us, enroute from Port Hardy, Bella Bella, and Klemtu to Prince Rupert. We hailed them to learn their schedule. We would see them again and again in these waters, on their speedy trips back and forth.
Meltwater cascades
We were watching for the place where the Canoona River, flowing down from Canoona Lake, turns into the low, broad, terraced Canoona Falls, which are quite distinct from the hundreds of other falls along the way. Debris littered the sides of the river and the falls, the remains of forestry and canning operations, and once much denser human habitation.
Canoona Falls
The air was hot and drowse-inducing as we crossed the channel to enter Khutze Inlet. We’d been instructed by other sailors who had already been here to hunt for a shallow spot, a spit fingering out into the fjord. We found it on the chart, and then beneath our hull and anchored, as if in the middle of the inlet.
Entering Khutze Inlet
All around us, snowy peaks glittered in the sun. We watched for bears, but only spotted seals chasing leaping salmon; we saw and heard eagles, gulls and ravens. Everywhere, the sound of running water. Cascades poured down the mountains from snowy patches or lakes at high elevations. Whirlpools twisted around the boat, but the current held us in place.
Looking down into a Khutze whirlpool
A few trawlers motored into Khutze, but passed us and went all the way to the base of the inlet. Two or three days later, a passenger on a luxurious yacht would tell us that grizzlies come out to forage there at dawn and dusk. A small white cruise ship, golden in the evening light, throbbed north up Graham Channel towards Alaska. Loudspeakers aboard blared a message; we were glad to be on our slower, quieter boat.
Sunset peak in Khutze
At sunset, light tumbled from the clouds and over the peaks, illuminating first one, then another, then winking out. And then another ray fingered out, tossing a rosy wash over snow and rocks and trees. Water and valleys dropped gradually into darkness; at 9:45 pm, just the heights were aglow. Tide and current went slack. Soon, we thought, the light would fade and we would turn. Night.
Rosy peak, Khutze
But we did not turn. The gulls gathered at dusk and then as the current picked up again, around 10:30 or 11 pm, they began to ride those streams out of the harbour. It gave us the sensation of racing by them, but we were fixed, and they were moving. Light played over the peaks until after 11. None of us wanted to miss a second of all of that glory; we peered out at the light until the last peak flared and darkened and no more photographs were possible.
Khutze borrowed glory
Then as we were lying in bed, just drifting into sleep, came a sound, a sort of fluting, ethereal music of one or two notes, in the water. A little slapping and movement of the hull. Who’s singing we wondered? Could that be a whale?
The singing grew fainter, and then stopped as the rocking of the hull ceased. We heard it again at 2:30—Karin went out onto the deck to take a look. Nothing there, just stars in a night sky and the mountains towering over us. Hard to know if we are imagining things, hearing “music of the spheres,” or our own music of the waters.
About Karin Cope
Karin Cope lives on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. She is a poet, sailor, photographer, scholar, rural activist, blogger and an Associate Professor at NSCAD University. Her publications include Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live with Gertrude Stein, a poetry collection entitled What we're doing to stay afloat, and, since 2009, a photo/poetry blog entitled Visible Poetry: Aesthetic Acts in Progress. Over the course of the last decade, with her partner and collaborator Marike Finlay, Cope has sailed to and conducted fieldwork in a number of remote or marginal coastal communities in British Columbia and Mexico. Their joint writings range from activist journalism and travel and policy documents, to an illustrated popular material history of the Lunenburg Foundry entitled Casting a Legend, as well as their ongoing west coast travel blog, West By East.
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NDPP
"If a candidate hated by US mainstream establishment wins...feel free to question results for 4 years and blame them on a vast foreign conspiracy. If a candidate favored by US mainstream establishment looks like he's about to barely win...Questioning it is completely unacceptable."
https://twitter.com/calebmaupin/status/1324847635396808704
No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen the Bush/Cheney Administration was Far Worse than Trump
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/no-matter-the-liberal-metric-chosen
"That the liberal belief in and fear of a Trump-led fascist dictatorship and violent coup is actually a fantasy - a longing, a desire, a craving - has long been obvious..."
"After barely squeaking through at the 11th hour, Biden claims a massive mandate to ratify his suburban center-right campaign strategy. He thereby justifies the coming collaboration with McConnell and stepping on the left's face. A Never Trump Republican fantasy is being realised."
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1324926007200124928
[Forest Gump Voice] And just like that, the Russians were gone. (and vid)
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1324917944430649345
Trump is not going away
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-legacy-1.5793998
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/08/losing-is-like-psychic-death-for-trump-...
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/08/this-is-the-face-of-radical-republican-...
Simple. You lost. Leaxe the house.. He'll be gone in January either peacefully or lethally.His choice.
"Biden's acceptance speech in front of a Chase logo pretty much says everything you need to know about the next four years."
https://twitter.com/ibnezra/status/1325379216683175937
https://youtu.be/ojzHiBxHOCE
Galloway: Only Certainty in US Elections is Ordinary People Lose
https://youtu.be/5tQqYHORX5I
Does anything ever change in Washington?
(Reply to #1157) #1158
contrarianna
alan smithee wrote:
Promoting murder now? Not surprising: "Violence is as American and as cherry pie"-H Rap Brown
The Democrat rehabilitation of Bush/Cheney says it all. By far they are the worst war criminals of the 21st century who deserve a re-constituted Neurenberg trial.
"No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen, the Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump.
Fantasies of a Trump-led fascist coup have redounded to the benefit of many -- especially those responsible for abuses far worse than those of the current president.
It is not an exaggeration to say that much of the division on the center-left over the past four years has been shaped by whether one sees Trump as a symptom of American pathologies or as its primary cause, of whether one views the return of pre-Trump “normalcy” as something to loathe or something to crave, of whether one views the Bush/Cheney years and War on Terror abuses (to say nothing of the horrors of the Cold War) as at least as bad as anything Trump has ushered in or whether one sees those pre-Trump evils as somehow more benign and less ignoble...."
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/08/democrats-won-the-battle-against-donald...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/trump-isnt-going-an...
As long as Mitch McConnell approves..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/08/biden-...
Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) Tweeted:
This was NOT an especially close election. #PresidentElectBiden won 306 EVs plus a 4-5 million-votes plurality. You want close? Look at 1960,1968,1976,2000, among others. NETWORKS—Stop feeding this false storyline. https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1325465642754068480?s=20
Flashback: Hillary Says Biden SHOULD NOT Concede Election to Trump (Aug 20, 2020)
https://youtu.be/4JCzg2EY6gY
"If Joe Biden really wants to unify this country, he should wait until we can ensure that we've had a fair election." Governor Kristi Noem
https://twitter.com/govkristinoem/status/1325487245206417409
"We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics." - Joe Biden
https://youtu.be/MA8a2g6tTp0
If their roles were reversed, Biden would have already gracefully conceded to Trump because Biden has at least some ethical and moral underpinnings. On the other hand, Trump is a psychopathic narcissist who is simply incapable of acting ethically or morally. For 5 years people have known that Trump would be incapable of acknowledging electoral defeat. No surprise here. One of the questions arising now is if Trump will actually pardon himself and many of his criminal enablers while he is being forced to face reality and leave office as the worst president in the very long history of the U.S..
Colbert Weeps over Trump's Press Conference
https://youtu.be/WhHc1pJ7MBM
Why Democrats Are Losing Senate and House Seats!
https://youtu.be/mlLMi7Rm9is
Working class people will never ever control government in the USA until legislation is passed to stop the rich from buying the elections.
Cowards!
Don't they know you need to stand up to bullies!
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/08/general-services-administration...
Re: #1166
Or stop paying attention to corporate msm propagandists and the poison they push urging status quo 'solutions'.
melovesproles
JKR wrote:
and leave office as the worst president in the very long history of the U.S..
Terrible but no way the worst.
Andrew Johnson would be my pick. If reconstruction hadn't been sabotaged by his presidency, the US would be a very different country today.
Before the Dust Has Settled, Corporate Democrats Are Already Attacking AOC and the Left
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrats-aoc-bi...
"Since the election was called for Joe Biden, there has been a multitiered effort to blame disappointing election results on progressives. If they ran back the same campaign in a COVID-19 free environment, there's a good chance they would lose in a landslide..."
#RiggedElection
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1325508121897398274
The Kafka Election: Finding a Way Out of the Maze
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kafka-election-finding-way-out-maze
"The 2020 election is a nightmare from which I - along with millions of others - am trying to awaken. Despite the total lack of curiosity exhibited by the msm, there are many questions about both the casting and counting of votes in multiple states..."
melovesproles wrote:
Good point. Trump is the worst president since the civil war although Trump seems hell bent on starting a modern day cold civil war in the U.S.
The presidents who led before the Civil War, Buchanan, Pierce, Filmore, are also seen as among the worst presidents. Trump's rabid racism is rooted in the US's dark history rooted in slavery.
This seems a more democratic way
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-do-maine-and-nebraska-spli...
NDPP wrote:
Poor, sweet, Donald Trump. His amazingly good presidency was stolen from him!! How unfair can the US system be!!!
Trump or A. Johnson. But no president has been as much of a threat to the country as a constitutional democracy as Trump
I know you're upset that Trump lost, but try to keep some perspective
Hardly upset. Impressed by the extent of the divided and polarized mess your duopoly has made though. PS See Hillary item above for 'perspective.'
See Hillary item above for 'perspective.'
Sounds like you're leading a Trump rally. "Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!...."
He's now allying himself with the lowest of the low right-wingers, such as O'Keefe's Veritas Project, in order to cast doubt on Trump's defeat. Maybe he'd be better emulating his hero, Putin, and remain silent. In the meantime, here's another ally for him:
https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1325425493324206080?s=20
See what damage Trump Derangement Syndrome can do to the American mind? Cheer up Yankee Josh. Under Uncle Joe all your fondest centrist-dem, neo-McCarthyite, liberal imperialist day-dreams may now come true...
"The flood of congratulatory statements from our allies is testimony to both how disastrous the last four years have been for global security, but also how our friends believe that Joe Biden is singularly positioned to repair and reclaim American global leadership."
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1325178413649285120
American voters have stopped the self-demolition of the country that serves as the anchor of the free world. Now the systematic competition with autocratic powers can start in earnest."
https://twitter.com/ulrichspeck/status/1325123629244280834
Drillminister on the US Presidential Election
https://youtu.be/BUCz2oU1slg
London mayoral candidate: 'Congratulations America!'
Don't Give the Ship: 11/7/2020
"Georgia has a recount, Pennsylvania has a recount, Nevada has a recount, Wisconsin has a recount, Michigan has a recount, Arizona has a recount..."
US Elections are certified once every vote is counted and all outstanding legal issues are sorted. There is a deadline for this, and it varies by state. Most states must be done by the end of November. The governor or a statewide entity such as the secretary of state then certifies their electoral votes and the slate of electors who will cast them. These electors meet on December 14 to formally cast the votes in the Electoral College.
A US election is not decided when CNN 'projects' or 'calls' Joe Biden the winner nor when the NATO Secretary-General or Justin Trudeau sends their congratulations. There is a constitutional process involved. And until that US constitutional process is completed, no matter what msm, Dem politicians, or babblers may say, think or hope, this is still a contested election.
And This!
https://twitter.com/forexer7777777/status/1325430537046159360
Yes, don't give up the ship. Keep hoping that Trump will win. Join with this fellow in prayer.
Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Counties to Segregate Late Ballots While Counting
https://t.co/SQOFDRuM1K?amp=1
"Alito ordered all counties to keep and count mail-in ballots that arrived after 8 pm Election Day separate from those received before the deadline..."
Not enough ballots to make a difference, sorry.
George Galloway: TMOATS - Ep 73
https://youtu.be/MP_DQHUb3wo
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani held press conference in garden centre car park, speaking from on top of an oil drum. Watch the full show on the continuing US election duopoly fiasco with Chris Hedges, Rania Khalek in the first segment.
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/09/psychiatrist-bandy-lee-trumps-election-...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/09/president-donald...
Houston, we have a problem!
Cult expert Steven Hassan: Trump's "mind control cult" now faces an existential crisis
Author of "The Cult of Trump" explains how the president has trained his followers to believe no one but him
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/07/cult-expert-steven-hassan-trumps-mind-c...
Even here on rabble Trump's "mind control cult" seems to be alive and kicking!
The past four years have birthed a progressive movement so extraordinary it just might survive the forces that threaten its extinction.
https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/progressive-protest-movement-under-trump....
White Supremacy Lite Wins the Prize (podcast)
https://www.blackagendareport.com/white-supremacy-lite-wins-prize
"The contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was about how to preserve whiteness, said Dr Johnny Williams, professor of Sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford Connecticut. The choice was presented, 'Do you want to preserve whiteness in terms of white supremacy, or white supremacy lite?' The race-based nature of the campaign, Williams maintains, allowed to avoid running on issues."
Pepe Escobar: Banana Follies - The Mother of All Color Revolutions
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-banana-follies-mother-all...
"...The standard color revolution playbook rules usually start in the capital city of nation-state X, during an election cycle, with freedom-fighting 'rebels' enjoying full national and international media support. In the gaming exercise, the incumbent president, code-named Buffoon, was painted Red. The challenger, codenamed Corpse, was painted Blue..."
The US Presidential Election is NOT Over. Here's Where Things Stand Right Now
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-11-09/us-presidential-election-not-o...
Disclaimer: none of the following is meant to be political analysis. I am not endorsing nor disparaging any candidate. I'm simply outlining the facts pertaining to the US presidential election.
"I want to warn you that the next few months in the US will be extraordinarily ugly. The country was already deeply divided before this election. And unfortunately, it's only going to get worse. The fact is that Joe Biden HASN'T actually won this election yet. That is not a typo. The media has done the US a great disservice by claiming that Biden is the winner this early in the game. Everyone needs to step back and understand how the actual election process occurs based on federal law, not media reporting..."
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/09/election-poc-transgender-senator-native...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/trump-bannon-electi...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/nate-cohn-explains-what-the-polls...
They already were.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/6/what-are-the-rules-governing-re...
How despicable!
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEM8pSfYZKbLLCDbqrF6on6MqGQgEKhAIACo...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/nov/09/the-donal...
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FALL 2020 RADIUS@HOME
For the first time in more than two decades, Radius Ensemble will not be in the concert hall with you, our beloved audience. Instead, we will be sharing the experience of live music with you in other ways. We will gather virtually, so that we can all remain safe until the coronavirus pandemic is resolved.
This fall, we will bring you three live concerts of intriguing solo repertoire, performed live from our musicians’ homes. Each event will feature our signature mix of old and new, with guest composers and the occasional cohabiting guest performer, too!
We have also planned a series of stimulating conversations with three of our favorite composers whose work we’ve recently commissioned. Each event will feature an encore performance of the work they wrote for us, broadcast in its entirety and followed by a Q&A with the composer.
We look forward to seeing you online this fall, and we hope to be with you in person at Longy in the spring (scroll down for more about our post-pandemic concert plans).
All virtual events begin at 8pm and are FREE with an optional suggested donation.
10.08.20 | RADIUS@HOME #1
Miriam Bolkosky (cello), Anne Howarth (horn), and Eran Egozy (clarinet). Hosted by Artistic Director Jennifer Montbach. Music of Epstein, Garrop, Reich and more. More
Composer Matt Schumaker and Artistic Director Jennifer Montbach discuss mehretu trace for oboe, clarinet and electronics, commissioned and premiered by Radius Ensemble. Complete encore performance from the live recording in March 2020 followed by a Q&A. More
Noriko Futagami (viola), Adrian Morejon (bassoon), and Sarah Brady (flute). Hosted by Artistic Director Jennifer Montbach. Music of Denisch, Mignone, Wang Lu and more. More
Composer Laurie San Martin talks with Artistic Director Jennifer Montbach about the nonet, Seven Pines, that she composed in 2019 to commemorate Radius Ensemble's twentieth-anniversary season. Complete encore performance from the live recording in May 2019 followed by a Q&A. More
Jennifer Montbach (oboe), Gabriela Diaz (violin), and Sarah Bob (piano). Music of Pinkham, Roumain, Ruehr and more. More
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland explores his Clarity for Cold Air with Artistic Director Jennifer Montbach. Scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion, the work was commissioned and premiered in 2013. Complete encore performance from the live audio recording, with bespoke video by filmmaker Dick Bartlett, followed by a Q&A. More
SPRING 2021 IN-PERSON EVENTS
Provided the pandemic subsides, we have planned these live events at Longy's Pickman Hall in Cambridge for the spring. Please note: both concerts are on Thursday evenings. If the pandemic requires us all to continue distancing, we will postpone these events to next season and plan additional virtual events.
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Kevin Puts, Elena Ruehr, Steve Reich, and Mozart More
05.13.21 | REVELATION
Marti Epstein and Olivier Messiaen More
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Grading Two Years of Portuguese Departures
July 19, 2017 July 19, 2017 / Justino Flores / Leave a comment
It is inevitable. Emerging Portuguese talent in Liga NOS really only see one option if they want to blossom into the best player possible: leave Portugal for greener ($$) pastures. It is hard to argue with them; as England, France, Spain, Germany and Italy can offer tougher competition, European glory, extra exposure, and of course, more money. Still, knowing when to go, and where to go, become the ultimate factor in determining your success as a player. As we have seen, some players leave Portugal and become world greats, while others leave Portugal and become forgotten. Let us take a look at five recent Portuguese departures, and how the move has worked for them.
Veloso Wanted by Inter Milan
Genoa to Inter?
According to reports coming out of Portugal, Inter Milan are lining up a move for Genoa defensive midfielder Miguel Veloso. Veloso was disappointing last season for the Italian club, but has been much better so far this season. Due to his fine performances, clubs such as Lazio and CSKA Moscow, and more recently Inter Milan, were on his tail. Inter, however, look to be the most likely destination if Veloso were to leave Genoa. Inter’s Thiago Motta is set to be sold to PSG, and the club regards Veloso as the perfect replacement. Inter is also interested in Porto playmaker Freddy Guarin, so Veloso’s move may depend on whether the Colombian completes his move.
Benfica Starlet Targeted Abroad
October 29, 2011 / Sam Biggers / Leave a comment
Rui Canico – Benfica to Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, or Inter Milan?
Rui Canico, currently playing for Benfica’s youth team, has attracted the interest of some of the largest clubs across Europe. Aged just 16, Canico is beginning to be a regular for the Portugal U-16 team, with a U-17 debut not too far off. His contract with Benfica is set to expire at the end of the season, and already clubs from Italy and Spain are expressing interest. Among the list of suitors is AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Atletico Madrid.
Inter After Sporting Starlet
October 29, 2011 / Sam Biggers / 1 Comment
Mica – Sporting to Inter?
Inter Milan are expected to complete the signing of Michael Gonçalves Pinto, better known as Mica. Mica currently plies his trade in Sporting Lisbon’s U-19 team. He is a regular for the Portugal U-18 team, and is expected to make his U-19 debut soon. At age 18, it appears that Mica has a glittering career ahead of him. This observation must be quite evident, because Manchester City, Fulham, and Bayern Munich are all said to be interested. Inter seem to be the closest to the player, however, and a deal looks to be finalized soon.
Moutinho Still on Inter’s Radar
October 29, 2011 / Sam Biggers / 2 Comments
Joao Moutinho – Porto to Inter?
Inter Milan just won’t give up on Joao Moutinho. The midfielder has been in impressive form this season, scoring twice. In fact, Moutinho has been stellar for both the National Team and Porto ever since he made the switch to Porto at the beginning of last season. He has established himself as one of the finest midfielders playing in Portugal, and even Europe. His performances have caught the eyes of some of Europe’s biggest clubs. Chelsea was said to have been interested him in the off-season, but the club signed Raul Meireles instead. Inter Milan are now knocking at Porto’s door. If Moutinho continues his great form, it is only a matter of time until a bigger club comes swooping.
Inter to Snap up Youngster
January 27, 2011 January 27, 2011 / Sam Biggers / Leave a comment
Louletano youngster Joao Reis is on the verge of signing with Italian giants Inter, after a successful trial with the club. Fifa recently released a list of young stars for viewers to comment on. Joao Reis was surprisingly included on that list, supposedly due to his superb performances for Louletano, in the third division in Portugal. Benfica and Chelsea were also said to be interested, so his skills must be a sight to behold. The youngster will reportedly now link up with Inter’s Under-19 team.
Transfer News 5/23/10
May 23, 2010 May 24, 2010 / Sam Biggers / Leave a comment
There are quite a few things happening in regards to Portuguese transfers. Like most transfer periods, there are more rumors than actual deals going through.
1. Ukra Close to Newcastle Switch – Porto-owned, Olhanense starlet, has been a revelation for the Portuguese Liga side this season. Newcastle were close to signing him this January. Their 2 million pound offer was rejected by Porto earlier this season, so they need to up the ante with their bid for the winger.
2. Vaz Te – Bolton to ? – Portuguese striker Ricardo Vaz Te, who hasn’t seen a first-team opportunity in over a season, has decided to rescind his contract with English side Bolton Wanderers. Vaz Te has suffered through questionable fitness throughout the last few seasons, so he is ready to find a fresh challenge.
3. Joao Moutinho Sure to Leave Sporting – Sporting captain Joao Moutinho has recently come out and said that he will surely leave Sporting for a Premier League club. Everton are known to be courting him, and with Nuno Valente the Portuguese scout, the deal will most likely happen.
4. Miguel Veloso to Inter? – Miguel Veloso is in “advanced” talks with Inter Milan, most likely due to Jose Mourinho being the coach. If Mourinho leaves, then the deal will most likely fall through.
Portuguese Transfer News – 1/30/10
As the transfer window slowly comes to a close, there is still much news to report involving Portuguese transfers. Here is the important stuff I could find:
Pedro Mendes moves to Sporting
After what feels like years of negotiations, Pedro Mendes has put pen-to-paper on a 2 and a half year deal. The Portuguese international has recently been out of action for Rangers due to an injury picked up in the Champions League. Pedro Mendes was one of Rangers highest paid players, so this move is an important one for Sporting.
Inter Drop Fernandes Interest
Manuel Fernandes, who has recently been recovering from a leg injury, was thought to have moved to Inter Milan on a loan deal. Evidently, all of the specifics of the move were ironed out, and all that was left was the routine medical. It appears as if Fernandes’s leg hasn’t quite healed enough, so the deal fell through. His presentation was planned out and ready to go, but it was subsequently cancelled. The Valenica midfielder is actively seeking a starting position for this summer’s World Cup, and was hoping that a move would secure that hope.
Ricardo Costa to Lille
Portuguese international defender Ricardo Costa has transfered from German champions Wolfsburg to Ligue 1 side Lille. Lille are enjoying a splendid season, currently sitting third in the French League. Costa’s playing time has slowly been dwindling, so in hopes to renew interest from Carlos Queiroz, and to gain some more playing time, he has moved to France.
Stanislas Oliveira to Blackburn?
In a few very peculiar stories, I learned that Portuguese under – 21 international Stanislas Oliveira has moved from Ligue 2 side Sedan to Premier League side Blackburn Rovers for a estimated 500,000 pound fee. I find this hard to believe, but I guess anything is possible in this wonderful sport.
Manuel Fernandes Almost at Inter Milan
After a transfer ordeal with Sporting Lisbon, it looks as if Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan have won the race to sign Manuel Fernandes on loan. The Portuguese International was out of favor at Valencia after roughly 8 months of injury, so the purpose of this move is for more playing time. Two words are key to catching the bus to next summer’s World Cup:PLAYING TIME. That’s exactly what Manuel needs. He showed us at Everton that he has the ability to play against the better teams…..lets hope he can show us now.
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Partnerships and Executive Moves
Bill Beard
Vertex Names Bill Beard SVP of Corporate Operations, Strategy
Vertex Aerospace has announced the appointment of Bill Beard, a 40-year veteran of the aerospace and defense industry, as the company's new senior vice president of corporate operations and strategy.
As SVP, Beard is now responsible for overseeing Vertex's strategic growth and for providing leadership to its corporate business operation functions.
"Bill's diverse and wide range of experience in the aerospace and defense industry have delivered a record of success at every level, from apprentice technician to corporate executive," said Vertex CEO and President John Boyington.
According to Boyington, Beard's portfolio and leadership will be key in advancing Vertex in the mid-level aftermarket aerospace market, which he said is focused on continuous improvement and innovation.
Beard first joined Vertex in 2007 when he was its vice president of operations. He later provided consulting services to the company from 2016 to 2019.
In September 2019, he served as Vertex's interim senior VP of corporate business operations and business development.
Vertex highlighted Beard's history of success in the fields of aircraft maintenance, modifications, systems integration, aerospace manufacturing and contract logistics support services.
Beard retired from the Navy as a master chief petty officer after 20 years of service in naval aviation. He boasts a record of over 4K flight hours in a range of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft as well as special mission aircraft.
“I am extremely fortunate to have developed a long-term relationship with Vertex and am honored to continue building upon that. Driving company growth while creating more operational efficiencies will be my main priority to ensure we continue offering customers high-quality, affordable readiness,” Beard said.
Vertex is a provider mid-level aerospace capabilities and solutions to government and commercial customers.
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The association of carotid artery cannulation and neurologic injury in pediatric patients supported with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation*
Sarah A Teele, Joshua W Salvin, Cindy S Barrett, Peter T Rycus, Francis Fynn-Thompson, Peter C Laussen, Ravi R Thiagarajan
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2014, 15 (4): 355-61
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of neurologic injury in a recent cohort of patients 18 years old or younger cannulated for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. To evaluate the association of carotid artery cannulation with neurologic injury when compared with other cannulation sites. To determine if age impacts the association of carotid artery cannulation with neurologic injury.
DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of data from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry.
SETTING: Neonatal and pediatric medical/surgical and cardiac ICUs of 118 international tertiary care centers worldwide.
PATIENTS: Pediatric patients 18 years old or younger cannulated for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and reported to the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry during 2007 and 2008.
INTERVENTIONS: None.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Two thousand nine hundred seventy-seven patients underwent venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation during the study period. Indications for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation included pulmonary (n = 1,390, 47%), cardiac (n = 1,168, 39%), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (n = 418, 14%), and unknown (n = 1). Arterial cannulation sites were aorta (n = 938, 32%), femoral artery (n = 118, 4%), and carotid artery (n = 1,921, 64%). Overall, 611 patients (21%) had evidence of neurologic injury defined as seizures, infarction, and/or hemorrhage. The occurrence of neurologic injury varied significantly by cannulation site: femoral artery (n = 18, 15%), aorta (n = 160, 17%), and carotid artery (n = 433, 23%); p equals 0.001. Neonates represented the largest group of patients cannulated for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (n = 1,807, 61%), the majority of patients cannulated via the carotid artery (n = 1,276, 66%), and had the highest burden of neurologic injury (n = 398, 22%). Age, preextracorporeal membrane oxygenation high-frequency oscillatory ventilation use, preextracorporeal membrane oxygenation arterial pH and serum bicarbonate level, and preextracorporeal membrane oxygenation cardiac arrest were independently associated with neurologic injury in a covariate model. Carotid artery cannulation site was added to this adjusted model and found to independently increase odds of neurologic injury (odds ratio, 1.4 [95% CI, 1.01-1.69]). An interaction term containing age and cannulation site was not associated with neurologic injury (odds ratio, 1.06 [95% CI, 0.84-1.34]).
CONCLUSIONS: Carotid artery cannulation for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients 18 years old or younger is associated with statistically significant increased odds of neurologic injury. These increased odds are present across all age groups.
Neurological injury after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use to aid pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cindy S Barrett, Susan L Bratton, Joshua W Salvin, Peter C Laussen, Peter T Rycus, Ravi R Thiagarajan Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2009, 10 (4): 445-51
Limb ischemia after common femoral artery cannulation for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: an unresolved problem. Jeffrey W Gander, Jason C Fisher, Ari R Reichstein, Erica R Gross, Gudrun Aspelund, William Middlesworth, Charles J Stolar Journal of Pediatric Surgery 2010, 45 (11): 2136-40
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulation trends for pediatric respiratory failure and central nervous system injury. Michael D Rollins, Ania Hubbard, Luke Zabrocki, Douglas C Barnhart, Susan L Bratton Journal of Pediatric Surgery 2012, 47 (1): 68-75
Not off the assembly line but properly tailored: customizing cannulation for extracorporeal life support*. Graeme MacLaren, Yves d'Udekem, Warwick Butt Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2014, 15 (4): 375-7
Venovenous compares favorably with venoarterial access for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in neonatal respiratory failure. R Delius, H Anderson, R Schumacher, M Shapiro, T Otsu, K Toft, J Hirsch, R Bartlett Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1993, 106 (2): 329-38
Glial fibrillary acidic protein as a brain injury biomarker in children undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Melania M Bembea, William Savage, John J Strouse, Jamie McElrath Schwartz, Ernest Graham, Carol B Thompson, Allen Everett Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2011, 12 (5): 572-9
Survival outcomes after rescue extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pediatric patients with refractory cardiac arrest. Bahaaldin Alsoufi, Osman O Al-Radi, Rakan I Nazer, Colleen Gruenwald, Celeste Foreman, William G Williams, John G Coles, Christopher A Caldarone, Desmond G Bohn, Glen S Van Arsdell Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007, 134 (4): 952-959.e2
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and cerebral blood flow velocity in children. Nicole F O'Brien, Mark W Hall Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2013, 14 (3): e126-34
Primary use of the venovenous approach for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pediatric acute respiratory failure. Robert Pettignano, James D Fortenberry, Micheal L Heard, Michele D Labuz, Kenneth C Kesser, April J Tanner, Scott F Wagoner, Judith Heggen Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2003, 4 (3): 291-8
Subclavian artery cannulation for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Jeffrey Javidfar, Daniel Brodie, Joseph Costa, Joanna Miller, Julissa Jurrado, Matthew LaVelle, Alexis Newmark, Hiroo Takayama, Joshua R Sonett, Matthew Bacchetta ASAIO Journal: a Peer-reviewed Journal of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs 2012, 58 (5): 494-8
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Weekend 4.21 & 4.22
“Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty; eternal vigilance is the price of human decency.”
— Aldous Huxley
4 dead, 8 wounded in shooting at Tennessee Waffle House
Nude shooter uses assault rifle in 3 a.m. mayhem
#BREAKING: Well-Regulated Militia Opens Fire In Waffle House in Tennessee; Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene … more on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated story as it develops …
— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich) April 22, 2018
Unarmed man tackled Waffle House shooter, saving lives
— A 29-year-old man credited with saving numerous lives Sunday morning after he disarmed a man who opened fire on an Antioch Waffle House said he was just trying to stay alive.
— James Shaw Jr., said after feeling cornered he saw an opportunity to tackle the man shooting into an Antioch Waffle House.
James Shaw
More news from the Well-Regulated Militia:
Ohio mom shoots 2-year-old dead
— Police in Wickliffe, Ohio, said Saturday that it appears as though the mother of the child was handling the gun when she dropped it and it went off, hitting the girl. Police said the girl was struck in the chest and rushed to the hospital where she died.
Sex cult trying to intimidate witnesses, federal prosecutors say
Page Six (NY Daily News)
— Leaders of upstate sex slave cult Nxivm have been trying to undermine potential witnesses by registering websites in their names and threatening to reveal damaging information about them, according to federal prosecutors.
— When word got out that the Feds were investigating the organization, “high-ranking members … undertook efforts to undermine potential witnesses, including by registering domain names such as [Witness Name]exposed.com, with the intention of publishing damaging information regarding those witnesses,” prosecutors wrote in court papers Friday.
>>>Smallville actress pleads not guilty to sex trafficking
Texas court: Revenge porn is protected by First Amendment
— Is distributing intimate photos of current or previous sexual partners without their consent protected by the First Amendment? A state appeals court says yes.
— Now it will be up to the state attorney general’s office to defend the state’s “revenge porn” law, which was passed in 2015 and punishes those who post intimate images from previous or current relationships online.
— The Tyler-based 12th Court of Appeals said the law is unconstitutional because it’s too broad and infringes on free speech.
— The ruling applies only to about a dozen northeast Texas counties that fall under the jurisdiction of the 12th Court of Appeals, but other courts would likely consider its reasoning,
Swarming, self-cloning invasive ticks spread in NJ
Newark Star Ledger aka NJ.com
— The ticks are known to swarm and infest deer and animals other than sheep, so the department is warning that it has the potential to infect other North American wildlife species. The ticks reproduce asexually and just one of them is capable of laying thousands of eggs.
A well-regulated gov’t agency…
The deeper the probe goes, the scummier Pruitt turns out to be
— EPA’s so-called leader “forgot” to mention shady real-estate dealings and certain “favors” for, you know, friendly banks.
>>> Pruitt’s the target of at least 10 federal investigations
Among Pruitt’s many deals was buying into a minor league baseball franchise. He seems to be quite adept at underpaying for things. It is not known whether he paid full price for that hot dog and soda.
Mittens fails to get nod as Utah senator, faces primary
— Mitt Romney did anything but cruise to the Republican nomination for Orrin Hatch’s Utah Senate seat on Saturday in “a wild and raucous day of voting” at the state’s nominating convention. Romney, among a dozen Republicans seeking Hatch’s seat, was unable to secure 60% of the votes and thus the nomination; on the second round of voting, state representative Mark Kennedy came out on top with 50.88%, with Romney nipping at his heels with 49.12%.
TRUMP: MAGGIE WHO?
The New York Times and a third rate reporter named Maggie Habberman, known as a Crooked H flunkie who I don’t speak to and have nothing to do with, are going out of their way to destroy Michael Cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will “flip.” They use….
Trump with NYT reporter Maggie Haberman, whom he “doesn’t speak to and has nothing to do with.” (Unlike POTUS, this caption spells her name correctly.)
Trump backs sexual abstinence program for teens
“Serial adulterer who fathered 5 kids with 3 successively younger trophy wives tells teens to stop fucking.”
— El Gliko on Twitter
Sessions says he’d quit if Trump tried to fire Rosenstein
Swamp not quite drained yet
GOP fundraiser advised Russian company on sanctions.
The price to kill them: $26 million
— Shortly after Trump was inaugurated, top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy offered Russian gas giant Novatek a $26 million lobbying plan aimed at removing the company from a U.S. sanctions list.
— Broidy was deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until he resigned last week amid reports that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model with whom he had an affair.
US probe: Did Verizon, AT&T conspire to keep customers from switching carriers?
— The probe was opened after at least one other wireless carrier and one device maker registered complaints. One source said the device maker was Apple.
Xi: China MUST control its internet
Reuters via Yahoo
— China must strengthen its grip on the internet to ensure broader social and economic goals are met, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday citing comments from President Xi Jinping.
— “We cannot let the internet become a platform for disseminating harmful information and stirring up trouble with rumors.”
Court scuffle over Sinclair takeover of TV stations
Right wingers’ plan would put their TV stations in 72% of US homes
— A panel of the D.C. Circuit on Friday asked the Federal Communications Commission some tough questions about a rule change that would allow broadcasters to skirt a 39 percent cap on how many local TV stations they can own — a key question in the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s quest to buy Tribune Media for $3.9 billion.
— Sinclair — which drew scrutiny recently for ordering its TV news anchors to read a script about the dangers of fake news — owns 173 U.S. TV stations. Acquiring Tribune would give it another 42, expanding its reach to 72 percent of U.S. households.
>>> In April 2017, Sinclair hired Boris Epshteyn, … a senior Trump advisor, as chief political analyst. All Sinclair stations are required to air Ephsteyn’s commentary nine times per week. (Source: Wikipedia)
Netflix buying actual movie theaters to boost its Oscars prospects
— Netflix will reportedly begin purchasing movie theatres – to help it get ahead in the race for Academy Awards.
— The streaming giant has aimed to land an Oscar nod since the release of its first original feature in 2015, Beasts of No Nation.
— According to the Los Angeles Times, Netflix is allegedly contemplating the acquisition of cinemas in Los Angeles and New York to help them during awards season.
Trucker in deadly human smuggling tragedy gets life in prison
— A U.S. district judge handed a sentence of life in prison today to a driver who was transporting undocumented immigrants in a tractor-trailer so hot that ten people died.
— “I am so sorry it happened,” said James Matthew Bradley Jr. in a video statement played in court. “There’s not a day or night that goes by that I don’t relive this scene.”
— At first, Bradley told federal investigators that he became aware of his human cargo only after stopping for a bathroom break, as he heard people banging on the vehicle’s doors. But in October he pleaded guilty.
Massachusetts preschool bans kids from using term “best friend”
KABC-TV
— The “term best friend can lead other children to feel excluded,” and it can “ultimately lead to the formation of cliques and outsiders,” and the school encourages “students to have a wider group of friends.”
Body cam shows cops never got out of squad car
while searching for dying teen
Cincinnati.com
— The officers responding to Kyle Plush’s pleading 911 call never got out of their cruiser and appeared to only search one of the three parking lots around his school, at least while their body-worn cameras were turned on.
— And at one point an officer said, “I don’t see nobody, which I didn’t imagine I would.”
— Kyle was trapped in his van and having trouble breathing. He called 911 twice, but help never arrived. His father found his body hours later.
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Northern Spark 2012 – Night Owl Paradise
Posted in Art, Art of Rebellion, Culture, Holding My Breath, Photography, Place, Relationships, Skies, Vision, Wake Up, tagged #NSPK, @Northern_Spark, building community through the Arts, creative insomniacs, creative spaces, Jim Campbell, lightbulbs, making light of the dark, Minneapolis at night, Minnesota Arts, night photography, nightowls, Northern Spark, nuit blanche, public art, Scattered Light, sleepless night, spring in Minnesota, The Nuit Blanche Movement, the value of the Arts, Think & Wonder, Twin Cities, white night on June 2, 2012| 7 Comments »
Night On Fire, BlackBerry Shots, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Original BlackBerry photo June 2011, part of Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche.
Northern Spark 2012 begins next weekend in the Twin Cities at dusk on Saturday, June 9th and ends at the crack of dawn, Sunday, June 10th. Northern Spark is a free, dusk to dawn, participatory arts festival that presents visual arts, performance, films, and interactive media. Tonight at the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis we plan to attend the Pre-Spark Bridge Lighting where planners will flip the switch for Northern Spark’s signature artwork, Robin Schwartzman’s THINK AND WONDER, WONDER AND THINK. They will also be giving out festival guidebooks to preview before June 9.
Last year’s inaugural Northern Spark was magical. In 2011, over the course of the night, there were 50,000 visits to 100 projects by more than 200 mostly local artists at 34 venues in collaboration with 60 partner organizations and sponsors. I have listed a few of the places we visited in 2011 and a little history of the Nuit Blanche (“white night”) movement in the piece Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche.
The three photographs in this piece were taken while I was standing in the middle of Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light installation, part of Northern Spark 2011. In Annotated Artwork: The Making Of Jim Campbell’s ‘Scattered Light‘, Jim says moving from 2-D to 3D art is about “exploding an image, tearing it apart, and spreading it out.” His tips: 1. Pick a spot 2. Grab Source Material 3. Turn it into code 4. Create depth 5. Consider the planet. Honoring point 5, he and his assistants revamped thousands of standard lightbulbs, sawed them open, stuffed them with LEDs, and glued them back together, making handmade, unique, energy-efficient hybrids.
I am looking forward to Northern Spark 2012. At the Northern Spark website, there is a Planning Your Night page with a full list of events, including a link to download their new Northern Spark mobile app. We’ve already got ours loaded on our Androids. I only hope there is enough time to make all the events we’ve listed. It’s perfect for all of our fellow NightOwls! Hope to see our local readers there! If you can’t make it, you can follow Northern Spark on their Facebook page and at Twitter @Northern_Spark #NSPK.
Out Of The Darkness (L), #NorthernSpark – Scattered Light by Jim Campbell 23/52 (R), BlackBerry Shots, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Original BlackBerry photos June 2011, part of Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche.
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
-related to posts: Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche, Suspended In Light (Reprise), Insomnia Haiku: Counting Syllables In My Sleep, Mickey’s Night Owl Sandwich, Dreams Of A Creative Insomniac
Suspended In Light (Reprise)
Posted in Art, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Relationships, Vision, Wake Up, tagged alotus_poetry, art & poetry, A~Lotus, BlackBerry 52 Collaboration, BlackBerry shots, building community through the Arts, collaboration, haiga, Jim Campbell, no longer Earthbound, Northern Spark, photography as Muse, Poetry By Lotus, public art, QuoinMonkey, refuge in the Wind, Scattered Light, shadows & light, storyboard, the art of photography, the practice of photography, the value of the Arts on July 2, 2011| 11 Comments »
Suspended In Light (Haiga), 23/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 23, June 2011, haiga © 2011 by A~Lotus, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Original BlackBerry photo Scattered Light taken by QuoinMonkey in June 2011 as part of Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche. Poetry for the haiga created and edited by Lotus using Adobe Photoshop CS2 & MS PowerPoint 2007.
No longer Earthbound,
after the melody ends —
we take refuge in the Wind.
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Storyboard response to the haiga collaboration with Lotus. We will continue to bounce off of each other’s BlackBerry Jump-Off photos with text, photography, poetry (however we are inspired) for the 52 weeks of 2011. You can read more at BlackBerry 52 Collaboration. If you are inspired to join us, send us a link to your images, poetry, or prose and we’ll add them to our posts.
-related to post: haiku 4 (one-a-day) Meets renga 52
Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche
Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Dreams, Holding My Breath, Home, Maps, Photography, Place, Poetry, Relationships, Skies, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged all night art festivals, building community through the Arts, community as witness, Deborah Miller, environmental art, global community, gratitude for community, Jim Campbell, Marcus Young, MCAD, Mill City Silos, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minnesota Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, night owls, night photography, nightowls, Northern Lights.mn, Northern Spark, Northern Spark Guide, nuit blanche, public art, Roman Verostko, Scattered Light, sleepless night, sleeplessness, summer in Minnesota, sundown to sunrise, The Nuit Blanche Movement, Three-Story Drawing Machine, white night, Wing Young Huie on June 4, 2011| 22 Comments »
Northern Spark Installation by Roman Verostko, Three-Story Drawing Machine, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
I walk in the tradition of the Night Owl, and revel in the sleepless rituals of nuit blanche. Tonight from 9pm to 6am, Liz and I will be traversing the Mississippi River (from Minneapolis to St. Paul and back!) to visit the art installations of Northern Spark. Various corners of the Twins Cities will be lit up from dusk until dawn with venues that include: the Mill City Silos, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, poetry at All My Relations Arts, the GLOW-a-BOUT at Loring Park near the Walker Art Center (open all night and featuring the Lullaby Experiment by Marcus Young, creator of Everyday Poems For City Sidewalk), and four site specific installations (see Three-Story Drawing Machine by Roman Verostko above) at my alma mater, the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
The information below is from the Northern Spark Media Kit. The Northern Spark website includes a complete list of events that you can add to your own interactive map that charts your night’s events. You can also download and print this PDF of the Northern Spark Guide listing the details of each installation across the Twin Cities. Hope to see you at this community event for the Arts, public art at its best!
The Nuit Blanche Movement
The idea of a nuit blanche (translated as “white night” or “sleepless night”) is an art event/tradition first seen in St. Petersburg, Russia and Berlin, Germany in the mid 1990s and first named “nuit blanche” in Paris in 2002. Since that time, the idea of the nuit blanche has expanded dramatically becoming a popular art event in cities throughout the world.
Today, a Nuit Blanche event consists of art installations and events in public spaces and museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions opening their doors free of charge to the public from dusk till dawn. In effect, the host city itself is turned into a de facto art gallery, providing space for art installations, performances (music, film, dance, performance art), social gatherings, and other activities.
Besides St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Paris, nuit blanche events have taken place in Toronto, New York City, Tel Aviv, Santa Monica, and Montreal.
Northern Spark 2011
Spearheaded by Northern Lights.mn, Northern Spark is the first ever nuit blanche event in the Midwest. Northern Lights.mn is a roving, collaborative, interactive media-oriented, arts agency from the Twin Cities but for the world. It presents innovative art in the public sphere, both physical and virtual, focusing on artists creatively using technology, both old and new, to engender new relations between audiences and artwork and more broadly between people and their built environments.
Northern Spark will take place from June 4 (sundown ~8:55 p.m.) to June 5, 2011 (sunrise ~5:28 a.m.) at various locations along the Mississippi River and surrounding areas in Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than 60 artists from Minnesota, the surrounding area, and select locations across the country will be represented at the event.
Northern Spark Installation by Deborah Miller, Mill City Silos, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
Northern Spark:
First All Night Take Over Of The Twin Cities
MINNEAPOLIS, May 3, 2011 – It’s no secret Minneapolis St Paul is one of the leading centers of art in the United States. But on June 4 this year, the Twin Cities will join for the first time, the worldwide Nuit Blanche arts movement by hosting “Northern Spark,” the area’s first ever, all-night long arts festival.
For one night only, more than 60 regional and national artists together with the Twin Cities’ arts community will display new art installations at public places and unexpected locations throughout the city. Directed and produced by Northern Lights.mn and funded by the MN State Arts Board, Northern Spark takes place this summer from sunset on June 4 (8:55 p.m.) until the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5:28 a.m.).
“The Twin Cities has an amazing art culture and reputation,” says Northern Lights director, Steve Dietz. “Our aim is to really showcase that artistic excellence in a way never quite seen before by transforming the cities’ urban landscapes into a Twin Cites-wide art gallery for one special night.” The Northern Spark event will include a wide diversity of art forms and projects including multi-story projections, audio environments with vistas, installations traveling down the Mississippi on barges, houseboats and paddleboats, headphone concerts, and the use of everything from bioluminescent algae and sewer pipes for organs to more traditional media such as banjos and puppets.
One of the most highly anticipated installations is Jim Campbell’s “Scattered Light” from New York’s Madison Square Park, in which LED light bulbs suspended in a cube-shape on high tensile wire blink on and off to recreate the forms of pedestrians’ movements in three dimensions. Other artists involved in the nuit blanche include Christopher Baker, Phillip Blackburn, Body Cartography, Bart Buch, Barbara Claussen, Wing Young Huie, Debora Miller, Minneapolis Art on Wheels, Ali Momeni, Janaki Ranpura, Red76, Rigo 23, Jenny Schmid, Andréa Stanislav, Piotr Szyhalski, Diane Willow, Roman Verostko, Liu Xuguang, Marcus Young, and others.
The event is a collaboration — rarely seen on this kind of scale — of more than 40 partners each of which will sponsor one or more projects for the duration of the night. The goal is to showcase the urban splendor of the Twin Cities in a unique way, introducing a broad and diverse audience to innovative local and national talent in an inspiring journey through the night.
Northern Spark Installations: Wing Young Huie (TOP) by Nomad World Pub, St. Paul, Minnesota, Deborah Miller (BOTTOM) at Mill City Silos, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, June 4th, 2011
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Tag: Katia Abreu
Despite Economic Woes Brazil’s Agribusiness Still Booming
Lise Alves - September 14, 2015
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – While Brazil continues to capture negative headlines in business with news of loss of investment grade, galloping inflation and deficit budget bills, in agriculture, the South American country seems to...
Brazil to Improve Ports to Transport Record Grain Harvest
Lise Alves - January 14, 2015
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s government announced measures to assist the transport of what is expected to be a record grain harvest in the country in the 2014-2015 season, including incentives for ports located...
President Rousseff Announces More Cabinet Members in Brazil
Lise Alves - December 30, 2014
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced on Monday, December 29th, seven more new cabinet members who will help her during her second term in office. Among the nominations announced yesterday are...
President Rousseff Announces Cabinet For Second Term
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil announced on Tuesday, December 23rd, thirteen new cabinet members for her second term, which begins on January 1st. In November Rousseff had already named her...
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Tag Archives: starlings drink themselves to death in Romania
Fish and Birds Commit Mass Suicide
Could it be that bird and sealife is giving up?
THE recent spate of mass animal deaths around the world is sparking conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions on the web.
From the US to New Zealand, from Britain to Brazil, bizarre cases of birds, fish and crabs turning up dead en masse have been reported in the past two weeks and no one seems to know why.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/is-it-an-animal-apocalypse-here-are-the-facts-and-theories-about-recent-mass-die-offs/story-e6frfkyi-1225983078355#ixzz1AFDibzKf
First we have the inexplicable deaths last week of 83,000 drum fish which were washed up along a 32km stretch of the Arkansas River, about 160km west of Beebe, Arkansas and now dozens of dead snapper have washed up on a beach in Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/carpet-of-dead-snapper-on-new-zealand-beaches/story-e6frfku0-1225982188696.
And in Port Orange, Florida US, hundreds of dead fish floated around the waterways near homes, WFTV reported, surrounded by swarms of pelicans and buzzards. Kayakers on the creek told WFTV they’d seen fish around every bend and it appeared to be one of the most extensive kills they had seen.
On the Coast of Paranaguá, Brazil at least 100 tonnes of sardine, croaker and catfish have washed up on beaches over the past week, Parana Online reported. The President of the Federation of Fishermen’s Colony of Parana, Edmir Manoel Ferreira, said at least 2800 fishermen depend on the daily seafood. “We are experiencing a very sad situation on the coast,” he said.
Biologists have explained the deaths in Brazil could be because of a possible increase in the concentration of algae that produce toxins. This increase may lead to death in some species, such as sardines.
In Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, US, the Baltimore Sun reported an estimated two million spot fish died and washed up on the shore. The dead fish are mostly adult spot, with some juvenile croakers. State officials are investigating but suspect it was because of the near-record cold. Agency spokeswoman Dawn Stoltzfus said spot are susceptible to colder water, she said, and normally leave the upper bay by now. They were perhaps late getting out.
Water samples taken from the bay showed elevated levels of two species of toxic algae.
In Thanet, Kent, England 40,000 dead velvet swimming crabs, or “devil crabs” were washed up on Thanet beaches. Tony Childs, Thanet Coast Project Manager, told the Daily Mail: “We had a crash in numbers last year and we hadn’t expected such a large population. As happens with the circle of life in nature, we expect the crabs to be naturally dispersed from our shores very quickly by our local seagulls.”
Velvet Swimming Crab (ukdivers.net)
The cold weather in Britain has been blamed for the deaths. “We are hopeful the crab population will soon recover,” said Mr Childs.
The Daily Mail reported that the mass crab deaths made up 95 per cent of marine life affected by the cold snap.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/is-it-an-animal-apocalypse-here-are-the-facts-and-theories-about-recent-mass-die-offs/story-e6frfkyi-1225983078355#ixzz1AFHv3bIT
And dead birds are raining on us out of the skies. Four to five thousand dead black birds fell out of the sky just 580km to the south of Beebe, Arkansas. The only reason that has been given so far is that the birds were spooked by New Year fireworks. The sound caused them to panic and as they flew around in the dark they hit against things and fell to their deaths.
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
And in nearby Louisiana an estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings have been found dead, a local newspaper reports – just a few days and a short distance away from where the thousands of black birds died in Arkansas.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/more-birds-fall-out-of-sky-as-mystery-deepens/story-e6frfku0-1225982169450#ixzz1A6gUlmyp
And 100 jackdaw birds were found lying dead in the street in Sweden http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-it-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/
On Saturday in Romania, dozens of starlings drank themselves to death after eating grapes left over from the wine-making process.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/romanian-birds-drank-themselves-to-death/story-e6frfku0-1225985964860#ixzz1AlMMjmw9
I can understand why fish might have given up the ghost. The state of play in the ocean is disgraceful. The sea can no longer afford to supply us with the millions of tonnes of sealife we are hauling out of it annually and trawlers have to go further and further out to sea as we annihilate the sealife closer to shore.
And let’s not forget the pollution in the sea. We have millions of tonnes of oil floating around out there, courtesy of BP, Shell and leaking ships. We have oodles of plastic floating around https://roslynmotter.com/2010/09/09/sailing-in-a-plastic-sea/and also the sea has proven to be a wonderful depository for our chemical waste. In Sydney we have been warned not to eat any fish caught west of Sydney Harbour as the Union Carbide pesticide factory at Homebush tipped all its chemical waste into the ocean for decades. Commercial fishing was banned in the harbour in December 2005 after raised levels of potentially harmful dioxins, a group of organic chemicals, were found in several species of fish and crustaceans. http://www.topix.com/forum/world/australia/TIVRE215CKAE3IN9T
In the sky things are hardly better. Have a look at these statistics of what kills birds http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbine-kill-birds.htm –
Man-made structure/technology Associated bird deaths per year (U.S.)
Feral and domestic cats Hundreds of millions
Power lines 130 million — 174 million
Windows (residential and commercial) 100 million — 1 billion
Pesticides 70 million
Automobiles 60 million — 80 million
Lighted communication towers 40 million — 50 million
Wind turbines 10,000 — 40,000
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Now what happened to my tree? http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/
A family of kookaburras for example, live in the hollow of the same tree for two hundred years or longer. Well, that is, unless the tree is chopped down – and we’re certainly doing plenty of that in Australia. Tens of thousands of trees were chopped down to build the M7 Tollway in Sydney.
Trees are routinely poisoned to protect views. Trees are seen as a real enemy by many suburbanites. I know a woman who said that one Saturday afternoon her family went out to the movies for a couple of hours. When they returned home, a tree which had hitherto grown proudly in the middle of their backyard, had completely disappeared and there was not a leaf or twig to indicate that it had ever stood there. She maintains that the next door neighbour who hated the said tree, had annhilated it in her absence. https://roslynmotter.com/2010/09/02/so-what-is-the-point-of-trees-anyway/
And we’re already paying the price for that mindset. The flooded rivers in Queensland are running brown with our precious top soil. The trees that used to hold it in place have been chopped down so all it took was a deluge to wash it all out to sea.When societies exhaust their topsoil, they collapse or are forced to move. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/floods-steal-precious-topsoil–and-future-goes-down-drain-20110109-19jrq.html
http://free-trees-screensaver.smartcode.com/screenshot.html
And in a sadistic and nasty slaughter in NZ recently, more than 100 Endangered Black-billed Gulls Larus bulleri, a New Zealand endemic undergoing a steep decline, have been slaughtered at a colony near Wreys Bush in Southland. Department of Conservation ranger Ros Cole said that most of the birds died from bullet wounds, but others had broken bones and some chicks were found starving to death beside their dead parents.
And dolphins (although not classified as fishes) are not faring too well either. People on jet skis are being warned to be careful after a baby dolphin was found dead on the Mornington Peninsula with a broken jaw and skull last week.
And of course there are the poor dolphins and small whales who are annually rounded up and slaughtered in the coastal town of Taiji in Japan.
http://www.hitech-dolphin.com/free-dolphin-pictures.html
So who would want to be a bird or a fish? Could this be why they are possibly committing mass suicide?
Conspiracy theorists Joseph Watson and Alex Jones of prisonplanet.com blame it on “the government”. According to the site authorities have “routinely engaged in secret testing of biological and electromagnetic weapons that have detrimentally impacted both humans and animals many times in the past.”
According to Watson and Jones “Scalar weapons that can artificially manipulate the environment could be responsible for the mass die offs. We know for a fact that over a decade ago the U.S. Military Industrial Complex was aware of and involved in the testing of such technology.”
Maybe it is a government conspiracy to do selective killings. If so, then we are all even closer to the end than we think.
Or maybe the world is such an unfriendly place to fish and bird life that they’d just rather die than continue to struggle on against the odds.
In any case, we should ponder on the Cree Indians’ famous prophecy which is becoming all too close for comfort –
• When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
and Roslyn J. Motter’s opinion on humans –
If mankind disappeared today
What would all the animals say?
Birds, koalas and even bees,
Would sing with joy – they’d now have trees!
Tigers, elephants, all kinds of bear,
Could now roam free- without a care.
Their rivers would run unpolluted
Man and Earth are so unsuited!
But hey, don’t worry, we’re the master race so we’ll think of something clever!
Tagged as annual dolphin slaughter at Taiji Japan, birds killed by fireworks, Black-billed Gulls Larus bulleri slaughtered in New Zealand, chemicals in ocean, cree Indian prediction, croaker and catfish die in Brazil, dead black birds in Arkansas, dead fish at Port Orange Florida, dolphins killed by jet skis, drum fish die in Arkansas, Joseph Watson and Alex Jones conspiracy theories, kookaburras lose trees, oil in ocean, plastic in ocean, sardines, starlings drink themselves to death in Romania, suburban trees killed, trees poisoned for views, two million spot fish die in Maryland, velvet swimmer crabs
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Our state
Australia’s Best Cars
Safest first cars under $10,000
Safety's never been more affordable.
By Samuel Smith
Year after year, youth are overrepresented in road trauma statistics.
People aged 16 to 24 make up 11% of the population, but account for 18% of fatalities and 22% of serious injuries on South Australian roads, according to government stats.
It’s a sad fact: young people face a higher risk of serious injury and death on our roads compared to other age groups. To combat this, countless methods have been introduced, from curfews and passenger restrictions to the latest Graduated Licensing Scheme.
But what about the cars they’re driving?
In an ideal world, L and P-platers would tackle traffic in the safest vehicles on the market. In reality, this often isn’t possible due to the higher price tags of these cars and the lower budgets of young drivers.
But as life-saving automotive technology becomes the norm, we’re starting to see vehicles with 5-star Used Car Safety Ratings drop below the $10,000 mark.
If you, or the young driver(s) in your life, are in the market for an affordable used car, check out our following 5 picks, all under $10,000 and each with a 5-star Used Car Safety Rating.
2011 Honda City VTi
Used Car Safety Rating: 5 stars
Price range: $8000 to $10,000
Average km: 110,000km
Engine: 4cyl 1.5L petrol
Honda Citys on the production line. Image: Getty
Why it’s a safer option: The 2010-2014 Honda City features dual front airbags, side airbags, head-protecting side-curtain airbags and antilock brakes with electronic brake distribution.
Electronic stability control reduces skidding in the event of an emergency and helps the driver maintain control of the car, while advanced seatbelt reminders and pretensioners are fitted to both front seats. A secure 3-point seatbelt is fitted in the rear, offering better protection than a standard 2-point seatbelt.
2008 Audi A3 Ambition
Engine: 4cyl 1.8L petrol turbo
The second-generation Audi A3. Image: iStock
Why it’s a safer option: The 2004-2013 Audi A3 was one of the safest cars in its category when released over a decade ago.
Today, it still holds up extremely well, boasting a 5-star Used Car Safety Rating. The Ambition turbo is a lot of car for the money and features dual front airbags, as well as front and rear side-curtain airbags.
The A3 has excellent stopping power with antilock brakes and electronic stability control. When new, it scored particularly high in ANCAP’s side-impact and pole-impact tests.
2013 Nissan Pulsar ST
The 2013 Pulsar hatchback. Image: iStock
Why it’s a safer option: Though a little harder to find than its competitors – the Mazda 3 and Toyota Yaris – the 2013 Nissan Pulsar is packed with safety features.
The Pulsar’s occupants are protected by driver and passenger airbags as well as curtain airbags. On the road, it features electronic stability control and traction control.
When crash-tested in 2013 by ANCAP, the Pulsar’s passenger compartment held its shape with maximum points for head and neck protection. It also scored highly in whiplash protection tests.
2013 Ford Mondeo EcoBoost
The Ford Mondeo EcoBoost was a huge hit throughout Europe. Image: Getty
Why it’s a safer option: All variants of the 2013 Ford Mondeo received a 5-star Used Car Safety Rating. The EcoBoost features driver and passenger airbags, side airbags, head-protecting curtains and a driver knee airbag.
Mondeos build in 2013 came standard with electronic stability control. They also feature Ford’s adaptive energy-absorbing steering column which, in a crash, works like a shock absorber to soften the impact.
Both the 2010 Passat sedan and wagon have 5-star Used Car Safety Ratings. Image: Getty
Why it’s a safer option: The 2010 Passat (all variants) is one of the safest, best-appointed options for drivers in search of a larger used car around the $10,000 mark.
Both the Passat sedan and wagon have 5-star Used Car Safety Ratings, scoring maximum points in ANCAP’s side-impact crash tests when new. Occupants are protected by dual front, side and curtain airbags. Electronic stability control comes standard.
Higher-spec Passats have the added bonus of a reverse camera and come with emergency brake assist.
See all Used Car Safety Ratings.
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Sarafina Magazine
Celebrating South African Women in the Arts
Tag: Anita
A Conversation with Bianca Le Grange
Bianca Le Grange made a name for herself after competing on the first season of South African Idols. A few years, and a lot of hard work later, Bianca has become a full-fledged Musical Theatre leading lady tackling roles in David Kramer’s District 6 Kanala and Blood Brothers, for which she won a Naledi Award, Anita in West Side Story and most recently, as the narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We sat down with Bianca before one of her final performances of Joseph to chat about the role, her return to Anita and her Musical Theatre journey. Continue reading →
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SEND Supported is based in Warwickshire and helps families to better understand and manage their child's special educational needs and disabilities.
Consultants are available at a variety of community and school based support groups to answer questions and offer advice; n Warwick,we offer a monthly, Family Drop-in where you can come along to meet other families, share ideas and feel supported. You may also be interested in our First Steps workshops for families of children who have a new autism diagnosis; or our transition support groups for parents and carers – these are designed to help you help your child make a successful transition into secondary education. For dates and further information about all Family events please go to the What’s On pages of this website. Please also visit the Resources pages where you will find a growing library of information and ideas covering a range of SEND topics.
For more individual advice and guidance for families in Warwickshire, visit Warwickshire’s SEND Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) or Contact. SENDIASS is available to all families at no cost and is a good, first port of call for independent advice, information and support on all matters relating to SEND. Contact also provides support, advice and information for families with disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability; and hosts SEN Direct which can signpost you to the right support, service and information for your family.
enquiries@SENDsupported.com
Emscote Centre, Nelson Lane,
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scribblesbyviv
What about Viv
Tag Archives: The Talk
Kids Take Flight During Birds and Bees Talk
March 26, 2020 Adults Only-Nieces Nephews Turn Back, Scribbles by Vivbees, birds, humor, parenting, sade, scribbles, sex, The Talk, vivVintage Chicks lol
For a society and culture that seems to be obsessed with sexuality — and why does the word sexuality sound so much less dirty than the word sex? — we sure are squeamish when it comes to talking about it.
As the mother of four, I was always squeamish when it came to having The Talk with The Kids.
Girl First and Only was always shy and soft-spoken and would turn red if I even mentioned s-e-x. Son No. 1 , who was four years younger than his sis, would wait until we were at the dinner table and ask matter-of-factly, “What is masturbation?” or “What is oral sex?” while his sister groaned loudly and buried her head in her mashed potatoes and peas.
I would answer Son No. 1’s questions the best I could and sneak into Girl First and Only’s bedroom and leave pamphlets with titles like, “Why does Alexandria’s Changing Body Need Supportive Underwear?”
I think it worked. They both had children after they married.
My two youngest sons were born 16 years after Girl First and Only and were 9 and 11 when I decided we would have The Talk in the middle of an Italian feast I had prepared for the occasion.
I explained that pasta should always be cooked al dente´ and that parmesan was always better when freshly grated while casually peppering the conversation with words like “condiments,” “penal code,” “Uranus,” “hoagie buns,” “gesticulate” and “titmouse.”
Both boys got that panicked-deer-in-the-headlights look, jammed their fingers in their ears, jumped up from the table and ran screaming from the kitchen — just as I was about to embark on a lively debate of the virtues of mascerating versus marinating.
Several times after that, I again tried to have The Talk with the boys, to no avail.
I resorted to leaving copies of books like, “What’s Up With Alexander’s Suddenly Hairy, Pimply Body?” on their unmade bunk beds and hoped for the best.
A few years later, Son No. 2 fell in love (again) and it became obvious that I had missed the window on having The Talk or taking them on those field trips to Intercourse, Pennsylvania and Bangkok, Thailand.
One day, I nonchalantly walked into the living room while Son No. 2 and The Girl were supposedly watching TV. The Girl — a pretty, coquettish thing — was reclining on the sofa and arranged across my son’s lap like an after church all-you-can-eat smorgasbord.
My son gave me a sheepish grin.
Remaining very calm, I wedged in next to them, forcing The Girl to sit up.
A few awkward minutes later, they got up and headed for the upstairs.
“Where are you going?” I asked.
“To my room to watch a movie,” Son No. 2 replied.
Visions of tiny, eager swimming sperm and coquettish, seductive eggs that I had seen in a grainy cartoon-version of “Health and Human Reproduction” in tenth grade flashed through my head.
Baby Boy — aka Son No. 3 — who was standing nearby, snickered.
“I prefer you watch it down here, in the living room,” I said calmly.
“Yeah, not in your BED–room,” Baby Boy sang while leering and moving his prepubescent pelvis suggestively.
Son No. 2 punched his brother, who punched him back while The Girl giggled.
The next weekend The Girl was back. When I peeked into the living room on my every-four-minute-sex-check-watch, they were locked in a lip embrace.
“What are you guys doing?” I asked, because that’s the only thing I could think of to ask.
Unlike Son No. 1 and Baby Boy, Girl First and Only and No. 2 Son had never quite mastered the art of the well-executed lie.
“Kissing. Why? Why did you think we were doing?”
Geesh. What did I think?
I thought The Girl’s cute, little belly button was hanging out of her too-short shirt and too-low pants and showing a little too much skin.
I thought that her mother had obviously also missed the window on having The Talk.
I thought that Alexander’s book should have included a warning about young, limber girls who practice yoga in the smorgasbord position.
I thought I should at least pretend to trust him.
I forced myself to go to another room, but not before slipping Baby Boy, almost 13, a crisp five-dollar bill with whispered orders that he was to stay in the living room and keep an eye on his brother and The Girl.
Later, Baby Boy came to update me on The Situation.
“What are they doing?” I asked.
“Just watching TV,” he said, then added, “Boy, is she hot! When they break up, I’m gonna ask her out.”
That’s when I snatched my five back.
I needed it to pay for my anti-anxiety drugs.
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Unconnected Thoughts
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Jillian Youngbird, The Daughter Sure Favors the Mother, 2018. Digital photograph on fabric, quilted with gold table runner, 57 x 34 in. Photo: E.G. Schempf, Courtesy the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute
2018 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Awards
December 18, 2019 by Alice Thorson
H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute
Though not by design, there is often a shared thread among the works in the annual Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Exhibition, which accompanies a $10,000 unrestricted grant to each artist. The 2018 show, which featured new works by Marie Bannerot McInerney, Jarrett Mellenbruch, and Jillian Youngbird, was true to type, with the three awardees all exploring time, memory, and the environment.
McInerney commanded the soaring first gallery with her meditative [Ap]Parent Bodies, an installation composed of five layered, silk organza panels in shades of gray to white, which created a convex canopy above a black platform holding two objects. One was a biomorphic vessel covered with gold leaf, the other a slice of a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. “The elements on the mat are protagonists,” she says, in the drama of an Anthropocene tragedy. The vessel is a surrogate for humanity; the meteorite represents the age of the earth and longevity in time. The stark beauty of the piece, which included a gridded white tile floor surrounding the black platform, encouraged viewers to linger and situate themselves within the push-pull between nature and culture, the organic and the rational, pondering what it all means for our future.
Mellenbruch, who is best known for specially designed beehives that provide a safe environment for wild honeybees (Haven), took the CSF Awards show as an opportunity to launch another ecological restoration project. Deep Ecology Project Redwood Preserve Proposal is wildly ambitious and thoroughly researched, a model for the kind of commitment it will take to reverse the course of climate change. The project was presented as a 16-page PDF that visitors could peruse at a rustic recycled wood table. (The proposal also featured at a session of the PDF Club, a discussion and reading group hosted by Artspace.) The document opens with a statement of intent: “To restore the ancient California redwood forest obliterated by logging in the 19th and 20th centuries.” A primary goal is to reduce atmospheric carbon. As Mellenbruch notes, “Redwoods capture more carbon dioxide…than any other tree on Earth and sequester twice as much carbon as other forests.”
The scope of his solution is mammoth—restoring and reforesting two million acres of the trees, beginning with the purchase of privately held parcels of land where redwoods used to grow. His proposal lays out an innovative strategy to fund these acquisitions using crowdfunding and the sale of “utility tokens.” The tokens could be redeemed for various benefits: corporations could use them for carbon offsets; individuals could redeem them for perks like a natural burial or a vacation stay in the preserve. Like stock shares, the tokens could also be traded. Mellenbruch is currently seeking grant funding to jumpstart the Redwoods Project, which he hopes will serve as a prototype for other large-scale ecological restoration endeavors.
Youngbird’s Ozarks roots and Native American heritage have been touchstones in her work since she graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2011. Family memories come to the fore in her recent body of work, which includes cyanotypes of family members printed on fabric. Blue Are the Hills that Are Far Away pays tribute to her maternal grandmother, whose handiwork skills set Youngbird on the path to becoming an artist. The photograph appears in two versions: one is gridded into nine segments and mounted on the wall; the other hangs in front of it like a diaphanous curtain, evoking the veil of time and the vagaries of memory.
Youngbird’s use of gold in several pieces was inspired by memories of a childhood game in which she “prospected” for gold-painted rocks hidden by her grandmother. As she observes, such games, including cowboys and Indians, “normalize these tragedies before we even know what they are as adults.” Like other expressions of Manifest Destiny, the rush for gold decimated the land. In My Cup Runneth Over, a plaster cowboy boot overflowing with strands of gold beads rests on a digital reproduction of an old photo of the artist’s mother dressed up for a tintype at Silver Dollar City.
In the diptych The Daughter Sure Favors the Mother, Youngbird endows a photograph of her grandmother on fabric with a touch of the sacred, cutting it into pieces interspersed with triangles of shiny gold fabric from a table runner. A watery passage of turquoise, the result of damage to the original photograph, adds aesthetic luster to a piece that simultaneously invokes history, heritage, craft, domesticity, and familial love.
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Blair hockey clinches playoff berth with win over Blake
Feb. 10, 2013, 3:34 p.m. | By Kyle Desiderio | 7 years, 11 months ago
Constant offensive pressure puts Blazers ahead
Rockville Ice Arena, Feb. 8-–
The Blair hockey team (6-4-1) thrashed the Blake Bengals (4-7) 8-0, asserting their offensive and defensive dominance throughout the game and clinching a playoff berth on Feb.8.
Photo: Offensive tenacity was the key to Blair's success in the match against Blake.
Once the game started, it didn't take long for momentum to swing Blair's way as sophomore co-captain Max Kronstadt scored a goal in the first minute of the game. Less than a minute later, fellow sophomore co-captain Sebastian Rubinstein scored another goal to put Blair up 2-0 within the first four minutes of the game. "We came into the game just wanting to get pucks in the net early in the game," Kronstadt said.
The intensity of the start was never lost throughout the game. The Blazers were up 4-0 by the end of the first period, 6-0 by the end of the second and finally closed out the game with an eight point advantage. By the end of the game, both Rubinstein and Kronstadt had hat tricks and lead the team in overall points.
The Bengals tried multiple times to comeback, but the team was constantly marred by penalties and spent a large amount of the game down a player. Even though officials played a larger part of the game than in others, both players and coaches alike agree with the calls. "It can get out of hand real quick if the refs aren't making calls," Rubinstein said.
Photo: Senior Alex Ortiz faces off against a Blake Defender
Head coach Kevin McCabe agreed with the Rubinstein's statement claiming that the penalties were necessary so players could understand that the officials wouldn't take any cheap shots. Regardless of officiating, a stellar Blair defense, lead by multiple clutch saves by senior goalie Michel Devynck ensured that the Bengals wouldn't be able to mount a comeback.
McCabe was excited with the win on Blair's senior night. "We knew we needed to get traffic in front of the net to score and we did just that," McCabe said. "I always have my seniors end their last [regular season] game on the ice, and it's great that they could win."
With the win, the Blazers were able to secure a spot in the playoffs. "It feels great to get in the playoffs and regardless of whether we win or lose, I'm glad we're here," Rubinstein said.
Come out and support Blair Hockey as they take on number one seed and defending state champions Washington County on February 14.
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Mastering tracks
It started at racetracks far from Suzuki’s Hamamatsu, Japan headquarters. A group of dedicated Suzuki engineers on an overseas fact-finding mission wandered through paddocks and spectator parking lots, looking at motorcycles and watching races.
The racers at these events didn’t have factory contracts, and were not paid to race. They came because they loved the competition, the sport, and they rode motorcycles they bought themselves.
The race classes were defined by engine size, rider skill level and allowable modifications. The grids for 1000cc machines were packed with GSX-R1000s. The grids for 750cc machines featured row after row of GSX-R750s. But the 600cc grids were no longer completely filled with GSX-R600s. After years of trying, the middleweight competition had finally caught up, again.
The engineers worked stopwatches, talked to riders and mechanics, filled notebooks with observations and comments. They compared what they had seen at these regional races to what was happening in the World Superbike and AMA and other national Superbike series, and with the results from endurance series in Europe and the U.S.
By the time they returned to Japan, the engineers had a clear plan: Take everything Suzuki has learned from building and racing the dominating GSX-R1000 and use it to again leapfrog the would-be 600cc competition.
Apply the cutting-edge technology inherent in Genuine Suzuki Engineering, and build a new middleweight machine that defines the concept, The Top Performer.
In other words, produce a racer replica that delivers “the outstanding power-to-weight ratio, powerband and throttle response”. A sportbike that also establishes the 600cc state-of-the-art in terms of throttle response, suspension performance, braking power. A motorcycle with the type of overall handling that inspires rider confidence and leads to quicker lap times. A machine infused with lessons from the racetrack.
An Artwork Suzuki GSX-R 600 cc of Integral Design
Suzuki has pioneered the concept of integration in design. Unlike the traditional method in which a team of engineers responsible for developing the engine and other design a chassis to anchor in Suzuki an integrated specialist engineers in power package, chassis and electrical system work together using the latest technology Race to build a bike as competitive as possible.
Some of the main objectives of the new Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 were obvious: more power and torque, a wider band of usable power and bring down the maximum possible mass and the center of the wheelbase.
Others were not so: lengthen the swingarm reduce changes in the geometry of the chassis caused by the movement of the rear suspension.
Move the swingarm pivot forward, enhancing rider confidence to feel better traction on the rear wheel of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006. And do all this without lengthening the distance of 1400 mm wheelbase. When the team finished its work, the new engine of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 was shorter and compact, but with more power and even better response.
The tilting of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 was longer and the axis thereof had been moved forward without changing the wheelbase. And the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 was more compact and aerodynamic.
With larger diameter front discs and suspensions with better touch. A clutch torque Iimitador. Double injector. New gear ratios.
A new riding position and adjustable footrests in three positions. What that team of engineers had created was, in short, the Suzuki GSX-R 600 cc class.
A work of art in the track (and in the wind tunnel)
The Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is a masterpiece of high performance on two wheels. His aggressive image does not only stand out from the other bikes in its class – with its new decor and aluminum alloy wheels – but also contributes to higher performance thanks to 5% less drag.
The tests in the wind tunnel engineers have helped reduce the frontal area and drag the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006. Making the whole bike closer and low. Integrating corner lights in the mirrors and back into the tail.
Designing a long sharp with optical stacked front cowl, leaving more room for closer shots of rarn-alr center fairing Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006, where there is more air pressure, increasing the efficiency of the DASS system (Suzuki Ram-Air Direct).
Creating a tank shorter and narrower gasoline, which allows the pilot to better match your elbows and knees inside the fairing Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006, with a lace chin bending allowing better on the long straights.
E incorporating an innovative lower exhaust system that not only offers a magnificent appearance, helps to reduce drag while moving down and concentrate the masses.
The most advanced technology in engines
The Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 enjoys a completely new engine more compact and lighter than ever and able to deliver more power and turn round.
With four valves per cylinder, flat covers, distribution DDhc (Double camshaft in head), liquid cooled, by Ram Air intake and digital fuel injection.
The displacement of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 remains of 599.4 cc, with dimensions of bore and stroke of 67.0 mm x 42.5 mm, but the distance between the axes of the cylinders has been reduced from 80 mm to 76 mm, making the set narrower.
Each intake valve titanium 27.2 mm Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is located at an angle of 10 degrees to the cylinder axis and each exhaust valve titanium 22.0 mm it is 12 ° , a narrow angle valve allowing the combustion chamber more compact. the compression ratio is 12.5: 1.
The diameter of the valve tappets has risen to work with some trees more aggressive cams. the measured intake valves now 26 mm instead of 25 mm, and exhaust now measures 24 mm instead of 23 mm.
The camshafts are hollow to reduce weight and are constructed of high-strength alloy with proven reliability in competition.
The relative position between the crankshaft and the two axes of change of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 has been modified to build a shorter housings.
The axes of change have moved forward and vertically.
Yel engine itself has rotated slightly forward in the chassis of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006, allowing a more direct intake ducts.
The angle of the two intake ducts has moved outside inwards slightly, closing the gap with the adjacent conduit in 4 mm.
This smaller space allows the throttle body is more compact, allowing the airbox, the tank and fairing are narrower, improving rider comfort and reducing frontal area.
The pistons of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 forged aluminum alloy have a short skirts cut in its side and anti friction finish which reduces friction and improves efficiency.
New cranks the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006, redesigned and more resistant chromium molybdenum show a blasting finish that improves the robustness.
The top compression ring and the piston lubrication in each treatment are finished with a chromium nitride by the PVD system in which the chromium nitride is vaporized in a vacuum chamber.
The chromium nitride provides a more uniform and smoother surface than traditional chrome plating, reducing friction and oil consumption and increasing endurance. The cylinders are integrated in the crankcase and are plated with Suzuki’s exclusive system developed in competition nickel-phosphorus-silica-carbon, known as SCEM.
The SCEM cylinders allow better transfer of temperature and a lower tolerance between piston and cylinder.
Vents located between the cylinder liner below the lowest point of the piston stroke are now larger, with a diameter increasing in 4 mm, to work at a higher rpm.
These holes allow air trapped in the bottom of each offspring escape to the adjacent piston cylinder, wherein the piston is rising. This system reduces the internal pressure and mechanical losses.
The inertia of the crankshaft of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 forged steel has increased by 16%, to optimize traction during acceleration off the corners.
The latest version of the engine of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is 20 mm lower in height, 16 mm narrower from side to side and 54 mm shorter front to back and weighs 1.0 kg less than the previous version. The maximum speed of the engine of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 has been increased by 500 rpm.
More efficient cooling
To increase the cooling capacity (29.0 kW to 31.4 kW) without increasing the frontal area, the new radiator Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 has a curved trapezoidal profile, inspired by using the , wider at the top (instead of 412.6 mm 340 mm) and narrower at the bottom (252.9 mm instead of 340 mm), official motorcycle racing with greater height (298 mm instead of 248.2 mm).
The heater consists of a single piece of molded plastic with an outer rim, which holds the same fins.
Digital SDTV fuel injection
The Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 incorporates the latest version of the revolutionary SDTV fuel injection system with two compact twin throttle bodies.
Each throttle body of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 has two butterfly valves, a main valve controlled by the rotation of the throttle grip and controlled by the ECM unit and based on engine revs high, the march selected and the position of the main valve.
The secondary throttle valve opens and closes to maintain the ideal rate of air entering the intake, improving combustion efficiency and torque at low speed while a linear response of the throttle remains Suzuki GSX- R 600 2006.
Each throttle body passes from a diameter of 46 mm in the airbox 40 mm in the intake port configuration and two multi-port injectors for better fuel atomization.
The main injector operates at all times, while the secondary works only at high returns, under greater fuel load, thereby increasing the power to the circuit.
The flow of the main injector (which determines the volume of fuel entering the cylinder) is calculated by the ECM and is based on engine rpm, the air intake pressure and throttle position Suzuki GSX- R 600 2006.
The secondary injector is based on the throttle opening and engine rpm.
The studied angle spray injector enables gasoline butterfly valves open at full throttle and high turns, producing a better atomization and more homogeneous a mixture of admission, improving combustion efficiency at high speed.
The main injector is positioned at an angle of 50 ° to the axis of the throttle body and the side at an angle of 75 °.
Clutch Torque
A new clutch torque limiter allows smoother rapid reductions in the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006, especially in track.
Ramps gravel pack in the clutch deflect the force on the disks when pressed against the pressure plate, allowing the discs slide in a controlled manner during deceleration.
The internal relations of the gearbox six-speed are new, improved acceleration circuit.
A redesigned shift forks allow some shifting more reliable circuit.
Advanced Exhaust System with SET
A completely new exhaust system in stainless steel SAES helps to improve the aerodynamics of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006, lowering the center of gravity and further focus the masses.
Aerodynamics and cut tailpipe of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 seems taken directly from MotoGP and is all that is the exclusive exhaust system.
The muffler of Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is located below the engine, in the lower cowl and is powered by four short bursts of equal length, a collector and a central part.
Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 SET system is located in the central area, using a butterfly valve controlled by a servo motor to adapt the exhaust speed of the motor.
The valve closes at low revs, increasing back pressure and improved low-end torque.
As the rotation rate of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 increases, the valve is opening progressively reducing back pressure and improving power medium and high speeds.
The ECM controls the SET system, and determines the ideal throttle opening as the opening of the throttle, engine rpm and gear position of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006.
The short exhaust terminal also facilitates the operation of changing the wheel traserade the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006.
Advanced emission control
The advanced edge technologies – such as SET SDTV and motor systems make the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 an efficient and clean impeller with respect to the environment. The Suzuki PAIR system contributes injecting fresh air from the airbox into the exhaust ports, reducing carbon monoxides and igniting unburned hydrocarbons.
The PAIR system is controlled by the ECM based on the position of Pundo gas and the speed of the motor.
The exhaust system of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is also equipped with a catalyst and, in some markets, a sensor 02, reducing emissions of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides (NOx) further compliance with the Eur03 regulations.
Advanced lighting, Instrumentation and Electronics
The superimposed optical vertically from the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 includes a short multi-reflector type light with H7 halogen bulb 55 W over a 70mm projector beam halogen lamp with a 65W H9.
Both lights are on when the high beam is selected. The set of tail / brake light comprises a transparent plastic protected LED lights.
10 are integrated turn gr lighter and reduce drag by 5% compared to conventional.
In addition to improved aerodynamics and weight facilitate the preparation of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 for track to be removed along with the mirrors.
The compact, lightweight instrument panel of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 incorporates an analog tachometer driven by servomotor and an LCD digital speedometer. More information on LCD include double tripmeter, clock time, fuel reserve, gear position, engine temperature and injection.
Some LEDs are responsible for illuminating the instrumentation and programmable engine speed indicator. Other LED lights inform about neutral, high beam flashes and plus coolant temperature, oil pressure and fuel level warning.
An electronic immobilizer system is installed in the units to certain markets. This system uses a key equipped with a transponder with a digital code that has to match with the bike. If not, the bike will not start. A type LED light illuminates on the dash when the codes connected together.
All electrical system of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is powered by a new generator, more compact and lighter. This new generator is 500 grams lighter and 9.5 narrower than the previous version mm, maintaining the same power. The key is to use a rotor with more poles (20 instead of 12) for creating a sort of electrical assistance.
The Engine Control Module (ECM) of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is equipped to control SDTV fuel injection, variable exhaust system SET, ignition 30, the powerful lighting and advanced instrumentation.
The Central Processing Unit (CPU) of ECM now has a 384 Kb ROM instead of 256 Kb of the previous version.
Balance in performance due to a new chassis
The entirely new chassis Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is made by molded aluminum alloy parts, including a hollow column direction, two main beams and a central part supporting the swing shaft and a central cross members above and below swingarm.
The chassis of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 has been designed that offers an ideal balance in rigidity, and has taken special care in its assembly by reducing the number of components and welds.
Two straps made of cast iron and bolted together form the subframe, which supports the seat assembly and tail.
The aluminum alloy rocker rectangular section is manufactured by castings and is more rigid than before. The rocker shaft diameter is now smaller, 22 mm and the whole swing is 35 mm longer.
The advantages of a longer swingarm are demonstrated especially in track: a longer swingarm can offer the same wheel travel (in this case, 130 mm) without affecting virtually geometry, and gives the rider more information and awareness about suspension and traction available at the rear wheel.
A new rear suspension system of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 incorporates a linkage forged aluminum alloy pivots directly on the swingarm, with another of the same type connected to the chassis.
This system allows the cushion traserode R Suzuki GSX-600 2006 to move in a smooth arc in compression, reducing the side loads.
This system increases the traction on rough pavement while smoothly responds in larger drops. The Showa rear shock absorber Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 has an aluminum alloy body that houses a 40mm piston and a new stem.
The shorter stroke permits a reduction of 15 mm in total length, reduced from 322 mm to 317 mm, allowing room to place the lower seat.
The damper is fully adjustable spring preload and hydraulic compression and rebound damping. The new Showa inverted cartridge fork bars of 41 mm equipped and fully adjustable spring preload and hydraulic compression and rebound damping.
The route is now 97 mm (previously 93 mm) and the launch is now 23, Bo (formerly 23.3 °). The new brake discs are larger diameter (310 mm instead of 300 mm) and work with tweezers and a radial radial-mount pump. The rear caliper is new, single piston and about 50 grams lighter.
The new three-spoke wheels are lighter and measure 17 x 17 x MT3.50 MT5.50 front and behind, riding 120nOlR17 tires front and one behind B0155lR17. Overall, the final Suzuki GSX-R 600 is 15 mm shorter in length (2040 mm rather than 2055 mm), 25 mm lower height (1125 mm 1150 mm instead). The seat is 15 mm lower and the footrests can be placed in three different positions with a range of 14 mm vertically.
The position of the shift lever can also be adjusted to suit the different changes in the position of the footrests.
The fuel tank of the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is shorter and the seat is located further forward, all with the lowest seat height and adjustable stirrups reduce the distance between seat and handlebars to improve rider comfort. The fuel tank capacity is 16.5 liters.
More than a motorcycle
For the team of dedicated engineers create the Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006 is more than a machine.
It is the amalgamation of everything that stands represent GSX-R: A Winner Balance in engine performance, power delivery, cornering performance, braking and handling.
It is the result of Genuine Suzuki Engineering, and all the advanced technology that lies behind.
It is a bike for experts and demanding riders. A machine designed and built with pride, “very Suzuki”. The Suzuki GSX-R 600 2006. Ready to Dominate the tracks.
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Dimensions and curb weight
Overall length: 2,070 mm.
Overall width: 715 mm.
Overall height: 1,125 mm.
Wheelbase: 1,400 mm.
Ground clearance: 130 mm.
Seat height: 810 mm.
Empty weight: 162 Kg.
Engine Type: 4 stroke, liquid cooled, DOHC.
Number of cylinders: 4 cylinders.
Caliber: 67 mm.
Stroke: 42.5 mm.
Displacement: 599 cc.
Compression ratio: 12.5: 1.
Fuel System: Fuel delivery method.
Air filter: Paper element.
Starter system: Electric.
Lubrication system: Wet collector.
Idle speed: 1300 ± 100rpm
Clutch: Wet, multiplate oil.
Transmission: 6-speed constant Gear.
Gearshift pattern: 1 reduction, 5 increase.
Primary reduction ratio: 1.974 (77/39)
Gear Ratio:
First: 2,785 (39/14)
2nd: 2.052 (39/19)
3rd: 1.714 (36/21)
4th: 1,500 (36/24)
5th: 1.347 (31/23)
High: 1,208 (29/24)
Final reduction ratio: 2,687 (43/16)
Drive chain: RK525SMOZ7Y, 114 links.
Front suspension: Inverted telescopic, coil spring, oil damped.
Rear suspension: articulated type, coil spring, oil damped.
Carrera Front fork: 120 mm.
Rear wheel travel: 130 mm.
Steering angle: 27º
Tilt the front axle: 23º 45 ‘
Filmed: 97 mm.
Turning radius 3.4 m.
Front brake: radial anchor, double disc 310 mm, 4-piston caliper.
Rear Brake: Caliper 2 piston, 220 mm disc.
Front Tire Size: 120/70 ZR 17 M / C (58 W), tubeless.
Rear Tire Size: 180/55 ZR 17 M / C (73 W), tubeless.
Ignition Type: Electronic ignition (Transistorized).
Ignition timing: 6 BTDC at 1300 rpm
Spark plug: NGK or DENSO CR9E U27ESR-N
Battery: 12 V 28.8 kC (8 Ah) / 10 HR
Generator: Three-phase AC generator
Main fuse: 30A
Fuse: 10/10/15/15/10/10 A
Headlight: 12 V 55 W (H7) + 12 V 65 W (H9)
Flashing light 12 V 21 W
Number plate light 12 V 5 W
Brake / rear: LED
Light: 12 V 5 W x 2
Speedometer light: LED
Counter Light: LED
Neutral indicator light: LED
Indicator light beam: LED
Indicator light turn signal: LED
Indicator light fuel level: LED
Light oil pressure warning: LED
Rpm indicator light output: LED
Fuel tank, including reserve: 15.5 l.
Engine oil:
oil change: 2,200 ml.
with filter change: 2.500 ml.
Repair: 2,900 ml.
Refrigerant: 2,700 ml.
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Home » TV and Movies » ‘The Pack’ Canceled At Amazon After One Season
‘The Pack’ Canceled At Amazon After One Season
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Amazon has canceled canine competition series The Pack after one season.
The streamer has decided against renewing the series, which was hosted by Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn and her dog Lucy, for a second season.
It comes after the ten-part series debuted in November.
People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) condemned the show, saying that “animals are individuals – not props for movies and TV shows” but an Amazon spokeswoman said that the charity’s statement did not influence the cancelation decision.
The show, which was described as The Amazing Race with dogs, was produced by eOne-owned Naked and Afraid producer Renegade 83 and Amazon Studios.
It featured twelve teams of dogs and their humans on an epic adventure across multiple continents. In each locale, the human and dog duos went through a series of challenges, designed with a team of accredited veterinarians and certified dog experts that also accompany the group on their journey.
The winning duo received a $500,000 prize with an additional $250,000 going to an animal charity of their choice. Amazon has also donated $250,000 during filming to multiple charities and animal rescue organizations in each country, helping to pay it forward to dogs and those who love them around the world.
It was Vonn’s first major hosting gig; she is widely considered one of the greatest skiers of all time, having won four World Cup overall championships as well as the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. Her dog Lucy is a Cavalier King Charles.
Former Survivor showrunner Jay Bienstock exec produced alongside Jay Renfroe and David Garfinkle of Renegade 83.
The Wrap was the first to report the cancelation.
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ZURBORG, MARY L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named HANA ELISE HAFER on 27 July 1994 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, MARY L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named LEA ALISON HAFER on 12 September 1998 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
ZURBORG, MARY L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named MARA KATHRYN HAFER on 24 June 1992 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
ZURBORG, MARY LYNN was born 23 July 1964 to MARY L. BALLMANN (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, MCKENZIE LEE was born 11 January 1995 to SUSAN E. GLYNN (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, MICHAEL ANTHONY was born 9 June 1971 to BEVERLY A. BOWLING (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, NANCY T. was born 1 September 1935 to RUTH BURGESS (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, NELLIE (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named RUSH C. COOK on 19 June 1921 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, NORMA S. was born 1 June 1904, received Social Security number 433-22-0643 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died August 1995
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ZURBORG, PATRICA L. (bride) of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 22 years old, White, with no previous marriage, and DENNIS W. JONES of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 24 years old, White, status 3 (Last marriage ended by divorce) with one previous marriage, had a wedding ceremony 16 December 1993 on a license issued in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 42851) with the intention of residing in Kenton County, Kentucky.
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ZURBORG, PATRICIA L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named CHRISTIAN TAYLOR JONES on 19 November 1993 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, PATRICIA L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named TESLA LEEANN JONES on 20 May 1992 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
ZURBORG, PATRICIA LYN was born 26 September 1971 to SHARON L. SUTTON (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, PAULINE L. died 18 April 1992 in Missouri, United States of America. Special thanks to Reclaim the Records. Please consider donating to them.
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ZURBORG, RAYMOND was born 16 March 1916, received Social Security number 406-12-2620 and, Death Master File says, died September 1979
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ZURBORG, RAYMOND L. of Kenton County, Kentucky died 11 September 1979 at age 63 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, ROBERT was born 23 October 1896, received Social Security number 404-24-5962 and, Death Master File says, died September 1971
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ZURBORG, ROBERT W. was born 24 June 1910, received Social Security number 402-03-8589 and, Death Master File says, died 9 February 1998
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ZURBORG, ROBERT W. of Kenton County, Kentucky died 9 February 1998 at age 87 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
ZURBORG, ROGER was born 7 March 1949 to HILDA HUELSMAN (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, ROGER J. married JESSICA K. VANWINKLE on 14 October 2017 using a marriage license issued in Franklin County, Indiana, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, ROGER J. married SHAWNYA A. REED on 13 July 2001 using a marriage license issued in Franklin County, Indiana, United States of America.
ZURBORG, RUTH G. was born 7 May 1914, received Social Security number 404-12-3608 and, Death Master File says, died 13 November 1993
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ZURBORG, RYAN JAMES was born 3 May 1997 to SUSAN E. GLYNN (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, SETH ALAN was born 18 April 1990 to TONI R. DENATO (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, SHARON L. (bride) of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 36 years old, White, with one previous marriage, and TERRY T. FRALEY of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 35 years old, White, status 3 (Last marriage ended by divorce) with one previous marriage, had a wedding ceremony 30 December 1984 on a license issued in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 38115) with the intention of residing in Kenton County, Kentucky.
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ZURBORG, SHARON R. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named MESHELL ANN RUSSELL on 13 September 1971 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, SHARON R. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named WILLIAM DONALD MIDGETT on 8 January 1977 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
ZURBORG, SHARON R. was born 25 November 1952 to FRANCES PARSLEY (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, SHELBY LANE was born 27 August 1998 to BOBBI M. ENGLAND (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, SHELLEY L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named CASSIE MARIE BAIRD on 29 June 1982 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, SHELLEY L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named TARA LEIGH WOLNITZEK on 19 January 1972 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
ZURBORG, SHELLEY L. was born 25 November 1952 to FRANCES PARSLEY (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, SHIRLEY U. was born 25 September 1928 to MAYMIE DAUGHTERS (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, TALBERT was born 19 October 1947 to HILDA HUELSMAN (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, TALBERT T. (groom) of Campbell County, Kentucky, who was 40 years old, White, status 1 (Never married) and ROSEMRY HOPPER of Campbell County, Kentucky, who was 45 years old, White, with one previous marriage, had a wedding ceremony 21 November 1987 on a license issued in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 36865) with the intention of residing in Campbell County, Kentucky.
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ZURBORG, TAMERA L. (bride) of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 22 years old, White, with no previous marriage, and JOHN MARTIN of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 28 years old, White, status 1 (Never married) had a wedding ceremony 7 September 1991 on a license issued in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 32405) with the intention of residing in Kenton County, Kentucky.
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ZURBORG, TAMERA LYNN was born 15 July 1969 to JEANNE M. BARNHORN (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, TAYLOR MADISON was born 22 September 1994 to BOBBI M. ENGLAND (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, TERRNCE T. (groom) of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 50 years old, White, status 3 (Last marriage ended by divorce) with one previous marriage, and SANDRA D. PADEN of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 50 years old, White, with 2 previous marriages, had a wedding ceremony 15 June 1998 on a license issued in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 15613) with the intention of residing in Kenton County, Kentucky.
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ZURBORG, TIMOTHY J. was born 16 August 1945 to HILDA HUELSMAN (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, ULA who was 48 (born ABT 1932) married 3 FEB 1980 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named ERNESTO CERAUDO who was 36 (born ABT 1944).
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ZURBORG, WESLEY was born 17 November 1911, received Social Security number 404-12-3358 and, Death Master File says, died October 1974
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ZURBORG, WESLEY D. was born 17 April 1938 to RUTH BURGESS (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBORG, WILLIAM B. was born 24 August 1944, received Social Security number 480-50-4636 (indicating Iowa) and, Death Master File says, died 18 June 2003
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ZURBORG, WILLIAM R. was born 1 June 1936, received Social Security number 405-42-0031 and, Death Master File says, died 22 September 1996
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ZURBORG, WILLIAM R. was born 19 July 1926, received Social Security number 570-20-2939 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 15 February 1994
ZURBORG, WILLIAM R. of Kenton County, Kentucky died 22 September 1996 at age 60 in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States of America.
ZURBRAGGEN, ROSALIE married 8 May 1876 in COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named LOUIS PIERRE.
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ZURBREGG, Elmer Flaman married in 1932 in Hancock a bride named Mary Glekler.
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ZURBREGGEN, ROSE (mother) , and FRED WILLIS, had a baby, JERRY MORRIS WILLIS born 3 Oct 1932 in NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A..
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ZURBRI, L was born 11 February 1927, received Social Security number 494-24-2182 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died February 1991
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ZURBRICH, ROBERT DONALD was born 28 July 1929 in Missouri, United States of America. Special thanks to Reclaim the Records. Please consider donating to them.
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ZURBRICK, ADRIAN was born 19 April 1899, received Social Security number 385-20-6832 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died November 1983
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ZURBRICK, AGNES was born 31 October 1894, received Social Security number 093-20-9122 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died December 1965
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ZURBRICK, AGNES M. was 71 years old, residing in residence code 1455, when she died on 02 December 1965 in New York, U.S.A.
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ZURBRICK, ALICE E. was 78 years old, residing in residence code 1401, when she died on 3 April 1962 in New York, U.S.A.
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ZURBRICK, ANNA C. was 73 years old, residing in residence code 1424, when she died on 0 July 1957 in New York, U.S.A.
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ZURBRICK, ANSLEY was born 17 January 1898, received Social Security number 106-05-3800 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died January 1974
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ZURBRICK, BRENDA G. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named ABBY ELIZABETH WOEHRLE on 18 June 1989 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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ZURBRICK, CATHERINE J. was born 5 June 1927, received Social Security number 105-20-4602 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 22 March 2007
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ZURBRICK, CHARLES was born 22 November 1928, received Social Security number 110-22-9999 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died May 1966
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ZURBRICK, CHARLES was 37 years old, residing in residence code 1474, when he died on 0 May 1966 in New York, U.S.A.
ZURBRICK, CHRISTINE R. married SCOTT W. WISE on 17 March 2011 using a marriage license issued in Whitley County, Indiana, United States of America.
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ZURBRICK, CLEO was born 30 December 1922, received Social Security number 350-18-1665 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died March 1983
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ZURBRICK, DAVID G. was born 25 December 1926, received Social Security number 301-20-3666 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 19 April 2008
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ZURBRICK, DEBRA who was 34 (born ABT 1956) married 5 AUG 1990 in FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named MANUEL G MAGANA who was 22 (born ABT 1968).
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ZURBRICK, DEBRA who was 46 (born ABT 1956) married 1 JAN 2002 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named MICHAEL P WALTON who was 37 (born ABT 1965).
ZURBRICK, DEBRA ANNE was born 31 May 1956 in Missouri, United States of America. Special thanks to Reclaim the Records. Please consider donating to them.
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ZURBRICK, D H. was born 11 February 1943, received Social Security number 058-34-3905 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died March 1991
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ZURBRICK, DONALD RAY was born 16 September 1952 in Missouri, United States of America. Special thanks to Reclaim the Records. Please consider donating to them.
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ZURBRICK, DOUGLAS was born 29 May 1942, received Social Security number 544-46-5225 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died February 1972
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ZURBRICK, E was born 000, received Social Security number 050-12-6380 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died March 1968
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ZURBRICK, EARL L. was born 6 August 1918, received Social Security number 364-40-1288 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 7 October 2004
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ZURBRICK, EDGAR was born 13 May 1899, received Social Security number 071-03-7814 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died April 1986
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ZURBRICK, EDGAR was born 25 August 1901, received Social Security number 380-10-8949 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died April 1980
ZURBRICK, EDITH was born 4 October 1905, received Social Security number 085-20-7202 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died May 1986
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ZURBRICK, EDNA was born 14 June 1904, received Social Security number 122-05-2571 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died March 1983
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ZURBRICK, EDWARD L. was 80 years old, residing in residence code 1431, when he died on 4 May 1957 in New York, U.S.A.
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ZURBRICK, ELEANOR E. was born 19 October 1930, received Social Security number 110-22-8742 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 24 December 2004
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ZURBRICK, ELINOR S. was born 20 December 1903, received Social Security number 369-07-6251 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 5 January 1997
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ZURBRICK, ELIZABETH was born 6 May 1901, received Social Security number 369-16-1781 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died January 1985
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ZURBRICK, ELMER was born 19 December 1908, received Social Security number 093-01-0013 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died May 1967
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ZURBRICK, ELMER was born 29 September 1893, received Social Security number 106-20-2910 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died November 1970
ZURBRICK, ELMER E. was 58 years old, residing in residence code 1406, when he died on 0 May 1967 in New York, U.S.A.
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ZURBRICK, ELVA was born 23 January 1892, received Social Security number 541-78-1900 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died February 1983
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ZURBRICK, EMILY H. was born 9 February 1901, received Social Security number 094-03-3506 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 2 April 1989
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ZURBRICK, ETHEL was born 18 December 1906, received Social Security number 063-28-8470 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died September 1973
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ZURBRICK, ETHEL was born 19 January 1896, received Social Security number 507-66-9151 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died June 1981
ZURBRICK, FRANK was born 26 April 1881, received Social Security number 114-32-0719 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died November 1971
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14 Amazing Hip-hop Fashion Trends That Existed In The 90s
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The 1990’s era was a defining moment for the hip-hop culture regarding music and fashion. The fashion trends ranging from the 2Pac’s bandanas to Aaliyah’s signature style of crop tops and baggy jeans remain a source of inspiration for the modern day mainstream fashion. Adding gold chains and rings to the 90s outfit completed the casual style of most hip-hop stars while other accessories like bucket hats dominated the industry. It is during this time that most elites in the industry created signature styles and brands for themselves that have since continued to influence the modern fashion industry.
TLC and Aaliyah are among the1990’s female trendsetters in hip-hop fashion with their tendency to combine oversized shirts with tight underneath clothing. They also popularized the big flannel shirts and the over-sized pants, which have now become a favorite for most celebrities in the 21st century such as Rihanna. The male artists such as Kriss Kross are renowned for wearing clothes backward while Biggie Small made Coogi sweaters his brand. John Sean also went a notch higher on 90’s fashion with his signature bucket hat. Some of the favorite 90’s hip-hop wear include:
1Bandana
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This signature Tupac look hit the 90s with a bang and ended later in the decade. Most rappers and artist used bandanas before, but Tupac’s way of wearing it left a fashion mark in the hip-hop industry. The bandanas have started reappearing in the 21st century with more women wearing them.
2Versace Silk Shirts
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You should consider making a visit to the 90’s with a stylish silk shirt paired with a colorful pair of trousers. The shirts came in bold and bright prints such as the tribal designs and graphic prints that depicted luxury and style.
3Baseball Caps
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Baseball cap made a grand entry into the hip-hop culture in the early. The rappers and hip-hop enthusiast wore the caps backward or on the side.
4Baggy Jeans
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This popular 90’s female style highlighted badass boldly. The baggier the pants, the better they were. Aaliyah is one of the hip-hop stars who paired the jeans very well with a tighter crop top. The men, on the other hand, adopted more gangster styles popular in the prisons, which included wearing low and sagged jeans.
5Dungarees
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Anyone up to date with the 21st-century fashion world might think dungarees just entered the fashion market today. However, women and men in the hip-hop fashion industry have been wearing them for more than two decades. The hip-hop enthusiasts looked more stylish by wearing the denim overalls with one strap up and the other one down.
6Tommy Hilfiger Brand
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The Destiny Childs group and Aaliyah are some of the hip-hop stars who spotted the Tommy Hilfiger tube and boxers consecutively. The product surpassed other brands such as Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren in providing diverse items such as travel bags, sports top, clothes, and socks among others.
7Bucket Hats
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Not every bucket hat fitted in the 90’s hip-hop culture. It had to be either camo, fur-trimmed, designer, or white leather hat. A bucket hat was a good match for the baggy t-shirts worn by most rappers like Kanye West in the 1990s. The hats are currently making a comeback in the hip-hop industry with artist like Chris Brown wearing them.
8Gold Chains
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Wearing gold chains by most hip-hop rappers dates back to 1990s. The 14k chains that came in the form of link chains and rope style chains showed some boldness and social status. A higher number of gold chains indicated a higher social status. The hip-hop enthusiast without enough capital to purchase original gold preferred getting the gold-plated chains.
9Coogi Sweaters
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Biggie is renowned for his rainbow designer Coogi sweater that he endorsed severally in his music. This spurred interests in most fans who started picking the brand making it one of the favorite ones in the 1990s.
10Crop Tops Paired with Baggy Pants
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Aaliyah always rocked with a combination of a crop top and baggy pants back in the 90s. The dual combo proved that you do not have to wear tight clothes to look glamorous and cool. Rihanna has adopted this exact look on different occasions.
11Fur Coat
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You must have seen Cookie Lyon in a fur coat that screams stylish and class if you are an avid follower of the FOX series Empire. The fur coats became popular in the hip-hop culture in the 90s with the most elites in the industry wearing them. They were popular with both men and women.
12Nautica
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The bright colored aesthetic Nautica competed well in the 90s with other big brands such as Tommy Hilfiger and Polo. Most 90’s hip-hop enthusiasts wore Nautica jackets, shorts, and shirts. The company producing the Nautica was one of the black-owned businesses in the U.S. This might have contributed to their increased popularity in the 90s.
13A Bomber Jacket
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A bomber jacket in the 1990’s was a signature mark of any hip-hop star or enthusiast. The clothes came in different fabrics and styles ranging from the durable polyester to the shiny satin. Some people would include a team’s logo while others left it plain.
14Teams Jersey
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The tendency of the hip-hop artist to wear teams’ jerseys influenced other enthusiasts into adopting them. The female would rock the fitted jersey freely without anything underneath while men wore the unfitted ones. Most of the jersey worn at this time represented teams such as basketball with the popular ones being Orlando Magic and the Chicago Bulls.
It is therefore evident that the 1990s were years of more possibilities in the hip-hop fashion industry. The 90s trends are slowly coming back to present day fashion industry with items such as chokers, bodysuits, oversized clothes and crop tops becoming more popular. Some of the 90s fashion trends like the fur coat have maintained their popularity in the market even with the developing trends in the hip-hop industry.
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