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A cab driver was caught on tape praising John Elway as the best quarterback of all time, while the NFL legend — unbeknownst to him — was sitting in his backseat. “He’s a great quarterback,” explained Sam Snow, in the now-viral Facebook video, posted last week by Glenn Stearns.“A great quarterback,” he said.Snow — who was wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers jacket — had been driving around Washington D.C. with a group of people during the inauguration when they suddenly pulled out their cell phones and started asking him some football-related questions.“I asked our cab driver Mr. Sam Snow to name his top three quarterbacks of all time,” Stearns said. “This is what happens when he finally realizes he is driving his #1 choice!” The encounter was shared by countless people on Monday, and had already racked up nearly 300,000 views as of 11:30 p.m.In the clip, Snow can be heard explaining why Elway is his “Number 1,” and Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger are “Numbers 2 and 3” — all while Elway unsuspectingly snickers in the back seat.Attempting to have some fun with the cabbie, a woman sitting next to the Denver Broncos executive vice president — presumably his wife — tells Snow, “I think [Elway] is hot.”“This girl slept with him,” Stearns says.“Hey, with the money he got…guys would go to bed with him,” Snow adds, sparking several laughs. “Would you go to bed with John Elway?” a woman asks.“No, no, no, I don’t roll like that,” Snow says.After chatting for several minutes, the group finally lets the Steelers fan in on the secret.“Oh, come on man — are you serious?! It’s John Elway!” Snow says. “Man, I gotta take a picture…Seriously! That’s John Elway! I’ll be damned.” read more
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AMMO by Mig Jimenez- Panzer I & II
ISBN Number:
Ammo by Mig Jimenez S.L.
Dave Mckenny
Panzer I & II
Visual Modelers Guide
Steel Series Vol. 4
Book Specifics:
Authors: Daniele Guglielmi and Mario Pieri
Soft cover 11.5"x8.5" 74 pages, over 190 high quality images.
This is a visual guide to the German Pz.Kpfw I and Pz.Kpfw II light tanks aimed at giving modelers a series of walk-around images to aid in adding detail to our builds. The book is presented in English, Spanish and French and separated into sections for the following main versions of the subject matter:
PZ I Ausf. A
PZ i Ausf. B
Panzerbefefehlswagon I Ausf. B
PZ I Breda
PZ II Ausf. C
PZ II Ausf. F
PZ II Ausf. L (Luchs)
Each major vehicle's sections starts out with a history section and period photos and line drawings of the subject.
After the history section there is a listing of technical specs and production figures, including known variants, again accompanied by period photos.
Once we're past the specs we are on to the main event, full color large and lovely photos of the various tanks from museums around Europe. The Pz. Is are from Madrid (in colorful Spanish Civil War makings) and Munster, others tanks throughout the book are from Bovington in England and Saumur in France
The major versions have 8-10 pages of photos, focusing on things that modelers want to see, like engine decks, running gear, fenders, turrets, vision ports etc.
The radio tank has fewer pages, but they still do a nice job of covering the unique features of the unique superstructure.
The Breda version of the Pz. I is the one deviation from the inclusion of modern photos (I suspect none survive). This version has a couple pages of small period photos in black and white and a history in each language. There is a discussion of the scarcity of reference photos, but I suspect the recent Ammo by Mig version of the tank in 1:16 scale might have something to do with this inclusion.
The Pz.Kpfw. II receives similar treatment as the Pz. I. It begins with history and technical data with a list and production numbers for all variants. This is accompanied by period photos, including samples of many of the variants. The book then proceeds to museum photos of the Ausf. C and Ausf. F, each version getting a similar close-up view of details
The Pz.Kpfw. II Ausf. L, aka the Luchs, gets a similar treatment with it's own historical write-up and photos of two vehicles from France and England. Differences between the two are mentioned in a couple captions.
The book finishes with 4 pages of color profiles of the tanks in the book with sample markings (with the Breda Pz. I getting a large disproportionate number of plates). The plates are nice and give a good flavor of the types of marking and colors these vehicles might have worn.
While it should be noted there are no interior shots (and most hatches are closed ), this is a nice survey book geared for most modelers. There are sufficient photos to cover a lot of basic details, although the more exacting modeler will want to look for more in depth resources. The photos and art are very clear, large and well presented. For each tank they show, they identify the source vehicle and have a little story of it's specific history and how it got to it's home museum. Every photo has detailed captions that often highlight details of note. I was pleased to see that, although I believe the original text throughout was in Spanish, the English translations are smooth and don't have any of the problems that translations sometimes have. I can't speak for the quality of the French text. Although museum samples can sometimes have issues with the changes in paint and fixtures over the years, the basics remain and I'll be looking here for future builds for initial research.
Highly Recommended for Beginner to Advanced builders of this early German series of tanks..
Thanks goes out to Ammo by Mig Jimenez for this review sample.
Reviewed by Dave Mckenny
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2020/2021 Admissions SSS 3 Mock New Functionaries JSSCE Registration Follow This Space For More News
Students in the Library
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Claret Academy is a private educational institute established, organized and directly administered by the East Nigeria Province of the Religious Congregation of Missionaries, Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, otherwise known as the “The Claretian Missionaries”. Claret Academy was formally opened in September 1998 as a nursery/primary school. The Title “Claret Academy” was given to it first to uphold the memory of the founder of our congregation and patron saint– St. Anthony Mary Claret; and secondly because of the intended plan to develop the school into secondary and tertiary levels of education, perhaps with different campuses in several places. The purpose of the school is to impart knowledge and education to minors in the levels of pre-nursery, nursery, primary and secondary school levels, as a contribution to the development effort of the Catholic Church and the Nigerian government in the formation of children and youth of the country and beyond.
Given the rapid growth of the school, Claret Academy started its secondary school arm in 2004 and has long been officially licensed by appropriated government authorities to run both the junior and senior secondary schools. Our school is also fully approved by WAEC & NECO for active participation in both the junior and senior national and international examination. Several sets of junior and senior secondary school finalists have graduated from our school, all with impeccable results. Currently, Claret Academy runs an effectively organized full Day and Boarding School facility. Our Boarding facility is presently the best and actually one to beat in the whole of Owerri and surroundings.
Claret Academy Secondary School is the first among the secondary schools in the secondary arm of the Claretian Educational Project. By the special grace of God it has already given birth to another secondary school – Claret Academy (Secondary School) Gariki Enugu, Enugu State; which was stated in 2014. Our schools bring to practical realization the basic rights that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria grants to all natural or artificial persons to found Educational Centers, within the constitutional provisions and principles.
As a mission school located in New Owerri and within the territory of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, the school is managed in strict observance of the general Educational Policy of the Catholic Church, and in accordance with the Owerri Archdiocesan Educational Police for the all Catholic Schools. It distinguishes itself with the special Claretian Missionary touch in the administration, planning and execution of its programs and activities. We offer our students appropriate intellectual and moral formation that prepares them for the tertiary level of their educational journey, and equip them with necessary potentials that will enable them to adequately face the challenges of modern society. Claret Academy has already achieved a very high standard in its educational project and is also constantly forging ahead to a higher level. Join us today for a balanced and qualitative educational experience.
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2020/2021 Admissions
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Tercera sesión Ezra
7 marzo, 2017 • 0 Comments
Hola Ezra, bienvenido a la página de tu tercera sesión. En el video de hoy repasamos lo que estuvimos haciendo en clase tocando melodía y acordes al mismo tiempo, y cómo aplicamos esto a dos canciones, ‘Suzanne’ y ‘Famous blue raincoat’.
Finalmente, te comparto este texto sobre uno de mis autores favoritos respecto a la música y el cerebro. En este texto se refieren a ‘Musicophilia’, un libro que me parece muy importante para acercarse a la neurología de la música. Espero que lo disfrutes:
Oliver Sacks & music: On brainworms, hallucinations and sonic overload
Randall Roberts
Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, who died on Sunday at age 82, spent his life wondering on the myriad connections among biology, thought, emotion and perception.
For those of us who obsess over the how and why of music, Sacks’ work on sound and its effects on the brain – and vice versa – was particularly illuminating. His book on the subject, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” remains essential reading for those who want to understand the mechanics of music. Through bountiful research and mesmerizing case studies, Sacks addressed topics including music and amnesia, music therapy, musical prodigies and those who suffer from debilitating aural hallucinations.
Sacks’ writing in “Musicophilia” on internal music loops, for example, which he succinctly described as “the brainworms that arrive unbidden and leave only on their own time,” is endlessly fascinating for anyone ever tortured by the Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out” or Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”
“Brainworms are usually stereotyped and invariant in character,” he wrote as part of a section called “Haunted by Music.”
“They tend to have a certain life expectancy, going full blast for hours or days and then dying away, apart from occasional afterspurts. But even when they have apparently faded, they tend to lie in wait; a heightened sensitivity remains, so that a noise, an association, a reference to them is apt to set them off again, sometimes years later.”
The neurologist’s curiosity on the foundation of music appreciation might answer questions about your husband’s baffling obsession with Dave Matthews. The doctor described a patient who, after being struck by lightning, became focused on classical music after a life of ambivalence.
The man started buying sheet music and taught himself how to play Chopin, but it didn’t stop there. Soon his head was filled with new original compositions. Even when he wanted to play Chopin, recounted Sacks, “his own music ‘would come and take me over. It had a very powerful presence.’”
Wrote Sacks: “The music was there, deep inside him – or somewhere – and all he had to do was let it come to him. ‘It’s like a frequency, a radio band. If I open myself up, it comes.’”
One chapter is devoted to research into what separates the memory capacities of professional musicians from civilians. Another explores Sacks’ own experiences with having “music on the mind.” Why, he wondered, did a song he hadn’t heard in decades pop back into his head seemingly unbidden? What prompted grim music to recur as his brother was sick?
Sacks connected ideas from past to present, understood the profound changes in listening that arrived with the invention of recorded sound. In the book, he quoted a Mark Twain story from 1876 about what Twain described as “jiggling rhymes” that “took instant and entire possession of me. All through breakfast they went waltzing through my brain.”
Sacks used Twain’s experience to bridge the centuries: “When Mark Twain was writing in the 1870s, there was plenty of music to be had, but it was not ubiquitous. One had to seek out other people to hear (and participate in) singing – at church, family gatherings, at parties.”
Experiencing music took intention, wrote Sacks. But no more. “With recording and broadcasting and films, all this changed radically. Suddenly music was everywhere for the asking, and this has increased by orders of magnitude in the last couple of decades, so that we are now enveloped by a ceaseless musical bombardment whether we want it or not.”
Moving into the present, Sacks tackled the shift that came with portable music, especially the iPod, describing the now-normal reality of living “immersed in daylong concerts of our our choosing, virtually oblivious to the environment.”
But, he added, we’re all aurally overwhelmed whether wearing ear buds or not. “[F]or those of us not plugged in, there is nonstop music, unavoidable and often of deafening intensity, in restaurants, bars, shops and gyms. This barrage of music puts a certain strain on our exquisitely sensitive auditory systems, which cannot be overloaded without dire consequences.”
Is there a better argument for a moment of silence?
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Page 1, 20th December 1974 — Pope condemns all who undermine Church unity
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Pope condemns all who undermine Church unity
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From MICHAEL WILSON in ROME
Pope Paul this week issued a stinging condemnation of people who sought to undermine the unity of the Catholic Church from within through "doctrinal dissension". And he called for obedience to the Apostolic and Hierarchical Authority of the Church.
The condemnation was issued,in the form of an "Apostolic exhortation to the episcopate, to the clergy and to the faithful of the entire world .on reconciliation within the Church."
Reconciliation is one of the two themes Renewal and Reconciliation" on which the Holy Year of 1975 is based.
Recalling historical "unfaithfulness" to the teachings of the Church, Pope Paul stated: "But there appear equally dangerous ... the ferments of infidelity to the Holy Spirit existing here and there in the Church today and unfortunately attempting to undermine her from within.
"The promoters and the victims of this process, who are in fact small in number by comparison with the vast majority of the faithful, claim to remain in the Church, with the same rights and opportunities of expression and action as the rest of the faithful, in order to attack ecclesial unity . . .
"They set themselves up in opposition to the hierarchy . . . They question the duty of obedience to the authority willed by Christ; they put on trial the pastors of the Church .. . In this way they cause bewilderment to the whole community, introducing into it the fruits of dialectical theories alien to the spirit of Christ."
Pope Paul denounced the groups which obscured the sacrarnentality of the Church.
"The process that we have described takes the form of doctrinal dissension, which claims the patronage of theological pluralism and is not infrequently taken to the point of dogmatic relativism, which in various ways breaks up the integrity of faith.
"And even when it is not taken as far as dogmatic relativism, this pluralism is at times regarded as a legitimate theological stand which permits the taking up of positions contrary to the authentic Magistenum of the Roman Pontiff himself and of the hierarchy of' bishops . "We recognise that pluralism of research and thought .. . has a legitimate right of citizenship in the Church . . . Also the inestimable values contributed by pluralism to the sphere of Christian spirituality ... Indeed we admit that a certain theological pluralism Finds its roots in the very Mystery of Christ."
But Paul added: "Nevertheless, the different emphases in the understanding of the same Faith do not prejudice the essential content of that Faith.
"Thus there are built up teachings that do not hold fast to the objectivity of the Faith or are plainly contrary to it. . Furthermore, we must not shut our eyes to the fact that every concession in the matter or identity of faith also involves a lessening of mdtual love?'
Pope Paul deplored this dissension and said: "We try hard to understand this situation and we compare it to the analogous situation in which comtemporary civil society is living . . .
"Unfortunately, the Church too seems to be in some degree experiencing the repercussions of this condition. But . . . the Church ought to preserve her original character as a family unified in the diversity of her members . .
"We call upon alfl to overcome the illicit and dangerous differences and to recognise one another as brethren united by the love of C Paul went on to deplore the emergence
of what I it " Pope Pr t he. called "dissenting institutions or
communities."
This was evidently a reference to some of the so-called "base communities" which in recent years have become a growing "fringe phenomenon" of Catholic life in a number of countries, notably the United States, France and Italy. There are at least 20 of them in Rome.
This Papal document said that the "dissenting" communities led to a "polarisation of dissent" by which "all interest is concentrated on the respective groups, in practice autonomous, each one claiming to be giving honour to God." This, he said, 'introduced into the Church the seeds of disintegration."
Pope Paul then ended with an appeal for reconciliation within the Church: "Whoever therefore feels that he is in any way implicated in this state of division, let him return and listen to his own voice irresistibly insisting, even when he is about to pray: "Go and be reconciled with your brother first.' " (Editorial — P.4)
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GSS inaugurates committees to assess food security and vulnerability
23rd Oct 2020 | Source: GNA
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on Thursday inaugurated its Steering and Technical Advisory committees to conduct a comprehensive food security and vulnerability assessment to identify the prevailing conditions nationwide.
The two committees have eight members each. The Technical Advisory Committee has Peter Takyi Peprah and Abena Osei-Akoto from the GSS, John Notey and Godsway Banini (Ministry of Food and Agriculture), John Sitor (World Food Programme), and Seth Asante and Sena Amewu of the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Others are Ben Treveh (Local Consultant, World Food Programme), Bright Elorm Doviavu (National Disaster Management Organisation), Jefferson Attipoe (FAO), and Williams Massaoud, an international consultant.
Members of the Steering Committee are yet to be nominated but they would come from the GSS, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, National Development Planning Commission, World Food Programme (WFP), and the FAO.
Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, GSS, who inaugurated the committees and launched the 2020 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment (CFSVA), said per the 2009 CFSVA Report, about 453,000 people in Ghana were food insecure with 34 per cent in Upper West, 15 per cent in Upper East, and 10 per cent in the Northern Region.
The MoFA, on the other hand, estimated in an SGD Baseline Report (2018) that about five per cent of Ghana’s population (1.2 million) were food insecure nationwide, which meant any unexpected natural or manmade shock would greatly affect the pattern of their food consumption, he said.
He said data generated from the 2020 Assessment would provide the basis for reviving the quarterly Food and Nutrition Monitoring System, which analysed the key underlying factors of food security to be identified through the CFSVA.
Prof. Annim explained that the Steering Committee was charged to be the highest decision-making body for the conduct of the CFSVA, provide advice on project development, the budget, and identify and monitor project risks and timelines, among other things.
The Technical Advisory Committee, on the other hand, was expected to review and implement a sample design for the survey, review and finalise the project instruments, train field personnel, develop tabulation plan, analyse and write reports and design and implement dissemination plan at the national and district levels, among other things.
The Government Statistician urged the committees to find ways to comprehensively contextualise data from the assessment to facilitate follow ups on affected households.
In March 2021, he said, the Committees were expected to submit a report on the assessment.
He entreated them not to consider their key responsibilities as futuristic, but develop a tabulation plan immediately to commence all responsibilities before field work starts.
Madam Rukia Yacoub, the WFP Representative and Country Director, said Ghana had made strides to reducing malnutrition, hunger and food insecurity over the past two decades.
In 2015, she said the Government of Ghana was recognised for its successes in reducing hunger from seven million in the early 1990s to fewer than one million, adding that Ghana became one of the 72 countries that reduced those suffering from hunger to less than five per cent of the population.
She gave an assurance that the WFP would support the nationwide survey, as it would assess the impact of COVID-19 on food security and vulnerability and help to identify areas vulnerable to food insecurity for social protection programmes.
Mr Benjamin Adjei, the Assistant FAO Representative in Ghana, suggested that as part of the Assessment, committee members should look into the drivers of vulnerability within the agriculture and fishery sector and the entire food value chain to develop the necessary interventions.
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Hurricane Sandy is going to visit St Augustine
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in St Augustine Channel 1
Live Sandy Updates from National Weather Service in Jacksonville
St. Johns County Office of Emergency Management
Sandy Web Briefing by NOAA
ST AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-
ST AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL OUT TO 20 NM-ST JOHNS-SUWANNEE-
UNION-WARE-WAYNE-
1200 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2012
...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR THE OUTER WATERS TONIGHT THROUGH
THURSDAY EVENING...
...GALE WATCH FOR OUTER WATERS THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING...
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS THURSDAY THROUGH
SATURDAY NIGHT...
THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE
ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.
.DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT...
STRENGTHENING ONSHORE FLOW BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE TO THE NORTH AND
TROPICAL CYCLONE SANDY TO THE SOUTH WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...AND ELEVATED WINDS AND SEAS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...
AS SANDY TRACKS TO THE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE THIS WEEK
INTO THIS WEEKEND...HIGH WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER
THE COASTAL WATERS RESULTING IN SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES AND POSSIBLY
GALE WARNINGS FOR THE OUTER WATERS...AND A CONTINUED HIGH RISK OF
RIP CURRENTS...ROUGH SURF AND BEACH EROSION ALONG THE COAST.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/JAX.
Numbers Show Upswing in Visitation to Florida’s Historic Coast
Posted by St. Augustine Channel 1 in St Augustine Channel 1
The latest tourism numbers show Florida’s Historic Coast has registered an impressive gain in visitors for both the month of September and for the just-ended fiscal year. In fact, visitation to the area was far ahead of the average for the State of Florida as a whole.
“The data confirm the success of the work we’ve done to insure the continued growth of tourism on Florida’s Historic Coast,” said Richard Goldman, executive director of the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau . “Our marketing efforts over the past year, combined with great events, attractions and outstanding accommodations, have resulted in positive, measurable results – results we hope will continue into the future.”
Goldman said that for the fiscal year (October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012), occupancy of Florida’s Historic Coast accommodations was up 4.2 percent over the previous year – significantly higher than the 3.3 per cent increase registered for the entire state during the same period. For September, occupancy here was up 6.7 percent over September 2011. The average daily rate for accommodations increased 4.6 percent for the year – just slightly ahead of the 4.3 percent increase recorded statewide. The increase in revenue per available room was particularly impressive – up 9 percent for the year, well ahead of the 7.7 percent increase registered for the Sunshine State. Especially encouraging was the 9.8 percent increase is room revenue for September and an overall 9 percent increase for the entire year.
The upcoming Nights of Lights, selected last year by National Geographic as one of the Top Ten holiday light displays in the world, should further stimulate visitation to the area. The Nights of Lights, combined with 500th Anniversary of Florida events, including an impressive Picasso exhibit opening in February in St. Augustine, will hopefully insure the tourism future of Florida’s Historic Coast will be as bright as the nearly three million lights that will twinkle in St. Augustine’s historic district from November 17 through January 31.
Located midway between Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, Florida’s Historic Coast features historic St. Augustine, the outstanding golf and seaside elegance of Ponte Vedra, 42 miles of pristine Atlantic beaches – the same beaches that greeted Ponce de Leon on his historic 1513 discovery of the land he named La Florida.
For more information on events, activities, holiday getaways and vacation opportunities in St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra & The Beaches, go to the Visitors and Convention Bureau website at www.FloridasHistoricCoast.com.
Source: Visitors and Convention Bureau
St. Augustine police arrest robber and accomplice
At 1:40 pm today the St. Augustine Police Department received a call about a robbery at 2199 North Ponce de Leon Blvd. While in route to that address Officer Michael Kettman observed a 2012 maroon Nissan near Ponce Blvd and Sanchez. This description matched a BOLO that was given out over the police radio.
Information was also given out about a w/m running southbound from the Sunoco Station at 2199 N. Ponce Blvd. Officers Tim Bryan and Daniel Lui gave foot chase to this suspect, later identified as Eric Rene Tirado 09-16-1977 of 2391 US 1 South Lot 11.
Officer Michal Ochkie responded to the Sunoco Station and started an investigation, gathering statements from the victim and eye witnesses to the robbery.
Officer Kettman and Officer John Niederriter secured two subjects that were in the Nissan after stopping it near the County Library on San Carlos Avenue.
Eye witnesses and the victim identified the three as the ones that were at the Sunoco Station.
The owner/ victim of the store said that he had asked Tirado to step outside the store so he could talk with him. Tirado is a frequent visitor to the Sunoco South store. While outside an argument ensued and Tirado reached into the owners pocket taking an unknown amount of cash. An eyewitness to this episode came over to the owner to help him as Tirado dove through the car window in an attempt to escape. The driver of the car, Richard William Palmer, 1-1-1989 of 5860 Datil Pepper Road started striking the owner and victim. Also, a passenger in the car was Lauren Elizabeth Parker 10-12-1987 of 4905 Moultrie Reserve Court, she was released without charges.
Eric Tirado has been charged with Robbery, Richard Palmer has been charged with Battery.
Source: St. Augustine Police Department
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NBA Draft Prospect of the Week: Gorgui Dieng
Gorgui Dieng is one of the top big men in the 2013 Draft. How do his age and upside impact his stock and contrast with his ability to have an immediate impact?
Gorgui Dieng, 6'11, Junior, Center, Louisville
Scouting Report by Matt Williams. Video Analysis by Mike Schmitz
Establishing himself as one of the best centers in the country, Gorgui Dieng played a key role in guiding Louisville to a National Championship as a junior with his inspired play despite breaking his wrist just five games into the season. Less than four years removed from being named MVP of the 2009 Basketball Without Borders event in South Africa and subsequently enrolling in prep school in the United States, the once raw, skinny big man has grown into a very mature player with his combination of length, defensive ability, and unique, albeit still fairly unpolished, offensive skillset.
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Dieng's intrigue as an NBA prospect starts with his prototypical size and length for the center position. Standing 6'11 with a 7'4+ wingspan, he's added nearly 50 pounds to his frame since arriving in the USA, and although he could still stand to pack on more muscle to both his upper and lower body, he certainly passes the look test at this point more easily than he did as recently as a year ago.
On top of his sheer size, Dieng is also a solid athlete for a near 7-footer, possessing good quickness and leaping ability to go along with a strong motor. His mobility is noticeable in his rebounding ability, but even more so on the defensive end, where he did a tremendous job last season protecting the rim behind Louisville's aggressive perimeter players in Rick Pitino's zone and when defending one-on-one en route to being named Big East Defensive Player of the Year.
The anchor of the #1 ranked defense in the country, Dieng averaged an impressive 3.2 blocks per-40 minutes pace adjusted as a junior. While he doesn't rank as well nationally as he did as a sophomore when he blocked 3.8 shots per-40 pace adjusted, he's a very capable weakside shot-blocker with excellent timing who has learned to patrol the paint without fouling or goaltending as much as he did in the past.
As a one-on-one defender, Dieng shows impressive intensity and held his own at and away from the rim at the college level. He still bites on fakes and gets beat on quick, powerful post moves on occasion, but does a very good job of battling on the block on the whole. He also had some impressive moments defending the perimeter this season as well, doing a good job of getting low and moving his feet when switched onto a guard. Moving forward, Dieng would benefit from getting stronger and more disciplined to help him make the transition to defending the bigger, more skilled post scorers he'll encounter in the NBA, but he's clearly on the right track.
On the offensive end, Dieng's role as a junior remained largely unchanged from the one he played during the majority of his sophomore year, revolving primarily around his score to play off the penetration of his teammates, create opportunities for himself by crashing the boards, and make the most of a few touches in the post each game. On paper, Dieng's scoring numbers climbed only marginally this year. His points per-40 pace adjusted rate improved from 10.8 to 12.3 and his points per-possession jumped from 0.893 to 0.927 according to Synergy Sports Technology.
The 2013 All-Big East 1st Team selection did the majority of his damage in the immediate vicinity of the rim this season, with most of his scoring opportunities created by his teammates. After shooting 59% around the basket last season, Dieng's conversion rate in close jumped to 66% this season as he looked a bit more under control in traffic than he did a year ago. Able to finish above the rim with a dunk or through contact with his improved touch and frame, Dieng is a big, active target working off the ball and in the two-man game.
With his back to the basket, Dieng took a step back in terms of productivity this season, converting just 28% of his attempts from the post, rarely getting the rolls or deep position that helped him shoot 48% last year. Lacking much in the way of counter moves and seldom using his left hand to score after breaking his left wrist, Dieng's footwork looked a bit rangier on some of his post moves, but he did not appear comfortable improvising one-on-one. He flashes deft touch on his right-handed hook shot and will drop in a turnaround jumper from time to time, but until Dieng can become less predictable and yield more consistent results, he'll continue to face questions about his ability to contribute offensively on the block at the next level.
Where Dieng did show some promise offensively last season was as a midrange threat with his spot-up jump shot. Knocking down 15 of the 23 jumpers he attempted over the last 15 games of the season and 50% of his 42 attempts overall, Dieng shoots the ball with his high release point and found fairly consistent results when he could catch and shoot in rhythm. Considering the sample size and Dieng's 65% shooting from the foul line, it remains to be seen how prolific Dieng can be away from the basket immediately, but the flashes he showed leave a lot of room for optimism.
Perhaps Dieng's most unique attribute as a player is his ability to use his size to his advantage and make sound decisions as a passer. For a prolific shot blocker, Dieng's ability to distribute the ball places himin rare company among NCAA shot-blocking centers from the BCS in the last decade with a positive assist to turnover. Averaging 2.5 assists per-40 minutes pace adjusted, Dieng' is not an unprecedented passer for a big man, but he possesses terrific vision, does a good job delivering crisp passes in close, and had some exceptional stretches picking apart zone defenses from the high post. Even putting the ball on the floor and attacking the rim in a straight line from time to time, Dieng will flash some talents with the ball that most defensive-oriented centers at the college level lack.
Already 23 years old, Dieng is currently the second oldest player slated to be picked in our 2013 mock draft. Though that limits his perceived upside, his steady improvement in each of his seasons at the college level leaves some room for optimism looking ahead. Considering his size, athleticism, defensive ability, and effort level, the Senegal-born center is one of easier prospects to pencil into an immediate role among those slated to be available in the middle of the first round in this draft. Possessing many of the tools necessary to find early minutes as a backup center, it will be interesting to see how teams value Dieng's readiness but lack of elite upside as we head towards the draft as well as where his work ethic takes him as he prepares for the draft in the coming months.
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Orsu Metals Reports Drill Results, Including 2.96 g/t gold over 24 m and 4.22 g/t gold over 11 m at Sergeevskoe Project, Russia
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / June 3, 2020 / Orsu Metals Corporation (TSXV:OSU) (“Orsu” or the “Company”) is pleased to report assay results of the reverse circulation (“RC”) drilling program as part of its ongoing preparation for pilot mining. The most significant intercepts at each of the main mineralized domains at Sergeevskoe project assayed:
Kozie – drillhole RCS02 intercepted 2.53 grams per ton gold (“g/t Au”) Au over 9 meters (“m”), including 4.85 g/t Au over 4 m;
Klyuchi West – drillhole RCS04 intercepted 1.49 g/t Au over 85 m, including 2.96 g/t Au over 24 m;
Central domain of Zone 23 – drillhole RCS10 intercepted 1.7 g/t Au over 21 m, including 2.81 g/t Au over 10 m, and drillhole RCS09 intercepted 5.22 g/t Au over 6 m, including 9.47 g/t Au over 3 m;
Adit 5 – drillhole RCS14 intercepted 4.22 g/t Au over 11 m, including 8.09 g/t Au over 5 m and 1.69 g/t Au over 10 m, including 2.28 g/t Au over 6 m; and
Peak Klyuchi – drillhole RCS01 intercepted 4.28 g/t Au over 3 m.
Alexander Yakubchuk, the Company’s Director of Exploration, commented: “All RC holes were drilled in between the previous drill fences or in between the diamond drill holes within the previous drill fences. The overall average grade of the mineralized intercepts appears to be remarkably similar with the resource model, further confirming its validity.”
Dr. Sergey V Kurzin, the Executive Chairman commented: “The RC drilling program was conducted by the pilot mining contractor and independently confirmed the geological model of the Sergeevskoe property. The RC drilling was an essential part of the preparation to commence pilot mining in the second half of this summer. Now we and our pilot mining contractor are conducting a grade control drilling program specifically delineating mineralization to be bulk mined within two planned initial open pits at the property. Orsu Metals will be reporting the results of the grade control drilling when available. Our knowledge and confidence of the deposit grows daily.”
The Company completed 1721 meters in an RC drilling program of 18 drill holes. At least one hole was drilled into each mineralized domain of Sergeevskoe (see Figure 1). The depth of drilling varied from 23 to 115 m, with holes drilled in different directions at 60 degrees dip. All holes should be considered as infill drillholes as they were drilled in between the existing holes. The main purpose of the RC drilling was to test the continuity of gold grade in the updated resource model as part of the preparation for the pilot mining program (see press release May 27, 2020).
Figure 1. Position of RC drill holes in the mineralized domains at Sergeevskoe on the slightly tilted three-dimensional view of the mineralized bodies as per updated NI 43-101 Inferred Mineral Resource (see press release January 20, 2020). Gray lines are traces of trenches and drillholes drilled by Orsu in 2017-1019.
Although individual intercepts varied both in greater and smaller mineralized width and gold grade in comparison with the expected width and grade of the resource model, there was not a single case of an unconfirmed mineralized interval. Moreover, several new mineralized bodies were identified in the RC holes drilled within the fences. They could not be previously modelled due to less than 2 m width identified in 2017 to 2019 in the diamond core drill holes. The new RC holes showed that such small intercepts of the mineralized bodies appear to significantly change their width upwards, sometimes exceeding 10 m (Table 1).
Table 1 below shows all mineralized intercepts that exceed 2 m in downhole width grading more than 0.5 g/t Au.
Klyuchi West – drillhole RCS04 (see Table 1) intercepted 1.49 g/t Au over 85 m from 15 m depth to the end of the hole. This wide intercept includes four mineralized intervals grading:
1.19 g/t Au over 22 m from 15 m depth (compared to 0.8 g/t Au over 22 m in the resource model);
0.92 g/t Au over 11 m from 38 m depth (compared to 0.8 g/t Au over 6 m in the resource model);
0.85 g/t Au over 11 m from 54 m depth (compared to 0.8 g/t Au over 23 m in the resource model); and
2.96 g/t Au over 24 m from 76 m depth (compared to 1.0 g/t Au over 10 m in the resource model).
Kozie – a comparison of RC and previous diamond drilling results indicates some grade and width increase to the west. Hole RCS02 (see Table 1), drilled in the west of the domain, intercepted:
0.51 g/t Au over 4 m from 3 m depth (compared to 0.6 g/t Au over 5 m in the resource model);
2.53 g/t Au over 9 m from 46 m depth, including 4.85 g/t Au over 4 m (compared to 3.2 g/t Au over 3 m in the resource model);
1.1 g/t Au over 5 m from 61 m depth (new body); and
1.76 g/t Au over 5 m from 68 m depth (compared to 2.7 g/t Au over 15 m in the resource model).
Peak Klyuchi – which was previously drill tested only to a limited extent, RCS01 intercepted (see Table 1) 4.28 g/t Au over 3 m and 0.72 g/t Au over 2 m.
Adit 5 – four drillholes confirmed the continuity of gold mineralization intercepting four to six mineralized intervals, some of which were new bodies (see Table 1). Drillhole RCS14 intercepted:
4.22 g/t Au over 11 m, including 8.09 g/t Au over 5 m, from 23 m depth (compared to 1.8 g/t Au over 11 m in the resource model);
0.88 g/t Au over 6 m from 61 m depth (compared to1.3 g/t Au over 6 m in the resource model); and
0.58 g/t Au over 2 m from 96 m depth (compared to 4.1 g/t Au over 2 m in the resource model).
Similarly, all mineralized intervals were confirmed by RC drilling in Zone 23 West, Central and East domains.
Central domain – drillhole RCS10 intercepted:
1.0 g/t Au over 9 m 46 m depth (compared to 1.3 g/t Au over 9 m in the resource model);
0.62 g/t Au over 3 m from 58 m depth (New body);
1.7 g/t Au over 21 m, including 2.81 g/t Au over 10 m, from 63 m depth (compared to 1.0 g/t Au over 5 m in the resource model); and
Similarly, drillhole RCS09 (see Table 1), among other intervals, intercepted 5.22 g/t Au over 6 m, including 9.47 g/t Au over 3 m, from 90 m depth (compared to 1.1 g/t Au over 10 m in the resource model).
The individual holes in each domain revealed much wider or more narrow intercepts than predicted from the resource model. The overall results clearly indicate an upside potential of the Sergeevskoe mineralization when the Company performs more infill drilling in the future.
The overall weighted average grade of the new intercepts is 1.45 g/t Au, which correlates to the average grade of 1.45 g/t Au in the resource model. This generally confirms the robustness of the resource model.
The reported intercepts correspond to the downhole width. True thickness is estimated to constitute from 65 to 80% of the reported intervals.
Table 1. Mineralized intercepts of the 2020 RC drilling program and their comparison to the resource model
Hole ID
Interval, m
Au, g/t
intervals as
per the
resource block
model, m
grade as per
the resource
block model,
g/t Au
Peak Klyuchi
RCS01
(EOH 100 m; Azimuth 22NE, Dip 60)
(EOH 90 m; Azimuth 21.6NE, Dip 60)
New body
Klyuchi West
(EOH 100 m; Azimuth 39.5NE, Dip 60)
and including
Zone 23 West
(EOH 115 m; Azimuth 179SE, Dip 60)
Zone 23 Central
(EOH 53 m; Azimuth 179SE, Dip 60)
Zone 23 East
RCS12A
Adit 5 East
Adit 5 West
(EOH 90 m; Azimuth 52NE, Dip 60)
*EOH= end of hole
All reported RC drilling was performed by an independent contractor under supervision of Orsu. Irrespective of lithologies, exact 1 m intervals were sampled consistently in all drillholes. There are no unsampled intervals.
Fire assay analysis was performed at the certified analytical laboratory of the Alexandrovskoe gold mine, located 6 km to the west from the mineralized domains of the Sergeevskoe project. The laboratory is owned by Zapadnaya Gold Mining Company (http://www.zapadnaya.com/qa/alexandrovka.html), which is independent from Orsu. The detection limit of the laboratory is 0.1 g/t Au, with assay precision to 0.01 g/t Au. The laboratory included blank samples in the batches of 30 to 40 samples. The laboratory run random duplicate analytical tests of assayed material, averaging 20 samples.
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This contagious disease outbreak, which has continued to spread, has adversely affected workforces, economies, and financial markets globally. It is not possible for the Company to predict the duration or magnitude of the adverse impacts of the outbreak and its effects on the Company’s business or ability to raise funds. The COVID-19 pandemic has not affected the progress of the ongoing exploration campaign on the Sergeevskoe Project as the Company is able to conduct its ongoing exploration in this remote area of Russia.
About Orsu Metals Corporation
Orsu Metals Corporation is a mineral exploration and development company. The 90% owned Sergeevskoe gold project located in the Mogocha District of the Zabaikal’skiy Region of the Russian Federation is the focus of Orsu’s activities. Orsu has filed a technical report titled: “NI43-101 Technical Report on the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Sergeevskoe Property, Zabaikalskiy Krai, Russian Federation” dated effective January 9, 2020 (the “Sergeevskoe Report”) to support the Inferred Mineral Resource of 30.42 million tons, grading 1.45 g/t gold and containing 1.417 Moz gold at a 0.5 g/t gold cut-off grade and US$1,450 per troy ounce of gold, optimized into an open pit constrained by the license boundaries at Sergeevskoe.
Alexander Yakubchuk, the Company’s Director of Exploration, Ph.D., MIMMM, a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101, has reviewed, verified and approved the exploration information disclosures contained in this press release.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on the Company’s current expectations and estimates. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as “plan”, “expect”, “project”, “intend”, “believe”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “suggest”, “indicate” and other similar words or statements that certain events or conditions “may” or “will” occur. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from estimated or anticipated events or results implied or expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such information or statements may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the timing of, and the issuance of, a permit to conduct a bulk-test pilot mining program, the economics of the bulk-test pilot mining program, the mineralized material being amenable to being processed at the gold plant, the cash flow from the pilot mining operation being sufficient to fund a major exploration effort in the latter half of 2020. There may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein.
Alexander Yakubchuk, Director of Exploration, Orsu Metals Corporation
Doris Meyer, Corporate Secretary, Orsu Metals Corporation
E: doris@gocs.ca
SOURCE: Orsu Metals Corporation
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American Idol Judges: Is Season 13 Making Its Unlucky Presence Known?
September 1, 2013 by Carol
The search for the American Idol judges was intense this week. Again, I see articles teasing us about Adam Lambert as a possibility.
Picture courtesy of JustJared.com.
But it looks like Idol is going in a different direction. Of course, things with American Idol change regularly, so who knows what will be when the show debuts next January. Maybe the season is already feeling the unlucky burden of the Season 13 moniker? Right now, the rumor mill is talking that the panel will consist of returning judge, Keith Urban, previous judge Jennifer Lopez and newcomer Harry Connick Jr. Hurray for Harry!
Connick was an extremely effective mentor last season, being one of the few who in addition to Adam Lambert, we saw offer technical suggestions to the contestants.
Click on the following articles to read more about Connick.
To read more about how Adam Lambert was on the minds of the industry, check this article out, titled Why aren’t Jennifer Hudson & Adam Lambert good enough for ‘American Idol’? Warning: this article is the first I’ve seen that actually states in black and white that Adam’s sexual orientation may be the reason Idol won’t book him for a permanent status.
How many of you are still watching American Idol? I’ll admit it – I am. I’m like a bulldog – I don’t give up!
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glamity58 says
I just can’t watch IDOL except for the week Adam is on. I don’t know why they claim he’s in the running or even a thought when it’s obvious he isn’t. I’m sure he could do the Glee thing easily and still do IDOL, so I don’t think they asked him and he turned it down. They are seemingly grasping at straws for judges and yet they don’t ask Adam or Jennifer? Harry would be good, legitimate mega star in terms of writing, singing, arranging, acting, he does it all and has a great history. JLo makes me puke with her “sweetie” and “honey” names for the adult contestants. IDOL never had Adam in mind to begin with and that frustrates me. They’d take Kelly or Carrie in a heartbeat but they knew better. It has been dying a slow death and it’s probably just as well that Adam isn’t there to take any blame.
Shelby says
Watched Idol twice last season – thought it was terrible. (ALMOST the worse season ever) Between Nicki and the fact they were “going to have a girl win” whether or not she was good enough was a big waste of time. I really think the whole “singing contest” thing has run its course and Adam really needs to keep move forward!
By watching idol we are saying we don’t care what they do. They have ignored Adam for several seasons after making us think he may be a judge. The worst part and I believe it that they won’t hire him as a judge because of the “obvious” he’s gay. They did hire Ellen but remember she’s a female and very popular on television. So why would any Glambert watch this show knowing that they feel that way. I don’t understand why.
Remember Connick well as a mentor. Like him as a performer if I’m in the mood for that sort of music, but as a mentor, he was trying to impose his mold on everyone. Not sure he’ll be accepting of original new styles of music as he’s a Sinatra copy. Granted Sinatra was genius in phasing, but music has evolved and not sure Connick has done so. We’ll see I guess, but don’t personally plan on watching at all–except if Mr. Lambert graces their stage. Last year was horrible with the bickering, but I suspect this year will be boring. Between Keith and Harry, yipes…sleeptime. JLo is a joke. Maybe she’ll cry for us. Never thought I would say this, but I hope Idol just goes away.
CHRISTABEL LEVESQUE says
THERE IS NO BETTER JUDGE,THEN ADAM LAMBERT AND J.HUDSON.THEY ARE DEEP,TALENTED,2 OVERLOOKED PEOPLE ,THAT ARE TRUE BEST EVER PERFORMERS.I WILL COME BECK JUST FOR THEM.PLEASE GIVE US SOME SANITY AND GIVE US ADAM .CHRISTABEL ,ARTIST ,PAINTER,61 YEAR OLD,ADAM GIVES US THAT WHAT WE NEED TO GET INVESTED IN TO SONG,IN TO PROGRAM.HELP YOUR SELF.DO ADAM ,NOW.,
Lisa Fowler says
I watch but I am not devoted as I once was and I certainly compare every contest to Adam, especially when they are unfortunate or misguided enough to sing a song that was performed by Adam. I believe Adam would make an excellent judge and mentor but I don’t know if it would help his career and I would rather have him recording and performing/
Evette #419 says
I never liked AI. I used to like to laugh at the auditions, but they are even tiresome. The only season I watched was the season ADAM was on. It was fate! I only watched so I could have something to talk about with a guy I had a “crush” on at work. Now I’m left with a former crush that turned out to be a mega jerk and the wonderful world of ADAM Lambert!! I wanted to see ADAM on Idol instead of Glee becuase its ADAM’S personality I’m so in love with. He is such an inspiration! But everybody is right. The show has run its course and its best not to have ADAM involved when it goes kaput! The media claimed from day one ADAM was in the running to be a judge, so I never really believed it. Shelby is right, ADAM, keep moving forward its time to cut the Idol strings. Its great that he’s grateful, etc. But he is soooooooo much better than that!!!
Lila says
I can’t believe so many people still watch that show. I can’t stomach it any more. It would be fun to see him as a judge though because he is so brilliant and truthful and helpful when he’s talked to contestants in the past.
It is interesting how media is still spinning the falsehood that Adam was not out during his Idol season…as he has REPEATEDLY stated…no one ever asked him…and that he was out in L.A. since he was 18…Seriously…I think media spins this because it is their way to remind everyone of him being gay…that way swaying the vote for him to be a judge away from him due to some homophobic delusion that they will lose viewers somehow…On the contrary…every time he has appeared on Idol since his season …viewer rating spiked…that in itself should tell them something…Oh Well …their loss…I watch the show some just out of curiosity…but sadly…it has lost its sparkle since he was on it and did not win….not that it matters…He is a huge worldwide hit now…
Yvonne (aka) Glammer. says
I don’t watch American Idol as it doesn’t interest me, as I’m in Australia……but no doubt if AL was on there I would be watching just to see him.
beab says
Connick Jr. is a good choice, dont like JL, and Urban could go as well. They need people who can be honest and work well with each other. The show took a dive when
Simon left. Hope to see adam as a gust star and mentor ! Hope he tours with Queen and
puts the producers of AI to shame !
El says
I agree that IDOL has never been the same since Adams season. I have tried to watch it but in my opinion no one has come close to Adam’s fresh and bold approach to making the songs his own. Remember Adams version of Ring of Fire? I thought it was great (as were all of his versions of songs he chose that year). Oh people were up in arms that he had the “nerve” to sing a Johnny Cash song with a middle eastern flair! I was excited every week to see what he would entertain us with, and he did! That’s why all of us Glamberts fell in love with him, and he continues to keep us all excited for more! As far as I am concerned, Adam should steer clear of IDOL, he would be wasting his talent sitting in a chair all season. (although seeing him every week would be awesome!,lol) IDOL has never been the same since Adam, and then with Simon gone, what a snoozefest!
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6 results for Tobacco--Research
1.What about Tobacco for Food? by Hubner, Albert L. The State Vol. 46 Issue 2, July 1978
Hubner, Albert L.
Dr. Benjamin Ershoff and Dr. Samuel Wildman, both research biologists at the University of California at Los Angeles, have recently discovered the tobacco leaf contains the protein fraction-1. Fraction-1 contains all of the essential amino acids and can be used to supplement low-protein diets and help to meet nutritional requirements of patients suffering gastro-intestinal disorders. The protein yield from an acre of tobacco is four times that of a soybean field, and tobacco protein has no odor or taste.\r\n
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 2, July 1978, p12-13, 37, il
Proteins--Research; Tobacco--Research
2.The Story of “Oxford 26†by Debnam, W.E. We the People of North Carolina Vol. 3 Issue 4, Aug 1945
Debnam, W.E.
In the summer of 1888, Creedmoor, in Granville County, was the site of a thriving tobacco market. Then a disease, later named the Granville wilt for the location where it was found in the country, struck. The market later closed; farm values went down, and many farmers lost their property. Debnam recounts the story of E. G. Moss and Dr. Thomas E. Smith, who were largely responsible for solving this agricultural problem which threatened the area's tobacco economy.
We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 3 Issue 4, Aug 1945, p10-12
Tobacco--Research; Tobacco--Diseases and pests--Granville County
3.Scientists Turning Up Important clues in Search for Source of Tobacco Aroma by Byrd, Tom We the People of North Carolina Vol. 19 Issue 11, April 1962
Byrd, Tom
Scientists at the North Carolina State College are shedding light on an important mystery of the tobacco plant--the source of its smell. Related to the tobacco gums secreted by the leaf hairs, tobacco's aroma can be studied using the chemistry of the trichomes.
We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 19 Issue 11, April 1962, p37
Tobacco--Research
4.Bulk Cured Tobacco Unharmed by Peak-Load Control System by Carolina Country Vol. 10 Issue 3, Mar 1978
A North Carolina State University study examined bulk curers on twenty-four farms in Red Springs of Robeson County to determine whether a load control program would adversely affect tobacco production and farmers’ attitudes. The study found that tobacco is completely unharmed when cured in bulk barns where the fans are automatically turned off for brief periods when demand for electricity is highest.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 10 Issue 3, Mar 1978, p28, il
Tobacco curing; Tobacco production; Tobacco--Research
5.Tests Reduce Barns’ Energy Use by Carolina Country Vol. 9 Issue 1, Jan 1977
Off-and-on operation of the fans on bulk tobacco barns can reduce the barns’ power consumption without damaging the tobacco or extending the time required to cure it. That conclusion was made from the results of field tests at tobacco farms across Eastern North Carolina.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 9 Issue 1, Jan 1977, p10-11, il, por
Tobacco curing; Tobacco--Barns; Tobacco--Research
6.For Tobacco Growers: Good News, “Bad” News by Carter, Spencer Carolina Country Vol. 8 Issue 9, Sept 1976
Carter, Spencer
Preliminary experimental findings indicate that bulk tobacco barns can be used successfully with off-and-on operation of their circulation systems without harming the cured leaf. The “bad” news is that the results will not be conclusive until after the growing season this year. Tests are being conducted by North Carolina State University agricultural engineers at fifteen farms in eleven North Carolina counties.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 8 Issue 9, Sept 1976, p20-21, il, por
Tobacco--Barns; Tobacco--Research; Tobacco curing
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The genus Orobanche L. (Orobanchaceae) in the Małopolska Upland (S Poland): distribution, habitat, host preferences, and taxonomic problems
Renata Piwowarczyk
Biodiv. Res. Conserv. 2012;(26):3–22
Orobanche
Małopolska Upland
Orobanche elatior
Orobanche kochii
The paper presents the distribution of Orobanche species (parasitic herbs known as broomrapes) in the Małopolska Upland (Wyżyna Małopolska) in southern Poland. During floristic research conducted there in 1999-2011, 12 species of this genus were recorded: O. alba , O. alsatica , O. arenaria, O. bartlingii, O. caryophyllacea, O. coerulescens, O. elatior s.str., O. kochii, O. lutea, O. pallidiflora, O. picridis and O. ramosa. Eight species were not previously known from this area. Information on the hosts, abundance, and habitat preferences at the localities is given, and an updated map of the distribution in the Małopolska Upland is included. The taxonomic position of O. elatior s.str. and O. kochii, diagnostic features to differentiate between them, and a revised map of distribution of both species in Poland are also presented.
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The distribution of Salvinia natans (L.) All. in the Odra and the Oława River valleys in Wrocław area (Poland)
Thematic structure of research on crop weeds in Poland
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THIS FAMILY HISTORY IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND IS DEDICATED TO ALL GOTTSCH FAMILY MEMBERS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
To enter our family history site click the "Gottsch Family History Portal" link at the bottom of this page.
Note: This site contains German and Danish spellings. In order for the pages to display properly you may have to add these languages to your internet browser. Instructions for adding languages.
The earliest documented spelling of the family name was in the Schönberg parish marriage register with the recorded marriage of Peter Gotsch born in 1683, and Gretje Lage on October 16, 1705. Records dating back before the advent of civil registration are often discovered using the history of names and marriages documented by the church. Over the next four generations the spelling of the family name changed depending on how the minister or church scribe entered births, marriages and deaths. Finally in the mid 1800's the church standardized the spelling of family names being entered into record, and the family name became Göttsch which translated to Goettsch in English. Over the years the pronunciation of the family name has varied with each family group. The correct pronunciation in German is "Gut-sch" with a short "u" sound.
I have decided for this recorded history of the family, I will use the birth names entered into the parish records. As you read each generation the spelling of the birth name may change, even within the same family group. Some of the most common variations of spelling are: Gotsch, Götsch, Göttsch, Göttsche, Goettsche, Gottsch, and Goettsch.
Some members of the family dropped the umlaut over the "o" for the current spelling Gottsch; others adopted the English spelling of the name and variations thereof when the families immigrated to the United States in the early 1850's.
"Schönberg in Holstein"
by aus dem Reisebericht Taillefas Brief History:
Genealogical research has shown that the Göttsch family is from the Probstei province of Duchy Holstein. The history of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and the complexity of the region are very hard to understand. To better understand the history, please read History of Schleswig-Holstein.
The combined Prussian-Austrian army defeated Denmark in 1864, the latter losing its duchies to Prussia. Prussia warred with and defeated Austria (Austrian Empire) in 1866, thereby cementing its control of north Germany. The German Confederation, of which Prussia had been a key member, was then dissolved, being replaced by the North German Confederation in 1866/1867, with Prussia now the strongest member. Then in 1871, the North German Confederation was transformed into the German empire.
The term German Empire commonly refers to Germany as a nation-state from January 1871 until the overthrow of Kaiser (Emperor) Wilhelm II of Germany in November 1918. Its German translation is Deutsches Reich, which was the state's official name (and continued to be until the end of World War II in 1945).
Probstei province Probsteiers was a small area east of Kiel, and 10 miles north of Preetz in Duchy Holstein (Maps). The parishes were Schönberg and Probsteierhagen and included the villages of Barsbek, Bendfeld, Brodersdorf, Fahren, Fiefbergen, Gödersdorf, Höhndorf, Krokau, Krummbek, Laboe, Lutterbek, Prasdorf, Passade, Probsteierhagen, Schönberg, Stakendorf, Stein, Wendtorf and Wisch.
The Probstei was a very special region, mostly because it did not belong to any aristocratic family but to the church. Nearly everywhere else peasants lived in bondage - not so in the Probstei. The people were free farmers, even if the church owned their land. They were allowed to marry when and whom they wanted, they were allowed to pass on their farm to their children without having to set aside part of it for the aristocrats - they had a lot of privileges people outside the Probstei only could dream of - if they even dared to do so...
All this resulted in the Probstei people regarding themselves different from everyone else, even those living only 10 miles away, outside the Probstei. Marriages between Probstei people and "outsiders" were very, very rare. Those living within the Probstei were wealthy compared to others, and preferred not to mix with people outside their area Probstei Life 1903. And because of this special traditions developed.
One of the traditions is the way they named their children. The influence of the tradition totally dominated the naming from the 17th to the mid 19th century. In the Probstei certain rules were handed down concerning the choice of given names to newborn children. These rules formed a quite constant pattern: The first son is given the name of the paternal grandfather.
The first daughter is given the name of the paternal grandmother.
The second son is given the name of the maternal grandfather.
The second daughter is given the name of the maternal grandmother.
The third son is given the name of his father or one of his brothers.
The third daughter is given the name of her mother or one of her sisters.
Nearly every family strictly adhered to this pattern, thus securing a relatively consistent collection of given names within each family. If a young child died, the next child of the same sex was given their name. By doing so, they avoided old traditional family-typical names from dying out.
The name Göttsch was very common in the Probstei region and although linked by name not all were related. This genealogical history documents the Peter Gotsch family of Schönberg, who was born in 1683, and his descendants after an extensive research of village and parish records. Research has shown that our Göttsch families were not wealthy land owners, had no family crest, but were Arbeitsmann or Instmann at or near the bottom of the "social ladder".
Peter Gotsch married Gretje Lage on October 16, 1705 in Schönberg, Dutch Holstein, and had three documented children; Peter* born 1707, and twins Clas and Margrete born January 7, 1713.
Note: Because the church book entry is ambiguous, and lacked definitive proof we have listed Gretje Lage as Peter's wife based on the following. 1) There was only one marriage for a Peter Gotsch between 1703 and 1707 when the church started keeping records, and the year his first child was born, that marriage was to Gretje Lage. 2) We followed the traditional naming pattern of their children at the time, as explained above.
*Peter born July 10, 1707, married Anna Dorothea Schmidt. Peter and Anna Dorothea lived in the town of Schönberg. Research has shown that the family were small farmers or day laborers. Peter and Anna Dorothea had seven children; Gretje, Peter, Johan*, Catharina (Trin), Dorthe Lischen, Jacob and Hans.
*Johan born November 30, 1739 married Sielck Röhlck on November 8, 1764 and they had seven children: Peter, Hinrich, Clas, Dorte, Hinrich*, Beck, and Jochen.
*Hinrich, born December 2, 1775, married Elsch Schoel and they lived in the Schönberg parish village of Fiefbergen, in 1800. Hinrich was a Halbhöfner (small farmer) at that time. Hinrich and Elsch had twelve children; Sielke, Johann*, Claus*, Gretje, Hinrich, Hinrich, Antje*, Becke, Peter, Catharina (Trin), Jochim*, and Hans*. By 1835 the family, now only Hinrich and three of his children; Claus born 1800, Antje born 1809 and Jochim born 1815, had moved to the village of Gädersdorf, now spelled Gödersdorf and he worked as a Arbeitsmann (laborer).
At some time shortly thereafter Hinrich's son, Claus (Gotsch) Göttsch, now 36 or 37 years of age, moved to Tårnborg parish Sorø, Denmark where he married his first wife Trine Stahl on December 4, 1839 and worked as a Boelsmand (farmer). Trine was the daughter of Asmus Stahl and Gretje Dittmer. Claus and Trine had two children, Gretje born July 1840 and Heinrich born November 1842. Trine Stahl died in June 1843. No records for Gretje have been found at this time, and it is presumed she died as a child.
In 1844 Claus married his second wife, Bertha Catharina Schneider (born Jöhnk), whose husband, Claus Peter Schneider, had died in 1837. Claus and Bertha Göttsch had three children, Peter born April 1845, Carl (Charles) born August 1846 and Louisa born July 1850. In 1851 Claus, Bertha, their children, Claus's son from his first marriage and two of Bertha's children from her first marriage departed Tårnborg parish and relocated to Kirke-Stillinge parish. In 1853 they travel to Kiel, Duchy Holstein then immigrated to America from the Port of Hamburg aboard the Brig "Anna Elise" (Brig Sailing Ship) - Brig "Anna Elise Manifest". The family arrived at the Port of New York on June 27, 1853 and traveled to the large German settlement at Davenport, Iowa arriving there sometime in late 1853. The family lived in Scott County, Davenport, Iowa for a short period before moving to Nebraska in 1858, buying land in Douglas and Washington Counties to farm.
*Jochim and *Hans the younger brothers of Claus, fled to Sweden sometime after 1835 to avoid conscription into the Danish Army. There, Hans married Coralinena Lorenzen in 1851. They had two children born in Sweden, Wilhelm born in 1852 and Johanis born in 1853. Between 1853 and 1855 Jochim, Hans and his family, and Antje their sister immigrated to America. Hans arrived in the Port of New Orleans, where he worked until he had the money for the passage by paddleboat, north to Davenport, Iowa where his older brother Claus was living. Hans and Coralinena had nine children born in America; Emma Amelia born 1855, Mena born 1857, Louisa born 1859, Hans Frederick born 1860, Josephine born 1863, Julius born 1865, Gustave born 1867, Ferdinand born 1868 and Louis Carl born 1870. Coralinena died in 1870 giving birth to Louis, and Hans died in 1880 in Scott County, Iowa. Jochim died in 1893 also in Scott County, Iowa. The family Americanized the spelling of the family name to Goettsch and removed to Holstein, Iowa where their descendants remain today. What happened to Antje still is not known, she does not appear in the 1870 Iowa census and she may have died prior to 1870.
*Johann (Gotsch) Göttsche, the older brother of Claus, married Dorathea Christina Rebehn and had eight children: Hinrich Wilhelm Christian, Catharina Maria Henriette, Claus Hinrich, Dorathea Margaretha Henrietta, Friedrich Johann Christian*, Hinrich Detlef, Margaretha Magdalena Johanna, and Lucia Margaretha Henriette.
In April of 1885, twins, Emil Johannes and Heinrich Julius Göttsch the sons of *Friedrich Johann Christian, and his wife Antje (Puck) Göttsch immigrated to America at age 15, and worked as farm laborers in Davenport, Iowa. In 1890, Friedrich Johann Christian and his remaining family, consisting of his wife; Antje, daughters; Emma Adele, Helene, Dorothea, and a nephew; Wilhelm Gottsch immigrated from Hamburg, Germany aboard the steamship "Auguste Victoria" - "Auguste Victoria Manifest" arriving at the Port of New York on April 26, 1890. After traveling to Davenport, Iowa, Friedrich Johann Christian gathered his family together and joined his uncle's family in Bennington, Nebraska to make a new life in America.
Ancestral Home Photographs:
The following pages contain photos of the Gottsch family ancestral home sites. Howard Maahs took some of the photographs on his last visit in 2003, Suzanne, the family reseacher and I took the rest on our trip in September 2006. The photos will provide those of you, who may never get the chance to visit our ancestral home, a glimpse of where our family originated.
Ancestral Home Photographs
I have been asked why I started this genealogical history of my family, many times. When my father passed away in 1996, I found three old photo albums with photographs of my ancestors. Some of the photos had names written on them, most did not. Now that I was the patriarch of our branch of the Gottsch family, I felt it was very important to document the family and our family history for my children, their children, and the many generations to follow.
I want to thank everyone who provided dates and other information that helped me develop this family history. A special thank you to: our German researcher who spent 8 months documenting the family, Howard Maahs, Russell Wilt, Klaus Göttsch and those who contributed research and family information.
William R. Gottsch
Göttsch Family Crest
On my last trip to Germany in June 2011, Klaus Göttsch, a direct line cousin showed me an image of the Gottsche Crest that was assigned to the Göttsche family in 1931. Along with the crest was an invitation to attend a "Göttsche Family Day" to be held in June 1937, that was sent to his grandfather. Klaus was kind enough to share his research and the history of how this crest came to be. Although this crest was designated as the official "Göttsche Family Crest" by the then German regime, as your read the history please keep in mind the mind set of some of the German people at that time.
The invitation is in German, but I have included the English translation.
"Göttsch Family Crest"
Göttsch Family DVD
A DVD data disk of the entire family history is available for sale. The disk includes: a recent Genealogy Report 254 pages, 1,000 images of church parish records dating to 1703 with German entry and English translation, Table of Contents, Introduction, History of Schleswig - Holstein, Family photographs, 858 photos of the Probstei and surrounding area, and much more. Please, only verified family members will be allowed to purchase the DVD. To inquire about purchasing a disk e-mail: bill@gottschfamily
The information contained on the disk is for personal use only, and is not to be published, sold for publication or profit by any person or company.
If you are a Gottsch family member or have relevant information as to dates, photos and or stories please E-Mail me at bill@gottschfamily. To enter our family history site click the "Gottsch Family History Portal" link at the bottom of this page.
I have made an Edit page so you will be able to see which generation pages have been edited and the date of change and a Surnames page listing all the names associated with the Gottsch family.
To print a copy of the Gottsch Family History site toggle the print tab at the bottom of each page.
These photo albums belonged to my great grandparents and contain photos of ancestors that have not been identified. If you can identify a photo, mouse over the photo to obtain it's number than please e-mail me with the album number, photo number and the identity of the person or persons.
Some Great Nebraska, Gottsch Families and Genealogy Links
Douglas County NebGenWeb Bennington Historical Society Historical Society of Douglas Co.
Washington County Historical Society Nebraska State Historical Society Immigrant Passenger lists
Genealogy Schleswig-Holstein Genealogy Research Schleswig Holstein Heidi Goetsch Family Web
Robb & Angie Gottsch Family Web Robert & Stacie Gottsch Family Web Hans A. Götsch Family Web
Timperley Family Web Faust (Koch-Paulsen) Family Web Krepela Family Web
The Club at Indian Creek EllaBella Photography
Gottsch And Other Extended Family Genealogies
Peter Göttsch 1520 Genealogy Hinrich Gotsch ca. 1570 Genealogy Paul Gotsch ca. 1667 Genealogy
Claus Götsch ca. 1640 Genealogy Dornacker Family Genealogy Witt Family Genealogy
Puck Family Genealogy Jipp Family Genealogy Timperley Family Genealogy
Jöhnk Family Genealogy Jansen Family Genealogy Misfeldt Family Genealogy
Gorton Family Genealogy Wilt Family Genealogy Melvin Family Genealogy
Schneider Family Genealogy Fockler / Fackler Family Genealogy
Burghardt/Burgett Family Genealogy Timberman Family Genealogy Hotze Family Genealogy
2004 Reunion Photos 2006 Reunion Photos
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Memorial Garden to Commemorate Loved Ones Established
A quiet place for local people to remember those they have loved and lost has been created in Govanhill.
The Govanhill Remembrance Garden is part of the community garden next to the Association’s offices in Coplaw Street.
It is set in a secluded part of the garden close to Butterbiggins Medical Centre and away from the main growing and training spaces. The peaceful spot features benches and soft planting where people can take a quiet moment.
The area features a wall-mounted remembrance tree where simple plaques commemorate the names of local people. The first tree is now almost full, with a second tree planned for installation in the next few months. Getting a name plaque engraved and installed costs £5 from The Cobbler on Calder Street.
The garden has been the work of local residents Rosemary Scott and Association tenant Kathy Graham, who organised a fundraiser in 2016 to get the memorial tree installed. The installation was supported by staff from the Association and Govanhill Community Development Trust.
A remembrance day in the community garden and Samaritan House is planned for late summer or early autumn. The date will be confirmed once accessibility improvements have been completed in the wider community garden. Check the Govanhill Community Remembrance Garden Facebook page for updates or contact Dave Zabiega at dzabiega@govanhillha.org or on 0141 636 3665.
English Language Café Extended for Further Year
This summer brought some great news for anyone wanting to learn English in Govanhill. The English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Café at the former Govanhill Trinity Church building in Daisy Street will now open for two days a week rather than one after receiving funding from Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Government. Govanhill Community Development Trust run the drop-in classes, which teach people to read, write and speak English. People speaking more than 30 languages have attended the classes since they began in October 2015. They will now run on Fridays as well as Tuesdays until at least summer 2018.
Learners will benefit from a free meal as well as a crèche and supervised play activities for children over three years old. Over the summer months there will also be some trips designed to give learners the chance to practise their spoken English out of the classroom.
For more information about the ESOL classes please get in touch.
Major Progress with Major Repairs
Several phases of the Govanhill Housing Association’s major repairs programme are complete, with others under way. Window and kitchen replacement work is at the heart of the £4 million programme for 2017/18.
Phase 9 of the window replacements – covering a number of addresses in Allison Street, Cathcart Road and Hollybrook Street – has been completed and work on phases 7 and 8 (addresses in Langside Road, Coplaw Street, Cuthbertson Street, Carfin Street, Cathcart Road and Govanhill Street) is due to finish by the end of June. Further window replacement work will start later in the year, with many properties to get brand-new additions!
Housing Association tenants have been informed and many surveys are already under way. Kitchen replacements at addresses in Annandale Street, Butterbiggins Road, Calder Street and Coplaw Street are due to be complete by June. For more information or enquiries about the Housing Association’s major repairs and planned maintenance programme, contact Development and Regeneration Services on 0141 636 3684.
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So if the power station produces heat and electricity it should be good right? Then why people don’t want it? The people are afraid of a nuclear plant because if there are radiation leaks from the plant there could be serious health risks. Radiation means particles traveling at or near the speed of light, since they are travelling at such a high speed they can reach deep inside the human body where they can damage cells.
And that is why around one million people that live around the plant are protesting as they have concerns about the plant’s safety. In the most recent protests, they formed a human chain standing in the waters of Bay of Bengal and shouted slogans. In their protests, they refer to the havoc wrecked on locals by the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Plant in Japan after a strong earthquake and a tsunami in 2011.
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What is a Costume Designer? A costume designer is in charge of designing the clothing elements worm by actors for a state production. Costume Designers possess a similar skill set to that of traditional fashion designers, but must also satisfy unique demands of designing clothes for theatre. From Willy Wonka's oompaloompa costumes to Hamilton's Eliza costume, designers set the tone and feel of a production. Costume designers can choose designs that span a lifetime. Join us for a 12-week course of costume design. By the end of the course, you will understand what it takes to design and try your hand at designing costumes for a future show. For ages 12-high school senior. Registration is required by calling 615-893-7439 ext 6104 by August 5. Space is limited.
Moana Female Vocal Ensemble
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The Disney film "Moana" is tremendously entertaining, with stunning oceanic animation, a captivating adventure tale, a feisty heroine, and tuneful musical numbers. We will enchant our audience with this medley, which includes: "How Far I'll Go", "I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors)", "We Know the Way", "Where You Are and You're Welcome." Each age group will be learning a portion of these songs to create 3 distinct and different sections of this composition. This weekly choir will get your child excited about singing and they will enjoy learning the ins and outs of a small ensemble choir. They will dance and sing their hearts out and be harmonizing together in no time. For ages 6-10. Registration is required by calling 615-893-7439 ext 6104 and ends August 5. Space is limited.
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Committed to expanding its relationship with citizens and continuing a tradition established in June of 2000, Murfreesboro Police Department holds semi-annual sessions of its Citizens Police Academy. The program seeks to educate, exchange ideas, and familiarize citizens with primary law enforcement operations and training. It will cover various topics such as: Uniformed Division policies and procedures Traffic enforcement and investigation Patrol procedures Criminal investigations Search and seizure laws and procedures K-9 Corps Officer survival A ride-a-long with an officer Community Outreach Programs Tours of the department facilities Public relations Overview of the Special Operations Unit Gang, vice, and narcotic investigation procedures Domestic violence While the academy is not intended to certify a civilian as a police officer, it will better inform citizens about MPD. Our goal is to create a better quality of life for citizens, visitors, and guests.
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PIANELLA MUSIC
xXx: STATE OF THE UNION (2005)
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Revolution Studios, Original Film
Distributors: Sony Pictures Entertainment & Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date (USA): 29 April 2005
Screenplay: Simon Kinberg
Based on the Characters Created by Rich Wilkes
Music Composed by Marco Beltrami
Orchestra Conducted by Pete Anthony & Marco Beltrami
Performed by The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra & The Hollywood Studio Symphony
Orchestrated by Pete Anthony, Bill Boston, Randy Kerber, Jon Kull, Marcus Trumpp & Jim Honeyman
Recorded and Mixed by Dennis S. Sands
Recorded at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA & Eastwood Scoring Stage, Warner Bros Studios
Assistant Engineers Dann Thompson, Ryan Robinson, Judy Kirschner & Greg Hayes
Music Editor Alex Gibson & Bill Abbott
Orchestra Contracted by Janet Ketchum & Sandy DeCrescent
Music Preparation Mark Graham, Jonathan A. Hughes & Steven L. Smith
Music Produced by Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders
Synopsis: Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of Defense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new xXx agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history.
A NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER
It was the first action oriented spy thriller I've ever scored. Both the orchestration and the instrumentation took on a completely different approach: this film needed the brass to be dominant at times, so my approach was a bit jazzier. Also it was the first time I worked with Lee, which was definitely a plus. I had to come up with one theme that I could expand on and use it as a reference unto itself. I developed this theme by integrating it into the Main Title. I sketched out some stuff then I began to work on individual scenes. One of the first pieces I wrote, Different Trains, is from part of the train chase sequence towards the end of the film. I didn't write Different Trains for the movie, I just wrote a piece of music not thinking about any specific scene. It was music that inspired me by just seeing the film. After I wrote it, I mocked it up on the computer, and tried it in different areas of the film. It worked really well within that train chase sequence, so I adapted it and made it work. It's one of my favorite cues in the score.
xXx: STATE OF THE UNION: Recording Sessions
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Complete Rehabilitation of Leo Pilpani Folklore Center in Mestia finalized
Vice Premier, Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia Maya Tskitishvili, Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia (MDF) Giorgi Shengelia, Adviser to Prime Minister of Georgia Sozar Subari and representatives of local authorities held the ceremonial opening for rehabilitated building of Leo Pilpani National and Folklore Theatre in Mestia.
The project implementation was executed by MDF of MRDI with the financial support from the World Bank (WB) and its costs amounted to approximately GEL 4.7 million. As per the project the building was rehabilitated completely, there was arranged the summer amphitheater and open parking, vicinity site to the building was also accomplished.
“This is the Culture Center that will be as the renovated house for Svaneti, Mestia residents, but first of all it will house the 90-year experienced Ensemble “Riho”. This is the ensemble of great future and the renovated space will enable the numerous members of it to consider the new plans, possibilities of expansion and development. The Folklore Center will be the cherished place not only for Mestia residents, but for its guests as well”, Vice Premier, Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia Maya Tskitishvili declared.
Due to lack of Folklore Center in borough Mestia the local ensembles and the population interested in folklore, were not able to work and be developed under appropriate conditions. The new building will enable the local ensembles to hold the rehearsals, concerts and various types of events at the Concert Hall equipped with modern technique.
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Difficult Doha date
Published:Saturday | August 25, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Dr Warren Blake
With the 2019 World Championships set for a later date than usual, the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) is considering a move of its National Championships as well.
JAAA president Dr Warren Blake says his association has already looked at the 2019 track and field calendar and is trying to navigate the difficulties ahead as the Worlds are for September 28 to October 6 in Doha, Qatar.
The move is being considered because the usual late June Nationals spot is considered too far way from the World Championship to be a useful team selection tool.
"Well, we have in fact looked at moving the date because, as you know, America has moved the date to the last weekend in July and we were contemplating moving it to the same weekend," Blake said last Friday.
Speaking at the G.C. Foster College for Sport and Physical Education at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the college and Sprintec Track Club, Blake continued, "But when we look at the calendar for next year, one of the difficulties we're having is that it's the same weekend as the start of the Pan-Am Games, and that would automatically create a whole different set of problems for us."
Typically, all teams for summer championships are picked on the basis of performances at the Nationals. In 2019, that would include the Pan-Am Games.
"Also, we note that the Diamond League calendar has not really shifted dramatically to allow a down period for that, so we're going to have another look at it in terms of finalising the date and how we go forward in choosing the team next year because it really is going to pose some difficulty for us."
Hopes seem to have perished that the IAAF would free the late July week once the USA and Jamaica chose it for national championships and team trials. According to the JAAA head, the problem may concern the schedule of other meets, including IAAF Diamond League events.
Some of the Diamond League meets that happen around that time, they happen in football stadiums," he offered, "and those stadiums have to be modified and vacated for football, so the dates are fixed for those meets."
No World Championships has ever ended later than September 6, but Qatari weather trends have dictated the change for 2019. Under normal circumstances, the IAAF schedules a break in its Diamond League and World Challenge meet to facilitate national championships at the end of June.
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If I'm adapting a pre-current narrative, story will undoubtedly be higher on my priorities. But often it will only emerge as soon as we begin connecting the material we've created. In comedy, it's typically just a framework from which to hang the gags. What is undoubtedly true is that an early obsession with plot will close you off from numerous discoveries.If you do not like a song or can't hear the beat, do not really feel like you have to dance. You'll feel far more confident dancing to songs that you like. Go dancing at a club. Dance clubs are a excellent place to try out specific types of dance moves, such as hip hop, country, or swing dancing.If you are you looking for more info about learn this Here now (wikidot.comLook What i found rediff.com/sherrilamothe74/2018/03/22/shocking-interactive-maps-detail-earths-plastic-pollution/">blogs.rediff.Com</a>) take a look at our webpage. - Comments: 0
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All of a sudden, one of Asia's most socially liberal societies showed a deeply conservative side.You'll want the most dramatic mariachi songs about love or betrayal playing on your stereo when the guests walk in, or anything from Latin America's superstar, Luis Miguel If it's not warm adequate click (http://winniebunn658.soup.io/post/647408676/Dance-Education-Ideas-From-The-Trenches) to host your party outside and have guests dancing on the grass, you happen to be going to want to consider pushing the couch aside to get the dance floor prepared.Laugh along with them. It's quite feasible that they are just getting a excellent time and not actually paying consideration to you at all. You can also pretend like making them laugh was your program all along, then copy someone else on the dance floor.It certainly performs in practice. At the Elbjazz festival on Saturday evening, green lights glow ominously about the dancefloor, like 20,000 Leagues Below the Sea following the power goes, and the Moog noises emanating from German electronic trio the Von Duesz swirl around the bows like unsettling undersea noises, accompanied by the clicks and static of radar. Punters hold on to rope barriers and feel the insistent kick drums by way of their feet and their sea legs. The complete hull feels see This site like it really is humming. When you loved this post and you wish to harley18v8626421.joomla.com receive much more information regarding Click generously visit our internet site. All the while Blo is at the back of the area, headphones on, steering the sound desk with meticulous consideration, more conductor than captain.Synchronize your moves. Try to make certain that you and the other dancers are precisely in sync with each other. 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If you don't, you might feel uncomfortable dancing in front of other folks in a leotard, for example. Once more, exercising and maintain a healthy lifestyle for optimum weight loss.For-profit companies have began contributing data and in some instances even funds to theS.M. result in. Microsoft was an early supporter, opening up its A.P.I. and providing access to aerial imagery that Coast values at roughly priceless." 1 of the smaller sized in-automobile GPS organizations, Telenav, where Coast is at the moment employed, has lately provided turn-restriction information and hired skilled mappers to operate withS.M.'s cadre of amateurs. Foursquare, whose map makes use of data fromS.M., has a map-correction app that potentially adds its 40 million users to theS.M. coalition. Stretch following practice. 9 Flexibility is essential for a dancer. Produce a stretching routine and execute it soon after every single practice. Stretch out the muscles that you use the most - the hamstrings, quads, hip flexors, calves, shoulders, forearms and lats. When you're stretching a muscle, make certain you are in a comfortable position. You should be capable to breathe typically and very easily. Hold each stretch for 20 to 30 seconds.The higher point of the late Italian arte povera artist's main retrospective are the great world maps he commissioned embroidered by craftswomen in Afghanistan, they present a magic carpet atlas of the unstable, shifting geopolitical map of the modern planet. Tate Contemporary , London SE1 (020-7887 8888), 28 February to 27 Might.For one more Chromecast trick, you can show your images on a much larger screen. (At the moment, Google Photos is the only supported photo service) You can get creative with the photographs you want to see, thanks to the sensible technologies inside Google Photos. 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Macs are getting attacked much more and far more by cybercriminals, who take benefit of the complacency towards malware threats amongst Mac users. Unlike Windows users, most Mac users do not have any extra protection against viruses on their computers.The above might make you feel protected adequate to say that you don't need an Anti-Virus or Anti-Malware app. And if you do feel protected adequate then that is completely sensible, Mac OS X is quite safe and has fairly a couple of safeguards against most of these threats and exploits. If you are secure about what you install and what sites you go then it really is significantly less likely that you will get a virus. Just simply because you are safe though doesn't imply that you are impervious to all threats nonetheless.Download files with known viruses. A single of the most well-known techniques for viruses to be spread is by means of pirated media and software program. Appear for "cracks" or "serials" for well-liked applications that need a file to be run. These files often include viruses that execute when your run the crack system.Typically speaking, cleaning up your Mac is often about deleting all the cruft you've accumulated over the years that causes your storage space to fill up. If you are low on space or folders just feel also cluttered, it is time to delete old junk. Personally, I like to start by removing apps and then move onto deleting files. It really is quite straightforward to glance at a list and know whether you still use an app or not.Apple's walled garden approach to the App Store implies simply click the next internet page it is normally secure. This is the initial significant breach of the App Store, ahead of this exploit their had only been 5 instances of affected apps. Android's open ecosystem, on the other hand, leaves the door open to security problems. Each and every app goes by way of a careful evaluation approach prior to Apple enables it into the retailer. Regrettably, this time the Xcode malware created its way previous Apple's critiques.The dilemma is that no anti-virus is foolproof. Right after letting a friend use my laptop, I ended up spending virtually a week eradicating Vundo. (I could kill the approach and delete theexe easily sufficient, but it took me a although to uncover exactly where it was respawning from every two hours or so.) With the support of Autoruns, Process Explorer, HijackThis and Killbox, I managed to get it totally clean, but it was a hassle. And that was WITH antivirus software program operating.Perhaps making money is not your initial priority when defending the safety of your Mac. But if you must come about to find out a previously unknown vulnerability in one of Apple's systems while undertaking so, you could stand to earn up to $200,000. 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The application listed under will defend your personal computer from viruses, but it won't usually offer you the same level of functionality as paid-for web safety application. Whilst some cost-free software program does include extras, if there is a distinct feature you want such as Wi-Fi protection or secure shopping, it is worth checking each free of charge and paid-for alternatives before making a selection.Click Removal" to view directions. The first set of guidelines pertains to users of Symantec safety software. If you do not use their software program, scroll to the second step and comply with the removal instructions as indicated. All adware is distinct, and some are more hard to get rid of than other folks. Reboot the personal computer when you happen to be finished with all of the instructions on the web page that corresponds to your adware.The other similarity Fruitfly two bears to the original is that Wardle does not know how it infects systems in the initial spot. 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Mac customers ought to not assume their machines are impervious to spyware, viruses and other intrusive code — hacked internet pages and malware applications written to specifically attack OS X are out there.Aside from the excellent integration and automatic detection in this way, a excellent aspect of iMessage is that it is an encrypted platform. This means that Apple has engineered a way for your messages to only be readable by you and the recipient. This is identified as end-to-end encryption. To get an notion of the scale of iMessage, it processes peak targeted traffic of ‘of more then 200,000 messages per second, across 1 billion deployed devices'. This is according to a recent report by researchers at Johns Hopkins University , spotted by Patently Apple , which praises Apple for enhancing the security of iMessage in the March 2016 iOS 9.3 and OS X 10.11.4 updates.That free computer software — if you happen to be unsure of its provenance — can ruin your day. 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Arming A Laptop Against Trojan Horses - 20 Mar 2018 21:38
Worried you have some type of malware or virus on your Mac? Here's some aid to figure out what is going on and, if necessary, clean up the harm - all for totally free. As soon as WireLurker gets on an iPhone, it can go on to infect existing apps on the link Website device, somewhat akin to how a traditional virus infects computer software program programs. Apple's MacOS is identified to be 1 of the a lot more secure operating systems out there. Nevertheless, due to its growing recognition and expanding user base, hackers and cybercriminals are starting to victimize iMacs and MacBooks a lot more than ever. In addition, ransomware developers typically use pop-up windows that promote software goods that take away malware. Do not click on something via these pop-ups, then safely close the windows.Remove the shortcut virus with antivirus computer software. If your USB is infected with the shortcut virus, you can remove the malicious bug with antivirus computer software. 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Christine Orlando at September 12, 2020 1:00 pm . Updated at September 19, 2020 10:19 pm .
It's time for the Fall TV season to begin!
Unfortunately, this is 2020, so many of our highly anticipated season premieres have been delayed or otherwise derailed. But that doesn't mean we're not looking forward to their return.
And return they will, just not necessarily when they were expected. Here are some of the show's our TV Fanatics can't wait to see on our screens along with the dates for their expected return.
Supernatural - The CW - Returns October 8th
While most of the CW shows are slated to return January 2021, the final season of Supernatural is supposed to resume this fall.
How is the CW’s longest-running series going to finally come to an end?
We can't wait to find out!
Heck, just reading about the emotional journey Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles took through the final episodes has been incredible!
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 - CBS All Access) - Returns October 15th
Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 ended with the crew of the USS Discovery diving through a time rift into an unknown future in order to save all organic life in the universe from potential eradication by Control.
Given that cliffhanger, Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 promises an adventure of both exploration and survival.
With the hints that have been planted by Star Trek: Short Treks as well as a glimpse of the mechanical tentacles on the Star Trek: Picard Season 1 finale, a crossover event is not beyond impossibility.
Furthermore, since they left Ash behind in the present, we can hope for a whole season without Burnham getting all stupid with him again.
This is Us - NBC - Returns November 10th
NBC plans for This is Us to return Tuesday, Nov. 10th with a two-hour season premiere!
We need to know what happens after that epic fight between Kevin and Randall! Also, what’s going to happen between Toby and Kate?
And as for the COVID-19 pandemic, show creator Dan Fogelman says, "We've decided to attack things head-on."
So that should mean plenty more drama for the Pearson clan.
The Conners - ABC - Returns October 21st
The new tag line says it all. "Socially distant since always."
It's obvious by the new poster that the Conner family will be dealing with the pandemic in during The Conners Season 3; let's just hope they'll be wearing something safer than crocheted face masks!
Will the COVID quarantine put The Lunch Box in jeopardy?
With Dan in jeopardy of losing the house and Emilio sneaking back into the country after marrying Becky, we need to find out what happens to The Conners asap.
The Resident - FOX - TBD
They managed to pull off a relatively decent ending considering everything going on in the world.
But we have yet to see Red Rock, Cain, or Logan go down, and they're all so loathsome that we need to see it happen!
The Resident Season 3 left us on a bit of a cliffhanger with Logan making Conrad an offer, so many interesting things can come from that.
It could be a game-changer.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow - The CW - Returns Early 2021
Coming off one of their best seasons yet, the expectations are high for DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
It's already been teased that the main storyline for Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 will revolve around aliens, something that the Legends have yet to dabble in outside of crossovers.
And when you think about, the Legends fighting aliens is almost as delightfully weird as their epic Beebo fight.
SEAL Team - CBS - TBD
One of our writers only recently got into this because of the lack of TV offerings and wound up binge-watching all three seasons in a few weeks.
Now, he's hooked and in need of more.
SEAL Team Season 3 was good, but it seems like there should be more action on the way for SEAL Team Season 4, and we can't wait to see it.
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist - NBC - TBD
If there is anything we could use a little more of in our lives right now it is the joy that Zoey's brought into our lives during its shortened freshman run.
This musical/comedy/drama was the delightful surprise that many people needed as it aired during the beginning of the pandemic.
It's become a favorite among fans and critics, so it will be interesting to see if they can continue their success in Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Season 2.
Not to mention that we're all dying to see who Zoey chooses -- Simon or Max?
The Rookie - ABC - TBD
With Officer John Nolan having been set up to look the dirty cop at the end of The Rookie Season 2 cliffhanger, we have lots of questions that need answers.
Will anyone believe Nolan is innocent?
Will Detective Armstrong get away with the double-cross?
We need season 3 ASAP!
Nancy Drew - The CW - Returns January 2021
It's embarrassing to admit that some people hate-watched Nancy Drew Season 1 before they got into it.
The good news is that by the end of the first season, people were hooked on Nancy Drew!
It features a much more coherent Riverdale, a show that people are leaving in droves.
The Walking Dead - AMC - Special Episode to air October 4th
They left us with a doozy of a cliffhanger on The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 15.
Now, we're waiting until October to watch the season finale, which is set to feature the conclusion of the Whisperers arc.
With a battle on the horizon, many people will probably die.
His Dark Materials - HBO - TBD
His Dark Materials Season 2 has been announced but without a release date. The television format has been nothing but beneficial to adapting Philip Pullman's trilogy.
With an outstanding cast and excellent visual effects, the world of Lyra Belacqua and the sinister Magisterium that pursues her has been brought to life.
Season 2 promises more information on Will, a boy from our world looking for a father who came from Lyra's.
Teaming up with Lyra and her alethiometer, Will brings his own supernatural tool to the game, the subtle knife that can cut openings between worlds.
Prodigal Son - FOX - TBD
A show as bonkers as Prodigal Son had one of the best finales of the TV season. The ending managed to be relatively predictable in hindsight but still shocking and entertaining.
It left you dying (no pun intended) to know where the show goes next.
Prodigal Son really settled into itself and became an instant fan-favorite, and the cast and the characters they play hook you.
Who knew you could fall so hard for a snarky serial killer dad in a cardigan? We definitely cannot wait for its return.
A Discovery of Witches - Sundance Now - Returns Early 2021
The UK's SkyTV announced that A Discovery of Witches Season 2 will premiere in January 2021 with the premiere streaming in the US on Shudder and Sundance Now shortly after that.
Hopefully, as with A Discovery of Witches Season 1, it will then be aired on AMC and BBC America as well, fingers crossed.
We've read all of the books and are DYING to see Matthew and Diana go back in time to connect with her witchy origins and learn more serious skills.
And the romance? Bring it on, please!
The Morning Show - Apple TV - TBD
With as much as this drama did for women's rights in the workplace during the first season, we cannot wait to see what the crew has up their sleeves for the second.
Although we hate all things COVID, we have high hopes that Kerry Ehrin will make an impact with her rewrites to include it in the same way she spun her magic around #MeToo.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg after the finale. All indications from the cast and crew suggest that we're in for one hell of a ride.
Pandora - The CW - TBD
This is a bit of a hate-watch as we were betting against this sci-fi high-school take on Babylon 5 getting a second season. We frequently got dizzy watching Pandora Season 1 with all the eye-rolling.
That being said, there were multiple plot points of potentially interesting developments introduced in the final few episodes of Season 1.
And with Charisma Carpenter upgraded to series regular, we can hope for some acting gravitas to anchor this very pretty, but inconsistent, cast.
Succession - HBO - TBD
It's painful the length of time we need to wait to discover what lies ahead with the Roys.
On Succession Season 2 Episode 10, Kendall surprised everyone when he turned the tides and tossed his father under the investigatory bus.
With Roman heading the family dynasty, there is so much ahead with all the snarky drama we've come to expect from Jesse Armstrong's brilliant series.
Sex Education - Netflix - TBD
This series has proven that it can produce terrific episodes that are hilarious and resonate with its audience.
Sex Education Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger with Otis and Maeve's relationship up in the air, so we expect that will be a big storyline heading into Sex Education Season 3.
We cannot wait to see it all play out!
S.W.A.T. - CBS - TBD
We've been a bit behind the S.W.A.T. love, but we're finally on board and excited to see more.
The makeshift finale was action-packed and even had some emotional bits with the promise that S.W.A.T. had something urgent on the horizon they needed to address.
Given that S.W.A.T. has never shied away from Black lives and other emotional issues, how they address our new reality from COVID to the equal rights struggles will be very interesting.
We trust Shawn Ryan to do it all right.
Stumptown - ABC - TBD
This series had a great freshman season and had developed a pretty loyal following.
It is going to be interesting to see if the cast can maintain the infectious chemistry that they had in the first season, especially given the circumstances with COVID.
Please come back swinging!
*Unfortunately, although ABC had originally granted Stumptown a second season order, it has since decided to cancel the show due to Covid-19 concerns with production. But keep your fingers crossed as producers are shopping it around in the hopes that another network will pick up this fan favorite. Stay tuned...
The Bold Type - Freeform - TBD
The Bold Type Season 4 was forced to cut a couple of episodes, which was its first full season order, due to COVID.
We were left in a place that had many viewers questioning the direction of the show going forward.
We have complete faith in the writers' ability to get back on track, but we're anxious for them to remind the rest of viewers why they fell in love with The Bold Type in the first place.
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Richmond Raceway & Dominion Energy Partner for Military Appreciation Program
Richmond Raceway and Dominion Energy are joining forces to thank past and present military members through the track’s Military Appreciation Program. Dominion Energy will be naming rights sponsor of the program and hospitality area. The official names will be Richmond Raceway Military Appreciation presented by Dominion Energy and Richmond Raceway Military Hospitality presented by Dominion Energy.
“Richmond Raceway has a longstanding history of honoring our nation’s military, and with Dominion Energy’s partnership we are now able to do that on a larger scale,” said Richmond President Dennis Bickmeier. “Dominion Energy has a tremendous impact on veterans and active duty military in the greater Richmond region and throughout the Commonwealth, so it is great to partner with an organization that values service members like Richmond Raceway does. We look forward to continuing to show our appreciation for the military with the help of Dominion Energy during the NASCAR event weekends.”
Dominion Energy has a lengthy history of supporting the greater Richmond region’s military members. The organization has made providing support to the military, veterans, and their families a priority, dating back to World War I. At Dominion Energy, one in five new hires is a military veteran. Recently, G.I. Jobs ranked Dominion Energy No. 5 in its 2019 list of the top military-friendly companies nationwide. The company also connects veterans with careers in the energy industry through their Troops to Energy Jobs program.
“For decades, Dominion Energy has supported our nation’s active duty military, reservists and veterans,” said Bill Murray, senior vice president – Corporate Affairs and Communications at Dominion Energy. “It is an honor to host our veterans in partnership with the Richmond Raceway and to show our appreciation of their defense of our nation.”
Richmond Raceway Military Appreciation presented by Dominion Energy has become one of the more popular ticket offers at America’s Premier Short Track. For Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, past and present service members receive a discounted price on DC Solar FanGrounds passes with the purchase of a race ticket. The first 1,500 military ticketholders will also receive complimentary access to the Richmond Raceway Military Hospitality presented by Dominion Energy area located in the Old Dominion Building. The hospitality area consists of food, beverages, entertainment, and appearances by NASCAR celebrities.
Past and present service men and women are also eligible to receive discounted tickets for NASCAR Xfinity Series races. For more information on the Richmond Raceway Military Appreciation presented by Dominion Energy, visit richmondraceway.com/military.
Richmond Raceway 2019 NASCAR Season
The 2019 NASCAR season at Richmond returns “under the lights” for both race weekends hosting the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) at America’s Premier Short Track.
The Toyota Spring Race Weekend will bring NASCAR’s best to Richmond for the ToyotaCare 250 NXS Dash4Cash race and TOYOTA OWNERS 400 Monster Energy Series race on April 12-13.
Richmond’s NASCAR Playoff Race Weekend will start the NXS Playoffs with the Go Bowling 250 playoff race and host the second race of the Monster Energy Series Playoffs with the Federated Auto Parts 400 playoff race on Sept. 20-21.
Tickets for the Toyota Spring Race Weekend on April 12-13 and Fall Playoff Race Weekend on Sept. 20-21 are available for purchase in-person at the Richmond Ticket Office, via phone at 866-455-7223, or online at richmondraceway.com.
The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) will run the inaugural PASS Commonwealth Classic on Saturday, March 30 at Richmond. The PASS Super Late Models will headline the day with feature events for Tour-Type Modifieds, MASS Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, and American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Models. To learn more or purchase tickets, visit richmondraceway.com or proallstarsseries.com.
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04 | Differentiation Plan
Despite the varying characters or personas, they are all identical in terms of their goal or demand. They all want to achieve or simply have access to a platform that can help them maintain a healthier diet. This single similarity, brings the idea of the application differentiation plan. First, the application aims to achieve differentiation in terms of successfully carrying the concept in a mobile application (since most competitors are only available via desktop.), in order to achieve optimum accessibility for all types of potential users. Second, the application will include a key feature that is the meal-planning and scheduled delivery feature. The third plan notices the visual aspect of the application. The Good Food aims differentiation through disregarding the conventional green-packed color scheme. Instead, whilst still keeping the fresh and bright tone, its color scheme will revolve around yellow.
Initially, a fourth factor was to be featured in the application. However, after further discussions (with my mentor) and research, the feature was eliminated. It was planned that the application will further its differentiation plan through its own unique gesture-based design. Unfortunately, the idea did not pass because the concept demanded liability on the users - which in a sense, completely disregards the works of a UX designer.
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Category: open source
Probably not unlike you, every day I work with folks caught in a clash between organizational processes and technology imperatives. “We have to get this new software up and running, but the #DevOps group won’t give me the time of day.”
Large organizations don’t have the luxury of ‘move fast, break stuff’; if they did, their infrastructure, security, financial, and software release processes would be a chaotic mess…far more than usual. But how does one ‘move fast’ without breaking enterprise processes, particularly ones that they don’t understand?
Enterprise, Know Thyself
The answer is simple: encourage engineers to always be curious to know more about their environment, constraints, and organizational culture. The more you know, the more nimble you’ll be when planning and responding to unanticipated situations.
Today I had a call with a health care company, working to get docker installed on a RHEL server provisioned by an infra team. What was missing was that the operator didn’t know that the security team using Centrify to manage permissions on that box required tickets to be created to grant ‘dzdo su’ access for a very narrow window of time. Additionally, the usual ‘person to connect with’ was off on holiday break, so we were at the mercy of a semi-automated process for handling these tickets, and because they had already put in a similar request in the past 7 days, all new tickets would have to go through a manual verification process. This frustrated our friend.
The frustration manifested in the form of the following statement:
Why can’t they just let me have admin access to this non-production machine for more like 72 hours? Why only 2 meaasly hours at a time?
– Engineer at an F100 health care organization
My empathy and encouragement to them was to “expect delays at first, don’t expect everyone to know exactly how processes work until they’ve gone through them a few times, but don’t accept things like this as discouragements to your primary objective.”
If everything were easy and no problems existed, kind words might be useless. When things are not working that way, knowing how to fix or overcome them goes a long way, just like a kind word at the right time. We crafted an email to the security team together explaining exactly what was needed AND WHY, as well as an indication of the authority and best/worst case timelines that we were operating under, and a sincere thank you.
Enterprise “DevOps” Patterns that Feel Like Anti-Patterns
In my current work, I experience a lot of different enterprise dynamics at many organizations around the world. The same themes, of course, come up often. A few dynamics I’ve seen in play when enterprises try to put new technology work in a pretty box (i.e. consolidate “DevOps engineers” into a centralized team) are:
Enterprise DevOps/CloudOps/infra teams adopt the pattern of “planned work”, just like development teams, using sprints and work tracking to provide manageable throughput and consistency of support to other organizational ‘consumers’. This inherits other patterns like prioritization of work items, delivery dates, estimable progress, etc.
Low/no context requests into these teams get rejected because it’s slow/impossible to prioritize and plan based on ambiguous work requirements
The amount of control and responsibility these teams have over security and infrastructure systems the organization is often considered “high risk”, so they’re subject to additional scrutiny come audit time
That last point about auditing, particularly the psychological impacts on ‘move fast’ engineers, cannot be understated. When someone asks you to break protocol ‘just this one time’, it’s you that’s on the hook for explaining why you took action to do so, rarely the product owner or director who pressured the engineer to do it.
Technical auditors that are worth anything more than spit will focus on processes instead of narrow activities because to comb through individual log entries is not scalable…but verifying that critical risk mitigative processes are in place and checking for examples of when the process is AND isn’t being followed…that’s far more doable in the few precious weeks that auditing firms are contracted to complete their work.
The More You Know, The Faster You Can Go (Safely)
An example of how understanding your enterprise organization’s culture improves the speed of your work comes from an email today between two colleagues at F100+:
Can you confirm tentative dates when you are planning to conduct this test? Also will it take time to open firewall, post freeze incident tickets can be fast tracked?
– Performance Engineering at Major Retailer
This is a simple example of proper planning. Notice that the first as is for concrete dates, an inference that others also need to have their shit together (in this particular case because they’re conducting a 100k synthetic user test against some system, not a trivial thing in the slightest). The knowledge that firewall rules have to be requested ahead of time, and to notify incident response that potential issues reported may be due to the simulation, not real production traffic, comes from having experienced these things before. Understanding takes time.
Another software engineer friend of mine in the open-source space and I were discussing the Centrify thing today, and he asked: “why can’t they just set up and configure this server with temporary admin rights off to the side, then route appropriate ports and stuff to it once it’s working?” Many practitioners in the bowels of enterprises will recognize a few wild assumptions there, and in no way is this a slight of my friend, but rather an example of how different thinking is from two very different engineering cultures. More specifically, those who are used to being constrained as opposed to those who aren’t often have a harder time collaborating with each other because they’re reasoning is predicated on very different past experiences. I see this one a lot.
DevOps Is an Approach to Engineering Culture, not a Team
This is my perspective after only 5yrs of working out what “DevOps” means. I encourage everyone to find their own by having their own journey of curiosity, keyboard work, and many conversations.
There is and never should be a DevOps ‘manifesto’. As Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) once said, DevOps is about ‘optimizing for people’, not process or policy or one type of team only. Instead of manifesto bullet points, there are some clear and common principles that have stayed the test of time since 2008:
A flow of work, as one way as possible
Observability and Transparency
Effective communication and collaboration
A high degree of automation
Feedback and experimentation for learning and mastery
Some of the principles above come from early work like The Phoenix Project, The Goal, and Continuous Delivery; others come from more formalized research such as ISO and IEEE working groups on DevOps that I’ve been a part of over the past 3 years.
I don’t tend to bring the “DevOps is not a team” bit up when talking with F100s primarily because:
it’s not terribly relevant to our immediate work and deliverables
enterprises that think in terms of cost centers always make up departments, because “we have to know who’s budget to pay them from and who manages them”
Now that DevOps is in vogue with various IT leaders and just like the manifestation of Agile everywhere now, DevOps is perceived as ‘yet another demand to do things differently from management’, so after being restructured, engineers often have enough open wounds that I don’t need to throw salt on
if this is how people grok DevOps in their organization, there’s little I as an ‘outside’ actor can do to change it…except maybe a little side-conversation over beers here and there, which I try to do as much as appropriately possible with receptive folks
However, as an approach to engineering culture, DevOps expects people to work together, to “row in the same direction”, and to learn at every opportunity. As I stated at the beginning of this post, learning more about the people and processes around you, the constraints and interactions behind the behaviors we see, being curious, and having empathy…these things all still work in an enterprise context.
As the Buddha taught, the Middle Path gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment. There is always a ‘middle way’, and IMO is often the easiest path between extremes to get to the place where you want to be.
Folding Open Source into Enterprise DevOps
Open source software (OSS) is a foundational part of the modern software delivery lifecycle. Enterprise teams with DevOps aspirations face unique challenges in compliance, security, reliability, and sustainability of OSS components. Organizations-in-transformation must have a complete picture of risk when integrating open source components.
This article explores how to continuously factor in community and ecosystem health into OSS risk analysis strategy.
The Acquisition Process for Open Source Software
Developers need to build on the successes and contributions of others. Having the flexibility to integrate new open source components and new versions of existing dependencies enables teams to go fast, but external code must be checked and validated before becoming part of the trusted stack.
Including someone else’s software is an important moment of engagement. Enterprises typically wrap a formal ‘acquisition’ process around this process, where the ‘supplier’ (the entity who provides the software/service) and the ‘acquirer’ (the entity who wants to integrate the software/service) contractualize.
Though there are already commercial approaches to introducing software packages safely by companies like Sonatype, Black Duck, and others, my question extends beyond the tools conversation to encompass the longer-term picture of identifying and managing risk in software delivery.
Enterprises care deeply about risk. Without addressing this concern, engineering teams will never actualize the benefits of DevOps.
This is a tangible application of the need for DevOps to not only apply at an individual team level, but in the broader organization as well. It takes alignment between a team who needs software and teams providing compliance and legal services to all do so in an expedient manner that matches the clock speed of software delivery.
Communities Empower Enterprises to Address this Gap
Today in a Global Open Source Governance Group Chat, I asked the question:
“What are some methods for determining how significant a supplier/vendor OSS and community contributions are, relative to acquirer confidence?”
This question stems from my involvement with the IEEE 2675 working group, particularly because I see:
Prolific use of OSS use in DevOps and in enterprise contexts
Reluctance and concern (rightly so) around integration of OSS in enterprise software development and operation in production
The convergence of compliance and automation considerations
How important transparency and collaboration is to the health of OSS, but also to the supply and acquisition processes in a DevOps lifecycle
The group, expertly facilitated by Lauri Apple, also included key insights from Paul Burt and Jamie Allen. A log of the conversation can be found on Twitter.
As open source projects (like Swagger/OADF for instance) become increasingly important to enterprise software delivery, health and ecosystem tracking also becomes equally important to any new components being introduced.
My point-of-view is that organizations should prepare a checklist for software teams to construct a complete picture of risk introduced by OSS (not to mention proprietary) components. This checklist must include not only static analysis metrics but support, engagement, funding, and contribution considerations.
Measuring OSS Project + Community Health
The group had many suggestions that I wouldn’t have otherwise thought about, another reason for more people getting involved in dialogs like this.
There are already providers of aggregate information on open source community health and contribution metrics such as CHAOSS, a Linux Foundation project, and Bitergia. This data can be integrated easily into dependency management scripts in Groovy, npm, Ant, Maven, etc. and at the very least written in to a delivery pipeline as part of pre-build validation (BVT is too late).
And there is honest, hard-hitting research on open source software…which you should take the time to read….from Nadia Eghbal under the Ford Foundation in a report called ‘Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure‘. If you don’t have time to read it, buy some text-to-speech software and listen to it when you’re in transit.
The group also identified some key characteristics of OSS community health not necessarily tracked by established services, such as:
Same day response on reported issues, even if it’s simply acknowledgement
PRs under the “magic number” of 400 lines of code…tends to be the limit for # of bugs and useful feedback
Outage response, sandbox availability
Distribution of component versions across multiple central repositories
More to Come…From YOU
As I integrate both my own learnings and other voices from the community into the larger Enterprise DevOps conversation, the one thing that will be missed is YOUR THOUGHTS, whether your in a large organization or simply in a small team.
Please share your thoughts in the comments section below! Or ping me up on Twitter@paulsbruce or LinkedIn.
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AnDevCon: Espresso Is Awesome, But Where Are It’s Edges?
For my presentation at AnDevCon SF 2016, I focused on how Espresso represents a fundamental change in how approach the process of shipping software that provably works on a mobile ecosystem that is constantly changing.
The feedback was overwhelmingly good, many people who stopped by the Perfecto booth before or after our talk came to me to discuss topics I raised. In other words, it did what I wanted, which was to provide value and strike up conversation about how to improve the Android UI testing process.
If you’re pressed for time, my slides can be found below or at:
bit.ly/espresso-edges-andevcon
Gluecon 2016: Melody Meckfessel on Serverless Technology
I had the opportunity to attend Melody Meckfessel’s presentation at Gluecon 2016 last week. As someone with years of experience at Google, when she speak, smart people listen.
[paraphrased from notes]
We should all be optimistic about open source and serverless technologies. Kubernetes, an example of how to evolve your service, a means to an end, housing processes internally, making management easier for developers to deploy and scale horizontally, to update gracefully without causing downtime. One of the themes in the future of cloud-based computing is that is increasingly open source which makes it easier for developers to influence and contribute the software stack as it’s evolving. Our focus is switching to managing applications and not machines.
“…the future of cloud-based computing…is increasingly open source which makes it easier for developers to influence and contribute the software stack as it’s evolving.”
(photo credit: @rockchick322004)
Serverless means caring about the code, embedded in all cloud platforms. In App Engine, you run code snippets and only get charged for your app or service as it scales up or down. With container engine, you run containers but don’t specify the machine it runs on. In the future, we’re not going to be thinking or talking about VMs. What does it mean for us developers? It will enable us to compose and create our software dynamically. As one of the most creative and competitive markets, software puts us in the same room and presents us with the same challenge: how to make things better, faster.
Melody tells a story about a project she was working on where they were using a new piece of hardware. They were having trouble scaling during peak load, holiday traffic being really important to their particular customer. They were constantly scrambling and for the first 6-9 months, she spent her time on primarily DevOps related work. This was frustrating because she wanted to work on features, seeing the potential of what she could do, and she could never quite get to that.
As developers, we are constantly raising the bar on the tools we use to release, and correspondingly our users’ expectations increase. Also as developers, we have the ability to create magic for users, predicting what they want, putting things in context, and launching the next great engaging thing. In a serverless future, developers will be focused on code, which means that PaaS (platform as a service) will have to evolve to integrate the components it’s not doing today. To do that, developers will need to shift Ops work from themselves more to cloud providers, being able to pick and choose different providers. Developers come to a platform with a specific language that they’re productive in, so this is a place where PaaS providers will have to support a variety of runtimes and interpreters. App Engine is the hint and glimmer of creating an entirely new developer experience.
“In a serverless future, developers will be focused on code…will need to shift Ops work from themselves more to cloud providers.”
What does a serverless future mean for the developer experience?
We will spend more of our time coding and have more and more choice. Right now, we’re in a world where we still have to deal with hardware, but as that changes, we’ll spend more of our time building value in our products and services and leave the infrastructure costs to providers and the business. If we want to do that, developers need to make it very easy to integrate with machine learning frameworks and provide analytics. Again, to do this, we need to free up our time: hence NoOps. If we’re spending all out time on ops, we’re not going to get to a world where we can customize and tailor our applications for users in the ways they want and expect. This is why NoOps is going to continue to go mainstream.
If we’re spending all out time on ops, we’re not going to get to a world where we can customize and tailor our applications for users in the ways they want and expect.
Think about if you’re a startup. If you’re writing code snippets, you may not need to think about storage. You don’t need to worry about security because the cloud providers will take care of that for you. Some wifi and laptops, and that’s your infrastructure. You’ll have machine-oriented frameworks to allow that app to be really amazing. This idea that you can go from prototype to production-ready to then scale it to the whole planet. Examples of really disruptive technology because they were enabled to do so by cloud resources.
To get there, we’re going to have to automate away the configuration and management and the overhead. We still have to do this automation. We have work to do there.
Multi-cloud in NoOps is a reality.
People are using mixed and multiple levels of on-prem IT and hybrid cloud; the problem is that the operational tools are siloed in this model though. This makes it very hard to operate these services. As developers, we should expect unifying management…and we should get it. Kubernetes is an example, just another way for teams to deploy faster. Interestingly, we’re seeing enterprises use Docker and Kubernetes on-prem; the effect of this is that it will make their apps and services cloud-ready. When they are faced with having to migrate to the cloud, it will be easy to do it.
“…we’re seeing enterprises use Docker and Kubernetes on-prem…it will make their apps and services cloud-ready”
Once you’re deployed like this though across multiple clouds and service providers, you’ll need to have an easy way to collect logs and perform analysis; StackDriver is an example of this. It’s this single-pane-of-glass view that enables developers to find and fix issues fast, to see what’s happening with workloads, and to monitor more effectively. Debugging and diagnosing isn’t going to go away, but with better services like Spinnaker and App Engine, we’ll be able to manage it more effectively.
Spinnaker providers continuous delivery functionality, tractability throughout our deployment process, it’s open source. As a collaboration with Netflix, Melody’s team worked hard on this. It was a case of being more open about the software stack we’re using and multiple companies coming together. We don’t all need to go build our own thing, especially when we share so many common problems.
Debugging and diagnosis
The problem is that there’s all this information across all these sources and it’s hard to make sense of it. It’s usually in a time-critical situation and we have to push out a quick fix as soon as we can. Part of streamlining that developer and debugging experience in the future cloud is having the tools at our disposal. These are things like being able to trace through a complex application for a performance issue, going back through the last 3 releases and see where the slow-down started, or production debuggers where you can inspect your service that’s running in the cloud and go to any point in the code to look through variable and see what’s happening. Error reporting as well needs to be easier, as errors can be spread across multiple logs, it’s hard to see the impact of the errors you’re seeing. Errors aren’t going away, so we need to be able to handle them effectively. We want to reduce the effort it takes to resolve these errors, we want to speed up the iteration cycles for finding and fixing the errors, and provide better system transparency.
“The faster we can bring the insight from these motions back in to our source code and hence optimize, those are all benefits that we are passing through to users, making us all happier.”
In the NoOps, serverless future, not everything will be open source, but we will expect that 3rd party providers should work well with all the cloud platforms. Meledy’s team is currently working on an open source version of their build system called Basil. Right after their work on Spinnaker in collaboration with Netflix, they’re looking for other opportunities to work with others on open source tools.
What does the world look like 5-10 years from now?
We’re not talking about VMs anymore. We’re benefiting from accelerated hardware development. We’re seeing integration of data into apps and compute so that we can have better insight into how to make applications better. It’s easier for machine learning to be embedded in apps so that developers can create that magical software that users expect. We don’t have to talk about DevOps anymore. We will have more time to innovate. In an open cloud, you have more opportunity to influence and contribute to how things evolve. Like thinking back on how there used to be pay phones and there aren’t anymore, the future of development is wide open, no one knows what it will look like. But contributions towards the future cloud are a big part of that future and everyone’s invited.
Melody Meckfessel @Scale theCUBE, Sept. 2015
The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Does
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Minimum Viable Open Source
It was about 7 months ago I started to feel myself drawing a line about how I use the words “open source”. 7 months. Certainly in my copy, my writing, and my ideas for future projects (not just programming projects), these words infer meaning beyond what most people think about when they use them.
Originally, open source software was just a bunch of scientists sharing useful stuff. Now its a method of brand extension. How far we’ve all come. It used to mean the freedom to do what one thought was worth doing. Now it seems more synonymous with another word: shackles.
So I want to put it down here, a point in time, where people can see my progression. To call something open source, I expect that:
it’s IP/source is available freely without signup
it is moderated by the community of its own contributors, not one entity
it is maintained separate from other commercial product/service lifecycles
does not share the identity of its benefactors consent
does not contain EULAs that non-technical and non-legal persons can understand
I have no problem with companies who want to use “open source” to their brand advantage, but to not respect these few core principals is to be ‘half in’ and very transparent in its intent.
Advocation for Open Source
The Cost of Not Changing Things Up
This week, I realized that for years, I’ve been looking at life changes in terms of cost. How much will it cost to move, how much will it cost if I quit, how much will it cost if I fail.
Nothing of worth comes on a silver spoon
Despite warnings and signs, friends and teachers, and despite being part of moments in spacetime I would gladly revisit, my aha moments always necessarily originate internally, most often when I put myself in challenging situations. I always want to know what’s in the pita.
While waiting for an officer to write me a bogus citation today, it hit me that much as in the same way I measure things from both sunk vs. opportunity cost perspectives in business, I forgot to do that with my home and personal life. The cost of what I’m doing in one place is more than what it costs me emotionally, physically, and mentally; it’s costing me true happiness that I’m leaving on the table.
Forget silver, there is no spoon
I love this thing. It’s not my family (of course I love them), it’s literally a thing. I have fallen in love with an open source thing. That passion has caused me to ignore the bigger picture. And who the fuck loves a thing over themselves?
When someone or something is tied to a prior transformation, it’s hard to give it up. It’s an edifice, a token. It’s also just a thing. And since this particular thing is open source, it’s free (for now at least) so at least there’s no sunk cost for me to keep using it.
There may be no spoon, how about a knife
I feel like a snake during ecdysis, or maybe a pile of phoenix ash. Either way, change is coming, and bitches, watch what happens between here and Denver. I have something no one is expecting. I will cut through so much wrapping paper that the present inside will be a fun little aftershow.
Semi-related reading:
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7 Practical Tips for Inclusion
DevOps, Burnout, and the Search for the Holy Grail
[Talk] API Strategy: The Next Generation
I took the mic at APIStrat Austin 2015 last week.
A few weeks back, Kin Lane (sup) emailed and asked if I could fill in a spot, talk about something that was not all corporate slides. After being declined two weeks before that and practically interrogating Mark Boyd when he graciously called me to tell me that my talk wasn’t accepted, I was like “haal no!” (in my head) as I wrote back “haal yes” because duh.
I don’t really know if it was apparent during, but I didn’t practice. Last year at APIStrat Chicago, I practiced my 15 minute talk for about three weeks before. At APIdays Mediterranea in May I used a fallback notebook and someone tweeted that using notes is bullshit. Touché, though some of us keep our instincts in check with self-deprecation and self-doubt. Point taken: don’t open your mouth unless you know something deep enough where you absolutely must share it.
I don’t use notes anymore. I live what I talk about. I talk about what I live. APIs.
I live with two crazy people and a superhuman. It’s kind of weird. My children are young and creative, my wife and I do whatever we can to feed them. So when some asshole single developer tries to tell me that they know more about how to build something amazing with their bare hands, I’m like “psh, please, do have kids?” (again, in my head).
Children are literally the only way our race carries on. You want to tell me how to carry on about APIs, let me see how much brain-power for API design nuance you have left after a toddler carries on in your left ear for over an hour.
My life is basically APIs + Kids + Philanthropy + Sleep.
That’s where my talk at APIstrat came from. Me. For those who don’t follow, imagine that you’ve committed to a long-term project for how to make everyone’s life a little easier by contributing good people to the world, people with hearts and minds at least slightly better than your own. Hi.
It was a testing and monitoring track, so for people coming to see bullet lists of the latest ways to ignore important characteristics and system behaviors that only come from working closely with a distributed system, it may have been disappointing. But based on the number of conversation afterwards, I don’t think that’s what happened for most of the audience. My message was:
Metrics <= implementation <= design <= team <= people
If you don’t get people right, you’re doomed to deal with overly complicated metrics from dysfunctional systems born of hasty design by scattered teams of ineffective people.
My one piece of advice: consider that each person you work with when designing things was also once a child, and like you, has developed their own form of learning. Learn from them, and they will learn from you.
HackCU : An Example of Student Leadership
In an unused downstairs side room of a hotel, I listened to students from the University of Colorado express their desire to change the world, and their concerns about commercial interests moving in to poach talent from hackathons.
Alex Campbell, Alex Walling, and Nika Shafranov.
[Download as MP3]
HackCU is a Boulder-based hackathon incubator program that seeks to educate, inspire, and connect local students to technology and hands-on skills. It is at the cutting edge of technical education. It is student-led. It is well intentioned.
It is a way for students to arm themselves in the digital workforce when they can’t trust the technical market to treat them properly as employees. They teach each other how to code, design, and prove the value of their own technology.
I think this is great. These are the right people to be running this sort of thing. I’ll be keeping my eyes open about hackathon politics in the local area thanks to my conversations with these fine engineers.
My goal in engaging the two Alex’s and Nika, with help from Maria Sallis of StartupDigestCO and Lorinda Brandon‘s wise words, was to assist these students in any way a storyteller like me can: network the right people together, understand their challenges, and help them tell that story to a wider audience.
Much like the open source community (which I am far less a part of than I’d like to be), the communities of student-led hackathons are a brilliant place to hang out and listen, intellectually stimulating and ethically challenging. My own exploration of this space will take time.
Getting people to understand the true value of open source goes beyond just making easily digestible bullet points. I don’t mean the hyper-commercialized version of open source that dominates the software market today. I mean that open source software is a way in to the mind and heart of a programmer.
Programmer != “developer”
Programmers love code. They love to fix things. They love when something can be expressed in concrete terms. They love other people, though not all of them know that they express this through their code. They hate when something doesn’t work properly, just like a true engineer does. They dislike bullshit, in any form. They hate when something that should be free, isn’t.
The term “Developers” on the other hand is a concept that certain people invented, constructed, to create a marketplace of people that do first instead of consider first. Developers, not code, have been the new tech market for many years. Even well-meaning technical people sadly fall prey to the wholesale commoditization of humans who speak in computer languages and are easily caught up in the dark ocean of enterprise software.
I wish all the developers in the world well as I sail away and find a more honest place to keep my self and my code.
This guy worked as a developer, then he quit work
I have contributed to many open source projects over the years. Some I have taken too personally, some I have ignored, and some I squandered. Sadly, for me and this post, it cannot be verified, as I have used many faux-names and anonymous accounts to do so. I can’t even remember or trace them even if I tried. [heartache] [pause] [sigh]
In my youth, I didn’t realize how important contribution was. I thought that the concept of the ‘self’ was something to be avoided, ignored. Since that time, I understand how wasteful that viewpoint was. Contribution is a requisite now.
Open source software is the language of people who want to work together.
The problem with money
There’s something inherently wrong with a company that doesn’t regularly contribute back to the community, something very wrong and very rotten. Money is a really effective motivator. It is often also used as the only indicator of value in a marketplace. Shame on us for not looking deeper, because there are many metrics to human behavior and interest, the last of which is where people put their money. Ask anyone in sales, they’ll tell you that people’s interest is ultimately, but not initially gauged by their financial commitment. People will tell you if your thing, whatever that is, is bad or worth investing in; you just have to listen to the signs. And there’s no better way to do that than open source contributions as a metric for the veracity of your thing in the market..
I advocate for open source
One theme that emerges from my years into software is that contribution is key. Commercial, open source, whatever. Teams are made up of people, and to do something great, the more engaged and honest people you find, the better off you’ll be.
Side note: It is not enough to treat a non-profit as your contribution. The maintstream NPO mentality is that money is only necessary when it’s needed, desperately, in salaries, in budgets, and in planning. People are not created equal. We start at different places, with different perspectives, and claw our way to an egalitarian place. Some people have to work harder than others.
It is the job of those who don’t work as hard to help out those who work too much.
That is the spirit of open source to me. To help. That’s why I advocate open source now. It is help that causes people to put there money where their mouth is, in your product. To make money is to help first; the software equivalent of that is to contribute to open source, whatever way you can.
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Free Well Analysis
Redesigned Jet Pumps Deliver
wcunningham
According to E&P Magazine, as shale plays rewrite the oil field playbook, new jet pump technology offers a solution that is boosting production in today’s cost reduction-driven climate.
For well more than 100 years, the image of a pumpjack against the backdrop of a desert sunset has typified every oil field in the world. Over the last 10 years or so, however, shale plays have rewritten the playbook not only for completions but for production.
Below those topside images, today’s wells feature 90-degree turns, long laterals and copious amounts of abrasives such as frac fluid and sand. This is hardly conducive to the mechanics of the pumpjack, which feature long rodstrings and mechanical downhole pumps. Irregular holes lead to rod and casing wear. This combines with pump damage from sand to require multiple costly workovers, lost production and loss of profits.
A successful lift method for shale plays must eliminate as many moving parts as possible, both in the tubing and in the pump itself, while being reliable and cost-efficient, especially with today’s wild price dives.
One option gaining traction is the jet pump—with an important caveat. Today’s redesigned jet pumps, with more reliable surface power sources, are vastly more efficient and economical than those that met limited success in the 1980s and 1990s.
A jet pump uses the Venturi effect. This is a special case of Bernoulli’s principle stating that as fluid flows through a pipe with a constriction in it (nozzle), the fluid must speed up in the restriction, reducing its pressure and producing a vacuum. This vacuum brings formation fluids into the jet pump and to the surface.
A jet pump uses a high-pressure fluid stream—usually produced water, but occasionally oil—to create a low-pressure situation at the intake (a Venturi), in effect, sucking in the oil and associated gas. At the surface, a process separates the fluids.
The jet pump itself has no moving parts, relying on a surface pump to move the fluid stream. With its small size and lack of moving parts, a jet pump is not affected by solids or gas locking and can be placed as deep as required by the well and formation. It rarely needs servicing and, when it does, it can easily be reversed out to replace the nozzle and mixing tube without the expense and downtime involved with a pulling unit.
This technology can be used in wells from 20 to 6,000-plus bbl/d.
Key differences in jet pump designs
One of the drawbacks to conventional jet pump installations, in many cases even today, has been the choice of surface pump. Traditional plunger/multiplex pumps require constant maintenance and often fail even if properly maintained. This leads to downtime and costly repair/replacement scenarios.
As a result, Tech-Flo has moved to diaphragm PD pumps and H-pumps, multistage centrifugal electric submersible pumps (ESPs) on the surface. The cost of ownership of these pumps is much lower because H-pumps are more reliable and require maintenance only quarterly.
While H-pumps are slightly less efficient than plunger pumps, 70% compared to 95%, they more than make up the difference in reliability and lifting cost per barrel. The cost of the H-pumps themselves has dropped since about 2010, as an increase in competition has led to greater efficiencies in manufacturing.
Jet pumps and H-pumps are gaining acceptance in many other areas, so their use in production is also rising. Producers find jet pumps invaluable for frac flowback and fluid recovery because of its ability to handle solids and volatile gases. As the flow changes, it can be optimized quickly without a pulling unit.
For production, jet pumps can be set deep into the horizontal section at 45 to 70 degrees—a placement not optimal for rod pumps because the rod would wear against the tubing and for ESPs as they are rarely placed at that angle.
Its versatility is another benefit, especially with the rapid changes inherent in new wells. A jet pump can handle a well that kicks off at 4,000 bbl/d that may drop to 2,000 bbl/d in a few weeks. The service company simply changes the nozzle and mixing tube to optimize the dropping production rates. Hydraulic lift offers more versatility than virtually any other type of artificial lift system.
Jet pumps also lend themselves to hybrid jet pump/gas-lift installations in which the jet pump recovers the frac fluid until gas production becomes relevant. At that point, retrieving the jet pump by wireline is simple and cost-effective. The bottomhole assembly can be left in the wellbore. That way, if the well should later need to be put back on hydraulic lift due to offset fracs, disruption in gas production or compressor downtime, the operator can pump the jet pump back into position, either temporarily or long term—without the expense of a pulling unit.
In today’s oil price climate, cost reduction is at the top of every company’s wish list, as it was for a producer with a well in the Frio Formation near Galveston, Texas. The well’s rod pump faced operational and wellbore issues that cost the operator an average of $140,000/year in pulling and repair costs.
The well had been completed to 6,800ft with 5.5-inch casing. A severe deviation in the casing was the main issue, creating the damage but also limiting production. It produced 20 bbl/d and 260 bbl/d of water.
Tech-Flo installed a jet pump system at a 20% cost reduction over the existing equipment. The producer had previously used a rail car separator with a suction leg installed for the surface pump’s suction, which eliminated the need for other separation equipment.
The jet pump boosted production to 28 bbl/d and 400 bbl/d of water using 70 mechanical horsepower. In the first year of installation, the jet pump system saved the producer $133,000 in service and repair costs.
ABOUT TECH-FLO
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Why don't we make our own achievements?
Posted by Klepsacovic at 6:57 PM | Monday, June 22, 2009
In How nerfed is WoW? You decide! a little bit ago Larisa explores how WoW has changed in terms of getting easier. My response was this:
Overall? Hard to say. WoW used to be harder, but much of that harder was because of terrible balance, not due to actual challenges. Only one real tanking class made it harder to do raids due to lack of tanks, but fixing that is hardly what I'd call a nerf.
There's not much to be gained by tallying nerfs and checking the score. If the game is too easy, it means you're not trying hard enough to make it hard. If you're not willing to put in the effort, don't complain. Maybe this is where WoW has been nerfed: challenges are handed to people on platters. There didn't used to be specific challenges spoon fed to raids.
If they wanted a challenge they made it themselves. I didn't see that happen often though. Why not? Why do most people not do something unless the devs tell them to do it?
My last paragraph is most relevant: Why don't we make our own challenges?
Perhaps this helps to explain it: we get banned. But there was a lack of such initiative before this. This isn't the cause. Why don't people make up their own challenges?
On my first wander over to Yggradsil I came up with this: (it makes a little more sense in context, but I think it still works)
I have noticed that spending less time often results in more fun. Oh sure now and then it's nice to lose a whole day, but for the most part WoW fun has diminishing returns. It starts to get stressful, especially if you spend half your time staring at the LFG interface thinking "I don't need that heroic, I don't need this other heroic, there's nothing to do."
It's not just the time though. It's what you think about the time. Is the time work or is it play? Too often I think we start seeing it as work, not rewarding in itself but only for the rewards. When that happens it's pretty obvious why we'd get angry over content getting easier. On the other hand, if play was purely for the fun and experience, then we'd pity those who come after the nerfs because they won't get to play what we played.
We're motivated by gear and other tangible (as much as virtual can be tangible) rewards, not as much by experiences. Self-made challenges do not give rewards. The devs don't intended for us to do them, so they don't reward them either.
What can change?
Ever heard the phrase "not working as intended"? That's another way of saying bug or exploit. The four man kill was not working as intended. The devs wanted the fight done with 10 or 25 people, not 4.
Change the philosophy. Rather than having just intended (do this) and not intended (don't do this, or else), add something else: unexpected (that worked? Cool!) I realize this makes things difficult for the devs and GMs. Where is the line between unintended and exploitative?
I hate to say it, but City of Heroes/Villains might actually have something to contribute. As far as I can tell from secondhand evidence, the game doesn't really have intention or balance. The result is that people just do fights however. My friend claims it makes them think, I thought it made them never have to plan ahead if just anything works (meaning it goes to the other extreme of non-thinking). A middle ground could be cool though. Take current raid design, loosen it slightly, and ease up on the bans because something was "not working as intended."
Upon further review, it appears that what they did falls under the area of what I would call obvious exploitation: getting FL to go past the walls.
http://jormundgards.blogspot.com/2009/06/maybe-not-so-tactical.html
Still, the fact that it took so long to get any real information is bad PR. The explanation of the GM was pretty bad too, completely failing to convey that the issue wasn't the lack of being hit, but the location of the boss. It's also odd that so many bugs still slip through despite the long development cycle.
What disturbs me most is that people think it's okay to blatantly exploit and lie about it.
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A Story of a Giant
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Stranded Erotica May 16, 2011 July 14, 2013
“Traffic on Martin Park Avenue is at a standstill due to a flipped over auto in the centre lane,” the radio reported.
Walter rolled his eyes. Luckily, he had no appointments scheduled.
The authoritative radio voice was replaced by Eddie Van Halen strumming the opening notes on “Right Now”.
Walter tapped his hands on the steering wheel in appreciation of the beat. He drove a white four door Chevy Optra that was almost ten years old. It was a decent vehicle, though Walter was always paranoid about finding it harder to get parts being the model was no longer manufactured.
Sammy Hagar began crooning along with Eddie’s guitar.
Walter sat his large frame on a bucket seat covered in gray fabric. He glanced in the back seat at the two booster seats and smiled.
There was a small blonde, blue eyed plastic doll sitting beside one of the boosters that smiled back at him.
His attention returned to the near motionless cars around him. Between rubber necking and one lane being lost, this was going to take awhile. Walter thumbed at his gps to see if there was an alternate route. Due to the road running along the side of a river, there were no other options that would get him across.
Chad Kroeger began singing about feeling way too damned good.
“At least it isn’t sunny.” Walter looked up at the overcast skies. The first drops of rain appeared on the windshield. Working on a sunny day from his car always felt like he was an ant under a magnifying glass. He always preferred the cooler, rainy summer days as the rain also helped kill the humidity.
A car horn complained up ahead.
Glancing to his right, Walter noticed a brunette glancing at him. She was in a gray Toyota Matrix.
Her eyes quickly shot away after the brief connection.
Walter felt his face flush. He was almost 50 and had heart concerns due to his weight. His near seven foot height hid the weight well, but he was not able to climb stairs quickly without needing to catch his breath. His hair was brown with gray streaks and a matching goatee. His own eyes were the same blue as the doll in the back seat.
The brunette kept her eyes away for a few moments. Glancing back, she caught his eyes again and grinned before quickly evading. Her eyes were big and brown.
Walter guessed she was half his age. Due to being in the car, he was uncertain but she looked rather slim. Her hair disappeared behind her shoulders against the seat.
Her hand covered her grin and she glanced away again.
Walter waited with one eye on the car in front of him, and one eye on the brunette. He checked his ring finger and found the wedding ring mark was long gone. “After two years, it should be,” he mumbled. He leaned back and his right arm stretched to a rest on the top of the passenger seat.
The brunette’s brown eyes found his again.
He waved and said, “Hi.” Knowing she could not hear, he felt a bit foolish. His face flushed even further, seeing her reaction.
She smiled, waved back and then rolled down the driver window on the Matrix. She waved her hand downwards, encouraging Walter to lower his passenger window.
He used the console on his door to follow her instructions.
Without the glare of the windows he got a much better look at her. She had an Asian look to her eyes and smooth skin. Her smile was beautiful.
Walter had an image of a collar around her neck and her on her knees in front of him wearing nothing but a leather bra and underwear.
She called from her window, “Hi!”
The rain picked up just slightly and tapped heavier on the open window frame.
She glanced ahead before continuing, “Could I buy you a coffee?” She pointed ahead at the donut and coffee shop just ahead on the right.
This was not the question Walter had been expecting. He took a moment to compute a proper answer, “Sure.”
She nodded, “Cool.”
She was young, he thought. He was not sure why she would want to talk to him, but he had nothing to lose.
It took twenty minutes as they inched forward, but Walter was able to move his Optra into the lane behind her and followed her into the packed parking lot. With no parking spots, he followed her around the lot until she found a back entrance that led onto a tiny residential street. A quick glance at his gps showed this would take him backwards.
She pulled her Matrix over and got out. Her body was gorgeous. Slim with some serious curves. She wore a pink blouse over a black skirt and
The skies above got a bit darker.
Walter pulled up behind her, leaving enough room for a driveway cut out. He un-latched his seat belt and stepped out. His gray slacks swayed beneath a light blue shirt and navy tie.
Her eyes widened further seeing Walter’s height. Her car was under a tree, protecting her from the rain. She smiled at him and offered her hand to the giant. “I’m Alexa.”
He shook her tiny hand. “Walter. Did you want to walk back for coffee?”
Thunder boomed overhead and darker clouds dropped the light level.
“No,” she shook her head. “It looks to busy.”
Walter glanced back at the parking lot entrance and nodded. He pointed back from the direction they had been coming and said, “There is another coffee…”
“I don’t want coffee.”
“Oh, okay.”
She grinned. “I want to fuck you blind.”
“Excuse me?” Walter, again, had not expected to hear these words.
Alexa giggled.
Walter thought for a moment, completely unsure of what to say.
Alexa’s face turned to concern. “I’m sorry. I just…”
Walter interrupted, “No need to be sorry. I’m willing. I just was not expecting such a goddess, as yourself, to proposition me.”
She smiled. “I saw you in the car. I like men a bit older than I am, what can I say? And now that I have seen how big you are…”
Walter was no longer blushing. His mind had adjusted and was now on home turf again. “How far away do you live?”
She grinned. “I’m just visiting a friend. My place is a four hour flight.”
Walter nodded and worked on an idea. “With this traffic, we’re an hour from my place. However…” His eyes wandered up and down her body. “How adventurous are you?”
Her smile answered without words.
“Follow me,” he said. He walked to her car door and opened it for her. “We won’t be going far.”
She slipped back into her car and waited for Walter’s Optra to pass.
He checked his gps and found the park just down the road. Earlier he had caught a hint of green on the tiny screen, so he knew it was a large area.
There were washrooms up the path, and trees everywhere. Lightning flashed above and showed a few covered picnic areas back amongst the trees.
Walter parked and got out. Again opening her door, he helped her out.
“What did you have in mind?” she asked.
“No more words, just enjoy and obey.”
Her face smiled even more brightly at the word ‘obey’.
Thunder roared.
He offered his arm and led her down the path towards the covered picnic areas. The rain started pelting causing the couple to move more hurriedly.
They were both soaked by the time they arrived at the shelter. The shelter covered four picnic tables and two open grills.
The sky darkened further until more lightning flashed.
Alexa obeyed with no words.
Walter commanded with a deep baritone voice, “Sit.”
Alexa sat on the benches of one of the picnic tables.
Walter looked around to check for any potential voyeurs. Seeing none, he stood in front of her and pulled down his zipper.
Thunder announced itself again.
Alexa gasped realizing that his member was relative to his height. Even with both her hands on him, she could not cover his complete length. She licked her lips and stroked, awaiting further instructions. “Please, sir?” she asked in a whisper.
Walter was annoyed she had spoken, at first. He quickly decided not to explore that anger as such opportunities were too rare to give up for such a faux pas. Instead, he nodded.
Lightning lit the now near night darkness.
She smiled and kissed the very tip of his now erect penis. She then lifted the erection and suckled his balls.
Thunder.
Walter gasped and steadied himself.
More lightning flashed and the rain picked up intensity.
Alexa then sucked just the tip into her mouth. Slowly pulling his length in, more and more.
Walter lace his right hand through the hair on the back of her head and pulled her gently further. He was very impressed that she did not gag and took him whole. He was also fascinated with the big brown eyes that locked with his as she did it. The biggest surprise came when he felt her wet tongue slip out and, once again, play with his balls.
Thunder rumbled its approval of the show.
For ten minutes, Alexa worked at milking him. She alternated licking around his cock as she stroked and taking his length fully in again. As she took him deep again, he orgasmed and felt her suction on his cock as she swallowed the entire load.
Walter gasped and regrouped for a moment.
Thunder now followed almost directly after the lightning flashes.
Walter picked up the tiny Asian goddess and sat her on top of the picnic table. Lifting her skirt, he found black panties in the way which he ripped with little effort.
Alexa giggled at his action.
Lightning and thunder applauded as well.
Walter then bent down and his tongue explored between her legs. Her clit was sweet and plump as he sucked it into his mouth. His hands first untucked her blouse and reached up under it to massage her breasts.
Lightning and thunder continued to watch as Alexa started squirming.
Releasing her breasts, Walter clamped his hands on her hips to stop the squirming.
Alexa began screaming her pleasure, barely audible over the intense rain and continual thunder.
Walter stood and lifted her with his hands still on her hips.
She wrapped her legs around him and hung on with her head only reaching to near his armpits.
Walter seated himself back on the picnic table with her on top. His hands then reached down and squeezed her ass, lifting her.
Alexa reached down and guided his massive cock, hard again, inside her. She slowly lowered herself on him, afraid he would simply be too big. Before much longer, she was smashing herself down onto him to the beat of the near constant lightning and thunder.
Walter felt his cock nearing climax. He stopped and pushed her off of him. He then bent her over the table and hammered into her from behind with his right hand a vice on her hip and his left pulling her head back with her hair. His cum filled her as she screamed with her pleasure.
She fell forward on the table as Walter released her. Her screams started anew as his mouth returned to her pussy and sucked out their mixed juices.
An hour later, after the rain had finally let up, Walter opened her car door for her. “M’lady.”
Alexa got on her tip toes, for the good it did her.
Walter bent down to accept the kiss which was sweet, wet and passionate.
“Thank you, m’lord,” she said with a slight mock. “May I see you again?”
Walter crinkled his brow. “You said you weren’t from here.”
“I’m here looking for work, so hopefully will be back soon. Even so, might I take your phone number?”
He agreed with a smile and recited his number as she entered it into her phone.
She kissed him once more before slipping into her Matrix, and pulling off into the darkness.
Walter smiled and felt alive. He hoped she would get that job as now he really wanted to see her with that collar on.
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Sailor Moon episodes 5 and 6 are now available on Hulu
Posted on May 29, 2014 by Adam
The 5th and 6th episodes of Sailor Moon are now available subbed and streaming on Hulu. As was mentioned previously by Viz, who has acquired the rights to the series, two new episodes will be released every Monday! This week includes two new episodes which were previously not dubbed into English. For many nostalgic fans this is a great chance to check out these episodes for the first time!
Episode 5, Scent of a Monster: Chanela Will Steal Your Love has tensions grow between Shingo and Luna, who is integrating herself into the Tsukino family as a pet, as the Chanela appear in town. Shingo and his friend Mika, along with many other children, are hypnotized by the Chanela who are actually a plot by the Dark Kingdom. One has to wonder if the Chanela themselves were actually innocent creatures with autonomy created as part of this plot and discarded afterwards or if they were just mindless tools. This episode features an interesting twist as Usagi, disguised as Sailor Moon, hides her face from Shingo fearing he might recognize her. Later in the series Usagi’s transformed self is never recognized by anyone. Perhaps Usagi, new to her powers, simply didn’t realize this was the case so early in the show.
Episode 6, Protect the Melody of Love: Usagi Plays Cupid, has Usagi befriending a jazz musician Yusuke Amade, whose music is being used by the Dark Kingdom in order to collect energy. Usagi plays cupid in that she gives him advise on how to win over Akiko who he’s interested in. Usagi uses her transformation pen to get into a club and in doing so sports a punky looking green hair style.
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SuicuneSol on May 29, 2014 at 2:24 pm said:
I didn’t know these two episodes were Japan exclusive! I thought episode 6 was one of the most memorable episodes of the first season specifically because of the way Usagi dressed. I thought she looked really good with the green hair.
Also of note was that this was the only Sailor Moon episode with a car chase scene. Rather unusual for Sailor moon, yet exciting.
Williukea on May 30, 2014 at 1:43 am said:
97 weeks left before we get all the episodes! That is if they don’t release 4 episodes again also to watch for free download Hola add-on for your browser it’s free!
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Visegrad Literary Award
Veapla zsűri
VEaPLA és a média
EaP Literary Review
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Marcel Gherman
Prose writer and essayist.
His book Universuri paralele (Parallel Universes) has been selected in the 2018 project Chisinaul citeste (Chisinau reads) that includes a series of public readingsand meetings in libraries and schools.
Parallel Universes (Universuri paralele)
Parallel Universes (Universuri paralele) (Stiinta Publishing House, 2017) is a collection of science-fiction and fantasy prose. The book is an omnibus that contains two novels and a collection of short stories: science-fiction novel Multiverse (Multivers), dark fantasy novel Last Testament of the Kingdom of Nirgalia (Testramentul regatului Nirgalia), and the collection of fantasy short fiction Stories from the realm of Pandava (Istorisiri din taramul Pandava)…
Max Shchur / Max Ščur / Макс Шчур
Foto: Burdová Václava
Zdroj: https://www.denik.cz/ostatni_kultura/spisovatel-max-scur-beloruske-vezeni-bych-nezvladl-20150927-ynqb.html
Max Shchur is a poet and an anarchist, forced to emigrate from Belarus twenty years ago after writing and staging a play about the death of a dictator.
He found political asylum in Prague, where his real literary life only began.
His novel “To Complete Gestalt” was written in Prague, in the Belarusian language, published in Ukraine and it is a seemingly simple story about a long trip to Amsterdam. Yet, it has several layers of interpretation.
To Complete Gestalt
Lidia Mikheeva wrote one of the most exhaustive reviews of the novel. There she suggests, “Europe is the never-to-be-completed gestalt of a Belarusian man”. Still the narrator chooses not to dismantle the myth of Europe as a “real home of a cultured man” trivially, but to employ the attitude of an observing “outsider” that ruins the myth on the very first pages.
Europe is depicted here through a chain of discreet phenomena – Euro-fascists, migrants, volunteers, Russian tourists, Van Gogh museum with kitschy souvenirs. There is never one common diagnosis or prospect from the author. Only metaphysical fear to “coincide” once and forever with the masks or identities he encounters and plays with. Which brings the book close to much of the agenda of European literature today, says Lidia.
http://journalby.com/news/europa-yak-nezakryty-geshtalt-belaruski-lavec-u-zhyce-783
Novel online
You can read the novel online at https://knigogid.ru/books/780267-zavyarshyc-geshtalt/toread
Rozhovor s Maxem Ščurem v češtině:
https://www.denik.cz/ostatni_kultura/spisovatel-max-scur-beloruske-vezeni-bych-nezvladl-20150927-ynqb.html
Alhierd Bakharevich / Альгерд Бахарэвіч (1975)
Alhierd Bakharevich was born in Minsk in 1975.
After some years spent in Germany, he returned to Belarus in 2013 and currently lives in Minsk with his wife – a poet and translator Julia Tsimafeeva.
The fact that Alhierd Bakharevich has been trusted to be a jury member of the prestigious Gedroyc Literary Award four times proves him authoritative and popular among the readers, critics and fellow authors.
His works have been translated into German, Czech, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Russian and Polish. Here is a link to a more detailed entry about him (his biography and literary career in English) in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhierd_Baharevich
Dogs of Europe / Сабакі Эўропы
Логвінаў, 2017 anti-utopia in Belarusian 900 pages
Anti-utopia, about Belarus and Europe 50 years from now, which has already won itself the reputation of the most attractive anti-bestseller. • One of the slogans of the book intriguingly claims: “You will never read this book” (the volume of the book – it is more than 900 pages long – and frequent passages in the constructed language Balbuta would intimidate a hesitating reader).
Yet, more people perceive it as a personal intellectual challenge and go for it.
Extract from the book in Belarusian: https://lohvinau.by/брысь-мова-брысь-урывак-з-новага-рама/
Andrus Horvat / Андрусь Горват (1983)
https://nn.by/?c=ar&i=173486&lang=ru
Andrus Horvat was born in 1983.
In 2006, he graduated from Belarusian State University (with Journalism as his major).
From autumn 2013 to spring 2015, he worked as a janitor in the National Theatre.
In 2015, he moved to his village Prudok, which is in Homiel region.
He intends to live there all his life and die there. (https://nn.by/?c=ar&i=151216)
More information about him: https://www.livelib.ru/author/961061-andrus-gorvat
Галiяфы, 2017 / a journal in Belarusian / 248 pages
It is not common for a Belarusian writer to publish more than 500 copies of a book.
Horvat published 1000 – and sold them out within two days. He published another 1000 copies – and the book disappeared within a few days again. Then there was the third publication, which really makes history in the Belarusian literary process.
His first and only book so far, Radio Prudok, is a chronicle of escape of a Belarusian “Taoist”.
This history of a successful downshifting, loneliness in the neglected village unexpectedly strongly resonated with thousands and thousands of people.
Links and interviews
http://journalby.com/news/radziva-prudok-fenomen-andrusya-gorvata-870
https://www.sb.by/articles/andrus-gorvat-pratsyagu-prudka-ne-budze.html
https://news.tut.by/culture/535717.html
https://symbal.by/t/940-andrus-horvat-radziva-prudok/
Theater adaptation
https://afisha.tut.by/news/culture/592863.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllewMuwkS4
Extracts from the journal (published in Nasha Niva newspaper in 2015 – his extracts were the most popular reading that year)
https://nn.by/?c=ar&i=151216
Archil Kikodze (1972)
His essays and novels are regularly published in popular magazines Literaturuli Palitra and Hot Chocolate.
Kikodze won Literary Prize GALA for a book of short stories Calmly.
His collected Essays (2012) and short stories The Story of a Bird and a Man (2013) later receiving SABA Award as the best prose collection of the year were both published by Siesta Publishing House.
Southern Elephant
a novel / Sulakauri Publishing House, 2017 / in Georgian / 273 pages
Southern Elephant is probably by now the latest thing in recent Georgian literature, it manages to capture the invisible spirit of the times, the Zeitgeist.
The novel’s reader can expect a novel a clé which blends nostalgia and melancholy and (to quote Roland Barthes) pleasure derived from a text. /Z. Andronikashvili, writer/.
Southern Elephant is an urban novel whose action takes place in a single day.
The novel has one other important character, Tbilisi, with its complex relationships, its social obligations, sometimes heavy, sometimes light, sometimes happy and sometimes tragic, but more often than not grotesque. The narrator knows his city only too well, it has brought him a great deal of pain.
The novel has one other theme: cinematography.
This is a novel about moral dilemmas, about how to stay human.
An exctract from the novel: https://issuu.com/floydianmike/docs/archil_kikodze._the_southern_elepha
Armen of Armenia
Armen of Armenia (Armen Ohanyan) is a fiction writer and essayist.
He is known for his short story collectionThe Return of Kikos, published in 2013.
Mommyland: the Flag
Armen of Armenia’s Mommyland: the Flag was released after 3 years of his short story collection The Return of Kikos. The presentation of the book took place on the 19th of September at Artbridge book store cafe all through midday to midnight.
It includes three novels – Mommyland: the Flag, Mommyland: the Hymn, and Mommyland: the Seal.
All three novels are written with the principle of the synthesis of rhetoric, screenplay, and poetic prose.
Links and reviews
https://armenpress.am/eng/news/863812/erevanyan-bestseler-4/33-mayreniq-drosh-n-arajatar-e-varkanishayin.html
http://asyou.pinkarmenia.org/culture/2015/armen_ohanyan/?lang=en
Susanna Harutyunyan
Susanna Harutyunyan is a fiction writer.
She is one of the most acclaimed women writers in Armenia with a bibliography of
8 published books and numerous publications in short story anthologies.
The Ravens Before Noa
https://www.ariliterary.com/ravens-before-noah
Artem Cheh / Aртeм Чeх / Artem Čech (1985)
Artem Cheh (born 1985) is a Ukrainian writer and journalist.
Together with his wife Iryna Cilyk wrote the guide book Awesome Ukraine (2012), and also took part in several common editions dedicated to the Revolution of Honor in Kyiv and the war on the east of Ukraine.
In 2015-2016 as a soldier took part in the war.
On the base of this experience he wrote a book The Zero Point (2017).
The Zero Point / Toчка нуль
Charkiv: Vivat Publishing House, 2017 / худoжнiй рeпoртаж / in Ukrainian /224 pages
Non-fiction literature has recently come to the forefront in Ukraine: there are many authors who write non-fiction, and readers are interested to read it. This genre gives an opportunity to describe Ukraine, its everyday life, but also important events such as Majdan or war on the East.
The author spent 10 months on the battle line in the East of Ukraine near small town Popasna.
He writes about his experiences, but warns that “it is not a book about war. It’s about me, a man who has little to do with the war, with such aggressive brutal things as the gun…” (from the interview for Litakcent). You will not find anger, tears, hate and death on the pages of this book. Or you will find them in a very small amount, much less than you would expect from a text that is a direct broadcast from the way to and from the war.
It is a description of the psychological and physical difficulties encountered by the average intelligent guy who imagined the war from the books and grandparents’ talks, who wants to accomplish his task, contribute to the peace, and finally just meets reality. It will for sure change him, but in a completely different way than he or the reader of a book expect.
Kateryna Kalytko / Kатeрина Kалиткo (1982)
Kateryna Kalytko is a writer and translator.
She published six poetry books, last one was named Torture Chamber. Vineyard. House (2014).
She is also the author of two books of short stories, the second one is The Earth of the Lost, or the Little Terrible Tales (2017) and she won the BBC Book of the Year prize for it.
She is also a translator from the Balkan languages.
Her texts were also translated to different world languages.
She is a laureate of several Ukrainian and European literature awards.
The Earth of the Lost, or the Little Terrible Tales / Земля загублених, або маленькі страшні казки
The Old Lion Publishing House/Видавництво Старого Лева, 2017 / a book of short stories / in Ukrainian /224 pages
https://starylev.com.ua/zemlya-zagublenyh
Each story is based on some real-life experience, but is mixed with myth, with legend and with a special focus of view.
Kalytko works with very difficult themes as the trauma, people’s aggression, death and birth, self-identification and cooperation with the other people.
Extracts from the book: https://starylev.com.ua/zemlya-zagublenyh
Myroslav Lajuk / Myroslav Layuk / Мирoслав Лаюк (1990)
He belongs to the young generation in Ukrainian literature.
He began as a poet, his first book Cirsium (Осоте!) was published at 2013 after it won the Smoloskyp prize, which is the most prestigious prize for beginners in Ukrainian literature.
His second book of poetry was published at 2015 (Metrofobie) and the novel Babornja is his first prose book.
He is also known because of his researches on the Ukrainian poetry from 1980th (mainly Vasyl Gerasumjuk’s poetry) and the editing of the anthology of the contemporary Ukrainian poetry (2018).
For more information see: Мирoслав Лаюк
Babornja / Бабoрня
The Old Lion Publishing House, 2016 / a novel / in Ukrainian / 304 pages
Babornja is the novel about the teacher Marija Vasylivna working in the small Carpathian village for many years. Her name is so typical, her life is so ordinary. Or we just may think so at the beginning of the novel. We may think that she is a typical representative of the soviet school system, where there was no space for freedom or personal Me. This system, and its daughter Marija Vasylivna are blame, stupid and even cruel.
But as we go through the story, page by page, we see here private life, here love story, her family tragedy, and we understand her much more batter. Together with her we go through disillusion: beautiful love story, which Marija Vasylivna was hiding in her heart for many years, become the pure fantasy, which had nothing to do with reality. She is destroyed: the system she lived in doesn’t exist anymore. It’s like a sudden wake-up, back to reality. And she tries to build a new life.
This personal story is in fact the story of Ukrainian society, which is waking up after the soviet illusion. And about its attempts to build something new instead of it. It’s a new point of view on the soviet period and its heritage.
Vladimir Rafeenko / Владимир Рафеенко (1969)
https://ru.wikipedia.org
Rafeenko Volodymyr (1969, Donetsk) comes from Ukraine.
He writes in Russian and is also a philologist and culture expert.
He has authored novels, collection of short stories and poems.
The Length of Days / Долгота дней / Дoвгi часи
The Fabula Publishing House, 2017 /a novel / in Russian / 304 pages
https://fabulabook.com/product/dolgota-dnej/,
Having urgently left native occupied Donetsk, the author started to write a novel The Long Time to tell about the events that were taking place in Donbas.
There are three main characters in the novel. One of them is a novel writer. After the first part there come his short stories.
The first part of the novel narrates about a phantasmagoric city Z, that the reader would recognize as the author’s home city of Donetsk.
The second part consists of short stories that are plaited into the background of the fairy tale but are written in realistic manner, in the manner of absolute realism borders with naturalism.
Exctract from the book
https://www.e-reading.club/book.php?book=1054409
Oksana Kis / Оксана Кісь (1970)
Kis Oksana – a Ukrainian historic and anthropologist, doctoral candidate of Institute of ethnology at the Ukrainian National Academy of Science, the president of Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Feminine History, the head of Lviv City Public Organization “The Woman and Society Research Institute”, activist, expert of Gender expert platform “The Krona gender informational and analytical center”.
Her current research is about studying the daily life of women in special historical circumstances in Soviet Ukraine in the middle of the 20th century.
More information: Oksana Kis
The Ukrainian Women in GULAG: to Survive Means to Win / Українки в ГУЛАГу: вижити значить перемогти
Lviv: Institute of ethnology at the Ukrainian National Academy of Science / Львів: Інститут народознавства НАН України, 2017. Culturological monograph /Культурологічна монографія in Ukrainian /288 pages
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EOXQef5aafMJ:www.womenhistory.org.ua/index.php/novi-vydannya+&cd=8&hl=ru&ct=clnk&gl=ua
The book is the first historical and anthropological research of the daily life of GULAG female political prisoners in 1940-50s.
In total the memories of 120 women have been used in the book.
This also includes the memories of women of other nationalities (the Polish, Russians, Jews and Germans) that include vivid plots about Ukrainian women
Serhij Žadan / Сергій Жадан (1974)
About Serhij Zhadan (official web): https://www.facebook.com/serhiy.zhadan/
Serhij Žadan (česky): http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/23553
Serhiy Zhadan is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator.
Zhadan is an internationally known Ukrainian writer, with 12 books of poetry and 7 novels, and winner of more than a dozen literary awards.
Інтернат
Чернівці: Meridian Czernоwitz, 2017 / in Ukrainian / 326 pages
Інтернат – one of the most resonant events of the literary life in Ukraine in the last year
«Інтернат»: війна тхне мокрою псятиною…, http://texty.org.ua/pg/article/editorial/read/79859/Internat_vijna_tkhne_mokroju_psatynoju_Novyj_roman.
Я. Поліщук, Донбас як інтернат, «Буквоїд»: http://bukvoid.com.ua/reviews/books/2018/01/01/093332.html.
Я. Поліщук, Дух «мокрої псини», «Річ: часопис текстів і візій»: https://chasopys-rich.com.ua/.
Extract from the book
http://www.meridiancz.com/get_book/
Myroslav Dochynets / Мирослав Дочинець (1959)
Novelist, Philosopher, and Publicist
See more on oficial web page: http://miroslav-dochinets.com/
There surely cannot be another author in Ukraine whose writings are discussed as widely as the books written by Myroslav Dochynets. As well as being in the book shops’ Best Seller lists, his works also fill a significant gap in the ‘spiritual narrative’ of Ukrainian literature, elevating even further the brilliance of our Ukrainian language. Colourful and lively personalities with their apt maxims are plentiful in each of the writer’s books, finding their way to readers of any age or social status.
Myroslav Dochynets has produced around twenty books of prose, dictums, and social and political essays.
Мафтeй. Kнига написана сухим пeрoм
Kарпатська вeжа, 2016. / in Ukrainian / 347 pages /novel
Extract from the novel: http://slovoprosvity.org/2016/10/06/verxovni-mlini-urivok-z-novogo-romanu-miroslava-dochincya-maftej-kniga-napisana-suxim-perom/
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Douma-Hussar is Third at Emerald Nuts Midnight Run
PEACOCK, PEZZULLO ARE MIDNIGHT RUN CHAMPIONS
By David Monti, Race Results Weekly
NEW YORK (31-Dec) — Two athletes training in North Carolina, Landon Peacock of Blowing Rock and Stephanie Pezzullo of Charlotte, won the 33rd Emerald Nuts Midnight Run, a four mile road race held here in Central Park at the stroke of midnight.
Peacock, 24, a former University of Wisconsin Badger who now runs for the Reebok-sponsored ZAP Fitness program, clocked 18 minutes and 35 seconds, three seconds up on Tesfaye Dube, an Ethiopian athlete who runs for the New York-based West Side Runners club. Stephen Pifer, who runs for the Nike Oregon Track Club in Eugene, finished third in 18:48.
“It was a whole lot of fun,” Peacock said after running the race for the first time. He smiled and added: ”It was the most interesting way I’ve started a year.”
Pezzullo, 29, who represents Saucony, outlegged rivals Sarah Porter and Carmen Douma-Hussar in the final mile to win in 21:05, a personal best for the distance by 55 seconds. For Pezzullo it was her first Midnight Run victory; she was second back in 2006.
“Awesome, awesome,” Pezzullo said when she was asked how the race went. She continued: “It was just a great experience, and the crowd support was unbelievable.”
Porter, who like men’s winner Peacock runs for the ZAP Fitness program, crossed the finish line in 21:17 in her debut at the race. Douma-Hussar, a Canadian Olympian and former Midnight Run champion and course record holder, ran 21:26. Former Providence College standout Katie DiCamillo was fourth in 21:38.
Both Peacock and Pezzullo earned $600 each in prize money and time bonuses.
The New York Road Runners, the race founders and organizers, said about 5000 runners took part. A nearly 20 minute fireworks display accompanied the race.
Top 10 Finishers
1 Stephanie Pezzullo 29 Charlotte, NC USA 21:05
2 Sarah Porter 22 Blowing Rock, NC USA 21:17
3 Carmen Douma-Hussar 34 Ardmore, PA CAN 21:26
4 Katie DiCamillo 25 Providence, RI USA 21:38
5 Breanne Simpson 29 New York, NY USA 22:56
6 Leonora Petrina 29 Bayport, NY USA 23:37
7 Elizabeth Briasco 19 Forest Hills, NY USA 24:09
8 Alem Ashebir Gebreezgi 26 New York, NY ETH 24:49
9 Marisa Cummings 19 New York, NY USA 25:40
10 Sarah Cummings 22 Princeton, NJ USA 25:40
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Carmen Douma-Hussar on Tap for New Year's Eve Race
Emerald Nuts Midnight Run to Ring in New Year
Carmen Douma-Hussar, Sarah Porter, Landon Peacock and Christian Hesch set to race under a glittering sky of fireworks at midnight
NEW YORK - (December 27, 2011) - As 2011 winds down, New York Road Runners is gearing up to celebrate the new year with the legendary Emerald Nuts Midnight Run in Central Park at midnight on December 31. Professional athletes will toe the line with thousands of reveling New Yorkers, it was announced by NYRR president and CEO Mary Wittenberg.
The Midnight Run, a Central Park tradition since 1978, offers runners and spectators a fun and athletic way to celebrate New Year's Eve. As the ball drops in Times Square just blocks away, runners can party through a four-mile run knowing they won't drop the ball on their fitness this year. The run promises to be one of the most distinctive, cost-effective parties in all of Manhattan.
"The Emerald Nuts Midnight Run is a unique and active way to celebrate New Year's Eve in New York City," said Wittenberg. "It's the perfect way to start the New Year on the right foot, literally! We welcome friends and family to join an extravaganza of fun-from the run to the fireworks."
"We look forward to partnering with the NYRR for an eighth straight year, especially in such an iconic New York event," said Craig Tokusato, vice president of marketing at Diamond Foods, Inc. "The Emerald Nuts Midnight Run will be a great way to celebrate the new year in a fun, healthy and safe environment."
The festivities begin at 10:00pm with music and a massive dance party, followed by a spirited costume parade and contest at 11:00pm. At the stroke of midnight, runners will take off on a four-mile loop through Central Park while the night sky sparkles with a 17-minute fireworks show. Halfway through the race, runners will have the option of toasting the new year with a glass of non-alcoholic champagne at the two-mile mark.
In addition to the celebrations that are planned throughout the evening, a strong professional athlete field will race for a prize purse of $2000, including $500 apiece to the male and female winners. Canadian Olympian and 2007 Emerald Nuts Midnight Run champion Carmen Douma-Hussar will be up against Sarah Porter, the 2011 NCAA Division II 10,000 meter champion, who made her marathon debut in this year's ING New York City Marathon. Other top contenders in the women's field include Katie DiCamillo, Stephanie Pezzullo, Lesley Higgins and Sarah Cummings.
In the men's field, Landon Peacock, the 2010 Big Ten 5000 meter indoor champion, will compete against two-time Emerald Nuts Midnight Run champion (2003-04) and former course record holder Christian Hesch. Other top contenders in the men's field include Tim Ritchie and Stephen Pifer.
Douma-Hussar, 34, of Ardmore, PA, won this event in 2007 in 20:54. She was second in 2010 in 20:55.
Porter, 22, of Blowing Rock, NC, won the 2011 NCAA Division II 10,000m championship in 33:17.39. She finished the ING New York City Marathon this past November in 2:44:25.
Peacock, 24, of Blowing Rock, NC, won the 2010 Big Ten Indoor Championships 5000 meters in 14:11.94 for the University of Wisconsin. He was recently second at the Manchester Road Race (4.75 miles) on Thanksgiving Day in 21:39.
Hesch, 33, of Hollywood, CA, won this event in 2003 (19:36) and 2004 (18:28), and is a former course record holder.
Other top contenders in the women's field:
DiCamillo, 25, of Providence, RI, won the 2010 ECAC Outdoor Championships 5000 meters in 16:25.83.
Pezzullo, 29, of Charlotte, NC, was second at this event in 2006 in 22:00.
Higgins, 31, of New York, NY, placed second in the 2001 NCAA Indoor Championships Mile in 4:42.36.
Cummings, 23, of New York, NY, placed second in the 2011 Ivy League Outdoor 5000 meters in16:48.51.
Other top contenders in the men's field:
Ritchie, 24, of Brighton, MA, placed fifth at this year's Manchester Road Race (4.75 miles) on Thanksgiving Day in 21:47.
Pifer, 27, of Eugene, OR, placed second in the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Championships 5000 meters in 13:39.34.
For more details on the race and pre-race festivities in Central Park, visit: www.nyrr.org
"The Great One" -- Reid Wins FloTrack Gretsky Award
Here's the latest from the folks at FloTrack:
As we sat down and reflected on what were truly the greatest moments of the 2011 season one name kept coming up but we couldn't find a superlative that truly encompassed the greatness of this athlete. This athlete has consistently risen to the occasion and seems to have a quiet tenaciousness that combined with a race savvy like none else, produces an almost unbeatable package.
The athlete is Villanova Senior Sheila Reid. We knew we wanted to recognize her but didn't know what title to bestow upon her name. The first idea was to give her "Canadian of the Year" which, is a tremendous title especially when you consider how well Canucks have done this year. But that was too generic, bland and unFlotrack. So eventually we came to the idea of naming it after the Canadian Chuck Norris. Wayne Gretzky.
Who better to receive this award then a fellow Ontarioan ..Ontarianite ..(a person who is from Ontario). The two are just plain winners. Gretzky once said "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."
Sheila has been able to craft races into her own blueprint. Her keen race senses are unparalleled and in 2011 almost unbeatable.
Indoors she anchored her Villanova crew to a DMR crown and was barely edged out in the 3k by Hasay. (Fortunately for her, the last place finish in the pee test was went virtually unnoticed and did not effect her indoor stats- 4:00 into vid)
Then Came Outdoors and Sheila was all business as she tore up the Blue Oval in Des Moines. Battling through A 1500 prelim on the second day, Sheila came back the next night to pull away and win the 5k in 15:37. The long weekend continued as she still had a tough, 1500m final on her plate. It came down to the wire again, but as usual, Sheila timed it right, winning in 4:14.57.
Cross Country brought a lot of pressure for the reigning NCAA champion. Reid didn't have an easy road to the championship opening her season at the Wisconsin Invitational. It came down to scene we all know to well. With Jordan and Sheila stride for stride going into the home stretch, Reid set the tone for her season and pulled away with a signature kick.
Reid Continued to roll, and in November arrived in Terre Haute with an undefeated season on her hands. The women's race seemed as though it was scripted it was so dramatic. Fjortoft of SMU took the race out hard and did all she could to not let the race come down to a kick. But with 400m to go, in almost slow motion, a pack of about five women hugged the turn and darted for the barely visible finish line and for a second, it looked as though someone might take down the reigning champ. (I wanted to insert a nickname here, but i don't think she has one yet..lets work on that. Gretzky is "The great one"..just saying) With 200 meters to go the two titans of NCAA XC broke forth and it came down to none other than Sheila and Jordan. It was tight, each inching in front of the other with syncopated strides. Then the barrier was broken and Sheila powered away across the finish line to defended her title.
The NHL has officially retired Gretzky's #99 from ever being used again. Sheila Could leave her Collegiate career with 13 All American Awards so how can Coach Procaccio immortalize Sheila once she leaves Nova and is toeing the line in London next summer?
I will deliver this award to Sheila personally and I will be wearing my best Canadian Tuxedo (Denim Jacket, Denim Jeans, Denim Attitude.)
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Jen Rhines on the Upcoming US Olympic Marathon Trials
Jen Rhines for the first time speaks openly about her DNF at the New York City marathon in November -- her first marathon in 5 years -- and her surprising decision to compete in the upcoming USA Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston on January 14th. She competed in the 2004 US marathon trials, where she finished 3rd and made Team USA. She finished 34th at the Olympics that year, in 2:43:52. Overall, Jen has competed in three previous Olympic Games for the USA: over 10,000 meters in 2000, the marathon in 2004, and over 5000 meters in 2008. Jen has indicated for well over a year that her intention for 2012 was to attempt to make the US team at 10,000 meters. Inasmuch as she has not completed a marathon since 2006, and given her recent DNF in New York, Jen would have to be considered a long shot to make the marathon squad this time. Rhines has a marathon PR of 2:29:32 (good for 4th place at the 2006 Rome Marathon).
Running the marathon trials next month does not, of course, preclude an attempt to make the team at 10,000 meters. That race will be held at the Olympic Trials on June 22nd in Eugene, Oregon. Her coach and husband (and former Villanova All-American) Terrence Mahon recently explained the decision to give it a go in Houston: "She's running. . . . We trained her to run New York in November off her track season, but I don't think we timed it right. She didn't adapt quickly enough. She wanted to give it another try, and I thought, 'Okay, let's run the Marathon Trials.' Her primary goal is still to run on the track in London. She's not going to race as aggressively as the other two [Mammoth TC competitors, Deena Kastor and Amy Hastings]. But if she runs smart and makes the Olympic Team, great. If she gets close to the third-place runner in the last six miles, that's not going to be good for the woman in third. But for Jen it's not an all-or-nothing situation the way it is for Deena."
Curtis Named Captain of Team USA for Great Edinburgh XC Challenge
Team USA Announced for Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country - International Challenge
INDIANAPOLIS - Team USA will travel to Scotland for the second Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country - International Challenge on Jan. 7, 2012.
Teams from the United States, Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a select European team will compete in men’s and women’s junior and senior races. Each country competing in the International Team Challenge will consist of nine athletes per team (six on the junior teams) with the first six athletes per team (first four on the junior teams) scoring. In cross country, the team with the lowest overall score wins.
After only a senior men’s race was held in the inaugural event in 2011, Team USA will be in full force in the second running of the event. Bobby Mack (Raleigh, N.C.) is the sole returning athlete after finishing sixth last year to finish as the second American en route to the team’s silver medal.
Mack will be joined by team captain Bobby Curtis (Ardmore, Pa.) who ran the second fastest 10,000m time by an American in 2011 with his 27:24.67 effort at the Stanford Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational. Mack and Curtis will be joined by recent USATF National Club Cross Country Champion Jon Grey of (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Araon Braun (Flagstaff, Ariz.) who finished as the runner-up in the same race. The men’s squad is rounded out by Phil Reid (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Colby Lowe (Southlake, Texas), Justin Tyner (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Landon Peacock (Blowing Rock, N.C.) and Robert Cheseret (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
Neely Spence (Shippensburg, Pa.) will lead the senior women’s team after finishing as the runner-up at the recent USATF Club Cross Country Championships. Spence will be joined by Alisha Williams (Colorado Springs, Colo.) who finished 4th in the same race and Sarah Porter (Blowing Rock, N.C.) the 2011 NCAA D-II 10,000m champion. Other team members include Katie DiCamillo (Providence, R.I.), Bethany Nickless (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Jamie Cheever (Minneapolis, Minn.), Laura Thweatt (Boulder, Colo.), Maggie Infeld (Washington, D.C.) and Betzy Jimenez (Austin, Texas).
The junior squads include a mix of outstanding high school seniors and collegiate freshman. On the women’s side, Aisling Cuffe (Cornwall on Hudson, N.Y.) a freshman at Stanford leads the team after being the top junior finisher for Team USA at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Kaitlin Flattman (Benton, La.) was recently named the SEC freshman cross country runner of the year and will be joined on the U.S. squad by her teammate Jessica Jackson (Neosho, Mo.) from the University of Arkansas. High school athletes include the top two finishers from the recent Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, Molly Seidel (Hartland, Wisc.) and Erin Finn (West Bloomfield, Mich.), as well as the third place finisher from the Nike Cross Country Nationals, Katie Knight (Spokane, Wash.).
On the junior men’s side, Princeton freshman Eddie Owens (Brooklyn, N.Y.) leads the team after winning silver in the Junior Pan-American steeplechase in July. Other collegiate runners include Ohio State freshman Michael Bradjic (Bay Village, Ohio) and Oklahoma State freshman Kirubel Erassa (Grayson, Ga.). and Thomas Curtain (Leesburg, Va.) of Virginia Tech. The high school duo of Nathan Weitz, and Andrew Gardner both of Spokane, Wash. round out the squad.Weitz recently finished 3rd at the Foot Locker Championships while Gardner took 6th.
Carmen Douma-Hussar to Contest Emerald Nuts Midnight Run
From Dave Monti in today's Race Results Weekly:
DOUMA-HUSSAR, PEACOCK LEAD MIDNIGHT RUN ENTRANTS:
The 33rd Emerald Nuts Midnight Run in New York’s Central Park, which will ring in the New Year on Saturday, December 31, will feature a solid elite field led by Canadian Carmen Douma-Hussar and American Landon Peacock. Douma-Hussar, 34, an Olympian and Villanova alumnus, won the race in 2007 and was the runner-up last year. Peacock, 24, was the 2010 Big 10 indoor 5000m champion for Wisconsin and was recently second at the Manchester Road Race on Thanksgiving Day. Other top contenders include last year’s NCAA Division II 10,000m champion Sarah Porter, the 2010 ECAC 5000m champion Katie DiCamillo, the 2006 Midnight Run runner-up Stephanie Pezzullo, two-time Midnight Run champion and former course record holder Christian Hesch, the fifth place finisher at the Manchester Road Race Tim Ritchie, and the 2008 NCAA 5000m championships runner-up Stephen Pifer. The four-mile road race, which usually draws about 5000 New Year’s revelers, has an impressive elite tradition. Former champions include Irishman Marcus O’Sullivan, USA Olympian Amy Rudolph, and 2011 Boston Marathon runner-up Desiree Davila.
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Matt Gibney Named to Academic All-Area Team
Matthew Gibney Named to Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Team
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Villanova senior continues to excel in competition and academically
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--Senior Matthew Gibney (Albury, Australia) has been named to the 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men's Cross Country Team, as announced on Tuesday morning by the Philadelphia Area Sports Information Directors Association. The award is based on both athletic and academic achievements and is voted on by local sports information directors. This is the first time that Gibney has won the award.
During the 2011 cross country season Gibney earned All-Mid Atlantic Region and All-BIG EAST honors while helping Villanova finish 13th as a team at the NCAA Championships, where the Wildcats placed 10 spots higher than last season. Gibney was one of the team's first two runners at each of the first four meets of the season, including coming in first on the team at both the BIG EAST Championships and the Paul Short Run.
Gibney placed fifth overall at both the conference meet and the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional and at the latter meet recorded a career-best 10K cross country time of 30:42. He came in fourth on the team and 109th overall at the national championships meet.
Outside of competition Gibney is a two-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star and last spring garnered Capital One Academic All-America third team honors for cross country and track & field. Gibney is an English major and maintains a 3.71 grade-point average.
Gibney also was named a Scholar-Athlete by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) last spring after a successful outdoor track season which saw him garner All-America honors in the 1500 meters and anchor Villanova to a Championship of America title in the distance medley relay at the Penn Relays.
The members of the 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men's Cross Country Team are Gibney, Eric Arnold (Haverford), Tyler Dye (Philadelphia University), Stephen Hoffman (Rowan), Jacob Phillips (Swarthmore), Andrew Sturner (Haverford) and Matt VanDenHengel (Gwynedd-Mercy).
Each year the sports information directors from 28 area institutions vote on the Academic All-Area Teams for 22 different sports, plus two at-large teams. The teams recognize those student-athletes who are best able to balance athletics with academics, and excel at both. Voting is based on both grades and athletic performance. An overall Performer of the Year is also chosen from each team, as well as a Male Performer of the Year and a Female Performer of the Year at the end of each academic year.
The Academic All-Area program is now in its seventh year. A list of the honorees for each fall sport will appear in the printed edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer at a later date.
When Irish Guys are Miling: The Millrose Games
Chairman Of The Boards Coghlan Returns To Millrose
His `Dream Team' Strives to Renew Irish Tradition at Famous Meet
NEW YORK, December 20, 2011 - Celebrated runner Eamonn Coghlan is coming back to the Millrose Games, this time as an ``adopted coach.'' The seven-time champion of the Wanamaker Mile is helping bring a talented Irish squad from Dublin City University to compete in the Byron Dyce College Men's Distance Medley Relay in the 105th Millrose Games, February 11, 2012 at the Armory.
``I've known these kids since they were young teenagers,'' said Coghlan, whose son, John, will be running the 1600m anchor. ``I've seen them grow up. The fact that they are all in school together, they can see what running in New York City is all about. It's exciting for their team from Dublin University to go to the Millrose Games and have a chance to do exceptionally well.
``The Irish used to come to the Millrose Games to support me, Marcus O'Sullivan (Wanamaker Mile champion in 1986, '88, '89, '90 and '92 and now head coach at Villanova) and Ron Delany (winner of four consecutive Wanamaker Mile titles, 1956-59). People are not aware of the talent coming out of Ireland. It might get them back on the scene again and they potentially could make the Olympic Team come next July.''
Recognized as Ireland's ``Dream Team'' and Gold Medal winner of the Irish Under-23 Cross Country team competition, the Dublin City squad consists of Irish Junior 800m record holder Mark English (1:47.09), Brian Gregan, Darren McBrearty and 2010 U-23 Irish 1500 meters champion John Coghlan.
Dublin City University coach Enda Fitzpatrick will make the trip.
Earlier this year Eamonn Coghlan introduced to Armory Foundation president Dr. Norb Sander the idea of bringing an Irish Team to the Millrose Games. ``He asked me if I would be in on the floor activities,'' Coghlan recalled. ``I said we need a bit of the Irish influence back in the Millrose Games again. I said, `what about bringing an Irish team over?' ''
Thus Coghlan, nicknamed the Chairman of the Boards for winning the Wanamaker Mile in 1977, '79-'81, '83, '85 and '87, will be in attendance to support the talented Irish outfit.
``My role there is as a parent, coach and a nervous dad,'' Coghlan said. ``I just want to be with Norb and help keep the Millrose Games going. Enda would like my influence to be with the kids the day before and calm them down, motivate them and help them get ready.
``The Millrose Games are close to my heart for obvious reasons. My success in the Millrose Games has been the making of Eamonn Coghlan. Not a week goes by when someone doesn't say something to me about winning the Wanamaker Mile.''
The Irish Team will be competing against the country's top college programs including Eamonn Coghlan's alma mater Villanova, Virginia, Duke, Providence, Columbia and Albany.
The week prior to the Millrose Games, the Irish Team will participate individually in the New Balance Collegiate Invitational (Feb 3-4) at the Armory.
Hugo Beamish goes 14:23 for Kiwi Chiba Ekiden Relay in Japan
This story slipped past us temporarily, but Villanova's Hugo Beamish last month ran the 5K leg on New Zealand's Chiba Ekiden relay team in Japan. Here's the story from Athletics New Zealand:
Chiba Ekiden Relay – 23 November 2011
New Zealand finished eleventh in the Chiba Ekiden Relay.
The event is raced over the marathon distance of 42.2km in six stages with each team having three men and three women.
US based Hugo Beamish had New Zealand ninth after the first 5km in 14m 23s. Leonora Petrina, also based in the States, ran 16m 27s for the next 5km leg with the team in eleventh spot. Matt Smith ran the next 10km stage in 31m 3s with fellow Cantabrian Fiona Crombie completing lap four over 5km in 16m 31s.
Stephen Lett clocked 31m 12s for the 10km on the penultimate lap and Lisa Robertson anchored New Zealand home in 2h 14m 37s after running the final 7.195km in 25m 1s. Kenya won in a course record of 2h 4m 40s, just 19 seconds ahead of Japan with a Japan University third in 2h 7m 26s.
The New Zealand men’s Ekiden relay record is 2h 0m 56s set in Chiba in 1991 and the national women’s record is 2h 15m 49s also set in Chiba in 1988.
In the 5000m races for the travelling reserves Zane Robertson finished second in a PB 13m 58.37s and Nicki McFadzien was fourth in the mixed race in 17m 13.72s.
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Kelsey Margey Verbals to Villanova
On November 5th, Long Island, NY's Kelsey Margey, a 17:25 5000 meter runner with 2:10 800 meter speed, won the New York section 8 cross country title in 17:49 and then promptly gave a verbal commitment to join Gina Procaccio's Villanova squad. She joins Pennsylvania's Angel Piccirillo as two star recruits who will enroll at Villanova in August. Margey ran her 5000 XC personal best cited above on October 15th when she won the Brown Invitational. At that point in the season Margey was ranked by MileSplit as the 17th best high school cross country runner in the United States. She'll help Villanova attempt to maintain its position of national excellence in cross country as the team loses two-time national champion Sheila Reid and three-time All American Bogdana Mimic.
Kelsey Margey's PRs
More Academic Accolades for Sheila Reid
Here's a news release from the Villanova University Athletic Department:
Sheila Reid Named First Team Recipient of NCAS Scholar Baller Academic Momentum Award
Reid is one of 49 student-athletes across all sports to be recognized for their academic performance
ORLANDO, Fla.--Senior cross country and track student-athlete Sheila Reid (Newmarket, Ont.) is a recipient of the 2011 Academic Momentum Award and is a first team selection, as announced last week by The Scholar Baller Program, in conjunction with the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS). A total of 49 student-athletes nationwide were chosen for the award, which encompasses all sports.
Nominees for the Academic Momentum Award were selected based on each student-athlete's academic improvement and the impact each of their academic performances had on his or her classmates, teammates, academic advisors and professors. A total of 17 male and female award recipients from NCAS partner schools were selected for the first team, 16 recipients were chosen for the second team and 16 recipients were selected for the third team. There were 89 nominations received from 55 different colleges and universities.
Reid made headlines during the 2010-11 academic year by winning four national championships, including becoming the first woman in history to win both the 1,500 meters and the 5,000 meters in the same year at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. She also won the cross country individual national title and anchored Villanova to a national championship in the distance medley relay during the indoor track & field season.
Her academic accomplishments were just as impressive. While helping lead the cross country team to a second consecutive national championship in 2010, and winning her first individual national title in the process, Reid achieved a perfect 4.0 grade-point average for the Fall 2010 semester. She was named both the National Athlete of the Year and the National Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
Following the conclusion of the 2010-11 academic year Reid was voted a Capital One First Team Academic All-American and was a `Top 3' finalist for the Honda-Broderick Cup, presented to the top female collegiate student-athlete in the nation. Reid doubled as the Honda Sports Award winner for both cross country and track & field during the year. Reid is a double major in English and Communications at Villanova and has been a four-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star during her collegiate career. She has a 3.408 composite GPA.
To this point the 2011-12 academic year is off to just as promising a start for Reid as last year. She repeated as the individual champion at the NCAA Cross Country Championships and won all four of her races during the fall season, also including the BIG EAST Championships and the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional. Reid finished her collegiate cross country career having won each of her last eight starts, and 13 of her 15 races overall dating back to the 2009 season.
Reid has used up her indoor collegiate eligibility but will rejoin the Wildcats during the outdoor track & field season this spring. To date her combined accomplishments in cross country and track & field add up to five national championships, 11 All-America honors and 12 BIG EAST titles.
The First Team recipients of the Academic Momentum Award are Reid, Christopher Bass (men's basketball, Louisiana State); Chelsea Carrier (women's track & field, West Virginia); Erin Davis (women's gymnastics, Nebraska); Antonio Fenelus (football, Wisconsin); Janae Fulcher (women's basketball, Arizona State); Curenski Gilleylen (football, Nebraska); Robert McLarney (men's soccer, Rutgers); Jessica Panza (women's gymnastics, North Carolina State); Latoya Parkinson (women's track & field, Auburn); Trent Richardson (football, Alabama); Anthony Salciccia (men's soccer, California); and Natalie Villarreal (softball, Texas A&M).
The Second Team recipients of the Academic Momentum Award are Tyler Bitancurt (football, West Virginia); Aunye Boone (women's track & field, Virginia Tech); Brooke Borneman (field hockey, Indiana); Dakota Crockett (volleyball, Texas A&M); Janelle Davis (volleyball, Canisius); Michael Genovese (baseball, Seton Hall); Jamion Hartley (volleyball, Ball State); Kari Honomichl (volleyball, Niagara); Sarah Lizotte (water polo, UC San Diego); Amanda Montalto (softball, Ball State); Stephanie Norton (women's lacrosse, Connecticut); Jamal Parks (wrestling, Oklahoma State); Cecille Perez (women's basketball, Abilene Christian); Luke Spencer (men's soccer, Xavier); Shealyn Sullivan (women's soccer, Georgian Court); and Kayla Vitale (women's soccer, Dowling).
The Third Team recipients of the Academic Momentum Award are Stephen Bailey (football, Florida International); Ashley Benson (volleyball, Indiana); Mark Dodds (baseball, Florida International); Janae Grimes (softball, San Jose City College); April Hutchens (softball, Valdosta State); Verdell Jones II (men's basketball, Indiana); Chanel King (men's track & field, St. John's); Lindsey Lamar (football, USF); Shelly Lyons (football, Arizona State); Geoffrey Navarro (men's track & field, Monmouth); DeShawn Painter (men's basketball, North Carolina State); Matthew Pierce (football, Valdosta State); Korney Rhoades (men's soccer, South Carolina); Kiersten Tupper (women's lacrosse, Connecticut); Athalia Smith (women's track & field, Sacred Heart); and Khymest Williams (football, UCF). The NCAS is an ever-growing organization of colleges and universities that provides opportunities for current and former student-athletes to continue their pursuit of higher education, while working in the community with children to address social issues. Established in 1985, the overall mission of the NCAS is "to create a better society by focusing on educational attainment and using the power appeal of sport to positively affect social change."
Established in 1995, the Scholar Baller movement evolved in response to concerns that the student-athlete's athletics role increasingly superseded the student role. In order to address this issue, the founding members of Scholar Baller developed a groundbreaking program to bridge the gap between education and sport utilizing student-athletes' passion for entertainment and athletics. As a result, the Scholar Baller program has produced unprecedented outcomes in student retention and academic achievement.
1983 T&F News Interview with Eamonn Coghlan
To see the 1983 interview in Track and Field News, click HERE.
Is Carrie Tollefson Retired?
Over the past year or so Carrie Tollefson has given every indication that her professional running career is over. No major high-profile races, a budding media career back home in Minnesota, and a general sense of having "moved on" from the quest for another US Olympic team. Today in San Diego, Carrie was part of the media crew covering the Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships races. Here she is after the races at an autograph session:
Piccirillo 13th at Foot Locker National XC Championships
Villanova signee Angel Piccirillo finished 13th today in San Diego at the Foot Locker Cross Country National Championship.
Event 1 Girls 5k Run CC
Name Year School Finals Points
Results - Women
1 Molly Seidel 12 MW, Hartland, WI 17:21.4 1
2 Erin Finn 11 MW,W Bloomfield, MI 17:23.9 2
3 Laura Leff 10 NE,Syracuse, NY 17:33.9 3
4 Abbey Leonardi 12 NE,Kennebunkprt, ME 17:35.3 4
5 Karlie Garcia 11 WE,Roseville, CA 17:35.6 5
6 Grace Tinkey 11 SO,Macon, GA 17:37.0 6
7 Catarina Rocha 11 NE,Peabody, MA 17:37.3 7
8 Kelsey Braithwaite 12 WE,Perry, UT 17:38.4 8
9 Makena Morley 9 WE,Bigfork, MT 17:39.1 9
10 Julia Bos 11 MW,Rockford, MI 17:39.2 10
11 Sophie Chase 11 SO,Burke, VA 17:44.2 11
12 Karis Jochen 11 SO,College Sttn, TX 17:44.8 12
13 Angel Piccirillo 12 NE,Homer City, PA 17:46.1 13
14 Lindsey Burdette 12 MW,Horton, MI 17:55.1 14
15 Alexandria Fons 10 MW,Franklin, WI 17:56.7 15
16 Megan Moye 12 SO,Moseley, VA 18:01.8 16
17 Nikki Hiltz 11 WE,Aptos, CA 18:04.0 17
18 Cali Roper 12 SO,Conroe, TX 18:04.1 18
19 Olivia Ortiz 11 SO,Bradenton, FL 18:05.9 19
20 Nicole Mello 11 MW,Columbia, MO 18:06.4 20
21 Maria Hauger 11 MW,Shakopee, MN 18:06.6 21
22 Camille Chapus 12 WE,PfcPalisades, CA 18:07.9 22
23 Jordan McPhee 10 WE,Normandy Prk, WA 18:13.7 23
24 Anna Maxwell 10 WE,Felton, CA 18:14.5 24
25 Taylor Manett 12 MW,Rockford, MI 18:16.1
26 Sydney Scott 12 MW,Idaho Sprngs, CO 18:17.2
27 Clare Carroll 10 WE,Folsom, CA 18:17.7
28 Holly Bischof 12 NE,Hainsport, NJ 18:17.9 25
29 Samantha George 12 SO,Raleigh, NC 18:18.9 26
30 Alexis Panisse 12 NE,Bellrose, NY 18:19.2 27
31 Kaylee Flanagan 11 MW,Roselle, IL 18:19.4
32 Sydney Segal 11 WE,BeverlyHills, CA 18:20.7
33 Hannah Oneda 12 NE,Wesminster, MD 18:21.0 28
34 Alana Hadley 9 SO,Charlotte, NC 18:22.0
35 Lily Williams 12 SO,Tallahassee, FL 18:29.1
36 Caroline Kellner 12 NE,Wst Windsor, NJ 18:32.1
37 Emily Nist 12 WE,Meridan, ID 18:34.3
38 Bridget Blake 11 SO,Orlando, FL 18:36.1
39 Tori Gerlach 12 NE,Perkasie, PA 18:37.3
40 Meredith Speakman 12 NE,Carlisle, PA 18:45.6
Reid Wins Second Honda Sports Award for Cross Country
Villanova's Shiela Reid Receives Honda Sports Award for Cross Country
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheila Reid of Villanova University, who successfully defended her national championship title against the University of Oregon's Jordan Hasay, has been named the recipient of the 2012 Honda Sports Award in cross country. It marks the second time that the fifth-year senior from Newmarket, Ontario, has been tapped as the top female collegiate athlete in cross country by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program.
Reid's repeat victory as the individual NCAA champion came with a closing kick past her longtime rival in the final 150 meters of the race. Reid is a five-time All-American and chosen National Female Athlete of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for 2011. She made track history by winning both the 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter NCAA championships, an unprecedented double.."
"Over the last 12 months Sheila Reid has had one accomplishment after another," says Lynn Tighe, Villanova's Senior Woman Administrator. "She's a true champion in every sense of the word—on the track, in the classroom, and in the community
"We were thrilled last year to be back in the mix with the Honda award after not being among the honorees for a number of years. It's an award that has become representative of topnotch female athletes. There's a lot of prestige connected to it."
As a high school student Reid was a standout runner in her native Canada. In her first year (2007) at Villanova, Reid qualified for the individual cross country championships. She suffered a hip injury in 2008 but returned to lead her team to NCAA titles in 2009 and 2010. That year she won her first NCAA individual crown by a two-second margin, the closest finish in women's Division I history. Reid, an English major, is a four-time Big East Academic All-Star, and a first-team Capitol One Academic All-American carrying a 3.4 GPA.
The Honda Sports Award is presented annually to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. Reid becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the Honda Cup. Reid was chosen by a vote of coaches from 1,000 NCAA member schools. Finalists included Hasay (Oregon), Abbey D'Agostino (Dartmouth College) and Emily Infield (Georgetown University).
Ward and Anuszewski the Story as Cats Open Indoor Season
The Villanova men and women opened the 2011-2012 indoor season over the weekend at the Jack Pyrah Invitational hosted by Haverford College. As is usual for the first indoor meet of the year, times and distances were pretty much unremarkable as the athletes began competition for the year. Such was not the case, however, for Shericka Ward, who broke two meet records (in the 55 meters and 300 meters), and freshman Faith Dismuke who herself set a new meet standard in the 500 meters, surpassing Makalia Griffith's previous record from 2006. Freshman Leanne Tucker made her Villanova debut a winning one, taking the 800 meters in 2:20.32. Other winners were Amanda Borroughs in a tight 1000 meters (3:30.32), Emerald Walden over the 55 meter hurdles (8.19), and Kathleen McPhillips in the pole vault (3.65 meters).
For the men, thrower Frank Anuszewski won both the shot and weight throw, setting new PRs in each event and setting a new meet record with his 18.69 meter weight throw. Freshman Elbert Maxwell set a new meet record in the long jump, going 7.23 meters on his initial effort. Other Villanova winners were Sam Ellison in the 1000 meters (2:33.80), Greg Morrin in the 3000 meters (8:40.31), and Chris Dougherty in the pole vault (4.40 meters).
Next up for the squads is the Gotham Cup in New York City on January 13th at the Armory.
VILLANOVA RESULTS: Men
David Stillings 20th of 37 38.25
Cory Serfoss 21st 38.30
Matt Whalen 23rd 38.50
Samuel Ellison 1st of 10 2:33.80
Dusty Solis 2nd 2:35.30
Joseph Capecci 3rd 2:35.50
Brian Tetreault 2nd of 25 4:15.84
Joseph LoRusso 3rd 4:16.51
Chris Pietrocarlo 4th 4:21.14
Richie Bohny 8th 4:31.36
Robert Hurlbut (UA) 9th 4:31.48
Charlie Bates (UA) 16th 4:40.34
Greg Morrin 1st of 18 8:40.31
Brian Basili 2nd 8:45.28
Robert Hurlbut (UA) 18th 10:32.25
4x400 Meter Relay
Villanova `A' 2nd of 12 3:26.34
Weight Throw
Frank Anuszewski 1st of 11 18.69m (Meet Record)
Christopher McLeod 3rd 14.38m
Billy Berrigan 7th 13.01m
Elbert Maxwell 2nd of 10 7.23m (Meet Record)
Lazaro Tiant 4th 6.37m
Chris Dougherty 1st of 7 4.40m
Charlie Kido 2nd 4.25m
Shot PutM
Frank Anuszewski 1st of 14 15.14m
George Bodziock 5th of 8 12.92m
VILLANOVA RESULTS: Women
Megan Venables 2nd of 19 10:20.33
Meghan Smith 3rd 10:28.96
55 Meter Hurdles
Emerald Walden 1st of 15 8.19
Katherine Petruzzellis 7th 9.09
Shericka Ward 1st of 27 7.07 (Meet Record)
Varonica Johnson 2nd 7.17
Qualitra Brown 3rd 7.24
Samantha Francis 13th 7.51
Faith Dismuke 1st of 29 1:15.52 (Meet Record)
Anna Francis 5th 1:18.74
Katherine Petruzzellis 17th 1:23.28
Shericka Ward 1st of 40 39.61 (Meet Record)
Qualitra Brown 2nd 40.41
Varonica Johnson 5th 41.89
Emerald Walden 14th 43.39
Leanne Tucker 1st of 11 2:20.32
Erin Ryan 2nd 2:20.92
Amanda Borroughs 1st of 10 3:00.32
Villanova `A' 3rd of 13 4:02.14
Villanova `B' 4th 4:05.76
Jamie Klein 7th of 7 9.82m
Kathleen McPhillips 3rd of 15 5.39m
Alexandria Reo 6th 5.12m
Katherine Petruzzellis 8th 5.05m
Kathleen McPhillips 1st of 17 3.65m
Kim Logoyda 3rd 3.45m
Erica Litvak 3rd 3.45m
Melissa Meggiolaro 6th 3.35m
Alexi Stershic 7th of 11 9.57m
Samantha Francis 2nd of 8 11.35m
Victoria Profit 3rd 11.32m
Marie Minasi 4th 11.14m
Tollefson Defends Jamaican 10K Road Title
Carrie Tollefson returned to Negril, Jamaica this weekend and successfully defended her 2010 10K crown at the Raggae Marathon race fest. She ran 36:17 for the win (Carrie ran 35:05 last year on this course). While at Villanova, Tollefson won 3 NCAA titles over 3000 meters and a fourth at 5000 meters (in addition to an individual XC title); she won the US Olympic Trials 1500 meters in 2004.
Here's an article from the local Negril, Jamaica press.
Champions repeat at Reggae Marathon
Everard Owen, Jamaican Observer
NEGRIL, Westmoreland — Three runners retained their titles at the 11th Reggae Marathon yesterday along the Norman Manley Boulevard.
Carrie Tollefson of Minnesota United States in the 10K for female (36:17.0), Kirk Brown in the half-marathon (1:12.20), and Rupert Green in the marathon (2:32.0) returned atop the podium.
The winners in the 10K had new record times as the course is now officially IAAF-certified. Oraine Wint Bellefield clocked 32:29.0 to finish ahead of Andre Headley GC Foster (33:29.0) and Nembhard Palmer of Bellefield (34:03.0).
Jhevere Hall (40:48.0) was second behind Tollefslon, while Molly-Ann Blake was next in 41:01.0.
Brown retained the half-marathon ahead of Bryan Huberty of USA (1:16.56) and Ronique Williams of Montego Bay (1:17.9).
Christina Dotson of Bermuda won the female race in 1:39.26 ahead of Kishka-Kaye O'Connor (1:44.43), and Sara Gress of Port Antonio (1:45.12).
Green (unattached) finished ahead of Colin Graham (3:8.24), and Herv Bacon of France (3:12.7), while first-timer Jenifer Goebel of Chicago clocked 3:07.59, Karlene Blagrove 3:36.51 and Soile Peltoniemi-Ni of Finland 3:51.41 to finish in that order.
According to race director Alfred Francis, "The marathon was good and it will enhance our long-distance runners.
"The course is certified and it means that if you run a world record it will stand; if you want to qualify for the Olympics, World Championship you can do it on the Reggae Marathon course," he said.
"This is the first time the 10K course is certified, so whatever time was run on it is a record...," he pointed out.
1. Ron Delany (IRL) 3:41.2 (Olympic Record)
2. Klaus Richtzenhain (EUA) 3:42.0
3. John Landy (AUS) 3:42.0
4. Laszlo Tabori (HUN) 3:42.4
5. Brian Hewson (GBR) 3:42.6
6. Stanislav Jungwirth (TCH) 3:42.6
7. Neville Scott (NZL) 3:42.8
8. Ian Boyd (GBR) 3:43.0
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Does your health depend on natural supplements, remedies or traditional products? Do you know that a proposed new bill is threatening the availability of the products you rely on? Some are already impossible to get hold of.
Then sign a petition by the Traditional and Natural Health Alliance to the National Council of Provinces to stop Bill 6, which may destoy your choice to use natural products.
Whether you are a manufacturer, importer, retailer, health practitioner or a health conscious citizen, please sign this urgent petition to save your constitutional right to use or have available, safe, high quality and efficacious Traditional & Natural Health Products in South Africa.
Non-indigenous natural health products classified as sub-category of pharmaceutical drugs
In November 2013, the South African pharmaceutical drug regulator, the Medicines Control Council unilaterally classified all non-indigenous Natural Health Products in the form of herbal medicines, homeopathic medicines, vitamins, minerals, probiotics etc., as a sub-category of pharmaceutical drugs in terms of the 50 year old Medicines and Related Substances Control Act (Act 101 of 1965).
This original Act was envisaged by the then legislators to regulate potentially high risk, synthetic drugs which were flooding the market that time, and rightly so. Today, properly prescribed prescription drugs are now the 3rd leading cause of death due to adverse drug reactions in the post industrial world. Natural Health Products had and continue to have a relatively unblemished safety record.
No transparency or meaningful consultation
No prior consultation with affected stakeholders occurred prior to these regulations being passed, and still to this day there is no transparency or meaningful consultation between the regulator and those adversely regulated. The regulations are constantly being amended at a whim, without consultation, and gradually becoming similar to those imposed in some Western countries, like Canada, where the natural health industries and consumers lost over 20 000 health products and nutritional supplements after the implementation of draconian regulations. The South African regulations for Natural Health Products were gazetted, despite there being no definition for such products in the Medicines Act, rendering these regulations ultra vires and unconstitutional.
The regulations prescribe the manner in which all natural health products are imported, manufactured and sold. They are excessively restrictive and in most part inappropriate to these low risk substances, which are more food-like than drug-like. The consequence of this ill-considered regulatory regimen is that many companies will be forced to stop producing health products in the not too distant future when these regulations are fully implemented. The cascading destructive impact will be that many independent health stores will disappear, retailers will only stock weak marginally effective products, practitioners will lose ranges of valuable natural medicines, and users of natural health products will have their personal choice in healthcare seriously undermined, effectively decimated.
Single greatest threat to maintenance of health and wellness
The imposition of the pharmaceutical licensing regime on natural health products is the single greatest threat to the maintenance of health and wellness of our citizens. The Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill, 6 of 2014, threatens to take away our freedom of choice, our control over our own bodily integrity as we see fit, and an erosion of our personal sovereignty. Natural health products are being treated like ‘dangerous drugs’, yet they are demonstrably the safest and healthiest substances one can consume.
Next in line for equally restrictive regulation will be all African Traditional Medicines. In meetings between the Department of Health and the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Health prior and during the law-making process related to this Bill, the Department of Health made it clear that their intent is to use this Bill to gain control over and regulate all African Traditional Medicines in the near future. In the same manner in which role-players in the non-indigenous Natural Health Product sector were excluded from participating in decision-making process, African Traditional Healers were and remain kept in the dark about these plans being drafted, likewise the Traditional Health Professions Council and House of Traditional Leaders.
Bill to undermine over 80% South Africans’ primary healthcare needs
This Bill will severely undermine the traditions, culture and belief systems of over 80% of South Africans who rely on Traditional & Natural Health Products for their primary healthcare needs. It will impose severe restrictions on non-drug therapies and personal wellness choices.
We hereby demand the following changes to this Bill, currently before the National Council of Provinces.
We call for the express exclusion of traditional and natural health products from Bill 6, currently before the National Council of Provinces. We demand that these products be regulated separately from pharmaceutical drugs, and that this intended legislation must exempt these products from the intended amendment to the Medicines Act.
We call for the urgent appointment of an independent Commission of Enquiry or Review Panel to investigate the manner in which the National Department of Health is running roughshod over the rights of the Traditional & Natural health sector and adversely affecting public health by forcing the shut-down of the natural health industry through excessive regulation, high licensing fees and inability to assess a single product application in almost two years.
We call for a new Traditional & Natural Health Products Bill, which will create a fair and appropriate regulatory framework for these products, being considerate to, and supporting the various health philosophies and traditions represented.
We call for a halt to the current discriminatory regulatory framework, which intendeds to establish dual registration and licensing systems for indigenous traditional medicines (African Traditional Medicine) and non-indigenous traditional medicines (Chinese Traditional Medicine, Traditional Western Herbal Medicine, Traditional Unani-Tibb Medicine, Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine etc).
We call for the establishment of a new Directorate or Department of Traditional and Natural Health, separate from the Medicines Control Council. This Directorate will oversee the evaluation of Traditional & Natural Health Products, and will be capacitated predominantly by experts in the relevant traditions and natural health modalities represented.
We call for a representative Complementary Medicines Committee (CMC), duly appointed by advertising member positions by public notice. At present it represents only one stakeholder group, namely the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa.
We urgently call upon all concerned citizens to express their concern regarding the inappropriate and disingenuous Bill 6 (Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill), and call for its rejection or significant amendments to remove health products from the proposed, before being enacted by Parliament.
Please add your name to this vitally important protest by signing this urgent petition today! Your voice must be heard. Your health freedom and rights depend on all of us expressing extreme alarm at this dangerous legislation. Every citizen will experience the negative impact on themselves and their families if we allow it to be steamrolled through.
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G7: Trump isolated over trade and Russia on first day
by: Ravi Khanal
Divisions between Donald Trump and other leaders of G7 nations were laid bare on the first day of their summit.
The US leader made a surprise call for Russia to be readmitted to the group of top industrialised nations after its expulsion for annexing Crimea.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel said EU members attending the summit in Canada were all against the idea.
Frictions over trade tariffs recently imposed by the Trump administration continued during Friday's session.
After meeting French President Emmanuel Macron, Mr Trump said they had a little test once in a while when it came to trade but, he added, they were working it out.
For his part, Mr Macron said he believed all sides were willing to find an agreement.
Reuters news agency cited a French presidential aide as saying the US had agreed to start a trade dialogue with the EU at a technical level in the next two weeks.
Divisions wider than trade
By the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins
This summit started very badly - and it could end without the usual communiqué agreed by all.
Divisions between Mr Trump and the other six leaders go way beyond trade - they include climate change, relations with Iran and the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Mrs Merkel is one of those arguing it might be better to set out those differences clearly rather than give a false impression of unity. It's more honest, she said, than pretending everything's OK.
Others still believe some sort of consensus can be found, and Mr Trump says he's hopeful of progress.
But there's no doubt about Mr Trump's isolation. He dislikes negotiating with groups, and he will leave well before the end of this G7 summit: next stop Singapore, to face North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and seek the sort of one-to-one deal he much prefers.
Mr Trump is leaving the two-day summit early to head to Singapore for his landmark summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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Canada had called Mr Trump's trade tariffs "illegal" while European Council President Donald Tusk warned that Mr Trump's stance on trade, climate change and Iran constituted a real danger.
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Buck Barton & "Cat" Carson
Along the Appalachian Trail
By: Ron Nelson
(© 2011 by the author)
Part 1. Buck Has A Visitor
Buck Barton woke up fast by instinct from his easy doze on that late Friday afternoon as soon as he heard the light knock on the door. Roscoe, his chocolate Lab who never met a stranger, didn’t even open his eyes.
Buck padded to the door in his bare feet. He was wearing nothing but his camouflage cutoffs over his muscular body.
When he opened the unlocked door, in front of him stood a young man, muscular and maybe about an inch taller and ten pounds lighter than Buck’s own solid fifty-nine-inch, 190-pound frame. The visitor had tousled light brown hair and was wearing a wrinkled and not-very-clean work shirt and blue jeans at least two sizes too big for him.
“Hope I’m not disturbing you,” the young man said, “But I wonder if maybe you could help me out just a little?”
Buck wasn’t particularly surprised, although he looked a little out of the ordinary, by the appearance of the young man. A lot of hikers who came to his door looked about the same.
“Sure,” Buck replied. “What can I do for you?”
Buck was spending the weekend in his cabin in the North Carolina Smoky Mountains. It was a secluded and quiet place on a hillside and had a great view. The Appalachian Trail ran only about four hundred feet below the cabin, with an open meadow between the cabin and the Trail. Every so often a hiker would spot his cabin and come up to it.
Sometimes they might only want to rest for a short while, sometimes get a drink of water or fill their canteen, adjust their packs, or sometimes to take off their shoes to treat a blister.
Buck had no problem with any of that and was always glad to welcome them and help them any way he could.
It was not only basic courtesy, but the way US Marines always watched out for and took care of their buddies.
Part 2. Buck’s Cabin
Buck had bought the cabin years ago when it was just a shack, with some money he’d saved up from working during his high school years. He knew he always wanted a cabin up there somewhere, and his uncle, who wasn’t always that friendly toward him, had nevertheless told him about the place being an old abandoned farm that was for sale for back taxes.
For the past twenty years while he was serving in the Marines, Buck couldn’t come back to the cabin very often. Still, whenever he was on leave, he came back and managed to clear away some of the overgrown land around the cabin and make enough immediate repairs to keep it from leaking or falling down any further. Now, in the last two years since getting out of the Marines, he’d managed to fix it up real good.
After he got out of the Corps, Buck bought a small auto-and-truck-repair garage from its ailing owner. Now it was called Barton’s Truck & Auto Repair, and it was getting a good reputation for quality work. Vehicle maintenance was his specialty in the Marines. The town and shop were located about forty miles away in the town, Gadwell, where he lived in an apartment during the week. However, he came out most every weekend to stay at and work on the cabin.
The cabin had a big knotty pine-paneled-and-beamed ceiling living room in the front half of it, with a great stone fireplace. Behind it on one side was a small kitchen and dining area for cooking and eating. On the other side was a big bedroom facing the rear woods. Between them were the bathroom and a utility room. Across the whole front of the cabin was a long covered porch where anybody sitting there could enjoy the view down the whole valley, which spread out below the cabin toward Larson’s creek, which was about five hundred feet below the cabin.
About a hundred feet below the cabin Buck had re-built an old barn which had just about collapsed after years of neglect, and made it into a combination garage-shed-bunkhouse for his pickup truck, tools, and a place for any buddies who might be up at the cabin with him for a weekend to sack out. A dirt driveway came in through the woods from the paved country road which ran below the property. In all, Buck owned about twenty-eight acres, which included the whole area surrounding the cabin and stretched down beyond the Trail to the creek.
This particular weekend, he’d come up to the cabin Friday afternoon. He planned just to relax for the rest of that day, then work on the place over Saturday and into Sunday morning, and then return to Gadwell late Sunday afternoon. It was his usual routine for most weekends, and it worked out real easy and good for him.
Part 3. Buck Gets Acquainted With His Visitor
“I’m Buck Barton,” he said with a smile on his face to the young man in front of him, “C’mon in - what can I do for you?”
“I’m Chip Carson,” the man said, “but my friends call me ‘Cat’.” He explained the reason he was there was because, “I was just hiking the Trail real easy yesterday afternoon when a couple of guys suddenly jumped me from out of the woods and stole my wallet and pack. Then they took my shirt and pants too so’s it would be too hard for me to follow them and get back at them.
“So then, I had to walk along the Trail in not much more than my jock strap and my boots until I spotted an old farmhouse nearby just around dusk. I stole this shirt and pants off their wash line just to have something to wear, and then had to sleep in the woods last night. Didn’t have anything to eat the whole time either.
“So I wonder if mebbe you could … maybe … help me out with some food and maybe a place to sleep tonight? On the porch would be ok with me, and then I could head along tomorrow?” he continued.
Something told Buck the story didn’t sound quite right. There was very little crime along the Trail, particularly against muscular young men like this who might be expected to put up quite a fight if anybody attacked them. Then, too, Buck knew of no farmhouses anywhere along the Trail for many miles in either direction, although there were some small farms in the lower valleys, but they were about a mile or two distant from the Trail.
Still, Buck thought, Cat did look like the sort of young guy who might be in some kind of trouble and needed some help. He reminded Buck of some of the younger men he knew who, before they joined the Marines, also needed a little help to bring them around and
bring some purpose to their lives. Buck remembered way back when he was just such a young man himself and he needed some help, too.
“Sure,” said Buck, “I’ve got a good amount of extra food here, and I’d be glad to have you stay over, too, if you’d like.
“In fact,” continued Buck, “if you’d like to stay over a couple of nights, ‘til Sunday afternoon, and would like to help me with a couple of jobs I need to get done around the place, and which could use a couple of strong extra hands, which you look like you have, I’ll be glad to pay you for helping me out on that, too!”
“Hey, Buck, I’d sure appreciate that! Whatever you’d like me to do, I’m your man!” was Cat’s enthusiastic reply.
Buck then described the jobs he had in mind. One was some chimney and roof repair work that was necessary. He needed to point up some of the stones at the very top of the big chimney where some cracks had developed over the winter. They had to be filled and sealed to make them waterproof and air tight again. Then some shingles around the flashing and ridgeline needed to be fastened down or replaced, too. Buck said he thought it might be good to have two men on these jobs to secure the ladder and pass the necessary mortar, materials, and tools up and down as well as do the repairs themselves.
The other job, Buck said, was to clear away a couple of trees which had fallen near the cabin over the past year, as well as clear away some of the brush which had grown up a little too close to it, too. None of the jobs were really long or difficult, but it would just be easier if two men did them instead of just one.
“Sure, Buck, I’m your man for all of that. In fact, I’m sort of used to working on roofs and high places anyway, and helping you cut some trees and clear brush will give me a workout, which I’d sure like to get, too.”
Cat could see, checking out Buck just as Buck was checking him out, that Buck looked like an ex-Marine with his short military Marine haircut and solidly muscled build, which had added very little weight since he’d gotten out of the service.
“Tell you what, Cat … it’s still too hot outside right now to be doing any work, and you look like you could get washed up and need something to eat first. Why don’t you go down to the bunkhouse there, get washed up, and I think you’ll find some better clothes somewhere around there than you’re wearing right now. Then maybe you want to sack out for a while, too, to make up for not getting too much sleep last night.
“Then, when you’re fixed up again — say maybe around six — c’mon back up here to the cabin. It’ll be just about time to eat then, and I’ll fix you up some chow. I don’t want you losing any of that real good build you have there, and you’ll probably need some energy for whatever comes next,” said Buck.
“Thanks, Man; sounds real good to me, and I really appreciate it! I’d like to sack out just a little, too, ’cause I really didn’t get much sleep last night out there in the woods,” he said.
“No problem on any of that, Cat,” replied Buck. “Take as long as you like and make yourself right at home!”
“Thanks, Buck, I sure am mighty obliged to you for your kindness! Haven’t had too much of that lately, and I appreciate it!” said Cat as he thanked Buck again and headed to the door to walk down the path to the bunkhouse.
Buck watched him as he walked down the hill. Not only was Cat real lithe and muscular, but he also had a soft and careful step. He reminded Buck of a powerful young panther who might be silently patrolling his territory or stalking some prey. His name, Cat, seemed very appropriate by the looks of him. And, speaking of his name, Buck very much doubted it was “Chip Carson” as when he first introduced himself.
Part 4. Supper With Cat
Soon after five o’clock, as the sun was heading down toward the western horizon, Cat came back up the hill. Buck liked what he saw. Cat had washed up, shaved, and showered. He’d also found a gold sleeveless t-shirt and some blue jeans that fit perfectly - and showed off his muscular body. He did look good.
Buck figured Cat must be somewhere in his early or mid-twenty’s. Buck himself had just turned forty-four, so he was old enough to be his father or older brother. Cat had light brown hair, still wet from having washed it, sort of long, but not too long, while Buck kept his salt-and-pepper graying hair cut in a tight Marine Corps style — high-and-tight. Buck had washed up, too, and as they looked at each other, both liked what they saw.
“You want to put some dishes on the table there, Cat, while I’m fixing up some food? We’re having real elegant dining tonight. Steak, mashed potatoes, some greens, salad, some Buds and I think there’s some apple pie around here somewhere, too,” said Buck.
“Oh man, that sounds great,” replied Cat as he quickly found the dishes, glasses, and silverware and set the table. Buck noticed Cat found the things very quickly and set them out unusually carefully and neatly on the table.
He knew from his Marine Corps experience that generally it wasn’t a good idea to ask a guy too many questions, particularly personal ones, when two guys were just getting acquainted. A lot of guys were trying to run away from problems, and they didn’t necessarily want to go back to them with a lot of questions too soon.
But Buck knew there was more to Cat than he was saying. He figured maybe he could ask just an obvious question or two without putting Cat on the spot, and to put him more at his ease.
“You got a great build, Cat; you work out?” Coming from Buck, with his still solid and muscular Marine Corps build and appearance, Cat knew it was a friendly question, and was wondering about Buck, too.
“Yeah, I came to figure out a while back that it was a good idea to keep in shape. It not only feels good working out, but it’s a good way to protect yourself from any guys who might want to hurt you. So I’ve been working out pretty steady the past couple of years and it’s worked out real good for me.”
“You’re in real good shape too, particularly for a guy your age,” said Cat. Then he realized how he’d said it and quickly followed it by saying “Oh, I didn’t mean to say it that way, but, I mean, well, you know, a lot of guys let themselves go after a while, but looks to me like maybe you were in the Marines or something?”
“You hit it, Cat, and no offense taken at all. I appreciate the compliment.”
“Yeah, I spent twenty real good years in the Marines, got out just a couple of years ago, and try to keep in shape. Being in the Marines can do that to you. ‘Once a Marine, Always a Marine’ as they say.
“You probably saw the weights there in the bunkhouse, and the speed bag, and wrestling mat, too. I’ve got a couple of buddies in Gadwell — where I work during the week — who like to come up here once in a while on weekends. Generally I work out on the weights alone ’cause I’m the only one here. But when one or two of my particular buddies come up, we like to wrestle around, too.
“We’re not into any kind of competitive or win-lose wrestling, but just like to mess around easy for as long as we can, give and take, for the pleasure of it, and for however it comes out.
“You into anything like that?” Buck asked casually.
“Yeah, some,” replied Cat. “When I was a kid I liked to rassle around with other guys in the woods when we were alone. That was always real good, too. Then in the past couple, three years, I’ve been getting into some more rasslin’ around, too. Nothing serious, probably like you like, but it’s a good way to get a workout and get rid of tensions in your body what with all the other problems a guy has going on in his life.”
“Well,” replied Buck, “maybe it’s something we could get ourselves into later. In the meantime, these steaks are hot and ready, along with the rest of the food, so how about we sit down and enjoy it while we can?”
Buck and Cat ate quietly as the room darkened with the setting sun. Neither said much. Buck liked what he saw and heard in Cat. He was more and more certain that there was more to Cat than he’d let on, but he was glad to wait until Cat felt he wanted to tell him more, or was content to leave it as it was, if Cat preferred it that way.
Cat liked what he saw and heard from Buck just as much. He’d had a rough life so far, with a mostly absent or drunk father, and a mother who didn’t care much about anything either. He’d finished high school, but only because a couple of the teachers took a real interest in him and helped him get through his teen years.
After he graduated from high school, Cat had wanted to join one of the military services, maybe the US Marines, but his record wasn’t up to their requirements. So he’d pretty much bummed around with one job and another. And then a few other things happened along the way, which were the things he didn’t want to tell Buck about.
Meanwhile, Buck seemed to him to be the sort of real good man and father, or at least uncle or big brother, he always wished he’d had. Plus, not only had Buck been a US Marine, but he sure was real easy and good to look at, too.
Cat also liked the way their conversation had gone, Buck’s interest and concern for him, and a chance to maybe disclose to Buck just a little more, maybe later, about himself. And the part about both of them liking to rassle around, and seeing the weights and rasslin’ mats in the bunkhouse, sounded even better to Cat for his personal likes and interests. He knew he surely would like to rassle around with Buck if he could. Looking at Cat, Buck knew he’d sure like to wrestle around with Cat, too.
Chapter 5. Buck and Cat Call It A Day
“Tell you what, Cat,” said Buck after supper as they sat on the porch overlooking the darkened meadow and forests, with the millions of stars sparkling overhead in the quiet of the night; “I think we’ve both had a pretty long day of it today and probably are ready for a good night’s sleep tonight.
“So how about if we start off tomorrow with breakfast around seven-thirty, no need to start too early, and then take our work chores from there? I figure it’ll take most of the morning to take care of the chimney and roof repairs. Then we can have lunch, and get to cutting the trees and clearing some of the woods and shrubs away. I figure that’ll take us until about four to finish up. Then we can rest for a while and have supper around six. That’ll then leave the rest of the evening free. Maybe even for some wrestling around if you’d like!”
“Man, Buck; that all sounds great to me! Including that rasslin’ around part! I’d sure like to rassle around with you, and whatever you like will sure work for me. I’m all yours!”
“Yeah, and you can do whatever you like with me, too. It’s pretty hard to damage a Marine, and I’m sort of used to and like to take some punishment, too!” was Buck’s reply.
As they talked, each could feel his muscles tense and throb with the good feeling a wrestler gets, particularly certain wrestlers, when they set up to wrestle around with another similarly inclined guy. Both Buck and Cat also felt their cocks grow long and hard, and their balls fill and thicken, for the way they knew they wanted to wrestle around with each other. The anticipation of their match to come felt real good to both of them.
As they got up to call it a night and retire to their respective beds, before Cat headed back down to the bunkhouse, they quietly and instinctively wrapped their muscular arms around each other in a tight bear hug. Both were still wearing only tight t-shirts and cutoffs over their muscled bodies and legs. Silently and deliciously they held their tight hug on each other, their legs intertwined, and then their faces and lips came together as well. Neither wanted to be the first to let his embrace of the other go.
As Buck watched Cat walk panther-like down the path to the bunkhouse, he knew he could hardly wait for tomorrow. Cat felt the same way.
Part 6. Breakfast The Next Morning
Buck woke up the next morning to the smell of frying bacon. For an instant he couldn’t figure out where he was or where the smell was coming from. Then he got up and walked into the big front room of the cabin over to the kitchen area.
There was Cat, already up, making their breakfast. He must have come up to the cabin quietly, let himself in through the front door, which Buck never locked while he was at the cabin for the weekend, set the table and was now preparing breakfast just as easily as Buck could have done himself. Roscoe, as usual at breakfast time, was also in the kitchen looking hopefully at Cat for his breakfast, too.
Buck and Cat grinned at each other when Buck came into the kitchen.
“Good morning Cat, you didn’t need to go to all the trouble of coming up so early and fixing breakfast; I’d’ve been glad to do that for both of us,” said Buck. Not that he didn’t appreciate Cat’s doing it for him, however.
“No problema, Buck, just one of the house services we provide for our host!” was Cat’s good-natured reply
They ate quietly and unhurriedly. It looked like it was going to be a great day on the weather side of things. So, while they had their work cut out for them to do, they knew they had ample time to do it in.
Part 7. The Day’s Work Begins
When they’d finished breakfast and washed up, Buck and Cat walked down to the shed where Buck had the materials and tools he needed for the chimney and roof job. They put the tools and materials in the wheelbarrow, and before Buck could pick up the wheelbarrow handles, Cat had already taken them up and was almost out the door.
“Hey, man, you just made breakfast, least I can do is push the wheelbarrow up the hill!” said Buck.
“Naw, man, I already got it!” was Cat’s cheerful reply. As Cat walked up the hill pushing the wheelbarrow, Buck carried the ladder. Walking behind Cat, Buck couldn’t help but notice how easily Cat handled the wheelbarrow, and how his strong, lithe and muscled body pushed it with almost no effort at all. “This guy is good,” thought Buck, “I still wonder what the rest of the story is on him?”
When they got ready to get up on the roof to fix the chimney and shingles, Buck had no sooner put the ladder up against the eaves and secured it, than Cat was up it almost two steps at a time. Then in only a couple more steps he was up on the roof ridge closely inspecting the cracks in the chimney.
“Hey, Buck,” he called down, you got only a couple of big cracks, and maybe a half dozen small cracks, up here close to the top of the chimney. No problem at all to fix it real solid. If you want to hand me up the trowel and wet chimney mortar-mix I can take care of it in no time at all!”
Buck marveled. On one hand, he knew it wasn’t going to be any big problem. But on the other hand, he didn’t expect it would be that easy, or, in particular, that it could be fixed so quickly. And it didn’t escape his mind as to how fast and with such great agility that Cat went up the ladder, then went up to the roof ridge, then over to the chimney, and how easily and casually he handled himself when he was on top.
And then, in not more than fifteen minutes of carefully scraping out and filling in the cracks with the mortar, the job was completed and Cat was back on the ground again.
“Oh, man, Cat, you’re real good, for sure!” said Buck. “What would have taken me an hour or more, you did in only a quarter of that time!” After Buck expressed his appreciation and admiration of Cat’s fast and well done work, Cat gave him only a modest and grinning response to say it was no trouble at all on his part.
Buck had the feeling that maybe not too many people had ever taken the time to say many kind words to Cat, and so he simply appreciated Buck’s words all the more.
Buck then passed up to Cat the dozen or so shingles, roofing nails, and caulk needed to repair some of the cracked shingles and flashing around the chimney. That whole thing didn’t take Cat more than another fifteen minutes or so to do a really good job of it, and then Cat was down on the ground again helping Buck take down the ladder.
Another “Thanks, Cat; you really do great work,” from Buck, and a grateful smile and a “No problema, Buck, I told you I’m your man!” from Cat.
After putting away the left-over materials and tools from the chimney job, Buck and Cat returned to the shed to get Buck’s power chain saw and wood chipper to cut down the two big trees which had come down in the previous winter’s big ice storm, and to clear away the overgrown brush back about ten feet to the original tree line surrounding the cabin.
That job went almost as fast as the roof and chimney repair. The day had grown hot, and both Buck and Cat stripped off their shirts to reveal their muscular bodies. Both were tanned and wet with sweat as they worked. Their tight cutoffs were also wet with sweat and clung to their muscled thighs, while their work boots were wet with the sweat that ran down their bodies and mixed with the dust and shredded branches and leaves they were cutting back.
They worked steadily but not too fast. Buck knew from his Marine Corps days it was better to work slowly and always conserve some energy for whatever might come up next, rather than to work too fast and get all worn out. ‘Sort of like wrestling around, too,’ he thought. They alternated working the chain saw, chipper, and clearing away the brush, and paused from time to time to drink some water and check what progress they were making and what more they needed to do to complete the job.
They said little as they worked, but each couldn’t help but notice what the other man was doing, and how good he looked doing it. A few times their wet and muscled bodies met and touched each other as they cleared away some of the thicker brush. When their bodies met, neither pulled away. Both were thinking of what it was going to be like when they finished their work, and would then have the rest of the day and evening to get into it themselves.
Part 8. The Day’s Work Finishes Up
They finished up around four in the afternoon. “Great job,” Buck said as they cleaned up the tools and equipment and put them back in the shed.
“You do really great work, Cat, you know?” Buck continued. “I don’t know what you plan to do with the rest of your life, but whatever it is, I’m sure you’re going to be real good at it.”
“Thanks, Buck, I try,” he replied with a grin, but which Buck sensed he’d said with a mixture of both pride and yet sadness. Buck knew there was still more to Cat than he’d let on so far.
“How about if we sort of sack out now and rest up for the rest of the afternoon?” Buck asked. “Then we can have supper again around six, if that’s good for you, and then we’ve got the rest of the night free for whatever might come up after that!” said Buck.
“Sounds real good to me, Buck! I guess we’ve had a pretty good day of it, and I’m sure looking forward to this evening and rasslin’ around with you if we’re still on for that!”
“We sure are, and I’m looking forward to it and making it real good and lasting as long as we can — maybe even all night if we can!” was Buck’s reply.
Once again, as Cat walked back down the path to the bunkhouse, this time his lithe and tanned body, glistening with sweat over his rippling muscles, Buck couldn’t wait to get into it tonight. Cat, going down the trail with the picture of Buck’s powerfully muscled body, also wet and glistening with sweat, in his mind, was thinking the same thing.
Part 9. Supper
As Buck was starting to put things together for their supper, Cat came silently through the door into the kitchen. Roscoe, as usual — and now knowing Cat from before — apart from two thumps of his tail, gave absolutely no indication at all that Cat had quietly come into the kitchen.
Cat then approached and came up to Buck from the behind him. Normally, Buck, with his Marine Corps training, would have sensed someone coming close up behind him. But not this time.
It wasn’t until he felt Cat’s warm breath on his neck and Cat began to wrap his powerful arms around Buck’s big chest, getting him in a soft but tightening bear hug from the rear, that Buck realized he was there. Then Buck felt Cat’s strong hands grab both of his pecs through his tight t-shirt. At first Cat gripped them only lightly, but then he tightened his hold on them until he could feel Buck’s muscled pec flesh between his fingers as he moved to hold Buck tightly in place.
As soon as he felt Cat’s warm breath on his neck, and then felt Cat’s fingers grab and begin to squeeze his big pecs in his fists, Buck realized instantly what Cat was doing. He liked it, and had no problem with it at all. Both grinned. It was their first real contact with each other, and it felt good to both of them.
As Cat held him tightly, Buck said quietly under his breath, “Yeah, man, give me more.” Then he put down the couple of steaks he was trimming with a steak knife and reached his hand back and into Cat’s cutoffs. His hand soon found what it was looking for. As soon as he had felt Cat’s fists begin to tighten around his pecs, he also felt Cat’s big cock, already long and hard, push and probe against and into his butt.
Then, as Buck’s hand found what it was looking for, he began to wrap his fist around Cat’s big and hard rod and began as if to crush it. Cat liked the feel of that just as much as Buck liked the feel of his big pecs being squeezed. As he began crushing Cat’s big rod in his fist, Buck said, “Feels like all this meat is going to be real tough for whatever we’re going to eat tonight,” to which Cat replied, squeezing Buck’s hard pecs even tighter, “Yeah, man, the harder the better, just the way we like it!”
After their dinner and cleaning up, Buck asked, “What do you say we head down to the bunkhouse and the mats and see what’s up there?”
“Just what I was thinking, man; I’m ready any time you are!”
Part 10. The Bunkhouse
Quietly they entered the bunkhouse where the wrestling mats were already laid out. It was cool and dark inside but they left the door open to let in the moonlight and night air. The light from the moon and stars was enough for what they wanted to do. Wrestlers don’t need much light to wrestle by, and Buck and Cat didn’t either, being used to and preferring to wrestle in a dim light or darkness anyway.
Buck and Cat stripped off their t-shirts and cutoffs and boots, which were all they had on. Both liked to wrestle nude, just like the ancient Greeks. For any rules, there was only one. That was, don’t cause any injury or harm which lasted after the match was over.
There was a small bottle of wrestling oil on the shelf over the mat. Buck reached for it and poured some of the soft warm olive oil over Cat’s muscled body until it glistened smoothly in the moonlight. He rubbed it in, first over Cat’s muscled chest and pecs and hardened nipples, squeezing Cat’s pecs just a little more as he did. Then he rubbed the oil down over Cat’s tight and hard abs, and then down and all around Cat’s already long and hard cock and thick balls, squeezing them extra as he rubbed the oil over them. Then he rubbed the smooth oil down over the front of Cat’s muscled thighs and calves to his feet.
After oiling Cat’s front, he turned Cat around and oiled his equally muscled back. Then he went down over Cat’s solid butt, rubbing still more oil deep into the canyon between Cat’s butt cheeks, and from there, continued down the back of Cat’s strong and lithe legs to his feet.
When Buck had finished with Cat, Cat oiled Buck similarly, squeezing Buck’s big and solid pecs, and equally long and hard cock and thick balls as he rubbed the oil into Buck‘s skin and over all of his muscled body. It felt good to both of them as they oiled each other slowly and caressingly until they’d completed the job.
Part 11. Buck and Cat Start To Wrestle Each Other
As Cat was finishing oiling Buck, he quietly put the bottle back on the shelf while still behind Buck. The next thing Buck felt was Cat’s hot and oiled naked body press up against his own muscled body, Cat’s long and hard cock press into his butt looking for an entry into Buck’s body, and then Cat’s arms as they reached around his chest to once again, just as he had before when Buck was preparing supper, and again grabbed one of Buck’s big pecs in each of his fists.
It was a real good way to begin as Cat knew Buck would have no problem with it, and a slow and soft beginning was always a good way to start what would hopefully be a long and real satisfying match for both wrestlers.
This time, however, Buck felt Cat’s big rod, again long and hard, but now, with both of them oiled and naked, Cat pressed and pushed harder into the deep and now oiled canyon of Buck’s butt trying to find a way deep into his body.
Buck never cared for the feel of another guy’s big cock go deep into his butt, but he had no problem at all with the other guy trying to get into him as long and hard as he liked while he kept his butt tight and resisted the move. It was always sort of a challenge within a challenge, and both wrestlers liked to see how far they could go or resist it.
When Cat realized Buck wasn’t going to let him get into his butt, but apparently didn’t mind his trying, he decided to go on to something else, and maybe try again later on. He began to loosen his hold on Buck’s big pecs, where he enjoyed the feel of all that big muscled flesh in his fists, and reached under Buck’s arms and clasped his hands behind Buck’s neck to get him in a full nelson and begin to pressure him that way instead.
Buck’s neck, however, was still as thick and strong as when he’d been active in the Marine Corps. As a result, it was no problem for him to resist this move of Cat’s, too, although Cat again didn’t try to push the hold too hard either.
After all, both knew what they really wanted to do with each other that night, and it was to wrestle back and forth easy, give and take, to enjoy the pure sensual and erotic pleasure of the match and working over each other’s oiled, naked and muscled body for as long as possible. Neither one wanted to use up too much of his energy and have to end it too soon. A slow beginning was the best way to make this happen.
For a couple of long minutes Cat tried to bring Buck down with his full nelson, and at the same time he still tried to drill his hard rod up Buck’s butt, but it didn’t seem to work. Cat didn’t know it, but Buck had been an Instructor down at Parris Island in personal combat moves and defenses, and pretty much anticipated, and looked forward to, whatever Cat might want do even before Cat thought of it. He particularly liked what Cat was doing to him. In fact, he knew he was going to like whatever Cat wanted to do with him for the whole rest of the match.
While Cat then tried to figure out what else he could do to get Buck down, Buck moved to solve the problem for him. Which move didn’t come as any great surprise to Cat either.
Slowly, despite Cat’s pressure on him, Buck leaned forward until he could reach his arms and hands down between his legs. Then he grabbed first one, and then both, of Cat’s legs behind his knees and pulled them forward. That made Cat lose his balance and both fell backward to the mat, with Cat underneath Buck but still keeping his full nelson on the back of Buck’s thick neck. Then after they fell to the mat together, with Cat still keeping his hold on the back of Buck’s thick neck, he brought his legs up and wrapped them around Buck’s big body in a real good body scissors.
Buck knew he was heavier than Cat and therefore knew he didn’t want at any time during their whole long match to get or keep on top of Cat for too long or too fully at any time, not wanting to wear him out by having to try to escape by lifting Buck off him.
Still, Buck had no problem with getting on top of Cat every once in a while, nor did Cat expect Buck to do anything different. In fact, Cat, like Buck, liked the feel of having the other man on top of him, holding him down, and trapping him under his body weight.
As a result, now feeling Buck’s naked, oiled, and muscled body on top of him while he held him in place, it felt real good to Cat, and he was in no hurry to let Buck get off him any time soon. Buck always felt the same way every time whenever Cat was on top of him.
In fact, Cat wanted to take advantage of keeping Buck on top of him and holding him in place as long as he could. So, with his powerful agility, and still being behind Buck, Cat continued to wrap his own slightly longer strong and muscular legs around Buck’s lower body and tighten his body scissors on Buck. Then, to add to it, he crossed his ankles directly over Buck’s naked crotch, and began to repeatedly smash his heels down hard into Buck’s already thick and throbbing cock and balls. He liked the punishment he was then able to give to Buck, and Buck liked the feel of taking Cat’s new punishment on him just as much.
But while Cat was smashing his heels over and over again into Buck’s crotch, at the same time, with Buck’s big body on top of him and Buck’s solid butt positioned right over Cat’s own throbbing cock and balls, every time Cat smashed his heels down on Buck’s cock and balls, Buck’s butt first lifted and then dropped back down just as hard crushing against Cat’s own cock and balls. It was a deadlocked punishment for both. Neither could get enough of it, and neither was in any hurry to break the hold either way.
After a couple of minutes of deadlock, however, Buck knew it was up to him to break it off first even though Cat had him in his body scissors and pec hold, which he had gone to after letting his full nelson go on Buck’s neck. After all, he was still on top of Cat, which put a strain on him, much as Cat liked it, and so it was up to Buck to go to something else. Then, too, Buck knew he was the more experienced and probably stronger of the two in wrestling anyway, and they were also wrestling in his “territory,” so he had some big advantages there, too.
Buck knew that even though Cat was holding him tight in his body scissors and pec squeeze, he knew, with his strength and the oily slipperiness of their bodies, he could break free when he wanted to. More importantly, what Buck didn’t want to do in any event, was to come on too strong or put too much pressure on Cat and run the risk of possibly wearing him out too soon or psyching him out before they hardly even got started.
In the next moment therefore, with the slipperiness of their oiled and naked bodies, Buck eased up and twisted around within Cat’s body scissors on him until now he was facing Cat. Then, in the next move, he rolled both of them over so that now their positions were reversed and Buck had his back on the mat with Cat on top of him. As their eyes caught each other’s, they both had a grin on their faces. The switch felt good to both of them, and Cat quietly appreciated Buck’s getting off him before he had to use up too much of his energy to accomplish the same thing to make his escape out from under Buck.
That didn’t mean Buck was going to let Cat go entirely, however. With Cat now on top of him, and Cat having lost his scissors on Buck as they rolled over, Buck got a body scissors on Cat, coming down on top of him, instead. Buck didn’t keep his scissors hold too tight to crush Cat’s body between his big muscled legs and thighs, but still tight enough so that Cat couldn’t escape either.
Part 12. Cat Gets Caught In Buck’s Hot Crotch Hold
Then, before Cat could make a move to try to slide out and escape Buck’s scissors on him, Buck began to push Cat down lower in his body scissors. Soon Cat’s head and face, instead of being over Buck’s face, were positioned over Buck’s pecs. Then Cat’s head was over Buck’s abs, and then finally Buck pushed Cat’s head down even further until it was just above Buck’s naked and wet cock and balls.
While Buck was pushing Cat down the body scissors on him, Cat had managed to bring his arms out from under Buck’s big legs and thighs to see if he could use them to free himself from Buck’s scissors hold on him. But before Cat could succeed in that, Buck, now holding his scissors around Cat’s head instead of his body, reached out to grab the back of Cat’s head. Then he began to pull Cat’s head and face slowly but inexorably deeper and deeper into the hot wet darkness of his crotch until Cat would eventually find his face crushed hard into Buck’s big thick cock and balls, blinding him and almost suffocating him in the process.
However, Cat didn’t mind that at all, nor was it the first time he’d ever found himself in a similar predicament. Nor did Buck figure he’d mind it, although he did pull Cat’s head and face into his crotch slowly at first just to be sure.
But then Cat turned his new predicament into a predicament for Buck, too. When Cat felt Buck’s big, thick, and wet cock and balls pressing in against his face almost suffocating him, he searched around blindly with his tongue to locate Buck’s big balls pressing against his mouth. As soon as he found them he opened his mouth and sucked both of Buck’s big balls into his mouth as far as he could. Then he closed his mouth half way around Buck’s balls so that Buck couldn’t pull his balls back out and escape Cat’s trapping and keeping his balls in his mouth.
Now it was Buck who was in just about as much trouble as Cat. It wasn’t the first time in either wrestler’s life that he’d been trapped that way, with his big balls caught deep inside the other guy’s mouth, and had to consider the possibility of the other guy not releasing them, or of maybe chomping down on them even harder. Both liked the predicament they were in at the moment, either way, and now it would be a question of which could keep their hold the longer. Neither wanted to be the first to let the other go.
Instead of Buck being the first to break a deadlock between them, it would be up to Cat to break it. There was no telling how long Cat would be willing to keep Buck’s balls full in his mouth, but he knew Buck couldn’t pull away until he let his balls go if Buck didn’t want them eaten or chewed off his body beforehand.
Meanwhile, although Cat was still blinded and suffocating with his head and face buried deep into Buck’s hot and wet crotch, he further began to get back at Buck just as he had before by blindly reaching up Buck’s body to again grab one of Buck’s big pecs in each fist and begin to squeeze them some more. Buck’s big pecs made a really good target for punishment, and Cat suspected, correctly, that Buck liked to take as much pec punishment as the other guy wanted to give him. Cat had no problem with giving it to him either as feeling Buck’s muscled flesh in his hands felt real good to him, too.
Their deadlock, with Buck holding Cat’s head and face hard and deep into his crotch, and Cat sucking Buck’s balls in his mouth and squeezing his pecs as well, lasted a long time. Both Cat and Buck liked the sensual and erotic feel of the holds, and wanted to see how long they could keep them. In fact, later on in the match, when the same holds were reversed, and it was Buck who was caught the same way in one of Cat’s head scissors and managed to suck both of Cat’s equally big and thick balls into his own mouth as well as punishing Cat’s big pecs in return, they kept the torture and uncertainty of their deadlocked predicament just as long. Neither wrestler ever had any problem with any of it, give or take. The sensual and erotic feel of it was delicious to both.
Finally, Cat opened his mouth and released Buck’s big balls from it. Then Buck let go of Cat’s head so he could pull it out from Buck’s crotch and breathe easy again, and Cat released Buck’s pecs from his crushing grip on them as well. As Buck had still had the main hold with the suffocating head scissors on Cat, he then paused to return the advantage to Cat as soon as he could regain his breath.
Cat moved quickly and easily to get back on top of Buck in a full body press until they were almost, once again, head to head. Cat didn’t have any particular next hold in mind to get on Buck, but he nevertheless flipped one of his muscular legs over between Buck’s big legs and thighs just to bring added pressure on Buck to keep holding him down. That had the added advantage of being able to press his solid thigh down hard into Buck’s bulging cock and balls and crush them in the process as hard as he could. It was payback time for Cat to get back at Buck for Buck’s deep head and face hold into his crotch, despite Cat’s sucking Buck’s balls into his mouth in return. Buck had no problem at all with Cat’s taking the advantage, and waited to see what Cat would do with him next.
As Cat got his solid body press on Buck and jammed his leg hard into Buck’s cock and balls to hold him down at that end, he placed one hand, open palmed, hard against Buck’s face, eyes, nose, and mouth as if to push it in. He didn’t push his hand into Buck’s face too hard, however, but just enough to distract Buck with it and keep him from seeing Cat on top of him.
Then Cat took his other strong hand and wrapped it around Buck’s throat as if he were going to choke him to death one-handedly. But again, he didn’t choke Buck so hard as to really cut off Buck’s air supply. But he sure did like the idea of threatening Buck to do so.
Cat had by then guessed that Buck had gotten into some tough fighting, voluntarily or by necessity, earlier in his Marine Corps days, and still liked to be threatened and pressured physically hard and forced to fight back to save his life.
Buck did indeed like the threat of Cat’s hands jammed into his face and around his throat, which gave him a real charge. And, both wrestlers knowing that frequently any hold or move one wrestler takes on the other guy is probably one he likes taken on himself, Buck was glad to know that probably Cat liked the same moves on himself, too. Later, when their situations were reversed, Cat did like the pressure and threat on him just as much as Buck did now.
Meanwhile, even as he was being blinded and suffocated by Cat’s face and chokeholds on him, Buck, knowing that Cat liked to punish his pecs all he could, and figuring Cat liked the same treatment on himself in return, Buck reached up and grabbed both of Cat’s pecs in his fists. Then he began to crush them in his grip just as Cat had done to him earlier, which also served to hold Cat off from coming down any further on him. The whole situation, as usual, felt good to both of them, with neither wanting to end that standoff.
It did end finally, but only when Buck got tired of holding Cat up off him, and so he let Cat come down on him. With that, Cat released his holds on Buck’s face and throat and instead, got a full body press on top of Buck. Their two powerfully muscled, naked and oiled bodies were lying one on top of the other in a powerfully tight body press. Their heads and faces came even closer together as well, until finally, even their lips locked together leaving only their tongues to wrestle it out deep inside each other’s mouth.
Part 13. Buck and Cat’s Wrestling Match Continues
Cat and Buck had been wrestling, their muscular naked and oiled bodies, locked together in hold after hold, on the mat in Buck’s silent and darkened bunkhouse, for almost an hour. Through the open door and window, the light of the moon and stars shone in on their glistening bodies as they struggled back and forth with each other. At one time an inquisitive raccoon passed by the bunkhouse and looked in the door to see what was happening inside. As there was nothing of interest to him there, however, he soon padded away silently and disappeared around the corner into the darkness to continue his nocturnal rounds.
Cat and Buck had also gotten used to each other’s wrestling likes and limitations. Whenever two wrestlers wrestled for the first time, it always took a while until they found how the other liked to wrestle as well as his disinclinations, his pace and intensity, his strength and experience, and all the rest two wrestlers need to adjust to make the whole match as good as possible for both of them and to make it last as long as possible.
Cat found Buck liked to take a lot of pressure. Buck was powerfully muscled and he liked to be challenged. At the same time, from his Marine Corps training, he liked to go at a slower pace, always thinking ahead for his next move and then the moves beyond that. At the same time he had almost endless endurance and patience, and was used to keeping at whatever he was doing, including all their many deadlocks, however long they lasted, until he and Cat themselves decided to move on.
Buck found with Cat that he moved quietly and powerfully, and at times quickly, just as a powerful cat would, with almost endless strength, agility, and suppleness. He was capable of escaping almost every predicament he found himself in, one way or another, and also had limitless patience and endurance with any deadlock or hold he was caught in, liking them just as much as Buck did, until, again, they decided it was time to move on to something else.
They were a perfect match for each other. They both understood the other’s nature and interests as well as their own. And so their match in the bunkhouse would last a long time, however it would come out. They were both liking it so much they hoped it would never end.
Part 14. Buck and Cat’s Wrestling Also A Big Cockfight
Their wrestling also tended, as long give-and-take matches frequently do, to fall into certain patterns, one of which was that it soon also became an on-going cockfight between the two. Wrestling nude and oiled, they both knew, and as they had intended, that it would also make the whole thing a sensual and erotic match for both of them. They also knew their naked, long and hard cocks, as well as their full, thick and hard balls were not only targets for the other, but could be used as weapons of their own.
A number of times both were on their knees on the wet and slippery mat facing each other, their heads almost touching. Then each almost instinctively extended his left hand to grab around the back of the other’s neck to pull him forward and down, while his other hand reached out to grab the other’s big, long and hard rod, jutting out hard in front of his body. Then they would use the other’s hard cock like a lever or hammer handle to pull the other in toward him or push him back or push him further down to the mat or lift him up bodily.
On the slippery mat, first Buck pushed Cat back. But then Cat braced himself and pushed Buck back instead. It was as if the struggle between the two would never end, each taking all the torture to his cock that he could stand, while inflicting just as much back on the other until finally one or the other lost his grip with the oiled slipperiness of their bodies and they broke it off to go on to something else.
At other times Cat might be on his hands and knees in front of a standing Buck. Then he would drive his head between Buck’s big thick thighs and legs with the intention of lifting Buck up with the back of his neck to slide Buck down over his back to the mat.
But then Buck, anticipating Cat’s move, crouched down to reach under Cat’s body and seize hold of Cat’s own long and hard rod in his fist and use it like a handle to pick Cat up, upside down, solely by his cock. When he succeeded in getting Cat upside down, with his head caught between Buck’s thighs and legs and his feet pointing toward the ceiling of the bunkhouse, Cat found himself unable to escape, until, with the slipperiness and the agility of his lithe body, he was able to twist and flip out of Buck’s grip on him.
Sometimes Buck was able to hold him upside down for a longer time when he could keep Cat’s head between his legs, and bring his cock closer to him, using Cat’s own hard cock as a handle, until he could press Cat’s smooth and tight butt hard against his own head and face for another point of contact to hold Cat in position. Maybe that was another reason Buck liked to take the hold on Cat so much, as Cat did, too, and just as much, when he later got Buck in the same predicament.
Sometimes Buck found himself with his back on the mat and Cat was on his feet in front of him, preparing to pounce on him as a cat might on a mouse. But then Buck, sensing what Cat was about to do, as Cat came down on him with his arms outstretched ready to hold Buck down, Buck raised one leg and jammed his foot hard into Cat’s crotch fully against his naked and exposed cock and balls.
Then, as Cat’s momentum forced him to come down on him, Buck reached his arms and hands up to grab one of Cat’s hands in each of his own so that their fingers locked in an unbreakable grip on each other. Buck then proceeded to lift Cat high overhead with his foot in Cat’s crotch and suspend Cat high in the air by only three points, being his two hands caught in Buck’s tight grip, and Buck’s hard and calloused foot jammed into his crotch, which were then crushing his cock and balls with his own full body weight. To add to Cat’s punishment, Buck then jiggled his foot up and down into Cat’s crotch just to increase the punishment on him.
As Buck completed that maneuver, a small smile crossed Buck’s face, knowing he’d caught Cat just as he intended. It was met by a similar, if maybe somewhat agonized, grin on Cat’s face realizing how he’d been caught in the move. But at the same time, Cat liked the punishment Buck was giving him, and he had no problem taking it just as long as Buck wanted to give it to him.
And, of course, when their situations were reversed in other parts of their long give-and-take match, Buck liked for Cat to take the same hold, and punish him just as much, as Buck was then doing.
Another deadlock they got into every so often was when they might be sitting on the mat opposite each other, with their legs outstretched toward the other. Then one, with the other quickly following, would grab one of the other’s ankles and pull it in toward him, while at the same time he’d shove his other and free foot hard into the other’s crotch and cock and balls to push him away.
Again, the double torture of both pulling the other in by his ankle while pushing him away with his foot hard into the other’s crotch was agony for both, but one which both also liked the feel of, and neither ever wanted to be the first to let go. As usual, it was generally only the oiled slipperiness of their bodies which caused one or the other to lose his hold and then let both of them go on to get into something else.
In these and other holds their cock-fighting each other continued among all their other holds and moves with and on the other. And, wrestling give-and-take, it was never long, after one deadlock, that soon their roles would be reversed and then the tormentor became the tormented and vice versa. Either way, neither ever got enough of it.
Part 15. Buck and Cat’s Wrestling Match Well Into Its Second Hour
The moon had risen higher and the stars had moved to their new places in the night sky. The raccoon that had visited them earlier was, by then, almost a mile away pursuing his rounds, while Buck and Cat were well into their second hour of wrestling with each other, frequently deadlocked and motionless, naked and oiled, on the mat in the quiet bunkhouse.
From time to time they paused deadlocked in one hold or another, not only to regain their breath and let their energy rebuild for whatever they would get into next, but to simply enjoy the sensual and erotic pleasure they got from being in close and hard contact with each other. It felt good to both, and was what both most wanted from each other anyway. They were getting what they wanted, and neither wanted to see it end.
A great many other holds and deadlocks were a good part of their long match, too. There were the headlocks that they liked to take on each other whenever they got a chance. Cat always liked the feel of Buck’s massive arms and biceps wrapped around his head and neck, particularly when he and Buck were on the mat, which was most of the time, and Buck then not only got him in a headlock but got partly on top of him as well. Buck would never take the headlock with all of his powerful strength which might strain Cat’s neck, but would take it just hard enough to keep Cat from escaping. Which, liking to get caught in the hold, Cat rarely had any intention of trying to break out of it any time soon.
In his headlocks on Cat, Buck would keep his upper body on top of Cat to keep him in place while keeping the rest of his body weight on the mat so as not to put too much pressure on Cat. Then, with the headlock, he’d slowly pull Cat’s head in closer and closer to his muscled chest and big pec until finally he pulled Cat’s face right against his pec and then stuff as much of it as he could deep into Cat’s mouth to make him suck it.
Cat never had any problem with that as he liked the taste of Buck’s muscled pec in his mouth and then he’d let his tongue play around with Buck’s hard nipple until Buck would finally release him and let him go free again.
As usual, whenever Cat got the same hold on Buck, they both liked the reverse situation just as much.
Cat wasn’t without his own move in return, however, when Cat would sooner or later manage to twist his body around underneath Buck until he was able to reach one of his hands through between Buck’s thick thighs and seize Buck’s big, long, hard, and exposed rod in his fist. Then, while Buck tried to stuff his big pec deeper and deeper into Cat’s mouth to force him to suck it, Cat in return pulled Buck’s big rod further and further back between his big legs until it seemed he might almost break it off Buck’s body.
Both always liked all the punishment each was giving and taking from the other in that deadlock, and liked it just as much, as in all of their other deadlocks, when their holds were reversed. Then it would be Buck who was forced to eat and suck Cat’s muscled pec in his mouth, while Buck would try to rip Cat’s equally long and hard rod off his body instead.
Still another favorite hold they liked to get on each other, give or take, would be the many times one would find himself with his back on the mat and the other would be sitting or squatting on his chest, or have a solid body press and head scissors on the other. Then it would generally take no more than a slight shift of the top man’s body to position his wet and naked butt directly over the bottom man’s head and, from there, raise himself up very slightly, lean back and then sit fully on the bottom man’s face.
As he sat fully on the other’s face, the top man could feel the bottom man’s face, nose and lips get forced deep into the hot, dark and wet canyon of his butt, while at the same time the bottom man would soon feel the top man’s hot, naked and wet butt come down and cover his whole face to soon blind and suffocate him. That position would last as long as any other until the bottom man could find some way to escape it, or the top man might eventually ease his butt off the bottom man’s face when he felt he’d held it long enough or wanted to go on to something else. Either way, it was another hold and predicament both men liked, give or take, and neither ever got enough of it.
Part 16. The Match Goes Into Its Third Hour - Neither Yet Gets Enough
Their match was going into its third hour in the quiet darkness on the bunkhouse wrestling mat, and still neither could get enough of it with the other. It was as sensual and erotic as they hoped it would be while it also gave them all the pain and punishment which both liked and wanted, too. And, with their many almost motionless deadlocks, they conserved and regained their energy to make it last a long time.
The favorite holds of both, which they came back to more and more often, as it turned out, were when they caught each other in one or another body or head scissors hold. In those, they would catch one or another part of each other’s body between their muscular legs and thighs, and then, with their oiled, naked, and well-muscled bodies now locked together, they got into a number of different holds or punishments from there.
Although both liked to get caught in the other’s body scissors on them, either from the side or the rear, they always held the other tight enough to keep him from escaping, but never so tight as to crush his ribs or do any damage, or use up too much of their own energy. The scissors hold both liked most to take, and get caught in, was a head scissors on each other.
Buck found that Cat particularly liked to get caught in a head scissors between his massive thighs, with Cat’s face either facing into Buck’s crotch or away from it or halfway between, while the rest of his body remained free.
Whenever Buck caught him that way, Cat would try to twist or bridge or flip or pull or get himself out, or some combination or sequence of all four, to escape. Which Buck always managed to foil until he sensed Cat was just about at the end of his line. Then Buck relaxed his hold and let Cat escape anyway. Sometimes, however, Cat, with his strength, agility and the slipperiness of their oiled bodies, escaped first anyway. Then, many times, it wouldn’t be long before Cat let himself be caught again in the same hold and his torture would start all over again.
Cat’s actions reminded Buck of a cat which would try repeatedly to catch a mouse or a fish which it couldn’t quite reach and would try all sorts of ways to succeed. Then it would give it up for a while, only to come again soon to try it all over again. It was an instinct and action a cat enjoys, and Buck knew Cat also liked the feel of getting trapped, trying desperately to escape, doing so, and then coming again for more.
Buck knew, as did Cat, that he, too, liked to get trapped in the other man’s head scissors and forced to try and bridge out, and many times it was as much work for him to escape Cat as it was for Cat to escape him. Both liked the feel of taking or getting his head caught between the other’s powerful legs and thighs wrapped around his head, and neither ever got enough of it either.
Sometimes, when Buck had a solid head scissors on Cat he would roll both of them over to keep the hold, or sometimes Cat would try to roll both of them over and make his escape.
Part 17. Double Figure Four Head Scissors
Of all their many holds, however, the hold they both liked to get into with each other most of all, and one which they came back to more and more often as their long match continued, was when they got a single, and then more and more frequently a double, figure four head scissors on each other.
That happened whenever either was on his back on the mat, it wasn’t long before the other moved to get on top of him Most of the time they found themselves positioned head to foot. Then, whichever was on top would wrap his big and muscular legs and thighs around the other’s head to hold him tight, At the same time, he moved to position his hot, wet and naked cock and balls directly over the other’s face. Then press them down hard against the other’s face to suffocate and blind him in the hold as well.
In the earlier part of their long wrestling match with each other, they were content just to press their big cocks and balls hard against the other’s face in the hold until they went on to other holds. That was just a regular part of “anything goes” wrestling, and neither had any problem with giving or getting caught in it.
But then, as the match went on, more and more frequently the man on top not only first pressed his big, thick cock and balls on top of the other man’s face, but now also stabbed his big rod, which was getting longer and harder all the time with all of their sensual and erotic wrestling and cock fighting, deep down into the other’s mouth and throat impaling his head on the mat as well as blinding and suffocating him.
Neither ever had any problem with any of that either, give or take. It’s what both most expected and wanted, in fact, and neither could ever get enough of it.
To add to it, whichever man was on the bottom, even though his head was staked to the mat by the other’s rod stabbed deep down into his mouth and throat, he would still try to twist or bridge out. More often than not, however, this just gave the man on top a better chance to grab the bottom man’s own big rod, now sticking up right into the top man’s face.
Then, in addition to the bottom man’s choking with the top man’s cock stabbed deep down his throat, it also gave the top man a chance now to grab the bottom man’s big stiff rod in his fist and try to push it down between the bottom man’s big legs to the mat to punish him even more. It was an agony both liked to give and take over and over again. They always sensed, however, when they’d gone far enough and then eased up before any damage would be done.
Sometimes, however, the bottom man was able in return to bridge or flip his legs up so he was able to catch the top man in a head scissors of his own, making it a double head scissors on each other, Then both wrestlers had the same deadlocked hold on each other, which soon found them rolling back and forth over the mat, locked together, with first one man on top and then the other, with both of them having plunged their big, long and hard rod deep down into the other’s mouth and throat, while feeling and tasting the other’s equally big rod deep down into his own mouth and throat as well.
It was a favorite hold and deadlock of both and one which neither was ever willing to be the first to let go as they wanted to see which could take it the longer. It was also yet another sensual and erotic pleasure for both which neither ever got enough of.
These double head scissor deadlocks became more and more frequent, and lasted longer and longer each time. But it was also what both wrestlers ultimately most wanted from the other, along with all their other moves and holds, predicaments and deadlocks, and still neither could ever get enough of any of it.
Part 18. Buck and Cat’s Wrestling Match Comes To An End
They had been locked together wrestling each other for almost three hours. They’d started soon after dusk, and it was soon coming close to midnight. Both knew, too, that as much as they enjoyed their erotic and sensual wrestling with each other, they were coming to the end of their energy and, even more importantly, with all of their cock fighting and their naked, oiled and muscled bodies locked tightly together so long and getting more and more sexually aroused all the time, all of the hot creamy white cum that had been accumulating in their bodies all through their match was totally full and demanding to be released.
In fact, both suddenly realized, as they felt and tasted each other’s big, long and hard cock deep down into his mouth and throat, that both had only seconds left before they would be forced, ready or not, to shoot their loads of hot white cum.
The end came suddenly just seconds later. Buck and Cat had once again gotten each other in a double head scissors, and each had stabbed his big, long, and hard rod, now about to come, deep down the other’s mouth and throat while he tasted the other’s equally big and hard rod stabbed deep down into his own mouth and throat.
They had rolled, tightly locked together, to the edge of the mat and then rolled back to the center. Buck ended up on top. Desperately, although he didn’t mind at all being under Buck with Buck’s powerfully muscled and naked body on top of him holding him down, Cat tried to escape out from under Buck just once more.
That one final time he tried to twist and bridge out from under Buck just as he had so often before and then it worked. But this time he couldn’t. Buck held him in tightly under him. Buck would have had no problem with being underneath Cat if it had ended up that way, but as it was, he was on top. Both liked it either way.
Then it didn’t matter any more. Suddenly, and in almost the same instant, each one felt all of the hot white and sweet creamy cum race through his body and then through his big long and bone-hard cock, as each gave one last spasm with their pleasure. Then each felt his hot cum burst out of his hard and thick cock head to blast out deep into the other’s mouth and down his throat.
On and on each man’s hot cum poured and pulsed out into the other’s waiting mouth, while the other took in as much as he could take. What they couldn’t take they had to let run out of their mouths and down the sides of their faces and necks until it dropped to the mat which was already wet and slippery with all the oil and sweat, which had accumulated from their long match.
On and on their cum flowed until finally there was nothing left to come. They were completely drained. After they’d finished, Buck and Cat still found themselves lying and locked together, but, for the moment, they were totally exhausted. Their long match had ended. It had been real good.
Part 19. After The Match
Slowly, as they gradually regained some of their strength after their long wrestling match and shooting their enormous hot cum loads down each other’s mouth and throat, Buck and Cat began to get up. Grins covered their faces. A glance over to the clock in the moonlit bunkhouse said it was almost midnight.
“Hey, Cat,” said Buck, “You’re real good, you know. I sure enjoyed that!”
“Likewise, I’m sure,” replied Cat, “I’m ready to go again with you any time you like!”
“Sounds good to me, but what do you say for now, time for a shower and then maybe some shut-eye?”
“I’m good for that, sir; you know I’m yours!” replied Cat with a grin on his face.
Buck knew he surely liked what they’d just been doing, and he knew that Cat liked it just as much. And there that word was, again. Yeah, it sure had been good.
Part 20. The Next Morning - Breakfast
The next morning, once again, Buck woke up to the smell of frying bacon and brewing coffee. ‘This Cat is a marvel,’ thought Buck as he woke up and realized that Cat had already gotten up, come up to the cabin, and was already and once again preparing their breakfast. A glance at the clock told Buck it was almost nine o’clock. Rarely did he sleep any later than seven, even on rainy days when he didn’t have much of anything else planned to do.
But wrestling with Cat last night had been real good, surely the best he’d had wrestling around with anybody in a very long time. His longer sleep into the morning showed to that.
Buck got up and went into the kitchen. Sure enough, Cat had once again laid out the tableware just as neatly as before, and if there was any mess in his preparations, there was no sign of it as Cat cleaned things up as soon as anything got dirty. Despite all his Marine Corps training and spit and polish neatness, Buck knew he couldn’t have done any of it any better himself.
And here, too, was Roscoe, standing next to Cat with an anticipatory expression on his face, and an intermittent wag of his tail. He had already seen Cat remove a can of his breakfast dog chow from the cupboard where Roscoe knew it was kept, and knew he’d get his breakfast very shortly. Meanwhile, he was content to settle for the occasional neck scratch he was getting from Cat as he was putting everything else together.
It was Buck who stole up behind Cat, got a loose bear hug on him and murmered a soft “Good Morning” in Cat’s ear, to which Cat purred back softly, “Ummmmm yes!”
When they sat down in the sunlit room to enjoy the breakfast Cat had prepared, however, they said little and Buck sensed a note of concern or worry on Cat’s face.
“You ok, Cat?” Buck asked.
“Yeah, it sure was so great rasslin’ around with you last night Buck, and I’m surely real grateful for your kindness in taking me in and feeding me and giving me a place to bunk down,” replied Cat.
“That wasn’t anything at all, Cat,” replied Buck.
“A Marine always helps a buddy, and I not only sure enjoyed messing around with you last night, but you really helped me out with the roof and chimney repairs, and then in clearing away the trees and brush yesterday. I’m the one who owes you!” he continued.
“Well, still and all, Buck, I think I’d better be heading on soon’s we finish breakfast here. I’m thinking of taking off on the Trail again and heading over to my grandma’s over in Mutton, about ten miles beyond Gadwell, and maybe stay there for a while. She’s probably got some chores for me to do at her place, and then we can see how it goes for me from there.”
Buck knew better than argue with Cat. It was his life, and he still knew virtually nothing about Cat, who he was or where he was headed, either for the present or for the rest of his life. Buck had known a lot of Marines in his life, some of whom found their way sooner while it took some others longer. Buck sensed that Cat was somewhere between the two.
“Tell you what, Cat, I understand that you probably want to move on, and that’s your choice, except I’d sure like to have you stay on with me.
“I know you’re smart and talented and have your whole life ahead of you. But I’d surely like to have you work for me at my auto and truck repair shop over in Gadwell. If you came with me, you’d have a steady job and good pay, and you could then see what the future might hold for you.
“And,” Buck added with a slight grin and glance at Cat’s face as he said it, “I’d sure like to have you come back to my place here and maybe we could find still more things to do right here at the cabin if you’d like!”
Cat looked at him quietly, and Buck saw a smile, and maybe Cat’s eyes water just a little. Buck knew Cat was having a hard time of it, and maybe couldn’t say anything for the moment.
Buck then said, “As for your needing to take off today, it’s going on toward late morning already, and you’ll never make much time walking the Trail any more today. I need to go into town to pick up some supplies for the house and pick up today’s newspaper. Why don’t I take you into town in my pickup? Then I can leave you off at the Gate gas station. I know a number of folks around here go back and forth between here and Gadwell, and maybe right into Mutton, too. I’m sure you could pick up a ride from one of them and be in Mutton by late afternoon. How about that?”
“I’d sure be obliged for all that, Buck, if it wouldn’t put you out too much,” was Cat’s grateful reply, a grin creeping back into his face.
“And,” Cat continued, “your offer of a job and coming back here with you, too! I’m not sure where I’m going today or anywhere else from here, but I’m surely obliged to you for everything you’ve done for me — it means a lot!” replied Cat, his eyes growing no drier.
“Oh, and here’s what I owe you for your work yesterday, Cat; hope this will tide you over just a while, too,” said Buck.
Cat looked at the envelope Buck handed him. In it were ten $20-bills.
“You didn’t need to do this at all, Buck. You already gave me room and board, and I was glad to do the work just to help out there,” said Cat quietly.
“No way, Cat; this is what I would have had to pay to another workman to do the job, and you did it, so you’re entitled to it!”
“Thanks, Buck,” said Cat as he quietly hung his head so that Buck wouldn’t see his tears.
Part 21. Buck and Cat Part Privately At Buck’s Cabin
As they were about to get into Buck’s pickup for the ride into town, they embraced once more. They held it for a long time, their two muscular bodies locked together one final time before they would head into town. They knew when they got to the Gate station where Buck would leave Cat off, that wouldn’t be the time or the place for their final embrace.
As they parted, Buck said only, “Take care, Cat, thanks for everything, and know that your job is waiting for you any time you want it, and that I care about you!”
“Thanks, Buck — for everything!” replied Cat, unable to say any more.
Part 22. Buck Reads The Newspaper - An Interesting Article
Back in the cabin that afternoon, after cleaning up a few odds and ends before heading back to Gadwell and his shop and work tomorrow, Buck sat down to relax on his cabin porch. He picked up the newspaper to check out the latest news. It was just the local county paper, and most of the articles were about the town people, church news, and high school game results.
Then, on the front page, on the lower left, in a two-column spread, Buck read the headline: “Sheriff Seeks Man For Questioning”. That caught Buck’s eye, and he began to read the article in full.
“County Sheriff Tuck Townsend announced yesterday morning that he was looking for a Mr. Tim Timmons, a.k.a ‘Cat-man,’ for questioning about an incident on the Appalachian Trail late Thursday afternoon.
“It seems two men, later identified as Butch Burger and Benny Bellini, both having police records for minor assault and battery charges, break-ins, and car thefts, were walking on the Trail to get away from a break-in they had committed an hour earlier of a farm house close to the Trail.
“Suddenly a powerful and agile young man, presumably Mr. Timmons, who had concealed himself on a rock overhanging the Trail, jumped down on the two men with the probable intent of robbing them and then escaping before they could recover and chase him down.
“Mr. Timmons had just been released the previous Tuesday from the medium security Creston County prison where he had served just a little over two years for burglary and theft, and was released early for good behavior.
“It seems Mr. Timmons’ M.O. as a burglar was to quietly stake out a prospective house which might contain some valuable jewelry. Then, even if the victims were still in the house, he would scale the walls or roof of the house, enter a second-floor window, or gain entrance from a porch roof, seek out and find the jewelry he hoped to find, take only those pieces which were of the greatest value, and then silently make his escape by the same way he came in. Many times the victims were unaware of the theft until they returned home or went upstairs to wherever the jewelry was, and noticed the loss.
“Mr. Timmons was sentenced to two-to-five years in prison, but as he had an almost perfect prison record and was considered a non-violent prisoner, he was ordered to serve only the minimum term.
“While he was in prison, it was noted on his record that he helped rebuild the warden’s office as he was a skilled craftsman, saving the County some expense. He also won a Silver medal, second place, on the prison wrestling squad which competed with other prisoners and police benevolent teams which wrestled in local high school gyms for charitable purposes.
“At the time of the incident on the Trail with Burger and Bellini, it seemed those two recovered quickly and overpowered Mr. Timmons in return. In addition, they took his wallet and also forced him to remove his shirt and pants to make his pursuit of them more difficult.
“Burger and Bellini, after leaving Mr. Timmons, continued walking the Trail until it intersected with County Road 521 where they feigned an injury and sought help from any good Samaritan who might be passing by. A local man in a pickup truck stopped to offer assistance, and the two overcame him and drove off in his truck. As soon as they left him, the pickup truck owner called the sheriff on his cell phone to report the incident and the theft of his truck.
“The sheriff and his team of officers then staked out the road farther down before it intersected with State Hwy. 160 and caught Burger and Bellini, who put up no resistance.
“During a search of the two, the sheriff found Mr. Timmons’ wallet with his identification and the small amount of money still in the wallet.
“Burger and Bellini are now being held in the County jail pending charges of simple assault and car theft. The sheriff, meanwhile, would like to question Mr. Timmons on the incident on the Trail for the record. Mr. Timmons may also be in line for a reward posted by the farmer for the capture of whoever it was that broke into his farm earlier.”
Part 23. Buck Finds Out The Truth About Cat
Buck chuckled. So that’s how it was. Cat’s real name was Tim Timmons and not Chip Carson. No surprise there. The part about two men jumping him on the Trail was true, but Cat didn’t mention that it was he who jumped them first. No surprise there either.
And the part about Burger and Bellini taking his clothes was true, while Cat’s later stealing some farmer’s shirt and pants was not mentioned, probably because it was of no real importance, and, judging by their worn appearance, the clothes weren’t much more than rags in the first place.
Cat’s own record of second-story house break-ins before he was caught was interesting, but it wasn’t that much of a surprise either. Surely Cat was smart and agile, and so it was no wonder that he was able to get up on Buck’s roof and chimney to fix them so easily. Apparently he was real good working with his hands, as he showed in fixing the chimney, clearing brush, and making their breakfasts, too.
And then the part of his winning a Silver medal on the prison wrestling squad was real good, too. No doubt Cat had worked out steadily and hard to build himself up and keep in shape, both to protect himself from other prisoners who might have designs on that good-looking body of his, but also to work on his considerable wrestling skills and endurance, too.
No telling what his wrestling workouts were like at night in the prisoners’ off hours, or maybe wrestling around for the pleasure of it in such secluded places as the prison laundry or warehouse for his own pleasure. But that was none of Buck’s business.
Although Buck kept the rest of the paper to use to start fires in the fireplace, he carefully cut out the article on “Tim Timmons AKA Cat-man” to keep in his desk.
Part 24. Conclusion
Two weeks later, after another weekend at the cabin, Buck was, as usual, the first man to get to the shop on Monday morning. He had gotten some more work done around the cabin, but it was awfully quiet without Cat. Buck missed him more than he thought he would. A lot more.
Although when he had closed up the shop office and turned out the lights on Friday before he left, when Buck arrived on Monday morning, the office light was on and he smelled coffee being brewed in the shop coffeemaker.
For some reason, he wasn’t totally surprised. There was Cat. He had found his way in, had already put the coffee on, and was in the process of emptying the wastebasket and picking up around the place. Their eyes met. Grins covered their faces.
“Hope you don’t mind my coming in just a tad early this morning, Buck. But I thought mebbe you’d like your morning coffee hot, and maybe I could just clean the place up a tad for you, too, if you’ll let me,” said Cat, with a not-quite-certain-but-hopeful grin on his face.
“You’re my man, Cat, and you’re on the payroll right now, so many thanks,” said Buck, the grin on his face widening.
“And, if you like, after we finish our work in the shop this week, I think we’ve got some more things to do up at the cabin, too,” he continued.
“Sounds good to me, Buck; I’m totally at your service!” was Cat’s reply. His eyes began to water again. Maybe he was allergic to something. They dried out as soon as he went back to the shop and started to work. The grin on his face was even wider as he and Buck headed back to the cabin that following Friday afternoon. Buck’s grin was just as wide.
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तकरीर के हर लफ्ज में हरियाली का दिया पैगाम: Dainik Jagran
Moradabad,28 May 2016
हरियाली अभियान से जुड़ी इंटरनेशनल शख्सियत
शहर की दरगाहों के सज्जादानशीन और मुफ्ती उलेमा हुए शामिल
हर एक नमाजी से की गई जिंदगी में दो पौधे लगाने की अपील
हरियाली के लिए दिये हवाले:
उलेमा मशायख बोर्ड के अध्यक्ष श्री किछौछवी ने नमाज से पहले हुई तकरीर में इस्लाम और खानकाहों द्वारा दिये गए हरियाली के पैगाम के बारे में लोगों को बताया। बुजुगरे द्वारा दरगाहों पर जाने पर पौधरोपण करने का भी जिक्र किया। उन्होंने कहा कि छाया और फलदार पौधे लगाएं।
दरगाह शाह मुकम्मल साहब में हरियाली के लिये दुआ कराते उलेमा मशायख बोर्ड के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष सैयद मुहम्मद अशरफ किछौछवी व दरगाहों के सज्जादानशीन
दस्ते मुबारक से लिया पौधा:
दरगाह शाह मुकम्मल साहब में पहुंचे हजरत सैयद मुहम्मद अशरफ किछौछवी के दस्ते मुबारक से पौधा लेने के लिए अकीदतमंदों की कतार लग गई। लोगों का कहना था कि देश के बड़े आलिम और सूफी के दस्ते मुबारक से पौधा लेना हमारे लिए बहुत खुश नसीबी की बात है।
हरियाली के लिए दुआ:
दरगाह हजरत शाह मुकम्मल साहब के आस्ताने पर फातिहा ख्वानी के बाद हजरत सैयद मुहम्मद अशरफ किछौछवी ने मुल्क की खुशहाली-तरक्की और हरियाली के लिए दुआ कराई।
सम्भल-डींगरपुर से भी पहुंचे उलेमा:
मशायख बोर्ड के अध्यक्ष सैयद मुहम्मद अशरफ किछौछवी के मुरादाबाद पहुंचने की खबर मिलने के बाद सम्भल और डींगरपुर के उलेमा दरगाह पहुंचे थे। यहां उन्होंने डींगरपुर व सम्भल के मदरसों में पौधरोपण कराने का संकल्प लिया।
पर्यावरण प्रहरी
जागरण संवाददाता, मुरादाबाद : धरा को हराभरा बनाने की मुहिम से शुक्रवार को इंटरनेशनल शख्सियत वल्र्ड सूफी फोरम के संयोजक एवं उलेमा मशायख बोर्ड के अध्यक्ष सैयद मुहम्मद अशरफ किछौछवी के जुड़ने के साथ प्रमुख दरगाहों के सज्जादानशीनों ने दरगाह परिसर में पौधे रोपित करने के साथ नमाजियों को पौधे नजराने के तौर पर दिये।
ईदगाह मैदान स्थित दरगाह हजरत शाह मुकम्मल साहब में हरियाली के लिए पौधरोपण कार्यक्रम का आयोजन किया गया था। मेहमाने खुसुसी के तौर पर पहुंचे किछौछवी का सभी दरगाहों के सज्जादानशीन के अलावा तमाम लोगों ने मालाएं पहनाकर उनका जोरदार खैरमख्दम किया। इसके बाद दरगाह परिसर में पौधे रोपित किये। जुमे की नमाज की तकरीर में श्री किछौछवी ने कहा कि खाने और पानी के बिना तीन से पांच दिन आदमी जिंदा रह सकता है, लेकिन ऑक्सीजन नहीं मिलीं तो सांसें थम जाएंगी। इसलिए सभी लोग अपने घर व बाहर, मुहल्ले व पार्क में कम से कम दो अपने नाम के पौधे रोपित करें। नमाजियों को अमरूद, साइकस, चांदनी, बड़ी, चांदनी छोटी, कनेर बड़ी व छोटी नजराने के तौर पर साढ़े तीन सौ पौधे दिये। इस मौके पर कारी आमिर रजा, कारी सखावत, मेराजउद्दीन यानी, मिस्बाहउद्दीन यानी, साजिद अंसारी, अमीर अंसारी, सरफराज अली, आजम सैफी, मुहम्मद असलम आदि भारी संख्या में अकीदतमंद मौजूद रहे। व्यवस्थाएं सैयद सरवर मियां ने संभाली।
ईदगाह मैदान के नजदीक दरगाह शाह मुकम्मल साहब में जागरण के हरियाली अभियान के तहत उलेमा मशायख बोर्ड के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष सैयद मुहम्मद अशरफ किछौछवी के साथ पौधे रोपते दरगाहों के सज्जदानशीन।
हरियाली की सबसे ज्यादा जरूरत है। खुले स्थान पर छायादार पौधे लगाएं। लोगों से पौधे लगाने की अपील जारी रहेगी: सैयद शिब्ली मियां, सज्जादानशीन।
फल-फूल वाले पौधे भी लगाएं। दैनिक जागरण का हरियाली अभियान लोगों के लिए प्रेरणादायी है। : आसिफ अली, समाजसेवी
दरगाह में आने वाले जायरीन को पौधे लगाने का संदेश दिया जाता रहेगा। बच्चों को पौधों की अहमियत बताएंगे।: सैयद गुल्लू मियां, सज्जादानशीन
घर या फिर खाली स्थान मिले तो वहां पौधा रोपित कर दें। पौधे की देखभाल लगातार करते रहें। : असद मौलाई, समाजसेवी
हाफिज साहब दरगाह से भी हरियाली अभियान का पैगाम जारी किया जाएगा। मुरीदीन को पौधा लगाने के लिए बोलेंगे। : हयातुन्नबी खां, सज्जादानशीन 1
दैनिक जागरण की हरियाली के लिए चलाई गई पहल बेहतरीन है। हरियाली से ही ऑक्सीजन मिलेगी। : सैयद अली नईम चिश्ती, सज्जादानशीन 1
पेड़ों का कटान पूरी तरह बंद कराया जाना चाहिए। कंक्रीट के जंगल से मौसम बदल रहा है। पौधे लगाएं। : हाफिज इफ्तेखार हुसैन साबरी, सज्जादानशीन
बुजुगरे के सभी आस्तानों पर भरपूर हरियाली देखने को मिलेगी। इससे हमें संदेश मिलता है कि पौधे लगाएं। : सूफी सिब्ते नबी अशरफी, सज्जादानशीन
सजावट के लिये फूल और ऑक्सीजन के लिए खिरनी के पौधे रोपित करें। इससे सांसों को ताजगी मिलेगी। : सूफी इशरत साबरी, सज्जादानशीन
सार्वजनिक स्थलों पर पौधे रोपने से राहगीरों को पहले की तरह ताजा हवा मिलेगी। इसलिए सड़क किनारे भी पौधे लगाएं। : हाजी इश्त्याक हुसैन बब्बू सिद्दीकी, सज्जादानशीन
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World Sufi Forum: How Sufism runs as a counter to hardline ideologies?: First Post
Mar 17, 2016 15:42 IST
By Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi
In an article published in The Guardian dated, 23 October 2014, Jason Webster explained how Sufism runs as ‘a natural antidote to fanaticism’. Sufism-inspired discourses on peacemaking and counter-extremism and deradicalisation have created interesting debates, enlarging the ambit of modern approaches to peace, pluralism and non-violence. Obviously, a Sufi is not much of a social scientist or a strategist, the pluralistic Sufi concepts and mystically-inclined Islamic narratives of peace and counter-extremism are worth deliberating.
In 2003, Stephen Schwartz wrote a groundbreaking book “Two Faces Of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism” in which he explained that Sufism is a “mystical branch” of Islam- the second largest religion of the world which has been conflated in sections of the media and academia, over a period of time, with violent extremism, exclusivism, puritanical fundamentalism, xenophobia and religo-facism. Given this, he hypothesised that an objective analysis of the mystical narrative of peace and counter-extremism and its ideological underpinnings in Islam will trigger an avid interest both in media and academia.
In the wake of the 9/11 bombings, a considerable corpus of literate was devoted to explain how peculiar and idiosyncratic elements of religion can motivate both violence and non-violence. Scholars well-versed in the sociology of world religions reproduced holistic analyses of the different, vibrant and myriad spiritual theories of peace and non-violence that emanate from the mystical interpretations of all religions. In the case of Islam, Sufism emerged as the spiritually-inclined version of faith helping in peacemaking and eradicating violence and extremism. Case studies of different religions and populations of faith adherents have been examined as practical applications of religions’ spiritual resources for counter-extremism.
On the contrary, the radical Islamist ideologues of the sectarian hue worked out a complete theology of anti-pluralism seeking to justify extremist thoughts and actions, sectarian conflicts, faith-inspired violence, wanton killing of civilians and suicide-bombing.
Representational image. AFP
In this backdrop, a rational and consistent narrative of peace and counter-extremism within an Islamic framework was called for. Therefore, noted Sufi scholars, not only in India but across the rest of the world brainstormed ways to tackle the onslaught of religious extremism catching the imagination of many young Muslim practitioners. In a bid to refute extremism on ideological grounds, they articulated a Sufism-inspired approach to peace and de-radicalization of the vulnerable sections of society. Thus, an Islam-based Sufi narrative of peace, counter-extremism and de-radicalization grounded in refutation of the extremist underpinnings was laid down.
The first research-based Sufi activism in this ideological field can be traced back to the post-9/11 outburst of views and debates on khilafah (caliphate), jihadism, hijrah (migration to lands of Islam), hakimiyah (divine rule on the earth) and other drives of religious extremism propounded by the radical Wahhabism. Since then, Sufi leaders and scholars have been seen in the global media as well as academia countering the violent extremism, intolerance, xenophobia, religio-fascism and other supremacist and exclusivist thoughts.
Remarkably, the first focus on this energetic facet of Sufism was carried out by Idries Shah around 50 year ago. Entitled “The Sufis”, his book had the renowned western writer Robert Graves writing a foreword for it. It was praised as “a seminal book of the century” by The Washington Post. Since then, much of the work on the similar lines has been carried out.
Of late, rigorous Sufi activism aimed at finding concrete counterpoints to extremism has been geared up in the Middle East, Europe and America, South Asia and other parts of the world. A considerable number of seminal research works on this subject have been accomplished in many peer-reviewed academic journals. Equally important is the increasing number of books and monographs on these themes as produced in the academic arena.
A recently-published book “State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond Islam and Security” mentioned that the former Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf needed to reinforce Sufi liberal attitudes to mitigate the sectarian conflicts in the country. “He (Musharraf) launched the concept of Enlightened Moderation at the 2002 Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in Malaysia and emphasized Sufi teachings as a counter to extremism. In November 2006, he launched a National Sufi Council amidst great fanfare”. Government efforts ensured that the Sufi-oriented religious scholars of the Pakistani Education Board, Tanzimul Madaris discourage and rebut the twisted ideas leading to acts of terror and suicide bombing.
Until recently, Sufi Islam was not fashionable for many Pakistani Muslims. Rather, it was shunned not only by the upper class, government, military, and bureaucrats but also by academic and intellectual circles. But a reversing viewpoint is emerging now. Both academicians and bureaucrats are beginning to actively support Sufism as a much more tolerant version of Islam that can better equip them ‘to counter the rise of Islamic extremism in Pakistan’.
A ground-breaking work entitled “Re-Appropriating Sufi Authorship in New Media” clearly asserts that “Different factions of upper- and upper-middle-class Pakistani society-including politicians, intellectuals, filmmakers, and celebrities-have joined together to raise their voices in opposition to the extremist threat by reaffirming Sufism” (Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner, 2013).
At a time when Muslims are faced with the present-day cancer of growing sectarianism looming large in the global Islamic societies, Sufism is looked up to as a panacea for these ills.
Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS and all other terrorist organizations and un-Islamic elements have destroyed the brotherhood of mankind that was once established by the Sufi hospices. They go to the extent of brutal and bloodthirsty massacre of common civilians and non-combatant innocent Muslims as in Iraq and Syria in particular. At this juncture, Sufism comes as a rescue to the oppressed, because it rejects all extremist ideas and actions outright. Sufis were vehemently opposed to the brazen violation of human rights enshrined in Islam and exhorted the Muslim youth to shun takfiri indoctrination and wrong interpretations of the Quran and Hadith that go against the consensus of the Ummah. Even today, they denounce- in the harshest words- the wanton killing of civilians, destruction of property and wealth, rebellion against the government, accusing Muslims of kufr (Takfirism), demolition of shrines on both local and global levels. In clear and categorical words, it rebutted all intellectual, social, religious, political and economic or ideological terrorism.
While affirming the importance and the need of reviving Sufism, there is greater need to inculcate universal and egalitarian values-brotherhood of humankind, compassion, acceptance and tolerance, social affinity and national harmony. This is impossible in the Muslim society without promoting the tolerant, spiritual and moderate version of Islam.
However, the Sufi divines would do a great help to Indian Muslims if they do not merely reiterate “reformist Sufism” in the name of revival of Sufism. They need to support the non-conformist form of Sufism which is in full accordance with the universal prophetic traditions and in complete synergy with the spiritual and saintly righteous Muslims. We never endorse ignorance or illiteracy in the name of Sufism. Anything in the name of Sufism that doesn’t reflect itself in accordance with the Quran and Sunnah is null and void. Therefore, along with the revivalist Sufism, we strive to stress the need for the reformist Sufism.Going by history, this is an eternal fact that Islam in India owes much of its existence to Sufi Mashaikh, Saints and Dervishes. In the 13th century, Khwaja Ghareeb Nawaz came to India and his arrival in India is regarded a great milestone in the path of love, equality, spirituality and peaceful Dawah work.
Hazrat Khwaja Ghareeb Nawaz (r.a) pioneered the composite culture in India which still remains well-spirited, widely accepted and appreciated by the majority of Indian people. After Khwaja Ghareeb Nawaz, Khwaja Qutbuddin Bhaktiyar Kaki, Baba Farid, Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya, Makhdum Sayed Ashraf Jahangir Simnani and Ameer Khusro took this cause of eternal salvation ahead. They devotedly taught and promoted unconditional love, peace and all-embracing spirituality. Mere the reality that the shrines of these saints are still captivating people from all faith traditions, even after 800 years is self-explanatory that Sufism is a vital help in the current situation of hatred and malice.
In the backdrop of this, modern Sufis have come all out of their conclaves and hospices. They are declaring that the evils of ideological terrorism and extremism, materialism and opportunism can only be wiped out from the society through the restoration of Sufism, propagation of its peaceful massages, humane nature helping in the cessation of extremist thoughts and hardcore philosophies.
On the other hand, many anti-Sufism movements reared their head in the Muslim societies in the 19th century. They began to disparage Sufis as pseudo-Islamic spiritual masters. Though pacifist by nature, some well-spirited and energetic Sufis retorted this accusation calling it a tide of ideological extremism deep-rooted in the Muslim history. They link it with the ideology of Kharjism which basically emerged in the caliphate of Hazrat Ali (r.a), and was propagated among the Muslim fringes on the pretext of Qur’an and hadith, Prophetic sayings. In this beginning, Sufi divines remained confined to their shrines. As a result, particular Islamsit factions started adopting extremism, hatred, takfirism and wanton killing. This is, they view, is something that has brought the wider Muslim world and Middle East in particular to a grim and gory situation.
World Sufi Forum is going to begin in New Delhi at 7 pm on Thursday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to begin his speech at around 7.30 pm
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Regulatory changes aimed to improve passenger safety on domestic commercial vessels
Changes to Marine order 504
While many operators already implement measures for passenger safety, we’ve now made these requirements compulsory under the Marine Order 504 (Certificates of operation and operation requirements – national law) Amendment 2020 (PDF 290 KB).
We encourage you to submit your question to us if you are unsure about how to implement the new measures.
From 31 May 2020 passenger vessel operators must do the following:
Have a procedure in their safety management system (SMS) that provides an effective and verifiable means of passenger monitoring to ensure the master of the vessel is able to find out the number of passengers on board the vessel at any time.
Have an emergency procedure in their SMS for responding to a situation where a passenger is unaccounted for.
For certain types of operations, have a procedure for counting passengers at specified points to ensure an accurate number of passengers embarking and disembarking the vessel. This will include a count:
at or around the time passengers embark and disembark the vessel at the start and end of voyage, or at an intermediate stop, and
before departing any point where passengers have disembarked for a water activity such as diving, snorkelling or swimming
Record passenger counts in the vessels logbook.
There is a community expectation that the safety of passengers has been considered before they get on board your vessel. These changes will help ensure the wellbeing of passengers during their voyage.
MO504 requirement before 31 May 2020
MO504 requirement from 31 May 2020
The master must know the number of passengers on board at all times. However, there was no detail on how this could be practically achieved.
The safety management system must include a procedure for monitoring passengers so that the master of the vessel is able to find out the number of passengers on board at any time.
This ensures that consideration is given to the practical methods that the master and crew will use to monitor passengers when developing the safety management system.
The safety management system will therefore support the master to be in a position to know the number of passengers on board.
For voyages less than 12 hours, the master must ensure that at least one head count of passengers must be undertaken.
For vessels that are:
on a voyage of at least 30 minutes and no more than 12 hours
operating in B, C or D waters or operating in E waters outside daylight hours
licensed to carry up to 75 passengers
There must be a procedure in the SMS that includes a count of all passengers at or around the time of embarkation or disembarkation on the vessel.
The count has to be done to ensure an accurate record of the number of passengers embarking and disembarking.
There is no requirement for a full passenger count every time a person gets on or off a vessel that is stopped for a water-based recreational activity (like diving, swimming or snorkelling). However, there will need to be a count before the vessel departs the site to make sure no-one is left behind.
Any additional state or territory based requirements must continue to be adhered to.
These requirements are intended to capture most private charter and cruise operations. They are not intended to capture the majority of commuter ferry services.
This does not rule out head counts for other vessels – you may decide that head counts are the most practical means to monitor passengers.
The list of situations that must be covered by an emergency procedure included a person overboard, but did not include a person unaccounted for.
The SMS must include an emergency procedure for dealing with a situation where a passenger is unaccounted for.
No specific requirement to record the results of passenger counts in the log book
Results of passenger counts must be recorded in the vessel’s logbook.
This will assist in verifying compliance, as well as having a ready reference for the master of the most recent count
The flowchart below will assist in determining what your vessel is now required to do in relation to passenger monitoring and counts.
Review your safety management system
All commercial vessels, including passenger vessels, should already be operating under Marine Order 504. With the new requirements, your passenger vessel operation must now also:
Include a procedure for monitoring passengers so that the master of the vessel is able to find out the number of passengers on board at any time.
For certain types of operations, undertake a count of all passengers on board the vessel on embarkation and disembarkation.
Record all passenger counts in the vessel’s logbook.
Your SMS must include information on when passenger counts will be conducted, particularly when passengers join the vessel, the vessel stops for water activities such as snorkelling, diving and swimming, and at the end of a voyage
You may already do these things, and have these measures in your SMS. If so, keep doing what you’re doing and review your Safety Management System periodically. If not, here’s some further advice on how to bring your SMS up to scratch.
1. Risk Assessment
Your risk assessment is a critical component of an effective SMS. This should be reviewed to identify risks to passengers on board, including the risks of persons overboard under various operating conditions. Effective control measures should be identified to mitigate and manage these risks. This may mean alternative ways to monitor passenger movements such as increased monitoring or restricting access to areas that increase the risk of a person going overboard.
Other important aspects to consider are:
Passenger briefings, and encouraging passengers to look out for fellow passengers.
Wearing of lifejackets under certain conditions such as poor weather and as defined in your Safety Management System.
The responsible service of alcohol.
Crewing numbers for various operating scenarios—such as parties and other events.
The means by which passengers embark and disembark from the vessel, at the start, finish, or during the voyage.
See AMSA Safety alert 1/2020: Safe access for vessels
2. Emergency procedures
In the event of a missing passenger, you must have a system in place to respond. For example, you should identify how you will quickly muster and account for all persons on board and determine where and when the passenger went missing. This may include, for example, verifying that a passenger is in fact missing, by repeating a count, counting by a different method, making announcements, asking passengers to check on their companions. It should also include what happens when it is more certain that someone is missing, for example, alerting rescue authorities, marking the last position, stopping the vessel or searching the water.
Passengers should also know how to alert the crew if they believe someone has gone missing.
Your SMS will also include emergency procedures for other situations:
a personal injury or other medical emergency
person overboard
adverse weather or water conditions
fire, collision, grounding, flooding, loss of steering or the master being incapacitated.
Assembly stations are also identified in the SMS, and information on emergency procedures is required to be displayed at assembly stations, in passenger cabins and other areas frequented by passengers.
Regular drills should be carried out to test the effectiveness of your emergency plans.
Knowing what you need to do in an emergency prevents confusion and makes a real difference in effectively dealing with a situation. Drills should be logged, and discussed with your crew to ensure ongoing learning, with any amendments recorded in your SMS.
3. Crewing assessment
Many vessels carry out a variety of passenger operations from regular sightseeing cruises, bespoke charters or tourism activities like fishing, snorkelling or whale watching. There is a community expectation that these events have been well planned, and the safety and wellbeing of passengers is considered. This includes having the appropriate number of qualified crew to ensure these events are both fun and safe.
An appropriate crewing assessment is required as part of your Safety Management System which considers each operational scenario.
A multi-purpose operator will have different crewing requirements depending on the type of activity being carried out, for instance, sight-seeing versus conducting adventure events like diving or a private social function after dark where alcohol is served.
Assess the risk of each scenario and indicate how many crew you require to keep passengers safe. Document this in your SMS.
In the event of an incident, your crewing assessment may be requested by AMSA and any other investigating regulator or law enforcement body.
4. Passenger count requirements
To implement the passenger count requirements, your SMS must include a procedure on the counts that will be done. Passenger counts must be recorded in the vessel’s logbook. This can be done manually or electronically. The logbook must be available on board the vessel.
In addition to passenger counts, you must also have a procedure that sets out how you will monitor passengers so that the master is able to find out at any time how many passengers are on the vessel. There are many different ways (and combinations of ways) of achieving this, including:
electronic ticketing
head counts
These processes must be documented in the Safety Management System, and crew trained and assessed as competent to complete these tasks.
Counting passengers ‘at or around the time of embarkation or disembarkation’ does not have to be done literally at the point a passenger crosses from vessel to wharf. For example, it could be done within the first or last few minutes of a voyage, or it could be done at a muster point on land just after passengers have disembarked. The outcome must be an accurate record of the number of passengers embarking and disembarking the vessel.
Think about what is practical and effective for your particular operation. For example, it’s not practical and effective to count passengers who have disembarked onto a busy multi-user wharf, and it would be more practical and effective to count them just before arrival.
5. General safety duties apply to passengers as well
Passengers are expected to comply with the vessel’s safe operating procedures and can be held accountable for any behaviour that jeopardises their or anyone else’s safety.
Passengers have a responsibility to behave safely while on board. Effective signage is also an effective way to alert passengers of any risks on a vessel. You can get our passenger safety decal for your vessel from one of our regional shop fronts or order yours online.
Keep an eye on our website and or sign up to our AMSA update newsletter to get more information.
You have a transition period of three months, to make these changes to your operation and it is anticipated full compliance can be met by 31 May 2020. We will publish guidance on a compliance approach in due course.
Our normal inspections will continue and there will be particular attention paid to your progress in complying with these requirements.
Make sure your SMS adequately addresses your passengers’ safety.
Read the Marine Order 504 amendments.
New safety sticker available
From the 31 May 2020, any domestic commercial vessel that carries passengers must meet new requirements for passenger safety.
To assist operators, a new sticker is available to display on your vessel to remind crew and passengers of their responsibilities.
You can order a free passenger head count sticker for your vessel using our order form.
Guidelines for a safety management system
Templates for a safety management system
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Author Topic: Somebody please 'splain it to me how Hillary can be SecState (Read 5547 times)
vaskidmark
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Somebody please 'splain it to me how Hillary can be SecState
Obama announces he wants the Senate to confirm Hilary as Secretary of State for his administration. That part I got.
But 'splain this to me, because I must be stupid.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html#section6
Section 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office.
The pay of SecState was raised by the current Congress. Hillary, being a Senator, was a member of the Congress which raised the pay of SecState. The time for which she was elected will not have expired prior to Jan 20, 2009.
So, again, how does she qualify to hold the office? I can't find anything in print or on the web explaining how they are getting around it. Please -- someone 'splain it to me.
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They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder. Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.
longeyes
Re: Somebody please 'splain it to me how Hillary can be SecState
You're not stupid, you just ask too many questions...
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Molon Labe.
She is the President elect's intended designate for the office.
The President elect is not an office, despite anything the sign tacked on the front of his podium reads. Her respective designation will not occur until she is confirmed by the senate, though she can be the acting Secretary of State at high noon on January 20th.
Until then, she may continue on as the Honorable Senator representing New York (City).
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It's happened many times before under various presidents, IIRC. That part of the law is practically a dead letter. Nixon, Taft, and Clinton got around it. Pretty sure there were others.
HankB
Constitution? What's that?
They've skated around it in the past by limiting the cabinet appointee's salary to the previous salary for the office, not the increased one that took place during the legislator's term.
This is not actually allowed for in the Constitution and in fact a number of democrats voted against, IIRC, a Nixon appointee on constitutional grounds, citing this very issue.
But then of course, believing that the Constitution actually means what it says, I figure that a good part - probably the larger part - of the Federal government is operating in contravention of the Constitution anyway . . .
Trump won in 2016. Democrats haven't been so offended since Republicans came along and freed their slaves.
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Kwelz
Just because the position can pay up to a certain amount doesn't mean it has to. She can accept a lower rate of pay. That doesn't make it suck any less that she will have the position but it does make it legal.
Somebody called a radio show today, and opined that he hired Hillary, just to get her out of the Senate and then fire her.
ArfinGreebly
Level Three Geek
Funny, I was at lunch and overhead that.
It's not the first time a rival has been appointed to SecState to neutralize him.
It would be two phunny if the "extract from senate, wait six months, dismiss for whatever reason" model actually came to pass.
Of course, Hill could conceivably run for the senate again later, for whatever good that would do.
"Look at it this way. If America frightens you, feel free to live somewhere else. There are plenty of other countries that don't suffer from excessive liberty. America is where the Liberty is. Liberty is not certified safe."
Who could it be?
Easy. She's nominated by the President (elect) and then his or her nominee is confirmed by congress.
Oh, she can also accept less pay for the job.
Hopefully she's denied, adn then Obama can appoint someone actually qualified.
You hafta admit, it's a brilliant plan to keep her and Bill under his thumb, though.
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Depending on how badly the next 12 - 18 months go, you may likely see HRC resign, and start gearin up for 2012. I don't think she has ever put that ambition aside, she just took some very bad tasting and unwelcome medicine, courtesy of BHO, and is now triangulating away and figuring the odds of being able to knock off the sitting Prez. in the primaries.
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits"
The man who fires Hillary Clinton will live an interesting life.
I wouldn't recommend it, even to an enemy.
Living, breathing Constitution?
Or dying, wheezing Constitution?
Honored in name only? More and more, every day, it looks that way.
Fly320s
Formerly, Arthur, King of the Britons
It's a good thing I'm not a lawyer. I read this:
and interpret it as saying that no Senator or Representative may be appointed to any civil office if that Sen/Rep had a hand in creating it or raising the benefits. I don't read it as saying that Hillary can accept the position so long as she doesn't accept the pay.
Islamic sex dolls. Do they blow themselves up?
RaspberrySurprise
Yub yub Commander
I don't read it as saying that Hillary can accept the position so long as she doesn't accept the pay.
And I'd say you're right.
Look, tiny text!
Apparently this is how they're getting around it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxbe_fix#Recent_examples
Basically, roll back the salary.
Quote from: longeyes on December 01, 2008, 04:30:27 PM
How about the man who snatches away her coronation as Dem. presidential nominee? What would happen to him?
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Expect More Series 60 Smartphones Using Intel Processors
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Intel, Nokia, and Symbian Ltd. are going to work together to create smartphones using the Nokia Series 60 Platform and Intel processors.
Series 60 is a user interface that runs on top of the Symbian operating system. Series 60 is the best-selling smartphone platform world wide. It was developed by Nokia, who licenses it to other smartphone makers and also uses it on many of its own products.
Today’s agreement should help increase the number of Series 60 devices using Intel chips. Currently, the vast majority of Series 60 smartphones use Texas Instruments OMAP processors, and increasing the number of XScale-powered smartphones has been a goal of Intel’s for years.
“Intel’s wireless platforms combine leading-edge hardware with Intel’s decades of experience in creating application ecosystems for data networks,” said Sam Arditi, Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Cellular and Handheld Group. “Working with Nokia and Symbian to help bring Series 60-based devices to market means that developers and phone manufacturers will have new compelling tools to deliver on the promise of 3G.”
Intel and Symbian
Also, Intel and Symbian have agreed to invest in the joint development of a reference platform for 3G cellular-wireless devices based on the Symbian OS and Intel XScale processors.
This reference platform will help Symbian licensees more easily create smartphones and wireless handhelds running XScale processors.
However, this isn’t going to happen anytime soon. The first XScale-powered Symbian smartphones aren’t expected for a year or more.
“By utilizing reference platforms from semiconductor technology providers such as Intel, Symbian OS licensees will be able to focus their energies to develop an even wider variety of differentiated, competitively priced Symbian OS products that meet the specific needs of the market and their network operator customers,” said David Levin, Chief Executive Officer, Symbian, Ltd.
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WIMBLEDON 95/96
Wimbledon had 9 figures released as part of the 'FAPL' range all wearing the kit worn for the 1995/96 season.
A great set of figures and all 9 were first time sculpts with on 'Leonhardsen' being released for a second time, which was in the colours of his native norway as part of the 'Norges Trop' range of Headliners.
This set gave us the only ever sculpt of hardman movie star 'Vinnie Jones' even his figure looked menacing! The figure of goalkeeper 'Hans Segers' was also a little unnerving due to his unusual facial expression.
The sculpt of 'Efan Ekoku' has always been a favourite of mine as it bore a real likeness to the player,as did the sculpt of 'Robbie Earle.'
It is certainly worth mentioning that 2 of these figures were released with the same shirt number, those two figures are 'Andy Clarke' and 'Oyvind Leonhardsen.' The reason for this is that 'Clarke' was released during the 95/96 season in january of 1996, whereas 'Leonhardsen' was released in October 1996 during the 96/97 after his move to Wimbledon in the summer,upon his arrival he took over the number '7' shirt from 'Clarke'
Many of these figures proved to be very elusive upon thier release, due largely to the distribution of the figures which was kept to stockists close to the club and near london in general. In the early days Corinthian tended to keep distribution of the less well supported clubs to shops close to the area around the club,so you would not find many Wimbledon figures in Middlesboro and vice-versa,makes sense really.
Most of the figures can be bought for upto £5 but there are a couple of rare gems in the set. The figures of 'Leonhardsen' and 'Kimble' are much rarer and 'Leonhardsen' still sells for nearer the £10 mark with 'Kimble' going for around £15.
Home Kit 95/96
Hans Segers
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Regent Theatre
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Regent Theatre (Official)
Operated by: Live Nation
Architects: Arthur Lawrence Valk, Lawrence Bolton Valk
Functions: Concerts, Live Performances
Styles: Gothic Revival
Previous Names: National Theatre, Gore's Regent Theatre
Phone Numbers: Box Office: 323.284.5727
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Dec 15, 2014 — "Inside the Total Transformation at Downtown's Regent Theater" From Los Angeles, CA.
Feb 2, 2012 — The Echo's Mitchell Frank takes over downtown's Regent Theatre
Located in downtown Los Angeles on S. Main Street, which in the day had about 20 theatres which ranged from small to large capacities. The National Theatre was opened in late-1914 with 770 seats all on a single floor. By 1926 it had been renamed Regent Theatre with a seating capacity for 700. It is one of the last theatres located on S. Main Street (the other one is the Linda Lea Theatre - now the Downtown Independent Theatre).
The Regent Theatre closed in late-2000 after running its last years as an adult movie house.
In September 2008, it was reopened by Spaceland Presents as a live performance/concert venue. On May 16, 2019 it was taken over by Live Nation.
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TLSLOEWS on April 5, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Nice that they have fixed the marquee up.
DonSolosan on April 5, 2010 at 8:26 pm
There used to be a colorful mural over the marquee. Too bad. It looks kind of plain now.
someonewalksinla on August 8, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Don. I did that mural. It was a banner and now in storage. There are no plans for it know.
DonSolosan on August 9, 2010 at 9:13 am
That was a great banner. It really brought the building to life.
spectrum on November 30, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Their webpage (www.safari-sams.com) now goes to some other webpage about dogs. One of the internet yellow pages sites has their phone number ((323) 666-7267; )) and the correct address but indicated it is currently closed. There was one positive review about the place so it looks like it was open briefly. Let’s hope the closure isn’t permanent!
seymourcox on April 25, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Myron Hunt, architect of the Ambassador Theatre, may well have also designed the Regent too, as the two auditorium designs ware so similar.
Regent images:
Ambassador auditorium;
BradyWestwater on December 5, 2011 at 1:21 pm
A major reconstruction will happen in 2012 and it will reopen as a major music venue.
arriano on November 12, 2014 at 9:43 am
100-year-old theater back in business: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/the_historic_core_gets_its_echo_with_regent_theater_reopening.php#more
Joe Vogel on February 28, 2018 at 9:48 am
Here is a link to the article Ron Pierce cited in the previous comment. (Click the + sign in the bar at the top of the page to zoom in.)
CStefanic on October 17, 2019 at 10:15 am
The Regent will play host to a SCREENING of a 16mm SCOPE print of Tobe Hooper’s 1981 cult classic “The Funhouse”. It is being presented by @Secretmovieclub, hosted by Craig Hammill. Perhaps if attendance is well, this could lead to more. Stay tuned…
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EUROnu is a Framework Programme 7 Design Study which started on 1st September 2008 and will run for 4 years. The primary aims are to study three possible future neutrino oscillation faciltiies for Europe and do a cost and performance comparison.
The four facilities being studied are:
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Full Moon in France
In addition, EUROnu will look at the performance of the baseline detectors for each facility and determine the physics reach of each. Although a European project, EUROnu will collaborate closely with related international activities, in particular the International Design Study for a Neutrino Factory, IDS-NF.
Participants & Contributors
The following institutes are full members of the EUROnu consortium:
Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
CEA, France
CERN, Switzerland
Glasgow University, UK
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Politechnika Krakowska, Poland
Durham University, UK
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderijng der Wissenschaften E.V., Germany
Oxford University, UK
Sofiiski Universitet Sveti Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
Warwick University, UK
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
The following are Associate members of EUROnu:
Aachen University, Germany
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Brunel University, UK
Cockcroft Institute, UK
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
GANIL, France
Geneva University, Switzerland
India-based Neutrino Observatory
Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
JINR, Dubna, Russia
Lisbon University, Portugal
TRIUMF Laboratory, Canada
US Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Collaboration
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
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Documents for specific work packages follow. The document number should be in the form EUROnu-WPm-nnn, where m is the WP number and nnn should increment from the last document.
WP 1: Management and knowledge dissemination
Coordinator: Rob Edgecock
Deputy: to be appointed
Working with the management structure described in section 2.1, this work package will coordinate the contractual, financial and administrative aspects of the Design Study and will oversee the technical and scientific work of the other work packages. It will be responsible for ensuring the project milestones are achieved and the deliverables produced on time. Further, this work package will be responsible for knowledge management for the Design Study, working with a specially created Dissemination Board. It will coordinate the protection, use and dissemination of the knowledge generated during the project. Finally, working with coordinators of the other WPs and a range of experts, it will use the information generated by the other WPs to make a relative cost and performance comparison between the facilities, for discussion by stakeholders. To do this, it will investigate, assess and select the criteria upon which the comparison will be made, in partnership with participants in the DS and international collaborators.
Coordination task: coordination of the contractual, financial and administrative aspects of the Design Study, including delivery of annual reports and control of the funds.
Oversight task: oversight of the technical and scientific aspects of the Design Study, including the monitoring of milestones and ensuring that deliverables are produced on time.
Knowledge task: management of the knowledge generated by the Design Study, including its protection, use and dissemination.
Comparison task: comparison between the three facilities, based on their physics reach and relative cost, taking into account the knowledge of the neutrino oscillation parameters available at that time. Determination of the criteria to be used.
WP2: Super-Beam
Coordinator: Marco Zito
Deputy: Chris Densham
The Super-Beam work package will address the proton driver, the target and the hadron collector system. A driver with 4 MW proton beam is a key issue of future neutrino beams. In this study we will focus on the proposed 4 MW Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) at CERN. Two conceptual design reports have already been written for the SPL and critical R&D; is being undertaken in the HIPPI JRA of the CARE FP6 I3. For these reasons, this work package will only address the issues concerning the proton energy and beam profile specific to neutrino beams. The target part is a crucial point of this study and considerable effort is required to design a viable system in the very high intensity proton beam which will induce heat shocks, power dissipation problems and radiation damage. Preliminary studies have been done in the framework of BENE Network in the FP6 CARE I3 on several proposed solutions. Near future tests, such as those which will be done by MERIT experiment, will give more input to this study. As the pions emerging from the target have a wide range of angles and momenta, it is necessary to design a magnetic collection system, focusing as many hadrons as possible into a forward direction to optimize the neutrino intensity. This system will suffer from similar problems to the target, plus thermal stress and fatigue due to the very high pulsed current sent through it in order to obtain the required magnetic field for a good focusing. An important part of this system is the high current/high frequency pulser which has to be carefully designed to assure high performance and longevity. For future high intensity neutrino beams, it is likely that the target will be inside the collector system or very close to it, inducing extra difficulties such as power dissipation. For this reason, the integration of both systems, target and collector, also has to be addressed. Finally, a simulation of the whole system (target, collector, etc) is needed to optimize the overall performance. This simulation will track the pions through the target and the collector and follow their decay to produce the neutrino beam. Characteristics of the neutrino beam (flux, spectrum, composition) will be provided as input to assess physics performance.
Coordination task: responsibility for the WP, including the objectives, milestones and deliverables, and for the overall coherence of the Super-Beam design.
Review task: review of the baseline design for the proton driver, the target and the hadron collector.
Proton Driver: assessing special requirements for the SPL for neutrino beams and modifying the design appropriately.
Target: determining the preferred solutions for Super-Beam and Neutrino Factory.
Hadron production: study of the rate of hadron production in the interactions between the protons and the target on the basis of existing experimental results and currently available models.
Collection system: The design of a hadron collection system will be done taking into account the severe operation conditions.
Hadron collector pulsing system: A study of possible options for the collector pulsing system will be done and a baseline design will be identified.
Neutrino Beam characteristics: a simulation of the whole system from the target and collector to the neutrino beam will be provided.
Target/Collector integration: A study of the integration of the target into the collector and both into the target station for both a Super-Beam and a Neutrino Factory.
WP3: Neutrino Factory
Coordinator: Juergen Pozimski
Deputy: Gersende Prior
The International Scoping Study of a future Neutrino Factory and Super-Beam facility (the ISS) established the baseline specification for the various accelerator systems that are required to produce high-intensity, high-energy neutrino beams in the Neutrino Factory. The ISS also established that the remaining crucial issues that should be addressed through the Design Study are: the muon front-end, including the ionisation-cooling channel; the large-aperture, rapid, acceleration systems; and the target and the handling of the high-power proton beam that emerges from the pion-production target. In addition, in order to assess quantitatively the performance of the Neutrino Factory it is essential to develop an end-to-end simulation of the accelerator complex.
The Neutrino Factory work package is therefore designed to address each of these issues. Simulations of the baseline ionisation-cooling channel will be performed with a view to establishing the performance. In parallel, the potential of alternative ionisation-cooling options will be investigated to establish whether they are feasible and to determine whether they offer a performance or cost advantage. When the results of the MICE experiment are available it will be important to include these in the simulation. The baseline large-aperture, rapid acceleration system will also be studied; in addition to determining the performance of the systems involved, care will be taken to integrate the treatment of the ionisation-cooling system with the first stages of the muon acceleration. It is essential that these issues are addressed before a conceptual design report for the facility is completed. Consideration of the handling of the high-power proton beam that emerges from the target will be limited to the key issues that pertain to the Neutrino Factory: the safe handling of the beam power within the super-conducting solenoids that form the pion capture system. The end-to-end simulation developed in the course of the Design Study will be used to evaluate the performance of the facility.
Coordination task: leading the task, with responsibility for ensuring that the specification of the muon front-end and acceleration systems are compatible. It is also responsible for ensuring that an appropriate framework for the end-to-end simulation is available.
Muon front-end task: The muon front-end task will provide a detailed evaluation of the performance of the muon front-end.
Acceleration task: The acceleration task will develop a detailed definition of the acceleration scheme that is matched to the muon front-end and evaluate its performance.
Proton-beam handling task: will develop a detailed concept for the handling of the spent proton beam that emerges from the target.
Integration task: The integration task will deliver an appropriate end-to-end simulation of the accelerator complex that will allow the performance of the facility to be determined.
WP4: Beta-Beam
Coordinator: Elena Wildner
Deputy: Christian Hansen
HomePage: cern.ch/betanu
Data Base: Beta-Beam-Parameters
The Beta Beam work package will address the issues of ion production and beam bunching for a Beta Beam facility. The work presently undertaken in the FP6 EURISOL DS indicates that these are the major critical issues that have to be solved to make any proposed scenario for the Beta Beam possible.
A new production concept using an internal target in a low energy production ring will be studied with special attention on the collection device for the produced radioactive ions. The study will start with a review of the EURISOL DS Beta Beam baseline for the new proposed isotopes – notably 8Li and 8B with high Q values – and the corresponding intensities that are expected with this new concept.
For beam bunching a high frequency ECR concept will be studied as a continuation of work started in EURISOL DS.
The decay ring lattice will have to be adapted to the new isotopes. The studies of the magnet protection systems for the superconducting magnets and of the collimation system started in EURISOL DS will be continued.
Coordination task: leading the Beta Beam WP, with responsibility for the parameter list and for the overall coherence of the baseline scenario. The work will start with a review of the base line design for the new isotopes 8B and 8Li including the use of a future accelerator at CERN.
Production ring task: Production ring layout and lattice, simulations (6D) and technical aspects e.g. vacuum, RF etc.
ECR task: continuation of work with a 60 GHz ECR source for bunching studies of 6He and 18Ne started within EURISOL DS with the objective of reaching the high efficiencies needed for the beta-beam. Furthermore, a study and first tests will be done of necessary modifications to bunch 8Li and 8B. The design of the advanced magnetic structures to be used in ECR ion source technology will also be done.
Collection device task: A prototype of the collection device will be built and tested on-line The extraction efficiency for 8Li will be measured. Techniques to extract 8B from the collection device will be studied. The release efficiencies and the possible production channels will be studied theoretically and, if required, experimentally.
Decay ring task: The decay ring lattice has to be reviewed for the new isotopes. A study of a possible layout for superconducting dipoles for the beta-beam is required. The work on beam collimation and magnet protection started within EURISOL DS will be adapted for 8Li and 8B.
Decay ring bunch structure task: To study collimation and optimising the flux delivered to the detector.
WP5: Detector performance
Coordinator: Paul Soler
Deputy: Anselmo Cervera
The aims of the detector work package will be to evaluate the baseline detector options needed to deliver the physics for each of the facilities. The top priorities for participating institutes will be to study the Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND) for the golden channel at a Neutrino Factory, the Water Cherenkov detector for the Super-Beam and Beta Beam facilities and the performance of a near detector at each of the facilities for absolute flux normalisation, measurement of differential cross sections and detector backgrounds.
Coordination task: leading the task, with responsibility for the coordination of the work of the different participants.
MIND task: Simulation of the magnetic iron neutrino detector (MIND), which is the baseline for a Neutrino Factory, including implementation of a toroidal field, optimisation of the geometry, event selection, efficiency as a function of threshold and background evaluation.
Water Cherenkov task: Define performance of water Cherenkov detectors for Super-Beam and Beta Beams, including efficiency as a function of threshold and background evaluation.
Near detector task: Design for the near detector in order to measure the absolute flux normalisation, differential neutrino cross sections and backgrounds to the far detector.
WP6: Physics
Coordinator: Pilar Hernandez
Deputy: Andrea Donini
The physics work package will provide the tools and expertise to quantify the physics performance of the different facilities. The design of each facility must achieve optimal physics performance and this optimization is an iterative process, in which the physics capabilities need to be re-evaluated for the baseline scenarios as they get updated with the results of the accelerator and detector work packages, as well as with the results from neutrino experiments that will be running in parallel. Particularly important will be to include the results of T2K, NOnA and/or reactor experiments as they become available, since they will pin down more precisely the parameter space and therefore the expected neutrino oscillation signals in the future facilities.
The final goal of this WP will be to perform a rigorous comparison of the different facilities in terms of physics performance, using the same methodology and assumptions.
Coordination task: leads the task and is responsible for the coordination of the work of the different participants.
Evaluation of physics performance task: the physics potential of different facilities will be evaluated in a coordinated manner.
Optimization task: the distance to the detector and the neutrino energy need to be optimized for all facilities taking into account the constraints from the accelerator WP. Similarly the synergies of the combination of two or more experimental setups at the same facility need to be quantified.
Evaluation of systematic uncertainties task: a fair comparison of physics potential requires including all systematic uncertainties, some related to the experimental setup (to be quantified by WP 5) and some related to theoretical unknowns. WP 6 will include these uncertainties in the physics analysis in a unified fashion.
Comparison task: the different facilities will eventually be compared in terms of their physics performance.
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1. Which part of the eye is sensitive to light?
2. (a) What is meant by short sight?
(b) Draw a diagram to show how short sight can be corrected.
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(a) a telescope;
(b) an optical microscope;
(c) the enlargement of a photographic negative.
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19. What is an achromatic lens and why would it be used?
20. Draw a scale diagram to show a convex lens acting as a simple magnifying glass. For the diagram that you draw find:
(a) the magnification (b) the focal length of the lens.
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What Does CBS Sports Takeover of CSTV Operations Mean?
Friday, January 4, 2008 , Posted by Christopher Byrne at 8:00 AM, under CBS Sports, CSTV, LeslieAnne Wade, Neil Best, Newsday
Athens, GA (Jan 4, 2007) - Newsday's Neil Best, on his Watchdog blog, made a short entry last night that CBS Sports is taking over day-to-day operations of CSTV. This made Eye on Sports Media curious, as the cultures of the two networks are so different.
Even though CSTV has been owned by CBS Sports since 2005, it has been run as an entirely separate entity. CBS Sports has always been about the blue blazer and the ties, while CSTV has been about blue jeans and an open shirt. CBS Sports is about the corporate trappings of their headquarters at "Black Rock", while CSTV is about their offices down on Chelsea Pier.
Guest Analyst Matt Stinchcomb, Analyst David Pollack, and Host Greg Amsinger prepare for the broadcast of the CSTV produced Chick-fil-A SEC Tailgate Show from Athens, GA in November 2007.
Photograph Copyright 2007 by Christopher Byrne/Eye on Sports Media. All Rights Reserved.
"Yes, we have very different audiences and outlets and approach," said LeslieAnne Wade, Senior Vice-President of Communications for CBS Sports, said in a conversation with Eye on Sports Media this morning. So I asked her how this would play out.
"We are absorbing their staff, but they will be keeping their offices and facilities down at Chelsea Pier. In the past we have done our projects and productions separately, but now there will be more collaboration and possibly crossing over," said Wade. "There have been discussions about doing this since we bought CSTV in 2005, and we have now decided to move forward with it."
During our conversation, I told her that I had worked my first event for CSTV this past fall, after doing events for CBS Sports for 25+ years. The reason I brought it up was, as I told her, was that it felt very different working a CSTV event than it did working for CBS Sports. She asked me why that was.
It is hard to put my finger on exactly why. Perhaps it seemed that even though CSTV was doing a pre-game show, it felt a lot less like a sports production and more like a non-sports show. I cannot remember the last time I worked a regular season game or pre-game show where a make-up artist was brought in for the talent. It could be that 25+ years of doing events and shows for the networks had me set in my ways of what a broadcast should look and feel like (yes I am sounding like an old codger with that statement). Maybe it was because the show was not crewed by CBS directly, but through a second and third party (yes two layers). Possibly it could be all of the above.
Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see how this takeover in operations will work in practice and what the ultimate end product will look like. At least it is not like the ESPN takeover of ABC Sports operations, and it is the free, over-the-air broadcast network going the other direction. This can only be good for sports fans.
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National Socialist Movement (U.S.)
Aryan Brotherhood
Not to be confused with Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
Neo-Nazi prison gang and organized crime syndicate
1964; 56 years ago (1964)
Founding location
San Quentin State Prison, California, United States
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15,000-20,000[1][2][3]
Criminal activities
Murder, assault, drug trafficking, robbery, gambling, extortion, racketeering, arms trafficking, inmate prostitution, human trafficking, dog fighting[4][5]
Mexican Mafia
Sureños[5][6]
Sinaloa Cartel[7]
Hells Angels[8]
Vagos MC[5]
Nazi Lowriders[9]
Ku Klux Klan[10]
Aryan Nations[10]
Public Enemy No. 1
Dirty White Boys[5]
American Mafia[11]
Irish Mob[12][13]
Juggalos[14]
Black Guerrilla Family[5]
Norteños
Bloods[5]
Crips[5]
Almighty Black P. Stone Nation[5]
The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as the Brand or the AB, is a Neo-Nazi prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with an estimated 15,000–20,000 members in and out of prison. The Anti-Defamation League calls it the "oldest and most notorious racist prison gang in the United States."[15] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Aryan Brotherhood makes up an extremely low percentage of the entire US prison population but is responsible for a disproportionately large number of prison murders.[16]
The gang has focused on the economic activities typical of organized crime entities, particularly drug trafficking, extortion, inmate prostitution, and murder-for-hire. Organization of its whites-only membership varies from prison to prison but is generally hierarchical, headed by a twelve-man council topped by a three-man commission. The Aryan Brotherhood uses various terms, symbols, and images to identify themselves, including shamrocks, swastikas, and other symbols. To join, members may swear a blood oath or take a pledge; acceptance into the Aryan Brotherhood is aided by a prospect's willingness to kill another inmate.
1.1 Investigations and prosecutions
2 Ideology and motivation
3 Operations and membership
4 Organization and affiliation
4.1 Organization
4.2 Affiliations, alliances and rivalries
5 Symbology and identification
5.1 Tattoos and other marks
5.2 Mottos and pledges
6 Categorization and analysis
7 Notable members and associates
Most prisons in the United States were racially segregated until the 1960s. As prisons began to desegregate, many inmates organized along racial lines.[17] The Aryan Brotherhood is believed to have been formed at San Quentin State Prison,[1] but it may have been inspired by the Bluebird Gang.[1] They decided to strike against the blacks who were forming their own militant group called the Black Guerrilla Family.[18] In the early 1970s, the Aryan Brotherhood had a connection with Charles Manson and the Manson Family. Several members of the Manson Family were in prison at the time, and they attempted to join forces. However, the relationship did not last long as the Aryan Brotherhood considered Manson "too leftist," while members also took offense at the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate.[19]
In 1981, Thomas Silverstein and Clayton Fountain were charged with the murder of a black inmate named Robert Chappelle in the United States Penitentiary, Marion, control unit. It was believed that Silverstein and Fountain strangled Chappelle in his cell. Silverstein and Fountain later killed Raymond Smith, a friend of Robert Chappelle. The two men stabbed Smith 67 times. Silverstein then started to plan killing a correctional officer. On October 22, 1983, gang members from the Aryan Brotherhood killed two correction officers at Marion. Silverstein killed an officer named Merle Clutts, stabbing him approximately 40 times. Several hours later, Fountain also killed an officer named Robert Hoffman. The tactics used were developed for a prior inmate murder; Silverstein used an improvised knife and handcuff key while being taken to the showers. He picked the lock, then attacked and killed Merle Clutts. Fountain used similar tactics to kill Robert Hoffman.[20]
By the 1990s, the Aryan Brotherhood had shifted its focus away from killing for strictly racial reasons and focused on organized crime such as drug trafficking, prostitution, and sanctioned murders.[18] They took on organized crime-level power inside of the prison system, and they hold more power than the Italian crime families within the prison system.[18] For example, Gambino crime family boss John Gotti was assaulted while incarcerated in Marion Federal Penitentiary in 1996, and he allegedly asked the Aryan Brotherhood to murder his attacker. Gotti's attacker was immediately transferred to protective custody and the planned retaliation was abandoned.[21][22]
In April 1993, members of the Aryan Brotherhood along with members of the Black Muslims and other gangs in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility initiated the Lucasville Prison Riot in Lucasville. The rioters took several officers hostage and killed nine inmates, then killed an officer. Their complaints included alleged abusive treatment and overcrowding, with Black Muslims also demanding an end to mandatory tuberculosis testing, which they said violated their faith.[23]
Investigations and prosecutions
In late 2002, 29 leaders of the gang were simultaneously rounded up from prisons all over the country and brought to trial under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.[18] The intention was to bring death sentences for at least 21 of them, in a manner similar to tactics used against organized crime.[18] The case produced 30 convictions but none of the most powerful leaders received a death sentence.[18] Sentencing occurred in March 2006 for three of the most powerful leaders of the gang, including Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham, who were indicted for numerous crimes, including murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and racketeering and for ordering killings and beatings from their cells.[1][24][25][26] Bingham and Mills were convicted of murder and sent back to United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility Prison (ADX) in Florence, Colorado where they are serving life sentences without parole, escaping the death penalty.
Prosecuting the gang has been difficult, because many members are already serving life sentences with no possibility of parole, so prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for 21 of those indicted but have dropped the death penalty on all but five defendants. By September 2006, the 19 indictees not eligible for the death penalty had pleaded guilty.[17] The first of a series of trials involving four high level members ended in convictions in July 2006.
On June 23, 2005, after a 20-month investigation, a federal strike force raided six houses in northeastern Ohio belonging to the "Order of the Blood," a criminal organization controlled by the Aryan Brotherhood. 34 Aryan Brotherhood members or associates were arrested and warrants were issued for ten more.[17]
Ideology and motivation
The initial motivation for the formation of the group in San Quentin in 1964 was self-protection against an existing black prison gang. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has said that, although they clearly have a white supremacist ideology, the major motivation is money, and they have occasionally set aside racist views, such as by allying themselves with Latino gangs, in order to make a profit.[2]
The SPLC, which monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States, has designated the Aryan Brotherhood as "...the nation’s oldest major white supremacist prison gang and a national crime syndicate," and the "...largest and deadliest prison gang in the United States."[2]
Daryl Johnson, leader of the Domestic Terrorist Analysis Team whose job it is to monitor the activity of right-wing militias and other domestic terrorist groups, said that white supremacist organizations in prisons are a "...radicalization threat," committing acts of violence inside prison, and then in the larger communities after release. Johnson named the Aryan Brotherhood, Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, and the Aryan Circle as examples of white supremacist prison-based gangs which are radicalization threats.[27]:325
In an investigation in California prisons which ended in 1989, the FBI characterized the Brotherhood as a "...violent, white supremacist group,"[28] and a 2008 DHS intelligence conference in Newport, Rhode Island divided violent domestic extremism into three types, and concluded that white supremacist groups like Aryan Brotherhood remained a threat and a cause for concern.[27]:189
Operations and membership
Estimates of Aryan Brotherhood membership vary from 15,000 to 20,000 members in and out of prison.[1][2][29]
The Aryan Brotherhood has members inside federal and state prisons, and outside on the streets. All members are Caucasian, and are either in prison or have been in prison. Joining is difficult; new members are on probation for a year, must swear a blood oath for life, and commit a violent act to join such as killing a rival inmate or assaulting an officer. The Aryan Brotherhood will also at times follow the rule, requiring the murder of a black or Hispanic prisoner for entry into the Brotherhood.[30] Members are inculcated with various reading materials smuggled into prisons published by Aryan Nations, Militia of Montana, and other groups,[31] as well as Mein Kampf, The Art of War, and Machiavelli's The Prince.[2] Early members were known to read Western novels by Louis L'Amour, where the self-proclaimed "the Brand" moniker derives from. Therefore, perpetuating an admiration for the outlaw gunslingers of the American West. Members also have a fondness for medieval Vikings and the pirates of the Golden Age.
Criminal activities inside prison walls include male prostitution, gambling, extortion, and drug trafficking,[2] primarily involving methamphetamines.[31] Outside prison, the AB engages in every kind of criminal enterprise, "...including murder-for-hire, armed robbery, gun running, methamphetamine manufacturing, heroin sales, counterfeiting, and identity theft," according to the SPLC.[18][2]
Organization and affiliation
After its formation in California prisons in the mid-1960s, the Aryan Brotherhood had spread to most California prisons by 1975. After some of its leaders were sent to federal prisons, they took the opportunity to start organizing inside the federal prison system. This ended with the creation of two separate, but related organizations, the California Aryan Brotherhood, and the federal prison Aryan Brotherhood. As a former top leader said, "They’re like two related but different crime families. They each have their [ruling] commission… but they’re allies." By the late 1970s, these gangs had fewer than 100 members, but their membership grew rapidly as they absorbed other racist and skinhead groups, and today these gangs are estimated to have over 20,000 members in both the federal and state prison systems.[2]
In its early days, the group had a one-man, one-vote system, but this broke down as a result of the group's rapid expansion, and it was replaced by the establishment of a hierarchical structure, headed by a 12-man council, and overseen by a three-member commission. The federal and state systems each had their own council and commission.[2] Organization varies somewhat, from prison to prison. For example, in the Arizona prison system, members are known as "kindred" and organize into "families." A "council" controls the families. Kindred may recruit other members, known as "progeny," and serve as a mentor for the new recruits.[32]
A sort of internal banking or accounting system was instituted, which allowed them to "tax" criminal activity on the streets, and collect 20% on the proceeds, money which is then laundered and controlled by the commission.[2]
Affiliations, alliances and rivalries
Aryan Brotherhood is affiliated with the national hate-based organization Aryan Nations.[31]
In 1992, the Brotherhood established ties with American Mafia crime, via boss John Gotti, who was sentenced to prison and contacted the Brotherhood for protection while he was in prison. Gotti also organized a business partnership on the outside between his group and the Brotherhood which greatly expanded the group's power on the streets.[2]
Their communication and control has become so tight and efficient that they have been able to organize and direct major criminal enterprises on the outside, even from solitary confinement, much to the frustration of federal and state authorities.[2]
The group has an alliance[33] with La Eme (the Mexican Mafia) as the two are mutual enemies of Black Guerrilla Family.
Symbology and identification
The Aryan Brotherhood uses various symbols and images to identify members, and the organization, and spoken or written mottos and oaths to secure them.
Tattoos and other marks
A member's tattoo
New members were branded with a tattoo, following the procedure in a prison novel popular among inmates. The image was either a green shamrock (also called, "the rock"), the letters AB, or the number 666. "The brand" meant the inmate belonged to Aryan Brotherhood.[34]
Like most prison gangs, Aryan Brotherhood members mark themselves with distinctive tattoos. Designs commonly include the words "Aryan Brotherhood", "AB", "666," Nazi symbolism such as SS, sig runes, and swastikas, as well as shamrocks and Celtic iconography.[21][35]
Mottos and pledges
Other means of identification of group membership were the "blood in, blood out" motto symbolizing life-long membership with no exit other than death, and "the pledge," an eight-line oath that each new member had to swear.[34]
Categorization and analysis
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as of 2005, the gang made up less than 0.1% of the prison population, but was responsible for between 18–25% of murders in the federal prison system.[17][21]
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the Domestic Extremism Lexicon report in 2009 that defines different classifications of extremists. On the last entry of the 11-page report, it broke down the "white supremacist movement" into six categories: Neo-nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity, racist skinhead, Nordic mysticism, and Aryan prison gangs.[36]
An analysis at Slate describes the Aryan prison gang classification as "...further outside the white supremacy mainstream," and describes them as largely independent of other white supremacist groups, although the lines blurred as time went on. The report also refers to them as "more flexible" than other white supremacist groups since "...their criminal goals usually take precedence over ideology."[37]
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"Jimmy Kimmel Live" debuted after ABC's broadcast of Super Bowl XXXVII. The game is on ABC again this year, which will be their final Super Bowl for the foreseeable future. After the game, Jimmy will have a three year anniversary show around 11:35pm Eastern (8:35pm Pacific) tonight. I've had a TiVo Season Pass for Jimmy's show since its first night. A Dallas reporter recently described it as the most vital of the late-night shows.
This weekend I've been catching up on (and very much enjoying) last week's episodes of Jimmy's show. He's taken the show on the road to Detroit's Gem Theatre. So many people showed up for the tapings that they had a pizza party for those who couldn't get in. On Thursday night's show, Jeff Daniels alluded to the history of the Gem Theatre. He mentioned that the theatre got into the Guinness Book of World Records when it was picked up and moved on wheels to make room for a new stadium.
The Detroit media has been covering every aspect of Jimmy's visit. The information is so detailed that I know to look for a funny bit during the pregame show at 4:13pm today. Most of the stories are about the incident that got Jimmy in hot water with the Motor City.
I'm glad to see Jimmy making up with the people of Detroit. About a year and a half ago he made a joke about Piston fans that didn't go well. By coincidence, I was visiting L.A. and was in the audience the night that Jimmy's show got pulled by the network. The show that night was very funny. The guests were George Lopez and a talented singer named Katie Melua.
It was June 9, 2004. Jimmy opened the show by talking about the controversy that erupted the night before while he was interviewed on ABC during the NBA halftime show. He had joked that Detroit shouldn't win the championship because their fans would burn the down the city. Jimmy played some of the Detroit news coverage about his remark and followed that with an extremely funny pre-taped piece that spoofed the history of Detroit. The bit included lines like "in the 20th century Detroit became the capital of automobile production... Automobiles perfect for flipping, smashing and burning."
After the show, we went to the green room so we could take a photo of my son with Jimmy. Cousin Sal and Cleto recognized us and said hi. Sal told us there was a problem with the show and that Jimmy would be delayed. At that point, George Lopez's manager, Ron DeBlasio, spotted us and invited us into George's dressing room. We had a great visit with George. We talked mostly about radio.
After about half an hour, we went back to the green room looking for Jimmy. Carrie, his assistant, told us Jimmy was still on a conference call with the network that could last a while. She apologized for making us wait so long, not realizing we had been visiting with George Lopez the whole time. When Jimmy was able to see us, he joked that we picked a great night to come since it could be his last night on the air. He told us that the network had decided to air a rerun. We told him that we hoped they could air George Lopez's and Katie Melua's segments at a future date.
Jimmy apologized to Detroit and most of that "Jimmy Kimmel Live" show finally aired two nights later on a Friday night. There was a new opening monologue. After the first commercial break the show picked up with the remainder of Wednesday's show. Thanks to the slow motion and freeze frame features of TiVo, we even saw ourselves on TV when we returned to Knoxville.
Now that Jimmy is welcome in Detroit, I don't have to worry that his visit will end up with an unwanted trip to the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice.
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Frank Strovel III said...
Sorry. Jimmy Kimmel lost me with "The Man Show".
Give me Conan anyday.
bean said...
mmmmmmmm......carrie.
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Jen ordered a Guinness because the choice was safe. Truthfully, she wanted something sugary and mixed, but under Armin’s scrutiny, real or imagined, she began to wonder if such an order would come off as inexperienced. Standing at the bar next to him, everything she said and did was first subject to an obsessive once-over. Despite the vigilance, she fumbled with her wallet, awkwardly trying to find the correct bill. He said he would get the drink, but she insisted otherwise, not because she had any statutes on the matter of which gender pays for what, but because she feared what easy acquiescence would say.
She forked over a ten-dollar bill because wads of ones were getting in the way, and she didn’t want to embarrass herself by rummaging further. Armin led them to a secluded booth at the far end of the room that wasn’t immediately visible. She could see he came here often, observing how he wound confidently through the crowd; she followed closely behind, making sure not to hit anyone’s shoulders on the way. The bar was clearly a popular place in Manhattan, and everything about the venue seemed trendy to her, although she certainly wasn’t an expert on what was or wasn’t cool. They had already exchanged pleasantries at the door and now, sitting in a quieter area, looking at him, she was at a loss. He asked how Cleveland was. What was there to say?
“It’s Cleveland,” she said.
Whenever she told anyone where she was from, they said “Ohio?” but it wasn’t Ohio. Less than two days ago, Jen was in Cleveland, Oklahoma, a town of 3,200 and the only place she’d ever lived. She rarely went on trips and now, for the first time, she was in a big city. She felt like an American foreigner in America. When she was little, she talked all the time about going to China after watching Mulan for the first time.
China has over a billion people with many dialects. If America was a relatively homogeneous country compared to China, then she was screwed for international travel. Here, just 1,400 miles away, she felt different and exposed. She thought, hoped, Armin understood, or at least felt the same way at some point. They grew up together, used to be close, but he got out almost ten years ago when he went to college. The truth was, sitting in front of her now, he seemed like a stranger.
“Do I stick out like a sore thumb?” she asked. On the subway ride to meet him, an elderly couple asked if she needed directions. She wondered if everything about her appeared unsophisticated. He said no and looked surprised, but she didn’t feel better. They were once peers, but now she felt nervous and inadequate. But more especially, she felt a barrier between them.
“How’s work?” he asked.
A shithole.
“Fine, thanks.”
She worked at the local Hallmark store. Her whole life was a vortex of platitudes and pleasantries. Often, she composed little derisive cards in her head, centered on herself and what she was doing, usually overly bitter to counteract the saccharine quality of the real cards. She was already working on one for tonight, imagining a large, floral cover.
You’ve escaped Podunk Hollow for the weekend
We’re so proud of your accomplishments
Try not to look like a complete idiot in front of Armin
And inside the card would be a ten-dollar bill, for her one beer. Jen was aware that she should now ask how his work was, but she would rather choke on one of the pretzels sitting in a bowl at their table. Listening to him talk about his fabulous job as an architect at a successful firm, right after the mention of her own job, was humiliating. Now she wondered if he was humoring her by being there. Did she seem totally moronic? She did another mental check of her clothes.
At Cleveland, even at work, sweats were acceptable everyday wear. And in the summer, everywhere you went you could hear the flip-flopping of flip-flops. Before coming on this trip, she browsed outfits on the Anthropologie website; she needed to see complete outfits because she was not confident in her ability to piece one together herself and not look like she just strolled down from the Appalachian Mountains. The real task after picking a picture was trying to put together a similar one from her choices at Super Wal-Mart.
Jen didn’t know what to say, so she tried a pretzel, then really did choke on the snack.
“Good god, what is this crap?”
Armin laughed then, a full, familiar laugh that she never realized she’d missed.
“They’re wasabi flavored, made in-house,” he said through lingering, deep chuckles.
“Wasabi?”
“The green stuff you eat with sushi.” Jen was thankful that he didn’t sound irritated or condescending. Her only real familiarity with ethnic food was Taco Bell, food Armin’s Syrian mom would cook, and Josie’s Express, the one stop diner for American, Asian, and Mexican cuisine. Jen and Armin used to walk there sometimes on Friday nights after they caught a movie.
“Do you remember Josie’s?” she asked.
“I would never forget chicken fried steak tacos, extra gravy, after a Double C premiere.”
Double C was what they called the Cleveland Cinemark. She felt warm with his remembrance. Before meeting him tonight, she wondered whether to even bring up middle school and high school. When Armin left, when anyone from their town left, the departure was tinged with a sense of desperation. And knowing that he’d visited his parents only a handful of times, never staying long, communicated to her that he wanted nothing to do with Cleveland. And maybe, he wanted nothing to do with her. They never talked.
Now, thinking over these details, she realized Facebook did the talking for them. She knew where he worked, where he vacationed, restaurants where he liked to eat, and the faces of his friends, and yet, the information was nothing they shared personally.
“I was a little surprised you called me,” Armin said.
She felt embarrassed, and maybe sensing that, he quickly followed with, “but I’m glad you did. I’ve wanted to tell you for a long time how much I’ve missed you.” Jen shoved more pretzels in her mouth. Too many. The wasabi burned, and the pain was a welcomed diversion. Did he miss her? For some years after he left, she would send him messages, occasionally call, but most would go unanswered, and after a while she quit trying. Now when she saw an update from him on Twitter or Instagram, there was a slight bitter twinge. As she sat there, throat cooking, Armin got her another Guinness. She thought of a card, this one small and humble, with a sweetly cursive font.
Thinking of you on this special day
I just wanted to remind you that I miss you
But probably won’t ever speak to you again
He said he felt terrible. And she was a little glad.
“Should I have come?” she asked, needing a subject change, and feeling emboldened and protected by a hint of self-righteous resentment. He looked at her for a moment. She noticed he kept his dark, messy curls longer than he used to; she used to love his hair. Finally, he responded.
“Do you remember that day the CBG threw a can at you?” he asked. She said of course. Most days after school, Jen and Armin would walk to the local library. Spending the afternoon leafing through YA novels and browsing the internet at the computers, they would stay until closing at 6 p.m. It was only a mile away from school, and that walk was her favorite part of the day. They would wind through the neighborhood, always ending up on Chester Street, where the prettiest houses were.
They would pass the First Nazarene Church and make fun of the sign and its alternating sayings. In the wintertime they were known for simply putting up “How about that global warming?” She remembered that day it simply said “Happy new year from god.” That day in particular, sometime in their junior year of high school, it began to rain on their walk to the library. They started to make a run for it.
Then the CBG came: The Cleveland Bike Gang. They were a group of middle-school students on squat bikes, and they rode around town terrorizing people, or at least trying to. Mostly their antics were typical juvenile stuff; they spray-painted crude and oversized depictions of male genitalia on buildings, or TP’ed houses. Occasionally they threw empty soda cans at people. And Armin’s brother Faheem was part of the group.
Armin always said he didn’t mind Faheem being a CBGer. To high school students and adults, they were a harmless, bored group of boys just becoming enamored with their penises. But Armin considered the association a protective barrier for his little brother. As the only Middle Eastern family in Cleveland, and one of only two immigrant families, school was sometimes tough on them. Armin was bullied for years. But Faheem was born with a naturally light complexion, and Armin said lately his brother had started going by Fred and refusing to speak Arabic at home.
That day the CBG rode past them in the rain, and one of them, not Faheem, threw a can at Jen. But this time the can was full, and the beverage hit her hard and heavy in the knee. This caused a chain reaction and she twisted her ankle, falling into the puddled pavement. Later, Armin would beat Faheem, but at that time, he attended to Jen. Her entire leg, from foot to thigh, angrily pulsed in pain, and she couldn’t step on that side. He carried her on his back to her house a half-mile away, both soaked with rain. They didn’t talk at all. When they got to her home, both her parents were still at work. Armin helped her onto the couch, propped her leg up onto a pile of cushions, and put bags of ice on both her swelling ankle and knee.
Now, Jen asked why he brought the incident up. She didn’t see how it related.
“I knew two things that day. I loved you, and I had to leave Cleveland,” Armin said. She felt with that sentence he was trying to explain everything, not only why he left but why they stopped being close. Jen heard what he didn’t say: “And you are a part of that place. That’s why we were never close again. You are Cleveland.”
Jen knew he had feelings for her throughout high school, though they were never explicitly revealed. Some people wondered why they were never a couple. Mostly because she was overwhelmingly in love with Craig Mueller and everyone knew it, including Craig. But another reason was petty and small. Part of her found Armin’s shyness and hesitancy off-putting. He knew and she knew how he felt, but he would never say. Now he was saying it, but the words exposed her deepest insecurity.
“Sometimes I’m afraid I’ll never leave,” she said.
“But you’re here now.” That was true. Starting several years before, Jen began putting 10% of every paycheck into a special account, an account especially for travel. Often on the weekends, friends would try to convince her to use that money on beer. But she stayed strong, resolute that she would go somewhere.
“I didn’t come because I had to see New York. I came because I wanted to want to see New York,” she said. She put more pretzels in her mouth. If she wasn’t crazy, they were starting to taste good. Part of her wanted him to hear what she wasn’t saying, that she wanted to feel what he felt about getting out, about becoming something, whatever that meant. She wanted him to know that she was proud of him for being nothing like her.
Maybe that was why she came to see him; if he could teach her how to be more like him, maybe going back home would be harder. Maybe she wouldn’t long for the comfort of the colorful Hallmark aisles that she claimed to hate, wouldn’t miss safe afternoons spent at the Cleveland Public Library. Maybe she wouldn’t be satisfied with Craig’s tepid affections.
Jen didn’t love Craig anymore (of course, she never truly did), and he wasn’t her boyfriend. She had a huge crush on him throughout high school, mostly because she thought he looked exactly like Orlando Bloom. But occasionally they hung out and hooked up. Relationships in Cleveland were like revolving doors, everything and everyone were too close together and you couldn’t help but run in circles with people. Nothing was new. Sometimes you were with someone just because you were bored (which would explain one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the state).
Jen was surprised when Armin stood up.
“You used to say you wanted to go to China, right?” he said. When she nodded, confused, he held out his hand for her. They got in a cab and Armin said “East Broadway” to the driver. In minutes they stood outside Chinatown. It was only nine and a huge, brightly lit street buzzed with life, though some vendors were closing up shop. As Jen walked through the barrage of people, a cacophony of colors, music, and sights opened up around her, engulfing her. Signs lit the path and delicious scents seemed to roll in from every direction. For a moment, she forgot Armin was even there.
But he led her to a small food truck. For eighty-five cents each he bought something called cheung fun, apparently Cantonese rice noodle rolls. Folded noodles were nestled in a spicy ginger soy sauce and topped with ground pork, shrimp, and sliced scallions and it was the most delicious thing she’d ever had. Standing aside the foot traffic, they watched people go by as they ate. The night air was cool and a little breezy.
“Some of these street food places will close soon. Do you want anything else?” Armin asked.
So they had steamed pork and vegetable siopao from the same truck. Then they went to a kebab cart a few feet away and had cumin-lamb skewers, followed by Malaysian beef jerky across the road, and ended with salty sweet egg yolk buns. Truthfully, she ended up eating alone as he watched in amazement. But her appetite thrilled her; it wasn’t just the craving for food, but for something new. She wanted to try absolutely everything she could. By the end, she was so full that her stomach twisted in painful cramps.
“I’m ruined for Josie’s,” she said, leaning her forehead against a cool brick wall. They still stood in the street. Before today she honestly thought Josie’s sesame chicken was good.
“One more drink?” he suggested, laughing, apparently finding her gluttony amusing. But both his suggestion and his amusement excited her; this whole time she worried her company would disappoint him. She imagined all the interesting and smart people he must know in the city and knew she could never be a part of that. But here he was, wanting to spend more time with her. So even though doing so risked her vomiting an amalgam of Chinese sludge, he took her to a club.
The room was dark and smoky, Mandarin dubstep playing loudly. People were dancing, but Jen and Armin sat at the bar and drank Korean soju and plum wine cocktails. She felt comfortable by then and wondered if she blended in yet, wondered if anyone could tell her dress came from Wal-Mart and she got her hair cut at ValueCuts. The tension had also disappeared between her and Armin, as they sat laughing and drinking. That was until he leaned over, grabbed her hand, and said seriously, perhaps drunkenly, one word.
“Stay.”
He didn’t explain further, just looked at her with hooded, dark eyes. Although he didn’t say stay at the bar, stay the night, stay at my place, stay longer, she understood him. He wasn’t even saying stay with me. He was saying don’t go back. Going back would be a mistake. It’s not escaping if you return to captivity. Do you really want to go back after being here? Could you be happy? Maybe he was saying everything she wanted him to, even more. Wasn’t she worried he would be indifferent? And yet, inexplicably, she pulled back from him, something like fear coiling in her stomach. Just like that, his back straightened and the vulnerable moment was over. They silently finished their drinks and took another cab, first dropping her off at her hotel, and then Armin left.
Jen was rearranging the anniversary cards. There was a strange phenomenon in which people who look at a card and decide they don’t want it feel no need to put it back properly, as if the card doesn’t exist anymore, or is undeserving. Occasionally, as she corrected this phenomenon, she would glance at the contents. One in particular caught her attention, attention that had been increasingly wandering over the last few days since she’d returned from her trip.
I can’t believe so many years have passed
You have truly been my best friend, my confidant, my light
How can I express my
She closed the card. They all ended the same way.
After work she stopped by the grocery store to pick up a few items. When she returned home, Craig called, asking to come over. She could guess what he wanted and even though she wasn’t in the mood, she invited him over anyway. But when Jen answered the door, she found herself immediately pulling him in for a hard kiss, hard enough the pressure hurt her lips. He seemed to like it, guffawing a little when they pulled apart.
“What’s up, baby? Did you have fun in California?” he asked.
Jen looked him in the eyes, looking for something. She reached out and tousled his fine, blonde hair, looking for an image. Unsatisfied, she gave up, allowing him to undress her in record time, acquiescing easily.
Later, when Craig turned on the TV, she went into the kitchen and pulled out the packages she bought at Wal-Mart: a tube of wasabi paste and a bag of Snyder’s pretzels. She tossed the ingredients together and baked them for ten minutes. When they were finished, Jen put the green dusted pretzels in a bowl and let Craig try them.
“What is this shit?” he said.
“They’re made with wasabi.”
He spit the bite out into a napkin and set it on the coffee table, then said they should go to Josie’s later. She wasn’t offended. What he thought wasn’t important. Sitting down at the dining room table, she looked into the bowl. Part of her was afraid to try them. She picked one up and ate the morsel, chewing carefully, closing her eyes.
The pretzels were gross, like the ones at the bar were. And yet, they were still missing something.
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Death Note GEM Flagship as NTV/Sony Launch New Asian Television Channel
Death Note will be the main attraction for GEM - a brand, new television channel launched across Asia on October 1st 2015.
GEM marks a collaboration between Nippon TV (NTV) and Sony Pictures Television (SPT), each of which are bringing their biggest shows to air to Asian audiences.
NTV chose its television Death Note drama, recently broadcast in Japan and streamed on-line around the world, to act as its flagship for GEM's launch. Also on offer to viewers is another drama entitled Angel Heart; season two of Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out; and a Chinese romance series called Lady & Liar.
A hallmark of the channel will be its emphasis upon Asian content.
At a press conference to announce GEM's opening content, NTV's International Business Development divisional President Yukiko Kimishima told reporters:
Nippon TV already has a proven track record in our country as the first and most watched commercial broadcaster, so we are extremely delighted at the opportunity to launch GEM in partnership with SPT Networks to deliver Nippon TV’s captivating fresh line-up of dramas and variety entertainment shows along with the finest programs from the rest of Asia.
So, do you reckon Asia is going to like Death Note? Wry smile.
Though I suppose there might be the odd one or two who haven't heard of it. Under their rock. And perhaps a handful more who never saw Death Note's 2015 TV dramatisation. They're all in for a treat.
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Poverty & Hunger
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India’s rapid rise and growing middle class creates hunger for commodities
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By Tania Constable
The astounding growth of India represents both a major opportunity and a significant challenge for the Australian mining sector and our businesses and exporters more generally.
With India’s $US2.2 trillion ($3.04 trillion) economy on a rapid growth trajectory – and already considered by some to be the fastest-growing large economy in the world – there is a big shift afoot towards high-productivity sectors such as services and industry which is driving India’s urbanisation.
The UN projects that India’s urbanisation rate will rise to 42 per cent or 640 million by 2035, with the parallel creation of a substantial and aspirational consumer class that underpins optimism for future growth in the Indian economy.
India’s steps towards liberalisation and openness in the 1980s, which accelerated in the 1990s, saw the country’s GDP growth rise from an average annual rate of less than 3 per cent in the 1970s (the so-called “Hindu rate of growth”) to over 7 per cent in recent years – lifting millions of people out of poverty as a result.
A woman browses the kitchenwares at Ikea’s new outlet in Hyderabad, the Swedish retail giant’s first location in India. Atul Loke
India’s middle class is set to grow rapidly from up to 80 million today to 580 million people – or about 41 per cent of the population – by 2025.
This will drive demand for the minerals and energy resources needed to supply the construction of modern infrastructure and cities, and power homes and industry.
Projected to double
For example, India’s demand for metallurgical coal and iron ore – both essential in making steel – is projected to double from 52 and 154 million tonnes in 2016 to over 90 and 290 million tonnes respectively in 2030.
Copper demand to build and maintain electrical wiring, manufacture of electronics, vehicles and generators is expected to grow from 511,000 tonnes in 2016 to between 1 million and 1.2 million tonnes in 2030.
India’s middle class is set to grow rapidly from up to 80 million today to 580 million people – or about 41 per cent of the population – by 2025. Louise Kennerley
And demand for other raw materials and minerals including gold and lithium will increase as economic growth, urbanisation and consumer demand shape a diversified and dynamic economy.
India will continue to attempt to meet demand for resources from domestic production.
This means further exploration will be needed to identify reserves of the range of energy and mineral resources needed to sustain growth, flexibility and diversity.
In turn, the success of this endeavour will depend on the speed and effectiveness of reforms to the minerals and mining sector to facilitate the cost-effective discovery, development and production of domestic resources.
The rise of the middle class has also fostered greater attention on the challenges of social and environmental sustainability, particularly as pressure mounts on infrastructure, services and natural resources such as water and air quality.
The level of anticipated demand growth, the scope for improvements to mining efficiency and sustainability, and the need to remove transport and infrastructure bottlenecks highlight two areas of opportunity for Australia and India.
Importing resources and energy combined with domestic supply enables flexibility across the spectrum of resources and energy commodities and cost adjustments as new technologies change the profile of demand.
The potential for Australian commodity exports to India is significant – not just in coal, gold and copper, but the inputs to renewable energy and storage technologies such as lithium and cobalt.
Social expectations
Reforms to India’s domestic resources sector will be fundamental in improving its efficiency, removing infrastructure bottlenecks, understanding domestic prospectivity, and importantly meeting the social and environmental expectations of the community.
Australia’s world-class mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector will be an important player in Australia’s part in India’s future.
As the Australian mining industry has moved from a largely labour-intensive industry to a highly capital-intensive sector in recent years, many innovative transformations have been implemented across the mining and METS sector.
This transformation supports extending the productive life of mines, delivering higher yields and enabling improvements to safety and environmental outcomes.
There is greater workforce satisfaction and productivity in translating innovative ideas suggested by employees into operational improvements.
Knowledge from research institutions can be applied to implement new or improved processes and products.
And enabling access to new markets overseas – such as trade between Australia and India – can help support brand development and generate new opportunities.
Australian mining technology is exported globally and will be important in terms of Australia’s future trade with India.
MCA’s recent New Frontiers research report outlines good prospects for resources trade and solid engagement between Australia and India on mining-related investment, mostly based on METS.
Grows and modernises
Opportunities for the Australian minerals and METS sector will include the supply of a wide range of technologies and services by our METS firms as India’s mining sector grows and modernises.
While Australia’s exports to India are narrowly based, opportunities to deepen and broaden the trade in commodities and services will rely on strengthening our two-way trade and investment relationship.
Developing METS opportunities in India – our best short and medium-term opportunity for mining-related investment in India – will probably require direct investment in India.
In the medium term, India will also need to source imported resources and energy to meet the demand generated by accelerating economic growth and urbanisation – the metallurgical coal and other resources needed to build infrastructure together with the copper, cobalt, lithium and rare earth metals required for electrification and electric vehicles, renewable energy and other 21st century technologies.
Australian mining and METS has a lot to contribute to the Australia-India trade and investment relationship.
Capturing these significant opportunities will require hard work, a sensitive and careful approach and developing a deeper understanding of the complexities and challenges of doing business to support India’s growth and success.
Source: The Australian Financial Review
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WATCH: Life is a Highway! Buster Bear Travels to Burrard Inlet's North Shore
In this next episode of “Go West, Young Bear, A Buster Bear Adventure”, Captain Nemo sends Buster on a quest around Vancouver. He gets zapped onto the SeaBus, en route to North Vancouver, which is where the Port of Vancouver got its start. Buster learns about First Nations settlements in the area, and the history of Moodyville, and its famous mill. He runs into Steve Adore, who’s looking into the story of his ancestor Joe, who once worked the docks as a longshoreman. After a guest appearance by Topper the Topmost Mouse, Steve and Joe head off for lunch. Meanwhile, Captain Nemo looks on, ready to give Buster some “bear-spective”.
Special note: This MOM (Multimedia Outreach Module) is the first in a two part story arc that was developed in partnership with the North Vancouver Museum and Archives, and the Port of Vancouver. Stay tuned for part 2, and more Buster Bear adventures!
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Home Business India loses Rs 375,000 crore loss due to corrosion per year
India loses Rs 375,000 crore loss due to corrosion per year
Indian economy suffers a loss of around Rs.375,000 crore annually due to corrosion, an official said.
The three day CORCON 2015 — a conference on corrosion — will engage on the technologies and measures to mitigate the loss, said a top official of the organising committee.
“Around Rs.375,000 crore loss is suffered by the country due to corrosion. The three day conference that starts here on Thursday will deliberate on the recent advances in corrosion control and how it is tackled by various industries like chemicals, refinaries, marine, power, fertiliser, oil and others,” U Kamachi Mudali, chairman, CORCON 2015 told IANS in Chennai on Wednesday.
The conference is organised by the US based NACE International and its Indian chapter NACE International Gateway India Section.
Mudali who is an associate director at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) said around 750 persons have registered for the conference including from countries like the USA, Germany, France, Japan, Italy and others.
A total of 60 stalls will showcase the anti-corrosion products and technologies in the conference exhibition, he said.
According to Mudali, around 190 research papers will be presented in 30 technical sessions during the three day conference.
He said union minister for chemicals and fertilisers Ananth Kumar will be chief guest for the award presentation while V. K. Saraswat, member of NITI Aayog will be the chief guest for the inaugural session.
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Home Delhi Kejriwal’s ‘thulla’ jibe: Sufficient material to proceed with criminal defamation against CM,...
Kejriwal’s ‘thulla’ jibe: Sufficient material to proceed with criminal defamation against CM, says Delhi court
A Delhi Court on Monday said it had ‘sufficient material’ to proceed with a criminal defamation complaint by Delhi Police against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after he used the ‘thulla’ jibe to describe cops during an interview.
In the complaint filed by constable Ajay Kumar Taneja, who is posted at Lajpat Nagar Police Station in the capital, the court has fixed the October 5 date for recording pre-summoning evidence.
“Considering the content of the complaint and the material placed on record, I am of the opinion that there is sufficient material to proceed with the complaint and the opportunity be given to the complaint to lead pre-summoning evidence. Now be put up for pre-summoning evidence on October 5,” Metropolitan Magistrate Pawan Kumar said.
Incidentally, this is the second criminal defamation complaint filed by Delhi police over Kejriwal’s remarks. The other one was also filed by a Delhi Police constable and the court had fixed the matter for recording of pre-summoning evidence.
The present complaint was filed on July 23 by Taneja, a day after a cop posted at Govindpuri Police Station (Constable Harvinder) had lodged a similar complaint against Kejriwal.
Taneja said he felt insulted and mentally disturbed by the CM’s remarks.
“If a word like ‘thulla’ is used by an eminent personality like the Chief Minister to refer to personnel of Delhi Police, then the general public would too have no respect or regard for police personnel who dedicate their entire lives to maintain law and order in Delhi,” Taneja had said in his complaint.
Taneja also claimed that he had lodged a complaint at Lajpat Nagar Police Station under section 500 (defamation) of IPC.
In one of his recent interviews, Kejriwal had talked about ‘constraints’ faced by his state government in ensuring smooth functioning of the Anti-Corruption Branch.
Police Commissioner BS Bassi had also objected Kejriwal’s use of the word ‘thulla’ during this interview.
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Sun Sunny August 4, 2015 At 8:31 AM
Many BJP/Congress/SP/NCP/JDU Leaders are caught on Stings physically abusing Police Officers, Police is found cleaning their Boots,..
No complaints and offences are taken by Police against Such SHAMELESS Politicians…
But when Kejriwal cites some Corrupt Police officers with “Thulla”… Entire Delhi Police rises to prosecute Delhi CM…
#SHAMELESS_DELHIPOLICE #BJPs_KEEP_DELHI_POLICE #PATHETIC_MODI_POLICE
Shailendra Singh Rajawat August 4, 2015 At 10:01 AM
“The general public already have no respect or regard for police personnel who dedicate their entire lives to ruin law and order in Delhi and rest of the country”… Thulle … Thulle … Thulle
Abhi Ghosh August 5, 2015 At 1:43 AM
THE BALL IS WITHIN DELHI COURT …………………
NAME OF THE GAME IS “GO AS YOU LIKE” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This one has been on my must-see list for months! It has a cast to die for, writers and directors I admire, and the plot is irresistible (I love stories about show business)!
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (I've been a fan all the way back to 1984's "Blood Simple") and set in 1950s Hollywood, we watch a movie studio fixer try to keep four movies on track, on budget, and on time. Problem is, a star has disappeared ....and there is a casting problem ...and there is an unexpected pregnancy ...and...
Here is that cast to die for:
Josh Brolin ("Sicario") Eddie Mannix is the fixer but some things are tough to fix! Where will he find the money for the ransom and how will he protect the reputation of an unmarried, pregnant star? Is he going to accept that tempting job offer from Lockheed? Brolin is convincing as an honorable, hard-working man who wants to do the right thing.
Ralph Fiennes ("Spectre") Laurence Lorenz is a much-respected director. He has been assigned a new star for his latest artistic production and now he needs it fixed! Fiennes does a slow burn sooo well.
Alden Ehrenreich ("Blue Jasmine") Hobie Doyle is Columbia Studio's resident singing cowboy. Re-assigning him to a costume drama is complicated... Ehrenreich is a terrific discovery. His straight shooter sings, strums the guitar, does rope tricks and innocently frustrates Ralph Fiennes' director. Oh! And he looks like 50s star Audie Murphy. Remember him?
Scarlett Johansson ("The Avengers") DeeAnna Moran is the studio's mermaid; she stars in lovely synchronized water ballets but now she is in a real pickle: Can Eddie fix this one? Bad publicity would destroy her (and hurt the studio). Johannson is a hoot!
George Clooney ("Tomorrowland") Superstar Baird Whitlock has gone to ground. No one on the set of "Hail Caesar, a Tale of Christ's Life" knows if he's having an existential crisis or is drinking again. Now it looks like he's being held for ransom by a group of Communists. Clooney has never been funnier and he wears a Roman Centurion's uniform from beginning to end. Nice legs...
Channing Tatum ("Magic Mike") Burt Gurney is the go-to guy for studio musicals. He sings, he dances, he.... Oh, you know... But there is more to him than meets the eye.
Jonah Hill ("Moneyball") is Joseph Silverman, a stony-faced fellow you can rely on.
Tilda Swinton ("The Grand Budapest Hotel") is gossip columnist Thora Thacker and her gossip columnist sister Thessaly. Each dame is hot on the trail of her own scoop. I have enjoyed Swinton's recent move to comedies; she has a real flair.
Frances McDormand ("Olive Kitteridge") is hilarious as chain-smoking film editor C.C. Calhoon.
Many others are worthy of note, but space does not permit. LOVED the fixer's assistant, the Carmen Miranda type, the kidnappers (and their dog), and the submarine. Yeah, I said submarine.
This frantic comedy captures the phony morality of 1950s Hollywood: Every marriage is made in heaven and all single women are saints. It also captures the zeal of those gossip doyennes: They rule the press, control the public's perception of the stars and battle each other for every scoop and exposé!
Rated PG-13, we can expect a smattering of profanity and implied promiscuity, but no F bombs or sweaty bodies; we get to peek behind the curtain of four genre productions: a drama, a western, a water ballet, and a tap-dancing musical. It was simpler times, e.g., our hero goes to Confession when he sneaks a cigarette after he had promised...; the kidnappers are what I see as an anti-Trumbo bunch, these guys are Hollywood screenwriters who are active, working Communists. Their philosophical discussions are a stitch and one elderly guy thinks they have kidnapped Clark Gable!
Don't miss this one.
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Boeing not to stop 737 Max production even as new bugs come to light
CHICAGO: The Boeing company has detected yet another glitch after its sensor system failure led to the Ethiopian air crash killing all 157 on board, a second similar crash after the Indonesian Lion Air mishap that too killed all 189 on board when the 737 Max 8 plunged into the sea soon after takeoff.
Even as the company claims it is fixing the MCAS softawre and the new glitches, the old aerodynamic design and the modern engine mismatch remains to be addressed, engineers have pointed out.
The company instead of stopping production has just reduced output to 42 planes from 52 planes a month, according to a company statement on Friday, quoted by news agency AP.
Boeing had delivered more than 370 Max 8 to 47 customers till February, 2019. There are about 5,000 pending orders for 737 Max airplanes from 107 customers.
Earlier, CEO Dennis Muilenburg issued a video statement on Thursday, saying, "We at Boeing are sorry for the lives lost in the recent 737 accidents and are relentlessly focused on safety to ensure tragedies like this never happen again.
"As pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment. It's our responsibility to eliminate this risk. We own it and we know how to do it."
The Boeing company is introducing updates for the anti-stall software where the pilots will have the option to take manual control when nenessary.
The MCAS (Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System) anti-stall system was erroneously activated in both the Ethiopian and Indonesian air crashes, he admitted. Pilots can switch off the MCAS system that got activated on wrong signals from sensors, but when it is back in position the nose-diving process recurs, plunging the pilot into a situation of helplessness. This is what happened.
Meanwhile, an inquiry by the Ethiopian authorities concluded that the pilots followed the procedures but it was a glitch in the plane's new software that led to the crash. Their report said they "repeatedly" followed the procedures recommended by Boeing. The pilots were not able to control the aircraft, Ethiopian transport minister Dagmawit Moges said.
The plane did not recover from nose-diving as the anti-stall system malfunctioned. The Lion Air of Indonesia also faced similar problems soon after takeoff and crashed into the sea killing 189 people last year.
Pilot Yared Getachew's father Dr Getachew Tessema lamented that the Boeing company took so long to apologise for their mistake. They should have withdrawn all 737 Max after the Indonesian crash, he said.
"To the last minute they struggled as much as they could but unfortunately they were not able to stop it. I don't regret that he was a pilot. He died in the course of his duty," he told BBC.
Why the company did not stop the 737 Max flying after the Indonesian crash, the grieving father asks.
READ: Boeing statements
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2017 Academy Awards - Predictions
Well friends, here we are once more at the annual Oscars Ceremony - the 89th of which, too! It's been a good year for film, not the greatest by any standard - Suicide Squad, after all - but when you filter out the superhero slogs and the mass of disappointing summer blockbusters, 2016 left us with some pretty high tier stuff. The musical came roaring back to life with La La Land, minority figures were given a powerful voice in Moonlight, Fences and Hidden Figures, sci-fi acted as a thoughtful message to a shaky world courtesy of Arrival, and the theme of grief was tackled in an unprecedented way thanks to Manchester by the Sea - all of which are up for a handful of awards tonight. There are the usual frustrating snubs - no Best Actress nomination for Amy Adams' Arrival work, no Best Original Song nomination for the glorious Sing Street, the general lack of Silence recognition over all - but let's ignore what isn't and focus on what is. Here are my predictions for how tonight's 89th Academy Awards will go down!
What Will Win: Not all that long ago, this was a pretty open race. Moonlight almost took pole position for a short while, but now La La Land seems unstoppable. It has dominated award ceremonies so far, and I can't see any reason why it won't complete the set tonight.
What Should Win: This is an almost unfairly good selection of films. Lion aside, you could probably convince me that any of these are worthy winners. La La Land hit my heart, Hacksaw Ridge obliterated my nervous system, Hell or High Water was a total blast and Moonlight gave me a cinematic experience unlike any other. Yet, when I look at all of these films, just one of them leaps to the spotlight: Arrival. It won't win, and I'm okay with that, but it's the only one in the bunch that I really struggle to find a fault in.
See how I rank the nine Best Picture contenders here.
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Seah
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Who Will Win: In what seems to be one the biggest locks of the night, Damien Chazelle pretty much has this in the bag. You could make a case for Barry Jenkins stealing this to balance out the two top awards between the two clear front runners, but even that is starting to seem unlikely. With just his second directorial feature, Chazelle is the man of the hour.
Who Should Win: Arrival may have been my favourite film of 2016 but Villeneuve's Oscar glory shouldn't come tonight. Tonight belongs to Damien Chazelle, a man who turned a simple musical into a spellbinding and magical experience for film lovers around the world. It isn't to everyone's tastes, but when you're young and you love cinema, La La Land is the kind of film you can only dream of. It's thanks to Chazelle that we get to experience it for real.
Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling - La La Land
Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington - Fences
Who Will Win: Casey Affleck, it's one of the biggest locks of the night. He's swept almost everything.
Who Should Win: Casey Affleck, the man is unstoppable this year. His work in Manchester by the Sea is extraordinary, delivering a masterful script in an even more masterful way. If he doesn't make you cry at least twice by the time the credits roll, I'd probably question your humanity.
Isabelle Huppert - Elle
Ruth Negga - Loving
Natalie Portman - Jackie
Emma Stone - La La Land
Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Who Will Win: A while ago this was a three horse race, but now Emma Stone has left Natalie Portman and Isabelle Huppert behind and moved to the front of the pack. After her first nomination two years ago, she will more than likely claim Oscar glory tonight.
Who Should Win: Emma Stone is delightful in La La Land but no one here can compete with the sheer magnetism of Natalie Portman in Jackie. It isn't just her replication of Kennedy's voice, it's the way she commands every breathtakingly intimate frame in the film and forms a persona that you simply cannot look away from. It's the performance of a lifetime.
Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
Jeff Bridges - Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges - Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel - Lion
Michael Shannon - Nocturnal Animals
Who Will Win: This one is all over the show. Aaron Taylor-Johnson took the Golden Globe but failed to score a nomination tonight, Dev Patel claimed the BAFTA but has seemingly no other momentum besides that one surprise win, yet Mahershala Ali has remained the people's favourite throughout. For that reason, I can see this being the one category of the year with entirely different winners across the various ceremonies.
Who Should Win: Again, all of these performances are superb - it's been an excellent year for acting. Lucas Hedges is outstanding in Manchester by the Sea and Michael Shannon is as commanding as ever in Nocturnal Animals. But Mahershala Ali's brief but unforgettable, and not to mention stereotype shattering, performance in Moonlight is the one that sticks with you the most.
Viola Davis - Fences
Naomie Harris - Moonlight
Nicole Kidman - Lion
Octavia Spener - Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea
Who Will Win: In what is probably just as big a lock as Casey Affleck's trophy, I feel confident in saying Viola Davis shouldn't be too worried tonight.
Who Should Win: Again, these are all terrific performances. The power and weight of Viola Davis' performance in Fences is undeniable though. Those six words, "Well I was standing with you," still ring in my mind whenever I see a photo of her. Sensational.
What Will Win: There's always the chance that La La Land will sweep the night and take home everything, but it'll be tough for it to dethrone the masterpiece of writing that is Manchester by the Sea.
What Should Win: The Lobster may be the most original film in the group and four months ago I'd have been plugging Hell or High Water like a crazy person, but the emotional devastation and phenomenal control of Manchester by the Sea's script is impossible to ignore. Arguably the best script of the year.
What Will Win: This could really go a number of ways. Arrival or Hidden Figures could nab the trophy as an apology for them being unlikely to take home anything else, Fences could swoop in for its intricate way of turning a stage production into a film, Lion even somehow took the BAFTA for this one. All things considered though, Moonlight does seem to be the front runner here - even if its source material is questionable in the first place.
What Should Win: There's no denying the brilliance and importance of Moonlight's script, but the way Arrival depicts its themes in relations to its protagonist is outstanding. It's easy to not be blown away by Arrival on your first viewing due to the nature of its storytelling structure. If you've only seen it once, see it again. I guarantee it will move you to places you have never been moved to before.
Best Animated Feature:
My Life as a Zucchini
What Will Win: This award has been surprisingly unpredictable so far. Kubo and the Two Strings' shock BAFTA win caused an upset, and Moana's powerful message could work in its favour, but this still seems to be Zootopia's award to lose.
What Should Win: Somehow, this is my hardest choice this year. Kubo is great and The Red Turtle's originality is remarkable, but picking between Moana and Zootopia is almost impossible. My head says Zootopia and my heart says Moana. When it comes to cinema, I think you should trust your heart more than your head: film is about feeling, not thinking. For that reason alone, I side with Moana.
Best Foreign Language Film:
What Will Win: Toni Erdmann seems to be the front runner, and I can't see much else taking its place tonight.
What Should Win: Land of Mine is well crafted and A Man Called Ove is pleasant enough, but if Maren Ade's near flawless Toni Erdmann goes home empty handed tonight then the Academy certainly won't be invited to any of my Naked Parties any time soon.
Best Original Score:
What Will Win: I'd be incredibly surprised if anything other than La La Land took this one.
What Should Win: La La Land boasts a handful of catchy numbers, and that "Epilogue" piece is admittedly breathtaking, but Jackie's haunting and entirely unique soundtrack perfectly accompanies its unbearably intimate look at Jackie Kennedy. It won't leave your mind for days.
Best Original Song:
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" - La La Land
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" - Trolls
"City of Stars" - La La Land
"The Empty Chair" - Jim: The James Foley Story
"How Far I'll Go" - Moana
What Will Win: La La Land seems to have this in the bag too, and out of its two nominations here, I'd put my money on "City of Stars" taking home the trophy.
What Should Win: Since Sing Street's perfect "Drive It Like You Stole It" didn't even score a nomination (ugh), and La La Land's pinnacle "Another Day of Sun" was probably deemed too fast and emotionless for this category, my vote drifts over to Moana's "How Far I'll Go," which seamlessly captures the internal conflict of its titular character and brings it to life in fun, thoughtful and imaginative ways.
Best Sound Editing
What Will Win: La La Land's nomination here is perplexing to say the least, but the other four all make use of excellent sound work. Sully's plane crash sequences are expertly crafted and Arrival's innovative sound design could be an upset, but this award is known for going to war films, so Hacksaw Ridge is standing at the front of the pack here.
What Should Win: The sound of bullets firing in all directions during that first battle scene in Hacksaw Ridge is unshakeable. If it doesn't win this there should be riots.
Best Sound Mixing
What Will Win: Hacksaw Ridge could score a double and take both sound awards, but when it comes to mixing audio tracks together, where best to demonstrates this than a musical. La La Land will probably add this to its selection.
What Should Win: The battle sequences of Hacksaw Ridge are unlike any other put on screen, and a lot of that comes down to the sound work. Again, nothing else is even close in my eyes ears.
Best Production Design:
What Will Win: This has been known to frequently go for other period settings like Hail, Caesar! and Fantastic Beasts as well as future defining Sci-Fis like Arrival and Passengers, but even with this in mind, La La Land remains the front runner.
What Should Win: There's no faulting La La Land's astonishing production work across the whole film, but the full interior of Arrival's spacecraft is haunting, atmospheric, beautiful and entirely original.
Best Cinematography:
What Will Win: Much like a lot of the technical awards, this also seems to be La La Land's to lose.
What Should Win: The best cinematography of the bunch belongs to Silence - the way it tackled religious iconography and visual symbolism bordered on groundbreaking. It doesn't stand a chance of taking the award, for some reason Lion seems to be the only possible upset, but Silence will always be my winner here.
Best Make Up/Hairstyling
What Will Win: A Man Called Ove, as lovely as the film is, has no real place here, and I find it very hard to believe the Academy will bestow an award of any kind onto Suicide Squad, so that puts Star Trek Beyond firmly in front.
What Should Win: Quite frankly, there isn't anything special on display in any of these films. Star Trek Beyond's inventiveness is admirable though, so I'll put my vote there.
What Will Win: Allied's costumes garnered most of its limited critical praise, and Jackie's pleasantly surprising BAFTA win has caused some ripples, but this seems to be another technical award heading straight to La La Land's heavy shelf.
What Should Win: Jackie's recreation of Kennedy's real costumes is excellent, and the way the costumes are used to match the tone and mood of each scene is wonderful. It really should win this one.
Best Film Editing:
What Will Win: Arrival and Hell or High Water have no chance here. Moonlight could claim victory for its coming-of-age story told in three chapters, and La La Land's visual dazzlement could win it a few votes, but I believe the Academy will recognise the masterful editing work on display in Hacksaw Ridge's battle sequences.
What Should Win: I singled out the editing for praise back in my Hacksaw Ridge review, and I stand by that comment today. It is exceptional.
Best Visual Effects:
What Will Win: With its groundbreaking VFX work, this seems to be heading straight to The Jungle Book.
What Should Win: Doctor Strange's visual effects are impossible to question, but if anything besides The Jungle Book takes this award then justice will not have been served tonight.
'Will Win' Tally
La La Land - 9
Manchester by the Sea - 2
Hacksaw Ridge - 2
Moonlight - 2
Fences - 1
Star Trek Beyond - 1
Zootopia - 1
Toni Erdmann - 1
The Jungle Book - 1
'Should Win' Tally
Jackie - 3
Arrival - 3
Moana - 2
Silence - 1
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The algebraic sum of the oxidation states in an ion is equal to the charge on the ion. Now, let the oxidation number of Cu is âXâ . The oxidation number of a free element is always 0. [Hb] = 4.42 M in exper... Q: How many grams of NH3 are needed to completely react with 12.70g of O2! âBrâ is a group ⦠In... A: Take the experiment of 1 and 2, 1 + X + (-2) 3 = 0. Ammonia in this complex is not an ion, it is a neutral structure covalently bound to the copper atom; thus having a net oxidation number of 0. A. Magnesium has a 22 oxidation number and chlorine has 1+ oxidation number. The oxidation number of a monatomic ion equals the charge of the ion. {Date of access}. Determine the oxidation state and coordination number of the metal ion in each complex ion. If $\ce{Co}$ is at +II, the charge of the complex is $2$ +, as $\ce{NH3}$ is not charged. Except in metal hydrides, which this is not, Hydrogen always has an oxidation state of +1. NH4 has +1 charge the oxidation state or number of nitrogen is -3 and hydrogen has +1.So the overall change is +1. Since the electrons between two carbon atoms are evenly spread, the R group does not change the oxidation number of the carbon atom it's attached to. "Oxidation numbers calculator." to find the oxidation number of N , we need to use the rule ' that the sum of the oxidation number of the each element of a compound is equal to the o if the compound is neutral or the net charge of it if the compound has a net charge.So, in HNO3 lets say that the Nitrogen charge is x. For example. All rights reserved. Chemistry Q&A Library The oxidation number of the nitrogen atom in NH3 is. You can find examples of usage on the Divide the redox reaction into two half-reactions page. This is because oxygen always has an oxidation number of -2. Find answers to questions asked by student like you, The oxidation number of the nitrogen atom in NH3 is. Oxidation number of S in SO 4 2-=+6. The oxidation number is synonymous with the oxidation state. Then use mole-mole relationship To balance that of the hydrogen, this leaves the nitrogen atoms with an oxidation number of -3. Bonds between atoms of the same element (homonuclear bonds) are always divided equally. Organic compounds can be written in such a way that anything that doesn't change before the first C-C bond is replaced with the abbreviation R (Figure 1c). Calculating Oxidation Number Post by Casey Morrissey 3G » Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:07 am What is the oxidation number of the central metal atom in the coordination compound [Pt(NH3)3Cl]Cl? Chloride which is an unindented ligand is of two in number hence 1 X 2 = 2. Image Transcriptionclose. [Hb] = 2.21 M in experiment 1. What is the oxidation number on the transition metal? The oxidation number of the Web. 3. 1 views. So, Oxidation number of Cr in [Cr(NH3) 4Cl2]^+ is +3 In this case, we know the oxidation number for H is +1. The oxidation state of any chemically bonded carbon may be assigned by adding -1 for each more electropositive atom (H, Na, Ca, B) and +1 for each more electronegative atom (O, Cl, N, P), and 0 for each carbon atom bonded directly to the carbon of interest. After getting mole of Sr then give the oxidation number of nitrogen in the following: 1. CH2-CH2-CH3 CALCULATIONS : 2 + - 2 + - 4 + 0 + 0 + x = 0-4 + x = 0 x = + 4 The oxidation state of chromium ions is thus + 4 What is the coordination number? a. Most polyatomic ions are negative, but this is one of the few that is positive. Q: Q1. 189 Views. In almost all cases, oxygen atoms have oxidation numbers of -2. NH3, Ammonia is a neutral compound as the individual oxidation numbers elements that make up the compound NH3 are Nitrogen (N) and Hydrogen (H) sum to zero. Tags # [Ni(NH3)6]Cl2 paramagnetic but [Co(NH3)6]Cl3 is diamagnetic # INORGANIC About BY P GHOSH Soratemplates is a blogger resources site is a provider of high quality blogger template with premium looking layout and robust design. The oxidation number of each atom can be calculated by subtracting the sum of lone pairs and electrons it gains from bonds from the number of valence electrons. (b... A: “Since you have posted a question with multiple sub-parts, we will solve first three sub-parts for y... Q: In the presence of excess thiocyanate ion, SCN, the following reaction is first order in chromium(II... A: Hello. Generalic, Eni. Median response time is 34 minutes and may be longer for new subjects. The oxidation number, on the other hand, refers to the charge of the metal. The alkaline earth metals (group II) are always assigned an oxidation number of +2. Let the the oxidation state of Chromium = x since chromium ions are positive. Question. Since Br 2 is a stronger oxidant than I 2, it oxidises S of S 2 O 3 2-to a higher oxidation state of +6 and hence forms SO 4 2-ions. Wavelength is defined as the distance betwe... *Response times vary by subject and question complexity. What happen to oxidation state of N in NH 3. CH3 Oxidation number (also called oxidation state) is a measure of the degree of oxidation of an atom in a substance (see: Rules for assigning oxidation numbers). Ex: (1). The complex has an overall charge of -1 so the sum of all the charges must be equal to this. The oxidation state of an atom is the charge of this atom after ionic approximation of its heteronuclear bonds. Since the question contains multiple subparts, the first three are solved. iii. nitrogen atom in NH3 is, Experts are waiting 24/7 to provide step-by-step solutions in as fast as 30 minutes!*. Ammonia is a hazardous gas and very toxic to humans. The oxidation number of ⦠Cl has one -ve charge. The total charges equals zero since a neutral compound is formed. To find the correct oxidations state of N in NH4+ (the Ammonium ion), and each element in the ion, we use a few rules and some simple math. Unlike radicals in organic molecules, R cannot be hydrogen. The oxidation number of each atom can be calculated by subtracting the sum of lone pairs and electrons it gains from bonds from the number of valence electrons. CH3 Ans: It is important to know possible oxidation number of the other element of a molecule in order to find the oxidation state an element in a molecule. The oxidation number for NO3, or nitrate, is -1. A: First convert mass into molar mass Bonds between atoms of the same element (homonuclear bonds) are always divided equally. and KTF-Split, 3 Mar. Answer to: What is the oxidation number of the central metal ion in (Fe(H2O)2(NH3)4)3+? Answer . Sulphate ion SO 4 2-carries charge of -2, as NH 3 carries no charge, therefore charge on copper is +2, i.e. The oxidation number of the nitrogen atom in NH3 is. Oxygen almost always has an oxidation number of -2, except in peroxides (H. Hydrogen has an oxidation number of +1 when combined with non-metals, but it has an oxidation number of -1 when combined with metals. Thus, the oxidation number for Nitrogen is -3. NH2OH 2. Figure 1. NH4 is a polyatomic ion, meaning it will have a charge. |, Divide the redox reaction into two half-reactions, History of the Periodic table of elements, Electronic configurations of the elements, Naming of elements of atomic numbers greater than 100. There are a few exceptions to this rule: When oxygen is in its elemental state (O 2), its oxidation number is 0, as is the case for all elemental atoms. Answered by | 4th Apr, 2014, 04:38: PM Related Videos ; When oxygen is part of a peroxide, its oxidation number is -1. What is the coordination number? Get more help from Chegg. [Fe(CN)6]4-c. [Co(ox)3]4- d. [PdCl4]2- ii. If $\ce{Co}$ is at +III, the charge of the complex is $3$ + for the same reason. . Q: by mass spectrometry! Fluorine in compounds is always assigned an oxidation number of -1. 3+ C. What is the name of [Cr(NH3)4广 i. How could the following pairs of isc Assign an oxidation number of -2 to oxygen (with exceptions). [Co(NH3)5Br]2+ b. ... Q: Explain why the treatment of anisole with HBr yields phenol and CH3Br, but not bromobenzene. In [ Cu ( NH3)4]SO4 , the oxidation number of NH3 is zero (0) because the ammonia molecule is a neutral molecule . Determining oxidation numbers from the Lewis structure (Figure 1a) is even easier than deducing it from the molecular formula (Figure 1b). Click hereðto get an answer to your question ï¸ Oxidation number of Cr in [Cr[NH3]4 Cl2]^ + is . On the other hand the oxidation number of SO4 ion is â2 . NH3 has zero charge. Why ammonia + oxygen reaction should be done carefully? Hence, [x + (0 X 2) + ( -1 X 2)] = 0 CH3 Ca2+, HF2^-, Fe4[Fe(CN)6]3, NH4NO3, so42-, ch3cooh, cuso4*5h2o). In AgBr molecule if you are asked find the oxidation state of âAgâ. So simple mathematical equation for charge on compound will be - x + 4*0 + 2*(-1) = +1 Solving we get x = +3. Get 1:1 help now from expert Chemistry tutors In case the soluti... Q: Iron(II) can be oxidized by an acidic potassium dichromate solution according to the net ionic equat... A: Iron is generally determined by redox titration with an oxidant such as KMnO4 or K2Cr2O7 that conver... A: a) C. college. convert 2(NH4)3PO4+3HgSO4=3(NH4)2SO4+Hg3(PO4)2 into complete ionic equation,then net ionic equation . Given: Difference in free energy between axial and equatorial substituents for methyl in monosubs... A: Stereogenic centre- a place in a molecule where the interchange of any two groups gives a new stereo... A: Frequency is defined as the number of cycles per second. oxidation number of copper is +2. Name ii. Both make complexes with 6 $\ce{NH3}$. [CO] = 1 mol/L A: Given statement, For chromium, it is similar, as $\ce{Cr}$ may have oxidation number +II and +III. The alkali metals (group I) always have an oxidation number of +1. Oxidation Number: The number that is assigned to an element to indicate the loss or gain of electrons by an atom of that element is called as the oxidation number. The three oxygen atoms have a combined oxidation of -6, corresponding to their electromagnetic charge and the lone nitrogen has a charge, or oxidation number, of +5. Treatment of anisole with HBr yields phenol and CH3Br, but not bromobenzene. WHen ammonia is oxidized by oxygen, oxidation number of N in NH 3 increases from -3 to a higher higher oxidation number such as 0 or +2. N -3 H +1 3 + Cl +1 O -2 - â N -2 2 H +1 4 + Cl ⦠B. Magnesium has 1+ oxidation number and chlorine has a 12 oxidation number. As a result, thiosulphate ions behave differently with I 2 and Br 2. CH3 O oxidation number is for N 2 gas and +2 for NO gas. chemistry. The algebraic sum of the oxidation numbers of elements in a compound is zero. The oxidation number of the nitrogen atom in NH3 is ⦠We can speak of the oxidation numbers of ⦠Our equation now looks like this: 1(4) = 1, You use the multiplier of 4 to indicate that the ammonium ion has 4 hydrogen. Consider the table of initial rate for the reaction between hemoglobin (Hb] and carbon monoxi Periodic Table of the Elements. We do not speak of the oxidation number of a molecule. When dealing with organic compounds and formulas with multiple atoms of the same element, it's easier to work with molecular formulas and average oxidation numbers (Figure 1d). The oxidation number of NH4 is +1. Ethylenediamine which is bidentate ligand is of two in number hence 2X2 =4. To calculate oxidation numbers of elements in the chemical compound, enter it's formula and click 'Calculate' (for example: What is the oxidation number on the transition metal? Then set this value equal to the overall net charge of the ion. help_outline. They are positive and negative numbers used for balancing the redox reaction. (а) 2020. Different ways of displaying oxidation numbers of ethanol and acetic acid. Hence co-ordination number of Platinum will be 4 + 2 = 6 Oxidation state of Pt: Charge on complex = 0. The Pauling electronegativity of each element is as follows: Pt (2.28), Cl (3.16), N (3.04), H (2.20). EniG. Asked Oct 12, 2020. When assigning oxidation states, the electrons of a given covalent bond are said to "belong" to the most electronegative element. The oxidation state, sometimes referred to as oxidation number, describes the degree of ⦠Let the oxidation number of Cr be x. Then it is for you to know the possible oxidation state of âBrâ. 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Seema Mustafa, in response to Subramanian Swamy’s article in DNA wrote: “The language that the politician who heads the one-man Janata Party has used is reprehensible to say the least and I am sure there are laws in this country that can be invoked to take him to task for inflaming passions through complete falsehoods.” There you are, a veiled invitation to trigger happy secularists to drag Swamy into FIRs and court cases over what he has written. Did she manage to have the desired effect? You bet!
Now, if the statement Mustafa made had come from some ‘secular’ politician it would have been understandable. Unfortunately, it comes from a journalist. Journalists are usually the ones to shout themselves hoarse over freedom of speech and ironically it is a journalist who tries to invoke the law to prosecute someone who has expressed his views. This is not just true for Seema Mustafa, this is true for all the so called secular media which doesn’t hesitate to drag The Gita into concocted controversy but doesn’t have the balls to ever even mention the Koran. If the secularists will somehow and someday learn honesty then the likes of Swamy wouldn’t need to write provocative articles. Swamy also exposes how thin and flimsy the tolerance of these secularists are. I had the privilege of going to school but had to learn in later life that the moghuls that our school textbooks glorified were actually villains and enemies of Hindus. You can now expect all the self-righteous nonsense to flow from the minorities commission and other groups to follow.
Here’s the first one from a petition by constituents of Harvard University:
“Swamy proposes a truly shocking set of "strategies" for "deter[ring] terrorism" in an op-ed appearing in the July 16th edition of the Daily News & Analysis, an Indian newspaper. These include "declar[ing] India a Hindu Rashtra in which non-Hindus can vote only if they proudly acknowledge that their ancestors were Hindus"; "[r]emov[ing] the masjid in Kashi Vishwanath temple and the 300 masjids at other temple sites"; "[e]nact[ing] a national law prohibiting conversion from Hinduism to any other religion"; and "[p]ropagat[ing] the development of a Hindu mindset…..Writing in the wake of the July 13, 2011, bombings in Mumbai, Swamy has exploited this event not only to promote a vision of Indian society based on Hindu supremacy, but to disparage and cast suspicion on the entire Muslim community in India. "Muslims of India," he states, "are being programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and thus slide into suicide against Hindus."
The muslims in modern day India are not responsible for any of the past. But those denying the past and wilfully ignoring the aspirations of some Islamic agenda are clearly living in denial. Some of these honourable men and women come from the stock of the JNU, the Congress and the Communist ideology which glorifies the Islamic atrocities as secular rule in India. It takes rare character and courage to be as outspoken and honest as Swamy is. Sure, tar him as a maverick, call him names as Seema Mustafa does, ignore his multi-religious family as the media does and peddle lies about the history of India as the JNU lot do and you have a concoction for a heady clash of religions sooner or later.
Rahul Kanwal of Headlines Today, a bright journalist who is a rising star had this to tweet:
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Strange Twitter logic. When we do story against Cong, we are hailed as patriots. When we expose BJP, we are called Cong agents & traitors.
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Oh yeah? Who exactly called you agents and traitors? What Rahul forgets is that he tends to ridicule the BJP and Hindutva at every step of the way. Every political party has factions and each faction has their leader. That is why we have elections too. Is that logic lost on journalists? If Rahul Kanwal was sensible enough he would find an answer to his tweet in his own stupid tweet he made earlier:
Rahul Kanwal
How can hand picked nominee of tainted CM be expected to prosecute boss to whom he owes elevation & existence. #MoralHighGroundOnCorruption
There, that stone-throwing, calling someone a hand-picked nominee ignoring the fact that there was a secret ballot held to elect the leader of the Karnataka BJP is not the doing of the Twitterati but Kanwal’s own way of casting aspersions. The election by secret ballot of a CM is one of the finest things to have happened in Indian democracy and a practice that should become more frequent and common and yet media brokers like Kanwal ridicule that process and then wonder why the twitterati are against him or his channel. No, they aren’t against you but the severe bias with which you report events and colour news items.This same bias colours every aspect of the Hindu-Muslim reporting that the media indulges in. Hindus are fair game, muslims are victims. That's the media line.Those who die are the aggressors!
Forget temples that Swamy talks about, I am not even willing to accept all the crap about even the Taj Mahal. If you go through the writings and investigation by Stephen Knapp there are lies that have been peddled through the centuries. Would the secularists dare and be open to a detailed investigation of the Taj Mahal? When Swamy talks about temples being destroyed, let’s start with the Taj Mahal itself. The rest can wait. Knapp’s site has sufficient evidence and photographs to warrant a detailed investigation. You may want to go through his site and many others who claim it to be a Shiva temple.
One needs go through the roads less travelled across this country through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and many other states to notice the many small Islamic townships that have come up. Many of them resplendent in their riches and well-built houses and shops. You have to wonder in amazement where all that money and wealth comes from to set up such mini Islamic colonies. The radicalisation of those willing muslims who may wish to overthrow democracy and our way of life is not unique to India. Take a look at this little poster and the related news item:
Daily Mail: "Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up. Communities have been bombarded with the posters, which read: ‘You are entering a Sharia-controlled zone – Islamic rules enforced.’
The bright yellow messages daubed on bus stops and street lamps have already been seen across certain boroughs in London and order that in the ‘zone’ there should be ‘no gambling’, ‘no music or concerts’, ‘no porn or prostitution’, ‘no drugs or smoking’ and ‘no alcohol’. Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has claimed responsibility for the scheme, saying he plans to flood specific Muslim and non-Muslim communities around the UK and ‘put the seeds down for an Islamic Emirate in the long term". The media in UK suggests it’s the work of sick minds but those living there have already wound up their shops and many others have exited the area and moved to other places where they aren’t threatened by these Islamists.
I have read news reports which mention Hindu homes were marked with yellow paint for slaughter in the erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Swamy sort of warns you not to wait for such a day to arrive in India. Subramanian Swamy, I think, only alludes to the fact that there might be many stray muslims and muslim organisations in India who wish to emulate or secretly dream the dream that Anjem Choudary has. Are all muslims involved in that dream? Certainly not, but there are no muslim voices against those who nurture that dream. Their voices only come up when provoked by writers like Seema Mustafa to invoke stupid laws which should not exist in the first place.
For those petitioners in the US who want Harvard University to get rid of Swamy I have to say that they must constitute the greatest gathering of useful idiots who neither know the law nor the idea of freedom. The US supreme court once dismissed even a suit by religious leader Jerry Falwell who was featured in a silly ad by Larry Flynt (Of Hustler magazine) which was outrageous and even allowed a Nazi march through a predominantly Jewish area in Chicago. That is the kind of freedom of speech that democracies need.
The stupid hate speech laws should be removed. You don’t need freedom to say nice things. Real freedom of thought cannot be stopped by laws. You can stop speech but you CANNOT stop thought. And I wish our politicians would wake up and alter such laws. Whether you agree with Swamy or not, give him the space to utter whatever he wants. Let’s not forget that joker from Samajwadi party who announced a prize for the head of the Danish cartoonist who made the Mohammad cartoons. That man still roams free despite encouraging murder in public. Swamy hasn’t incited or encouraged any violence whatsoever. Those who can’t stand his writings are free to write against him. If not, they can shut themselves in their bathrooms and weep.
The best part of the whole drama is that Subramanian Swamy loves a court battle. Anyone dragging him to court would only be stupid enough to oblige him and when they do, there will be more worms crawling out of the secular can. These fools should realise that the ‘Get Swamy’ campaign will not work.
Posted by Ravinar at 8/05/2011 01:34:00 PM
Labels: Congress , DNA , Headlines Today , Hindutva , Islam , Islamic Terror , JNU , National Minorities Commission , Rahul Kanwal , Secularism , Seema Mustafa , Subramanian Swamy , Taj Mahal
Anonymous August 05, 2011 5:31 PM
Rahul kanwal's claim about exposing congress is limited only to people like Kalmadi, Jaipal Reddy, Shashi Tharoor, Sheila Dixit and accuse them of swindling lakhs of crores of INR! Whereas, even a thumb-sucking Indian citizen would tell where these moneys are going to. The Antonio Mainos and Vincis and dare they expose them, if they are spineless, then we agree. Regarding BJP expose, it is no great investigative journalism and would not require one with such stupidity from the opposition.
Regarding Seema Mustafa, I don't think indian 'secular agents' apply laws on others when it comes to bashing up. So why worry about that and instead she must go after the waiting Swamy! Anyway, I am equally proud Indian to be called as non-secular as much as 'secular'. Both are bogus terms and do not come from hearts!
I would appreciate one single effort from at least one Indian journalist to take on the recently acquired Robert Vadra's multi-billainairre status. The kalmadis and even Kani Mozhis can wait in queue. It must be Robert Vadra first.
Harvard has defended Swamy's right of free speech. The petitioners were people with Indian names---don't know whether these are second generation Indians or recently emigrated guys---in any case, they should know about USA's stand on free speech. Seema Mustafa should ask for banning the Koran first.It's one of the world's longest hate speeches. If the media had true liberals instead of pseudoliberals, they would have exposed regressive elements from Islam as well. There are people like Javed Anand who are trying to modernize Islam and make the people accept progressive principles, but they have no help from the media at all.
swami will be back in India on 13th August and as he promised before going now it is PC's turn to visit Tihar.......
Anonymous August 05, 2011 10:54 PM
Harvard defends Swamy's right to freedom of speech
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=14416&SKIN=W
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/01/harvard_faces_questions_about_a_prominent_instructor_from_india
nvltec August 05, 2011 11:21 PM
Great Article, it is always a pleasant reading..
No doubt Dr Swamy’s views can be his own and there are quite a few disarrayed thoughts expressed in that. I don’t entirely agree with that, surely.
But the issue is real. Lakhs have been killed due to terrorism in India since independence. For all those who would wish to advocate peace, perforated views and patient hearing about
Muslim fundamentalists and their terrorist actions, please hold it for your next lives. Ask victims and those around them and you would find plenty of Swamys in place.
The bottom line is we need to address the muslim fundamentalism, even it incurs the wrath of muslim as a religion; can’t help it. The rest of the talk is bullshit and mostly political.
Check out this news website 'WITH BALLS'
http://www.chauthiduniya.com/
and also their youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/CHAUTHIDUNIYA
Let us encourage them....
Look at the last sentence in this article by Raji Rauof , he thinks that Dr.Swamy is a politician but does not give credit to his educational credentials.We were fed history by JNU dhimmies always criticising Hinduism based on caste and nothing practised by other religions.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article2331287.ece
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Poorva August 07, 2011 3:57 PM
Tavleen Singh writes about her experience as a guest speaker on an NDTV show - sets the record straight.
http://www.afternoondc.in/editorial/the-enemies-within/article_30998
Support Dr Swamy sign this petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/Swamy39/petition.html
Traitors rahul kanwal and javed ansari is just trying to malign the image of anna and his team by saying various wrong things like they are blackmailing the govt or they are trying to undermine the respect and powers of the parliament etc. Such things are done just to weaken the movement, which is done for the people and by the people. By doing such immature acts Headlines Today is just participating in bringing our nation down and contributng to corruption and corrupt politicians.shame on you rahul and javed and headlines today.
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April 26, 2010 Inside Looks Joe Janish
Inside Look: LA Dodgers
In a matter of a few days, the Mets went from the NL East basement right into the thick of the race, simultaneously changing their outlook from bleak to bright. Their sudden “about face” was the result of several factors, not the least of which included strong pitching, a spark by Ike Davis, poor execution by their opponents, and a little bit of luck.
Can the Mets remain on a positive course? We shall soon see, but it appears as though their timing remains good — the Dodgers stumble into town playing below their potential, marred by multiple injuries to their pitching staff, and without the bat of Manny Ramirez.
To get a glimpse of what’s going on in Dodgerland, I’ve called on fellow ESPN SweetSpot Blogger Jon Weisman of Dodger Thoughts.
1. Prior to the season, the Dodgers – on paper – looked like the best in the NL West. However, they’ve struggled out of the gate and are sitting near the cellar with an 8-10 record. What’s going on? Have they been playing down to their competition?
Keeping in mind that there’s only a three-game difference between last and first in the NL West, it’s true that the Dodgers’ play has been problematic. They’ve had virtually unprecedented fielding troubles, and the starting pitching outside of Hiroki Kuroda has been inconsistent. I expect that the fielding and pitching will improve some, but the offense – which has been about the best in the league – will cool down, so it’s hard to predict how good they’ll be.
2. With the Padres at the top of the division, it’s obviously still early. Which teams do you see as the main competition for first place come August / September?
I still expect the Rockies to be the Dodgers’ team to beat, with the Giants in the thick of it if they can maintain any kind of hitting.
3. With hot starts by Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, James Loney, and Casey Blake, it seems the Dodgers are less reliant on Manny Ramirez’s big bat for success. Would you agree? Will they miss Manny while he’s on the DL?
His bat is always good to have around – many pundits (gleefully) gave up on him at the end of last year, ignoring his hand injury – but in any case, the Dodgers showed last year they can produce without him.
4. Are Clayton Kershaw and Chad Billingsley ready to take their game to the next level and lead the LA pitching staff, or are they still a year or so away?
I wouldn’t frame the question that way. Some days they’re already at the next level, other days they’re not. Billingsley was arguably one of the two or three best pitchers in the NL in the first half of last season. They just need to execute more consistently.
5. Russ and Ramon Ortiz? Really?
Two of the Dodgers’ top four relievers, Ronald Belisario and Hong-Chih Kuo, started the year on the restricted and disabled lists, and Jeff Weaver went on the DL last week. So while I wouldn’t have chosen the Ortizs, I don’t think many major-league teams have No. 8 and No. 9 relievers that are much better. Russ is now gone, and Ramon is the last guy in the pen and poised for release if the Dodgers get completely healthy.
6. Does Joe Torre’s (ab)use of middle relievers like George Sherrill and Ramon Troncoso concern you?
Sherrill hasn’t been abused (he has never thrown more than 20 pitches on consecutive days, or more than 10 pitches on three consecutive days, as a Dodger), but to the larger point, it does and it doesn’t. There have been times when Torre has fallen in love with a particular reliever, but I also think it has been overblown. I kept track last year of reliever pitch counts and found that it was rare that Torre actually was working a pitcher above what anyone would think is acceptable. One of the few times it happened was with Belisario during one weeklong stretch last summer. Belisario went on the DL, but honestly, that was the exception. Torre has become as careful with Kuo, for example, as one can be.
Torre has had to go to the pen a lot this month, but given how poorly the Dodger pitching performed, there isn’t much any manager could have done differently. I don’t think Torre is a saint or that he’s outstanding with his bullpen use, but I think too much is made of this aspect of his managing in comparison with others. For every Scott Proctor or Belisario, there’s been a lot of good relief performance by the Dodger bullpen under Torre’s control, without injury consequences.
Frankly, I’m a little more concerned by Torre’s use of Billingsley in 2009. Billingsley had the most pitches thrown in the first half of the season of any NL pitcher.
7. Speaking of relievers, how is “former Met” Carlos Monasterios looking?
Monasterios looks like a keeper – not perfect by any means, but a valuable guy for the back of the pen for now. He pitched 2 2/3 innings to get the win in the Dodgers’ 13-inning game at Washington on Saturday.
8. What is the key to the Dodgers making it into the postseason in 2010?
They simply can’t be among the worst in the league in pitching and fielding. They certainly have the talent to make the playoffs, but if they can’t show it on the field, it ain’t gonna happen. They need to improve their performance in those areas just to make sure they stay in contention.
Thanks again to Jon Weisman for his excellent insight. To keep up with what’s going on in Los Angeles baseball, be sure to check out his blog Dodgers Thoughts.
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Mike April 26, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I think that Jon is being pretty optimistic about his team. Whereas Joe tends to doubt the Mets and calls them out on things, Jon seems to be spinning every negative into a positive. I will have to check out his blog more because this is a very small sample size. My issue with the Dodgers is two fold. I don’t like their pitching and Manny Ramirez might make them worse with his poor defense and his fading bat. I don’t think the Mets are much or at all better, but I see a tough year ahead for the Dodgers… somewhere Fred Wilpon is sad.
Jon Weisman April 26, 2010 at 10:55 pm
I’ve been called an optimist before, but I’m pretty clear that if the Dodgers’ pitching and defense doesn’t improve, they’re done for – I don’t see that as strikingly optimistic.
Beyond that, I think with Manny’s fading bat providing an OPS of 1.159, the burden’s on you for now.
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I will NOT go there!
It seems as summer vacations are being announced everywhere, I should be overjoyed as a teacher, knowing that mine is coming soon. But I am not. Instead I feel miserable, stressed, overwhelmed, irritable, etc. BUT I AM NOT going to go there!
I Praise YOU God for seasons in our life where we can ONLY come to you for comfort ~ where words aplenty from friends and family aren't enough. I Praise YOU God for loving me when I eat too much, too little, or are so freaked out by food I curl up in a corner and want to cry. I Praise YOU God, for your healing power, your peace, your perfect kinship.
I refuse to wallow in self pity though it would feel good! It would definitely feel justified. BUT I will NOT go there! A Pity party is not my thang! BUT.... some peace and quiet is. Sometimes solitude, praying, reading, is. Sometimes going in hiding just to get through it all is.
I wanted to let y'all know, that I may be missing in action the next few days.... most likely until the first official day of summer starts for our family ~NEXT Friday.This may be a long weekend, but it is a birthday weekend/holiday weekend/ and one of those finishing up final touches weekends. In other words.... busy!
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Beth in NC May 27, 2011 at 2:28 PM
I pray you'll have peace in every season Sheila. (((hugs)))
Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend!
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School’s out for summer. It’s been a long time since that sentence has had any relevance in my life, apart from being a vastly overrated song by a vastly underrated band. But today it was like being sixteen all over again. This was the last day of Year One at college. I’m basically doing A-Levels, but in Swedish. And A-Levels in Swedish are a little different from back home, or at least how they were was when I was at school. My major subject, or theme, is Sociology. That’s what everything is based on. But it’s not enough to just study one subject here at this level, you have to study English, Swedish and Maths too. Yes I, who struggled considerably with Maths at GCSE level, am now studying Maths at A-Level. In Swedish. I seem to have a habit of going about things the hard way. I was beyond chuffed then to find out yesterday that I’d received the highest grade of the year. I’ve never been anywhere close to being a top student before. I’ve worked hard for it though, but then it doesn’t feel like hard work when you’re really interested in what you’re doing. And I’ve realised how much more effective I am when I’ve got a lot on. College, daughter, bands, blog writer. I can’t afford to fall behind at school simply because I’ll never catch up, so it’s best to stay ahead. One year of A-Levels to go, and then at least three more at university. But now, after a year of hard work, I could sit back and relax for a while. And what better way to do that than to head straight to the airport and fly to London for a gig with DB followed by a few days holiday?
We were actually only in school for a couple of hours this morning, for a ceremonial send off assembly. Almost everyone turned up dressed in nice clothes, all the younger students were geared up in frocks and suit jackets, even my mentor, Charlie, who wears the same black shirt and combat trousers every day, was dressed in suit and bow tie. I was sporting whatever punk t-shirt the system had picked out. It was a little emotional saying goodbye to everyone for the summer, it’s been an intense year at times. A lot of the guys were gathering down next to the lake for a picnic but I was meeting up with Jen, Polly and a couple of friends for some lunch at Färgfabriken, the art gallery/cafe where I work now and again. It was a glorious day, the sun beating down harder than it has done all year. Shame I had to leave so soon.
I walked back to the station with the girls after lunch where we would part ways, since they were going to Jen’s mum and I was heading home to pick up my suitcase and leave. The day then took a strange turn. First off we’re told the station at Liljeholmen is closed off due to a robbery and a bomb threat. And then we walk around the station as instructed to get the tram and find some old man has fallen down with his shopping and has a pretty bad nose bleed. A couple of students help me lift him up and they cause a bit of panic by suggesting we call an ambulance, to which the old boy is totally opposed. To be honest, it doesn’t look that bad once we get him lifted. But still, things like this can leave me with a lump in my stomach for a while afterwards. Strange way to say goodbye to the girls.
I meet up with Luc back at Central Station and we take the Arlanda Express out to the airport. I’m a little ashamed to admit that I’m happy he now has to pay full price, now that he’s turned twenty six. The fucker used to like pointing out how it was a lot cheaper for him, he the youngster. As it is, they have a two for one deal in the summer anyway so we only paid half price. Vik was meeting us at the airport since he was working until three thirty. That had made me a little nervous since the flight was at five thirty but Vik was calm about it. Turns out not to be an issue anyway, the first thing we see once we get through security is that the flight is delayed an hour, or worse, estimated at an hour. I immediately get flashbacks to last summer when me and the girls were delayed all night and ended up staying at the airport hotel, weekend in London totally fucked. I’m relieved then when they change the message board from “Estimated six thirty” to “Delayed until six twenty-five”. And then Vik turns up shortly afterwards, gagging for a pint.
The flight is smooth, once we get going. The delay was caused by stormy weather in London earlier on in the day which had caused a backlog. The only bastard is that it’s fucked our plans for dinner tonight. We’d hoped to make it to Deptford in time for a meal at the Orient with some of the gang, as is tradition, but it’s almost eight when we land and those plans are now defunct. It’s nine thirty by the time we get off at New Cross station and walk along to Deptford High Street. Dinner ends up being a veggie sandwich from a Subway on New Cross Road. It’s not bad but I can’t help feeling disappointed. Funny thing is, all three of us order the same thing, and the guy serving asks all of us in turn if we want cheese, to which we all in turn reply, “Yes please, lots”. I don’t know if they have a policy or if the guy is just a dick but we all receive a measly two triangles of cheese which by the time it’s been melted in the nuclear grill has all but disappeared. We eat up and head to the Bird’s Nest, where Kev has said he’d meet us. He’s sat at the tables outside with Wayne and Miles and a whole load of other people. Pissed.
Kev, not knowing exactly when we’d arrive, had been holding out on dinner and ending up drinking four pints whilst in wait for us, enough to get him pretty sauced. He’s got that silly smirk on his face and is rapidly interchanging between hugging us and telling us he loves us to calling us a bunch of cunts. Wayne and Miles are enjoying a giggle at his expense. It’s good to see everyone and the first pint goes down a fucking treat. Kev says it’s been a scorcher of a day but now the sun has clocked out for the day there is a considerable nip in the air. We decide to head back to Kev’s to dump the bags so as to be able to squeeze into the busy pub and enjoy another couple of jars.
The Nest is pretty busy, as is usually is these days. The boy who runs the place, Joel, has really done a job in turning this place around, as has Kev and the Keep it in the Family crew, who have been steadily putting on decent shows here for the last few years. Kev tells me that they had Halshug on a couple of weeks ago, on a Monday night, and they all ended up battered and headed down to the New Cross Inn afterwards. There they’d made a nuisance of themselves by falling about on the pool table whilst these bikers guys were having a game. Fucking miracle they didn’t get their heads kicked in Kev admits. The Danes from Halshug didn’t know what to make of the Deptford crew I’m sure.
As I’m stood waiting to order a pint from the bar I haven’t really noticed the band playing, I’m fully zoned in on attempting to order a pint. There seems to be a lot of people watching them though. They come in to focus when I notice this slowly shuffling blues rock type riff, just kind of rolling away in the background. Then I hear the singer, in uber Cockney, “Pinky and Perky-ah, Peter O’Toole”. This grabs me immediately. What a fucking lyric. I hear nothing after that, I’m straight in Stix’s ear, relaying it. The pair of us crack up and continue to repeat this line for the rest of the evening. Stix asks me for a sample of my pint, a Shoreditch Triangle IPA, and makes a grimace as it contacts his lips. “Ooh ya fucker, that’s lovely!” He’s now gutted with his pint. I must admit, as good as the pint is, I know I’m taking a risk due to the fact it’s six and half percent and all I’ve had is a measly sarnie for dinner. By the end of what it this, my second pint of the night, I’m already feeling drunk. That kind of drunk where your mouth feels numb as you try to converse. Seems like everyone else is in the same boat, and Kev is now saying he doesn’t care anymore, what about, I’m not sure.
In thoroughly predictable fashion we end up buying chips and cheese from the kebab shop on Deptford High Street on the way home. This is the kind of thing I would only ever dream of eating in England, or maybe Holland. For some reason it seems like the most delicious thing in the world as you’re ordering it pissed, a craving running through every morsel of your body for the fucker, and then as soon as you’ve licked the last slither of cheap, grated cheese from the styrofoam box, you feel sick and disgusted with yourself. We pop in the store on the way back to Kev’s and pick up some crisps for dessert and scoff them down in front of the tv in his living room, some rubbish film on the Horror Channel. I leave Stix and Luc to debate what spot they’re claiming to sleep and head for Kev’s bed, not really bothered whether he’s happy to share it or not.
We wake in the morning and we’re all feeling the effects of last night. Four pints is all it took for me to achieve a hangover. Great… We’re practising at midday at Overdrive, just round the corner from the cafe. We head to Bianca for a fry-up where Karl and his daughter Kali come along to meet us. Greasy food always champion in these situations. Afterwards we head to get some much needed coffee from London’s finest, the Waiting Room. It’s pretty packed but Miles is outside collecting dishes and he takes our order and comes out with the beverages in express time. Feel like one of those creeps you see cruising past the lines at the horrific nightclub on Östermalm. Still, the coffee is much needed and very thankfully received.
Practice is no great success to be fair, at least not for me. It sounds pretty chaotic in the small carpeted room, my red SG that now lives in Deptford struggling to make any kind of decent sound. Also, I’m not sure how, even though the strap is fully extended, the guitar is sitting very high up my body, feel like one of those toughguy hardcore tits. This red SG of mine really does need to be put out of it’s misery. If I had the money and the will I’d give it a service, change the pick up which now has a crust of filth on it, but I don’t. The poor thing has done a lot of gigs in the time I’ve had it. The neck has been off it twice and there are holes all over the place in the body. “Bride of Frankenstein,” Speedhorn’s old tour manager Doug used to call it. Anyway, the rest of the guys seem satisfied enough with practice, despite the hangovers. When we’re done we go and sit outside with Big John, who runs the studio and have a chat. Vik asks him about Paco, his best mate and old Conflict partner, who recently died fairly suddenly. John tells us he’s heartbroken about it and you can see that he’s holding back the emotion. Sad to see the old boy like that. Life, what a cunt it can be at times.
We meet up with Karl, Jules and their daughter Kali and head to the Nest for some refreshments. The sun is fucking blazing so we take one of the benches outside. Kev got a call a while ago from one of the people organising the fest we’re playing tonight up in Tottenham. They’d said originally that we should be there at four in the afternoon but we’d declined that request. What the fuck are we going to do in Tottenham between four and when we play at midnight? Balls to that. Apparently though some girl who is picking up merch for the organisers is swinging by Deptford to pick us up in a cab. Spot on. Beats taking the tube all the way with the guitars. But now as we’re sat there outside the Nest Kev gets a text saying that the cab isn’t happening, that the girl ended up getting a lift off someone else so we’ll have to make our own way. We tell Kev to get on the blower and call but he seems resistant. Karl laughs, saying Kev doesn’t like talking on the phone. Kev dodges around the subject for a while and then finally says he doesn’t want to call the guy from the gig because he speaks weird and he can’t understand what he’s saying. Looks like we’re doing the tube after all.
I’d been tempted by a pint at the Nest but knew deep down that I didn’t really need one. I was planning to take it easy tonight since I’m supposed to be getting tattooed by Marcus tomorrow and I can’t be arsed feeling like shit for that. Plus tomorrow is the start of my four day holiday in London and I don’t want to start that with a hangover. I go for what Kev’s drinking, a Deptford Sunrise, which is basically a virgin Sex on the Beach, we had a variation of it at Snotty once called Snog on the Beach, which I thought was genius on my part. Anyway, it’s good and I’m glad I made this particular choice, even if Vik’s Shoreditch Triangle does look very satisfying… Vik ends up tanking three of the fuckers in the hour and a bit we’re there and is well on his way to tipsy by the time we make our way to the train. We say bye to Karl and the girls and tell him we’ll see him later at the gig, if he makes it that is.
We get up to T Chances, the German community center which was the same venue that held the Fuck Reddin’ Fest we played a couple of years ago, around seven. Perfect timing. This time it’s Bastard Fair though. And we’re playing last. And it’s on the big stage. And apart from our friends Hello Bastards, I’ve never heard of any of the bands. Joe, who is running the show, says he has a good feeling about tonight since he’s been getting a lot of good feedback about it. I can’t say I share his optimism. For the life of me I can’t understand why they’re not putting it on as a floor show in the small room. We get stuff sorted and then head off in search of some dinner. They’re providing the usual punk stew here, which I’m sure is fine and I’d happily nosh down if we were on tour right now, but being this is a one off and I’m on holiday I feel the urge to find a somewhere else, a little calmer, where we can sit, eat and chat and maybe have a drink.
We make our way up Seven Sisters Road towards the football ground in search of a spot. I’m in the mood for Chinese since we missed out on The Orient yesterday but it’s not happening. All we pass is a couple of kebab shops and some Fried Chicken places. It seems like shitty Fried Chicken is taking over this city, it feels like I’ve felt the scent of it since I got here. We pass a couple of terrifying looking pubs whilst gandering about, the two of them wall to wall. The first is just the usual chav bar, footy on the screens, wankers looking angrily at them. The other pub looks like National Front HQ. Fuck this place.
We end up a little further down the road in Manor House where all of a sudden everything looks a little hip. We decide on some cosy looking Italian place on the corner, just under the rail bridge. Everything looks relatively cheap on the menu, which I guess should have served as some sort of warning. We sit there quite a while before being served, Lucas eventually catching their attention by waving the menu in the air, much to Kev’s horror. The pasta looks and tastes like it’s straight out of a packet, the pint of Moretti hits the spot though. Stix, feeling a bit saucy goes for a glass of the house red and receives a large glass of acid. He manages to get through it though, before announcing that he’ll now be taking a break until we play. Kev wins this round with his pizza, by far the best purchase.
We head back to the venue in time to see what is the second band of the night. Petrol Bastard from Leeds. For a second I stand there in shock at the sight of it, not knowing whether to laugh, not knowing whether it’s any good or not. Twenty minutes later I’m wishing a slow, painful demise on the two cunts on stage. They’re basically a piss poor version of Sleaford Mods doing their best to be shocking. THe one guy is dressed in a sleazy blue suit and is wearing cyclops sunglasses, the other is a boots and braces skinhead doing his best to look thick as fuck. They’re ranting something about, “My girlfriend’s a bastard” and other such shocking statements over weak techno beats. It’s very light in the large room and there are about thirty punks watching them, some of them are dancing. There are about another hundred punks outside in the car park, but my gut instinct tells me well they’ll be there the rest of the night. I don’t get the whole scum punk thing to be honest. They flock down to the gig and then refuse to go inside, instead sitting in the car park drinking cheap cans from the offy in some sort of protest. Watching Petrol Bastard I get the first inkling of how this is all going to be a huge miss. Kev and I spoke about the concept of Bastard Fest ages ago, thinking the likes of the Japanese legends Bastard, or Bastard Noise, or an array of others. And then someone else, in this case Little Joe, goes and does it, but it’s called Bastard Fair instead. And if Petrol Bastard is anything to go by then the whole concept is fucked. For a second there is a spark of excitement when a guy stood with a small crowd by the bar at the back shouts, “Stop being so fucking shit!” at the band but it soon becomes clear that he’s friends with the band.
I spot Hanna Trash stood beside them and head over to catch up with her. Nice to see a friendly face. Hanna has just taken over on drums from Niki Nailbomb in Kev’s other band Disculpe. She played in his old band I Like BUGS through which I first met her. She’s a great girl and an amazing drummer. We stand there chatting over the din from the two pillocks on stage, throwing the occasional glance at the spectacle and laughing. After a while I head over to our merch and restring my guitar, almost having forgotten that it had to be done, sitting there praying for the band to finish. Relief finally comes. It can’t get any worse than that tonight, can it?
It can.
Vik has been sitting watching the Champions League Final in the small bar with Jeff from Hello Bastards and I’ve been floating back and forth between there and the car park for a while. The human typhoon that is Misa has turned up and she’s laughing hysterically as always, two pints on the go, jumping all over everyone. I can’t be arsed watching the football, it’s so fucking boring anyway, so head back in and find Anti Bastard on stage. Again, I’m not sure if it’s a joke. Although, this joke isn’t as offensive as the last lot. I can’t really work out what it is they’re supposed to be playing or what they are. There is this anarcho punk guy on the one guitar who looks like a bit of a plonker, the singer looks like a bit of a Smiths geek, the other guitarist looks like he’s in the Levellers and the other two kind of just fade into the background. When I walk in they’re in the middle of some song that is clean picking guitar verse with Smiths doing his best to sing, like sing sing, and making a painful mess of it/crap distortion chorus with Smiths doing his best to scream, like scream scream, and making a painful mess of it. It sounds like the kind of thing you produced when you were thirteen in your mate’s parents garage, the trouble being these guys must be in their forties. And to make matters worse the sound from the PA is absolutely awful, just a blithering mess of reverb. When they go back into clean picking guitar verse I notice Anarcho stood there, eyes closed, head lifted to the ceiling poignantly, really feeling it. I catch Luc’s eye and we piss ourselves laughing. When the song comes to an end Anarcho takes care of proceedings, obviously wanting to deliver some important political message to the handful of punks who have been arsed enough to come in a watch. The problem is though that there is so much delay on his mic that you can’t make anything out, it’s just a cloud of noise, the only thing I can pick out is the word “Tories” now and then as he stands there with his hand on his hips looking like a complete tool. By this point I’m actually crying with laughter.
Surely it can’t get any worse, can it? It can.
Although thankfully there is some respite in the form of Hello Bastards set. Of the six or seven bands on the bill tonight it’s only ourselves and HB that are even remotely in the same ballpark as each other. It’s become obvious that there has been a vast mishandling of this event. It was a fun concept, to have a Fest where all the bands on the bill have the word Bastard in their name, but unfortunately that seems to have been the only criteria required. I can’t help thinking how much better this would have been if Kev had booked it. Maybe next year.
Hello Bastards blast through their set in about fifteen minutes and for the first time tonight there is a pretty good crowd in to watch the band, at least sixty of seventy people, and all of a sudden it doesn’t feel so bad. Plus Miles has turned up, and Sean, and some other friends, not Karl though. But still, it feels like it could be a fun show after all. Fuck it, playing is always fun anyway, no matter what the crowd. It is after all the reason we’re here.
When Hello Bastards are done normal service resumes and we’re tortured for the next half hour by a seven piece ska punk band. As much as ska punk makes me feel nauseous I can still tell when it’s played well, A Fish Called Bastard unfortunately don’t achieve this, not that this music played well makes things much better, but still. I hate to sound like a snob, and there are people out there of course who think the bands I play in are crap, and that’s anyone’s right to feel that way, just as it is of course everyone’s right to get up on stage and play. We all like different things and that’s a good thing. It’s just a bit of a bummer when you’re stood there waiting to go on and play a gig that you wouldn’t, not in a million years, ever pay to go to yourself. All that said, the guys who put the gig on are paying for our flights which I’m very thankful for, I can’t imagine they’re making the money back to cover them though.
Fuck it, it’s time to play and as I’m looking for some sort of sound out of the Marshall combo amp propped up on a chair on the high, brightly lit stage, the words of Chuck Dukowski come back to me, as they have done many times over the years, “You play your ass off or you don’t play at all”. Those words have stuck with me ever since the first time I read Get In The Van. They made me realise that it doesn’t matter how many people aren’t at the show, all that matters is the people that are and they’re here watching your band play and you don’t rip them off. As it is, there is a pretty okay crowd in by the time we start anyway, maybe sixty or so, although the room holds maybe four hundred. I see that our good mate Wayne has made it here, having darted across London after finishing his shift. And our mate Jamie has arrived too. That’s the last little lift I need before blasting into the opening riff of Hypnotic Eye.
It ends up being a fun show, although I’m struggling with the equipment, my guitar sounds like piss and is sat so high that I have to arch the legs pretty low to be able to play comfortably which ends up giving me achy thighs, and the lead I’m using is cutting out now and again, not to mention the balls sound from the little amp, but the punks watching us are having a good enough time and they all move about for the duration of the gig. Wayne ends up floating about on the crowd at one point. This is our punk rock. And I love it. Despite everything, no matter the circumstances, I still love playing.
After the gig there really isn’t much to do but pack up and figure out how we’re getting back down to South London. Kev had put out the money for our flights and Little Joe tells him he doesn’t have the cash on him for them tonight since they had a bad one but he’ll get the money to him in the coming days. Kev has no qualms though, he says they’re good people and they’ll sort it. I think we sold two shirts and a couple of sevens, that ain’t going to cover any flights… We pile out into the car park and discuss the options. There had been talk of a cab but that has been dismissed, too expensive considering there’s a night bus that goes from here all the way to London Bridge. As we’re discussing this a cop van pulls up and a herd of them jump out and roughly grab some punter from the gig saying they got a call about someone matching his description brandishing a knife. It seems like a right load of bollocks to me. Some other punks are milling about, protesting the cops actions and it all gets a bit silly. The whole time Vik, who is pissed and hasn’t understood what is going on is shouting at us, “Are we taking a cab or what?” Disappointed, he follows the rest of us to the bus stop, telling me how he steers clear of the cops since he got busted in the States. He tells me this a few times.
We’re waiting for the bus and I’m eating a bag of crisps, some punk kid looks at me and snorts, “Gimme one of them!” Absolutely. You twat. He seems surprised when I kindly pass him the bag. You don’t need to talk to others like a cunt just because you’re a punk. Luc is getting nervous because there are a crowd of tough looking types hanging out at the bus stop and he’s convinced we’re going to get robbed. No one else in our crowd seems to have noticed or cares. I think Luc is just tired and a little bit anxious about his flight that takes off in about six hours, poor bastard. The bus finally comes and we head back to the south, along with Misa, Sean and some girl who is a girlfriend of someone the guys know, who wanted company. The bus takes a while to weave through the weekend nighttime traffic and by the time we get to Hoxton Kev has gone pale in the face, desperate for a slash. Vik is soon with him. Luc is sleeping beside Vik obvlious to Vik rocking back and forth. I’m glad I chose to stay sober tonight. Misa is punching Kev in the stomach and laughing her ass off, Kev is begging her to stop, saying he’ll end up pissing in her face. When we alight at London Bridge Kev and Vik run and piss in the nearest shadow, crying as they do so, knowing fine well they risk problems with the cops if they turn up.
We end up back at Kev’s around three am. Sean and Vik are passing a bottle between them, something out of the drinks cabinet that Kev inherited from his mum. Me, Kev and Misa are searching online for the best cab options to get Luc to the airport. Luc heads into Kev’s room to get some sleep around four, his cab is at five. Sucks. For the money you save booking the early flight, you lose it on the cab to the airport being that there are no trains running at this time. I feel bad for him, but being sober I’m desperately tired and by the look of things here in the living room the lights won’t be going out any time soon. I risk pissing Luc off and lay down beside him on the double bed in Kev’s room. He’s rolled himself up in the duvet, which I’ll be needing. I’m in my jammy bottoms and it’s cold. Sorry buddy. He probably thinks I’m a right selfish cunt. I wake up a few hours later and in Luc’s place now lies Kev. I wonder how his journey was. Well actually, I know, I’ve done it myself. I try and get back to sleep for a couple more hours. My holiday in London starts for real today, three days here hanging out before Jen comes over with Polly. I’m hoping to start the holiday with a lie in.
Posted by Besatt at 4:33:00 PM
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Science and the politics of climate change: unanimity does not rule
Guest post by Mike Hulme.
The largest academic conference that has yet been devoted to the subject of climate change has just finished in Copenhagen. Between 2,000 and 2,500 researchers from around the world attended three days of meetings during which 600 oral presentations (together with several hundred posters on display) were delivered on topics ranging from the ethics of energy sufficiency to the role of icons in communicating climate change to the dynamics of continental ice sheets.
I attended the conference, chaired a session, listened to several presentations, read a number of posters and talked with dozens of colleagues from around the world. The breadth of research on climate change being presented was impressive, as was the vigour and thoughtfulness of the informal discussions being conducted during coffee breaks, evening receptions and side-meetings.
What intrigued me most, however, was the final conference statement issued,
a statement drafted by the conference’s Scientific Writing Team. It contained six key messages and was handed to the Danish Prime Minister Mr Anders Fogh Rasmusson. The messages focused, respectively, on Climatic Trends, Social Disruption, Long-term Strategy, Equity Dimensions, Inaction is Inexcusable, and Meeting the Challenge. A fuller version of this statement will be prepared and circulated to key negotiators and politicians ahead of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in December this year – also in Copenhagen.
The conference, and the final conference statement, has been widely reported as one at which the world’s scientists delivered a final warning to climate change negotiators about the necessity for a powerful political deal on climate change to be reached at COP15. (Some commentators have branded it The Emergency Science Conference’). The key messages include statements that ‘the worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realised’, that ‘there is no excuse for inaction’, that ‘the influence of vested interests that increase emissions’ must be reduced, and that ‘regardless of how dangerous climate change is defined’ rapid, sustained and effective mitigation is required to avoid reaching it.
There is a fair amount of ‘motherhood and apple pie’ involved in the 600 word statement – who could disagree, for example, that climate risks are felt unevenly across the world or that we need sustainable jobs. But there are two aspects of this statement which are noteworthy and on which I would like to reflect: ‘Whose views does the statement represent?’ and ‘What are the ‘actions’ being called for?’
The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was no IPCC. This was not a process initiated and conducted by the world’s governments, there was no systematic synthesis, assessment and review of research findings as in the IPCC, and there was certainly no collective process for the 2,500 researchers gathered in Copenhagen to consider drafts of the six key messages or to offer their own suggestions for what politicians may need to hear. The conference was in fact convened by no established academic or professional body. Unlike the American Geophysical Union, the World Meteorological Organisation or the UK’s Royal Society – who also hold large conferences and who from time-to-time issue carefully worded statements representing the views of professional bodies - this conference was organized by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), a little-heard-of coalition launched in January 2006 consisting of ten of the world’s self-proclaimed elite universities, including of course the University of Copenhagen.
IARU is not accountable to anyone and has no professional membership. It is not accountable to governments, to professional scientific associations, nor to international scientific bodies operating under the umbrella of the UN. The conference statement therefore simply carries the weight of the Secretariat of this ad hoc conference, directed and steered by ten self-elected universities. The six key messages are not the collective voice of 2,500 researchers, nor are they the voice of established bodies such as the World Meteorological Organisation. Neither are they the messages arising from a collective endeavour of experts, for example through a considered process of screening, synthesizing and reviewing of the knowledge presented in Copenhagen this week. They are instead a set of messages drafted largely before the conference started by the organizing committee, sifting through research that they see emerging around the world and interpreting it for a political audience.
Which leads me to the second curiousity about this conference statement.
What exactly is the ‘action’ the conference statement is calling for? Are these messages expressing the findings of science or are they expressing political opinions? I have no problem with scientists offering clear political messages as long as they are clearly recognized as such. And the conference chair herself, Professor Katherine Richardson, has described the messages as politically-motivated. All well and good.
But then we need to be clear about what authority these political messages carry. They carry the authority of the people who drafted them – and no more. Not the authority of the 2,500 expert researchers gathered at the conference. And certainly not the authority of collective global science. Caught between summarizing scientific knowledge and offering political interpretations of such knowledge, the six key messages seem rather ambivalent in what they are saying. It is as if they are not sure how to combine the quite precise statements of science with a set of more contested political interpretations.
Which brings us back to the calls for action and the ‘inexcusability of inaction’. What action on climate change exactly is being called for?
During the conference there were debates amongst the experts about whether a carbon tax or carbon trading is the way to go. There were debates amongst the experts about whether or not we should abandon the ‘two degrees’ target as unachievable. There were debates about whether or not a portfolio of geo-engineering strategies now really needs to start being researched and promoted. And there were debates about the epistemological limits to model-based predictions of the future. There were debates about the role of behavioural change versus technological change, about the role of religions in mitigation and adaptation, and about the forms of governance most likely to deliver carbon reductions.
These are all valid debates to have. And they were debates that did occur during the conference. Experts from the natural sciences and social sciences, from engineering and policy sciences, from economics and the humanities, all presented findings from their work and these were discussed and argued over. These debates mixed science, values, ethics and politics. This is the reality of how climate change now engages with the worlds of theoretical, empirical and philosophical investigation.
It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well-informed and yet largely unresolved debates among a substantial cohort of the world’s climate change researchers gets reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority – ‘there is no excuse for inaction’ – and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to resolve nothing in political terms.
In fact, we are no further forward after the Copenhagen Conference this week than before it. All options for attending to climate change – all political options – are, rightly, still on the table. Is it to be a carbon tax or carbon trading? Do we stick with ‘two degrees’ or abandon it? Do we promote geo-engineering or do we not? Do we coerce lifestyle change or not? Do we invest in direct poverty alleviation or in the New Green Deal?
A gathering of scientists and researchers has resolved nothing of the politics of climate change. But then why should it? All that can be told – and certainly should be told - is that climate change brings new and changed risks, that these risks can have a range of significant implications under different conditions, that there is an array of political considerations to be taken into account when judging what needs to be done, and there are a portfolio of powerful, but somewhat untested, policy measures that could be tried.
The rest is all politics. And we should let politics decide without being ambushed by a chimera of political prescriptiveness dressed up as (false) scientific unanimity.
Mike Hulme is a professor in the school of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia.
Posted by Guest Writer at 13:03
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Stuart White said...
Frankly, Mike, I think you are being incredibly naive about the politics of this issue. Without a clear message that the problem is real, severe and needs urgent action - and no reasonable person would doubt that - vested interests will have no problem exploiting marginal points of disagreement to create a sense of uncertainty around the fundamentals.
Rachael Jolley said...
Six messages may seem simplistic to engaged scientists but for most people it would be the most they will read on the subject. I know academics hate the idea of boiling down complex messages to something "simplistic". But good, simple, clear messages can have far more impact on the wider public than a cleverly drawn 17,000 word essay.
My other point would be to query what you mean when you say "let politics decide". Do you mean let politicians decide or do you mean the world of politics? I would like to think that scientists can be part of that decision too, especially if they are well informed on a subject. Since scientists get the vote too, they, like everyone else, get to influence the decisions that political parties make about policies of the future and the present. Ideally I would like scientists to believe that they too have to be political.
As we saw with George W Bush's presidency - different policy decisions are decided, informed and influenced by different lobbies. If you want a government or group of governments to take a particular political action then you have to consider the politics of that policy too.
Tim Gore said...
As someone working somewhere in the midst of that nexus of "science, values, ethics and politics" you describe (economics, international relations, technology... the climate policy list goes on), I do recognise what you're talking about, but I really don't see that we should very much care.
Not in this year, when all of the effort of all of us concerned with the future of life on earth, should be directed in one direction: at securing a reasonable outcome to the Copenhagen summit in December.
Anything that divides attention away from that goal now just seems to me a bit unhelpful.
Your main complaints with the Copenhagen congress seem to be: 1) of process, and 2) of ouput.
You worry that the final statement produced wasn't properly representative of the 2500 participants.
But you point out, that this was no IPCC. And for good reason. You will know better than I, that IPCC takes around 6 years between its reports. The last one (AR4) was pretty out of touch with the latest research before it was even published, and for all its merit as a weighty contribution to the fight for a safer planet (its authors fully deserving of their Nobel prize), it hardly contains the snappy top-lines and sound bites we need this year.
So the congress was always a politically motivated event. It was a clever move by the Danish government to focus the minds of people in and out of governments around the world around two words for 2009: "Copenhagen" and "climate".
It didn't need to be a rigourous IPCC-like process to do that, and seems to me to have been reasonably successful in that respect.
A quick and dirty communications strategy of the kind some NGOs and activists would be proud.
Which is why I would not be overly concerned that the 2500 participants did not manage to come up with a blue print for all the "actions" that were necessary to avert the climate crisis.
As you point out yourself, they had no such mandate. They are not governments - that kind of deal-making comes in December (or rather in the glacial negotiating sessions throughout this year), so I see no problem with them having earnest conversations deep into the night about the relative merits of carbon taxes over cap and trade, or any other issue, that have no substantive outcome other than to generate more research proposals, newspaper column inches and comments in well-meaning blogs.
The point was to create noise around the urgency to get a global deal that might give us half a chance of staying below 2 degrees of warming.
Let's keep that big picture in mind as we strive to take on the biggest political challenge of our (and possibly any) generation, because until enough people are aware of that, all the wonky policy detail about which "actions" are needed, will count for nothing.
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[Via Satellite 05-19-2015] BAE Systems Australia, the largest defense contractor in the country, has selected customized amplifier units from ETL Systems for use in a Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) ground station. The amplifiers have been designed for X- and Ka-band antennas to receive military signals.
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“I just want to warn the public that e-mails are not secure. Be careful. Just look at what happened to my friend,” he said.
E-mail hacking has been on the rise for the past two years, according to the Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) and CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM).
The number of incidents recorded by the police has jumped from just two cases in 2014 to 73 last year. The total amount of losses spiked from RM974,832 in 2014 to RM39mil in 2015.
“Between January and August, there have been 29 cases, with RM11mil in losses,” CCID intelligence and operations deputy director Senior Asst Comm Roslan Abdul Wahid told Sunday Star.
He said the hacker intercepts an e-mail exchange between two parties, usually when a payment is about to be made.
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Targeting both foreigners and locals, their victims also include large companies.
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“Bosses should provide security awareness training for their staff. They must call the bank immediately if a transfer was made to a fake account number,” he said.
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In an initiative spearheaded by Beyond Research in Italy, 17 countries, and the world’s best qualitative minds, came together to analyse the human reaction to the pandemic, and to build practical advice for brands in the future.
The report includes contribution from (in alphabetical order), in addition to Italy: Arab Emirates Why5, Argentina Gaston De Lazzari, Australia Faster Horses, Belgium Why5, Brazil Silvia Aquino, China Tapestry Works, France Callua Marketing, Germany Angelika Haas, India Vox Populi, Russia Mariya Bokarnikova, Saudi Arabia Why5, Singapore Tapestry Works, Spain Big Band, Thailand Tapestry Works, UK Greenlight International, USA Silvia Fassi Inc.)
Why was the report created?
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event for our modern world, which has created a new kind of fear amongst people. Worries about health, the economy and the future and the obligation to remain at home and/or avoid physical contact mean existing daily norms relating to time, space and personal identity have been upended all around the world. And there’s no going back: a ‘new normal’ is shaping up in front of us.
That’s why, now more than ever, brands must be ready to face the situation.
Consumers choose Fight or Flight
Consumers seek to manage this new-found fear in different ways through either acknowledging or denying, fighting or fleeing from it. These all lead to the emergence of several new consumer archetypes with a corresponding role for brands to meet their needs.
1. The Innocent Victim (Flight – negative)
Innocent Victims feel like they have no control over the situation. They tend to feel lonely and to be overwhelmed by worry.
A brand aligning with this space can be a Caregiver, providing these people with comfort and protection, encouraging them to get through and placing a view of normality in place at the end of what is perceived to be a dark tunnel. Caregiver brands act top-down to consumers.
2. The Jester (Flight – positive)
Jesters try to make light of the situation, using comedy as a refuge. As they feel nothing can be done about it, we may as well find the funny side of it and keep alive the sense that we are all in this together.
Jesters like brands that can be an Entertainer: brands that make people laugh, and also look on the lighter side of life. Especially at a later stage of the epidemic’s evolution, they provide relief from the seriousness of the situation. These brands often leave their customers to act bottom-up, leaving them the centre stage on social media.
3. The Warrior (Fight – negative)
Warriors need an enemy to cope with the situation. They take a strong side in multiple of the arguments presented around staying at home vs remaining open for business, the balance between health and the economy, around politics and age. There is a sense of exasperation in their narrative and anger either towards authorities or those who disagree with the authorities.
A brand aligning with this space needs to act like a Hero, a bottom-up protagonist, helping to manage this frustration and anger, providing simple solutions to the day to day issues experienced and building new symbols of hope.
4. The Common Man (Fight – positive)
Likely the most common of the archetypes as the pandemic has evolved, the Common Man gets on with things as best as possible. They try to make the most of the simple things in life and use everyday moments to normalize an abnormal situation.
The Common Man needs a Facilitator. A peer-to-peer brand, positive in a practical way, helping everyday activities to be done in a new way. A supporter in the recovery of nature and of community feelings. It may embrace a bit of nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ rituals and tradition.
Out of the pandemic’s box, the leap towards the future
But for most brands there is a chance to be a Springboard for the last Archetype, the Creator.
Springboard brands help Creators to be resilient and to reinvent themselves in the new normal. These brands create brand new paradigms, and leverage the tension by doing things differently. There are so far few brands that have emerged as Springboards around the world, but there is a huge opportunity for brands to rethink the way they work, the way they employ, the products they deliver and the service they offer.
What key strategic areas should be considered in the New Normal
Our research has identified 7 key insights that all brands – not just Springboards – can consider when thinking about their futures:
1. Health and Safety
Protecting our physical and mental health and wellbeing will become more important in our day to day lives, not only when it comes to the more obvious industries such as pharmaceuticals, but also for travel, food, cosmetics, fitness, textiles, entertainment, conferencing and other sectors. Consumers will expect increased attention to health awareness, sanitization protocols at every touchpoint. Virtual, tech caregiving will become increasingly prevalent, offering opportunities for forward thinking brands.
2. Sustainable Conscience
Since the coronavirus lockdown was put in place around the world, there has been a noticeable positive impact on the environment, and Nature has bee allowed to breathe again. Future sustainability will become increasingly important, even for those who have not paid attention to it in the past. There will also be increased attention paid to the way companies behave, not only towards the world around us, but to their own people. Consumers will demand, watch for and choose companies that engage in ethical practices.
3. Digitalization
The gap between digital natives and other such as the over 65s has narrowed dramatically. People around the world, irrespective of age and socio economic status have become accustomed to life online. This presents opportunities for brands wanting to make a switch from face to face interactions to online. New digital experiences can also be introduced to deliver curated experiences and tech empowerment, bringing e-life to the home.
4. Local and Neighborly
Feelings of uncertainty and being under threat have increased the value placed in brands perceived to be ‘close’ to consumers. This closeness can be derived from being from the same country, region, town or even suburb as consumers. Proximity builds familiarity, comfort and trust. There is an opportunity for brands that are able to leverage their provenance. This opportunity extends further towards the way that products are made, and use of local ingredients, local supply lines and personalities. Not only does this add to brand equity, but it can also contribute towards improved agility.
5. The Considered Consumer
The reality of the financial impact on consumers is that spending power will shrink, and consumers will be more cautious and considered in their choices. A simpler, more authentic way of living will evolve and consumers will be looking for clear and concise messaging, new pricing models and a renewed focus on functional benefits that build confidence and surety. Durability, longevity and reliability will become important once more.
6. Community and Solidarity
The virus has reinstated the importance of community all around the world. Consumers will look for brands to help support their sense of community, not only in terms of tools (eg digital interactions) but also as bearers of a new fair, kind, generous and supportive approach to consumers. Solidarity is expected and the global system will reset around a bigger “we thinking” paradigm. This means that profiteering, not carrying out obligations, reneging on agreements and taking advantage of the vulnerable will not be tolerated.
7. Springing back to Life
Despite the current situation and the fear that has gripped the world, human beings are resilient and when normality returns, they will embrace life with renewed energy and enthusiasm. At this point they will look to brands to raise a smile and a laugh through comforting messages, or even recapturing the ‘good old days’ before COVID-19. Even the smallest messages or simplest gestures will be appreciated. Brands will need to be positive and upbeat, recognizing the humanity in their customers.
Above all, brands need to redefine their Purpose. Brands will have a key responsibility to clarify their messages, values and stories, to pursue a new level of authenticity, but also own a role in guidance and understanding. The brand role will be to help rebuild a social and cultural narrative.
Access to the Report is free!
The report, with further detail around the archetypes and strategies, as well as the insight videos can be found on the Beyond Research website, the Greenlight International website and the Faster Horses website.
Veronica Mayne: Faster Horses: veronica@fasterhorses.consulting (+61 412 601797)
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Post subject: Mark Milton
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 08:23
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This topic is reserved for discussion of the following Safe Speed Page:
http://www.safespeed.org.uk/milton.html
The page discusses the case of Mark Milton - a Polce a driver acquitted after driving his Police car at 159mph on a public road.
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fergl100
I don't believe Mark Milton was driving dangerously.
The impression given by the headlines, and what a lot of people will take from this story, is that Mark Milton will have been driving at 84mph for miles along a 30mph limit, and for miles at 159mph on the motorway. I am assuming with his training he only achieved these speeds for short bursts at appropriate sites on the roads. This is a completely different matter than barrelling along round corners etc. at 84mph or 159mph.
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Joined: Thu Dec 09, 2004 22:53
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I'd imagine the 84mph in the 30mph limit was the highest speed recorded as he was leaving the 30mph limit zone to go into the NSL zone.
To report for speed there should IMO be some evidence of inappropriateness of driving behaviour included. This may simply be excessive speed for circumstances, but it may also be a display of aggression or lack of concentration.
Fixed ideas are like cramp, for instance in the foot, yet the best remedy is to step on them.
beermatt
IanH wrote:
Or could also have been a 30 limit like this one:-
(from the Rules Page).
I'm sure we've all seen them - dual carriageways, armco, 30 limit.. Why
Unless we get to see the video it's impossible to judge IMO.
lkylong
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 03:20
fergl100 wrote:
I don't believe he was too, but so was millions of other motorist who were flashed 15-25 mph over the limit, and was penalised heavily..
I think everyone is just furious about the double standards..
To report for speed there should IMO be some evidence of inappropriateness of driving behaviour included.
IMHO, with the technology these days, they should let drivers take responsibilities for their own actions, and since you have all these photographic cameras and video cameras, no one should be penalised for not injuring any people, but instead should be penalised heavily if they have caused damage and the evidence have found that he was driving aggressively/negligently etc.etc. But we all know the government are just way too addicted to their revenue raising and just wouldn't put their technology to proper use instead, which is a shame...
Jamie Harris
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 13:18
Joined: Sat Jul 16, 2005 13:08
Location: Grimsby
I agree that the reason for outrage is that there seems to be one rule for police officers, another for civilians. Police traffic officers are more highly trained than most other road users, so are best equipped for very high speeds. However, many other road users could easily exceed the statutory speed limits in complete safety. The main danger on our roads is unaware drivers who blindly drive unsafely. A driver overtaking innappropriately at 50 on a 60mph road can be infinately more dangerous than a well trained driver going at 80mph on the same road. Why we take a driving test when we are 17, and are not obliged to undertake ANY further training escapes me. My opinion for many year has been that some form of further skills testing every 5 years or so would cut accidents dramatically. Such successful testing could provide eveidence of a driver's abilities to cope with driving safely.
The problem with speed cameras is that a motorist can go through one set at 60mph whilst driving at 55mph on the wrong side of the road, eating a sandwich, adjusting the radio, or anything else.
Speed does not kill. Hitting things does.
the points that you've mentioned have been said before, but all these have fallen on deaf ears, especially it's now very obvious that the government are just too addicted with the extra revenue, "Speed doesn't Kill, Ignorance and Greed does!"
the point about ongoing training, I've actually thought if they really cared about safety, on minor traffic offenses, like U-turning at wrong places, not giving ways, not signalling, parking at dangerous places etc.etc. they should order the driver to re-take a knowledge test etc. or even order the driver to take the knowledge test every 3-5 years, I'm sure there's so many drivers out there that would fair the knowledge test if they were to asked to take the test again, but again, the government doesn't care, they're too greedy to care about anyone's safety if u ask me..
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 18:44
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Here we go again. This continual madcap apologia in this website for excessive speeding. Jesus - 159 mph on a public road - 159! - and you seek to justify that!!
The fact is Justice Hallett, 'one of the country's top judges', said:
"Driving at those speeds on public roads without any warning in conditions, no matter how good, and no matter what the skills of the driver, amounted to dangerous driving"
I couldn't have put it better myself. End of story.
Once you have guys like you saying that in such and such circumstances I should be excused excessive speeding, we are on the road to catastrophe. By what right should cretins like this be allowed to impose their personal view of what is safe on all other road users? Why bother with speed limits? Why not just say everybody can drive as fast as they like, and to hell with it? Then everybody's 'personal view' would be equally valid.
Of course, there has to be a line drawn at some point, and the arbiter of that is and can only be the law.
spankthecrumpet
Joined: Sun Sep 26, 2004 01:59
And 'the law' permits police officers to ignore the speed limit, amongst other restrictions, when on duty...
The Judge has ordered, in effect, police authorities to review their entire procedures in this area, i.e. she did not see that the 'law' you refer to, as pleaded by the officer, permits what he did
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xylophone wrote:
Nothing of the sort.
Actually, what the judge has ordered is that the case be re-tried, as there was an incorrect piece of logic applied in the original trial. For all you know the new trial may well find him innocent just the same as the first did, but for subtly different reasons.
The nearest thing to "facts" that I can sift out of all the various reports on the judgment are:
1. He is not guilty of speeding. Full Stop. Period.
2. The original court were wrong to find him Not Guilty of dangerous driving on the grounds of "hearsay" evidence of other officers, which should have been declared inadmissible.
3. A re-trial has been ordered, with instructions only to consider relevant evidence
On this basis there would seem a strong possibility that the new court will simply acquit him on the grounds that there isn't sufficient relevant evidence.
As an aside, I was actually speaking to Lady Justice Dame Heather Hallett on Friday, though we didn't discuss PC Milton's case...
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People who come out with this 'end of story' business sound to me as if they have closed minds, so there's not much point in trying to make any sense of them while they take that stance.
Best wishes all,
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:38
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Location: Saltburn, N. Yorks
In the first half of the '60's 120mph was deemed acceptable with drum brakes and no servos, so what's so wrong with 159 on today's roads with a modern car
You might be interested in the press briefing that Safe Speed issued before the appeal hearing:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SafeSpeedPR/message/133
If there must be a 'line drawn somewhere' perhaps you're suggesting that Police officers should be subject to speed limits - possibly their own special speed limits. But if they were, then criminals would only need to be able to travel a few miles per hour faster to get away. That doesn't strike me as sensible at all.
And even more importantly, the bottom line is that you can't replace responsibilities with rules.
Oscar wrote:
Probably nothing, so long as you confine it to the right circumstances and you do it properly.
<Thinks: 'Ah the early 1960s - happy days! Bring 'em back. Oh, I forgot, I already have done, in a manner of speaking.' >
K1200RSrider
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 22:16
This quote shows the abysmal quality of the debate on the other side and is the most perfect example of projection I have ever seen.
By what right should cretins like this be allowed to impose their personal view of what is safe on all other road users?
ASLAN IS ON THE MOVE...
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 13:22
Friend of Safe Speed
Location: Moved to London
SKY News wrote:
159mph Officer Cleared
Updated: 11:27, Friday March 16, 2007
A police officer caught speeding in an unmarked Vauxhall Vectra at speeds of up to 159mph has had his conviction for dangerous driving overturned by the High Court.
PC Mark Milton, 38, of Telford, Shropshire was found guilty following his second trial for the offence after the High Court overturned his original acquittal.
District Judge Peter Wallis, sitting at Ludlow Magistrates' Court, ruled that his expertise as a Grade One advanced police driver was "irrelevant" to whether or not his driving was dangerous.
But Lady Justice Smith and Mr Justice Gross, sitting at London's High Court, said the district judge had "misdirected himself".
They sent the case back to him to decide whether "PC Milton's unusual driving skills were such as to make a crucial difference to the dangerousness of his driving".
Lady Justice Smith said: "It seems to me that this matter is of considerable importance to both sides of the dispute."
PC Milton had been given an absolute discharge for the offence.
During the trial, footage taken from the camera video fitted to a West Mercia Police Vauxhall Vectra was shown.
Milton was seen to be regularly travelling over 100mph on A-roads and up to 159mph on the M54 during the early hours of December 5, 2003.
The armed response officer, claimed he was honing his skills following an advanced driving course.
Good. That sounds like common sense.
The higher level skills of a genuinely advanced driver must be taken into account in deciding whether or not the driving was dangerous.
Basing the judgement on the opinions of normal 'careful and competent' drivers is not adequate.
Piddy
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:48
TripleS wrote:
What complete rubbish. There are plenty of places the driver could have tested out the handling of hias car without doing it on a public poad.
If Michael Schumacher is caught speeding on a public road he runs the risk of losing his racing licence and yet who is the better driver????
Nobody has the right to do this speed on the roads. It does not matter how advanced a driver you are. You cannot predict the unforeseeable. An animal could run in front of you. A tyre could blow out. The guy is just an idiot and he should have been convicted of this in the same way any of the rest of us would have been.
Do you honestly think when the police find these videos by idiots on you tube showing themselves at ridiculous speeds that they will consider whether the driver is doing 159mph in a 'safe way' or how advanced their driving skills are. Don't make me laugh!!
Piddy wrote:
Welcome to SafeSpeed, Piddy - and thanks for your contribution. Don't worry, I won't attempt to make you laugh; I know when a job's too much for me.
Meanwhile I stand by my comments.
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Edd Watches Pixar: Up Review
Movie No. 10: Up (2009)
OK, let’s get out of the way right now.
NO, I DIDN’T CRY.
Now I’d be lying if my throat didn’t get all kinds of tight during Up’s first 10 minutes. Either I have a heart after all or that Rona finally caught up to me.
But again, that intro. Failed pregnancies? Redevelopment pushing seniors out of their neighborhoods? Heartbreakingly sad death of a spouse?
Isn’t this supposed to be a kid’s movie? How, Sway!?
Of course, this movie isn’t just about the crippling void left by the death of a loved one, it’s also about child abduction! Seriously, why don’t the Pixar parents ever get worried when their children vanish for days or weeks at a time? Only Nemo’s dad seems to fear child protective services.
If you’ve ever wanted to see a day in the life of Mr. Edward and his mentees, just watch Mr. Fredricksen interact with his hyperactive stowaway here. Mr. Fredricksen becoming the kid’s father figure at the end of the movie, finding new purpose and a new family after literally letting his beloved house go was a superkick to the ol’ emotions.
Excuse me, the Rona lump is back in my throat again.
Anything involving Mr. Fredricksen was grumpy gold, from his constant putdowns to the final geriatric battle of bad backs. I can relate, my joints sound like pouring milk over Cocoa Krispies.
By the way, can someone explain the physics behind a flying house that a senior citizen can drag around a continent with only a garden hose? The house was held by balloons, it shouldn’t BECOME a balloon.
Also did The Weeknd name his House of Balloons mixtape after this movie? The man had a broccoli haircut for years, he doesn’t put a lot of thought into his life choices.
I gotta say, though, this is a pretty tough movie to rank. I loved the emotionally draining opening and the emotionally uplifting finale but the actual plot of the movie – where they fly a house to South America to fight a bird poacher and his army of talking dogs … um, what? This is the first movie where I dozed off a bit while watching – I woke up and dude was flying a Final Fantasy airship and I was super confused. I really am Mr. Fredricksen. But at the same time, this was lowkey one of the funniest movies so far. Mr. Fredricksen and Russell had a hilarious Dennis the Menace/Mr. Wilson vibe that was magic.
Overall, this was a great watch but a little uneven compared to the top-tier Pixar films so far. 4 stars out of 5
**Up**
Next time is Toy Story 3, the movie I’m told has the stuff that I imagined was in Toy Story 1. So maybe I’ve seen it before or maybe I haven’t. Or maybe I just pulled a Mr. Fredricksen and slept through that one too.
Alonzo Darrow July 12, 2020 at 8:00 pm
You need to watch Up again. Easily a 5 out of 5.
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Hardcore Pawn Delivers 2 Million Viewers, Setting New Record as TruTV's Most-Watched Series Premiere Ever
truTV spins the numbers for Monday, August 16.
[via press release from truTV]
truTV's latest original series, HARDCORE PAWN, debuted Monday at 10 p.m. (ET/PT) with 2 million viewers; 1 million adults 18-49; and 568,000 men 18-49, setting new records in all three categories as the network's biggest series premiere ever.
With its 1,987,000 viewers and 968,000 adults 18-49, the premiere of HARDCORD PAWN topped previous marks held by truTV's Southern Fried Stings, which debuted April 12 with 1,743,000 viewers and 862,000 adults 18-49. Among men 18-49, the premiere episode topped truTV's previous series premiere record set by Black Gold, which garnered 566,000 in June 2008.
HARDCORE PAWN's second episode at 10:30 p.m. (ET/PT) held firm from the premiere, with 1,780,000 viewers; 882,000; adults 18-49; and 550,000 men 18-49.
"HARDCORE PAWN's outstanding premiere-night performance has gotten this new series off to a great start," said Marc Juris, executive vice president and general manager of truTV. "Last night's premiere is the latest example of how truTV continues to strengthen its brand through programming that really resonates with both total viewers and key demos."
HARDCORE PAWN provides a behind-the-scenes look at life inside one of the country's largest pawn shops. The series takes viewers into the zany and sometimes volatile world of Detroit's American Jewelry and Loan, where a wide assortment of people bring in everything from alligators to prosthetic limbs. Each pawn ticket has a story, and there are more than 45,000 stories in the warehouse. The Gold family and their employees never know what to expect when people's personal items are on the line. As each episode of this fascinating series reveals, haggling over a price can quickly escalate into an all-out conflict.
HARDCORE PAWN comes to truTV from RDF USA. The series is executive-produced by Natalka Znak, Claire O'Donohoe and Richard Dominick. Marcus Fox serves as co-executive producer. For truTV, Anthony Horn is executive producer.
About RDF USA
RDF USA is the American operations for Zodiak Entertainment. Since its launch in 2006, RDF USA has produced over 30 series for 14 different networks, including Wife Swap (ABC), How to Look Good Naked (Lifetime), Don't Forget the Lyrics (Fox) and One Big Happy Family (TLC), as well as the upcoming Secret Millionaire (ABC) and the syndicated version of Don't Forget the Lyrics (20th Television, VH1, MyNetworkTV).
truTV is television's destination for real-life stories told from an exciting and dramatic first-person perspective. Currently seen in 93 million U.S. households, the network is enjoying its best deliveries ever in key demographics. truTV features high-stakes, action-packed originals that give viewers access to places and situations they can't normally experience. truTV's primetime fan favorites include the original series Black Gold, Operation Repo, The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest� and Forensic Files. During the daytime, the channel features expert trial coverage under the name In Session.
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You might ask why the Jewish Billionaires have instructed their chattel slaves Barry/Kerry to go through the motions of another round of peace 'negotiations' that everybody knows is a complete waste of time. As usual, the Israelis even use it as an opportunity to embarrass the Americans ("Israel Approves Settlements Before Kerry Visit"). The neocons can't even be bothered to pretend any more, but the Soroscons still think there is value in reinforcing the notion that the Jews actually want peace, and are tragically stymied in their efforts by those awful war-loving, Jew-hating Palestinians: "Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football". The key, as always, is to buy time with phony negotiation attempts while continuing to build 'facts on the ground'.
"Israel / Palestine: What will Obama do?" by Alison Weir
"Brzezinski on the Syria Crisis":
"Heilbrunn: Here we are five years into the Obama administration, and you’re stating that the West is engaging in “mass propaganda.” Is Obama being drawn into Syria because he’s too weak to resist the status quo? What happened to President Obama that brought us here?
Brzezinski: I can’t engage either in psychoanalysis or any kind of historical revisionism. He obviously has a difficult problem on his hands, and there is a mysterious aspect to all of this. Just consider the timing. In late 2011 there are outbreaks in Syria produced by a drought and abetted by two well-known autocracies in the Middle East: Qatar and Saudi Arabia. He all of a sudden announces that Assad has to go—without, apparently, any real preparation for making that happen. Then in the spring of 2012, the election year here, the CIA under General Petraeus, according to The New York Times of March 24th of this year, a very revealing article, mounts a large-scale effort to assist the Qataris and the Saudis and link them somehow with the Turks in that effort. Was this a strategic position? Why did we all of a sudden decide that Syria had to be destabilized and its government overthrown? Had it ever been explained to the American people? Then in the latter part of 2012, especially after the elections, the tide of conflict turns somewhat against the rebels. And it becomes clear that not all of those rebels are all that “democratic.” And so the whole policy begins to be reconsidered. I think these things need to be clarified so that one can have a more insightful understanding of what exactly U.S. policy was aiming at."
It is hilarious how Brzezinski pretends to be mystified by Barry's strange shifts, while he, and presumably anybody with a brain, knows that the shifts in policy are based entirely on the demands of the Jewish Billionaires. The biggest shift was caused by the recent victory by the Syrian government at Qusair, regarded in Israel as dangerously symbolic of an Iranian win. Some settlers ordered some Israeli generals to order some Israeli politicians to order the American Jewish Billionaires to order Barry to do a 180 on U. S. policy. Barry thought the shift was too ridiculous and embarrassing and dangerous to real American interests even for a chattel slave, so the Jewish Billionaires temporarily (?) replaced Barry with President Ben Rhodes - whose qualifications as a failed novelist make him perfect to be the 45th American President - to do the job.
Part of the program to deter Hezbollah from further successful efforts in Syria is the threat to take the battle to Lebanon itself: "Ahmed Al-Assir, the pawn in Lebanon". A full civil war in Lebanon would satisfy Zionist interests - a Yinon-style break-up, allowing the Jews to steal land and water, the big current stealing obsession of World Jewry - and Gulf State interests - keeping Hezbollah preoccupied at home and not helping the Syrian government. Of course, the human tragedy involved is of no concern to these monsters (or the monsters of the 'left').
"Dershowitz and Finkelstein: comrades at heart?" The job of the lite Zionists like Finkelstein (and Weiss, and J Street, etc, etc) is to present the idea that Jewish violent group supremacists aren't really a monolithic land stealing, Arab murdering, group of monsters, thus buying the Jewish group collective more time for . . . land stealing and Arab murdering. Dershowitz' job is to make Finkelstein seem more credible by playing the heavy while representing old-school Zionism. Of course, real anti-Zionists like Atzmon are marginalized as bigots and haters. I have never seen such a transparently obvious trick.
"‘New York Times’ profile of group bent on sanctioning Iran fails to mention Israel connections" Bipartisan Coalition for American Security - 'bipartisan' means Jewish and crooked.
"4 Are Named in Scheme to Pocket Aid for Israel" I don't know if the pattern is violent Jewish group supremacism or just plain crookedness, so lets compromise and settle on both.
"French Jewish Supremacist Fails in Bid to Cover Up Zionist Crime" "Leading critic of French al-Dura coverage convicted" Note that this was one of the most outrageous hasbara attempts ever, a ridiculous counter-story in the face of clear videotape evidence to the contrary - 'who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes'. The great thing about violent group supremacists is that the constant hasbara defeats - defeats which hurt their cause in the eyes of all moral and decent people - have no effect on the Jews. Hasbara is directed entirely inwardly at the Jews themselves, and is actually just a form of group self-aggrandizement, a fact which is invisible to the supremacists.
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Blame the doctors: why is it hard today at work
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There are fears that once a pandemic doctors at best say “thanks, all are free” in the worst — to present claims.
People are so arranged that they always need to blame. And not somewhere far away in China or high up in the Kremlin and closer — in order to “punish” quick. Today the anger from that had befallen them troubles the citizens spill out to “spread the infection”: those who are sick Kovalam, and those who cures them.
While more and more words, but there are also more serious cases. As in Kirovo-Chepetsk, where deputiesa quarantined men beat up a doctor and a paramedic ambulance refused to provide them with the address of the person from whom doctors took the test for the coronavirus.
In professional chat rooms doctors share tips on how to protect yourself not only at work with lack of personal protective equipment (where to get replacement filters for respirators, as three times to use a disposable suit), but returning home (to carry pepper spray, a stun gun, at worst a police whistle).
My friend whose son recently called on coronaviruses front (he resuscitator in cardiac surgery, but today, virtually all doctors began infectious diseases), cried bitterly, watching him. Literally as a war. And for such, where the “soldiers” are missing no uniforms, no weapons, and therefore there are so many victims.
But the more received information on how hospitals are hotbeds of infection, the more curses flying in the address of the medical profession: the sick they are not able to breed, and they have patients in the corridors, and the ventilation was not enough…
Separately criticized the precinct and doctors “fast”. And that come to the call without masks and “spacesuits”, infecting, maybe even healthy. And that does not come after 15 minutes and three hours, endangering the lives of patients. And for the fact that they refuse to respond to everyone the most worried. People write complaints, call the hotline… They can understand that they are scared, worried for themselves and their families. But I’m afraid that when the pandemic will subside, these claims can be the basis for a new “doctors ‘ case”.
After all, someone has to answer, why people died. And it is unlikely it will be government officials, who for years was falling apart in the country medicine, including the “inefficient” market conditions infectious direction. However, I think nowadays there is no doubt that the optimization of medicine in the Russian way gave catastrophic results — facts and figures full online.
Here is just one quote. In 2018, in an interview with “MK” Deputy, academician Alexander Chuchalin said, “when our country became engaged in reforming health care, we lost almost two thousand pulmonologists from available four thousand.” Think about the same things and the average for the country. As a result, today physicians work alone and in the context of epidemic — and for ten.
Is it possible with this schedule error? Of course. And it is clear who they blame. For example, in Bashkiria already carried out a preliminary examination in respect of the chief doctor of the hospital, which “did not prevent infection of patients and staff”… In the Krasnodar Krai Deputy health Minister severely reprimanded the doctors who dared to complain about the shortage of Shoe covers: “Tell me, please, where is the difficulty to sew the booties? Two cloth stitch. Why are you waiting for manna from heaven?”
Indeed, why doctors otpahal shift, at leisure, Shoe covers and masks are not to sew. You can still ventilation on the house to collect medicine for patients to mix in the kitchen of a new hospital on the Saturday to build instead of optimized and sold for commercial construction. But officials report up about another optimization: they say, solved the problem of the deficit on their own. The order is not necessary, I agree to the medal.
At the beginning of the epidemic on Russian TV for a while suddenly changed the agenda: instead of endless stories about guide and direct the actions of the officials were human stories about the doctors. About what it’s like to work a day in protective suits, in which the hot, stuffy, don’t drink or go to the toilet. How terrible to enter the “red zone” when the virus is still almost nothing is known. And as no less scary to go home after a shift in the infectious ward, or relatives for fear of the virus to bring, or neighbors to get on the head for what infectious.
On the one hand, the TV suddenly at once, showed the importance and priority of the medical profession. On the other — at times more noticeable was the poverty of the Russian healthcare system. Maybe because teltrend “medical heroes” as quickly faded. Today in mailbox — again, only specially tested-trusted doctors, who do not let it slip inadvertently, what is actually the salary of their colleagues at the forefront of the fight against infection, in reality, the situation with the availability of means of protection and why patients often die just that they do not have enough space even in the hospital corridor.
Faith in the fact that our government officials will suddenly see the light, realizing that medicine is more important than propaganda, and even “Iskander”, no. As soon as the epidemic dies out, I’m afraid the doctors at best say “thanks, all are free”, and at worst their pull with the courts. No wonder the Investigation Committee created a whole unit on medical errors. I suspect that while doctors injected on the front lines, investigators in the rear of hoarding complaints of citizens on their work.
Of course, there are other examples that give hope. Personally, I know a lot of people that your blood provide doctors with hot meals, open for them now empty hotels, buy them equipment that is unable to provide the state. But this may not be the rule in a normal country.
Doctors, not generals, should be the elite of the state. Today, people die in and because the government for decades spending money retired military chiefs, for the maintenance of a giant Regardie, military hardware, and not on ventilators. What? Protect us from the virus “Poplar” or “Iskander”? Coronavirus has clearly shown that the medicine does not tolerate saving. Or you spent on it — or a funeral.
While writing, I saw the news: a guide of St. Petersburg decided “in case of death of a medical worker in connection with infection of coronavirus infection” to pay his family $ 1 million”.
Well, that’s the price of heroism became known.
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Anna Coddington “Bolt”
The “Bolt” video uses the retro jogger trope, popularised in ads for a British telephone directory service and later turning up in music videos for Thomas Coffey’s “A Memory of You” (trigger warning: pre-quake Christchurch) and the Phoenix Foundation’s “40 Years”. But Anna Coddington does something different. While her joggers are all identically dressed, we come to discovered they’re all different men in their own way. Anna wanders around a park with them, looking out of place in her pretty frock. But soon enough she shows up in the uniform of orange running gear, and joins in with the competitive events. It all seems symbolic of a modern woman’s place in society.
Director: Sally Tran
Annah Mac “Girl In Stilettos”
“Girl in Stilettos” was a bona fide hit single, spending 23 weeks in the top 40, peaking at No.2 (kept from the top spot by Flo Rida feat. Sia) and was nominated for a Silver Scroll and New Zealand Music Award in 2012. Evidence that New Zealand can create and enjoy pop if it wants.
The song is Annah Mac’s exploration of being a young woman in the music industry, judged for her appearance and not her music. The video puts her in a bowling club, with the club regulars providing a slice of Kiwiana. The white and cream bowling club uniform takes on a different role when it goes from being the club uniform to the monochrome background against which Annah stand out wearing her red dress and stilettos. And in case anyone was wondering, yes, it is possible to play bowls in stiletto heels. You just need a board to stand on so you don’t sink into the green.
Director: Florence Noble
Brooke Fraser “Betty”
Betty is a cute indie-pop track that tells the story of Betty, a secretive young woman who has a birthmark shaped like Canada (which given the shape of Canada, doesn’t sound all that cute). The video puts Brooke in a lush arrangement of flowers, with origami butterflies fluttering around her. It’s a whimsical delight, perhaps creating a safe, comfortable environment for Betty to relax and be herself.
Director: Special Problems
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Bulletproof featuring PNC & David Dallas “Back in the Day”
“Back in the Day” is a celebration of days past, a frequent theme of PNC’s songs. The video mines children’s television from the 1980s, with references to 3-2-1 Contact, The Electric Company, Rainbow, and a very pleasing recreation of the 1980s opening titles of RTR. It’s a fun video, but will make the most sense and hit the most nostalgic cues for people who were kids in the 1980s.
Director: Preston McNeil
Clap Clap Riot “Everyone’s Asleep”
“Everyone’s Asleep” serves up some B-grade delights. Lead singer Stephen wakes up on a beach, discovers his bandmates are dead before he wanders off into a forest. The video then switches from outdoors to a green screen, and things get more and more surreal as the video progresses. The background evolves from ordinary scenes of a forest to crazy scenes mashing up all the Halloween/zombie/Día de Muertos/horror film ideas it can find. It’s a campstravaganza, but it feels like it’s lacking a conclusion, something that wraps up the real world beach setting of the introduction.
Director: Conrad Smith, Johnny Lyon
Concord Dawn featuring JDubs “Move”
“Move” is shot in black and white and at first glance, it appears to involve images being horizontally mirrored. Except it’s not always precise mirroring. Saving the video from feeling like a cheap 1970s video effect, the video isn’t totally glued to the mirroring concept. There’s flow between the two sides, rather than a hard line. The video never feels bigger than the song, acting more as a visual accompaniment, rather than anything big on its own.
Director: Aleksander Sakowski
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The New York Times pulls out of Apple News
M.G. Siegler Jul 2, 2020
Here’s Kellen Browning and Jack Nicas of The New York Times reporting on The New York Times:
The Times is one of the first media organizations to pull out of Apple News. The Times, which has made adding new subscribers a key business goal, said Apple had given it little in the way of direct relationships with readers and little control over the business. It said it hoped to instead drive readers directly to its own website and mobile app so that it could “fund quality journalism.”
“Core to a healthy model between The Times and the platforms is a direct path for sending those readers back into our environments, where we control the presentation of our report, the relationships with our readers and the nature of our business rules,” Meredith Kopit Levien, chief operating officer, wrote in a memo to employees. “Our relationship with Apple News does not fit within these parameters.”
This is not pulling out of Apple News+, the paid tier of the service, this is pulling out of Apple News entirely. Notably, NYT never agreed to be a part of Apple News+ and while the hoopla at the time was about the reported 50/50 revenue split, I thought it seemed to go a bit beyond that:
But wait, while things are better these days for the biggest newspapers, they’re still not as they once were, so they’re really going to leave incremental revenue opportunities on the table? This seems to point to the real key here: the 50/50 split is insulting, but probably surmountable. What’s not is the same issue many of them had with the iPad Newsstand originally: they won’t get any data about subscribers who sign up for the Apple offering.
Apple eventually caved on this for the iPad, but this is different since it is a fully bundled Apple subscription offering, with NYT and the like just a part of the package. You’re buying an Apple service, not a NYT service. But without such information rights, I just don’t see the hold-outs getting on board.
Again, not only did NYT not get on board, they jumped ship entirely for the very reason above.
Still, one has to wonder if they would get back on board if, say, Apple agreed to license their news and pay them directly — something Google has said they will be doing and Facebook is already doing. With Apple News+ apparently struggling, and now Apple News itself having issues, the writing may be on the wall for this — Apple has to keep that inevitable bundle enticing!
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Oral Tradition
"They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world."
—William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Often paired with Adventure Towns in anime, this area consists of the entire relatively pristine wilderness outside of The City. Urban sprawl is not much of an issue, especially if you just start building your cities up (or underground). An hour's drive from your house can take you to a place that's virtually a national park. Cue the stirring overworld music!
It's a hiker's dream. This might be a result of historically good city planning, although a story taking place After the End might imply a disaster hit the place and it's just regrowing after the humans vacated.
If humans do live there, but it is still idyllic, it is Arcadia—which, indeed, often lies by the Ghibli Hills.
Of course, despite its soothing grass, great blue skies and small animals, Ghibli Hills is still a lawless wilderness, crawling with wandering monsters, highwaymen and wild magic. Hence, it is subject to what is known as Ayn Rand's Revenge. See also The Lost Woods. Though it may also serve as the Good landscape, in contrast with the Evil Is Deathly Cold Shadowland, Grim Up North.
In most anime, especially with ones trying to deliver a message, this speaks to the nostalgia of many older directors for the traditional Japanese countryside that largely no longer exists because of urbanization. One historical western equivalent is Merry England for historical settings. Other times the pristineness is explained by alternate history, particularly the avoidance of major conflict or wars which lets people concentrate on improving themselves.
Named for the lush, friendly settings of Studio Ghibli films. Which largely stems from the fact that Mitaka and Musashino, Tokyo's affluent residential suburbs where the studio itself is headquartered,[1] generally have exactly that kind of scenery.
Sometimes overlaps with Scenery Porn but contrasted with Scenery Gorn. Compare to Wild Wilderness if it's a modern setting set in large wilderness areas like the North Western United States or Black Forest area of Germany. Video Games have Green Hill Zone, their own version of this trope.
The polar opposite would be Mordor or Polluted Wasteland... or perhaps City Planet.
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David Orval Bowlan, 89, of Redfield, Arkansas, joined the Church Triumphant on February 29, 2012. Loving father, grandfather, brother, friend, and American hero, David Bowlan was a true example of the strength, tenacity, and fierce loyalty to family and country displayed by “The Greatest Generation.” From the rural farming community of Hamilton (near Carlisle) to a German Stalag, from the skies of Korea to aircraft manufacturing factories in Kansas and Alabama, from days of flying for the Civil Air Patrol in Little Rock to his last years in Redfield where David and his wife Brinda lived next door to their daughter Melissa. David Bowlan lived life with grace, courage, integrity, and humility fitting the true Southern gentleman and patriot his family, colleagues, and friends knew and respected.
At the onset of World War II, 19-year-old David Bowlan enlisted into the Army Air Corps. He would later remember the day in which he and his fellow Corpsmen were summoned into formation, given new caps, and then dismissed. This was the day they became members of the United States Air Force. He was later deployed to Italy. On his 25th flight over Weinemeustad, Austria as a Tech Sergeant, Top Turret Gunner, and Flight Engineer, his B-24 took enemy anti-aircraft fire. With the plane ablaze David parachuted to safety as one of three survivors out of a twelve man crew, but was later apprehended by German soldiers. He was imprisoned in German Stalag IV after being hospitalized for two months in Frankfurt for injuries sustained from the burning plane and subsequent jump. While imprisoned, a Red Cross parcel would lend him one of his greatest life “treasures,” a pocket Bible. During the 342 days as a German prisoner of war, David read his Bible from cover to cover. When the little Bible became so tattered it was in danger of falling apart, David sewed the tail of his shirt to the cover to keep the pages together. He kept the Bible for the remaining years of his life, even carrying it on the forced prisoner, “March Across Germany,” or “Black March.” The prisoners of war were liberated by the English Army on April 16, 1945.
Following his release from the Air Force, David returned home to farm in Carlisle and later moved to Conway to attend Arkansas State Teachers College (now the University of Central Arkansas ) and the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. When the Korean Conflict began he was called up as a Reservist and became a Flight Engineer for planes that carried food and ammunition to the troops on the front line in Korea. During a routine mission, David’s plane took enemy fire and he was wounded in the arm. For his distinguished military service, David was awarded three Purple Hearts, an Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, an “Areas of Operation” medal (American, European, and VFW), a POW medal, a presidential citation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a Korean theatre work medal.
Following the Korean Conflict, David moved to Wichita, Kansas and married Lee Cowan on February 4, 1951. She preceded him in death on November 29, 1987. Two sons were born to this marriage, Ronald and Richard. David continued his commitment to government service by working as a quality assurance specialist in the manufacturing of aircraft for the government. After retirement, David continued to work in the aircraft industry. At the age of 65 he finally decided to earn his pilot’s wings and would later greatly enjoy flying for the Civil Air Patrol and with his son, Rick.
David became a Mason in 1946 and has been active in the Shrine since 1947.
David married Brinda L. Hawes on July 1, 1989. They have a daughter, Melissa Vernor, and a son, Richard Crane. In the years following his move to Little Rock and later Redfield, David enjoyed speaking to elementary school children, telling the stories of his service, but more importantly conveying to the youngest generation the importance of freedom. Interviewed in 2005 after speaking to his daughter’s first grade class, David remarked, “I hope the children will consider every week ‘Freedom Week’ in this wonderful country in which we live.” After his visit that day, and the visits that would come, many children (and now adults) may do just that.
Survivors include his wife, Brinda, of the home; three sons, Ronald E. Bowlan (Dolores) of Harleysville, PA, Richard K. Bowlan (Debra) of Alachua, FL, and Richard E. Crane (Misty) of Rose Bud, AR; daughter, Melissa Vernor (Jeff) of Redfield; three grandchildren, Ashley Crane, Gabi Vernor, and Logan Crane; and sister, Thelma Bowlan Miller of Troy, TN.
David was preceded in death by wife, Lee Bowlan; his parents, Atlee B. and Olive Bowlan; and brother, T.B. Bowlan.
Visitation will be Friday, from 5-8 p.m. at Ralph Robinson & Son Funeral Home in Pine Bluff. The funeral service will be held on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Hamilton Baptist Church (south of Carlisle) with Rev. Donald Lee Ruffin, officiating. Interment will follow at Hamilton Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the David O. Bowlan Memorial Scholarship Fund, Pine Bluff National Bank, Attn: Janice Acosta, P.O. box 7878, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611.
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The risk of fire in the engine compartment has prompted a recall of Smart cars amid pressure by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall by Smart car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz, affects 43,000 Smart cars in the United States and follows a NHTSA investigation initiated in 2016. The cars implicated in the recall include 42,781 Smart ForTwo cabrio and coupe cars model years 2008 and 2009.
The NHTSA announced that the recall was due to fire dangers in the engine, engine cooling and exhaust systems. The agency warned that the rear insulation mat may be subject to damage or deterioration over time which can result in the mat coming into contact with hot exhaust system parts. If this occurs, there is an increased risk of fire. The Office of Defects Investigation performed an engineering analysis which led to this latest recall.
This defect had led to 27 reported cases of engine fires. One injury has resulted from an engine fire. Owners and dealers are expected to be notified by late June and the recall is set to begin in July, 2018. To address the issues in affected Smart Cars, Mercedes-Benz will replace the rear insulation mat at no cost to consumers. The German car manufacturer is suspended from selling or delivering the cars or the faulty component until the defect has been remediated in accordance with the manufacturer’s directives.
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The story of Seeds of Hope begins in Zambia with Gift Simuzazu. Gift’s parents died of Aids when he was young. He went to live with his uncle’s family in a nearby village, where he was abused. One day, he borrowed his uncle’s bicycle and accidentally broke it. His uncle locked him in a hut and set it on fire. Twelve-year-old Gift was severely burned over most of his body.
Angela Myanda and the Kabwata Orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia became Gift’s new family and home. For two years, Angela and the Alkare Foundation worked relentlessly to bring Gift to the United States, where he could be treated at Shriner’s Hospital in Sacramento. In May of 2009, Gift arrived in Santa Rosa, California to live with Kirk and Renée Afman, and their twin teenagers, Karla and Garrit.
Gift stayed with the Afman’s for 14 months while undergoing five painful surgeries and numerous treatments. He spent much of his time with Renée, doing schoolwork, working alongside her in her vegetable garden, hanging out and learning about the plants at the nursery where she works. While here, he celebrated his 18th birthday with a surprise party complete with cake, candles, presents and a huge surrogate family.
When it was time to return home, Gift was restored in both body and spirit. Renée and Karla escorted him home and stayed for two weeks at the Kabwata Orphanage. They experienced life in the orphanage and met the children there – wonderful, playful, respectful kids – kids who understood the importance of being educated so that they would be able to provide for their families in the future.
It was from this spirit that Seeds of Hope was born, but how to make this happen?
Seeds of Hope began as an idea to bring donated organic, heirloom vegetable seeds to the Kabwata Orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia enabling them to grow their own vegetables and provide healthy food while at the same time reducing their food costs. This idea began as a small seed and has grown into a wonderful harvest.
In 2012 Gwen Kilchherr and Renee Afman began to share their vision of a garden/farm. One year later, they were on their way to Africa after experiencing generous blessings and with donated seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds to teach the children how to plant and care for the newly planted garden.
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#parentingtips for raising daughters
Parents of daughters should know these #parentingtips
My family raised me with equal rights to boys and girls.
I never felt any discrimination from my parents for being a daughter in the family.
My parents provided all the comforts and facilities as my brothers had, so, whenever I come across the incidents about discrimination among boys and girls in society, I feel despondent.
LET US NOTICE A FEW PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE IN SOCIETY ON THEIR BELIEF, AFFECTION AND LOVE,
1. People worship God and Goddesses because they believe that they are the creators of the universe.
2. People have affection and respect for their birthplace.
3. People give immense love and care to the mundane world like cars, houses and other assets people own.
Now if we think critically, what should be the ideal characteristics of humans?
1.People should worship the teachings of God/Goddesses
2.People should have affection and respect to all forms of life like animals, plants and other humans
3.People should give immense love and care to the feelings, thought process and creativity rather than materialistic things.
When do we think of the creator of the world, who is the first person to come to our mind?
IT IS “MOTHER” – A WOMAN. #MOTHERHOOD
But there is a surprising fact that the women who are the creators of the human race get exploited by a particular segment of the society.
The women who give birth, nurture and bring up the human race have been tortured and mistreated by a section of society for ages.
Can we imagine a world with no womanhood?
Will it be possible for the human race to survive for more than a hundred years without a woman on the planet?
The answer is a big ‘No.’
The woman has been driving life on earth since the ages.
This is shameful that society considers women as the weaker and dependent section. A few people treat women as slaves.
They do not value women’s emotions and abilities.
If we study the global history of femininity, we will come to know some astonishing facts about how society mistreated women for centuries. And it continues in the same way in some parts of the world.
Firstly, For the century, girls who were barely at the end adolescence were forced into marriage. They were married to a person who was many years older to her.
She was forced to marry a person whom she did not love. Such practices stand the same in a particular segment of society.
Secondly, The girl child faced female genital mutilation rituals in many countries. It was an act of violence and it was against human rights.
Thirdly, People trade girls across National borders as commodities. They force women to work as prostitutes and slaves.
Fourthly, girls continue to face sexual harassment and abuse in workplaces and schools.
Fifthly, family and society used to kill the women for the honour of their families for speaking to strangers or going into the marriage of their own choices.
Sixthly, Girls have been victimised even before their birth. As the technology provides the tools to the prenatal sex selection, we have reports of abortions by gender selection.
In the era, where women have beaten men in almost all the fields we know. We have to consider that a mindset for raising a girl child has to be stronger than a boy child.
HERE ARE FEW PARENTING TIPS FOR DEALING WITH LIFE SITUATIONS FOR THE UPBRINGING OF A GIRL CHILD.
First of all, the mothers in this world need to respect their womanhood.
Mothers, unless you feel honoured for yourself and womanhood, you will not be able to justify the true spirit of motherhood to your child.
Parents prefer to have boys over the girl child.
They do not welcome a girl with as much enthusiasm as in the case of a boy.
The day a couple reveals their joy to the world about the expectation of a child, the very first wish they get from everyone is, “God bless you with a child.”
Such kind of belief is still prevalent nowadays. The reason for this discrimination is because of the wrong beliefs of woman itself.
It is because family and society tell her that becoming a mother of a boy child is more prestigious than becoming the mother of a girl child.
The day she takes pride in being the mother of a girl child, society will welcome a girl with the same enthusiasm as a boy.
Ladies, think about it if your mother accepts you and greets you with her heart and soul who else you would need to accept you.
You will conquer the world if your mother is behind you with her full support and unconditional love.
SO, BE PROUD OF BEING A WOMAN.
You are everything for your child. You do not need anyone else’s approval to be a proud mother of a girl child.
Second, In a few families, people believe that only boys can take the family’s name to future generations.
They think that daughters become part of different families after marriage.
So the daughter’s achievements and the next generation will not carry their family’s name.
Do the people remember their great-grandfather every day? Sometimes people do not even remember their names.
Third, Parents need to use their wisdom and think about it. Parents need to understand that gender discrimination is the creation of those people who we do not know.
Fourth, Dowry is also a big issue for parents. However, if the people in society and especially the young generation become against this practice, they will not face dowry problem at the time of marriage.
Parents should make their daughters financially independent so that they would not compromise and marry a boy who demands the dowry.
Fifth, Apart from general education, parents should arrange some special education to make their daughters physically and mentally healthy.
Apart from this, girls should learn self-defence techniques and also learn how to remain mentally strong in case they go through some mishap in life.
Sixth, you can give sex education in the early stage so that they can realise something unusual happening with them in families and the school as well
In addition to the above, Parents can ask the school authorities to arrange some special classes for girls to understand the defence mechanism and provide sex education relevant to their age.
HERE ARE FEW INSPIRING INDIAN FEMALES WHOSE PARENTS AND THEY CAN BE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR YOU AS A PARENT FOR THE UPBRINGING OF A GIRL CHILD.
1. Around the world in 7 months: All-woman Indian Navy crew of INSV Tarini sets sail on the historic voyage
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flags off INSV Tarini and its all-woman crew who begin a circumnavigation effort (Photo: PTI)\
2. लड़कियोकेलिए मिसाल बनीं राधा…
अति पिछड़े गांव सिरसिया के सेमरा नौशहरा की रहने वाली राधा श्रीवास्तव लड़कियों के लिए मिसाल है।
आज भी इनके गांव में रोशनी नहीं है, रास्ते नहीं हैं, लेकिन राधा इस समय अपने गांव के लिए किसी रोशनी से कम नहीं है।
इस दौरान श्री मिश्र ने कहा कि इस छोटे से जिले और अति पिछड़े ग्रामीण क्षेत्र से निकल कर राधा ने जो मुकाम हासिल किया है वह अपने आप में एक मिसाल है।
राधा आज जिले के हर महिलाओं के लिए उदाहरण बन चुकी है। इसके बाद लोगों ने विद्यालय परिसर से रैली निकाली।
जिसमें क्षेत्र के हजारो लोग सम्मिलित हुए। राधा ने रैली के दौरान लोगों से अपने लिए वोट मांगे। जिसमें सांसद भी उनके साथ मौजूद रहे।
इस मौके पर पिता शिव सहाय लाल श्रीवास्तव, भाई रवि श्रीवास्तव, राजन श्रीवास्तव, प्रधानाचार्य योगेश शुक्ल सहित पूरा विद्यालय परिवार व क्षेत्र के लोग मौजूद रहे।
जबकि भिनगा में मिठाई लाल गुप्ता के घर पर भी भव्य स्वागत किया गया।
3.MARY KOM
This woman showcases that being a mother doesn’t stop a woman from achieving her dreams. Motherhood shouldn’t handicap you, it should make you stronger.
Mary Kom is a perfect example for all mothers out there waiting to fulfil their dreams.
4. Sushmita Sen – Sushmita Sen adopted a baby girl in 2000 and a second girl in 2010.”
5.P.T Usha: Also known as “The Payyoli Express”, P.T Usha is one of the most revered athletes that India has ever produced.
6. Hima Das: Hima Das (born 9 January 2000), nicknamed the Dhing Express, is an Indian sprint runner from the state of Assam. She holds the current Indian national record in 400 metres with a timing of 50.79 s that she clocked at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal in a track event at the IAAF World U20 Championships.
7. Tania Sachdev:
She is a beauty with brains. Sachdev has won titles like Women’s Grandmaster in 2005 and International Master in 2008. She has also received the Arjuna award.
8. Puja Thakur is the first officer to lead the Inter-Service Guard of Honour. She says she joined the Indian Air Force because of the life she wanted for herself.
9. Roshni Sharma
Roshini Sharma recently became the first Indian woman to ride a motorbike from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
10. A very inspiring Scene from Movie “DANGAL.”
https://youtu.be/MvXXmj7Wsa4
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Vital regulations changed to introduce Changing Places toilets, says Armstrong
Posted on January 29, 2020 February 27, 2020
Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong has said it is vital building regulations are changed to ensure Changing Places toilets are included in the design of all public buildings.
Mrs Armstrong, Chair of the Assembly’s All-Party on Disability, was speaking after questioning Finance Minister Conor Murphy on his Department’s policy on retrofitting all public and Government buildings with such toilets within the next five years.
In his response, the Minister said the Department was ‘aware of and sympathetic to the dignity issues and impacts’ from the limited provision of Changing Places toilets, and would support and encourage ‘appropriate legislative changes’.
“Due to a lack of space and adult-sized changing tables, many older children and adults have to lie on the floor of a public toilet to be changed by the family or career. It is dangerous, unhygienic and undignified,” said Ms Armstrong.
“Changing Places toilets are a modern and more inclusive version of the current disability toilet layout. The facility allows carers to help from both sides of the toilet and includes an appropriate sized adult changing table with a hoist so no one has to be changed on the floor.
“I welcome the Minister confirming the Department plans to install the toilets on the Stormont Estate, which it has responsibility for, and look forward to it engaging with other Departments and agencies to update requirements.
“It is important building regulations are changed to ensure Changing Places toilets are included right from the design of public buildings. By making toilets and buildings fully accessible, we make it easier for everyone to have equal access to services.”
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